Newspapers need to focus. They are a good media for delivering detailed (and I do mean detailed, not just some slaped together artical with a lot of quotations.) reports of what the TV and Cable media only glosses over. If they are covering a primery, give me data. Tell me about the state, what do the voters think, are the rules governing that primary different from any other primary, are there any special laws about primarys in that state? In other words, the devel is in the details, and I want to know all of the relevant material.
Also, and this may seem obvious, print the news in the news articals and keep the op-ed's in the op-ed's colum. I may dislike a reporters politics, but as long as they tell me the news, as unbiased as possable, then I will respect their integrety. As for th op-ed colums, lets add more. I would like to see,(gasp!) real conservatives writing articals. (wow, even coverage, what a thought!) I would realy like to see liberals and conservativess debaiting the same issue, so that I the reader can see all sides of the situation. And give up the straw men. There is nothing that is more likly to make me abandon a news paper than a supposedly educated and trained editor treating a straw man as a real issue. If the editor is having trouble being objective, while representing his or her view about an issue have an associate write the artical.
Another thing that news papers mignt want to do is to add a section where they follow an issue. Usualy you only see somthing in the news paper when it is sensational. Well, newspaper lost that to TV, and they need to move on. I would like to see a (large) section, that follows story's reported in previous issues. It they told us about a new cancer drug, don't just say there is a drug, keep us updated. How did the clinical trials go? Are there any real (and I mean real, not just created) problems with the drug? How serious are they? If there was a train crash, dont just tell us who died, tell us who lived. Tell me about herroes from the crash.
I know this seams like a lot, and it is. But for newspapers do continue to flourish, they must find there place somewhere between TV and monthly periodicals. I hope that the place they find is one worth keeping.
The problem of people 'doing porn' on library terminals is easy to fix. You know how Best Buy, and CompUSA mirror to a large PUBLICLY VIEWABLE screen what is happening on the smaller monitor for Playstation and N64 games? Do the same thing in the library. Then if the person is surfing porn, not only will the attendent know, and be able to stop the person, but (IANAL but this might work) the person can be charged with a violation of the public decency code. And I do know that most library's can not buy 15 34' screens to put the stuff on, but even 1 30' screen should do the trick.
What happens if I bring this to my entrence exams for that college that uses lego's? Am I bringing supplies or a deadly weapon? Can I be arested? Does the college now need to add a disclaimer?
Acualy the point is that if the artist is out there, and he or she is any good then there is a fair chance that they will develop a loyal following. If they do not, well remember that survival of the fitist thing that they talked about in school? The real point is that it makes no difference if the artist is having trouble reaching the public. When a large organization or group of people say that my basic freedoms (of speech, and property, to name two) are less valuable than any artists privilige (and it is a privilige) to be heard by a large group of people, and to make money off of that audience then there is a HUGE problem.
P.S. Most major musicians do not write the music that they play anyway, it is writen by smaller musicians and sold (at a price that would make you cry) to Garth, Reba, and Puff Dady. For me to find truly good music, I learned about it from a friend (by hearing it at an underground party), then after using a fan sit and bootleg MP3 snipits (a briliant idea, copy the most recognizable 30 second of a song and set it free on the net, with info at the end on how to buy) to determin it was indeed what I was looking for, I ordered it from germany, and payed for airmail delivery to california (and got it in less than a week). And it still cost $2 less per CD that buying CD's at Tower or Best Buy. And due to my experience, I will most likly end up buying all of the CD's that the band has ever published. Now tell me about the good things that RIAA is doing for american artists again? (BTW no music store in the USA even knows that the band that I bought, exists. Good job RIAA!)
Uh... I hate to say this but, here goes: Yes, if you are behind on you taxes / morgage I can go down, pay the taxes / morgrage and take over the property (at least in california). Nice try with the analogy, but to dough.
You should instead have used one of the "custom CD" services to pich three tracks from each CD onto the custom one.
