good point. musicians are businessmen, not artists.
Those that are real artists put out quality stuff becuase they want to, so they make more money by default. Plus, consumers like to support these types of artists more.
the problem is, we started accepting pop-culture garbage which was created for the only purpose of selling. How many popular bands do you hear on the radio that actually started in a garage, playing for proms and birthdays? Not too many.
Most of the crap out there is reprocessed garbage, and they know it. I think that's why they don't people buying one song at a time.
The shift from feeding the customers garbage to actually listening to what the customer wants and providing it is a huge step; one that they dont' want to take.
I installed redhat not too long ago, and i can definitely tell a difference in stress on my processor from windows to linux. In windows, my Athlon 1.3ghz get up to about 160 degrees, in linux it stays down to about 130. Not sure how much of a life difference it makes in my hardware, but it's got to be something.
the 155 is if it's coming out of my head. essays, notes, that sort of thing.
when they test for the records, do they test with reading? I'm a little slower with that, but I bet it's still decent.
I don't think switching from qwerty would do much good for me. I already type about 155wpm, i can't imagine wanting to type much faster. Although... i thought of giving it a try before becuase i read that it reduces some of the carpel-tunnel (sp?). Dunno how much of a difference it could be though.
>The percent of wealth controlled by the upper ten percent has more than double in the past 20 years. I really don't think they need any help.
So... they're successful. What's the problem there? Why punish people who are successful, it doesn't make sense. The fact that most of the 10 percent own businesses probably makes them even more evil. Yep, they're evil for providing jobs and goods.
The tax system is screwed up in general. The only fair way to do it (in my opinion) is to take the total amount of money it takes to run the government, and divide it equally among the entire population.
I think it does have a place in the desktop market. What I see happening, is that elementary and highschools could start installing linux instead of windows to save money. The next generation of solitaire-players and msn-chatters will be doing that stuff on linux at school, so they'll probably want linux at home. Eventually, they might have kids and their kids will learn linux. So, even if they do just use it for solitaire and 'the internet', what's wrong with that?
I think it offends you that the next generation of solitaire players will be doing it on linux. It somehow takes away from your eliteness.
myself, I am burning dozens of copies of redhat 9 for friends and people who have a little interest in learning something new, becuase that's what it's all about.
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Should freedom of choice in browsers mean that i have a choice in what browser I use? By making it not work in IE, they've basically voilated their own stance.
oh yeah, I'm at school, which uses IE, but at home I use Redhat9 with mozilla. so what i'm saying here is that i'm using ie because i have to... which means i dont' have a choice at school, and ahhh! it'll never end.
Are you saying in your post that you'd rather they didn't do this research?
keep trolling with your leftist agenda. it's sad that a post like that passes for insightful or interesting. The fact is, this is a good thing. I'm sure if you spent the time creating what they're doing, you'd want something in return.
This helps everyone. From people in toronto to china to the US. Finding a cure for sars will restore confidence in travel and economies. I know toronto in particular has had a bad hit from the bad publicity.
Anti-establishment, anti-capitalism types push this off as a bad thing that only helps corporations. Clearly they haven't though it thorugh, or they're just living in lala land.
my last month's wired mag came bundled with an extra magazine called 'un wired' (still made by Wired) where they explained everything you can imagine about wireless networking. I thought it was pretty clever...:)
mine are the same... But i've seen pages around that show you how to replace the old light module with a couple LEDs. I haven't gotten around to it yet though
In our distance learning classes we have an 'elmo' that looks like an overhead, but is basically a webcam on a stick overlooking the overhead area... you can put worksheets under it or whatever, and it shows up on the computer screen. I can't imagine it being very hard to build with a webcam and an svideo connection.
I just downloaded redhat 9, all 6 cds... I'm going to try to get apache 2.0.44 and cfmx installed. I'll write down the steps I took if it works, and post it to their support forum. i really hope it works:)
no kidding, getting coldfusion mx installed with apache2 was hell. Finally i got it working, but it was insane. I think it took 4 different patches, which I installed in the wrong order a few times before figuring it out. really, it shouldn't be that hard.
