You're NOT automatically opted-in. Holy hell people... it's an OBVIOUS option in the settings menu that you must turn ON. I own a Kindle and I am not opted-into this. People here keep acting like there's no way you can keep your kindle from updating/phoning home/changing your settings. Now hear this: YOU CAN TURN OFF THE WIRELESS AND NOTHING CHANGES! Just turn it on when you want to download a book and turn it back off when you're done. Geez people...
And while your downloading your book, the kindle could be doing a update of whatever info, firmware, etc.
I didn't miss the sarcasm. I just think it's time for consumers to start making some demands of our own.
Outlaw every single DRM measure! Outlaw copy protection, region encoding, viewing restrictions (like the annoying mandatory ads on DVDs).
All these things are just hurting the honest paying customer, while the pirates actually get the better product.
Also, think of the children! They can be easily influenced by scrupulous advertisers and shouldn't be forced to sit through any commercials at all (while we're at it, let's outlaw all commercials during day time programming).
We make demands by not buying the products. And be sure to tell them why you aren't buying their products.
srsly, Obama just told the world that he's totally over his head in his job.
Currently he's blaiming it on tech, next he'll start hitting his wife.
Then the kids.
If he was Clinton, i'd say just smoke some pot and relax, but he's not. (oh ya, and inhale this time. lol)
lol
really though, i find new gadgets a bit confusing also, but not confusing enough that I think i'm going to get good information about life on the xbox.
It's a video game console dude.
i mean, wtf?
Your old, new stuff is scary, get with it. And have your kids show you have to use them, they probably figured it out within 1 minute of picking up whatever it is.
I don't have religous beliefs, I don't like demo's or repubs.
I did a lot of drugs and have a criminal history (felony free though).
I'm a poor white person.
Oh ya, and I don't like corporations all that much. they have too much power.
Sheesh, the media will be having a field day over me, that they'll forgot anything else your doing. And I can handle the pressure.
"Mr. Nyder, is it true you sold herion in the 90's?" "Damn straight. had the best stuff you could get, till the stupid recession made business harder. had to switch to politics."
"Mr. Nyder, is it true you don't believe in god?" "Ya, but I don't believe in the easter bunny either, so?"
"Mr. Nyder, is it true..." "sure, it's all true. look, if your going to go on about my past, lets smoke this joint first."
But seriously, I'd have the best interests of people. Not the corporations, and not any political parties. And i'm used to people not liking me, or what I'm saying.
I mean, seriously, can we have someone who wasn't born before 1960?
You know, someone who's in touch with reality of the modern era.
'Whether or not I agree with the guidelines, we have to follow the rules,' said school superintendent Jack Ellis
Actually, you don't have to follow the rules.
What you could of done was just took the candy away and told the kids they can't eat that during school hours.
You could of ignored it.
You could of used the incident to maybe get the rules changed.
Instead, you choose to be a sheep and follow the letter of the rule, not it's intent.
Yes, I know, you run a school and you want your kids to understand rules are to be followed. but seriously, dumb rules won't be followed by kids. They just figure away around them.
So why don't you do something good for the kids, and learn to think for yourself, and share that with the kids.
The three Grade 11 students — who asked to be identified only as Weeman, The Fern and Goggles — told CBC News they made more than $200 in the first week of school by bulk-buying candy and chocolate bars, then selling them at a profit.
hmm, that was the plot to one of the Great Brain books...
or a subplot i should add.
probably this book: The Great Brain At The Academy (1972)
.... Right now, if I wanted to - if I really had a bug up my ass and was willing to do something about it - I could go out and kill dozens to hundreds of people - for less than $200 bucks by renting a car and plowing into a crowd of people on a busy sidewalk in my city. The fact that we don't have people doing this kind of thing *at all (except for maybe Fort Hood)* let alone all the time shows me exactly how much of a threat terrorism isn't.
You can put what you want your kid to read in the ebook reader.
If your kid rather do the interactive ebooks? Then make it the reward for reading a more standard childrens ebook.
And honestly, take your kid to the library to pick up some real books. While ebook readers are a nice item, they are better for adults, imo, then young kids, at least.
