Here's the scary thing: the longer you go without watching, the more all the shows REALLY SUCK when you try to start again. I once swore off TV for a month (the second week was the hardest). When the month was over, I found that all the shows were stupid, the laugh-tracks were annoying, and there were no good, original stories.
Its called "waking up" from of the trance you were in.
I had the same experience when I first went away to college. I would come home after an entire semester of not watching TV and it would all seem moronic to me. By the end of the summer it all seemed like good stuff again..
Anyone who has any doubt about television effecting their minds should try giving it up for a few weeks as an experiment and then noting how they percieve the quality of the content once they start watching television again.
This whole campaign rests on the assumption that there is something bad or wrong with watching a lot of TV. I say that watching as much TV as you want is perfectly fine
If you are being sarcastic you need to work on your delivery as it is hard to tell.
If you are not being sarcastic you are flat out wrong.
I don't have citations to throw at you but I have read in several places that people.......from small children to adults....are heavier and have more concentration problems with the more television they watch.
You are being conditioned, make no doubt about it.
Try skipping television for a few weeks.
When you turn the set on again things you previously enjoyed will seem like the most moronic crap to you.
I mailed that link (subscriber) to people at work and some friends. Already the replies have been:
# "Great in theory, but there's a new Friends episode on Thursday. [...]"
Sounds like the kind of reply you might get from someone being prompted to give up an addiction doesn't it?
"Just this one show"
I had a similar thing going on and actually did miss "that one show", but now I no longer do.......most of the time. Otherwise the benefits I enjoy far outweigh missing "that one show".
I think it is just like jumping into a swimming pool. Once you are in the water you are fine.
or is it a collection of people of various ages, genders, background etc who don't have the patience to learn, the time to learn or who don't really find computers interesting?
In my not so humble opinion, the interest for the Linux desktop is the hope of Microsoft liberation, without scrapping existing hardware. This is quite silly, as the cost of the disruption in retraining all of the users, will far outweigh the cost of either switching to a useable, coherent UNIX desktop like Mac OS X, or staying on the MS Treadmill. Unfortunately, there is no quick fix here, as the bazaar is not willing to collaborate on a unified, coherent Linux Desktop.
In a lot of arena's you see alternative apps ignored when there is something CLEARLY easier to use and better functioning
The various desktop factions will not unite.
The way to achieve unity in the gnu/linux community's desktop civil war is for a new desktop to be created ( or an existing one seriously beefed up ) that will be SO FAR AHEAD of all of the other choices that most people and distros will lose interest in the other choices.
Easier said then done, I know.
Seems like a job for a company with some money to spend.....like Novell or IBM.
since Novell now owns Ximian, owns Suse, Suse made YAST free that people other then rpm users could download Ximian and that you could downloads isos of Suse.
However, this would seem to work against their plans for a unified desktop.
That is a worthy goal, I just hope they don't reinvent the wheel and throw away what has been done........if that is possible.
I think Google is being VERY forthcoming with information and making it clear what they do and do not do...
What is "VERY forthcoming"? Will the Gmail pages have warnings about email being read by Google in large fonts in very prominent locations in a user's eyespace?
More likely it will be stated in some privacy policy in some place where many users eyes will not naturally fall.
Why the uproar... if you're against having them sort your mail and deliver ads based on content, don't sign up!
1. If Google gets away with this there will be imitators ( some not upfront ) making it harder for people who DON'T want their personal read to get away from that sort of thing.
2. Its not just Gmail user's email that gets read, its the email from anyone who sends email to a Gmail address
If I have to correspond with a Gmail user it will be ONE email from a disposable address explaining #2 and that I will not converse with them at a Gmail address
Yes spam filters scan my email, but spam filters do not extract content about my personal life to collate them into a profile of my interests to be turned over to analysis for targeted advertising
I barely use the space available on my yahoo account.
A few gigs of email space is not enough to convince me to whore the content of my and my friend's email.
Yes, Google has been upfront about it, thats good, but that doesn't forgive it.
A lot of people feel as I do so I hope Google drop's this or Google will have a very bad image associated with it.
The world does not need another free email service.
Google should find an ethical way to make money based on their talents
I am a programmer and I love what I do.
Short of moving out of the country I am prepared to do what I have to do to remain a programmer.
I find my vocation being called "monkey work" offensive.
Yes, the hobbyists started things. They also did a lousy job of bringing computing into the mainstream.
Thats why companies like M$ and Apple exist in the first place.
Popular ( popular and *useful* to most non-ubergeek types ) OSS software produced completely by geeks 100% free of any business input are in the minority.
Steve
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After price downloading music is popular because you get just the songs you want.
Sometimes the "other songs" on an "album" are not just filler, but actually good songs that are more artistic and show a little more of the muscian's talent.
Often these songs don't have a "pop enough sound" to make it onto the radio and sell themselves.
What happens to these songs or other "less then pop" songs that people may learn to being bundled together on CD's if the download model replaces buying full CD's?
Will the record companies only shell out to produce the most popish, top 40 friendly songs?
Looking around most of my CDs have about 10 songs.
Assuming I bought a "CD's worth" of songs from a download site I would pay about $10 versus the 15$ and up from a record store.
The record company might be out $5, but I have read many reports how their prices are inflated to an absurd extreme. They will also be relieved of the costs of the CDs, processing the CD's, shipping, warehousing, and packaging.
I have a fairly high power machine that I bought a year ago (Geforce graphics card, P4 chip, scads of memory ).
