I agree with you. I remember scribbling stuff down madly and being mostly unable to digest it as I was bsy enough just trying to buffer it in my memory for recording when the lecturer spoke too quickly. Later, the notes HAD to be good or I was screwed. Later, I mostly just listened, making the odd major point, then tried to rewrite the recollections more fully in line with the notes.
But as you say, it often was a question of either understanding or writing verbatim, but not both.
No! If you stop using Google to find images of naked women you will then stand out from the crowd and make an exception of yourself, thereby drawing attention to yourself.
To avoid being spied on you NEED to Google "wet pussy" in Images at least 5 times / day.
You have been warned.
The US government has listening posts on every major network. Given it is well documented that US government spies on its own citizens in clear violation of the law, I'm left wondering whether "Prescription Warning" has been hiding in a cave these past several years.
It's no longer paranoia to assume you're being spied on. It's a matter of fact, documented on the public record.
If I understand correctly, it will let you run Photoshop and other web-based Adobe apps on Linux in a supported environment.
I was involved in a campaign last year and everyone involved used Google docs becasue some had Open Office and others had MS office and there were compatibility and versioning issues. Google docs removed both problems. I was a convert to web-based 'office' apps from that point. Not *always* the best choice, but Good Enough(tm) to get the jobs done that we needed doing. Looks like Adobe see the growing use of Google apps and they want to make sure they don't miss the boat entirely.
I noted that it was a trade union doing the standing up. The unions in Canada haven't been legislated against as heavily as in the United States and they remain a potent force that often acts on behalf of everyone - not just union members.
In recent years, I've come to respect Canadian unions more than I respect most politicians. It's a good thing there is a group of organizations that are able to counter the corrupting influence of corporates on almost everything.
I have to agree with you. I used to also buy Creative sound gear for my computers. But I haven't done that in years. They have lost their leadership and a good way to kill the company faster is to then poorly support the few remaining products you have that are any use to the shrinking band of loyal customers.
Maybe the top execs want to buy it out, so running it down and destroying the shareholder value so they can buy it cheap is a well-trodden path to getting control of some tech you want, but don't have the money to buy (at current prices). I used to work for a company that saw the CFO make some serious mistakes, wrecking the company, he was sacked....and he bought the wrecked company.
I have some sympathy for this view. The ability of the US government to require companies like Microsoft to become part of the surveillance state apparatus has left many out side the US - *especially* other governments - wary of using US software in security-sensitive situations. This lack of trust is corrosive and spreads easily.
Linux and the open source model make it possible to run systems that have not been co-opted by the surveillance requirements of a foreign government (from a non-US perspective).
Would the US tolerate a Chinese software firm, required to give unspecified information to the Chinese government, having 90% market share in desktop operating systems in the United States - including in all government departments?
Not for a second. You're right in saying the destruction of Brand America, through the folly of George W Bush and Dick Cheney, is a problem for Microsoft. It's a problem for all but a few US corporates. Google avoids this largely because Google has been SEEN to be consistently ethical and socially aware in a way that few other major US corporates ARE (as opposed to pretend to be).
If the tech required to make memory from nanotubes is open to all, then it will happen much more quickly than if one company owns it and licences it out to others (assuming they might license others).
Silicon, even at the limits of the material, will remain strong and dominant for most uses simply because it would remain relatively cheap and open to innovation by anyone.
I remember how IBM's PS/2 with its Micro-channel architecture as to be the future of PCs. Sure, it was very good tech for the time, but the 'open' PC architecture that immediately preceded it saw much more rapid innovation and was - and remains - the dominant path for innovation. Micro-channel was surpassed....and is now obselete.
I used to work for AT&T and IIRC the folks in the offices in China were connected to the AT&T network by private WAN connections and they could access the Internet through interfaces outside China. This would be true of many companies with private networks into China. But in relative terms, the numbers of people who could use them would be very small compared to the number who can't. Plus, private usage could be deemed to be theft of company time and resources. Freedom is something someone else has to pay for.;-)
Nothing new about the US being one-eyed about WTO rulings.....or ANY ruling by an international body the US has committed to abide by - but doesn't. Americans hear about these incidents in jingo-istic, flag-waving terms. The rest of the world just sees a country not doing the walk that would back it "law-abiding, freedom-loving" talk.
