BTW, I used to work in a school environment and discovered this useful trick... (Appologies for wasting your time if you already knew.)
Create a batch file, say, shutdown.bat, and save it on your desktop. Then add a line, like this, for every computer you wish to shut down:
shutdown -s -m \\SCHOOL-COMP1 -t 10
where SCHOOL-COMP1 is the name of the machine you want to shut down. We had two -- one which would shut down everything except the server, one which would shut down everything including the server. A minute later, all the machines would be shut down and we'd go home for the night (frequently to find the guards had locked the gates on us for working too late and we'd be locking in for the night -- thank god for those l33t climing skills).
It depends how you use 'em... I used to pay £10/month, now I pay nothing and use the housephone. That's the wonderful advantage of pay-as-you-go -- you choose exactly how much you pay each month.
You're completely right, of course. We are nothing but slaves, worse is that our prison captains are our equals. Dare to speak out against the government, as is your right as demanded by the Consitution, and you are branded a terrorist -- not by the CIA, but by your own neighbour. ("I think we should just trust the president in every decision he makes," Britney Spears told CNN, "and we should just support that, and be faithful in what happens." -- and in that simple sentence, she did more to condemn the American way of life than Bin Laden could ever have dreamed of doing.)
But consider the good. Look at the cage, the walls are guilded gold, the prison food hors' dourves and caviar. If, when I die, everyone in the world enjoys this level of servitude, I shall die a happy man.
As I write this there are people dying in there hundreds and thousands in Columbia, Iraq (today was the deadliest day since the election), Zimbabwe. In Iran 16-year-old girls are stoned for premarital sex. In Pakistahn, it's worse and 14-year olds are stoned as punishment for being raped. Hutus are fighting Tutsis near Liberia and Tanzania, in North Korea people are starving by the millions.
And we have the audacity to sit here on slashdot and complain.
I have a Nokia 7610 / Symbian OS v7.0 / Series 60 with a rather nice 512 MB of RAM thanks to the expansion slot. I know the latest Symbian OS (v 9) does show up as a universal mass storage device and I would really, really love it if my phone did this too -- so I don't have to carry around a thumbdrive all the time.
Does anyone know of a Symbian app that will simulate the phone as a mass storage device, or, failing that, does anyone know a way to upgrade a 7610 to the latest Symbian version?
So... they're doing something which has, for all time, been done using paper... using SMS. And this is the herald of 1984? Then I guess we'd better all bow down to Big Brother.
Robohunk: A friend of mine took an exam in his French class while on acid once. When friends asked him about it later, he said, "I think I did pretty well. I wrote this great story about a thunderstorm."
Robohunk:
Robohunk: The professor called him into his office soon afterwards and showed him the test. It was a piece of paper covered with the words "Noir noir noir, noir BLANC!!! noir noir noir noir noir, noir noir noir BLANC!!!" over and over.
My experience with Firefox (and Opera) is limited.
You mean you posed this using IE? But... you're on the internet... Error: Does Not Compute. Do yourself a favour: IE is a crap way to use the web, but not from a security standpoint -- its way faster, and way quicker and easier to use.
You may bitch and moan thinking Firefox is safe even with all the bells and whistles enabled but that is doubtful. It is "patch, patch, patch" whatever route you take.
Never bitched or moaned in my life -- not something I do. Though I do have a trusty soapbox I like to stand on... I also don't patch, but then that's because I use Opera. It has no security pitfalls.
Firefox is better than IE for many reasons (security -- at least its open and not built into the OS, ease of use, speed) though you may, as I do, prefer Opera which is a dreamlike experience for browsing the web.
When they port their OS to Intel chips and get MacOS running on generic PC architechture, then that will be a valid arguemet.
From a bussiness point of view, having a more intuitive interface and a computer which doesnt crash all the time is worth the extra expense whichever way you look at it. And you don't mention Linux or answer my point reguarding browsers -- FF is free, easy to use and install, yet most people dont use it.
Wow. Comming back to my home country (England), I find the lack of show removal to be very, very annoying -- though I'm not insulted, because it's culture. Soil and mud, clean carpets, hello? (Asian polished floors are actually much easier to clean of dust than English carpets of mud!)
Dammit, should have previewed. Of course, many people use Firefox and that total is growing however you look at it. But it doesn't have the coveted seat of "most used browser", and the main problem advocates have with getting people to switch, is that the average luser doesnt care.
You make the mistake of assuming people care. Why didn't the free market solve the MS problem -- you know, the one where Windows is crap. MacOS is significantly better, how come 98% (or whatever the statistic is) don't use a mac? (Their data is worse the slightly extra expense.) The answer is because they really don't care at all. Or how about Firefox vs. IE? Firefox is free and miles better than IE, how come no one uses it? Because they dont care.
