As I read it, it is not about babyproofing. It is about prevention. You will not completely make it nul and void. You make it possible for people who are at their wits end to ask for help instead of doing an irreversable deed.
I (and probably you) will never be in that situation.You could compare it between yelling jump or yelling don't jump.
I larned it when I was at school.. The teacher whom I was playing against told me that I could not win and should give up. I didn't and he started to take every piece one by one. When I only had a king, I was unable to make a move, so instead of losing, it was a draw.
I was the first kid not losing against him and he was pissed. Probably for being so smug.
I learned more about people then I did about the game and regardsless of being the best at school, I never really liked the game amd I feel I never have been able to look further than 2 moves and never learned any openings.
Belgium? What site please? If I want something, I use the French, UK or German one. Prices might differ and so does delivery cost. Amazon.nl has almost nothing to sell, except books.
Disadvantage of looking at other countries is that I do not know easily if they deliver what I want to Belgium or not.
What most people need is not a desktop (unless you are a gamer) but a good NAS. The NAS is what the desktop used to be. It has all your files and is the central of your devices. That you use to connect your TV to. You use it as a media center. You use it to upload stuff to the cloud.
Your phone is your portable music box and to take pictures you put on your NAS.
Most people will have enough with a portable when looking at power, as long as they have a NAS. The posrtable is powerfull enough to do facebook, email, browsing and the like. It is light enough to drag around the house and use it when you sit on your couch.
If you do some average work, like homebanking or light business work, add a large screen, a keyboard and a mouse and a dockingstation if you want and you are golden.
This will not be good for everybody, obviously, but it will for a LOT of people. I personally have 3 1920x1200 screens conected to a Linux machine (that also backs up the NAS). I have a 4 port NAS. I have an ipad mini I use when commuting as I use it to read (It was given to me, otherwise I wuld have bought some e-reader) I have an Acer (Running Windows) with a detachable keyboard for when I travel. It has the keyboard when I want to type and is a tablet when I do not want the keyboard.
I notice more and more that the NAS becomes more and more central. The only reason that I have a desktop machine is that I want those 3 screens.
Once this gets old (in a few years, as it is still powerfull enough) I will look for a smaller solution that can handle 3 screens.
I admit it, I suck at home cooking. Most of the time I can't even beat takeaway, and a good restaurant? No chance in hell.
I was a lousy cook. I also know people who were unable to boil an egg. I microwaved for a year and then everything tasted the same, so I trew out the microwave and started cooking. In the beginning a lot of bruned and undercooked things. Also wrong amount of spices. But you can laern. next was time. So I bought a book on coooking in a wok and now I able to make a dinner for 2 in under 10 minutes from scratch. Different each time, if I so desire. Healthy if I so desire. Cheap if I so desire.
The person who was unable to boil an egg forced himeself to cook, because of money.
Both he and I are good enough not to poison friends or family when they come over. As good as a fine restaurant? No, but that is good, because now I can still enjoy all the good things in a fine restaurant. I will not order steak, because I can do that at home. And eating in a restaurant is also more about the social interaction then it is about the food.
I also know others who are unable to cook and what it is about is about unwilling to learn, because the alternatives are so easy. Open a can, put something in the microwave, phone somebody.
I have learned that I like food (and good quality restaurants, including 1, 2 and 3 stars) so much that I like not only preparing the food, but even the process before it, including the shopping and finding new places where to shop.
Yes, sometimes, I can not even be bothered to take 5 minutes to make a meal for myself. Happens about twice per month. I then just open a can and eat out of that. I eat in a restaurant once or twice per week with friends and the rest I cook myself.
So if you want to be able to cook, you can learn it. Buy a (second hand) book with some easy recipies and start with one day in the week (e.g. lunch for saturday or sunday). Make it into a group event if you have an SO or famaly. The kids would LOVE to spend time with you (unless they are teenagers, then they hate you, no matter what.)
In the beinning it is easiest to have all your ingredients iready, just as you see on TV. Do NOT follow TV cooks, because it is hard to follow how much time they spend on what due to editing and it will leave you frustrated that you are not able to follow him.
And one VERY important thing, except for deserts, recepies are NOT a formula you need to follow, they are a guideline. e.g. if they say add X amount of tomatoes: what kind, how ripe and what taste they have will very much in the end result you are going to get.
