A while back when the 7100 was announced, it was also announced that Gateway would be selling Destination systems with a PCI Dish Network reciever. Hopefully these cards will be for sale to the public. If not, I still will get one. (Working at Gateway has it's advantages:-)
This incident, and past incidents, I hope teaches everyone in high school now an important lesson. Right now, it will be a horrific experience in those at the school to remember, and a sad day remembered by other students. Hopefully this will at least teach important things to the future parents of the country that people who are different not by color, or race, but interests are still ok.
At this point in time, we are mostly beyond racisism, but unfortunatley there is still the big untold issue of public school hell. And the harser the mental hell becomes, the more incidents of the violent hell in schools will happen. Thats why everyone needs to keep this in mind, and remember that being picked on for being different is not part of growing up, and picking on others for being different is not ok.
And for the media, stop looking for the interesting story and start covering the real issues behind these events. Interview students, don't edit them for what they say, and show it. Stop using your hour of news time to scare parents about the dangers of the internet, and start scaring them about the behaviors that parents may see as acceptable.
Since I live so close to the incident, I get much more media coverage then most. Anyway, to get to my point, there was a police officer there at the time, as there always was. He was in the other side of this huge school, and had to be called specificially by the 911 operators to know what was going on.
Access to guns? (Or what was the real cause)
on
Why Kids Kill
·
· Score: 1
So many people will look at this incident and say more needs to be done about gun control. It was used here in Colorado's Senate to argue both ways a new bill about concealed weapons. The people for the bill argued that if a teacher had a gun that day, it may have stopped quicker. People against it said the kids would never had gotten into the school with concealed weapons.
Ok, good arguments here, but what part of the attack was legal? Guns are not supposed to even be carried by anyone under 18, and also are not supposed to be around a school in this state. Extra laws are not going to help, unless there is a law about being a better parent. I'm not against children having privacy, but honestly, how did these two people get their hands on the guns that they had, and more importantly, how did they build all the bombs in their houses without the parents ever knowing?
Also people will say security in schools needs to be raised. Metal detectors would have most likely added a few more deaths to the list. Why? Assuming the school would have someone watching the metal detectors, they would have been the first targets of the two people who did the shooting. With as much weaponery as they had, all a metal detector and an average school guard would have done is told them the odvious.
Security cameras would not have helped either, as poliece response was very quick anyhow. Unless the cameras have the ability to be tapped into from the outside, they are worthless in an incident like this.
Basicially the only way to prevent something like this at a school with security is to have the type of security in place when I visited Cheyene Mountain Space Command (aka NORAD).
The media will look for anything to blame except the real causes. And what are the real causes?
1. The kids access to guns. If the weapons they had were owned by the parents, the fault falls on them. If they were bought, the parents are still at fault for not knowing their children well enough. Laws wouldn't help here, since if the guns were bought, they wern't leagal.
2. The parents lack of notice of activities by the kids. Honestly, how did the parents not know about the bombs when they were being created?
3. The kids themselves. How could anyone think that this type of violence is acceptable? And once started, why did they keep going? This incident lasted hours, not a simple gunshot.
The problem isn't the schools, the laws, the guns, or even the countries. It's the parents and how they chose to raise the kids in a way that said superficial success is the only thing acceptable. And the kids own fault for not having morals of any type when commiting this act.
And also, the overall problem is the media's over coverage without truths. So many parenst are scared that they will never see their kids again due to school violence, but as Katz said, the odds of something else happening is way higher.
I will agree that some forms of advocacy hurts Linux, but you see this type in every circle. The people who sit here saing "Windows and Mac's and whatever suck" without showing how Linux can do better don't help. That just tends to push me farther away. Also, if you manage to conver someone, help them. The additude of newbies suck and should stay away from Linux when you advocate it is just wrong. If a person converts and has an easy time due to help from others, he/she may convert friends and help them as well, making the platform bigger.
And the part about Slashdot and similar sites hurting is just wrong. Slashdot points out the truth most of the time as long as you can get around the additude at times. It could also be other news agencies trying to discount Slashdot as it is one of the few successful "open" news sites.
I agree with many people here that DOC files need to be treated as EXE files in attachments. I keep all macros disabled in all my office programs until I have a need from them. Besides, noone at work would e-mail me something with a "here is what you are looking for:-)"
Yep, US money is still the same size and color. Just all the new things added to prevent counterfitting.
