"Now the basic educational mission of the school was being compromised in order to keep students from visiting these profiles during school hours"
If my kids were at this school I was rally to have the principle fired on the grounds that he is putting my children's future at risk. This is no different than the story a few days ago - people were told that the myspace profiles decrying a principal were free speech - that applies here too. Period.
Open and blatant defiance of the law is the only effective way to effect change in a government system that is otherwise completely capable and motivated to ignore the plight and desires of those whom they supposedly serve.
1) I care about the internal components of my system and having my say as to what goes where to do what. I don't want a prebuilt system. I stopped buying premade's when I was in highschool, almost 10 years ago.
2) My PC works with anything I plug into it - sure I need to install the odd driver but when it comes down to it there's nothing I can't make work with my computer in Windows.
3) When it breaks I know where it broke and I am responsible for fixing it - none of this carry it into the store and let them fuck around with it bullcrap.
4) Software software software. Sure everything that I can run on a PC can run on a Mac, but lets be honest, playing games on a crappy emulator doesn't count. Sure, there are Mac versions of Word and shit, but I'd rather stick to a copy of Open Office anyways.
5) I make my PC look how I want it to look. http://i.treehugger.com/files/th_images/junnaMedia 2.jpg vs http://images.apple.com/ca/imac/gallery/images/gal lery1imac20060109.jpg... No question in my mind.
Yeah, sorry -- the folks working at Circuit City don't generally really qualify as being the "best in their field", unless you're defining the "field" as "people who work at Circuit City". Besides, Circuit City's not on commission anymore so you can't even argue that these folks were necessarily their top performers.
Yes, lets knock people at something they've worked at. Just because they aren't working at *insert favorite retail shop* doesn't mean they can't qualify as being "the best in their field". These kind of people who belittle others for their own enjoyment/amusement piss me the hell off. Like the other day on the bus I hear these two people talking about how well they did in highschool (one was a Valedictorian). I get to class and two people who were on the bus with me start laughing about how stupid these people were for being proud of being highschool valedictorian. Pisses. Me. Off. /rant.
The A340 (Depending on Variant) travels at anywhere from 544mph to 570mph. The debris was 5miles ahead and 5miles behind them. Lets take the typical cruise speed of 544mph. 544mph ~ 9miles per minute and ~.15miles per second. So if they were a minute slower they prolly woulda hit the trailing debris, and if they were a minute faster they prolly woulda hit the leading debris. That's crazyness!
Good piloting on their fault, I'm glad nothing terrible came of this. Aviation has had enough problems.
Maybe I'm a lucky one here, but I've been running Vista Business Edition on my desktop for about a month and moving files seems no faster nor slower than with XP. I copied a 10gb CD image archive from my desktop on the Vista System drive to a folder on a storage hard drive in about a minute. Wasn't too bad at all..
I didn't rtfa, but I'd like to know what kind of hard drives they used, what the performance index was, and how much ram they had. Both hard drives in question for me are 7200rpm, 8mb cache, SATA 1.5gbps Western Digital HDDs. My performance index was a 4.something. I have a gig of PC3200 RAM (2 sticks, running in dual-channel configuration).
And they wonder why voter turnout is low and voter apathy is high. Our votes no longer matter. If the community as a majority decides that something should happen then it should happen. If the was thought to be misinterpreted then there should be a second vote by the PEOPLE, not by the GOVERNMENT. They're essentially saying we're too stupid to understand the ballot.
Just more erosion of our rights as people. I feel bad for those people out in Montana.
Hahah... Donate? Let other people make profit from? haha. That's a good one. Very funny! No company anywhere just gives up something that can still be used to make profit.
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How much homework does the average student have to do in any given day? 1-2 hours? Maybe 3-4 if they're studying ridiculously hard for some upcoming examination. What's the problem with that? Students go to school (at least in my area) from 8am-2:30pm every day. My younger brother gets back from class by 3:00pm, the latest a student gets home is 4:00pm. So they spend the next 1-2 (or again 3-4 if studying) on doing their homework - they then get (assuming in bed by 11pm) at least 4 hours to do whatever they want (within reason). This is not the problem.
