From TFA: In the long term, developing this kind of skepticism will benefit all Internet users, Mr. Federman says. But in the short term, he says, online deceptions of the "wig-out" video variety have the potential to erode trust in events or moments that seem to be free of artifice or marketing interests.
"If one is always skeptical, then goes to cynicism, you end up feeling pretty negative about the world," Mr. Federman says. "You end up with a very sour disposition. You tend to look at people and interactions as everyone trying to manipulate you, and tend to have a miserable existence, quite frankly.
"It's not pleasant. You can't enjoy yourself. ?You always have to be on your guard."
The core to it is just greed. Wherever there's a new online trend, be it blogging, home made videos, virtual reality worlds, people want to make money out of it. Just look around in the real world, advertisements everywhere. I can't take a five minute walk in town without coming across numerous ads. Even worse, I can't take a five minute drive without coming across large ads which to me is inviting danger. I try to ignore them as much as possible, but they do distract from the road where my attention should be. There is legislation about handsfree calling in the car, why's there no legislation against lingerie ads alongside main roads?
Ads are like roaches and crawl under everything that shows a crack. Radio, tv, and now games as well. I stopped listening to radio and watching tv because I got sick of the bad content stuffed with ads. And no, this was not free content as we all pay a contribution to public radio and tv. In a few years one can't hide from reality by spending a few hours on games because they'll be loaded with ads. And now reality gets abused by greedy people producing "real" content.
I really wish people could just let things be what they are and not manipulate it for money. There are more important things in life than making a shitload of money.
I think the question is also how many stores Can do this? I work in the IT section for the biggest refrigeration company in the Netherlands, and from what I've seen every type of food has an specific storage temperature. Apparently a 2 degrees Celcius difference will make a big difference in the quality of food.
That's just about how things are at our company. When a new user arrives and he gets new hardware we only show her/him how to do the basic stuff when she/he asks for it. Only a while ago did new users get a internet and telephone rulebook and that's the closest they got to written documentation. Thanks to this question and the fact I've got to do a network migration I started a draft on a user guide just now. I hope the finished version will save us plenty of dumb newbie questions.
I also procrastinate because I'm rather overconfident. Having dealt with consultants who eventually turned out to be just as knowledgeable as I was halfway through projects didn't lessen my confidence. The one thing I have to do when I have to do anything is just start it. It's like I have to switch myself on and then I do it, and then often I feel good doing it. Knowing I'm very lazy helps as well because then I know what to deal with to get myself to do something.
From a link on the freedom2measure site: Sexist
The metric system has been almost wholly created and standardized by male scientists and bureaucrats. At the time, during which women were considerably less liberated than today, woman had virtually no say in the creation and, in many countries, the imposition of these units. Perhaps, if they had, the value of the practical units used in those tasks undertaken by woman at the time would have been recognized.
I can understand trying to make a point against the metric system, but this!? Any other real arguments won't be taken serious anymore.. Not to mention that I doubt women had any say in the current system.
I can't help with changes in Vista itself, but if nothing works, think about running an old pc as dns server which in turn forwards requests to the dns servers of your provider. You may even want it to run a proxy like Squid, that way Squid is requesting dns and not your own pc.
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Took about 0.5 seconds on my FreeBSD Dell 1.13 GHz P III in Konqueror while compiling KDElibs3 in the background. At every reload of the page. Or it could just be that FreeBSD/KDE has magic powers.:-)
when a user doesn't need an admin to use a preloaded computer
So what's the difference with Windows? When I have to set up a Windows pc I need to spend as much or more time on it to get everything running. A user who needs a preloaded pc needs an admin wheteher it's Windows or a free OS.
And I have more codecs in the ports section of FreeBSD than I get with Windows. As far as I'm concerned, I get more from running FreeBSD and the ports collection than from Windows.
Which is also the reason why I switched from windows 2000 to Fluxbox on Ubuntu as soon as I could. I can watch video files on my VIA EPIA without having to close the X11VNC session I use to control it. With Windows I had to close VNC because the framerate got too low. A lightweight DE on *BSD and GNU/Linux makes a real difference.
Not even knowing about the insides of a computer is enough. Often my colleagues fail to find the right info through Google while I do, and I'm talking about an IT department here. Critical thinking has to be learned in every aspect involving information, whether it be online, tv, books, magazines, other people, etc..
Then also include the amount of plants that one has in the house/garden as extra on top of the quota. I have 28 plants of various sizes in my apartment, even had 52 two summers ago so I've probably been attributing to more oxygen and air filtering than I used personally. (a mandatory qouta of plants in every apartment is also an idea I've been thinking about as a small part of a sci-fi novel)
In case you want to see more comics and haven't seen this site before, http://www.thewebcomiclist.com/ has a large list of various comics. Stopped adding to my bookmarks after adding 20 more comics from that list. *grin*
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From TFA:
In the long term, developing this kind of skepticism will benefit all Internet users, Mr. Federman says. But in the short term, he says, online deceptions of the "wig-out" video variety have the potential to erode trust in events or moments that seem to be free of artifice or marketing interests.
"If one is always skeptical, then goes to cynicism, you end up feeling pretty negative about the world," Mr. Federman says. "You end up with a very sour disposition. You tend to look at people and interactions as everyone trying to manipulate you, and tend to have a miserable existence, quite frankly.
"It's not pleasant. You can't enjoy yourself. ?You always have to be on your guard."
The core to it is just greed.
