Netflix still works. If you cancel out of the PSN login, the client still works, and my netflix password is very different from my PSN one. I was able to stream a few episodes of Arrested Development & Bleach without any problems.
While libertarians will rail about the entire part and parcel of gov't involvement, what about things like _requiring_ insurers to offer viagra in their drug plans (at the then price of $10 a pill)? Or requiring carriers to offer an encompassing set of benefits, of which some/most of those are of no interest to the consumer (ie- mandatory maternity services to a single male, or an elderly couple). These are the kinds of things that are driving up the costs of premiums.
I wouldn't go so far as to say it has only 1 impediment. I can think of a few others... primarily the fact that visiting a doctor is not significantly different today vs 60 years ago.
But the impact of regulation is just not realized. I work for an HMO, and many of the decisions on how we spend money enhancing the systems we have are molded and shaped by these various, assorted regulations. We have to offer specific, expensive benefits packages due to assorted laws like "mental health parity" (which cost us millions of dollars to enhance our systems in 2000), and a recent series of laws involving durable medical equipment has caused us to spend a lot of time on ensuring compliance with the new regulations. (with few fixes fortunately).
Your average Joe just wants to plug-n-play, and to me that's one of the two real advantages Windows has over Linux.
Not anymore. Not since 98.
Since Windows ME/XP/2000 have all come out this has gone out the window.
Which asus board are you referring to? For mine, to get sound to work I had to download drivers from the net (oops- the on board nics didn't work either... where's that Asus CD?) to get Windows 2000 or XP to work with it. Same with 98 actually. So what's the difference between running linux with an Asus A7N8X deluxe MB and XP? For XP I need another CD with 2+ year old drivers. Linux worked with sound when I used Gnoppix. Gnoppix 2.6 (I think) worked with the 3com nic and the previous version of Gnoppix worked with the Nvidia Nic.
As I wrote in the forums, I ran Gnoppix off of a CD and it detected my sound card and nvidia nic out of the box. An updated Gnoppix cd version supported the 3com nic (the one I used to access the net at the time) as well. Windows XP requires drivers installation off the web or from the CD ASUS included with my A7N8X mb, otherwise my NICs and Sound wont work at all.
Windows driver support "works" only in the sense that for every piece of hardware out there, there is a near certainty that hope exists it will work in windows XP, 2000 or 98 because a driver will almost certainly exist. But you'll need to keep that cd, or download the drivers (or updated ones) off the web, kind of like you would if you were running linux. So what exactly is the advantage again?
Moe: We've got to kill him! Number One: Take it easy, Moe. Let's hear from the Stonecutter world council before we act too rashly.
Orville: Kill him.
Nicholson: Kill him.
Mr. T: Kill the fool!
Bush: I'm afraid I have to disagree with Orville, Jack, and Mr. Can't we just do something to his voice box?
Don't be fooled into thinking "blue states" are necessarily more pro-liberty. Democrats attacked Republicans for opposing "anti-terror" bills in the 90s that were just as bad as the PATRIOT act.
I just installed 0.7 of firebird and it looks horrible! I can't get icons to appear in the browser- I just see a bunch of text for my bookmarks and for the backward/forward/reload buttons. I even did a clean install into program files\mozillafirebird... no dice.
I will probably never take the time to do this (out of need) but in no particular order:
That $30 router won't work when a new set of protocols comes out. You'll have to buy a brand new router to support g (if you buy a b one) or if a whole new standard comes out. With this project, you can add a new WLAN card to support the protocol & maintain use of the older ones.
Configurability. I'm sure more technically able people will be able to get their routers to do more useful things than they could with my belkin router. Port forwarding could be improved, as well as DMZ features. (my belkin router doesn't do the former very well and the DMZ feature of the belkin router does not work.) You can also set alerts so that if you find your network being scanned/attacked, the router can alert you immediately, whereas that $30 router doesn't.
This is a neat little project, particularly if you have much of the hardware already. I have a couple of computers I need to set up; if I can turn them into routers (wireless or not) that would make them more useful to me than if they were sitting there collecting dust.
