is the sound of people wanting to know what the outcome is, to know that we are not doing more harm than good, before we do something like this. Don't f*ck the world by accident or by ignorance. Preferably don't f*ck it at all.
I do not mind experimenting and learning, but something on this scale that has such huge potential ramifications, all on someone's belief rather than proven science, backed with long term studies - Nahh, that I do not like. Too much of it already in the world we live in. Let's learn from humanity's mistakes, please!
Gcompris is an educational suite for kids. It stars out with basic mouse movements, progresses through clicking, double clicking, letters on the keyboard, and on from there. They are all games, that my 2 and 4 year old enjoy, and they learn from as well!
Second rate is great, when perfection is imaginary! Perfect is an ideal embodied by many, but usually not the same ideal embodied by the individuals in that many. So, yeah, I will take good enough, rather than wait until eternity for perfection.
Single source OSs or anything else. If they manage to get it right, the perfect OS that satisfies every user, meets all of our needs. Then what happens? Does the world stagnate, or do they go ahead and produce something that may be totaly crap, and we are all locked in, so we all adopt the crap.
No thanks, I like variety, choice, and options. I like being able to decide what I want, and what I do not want. I hope the patent situation around the world does not kill inovation, and I do not want this, as it would do the same.
I would agree with that except for the question of how much more helium would be needed as a result of the parties? Balloon pops, bursts into fire, house burns down, people sent to hospital in need of medical attention... I think we need a study to anaylize just how many additional MRIs would be needed as a result, so we can determine if we would be saving helium in the long run. Anyone have a few hundred million to invest in such a worth study?
That was my initial thought. So, since I am using 12.04 LTS, I am hoping that I can avoid the Amazon ads for a while. It will give me a chance to see (hopefully) Canonical remove the Ads in favour of the way it has been, or a chance to find a new distro to switch to.
I suppose if there was an easy off switch, that might work, but I do so hate the concept in general.
I'm still running a home phone - VOIP, not land line. I haven't seen anything worth switching to in the mobile market. So, I have you beat. I have not spent the money, nor will I, on any iPhone.
Bank employees are not stupid enough to have their software blindly follow/execute QR codes, so I do not think there is a serious concern of bank systems being infected with virii from forged QR codes. But if there was, I would hope the virus programmers would make include code to allow banks to help those that need help, not just the ones that have lots already.
I have to ask why written consent is going to cost the university $594,000 annually. Surely, one of their law students could draft a consent letter to be reviewed by a practicing lawyer - maybe one already on staff. That should only cost a few hundred dollars - maybe a couple of thousand if the lawyer is famous and expensive. Then there is the cost of a filing cabinet to store the letters. Maybe paper for photocopies. And Say 15 minutes per client in time to print, collect the signature and file the document. Surely that can not cost more than $10,000 a year. If it was run by a government, I could see it a little higher, but not 60 times that amount.
For all of you bashing Harper and his politicized government, non-profits and the rest of Canada, all I have to say is we got it right. Eleven or twelve people are working for the government rather than collecting Employment Insurance. Just think how many unemployed could be working in the states if Agencies such as NASA, used the same amount of manpower to answer questions like these. I am sure that would solve the economic slowdown we have been having.
I seem to remember from when I lived in Prague, anything that you develop stays yours. Even when developed on business time, the business cannot take ownership of it. That seemed to be very sensible to me at the time. Now, I may not remember it accurately, but I can always dream...:)
It is not quite that simple. If Joe uploads a photo, and tags a face as belonging to you, and then Mary uploads a photo with a face that matches and also says it belongs to you, it does not take facebook very long to know what you look like, and who you might know even though you do not have a facebook account.
Finally! Now when I am traveling around the world - which I do quite a bit, I can securely access my facebook account. That is, so long as my phone works where ever I am, and ummm, oh yeah! I need to buy a phone too.
I have been in the computer field for a few years. It is how I have made my living. My dislike of Microsoft comes from these experiences.
1. Apparent lack of quality. I pride myself on my work ethics. I do my best to fix a problem properly, not just put a band-aid on it. In my experience when clients brought a computer for me to repair, I knew it was just a matter of time before the Microsoft OS based computers came back again, for another computer. People with MACs, Linux based PCs, and looking back, Amigas, and so forth, had stable systems, meaning they did 'break down' BSOD or the equivalent, nearly as often. I hated working on someone's Microsoft based PC knowing when I returned it to them, that I would be seeing them again in another six months or so.
