There was never a problem with global warming, pollution, or any of this stuff until we fell in love with cars. Why didn't we have global warming in 1885?
In 1885 the Industrial Revolution was a century old and fossil fueled. Pollution not a problem? This is the world of Mark Twain and Sherlock Holmes. Gaslit. Coal-fired.
Back in the early days of America, people got around by horse
Mostly they didn't get around at all.
The practical limit was twenty-five miles a day. Horses were and would remain an upper-class obsession because they are so damned expensive to maintain.
given that it is almost impossible to kill a free software project
being free and open doesn't always work miracles. when a program goes on life-support after losing its core developers and funding, there is still a very good chance it will die.
I used to have this passive AM antenna that was advertised as designed for folks in Alaska to pull in stateside AM. It really helped pull in a signal, but I haven't been able to find a replacement since it was stolen at college. It was about a foot round with a big dial on the face. Anybody know what they are?
C. Crane has a nice selection of antennas for AM, FM broadcast, SW and Wi-Fi.
The Boston Acoustics Recepter is worth a look as a first generation HD Radio. If you are serious about AM, this is the place to begin.
Can someone explain why I need to by a $300 radio to listen to something that is not perceptibly different? analog broadcasting should be preserved as they are easy to implment and use in the event of an emergency.
IBOC (In Band On Channel) is both an analog and digital service. no changes in frequency, no adapters required for older radios.
It is efficient and higher quality and still free to the user, which is why even the shortwave broadcast bands are going digital.
It is in Ibiquity's interest to encourage diversity in programming the multi-channel digital service and enhancements such as pro-logic surround sound.
Its not legally the same - you won't get charged with the same crime as a thief.
Not morally the same - you don't deprive the person you are 'stealing' from with the item you are 'stealing'
In the western mind all crimes against property begin as theft and the definition of property itself has a very broad reach: "He who steals my good name steals all."
It amuses me when phrases like "Identity Theft" are used here without a whisper of dissent. But everyone shys away from such thoughts when the intangible property belongs to someone else.
Piracy, in the sense of copyright infringement, came into the language while the Black Flag was still being flown across the Caribbean.
What the infringer steals is the right to control distribution and profit from one's work.
In a middle-class society accustomed to the ordinary rules of trade and bargain, that is understood on so elemental a level that the counter-argument will always seem fraudulent.
Jefferson can take the high road and proclaim that achievement in the arts and science should be free to all, while it is unpaid and unacknowledged slave labor that builds and sustains his Monticello.
I'm sure many movies will be converted to the new format in their 480p form.
VHS-S has been around long enough to judge the quality of HD sources: U-571 DTheater Edition . Die Hard (1080i) lists at $35. Pretty much where Blu-Ray expects to launch.
But he who controls the terms of discussion, often controls the discussion.
The problem is, the Geek isn't in control. In the larger world, I have yet to see coinages like "copyleft" and "treacherous computing" gain any traction whatever.
"Abhorrent" should raise a red flag. That suggests the motivation is ideological and not pragmatic.
You need to ask what software the school uses and is required to use: District mandates. State mandates. You need to ask what funding is available. You need to ask what parents expect from the school. In the inner city, in a very strained economy, MS Office skills remain marketable.
Even the smallest of private schools is surely answerable to someone.
I've never understood the stupid "xyz vendor recommends Windows XP" campaign. It's not as if desktop users have much of a choice when they buy their Windows XP desktop. What's there to recommend to the user?
These add campaigns target the retail market.
Win MCE for home use, Pro for the office. It's that simple.
The real reason why the general public isn't moving to Linux is simple: Nobody wants Linux. That's why I suggested technology to take Linux far out into the lead.
There isn't a technical solution.
Linux arrived late to the party. Twenty-five years late. In a village of 2500, I can restock my HP inkjet, buy a mid-line Kodak camera, a jewel-cased game or two. Myst, perhaps, or a buried treasure, like Fallout.
