You jest, but if the negative effects of smoking were removed, then there should be no problem with it. Unfortunately, cancer isn't the only problem and possibly not the biggest problem caused by smoking.
I'm not a wireless network chip designer, but this sounds like a poor excuse. Anyone thinking about their design would design it so that any FCC required variables would be handled separately from the device driver. After all, whether they are planning on open sourcing the drivers today or not, they certainly have known for for quite a long time that open sourcing the drivers is an option that they MIGHT choose in the future. If these chips were designed 10 years ago, I might understand not leaving yourself an out, but I am assuming that they are much new than that.
Your kidding right? The whole point and stated goal of mandating secure wifi is to stop anonymous communication. Did you not read the article? This isn't a case of the government claiming to do something different. This is a case of the government saying "we need to be able to keep eye on everyone." Did you read something else into the plan to require secured wifi?
Sure, anyone that points out glaring flaws in Apple products must be "Apple Haters".
You are a ranting fanboy. There is no structural shell or battery casing that would need to be added to allow the iPhone to be opened. If the amount of casing inside the iPhone would short out with a battery door, it would short without one. There is no space saving by making the battery non-replacible. It is just an intentionally shitty design with the intent of bilking fanboys out of $85.95.
There is not engineering 'tradeoff' there is only engineering 'screwing'. Apple just made the obviously correct guess that whether from ignorance or denial, many people will believe that sealing the device somehow magically makes more room inside for batteries.
The one feature that I wish my iPhone had that Apple decided to leave out is Stability. I count count the number of times that Apple first party apps have crashed, and the entire phone has crashed on me at least a dozen times. To be fair, it has gotten better with more recent OS updates, but it still is not entirely stable.
Wow. Someone has been drinking the Apple cool aid. The amount of space that is needed to separate the motherboard from the battery is small enough to be irrelevant. It could easily be a.5 - 1mm piece of plastic that just acts as an insulator. After all, you only need to replace it as often as the entire life of an iPhone. Apple screws their customers by not having a battery door. Apple could have easily made the iPhone and iPods with the exact same dimensions that they have now, but with one tiny screw that allowed the shell to open up and expose the battery. I don't believe for a second that the Apple hardware designers are too incompetent to do this. Apple made a business decision to tell customers that when the battery dies, the device is garbage. Sure, there are way to crack open the case and change the battery, but there will be just as many that go in the garbage because of the hoops that Apple requires it customers to jump through than those that get the battery replaced.
You are as big a part of the problem as anyone else. Here is a simple idea. "VIDEO GAMES DO NOT MAKE PEOPLE CRIMINALS".
The kid did not steal the car because he played GTA. Your claim that it did is simply stupid. My 4 year old watches plenty of movies and plays video games that would make many parents go white with shock. Of course, I talk about right and wrong with my child. He knows what is pretend and what is real, so I have no fear of him stealing my car. Of course I've also made it clear that as soon as he can reach the peddles, he won't have to steal my car. I'll find private land where he can legally drive the car and show him how.
This current trend of thinking that we should teach kids about right, and hide wrong from them is crazy. Kids are eventually going to be faced with wrong. When they are, you don't want them to get it confused with the infinant number of right things that they haven't yet experienced.
Not teaching your kid the difference between real and imaginary is just as crazy.
Not only should the parents NOT get additional charges because of GTA, the fact that the kid played GTA should not even be an issue. The parents are certainly where there is a problem, but that problem is that the parents are raising an unruly child who does dangerous illegal activities.
After all, there are hundreds if not thousands of childrens movies where kids illegally drive cars. Would you also suggest that parents who let their kids watch The Last Mismsy should also be arrested?
Apparently you are new to the conversation. Nobody says that spreading knowledge is what makes them elitist. What makes them elitists is that they were not going to soil their exclusive clientel by allowing those dirty first world kids to buy one, even if that means the 3rd world kids cannot get the benefit of economies of scale. When they did offer the OLPC in the 1st world, they were not going to let those dirty 1st worlders soil their holy work by letting them just buy one. If they are not willing to donate a machine to the 3rd world, then they are not worthy to be part of the OLPC club. Even if that means that 3rd world kids cannot get the benefit of economies of scale.
