After making configuration changes it makes _a lot_ of sense to reboot if possible. That way you can determine that your changes indeed load properly after a reboot. You don't want that kind of a surprise when you have long since forgotten all the little tweaks in place.
Freedom and privacy should be earned through good behavior.
I hope you don't have kids, for your sake and possibly theirs. Freedom and privacy are basic human rights.
Treating kids like animals just makes them behave as animals, as witnessed by any amount of "well-behaved" brats I've had to suffer in my (thankfully short) teaching career.
Interestingly enough, when I began treating them as persons, they stopped behaving like vicious and depressed trained monkeys in a cage.
You can't help but marvel at the wonders of the Internet when people think they can judge your character by a single misinterpreted sentence.
It definitely has value. The issue is what happens in 25 years when all that locked down content and software needs to be accessible for future generations of researchers and librarians to learn from. We are creating a locked down digital legacy, and that is a potential problem.
What's this talk about technology? The iPad is a fashion accessory. Android tablets are not fashionable.
You make yourself sound like you are rather clueless about the huge potential a multitouch UI has for realtime applications. Would I want an iPad for my software development day job? Hell no. But would I want one for having much more intuitive control over music software. Definitely.
I do believe that it is a parent's duty to keep a child at sane levels of any activity the child takes part of. Giving parents the tools to determine if a kid has been playing insane amounts makes sense. But IMHO an emailed report with a per-day total time summary and perhaps some trends should do fine.
The rest should be good ol' regular parenting and communication with your offspring. Ultimately any technological block/tool can be circumvented, and they never can replace mutual trust and understanding.
I honestly believe that a it is the duty of a teacher to teach the subject as best understood by current science. (Which, at times, means potentially going against the administration.)
For once I feel I am completely on topic when i say...
What. The. Fuck?
It truly seems that the only unlimited natural resource in this world is human stupidity. I'm not saying that evolution, as a scientific theory, shouldn't be challenged. But not teaching it at all is just incredibly idiotic. Those teachers should grow some balls...
While I do understand security screws so that the average Joe won't try to repair stuff himself I find this attitude towards someone who bought the product quite offensive... Not very surprising though.:(
Actually there is a very large likelihood that a lot of the buzz around Apple products is from deliberately leaked information. That way Apple gets a ton of free press, and can keep their image squeaky clean.
Installs on all major OSs, reasonably priced. Not amazing, but good enough and the $20 a month I'm paying for 200GB is not an issue compared to losing all the pics of the kids growing up.
In the short run, this leads to distracted drivers, which is bad......but in the long run, this takes us ever closer to self driving cars and removing humans from behind the wheel.
Whoever wants to drive manually in my utopian future can do so on a track, for what I care. People kill too many innocent other people by being stupid behind the wheel.
Well, frankly what signifies a store from a repository is some kind of payment logic. And payment logic goes a long way to motivate developers to contribute to the platform.
I welcome the change. I wouldn't mind paying a reasonable fee for stuff I use regularly and wish to support. Building it on top of the existing.deb infrastructure and Ubuntu software center makes sense.
Ubuntu is doing a lot of work on multitouch right now... I'm keeping my fingers crossed that at least some of these could have reasonably open drivers for their hardware. Given that Ubuntu is working on an app store as well there's at least some kind of a chance for an open alternative to Apple's walled garden.
For non hardcore gamers who have phones this makes more and more sense. One device less, always with you.
Win.
Sure, dedicated is always dedicated, but good enough is good enough for most people. Most phones sold in Finland are smartphones by now. Most kids get a phone at 7 when starting school. (Too soon IMHO.)
The supply will go where there is a market to fill the demand.
Interestingly, for the most part, personal non-commercial use of a software shouldn't really be taking money from anyone IMHO.
I'm confused as to how you could arrive at that conclusion. Since lots of companies are creating software for the average person, then how is it possible that "average people can use their software for free" result in a no-loss situation for them?
