"Shunning" is such a silly word to use for this. Just because the iTunes store has not entirely replaced the CD in its few years of existence does not mean that users are shunning it.
Agreed. Most of my music in iTunes came from CDs I already own. When I do buy new music it comes from the iTunes Music Store, unless it's something they don't carry. Then I buy the CD. I don't buy a lot of music, but it's definitely more than what I bought before iTMS started up.
There is no "shunning" involved. If I already own it on CD, I don't buy it from iTMS. If it's only available on CD, then I buy the CD. If iTMS has it, I buy it from them. I don't understand why people have such a hard time with this concept.
And, I should also state that I don't give a rat's ass about the DRM. I don't even notice it. I can play the songs on my desktop and laptop, my iPod and burn a CD for my car. I guess I don't have the "perfect ears" some of you have been blessed with, because I can't tell the difference. Actually, I don't really care if there's a difference--I'm usually working while listening to music, not listening intently for every nuance of the song.
In short: If you are willing to jump trough dozens of hoops you shouldn't have to jump trough, to use your legitemately bought music, you won't have any issues with your 128kbps rip.
A dozen hoops??
*goes up to "Advanced" menu. Menu pops open. Ooh, look! "Deauthorize Computer"*
OMG, you totally made me cry! Seriously. Look. There's a tear, rolling down my cheek, because Desolator144 says I don't have any friends. Boohoohoohoo!
I don't even believe you're in High School. I'm guessing 8th grade, tops. Does your mom know you're on the Interweb conversing with grownups? Here's a bit of advice: when you're trying to pretend to be an adult online, "you don't have any friends" doesn't cut it as an insult.
I'm 19, been in college since I was 17 cuz they made me go early since I was so smart.
Erm...yeah. I started college when I was 17, too. Because my birthday was close to the cut-off date for starting Kindergarten way back when. Starting college at 17 is no big deal, sorry.
I have a friend who graduated HS at 15 and started college at 16. Man, you must be way dumber than she is. And she certainly didn't feel the need to tell everyone that she was smart or started university early. Got a bit of an inferiority complex there, kiddo?
I won't click on auctions that have "hype" in the listing. My first thought is "What's wrong with it? Why are they having trouble selling it that they need to hype it?" Hype on the description page will also make me go look elsewhere. A clear, concise and detailed description, that looks like somebody put some thought into it, is what will get me to consider the item. I mostly buy books, so pictures are a big plus--I can see what edition is for sale and get a basic idea of the condition. I don't bother with Reserve auctions at all. Either start with what you're willing to sell it for or forget it--I don't have time to play games of "Guess the minimum bid!".
More and more I've been going to Amazon for used books, though. No auction to wait through and the prices are often much lower.
On the contrary, in a situation where oil is extremely expensive, who's better off:
The city with the population of 100,000 who can have tons upon tons of food delivered to them on a single train
OR
The 1,000 texas ranchers, each of which have no neighbors within a mile of their homes?
Where do you think the 'tons of food' comes from? It doesn't just magically appear in a grocery store or a warehouse. It comes from those ranchers and farmers with no neighbors within a mile of their home. If you are out in a rural area, food is not as much as an issue as a city. You can grow your own grains, veggies and fruit; you can eat the tasty cows running around your ranch; or you can hunt wild animals. You can burn wood, straw or even cow dung to heat your house. You can go barter a bag of corn for one of your neighbor's pigs. And what about clean water? A rancher will have a well out in the middle of nowhere. Many rural people have access to relatively clean rivers and lakes. The cityfolk can only hope the water and sewer department can afford to keep running their plants. If oil is extremely expensive, that will translate to higher costs for clean water, heat and electricity. Even if the electric plant burns coal, it still has to get the coal on trains that uses expensive oil products. And If farmers can't afford to put fuel in their trucks and tractors to continue large-scale farming (the food has to reach those food-filled trains somehow), do you really think they are going to send what little they can harvest off to the 'big city' and let their own families and neighbors starve first?
In a crisis situation, a city is the last place I'd want to be.
This is stupid because nobody makes money for content directly off consumer in any broadcast medium.
OK. So how can you then say this?
The only time a content provider gets money directly from me is Pay Per View, which seems limited to good boxing matches and pr0n.
Sounds like someone is "making money for content directly off the consumer" for that boxing and pr0n (and other sports and movies and concerts). Doesn't sound very "stupid" to me, from the provider's point of view.
