The problem is neither the sticker nor the parents. The problem is, that in some huge state a very crappy law system exists. You can sue anyone for pretty much anything. Religion is a personal thing and should allways be a personal thing. So people have to decide for themselfs. And parents give their belief to children. No one has to be sued for this crap. A book has pages, if you don't like a chapter, don't read it. Or better read it, think about it and then say whats wrong. Why do i allways think of idiots when i hear storys like that?
The learning curve is correct, but it has a huge potential and is nice made Open Source Software. It is not only good for social scientists, even I (doing basic medical research) can use it for statistics quite well (I must admit our statistical needs are very small). We got an molecular biologist in our groop doing gene expression calculations with R and as you know whenever gene expression comes into play there is a lot of data.
When you can do anything you want with nice Software like LaTeX and R.
Evolution gave humans ten fingers for typing, not two for clicking. So you are quite faster typing than searching around, find your mouse pointer, search the button, find the button click it, click on the text again....
If usability is taken into discussion, think of how useable simple editors are. Much more than all this fsck WYSIWYG things.
My Perfect Online Music Store would be a store, where you purchase FLACs for cheap price. You don't download the FLAC you just get a.torrent, and get your files via Bittorrent (that could help keeping the prices low). Important would be no DRM so one can do whatever one wants with the FLACs. copying should be regulated by laws not by technique.
Nice would be album downloads with some artwork, so one can do his CD at home. Direct Purchasing from artists schould be motivated.
No. 5 is the only reason for occupying Iraq. Because it's rich of natural resources (aka Oil). Isn't Bush descendend of a Oil-Dealing family? Oh what a coincidence.
We've done something similar here in austria, called q/spot. It's a free and anonymous hotspot. We used a Soekris net 14xx Box as a hardware basis (embedded 486) and equiped it with a prism2 capable card. Software that runs on it is a quite homebrew linux it offers us a httpd, iptables, ssh. The Accesspoint setup is done via hostap. With iptables you have full control of your users, even able to limit ip connections and set quotas (good against file sharing neighbours). In our setup the user gets a 30 Minute session. The first http request he sends is redirected to the local httpd showing him the Terms of Useage of this service. There is a log in button on this page, clicked it calls a simple cgi, wich ads the ip to a list of valid ips.
This setup is quite simple and inexpensive. Of course you pay the box and you pay the card, we got the box for free, and paid about $150 for the card. (it's an uncommon prism2 pcmcia card with the possibility to plug in an antenna).
I'd use 802.11b cause i think last meters ain't the bottleneck.
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The problem is neither the sticker nor the parents. The problem is, that in some huge state a very crappy law system exists. You can sue anyone for pretty much anything.
Religion is a personal thing and should allways be a personal thing. So people have to decide for themselfs. And parents give their belief to children. No one has to be sued for this crap. A book has pages, if you don't like a chapter, don't read it. Or better read it, think about it and then say whats wrong.
Why do i allways think of idiots when i hear storys like that?
The learning curve is correct, but it has a huge potential and is nice made Open Source Software. It is not only good for social scientists, even I (doing basic medical research) can use it for statistics quite well (I must admit our statistical needs are very small). We got an molecular biologist in our groop doing gene expression calculations with R and as you know whenever gene expression comes into play there is a lot of data.
The way i create my LaTeX documents is: i sort my thoughts. Thats all, i just give structure to the things i'm thinking of, and pling: document done.
When you can do anything you want with nice Software like LaTeX and R. Evolution gave humans ten fingers for typing, not two for clicking. So you are quite faster typing than searching around, find your mouse pointer, search the button, find the button click it, click on the text again.... If usability is taken into discussion, think of how useable simple editors are. Much more than all this fsck WYSIWYG things.
My Perfect Online Music Store would be a store, where you purchase FLACs for cheap price. You don't download the FLAC you just get a .torrent, and get your files via Bittorrent (that could help keeping the prices low). Important would be no DRM so one can do whatever one wants with the FLACs. copying should be regulated by laws not by technique.
Nice would be album downloads with some artwork, so one can do his CD at home. Direct Purchasing from artists schould be motivated.
No. 5 is the only reason for occupying Iraq.
Because it's rich of natural resources (aka Oil).
Isn't Bush descendend of a Oil-Dealing family? Oh what a coincidence.
There are Indeed some Reasons why critical systems should be isolated.
We've done something similar here in austria, called q/spot. It's a free and anonymous hotspot. We used a Soekris net 14xx Box as a hardware basis (embedded 486) and equiped it with a prism2 capable card. Software that runs on it is a quite homebrew linux it offers us a httpd, iptables, ssh. The Accesspoint setup is done via hostap. With iptables you have full control of your users, even able to limit ip connections and set quotas (good against file sharing neighbours). In our setup the user gets a 30 Minute session. The first http request he sends is redirected to the local httpd showing him the Terms of Useage of this service. There is a log in button on this page, clicked it calls a simple cgi, wich ads the ip to a list of valid ips.
This setup is quite simple and inexpensive. Of course you pay the box and you pay the card, we got the box for free, and paid about $150 for the card. (it's an uncommon prism2 pcmcia card with the possibility to plug in an antenna).
I'd use 802.11b cause i think last meters ain't the bottleneck.