How about the idea that autistic children like to watch TV more than "normal" children? These children are very sensitive to repetition. First you have all the daily shows at a regular time. Then the medium TV by itself is repetitive, the frequency of the display. I read somewhere that this really does more than you realize. (Think of McLuhan's "The medium is the message".)
I, for one, welcome our election-monitoring overlords. Where do I sign up to be one of them?
If you visit their site, you'll find information about what you can actually do. You are allowed to stay in the voting room, as long as you don't disturb the process of voting. More information can be found on their action page.
A corruption of the word "Owned." This originated in an online game called Warcraft, where a map designer misspelled "owned." When the computer beat a player, it was supposed to say, so-and-so "has been owned."
Instead, it said, so-and-so "has been pwned."
It basically means "to own" or to be dominated by an opponent or situation, especially by some god-like or computer-like force.
Not all Libyan children are poor and hungry. I don't know but I won't be surprised if most of them go to school and have a regular family life. These laptops won't reach the children who live on the streets, but if they reach the children in school, that will help those children get a better life, improve their standard of living, and in the long run that will improve the life of the hungry and poor as well.
It's the same as in any society. Not the poor started to use computers and internet in the US and Europe, but the rich(er) and educated. Then it passed on to the rest.
I've used Eudora for several years on my Mac, but since about two years I use Mail. My parents do use it still, and don't want to change. I've tried to move them to Thunderbird, but my mother didn't like the buttons (the pictures!). So I had to remove it. Whether this development is good news remains to be seen...
So Consider I'm only 1 person with at least 5 accounts... and that's probably not entirely unusual. I'd figure 257m translates to 3-4m unique people.
Yeah right! Everybody has as least 50 accounts. And some people even have more than 100 to compensate for that one stupid user who has only one. You probably graduated in math?
I avoid the US as well, although that's not really a problem for me. I only worked abroad once, not in the US, and for holidays there's enough to see for me in the rest of the world. Since the Bush administration my esteem of the US has declined in a rapid tempo, and it's still going down. I wonder how the next administration will do, but I doubt whether they will be able or willing to turn this trend around (even the democrats).
Have you ever owned and played records? Although both cd's and lp's are round and flat with a hole in the middle, the handling is different. Records are bigger, require more careful handling, and are therefor more valuable. Compare the way you put them on the player: a cd is a lot easier as the lp has a tiny hole, and you need to place it more precisely. With a cd you don't need to be that precise, just lay it on the tray. With a record-player you see what's happening, the needle touching the record, dust, scratches that make the needle tick.
Everything is more real, physically. Maybe it's just a revival-hype, but maybe it's more a signal that people want to get back to reality vs virtuality?
>> 1) the internet population has grown to include almost everyone.
I would even dare to say it includes more than "everyone". For many people with disabilities it opened a complete new world. I know several people with severe anxieties who now have a social live because of internet fora, msn, social networks like Hyves, etc. In "normal", everyday live, you don't see these people (outdoors, at work, etc), and therefor many people don't know that they exist.
>> However, credit can be given to Google in this case for recognizing >> when someone else is looking at old problems in new and innovative ways, >> and adapting their approach.
Another company was very succesful at acquiring companies that made new and innovative applications.... Microsoft!
I do the following. First I create a local backup of my data to another internal physical harddrive. On that harddrive I've created an encrypted disk image (dmg) big enough for all data. I make a backup using Deja Vu on a daily/weekly basis (depending on the data) to that disk image. Then I copy that dmg-file to an external 2.5" USB-drive, manually. I do that about once a week. I have two of these drives, one always in another location. Because it's encrypted, I can keep it in a place (at work) where someone else might take a look at it (though that won't happen normally).
In the beginning I tried to make the backup directly to the usb-drive, without encryption. But that was extremely flow, because the usb-drive can't handle thousands small files well. That can take hours. One big file is no problem.
I've noticed though that Deja Vu didn't work like it should. I've tried RsyncX, but cannot get it to work properly. So my backups are a bit of a problem now.
