The idea that a song or book should be free because it's in an electronic or virtual format is not where, I think, the real fight is. They (the authors/companies) should be able to seek compensation and should be able to protect their copyright. If we throw out copyright law, remember, we throw out the GPL. Tossing everything into the public domain is not the answer. Should electronic media versions be cheaper and sometimes free? Certainly. The entertainment industry needs to step up to the plate and move into the digital age.
I think the real fight that needs to be addressed in the intellectual property rights arena isn't about music or books or movies. It's about patents on algorithms and processes. That's where we as a society stand way too much to lose.
We also need to protect fair and personal use parts of copyright law. We should be able to make backups or convert things into different formats as we see fit. We need to protect our rights to rip our cd's to mp3's, or record a cd to tape, or vice versa even. We need to protect even our free speech rights to open discussion of products.
Katz's arguments about kids growing up downloading stuff and thinking it's ok is bogus. Warez is warez, pirating is pirating. Do most of us do it? At one time or another, yeah. Does that make it legal or morally right? Not at all. Do 99.999999% realize that's it's not exactly kosher? Yup. Is ignorance of the law ever an acceptable excuse for violating the law? Nope.
Another thing that bugs me. Katz keeps calling the music on the net "free" music. That's a fallacy. It's commercial music he's talking about, like commercial software. Free (as in beer) music, is perfectly legal and morally acceptable to download and redistribute - look at MP3.com.
A good computer educator is going to be hard to find in public/private schools. The pay is way too low for someone with decent tech skills.
The actual hardware most schools have is pathetic, and the younger you go, the more pathetic it gets. And many can't develop standards. There may be 5 macs in one classroom, but all of them are running different OS versions, etc.
Most regular classroom teachers, from elementary on up, don't really know how to use a computer, or how a computer basically works. They can use word or something, but that's the extent of it. The computer use in the average upper grade classroom is typically limited to word processing and research.
In elementary schools, I've found that computer use is basically only for "educational" games (the vast majority of which are no better, if not worse, than worksheets or wrote practice!). The other use in elementary schools is as a reward or punishment. This should never happen. It's like telling a child "you were bad today, so you can't read your science book".
Most teachers are utterly clueless as to how computers actually function much less how to integrate them into the curriculum, are stuck with old, outmoded, frustrating hardware and/or software, and quite frankly, so many are so close to retirement, they just don't give a damn.
The baby boomer generation is nearing retirement age and a HUGE chunk of the teaching workforce will be retiring in the next few years. I was going to be an elementary school teacher. But the anti-male, totally pc (not the computer kind), technology illiterate culture combined with the horribly low pay has driven me far, far away from that. I could have dealt with the low pay, but the rest of it was... ugh.
I think if people want their kids tech savvy, they'll need to start a tech-centric charter school.
Robin, you should know better to insult an already angered readership under the pretense of "an apology". Personally I didn't have any problem with the story, but obviously some people did.
You should probably talk to Katz... he's gotta have some thick skin with all the heat he takes...
They died while taking relenza not because the drug killed them, but because of secondary bacterial and viral infections and severe cases of the flu. Relenza was misprescribed by their doctors when other treatments were more appropriate (hospitalization, iv fluids, etc.). Relenza at it's best shaves a day or two off of flu symptoms. That's it. It's not a cure.
Well, I offer Linux based hosting on the cheap. We had over 350 days of uptime until this summer, before a kernel bug forced us to upgrade. I think our prices are quite reasonable. We get billed by the bandwidth, so we charge by bandwidth usage as well. We use a colocation provider that's proven very competent and stable over the past 2 years.
I think it comes down to if you can trust the person/company that's hosting your site. Some feel more secure paying more money to a bigger company, some feel more secure paying less money to a smaller company that will give them a little more individual attention.
Well, lots of US schools aren't much better. On the elementary side, many schools, especially in my area still use Macs, not primarily because they're cheaper, not because they're "better", but because the teachers know how to use them, and the teachers that have been there don't have to learn something new.