If they want to start understanding why students are getting stressed then they need to look at other factors like environment and possibly even the hours the class holds. In grade school, classes started at 9am and went to 4pm. In middle school is was 8:30-3:30. In highschool is was 7:30-2:00. Being at school by 7:30 was the biggest strain on me that ever occured because it required being up at 6, 6:30am just to be able to catch the stupid bus.
Homework is very useful - it reinforces the ideas and methods of accomplishing tasks. There is very little in life that you can become good at just by listening to some person (who probably doesn't even want to be there in the first place!) drone on about it.
1) Get customer to sign pretty 2-year access plan.
2) Revoke rights of customer (as allowed in contract of 2-year access plan).
3) Customer cancels 2-year access plan, pays the cancellation fee, etc.
4) Profit!
The 'crime' as they would have you believe, is that you didn't pay for the 'privledge' of the format shift from DVD to . And that's a 'crime' of the highest order because they can't increase their profits with minimal work.
I own a legitimate hard-cover copy bounded set of all the seasons of DS9 and get a letter because I downloaded the avi rips? Where's the fairness in that?
"How much authority does a school have to monitor, regulate and punish activities occurring inside a student's home?"
-- None whatsoever. Once it leaves school grounds it's the parent's responsibility - and no one elses. Stop trying to blame shift. Control your computer and your house - or get off my internet and stop ruining it for the rest of us.
Because Joe schmoe computer user doesn't care about the bottlenecks. He goes to the store with the impression of "Hey Faster Ram = Faster Computer" even if there's another problem elsewhere.
This is how big corps make money - they keep improving the stuff the no-nothing wants and they make big bucks off minor 'improvements' that don't really help.
The mentality of "the world is wrong and we're the only ones doing it right and therefore shouldn't change" is the wrong mentality to have in this day and age.
If the company uses a system that utilizes ActiveX and works 100% for their needs then the solution is to use an operating system that supports a browser that can handle ActiveX, NOT to make the company change their system to a bunch of other programs that don't give the same functionality.
If the hardware designer designs their hardware in a certain way it is the OS designers that must adapt their systems to allow things to work. Hardware manufacturers write for the most common use - in this case it's Windows. You can't expect people to suddenly start spending time and energy (money x2!) to write Linux drivers for the margin. That's just not feasible (for the company).
Adapt or die. It's as simple as that. I _love_ Linux and Unix. They're very full featured - but half the damn time I can't get all my hardware to work. That is unacceptable! I have two Video Cards... Try to enable SLI on them and I get kernel panics. I have a Sound Blaster Audigy 2 card, but I can't get surround sound through the operating system - it says I have 2 speakers and not 5.1 with no easy way to change it. Unacceptable! There is no viable Palm sync software - this is a problem! If the OS doesn't meet the needs of the End User then the OS needs to adapt. My wireless has NEVER worked properly. I have a WMP54G and cannot use anything more than 128 WEP. My router is setup to use WPA-PSK because we live in a high-density neighborhood. Should I have to switch to a lesser security measure? No! ( I have asked on Forums and this is their only recommendation!)...
It's thoroughly upsetting because I enjoy the power and control over my system afforded to me by Linux and Unix environments. It's just not worth the time to make everything work... And then have to recompile half my drivers once they release a minor kernel update (Friggin Fedora... every week there was an update and it required killing my drivers...)
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"Now the basic educational mission of the school was being compromised in order to keep students from visiting these profiles during school hours"
If my kids were at this school I was rally to have the principle fired on the grounds that he is putting my children's future at risk. This is no different than the story a few days ago - people were told that the myspace profiles decrying a principal were free speech - that applies here too. Period.
Fire him.
Open and blatant defiance of the law is the only effective way to effect change in a government system that is otherwise completely capable and motivated to ignore the plight and desires of those whom they supposedly serve.
It was only a matter of time before they made a good decision. They're due for one!
And the few that do can be put to work in other industries instead of being thrown in jail!
And if they factor in the time spent by coders (which turns into money for companies) I bet you we're in the red because of the change.
