We're using a G5 PowerPC tower to run all functions, including 24/7 streaming, of an internet radio station. Tons of modern software for it (including being able to live-stream after a compression and other audio manipulation chain)... I love Linux and use it on many machines for many purposes, but there's no reason to ditch OS X just because the machine is aging.
There's no way in hell that I would voluntarily give the feds unfettered access to my web surfing logs. I'm a pretty innocent guy, but imagine the expansion of this program if it "succeeds".
Logo is still relevant as an early introduction to programming, and one that kids can get immediate gratification from - my son was quickly able to form quite beautiful geometric images of some complexity with Logo. Also (perhaps unfortunately), Flash/Actionscript can be a very engaging environment for teens that yields pretty quick results.
Beyond that, as other folks have already suggested, a good, moddable game can be a huge motivator for teens to get into programming, or digital art, or 3d modeling, etc.
I don't have sources to cite, but I recall when Radio Free Albemuth came out post-humously, that there was a stir that PKD had specifically stipulated that he did not want his works to be published after his death / without his approval. IIRC, his son approved the publication of aforementioned book, and like I said, there was quite a stir at the time.
Is his estate profiting against his original wishes?
FWIW, RFA was a GREAT book and I am glad it was published. Just wondering about the estate's ethics here.
I second this. I've been a Gametap gold subscriber for over a year, and I love the service. No, they don't get top-tier new titles. However, they have tons of B-grade, still good (Rogue Trooper is a good example) modern titles alongside hundreds of classic console, arcade and puzzle titles, as well as dozens of modern and classic RPGs... I think the $10/mo has been well worth it, given the amount of time I have spent playing games via GT. Strange omission from this roundup.
Your comments about Unisys are both interesting and insightful. I worked for Unisys as one of the IT Helpdesk managers you refer to, and yeah, I know my stuff. And I know how to help people. We were a facility of 300 seat-warmers and 20-30 managers, though, and yeah, we lost our contract (Microsoft support in Austin, TX) due to poor performance.
Did you work for Unisys, or are you a Unisys customer? You just seem to 'get it' - I couldn't figure out why HR would hire really top people (myself included) for management positions and such total sheep for actual operators.
Among other things, I highly doubt your local police have shot unarmed people from over 50 yards away, or beaten up protesters.
Portland, OR Police are infamous for shooting unarmed people multiple times, at a distance, as well as many other incidents of deadly violence (beatings) against innocents.
...the cops take an extreme dislike to perfectly legal citizens who employ any sort of cop-watch, especially so with cameras. The link below is a video beginning with a citizen filming the abject harassment of two citizens on the street in an upscale part of downtown, ending with the cops confiscating his camera.
This book had a huge impact on me some 25-odd years ago, and is likely what got me very interested in not only Sci-Fi, but also some aspects of philosophy. I recently passed it on to my now-12-year-old, and despite not being much of a bookworm (too busy with that newfangled intarweb), he was also enraptured by it.
I actually totally agree. I have used every version of Windows from 2.0 to Vista (I have a fairly beastly tower running Home Premium and use Enterprise under Bootcamp on my Macbook Pro), and I find it to be totally stable, full featured and more problem-free than any of the previous iterations of Windows, including XP.
I am NOT a MS fanboy. The best desktop OS I have used is Leopard. I have a pile of linux boxes of various flavors whirring away in my closet. I worked for ages in X Windows on Solaris and AIX. I really, really liked KDE 3.x, though I haven't used it in a long while. Not a fan of Gnome for the same reasons people whine about Vista (bloat, bugs, UI complaints).
But I still fail to understand the reasoning of all the Vista hate. The one major negative I will give it is that it does have burly system requirements. But modern systems all ship with more than enough horsepower to deal with it fine.
If you want to pick on a current-gen Microsoft OS, I suggest you take a hard look at Windows Mobile. Garbage, even in its most current iteration.
I used Scalix (Community Edition 8) in a corporate environment w/ outlook clients and pure webmail users for close to 2 years and it was simply a dream. We migrated to it when Samsung dropped Samsung Contact, which was adequate at best. Both are descendants of HP Openmail. I would select Scalix again in a heartbeat if the need arose (I am again in the private working-alone style of contracting for now, so groupware... not so much a need for it). I would recommend the combination of Scalix Server + Fedora Core to anyone, and that is from a non-Redhat-fan.