This is just one more example of how private companies are hostile to the provision of public infrastructure. Previous examples have been electricity companies who artificially create shortages to drive up prices, privatized airports who steadily increase fees for airline and passenger use, water companies that increase prices to pay for the purchase of previously public assets....and so on.
If you ant something done that is essentially a service for the sake of service, not profit, then you really should vest ownership in a public body and invest out of public funds, charging a fee consistent with cost recovery and planned expansion. Private businesses can't compete with this as it can be incredibly efficient if well managed with clear goals. Municipal wifi should be run like public transport: by the city concerned on the basis described above.
Avoiding capricious and unreliable private providers will ensure service goals and objectives are met. It's a myth that private companies are always better than public ones. One of the most profitable and efficient postal systems on Earth is owned and run by the government of New Zealand. It's about clear goals and good management.
A year after I bought my Vista-infected laptop, my local computer store still carries hardware a large majority of which that doesn't have driver support for Vista. Not on or in the box or on their web site. They said maybe Vista would work with it anyway......but who's gonna fork out cash and waste time on a "maybe"? Not me. Been there before. It sucks.
My next macine will be a Linux-based system like the Eeepc and the next desktop will probably be an Apple of some sort...and that's only because Linux has no video-editing software....(Cinelerra sucks and the rest segfault).
Let's see:
1. No record of the emails for 2 years.
2. No backups of ANY of the emails for 2 years.
3. Media the e-mails might linger on have been idenitified, collected and destroyed.
That, my friend, is a deliberate campaign to destroy evidence that it is ILLEGAL to destroy.
Once again, the Bush Administration flouts the law and for the PURPOSE of concealing other, larger crimes. They should have been impeached and removed from office YEARS ago.
How anyone can sanely vote for a party that allows its senior people to do such things is another, important question that every voter should assk themselves. The rot is at the top and runs ALL THE WAY down. Crooks. Shameless murdering crooks.
IBM made the same mistake 20 years ago....and paid a high price. They lost PCs and PC software completely......and only partially regained the servers when they were able to virtualise them on mainframes.
People in the west are generally apathetic. Either they are fine and don't care or they aren't fine and don't care about anyone else.The atomization of society into independently propagandizable units by Television since the 1950s has created a world where large numbers of us are not as much a part of any functioning community as we used to be. The fall in volunteers and people active in their communities as time passes are strong evidence of this. Plus we now have labor laws in most western countries that see us all working longer hours and for lower pay or pay that remains static over time. We have less time, energy and opportunity to co-operate with neighbours for the common good.
Politically, the dysfunction in the electoral systems actively discourage large numbers of people from voting. The two-party lockdown means they have very little real choice anyway in most parts of the country. They feel - and are - small, impotent and irrelevant. Power is reserved actively for entrenched elites and vested interests. We see this most clearly in the US House of representatives, where, each two years, more than 98% of incumbents are rubber-stamped back into office. That isn't a functioning democracy.
Apathy is the safer, easy path. The alternative is activism.....and all the pain and sacrifice that entails in a country where activists are seared at and denigrated by the peope who hold power.
I've long felt that if you want to have NO IDEA what's really going on in the world then you watch TV news, because they are more likely to misinform you than inform you.....and ESPECIALLY on important issues.
Was Bush misleading people about the case for invading Iraq? TV news didn't catch on to that story until more than year after the invasion....when it was far too late to do anything about it. Some parts of other media pegged Bush as a liar almost a year BEFORE the invasion. You want to be reading those parts.
Not all bureaucrats are corrupt. The vast majority do a good job. No, I'm not a bureaucrat, but I've known thousands over the years and they are almost always hard working honourable people. The few exceptions make the rest look bad - just like in politics.
