Seriously don't know why you guys put up with so much crap from your telcos. We never hear anything like this in Australia? If we want to use unlocked phones, we use them. If we want to use certain apps we use them. What's that got to do with the carrier as long as we stick within the limits of our data allowance?
Here's a link to this book on eBay - check out the tear on the front cover in the picture and the number of copies for sale - also the very high price. Slashdot as advertising?
I don't think that many people will actually interact relationally with their machines though. They interact with characters in games, yes. With people on the internet, yes. Not the machine itself. They will optomise setting for programs which have been 'useful', not 'helpful'. The computer is only a very useful and engaging, but essentially dumb and dead tool.
As Trent Reznor pointed out in an interview with Digg's Kevin Rose, this business model can only work for those who are already well established or can accept not being megastars.
Getting traction in a market flooded with crap when you don't have advertising money is a losing battle.
I don't think Radiohead care if they are megastars or not. They just want to do what they do and they do it very well. I agree with you though that this really would not work for the general consumable background noise that the record companies make most of their profits on.
You do have a point to some degree. I mix a lot with migrant communities in my city. It's interesting how quickly a stain on someone's reputation from years ago in another country can become open knowledge - and flamed with high octane gossip making it even worse - when someone he/she knew in the old country moves into the community. You see, in the old system, it is the major errors that stand out, get remembered and broadcast to all and sundry. In the digital age, there can be so much information available that unless someone is actively searching, the old misdemeanor or indiscretion may as well not exist.
I think in the West we had a strange unnatural period where for the first time in human history there was enough individuality and wealth across the general populace that we could actually keep our lives private. This is not a luxury that most peoples and cultures of the world either have now or have ever really had. The only difference now is that instead of being recorded in the memories of all our the members of our community and anyone they happen to talk about it with, it is recorded electronically.
Make sure you have an remote backup of everything digital and a safe local copy ie. not on windows machine that accesses the internet a lot. I recently had to help out a family who'd lost pretty much all of their family photos when once computer lost data. Also at the moment I'm setting up a linux machine for a lawyers office after they had a trojan go through and make a mess of their windows machines. Almost lost 12 years of documents.
Either an online secure storage site or dvd's at a relatives house could save your data.If you go the dvd method, buy high quality discs.
When your wife does pass away, allow your girls to choose a couple of personal items of their mothers for themselves to remember her by. Things like hairbrushes or even a favourite jacket or jumper might help them through the grieving process and also help them to remember the personal everyday moments they had with their mother as they grow older.
It's not really as simple as that. DNA only plays a small part in determining our personality or character. It has however been known and well recognised for a very long time that a persons worldview is largely set by the age of 8.
Nothing new here.
I have been using Thunderbird 3 for some time now. I never enable indexing. No need. It still finds things well enough, but I hate the new tab that opens up. I haven't noticed any performance issues since upgrading to Thunderbird 3. Then again, I think that was around the time I shifted from Ubuntu to Fedora, which sped up the whole system dramatically. Perhaps the Thunderbird 3 lag went unnoticed with the general improvement in the system.
Isn't ripping other people off how much software development works anyway? How many media players are there that look and feel like iTunes for instance? When IE8 came out it just looked like a sleazy commercial version of Firefox. How many people are there who got rich on the ideas of others? Bill Gates is a prime example.
I think that the announcement of Firefox taking over from IE is becoming like the yearly calls of 'the year of Linux on the desktop.' A tradition, like Christmas. It comes around, people oooh and aaah and then get on with life til it comes round again.
Where I come from to be detained means that you are legally under arrest regardless of whether you have been informed of such or not. This is plain and simple an abuse of power by the US government.
Good thing we have groups like wikileaks working towards glasnost.
With Canonicals habit of hacking pretty much everything to suit what they are doing with Ubuntu at any one moment, it is probably safer for everyone that most of the development is left in more stable hands. I am not saying that Canonical would necessarily produce buggy code, but much of their code would be Ubuntu specific and not suitable for upstream development.
