The real issue is that the media giants aren't willing to work within the new marketplace. It's like going to another planet where humans have already discovered they can breath without a space suit, and they come along and want you to wear one anyway. I think if they would release a lot of their old libraries, cut those prices, they'd have a market willing to buy new songs at decent prices. So much DRM today restricts moving songs from one place to another to prevent piracy at the expense of convenience. People have grown accustomed to taking a CD from car to home to friend's homes etc. now you want to lock them down. I understand the need for DRM I just think they need to rethink their methodology. I don't know the answer, but I am uneasy with a technology that is basically attempting to make an outdated business model fit into this new marketplace. This shows an amazingly naive understanding of the digital landscape. They need to change with the times and they just can't see it. That doesn't mean give away their music, but it does mean understanding your market.
I get the impression that while RMS would tell us to beware the Microsoft Whore, Miguel would ask us to suckle at her teats. The rest of us are somewhere in the middle.
OT, I know.
I don't know what it means but it makes a case I've been agreeing with: We spend TOO much money on education. more importantly, the bulk of what is spent doesn't get to the "teaching" part. One of the leading scoring students in a recent news piece I heard was from some poor, decrepid school system with practically no money yet this kid outpaced the country in math and science. So much for typical political bantor of "I'll spend more money on education!"
As someone who's typing on one now, you have no clue as to what you are talking about. People really need to stop comparing the Mini to a cutting-edge gaming PC. I've even seen one run on 256MB just fine...MUCH smoother than a PC running XP on 256MB.
Agreed. We just tried to install it on a DL380-G3 (not exactly bleeding edge) with a 5312 Array Controller (not exactly new) and couldn't. Oh there's a website here and there offering "Yeah, compile this and copy this to floppy but don't use it and then get 3 cups of flour, 2 cups of water, a shot of Jager, and a pinch of salt..." I went back to the guy and said, "Yeah, you won't be running Debian unless you can get the vendor to provide install information."
It's very simple really, force retailers to advertise the BEFORE rebate price in a bolder, bigger font that the after price and this will go away very quickly.
Okay, I say short their stock. The mouse is ubiquitous, for one thing, and people generally only use kb-based mice when they have to. (Nipple-mouse on the Thinkpad, scratch-pads, etc.) You just don't see people elect to use them outright. I did only once, really. When I owned a Thinkpad, it was just natural to use an IBM keyboard for my PC that also included a nipple mouse (and I just happened to have one). Later, when I got rid of the Thinkpad, I really didn't use the nipple-mouse on the keyboard and actually added a mouse. This is going nowhere. And have we really gotten so lazy that we don't even want to strain our shoulder to reach for a mouse? Think about it. This isn't lifting tonage. This is a mouse, people.
Yeah, all that expecting some evidence and fossil records and such. Yeah, creationists are just wacked. Funny, it used to be scientists who would refrain from jumping to conclusions without the evidence. My how times have changed.
I've never heard a creationist say that. I guess it's easier for you to justify your own actions and abhor moral responsibility by making outragious claims. So much for "truth" and honesty. As someone said before, why would someone say expecting to find fossil evidence for evolving species is a sham? That's just stupid and intellectually dishonest. It's perfectly expected that such would exist. The very fact that so far no such record has been found is one of the main reasons evolution is still a theory. Oops! I said that outloud! OH, and I didn't even mention religion but I guess not accepting evolution as a forgone conclusion will make me a creationist freak, eh? Maybe I just want some more proof before I leap from single-celled life to man. Cornish hen to White Legjorn I'll give you, but until you can show some fossil evidence for at least SOME transitional species, please spare me the condecention.
I would agree with many of these points. I think the rating system that is in place is what we probably need to enforce. The guy who thought I was advocating more laws, I wasn't per se'. If the laws we have aren't being enforced, enforced them. Give them teeth so we don't have to pass more laws. We should always resist passing laws because they always curtail a freedom to some extent. The bottom line: keep them out of the hands of kids who haven't matured yet. Period. Don't sell them to them. Yes, some parents don't watch their kids. Hell, some parents will continue to buy them for their kids. If the rating is on there, stores shouldn't be allowed to sell them to them.
