The problem is that Americans, by and large, are mindless drones anymore. Granted, those of us with half a brain can make that red icon blue for the morons, just so that they STFU, but I'm not inclined to fix it for them.
And actually, Americans think of computers more like another television set. Something to turn on when they get bored, instead of actually doing something productive. Yes, we're opulent and lazy. That's why the world hates us so much...that, and the fact that our current foreign policy sucks.
You mean that I could barter with Dell computers when I travel overseas, giving them away with either Fedora or Debian and get massive favors, much like I could with Marlboro cigarettes, buying people a Big Mac, handing them a coke, or slipping them an American one dollar bill? Man, that'd be great work for prostleytizing the Linux movement! Go forth into the world and give people computers!
The reason why the hardware isn't Windows-only is because it's generally cheap and has been around for long enough for people to get around that Windows-only chipset. That's why Dell computers can do so well with Linux. I know that I have an older self-built machine that I've had for a couple of years that I just installed Fedora Core 1 on earlier this week and haven't had a problem, other than trying to download FC2, which I can't seem to do here with any results (more of an internet connection problem than anything else).
Of course, when I got my iPod, my first thought was, "Now I can get a bunch of data from companies!"
Seriously, folks, most people aren't that desperate to screw you that they would sacrifice precious MP3 space to do it.
That said, if you treat people like they're out to get you, they will be. It's all a matter of perspective. Businesses need to realise that their philosophy of screwing the other guy quicker and harder than he can screw you isn't exactly the best buisness model out there.
I've said it before, but it's about time that the private sector got into space exploration. The government has gone about as far as it reasonably can in developing the actual process by which we go into space. Now, it should let private industry take the lead, as funding is generally more available in the private sector, and companies can often make decisions quicker than governments can.
This is also probably the best way of getting the public interested in space travel again, by involving them as participants, not just spectators.
NASA shouldn't be abandoned, as there's still room for government involvement, especially in strictly scientific missions like launching satelites. In fact, I'd propose that NASA retain its size, form, and function, but that it be a small percentage of space travel, not the majority of it originating in this country.
No, KUHF is NPR. I'm refering to KRTS (92.1), which is commercial.
Besides, KUHF is administered directly by the University of Houston, so KLEF's people probably didn't take over directly.
There are definite legal issues with that. I advise not getting caught.
However, I generally find that most people who drive in my area use CDs or MP3s, as the radio simply sucks in this area. While they may play Viagra and penis-enlargment ads in D/FW, in Houston, they just babble incoherently...or play nothing but Britney Spears or Crap-Country. Even more, they're killing our sole classical station to make way for a Christian contemporary station (something else we don't need). Given this situation, it's highly unlikely that this plan would affect that many people around me.
Usually, porn is what gets the most viceral reaction, especially from Americans.
However, you're absolutely right. If I were to set up such a filter, I'd probably stop hate group sites first and worry about the porn later. After all, if they're seeking out the porn, there is no innocence left to protect. If they just happen upon it, and they don't have any idea about what porn is, it's not going to damage them too much, as they won't really understand what's going on and they will quickly hit the back button on their browsers. As far as the bad stuff on the Internet goes, porn is hardly the worst.
This software should make Linux a more viable option for families, but parents need to remember that no software is a substitute for watching what their kids are doing online in person. That's really the only sure-fire way that no objectionable material gets into children's hands.
Of course, that's difficult to do in practice, especially with latchkey kids. That's why teaching responsibility on the Internet is more effective than just installing a web filter.
However, this could be used by corperations to keep their employees on task instead of goofing off on the Internet, too. Not sure if that's a good thing or not. However, it is probably a more useful application of the software than using it as a net nanny.
While Microsoft got the rights to the look and feel legally, they didn't get the rights to the security, functionality, and sheer usability. Basically, they got the rights to make crap look pretty.
Well, living on a University campus that has terrible cellular reception, such devices could easily be used on the campus in order to convey our calls.
The question is if these devices could also be used to gain cellular access in basements and tunnels. I've missed a large number of calls because half of my campus is underground. That would really be nice.
But only 62 calls at a time per tower? No wonder I have such a hard time connecting to my service!
This should be good news for retail stores that currently are forced to run Winblows for their check-out systems. I've worked on such a computer before, and it wasn't fun by any stretch of the imagination.
On the other hand, why don't they allow for MP3 files to be labled this way? It'd be quite useful for people who keep archives on CDs or DVDs. That's what I'd use it for, myself.
is that most MP3 players out there don't support it. Generally, people go with technology that is the most useable, which, in this case, isn't Ogg. It's MP3.
This stream hasn't solved the primary problem with streaming Real Audio: the annoying buffering stops. Until something can outdo that, it won't become popular.