I could personally build a rugged hand powered computer for under $100 from single unit retail priced parts, but the OLPC group thought that wired networking and 8 bit processors were beneath them. If they were going to make a machine, it wasn't going to be a rugged really low cost machine. It was going to be a machine that made the 1st world envious, even if that meant that the 3rd world couldn't really afford it.
The OLPC group were elitist because they were not going to soil their hands with FOSS software that already exists, and would run just fine on the hardware they built. No, they insisted that they could write a better desktop than the ones with hundreds of thousands of man hours already put into them.
No, MS and Intel did not kill the OLPC. The OLPC is dieing because instead of building a machine that would bring computing to the 3rd world, they built a machine for well to do Americans and then didn't want to sell them to them. Heck, they would have been better off buying truck loads of Nintendo DSes and R4s than what they did.
So, no, it isn't the spread of knowledge that makes them elitists. It is the fact that they are unwilling to spread that knowledge if it doesn't stroke their ego and make them cool.
Something like AIDS is not an argument against going into space. It is argument FOR it. At the point that a disease exists that kills you when you try to reproduce, you have to realize that diseases can get really really bad. For as long as life has existed on earth, physical separation of members of a species has acted as a means to slow or stop the spread of disease. So, if your things to be sorted out includes stopping the spread of deadly diseases to the whole of humanity, and it does not include the dismantalling of worldwide travel, then it needs to include manned space travel, as space is the only place that humans can get 3 months away from the rest of humanity.
I agree about the elitest attitude, although I think that Sugar was almost as bad as XP. I tried it last year and it was terrible.
As for what the OLPC was supposed to be for... I don't think anyone ever really decided. Every time I've brought up what it was for, I have been lambasted that I had it all wrong. So, I went to their website, and all I could find was a bunch of Dilbert style buzzword bingo.
If as you say, it was intended to be an educational tool for things like spelling, math and to work together, then the mesh network was a horrible idea. In fact the entire project was over engineered from the get go. I could easily build a computer for math, spelling and simple programming for under $100 at single unit retail pricing. Even adding the criteria that it would run from a hand crank and be MORE durable than the OLPC. REAL engineers with access to bulk wholesale pricing should be able to do far better than me.
Personally, I think the OLPC was just a way to get free R&D by convincing people that the money they were donating was for charity.
Given that 100% of our environmental problems are a direct result of too many people on the planet, if you have one kid, you can complain without being a clueless idiot. If you have to, you are at best neutral on the environment, and thus are seriously overstating your case, and if you have more than two, you are a total planet destroying hypocrite.
California's 'power problems' were not electrical. The were legal. Remember the name "Enron"? Yeah, that scandal was about the fake electricity problem being used to bilk Californians our of millions of dollars.
If your going to give your daughter computer access, you will want to keep in mind that a two year old is going to be rougher on things than most adults. For that reason, I don't really recommend a laptop. I started with an old spare laptop as well, and it took about 2 weeks for my 1 year old to pick the 'A' key off. Even adults have a tendency to break laptops, so you will need to expect that it will get broken. Full PCs on the other hand use cheap and extremely durable keyboards. I have literally stepped on regular keyboards and not broken them.
If you do go the laptop route, do yourself a favor and get an external keyboard and mouse. You still won't be able to hide the laptop behind the monitor, as your daughter will need to have access to the power button, but at least it doesn't have to have it's flimsy keyboard right in front of her face. And the external mouse is a must if you don't want the experience to be an exercise in frustration for her. Laptop touch pads and 'eraser nubs' are not ideal for adults. They will be far worse for a small child.
Yes, my kid exists. Look, I get that my kid is a super genius. My wife and I have had many conversations with him about how he has to hide how smart he is from other kids and their parents, but really, at two, the best a kid being able to do being bang the keyboard and wave the mouse, is farther from the 'norm' than my kid is. My kid has been pretty much on track for being on par with kids that are double his age. At 1 it took all of about 5 minutes to show him how to turn the machine on, and how to use the mouse and keyboard. An hour of playing with gCompris, and another 5 minutes showing him how to load gCompris, and he was set to go as a computer user. Within a couple of days, he was loading and using various applications with no further instruction. If he could handle that at 1, a normal kid could surly handle it at 2.
