Does anyone actually harbor delusions of things being any different before the Internet? Prior to the net, porn was still avaliable, kids still looked at it, and the earth continued to rotate just fine.
Uncle Bob's under the bed box, boxes in the attic, etc...
If you are at all worried about what your kids are doing online, surf with them, get involved and let them know you are there to help!
My kids started surfing about 94. This dilemma lasted about two days --just long enough for me to think it through.
Here's what you do as a parent:
-put the computer in the family room where the screen can be seen
-when your kids are young, surf with them!
(This is great fun actually. The kinds of stuff they want to see and do can be very enlightening where getting to know your kids are concerned.)
-have them use a search engine to locate sites at first. Improper URLs lead straight to porn / malware / virii, etc...
-nurture a trusting relationship.
Bad things might happen. If your kids come to you for help and can do that without fear of harsh punishment, they will!
I had this happen in my house once or twice. They came right to me, showed me the screen full of nasty popups and asked, "how do I avoid / get out of this?" No biggie, we talked about it, and all was good.)
-let them know the Internet is logged. (not completely true, but true enough) Essentially, their surfing reflects on your record. It also means what they did can be found after the fact. (also not technically true, unless you setup the logs, but again true enough to get the job done.)
-let them know about identity issues. It's perfectly ok to construct identities on the net sometimes. They need to know when and why this is appropriate.
All in all, doing these things has made Internet life with my kids solid. Over the years, I've had three major issues. All were easily dealt with. Minor league compared to other parents I know, who did not do these things. They essentially get the full range of crap. Site sneaking, dangerous online chat / IM, downloads full of crap, identiy theft, buying things on e-bay, the fricking works!
After seeing this contrast over the years, I know the right path is just what I wrote above. It's so much easier to have an environment where kids ask for help and act in a solid way, than one where they essentially only work on not getting caught. Too many secrets makes for an Internet mess where kids are concerned.
Getting back OT: The XXX domain will do exactly nothing to address these issues. I've got a coupla sites blocked right now. Not porn, but for other reasons. My Space is one that got the kids too sucked in. They spent every waking minute on the site looking for attention. So I canned it for those reasons, not content ones. They can go elsewhere to participate on the site and they know it. At home though, it's better to not have it and they know that too. (And will tell their friends why!)
The only thing XXX will do is force the issue of content regulation more than it already is. The sad truth is that no amount of content regulation will solve the problem of parents not doing their part to raise decent netizens. Fix that and this whole issue goes away for all but the extremists looking to change the world rather than simply learn to deal like the rest of us do.
This game was just great. Scary visuals and excellent sound. I liked the sense of exploration the most. Moving throughout the game, looking for the cards, finding weapons, etc... was a lot of fun. The beauty of it was one did not need a manual. Just go poking around the game and you find stuff that suggests a greater story. Accessing the little computers and reading the stories of the dead crew for clues to the endgame was a nice touch as well.
Playing through as the different characters was a lot of fun as well. Each had their own strengths and made essentially three games with the same map.
It's a shame this wonderful interpetation of the AvP theme has not made it to more modern machines.
Yes, we have AvP games, but none are like this one.
then how can be assured the IP address, assigned to the computer where the alleged infringement occured, was indeed a public internet one, and not one normally associated with a NAT routing device?
Right around 2000, I decided I was not going to tie my skills and computing activities in general to closed software. Started running Linux in various forms, also continued with my SGI IRIX machines. (Yeah they are closed, but cool in that there is no DRM anywhere in the box. It does what it does nicely enough.)
Took a while, and I went without a lot of interesting stuff for a few years. Coupla things happened. Realized I didn't need as much software as I thought I did, and I found myself with more money than I would have otherwise had.
I cracked and ran cracked software just like everyone else did. Don't do it today --completely legal. Makes these licensing discussions we see today just nuts! It's hard to believe people are actually debating the merits of this crap.
I own the following licenses:
(1) copy of XP Home purchased along with a killer loss leader deep discount box (2) copies of win2k obtained in a similar manner (1) copy of office 97 professional or whatever they called it at the time (1) copy of L-view pro (no upgrades because it's getting too cluttered these days
coupla games and that's it!
It's not fucking worth it. Everything else is open or something I really just don't need, or can run on my employers license pool.
