I find that for every track I get for free from an artist, I tend to want to reward the artist fairly. This weekend just gone, I came across the CASH music site, linked to from Kristin Hersh's blog (http://www.throwingmusic.com/blog). I downloaded both the tracks she'd put up there, though "Hey, this is pretty good..." and decided to do the 3 dollar one-off donation that they ask for but don't force from you. Then as the tracks grew on me I thought "I could do with more of this..." so I went & bought her latest album from iTunes. The point being that for a lot of people, file-sharing is merely like a form of advertising, a free sample or loss-leader that gets the customer into the metaphorical showroom so they can buy more. Kristin's doing a great thing by releasing her work under a Creative Commons attributable, changeable share-alike license - people are free to remix it, mash it up, change the lyrics, cover it, do derivative artwork, sculpture or whatever, as long as they link back to their work & publish it under the same license. Her wish is that we regain the sort of musical communities we had back in the heyday of folk & blues, where a song remains after the artist has travelled elsewhere, & it takes on a local aspect, different chords, lyrics etc.
Have you read Scott Ritter's "War on Iraq"?
It's quite interesting. Ritter's an ex weapons inspector, who worked for 7 years in Iraq. He's also an ex US marine, a card-carrying Republican, and ex CIA operative. He's not the sort of guy you'd call a peacenik liberal. Yet in the book he goes through all the possible WMD types that Saddam Hussein was accused of hiding, and details why Hussein either didn't have the weapons any more or they were so far past their use-by date as to be no good to man nor beast. He details the methods used by weapons inspectors, some of which are pretty hi-tech, like the use of sniffer devices which can tell if there's even a trace of certain tell-tale chemicals in the air. I'd trust the guy when he says Hussein never had any offensive WMD capacity at the start of the war - if anyone would know, he would.
Now, if Saddam didn't have the WMDs, and Bush kept saying "We know you have WMDs" even though one of his head weapons inspector told him there's no way they could have WMDs, how can Saddam possibly convince Bush otherwise? It's like arguments for and against the existence of God. If the onus is on someone to prove a thing doesn't exist, they have a very hard job indeed. If such proof is then refuted, what then can they do?
I got into it because I wanted to be a programmer. I've had various roles involving Desktop support, some SQL programming, programming in various legacy languages, but never anything in a language or using a technology that is growing - always things that have no future. My company has since then laid people off in droves, merged with various companies, changed its business practises and internal structure so many times no-one knows who to contact about what any more, and automated pretty much everything or out-sourced it to India. Me, I just want to program, still.
...does this work? I mean, the theory goes that we're all connected by 6 degrees of seperation. How do they define a connection? Depending on these factors, anyone could be condemned as connected somehow with undesirables.
I'm not blaming the victim - I'm blaming the victim who, knowing what the culture is, and knowing what is likely to happen, takes no action to protect him or herself. Such people don't appear to have the sense to come in out of the rain.
If we had a culture like that of the Iroquois, then doing as the Iroquois do would be acceptible. Did the Iroquois have the same idea of private possessions as we do? What did they do if someone did take their stuff?
I use Linux on the desktop, because it works perfectly well. I have my USB scanner working with xsane, and my usb digital camera which needed no extra software at all, just an extra line in/etc/fstab and a shortcut on the desktop. Granted, getting dial-up working is a pain in the ass in Mandrake 9.1, since kppp seems to have been abandoned in favour of DrakConf's patchy, unreliable crapness - although having read the pppd manpage I got it working using the pppd call isp feature. That was the only problem I've had setting it up - compare and contrast to the constant tweaking, patching, and re-configuring I did with Windows 9x. I'd much sooner run Linux than Windows on the desktop.
More like blaming people who build houses with inferior door locks for burglary. Most crimes are crimes of opportunity - if you make something so easy to break into that the world and his dog could do it, don't be surprised if the world and his dog break in. Of course, the sensible thing for people who buy such houses to do might be to improve the locks, fit a burglar alarm, erect a wall around their property, and hire a security firm.
Windows users can put a firewall between themselves and the net (preferably a dedicated firewall machine, running OpenBSD or a specialist Linux firewall distro), install an intrusion detection system, install virus scanners and spyware detection software, keep their OS patched up to date as far as possible, and hire security specialists. It's still the same old house, but a lot more secure. Which isn't to say they'd not have been better off starting off by buying a fortress, but it's better than sitting in a vandalised room moaning about it.