2. Bloat. In the late 80s, I was using a fully multi-tasking OS, on a high resolution, high colour, monitor, with a full GUI interface, being able to format a floppy, while rendering a 3D image, all doable without a harddrive. A single floppy drive and I could do all that on my Amiga. Microsoft did not offer most of features found in the Amiga OS, until Windows XP. Windows 2000 did offer a number of them. There are still at least one nice feature of the Amiga OS, that is not yet duplicated by Microsoft. Even now with all the abilities, Windows XP needs 128MB of RAM and a GB of hard drive space just to turn on. My old Amiga worked very nicely with only 512KB of RAM, and a single 880KB floppy. At 1/256th the RAM and less than 1/1024th the storage capacity, that old computer matched capabilities with a current low end XP. (Unfortunately, Commodore's inability to market successfully brought the company down.) Currently I use linux, a fully 64bit OS with almost if not all of my software built for 64bit processing. All my linux software takes up much less hard drive space, and seems to use less RAM than the equivalent MS products would.
3. I could go on about the system security, liking the underdog, and so forth, but I will leave it at that for now.
For some it may be cool to have a light turn on when they walk by, or have their computer log log them in automatically. Not for me. Cool to me is knowing the tomato in the spaghetti sauce I just made, was vine ripened in my back yard, rather than sitting in the back of a truck for a week. Cool is knowing that my well insulated house, with solar and geothermal heating and cooling reduce my energy consumption and help out Mother Nature. Cool to me isn't the gadgets I own, it is the love and joy in my life.
Besides, the soviets banned cell phone use due to potential effects from having a radio transmitter so close to your head. Meanwhile we of the western world loved them. Reports have since started coming out about the negative effects of the radiation from cell phone on peoples brains - increased frequency of tumours and the like.
If that doesn't hint at my answer to putting an RFID in my body, I'll be blunt. No - not me!
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is the sound of people wanting to know what the outcome is, to know that we are not doing more harm than good, before we do something like this. Don't f*ck the world by accident or by ignorance. Preferably don't f*ck it at all. I do not mind experimenting and learning, but something on this scale that has such huge potential ramifications, all on someone's belief rather than proven science, backed with long term studies - Nahh, that I do not like. Too much of it already in the world we live in. Let's learn from humanity's mistakes, please!
Gcompris is an educational suite for kids. It stars out with basic mouse movements, progresses through clicking, double clicking, letters on the keyboard, and on from there. They are all games, that my 2 and 4 year old enjoy, and they learn from as well!
Second rate is great, when perfection is imaginary! Perfect is an ideal embodied by many, but usually not the same ideal embodied by the individuals in that many. So, yeah, I will take good enough, rather than wait until eternity for perfection.
Single source OSs or anything else. If they manage to get it right, the perfect OS that satisfies every user, meets all of our needs. Then what happens? Does the world stagnate, or do they go ahead and produce something that may be totaly crap, and we are all locked in, so we all adopt the crap. No thanks, I like variety, choice, and options. I like being able to decide what I want, and what I do not want. I hope the patent situation around the world does not kill inovation, and I do not want this, as it would do the same.
I wish my Federal, Provincial, and Municipal governments see what is happening and learn from it. I doubt it, but it sure would be great if...
I would agree with that except for the question of how much more helium would be needed as a result of the parties? Balloon pops, bursts into fire, house burns down, people sent to hospital in need of medical attention... I think we need a study to anaylize just how many additional MRIs would be needed as a result, so we can determine if we would be saving helium in the long run. Anyone have a few hundred million to invest in such a worth study?
Unity - I hate it. Pulled it off my system. Ubuntu with Gnome 2 is ok.
That was my initial thought. So, since I am using 12.04 LTS, I am hoping that I can avoid the Amazon ads for a while. It will give me a chance to see (hopefully) Canonical remove the Ads in favour of the way it has been, or a chance to find a new distro to switch to. I suppose if there was an easy off switch, that might work, but I do so hate the concept in general.
I'm still running a home phone - VOIP, not land line. I haven't seen anything worth switching to in the mobile market. So, I have you beat. I have not spent the money, nor will I, on any iPhone.
Bank employees are not stupid enough to have their software blindly follow/execute QR codes, so I do not think there is a serious concern of bank systems being infected with virii from forged QR codes. But if there was, I would hope the virus programmers would make include code to allow banks to help those that need help, not just the ones that have lots already.
I like the ones that twist, sort of like a roller coaster for your drink!
