You can. There's a developer's edition. I downloaded a free copy of Linspire (officially) a few months ago, can't entirely remember how.. but it's doable. It wasn't that bad really.
And instead of villifying those labelled as paedophiles, we should be trying to work out what has gone so badly wrong in their sexuality that they are attracted to a person who hasn't developed sexual characteristics yet
The problem with this is that this definition of paedophile (the clinical definition) doesn't match up with what you've said about sexual maturity coming at different ages. In legal terms, someone who gets their kicks off of a fully developed 15 year old -- or even a 17 year old, in the US -- (who may be more sexually developed than a 20 year old) is a paedophile. Admittedly, the high profile cases seem to be people who've been grabbing pictures of babies and 4 year olds, which is gruesome indeed, but, yes, clearly the law needs some reworking. I think society, however, will take a bit longer!
I tend to steer clear of the whole problem by being a Slashdotter, however.:-P
The issue isn't actually one of sex, as far as I see it.
I know there are lots of parents in the UK who have no big problem with their 14 year old kid having sex with some other kid. The problem comes in when it's a 30 year old man having sex with their 14 year old. Why? Control. It's assumed that two kids having sex is just 'mucking around', whereas an older person could goad or cajole someone underage into doing something they don't want to do. Other than that, people view big age gaps as being obscene.
So, if many parents don't mind their 14 year old having sex with another 14 year old, but would murder a 30 year old who did the same.. it's clearly not an issue of sex, but of control. This is why, IMHO, having the age of consent in a worthwhile idea.. it's not a barrier that controls when you have sex, but a barrier that determines when society thinks you are old enough to go out and screw your life up without society looking bad.
On my iBook 1GHz (Quartz/Quartz Extreme is always on, as far as I know) Preview loads PDFs ridiculously fast. Acrobat Reader.. well, no.. but that's the sort of crap I have to use on my Windows box.
I loaded up that full NYC subway map PDF and it took four seconds until it had finished putting the last writing up. Zooms take just under a second to redraw. Scrolling around freeform (using the 'hand' tool) probably gets me just over a frame a second I'd guess.
Thanks for the tips. I use an old t-shirt as my glasses cleaner, so I have some way to evolve still.
About that corrective surgery.. I'm not sure I'd think about having it done at least for another five/ten years when the technology jumps a way. There are the (inevitable) stories of screw ups, pain, and you can't join the (British) Army if you've had it done.. so I imagine there are a number of potential problems. Besides, Hawaii is better:)
How do you clean them properly? I push the limits with my sturdily framed glasses, and while these rimless types look great, I can't help but think that cleaning them might prove to be an annoying delicate situation.
There are a TON of Adriana Limas on there (by my search). Anyway, I need your first and last name to do the invite, you can drop these as an anonymous comment on my/. journal if you like or something.
I've made at least a dozen real-world friends that I regularly go out with, and several more that are online only at this stage, and that's only after three months' membership.
Really? You know, while I have people I already know attached to me in Orkut, I really find it hard to see how you can sensibly make friends on that system. What are you doing? Talking to people in communities who are local to you.. or just blind messing people with shared interests?
What do those really do to drive the economy, and how does that money "trickle down?"
Understand that the economy connects all of us in an infinite number of ways. The money spent on expensive cars goes to the car company, goes to wages, gets spent on day care, goes to the teachers, goes on groceries, goes to Wal*Mart's CEO, goes to the guy who cleaned the CEO's fish tank, goes to the fish tank guy's kid as pocket money....
As long as someone is spending their money, it's staying in the economy for all of us. If they keep it in a vault or burn it, however, then yeah.. they're an ass who's raping our economy.
I think builders should try the same thing that photographers do.
That is, you pay them to build you a wall for $500. BUT.. they retain all rights to the wall. So if you want to knock it down, you need to get their permission (and pay them). If you want to move the wall, you need to pay. If you want to grow plants up the wall, better get permisson first!
Copyrights are all well and good in some areas.. but in personal photography? They should hold onto it for a couple of months while people get photographs (only the true wedding tight wad will hold out longer - or the truly poor.. who photographers should not be ripping off anyway) and then drop it.
Yeah, I know there is a hack to make it go higher, but I heard that can cause some major heat probelms.
That hack works excellently. The talk over heat problems is entirely down to 'clamshell mode' where you can shut your iBook up and have it just show on the external screen. But why bother doing that? Just leave your iBook open and running as a second screen.. USB keyboard and mouse.. and you're away. I run 1280x1024 from my iBook and the temperature is basically the same.
That's a miniscule amount when you look at the profits of just about any other tech company. $61million in profits can barely drive R&D for a company like Dell or Gateway.
