Fedora I installed for a "Grandma" about six months ago is still working for her. First thing, she made a beeline for the free spyware. When I explained why it wasn't for her and the trade-off in benefits, she understood.
I followed a Slashdot article to SimplyMEPIS the other month and put it on my recreational machine. It's Debian but the desktop continues to grow on me and I recommend it.
My wife still shudders at the Perrier embargo of '03 when all things French were evil and products weren't making it to our local grocery.
Basically, the U.S. is a brain, heart and soul dead shell with a lot of weapons. Even at our local metropolitan Mensa gathering we have to avoid the "Rush Limbaugh is God" table. This has all been analyzed and put on the bookshelves already. Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death. Berman's Twilight of American Culture.
Personally, I've decided I don't care. A purposeful Nazi or a pig-ignorant Nazi, they are both repugnant and I'm ashamed of my countrymen. But you have to realize that the American people are pig-ignorant. Forget quality public education, we don't even have free media. I gave up on so-called "liberal" public radio after the drumbeat to war in March of '03 when one of their shows headlined some guy from a military college on "Socrates, the soldiering years!" Talk about pseudo-intellectual target market warmongering taken to the ridiculous. If it weren't for the meager checks and balances of the internet, Clear Channel would probably be telling the U.S. heartland that most of the world has been taken over by aliens, so to speak.
Without the Russian's heavy lift capacity for re-supply, the ISS would have to be abandoned,
I don't know. The French launched a 4+ ton military satellite just the other week. That's a lot of Cheetos. And it looks like they plan to increase payload size considerably. Maybe they could help out with some of the launch detail if the U.S. can't do it anymore.
I have to wonder how much of its 'understanding' was hard-coded rather than purely abstract.
Baby steps, but the sort of essential baby steps that accumulate real technological progress. When the system discovers its _own_ non-trivial and useful rules, when it spontaneously parses our input to reply upon a self-generated "Oh, you mean......", then it gets scary.
But it seems like there was a good old time when the porn people didn't splatter across every single usenet group. If there was some funding to _control_, repeat CONTROL, not censor, I would be for it: DOTsex, DOTviagra, DOTpenisextension, DOTNigerianIncomeOpportunity, etc.
Look at amateur radio. You have to pass an exam. Decent equipment isn't cheap. There are intellectual, economic and regulatory hurdles to admission. And the crazies are relatively few and far between.
Sadly true. I knew a psychologist who thought it would be cool "giving back" by teaching evening intro psych at a community college. After she figured out that the course was paying her about the same as eight hours of her billed time, she became less enthusiastic about doing that again.
Now we know for sure we're getting our money's worth. Presumably, that is a Custom (TM) Software Assurance because the "custom" Windows they sell the Air Force will be so much better it will be incompatible with regular Windows?
Good points but I agree with the others that this will generally catch the low-hanging fruit. Guys who print out their money at the office. But they are out there -- like the high school teacher I read about who had his kiddy porn delivered to his school mailbox.
What do you bet a lot of people in Kansas (those who even _have_ internet access) have a cheap ISP that doesn't even have a news server? Kansas is in the heart of the "outback" running from north Texas through North Dakota where I think stories of rampant internet perversion are still most likely to play to the rubes. I find the buttons this dude is trying to push sociologically pretty understandable.
At least he hasn't gotten around to the concentration camps for liberals yet.
I disagree - van Gogh, Michaelangelo and Leonardo, all taught themselves technique and then got to where they were through relentless practice and perseverance.
One of the perks of living in a mediocre-sized metropolis with mediocre museums. "Here's we see the student El Greco studying in Italy on his way to Spain."
Thanks for the report. I've been a little dismayed reading the revision of history here with so many people calling WordPerfect "adequate". I used it extensively for over a decade and it was so vastly superior to Word. It just seemed like excellent systems analysis. WordPerfect must have started with a vision of what people wanted to do with document manipulation while Word is so clearly a bloated text editor.
What was one of the last articles in WordPerfect Magazine? A table of the "500 things Office 97 can't do that WordPerfect 7 (or 8?) can". We were circulating that article around campus like crazy trying to hold back Office because our department actually _used_ the range of WordPerfect's capabilities.
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Fedora I installed for a "Grandma" about six months ago is still working for her. First thing, she made a beeline for the free spyware. When I explained why it wasn't for her and the trade-off in benefits, she understood.
I followed a Slashdot article to SimplyMEPIS the other month and put it on my recreational machine. It's Debian but the desktop continues to grow on me and I recommend it.
My wife still shudders at the Perrier embargo of '03 when all things French were evil and products weren't making it to our local grocery.
Basically, the U.S. is a brain, heart and soul dead shell with a lot of weapons. Even at our local metropolitan Mensa gathering we have to avoid the "Rush Limbaugh is God" table. This has all been analyzed and put on the bookshelves already. Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death. Berman's Twilight of American Culture.
