I'm not much of a gamer anymore, but don't they also allow one to play games not released in the region of his console? I think I wound up with about as many Japanese games as American for my Dreamcast, and easily more for the saturn before that. I'll agree that playing games from outside the intended area is still circumvention of the region lockouts, but I wouldn't place it anywhere near the same area as piracy.
The same reason I offer people vegitarian food when they come over for a meal. It's something fun that they likley would never have thought to try on their own, but which they very well might come away enjoying.
But no one uses linux, so why teach it?
I think that would be a great option to offer, but the article sounds like buying new hardware to get OS X wouldn't be an option.
Admitingly, I haven't had much work experience. But in the couple jobs I've been at, I've never seen 'anyone' rewarded for working hard. It was always people who stabbed their co-workers in the back, or took extended lunch breaks to smooze the higher ups who got the brownie points. Are there actually places out there where the managment is so un-dilbert'ish that working hard can actually get you positive attention?
I found the list of movies the guy worked on somewhat amusing as well, in that it actually lowered any potential value I placed on movies by the time they got to the "They're worth it" line. That was a really bad choice given the demographic that downloads movies. Most of us don't go see romantic comidies unless we're dragged there under protest, and we certainly don't like being reminded of them!
This is slightly off-topic, but with Mozilla/firebird having mng support removed, what browsers can still display them? I know Konqueror has mng support, does Safari as well?
While I do agree that being lazy does factor in for many cases, I think fear of change is a pretty heavy influence as well. The perfect example is a forum I used to post on. Someone there was having problems with a couple pages in IE, and many of us suggested she try using Mozilla. She did, and reported being astonished by how much quicker it loaded a few pages that she read on a regular basis, liked the pop-up blocking and tabs, and was impressed by how many more useful features it had compared to IE. You'd think with all that praise she'd be using Mozilla from that point on. Instead, she used it just for the page which was giving her problems in IE. Her reason for not switching browsers, Mozilla was just too different from IE and 'people don't like change'.
And I think that's something I at least lose sight of. Most people love familiartiy more than they love the idea of improving most situations. And that's furthered by many, or even most people on average, not enjoying learning new things. We're presented with new options, and find it fun to play with them and learn what they do. Many others might just look at the new option, click it once, see information they're not familiar with, and dump the program because the writers are making changes to what the users consider their program. The person in the above example also would refer to Internet Explorer as "my internet explorer", and I think that's a telling statement. A lot of people also seem to view their computers like their couch, or chair. It's something they own, and which should always remain in a static state.
That's why I stopped buying the boxed sets as well. Even with a preorder, many companies will wind up getting the distro to you weeks after everyone else is happily playing with their downloaded copy.
Well said. I disagree equally with both the Democrats and Republicans on some of the most important issues to me. Even within one party they often hold such self contridictory positions that I don't really understand how anyone can agree with the platform enough to consider themselves really represented unless, as you say, it comes down to people preferring to not have to form their own opinions anymore. I'd much rather have something like liquid
democracy.
Of course, I will miss being able to download episodes of old TV shows that aren't available in any other format that I know of.
Same here. I always checked torrent sites every couple days to see if anything like that had appeared. My favorite was a post of the second season of tripods, which never made it to a video release. I never knew there was a second season, and the chances of it ever appearing on tv around here are pretty much nil at this point. Unless the sci-fi channel starts showing great older sci-fi. But somehow I have my doubts that this would ever happen.
I actually quite like eDoneky, but I prefer Bittorrent for a couple reasons. First, and I admit this is a somewhat irrational bias, I was using their Linux version for quite some time before it evolved beyond the unstable (at least for me and other Linux users in the community that was using it) state it was once in. The largest reason is transfer speeds. Even when there were more people with the file on edonkey, bittorrent always seems to transfer at much faster speeds for me.
I also like that the official bittorrent client is crossplatform, and designed to be.
Freenet does have some other advantages to the normal WWW. As I understand it, a freenet site should load faster as it's slashdotted instead of dying. It's also good for hosting large files that one dosn't have the money to keep on a real server. I could also see it growing in popularity as companies get more protective of their IP. I'm reminded of a pet supply company which sued people who were complaining about their purchases on a message board. I'm not saying it's a sure thing that it could ever get enough content to become popular, but I could see it happening with a little luck - good or bad.
That's the nice thing about Linux, if you can create some of those new features there's a good chance they might make their way up to being as much a standard as anything can be in a Linux based desktop. But developers who 'like' the current models they're using are the wrong place to look for something that's going to be a huge change. That's for people like you to do who dislike aspects of the current model.
