So should every business have a telephone interface modified for a customer who cannot speak? Even though they have a working website where everything is accessible.
If the different interfaces (phone, web, human agent) are truly equal in terms of price and options, then how and why must every interface be built for every possible human configuration?
Are these (the ADA) the people that made it so that there is Brail on Drive up ATM machines?
After having witnessed this in use the other day, I agree with it.
Two women drive up to the ATM. The passenger gets out, walks around to the machine, starts punching buttons. Gets her money. And then I realize she is blind. Walks around the car and gets in. They drive away. No problem.
Without Braille on the buttons, she would have had to give her card, and PIN, to the driver to do the transaction. It's not just drivers that use those machines.
A Trabi? Ok, the body is semi-recyclable (actually, chopped, compressed plastic, not 'paper').
BUT, the 600 cc, 2-cycle engine emissions more than makes up for it, and if you get in even a minor ding, the whole thing is toast. Along with you.
German Trabant = ex-East German Trabant. Quite possibly the most disgusting, unsafe vehicle sold in the last 50 years.
I strongly doubt the US will ever surrender a citizen to a foreign court to stand trial.
bzzzt... US military personnel overseas accused of a crime are frequently tried in the host nations courts. Depending on the particular Status of Forces Agreement, the host nation often gets first crack at them.
No, they both need different solutions.
If you're fat, buying a bigger belt won't reduce your fatness.
Too much traffic congestion? "More roads" are not necessarily the answer!
Of course people need to get into the city. Find a way for them to do that which actually solves the problems (takes too long, too stressed out, nowhere to park, etc) instead of merely putting a bandaid on it.
A new road project is often overcapacity as soon as it is opened. That doesn't sound like a viable solution to me.
If you took a particular city, paved over everything. Roads and parking lots. Put in a 2 level tunnel/subway system. A 3 level overhead road system...Before long, it would still be congested!
Why don't we start looking for real, workable alternatives?
Aside from kickback fees from Square, what does Dell get out of it? Certainly noone is going to buy a Dell over something else simply beause of a $50 game preinstalled.
Can the fees possibly cover the increased support and installation costs?
Right now, copying a file between two computers involves: blah de blah
Gee...on my Win2k machine at work, I have a couple of folder shortcuts on the desktop. One to a shared office drive on the network, one to a shared company drive, one to a shared folder on my other PC. Moving/copying is as easy as dropping the file or folder onto the icon.
Multiple monitors would make it only slightly easier. One monitor showing a local view, the other showing a view of some other PC/folder. Slide it right across.
Exactly. Yes, I may do a bit of coding at home in my spare time. But it is mainly an intellectual pursuit. Building a deck, or helping the kids with their homework, or simply sitting on the couch with the wife has FAR more priority.
Do NOT email me at home about work and expect a reply. Unless I am secondhatted as the facilities manager, and the building is burning.
I can't help it if *you* don't have a life, and need work 24/7 for make you feel complete.
I actually bought GEOWorks as an add-on on top of DOS...around 89/90 or so. Excellent shell 'OS' of the day. Probably still have the 720kb install disks around
Beautiful print drivers. Unbelievable print quality, even from a Panasonic 9-pin. I did some work at home, brought it in to work, and the boss asked "WHAT did you print this on?"
With the right marketing (and being as much of an ass as Uncle Bill seems to be), this coulda been a contenda.
Yes, there are different ways of doing the same thing, especially with the various graphics tools.
But again, it is only the specific tool familiarity, and not the creative process that is being obtained (legally/illegally/on the sly). Provided the two in question aren't THAT far apart. GIMP and PS both use a wide variety of filters. PaintshopPro ($100) and PS($600) can both use the same filter set. Show me a good portfolio done in (whatever) and I'll teach you the differences from that, and the tool we use.
Similarly, you get the comment "Waaa...I want to be a good 3D artist, so I have to pirate Maya/3DSMAX/Lightwave. They are too expensive for a poor student like me". Nonsense. There are a wide variety of somewhat lesser quality, but free/lowcost tools out there. Show me what ya got on your demo tape (composition/timing/inventiveness/etc), and then I'll bring you up to speed on the tools we use HERE.
The same is true for productivity software (office,photoshop...) but not games and definitely not music.
Maybe, but also it is the creative process, not just the specific tool. Knowing how to navigate around in a pirated copy Word vs using a free tool like OpenOffice does not give you the ability to write well. But the personal skills that make good writer with a free tool like OpenOffice WILL transfer over to the more expensive tools like MSOffice.
Same with graphics apps. If you can create something spectacular with GIMP, you can definately do the same with Photoshop.
It is NOT because of their overbearing tactics that some people are weaning away from Napster/Gnutalla/Limewire/etc.
It is because, primarily, they suck. Marginal results, unknown quality, often slow connection speeds.
A serice like emusic.com will fill the bill, when and if they get more selection. $10/month, for straight mp3's at good d/l speeds, online previews. Lots of off-mainstream music, but no heavy hitters. No Pink Floyd, no Beatles, ad infinitum.
