How can you educate children if you offer a closed source product and a capitalistic greed based philosophy where the only reason to use a computer is to make money? Depends on what you want to teach them.
Saying the the Mini should have a removable graphics card is like saying your laptop should have one too. It does -- this isn't as uncommon as it was only a year ago.
Professional bodybuilders don't even eat 600 grams of protein per day (unless they weigh 300+ pounds) -- eating that much is pointless no matter what your goals are. You should consult a nutritionist if you really want to maximize your diet for your sport.
Fat (in 99% of the population) is created by eating an excess of calories. It has nothing to do with whether those calories are from vegetables or meat. Or Twinkies. Or burritos.
You are no more or less likely to get fat from eating Vegan than you are from primarily eating Big Macs -- assuming identical caloric intake.
Your post is accurate, and is a perfect description of how the Bush tax cuts screwed the poor and, especially, the Middle Class. It is also a good step at explaining why trickle-down economics (which most of us who bother to learn anything about economics already dismiss) is an absolute fallacy, and why Reagan and all those who've followed were not conservative.
When you get your economic knowledge from Glen Beck (as gp apparently does), you tend to know lots of numbers, but not how they deceive.
While agree with you that a 2-year-old can't reliably install Ubuntu, I recently did it for the first time without doing any of the things you describe.
Basically, insert boot disc, choose password & user name (that's the part I wouldn't trust to a 2-year-old).
[Linux] isn't, and it can't ever be [ready for the desktop]. Can a Windows user start using linux with no learning period, and find that everything is familiar? By that standard, Mac also isn't ready for the desktop.
I occasionally use OSX (for testing at work) and Ubuntu (on an old laptop at home). Ubuntu was way easier for me -- a long-time Windows user -- to adapt to than OSX.
I basically told him that "child porn" was a BS excuse to infringe on our civil liberties. The response I got back was:"I share your concerns about child pornography on the internet . .." I had the same experience multiple times on multiple issues with Senator Harry Reid. His responses clearly indicated that he didn't know what either of us were talking about.
Wouldn't vote for the guy in a million years after that.
If they were smart, Blockbuster (or better yet, Netflix) would partner with someone (like LG) to market a TV with built in downloading capabilities.
Hell, if they were REALLY smart they could even try to pass a standard for downloading streams, and have it built in to EVERY television (then they could all fight over our downloading subscription fees, the way cable companies SHOULD be fighting over our cable fees).
Agreed - smaller isn't always better. In fact, I'll add one thing to your "must have" list: a full-sized keyboard. Without, I may be able to surf, but I can't get any real work done.
it's a bitch to lay 3 cable networks when you only need one. I don't buy this. 10-20 years ago, every area I lived in (various spots in Pennsylvania and Arizona, both rural and urban) had multiple cable companies. Now there is only 1 provider in all those places (either Cox or Comcast). This isn't a case like the electric company, where there's only 1 grid and one infrastructure. There are multiple that have been combined to create a monopoly.
It's only bricked if... the device can serve no other purpose than to be a brick without highly technical intervention. In that case, even a brick isn't officially "bricked" because I can use it as a window-opener or skull-crusher.
It's not about being trigger happy; it's about being greedy. Bush in 2004 said that "loose nukes" were the biggest security problem in the world, yet there are still gaping holes in the security around the former Soviet arsenal.
It only takes a handful of guards who get tired of their current lifestyle and decide they'd rather be millionaires to transfer a nuke to someone who IS trigger happy.
You also cunningly say exactly what your project DOES in a clearly worded sentence right there on the homepage:
a program that analyses a sound file into a spectrogram and is able to synthesise this spectrogram, or any other user-created image, back into a sound. This makes your project a rare one indeed. Many times I've had a problem that needed to be solved and was told, "Project X can do that." So I go to Project X's Sourceforge page and there's ZERO information about what the program is or how it works. Documentation is far too hard to come by.
In the past few years I decided to try something. I decided to go to several places, sit back, chill out, and mind my own business. I don't casually glance across the bar or any of that lame ass stuff and I wait. I've had 1, yes 1, girl actually walk up to me and start a conversation. I'm surprised you had even one. You can be a socially intelligent person (i.e.- one who doesn't just sit there like a bump on a log) without becoming the annoying asshole lout. Try going out with friends -- you'll look less like a psycho.
Here's what works for me (not that it matters, since I have a fabulous, young, beautiful girlfriend): I do exactly what the AC above suggests -- I look like the type of guy the girls I like go for. I have long hair and tattoos, and ride a motorcycle. I'm facially hideous and generally quiet, but I get hit on fairly frequently and dated lots of beautiful women before settling on the current one.
