It appears that you are using "fit" as: being able to continue your genetic line. While this is classic Darwinism the OP was asking (possibly sarcastically) if there is now a different definition of "fit": that is, "fit to make money".
It certainly appears to me that some people are just cut out to make money and do well in our economy. Whether that's a genetic or environmental trait I just don't know... but it is hard to ignore that some bloodlines appear to just do better in the economy. Now, at the highest end there is some "in-breeding" in that once a certain line _has_ money it becomes easier to sustain that wealth. But, I have been witness to many lines that are also currently on the rise... where two generations ago their grandparents were "poor" and every generation has improved their position in the economy... it does make you wonder if there is a "trait" (either inherited or learned) for making more money that is being propagated down the bloodlines. From my own personal experience it appears this "trait" is _working hard_... and is learned from the parents....
This is something I've said for a said for a while now.
Back when "Tracking Cookies" were the end of the world (well, not that they are a lesser evil now... but you don't hear quite as much about them) I always maintained that I _want_ advertisers to know all about me! You _know_ that you're going to get spam/advertisements so why not get _relevant_ spam and advertisements?
This is also the reason that everytime I get a call and am asked to do a survery I _always_ do it. If they are asking someone's opinion it might as well be mine!
In general, I'm just not very worried about privacy. I live a pretty open life and am enjoying the benefits of doing so everyday (with services like Google catering to my every need).
This is the default with Wine... and I believe it's also the way crossover office works. You have to go in and specify that you want a "desktop" to get one. Also... the window borders with wine are actually drawn using your window manager in linux... so you don't even get the ugly XP titlebar and stuff.
So what "feature" is it that is missing from Wine that you see here?
There is no way that that 4:3 ratio LCD panel for $140 is an "HDTV" (that is, capable of accepting 720p or 1080i). What you were most likely seeing is an LCD TV... there is a big difference.
I actually consider this counter-productive. Wal-Mart/Target and the like are selling people on "Low cost HDTV!" when in reality, what they are selling isn't HD at all. People snap them up because they don't know better... therefore flooding the market with even _more_ TV's that aren't HD capable...
I've been helping several extended family members by HDTV's lately. They all have different needs/wants/budgets.... but after showing them what to look for and how the stores are flat out deceiving them, they all ended up with fairly good sets. More than for any other technology, consumers need to educate themselves before buying an HDTV. There are so many pitfalls and so much deceptive advertising that I don't see how any non-techie can even have a hope of getting a good deal.
I personally trust a company I'm paying to do a service for me... more than I trust myself. I originally started using Flickr because you get unlimited space for only $25 a month... and they will keep the photos forever. My computers are in a constant state of flux... I'm always trying new software or buying new hardware or whatever. I'm more worried about me accidentally deleting years worth of pictures than I am of Flickr erasing them.
But what's stopping you from doing both? I certainly keep all of my photos on my computers as well as on Flickr. No one's holding a gun to your head and saying "Once you upload that photo you _must_ delete it from your hardrive!". Redundancy is good.
Now, if you have, ummm... sensitive photos..... I probably wouldn't upload those. So your "b)" point is definitely valid.
Ummm... I think you have the wrong idea about how you pay for Flickr.
It's just $25 for a year... with 2GB a month of upload and unlimited storage space. If you are taking more than 2GB of pictures a month then you have special needs... and probably should consider buying your own server and loading it up with a bunch of RAID.
I've been paying for Flickr for a little while now... and have been _very_ satisfied. $25 a month to store my photos forever is a steal.
You people _do_ know that iTunes can rip to MP3 just as well as AAC right? Sure MP3 isn't the default, but it takes all of 5 seconds to change. I use iTunes this way... and when I'm in Linux Amarok automatically pics up my iTunes MP3's... CD art, artist name, genre and all.
My workstation at school is a turbo-cache Quadro card with ony 128MB of RAM... which means I can only open a couple of windows before they start going black... sigh.
Have you really spent significant time in Missouri? I sincerely doubt it.
While I do know some people who say "warsh" it is no where near 9 out of 10 (maybe 1 out of 30). I think you might be thinking of Arkansas (not to dig on Arkansas... but everyone I know from Arkansas seriously does say warsh).
But anyway... arguing on the internet and all that...
Actually... the man is more on the spot than you know.
I grew up in Missouri... and in my home city one of the larger industries is the call center industry. There are litterally dozens of _very_ large call centers in the city to choose from and they actually all pay well and give good benefits (they are competing for the workforce).
The reason they're all in Missouri is because of the accent... ie. none. Most Missourians (disregarding the hill-billys!) have a fairly neutral accent which lends itself well to call centers. The land is also pretty cheap and the taxes are fairly low... combining for a great place to plop a phone center.