The assumption that money is lost is is based on the premise that people would have bought the software if they could not get it for free.
The unfortunate fact is that in a lot of cases people will use something for free or refrain from using it altogether.
This is of course not black and white. But the RIAA-style every copy pirated is money lost -mantra is seriously flawed as well.
I think it makes sense that speech should be restricted in the sense that actions are as well. It's not OK to hurt other people physically, and I think it should be no less OK to hurt people through speech. From another perspective one could argue that a society that restricts you from taking other people's lives as you see fit is not truly free, at least from the perspective of a single individual.
The problem is determining what is actually hurtful. "I wish you we're dead you fucking cunt." might be anything from a joke, to a sexist and hurtful remark. "I'm going to kill you and rape your wife as she cries over your dead body." Is a pretty clear case of threatening someone.
So the hard part is really determining where to draw the line. This is very much a cultural issue. Is it more free or less free to be free to hurt? I don't claim to know myself.
I'm referring to empathy towards people experiencing loss. Just because you don't feel that the body deserves respect, (nor do I, I carry an organ donor card everywhere I go,) that does not mean that it is worthless to respect the wishes of others.
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After making configuration changes it makes _a lot_ of sense to reboot if possible. That way you can determine that your changes indeed load properly after a reboot. You don't want that kind of a surprise when you have long since forgotten all the little tweaks in place.
Freedom and privacy should be earned through good behavior.
I hope you don't have kids, for your sake and possibly theirs. Freedom and privacy are basic human rights.
Treating kids like animals just makes them behave as animals, as witnessed by any amount of "well-behaved" brats I've had to suffer in my (thankfully short) teaching career.
Interestingly enough, when I began treating them as persons, they stopped behaving like vicious and depressed trained monkeys in a cage.
You can't help but marvel at the wonders of the Internet when people think they can judge your character by a single misinterpreted sentence.
Kids are supposed to be tracked, some times invasively. It's called parenting. Freedom and privacy should be earned through good behavior.
I don't support using devices like this, but if the parents can't keep the kids in check it makes sense to work something out.
It definitely has value. The issue is what happens in 25 years when all that locked down content and software needs to be accessible for future generations of researchers and librarians to learn from. We are creating a locked down digital legacy, and that is a potential problem.
What's this talk about technology? The iPad is a fashion accessory. Android tablets are not fashionable.
You make yourself sound like you are rather clueless about the huge potential a multitouch UI has for realtime applications. Would I want an iPad for my software development day job? Hell no. But would I want one for having much more intuitive control over music software. Definitely.
Just have a look at what people have been doing with TouchOSC:
http://hexler.net/software/touchosc
(Not that I'm ready to pay for a closed platform like that, want is not the same as willing to buy. ;)
I do believe that it is a parent's duty to keep a child at sane levels of any activity the child takes part of. Giving parents the tools to determine if a kid has been playing insane amounts makes sense. But IMHO an emailed report with a per-day total time summary and perhaps some trends should do fine.
The rest should be good ol' regular parenting and communication with your offspring. Ultimately any technological block/tool can be circumvented, and they never can replace mutual trust and understanding.
I honestly believe that a it is the duty of a teacher to teach the subject as best understood by current science. (Which, at times, means potentially going against the administration.)
Then again, I'm an idealist. :)
For once I feel I am completely on topic when i say...
What. The. Fuck?
It truly seems that the only unlimited natural resource in this world is human stupidity. I'm not saying that evolution, as a scientific theory, shouldn't be challenged. But not teaching it at all is just incredibly idiotic. Those teachers should grow some balls...
OK, that explains all the fuss...
While I do understand security screws so that the average Joe won't try to repair stuff himself I find this attitude towards someone who bought the product quite offensive... Not very surprising though. :(
When I google "torx 5 point" sans quotes i get a ton of results for suitable bits.
Does Apple have some special version that are incompatible with these?
One place where I'm happy about tamper proof screws is elevators... At least Kone seems to have their very own screw for this purpose.
