...then they wouldn't go down in circulation. After all, I go to the internet when I want to know, right now, what is happening in the world. However, I still like to read the newspaper when there is thoughtful and well written investigation of the facts of the world. As well, the newspaper is what I count on for local information and politics. The difficult part is that my hometown newpaper, The Journal Star can be read in about 5 minutes, and there is little to nothing of value in the paper about local events and information regarding the world close to me. Lots of ads, but little or nothing like what people remember newspapers to be. The trend here I think will continue; the information highway is broad and fast, but not very deep. I feel like information is pretty useless at times, if those who report it do not try to contexualize it to the world around us. This is what is missing from newspapers.
Perhaps, like most of those whose income decreases due to bad times or a poor economy, the RIAA and the MPAA ought to apply for public aid. After all, this has been a effective solution for many in the corporate world:
Microsoft enjoyed more than $12 billion in total tax breaks over the past five years.
Ford enjoyed $9.1 billion in corporate tax welfare over the past five years.
GE received $12 billion in corporate tax welfare.
Over the past five years, IBM enjoyed a total of $4.7 billion in corporate tax welfare.
Colgate-Palmolive paid no taxes at all in three of the past five years, despite $1.6 billion in reported U.S. profits. Colgate's total tax rate over the five years was negative 1.3 percent, due to $595 million in corporate tax welfare.[*]
From 1996 through 2000, just ten large profitable companies enjoyed a total of $50 billion in corporate tax breaks. Almost makes you feel sorry.....almost.... because I am sure they could belly up to the corporate welfare bar, and leave us all alone!
...would do better to stick to his fascinating musical career. He has done more to make a fool of his party's agenda, but not as much as some. What a schmuck!!
The idea of this kind of hardware in a car......
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...disturbs me. Not to sound like a Luddite, but what happened to the idea that technology would free us from the 'bonds' of work for more pleasure. Now, this is not a workstation in an auto or anything of that nature, but how long before our employers require us to have computers in the car to work while we drive. If and when the highways and surface streets of the cities of the world are wired to drive our automobiles for us, what will replace driving for our attention? If it is anything like now, take every chance to increase your 'productivity'.
My thought has always been that the purpose of technology is to increase our time to improve ourselves and our quality of life. What has happened with the advent of connecting the world? The requirement by our employer invades into our private life more and more with the further higher technology reaches into our lives.
I work for a social service agency. I have a cell phone, in case my truck breaks down. However, because I have patients in residental living, and staff at the homes often need to contact me, then I get contacted. Wherever. I realize, this may be a matter of keeping the number a secret, but the thing is that one is expected to make one's self available at all times, if the potential to do so exists.
Quality is the other issue, in my humble opinion. After all, placing an emphasis on quantity inherently suggests that the quality must take a backseat, when the only thing important is pumping out productivity.
I would venture to say that Netscape, with the difficulties NS6 has had, and the difficulty Mozilla has arriving at the 1.0 release, still has served an important process in the development of the internet itself.
This may sound simple, but think about it from the side of Linux, or simply Open Source. How many browsers are based on the functionality and the rendering engines of Microsoft's IE? And even when I was on a Win98 system, I personally declined to use IE due to the seemingly weekly announcements of security problems. Netscape provided a set of html tags that improved the browsing of the internet. They were a reason for IE to get better, and vice versa. This is not to say that IE is worthless, simply that it is because of Netscape that there was at least a choice. So we arrive today at a place where we argue here whether or not it is appropriate that web browsers ought to transmit all the data, such as audio or video. that they are technically capable of.
Plus, for those of us who are Linux users, browsers like Mozilla and Galeon would never have come into existence if it weren't for the opening of the Netscape code.
If Netscape wishes to become merely a portal, then so be it, however; they are and have been indispensible in the process of bringing the web up to it's present girth and functionality.
I think the thing that really bothers any average joe computer user, is the fact that these companies continue to assault our rights by assuming that each customer is chuckling with evil, as he or she is preparing to put struggling companies like Time-Warner out of business, by copying every Brittney Spears album out there to pass out among their friends.
What happened to our freedom? What happened to our rights as consumers? I guess the phrase really has changed to, "The customer is always wrong!"
How sad that in a forum of people that think Windows is about as close to injecting poison into one's veins, act so lousy when a person outside of the hardcore computer science community offers an opinion. I guess I am confused, 'Don't use Windows, it sucks, if you use windows, you worship Satan', then, 'Windows 2000 rules, if you can install Linux, just use W2K" Make up your minds: All I can say is this: I like RH Linux, I use it, I can do more with it, and it is a thousand times more stable. If you like Windows, enjoy, but the main story was about tutorials; my point was that a non C.S. person could do it, anybody could with the existing documents! Not that Windows, if that is your choice, is the devil...
I had a devil of a time changing over from Windows 98 to Linux. All evangelism aside, the number of times that I have had to hit the power button and restart Linux because it was completely frozen, I can count on one hand. I couldn't hardly work on Office 2000, because it would constantly crash, or garble files.
In addition, because I bought a cheap computer, I should accept that Windows just sucks? I think not. The $3.95 that I sent to Cheapbytes to get the RedHat 6.2 was the best money I spent. It has taken quite a bit of time, but by reading magazines, HOWTOS, and just DOING IT, I have everything while using Linux that I had whilst using Windows. I have increased functionality, I have much more stability, and I don't make Bill Gates, a capitalist that would be more happy in the 1930s, a little richer. The neatest thing, is that I am a social worker using Linux! Sorry if I sound like a troll, but I think it is important to know, I am no computer science specialist, I am just a social worker.
