During the summer before 3rd and 4th grade (2000ish), we moved the family's first computer (Apple ][gs) out of the basement to make room for the slightly less old Windows 98, and the new Windows 2k machine.
The computer stayed in my room for two years, despite sitting right next to a new box running Linux (the pride of my life for a couple of years) for a year of that. Simply because, for those two years, I spent about half the time I spent on computers on the Apple, programming and in general tinkering with everything. TFM and the ability to teach myself a whole new world was what got me into computers. Oh, and the keyboard was amazing. The loud click still takes me to a happy place.
We should replace some elementary school computers with Apple ][s. I'm not terribly smarter than the average, I just RTFM and let my curious instinct lead me. Which any 3rd grader can do, as long as the latter isn't crushed by bad teachers.
Dell doesn't care about the 'geek community'. They care about profit. And China isn't going to buy anything that has ever touched Microsoft and their capitalist evil.
China has people. People have money. Dell wants it.
Really sorry about the formatting. Here is a correctly formatted version... I should have previewed. Sorry!
As a high schooler myself, I'd like to post a students perspective. While I have never seriously considered dropping out, the thought has crossed my mind. I'm not a bad student. I get decent grades and I'm in our schools gifted program. And while this is seen by students who do not achieve academically as an advantage, it quickly turns into an antagonistic quality. For simplicity, and because I'm a forensics freak, I'll break this down into three points of analysis:
1] High school culture is not as brutal as the movies. It's worse. While I consider myself to be in less of a predicament than that of others, high school is a social hell for all students. A lot of this has to do with valuing: students are tagged almost like pieces of merchandise in a school. A good athlete? Add 20 cents. Funny? Add 5 cents. Good grades? Add 15 cents. The problem is, it is the first time one really experiences failure. A C, a bad season or a bad joke. This failure is magnified by the intense self-labeling of worth. There are two causes: the first is simple life experience: it is a changing point. The second is labeling. While this cannot be actively eliminated, steps could be taken to change it. Equalizing opportunity for high education, to some extent, would definatly help. A lot of the labeling is just the reality of high school, though.
2] Expectations. High school is the best part of your life. Right? Slowly, this lie is giving way to a message of the reality: it's the worse four years of life. I won't elaborate, sense my first point was so long. Thanks for reading thus far, just a few more sentences. Not just personal expectations, but those of others.
3] Personal values. This is a time of the development of not only social opinions, but political ones as well. Being a non-apathetic teen is hard. The fact that equal access demands are ignored until one gets a member of the ACLU to speak on your behalf is aggravating. Figuring out what you believe is hard enough, but the treatment of these ideas as worthless only magnifies the hell or high school: especially for those that care. I would extend on this and talk about apathy... if I cared:).
Leprosy is caused by a microbe that eats away at the nerves. The leper does not die because of the microbe, but because they literally kill themselves... without noticing it. Our high schools are a leper, and a number of things are dozens of microbes eating away at it's nerves. I've named 3. Discuss.
As a high schooler myself, I'd like to post a students perspective. While I have never seriously considered dropping out, the thought has crossed my mind. I'm not a bad student. I get decent grades and I'm in our schools gifted program. And while this is seen by students who do not achieve academically as an advantage, it quickly turns into an antagonistic quality. For simplicity, and because I'm a forensics freak, I'll break this down into three points of analysis:
1] High school culture is not as brutal as the movies. It's worse. While I consider myself to be in less of a predicament than that of others, high school is a social hell for all students. A lot of this has to do with valuing: students are tagged almost like pieces of merchandise in a school. A good athlete? Add 20 cents. Funny? Add 5 cents. Good grades? Add 15 cents. The problem is, it is the first time one really experiences failure. A C, a bad season or a bad joke. This failure is magnified by the intense self-labeling of worth. There are two causes: the first is simple life experience: it is a changing point. The second is labeling. While this cannot be actively eliminated, steps could be taken to change it. Equalizing opportunity for high education, to some extent, would definatly help. A lot of the labeling is just the reality of high school, though.
2] Expectations. High school is the best part of your life. Right? Slowly, this lie is giving way to a message of the reality: it's the worse four years of life. I won't elaborate, sense my first point was so long. Thanks for reading thus far, just a few more sentences. Not just personal expectations, but those of others.
3] Personal values. This is a time of the development of not only social opinions, but political ones as well. Being a non-apathetic teen is hard. The fact that equal access demands are ignored until one gets a member of the ACLU to speak on your behalf is aggravating. Figuring out what you believe is hard enough, but the treatment of these ideas as worthless only magnifies the hell or high school: especially for those that care. I would extend on this and talk about apathy... if I cared:).
Leprosy is caused by a microbe that eats away at the nerves. The leper does not die because of the microbe, but because they literally kill themselves... without noticing it. Our high schools are a leper, and a number of things are dozens of microbes eating away at it's nerves. I've named 3. Discuss.