Ya, maybe i'm getting old because i remember going to the library weekly to get books to read from when i was really young till a teenager, but I think that was a good experience. Need to support your local library anyways, it's a resource we don't want to lose. After all, I doubt they make ebooks that you can check out. wait, that's sort of a good idea.
It's why we need to Take Back Parliament and get a fair voting system. I went to the protest in London yesterday, and I encourage anyone that can to come to the next one, on Saturday (14:00, 15th May, Parliament Square, London).
I'll go and help ya.
you'll need to send me a plane ticket and some money first though.
Remember that all Office applications embed a GUID in the document. My guess would be that the online version would as well. So your privacy is up for grabs.
Who cares if it's free, if you don't want it anyway?
Damn, paranoid are you?
Ever here the saying, if you want to keep something private, you don't put it on the internet? Well, ya, that would apply here.
Anyone who thinks they can keep stuff private on the internet, well, deserves what will happen.
As for privacy, well, ya, dang dude. Your paying something to use their software, thats how the freaking market works.
You watch TV, you pay by getting commericals. Same for radio.
You go to free internet land (and not so free) you are going to get hit with ads and other things that record your IP number.
In fact, mr/i(s)(s) paranoid, your post has been tracked and recorded.
Welcome to the internet. You want to keep things private? Don't want your parents to find the sex vids you did with that dog? Don't put them on the internet. Don't store them on a computer that is connected to the internet.
Otherwise, just produce as much static as you can, so it's harder to find the true info.
Is Microsoft slowly changing it's business model ? Selling Microsoft Office licenses is one of the major sources of revenue.
And at what point will there be a free windows version ?
YES, Microsoft is changing their business model big time. Steve Ballmer announced in his recent University of Washington speech that Microsoft is dedicating 70% fo their software engineers to creating cloud-based versions of their local software, and by next year it will increase to 90%. They were slow to adopt the cloud but plan to become a big contender in a short amount of time.
The speech is about 90 minutes long and is very interesting, for those who care to watch. He's quite a good speaker with a very good knowledge of the industry, and he handles people's questions directly and in detail. What impressed me most was that he openly praises other companies and their cloud apps like Salesforce and Google.
Why bother? I swear to god, I can do anything I want in sun (oracle? no hate here.) oo32 that I used to do in o2k3
Have you seen the OO32 release? My God! hahaha
I already collect text editors, but gosh darn I just can's see paying thousands anymore? Maybe you got a translator or some proprietary nonsense? I think we all would be wise to audit and revise what we really need.
Hey if you need Microsoft Office, more power to ya, the only thing I need now is a way to export their proprietary format to a real format which can be used in oo32;)
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EditPad Pro is my 1 and only text editor. it rocks.
Just about everything right now is being sent to them in PDF or DOC format. What do you think the odds are of being able to access these documents in 25 years' time?
That complaint about.DOC is very correct. Just a couple weeks ago someone at the company I worked for received a Word 2.0 document and was asking for my help opening it as he only had Word 2010. Those formats are very temporary in their usability.
To be fair however PDF has a reasonable chance of surviving way past your requirement of 25 years.
PDF was made in 1993 by Adobe, which was only 17 years ago yes. But PDF is just a bunch of additions to PostScript ( or.ps files) which has been a widely used format since 1982, which was 28 years ago.
As long as one avoids the worst of the PDF specific features like DRM and scripting, the bulk of the content and markup will be readable. This is one format that will probably remain around next to forever, just like ASCII.
I think one cockup a year is an acceptable rate, especially if it's one non-dangerous one. Forcing them to concentrate on nothing is going to lead to more serious problems as they fall asleep at the wheel instead.
That cockup is acceptable, i'll bet, until it happens to you?
I supposed it's okay for truck drivers to just hit cruise control and take a nap in the back?
I hope to god I never have to get into anything that your are in charge of.
"focus on flying and on safety at all times" is staring at a big blue sky of nothing for hours on end. That will put anyone to sleep. Let them keep their minds doing something, who really cares what they do.
How the fuck is this insightful?
That is his fucking job. to fly the fucking plane.
I don't give a fuck if it's boring, so is a night shift sercurity job, but that don't mean they should just read a book all night.
