I have to agree with you; I'm at uni at the mo so I've been in education for about the last 15 years, and with the exception of a crazily old BBC computer or whatever it was I've never seen anything but windows. When your younger I guess you don't tend to notice it as much but I really wish they'd at least given us some ability to use other systems. At uni I recently started a flame war(unintentionally) through my blog because I dared to suggest that our uni might use OO and Linux and other free software. Tellingly I got one reply (from a woman) who said that females don't know how to use computers as well as men so its unreasonable to expect them to learn... which is bullshit, but it gives you some idea of what your up against.
These are views which I saw replicated over and over, "it's too hard to learn" "I don't want to learn" "OMG!!!1 MS is teh best!!111!!!". In order to make any change you have to first get to these people, a ground up change.
you can't go sueing search engines because they contain links to links of pirated mp3s... thats just what a search engine does... it seems the only way to avoid this would be to manually go through every web page, download all the mp3s that you can get to and check that they are not pirated... of course if the were you'd get sued anyway...
I understand why you dislike mines so much (I do too) but I think your anger here is misplaced. Anti-tank mines are perfectly safe for humans to pick up and carry (or even jump on... my mum's husband was in the UK army for ages and during his training he had an instructer who took out one of these mines and jumped on it to prove this point) they pretty much don't kill people who aren't in tanks/cars etc.
I get the point about how they can kill people in tractors/cars after the war but if they only used these mines then they would be able to pick up the mines after a war and send them off safely to be decommisioned... so really the people are better off.
in all fairness to/. - what else could they do on an issue like this? They had to report on it or everyone would say "This site is crap, digg reports on stuff like this...". If they report on it you want them to put a link to a site where you can buy it. I remember when someone submitted a list of "spy gadgets" with no link to where you could buy it and people were up in arms. So it needs to be reported on and needs a link to where you can buy it... all gadgets will be reported on because thats why were here; to know first and be at the cutting edge of nerding
I actually like the idea of the e-reader and I think that this is a good step, but as is mentioned, it is just too expensive. For that money I could buy a pda and then view pda's on that... I might even be able to find a workable tablet pc on e-bay for that price. It also raises the question about how much the ebooks will actually cost for these; the ones I've seen have cost nearly as much as the hardback versions which is simply a rip off. paper will be my method of choice still, not only because of price, but at the moment it also seems easier to read/flick through.
It makes me wonder why the released this whilst the price is so high. I'd be amazed if they sold more than 1000
whilst I don't know what the National Inquirer's credibility is like I would highly doubt if the Mail would publish something which is truely fictional. They do exagerate a few things and love to complain about anything, but I've never seen an out and out lie in the paper
Was this a deliberate act or can they just not accept that they have less importance in the eyes of the google web crawler/indexer. I believe google uses a "vote" system where every link counts as a vote... as far as I am aware no human is directly involved with this so unless google was being malicious the case should have no grounds.
that was a bit silly telling people how little you paid for something when your profit was so high... although I have to wonder, would they really lose any sales if people knew how high their profit margin was? I lknow for a fact that in restruants you'll pay over 100% of the value of a bottle of wine, I'm sure other people know that too, but at that time it's the only wine you can get. Similarly with Apple; people want an iPod, for one you have to pay £200, so thats what you pay. I think some people might be slightly put off if they knew the profits were obscene but whereas you (sound like you) are a sole trader and therefore can be haggled with, they are not so won't... and I'm sure people will be aware that everyone else is making the same profits.
"But is this a rather glaring lapse in security or an easter egg?"
If what they were sending was important then it is definately the former, if it's something which they meant for people to have a go at then it'll be the latter.