I've found that most women are looking for some guy who wants to go places all the time and will spend his entire waking hour thinking about her and ways to make her happy and is willing to drop his friends at a drop of a hat to come home and make her happy. We attract the type of people we seek. If this is what you think most women are looking for, then a) you don't know many women, and b) it's time to figure out what it is about you that attracts only psychos.
I had the same problem as gp when I first installed Ubuntu (1st time using Linux). Synaptic IS dead easy, but a Windows user isn't going to have a mental model of using a repository, so any description of it is fairly nonsensical (usability is also somewhat poor -- you click Mark in Synaptic and nothing is actually marked.)
And apt-get? HTF would this make any sense to the average Windows user. Get what? From where? And what does 'apt' mean? It doesn't take special empathic abilities to see where people who grew up in a Windows-centric world would have serious growing pains adopting even the easiest linux distro.
I honestly don't see how "apt-get install program" is master hacker like or complex in any way. And therein lies the problem with linux adoption.
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Professional bodybuilders don't even eat 600 grams of protein per day (unless they weigh 300+ pounds) -- eating that much is pointless no matter what your goals are. You should consult a nutritionist if you really want to maximize your diet for your sport.
Fat (in 99% of the population) is created by eating an excess of calories. It has nothing to do with whether those calories are from vegetables or meat. Or Twinkies. Or burritos.
You are no more or less likely to get fat from eating Vegan than you are from primarily eating Big Macs -- assuming identical caloric intake.
And yes, there are high-calorie veggies.
I don't mean to brag, but in the schema "http:fuckingxml.com", myboolean is actually much longer than that.
Full disclosure: I am a conservative.
Your post is accurate, and is a perfect description of how the Bush tax cuts screwed the poor and, especially, the Middle Class. It is also a good step at explaining why trickle-down economics (which most of us who bother to learn anything about economics already dismiss) is an absolute fallacy, and why Reagan and all those who've followed were not conservative.
When you get your economic knowledge from Glen Beck (as gp apparently does), you tend to know lots of numbers, but not how they deceive.
While agree with you that a 2-year-old can't reliably install Ubuntu, I recently did it for the first time without doing any of the things you describe.
Basically, insert boot disc, choose password & user name (that's the part I wouldn't trust to a 2-year-old).
I occasionally use OSX (for testing at work) and Ubuntu (on an old laptop at home). Ubuntu was way easier for me -- a long-time Windows user -- to adapt to than OSX.
...they just look like us now.
I think he meant communicable diseases, asshat--er--falcon, or whatever.
Although I agree with your central argument, Wikipedia is anything BUT peer reviewed.
IOW... If yer kid's defective, it's time to look in yer jeans.
lolwut?
If they were smart, Blockbuster (or better yet, Netflix) would partner with someone (like LG) to market a TV with built in downloading capabilities.
Hell, if they were REALLY smart they could even try to pass a standard for downloading streams, and have it built in to EVERY television (then they could all fight over our downloading subscription fees, the way cable companies SHOULD be fighting over our cable fees).
Agreed - smaller isn't always better. In fact, I'll add one thing to your "must have" list: a full-sized keyboard. Without, I may be able to surf, but I can't get any real work done.
Time to un-combine them.
I've now gotten 3 identical, multipage notices in the mail from the government telling me to expect an economic stimulus check in June.
Wouldn't it be less wasteful just to send me the check?
It's not about being trigger happy; it's about being greedy. Bush in 2004 said that "loose nukes" were the biggest security problem in the world, yet there are still gaping holes in the security around the former Soviet arsenal.
It only takes a handful of guards who get tired of their current lifestyle and decide they'd rather be millionaires to transfer a nuke to someone who IS trigger happy.
Here's what works for me (not that it matters, since I have a fabulous, young, beautiful girlfriend): I do exactly what the AC above suggests -- I look like the type of guy the girls I like go for. I have long hair and tattoos, and ride a motorcycle. I'm facially hideous and generally quiet, but I get hit on fairly frequently and dated lots of beautiful women before settling on the current one. I've found that most women are looking for some guy who wants to go places all the time and will spend his entire waking hour thinking about her and ways to make her happy and is willing to drop his friends at a drop of a hat to come home and make her happy. We attract the type of people we seek. If this is what you think most women are looking for, then a) you don't know many women, and b) it's time to figure out what it is about you that attracts only psychos.
And apt-get? HTF would this make any sense to the average Windows user. Get what? From where? And what does 'apt' mean? It doesn't take special empathic abilities to see where people who grew up in a Windows-centric world would have serious growing pains adopting even the easiest linux distro. I honestly don't see how "apt-get install program" is master hacker like or complex in any way. And therein lies the problem with linux adoption.
So if I charge someone to mod or fix their Mustang, I'm profiting off Ford's IP?
I realize that there are legal differences, but there are no logical ones.