That violent games can translate to aggression in young boys I think is fairly easy to illustrate. I don't think that means there needs to be wholesale bans or anything but there should be ratings and limits. We don't allow 12 year olds to see rated R movies (okay, we've all snuck into a movie that aside...). We don't allow them to view porn. We shouldn't allow them to buy violent video games.
DId they also test to see how long a person would last in sub-zero temps without a jacket? Or how safe a 16 year old girl is walking through an inner city parking lot at 1am? Or how long an child can survive in the woods alone? This is the approach people need to take with their PC.
M$: "We have the largest customer base in the world. If just a tiny percentage of our users were to take us up on this offer, that could mean millions. We're really going out on a limb here. Let's other vendors offer the same thing!" Spin, Baby, spin! Marketing Inferno! Spin, Baby, spin!
Maybe it's me, but aren't all librarians filling an intellectual need with random facts? I mean, sure there's the Dewey Decimal System, but barring that arrangement facts in a library are fairly random physically speaking.
He talks about it taking just a "few clicks" to get Flash, RP, and other plugins working. Obviously he's not talking about Firefox on Linux. Flash, sure. It's probably the single easiest plugin to get to work. Most other plugins cannot be installed with the "follow this link to install the plugin" option at all. If they do manage to install, they don't seem to be able to find your plugins directory. Don't get me wrong, I love Firefox (though those 1-2 second pauses are annoying) but there needs to be some type of search in the installer to find the plugins directories. Couple that with Real Player unable to give me video on half of the Real Player content I find and you wonder what's going on. Though, that wouldn't be a Firefox issue, I know.
I never said reason equals faith. Yet, you still cling to your (though widely popular) notion of faith. To use your example, God told me this block has a volume of 27 units. By my measurement this block contains 27 units. Therefore I can trust God. Again there is a difference betwee "leaps of faith" and "faith." You ignore the truth here and that is faith is belief. Belief is simply a conclusion of evidence. Some require very little evidence, others more. Some project or leap from little evidence to grand conclusions and still others come to wrong conclusions. Applied to science or religion, belief and faith are the same. You can cling to your mistaken interpretation of what faith is but if you truly want to stick to origins, then understand that faith is simply belief. You don't have to believe in God to accept this idea, that's another argument. But understand that you debate skills will be challenged once you accept that fact.
I would have to argue against much of what you are saying but I'll stick to one point. "Reason" and "faith" are not mutually exclusive. You're letting the modern idea of "faith" cloud your thinking. As someone who seems to love "going back" and looking at origins, it should be noted that the ancient Greek term for "faith" is more closely translated "believe" or "belief." As such, belief is very much based on reason, logic, and evidence. People don't blindly believe in God with some gut-felt contention. Some do, but most do not. They view everything we see, ancient script, even science itself as evidence of His existence. That takes reason. I know men who are highly regarded scientists and mathematicians who would "reason" that God exists and call "blind faith" as ludicrous as guessing.
What is more interesting is how long it takes to install. SP2 is HUGE! This will put off many. I still recommend it, though not for the firewall features. Personally, if you have broadband you should have a decent cable router with your ports closed. No this won't stop internally invited connections but it will do pretty much what the firewall feature is doing. It's a matter of staying up to date, which is essential in a Windows environment. Like it or not, SP2 should be installed. If you don't like it, seriously consider switching platforms. Yes it's frustrating, but we're in a mess. We have a dominant player on the desktop. Until Linux get's more up to speed on the desktop and/or Mac's gain some share this is what we have.
Does it hurt to be stupid? No really. I've wondered. You totally missed my point. My discussion was on education. I never said we needed more spent on the military. I'll say it now but I didn't say it above. Learn some logic skills, Skippy. And as far as "the rest of the world combined" it comes in damn handy when they sit back and expect you to a) give them a handout and b) fight their battles for them.