I'm an education student, and I find it so amazing that those whose job it is to teach and inspire our students in learning don't want to do any of it themselves.
The higher grades have fortunately picked up that outside of some iMac owners, the vast majority of macs are in very specialized areas (video, graphics design, etc), and that PC's are used much more frequently "in the real world". Now we just have to convince them that learning Linux will have benefit for students "in the real world"
I'm getting ready to do my student teaching, and apparently every school in the area from K-12 has setup a filtering proxy.
While I'm 100% against filtering and 100% for parent *AND* teacher/school responsibility, I have to say, I like Apple's solution with KidSafe a little better. It doesn't attempt to filter out "bad" stuff, but provides a decent sized and growing collections of "approved" sites, creating, basically, a educator approved kidnet.
I think this is what it comes down to. Do we have a world fit for only children, that's happy and rosey and innocent, with no sex, no violence, no nudity, nothing scary or real, or do we have a world that's primarily for adults, with sections cordoned off for kids? In the real world we have the latter, and no, it's not perfect by any means. Many people want the former. They seem to think the internet is like TV, and we can just block anything we don't like - but it really doesn't work that way. The internet is more like the real world, but without as much of the concious effort to create a "safe" place for children. Why is that? Because the internet was created and built by adults, for adults. It's only recently that internet access has started to become ubiquitous, and people have started using the internet for a wider variety of uses.
I think, instead of censoring and blocking adult material, how about blocking/cordoning off kid safe material?
Instead of a.xxx domain, how about a.kid domain, where all the content is for children from birth to 12 years old or so?
Followed that up with a.teen domain for kids 12-17 or so?
Of course, this would be voluntary for parents to use, and if they chose to, they could give their kids access to the full fledged net. Public libraries could issue cards that include a persons name and require the person to swipe and enter a pin to access an internet terminal. Parents could sign a waiver allowing their kids access to the full net, but the default would be the "net" designed for that particular age group.
This way, you have a situation more like the real world - adults are not forbidden to access adult material, and children have a tougher time accessing the adult material.
You know what I really dislike? Those three traffic light type buttons in the upper left hand corner. They're close, minimize, and maximize. The fact that they're on the left bugs me. The fact that they're only differentiated by color and don't have any graphic or symbol to indicate their function REALLY bugs me.
Required consistency in the interface my ass. Have you *SEEN* the platinum look of sherlock2 and the quicktime player? Not consistent at all, I'd say, and both of these peices come from apple themselves!
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Yeah, you can tell this is just soooo accurate. Their #1 uptime system is a HPUX box that's been up for over 100 years.
Overly paranoid network security. Only the version they allow out has been audited. Even then they found problems with it, but allow it out anyway. *SIGH*.
The president of the organization asked for realplayer stuff to be allowed through the proxy over a year and a half ago. They won't do it, nor will they install a realplayer proxy.
Thawte actually sells a certificate for the standard $125, plus a $200 one-time enrollment, that will allow netscape 4.7, ie5.x, to "unlock" the 128bit encryption that's in the browser, but just been disabled, during a visit to your site.
There's been a utility around for quite awhile that just flips a couple bits in your exportable netscape executable, and wala, you've got full 128bit SSL.
There's at least one really good reason for being able to change the browser version string whenever you like - firewall proxies. Where I work, you can only get out through the proxy if you're using the right web browser. Using too new a version? Nope, you can't get out. Using a non-standard operating system? Again, nope you can't get out.
I've requested this feature myself in several cddb readers (since they use http now), but only one has come through for me.
I'm starting to think real has decided to drop Linux support. A G2 final hasn't been released for Linux, and realplayer 7 beta is already out for mac/win.
Sorry to say, but I seriously doubt we'll ever see real client support from real.
All we really need though is a good streaming video component to icecast/xmms.:)
Yeah, they used the same generic form for their linux distro beta signup.