I have to ask why written consent is going to cost the university $594,000 annually. Surely, one of their law students could draft a consent letter to be reviewed by a practicing lawyer - maybe one already on staff. That should only cost a few hundred dollars - maybe a couple of thousand if the lawyer is famous and expensive. Then there is the cost of a filing cabinet to store the letters. Maybe paper for photocopies. And Say 15 minutes per client in time to print, collect the signature and file the document. Surely that can not cost more than $10,000 a year. If it was run by a government, I could see it a little higher, but not 60 times that amount.
Yes, I realize there is way too much government. I am all for less government. I thought my previous comment was dripping with sarcasm.
For all of you bashing Harper and his politicized government, non-profits and the rest of Canada, all I have to say is we got it right. Eleven or twelve people are working for the government rather than collecting Employment Insurance. Just think how many unemployed could be working in the states if Agencies such as NASA, used the same amount of manpower to answer questions like these. I am sure that would solve the economic slowdown we have been having.
I seem to remember from when I lived in Prague, anything that you develop stays yours. Even when developed on business time, the business cannot take ownership of it. That seemed to be very sensible to me at the time. Now, I may not remember it accurately, but I can always dream... :)
It is not quite that simple. If Joe uploads a photo, and tags a face as belonging to you, and then Mary uploads a photo with a face that matches and also says it belongs to you, it does not take facebook very long to know what you look like, and who you might know even though you do not have a facebook account.
Can we be surprised? After all, if Iraq did not have, nor was a threat to our (Western) cheap oil, we would not have cared about what happened there.
I totally agree with stripping corporations of their 'personal rights'. And from a quick read, I also agree with the STET tax.
Do we need a new word, Corporatism for it, or do we already have one, Capitalism?
Finally! Now when I am traveling around the world - which I do quite a bit, I can securely access my facebook account. That is, so long as my phone works where ever I am, and ummm, oh yeah! I need to buy a phone too.
Cliff,
I have been in the computer field for a few years. It is how I have made my living. My dislike of Microsoft comes from these experiences.
1. Apparent lack of quality. I pride myself on my work ethics. I do my best to fix a problem properly, not just put a band-aid on it. In my experience when clients brought a computer for me to repair, I knew it was just a matter of time before the Microsoft OS based computers came back again, for another computer. People with MACs, Linux based PCs, and looking back, Amigas, and so forth, had stable systems, meaning they did 'break down' BSOD or the equivalent, nearly as often. I hated working on someone's Microsoft based PC knowing when I returned it to them, that I would be seeing them again in another six months or so.
2. Bloat. In the late 80s, I was using a fully multi-tasking OS, on a high resolution, high colour, monitor, with a full GUI interface, being able to format a floppy, while rendering a 3D image, all doable without a harddrive. A single floppy drive and I could do all that on my Amiga. Microsoft did not offer most of features found in the Amiga OS, until Windows XP. Windows 2000 did offer a number of them. There are still at least one nice feature of the Amiga OS, that is not yet duplicated by Microsoft. Even now with all the abilities, Windows XP needs 128MB of RAM and a GB of hard drive space just to turn on. My old Amiga worked very nicely with only 512KB of RAM, and a single 880KB floppy. At 1/256th the RAM and less than 1/1024th the storage capacity, that old computer matched capabilities with a current low end XP. (Unfortunately, Commodore's inability to market successfully brought the company down.) Currently I use linux, a fully 64bit OS with almost if not all of my software built for 64bit processing. All my linux software takes up much less hard drive space, and seems to use less RAM than the equivalent MS products would.
3. I could go on about the system security, liking the underdog, and so forth, but I will leave it at that for now.
For some it may be cool to have a light turn on when they walk by, or have their computer log log them in automatically. Not for me. Cool to me is knowing the tomato in the spaghetti sauce I just made, was vine ripened in my back yard, rather than sitting in the back of a truck for a week. Cool is knowing that my well insulated house, with solar and geothermal heating and cooling reduce my energy consumption and help out Mother Nature. Cool to me isn't the gadgets I own, it is the love and joy in my life.
Besides, the soviets banned cell phone use due to potential effects from having a radio transmitter so close to your head. Meanwhile we of the western world loved them. Reports have since started coming out about the negative effects of the radiation from cell phone on peoples brains - increased frequency of tumours and the like.
If that doesn't hint at my answer to putting an RFID in my body, I'll be blunt. No - not me!
If bad TV shows could shout out to the remotes to change the channels, so we didn't have to do that either - then we'd be set. Carolyn