So, anyway, yes... there is a lot of call-center outsourcing... but I do know that there are still a lot of call-centers here in the US and specifically in Missouri.
"it's an IT project that apparently didn't require an army of consultants, a $12billion appropriation and seven years to implement!"
How do you know that? I bet there was still a $12Billion dollar appropriation and an army of consultants... seriously... really. I've worked for the government.... nothing gets done without an army of consultants and _lots_ o cash.
I'm also very promiscuous with my email address... and just like you it's because Gmail takes care of all the crap, simply and effectively.
I've been noticing a Spam surge recently... but only because I keep an eye on my gmail spam category. Right now it reads thus:
Spam (5343)
That number represents the # of Spam in the last 30 days for those that don't use Gmail. For a while now I've hovered around 2000 or so... but it's been steadily climbing over the last several months. Luckily Gmail does a good job and I only end up with a piece of spam in my inbox a couple of times a week. At 20 a day flowing in, that's fine with me (and of course it's easy to spot Spam in Gmail and slap the Report Spam button without losing much time).
It is simply amazing to me that someone out there is actually giving money to these bastards! I don't know a single person who has ever responded to a piece of spam... _ever_. And I hope I never meet one... 'cause they are going to get an ear full. If only people wouldn't respond to the ads the market would dry up and go away... so, to me, the big problem here are the idiots that keep the spammers in business...
I actually use a touchscreen all day long... my Tablet PC. In some senses it's kind of worse than what's shown in this video... because I rest my whole hand on it for a long amount of time while I take notes in class.
So does it get dirty? Yep... after a couple of weeks of use it gets a pretty good film on it. Is it bothersome? Nope. Unless you are looking for it you really can't tell... it's actually the texture that let's me know when it's dirty (it's not quite as slick to write on). I just carry some windex wipes with me and wipe it down a couple of times a month... no big deal.
Now... like some of the other people have said... take a look at your keyboard... mine is infinitely more dirty than the screen on my tablet PC. Even if I did wipe it down a couple of times a month (which I don't... well.. I brush it off maybe when I'm dusting... but not really clean it) it wouldn't be as clean as a freshly wiped down piece of glass.
Being from the Tablet PC crowd I've really grown attached to being able to interact with my computer through my "fingertips". To me, this video was really cool... and I hope the tech comes down to us lowly consumers as fast as possible...
That's too bad... it's working for me with WPA... when I try to connect to my home network it just gives me a password dialog and I input the WPA passphrase... no problems at all.
Hmmm... NetworkManager (the little applet that sits in your applet tray in Gnome/KDE) works great for me.... what chipset do you have? I'm using an Intel 2200BG and after dropping the firmware in the correct directory everything worked immediately....
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Completely agree.
Fedora is definitely the worst offender when it comes to KDE support. Instead of their crappy old "blue curve" theme and replacing all the KDE default apps with crappy gnome ones (File Roller anyone?) it would be much preferable for them to just leave KDE alone... just let the defaults fall where they may as they come from the KDE gods.
I use Gentoo on my desktop... so I _know_ how good KDE can be when not messed with. I use FC5 (and 6 as soon as possible) on my laptop (I like the network manager and all the suspend/hibernate/resume stuff worked immediately... all of that is sometimes non-trivial with Gentoo) and in the research lab I help run at school... and the differences between FC5 and Gentoo are huge. At school I actually have setup a whole system tree where I put hand compiled versions of lots of KDE and related software that is either outdated or broken in FC5. I also spent a good deal of time undoing the Redhat intrusion of Gnome into KDE (and of course replacing the horrible theme stuff).
But... Redhat has always been about Gnome... so we shouldn't expect much. In the end, if you're a KDE person FC5 (and it sounds like FC6) probably aren't for you. For now, I put up with it because it is doing what I need in specific cases... even if it takes a while to massage it.
It is true that you have to be prudent with your tagging!
I started using del.icio.us _for_ this purpose, so I didn't have any prior tag mess... and I have applied tags sparingly and things are working out fine.
But I do understand what you're saying...
I will take a look at dir.ec.tor as well.. I hadn't heard of it before.
Yes they are all posted on del.icio.us... del.icio.us _does_ have the ability to save bookmark's privately... but I haven't tried this in conjunction with Foxylicious... so I don't know how it would handle them.
As for syncing "All Bookmarks instead of a Folder"... I'm not quite sure what you mean. When you use Foxylicious it will ask you which folder in your bookmarks you want to sync to del.icio.us... and will pull down all the del.icio.us bookmarks and create folder hierarchies out of your tags underneat that folder.