>> Well, I suppose this means you would also throw power steering, >> anti-lock braking systems, traction control and so on out of your car >> because you like it the traditional way.
That's a rather strange comparison. I didn't have to teach my parents to find the steering wheel again when they bought their first car with power steering. It just operated more easily, not differently.
Apple moved to Intel, and Microsoft moved to the PowerPC (Cell-processor) with their X-Box. A really big surprise would be if MS released Vista for Cell processors.
There is a Dutch saying: "Everything of value is without defense" (alles van waarde is weerloos), by Lucebert, a Dutch writer. Besides that, never underestimate the power of human stupidity (Robert A. Heinlein). If we would carve the data digitally in rock (as someone suggested here), the rock will probably once be used to build a house, if we write it on paper, it will probably be recycled one day.
It's a shame this has happened, but we still do have the footage as we remember it. If I would suddenly see a clear HDTV version of it, I don't know if I would appreciate it more.
I'm using NeoOffice 2 Alpha for some time now, without any real problems. (It crashes once a week, but then file recovery restores the file without a problem.) It is slower than MS Office, but for the rest it's good enough for me. When the (free) beta is released (end of august), the file browser will finally be OSX-style, and then it is really ready for the bigger masses.
I hope many OSX-users are going to switch to NeoOffice. And I hope MS is going to kill the Office X project, because that will be the final breakthrough for NeoOffice and thus OpenOffice.
I remember the CP/M days. I had an Intertec Superbrain with 64KB ram and two 160KB 5.25" floppies, no harddrive. I managed to get the OS, Wordstar, Turbopascal, plus several other applications on one floppy, so I had the other drive for data. (Btw, I still have the Superbrain, my mother's nightmare as I kept it on her attic for years, and everyone who sees it loves it...)
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How about the idea that autistic children like to watch TV more than "normal" children? These children are very sensitive to repetition. First you have all the daily shows at a regular time. Then the medium TV by itself is repetitive, the frequency of the display. I read somewhere that this really does more than you realize. (Think of McLuhan's "The medium is the message".)
If you visit their site, you'll find information about what you can actually do. You are allowed to stay in the voting room, as long as you don't disturb the process of voting. More information can be found on their action page .
From the Urban Dictionary...
A corruption of the word "Owned." This originated in an online game called Warcraft, where a map designer misspelled "owned." When the computer beat a player, it was supposed to say, so-and-so "has been owned."
Instead, it said, so-and-so "has been pwned."
It basically means "to own" or to be dominated by an opponent or situation, especially by some god-like or computer-like force.
Weren't they warned about this problem several months ago? Or is this yet another one???
Not all Libyan children are poor and hungry. I don't know but I won't be surprised if most of them go to school and have a regular family life. These laptops won't reach the children who live on the streets, but if they reach the children in school, that will help those children get a better life, improve their standard of living, and in the long run that will improve the life of the hungry and poor as well.
It's the same as in any society. Not the poor started to use computers and internet in the US and Europe, but the rich(er) and educated. Then it passed on to the rest.
I've used Eudora for several years on my Mac, but since about two years I use Mail. My parents do use it still, and don't want to change. I've tried to move them to Thunderbird, but my mother didn't like the buttons (the pictures!). So I had to remove it. Whether this development is good news remains to be seen...
I think crash data can also apply to applications that crash. Still, if only 10% has a system crash, that's a lot!
Yeah right! Everybody has as least 50 accounts. And some people even have more than 100 to compensate for that one stupid user who has only one. You probably graduated in math?
I avoid the US as well, although that's not really a problem for me. I only worked abroad once, not in the US, and for holidays there's enough to see for me in the rest of the world. Since the Bush administration my esteem of the US has declined in a rapid tempo, and it's still going down. I wonder how the next administration will do, but I doubt whether they will be able or willing to turn this trend around (even the democrats).
Shouldn't DRM be uncrackable even with access to source code? Just like open source encryption methods?
Then the slashdot guy says...
"What? Exploding laptop and you're running linux? Oh, we don't cover that."