Pilots get paid nice for the boredom. They're job is to fly the plain safely, from point a to point b.
I don't care if it's night and there is nothing to see out the windows. They need to be focusing on their job, or quit. period.
I understand the "creative class" needs their validation because they cannot cope with the real world. But graffiti is vandalism. Deal with it. What if one of them takes a shit on your porch and calls it "art?"
Put it in a paper bag, set that bag on fire, ring the door bell.
I'm unfortunately losing some moderations to do this, but FUD needs to be stopped.
Your 'lawyer friend' needs to find a new line of work, because he must be a terrible lawyer. (IANAL, the following is not legal advice.)
The 'papers please' part of the law is not unconstitutional because it does not pertain to US citizens just as the voting rights guaranteed by the Constitution are not applicable to non-citizens. Additionally, federal law already requires what the AZ law requires and has done so for 70+ years. Please refer to Title 8 of the USC, Chapter 12, Subchapter II, Part VII(e):
(e) Every alien, eighteen years of age and over, shall at all times carry with him and have in his personal possession any certificate of alien registration or alien registration receipt card issued to him pursuant to subsection (d). Any alien who fails to comply with the provisions of this subsection shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall upon conviction for each offense be fined not to exceed $100 or be imprisoned not more than thirty days, or both.
Because the Federal government is not fulfilling its duty to enforce its own laws, the state of AZ has passed its own. OH NOES! TEH RACISM!
Further, are you and/or your 'lawyer friend' completely high? "AZ has no constitutional authority to pass this law." Please point out to me where in the Constitution this law is explicitly prohibited. If you have any idea how laws in this country work, you would know that anything not expressly denied to the states by the Constitution is, in fact, expressly granted and reserved for the states by ye olde forgotten Amendment X.
Lastly, it doesn't violate the 14th Amendment. Go read the 14th Amendment. Count the times it says 'citizens'. Then SLAP YOURSELF IN THE GODDAMN FACE THAT NUMBER OF TIMES. Illegal aliens are NOT citizens. The 14th Amendment EXPLICITLY does not apply to them. That is the LAW.
Yo, sfb (shit for brains)
No one is talking about the illegals, what we are talking about is there isn't anyway to enforce this law with out stepping on the constitutional rights of americans.
Americans. You understand? We don't care about the illegals. shit, round them up and send them home. But while you are doing that, do NOT step on the rights of American Citizens.
Guess that wouldn't matter to you, until it's you who is being asked to shown your id to prove you aren't an illegal.
Just because your are too stupid to understand how 1 computer can see most the content providers on bittorrent.
Because you don't understand the tech doesn't mean anyone else doesn't.
You'd have to be stupid (which it appears you are) to think that connecting to a file sharing network that you can't see the IP of whom is sharing what.
Obviously, you would of had to be under a rock for the last 10 years also.
In appropriate words: don't lie about you violent past, don't harass the person employed to do your background check, don't give false passwords to keep your boss' boss off your trail, don't admit to your co-worker that you're going to screw over your employer if they fire you, and most of all don't come afterward with the lame excuse of being the only IT God on the planet such that only you could ever possess the keys to the kingdom.
does that include don't say "The best way to make money is to start a religon" then a decade later start up a religon?
It is like when a cop with a dog tells you to get down on the floor. That is not the time to start an argument. That is the time to get down on the floor and become part of how the justice system works, injustices included and part of the system, sucks to have it happen to you.
No, you get down of the floor because you know the cop will let the dog loose on you.
Not because of the way the justice system works, it's called FEAR OF BEING BITTEN.
I supposed when the priest told you to drop your pants and bend over, you did it because that's the way the church works?
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You're NOT automatically opted-in. Holy hell people... it's an OBVIOUS option in the settings menu that you must turn ON. I own a Kindle and I am not opted-into this. People here keep acting like there's no way you can keep your kindle from updating/phoning home/changing your settings. Now hear this: YOU CAN TURN OFF THE WIRELESS AND NOTHING CHANGES! Just turn it on when you want to download a book and turn it back off when you're done. Geez people...
And while your downloading your book, the kindle could be doing a update of whatever info, firmware, etc.
I didn't miss the sarcasm. I just think it's time for consumers to start making some demands of our own.
