Well, that's clever, everyone should do that. I'll have to teach my grandmother to write perl scripts
That's overkill: these are passwords and should be treated as such. Free associate some random words, twiddle it a bit to avoid a dictionary search and save it somewhere. Even grandma can do that.
They can start by honoring the "open in new window" setting. I hate tabs (with rare exceptions), but each successive release of Firefox seems to try harder to force me to use them...
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There have always been, and always will be, good and bad teachers; it still *is* a good thing to encourage teaching of critical thinking skills, regardless of the topic. Some will get good skills, and some won't, but you have to try at least...
In 1993, I heard about this "world wide web" thing and tried it. I think it was "www", some really awful command line tool. gopher worked far better at the time and was much easier to use. Then Mosaic came out and changed the world. I think you could have done a multimedia gopher along the same lines though; it maybe wouldn't have been quite as flexible, but as far as bandwidth consumption goes, media is media...
I have no problem putting books I buy elsewhere on my kindle, because none of the 200+ ebooks I have are DRM'd. If Amazon wants me to buy books from them, they'll drop DRM too.
People are for it, until they have to look at it (or listen to it, I hear they are pretty loud).
I had heard that too, and never understood it. I like the looks of them, and a few weeks ago, passed by a place where they happen to have put in a windfarm right next to a viewpoint (overlooking the Columbia River). I stopped, and while they were operating, I couldn't hear them. One was essentially on the other side of the freeway from me, and this was miles from anywhere --- occasional cars, but not a steady stream drowning them out. I'd love to have one in my backyard.
I understand the buffer usage, however the fact that it's had to page out 1.2G in the 5 days it's been up (did a system update) means that it's short of memory, just not terribly so. If I had more memory, there are a few other things I could do with the system...
When I eject an optical disk from the drive, it's hot to the touch, and the vent on top makes a good handwarmer.
When I was setting up the mini I got for my parents a few months ago, I started BOINC on it. Within short order (half hour or so), it was hot to the touch. A little while later, the network stopped working (it would transmit and not receive or vica versa, I forget which) until I rebooted, and then it would work for a few minutes. It was ok after I reconfigured BOINC to only use 50% of the cpu, but sent it in for repair as it was no longer reliable. It's been running ok since that way.
Likewise, my Macbook Pro (1rst gen Intel) got so hot you couldn't put it on your lap until I installed smcfancontrol to up the fan speed; I use it as my HTPC for some things, and the internal temperature (reported by the same tool) typically runs up to 130+F even with the fan at 3000rpm. BOINC is out of the question, and I'd think twice about trying to do any video rendering on it.
Macs have a lot of nice things about the hardware, but heat management is not one of them.
FWIW, this is the state of my Mac Pro at home (w/6G ram):
Good point; my imac is a first gen intel 24", which only supports 3G; I forgot the glossy ones did 4G (which is the other problem I have with the newer imacs: I want a display, not a mirror).
For the first time, both the mini and the imac have enough memory capacity to be useful. Now if only they'd learn how to keep their cool when you actually use them, and make key components (like disk drives) accessible for replacement, they'd be killer machines.
The kindle format is not amazon proprietary, it's mobipocket, which is one of the most commonly available formats. Though I always make sure that a book is available is an open format before I buy it (and I download the book in that format as well, "just in case"), either html or pdf (which, while proprietary, is open enough that there are non-proprietary readers). There is more interesting content available in open formats than I have time to read, so it's just not an issue. Also, at least at fictionwise.com, where I do all my shopping, I started with just pdf format for the Sony Reader. Later, they started supporting the native sony format, which works much better, so I redownloaded them. Having just received my Kindle 2, I redownloaded them again in the mobi format (which they've always supported). Never have I had to rebuy a book. That said, I would much prefer it if both the content providers and readers would adopt an open standard like epub...
Fictionwise.com has a number of non-drm'd books ("Multiformat") in all genres. There is more non-drm'd content that I'm interested in than I have time to read as it is, so the publishers forcing drm are shooting themselves.
There is a big difference between "disqualify" and "let's look at these other 100 resumes instead", and worse, bringing it up in the first place puts the association in mind even if they didn't do a web search.
You're all telling me you don't think anyone's smart enough to figure out ways around those issues? If nothing else, install parallels on an external disk and start up a vm, unless you're going to turn it into a portable kiosk.
The geeks in the classes will make a killing doing clean installs for those who can't figure out how to do it themselves. It will also install a very healthy antipathy for authority, what isn't already created by the school officials' other, similarly misguided, actions.
All new hd tvs support hdcp, they don't require it (though some hd content providers like tivo do, but that's only link encryption); I play uncrippled HD content regularly. Likewise, sd cards were created to support drm, but no one uses it. Likewise, the macbooks may support drm, but can't require it (or the vast majority of content wouldn't work, which would kill them dead).
My idea of American 'culture' is fast food, celebrities, gas guzzling cars, and guns. Have I missed anything?
Apparently you're rather like many Americans, in believing that what the media likes to focus in is an accurate representation of reality.
"Culture" is rather like a zoom slider: at the very high level, you get some sort of a vague idea of what's there all blended together, but when you dial it in, you find that there is a wealth of variety in the details.
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Well, that's clever, everyone should do that. I'll have to teach my grandmother to write perl scripts
That's overkill: these are passwords and should be treated as such. Free associate some random words, twiddle it a bit to avoid a dictionary search and save it somewhere. Even grandma can do that.
..."swish and flick!"
They can start by honoring the "open in new window" setting. I hate tabs (with rare exceptions), but each successive release of Firefox seems to try harder to force me to use them...
