The US government will not be happy until it seals itself off from the rest of the world. In the backs of their minds they probably realize that the more insane they get the less chance they'll have for getting other countries to bend to their will and adopt their policies. Much of the news I see related to this type of thing seems to be an attempt by various agencies to alienate and isolate the US. I would imagine that when the US begins producing everything locally, and has their own isolated internet because no one wants to deal with them anymore, they'll shut their borders and we'll never hear from them again.
I'm not sure if this mentality is born of some diseased consciousness that believes its the only way for them to be safe, or what is causing it. They remind me of that crazy relative everyone has... they don't seem so bad at first, but everytime they talk you realize just how far gone they are.
The whole thing rests on the advertising. Until ISPs change it, we can expect whatever they promised us, regardless of whether or not its realistic. Thats what they sold us and if they don't provide it, we have every right to complain.
1)Bittorrent has legitimate use. It is often used for linux distros, and many places are using it for demos of software and nasa even uses it to give access to large images. Try explaining the throttling to customers using it for "legitimate" reasons. Customer: Why is my download so slow? ISP: Well sir, we detected that you're using bittorrent, that must mean you're downloading pirated software or movies. C: I'm an academic and I'm downloading some images from nasa I need for a class tommorrow. I: uh..uhm.. have you tried turning it off and on?
2) I'll repeat the false advertising. Nowhere in the advertisements does it say "Unlimited HTTP traffic at super high speeds!". In fact nowhere in the advertisements I've seen does it give any indication that a certain type of traffic is welcome.
3) Pick one: Usage cap, throttling. Enforce it. Make it very clear in your terms what the usage cap is, what the penalty for going over it is. Offer tiered usage plans, don't just sodomize them with something stupid like $10/GB after 20 GB limit. I have a 90 GB limit I believe, I usually top out around 36 GB a month. I haven't experienced any throttling to my knowledge. I do notice that legit linux distros go WAY faster that less than reputable torrent sites. I don't think that has anything to do with my ISP though.
4) Prepare for the backlash. If you choose to throttle, those users you so aggressively marketed to will be pissed off. If you don't spell out any limits on use very clearly, its going to bite you in the ass. If you want to advertise something you can't provide, don't sell the product.
While that may work its not at all what I'm talking about. In that scenario you're running the laptop fully on. It will generate a lot more heat than a unit thats designed just to power the hard drive and play songs from a certain directory. Plus you're involving another device. If I'm going to involve another device, why not just have an mp3 player? Properly set up we shouldn't have a heat issue as it wouldn't engage much, and the battery should last much longer.
Close, but that seems specifically geared towards text retrieval, not actually turning on the HD to access music and using an audio system. If they built that functionality in, it would be great.
I'd like to see laptops have an "MP3" player feature. Where you slap it in your shoulderbag or backpack and plug in your headphones. A certain directory on the harddrive will be designated the "mp3 file storage" directory and there will be a set of basic external controls on the side of the laptop, say play, next, back, stop, shuffle. The laptop battery will provide power to the hard drive to spin and to operate the head phones. It would be an awesome use for the person on the go who doesn't want to go gadget crazy.
Sure its going to sound like console bashing, but look at the market. When you make a product more accesible it becomes very tempting to try and maximize that even further. As businesses grow and the market evolves, publishers are under greater pressure (mostly greed) to abuse that market. The easiest way is to ignore innovation, create broader appeal to already existing franchises (often through dumbing down) and pump it out and make it available for anything that moves. As an example on what's being done to something like The Sims. You can trash it all you want, but its a prime example of a very popular franchise. Initially they announced 7 EPs. Its a lot, but the market is there. Then they announced they'd start putting it on anything that could play it. Consoles, phones, handhelds, etc. Get a smart watch, Maxis will port it. Now they haven't saturated things enough, they're releasing mini-eps in between EPs. Why? Because EA has reportedly been sucking out, except for The Sims franchise, its their cash cow. The game isn't going to innovate.