1. They've already ticked off Apple Records (a label started by the Beatles and owned by EMI) a few times by simply calling themselves Apple Computers. There's currently a lawsuit over the trademark infringment over the existance of iTunes and the iPod.
2. How do they possibly think they could send a buck directly to the artists? And the artist isn't the only person involved in the production of a CD. You've got the studio, the producer, and a bunch of technicians that work on the recording as well. They've got families to feed as well.
3. It's either having lossy compression and getting the files in decent time on a high-speed connection and take up as little space on your hard drive as possible, or having non-lossy compression that takes up more space and takes forever to download.
4. Of course Kazaa is cheaper, but can you consistently get high-quality encoding of the songs you want on it? What about the aforementioned personel in number 2?
The Apple Screen of Death is easily cured by using the "two finger suicide". That latter is a hard reset. I've not lost data to it yet, and I've had to do it a couple times due to my computer crashing (for unrelated WinXP reasons) while I was updating my iPod.
Millions of iPod users (myself included) would say that yes, it's worth the few hundred dollars that it'll cost you.
Generally, I've found that I don't want to run down my PDA battery, which goes dead rather quickly, whereas the iPod battery does last a while (no, the battery isn't that bad, if you take care of it and don't let it run down too much too often). Yes, they're reliable. The only problem I have with mine is hooking it up to my desktop, but that's because WinXP totally messed up my desktop and the Firewire ports on it don't work.
As for video, I've found that most users wouldn't use their iPods for video anyway, given the size of the device. The screen is just too small for that.
So yeah, it is worth the money. I wouldn't consider recommending anything less to those in the market for an MP3 player.
The article states that Brian Mack, the creator of the hoax, was a student at Iowa State University, not the University of Houston. It was a UH student that was the first reciepient.
Mind, there's a big difference between the two schools. Having gone from Houston to points farther north than Ames on I-35 (stopping there for lunch, as that's normally the time I get to Ames), I should know.
However, my parents would be amused, as am I. They graduated from ISU in 1976, and I am currently an undergrad at UH.
And if you don't want to go through all that, might I suggest backing up any important files and switching to Linux? It may be a big download (Fedora is around 650 MB, yes), but you don't have the security holes or the yoke of the Microsoft Collective on you.
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Yep. Definitely an American thing.
The problem is that Americans, by and large, are mindless drones anymore. Granted, those of us with half a brain can make that red icon blue for the morons, just so that they STFU, but I'm not inclined to fix it for them.
And actually, Americans think of computers more like another television set. Something to turn on when they get bored, instead of actually doing something productive. Yes, we're opulent and lazy. That's why the world hates us so much...that, and the fact that our current foreign policy sucks.
You mean that I could barter with Dell computers when I travel overseas, giving them away with either Fedora or Debian and get massive favors, much like I could with Marlboro cigarettes, buying people a Big Mac, handing them a coke, or slipping them an American one dollar bill? Man, that'd be great work for prostleytizing the Linux movement! Go forth into the world and give people computers!
The reason why the hardware isn't Windows-only is because it's generally cheap and has been around for long enough for people to get around that Windows-only chipset. That's why Dell computers can do so well with Linux. I know that I have an older self-built machine that I've had for a couple of years that I just installed Fedora Core 1 on earlier this week and haven't had a problem, other than trying to download FC2, which I can't seem to do here with any results (more of an internet connection problem than anything else).
Three (no really) words for you: "Learn To Count".
Not to be seen as a troll, MacOS X is definately closer to being UNIX-certified than anything Microshaft will ever produce.
Of course, when I got my iPod, my first thought was, "Now I can get a bunch of data from companies!" Seriously, folks, most people aren't that desperate to screw you that they would sacrifice precious MP3 space to do it. That said, if you treat people like they're out to get you, they will be. It's all a matter of perspective. Businesses need to realise that their philosophy of screwing the other guy quicker and harder than he can screw you isn't exactly the best buisness model out there.
I've said it before, but it's about time that the private sector got into space exploration. The government has gone about as far as it reasonably can in developing the actual process by which we go into space. Now, it should let private industry take the lead, as funding is generally more available in the private sector, and companies can often make decisions quicker than governments can.
This is also probably the best way of getting the public interested in space travel again, by involving them as participants, not just spectators.
NASA shouldn't be abandoned, as there's still room for government involvement, especially in strictly scientific missions like launching satelites. In fact, I'd propose that NASA retain its size, form, and function, but that it be a small percentage of space travel, not the majority of it originating in this country.
Well, I hardly consider KUHF to be a real classical station, as they run NPR programming more often than classical music anymore.
No, KUHF is NPR. I'm refering to KRTS (92.1), which is commercial. Besides, KUHF is administered directly by the University of Houston, so KLEF's people probably didn't take over directly.
There are definite legal issues with that. I advise not getting caught.
