What should have happened was this... 1)Record companies seen this coming.
Unfortunately they didn't see it coming. They thought they owned all music and so any MP3 was illegal. There will be no online stores simply because they will have no legal product.
This is the exact mistake George Lucas made with the original Star Wars. It was never going to be released to the home video market. You could only see it in theaters. They wanted to do the Disney Bambi stunt. Release it every 7 years to a new generation of kids. The pirates showed them that was a mistake. The statute of limitations has run out, but I had my copy of Star Wars 4 years before it was released to the home market.
The record industry is in the same boat for the same reasons.
1 High price on the authorised format 2 Limited Distribution in authorized channels 3 Effecient peer to peer network (Sneakernet and Internet) with low duplication costs.
The music industry didn't learn from the mistakes of Lucas and Disney
Who do you think is going to pay to rewire (wallfish/snake, rip up walls) these bulk places so that each unit can be turned on/off by its self? Thats right. You!
In some places the wire inside a building becomes the property of the landlord. As such the in place wireing to the closet can be re-used for another provider. The original installer often claims otherwise. Check your local area to see if you have a ruling in your market.
The short story is in some places it is legal to bring in a second provider and re-use the building wire the cable company installed giving each resident a choice of providers. In other markets, a second redundant set of wires needs to be installed. This extra cost to the compettition is what the incumbant cable company is counting on.
The FCC should look to end exclusive cable contracts for cities.
This is leftover from the early cable days. In the early days, this was required to get any provider to cover the expense of building a market. The risk was way too high of stringing an infrastructure expecting at least 50% market penetration and having a competitor aim at the same market and also requiring over 50% to break even on buildout, so they underpriced to gain market share, but now need 80% market penetration to break even. This left the first in the market bankrupt and unable to recover costs and pay the loan as they now have 10% of the market.
These exclusive contracts should have an expiration date. Some don't. Those that don't are very hard to get the company to release. Independant homeowners with the option of satelite is the wedge that is breaking up some of these exclusive markets. They have shouted contract violation by permitting residents to use satelite, but the satelite industry has fought back and won. http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/1023/p04s01-ussc.html
The cable industry is fighting back and convincing cities they are losing tax revenue, so please tax the competition to even back up the playing field. And the fight continues. http://www.stopsatellitetax.com/
"You're not allowed to do that because they have to run more wires through the wall" or "You can't do that because you'd have to mount an ugly satellite dish on the exterior of the building" (even if not true).
On the other hand it is proper for the landlord to require professional installation by a licensed, bonded, and insured installer. Many home installers fail to understand the importance of a drip loop and the need for caulk and proper grounding. The damage that results from improper installation can be extensive from water damage to lightning damage. Is your dish properly grounded? The reciever connected to a grounded outlet doesn't count. Is the dish mount or the wire a point of water entry? The landlord has valid reasons to require a professional installation. Go over the proposed installation with your landlord and cover the concerns properly.
The truth of the matter is that vinyl records are crap compared to CD's in every measurable way - distortion, dynamic range, frequency response, signal to noise ratio, you name it.
It's true that a digital recording can never contain the amount of data in a vinyl groove, but who is saying that all the data in a vinyl groove is more of an accurate representation of all the data extant in the original sound wave than a digitally sampled recording?
The kicker for me showing a total lack of understanding of the technology is the popularity of USB turntables. They can't keep them in stock. Quick, someone show me any analog signal in a USB specification.. Analog is better.. Analog is king, Here use this USB turntable to enjoy your analog sound. What are they smoking? Nothing out the USB port of a turntable is analog in any shape or form. Who has a better low noise analog to digital converter, a consumer grade turntable or a CD mastering house?
Analog is king only because the mastering house slaughtered the conversion in the loudness war. If you check the links, the youtube link provides the best summary with an example of the problem which can be heard and seen.
CDs are on the way out because the music on them is crap. Finding a decent recording in the pile of crap is why many simply avoid the contaminated format. USB turntables, even though you don't get analog, you also don't get the over compression, which is why the ability to play better source material is so popular. Analog has nothing to do with this argument. Destruction of the sound on compact discs in mastering is the problem.
Until I realised that they hadn't once mentioned testing on Linux.
Just because one article or press release was light on details, doesn't mean that it didn't happen. Here is what you seek. Intel did mention testing on Linux and some other operating systems.
http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/article.html?art=MTI2OCwxLCxoZW50aHVzaWFzdA== "During a press briefing earlier today, Intel stated that the very first 45nm processor was already up and running and used by the Intel validation team to successfully boot a test system into Windows Vista, Windows XP, Mac OS X and Linux."
a person who can use Word 97 will have little difficulty adapting to Word 2007
Oh great smart one, having been stuck using the wrong printer, is there a way in Word 2007 to select a printer other than the default? We have a Vista Machine and are still resorting to changing the default printer to change printers. Somethings are not easly found in Word 2007. It's my Wife's machine. I had to do a Google search to find you use the big round Icon in the upper left corner to find the print menu. http://oit.montclair.edu/documentationpdf/Word_2007_Intro.pdf
In any other GUI word processor Windows and otherwise, finding the print menu is easy and mostly in the same place.
