I recently built a little box for this exact purpose, so that everybody in our house can keep their computers off when they don't use them. I'm about to set it up for web based torrent management, and streaming media to the Xbox1.
In case anybody is interested these are the parts I used:
Gigabyte GA-GC230D, Intel Atom 1.6GHz, Mini-ITX, I945GC, DDR2, LAN, PCI, SATA
Western Digital Scorpio 500GB 2,5"
Advance 3903B case, 60 W external power supply (no optical drive, loud system fans)
AData Memory 2GB 800Mhz (clocks down nicely)
Netgear Switch GS605 with 5 ports
With a KVM switch I'll even be able to use it for most other purposes like surfing the web and writing homework. Then I'll only need the power hungry monster for games.
Vocational education is fine provided their options are always open. By industrial workforce production I mean the assumption that every kid is supposed to learn a certain thing at a certain predefined time in their life. If they already had a particular piece of knowledge, they can not advance faster, and if they had trouble cramming this piece in at that particular time, they cannot be helped without either diagnosing them as special or holding the entire class back.
By the way, how obvious is it not that every person is unique?
Certain parts of education are money down the drain anyway. You can't blame the children for not opening up their heads to what adults sometimes perceive to be "their jobs"; kids function and learn differently from how industrial workforce production is designed.
There are already proprietary applications for viewing 3D objects in browsers. These are useful for certain lines of work, such as displaying CAD models. I don't think the industrial companies that use these technologies will be the first to adopt open standards, but it might be a useful tool for smaller design houses.
As you wrote, online game designers will probably be all over this, and their ability to generate revenue should not be underestimated.
Yes, but on some human level you want to be able to assume that even Chinese dictators see their own nuclear weapons as a threat. I don't think even they want to live in that kind of world (and if they do, that means that we need to interact fairly with the people of these countries to change the situation).
I'm actually amazed that Obama would say such a thing. I thought he would be on your side, stereotypical American:)
But I guess he and some clever nihilistic person with a strong incentive realizes that their lives will be better without nuclear weapons. I'm sure they think there's more money in peace.
Many browsers have keyword searches, and most of them handle these much more robustly than Firefox with their ridiculous "bookmark keywords" (argh). Check Konquerors search manager to see how it should be done:)
However Ubiquity is much more than keyword search. An ubiquity script can take input from several variables, and in several steps.
Sometimes children actually engage in sexual activity. I don't remember my age exactly but I definitely know that I was less than four the first time I ate a girl. Since she told me to do it, who was the molester? Me or her? In fact, maybe both of us should go to jail -- we damaged our society and increased the chance for others to be molested -- and hey, it's so downright obscene anyway that there just must be a punishment involved, right?
Oh, and FYI, I thought it tasted weird so after a while I told her that I didn't want to do it any more. She said fine, and declared that she wouldn't suck me off. I got a bit mad but instead we went inside and played something else.
I'm not trolling, this is absolutely true. And I know that it's not a very rare experience either.
It is impossible to sexualize children, in the same way that it is impossible to sexualize lemurs or adult humans. We are sexual beings, and as far as I know there is no way with our current technology to sexualize us any further.
Whatever alarmist reasons these lawmakers saw to attack freedom was bogus.
As Jimmy would say, COME ON. Do you really want to put my old Christian elementary school teacher in jail for showing us a cartoon of naked kids rubbing thighs and loudly thinking "YES, YES"? (The point of the cartoon was that you might think "NO, NO" and in that case you must make that clear and get out of there.)
Right, and what now, you're going to install CCTVs in peoples homes? That is where children spend most of their time, and they are most likely to be molested by people that they have some sort of relationship with.
The only way to deal with this problem is to make sure pedophiles get help. And since they are the ones that know first if they have a problem, we need a way for them to be able to contact someone that can help them without risking legal repercussion (provided they haven't already molested someone). And even if they have already molested someone we need to focus on making the situation better, not lock people up and pretend that it's payback.
Rules and law often inhibit progression of society.
Is it only me who finds the Chrome GUI sluggish? If I don't use Chrome for a while, or if I use a RAM-heavy app like a game, Chrome will actually freeze my computer for 3-10 seconds while it re-reads my tabs into memory. That's a problem.
No. I am every chemical in my body, I am the circuitry of my brain. If it happened in my brain, then it was I who had that thought. A drug or even circuit cannot think, it needs to be in the context of a brain and thus it gains personality.
By your logic I should have no self respect because I know that it was my genes that created my brain. So even if I win the Nobel prize, under the influence of my genes, I should go, "oh no it wasn't me really thank my parents for fucking".
But of course I don't think that. My intimate self is a function of the goo in my skull. I can change my mind about politics, I can change my mind about which songs I like, I can change my mind about who I love or what I want to do with my life. This is a necessary and natural process. If I could engineer my brain to be able to actually comprehend numbers larger than "a shitload" (more than say eighty), I would. My intimate self would not mind because it actually delights in progress.
