I'd have to say that "addiction" is a badly overused term these days. Anytime someone has a bad habit, they'll call it an addiction, as if doing so removes any responsibility for changing their behavior.
You really misunderstand the addiction and recovery "movement." The whole point is to recognize that something is an addiction, that it's messed up your life, and then change your behavior. What addicted people do is acknowledge that individual will, alone, is not enough for them to change their behavior, and that they need help from the group, insight from others, and (ugh) help from a higher power. The whole point, however, is changing behavior by any means necessary.
I've met a lot of women who play video games. Because I program computers, they assume I'm also a "gamer," and they just bring it up in the course of conversation. I'm not a gamer, however. I just play the free games that come with the computer.
I think for many women, playing video games is mostly something they do for entertainment. It's not a major obsession -- though I have also known some women who are *really* into games. So it's not an across-the-board thing.
The main reason people don't think of video games as a thing for women is due to industry biases. Men invest in the games, men dominate the companies, men dominate the production, and men dominate the staffs. Men dominate the games media, and men often operate the game stores. This overabundance of testicles creates the social context for the acceptance of misogyny, of which there's plenty in the games.
Photography and film used to be for geeks too. It's a pretty technical field, and movie companies still have a big staff of techie people. The perception about it, however, is very different.
I'll give ID a second thought once Christians start roasting monkeys for Christmas dinner. After all, it's not like we're eating a close genetic relative or anything.
It's religious chauvanism. If religion has helped someone, say, in finding meaning for their life, for getting through difficult times, or something else significant, then people feel compelled to defend everything that the religion pushes.
It's like this: say you love your parents, but, they sometimes do jerky things. You're still going to defend them, even when they're jerks. Eventually, you *may* grow out of it, and be an independent person, but, most people tend to stick up for their parents' imperfections.
I think religious people are doing the same thing: defending their authority figure from (what they see as) criticism.
The DMCA requires intent. It's the intent to circumvent copy protection technology that defines one violation of the DMCA.
The DMCA gives extra, new rights to software that doesn't exist for anything else. For example, if you bought a suitcase, and broke the lock on it, that's legal, because you own the suitcase. Under the DMCA, it's illegal to even attempt to break the "locks" on software that you purchased.
This is why I cannot understand the reason why Socialists oppose Globalization.
You don't understand because you're ignorant. Socialists are concerned with the working class. Corporate globalization benefits capitalists more than anyone else.
I was under the impression that the US had pretty much tapped India for all its talent years ago. We were getting to the more 'normal' workers.
Face it. Programming has gotten only so much easier. The demand for software increases. As more software is produced, it acts less like a machine, and more like 'media'. That predicts high demand for programmers for a long time. The pay won't be as high, but the demand will be there.
Reading and typing code is a quick way to learn a little programming. Today, so many articles give you little fragments of code that don't necessarily explain much.
Atari was never a Japanese company. It was started by Nolan Bushnell in California. It was sold to Warner Communications. Then it was sold to the Tramiels.
What about all the capitalists throughout history who have been blowing up people, via war, and killing people with inadequate workplace safety regulations?
There are many different kinds of anarchists. Some are violent. Yet, these violent anarchists don't invade countries and conduct war to enlarge empires. The people they have killed are the powerful leaders and industrialists.
If you're against government, but not against the capitalist enterprise, then you are an extremist capitalist. There's no "anarchism" in that.
Anarchism is against all forms of hierarchy, and that means if any government is created, it's task is to dismantle or destroy hierarchy as it forms, whether it's capitalist enterprise, monarchs, religion, gangs, experts, or government (via self destruction). They (we) believe that the ultimate goal is a society of many local organizations to provide social welfare via mutual aid groups.
It's very romantic and somewhat anti-technology. It's also self-destructive, as many anarchists are or have been business owners, royalty, religious leaders, gangsters, experts, and in government. (Oddly enough!) Many more, however, have been regular people with a fire in their belly to upend society and achieve freedom.
Anarchists (aka social anarchists or anarcho-communists) say "smash the state, burn out the capitalists" and see the state and capital as partners in crime. (For example, their favorite enemies are the President, weapons makers, and prisons.)
Anarcho-capitalists see the state as the main barrier to eliminating the minimum wage. They also see widespread impoverishment and miles of tenements as a business opportunity. They like security guards and the insurance business.
Virtually every server that allows users to post original material has similar terms of service. It is not about trying to claim rights over the users' material, it is about preventing users from suing them.
HAHAHAHAHAH. You really believe that?
If they didn't want to be sued, they would have written something like: by posting something on MySpace, you agree that you will not sue MySpace for distributing your material via these methods... (and list methods), and indemnify MySpace against any lawsuits resulting from anything MySpace does with your goodies.
Being able to re-download when you restore a system is a huge selling point. iTunes should do this automatically when you set up a new computer. It is really no different than what Apple does with their automatic updates, or how the popular Linux distributions update you from a repository.