And? Profits are what's left over. Apple could be spending $500 million on R&D for all I know. Considering that $61m is what's left after spending money on everything required to support the business (and more besides, I bet), it's not too bad.. except for the shareholders wanting fat dividends:-)
It does work in Mac IE.. that's what I have to use when I want to get their film times. Luckily it works okay. I'd rather use Safari though, and I'm glad someone has called them out on their BS.
Kevin Britten of Hays, Kansas downloaded Somersault (Dangermouse remix) by Zero7; the 100 millionth song purchased from the iTunes music store. He will receive a 17-inch PowerBook, a 40GB iPod, and a gift certificate for 10,000 iTunes songs to create the ultimate music library for his new iPod.
And as the poor guy might be on dialup, he can now spend the rest of his life putting his music collection together;-)
Yeah, I love the look of Basecamp, but I'm not into the monthly pricing model. Perhaps I should develop something similar in my spare time, but I just can't seem to organize my time;-)
Sure a million people may see spiderman, but almost all will have the same complaint, or the same praise. Very few will have an insight you haven't heard.
Maybe, but there are a lot of movies where the discussion can be as deep as that surrounding a book.
Examples of movies which have inspired a lot of debate and theories online would include.. Magnolia, Donnie Darko, 2001, A Clockwork Orange, Crash, Kill Bill, and Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind.
Besides, as you pointed out yourself, half of 1's programing is dreck.
More than half of what's on BBC TV is dreck too, but that doesn't stop me watching the good bits!
Also... another genre they're missing: comedy.
Well, yeah, the whole chat thing. That said, Radio 1 did play all of Chris Morris's Jam back in the day, although that sort of programming has pretty much gone now. And (I'll get booed for this, I know) I actually enjoy Chris Moyles.
nothing on 2 that'll make you reach for the straight-razor.
I don't know.. even my aging father got pissed off with Radio 2 when they started to play that big band program;-)
Oh yeah.... are you an expat, or an extreme-distance teleworker, by the way?
Nope, living in the UK, and I wouldn't want to be without my late night specialty radio shows. Come on, no-one plays music like John Peel;-) (although many people would say this is a good thing)
Time to extract your head from your Corrs album ridden middle manager Vauxhall Vectra company car and face facts.
Radio 2's management isn't dumb enough to fire the Radio Caroline DJ's Infact, they've picked a few of 'em up over the years
Radio 1 is supposed to represent what's new or what's cutting edge. Crusties like Tony Blackburn would hardly help this cause these days. Even the middle-aged humorists of Mark and Lard have been chucked off.
Radio 2's got Steve Wright
And? Steve Wright is ideal for Radio 2's audience, Radio 1 is not a middle aged radio station for people who wear slippers.
Radio 2 has Waay better content. Aside from a wider range of better music than 1, 2 also has the wonder that is Jammin, It's Been A Bad Week and the like.
The rest of your arguments are sure hallmarks of someone who has never listened to Radio 1 except for 9am - 5pm.
Radio 1's content variety is way beyond that of Radio 2. Even if you took John Peel's shows on their own, there's a bigger variety of music than Radio 2 will play all week. Radio 1 covers jazz very extensively, with Gilles Peterson. Peel covers everything from soul and early 20th century 78s to jungle and thrash metal. The Radio 1 Rock Show covers the full rock gamut. Westwood, while annoying, covers rap and hip-hop. Indian music (bhangra, etc) is well covered by Friction and Nihal. Grooverider, Fergie and the DJ crews cover trance, techno and drum'n'bass.
Admittedly, Radio 2 does have good shows where the DJ is allowed to cut loose on his own CD collection, and fun to listen to they are.. but it's absurd to claim Radio 2 has a wider selection of music than Radio 1. The only genre Radio 1 is missing is classical, and we have the fine Radio 3 or Classic FM for that!
Radio 2 is a safe outpost for those who don't want their heads done in by Radio 1's dreckish pop and R&B output all day, and who want safe pedestrian inoffensive humour from people closer to their own age. Radio 2 is also the king of daytime adult contemporary, and generic MOR (The Corrs, Norah Jones, Will Young).. and it's good at it.. but it ain't variety.
You deserve some points for this, but as I've already posted in this thread, I'll have to give you an honorary +1 Funny. It's like an honorary degree, but not as good.
So the days of calling program errors 'bugs' is finally over, huh? Now we need to call them 'whiskers'! Time to update BugZilla to WhiskerZilla I guess..
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You can. There's a developer's edition. I downloaded a free copy of Linspire (officially) a few months ago, can't entirely remember how.. but it's doable. It wasn't that bad really.
You like using the word 'booty' a lot. Are you a pirate or a rapper? I can't quite decide.