The PC in the home is a gaming platform. It is a media platform. It has its own imperatives and has taken on dimensions that the Geek scarcely sees at all.
Something fundamental has changed when a Orion telescope or a Singer sewing machine can be considered an off-the-shelf Windows peripheral.
The "killer apps" in the home are iTunes, Rhapsody, Netflix and others. HDTV today. HD radio tomorrow. DRM'd content, yes. But it is the content people want.
People will switch when they are told to. Nothing else. Until Companies FORCE people to switch, there will be no switching.
This is precisely the attitude that instinctively unites users against the Geek. For a forum that is allegedly free or libertarian the word "FORCE" is used a lot here.
What happend to Standard Oil? It was dismantled and each component was forced to compete with the others. This is how we got: Esso, Exxon, Mobil, etc. (some have remerged by now, this happened 100 years ago)
Rockfeller called his trust "Standard Oil" because that was what he sold: a product so uniform and predictable your wife could light a lamp with perfect confidence it wouldn't blow up in her face. The problem for the trust-buster, then and now, is that ruthless entrepreneur, the robber baron, usually has a better understanding of what people really want.
because the music available to them is all my own favourites (mostly 70's and 80's), it's very interesting to see their tastes via their playlists. They're not exposed to modern rubbish on the radio, so I'm probably warping their minds and putting them forever out of touch with their friends.
...and this is a good thing, right?
my own tastes in music seem to cross at least three or four generations and can't be defined by any single genre.
it will be time for altzheimer's and the retirement home when only the music of my teens and twenties gives me any pleasure.
it's not long before they/their friends start getting into AIM and things like that.
When did your parents start letting you use the telephone? "Instant Messaging" didn't begin with AOL. It began with Bell along about 1876.
Our family preserves Grandmother's postcard correspondence as a seven year old girl in 1904. They are delightful and revealing. Consider it her entry into a larger world.
Say what you will about the show itself, but I really liked the interior design of the NX-01 from Enterprise.
I would argue that the NX-01 makes for the better game.
The technology is immature. But perhaps more accessible. Star Trek idealizes the military. But there must have been others out there with very different values and objectives.
Contact with other "races" in Enterprise should have been tentative and fragile.
I would welcome the chance to jettison The Prime Directive.
ST:TNG was nortorious for creating a patently false dilemma and resolving it in an emotionally satisfying way only through sheer dumb luck.
You have a small, untested, ship and crew with very limited resources...
The point is that there is no company or other entity telling someone what they can and can't do with their Linux installation just because they didn't pay enough money.
There are always trade-offs.
Red Hat dropped out of the consumer market. Linspire is anchored there.
The uber-Geek might be able to bend any randomly chosen Linux distro to his will. The reality is that most of us have to make choices.
Choices in hardware. Choices in software. Choices in technical support.
due to the completely voluntary "Comics Code Authority" label the industry came up with in response to pressure from such groups, the comic culture in the US was absolutely destroyed and the whole genre was relegated to the "childrens stuff" category in the popular mind. It still hasn't recovered from that blow, and as a result we no doubt missed out on some fantastic literature told in a way that traditional media (books) won't allow.
Comic books were distributed through newstands, cigar stores and other very small neighborhood outlets.
It was not at all helpful to the industry that the cigar store was likely to be a front for bookmaking, pornography, and the numbers game. But everywhere, Archie Andrews shared the same racks as the horror comics and the pulp-fiction sex and violence of Mickey Spillane.
It wasn't censorship which killed the industry. It was flooding a family-oriented market with an exploitation product designed to compete with Mike Hammer.
The "childrens stuff" in the comics included the work of Carl Barks.
