I agree, having a bureau do it is the best option. Unless they do find that they have thousands of negs to scan, could be cheaper in time and money to buy a drum scanner, but I'm guessing only if the number is in the 10's of thousands.
Having a bureau do it has many advantages:
1) someone with experience is doing the work
2) if the equipment breaks down you don't have to fix or replace it
3) they might have robots do the work, and everyone knows robots do the best work!
Guitar Hero is totaly fun to play, that's why you play it. I think that anyone who plays it because they want to learn to play guitar a deluding themselves, It's a game, nothing more. It's kind of like playing DDR to learn to waltz, just not going to happen.
It's interesting but I don't accept it. By what criteria do they determine what is favorable or unfavrable? How was the data obtained? Did it survey actual people? I'm not saying that it's wrong, it just doesn't seem like a reliable metric. I also think that people tend to think that the media is either biased towards the opposition or it's reasonably unbiased, and being that the nation is fairly polarized right now people are tending to believe that the media is against them. An informal survey of people at my work has proven this to be accurate. Many people thought the media was against their ideaologies, I even heard a few people thinking the same news outlet was biased in both directions based on thier views. Nearly a third of the people I talked to didn't have an opinion and didn't really care. It seems that Apathy runs high in the 20-30 year olds in my work.
My commeents were more in regards to the contents of the article not nessesarily the OLPC program in general, and based on the post as well as others comments I was under the impression that there were few if any governments willing to pony up any cash for the program.
I think that you put too much faith in the power of technology. Without the proper infrastructure these computers are about as good as a wrist watch. Are we not only going to give them these computers but also give them the education required to use them effectivly? Perhaps I'm naive, I'm not up to date on the current state of magical technology so I may be missing a key component here. I think that there is technology availble that is far more valuable/inexpensive/accessable. And maybe I'm a ludite, I just cannot be convinced that technology can solve many of the target contries problems. Many of their citizens would probably be content with remaining farm communities, maybe all they need is fair trade... perhaps a computer could give them access to information on the best markets for their crops, but the last time I checked the internet wasn't everywhere. To be fair, this OLPC thing is noble but I don't think it will help anytime soon. The money could be spent better is all I'm suggesting, like say in teachers and schools, and there is much evidence that proper nutrition is as important to childhood development and their ability to learn as anything else.
I think you miss the point this thread is trying to make... They don't NEED computers, they need everything else that would naturally lead up to the need for computers, like food and clean water and stable governments that care about their citizens.
When I read it I also pictured a laptop with two full size screens, not this stupid mini-screen on the lid. This is not innovation or interesting. I'd like to see a laptop that had a second fold-out screen or some other ridiculatude like that on it. I constantly looking for more screen real estate, and this does not solve that.
I know you said rhetorically... but I had to answer, I don't know about any other Mac users, but I have no clue if my Mac has been rooted or infected with anything. This shit scares the crap out of me, and to be on the safe side I just get a new Mac every month or so and burn the old one. You may say I'm crazy, but I don't want "Malware" on my computer, shit I don't even like having tupperware in the house, who knows what's it's doing to my kitchen.
You fools... Virtual Reality... as lame as that sounds it's a possible solution, if all us telecommuters could interact with each other via some sort of virtual means nobody would have to leave their homes.
But I do agree to a point, there are so many advantages to face to face interactions... but isn't it great to get away from that every once and a while?
Ummm... TWI didn't buy AOL, it was a merger. and IIRC AOL was the larger entity at the time and initialy viewed as the purchasing agent. Steve Case was the COB of AOL Time Warner if that gives you any clue.
yep... that's the problem with Democracy, majority rule, no matter how messed up they are. But I think your miss the point if you suggest that a totalitarian government is the solution. Anarchy is closer to the solution. But the many Ideaologies that support anarchy don't really work on a large scale. If we could limit greed and power then we could come to a working solution, but if we could do that then democracy would work better. The biggest problem with monarch and oligarchs is that the leadership doesn't have the interest of the individual in mind. They are either concerned too much with the aristocracy or the community as a whole. In any case this leads us to precisely the problem I have brought up, community needs and individual needs are rarely aligned. In the US there has been a struggle to balance the community and individual, often with one coming out on top. Currently there is a polarization of the Indiviualists, and those in favor of the community needs and welfare, I am reluctant to say these are communist becuase of the negative connotation it has. Our current administration are rampant individualist that use once great communal organizations, ie the church, to network. Anyway... I've gotten away from my point... My point is, why should anyone else decide what I do? I'm in total agreement that child porn is an awful reality that should be stopped, no one should be exploited like that. But I fear that if we allow lines to be drawn to conservatively is opens us up for exploitation of other kinds.