Outlaw every single DRM measure! Outlaw copy protection, region encoding, viewing restrictions (like the annoying mandatory ads on DVDs).
All these things are just hurting the honest paying customer, while the pirates actually get the better product.
Also, think of the children! They can be easily influenced by scrupulous advertisers and shouldn't be forced to sit through any commercials at all (while we're at it, let's outlaw all commercials during day time programming).
We make demands by not buying the products. And be sure to tell them why you aren't buying their products.
srsly, Obama just told the world that he's totally over his head in his job.
Currently he's blaiming it on tech, next he'll start hitting his wife.
Then the kids.
If he was Clinton, i'd say just smoke some pot and relax, but he's not. (oh ya, and inhale this time. lol)
lol
really though, i find new gadgets a bit confusing also, but not confusing enough that I think i'm going to get good information about life on the xbox.
It's a video game console dude.
i mean, wtf?
Your old, new stuff is scary, get with it. And have your kids show you have to use them, they probably figured it out within 1 minute of picking up whatever it is.
Come on Obama, i'm the perfect choice.
I don't have religous beliefs, I don't like demo's or repubs.
I did a lot of drugs and have a criminal history (felony free though).
I'm a poor white person.
Oh ya, and I don't like corporations all that much. they have too much power.
Sheesh, the media will be having a field day over me, that they'll forgot anything else your doing. And I can handle the pressure.
"Mr. Nyder, is it true you sold herion in the 90's?"
"Damn straight. had the best stuff you could get, till the stupid recession made business harder. had to switch to politics."
"Mr. Nyder, is it true you don't believe in god?"
"Ya, but I don't believe in the easter bunny either, so?"
"Mr. Nyder, is it true..."
"sure, it's all true. look, if your going to go on about my past, lets smoke this joint first."
But seriously, I'd have the best interests of people. Not the corporations, and not any political parties. And i'm used to people not liking me, or what I'm saying.
I mean, seriously, can we have someone who wasn't born before 1960?
You know, someone who's in touch with reality of the modern era.
'Whether or not I agree with the guidelines, we have to follow the rules,' said school superintendent Jack Ellis
Actually, you don't have to follow the rules.
What you could of done was just took the candy away and told the kids they can't eat that during school hours.
You could of ignored it.
You could of used the incident to maybe get the rules changed.
Instead, you choose to be a sheep and follow the letter of the rule, not it's intent.
Yes, I know, you run a school and you want your kids to understand rules are to be followed. but seriously, dumb rules won't be followed by kids. They just figure away around them.
So why don't you do something good for the kids, and learn to think for yourself, and share that with the kids.
Too Late
The three Grade 11 students — who asked to be identified only as Weeman, The Fern and Goggles — told CBC News they made more than $200 in the first week of school by bulk-buying candy and chocolate bars, then selling them at a profit.
hmm, that was the plot to one of the Great Brain books...
or a subplot i should add.
probably this book: The Great Brain At The Academy (1972)
When Monsanto can successfully sue you for patent infringement when a neighbor's seeds blow onto your land, then yes, Monsanto needs to die. If "Roundup Ready" weeds are part of it, bring them on.
This is funny, I'm watching an episode of CSI:Miami that talks about that.
.... Right now, if I wanted to - if I really had a bug up my ass and was willing to do something about it - I could go out and kill dozens to hundreds of people - for less than $200 bucks by renting a car and plowing into a crowd of people on a busy sidewalk in my city. The fact that we don't have people doing this kind of thing *at all (except for maybe Fort Hood)* let alone all the time shows me exactly how much of a threat terrorism isn't.
Now they are watching you.
oh shit, me also since i quoted ya.
Honestly, do people even think anymore?
You can put what you want your kid to read in the ebook reader.
If your kid rather do the interactive ebooks? Then make it the reward for reading a more standard childrens ebook.
And honestly, take your kid to the library to pick up some real books. While ebook readers are a nice item, they are better for adults, imo, then young kids, at least.
Ya, maybe i'm getting old because i remember going to the library weekly to get books to read from when i was really young till a teenager, but I think that was a good experience. Need to support your local library anyways, it's a resource we don't want to lose. After all, I doubt they make ebooks that you can check out. wait, that's sort of a good idea.