...once and for all! An attractive girl (or boy) that can lure you away from online flamewars. Mine just did.
OK kids, KDE 4 may be improving slowly, but it's great potential is still there. KDE 3 is still a great desktop environment. And this is the beauty of choice! If you're not happy with the programs you use you can just switch to something that suits you better. And you can use a lot of foul language in the process without hurting more than the morale of the programmers that give you that choice. Great.
In the city you are trapped below low ceilings, and the sky itself feels infinitely much "lower" than it does outside of the city. You don't realize that if you live in a city and seldom spend nights far, far away from light sources like neighboring settlements with streetlights.
But when you get away from those places the effect is incredible. Suddenly you see too many stars to count. You see the spirals of the Milky way clearly, so dense that you can hardly tell where one star of our galaxy begins and another ends. Just look at the sky for ten minutes and you will most probably see at least one shooting star, if not several.
And if you are captivated by the night sky in the way you ought to be, when you finally pull your head down to go about your business, you will experience that the moon and the stars actually light up the contours of the objects around you and on the ground sufficiently. The beauty of this is enough to drive me away from cities. I can't stand them.
The Mozilla team has always had a very clear vision of what they wanted Firefox to be. Other projects have different visions, that's why open source is so powerful. But of course, some haters will say that "segmentation is disastrous", call for a unified Linux distro, a single open source browser to rule them all, and so on.
I don't agree. Choice is good. It forces people to think for themselves, even people that aren't nerds. Chrome has already added some new ideas into the browser market, and it has provided a good alternative to some people that wanted speed (formerly Operas throne) and simplicity (formerly Firefox's) and could do without some extensions for now.
Chrome is being developed for Linux too. Even if I understand the frustration that it isn't already on the Linux platform I can't understand why it isn't obvious to everyone why Google released it for Windows first and puts its focus there. It's called market share. It's a no brainer.
when pirating really leads to less sales. You download the game to see if it's worth buying. This game in particular had a LOT of hype (and a lot of potential), but didn't deliver the kind of experience everyone was hoping for. You play it once and after that it's just not fun anymore. Therefore no sale after you've downloaded it.
I hope they fix Spore. Make it more complex, at least as complex as they promised. Now it's just a dumbed down 2D gone 3D gone strategy simulator with plush dolls.
Yes, but a browser is so much more than the engine. Compare Chrome and Konqueror. They basically use the same engine, but are designed completely differently. Chrome aims to be the most simplistic and minimalistic functional browser possible, while Konqueror wants to turn the web into another part of a powerful workstation. They both do their jobs quite well, and they are both moving in the right direction for improvements.
Not really. The left mostly despises Mao and Lenin (and many of those who don't, can see that while Lenin had the wrong idea about many issues, he were often absolutely right. In either case he were no monster.) There are of course idiots that praise these people as heroes, and for them it is quite fair to compare them with fascists, since they often find nationalism very appealing, and regard internationalism as a way to conquer the world by war.
However you should leave Marx out of it. Oh please, throw some stupid quote about the dictatorship of the proletariat on me, it will be so embarassing. Claims that Marx wanted a absolutist state just reveals that the reader is unable to grasp a simple point about government.
You are absolutely WRONG. When I was two I booted up DOS, typed win and played with Paint. I'm not some prodigy. It has to start somewhere. I know this because I created like a hundred empty dirs that drove my uncles crazy.
I'm so sick of people pretending that kids are stupid. Just because you don't remember what it was like does not mean that you didn't have fairly complicated thoughts.
jameswing: My suggestion is to get a real laptop and a small mouse. Maybe an ultraportable. Netbooks are a bit too small. The keyboard should be fairly large, after all, kids are clumsy. There are some games that even small kids can enjoy, a few are available on Linux for example.
Of course you will have to spend a lot of time playing with your child and showing him how it works, but I'm sure you already knew that.
Another suggestion is to get a game console like an old NES or SNES. Maybe SEGA. This will train your sons hand-eye coordination, and I'm sure he'll be thrilled. In fact I think your son needs to practice with something like that before he can start enjoying computers at this age.
I think Google's intention was to create a platform for web apps, not a new browser. In this perspective Chrome does add something new.
And it adds a lot of other nice features as well. Give it some time, support for different operating systems will come eventually, and so will plugins. And the reason I know this is of course that it is open source.:)
I use Chrome as my default browser and I've not experienced freezes/crashes with flash videos. And I haven't had any rendering issues that I could recognize, on the other hand, I were an Opera user before.
Btw, those of you that need adblocking, consider using Privoxy. It's not as easy as Konquerors adblock, and not as sleek as Operas, and not as flexible as Firefox's Adblock addon, but it works.