And, you even have the option of not buying it if you don't like it.
I think you're a little paranoid about the wrong things. What will the email do for them that the other info they obtain by your phone # doesn't?
And didn't Microsoft just prove the reliability of using something as impermanent as domain/e-mail to identify someone? Phone numbers are just as reliable. Seven months after getting a new phone number, we still get calls for the previous user--at least a quarter of the telemarketing calls are directed at them.
The government (from city up to federal) already knows things like a person's SSN and address. A home address is a bit more useful for aiming the mind control satellite than a Yahoo account!;-)
Well, since you're going to drag autism into this--
I exhibits most of the diagnostic indicators of ADHD and/or Autism, but I've never been 'diagnosed' and firmly reject the premise these are a disability or disease. I am poor at sport and empathic stuff, I'm constantly told I lack focus and concentration yet I know I am quite capable of focusing and concentration on something I find interesting and challenging for much longer than 'normal' people.
Well, genius, if you've never been 'diagnosed', then I guess you don't have it, mmkay? Just because you don't have it doesn't mean it isn't real. What is it with you self-taught MDs who love to diagnose yourselves with whatever condition is the topic of conversation? It's like you want to have autism, or ADHD, or whatever. Trust me, if I could give you my son's autism, I would.
I have symptoms of autism, but I certainly don't have it. My husband also has a few characteristics that could be tending toward autistic. Our son was diagnosed with autism at about two and there is no question that there is something wrong with him.
The real question should what is 'normal' and why should everybody be 'normal'. When any ability, attribute or skill of people is measured some people must end up on the extremes of the curve, this is entirely normal and is called a normal distribution.
What is normal? How about the ability to care for yourself? To be five years old and able to realize you need to go to the bathroom and then being able to carry through the task by yourself. How about being five years old and able to communicate at a level above a one-year-old? How about having the ability to show affection? Do you know what it's like when the first time your child shows affection is when he is four and a half years old? And you know what? We are lucky! Lucky! Because our son is only mild-moderately autistic, and we caught him early and he's been in therapy since he was two. With speech and occupational therapy, and a really good special ed program, he has a chance to become a functional, maybe even independent, person. I can't even begin to imagine what it's like to deal with a severely autistic child.
My special abilities allow me to conceive unusually and innovative solutions to problems, I can think around a problem in a way that 'normal' people are unable to even contemplate because they think in what I see as simplistic linear manner. I think this makes me and other similar people gifted not disabled.
"My special abilities..." What are you--Marvel's new superhero? Here's a free clue for you. Autism isn't diagonsed by what you can do, but by what you can't do. Being unable to communicate your feelings is not an ability. Being unable to follow simple instructions is not an ability. Being unable to dress yourself is not an ability. Being unable to control your own body so that you can't sit still is not an ability. When he was going through the initial evals, no one asked if he could troubleshoot creatively or do high level calculus in his head. They wanted to know how much he could communicate or if he could put his own shirt on or if he was able to pick up a block out of a group of objects if asked to do so.
Why are so many supposed 'normal' people prepared to label these abilities a disease or disability that must have a cause ? Many of these same people ascribe ADHD and/or Autism to MMR (or mercury in vaccines) because if it is a disease or disability it must have a cause.
If you were actually informed on the subject, you would know that researchers have been disproving the MMR theory for a while now. The causes of autism is really pointing to a genetic problem. And I don't care if it's just an overactive "hunter" gene--if you are unable to care for yourself, there is something wrong!
These 'normal' people are *supposed* to be empathic, yet give little consideration to our feelings in fact they do this despite our feels or thought on this subject. I t
This is interesting, considering Bryce for Mac was just killed. From MacCentral and MacNN . The Corel suit won't give a straight answer, but the Bryce page no longer lists a Mac version.
Corel was apparently looking for a buyer for Bryce. How this buyout will affect things, who knows. But I'm not going to get my hopes up for Bryce to ever run on the Mac again.
But, we still have Vue. And Eric Wenger, the original creator of Bryce, posted on the U&I forums that he is working on a new landscape creator. Demo images
Db is not the same as C#, nor is F# the same as Gb. They are different pitches, even though they may be harmonically equivalent. For a wind player, or a piano player, there's no difference, but ask a string player to play you a Db and a C#, and you'll be amazed.
What? Amazed that the string player can't play in tune?
