The Simpsons is on 3 times(5:30, 6:00, and 10:00) every weekday and once on Sundays (although they have been running multiple shows recently). I picked up a TiVO just for that. Pipe the TiVO's output to you video card, record all the shows, put them on your web server and you have simpsonNET. A new thing for you boss to ban.
Call me Bear Baron.
This is an aside, but my college roomate my freshman year was from Japan. He told me horror stories about the suicide rate in Japan's schools. You think anything in this country is bad? It is nothing compared to the Japanese and their hardcore belief's about excelling.
Why can't people just let kids be kids? Don't let them get away with a lot, but come one. And this doesn't stop with suicide. There are a lot of kids that get subjected to physical abuse from their parents for bad grades.
IMHO, the American school system is going down the shit hole. Yuppie parents are coming in for every little thing that happens to little Johnny. They say nothing when he parties and goes out with a different girl every night. But let him get suspended, and they will be the first ones in the school, yelling about their son being singled out.
My girlfriends Mother works for a middle school(K-6). There was a rumor that a guy was upset over losing a girl to another guy, so he was going to bring a gun and kill him. This was at the Jr. High(7-8). She was getting calls from parents of kids at the middle school, asking her what they were doing about the problem at the middle school. They were furious when she said they could do nothing because it wasn't even the same school. They wanted to go to the super in the district. The kid will most likly get suspended, and the shrinks will be brought in to comfort everyone else. How much emotional help do you think the kid with the gun will get?
It is a shame. Those that need help will never get it because they are deemed "lost causes".
Can we please leave MS out of this? Really, inserting their name into something that doesn't involve them reveals a sick fetish of some sort.
As for the tragic story at hand, if he did change his grades a sell acces, I think that, at least in this case, the administration was fully in the right, and maybe a little lax in their punishment. I think he was wound a little tight, but it really isn't for me to judge.
Smart people scare the "masses" the same way that religon scared pagans. The only way to respond is to get defensive. But as soon as these people realize that there is more to life than throwing a footbal 60 yards and fucking the head cheerleader, then maybe society will evolve a little more. Either that, or we need to get more intellectually gifted (note: I didn't use the word geeks. I feel it is a derogatory label) into positions of power and decision making.
This kinda reminds me of the Simpsons where booze is banned and the owner of Duff Beer says "No, we aren't worried, our customers enjoy duff for it's smooth taste, not it's alcoholic content. They will enjoy our Duff Zero even more." Three minutes later duff goes out of business.
Once again, we can look to the Simpsons for a humorous take on reality.
Assumming you don't have to have an ungodly number of devices, why not buy a cheap laptop? I'm assuming because you're
>talking pocket PC you want to spend 3-500$US. Why not pay twice as much for no hassles. No conversion costs, recompiling,
>stuff to go wrong. You can spend the time you would have spent screwing around with compilers making the base installation more
>stable
Well, basically people are simple. They want a handheld version because it is sleeker and cooler than a laptop. Plus, More things can break on a laptop. then you get people installing MP3 players and new themes for Win9X. that makes the computer unstable and program not very good.
As for burning the app into the ROM, that isn't feasible becasue the way our program works is that all updates are place on the server and when a client connects, it passes new information upstream, and recieves new updates downstream.
PalmOS also uses C to program it, if I am not mistaken (and I might be) So the turn around time for this would be huge.
so that it could run on other platforms that don't use COM, such as WAP-enabled phones...
See, there would be no point in running on a WAP phone. This is a Data Collection tool for EMS's. COuld you see them fumbling around with an onscreen keyboard at the scene of an accident?
> Which begs the question: why are you targeting
> a handheld device if what you really want is
> a desktop?
>Portability. Remember what they're trying to do
>here -- gather information at the scene of an >accident.
>Laptops might be a workable option, but an >embedded system would be preferable (no disk >access time). When you work for EMS, seconds >count.
Yes, Portability is the main reason for the handheld discussion. Also, many hospitals are asking for a handheld version before they commit to purchase.
I am sorry, I know nothing of fatbrain's spamming. I just know I have ordered several things from them, I get the same great, prompt service everytime. I tried Amazon, but the prices were to high and the item I wanted wasn't even in stock. I prefer fatbrain over Amazon for shopping, regardless of Amazons other bonehead dealings or troubles.