Give your kid a chance. He will surprise you. Take an old computer, install Ubuntu and gComprise, and show him how the mouse and keyboard work by loading up the mouse games. Then let him have free access to the computer. Within a few days, your kid will be relatively competent on the computer.
While some kids like being up high, I found the perfect computer desk for a 1-2 year old is the cheap square end tables from IKEA. They are plenty stable for a monitor, have plenty of leg room for a 1-2 year old, and is at the perfect height for a 1-2 year old. All you need is a kid sized chair (which you likely already have) and you have a perfect computer desk. Also, go buy a "laptop" mouse. One of those tiny ones. It will fit your kids hand way better than a full size mouse. At 4 my kid still prefers the smaller size over standard sized mice.
That aside, it doesn't change the fact that you were reduced to a lower competency level than even an "exceptionally smart" 2 year old. And I defiantly doubt the problem was on your end.
That is because you have been desensitized to the abuse your received.
About a week after my son's second birthday, I formatted his hard drive and gave him a copy of Ubuntu Linux. He sat down and installed his OS with no help and no problems. You, presumably a full grown adult, had to call the manufacturer to get help installing your OS. You were reduced to a lower level of competency than a two year old child.
The reason that you could not accomplish the same task as a 2 year old must be attributed one of the two factors that was different. 1) The person doing the install. Or 2) The OS being installed.
Now, while I like to think that my kid is exceptionally smart, I don't for a second believe that your intelligence is less than a 2 year old. That leaves the fact that you did have a problem with the software, and just didn't realize it.
The only way to "consume less" is to massively reduce the worlds population. Conservation is a dead end. It will not "save the planet". It can't. If you cut your "footprint" to 50% of what it is today, when the planet's population doubles you have made no ground what so ever. Thrifty and frugal is simply a red herring.
So, your comment to Rosa Parks would have been that if she wanted to sit in the front of the bus, she should have started her own bus line? After all, riding the bus is totally opt-in. Heck, she wasn't even being denied use of the bus. Just the front seat of the bus.
The Bostom Tea Party is a clear example that civil disobedience both can be done covertly. It also involves made the statement involving a nonessential.
You statement makes no sense. You say that you have never had a problem, but you also say that you have asked for a code, as in your install failed and had to phone them.
You are a perfect example of the industry wearing down the consumer. XP is NEAR the point of bad?!?!?!? XP is over the top bad! The fact that anyone would have to call the manufacturer to get permission to install something they bought is absolution wrong. The fact that when MS eventually decides to stop supporting the authentication servers, the product you bought will stop working is simply criminal. I expect that before shutting down their servers, they will just start racheting up the number of "false positives". We will continue to hear about how lots of people don't have a problem, but enough will that it will be less effort to just buy a new version of Windows than spend your time waiting on hold.
I'm not trying to insult you here. Just point out that scumbags have tricked you into accepting abuse. You are a victim.
That completely ignores the fact that (with very few exceptions) all, all, all women are given the choice of:
1. Have sex with men for money and get another job to supplement that income. (This can include stripper or waitress)
2. Not have sex with men for money and get a job to supply their income.
The vast majority of women choose to have sex with men for cash, goods and/or services. Almost all of them know what they are doing, but there are FAR greater profit for the whole group if this is denied. The stripper is simply a little more honest about her business.
While some will take offense at that, there really is no reason. There are very good biological reasons for how our culture came to have prostitution as a common activity, and very good cultural reasons that it become something that was taboo to speak of. Irrelevant to that, comparing waitresses to strippers is a waste of time if you don't take into account which of them are hookers and which ones are not.
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You jest, but if the negative effects of smoking were removed, then there should be no problem with it. Unfortunately, cancer isn't the only problem and possibly not the biggest problem caused by smoking.