That makes absolutely no sense. If a string is playing in an ensemble of mixed instruments and plays C-sharp and D-flat as different pitches, it's going to sound like crap. Woodwinds and brass (I've played both) can also play a note at different pitches, by adjusting the the instrument length or embouchure, but it's used to get yourself back *in tune*, not to *try* to play a different pitch (odd modern music excepted). An instrument that is off pitch is going to cause a really annoying "wa-wa-wa" sound on sustained notes. If they're drastically off pitch, it will sound like a wrong note.
Actually, I thought AOTC was pretty good--if you cut out all of the scenes featuring Anakin.
I like the parts with Obi-Wan discovering the clones and the back story of Boba Fett. There was a lot of potential for a good movie there.
Unfortunately, we were subjected to the horror that is teen-aged Anakin Skywalker and the so-called "love story". Padme is supposed to be smart and mature, but she comes across as brainless and clueless when she suddenly falls for this whining, self-centered brat. There is no chemistry between the actors, so it's even more unbelievable. Whiny Luke is funny, but whiny Anakin is nauseating. I will be cheering when Obi-Wan dumps the snotty little brat into the lava pit (or whatever)!
I'd be curious to know how many of those who report very short battery life have tried going beyond the system warning... cause mine is still running.
I had the exact same thing happen with my clamshell (firewire) iBook. However, if the energy saver kicked in, it wouldn't wake up unless I plugged it in.
I tried something I saw in the Apple Support discussions that seems to have worked. I got a VST charger and recharged the battery fully--and everything seems to work fine now. It seems as if the iBook wasn't recognizing the battery and the charger reset it or something.
I found the charger on eBay for $5! Here's the Dutch auction:
Must we bring our instant communication, our invasive culture, to *every* place in the world?
Must we push our ideas of how a culture is supposed to behave on every community that's trying to benefit from technological advances?
This is a Sherpa building a cybercafe in a Sherpa community. What gives you the right to judge them?
Maybe you should notify the Sherpas that they live in a sacred place that must be preserved, because they seem to think they can do whatever they want with their homes and community.
I am happy to hear there is now a cybercafe in the central himalayas. I certainly hope that soon there will be a mcdonalds at the bottom of the Indian Ocean, a Starbucks in the middle of St. Pauls' Cathedral, and a frozen yogurt bar on fucking Mars.
In fact, why not just tarmac over the entire planet all in one go? It's kinder than doing it bit by bit like this.
Oh, I see. To preserve the planet in ways that you like, people in the Himalayas can have no choice as to what businesses they open. Ignorant savages. Don't they know they're supposed to preserve their culture intact (preferably at a quaint, primitive level) so that Western tourists can leave behind their Starbucks and McDonalds and go to their backward little country to gawk at them and feel like they've "left civilization behind"? Next thing you know, they'll be using the internet access to provide news and education opportunities to their community. How are the tourists supposed to feel superior if the natives already know about things like the "magic box that paints your picture" and "carts that move by themselves"?
Why are First World civilizations allowed to advance technologically, but anyone else has to preserve their cultures at whatever level the anthropologists find most interesting to study. Why are the Japanese allowed to introduce new technology and gadgets into their culture (and evenutally everyone else's) every day, but a Sherpa wants to open a cybercafe in his community and he's accused of somehow ruining the planet?
Maybe what is best for the Himalayas should be decided by the people who actually live there?
It was in this book that he talked about the early plans for the space station. Dan Goldin assigned three teams to come up with a station design. These were voted on by a panel put together by MIT. The winner was a design that would be built on the ground and go up in one launch (like Skylab, which, BTW, had more living space than the ISS) and be ready for use immediately. We'd also get a new heavy launch vehicle out of the plan.
But this idea was killed by VP Gore and the House Space Subcommitee Chair because 1) they wanted to have an "international" station where everyone contributed parts and 2) they wanted to create the need for shuttle launches.
The Skylab-style design would have been cheaper, safer, more reliable and more capable. You could still have it be international--through lab designs and crew. You'd still need the shuttle (or maybe Zubrin's idea for a replacement) to ferry equipment and crew. Politics, not NASA, is to blame for the station we have now.
I personally like the concept put forward in the Star Ship Troopers book
This example is a violation of liberty, though. Forcing you to participate in some government mandated activity, just so you can have the right to vote, is not liberty. That's just as much Big Brother as '1984' and you're just as much a slave to the system as the "sheep".