Isn't that the best premiere a "Nerdy" video can get? Being "leaked" to YouTube, featured on Slashdot?
Have you ever owned and played records? Although both cd's and lp's are round and flat with a hole in the middle, the handling is different. Records are bigger, require more careful handling, and are therefor more valuable. Compare the way you put them on the player: a cd is a lot easier as the lp has a tiny hole, and you need to place it more precisely. With a cd you don't need to be that precise, just lay it on the tray. With a record-player you see what's happening, the needle touching the record, dust, scratches that make the needle tick.
Everything is more real, physically. Maybe it's just a revival-hype, but maybe it's more a signal that people want to get back to reality vs virtuality?
>> 1) the internet population has grown to include almost everyone.
I would even dare to say it includes more than "everyone". For many people with disabilities it opened a complete new world. I know several people with severe anxieties who now have a social live because of internet fora, msn, social networks like Hyves, etc. In "normal", everyday live, you don't see these people (outdoors, at work, etc), and therefor many people don't know that they exist.
>> However, credit can be given to Google in this case for recognizing
>> when someone else is looking at old problems in new and innovative ways,
>> and adapting their approach.
Another company was very succesful at acquiring companies that made new and innovative applications.... Microsoft!
That's Windows only!
I do the following. First I create a local backup of my data to another internal physical harddrive. On that harddrive I've created an encrypted disk image (dmg) big enough for all data. I make a backup using Deja Vu on a daily/weekly basis (depending on the data) to that disk image. Then I copy that dmg-file to an external 2.5" USB-drive, manually. I do that about once a week. I have two of these drives, one always in another location. Because it's encrypted, I can keep it in a place (at work) where someone else might take a look at it (though that won't happen normally).
In the beginning I tried to make the backup directly to the usb-drive, without encryption. But that was extremely flow, because the usb-drive can't handle thousands small files well. That can take hours. One big file is no problem.
I've noticed though that Deja Vu didn't work like it should. I've tried RsyncX, but cannot get it to work properly. So my backups are a bit of a problem now.
>> Well, I suppose this means you would also throw power steering,
>> anti-lock braking systems, traction control and so on out of your car
>> because you like it the traditional way.
That's a rather strange comparison. I didn't have to teach my parents to find the steering wheel again when they bought their first car with power steering. It just operated more easily, not differently.
Apple moved to Intel, and Microsoft moved to the PowerPC (Cell-processor) with their X-Box. A really big surprise would be if MS released Vista for Cell processors.
There is a Dutch saying: "Everything of value is without defense" (alles van waarde is weerloos), by Lucebert, a Dutch writer. Besides that, never underestimate the power of human stupidity (Robert A. Heinlein). If we would carve the data digitally in rock (as someone suggested here), the rock will probably once be used to build a house, if we write it on paper, it will probably be recycled one day.
It's a shame this has happened, but we still do have the footage as we remember it. If I would suddenly see a clear HDTV version of it, I don't know if I would appreciate it more.
I'm using NeoOffice 2 Alpha for some time now, without any real problems. (It crashes once a week, but then file recovery restores the file without a problem.) It is slower than MS Office, but for the rest it's good enough for me. When the (free) beta is released (end of august), the file browser will finally be OSX-style, and then it is really ready for the bigger masses.
I hope many OSX-users are going to switch to NeoOffice. And I hope MS is going to kill the Office X project, because that will be the final breakthrough for NeoOffice and thus OpenOffice.
Would it be possible to sue the state because they violated privacy laws?
In an attempt to give a positive spin to this new development, Steve Ballmer will soon propose a new "$100-laptop-throwing"-competition.
>> Remember back in the DOS days?
I remember the CP/M days. I had an Intertec Superbrain with 64KB ram and two 160KB 5.25" floppies, no harddrive. I managed to get the OS, Wordstar, Turbopascal, plus several other applications on one floppy, so I had the other drive for data. (Btw, I still have the Superbrain, my mother's nightmare as I kept it on her attic for years, and everyone who sees it loves it...)