Whats wrong with making car pannels from polycarbonate or some other plastic that is essentially impervious to hailstones, costs pennies and whats more negates rust and pannelbeaters except in total reconstruction.... some cars today do to some extent, but it's usually minor, eg. Nissan Xtrail has plastic front fenders.
I cant say I've ever tried US Nescafe (I assume we're talking about Blend43) but the normal Australian stuff is filthy. However one of Nestle's 'top shelf' *LOL* instants is as close as I've seen to real coffee (not starbollox)
Why stop at WiFi, I'm sure they could use PDAs (simputers) and even iPods (Hell I know I could). Maybe they'll be the first with real WiFi iPods? email generally needs a terminal at both ends.
I think the "problem" you outline is more of a lack of guidance as to what matters in life. eg rather than bying the teen everything it asks for, make it earn its spending money and the "need" for the radio bands will diminish to their spending power.
Secondly the tracks you refer to are usually released as CD singles, albeit for more than 88/99 cents.
In some (most) countries, recording from the radio for personal use is fair use, ie you get an inferior copy (just like yr ITMS single) except the price suits teenagers.
To get digital images from my digital camera to computer that dosn't have usb, but does have a scanner, I could also print them on plain paper from the USB computer and take them over to the scanner computer and scan them in. Now consider I took the pix at low-jpeg mode, and used plain paper to print and the glass on the scanner was very dirty, and then saved them in low quality jpeg - the result is similar to ripping itms tracks.
Just buy the CD's you want, online if you must, then rip them as you want. It is all you have available to you. Music services offer limits on everything: selection, quality, use.
I baught a coulpe of chart CD's for my kids and a couple of not charters for myself. They were A$17.99 or less. Considering I was shopping at the time for other things, and when I plop them in the the PC for playing, it rips them at whatever bitrate I choose, while playing, I cant see the value or convenience in US$10 128kb albums.
"but the prospect of an all-rail trip from Edinburgh to Tangiers is intriguing to say the least."
I think it would be borring as hell (Thank Jeebus for the GBA). Although you wouldn't use it for commuting, going the whole way round ABOVE the ground would qualify as interesting.
As with learning long division, only to be taught the short method, then given a calculator. You are taught how to do it from first principles so you understand why.
teaching with access is like straight to the calculator. If you dont have it your're stuck, and you don't really understand the interactions between elements then debugging from the help files can be fruitless.
If you are trying to teach SQL (the language) things like stored procedures and triggers are integral not added extras.
"The grandparent post was correct that running an old pentium as a firewall rather than buying a LinkSys box for $50 is a foolish economy."
If you don't want to use any extra electrickery, then use a software firewall. Say Zone Alarm? After all as long as there is something that someone somewhere on the planet called a firewall at least once, between you and the big bad internet, then you are fully-protected, right? What were you saying about fools and economies?
Of course Linksys, Netgear, Belkin, Skylink, etc. come out with patches for their linux kernel as soon as.... crickets....
Seriously, my 486 *cough* firewall is only warm to the touch while idling (remember some are only passively cooled), and gets much warmer under load (but not hot), say kernel compile. If it were nop'n it would be just as hot on idle as full load, no?
With another month of positive gain by apache (+2.8%) and another negative month for IIS (-2.44) I guess someone has to pay someone else to shout otherwise, after all, that's the trend;)
You dote "Western culture [How do I love thee] is superior, let me count he ways" and then wonder why someone disagrees?
Speaking down to people or being insulting does not convey inteligence or insight. As I understnd it, in a discussion, resorting to such means you lost.
There are two things I can infer from your objections to my non-personal references to obesity and JH...
Here's a good/. quote that is applicable: "And as it seems to be the custom in your culture to end each correspondence with an insult, I should do the same to avoid offending you." - Your arse is FAT and your hair is ugly!
Settle down dear, remember the context, which you set was, "western culture is superior... subjectively!"
I am generally refering to society as the ideals of a group, say your rights, and to culture as the morality (if you like) of that group. All in a subjective context, or if you like - opinion.
