is that it is useful only in the urban core where population densities are high enough to make use of it. The cost to user ratio in the suburbs and exurbs would make such a project far from attractive. Almost anything that helps to bring people to and keep people in the downtown core is worth trying.
So if an elected official does anything for the good of the community that they represent (which is their job), then it is a "political plot"? Wow, that attitude ought to really encourage people to serve.
Oz Broadband is anything over 128kbs.(ISDN) Laughable yes.
Slow, yes, but if your only other option is a modem then that's pretty darn good. My parents live about three miles from town and the phone lines are so poor that their 56k modem only seems to realistically do about 14.4k.
Ummm no. If it is necessary to keep the brats entertained at all times and constantly stimulated in order to get their attention, then there is a serious problem. The correct response is to not allow them to have their toys and games at all if they can't be bothered to come out of their fantasy world and do some work.
Pandering to them and trying to keep them interested because they have the attention spans of fruit flies will only make the problem worse. It is the kids that need to change, not the entire world in which they live. If little Johnny can't be bothered to do his Math homework because it's not as fun as playing Quake, then little Johny should get teh $#!+ beat out of him until he decides that maybe he SHOULD do his work. His math teacher should not have to wear a clown nose, dance a jig, and assign video games for homework just to keep him awake.
This I disagree with. While I am 100% against video cameras in the PUBLIC space I am not against video cameras in a private space (i.e. dressing rooms of a store). My feelings for personal privacy have no weight in a privately owned store that is using video cameras as a theft prevention mechanism. I do however have an equal weight with regards to my feelings about public spaces being spied upon.
Could you explain this position a bit? I personally have far less of an issue with cameras in public places simply because they ARE public places. Very simply, any action which you choose to perform in public view is essentially public record and you have no right to expect any protection of privacy to include that which you make public. This isn't really a question of privacy, it is one of accountability.
In private places, the case is much different. It is a violation of privacy simply because the victom has reason to expect privacy. Put another way, if the dressing rooms were plastered with signs stating that customers were being watched on a closed circuit television, far fewer people would actually USE these dressing rooms therefore such monitoring would have to be done in secret. If there were cameras in the park, however, very few people would be bothered enough to avoid the park. I would still take my daughter to feed the ducks regardless of whether the only observers were other people in the vicinity or included extremely bored security personel in an office somewhere.
Well, there's always shortwave. At night I can pick it up pretty clear with an old S-38 and a (very) long wire antenna. I just got a Sirius radio this spring, I wonder if they will censor out anything O-word related on that too?
That already happened in the last ******* games. The BBC World Service had to block out their feed for anyone in the US if there was any mention of the games which cannot be named because they would have been infringing on the exclusive broadcast rights of NBC.
It was bad enough when a certain network gained exclusive broadcast in the US rights and the BBC World Service had to black out their stream every time there was any mention of the Olympic games. This is ridiculous.
I wonder how much higher this count would be if there were some way of tallying up Linux users who install from their distribution's package collection rather than dowloading directly? I use Firefox on all of my machines, but I have never had to download it from Mozilla's website. My wife has installed Firefox on her Mac as well which counts for at least one direct download, but that is only one machine out of four in the house - the other three aren't counted.
Useful in causing drastic planitary warming, yes. Given that a rise in temperature of the same amount here on earth would make the planet uninhabitable, though, I think that a bit of complaining, and action, is very much in order and very much appropriate.
I wouldn't be surprised to see a/. story on, say, hampster dance in a few years. Not only has that video been around for years, but Darl Mcbride even referred to it in his "open letter" not long ago:
A popular animation
on the Internet features a guy named Steve, the Linux Super Villain.
During the course of the 60 second animation, he describes his work
with Linux stating, "First you have to config it, then write some
shell scripts, update your RPMs, partition your drives, patch your
kernel, compile your binaries and check your version dependencies..."
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iPodder is basically a Windows program. I have never been able to get it running under Linux (multiple versions under multiple distributions). I believe iPodder's general suckiness was the reason that Bashpodder was created:-)
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There is a program called Jpodder which is at least usable though the interface rather sucks. I'm actually finishing a Linux podcast aggregator called Castgater [yea.. I know not very imaginative] at the moment which, hopefully, I will have in a releasable state before next semester starts:-) Assuming that nothing major comes up to distract me, it should be up on Sourceforge before too long
That isn't the point of podcasting. It isn't an attempt to duplicate radio, it is more of a way to time-shift radio. In fact, most of the podcasts that I listen to are public radio programs which happen to also be offered as podcasts. I can listen whenever I like and I get to hear programs that I otherwise wouldn't be able to.
Because a lot of it is *not* amature radio. There is a vast array of public radio programs that offer podcasts. It's like radio Tivo, you can subscribe to feeds for programs that you can't catch on the radio, that aren't offered in your area, or if your memory is as bad as mine that you always forget to catch on the air. Before the podcast, I would always catch the last few minutes of "On The Media" on NPR because I always forgot to turn the radio on at 4:00pm on Saturday.
The ease of customizing would be nowhere near what Linux offers. Any component can be replaced or rebuilt however needed. A Linux system is a collection of independent components, not a monolithic product like Windows.
It doesn't matter how much of a discount they could have gotten on XP. Even if XP were free, it is not a flexable toolkit from which you could reasonably build a system like Google. You can not customise and build complex systems based around it as easily as you can around Linux.