Even if someone is stupid enough to want to give up liberty for safety they still deserve liberty.
"Deserve" means to be worthy of, to earn something. You can be guaranteed something (by the Constitution or your Creator), but it doesn't necessarily mean you deserve it. Franklin says nothing about taking away anyone's liberty. It has nothing to do with race or political views. The quote simply refers to the choice of what do you value more? Essential liberty or temporary security?
If you trade away your liberty, you deserve what you get--no privacy, the Ashcroft gestapo, Big Brother, etc. And none of those will give you any real security. (See second sentence of quote.) You don't deserve liberty anymore, because you gave it away. You did nothing to earn it or be worthy of it. You sold yourself to Big Brother and are now subject to whatever Big Brother determines your rights to be (Big Brother doesn't believe in inalienable right? Oh, boo hoo. Shoulda thought of that before you sold out. But at least you're secure, right?). You now have to hope that someone else, who didn't sell out their liberty, comes along and gives liberty back to you through a revolution, or you can stand up and earn it back yourself. Or, you can just not give it away in the first place!
OT Side Note: "Deserve" is a word that has recently taken a beating. I'm always hearing advertising saying things like "get the car you deserve" (usually offering high interest loans on $30,000 SUVs to people with poor/no credit). Bullshit! You deserve praise for saving a life, you may deserve a bonus or raise for doing something for your company, but you do not deserve a car you can't afford. People are confusing "deserve" with "entitled to because I think everyone (Society, The Man, the lender at the bank, etc.) is against me".
Endless Apple myths: Ripped off Xerox Can't use multi button mouse Uses non-standard hardware Is a monopoly Put SoundJam out of business Owned by Microsoft, a major shareholder Costs too much OS X is slow Lawsuits for no reason Rips off Linux any more?
Steve Jobs is using his Reality Distortion Field to take over the world.
The people who live there don't even have access to clean water. This is obcene
Yes, because we all know that people in third world countries are too ignorant to make their own decisions. It's a good thing we have paternalists to point out the error of their ways. Should we also prevent them from having internet access so we can preserve their culture for them, too?
I guess I'm just being naive when I trust that Mr. Gyaltsen can make his own decisions on how he can best help his neighbors.
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Tell me how that works if I want to play stuff on my cellphone. Right. It doesn't.
How do you normally get music onto your cellphone? I think I can safely assume that you don't just stick a CD into it and play it--no hoops.
And...the thread had been discussing music getting "lost" on old computers, so I'm not really sure where the cellphone comes in.
"Shunning" is such a silly word to use for this. Just because the iTunes store has not entirely replaced the CD in its few years of existence does not mean that users are shunning it.
Agreed. Most of my music in iTunes came from CDs I already own. When I do buy new music it comes from the iTunes Music Store, unless it's something they don't carry. Then I buy the CD. I don't buy a lot of music, but it's definitely more than what I bought before iTMS started up.
There is no "shunning" involved. If I already own it on CD, I don't buy it from iTMS. If it's only available on CD, then I buy the CD. If iTMS has it, I buy it from them. I don't understand why people have such a hard time with this concept.
And, I should also state that I don't give a rat's ass about the DRM. I don't even notice it. I can play the songs on my desktop and laptop, my iPod and burn a CD for my car. I guess I don't have the "perfect ears" some of you have been blessed with, because I can't tell the difference. Actually, I don't really care if there's a difference--I'm usually working while listening to music, not listening intently for every nuance of the song.
In short: If you are willing to jump trough dozens of hoops you shouldn't have to jump trough, to use your legitemately bought music, you won't have any issues with your 128kbps rip.
A dozen hoops??
*goes up to "Advanced" menu. Menu pops open. Ooh, look! "Deauthorize Computer"*
OMG! That was so hard! I'm exhausted!
And first of all, you don't have any friends.
OMG, you totally made me cry! Seriously. Look. There's a tear, rolling down my cheek, because Desolator144 says I don't have any friends. Boohoohoohoo!
I don't even believe you're in High School. I'm guessing 8th grade, tops. Does your mom know you're on the Interweb conversing with grownups? Here's a bit of advice: when you're trying to pretend to be an adult online, "you don't have any friends" doesn't cut it as an insult.
I'm 19, been in college since I was 17 cuz they made me go early since I was so smart.
