...no matter who invented it or how old it really is - I still love to listen to radio. Both at home and abroad, and Im abroad a lot !!! When travelling its nice to tune in to the news from home, and when at home its nice to tune in to exotic station from abroad (all of course on shortwave that is). I often work in places that dont even have electricity, let alone internet access - my portable shortwave receiver never failed me. Call me oldfashioned or romantic, but ther just is something to tuning through the static and finding a familiar voice or sign/on tune just prior to the start of a program, and IMHO, radio gives you a much better take on whats going on in the world than just watching your local cable channel...
...a 1200bd was my first. My folks wouldnt buy me a 300bd one, and by the time I had saved enough - the first 1200 came out. I was the hero of the neighborhood for a while...everyone and his brother wanted to be my friend;-)
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...interesting stuff isnt it ?!? If youre interested in historical stuff, check out Stephen Segallers Nerds 2.0.1 - A Brief History of the Internet, or Bruce Sterlins The Hacker Crackdown or Eric Raymonds stuff at http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/ etc. When on his site especially check out A brief history of Hackerdom and Revenge of the Hackers...all pretty well written stuff. I can also recommend Peter Wayners Free For All. Am reading it right now, very nice book indeed !!!
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I just hope they think twice. Not that Im a Yahoo user, but it would definitely kill diversity. Keeping folks happy just by showing them what theyre used to is not a good idea. Just look at what happened to kids in Germany. Not that Germans (as a whole) are gresat English speakers, but at least younger folks used to know some. Since MTV has put on a German version noone bothers to learn any English anymore. Why the heck should we bother ??? Its all presented in German anyway - why use that thing called brain (whereever may be located) when we can happily live without it. Of course, Yahoo and the likes arent going to do too much for peoples education anyway, but why deprive folks of at least a little bit of whats going on beyond their own little backyards...???
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...no matter who invented it or how old it really is - I still love to listen to radio. Both at home and abroad, and Im abroad a lot !!! When travelling its nice to tune in to the news from home, and when at home its nice to tune in to exotic station from abroad (all of course on shortwave that is). I often work in places that dont even have electricity, let alone internet access - my portable shortwave receiver never failed me. Call me oldfashioned or romantic, but ther just is something to tuning through the static and finding a familiar voice or sign/on tune just prior to the start of a program, and IMHO, radio gives you a much better take on whats going on in the world than just watching your local cable channel...
...a 1200bd was my first. My folks wouldnt buy me a 300bd one, and by the time I had saved enough - the first 1200 came out. I was the hero of the neighborhood for a while...everyone and his brother wanted to be my friend ;-)
...interesting stuff isnt it ?!? If youre interested in historical stuff, check out Stephen Segallers Nerds 2.0.1 - A Brief History of the Internet, or Bruce Sterlins The Hacker Crackdown or Eric Raymonds stuff at http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/ etc. When on his site especially check out A brief history of Hackerdom and Revenge of the Hackers...all pretty well written stuff. I can also recommend Peter Wayners Free For All. Am reading it right now, very nice book indeed !!! Regards from Gemany, Thomas
...the best distro !!! Cmon, get a life - SuSE rulez !!! ;-) ;-) ;-)
I just hope they think twice. Not that Im a Yahoo user, but it would definitely kill diversity. Keeping folks happy just by showing them what theyre used to is not a good idea. Just look at what happened to kids in Germany. Not that Germans (as a whole) are gresat English speakers, but at least younger folks used to know some. Since MTV has put on a German version noone bothers to learn any English anymore. Why the heck should we bother ??? Its all presented in German anyway - why use that thing called brain (whereever may be located) when we can happily live without it. Of course, Yahoo and the likes arent going to do too much for peoples education anyway, but why deprive folks of at least a little bit of whats going on beyond their own little backyards...???