When an ebay competitor which is significantly better comes along, sure, we'll all switch. But few others will -- they'll carry on using ebay until they get burnt, because they... dont... care. And eventually some of us will switch back to ebay because of the sheer volume of people using it.
Windows may not have iPhoto, but its not all that bad. Plug in a digital camera and -- assuming you didnt install the god-awful software (I never do) -- it guesses that the USB device contains mostly photos, and asks you what you want to do with them. After copying them to the local drive, you can quite easy send them through email by right-clicking, then saying "send through email" (or some such). In a disorientating burst of common sense, Windows then asks you if you want to resize the photos temporarily to make them smaller. Printing is similarly easy, and quick. (Ok, how many photos per page do you want? And what orientation?) Of course, sending through IM is as easy as drag-and-drop.
Really? Did you lay down the phoneline that comes up to my house? Didn't think so. Did you pay for the ADSL hardware at my local exchange? Didn't think you did that, either. How about the D-Root Server that guarantees the performance and stability of Internet services in the UK and western Europe? Hmm, then I'd say that statement is bullshit.
Create your own root and use it instead.
Ignoring the fact that only five of the public root servers are in the States to begin with (there are eight or so others scattered around the globe), we already have. And that is completely ignoring the fact that anybody can set up a DNS server at any time, for any reason, and with any purpose. (And many of the fine folk here at slashdot, have.
All of this whining by socialist Europeans that would rather see the internet turn into some type of global hippie commune where no commerce is transacted and those of us in the first world have to pay for internet connections for some tribal village in Africa...
Ok, what?
Some countries are, or I should say, were backing this whole fucked up scheme because they are (understandably) pissed off with the incompetance of the ICANN. The EU is backing this scheme because they are pissed off with the US for a whole lotta reasons, and the Usual Suspects (China, etc.) are backing this for the Usual Reasons.
Look, I dont want control to go to the WGIG any more than you do, but fucked up posts like yours do not help the issue.
No, it makes perfect sense to have two supermarkets right next to each other. Might not be so good for the supermarkets, but its great for the consumer.
The problem is that for some industries a free market simply doesn't work. For example, it doesn't make sense to have five different gas pipes comming to your house, five different roads leading to your drive, and five different telephone lives either. For some things, the free market is the best solution. For others, a government-regulated body is better.
I disagree. I have accounts on some of these sites (not MySpace -- I don't know anyone on it, so what's the point?) simply so I can post to or look at the sites of friends who I know in real life. In fact, if you managed to find any of my profiles, you'll find they are nothing but poorly disguised advertisements for my own site. Because why would I post to a crappy xanga interface when I can use emacs, vi, or notepad and the comfort of my own filesystem? But I digress...
I don't like sites like faceparty, which don't allow any HTML tags. All pages on faceparty are the same, identical, bland. The real reason I hate faceparty is because I couldn't insert a javascript redirect, like I have done with my xanga site. Let me tell you a bit about myself. The first technical experience I had with computers was HTML posting in an excite message board. That went on to building websites using notepad, then learning about the filesystem and then image formats, then to javascript, php, Visual Basic, on to Linux, database management, from there data abstraction and the ability to think logically about complex systems. Now hopefully to a degree in the Philosophy of Logic Philosophy of Science and Computational Science from a prestigous university.
Now think about it. Xanga lets you insert HTML. Faceparty doesn't. An entire generation is growing up knowing HTML. From there they progress to learning about the filesystem (no more "Daniel, why can't I see www.server.com/BLA.jpg?" Me: "Because its a Linux server, and you're typing it in capitals"), then onto rudimentary JavaScript. Sure their sites are crappy, with ludicrous colour schemes and revoltingly non-compliant HTML. But they're learning. And maybe they even discover that being a geek isnt as boring as they've been taught.
(And, slightly off-topic, the person who was responsible for the ability to embed any kind of audio or video in a webpage... should be shot.)
I disagree. Like you, I have accounts on some of these sites (not MySpace -- I don't know anyone on it, so what's the point?) simply so I can post to or look at the sites of friends who I know in real life. In fact, if you managed to find any of my profiles, you'll find they are nothing but poorly disguised advertisements for my own site. Because why would I post to a crappy xanga interface when I can use emacs, vi, or notepad and the comfort of my own filesystem? But I digress...
I don't like sites like faceparty, which don't allow any HTML tags. All pages on faceparty are the same, identical, bland. The real reason I hate faceparty is because I couldn't insert a javascript redirect, like I have done with my xanga site. Let me tell you a bit about myself. The first technical experience I had with computers was HTML posting in an excite message board. That went on to building websites using notepad, then learning about the filesystem and then image formats, then to javascript, php, Visual Basic, on to Linux, database management, from there data abstraction and the ability to think logically about complex systems. Now hopefully to a degree in the Philosophy of Logic Philosophy of Science and Computational Science from a prestigous university.