How to work today with this attitude? Simple. I only run Microsoft stuff so long as somebody else has paid for it. I find them increasingly happy to pay, so I always ask and politely decline those scenarios where I would have to personally agree to such crappy licenses.
I actually hope they really crack down on piracy in all forms. The really great geeks among us will continue to do what they do, largely uninhibited. However, Joe bag 'o dougnuts will just get pissed and things will change for the better.
If folks really understood all the terms of the various licenses they are asked to agree to and knew enough to actually consider the implications they would be far less inclined to continue the madness.
So I'm not gonna run it, unless somebody else, stupid enough to do so, or who can afford the expense because there is a solid return for them pays the bill. Microsoft has peaked with XP, it's downhill from here. That means extracting revenue from the customer as often as is possible for as much as is possible. Messy. Better to start learning how to compute on open stuff and begin putting computing in perspective.
We need to continue supporting open systems and talking to vendors about it. Don't support Linux? Thanks but no thanks. Write letters, talk to people, return defective non-open, didn't say so, products. It does not take everyone running the stuff to matter, just enough of us to continue to be significant.
Wouldn't it be smarter to just get it working, then roll it out in beta? The idea that these means and methods may be on the table is going to ruffle nearly all the feathers of the powers that be.
We all know there are a few statesmen among the clowns in office right now. We also know they are few in number and essentially powerless right now. To top it off, there are a lot of powerful people pulling strings with dollars that factor in to this whole mess as well, with the crap to decent ratio none to pretty in their ranks too.
The people at Google are smart --wicked smart.
So how come they tip their hand so early? This is like the superhero letting the baddies know about their new invention that will bring peace to the world, if only they have time to get it finished! C'mon Page and Brin, it's stupid! IMHO, there is some major league naievtte in play here. Not a good thing.
All that aside, I find this line of research in general very interesting and potentially valuable. Could it be we might be able to get some quick stats on statements made and on who made them?
Bob the liar: "We know they have weapons of mass destruction."
Personal BS percentage: 80 (high number of statements that are flawed on matters of logic and form) Lie to Truth Ratio: 10/3 (obvious what this means)
Current statement likely to be true: 10 (Probability based on known facts and an accounting of Bob's statements on record)
IMHO, this is fiction at this point. However, that's where the Google intent lies --or somewhere along these lines right?
Does anyone honestly believe this kind of thing will just be allowed to evolve?
Even if possible, which I've no real confidence in right now, why take on the bad vibes? This is just adding risk and bad karma for no real return, other than a feel good that just might not feel so good somewhere in the near future.
and that is a copy of the Open CD, or some similar project that they can give to their friends.
Once they begin to see they can begin computing on OSS, the first step has been taken toward greater use of OSS.
Solid advocacy is always a good thing. If they don't hear the alternative story, they won't be considering OSS at all. Converting someone should not be the goal however. That's their choice. Making that an informed choice should be the goal, IMHO. When somebody is in possession of all the facts, surrounding OSS, the choice is very compelling.
The very best thing was it's freeform nature. All the ports I've tried to date, were more of a guided tour.
The discovery element to this game, done with the secuirty card device, made the whole experience for me. Playing the game, reading the hints from the computer consoles and finding the cards hooked the player solid, right out of the gate.
Nice ending too. Through hints, discovered and learned throughout the game, the player realizes they need to set the self-destruct and leave the ship in 2 minutes!
This whole thing was artfully done, with the security cards and hints placed in such a way the player would have to find them before progressing, yet enough freedom existed to feel like real discoveries and not guided tours.
Half-life does this too, but in a more obvious "spoon feed me please" way.
C'mon guys. Give the Renegage Games version a good play, with an eye toward these great elements, and port the fucker.
It's a great, if slow, experience on the Jag. On modern hardware, this game would be huge.
1. you are an anon poster. Want to actually discuss something. Get an account, so we can deal on level ground or STFU.
2. I get tons of spam. Sometimes ~1000 per day. I don't think I've ever seen a poker spam. This is a myth and is normally trotted out by those opposed to the whole idea of online poker.
3. All of those comment spams are tied to affiliate accounts. Have a problem with them? Contact the site and send them the link to the spam. It will be dealt with. The spammer will likely lose their affiliate status and the dollars they have accrued to date.
I've got privacy worries, but am willing to give these things a shot. --Just limit what ends up being stored there to the set of things you can live with and it's all good.
