You really shouldn't take anything that uses total numbers in the way this article does to seriously. If you really want to get to the meat of the matter, the correct way to view the data is "per 100,000" and/or "per x million traveled miles". Makes it much easier to control for other factors (e.g. urban vs rural, harsh anti-texting law areas vs. unrestricted, high fatality areas vs low, high DWI area vs low, etc.). Same is true with most of MADs DWI figures, gun control, pot based DUI, etc. Totals are not only misleading, but often inflammatory (37k sound like a big number...but what is it really in the context of 300 million people driving trillions of miles a year?).
Going about it the wrong way...what they should be doing is taking a page out of the Red Hat playbook and just protect the Google TM within Android. Then they could just set forth specific rules which must be strictly followed in order to say this is an Android device and to use any of Google's TM within.
For example:
Create a directory structure for 3rd party (non-ASOP) drivers, libs, and config scripts which must be used and prevent manufacturers/providers from altering or removing other files/folders.
Force manufacturers/providers to allow users to use default Android applications in place of 3rd party apps through some standard means.
Weigh in with yes/no on things like encrypted boot loaders, rooting, preventing side loading of apps, etc.
[Add whatever rules which are causing fragmentation problems or allowing such monstrosities as Viewsonic's Tap'nTap here!]
What this should do, is allow manufacturers/providers who do not care about being labled as Android to do as they please (the B&N NOOK, for example, may not care at all if they get to put a little robot sticker on the box or not since it is such a specific device). Manufacturers/Providers who DO care, would be forced to follow the rules if they want to take advantage of Google's advertising, marketing, and reputation.
As a side benefit of going this route, they could also do things like strike back at MS forcing Bing on everyone within WM7 by specifically banning it from Android(TM).
Not only is this not the "only" way, it not even a very good way in this situation. Metrics are great, don't get me wrong, but they are not very well suited to this task. Problem is, in a small IT shop, while it does show the break/fix and crisis support, it isn't very suited to project and routine maintenance work. There is no easy way to gather metrics in a small company for things like "99.8 uptime of email", "backups and disaster recovery", "keeping automated anti-virus updates working/current", "rebooting that flaky server in the corner every Monday", etc.
If you want to justify your existence, I'd suggest a project program (i.e. MS Project) with a nice Gantt Chart. Start by listing everything that you do routinely every week (e.g. check automated backups - 1 hour, check server logs for errors - 1 hour, weekly IT reporting - 2 hours, etc.) and then list the project you have planned (e.g. install and configure ticketing system - 20 hours, deploy client patches - 4 hours, train staff to use SUM in Excel instead of MS Calc while creating spreadsheets - 160 hours, etc.). Add on to that how much time you spend on client support and begin assigning yourself as a resource percentage to each task (a ticketing system can give you a good idea of how much you and where you spend your time on support).
Personally, I would avoid, at all costs, trying to assign a dollar amount to what I do. Instead, list out how your time is spent and what all you do, then let them decide if they can live without those things. If you really are a asset to the company, it should be obvious.
I really could care less what DRM, mandated online activation, limited installs, etc. the game companies what to use. What really irks me is, unless you follow the industry closely, you don't know what you are getting until after purchase.
Food is required to list the ingredients and nutrition information. Drugs are required to list side effects.
Why not come up with a list of "protection" methods and force the game companies to list them on the box.
Example:
Contains SecuROM DRM software
Limit to 5 installations
Requires online connectivity to operate
Requires DVD to play
Authentication servers only guaranteed online till 01/01/12 [Note: companies using this method should also be required to post a bond/pick up insurance in order to pay for a 3rd party to maintain the authentication server in the event of a company collapse)
What is lacking more than anything is a real goal. People are always saying that everyone has the right to an education. Great. WTF does that mean exactly?
First discussion: Either go back to local control over education or centralize.
Personally, I'm all for local. This means, you live in a rural farm community that whats your to take 20hours of AG each week, so be it. Live in El Paso? Your probably gonna have Spanish.
For the Federally minded: Exactly what do you want from an "education"? Specifically, what are the goals? Once that has been discussed and decided, THEN start talking about how to best reach that goal. How the hell can we say 12(ish) years of school is needed when we really (as a collective) do not know what we are trying to accomplish.