However, I generally find that most people who drive in my area use CDs or MP3s, as the radio simply sucks in this area. While they may play Viagra and penis-enlargment ads in D/FW, in Houston, they just babble incoherently...or play nothing but Britney Spears or Crap-Country. Even more, they're killing our sole classical station to make way for a Christian contemporary station (something else we don't need). Given this situation, it's highly unlikely that this plan would affect that many people around me.
Usually, porn is what gets the most viceral reaction, especially from Americans.
However, you're absolutely right. If I were to set up such a filter, I'd probably stop hate group sites first and worry about the porn later. After all, if they're seeking out the porn, there is no innocence left to protect. If they just happen upon it, and they don't have any idea about what porn is, it's not going to damage them too much, as they won't really understand what's going on and they will quickly hit the back button on their browsers. As far as the bad stuff on the Internet goes, porn is hardly the worst.
This software should make Linux a more viable option for families, but parents need to remember that no software is a substitute for watching what their kids are doing online in person. That's really the only sure-fire way that no objectionable material gets into children's hands.
Of course, that's difficult to do in practice, especially with latchkey kids. That's why teaching responsibility on the Internet is more effective than just installing a web filter.
However, this could be used by corperations to keep their employees on task instead of goofing off on the Internet, too. Not sure if that's a good thing or not. However, it is probably a more useful application of the software than using it as a net nanny.
While Microsoft got the rights to the look and feel legally, they didn't get the rights to the security, functionality, and sheer usability. Basically, they got the rights to make crap look pretty.
Well, living on a University campus that has terrible cellular reception, such devices could easily be used on the campus in order to convey our calls. The question is if these devices could also be used to gain cellular access in basements and tunnels. I've missed a large number of calls because half of my campus is underground. That would really be nice. But only 62 calls at a time per tower? No wonder I have such a hard time connecting to my service!
This should be good news for retail stores that currently are forced to run Winblows for their check-out systems. I've worked on such a computer before, and it wasn't fun by any stretch of the imagination.
On the other hand, why don't they allow for MP3 files to be labled this way? It'd be quite useful for people who keep archives on CDs or DVDs. That's what I'd use it for, myself.
is that most MP3 players out there don't support it. Generally, people go with technology that is the most useable, which, in this case, isn't Ogg. It's MP3. This stream hasn't solved the primary problem with streaming Real Audio: the annoying buffering stops. Until something can outdo that, it won't become popular.
1. They've already ticked off Apple Records (a label started by the Beatles and owned by EMI) a few times by simply calling themselves Apple Computers. There's currently a lawsuit over the trademark infringment over the existance of iTunes and the iPod. 2. How do they possibly think they could send a buck directly to the artists? And the artist isn't the only person involved in the production of a CD. You've got the studio, the producer, and a bunch of technicians that work on the recording as well. They've got families to feed as well. 3. It's either having lossy compression and getting the files in decent time on a high-speed connection and take up as little space on your hard drive as possible, or having non-lossy compression that takes up more space and takes forever to download. 4. Of course Kazaa is cheaper, but can you consistently get high-quality encoding of the songs you want on it? What about the aforementioned personel in number 2?
That wasn't intended as flamebait. Generally, I've found Apple products to be idiot-proof.
Correction: Next time somene asks you how to use an Apple product, give them an electroencephelogram. They might be brain dead.
The Apple Screen of Death is easily cured by using the "two finger suicide". That latter is a hard reset. I've not lost data to it yet, and I've had to do it a couple times due to my computer crashing (for unrelated WinXP reasons) while I was updating my iPod.
Millions of iPod users (myself included) would say that yes, it's worth the few hundred dollars that it'll cost you. Generally, I've found that I don't want to run down my PDA battery, which goes dead rather quickly, whereas the iPod battery does last a while (no, the battery isn't that bad, if you take care of it and don't let it run down too much too often). Yes, they're reliable. The only problem I have with mine is hooking it up to my desktop, but that's because WinXP totally messed up my desktop and the Firewire ports on it don't work. As for video, I've found that most users wouldn't use their iPods for video anyway, given the size of the device. The screen is just too small for that. So yeah, it is worth the money. I wouldn't consider recommending anything less to those in the market for an MP3 player.
The article states that Brian Mack, the creator of the hoax, was a student at Iowa State University, not the University of Houston. It was a UH student that was the first reciepient. Mind, there's a big difference between the two schools. Having gone from Houston to points farther north than Ames on I-35 (stopping there for lunch, as that's normally the time I get to Ames), I should know. However, my parents would be amused, as am I. They graduated from ISU in 1976, and I am currently an undergrad at UH.
And if you don't want to go through all that, might I suggest backing up any important files and switching to Linux? It may be a big download (Fedora is around 650 MB, yes), but you don't have the security holes or the yoke of the Microsoft Collective on you.