Many PCs these days don't ship with a Windows CD. They only come with a set of "System Restore" CDs which will put the system back to out-of-box configuration, including Windows and all preinstalled apps.
Actually, many PCs these days don't even go that far. I saw a new HP that only came with a picture of a CD printed on a piece of paper, with instructions on how to burn your own system restore CDs from the rescue partition on the hard drive, and directions to boot from the rescue partition to reinstall Windows if the hard drive gets screwed up.
There's a problem with simply reformatting a new computer's drive and reinstalling Windows.
Every time I've tried it, the new install won't accept the Windows license key printed on the sticker on the side of the PC, and I need to call the toll-free number and recite a long string of numbers to a computer, which will then place me on hold and eventually put me through to a Windows Activation support guy in India who will interrogate me ("where did you purchase this copy of Windows? how many PCs is this copy of Windows installed on right now?" etc. etc.) and then finally, eventually, read off a Windows activation code to me to let me use Windows.
I don't know why Windows won't automatically accept the license key printed on the side of the PC case - the license it had been using up to the moment I reformatted the drive. I'm guessing that the Windows Genuine Advantage software gets suspicious because the hard drive no longer has all the preinstalled crapware on it.
Why would they insist on starting a war based on lies?
Remember that the elder Bush's war with Iraq, 1991's "Operation Desert Storm," was also founded on a lie.
Fifteen-year-old "Nayirah" (Nijirah al-Sabah) testified before the United States Congress in October 1990 that she was a refugee volunteering in the maternity ward of Al Adan hospital in Kuwait City, and that during the occupation by Iraq she had witnessed Iraqi soldiers dumping Kuwaiti infants out of their incubators "on[to] the cold floor to die," and then leaving with the machines. The testimony came at a crucial time for the Bush administration, which was pressing for military action to eject Iraq from Kuwait. Nayirah's story was widely reported by the media and Bush referred to the story six times in the next five weeks. The story was an influence in tipping both the public and Congress towards a war with Iraq: six Congressmen would say Nayirah's testimony was enough for them to support military action against Iraq and seven Senators referenced the testimony in debate. The Senate supported the military actions in a 52-47 vote.
In reality, Citizens for a Free Kuwait, organized by the exiled Kuwaiti government, had hired Hill & Knowlton to gain support for the US counterstrike. Hill & Knowlton was paid US $14 million by the US government for its help in promoting the Gulf War. It was not revealed until later that the girl was actually the daughter of the Kuwaiti ambassador to the US. Frieda Construe-Nag and Myra Ancog Cooke, two maternity nurses in that ward, later said that they had never seen Nayirah there and that the baby-dumping had never happened.
What would be really interesting would be if they could use the footage of the main characters shot for the unreleased game Babylon 5: Into The Fire and work it into these prequels somehow. I've always wanted to see that footage - and, besides, it includes some unreleased and unseen video of Andreas Katsulas as G'Kar.
I have a couple of PCs that I'm repairing so I can donate them to needy families. These PCs don't have Windows licenses with them, so I want to put some easy-to-use Windows-like Linux distribution on them, like maybe Ubuntu or Kubuntu.
There are two problems I've run into.
(1) These families don't know of a world outside Windows. If the menus on their computer are worded differently than they're used to, if the buttons in their mail program aren't in the same places, if there's no Microsoft Word icon on the desktop, if there's no AOL icon to get them dialed in right away, if they can't pop in a CD of their Windows Sudoku game and be playing it within minutes - then they're lost and afraid and the first thing they do is go looking for a pirated copy of Windows to install instead.
(2) I turned to the community. "What Linux distribution works most like Windows?" I asked. "Install Fluxbox, you'll have to tweak it," said one person. "No, use IceWM," said another. "Windowmaker!" "qvwm!" And before long it had turned into a discussion of what window manager I should configure. I don't WANT to CONFIGURE. I want to install an operating system that's EASY TO USE right out of the box. And ease-of-use involves more than simply a window manager.
