I think the big difference is, people in the industry (even young people, shortly out of college) grew up with (at minimum, if not earlier systems) DOS based systems, Windows 3.1, IRC chat client's etc. "Back in the day" anyone interested in using their computer for something useful had to learn to do it themselves, and tinker, and become interested in expanding their ability to make their computer do what they want.
I think even with all the things we have these days people will teach themselves about computing. The first OS I used was Windows 95 and my computer education has been awful but I know more about computers than most people my age because I tinker with them. I wanted my own website so I taught myself how to use Linux and ran a webserver on an old laptop. I think it may have even become easier for people who are actually interested to teach themselves because of the massive wealth of information available on the internet.
I think the real problem is that people have been taught that computing is too difficult for them and that knowing about computers is only for 'geeks'. Schools need to stop teaching just Microsoft Office and teach people that computers aren't just Facebook and games.
Looks like having delayed Firefox updates from Ubuntu may be a blessing. Hopefully by the time Ubuntu updates me to FF5 all my plugins will be supported.
From Wikipedia: "Communism is a sociopolitical movement that aims for a classless and stateless society"
Sorry it really annoys me when people say Communism especially in regards to the Soviet Union and China when in fact they were/are Socialist.
I think the spectrum is more of a circle anyway. Totalitarian Socialism, what most people think of as Communism tends to be very close to Fascism.
Why do they care SO much they are willing to injure themselves for it? If I went to a store and there was a massive queue then I would probably not bother buying anything.
My TV needs an upgrade waaay before my DVD player does. If I was to invest in Blu-Ray it would not be noticeable on my tiny old CRT TV. I have more important things to spend my money on.
I guess I am an AMD fanboy but this is what I have always liked about AMD. They make cheap, backwards compatible chips. I am using an AM3 chip in an AM2+ board. Not having much money makes compatibility brilliant for me as I did not need to upgrade my motherboard and RAM to get a new processor.
I guess I will need to make the jump to AM3+/whatever the latest Intel socket is these days and DDR3 ram some day though.
In my experience you can start pretty much anywhere, very few things span between episodes. The recent ones I have watched have had a loose overarching plot that is normally irrelevant to every episode except the last one in the series.
Old episodes move much slower and have shorter episodes (but more episodes in a story) while newer episodes tend to be an hour long and often only 2 episodes in a story.
I use Google and Google's services every day. My phone runs Android (recently the most used smartphone OS in the world?) my search engine is Google, I use Gmail all the time and I could go on.
Google does a lot of things that it doesn't make money on but that doesn't mean they are worthless or a failure. If Google were to disappear overnight I would have a hard time replacing all the services I use that they provide.
I am running Froyo, Samsung only gave my phone Eclair. I will be running Gingerbread pretty soon. There is a large community updating and extending the abilities of my phone
It is the fact that Android is open source that allowed them to do this. Yes perhaps Android should be GPL but then manufacturers would probably not be so happy about using it. It is better that we have Android and it can be modified than we have no Android and our phones run completely closed systems.
I didn't watch the video but on my system to make any significant changes such as install something a program superuser access is required. Without me entering my password for a program to do something the most it can do it mess around with pretty trivial stuff.
Me and a few friends still occasionally get the multi-tap for the PS2 and sit down for a good game of nightfire all night but it's getting increasingly hard to find games that support split screen.
Some games say they support up to 4 players on the box but then when you play them they insist on a network connection.
I quite liked Stargate Universe.
I haven't watched the latest episodes but they have just got control of the ship and that would have been interesting because they could have gone and explored some planets properly. It's a shame that it has been cancelled but they will probably make some new stargate thing later.
The Web taught me most of what I know about computers; they don't teach you how to build a computer, use Linux or set up a web-server at school.
If I spent the same amount of time teaching myself stuff using the internet as I spend time at college I would know a lot. The trouble is finding the motivation and focus. (I'm looking at you reddit and Slashdot)
The problem is that simply knowing something is not enough, you can be an expert on something but unless you have the exams to prove it you aren't going to get a job in that field.
Are you trying to make your phone fail?
A phone running Windows that isn't crippled actually sounds quite nice, shame they cripple it and make it do silly things like this.
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I think the big difference is, people in the industry (even young people, shortly out of college) grew up with (at minimum, if not earlier systems) DOS based systems, Windows 3.1, IRC chat client's etc. "Back in the day" anyone interested in using their computer for something useful had to learn to do it themselves, and tinker, and become interested in expanding their ability to make their computer do what they want.