In these times, if you are doing nasty computing (and you can set your definition of nasty), best do it OSS on a network you can trust. (Your own, if it's that nasty.)
That said, I divide my computing between personal and work related.
Personal:
A google account setup is a great deal for kid computing. No need to worry about application installs and there is plenty of functionality for their needs. Win-win.
That's about it for these services where personal computing comes into play. A lot of my stuff sits on a local SGI and Linux box that I can SSH into from where ever I happen to be. Too bad, these kinds of services are not portable. I can see that becoming huge with people of technical means.
Work:
I'm often at different company sites, with limited network access. Putting core documents on these services means having access to my own knowledge and support base and nearly all necessary files almost anywhere I end up that day. Sure, I can carry a key and do, but these kinds of services are a very nice fallback.
Sometimes you only get a browser. That's a lot these days.
I struggle with these things sometimes. The need to explore something sometimes outweighs other life priorities. 8bit computing and gaming is one of these things. The bug comes back every few years. So I author something, enjoy myself and move on.
It got infected with this crap and started spewing spam. Primary cause of this is kid browsing BTW. They are the most likely to click on the baddies. Put 'yer kids on Linux or a Mac and lots of this just goes away.
Within a few hours I got a call on my cell. Asked me what I wanted to do. I said pull the plug if the box is still spewing in a few hours. (That was time enough for me to get home and deal.) I arrived home, pulled the plug on the offending box, started archiving data in preparation for a re-image. Shot off a quick e-mail asking them to check for baddies on their end just to be sure. All done, next.
This is exactly why the ISP consolidation is just horrible. Had we continued to have a high percentage of live and local ISP's, people would have someone they could trust to let them know things are not as they seem.
I know my ISP sysadmins by name. Most people should. I don't talk with them much, but when I need to, it's always worthwhile. Nice folks --we need more of them.
I've only toyed with a trombone. Enough to fully grok the nature of the partials. To me, it was more of a feeling --like the instrument only allowed specific feed frequencies. Of course they are harmonics and your detail filled in some gaps from long ago.
It's never too late to feed your soul a little. Grab a nice used instrument and go for it. Likely not practical, but most likely worth it.
The music bug either bites deep or does not bite at all. I do vocal stuff. The beauty of it is that I can entertain the art anytime I want.
It's perplexing because there should be no core physical reason why your friend could not get a solid tone. Suppose holding it over a range is another problem not unlike vocal music has.
Must really be a matter of perception. It's the only thing I can think of that would explain it. If these minor elements are not perceived well enough to differentate bad from good, the person never gets the feedback necessary to do the right things.
Hmmph....
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had you two spent a few hours on tone. Being of similar age and experience, I'll bet the both of you would have been able to go a long way toward defining what it is.
Think of it this way. You are trying to understand a difficult subject that a childhood friend understands well. Would you have an easier time of it from a total stranger or from your friend? Chances are, you would have an easier time of it when working with someone you can relate to.
I'm not articulating this well right now dammit!
It's about shared experience and the shortcuts possible when two people have some things in common. These elements can be leveraged to better communicate complex things. It's why really good teachers listen and talk. Having some understading of how the other person thinks really helps to convey the concept in terms they can understand. Kind of like translating between languages, if that helps at all. Our own internal representations are often very different. Trying to convey something to another, without some baseline, is very difficult.
The key to those with talent lies in their internalizations. They might be visual, tactile, whatever... but they model some means, methods or process in a way that allows them to deal with it on a lower level. Thought is motion for an athlete, for example. As a kid, I never groked this. Later as an adult, somebody helped me make this connection and suddenly I was able to become a lot better at some things. I'm not saying that a simple insight can make a clutz a start player, but it can plant the seed for greater success than would otherwise be possible.
Getting back to your friend. Had you two sat down and talked about tone, there is a very good chance that the two of you would have reached some common ground. From there, passing along that thing you call 'it' becomes viable, that's all.
Let them do the ads. Those of us willing and able to avoid them, can just do what we do.
Might make you watch one at boot, after login, before unlocking the screen, every morning, etc...
They will cache them, queue impression data, then send when they can later. Block the hosts file, see the same damn ads until you allow new ones. OS hardcoded to look for the ads. You'll have to firewall, etc...
Won't be dead simple, but won't be impossible either.
I personally don't care for reasons already given.
My first reaction was along the lines of: "WTF?!? --No way in hell!, etc..." After thinking about it though, I'm actually liking the idea.