Last time I checked there was no site on the internet that allowed you to pick and chose from Clint Black, Reba Macantire, Ricky Martin, or any realy big name star. The only tracks that you can pick and chose from are no name bands (NOTICE: I like some no name brands) or classical noncopyrighted work. I tryed to pick some of my favorite songs / groups and they ALL were not listed (even some that I thought where no names.). The post you where addressing had it right. The only way to get the tracks you like is to buy all the CD's and create your own Mix CD. Technicaly it is illegal to do that, But as far as I am concerned as long as no one else is using the original CD's I am moraly ok in using the copied tracks. And if the lawyers don't like it thay can kiss my posterior. But if there are sites that that you have found that allows you to create CD's from realy big name's please email me and let me know, I am realy, truely, and honestly interested.
Since this is a state level law, and any federal law over rules a state law... (do you see where I am headed?) We just petition our congressional (Read federal) representatives to pass a law that make a software transaction aproximatly the same as a book transaction. Then they can pass all the UCITA type laws they want and they will have no effect.
I believe that you have been misslead. First, the founding fathers had no intention of creating a class of 'politicians'. The congressman (generic example) was supposed to be a citizen who was selected by his peers as someone who could represent their community's intrest to the other gathered representatives. Above that the congressman was supposed to look affter the greater good of the country. The position of a permanent politician is not what was intended, nor was the political party envisioned as an object of loyalty. As to judges, they where members of the community who where respected as having a great deal of common sense and as being someone who would take the data given them in a case and make a fair judgment (hence the name judge) in that case. A law was simply supposed to provide a bechmark against which to measure out judgment and justice, after all do we realy need a law to tell us that murder is wrong? No, but it was usefull for seperating self defense from murder and for applying a sentince to the case (e.g. murder = death sentince, by hanging). Now we have judges who make and break laws because the law disagrees with their personal preference.
My point is this, the person who was supposed to make laws was the tech, the farmer, the scientist, the butcher, the local banker, not a paid gunslinger who takes and gives gavors for money of prestiege. That is why our laws are not working, we have the wrong people making them and interpteting them.
Where I used to work we had to track our time on a time sheet and we hated it. But, the boss tracked his time on a small pocket tape recorder and had the secretary type it up for him. Not only did tracking his time on the tape recorder save time, but he could also make notes about the various jobs, and he could do it all as he was in his car, thereby making use of otherwise waisted time. So what do you think, is it realy keeping track of the time that we hate or is it the method used to keep track?
To track ducking is easy. Just have a sensor on the boot, at the knee, at the waist, and at the shoulder. It the person ducks the sensors will get closer to each other (this can me monitored from exterior sensors). As to jumping just measure the pressure that the person puts on the pad. It I weigh 100 lbs. at calibration, and I know have both feet on the ground and suddenly I only weigh 95 lbs. and then 90 lbs. and then 85 (you get the point). The system can extrapolate that my leg muscles are contracting( this in conjunction with the affore mentioned sensors). Then if my weight starts to increase (e.g. I start to push my legs down to JUMP) then it would be reflected by the environment. The only thing is that the 'floor' would need to be able to move up and down (as a unit, not as an individual ball and probably no more that 2 feet total distance). That way you could feel your feet leave the ground (and return).
One thing that always blows me away is that everyone assumes that we all like the same type of person. Nothing could be farther from the truth. I like red haired, green eyed, freckeled, pixie girls. My friend Mike likes Brown haired, brown eyed, pail skined girls. Do we like the same thing? No! My perfect mate would look like an oddball to Mike. And mikes 'type' does not interest me in the least. So what does this mean? It means that if you don't like red head's by all means do not date them. That way they will be availible for those who like red heads and are willing to accept (and value) them as they are. Be discriminating (look that up in the dictionary it means 'to make a carefull choice'.) that way everybody can get what they are looking for.
