Yeah. Photography == good. I am currently studying for an A-level, and have had my mid-life crisis at 17 and become pretty peeved at the idea of the whole "Work, reproduce, die" cycle.
I intend to go on and do a degree, and perhaps become a teacher in photography, or try and scrape by doing art photography.:)
Still - better to have a mid-life crisis at 17 when you can do something about it than at 35 when your stuck in a career and have wife, kids, mortgage etc. At least when your young you can act on your mid-life "I wanna do something interesting rather than being a corporate clonebot" desires.
Interesting comment. Have you put any pics online?
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The power of computing lies in it's complete customisability - something that neither Microsoft, Apple or any of the commercial OS providers can provide. It's only something that the OSS community can provide. If you make each tool perfect and bugless, then complete personalisation and cusomisation becomes possible.
But, people need to open their minds to the customisability offered. Computers are not TV's. They are far more powerful and offer the chance to be precisely what people need, and with the onset of OSS, hopefully in an extremely powerful and easy-to-use system.
If we all have personally created desktops, CLI's, whatever the way we want them, there will be no need for computer classes - they will interact with us as we want them.
I'm a "don't like computers, but like what computers can do" Mac user (running OS X), and have installed PHP and MySQL and am running Postnuke. How many Windows users can claim that?
There are going to be a higher amount of people who report Linux attacks and security holes, because something is generally done about them - due to the high amount of Open Source programmers out there to fix them.
Meanwhile, if your Windows box gets hacked, who ya going to call? Bill Gates? "Well, you do know that getting hacked is now a special feature!"
Now, it would be more interesting if somebody did some research in to the fixing times - how long it takes for Microsoft to bring out a fix for security holes, as compared to that of OSS project programmers.
That'll be very interesting, and provide some good ammunition against the typical MS-FUD that gets pushed out so frequently.
Linux and all the other GNU-based OS'es is for everyone. It's a wonderful place to be. The great thing about it is - you can be a geek and use Linux - write your own device drivers, shell scripts and whatever else you want to do. Plus, you can be a metaphorical AOL-er. That's why we have different distributions and file systems.
Different strokes for different folks. That's why I love GNU stuff.
Popular download networks such as Audiogalaxy and Limewire announce that they will offer totally free downloads of singles with absolutely no charge or restrictions. w00t w00t!
A genius, he is. I will have to borrow (if the Digital Rights management of publishers will allow me) them from my brother, or a library. I might also have a crack at that big book about PHP4 - once I have my computer back. Darned Apple power supply.
I used to work for a company that specialised in ergonomic products to reduce RSI symptoms, including keyboards, mice, pads, mats, Speech Recog software and RSI software. I was typing a lot, so replaced my Mac's standard keyboard with an ergo keyboard. The difference it made was immeasurable comfort. Since then I've started using a laptop, and I find that if the position I'm in is uncomfortable, I can just pick up and go work somewhere else - a different desk, chair, lie down on a couch or bed and use it, go lounge outside - whatever.
These things DO work - along with taking frequent mini-breaks (30 secs per 10 minutes), and stretching your arm muscles.
Also, make sure you take your eyes away from the screen and focus on something far away - outside, for example. That always helps.
Hear hear! Big Brother (now in it's 3rd series in the UK...:| ) is just dumb crap (like people talking about the differences between white and brown bread) masked as a psychological/sociological experiment.
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Yeah. Photography == good.
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I am currently studying for an A-level, and have had my mid-life crisis at 17 and become pretty peeved at the idea of the whole "Work, reproduce, die" cycle.
I intend to go on and do a degree, and perhaps become a teacher in photography, or try and scrape by doing art photography.
Still - better to have a mid-life crisis at 17 when you can do something about it than at 35 when your stuck in a career and have wife, kids, mortgage etc. At least when your young you can act on your mid-life "I wanna do something interesting rather than being a corporate clonebot" desires.
Interesting comment. Have you put any pics online?
The power of computing lies in it's complete customisability - something that neither Microsoft, Apple or any of the commercial OS providers can provide. It's only something that the OSS community can provide. If you make each tool perfect and bugless, then complete personalisation and cusomisation becomes possible.
But, people need to open their minds to the customisability offered. Computers are not TV's. They are far more powerful and offer the chance to be precisely what people need, and with the onset of OSS, hopefully in an extremely powerful and easy-to-use system.
If we all have personally created desktops, CLI's, whatever the way we want them, there will be no need for computer classes - they will interact with us as we want them.
Yeah alright - but it is copy-protected.
I'm a "don't like computers, but like what computers can do" Mac user (running OS X), and have installed PHP and MySQL and am running Postnuke. How many Windows users can claim that?
Sorry to break stereotypes.
There are going to be a higher amount of people who report Linux attacks and security holes, because something is generally done about them - due to the high amount of Open Source programmers out there to fix them.
Meanwhile, if your Windows box gets hacked, who ya going to call? Bill Gates? "Well, you do know that getting hacked is now a special feature!"
Now, it would be more interesting if somebody did some research in to the fixing times - how long it takes for Microsoft to bring out a fix for security holes, as compared to that of OSS project programmers.
That'll be very interesting, and provide some good ammunition against the typical MS-FUD that gets pushed out so frequently.
Linux and all the other GNU-based OS'es is for everyone. It's a wonderful place to be. The great thing about it is - you can be a geek and use Linux - write your own device drivers, shell scripts and whatever else you want to do. Plus, you can be a metaphorical AOL-er. That's why we have different distributions and file systems.
Different strokes for different folks. That's why I love GNU stuff.
Popular download networks such as Audiogalaxy and Limewire announce that they will offer totally free downloads of singles with absolutely no charge or restrictions. w00t w00t!
A genius, he is. I will have to borrow (if the Digital Rights management of publishers will allow me) them from my brother, or a library. I might also have a crack at that big book about PHP4 - once I have my computer back. Darned Apple power supply.
I used to work for a company that specialised in ergonomic products to reduce RSI symptoms, including keyboards, mice, pads, mats, Speech Recog software and RSI software. I was typing a lot, so replaced my Mac's standard keyboard with an ergo keyboard. The difference it made was immeasurable comfort. Since then I've started using a laptop, and I find that if the position I'm in is uncomfortable, I can just pick up and go work somewhere else - a different desk, chair, lie down on a couch or bed and use it, go lounge outside - whatever.
These things DO work - along with taking frequent mini-breaks (30 secs per 10 minutes), and stretching your arm muscles.
Also, make sure you take your eyes away from the screen and focus on something far away - outside, for example. That always helps.
RSI is a problem, and prevention IS the solution.
Hear hear! Big Brother (now in it's 3rd series in the UK... :| ) is just dumb crap (like people talking about the differences between white and brown bread) masked as a psychological/sociological experiment.
Of course users are the problem! They didn't make "rm -r" and "kill -9" for nothing!