*R*eading/*R*iting/*R*ithmatic? Productive Adult Citizen? Babysitting until 18? Ability to wipe ones own ass?
We have to set out to accomplish something and define the reasons for accomplishing it. I would surmise that it is more important for a student to learn to read basic legalese (e.g. Rental Lease and Car Purchase) than it is to know on whatever day, which general, invaded what fjord. 'course, maybe I'm just an asshole, but setting about importance's would also be nice.
It has to start here. Otherwise, what exactly are you fixing?
I'm not sure I would say that gamers have lost patience with puzzles in games as there are just way to many other factors involved.
To name a few... 1. Waxing and waning of an industry...Puzzles, much like Slasher Flicks and Sci-Fi movies, may be a hot/not hot ticket item. One really good, highly profitable game with puzzles as a integral part, and way may see the ebb start to flow.
2. Also much like the movie industry, when a popular style is rapidly duplicated, quality often times suffers. While I enjoyed puzzles in my games, I got sick and tired of guess-the-correct-order "puzzles". Puzzles get lame, gamers get sick of them...that in itself could explain the current lack of them.
3. Which modern day games really lend themselves to puzzles? FPS puzzles almost always more tedious than fun for instance.
4. The internet has to play a big factor. Knowing all answers you seek is but a few mouse clicks away changes the mentality. No puzzles are too hard, none are too tedious. Although I have nothing to quantify this statement...just knowing the solution is within easy reach makes it less interesting (has to do with value's relationship with cost).
5. Talent in the industry. Good puzzles come from good puzzle designers. The industry used to be full of them, as many of the yester-yore game designers were of the (and I don't mean this in a bad way) dork/geek types who thrived on puzzles. Designing puzzles to stump the peers has been replaced with OSS coding skills. Go and Chess replaces with Unreal and Diablo.
On and on...
To this day, perhaps the best puzzle game of all time (excepting Infocom) was Fool's Errand (Apple II, I believe)...http://www.fools-errand.com.
It has always seemed to me that the root of such behavior is that they are allowed to continue to operate as monopolies.
Because there is no competition to professional football it allows the NFL to become bullies and make outrageous demands. Not just with TM and copy write, but with players/coaches contracts, advertisers/sponsors, broadcast providers, etc. I just don't get is how they can continue not getting thumped for anti-competitive practices. Hell, it constantly amazes me one of the extremely rich players who gets suspended doesn't ever raise a stink about it...After all, it's not like he can get a job playing for someone else.
(MLB is a congressionally protected monopoly, at least from my understanding.)
Methods such as content filters and blocked domains are only going to be useful to the bigger, more prominent webmail sites. This still allows a lot of webmail into your network. A basic "no webmail" policy, is difficult to to enforce without resulting to some fairly invasive and harsh tactics.
The better method is to enforce good network and system security practices. Do things like setting the policies as such that users cannot execute VBS on the local system and early warning detection/isolation on the network.
Regardless, this is one of those things which I believe is going to become less and less of a problem on it's own. With web enabled cell phones and PDAs becoming more and more common, I figure we are a short time away from the bulk of a users mail just going there.
I've always wondered why we haven't had this type of thing in "photo booth" style kiosks in shopping malls and arcades. It always seemed to me that facial scans (and now 3d models) would be a great addon for both arcade and home based games.
1. Charge people to get their face/body scanned at kiosk 2. Place images on a data card (CC for arcade readers and/or console compatible device) 3. Sell DEV Kits for adding scanned work into your digital programs 4. Sell Consumer Editing Kits for editing images (more Rock, less Erkel) 5. Profit
Hell, just the other day I started writing a letter to my representative requesting he draft several bills along the same vain:
1. Speed limits, right of way laws, pollution, fuel, and safety standards, etc. for all vehicles doing > light speeds and or utilizing some "warp" type (tbd) technology.
2. Updated privacy laws to make it a felony to utilize any form of invisibility force field device for the practice of voyeurism.
2a. Defined punishments for the utilization of anti-gravity devices for the purposes of lifting a girl's skirt and the possible complete banning of said devices in public schools.
3. Public debate on exactly how much cyber equipment can be installed in a human before the person is re-classified as a "cyborg", thus no longer having a soul. ----- Foward thinking...that's rich.
