Thank you for a well thought out response. I've been losing my faith in the/. community lately and you've rekindled that in me.
I take my hat off to these kids who are showing real resolve against a system that would rather they just give a little to get a little.
America will not always have boom times but there is no reason to have a society where not being born into wealth means having to live in a state of fear where 99% of the populace is one health issue away from bankruptcy.
There is something to be said about information density in character based languages. A short sentence in Japanese can expand to a paragraph in English simply because concepts are more dense than phonetics. If I had a hard character limit for a message I would much rather say it in a character based language; it's be a lot more efficient. To make a blanket statement like that is just foolish.
I agree completely! My first was a Lamy Safari and at $25 it really hit the Neat Tool mark for me. There's something about writing that works well for my mind and physical copies can't be lost with a simple rm -rf.
Yes, very much so, in a Carl Sagan "wow the universe is big and we're small" kind of way, not a Steven Hawking "don't talk to alien strangers" kind of way;)
Time for people to start demanding municipal broadband from their communities. Local government is going to be less self-interested in limiting packet speed than monolithic Comcast and AT&T.
Most of the time these technologies don't work or don't have a sufficient level of customization to make them useful. Cellphone predictive text (not smartphone) has been pretty bad for years, especially for short words (did I mean "he" or "if") and it doesn't get patched. The only solution is to buy a new model which makes me wary since I'm already expected to just make due until something better comes along. Yes, Android and all that but I'm talking plain vanilla cellphones.
Does it make me a technophobe to not want a camera recording me all day while I use a computer, just so the machine can simulate things that my brain already does?
I'm one of those people that will just listen to Last.fm and whatever music I already have. To me this reads like "Warner To End Any Chance of People Being Exposed to their Content".
Good luck with that, as parent pointed out, it seems to be going great for the newspaper industry.
I worked at a small company that just make due with the annoying WGA messages. It's rather embarrassing when it's a machine used for customer presentations but the boss didn't want to pony up the Microsoft Fee to make the thing legit. That was a Windows XP Home machine but even with the WGA messages the machine still did the basic stuff the owner wanted.
Other than no upgrades what else does WGA disable?
Lately Nintendo, and Microsoft weirdly, have been more receptive to releasing Japan-only games in the US. I just bought Tatsunoko vs Capcom for the Wii which has a bunch of characters I have never heard of from 1970's anime. Microsoft is dipping their toe in the water on this as well by releasing Mushihimesama for the 360 without the usual region protections; the damn thing costs $75 to import from Japan but it will play on a stock US 360. It looks like they are recognizing that there is a global market for "niche" games.
Just pair this program with this and you've got the perfect captive audience.
Since wage-slaves can't be paid enough to focus on monitors for hours on end, just recruit the populace. The upside is that if you're an especially good snitch they can let you pilot a drone as a reward. Then they can make a TV show about that, a weekly feature to show off the citizen response to the dangers of knife crime and truancy.
Who needs a community of people working for the common good when technology can step in and keep us apart?
If you work your way outward it won't be on your whitelist unless you allow it. It's not on my whitelist because I forbid everything by default and enable JS when I see a need.
Switch all that around and that's how Fox News people feel about you. It's a perpetual cycle. There is a middle ground but you can't find it by watching 24/7 news networks. Since they *need* content to stay alive they are always interested in polarizing every issue.
I'm running a version of FF from portableapps.com. I installed it to a USB stick a few days ago and as of right now I don't have the.NET assistant installed.
Maybe the solution to this garbage is to move away from firefox.com downloads until they understand that we don't want automatic installs of useless software?
Also, why is everyone so keen on Mono lately? I don't need.NET in my Linux.
You've missed your demographic here, girlintraining. Telling the/. crowd that they anyone over 30 is wasting away watching TV or *heaven forbid* gardening isn't going to get you far.
The trouble with your attitude is that once these "new" technologies are introduced the people who grew up using them fall into a trap where the technology defines their lives. Once Facebook turns into Friendster and you have to reestablish your whole social world onto the "new" Facebook are you going to be as wide-eyed and happy talking about the "kinetic" and "information-rich" world?
/. is full of curmudgeons, eccentrics and free-thinkers and as a member of that set I resent you trying to call us obsolete just because we don't all use the flavor of the week social network you subscribe to.
Basically you're talking about the problems presented in the HBO series "The Wire". It's a great show that talks about the multitude of problems facing anyone living in a big city (Baltimore MD in the show's case). Homeschooling is great for people with the resources to do it but it isn't a panacea for all the problems in the system.
As a graduate of public schools I feel like I was given short shrift in some areas but the structure helped me cope with social problems in a way that wouldn't be possible for a homeschooler.
Removing the factory-preparation style that America focuses on and teaching hard sciences and math seems like a good start but that doesn't make for good test scores all around.
I own the first edition of the book and it's helped me understand the way that Joomla structures things in a way I don't think I could have by just pushing through the documentation.
That being said, I don't really get how this was a review as much as an overview. I don't need to know chapter by chapter what the contents of the book are; I want to have a general sense of the style and the method that the author presents the material. It's good to see an author on/. that I actually know of but this really wasn't what I expected.
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Thank you for a well thought out response. I've been losing my faith in the /. community lately and you've rekindled that in me.
I take my hat off to these kids who are showing real resolve against a system that would rather they just give a little to get a little.
America will not always have boom times but there is no reason to have a society where not being born into wealth means having to live in a state of fear where 99% of the populace is one health issue away from bankruptcy.
Just by the way here, comparing the Makerbot to a mill is not valid. The Makerbot has a 2'x2'x2' footprint and can sit on a coffee table.