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The real issue is that the media giants aren't willing to work within the new marketplace. It's like going to another planet where humans have already discovered they can breath without a space suit, and they come along and want you to wear one anyway. I think if they would release a lot of their old libraries, cut those prices, they'd have a market willing to buy new songs at decent prices. So much DRM today restricts moving songs from one place to another to prevent piracy at the expense of convenience. People have grown accustomed to taking a CD from car to home to friend's homes etc. now you want to lock them down. I understand the need for DRM I just think they need to rethink their methodology. I don't know the answer, but I am uneasy with a technology that is basically attempting to make an outdated business model fit into this new marketplace. This shows an amazingly naive understanding of the digital landscape. They need to change with the times and they just can't see it. That doesn't mean give away their music, but it does mean understanding your market.
I get the impression that while RMS would tell us to beware the Microsoft Whore, Miguel would ask us to suckle at her teats. The rest of us are somewhere in the middle.
OT, I know.
I think he meant "style over malfunction."
I don't know what it means but it makes a case I've been agreeing with: We spend TOO much money on education. more importantly, the bulk of what is spent doesn't get to the "teaching" part. One of the leading scoring students in a recent news piece I heard was from some poor, decrepid school system with practically no money yet this kid outpaced the country in math and science. So much for typical political bantor of "I'll spend more money on education!"
As someone who's typing on one now, you have no clue as to what you are talking about. People really need to stop comparing the Mini to a cutting-edge gaming PC. I've even seen one run on 256MB just fine...MUCH smoother than a PC running XP on 256MB.
Agreed. We just tried to install it on a DL380-G3 (not exactly bleeding edge) with a 5312 Array Controller (not exactly new) and couldn't. Oh there's a website here and there offering "Yeah, compile this and copy this to floppy but don't use it and then get 3 cups of flour, 2 cups of water, a shot of Jager, and a pinch of salt..." I went back to the guy and said, "Yeah, you won't be running Debian unless you can get the vendor to provide install information."
Ah, Microsoft. Where they take all of the cool features of the best software out there, implement it in their next release, and call it innovation!
It's very simple really, force retailers to advertise the BEFORE rebate price in a bolder, bigger font that the after price and this will go away very quickly.
Too young to remember!??!?!?! I feel old. :(
Okay, I say short their stock. The mouse is ubiquitous, for one thing, and people generally only use kb-based mice when they have to. (Nipple-mouse on the Thinkpad, scratch-pads, etc.) You just don't see people elect to use them outright. I did only once, really. When I owned a Thinkpad, it was just natural to use an IBM keyboard for my PC that also included a nipple mouse (and I just happened to have one). Later, when I got rid of the Thinkpad, I really didn't use the nipple-mouse on the keyboard and actually added a mouse. This is going nowhere. And have we really gotten so lazy that we don't even want to strain our shoulder to reach for a mouse? Think about it. This isn't lifting tonage. This is a mouse, people.
Yeah, all that expecting some evidence and fossil records and such. Yeah, creationists are just wacked. Funny, it used to be scientists who would refrain from jumping to conclusions without the evidence. My how times have changed.
I've never heard a creationist say that. I guess it's easier for you to justify your own actions and abhor moral responsibility by making outragious claims. So much for "truth" and honesty.
As someone said before, why would someone say expecting to find fossil evidence for evolving species is a sham? That's just stupid and intellectually dishonest. It's perfectly expected that such would exist. The very fact that so far no such record has been found is one of the main reasons evolution is still a theory. Oops! I said that outloud! OH, and I didn't even mention religion but I guess not accepting evolution as a forgone conclusion will make me a creationist freak, eh? Maybe I just want some more proof before I leap from single-celled life to man. Cornish hen to White Legjorn I'll give you, but until you can show some fossil evidence for at least SOME transitional species, please spare me the condecention.
I would agree with many of these points. I think the rating system that is in place is what we probably need to enforce. The guy who thought I was advocating more laws, I wasn't per se'. If the laws we have aren't being enforced, enforced them. Give them teeth so we don't have to pass more laws. We should always resist passing laws because they always curtail a freedom to some extent. The bottom line: keep them out of the hands of kids who haven't matured yet. Period. Don't sell them to them. Yes, some parents don't watch their kids. Hell, some parents will continue to buy them for their kids. If the rating is on there, stores shouldn't be allowed to sell them to them.