One of these skills is keyboarding, and honestly, how many typing training packages have you seen on 'nix? Or even Mac?
Have you looked?
http://edu.kde.org/ktouch/ KTouch is a program for learning touch typing. KTouch is a way to learn to type on a keyboard quickly and correctly. Every finger has its place on the keyboard with associated keys to press.
There is more to life than the Windows Walled Garden. Windows is the new AOL. Easy for beginners, is the default, with users under constant attack due to it's large installed base of the clueless.
One of these skills is keyboarding, and honestly, how many typing training packages have you seen on 'nix? Or even Mac?
That is a valid point. The point should not mean every computer capible of running Windows needs a copy. How many copies of KStars have you seen in the science lab? There is no reason to have every computer a clone of each other. A keyboarding class is OK to license some machines to run educational software. The license should not exclude other very fine educational software simply because it is not Open Source. Schools having kids play Where in the world is Carman and The Oregon Trail because it might have some valid history or geography is no replacement for real educational software, much of which does not run on Windows.
Some of the above can run on Windows, but it is not a requirement. The valid complaint is the requirement to license all Windows capible machines, even those without Windows, or even needing Windows. It's like getting a pre-paid Texaco credit card for your kid's car and they require you to buy a Texaco license for any hardware you have that is capible of burning gasoline including your weed eater, hedge trimmer, chain saw, your boat, and all other cars. Maybe you want to run Flex Fuel on your PT Cruiser.
Regarding scanners, TWAIN USB scanners seem to be plug and play. Other scanners that require special drivers (for money copy protection) who have drivers larger than a Meg are the ones that don't seem to work. Many of the HP scanners are in this camp. Use a Cannon or other TWAIN scanner instead. The only older scanners that I noticed lacking support are the parallel port scanners. Scanners are cheap and easy to pick-up. With multifunction printers out with low resolution (compared to dedicated flatbeds) scanners, many a bargan can be found at Goodwill. I instead of buying 1 $100 scanner, I simply picked up a half dozen $10 scanners and tested them. I got about an 60% yield. The duds were 2 HP Windows only scanners. (They worked on Windows after huge driver downloads) The Cannon and Mustek scanners were simply plug and scan. No new hardware detection came up. I simply opened XSane and started scanning. Hurray for TWAIN compatibility.
A few lawsuits are good for the P-P community. It shows problems with user privacy so vast improvements can be made.
I hope the RIAA will like the new versions. The biggest one they have problems with is the oldest. It's called the sneakernet. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneakernet
If you had read the article, and understood that their proposals included things like taxing coal-fired plants
AND
why the hell were you scare-mongering about shutting off peoples' heat and electricity
Do you know where your electricity comes from? Shutting down the use of high carbon fuel such as coal, fuel oil, and diesel will put the crunch on the limited natural gas supply. How many ways do you want to spell SHORTAGE?
If you want a make-up exam, see me after class on Monday.
I would love one. Please do your homework and adjust the curriculum. I lived through the gas shortage of the 1970's. The prices sky rocketed so they enacted price controls. The price controls stopped delivery. Gas stations limited purchases to $2.00. Lines went for blocks. Stations ran out of fuel as the price fixed fuel was a loss to deliver. Stations low on fuel went to a flag system. Green = we have gas. Yellow = emergency services only.. Police, Fire, & ambulance. Red was are out of gas. Moving everyone onto natural gas, and then trying to control the price will put the lights out. We have been there and done that.
In the 1970's diesel fuel was price regulated. Home heating oil was not. Farms had the priority on diesel deliveries. The smart smart farmers didn't take home heating oil that year, they had diesel oil delivered instead. It was much cheaper even though it was a higher quality fuel. Truckers were running out of fuel and farmers were using it for home heating oil. The price fixing to prevent price gouging the trucking industry failed on two accounts. Supply dried and other demand on the cheaper fuel diverted supply. I know this personally as my dad did it along with his neighbors.
Cutting off the high carbon fuel will cause an overload on low carbon fuel. Demand spike and fixed supply will equal shortages, rationing, and high prices. My understanding of the material presented takes in the material not presented. Supply and demand of the remaining limited sources of fuel and economics 101. See you Monday for the make-up class. I hope you learn something about limited resources and our energy demand.
Before the make-up exam, find out how much coal is burned each year in the US to generate electric power and how many therms of natural gas it will take to replace it. Then find the production capacity of the US and Mexico natural gas. When you discourage the use of a fuel, please provide some alternatives with enough capacity to take up the load. Natural gas will do the same thing the price of corn is doing right now only worse because the size of the load is much larger. If you think the price of corn is high, move half the cars to E85.. We can't grow enough corn. Mandate all the cars use E85 and there will be rationing and shortages was well as super high prices. Now throw into the mix that the price of electricity is regulated. The price of fuel is not. When the price of fuel is too high, there is no profit in producing electric power. During the fuel price spike, plants will take the time to shut down high to cost plants for maintenance. Remember California and the electric price fixing? Does the name Enron mean anything?