Unsuccessful troll is unsuccessful. Yay far /.
There is something to be said about information density in character based languages. A short sentence in Japanese can expand to a paragraph in English simply because concepts are more dense than phonetics. If I had a hard character limit for a message I would much rather say it in a character based language; it's be a lot more efficient. To make a blanket statement like that is just foolish.
I agree completely! My first was a Lamy Safari and at $25 it really hit the Neat Tool mark for me. There's something about writing that works well for my mind and physical copies can't be lost with a simple rm -rf.
Learning new things all the time, thanks!
I do like the NoScript wildcard https enforcement though, its got a slightly different use.
Thank you sir! I've been looking for another extension to force the Firefox searchbar to user Google SSL for 30 minutes now.
Why install another extension when I already have good old NoScript.
Who or what is a Taylor Momsen?
Also: News flash, people try to use misleading titles to get people to their ads.
Yes, very much so, in a Carl Sagan "wow the universe is big and we're small" kind of way, not a Steven Hawking "don't talk to alien strangers" kind of way ;)
Time for people to start demanding municipal broadband from their communities. Local government is going to be less self-interested in limiting packet speed than monolithic Comcast and AT&T.
Most of the time these technologies don't work or don't have a sufficient level of customization to make them useful. Cellphone predictive text (not smartphone) has been pretty bad for years, especially for short words (did I mean "he" or "if") and it doesn't get patched. The only solution is to buy a new model which makes me wary since I'm already expected to just make due until something better comes along. Yes, Android and all that but I'm talking plain vanilla cellphones.
Does it make me a technophobe to not want a camera recording me all day while I use a computer, just so the machine can simulate things that my brain already does?
I'm one of those people that will just listen to Last.fm and whatever music I already have. To me this reads like "Warner To End Any Chance of People Being Exposed to their Content".
Good luck with that, as parent pointed out, it seems to be going great for the newspaper industry.
I worked at a small company that just make due with the annoying WGA messages. It's rather embarrassing when it's a machine used for customer presentations but the boss didn't want to pony up the Microsoft Fee to make the thing legit. That was a Windows XP Home machine but even with the WGA messages the machine still did the basic stuff the owner wanted.
Other than no upgrades what else does WGA disable?
Then we end up in this same situation.
Lately Nintendo, and Microsoft weirdly, have been more receptive to releasing Japan-only games in the US. I just bought Tatsunoko vs Capcom for the Wii which has a bunch of characters I have never heard of from 1970's anime. Microsoft is dipping their toe in the water on this as well by releasing Mushihimesama for the 360 without the usual region protections; the damn thing costs $75 to import from Japan but it will play on a stock US 360. It looks like they are recognizing that there is a global market for "niche" games.
Just pair this program with this and you've got the perfect captive audience.
Since wage-slaves can't be paid enough to focus on monitors for hours on end, just recruit the populace. The upside is that if you're an especially good snitch they can let you pilot a drone as a reward. Then they can make a TV show about that, a weekly feature to show off the citizen response to the dangers of knife crime and truancy.
Who needs a community of people working for the common good when technology can step in and keep us apart?
If you work your way outward it won't be on your whitelist unless you allow it. It's not on my whitelist because I forbid everything by default and enable JS when I see a need.
Switch all that around and that's how Fox News people feel about you. It's a perpetual cycle. There is a middle ground but you can't find it by watching 24/7 news networks. Since they *need* content to stay alive they are always interested in polarizing every issue.
Does lmgtfy.com require enabling JavaScript to do anything useful?
Wow, grammar trolls *DO* exist. That was torture.
I'm running a version of FF from portableapps.com. I installed it to a USB stick a few days ago and as of right now I don't have the .NET assistant installed.
.NET in my Linux.
Maybe the solution to this garbage is to move away from firefox.com downloads until they understand that we don't want automatic installs of useless software?
Also, why is everyone so keen on Mono lately? I don't need
I hadn't realized that I used any Latin ;)
You too use your preconceptions to color your views; it's called "experience".
You've missed your demographic here, girlintraining. Telling the /. crowd that they anyone over 30 is wasting away watching TV or *heaven forbid* gardening isn't going to get you far.
/. is full of curmudgeons, eccentrics and free-thinkers and as a member of that set I resent you trying to call us obsolete just because we don't all use the flavor of the week social network you subscribe to.
The trouble with your attitude is that once these "new" technologies are introduced the people who grew up using them fall into a trap where the technology defines their lives. Once Facebook turns into Friendster and you have to reestablish your whole social world onto the "new" Facebook are you going to be as wide-eyed and happy talking about the "kinetic" and "information-rich" world?
Basically you're talking about the problems presented in the HBO series "The Wire". It's a great show that talks about the multitude of problems facing anyone living in a big city (Baltimore MD in the show's case). Homeschooling is great for people with the resources to do it but it isn't a panacea for all the problems in the system.
As a graduate of public schools I feel like I was given short shrift in some areas but the structure helped me cope with social problems in a way that wouldn't be possible for a homeschooler.
Removing the factory-preparation style that America focuses on and teaching hard sciences and math seems like a good start but that doesn't make for good test scores all around.
I need to meta-mod more. You sir deserve +1 Funny
I own the first edition of the book and it's helped me understand the way that Joomla structures things in a way I don't think I could have by just pushing through the documentation.
/. that I actually know of but this really wasn't what I expected.
That being said, I don't really get how this was a review as much as an overview. I don't need to know chapter by chapter what the contents of the book are; I want to have a general sense of the style and the method that the author presents the material. It's good to see an author on