Till they can get wireless to the point where it exceeds wired in speed then maybe I'll go full wireless. But I'll take my custom built PC with its tower and parts with ok cable management over an iMac or any of Apple's hardware anyday.
I thought that (Al Quadea) or however it's spelled said in a video after 9/11 that they hated the freedom that we had and cited that as one of the reasons (granted the big goal is to kill us all for not being Muslim) for 9/11.
Remember Remember the fifth of November
The gunpowder treason and plot
I know of no reason why the gunpowder treason should ever be forgot..
Viola (etc..etc..) and you may call me V.
I think in some countries in the EU (if not all) if you lose a court battle you have to pay the defendant's fees. So the tactics the RIAA used really wouldn't bode well for them. Imagine if they sued, racked up thousands of dollars in legal fees then tried to drop the case once they couldn't win. They'd have to reimburse the defendant.
If only the US had a court system like that..it'd make civil suits less frequent.
I agree, that's the main weakness of Linux. It has no one solid support and because of that there's no real incentive for a company to develop their product on Linux. If they had just one Linux OS that everyone worked on together (yes it would suck for freedom and creativity, etc..) then users would be more consilidated.
Isn't there also an option to not even have Google put the data/index files on their server? I know that you need it on if you want to search files on your computer from another. But you can turn it off (I did).
I agree. Students most of the time aren't organized at all so that's probably why it'd work.
Though all it takes is just that one person or a couple people to organize the voice and then everything will start to crumble. And there's always someone like that in high school, it just depends on the issue and how far they are pushed.
Though most of the time they do it more to protest something really unfair or unjust rather then what the school blocks or detentions from going around the block.
The only problem is if you have a significant popln of your school doing it. Suspending and warning them isn't exactly the best idea if your going hit about (say) 1/4th of your school popln).
In this case it'd be like trying to hit a union (providing that students are organized enough to stick to the plan).
Nah it's not just that. SEGA actually had some good games. SEGA however had a very very bad planning department.. -_-. By the time Dreamcast rolled around SEGA had already did a good job of destroying SEGA from within.
I wish we could do that. "We'll give you a 10 year trial period to see what you can do without net neutrality...ok 10 years up. Wait people still don't have fast access and your still screwing them over with your monopoly? Ok we're taking back that fiber that we gave you with the people's tax money and regiving it out to smaller groups".
But..this is America and not to mention that's pretty unfeasilble. Ideal but unfeasible.
Yeah viruses and trojans are annoying. They infect someone's computer and then access their address book to send it to their contacts. Annoying when its your friends and family that's sending it to you. Not much you can do about it on your side besides ask them if they sent it and scan it before opening. Though you could educate them about computer security.
I agree, it's not fool proof. But it's worked for me for several years now so.:). I also find it helps if you don't use name@domain.com. (the bots will pick it up) so whenever possible I always use name at domain.com or some random thing to replace the word at or @ so only humans would know what to do with it most of the time. (I even do that with my junk account). Though it won't work for signups.
I also tend not to use any computer/laptop but my own to check email because of privacy reasons. (though I have checked it at work before). I just use my USB portable Thunderbird so it's not a huge problem checking it from whereever.
Though setting up a filter with the words "sex, viagra, penis, problems, women, mortgage, sexy (and so on) pretty much catches everything outside of the image spam. (though I got images turned off in Thunderbird anyway). And luckily I haven't gotten much of them.
Though I do have an idea to use with those private email addresses. If they're your friends they're pretty much going be using the same email (if they keep changing or losing it I'll usually direct them to send mail to my more public accounts). Setup up an approved list so it automatically sends them thru if they match up the address. (won't help vs viruses and trojans though). Anything else gets stuck at the filter. The only problem is you gotta be on top of updating it. So if you apply to a job and you expect an email response then you better add "@name of business" to the permissions list or you'll be wondering why you never got a response.. lol.
While that may be the case. For me I just setup several different email accounts. One of the 6 is used for the obvious sites where you'd get spam, signs for forums, sign ups for sites like this. It's pretty much a junk account where I could care less if I get the emails or not. Ironically combined with Yahoo's spam filter and the built in one in Thunderbird it's rare that I get an email that falls into the junk folder.
Then I got two for more casual use (random friends on the internet who will send you chain letters, etc..) One for people I know in real life who I'd shove my foot up their ass if they dared to send me chain letters. And lastly a university one for university and business purposes.