Good news is, it's being released at comdex, a buddy of mine is going, should have my copy as soon as he gets back... too bad I can't go.. friggen college.
Let me tell you, that they have no comment is no surprise. They couldn't answer even the simplest of technical questions about their own product. The people staffing the booth are simply market droids. I mean, the people manning the booth even had the audacity to tell me that corel's linux distro is available right now for a free download of an ISO image from linux.corel.com, which is sheer and utter crap. People with booths at linux shows need to answer questions about their products, and interoperability with other linux products. Not just simply try and sell us stuff.
This is flawed. If you hadn't LEARNED english, you couldn't say "search that file and tell me which lines contain this word". You couldn't effectively tell a French or German to search a file for you, because they wouldn't understand what the hell you are saying. Sure, pantomime can help make this easier, but if you don't know the rules of the culture in a foriegn exchange you might accidentally give a hand signal that tells them to do something rather nasty to their mothers, or violate their rules on personal space. Language is language, whether it's spoken, written, or communicated through physical movement. If you don't know the rules, you won't get anywhere.
Likewise if you haven't learned the language and syntax for communicating with your computer, you can't very well give it commands.
I'm dealing right now with teaching technology to inner-city elementary school children to get them up to speed for our new state standards tests. Let me tell you, if you've never seen it before, it's not at all intuitive. You don't know how to instantly use a mouse, or a pointy-clicky GUI. You have to learn!
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The idea that a song or book should be free because it's in an electronic or virtual format is not where, I think, the real fight is. They (the authors/companies) should be able to seek compensation and should be able to protect their copyright. If we throw out copyright law, remember, we throw out the GPL. Tossing everything into the public domain is not the answer. Should electronic media versions be cheaper and sometimes free? Certainly. The entertainment industry needs to step up to the plate and move into the digital age.
I think the real fight that needs to be addressed in the intellectual property rights arena isn't about music or books or movies. It's about patents on algorithms and processes. That's where we as a society stand way too much to lose.
We also need to protect fair and personal use parts of copyright law. We should be able to make backups or convert things into different formats as we see fit. We need to protect our rights to rip our cd's to mp3's, or record a cd to tape, or vice versa even. We need to protect even our free speech rights to open discussion of products.
Katz's arguments about kids growing up downloading stuff and thinking it's ok is bogus. Warez is warez, pirating is pirating. Do most of us do it? At one time or another, yeah. Does that make it legal or morally right? Not at all. Do 99.999999% realize that's it's not exactly kosher? Yup. Is ignorance of the law ever an acceptable excuse for violating the law? Nope.
Another thing that bugs me. Katz keeps calling the music on the net "free" music. That's a fallacy. It's commercial music he's talking about, like commercial software. Free (as in beer) music, is perfectly legal and morally acceptable to download and redistribute - look at MP3.com.
There are a number of factors here.
A good computer educator is going to be hard to find in public/private schools. The pay is way too low for someone with decent tech skills.
The actual hardware most schools have is pathetic, and the younger you go, the more pathetic it gets. And many can't develop standards. There may be 5 macs in one classroom, but all of them are running different OS versions, etc.
Most regular classroom teachers, from elementary on up, don't really know how to use a computer, or how a computer basically works. They can use word or something, but that's the extent of it. The computer use in the average upper grade classroom is typically limited to word processing and research.
In elementary schools, I've found that computer use is basically only for "educational" games (the vast majority of which are no better, if not worse, than worksheets or wrote practice!). The other use in elementary schools is as a reward or punishment. This should never happen. It's like telling a child "you were bad today, so you can't read your science book".
Most teachers are utterly clueless as to how computers actually function much less how to integrate them into the curriculum, are stuck with old, outmoded, frustrating hardware and/or software, and quite frankly, so many are so close to retirement, they just don't give a damn.