In the newspapers, one could find story-tellers like Al Capp, Milton Caniff, and Walt Kelly, and others, like the young Charles Schulz. There was Charles Addams in The New Yorker and Chuck Jones at Warner. The comic culture was diverse and vital.
the author is encouraged to visit IRC...it doesn't have DRM attached at all, unlike the proprietary formats. The corps can crow about better sound fidelity all they want; as long as they keep DRM, mp3 will stay
The problem is, Wired is looking at mass-market distribution.
Microsoft made a game try at drawing newcomers into IRC with its Comic Chat client, along about IE4.
But to most potential users, IRC still looks awkward and intimidating , if they are aware of it at all. In its Geek origins, USENET shares the same problems.
The DRM'd services may be gaining the advantage: Strong backlists, appealing clients, consistently high quality audio.
There comes a time when subscription services at $15 a month looks better than spending hours trolling the P2P nets for an amateur's mp3 rip.
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In 1885 the Industrial Revolution was a century old and fossil fueled. Pollution not a problem? This is the world of Mark Twain and Sherlock Holmes. Gaslit. Coal-fired.
Back in the early days of America, people got around by horse
Mostly they didn't get around at all.
The practical limit was twenty-five miles a day. Horses were and would remain an upper-class obsession because they are so damned expensive to maintain.
being free and open doesn't always work miracles. when a program goes on life-support after losing its core developers and funding, there is still a very good chance it will die.
C. Crane has a nice selection of antennas for AM, FM broadcast, SW and Wi-Fi.
The Boston Acoustics Recepter is worth a look as a first generation HD Radio. If you are serious about AM, this is the place to begin.
IBOC (In Band On Channel) is both an analog and digital service. no changes in frequency, no adapters required for older radios.
It is efficient and higher quality and still free to the user, which is why even the shortwave broadcast bands are going digital.
It is in Ibiquity's interest to encourage diversity in programming the multi-channel digital service and enhancements such as pro-logic surround sound.
Not morally the same - you don't deprive the person you are 'stealing' from with the item you are 'stealing'
In the western mind all crimes against property begin as theft and the definition of property itself has a very broad reach: "He who steals my good name steals all."
It amuses me when phrases like "Identity Theft" are used here without a whisper of dissent. But everyone shys away from such thoughts when the intangible property belongs to someone else.
Piracy, in the sense of copyright infringement, came into the language while the Black Flag was still being flown across the Caribbean.
What the infringer steals is the right to control distribution and profit from one's work.
In a middle-class society accustomed to the ordinary rules of trade and bargain, that is understood on so elemental a level that the counter-argument will always seem fraudulent.
Jefferson can take the high road and proclaim that achievement in the arts and science should be free to all, while it is unpaid and unacknowledged slave labor that builds and sustains his Monticello.
The consumer market demands media content from the major providers. You deliver it or you die. Apple understands this. Microsoft understands this.
VHS-S has been around long enough to judge the quality of HD sources: U-571 DTheater Edition . Die Hard (1080i) lists at $35. Pretty much where Blu-Ray expects to launch.
The problem is, the Geek isn't in control. In the larger world, I have yet to see coinages like "copyleft" and "treacherous computing" gain any traction whatever.
You need to ask what software the school uses and is required to use: District mandates. State mandates. You need to ask what funding is available. You need to ask what parents expect from the school. In the inner city, in a very strained economy, MS Office skills remain marketable.
Even the smallest of private schools is surely answerable to someone.
These add campaigns target the retail market.
Win MCE for home use, Pro for the office. It's that simple.
Walmart.com has tried JDS. Linspire. Xandros. Etc., etc. A merry-go-round of distros and systems, not one of which has caught fire.
That's why I suggested technology to take Linux far out into the lead.
There isn't a technical solution.
Linux arrived late to the party. Twenty-five years late.
In a village of 2500, I can restock my HP inkjet, buy a mid-line Kodak camera, a jewel-cased game or two. Myst, perhaps, or a buried treasure, like Fallout.
The PC in the home is a gaming platform. It is a media platform. It has its own imperatives and has taken on dimensions that the Geek scarcely sees at all.