The one thing that I couldn't understand was the bills in Scotland and England. It was nice to see varity, but the fact there is no standard for the bills drove me nuts. Having several 10 pound bills that looked completly different was hard to get used to. What would be nice to see for bills anywhere is different size, and somethign that looks the same. I could even deal with every bank having their own design as long as say the corners or the outer rectangle is the same for bills of the same amount.
Here we have a few reasons. No one system is perfect.
Also, changing from communism to capitalism or vice versa would take alot of work in a country the size of Russia. Let me put this is terms/.'s can understand:
Take a poorly running Windows system and all it's programs, and try to convert this to a Linux system, witl all functions from the windows programs covered in Linux (including Indeo 5 codecs, IE bookmark importing, etc...) This would take time, and result in a sizeable down time. Now apply this example to communism to capitalism or capitalism to communism.
Why do so many people see the US as everyone getting shot by gangs and such? Every country has problems like this, but the fact that I live in a fairly decent sized city in the US and have never herd a gun shot except at a firing range should prove alot against this. No I don't live in a rich suburbia area, I live in an area where about 5% of the cities welfare people live 3 blocks away.
Also, don't blame crime on capitalism or socialism or any form or government.
And finaly, revevber what you see on the news is bad. The news does not represent the way of life in a country. If it did, I would think of any country as a bad place due to riots and terrorist attacks and other "news making stories".
But due to communism being the form of life in most of the countries today that US citizens see as bad (Russia, China) it just proves unless you have an uncorrupt government, it fails.
There are flaws and benefits of any system. Pointing out all the flaws is not the way to make anyone here happy, or willing to consider other things. Instead of pointing to capatilism as bad sue to Microsoft or other examples, find the good things about other systems.
Right now OEM's are sellng the K6 systems to provide cheaper systems. Sad thing is, these systems are so underpowered, the chips power is never seen. Gateway for example, has all AMD systems shipping on a mini tower setup, with a 90w power supply, and an integrated motherboard with no ISA, 3 PCI (one usually taken by a modem), and no AGP. I asked the AMD representitive when OEM's will take AMD seriosuly, and he hoped when the K7 comes out, as the K6 is still only seen as a cheap chip, not something that peforms well.
One thing that should help multiple K7's be more powerful then multiple Xeons is that all will be on their own bus, unlike the shared bus method Intel uses.
And for the home market, the K7 will have 3dnow!, and it has already been supported by many games out there. Also is more efficient then Intels KNI. (Or SSE, or whatever you want to call it).
If I remember right, IPv6 will be able to be traced back to location like this, but without the extensive tables of information either on IP or DNS info.
Ummmmm. One short word for you here. WRONG. All Intel Chips, including the Xeon you forgot to name are CISC. Intel will never use RISC, instead they plan to use a different instruction compression method in the IA64 chips, aka Merced.
As for the K6, I haven't examined AMD's chip details for a while, but I highly doubt it.
MP3's need something like this before they become more popular, but it needs to be something that everyone has access to. Artists who don't have official record companies need ways to distribute music, and a protected MP3 system could help in doing this, but if it's going to be called MP3, it needs to stay compatible with existing MP3's. By not doing this, it would be similar to calling DIVX disks DVD's.
By the review, it looks like a decent movie to see. Hollywood needs more of these types of movies, where when you leave the theater, you get more out of it then just "Wow, those special effects must have cost a fortune", and then simply forget about most of the movie the next day.
You just *proved* your ignorance!
on
NYT covers WINE
·
· Score: 1
Do you really think they are going to show the ones who answered correctly? No, because then it would be a borring segment. Don't judge a country's occupents as seen through a TV show going for a laugh.
I am against manufacturers overclocking, but I don't want it to be stopped at my level. My Celeron 300 cost me $100 and outpeforms a PII 350 at $300 or so, by overclocking it. If Intel wants to stop overclocking, they need to come up with a solution that reports the origional safe running speed and current speed at boot, so a consumer would be aware of the overclocking. But don't stop the chips from doing this.
On another note, there are Slot 1 Celeron 400's, and the Socket 370 varity. Intel also released Socket 370 Celeron 300 and 333's when the new Celerons came out. So all those looking to upgrade, don't toss that Slot 1 board. Also a company is working on a Socket 370 -> Slot 1, similar to the Socket 8 -> Slot 1 converters for PPros.