...But we live in a society of "pop culture, consumerism, and thoughtless dribble". The problem with what you wrote is that you make the assumstion that "generic earth science or basic astronomy" is somehow more useful and important than "what celeb is dating what other celeb and the latest fall fashions". Why? Why is understanding "field lines for differential equations" more important to a young girl than learning the fall fashions?
For example, lets take basic astronomy: Learning the names of the stars, constellations, stellar movements, etc. is going to be useful how? She planning on captaining a boat?
Fact is, she (they) are reading. Most of the young girls I've known would easily choose to just not read than to read something of little to no interest. Even if they are reading "garbage" mags, it still has to be better than them NOT reading Popular Science.
Years ago, I picked up a used copy of Ultima Online for really cheap, figuring I'd try it out. I ended up calling Origin (back when they were still Origin) and asked if there was anything I could do in order play the game.
They had me send in the CD case (which contained the CD-Key) and a copy of the reciept of purchase to Origin for a replacement. While the swap was completely free (less my end of S&H), they made sure I was aware that I would not be getting the X number of days free which came with the retail box.
In talking with the rep., she told me the reason they do this is two-fold: 1. They get most of the money from the game from the reoccuring monthly billing, and not from retail sales. 2. They want to discourage account swapping and sales, so anytime an account was locked (for any reason) and the person had evidence that they made a legit purchase, UO would rather just hand out a new account.
I just love how every time someone writes about another grid or supercomputer or beowulf cluster they always say "easily available components" as if I could find most of them in a standard IT closet or just run down to the local computer shop and pick them up with my corp. AMEX.
In what world is 163 BladeCenter chassis, 4,564 64-bit IBM PowerPC 970FX processors, and 140 TB of IBM TotalStorage DS4100 storage servers easily available??? Maybe if you are Big Blue, but then, why would it be more difficult for them to throw together a fully proprietary supercomputer?
I've been wanted something like this for awhile now...just not for the computer. I have 45-60 minute commute every to to and from work and have nothing better to do than listen to the radio. Problem is, the shows sucks and the times I go to and leave work.
So, my question has always been: why doesn't someone create a Radio version of Tivo which hooks up to your car stereo a la satellite radio?
That way,you don't have to go into work at 6am to get your Bob & Tom or be forced to listen to sports radio during baseball season.
While Linux may be more difficult to setup, this is of no concern in a corp environment...it has no effect on the end user and IT can take the time and effort to make sure it's done right.
difficult for novice users
I call bullshit. Properly setup, users should have little to no more difficultly using a Linux system than OS/X.
...has proven to be the absolute most productive environment...
The problem here is that this is NOT a design flaw at all, rather it is more of a feature request.
The objective of a grayed out menu entry is to act as a placeholder for a command that cannot currently be executed. Period. That in and of itself is merely for user usability...anything additional even more so.
A bunch of these posts suggest "tool tip" style help. As far as I'm concerned, while not a "flaw" exactly, it would distract from the usability of the program (of course adding an option to disable would fix this). Personally, I would rather see the GUI have a "help" mode. I once used a image viewer/editor (don't recall the name, but it was in Linux I believe) which allowed you to enter into a help mode when you clicked on an icon in the title bar (a "?" icon)...then, when ever you clicked on a button or menu item, it displayed a quick dialog description of that item. This was nice...making it intelligent enough to explain why something is grayed out would be even nicer.
I'm not sure one can talk about politics w/o either trolling or at the very least baiting the trolls.
For politics new modding rules may be in order...Might I suggest:
Troll +1 Troll +2 Funny Troll +1 Troll Supporting Other Side -1 Troll Lying to Make My Side Look Good +1 Idiot Troll -1 Informative (*cough*bullshit*cough*)-1 Off Topic Troll -1 Exposing "The Truth" Trool +1...etc.
wow - someone finally made "other" people's cell phones even more annoying.
Now, instead of just ringing at the most inappropriate moments (e.g. theater) and with the most obnoxious rings (e.g. pretty much all of them), we now get the pleasure of hearing their phone bitch and whine.
Not entirely true...people like to stick with that which is "familure". Although I use Linux almost exclusivley, I prefer to surf the web with IE over other browers. Why?
