I heard of a parent who, when the kid starts whining for candy in the store and acting up, locates another good-behaving child. She tells the parent what she's doing and then buys the candy her kid was whining for and gives it to the other kid because they're being good.
I'm so with you on that - I had a huge crush on Theora when I was in junior high. She was the ultimate badass geek chick - I just loved how she could circumnavigate any security system, taking control of and using big-brother's own security cameras to do it.
Have you ever heard...
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...a British person doing an American accent? They make us all sound like rednecks.
Not that I don't find Michael Palin doing a US-American accent amusing.
McKinney HS is hanging up on inquiries!
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I called and asked for ext. 6109 (Principal's extension), and I was hung up on immediately. I called back, and in my best Southern drawl (suppressed since moving from Dallas to California), I told the same lady, "I just called and it appears that I accidentally got hung up on. I'm writing an article and I'd like to get the school's official policy on what a student who is being harassed should do."
In a very annoyed voice, she said, "Well, I guess you can call the central office at 469-742-4000."
Hmmm...shall we all call the school district as well?
Personally, I believe that the computer gods smite you if you put the cover on after installing hardware before you even test it.
If you want to be really sure that new card will work, you'll not screw it in completely until you know it is fully functional.
They will punish you for your audacity, and you will find that you *accidentally* knocked out your IDE cable when you were mucking around in there. You will not know until you get the non-system disk message.
Be fooled not. It was the computer gods, and they are laughing.
If we pay the tax, we won't have to listen to the RIAA and MPAA bitching about it anymore!
Actually, I think that's their conspiracy. They figure we'll just get so sick of hearing from them that we'll start willingly pelting money at them until they go away.
I think this also applies to the promotional ME cd they were selling.
If you get one of the update CDs (marked as Update, not Upgrade) for reduced cost (I think they were going for something like $20 directly from MS, or about $50 for ME in the stores) you cannot install it unless there is a working copy of Windows 98 on the system.
Makes it a real bitch to support when the poor sod only has one of those recovery CDs that format the hard drive and they don't have the original Win98 cab files on the drive.
In a past life, I was unfortunate enough to have to support that sorry OS.
The full version is supposed to install as an upgrade, but it doesn't always work, and when it doesn't, there's some registry hack or file rename you have to do.
From what I recall, I think you have to rename win.com or something before installing so it doesn't detect the version, but I could be wrong.
Sorry - when I moved on to a real job, I formatted the part of my brain that contained that knowledge so I could use it for something useful.:)
That reminds me of the KMFMS image he did with Tux beating Bill Gates with a bat.
It was my wallpaper for a while (when I was doing outsourced support for MS!) I'd LOVE to have it on a tee.
http://www.kmfms.com/
Exactly - I remember seeing this back in April, and when I saw that the first five chapters had been posted, I read them. Got completely hooked.
Then, I looked for the release date - January 2001! Auggh!
I'm really looking forward to this new line of sequels - I thought Ender's Shadow was a very thoughtful and engaging retelling of Ender's Game.
The best part is that it's not just a repeat of Ender's Game - the part of the story where Bean and Ender coincide is a much smaller percentage of the book than I initially thought it would be.
You know, I don't see anyone cutting Gore any slack this week for "slips of the tongue.":)
Make no mistake - Internet fear does work on an uninformed populus, and Bush's aides were NOT cringing. Bush did choose his words carefully, and he meant what he said.
Every time a major public figure uses their bully pulpit to defame an institution with as much potential and possibility as the Internet, we should take the time to point it out.
When it is misrepresented as an evil corruptor of children, it is our responsibility as those who do know better to inform those who are still new to the Internet.
No matter the rest of his message - Bush used the example as a scare tactic, which is NOT a good thing for public support of electronic freedom.
Has everyone forgotten about Dubya (as those of us who have had to suffer through his gubernatorial tenure here in Texas refer to the twit) and his attempt to shut down GWBush.com for their parody of him?
He tried to have the FEC require GWBush.com to declare themselves as a PAC because they were "influencing the election." This would put all kinds of bureaucratic red tape on the site's ability to exercise freedom of speech in the face of having to meet the legal requirements of becoming a PAC.
