The people were sold out by the Telecommunications act of 1996 - check out section 202 of this
Basically what it does is takes away the old rule that a person can't own more than one media outlet of any certain type in a certain area. Although it allows for competition by regulating the number of radio stations in a city it seems like a big buisness friendly move to me...
More exactly it is a ploy to eploit the global market at the multinational level while keeping those beneath that level out in the cold. Also a set up for a second offense for bootleggers who import films - now they are breaking the DMCA by reverse engineering the encoding process...
This is worth modding up - It's the first post that I've seen that notes the differences between HDTV ready and HDTV. Most TVs sold today are HDTV ready. They do not have a tuner built in that can decode the signals properly, so this will need to be bought seperately - most stores don't sell one yet. An HDTV is worth looking at if you want it as a monitor - a DVD player with progressive scan can use it for instance. I want to hook up a computer to it but I haven't done the research to see what's the best way to do it yet. Any info on that would be appreciated...
There are special codes to get into an advanced convergence menu on Mitzubishi Projection TVs. I'm sure there are similar menus on other TV's. Also one can get technicians to come out to your house to do the alignment themselves - sometimes these are part of a pre-pay package deal that also includes the normal in store warranty when you buy the T.V.
Try it... If you notice a difference then go with it. If not then who cares? I tend to agree with the AC who says that you are wasting your time with expensive headphones on your PC - there is so much hum coming out of the average setup that cheaper speakers often sound better that expensive ones - they reproduce sound less faithfully and ignore the hum...
The newer cards process sound instead of making the CPU do it - This accounts for the boost in preformance...
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The Live was made to do sound in real time, not to make quality sound. This is why people buy professional sound cards - they are made to make great sound, but not to do it quickly. I think that the live sounds O.K. but still muddy. Through a good stereo system it sounds terrible. I guess that the same people who spent a couple grand on a home theater system (And wanted to play through it...) would buy this card.
It can work - just that there needs to be something else on the side. Red Hat sells support. Apple sells the GUI on top of Darwin. The most succesful endevors in the IT world have had both open and closed source components. Any idelolgy carried to the extreme breaks down eventually.
Of course this assumes Sun or Apple or such would allow that to happen. Apple just finished killing off all the clones. Sun makes most of their money on hardware. For some reason I don't see them going for it....
Your question was "Would you rather your taxes were spent keeping these kids in prison?"
I answered it.
And since "90% of the candidates he finds are drug addicts" they have habitually committed at least one crime - odds are more than that one.
Your question about charity - I have, and contiune to donate my time teaching. I used to teach children martial arts - for free. I now teach people how to use and set up their computers - for free. I make time for strugling students in classes that I take in my "spare" time at the local college - for free.
I have much charity in me - I just choose to use mine on people who are already working to make their lives better. I think they deserve it first.
How is that fair to someone who worked full time, went to school full time at the same time for 2 to 4 years to learn skills that pay a similar amount? I'm not saying that there's any easy solution to this, I am asking where is the reward for a person like me who spent 2 years of his life eating whatever they could afford, working at a lumber mill working his butt off to make a better life.
So I guess yeah - I would rather see those kids sit in prison. Rehabilitation should happen after you finish punnishment.
Some car companies do... Check out Consumer Reports for info cars and how often they break down. Some leave the company with a 10 % failure rate on parts.
Beyond that though, the computer industry is hard to troubleshoot for. With an OS, hardware and software all interacting there are often problems. For instance this morning a user called me with problems printing to one printer in the plant from adobe reader. Every other app prints fine. Adobe reader prints fine to every other printer I tried. Is the problem with adobe, the print driver or the OS? A case could be made for all three...
While I agree that there is room for improvement in the industry the combination of uneducated end users, software that can be built by anyone, a bloated OS that supports 30 year old technology and hardware that can break down, knowing where to start is a monumental task - much less fixing the "problem"
Not to mention being able to replace any piece of hardware in my system with what was on the BeOS HCL and have it "Just Work" When I did an upgrade from a p-200 system with a SB awe 64 and ati graphics to a dual p3 450 with TNT2 graphics, and SB live sound the system booted right away and "saw" all the changes.
I like spending time on my computer, not spending time with my computer in driver therapy...
A paper on this topic could be absurdly long - mostly because open source only implies that the source is avalible to the general public.
I think the real opposition that people see is the way that certain licences are friendlier to certain groups. For instance, the GPL is not friendly to traditional buisness where the BSD licence is more so. The BSD licence is allows later closed sourcing of previously open sourced software. Each licence gives the writer, the publisher and the general public different rights, so each licence will have it's own crusaders...
BSD is on the verge of becoming the largest installed base of *nix on the planet with the adoption of it by Apple for the base of OS X. Beyond that, as a self professed newbie, even if BSD were to disappear 2 months from now, the skills you will learn from BSD should be easily transferable.
Our company constantly has problems with buying backup tapes. Recently the legal department where I work said keep all the tape backups - don't rotate any more - use a new tape every day. So we do some quick math - 23 or so servers times about 23 backup days (5 day roataion - 1 month of tapes) ~ 500 tapes. So we order.
The message comes back - just order 1 month at a time... So we order again 500 tapes...
Now the fight starts to get a room for them all...
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The people were sold out by the Telecommunications act of 1996 - check out section 202 of this
Basically what it does is takes away the old rule that a person can't own more than one media outlet of any certain type in a certain area. Although it allows for competition by regulating the number of radio stations in a city it seems like a big buisness friendly move to me...