In news just to hand, the new race has formed a political party of Sebago Supremacists demanding new rights based on their need for 'kartoffelns-raum'. The group spokesman, Herr Kartoffelnkopf, gave a statement denying rumours of armament against field borders.
But will it run conficker? Blaster-worm? I want my Windows emulation layer to run anything I can run on Windows - realistically. Which means all my XP apps should have their knee-caps blown off by malware!!! I want all malicious binaries coming to me over Limewire to EXECUTE dammit!
A patent is there to encourage innovation by making it possible for inventors to profit, yes? Well why don't patents become invalid after a certain number of years if no product is released? Say, 2 years for software and 5 or 10 years for technology at the discretion of the patent office.
I know it's perhaps off topic, but I'm just wondering how a picture of a baby, that shows nothing below the neck, breast feeding (without showing the nipple) is child pornography? You do actually know what breasts are for?
As long as you are careful of what info you put online - and of course avoid the crappy apps - Facebook can be a very useful tool. I use it for keeping in touch with friends in several countries (Thailand, Nepal, England, USA etc.) I also use it for monitoring the general well-being of immigrants and international students that I'm involved with looking after in my own city. I can scan their comments and status reports once a day and see when they are being severely affected by culture shock or need counselling/help for any other reason. Saves me a stack of phone calls and emails and it is non-invasive.
I really don't know why people hate facebook so much, when all it really is, is a very well developed descendant of usenet groups.
I think that success is guaranteed for a blackberry tablet IF they can enhance usefulness instead of just getting awkward. People love blackberries cos of what they cram into a small space. If they can increase usefulness by making a tablet instead of just getting bulky, well, go for it!
Since the music recording and distribution channels are tied up as much as possible by RIAA etc, it is probably far easier to prove that creative works and efforts have been crushed and destroyed by the RIAA rather than piracy.
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That was some comment. I wish I could mod it up...
Seriously don't know why you guys put up with so much crap from your telcos. We never hear anything like this in Australia? If we want to use unlocked phones, we use them. If we want to use certain apps we use them. What's that got to do with the carrier as long as we stick within the limits of our data allowance?
Here's a link to this book on eBay - check out the tear on the front cover in the picture and the number of copies for sale - also the very high price. Slashdot as advertising?
I don't think that many people will actually interact relationally with their machines though. They interact with characters in games, yes. With people on the internet, yes. Not the machine itself. They will optomise setting for programs which have been 'useful', not 'helpful'. The computer is only a very useful and engaging, but essentially dumb and dead tool.
As Trent Reznor pointed out in an interview with Digg's Kevin Rose, this business model can only work for those who are already well established or can accept not being megastars.
Getting traction in a market flooded with crap when you don't have advertising money is a losing battle.
I don't think Radiohead care if they are megastars or not. They just want to do what they do and they do it very well. I agree with you though that this really would not work for the general consumable background noise that the record companies make most of their profits on.
You do have a point to some degree. I mix a lot with migrant communities in my city. It's interesting how quickly a stain on someone's reputation from years ago in another country can become open knowledge - and flamed with high octane gossip making it even worse - when someone he/she knew in the old country moves into the community. You see, in the old system, it is the major errors that stand out, get remembered and broadcast to all and sundry. In the digital age, there can be so much information available that unless someone is actively searching, the old misdemeanor or indiscretion may as well not exist.
I think in the West we had a strange unnatural period where for the first time in human history there was enough individuality and wealth across the general populace that we could actually keep our lives private. This is not a luxury that most peoples and cultures of the world either have now or have ever really had. The only difference now is that instead of being recorded in the memories of all our the members of our community and anyone they happen to talk about it with, it is recorded electronically.
Sounds like Simon didn't like him.
Lots of surprise exams will do it.
Make sure you have an remote backup of everything digital and a safe local copy ie. not on windows machine that accesses the internet a lot. I recently had to help out a family who'd lost pretty much all of their family photos when once computer lost data. Also at the moment I'm setting up a linux machine for a lawyers office after they had a trojan go through and make a mess of their windows machines. Almost lost 12 years of documents. Either an online secure storage site or dvd's at a relatives house could save your data.If you go the dvd method, buy high quality discs.
