Sure, moan about the < 3GB of memory, but here are two points that will change that. 1. They start at a bit under half the price. 2. If you are running an Atom processor, most of what you will be doing won't need 3GB of memory...especially with Linux.
I've noticed that for the older styled beers, room temperature is the best way to go.
For American "super-brews" (Budweiser, etc) they have to be ice cold so they numb your taste buds and just flow down your throat....otherwise they're pretty disgusting.
I dunno.... the Internet Kiosk question is pretty valid. I know of maybe a half-dozen (terminal, not locations) that exist in the City I live in here in the U.S.... or it could just be that my city sucks.
Either way having your own Notebook or Netbook is better than touching the grimy disgusting keyboards on an internet kiosk.
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I got the HTC Touch (VX6900) from Verizon and it had that built right in to the home screen. I had to get one of the shell replacements so I could make that go away.
Welcome to America.... you can buy it, but chances are...the company selling it will rape you.
Being a netbook owner, I'm becoming quite fond of Webkit-based browsers for general browsing purposes. For KDE and Windows, I like Arora. On my eee, I use Epiphany with the Webkit extension, and I'm exploring replacing that with Midori.
Yeah, they are beta quality, but they are also screaming fast and the rendering is second to none. I have yet to have them crash, or encounter a website they can't render well enough.
On the other hand, I'm a steadfast fan of firefox for development. I have yet to see a lightweight browser with the Web Developer toolbar, Colorfox, Measure It, or a nicer Javascript debugger.
Honestly, I would like to see these released for Seamonkey, and to see a few more features added to the Seamonkey HTML Editor. (extensions similar to Dreamweaver, Site Manager, more customizable toolbar layout, and a full-featured code editor) Drop all of the other Crap.... Make Seamonkey a development platform with HTML Editor, Web Browser, FTP and support for CVS/GIT/SVN....
Just seems like some of the mistakes most long-standing nations have made within their first 200 - 400 years or so. It's not right, and it's pretty moronic, but it's nothing new.
Or... you could just say that our nation is doing what our parent nations have always done.... I still think we have a long way to go before we do anything along the lines of the Roman empire (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_empire), the British Empire (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Empire), Russian Empire (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Empire), hell.... about half of the current European nations took turns controlling huge portions of the "known world" from time to time. As for America's "War on Terrorism"... it just seems like The Good Ol' boys (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_family... etc) are trying to pick up where Europe left off with the Crusades (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crusades). Yeah, we've invaded some Territory (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican-American_War), or a country here or there but our imperialism is nothing compared to what our parent nations have done.
I think the true atrocity is that we haven't learned from our ancestors' mistakes. For a nation that was supposedly founded on tolerance, freedom and all that baloney.... it seems like we have just become another in a long line of offenders.
What the whole world needs to do is stop trying to one-up each other at everything (my health care is better, I've started a bloodier war, our money is worth more) and start working on some sort of cooperation.
Anyway.... this is so off-topic it's pathetic but what the hell... I'm just a stupid, vapid, imperialistic American so I need to shout my opinion and make heard!
Pawn Shops. You want the crap on the radio.... get a radio. I understand the desire to hear a certain song at a certain time, but in my theory.... most new songs are over played enough on the radio that by the time I want to own them, I can get them at a pawn shop.
You want new music? Go to local shows, support local artists. I live in a relatively small city and we have a pretty kickin' local music scene with everything from Punk Rock, Lounge Music, Adult Contemporary, and Hardcore Rap.
I know people's horror stories about the local banjo player playing coom ba ya at a show, but it's not all like that. Some of the bands I have heard are pretty good and I like their stuff better than most I hear on the radio.
That's what I miss about mp3.com when they allowed artists to post their own music and sell it or make it available for download. You could explore just about any kind of music and find some pretty cool stuff that was free and legal to own.
I imagine part of this cause is the fact that most IT workers get paid better to work in the IT field than they would to work in the teaching field. (at least this is true around here)
That being said, you end up with someone who has a teaching degree, but no more computer knowledge than most office workers.
So, rather than sitting around bitching about how teachers don't know the material they are teaching, why not do something about it?
Maybe the OSS ideology would help by providing curriculum and materials that teachers can teach even if they don't substantially know the subject.
This would be a good community project, where the teachers can learn the subject matter from the curriculum, ask questions in forums that can be answered by experienced people, and teach the curriculum correctly, and go back to the community for questions they can't answer on the spot.
The Community can also make the course easier to teach by providing online quizzes that are graded automatically, or exams that can be printed out and common errors in solutions can be addressed in the "Teacher's key" that would allow them to effectively grade the exams.
A television can be purchases for $10 to $20 at a Thrift Store/Salvation Army/Goodwill, Garage Sale, or could simply be given to them.
(I have given friends in tight situations TVs, VCRs, DVD Players, and Computers myself, especially when they won't even accept a little cash now and then)
Free OTA broadcasts can help wile away the time rather than staring at the wall when they aren't at their jobs.