I don't think 6000 means what you think it means.
whoosh!
It's why we need to Take Back Parliament and get a fair voting system. I went to the protest in London yesterday, and I encourage anyone that can to come to the next one, on Saturday (14:00, 15th May, Parliament Square, London).
I'll go and help ya.
you'll need to send me a plane ticket and some money first though.
Remember that all Office applications embed a GUID in the document. My guess would be that the online version would as well. So your privacy is up for grabs.
Who cares if it's free, if you don't want it anyway?
Damn, paranoid are you?
Ever here the saying, if you want to keep something private, you don't put it on the internet? Well, ya, that would apply here.
Anyone who thinks they can keep stuff private on the internet, well, deserves what will happen.
As for privacy, well, ya, dang dude. Your paying something to use their software, thats how the freaking market works.
You watch TV, you pay by getting commericals. Same for radio.
You go to free internet land (and not so free) you are going to get hit with ads and other things that record your IP number.
In fact, mr/i(s)(s) paranoid, your post has been tracked and recorded.
Welcome to the internet. You want to keep things private? Don't want your parents to find the sex vids you did with that dog?
Don't put them on the internet. Don't store them on a computer that is connected to the internet.
Otherwise, just produce as much static as you can, so it's harder to find the true info.
Is Microsoft slowly changing it's business model ? Selling Microsoft Office licenses is one of the major sources of revenue.
And at what point will there be a free windows version ?
YES, Microsoft is changing their business model big time. Steve Ballmer announced in his recent University of Washington speech that Microsoft is dedicating 70% fo their software engineers to creating cloud-based versions of their local software, and by next year it will increase to 90%. They were slow to adopt the cloud but plan to become a big contender in a short amount of time.
The speech is about 90 minutes long and is very interesting, for those who care to watch. He's quite a good speaker with a very good knowledge of the industry, and he handles people's questions directly and in detail. What impressed me most was that he openly praises other companies and their cloud apps like Salesforce and Google.
What? No frothing mouth and crazy rants?
Ballmer must be on his meds finally.
Why bother? I swear to god, I can do anything I want in sun (oracle? no hate here.) oo32 that I used to do in o2k3
Have you seen the OO32 release? My God! hahaha
I already collect text editors, but gosh darn I just can's see paying thousands anymore? Maybe you got a translator or some proprietary nonsense? I think we all would be wise to audit and revise what we really need.
Hey if you need Microsoft Office, more power to ya, the only thing I need now is a way to export their proprietary format to a real format which can be used in oo32 ;)
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EditPad Pro is my 1 and only text editor. it rocks.
As a number of people in the Seattle Times Forum have noted, using this "web based" Office product *requires* downloading and installing an .exe
Shit, we are all stoned here in Seattle.
Just about everything right now is being sent to them in PDF or DOC format. What do you think the odds are of being able to access these documents in 25 years' time?
That complaint about .DOC is very correct. Just a couple weeks ago someone at the company I worked for received a Word 2.0 document and was asking for my help opening it as he only had Word 2010.
Those formats are very temporary in their usability.
To be fair however PDF has a reasonable chance of surviving way past your requirement of 25 years.
PDF was made in 1993 by Adobe, which was only 17 years ago yes. But PDF is just a bunch of additions to PostScript ( or .ps files) which has been a widely used format since 1982, which was 28 years ago.
As long as one avoids the worst of the PDF specific features like DRM and scripting, the bulk of the content and markup will be readable.
This is one format that will probably remain around next to forever, just like ASCII.
Um, no.
Ascii, you can open up in anything and read it.
you can't with a pdf.
I think one cockup a year is an acceptable rate, especially if it's one non-dangerous one. Forcing them to concentrate on nothing is going to lead to more serious problems as they fall asleep at the wheel instead.
That cockup is acceptable, i'll bet, until it happens to you?
I supposed it's okay for truck drivers to just hit cruise control and take a nap in the back?
I hope to god I never have to get into anything that your are in charge of.
"focus on flying and on safety at all times" is staring at a big blue sky of nothing for hours on end. That will put anyone to sleep. Let them keep their minds doing something, who really cares what they do.