With KDE the crashes and lockups most often involved konqueror......either in file explorer mode or web browser mode. If it didn't crash, it would cause booting of all KDE apps to be REALLY slow: http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&i e=UTF-8 &oe=UTF-8&threadm=6f8cb8c9.0312071826.5b6852a4%40p osting.google.com&rnum=2&prev=/groups%3Fsafe%3Dima ges%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DUTF-8%26as_ugroup%3Dcomp.w indows.x.kde%26as_uauthors%3Dstevesusenet%40yahoo. com%2520%26as_scoring%3Dd%26lr%3D%26num%3D100%26hl %3Den
In both KDE & Gnome the lockups and crashes seemed to aggravated by having mozilla run at the same time.
Sorry I don't have more information as that configuration has been wiped out for a while
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I had the same experience when I first went away to college. I would come home after an entire semester of not watching TV and it would all seem moronic to me. By the end of the summer it all seemed like good stuff again..
Anyone who has any doubt about television effecting their minds should try giving it up for a few weeks as an experiment and then noting how they percieve the quality of the content once they start watching television again.
Steve
If you are not being sarcastic you are flat out wrong.
I don't have citations to throw at you but I have read in several places that people.......from small children to adults....are heavier and have more concentration problems with the more television they watch.
You are being conditioned, make no doubt about it.
Try skipping television for a few weeks.
When you turn the set on again things you previously enjoyed will seem like the most moronic crap to you.
Steve
"Just this one show"
I had a similar thing going on and actually did miss "that one show", but now I no longer do.......most of the time. Otherwise the benefits I enjoy far outweigh missing "that one show".
I think it is just like jumping into a swimming pool. Once you are in the water you are fine.
Steve
I want call it a revolution until at least 10% of the desktops are running gnu/linux.
Steve
The various desktop factions will not unite.
The way to achieve unity in the gnu/linux community's desktop civil war is for a new desktop to be created ( or an existing one seriously beefed up ) that will be SO FAR AHEAD of all of the other choices that most people and distros will lose interest in the other choices.
Easier said then done, I know.
Seems like a job for a company with some money to spend.....like Novell or IBM.
Steve
However, this would seem to work against their plans for a unified desktop.
That is a worthy goal, I just hope they don't reinvent the wheel and throw away what has been done........if that is possible.
Steve
Is he some sort of boy genius/ uber geek?
Steve
Winux better.
:)?
Heh, would have cheesed off M$ wouldn't it
I recommend reading it. Its nice know that opinions posted on this site are read by big players. Steve
Exactly!
Where is my consent?
Steve
If Google pushes ahead it could be a costly blunder for them.
Help prevent this and tell Google how you feel:
http://groups.google.com/contact/index.html
Steve
More likely it will be stated in some privacy policy in some place where many users eyes will not naturally fall.
1. If Google gets away with this there will be imitators ( some not upfront ) making it harder for people who DON'T want their personal read to get away from that sort of thing.2. Its not just Gmail user's email that gets read, its the email from anyone who sends email to a Gmail address
If I have to correspond with a Gmail user it will be ONE email from a disposable address explaining #2 and that I will not converse with them at a Gmail address
Steve
Yes spam filters scan my email, but spam filters do not extract content about my personal life to collate them into a profile of my interests to be turned over to analysis for targeted advertising
I barely use the space available on my yahoo account.
A few gigs of email space is not enough to convince me to whore the content of my and my friend's email.
Yes, Google has been upfront about it, thats good, but that doesn't forgive it.
A lot of people feel as I do so I hope Google drop's this or Google will have a very bad image associated with it.
The world does not need another free email service.
Google should find an ethical way to make money based on their talents
Steve
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and what makes him such a good judge of what is good Science Fiction?
The rest will either be lower quality songs or more artistic indulgences by the artist.
I guess its all pop shit now.
Steve
I am a programmer and I love what I do. Short of moving out of the country I am prepared to do what I have to do to remain a programmer. I find my vocation being called "monkey work" offensive. Yes, the hobbyists started things. They also did a lousy job of bringing computing into the mainstream. Thats why companies like M$ and Apple exist in the first place. Popular ( popular and *useful* to most non-ubergeek types ) OSS software produced completely by geeks 100% free of any business input are in the minority. Steve
After price downloading music is popular because you get just the songs you want.
Sometimes the "other songs" on an "album" are not just filler, but actually good songs that are more artistic and show a little more of the muscian's talent.
Often these songs don't have a "pop enough sound" to make it onto the radio and sell themselves.
What happens to these songs or other "less then pop" songs that people may learn to being bundled together on CD's if the download model replaces buying full CD's?
Will the record companies only shell out to produce the most popish, top 40 friendly songs?
Ick.
Steve
Looking around most of my CDs have about 10 songs.
Assuming I bought a "CD's worth" of songs from a download site I would pay about $10 versus the 15$ and up from a record store.
The record company might be out $5, but I have read many reports how their prices are inflated to an absurd extreme. They will also be relieved of the costs of the CDs, processing the CD's, shipping, warehousing, and packaging.
Steve
I can't really tell you much.
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I've deinstalled both KDE and Gnome since then.
Both were Debian unstable......about a month ago.
I have a fairly high power machine that I bought a year ago (Geforce graphics card, P4 chip, scads of memory ).
With KDE the crashes and lockups most often involved konqueror......either in file explorer mode or web browser mode. If it didn't crash, it would cause booting of all KDE apps to be REALLY slow:
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&
In both KDE & Gnome the lockups and crashes seemed to aggravated by having mozilla run at the same time.
Sorry I don't have more information as that configuration has been wiped out for a while
Steve
Both have improved
Both all crashed and/or locked up on me frequently
That could be my distro or the way I have my system set up.
I hate to say it, but this does not happen to me with my win2K desktop at work.
KDE and Gnome have both come a long way, but they both have work ( albeit a lot less )to do to catch up to M$, let alone surpass it.
For now, I am going back to icewm
No crashes, no lockups, faster, fewwer resources, and it does all I need.
Steve