I just quickly looked over the link you posted and it seems as though most slashdotters posting about the original IPod were in favor of it and Apple. Many were right on about it in fact. As far as our mob opinions it seems as though we were mostly right about its success.
I hear what you are saying though. I try not to pay too much attention to overly negative posts as they can add only so much perspective and get old so very quickly.
If they axe the power lines they will not be able to use their Oinky little radios. Unless they have a solar/wind/water/di-lithium powered generator or UPS. Yeesh. I can imagine that there could be quite a political overtone - Radio Nerds vs Computer Geeks... Whose vote will the politicians rush to secure? And who will go to jail for willful destruction of property?
I do sympathize with the HAM radio enthusiasts, but not at the expense of the relatively greater good that Broadband Over Powerlines has to offer.
It's important not to forget the little guy though. On second thought...
Out here in Northern California we have a non-profit organization to get computers to lower income families local schools. CFC is also sending refurbished systems all over the world.
My wife and I have had an ongoing discussion about this issue for quite sometime and we came (pun?) to the same conclusion. When deciding which to show our children we opted for less restrictions on sex. It just stands to reason that people in our country are quite strange in their sex fear.
Our parents opted for education over oppressive and nosensical censorship. At least my mother did. My father side of the family was aghast during any part of a show that showed the barest hint of flesh and us children were chased out of the room during these scenes. As a kid all that I thought was, "Lame!" My wife's mother's side was similarly victorian in their dispostion. Ironic?
By having both points of view I had the right, nay the oportunity, to decide for myself which made more sense to me - what could I handle? That was the question. Letting censors pander to this or that group leads to one group being unhappy with an issue that should be decided by the individual.
During our formative teenage years my wife's stepmom always said, "I would rather have you watch sex that violence because sex is natural and violence is not." An arguable position, but still I agree with the gist of her message.
Good luck to all the parents out there with this one. Seems a no brainer.
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I just quickly looked over the link you posted and it seems as though most slashdotters posting about the original IPod were in favor of it and Apple. Many were right on about it in fact. As far as our mob opinions it seems as though we were mostly right about its success. I hear what you are saying though. I try not to pay too much attention to overly negative posts as they can add only so much perspective and get old so very quickly.
If they axe the power lines they will not be able to use their Oinky little radios. Unless they have a solar/wind/water/di-lithium powered generator or UPS. Yeesh. I can imagine that there could be quite a political overtone - Radio Nerds vs Computer Geeks... Whose vote will the politicians rush to secure? And who will go to jail for willful destruction of property?
I do sympathize with the HAM radio enthusiasts, but not at the expense of the relatively greater good that Broadband Over Powerlines has to offer.
It's important not to forget the little guy though. On second thought...
http://www.computersforclassrooms.org/
Check it out.
Oh, Yes.
My wife and I have had an ongoing discussion about this issue for quite sometime and we came (pun?) to the same conclusion. When deciding which to show our children we opted for less restrictions on sex. It just stands to reason that people in our country are quite strange in their sex fear.
Our parents opted for education over oppressive and nosensical censorship. At least my mother did. My father side of the family was aghast during any part of a show that showed the barest hint of flesh and us children were chased out of the room during these scenes. As a kid all that I thought was, "Lame!" My wife's mother's side was similarly victorian in their dispostion. Ironic?
By having both points of view I had the right, nay the oportunity, to decide for myself which made more sense to me - what could I handle? That was the question. Letting censors pander to this or that group leads to one group being unhappy with an issue that should be decided by the individual.
During our formative teenage years my wife's stepmom always said, "I would rather have you watch sex that violence because sex is natural and violence is not." An arguable position, but still I agree with the gist of her message.
Good luck to all the parents out there with this one. Seems a no brainer.