What's new here? The fact that Wired (or rather, an agent of Wired) does this? People have received letters like this from other magazines for decades. I wouldn't be suprised if Wired has been sending these out for the last 10 years.
In all honesty, Wired probably doesn't manage their subscription service. They hire some 3rd party to do it for them.
I remember when PC Gamer, Next Generation, Boot, etc used to send these out all the friggen time--- TO CHILDREN!
I don't like it either. It's one reason I only have 2 magazine subscriptions. The other companies have pissed me off...
The spirit of exploration is not an excuse to mitigate danger. If everyone we put up dies, then we're not making any progress.
Mitigating danger is often an excuse to squash the spirit of exploration. The vast majority of people put into space have not died.
I'm not saying you should abandon all safety measures, but if you have a safety checklist of 3 million items for every shuttle launch and the list keeps growing, eventually you'll never make it into space at all.
Look, we have a society where hundreds of millions of people are afraid to go on a walk outside. They fear car accidents, criminals, mountain lions, whatever. So, instead of doing something which was totally normal 60+ years ago, we have a whole society that spends most of their safe life in the nice safe living room watching the safe television. It's a waste of life...
Probably, but even American Indians immigrated to these continents from somewhere. And American Indian history is full of migrant groups moving from one region of the continent to another.
What would have happened if the first group of migrants died on the journy, and all subsequent groups never bothered with the journey because it was too dangerous?
The President shut down the Shuttle program after the last crash. Of COURSE it's PR. But if they don't take every single stupid precaution, NASA will get shut down immediately, which means that there won't be a US space program until the private space businesses catch up, if they ever do.
Our society is incredibly risk-adverse today, and they don't seem to understand that travelling to space is a very dangerous business. The astronauts all know that, and they chose to take the risk.
In the past, how many explorers lost their lives when travelling across the great oceans? None of us would be here today if some big beureaucratic government kept the boat in the dock until the sailors fixed every little flaw in the boat.
Granted, the Gnome devs have done a ton of work in making a Gnome product.
He's mostly talking about small usability issues and polishing things up. It's mostly simple and small changes, but they really do make a big difference to the user.
There are many usability issues which exist in the vanilla gnome.org packages, and the Fedora & RedHat packages which do not exist in Ubuntu.
Subversion works over WebDAV, and it supports versioning.
I'm curious if Subversion could be used as a regular WebDAV server for this sort of use. Not quite sure how the versioning would work, since regular folks don't want to have a check-in comment every time they add a file to the repository...
In my experience, a simple FTP client is too confusing for many tech-novices. In Windows Explorer, they can sometimes do "CTRL+select" to select individual items, and that is about as technical as they want to get.
I hear that Windows Explorer supposedly supports WebDAV, but I haven't seen any examples of it. A WebDAV server that would allow my clients to use Explorer would be ideal.
Less cow poop in the environment, less dying screaming animals (Ever been to a slaughter house?), No debeaking the chickens and forcing hormones down their throat, less cows wallowing in their own shit.
Animals do experience pain & misery... I doubt that brocolli feel the same way.
I'm curious how they will provide nutrients for the fake meat -- considering that most (subsidized) grain grown in the US is used to feed the (subsidized) cattle, I'm curious if we can get good meat for cheap and end the rediculous cattle subsidies once and for all.
Did you even read the GPP? He's challenging the thesis of the article.
We understand the principles of making money, and I have a hard time believing that one sweatshop worker could pull in tens-of-thousands of dollars every month, because as said in other posts, then we'd all be doing that.
Alternatively, may you provide some evidence
What, you want evidence to prove a negative? Prove that it's NOT happening? It's darn near impossible to do that...
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What's wrong with that?
First, you're probably too young to remember the Internet before it was filled with ads. It was smaller, but there was more useful content compared to the noise. The Internet really has changed... more people, more information-- but it's damn near impossible to find anything these days.
Second, PBS puts out the best TV programming out there. Nova, Frontline, Jim Lehrer Newshour, Sesame Steet are all excellent programs, and PBS put out a ton of excellent documentaries which no commercial station would touch. Their American History documentaries are probably the best out there. And yes I donate.