I tried to point out the inequities in your opinion, as I see them - that's all. You know, my opinion. Resorting to "baffling", "pathetic" etc without trying (really) to read throgh the typos etc is just pointless, and more an expression of you ignoring the points which you agreed with, or your ignor-ance, if you like.
Its perfectly possible to contend eastern culture is superior, but whats the point.
Yes I feel empowered by the right to vote but my right is almost entirely erroded by the culture(s) surrounding the voting system. This - subjectively - leaves me feeling very dis-empowered. CIR has other benefits other than empowering the voter, it applies much greater accounability on the politicians and beaurocrats. The negative aspect of this system, according to say - John Howard, is that the people would have to be fully aware of the issues that concern them. Oh the horror!
If your baffled then you're probably not actually thinking for yourself - turn off fox - grab a book. I'm not baffled by your arguments, just dissapointed... as lets say a humanist.
If you feel empowered by voting in a "party" *cough-grey-money?* democracy, good for you - I don't. I think something like citizens initiated referenda is far more empowering.
Western society squanders its medical advances - prevalent (cultural) obesity (gluttony) is an example. All the resources spent on attaining obesity and then all the medical facilities squandered on "treating" the "disease". Or how about being an AIDS sufferer in the west, but not wealthy? How about how expensive theese advances (drugs/procedures) are even to poor countries with seious problems. Thats not superior or advanced its obseen.
As you say, society expects lots of things, but the culture it seems does not. I expect if you were the victim of a "minor" crime in todats society, you may not be so quick to tow the party line.
I certainly was not referring to you as a terrorist, I was sying that all those "rights" would evaporate now if an appropriate person inferred you were - that really really sux! even criminals have rights. I wonder how all those who died for the right to vote would feel about PATRIOTism?
If a society holds a particular value(s) it has no meaning if the culture does not support the same value(s)
Ok so I mutter and mumble, type and spell poorly, that dosn't make me wrong.
My point - which you quoted, but seemed to miss - is that all the "rights" in the world do you no good, if you can't exercise them. For all practical purposes they don't exist... handguns are not an answer to enforce your rights. How can the possibility of permanantly denying someone else's rights(life) be justification for someone to protect their property(or opinion, for example. Where does it end?) The police are supposed to fulfill that role, "protect and serve" and all that. If western culture was as evolved as you would like to think, then if you were accosted in the street (for example) then bystanders would come to your aid & not suffer conviernient blindness/amnesia/appathy as they do now. It seems western society/culture has lost part/most of its humanity in its quest to be "superior". And as I said, It's a real shame.
Do you feel empowered by you vote or do you feel thing go on the same no matter who's driving the boat?
How does obesity fit in with your perceptions of advances in medicine when compared to the starving people of the world or the homeless in your country?
As to your "rights" to do as you choose, if those right are virtuall impossible to exercise on a regular basis - do you really have them? as you suggest you cant really go/dress/do as you please because those who are suppoosed to protect you don't and wont investigate any more than filling out a report... I don't feel as you describe and I'm a well built 6ft guy.
All these thing that happen but shouldn't or don't but should, are a result of the society and the culture(morality) it enjoys. Sad but true.
And I most humbly and earnestly hope, no matter which country you are from, that you are a PATRIOT* as all bets are off if someone sort of appropriate implies you're a terrorist.
[*] for very odd/unreal values of such... See you local mass media for definitions and details.
Don't get me wrong, I would use Linux for just about any SMP unix work. It still remains that if you're a security zealot then you would prefer security over a brand name. FYI there are reputable firewalls which run on Windows even, but I'm not using it... Take the latest openSSH bug, on all platforms other than openBSD the bug allowed privaledged overflow. While it's not perfect or easiest to admin, openBSD has the lowest root expoloit count by far. After all it's a security device. BTW with respect ot kkeping open options I vastly prefer FreeBSD as a desktop, go figure;)
Verifying a vote tally should not result in TV news images of rooms full of election officials, squinting at ambiguous marks on a piece of paper.
This is a matter of democracy not entertainment. The process is what is important. TV tries as hard as it can to influence the elections as it is, making the process entertaining would play into their manipulative agendas.
