We apologize for any inconvenience you may experience and thank you for your patience.
This is of course referring to the actions of the union over the last weekend... I'm not defending Telus or the union in any way, but I thought that would be what the message is referring to, not specifically, the censorship of the website.
I hate to bleed my heart out to slashdot, but here's my little rant, and I would appreciate comments. I know that there are exceptions to every case but it is only logical for me to stand for 'life' if it meant defending my very existance:-)
I'm disabled. I am profoundly deaf - a little less so on one ear, which I wear a hearing aid. However, despite my deafness, I do not use sign language and so, after about 2 or 3 years in a "special-ed" preschool, I was mainstreamed into the public school system, in which, I've stayed ever since.
I don't have special assistance - I can tie my shoes, read, write (with the occasional spelling, grammar mistake, like in this post:-) ). Some people were quick to judge - some people gave up hope right away without truly knowing who I was. I can't hear all the time - I need to use closed captioning, and devices called FM systems that amplify voices in the classroom.
And oh, now you want to know what this "second-class" citizen can do? I graduated from high-school with a 4.0 GPA. I volunteer and work in many many extracurricular activities. I even play piano on the side after getting my diploma in piano performance. I won various graduation awards - none out of sympathy or the like - but departmental prizes and merit awards. I shall not bore you with all the details for the sake of time. And currently, I'm in university, getting ready to enter the honours computer science program with co-op on the side.
The point that I'm trying to make is that if we had more people like you - I would not have even had a chance to show the world what I was capable of. Sure, I grant you that I do 'suffer' in the mildest sense of the word - but I would deem it no worse than the common allergies that seem to plague everybody else (of which I have none). When I finally do get a job, I will be a full tax-paying citizen who will fully contribute to the state. If this is the case, then why am I not equal under law? There are many more, who have taken their otherwise "perfect" life (I'm not talking about those who started from unfortunate circumstances from the very start) and ruined it forever, becoming dependant on the welfare of others. Where is the justice in this?
I grant you that perhaps I'm the exception of many - there are many other people, who in my condition, have not been so successful - and who have not been able to cope with rejection. Rejection from nay-sayers who deem us useless to society - without chance to prove ourselves. I am most indebted to my parents for their support and for their perseverance in what must have been a trying time at first. Sure, call it slippery-slope, but I think that the choice isn't quite as black & white as you might make it seem.
Just in case anyone was wondering how the deficit might be made up, there is also significant revenue from sponsors, both government and corporate sponsors. Also, taxes, from spectator spending is also directed to fund these security measures.
Add that to the amount that is used out of personal taxes, and you can easily understand how such measures are carried out.
Now, Penguin and Katie Tarbox and Katie Jones come out looking good after all this! Great job!
The only person who's still sucking her thumb is Parry Aftab, who, after all these press releases still has a couple of questions to answer:
Was she representing Tarbox as Jones states she said in her phone call?
How the hell did she see that katie.com belonged to Tarbox?
And lastly, how did she think she would win?
IANAL, (thank goodness), but Aftab shouldn't' be able to claim she is representing someone when she isn't. For that, she is in the wrong. Obviously, Jones account of things has a bias slant to it, but from what I gather, Aftab was trying to extort the domain from Jones. Why isn't this illegal!
Frankly, lawyers like Parry Aftab, give a bad name for all lawyers everywhere.
Now, Penguin and Katie Tarbox and Katie Jones come out looking good after all this! Great job!
The only person who's still sucking her thumb is Parry Aftab, who, after all these press releases still has a couple of questions to answer:
Was she representing Tarbox as Jones states she said in her phone call?
How the hell did she see that katie.com belonged to Tarbox?
And lastly, how did she think she would win?
IANAL, (thank goodness), but Aftab shouldn't' be able to claim she is representing someone when she isn't. For that, she is in the wrong. Obviously, Jones account of things has a bias slant to it, but from what I gather, Aftab was trying to extort the domain from Jones. Why isn't this illegal!
Frankly, lawyers like Parry Aftab, give a bad name for all lawyers everywhere.
With handwriting and voice recognition technologies, is using a QWERTY keyboard with nine out of ten fingers something worth knowing anymore?"
I don't know about you, but comparing my handwriting and typing speeds, I find I can type much faster than I can handwrite.
