myth: "no school shootings in Canada"
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I've seen several postings now along the lines of "Canada has never had a school (mass) shooting". Not true. A few years ago a young man went rampant in a girls' polytechnical school in Montreal and killed 22. Unless we're saying post-secondary institutions aren't 'schools', Canada by no means has a clean record. Albeit a much smaller one.
I think your first point: No emotional connection to other students is right on the mark. I doubt they had much emotional connection to themselves either though. I'd like to point people to a book by Daniel Goleman called Emotional Intelligence. Some of Goleman's inspiration/push for researching and writing this book was seeing the growing trends of agression and depression in society, especially in schools. What we've just seen Colorado is an extension of these trends. Emotional Intelligence @ Google
Self moderation is a good idea. It should be expanded to include all users. The poster should not be able to rank their own message higher than their current default though.
multitasking, no. Old games, yes. Ability to actually _do_ something when windoze corrupts the registry (again), yes. I just wish NT had a similar front door.:) Hey in a year or two I won't need to use windows at all, only doors.
can be set be editing c:\msdos.sys and changing the 1 to 0 in the line:
LoadGUI=1
(may be spelled wrong, I'm going from memory) This also enables you to resume a command line session by typing Mode co80 at the "you may shut your computer off now" screen. Also, add the line Logo=0 to msdos.sys to get rid of that stupid splash screen. BTW, this all works in w95, I've not tried it on 98.
And even though there is a lot of good stuff that comes from AC posts, they'll get adjusted as moderators read them and up their status...
Assuming the moderators are reading the AC posts -- ie, they would not be using the cool rating system. Which in IMO would suck, cause I like it. Perhaps there could be a simple auto-rating procedure based on number of bytes (most interesting comments are not one liners) which could bump the score up enough to catch a moderators attention.
I see a lot of comments of the theme "RMS is just whining 'cause he's not getting enough credit."
That may or may not be true, but it is really besides the point. There is a deeper reason for RMS trying for brand-name inclusion. He is scared to his bones that the ideal he has strived so hard and so long for will get sloughed off. From where I sit, that fear is valid.
Personally, I say "Linux" because everybody else does and it's easier to say. If somebody can come up with an ingenious new label which can match "linux" for simplicity and honour the myriad of contributors, I'll use it. But to be honest, I don't think it'll happen. Something like that has to be spontaneous, not calculated.
RMS' battle to include GNU in the brand name will not be won. But maybe there's another way to honour it's spirit.
If Yahoo reveals the registration info on the user name, wouldn't that leave Yahoo wide open to a class action suite from all users for revealing so-called confidential information?
Maybe David Brin was right, the only security is in no privacy for _anyone_. Scary.
>But can you really modify these electronic books >without damaging their value?
Well, no, because it's the original author's skill and method of expression which is valuable. Which is exactly why I think it's possible to publish in hardcopy (and make some money) and in electrons (and have information be free).
There's nothing wrong with selling books. There is something wrong selling books about free software, when the text of those books are not free (in the sense of freedom).
Shakespeare & Mark Twain is on the net for anybody to download and play with. I still have both of them on hardcopy, which I purchased,in my library because I *prefer* books.
There's nothing wrong with selling books. There is something wrong selling books about free software, when the text of those books are not free (in the sense of freedom).
Shakespeare & Mark Twain is on the net for anybody to download and play with. I still have both of them on hardcopy in my library because I *prefer* books.
If you create something because you love to, because it inspires you, the creation will be superior.
The degree of elegance and artistry in a (so called) finished program will be directly related to the degree of freedom and heart involvement experienced by the developers in creating it.
Whether or not a program is commercial or open is actually irrelevant. It's just that, generally speaking, a commercial environment is less conducive to following your bliss. Some people are lucky enough to get paid what they love to do. Most are not. If we as a society can learn how to redress that balance, things will change. I'm hoping the GNU/Linux/OSS movement can help do that.
On their feedback page, the written email address (unix-webmaster@compaq.com) is wrong -- messages bounce. However the feedback mailto: link (unix-webmaster@digital.com) seems to work -- no reply yet, but no bounce either.
DK-96 in Japan is the first (that I know of) completely computer generated character. FF's version is definately higher quality, but then DK-96 is going on 3 years old.
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I've seen several postings now along the lines of "Canada has never had a school (mass) shooting". Not true. A few years ago a young man went rampant in a girls' polytechnical school in Montreal and killed 22. Unless we're saying post-secondary institutions aren't 'schools', Canada by no means has a clean record. Albeit a much smaller one.