When your wife does pass away, allow your girls to choose a couple of personal items of their mothers for themselves to remember her by. Things like hairbrushes or even a favourite jacket or jumper might help them through the grieving process and also help them to remember the personal everyday moments they had with their mother as they grow older.
It's not really as simple as that. DNA only plays a small part in determining our personality or character. It has however been known and well recognised for a very long time that a persons worldview is largely set by the age of 8. Nothing new here.
I have been using Thunderbird 3 for some time now. I never enable indexing. No need. It still finds things well enough, but I hate the new tab that opens up. I haven't noticed any performance issues since upgrading to Thunderbird 3. Then again, I think that was around the time I shifted from Ubuntu to Fedora, which sped up the whole system dramatically. Perhaps the Thunderbird 3 lag went unnoticed with the general improvement in the system.
Isn't ripping other people off how much software development works anyway? How many media players are there that look and feel like iTunes for instance? When IE8 came out it just looked like a sleazy commercial version of Firefox. How many people are there who got rich on the ideas of others? Bill Gates is a prime example.
I think that the announcement of Firefox taking over from IE is becoming like the yearly calls of 'the year of Linux on the desktop.' A tradition, like Christmas. It comes around, people oooh and aaah and then get on with life til it comes round again.
Where I come from to be detained means that you are legally under arrest regardless of whether you have been informed of such or not. This is plain and simple an abuse of power by the US government. Good thing we have groups like wikileaks working towards glasnost.
With Canonicals habit of hacking pretty much everything to suit what they are doing with Ubuntu at any one moment, it is probably safer for everyone that most of the development is left in more stable hands. I am not saying that Canonical would necessarily produce buggy code, but much of their code would be Ubuntu specific and not suitable for upstream development.
... trying to create a potato race ...
In news just to hand, the new race has formed a political party of Sebago Supremacists demanding new rights based on their need for 'kartoffelns-raum'. The group spokesman, Herr Kartoffelnkopf, gave a statement denying rumours of armament against field borders.
But will it run conficker? Blaster-worm? I want my Windows emulation layer to run anything I can run on Windows - realistically. Which means all my XP apps should have their knee-caps blown off by malware!!! I want all malicious binaries coming to me over Limewire to EXECUTE dammit!
The Jack Daniels is finally starting to work for the Americans too!
A patent is there to encourage innovation by making it possible for inventors to profit, yes? Well why don't patents become invalid after a certain number of years if no product is released? Say, 2 years for software and 5 or 10 years for technology at the discretion of the patent office.
I know it's perhaps off topic, but I'm just wondering how a picture of a baby, that shows nothing below the neck, breast feeding (without showing the nipple) is child pornography? You do actually know what breasts are for?
I guess you must have been bottle fed, right?
As long as you are careful of what info you put online - and of course avoid the crappy apps - Facebook can be a very useful tool. I use it for keeping in touch with friends in several countries (Thailand, Nepal, England, USA etc.) I also use it for monitoring the general well-being of immigrants and international students that I'm involved with looking after in my own city. I can scan their comments and status reports once a day and see when they are being severely affected by culture shock or need counselling/help for any other reason. Saves me a stack of phone calls and emails and it is non-invasive.
I really don't know why people hate facebook so much, when all it really is, is a very well developed descendant of usenet groups.
I think that success is guaranteed for a blackberry tablet IF they can enhance usefulness instead of just getting awkward. People love blackberries cos of what they cram into a small space. If they can increase usefulness by making a tablet instead of just getting bulky, well, go for it!
Since the music recording and distribution channels are tied up as much as possible by RIAA etc, it is probably far easier to prove that creative works and efforts have been crushed and destroyed by the RIAA rather than piracy.
Or is dell about to make a press release about faulty storage in their servers resulting in about 90% data loss?