Hm...couldn't this apply to any political site?
"There Ought to be Limits to Freedom!"
--George W Bush
(at a Press conference at the Texas State House, May 21, 1999. Speaking about GWBush.com)
Now, what would keep him from trying to pull this shit while in office? Who's really going to stop him?
Furthermore, do you really think that the Philadelphia police just decided on their own to arrest protestors and make it impossible for them to make bail by the end of the convention? No, I don't think the GOP convention leaders influenced them at ALL, do you?
Even if you're not thrilled with Al, do you really think that technology will be better off under Bush?
If you do, you're just not paying any attention at all.
If you are a computer geek guy, at least there are multitudes of other computer geek guys to hang out with if the jocks reject you.
There are not many computer geek girls (at least not that congregate in the computer lab before school), therefore it's more difficult to learn about computers, and fewer girls turn geek. It's a vicious cycle.
I am a female geek, and I am one of the best computer professionals I know.
Now, if I had not been turned on to computers in junior high, and then been introduced to the "geek" society and local BBSes by a good friend in high school (thank you Justin Scott!), I would not have the chance to contribute. I would likely not be in this field at all.
What we can take from this article is that, in order for any child to be comfortable with a computer, they must have regular access to one to experiment with it.
In the article, one person mentioned that when the students are given access to the computer, the girls in that particular class hang back and let the boys take the helm. It's not that they don't want to use the computers, but that they are not getting the regular access to them.
I know this is true because I experienced it myself. In a group where there is a limited number of computers and where there are many boys, the boys tend to be more aggressive and get "dibs" on the computers first. Just watch a middle or high school computer lab and see!
If you take the knee-jerk anti-"liberal social movement" view of this and say, "Girls will go into what they are interested in, we shouldn't push them into it," you're missing the point.
If you give a kid access to a computer, they will play with it. If they play with it, they'll break something, and if you expect them to fix it or make it difficult to get it fixed, they'll learn to do it themselves.
If a kid does not have access to a computer, they will never learn to do this. Then, when they grow out of the "Eww - computer geeks are gross" stage, they will have the background to be able to jump in to a good career (and a great social group! My husband, brother, and friends are all computer geeks, and I'm one happy geek chick!)
The point we can take from this article? We need more computers in schools, a one-to-one ratio, in order to make sure every kid has the opportunity to use one.
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I heard of a parent who, when the kid starts whining for candy in the store and acting up, locates another good-behaving child. She tells the parent what she's doing and then buys the candy her kid was whining for and gives it to the other kid because they're being good.
Apparently works like a charm.
I admit, I have nothing to add to this, except:
FIRE
WIRE!
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I'm so with you on that - I had a huge crush on Theora when I was in junior high.
She was the ultimate badass geek chick - I just loved how she could circumnavigate any security system, taking control of and using big-brother's own security cameras to do it.
...a British person doing an American accent? They make us all sound like rednecks. Not that I don't find Michael Palin doing a US-American accent amusing.
In a very annoyed voice, she said, "Well, I guess you can call the central office at 469-742-4000."
Hmmm...shall we all call the school district as well?
Personally, I believe that the computer gods smite you if you put the cover on after installing hardware before you even test it.
If you want to be really sure that new card will work, you'll not screw it in completely until you know it is fully functional.
They will punish you for your audacity, and you will find that you *accidentally* knocked out your IDE cable when you were mucking around in there. You will not know until you get the non-system disk message.
Be fooled not. It was the computer gods, and they are laughing.
If we pay the tax, we won't have to listen to the RIAA and MPAA bitching about it anymore!
Actually, I think that's their conspiracy. They figure we'll just get so sick of hearing from them that we'll start willingly pelting money at them until they go away.
If you get one of the update CDs (marked as Update, not Upgrade) for reduced cost (I think they were going for something like $20 directly from MS, or about $50 for ME in the stores) you cannot install it unless there is a working copy of Windows 98 on the system.
Makes it a real bitch to support when the poor sod only has one of those recovery CDs that format the hard drive and they don't have the original Win98 cab files on the drive.
And have never made a startup disk, of course.
