It'd be like if everybody believes politics to be a dishonest mud trough, we'd just end up with a bunch of greedy pigs who like to wallow in it
Remind me, if you could how exactly is this different than the current state of affairs? At least if there's pushback it could result in people trying to change things in stead of the 'business as usual' we have now.
As a fan of Gnome 2.xx I find myself wondering if the problem raised is still an issue with that version or if they are regressions due to Gnome Shell?
Fans of Gnome Shell, please don't mod me down without at least first answering the question for me as I genuinely want to know the answer.
Serious question here. You've been warning people about the need to protect and preserve essential freedoms from being lost for literally decades now to very little avail. Your stories intended to be glimpses into a bad future where we no longer have the four freedoms are becoming more and more prophetic seeming by the day. And yet, there is very little change to prevent the dystopia you warned of from coming to pass.
How do you handle the frustration, anger, disappointment and personal attacks?
Also, thank you for seeing the need and establishing the GPL and GNU to fight for our future freedoms!
Without reaching for my well-thumbed hard copy of RAH's Future History I'd say that it was the judge who made this statement not the good doctor. I'm just going by memory though, so you could be right.
Considering how everyone always laughs at me, calls me a luddite, tells me the future is the cloud, etc whenever I complain about the latest tablets and phones being released without some sort of user loadable storage, is this news enough of a reason to make you rethink your positions?
Where I'm from (Pittsburgh, PA), many bicyclists don't use hand signals or stop at red lights - They buzz right through.
While I can't comment on the stupidity of failing to stop at red lights, I have to offer a possible explanation for the lack of hand signals. Two words:
Fear
Ignorance
I'm afraid to even attempt to use hand signals because of the possibility of being confused with using gang signs and I say this as someone whose hard of hearing and uses (pidgin) ASL to communicate with Deaf friends. Even with ASL I'm nervous about using them in public, there have been too many stories of people being attacked or confused for being a gang banger over use of hand signs.
Ignorance also plays a factor. How many motorists would recognize bike hand signals if they saw them? How many would only see a hand movement and decide they were being flipped off by rude bikers?
What good does it do to use signals that are unknown and likely to get you killed if misinterpreted?
90% of education is indoctrination ( extreme word used on purpose). Really most education is about passing on the values of the society to the next generation.
Many in the West lost sight of that simple reality known for thousands of years.
They didn't lose sight of anything--they're simply very well indoctrinated. . .
I have to defend the "Works For Me"-closing. It is *very* hard to track bugs which are not showing up on your machine (or any test machine). You never know exactly what that user has already done to the machine prior to the bug occurring and it's hard to get additional information. While it for sure sucks if you get that response, the immediate reaction should be "well, how can I help you find this" and not "I still have that problem" as it happens many times.
Sooo....what you're saying then is that it works for you?
True story - I downloaded a game called "plumber pipes" or something like that, where you connected pipe pieces from one end to the other. It had "targeted" ads - they were all for pipes and plumbing equipment!
Root that puppy and install "Adfree Android" to block most ads from ever becoming an annoyance again.
Also check the site in my sig and you might be pleasantly surprised at how well your POS Android can run...
For all we know, somewhere in the future, people will pitty us because our foods contained to much salt.
And MSG, corn syrup, propyl glycol, cellulose gum, ect...
I think future generations will look back at our diets in horror and ponder the question of how much our (poor?) decision making was a direct result of the 'food' we ate.
On the flipside of that coin... doing absolutely nothing with the technology will SURELY improve it.
Who said that nothing should ever be done with it? There has been some great success when used by people who become deaf later in life; I just don't think (for reasons already explained above) children should have their entire futures gambled with.
There is a limited time window to input language in a human brain--but we've seen that once a language (any language) is imparted it is ridiculously easy to add more. Especially during the time range we're talking about here where neurons are making connections at a frantic rate. My primary objection to cochlear implants in children has always been the insistence of its proponents to have the child raised oral only and forbidding or discouraging the use of sign language. This results in a gamble with the parents placing everything the hope the child will figure out the strange sounds are communication in time to develop those centers of the brain enough to provide the foundation for their future life.