So let's analyze this...
A neighbor is having an orgy on his/her front lawn. While this might be interesting to me, depending on the participants, I would not want my very young child to watch this. But I am of the opinion that everyone, including my 2 year old, should be able to choose the things they would like to watch. So in theory I would not disapprove of such an activity. Everyone has the option to look away. Now on the other hand if my neighbor invited my 2 year old to participate, then there would be a problem.
I don't know anything about your community, but I don't want to leave it up to my community to decide what is obscene. My community is quite large and diverse, I have neighbors that would see showing a little leg as obscene, but on the other side of them, I can't imagine anything being obscene to them.
I think that it is a tragedy that obscenity is not protected speech. It pisses me off when I hear songs on the radio that aren't what the artist intended. It's freaking 2006, I want to hear the word fuck on the radio! And shit, I want porn in the workplace!
I've been with T-Moblie for 6 years now... well voicestream first and so on... and I still have no idea what a dropped call is, I have never experienced one.
That's fucking Brilliant! And for all my other security and health concerns I should just turn off of those systems as well... no fear of getting Ebola if I don't breath! This is my last breath... now I'm safe!
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I agree, having a bureau do it is the best option. Unless they do find that they have thousands of negs to scan, could be cheaper in time and money to buy a drum scanner, but I'm guessing only if the number is in the 10's of thousands. Having a bureau do it has many advantages: 1) someone with experience is doing the work 2) if the equipment breaks down you don't have to fix or replace it 3) they might have robots do the work, and everyone knows robots do the best work!
I was one of those losers who got to spend hours watching others play vidya games... it was sweet.
Guitar Hero is totaly fun to play, that's why you play it. I think that anyone who plays it because they want to learn to play guitar a deluding themselves, It's a game, nothing more. It's kind of like playing DDR to learn to waltz, just not going to happen.
That would be ideal, I would back that, Is there any support for this in the industry?
It's interesting but I don't accept it. By what criteria do they determine what is favorable or unfavrable? How was the data obtained? Did it survey actual people? I'm not saying that it's wrong, it just doesn't seem like a reliable metric. I also think that people tend to think that the media is either biased towards the opposition or it's reasonably unbiased, and being that the nation is fairly polarized right now people are tending to believe that the media is against them. An informal survey of people at my work has proven this to be accurate. Many people thought the media was against their ideaologies, I even heard a few people thinking the same news outlet was biased in both directions based on thier views. Nearly a third of the people I talked to didn't have an opinion and didn't really care. It seems that Apathy runs high in the 20-30 year olds in my work.
My commeents were more in regards to the contents of the article not nessesarily the OLPC program in general, and based on the post as well as others comments I was under the impression that there were few if any governments willing to pony up any cash for the program.
I think that you put too much faith in the power of technology. Without the proper infrastructure these computers are about as good as a wrist watch. Are we not only going to give them these computers but also give them the education required to use them effectivly? Perhaps I'm naive, I'm not up to date on the current state of magical technology so I may be missing a key component here. I think that there is technology availble that is far more valuable/inexpensive/accessable. And maybe I'm a ludite, I just cannot be convinced that technology can solve many of the target contries problems. Many of their citizens would probably be content with remaining farm communities, maybe all they need is fair trade... perhaps a computer could give them access to information on the best markets for their crops, but the last time I checked the internet wasn't everywhere. To be fair, this OLPC thing is noble but I don't think it will help anytime soon. The money could be spent better is all I'm suggesting, like say in teachers and schools, and there is much evidence that proper nutrition is as important to childhood development and their ability to learn as anything else.