At one point these numbers are owned by some company. That company is owned by somebody. It has assets that can be taken away. So unless they hack peoples phonelines (like they do with IP adresses) there is somebody to go after.
Now if you are completely unable to go after the people, hold the phone companies responsible and ask them (ok, force them) to pay the fine. I assure you that within a week they suddenly will be able to identify these robotcallers and it will stop.
Obviously this wil only work as long as they use US numbers. The moment they start using VoIP, they could just block the VoIP company alltogether. Those will then see that things will stop.
Now if there is no reason for the phone company to change anything, why should they?
Hello, I would like to show you "The Freedom to Protect the Patrictotic Families against Terorism". Basically it means "All your base are belong to us."
The speed of boottime is a dick-size contest at best. As soon as boot times are below 1 minute, it isn't relevant anymore. The process of typing login and password takes longer.
And if boottime is a serious issue, don't shut down at all. You can put the machine to sleep and go on with what you were doing the next day.
The ONLY moment I reboot is when I need to (e.g. new kernel). Otherwise I use suspend or hybernate.
I even use it instead of a screensaver.
So yes, faster boottimes, but how much faster? How much time do you gain really? Reading one article here will make you loose what you gained for a month. (Invented statistic). Writing this is the same as the time gained in difference in a year.
When I read about music to study by, most point towards music done by differnt games as it is interesting enough to listen to, yet unintrusive enough to concentrate with.
Many places you could find info on this with links to the youtube music.
The advantage of them being American Citizens if we are consumed by the Islamic State isd the we can identify them easily and put them against the wall.
NOT being Anerican might be a better option in this fantasy and fear mongering episode.
Police use it also as a scare tactic. They treatend me once with 'obstruction of justice' because I had informed the press about a case they were working on (that I did not know).
It basicaly means "I am annoyed by what you did" and is now a pretty hollow treat.
(The other things they wanted to pin on me was falsification, because I did not use my real address with a free email provider and distribution of childporn, because I replied in an abuse newsgroup to a message with an URL. They ignored the fact that I tried to contact them, had no idea what they were doing and called my compnay, fropm where I did this and told them that I was wanted for an interview concerning cildporn. Luckily I was able to explain my managers what was going on.
I have not seen anything remotely illegal since then.)
This already happens a lot in Belgium. It just does not happen often enough and not all the time. Obviously companies have adapted to the situation and will give longer times than needed.
It will also increase the price, so it is often used only for highways and the like.
Companies can even sometimes get an extra bonus if they are ready earlier. Understand that a highway closed for 8 hours is probably worse then a road where 3 people live for a whole year.
We also see billboards with the estamated price of the project. This will obviously not work all the time.
Where I live, I received a letter from the city how long it would take to replace a bidge. A few weeks later, I receved a second letter (well, a small booklet) to inform me that it would take several months longer. This due to the worse state the bridge was in and thus more repair was needed.
They were ready on the day that was promised in the second letter (one day early I think).
Most likely the person who ran in front of the car trying to scam the insurance company.
Isn't it great how technical process is halted because of legal issues? I think Douglas Adams was wrong. The marketing department will be second against the wall. Lawers will be first.
But, they are going to use this as an excuse or reason to continue spying on all honest citizens.
First they came for the pedophiles, but I said nothing, because I was not a pedophile.
The thing with privacy is that it is the basis of all other rights. Without it, you can throw the rest out. So if you want to protect privacy, you will need to protect it for pedophiles as well as for honest people and terrorists and children and your mom...
It does not say it is unique content. For all we know all the users can have a directory with all the same files. And all the users have several backups as well.
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As I read it, it is not about babyproofing. It is about prevention. You will not completely make it nul and void. You make it possible for people who are at their wits end to ask for help instead of doing an irreversable deed.
I (and probably you) will never be in that situation.You could compare it between yelling jump or yelling don't jump.
Why take pictures of paintings, if you can download a better quality and that leaves you time to enjoy the painting.
A friend of mine always bought pictures (dia format) when he visited cities, because that way he had the best quality of the image of the building.
I take almost no photos of buildings. I can look them up online and if I forget where I was, then it was not worth remembering.