I've downloaded Knoppix and I've not been able to get the networking working on my Asus A7N8X deluxe MB. If anyone has any ideas please let me know. I'm hoping when they upgrade the kernal in the knoppix distro I can finally use mozilla etc. on the net and can see how things work.
Thanks. At least someone does. And from what I can tell there's more than just the 2 of us. So why the hell do I see these arguments always framed in an "abstinence" OR "condoms" argument?
Why can't we tell people about both options? That they should use condoms if they're going to have sex, but that they don't have to have sex, and these diseases are why? (and pregnancy)
I don't think we should look at 11 year olds having sex as being something we can or should do nothing about, and resign ourselves to accepting that 11 year olds having sex is a "Good Thing".
I need to chime in on the sex education thing because the argument always seems to be either-or.
1> Abstinence is the best way to prevent transmission of disease or pregnancy 2> Latex Condoms are not 100% effective in preventing either. 3> Latex Condoms are far less effective or uneffective with Hepetitis B/C viruses, and possibly other virii like Human papilloma. 4> I do not know about the newer non latex condoms and have not read anything about their effectiveness with either 5> Lambskin condoms had the same effectiveness for pregnancy but could pass HIV (and presumably other virii) so they are not recommended as protection against HIV.
The argument against Lambskin seems similar to the argument against Latex regarding viruses other than HIV. (Hepetitis primarily). I fail to see why advocates of condom use/distribution fail to see these similarities and can acknowledge that telling kids to play 'russian roulette" and pray that their partner is not infected with Hepetitis and to go ahead and use condoms is a bad thing. They don't advocate doing this with HIV, obviously.
Ultimately, the best solution is to teach teens both abstinence and condom use, since it sounds more realistic, and more honest.
I have 2 computers... 1 devoted to games and the other... essentially everything else. I browse, read email, read usenet, respond in kind. I use office products. I download videos/pictures from the net.
The areas where I'd have some difficulty replacing windows with, say, Linux would be:
1> Email. I'm not sure what linux client would work as "nicely" as outlook express does. 2> Synchronization with my palm pilot. This is becoming less important at home, since most of my syncs and entry of data is done at work. But apps like Avantgo and the like are things I use every day at home. 3> USENET. I started out reading usenet on trn, but I'm not sure I can move from Forte Agent & Xnews to TRN. 4> Irc. Sure I can use Epic or BitchX, but mirc works fine for me and I'm very comfortable with it. I'm not comfortable with using BitchX to chat on multiple channels, or msg people as well. 5> Office apps. 6> "MultiMedia". From Winamp to Divx to every other codec under the sun used to encode avis, mpgs and the like. Much of that goes away when you abandon windows. 7> Yahoo/AIM/ICQ messengers & chat rooms. 8> Digital camera and CF reader
While most of these things are doable in Linux, they're certainly not doiable with the ease I have in windows. Of these, I think email is the easiest to get over but the hardest to transition- I can deal with using pine for email, but how do I convert 60 megs of emails in OE into something usable in linux?
That's kind of lame that a vague announcement of a new Microsoft product (Xdocs) which is only going to work in the new version of office (11) which will only work on Win2K or XP or the next version of Windows suddenly means that PDFs are going to whither away and die.
Nevermind the widespread usage of pdf files today. Where I work, we use PDF files to store contracts, and we'd just spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in a huge project to automate the conversion of post script files into PDFs that are now accessable over the web. I can guarantee that there's no way we'd switch from PDF to Xdocs... at least not for another 5 years.
The analysts who made their remarks about Adobe should realize that MS tried this before (sort of) when they started distributing.doc readers for free in an attempt to turn ubiquitous.docs into.pdf killers. Anyone remember those doc (and.xls too) readers?
"Programs like Trillian, that do what the author of this article suggests have been having a difficult time lately because they steal Yahoo, AOL, and Microsofts intellectual property, in an attempt to make money."
You mean
Step 1- Trillian. Step 2- Step 3- Profit.
