Big deal $1,000.00 that's "six" figures... Although more traditionaly I'd call 100,000 six figures and for whatever reason 1,000,000 can be called six figures too and that's not that impressive at all either. $9,999,999 wouldn't be enough to have made it worth the hate would it?
Kids never read anything given to them at school and I can't see any other way this could possibly be shoved on them. Then at worst their going to want to be just like the bad guys not the good guys. HAH. what a bunch of BS... A
Benificial or not, how the hell is this even their jursdiction? Their regulating someone's technology, if you don't like it, don't install the farking software or use stuff that works with it. This is insane.
Passing laws isn't free it takes a lot of highly paid people's time, I'd like to know who introduced such a backwards waste of time. If I were a German I'd be super pissed.
Oh there are plenty of ways to get around that sort of stuff, besides I wouldn't think most terrorists are using one of the big 5 american ISPs atleast not on both ends.
How about encrypt and encode your messages into images and then post them on places like fark or deviantart? Simple enough. I'm not stupid why would a terrorist be?
How about our good friends in the government get off their lazy asses and start passing legislations that will make people hate us less not more?
There's a limited amount of time to teach students how to do anything in school and even students who want to go into technical careers need to learn the other things. I'd certainly rather hire a developer who is proficient at mathematics than one who can type using all his fingers, let alone the two superfluous nubs we call pinkies.
Lets say students have 2 hours a week of mandatory computing classes, It would be better spent teaching them how to learn to use a computer on their own, or how to research things, how to figure stuff out, how to have fun and otherwise get the most out of a computer so they'll want to learn more, rather than forcing them to pound on keys.
If high speed typing is so damn important the school boards should switch to Dvorak and we all know it.
Besides most jobs really require very little computer use, even good jobs and seldom do they require touch typing. Only typists, dictators and secretaries would truly benefit from spending hours learning that over say learning how a computer works.
And as/.ers and people who make money from computers, shouldn't we do all we can to keep people away from them to keep our wages up?
As if closed source isn't going to violate the bazillions of retarded patents aswell. I mean they'll just be doing it more descreetly.
I'm all for strict retarded copyright laws, they match nicely with the total lack of civil liberty that's developing. Eventually people will catch on is strong enough numbers to revert.
I'm pretty sure Norway signed the ICT some ago did they not? Hense the sales of american music?
Could be wrong...
This project seems like a bad idea, registering your IP that you broke copyright laws, sounds like an excuse for the *AA to get the courts to make NE turn over the whole list and all logs and then all the ISP logs:P
Your morgage isn't tax deductable here. Not to mention there is SO much corruption and waste in government only like 20% of our 50% tax makes it anywere
The average user doesn't even know they run windows they have a computer and it's of the windows kind and they don't even know what an OS is.
They don't upgrade or switch thier OS they buy new computers and thus get new OSes. OR the local geek switches one for them
We should all offer to put Fedora or something very friendly on everyone's computers we know, activly I might ad. We need some open source brochures or something. If every/. user put Linux on 3 PCs in the next year in the home market that's a hell of a lot of PCs.
I know countless people with Windows98 systems that are crumbling. However most of them are addicted to MS office like heroin or something. It's not windows they care for, it's opening their co-worker's and friend's documents at home that they care for. Yes they very obviously can do this with OOo and I honestly feel for the home user OOo is a BETTER product not just an alternative. But at the same time, it's different and people have already had enough trouble learning to run Office and their PC in general.
I argue Linux and OOo haven't gone far enough. We need a more dumbard version. When I click the button-a-ma-jig I don't want to see "system tools" I want to see "Change My Computer's Settings" Yes this is wordy and stupid but if Linux can get a REAL usability not usefulness edge on Windows then we'll be set. This includes OOo it's too complex for my grandma (So is Word) and it's too complex for a lot of people. So we should make an alternative that's much simpler, people don't give a crap about features. They want pretty and easy. A word processor only needs a few different settings and the ability to open lots of other documents and save them but it doesn't need to be able to actually do everything they do. We could have a starter mode for OOo that tells people this document uses page breaks or margins or whatever your current mode doesn't have a tool bar button for this please go to X menu or switch to advanced mode and please consider using the help tutorial section.
Honestly we geeks might not use the help button but lots of people do!
That's because most Office admins are dullards. I know many professional office admins who are frigging morons, they took a networking class in high school and now their mr admin.
What do I mean by office admin?