Oddly enough, as a sidenote, this proves rather inconvenient. I can type about as fast as I can think, and as a result, the words spill out onto the screen. When I handwrite, while I'm writing, I can formulate the words I'm going to use in the time that I'm writing the words before, which leads to higher quality writing overall. However, when I'm typing, I rarely have time to consider the words I use, hence, the tendency towards verbal vomit.
As a result, for long bodies of writing, I usually do a rough draft by hand, and then transcribe it into a word processing for editing. Nothing beats being able to bck^H^Hackspace and forward delete!
Of course, we could use OCR (optical character recognition) for that transcribing process, but current systems show little improvement in recognizing human handwriting than their predecessors. Not to mention I want to be able to keep my current handwriting style and not have to change it to some "graffiti" style.
For those of you who are uninformed, this is a reference to the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. The words "DON'T PANIC" appear on its cover.
As if you could be reading slashdot and not know what THGTHG is:-D
Oh, I must be the only nerd on slashdot that doesn't have a gmail account yet. Since everybody's asking, would anybody mind sending a spare gmail invite to me?
My (hopefully, soon to be obsolete) email addy is rohan_leader@hotmail.com
Seems as if Phonak has their own deal called SmartLink. No sign of a Widex version like I said earlier, but again, it's planned but may not exist.
I'm going to be looking into this since I have a Phonak Claro hearing aid that I bought a year ago. Finally can use those cellphones now!
For those of you who are wondering, hearing aid users experience an extremely loud crackling sound when using the cell phone normally. If we use the telephone switch which make use of built in telecoils in some cell phones, a loud buzzing sound overpowers the voice coming out of the phone. It's very annoying indeed. Some phones, amazingly, do not have these problems. I once tried my friends phone made by Samsung, and it was amazingly clear! Just a bit of advice, in case, anyone was wondering:)
I am a hearing aid user so I can comment on this. Being severely/profoundly deaf will get you exceptions in the rule.
I'm certainly allowed to use my hearing aid on planes. Furthermore, I also own an FM system, basically a sort of wireless microphone that can speak directly to my hearing aid. Same 3 pin connector that the author refers to connect to a DAI shoe, btw. It is certainly handy on planes, and there
are provisions in the rules that airlines have for disabled people.
Personally, I've seen, as I've travelled with other deaf people, others use text pagers in the air to communicate. Definately, the rule is a little blurry when it comes to what technologies are allowed, but airlines do bend over backwards to accomodate us.
And a word on the bluetooth issue. I heard from my audiologist that Widex www.widex.com is coming out with hearing aids with built in bluetooth. This was a while ago, so perhaps, they are out now. Not only can bluetooth be used to stream audio, but also to configure the hearing aid on the fly. Some hard of hearing people suffer from fluctuating hearing losses and used to have to visit an audiologist to get their hearing aid reprogrammed each time they wanted it changed. Now, we can use our bluetooth enabled devices such as PDA's and laptops to do this.
The 30-minute session in the sleep room -- about...showing verdant scenes of a river ambling through a forest.
Gentle guitar and piano music plays against a backdrop of trickling water and birdsong...
But of course religion can't do any such thing. It only says it can, which is
a different matter. Anyone can say that. Anyone can say anything at all. But
since the answers religions give are not true, it is not clear why their
answers to the 'why' questions are any better than their answers to the 'how'
questions, or any other questions.
This argument of course assumes that the answers religion give are not true. How do you prove that it is not true?
Just because we haven't proved, scientifically speaking of course, that the answers religion gives are true, doesn't make the answers untrue.
Only now, a few thousand readers out there expect me to blithely produce an answer to the problem of what to do to bring Microsoft into the civilized world. Well, I say it can't be done.'"
One obvious reason is that Yellow Dog is completely free as in beer and OSX is not. You have to purchase every second update and it is not *completely* open source. Even if it IS apple, the magic words, "open-source" does make people listen up.
If compatibility with industry standard programs such as Microsoft Office and Photoshop is not needed, and if the UI is unimportant to you, then linux might be an option.
People use OSX to have the best of both worlds: to have the familiar "hacker" interface, the shell, and also have the convenience of programs. If you're going to run a server, linux will run faster, without Cocoa or X Windows, no question about it. Or, if you're addicted to KDE or fluxbox, why use the Aqua interface then? (yes, there IS an X11 server for apple, but hey, it is an alternative...)