I have a perfectly good N64 with plenty of games. I had no need for a new console. I wanted a DVD player. The price difference between a DVD player and a console that plays DVDs is small (ok not so small when you make the PS2 play DVDs - but I won't buy an Xbox for religious reasons;), so I esentially got a PS2 console for free. But the thing is I've baught a few games for it and a Steering wheel, all of which I didn't really need (I already have much the same except for the wheel). Without the DVD player feature I would have just passed.
Here's a tip for electronics makers. A phone that dosn't suck, plays stereo mp3+Ogg+FM radio, uses CF not SD, bluetooth and java games I can write/manage myself - I'm in again...
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Using Carmageddon to sell SUV's is a little too far perhaps? but you gotta love the feeling!
Whats wrong with making car pannels from polycarbonate or some other plastic that is essentially impervious to hailstones, costs pennies and whats more negates rust and pannelbeaters except in total reconstruction.... some cars today do to some extent, but it's usually minor, eg. Nissan Xtrail has plastic front fenders.
I cant say I've ever tried US Nescafe (I assume we're talking about Blend43) but the normal Australian stuff is filthy. However one of Nestle's 'top shelf' *LOL* instants is as close as I've seen to real coffee (not starbollox)
Why stop at WiFi, I'm sure they could use PDAs (simputers) and even iPods (Hell I know I could). Maybe they'll be the first with real WiFi iPods? email generally needs a terminal at both ends.
Java already (sic) "runs like interpreted basic on an 8bit micro". A java implementation of interpreted basic makes me want to cry....
Secondly the tracks you refer to are usually released as CD singles, albeit for more than 88/99 cents.
In some (most) countries, recording from the radio for personal use is fair use, ie you get an inferior copy (just like yr ITMS single) except the price suits teenagers.
Just buy the CD's you want, online if you must, then rip them as you want. It is all you have available to you. Music services offer limits on everything: selection, quality, use.
I baught a coulpe of chart CD's for my kids and a couple of not charters for myself. They were A$17.99 or less. Considering I was shopping at the time for other things, and when I plop them in the the PC for playing, it rips them at whatever bitrate I choose, while playing, I cant see the value or convenience in US$10 128kb albums.
I think it would be borring as hell (Thank Jeebus for the GBA). Although you wouldn't use it for commuting, going the whole way round ABOVE the ground would qualify as interesting.
teaching with access is like straight to the calculator. If you dont have it your're stuck, and you don't really understand the interactions between elements then debugging from the help files can be fruitless.
If you are trying to teach SQL (the language) things like stored procedures and triggers are integral not added extras.
If you don't want to use any extra electrickery, then use a software firewall. Say Zone Alarm? After all as long as there is something that someone somewhere on the planet called a firewall at least once, between you and the big bad internet, then you are fully-protected, right? What were you saying about fools and economies?
Of course Linksys, Netgear, Belkin, Skylink, etc. come out with patches for their linux kernel as soon as.... crickets....
Seriously, my 486 *cough* firewall is only warm to the touch while idling (remember some are only passively cooled), and gets much warmer under load (but not hot), say kernel compile. If it were nop'n it would be just as hot on idle as full load, no?
With another month of positive gain by apache (+2.8%) and another negative month for IIS (-2.44) I guess someone has to pay someone else to shout otherwise, after all, that's the trend ;)
Oh, you mean a terrorist who's paid in USD...
Oh yeah like "for the girls" right? Dude, this is slashdot! Lit? They don't do pr0n lit classes (wtf do I know it's slashdot)
Speaking down to people or being insulting does not convey inteligence or insight. As I understnd it, in a discussion, resorting to such means you lost.
There are two things I can infer from your objections to my non-personal references to obesity and JH... Here's a good /. quote that is applicable:
"And as it seems to be the custom in your culture to end each correspondence with an insult, I should do the same to avoid offending you." - Your arse is FAT and your hair is ugly!
Yours in appathy, Ratso.
I am generally refering to society as the ideals of a group, say your rights, and to culture as the morality (if you like) of that group. All in a subjective context, or if you like - opinion.