You indicate that having one of these devices will make a "geek"(TM) more anti-social. I dont think so heres why: I have a very bad memory for names. If I have one of these gadgets (and the right database program) when I meet a person at a party, then I can use this device to locate there record in my database and I will instantly know that my friend max warned me to never talk politics with this person (unless I am of his/her party) and that this person likes cats. Now I have a place to start a conversation with this individual (e.g "how is you cat?"). This device will allow users to share info about people they meet. This device stands to give geeks an edge in social setings, not the opposite.
Also thing about the busness uses: you are at a convention and a guy walk up and says "Hi, how are you!", now you just look up his gender/haircolor/eycolor/etc and you can respond, "Bruce, how did those merger talks go?". Admitidly you will need time to work out a database catolog system that works for you but with practice I could probably find you in under 10 seconds. And It would look better than responding "uh, who are you?".
And as to privacy concerns about such a database 1) I am makeing private comments in it for personal reference, so I am not going to share it with just anybody. 2) I will probably access it by name (at home) and by gender/picture (at a party) so it is not like it will be indexed by there SSN or anything.
As a fellow college student I have some advice. You know all that paper work that they handed you when you started attending the university? I believe that somewhere in there you will find an insurance info pack. I cleaned my room this year and found that my college has a plan that picks up the co-pay part of my parrents insurance, and I got a check for more than $500 as a result. Your school may be different but as I understand it at least basic and emergency care are covered by almost every college. If you have questions email me.
If you remember your history the British but a tax on tea, and letters (e.g. anything that had to be mailed). This was one of the factors that made the colonists so mad that they stages a revolution. Anyone see an interesting correlation here?
BTW: The British also tried to take away their right to free speech (see Communications Decency Act) and the right to keep and bear arms at the battle to Lexington and Concord (Now think of the Brady Bill).
I. They mention an icon on your desktop. A. This is impossable for technalogical reasons. As of know BIOS only understands how the Hard Drive Hardware works, not the file system. Will they support every knows Hard drive formating technique (e.g. DOS, FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, Extended2(linux), etc)? And if so what will they do when I install my new OS that uses FAT64(example)? Will the BIOS just assume it to be FAT32 and force write the icon to the right place thereby destroying my file system integrety? B. What if I have the Individual desktop feature turned on? How will BIOS with the above limitations know where to write? C. What if I am using Linux? It does not have a "Desktop", will the bios just destroy my HD in its atempt to write its data?
II. Who will get to buy the use of the splash screen type adds the artical mentioned? A. What happens when a virus sets the splash screen to a very detailed image of a nude woman, and my 7 year old son or doughter goes to turn on the computer next time? Of how will your mom/wife react when she goes to check her email and finds the afore mentioned image? And how about the same virus seting the Icon to send you to www.sex.com? Are we seeing a problem here? B. What if a Porn company offers Phenix X times its going rate for the use of the space, in this case there would not even be a virus involved. Don't even try to tell me that Phenix is smarter than to do that, they came up with the idea in the first place right? C. If Apple Buys the space then every PC would have a message encourageing the user to by an Apple to avoid the very type of add that they are now viewing.
III. If if updates off the internet they have to know how to connect using a modem or a network card, through a firewall, and proxy server. This is such a security risk I am not even going to go into it.
IV. If any of the this happens, my child is traumatized by a porno image, my data is ruined by their softare, or my network security is compromised by the software and damage results imagein the law suits that will follow, Phenix will be out of bussines in a mater of weeks.
My Fellow nerd, Some of us nerds do actualy excede the standary 5'2" geek image. I need 4XL because I have a 4XL chest and shoulder size (stop coughing, its true I am 6'6"), not 4XL waist line's. Just thought I would help break that geek mold a little more.
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Newspapers need to focus. They are a good media for delivering detailed (and I do mean detailed, not just some slaped together artical with a lot of quotations.) reports of what the TV and Cable media only glosses over. If they are covering a primery, give me data. Tell me about the state, what do the voters think, are the rules governing that primary different from any other primary, are there any special laws about primarys in that state? In other words, the devel is in the details, and I want to know all of the relevant material.