I'm not a wireless network chip designer, but this sounds like a poor excuse. Anyone thinking about their design would design it so that any FCC required variables would be handled separately from the device driver. After all, whether they are planning on open sourcing the drivers today or not, they certainly have known for for quite a long time that open sourcing the drivers is an option that they MIGHT choose in the future. If these chips were designed 10 years ago, I might understand not leaving yourself an out, but I am assuming that they are much new than that.
Your kidding right? The whole point and stated goal of mandating secure wifi is to stop anonymous communication. Did you not read the article? This isn't a case of the government claiming to do something different. This is a case of the government saying "we need to be able to keep eye on everyone." Did you read something else into the plan to require secured wifi?
Sure, anyone that points out glaring flaws in Apple products must be "Apple Haters".
You are a ranting fanboy. There is no structural shell or battery casing that would need to be added to allow the iPhone to be opened. If the amount of casing inside the iPhone would short out with a battery door, it would short without one. There is no space saving by making the battery non-replacible. It is just an intentionally shitty design with the intent of bilking fanboys out of $85.95.
There is not engineering 'tradeoff' there is only engineering 'screwing'. Apple just made the obviously correct guess that whether from ignorance or denial, many people will believe that sealing the device somehow magically makes more room inside for batteries.
I don't know where you've been, but that is just plain common. From the sony root kit to the toolbar that Java keeps wanting to install.
The one feature that I wish my iPhone had that Apple decided to leave out is Stability. I count count the number of times that Apple first party apps have crashed, and the entire phone has crashed on me at least a dozen times. To be fair, it has gotten better with more recent OS updates, but it still is not entirely stable.
Wow. Someone has been drinking the Apple cool aid. The amount of space that is needed to separate the motherboard from the battery is small enough to be irrelevant. It could easily be a .5 - 1mm piece of plastic that just acts as an insulator. After all, you only need to replace it as often as the entire life of an iPhone. Apple screws their customers by not having a battery door. Apple could have easily made the iPhone and iPods with the exact same dimensions that they have now, but with one tiny screw that allowed the shell to open up and expose the battery. I don't believe for a second that the Apple hardware designers are too incompetent to do this. Apple made a business decision to tell customers that when the battery dies, the device is garbage. Sure, there are way to crack open the case and change the battery, but there will be just as many that go in the garbage because of the hoops that Apple requires it customers to jump through than those that get the battery replaced.
Hey! No fair using logic and facts!
You are as big a part of the problem as anyone else. Here is a simple idea. "VIDEO GAMES DO NOT MAKE PEOPLE CRIMINALS".
The kid did not steal the car because he played GTA. Your claim that it did is simply stupid. My 4 year old watches plenty of movies and plays video games that would make many parents go white with shock. Of course, I talk about right and wrong with my child. He knows what is pretend and what is real, so I have no fear of him stealing my car. Of course I've also made it clear that as soon as he can reach the peddles, he won't have to steal my car. I'll find private land where he can legally drive the car and show him how.
This current trend of thinking that we should teach kids about right, and hide wrong from them is crazy. Kids are eventually going to be faced with wrong. When they are, you don't want them to get it confused with the infinant number of right things that they haven't yet experienced.
Not teaching your kid the difference between real and imaginary is just as crazy.
Not only should the parents NOT get additional charges because of GTA, the fact that the kid played GTA should not even be an issue. The parents are certainly where there is a problem, but that problem is that the parents are raising an unruly child who does dangerous illegal activities.
After all, there are hundreds if not thousands of childrens movies where kids illegally drive cars. Would you also suggest that parents who let their kids watch The Last Mismsy should also be arrested?
Apparently you are new to the conversation. Nobody says that spreading knowledge is what makes them elitist. What makes them elitists is that they were not going to soil their exclusive clientel by allowing those dirty first world kids to buy one, even if that means the 3rd world kids cannot get the benefit of economies of scale. When they did offer the OLPC in the 1st world, they were not going to let those dirty 1st worlders soil their holy work by letting them just buy one. If they are not willing to donate a machine to the 3rd world, then they are not worthy to be part of the OLPC club. Even if that means that 3rd world kids cannot get the benefit of economies of scale.
