The biggest problem I had with math was that the books weren't written in plain english, they were very technical, very dry, and simply not written for kids.
I really feel sorry for good teachers who have to work these these tomes. A little plain-english in math goes a long way towards understanding. If you listen to most questions and answers in a math class done verbally you'll see that a lot students are simply asking the teacher to translate the book and its examples into something they can understand and apply.
Its not even bowing down, its a partnership. Real is synonymous with poorly written software, nagware 'message centers' most people cant turn off, messing up file associations, hiding the free product on the website, etc. These guys are one step removed from penis pump spammers.
Apple's approach is user-centric and user friendly. Real hates the user and does *everything* it can to fool you buy their product when you just need the free one. They'll do anything to take over your system. They'll push 'message center' ads for a penny an ad.
In short: fuck Real. The sooner they go bankrupt the better off everyone is. There is room for a good company with a nice media player out there and Real has shown itself over the years that they are not this company.
Again, there are die-hard OSS types, but most posters I've read have everyday IT jobs or are trying to find work.
Capitalism
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: an economic system characterized by private or corporate ownership of capital goods, by investments that are determined by private decision, and by prices, production, and the distribution of goods that are determined mainly by competition in a free market
Funny, I'm not seeing too many "THE STATE MUST OWN ALL MEANS OF PRODUCTION" comments modded up to 5 here.
Or are you using "anti-capitalism" in the Rush Limbaugh sense which means "any criticism against the status quo of business/wall-street?"
I'm just going to do the predicatable thing and blame Microsoft. Afterall, none of their "setup wizards" mention anything about user levels and its very difficult to run a lot of software when you only have user privs. Windows coders seem to care to write stuff that works with windows built in permissions systems.
Apple should really be using spyware to its advantage, at least OSX can easily be setup to ask for the admin password when installing software. Compare that to who knows how many people have IE set to 'automagically install any activex crap that any page loads.'
Even worse is the apathy from the antivirus companies. I'm sure they would love to eliminate this stuff, but so far we haven't had that one court case that has equated "stealth installs" or unreadable EULA with viruses. Yet.
>Oh, and 1999. 2000? 2001? 2002? 2003? Sensing a trend?
Yeah, more people (or at least vocal zealous types) are all too willing to see Linux as the "MS Killer" while completely avoiding the excellent alternative provided by Apple.
> because with Apple's offerings, you need new hardware
That's a pretty lame excuse. Eventually that beige box will be too slow and old to run popular software, the hardware will die, etc. Instead of buying another wintel box, the people who want to get away from windows can buy a mac.
That's the real problem with some people here. They think the only alternative to Windows is Linux, while completely ignoring Apple's offerings, which are focused on ease of use.
Man, I hope youre kidding. Sexuality is natural and repressing it only helps push us into closer to complete cultural insanity.
Filmmakers can't even make a realistic sex scene without getting the NC-17 kiss off death from the moralists.
Kids grow up with no positive images of sex, just religious hatred. Not to mention the federal government is pushing unrealistic abstinence and downplaying the importance of condoms and birth-control.
He did campaign saying he would "free" microsoft. Or somesuch, at the very least undo what the Clinton administration has done in terms of protecting consumer rights thus the slap on the wrist. So yeah.
Its a little know fact that win2k has a built-in firewall. Properties of TCP/IP>Advanced>Options>IP filtering.
Enable that and install your firewall of choice. Now if only MS would provide a service pack that would make that as easy to find as the WinXP firewall.
What's that mean nowadays when Windows lets people run executables from email by default, even cryptic stuff like.pifs and lets the virus writer choose a different icon for the file?
What's the mean when anti-virus vendors are always a dozen or so hours behind and on top of that the client program has to get the update?
What's that mean when the preview pane launches viruses?
What's the mean when someone uses your computer and hoses it?
What's the mean when spammers, spyware writers, and virus writers are in allegience?
What's the mean when ISPs could care less someone is spewing a billion email messages with a virus in it, but make sure to send threatening letters to people who "abuse" bandwidth through P2P or downloading ISOs?