I just finished a master's degree, and in my free time I was able to get RH 6.2 running pretty much perfect. The only time I have had troubles is when I screw something up. But there is nothing wrong, cause with proper backups and experimentation, there is nothing you cannot figure out.
Don't wait for perfect manuals written by someone from the university technical writing degree....just do it, and spread the word that you CAN do it!!!
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Amen, the same for me. I feel like I have sold myself to the Devil but I haven't quite gotten my due yet. Ugh.
...then they wouldn't go down in circulation. After all, I go to the internet when I want to know, right now, what is happening in the world. However, I still like to read the newspaper when there is thoughtful and well written investigation of the facts of the world. As well, the newspaper is what I count on for local information and politics. The difficult part is that my hometown newpaper, The Journal Star can be read in about 5 minutes, and there is little to nothing of value in the paper about local events and information regarding the world close to me. Lots of ads, but little or nothing like what people remember newspapers to be. The trend here I think will continue; the information highway is broad and fast, but not very deep. I feel like information is pretty useless at times, if those who report it do not try to contexualize it to the world around us. This is what is missing from newspapers.
* - According to Citizens for Tax Justice in their article Surge in Corporate Tax Welfare Drives Corporate Tax Payments Down to Near Record Low
...would do better to stick to his fascinating musical career. He has done more to make a fool of his party's agenda, but not as much as some. What a schmuck!!
...disturbs me. Not to sound like a Luddite, but what happened to the idea that technology would free us from the 'bonds' of work for more pleasure. Now, this is not a workstation in an auto or anything of that nature, but how long before our employers require us to have computers in the car to work while we drive. If and when the highways and surface streets of the cities of the world are wired to drive our automobiles for us, what will replace driving for our attention? If it is anything like now, take every chance to increase your 'productivity'.
My thought has always been that the purpose of technology is to increase our time to improve ourselves and our quality of life. What has happened with the advent of connecting the world? The requirement by our employer invades into our private life more and more with the further higher technology reaches into our lives.
I work for a social service agency. I have a cell phone, in case my truck breaks down. However, because I have patients in residental living, and staff at the homes often need to contact me, then I get contacted. Wherever. I realize, this may be a matter of keeping the number a secret, but the thing is that one is expected to make one's self available at all times, if the potential to do so exists.
Quality is the other issue, in my humble opinion. After all, placing an emphasis on quantity inherently suggests that the quality must take a backseat, when the only thing important is pumping out productivity.
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I would venture to say that Netscape, with the difficulties NS6 has had, and the difficulty Mozilla has arriving at the 1.0 release, still has served an important process in the development of the internet itself.
This may sound simple, but think about it from the side of Linux, or simply Open Source. How many browsers are based on the functionality and the rendering engines of Microsoft's IE? And even when I was on a Win98 system, I personally declined to use IE due to the seemingly weekly announcements of security problems. Netscape provided a set of html tags that improved the browsing of the internet. They were a reason for IE to get better, and vice versa. This is not to say that IE is worthless, simply that it is because of Netscape that there was at least a choice. So we arrive today at a place where we argue here whether or not it is appropriate that web browsers ought to transmit all the data, such as audio or video. that they are technically capable of.
Plus, for those of us who are Linux users, browsers like Mozilla and Galeon would never have come into existence if it weren't for the opening of the Netscape code.
If Netscape wishes to become merely a portal, then so be it, however; they are and have been indispensible in the process of bringing the web up to it's present girth and functionality.
I think the thing that really bothers any average joe computer user, is the fact that these companies continue to assault our rights by assuming that each customer is chuckling with evil, as he or she is preparing to put struggling companies like Time-Warner out of business, by copying every Brittney Spears album out there to pass out among their friends.
What happened to our freedom? What happened to our rights as consumers? I guess the phrase really has changed to, "The customer is always wrong!"
How sad that in a forum of people that think Windows is about as close to injecting poison into one's veins, act so lousy when a person outside of the hardcore computer science community offers an opinion. I guess I am confused, 'Don't use Windows, it sucks, if you use windows, you worship Satan', then, 'Windows 2000 rules, if you can install Linux, just use W2K" Make up your minds: All I can say is this: I like RH Linux, I use it, I can do more with it, and it is a thousand times more stable. If you like Windows, enjoy, but the main story was about tutorials; my point was that a non C.S. person could do it, anybody could with the existing documents! Not that Windows, if that is your choice, is the devil...
I had a devil of a time changing over from Windows 98 to Linux. All evangelism aside, the number of times that I have had to hit the power button and restart Linux because it was completely frozen, I can count on one hand. I couldn't hardly work on Office 2000, because it would constantly crash, or garble files.
In addition, because I bought a cheap computer, I should accept that Windows just sucks? I think not. The $3.95 that I sent to Cheapbytes to get the RedHat 6.2 was the best money I spent. It has taken quite a bit of time, but by reading magazines, HOWTOS, and just DOING IT, I have everything while using Linux that I had whilst using Windows. I have increased functionality, I have much more stability, and I don't make Bill Gates, a capitalist that would be more happy in the 1930s, a little richer. The neatest thing, is that I am a social worker using Linux! Sorry if I sound like a troll, but I think it is important to know, I am no computer science specialist, I am just a social worker.
I just finished a master's degree, and in my free time I was able to get RH 6.2 running pretty much perfect. The only time I have had troubles is when I screw something up. But there is nothing wrong, cause with proper backups and experimentation, there is nothing you cannot figure out.
Don't wait for perfect manuals written by someone from the university technical writing degree....just do it, and spread the word that you CAN do it!!!