My sentiments exactly. I am really not seeing the reason to go and redesign such a simple and reliable piece of core functionality. Just leave it the hell alone and go fix something that needs fixing.
I think an e-reader is the go. I recently received a kindle as a present and think it is great. Battery lasts weeks, screen is easy to read, it's slim and light and it doesn't try to do a million things poorly. It serves one purpose and serves it well. I also don't have to worry about storing heaps of books and can take my entire library with me wherever I go.
I find it interesting that they are so determined to put the ribbon interface everywhere, yet they went the opposite way with IE9 and reduce interface clutter...
The push for this is very strong from the Australian Christian Lobby. Their director, Jim Wallace has been on the radio in debates about this and his words used when referring to the Government's policy is "what WE'RE trying to do.."
It seems the ACL has direct input in the formation and implementation of this policy. It's completely rigged and a total crock of shit.
I don't think that's how it is. The Coalition, Greens and Nick Xenophon do not support this. That only leaves the ALP and Fielding. They won't get it through with the way things are now.
I agree, after spending a fair amount of time with the Tablet PC we have at work I am not very impressed with the voice recognition. It takes many hours of training to even get it to be anything near useable. It's certainly not ready for prime time in my opinion.
I agree with the potential for the server market, think about the exponential increase in computing power someone like google will achieve. Considering they have PCs numbering in the hundreds of thousands. Thats a massive boost.
Its nice to see some people taking advantage of the mozilla source and putting in the effort to make the browser that mozilla should have been in the first place.
This is the way broadband in australia has always been, every broadband service in the country (there aren't many) has some form of download limit. Some ISPs here are fair (optus) while others are rather stingy (telstra, my ISP) when it comes to download quotas.
It really is good to see people finally doing something towards a good cause, rather than attempting to create destruction. I certainly hope it continues.
I really don't think it's right for someone to have the ability to be able to interfere into someone's life like this. There are some things which just need to be left alone.
I know I certainly would not be comfortable knowing someone was watching everything I did, no matter whether it is illegal or not.
I'd certainly tend to agree with you there. I am learning to code myself in the hopes that one day I will be able to contribute something to the community which has served me so well.
Many linux users can often expect too much, open source is not there to be complained about, it is there to be improved.
I hope more users realise this, and stop expecting open source programmers to create a product which will do every single thing they want. It is impossible to accomodate to every users needs. However, with open source the individual has the ability to cater for their own needs.
Consider open source to be like a buffet, YOU choose what YOU want to eat.
Living forever would be terrible, if one lived forever then things like motivation would be gone. Why would you need to do something if you had forever to do it in?. Life would be terribly boring, and I imagine the fun would be taken out of most things.
It is stupid for them to do this, all they are doing is just shutting out potential users. I guess large companies like AOL just hate not having a monopoly on things.
I agree with most of your ideas, however it's not Linus who is in control of what happens outside the kernel. He only works on the kernel. The kernel is what he created in 1991, and it's what he still works on today.
It is the commercial distributions who like to attempt to aim their products at desktop and home users. I personally don't like the idea, and is half the reason I love debian:). I may switch to FreeBSD one day.....
There is always some form of pitfall whenever a technology is discovered that will allow something to be achieved more easily.
As the rule states:
For every reaction there is an equal and opposite reaction.
i.e every time we find something that will complete a task 10x faster, we screw the environment over 10x more.
I'm not saying parenting is entirely made up of this. There are many aspects to parenting. I was as you say, just pointing out that this makes up one of the components of parenting and controls like this will allow parents to be safe in the knowledge that their children are not viewing content that they disapprove of. It should, of course, be explained to the child as to why they have been blocked from viewing that sort of content.
I would have thought electronic retailers were less naive than this. There are naturally people who are going to be attempting/doing this sort of thing. Working in retail, I know that people are always willing to try to weasle their way out of paying even a dollar more if they can. What better way to get something cheap than to choose the price yourself??.
I agree, I think parents should have every right to control what their children view and interact with. I believe it's called parenting and I see no problem with it either.
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My sentiments exactly. I am really not seeing the reason to go and redesign such a simple and reliable piece of core functionality. Just leave it the hell alone and go fix something that needs fixing.