Librarians are paid to keep information organized and available. People pay a lot of money for CD organizers and other organizing products. There is value in keeping things organized and available. If it's known that iTunes helps you migrate your digital music library, then, people will factor that value into the purchase price of iTunes-centric music (and videos).
Which is not to say I agree - despite having a PC permanently in the lounge room, hooked up up to my TV & digital PVR, I really can't see the point. The "converged PC" is a solution to a problem that exists only in the minds of marketers and the wet dreams of futurists - not in the minds of the market itself.
I agree. I don't care to spend for an entire PC for the living room when a local area digital cable tv network is all I need:-) A $50 MPEG decoder with decent video out, and a network connection to the server would be adequate.
Also, I'm not interested in owning a big media library (except home movies of course). Being able to rent a movie online would be cool, though. Unlike many people, I don't have cable tv, or even any real clear idea of what's on tv or at the movies. So, whem a movie description sounds interesting, it would be nice to be able to pay a few dollars and just see it, rather than figure out how to get to the dvd rental shop.
I had a mixed experience. On my two PCs, Ubuntu's gone in pretty clean, but the video card needed a little tweaking on the later version. On another, older, PC, no dice. Knoppix has worked great on all the computers.
Windows, however, had all kinds of problems on every single PC I've owned. Most were cleared up with a simple driver update or installation, but, even that wasn't always that "clean". Sometimes, I had to figure out how to type in the right file path.
The Macs, of course, never had any such issues.
What the unixes need is a centralized database that not only maps what works with what, but also stores the booting sequence, driver versions, and other info. Then the info can be mined to discover how to improve all the distros. It would, obviously, also serve as a master-repository for drivers, and push the system toward binary-only drivers and a better dynamic linking system for drivers.
In fact, if there were such a beast, I'd want to be able to profile my hardware, and then get recommendations on which distros work best with my configuration.
Overlapping windows are useful if you have to manually copy some data from one window into another -- like typing in an ip address or something. Windows that overlap don't suffer from having the text re-wrap (and moving the data you want out of the window).
That said, I maximize most of my windows, including the terminals.
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>I guess the real question is, are Americans addicted to work, productivity and profits ?
No. Americans are hooked on punishing the poor. With enough of that abuse, people learn to get addicted to life-saving work habits.
You really misunderstand the addiction and recovery "movement." The whole point is to recognize that something is an addiction, that it's messed up your life, and then change your behavior. What addicted people do is acknowledge that individual will, alone, is not enough for them to change their behavior, and that they need help from the group, insight from others, and (ugh) help from a higher power. The whole point, however, is changing behavior by any means necessary.
Yeah, maybe this is related to the fact that India was the UK's colony for a century.
I've met a lot of women who play video games. Because I program computers, they assume I'm also a "gamer," and they just bring it up in the course of conversation. I'm not a gamer, however. I just play the free games that come with the computer.
I think for many women, playing video games is mostly something they do for entertainment. It's not a major obsession -- though I have also known some women who are *really* into games. So it's not an across-the-board thing.
The main reason people don't think of video games as a thing for women is due to industry biases. Men invest in the games, men dominate the companies, men dominate the production, and men dominate the staffs. Men dominate the games media, and men often operate the game stores. This overabundance of testicles creates the social context for the acceptance of misogyny, of which there's plenty in the games.
Photography and film used to be for geeks too. It's a pretty technical field, and movie companies still have a big staff of techie people. The perception about it, however, is very different.
I'll give ID a second thought once Christians start roasting monkeys for Christmas dinner. After all, it's not like we're eating a close genetic relative or anything.
It's religious chauvanism. If religion has helped someone, say, in finding meaning for their life, for getting through difficult times, or something else significant, then people feel compelled to defend everything that the religion pushes.
It's like this: say you love your parents, but, they sometimes do jerky things. You're still going to defend them, even when they're jerks. Eventually, you *may* grow out of it, and be an independent person, but, most people tend to stick up for their parents' imperfections.
I think religious people are doing the same thing: defending their authority figure from (what they see as) criticism.
The DMCA requires intent. It's the intent to circumvent copy protection technology that defines one violation of the DMCA.
The DMCA gives extra, new rights to software that doesn't exist for anything else. For example, if you bought a suitcase, and broke the lock on it, that's legal, because you own the suitcase. Under the DMCA, it's illegal to even attempt to break the "locks" on software that you purchased.
This is why I cannot understand the reason why Socialists oppose Globalization.
You don't understand because you're ignorant. Socialists are concerned with the working class. Corporate globalization benefits capitalists more than anyone else.
I was under the impression that the US had pretty much tapped India for all its talent years ago. We were getting to the more 'normal' workers.