You can see it in the underlying structure of the game. People who have taken apart the code and looked at it call it disgusting, the little things are missing. Problems that have existed since the original game, but instead of fixing those to produce quality, they're going to pump out 3 more platforms and another 2 expansion packs. If EA could market a gaming device who' sole purpose was to play The Sims, they would.
That market is changed, and if you want quality, I really think you have to stick with small developers who are in it for the love of the game.
Well I have had it since 2001/2002, memory is a bit fuzzy, never had an issue with it, I think that goes back to the using computers with intelligence thing. Thats why I also recommend all that backup to people anyway. Should they still get something through firefox/trillian/email/etc they can clean most of it up with that.
Trillian doesn't have any spyware unless I missed something in a memo? I keep all those programs (except for hijack this) on my PC, scan about every 6 weeks, never find a thing.
The best defense is a little intelligence in your habits, for a lot of other people I meet, I recommend most of the above programs and tell them to run them once a week or more depending on how bad of shape they're in when I come across them. Even if they're using firefox I still recommend them because you never know what shiny thing they'll click on and try and install.
does it actually have working the vast multitude of things that trillian does? I can't count the times someone has said "try this" and its missing this feature or that feature, etc. as for lightweight... I've never had an issue with resources being used by trillian.
curious.. I fired up vmware and install linspire. After booting I went into the user account I created and ran CNR. As it attempted to update CNR it managed to lock up both the virtual machine (which I was running full screen) and the host machine.
After restarting machine and booting up linspire again, CNR fails to run. Pretty 1337 stuff. I can see newbies having no issue with this OS at all..
definitely effective as long as the socket didn't get infected, but I'm not sure I'd call it dentistry. If your tooth hurts and you don't want to pay a dentist and I grab a pair of pliers and yank it out, no one will mistake me for a dentist.
One of us would have to be unconscious during that procedure. If it wasn't me, the dentist would have been long dead before he got eaten by a wooly mammoth.
I'm thinking their dentistry ran along the lines of: It hurts, rip it out with whatever method you can.
They still recommended you see them twice a year though...
I see nothing surprising or terribly interesting by this. People use a skill less and its not as good. Any kind of automation or change in the way things are done are likely to reduce the skill level of the way things were previously done. automatic transmissions reduced the over-all ability of the population to use a clutch. We could spend all day here saying how things are different than they were last week, last year, or 10 years ago.
What's wrong with yum? it resolves dependencies, even on manually downloaded rpms, using: yum localinstall. I've never been exposed to apt, my OS instructor harped on it a great deal last semester, but as a novice I've thoroughly enjoyed yum and found it to be relatively painless and easy to use.
They don't ship mp3 due to concern over copyright issues. The same reason they don't ship ntfs support. They have a wiki somewhere that addresses various packages and why they aren't shipped with the distro. That being said someone has put together a nice page called "Fedora Core installation notes" that addresses many common things a desktop user would like including step-by-step instructions on how to install each item: http://stanton-finley.net/fedora_core_4_installati on_notes.html
I've had no particular issue setting up java, flash, quicktime, etc. The only thing I believe I've had issue with is Shockwave, but I hear thats a linux wide issue.
Honestly its also kind of fun setting that stuff up too.
I'm reading this on FC4, on a laptop provided by my school as part of my program. Originally it came with Dos, Windows Xp, and a bad install of RH9. I'd never spent much time on Linux prior to this, other than a weekend I fired up a knoppix CD a couple years ago, however in november I took the plunge and started using Linux exclusively. First thing I did was remove RH9 and install FC4. I had a book that had FC2 in it, but had some issues with it, so I downloaded and got FC4. I made sure that I could do all I needed to do for school in it and over the xmas holiday I removed the windows partition and migrated linux to the larger partition. School ends in 3 weeks and I'll be ghosting my partition and repartition this machine because the partition scheme is pretty much crap right now.
