I agree. If Parents would just stop worrying and let us make mistakes, things would be a lot better for us. We learn by making mistakes, not by parents trying to prevent every little thing from happening. It's a bit cold outside. So what? I'm not going to die.
The problem is, too many kids run around with this misconception. And when they make that mistake from which they've *maybe* learned from, mommy and daddy have to come behind and pay thousands of dollars to keep little Johny out of jail and/or prison - or worse. In the end, its often the parents and/or the rest of the family that suffers from the broken, "let us make our own mistakes", mentality.
Ultimately, you can't help but look at some of the kids that run around with this broken mentality as, "how stupid are you?" Some things you just shouldn't have to learn first hand unless you have a serious mental disability. Obviously, people do need to learn from their own mistakes - but that has limits which seems to be beyond comprehension of so many young these days.
What I'm saying is that some parents care so much and I'm not saying we should have total freedom to do anything we want.
Yes, some things you should just know.
But my point still stands. If it's a little cold outside, I'm not going to die.
If I have to cross a street, I'm not going to die.
Because I know the dangers so I would be careful.
A parent who just keeps reminding you of things you already know is just annoying sometimes. Worrying so much won't help. Sometimes you should trust your kids, especially once they're actually legal adults.
Yeah, the problem is, Theora had to get around patents so they had to use less efficient algorithms.
So the question is whether you want the best solution, or the open-source solution.
I mean, I love open-source software, but unfortunately, H.264 just does beat it in several ways.
I agree. If Parents would just stop worrying and let us make mistakes, things would be a lot better for us. We learn by making mistakes, not by parents trying to prevent every little thing from happening.
It's a bit cold outside. So what? I'm not going to die.
It's different from Windows. Those applications don't run automatically. And it's just choice. Use whichever one you think is best. You can uninstall whatever you don't want. It's not that hard.
Or just do an advanced install and spend a few hours filtering out what software you want and don't want on linux.
"No plant is completely clean or green. However, some power plants produce relatively few air pollutants and at the same time cause few land and water impacts at the plant site or in the process of obtaining the fuel or disposing of plant wastes.
Such low impact power facilities are usually sited and operated in ways to minimize damage to the environment. By choosing these cleaner electricity sources, you have the opportunity to meet your electricity needs with a minimum of environmental damage with technologies that are building a foundation for a sustainable energy future."
Yeah, everything causes pollution in one way or another. You have pick the lesser of the 6 evils.
Here at UMCP we seem to use Solaris for most programming applications. Well, scratch that. C programming applications.
Eclipse is used for Java, so every computer has Windows XP installed.
I guess support for Solaris is easier than linux.
But at the Robotics Club everyone uses Ubuntu. I'm actually the only one running Slackware.
Yep, I doubt our university is going to change soon.
It's not like I would buy the music if I couldn't download it. I don't want to spend $15/cd at amazon.com. That's not cheap. Money doesn't grow on trees. I work hard programming for my money as an entering freshman this fall. Plus, I tend to listen to Japanese music now.
NTFS-3G does work fairly well for me. I mean, it is easier than FAT32 because FAT32 is sloppier with fragmentation and doesn't support permissions, so you have to use umsdos. My brother submitted a patch for uvfat a few years ago back when we were using 2.4 kernel and it worked, but i guess it just wasn't good enough for mainstream.
The only beef I have with ntfstools for linux is ntfsdefrag isn't implemented yet. But I think that's due to the fact that there aren't really any defragmentation tools for linux. I mean, I came across a python prgoram for ext2/ext3 defrag, but there aren't any ones in e2fsprogs.
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I agree. If Parents would just stop worrying and let us make mistakes, things would be a lot better for us. We learn by making mistakes, not by parents trying to prevent every little thing from happening. It's a bit cold outside. So what? I'm not going to die.
The problem is, too many kids run around with this misconception. And when they make that mistake from which they've *maybe* learned from, mommy and daddy have to come behind and pay thousands of dollars to keep little Johny out of jail and/or prison - or worse. In the end, its often the parents and/or the rest of the family that suffers from the broken, "let us make our own mistakes", mentality.
Ultimately, you can't help but look at some of the kids that run around with this broken mentality as, "how stupid are you?" Some things you just shouldn't have to learn first hand unless you have a serious mental disability. Obviously, people do need to learn from their own mistakes - but that has limits which seems to be beyond comprehension of so many young these days.
What I'm saying is that some parents care so much and I'm not saying we should have total freedom to do anything we want. Yes, some things you should just know. But my point still stands. If it's a little cold outside, I'm not going to die. If I have to cross a street, I'm not going to die. Because I know the dangers so I would be careful. A parent who just keeps reminding you of things you already know is just annoying sometimes. Worrying so much won't help. Sometimes you should trust your kids, especially once they're actually legal adults.
Yeah, the problem is, Theora had to get around patents so they had to use less efficient algorithms. So the question is whether you want the best solution, or the open-source solution. I mean, I love open-source software, but unfortunately, H.264 just does beat it in several ways.
I agree. If Parents would just stop worrying and let us make mistakes, things would be a lot better for us. We learn by making mistakes, not by parents trying to prevent every little thing from happening. It's a bit cold outside. So what? I'm not going to die.
I was going to let you finish, but Taylor Swift had one of the saddest moments of all time! OF ALL TIME!
It's different from Windows. Those applications don't run automatically. And it's just choice. Use whichever one you think is best. You can uninstall whatever you don't want. It's not that hard. Or just do an advanced install and spend a few hours filtering out what software you want and don't want on linux.
"No plant is completely clean or green. However, some power plants produce relatively few air pollutants and at the same time cause few land and water impacts at the plant site or in the process of obtaining the fuel or disposing of plant wastes. Such low impact power facilities are usually sited and operated in ways to minimize damage to the environment. By choosing these cleaner electricity sources, you have the opportunity to meet your electricity needs with a minimum of environmental damage with technologies that are building a foundation for a sustainable energy future." Yeah, everything causes pollution in one way or another. You have pick the lesser of the 6 evils.
Here at UMCP we seem to use Solaris for most programming applications. Well, scratch that. C programming applications. Eclipse is used for Java, so every computer has Windows XP installed. I guess support for Solaris is easier than linux. But at the Robotics Club everyone uses Ubuntu. I'm actually the only one running Slackware. Yep, I doubt our university is going to change soon.
And yet software is still being developed in open source, because it's not about money.
Really, now? Ubuntu is not a bad desktop distro. http://www.informationweek.com/news/software/linux/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=H33BI1QHHDVFEQSNDLPCKH0CJUNN2JVN?articleID=199201179&pgno=8&queryText=&isPrev= Vista is complete, but is seriously bloated. Ubuntu is faster for everyday tasks.
It's not like I would buy the music if I couldn't download it. I don't want to spend $15/cd at amazon.com. That's not cheap. Money doesn't grow on trees. I work hard programming for my money as an entering freshman this fall. Plus, I tend to listen to Japanese music now.
I work for the government as a summer internship. If I can't do my job, why I am here? I'm just wasting my time. I'd rather be home resting.
NTFS-3G does work fairly well for me. I mean, it is easier than FAT32 because FAT32 is sloppier with fragmentation and doesn't support permissions, so you have to use umsdos. My brother submitted a patch for uvfat a few years ago back when we were using 2.4 kernel and it worked, but i guess it just wasn't good enough for mainstream. The only beef I have with ntfstools for linux is ntfsdefrag isn't implemented yet. But I think that's due to the fact that there aren't really any defragmentation tools for linux. I mean, I came across a python prgoram for ext2/ext3 defrag, but there aren't any ones in e2fsprogs.