How the fuck is this insightful?
That is his fucking job. to fly the fucking plane.
I don't give a fuck if it's boring, so is a night shift sercurity job, but that don't mean they should just read a book all night.
Pilots get paid nice for the boredom. They're job is to fly the plain safely, from point a to point b.
I don't care if it's night and there is nothing to see out the windows. They need to be focusing on their job, or quit. period.
I understand the "creative class" needs their validation because they cannot cope with the real world. But graffiti is vandalism. Deal with it.
What if one of them takes a shit on your porch and calls it "art?"
Put it in a paper bag, set that bag on fire, ring the door bell.
It's not art, but it sure in hell is funny.
Can you provide any sort of proof to your claims?
I'm unfortunately losing some moderations to do this, but FUD needs to be stopped.
Your 'lawyer friend' needs to find a new line of work, because he must be a terrible lawyer. (IANAL, the following is not legal advice.)
The 'papers please' part of the law is not unconstitutional because it does not pertain to US citizens just as the voting rights guaranteed by the Constitution are not applicable to non-citizens. Additionally, federal law already requires what the AZ law requires and has done so for 70+ years. Please refer to Title 8 of the USC, Chapter 12, Subchapter II, Part VII(e):
(e) Every alien, eighteen years of age and over, shall at all times carry with him and have in his personal possession any certificate of alien registration or alien registration receipt card issued to him pursuant to subsection (d). Any alien who fails to comply with the provisions of this subsection shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall upon conviction for each offense be fined not to exceed $100 or be imprisoned not more than thirty days, or both.
Because the Federal government is not fulfilling its duty to enforce its own laws, the state of AZ has passed its own. OH NOES! TEH RACISM!
Further, are you and/or your 'lawyer friend' completely high? "AZ has no constitutional authority to pass this law." Please point out to me where in the Constitution this law is explicitly prohibited. If you have any idea how laws in this country work, you would know that anything not expressly denied to the states by the Constitution is, in fact, expressly granted and reserved for the states by ye olde forgotten Amendment X.
Lastly, it doesn't violate the 14th Amendment. Go read the 14th Amendment. Count the times it says 'citizens'. Then SLAP YOURSELF IN THE GODDAMN FACE THAT NUMBER OF TIMES. Illegal aliens are NOT citizens. The 14th Amendment EXPLICITLY does not apply to them. That is the LAW.
Yo, sfb (shit for brains)
No one is talking about the illegals, what we are talking about is there isn't anyway to enforce this law with out stepping on the constitutional rights of americans.
Americans. You understand? We don't care about the illegals. shit, round them up and send them home. But while you are doing that, do NOT step on the rights of American Citizens.
Guess that wouldn't matter to you, until it's you who is being asked to shown your id to prove you aren't an illegal.
Seriously, now the fuck is this shit news?
Just because your are too stupid to understand how 1 computer can see most the content providers on bittorrent.
Because you don't understand the tech doesn't mean anyone else doesn't.
You'd have to be stupid (which it appears you are) to think that connecting to a file sharing network that you can't see the IP of whom is sharing what.
Obviously, you would of had to be under a rock for the last 10 years also.
You do not "leave things alone" when the only person who has access to your network equipment is a disgruntled ex-employee.
You don't make it so only 1 employee has the only access to everything.
And if your stupid enough to do that, you don't fire him.
In appropriate words: don't lie about you violent past, don't harass the person employed to do your background check, don't give false passwords to keep your boss' boss off your trail, don't admit to your co-worker that you're going to screw over your employer if they fire you, and most of all don't come afterward with the lame excuse of being the only IT God on the planet such that only you could ever possess the keys to the kingdom.
does that include don't say "The best way to make money is to start a religon" then a decade later start up a religon?
It is like when a cop with a dog tells you to get down on the floor. That is not the time to start an argument. That is the time to get down on the floor and become part of how the justice system works, injustices included and part of the system, sucks to have it happen to you.
No, you get down of the floor because you know the cop will let the dog loose on you.
Not because of the way the justice system works, it's called FEAR OF BEING BITTEN.
I supposed when the priest told you to drop your pants and bend over, you did it because that's the way the church works?