No official way to do this, but the unofficial way works perfectly. The gApps4Archos installer is quite easy to find and doesn't require the device to be rooted.
Archos is kinda cool like that. The only thing that my A32 is missing is an internal speaker, but an old laptop was more than happy to donate one.
Sad, but true. This is the same agency that nearly killed the sub-250cc motorcycle market because most of bikes (and ATVs as well) with engines that small are meant for kids to learn on. Yes, adults do occasionally ride 150-cc dirtbikes, but kids are the target user.
Why was this market nearly killed? The CPSC was afraid of kids licking the battery terminals and sucking on lead wheel-balancing weights. Never mind that kids can't really swallow these things, or that these parts won't poison you even if swallowed. They have lead, and lead is bad. The CPSC doesn't care to look any further than that.
Agreed. ICO and SotC are beautiful works of art in their own ways. I'd mail him a copy of Okami, too. If being immersed in living sumi-e paintings isn't art, then what the heck is?
...making the penalty for repeated speeding and reckless driving something more serious than it is.
This would require properly set speed limits and reasonable enforcement, say 10% or 5 MPH (whichever is greater) either direction. Inclement weather and rush hour aside, the speed limit is the expected rate of travel. Driving far too slow for conditions is just as dangerous as too fast.
There are too many people that don't want anyone to have our God-given/Constitutionally-recognized (however you choose to see them) rights, period. They view rights like free speech as dangerous because such a right allows others to criticize them and possibly undermine their authority or whatever else it is they're afraid of. Since it's easier to condition young people to not claim those rights than it is to strip those rights from older people , who are already accustomed to exercising them, that's the route that has been taken.
That's why schools now have essentially the same authority over students that the parents do. In many ways, it's nothing more than an end-around that bypasses the First Amendment--and many others. Schools were transformed from a pure agent of the state into quasi-parental figures without losing their state-given powers of coercion.
Since there's no magical age at which people begin to think responsibly, schools have decided that allowing no differing thoughts of any kind is the way to go. And they can, because they have that power. Eventually, all of society will be like our schools; no one will know how life could be different because no one was ever allowed to taste the thrills, or responsibilities, of freedom.
I did make "Elite." It took about nine months of game-play. And then my 286 died--which sucked hard because the version I had behaved like a hummingbird on fast forward if I played on anything faster than 8 megahertz!
This Texas law sounds like so many of the speech codes found on college campuses today. Like those speech codes, this law intentionally restricts speech that has been consistently found to be constitutional. The reason for such asinine restrictions? We "have to protect our innocent kids from the real world." This, of course, is utter bullplop. All it does is create a generation of children who have no emotional stability. They never learn how to deal with the fact that not everyone will like them.
The arrested girl may be a bully; if she is, there are laws already in place to deal with her. The problem with those laws, in some eyes, is that bullying requires a pattern of behavior. They want to eliminate all forms of verbal abuse so badly that they'll trample on our constitutional right to occasionally make fun of each other.
Fortunately, this law is in the mold of so many that have been shot down, and shot down hard.
One could easily turn this around and say that bloggers need to have greater ethics and standards than do print journalists. They have no reputation except for the one that they build for themselves. They don't have the luxury of being forced on a potentially unwilling audience, and one poorly written blog entry can be more damaging than one poorly written newspaper article.
I've seen a truckload of shoddy reporting done by people who are content to ride on the coattails of the Associated Press or hide behind the respected name of the Tribune Company. Newspapers are folding because ever-increasing numbers of people find that they are irrelevant and refuse to read them. The standards that print journalists are supposed to follow mean little when those standards stand in the way of attracting readers.
Remember: sex, violence and hysteria sell in print just as well as they do on television. They also grow old just as fast.
Even so, there's a certain feel that doesn't come easily (or at all) on the computer. A set of buttons can only go so far in recreating the whole experience of pinball. Still, Visual Pinball kicks stupendous amounts of ass, especially when you start building your own tables. If you built a proper VP cabinet, it just might be better than the real thing.