That violent games can translate to aggression in young boys I think is fairly easy to illustrate. I don't think that means there needs to be wholesale bans or anything but there should be ratings and limits. We don't allow 12 year olds to see rated R movies (okay, we've all snuck into a movie that aside...). We don't allow them to view porn. We shouldn't allow them to buy violent video games.
The world? That explains two things: The spread of anti-American sentiment and why they've garnered so-called "respect."
OT I know, mod me down!
Think of Bill Gates as "Long Shanks" and Linus as William Wallace.
DId they also test to see how long a person would last in sub-zero temps without a jacket? Or how safe a 16 year old girl is walking through an inner city parking lot at 1am? Or how long an child can survive in the woods alone? This is the approach people need to take with their PC.
M$: "We have the largest customer base in the world. If just a tiny percentage of our users were to take us up on this offer, that could mean millions. We're really going out on a limb here. Let's other vendors offer the same thing!" Spin, Baby, spin! Marketing Inferno! Spin, Baby, spin!
You, SIr, are an idiot. Please, please don't breed.
Maybe it's me, but aren't all librarians filling an intellectual need with random facts? I mean, sure there's the Dewey Decimal System, but barring that arrangement facts in a library are fairly random physically speaking.
He talks about it taking just a "few clicks" to get Flash, RP, and other plugins working. Obviously he's not talking about Firefox on Linux. Flash, sure. It's probably the single easiest plugin to get to work. Most other plugins cannot be installed with the "follow this link to install the plugin" option at all. If they do manage to install, they don't seem to be able to find your plugins directory. Don't get me wrong, I love Firefox (though those 1-2 second pauses are annoying) but there needs to be some type of search in the installer to find the plugins directories. Couple that with Real Player unable to give me video on half of the Real Player content I find and you wonder what's going on. Though, that wouldn't be a Firefox issue, I know.
I never said reason equals faith. Yet, you still cling to your (though widely popular) notion of faith. To use your example, God told me this block has a volume of 27 units. By my measurement this block contains 27 units. Therefore I can trust God. Again there is a difference betwee "leaps of faith" and "faith." You ignore the truth here and that is faith is belief. Belief is simply a conclusion of evidence. Some require very little evidence, others more. Some project or leap from little evidence to grand conclusions and still others come to wrong conclusions. Applied to science or religion, belief and faith are the same. You can cling to your mistaken interpretation of what faith is but if you truly want to stick to origins, then understand that faith is simply belief. You don't have to believe in God to accept this idea, that's another argument. But understand that you debate skills will be challenged once you accept that fact.
I would have to argue against much of what you are saying but I'll stick to one point. "Reason" and "faith" are not mutually exclusive. You're letting the modern idea of "faith" cloud your thinking. As someone who seems to love "going back" and looking at origins, it should be noted that the ancient Greek term for "faith" is more closely translated "believe" or "belief." As such, belief is very much based on reason, logic, and evidence. People don't blindly believe in God with some gut-felt contention. Some do, but most do not. They view everything we see, ancient script, even science itself as evidence of His existence. That takes reason. I know men who are highly regarded scientists and mathematicians who would "reason" that God exists and call "blind faith" as ludicrous as guessing.
What is more interesting is how long it takes to install. SP2 is HUGE! This will put off many. I still recommend it, though not for the firewall features. Personally, if you have broadband you should have a decent cable router with your ports closed. No this won't stop internally invited connections but it will do pretty much what the firewall feature is doing. It's a matter of staying up to date, which is essential in a Windows environment. Like it or not, SP2 should be installed. If you don't like it, seriously consider switching platforms. Yes it's frustrating, but we're in a mess. We have a dominant player on the desktop. Until Linux get's more up to speed on the desktop and/or Mac's gain some share this is what we have.
Does it hurt to be stupid? No really. I've wondered. You totally missed my point. My discussion was on education. I never said we needed more spent on the military. I'll say it now but I didn't say it above. Learn some logic skills, Skippy. And as far as "the rest of the world combined" it comes in damn handy when they sit back and expect you to a) give them a handout and b) fight their battles for them.