Admins who don't handle more than one location, more than say 30 daily users. These are usually people with titles like Engineering Associate or something. Frankly Windows is a lot easier for them to use and lot of them know about Linux but the guts are too scarry for them and their already familiar with Windows.
Plus many businesses have volume licensing from MS which pretty much means it's VERY cost competitive with Linux, even though Linux is free you can get a 1/2 acceptable Windows admin for $8/hour. Any *nix admin you can get for that either either gonna suck or be 14 and there by not really a viable option cause he's still in school.
The solution is that by making Linux and (MORE importantly) it's rag tag band of apps more and more desktop friendly while not dumbing it down, we will gain more server share.
I don't want my browser learning, tracking, filtering, bookmaking, or otherwise doing anything with any data other than exactly what I tell it and I don't want it asking me if I'd like to do something, as if I didn't know. This also includes storing, caching or anything else.
Am I paranoid? Maybe, or maybe with all of the privacy invasion from big brother these days I'd like a little control.
I'm sure our clever Mozilla developers would give us a way to turn off any "advancements". Wasn't firefox supposed to be lightweight anyway?
If you're going to make any options that store, learn, process, remember, filter or otherwise monger after my data, don't turn it on by default, it sounds like a security bungle, or at least abuse.
Actually I do live in "The Tleus Zone" and they are a great phone company. But I don't like this. Stupid people deserve to be punished for downloading Brity-Spears_CumShot.exe plus it keeps me employed,m no seriously THAT file keeps me employed.
I work for a publishing company with a wide format printer and I can get you cheap printouts of this if you like at full size. Call (780) 425-9303 the company is PageMaster ask for Noah (that's me) It should be around $20 plus postage to get to you, the printing will only take 1 day
MSN needs to get these ideas too, we need to topple big business IM so as to cause the emergence of a single open standard with open clients. The greed of the current 3 major players could be exactly what we need to bring about a revolution resulting in good software anyone can use!
I think we should be smartening up users not dumbing down the softare. Remember all you programmers out there, the harder a computer is to use, the more money you make.
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The idea is to make an example out of him not to actually change him. "Corrections Services" don't correct the offender they correct everyone else.
Big deal $1,000.00 that's "six" figures...
Although more traditionaly I'd call 100,000 six figures and for whatever reason 1,000,000 can be called six figures too and that's not that impressive at all either. $9,999,999 wouldn't be enough to have made it worth the hate would it?
Kids never read anything given to them at school and I can't see any other way this could possibly be shoved on them. Then at worst their going to want to be just like the bad guys not the good guys. HAH. what a bunch of BS... A
Benificial or not, how the hell is this even their jursdiction? Their regulating someone's technology, if you don't like it, don't install the farking software or use stuff that works with it. This is insane.
Passing laws isn't free it takes a lot of highly paid people's time, I'd like to know who introduced such a backwards waste of time. If I were a German I'd be super pissed.
Oh there are plenty of ways to get around that sort of stuff, besides I wouldn't think most terrorists are using one of the big 5 american ISPs atleast not on both ends.
How about encrypt and encode your messages into images and then post them on places like fark or deviantart? Simple enough. I'm not stupid why would a terrorist be?
How about our good friends in the government get off their lazy asses and start passing legislations that will make people hate us less not more?
I guess me and my terrorist buddies will just have to go back to using encrypted email.
There's a limited amount of time to teach students how to do anything in school and even students who want to go into technical careers need to learn the other things. I'd certainly rather hire a developer who is proficient at mathematics than one who can type using all his fingers, let alone the two superfluous nubs we call pinkies.
/.ers and people who make money from computers, shouldn't we do all we can to keep people away from them to keep our wages up?
Lets say students have 2 hours a week of mandatory computing classes, It would be better spent teaching them how to learn to use a computer on their own, or how to research things, how to figure stuff out, how to have fun and otherwise get the most out of a computer so they'll want to learn more, rather than forcing them to pound on keys.
If high speed typing is so damn important the school boards should switch to Dvorak and we all know it.
Besides most jobs really require very little computer use, even good jobs and seldom do they require touch typing. Only typists, dictators and secretaries would truly benefit from spending hours learning that over say learning how a computer works.
And as
As if closed source isn't going to violate the bazillions of retarded patents aswell. I mean they'll just be doing it more descreetly.
I'm all for strict retarded copyright laws, they match nicely with the total lack of civil liberty that's developing. Eventually people will catch on is strong enough numbers to revert.