It seems to work pretty well, I pretty much never miss an important email, and any spam that makes it thru the barriers is less then 1-2 per week.
Though managing those email accounts can be hard. Which is why I use Thunderbird and ComodoDragon's webmail extension that basically scrapes emails from the hotmail, yahoo servers even though they no longer support free POP3 access.
Eh, it depends, alot of people still don't know what some of the components of a PC are. But the amount of people who know what they need spec wise is at least increasing. Making a PC pretty isn't going be a big effect to anyone I know or my family. They or I pretty much do the PC building work so if they need a PC I help them walk thru what parts they need and if necessary, build it for them. (I usually require they watch so they have some knowledge in the future).
Not to say I never messed with lights and stuff on my PC..I use to do that but now I prefer a nice black case. Maybe a sleek design so it doesn't look out of place but no fancy stuff. The only sticker or color it really has is the sticker that tells you what it's running inside. In the case of my current PC it'd be an AMD Opteron sticke.r.
Every change in Wikipedia is logged. So it's not like people's changes are made in stealth. Granted for the community to check each change might be difficult. Though they also don't have to re edit them back. They have versioning so they could probably just restore a backup of a wikipedia article from a few weeks ago.
It's not just that..
Keep in mind Nintendo's plan is to expand the base of gamers to include your parents, grand parents, people who never thought or were never interested in playing videogames.
Games like Brain Age, Nintendogs, etc... are games that are meant not just for gamers, but those people. Hell my dad is playing videogames again (he use to play them, dropped to just RTS games, then RTS games on PCs, then off gaming completly). With the recent games he's been playing the DS more now. He may not be playing MP:H, or the New Super Mario Bros, but he's playing Brain Age and Sudoku Gridmaster.
I believe what Wikipedia would then do is just lock down the article, restore an old backup of it (basically dumping all the chances made from that point on).
I really don't see why people are so uptight about how everyone can change what Wikipedia says. Sure it can be wrong. Crack open that encylopedia and chances are there are articles in there that are also wrong. The only difference is that the encyclopedia has less (along with less content) and that it'll take till the next revision (that you'll have to pay for probably) till it's fixed. While Wikipedia has more errors, more content, but can be fixed relatively easily.
Is the system flawed? Yep. But does it work? Yep for information that can be cross checked. Should you trust an encylopedia over that? Some academics and teachers would have you do so but in reality you shouldn't be relying on any of them. They're meant for a jump start for your paper, not the basis of your paper.
There will always be bad apples in society. We're not allowed to throw them all onto an island and be rid of them. No, society requires us to keep them and take care of them if necessary.
Wikipedia kinda reminds me of a democracy. Everyone has a voice, even if they are idiots. You just gotta hope that there are more smart people then idiots. Or put measures into place that limit the amount of idiots.
The thing is Nintendo is going be making the Wiimote pretty much the standard method of controls for the majority of the games. Ensuring that it'll be used and that everyone who buys a Wii will have one.
You can't guarantee that with the Eyetoy unless Sony decides to pack it in (glad to see you commented on that). If it's like the first Eyetoy you get it when buying games. Game developers do not make games for consoles based on hardware you might have. Some companies will make games for existing niches (DDR for example) but it'll pretty much never be a standard of control. There's few things that jump the gap from optional to standard. Rumble for example.
I think they've fixed some of the issues with the last eyetoy. Though I think that having the Wiimote with the built in technology and the sensor bar you basically attach to whereever and calibrate for the first time would be better then a camera that requires the right amount of light, etc.. (I think Sony fixed that problem though).
Though then there's also another advantage Wii has over PS3 with an eyetoy. Multiplayer. For the Wii your position doesn't really matter. For a PS3 with eyetoy position is going matter (unless the camera is a wide screen camera..or whatever the term for it is).
That's true. Men like to tinker and refuse to ask for help. So the majority of problems for men probably come as a result of trying to solve a much bigger problem then it was to just ask someone for help to fix the smaller problem. Though I think that's partially cause of socialization, not the fact that they're just men. They're socialized to not ask for help, to do things on their own, showing emotion is bad (makes you look like a wimp would be the more man phrase for it), etc..
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Till they can get wireless to the point where it exceeds wired in speed then maybe I'll go full wireless. But I'll take my custom built PC with its tower and parts with ok cable management over an iMac or any of Apple's hardware anyday.