Any questions? See me after the make up exam on Monday. Been there done that. Those who don't learn from history is condemned to repeat it. How do you propose preventing rolling blackouts California style?
The only problem I've had with bittorent was Linksys's fault not Comcasts (more than 2 torrents at a time and down goes the router) BTW I live in WA.
Have you tried alternative firmware on the router? Check and see if DD-WRT will run on it. Check the version and compatibility list before loading. Done wrong will brick the router. I haven't had router problems, just Comcast.
I've been watching the upload die after the download finished. It is now sitting at 0.0 KB/s.
The stats are 1452.5 MB at 0.0 KB/s for the upload portion of my Gutsy DVD download of 4336.0 MB at 21 hours, 57 minutes. It looks like they won't let you return an even portion back to the swarm.
I guess seeding is out of the question still. Sharing what you are downloading is now only partially functional.
My Comcast connection apparently can upload up to 2 megabits/sec, so 20k/sec is pretty bad - if they really unleashed the filtering you should be getting up to 240k/sec if its the same kind of connection I've got.
Overnight I uploaded 1.2 gig of stuff. Over the rest of the morning it has only reached 1.42 Gig transferred. Apparently after the transfer finished, it is stopping the connections of new peers. My rate now has dropped to about 4 KB/s. At this rate, it'll take a long time to upload the entire 4.7G iso. To get the initial 1.2 Gig uploaded, I think while the D/L was in progress, it must have been running at near 200K for a while. Unfortunately, I slept through it. I'll leave it run and see if the rate will dwindle to 0.0 and remain there after I lose my connected peers.
On Wednesday, Gov. Eliot Spitzer's administration is to issue regulations requiring power plants to pay for their greenhouse gas emissions, part of a broader plan among 10 Northeastern states, known as the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, to move beyond federal regulators in Washington and regulate such emissions on their own.
See any sign of capturing greenhouse gas? Requiring a change in fuel to one that doesn't produce CO2 and H2O? This is a tax and nothing more.
Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo, in a statement on Tuesday, said, "New York State is moving forward on all cylinders to take aggressive action to curb global warming from both power plants and cars."
This is an SUV tax. There is not a catalytic converter made to break down CO2 into something else safer. The push would be for underpowered SUVs, Hybrids, and limited sales of large vehicles. If you tow a boat, camp trailer, horse trailer, utility trailer, etc, it's simply going to get harder to get vehicles. Discouraging the use of big trucks as a commuter vehicle is a good thing and should have happened a long time ago.
Our insurance program is to blame for much of the problem. Instead of buying an extra vehicle for towing the boat, you have to make the decision instead of what vehicle you want. Instead of insuring each driver, they insure each vehicle. This runs up the cost of having a part time use vehicle at home for the summer boating trips and the winter snowmobiling trips. Now the tow vehicle doubles as the daily commute car. Look around. How many SUV's on the road have a hitch and are not towing anything? This should be a clue that a decision was made for one universal vehicle instead of a commuter vehicle and a utility vehicle. My wife and I are members of this class. Instead of 2 small cars and a utility vehicle, I drive the Prius for my commute and she uses the van for local errands. Registering and insuring a 3rd vehicle is not cost effective.
These states instead of suing, should look internally and change the registration and insurance requirements for utility vehicles as a non-commuter vehicle. Start by insuring the drivers of the vehicles instead of insuring the vehicles. 2 drivers and 4 vehicles should be 2 policies instead of 4. Can we counter-sue the states for not doing their part in reducing the greenhouse gas by not encouraging the USE of fuel efficient commuter vehicles? Taxing an extra fuel effecient car is counter productive. My wife would love to drive a Prius most of the time, but buying and insuring another one is not an option. Instead we drive the van and bite the bullet on $50 fill-ups. Burning less hydrocarbon fuel will reduce greenhouse gas creation. DUH!
Yes, we'll all pretend that's what you were really downloading. Wink, wink, nudge, nudge, say no more.
Cut and paste.../tmp/gutsy-dvd-i386.iso.torrent/home/-------/Ubuntu/gutsy-dvd-i386.iso 4336.0 of 4336.0 MB at 63.49 KB/s 16 hours, 59 minutes, and 51 seconds
Am I the first to notice that Comcast may have removed the filter? Last night I started the Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon DVD download. I thought it would be done this morning, but I noticed the network switch still blinking like crazy. I logged in and checked the status. The download is done. I checked the upload status...
1286 K uploaded at a rate of 20KB/s. This is the first time in weeks I have seen upload speeds better than 0.0 KB/s and a transfered size larger than 0.1 KB. Since I am finally able to help spread Ubuntu, I'll let it run all day. Maybe I'll be able to upload more than I download for a change. Seeing any upload traffic after a completed download is highly unusual on Comcast lately.
We're being taxed and surcharged into oblivion, and we're passing the savings on to you!
Chemestry 101.. When Carbon is burned completely you get Carbon Dioxide. When it is not burned completely, you get Carbon Monoxide. When you burn Hydrogen completely you get water. The not in my backyard states have kept nukes out of their states.