They said they wouldn't and poof like 2 weeks later they did
I'm pretty sure Norway signed the ICT some ago did they not? Hense the sales of american music? Could be wrong... This project seems like a bad idea, registering your IP that you broke copyright laws, sounds like an excuse for the *AA to get the courts to make NE turn over the whole list and all logs and then all the ISP logs :P
And there was Much Rejoycing, Now lets all go out and buy a hemi.
Your morgage isn't tax deductable here. Not to mention there is SO much corruption and waste in government only like 20% of our 50% tax makes it anywere
The average user doesn't even know they run windows they have a computer and it's of the windows kind and they don't even know what an OS is.
/. user put Linux on 3 PCs in the next year in the home market that's a hell of a lot of PCs.
They don't upgrade or switch thier OS they buy new computers and thus get new OSes. OR the local geek switches one for them
We should all offer to put Fedora or something very friendly on everyone's computers we know, activly I might ad. We need some open source brochures or something. If every
I know countless people with Windows98 systems that are crumbling. However most of them are addicted to MS office like heroin or something. It's not windows they care for, it's opening their co-worker's and friend's documents at home that they care for. Yes they very obviously can do this with OOo and I honestly feel for the home user OOo is a BETTER product not just an alternative. But at the same time, it's different and people have already had enough trouble learning to run Office and their PC in general.
I argue Linux and OOo haven't gone far enough. We need a more dumbard version. When I click the button-a-ma-jig I don't want to see "system tools" I want to see "Change My Computer's Settings" Yes this is wordy and stupid but if Linux can get a REAL usability not usefulness edge on Windows then we'll be set. This includes OOo it's too complex for my grandma (So is Word) and it's too complex for a lot of people. So we should make an alternative that's much simpler, people don't give a crap about features. They want pretty and easy. A word processor only needs a few different settings and the ability to open lots of other documents and save them but it doesn't need to be able to actually do everything they do. We could have a starter mode for OOo that tells people this document uses page breaks or margins or whatever your current mode doesn't have a tool bar button for this please go to X menu or switch to advanced mode and please consider using the help tutorial section.
Honestly we geeks might not use the help button but lots of people do!
That's because most Office admins are dullards. I know many professional office admins who are frigging morons, they took a networking class in high school and now their mr admin.
What do I mean by office admin?
Admins who don't handle more than one location, more than say 30 daily users. These are usually people with titles like Engineering Associate or something. Frankly Windows is a lot easier for them to use and lot of them know about Linux but the guts are too scarry for them and their already familiar with Windows.
Plus many businesses have volume licensing from MS which pretty much means it's VERY cost competitive with Linux, even though Linux is free you can get a 1/2 acceptable Windows admin for $8/hour. Any *nix admin you can get for that either either gonna suck or be 14 and there by not really a viable option cause he's still in school.
The solution is that by making Linux and (MORE importantly) it's rag tag band of apps more and more desktop friendly while not dumbing it down, we will gain more server share.
Yeah but will it finaly have POSIX style processes? Not being able to properly fork stuff pisses me off to no end.
I've always been a big fan of none@none.com
I don't want my browser learning, tracking, filtering, bookmaking, or otherwise doing anything with any data other than exactly what I tell it and I don't want it asking me if I'd like to do something, as if I didn't know. This also includes storing, caching or anything else.
Am I paranoid? Maybe, or maybe with all of the privacy invasion from big brother these days I'd like a little control.
I'm sure our clever Mozilla developers would give us a way to turn off any "advancements". Wasn't firefox supposed to be lightweight anyway?
If you're going to make any options that store, learn, process, remember, filter or otherwise monger after my data, don't turn it on by default, it sounds like a security bungle, or at least abuse.
Ever notice that giant radio telescopes are not simply long wires?
I average between 12mpg and 14mpg in my 1990 Bonneville SSE (Thusly looking at a motorcycle)
Actually I do live in "The Tleus Zone" and they are a great phone company. But I don't like this. Stupid people deserve to be punished for downloading Brity-Spears_CumShot.exe plus it keeps me employed,m no seriously THAT file keeps me employed.
My bank has been just like this for a long time
I work for a publishing company with a wide format printer and I can get you cheap printouts of this if you like at full size. Call (780) 425-9303 the company is PageMaster ask for Noah (that's me) It should be around $20 plus postage to get to you, the printing will only take 1 day
MSN needs to get these ideas too, we need to topple big business IM so as to cause the emergence of a single open standard with open clients. The greed of the current 3 major players could be exactly what we need to bring about a revolution resulting in good software anyone can use!
I think we should be smartening up users not dumbing down the softare. Remember all you programmers out there, the harder a computer is to use, the more money you make.