I thought that (Al Quadea) or however it's spelled said in a video after 9/11 that they hated the freedom that we had and cited that as one of the reasons (granted the big goal is to kill us all for not being Muslim) for 9/11.
Yep, because people always want to be different or stick out in the group. Which is fine in some cases but it causes hell for an OS.
Remember Remember the fifth of November The gunpowder treason and plot I know of no reason why the gunpowder treason should ever be forgot.. Viola (etc..etc..) and you may call me V.
I think in some countries in the EU (if not all) if you lose a court battle you have to pay the defendant's fees. So the tactics the RIAA used really wouldn't bode well for them. Imagine if they sued, racked up thousands of dollars in legal fees then tried to drop the case once they couldn't win. They'd have to reimburse the defendant. If only the US had a court system like that..it'd make civil suits less frequent.
I agree, that's the main weakness of Linux. It has no one solid support and because of that there's no real incentive for a company to develop their product on Linux. If they had just one Linux OS that everyone worked on together (yes it would suck for freedom and creativity, etc..) then users would be more consilidated.
Isn't there also an option to not even have Google put the data/index files on their server? I know that you need it on if you want to search files on your computer from another. But you can turn it off (I did).
I agree. Students most of the time aren't organized at all so that's probably why it'd work. Though all it takes is just that one person or a couple people to organize the voice and then everything will start to crumble. And there's always someone like that in high school, it just depends on the issue and how far they are pushed. Though most of the time they do it more to protest something really unfair or unjust rather then what the school blocks or detentions from going around the block.
Actually there have been some idiots that have done that. Did you ever hear the news of the police who used myspace to solve a crime?
The only problem is if you have a significant popln of your school doing it. Suspending and warning them isn't exactly the best idea if your going hit about (say) 1/4th of your school popln). In this case it'd be like trying to hit a union (providing that students are organized enough to stick to the plan).
Nah it's not just that. SEGA actually had some good games. SEGA however had a very very bad planning department.. -_-. By the time Dreamcast rolled around SEGA had already did a good job of destroying SEGA from within.
I wish we could do that. "We'll give you a 10 year trial period to see what you can do without net neutrality...ok 10 years up. Wait people still don't have fast access and your still screwing them over with your monopoly? Ok we're taking back that fiber that we gave you with the people's tax money and regiving it out to smaller groups". But..this is America and not to mention that's pretty unfeasilble. Ideal but unfeasible.
lol..it's bound to happen when you don't plan your technology with that in mind.
Yeah viruses and trojans are annoying. They infect someone's computer and then access their address book to send it to their contacts. Annoying when its your friends and family that's sending it to you. Not much you can do about it on your side besides ask them if they sent it and scan it before opening. Though you could educate them about computer security.
I agree, it's not fool proof. But it's worked for me for several years now so. :). I also find it helps if you don't use name@domain.com. (the bots will pick it up) so whenever possible I always use name at domain.com or some random thing to replace the word at or @ so only humans would know what to do with it most of the time. (I even do that with my junk account). Though it won't work for signups.
I also tend not to use any computer/laptop but my own to check email because of privacy reasons. (though I have checked it at work before). I just use my USB portable Thunderbird so it's not a huge problem checking it from whereever.
Though setting up a filter with the words "sex, viagra, penis, problems, women, mortgage, sexy (and so on) pretty much catches everything outside of the image spam. (though I got images turned off in Thunderbird anyway). And luckily I haven't gotten much of them.
Though I do have an idea to use with those private email addresses. If they're your friends they're pretty much going be using the same email (if they keep changing or losing it I'll usually direct them to send mail to my more public accounts). Setup up an approved list so it automatically sends them thru if they match up the address. (won't help vs viruses and trojans though). Anything else gets stuck at the filter. The only problem is you gotta be on top of updating it. So if you apply to a job and you expect an email response then you better add "@name of business" to the permissions list or you'll be wondering why you never got a response.. lol.
While that may be the case. For me I just setup several different email accounts. One of the 6 is used for the obvious sites where you'd get spam, signs for forums, sign ups for sites like this. It's pretty much a junk account where I could care less if I get the emails or not. Ironically combined with Yahoo's spam filter and the built in one in Thunderbird it's rare that I get an email that falls into the junk folder.
Then I got two for more casual use (random friends on the internet who will send you chain letters, etc..) One for people I know in real life who I'd shove my foot up their ass if they dared to send me chain letters. And lastly a university one for university and business purposes.