I could personally build a rugged hand powered computer for under $100 from single unit retail priced parts, but the OLPC group thought that wired networking and 8 bit processors were beneath them. If they were going to make a machine, it wasn't going to be a rugged really low cost machine. It was going to be a machine that made the 1st world envious, even if that meant that the 3rd world couldn't really afford it.
The OLPC group were elitist because they were not going to soil their hands with FOSS software that already exists, and would run just fine on the hardware they built. No, they insisted that they could write a better desktop than the ones with hundreds of thousands of man hours already put into them.
No, MS and Intel did not kill the OLPC. The OLPC is dieing because instead of building a machine that would bring computing to the 3rd world, they built a machine for well to do Americans and then didn't want to sell them to them. Heck, they would have been better off buying truck loads of Nintendo DSes and R4s than what they did.
So, no, it isn't the spread of knowledge that makes them elitists. It is the fact that they are unwilling to spread that knowledge if it doesn't stroke their ego and make them cool.
Something like AIDS is not an argument against going into space. It is argument FOR it. At the point that a disease exists that kills you when you try to reproduce, you have to realize that diseases can get really really bad. For as long as life has existed on earth, physical separation of members of a species has acted as a means to slow or stop the spread of disease. So, if your things to be sorted out includes stopping the spread of deadly diseases to the whole of humanity, and it does not include the dismantalling of worldwide travel, then it needs to include manned space travel, as space is the only place that humans can get 3 months away from the rest of humanity.
I agree about the elitest attitude, although I think that Sugar was almost as bad as XP. I tried it last year and it was terrible.
As for what the OLPC was supposed to be for... I don't think anyone ever really decided. Every time I've brought up what it was for, I have been lambasted that I had it all wrong. So, I went to their website, and all I could find was a bunch of Dilbert style buzzword bingo.
If as you say, it was intended to be an educational tool for things like spelling, math and to work together, then the mesh network was a horrible idea. In fact the entire project was over engineered from the get go. I could easily build a computer for math, spelling and simple programming for under $100 at single unit retail pricing. Even adding the criteria that it would run from a hand crank and be MORE durable than the OLPC. REAL engineers with access to bulk wholesale pricing should be able to do far better than me.
Personally, I think the OLPC was just a way to get free R&D by convincing people that the money they were donating was for charity.
Given that 100% of our environmental problems are a direct result of too many people on the planet, if you have one kid, you can complain without being a clueless idiot. If you have to, you are at best neutral on the environment, and thus are seriously overstating your case, and if you have more than two, you are a total planet destroying hypocrite.
California's 'power problems' were not electrical. The were legal. Remember the name "Enron"? Yeah, that scandal was about the fake electricity problem being used to bilk Californians our of millions of dollars.
Sorry about the identity confusion.
If your going to give your daughter computer access, you will want to keep in mind that a two year old is going to be rougher on things than most adults. For that reason, I don't really recommend a laptop. I started with an old spare laptop as well, and it took about 2 weeks for my 1 year old to pick the 'A' key off. Even adults have a tendency to break laptops, so you will need to expect that it will get broken. Full PCs on the other hand use cheap and extremely durable keyboards. I have literally stepped on regular keyboards and not broken them.
If you do go the laptop route, do yourself a favor and get an external keyboard and mouse. You still won't be able to hide the laptop behind the monitor, as your daughter will need to have access to the power button, but at least it doesn't have to have it's flimsy keyboard right in front of her face. And the external mouse is a must if you don't want the experience to be an exercise in frustration for her. Laptop touch pads and 'eraser nubs' are not ideal for adults. They will be far worse for a small child.