Maybe the problem is with the word "Sync". Foxylicious does _not_ upload anything to del.icio.us... all it does is pull down your bookmarks and put them in your bookmark menu (or in the bookmark toolbar or wherever you choose) using your tags to create folder hierarchies. You still have to "Post" sites to your del.icio.us bookmarks in just the same way as you always do... ie using some other Firefox plugin... or going to del.icio.us directly and posting them... or using the "Post to Del.icio.us" bookmarklet that's available from del.icio.us (this last one is the one I use).
So instead of "Bookmarking" things you "Post them to del.icio.us" and then the next time Foxylicious "syncs" with Del.icio.us (you can tell it to do it automatically every day... or you can tell it when to update manually) it will pull down the new bookmarks.
In looking at GameTap's website it looks like they have a free trial... does that cover playing Sam and Max? I can't check right now because I'm using Linux...
Also... to anyone out there that subscribes.... is there set number of months that you have to subscribe for? Or can you just get the first month for $10 and play Sam and Max and then cancel? Again... they won't even let me look at the subscription plans while in Linux... sigh.
I too have switched to del.icio.us for all of my bookmarking needs... I personally use Foxylicious ( http://dietrich.ganx4.com/foxylicious/ ) for syncing my del.icio.us bookmarks into a folder in my Personal Bookmark Toolbar in Firefox... works beautifully.
I originally switched because I use so many different computers throughout the day and wanted to have the same bookmarks on all of them and have all of them synced automatically... which foxylicious allows. I've been running this way for over a year now and love it.
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It depends on what you are "fit" for.
It appears that you are using "fit" as: being able to continue your genetic line. While this is classic Darwinism the OP was asking (possibly sarcastically) if there is now a different definition of "fit": that is, "fit to make money".
It certainly appears to me that some people are just cut out to make money and do well in our economy. Whether that's a genetic or environmental trait I just don't know... but it is hard to ignore that some bloodlines appear to just do better in the economy. Now, at the highest end there is some "in-breeding" in that once a certain line _has_ money it becomes easier to sustain that wealth. But, I have been witness to many lines that are also currently on the rise... where two generations ago their grandparents were "poor" and every generation has improved their position in the economy... it does make you wonder if there is a "trait" (either inherited or learned) for making more money that is being propagated down the bloodlines. From my own personal experience it appears this "trait" is _working hard_... and is learned from the parents....
Friedmud
This is something I've said for a said for a while now.
Back when "Tracking Cookies" were the end of the world (well, not that they are a lesser evil now... but you don't hear quite as much about them) I always maintained that I _want_ advertisers to know all about me! You _know_ that you're going to get spam/advertisements so why not get _relevant_ spam and advertisements?
This is also the reason that everytime I get a call and am asked to do a survery I _always_ do it. If they are asking someone's opinion it might as well be mine!
In general, I'm just not very worried about privacy. I live a pretty open life and am enjoying the benefits of doing so everyday (with services like Google catering to my every need).
Friedmud
what do you mean?
This is the default with Wine... and I believe it's also the way crossover office works. You have to go in and specify that you want a "desktop" to get one. Also... the window borders with wine are actually drawn using your window manager in linux... so you don't even get the ugly XP titlebar and stuff.
So what "feature" is it that is missing from Wine that you see here?
Friedmud
LCD != HDTV
There is no way that that 4:3 ratio LCD panel for $140 is an "HDTV" (that is, capable of accepting 720p or 1080i). What you were most likely seeing is an LCD TV... there is a big difference.
I actually consider this counter-productive. Wal-Mart/Target and the like are selling people on "Low cost HDTV!" when in reality, what they are selling isn't HD at all. People snap them up because they don't know better... therefore flooding the market with even _more_ TV's that aren't HD capable...
I've been helping several extended family members by HDTV's lately. They all have different needs/wants/budgets.... but after showing them what to look for and how the stores are flat out deceiving them, they all ended up with fairly good sets. More than for any other technology, consumers need to educate themselves before buying an HDTV. There are so many pitfalls and so much deceptive advertising that I don't see how any non-techie can even have a hope of getting a good deal.
Friedmud
Right.... that's what I actually meant to say.
;-)
I guess that it's such a good deal my brain couldn't deal with it and _forced_ me to type "month" because that's the only way it made sense
Friedmud
No really... it's 2GB _per month_. It resets every month.
You pay $25 per _year_ and get 2GB per _month_.
Friedmud
Maybe you are a control freak.
