I have heard the same things during meetings. However these were not things that must be done, they were recommendations for maintaining a conservative government. If anyone was telling you to vote for a particular candidate they were out of line. As you know the main principal of the LDS church is the freedom to choose. And the Church's official policy is not to dictate political views from the pulpit. This is a choice that is left to the individual.
I am LDS and I didn't like it in Utah either. I found intolerance as well. This is the fault of imperfect people, not a religion.
Being a fairly conserative LDS I can tell you that even though your choice of lifestyle might not be something that I would like, I have no right to attack you for it. I have no right butting into your life and anyone who claims to be LDS and does either of these things is a hypocrite! We have conservative views, but we are not perfect. I think that we sometimes forget that.
The blurring of church and state is also a misperception. The LDS church by and large stays out of the political arena. There have been times that when laws that have been very important to religious freedoms have been up for approval that that the church has gotten more involved. This aside the official directive that we are given is to try and influence the political process through the voting procedures in our area. The Laws that people are having difficulty with were made by conservative law-makers who might have been LDS, not by the LDS church.
I work with people from many different walks of life, and I show each of them the same respect. I consider many of these people to be friends even though many of us have different views on sensitive subjects. I am sorry that you have not met more LDS people who share my views. That is unfortunate for them and you.
Please, in the future don't place us all in the basket of intolerance. Even though tolerance is one of our most important ideals, we are still human.
I have been using Slack on x86 for about 1-1/2 years (ever since Redhat released 6.0). I love it! I love my sparc station, but I am not crazy about Debian or RedHat and up till now the only other choice was rolling your own.
In Houston, TX there is a trio of Apartment
complexes that are all linked via an OC3. Each
Apartment can have either a 10mbps or a 100mbps
connection and either 1 or 2 static IP addresses.
(You can buy more if you like.) In addition each
room in every apartment is wired for cat-5 utp
ethernet cable.
A couple of years ago I bought an AST (don't ask me why..). With it came a Disaster recovery disk and a 'Windows Companion CD' which was nothing more than a neutered Windoze Ninety Five... no installation program.
When I got sick of the AST pulled everything useful from and tried to use it to build a generic machine, your guessed it, the disaster recovery disk would only work with an AST.
And people wonder why only my wifes machine has windoze on it. That makes three out of four machine running Linux. Give me time.....
If you want a well known opinion on the subject I suggest that you start with How to become a hacker.
As for my own opinion.... I am not sure that starting off with something as high level as Mindstorm is such a good idea. This may create a level of expectation that might be unreasonable. They may get the idea that that is the way that programming is.
I have to admit that this is an uninformed opion as to Mindstorm, I have only read about it. But my impression is that this is something that is easy to use and simple to see results. Although this can sometimes be true of general programming, it is more often a painstaking process that requires patience and careful planning. And the results are not always readily seen.
The instant gratification that a tool like this might bring is the same idea that promotes Visual Basic and similiar products (Before you flame me know that I am currently a professional VB programmer). Rapid is the watchword with these environments. These products have their place, but it is not what I recommend to a beginner and it is not what I learned with. I was fluent in (vanilla) BASIC, Pascal and C before I got indepth with VB. I cannot tell you how much knowing those languages help me in my career and in my learning VB. I do not use them on a daily basis in my professional career, but the concepts and knowledge of the underlying structure are of immeasurable value.
One thing that you can point out to these kids is that 90% of games that are written are written in C. If they truly want to follow in your footsteps and be a *nix guru then C is almost a prerequisite.
If you do use something like Mindstorm to teach only use it to teach the basic concepts. The one thing that I don't think you would want to happen is for them to become trapped in a single language or platform. I know programmers that have no knowledge of C. While this does not currently hurt their professional careers, I can clearly see a difference in the quality of their programming with those who do understand the underlying structure of the systems that they work on, the knowledge that intimate knowledge of C brings.
Whatever you do, teach them well. Teach them to write quality code. And for the sake of all that is good and just teach them to think outside of the box! These are the programmers that are going to shape the technological world in the coming decades.
Actually the Air Force has an Adaptive Optics Telescope called the Starfire Range that can see the shuttle and mir and anything else in orbit with surprising clarity. I saw the photos and they are quite good.
When I was in high school I was one of the kids that would have been caught in this net. I was a loner/misfit that hung out with other loner/misfits at lunch and no other time. I burried my head in a computer or model plane whenever I could. I wore unpopular clothes due to my parents limited income. Due to my large stature and gentle nature and the aforementioned 'social handicaps' (for lack of a better phrase) I was often the subject or various forms of abuse by class bullies, jocks, popular kids.
I also suffered with sleep deprivation due to sleep apnea and had yet another condition which impedded my ability to retain information. (I had scored genius level on many tests I just had a difficult time grasping and retaining new concepts.) This affected my grades quite severly at times.