Something fundamental has changed when a Orion telescope or a Singer sewing machine can be considered an off-the-shelf Windows peripheral.
The "killer apps" in the home are iTunes, Rhapsody, Netflix and others. HDTV today. HD radio tomorrow. DRM'd content, yes. But it is the content people want.
This is precisely the attitude that instinctively unites users against the Geek. For a forum that is allegedly free or libertarian the word "FORCE" is used a lot here.
a fun post, and not far from the truth, I suspect.
Rockfeller called his trust "Standard Oil" because that was what he sold:
a product so uniform and predictable your wife could light a lamp with perfect confidence it wouldn't blow up in her face. The problem for the trust-buster, then and now, is that ruthless entrepreneur, the robber baron, usually has a better understanding of what people really want.
the anti-Christ?
perhaps to the adolescent minds which cluster about Slashdot
but in the adult world beyond, I don't think so.
only in the sense that Hot Coffee was good for the video game industry, Take Two's shareholders and distributers like Walmart.
you have a successful voluntary rule-making system in place, you don't break it in a way that invites government intervention, product recalls, etc.
my own tastes in music seem to cross at least three or four generations and can't be defined by any single genre.
it will be time for altzheimer's and the retirement home when only the music of my teens and twenties gives me any pleasure.
When did your parents start letting you use the telephone? "Instant Messaging" didn't begin with AOL. It began with Bell along about 1876.
Our family preserves Grandmother's postcard correspondence as a seven year old girl in 1904. They are delightful and revealing. Consider it her entry into a larger world.
I would argue that the NX-01 makes for the better game.
The technology is immature. But perhaps more accessible. Star Trek idealizes the military. But there must have been others out there with very different values and objectives.
Contact with other "races" in Enterprise should have been tentative and fragile.
I would welcome the chance to jettison The Prime Directive.
ST:TNG was nortorious for creating a patently false dilemma and resolving it in an emotionally satisfying way only through sheer dumb luck.
You have a small, untested, ship and crew with very limited resources...
There are always trade-offs.
Red Hat dropped out of the consumer market. Linspire is anchored there.
The uber-Geek might be able to bend any randomly chosen Linux distro to his will. The reality is that most of us have to make choices.
Choices in hardware. Choices in software. Choices in technical support.
Time and money.
not to mention the ungodly number of third-party apps that are designed to work with Office and share a common look and feel.
Comic books were distributed through newstands, cigar stores and other very small neighborhood outlets.
It was not at all helpful to the industry that the cigar store was likely to be a front for bookmaking, pornography, and the numbers game. But everywhere, Archie Andrews shared the same racks as the horror comics and the pulp-fiction sex and violence of Mickey Spillane.It wasn't censorship which killed the industry. It was flooding a family-oriented market with an exploitation product designed to compete with Mike Hammer.
The "childrens stuff" in the comics included the work of Carl Barks.
In the newspapers, one could find story-tellers like Al Capp, Milton Caniff, and Walt Kelly, and others, like the young Charles Schulz. There was Charles Addams in The New Yorker and Chuck Jones at Warner. The comic culture was diverse and vital.
The problem is, Wired is looking at mass-market distribution.
Microsoft made a game try at drawing newcomers into IRC with its Comic Chat client, along about IE4.
But to most potential users, IRC still looks awkward and intimidating , if they are aware of it at all. In its Geek origins, USENET shares the same problems.
The DRM'd services may be gaining the advantage:
Strong backlists, appealing clients, consistently high quality audio.
There comes a time when subscription services at $15 a month looks better than spending hours trolling the P2P nets for an amateur's mp3 rip.
----- until someone on the inside points you in the right direction.
The problem from the beginning was Rockstar's reputation for pushing the limits of public tolerance for adult content in an M-rated game.
Hot Coffee didn't look like an aberration, it looked exactly like what it was, an explicit rendering of an existing in-game scenario.