I suppose if you look at it like that, Trillian might be about "stealing" other people's IP for making money.
I thought it was about having 1 client for 3 different IM systems (Yahoo, ICQ and AIM)
You're right about message boards but there's more to it than just that. There's no real sense of community on the internet; at least nothing compared to many of the BBSes I remember fondly. That's not to say all BBSes had a sense of community- many didn't. But that's dependent on the BBS owner, the software he used, and the types of users that frequented that board.
The amount of "damage" done due to piracy has been grossly overstated for a very long time, and continues to be.
But that's not particularly relevant to the BSA's strongarm actions. This is about gestapo-like actions in order to catch pirates. If it isn't justifiable in order to "save lives", it can't be justifiable in order to save some money.
"Look at the cell phone market in the United States and you will see what a hinderance lack of standards can be. The US is very far behind in cell phone techonology with regards to many other nations, and mostly because of big companies each willing to push their own proprietary technology because they believe they will be profiting more in the long run."
The "technology" that we are "behind" regarding cell phones involves using cell phones to do things other than talk. Things that most Americans do not seem to be too interested in.
As long as I can make a phone call when and where I need to, I don't need SMS text messaging, or the like on my phone, thank you. I don't want clipped web pages on my phone, draining my batteries even more or costing me that much more money.
You call other people stupid while citing a movie where a 14 year old girl gasps "I know this" about a "unix box" and then uses some bizarre 3d GUI to "hack" a password that noone else seemed to be able to do?
>That is why proprietary software has, and must
>continue to maintain its right to exist. It is
>also why the Free Software movement is possibly
>the greatest threat to liberty in the new
>century.
That last remark is absurd.
Proprietary software ought to exist only when people wish to release, distribute or otherwise use it. If everyone decided to stop using it on their own, they shouldn't be forced to use it, any more than people shouldn't be forced to use "open" or "free" software.
The "Free Software" movement has elements within it that appear to want to forcibly do away with closed software. But it's no different from the people who want to do away with "free software".
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Netflix still works. If you cancel out of the PSN login, the client still works, and my netflix password is very different from my PSN one. I was able to stream a few episodes of Arrested Development & Bleach without any problems.
While libertarians will rail about the entire part and parcel of gov't involvement, what about things like _requiring_ insurers to offer viagra in their drug plans (at the then price of $10 a pill)? Or requiring carriers to offer an encompassing set of benefits, of which some/most of those are of no interest to the consumer (ie- mandatory maternity services to a single male, or an elderly couple). These are the kinds of things that are driving up the costs of premiums.
I wouldn't go so far as to say it has only 1 impediment. I can think of a few others... primarily the fact that visiting a doctor is not significantly different today vs 60 years ago.
But the impact of regulation is just not realized. I work for an HMO, and many of the decisions on how we spend money enhancing the systems we have are molded and shaped by these various, assorted regulations. We have to offer specific, expensive benefits packages due to assorted laws like "mental health parity" (which cost us millions of dollars to enhance our systems in 2000), and a recent series of laws involving durable medical equipment has caused us to spend a lot of time on ensuring compliance with the new regulations. (with few fixes fortunately).
How did you manage to install XP in 15 minutes?
I did an install and it took over an hour.
Not anymore. Not since 98.
Since Windows ME/XP/2000 have all come out this has gone out the window.
Which asus board are you referring to? For mine, to get sound to work I had to download drivers from the net (oops- the on board nics didn't work either
I can.
As I wrote in the forums, I ran Gnoppix off of a CD and it detected my sound card and nvidia nic out of the box. An updated Gnoppix cd version supported the 3com nic (the one I used to access the net at the time) as well. Windows XP requires drivers installation off the web or from the CD ASUS included with my A7N8X mb, otherwise my NICs and Sound wont work at all.
Windows driver support "works" only in the sense that for every piece of hardware out there, there is a near certainty that hope exists it will work in windows XP, 2000 or 98 because a driver will almost certainly exist. But you'll need to keep that cd, or download the drivers (or updated ones) off the web, kind of like you would if you were running linux. So what exactly is the advantage again?