If the router is usecured then the access is wide open and it would be reasonable to assume this is intentional. My uncle doesn't secure his router and when I asked him about it he said he doesn't mind who uses his connection.
If someone hacks your encryption then - yeah - that's clearly bad and wrong. But how would you ask if you could use an open access point in a city street or in an apartment building? Go door knocking to find who owns it? Dumb.
How many global wire services are there? AP, Reuters, AFP? Do we count Rev Moon's UPI? Is it still running? In any case, not many. They, in turn, feed into all other media. It's not uncommon to see one wire service story reflected and echoed through 4,000 online news sources. Sometimes it's the original 20 paragraphs long (or whatever) and sometimes it's only the first sentence or two.
In Canada, "Canoe.com" has homogenized online news for the majority of Canadian newspapers with the local being paper being reduced to little more than an advertising bureau and the real editorial decisions are made elsewhere, if not every day then for one or more days each week as far as the editoiral olicy on national issues is concerned.
The process AP writes abot has been underway for years. They are merely reporting how it is manifested on the Net.
You're far too sensible. There is no future for people who think like you. Thre is no money on peace. The American economy is built on war. Well....the need for war materials.
That's a really dumb suggestion. Better to shoot people who make similarly dumb suggestions rather than recognise and deal constructively with problems.
The FBI and other federal government agencies clearly can't be trusted to abide by even the perverted form of law passed by Bush and the previously Republican-dominated Congress.....or any Congress for that matter. The history of deceit and illegal activity is long and well documented. This is why abuses of power are taken for granted by observers as being inevitable rather than exceptional.
Based on past experience, this could also be the CIA or similar working through useful idiots to help make a case for more control of the Internet by the US government.
Given everything else we've seen in recent years, this IS the most likely explanation.
I adjusted rather rapidly to the victory of Blu-ray over HD-DVD. I decided I *STILL* don't need it. I own a 14" tv I don't watch much. If I want a better wuality video, I watch the content on my much larger PC screen. Why on earth would I waste money on Blu-ray?
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I agree with you. I remember scribbling stuff down madly and being mostly unable to digest it as I was bsy enough just trying to buffer it in my memory for recording when the lecturer spoke too quickly. Later, the notes HAD to be good or I was screwed. Later, I mostly just listened, making the odd major point, then tried to rewrite the recollections more fully in line with the notes. But as you say, it often was a question of either understanding or writing verbatim, but not both.
No! If you stop using Google to find images of naked women you will then stand out from the crowd and make an exception of yourself, thereby drawing attention to yourself. To avoid being spied on you NEED to Google "wet pussy" in Images at least 5 times / day. You have been warned.
The US government has listening posts on every major network. Given it is well documented that US government spies on its own citizens in clear violation of the law, I'm left wondering whether "Prescription Warning" has been hiding in a cave these past several years. It's no longer paranoia to assume you're being spied on. It's a matter of fact, documented on the public record.
If I understand correctly, it will let you run Photoshop and other web-based Adobe apps on Linux in a supported environment. I was involved in a campaign last year and everyone involved used Google docs becasue some had Open Office and others had MS office and there were compatibility and versioning issues. Google docs removed both problems. I was a convert to web-based 'office' apps from that point. Not *always* the best choice, but Good Enough(tm) to get the jobs done that we needed doing. Looks like Adobe see the growing use of Google apps and they want to make sure they don't miss the boat entirely.
I noted that it was a trade union doing the standing up. The unions in Canada haven't been legislated against as heavily as in the United States and they remain a potent force that often acts on behalf of everyone - not just union members.
In recent years, I've come to respect Canadian unions more than I respect most politicians. It's a good thing there is a group of organizations that are able to counter the corrupting influence of corporates on almost everything.
I have to agree with you. I used to also buy Creative sound gear for my computers. But I haven't done that in years. They have lost their leadership and a good way to kill the company faster is to then poorly support the few remaining products you have that are any use to the shrinking band of loyal customers. Maybe the top execs want to buy it out, so running it down and destroying the shareholder value so they can buy it cheap is a well-trodden path to getting control of some tech you want, but don't have the money to buy (at current prices). I used to work for a company that saw the CFO make some serious mistakes, wrecking the company, he was sacked....and he bought the wrecked company.