I tried to point out the inequities in your opinion, as I see them - that's all. You know, my opinion. Resorting to "baffling", "pathetic" etc without trying (really) to read throgh the typos etc is just pointless, and more an expression of you ignoring the points which you agreed with, or your ignor-ance, if you like.
Its perfectly possible to contend eastern culture is superior, but whats the point.
Yes I feel empowered by the right to vote but my right is almost entirely erroded by the culture(s) surrounding the voting system. This - subjectively - leaves me feeling very dis-empowered. CIR has other benefits other than empowering the voter, it applies much greater accounability on the politicians and beaurocrats. The negative aspect of this system, according to say - John Howard, is that the people would have to be fully aware of the issues that concern them. Oh the horror!
If you feel empowered by voting in a "party" *cough-grey-money?* democracy, good for you - I don't. I think something like citizens initiated referenda is far more empowering.
Western society squanders its medical advances - prevalent (cultural) obesity (gluttony) is an example. All the resources spent on attaining obesity and then all the medical facilities squandered on "treating" the "disease". Or how about being an AIDS sufferer in the west, but not wealthy? How about how expensive theese advances (drugs/procedures) are even to poor countries with seious problems. Thats not superior or advanced its obseen.
As you say, society expects lots of things, but the culture it seems does not. I expect if you were the victim of a "minor" crime in todats society, you may not be so quick to tow the party line.
I certainly was not referring to you as a terrorist, I was sying that all those "rights" would evaporate now if an appropriate person inferred you were - that really really sux! even criminals have rights. I wonder how all those who died for the right to vote would feel about PATRIOTism?
If a society holds a particular value(s) it has no meaning if the culture does not support the same value(s)
Ok so I mutter and mumble, type and spell poorly, that dosn't make me wrong.
My point - which you quoted, but seemed to miss - is that all the "rights" in the world do you no good, if you can't exercise them. For all practical purposes they don't exist... handguns are not an answer to enforce your rights. How can the possibility of permanantly denying someone else's rights(life) be justification for someone to protect their property(or opinion, for example. Where does it end?) The police are supposed to fulfill that role, "protect and serve" and all that. If western culture was as evolved as you would like to think, then if you were accosted in the street (for example) then bystanders would come to your aid & not suffer conviernient blindness/amnesia/appathy as they do now. It seems western society/culture has lost part/most of its humanity in its quest to be "superior". And as I said, It's a real shame.
Do you feel empowered by you vote or do you feel thing go on the same no matter who's driving the boat?
How does obesity fit in with your perceptions of advances in medicine when compared to the starving people of the world or the homeless in your country?
As to your "rights" to do as you choose, if those right are virtuall impossible to exercise on a regular basis - do you really have them? as you suggest you cant really go/dress/do as you please because those who are suppoosed to protect you don't and wont investigate any more than filling out a report... I don't feel as you describe and I'm a well built 6ft guy.
All these thing that happen but shouldn't or don't but should, are a result of the society and the culture(morality) it enjoys. Sad but true.
And I most humbly and earnestly hope, no matter which country you are from, that you are a PATRIOT* as all bets are off if someone sort of appropriate implies you're a terrorist.
[*] for very odd/unreal values of such... See you local mass media for definitions and details.
Don't get me wrong, I would use Linux for just about any SMP unix work. It still remains that if you're a security zealot then you would prefer security over a brand name. FYI there are reputable firewalls which run on Windows even, but I'm not using it... Take the latest openSSH bug, on all platforms other than openBSD the bug allowed privaledged overflow. While it's not perfect or easiest to admin, openBSD has the lowest root expoloit count by far. After all it's a security device. BTW with respect ot kkeping open options I vastly prefer FreeBSD as a desktop, go figure ;)
Not linux
As you mentioned Pepsi - Partial credit!
This is a matter of democracy not entertainment. The process is what is important. TV tries as hard as it can to influence the elections as it is, making the process entertaining would play into their manipulative agendas.
Here's a tip for electronics makers. A phone that dosn't suck, plays stereo mp3+Ogg+FM radio, uses CF not SD, bluetooth and java games I can write/manage myself - I'm in again...
If it feels good, do it ... I guess....