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During the summer before 3rd and 4th grade (2000ish), we moved the family's first computer (Apple ][gs) out of the basement to make room for the slightly less old Windows 98, and the new Windows 2k machine. The computer stayed in my room for two years, despite sitting right next to a new box running Linux (the pride of my life for a couple of years) for a year of that. Simply because, for those two years, I spent about half the time I spent on computers on the Apple, programming and in general tinkering with everything. TFM and the ability to teach myself a whole new world was what got me into computers. Oh, and the keyboard was amazing. The loud click still takes me to a happy place. We should replace some elementary school computers with Apple ][s. I'm not terribly smarter than the average, I just RTFM and let my curious instinct lead me. Which any 3rd grader can do, as long as the latter isn't crushed by bad teachers.
Dell doesn't care about the 'geek community'. They care about profit. And China isn't going to buy anything that has ever touched Microsoft and their capitalist evil.
China has people. People have money. Dell wants it.
push, in your context, means: sell or promote the sale of
advertise means: "paid promotion of goods, services, companies and ideas by an identified sponsor."
No one is saying it's not fair, it's simply an observation of fact: yahoo is endorsing, advertising, promoting, and 'pushing' IE.
Will the computers that control the pumps that shoot the air run on linux?
Really sorry about the formatting. Here is a correctly formatted version... I should have previewed. Sorry!
:).
As a high schooler myself, I'd like to post a students perspective. While I have never seriously considered dropping out, the thought has crossed my mind. I'm not a bad student. I get decent grades and I'm in our schools gifted program. And while this is seen by students who do not achieve academically as an advantage, it quickly turns into an antagonistic quality. For simplicity, and because I'm a forensics freak, I'll break this down into three points of analysis:
1] High school culture is not as brutal as the movies. It's worse. While I consider myself to be in less of a predicament than that of others, high school is a social hell for all students. A lot of this has to do with valuing: students are tagged almost like pieces of merchandise in a school. A good athlete? Add 20 cents. Funny? Add 5 cents. Good grades? Add 15 cents. The problem is, it is the first time one really experiences failure. A C, a bad season or a bad joke. This failure is magnified by the intense self-labeling of worth. There are two causes: the first is simple life experience: it is a changing point. The second is labeling. While this cannot be actively eliminated, steps could be taken to change it. Equalizing opportunity for high education, to some extent, would definatly help. A lot of the labeling is just the reality of high school, though.
2] Expectations. High school is the best part of your life. Right? Slowly, this lie is giving way to a message of the reality: it's the worse four years of life. I won't elaborate, sense my first point was so long. Thanks for reading thus far, just a few more sentences. Not just personal expectations, but those of others.
3] Personal values. This is a time of the development of not only social opinions, but political ones as well. Being a non-apathetic teen is hard. The fact that equal access demands are ignored until one gets a member of the ACLU to speak on your behalf is aggravating. Figuring out what you believe is hard enough, but the treatment of these ideas as worthless only magnifies the hell or high school: especially for those that care. I would extend on this and talk about apathy... if I cared
Leprosy is caused by a microbe that eats away at the nerves. The leper does not die because of the microbe, but because they literally kill themselves... without noticing it. Our high schools are a leper, and a number of things are dozens of microbes eating away at it's nerves. I've named 3. Discuss.
As a high schooler myself, I'd like to post a students perspective. While I have never seriously considered dropping out, the thought has crossed my mind. I'm not a bad student. I get decent grades and I'm in our schools gifted program. And while this is seen by students who do not achieve academically as an advantage, it quickly turns into an antagonistic quality. For simplicity, and because I'm a forensics freak, I'll break this down into three points of analysis: 1] High school culture is not as brutal as the movies. It's worse. While I consider myself to be in less of a predicament than that of others, high school is a social hell for all students. A lot of this has to do with valuing: students are tagged almost like pieces of merchandise in a school. A good athlete? Add 20 cents. Funny? Add 5 cents. Good grades? Add 15 cents. The problem is, it is the first time one really experiences failure. A C, a bad season or a bad joke. This failure is magnified by the intense self-labeling of worth. There are two causes: the first is simple life experience: it is a changing point. The second is labeling. While this cannot be actively eliminated, steps could be taken to change it. Equalizing opportunity for high education, to some extent, would definatly help. A lot of the labeling is just the reality of high school, though. 2] Expectations. High school is the best part of your life. Right? Slowly, this lie is giving way to a message of the reality: it's the worse four years of life. I won't elaborate, sense my first point was so long. Thanks for reading thus far, just a few more sentences. Not just personal expectations, but those of others. 3] Personal values. This is a time of the development of not only social opinions, but political ones as well. Being a non-apathetic teen is hard. The fact that equal access demands are ignored until one gets a member of the ACLU to speak on your behalf is aggravating. Figuring out what you believe is hard enough, but the treatment of these ideas as worthless only magnifies the hell or high school: especially for those that care. I would extend on this and talk about apathy... if I cared :).
Leprosy is caused by a microbe that eats away at the nerves. The leper does not die because of the microbe, but because they literally kill themselves... without noticing it. Our high schools are a leper, and a number of things are dozens of microbes eating away at it's nerves. I've named 3. Discuss.
Agreed, alot of the new markup-oriented languages really get on my nerves. Worse is the dream weaver groupies who 'use' them
But then, if there were wars every month, how would gamers have time to make renditions of our favorite songs Warcraft-style?