But lack of food and water is far more damaging that an education could ever be at building a people up.
I think you miss the point this thread is trying to make... They don't NEED computers, they need everything else that would naturally lead up to the need for computers, like food and clean water and stable governments that care about their citizens.
When I read it I also pictured a laptop with two full size screens, not this stupid mini-screen on the lid. This is not innovation or interesting. I'd like to see a laptop that had a second fold-out screen or some other ridiculatude like that on it. I constantly looking for more screen real estate, and this does not solve that.
I know you said rhetorically... but I had to answer, I don't know about any other Mac users, but I have no clue if my Mac has been rooted or infected with anything. This shit scares the crap out of me, and to be on the safe side I just get a new Mac every month or so and burn the old one. You may say I'm crazy, but I don't want "Malware" on my computer, shit I don't even like having tupperware in the house, who knows what's it's doing to my kitchen.
do you ever read the subject line?
You fools... Virtual Reality... as lame as that sounds it's a possible solution, if all us telecommuters could interact with each other via some sort of virtual means nobody would have to leave their homes. But I do agree to a point, there are so many advantages to face to face interactions... but isn't it great to get away from that every once and a while?
Now I haven't RTFA, but I don't see any spin here... It's presented clearly in plain language. If there is a bias it's in the readers mind.
wow... how big is your font? I don't have to scroll at all.
I wasn't aware that Firefox even supported Active X
pontiac.com is flash... looks fine to the world outside of Internet Explorer... since Flash is an ActiveX plugin for IE.
Ummm... TWI didn't buy AOL, it was a merger. and IIRC AOL was the larger entity at the time and initialy viewed as the purchasing agent. Steve Case was the COB of AOL Time Warner if that gives you any clue.
yep... that's the problem with Democracy, majority rule, no matter how messed up they are. But I think your miss the point if you suggest that a totalitarian government is the solution. Anarchy is closer to the solution. But the many Ideaologies that support anarchy don't really work on a large scale. If we could limit greed and power then we could come to a working solution, but if we could do that then democracy would work better. The biggest problem with monarch and oligarchs is that the leadership doesn't have the interest of the individual in mind. They are either concerned too much with the aristocracy or the community as a whole. In any case this leads us to precisely the problem I have brought up, community needs and individual needs are rarely aligned. In the US there has been a struggle to balance the community and individual, often with one coming out on top. Currently there is a polarization of the Indiviualists, and those in favor of the community needs and welfare, I am reluctant to say these are communist becuase of the negative connotation it has. Our current administration are rampant individualist that use once great communal organizations, ie the church, to network. Anyway... I've gotten away from my point... My point is, why should anyone else decide what I do? I'm in total agreement that child porn is an awful reality that should be stopped, no one should be exploited like that. But I fear that if we allow lines to be drawn to conservatively is opens us up for exploitation of other kinds.
So let's analyze this... A neighbor is having an orgy on his/her front lawn. While this might be interesting to me, depending on the participants, I would not want my very young child to watch this. But I am of the opinion that everyone, including my 2 year old, should be able to choose the things they would like to watch. So in theory I would not disapprove of such an activity. Everyone has the option to look away. Now on the other hand if my neighbor invited my 2 year old to participate, then there would be a problem.
I'm aware of that... but my point is that it is a tragedy that obscenity is regulated in any form.
I don't know anything about your community, but I don't want to leave it up to my community to decide what is obscene. My community is quite large and diverse, I have neighbors that would see showing a little leg as obscene, but on the other side of them, I can't imagine anything being obscene to them. I think that it is a tragedy that obscenity is not protected speech. It pisses me off when I hear songs on the radio that aren't what the artist intended. It's freaking 2006, I want to hear the word fuck on the radio! And shit, I want porn in the workplace!
I've been with T-Moblie for 6 years now... well voicestream first and so on... and I still have no idea what a dropped call is, I have never experienced one.
That's fucking Brilliant! And for all my other security and health concerns I should just turn off of those systems as well... no fear of getting Ebola if I don't breath! This is my last breath... now I'm safe!
Man people are stupid.