There seems to be such a huge disconnect between Linux enthusiasts and the people who use PCs because they have to use PCs. Even looking at a default KDE or GNOME installation - many of the programs have strange names which don't even make it clear what they do, and that doesn't help with a new user's comfort level when the user is afraid to click on stuff in the first place. I would be extremely hesitant giving Linux to someone who didn't already know enough to ask for it.
(1) I'm carrying around this HUGE FRIGGIN' KEY that can BASH enemies who have THREE HEADS and can unlock PATHWAYS between WORLDS, and yet I'm stopped by locked gates?
(2) People who live in RPGs like to own small treasure chests. In one they'll put a healing potion, in another they'll put a ring of fire protection, etc. I'm glad they still don't mind me wandering through their homes and looting them.
(3) This game's a real button-masher. The battles are fast-paced and well-animated, and the battle engine allows for jumps and attacks and blocks and spells and special moves; but when there are ten characters dukeing it out in a small space, I find it really hard to see who's doing what. There's many a time I've ended up standing a distance away swinging my keyblade at empty air until the camera swings around to show me I'm not part of the action.
(4) The plot is interesting, but I'm getting tired of the pointless side-quests. Not just in KH2, but in *all* RPGs. "Yes, I will give you the combination to the safe so that you can recover the Amulet of Quendor, but first you must journey through that dark mountain cave in which lives a terrible dragon, because I want you to fetch me a sandwich from the little deli on the other side."
(5) The voice acting in KH2 is a mixed bag. Christopher Lee is good, really good. Most of the rest of the actors are obviously just reading lines from a script without any real emotion. The pause between lines is really awkward - even when a character is interrupted in mid-sentence, there'll be a second or two before the character who's interrupting him says anything. But the real nadir of the voice acting in this is Mena Suvari as Aerith - she's just hideously terrible; she sounds as if she's reciting lines while she's doing her hair. I'd much rather imagine Mena Suvari in a bathtub with rose petals.
I beat the game, and I wish I'd played it on the hardest difficulty level instead of on Normal; it was just too darned easy. Gameplay consisted of cutscenes followed by wandering around fighting random attacks until I reached the next cutscenes. None of the treasure chests were any difficulty whatsoever to find. I hardly made any use at all of the synthesis Moogle; I never had enough stuff for him to make much with.
And neither KH nor KH2 ever reach the emotional heartaches or plot complexity that any of the Final Fantasy series reach, but the original KH's ending was wonderfully bittersweet, whereas KH2's ending kind of fell a little flat for me. Tacked-on opening left for KH3, anyone?
Yes, Netscape allowed free downloads of its web browser; but there was still lots of money to be made from it.
How? By cobranding it and licensing it to PC vendors to ship on their hardware. By negotiating deals with companies to have their web sites be included in the default set of bookmarks. By selling the software on CD, along with a manual, for people who preferred those sorts of things. By marketing the Netscape browser bundled with a TCP/IP stack and a dialer that would easily sign a user up with any one of various ISPs.
There is a tremendous market out there for web browsers, because each one has a unique set of features (compare Opera with Safari with OmniWeb with Firefox with IE, etc. etc). Just like popular TV programs attract more advertising dollars, a popular web browser should attract more companies wanting to leverage it to benefit their businesses by putting themselves into its bookmarks, its default choice of search engine, the links on its home page, and so forth.
The only reason there's no market for web browsers any more is because Microsoft's is tolerable enough for people to put up with. This doesn't mean that web browsers are as inconsequential as calculators. If Microsoft decided to bundle Microsoft Word into Windows, this wouldn't make word processors equal to little calculator programs either.
And why didn't Netscape go from PC company to PC company and work out individual arrangements to get Navigator Pre-installed on those vendor's PCs. Clearly Microsoft put in the larger amount of effort here, and deserves to be applauded for their shrewd negotiating.
"Shrewd negotiating," heh.
