I can barely afford right now to buy off-the-shelf, chinese-made computer parts... And this means I have to use a pirated copy of Windows, since the only way I can connect to the web is through a winmodem (I will probably be able to get a broadband connection once I get my christmas bonus:) )
I really fear the day that the only way I will be able to run Linux(or GNU or anything else) is by paying for boutique components that are not burdened by DRM...
Hopefully the chinese will beat this to the punch and offer motherboards with alternative BIOSes available upon changing a jumper... Like the Apex DVD players that gave users hidden options to change regions... back when you were not supposed to bypass region encoding.
Certainly the RakuRaku (if that's what its called!) is disqualified for the "simple and basic phone" competition since it has a camera!
I currently use the Motorola C116... It has a monochrome screen, no camera, no annoying ringtones (it has basic monophonic tones), no frills...
But it does have very good reception, a usable onboard dictionary for texting, and battery life that lets me charge it once a week, instead of twice a day.
It seems that its a "third world model" since I couldnt find it in the USA Motorola page, but its a good GSM phone that is almost given away here in Mexico by Movistar.
In every class but math, I basically passed every test by reading the entire book before the end of the first week, and then rereading each chapter as we reached it. This meant, of course, that I consistently made Bs and Cs because I didn't do homework, in addition to having me labeled as a 'discipline problem' by several teachers because I didn't pay attention in class.
Yup, same here... and by the time I got to high school, I ended up dropping out.
I didnt get my High School (well, actually called Bachillerato here in Mexico) until there came a goverment program designed for people with "self-taught and life experience education" to get equivalency diplomas... I went in, finished a fairly tough exam (with 3 parts: one written, one essay and one oral) and got out a diploma... I even got a good grade (9.5 out of 10), but less than 40% of the applicants pass, so its not an option for everybody.
This "single exam" option is now available for anybody over 25 that has had at least some "real world" experience
Ha! I remember the first time I showed my dad an X-Box controller... He was like "but how do you expect to push so many buttons! Do you have to grow extra fingers to play this thing?"
I think that the wii-mote is something friendlier to people who have never touched a gamepad... In any case they will feel more confortable since it resembles a tv remote, which is an interface that is known by all.
Thanks for your insightful comment... There's a lot of people in the US that seem to think that Mexico and Central America are all to blame for the illegal inmmigrant problem.
But it's also important to take into consideration that the problem is shared by both parts... Immigrants are taking jobs that may seem third-rate to some of you, but are dream-jobs for them.
Don't get me wrong! I, as a Mexican, am the first one to criticise the economic policies of my country, that force hundreds of thousands of people to leave their homes and their fields and risk their lives crossing a border into a country of (mostly) hostile strangers that don't speak the same language... because working 10 hours flipping burgers for $6.00USD an hour certainly beats working 12 hours for $6.00USD a day....and before someone flames me, no I am not an immigrant, nor do I plan on becoming one anytime soon. But I do have friends and distant family members who now live in CA, AZ and CO, working hard and paying mortages.
Israelis should have spent those millions on helping build a stable, friendly Palestinian state while Arafat was alive, instead of forcing palestinians into poverty by destroying their infrastructure and taking even more land from them.
...probably holding off until it's finished decapitating SCO, putting holy wafer in its mouth, a stake in its heart, and then burying it at a crossroads.
I was thinking more on the lines of "gather the SCO executives, cram them up in narrow cages that allow them neither movement nor confort, and leave them to hang in a crossroads to be eaten by the crows"
I think too many people here missed the "haha" at the start of my comment...
Of course, I appreciate the upmodding even though I was aiming for a +3, Funny, instead of a +5 Insightful
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Well, while the idea of the ipod going the way of netscape scares me, I really hope that the X-Box has taught us that Microsoft is not as sucessful at the "embrace, extend, extinguish" game as it once was.