Heck, I'd love some kind of futurisitc movie-like 3D interface. The problem is, I, and I'd assume a ot of people, wouldn't love it enough to sit down and try over and over again to crank out design and code that would make something like that more effecient to use than the current layouts.
Even with all that, some people at least will still get pretty heavy discoleration. I don't drink soda, coffee or tea. I only eat snackfoods at most once or twice per month. I do get 100% of my RDA of calcium, floss once a day, use mouthwash and brush after two meals a day, and rince my mouth out with water after lunch. Doing all that since my mid teens, I've still wound up with yellowed teeth at 24.
renamed to netscape for people here who don't know what Mozilla is
I'm curious, has anyone complained about anything out of the ordinary with their "Netscape" install? I've always been curious just how some of the people still running Netscape 4 might take to a current version of Mozilla with the classic skin.
I think even more important than how up-to-date the computers are, is how well the teachers themselves can use them. The single most effective use I've ever heard them put to was in a juvi center. It was pretty impressive seeing these kids with lackluster educations and a criminal background really geeking it up under the direction of some guys from MIT. They were actually getting problems, and using the computer to come up with methods to creativly solve them. That's far more thinking than went into the majority of my education in public schools!
I heard a pretty interesting show on public radio a while back detailing two schools, one rich and one poor, and how computers were used there. It really did seem that it was the teachers, far more than the hardware or the amount of hardware there, that made or broke any computer using class. They can be really amazing tools if the teacher knows enough to make them something other than books on a screen, or of little value if that's all they can do with them.
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without any other real use.
I'm not much of a gamer anymore, but don't they also allow one to play games not released in the region of his console? I think I wound up with about as many Japanese games as American for my Dreamcast, and easily more for the saturn before that. I'll agree that playing games from outside the intended area is still circumvention of the region lockouts, but I wouldn't place it anywhere near the same area as piracy.
But no one uses linux, so why teach it?
The same reason I offer people vegitarian food when they come over for a meal. It's something fun that they likley would never have thought to try on their own, but which they very well might come away enjoying.
But no one uses linux, so why teach it?
I think that would be a great option to offer, but the article sounds like buying new hardware to get OS X wouldn't be an option.
seriously, who cares if it's called theft or copyright infringement?
The Judge and Jury?
Admitingly, I haven't had much work experience. But in the couple jobs I've been at, I've never seen 'anyone' rewarded for working hard. It was always people who stabbed their co-workers in the back, or took extended lunch breaks to smooze the higher ups who got the brownie points. Are there actually places out there where the managment is so un-dilbert'ish that working hard can actually get you positive attention?
You're not fucked if you can adapt to the market and look in to getting jobs in other fields.
What would I have any chance of getting hired for with a CS degree other than something computer related, McDonalds?
I found the list of movies the guy worked on somewhat amusing as well, in that it actually lowered any potential value I placed on movies by the time they got to the "They're worth it" line. That was a really bad choice given the demographic that downloads movies. Most of us don't go see romantic comidies unless we're dragged there under protest, and we certainly don't like being reminded of them!
I wonder if a checksummed p2p system like bittorrent will ever be merged with apt.
Never tried it myself, but I did hear that someone was working on setting up a debian apt repository on freenet.
That's the expression of a man who know's he's getting 'nothin' for putting up with an evening of dancing.
This is slightly off-topic, but with Mozilla/firebird having mng support removed, what browsers can still display them? I know Konqueror has mng support, does Safari as well?
Where would a coder like to work:
At this point in the industry, anywhere!
While I do agree that being lazy does factor in for many cases, I think fear of change is a pretty heavy influence as well. The perfect example is a forum I used to post on. Someone there was having problems with a couple pages in IE, and many of us suggested she try using Mozilla. She did, and reported being astonished by how much quicker it loaded a few pages that she read on a regular basis, liked the pop-up blocking and tabs, and was impressed by how many more useful features it had compared to IE. You'd think with all that praise she'd be using Mozilla from that point on. Instead, she used it just for the page which was giving her problems in IE. Her reason for not switching browsers, Mozilla was just too different from IE and 'people don't like change'.