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The Simpsons is on 3 times(5:30, 6:00, and 10:00) every weekday and once on Sundays (although they have been running multiple shows recently). I picked up a TiVO just for that. Pipe the TiVO's output to you video card, record all the shows, put them on your web server and you have simpsonNET. A new thing for you boss to ban. Call me Bear Baron.
I was referring to the fact that they are scared of the unknown, so they get defensive and lash out.
Why can't people just let kids be kids? Don't let them get away with a lot, but come one. And this doesn't stop with suicide. There are a lot of kids that get subjected to physical abuse from their parents for bad grades.
IMHO, the American school system is going down the shit hole. Yuppie parents are coming in for every little thing that happens to little Johnny. They say nothing when he parties and goes out with a different girl every night. But let him get suspended, and they will be the first ones in the school, yelling about their son being singled out.
My girlfriends Mother works for a middle school(K-6). There was a rumor that a guy was upset over losing a girl to another guy, so he was going to bring a gun and kill him. This was at the Jr. High(7-8). She was getting calls from parents of kids at the middle school, asking her what they were doing about the problem at the middle school. They were furious when she said they could do nothing because it wasn't even the same school. They wanted to go to the super in the district. The kid will most likly get suspended, and the shrinks will be brought in to comfort everyone else. How much emotional help do you think the kid with the gun will get?
It is a shame. Those that need help will never get it because they are deemed "lost causes".
As for the tragic story at hand, if he did change his grades a sell acces, I think that, at least in this case, the administration was fully in the right, and maybe a little lax in their punishment. I think he was wound a little tight, but it really isn't for me to judge.
Smart people scare the "masses" the same way that religon scared pagans. The only way to respond is to get defensive. But as soon as these people realize that there is more to life than throwing a footbal 60 yards and fucking the head cheerleader, then maybe society will evolve a little more. Either that, or we need to get more intellectually gifted (note: I didn't use the word geeks. I feel it is a derogatory label) into positions of power and decision making.
This kinda reminds me of the Simpsons where booze is banned and the owner of Duff Beer says "No, we aren't worried, our customers enjoy duff for it's smooth taste, not it's alcoholic content. They will enjoy our Duff Zero even more." Three minutes later duff goes out of business. Once again, we can look to the Simpsons for a humorous take on reality.
Assumming you don't have to have an ungodly number of devices, why not buy a cheap laptop? I'm assuming because you're >talking pocket PC you want to spend 3-500$US. Why not pay twice as much for no hassles. No conversion costs, recompiling, >stuff to go wrong. You can spend the time you would have spent screwing around with compilers making the base installation more >stable
Well, basically people are simple. They want a handheld version because it is sleeker and cooler than a laptop. Plus, More things can break on a laptop. then you get people installing MP3 players and new themes for Win9X. that makes the computer unstable and program not very good.
As for burning the app into the ROM, that isn't feasible becasue the way our program works is that all updates are place on the server and when a client connects, it passes new information upstream, and recieves new updates downstream. PalmOS also uses C to program it, if I am not mistaken (and I might be) So the turn around time for this would be huge.
so that it could run on other platforms that don't use COM, such as WAP-enabled phones... See, there would be no point in running on a WAP phone. This is a Data Collection tool for EMS's. COuld you see them fumbling around with an onscreen keyboard at the scene of an accident?
Yes I know the Palm storage is baed around a database, but it is only a text, flat file database, which is not very robust.
> Which begs the question: why are you targeting
> a handheld device if what you really want is
> a desktop?
>Portability. Remember what they're trying to do
>here -- gather information at the scene of an >accident.
>Laptops might be a workable option, but an >embedded system would be preferable (no disk >access time). When you work for EMS, seconds >count.
Yes, Portability is the main reason for the handheld discussion. Also, many hospitals are asking for a handheld version before they commit to purchase.
I am sorry, I know nothing of fatbrain's spamming. I just know I have ordered several things from them, I get the same great, prompt service everytime. I tried Amazon, but the prices were to high and the item I wanted wasn't even in stock. I prefer fatbrain over Amazon for shopping, regardless of Amazons other bonehead dealings or troubles.