And instead of villifying those labelled as paedophiles, we should be trying to work out what has gone so badly wrong in their sexuality that they are attracted to a person who hasn't developed sexual characteristics yet
:-P
The problem with this is that this definition of paedophile (the clinical definition) doesn't match up with what you've said about sexual maturity coming at different ages. In legal terms, someone who gets their kicks off of a fully developed 15 year old -- or even a 17 year old, in the US -- (who may be more sexually developed than a 20 year old) is a paedophile. Admittedly, the high profile cases seem to be people who've been grabbing pictures of babies and 4 year olds, which is gruesome indeed, but, yes, clearly the law needs some reworking. I think society, however, will take a bit longer!
I tend to steer clear of the whole problem by being a Slashdotter, however.
The issue isn't actually one of sex, as far as I see it.
I know there are lots of parents in the UK who have no big problem with their 14 year old kid having sex with some other kid. The problem comes in when it's a 30 year old man having sex with their 14 year old. Why? Control. It's assumed that two kids having sex is just 'mucking around', whereas an older person could goad or cajole someone underage into doing something they don't want to do. Other than that, people view big age gaps as being obscene.
So, if many parents don't mind their 14 year old having sex with another 14 year old, but would murder a 30 year old who did the same.. it's clearly not an issue of sex, but of control. This is why, IMHO, having the age of consent in a worthwhile idea.. it's not a barrier that controls when you have sex, but a barrier that determines when society thinks you are old enough to go out and screw your life up without society looking bad.
On my iBook 1GHz (Quartz/Quartz Extreme is always on, as far as I know) Preview loads PDFs ridiculously fast. Acrobat Reader.. well, no.. but that's the sort of crap I have to use on my Windows box.
I loaded up that full NYC subway map PDF and it took four seconds until it had finished putting the last writing up. Zooms take just under a second to redraw. Scrolling around freeform (using the 'hand' tool) probably gets me just over a frame a second I'd guess.
Come on, it's been 16 minutes, you could have finished the whole state by now! Next stop.. Kansas. *hmm err hmm* Done!
Thanks for the tips. I use an old t-shirt as my glasses cleaner, so I have some way to evolve still.
:)
About that corrective surgery.. I'm not sure I'd think about having it done at least for another five/ten years when the technology jumps a way. There are the (inevitable) stories of screw ups, pain, and you can't join the (British) Army if you've had it done.. so I imagine there are a number of potential problems. Besides, Hawaii is better
How do you clean them properly? I push the limits with my sturdily framed glasses, and while these rimless types look great, I can't help but think that cleaning them might prove to be an annoying delicate situation.
There are a TON of Adriana Limas on there (by my search). Anyway, I need your first and last name to do the invite, you can drop these as an anonymous comment on my /. journal if you like or something.
then post here. Either I, or someone else, will be likely to come along and drop you one.
;-))
(I'm not implying you want to join, of course
I've made at least a dozen real-world friends that I regularly go out with, and several more that are online only at this stage, and that's only after three months' membership.
Really? You know, while I have people I already know attached to me in Orkut, I really find it hard to see how you can sensibly make friends on that system. What are you doing? Talking to people in communities who are local to you.. or just blind messing people with shared interests?
Wow, that's a really tall horse you're sat atop!
What do those really do to drive the economy, and how does that money "trickle down?"
Understand that the economy connects all of us in an infinite number of ways. The money spent on expensive cars goes to the car company, goes to wages, gets spent on day care, goes to the teachers, goes on groceries, goes to Wal*Mart's CEO, goes to the guy who cleaned the CEO's fish tank, goes to the fish tank guy's kid as pocket money....
As long as someone is spending their money, it's staying in the economy for all of us. If they keep it in a vault or burn it, however, then yeah.. they're an ass who's raping our economy.
I think builders should try the same thing that photographers do.
That is, you pay them to build you a wall for $500. BUT.. they retain all rights to the wall. So if you want to knock it down, you need to get their permission (and pay them). If you want to move the wall, you need to pay. If you want to grow plants up the wall, better get permisson first!
Copyrights are all well and good in some areas.. but in personal photography? They should hold onto it for a couple of months while people get photographs (only the true wedding tight wad will hold out longer - or the truly poor.. who photographers should not be ripping off anyway) and then drop it.
Yeah, I know there is a hack to make it go higher, but I heard that can cause some major heat probelms.
That hack works excellently. The talk over heat problems is entirely down to 'clamshell mode' where you can shut your iBook up and have it just show on the external screen. But why bother doing that? Just leave your iBook open and running as a second screen.. USB keyboard and mouse.. and you're away. I run 1280x1024 from my iBook and the temperature is basically the same.