And I think that's something I at least lose sight of. Most people love familiartiy more than they love the idea of improving most situations. And that's furthered by many, or even most people on average, not enjoying learning new things. We're presented with new options, and find it fun to play with them and learn what they do. Many others might just look at the new option, click it once, see information they're not familiar with, and dump the program because the writers are making changes to what the users consider their program. The person in the above example also would refer to Internet Explorer as "my internet explorer", and I think that's a telling statement. A lot of people also seem to view their computers like their couch, or chair. It's something they own, and which should always remain in a static state.
That's why I stopped buying the boxed sets as well. Even with a preorder, many companies will wind up getting the distro to you weeks after everyone else is happily playing with their downloaded copy.
Well said. I disagree equally with both the Democrats and Republicans on some of the most important issues to me. Even within one party they often hold such self contridictory positions that I don't really understand how anyone can agree with the platform enough to consider themselves really represented unless, as you say, it comes down to people preferring to not have to form their own opinions anymore. I'd much rather have something like liquid democracy.
Of course, I will miss being able to download episodes of old TV shows that aren't available in any other format that I know of.
Same here. I always checked torrent sites every couple days to see if anything like that had appeared. My favorite was a post of the second season of tripods, which never made it to a video release. I never knew there was a second season, and the chances of it ever appearing on tv around here are pretty much nil at this point. Unless the sci-fi channel starts showing great older sci-fi. But somehow I have my doubts that this would ever happen.
I actually quite like eDoneky, but I prefer Bittorrent for a couple reasons. First, and I admit this is a somewhat irrational bias, I was using their Linux version for quite some time before it evolved beyond the unstable (at least for me and other Linux users in the community that was using it) state it was once in. The largest reason is transfer speeds. Even when there were more people with the file on edonkey, bittorrent always seems to transfer at much faster speeds for me.
I also like that the official bittorrent client is crossplatform, and designed to be.
and with broadband, why turn it off?
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The Java VM sucking up my tiny amount of free memory
Freenet does have some other advantages to the normal WWW. As I understand it, a freenet site should load faster as it's slashdotted instead of dying. It's also good for hosting large files that one dosn't have the money to keep on a real server. I could also see it growing in popularity as companies get more protective of their IP. I'm reminded of a pet supply company which sued people who were complaining about their purchases on a message board. I'm not saying it's a sure thing that it could ever get enough content to become popular, but I could see it happening with a little luck - good or bad.
That's the nice thing about Linux, if you can create some of those new features there's a good chance they might make their way up to being as much a standard as anything can be in a Linux based desktop. But developers who 'like' the current models they're using are the wrong place to look for something that's going to be a huge change. That's for people like you to do who dislike aspects of the current model.
Heck, I'd love some kind of futurisitc movie-like 3D interface. The problem is, I, and I'd assume a ot of people, wouldn't love it enough to sit down and try over and over again to crank out design and code that would make something like that more effecient to use than the current layouts.
ah poo. :)
Yep, that color.
Even with all that, some people at least will still get pretty heavy discoleration. I don't drink soda, coffee or tea. I only eat snackfoods at most once or twice per month. I do get 100% of my RDA of calcium, floss once a day, use mouthwash and brush after two meals a day, and rince my mouth out with water after lunch. Doing all that since my mid teens, I've still wound up with yellowed teeth at 24.
one starting with con- or kon-, such as Konservierungsmittel (German) or konserveringsmedel (Scandinavian)? :-)
Suddenly the KDE naming scheme makes sense to me!
Asking for legal advice on slashdot is somewhat foolish.
He's asking for a combination of legal and sex advice on slashdot. The only way to one up that is to ask us for spelling tips as well.
The "Linux 8.0" was a tad odd as well.
renamed to netscape for people here who don't know what Mozilla is
I'm curious, has anyone complained about anything out of the ordinary with their "Netscape" install? I've always been curious just how some of the people still running Netscape 4 might take to a current version of Mozilla with the classic skin.
I think even more important than how up-to-date the computers are, is how well the teachers themselves can use them. The single most effective use I've ever heard them put to was in a juvi center. It was pretty impressive seeing these kids with lackluster educations and a criminal background really geeking it up under the direction of some guys from MIT. They were actually getting problems, and using the computer to come up with methods to creativly solve them. That's far more thinking than went into the majority of my education in public schools!
I heard a pretty interesting show on public radio a while back detailing two schools, one rich and one poor, and how computers were used there. It really did seem that it was the teachers, far more than the hardware or the amount of hardware there, that made or broke any computer using class. They can be really amazing tools if the teacher knows enough to make them something other than books on a screen, or of little value if that's all they can do with them.