I wonder if this is partly a response to sugestions that Google is trying to do too many things and not enough of them are working well (in a money making sense) which was mentioned here http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/06/30/125221 5. If I was an investor I would want to see that they could start getting projects like this right first before I would be happy to keep my money in a company trying to become an ISP... (even if the story mentioned is FUD - which some people sugested it was - it won't stop google wanting to be cautious about it, perception is everything)
"They plan to restrict their role as an ISP to the Mountain View and San Francisco areas"
Don't think of this as a restriction to that area think of this as Google ISP Beta, which will be rolled out around he world within the next 3 years but will stay as an invite only beta
well, I thought that they could just make a reader... but you raise an interesting point throught your post. If a office suite was designed specifically for disabled people then it could freely use the open document format and get updates as soon as is required without having to wait for someone to hack the.doc... infact because it seems that opening any.doc in another program can be hit and miss it would make sense, from the point of view of disabled people to make the move to open standards and then when tools are created they can use them.
I can't imagine MS is being stoped from having open document in their programs... except MS themselves. So there needn't be any compatibility issues no matter what people are using, and disabled people will be just as well served even if MS does give the best options for disabled people (it's an "IF" but I can't really speak on which OS/office is best for this though)...
...solutions like this because they seem intuitively like they would work; I've often wondered if we couldn't simply coat large parts of the poles in tin foil as a way of cooling the area down by effectively stopping radition of heat. Restricting the light could cause problems but if it was controlled in such a way that made it easy to start/stop then we could just use bursts every now and again
is this even legal? I would think that what an adult choses to do in their provate time is their business... besides that, how are they any more or less safe on face book than on any internet site/chatroom in which they provide a large amount of information about themselves...
I suspect that this has far more to do with the uni wanting to protect its image - which for some reason it believes would be more damaged by people being on face-book than than this action to put stupid restrictions over what people can do
does anyone know where you can get open source hacking tools to use against your own system? I would like to know if my password could stand up to a traditional brute force crack, or if it would be possible to use remote ssh login to get contol of my computer...
well, to some extent I agree with you... I am 20 now and I never knew anything about free software until I first started reading here (it was about a year or so ago) now I use Linux pretty much full time (I only keep windows for one or 2 things which I fear might be too insecure to do on linux). The interesting thing is my girlfriend also now uses linux pretty much full time... she is fairly indifferent about this; and she certainly won't put linux on her laptop. What is important though is now when I buy my next computer I will be able to get her to agree to have linux as the only OS on the computer and she is now in a possition to understand why it is better.
My children will use linux too, and I would hope their children will. When my mum buys her next computer she will use linux. If I give my Nanna and Grandad a computer (although they're from the generation who is deeply suspicious of computers so they might never get one...).
My point is that the cause isn't as lost as you think... all it took was one interested person who can explain clearly why free is better (me) and within 5 years my whole family could be 90%+ free. I hope that my children will take on this view and do the same with their family. Closed source might have the money but we have the numbers of people who believe in this; we can convince and persuade.
slax is good, it runs really well on my newest laptop with 512MB of RAM and a 1.5GHz pentium M... what it will not even boot on is my oldest laptop with its 16MB of RAM and about 100MHz processor... DSL does work really well on my old laptop and thats why its still important, it keeps old laptops going
my family used to have a shop selling kitchen and bathrooms as well as a plumbers merchant's shop. We got about 15 mouse-pads yearly, at every trade show you would get about 3... it's just one of those things that people will stamp their logo on to try and make you think about their product at work or home... That industry is about as far as you can get from IT, I bet they still do it too, and I wouldn't be that amazed if loads of other companies did it as well
can I ask what advantages a mouse pad gives you over just having your mouse on the desk? I would think that the stone surface with minute defects in it could well create pretty random refractions and cause the mouse to jump. Have you ever found that problem?
there seems to be advice on how to do it with RH around (you can find it on google pretty easily)... if you dig around a bit more fedora should be pretty easy to find. I think it should just be a question of selecting to instal it to sda instead of hda at the start... have a bit of a read round first but give it a go
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I have to agree with you; I'm at uni at the mo so I've been in education for about the last 15 years, and with the exception of a crazily old BBC computer or whatever it was I've never seen anything but windows. When your younger I guess you don't tend to notice it as much but I really wish they'd at least given us some ability to use other systems. At uni I recently started a flame war(unintentionally) through my blog because I dared to suggest that our uni might use OO and Linux and other free software. Tellingly I got one reply (from a woman) who said that females don't know how to use computers as well as men so its unreasonable to expect them to learn... which is bullshit, but it gives you some idea of what your up against.