They are saying you can run Windows 7 on a netbook. Ya, like you could run Vista on one. Yes it installs and sorta runs but XP runs better.
My stock Eee 904 would like to disagree with you and your definition of "sorta runs." Is Seven numerically and meaningfully faster than XP? I don't know. I don't do benchmarks. What I do is use Seven in what could be considered real world testing, and I do know this: From where I type this, the experience of using Seven beats the experience of using XP. In fact, I've been running Seven longer than I ran XP on this machine.
All the usual YMMV caveats apply, but don't knock it unless you've tried it.
It's no replacement for a full-blown laptop if that's what you need....
The ''if that's what you need'' is the key part. Most people don't need all that extra stuff that adds weight and price to a laptop while detracting from its main function--to be portable. So long as you don't need uber-processing power, there's no reason a 9- or 10-inch Eee couldn't be one's only laptop/
I picked one up in November (a 904HA model) and the little machine is fantastic. Even the stock configuration is enough to make Windows 7 fly. I know why people like their 17-inch SS Luggables, but after a week with the Eee, I'd never go back to full-size.
Besides which, personal e-mail is not the avenue of communication when one is dissenting with policies. The school newspaper would have been a much wiser choice, particularly after the netadmin told her she wasn't allowed to send bulk mailers like that.
You do realize that the school newspaper is also controlled by the schoo, right? What's to keep the school from deciding that her dissents weren't up the the journalistic standards of the newspaper. Personal emails to professors who may actually be able to bring her dissent to the faculty as a whole is a much more effective way of getting the word out, especially since that is her job as member of the student government.
You have confused two different issues. It is a common mistake when the speech and the media are so intertwined, but graffiti that involves no message at all is still illegal. Laws banning graffiti are not enacted against the speech that graffiti conveys. They are enacted against the method in which it is delivered: the defacement of another's property.
Whether or not a judge rules on the constitutionality of this policy matters not one bit. The courts only recognize on which side of that line a policy such as this lies. Unconstitutionality, injustice, and so forth exist as they are outside our legal system.
I'm pretty sure that changes to the school calendar, with specific regards to events required every year of incoming freshmen, absolutely falls under the normal course of business. Providing a quality education is the reason each student's family pays thousands of dollars to a university every year. I don't see how anything that affects the ability of the school to deliver the product it promises for the money can not be considered the normal course of business.
Interestingly, it seems as a student government representative she was fulfilling her duties by attempting to negotiate change between students and faculty. Her email was well written, clear and concise.
Yes, she was most definitely doing her job. To help students and faculty agree on the properness of university policies and programs is what student government is all about. Michigan State University has shown what it thinks of its students in general, and this one in particular. I would never advise anyone set foot on campus there, except to show them the money they are losing because of this idiocy.
Civil disobedience is fine, IMO. Have at it, but don't come blubbering when Mr. Consequence arrives to the party.
I think that the school is going to find that Mister Consequence is a rather painful guest to have to entertain. The FIRE has an excellent track record of making school administrators cry for their mothers, even on cases that do not see the inside of a court room. Mark my words, MSU will get owned if they decide to stand by their decisions.
he should be more worried about the actual conditions of his store. I'm not naive enough to think that people don't use the internet to cause trouble, but if the comment is echoed throughout the forum, he's most likely got a problem on his hands. He may not like someone coming out and saying that his store is filthy, but if the comment is true, then this falls under the realm of informing citizens.
Somehow, I doubt he wants the poster's name and address to send him coupons.
And as a non-drug user, I agree. There are many things that I personally would not do, but I would not ever dare insist that no one else be allowed to do them (obvious exceptions like drunken driving and serial killing not included).
The "war on drugs" is nothing more than a pissing contest of moralities. That, and it is a "cure" far worse than the disease it was meant to counter.
-2: The Freedom to run any hardware, for any purpose
That has no business as a 'software' freedom, since it explictly (sic) affects only hardware. Good 0 Freedom for a Free Hardware Manifesto, though.