Moe: We've got to kill him!
Number One: Take it easy, Moe. Let's hear from the Stonecutter world council before we act too rashly.
Orville: Kill him.
Nicholson: Kill him.
Mr. T: Kill the fool!
Bush: I'm afraid I have to disagree with Orville, Jack, and Mr. Can't we just do something to his voice box?
Don't be fooled into thinking "blue states" are necessarily more pro-liberty. Democrats attacked Republicans for opposing "anti-terror" bills in the 90s that were just as bad as the PATRIOT act.
I think /. is a poor example of this.
USENET is a far, far better example.
I just installed 0.7 of firebird and it looks horrible! I can't get icons to appear in the browser- I just see a bunch of text for my bookmarks and for the backward/forward/reload buttons.
I even did a clean install into program files\mozillafirebird
I will probably never take the time to do this (out of need) but in no particular order:
That $30 router won't work when a new set of protocols comes out. You'll have to buy a brand new router to support g (if you buy a b one) or if a whole new standard comes out. With this project, you can add a new WLAN card to support the protocol & maintain use of the older ones.
Configurability. I'm sure more technically able people will be able to get their routers to do more useful things than they could with my belkin router. Port forwarding could be improved, as well as DMZ features. (my belkin router doesn't do the former very well and the DMZ feature of the belkin router does not work.) You can also set alerts so that if you find your network being scanned/attacked, the router can alert you immediately, whereas that $30 router doesn't.
This is a neat little project, particularly if you have much of the hardware already. I have a couple of computers I need to set up; if I can turn them into routers (wireless or not) that would make them more useful to me than if they were sitting there collecting dust.
I've downloaded Knoppix and I've not been able to get the networking working on my Asus A7N8X deluxe MB. If anyone has any ideas please let me know.
I'm hoping when they upgrade the kernal in the knoppix distro I can finally use mozilla etc. on the net and can see how things work.
Thanks. At least someone does. And from what I can tell there's more than just the 2 of us. So why the hell do I see these arguments always framed in an "abstinence" OR "condoms" argument?
I have a bigger complaint.
Why do we feel that we must do 1 OR the other?
Why can't we tell people about both options? That they should use condoms if they're going to have sex, but that they don't have to have sex, and these diseases are why? (and pregnancy)
I don't think we should look at 11 year olds having sex as being something we can or should do nothing about, and resign ourselves to accepting that 11 year olds having sex is a "Good Thing".
I need to chime in on the sex education thing because the argument always seems to be either-or.
1> Abstinence is the best way to prevent transmission of disease or pregnancy
2> Latex Condoms are not 100% effective in preventing either.
3> Latex Condoms are far less effective or uneffective with Hepetitis B/C viruses, and possibly other virii like Human papilloma.
4> I do not know about the newer non latex condoms and have not read anything about their effectiveness with either
5> Lambskin condoms had the same effectiveness for pregnancy but could pass HIV (and presumably other virii) so they are not recommended as protection against HIV.
The argument against Lambskin seems similar to the argument against Latex regarding viruses other than HIV. (Hepetitis primarily). I fail to see why advocates of condom use/distribution fail to see these similarities and can acknowledge that telling kids to play 'russian roulette" and pray that their partner is not infected with Hepetitis and to go ahead and use condoms is a bad thing. They don't advocate doing this with HIV, obviously.
Ultimately, the best solution is to teach teens both abstinence and condom use, since it sounds more realistic, and more honest.
Anyone notice that
http://www.anti-leech.com/index.php
tried to install gator on your computer?
The gall of them to accuse people who block ads or popups of being "thieves" when they offer to install gator on people's machines....
Actually Ennui is just one reason.
I have 2 computers... 1 devoted to games and the other... essentially everything else. I browse, read email, read usenet, respond in kind. I use office products. I download videos/pictures from the net.
The areas where I'd have some difficulty replacing windows with, say, Linux would be:
1> Email. I'm not sure what linux client would work as "nicely" as outlook express does.