Now think about it. Xanga lets you insert HTML. Faceparty doesn't. An entire generation is growing up knowing HTML. From there they progress to learning about the filesystem (no more "Daniel, why can't I see www.server.com/BLA.jpg?" Me: "Because its a Linux server, and you're typing it in capitals"), then onto rudimentary JavaScript. Sure their sites are crappy, with ludicrous colour schemes and revoltingly non-compliant HTML. But they're learning. And maybe they even discover that being a geek isnt as boring as they've been taught.
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BTW, I used to work in a school environment and discovered this useful trick... (Appologies for wasting your time if you already knew.)
Create a batch file, say, shutdown.bat, and save it on your desktop. Then add a line, like this, for every computer you wish to shut down:
shutdown -s -m \\SCHOOL-COMP1 -t 10
where SCHOOL-COMP1 is the name of the machine you want to shut down. We had two -- one which would shut down everything except the server, one which would shut down everything including the server. A minute later, all the machines would be shut down and we'd go home for the night (frequently to find the guards had locked the gates on us for working too late and we'd be locking in for the night -- thank god for those l33t climing skills).
It depends how you use 'em... I used to pay £10/month, now I pay nothing and use the housephone. That's the wonderful advantage of pay-as-you-go -- you choose exactly how much you pay each month.
You're completely right, of course. We are nothing but slaves, worse is that our prison captains are our equals. Dare to speak out against the government, as is your right as demanded by the Consitution, and you are branded a terrorist -- not by the CIA, but by your own neighbour. ("I think we should just trust the president in every decision he makes," Britney Spears told CNN, "and we should just support that, and be faithful in what happens." -- and in that simple sentence, she did more to condemn the American way of life than Bin Laden could ever have dreamed of doing.)
But consider the good. Look at the cage, the walls are guilded gold, the prison food hors' dourves and caviar. If, when I die, everyone in the world enjoys this level of servitude, I shall die a happy man.
As I write this there are people dying in there hundreds and thousands in Columbia, Iraq (today was the deadliest day since the election), Zimbabwe. In Iran 16-year-old girls are stoned for premarital sex. In Pakistahn, it's worse and 14-year olds are stoned as punishment for being raped. Hutus are fighting Tutsis near Liberia and Tanzania, in North Korea people are starving by the millions.
And we have the audacity to sit here on slashdot and complain.
The DRM is only present because the studios who produced the content demanded it -- so it's much like iTMS. And Linux and Apple clients are comming.
Does anyone know of a Symbian app that will simulate the phone as a mass storage device, or, failing that, does anyone know a way to upgrade a 7610 to the latest Symbian version?
Cheers,
Daniel
So... they're doing something which has, for all time, been done using paper... using SMS. And this is the herald of 1984? Then I guess we'd better all bow down to Big Brother.
The leading product in a market just means most people have decided it offers the best mix of benefits for the cost.
Or, as my original post shows, that they never bothered to think about it -- certainly the case of the home user, who wont or cant think about it.
Marketting exists to educate and inform others of the other options.
Bull shit .
My experience with Firefox (and Opera) is limited.
You mean you posed this using IE? But... you're on the internet... Error: Does Not Compute. Do yourself a favour: IE is a crap way to use the web, but not from a security standpoint -- its way faster, and way quicker and easier to use.
You may bitch and moan thinking Firefox is safe even with all the bells and whistles enabled but that is doubtful. It is "patch, patch, patch" whatever route you take.
Never bitched or moaned in my life -- not something I do. Though I do have a trusty soapbox I like to stand on... I also don't patch, but then that's because I use Opera. It has no security pitfalls.
Firefox is better than IE for many reasons (security -- at least its open and not built into the OS, ease of use, speed) though you may, as I do, prefer Opera which is a dreamlike experience for browsing the web.
The infallibility of the market is one of the greatest myths of the capitalist system
Amen to that, brother -- that was exactly my point.
And it works. Brilliantly.
Doesn't it just.
When they port their OS to Intel chips and get MacOS running on generic PC architechture, then that will be a valid arguemet.
From a bussiness point of view, having a more intuitive interface and a computer which doesnt crash all the time is worth the extra expense whichever way you look at it. And you don't mention Linux or answer my point reguarding browsers -- FF is free, easy to use and install, yet most people dont use it.
Wow. Comming back to my home country (England), I find the lack of show removal to be very, very annoying -- though I'm not insulted, because it's culture. Soil and mud, clean carpets, hello? (Asian polished floors are actually much easier to clean of dust than English carpets of mud!)
Cooked an egg? people have.
Dammit, should have previewed. Of course, many people use Firefox and that total is growing however you look at it. But it doesn't have the coveted seat of "most used browser", and the main problem advocates have with getting people to switch, is that the average luser doesnt care.
