It's called a VOLUME CONTROL! And it's already on EVERY DEVICE that outputs audio. Now you mess with the volume level of my equipment I WILL SUE. People have a right to fry thier ears. It's NOT the fault of the equipment and if you go and mess with it, people CAN undo it and WILL.
Hmm....last I checked, it's LEGAL to do this. Also, keep in mind that Google is unsecure to begin with! There's no SSL encryption and e-mails sent from Gmail are not encrypted. The ONLY way to hide stuff from tne US government or ANYONE else for that matter is to encrypt the e-mail. Even then, it's not THAT secure....all encryption will eventually be broken which is why encryption is something that will always have to advance.
The only person's "privacy" that is being invaded is the guy who broke the law in this case. Even then, Google was provided with a subpoena for the information. Google was NOT the first to ever be asked for information such as this. They have the proper court papers...how is this an invasion??
I have always said....you want something to not be widely known then DON'T send it in clear text!
But having your own mail server is not enough. When you send a unencrypted message, there are numerous servers along the chain that will have a copy of it somewhere. The only way to have secure e-mail is to use PGP/GPG to encrypt it. Period. Even then, it's not that secure. E-mail is still way more secure then snail mail though.
Running Kanotix (Basically Sid) and I already have Firefox open. Launch OO.org Writer then click back to firefox. The OO.org splash pops up and steals the focus from firefox. Once I click back to firefox, OO.org loads in background and doesn't steal browser focus after that.
You know I agree with you however there are certain patent holders that can swing lots of money and lawyers your direction. MP3 has a patent held by Thompson Electronics (I thing that's the name...parent company of RCA). Even though LAME andother decoders have been around a while, most Linux distros stopped including MP3 ability a couple years ago.
Also, the only way to get w32 codecs working on linux is to have the dll's installed....a company could be sued by Microsoft for including them in thier distro.
There's more reasons then those two but there's alot of "issues" just including these features in a default install....non of which Ubuntu wants to do but they sort of have to do it just so they can stay in business.
From what I saw on the ubuntu forums, the guy who wrote this has no idea how apt is supposed to work. He's using things like --force-yes in his script....you should NEVER have to do this. It's basically telling apt to shove it and install anyway.....never do that on ANY Debian box unless you know what your doing. As he's asking new users to use this, it should NEVER do things that may break the system. It's not like it's really hard to write the script to do it right even. The biggest reason he used those flags was to avoid having to load the GPG keys in the apt keyring.....apt has this for a REASON! I can understand if it had a pop up and ask you to approve it if there was a BADSIG issue in the repository (there was one this weekend in the Debian sid repository....). Just ignoring it to begin with is VERY bad form.
Music CD's are definitely NOT lossless. Sure, the higher the sample rate, the more of the signal you have, but even when you record audio on your computer with 48K samle rate, you still loose some. The only perfect and pristine set of audio you will ever have is by listening to the band directly..but we can't always do that. CD audio is pretty good, but not perfect. It's good enough for the majority of people though.
The pop-up key stealing bit happens on Linux too. Ever kick a app off and while waiting switch to the browser and then the one you launched first thrusts itself into view? Happens to me on Linux too.
It's not a fallacy. All browsers should strive to be compliant with standards. ACID 2 is a test of those. The REAL problem is that web developers get sold on things that don't work in every browser. AJAX is a excellent example...it does not currently work in Safari although it works almost everywhere else. So, yes...browsers SHOULD render everything correctly, but the web developers also have a duty to test on IE, firefox, opera and safari.....at a minimum. I'd also check some things out in Lynx as well since some people use that (mostly blind). Developers should not have to do that, but that's the way things are now.
One thing I have always heard from people is stuff like this. I even here about this kind of thing happening on the bus too but I have ridden the bus for nearly 3 years now. Worst thing that happened was we had a bus blow a tire once on a express bus and a drunk nearly fell on me. Also, each bus and lots of different subway trains in different cities hae camera's on them. Is crime as rampant on public transit as everyone says??
Yes.....and I wish Apple would move on at least one item.....a Microphone for the 5th gen iPod. Griffin made the iTalk. Apple got rid of the connector they used. 5th Gen iPod can still record audio. Someone else (not Griffin) has a Mik ein the works, but I have not seen it yet. It also costs 79 bucks...more then the iTalk was orignally I think. Anyway this Mic just now became available. I wish there were more mike options now but this mic from Xtreme Mac is the only one I know of.