As a complete novice to begin with. I broke lots of stuff. Once I removed windows, I took to keeping a "backup" copy of my installation. If I destroyed something on a lunch break and couldn't use linux any more, I booted to the other partition and copied it back over top. Now that I've learned, generally speaking, how to avoid causing meltdowns, I don't have that problem and I only have the single copy.
Since I learned to stop breaking stuff, I haven't had a single issue with system stability or usability. Sure I often need to install a few things for dependencies, but I've discovered the joy of yum localinstall and I cuddle with fedoraforum and linuxquestions at night.
I'm using gnome, though I also have xfce installed. I introduced a classmate to it because he wanted to learn more linux as well. Everytime I see him, he's running it. I've found or solved answer to most of our critical issues that would prevent us from using linux, and a number of my classmates have started taking the plunge. Not all are using it exclusively or are using FC4, but some are. They're really sampling though. I have classmates running gentoo, ubuntu, debian, and FC4. I think some people chose to take an already used distribution simply so they'd have someone else running it who's done it before so they can ask questions.
But for those of us using FC4, maybe we're missing something, because we all thoroughly enjoy it. I'm going to be putting either FC4 or FC5 as a dual boot on my home system. The sooner the better because I need to set up a server to handle the image of the partition I'm making so that I can get this laptop working a bit better.
The dietician I'm seeing would disagree with you. For those of us in a sedentary lifestyle you need more activity then 20 minutes 3 times a week. If you don't have an active lifestyle, you need to work much harder to burn any appreciable amount of calories (Juice/Pop is a major contributor to weight and should pretty much be avoided, even though real fruit juice sounds healthy, the calories are unbelievable, since I've started seeing her I only drink water, skim milk, and artificially sweetend stuff like Crystal Light).
Even if you're jogging for those 20 minutes, in a grand total of an hour a week you're only burning 630 calories (assumed an overweight geek at 220 lbs). Its going to take you 5 weeks to burn a single pound of fat if you aren't cutting calories through eating better. If you aren't changing your diet at all, you might not do anything but slow down your weight gain or simply bring it to a halt.
On the other hand if you're doing something like an hour of low-impact areobics (Same weight) 5 days a week, and cutting 300-500 calories/day which is a standard food guide weight loss recommendation, while eating healthy around that, you can expect about 1.5 lbs of fat burned a week.
To really put it in perspective, if you wanted to improve yourself over a 6 month period (about 26 weeks) you're looking at 5 lbs total fat loss in 6 months via the first method and about 40 lbs total fat loss in the second method. As an overweight geek, I can tell you which one I'm much more interested in. Does it require a little more discipline? Yeah, but the pay-off is huge.
My doctor has told me that liver failure caused by being overweight is one of the new highest causes of liver failure.
If you don't actually need to lose weight, then you don't have to worry so much about cutting the calories, but I would still submit that that amount of activity isn't enough for someone who is sedentary for the rest of their day. Very few geeks I know who are sedentary don't need to lose weight (other than the freakishly thin ones who never seem to gain weight)
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Unfortunately for most of us, 20 minutes a day isn't anywhere near sufficient. Since most geeks are well out of shape, you need to: A) change your diet considerably B) put in around an hour a day with some sort of activity, walking, running, cycling, etc.
A little weight lifting now and then wouldn't hurt either. 20 minutes a day is a good amount for someone who's in shape, eats well, and just wants to maintain themselves, that is not a get-in-shape number.
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The US government will not be happy until it seals itself off from the rest of the world. In the backs of their minds they probably realize that the more insane they get the less chance they'll have for getting other countries to bend to their will and adopt their policies. Much of the news I see related to this type of thing seems to be an attempt by various agencies to alienate and isolate the US. I would imagine that when the US begins producing everything locally, and has their own isolated internet because no one wants to deal with them anymore, they'll shut their borders and we'll never hear from them again.