Not quite. Good binary blobs for hardware = hardware that can handle software that people will want to run. Conversely, if your hardware sucks, binary blobs or not, no one will use it because it simply won't do its job. That job: to let people run the software they need/want to run.
-1: The Freedom to run proprietary software, to run any hardware.
Except that propietary (sic) software conflicts with every other freedom, and as such the manifesto would contradict itself.
Except that it doesn't. Software freedom allows one to "sell his soul" to Company XYZ in exchange for the license to run that company's software or to give that company the finger if he doesn't like their asking price.
In other words, a choice between two open-source drivers is more freedom than the choice between two proprietary drivers if, and only if you can make the open-source goods fit your needs. If not, then you'd lose out on the freedom to use your computer as you see fit.
However, Stallman's philosophy that "A free system distribution must not assist users in obtaining any nonfree information for practical use, or encourage them to do so" is ridiculous. Why should this be so? How does this promote freedom?
How does this counter freedom? the information is not being censored, it is not being eliminated, it is simply being, well, not advertised.
Here, you make a very fine distinction between censorship and a lack of advertising. Frankly, most people would not see the difference because in this case, there is none. How is not recognizing that yes, there may a proprietary driver/software that can meet your needs better than this free one not censorship? That is eliminating information that would otherwise be available. And yes, that philosophy does indeed actively inhibit freedom. It may not be vendor lock-in, but the result is the same.
And don't forget that the impulse engines on Commodore Decker's ship were used as an anti-Doomsday Machine. Atomic power isn't fiction, but that particular use is.
They probably voided the warranty on the engines by blowing them up, though. It's a good thing they didn't read the warning stickers.
Fornication is highly discouraged in Holy Scripture [blueletterbible.org]. It says don't do it, period. After all the fallout from the "sex revolution", the wisdom of this scripture is too true.
Holy Scripture also has a great number of conflicting passages, so many to the point where living one's life by the exact letter of the Scriptures is impossible. The Scriptures also tend not to take into account that people are, by nature, sexual beings.
Second, pr0n teaches nothing about how to maintain a relationship. Zero, nada, zip. The physical aspect glorified by pr0n is not even 1% of what you need to know about maintaining a relationship. Not to mention that it encourages immoral behavior like adultery, whoremongery, and fornication. Yes there is scripture that discourages pr0n, but I am refraining from using the search while at work.
Westerns teach us nothing about how life in 1800's Arizona really was. Does that make them any less valid as entertainment? Does that mean that they should be banned? Art, whether or not you recognize its validity, does not need you to justify its existence.
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No official way to do this, but the unofficial way works perfectly. The gApps4Archos installer is quite easy to find and doesn't require the device to be rooted.
Archos is kinda cool like that. The only thing that my A32 is missing is an internal speaker, but an old laptop was more than happy to donate one.
Sad, but true. This is the same agency that nearly killed the sub-250cc motorcycle market because most of bikes (and ATVs as well) with engines that small are meant for kids to learn on. Yes, adults do occasionally ride 150-cc dirtbikes, but kids are the target user.
Why was this market nearly killed? The CPSC was afraid of kids licking the battery terminals and sucking on lead wheel-balancing weights. Never mind that kids can't really swallow these things, or that these parts won't poison you even if swallowed. They have lead, and lead is bad. The CPSC doesn't care to look any further than that.
Agreed. ICO and SotC are beautiful works of art in their own ways. I'd mail him a copy of Okami, too. If being immersed in living sumi-e paintings isn't art, then what the heck is?
...making the penalty for repeated speeding and reckless driving something more serious than it is.
This would require properly set speed limits and reasonable enforcement, say 10% or 5 MPH (whichever is greater) either direction. Inclement weather and rush hour aside, the speed limit is the expected rate of travel. Driving far too slow for conditions is just as dangerous as too fast.