Both are closed formats. To the best of my knowledge, the only way to play wma files under Linux/BSD is to use Microsoft's DLL files which is illegal (Though if you have a legal copy of Windows I suppose that is a grey area. I and many other Linux users, however, do not own or use Windows). MP3 support requires a license fee http://mp3licensing.com/ OGG is an open standard with no strings or restrictions.
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Offtopic?! Just what topic did the moderator think this was about?
is that it is useful only in the urban core where population densities are high enough to make use of it. The cost to user ratio in the suburbs and exurbs would make such a project far from attractive. Almost anything that helps to bring people to and keep people in the downtown core is worth trying.
So if an elected official does anything for the good of the community that they represent (which is their job), then it is a "political plot"? Wow, that attitude ought to really encourage people to serve.
Slow, yes, but if your only other option is a modem then that's pretty darn good. My parents live about three miles from town and the phone lines are so poor that their 56k modem only seems to realistically do about 14.4k.
Ummm no. If it is necessary to keep the brats entertained at all times and constantly stimulated in order to get their attention, then there is a serious problem. The correct response is to not allow them to have their toys and games at all if they can't be bothered to come out of their fantasy world and do some work.
Pandering to them and trying to keep them interested because they have the attention spans of fruit flies will only make the problem worse. It is the kids that need to change, not the entire world in which they live. If little Johnny can't be bothered to do his Math homework because it's not as fun as playing Quake, then little Johny should get teh $#!+ beat out of him until he decides that maybe he SHOULD do his work. His math teacher should not have to wear a clown nose, dance a jig, and assign video games for homework just to keep him awake.
Because Windows is "not quite ready for the desktop"... or server.
Well, there's always shortwave. At night I can pick it up pretty clear with an old S-38 and a (very) long wire antenna. I just got a Sirius radio this spring, I wonder if they will censor out anything O-word related on that too?
That already happened in the last ******* games. The BBC World Service had to block out their feed for anyone in the US if there was any mention of the games which cannot be named because they would have been infringing on the exclusive broadcast rights of NBC.
It was bad enough when a certain network gained exclusive broadcast in the US rights and the BBC World Service had to black out their stream every time there was any mention of the Olympic games. This is ridiculous.
That would be hard on a lot of businesses... Calendar makers, for instance :-)
I wonder how much higher this count would be if there were some way of tallying up Linux users who install from their distribution's package collection rather than dowloading directly? I use Firefox on all of my machines, but I have never had to download it from Mozilla's website. My wife has installed Firefox on her Mac as well which counts for at least one direct download, but that is only one machine out of four in the house - the other three aren't counted.
Useful in causing drastic planitary warming, yes. Given that a rise in temperature of the same amount here on earth would make the planet uninhabitable, though, I think that a bit of complaining, and action, is very much in order and very much appropriate.
Why is this under "worms" and "security" but not under "Windows" and "Microsoft".
I wouldn't be surprised to see a /. story on, say, hampster dance in a few years. Not only has that video been around for years, but Darl Mcbride even referred to it in his "open letter" not long ago:
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A popular animation
on the Internet features a guy named Steve, the Linux Super Villain.
During the course of the 60 second animation, he describes his work
with Linux stating, "First you have to config it, then write some
shell scripts, update your RPMs, partition your drives, patch your
kernel, compile your binaries and check your version dependencies..."
http://ca.us.biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050808/lam060.h
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/08/08
And yet this got modded offtopic?
iPodder is basically a Windows program. I have never been able to get it running under Linux (multiple versions under multiple distributions). I believe iPodder's general suckiness was the reason that Bashpodder was created :-)
There is a program called Jpodder which is at least usable though the interface rather sucks. I'm actually finishing a Linux podcast aggregator called Castgater [yea.. I know not very imaginative] at the moment which, hopefully, I will have in a releasable state before next semester starts :-) Assuming that nothing major comes up to distract me, it should be up on Sourceforge before too long
That isn't the point of podcasting. It isn't an attempt to duplicate radio, it is more of a way to time-shift radio. In fact, most of the podcasts that I listen to are public radio programs which happen to also be offered as podcasts. I can listen whenever I like and I get to hear programs that I otherwise wouldn't be able to.
Because a lot of it is *not* amature radio. There is a vast array of public radio programs that offer podcasts. It's like radio Tivo, you can subscribe to feeds for programs that you can't catch on the radio, that aren't offered in your area, or if your memory is as bad as mine that you always forget to catch on the air. Before the podcast, I would always catch the last few minutes of "On The Media" on NPR because I always forgot to turn the radio on at 4:00pm on Saturday.
The ease of customizing would be nowhere near what Linux offers. Any component can be replaced or rebuilt however needed. A Linux system is a collection of independent components, not a monolithic product like Windows.
It doesn't matter how much of a discount they could have gotten on XP. Even if XP were free, it is not a flexable toolkit from which you could reasonably build a system like Google. You can not customise and build complex systems based around it as easily as you can around Linux.
Both are closed formats. To the best of my knowledge, the only way to play wma files under Linux/BSD is to use Microsoft's DLL files which is illegal (Though if you have a legal copy of Windows I suppose that is a grey area. I and many other Linux users, however, do not own or use Windows). MP3 support requires a license fee http://mp3licensing.com/ OGG is an open standard with no strings or restrictions.
Open hearth sugery? Well, I'd imagine that performing any kind of repair on your fireplace would be made more difficult if it were closed off.
It is a species of penguin.http://www.siec.k12.in.us/~west/proj/pengu ins/gentoo.html Specifically, a very fast swimming penguin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentoo_Penguin