I have some sympathy for this view. The ability of the US government to require companies like Microsoft to become part of the surveillance state apparatus has left many out side the US - *especially* other governments - wary of using US software in security-sensitive situations. This lack of trust is corrosive and spreads easily. Linux and the open source model make it possible to run systems that have not been co-opted by the surveillance requirements of a foreign government (from a non-US perspective). Would the US tolerate a Chinese software firm, required to give unspecified information to the Chinese government, having 90% market share in desktop operating systems in the United States - including in all government departments? Not for a second. You're right in saying the destruction of Brand America, through the folly of George W Bush and Dick Cheney, is a problem for Microsoft. It's a problem for all but a few US corporates. Google avoids this largely because Google has been SEEN to be consistently ethical and socially aware in a way that few other major US corporates ARE (as opposed to pretend to be).
If the tech required to make memory from nanotubes is open to all, then it will happen much more quickly than if one company owns it and licences it out to others (assuming they might license others). Silicon, even at the limits of the material, will remain strong and dominant for most uses simply because it would remain relatively cheap and open to innovation by anyone. I remember how IBM's PS/2 with its Micro-channel architecture as to be the future of PCs. Sure, it was very good tech for the time, but the 'open' PC architecture that immediately preceded it saw much more rapid innovation and was - and remains - the dominant path for innovation. Micro-channel was surpassed....and is now obselete.
I used to work for AT&T and IIRC the folks in the offices in China were connected to the AT&T network by private WAN connections and they could access the Internet through interfaces outside China. This would be true of many companies with private networks into China. But in relative terms, the numbers of people who could use them would be very small compared to the number who can't. Plus, private usage could be deemed to be theft of company time and resources. Freedom is something someone else has to pay for. ;-)
Nothing new about the US being one-eyed about WTO rulings.....or ANY ruling by an international body the US has committed to abide by - but doesn't. Americans hear about these incidents in jingo-istic, flag-waving terms. The rest of the world just sees a country not doing the walk that would back it "law-abiding, freedom-loving" talk.
This is just one more example of how private companies are hostile to the provision of public infrastructure. Previous examples have been electricity companies who artificially create shortages to drive up prices, privatized airports who steadily increase fees for airline and passenger use, water companies that increase prices to pay for the purchase of previously public assets....and so on. If you ant something done that is essentially a service for the sake of service, not profit, then you really should vest ownership in a public body and invest out of public funds, charging a fee consistent with cost recovery and planned expansion. Private businesses can't compete with this as it can be incredibly efficient if well managed with clear goals. Municipal wifi should be run like public transport: by the city concerned on the basis described above. Avoiding capricious and unreliable private providers will ensure service goals and objectives are met. It's a myth that private companies are always better than public ones. One of the most profitable and efficient postal systems on Earth is owned and run by the government of New Zealand. It's about clear goals and good management.
A year after I bought my Vista-infected laptop, my local computer store still carries hardware a large majority of which that doesn't have driver support for Vista. Not on or in the box or on their web site. They said maybe Vista would work with it anyway......but who's gonna fork out cash and waste time on a "maybe"? Not me. Been there before. It sucks. My next macine will be a Linux-based system like the Eeepc and the next desktop will probably be an Apple of some sort...and that's only because Linux has no video-editing software....(Cinelerra sucks and the rest segfault).
Let's see: 1. No record of the emails for 2 years. 2. No backups of ANY of the emails for 2 years. 3. Media the e-mails might linger on have been idenitified, collected and destroyed. That, my friend, is a deliberate campaign to destroy evidence that it is ILLEGAL to destroy. Once again, the Bush Administration flouts the law and for the PURPOSE of concealing other, larger crimes. They should have been impeached and removed from office YEARS ago. How anyone can sanely vote for a party that allows its senior people to do such things is another, important question that every voter should assk themselves. The rot is at the top and runs ALL THE WAY down. Crooks. Shameless murdering crooks.