I've had a simple rule since I bootstrapped myself onto OSS, namely: I don't run win32 OSes unless somebody else is paying for them. This works for me actually.
For personal computing, it means access to win32 if needed for some reason. A recent example for me was having to perform an upgrade on my ReplayTV. The better tools are win32 ones. I've no problem booting the OS, doing the task, then back to my OSS environment. Running an AD supported version would not have impacted me one bit. I don't need commercial apps for anything these days, so it's just about running win32 programs that do very specific things that may not be so easy in OSS land.
Where work related tasks are concerned, I'm still very much tied to the win32 system. However, that's on somebody elses dime. Fine by me.
I say bring it on.
You know what's gonna happen though. There will be an AD for the OS, then another AD for the application, and another for the browser.... Might have to get a pretty high pixel density monitor for it all!
We see eye to eye on that score. Sheesh, what a clown.
Agreed on the bodies. Perhaps only referesh a third of it at any one time being careful not to make the terms too long. Just long enough for some continuitity, but not long enough for any serious rot to set in.
Montana has an interesting race coming up. We've literally the average joe running against the established incumbent. If joe (actually it's Jon) wins, it will be interesting to see how he does.
---just think, with Paris, the state of the Union might be quite a draw!
Are you saying our elections are secure enough then?
Would you still say it if your favored people were on the losing side?
Doesn't it make perfect sense for the losers to speak on this matter first, whoever they may be? Why would the winners speak --and in particular these winners?
Bottom line is that our voting process no longer properly embodies the core ideals necessary for it to be trustworthy.
Get back to me when nobody is making money from elections.
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Parents gotta surf with their kids.
Does anyone actually harbor delusions of things being any different before the Internet? Prior to the net, porn was still avaliable, kids still looked at it, and the earth continued to rotate just fine.
Uncle Bob's under the bed box, boxes in the attic, etc...
If you are at all worried about what your kids are doing online, surf with them, get involved and let them know you are there to help!
My kids started surfing about 94. This dilemma lasted about two days --just long enough for me to think it through.
Here's what you do as a parent:
-put the computer in the family room where the screen can be seen
-when your kids are young, surf with them!
(This is great fun actually. The kinds of stuff they want to see and do can be very enlightening where getting to know your kids are concerned.)
-have them use a search engine to locate sites at first. Improper URLs lead straight to porn / malware / virii, etc...
-nurture a trusting relationship.
Bad things might happen. If your kids come to you for help and can do that without fear of harsh punishment, they will!
I had this happen in my house once or twice. They came right to me, showed me the screen full of nasty popups and asked, "how do I avoid / get out of this?" No biggie, we talked about it, and all was good.)
-let them know the Internet is logged. (not completely true, but true enough) Essentially, their surfing reflects on your record. It also means what they did can be found after the fact. (also not technically true, unless you setup the logs, but again true enough to get the job done.)
-let them know about identity issues. It's perfectly ok to construct identities on the net sometimes. They need to know when and why this is appropriate.
All in all, doing these things has made Internet life with my kids solid. Over the years, I've had three major issues. All were easily dealt with. Minor league compared to other parents I know, who did not do these things. They essentially get the full range of crap. Site sneaking, dangerous online chat / IM, downloads full of crap, identiy theft, buying things on e-bay, the fricking works!
After seeing this contrast over the years, I know the right path is just what I wrote above. It's so much easier to have an environment where kids ask for help and act in a solid way, than one where they essentially only work on not getting caught. Too many secrets makes for an Internet mess where kids are concerned.
Getting back OT: The XXX domain will do exactly nothing to address these issues. I've got a coupla sites blocked right now. Not porn, but for other reasons. My Space is one that got the kids too sucked in. They spent every waking minute on the site looking for attention. So I canned it for those reasons, not content ones. They can go elsewhere to participate on the site and they know it. At home though, it's better to not have it and they know that too. (And will tell their friends why!)
The only thing XXX will do is force the issue of content regulation more than it already is. The sad truth is that no amount of content regulation will solve the problem of parents not doing their part to raise decent netizens. Fix that and this whole issue goes away for all but the extremists looking to change the world rather than simply learn to deal like the rest of us do.
Atari Jaguar see a remake / sequel.