Maybe someone will be generous enough to donate some converter boxes to the Salvation Armies/GoodWills, etc or give their less fortunate friends one.
After Taxes and Health Insurance, it can easily amount to $5 or less an hour. Some people have to do it because they don't have the education or skills to meet the jobs available in their area. Likewise they don't have the money to move elsewhere.
It happens, I've seen it. Now take that and try to raise a family.
Other than the keyboard with a storage compartment under it that I bought for $5 somewhere, (which is spill proof and dishwasher safe btw) all of my others are Cherry keyboards.
I have one with a smart card reader, and one with a trackpad, credit card reader, and about a dozen programmable keys (no f'ing multimedia keys).... and it beeps when connected which is handy when you are plugging and unplugging things behind a desk.
The POS features aren't particularly useful, but the keyboards themselves can take a real beating and are heavy enough to compete with the Model M for self defense.
I started at 11 with QBasic because it came with DOS 5 on my Tandy 1000. Most of my old code was crap, but it was functional, and I learned more as I went along.
I picked up VB pretty easily, mIRC Scripting, PHP, C, JavaScript, and a few other funny languages as well (bozol, lsl, etc)
Either way, do the functional programming before OO, and start with something simple... some say BASIC can cause brain damage. They're wrong.
Try this, start with BASIC (Not visual Basic or some funny variant... simple plain BASIC... and no shortcuts, Dimension and Declare every variable..keep strict data types for later understanding) here is where TYPES, FUNCTIONS and good programming practices should be stressed.
then move on to a more structured language that is still relatively simple... PHP or JavaScript... stress code structure and syntax.
from there C will be a relatively easy next step, and beyond that shouldn't be too tough to work with once the basic concepts are understood.
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My Asus eee netbook meets most of these specs, cost me $290 and I can carry it with me.
or - http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=2032280010%201141843301%201143618759&ShowDeactivatedMark=False
Sure, moan about the < 3GB of memory, but here are two points that will change that. 1. They start at a bit under half the price. 2. If you are running an Atom processor, most of what you will be doing won't need 3GB of memory...especially with Linux.
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Is that link work safe?
Did someone upload the Goatse guy to Slashdot's servers?
God Save us all!
I've noticed that for the older styled beers, room temperature is the best way to go.
For American "super-brews" (Budweiser, etc) they have to be ice cold so they numb your taste buds and just flow down your throat....otherwise they're pretty disgusting.
I dunno.... the Internet Kiosk question is pretty valid. I know of maybe a half-dozen (terminal, not locations) that exist in the City I live in here in the U.S. ... or it could just be that my city sucks.
Either way having your own Notebook or Netbook is better than touching the grimy disgusting keyboards on an internet kiosk.
I got the HTC Touch (VX6900) from Verizon and it had that built right in to the home screen. I had to get one of the shell replacements so I could make that go away.
Welcome to America.... you can buy it, but chances are...the company selling it will rape you.
Don't sell what you don't have.
If you want to sell more, build more before selling it.
If this were any other industry, I would bring up "if you can't, someone else will" but the market providers are so few that it's not true.
Being a netbook owner, I'm becoming quite fond of Webkit-based browsers for general browsing purposes. For KDE and Windows, I like Arora. On my eee, I use Epiphany with the Webkit extension, and I'm exploring replacing that with Midori.
Yeah, they are beta quality, but they are also screaming fast and the rendering is second to none. I have yet to have them crash, or encounter a website they can't render well enough.
On the other hand, I'm a steadfast fan of firefox for development. I have yet to see a lightweight browser with the Web Developer toolbar, Colorfox, Measure It, or a nicer Javascript debugger.
Honestly, I would like to see these released for Seamonkey, and to see a few more features added to the Seamonkey HTML Editor. (extensions similar to Dreamweaver, Site Manager, more customizable toolbar layout, and a full-featured code editor) Drop all of the other Crap.... Make Seamonkey a development platform with HTML Editor, Web Browser, FTP and support for CVS/GIT/SVN....
Coming up on your left...Nothing.
I'm just waiting for EyeOS 2.0 (http://eyeos.org/) to come out. Look at the preview of EyeDocs (http://blog.eyeos.org/2009/10/09/introducing-eyedocs-2/) ... and with the right configuration it can save OpenDocument files.
Best of all...it's self hosted!
Just seems like some of the mistakes most long-standing nations have made within their first 200 - 400 years or so. It's not right, and it's pretty moronic, but it's nothing new.
Or... you could just say that our nation is doing what our parent nations have always done.... I still think we have a long way to go before we do anything along the lines of the Roman empire (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_empire), the British Empire (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Empire), Russian Empire (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Empire), hell.... about half of the current European nations took turns controlling huge portions of the "known world" from time to time. As for America's "War on Terrorism"... it just seems like The Good Ol' boys (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_family ... etc) are trying to pick up where Europe left off with the Crusades (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crusades). Yeah, we've invaded some Territory (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican-American_War), or a country here or there but our imperialism is nothing compared to what our parent nations have done.