Netscape DID go to PC vendors and worked out some great mutually-beneficial deals with them.
And then Microsoft told these PC vendors, "You're not allowed to ship Netscape on your PCs, or else we'll raise the price you pay for Windows." In some cases, they even threatened to prohibit a PC vendor to ship its computers with Windows at all if there were deals in place with Netscape. This is all documented in the antitrust case's Findings of Fact.
Faced with this decision, there was no decision - it was unthinkable to ship a PC without Windows, and vendors had to keep their prices down to remain competitive. So they had no choice but to obey Microsoft and refuse Netscape.
The only lesson from the Browser Wars is this: you CAN NOT COMPETE against a juggernaut. Netscape had a terrific idea and went to market with it - such is the American Dream. Microsoft wanted in, and met with Netscape to say: "If you let us have the browser business on Windows, we won't bother you with the browser business on Mac and Linux." Netscape refused. So therefore Microsoft gave its browser away for free, and poured its Windows operating system revenues into the development and marketing of IE. (And they did the same to Netscape's other products, too - remember the free IIS web server, Microsoft Proxy Server, etc. etc.)
If you're a small company trying to make money, and a gargantuan company steals your idea and gives it away for free, there is simply no way to compete. Period. Yes, IE became better than Netscape was - how could it not, with all the money Microsoft was pouring into it while stealing away Netscape's customers and revenues? If Netscape can't make money, it can't improve its products at the same pace as Microsoft.
One of the Microsoft higher-ups in the antitrust suit admitted that the company's stated goal was to "cut off Netscape's air supply," and that's exactly what happened.
there's no reason other than DRM to make it a royal pain in the ass to work with your music collection using the normal explorer or another application.
The iPod is a device for playing your music. It excels at this.
It is not, nor was it ever intended to be, a device for sharing music. The vast majority of sharing music is not done legally. If iPod had taken 'sharing music' as one of its goals, if Apple had made it easy to use it to give people copies of your music and take copies of their music, then the music industry would have long since sued Apple and won - and laws would have been passed to restrict what mp3 players are allowed to do.
Now - we should be able to pool all our music together. But try doing it using iTunes - its on the verge of impossible.
Turn on your iPod's disk mode, through the preferences in iTunes. Copy your sound clips to the iPod. Bring your iPod to your friend's house and copy the sound clips off it. No problem.
Are you complaining that there's no GUI way to copy sound clips directly out of the iPod's music repository? That's like complaining there's no easy way to get at your toaster's heating coils. You're taking an appliance that does a specific job very well, and complaining that it doesn't give you a lot of options for doing something it's not intended to do. iPod is designed to sync up with the iTunes library, and I like that degree of simplicity. It's not designed to let you copy music in and out of its library by hand.
Yes, if you connect your iPod to someone else's computer and you're not paying attention, you might accidentally let the other person's iTunes replace your song library with his. I don't like the eagerness with which iTunes does this. But the fix is simple: bring your iPod back to your computer and plug it in and sync it up again.
The first "fully integrated gaming system within a vehicle"... The Nissan URGE concept car allows drivers (while parked) to play 'Project Gotham Racing 3' using the car's own steering wheel, gas pedal and brake pedal while viewing the game on a flip-down seven-inch LCD screen.
It's been done. Google for Namco's Ridge Racer Full Scale. This arcade game played Ridge Racer on a triple-wide projection screen and had its steering, gas, brake, clutch, and gearshift connected to a Mazda Miata. Braking in the game even lit up the car's brakelights.
Are you saying that students shouldn't be taught anything at all in their social studies class about the debate over ID, so that their Sunday School teacher can say "see, the schools are so afraid of the truth that they won't even talk about it, let me introduce you to how humans *really* came to be"?
Or did you see me say that I'm defending Bush and intelligent design, and you immediately jumped to the incorrect conclusion that I want to see it taught in science class?