I personally trust a company I'm paying to do a service for me... more than I trust myself. I originally started using Flickr because you get unlimited space for only $25 a month... and they will keep the photos forever. My computers are in a constant state of flux... I'm always trying new software or buying new hardware or whatever. I'm more worried about me accidentally deleting years worth of pictures than I am of Flickr erasing them.
But what's stopping you from doing both? I certainly keep all of my photos on my computers as well as on Flickr. No one's holding a gun to your head and saying "Once you upload that photo you _must_ delete it from your hardrive!". Redundancy is good.
Now, if you have, ummm... sensitive photos..... I probably wouldn't upload those. So your "b)" point is definitely valid.
Friedmud
Ummm... I think you have the wrong idea about how you pay for Flickr.
It's just $25 for a year... with 2GB a month of upload and unlimited storage space. If you are taking more than 2GB of pictures a month then you have special needs... and probably should consider buying your own server and loading it up with a bunch of RAID.
I've been paying for Flickr for a little while now... and have been _very_ satisfied. $25 a month to store my photos forever is a steal.
Friedmud
Everytime this comes up I cringe.
You people _do_ know that iTunes can rip to MP3 just as well as AAC right? Sure MP3 isn't the default, but it takes all of 5 seconds to change. I use iTunes this way... and when I'm in Linux Amarok automatically pics up my iTunes MP3's... CD art, artist name, genre and all.
iTunes really isn't satan... I swear.
Friedmud
Indeed!
:-P
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With 768MB of RAM you might actually be able to run Beryl and open up _10_ windows before they start going black!
For those who have no idea what I'm talking about look here:
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=
My workstation at school is a turbo-cache Quadro card with ony 128MB of RAM... which means I can only open a couple of windows before they start going black... sigh.
Friedmud
Have you really spent significant time in Missouri? I sincerely doubt it.
While I do know some people who say "warsh" it is no where near 9 out of 10 (maybe 1 out of 30). I think you might be thinking of Arkansas (not to dig on Arkansas... but everyone I know from Arkansas seriously does say warsh).
But anyway... arguing on the internet and all that...
Friedmud
Actually... the man is more on the spot than you know.
I grew up in Missouri... and in my home city one of the larger industries is the call center industry. There are litterally dozens of _very_ large call centers in the city to choose from and they actually all pay well and give good benefits (they are competing for the workforce).
The reason they're all in Missouri is because of the accent... ie. none. Most Missourians (disregarding the hill-billys!) have a fairly neutral accent which lends itself well to call centers. The land is also pretty cheap and the taxes are fairly low... combining for a great place to plop a phone center.
So, anyway, yes... there is a lot of call-center outsourcing... but I do know that there are still a lot of call-centers here in the US and specifically in Missouri.
Friedmud
"it's an IT project that apparently didn't require an army of consultants, a $12billion appropriation and seven years to implement!"
How do you know that? I bet there was still a $12Billion dollar appropriation and an army of consultants... seriously... really. I've worked for the government.... nothing gets done without an army of consultants and _lots_ o cash.
Friedmud
I'm also very promiscuous with my email address... and just like you it's because Gmail takes care of all the crap, simply and effectively.
I've been noticing a Spam surge recently... but only because I keep an eye on my gmail spam category. Right now it reads thus:
Spam (5343)
That number represents the # of Spam in the last 30 days for those that don't use Gmail. For a while now I've hovered around 2000 or so... but it's been steadily climbing over the last several months. Luckily Gmail does a good job and I only end up with a piece of spam in my inbox a couple of times a week. At 20 a day flowing in, that's fine with me (and of course it's easy to spot Spam in Gmail and slap the Report Spam button without losing much time).
It is simply amazing to me that someone out there is actually giving money to these bastards! I don't know a single person who has ever responded to a piece of spam... _ever_. And I hope I never meet one... 'cause they are going to get an ear full. If only people wouldn't respond to the ads the market would dry up and go away... so, to me, the big problem here are the idiots that keep the spammers in business...
Friedmud
I actually use a touchscreen all day long... my Tablet PC. In some senses it's kind of worse than what's shown in this video... because I rest my whole hand on it for a long amount of time while I take notes in class.
So does it get dirty? Yep... after a couple of weeks of use it gets a pretty good film on it. Is it bothersome? Nope. Unless you are looking for it you really can't tell... it's actually the texture that let's me know when it's dirty (it's not quite as slick to write on). I just carry some windex wipes with me and wipe it down a couple of times a month... no big deal.
Now... like some of the other people have said... take a look at your keyboard... mine is infinitely more dirty than the screen on my tablet PC. Even if I did wipe it down a couple of times a month (which I don't... well.. I brush it off maybe when I'm dusting... but not really clean it) it wouldn't be as clean as a freshly wiped down piece of glass.