HOLY CRAP! We think IE is bad! No seriously.....some of the extensions are good, but I tend to stay on the less obtrusive ones....I don't have a HUGE monitor yet....I need the screen real estate for view web pages not toolbars.
There's no REAL DC-DC convertors. All you have to do to "convert" one DC level to another is measure or caculate or find out the total resistance of the load and do a simple OHM's Law calculation to figure out the resistor you would need to insert....but there's no "conversion" needed....DC is DC!
Yes, but I would still have more then ONE invertor. Redudancy in a data center is something you WANT. Redundant PDU's attached to two different substations as well as a generator backup.
1) There are no licensing issues so programs can be moved freely
Most schools don't care or get a site license so this really is not an issue.
2) The system ships with hundreds of educational packages preinstalled
Ok....how many of these hgave any of these teachers heard about man? I will tell you it's a big fat ZERO.
3) The OS can be designed around children's needs (no model of a uniform interface for all users)
Children are a hell of a lot more flexible then the teachers are because they don't know anything and one of the big ways they learn is exploring. Teachers can get stuck in a rut. My child's Kindergarten teacher is holding out as long as she can with switching to digital cameras. Try putting Linux in front of her and she'll say ok on to something else....
4) Multilingual support is much better in most OS apps (which is useful for districts with large concentrated minority language students). Try getting Oregon Trail in Arabic or Hindi.
If your going to school in the US you had better be able to learn English. The school systems can't afford to have lessons taught in more then one language....I am NOT kidding.
Sorry...reason I work here is I have been here 10 years and don't want to loose a week vacation unless I get what I want. It's not that I can't get employed anywhere else and we DO use OSS here.....ALOT.
Amen to this. My son's Kindergarten (yes folks....KINDERGARTEN) teacher is there by at least 6 am and I have seen her there as late as yes....8 pm. The parents all send a snack in with the kids on a rotating basis and the teacher is in the rotation. I have seen her grading papers, thinking about class projects, participating in the PTA and also helping the PTA out on fundraisers on a weekend (Christmas Shoppe we put together for the kids). The one thing I did find out about this teacher and many others in the school is that she clings to the older technology. She has computers in the classroom, but I hear they never use them because the IT dept for the district has them so locked down that she can't put a educational game into it for the kids during thier centers period. My Kindergartener has amazed me and is already starting to read chapter books. He went from not knowing alot of things to just knowing so much and he is so smart! They teach reading and writing of course but they also started addition and science as well(ok it's simple stuff like living and not living and stuff like that but it's still kind of like science for kindergarten!!)His teacher is one of the best in the district in my humble opinion and this is in a district where they have some schools (none my son will attend) that are in academic probation. Even though the district we are in isn't the best, I still would nto move him out of it as well as he's doing. His school also happens to be a alternative school....the theme is project adventure and for gym it's not wiffle ball and kickball....it's Wall Climbing and rope climbing. ALL of the teachers there work so hard for the kids and everyone of them I met deserves alot more money then they get.
Open source software is completely out of the question for K-12. There are too many educational packages that need Windows. No software company in thier right mind would even try to target Linux for educational software. Linux is too difficult for most of these teachers. I have also looked at the Debian Jr packages and none of them are even close to what some websites do.
As for Higher Ed? I think it's a great fit for higher ed. Most people have had access to Windows at some point in time and the college can spend thier money on a lot better things then software.
There are alot of posts that kind of crap on this project. Yeah yeah....it's not really revolutionary or new but let's look at who we had doing the project.....inner city high school students with help of Penn. U as well. To me, this is an amazing project and I don't care what they hell anyone says. I am proud of these kids. They have done something extraordinary for a group of high school students. Eventually, we'll have to do something like this and I am simply amazed.
Values is a possible item, however kids are kids. They will want to look at the forbidden. I presonally woud not let kids on the net unsupervised until they are 17-18. Reason being is if he starts to go to something that he probably should not go to, I want to know about it.
Um....uh....WRONG! I do not think that and I do not know a single parent that thinks this way. My son only gets to use the computer when I am in the room and that will stay that way until he's 18. It may seem a bit harsh, but thats the way I am going to do it. If he wants a computer in his room, IF it has network ability, it will be locked out to him only and access will be controlled. That computer will be used strictly for school work...he will use it only for typing up the paper he needs to submit for class. Any internet access needs to happen ONLY when I or my wife are in the room.
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It's called a VOLUME CONTROL! And it's already on EVERY DEVICE that outputs audio. Now you mess with the volume level of my equipment I WILL SUE. People have a right to fry thier ears. It's NOT the fault of the equipment and if you go and mess with it, people CAN undo it and WILL.