I can't believe that I'd ever be defending Bush or intelligent design, but read that article more carefully and note the specific quotes attributed to Bush:
"Both sides ought to be properly taught . . . so people can understand what the debate is about," he said, according to an official transcript of the session. Bush added: "Part of education is to expose people to different schools of thought. . . . You're asking me whether or not people ought to be exposed to different ideas, and the answer is yes."
I have to agree with this. Children have to be taught that there's a debate going on, that some people believe in intelligent design. If no mention is made of ID in schools, then kids will be at the mercy of people who will teach it to them as religious ideology and they won't have the tools to evaluate it properly.
ID should be taught in social studies, *not* in science class, but I don't see Bush saying anything about putting it in science class.
The article says: Bush told Texas newspaper reporters in a group interview at the White House on Monday that he believes that intelligent design should be taught alongside evolution as competing theories. THAT, I disagree with. Is this really what Bush was saying, or did the article jump to conclusions? Where can I find the official transcript of the session?
Tarpitting is a very good idea, and it's easy to implement.
For example, I run Exim and SpamAssassin, and I link the two with SA-Exim (http://marc.merlins.org/linux/exim/sa.html) so that spam is identified as soon as someone tries to send it to me. With just a change to a config file, I can tarpit the spammer. I've kept some spammers ensnared for 100 hours.
The more tarpits out there, the more spammers can be slowed down.
Wasn't the Serenity trailer supposed to play before Hitchhiker's Guide? I know of several people who went to see HHGG but the Serenity trailer wasn't shown. What happened?
You do realize that Tiger runs Software Update as soon as you're finished installing it, so it can apply any patches which are available?
So, basically, as soon as you install a pirated pre-release version of Tiger, it notifies the mothership "here I am", and if you're not supposed to have it yet, you can expect the authorities to come knocking on your door?
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Actually, that's not new to the latest update - it was a few updates ago that On-the-Go started being synced and appeared as a playlist in iTunes.
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Just an FYI in case anyone missed it: this latest iPod update delivers some of the small things that owners of the 3G iPods (the ones with the four buttons between the display and the touchwheel) have been waiting for.
Specifically, the 3G iPods now have "Shuffle Songs" on the top-level menu, and the "Browse" and "Playlists" menu items have been consolidated under a "Music" menu.
Lots of people were mad at Apple for not giving 3G owners these small touches that the 4Gs had; it looks like Apple listened to their complaints.
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Many PCs these days don't ship with a Windows CD. They only come with a set of "System Restore" CDs which will put the system back to out-of-box configuration, including Windows and all preinstalled apps.
Actually, many PCs these days don't even go that far. I saw a new HP that only came with a picture of a CD printed on a piece of paper, with instructions on how to burn your own system restore CDs from the rescue partition on the hard drive, and directions to boot from the rescue partition to reinstall Windows if the hard drive gets screwed up.
There's a problem with simply reformatting a new computer's drive and reinstalling Windows.
Every time I've tried it, the new install won't accept the Windows license key printed on the sticker on the side of the PC, and I need to call the toll-free number and recite a long string of numbers to a computer, which will then place me on hold and eventually put me through to a Windows Activation support guy in India who will interrogate me ("where did you purchase this copy of Windows? how many PCs is this copy of Windows installed on right now?" etc. etc.) and then finally, eventually, read off a Windows activation code to me to let me use Windows.
I don't know why Windows won't automatically accept the license key printed on the side of the PC case - the license it had been using up to the moment I reformatted the drive. I'm guessing that the Windows Genuine Advantage software gets suspicious because the hard drive no longer has all the preinstalled crapware on it.
The announcements about Leopard were SO COOL that they had to mind-wipe everyone afterwards.
Remember that the elder Bush's war with Iraq, 1991's "Operation Desert Storm," was also founded on a lie.
- Nurse Nayirah
I use SoftScrub (http://www.softscrub.com/) for cleaning stuff off computer cases. It works great without scratching.
They left out my favorite: the Macintosh IIci.