Include some/all of those artists, and emusic will be a winner. $10/month is EASILY worth the ease of use over Napster and its clones.
Yes. After millions of years of stability, the Van Allen belts changed dramatically during the middle and late 70's. This was of course due to the false "gas crisis", in which less gasoline was being used than normal for that time.
Previously, the Van Allen belts were no quite as strong as they are now, thus enabling the original moon missions.
You are confusing the organization itself with the voices they allow to be heard.
You miss the point of my post, sir. Is IndyMedia an organization worthy of receiving my money/time/material, or they not?
They proclaim to be the voice of everyone. Judging by many (all that I've seen) of the writings on their websites, they seem to be decidedly one sided.
From www.indymedia.org: The Independent Media Center is a network of collectively run media outlets for the creation of radical, accurate, and passionate tellings of the truth. We work out of a love and inspiration for people who continue to work for a better world, despite corporate media's distortions and unwillingness to cover the efforts to free humanity.
"...the creation of radical, accurate, and passionate tellings of the truth. "
From reading many of the writings at indymedia.org, accurate only applies when it agrees with the editors viewpoint.
"...despite corporate media's distortions and unwillingness..."
Sounds like a predisposition to disbelieve anything but what exists on their website.
It is essential that all voices be heard.
Exactly. Show me some opposing viewpoints from IndyMedia.org.
Free speech is great, and needs to be promoted/enforced/protected at all times. Free speech means "free". Any and all viewpoints. Not just those that you agree with.
Whether globalization is a GoodThing(tm) or not, has little to do with the effects of indymedia.org's efforts and policies.
And not denouncing acts of terrorism, but merely calling it civil disobidience by "freedom fighters" is at least as bad as corporate greed.
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So should every business have a telephone interface modified for a customer who cannot speak? Even though they have a working website where everything is accessible.
If the different interfaces (phone, web, human agent) are truly equal in terms of price and options, then how and why must every interface be built for every possible human configuration?
I have no idea. I wasn't watching that closely, until she started to walk around the front of the car.
I guess she had the prompts memorized.
Are these (the ADA) the people that made it so that there is Brail on Drive up ATM machines?
After having witnessed this in use the other day, I agree with it.
Two women drive up to the ATM. The passenger gets out, walks around to the machine, starts punching buttons. Gets her money.
And then I realize she is blind. Walks around the car and gets in. They drive away. No problem.
Without Braille on the buttons, she would have had to give her card, and PIN, to the driver to do the transaction. It's not just drivers that use those machines.
Are tickets for Southwest Airlines (at the same price) available via other means? Phone, travel agent, whatever. Yes, they are.
Does every avenue have to be available to every person, no matter what the disability?
If you're blind, use the phone. If you're deaf, read (Web).
which after compression should fit comfortably on a standard CD.
We're assuming lossless compression, right?
Don't want to lose any important bits....:)
Users and administrators.
Either base system can be secure or as full of holes as your mother. Apply the relevant patches in a timely manner, and you're mostly ok (so far).
Clueful users do not generally get rooted. In either system.
You can shoot people who break into your house. Fix that first, then this.
That is not 'broken'.
Don't want to risk being shot? Stay the hell out of *my* house.
A Trabi? Ok, the body is semi-recyclable (actually, chopped, compressed plastic, not 'paper').
BUT, the 600 cc, 2-cycle engine emissions more than makes up for it, and if you get in even a minor ding, the whole thing is toast. Along with you.
German Trabant = ex-East German Trabant. Quite possibly the most disgusting, unsafe vehicle sold in the last 50 years.
I strongly doubt the US will ever surrender a citizen to a foreign court to stand trial.
bzzzt... US military personnel overseas accused of a crime are frequently tried in the host nations courts. Depending on the particular Status of Forces Agreement, the host nation often gets first crack at them.
No, they both need different solutions.
If you're fat, buying a bigger belt won't reduce your fatness.
Too much traffic congestion? "More roads" are not necessarily the answer!
Of course people need to get into the city. Find a way for them to do that which actually solves the problems (takes too long, too stressed out, nowhere to park, etc) instead of merely putting a bandaid on it.
A new road project is often overcapacity as soon as it is opened. That doesn't sound like a viable solution to me.
If you took a particular city, paved over everything. Roads and parking lots. Put in a 2 level tunnel/subway system. A 3 level overhead road system...Before long, it would still be congested!
Why don't we start looking for real, workable alternatives?
...where?
The music industry has been ripping us off (no news there) to the tune of $5 per CD.
The have to pay up $67 mil + $75 mil to non-profit, etc.
Who the hell gets that $67 mil? I want my cut!
~50 CD's over the last few years....where is my $250?
Building more roads to combat traffic congestion is like buying a bigger belt to combat obesity.
So the Chinese build a prototype chip that runs the beloved Linux, and suddenly we like them? The Great Firewall of China is all of a sudden passe'?
Western style DRM and Palladium are not the only restricting concepts which can be handled through silicon.
When China supports freedom, I will support China.
Aside from kickback fees from Square, what does Dell get out of it? Certainly noone is going to buy a Dell over something else simply beause of a $50 game preinstalled.