IBM made the same mistake 20 years ago....and paid a high price. They lost PCs and PC software completely......and only partially regained the servers when they were able to virtualise them on mainframes.
People in the west are generally apathetic. Either they are fine and don't care or they aren't fine and don't care about anyone else.The atomization of society into independently propagandizable units by Television since the 1950s has created a world where large numbers of us are not as much a part of any functioning community as we used to be. The fall in volunteers and people active in their communities as time passes are strong evidence of this. Plus we now have labor laws in most western countries that see us all working longer hours and for lower pay or pay that remains static over time. We have less time, energy and opportunity to co-operate with neighbours for the common good. Politically, the dysfunction in the electoral systems actively discourage large numbers of people from voting. The two-party lockdown means they have very little real choice anyway in most parts of the country. They feel - and are - small, impotent and irrelevant. Power is reserved actively for entrenched elites and vested interests. We see this most clearly in the US House of representatives, where, each two years, more than 98% of incumbents are rubber-stamped back into office. That isn't a functioning democracy. Apathy is the safer, easy path. The alternative is activism.....and all the pain and sacrifice that entails in a country where activists are seared at and denigrated by the peope who hold power.
I've long felt that if you want to have NO IDEA what's really going on in the world then you watch TV news, because they are more likely to misinform you than inform you.....and ESPECIALLY on important issues. Was Bush misleading people about the case for invading Iraq? TV news didn't catch on to that story until more than year after the invasion....when it was far too late to do anything about it. Some parts of other media pegged Bush as a liar almost a year BEFORE the invasion. You want to be reading those parts.
Not all bureaucrats are corrupt. The vast majority do a good job. No, I'm not a bureaucrat, but I've known thousands over the years and they are almost always hard working honourable people. The few exceptions make the rest look bad - just like in politics.
If the router is usecured then the access is wide open and it would be reasonable to assume this is intentional. My uncle doesn't secure his router and when I asked him about it he said he doesn't mind who uses his connection. If someone hacks your encryption then - yeah - that's clearly bad and wrong. But how would you ask if you could use an open access point in a city street or in an apartment building? Go door knocking to find who owns it? Dumb.
Wasn't it Galileo who did that? Copernicus worked it out before.....but I think he kept his head down rather than lose it.
How many global wire services are there? AP, Reuters, AFP? Do we count Rev Moon's UPI? Is it still running? In any case, not many. They, in turn, feed into all other media. It's not uncommon to see one wire service story reflected and echoed through 4,000 online news sources. Sometimes it's the original 20 paragraphs long (or whatever) and sometimes it's only the first sentence or two. In Canada, "Canoe.com" has homogenized online news for the majority of Canadian newspapers with the local being paper being reduced to little more than an advertising bureau and the real editorial decisions are made elsewhere, if not every day then for one or more days each week as far as the editoiral olicy on national issues is concerned. The process AP writes abot has been underway for years. They are merely reporting how it is manifested on the Net.
You're far too sensible. There is no future for people who think like you. Thre is no money on peace. The American economy is built on war. Well....the need for war materials.
That's a really dumb suggestion. Better to shoot people who make similarly dumb suggestions rather than recognise and deal constructively with problems.
The FBI and other federal government agencies clearly can't be trusted to abide by even the perverted form of law passed by Bush and the previously Republican-dominated Congress.....or any Congress for that matter. The history of deceit and illegal activity is long and well documented. This is why abuses of power are taken for granted by observers as being inevitable rather than exceptional.
Based on past experience, this could also be the CIA or similar working through useful idiots to help make a case for more control of the Internet by the US government. Given everything else we've seen in recent years, this IS the most likely explanation.
I adjusted rather rapidly to the victory of Blu-ray over HD-DVD. I decided I *STILL* don't need it. I own a 14" tv I don't watch much. If I want a better wuality video, I watch the content on my much larger PC screen. Why on earth would I waste money on Blu-ray?