The commercial educational stations (Discovery, HGTV) come in second-- but the ads are offensive. I mute all ads, and would block them if I had a good TV blocking device.
I've also come up with that conclusion, but sometimes I forget my own argument.
Still, the situation is the same. Advertisers want to reach as many viewers as possible. If the broadcasters are forced to switch before DTV is ready, the advertisers won't reach as many people, which means that both the Advertisers & Broadcasters will loose business.
Hmm... interesting. Are you talking about Diablo Canyon & a SLO station in your first example?
My friends in Santa Cruz said that the EBS helped eventually in the 1989 quake. During the first couple hours, the DJs tried to stay on-air but were mostly passing on rumors and misinformation ("Oh my god, San Francisco is burning!"), but eventually enough information got out to help people with the rescue & relief efforts.
I don't recall where any of the TV broadcasters signed a contract with viewers like you guaranteeing your 20 year old TV would always be able to receive a useable free signal.
It's called "customers". Generally businesses don't want to lose the consumers, and they'll fight the FTC of they are forced to convert before enough customers convert.
Better emegergency service communications systems, which is one of the things that spectrum is going to be used for once it's available.
You've been fooled. Only a very small part of the spectrum will be used for emergency communication systems. It's a straw man argument.
The Big Government is forcing everyone to switch from analog to digital so they can auction off the public spectrum to private companies. It's a way to help pay for the national debt, but the irony is that they're forcing consumers to spend money to receive the same level of service.
The irony here is that they'll be disabling analog TV and eventually analog AM/FM radio. Which is the primary emergency broadcast system for the vast majority of Americans. They're disabling the existing emergency broadcast systems.
Now, the Big Government asking us to ditch all of our old equipment (which works fine), and spend alot of money for pretty much the same level of service.
The major broadcasters all see good reasons to support DTV, but none of them are jumping at the opportunity to lose the analog viewers until the business environment is good enough.
The TV Broadcasters won't drop their analog until more viewers exclusively use Digital broadcasts, or until the FTC forces them to drop the signal.
But if the business reasons for dropping DTV aren't good enough, they'll fight the FTC tooth and nail before losing the analog viewers.
And while the DTV debate has been going on for the last 10 years ago, the majority of people I speak to are completely unware of it.
If I say "That TV sitting in your living room right there will cease to work, unless you spend money", they all pretty much disapprove of the switch.
And right now, Digital TVs, digital antennas & converters are all still too expensive.
So tell me, who's going to be the first major television broadcaster to completely shut down their analog over-the-air broadcasts and lose 12 percent of their viewers?
Personally, I think paying $300+ a year for cable to PAY for the privledge of watching television is completely stupid.
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firefox all you have to do is type 'wp eclipse'
You keep using that command. I do not think it means, what you think it means.
Using Firefox 1.0.4, if I type 'wp eclipse' into the location bar, I end up at this page: http://overholt.ca/wp/index.php?p=11... not the Wikipedia page like you seem to think.
I've had problems with Linksys. And I've also had problems with D-Link, Netgear... all of them are horrible.
I mean, honestly, I turn off "Broadcast the SSID" and the cards all of a sudden can't see the network. I turn on my 2.4Ghz wireless phone, and the computer crashes.
Netgear ships with this Wirelss client program for Windows XP which doesn't work at all...
I agree. Alot of projects that I've come across lately aren't really taken seriously. It's busywork, or a project that was started and then dropped mid-way through or something strange...
How many of those projects have been done correctly?
I know a number of projects which have been outsourced to India, and they have all been done wrong, and quite a few of them ended in disaster. I don't know of a single outsourcing project that has been finished correctly.
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What's new here? The fact that Wired (or rather, an agent of Wired) does this? People have received letters like this from other magazines for decades. I wouldn't be suprised if Wired has been sending these out for the last 10 years.
In all honesty, Wired probably doesn't manage their subscription service. They hire some 3rd party to do it for them.
I remember when PC Gamer, Next Generation, Boot, etc used to send these out all the friggen time--- TO CHILDREN!
I don't like it either. It's one reason I only have 2 magazine subscriptions. The other companies have pissed me off...