What I do care about is the way IE handles all shorcuts/favorites as "individual" files. I've got used to being able to easily drag/drop my favorites, same them to my desktop, send them as attachments, etc. All in all, I think Mozilla, Firebird, and even Opera are better browsers, but quite handle things like I've grown used to...like I've adapted to...like I like.
Sure, pop-up blocking is nice; however, pop-ups don't really matter to me...I don't surf many places that use them, so it's a feature I care little about.
Around 5 or so years back the Library of Congress (or one of its peers) started digitally archiving old LPs and other recordings to preserve them. I know at one time, this archive was publicly available, but I've no idea of its current status or availability.
An example of the content is it had several hours of mp3s transferred from live interviews of hillbilly moonshines. How-to's, stories, tales, etc...
I'm curious if anyone knows where this might be, who is running it, and if it's still around?
Redhat started basing the TTL of the RHCE on Enterprise since the release of Redhat 9 (after a whole shitload of us started yelling at them when the life cycle of 8.x was less then a year).
According to the FAQ on Redhat's site:
How does the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 affect RHCE and other classes offered by Red Hat?
With the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, Red Hat and its training partners will begin using it for Red Hat training classes and certification exams. This change will take place at different times in different locales. All US RHCE classes given by Red Hat will be conducted on Red Hat Enterprise Linux by December 1, 2003.
The root of it steams from the part of the law stating "...the person being viewed, photographed, or filmed is in a place where he or she would have a reasonable expectation of privacy."
This *should* include places like home, public bathrooms, and other places you can *resonably* expect some privacy.
There are major problems with creating legislation to protect women/men from "upskirt" type behavior (effectivly creating the "upskirt area" as "a place with a reasonable expectation of privacy"). Exactly where does one draw the line between peeping and just viewing that which is plainly exposed?
A women walking up the stairs generally isn't aware she is exposing herself to those underneath trying to view up her skirt. A women doing acobatics (e.g. cheerleeding & tennis) knows full well she is going to be exposing whatever is beneath her skirt. A women sitting on a bench with her legs not properly crossed may or may not be aware of prying eyes/cameras...
Question is, how exactly do you draw the line. The way the law/current ruling states, women/men should be responsible for how they decide to dress. Agreed.
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You really shouldn't take anything that uses total numbers in the way this article does to seriously. If you really want to get to the meat of the matter, the correct way to view the data is "per 100,000" and/or "per x million traveled miles". Makes it much easier to control for other factors (e.g. urban vs rural, harsh anti-texting law areas vs. unrestricted, high fatality areas vs low, high DWI area vs low, etc.). Same is true with most of MADs DWI figures, gun control, pot based DUI, etc. Totals are not only misleading, but often inflammatory (37k sound like a big number...but what is it really in the context of 300 million people driving trillions of miles a year?).
Going about it the wrong way...what they should be doing is taking a page out of the Red Hat playbook and just protect the Google TM within Android. Then they could just set forth specific rules which must be strictly followed in order to say this is an Android device and to use any of Google's TM within.
For example:
Create a directory structure for 3rd party (non-ASOP) drivers, libs, and config scripts which must be used and prevent manufacturers/providers from altering or removing other files/folders.
Force manufacturers/providers to allow users to use default Android applications in place of 3rd party apps through some standard means.
Weigh in with yes/no on things like encrypted boot loaders, rooting, preventing side loading of apps, etc.
[Add whatever rules which are causing fragmentation problems or allowing such monstrosities as Viewsonic's Tap'nTap here!]
What this should do, is allow manufacturers/providers who do not care about being labled as Android to do as they please (the B&N NOOK, for example, may not care at all if they get to put a little robot sticker on the box or not since it is such a specific device). Manufacturers/Providers who DO care, would be forced to follow the rules if they want to take advantage of Google's advertising, marketing, and reputation.
As a side benefit of going this route, they could also do things like strike back at MS forcing Bing on everyone within WM7 by specifically banning it from Android(TM).
Not only is this not the "only" way, it not even a very good way in this situation. Metrics are great, don't get me wrong, but they are not very well suited to this task. Problem is, in a small IT shop, while it does show the break/fix and crisis support, it isn't very suited to project and routine maintenance work. There is no easy way to gather metrics in a small company for things like "99.8 uptime of email", "backups and disaster recovery", "keeping automated anti-virus updates working/current", "rebooting that flaky server in the corner every Monday", etc.