With adults that have become deaf later in life there are less issues because they already have language in the brain and because they are adults, who presumably are old enough to make their own choices.
I almost feel obliged to buy a Galaxy. Out of sheer spite.
I do too, but not out of spite, but because of the compelling endorsement seen here.
What could be a better endorsement for an Android tablet than the current market leader crying in court that this device is so much better than theirs they have to litigate rather than attempt to fight it on the merits?
Buy a Samsung Galaxy Tab--because Apple thinks it's better than the iPad. Hell of an endorsement, yeah?
I think it's child abuse to deny a baby born deaf a cochlear implant
No, what is child abuse is using the misfortune of someone's child being born with a hearing impairment to excuse human experimentation on infants with dubious real world results.
I'm not a Deaf militant, but I am hard of hearing since childhood and have participated in the Deaf community and use sign language, so I know a little bit about this stuff because it involves me and those like me. I find the saddest thing has always been the way the families involved and the children diagnosed with it are treated. The second saddest thing is how many people who spout off about the issue do so from a position of ignorance and emotion, not facts.
The fact is that cochlear implants are a dangerous gamble, one that rarely pays off as much as those who subject others to it expect. It requires drilling into the skull to place a piece of hardware in the head, one that still requires the use of an external aid to function. There are heightened risks of meningitis, nerve damage, necrosis of the cochlear implant skin flaps...none of which are really explained to parents before hand. Instead all parents of Deaf children hear is that there is a surgery that can "fix" their children.
Worse, the recommendation is that the surgery be done at an early age because there is a limited window to get some form of language to the brain. The problem is that proponents of the surgery often advise against the children also learning sign language because it would interfere with them learning to process sounds. This is where the biggest gamble of all takes place--if the child doesn't properly learn to process the signals as sounds, they are effectively retarded in their development.
By contrast sign language has shown to allow communication and build cognitive function at preverbal ages!
That is why so many Deaf people get so militant about the issue!
Would OpenELEC enable hardware video decoding? The summary says it's not supported, and without that it'll be pretty useless for video replay. Software decoding is too jittery.
That's being worked on. There is a thread on XBMC's forums with the various attempts to get these types of devices working. Some are closer to success than others. Last I heard the Allwinner A10 SOC driver code were released but the developers wanted to make sure they had written legal permission to use them. (Previously the code had license restrictions on it so they are being careful.)
Since the Allwinner A10 SOC is so popular and so relatively inexpensive I expect that hardware acceleration will come sooner than you think.
I just wish that there would be some "smartbooks" made using this SOC and released with Linux (whether Ubuntu or some other system, just so long as it is open and not Android--although I wouldn't mind either dual booting or running Android co-currently to get access to those apps while still retaining Gnome 2.xx or MATE desktop) but a cheap XBMC pc would be great too!
People are already working on getting OpenELEC (Open Embedded Linux Entertainment Center) to work on these, which will make these a wicked entertainment center given that this means XBMC on the cheap. I look forward to seeing these popular up in the houses of every day Joes being put together by their geek friends.
What I'd like to see is a method of running XBMC as shell and allow Android games to be launched from within the interface. Should provide a library of games that way, especially if it could be made to pair with cellphones as controllers. Seems like everybody has a cellphone these days so it should make having controllers for everyone easier.
Users of Megaupload.com for the most part have paid already for their data.
That's why the site was making money, because people were willing to pay for faster access and to be able to store their files with a larger limit on how large those files could be. This spew from obvious shills is disgusting, pretending that users of Megaupload were somehow freeloaders--many of their users were not. They paid for access.
The money is there, it is the MAFIAA's own fault if they can't figure out a way to get to it by offering a fair price.
Sure, tell me about how men are failing at everything again and how women everywhere are coming to fix things for us useless cretins who only invented it all...
Tell me again about how worthless men are and how perfect and truly in control of everything women are...