The spirit of exploration is not an excuse to mitigate danger. If everyone we put up dies, then we're not making any progress.
Mitigating danger is often an excuse to squash the spirit of exploration. The vast majority of people put into space have not died.
I'm not saying you should abandon all safety measures, but if you have a safety checklist of 3 million items for every shuttle launch and the list keeps growing, eventually you'll never make it into space at all.
Look, we have a society where hundreds of millions of people are afraid to go on a walk outside. They fear car accidents, criminals, mountain lions, whatever. So, instead of doing something which was totally normal 60+ years ago, we have a whole society that spends most of their safe life in the nice safe living room watching the safe television. It's a waste of life...
Probably, but even American Indians immigrated to these continents from somewhere. And American Indian history is full of migrant groups moving from one region of the continent to another.
What would have happened if the first group of migrants died on the journy, and all subsequent groups never bothered with the journey because it was too dangerous?
Now President Fox, we have come to discuss the issue of the Postage Stamps.
half on PR
Well can you blame them?
The President shut down the Shuttle program after the last crash. Of COURSE it's PR. But if they don't take every single stupid precaution, NASA will get shut down immediately, which means that there won't be a US space program until the private space businesses catch up, if they ever do.
Our society is incredibly risk-adverse today, and they don't seem to understand that travelling to space is a very dangerous business. The astronauts all know that, and they chose to take the risk.
In the past, how many explorers lost their lives when travelling across the great oceans? None of us would be here today if some big beureaucratic government kept the boat in the dock until the sailors fixed every little flaw in the boat.
Are you saying that plants are as aware and cognizant as animals?
That's a pretty big logical leap, don't you think?
Granted, the Gnome devs have done a ton of work in making a Gnome product.
He's mostly talking about small usability issues and polishing things up. It's mostly simple and small changes, but they really do make a big difference to the user.
There are many usability issues which exist in the vanilla gnome.org packages, and the Fedora & RedHat packages which do not exist in Ubuntu.
Subversion works over WebDAV, and it supports versioning.
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I'm curious if Subversion could be used as a regular WebDAV server for this sort of use. Not quite sure how the versioning would work, since regular folks don't want to have a check-in comment every time they add a file to the repository
In my experience, a simple FTP client is too confusing for many tech-novices. In Windows Explorer, they can sometimes do "CTRL+select" to select individual items, and that is about as technical as they want to get.
I hear that Windows Explorer supposedly supports WebDAV, but I haven't seen any examples of it. A WebDAV server that would allow my clients to use Explorer would be ideal.
What makes this 'better' again?
Less cow poop in the environment, less dying screaming animals (Ever been to a slaughter house?), No debeaking the chickens and forcing hormones down their throat, less cows wallowing in their own shit.
Animals do experience pain & misery... I doubt that brocolli feel the same way.
I'm curious how they will provide nutrients for the fake meat -- considering that most (subsidized) grain grown in the US is used to feed the (subsidized) cattle, I'm curious if we can get good meat for cheap and end the rediculous cattle subsidies once and for all.
I'm not so sure. McDonalds hamburgers are pretty popular, and they taste like shit.
I grew up in cow country, I was friends with ranchers and ate plenty of beef growing up. McDonalds hamburgers taste nothing like beef...
Don't believe everything you read.
Did you even read the GPP? He's challenging the thesis of the article.
We understand the principles of making money, and I have a hard time believing that one sweatshop worker could pull in tens-of-thousands of dollars every month, because as said in other posts, then we'd all be doing that.
Alternatively, may you provide some evidence
What, you want evidence to prove a negative? Prove that it's NOT happening? It's darn near impossible to do that...
What's wrong with that?
First, you're probably too young to remember the Internet before it was filled with ads. It was smaller, but there was more useful content compared to the noise. The Internet really has changed... more people, more information-- but it's damn near impossible to find anything these days.
Second, PBS puts out the best TV programming out there. Nova, Frontline, Jim Lehrer Newshour, Sesame Steet are all excellent programs, and PBS put out a ton of excellent documentaries which no commercial station would touch. Their American History documentaries are probably the best out there. And yes I donate.