,(gasp!) real conservatives writing articals. (wow, even coverage, what a thought!) I would realy like to see liberals and conservativess debaiting the same issue, so that I the reader can see all sides of the situation. And give up the straw men. There is nothing that is more likly to make me abandon a news paper than a supposedly educated and trained editor treating a straw man as a real issue. If the editor is having trouble being objective, while representing his or her view about an issue have an associate write the artical.
Also, and this may seem obvious, print the news in the news articals and keep the op-ed's in the op-ed's colum. I may dislike a reporters politics, but as long as they tell me the news, as unbiased as possable, then I will respect their integrety. As for th op-ed colums, lets add more. I would like to see
Another thing that news papers mignt want to do is to add a section where they follow an issue. Usualy you only see somthing in the news paper when it is sensational. Well, newspaper lost that to TV, and they need to move on. I would like to see a (large) section, that follows story's reported in previous issues. It they told us about a new cancer drug, don't just say there is a drug, keep us updated. How did the clinical trials go? Are there any real (and I mean real, not just created) problems with the drug? How serious are they? If there was a train crash, dont just tell us who died, tell us who lived. Tell me about herroes from the crash.
I know this seams like a lot, and it is. But for newspapers do continue to flourish, they must find there place somewhere between TV and monthly periodicals. I hope that the place they find is one worth keeping.
yes there is a way to use credit cards for interpersonal transactions. Check out paypal.com. That should fit the bill.
The problem of people 'doing porn' on library terminals is easy to fix. You know how Best Buy, and CompUSA mirror to a large PUBLICLY VIEWABLE screen what is happening on the smaller monitor for Playstation and N64 games? Do the same thing in the library. Then if the person is surfing porn, not only will the attendent know, and be able to stop the person, but (IANAL but this might work) the person can be charged with a violation of the public decency code. And I do know that most library's can not buy 15 34' screens to put the stuff on, but even 1 30' screen should do the trick.
What happens if I bring this to my entrence exams for that college that uses lego's? Am I bringing supplies or a deadly weapon? Can I be arested? Does the college now need to add a disclaimer?
(It's funny, laugh)
Acualy the point is that if the artist is out there, and he or she is any good then there is a fair chance that they will develop a loyal following. If they do not, well remember that survival of the fitist thing that they talked about in school? The real point is that it makes no difference if the artist is having trouble reaching the public. When a large organization or group of people say that my basic freedoms (of speech, and property, to name two) are less valuable than any artists privilige (and it is a privilige) to be heard by a large group of people, and to make money off of that audience then there is a HUGE problem.
P.S. Most major musicians do not write the music that they play anyway, it is writen by smaller musicians and sold (at a price that would make you cry) to Garth, Reba, and Puff Dady.
For me to find truly good music, I learned about it from a friend (by hearing it at an underground party), then after using a fan sit and bootleg MP3 snipits (a briliant idea, copy the most recognizable 30 second of a song and set it free on the net, with info at the end on how to buy) to determin it was indeed what I was looking for, I ordered it from germany, and payed for airmail delivery to california (and got it in less than a week). And it still cost $2 less per CD that buying CD's at Tower or Best Buy. And due to my experience, I will most likly end up buying all of the CD's that the band has ever published. Now tell me about the good things that RIAA is doing for american artists again?
(BTW no music store in the USA even knows that the band that I bought, exists. Good job RIAA!)
Bang. (or for you perl fans "!")
It's funny, laugh.
Doesent this make all DVD players illegal? I mean they have technology to access the material. That makes it illegal. or did I read that wrong?
Uh... I hate to say this but, here goes: Yes, if you are behind on you taxes / morgage I can go down, pay the taxes / morgrage and take over the property (at least in california). Nice try with the analogy, but to dough.
You should instead have used one of the "custom CD" services to pich three tracks from each CD onto the custom one.