The most convincing reason, I think, is the rpm format. You can use programs like yum although I believe that is for i386, and redhat/fedora, but certainly, it derived from the original yellow dog updater (would anyone care to provide a link?). You can keep your system up to date easily with a known technology, set as a cron job, perhaps.
Selling legal roms is a viable business especially when it comes to building mame cabinets, as the article rightly points out.
The ultimate geek builds his own, see CmdrTaco's for an example, but in the future, there might be a market for people who want mame cabinets for sheer nostalgia reasons, as more and more, the computer seems to be in the right position to trump the arcade soon.
And of course, you're not going to put illegal roms on a commercial product. Enter StarROMs...
The FAQ states that they choose not to provide the torrent because they want to "test" their distribution servers, but there is another reason.
This customized version uses different ports (the same one that warcraft normally uses), so, if you want to use the official bt client, you would have to make it connect to different ports.
Just as a note, but is blizzard required to release the source for their modified client of bt?
Now, you don't have to settle for just your ATM being infected by the next Blaster worm.
You can now enjoy the comfort of experiencing MS Blaster on your new Artista 200E Sewing System! Imagine the luxury of devising creation after creation with only 60 seconds to make it! Only Microsoft could possibly think of this...:D
"Because of the absolutely phenomenal number of requests for this
site (due to its being listed on Slashdot), we have had to take
the unusual step of temporarily disabling the content of the
site until things calm down:-) We apologise for any inconvenience
that this may cause."
Mirrors that were grabbed from the slashdot thread: Consider using these mirrors.
Slashdot Mirror
Actually, to expand on what I said earlier, further research shows that this has actually been going on for some time... even back to June.
http://www.broadbandreports.com/forum/remark,13615 830
We apologize for any inconvenience you may experience and thank you for your patience.
This is of course referring to the actions of the union over the last weekend... I'm not defending Telus or the union in any way, but I thought that would be what the message is referring to, not specifically, the censorship of the website.
I hate to bleed my heart out to slashdot, but here's my little rant, and I would appreciate comments. I know that there are exceptions to every case but it is only logical for me to stand for 'life' if it meant defending my very existance :-)
:-) ). Some people were quick to judge - some people gave up hope right away without truly knowing who I was. I can't hear all the time - I need to use closed captioning, and devices called FM systems that amplify voices in the classroom.
I'm disabled. I am profoundly deaf - a little less so on one ear, which I wear a hearing aid. However, despite my deafness, I do not use sign language and so, after about 2 or 3 years in a "special-ed" preschool, I was mainstreamed into the public school system, in which, I've stayed ever since.
I don't have special assistance - I can tie my shoes, read, write (with the occasional spelling, grammar mistake, like in this post
And oh, now you want to know what this "second-class" citizen can do? I graduated from high-school with a 4.0 GPA. I volunteer and work in many many extracurricular activities. I even play piano on the side after getting my diploma in piano performance. I won various graduation awards - none out of sympathy or the like - but departmental prizes and merit awards. I shall not bore you with all the details for the sake of time. And currently, I'm in university, getting ready to enter the honours computer science program with co-op on the side.
The point that I'm trying to make is that if we had more people like you - I would not have even had a chance to show the world what I was capable of. Sure, I grant you that I do 'suffer' in the mildest sense of the word - but I would deem it no worse than the common allergies that seem to plague everybody else (of which I have none). When I finally do get a job, I will be a full tax-paying citizen who will fully contribute to the state. If this is the case, then why am I not equal under law? There are many more, who have taken their otherwise "perfect" life (I'm not talking about those who started from unfortunate circumstances from the very start) and ruined it forever, becoming dependant on the welfare of others. Where is the justice in this?
I grant you that perhaps I'm the exception of many - there are many other people, who in my condition, have not been so successful - and who have not been able to cope with rejection. Rejection from nay-sayers who deem us useless to society - without chance to prove ourselves. I am most indebted to my parents for their support and for their perseverance in what must have been a trying time at first. Sure, call it slippery-slope, but I think that the choice isn't quite as black & white as you might make it seem.
Just in case anyone was wondering how the deficit might be made up, there is also significant revenue from sponsors, both government and corporate sponsors. Also, taxes, from spectator spending is also directed to fund these security measures.