I larned it when I was at school.. The teacher whom I was playing against told me that I could not win and should give up. I didn't and he started to take every piece one by one. When I only had a king, I was unable to make a move, so instead of losing, it was a draw.
I was the first kid not losing against him and he was pissed. Probably for being so smug.
I learned more about people then I did about the game and regardsless of being the best at school, I never really liked the game amd I feel I never have been able to look further than 2 moves and never learned any openings.
Same goes for the other party as well.
Or: Pi does not become 3 if a political law says so. Gravity does not vannish if the parties say so.
Belgium? What site please? If I want something, I use the French, UK or German one. Prices might differ and so does delivery cost. Amazon.nl has almost nothing to sell, except books.
Disadvantage of looking at other countries is that I do not know easily if they deliver what I want to Belgium or not.
What most people need is not a desktop (unless you are a gamer) but a good NAS. The NAS is what the desktop used to be. It has all your files and is the central of your devices. That you use to connect your TV to. You use it as a media center. You use it to upload stuff to the cloud.
Your phone is your portable music box and to take pictures you put on your NAS.
Most people will have enough with a portable when looking at power, as long as they have a NAS. The posrtable is powerfull enough to do facebook, email, browsing and the like. It is light enough to drag around the house and use it when you sit on your couch.
If you do some average work, like homebanking or light business work, add a large screen, a keyboard and a mouse and a dockingstation if you want and you are golden.
This will not be good for everybody, obviously, but it will for a LOT of people. I personally have 3 1920x1200 screens conected to a Linux machine (that also backs up the NAS). I have a 4 port NAS. I have an ipad mini I use when commuting as I use it to read (It was given to me, otherwise I wuld have bought some e-reader) I have an Acer (Running Windows) with a detachable keyboard for when I travel. It has the keyboard when I want to type and is a tablet when I do not want the keyboard.
I notice more and more that the NAS becomes more and more central. The only reason that I have a desktop machine is that I want those 3 screens.
Once this gets old (in a few years, as it is still powerfull enough) I will look for a smaller solution that can handle 3 screens.
I was a lousy cook. I also know people who were unable to boil an egg.
I microwaved for a year and then everything tasted the same, so I trew out the microwave and started cooking. In the beginning a lot of bruned and undercooked things. Also wrong amount of spices. But you can laern.
next was time. So I bought a book on coooking in a wok and now I able to make a dinner for 2 in under 10 minutes from scratch. Different each time, if I so desire. Healthy if I so desire. Cheap if I so desire.
The person who was unable to boil an egg forced himeself to cook, because of money.
Both he and I are good enough not to poison friends or family when they come over. As good as a fine restaurant? No, but that is good, because now I can still enjoy all the good things in a fine restaurant. I will not order steak, because I can do that at home. And eating in a restaurant is also more about the social interaction then it is about the food.
I also know others who are unable to cook and what it is about is about unwilling to learn, because the alternatives are so easy. Open a can, put something in the microwave, phone somebody.
I have learned that I like food (and good quality restaurants, including 1, 2 and 3 stars) so much that I like not only preparing the food, but even the process before it, including the shopping and finding new places where to shop.
Yes, sometimes, I can not even be bothered to take 5 minutes to make a meal for myself. Happens about twice per month. I then just open a can and eat out of that. I eat in a restaurant once or twice per week with friends and the rest I cook myself.
So if you want to be able to cook, you can learn it. Buy a (second hand) book with some easy recipies and start with one day in the week (e.g. lunch for saturday or sunday). Make it into a group event if you have an SO or famaly. The kids would LOVE to spend time with you (unless they are teenagers, then they hate you, no matter what.)
In the beinning it is easiest to have all your ingredients iready, just as you see on TV. Do NOT follow TV cooks, because it is hard to follow how much time they spend on what due to editing and it will leave you frustrated that you are not able to follow him.
And one VERY important thing, except for deserts, recepies are NOT a formula you need to follow, they are a guideline. e.g. if they say add X amount of tomatoes: what kind, how ripe and what taste they have will very much in the end result you are going to get.
At one point these numbers are owned by some company. That company is owned by somebody. It has assets that can be taken away.
So unless they hack peoples phonelines (like they do with IP adresses) there is somebody to go after.