The baby boomer generation is nearing retirement age and a HUGE chunk of the teaching workforce will be retiring in the next few years. I was going to be an elementary school teacher. But the anti-male, totally pc (not the computer kind), technology illiterate culture combined with the horribly low pay has driven me far, far away from that. I could have dealt with the low pay, but the rest of it was... ugh.
I think if people want their kids tech savvy, they'll need to start a tech-centric charter school.
I've heard a bunch of people say "just use the flash".... I'd like to see the utils and procedure to go about doing this....
Thanks.
Well, 32MB is kinda small nowadays, even with swap.
I wonder if this thing could handle a 64MB or 128MB or even a 256MB SODIMM?
Yes. DUH.
it's called flash rom. Just like you can upgrade your pc's bios that's stored in rom, I'd imagine you'd be able to upgrade.
ROM isn't really ROM anymore. It's more like SROM - sometimes read only memory.
Robin, you should know better to insult an already angered readership under the pretense of "an apology". Personally I didn't have any problem with the story, but obviously some people did.
You should probably talk to Katz... he's gotta have some thick skin with all the heat he takes...
They died while taking relenza not because the drug killed them, but because of secondary bacterial and viral infections and severe cases of the flu. Relenza was misprescribed by their doctors when other treatments were more appropriate (hospitalization, iv fluids, etc.). Relenza at it's best shaves a day or two off of flu symptoms. That's it. It's not a cure.
I think it comes down to if you can trust the person/company that's hosting your site. Some feel more secure paying more money to a bigger company, some feel more secure paying less money to a smaller company that will give them a little more individual attention.
webmages.com
Are you a webmage?
Well, lots of US schools aren't much better. On the elementary side, many schools, especially in my area still use Macs, not primarily because they're cheaper, not because they're "better", but because the teachers know how to use them, and the teachers that have been there don't have to learn something new.
I'm an education student, and I find it so amazing that those whose job it is to teach and inspire our students in learning don't want to do any of it themselves.
The higher grades have fortunately picked up that outside of some iMac owners, the vast majority of macs are in very specialized areas (video, graphics design, etc), and that PC's are used much more frequently "in the real world". Now we just have to convince them that learning Linux will have benefit for students "in the real world"
I'm getting ready to do my student teaching, and apparently every school in the area from K-12 has setup a filtering proxy.
.xxx domain, how about a .kid domain, where all the content is for children from birth to 12 years old or so?
.teen domain for kids 12-17 or so?
While I'm 100% against filtering and 100% for parent *AND* teacher/school responsibility, I have to say, I like Apple's solution with KidSafe a little better. It doesn't attempt to filter out "bad" stuff, but provides a decent sized and growing collections of "approved" sites, creating, basically, a educator approved kidnet.
I think this is what it comes down to. Do we have a world fit for only children, that's happy and rosey and innocent, with no sex, no violence, no nudity, nothing scary or real, or do we have a world that's primarily for adults, with sections cordoned off for kids? In the real world we have the latter, and no, it's not perfect by any means. Many people want the former. They seem to think the internet is like TV, and we can just block anything we don't like - but it really doesn't work that way. The internet is more like the real world, but without as much of the concious effort to create a "safe" place for children. Why is that? Because the internet was created and built by adults, for adults. It's only recently that internet access has started to become ubiquitous, and people have started using the internet for a wider variety of uses.
I think, instead of censoring and blocking adult material, how about blocking/cordoning off kid safe material?
Instead of a
Followed that up with a
Of course, this would be voluntary for parents to use, and if they chose to, they could give their kids access to the full fledged net. Public libraries could issue cards that include a persons name and require the person to swipe and enter a pin to access an internet terminal. Parents could sign a waiver allowing their kids access to the full net, but the default would be the "net" designed for that particular age group.
This way, you have a situation more like the real world - adults are not forbidden to access adult material, and children have a tougher time accessing the adult material.
Good? Bad? I'm the guy with the gun!