There are too many people that don't want anyone to have our God-given/Constitutionally-recognized (however you choose to see them) rights, period. They view rights like free speech as dangerous because such a right allows others to criticize them and possibly undermine their authority or whatever else it is they're afraid of. Since it's easier to condition young people to not claim those rights than it is to strip those rights from older people , who are already accustomed to exercising them, that's the route that has been taken.
That's why schools now have essentially the same authority over students that the parents do. In many ways, it's nothing more than an end-around that bypasses the First Amendment--and many others. Schools were transformed from a pure agent of the state into quasi-parental figures without losing their state-given powers of coercion.
Since there's no magical age at which people begin to think responsibly, schools have decided that allowing no differing thoughts of any kind is the way to go. And they can, because they have that power. Eventually, all of society will be like our schools; no one will know how life could be different because no one was ever allowed to taste the thrills, or responsibilities, of freedom.
I did make "Elite." It took about nine months of game-play. And then my 286 died--which sucked hard because the version I had behaved like a hummingbird on fast forward if I played on anything faster than 8 megahertz!
This Texas law sounds like so many of the speech codes found on college campuses today. Like those speech codes, this law intentionally restricts speech that has been consistently found to be constitutional. The reason for such asinine restrictions? We "have to protect our innocent kids from the real world." This, of course, is utter bullplop. All it does is create a generation of children who have no emotional stability. They never learn how to deal with the fact that not everyone will like them.
The arrested girl may be a bully; if she is, there are laws already in place to deal with her. The problem with those laws, in some eyes, is that bullying requires a pattern of behavior. They want to eliminate all forms of verbal abuse so badly that they'll trample on our constitutional right to occasionally make fun of each other.
Fortunately, this law is in the mold of so many that have been shot down, and shot down hard.
One could easily turn this around and say that bloggers need to have greater ethics and standards than do print journalists. They have no reputation except for the one that they build for themselves. They don't have the luxury of being forced on a potentially unwilling audience, and one poorly written blog entry can be more damaging than one poorly written newspaper article.
I've seen a truckload of shoddy reporting done by people who are content to ride on the coattails of the Associated Press or hide behind the respected name of the Tribune Company. Newspapers are folding because ever-increasing numbers of people find that they are irrelevant and refuse to read them. The standards that print journalists are supposed to follow mean little when those standards stand in the way of attracting readers.
Remember: sex, violence and hysteria sell in print just as well as they do on television. They also grow old just as fast.
Even so, there's a certain feel that doesn't come easily (or at all) on the computer. A set of buttons can only go so far in recreating the whole experience of pinball. Still, Visual Pinball kicks stupendous amounts of ass, especially when you start building your own tables. If you built a proper VP cabinet, it just might be better than the real thing.
My stock Eee 904 would like to disagree with you and your definition of "sorta runs." Is Seven numerically and meaningfully faster than XP? I don't know. I don't do benchmarks. What I do is use Seven in what could be considered real world testing, and I do know this: From where I type this, the experience of using Seven beats the experience of using XP. In fact, I've been running Seven longer than I ran XP on this machine.
All the usual YMMV caveats apply, but don't knock it unless you've tried it.
The ''if that's what you need'' is the key part. Most people don't need all that extra stuff that adds weight and price to a laptop while detracting from its main function--to be portable. So long as you don't need uber-processing power, there's no reason a 9- or 10-inch Eee couldn't be one's only laptop/
I picked one up in November (a 904HA model) and the little machine is fantastic. Even the stock configuration is enough to make Windows 7 fly. I know why people like their 17-inch SS Luggables, but after a week with the Eee, I'd never go back to full-size.
Wouldn't offering this as an update to '07 break Intuit's business model of requiring full-price purchases to get updates that should be free?
Besides which, personal e-mail is not the avenue of communication when one is dissenting with policies. The school newspaper would have been a much wiser choice, particularly after the netadmin told her she wasn't allowed to send bulk mailers like that.
You do realize that the school newspaper is also controlled by the schoo, right? What's to keep the school from deciding that her dissents weren't up the the journalistic standards of the newspaper. Personal emails to professors who may actually be able to bring her dissent to the faculty as a whole is a much more effective way of getting the word out, especially since that is her job as member of the student government.