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I recently built a little box for this exact purpose, so that everybody in our house can keep their computers off when they don't use them. I'm about to set it up for web based torrent management, and streaming media to the Xbox1.
In case anybody is interested these are the parts I used:
With a KVM switch I'll even be able to use it for most other purposes like surfing the web and writing homework. Then I'll only need the power hungry monster for games.
Vocational education is fine provided their options are always open. By industrial workforce production I mean the assumption that every kid is supposed to learn a certain thing at a certain predefined time in their life. If they already had a particular piece of knowledge, they can not advance faster, and if they had trouble cramming this piece in at that particular time, they cannot be helped without either diagnosing them as special or holding the entire class back.
By the way, how obvious is it not that every person is unique?
Certain parts of education are money down the drain anyway. You can't blame the children for not opening up their heads to what adults sometimes perceive to be "their jobs"; kids function and learn differently from how industrial workforce production is designed.
There are already proprietary applications for viewing 3D objects in browsers. These are useful for certain lines of work, such as displaying CAD models. I don't think the industrial companies that use these technologies will be the first to adopt open standards, but it might be a useful tool for smaller design houses.
As you wrote, online game designers will probably be all over this, and their ability to generate revenue should not be underestimated.
Yes, but on some human level you want to be able to assume that even Chinese dictators see their own nuclear weapons as a threat. I don't think even they want to live in that kind of world (and if they do, that means that we need to interact fairly with the people of these countries to change the situation).
I'm actually amazed that Obama would say such a thing. I thought he would be on your side, stereotypical American :)
But I guess he and some clever nihilistic person with a strong incentive realizes that their lives will be better without nuclear weapons. I'm sure they think there's more money in peace.
Many browsers have keyword searches, and most of them handle these much more robustly than Firefox with their ridiculous "bookmark keywords" (argh). Check Konquerors search manager to see how it should be done :)
However Ubiquity is much more than keyword search. An ubiquity script can take input from several variables, and in several steps.
Sometimes children actually engage in sexual activity. I don't remember my age exactly but I definitely know that I was less than four the first time I ate a girl. Since she told me to do it, who was the molester? Me or her? In fact, maybe both of us should go to jail -- we damaged our society and increased the chance for others to be molested -- and hey, it's so downright obscene anyway that there just must be a punishment involved, right?
Oh, and FYI, I thought it tasted weird so after a while I told her that I didn't want to do it any more. She said fine, and declared that she wouldn't suck me off. I got a bit mad but instead we went inside and played something else.
I'm not trolling, this is absolutely true. And I know that it's not a very rare experience either.
It is impossible to sexualize children, in the same way that it is impossible to sexualize lemurs or adult humans. We are sexual beings, and as far as I know there is no way with our current technology to sexualize us any further.
Whatever alarmist reasons these lawmakers saw to attack freedom was bogus.
As Jimmy would say, COME ON. Do you really want to put my old Christian elementary school teacher in jail for showing us a cartoon of naked kids rubbing thighs and loudly thinking "YES, YES"? (The point of the cartoon was that you might think "NO, NO" and in that case you must make that clear and get out of there.)
Seems like every other day now a new crazy law is put in place, just to be repealed a week later. What is this, a circus?
Right, and what now, you're going to install CCTVs in peoples homes? That is where children spend most of their time, and they are most likely to be molested by people that they have some sort of relationship with.
The only way to deal with this problem is to make sure pedophiles get help. And since they are the ones that know first if they have a problem, we need a way for them to be able to contact someone that can help them without risking legal repercussion (provided they haven't already molested someone). And even if they have already molested someone we need to focus on making the situation better, not lock people up and pretend that it's payback.
Rules and law often inhibit progression of society.
Is it only me who finds the Chrome GUI sluggish? If I don't use Chrome for a while, or if I use a RAM-heavy app like a game, Chrome will actually freeze my computer for 3-10 seconds while it re-reads my tabs into memory. That's a problem.
No, they were scene enthusiasts. They're not even "pirates", they are probably the most avid content consumers around. Do your homework.
No. I am every chemical in my body, I am the circuitry of my brain. If it happened in my brain, then it was I who had that thought. A drug or even circuit cannot think, it needs to be in the context of a brain and thus it gains personality.
By your logic I should have no self respect because I know that it was my genes that created my brain. So even if I win the Nobel prize, under the influence of my genes, I should go, "oh no it wasn't me really thank my parents for fucking".
But of course I don't think that. My intimate self is a function of the goo in my skull. I can change my mind about politics, I can change my mind about which songs I like, I can change my mind about who I love or what I want to do with my life. This is a necessary and natural process. If I could engineer my brain to be able to actually comprehend numbers larger than "a shitload" (more than say eighty), I would. My intimate self would not mind because it actually delights in progress.
This is avant-garde science. I think the front page is exactly where it belongs.