Briefly: I think you are way off. Primarily, I think the Doc is absolutely one of the primary characters of the show - I would posit that he's in a more central role than even the President.
Thanks for telling me and the rest of the world what qualifies as being "adults-only," I'm sure we'll all do better with this matter-of-fact law guiding us towards wisdom and peaceful unity.
So you would rather we just ditch guidelines altogether? As many others in this thread have noted, there is no difference between this and requiring ID to see movies that have been rated NR-17. Opposing guides such as the games ratings actually makes censorship more likely, I believe - I think it's more or less common sense that Manhunt should not be played by children, and if we remove warnings from such products they become more likely to be completely removed from the marketplace as being unfit for a general audience.
...here in Oregon. And I am 35 (though I look young)! Having played the game through (loved it), I have a hard time seeing what the problem is to demand age verification before selling this M rated game to folks - it is truly an adults-only game IMO.
Burned out my Dad's Osborne 1 in maybe 1981 by forgetting to open the heat vent on the top. Scared hell out of me, as I was 10 years old and had just broken me pop's most expensive toy.
I mean, I just keep cycling slow / error-prone ones to slower and more corner-case servers until they quite literally become doorstops. I have never considered even the slightest bit of resale value out of HDs.
2 GC Games (TH Underground, XIII), 2 Gundam models, 2 shirts, yet another in a never ending series of annual all-in-one Leatherman analogue tools. Typical of/.'ers I would think.
I'm surprised: Reading at 0, I see no comments at all regarding the fact that nobody is running any significant mono apps anyhow. Caveat: I am not a Gnome user, maybe they are? I haven't read about it if so.
If mono is never adopted widely, I don't see the impact to Linux. I know just a couple dot Net zealots, and absolutely no mono fanatics, despite hanging around in a largely Linux nerd crowd.
The main advocacy that I hear for dot Net is about the class libraries; how is this different from Python and its everything-is-an-object modules? Obviously it is different because there is a compiler (an expensive one) in play, but otherwise?
So, in my never ending quest to get added to the FBI/NSA/etc watch list, I visited each of the sites referenced in the main post.
I will admit to feeling naive about it, but the site kahanetzadak.com REALLY freaks me out. This is the worst kind of racism - it's as bad as American Aryan sites. Total hate. From my point of view, it's as bad an advertisement for modern Judaism as I have ever seen.
The reason I state my response title as "Confused" is that I really wonder if this isn't some reverse-propaganda put up by (equally racist) arabs / palestinians to make the Jews look bad (awful).
For the record: as a whitebread motherf'ing American cracker, I have no business even having an opinion, but I have long thought that our (our country's) support of what I understand to be a Jewish occupation of Arab lands to be absurd.
Again, I was just shocked at the uncloaked hate and racisim that flows from that site. Quote from the front page (capslock is theirs): "DO YOU WANT YOUR CHILDREN TO PLAY WITH THEIRS?".
Now, first off, this probably just is a screw-up, an unintended hit by the shotgun scatterblast of lawsuits, BUT:
The RIAA could still be in a good strategic place if this girl is found not liable for her actions. Think about it: if it's assumed that there IS an illegal action here, but the girl is not liable due to her age (among other factors, maybe, too), then that liability may lie with the provider of the materials that made it transparently easy for a *little girl* to engage in criminal activity.
The provider, in this case, would of course be Kazaa. It seems to me that if the little girl is found not culpable for this, that it could give the RIAA a new angle to attack Kazaa et al on.
Similar fact: Some time after his death, Philip Dick's son released Radio Free Albemuth. The site I link to doesn't reference the story that I heard / read (?) about this, that Dick had stipulated that the book was NOT to be published.
At any rate, it is a _fantastic_ book, and really fits as a key part of the Valis 'trilogy'.
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We're using a G5 PowerPC tower to run all functions, including 24/7 streaming, of an internet radio station. Tons of modern software for it (including being able to live-stream after a compression and other audio manipulation chain)... I love Linux and use it on many machines for many purposes, but there's no reason to ditch OS X just because the machine is aging.