However, on the other hand, I have had a Sony NW-E005F music player (a gift) for a couple of days, and I already hate its guts... You can only transfer music to it via the horrific Sonicstage software, which not only garbles the songs into horrible atrac files, but it doesnt even do that right! Around 15% of the mp3's that I try to transfer to the player are unplayable (I get a "file error" message on the player)
Something tells me that if Microsoft manages to have the Zune outsell the ipod, we will see more and more of this.
(I am probably going to have to keep this darned thing as an overpriced 2gig usb keychain and buy an ipod (or a Rio, or a Sansa or something...))
Its just that lately it has become hard to be a rational christian, when theres people who insist that the earth is 4000 years old and that fossilized dinosaurs are a trick of the devil... Or those wackos that claim that all humans spoke english before the tower of babel, and that the KJV is the "real and only valid" word of God...
I am probably feeding a troll... but what the hell,
Can you cite chapter and verse where it is stated the actual date of birth of Jesus?
Face it, the date was decided by the Church around the fourth century, mainly to "mask" the pagan celebrations of the winter solstice. The Orthodox church fixed a different date, and they celebrate christmas on January 6th.
Yeah, I know a couple of old ladies that learned to play Nintendo with their grandkids... One of them (a friend's mom) was better at Tetris than any other person I've known, and she plays Mario Kart and Mario Party with her friends (all of them over 60)...
If Wii Sports is as intuitive and easy to play as it looks, I'm sure it will appeal to many non-gamers...
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Hear, Hear!
:) )
I can barely afford right now to buy off-the-shelf, chinese-made computer parts... And this means I have to use a pirated copy of Windows, since the only way I can connect to the web is through a winmodem (I will probably be able to get a broadband connection once I get my christmas bonus
I really fear the day that the only way I will be able to run Linux(or GNU or anything else) is by paying for boutique components that are not burdened by DRM...
Hopefully the chinese will beat this to the punch and offer motherboards with alternative BIOSes available upon changing a jumper... Like the Apex DVD players that gave users hidden options to change regions... back when you were not supposed to bypass region encoding.
Certainly the RakuRaku (if that's what its called!) is disqualified for the "simple and basic phone" competition since it has a camera!
I currently use the Motorola C116... It has a monochrome screen, no camera, no annoying ringtones (it has basic monophonic tones), no frills...
But it does have very good reception, a usable onboard dictionary for texting, and battery life that lets me charge it once a week, instead of twice a day.
It seems that its a "third world model" since I couldnt find it in the USA Motorola page, but its a good GSM phone that is almost given away here in Mexico by Movistar.
In every class but math, I basically passed every test by reading the entire book before the end of the first week, and then rereading each chapter as we reached it. This meant, of course, that I consistently made Bs and Cs because I didn't do homework, in addition to having me labeled as a 'discipline problem' by several teachers because I didn't pay attention in class.
Yup, same here... and by the time I got to high school, I ended up dropping out.
I didnt get my High School (well, actually called Bachillerato here in Mexico) until there came a goverment program designed for people with "self-taught and life experience education" to get equivalency diplomas... I went in, finished a fairly tough exam (with 3 parts: one written, one essay and one oral) and got out a diploma... I even got a good grade (9.5 out of 10), but less than 40% of the applicants pass, so its not an option for everybody.
This "single exam" option is now available for anybody over 25 that has had at least some "real world" experience
Ha! I remember the first time I showed my dad an X-Box controller... He was like "but how do you expect to push so many buttons! Do you have to grow extra fingers to play this thing?"
I think that the wii-mote is something friendlier to people who have never touched a gamepad... In any case they will feel more confortable since it resembles a tv remote, which is an interface that is known by all.
Not even that, my wife had a lot of trouble learning to get the baby to "attach" correctly...
Once she did learn, it all became easier... like the analog stick or the Wii!
Thanks for your insightful comment... There's a lot of people in the US that seem to think that Mexico and Central America are all to blame for the illegal inmmigrant problem.
...and before someone flames me, no I am not an immigrant, nor do I plan on becoming one anytime soon. But I do have friends and distant family members who now live in CA, AZ and CO, working hard and paying mortages.