Slashdot Mirror
A while back when the 7100 was announced, it was also announced that Gateway would be selling Destination systems with a PCI Dish Network reciever. Hopefully these cards will be for sale to the public. If not, I still will get one. (Working at Gateway has it's advantages :-)
This incident, and past incidents, I hope teaches everyone in high school now an important lesson. Right now, it will be a horrific experience in those at the school to remember, and a sad day remembered by other students. Hopefully this will at least teach important things to the future parents of the country that people who are different not by color, or race, but interests are still ok.
At this point in time, we are mostly beyond racisism, but unfortunatley there is still the big untold issue of public school hell. And the harser the mental hell becomes, the more incidents of the violent hell in schools will happen. Thats why everyone needs to keep this in mind, and remember that being picked on for being different is not part of growing up, and picking on others for being different is not ok.
And for the media, stop looking for the interesting story and start covering the real issues behind these events. Interview students, don't edit them for what they say, and show it. Stop using your hour of news time to scare parents about the dangers of the internet, and start scaring them about the behaviors that parents may see as acceptable.
Since I live so close to the incident, I get much more media coverage then most. Anyway, to get to my point, there was a police officer there at the time, as there always was. He was in the other side of this huge school, and had to be called specificially by the 911 operators to know what was going on.
So many people will look at this incident and say more needs to be done about gun control. It was used here in Colorado's Senate to argue both ways a new bill about concealed weapons. The people for the bill argued that if a teacher had a gun that day, it may have stopped quicker. People against it said the kids would never had gotten into the school with concealed weapons.
Ok, good arguments here, but what part of the attack was legal? Guns are not supposed to even be carried by anyone under 18, and also are not supposed to be around a school in this state. Extra laws are not going to help, unless there is a law about being a better parent. I'm not against children having privacy, but honestly, how did these two people get their hands on the guns that they had, and more importantly, how did they build all the bombs in their houses without the parents ever knowing?
Also people will say security in schools needs to be raised. Metal detectors would have most likely added a few more deaths to the list. Why? Assuming the school would have someone watching the metal detectors, they would have been the first targets of the two people who did the shooting. With as much weaponery as they had, all a metal detector and an average school guard would have done is told them the odvious.
Security cameras would not have helped either, as poliece response was very quick anyhow. Unless the cameras have the ability to be tapped into from the outside, they are worthless in an incident like this.
Basicially the only way to prevent something like this at a school with security is to have the type of security in place when I visited Cheyene Mountain Space Command (aka NORAD).
The media will look for anything to blame except the real causes. And what are the real causes?
1. The kids access to guns. If the weapons they had were owned by the parents, the fault falls on them. If they were bought, the parents are still at fault for not knowing their children well enough. Laws wouldn't help here, since if the guns were bought, they wern't leagal.
2. The parents lack of notice of activities by the kids. Honestly, how did the parents not know about the bombs when they were being created?
3. The kids themselves. How could anyone think that this type of violence is acceptable? And once started, why did they keep going? This incident lasted hours, not a simple gunshot.
The problem isn't the schools, the laws, the guns, or even the countries. It's the parents and how they chose to raise the kids in a way that said superficial success is the only thing acceptable. And the kids own fault for not having morals of any type when commiting this act.
And also, the overall problem is the media's over coverage without truths. So many parenst are scared that they will never see their kids again due to school violence, but as Katz said, the odds of something else happening is way higher.
I will agree that some forms of advocacy hurts Linux, but you see this type in every circle. The people who sit here saing "Windows and Mac's and whatever suck" without showing how Linux can do better don't help. That just tends to push me farther away. Also, if you manage to conver someone, help them. The additude of newbies suck and should stay away from Linux when you advocate it is just wrong. If a person converts and has an easy time due to help from others, he/she may convert friends and help them as well, making the platform bigger.
And the part about Slashdot and similar sites hurting is just wrong. Slashdot points out the truth most of the time as long as you can get around the additude at times. It could also be other news agencies trying to discount Slashdot as it is one of the few successful "open" news sites.
And besides, anyone hear of the news.com effect?
I agree with many people here that DOC files need to be treated as EXE files in attachments. I keep all macros disabled in all my office programs until I have a need from them. Besides, noone at work would e-mail me something with a "here is what you are looking for :-)"
Yep, US money is still the same size and color. Just all the new things added to prevent counterfitting.