Small, lightweight, stylish, powerful for its time, and easier to get into its case than any computer I've seen before or since.
What would be really interesting would be if they could use the footage of the main characters shot for the unreleased game Babylon 5: Into The Fire and work it into these prequels somehow. I've always wanted to see that footage - and, besides, it includes some unreleased and unseen video of Andreas Katsulas as G'Kar.
Hello from a fellow Celebrationer who goes to DQ often for my retro gaming fix! Email me sometime. :)
Disney denies the rumors that DisneyQuest is scheduled to close.
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I have a couple of PCs that I'm repairing so I can donate them to needy families. These PCs don't have Windows licenses with them, so I want to put some easy-to-use Windows-like Linux distribution on them, like maybe Ubuntu or Kubuntu.
There are two problems I've run into.
(1) These families don't know of a world outside Windows. If the menus on their computer are worded differently than they're used to, if the buttons in their mail program aren't in the same places, if there's no Microsoft Word icon on the desktop, if there's no AOL icon to get them dialed in right away, if they can't pop in a CD of their Windows Sudoku game and be playing it within minutes - then they're lost and afraid and the first thing they do is go looking for a pirated copy of Windows to install instead.
(2) I turned to the community. "What Linux distribution works most like Windows?" I asked. "Install Fluxbox, you'll have to tweak it," said one person. "No, use IceWM," said another. "Windowmaker!" "qvwm!" And before long it had turned into a discussion of what window manager I should configure. I don't WANT to CONFIGURE. I want to install an operating system that's EASY TO USE right out of the box. And ease-of-use involves more than simply a window manager.
There seems to be such a huge disconnect between Linux enthusiasts and the people who use PCs because they have to use PCs. Even looking at a default KDE or GNOME installation - many of the programs have strange names which don't even make it clear what they do, and that doesn't help with a new user's comfort level when the user is afraid to click on stuff in the first place. I would be extremely hesitant giving Linux to someone who didn't already know enough to ask for it.
(1) I'm carrying around this HUGE FRIGGIN' KEY that can BASH enemies who have THREE HEADS and can unlock PATHWAYS between WORLDS, and yet I'm stopped by locked gates?
(2) People who live in RPGs like to own small treasure chests. In one they'll put a healing potion, in another they'll put a ring of fire protection, etc. I'm glad they still don't mind me wandering through their homes and looting them.
(3) This game's a real button-masher. The battles are fast-paced and well-animated, and the battle engine allows for jumps and attacks and blocks and spells and special moves; but when there are ten characters dukeing it out in a small space, I find it really hard to see who's doing what. There's many a time I've ended up standing a distance away swinging my keyblade at empty air until the camera swings around to show me I'm not part of the action.
(4) The plot is interesting, but I'm getting tired of the pointless side-quests. Not just in KH2, but in *all* RPGs. "Yes, I will give you the combination to the safe so that you can recover the Amulet of Quendor, but first you must journey through that dark mountain cave in which lives a terrible dragon, because I want you to fetch me a sandwich from the little deli on the other side."
(5) The voice acting in KH2 is a mixed bag. Christopher Lee is good, really good. Most of the rest of the actors are obviously just reading lines from a script without any real emotion. The pause between lines is really awkward - even when a character is interrupted in mid-sentence, there'll be a second or two before the character who's interrupting him says anything. But the real nadir of the voice acting in this is Mena Suvari as Aerith - she's just hideously terrible; she sounds as if she's reciting lines while she's doing her hair. I'd much rather imagine Mena Suvari in a bathtub with rose petals.
I beat the game, and I wish I'd played it on the hardest difficulty level instead of on Normal; it was just too darned easy. Gameplay consisted of cutscenes followed by wandering around fighting random attacks until I reached the next cutscenes. None of the treasure chests were any difficulty whatsoever to find. I hardly made any use at all of the synthesis Moogle; I never had enough stuff for him to make much with.