The first use of the word "terrorism" was in the 19th century to describe the use of violence typically by a government against its own people to enforce their will. By that definition, the US government engaged in terrorism against the black Equal Rights movement in the '60's, & against the anti-Vietnam War movement. The Myanmar (Burmese) government are engaged in terrorism against the Karen people, as are the Turkish government against the Kurds. Saddam Hussein's regime used terrorism (and genocide) against the Kurds in Iraq. The UK government has used terrorism against the people of what is now Southern Ireland (Eire), India, and various African countries, during the era of the British Empire.
The meaning of the term has been co-opted and corrupted by the governments it used to criticise, so that now it can mean anyone who creates a disruption so as to effect a change in governmental policy (UK government definition, or near enough) so that any demonstrator or striking worker is now potentially classifiable as a terrorist, and imprisonable as such. It's funny to think that a CND activist can be classed the same as Saddam Hussein.
Depends if the ROM is flashable or not, or if there's a part of the ROM that's flashable (i.e. if they have a non-changable base system ROM and a flash rom that'll hold upgrades - well, being WinCE it'll need service packs every so often!). If they can over-write the ROM easily enough, it's possible to upgrade it to Linux (or even install SymbianOS if you so desire and have a copy of an old Netbook ROM).
That's idiotic! IBM did a campaign a while back where hackers shared payroll data around the company, iirc. No client is going to want to share that, nor any other data I can think of, except maybe programs.
Are you talking about the TV news or the printed media exclusively?
I'd say Fox news and CNN are about as biased as you can get in TV news. British tabloid newspapers have been biased for a long while, but there's a common element - Rupert Murdoch owns Fox, and holds a major stake in the UK's satellite station BSkyB, and terrestrial station Channel5. He also owns a number of tabloid papers in the UK, and is a supporter of the Bush regime, as he was a supporter of Reagan, and Bush Senior. I think you'll also find his media companies behind the most vociferous articles about Bill Clinton's sexual indiscretions, and the Whitewater scandal. When one man controls the majority of the news we see in the papers or on TV, he wields a hell of a lot of power over world politics.
"You can't change the world
But you can change the facts
And when you change the facts
You change points of view
If you change points of view
You may change a vote
And when you change a vote
You may change the world."
- Depeche Mode "New Dress"
Shouldn't that be "Earth emulator", since as we all know, the Earth is itself a very powerful supercomputer built to find the Question that fits the Answer to the meaning of Life the Universe and Everything (42)...?
IBM is - they made back the billion they invested in linux development, within the first year of their involvement, in terms of increased mainframe and iSeries sales, increased whole systems sales, and increased service provision contracts, as well as more systems integration projects. Once people got the idea that Big Blue's big iron could run more than just legacy stuff, and save hundreds of thousands compared to running a server farm full of NT/2K/Sun/etc, they came flocking!
That said, I do wonder now why IBM have just laid off a bunch of people from Global Services... putting an extra squeeze on costs maybe?
Mandrake and SuSE both have task-related shortcuts on the main menu from kicker. I don't use them myself because I like to know which program I'm about to use (so I can either avoid using it in future if it does something stupid like locking up X, or kill the process if it decides to lock up itself), but I can see it being useful to someone coming cold-decked to KDE.
Ah, but French Fries aren't chips, and chips aren't french fries - proper chips are about a half-inch thick, as bought from a chip-shop, while french fries are about a half centimetre thick.
language is dictated by society. American's chose -er.
Yeah, but if you go down that route, where do you stop? There are two main schools of thought in linguistics - those who believe in a prescriptive role for the study of language (i.e. grammar books dictate what is correct and what is not) and those who believe it should have a more descriptive role (i.e. it describes what is actually in use).
Now, if we take the descriptive model to then dictate what is and isn't correct, at what point does one stop subdividing the language into dialects, argots, slang forms, idiolects and so on? What is incorrect in formal business American English in New York may be perfectly fine in the dialect of the Hispanic American living in L.A. - and what is correct in formal business American English may be unspeakable incorrect in formal British English as spoken by the Queen. The only way you can hope to say definitively what is right and what is wrong is by specifying exactly who the speaker/writer is, what their social and cultural background is, and also *when* they spoke or wrote what they did - as language changes dynamically all the time, and cross-pollinates from one area to another.
Montessori failed? How so? It appeared to have worked perfectly well with my neice - she was thrown out of her pre-school group for kicking and biting, was sent to a Montessori nursery and now has no problems with violence, and is a confident, competent 4 year old who does a heck of a lot of things for herself.