What's that mean when even the paranoid can get infected because their OS defaults to not showing file extensions?
What's that mean when power users get screwed over by 1 day exploits?
Really now, you can only blame the user for so much and this elitist posteuring is counter productive if you really cared.
Mine was hastily done, but I had 4 or 5 6 foot strangs of elwire each with its own inverter/battery and I wore it at a stereolab concert on halloween. I was like a vertical neon sign and made a surprising amount of light. Later my buddy (dressed as hunter s thompson) and I went out drinking and every bar I stopped at someone bought me drinks.
The best part was when a girl at one bar here in Chicago told me, "Holy shit, I'm related to the bad guy in Tron." I don't remember if he was her uncle or what, but it was an amusing coincidence.
Actually, here's my blog entry from the next day
I spent Halloween dressed in a homemade Tron costume [no pics yet]. Take a hockey helmet, forearm guards, a white shirt, a pair of white pants and draw some circuit patterns. Now here's the fun part: electroluminescent wire. Hot glue gun it to your circuit patterns and people will literally go crazy. I spent 9pm to about midnight at a Stereolab concert glowing with enough elwire to illuminate everyone around me. After about 100 compliments and another "What's that glowing stuff called" questions I went barhopping with Dave, who looked way too much like Hunter S. to the point of creepiness. We hit three bars in Wicker Park [Chicago] and people would just come up to me and touch my suit, buy me drinks, give me highfives, force me into costume contests, tell me Tron stories like "My Dad's uncle played Sark" etc. It was insane.
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>therefor a free distro can't be worth as much as an XP or Solaris license.
Yeah, but Linux isn't free for most businesses. They're paying someone for support and if they're not I sure as hell don't want to be one of their customers. I don't think this is asking much, linux without a support contract is dangerous and stupid.
That said, it costs money, except there is a savings because the vendors aren't doing all the development and in many cases all they are doing is providing some apps and support because so many "turn key" solutions already exist. Samba, various email servers, Apache, etc don't need to be written from scratch, marketed, etc.
When you factor in vendors, support, etc its far from free and becomes another product that your company has to do a cost/benefit analysis on.
Case in point: Redhat linux starts at $800 if you want to be able to pick up the phone and talk to someone.
>1GB looks very much like a joke but google can make it (gmail) real
Definately, google has disk storage out the wazoo. The question is, what will be attachment size maximums and how will they throttle download/upload speeds to avoid people treating it like an FTP depository?
1 gig of storage isn't so hot when attachment sizes are small. Google obviously is betting that 90% of their users wont even come near 1 gig of storage, or it will take them years to do so with regular everyday email.
We not only inherit the world from our parents; we borrow it from our children.
Yeah, the Indians had their finer points, not to mention they were just as savage as any other race/culture, but lets not raise them to the level of uber-nature geniuses whose ways we westerners simply comprehend.
Our grandchildren will be living in a new stone age after WWIII and this won't really matter or they will have the tech to take care of this long before it becomes a threat.
The above blatantly stolen from Einstein
"I don't know how the third world war will be fought," Albert Einstein once remarked, "but I do know that the fourth one will be fought with sticks and stones."
>Remember that if spam & aggressive marketing were not economically viable, they would not exist
Yes, but only for scams and high profit items like cheapo plastic penis pumps that cost pennies to produce and sell for 20-100 dollars.
On top of that, the spam you get in your mailbox is usually from an open proxy, thus it probably wouldnt be profitable if the senders actually paid for their own bandwidth, opt-out servers, etc.
Legitimate ads aren't that profitable and spam is rarely profitable outside of a select range of items (fake viagra, herbal scams, etc).
If they want to alienate voters and come off as money-hungry vultures, then pop-ups and spam are the way to go.
Its pretty ironic when Bush has over 100 million sitting in his war chest, which has broken all previous records. Thats what you get for pandering to big business for almost four years, a nice return on your investment.