The commercial educational stations (Discovery, HGTV) come in second-- but the ads are offensive. I mute all ads, and would block them if I had a good TV blocking device.
Smart observation. Thanks.
I've also come up with that conclusion, but sometimes I forget my own argument.
Still, the situation is the same. Advertisers want to reach as many viewers as possible. If the broadcasters are forced to switch before DTV is ready, the advertisers won't reach as many people, which means that both the Advertisers & Broadcasters will loose business.
Hmm... interesting. Are you talking about Diablo Canyon & a SLO station in your first example?
My friends in Santa Cruz said that the EBS helped eventually in the 1989 quake. During the first couple hours, the DJs tried to stay on-air but were mostly passing on rumors and misinformation ("Oh my god, San Francisco is burning!"), but eventually enough information got out to help people with the rescue & relief efforts.
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I don't recall where any of the TV broadcasters signed a contract with viewers like you guaranteeing your 20 year old TV would always be able to receive a useable free signal.
It's called "customers". Generally businesses don't want to lose the consumers, and they'll fight the FTC of they are forced to convert before enough customers convert.
Better emegergency service communications systems, which is one of the things that spectrum is going to be used for once it's available.
You've been fooled. Only a very small part of the spectrum will be used for emergency communication systems. It's a straw man argument.
The Big Government is forcing everyone to switch from analog to digital so they can auction off the public spectrum to private companies. It's a way to help pay for the national debt, but the irony is that they're forcing consumers to spend money to receive the same level of service.
The irony here is that they'll be disabling analog TV and eventually analog AM/FM radio. Which is the primary emergency broadcast system for the vast majority of Americans. They're disabling the existing emergency broadcast systems.
Now, the Big Government asking us to ditch all of our old equipment (which works fine), and spend alot of money for pretty much the same level of service.
The major broadcasters all see good reasons to support DTV, but none of them are jumping at the opportunity to lose the analog viewers until the business environment is good enough.
The TV Broadcasters won't drop their analog until more viewers exclusively use Digital broadcasts, or until the FTC forces them to drop the signal.
But if the business reasons for dropping DTV aren't good enough, they'll fight the FTC tooth and nail before losing the analog viewers.
And while the DTV debate has been going on for the last 10 years ago, the majority of people I speak to are completely unware of it.
If I say "That TV sitting in your living room right there will cease to work, unless you spend money", they all pretty much disapprove of the switch.
And right now, Digital TVs, digital antennas & converters are all still too expensive.
That was my first thought after I re-read my post.
:P
But then again "a lot" isn't good english neither
12 percent
In Business, 12 percent is alot.
So tell me, who's going to be the first major television broadcaster to completely shut down their analog over-the-air broadcasts and lose 12 percent of their viewers?
Personally, I think paying $300+ a year for cable to PAY for the privledge of watching television is completely stupid.
firefox all you have to do is type 'wp eclipse'
... not the Wikipedia page like you seem to think.
You keep using that command. I do not think it means, what you think it means.
Using Firefox 1.0.4, if I type 'wp eclipse' into the location bar, I end up at this page: http://overholt.ca/wp/index.php?p=11
I've had problems with Linksys. And I've also had problems with D-Link, Netgear... all of them are horrible.
I mean, honestly, I turn off "Broadcast the SSID" and the cards all of a sudden can't see the network. I turn on my 2.4Ghz wireless phone, and the computer crashes.
Netgear ships with this Wirelss client program for Windows XP which doesn't work at all...
Yeah, because Republican Judges will be ALL ABOUT protecting the rights of the little guy vs the big guy.
Give me a fucking break. I'm no fan of the Democrats, but it's not like the Republicans would ride in to save the day on some land grab.
Or maybe you're being cynical and I didn't catch that...
I agree. Alot of projects that I've come across lately aren't really taken seriously. It's busywork, or a project that was started and then dropped mid-way through or something strange...
How many of those projects have been done correctly?
I know a number of projects which have been outsourced to India, and they have all been done wrong, and quite a few of them ended in disaster. I don't know of a single outsourcing project that has been finished correctly.