Can the fees possibly cover the increased support and installation costs?
save to a shared folder, open the shared folder on the second computer, open the file, copy, paste
Or (in windows anyway) copy, open notepad, paste, Save As... to an already shared folder. Poof, there it is.
Right now, copying a file between two computers involves: blah de blah
Gee...on my Win2k machine at work, I have a couple of folder shortcuts on the desktop. One to a shared office drive on the network, one to a shared company drive, one to a shared folder on my other PC. Moving/copying is as easy as dropping the file or folder onto the icon.
Multiple monitors would make it only slightly easier. One monitor showing a local view, the other showing a view of some other PC/folder. Slide it right across.
Exactly. Yes, I may do a bit of coding at home in my spare time. But it is mainly an intellectual pursuit. Building a deck, or helping the kids with their homework, or simply sitting on the couch with the wife has FAR more priority. Do NOT email me at home about work and expect a reply. Unless I am secondhatted as the facilities manager, and the building is burning.
I can't help it if *you* don't have a life, and need work 24/7 for make you feel complete.
I actually bought GEOWorks as an add-on on top of DOS...around 89/90 or so. Excellent shell 'OS' of the day. Probably still have the 720kb install disks around
Beautiful print drivers. Unbelievable print quality, even from a Panasonic 9-pin. I did some work at home, brought it in to work, and the boss asked "WHAT did you print this on?"
With the right marketing (and being as much of an ass as Uncle Bill seems to be), this coulda been a contenda.
Yes, there are different ways of doing the same thing, especially with the various graphics tools.
But again, it is only the specific tool familiarity, and not the creative process that is being obtained (legally/illegally/on the sly). Provided the two in question aren't THAT far apart. GIMP and PS both use a wide variety of filters. PaintshopPro ($100) and PS($600) can both use the same filter set. Show me a good portfolio done in (whatever) and I'll teach you the differences from that, and the tool we use.
Similarly, you get the comment "Waaa...I want to be a good 3D artist, so I have to pirate Maya/3DSMAX/Lightwave. They are too expensive for a poor student like me". Nonsense. There are a wide variety of somewhat lesser quality, but free/lowcost tools out there. Show me what ya got on your demo tape (composition/timing/inventiveness/etc), and then I'll bring you up to speed on the tools we use HERE.
The same is true for productivity software (office,photoshop...) but not games and definitely not music.
Maybe, but also it is the creative process, not just the specific tool. Knowing how to navigate around in a pirated copy Word vs using a free tool like OpenOffice does not give you the ability to write well. But the personal skills that make good writer with a free tool like OpenOffice WILL transfer over to the more expensive tools like MSOffice.
Same with graphics apps. If you can create something spectacular with GIMP, you can definately do the same with Photoshop.
Ability, not just tool familiarity, is the key.
It is NOT because of their overbearing tactics that some people are weaning away from Napster/Gnutalla/Limewire/etc.
It is because, primarily, they suck. Marginal results, unknown quality, often slow connection speeds.
A serice like emusic.com will fill the bill, when and if they get more selection. $10/month, for straight mp3's at good d/l speeds, online previews. Lots of off-mainstream music, but no heavy hitters. No Pink Floyd, no Beatles, ad infinitum.
Include some/all of those artists, and emusic will be a winner. $10/month is EASILY worth the ease of use over Napster and its clones.
You've just described emusic.com, but with a better selection
Or even a $100, Standard Edition one.
Yes. After millions of years of stability, the Van Allen belts changed dramatically during the middle and late 70's. This was of course due to the false "gas crisis", in which less gasoline was being used than normal for that time.
Previously, the Van Allen belts were no quite as strong as they are now, thus enabling the original moon missions.
You are confusing the organization itself with the voices they allow to be heard.
You miss the point of my post, sir. Is IndyMedia an organization worthy of receiving my money/time/material, or they not?
They proclaim to be the voice of everyone. Judging by many (all that I've seen) of the writings on their websites, they seem to be decidedly one sided.
From www.indymedia.org: The Independent Media Center is a network of collectively run media outlets for the creation of radical, accurate, and passionate tellings of the truth. We work out of a love and inspiration for people who continue to work for a better world, despite corporate media's distortions and unwillingness to cover the efforts to free humanity.
"...the creation of radical, accurate, and passionate tellings of the truth. "
From reading many of the writings at indymedia.org, accurate only applies when it agrees with the editors viewpoint.
"...despite corporate media's distortions and unwillingness..."
Sounds like a predisposition to disbelieve anything but what exists on their website.
It is essential that all voices be heard.
Exactly. Show me some opposing viewpoints from IndyMedia.org.
Free speech is great, and needs to be promoted/enforced/protected at all times. Free speech means "free". Any and all viewpoints. Not just those that you agree with.
Whether globalization is a GoodThing(tm) or not, has little to do with the effects of indymedia.org's efforts and policies.
And not denouncing acts of terrorism, but merely calling it civil disobidience by "freedom fighters" is at least as bad as corporate greed.