Erm...yeah. I started college when I was 17, too. Because my birthday was close to the cut-off date for starting Kindergarten way back when. Starting college at 17 is no big deal, sorry.
I have a friend who graduated HS at 15 and started college at 16. Man, you must be way dumber than she is. And she certainly didn't feel the need to tell everyone that she was smart or started university early. Got a bit of an inferiority complex there, kiddo?
We are talking about the same book, "The Hobbit", right?
The one by J. R. R. Tolkien?
The one where the dwarves all sing a cheery song about breaking Bilbo's dishes while they do the washing up?
The same book with Bombur, the Fat Dwarf?
The same book with dwarves bickering like schoolkids?
Hate to break it to you, but Peter Jackson's version of Gimli was positively dour compared to the dwarves in "The Hobbit".
I won't click on auctions that have "hype" in the listing. My first thought is "What's wrong with it? Why are they having trouble selling it that they need to hype it?" Hype on the description page will also make me go look elsewhere. A clear, concise and detailed description, that looks like somebody put some thought into it, is what will get me to consider the item. I mostly buy books, so pictures are a big plus--I can see what edition is for sale and get a basic idea of the condition. I don't bother with Reserve auctions at all. Either start with what you're willing to sell it for or forget it--I don't have time to play games of "Guess the minimum bid!".
More and more I've been going to Amazon for used books, though. No auction to wait through and the prices are often much lower.
On the contrary, in a situation where oil is extremely expensive, who's better off:
The city with the population of 100,000 who can have tons upon tons of food delivered to them on a single train
OR
The 1,000 texas ranchers, each of which have no neighbors within a mile of their homes?
Where do you think the 'tons of food' comes from? It doesn't just magically appear in a grocery store or a warehouse. It comes from those ranchers and farmers with no neighbors within a mile of their home. If you are out in a rural area, food is not as much as an issue as a city. You can grow your own grains, veggies and fruit; you can eat the tasty cows running around your ranch; or you can hunt wild animals. You can burn wood, straw or even cow dung to heat your house. You can go barter a bag of corn for one of your neighbor's pigs. And what about clean water? A rancher will have a well out in the middle of nowhere. Many rural people have access to relatively clean rivers and lakes. The cityfolk can only hope the water and sewer department can afford to keep running their plants. If oil is extremely expensive, that will translate to higher costs for clean water, heat and electricity. Even if the electric plant burns coal, it still has to get the coal on trains that uses expensive oil products. And If farmers can't afford to put fuel in their trucks and tractors to continue large-scale farming (the food has to reach those food-filled trains somehow), do you really think they are going to send what little they can harvest off to the 'big city' and let their own families and neighbors starve first?
In a crisis situation, a city is the last place I'd want to be.
This is stupid because nobody makes money for content directly off consumer in any broadcast medium.
OK. So how can you then say this?
The only time a content provider gets money directly from me is Pay Per View, which seems limited to good boxing matches and pr0n.
Sounds like someone is "making money for content directly off the consumer" for that boxing and pr0n (and other sports and movies and concerts). Doesn't sound very "stupid" to me, from the provider's point of view.
And, you even have the option of not buying it if you don't like it.
Maybe it's a massive advertising campaign for Adobe Illustrator?
And didn't Microsoft just prove the reliability of using something as impermanent as domain/e-mail to identify someone? Phone numbers are just as reliable. Seven months after getting a new phone number, we still get calls for the previous user--at least a quarter of the telemarketing calls are directed at them.
The government (from city up to federal) already knows things like a person's SSN and address. A home address is a bit more useful for aiming the mind control satellite than a Yahoo account! ;-)
They did specifiy "desktop".
Could you buy those 64-bit Digitals at your local mall?
I exhibits most of the diagnostic indicators of ADHD and/or Autism, but I've never been 'diagnosed' and firmly reject the premise these are a disability or disease. I am poor at sport and empathic stuff, I'm constantly told I lack focus and concentration yet I know I am quite capable of focusing and concentration on something I find interesting and challenging for much longer than 'normal' people.
Well, genius, if you've never been 'diagnosed', then I guess you don't have it, mmkay? Just because you don't have it doesn't mean it isn't real. What is it with you self-taught MDs who love to diagnose yourselves with whatever condition is the topic of conversation? It's like you want to have autism, or ADHD, or whatever. Trust me, if I could give you my son's autism, I would.