This game was just great. Scary visuals and excellent sound. I liked the sense of exploration the most. Moving throughout the game, looking for the cards, finding weapons, etc... was a lot of fun. The beauty of it was one did not need a manual. Just go poking around the game and you find stuff that suggests a greater story. Accessing the little computers and reading the stories of the dead crew for clues to the endgame was a nice touch as well.
Playing through as the different characters was a lot of fun as well. Each had their own strengths and made essentially three games with the same map.
It's a shame this wonderful interpetation of the AvP theme has not made it to more modern machines.
Yes, we have AvP games, but none are like this one.
Yep!
Friends don't let friends post while under the influence of strong cold / flu remedies!
Cheers!
then how can be assured the IP address, assigned to the computer where the alleged infringement occured, was indeed a public internet one, and not one normally associated with a NAT routing device?
Right around 2000, I decided I was not going to tie my skills and computing activities in general to closed software. Started running Linux in various forms, also continued with my SGI IRIX machines. (Yeah they are closed, but cool in that there is no DRM anywhere in the box. It does what it does nicely enough.)
Took a while, and I went without a lot of interesting stuff for a few years. Coupla things happened. Realized I didn't need as much software as I thought I did, and I found myself with more money than I would have otherwise had.
I cracked and ran cracked software just like everyone else did. Don't do it today --completely legal. Makes these licensing discussions we see today just nuts! It's hard to believe people are actually debating the merits of this crap.
I own the following licenses:
(1) copy of XP Home purchased along with a killer loss leader deep discount box
(2) copies of win2k obtained in a similar manner
(1) copy of office 97 professional or whatever they called it at the time
(1) copy of L-view pro (no upgrades because it's getting too cluttered these days
coupla games and that's it!
It's not fucking worth it. Everything else is open or something I really just don't need, or can run on my employers license pool.
How to work today with this attitude? Simple. I only run Microsoft stuff so long as somebody else has paid for it. I find them increasingly happy to pay, so I always ask and politely decline those scenarios where I would have to personally agree to such crappy licenses.
I actually hope they really crack down on piracy in all forms. The really great geeks among us will continue to do what they do, largely uninhibited. However, Joe bag 'o dougnuts will just get pissed and things will change for the better.
If folks really understood all the terms of the various licenses they are asked to agree to and knew enough to actually consider the implications they would be far less inclined to continue the madness.
So I'm not gonna run it, unless somebody else, stupid enough to do so, or who can afford the expense because there is a solid return for them pays the bill. Microsoft has peaked with XP, it's downhill from here. That means extracting revenue from the customer as often as is possible for as much as is possible. Messy. Better to start learning how to compute on open stuff and begin putting computing in perspective.
We need to continue supporting open systems and talking to vendors about it. Don't support Linux? Thanks but no thanks. Write letters, talk to people, return defective non-open, didn't say so, products. It does not take everyone running the stuff to matter, just enough of us to continue to be significant.
for the old 2600.
Q3A
AvP for Jaguar
M.U.L.E (we really need up to date versions of this)
Asteroids
...go from there.
Wouldn't it be smarter to just get it working, then roll it out in beta? The idea that these means and methods may be on the table is going to ruffle nearly all the feathers of the powers that be.
We all know there are a few statesmen among the clowns in office right now. We also know they are few in number and essentially powerless right now. To top it off, there are a lot of powerful people pulling strings with dollars that factor in to this whole mess as well, with the crap to decent ratio none to pretty in their ranks too.
The people at Google are smart --wicked smart.
So how come they tip their hand so early? This is like the superhero letting the baddies know about their new invention that will bring peace to the world, if only they have time to get it finished! C'mon Page and Brin, it's stupid! IMHO, there is some major league naievtte in play here. Not a good thing.
All that aside, I find this line of research in general very interesting and potentially valuable. Could it be we might be able to get some quick stats on statements made and on who made them?
Bob the liar: "We know they have weapons of mass destruction."
Personal BS percentage: 80 (high number of statements that are flawed on matters of logic and form)
Lie to Truth Ratio: 10/3 (obvious what this means)
Current statement likely to be true: 10 (Probability based on known facts and an accounting of Bob's statements on record)
IMHO, this is fiction at this point. However, that's where the Google intent lies --or somewhere along these lines right?
Does anyone honestly believe this kind of thing will just be allowed to evolve?