First you wanna kill me, now you wanna kiss me... BLOW.
You know what I really dislike? Those three traffic light type buttons in the upper left hand corner. They're close, minimize, and maximize. The fact that they're on the left bugs me. The fact that they're only differentiated by color and don't have any graphic or symbol to indicate their function REALLY bugs me.
Required consistency in the interface my ass. Have you *SEEN* the platinum look of sherlock2 and the quicktime player? Not consistent at all, I'd say, and both of these peices come from apple themselves!
Yeah, you can tell this is just soooo accurate.
Their #1 uptime system is a HPUX box that's been up for over 100 years.
Overly paranoid network security. Only the version they allow out has been audited. Even then they found problems with it, but allow it out anyway. *SIGH*.
The president of the organization asked for realplayer stuff to be allowed through the proxy over a year and a half ago. They won't do it, nor will they install a realplayer proxy.
Thawte actually sells a certificate for the standard $125, plus a $200 one-time enrollment, that will allow netscape 4.7, ie5.x, to "unlock" the 128bit encryption that's in the browser, but just been disabled, during a visit to your site.
There's been a utility around for quite awhile that just flips a couple bits in your exportable netscape executable, and wala, you've got full 128bit SSL.
There's at least one really good reason for being able to change the browser version string whenever you like - firewall proxies. Where I work, you can only get out through the proxy if you're using the right web browser. Using too new a version? Nope, you can't get out. Using a non-standard operating system? Again, nope you can't get out.
I've requested this feature myself in several cddb readers (since they use http now), but only one has come through for me.
Well, if the packets were tunneled through SSH (built into the client), there wouldn't be much of an issue of data theft now would there?
I'm starting to think real has decided to drop Linux support. A G2 final hasn't been released
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for Linux, and realplayer 7 beta is already out
for mac/win.
Sorry to say, but I seriously doubt we'll ever see real client support from real.
All we really need though is a good streaming video component to icecast/xmms.
Yeah, they used the same generic form for their linux distro beta signup.
Good news is, it's being released at comdex, a buddy of mine is going, should have my copy as soon as he gets back... too bad I can't go.. friggen college.
Let me tell you, that they have no comment is no surprise. They couldn't answer even the simplest of technical questions about their own product. The people staffing the booth are simply market droids. I mean, the people manning the booth even had the audacity to tell me that corel's linux distro is available right now for a free download of an ISO image from linux.corel.com, which is sheer and utter crap. People with booths at linux shows need to answer questions about their products, and interoperability with other linux products. Not just simply try and sell us stuff.
Don't blame Linux, it's Real's fault, the linux box was performing flawlessly.
I would rather use icecast or the winamp casting.
This is flawed. If you hadn't LEARNED english, you couldn't say "search that file and tell me which lines contain this word". You couldn't effectively tell a French or German to search a file for you, because they wouldn't understand what the hell you are saying. Sure, pantomime can help make this easier, but if you don't know the rules of the culture in a foriegn exchange you might accidentally give a hand signal that tells them to do something rather nasty to their mothers, or violate their rules on personal space. Language is language, whether it's spoken, written, or communicated through physical movement. If you don't know the rules, you won't get anywhere.
Likewise if you haven't learned the language and syntax for communicating with your computer, you can't very well give it commands.
I'm dealing right now with teaching technology to inner-city elementary school children to get them up to speed for our new state standards tests. Let me tell you, if you've never seen it before, it's not at all intuitive. You don't know how to instantly use a mouse, or a pointy-clicky GUI. You have to learn!
Heh. I live in Richmond, Virginia.
Northern VA is an internet haven. AOL and NSI are both based there. Cable and DSL access is everywhere.
The problem is, outside of the D.C. area burbs, it stinks. No DSL, cable is spotty at best, ISDN prices are outrageous!! (thanks bell-atlantic!).
I can't wait to move to someplace more connected once I'm out of school.