I was going to use PC104 to build a computer for my car. They're perfect because of their size and low power, but it's almost as simple these days to get a mini-itx board and do it that way. I ended up going with an old 486, but i'm hoping to rebuild the project... mp3car has a lot of projects like this, a few use PC104
I never said anything bad about other types of racing. my point is that fans of all racing aren't the same types of people that they used to be. I think the technology in all areas of racing is awesome. i like nascar more, only because it seems like more suspense than f1. that's just my opinion.
it seems like a step in the right direction. It'll be awhile before we can really judge if it's worked, but at least it's progress for the cause, and progress is something more than we had.
I know you're trying to be funny, but i'd bet there's a lot of geeks who watch nascar. The trashy stupid white man image you're referring to is outdated and offensive to today's generation of nascar fans, who watch it for the technology more than 'cars going fast'.
b) I don't think the evil terrorists would care if they weren't allowed
damn right. It's like saying, guns can be used to kill people, so let's take guns away... then only people who kill people with guns will have them. it's just not logical.
without research, the bad people will gain an advantage, and we can't have that.
Our local voting for senator, congressman, county seats, etc. was done with paper and pencil. You fill in the bubble next to the person you want to vote for on each item. It takes 2 to 3 seconds to fill in each bubble, so I don't see how it'd be possible to accidentally vote for the wrong person, as it might with a touch-screen type system.
Whoever makes ACT tests could probably make some very easy to understand, very easy to count and re-check ballots that would cost a hell of a lot less than a lot of computer systems that are going to be accused of fraud anyway.
I think the problem is that after 2000 everyone (dems) panicked and threw lots of money at the problem, and now they have to spend it. I'm all for making everything digital, but when it comes to voting, i know most people would rather just fill in the dots and know what they're sending in.
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what, no picture?
Move along, nothing to see here.
good point. musicians are businessmen, not artists.
Those that are real artists put out quality stuff becuase they want to, so they make more money by default. Plus, consumers like to support these types of artists more.
the problem is, we started accepting pop-culture garbage which was created for the only purpose of selling. How many popular bands do you hear on the radio that actually started in a garage, playing for proms and birthdays? Not too many.
Most of the crap out there is reprocessed garbage, and they know it. I think that's why they don't people buying one song at a time.
The shift from feeding the customers garbage to actually listening to what the customer wants and providing it is a huge step; one that they dont' want to take.
the numbers will correspond to your own memory address within the matrix.
I installed redhat not too long ago, and i can definitely tell a difference in stress on my processor from windows to linux. In windows, my Athlon 1.3ghz get up to about 160 degrees, in linux it stays down to about 130. Not sure how much of a life difference it makes in my hardware, but it's got to be something.
the 155 is if it's coming out of my head. essays, notes, that sort of thing.
when they test for the records, do they test with reading? I'm a little slower with that, but I bet it's still decent.
damn that sounded a lot better in my head than down on paper. In theory (heh, hmm...) it's fair, but... i guess it's not very realistic.
i guess it's back to the drawing boards
I don't think switching from qwerty would do much good for me. I already type about 155wpm, i can't imagine wanting to type much faster. Although... i thought of giving it a try before becuase i read that it reduces some of the carpel-tunnel (sp?). Dunno how much of a difference it could be though.
does a black hole open up and swallow your house if you look at games.slashdot.org under a blacklight? There ought'a be a warning somewhere....
>The percent of wealth controlled by the upper ten percent has more than double in the past 20 years. I really don't think they need any help.
So... they're successful. What's the problem there? Why punish people who are successful, it doesn't make sense. The fact that most of the 10 percent own businesses probably makes them even more evil. Yep, they're evil for providing jobs and goods.
The tax system is screwed up in general. The only fair way to do it (in my opinion) is to take the total amount of money it takes to run the government, and divide it equally among the entire population.
Here and here are some really good statistics on who pays what taxes.