I could not get slrn to work - the program would not accept keyboard inputs. S-lang libraries worked fine though...
More exactly it is a ploy to eploit the global market at the multinational level while keeping those beneath that level out in the cold. Also a set up for a second offense for bootleggers who import films - now they are breaking the DMCA by reverse engineering the encoding process...
Uhh - buy cds with better music?
This is worth modding up - It's the first post that I've seen that notes the differences between HDTV ready and HDTV. Most TVs sold today are HDTV ready. They do not have a tuner built in that can decode the signals properly, so this will need to be bought seperately - most stores don't sell one yet. An HDTV is worth looking at if you want it as a monitor - a DVD player with progressive scan can use it for instance. I want to hook up a computer to it but I haven't done the research to see what's the best way to do it yet. Any info on that would be appreciated...
There are special codes to get into an advanced convergence menu on Mitzubishi Projection TVs. I'm sure there are similar menus on other TV's. Also one can get technicians to come out to your house to do the alignment themselves - sometimes these are part of a pre-pay package deal that also includes the normal in store warranty when you buy the T.V.
Try it... If you notice a difference then go with it. If not then who cares? I tend to agree with the AC who says that you are wasting your time with expensive headphones on your PC - there is so much hum coming out of the average setup that cheaper speakers often sound better that expensive ones - they reproduce sound less faithfully and ignore the hum...
The newer cards process sound instead of making the CPU do it - This accounts for the boost in preformance...
The Live was made to do sound in real time, not to make quality sound. This is why people buy professional sound cards - they are made to make great sound, but not to do it quickly. I think that the live sounds O.K. but still muddy. Through a good stereo system it sounds terrible. I guess that the same people who spent a couple grand on a home theater system (And wanted to play through it...) would buy this card.
So the reviews read:
"Runs fast - doesn't look as good as it could" I've felt that way about Nvidia's offerings for a long time...
It can work - just that there needs to be something else on the side. Red Hat sells support. Apple sells the GUI on top of Darwin. The most succesful endevors in the IT world have had both open and closed source components. Any idelolgy carried to the extreme breaks down eventually.
Of course this assumes Sun or Apple or such would allow that to happen. Apple just finished killing off all the clones. Sun makes most of their money on hardware. For some reason I don't see them going for it....
Your question was "Would you rather your taxes were spent keeping these kids in prison?"
I answered it.
And since "90% of the candidates he finds are drug addicts" they have habitually committed at least one crime - odds are more than that one.
Your question about charity - I have, and contiune to donate my time teaching. I used to teach children martial arts - for free. I now teach people how to use and set up their computers - for free. I make time for strugling students in classes that I take in my "spare" time at the local college - for free.
I have much charity in me - I just choose to use mine on people who are already working to make their lives better. I think they deserve it first.
Feel free to disagree.
It's hard if you've never done it before and don't know where to look.
How is that fair to someone who worked full time, went to school full time at the same time for 2 to 4 years to learn skills that pay a similar amount? I'm not saying that there's any easy solution to this, I am asking where is the reward for a person like me who spent 2 years of his life eating whatever they could afford, working at a lumber mill working his butt off to make a better life.
So I guess yeah - I would rather see those kids sit in prison. Rehabilitation should happen after you finish punnishment.
Some car companies do... Check out Consumer Reports for info cars and how often they break down. Some leave the company with a 10 % failure rate on parts.
Beyond that though, the computer industry is hard to troubleshoot for. With an OS, hardware and software all interacting there are often problems. For instance this morning a user called me with problems printing to one printer in the plant from adobe reader. Every other app prints fine. Adobe reader prints fine to every other printer I tried. Is the problem with adobe, the print driver or the OS? A case could be made for all three...
While I agree that there is room for improvement in the industry the combination of uneducated end users, software that can be built by anyone, a bloated OS that supports 30 year old technology and hardware that can break down, knowing where to start is a monumental task - much less fixing the "problem"
Not to mention being able to replace any piece of hardware in my system with what was on the BeOS HCL and have it "Just Work" When I did an upgrade from a p-200 system with a SB awe 64 and ati graphics to a dual p3 450 with TNT2 graphics, and SB live sound the system booted right away and "saw" all the changes.
I like spending time on my computer, not spending time with my computer in driver therapy...
Of course another thing that was great about the BeOS was the general lack of flaming in the user community...
A paper on this topic could be absurdly long - mostly because open source only implies that the source is avalible to the general public.
I think the real opposition that people see is the way that certain licences are friendlier to certain groups. For instance, the GPL is not friendly to traditional buisness where the BSD licence is more so. The BSD licence is allows later closed sourcing of previously open sourced software. Each licence gives the writer, the publisher and the general public different rights, so each licence will have it's own crusaders...
BSD is on the verge of becoming the largest installed base of *nix on the planet with the adoption of it by Apple for the base of OS X. Beyond that, as a self professed newbie, even if BSD were to disappear 2 months from now, the skills you will learn from BSD should be easily transferable.
Our company constantly has problems with buying backup tapes. Recently the legal department where I work said keep all the tape backups - don't rotate any more - use a new tape every day. So we do some quick math - 23 or so servers times about 23 backup days (5 day roataion - 1 month of tapes) ~ 500 tapes. So we order.
The message comes back - just order 1 month at a time... So we order again 500 tapes...
Now the fight starts to get a room for them all...