Face it. Programming has gotten only so much easier. The demand for software increases. As more software is produced, it acts less like a machine, and more like 'media'. That predicts high demand for programmers for a long time. The pay won't be as high, but the demand will be there.
Reading and typing code is a quick way to learn a little programming. Today, so many articles give you little fragments of code that don't necessarily explain much.
Atari was never a Japanese company. It was started by Nolan Bushnell in California. It was sold to Warner Communications. Then it was sold to the Tramiels.
There was some unnatural selection that made Black people in America taller on average.
What about all the capitalists throughout history who have been blowing up people, via war, and killing people with inadequate workplace safety regulations?
There are many different kinds of anarchists. Some are violent. Yet, these violent anarchists don't invade countries and conduct war to enlarge empires. The people they have killed are the powerful leaders and industrialists.
If you're against government, but not against the capitalist enterprise, then you are an extremist capitalist. There's no "anarchism" in that.
Anarchism is against all forms of hierarchy, and that means if any government is created, it's task is to dismantle or destroy hierarchy as it forms, whether it's capitalist enterprise, monarchs, religion, gangs, experts, or government (via self destruction). They (we) believe that the ultimate goal is a society of many local organizations to provide social welfare via mutual aid groups.
It's very romantic and somewhat anti-technology. It's also self-destructive, as many anarchists are or have been business owners, royalty, religious leaders, gangsters, experts, and in government. (Oddly enough!) Many more, however, have been regular people with a fire in their belly to upend society and achieve freedom.
Anarchists (aka social anarchists or anarcho-communists) say "smash the state, burn out the capitalists" and see the state and capital as partners in crime. (For example, their favorite enemies are the President, weapons makers, and prisons.)
Anarcho-capitalists see the state as the main barrier to eliminating the minimum wage. They also see widespread impoverishment and miles of tenements as a business opportunity. They like security guards and the insurance business.
HAHAHAHAHAH. You really believe that?
If they didn't want to be sued, they would have written something like: by posting something on MySpace, you agree that you will not sue MySpace for distributing your material via these methods... (and list methods), and indemnify MySpace against any lawsuits resulting from anything MySpace does with your goodies.
MySpace is "enterprise groupware".
It's kind of like AOL, because all the apps are integrated and simplified.
AOL was the previous MySpace. You just didn't know it. LOLz.
The "free market" isn't MySpace. It's the whole net. MySpace is a single site.
BTW, it runs on Cold Fusion with Fusebox. That is pretty amazing to me.
Yeah, pretty much.
I think it's also the old interface from AppleWorks on the Apple IIe.
Being able to re-download when you restore a system is a huge selling point. iTunes should do this automatically when you set up a new computer. It is really no different than what Apple does with their automatic updates, or how the popular Linux distributions update you from a repository.
Librarians are paid to keep information organized and available. People pay a lot of money for CD organizers and other organizing products. There is value in keeping things organized and available. If it's known that iTunes helps you migrate your digital music library, then, people will factor that value into the purchase price of iTunes-centric music (and videos).
Up, Down, Select, Back/Cancel. Volume up, volume down.
Have your system organized into hierarchies, kind of like gopher, or the file system, or the java package hierarchy.
I agree. I don't care to spend for an entire PC for the living room when a local area digital cable tv network is all I need :-) A $50 MPEG decoder with decent video out, and a network connection to the server would be adequate.
Also, I'm not interested in owning a big media library (except home movies of course). Being able to rent a movie online would be cool, though. Unlike many people, I don't have cable tv, or even any real clear idea of what's on tv or at the movies. So, whem a movie description sounds interesting, it would be nice to be able to pay a few dollars and just see it, rather than figure out how to get to the dvd rental shop.
This vote counting system runs on MS Access. I don't think there are SCCS solutions that version Access projects so well. Correct me if I'm wrong.
You should judge by the transaction, not the real estate.
I had a mixed experience. On my two PCs, Ubuntu's gone in pretty clean, but the video card needed a little tweaking on the later version. On another, older, PC, no dice. Knoppix has worked great on all the computers.
Windows, however, had all kinds of problems on every single PC I've owned. Most were cleared up with a simple driver update or installation, but, even that wasn't always that "clean". Sometimes, I had to figure out how to type in the right file path.
The Macs, of course, never had any such issues.
What the unixes need is a centralized database that not only maps what works with what, but also stores the booting sequence, driver versions, and other info. Then the info can be mined to discover how to improve all the distros. It would, obviously, also serve as a master-repository for drivers, and push the system toward binary-only drivers and a better dynamic linking system for drivers.
In fact, if there were such a beast, I'd want to be able to profile my hardware, and then get recommendations on which distros work best with my configuration.
I'm using ion right now :-)
Overlapping windows are useful if you have to manually copy some data from one window into another -- like typing in an ip address or something. Windows that overlap don't suffer from having the text re-wrap (and moving the data you want out of the window).
That said, I maximize most of my windows, including the terminals.