Wherever there's a new online trend, be it blogging, home made videos, virtual reality worlds, people want to make money out of it. Just look around in the real world, advertisements everywhere. I can't take a five minute walk in town without coming across numerous ads.
Even worse, I can't take a five minute drive without coming across large ads which to me is inviting danger. I try to ignore them as much as possible, but they do distract from the road where my attention should be. There is legislation about handsfree calling in the car, why's there no legislation against lingerie ads alongside main roads?
Ads are like roaches and crawl under everything that shows a crack. Radio, tv, and now games as well. I stopped listening to radio and watching tv because I got sick of the bad content stuffed with ads. And no, this was not free content as we all pay a contribution to public radio and tv.
In a few years one can't hide from reality by spending a few hours on games because they'll be loaded with ads.
And now reality gets abused by greedy people producing "real" content.
I really wish people could just let things be what they are and not manipulate it for money. There are more important things in life than making a shitload of money.
I think the question is also how many stores Can do this?
I work in the IT section for the biggest refrigeration company in the Netherlands, and from what I've seen every type of food has an specific storage temperature. Apparently a 2 degrees Celcius difference will make a big difference in the quality of food.
Mind if I'll get back to you on that when I'm 80 and found a willing 14 year old girl?
I think it more like, "We got nothing, someone throw some meaningless buzzwords at the media!"
I mean, WTF is a "user interface paradigm" and "fundamental piece of enabling technology"? (apart from a powerswitch as guessed by JonathanR)
I suggest we all shut down our pc's for a minute at noon tomorrow in remembrance of his death.
After which we all celebrate by installing *BSD and Linux. Clippy would have wanted it that way.
when hurtlng towards the 21st-century, richer Web
I think I'll stick to plain HTML 4.0.1 if web 2.0 is going to hurt that much.
Then I guess my PF firewall with spamd greylisting on OpenBSD is for the lazy people. *leans back and puts his feet up*
That's just about how things are at our company. When a new user arrives and he gets new hardware we only show her/him how to do the basic stuff when she/he asks for it.
Only a while ago did new users get a internet and telephone rulebook and that's the closest they got to written documentation.
Thanks to this question and the fact I've got to do a network migration I started a draft on a user guide just now. I hope the finished version will save us plenty of dumb newbie questions.
Well, if he can't, I'm sure Chuck Norris has a few spare Roundhouse kicks around.
I also procrastinate because I'm rather overconfident. Having dealt with consultants who eventually turned out to be just as knowledgeable as I was halfway through projects didn't lessen my confidence.
The one thing I have to do when I have to do anything is just start it. It's like I have to switch myself on and then I do it, and then often I feel good doing it.
Knowing I'm very lazy helps as well because then I know what to deal with to get myself to do something.
From a link on the freedom2measure site:
Sexist
The metric system has been almost wholly created and standardized by male scientists and bureaucrats. At the time, during which women were considerably less liberated than today, woman had virtually no say in the creation and, in many countries, the imposition of these units. Perhaps, if they had, the value of the practical units used in those tasks undertaken by woman at the time would have been recognized.
I can understand trying to make a point against the metric system, but this!? Any other real arguments won't be taken serious anymore..
Not to mention that I doubt women had any say in the current system.
Download and compile your own Realdoll?
I can't help with changes in Vista itself, but if nothing works, think about running an old pc as dns server which in turn forwards requests to the dns servers of your provider.
You may even want it to run a proxy like Squid, that way Squid is requesting dns and not your own pc.
It just proves more they're treating their customers like little kids.
Actually, that means he isn't new here. :-P
Took about 0.5 seconds on my FreeBSD Dell 1.13 GHz P III in Konqueror while compiling KDElibs3 in the background. At every reload of the page. :-)
Or it could just be that FreeBSD/KDE has magic powers.
when a user doesn't need an admin to use a preloaded computer
So what's the difference with Windows? When I have to set up a Windows pc I need to spend as much or more time on it to get everything running. A user who needs a preloaded pc needs an admin wheteher it's Windows or a free OS. And I have more codecs in the ports section of FreeBSD than I get with Windows. As far as I'm concerned, I get more from running FreeBSD and the ports collection than from Windows.
"You must be new here."
Which is also the reason why I switched from windows 2000 to Fluxbox on Ubuntu as soon as I could. I can watch video files on my VIA EPIA without having to close the X11VNC session I use to control it. With Windows I had to close VNC because the framerate got too low.
A lightweight DE on *BSD and GNU/Linux makes a real difference.
LinuxBIOS of course! http://linuxbios.org/index.php/Main_Page
Not even knowing about the insides of a computer is enough. Often my colleagues fail to find the right info through Google while I do, and I'm talking about an IT department here.
Critical thinking has to be learned in every aspect involving information, whether it be online, tv, books, magazines, other people, etc..
Don't you dig that pyschedelic title? It's far out maaan...
:-P
Then also include the amount of plants that one has in the house/garden as extra on top of the quota.
I have 28 plants of various sizes in my apartment, even had 52 two summers ago so I've probably been attributing to more oxygen and air filtering than I used personally. (a mandatory qouta of plants in every apartment is also an idea I've been thinking about as a small part of a sci-fi novel)
In case you want to see more comics and haven't seen this site before, http://www.thewebcomiclist.com/ has a large list of various comics.
Stopped adding to my bookmarks after adding 20 more comics from that list. *grin*
You mean like this? VG Cats take on the consoles