I think it does have a place in the desktop market. What I see happening, is that elementary and highschools could start installing linux instead of windows to save money. The next generation of solitaire-players and msn-chatters will be doing that stuff on linux at school, so they'll probably want linux at home. Eventually, they might have kids and their kids will learn linux. So, even if they do just use it for solitaire and 'the internet', what's wrong with that?
I think it offends you that the next generation of solitaire players will be doing it on linux. It somehow takes away from your eliteness.
myself, I am burning dozens of copies of redhat 9 for friends and people who have a little interest in learning something new, becuase that's what it's all about.
oh yeah, I'm at school, which uses IE, but at home I use Redhat9 with mozilla. so what i'm saying here is that i'm using ie because i have to... which means i dont' have a choice at school, and ahhh! it'll never end.
Are you saying in your post that you'd rather they didn't do this research?
keep trolling with your leftist agenda. it's sad that a post like that passes for insightful or interesting. The fact is, this is a good thing. I'm sure if you spent the time creating what they're doing, you'd want something in return.
This helps everyone. From people in toronto to china to the US. Finding a cure for sars will restore confidence in travel and economies. I know toronto in particular has had a bad hit from the bad publicity.
Anti-establishment, anti-capitalism types push this off as a bad thing that only helps corporations. Clearly they haven't though it thorugh, or they're just living in lala land.
my last month's wired mag came bundled with an extra magazine called 'un wired' (still made by Wired) where they explained everything you can imagine about wireless networking. I thought it was pretty clever... :)
ersonally-pay, i-ay(?) erfer-pay o-tay use pig latin.
geeze, that really wasn't worth the effort...
mine are the same... But i've seen pages around that show you how to replace the old light module with a couple LEDs. I haven't gotten around to it yet though
In our distance learning classes we have an 'elmo' that looks like an overhead, but is basically a webcam on a stick overlooking the overhead area... you can put worksheets under it or whatever, and it shows up on the computer screen. I can't imagine it being very hard to build with a webcam and an svideo connection.
I just downloaded redhat 9, all 6 cds... I'm going to try to get apache 2.0.44 and cfmx installed. I'll write down the steps I took if it works, and post it to their support forum. i really hope it works :)
no kidding, getting coldfusion mx installed with apache2 was hell. Finally i got it working, but it was insane. I think it took 4 different patches, which I installed in the wrong order a few times before figuring it out.
really, it shouldn't be that hard.
I was going to use PC104 to build a computer for my car. They're perfect because of their size and low power, but it's almost as simple these days to get a mini-itx board and do it that way. I ended up going with an old 486, but i'm hoping to rebuild the project... mp3car has a lot of projects like this, a few use PC104
I never said anything bad about other types of racing. my point is that fans of all racing aren't the same types of people that they used to be. I think the technology in all areas of racing is awesome. i like nascar more, only because it seems like more suspense than f1. that's just my opinion.
it seems like a step in the right direction. It'll be awhile before we can really judge if it's worked, but at least it's progress for the cause, and progress is something more than we had.
I know you're trying to be funny, but i'd bet there's a lot of geeks who watch nascar. The trashy stupid white man image you're referring to is outdated and offensive to today's generation of nascar fans, who watch it for the technology more than 'cars going fast'.
without research, the bad people will gain an advantage, and we can't have that.
Our local voting for senator, congressman, county seats, etc. was done with paper and pencil. You fill in the bubble next to the person you want to vote for on each item. It takes 2 to 3 seconds to fill in each bubble, so I don't see how it'd be possible to accidentally vote for the wrong person, as it might with a touch-screen type system.
Whoever makes ACT tests could probably make some very easy to understand, very easy to count and re-check ballots that would cost a hell of a lot less than a lot of computer systems that are going to be accused of fraud anyway.
I think the problem is that after 2000 everyone (dems) panicked and threw lots of money at the problem, and now they have to spend it. I'm all for making everything digital, but when it comes to voting, i know most people would rather just fill in the dots and know what they're sending in.