I think the true atrocity is that we haven't learned from our ancestors' mistakes. For a nation that was supposedly founded on tolerance, freedom and all that baloney.... it seems like we have just become another in a long line of offenders.
What the whole world needs to do is stop trying to one-up each other at everything (my health care is better, I've started a bloodier war, our money is worth more) and start working on some sort of cooperation.
Anyway.... this is so off-topic it's pathetic but what the hell... I'm just a stupid, vapid, imperialistic American so I need to shout my opinion and make heard!
It's not a bug. It's a feature.
Pawn Shops. You want the crap on the radio.... get a radio. I understand the desire to hear a certain song at a certain time, but in my theory.... most new songs are over played enough on the radio that by the time I want to own them, I can get them at a pawn shop.
You want new music? Go to local shows, support local artists. I live in a relatively small city and we have a pretty kickin' local music scene with everything from Punk Rock, Lounge Music, Adult Contemporary, and Hardcore Rap.
I know people's horror stories about the local banjo player playing coom ba ya at a show, but it's not all like that. Some of the bands I have heard are pretty good and I like their stuff better than most I hear on the radio.
That's what I miss about mp3.com when they allowed artists to post their own music and sell it or make it available for download. You could explore just about any kind of music and find some pretty cool stuff that was free and legal to own.
I'm still waiting for a PS/2 Compatible phone.
I bet I could text faster with one of the old IBM Model M Keyboards.
I run Conflicker.
Oh, and let's not forget the lawyers...
But what about the children? Why can't anybody think of the Children?
The children lose the most from monopolies.
I named all of mine George
I imagine part of this cause is the fact that most IT workers get paid better to work in the IT field than they would to work in the teaching field. (at least this is true around here)
That being said, you end up with someone who has a teaching degree, but no more computer knowledge than most office workers.
So, rather than sitting around bitching about how teachers don't know the material they are teaching, why not do something about it?
Maybe the OSS ideology would help by providing curriculum and materials that teachers can teach even if they don't substantially know the subject.
This would be a good community project, where the teachers can learn the subject matter from the curriculum, ask questions in forums that can be answered by experienced people, and teach the curriculum correctly, and go back to the community for questions they can't answer on the spot.
The Community can also make the course easier to teach by providing online quizzes that are graded automatically, or exams that can be printed out and common errors in solutions can be addressed in the "Teacher's key" that would allow them to effectively grade the exams.
A television can be purchases for $10 to $20 at a Thrift Store/Salvation Army/Goodwill, Garage Sale, or could simply be given to them.
(I have given friends in tight situations TVs, VCRs, DVD Players, and Computers myself, especially when they won't even accept a little cash now and then)
Free OTA broadcasts can help wile away the time rather than staring at the wall when they aren't at their jobs.
Maybe someone will be generous enough to donate some converter boxes to the Salvation Armies/GoodWills, etc or give their less fortunate friends one.
Minimum Wage = $6.55/hr
After Taxes and Health Insurance, it can easily amount to $5 or less an hour. Some people have to do it because they don't have the education or skills to meet the jobs available in their area. Likewise they don't have the money to move elsewhere.
It happens, I've seen it. Now take that and try to raise a family.
Other than the keyboard with a storage compartment under it that I bought for $5 somewhere, (which is spill proof and dishwasher safe btw) all of my others are Cherry keyboards.
I have one with a smart card reader, and one with a trackpad, credit card reader, and about a dozen programmable keys (no f'ing multimedia keys).... and it beeps when connected which is handy when you are plugging and unplugging things behind a desk.
The POS features aren't particularly useful, but the keyboards themselves can take a real beating and are heavy enough to compete with the Model M for self defense.
Ford does this too (Mercury)... and surprise, so does Chrysler (Dodge Aries/Plymouth Reliant and other similar cars).
This is probably off topic and redundant but hey, you can't mod both!
I started at 11 with QBasic because it came with DOS 5 on my Tandy 1000. Most of my old code was crap, but it was functional, and I learned more as I went along.
I picked up VB pretty easily, mIRC Scripting, PHP, C, JavaScript, and a few other funny languages as well (bozol, lsl, etc)
Either way, do the functional programming before OO, and start with something simple... some say BASIC can cause brain damage. They're wrong.
Try this, start with BASIC (Not visual Basic or some funny variant... simple plain BASIC... and no shortcuts, Dimension and Declare every variable..keep strict data types for later understanding) here is where TYPES, FUNCTIONS and good programming practices should be stressed.
then move on to a more structured language that is still relatively simple... PHP or JavaScript... stress code structure and syntax.
from there C will be a relatively easy next step, and beyond that shouldn't be too tough to work with once the basic concepts are understood.
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