Being from the Tablet PC crowd I've really grown attached to being able to interact with my computer through my "fingertips". To me, this video was really cool... and I hope the tech comes down to us lowly consumers as fast as possible...
Friedmud
That's too bad... it's working for me with WPA... when I try to connect to my home network it just gives me a password dialog and I input the WPA passphrase... no problems at all.
Friedmud
Hmmm... NetworkManager (the little applet that sits in your applet tray in Gnome/KDE) works great for me.... what chipset do you have? I'm using an Intel 2200BG and after dropping the firmware in the correct directory everything worked immediately....
Friedmud
Two Words:
Jiggly Windows
(FC6 comes with AIGLX)
Friedmud
Completely agree.
Fedora is definitely the worst offender when it comes to KDE support. Instead of their crappy old "blue curve" theme and replacing all the KDE default apps with crappy gnome ones (File Roller anyone?) it would be much preferable for them to just leave KDE alone... just let the defaults fall where they may as they come from the KDE gods.
I use Gentoo on my desktop... so I _know_ how good KDE can be when not messed with. I use FC5 (and 6 as soon as possible) on my laptop (I like the network manager and all the suspend/hibernate/resume stuff worked immediately... all of that is sometimes non-trivial with Gentoo) and in the research lab I help run at school... and the differences between FC5 and Gentoo are huge. At school I actually have setup a whole system tree where I put hand compiled versions of lots of KDE and related software that is either outdated or broken in FC5. I also spent a good deal of time undoing the Redhat intrusion of Gnome into KDE (and of course replacing the horrible theme stuff).
But... Redhat has always been about Gnome... so we shouldn't expect much. In the end, if you're a KDE person FC5 (and it sounds like FC6) probably aren't for you. For now, I put up with it because it is doing what I need in specific cases... even if it takes a while to massage it.
Friedmud
Wow... those are fairly extreme measures... I'm pretty sure that for now we're just going to pretend the risk doesn't exist and move on with life ;-)
;-)
Maybe when there are some actual cases of websites in the wild that use this exploit we'll actually take notice.
Friedmud
Looks interesting... thanks for the link!
Friedmud
It is true that you have to be prudent with your tagging!
I started using del.icio.us _for_ this purpose, so I didn't have any prior tag mess... and I have applied tags sparingly and things are working out fine.
But I do understand what you're saying...
I will take a look at dir.ec.tor as well.. I hadn't heard of it before.
Friedmud
Yes they are all posted on del.icio.us... del.icio.us _does_ have the ability to save bookmark's privately... but I haven't tried this in conjunction with Foxylicious... so I don't know how it would handle them.
As for syncing "All Bookmarks instead of a Folder"... I'm not quite sure what you mean. When you use Foxylicious it will ask you which folder in your bookmarks you want to sync to del.icio.us... and will pull down all the del.icio.us bookmarks and create folder hierarchies out of your tags underneat that folder.
Maybe the problem is with the word "Sync". Foxylicious does _not_ upload anything to del.icio.us... all it does is pull down your bookmarks and put them in your bookmark menu (or in the bookmark toolbar or wherever you choose) using your tags to create folder hierarchies. You still have to "Post" sites to your del.icio.us bookmarks in just the same way as you always do... ie using some other Firefox plugin... or going to del.icio.us directly and posting them... or using the "Post to Del.icio.us" bookmarklet that's available from del.icio.us (this last one is the one I use).
So instead of "Bookmarking" things you "Post them to del.icio.us" and then the next time Foxylicious "syncs" with Del.icio.us (you can tell it to do it automatically every day... or you can tell it when to update manually) it will pull down the new bookmarks.
Hope that helps,
Friedmud
In looking at GameTap's website it looks like they have a free trial... does that cover playing Sam and Max? I can't check right now because I'm using Linux...
Also... to anyone out there that subscribes.... is there set number of months that you have to subscribe for? Or can you just get the first month for $10 and play Sam and Max and then cancel? Again... they won't even let me look at the subscription plans while in Linux... sigh.
Friedmud
I too have switched to del.icio.us for all of my bookmarking needs... I personally use Foxylicious ( http://dietrich.ganx4.com/foxylicious/ ) for syncing my del.icio.us bookmarks into a folder in my Personal Bookmark Toolbar in Firefox... works beautifully.
I originally switched because I use so many different computers throughout the day and wanted to have the same bookmarks on all of them and have all of them synced automatically... which foxylicious allows. I've been running this way for over a year now and love it.
Friedmud