And neither KH nor KH2 ever reach the emotional heartaches or plot complexity that any of the Final Fantasy series reach, but the original KH's ending was wonderfully bittersweet, whereas KH2's ending kind of fell a little flat for me. Tacked-on opening left for KH3, anyone?
Yes, Netscape allowed free downloads of its web browser; but there was still lots of money to be made from it.
How? By cobranding it and licensing it to PC vendors to ship on their hardware. By negotiating deals with companies to have their web sites be included in the default set of bookmarks. By selling the software on CD, along with a manual, for people who preferred those sorts of things. By marketing the Netscape browser bundled with a TCP/IP stack and a dialer that would easily sign a user up with any one of various ISPs.
There is a tremendous market out there for web browsers, because each one has a unique set of features (compare Opera with Safari with OmniWeb with Firefox with IE, etc. etc). Just like popular TV programs attract more advertising dollars, a popular web browser should attract more companies wanting to leverage it to benefit their businesses by putting themselves into its bookmarks, its default choice of search engine, the links on its home page, and so forth.
The only reason there's no market for web browsers any more is because Microsoft's is tolerable enough for people to put up with. This doesn't mean that web browsers are as inconsequential as calculators. If Microsoft decided to bundle Microsoft Word into Windows, this wouldn't make word processors equal to little calculator programs either.
And why didn't Netscape go from PC company to PC company and work out individual arrangements to get Navigator Pre-installed on those vendor's PCs. Clearly Microsoft put in the larger amount of effort here, and deserves to be applauded for their shrewd negotiating.
"Shrewd negotiating," heh.
Netscape DID go to PC vendors and worked out some great mutually-beneficial deals with them.
And then Microsoft told these PC vendors, "You're not allowed to ship Netscape on your PCs, or else we'll raise the price you pay for Windows." In some cases, they even threatened to prohibit a PC vendor to ship its computers with Windows at all if there were deals in place with Netscape. This is all documented in the antitrust case's Findings of Fact.
Faced with this decision, there was no decision - it was unthinkable to ship a PC without Windows, and vendors had to keep their prices down to remain competitive. So they had no choice but to obey Microsoft and refuse Netscape.
The only lesson from the Browser Wars is this: you CAN NOT COMPETE against a juggernaut. Netscape had a terrific idea and went to market with it - such is the American Dream. Microsoft wanted in, and met with Netscape to say: "If you let us have the browser business on Windows, we won't bother you with the browser business on Mac and Linux." Netscape refused. So therefore Microsoft gave its browser away for free, and poured its Windows operating system revenues into the development and marketing of IE. (And they did the same to Netscape's other products, too - remember the free IIS web server, Microsoft Proxy Server, etc. etc.)
If you're a small company trying to make money, and a gargantuan company steals your idea and gives it away for free, there is simply no way to compete. Period. Yes, IE became better than Netscape was - how could it not, with all the money Microsoft was pouring into it while stealing away Netscape's customers and revenues? If Netscape can't make money, it can't improve its products at the same pace as Microsoft.
One of the Microsoft higher-ups in the antitrust suit admitted that the company's stated goal was to "cut off Netscape's air supply," and that's exactly what happened.
there's no reason other than DRM to make it a royal pain in the ass to work with your music collection using the normal explorer or another application.
The iPod is a device for playing your music. It excels at this.
It is not, nor was it ever intended to be, a device for sharing music. The vast majority of sharing music is not done legally. If iPod had taken 'sharing music' as one of its goals, if Apple had made it easy to use it to give people copies of your music and take copies of their music, then the music industry would have long since sued Apple and won - and laws would have been passed to restrict what mp3 players are allowed to do.
Now - we should be able to pool all our music together. But try doing it using iTunes - its on the verge of impossible.
Turn on your iPod's disk mode, through the preferences in iTunes. Copy your sound clips to the iPod. Bring your iPod to your friend's house and copy the sound clips off it. No problem.
