That's an interseting observation and after reading your post I have to agree. I also notice a distinct lack of gender gap articles in things like nursing. You don't see a lot of "out of X nurses graduating this year only 2 were men" articles floating about the news...
You can't afford to have a desktop no one can fix if something goes wrong.
I *can* afford to have a desktop "no one" can fix because I *can* fix it myself. That's what I love about Linux. And the effort to *fix* a problem with Ubuntu is minimal as far as I'm concerned so I have taken the stance that if a family member or friend takes my advice and installs Ubuntu then I will gladly help them with it when they have problems. But I don't have time to visit Mom every two or three weeks and remove spyware from Windows anymore so Mom uses Ubuntu.
Windows is not a nice system and it is hyped all over the place. as nice as it is I will keep hyping Ubuntu because as someone who works on computers a lot it will make my life easier when more people switch.
Or just bundle it on the Windows Install CD. I don't think the problem is them giving it away. It's the fact that it comes preinstalled and is difficult to virtually impossible to uninstall them in favor of something else. Uninstalling Media Player, Outlook Express or Internet Explorer using the Add/Remove Windows Components amounts to simply removing shortcuts. If you open a command prompt or use the Run dialog and type iexplore and hit enter then Internet Explorer opens up just fine. There are Group Policy options that can be set to prevent these components from running but I'm not aware of any options for Joe Home User to prevent them from functioning.
Let them give the stuff away, via download or on the CD. Just let me decide if/when I am actually going to install them or use a competing product.
Well then that defeats the camera as well. Unless it's used to take pictures of sensitive data but this article is talking about using the storage capability of a camera. And camera storage is just a removable drive.
Ah, my mistake. I didn't realize it was so detailed and from the player's perspective, not the coaches. On the Sony Playstation II, if you have both NCAA and Madden 2005, as the coach you can "promote" a player out of NCAA to Madden. It doesn't have all the interaction that you mentioned but I've not seen 2006 so I didn't realize how different it was.
Still wish I could take my Tiger 2005 character and play him in 2006. He rocks:-)
You had this ability in Madden/NCAA 2005 as well. I wonder why Harris waited until now?
I've never actually used the feature but I think it's a pretty cool concept. What I'd like to see even more though is the ability to take my team or player from Madden 2005 or Tiger 2005 and use him in the 2006 versions. I spent a lot of time conquering these two games and it would be cool if I could reap the reward in the next version.
If you did such a great job, and I'm sure you did and I commend you for it, then why do we need this law? It's not that the law itself is so bad, it's laws like these are the first step toward a restrictive, intolerant society.
As one parent to another I do understand what you are saying. But it's *our* job to make sure *our* kids do the right thing. Once we let lawmakers do it we as parents will begin to absolve ourselves of all responsibility and before you know it anything remotely upsetting to people will be illegal, all because we've convinced ourselves that parents can't be trusted to do the right thing. The government will have to do it for us.
"Jerry Garcia did not care about people taping or downloading their music"
I don't mean to be pedantic here but Jerry didn't care about people taping their live music. Downloading en masse was not really going on in 1995 when Jerry died and although it's nice to think that Jerry still wouldn't have cared don't put words in his mouth. Although I don't completely agree there is something to what some folks are saying in defense of the recent policy. Taping was a low volume, personal experience for fans. Tapes were traded by people who shared a community and actively engaged each other.
Perhaps Jerry wouldn't have appreciated the impersonal nature of mass hordes of scattered heads downloading their music from a single, all encompassing archive.
The point is, he's not here now to say one way or the other so it's hard to say how he would feel...
I don't have a problem with this. Yes they took it away. But if you already have it you can still trade it/give it away. The audience tapes turned downloadable files were the real issue for me. They were made by someone besides the band with the band's blessing. People spent a lot of time taping them, converting them and then putting them up on archive. Let us keep them.
Their vault from the sbd is theirs to do with what they will and although I feel I may need to wait a while before I'll be able to buy many of them "from the vault" I will do so as much as I can.
