Or just split the ad list into categories... I don't mind text ads, and static graphical banners i can tolerate..
On the other hand i don't like flash ads, and absolutely detest ads with sound (they interfere with whatever else i might be listening to), any kind of popups are also incredibly annoying. I especially hate the flash ad that plays a repeating buzzing sound, the ad got refreshed into a tab i hadn't looked at for a while, it took me a while to work out where the noise was coming from where i promptly closed that tab and filtered access to the site which served the banner.
Graphical banners meant to look like a windows dialog box (which looks stupid anyway when your browsing on a mac) but where the dialog is moving are also extremely annoying.
And as someone else pointed out, ads hosted on external servers which are slow, where the site has finished loading except for the ads and it won't display any content until the ads have loaded...
They speak slowly because you are paying for the call... Some will only let you delete a message after you have listened to a certain duration of the message, otherwise it plays a message telling you so before starting the message from the beginning again. It's all set up to cost you money.
Operators who don't charge you to listen to voicemail have far less annoying systems, that typically do let you delete messages immediately and give instructions to you at a normal speaking speed.
It's quite obvious that people at these telcos sat down and intentionally worked out ways to scam a few more cents out of customers while annoying them.
You will find that the terms of the DVD preclude playing it for large groups.. Also you risk damage to the original media, and would make it harder for the students to reuse the media in their own projects if required.
The direct feed is unlikely to work... They usually use some kind of copy protection scheme from macrovision that exploits a bug in old VHS recorders... Although this bug has long since been fixed, VHS manufacturers have been forced to intentionally reintroduce it so their recorders cannot bypass the copy protection scheme.
In some countries, it is extremely difficult to fire a bad teacher... So you give a bad teacher a really good reference and hope they will get hired somewhere else, usually to a more senior position which pays more money so they have incentive to go. Also in a position with more power they are likely to do less actual teaching.
A good teacher on the other hand, will be held onto by the school and kept where they provide the most value - teaching, without giving them additional responsibility that would take away from their ability to teach.
I agree with you totally... This is 2009, not 1980, worldwide communication is common and affordable, as is worldwide travel. I have tons of people i speak to online who are in foreign countries, and i often use websites (slashdot being one) that have content contributed by people all over the world. If a game comes out somewhere else and it's any good i will come across people i know playing it, i don't want to be told i can't play this game because i'm a foreigner... That's racial discrimination and should be illegal...
Well, then it means that those of us in europe will just have to import american copies of the game in order to play it... I travel on business quite a lot so that really isn't an issue for me. But in order to play copies we bought legitimately in the US, we have to have a modchip... But since we have a modchip anyway, it just becomes more convenient to download the us version rather than buy it.
People don't buy it alone, they think it comes free with the hardware... Infact, in some cases it has a negative cost when bundled with a computer because of all the crap companies pay to have included with it... If you compare the price of a windows system from dell to an equivalent ubuntu system, taking into account that ubuntu is free you can conclude that windows actually has a negative value.
Pirate copies don't have to deal with activation, entering of license codes etc... There are also pirated distributions, which come pre bundled with updates, more drivers and third party apps... The pirate copies are just better than the genuine ones.
Considering the extremely limited use schools make of computers, a 100mhz 16mb machine would be more than adequate... We used much lower spec machines in school, mostly to do simple stuff like type out textual content and print it.. Schools today use much higher specced machines, but pretty much do exactly the same thing on them but with less efficient software.. Using older machines in schools would actually decrease the level of misuse that occurs, where school computers are used for general internet browsing or playing games etc.
XP without service packs is considerably quicker than a fully up to date install... You are not comparing against a 2001 system if you install the service packs, because of the huge amount of changes they make.
I have installed Ubuntu (8.10) on a machine from 2002 (Dell Latitude C610) and it works fine and still sees active use... A more stripped down linux distribution would still be usable on even older hardware.
In 2001 i was using an AMD K6-2/400 which was already a couple of years old (bought when it was a cutting edge cpu)... Ubuntu (7.10) ran perfectly well on this, not least of all because it had 768mb of ram (the most it could support), i would try 9.04 on it but this machine suffered a hardware failure.
That's what happens when you get locked in... Vendors will always try to screw you if they can.