Nokia already licenses from NTP.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTP,_Inc.#Patent_licenses
Thanks for this tip. The free program is basic but useful,
There's no way in hell that I would voluntarily give the feds unfettered access to my web surfing logs. I'm a pretty innocent guy, but imagine the expansion of this program if it "succeeds".
Logo is still relevant as an early introduction to programming, and one that kids can get immediate gratification from - my son was quickly able to form quite beautiful geometric images of some complexity with Logo. Also (perhaps unfortunately), Flash/Actionscript can be a very engaging environment for teens that yields pretty quick results.
Beyond that, as other folks have already suggested, a good, moddable game can be a huge motivator for teens to get into programming, or digital art, or 3d modeling, etc.
I don't have sources to cite, but I recall when Radio Free Albemuth came out post-humously, that there was a stir that PKD had specifically stipulated that he did not want his works to be published after his death / without his approval. IIRC, his son approved the publication of aforementioned book, and like I said, there was quite a stir at the time.
Is his estate profiting against his original wishes?
FWIW, RFA was a GREAT book and I am glad it was published. Just wondering about the estate's ethics here.
I second this. I've been a Gametap gold subscriber for over a year, and I love the service. No, they don't get top-tier new titles. However, they have tons of B-grade, still good (Rogue Trooper is a good example) modern titles alongside hundreds of classic console, arcade and puzzle titles, as well as dozens of modern and classic RPGs... I think the $10/mo has been well worth it, given the amount of time I have spent playing games via GT. Strange omission from this roundup.
Your comments about Unisys are both interesting and insightful. I worked for Unisys as one of the IT Helpdesk managers you refer to, and yeah, I know my stuff. And I know how to help people. We were a facility of 300 seat-warmers and 20-30 managers, though, and yeah, we lost our contract (Microsoft support in Austin, TX) due to poor performance.
Did you work for Unisys, or are you a Unisys customer? You just seem to 'get it' - I couldn't figure out why HR would hire really top people (myself included) for management positions and such total sheep for actual operators.
www.visioncue.com
I know the owners of this business personally, and they're good people focused specifically on mobile devices for the blind / vision-impaired.
Among other things, I highly doubt your local police have shot unarmed people from over 50 yards away, or beaten up protesters.
Portland, OR Police are infamous for shooting unarmed people multiple times, at a distance, as well as many other incidents of deadly violence (beatings) against innocents.
http://www.portlandcopwatch.org/shootings.html
...the cops take an extreme dislike to perfectly legal citizens who employ any sort of cop-watch, especially so with cameras. The link below is a video beginning with a citizen filming the abject harassment of two citizens on the street in an upscale part of downtown, ending with the cops confiscating his camera.
http://blip.tv/file/778170
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Green_Futures_of_Tycho
This book had a huge impact on me some 25-odd years ago, and is likely what got me very interested in not only Sci-Fi, but also some aspects of philosophy. I recently passed it on to my now-12-year-old, and despite not being much of a bookworm (too busy with that newfangled intarweb), he was also enraptured by it.
I can't recommend it highly enough.
I actually totally agree. I have used every version of Windows from 2.0 to Vista (I have a fairly beastly tower running Home Premium and use Enterprise under Bootcamp on my Macbook Pro), and I find it to be totally stable, full featured and more problem-free than any of the previous iterations of Windows, including XP.
I am NOT a MS fanboy. The best desktop OS I have used is Leopard. I have a pile of linux boxes of various flavors whirring away in my closet. I worked for ages in X Windows on Solaris and AIX. I really, really liked KDE 3.x, though I haven't used it in a long while. Not a fan of Gnome for the same reasons people whine about Vista (bloat, bugs, UI complaints).
But I still fail to understand the reasoning of all the Vista hate. The one major negative I will give it is that it does have burly system requirements. But modern systems all ship with more than enough horsepower to deal with it fine.
If you want to pick on a current-gen Microsoft OS, I suggest you take a hard look at Windows Mobile. Garbage, even in its most current iteration.