Personally, I've decided I don't care. A purposeful Nazi or a pig-ignorant Nazi, they are both repugnant and I'm ashamed of my countrymen. But you have to realize that the American people are pig-ignorant. Forget quality public education, we don't even have free media. I gave up on so-called "liberal" public radio after the drumbeat to war in March of '03 when one of their shows headlined some guy from a military college on "Socrates, the soldiering years!" Talk about pseudo-intellectual target market warmongering taken to the ridiculous. If it weren't for the meager checks and balances of the internet, Clear Channel would probably be telling the U.S. heartland that most of the world has been taken over by aliens, so to speak.
And they'd believe it.
Without the Russian's heavy lift capacity for re-supply, the ISS would have to be abandoned,
I don't know. The French launched a 4+ ton military satellite just the other week. That's a lot of Cheetos. And it looks like they plan to increase payload size considerably. Maybe they could help out with some of the launch detail if the U.S. can't do it anymore.
http://fr.news.yahoo.com/041218/85/46rpb.html
#!/bin/sh
DATE=`date +%d-%m-%Y`
# Adjust mixer settings
/usr/bin/aumix -l 100 -v 100
# Run radio -- parameter is station frequency
/usr/bin/radio -qf $1
sox -t ossdsp -w -s -r 44100 -c 2 /dev/dsp -t raw - | lame -x -m s - /radio/$DATE.mp3
exit 0
(Run from cron as needed)
Or you might look into wrapping your player in the vsound program, feeding it the mms parameter, and piping the output as above.
Why are you coming down on the guy? His advise is as clear and thorough as a typical linux man page.
It's a coalition of the willing?
I have to wonder how much of its 'understanding' was hard-coded rather than purely abstract.
Baby steps, but the sort of essential baby steps that accumulate real technological progress. When the system discovers its _own_ non-trivial and useful rules, when it spontaneously parses our input to reply upon a self-generated "Oh, you mean......", then it gets scary.
Epistemology is a big word.
Exactly. Seems like a cheap excuse to lever something like the DMCA into Indian law. Unfortunate.
But they'll pay you back with a free 6'x6' cage in the sunny Caribbean for -- years, maybe.
No proof needed for admission.
Could be a sign of aging....
But it seems like there was a good old time when the porn people didn't splatter across every single usenet group. If there was some funding to _control_, repeat CONTROL, not censor, I would be for it: DOTsex, DOTviagra, DOTpenisextension, DOTNigerianIncomeOpportunity, etc.
Look at amateur radio. You have to pass an exam. Decent equipment isn't cheap. There are intellectual, economic and regulatory hurdles to admission. And the crazies are relatively few and far between.
Then take a while to listen to CB radio......
No test is a failure.
I assume the contractors got paid.
Count me in on anything that makes FOSS omnipresent in the popular mindscape.
And the RFID tag can label the urine drug test.
Sadly true. I knew a psychologist who thought it would be cool "giving back" by teaching evening intro psych at a community college. After she figured out that the course was paying her about the same as eight hours of her billed time, she became less enthusiastic about doing that again.
Now we know for sure we're getting our money's worth. Presumably, that is a Custom (TM) Software Assurance because the "custom" Windows they sell the Air Force will be so much better it will be incompatible with regular Windows?
Good points but I agree with the others that this will generally catch the low-hanging fruit. Guys who print out their money at the office. But they are out there -- like the high school teacher I read about who had his kiddy porn delivered to his school mailbox.
What do you bet a lot of people in Kansas (those who even _have_ internet access) have a cheap ISP that doesn't even have a news server? Kansas is in the heart of the "outback" running from north Texas through North Dakota where I think stories of rampant internet perversion are still most likely to play to the rubes. I find the buttons this dude is trying to push sociologically pretty understandable.
At least he hasn't gotten around to the concentration camps for liberals yet.
Or move to the EU.
I wouldn't be averse to a foreign corporation. But what if 90% of your business would be with the U.S. anyway?
Or telling that mom-N-pop day care that they can't have a Mickey Mouse wall painting.
I disagree - van Gogh, Michaelangelo and Leonardo, all taught themselves technique and then got to where they were through relentless practice and perseverance.
One of the perks of living in a mediocre-sized metropolis with mediocre museums. "Here's we see the student El Greco studying in Italy on his way to Spain."
We've probably dreamed staring into the glow of filaments as much as musicians.
Thanks for the report. I've been a little dismayed reading the revision of history here with so many people calling WordPerfect "adequate". I used it extensively for over a decade and it was so vastly superior to Word. It just seemed like excellent systems analysis. WordPerfect must have started with a vision of what people wanted to do with document manipulation while Word is so clearly a bloated text editor.
What was one of the last articles in WordPerfect Magazine? A table of the "500 things Office 97 can't do that WordPerfect 7 (or 8?) can". We were circulating that article around campus like crazy trying to hold back Office because our department actually _used_ the range of WordPerfect's capabilities.
When it is $10 at the neighborhood Microcenter after a $20 store rebate and $30 manufacturer's rebate, it's time to upgrade.
I printed out about 100 copies of an activist
Felt better than watching Cheers reruns.
Or, frankly, when there is ebay!