WTF?? What would they like? Shut off the power? Ban the use of AC and heat in the home? In the guise of saving the planet, this is nothing more that a money grab. Follow the money. The money can't stop the formation of CO2 from burning hydrocarbons. Unburned carbon is unburned fuel.. Let me repeat that... Unburned carbon is unburned fuel.
Oh, lets capture the emissions... Let's start with your car.. The kettle calling names is what this is. The states suing still have roads and permit the use of heating oil and gas heat. What a bunch of pots...
You need to check your fine print. Internet, phone, and cable are $33 each if you buy the Triple Play package...for the first 12 months.
Hmm, so what's there to prevent churn? I mean like Vonage and Dish Network provide more for less. Keep just the Internet after the first year and drop everything else. I thought the package was what they used to combat Dish Network and 3rd party VOIP. Without the package deal, churn is likely.
I pay $67/mo (including modem rental) for internet-only "high-speed" cable in Whatcom County, Washington. I get 10Mb/sec down and 900Mb/sec up.
I'd gladly pay $2 less for FiOS.:)
That's roughly what I pay for Comcast Internet at 3 meg down and 250K up. As a bonus, they protect you from Media Sentry and RIAA lawsuits by preventing them from downloading anything from you as evidence. Unfortunately, nobody else can download from you either. Your torrent uploads are mostly limited to 0.0K for max transfer sizes of about 0.1 Meg. I guess it's hard to be sued if you don't upload and provide evidence of sharing. I got Gutsy on a torrent and my DL was over 600 meg of data. My upload to support others was 0.1 meg.
I'll be glad when serious competition shows up here.
The gripe I have with Comcast is the price advertised is the price if you subscribe to the triple play package. Internet is 33 bucks a month provided they are also your subscription TV and VOIP provider aslo at 33 bucks a month each.
Anybody have a clue how much it is for Just the Broadband minus the telephone and Subscription TV?
With Comcast, Broadband Internet service is over $60 a month. 33 bucks sounds like a good deal until you find it subsidised by the telephone bill and basic cable.
I don't do subscription TV. A single item without the other 2 is over 50% of the price for all three combined. Maybe they figured I wouldn't be surfing while watching TV or something saving them broadband. Having the computer surf passing out MP3's while you watch TV is probably why they blocked torrents. The computer can work 24/7 keeping the pipe full while you can't.
I think the real reason to have the triple play tied to the cost of Internet service is to have leverage against Dish Network. The phone company resented the bundling of the landline phone customers and fought back with the same triple play plan and better Internet. The bundled service price wars are in full swing which sucks if you don't want a package. This bundeling hurts companies like Vonage and Packet8 who don't have packages. One of the VOIP providers recently folded. http://www.sunrocket.com/
I hope Qwest starts rolling out fiber soon. The price for just Internet on cable is kinda expensive. Over the air HDTV is less compressed than on cable.
I run Vista and quite frankly these alleged horror stories amuse me. It's not "slow", it doesn't pop up permission dialogs every five seconds,
Let me guess... You had someone take care of the initial boot, make the recovery CD's, bought the Norton security, and turned off the confirmations.
On a brand new HP laptop media edition, the initial boot up took over 20 minutes. On the next boot between the Norton, pc health, and advertising (not online yet), there must have been at least 20 confirmation screens that needed closing or acknowleging. Everything to getting connecting online required confirmations. Installing flash required it. One of the first tasks was making the recovery DVD's. It took over an hour to produce the set. I've seen slow, and I've seen in your face pop-ups, and now I have seen them all at once in Vista.
Pray-tell.. What machine did you buy to avoid the headaches? What I got was slow, with a huge bunch of one on top of the other pop-ups and dialog boxes.. Please enlightn us. I have 30 days to return the laptop.
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What should have happened was this ...
1)Record companies seen this coming.
Unfortunately they didn't see it coming. They thought they owned all music and so any MP3 was illegal. There will be no online stores simply because they will have no legal product.
This is the exact mistake George Lucas made with the original Star Wars. It was never going to be released to the home video market. You could only see it in theaters. They wanted to do the Disney Bambi stunt. Release it every 7 years to a new generation of kids. The pirates showed them that was a mistake. The statute of limitations has run out, but I had my copy of Star Wars 4 years before it was released to the home market.
The record industry is in the same boat for the same reasons.
1 High price on the authorised format
2 Limited Distribution in authorized channels
3 Effecient peer to peer network (Sneakernet and Internet) with low duplication costs.
The music industry didn't learn from the mistakes of Lucas and Disney
Who do you think is going to pay to rewire (wallfish/snake, rip up walls) these bulk places so that each unit can be turned on/off by its self?
Thats right. You!
In some places the wire inside a building becomes the property of the landlord. As such the in place wireing to the closet can be re-used for another provider. The original installer often claims otherwise. Check your local area to see if you have a ruling in your market.
"There are still ongoing battles about this and battles about how precisely do you wire multifamily buildings. There are arguments about interconnection and who owns the wires inside the building. "
From; http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E04E7DA1731F932A15750C0A96F958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=print
The short story is in some places it is legal to bring in a second provider and re-use the building wire the cable company installed giving each resident a choice of providers. In other markets, a second redundant set of wires needs to be installed. This extra cost to the compettition is what the incumbant cable company is counting on.