Last time I checked there was no site on the internet that allowed you to pick and chose from Clint Black, Reba Macantire, Ricky Martin, or any realy big name star. The only tracks that you can pick and chose from are no name bands (NOTICE: I like some no name brands) or classical noncopyrighted work. I tryed to pick some of my favorite songs / groups and they ALL were not listed (even some that I thought where no names.).
The post you where addressing had it right. The only way to get the tracks you like is to buy all the CD's and create your own Mix CD. Technicaly it is illegal to do that, But as far as I am concerned as long as no one else is using the original CD's I am moraly ok in using the copied tracks. And if the lawyers don't like it thay can kiss my posterior.
But if there are sites that that you have found that allows you to create CD's from realy big name's please email me and let me know, I am realy, truely, and honestly interested.
Since this is a state level law, and any federal law over rules a state law... (do you see where I am headed?) We just petition our congressional (Read federal) representatives to pass a law that make a software transaction aproximatly the same as a book transaction. Then they can pass all the UCITA type laws they want and they will have no effect.
I believe that you have been misslead. First, the founding fathers had no intention of creating a class of 'politicians'. The congressman (generic example) was supposed to be a citizen who was selected by his peers as someone who could represent their community's intrest to the other gathered representatives. Above that the congressman was supposed to look affter the greater good of the country. The position of a permanent politician is not what was intended, nor was the political party envisioned as an object of loyalty.
As to judges, they where members of the community who where respected as having a great deal of common sense and as being someone who would take the data given them in a case and make a fair judgment (hence the name judge) in that case. A law was simply supposed to provide a bechmark against which to measure out judgment and justice, after all do we realy need a law to tell us that murder is wrong? No, but it was usefull for seperating self defense from murder and for applying a sentince to the case (e.g. murder = death sentince, by hanging). Now we have judges who make and break laws because the law disagrees with their personal preference.
My point is this, the person who was supposed to make laws was the tech, the farmer, the scientist, the butcher, the local banker, not a paid gunslinger who takes and gives gavors for money of prestiege. That is why our laws are not working, we have the wrong people making them and interpteting them.
This is one of the best ideas I have yet to read this millinium. ;) I realy hope that this makes it through.
Where I used to work we had to track our time on a time sheet and we hated it. But, the boss tracked his time on a small pocket tape recorder and had the secretary type it up for him. Not only did tracking his time on the tape recorder save time, but he could also make notes about the various jobs, and he could do it all as he was in his car, thereby making use of otherwise waisted time.
So what do you think, is it realy keeping track of the time that we hate or is it the method used to keep track?
To track ducking is easy. Just have a sensor on the boot, at the knee, at the waist, and at the shoulder. It the person ducks the sensors will get closer to each other (this can me monitored from exterior sensors).
As to jumping just measure the pressure that the person puts on the pad. It I weigh 100 lbs. at calibration, and I know have both feet on the ground and suddenly I only weigh 95 lbs. and then 90 lbs. and then 85 (you get the point). The system can extrapolate that my leg muscles are contracting( this in conjunction with the affore mentioned sensors). Then if my weight starts to increase (e.g. I start to push my legs down to JUMP) then it would be reflected by the environment. The only thing is that the 'floor' would need to be able to move up and down (as a unit, not as an individual ball and probably no more that 2 feet total distance). That way you could feel your feet leave the ground (and return).
Did anyone else notice that the finding was posted in every format exept MS Word? Interesting.
Did anyone else notice that the finding was posted in every format exept MS Word? Interesting.
One thing that always blows me away is that everyone assumes that we all like the same type of person. Nothing could be farther from the truth. I like red haired, green eyed, freckeled, pixie girls. My friend Mike likes Brown haired, brown eyed, pail skined girls. Do we like the same thing? No! My perfect mate would look like an oddball to Mike. And mikes 'type' does not interest me in the least. So what does this mean? It means that if you don't like red head's by all means do not date them. That way they will be availible for those who like red heads and are willing to accept (and value) them as they are. Be discriminating (look that up in the dictionary it means 'to make a carefull choice'.) that way everybody can get what they are looking for.