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The biggest problem I had with math was that the books weren't written in plain english, they were very technical, very dry, and simply not written for kids.
I really feel sorry for good teachers who have to work these these tomes. A little plain-english in math goes a long way towards understanding. If you listen to most questions and answers in a math class done verbally you'll see that a lot students are simply asking the teacher to translate the book and its examples into something they can understand and apply.
>As long as you define 'user' as being somebody wearing the latest fashion clothing who is eager to flash the plastic at an Apple Store.
And MS users are stupid.
And Linux users are nerds.
BSD users are uber-nerds.
OS/2 users are old nerds.
Thanks for the productive comment.
Its not even bowing down, its a partnership. Real is synonymous with poorly written software, nagware 'message centers' most people cant turn off, messing up file associations, hiding the free product on the website, etc. These guys are one step removed from penis pump spammers.
Apple's approach is user-centric and user friendly. Real hates the user and does *everything* it can to fool you buy their product when you just need the free one. They'll do anything to take over your system. They'll push 'message center' ads for a penny an ad.
In short: fuck Real. The sooner they go bankrupt the better off everyone is. There is room for a good company with a nice media player out there and Real has shown itself over the years that they are not this company.
Again, there are die-hard OSS types, but most posters I've read have everyday IT jobs or are trying to find work.
CapitalismFunny, I'm not seeing too many "THE STATE MUST OWN ALL MEANS OF PRODUCTION" comments modded up to 5 here.
Or are you using "anti-capitalism" in the Rush Limbaugh sense which means "any criticism against the status quo of business/wall-street?"
>all the anti-capitalism spiel you read daily here
On a site that cheers when Novell or IBM works with Linux?
On a site where people
And that's 5.5 too many.
I'm just going to do the predicatable thing and blame Microsoft. Afterall, none of their "setup wizards" mention anything about user levels and its very difficult to run a lot of software when you only have user privs. Windows coders seem to care to write stuff that works with windows built in permissions systems.
Apple should really be using spyware to its advantage, at least OSX can easily be setup to ask for the admin password when installing software. Compare that to who knows how many people have IE set to 'automagically install any activex crap that any page loads.'
Even worse is the apathy from the antivirus companies. I'm sure they would love to eliminate this stuff, but so far we haven't had that one court case that has equated "stealth installs" or unreadable EULA with viruses. Yet.
>Oh, and 1999. 2000? 2001? 2002? 2003? Sensing a trend?
Yeah, more people (or at least vocal zealous types) are all too willing to see Linux as the "MS Killer" while completely avoiding the excellent alternative provided by Apple.
>Besides, local privilege escalation exploits are up there as being just as bad in my book.
Exactly. A lot of good that firewall does when your coworkers click on an email attachment that sails right through the firewall.
> because with Apple's offerings, you need new hardware
That's a pretty lame excuse. Eventually that beige box will be too slow and old to run popular software, the hardware will die, etc. Instead of buying another wintel box, the people who want to get away from windows can buy a mac.
That's the real problem with some people here. They think the only alternative to Windows is Linux, while completely ignoring Apple's offerings, which are focused on ease of use.
Man, I hope youre kidding. Sexuality is natural and repressing it only helps push us into closer to complete cultural insanity.
Filmmakers can't even make a realistic sex scene without getting the NC-17 kiss off death from the moralists.
Kids grow up with no positive images of sex, just religious hatred. Not to mention the federal government is pushing unrealistic abstinence and downplaying the importance of condoms and birth-control.
Who is the fucked up culture here?
Go indie. The factor the riaa seems to be ignoring is that many people are disovering indie usic thanks to word of mouth and the internet.
Lets see I spent at least 40 bucks on cds last month
Bought some Hefner CDs
Bought the new grandaddy EP
Bought a trail of dead EP
Bought the latest stereolab (they might be riaa)
Etc
That's money that isn't lost to "pirates" its just lost to the RIAA.
The RIAA packages fads, they don't really sell music.
He did campaign saying he would "free" microsoft. Or somesuch, at the very least undo what the Clinton administration has done in terms of protecting consumer rights thus the slap on the wrist. So yeah.