I think even with all the things we have these days people will teach themselves about computing. The first OS I used was Windows 95 and my computer education has been awful but I know more about computers than most people my age because I tinker with them. I wanted my own website so I taught myself how to use Linux and ran a webserver on an old laptop. I think it may have even become easier for people who are actually interested to teach themselves because of the massive wealth of information available on the internet.
I think the real problem is that people have been taught that computing is too difficult for them and that knowing about computers is only for 'geeks'. Schools need to stop teaching just Microsoft Office and teach people that computers aren't just Facebook and games.
Looks like having delayed Firefox updates from Ubuntu may be a blessing. Hopefully by the time Ubuntu updates me to FF5 all my plugins will be supported.
There is one other option. Get to the UK. You don't even need to be a citizen or resident to get treatment,
From Wikipedia: "Communism is a sociopolitical movement that aims for a classless and stateless society"
Sorry it really annoys me when people say Communism especially in regards to the Soviet Union and China when in fact they were/are Socialist.
I think the spectrum is more of a circle anyway. Totalitarian Socialism, what most people think of as Communism tends to be very close to Fascism.
Depending on power consumption you could add a touch screen and battery to this and have a very fast smartphone/PDA type thing.
Why do they care SO much they are willing to injure themselves for it? If I went to a store and there was a massive queue then I would probably not bother buying anything.
My TV needs an upgrade waaay before my DVD player does. If I was to invest in Blu-Ray it would not be noticeable on my tiny old CRT TV. I have more important things to spend my money on.
I guess I am an AMD fanboy but this is what I have always liked about AMD. They make cheap, backwards compatible chips. I am using an AM3 chip in an AM2+ board. Not having much money makes compatibility brilliant for me as I did not need to upgrade my motherboard and RAM to get a new processor.
I guess I will need to make the jump to AM3+/whatever the latest Intel socket is these days and DDR3 ram some day though.
In my experience you can start pretty much anywhere, very few things span between episodes. The recent ones I have watched have had a loose overarching plot that is normally irrelevant to every episode except the last one in the series.
Old episodes move much slower and have shorter episodes (but more episodes in a story) while newer episodes tend to be an hour long and often only 2 episodes in a story.
When can we expect FF4 to appear in the Ubuntu repositories?
I'm pretty sure sharing your password/account is against facebook's terms of service?
Who would agree to give someone their password anyway?
I use Google and Google's services every day. My phone runs Android (recently the most used smartphone OS in the world?) my search engine is Google, I use Gmail all the time and I could go on.
Google does a lot of things that it doesn't make money on but that doesn't mean they are worthless or a failure. If Google were to disappear overnight I would have a hard time replacing all the services I use that they provide.
I am running Froyo, Samsung only gave my phone Eclair. I will be running Gingerbread pretty soon. There is a large community updating and extending the abilities of my phone
It is the fact that Android is open source that allowed them to do this. Yes perhaps Android should be GPL but then manufacturers would probably not be so happy about using it. It is better that we have Android and it can be modified than we have no Android and our phones run completely closed systems.
I didn't watch the video but on my system to make any significant changes such as install something a program superuser access is required. Without me entering my password for a program to do something the most it can do it mess around with pretty trivial stuff.
Go science!
Can I invest £50 and then get £1.50 from it? I think I have found a way to create infinite money!
Seriously though is there anything stopping me from doing this? Facebook doesn't look like it's going to fail anytime soon...
I really did think this was talking about underpants, I was like: "But no light will get there" when I read the title.
Me and a few friends still occasionally get the multi-tap for the PS2 and sit down for a good game of nightfire all night but it's getting increasingly hard to find games that support split screen.
Some games say they support up to 4 players on the box but then when you play them they insist on a network connection.
I quite liked Stargate Universe.
I haven't watched the latest episodes but they have just got control of the ship and that would have been interesting because they could have gone and explored some planets properly. It's a shame that it has been cancelled but they will probably make some new stargate thing later.
The Web taught me most of what I know about computers; they don't teach you how to build a computer, use Linux or set up a web-server at school.
If I spent the same amount of time teaching myself stuff using the internet as I spend time at college I would know a lot. The trouble is finding the motivation and focus. (I'm looking at you reddit and Slashdot)
The problem is that simply knowing something is not enough, you can be an expert on something but unless you have the exams to prove it you aren't going to get a job in that field.
Like Minecraft?
*Ducks*
Japan met that criteria years ago.
Seriously, the vending machines are one of my favourite things about Japan.
Are you trying to make your phone fail?
A phone running Windows that isn't crippled actually sounds quite nice, shame they cripple it and make it do silly things like this.
I use 123reg for my .co.uk domain. £6 for 2 years. Never had any problems with them.
I'm on facebook all day (tabbed browsing ftw) bring on the sex.