I have an older HP printer/scanner combo which i used with a G4 mac when i first bought it... It needs drivers for it's scanner component, but the card reader and printer functionality work out of the box on most systems.
The mac drivers are binary only, only compiled for ppc and won't work on osx 10.5 even on ppc... The windows drivers are binary only, and only 32bit, they don't work even on 32bit vista...
The linux drivers are open source, and can be compiled for ppc, x86, x86_64, and even alpha, ia64, sparc, mips and arm... The entire device works out of the box on ubuntu and has done with every version i've tried... I would expect the arm version of ubuntu for small laptops would support it too.
Now granted this is a very cheap device, but it also still works and serves my extremely minimal printing/scanning requirements perfectly well. Replacing it just because proprietary drivers are no longer being maintained would just be a waste of money.
So what you need is education... Show Joe that he doesn't have to waste his time and money driving to a store to buy software in a box and then worry about having to install it and dealing with (losing/damaging) physical media etc... Show him how to find what he wants in the package manager, and have it automatically downloaded and installed in a few seconds, all for free without leaving the comfort of his chair. Safe in the knowledge that he has a single process to update all his software, and that he can always get the latest version whenever he wants.
I have such a card, where the txpower is set very low by default... Not sure why it's done that way, most cards have it set to it's highest value by default. Modern ubuntu picks up this card (realtek 8187 based) out of the box, windows and osx required me to manually find, download and install drivers.
And that situation would be reversed if the hardware came preinstalled with linux, except that windows is actually harder to install than modern linux distributions.
It may not be much faster, but there is plenty of marketing hype saying that it is... Also, hardware is on average faster now than it was when vista was released...
People will think it's faster, whether it is or not.
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Or just split the ad list into categories...
I don't mind text ads, and static graphical banners i can tolerate..
On the other hand i don't like flash ads, and absolutely detest ads with sound (they interfere with whatever else i might be listening to), any kind of popups are also incredibly annoying. I especially hate the flash ad that plays a repeating buzzing sound, the ad got refreshed into a tab i hadn't looked at for a while, it took me a while to work out where the noise was coming from where i promptly closed that tab and filtered access to the site which served the banner.
Graphical banners meant to look like a windows dialog box (which looks stupid anyway when your browsing on a mac) but where the dialog is moving are also extremely annoying.
And as someone else pointed out, ads hosted on external servers which are slow, where the site has finished loading except for the ads and it won't display any content until the ads have loaded...
Dosbox is designed for games, the fact it can run a spreadsheet at all is really just luck...
They speak slowly because you are paying for the call...
Some will only let you delete a message after you have listened to a certain duration of the message, otherwise it plays a message telling you so before starting the message from the beginning again. It's all set up to cost you money.
Operators who don't charge you to listen to voicemail have far less annoying systems, that typically do let you delete messages immediately and give instructions to you at a normal speaking speed.
It's quite obvious that people at these telcos sat down and intentionally worked out ways to scam a few more cents out of customers while annoying them.
You will find that the terms of the DVD preclude playing it for large groups..
Also you risk damage to the original media, and would make it harder for the students to reuse the media in their own projects if required.
The direct feed is unlikely to work...
They usually use some kind of copy protection scheme from macrovision that exploits a bug in old VHS recorders... Although this bug has long since been fixed, VHS manufacturers have been forced to intentionally reintroduce it so their recorders cannot bypass the copy protection scheme.
In some countries, it is extremely difficult to fire a bad teacher...
So you give a bad teacher a really good reference and hope they will get hired somewhere else, usually to a more senior position which pays more money so they have incentive to go. Also in a position with more power they are likely to do less actual teaching.
A good teacher on the other hand, will be held onto by the school and kept where they provide the most value - teaching, without giving them additional responsibility that would take away from their ability to teach.
I found cassette tapes to always have horrible hissing as background noise, no matter how expensive the tapes or player were...
Of those sales of the 360, how many were due to people buying a replacement unit for one that failed?
I know quite a few people who have done that...
The amiga version was pretty good too, couldnt find a video of the first one but ghostbusters 2 had much better music...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iv9mLcI8dlc
I agree with you totally...