Am I bitter? noooo...:)
The full version is supposed to install as an upgrade, but it doesn't always work, and when it doesn't, there's some registry hack or file rename you have to do.
From what I recall, I think you have to rename win.com or something before installing so it doesn't detect the version, but I could be wrong.
Sorry - when I moved on to a real job, I formatted the part of my brain that contained that knowledge so I could use it for something useful. :)
That reminds me of the KMFMS image he did with Tux beating Bill Gates with a bat. It was my wallpaper for a while (when I was doing outsourced support for MS!) I'd LOVE to have it on a tee. http://www.kmfms.com/
Then, I looked for the release date - January 2001! Auggh!
I'm really looking forward to this new line of sequels - I thought Ender's Shadow was a very thoughtful and engaging retelling of Ender's Game.
The best part is that it's not just a repeat of Ender's Game - the part of the story where Bean and Ender coincide is a much smaller percentage of the book than I initially thought it would be.
Don't forget that the BLINK is also perfect for overnight storage of the organic lens system!
Make no mistake - Internet fear does work on an uninformed populus, and Bush's aides were NOT cringing. Bush did choose his words carefully, and he meant what he said.
Every time a major public figure uses their bully pulpit to defame an institution with as much potential and possibility as the Internet, we should take the time to point it out.
When it is misrepresented as an evil corruptor of children, it is our responsibility as those who do know better to inform those who are still new to the Internet.
No matter the rest of his message - Bush used the example as a scare tactic, which is NOT a good thing for public support of electronic freedom.
Has everyone forgotten about Dubya (as those of us who have had to suffer through his gubernatorial tenure here in Texas refer to the twit) and his attempt to shut down GWBush.com for their parody of him?
He tried to have the FEC require GWBush.com to declare themselves as a PAC because they were "influencing the election." This would put all kinds of bureaucratic red tape on the site's ability to exercise freedom of speech in the face of having to meet the legal requirements of becoming a PAC.
Hm...couldn't this apply to any political site?
"There Ought to be Limits to Freedom!" --George W Bush (at a Press conference at the Texas State House, May 21, 1999. Speaking about GWBush.com)
Now, what would keep him from trying to pull this shit while in office? Who's really going to stop him?
Furthermore, do you really think that the Philadelphia police just decided on their own to arrest protestors and make it impossible for them to make bail by the end of the convention? No, I don't think the GOP convention leaders influenced them at ALL, do you?
Even if you're not thrilled with Al, do you really think that technology will be better off under Bush?
If you do, you're just not paying any attention at all.
There are not many computer geek girls (at least not that congregate in the computer lab before school), therefore it's more difficult to learn about computers, and fewer girls turn geek. It's a vicious cycle.
Now, if I had not been turned on to computers in junior high, and then been introduced to the "geek" society and local BBSes by a good friend in high school (thank you Justin Scott!), I would not have the chance to contribute. I would likely not be in this field at all.
What we can take from this article is that, in order for any child to be comfortable with a computer, they must have regular access to one to experiment with it.
In the article, one person mentioned that when the students are given access to the computer, the girls in that particular class hang back and let the boys take the helm. It's not that they don't want to use the computers, but that they are not getting the regular access to them.
I know this is true because I experienced it myself. In a group where there is a limited number of computers and where there are many boys, the boys tend to be more aggressive and get "dibs" on the computers first. Just watch a middle or high school computer lab and see!
If you take the knee-jerk anti-"liberal social movement" view of this and say, "Girls will go into what they are interested in, we shouldn't push them into it," you're missing the point.
If you give a kid access to a computer, they will play with it. If they play with it, they'll break something, and if you expect them to fix it or make it difficult to get it fixed, they'll learn to do it themselves.
If a kid does not have access to a computer, they will never learn to do this. Then, when they grow out of the "Eww - computer geeks are gross" stage, they will have the background to be able to jump in to a good career (and a great social group! My husband, brother, and friends are all computer geeks, and I'm one happy geek chick!)
The point we can take from this article? We need more computers in schools, a one-to-one ratio, in order to make sure every kid has the opportunity to use one.
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"Everything I'm telling you tonight is true - except for the part where the banana *sticks* to the wall." - Spalding Gray