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I find that for every track I get for free from an artist, I tend to want to reward the artist fairly. This weekend just gone, I came across the CASH music site, linked to from Kristin Hersh's blog (http://www.throwingmusic.com/blog). I downloaded both the tracks she'd put up there, though "Hey, this is pretty good..." and decided to do the 3 dollar one-off donation that they ask for but don't force from you. Then as the tracks grew on me I thought "I could do with more of this..." so I went & bought her latest album from iTunes. The point being that for a lot of people, file-sharing is merely like a form of advertising, a free sample or loss-leader that gets the customer into the metaphorical showroom so they can buy more. Kristin's doing a great thing by releasing her work under a Creative Commons attributable, changeable share-alike license - people are free to remix it, mash it up, change the lyrics, cover it, do derivative artwork, sculpture or whatever, as long as they link back to their work & publish it under the same license. Her wish is that we regain the sort of musical communities we had back in the heyday of folk & blues, where a song remains after the artist has travelled elsewhere, & it takes on a local aspect, different chords, lyrics etc.
Isn't xhtml an implementation or subset of XML? After all, xhtml pages rely on an XML DTD to define the tags they can use.
Have you read Scott Ritter's "War on Iraq"? It's quite interesting. Ritter's an ex weapons inspector, who worked for 7 years in Iraq. He's also an ex US marine, a card-carrying Republican, and ex CIA operative. He's not the sort of guy you'd call a peacenik liberal. Yet in the book he goes through all the possible WMD types that Saddam Hussein was accused of hiding, and details why Hussein either didn't have the weapons any more or they were so far past their use-by date as to be no good to man nor beast. He details the methods used by weapons inspectors, some of which are pretty hi-tech, like the use of sniffer devices which can tell if there's even a trace of certain tell-tale chemicals in the air. I'd trust the guy when he says Hussein never had any offensive WMD capacity at the start of the war - if anyone would know, he would. Now, if Saddam didn't have the WMDs, and Bush kept saying "We know you have WMDs" even though one of his head weapons inspector told him there's no way they could have WMDs, how can Saddam possibly convince Bush otherwise? It's like arguments for and against the existence of God. If the onus is on someone to prove a thing doesn't exist, they have a very hard job indeed. If such proof is then refuted, what then can they do?
I got into it because I wanted to be a programmer. I've had various roles involving Desktop support, some SQL programming, programming in various legacy languages, but never anything in a language or using a technology that is growing - always things that have no future. My company has since then laid people off in droves, merged with various companies, changed its business practises and internal structure so many times no-one knows who to contact about what any more, and automated pretty much everything or out-sourced it to India. Me, I just want to program, still.
...does this work? I mean, the theory goes that we're all connected by 6 degrees of seperation. How do they define a connection? Depending on these factors, anyone could be condemned as connected somehow with undesirables.
I'm not blaming the victim - I'm blaming the victim who, knowing what the culture is, and knowing what is likely to happen, takes no action to protect him or herself. Such people don't appear to have the sense to come in out of the rain.
If we had a culture like that of the Iroquois, then doing as the Iroquois do would be acceptible. Did the Iroquois have the same idea of private possessions as we do? What did they do if someone did take their stuff?
I use Linux on the desktop, because it works perfectly well. I have my USB scanner working with xsane, and my usb digital camera which needed no extra software at all, just an extra line in /etc/fstab and a shortcut on the desktop. Granted, getting dial-up working is a pain in the ass in Mandrake 9.1, since kppp seems to have been abandoned in favour of DrakConf's patchy, unreliable crapness - although having read the pppd manpage I got it working using the pppd call isp feature. That was the only problem I've had setting it up - compare and contrast to the constant tweaking, patching, and re-configuring I did with Windows 9x. I'd much sooner run Linux than Windows on the desktop.
More like blaming people who build houses with inferior door locks for burglary. Most crimes are crimes of opportunity - if you make something so easy to break into that the world and his dog could do it, don't be surprised if the world and his dog break in. Of course, the sensible thing for people who buy such houses to do might be to improve the locks, fit a burglar alarm, erect a wall around their property, and hire a security firm.
Windows users can put a firewall between themselves and the net (preferably a dedicated firewall machine, running OpenBSD or a specialist Linux firewall distro), install an intrusion detection system, install virus scanners and spyware detection software, keep their OS patched up to date as far as possible, and hire security specialists. It's still the same old house, but a lot more secure. Which isn't to say they'd not have been better off starting off by buying a fortress, but it's better than sitting in a vandalised room moaning about it.
How about a fractal set, or a strange attractor then - unexpected results coming from simple beginnings - beauty through chaos, and order in disorder?
The first use of the word "terrorism" was in the 19th century to describe the use of violence typically by a government against its own people to enforce their will. By that definition, the US government engaged in terrorism against the black Equal Rights movement in the '60's, & against the anti-Vietnam War movement. The Myanmar (Burmese) government are engaged in terrorism against the Karen people, as are the Turkish government against the Kurds. Saddam Hussein's regime used terrorism (and genocide) against the Kurds in Iraq. The UK government has used terrorism against the people of what is now Southern Ireland (Eire), India, and various African countries, during the era of the British Empire.
