I don't see what is wrong with metal detectors. Do you think children should be allowed to bring firearms to school?
No, metal detectors detect metal (as the name indicates). They're not "gun detectors" (which would be useful), they will trigger on keys and belt buckles too.
And they don't prevent kids from bringing guns to the school, they will only detect that they have done so. There is a major difference in the "danger-level" between the two.
Coda: You're opinions are supposed to be backed up with a fact or two. How about telling us why the Church of Scientology would want to mislead anyone about the educational system? What reason do they have?
Because the Church of Scientology (aka. L. Ron Hubbard's little prank that has gone on for too long now) misleads everyone about everything else. QED.
So pretty much, I should put my kid out on the street and say, "Sorry, can't help you, telling you what is right, wrong, safe, dangerous would be pushing my beliefs on you".
You jump to extremes in your argument. This is precisely the kind of apparent black/white world view that public schooling (as opposed to home schooling) in theory should prevent.
In a debate, you may want not to put arguments into the hands of your counterpart.
worse, 01 is used as a special number for people who don't have a personnumber.
Silly Swedes. Here in Norway, person numbers have the format ddmmyy-xxxxx, and "furriners" and others not born here have 40 or something added to the date, IIRC: That way, it's easily identifiable.
Thirty minutes, huh? Scary to think it would take anyone more than a minute to understand that. After all, it's just a nuance of the OS.
ITYM "a nuance of the Windows shell program Explorer.exe". But enough about that, it's still not even close to intuitive. Why does it treat dragging Foo.exe (default: make shortcut) any different from dragging Foo.zip? And why does it change from "move" to "copy" if you cross drive boundaries? Shift and Control, my foot - you are making excuses for inconsistency.
Pity the NT sysadmins whose users fill their desktops with huge files then complain that logging in and out takes forever.
Actually, I should count myself as well: I do occasionally defend some of their products, for instance their JVM is better than Sun's 1.1.8 on Windows.
I think that buying a PC with an OS preinstalled is more like buying an automobile with the engine preinstalled. ... The large majority of the public tends to agree with my opinion, though.
Microzombie, if I take Windows out of my computer, it will still run, since it has a CPU. If I take tyhe CPU out, it will not help that the hard disk has Windows installed. Verstehst du?
The one major effect of not shipping Windows pre-installed is that the myth that Windows is user-friendly gets shot at the bow, as the poor customers futively try to get it installed.
Nor was web publishing when they bought Vermeer to get Frontpage...
This seems to be standard modus operandi for Micros~1: Instead of creating technology they buy the companies that have the technology they want.
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arguably the finest moment of Card's career
IMHO, the title goes to either Songmaster or (A Planet Called) Treason. Card tends to suffer from Piersanthonism aka. "Help, I'm writing a book series, and I cannot stop!":-) when it comes to his longer works.
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There is also the most excellent "Marvels" by Busiek and Ross: The central events of the early Marvel universe told through the eyes of a reporter in the "Daily Bugle".
But wasn't it possible before to make Sun compatable boxes?
Yes, Sun licensed out the design, but at an initial cost. Now, the only cost related to the license is royalties once you start selling systems. A huge difference, since the initial costs are zilch plus tax.
Plus, there are implementions already under the GPL - notably Kaffe. The copyright holders also sell/license a commercial version through the company Transvirtual, and apparently have licensed it to Micros~1 in a deal involving some of their technology (like J/Direct).
Doubled the RAM, too, didn't they? From 16 kiB to 32 kiB?
I might get one, though right now I am partial to their cheap keychain "relaunched" LCD games. "Donkey Kong Jr.", "Parachute" and "Snoopy Tennis" all the way, baby!:-)
Like a digital collar, that will *beep* the dog, whenever food is wainting for him inside.
Reminds me of a Java promo video from Sun a couple of years back, where an unruly dog got a Java-powered collar. To stop the dog, the housewife pressed a button on a remote.
Java will always be slower than "native" programming languages.
Java is frequently compiled to native code. Where's the problem?