But it's also important to take into consideration that the problem is shared by both parts... Immigrants are taking jobs that may seem third-rate to some of you, but are dream-jobs for them.
Don't get me wrong! I, as a Mexican, am the first one to criticise the economic policies of my country, that force hundreds of thousands of people to leave their homes and their fields and risk their lives crossing a border into a country of (mostly) hostile strangers that don't speak the same language... because working 10 hours flipping burgers for $6.00USD an hour certainly beats working 12 hours for $6.00USD a day.
yup, just as I thought... someone must tell these people that "-1 overrated" is no substitute for intelligent discussion.
Israelis should have spent those millions on helping build a stable, friendly Palestinian state while Arafat was alive, instead of forcing palestinians into poverty by destroying their infrastructure and taking even more land from them.
[damn! now Im going to get modded down]
...probably holding off until it's finished decapitating SCO, putting holy wafer in its mouth, a stake in its heart, and then burying it at a crossroads.
I was thinking more on the lines of "gather the SCO executives, cram them up in narrow cages that allow them neither movement nor confort, and leave them to hang in a crossroads to be eaten by the crows"
or a Music Label...
That's nothing, my 2 year old thinks farting is funny in the first place!
I was instead thinking you could embedd this battery to your bones, but only if you have mutant regeneration in the first place...
But kudos for the Drow analogy
I think too many people here missed the "haha" at the start of my comment...
Of course, I appreciate the upmodding even though I was aiming for a +3, Funny, instead of a +5 Insightful
Well, while the idea of the ipod going the way of netscape scares me, I really hope that the X-Box has taught us that Microsoft is not as sucessful at the "embrace, extend, extinguish" game as it once was.
However, on the other hand, I have had a Sony NW-E005F music player (a gift) for a couple of days, and I already hate its guts... You can only transfer music to it via the horrific Sonicstage software, which not only garbles the songs into horrible atrac files, but it doesnt even do that right! Around 15% of the mp3's that I try to transfer to the player are unplayable (I get a "file error" message on the player)
Something tells me that if Microsoft manages to have the Zune outsell the ipod, we will see more and more of this.
(I am probably going to have to keep this darned thing as an overpriced 2gig usb keychain and buy an ipod (or a Rio, or a Sansa or something...))
Haha, this confirms that the difference between a Freedom Fighter and a Terrorist resides only on who gets to write the history books afterwards.
So you basically advocate genocide as a way to "economically" solve the situations in Irak, Afghanistan and Palestine...
No surprises here...
sprog = kid
...but I disgress
kid = child
kid = young goat
sprog = young goat
child = young goat
It seems that he managed to dodge the Music Industry bull charging right into him, with a quick waist movement and a flourish of his red cape...
Goats!! Noooo!!! [runs]
At least here in Latin America "Macaco" is a very recognizable ethnic slur...
I mean calling someone of dark skin "a Monkey" is definitely not a friendly nickname
yeah, whoosh indeed...
Its just that lately it has become hard to be a rational christian, when theres people who insist that the earth is 4000 years old and that fossilized dinosaurs are a trick of the devil... Or those wackos that claim that all humans spoke english before the tower of babel, and that the KJV is the "real and only valid" word of God...
[rolls eyes]
yup, sorry... meant to say "the Metric decimal system"
Yeah, tell that to the people who still wont change to the decimal system... [rolls eyes]
I am probably feeding a troll... but what the hell,
Can you cite chapter and verse where it is stated the actual date of birth of Jesus?
Face it, the date was decided by the Church around the fourth century, mainly to "mask" the pagan celebrations of the winter solstice. The Orthodox church fixed a different date, and they celebrate christmas on January 6th.
Thanks for the links, AKAImBatman!
Yeah, I know a couple of old ladies that learned to play Nintendo with their grandkids... One of them (a friend's mom) was better at Tetris than any other person I've known, and she plays Mario Kart and Mario Party with her friends (all of them over 60)...
If Wii Sports is as intuitive and easy to play as it looks, I'm sure it will appeal to many non-gamers...