If you want to justify your existence, I'd suggest a project program (i.e. MS Project) with a nice Gantt Chart. Start by listing everything that you do routinely every week (e.g. check automated backups - 1 hour, check server logs for errors - 1 hour, weekly IT reporting - 2 hours, etc.) and then list the project you have planned (e.g. install and configure ticketing system - 20 hours, deploy client patches - 4 hours, train staff to use SUM in Excel instead of MS Calc while creating spreadsheets - 160 hours, etc.). Add on to that how much time you spend on client support and begin assigning yourself as a resource percentage to each task (a ticketing system can give you a good idea of how much you and where you spend your time on support).
Personally, I would avoid, at all costs, trying to assign a dollar amount to what I do. Instead, list out how your time is spent and what all you do, then let them decide if they can live without those things. If you really are a asset to the company, it should be obvious.
I really could care less what DRM, mandated online activation, limited installs, etc. the game companies what to use. What really irks me is, unless you follow the industry closely, you don't know what you are getting until after purchase.
Food is required to list the ingredients and nutrition information.
Drugs are required to list side effects.
Why not come up with a list of "protection" methods and force the game companies to list them on the box.
Example:
Contains SecuROM DRM software
Limit to 5 installations
Requires online connectivity to operate
Requires DVD to play
Authentication servers only guaranteed online till 01/01/12 [Note: companies using this method should also be required to post a bond/pick up insurance in order to pay for a 3rd party to maintain the authentication server in the event of a company collapse)
Then see if %99.8 of people still don't care...
What is lacking more than anything is a real goal. People are always saying that everyone has the right to an education. Great. WTF does that mean exactly?
First discussion: Either go back to local control over education or centralize.
Personally, I'm all for local. This means, you live in a rural farm community that whats your to take 20hours of AG each week, so be it. Live in El Paso? Your probably gonna have Spanish.
For the Federally minded: Exactly what do you want from an "education"? Specifically, what are the goals? Once that has been discussed and decided, THEN start talking about how to best reach that goal. How the hell can we say 12(ish) years of school is needed when we really (as a collective) do not know what we are trying to accomplish.
*R*eading/*R*iting/*R*ithmatic? Productive Adult Citizen? Babysitting until 18? Ability to wipe ones own ass?
We have to set out to accomplish something and define the reasons for accomplishing it. I would surmise that it is more important for a student to learn to read basic legalese (e.g. Rental Lease and Car Purchase) than it is to know on whatever day, which general, invaded what fjord. 'course, maybe I'm just an asshole, but setting about importance's would also be nice.
It has to start here. Otherwise, what exactly are you fixing?
I'm not sure I would say that gamers have lost patience with puzzles in games as there are just way to many other factors involved.
To name a few...
1. Waxing and waning of an industry...Puzzles, much like Slasher Flicks and Sci-Fi movies, may be a hot/not hot ticket item. One really good, highly profitable game with puzzles as a integral part, and way may see the ebb start to flow.
2. Also much like the movie industry, when a popular style is rapidly duplicated, quality often times suffers. While I enjoyed puzzles in my games, I got sick and tired of guess-the-correct-order "puzzles". Puzzles get lame, gamers get sick of them...that in itself could explain the current lack of them.
3. Which modern day games really lend themselves to puzzles? FPS puzzles almost always more tedious than fun for instance.
4. The internet has to play a big factor. Knowing all answers you seek is but a few mouse clicks away changes the mentality. No puzzles are too hard, none are too tedious. Although I have nothing to quantify this statement...just knowing the solution is within easy reach makes it less interesting (has to do with value's relationship with cost).
5. Talent in the industry. Good puzzles come from good puzzle designers. The industry used to be full of them, as many of the yester-yore game designers were of the (and I don't mean this in a bad way) dork/geek types who thrived on puzzles. Designing puzzles to stump the peers has been replaced with OSS coding skills. Go and Chess replaces with Unreal and Diablo.
On and on...
To this day, perhaps the best puzzle game of all time (excepting Infocom) was Fool's Errand (Apple II, I believe)...http://www.fools-errand.com.
Ethics aside, people in IT departments usually seem to fall into one of two categories...