These are views which I saw replicated over and over, "it's too hard to learn" "I don't want to learn" "OMG!!!1 MS is teh best!!111!!!". In order to make any change you have to first get to these people, a ground up change.
you can't go sueing search engines because they contain links to links of pirated mp3s... thats just what a search engine does... it seems the only way to avoid this would be to manually go through every web page, download all the mp3s that you can get to and check that they are not pirated... of course if the were you'd get sued anyway...
I understand why you dislike mines so much (I do too) but I think your anger here is misplaced. Anti-tank mines are perfectly safe for humans to pick up and carry (or even jump on... my mum's husband was in the UK army for ages and during his training he had an instructer who took out one of these mines and jumped on it to prove this point) they pretty much don't kill people who aren't in tanks/cars etc.
I get the point about how they can kill people in tractors/cars after the war but if they only used these mines then they would be able to pick up the mines after a war and send them off safely to be decommisioned... so really the people are better off.
in all fairness to /. - what else could they do on an issue like this? They had to report on it or everyone would say "This site is crap, digg reports on stuff like this...". If they report on it you want them to put a link to a site where you can buy it. I remember when someone submitted a list of "spy gadgets" with no link to where you could buy it and people were up in arms. So it needs to be reported on and needs a link to where you can buy it... all gadgets will be reported on because thats why were here; to know first and be at the cutting edge of nerding
I actually like the idea of the e-reader and I think that this is a good step, but as is mentioned, it is just too expensive. For that money I could buy a pda and then view pda's on that... I might even be able to find a workable tablet pc on e-bay for that price. It also raises the question about how much the ebooks will actually cost for these; the ones I've seen have cost nearly as much as the hardback versions which is simply a rip off. paper will be my method of choice still, not only because of price, but at the moment it also seems easier to read/flick through.
It makes me wonder why the released this whilst the price is so high. I'd be amazed if they sold more than 1000
it ain't so.
whilst I don't know what the National Inquirer's credibility is like I would highly doubt if the Mail would publish something which is truely fictional. They do exagerate a few things and love to complain about anything, but I've never seen an out and out lie in the paper
Was this a deliberate act or can they just not accept that they have less importance in the eyes of the google web crawler/indexer. I believe google uses a "vote" system where every link counts as a vote... as far as I am aware no human is directly involved with this so unless google was being malicious the case should have no grounds.
that was a bit silly telling people how little you paid for something when your profit was so high... although I have to wonder, would they really lose any sales if people knew how high their profit margin was? I lknow for a fact that in restruants you'll pay over 100% of the value of a bottle of wine, I'm sure other people know that too, but at that time it's the only wine you can get. Similarly with Apple; people want an iPod, for one you have to pay £200, so thats what you pay. I think some people might be slightly put off if they knew the profits were obscene but whereas you (sound like you) are a sole trader and therefore can be haggled with, they are not so won't... and I'm sure people will be aware that everyone else is making the same profits.
"But is this a rather glaring lapse in security or an easter egg?"
If what they were sending was important then it is definately the former, if it's something which they meant for people to have a go at then it'll be the latter.
