My girlfriend had a 486 laptop which I was going to use myself to make notes and do some programming(not compiling) whilst I was at university and travelling. Her mother had a garage sale and she thought this old thing is useless and so she sold the laptop, case, disks, and power supply all for $2 AUD!!!! I would have paid 5 times as much just to stop her from selling.
They say they aren't doing anything wrong because the agreement has been changed......sounds like my girlfriends Monopoly rules. She has an in-house rule that allows her to change rules depending on her circumstances in the game.
The one part she won't change though is the rule that stops anyone else from changing any rules.
Just because someone is law abiding doesn't mean that someone out there doesn't have a grudge against them. Just imagine in the scenario you have depicted. Some nasty piece of work who can get around the system, or is perhaps part of it, adds your face to the police database with "shoot on sight" notice! If the police get a direct command from their "computer" to shoot you when you walk past them on your tea break they aren't going to think about it, they are just going to do it. Things could definately get scarey.
I am going to go back to my vegetable garden now, it hasn't found a way to log onto the internet yet.
Team Rocket tried to use their XP Pokemon against Ash's Tux Pokemon but failed midserably. They have decided to give up trying to get his Pikachu and are instead searching for the fabled BSDemon Pokemon. Little do they know that Tux Pokemon and BSDemon Pokemon actually combine to evolve into MEGAStation. MEGAStation could see the inate evilness of Team Rocket and disposed of them, at least for another episode.
Ash decides to let MEGAStation go free to wander the earth, making it a safer place for all.
Everytime the kde vs gnome war thing starts up, I just take alook at my simple yet wonderful Blackbox gui, and breath a sigh of relief.
It is sad to see any linux product go, despite whether I use it or not. The bigger the user base, the better for everyone involved with linux. Choice is better than flame wars:)
Once the data has been confirmed and they don't see any reason to fine your arse, the identifying information is permantently stripped.
Of course there are problems here. Australia has a bad record with confidentiality, and also with basic human rights.
We get all get treated like children (re: net censorship) and we can't be anonymous until we pass "the test"......
Australia does have a constitution, but it is slightly contradictory, and well basically in it's current state is unconstitutional. Australia does not have a Bill of Rights.
We were a major contributor to the UNs bill of human rights....oh damn we went against it after signing it......sorry - oops I forgot - Australians can't say sorry either.
I once got a transfer to Germany by a US organization. When I got there unable to speak more than 5 words of German the guys there thought they must have misread Australia as Austria. I still stayed on there a year and picked up the language very quickly. If it was due to misreading then I am very happy with errors:)
So basically the government is trying to censor or copyright everything digital in the hope that nothing will be legal on the internet soon. Then what....??
What really sux about the whole copyright issue in Australia is how corporations are exempt from copyright (at least in some areas). Take for example pirated music CDs. It is totally illegal for a regular person to copy a CD and sell it to someone else even at a cheap price - BUT it is legal for companies to import pirated CDs from indonesia and sell them at a high profit margin. If companies are allowed to pirate stuff, and even make a profit off it, then all citizens should be given that same right!
Justing adding my voice to that of EulerX07. I work at a computer store where we spend most of the day repairing computers. The majority of the problems we come across are software based caused by Windows. I am not about to go counting the number of times I see the blue screeen of death in a single day - but I assure you it is extremely high.
I tell you it is a real pleasure to finally get home to see my Linux box sitting there already running, no errors or reboots for weeks at a time:)
I am not saying Linux is perfect - far from it. I have still had a couple of fatal crashes in my time that required the use of the power button, although they didn't require any further work to resolve the problem.
The computer from the Starship Enterprise has a LOT of buttons. The processor and memory required to run it are not even an option yet. The day I can verbally communicate with my computer will be a great day. Until that point it isn't worth trying to do computing without an OS:)
Besides which I think the enterprise does have an OS, but it is always on (no need to reboot - probably built on the linux kernal) and is damn good
An OS like windows on the other hand does get in the way because simple things like installing a game or app or something require the user to reset the entire operating system so that it can be updated and made available to the user.
There are a couple of things that concern me regarding the issue of cloning babies for infertile couples.