In the meantime however, there are plenty of folks who have copies, the Dead don't DRM their stuff and we are all still free to trade what we have. All in all I think it is a perfectly acceptable compromise.
As an old head from way back whose love of computers is only exceeded by the love of my family and my love of good ol' Grateful Dead all I have to say is thanks!
I want to see these guys continue to reap the rewards for all they have accomplished in life and I will continue to buy as much of their material as they release. I love the digital re-mastering, the artwork, the liner notes and just holding something I know was created with love by their engineers.
But, until it's released I want a copy that I can have in the meantime. I know from talking with fellow heads and reading up on forums and blogs that I am not alone here.
This is a great move by the band and the merchandising/production folks.
To Phil, Bob, Bill, Mickey and the rest thanks! Many worlds they've know since they first left home and I am glad I could and will continue be a small part of it.
Hell, because of things like "Runner's High", I'd wager that playing regular sports is about as addictive as the internet...but we never read about that in the news, do we?
Yes but picking on geeks is so much more fun then picking on jocks.:-)
In fact, no virus or worm has *ever* exploited a vulnerability before a critical update was released!
I know what you mean and I admit it is a vicious cycle to be in but can you back up your quite emphatic statement with some facts? I find this a bit hard to believe...
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That's an interseting observation and after reading your post I have to agree. I also notice a distinct lack of gender gap articles in things like nursing. You don't see a lot of "out of X nurses graduating this year only 2 were men" articles floating about the news...
You can't afford to have a desktop no one can fix if something goes wrong.
I *can* afford to have a desktop "no one" can fix because I *can* fix it myself. That's what I love about Linux. And the effort to *fix* a problem with Ubuntu is minimal as far as I'm concerned so I have taken the stance that if a family member or friend takes my advice and installs Ubuntu then I will gladly help them with it when they have problems. But I don't have time to visit Mom every two or three weeks and remove spyware from Windows anymore so Mom uses Ubuntu.
Windows is not a nice system and it is hyped all over the place. as nice as it is I will keep hyping Ubuntu because as someone who works on computers a lot it will make my life easier when more people switch.
And it's spelled (K)Ubuntu.
...he says whilst donning his flame retardant underwear!
Or just bundle it on the Windows Install CD. I don't think the problem is them giving it away. It's the fact that it comes preinstalled and is difficult to virtually impossible to uninstall them in favor of something else. Uninstalling Media Player, Outlook Express or Internet Explorer using the Add/Remove Windows Components amounts to simply removing shortcuts. If you open a command prompt or use the Run dialog and type iexplore and hit enter then Internet Explorer opens up just fine. There are Group Policy options that can be set to prevent these components from running but I'm not aware of any options for Joe Home User to prevent them from functioning.
Let them give the stuff away, via download or on the CD. Just let me decide if/when I am actually going to install them or use a competing product.
Well then that defeats the camera as well. Unless it's used to take pictures of sensitive data but this article is talking about using the storage capability of a camera. And camera storage is just a removable drive.
Ah, my mistake. I didn't realize it was so detailed and from the player's perspective, not the coaches. On the Sony Playstation II, if you have both NCAA and Madden 2005, as the coach you can "promote" a player out of NCAA to Madden. It doesn't have all the interaction that you mentioned but I've not seen 2006 so I didn't realize how different it was.
:-)
Still wish I could take my Tiger 2005 character and play him in 2006. He rocks
Well if you had read TFA article you would not have to ask...
IBM's processor for the Xbox 360 is a triple core, which is a pretty good indicator that this configuration is viable.
You had this ability in Madden/NCAA 2005 as well. I wonder why Harris waited until now?
I've never actually used the feature but I think it's a pretty cool concept. What I'd like to see even more though is the ability to take my team or player from Madden 2005 or Tiger 2005 and use him in the 2006 versions. I spent a lot of time conquering these two games and it would be cool if I could reap the reward in the next version.
At $4.99, that must be one big bag of chips!