I Code to Dune(Techno),
Enya(New Age/Celtic),
The Cheiftans (Irish/Celtic), &
Vivaldi (classical).
Wierd, huh?
You indicate that having one of these devices will make a "geek"(TM) more anti-social. I dont think so heres why: I have a very bad memory for names. If I have one of these gadgets (and the right database program) when I meet a person at a party, then I can use this device to locate there record in my database and I will instantly know that my friend max warned me to never talk politics with this person (unless I am of his/her party) and that this person likes cats. Now I have a place to start a conversation with this individual (e.g "how is you cat?"). This device will allow users to share info about people they meet. This device stands to give geeks an edge in social setings, not the opposite.
Also thing about the busness uses: you are at a convention and a guy walk up and says "Hi, how are you!", now you just look up his gender/haircolor/eycolor/etc and you can respond, "Bruce, how did those merger talks go?".
Admitidly you will need time to work out a database catolog system that works for you but with practice I could probably find you in under 10 seconds. And It would look better than responding "uh, who are you?".
And as to privacy concerns about such a database 1) I am makeing private comments in it for personal reference, so I am not going to share it with just anybody. 2) I will probably access it by name (at home) and by gender/picture (at a party) so it is not like it will be indexed by there SSN or anything.
As a fellow college student I have some advice. You know all that paper work that they handed you when you started attending the university? I believe that somewhere in there you will find an insurance info pack. I cleaned my room this year and found that my college has a plan that picks up the co-pay part of my parrents insurance, and I got a check for more than $500 as a result. Your school may be different but as I understand it at least basic and emergency care are covered by almost every college. If you have questions email me.
If you remember your history the British but a tax on tea, and letters (e.g. anything that had to be mailed). This was one of the factors that made the colonists so mad that they stages a revolution. Anyone see an interesting correlation here?
BTW: The British also tried to take away their right to free speech (see Communications Decency Act) and the right to keep and bear arms at the battle to Lexington and Concord (Now think of the Brady Bill).
I. They mention an icon on your desktop.
A. This is impossable for technalogical reasons. As of know BIOS only understands how the Hard Drive Hardware works, not the file system. Will they support every knows Hard drive formating technique (e.g. DOS, FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, Extended2(linux), etc)? And if so what will they do when I install my new OS that uses FAT64(example)? Will the BIOS just assume it to be FAT32 and force write the icon to the right place thereby destroying my file system integrety?
B. What if I have the Individual desktop feature turned on? How will BIOS with the above limitations know where to write?
C. What if I am using Linux? It does not have a "Desktop", will the bios just destroy my HD in its atempt to write its data?
II. Who will get to buy the use of the splash screen type adds the artical mentioned?
A. What happens when a virus sets the splash screen to a very detailed image of a nude woman, and my 7 year old son or doughter goes to turn on the computer next time? Of how will your mom/wife react when she goes to check her email and finds the afore mentioned image? And how about the same virus seting the Icon to send you to www.sex.com? Are we seeing a problem here?
B. What if a Porn company offers Phenix X times its going rate for the use of the space, in this case there would not even be a virus involved. Don't even try to tell me that Phenix is smarter than to do that, they came up with the idea in the first place right?
C. If Apple Buys the space then every PC would have a message encourageing the user to by an Apple to avoid the very type of add that they are now viewing.
III. If if updates off the internet they have to know how to connect using a modem or a network card, through a firewall, and proxy server. This is such a security risk I am not even going to go into it.
IV. If any of the this happens, my child is traumatized by a porno image, my data is ruined by their softare, or my network security is compromised by the software and damage results imagein the law suits that will follow, Phenix will be out of bussines in a mater of weeks.
P.S. Can you say "Open Source BIOS"?
My Fellow nerd, Some of us nerds do actualy excede the standary 5'2" geek image. I need 4XL because I have a 4XL chest and shoulder size (stop coughing, its true I am 6'6"), not 4XL waist line's. Just thought I would help break that geek mold a little more.