2> Synchronization with my palm pilot. This is becoming less important at home, since most of my syncs and entry of data is done at work. But apps like Avantgo and the like are things I use every day at home.
3> USENET. I started out reading usenet on trn, but I'm not sure I can move from Forte Agent & Xnews to TRN.
4> Irc. Sure I can use Epic or BitchX, but mirc works fine for me and I'm very comfortable with it. I'm not comfortable with using BitchX to chat on multiple channels, or msg people as well.
5> Office apps.
6> "MultiMedia". From Winamp to Divx to every other codec under the sun used to encode avis, mpgs and the like. Much of that goes away when you abandon windows.
7> Yahoo/AIM/ICQ messengers & chat rooms.
8> Digital camera and CF reader
While most of these things are doable in Linux, they're certainly not doiable with the ease I have in windows. Of these, I think email is the easiest to get over but the hardest to transition- I can deal with using pine for email, but how do I convert 60 megs of emails in OE into something usable in linux?
That's kind of lame that a vague announcement of a new Microsoft product (Xdocs) which is only going to work in the new version of office (11) which will only work on Win2K or XP or the next version of Windows suddenly means that PDFs are going to whither away and die.
.doc readers for free in an attempt to turn ubiquitous .docs into .pdf killers. Anyone remember those doc (and .xls too) readers?
Nevermind the widespread usage of pdf files today. Where I work, we use PDF files to store contracts, and we'd just spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in a huge project to automate the conversion of post script files into PDFs that are now accessable over the web. I can guarantee that there's no way we'd switch from PDF to Xdocs... at least not for another 5 years.
The analysts who made their remarks about Adobe should realize that MS tried this before (sort of) when they started distributing
"Programs like Trillian, that do what the author of this article suggests have been having a difficult time lately because they steal Yahoo, AOL, and Microsofts intellectual property, in an attempt to make money."
You mean
Step 1- Trillian.
Step 2-
Step 3- Profit.
I suppose if you look at it like that, Trillian might be about "stealing" other people's IP for making money.
I thought it was about having 1 client for 3 different IM systems (Yahoo, ICQ and AIM)
You're right about message boards but there's more to it than just that. There's no real sense of community on the internet; at least nothing compared to many of the BBSes I remember fondly. That's not to say all BBSes had a sense of community- many didn't. But that's dependent on the BBS owner, the software he used, and the types of users that frequented that board.
The amount of "damage" done due to piracy has been grossly overstated for a very long time, and continues to be.
But that's not particularly relevant to the BSA's strongarm actions. This is about gestapo-like actions in order to catch pirates. If it isn't justifiable in order to "save lives", it can't be justifiable in order to save some money.
"Look at the cell phone market in the United States and you will see what a hinderance lack of standards can be. The US is very far behind in cell phone techonology with regards to many other nations, and mostly because of big companies each willing to push their own proprietary technology because they believe they will be profiting more in the long run."
The "technology" that we are "behind" regarding cell phones involves using cell phones to do things other than talk. Things that most Americans do not seem to be too interested in.
As long as I can make a phone call when and where I need to, I don't need SMS text messaging, or the like on my phone, thank you. I don't want clipped web pages on my phone, draining my batteries even more or costing me that much more money.
You call other people stupid while citing a movie where a 14 year old girl gasps "I know this" about a "unix box" and then uses some bizarre 3d GUI to "hack" a password that noone else seemed to be able to do?
So at 20Mbps, but a 150MB cap, you get to use the internet for what, 30 seconds and then you're capped for the day? Or is it 90 minutes?
>That is why proprietary software has, and must
>continue to maintain its right to exist. It is
>also why the Free Software movement is possibly
>the greatest threat to liberty in the new
>century.
That last remark is absurd.
Proprietary software ought to exist only when people wish to release, distribute or otherwise use it. If everyone decided to stop using it on their own, they shouldn't be forced to use it, any more than people shouldn't be forced to use "open" or "free" software.
The "Free Software" movement has elements within it that appear to want to forcibly do away with closed software. But it's no different from the people who want to do away with "free software".