I'm not sure if this mentality is born of some diseased consciousness that believes its the only way for them to be safe, or what is causing it. They remind me of that crazy relative everyone has... they don't seem so bad at first, but everytime they talk you realize just how far gone they are.
Thats right, every unchecked myspace profile is a criminal let free, its good to see the mpaa/riaa mindset spreading.
The whole thing rests on the advertising. Until ISPs change it, we can expect whatever they promised us, regardless of whether or not its realistic. Thats what they sold us and if they don't provide it, we have every right to complain.
1)Bittorrent has legitimate use. It is often used for linux distros, and many places are using it for demos of software and nasa even uses it to give access to large images. Try explaining the throttling to customers using it for "legitimate" reasons.
Customer: Why is my download so slow?
ISP: Well sir, we detected that you're using bittorrent, that must mean you're downloading pirated software or movies.
C: I'm an academic and I'm downloading some images from nasa I need for a class tommorrow.
I: uh..uhm.. have you tried turning it off and on?
2) I'll repeat the false advertising. Nowhere in the advertisements does it say "Unlimited HTTP traffic at super high speeds!". In fact nowhere in the advertisements I've seen does it give any indication that a certain type of traffic is welcome.
3) Pick one: Usage cap, throttling. Enforce it. Make it very clear in your terms what the usage cap is, what the penalty for going over it is. Offer tiered usage plans, don't just sodomize them with something stupid like $10/GB after 20 GB limit. I have a 90 GB limit I believe, I usually top out around 36 GB a month. I haven't experienced any throttling to my knowledge. I do notice that legit linux distros go WAY faster that less than reputable torrent sites. I don't think that has anything to do with my ISP though.
4) Prepare for the backlash. If you choose to throttle, those users you so aggressively marketed to will be pissed off. If you don't spell out any limits on use very clearly, its going to bite you in the ass. If you want to advertise something you can't provide, don't sell the product.
While that may work its not at all what I'm talking about. In that scenario you're running the laptop fully on. It will generate a lot more heat than a unit thats designed just to power the hard drive and play songs from a certain directory. Plus you're involving another device. If I'm going to involve another device, why not just have an mp3 player?
Properly set up we shouldn't have a heat issue as it wouldn't engage much, and the battery should last much longer.
Close, but that seems specifically geared towards text retrieval, not actually turning on the HD to access music and using an audio system. If they built that functionality in, it would be great.
I'd like to see laptops have an "MP3" player feature. Where you slap it in your shoulderbag or backpack and plug in your headphones. A certain directory on the harddrive will be designated the "mp3 file storage" directory and there will be a set of basic external controls on the side of the laptop, say play, next, back, stop, shuffle.
The laptop battery will provide power to the hard drive to spin and to operate the head phones. It would be an awesome use for the person on the go who doesn't want to go gadget crazy.
Sure its going to sound like console bashing, but look at the market. When you make a product more accesible it becomes very tempting to try and maximize that even further. As businesses grow and the market evolves, publishers are under greater pressure (mostly greed) to abuse that market. The easiest way is to ignore innovation, create broader appeal to already existing franchises (often through dumbing down) and pump it out and make it available for anything that moves. As an example on what's being done to something like The Sims. You can trash it all you want, but its a prime example of a very popular franchise. Initially they announced 7 EPs. Its a lot, but the market is there. Then they announced they'd start putting it on anything that could play it. Consoles, phones, handhelds, etc. Get a smart watch, Maxis will port it.
Now they haven't saturated things enough, they're releasing mini-eps in between EPs. Why? Because EA has reportedly been sucking out, except for The Sims franchise, its their cash cow. The game isn't going to innovate.
You can see it in the underlying structure of the game. People who have taken apart the code and looked at it call it disgusting, the little things are missing. Problems that have existed since the original game, but instead of fixing those to produce quality, they're going to pump out 3 more platforms and another 2 expansion packs. If EA could market a gaming device who' sole purpose was to play The Sims, they would.