Yes, my kid exists. Look, I get that my kid is a super genius. My wife and I have had many conversations with him about how he has to hide how smart he is from other kids and their parents, but really, at two, the best a kid being able to do being bang the keyboard and wave the mouse, is farther from the 'norm' than my kid is. My kid has been pretty much on track for being on par with kids that are double his age. At 1 it took all of about 5 minutes to show him how to turn the machine on, and how to use the mouse and keyboard. An hour of playing with gCompris, and another 5 minutes showing him how to load gCompris, and he was set to go as a computer user. Within a couple of days, he was loading and using various applications with no further instruction. If he could handle that at 1, a normal kid could surly handle it at 2.
Give your kid a chance. He will surprise you. Take an old computer, install Ubuntu and gComprise, and show him how the mouse and keyboard work by loading up the mouse games. Then let him have free access to the computer. Within a few days, your kid will be relatively competent on the computer.
While some kids like being up high, I found the perfect computer desk for a 1-2 year old is the cheap square end tables from IKEA. They are plenty stable for a monitor, have plenty of leg room for a 1-2 year old, and is at the perfect height for a 1-2 year old. All you need is a kid sized chair (which you likely already have) and you have a perfect computer desk. Also, go buy a "laptop" mouse. One of those tiny ones. It will fit your kids hand way better than a full size mouse. At 4 my kid still prefers the smaller size over standard sized mice.
That aside, it doesn't change the fact that you were reduced to a lower competency level than even an "exceptionally smart" 2 year old. And I defiantly doubt the problem was on your end.
That is because you have been desensitized to the abuse your received.
About a week after my son's second birthday, I formatted his hard drive and gave him a copy of Ubuntu Linux. He sat down and installed his OS with no help and no problems. You, presumably a full grown adult, had to call the manufacturer to get help installing your OS. You were reduced to a lower level of competency than a two year old child.
The reason that you could not accomplish the same task as a 2 year old must be attributed one of the two factors that was different. 1) The person doing the install. Or 2) The OS being installed.
Now, while I like to think that my kid is exceptionally smart, I don't for a second believe that your intelligence is less than a 2 year old. That leaves the fact that you did have a problem with the software, and just didn't realize it.
In the funny but true category. Baby seal pelts are a renewable resource.
The only way to "consume less" is to massively reduce the worlds population. Conservation is a dead end. It will not "save the planet". It can't. If you cut your "footprint" to 50% of what it is today, when the planet's population doubles you have made no ground what so ever. Thrifty and frugal is simply a red herring.
So, your comment to Rosa Parks would have been that if she wanted to sit in the front of the bus, she should have started her own bus line? After all, riding the bus is totally opt-in. Heck, she wasn't even being denied use of the bus. Just the front seat of the bus.
The Bostom Tea Party is a clear example that civil disobedience both can be done covertly. It also involves made the statement involving a nonessential.
Then, just like the rest of us, you are a victim.
You statement makes no sense. You say that you have never had a problem, but you also say that you have asked for a code, as in your install failed and had to phone them.
You are a perfect example of the industry wearing down the consumer. XP is NEAR the point of bad?!?!?!? XP is over the top bad! The fact that anyone would have to call the manufacturer to get permission to install something they bought is absolution wrong. The fact that when MS eventually decides to stop supporting the authentication servers, the product you bought will stop working is simply criminal. I expect that before shutting down their servers, they will just start racheting up the number of "false positives". We will continue to hear about how lots of people don't have a problem, but enough will that it will be less effort to just buy a new version of Windows than spend your time waiting on hold.
I'm not trying to insult you here. Just point out that scumbags have tricked you into accepting abuse. You are a victim.
That completely ignores the fact that (with very few exceptions) all, all, all women are given the choice of:
1. Have sex with men for money and get another job to supplement that income. (This can include stripper or waitress)
2. Not have sex with men for money and get a job to supply their income.
The vast majority of women choose to have sex with men for cash, goods and/or services. Almost all of them know what they are doing, but there are FAR greater profit for the whole group if this is denied. The stripper is simply a little more honest about her business.
While some will take offense at that, there really is no reason. There are very good biological reasons for how our culture came to have prostitution as a common activity, and very good cultural reasons that it become something that was taboo to speak of. Irrelevant to that, comparing waitresses to strippers is a waste of time if you don't take into account which of them are hookers and which ones are not.