The FCC should look to end exclusive cable contracts for cities.
This is leftover from the early cable days. In the early days, this was required to get any provider to cover the expense of building a market. The risk was way too high of stringing an infrastructure expecting at least 50% market penetration and having a competitor aim at the same market and also requiring over 50% to break even on buildout, so they underpriced to gain market share, but now need 80% market penetration to break even. This left the first in the market bankrupt and unable to recover costs and pay the loan as they now have 10% of the market.
These exclusive contracts should have an expiration date. Some don't. Those that don't are very hard to get the company to release. Independant homeowners with the option of satelite is the wedge that is breaking up some of these exclusive markets. They have shouted contract violation by permitting residents to use satelite, but the satelite industry has fought back and won.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/1023/p04s01-ussc.html
The cable industry is fighting back and convincing cities they are losing tax revenue, so please tax the competition to even back up the playing field. And the fight continues.
http://www.stopsatellitetax.com/
"You're not allowed to do that because they have to run more wires through the wall" or "You can't do that because you'd have to mount an ugly satellite dish on the exterior of the building" (even if not true).
On the other hand it is proper for the landlord to require professional installation by a licensed, bonded, and insured installer. Many home installers fail to understand the importance of a drip loop and the need for caulk and proper grounding. The damage that results from improper installation can be extensive from water damage to lightning damage. Is your dish properly grounded? The reciever connected to a grounded outlet doesn't count. Is the dish mount or the wire a point of water entry? The landlord has valid reasons to require a professional installation. Go over the proposed installation with your landlord and cover the concerns properly.
The truth of the matter is that vinyl records are crap compared to CD's in every measurable way - distortion, dynamic range, frequency response, signal to noise ratio, you name it.
The only problem is the advantages have been nulled by the mastering. In the loudness war, distortion, dynamic range, frequency response, signal to noise ratio and you name it has been reduced below the 70db range of a record. There is no advantage to a CD recording with it's 96 DB dynamic range when the mastering has killed the dynamic range.
http://createdigitalmusic.com/2007/05/16/loudness-war-music-over-compression-demonstrated-on-youtube/
http://my.opera.com/swerfot/blog/2007/08/26/loudness-war
It is a shame to go to an obsolete limited dynamic range format to get better dynamic range.
It's true that a digital recording can never contain the amount of data in a vinyl groove, but who is saying that all the data in a vinyl groove is more of an accurate representation of all the data extant in the original sound wave than a digitally sampled recording?
The kicker for me showing a total lack of understanding of the technology is the popularity of USB turntables. They can't keep them in stock. Quick, someone show me any analog signal in a USB specification.. Analog is better.. Analog is king, Here use this USB turntable to enjoy your analog sound. What are they smoking? Nothing out the USB port of a turntable is analog in any shape or form. Who has a better low noise analog to digital converter, a consumer grade turntable or a CD mastering house?
Analog is king only because the mastering house slaughtered the conversion in the loudness war. If you check the links, the youtube link provides the best summary with an example of the problem which can be heard and seen.
http://createdigitalmusic.com/2007/05/16/loudness-war-music-over-compression-demonstrated-on-youtube/
http://my.opera.com/swerfot/blog/2007/08/26/loudness-war
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war
http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=55892
CDs are on the way out because the music on them is crap. Finding a decent recording in the pile of crap is why many simply avoid the contaminated format. USB turntables, even though you don't get analog, you also don't get the over compression, which is why the ability to play better source material is so popular. Analog has nothing to do with this argument. Destruction of the sound on compact discs in mastering is the problem.
Until I realised that they hadn't once mentioned testing on Linux.
Just because one article or press release was light on details, doesn't mean that it didn't happen. Here is what you seek. Intel did mention testing on Linux and some other operating systems.
http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/article.html?art=MTI2OCwxLCxoZW50aHVzaWFzdA==
"During a press briefing earlier today, Intel stated that the very first 45nm processor was already up and running and used by the Intel validation team to successfully boot a test system into Windows Vista, Windows XP, Mac OS X and Linux."
You are welcome.
a person who can use Word 97 will have little difficulty adapting to Word 2007
Oh great smart one, having been stuck using the wrong printer, is there a way in Word 2007 to select a printer other than the default? We have a Vista Machine and are still resorting to changing the default printer to change printers. Somethings are not easly found in Word 2007. It's my Wife's machine. I had to do a Google search to find you use the big round Icon in the upper left corner to find the print menu.
http://oit.montclair.edu/documentationpdf/Word_2007_Intro.pdf
In any other GUI word processor Windows and otherwise, finding the print menu is easy and mostly in the same place.
One of these skills is keyboarding, and honestly, how many typing training packages have you seen on 'nix? Or even Mac?
Have you looked?
http://edu.kde.org/ktouch/
KTouch is a program for learning touch typing. KTouch is a way to learn to type on a keyboard quickly and correctly. Every finger has its place on the keyboard with associated keys to press.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Mac+typing+tutor
Pick one. There is lots to pick from.