...probably don't need to finish it...
There have always been, and always will be, good and bad teachers; it still *is* a good thing to encourage teaching of critical thinking skills, regardless of the topic. Some will get good skills, and some won't, but you have to try at least...
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In 1993, I heard about this "world wide web" thing and tried it. I think it was "www", some really awful command line tool. gopher worked far better at the time and was much easier to use. Then Mosaic came out and changed the world. I think you could have done a multimedia gopher along the same lines though; it maybe wouldn't have been quite as flexible, but as far as bandwidth consumption goes, media is media...
I have no problem putting books I buy elsewhere on my kindle, because none of the 200+ ebooks I have are DRM'd. If Amazon wants me to buy books from them, they'll drop DRM too.
People are for it, until they have to look at it (or listen to it, I hear they are pretty loud).
I had heard that too, and never understood it. I like the looks of them, and a few weeks ago, passed by a place where they happen to have put in a windfarm right next to a viewpoint (overlooking the Columbia River). I stopped, and while they were operating, I couldn't hear them. One was essentially on the other side of the freeway from me, and this was miles from anywhere --- occasional cars, but not a steady stream drowning them out. I'd love to have one in my backyard.
I understand the buffer usage, however the fact that it's had to page out 1.2G in the 5 days it's been up (did a system update) means that it's short of memory, just not terribly so. If I had more memory, there are a few other things I could do with the system...
Obviously you don't make full use of yours... This is the current state of my imac:
PhysMem: 761M wired, 1526M active, 716M inactive, 3010M used, 62M free.
VM: 13G + 374M 946799(0) pageins, 313514(0) pageouts
When I eject an optical disk from the drive, it's hot to the touch, and the vent on top makes a good handwarmer.
When I was setting up the mini I got for my parents a few months ago, I started BOINC on it. Within short order (half hour or so), it was hot to the touch. A little while later, the network stopped working (it would transmit and not receive or vica versa, I forget which) until I rebooted, and then it would work for a few minutes. It was ok after I reconfigured BOINC to only use 50% of the cpu, but sent it in for repair as it was no longer reliable. It's been running ok since that way.
Likewise, my Macbook Pro (1rst gen Intel) got so hot you couldn't put it on your lap until I installed smcfancontrol to up the fan speed; I use it as my HTPC for some things, and the internal temperature (reported by the same tool) typically runs up to 130+F even with the fan at 3000rpm. BOINC is out of the question, and I'd think twice about trying to do any video rendering on it.
Macs have a lot of nice things about the hardware, but heat management is not one of them.
FWIW, this is the state of my Mac Pro at home (w/6G ram):
PhysMem: 905M wired, 3087M active, 849M inactive, 4839M used, 1305M free.
VM: 19G + 374M 323753(0) pageins, 169268(0) pageouts
I don't believe in idle computers...
Good point; my imac is a first gen intel 24", which only supports 3G; I forgot the glossy ones did 4G (which is the other problem I have with the newer imacs: I want a display, not a mirror).
For the first time, both the mini and the imac have enough memory capacity to be useful. Now if only they'd learn how to keep their cool when you actually use them, and make key components (like disk drives) accessible for replacement, they'd be killer machines.
The kindle format is not amazon proprietary, it's mobipocket, which is one of the most commonly available formats. Though I always make sure that a book is available is an open format before I buy it (and I download the book in that format as well, "just in case"), either html or pdf (which, while proprietary, is open enough that there are non-proprietary readers). There is more interesting content available in open formats than I have time to read, so it's just not an issue. Also, at least at fictionwise.com, where I do all my shopping, I started with just pdf format for the Sony Reader. Later, they started supporting the native sony format, which works much better, so I redownloaded them. Having just received my Kindle 2, I redownloaded them again in the mobi format (which they've always supported). Never have I had to rebuy a book. That said, I would much prefer it if both the content providers and readers would adopt an open standard like epub...
Fictionwise.com has a number of non-drm'd books ("Multiformat") in all genres. There is more non-drm'd content that I'm interested in than I have time to read as it is, so the publishers forcing drm are shooting themselves.
Yeah, mine showed up today, and while it works decently, it's no replacement...
You never know until you try it...
There is a big difference between "disqualify" and "let's look at these other 100 resumes instead", and worse, bringing it up in the first place puts the association in mind even if they didn't do a web search.
I was wondering why there was a whole book on the Start Of Authority DNS record...
You're all telling me you don't think anyone's smart enough to figure out ways around those issues? If nothing else, install parallels on an external disk and start up a vm, unless you're going to turn it into a portable kiosk.
The geeks in the classes will make a killing doing clean installs for those who can't figure out how to do it themselves. It will also install a very healthy antipathy for authority, what isn't already created by the school officials' other, similarly misguided, actions.
yes, but on the level of a few mosquito bites, not a lion's
All new hd tvs support hdcp, they don't require it (though some hd content providers like tivo do, but that's only link encryption); I play uncrippled HD content regularly. Likewise, sd cards were created to support drm, but no one uses it. Likewise, the macbooks may support drm, but can't require it (or the vast majority of content wouldn't work, which would kill them dead).
If you don't buy crippled content in the first place, it's just wasted, unused, hardware.
My idea of American 'culture' is fast food, celebrities, gas guzzling cars, and guns. Have I missed anything?
Apparently you're rather like many Americans, in believing that what the media likes to focus in is an accurate representation of reality.
"Culture" is rather like a zoom slider: at the very high level, you get some sort of a vague idea of what's there all blended together, but when you dial it in, you find that there is a wealth of variety in the details.