Good grief.
1) I care about the internal components of my system and having my say as to what goes where to do what. I don't want a prebuilt system. I stopped buying premade's when I was in highschool, almost 10 years ago. 2) My PC works with anything I plug into it - sure I need to install the odd driver but when it comes down to it there's nothing I can't make work with my computer in Windows. 3) When it breaks I know where it broke and I am responsible for fixing it - none of this carry it into the store and let them fuck around with it bullcrap. 4) Software software software. Sure everything that I can run on a PC can run on a Mac, but lets be honest, playing games on a crappy emulator doesn't count. Sure, there are Mac versions of Word and shit, but I'd rather stick to a copy of Open Office anyways. 5) I make my PC look how I want it to look. http://i.treehugger.com/files/th_images/junnaMedia 2.jpg vs http://images.apple.com/ca/imac/gallery/images/gal lery1imac20060109.jpg ... No question in my mind.
Precdent.
And if you do I may just commission you to build me one too.
Yes, lets knock people at something they've worked at. Just because they aren't working at *insert favorite retail shop* doesn't mean they can't qualify as being "the best in their field". These kind of people who belittle others for their own enjoyment/amusement piss me the hell off. Like the other day on the bus I hear these two people talking about how well they did in highschool (one was a Valedictorian). I get to class and two people who were on the bus with me start laughing about how stupid these people were for being proud of being highschool valedictorian. Pisses. Me. Off.
Stifling innovation leads to decline in advances... Duh?
The A340 (Depending on Variant) travels at anywhere from 544mph to 570mph. The debris was 5miles ahead and 5miles behind them. Lets take the typical cruise speed of 544mph. 544mph ~ 9miles per minute and ~ .15miles per second. So if they were a minute slower they prolly woulda hit the trailing debris, and if they were a minute faster they prolly woulda hit the leading debris. That's crazyness!
Good piloting on their fault, I'm glad nothing terrible came of this. Aviation has had enough problems.
Maybe I'm a lucky one here, but I've been running Vista Business Edition on my desktop for about a month and moving files seems no faster nor slower than with XP. I copied a 10gb CD image archive from my desktop on the Vista System drive to a folder on a storage hard drive in about a minute. Wasn't too bad at all..
I didn't rtfa, but I'd like to know what kind of hard drives they used, what the performance index was, and how much ram they had. Both hard drives in question for me are 7200rpm, 8mb cache, SATA 1.5gbps Western Digital HDDs. My performance index was a 4.something. I have a gig of PC3200 RAM (2 sticks, running in dual-channel configuration).
*shrug* YMMV.
1) If you have an IT team ready to go: Simply pick one, blame it on them, fire them, find some random script-kiddie hacker and blame them.
2) If you don't have an IT team ready to go: Blame users / customers since it clearly must be their fault in some way, shape, or form.
Remember kiddies, rules never apply if you're a corporation.
And they wonder why voter turnout is low and voter apathy is high. Our votes no longer matter. If the community as a majority decides that something should happen then it should happen. If the was thought to be misinterpreted then there should be a second vote by the PEOPLE, not by the GOVERNMENT. They're essentially saying we're too stupid to understand the ballot.
Just more erosion of our rights as people. I feel bad for those people out in Montana.
Oh but you're mistaken - this is a big business, you can't just hold big business accountable for things they do! It'll help the terrorists! -_-
Hahah... Donate? Let other people make profit from? haha. That's a good one. Very funny! No company anywhere just gives up something that can still be used to make profit.
Quoted:
IF YOU COPY OR DISTRIBUTE ANYTHING ON THIS WEB SITE, YOU ARE ENTERING INTO A CONTRACT. SEE COPYRIGHT NOTICE & SECURITY AGREEMENT (READ BEFORE ACCESSING THIS WEBSITE) - Copyright 1996- 2007, Suzanne Shell and individual contributors where appropriate. The content if this web site is intended to generate income, it is not free if you intend to archive, copy, print or distribute anything electronically fixed herein.
Which of course implies this is a commercial website.