You can now buy an MPEG-2 license for the Pi. See http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/1839
I think an e-reader is the go. I recently received a kindle as a present and think it is great. Battery lasts weeks, screen is easy to read, it's slim and light and it doesn't try to do a million things poorly. It serves one purpose and serves it well. I also don't have to worry about storing heaps of books and can take my entire library with me wherever I go.
I find it interesting that they are so determined to put the ribbon interface everywhere, yet they went the opposite way with IE9 and reduce interface clutter...
The push for this is very strong from the Australian Christian Lobby. Their director, Jim Wallace has been on the radio in debates about this and his words used when referring to the Government's policy is "what WE'RE trying to do.."
It seems the ACL has direct input in the formation and implementation of this policy. It's completely rigged and a total crock of shit.
I don't think that's how it is. The Coalition, Greens and Nick Xenophon do not support this. That only leaves the ALP and Fielding. They won't get it through with the way things are now.
I am with you!, I wonder if they also have the machine that goes "bing"?.
I agree, after spending a fair amount of time with the Tablet PC we have at work I am not very impressed with the voice recognition. It takes many hours of training to even get it to be anything near useable. It's certainly not ready for prime time in my opinion.
I agree with the potential for the server market, think about the exponential increase in computing power someone like google will achieve. Considering they have PCs numbering in the hundreds of thousands. Thats a massive boost.
Its nice to see some people taking advantage of the mozilla source and putting in the effort to make the browser that mozilla should have been in the first place.
This is the way broadband in australia has always been, every broadband service in the country (there aren't many) has some form of download limit. Some ISPs here are fair (optus) while others are rather stingy (telstra, my ISP) when it comes to download quotas.
It really is good to see people finally doing something towards a good cause, rather than attempting to create destruction. I certainly hope it continues.
I really don't think it's right for someone to have the ability to be able to interfere into someone's life like this. There are some things which just need to be left alone.
I know I certainly would not be comfortable knowing someone was watching everything I did, no matter whether it is illegal or not.
I'd certainly tend to agree with you there. I am learning to code myself in the hopes that one day I will be able to contribute something to the community which has served me so well.
Many linux users can often expect too much, open source is not there to be complained about, it is there to be improved.
I hope more users realise this, and stop expecting open source programmers to create a product which will do every single thing they want. It is impossible to accomodate to every users needs. However, with open source the individual has the ability to cater for their own needs.
Consider open source to be like a buffet, YOU choose what YOU want to eat.
Living forever would be terrible, if one lived forever then things like motivation would be gone. Why would you need to do something if you had forever to do it in?. Life would be terribly boring, and I imagine the fun would be taken out of most things.
Well, that's my $0.02 anyway.
yes, we could call it SIM (Slashdot Instant Messenger).
It is stupid for them to do this, all they are doing is just shutting out potential users. I guess large companies like AOL just hate not having a monopoly on things.
I agree with most of your ideas, however it's not Linus who is in control of what happens outside the kernel. He only works on the kernel. The kernel is what he created in 1991, and it's what he still works on today.
:). I may switch to FreeBSD one day.....
It is the commercial distributions who like to attempt to aim their products at desktop and home users. I personally don't like the idea, and is half the reason I love debian
There is always some form of pitfall whenever a technology is discovered that will allow something to be achieved more easily.
As the rule states:
For every reaction there is an equal and opposite reaction.
i.e every time we find something that will complete a task 10x faster, we screw the environment over 10x more.
I'm not saying parenting is entirely made up of this. There are many aspects to parenting. I was as you say, just pointing out that this makes up one of the components of parenting and controls like this will allow parents to be safe in the knowledge that their children are not viewing content that they disapprove of. It should, of course, be explained to the child as to why they have been blocked from viewing that sort of content.
I would have thought electronic retailers were less naive than this. There are naturally people who are going to be attempting/doing this sort of thing. Working in retail, I know that people are always willing to try to weasle their way out of paying even a dollar more if they can. What better way to get something cheap than to choose the price yourself??.
I agree, I think parents should have every right to control what their children view and interact with. I believe it's called parenting and I see no problem with it either.
What exactly are you referring to?