And then I would be the first person to LEAVE your ISP if you did not do backup s of ANY system.
Hmm....last I checked, it's LEGAL to do this. Also, keep in mind that Google is unsecure to begin with! There's no SSL encryption and e-mails sent from Gmail are not encrypted. The ONLY way to hide stuff from tne US government or ANYONE else for that matter is to encrypt the e-mail. Even then, it's not THAT secure....all encryption will eventually be broken which is why encryption is something that will always have to advance.
The only person's "privacy" that is being invaded is the guy who broke the law in this case. Even then, Google was provided with a subpoena for the information. Google was NOT the first to ever be asked for information such as this. They have the proper court papers...how is this an invasion??
I have always said....you want something to not be widely known then DON'T send it in clear text!
But having your own mail server is not enough. When you send a unencrypted message, there are numerous servers along the chain that will have a copy of it somewhere. The only way to have secure e-mail is to use PGP/GPG to encrypt it. Period. Even then, it's not that secure. E-mail is still way more secure then snail mail though.
Running Kanotix (Basically Sid) and I already have Firefox open. Launch OO.org Writer then click back to firefox. The OO.org splash pops up and steals the focus from firefox. Once I click back to firefox, OO.org loads in background and doesn't steal browser focus after that.
You know I agree with you however there are certain patent holders that can swing lots of money and lawyers your direction. MP3 has a patent held by Thompson Electronics (I thing that's the name...parent company of RCA). Even though LAME andother decoders have been around a while, most Linux distros stopped including MP3 ability a couple years ago.
Also, the only way to get w32 codecs working on linux is to have the dll's installed....a company could be sued by Microsoft for including them in thier distro.
There's more reasons then those two but there's alot of "issues" just including these features in a default install....non of which Ubuntu wants to do but they sort of have to do it just so they can stay in business.
From what I saw on the ubuntu forums, the guy who wrote this has no idea how apt is supposed to work. He's using things like --force-yes in his script....you should NEVER have to do this. It's basically telling apt to shove it and install anyway.....never do that on ANY Debian box unless you know what your doing. As he's asking new users to use this, it should NEVER do things that may break the system. It's not like it's really hard to write the script to do it right even. The biggest reason he used those flags was to avoid having to load the GPG keys in the apt keyring.....apt has this for a REASON! I can understand if it had a pop up and ask you to approve it if there was a BADSIG issue in the repository (there was one this weekend in the Debian sid repository....). Just ignoring it to begin with is VERY bad form.
Nonsense. A CD CAN have Data Compression. What do you think a MP3 is? At it's most basic form, a MP3 is compressed Data.
Why would you want hardware compression on a USB key?
Data CAN be changed once it goes on a CD too....it's just that changing the data makes it unreadable....usually.
Music CD's are definitely NOT lossless. Sure, the higher the sample rate, the more of the signal you have, but even when you record audio on your computer with 48K samle rate, you still loose some. The only perfect and pristine set of audio you will ever have is by listening to the band directly..but we can't always do that. CD audio is pretty good, but not perfect. It's good enough for the majority of people though.
The pop-up key stealing bit happens on Linux too. Ever kick a app off and while waiting switch to the browser and then the one you launched first thrusts itself into view? Happens to me on Linux too.
It's not a fallacy. All browsers should strive to be compliant with standards. ACID 2 is a test of those. The REAL problem is that web developers get sold on things that don't work in every browser. AJAX is a excellent example...it does not currently work in Safari although it works almost everywhere else. So, yes...browsers SHOULD render everything correctly, but the web developers also have a duty to test on IE, firefox, opera and safari.....at a minimum. I'd also check some things out in Lynx as well since some people use that (mostly blind). Developers should not have to do that, but that's the way things are now.
better yet....
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
AND Origami has a hard disk. The Nokia does not. This is more like the Archos PMA400.
Even harden boxes can get hacked. Don't fool yourself.
One thing I have always heard from people is stuff like this. I even here about this kind of thing happening on the bus too but I have ridden the bus for nearly 3 years now. Worst thing that happened was we had a bus blow a tire once on a express bus and a drunk nearly fell on me. Also, each bus and lots of different subway trains in different cities hae camera's on them. Is crime as rampant on public transit as everyone says??
Yes.....and I wish Apple would move on at least one item.....a Microphone for the 5th gen iPod. Griffin made the iTalk. Apple got rid of the connector they used. 5th Gen iPod can still record audio. Someone else (not Griffin) has a Mik ein the works, but I have not seen it yet. It also costs 79 bucks...more then the iTalk was orignally I think. Anyway this Mic just now became available. I wish there were more mike options now but this mic from Xtreme Mac is the only one I know of.