I wonder if this is partly a response to sugestions that Google is trying to do too many things and not enough of them are working well (in a money making sense) which was mentioned here http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/06/30/125221 5. If I was an investor I would want to see that they could start getting projects like this right first before I would be happy to keep my money in a company trying to become an ISP... (even if the story mentioned is FUD - which some people sugested it was - it won't stop google wanting to be cautious about it, perception is everything)
"They plan to restrict their role as an ISP to the Mountain View and San Francisco areas"
Don't think of this as a restriction to that area think of this as Google ISP Beta, which will be rolled out around he world within the next 3 years but will stay as an invite only beta
move now... there's so much choice, but i'll recomend http://fedora.redhat.com/
well, I thought that they could just make a reader... but you raise an interesting point throught your post. If a office suite was designed specifically for disabled people then it could freely use the open document format and get updates as soon as is required without having to wait for someone to hack the .doc... infact because it seems that opening any .doc in another program can be hit and miss it would make sense, from the point of view of disabled people to make the move to open standards and then when tools are created they can use them.
I can't imagine MS is being stoped from having open document in their programs... except MS themselves. So there needn't be any compatibility issues no matter what people are using, and disabled people will be just as well served even if MS does give the best options for disabled people (it's an "IF" but I can't really speak on which OS/office is best for this though)...
PROTECT TUX!
...solutions like this because they seem intuitively like they would work; I've often wondered if we couldn't simply coat large parts of the poles in tin foil as a way of cooling the area down by effectively stopping radition of heat. Restricting the light could cause problems but if it was controlled in such a way that made it easy to start/stop then we could just use bursts every now and again
is this even legal? I would think that what an adult choses to do in their provate time is their business... besides that, how are they any more or less safe on face book than on any internet site/chatroom in which they provide a large amount of information about themselves...
I suspect that this has far more to do with the uni wanting to protect its image - which for some reason it believes would be more damaged by people being on face-book than than this action to put stupid restrictions over what people can do
true, but there are always public librarys that people can use, as well as that people can still get hard coppies
does anyone know where you can get open source hacking tools to use against your own system? I would like to know if my password could stand up to a traditional brute force crack, or if it would be possible to use remote ssh login to get contol of my computer...
well, to some extent I agree with you... I am 20 now and I never knew anything about free software until I first started reading here (it was about a year or so ago) now I use Linux pretty much full time (I only keep windows for one or 2 things which I fear might be too insecure to do on linux). The interesting thing is my girlfriend also now uses linux pretty much full time... she is fairly indifferent about this; and she certainly won't put linux on her laptop. What is important though is now when I buy my next computer I will be able to get her to agree to have linux as the only OS on the computer and she is now in a possition to understand why it is better.
My children will use linux too, and I would hope their children will. When my mum buys her next computer she will use linux. If I give my Nanna and Grandad a computer (although they're from the generation who is deeply suspicious of computers so they might never get one...).
My point is that the cause isn't as lost as you think... all it took was one interested person who can explain clearly why free is better (me) and within 5 years my whole family could be 90%+ free. I hope that my children will take on this view and do the same with their family. Closed source might have the money but we have the numbers of people who believe in this; we can convince and persuade.
slax is good, it runs really well on my newest laptop with 512MB of RAM and a 1.5GHz pentium M... what it will not even boot on is my oldest laptop with its 16MB of RAM and about 100MHz processor... DSL does work really well on my old laptop and thats why its still important, it keeps old laptops going
my family used to have a shop selling kitchen and bathrooms as well as a plumbers merchant's shop. We got about 15 mouse-pads yearly, at every trade show you would get about 3... it's just one of those things that people will stamp their logo on to try and make you think about their product at work or home... That industry is about as far as you can get from IT, I bet they still do it too, and I wouldn't be that amazed if loads of other companies did it as well
can I ask what advantages a mouse pad gives you over just having your mouse on the desk? I would think that the stone surface with minute defects in it could well create pretty random refractions and cause the mouse to jump. Have you ever found that problem?
ah, I hadn't realised, thanks for the advice... I'll use that method when 6 gets to a workable point of use
I don't really see any reaosn why not
there seems to be advice on how to do it with RH around (you can find it on google pretty easily)... if you dig around a bit more fedora should be pretty easy to find. I think it should just be a question of selecting to instal it to sda instead of hda at the start... have a bit of a read round first but give it a go