I can see the clones (children - whatever you want to call them) getting pretty screwed up. Like who am I created from, can I find them, am I just a sub human... It might become like a whole new catagory of humans.
The other main concern is that there are many children who needed parents to adopt them. Why create clones when you can adopt a child who already needs someone to care for them and love them. If someone can afford to create clones they are surely eligable to be adoptive parents, and those children will be much less screwed up than any clone child.
I consider government like closed source programs - such as winblows. A few people manage it and it generally sux. You can all insert your least favourite things about micro$oft in here
I would prefer an open source form of society - where everyone contributes to make a better system all around. Insert your favourite parts of open source here:)
enough said.
Any attempts to put us in nice little easily-filed boxes is destined to failure.
But of course it will fail, hence the hundreds and thousands of strands of *nix just so that every geek can have their own peculiar box:)
I personally prefer Anne Rice.....but I did grow up on Adams and Tolkien.
Is internet advertising the way corporations are getting back at the hackers who put the internet together before they had even thought of such an idea - never mind patented it...
I travelled to university everyday in Melbourne (.au) on a streetcar (aka tram). Buses are quicker - although it is nearly impossible to get onto a bus without buying a ticket, unlike the tram - jump off if a tram conductor comes along - not that I would ever suggest such tactics:)
On Amiga - Both of my Amiga's are in excellent condition, and are still my first choice for platform romps, and MODs:)
Then again I also bring out the C64 every now and then.....
Whilst teaching the child IT, I would also be very anxious that s/he learn philosophy, cognition etc. Things that will generally expand the their thought process allowing them to analyse problems from a number of different and maybe new aspects. It would be wrong to try and focus their attention to one area at an early age. Like someone else said - you may discover that whilst being really good with some science stuff s/he may in fact be even better with literature. Maybe linguistics. Who knows. Only the child will know, and only in time after exposure to a large range of mediums.
I had a similar experience at my University. The whole course was disappointing, and the crowd was just dead. There were just a few of us that would stay late working on the UNIX consoles just for fun. Come assignment time though the place filled up with everyone and the whole system would start to lag.
Now it might have been more productive for me to have done my assignments when there were only a few people around, but you know how it is....:)
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My girlfriend had a 486 laptop which I was going to use myself to make notes and do some programming(not compiling) whilst I was at university and travelling. Her mother had a garage sale and she thought this old thing is useless and so she sold the laptop, case, disks, and power supply all for $2 AUD!!!! I would have paid 5 times as much just to stop her from selling.
- Region 1 (for DVD players in the US and Canada)
Once again every other region misses out :(
When will we get Robotech DVDs in Australia? I need them!
They say they aren't doing anything wrong because the agreement has been changed... ...sounds like my girlfriends Monopoly rules. She has an in-house rule that allows her to change rules depending on her circumstances in the game.
The one part she won't change though is the rule that stops anyone else from changing any rules.
Just because someone is law abiding doesn't mean that someone out there doesn't have a grudge against them. Just imagine in the scenario you have depicted. Some nasty piece of work who can get around the system, or is perhaps part of it, adds your face to the police database with "shoot on sight" notice! If the police get a direct command from their "computer" to shoot you when you walk past them on your tea break they aren't going to think about it, they are just going to do it. Things could definately get scarey.
I am going to go back to my vegetable garden now, it hasn't found a way to log onto the internet yet.
Team Rocket tried to use their XP Pokemon against Ash's Tux Pokemon but failed midserably. They have decided to give up trying to get his Pikachu and are instead searching for the fabled BSDemon Pokemon. Little do they know that Tux Pokemon and BSDemon Pokemon actually combine to evolve into MEGAStation. MEGAStation could see the inate evilness of Team Rocket and disposed of them, at least for another episode.
Ash decides to let MEGAStation go free to wander the earth, making it a safer place for all.
Everytime the kde vs gnome war thing starts up, I just take alook at my simple yet wonderful Blackbox gui, and breath a sigh of relief.
:)
It is sad to see any linux product go, despite whether I use it or not. The bigger the user base, the better for everyone involved with linux. Choice is better than flame wars
hehehe, I still play the game sometimes - this year even :)
:P
I have an amiga verion of it now though - it's faster and has slightly better rounded fonts
> Turn on light - Don't want to stumble around in the dark now, there's a bulldozer coming!