There is more to life than the Windows Walled Garden. Windows is the new AOL. Easy for beginners, is the default, with users under constant attack due to it's large installed base of the clueless.
One of these skills is keyboarding, and honestly, how many typing training packages have you seen on 'nix? Or even Mac?
That is a valid point. The point should not mean every computer capible of running Windows needs a copy. How many copies of KStars have you seen in the science lab? There is no reason to have every computer a clone of each other. A keyboarding class is OK to license some machines to run educational software. The license should not exclude other very fine educational software simply because it is not Open Source. Schools having kids play Where in the world is Carman and The Oregon Trail because it might have some valid history or geography is no replacement for real educational software, much of which does not run on Windows.
There is a place for Kickstart software. There is also a place for Linux chemestry, astronomy and physics software.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/genchemlab/
http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~noel/linux4chemistry/
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2004APS..MARW38008R
http://www.mathlab.cornell.edu/support/m434_support/gap_info/
http://www.mathworks.com/products/matlab/whatsnew.html
http://edu.kde.org/kstars/
http://edu.kde.org/
Some of the above can run on Windows, but it is not a requirement. The valid complaint is the requirement to license all Windows capible machines, even those without Windows, or even needing Windows. It's like getting a pre-paid Texaco credit card for your kid's car and they require you to buy a Texaco license for any hardware you have that is capible of burning gasoline including your weed eater, hedge trimmer, chain saw, your boat, and all other cars. Maybe you want to run Flex Fuel on your PT Cruiser.
Well, printers, scanners and USB storage..
Regarding scanners, TWAIN USB scanners seem to be plug and play. Other scanners that require special drivers (for money copy protection) who have drivers larger than a Meg are the ones that don't seem to work. Many of the HP scanners are in this camp. Use a Cannon or other TWAIN scanner instead. The only older scanners that I noticed lacking support are the parallel port scanners. Scanners are cheap and easy to pick-up. With multifunction printers out with low resolution (compared to dedicated flatbeds) scanners, many a bargan can be found at Goodwill. I instead of buying 1 $100 scanner, I simply picked up a half dozen $10 scanners and tested them. I got about an 60% yield. The duds were 2 HP Windows only scanners. (They worked on Windows after huge driver downloads) The Cannon and Mustek scanners were simply plug and scan. No new hardware detection came up. I simply opened XSane and started scanning. Hurray for TWAIN compatibility.
does anybody actually use Kazaa anymore?
I thought they were sued out of existance like Napster (The new Napster is Napster in name only and is not the old Napster)
A Google search shows they are not gone yet. They are still there. Them and Limewire seem to be the number 1 & 2 sources of RIAA targeting.
http://www.kazaa.com/us/index.htm
A few lawsuits are good for the P-P community. It shows problems with user privacy so vast improvements can be made.
I hope the RIAA will like the new versions. The biggest one they have problems with is the oldest. It's called the sneakernet.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneakernet
Most attacks due to it's excellent privacy is carried out as a public relations campaign and sometimes through malware.
http://www.usbhacks.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don't_Copy_That_Floppy
http://www.cosky.com/?q=node/27
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copy_protection
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pod_slurping
Those who do not learn from history are condemned to repeat it.
You are scaremongering. You are pathetic, and I no longer care what you have to say.
Suit yourself.. If you would like to peek at recent history where we decided something else was bad and taxed it to discourage it's use, look no further than the tax on a 35 cent pack of cigarettes.
http://www.taxadmin.org/FTA/rate/cigarett.html
http://tobaccofreekids.org/reports/prices/
Higher carbon tax on coal will discourage use and put pressure on other energy resources. Seen the price of corn and corn products lately?
Again, those who do not learn from history are condemned to repeat it.
and I no longer care what you have to say.
Ignoring it won't make it go away.
If you had read the article, and understood that their proposals included things like taxing coal-fired plants
AND
why the hell were you scare-mongering about shutting off peoples' heat and electricity
Do you know where your electricity comes from? Shutting down the use of high carbon fuel such as coal, fuel oil, and diesel will put the crunch on the limited natural gas supply. How many ways do you want to spell SHORTAGE?
If you want a make-up exam, see me after class on Monday.
I would love one. Please do your homework and adjust the curriculum. I lived through the gas shortage of the 1970's. The prices sky rocketed so they enacted price controls. The price controls stopped delivery. Gas stations limited purchases to $2.00. Lines went for blocks. Stations ran out of fuel as the price fixed fuel was a loss to deliver. Stations low on fuel went to a flag system. Green = we have gas. Yellow = emergency services only.. Police, Fire, & ambulance. Red was are out of gas. Moving everyone onto natural gas, and then trying to control the price will put the lights out. We have been there and done that.
In the 1970's diesel fuel was price regulated. Home heating oil was not. Farms had the priority on diesel deliveries. The smart smart farmers didn't take home heating oil that year, they had diesel oil delivered instead. It was much cheaper even though it was a higher quality fuel. Truckers were running out of fuel and farmers were using it for home heating oil. The price fixing to prevent price gouging the trucking industry failed on two accounts. Supply dried and other demand on the cheaper fuel diverted supply. I know this personally as my dad did it along with his neighbors.