I have symptoms of autism, but I certainly don't have it. My husband also has a few characteristics that could be tending toward autistic. Our son was diagnosed with autism at about two and there is no question that there is something wrong with him.
The real question should what is 'normal' and why should everybody be 'normal'. When any ability, attribute or skill of people is measured some people must end up on the extremes of the curve, this is entirely normal and is called a normal distribution.
What is normal? How about the ability to care for yourself? To be five years old and able to realize you need to go to the bathroom and then being able to carry through the task by yourself. How about being five years old and able to communicate at a level above a one-year-old? How about having the ability to show affection? Do you know what it's like when the first time your child shows affection is when he is four and a half years old? And you know what? We are lucky! Lucky! Because our son is only mild-moderately autistic, and we caught him early and he's been in therapy since he was two. With speech and occupational therapy, and a really good special ed program, he has a chance to become a functional, maybe even independent, person. I can't even begin to imagine what it's like to deal with a severely autistic child.
My special abilities allow me to conceive unusually and innovative solutions to problems, I can think around a problem in a way that 'normal' people are unable to even contemplate because they think in what I see as simplistic linear manner. I think this makes me and other similar people gifted not disabled.
"My special abilities..." What are you--Marvel's new superhero? Here's a free clue for you. Autism isn't diagonsed by what you can do, but by what you can't do. Being unable to communicate your feelings is not an ability. Being unable to follow simple instructions is not an ability. Being unable to dress yourself is not an ability. Being unable to control your own body so that you can't sit still is not an ability. When he was going through the initial evals, no one asked if he could troubleshoot creatively or do high level calculus in his head. They wanted to know how much he could communicate or if he could put his own shirt on or if he was able to pick up a block out of a group of objects if asked to do so.
Why are so many supposed 'normal' people prepared to label these abilities a disease or disability that must have a cause ? Many of these same people ascribe ADHD and/or Autism to MMR (or mercury in vaccines) because if it is a disease or disability it must have a cause.
If you were actually informed on the subject, you would know that researchers have been disproving the MMR theory for a while now. The causes of autism is really pointing to a genetic problem. And I don't care if it's just an overactive "hunter" gene--if you are unable to care for yourself, there is something wrong!
These 'normal' people are *supposed* to be empathic, yet give little consideration to our feelings in fact they do this despite our feels or thought on this subject. I t
Corel was apparently looking for a buyer for Bryce. How this buyout will affect things, who knows. But I'm not going to get my hopes up for Bryce to ever run on the Mac again.
But, we still have Vue. And Eric Wenger, the original creator of Bryce, posted on the U&I forums that he is working on a new landscape creator. Demo images
What? Amazed that the string player can't play in tune?
That makes absolutely no sense. If a string is playing in an ensemble of mixed instruments and plays C-sharp and D-flat as different pitches, it's going to sound like crap. Woodwinds and brass (I've played both) can also play a note at different pitches, by adjusting the the instrument length or embouchure, but it's used to get yourself back *in tune*, not to *try* to play a different pitch (odd modern music excepted). An instrument that is off pitch is going to cause a really annoying "wa-wa-wa" sound on sustained notes. If they're drastically off pitch, it will sound like a wrong note.
I like the parts with Obi-Wan discovering the clones and the back story of Boba Fett. There was a lot of potential for a good movie there.
Unfortunately, we were subjected to the horror that is teen-aged Anakin Skywalker and the so-called "love story". Padme is supposed to be smart and mature, but she comes across as brainless and clueless when she suddenly falls for this whining, self-centered brat. There is no chemistry between the actors, so it's even more unbelievable. Whiny Luke is funny, but whiny Anakin is nauseating. I will be cheering when Obi-Wan dumps the snotty little brat into the lava pit (or whatever)!
I had the exact same thing happen with my clamshell (firewire) iBook. However, if the energy saver kicked in, it wouldn't wake up unless I plugged it in.
I tried something I saw in the Apple Support discussions that seems to have worked. I got a VST charger and recharged the battery fully--and everything seems to work fine now. It seems as if the iBook wasn't recognizing the battery and the charger reset it or something.
I found the charger on eBay for $5! Here's the Dutch auction:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&cate gory=25437&item=3405556190&rd=1
Must we push our ideas of how a culture is supposed to behave on every community that's trying to benefit from technological advances?