That's a miniscule amount when you look at the profits of just about any other tech company. $61million in profits can barely drive R&D for a company like Dell or Gateway.
:-)
And? Profits are what's left over. Apple could be spending $500 million on R&D for all I know. Considering that $61m is what's left after spending money on everything required to support the business (and more besides, I bet), it's not too bad.. except for the shareholders wanting fat dividends
It does work in Mac IE.. that's what I have to use when I want to get their film times. Luckily it works okay. I'd rather use Safari though, and I'm glad someone has called them out on their BS.
Kevin Britten of Hays, Kansas downloaded Somersault (Dangermouse remix) by Zero7; the 100 millionth song purchased from the iTunes music store. He will receive a 17-inch PowerBook, a 40GB iPod, and a gift certificate for 10,000 iTunes songs to create the ultimate music library for his new iPod.
;-)
And as the poor guy might be on dialup, he can now spend the rest of his life putting his music collection together
Yeah, I love the look of Basecamp, but I'm not into the monthly pricing model. Perhaps I should develop something similar in my spare time, but I just can't seem to organize my time ;-)
Sure a million people may see spiderman, but almost all will have the same complaint, or the same praise. Very few will have an insight you haven't heard.
Maybe, but there are a lot of movies where the discussion can be as deep as that surrounding a book.
Examples of movies which have inspired a lot of debate and theories online would include.. Magnolia, Donnie Darko, 2001, A Clockwork Orange, Crash, Kill Bill, and Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind.
Besides, as you pointed out yourself, half of 1's programing is dreck.
;-)
;-) (although many people would say this is a good thing)
More than half of what's on BBC TV is dreck too, but that doesn't stop me watching the good bits!
Also... another genre they're missing: comedy.
Well, yeah, the whole chat thing. That said, Radio 1 did play all of Chris Morris's Jam back in the day, although that sort of programming has pretty much gone now. And (I'll get booed for this, I know) I actually enjoy Chris Moyles.
nothing on 2 that'll make you reach for the straight-razor.
I don't know.. even my aging father got pissed off with Radio 2 when they started to play that big band program
Oh yeah.... are you an expat, or an extreme-distance teleworker, by the way?
Nope, living in the UK, and I wouldn't want to be without my late night specialty radio shows. Come on, no-one plays music like John Peel
Different stokes for different folks, my friend!
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Go there to play Doom, but I'd advise finding toilets and accomodation in a nearby building!
Time to extract your head from your Corrs album ridden middle manager Vauxhall Vectra company car and face facts.
Radio 2's management isn't dumb enough to fire the Radio Caroline DJ's Infact, they've picked a few of 'em up over the years
Radio 1 is supposed to represent what's new or what's cutting edge. Crusties like Tony Blackburn would hardly help this cause these days. Even the middle-aged humorists of Mark and Lard have been chucked off.
Radio 2's got Steve Wright
And? Steve Wright is ideal for Radio 2's audience, Radio 1 is not a middle aged radio station for people who wear slippers.
Radio 2 has Waay better content. Aside from a wider range of better music than 1, 2 also has the wonder that is Jammin, It's Been A Bad Week and the like.
The rest of your arguments are sure hallmarks of someone who has never listened to Radio 1 except for 9am - 5pm.
Radio 1's content variety is way beyond that of Radio 2. Even if you took John Peel's shows on their own, there's a bigger variety of music than Radio 2 will play all week. Radio 1 covers jazz very extensively, with Gilles Peterson. Peel covers everything from soul and early 20th century 78s to jungle and thrash metal. The Radio 1 Rock Show covers the full rock gamut. Westwood, while annoying, covers rap and hip-hop. Indian music (bhangra, etc) is well covered by Friction and Nihal. Grooverider, Fergie and the DJ crews cover trance, techno and drum'n'bass.
Admittedly, Radio 2 does have good shows where the DJ is allowed to cut loose on his own CD collection, and fun to listen to they are.. but it's absurd to claim Radio 2 has a wider selection of music than Radio 1. The only genre Radio 1 is missing is classical, and we have the fine Radio 3 or Classic FM for that!
Radio 2 is a safe outpost for those who don't want their heads done in by Radio 1's dreckish pop and R&B output all day, and who want safe pedestrian inoffensive humour from people closer to their own age. Radio 2 is also the king of daytime adult contemporary, and generic MOR (The Corrs, Norah Jones, Will Young).. and it's good at it.. but it ain't variety.
What was debugging is going to be called shaving
You deserve some points for this, but as I've already posted in this thread, I'll have to give you an honorary +1 Funny. It's like an honorary degree, but not as good.
So the days of calling program errors 'bugs' is finally over, huh? Now we need to call them 'whiskers'! Time to update BugZilla to WhiskerZilla I guess..