/. can be the cause or a symptom of either of those to options...)
1. Those that are so bored they have nothing better to do than to snoop.
2. Those that are so busy they don't have time to snoop.
(Note:
It has always seemed to me that the root of such behavior is that they are allowed to continue to operate as monopolies.
Because there is no competition to professional football it allows the NFL to become bullies and make outrageous demands. Not just with TM and copy write, but with players/coaches contracts, advertisers/sponsors, broadcast providers, etc. I just don't get is how they can continue not getting thumped for anti-competitive practices. Hell, it constantly amazes me one of the extremely rich players who gets suspended doesn't ever raise a stink about it...After all, it's not like he can get a job playing for someone else.
(MLB is a congressionally protected monopoly, at least from my understanding.)
Methods such as content filters and blocked domains are only going to be useful to the bigger, more prominent webmail sites. This still allows a lot of webmail into your network. A basic "no webmail" policy, is difficult to to enforce without resulting to some fairly invasive and harsh tactics.
The better method is to enforce good network and system security practices. Do things like setting the policies as such that users cannot execute VBS on the local system and early warning detection/isolation on the network.
Regardless, this is one of those things which I believe is going to become less and less of a problem on it's own. With web enabled cell phones and PDAs becoming more and more common, I figure we are a short time away from the bulk of a users mail just going there.
I've always wondered why we haven't had this type of thing in "photo booth" style kiosks in shopping malls and arcades. It always seemed to me that facial scans (and now 3d models) would be a great addon for both arcade and home based games.
1. Charge people to get their face/body scanned at kiosk
2. Place images on a data card (CC for arcade readers and/or console compatible device)
3. Sell DEV Kits for adding scanned work into your digital programs
4. Sell Consumer Editing Kits for editing images (more Rock, less Erkel)
5. Profit
How very true...So forward thinking.
Hell, just the other day I started writing a letter to my representative requesting he draft several bills along the same vain:
1. Speed limits, right of way laws, pollution, fuel, and safety standards, etc. for all vehicles doing > light speeds and or utilizing some "warp" type (tbd) technology.
2. Updated privacy laws to make it a felony to utilize any form of invisibility force field device for the practice of voyeurism.
2a. Defined punishments for the utilization of anti-gravity devices for the purposes of lifting a girl's skirt and the possible complete banning of said devices in public schools.
3. Public debate on exactly how much cyber equipment can be installed in a human before the person is re-classified as a "cyborg", thus no longer having a soul.
-----
Foward thinking...that's rich.
...But we live in a society of "pop culture, consumerism, and thoughtless dribble".
The problem with what you wrote is that you make the assumstion that "generic earth science or basic astronomy" is somehow more useful and important than "what celeb is dating what other celeb and the latest fall fashions".
Why?
Why is understanding "field lines for differential equations" more important to a young girl than learning the fall fashions?
For example, lets take basic astronomy: Learning the names of the stars, constellations, stellar movements, etc. is going to be useful how? She planning on captaining a boat?
Fact is, she (they) are reading. Most of the young girls I've known would easily choose to just not read than to read something of little to no interest. Even if they are reading "garbage" mags, it still has to be better than them NOT reading Popular Science.
Years ago, I picked up a used copy of Ultima Online for really cheap, figuring I'd try it out.
I ended up calling Origin (back when they were still Origin) and asked if there was anything I could do in order play the game.
They had me send in the CD case (which contained the CD-Key) and a copy of the reciept of purchase to Origin for a replacement. While the swap was completely free (less my end of S&H), they made sure I was aware that I would not be getting the X number of days free which came with the retail box.
In talking with the rep., she told me the reason they do this is two-fold:
1. They get most of the money from the game from the reoccuring monthly billing, and not from retail sales.
2. They want to discourage account swapping and sales, so anytime an account was locked (for any reason) and the person had evidence that they made a legit purchase, UO would rather just hand out a new account.
I just love how every time someone writes about another grid or supercomputer or beowulf cluster they always say "easily available components" as if I could find most of them in a standard IT closet or just run down to the local computer shop and pick them up with my corp. AMEX.