The meaning of the term has been co-opted and corrupted by the governments it used to criticise, so that now it can mean anyone who creates a disruption so as to effect a change in governmental policy (UK government definition, or near enough) so that any demonstrator or striking worker is now potentially classifiable as a terrorist, and imprisonable as such. It's funny to think that a CND activist can be classed the same as Saddam Hussein.
Depends if the ROM is flashable or not, or if there's a part of the ROM that's flashable (i.e. if they have a non-changable base system ROM and a flash rom that'll hold upgrades - well, being WinCE it'll need service packs every so often!). If they can over-write the ROM easily enough, it's possible to upgrade it to Linux (or even install SymbianOS if you so desire and have a copy of an old Netbook ROM).
That's idiotic! IBM did a campaign a while back where hackers shared payroll data around the company, iirc. No client is going to want to share that, nor any other data I can think of, except maybe programs.
Are you talking about the TV news or the printed media exclusively?
I'd say Fox news and CNN are about as biased as you can get in TV news. British tabloid newspapers have been biased for a long while, but there's a common element - Rupert Murdoch owns Fox, and holds a major stake in the UK's satellite station BSkyB, and terrestrial station Channel5. He also owns a number of tabloid papers in the UK, and is a supporter of the Bush regime, as he was a supporter of Reagan, and Bush Senior. I think you'll also find his media companies behind the most vociferous articles about Bill Clinton's sexual indiscretions, and the Whitewater scandal. When one man controls the majority of the news we see in the papers or on TV, he wields a hell of a lot of power over world politics.
"You can't change the world
But you can change the facts
And when you change the facts
You change points of view
If you change points of view
You may change a vote
And when you change a vote
You may change the world."
- Depeche Mode "New Dress"
Damn... Best of luck getting a job before that happens.
Shouldn't that be "Earth emulator", since as we all know, the Earth is itself a very powerful supercomputer built to find the Question that fits the Answer to the meaning of Life the Universe and Everything (42)...?
...and presumably you begged up the money to pay for your internet cafe time? ;-)
Reminds me of that T-Shirt on Thinkgeek - "Will code for food!"
IBM is - they made back the billion they invested in linux development, within the first year of their involvement, in terms of increased mainframe and iSeries sales, increased whole systems sales, and increased service provision contracts, as well as more systems integration projects. Once people got the idea that Big Blue's big iron could run more than just legacy stuff, and save hundreds of thousands compared to running a server farm full of NT/2K/Sun/etc, they came flocking!
That said, I do wonder now why IBM have just laid off a bunch of people from Global Services... putting an extra squeeze on costs maybe?
Actually, a horse's ass might be more appropriate for spammers.
Mandrake and SuSE both have task-related shortcuts on the main menu from kicker. I don't use them myself because I like to know which program I'm about to use (so I can either avoid using it in future if it does something stupid like locking up X, or kill the process if it decides to lock up itself), but I can see it being useful to someone coming cold-decked to KDE.
Ah, but French Fries aren't chips, and chips aren't french fries - proper chips are about a half-inch thick, as bought from a chip-shop, while french fries are about a half centimetre thick.
Yeah, but if you go down that route, where do you stop? There are two main schools of thought in linguistics - those who believe in a prescriptive role for the study of language (i.e. grammar books dictate what is correct and what is not) and those who believe it should have a more descriptive role (i.e. it describes what is actually in use). Now, if we take the descriptive model to then dictate what is and isn't correct, at what point does one stop subdividing the language into dialects, argots, slang forms, idiolects and so on? What is incorrect in formal business American English in New York may be perfectly fine in the dialect of the Hispanic American living in L.A. - and what is correct in formal business American English may be unspeakable incorrect in formal British English as spoken by the Queen. The only way you can hope to say definitively what is right and what is wrong is by specifying exactly who the speaker/writer is, what their social and cultural background is, and also *when* they spoke or wrote what they did - as language changes dynamically all the time, and cross-pollinates from one area to another.
Montessori failed? How so? It appeared to have worked perfectly well with my neice - she was thrown out of her pre-school group for kicking and biting, was sent to a Montessori nursery and now has no problems with violence, and is a confident, competent 4 year old who does a heck of a lot of things for herself.
Go to the event and cause havoc by demanding they give you all relevant info under the DPA!
Dunno, did M$ give 'em an 80% discount like they offered the city of Munich?
I just love the word "oversight" - it means both surveillance and vigilance, and failing to see things and looking the other way all at the same time!