When an ebay competitor which is significantly better comes along, sure, we'll all switch. But few others will -- they'll carry on using ebay until they get burnt, because they... dont... care. And eventually some of us will switch back to ebay because of the sheer volume of people using it.
Windows may not have iPhoto, but its not all that bad. Plug in a digital camera and -- assuming you didnt install the god-awful software (I never do) -- it guesses that the USB device contains mostly photos, and asks you what you want to do with them. After copying them to the local drive, you can quite easy send them through email by right-clicking, then saying "send through email" (or some such). In a disorientating burst of common sense, Windows then asks you if you want to resize the photos temporarily to make them smaller. Printing is similarly easy, and quick. (Ok, how many photos per page do you want? And what orientation?) Of course, sending through IM is as easy as drag-and-drop.
[We] created the internet
Really? Did you lay down the phoneline that comes up to my house? Didn't think so. Did you pay for the ADSL hardware at my local exchange? Didn't think you did that, either. How about the D-Root Server that guarantees the performance and stability of Internet services in the UK and western Europe? Hmm, then I'd say that statement is bullshit.
Create your own root and use it instead.
Ignoring the fact that only five of the public root servers are in the States to begin with (there are eight or so others scattered around the globe), we already have. And that is completely ignoring the fact that anybody can set up a DNS server at any time, for any reason, and with any purpose. (And many of the fine folk here at slashdot, have.
All of this whining by socialist Europeans that would rather see the internet turn into some type of global hippie commune where no commerce is transacted and those of us in the first world have to pay for internet connections for some tribal village in Africa...
Ok, what?
Some countries are, or I should say, were backing this whole fucked up scheme because they are (understandably) pissed off with the incompetance of the ICANN. The EU is backing this scheme because they are pissed off with the US for a whole lotta reasons, and the Usual Suspects (China, etc.) are backing this for the Usual Reasons.
Look, I dont want control to go to the WGIG any more than you do, but fucked up posts like yours do not help the issue.
;-)
No, it makes perfect sense to have two supermarkets right next to each other. Might not be so good for the supermarkets, but its great for the consumer.
No arguement from me about the quality though; its deffinately the worst I come across on the net.
That's how I got started. Then I wanted more control, so I could fine-tune what I was doing. And then the learning started.
The problem is that for some industries a free market simply doesn't work. For example, it doesn't make sense to have five different gas pipes comming to your house, five different roads leading to your drive, and five different telephone lives either. For some things, the free market is the best solution. For others, a government-regulated body is better.
I don't like sites like faceparty, which don't allow any HTML tags. All pages on faceparty are the same, identical, bland. The real reason I hate faceparty is because I couldn't insert a javascript redirect, like I have done with my xanga site. Let me tell you a bit about myself. The first technical experience I had with computers was HTML posting in an excite message board. That went on to building websites using notepad, then learning about the filesystem and then image formats, then to javascript, php, Visual Basic, on to Linux, database management, from there data abstraction and the ability to think logically about complex systems. Now hopefully to a degree in the Philosophy of Logic Philosophy of Science and Computational Science from a prestigous university.
Now think about it. Xanga lets you insert HTML. Faceparty doesn't. An entire generation is growing up knowing HTML. From there they progress to learning about the filesystem (no more "Daniel, why can't I see www.server.com/BLA.jpg?" Me: "Because its a Linux server, and you're typing it in capitals"), then onto rudimentary JavaScript. Sure their sites are crappy, with ludicrous colour schemes and revoltingly non-compliant HTML. But they're learning. And maybe they even discover that being a geek isnt as boring as they've been taught.
(And, slightly off-topic, the person who was responsible for the ability to embed any kind of audio or video in a webpage... should be shot.)
I don't like sites like faceparty, which don't allow any HTML tags. All pages on faceparty are the same, identical, bland. The real reason I hate faceparty is because I couldn't insert a javascript redirect, like I have done with my xanga site. Let me tell you a bit about myself. The first technical experience I had with computers was HTML posting in an excite message board. That went on to building websites using notepad, then learning about the filesystem and then image formats, then to javascript, php, Visual Basic, on to Linux, database management, from there data abstraction and the ability to think logically about complex systems. Now hopefully to a degree in the Philosophy of Logic Philosophy of Science and Computational Science from a prestigous university.
Now think about it. Xanga lets you insert HTML. Faceparty doesn't. An entire generation is growing up knowing HTML. From there they progress to learning about the filesystem (no more "Daniel, why can't I see www.server.com/BLA.jpg?" Me: "Because its a Linux server, and you're typing it in capitals"), then onto rudimentary JavaScript. Sure their sites are crappy, with ludicrous colour schemes and revoltingly non-compliant HTML. But they're learning. And maybe they even discover that being a geek isnt as boring as they've been taught.