Add that to the amount that is used out of personal taxes, and you can easily understand how such measures are carried out.
Now, Penguin and Katie Tarbox and Katie Jones come out looking good after all this! Great job!
The only person who's still sucking her thumb is Parry Aftab, who, after all these press releases still has a couple of questions to answer:
IANAL, (thank goodness), but Aftab shouldn't' be able to claim she is representing someone when she isn't. For that, she is in the wrong. Obviously, Jones account of things has a bias slant to it, but from what I gather, Aftab was trying to extort the domain from Jones. Why isn't this illegal!
Frankly, lawyers like Parry Aftab, give a bad name for all lawyers everywhere.
Now, Penguin and Katie Tarbox and Katie Jones come out looking good after all this! Great job!
The only person who's still sucking her thumb is Parry Aftab, who, after all these press releases still has a couple of questions to answer:
IANAL, (thank goodness), but Aftab shouldn't' be able to claim she is representing someone when she isn't. For that, she is in the wrong. Obviously, Jones account of things has a bias slant to it, but from what I gather, Aftab was trying to extort the domain from Jones. Why isn't this illegal!
Frankly, lawyers like Parry Aftab, give a bad name for all lawyers everywhere.
With handwriting and voice recognition technologies, is using a QWERTY keyboard with nine out of ten fingers something worth knowing anymore?"
I don't know about you, but comparing my handwriting and typing speeds, I find I can type much faster than I can handwrite.
Oddly enough, as a sidenote, this proves rather inconvenient. I can type about as fast as I can think, and as a result, the words spill out onto the screen. When I handwrite, while I'm writing, I can formulate the words I'm going to use in the time that I'm writing the words before, which leads to higher quality writing overall. However, when I'm typing, I rarely have time to consider the words I use, hence, the tendency towards verbal vomit.
As a result, for long bodies of writing, I usually do a rough draft by hand, and then transcribe it into a word processing for editing. Nothing beats being able to bck^H^Hackspace and forward delete!
Of course, we could use OCR (optical character recognition) for that transcribing process, but current systems show little improvement in recognizing human handwriting than their predecessors. Not to mention I want to be able to keep my current handwriting style and not have to change it to some "graffiti" style.
In short, typing IS a necessary skill.
bah, The Doctor from Star Trek:Voyager has been able to do that since he was first conceived in 1995.
And he can, not only maniuplate [sic] "cells", but also... uh... real things! I don't see laser holographic tweezers doing that anytime soon...
Who says the Dreamcast is dead?
Netcraft confirms it, Dreamcast is dying.
Well, somebody had to say it. ;-)
For those of you who are uninformed, this is a reference to the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. The words "DON'T PANIC" appear on its cover.
As if you could be reading slashdot and not know what THGTHG is :-D
good point, i've just done the research :)
In that case, you can send it to my obscure isp address at hungyao@telus.net. Hopefully, they haven't done any funny business with blocking invites.
Thanks :)
Oh, I must be the only nerd on slashdot that doesn't have a gmail account yet. Since everybody's asking, would anybody mind sending a spare gmail invite to me?
My (hopefully, soon to be obsolete) email addy is rohan_leader@hotmail.com
Thanks so much :)
Any word on whether Microsoft will be incorporating the highly-touted H.264 video standard like Apple is doing for it's upcoming Tiger?
After all, The Steve did imply that Redmond was going to start their photocopiers? Or, is H.264 integrated with this HD-DVD format?
edit:
Seems as if Phonak has their own deal called SmartLink. No sign of a Widex version like I said earlier, but again, it's planned but may not exist.
I'm going to be looking into this since I have a Phonak Claro hearing aid that I bought a year ago. Finally can use those cellphones now!
For those of you who are wondering, hearing aid users experience an extremely loud crackling sound when using the cell phone normally. If we use the telephone switch which make use of built in telecoils in some cell phones, a loud buzzing sound overpowers the voice coming out of the phone. It's very annoying indeed. Some phones, amazingly, do not have these problems. I once tried my friends phone made by Samsung, and it was amazingly clear! Just a bit of advice, in case, anyone was wondering :)
I am a hearing aid user so I can comment on this. Being severely/profoundly deaf will get you exceptions in the rule.