Even if possible, which I've no real confidence in right now, why take on the bad vibes? This is just adding risk and bad karma for no real return, other than a feel good that just might not feel so good somewhere in the near future.
and that is a copy of the Open CD, or some similar project that they can give to their friends.
Once they begin to see they can begin computing on OSS, the first step has been taken toward greater use of OSS.
Solid advocacy is always a good thing. If they don't hear the alternative story, they won't be considering OSS at all. Converting someone should not be the goal however. That's their choice. Making that an informed choice should be the goal, IMHO. When somebody is in possession of all the facts, surrounding OSS, the choice is very compelling.
and as such, should not be allowed.
The actual vote is not recorded, only what the machine thinks the vote was.
I would much rather have humans sorting this out than machines.
This game was excellent.
The very best thing was it's freeform nature. All the ports I've tried to date, were more of a guided tour.
The discovery element to this game, done with the secuirty card device, made the whole experience for me. Playing the game, reading the hints from the computer consoles and finding the cards hooked the player solid, right out of the gate.
Nice ending too. Through hints, discovered and learned throughout the game, the player realizes they need to set the self-destruct and leave the ship in 2 minutes!
This whole thing was artfully done, with the security cards and hints placed in such a way the player would have to find them before progressing, yet enough freedom existed to feel like real discoveries and not guided tours.
Half-life does this too, but in a more obvious "spoon feed me please" way.
C'mon guys. Give the Renegage Games version a good play, with an eye toward these great elements, and port the fucker.
It's a great, if slow, experience on the Jag. On modern hardware, this game would be huge.
unabashadly steal it for all it's worth.
Thanks for making me laugh!
information.
We need both.
1. you are an anon poster. Want to actually discuss something. Get an account, so we can deal on level ground or STFU.
2. I get tons of spam. Sometimes ~1000 per day. I don't think I've ever seen a poker spam. This is a myth and is normally trotted out by those opposed to the whole idea of online poker.
3. All of those comment spams are tied to affiliate accounts. Have a problem with them? Contact the site and send them the link to the spam. It will be dealt with. The spammer will likely lose their affiliate status and the dollars they have accrued to date.
I've got privacy worries, but am willing to give these things a shot. --Just limit what ends up being stored there to the set of things you can live with and it's all good.
In these times, if you are doing nasty computing (and you can set your definition of nasty), best do it OSS on a network you can trust. (Your own, if it's that nasty.)
That said, I divide my computing between personal and work related.
Personal:
A google account setup is a great deal for kid computing. No need to worry about application installs and there is plenty of functionality for their needs. Win-win.
That's about it for these services where personal computing comes into play. A lot of my stuff sits on a local SGI and Linux box that I can SSH into from where ever I happen to be. Too bad, these kinds of services are not portable. I can see that becoming huge with people of technical means.
Work:
I'm often at different company sites, with limited network access. Putting core documents on these services means having access to my own knowledge and support base and nearly all necessary files almost anywhere I end up that day. Sure, I can carry a key and do, but these kinds of services are a very nice fallback.
Sometimes you only get a browser. That's a lot these days.
backup your CD, then give / sell the original to a friend?
I don't see anything that makes destruction of backups a crime.
Sounds like a decent life approach.
I struggle with these things sometimes. The need to explore something sometimes outweighs other life priorities. 8bit computing and gaming is one of these things. The bug comes back every few years. So I author something, enjoy myself and move on.
The biggie is having no regrets.
Sounds like you have that covered.
I've one XP home box running.
(We play online poker ok?)
It got infected with this crap and started spewing spam. Primary cause of this is kid browsing BTW. They are the most likely to click on the baddies. Put 'yer kids on Linux or a Mac and lots of this just goes away.
Within a few hours I got a call on my cell. Asked me what I wanted to do. I said pull the plug if the box is still spewing in a few hours. (That was time enough for me to get home and deal.) I arrived home, pulled the plug on the offending box, started archiving data in preparation for a re-image. Shot off a quick e-mail asking them to check for baddies on their end just to be sure. All done, next.
This is exactly why the ISP consolidation is just horrible. Had we continued to have a high percentage of live and local ISP's, people would have someone they could trust to let them know things are not as they seem.
I know my ISP sysadmins by name. Most people should. I don't talk with them much, but when I need to, it's always worthwhile. Nice folks --we need more of them.
BTW: Joey http://www.spiretech.com/ If you are in PDX, give them a call.