Also, a GUI application waiting for user input or for network information waits just as fast running on a VM or running natively on top of some C++ API on top of another API etc. The difference being the user with the Java application has been using the software for the three months the Java programmers didn't waste looking for the source of wild pointers and memory leaks.:-)
Go to Blackdown and see: They have the JDK (Sun's version of which is now called SDK). Sun's official platforms are Solaris and Win32 (where they are currently at 1.3 beta), but they also list quite a few ports from other vendors.
(Note, though, that "competing" VMs on Win32 are strangely absent, including Microsoft's fast and well-patched one based on 1.1.4, IBM's etc.)
The specs are there for all to implement at their leisure. Why would you want Sun's particular and buggy implementation? Get Kaffe and participate to your heart's content.
It is not object oriented like C++, where you can choose to use object orientation when it fits the task at hand. You are _forced_ to use object orientation, always, everywhere.
Um, the only real difference is that there is no global scope. What is problematic about that?
You can easily communicate datastructures over the network. But you cannot (AFAIK) communicate the code.
CORBA and RMI are well suited for the task, and class files have been loaded across the network for ages.
You have garbage collection always, everywhere. Not just when it's a benefit, but again you're locked into it.
This is bad how? You mean manual memory allocation and deallocation is better? No thanks, I would rather model the _application_ I am writing than having to think on the machine's premises.
To quote Bjarne Stroustrup:
Don't. As comp.lang.java.* discovered long ago: Bjarne is scared of Java. He's spreading the same level of FUD about it as Micros~1, SCO etc. are about Linux.
Meanwhile, the rest of us are rapidly developing applications in a far more elegant language than Stroustrup's hideous hybrid will ever hope to aspire to lick the shoes of.
You have the freedom to not use Lizard (or other QPL'ed stuff) and instead write your own. Nobody have taken that right away from you, and it's the only freedom applicable.
Your attack on Caldera's choice of license is an attack on their freedom to choose a license they are comfortable with.
Not to mention that there were some stories not too long ago that at least one of the filter makers tended to put sites carrying articles negative to their product into their filters...
"The latest version of NetNanny now filters away misogynistic macho bravado, beer ads and incorrect English. As a result, all Australian sites are blocked."
Get real. If the application crashes the OS, then it's not the application that needs a "supported platforms" list, it's the OS that needs an "approved applications" list.
If a user application crashes the operating system, the operating system is to blame: It's not the role of an application to do the operating system's job.
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No, metal detectors detect metal (as the name indicates). They're not "gun detectors" (which would be useful), they will trigger on keys and belt buckles too.
And they don't prevent kids from bringing guns to the school, they will only detect that they have done so. There is a major difference in the "danger-level" between the two.
Because the Church of Scientology (aka. L. Ron Hubbard's little prank that has gone on for too long now) misleads everyone about everything else. QED.
You jump to extremes in your argument. This is precisely the kind of apparent black/white world view that public schooling (as opposed to home schooling) in theory should prevent.
In a debate, you may want not to put arguments into the hands of your counterpart.
Silly Swedes. Here in Norway, person numbers have the format ddmmyy-xxxxx, and "furriners" and others not born here have 40 or something added to the date, IIRC: That way, it's easily identifiable.
ITYM "a nuance of the Windows shell program Explorer.exe". But enough about that, it's still not even close to intuitive. Why does it treat dragging Foo.exe (default: make shortcut) any different from dragging Foo.zip? And why does it change from "move" to "copy" if you cross drive boundaries? Shift and Control, my foot - you are making excuses for inconsistency.
Pity the NT sysadmins whose users fill their desktops with huge files then complain that logging in and out takes forever.
Actually, I should count myself as well: I do occasionally defend some of their products, for instance their JVM is better than Sun's 1.1.8 on Windows.
I wonder if, some day, we will see a pro-MS article from someone mature enough to identify themselves.
But then, I also wonder if we some day will have anti-gravity-equipped spaceships travelling in hyperspace.
The large majority of the public tends to agree with my opinion, though.
Hey, look everybody, it's Anonymous Microzombie again.
Microzombie, if I take Windows out of my computer, it will still run, since it has a CPU. If I take tyhe CPU out, it will not help that the hard disk has Windows installed. Verstehst du?
The one major effect of not shipping Windows pre-installed is that the myth that Windows is user-friendly gets shot at the bow, as the poor customers futively try to get it installed.