Actually there is a very large likelihood that a lot of the buzz around Apple products is from deliberately leaked information. That way Apple gets a ton of free press, and can keep their image squeaky clean.
I use SpiderOak
https://spideroak.com/
Installs on all major OSs, reasonably priced. Not amazing, but good enough and the $20 a month I'm paying for 200GB is not an issue compared to losing all the pics of the kids growing up.
Even if it is much safer, the lawyers will be salivating while they wait for the first death.
There is a good reason why this project is sponsored by the EU and not the US.
While not perfect, the legal systems in most of Europe aren't not quite as broken as in the US.
Ars Technica did a nice piece on this too:
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/guides/2011/01/one-mans-journey-through-the-world-of-unsecured-ip-surveillance-cams.ars
Worth a read.
People who feel bad inside want to escape reality. Some turn to games. Is this surprising?
I'm betting the gaming is a symptom, not a cause. Not that I'd say it's harmless to escape into a game when you really need therapy.
Nah, he's just a poor imitation of a creative and witty troll.
In the short run, this leads to distracted drivers, which is bad... ...but in the long run, this takes us ever closer to self driving cars and removing humans from behind the wheel.
Whoever wants to drive manually in my utopian future can do so on a track, for what I care. People kill too many innocent other people by being stupid behind the wheel.
Well, frankly what signifies a store from a repository is some kind of payment logic. And payment logic goes a long way to motivate developers to contribute to the platform.
I welcome the change. I wouldn't mind paying a reasonable fee for stuff I use regularly and wish to support. Building it on top of the existing .deb infrastructure and Ubuntu software center makes sense.
Ubuntu is doing a lot of work on multitouch right now... I'm keeping my fingers crossed that at least some of these could have reasonably open drivers for their hardware. Given that Ubuntu is working on an app store as well there's at least some kind of a chance for an open alternative to Apple's walled garden.
For non hardcore gamers who have phones this makes more and more sense. One device less, always with you.
Win.
Sure, dedicated is always dedicated, but good enough is good enough for most people. Most phones sold in Finland are smartphones by now. Most kids get a phone at 7 when starting school. (Too soon IMHO.)
The supply will go where there is a market to fill the demand.
I'm confused as to how you could arrive at that conclusion. Since lots of companies are creating software for the average person, then how is it possible that "average people can use their software for free" result in a no-loss situation for them?
The assumption that money is lost is is based on the premise that people would have bought the software if they could not get it for free.
The unfortunate fact is that in a lot of cases people will use something for free or refrain from using it altogether.
This is of course not black and white. But the RIAA-style every copy pirated is money lost -mantra is seriously flawed as well.
Interestingly, for the most part, personal non-commercial use of a software shouldn't really be taking money from anyone IMHO.
However, in this case each and every copy is taxing Avast's servers, which is most definitely harming Avast.
It's quite nice to see such a constructive approach to the problem.
Merely saying is a bit like merely killing.
I think it makes sense that speech should be restricted in the sense that actions are as well. It's not OK to hurt other people physically, and I think it should be no less OK to hurt people through speech. From another perspective one could argue that a society that restricts you from taking other people's lives as you see fit is not truly free, at least from the perspective of a single individual.
The problem is determining what is actually hurtful. "I wish you we're dead you fucking cunt." might be anything from a joke, to a sexist and hurtful remark. "I'm going to kill you and rape your wife as she cries over your dead body." Is a pretty clear case of threatening someone.
So the hard part is really determining where to draw the line. This is very much a cultural issue. Is it more free or less free to be free to hurt? I don't claim to know myself.
If memory serves me correctly he lost his in a fire way back.
And I should get a time machine and go tell my primary school self not to listen to my parents and keep my original King's Quest I box... Darn.
I'm referring to empathy towards people experiencing loss. Just because you don't feel that the body deserves respect, (nor do I, I carry an organ donor card everywhere I go,) that does not mean that it is worthless to respect the wishes of others.