Them kids just sit in their rooms and play games, smoke weed, and play some more. There is some sort of employment they are involved with, but it doesn't look real stable or regular, certainly not a 9-5 job.
All quite rational decisions on their part. Why work when what you earn will simply be stolen from you to pay for the Baby-Boomer's retirement? Why build anything when it can just be taken away by corporate yahoos who patent your ideas or do copyright laundering to steal your work?
Makes much more sense to relax, play some games and hang out...
Maybe you should consider the consequences of disincentivizing an entire generation?
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Remind me, if you could how exactly is this different than the current state of affairs? At least if there's pushback it could result in people trying to change things in stead of the 'business as usual' we have now.
I was wondering about that myself when I saw the man's name in the headline and was disappointed to see this wasn't it.
As a fan of Gnome 2.xx I find myself wondering if the problem raised is still an issue with that version or if they are regressions due to Gnome Shell?
Fans of Gnome Shell, please don't mod me down without at least first answering the question for me as I genuinely want to know the answer.
Serious question here. You've been warning people about the need to protect and preserve essential freedoms from being lost for literally decades now to very little avail. Your stories intended to be glimpses into a bad future where we no longer have the four freedoms are becoming more and more prophetic seeming by the day. And yet, there is very little change to prevent the dystopia you warned of from coming to pass.
How do you handle the frustration, anger, disappointment and personal attacks?
Also, thank you for seeing the need and establishing the GPL and GNU to fight for our future freedoms!
Yes, yes--but who told you that? Just because Big Bang Theory says so, doesn't make it so.
More importantly, why do you assume that if true the situation will never change?
Without reaching for my well-thumbed hard copy of RAH's Future History I'd say that it was the judge who made this statement not the good doctor. I'm just going by memory though, so you could be right.
Considering how everyone always laughs at me, calls me a luddite, tells me the future is the cloud, etc whenever I complain about the latest tablets and phones being released without some sort of user loadable storage, is this news enough of a reason to make you rethink your positions?
Undergoing interrogation. He's brutal, sir!
While I can't comment on the stupidity of failing to stop at red lights, I have to offer a possible explanation for the lack of hand signals. Two words:
I'm afraid to even attempt to use hand signals because of the possibility of being confused with using gang signs and I say this as someone whose hard of hearing and uses (pidgin) ASL to communicate with Deaf friends. Even with ASL I'm nervous about using them in public, there have been too many stories of people being attacked or confused for being a gang banger over use of hand signs.
Ignorance also plays a factor. How many motorists would recognize bike hand signals if they saw them? How many would only see a hand movement and decide they were being flipped off by rude bikers?
What good does it do to use signals that are unknown and likely to get you killed if misinterpreted?
I like your work, can I have a grant? ;P
Seriously, thanks for everything you've given us geeks technology-wise!
They didn't lose sight of anything--they're simply very well indoctrinated. . .
Sooo....what you're saying then is that it works for you?
/me ducks.
Donuts....Is there anything they can't do?
Root that puppy and install "Adfree Android" to block most ads from ever becoming an annoyance again.
Also check the site in my sig and you might be pleasantly surprised at how well your POS Android can run...
And MSG, corn syrup, propyl glycol, cellulose gum, ect...
I think future generations will look back at our diets in horror and ponder the question of how much our (poor?) decision making was a direct result of the 'food' we ate.
Who said that nothing should ever be done with it? There has been some great success when used by people who become deaf later in life; I just don't think (for reasons already explained above) children should have their entire futures gambled with.
There is a limited time window to input language in a human brain--but we've seen that once a language (any language) is imparted it is ridiculously easy to add more. Especially during the time range we're talking about here where neurons are making connections at a frantic rate. My primary objection to cochlear implants in children has always been the insistence of its proponents to have the child raised oral only and forbidding or discouraging the use of sign language. This results in a gamble with the parents placing everything the hope the child will figure out the strange sounds are communication in time to develop those centers of the brain enough to provide the foundation for their future life.
With adults that have become deaf later in life there are less issues because they already have language in the brain and because they are adults, who presumably are old enough to make their own choices.