You have confused two different issues. It is a common mistake when the speech and the media are so intertwined, but graffiti that involves no message at all is still illegal. Laws banning graffiti are not enacted against the speech that graffiti conveys. They are enacted against the method in which it is delivered: the defacement of another's property.
Vandalism != free speech.
Whether or not a judge rules on the constitutionality of this policy matters not one bit. The courts only recognize on which side of that line a policy such as this lies. Unconstitutionality, injustice, and so forth exist as they are outside our legal system.
I'm pretty sure that changes to the school calendar, with specific regards to events required every year of incoming freshmen, absolutely falls under the normal course of business. Providing a quality education is the reason each student's family pays thousands of dollars to a university every year. I don't see how anything that affects the ability of the school to deliver the product it promises for the money can not be considered the normal course of business.
Yes, she was most definitely doing her job. To help students and faculty agree on the properness of university policies and programs is what student government is all about. Michigan State University has shown what it thinks of its students in general, and this one in particular. I would never advise anyone set foot on campus there, except to show them the money they are losing because of this idiocy.
I think that the school is going to find that Mister Consequence is a rather painful guest to have to entertain. The FIRE has an excellent track record of making school administrators cry for their mothers, even on cases that do not see the inside of a court room. Mark my words, MSU will get owned if they decide to stand by their decisions.
he should be more worried about the actual conditions of his store. I'm not naive enough to think that people don't use the internet to cause trouble, but if the comment is echoed throughout the forum, he's most likely got a problem on his hands. He may not like someone coming out and saying that his store is filthy, but if the comment is true, then this falls under the realm of informing citizens.
Somehow, I doubt he wants the poster's name and address to send him coupons.
And as a non-drug user, I agree. There are many things that I personally would not do, but I would not ever dare insist that no one else be allowed to do them (obvious exceptions like drunken driving and serial killing not included).
The "war on drugs" is nothing more than a pissing contest of moralities. That, and it is a "cure" far worse than the disease it was meant to counter.
Not quite. Good binary blobs for hardware = hardware that can handle
software that people will want to run. Conversely, if your hardware sucks, binary blobs or not, no one will use it because it simply won't do its job. That job: to let people run the software they need/want to run.
Except that it doesn't. Software freedom allows one to "sell his soul" to Company XYZ in exchange for the license to run that company's software or to give that company the finger if he doesn't like their asking price.
In other words, a choice between two open-source drivers is more freedom than the choice between two proprietary drivers if, and only if you can make the open-source goods fit your needs. If not, then you'd lose out on the freedom to use your computer as you see fit.
Here, you make a very fine distinction between censorship and a lack of advertising. Frankly, most people would not see the difference because in this case, there is none. How is not recognizing that yes, there may a proprietary driver/software that can meet your needs better than this free one not censorship? That is eliminating information that would otherwise be available. And yes, that philosophy does indeed actively inhibit freedom. It may not be vendor lock-in, but the result is the same.
And don't forget that the impulse engines on Commodore Decker's ship were used as an anti-Doomsday Machine. Atomic power isn't fiction, but that particular use is.
They probably voided the warranty on the engines by blowing them up, though. It's a good thing they didn't read the warning stickers.
Damn, you beat me to it. Your joke is somewhat accurate, though, as sake is brewed in a manner very similar to (good) beer.
This would explain why Picard got captured so many times. Starfleet should have never changed their command uniforms to red.
Holy Scripture also has a great number of conflicting passages, so many to the point where living one's life by the exact letter of the Scriptures is impossible. The Scriptures also tend not to take into account that people are, by nature, sexual beings.
Westerns teach us nothing about how life in 1800's Arizona really was. Does that make them any less valid as entertainment? Does that mean that they should be banned? Art, whether or not you recognize its validity, does not need you to justify its existence.
What if they offered their services free of charge in exchange for the box on your grass?