In what world is 163 BladeCenter chassis, 4,564 64-bit IBM PowerPC 970FX processors, and 140 TB of IBM TotalStorage DS4100 storage servers easily available??? Maybe if you are Big Blue, but then, why would it be more difficult for them to throw together a fully proprietary supercomputer?
I've been wanted something like this for awhile now...just not for the computer. I have 45-60 minute commute every to to and from work and have nothing better to do than listen to the radio. Problem is, the shows sucks and the times I go to and leave work.
,you don't have to go into work at 6am to get your Bob & Tom or be forced to listen to sports radio during baseball season.
So, my question has always been: why doesn't someone create a Radio version of Tivo which hooks up to your car stereo a la satellite radio?
That way
Deep Impact - $330 millon dollars and it looks like a vibrator...Where the fuck are the jokes?
The problem here is that this is NOT a design flaw at all, rather it is more of a feature request.
The objective of a grayed out menu entry is to act as a placeholder for a command that cannot currently be executed. Period. That in and of itself is merely for user usability...anything additional even more so.
A bunch of these posts suggest "tool tip" style help. As far as I'm concerned, while not a "flaw" exactly, it would distract from the usability of the program (of course adding an option to disable would fix this).
Personally, I would rather see the GUI have a "help" mode. I once used a image viewer/editor (don't recall the name, but it was in Linux I believe) which allowed you to enter into a help mode when you clicked on an icon in the title bar (a "?" icon)...then, when ever you clicked on a button or menu item, it displayed a quick dialog description of that item. This was nice...making it intelligent enough to explain why something is grayed out would be even nicer.
But Still...Not a Flaw.
I'm not sure one can talk about politics w/o either trolling or at the very least baiting the trolls.
...etc.
For politics new modding rules may be in order...Might I suggest:
Troll +1
Troll +2
Funny Troll +1
Troll Supporting Other Side -1
Troll Lying to Make My Side Look Good +1
Idiot Troll -1
Informative (*cough*bullshit*cough*)-1
Off Topic Troll -1
Exposing "The Truth" Trool +1
wow - someone finally made "other" people's cell phones even more annoying.
Now, instead of just ringing at the most inappropriate moments (e.g. theater) and with the most obnoxious rings (e.g. pretty much all of them), we now get the pleasure of hearing their phone bitch and whine.
Yay us.
Not entirely true...people like to stick with that which is "familure".
Although I use Linux almost exclusivley, I prefer to surf the web with IE over other browers. Why?
What I do care about is the way IE handles all shorcuts/favorites as "individual" files. I've got used to being able to easily drag/drop my favorites, same them to my desktop, send them as attachments, etc. All in all, I think Mozilla, Firebird, and even Opera are better browsers, but quite handle things like I've grown used to...like I've adapted to...like I like.
Sure, pop-up blocking is nice; however, pop-ups don't really matter to me...I don't surf many places that use them, so it's a feature I care little about.
Around 5 or so years back the Library of Congress (or one of its peers) started digitally archiving old LPs and other recordings to preserve them. I know at one time, this archive was publicly available, but I've no idea of its current status or availability.
An example of the content is it had several hours of mp3s transferred from live interviews of hillbilly moonshines. How-to's, stories, tales, etc...
I'm curious if anyone knows where this might be, who is running it, and if it's still around?
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- http://www.redhat.com/training/rhce/rhce_faq.ht
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for more info.http://www.saveinternetradio.org/ also has a lot of good information about the bill for anyone who's interested.
The root of it steams from the part of the law stating "...the person being viewed, photographed, or filmed is in a place where he or she would have a reasonable expectation of privacy."
This *should* include places like home, public bathrooms, and other places you can *resonably* expect some privacy.
There are major problems with creating legislation to protect women/men from "upskirt" type behavior (effectivly creating the "upskirt area" as "a place with a reasonable expectation of privacy"). Exactly where does one draw the line between peeping and just viewing that which is plainly exposed?
A women walking up the stairs generally isn't aware she is exposing herself to those underneath trying to view up her skirt.
A women doing acobatics (e.g. cheerleeding & tennis) knows full well she is going to be exposing whatever is beneath her skirt.
A women sitting on a bench with her legs not properly crossed may or may not be aware of prying eyes/cameras...
Question is, how exactly do you draw the line. The way the law/current ruling states, women/men should be responsible for how they decide to dress. Agreed.