Cutting off the high carbon fuel will cause an overload on low carbon fuel. Demand spike and fixed supply will equal shortages, rationing, and high prices. My understanding of the material presented takes in the material not presented. Supply and demand of the remaining limited sources of fuel and economics 101. See you Monday for the make-up class. I hope you learn something about limited resources and our energy demand.
Before the make-up exam, find out how much coal is burned each year in the US to generate electric power and how many therms of natural gas it will take to replace it. Then find the production capacity of the US and Mexico natural gas. When you discourage the use of a fuel, please provide some alternatives with enough capacity to take up the load. Natural gas will do the same thing the price of corn is doing right now only worse because the size of the load is much larger. If you think the price of corn is high, move half the cars to E85.. We can't grow enough corn. Mandate all the cars use E85 and there will be rationing and shortages was well as super high prices. Now throw into the mix that the price of electricity is regulated. The price of fuel is not. When the price of fuel is too high, there is no profit in producing electric power. During the fuel price spike, plants will take the time to shut down high to cost plants for maintenance. Remember California and the electric price fixing? Does the name Enron mean anything?
Any questions? See me after the make up exam on Monday. Been there done that. Those who don't learn from history is condemned to repeat it. How do you propose preventing rolling blackouts California style?
The only problem I've had with bittorent was Linksys's fault not Comcasts (more than 2 torrents at a time and down goes the router) BTW I live in WA.
Have you tried alternative firmware on the router? Check and see if DD-WRT will run on it. Check the version and compatibility list before loading. Done wrong will brick the router. I haven't had router problems, just Comcast.
I've been watching the upload die after the download finished. It is now sitting at 0.0 KB/s.
The stats are 1452.5 MB at 0.0 KB/s for the upload portion of my Gutsy DVD download of 4336.0 MB at 21 hours, 57 minutes. It looks like they won't let you return an even portion back to the swarm.
I guess seeding is out of the question still. Sharing what you are downloading is now only partially functional.
My Comcast connection apparently can upload up to 2 megabits/sec, so 20k/sec is pretty bad - if they really unleashed the filtering you should be getting up to 240k/sec if its the same kind of connection I've got.
Overnight I uploaded 1.2 gig of stuff. Over the rest of the morning it has only reached 1.42 Gig transferred. Apparently after the transfer finished, it is stopping the connections of new peers. My rate now has dropped to about 4 KB/s. At this rate, it'll take a long time to upload the entire 4.7G iso. To get the initial 1.2 Gig uploaded, I think while the D/L was in progress, it must have been running at near 200K for a while. Unfortunately, I slept through it. I'll leave it run and see if the rate will dwindle to 0.0 and remain there after I lose my connected peers.
Thanks for the accusation.
Now from the article that I didn't read
On Wednesday, Gov. Eliot Spitzer's administration is to issue regulations requiring power plants to pay for their greenhouse gas emissions, part of a broader plan among 10 Northeastern states, known as the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, to move beyond federal regulators in Washington and regulate such emissions on their own.
See any sign of capturing greenhouse gas? Requiring a change in fuel to one that doesn't produce CO2 and H2O? This is a tax and nothing more.
Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo, in a statement on Tuesday, said, "New York State is moving forward on all cylinders to take aggressive action to curb global warming from both power plants and cars."
This is an SUV tax. There is not a catalytic converter made to break down CO2 into something else safer. The push would be for underpowered SUVs, Hybrids, and limited sales of large vehicles. If you tow a boat, camp trailer, horse trailer, utility trailer, etc, it's simply going to get harder to get vehicles. Discouraging the use of big trucks as a commuter vehicle is a good thing and should have happened a long time ago.
Our insurance program is to blame for much of the problem. Instead of buying an extra vehicle for towing the boat, you have to make the decision instead of what vehicle you want. Instead of insuring each driver, they insure each vehicle. This runs up the cost of having a part time use vehicle at home for the summer boating trips and the winter snowmobiling trips. Now the tow vehicle doubles as the daily commute car. Look around. How many SUV's on the road have a hitch and are not towing anything? This should be a clue that a decision was made for one universal vehicle instead of a commuter vehicle and a utility vehicle. My wife and I are members of this class. Instead of 2 small cars and a utility vehicle, I drive the Prius for my commute and she uses the van for local errands. Registering and insuring a 3rd vehicle is not cost effective.
These states instead of suing, should look internally and change the registration and insurance requirements for utility vehicles as a non-commuter vehicle. Start by insuring the drivers of the vehicles instead of insuring the vehicles. 2 drivers and 4 vehicles should be 2 policies instead of 4. Can we counter-sue the states for not doing their part in reducing the greenhouse gas by not encouraging the USE of fuel efficient commuter vehicles? Taxing an extra fuel effecient car is counter productive. My wife would love to drive a Prius most of the time, but buying and insuring another one is not an option. Instead we drive the van and bite the bullet on $50 fill-ups. Burning less hydrocarbon fuel will reduce greenhouse gas creation. DUH!