Are you complaining that there's no GUI way to copy sound clips directly out of the iPod's music repository? That's like complaining there's no easy way to get at your toaster's heating coils. You're taking an appliance that does a specific job very well, and complaining that it doesn't give you a lot of options for doing something it's not intended to do. iPod is designed to sync up with the iTunes library, and I like that degree of simplicity. It's not designed to let you copy music in and out of its library by hand.
Yes, if you connect your iPod to someone else's computer and you're not paying attention, you might accidentally let the other person's iTunes replace your song library with his. I don't like the eagerness with which iTunes does this. But the fix is simple: bring your iPod back to your computer and plug it in and sync it up again.
The first "fully integrated gaming system within a vehicle" ... The Nissan URGE concept car allows drivers (while parked) to play 'Project Gotham Racing 3' using the car's own steering wheel, gas pedal and brake pedal while viewing the game on a flip-down seven-inch LCD screen.
It's been done. Google for Namco's Ridge Racer Full Scale. This arcade game played Ridge Racer on a triple-wide projection screen and had its steering, gas, brake, clutch, and gearshift connected to a Mazda Miata. Braking in the game even lit up the car's brakelights.
I agree. What's your point?
Are you saying that students shouldn't be taught anything at all in their social studies class about the debate over ID, so that their Sunday School teacher can say "see, the schools are so afraid of the truth that they won't even talk about it, let me introduce you to how humans *really* came to be"?
Or did you see me say that I'm defending Bush and intelligent design, and you immediately jumped to the incorrect conclusion that I want to see it taught in science class?
I can't believe that I'd ever be defending Bush or intelligent design, but read that article more carefully and note the specific quotes attributed to Bush:
"Both sides ought to be properly taught . . . so people can understand what the debate is about," he said, according to an official transcript of the session. Bush added: "Part of education is to expose people to different schools of thought. . . . You're asking me whether or not people ought to be exposed to different ideas, and the answer is yes."
I have to agree with this. Children have to be taught that there's a debate going on, that some people believe in intelligent design. If no mention is made of ID in schools, then kids will be at the mercy of people who will teach it to them as religious ideology and they won't have the tools to evaluate it properly.
ID should be taught in social studies, *not* in science class, but I don't see Bush saying anything about putting it in science class.
The article says: Bush told Texas newspaper reporters in a group interview at the White House on Monday that he believes that intelligent design should be taught alongside evolution as competing theories. THAT, I disagree with. Is this really what Bush was saying, or did the article jump to conclusions? Where can I find the official transcript of the session?
Tarpitting is a very good idea, and it's easy to implement.
For example, I run Exim and SpamAssassin, and I link the two with SA-Exim (http://marc.merlins.org/linux/exim/sa.html) so that spam is identified as soon as someone tries to send it to me. With just a change to a config file, I can tarpit the spammer. I've kept some spammers ensnared for 100 hours.
The more tarpits out there, the more spammers can be slowed down.
Wasn't the Serenity trailer supposed to play before Hitchhiker's Guide? I know of several people who went to see HHGG but the Serenity trailer wasn't shown. What happened?
You do realize that Tiger runs Software Update as soon as you're finished installing it, so it can apply any patches which are available?
So, basically, as soon as you install a pirated pre-release version of Tiger, it notifies the mothership "here I am", and if you're not supposed to have it yet, you can expect the authorities to come knocking on your door?
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Actually, that's not new to the latest update - it was a few updates ago that On-the-Go started being synced and appeared as a playlist in iTunes.
Just an FYI in case anyone missed it: this latest iPod update delivers some of the small things that owners of the 3G iPods (the ones with the four buttons between the display and the touchwheel) have been waiting for.
Specifically, the 3G iPods now have "Shuffle Songs" on the top-level menu, and the "Browse" and "Playlists" menu items have been consolidated under a "Music" menu.
Lots of people were mad at Apple for not giving 3G owners these small touches that the 4Gs had; it looks like Apple listened to their complaints.