This is 2009, not 1980, worldwide communication is common and affordable, as is worldwide travel. I have tons of people i speak to online who are in foreign countries, and i often use websites (slashdot being one) that have content contributed by people all over the world. If a game comes out somewhere else and it's any good i will come across people i know playing it, i don't want to be told i can't play this game because i'm a foreigner... That's racial discrimination and should be illegal...
Well, then it means that those of us in europe will just have to import american copies of the game in order to play it... I travel on business quite a lot so that really isn't an issue for me.
But in order to play copies we bought legitimately in the US, we have to have a modchip...
But since we have a modchip anyway, it just becomes more convenient to download the us version rather than buy it.
The hidden partition isn't terribly helpful when the drive fails or the partition table becomes corrupted...
People don't buy it alone, they think it comes free with the hardware...
Infact, in some cases it has a negative cost when bundled with a computer because of all the crap companies pay to have included with it... If you compare the price of a windows system from dell to an equivalent ubuntu system, taking into account that ubuntu is free you can conclude that windows actually has a negative value.
The one thing MS have done really well, is convince people that computers are inherently unreliable devices that just never work properly...
Pirate copies don't have to deal with activation, entering of license codes etc...
There are also pirated distributions, which come pre bundled with updates, more drivers and third party apps... The pirate copies are just better than the genuine ones.
Considering the extremely limited use schools make of computers, a 100mhz 16mb machine would be more than adequate... We used much lower spec machines in school, mostly to do simple stuff like type out textual content and print it.. Schools today use much higher specced machines, but pretty much do exactly the same thing on them but with less efficient software..
Using older machines in schools would actually decrease the level of misuse that occurs, where school computers are used for general internet browsing or playing games etc.
Not sure the AMD64 cpus were around in 2001, they were still in the design stages at that point...
XP without service packs is considerably quicker than a fully up to date install... You are not comparing against a 2001 system if you install the service packs, because of the huge amount of changes they make.
I have installed Ubuntu (8.10) on a machine from 2002 (Dell Latitude C610) and it works fine and still sees active use... A more stripped down linux distribution would still be usable on even older hardware.
In 2001 i was using an AMD K6-2/400 which was already a couple of years old (bought when it was a cutting edge cpu)... Ubuntu (7.10) ran perfectly well on this, not least of all because it had 768mb of ram (the most it could support), i would try 9.04 on it but this machine suffered a hardware failure.
That's what happens when you get locked in... Vendors will always try to screw you if they can.
I have an older HP printer/scanner combo which i used with a G4 mac when i first bought it...
It needs drivers for it's scanner component, but the card reader and printer functionality work out of the box on most systems.
The mac drivers are binary only, only compiled for ppc and won't work on osx 10.5 even on ppc...
The windows drivers are binary only, and only 32bit, they don't work even on 32bit vista...
The linux drivers are open source, and can be compiled for ppc, x86, x86_64, and even alpha, ia64, sparc, mips and arm... The entire device works out of the box on ubuntu and has done with every version i've tried... I would expect the arm version of ubuntu for small laptops would support it too.
Now granted this is a very cheap device, but it also still works and serves my extremely minimal printing/scanning requirements perfectly well. Replacing it just because proprietary drivers are no longer being maintained would just be a waste of money.
So what you need is education...
Show Joe that he doesn't have to waste his time and money driving to a store to buy software in a box and then worry about having to install it and dealing with (losing/damaging) physical media etc...
Show him how to find what he wants in the package manager, and have it automatically downloaded and installed in a few seconds, all for free without leaving the comfort of his chair. Safe in the knowledge that he has a single process to update all his software, and that he can always get the latest version whenever he wants.
I have such a card, where the txpower is set very low by default... Not sure why it's done that way, most cards have it set to it's highest value by default.
Modern ubuntu picks up this card (realtek 8187 based) out of the box, windows and osx required me to manually find, download and install drivers.
And that situation would be reversed if the hardware came preinstalled with linux, except that windows is actually harder to install than modern linux distributions.
It may not be much faster, but there is plenty of marketing hype saying that it is...
Also, hardware is on average faster now than it was when vista was released...
People will think it's faster, whether it is or not.
And if you format your machine, or replace it, or your disk dies etc, how do you get a new copy?
They took advantage of standard hardware in order to bait and switch people into being locked into nonstandard software...