Yes, we'll all pretend that's what you were really downloading. Wink, wink, nudge, nudge, say no more.
/tmp/gutsy-dvd-i386.iso.torrent /home/-------/Ubuntu/gutsy-dvd-i386.iso
Cut and paste...
4336.0 of 4336.0 MB at 63.49 KB/s
16 hours, 59 minutes, and 51 seconds
Am I the first to notice that Comcast may have removed the filter? Last night I started the Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon DVD download. I thought it would be done this morning, but I noticed the network switch still blinking like crazy. I logged in and checked the status. The download is done. I checked the upload status...
1286 K uploaded at a rate of 20KB/s. This is the first time in weeks I have seen upload speeds better than 0.0 KB/s and a transfered size larger than 0.1 KB. Since I am finally able to help spread Ubuntu, I'll let it run all day. Maybe I'll be able to upload more than I download for a change. Seeing any upload traffic after a completed download is highly unusual on Comcast lately.
We're being taxed and surcharged into oblivion, and we're passing the savings on to you!
Chemestry 101.. When Carbon is burned completely you get Carbon Dioxide. When it is not burned completely, you get Carbon Monoxide. When you burn Hydrogen completely you get water. The not in my backyard states have kept nukes out of their states.
WTF?? What would they like? Shut off the power? Ban the use of AC and heat in the home? In the guise of saving the planet, this is nothing more that a money grab. Follow the money. The money can't stop the formation of CO2 from burning hydrocarbons. Unburned carbon is unburned fuel.. Let me repeat that... Unburned carbon is unburned fuel.
Oh, lets capture the emissions... Let's start with your car.. The kettle calling names is what this is. The states suing still have roads and permit the use of heating oil and gas heat. What a bunch of pots...
You need to check your fine print. Internet, phone, and cable are $33 each if you buy the Triple Play package...for the first 12 months.
Hmm, so what's there to prevent churn? I mean like Vonage and Dish Network provide more for less. Keep just the Internet after the first year and drop everything else. I thought the package was what they used to combat Dish Network and 3rd party VOIP. Without the package deal, churn is likely.
I pay $67/mo (including modem rental) for internet-only "high-speed" cable in Whatcom County, Washington. I get 10Mb/sec down and 900Mb/sec up.
:)
I'd gladly pay $2 less for FiOS.
That's roughly what I pay for Comcast Internet at 3 meg down and 250K up. As a bonus, they protect you from Media Sentry and RIAA lawsuits by preventing them from downloading anything from you as evidence. Unfortunately, nobody else can download from you either. Your torrent uploads are mostly limited to 0.0K for max transfer sizes of about 0.1 Meg. I guess it's hard to be sued if you don't upload and provide evidence of sharing. I got Gutsy on a torrent and my DL was over 600 meg of data. My upload to support others was 0.1 meg.
I'll be glad when serious competition shows up here.
What's the real price?
The gripe I have with Comcast is the price advertised is the price if you subscribe to the triple play package. Internet is 33 bucks a month provided they are also your subscription TV and VOIP provider aslo at 33 bucks a month each.
Anybody have a clue how much it is for Just the Broadband minus the telephone and Subscription TV?
With Comcast, Broadband Internet service is over $60 a month. 33 bucks sounds like a good deal until you find it subsidised by the telephone bill and basic cable.
I don't do subscription TV. A single item without the other 2 is over 50% of the price for all three combined. Maybe they figured I wouldn't be surfing while watching TV or something saving them broadband. Having the computer surf passing out MP3's while you watch TV is probably why they blocked torrents. The computer can work 24/7 keeping the pipe full while you can't.
I think the real reason to have the triple play tied to the cost of Internet service is to have leverage against Dish Network. The phone company resented the bundling of the landline phone customers and fought back with the same triple play plan and better Internet. The bundled service price wars are in full swing which sucks if you don't want a package. This bundeling hurts companies like Vonage and Packet8 who don't have packages. One of the VOIP providers recently folded. http://www.sunrocket.com/
I hope Qwest starts rolling out fiber soon. The price for just Internet on cable is kinda expensive. Over the air HDTV is less compressed than on cable.
I run Vista and quite frankly these alleged horror stories amuse me. It's not "slow", it doesn't pop up permission dialogs every five seconds,
Let me guess... You had someone take care of the initial boot, make the recovery CD's, bought the Norton security, and turned off the confirmations.
On a brand new HP laptop media edition, the initial boot up took over 20 minutes. On the next boot between the Norton, pc health, and advertising (not online yet), there must have been at least 20 confirmation screens that needed closing or acknowleging. Everything to getting connecting online required confirmations. Installing flash required it. One of the first tasks was making the recovery DVD's. It took over an hour to produce the set. I've seen slow, and I've seen in your face pop-ups, and now I have seen them all at once in Vista.
Pray-tell.. What machine did you buy to avoid the headaches? What I got was slow, with a huge bunch of one on top of the other pop-ups and dialog boxes.. Please enlightn us. I have 30 days to return the laptop.