Of course there are problems here. Australia has a bad record with confidentiality, and also with basic human rights.
We get all get treated like children (re: net censorship) and we can't be anonymous until we pass "the test"......
Australia does have a constitution, but it is slightly contradictory, and well basically in it's current state is unconstitutional. Australia does not have a Bill of Rights.
We were a major contributor to the UNs bill of human rights....oh damn we went against it after signing it......sorry - oops I forgot - Australians can't say sorry either.
I once got a transfer to Germany by a US organization. When I got there unable to speak more than 5 words of German the guys there thought they must have misread Australia as Austria. I still stayed on there a year and picked up the language very quickly. If it was due to misreading then I am very happy with errors :)
Just one comment:
:)
I loved this film
for anyone interested here are some more priceless jokes:
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http://priceless.the-brodericks.com/images/page
She's gay for pizza!
So basically the government is trying to censor or copyright everything digital in the hope that nothing will be legal on the internet soon. Then what....??
What really sux about the whole copyright issue in Australia is how corporations are exempt from copyright (at least in some areas). Take for example pirated music CDs. It is totally illegal for a regular person to copy a CD and sell it to someone else even at a cheap price - BUT it is legal for companies to import pirated CDs from indonesia and sell them at a high profit margin. If companies are allowed to pirate stuff, and even make a profit off it, then all citizens should be given that same right!
Speedball 2 :)
Justing adding my voice to that of EulerX07. I work at a computer store where we spend most of the day repairing computers. The majority of the problems we come across are software based caused by Windows. I am not about to go counting the number of times I see the blue screeen of death in a single day - but I assure you it is extremely high.
I tell you it is a real pleasure to finally get home to see my Linux box sitting there already running, no errors or reboots for weeks at a time
I am not saying Linux is perfect - far from it. I have still had a couple of fatal crashes in my time that required the use of the power button, although they didn't require any further work to resolve the problem.
The computer from the Starship Enterprise has a LOT of buttons. The processor and memory required to run it are not even an option yet. The day I can verbally communicate with my computer will be a great day. Until that point it isn't worth trying to do computing without an OS :)
Besides which I think the enterprise does have an OS, but it is always on (no need to reboot - probably built on the linux kernal) and is damn good
An OS like windows on the other hand does get in the way because simple things like installing a game or app or something require the user to reset the entire operating system so that it can be updated and made available to the user.
There are a couple of things that concern me regarding the issue of cloning babies for infertile couples.
I can see the clones (children - whatever you want to call them) getting pretty screwed up. Like who am I created from, can I find them, am I just a sub human... It might become like a whole new catagory of humans.
The other main concern is that there are many children who needed parents to adopt them. Why create clones when you can adopt a child who already needs someone to care for them and love them. If someone can afford to create clones they are surely eligable to be adoptive parents, and those children will be much less screwed up than any clone child.
I consider government like closed source programs - such as winblows. A few people manage it and it generally sux. You can all insert your least favourite things about micro$oft in here I would prefer an open source form of society - where everyone contributes to make a better system all around. Insert your favourite parts of open source here :)
enough said.
But of course it will fail, hence the hundreds and thousands of strands of *nix just so that every geek can have their own peculiar box :)
I personally prefer Anne Rice.....but I did grow up on Adams and Tolkien.
Maybe it IS time that we went back to gopher :)
Is internet advertising the way corporations are getting back at the hackers who put the internet together before they had even thought of such an idea - never mind patented it...
On Amiga - Both of my Amiga's are in excellent condition, and are still my first choice for platform romps, and MODs
Then again I also bring out the C64 every now and then.....
I had a similar experience at my University. The whole course was disappointing, and the crowd was just dead. There were just a few of us that would stay late working on the UNIX consoles just for fun. Come assignment time though the place filled up with everyone and the whole system would start to lag. Now it might have been more productive for me to have done my assignments when there were only a few people around, but you know how it is.... :)
It's about time you bought yourself a can of SPAM and learnt of the wonders surrounding this humble can of goodness.....no can opener required :)