I think your first point: No emotional connection to other students is right on the mark. I doubt they had much emotional connection to themselves either though. I'd like to point people to a book by Daniel Goleman called Emotional Intelligence. Some of Goleman's inspiration/push for researching and writing this book was seeing the growing trends of agression and depression in society, especially in schools. What we've just seen Colorado is an extension of these trends. Emotional Intelligence @ Google
I'd like to the Submit script to hand me back to comments when processed. Currently I have to 'back' three or four times or return to the index.
Thanks,
-matt
Self moderation is a good idea. It should be expanded to include all users. The poster should not be able to rank their own message higher than their current default though.
-matt
multitasking, no. Old games, yes. Ability to actually _do_ something when windoze corrupts the registry (again), yes. I just wish NT had a similar front door. :) Hey in a year or two I won't need to use windows at all, only doors.
I also want to see the stories which get 'slashed' :-) I'll admit to ulterior motive, only one of my suggestions made it to the front page.
This also enables you to resume a command line session by typing Mode co80 at the "you may shut your computer off now" screen. Also, add the line Logo=0 to msdos.sys to get rid of that stupid splash screen. BTW, this all works in w95, I've not tried it on 98.
Each downward moderation should have a REASON tagged onto it.. ...just wanted to add my vote for this feature.
the New Copyleft License. Bowerbird changed it after going through a few rounds of flak here on /.
I just made it in.
yeah, I'd like to know that too.
we need annotated versions of all of these licenses in a centralized place, managed by a real lawyer Hear! Hear!
I see a lot of comments of the theme "RMS is just whining 'cause he's not getting enough credit."
That may or may not be true, but it is really besides the point. There is a deeper reason for RMS trying for brand-name inclusion. He is scared to his bones that the ideal he has strived so hard and so long for will get sloughed off. From where I sit, that fear is valid.
Personally, I say "Linux" because everybody else does and it's easier to say. If somebody can come up with an ingenious new label which can match "linux" for simplicity and honour the myriad of contributors, I'll use it. But to be honest, I don't think it'll happen. Something like that has to be spontaneous, not calculated.
RMS' battle to include GNU in the brand name will not be won. But maybe there's another way to honour it's spirit.
Anybody have ibm email address we can express our dissatisfaction with this kind of license to?
thanks! that worked for me too.
Also: the quickest way to order the boxes is to add-save them one at a time, in the order you want.
cheers!
me too! It doesn't seem to matter how many boxes I check, even just one won't work.
(currently) NT4.0sp4, Netscape4.5, behind a firewall.
If Yahoo reveals the registration info on the user name, wouldn't that leave Yahoo wide open to a class action suite from all users for revealing so-called confidential information?
Maybe David Brin was right, the only security is in no privacy for _anyone_. Scary.
is molecular expressions:l
http://www.micro.magnet.fsu.edu/micro/gallery.htm
>But can you really modify these electronic books
>without damaging their value?
Well, no, because it's the original author's skill and method of expression which is valuable. Which is exactly why I think it's possible to publish in hardcopy (and make some money) and in electrons (and have information be free).
There's nothing wrong with selling books. There is something wrong selling books about free software, when the text of those books are not free (in the sense of freedom).
Shakespeare & Mark Twain is on the net for anybody to download and play with. I still have both of them on hardcopy, which I purchased,in my library because I *prefer* books.
There's nothing wrong with selling books. There is something wrong selling books about free software, when the text of those books are not free (in the sense of freedom).
Shakespeare & Mark Twain is on the net for anybody to download and play with. I still have both of them on hardcopy in my library because I *prefer* books.
The main theme as I see it:
If you create something because you love to, because it inspires you, the creation will be superior.
The degree of elegance and artistry in a (so called) finished program will be directly related to the degree of freedom and heart involvement experienced by the developers in creating it.
Whether or not a program is commercial or open is actually irrelevant. It's just that, generally speaking, a commercial environment is less conducive to following your bliss. Some people are lucky enough to get paid what they love to do. Most are not. If we as a society can learn how to redress that balance, things will change. I'm hoping the GNU/Linux/OSS movement can help do that.
My 2 cents.
On their feedback page, the written email address (unix-webmaster@compaq.com) is wrong -- messages bounce. However the feedback mailto: link (unix-webmaster@digital.com) seems to work -- no reply yet, but no bounce either.
DK-96 in Japan is the first (that I know of) completely computer generated character. FF's version is definately higher quality, but then DK-96 is going on 3 years old.
http://www.dhw.co.jp/horipro/ta lent/DK96/index_e.html