That market is changed, and if you want quality, I really think you have to stick with small developers who are in it for the love of the game.
Well I have had it since 2001/2002, memory is a bit fuzzy, never had an issue with it, I think that goes back to the using computers with intelligence thing. Thats why I also recommend all that backup to people anyway. Should they still get something through firefox/trillian/email/etc they can clean most of it up with that.
Trillian doesn't have any spyware unless I missed something in a memo?
I keep all those programs (except for hijack this) on my PC, scan about every 6 weeks, never find a thing.
The best defense is a little intelligence in your habits, for a lot of other people I meet, I recommend most of the above programs and tell them to run them once a week or more depending on how bad of shape they're in when I come across them. Even if they're using firefox I still recommend them because you never know what shiny thing they'll click on and try and install.
does it actually have working the vast multitude of things that trillian does? I can't count the times someone has said "try this" and its missing this feature or that feature, etc.
as for lightweight... I've never had an issue with resources being used by trillian.
OpenOffice:
http://www.openoffice.org/
This for good measure:
http://www.officeplayground.com/madball.html
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http://free.grisoft.com/
Ad-aware:
http://www.download.com/Ad-Aware-SE-Personal-Edit
Spybot Search and Destroy:
http://www.download.com/Spybot-Search-Destroy/300
Hijack This!:
http://www.download.com/HijackThis/3000-8022_4-10
Firefox:
http://www.firefox.com/
Trillian:
http://www.trillian.cc/
Spywareblaster:
http://www.download.com/SpywareBlaster/3000-8022_
And just about anything from:
http://www.gamespot.com/pc/index.html
5 for informative? how about -1 for being overmoderated/troll since the poster didn't bother to read the article and understand what was being said.
curious.. I fired up vmware and install linspire. After booting I went into the user account I created and ran CNR. As it attempted to update CNR it managed to lock up both the virtual machine (which I was running full screen) and the host machine.
After restarting machine and booting up linspire again, CNR fails to run. Pretty 1337 stuff. I can see newbies having no issue with this OS at all..
definitely effective as long as the socket didn't get infected, but I'm not sure I'd call it dentistry. If your tooth hurts and you don't want to pay a dentist and I grab a pair of pliers and yank it out, no one will mistake me for a dentist.
One of us would have to be unconscious during that procedure. If it wasn't me, the dentist would have been long dead before he got eaten by a wooly mammoth.
I'm thinking their dentistry ran along the lines of:
It hurts, rip it out with whatever method you can.
They still recommended you see them twice a year though...
I see nothing surprising or terribly interesting by this. People use a skill less and its not as good. Any kind of automation or change in the way things are done are likely to reduce the skill level of the way things were previously done.
automatic transmissions reduced the over-all ability of the population to use a clutch. We could spend all day here saying how things are different than they were last week, last year, or 10 years ago.
What's wrong with yum? it resolves dependencies, even on manually downloaded rpms, using: yum localinstall. I've never been exposed to apt, my OS instructor harped on it a great deal last semester, but as a novice I've thoroughly enjoyed yum and found it to be relatively painless and easy to use.
They don't ship mp3 due to concern over copyright issues. The same reason they don't ship ntfs support. They have a wiki somewhere that addresses various packages and why they aren't shipped with the distro. That being said someone has put together a nice page called "Fedora Core installation notes" that addresses many common things a desktop user would like including step-by-step instructions on how to install each item:i on_notes.html
http://stanton-finley.net/fedora_core_4_installat
I've had no particular issue setting up java, flash, quicktime, etc. The only thing I believe I've had issue with is Shockwave, but I hear thats a linux wide issue.
Honestly its also kind of fun setting that stuff up too.
They also distribute Novell/SuSE your point?