I do too, but not out of spite, but because of the compelling endorsement seen here.
What could be a better endorsement for an Android tablet than the current market leader crying in court that this device is so much better than theirs they have to litigate rather than attempt to fight it on the merits?
Buy a Samsung Galaxy Tab--because Apple thinks it's better than the iPad. Hell of an endorsement, yeah?
No, what is child abuse is using the misfortune of someone's child being born with a hearing impairment to excuse human experimentation on infants with dubious real world results.
I'm not a Deaf militant, but I am hard of hearing since childhood and have participated in the Deaf community and use sign language, so I know a little bit about this stuff because it involves me and those like me. I find the saddest thing has always been the way the families involved and the children diagnosed with it are treated. The second saddest thing is how many people who spout off about the issue do so from a position of ignorance and emotion, not facts.
The fact is that cochlear implants are a dangerous gamble, one that rarely pays off as much as those who subject others to it expect. It requires drilling into the skull to place a piece of hardware in the head, one that still requires the use of an external aid to function. There are heightened risks of meningitis, nerve damage, necrosis of the cochlear implant skin flaps...none of which are really explained to parents before hand. Instead all parents of Deaf children hear is that there is a surgery that can "fix" their children.
Worse, the recommendation is that the surgery be done at an early age because there is a limited window to get some form of language to the brain. The problem is that proponents of the surgery often advise against the children also learning sign language because it would interfere with them learning to process sounds. This is where the biggest gamble of all takes place--if the child doesn't properly learn to process the signals as sounds, they are effectively retarded in their development.
By contrast sign language has shown to allow communication and build cognitive function at preverbal ages!
That is why so many Deaf people get so militant about the issue!
That's being worked on. There is a thread on XBMC's forums with the various attempts to get these types of devices working. Some are closer to success than others. Last I heard the Allwinner A10 SOC driver code were released but the developers wanted to make sure they had written legal permission to use them. (Previously the code had license restrictions on it so they are being careful.)
Since the Allwinner A10 SOC is so popular and so relatively inexpensive I expect that hardware acceleration will come sooner than you think.
I just wish that there would be some "smartbooks" made using this SOC and released with Linux (whether Ubuntu or some other system, just so long as it is open and not Android--although I wouldn't mind either dual booting or running Android co-currently to get access to those apps while still retaining Gnome 2.xx or MATE desktop) but a cheap XBMC pc would be great too!
People are already working on getting OpenELEC (Open Embedded Linux Entertainment Center) to work on these, which will make these a wicked entertainment center given that this means XBMC on the cheap. I look forward to seeing these popular up in the houses of every day Joes being put together by their geek friends.
What I'd like to see is a method of running XBMC as shell and allow Android games to be launched from within the interface. Should provide a library of games that way, especially if it could be made to pair with cellphones as controllers. Seems like everybody has a cellphone these days so it should make having controllers for everyone easier.
Then of course there are all the emulators....
Not the Megaupload customer's problem--they paid for their service and the government has no right to insist that they pay twice for the same service.
Users of Megaupload.com for the most part have paid already for their data.
That's why the site was making money, because people were willing to pay for faster access and to be able to store their files with a larger limit on how large those files could be. This spew from obvious shills is disgusting, pretending that users of Megaupload were somehow freeloaders--many of their users were not. They paid for access.
The money is there, it is the MAFIAA's own fault if they can't figure out a way to get to it by offering a fair price.
HINT: It's called capitalism in an open market...
Oh, look! It's this article again...
Sure, tell me about how men are failing at everything again and how women everywhere are coming to fix things for us useless cretins who only invented it all...
Tell me again about how worthless men are and how perfect and truly in control of everything women are...
Well don't hold back! What did you find that worked?
All quite rational decisions on their part. Why work when what you earn will simply be stolen from you to pay for the Baby-Boomer's retirement? Why build anything when it can just be taken away by corporate yahoos who patent your ideas or do copyright laundering to steal your work?
Makes much more sense to relax, play some games and hang out...
Maybe you should consider the consequences of disincentivizing an entire generation?