I do some volunteering work supervising sessions at a local community centre, where people (generally older people) can come in and use the computers provided for an hour or so. One of my regulars is an old lady who freely acknowledges her lack of knowledge before but is perfectly willing to learn and to ask questions. She's probably already better with most of MS Office than the average uni student.
Last year I did similar sessions in a centre a bit further afield, but the people coming in were of a more varying age range, and were coming in to be given a free refurbished computer and a bit of basic assistance with it. Again, I found several who were much more interested in learning, including one elderly gentleman whose hands were so unsteady that he took a while to do anything, but he still kept trying. Some others just didn't seem particularly interested and didn't get very far because of it.
Interest and willingness to learn are very important for such things.
At the moment I'd buy a decent Intel graphics chip. They may be generally inferior, but I'm used to being nowhere near cutting-edge with hardware, and out of all the options under linux they are the best.
The casual thieves probably won't know about it when they do the actual stealing, at least for the first several. So it won't even have any effect at that point.
As has been said before: any copy protection has the major flaw that the person who the encryption is supposed to block is ALSO the person who has to be able to decrypt it to watch it.
I can see your reasoning. However, if you were reading "an NDA" or "a NDA", you wouldn't necessarily read it in full. The written form should be related to how you would read it exactly as written.
(Also, I think you missed a word or two at the beginning. Probably adjusted.)
Not if you would read it as "an eff ay cue", which is what I would do. For acronyms, unless the acronym is usually used as a spoken word rather than individual letters, you go by the sound of the first letter. Examples: "A BBC program", "An EFF Lawyer", "An NDA", etc etc.
Done properly, some hydroelectric systems can make very effective energy storage. You use excess energy (especially from nuclear reactors, but from all large station) during offpeak times to pump water up a hill. You then turn on a valve in pipes back down the hill and use the water to generate electricity during peak times.
This system is used in various places across the UK. I don't know about the rest of the world.
Obviously you lose some energy during the process, but overall it works quite nicely.
Pretty similar situation. I had one of the free Dell inkjets - my stepdad's work bought a bunch of dell machines and gave the free printers away, so I got one - and was paying £stupid-money for refills. I've now got a Samsung ML-2010, which is fast, looks fine, and I don't expect it to run out for quite a long time. The only thing that annoys me about it is that under linux, at present, it won't print at its normal full speed (which is literally as fast as it can feed paper through).
You're suggesting that companies should have to choose between either copyright or DRM - between legal, enforceable protection or flimsy, bypassable technological protection?
This sounds like a very good idea.
(amusingly, the captcha for this post was "company".)
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Never underestimate the free time and willingness to apply oneself to things that are of interest that the retired can have.
I do some volunteering work supervising sessions at a local community centre, where people (generally older people) can come in and use the computers provided for an hour or so. One of my regulars is an old lady who freely acknowledges her lack of knowledge before but is perfectly willing to learn and to ask questions. She's probably already better with most of MS Office than the average uni student.
Last year I did similar sessions in a centre a bit further afield, but the people coming in were of a more varying age range, and were coming in to be given a free refurbished computer and a bit of basic assistance with it. Again, I found several who were much more interested in learning, including one elderly gentleman whose hands were so unsteady that he took a while to do anything, but he still kept trying. Some others just didn't seem particularly interested and didn't get very far because of it.
Interest and willingness to learn are very important for such things.
At the moment I'd buy a decent Intel graphics chip. They may be generally inferior, but I'm used to being nowhere near cutting-edge with hardware, and out of all the options under linux they are the best.
And have everything inaccessible when my network goes down? I think not, thankyou. I'm staying with local applications.
There is explicit nudity. I wouldn't call it pornographic in the slightest.
Not all nudity is porn.
The casual thieves probably won't know about it when they do the actual stealing, at least for the first several. So it won't even have any effect at that point.
Oh, we had the opportunity to at least put our names against the idea of ID cards... and something considerably over ten million did, as I recall.
We then get told "It's clear that a lot of you think this is a bad idea, but I'm right and we're doing it anyway" by our beloved Chief Goblin.
I cannot see any useful purpose for such an ambiguous list as this. What could it possibly tell you that would be helpful to you?
Lists of things like this need to be more categorised to be of any real use.
TPB believe - and their lawyers believe - that the database and tracker they maintain is not against swedish law.
As has been said before: any copy protection has the major flaw that the person who the encryption is supposed to block is ALSO the person who has to be able to decrypt it to watch it.
Shhhhhhh.
Yes, you're right. But they don't need to know!
I'm sure as soon as someone realises they'll dispatch an Emergency Response Starbucks Construction Team.
Is there anywhere left that isn't within 200 yards of a Starbucks?
I *AM* in the UK. And it is based on sound, not actual letter. "An historical record" is ONLY correct if you use a silent h.
I can see your reasoning. However, if you were reading "an NDA" or "a NDA", you wouldn't necessarily read it in full. The written form should be related to how you would read it exactly as written.
(Also, I think you missed a word or two at the beginning. Probably adjusted.)
Not if you would read it as "an eff ay cue", which is what I would do. For acronyms, unless the acronym is usually used as a spoken word rather than individual letters, you go by the sound of the first letter. Examples: "A BBC program", "An EFF Lawyer", "An NDA", etc etc.
Done properly, some hydroelectric systems can make very effective energy storage. You use excess energy (especially from nuclear reactors, but from all large station) during offpeak times to pump water up a hill. You then turn on a valve in pipes back down the hill and use the water to generate electricity during peak times.
This system is used in various places across the UK. I don't know about the rest of the world.
Obviously you lose some energy during the process, but overall it works quite nicely.
Exactly what I was about to write.
I just read that as "small Washington shrub" and wondered what was so special about this particular small bush.
Pretty similar situation. I had one of the free Dell inkjets - my stepdad's work bought a bunch of dell machines and gave the free printers away, so I got one - and was paying £stupid-money for refills. I've now got a Samsung ML-2010, which is fast, looks fine, and I don't expect it to run out for quite a long time. The only thing that annoys me about it is that under linux, at present, it won't print at its normal full speed (which is literally as fast as it can feed paper through).
Ah, but you're using the wrong numbers. £.79/£99 (DRM and low quality/DRM-free and higher quality) or $.99/$1.29, not $.79.
You're suggesting that companies should have to choose between either copyright or DRM - between legal, enforceable protection or flimsy, bypassable technological protection?
This sounds like a very good idea.
(amusingly, the captcha for this post was "company".)
Windows has had a graphical installer for god knows how long. So do many linux distros. This is not a vista-specific feature and is not remotely new.
Don't worry. I almost made the same mistake.
If I tell you to do something that is against a rule or law, are you blameless?