> Temporary injunctions also work well for business disruption.
That Bush administration, always looking for jobs.
How many people does the porn industry employ? From production to video stores in has to be a giant industry.
This is what you get when you mix politics and religion, people.
Its a little know fact that win2k has a built-in firewall. Properties of TCP/IP>Advanced>Options>IP filtering.
Enable that and install your firewall of choice. Now if only MS would provide a service pack that would make that as easy to find as the WinXP firewall.
> Any form of Microsoft Office document can contain VBA code, and therefore possibly a virus.
How long has Macro security been set to high by default now? 2 years? 3?
> Clueless people deserve it.
.pifs and lets the virus writer choose a different icon for the file?
What's that mean nowadays when Windows lets people run executables from email by default, even cryptic stuff like
What's the mean when anti-virus vendors are always a dozen or so hours behind and on top of that the client program has to get the update?
What's that mean when the preview pane launches viruses?
What's the mean when someone uses your computer and hoses it?
What's the mean when spammers, spyware writers, and virus writers are in allegience?
What's the mean when ISPs could care less someone is spewing a billion email messages with a virus in it, but make sure to send threatening letters to people who "abuse" bandwidth through P2P or downloading ISOs?
What's that mean when even the paranoid can get infected because their OS defaults to not showing file extensions?
What's that mean when power users get screwed over by 1 day exploits?
Really now, you can only blame the user for so much and this elitist posteuring is counter productive if you really cared.
The best part was when a girl at one bar here in Chicago told me, "Holy shit, I'm related to the bad guy in Tron." I don't remember if he was her uncle or what, but it was an amusing coincidence.
Actually, here's my blog entry from the next day
>therefor a free distro can't be worth as much as an XP or Solaris license.
Yeah, but Linux isn't free for most businesses. They're paying someone for support and if they're not I sure as hell don't want to be one of their customers. I don't think this is asking much, linux without a support contract is dangerous and stupid.
That said, it costs money, except there is a savings because the vendors aren't doing all the development and in many cases all they are doing is providing some apps and support because so many "turn key" solutions already exist. Samba, various email servers, Apache, etc don't need to be written from scratch, marketed, etc.
When you factor in vendors, support, etc its far from free and becomes another product that your company has to do a cost/benefit analysis on.
Case in point: Redhat linux starts at $800 if you want to be able to pick up the phone and talk to someone.
>1GB looks very much like a joke but google can make it (gmail) real
Definately, google has disk storage out the wazoo. The question is, what will be attachment size maximums and how will they throttle download/upload speeds to avoid people treating it like an FTP depository?
1 gig of storage isn't so hot when attachment sizes are small. Google obviously is betting that 90% of their users wont even come near 1 gig of storage, or it will take them years to do so with regular everyday email.
Actually its both. To rephrase:
We not only inherit the world from our parents; we borrow it from our children.
Yeah, the Indians had their finer points, not to mention they were just as savage as any other race/culture, but lets not raise them to the level of uber-nature geniuses whose ways we westerners simply comprehend.
The above blatantly stolen from Einstein
>Remember that if spam & aggressive marketing were not economically viable, they would not exist
Yes, but only for scams and high profit items like cheapo plastic penis pumps that cost pennies to produce and sell for 20-100 dollars.
On top of that, the spam you get in your mailbox is usually from an open proxy, thus it probably wouldnt be profitable if the senders actually paid for their own bandwidth, opt-out servers, etc.
Legitimate ads aren't that profitable and spam is rarely profitable outside of a select range of items (fake viagra, herbal scams, etc).
Very, very simple to do and if you must use IE, just get the google toolbar for pop-up blocking.
Keeping digging your own grave, Rove.
If they want to alienate voters and come off as money-hungry vultures, then pop-ups and spam are the way to go.
Its pretty ironic when Bush has over 100 million sitting in his war chest, which has broken all previous records. Thats what you get for pandering to big business for almost four years, a nice return on your investment.