The one thing that I couldn't understand was the bills in Scotland and England. It was nice to see varity, but the fact there is no standard for the bills drove me nuts. Having several 10 pound bills that looked completly different was hard to get used to. What would be nice to see for bills anywhere is different size, and somethign that looks the same. I could even deal with every bank having their own design as long as say the corners or the outer rectangle is the same for bills of the same amount.
Here we have a few reasons. No one system is perfect.
/.'s can understand:
Also, changing from communism to capitalism or vice versa would take alot of work in a country the size of Russia. Let me put this is terms
Take a poorly running Windows system and all it's programs, and try to convert this to a Linux system, witl all functions from the windows programs covered in Linux (including Indeo 5 codecs, IE bookmark importing, etc...) This would take time, and result in a sizeable down time. Now apply this example to communism to capitalism or capitalism to communism.
Why do so many people see the US as everyone getting shot by gangs and such? Every country has problems like this, but the fact that I live in a fairly decent sized city in the US and have never herd a gun shot except at a firing range should prove alot against this. No I don't live in a rich suburbia area, I live in an area where about 5% of the cities welfare people live 3 blocks away.
Also, don't blame crime on capitalism or socialism or any form or government.
And finaly, revevber what you see on the news is bad. The news does not represent the way of life in a country. If it did, I would think of any country as a bad place due to riots and terrorist attacks and other "news making stories".
But due to communism being the form of life in most of the countries today that US citizens see as bad (Russia, China) it just proves unless you have an uncorrupt government, it fails.
There are flaws and benefits of any system. Pointing out all the flaws is not the way to make anyone here happy, or willing to consider other things. Instead of pointing to capatilism as bad sue to Microsoft or other examples, find the good things about other systems.
Right now OEM's are sellng the K6 systems to provide cheaper systems. Sad thing is, these systems are so underpowered, the chips power is never seen. Gateway for example, has all AMD systems shipping on a mini tower setup, with a 90w power supply, and an integrated motherboard with no ISA, 3 PCI (one usually taken by a modem), and no AGP. I asked the AMD representitive when OEM's will take AMD seriosuly, and he hoped when the K7 comes out, as the K6 is still only seen as a cheap chip, not something that peforms well.
One thing that should help multiple K7's be more powerful then multiple Xeons is that all will be on their own bus, unlike the shared bus method Intel uses.
And for the home market, the K7 will have 3dnow!, and it has already been supported by many games out there. Also is more efficient then Intels KNI. (Or SSE, or whatever you want to call it).
If I remember right, IPv6 will be able to be traced back to location like this, but without the extensive tables of information either on IP or DNS info.
Ummmmm. One short word for you here. WRONG. All Intel Chips, including the Xeon you forgot to name are CISC. Intel will never use RISC, instead they plan to use a different instruction compression method in the IA64 chips, aka Merced.
As for the K6, I haven't examined AMD's chip details for a while, but I highly doubt it.
MP3's need something like this before they become more popular, but it needs to be something that everyone has access to. Artists who don't have official record companies need ways to distribute music, and a protected MP3 system could help in doing this, but if it's going to be called MP3, it needs to stay compatible with existing MP3's. By not doing this, it would be similar to calling DIVX disks DVD's.
By the review, it looks like a decent movie to see. Hollywood needs more of these types of movies, where when you leave the theater, you get more out of it then just "Wow, those special effects must have cost a fortune", and then simply forget about most of the movie the next day.
Do you really think they are going to show the ones who answered correctly? No, because then it would be a borring segment. Don't judge a country's occupents as seen through a TV show going for a laugh.
I am against manufacturers overclocking, but I don't want it to be stopped at my level. My Celeron 300 cost me $100 and outpeforms a PII 350 at $300 or so, by overclocking it. If Intel wants to stop overclocking, they need to come up with a solution that reports the origional safe running speed and current speed at boot, so a consumer would be aware of the overclocking. But don't stop the chips from doing this.
On another note, there are Slot 1 Celeron 400's, and the Socket 370 varity. Intel also released Socket 370 Celeron 300 and 333's when the new Celerons came out. So all those looking to upgrade, don't toss that Slot 1 board. Also a company is working on a Socket 370 -> Slot 1, similar to the Socket 8 -> Slot 1 converters for PPros.