Nor was web publishing when they bought Vermeer to get Frontpage...
This seems to be standard modus operandi for Micros~1: Instead of creating technology they buy the companies that have the technology they want.
IMHO, the title goes to either Songmaster or (A Planet Called) Treason. Card tends to suffer from Piersanthonism aka. "Help, I'm writing a book series, and I cannot stop!" :-) when it comes to his longer works.
There is also the most excellent "Marvels" by Busiek and Ross: The central events of the early Marvel universe told through the eyes of a reporter in the "Daily Bugle".
Yes, Sun licensed out the design, but at an initial cost. Now, the only cost related to the license is royalties once you start selling systems. A huge difference, since the initial costs are zilch plus tax.
No, that's what %WinDir%\System32\Drivers\etc\Hosts is for. :-)
So, what program do they use to configure modem connections? DUNCE? :-)
Plus, there are implementions already under the GPL - notably Kaffe. The copyright holders also sell/license a commercial version through the company Transvirtual, and apparently have licensed it to Micros~1 in a deal involving some of their technology (like J/Direct).
U wat "kolr", den. Der a:r tu mani leters in de Inglisj alfabet olredi - nider 'c', 'z' nor 'y' hev ani pleis ver dei ka:nt bi substitutid.
:-P
Or you can go back to speaking Danish and Norwegian like in the Old Days.
Doubled the RAM, too, didn't they? From 16 kiB to 32 kiB?
:-)
I might get one, though right now I am partial to their cheap keychain "relaunched" LCD games. "Donkey Kong Jr.", "Parachute" and "Snoopy Tennis" all the way, baby!
Reminds me of a Java promo video from Sun a couple of years back, where an unruly dog got a Java-powered collar. To stop the dog, the housewife pressed a button on a remote.
(What it really had to do with Java? Search me.)
Java is frequently compiled to native code. Where's the problem?
Also, a GUI application waiting for user input or for network information waits just as fast running on a VM or running natively on top of some C++ API on top of another API etc. The difference being the user with the Java application has been using the software for the three months the Java programmers didn't waste looking for the source of wild pointers and memory leaks. :-)
(Note, though, that "competing" VMs on Win32 are strangely absent, including Microsoft's fast and well-patched one based on 1.1.4, IBM's etc.)
The specs are there for all to implement at their leisure. Why would you want Sun's particular and buggy implementation? Get Kaffe and participate to your heart's content.
It is not object oriented like C++, where you can choose to use object orientation when it fits the task at hand. You are _forced_ to use object orientation, always, everywhere.
Um, the only real difference is that there is no global scope. What is problematic about that?
You can easily communicate datastructures over the network. But you cannot (AFAIK) communicate the code.
CORBA and RMI are well suited for the task, and class files have been loaded across the network for ages.
You have garbage collection always, everywhere. Not just when it's a benefit, but again you're locked into it.
This is bad how? You mean manual memory allocation and deallocation is better? No thanks, I would rather model the _application_ I am writing than having to think on the machine's premises.
To quote Bjarne Stroustrup:
Don't. As comp.lang.java.* discovered long ago: Bjarne is scared of Java. He's spreading the same level of FUD about it as Micros~1, SCO etc. are about Linux.
Meanwhile, the rest of us are rapidly developing applications in a far more elegant language than Stroustrup's hideous hybrid will ever hope to aspire to lick the shoes of.
You have the freedom to not use Lizard (or other QPL'ed stuff) and instead write your own. Nobody have taken that right away from you, and it's the only freedom applicable.
Your attack on Caldera's choice of license is an attack on their freedom to choose a license they are comfortable with.
Not to mention that there were some stories not too long ago that at least one of the filter makers tended to put sites carrying articles negative to their product into their filters...
"The latest version of NetNanny now filters away misogynistic macho bravado, beer ads and incorrect English. As a result, all Australian sites are blocked."
:-P
Get real. If the application crashes the OS, then it's not the application that needs a "supported platforms" list, it's the OS that needs an "approved applications" list.
If a user application crashes the operating system, the operating system is to blame: It's not the role of an application to do the operating system's job.