I've only toyed with a trombone. Enough to fully grok the nature of the partials. To me, it was more of a feeling --like the instrument only allowed specific feed frequencies. Of course they are harmonics and your detail filled in some gaps from long ago.
It's never too late to feed your soul a little. Grab a nice used instrument and go for it. Likely not practical, but most likely worth it.
The music bug either bites deep or does not bite at all. I do vocal stuff. The beauty of it is that I can entertain the art anytime I want.
Cheers!
Thanks for the follow up.
It's perplexing because there should be no core physical reason why your friend could not get a solid tone. Suppose holding it over a range is another problem not unlike vocal music has.
Must really be a matter of perception. It's the only thing I can think of that would explain it. If these minor elements are not perceived well enough to differentate bad from good, the person never gets the feedback necessary to do the right things.
Hmmph....
had you two spent a few hours on tone. Being of similar age and experience, I'll bet the both of you would have been able to go a long way toward defining what it is.
Think of it this way. You are trying to understand a difficult subject that a childhood friend understands well. Would you have an easier time of it from a total stranger or from your friend? Chances are, you would have an easier time of it when working with someone you can relate to.
I'm not articulating this well right now dammit!
It's about shared experience and the shortcuts possible when two people have some things in common. These elements can be leveraged to better communicate complex things. It's why really good teachers listen and talk. Having some understading of how the other person thinks really helps to convey the concept in terms they can understand. Kind of like translating between languages, if that helps at all. Our own internal representations are often very different. Trying to convey something to another, without some baseline, is very difficult.
The key to those with talent lies in their internalizations. They might be visual, tactile, whatever... but they model some means, methods or process in a way that allows them to deal with it on a lower level. Thought is motion for an athlete, for example. As a kid, I never groked this. Later as an adult, somebody helped me make this connection and suddenly I was able to become a lot better at some things. I'm not saying that a simple insight can make a clutz a start player, but it can plant the seed for greater success than would otherwise be possible.
Getting back to your friend. Had you two sat down and talked about tone, there is a very good chance that the two of you would have reached some common ground. From there, passing along that thing you call 'it' becomes viable, that's all.
Let them do the ads. Those of us willing and able to avoid them, can just do what we do.
Might make you watch one at boot, after login, before unlocking the screen, every morning, etc...
They will cache them, queue impression data, then send when they can later. Block the hosts file, see the same damn ads until you allow new ones. OS hardcoded to look for the ads. You'll have to firewall, etc...
Won't be dead simple, but won't be impossible either.
I personally don't care for reasons already given.
My first reaction was along the lines of: "WTF?!? --No way in hell!, etc..." After thinking about it though, I'm actually liking the idea.
I've had a simple rule since I bootstrapped myself onto OSS, namely: I don't run win32 OSes unless somebody else is paying for them. This works for me actually.
For personal computing, it means access to win32 if needed for some reason. A recent example for me was having to perform an upgrade on my ReplayTV. The better tools are win32 ones. I've no problem booting the OS, doing the task, then back to my OSS environment. Running an AD supported version would not have impacted me one bit. I don't need commercial apps for anything these days, so it's just about running win32 programs that do very specific things that may not be so easy in OSS land.
Where work related tasks are concerned, I'm still very much tied to the win32 system. However, that's on somebody elses dime. Fine by me.
I say bring it on.
You know what's gonna happen though. There will be an AD for the OS, then another AD for the application, and another for the browser.... Might have to get a pretty high pixel density monitor for it all!
We see eye to eye on that score. Sheesh, what a clown.
Agreed on the bodies. Perhaps only referesh a third of it at any one time being careful not to make the terms too long. Just long enough for some continuitity, but not long enough for any serious rot to set in.
Montana has an interesting race coming up. We've literally the average joe running against the established incumbent. If joe (actually it's Jon) wins, it will be interesting to see how he does.
---just think, with Paris, the state of the Union might be quite a draw!
Personally, I hope Edwards takes a shot.
"names of all the citizens on a big list and roll the dice."
Paris Hilton for President maybe?
Are you saying our elections are secure enough then?
Would you still say it if your favored people were on the losing side?
Doesn't it make perfect sense for the losers to speak on this matter first, whoever they may be? Why would the winners speak --and in particular these winners?
Bottom line is that our voting process no longer properly embodies the core ideals necessary for it to be trustworthy.
Get back to me when nobody is making money from elections.