Now if you are completely unable to go after the people, hold the phone companies responsible and ask them (ok, force them) to pay the fine. I assure you that within a week they suddenly will be able to identify these robotcallers and it will stop.
Obviously this wil only work as long as they use US numbers. The moment they start using VoIP, they could just block the VoIP company alltogether. Those will then see that things will stop.
Now if there is no reason for the phone company to change anything, why should they?
The anti-call script script
Hello, I would like to show you "The Freedom to Protect the Patrictotic Families against Terorism". Basically it means "All your base are belong to us."
The speed of boottime is a dick-size contest at best. As soon as boot times are below 1 minute, it isn't relevant anymore. The process of typing login and password takes longer.
And if boottime is a serious issue, don't shut down at all. You can put the machine to sleep and go on with what you were doing the next day.
The ONLY moment I reboot is when I need to (e.g. new kernel). Otherwise I use suspend or hybernate.
I even use it instead of a screensaver.
So yes, faster boottimes, but how much faster? How much time do you gain really? Reading one article here will make you loose what you gained for a month. (Invented statistic). Writing this is the same as the time gained in difference in a year.
You might call it "Timeline" I call it "Big Brother". Same difference.
Edit the time line and you have edited history.
And the advantage is doubleplusgood.
When I read about music to study by, most point towards music done by differnt games as it is interesting enough to listen to, yet unintrusive enough to concentrate with.
Many places you could find info on this with links to the youtube music.
Remember those people who threw tea in the harbour? How would you call them?
I have support from my countries consulate services, while I pay NO taxes in my country of origin.
In fact, my whole family does the same, all living in 4 different countries on 2 differnt continents with 4 different (European) nationalities.
In fact, My father, mother, sister and myself have 3 different nationalities.
The advantage of them being American Citizens if we are consumed by the Islamic State isd the we can identify them easily and put them against the wall.
NOT being Anerican might be a better option in this fantasy and fear mongering episode.
Police use it also as a scare tactic. They treatend me once with 'obstruction of justice' because I had informed the press about a case they were working on (that I did not know).
It basicaly means "I am annoyed by what you did" and is now a pretty hollow treat.
(The other things they wanted to pin on me was falsification, because I did not use my real address with a free email provider and distribution of childporn, because I replied in an abuse newsgroup to a message with an URL. They ignored the fact that I tried to contact them, had no idea what they were doing and called my compnay, fropm where I did this and told them that I was wanted for an interview concerning cildporn. Luckily I was able to explain my managers what was going on.
I have not seen anything remotely illegal since then.)
This already happens a lot in Belgium. It just does not happen often enough and not all the time. Obviously companies have adapted to the situation and will give longer times than needed.
It will also increase the price, so it is often used only for highways and the like.
Companies can even sometimes get an extra bonus if they are ready earlier. Understand that a highway closed for 8 hours is probably worse then a road where 3 people live for a whole year.
We also see billboards with the estamated price of the project. This will obviously not work all the time.
Where I live, I received a letter from the city how long it would take to replace a bidge. A few weeks later, I receved a second letter (well, a small booklet) to inform me that it would take several months longer. This due to the worse state the bridge was in and thus more repair was needed.
They were ready on the day that was promised in the second letter (one day early I think).
They should just let the banks loan the money. If they fail, nothing bad happens because they are too big to fail
Most likely the person who ran in front of the car trying to scam the insurance company.
Isn't it great how technical process is halted because of legal issues? I think Douglas Adams was wrong. The marketing department will be second against the wall. Lawers will be first.
Sure they will say it is the greatest next thing. Saying "Well, we tried, but this will be average." doen't make a lot of money.
Seriously, this is great. When we look at all the great SF books and stories that turned into movies like:
I robot
Starship troopers
We Can Remember It for You Wholesale
Minority Report
and the greatest of all
I am legend
Seriously, what could go wrong?
First they came for the pedophiles, but I said nothing, because I was not a pedophile.
The thing with privacy is that it is the basis of all other rights. Without it, you can throw the rest out. So if you want to protect privacy, you will need to protect it for pedophiles as well as for honest people and terrorists and children and your mom ...
It does not say it is unique content. For all we know all the users can have a directory with all the same files. And all the users have several backups as well.