Funny your statement is. Laughing I am.
If you did such a great job, and I'm sure you did and I commend you for it, then why do we need this law? It's not that the law itself is so bad, it's laws like these are the first step toward a restrictive, intolerant society.
As one parent to another I do understand what you are saying. But it's *our* job to make sure *our* kids do the right thing. Once we let lawmakers do it we as parents will begin to absolve ourselves of all responsibility and before you know it anything remotely upsetting to people will be illegal, all because we've convinced ourselves that parents can't be trusted to do the right thing. The government will have to do it for us.
The slashdot crowd once again rears its ugly "i'm a linux zealot so I'll say anything against windows and for linux even if it's not true" head.
Sounds like someone needs a hug.
Same thing you do now...
Or try to take over the world!
Oh well at least some helpful third party was able to bring Microsoft out of the stone age.
I guess we have nothing to complain about then.
"...e.g. Microsoft vs. Google...
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Must... resist... urge... to... correct... improper... use... of... e.g. instead... of i.e.
I am not a grammar Nazi, I am not a grammar Nazi, (wash, rinse, repeat)
OK, I feel better.
"Jerry Garcia did not care about people taping or downloading their music"
I don't mean to be pedantic here but Jerry didn't care about people taping their live music. Downloading en masse was not really going on in 1995 when Jerry died and although it's nice to think that Jerry still wouldn't have cared don't put words in his mouth. Although I don't completely agree there is something to what some folks are saying in defense of the recent policy. Taping was a low volume, personal experience for fans. Tapes were traded by people who shared a community and actively engaged each other.
Perhaps Jerry wouldn't have appreciated the impersonal nature of mass hordes of scattered heads downloading their music from a single, all encompassing archive.
The point is, he's not here now to say one way or the other so it's hard to say how he would feel...
If they don't have it archive try bt.etree.org, The Traders Den or FurthurNET. You may even get to talk to some cool chicks or hoopy froods... :-)
I don't have a problem with this. Yes they took it away. But if you already have it you can still trade it/give it away. The audience tapes turned downloadable files were the real issue for me. They were made by someone besides the band with the band's blessing. People spent a lot of time taping them, converting them and then putting them up on archive. Let us keep them.
Their vault from the sbd is theirs to do with what they will and although I feel I may need to wait a while before I'll be able to buy many of them "from the vault" I will do so as much as I can.
In the meantime however, there are plenty of folks who have copies, the Dead don't DRM their stuff and we are all still free to trade what we have. All in all I think it is a perfectly acceptable compromise.
As an old head from way back whose love of computers is only exceeded by the love of my family and my love of good ol' Grateful Dead all I have to say is thanks!
I want to see these guys continue to reap the rewards for all they have accomplished in life and I will continue to buy as much of their material as they release. I love the digital re-mastering, the artwork, the liner notes and just holding something I know was created with love by their engineers.
But, until it's released I want a copy that I can have in the meantime. I know from talking with fellow heads and reading up on forums and blogs that I am not alone here.
This is a great move by the band and the merchandising/production folks.
To Phil, Bob, Bill, Mickey and the rest thanks! Many worlds they've know since they first left home and I am glad I could and will continue be a small part of it.
Hell, because of things like "Runner's High", I'd wager that playing regular sports is about as addictive as the internet...but we never read about that in the news, do we?
:-)
Yes but picking on geeks is so much more fun then picking on jocks.
And you can patch it yourself if you are so inclined. (Or hire someone to if it is that important to you).
In fact, no virus or worm has *ever* exploited a vulnerability before a critical update was released!
I know what you mean and I admit it is a vicious cycle to be in but can you back up your quite emphatic statement with some facts? I find this a bit hard to believe...
"Do you really think if Microsoft COULD do it, they wouldn't."
Yes. I do think that.
obligatory: "you must be new here"
TFA states that Wikipedia removed the content at John's request.
...choose people closer to the center instead of moonbat extremists.
;-)
Where's the fun in that?