This is a Sherpa building a cybercafe in a Sherpa community. What gives you the right to judge them?
Maybe you should notify the Sherpas that they live in a sacred place that must be preserved, because they seem to think they can do whatever they want with their homes and community.
Oh, I see. To preserve the planet in ways that you like, people in the Himalayas can have no choice as to what businesses they open. Ignorant savages. Don't they know they're supposed to preserve their culture intact (preferably at a quaint, primitive level) so that Western tourists can leave behind their Starbucks and McDonalds and go to their backward little country to gawk at them and feel like they've "left civilization behind"? Next thing you know, they'll be using the internet access to provide news and education opportunities to their community. How are the tourists supposed to feel superior if the natives already know about things like the "magic box that paints your picture" and "carts that move by themselves"?
Why are First World civilizations allowed to advance technologically, but anyone else has to preserve their cultures at whatever level the anthropologists find most interesting to study. Why are the Japanese allowed to introduce new technology and gadgets into their culture (and evenutally everyone else's) every day, but a Sherpa wants to open a cybercafe in his community and he's accused of somehow ruining the planet?
Maybe what is best for the Himalayas should be decided by the people who actually live there?
It was in this book that he talked about the early plans for the space station. Dan Goldin assigned three teams to come up with a station design. These were voted on by a panel put together by MIT. The winner was a design that would be built on the ground and go up in one launch (like Skylab, which, BTW, had more living space than the ISS) and be ready for use immediately. We'd also get a new heavy launch vehicle out of the plan.
But this idea was killed by VP Gore and the House Space Subcommitee Chair because 1) they wanted to have an "international" station where everyone contributed parts and 2) they wanted to create the need for shuttle launches.
The Skylab-style design would have been cheaper, safer, more reliable and more capable. You could still have it be international--through lab designs and crew. You'd still need the shuttle (or maybe Zubrin's idea for a replacement) to ferry equipment and crew. Politics, not NASA, is to blame for the station we have now.
This example is a violation of liberty, though. Forcing you to participate in some government mandated activity, just so you can have the right to vote, is not liberty. That's just as much Big Brother as '1984' and you're just as much a slave to the system as the "sheep".
"Deserve" means to be worthy of, to earn something. You can be guaranteed something (by the Constitution or your Creator), but it doesn't necessarily mean you deserve it. Franklin says nothing about taking away anyone's liberty. It has nothing to do with race or political views. The quote simply refers to the choice of what do you value more? Essential liberty or temporary security?
If you trade away your liberty, you deserve what you get--no privacy, the Ashcroft gestapo, Big Brother, etc. And none of those will give you any real security. (See second sentence of quote.) You don't deserve liberty anymore, because you gave it away. You did nothing to earn it or be worthy of it. You sold yourself to Big Brother and are now subject to whatever Big Brother determines your rights to be (Big Brother doesn't believe in inalienable right? Oh, boo hoo. Shoulda thought of that before you sold out. But at least you're secure, right?). You now have to hope that someone else, who didn't sell out their liberty, comes along and gives liberty back to you through a revolution, or you can stand up and earn it back yourself. Or, you can just not give it away in the first place!
OT Side Note: "Deserve" is a word that has recently taken a beating. I'm always hearing advertising saying things like "get the car you deserve" (usually offering high interest loans on $30,000 SUVs to people with poor/no credit). Bullshit! You deserve praise for saving a life, you may deserve a bonus or raise for doing something for your company, but you do not deserve a car you can't afford. People are confusing "deserve" with "entitled to because I think everyone (Society, The Man, the lender at the bank, etc.) is against me".
Ripped off Xerox
Can't use multi button mouse
Uses non-standard hardware
Is a monopoly
Put SoundJam out of business
Owned by Microsoft, a major shareholder
Costs too much
OS X is slow
Lawsuits for no reason
Rips off Linux
any more?
Steve Jobs is using his Reality Distortion Field to take over the world.
Oh, wait. That one's actually real...
Yes, because we all know that people in third world countries are too ignorant to make their own decisions. It's a good thing we have paternalists to point out the error of their ways. Should we also prevent them from having internet access so we can preserve their culture for them, too?
I guess I'm just being naive when I trust that Mr. Gyaltsen can make his own decisions on how he can best help his neighbors.
Heh. I thought of the same thing.
Of course, all these bigger drink sizes lead into another Animaniacs episode - Potty Emergency!
Sara