I used Scalix (Community Edition 8) in a corporate environment w/ outlook clients and pure webmail users for close to 2 years and it was simply a dream. We migrated to it when Samsung dropped Samsung Contact, which was adequate at best. Both are descendants of HP Openmail. I would select Scalix again in a heartbeat if the need arose (I am again in the private working-alone style of contracting for now, so groupware... not so much a need for it). I would recommend the combination of Scalix Server + Fedora Core to anyone, and that is from a non-Redhat-fan.
Briefly: I think you are way off. Primarily, I think the Doc is absolutely one of the primary characters of the show - I would posit that he's in a more central role than even the President.
Man I laughed the hell out loud when I saw this thread was all rated -1. Gmaer LordZ givN r3spect hahahahahah
Thanks for telling me and the rest of the world what qualifies as being "adults-only," I'm sure we'll all do better with this matter-of-fact law guiding us towards wisdom and peaceful unity.
So you would rather we just ditch guidelines altogether? As many others in this thread have noted, there is no difference between this and requiring ID to see movies that have been rated NR-17. Opposing guides such as the games ratings actually makes censorship more likely, I believe - I think it's more or less common sense that Manhunt should not be played by children, and if we remove warnings from such products they become more likely to be completely removed from the marketplace as being unfit for a general audience.
...here in Oregon. And I am 35 (though I look young)! Having played the game through (loved it), I have a hard time seeing what the problem is to demand age verification before selling this M rated game to folks - it is truly an adults-only game IMO.
Burned out my Dad's Osborne 1 in maybe 1981 by forgetting to open the heat vent on the top. Scared hell out of me, as I was 10 years old and had just broken me pop's most expensive toy.
I mean, I just keep cycling slow / error-prone ones to slower and more corner-case servers until they quite literally become doorstops. I have never considered even the slightest bit of resale value out of HDs.
2 GC Games (TH Underground, XIII), 2 Gundam models, 2 shirts, yet another in a never ending series of annual all-in-one Leatherman analogue tools. Typical of /.'ers I would think.
I'm surprised: Reading at 0, I see no comments at all regarding the fact that nobody is running any significant mono apps anyhow. Caveat: I am not a Gnome user, maybe they are? I haven't read about it if so.
If mono is never adopted widely, I don't see the impact to Linux. I know just a couple dot Net zealots, and absolutely no mono fanatics, despite hanging around in a largely Linux nerd crowd.
The main advocacy that I hear for dot Net is about the class libraries; how is this different from Python and its everything-is-an-object modules? Obviously it is different because there is a compiler (an expensive one) in play, but otherwise?
So, in my never ending quest to get added to the FBI/NSA/etc watch list, I visited each of the sites referenced in the main post.
I will admit to feeling naive about it, but the site kahanetzadak.com REALLY freaks me out. This is the worst kind of racism - it's as bad as American Aryan sites. Total hate. From my point of view, it's as bad an advertisement for modern Judaism as I have ever seen.
The reason I state my response title as "Confused" is that I really wonder if this isn't some reverse-propaganda put up by (equally racist) arabs / palestinians to make the Jews look bad (awful).
For the record: as a whitebread motherf'ing American cracker, I have no business even having an opinion, but I have long thought that our (our country's) support of what I understand to be a Jewish occupation of Arab lands to be absurd.
Again, I was just shocked at the uncloaked hate and racisim that flows from that site. Quote from the front page (capslock is theirs): "DO YOU WANT YOUR CHILDREN TO PLAY WITH THEIRS?".
Gah, we live in a fucked up reality.
-astro
Now, first off, this probably just is a screw-up, an unintended hit by the shotgun scatterblast of lawsuits, BUT:
The RIAA could still be in a good strategic place if this girl is found not liable for her actions. Think about it: if it's assumed that there IS an illegal action here, but the girl is not liable due to her age (among other factors, maybe, too), then that liability may lie with the provider of the materials that made it transparently easy for a *little girl* to engage in criminal activity.
The provider, in this case, would of course be Kazaa. It seems to me that if the little girl is found not culpable for this, that it could give the RIAA a new angle to attack Kazaa et al on.
Similar fact: Some time after his death, Philip Dick's son released Radio Free Albemuth. The site I link to doesn't reference the story that I heard / read (?) about this, that Dick had stipulated that the book was NOT to be published.
At any rate, it is a _fantastic_ book, and really fits as a key part of the Valis 'trilogy'.
astro