It seems to work pretty well, I pretty much never miss an important email, and any spam that makes it thru the barriers is less then 1-2 per week.
Though managing those email accounts can be hard. Which is why I use Thunderbird and ComodoDragon's webmail extension that basically scrapes emails from the hotmail, yahoo servers even though they no longer support free POP3 access.
Eh, it depends, alot of people still don't know what some of the components of a PC are. But the amount of people who know what they need spec wise is at least increasing. Making a PC pretty isn't going be a big effect to anyone I know or my family. They or I pretty much do the PC building work so if they need a PC I help them walk thru what parts they need and if necessary, build it for them. (I usually require they watch so they have some knowledge in the future).
Not to say I never messed with lights and stuff on my PC..I use to do that but now I prefer a nice black case. Maybe a sleek design so it doesn't look out of place but no fancy stuff. The only sticker or color it really has is the sticker that tells you what it's running inside. In the case of my current PC it'd be an AMD Opteron sticke.r.
Every change in Wikipedia is logged. So it's not like people's changes are made in stealth. Granted for the community to check each change might be difficult. Though they also don't have to re edit them back. They have versioning so they could probably just restore a backup of a wikipedia article from a few weeks ago.
It's not just that.. Keep in mind Nintendo's plan is to expand the base of gamers to include your parents, grand parents, people who never thought or were never interested in playing videogames.
Games like Brain Age, Nintendogs, etc... are games that are meant not just for gamers, but those people. Hell my dad is playing videogames again (he use to play them, dropped to just RTS games, then RTS games on PCs, then off gaming completly). With the recent games he's been playing the DS more now. He may not be playing MP:H, or the New Super Mario Bros, but he's playing Brain Age and Sudoku Gridmaster.
I believe what Wikipedia would then do is just lock down the article, restore an old backup of it (basically dumping all the chances made from that point on).
I really don't see why people are so uptight about how everyone can change what Wikipedia says. Sure it can be wrong. Crack open that encylopedia and chances are there are articles in there that are also wrong. The only difference is that the encyclopedia has less (along with less content) and that it'll take till the next revision (that you'll have to pay for probably) till it's fixed. While Wikipedia has more errors, more content, but can be fixed relatively easily.
Is the system flawed? Yep. But does it work? Yep for information that can be cross checked. Should you trust an encylopedia over that? Some academics and teachers would have you do so but in reality you shouldn't be relying on any of them. They're meant for a jump start for your paper, not the basis of your paper.
There will always be bad apples in society. We're not allowed to throw them all onto an island and be rid of them. No, society requires us to keep them and take care of them if necessary. Wikipedia kinda reminds me of a democracy. Everyone has a voice, even if they are idiots. You just gotta hope that there are more smart people then idiots. Or put measures into place that limit the amount of idiots.
The thing is Nintendo is going be making the Wiimote pretty much the standard method of controls for the majority of the games. Ensuring that it'll be used and that everyone who buys a Wii will have one.
You can't guarantee that with the Eyetoy unless Sony decides to pack it in (glad to see you commented on that). If it's like the first Eyetoy you get it when buying games. Game developers do not make games for consoles based on hardware you might have. Some companies will make games for existing niches (DDR for example) but it'll pretty much never be a standard of control. There's few things that jump the gap from optional to standard. Rumble for example.
I think they've fixed some of the issues with the last eyetoy. Though I think that having the Wiimote with the built in technology and the sensor bar you basically attach to whereever and calibrate for the first time would be better then a camera that requires the right amount of light, etc.. (I think Sony fixed that problem though). Though then there's also another advantage Wii has over PS3 with an eyetoy. Multiplayer. For the Wii your position doesn't really matter. For a PS3 with eyetoy position is going matter (unless the camera is a wide screen camera..or whatever the term for it is).
lol..no. Cash. You can spend it on whatever or give the cash to someone else.
girls on the interweb? NO WAI!!!! - as quoted from some user on Gamefaqs.
That's true. Men like to tinker and refuse to ask for help. So the majority of problems for men probably come as a result of trying to solve a much bigger problem then it was to just ask someone for help to fix the smaller problem. Though I think that's partially cause of socialization, not the fact that they're just men. They're socialized to not ask for help, to do things on their own, showing emotion is bad (makes you look like a wimp would be the more man phrase for it), etc..