I'm reading this on FC4, on a laptop provided by my school as part of my program. Originally it came with Dos, Windows Xp, and a bad install of RH9. I'd never spent much time on Linux prior to this, other than a weekend I fired up a knoppix CD a couple years ago, however in november I took the plunge and started using Linux exclusively. First thing I did was remove RH9 and install FC4. I had a book that had FC2 in it, but had some issues with it, so I downloaded and got FC4. I made sure that I could do all I needed to do for school in it and over the xmas holiday I removed the windows partition and migrated linux to the larger partition. School ends in 3 weeks and I'll be ghosting my partition and repartition this machine because the partition scheme is pretty much crap right now.
As a complete novice to begin with. I broke lots of stuff. Once I removed windows, I took to keeping a "backup" copy of my installation. If I destroyed something on a lunch break and couldn't use linux any more, I booted to the other partition and copied it back over top. Now that I've learned, generally speaking, how to avoid causing meltdowns, I don't have that problem and I only have the single copy.
Since I learned to stop breaking stuff, I haven't had a single issue with system stability or usability. Sure I often need to install a few things for dependencies, but I've discovered the joy of yum localinstall and I cuddle with fedoraforum and linuxquestions at night.
I'm using gnome, though I also have xfce installed. I introduced a classmate to it because he wanted to learn more linux as well. Everytime I see him, he's running it. I've found or solved answer to most of our critical issues that would prevent us from using linux, and a number of my classmates have started taking the plunge. Not all are using it exclusively or are using FC4, but some are. They're really sampling though. I have classmates running gentoo, ubuntu, debian, and FC4. I think some people chose to take an already used distribution simply so they'd have someone else running it who's done it before so they can ask questions.
But for those of us using FC4, maybe we're missing something, because we all thoroughly enjoy it. I'm going to be putting either FC4 or FC5 as a dual boot on my home system. The sooner the better because I need to set up a server to handle the image of the partition I'm making so that I can get this laptop working a bit better.
The dietician I'm seeing would disagree with you. For those of us in a sedentary lifestyle you need more activity then 20 minutes 3 times a week. If you don't have an active lifestyle, you need to work much harder to burn any appreciable amount of calories (Juice/Pop is a major contributor to weight and should pretty much be avoided, even though real fruit juice sounds healthy, the calories are unbelievable, since I've started seeing her I only drink water, skim milk, and artificially sweetend stuff like Crystal Light). Even if you're jogging for those 20 minutes, in a grand total of an hour a week you're only burning 630 calories (assumed an overweight geek at 220 lbs). Its going to take you 5 weeks to burn a single pound of fat if you aren't cutting calories through eating better. If you aren't changing your diet at all, you might not do anything but slow down your weight gain or simply bring it to a halt. On the other hand if you're doing something like an hour of low-impact areobics (Same weight) 5 days a week, and cutting 300-500 calories/day which is a standard food guide weight loss recommendation, while eating healthy around that, you can expect about 1.5 lbs of fat burned a week. To really put it in perspective, if you wanted to improve yourself over a 6 month period (about 26 weeks) you're looking at 5 lbs total fat loss in 6 months via the first method and about 40 lbs total fat loss in the second method. As an overweight geek, I can tell you which one I'm much more interested in. Does it require a little more discipline? Yeah, but the pay-off is huge. My doctor has told me that liver failure caused by being overweight is one of the new highest causes of liver failure. If you don't actually need to lose weight, then you don't have to worry so much about cutting the calories, but I would still submit that that amount of activity isn't enough for someone who is sedentary for the rest of their day. Very few geeks I know who are sedentary don't need to lose weight (other than the freakishly thin ones who never seem to gain weight)
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Unfortunately for most of us, 20 minutes a day isn't anywhere near sufficient. Since most geeks are well out of shape, you need to:
A) change your diet considerably
B) put in around an hour a day with some sort of activity, walking, running, cycling, etc.
A little weight lifting now and then wouldn't hurt either. 20 minutes a day is a good amount for someone who's in shape, eats well, and just wants to maintain themselves, that is not a get-in-shape number.