I'm certainly allowed to use my hearing aid on planes. Furthermore, I also own an FM system, basically a sort of wireless microphone that can speak directly to my hearing aid. Same 3 pin connector that the author refers to connect to a DAI shoe, btw. It is certainly handy on planes, and there are provisions in the rules that airlines have for disabled people.
Personally, I've seen, as I've travelled with other deaf people, others use text pagers in the air to communicate. Definately, the rule is a little blurry when it comes to what technologies are allowed, but airlines do bend over backwards to accomodate us.
And a word on the bluetooth issue. I heard from my audiologist that Widex www.widex.com is coming out with hearing aids with built in bluetooth. This was a while ago, so perhaps, they are out now. Not only can bluetooth be used to stream audio, but also to configure the hearing aid on the fly. Some hard of hearing people suffer from fluctuating hearing losses and used to have to visit an audiologist to get their hearing aid reprogrammed each time they wanted it changed. Now, we can use our bluetooth enabled devices such as PDA's and laptops to do this.
The 30-minute session in the sleep room -- about ...showing verdant scenes of a river ambling through a forest.
Gentle guitar and piano music plays against a backdrop of trickling water and birdsong...
Need I say more?
But of course religion can't do any such thing. It only says it can, which is a different matter. Anyone can say that. Anyone can say anything at all. But since the answers religions give are not true, it is not clear why their answers to the 'why' questions are any better than their answers to the 'how' questions, or any other questions.
This argument of course assumes that the answers religion give are not true. How do you prove that it is not true?
Just because we haven't proved, scientifically speaking of course, that the answers religion gives are true, doesn't make the answers untrue.
Negative proof as a logical fallacy
hmm... What's new?
One obvious reason is that Yellow Dog is completely free as in beer and OSX is not. You have to purchase every second update and it is not *completely* open source. Even if it IS apple, the magic words, "open-source" does make people listen up.
If compatibility with industry standard programs such as Microsoft Office and Photoshop is not needed, and if the UI is unimportant to you, then linux might be an option.
People use OSX to have the best of both worlds: to have the familiar "hacker" interface, the shell, and also have the convenience of programs. If you're going to run a server, linux will run faster, without Cocoa or X Windows, no question about it. Or, if you're addicted to KDE or fluxbox, why use the Aqua interface then? (yes, there IS an X11 server for apple, but hey, it is an alternative...)
The most convincing reason, I think, is the rpm format. You can use programs like yum although I believe that is for i386, and redhat/fedora, but certainly, it derived from the original yellow dog updater (would anyone care to provide a link?). You can keep your system up to date easily with a known technology, set as a cron job, perhaps.
The ultimate geek builds his own, see CmdrTaco's for an example, but in the future, there might be a market for people who want mame cabinets for sheer nostalgia reasons, as more and more, the computer seems to be in the right position to trump the arcade soon.
And of course, you're not going to put illegal roms on a commercial product. Enter StarROMs...
The FAQ states that they choose not to provide the torrent because they want to "test" their distribution servers, but there is another reason. This customized version uses different ports (the same one that warcraft normally uses), so, if you want to use the official bt client, you would have to make it connect to different ports. Just as a note, but is blizzard required to release the source for their modified client of bt?
Now, you don't have to settle for just your ATM being infected by the next Blaster worm.
You can now enjoy the comfort of experiencing MS Blaster on your new Artista 200E Sewing System! Imagine the luxury of devising creation after creation with only 60 seconds to make it! Only Microsoft could possibly think of this... :D
Sewing System
"Because of the absolutely phenomenal number of requests for this site (due to its being listed on Slashdot), we have had to take the unusual step of temporarily disabling the content of the site until things calm down :-) We apologise for any inconvenience
that this may cause."
Mirrors that were grabbed from the slashdot thread: Consider using these mirrors.
mirror 1 :D
mirror 2
Karma whoring at its finest
BEFORE:
RIAA or similar: You are hereby charged for downloading copyrighted content from this internet account.
YOU: No no! The Virus did it!
AFTER:
RIAA or similar: You are hereby charged for downloading copyrighted content from this internet account.
YOU: No no! The Oven did it!
RIAA: Did you realize that the recipe for those cinnamon rolls was copyrighted?
YOU: WTF! You can copyright a cinnamon roll recipe?
etc etc etc.. ad infinitum.
(and other possible encounters... too)
That must be one hell of a pringle can..