What was he supposed to do? Say "it's not my laptop"? Or say nothing, just grab it and leave?
I agree with you about the police though.
OK kids, KDE 4 may be improving slowly, but it's great potential is still there. KDE 3 is still a great desktop environment. And this is the beauty of choice! If you're not happy with the programs you use you can just switch to something that suits you better. And you can use a lot of foul language in the process without hurting more than the morale of the programmers that give you that choice. Great.
Your room might be hotter than the rest of the apartment because your computer is on 24/7. At least that's my problem. :)
In the city you are trapped below low ceilings, and the sky itself feels infinitely much "lower" than it does outside of the city. You don't realize that if you live in a city and seldom spend nights far, far away from light sources like neighboring settlements with streetlights.
But when you get away from those places the effect is incredible. Suddenly you see too many stars to count. You see the spirals of the Milky way clearly, so dense that you can hardly tell where one star of our galaxy begins and another ends. Just look at the sky for ten minutes and you will most probably see at least one shooting star, if not several.
And if you are captivated by the night sky in the way you ought to be, when you finally pull your head down to go about your business, you will experience that the moon and the stars actually light up the contours of the objects around you and on the ground sufficiently. The beauty of this is enough to drive me away from cities. I can't stand them.
The Mozilla team has always had a very clear vision of what they wanted Firefox to be. Other projects have different visions, that's why open source is so powerful. But of course, some haters will say that "segmentation is disastrous", call for a unified Linux distro, a single open source browser to rule them all, and so on.
I don't agree. Choice is good. It forces people to think for themselves, even people that aren't nerds. Chrome has already added some new ideas into the browser market, and it has provided a good alternative to some people that wanted speed (formerly Operas throne) and simplicity (formerly Firefox's) and could do without some extensions for now.
Chrome is being developed for Linux too. Even if I understand the frustration that it isn't already on the Linux platform I can't understand why it isn't obvious to everyone why Google released it for Windows first and puts its focus there. It's called market share. It's a no brainer.
when pirating really leads to less sales. You download the game to see if it's worth buying. This game in particular had a LOT of hype (and a lot of potential), but didn't deliver the kind of experience everyone was hoping for. You play it once and after that it's just not fun anymore. Therefore no sale after you've downloaded it.
I hope they fix Spore. Make it more complex, at least as complex as they promised. Now it's just a dumbed down 2D gone 3D gone strategy simulator with plush dolls.
Yes, but a browser is so much more than the engine. Compare Chrome and Konqueror. They basically use the same engine, but are designed completely differently. Chrome aims to be the most simplistic and minimalistic functional browser possible, while Konqueror wants to turn the web into another part of a powerful workstation. They both do their jobs quite well, and they are both moving in the right direction for improvements.
The weird thing is that I love them both.
Not really. The left mostly despises Mao and Lenin (and many of those who don't, can see that while Lenin had the wrong idea about many issues, he were often absolutely right. In either case he were no monster.) There are of course idiots that praise these people as heroes, and for them it is quite fair to compare them with fascists, since they often find nationalism very appealing, and regard internationalism as a way to conquer the world by war.
However you should leave Marx out of it. Oh please, throw some stupid quote about the dictatorship of the proletariat on me, it will be so embarassing. Claims that Marx wanted a absolutist state just reveals that the reader is unable to grasp a simple point about government.
You are absolutely WRONG. When I was two I booted up DOS, typed win and played with Paint. I'm not some prodigy. It has to start somewhere. I know this because I created like a hundred empty dirs that drove my uncles crazy.
I'm so sick of people pretending that kids are stupid. Just because you don't remember what it was like does not mean that you didn't have fairly complicated thoughts.
jameswing: My suggestion is to get a real laptop and a small mouse. Maybe an ultraportable. Netbooks are a bit too small. The keyboard should be fairly large, after all, kids are clumsy. There are some games that even small kids can enjoy, a few are available on Linux for example.
Of course you will have to spend a lot of time playing with your child and showing him how it works, but I'm sure you already knew that.
Another suggestion is to get a game console like an old NES or SNES. Maybe SEGA. This will train your sons hand-eye coordination, and I'm sure he'll be thrilled. In fact I think your son needs to practice with something like that before he can start enjoying computers at this age.
Sam
I think Google's intention was to create a platform for web apps, not a new browser. In this perspective Chrome does add something new.
:)
And it adds a lot of other nice features as well. Give it some time, support for different operating systems will come eventually, and so will plugins. And the reason I know this is of course that it is open source.
I use Chrome as my default browser and I've not experienced freezes/crashes with flash videos. And I haven't had any rendering issues that I could recognize, on the other hand, I were an Opera user before.
Btw, those of you that need adblocking, consider using Privoxy. It's not as easy as Konquerors adblock, and not as sleek as Operas, and not as flexible as Firefox's Adblock addon, but it works.