However, if you go to the contact info page, we can see her PGP key (...) contains:
-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
Version: PGP 8.1 - not licensed for commercial use: www.pgp.com
GG?
How much homework does the average student have to do in any given day? 1-2 hours? Maybe 3-4 if they're studying ridiculously hard for some upcoming examination. What's the problem with that? Students go to school (at least in my area) from 8am-2:30pm every day. My younger brother gets back from class by 3:00pm, the latest a student gets home is 4:00pm. So they spend the next 1-2 (or again 3-4 if studying) on doing their homework - they then get (assuming in bed by 11pm) at least 4 hours to do whatever they want (within reason). This is not the problem.
If they want to start understanding why students are getting stressed then they need to look at other factors like environment and possibly even the hours the class holds. In grade school, classes started at 9am and went to 4pm. In middle school is was 8:30-3:30. In highschool is was 7:30-2:00. Being at school by 7:30 was the biggest strain on me that ever occured because it required being up at 6, 6:30am just to be able to catch the stupid bus.
Homework is very useful - it reinforces the ideas and methods of accomplishing tasks. There is very little in life that you can become good at just by listening to some person (who probably doesn't even want to be there in the first place!) drone on about it.
1) Get customer to sign pretty 2-year access plan. 2) Revoke rights of customer (as allowed in contract of 2-year access plan). 3) Customer cancels 2-year access plan, pays the cancellation fee, etc. 4) Profit!
The 'crime' as they would have you believe, is that you didn't pay for the 'privledge' of the format shift from DVD to . And that's a 'crime' of the highest order because they can't increase their profits with minimal work.
I own a legitimate hard-cover copy bounded set of all the seasons of DS9 and get a letter because I downloaded the avi rips? Where's the fairness in that?
"How much authority does a school have to monitor, regulate and punish activities occurring inside a student's home?"
-- None whatsoever. Once it leaves school grounds it's the parent's responsibility - and no one elses. Stop trying to blame shift. Control your computer and your house - or get off my internet and stop ruining it for the rest of us.
Because Joe schmoe computer user doesn't care about the bottlenecks. He goes to the store with the impression of "Hey Faster Ram = Faster Computer" even if there's another problem elsewhere.
This is how big corps make money - they keep improving the stuff the no-nothing wants and they make big bucks off minor 'improvements' that don't really help.
It's a sad, sad day... :(
My iPod worked fine on Vista for the short time I bothered to use it.
The mentality of "the world is wrong and we're the only ones doing it right and therefore shouldn't change" is the wrong mentality to have in this day and age.
If the company uses a system that utilizes ActiveX and works 100% for their needs then the solution is to use an operating system that supports a browser that can handle ActiveX, NOT to make the company change their system to a bunch of other programs that don't give the same functionality.
If the hardware designer designs their hardware in a certain way it is the OS designers that must adapt their systems to allow things to work. Hardware manufacturers write for the most common use - in this case it's Windows. You can't expect people to suddenly start spending time and energy (money x2!) to write Linux drivers for the margin. That's just not feasible (for the company).
Adapt or die. It's as simple as that. I _love_ Linux and Unix. They're very full featured - but half the damn time I can't get all my hardware to work. That is unacceptable! I have two Video Cards... Try to enable SLI on them and I get kernel panics. I have a Sound Blaster Audigy 2 card, but I can't get surround sound through the operating system - it says I have 2 speakers and not 5.1 with no easy way to change it. Unacceptable! There is no viable Palm sync software - this is a problem! If the OS doesn't meet the needs of the End User then the OS needs to adapt. My wireless has NEVER worked properly. I have a WMP54G and cannot use anything more than 128 WEP. My router is setup to use WPA-PSK because we live in a high-density neighborhood. Should I have to switch to a lesser security measure? No! ( I have asked on Forums and this is their only recommendation!)...
It's thoroughly upsetting because I enjoy the power and control over my system afforded to me by Linux and Unix environments. It's just not worth the time to make everything work... And then have to recompile half my drivers once they release a minor kernel update (Friggin Fedora... every week there was an update and it required killing my drivers...)