HOLY CRAP! We think IE is bad! No seriously.....some of the extensions are good, but I tend to stay on the less obtrusive ones....I don't have a HUGE monitor yet....I need the screen real estate for view web pages not toolbars.
There's no REAL DC-DC convertors. All you have to do to "convert" one DC level to another is measure or caculate or find out the total resistance of the load and do a simple OHM's Law calculation to figure out the resistor you would need to insert....but there's no "conversion" needed....DC is DC!
Yes, but I would still have more then ONE invertor. Redudancy in a data center is something you WANT. Redundant PDU's attached to two different substations as well as a generator backup.
1) There are no licensing issues so programs can be moved freely
Most schools don't care or get a site license so this really is not an issue.
2) The system ships with hundreds of educational packages preinstalled
Ok....how many of these hgave any of these teachers heard about man? I will tell you it's a big fat ZERO.
3) The OS can be designed around children's needs (no model of a uniform interface for all users)
Children are a hell of a lot more flexible then the teachers are because they don't know anything and one of the big ways they learn is exploring. Teachers can get stuck in a rut. My child's Kindergarten teacher is holding out as long as she can with switching to digital cameras. Try putting Linux in front of her and she'll say ok on to something else....
4) Multilingual support is much better in most OS apps (which is useful for districts with large concentrated minority language students). Try getting Oregon Trail in Arabic or Hindi.
If your going to school in the US you had better be able to learn English. The school systems can't afford to have lessons taught in more then one language....I am NOT kidding.
Sorry...reason I work here is I have been here 10 years and don't want to loose a week vacation unless I get what I want. It's not that I can't get employed anywhere else and we DO use OSS here.....ALOT.
Amen to this. My son's Kindergarten (yes folks....KINDERGARTEN) teacher is there by at least 6 am and I have seen her there as late as yes....8 pm. The parents all send a snack in with the kids on a rotating basis and the teacher is in the rotation. I have seen her grading papers, thinking about class projects, participating in the PTA and also helping the PTA out on fundraisers on a weekend (Christmas Shoppe we put together for the kids). The one thing I did find out about this teacher and many others in the school is that she clings to the older technology. She has computers in the classroom, but I hear they never use them because the IT dept for the district has them so locked down that she can't put a educational game into it for the kids during thier centers period. My Kindergartener has amazed me and is already starting to read chapter books. He went from not knowing alot of things to just knowing so much and he is so smart! They teach reading and writing of course but they also started addition and science as well(ok it's simple stuff like living and not living and stuff like that but it's still kind of like science for kindergarten!!)His teacher is one of the best in the district in my humble opinion and this is in a district where they have some schools (none my son will attend) that are in academic probation. Even though the district we are in isn't the best, I still would nto move him out of it as well as he's doing. His school also happens to be a alternative school....the theme is project adventure and for gym it's not wiffle ball and kickball....it's Wall Climbing and rope climbing. ALL of the teachers there work so hard for the kids and everyone of them I met deserves alot more money then they get.
Open source software is completely out of the question for K-12. There are too many educational packages that need Windows. No software company in thier right mind would even try to target Linux for educational software. Linux is too difficult for most of these teachers. I have also looked at the Debian Jr packages and none of them are even close to what some websites do.
As for Higher Ed? I think it's a great fit for higher ed. Most people have had access to Windows at some point in time and the college can spend thier money on a lot better things then software.
There are alot of posts that kind of crap on this project. Yeah yeah....it's not really revolutionary or new but let's look at who we had doing the project.....inner city high school students with help of Penn. U as well. To me, this is an amazing project and I don't care what they hell anyone says. I am proud of these kids. They have done something extraordinary for a group of high school students. Eventually, we'll have to do something like this and I am simply amazed.
Values is a possible item, however kids are kids. They will want to look at the forbidden. I presonally woud not let kids on the net unsupervised until they are 17-18. Reason being is if he starts to go to something that he probably should not go to, I want to know about it.
Um....uh....WRONG! I do not think that and I do not know a single parent that thinks this way. My son only gets to use the computer when I am in the room and that will stay that way until he's 18. It may seem a bit harsh, but thats the way I am going to do it. If he wants a computer in his room, IF it has network ability, it will be locked out to him only and access will be controlled. That computer will be used strictly for school work...he will use it only for typing up the paper he needs to submit for class. Any internet access needs to happen ONLY when I or my wife are in the room.