I was never violent to others, in fact I would run from a fight. I was not dangerous to anyone. Yet I am sure that I would have been snared by this program.
As a result of all of the above I suffered from depression on a regular basis. I have since with the help of kind and generous parents and a loving wife recovered from all of these things and am living a happy life.
My point in telling you this?
Due to the above I feel that I have a firm grasp on this issue. Viewing this problem from my perspective I can't help but think that this is a knee jerk reaction to a deep-seated problem. I also can't help but think that this is treating a symptom and ignoring the disease.
If you really want to make good use of those dollars then try doing something intelligent with them. The root of the problem is that these kids that you consider dangerous are really just looking for acceptance.
If you recall the targets of the Collumbine massacre they were jocks and popular kids. I feel that I can confidently say that these kids who commited these acts of violence were suffering from a severe form of feeling rejected by their peers. I also recall that the parents clained complete had no idea that their children were capable of this behavior, and also clained ignorance to the materials used in the events that were being stored in their garage.
Oh Please. Any parents (I am a parent) that do not keep tabs on their children and try to stay actively involved in their lives are asking for trouble.
You want a solution? Try this.
Train the parents. Teach them to teach their children kindness, tolerance and patience. Children need to be taught tolerance and patience at the very youngest of ages, as soon as they can even begin to understand. Before that (and during) the parents need to set an example of moral and tolerant behavior, so that the children have an example to learn from.
Children need alot of attention, but instead of giving it to them the people in this country have a tendency to stick them in front of a TV or game machine or pawn them off on our friends and neighborsor or baby sitters, when instead they need a good game of catch or to have them read a story too, or even help with their homework, or even just simply be listened to.
What is needed is to retrain this culture to get away from selfish attitudes. Parents need to be selfless with their time and heart with their children and children need to be taught to be selfless and tolerant with/of each other. If this had been done with the students that were on both sides of the violence in Colorado the violence would never have happened. The jocks/popular kids would never have been cruel and intolerant and the perpetrators of the violence would have had a strong enough moral compass to know that violence against another human being is just plain wrong.
And for those of you who are saying 'what about defending yourself against an attacker?' I will defend myself and my family from violence, but consider this: what if the attacker had been taught the values from an early age and had a good example of it in their lives? Would they have been an attacker then?
Parents! Teach your children! Do not pawn them off on someone/something else! If you do not then the fault is yours and yours alone!
This program is not the solution. It's the beginning of new problems.
I once read what I thought was an excellent explanation of the Quantum Processing theory, I'll try to reproduce it here.
Imagine an office building in which there is a single briefcase in one of the offices. It is not known which one.
In order to find the briefcase you would have to search room by room until it was found.
This is the way that modern computer systems work.
Now imagine if you were to temporarily produce clones of yourself whose count match the exact number of rooms in the building. Each of them could stand outside a room and all of them enter their room simultaneously. Then cause all of the clones that did not find the briefcase to disappear leaving only the clone with the find.
This is how I understand Quantum Computer to work.
The quantum states of n qubits are combined to produce 2^n unique simultaneous results. Then only the result that is correct is caused to remain.
Now for a Practical Application besides code breaking.
What about a memory system? If it was a 64 qubit system the following could take place:
Determine the address of the memory location by masking out the high order (HO) double word (dw)of the system, thereby determining the address in the low order (LO) dw, and mask out the LO dw to retrieve the instruction or data in the HO dw stored at that address.
If my understanding of the qubit system is correct then the only limit on the amount of memory in the system would be the address bus of the CPU. There would be no need for an array of memory cells ('chips') a single qubit register would provide all of the memory locations needed.
This assumes that the CPU processes 32 bit data and uses 32 bit addresses.
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I have heard the same things during meetings. However these were not things that must be done, they were recommendations for maintaining a conservative government. If anyone was telling you to vote for a particular candidate they were out of line. As you know the main principal of the LDS church is the freedom to choose. And the Church's official policy is not to dictate political views from the pulpit. This is a choice that is left to the individual.
I am LDS and I didn't like it in Utah either. I found intolerance as well. This is the fault of imperfect people, not a religion.
Being a fairly conserative LDS I can tell you that even though your choice of lifestyle might not be something that I would like, I have no right to attack you for it. I have no right butting into your life and anyone who claims to be LDS and does either of these things is a hypocrite! We have conservative views, but we are not perfect. I think that we sometimes forget that.
The blurring of church and state is also a misperception. The LDS church by and large stays out of the political arena. There have been times that when laws that have been very important to religious freedoms have been up for approval that that the church has gotten more involved. This aside the official directive that we are given is to try and influence the political process through the voting procedures in our area. The Laws that people are having difficulty with were made by conservative law-makers who might have been LDS, not by the LDS church.
I work with people from many different walks of life, and I show each of them the same respect. I consider many of these people to be friends even though many of us have different views on sensitive subjects. I am sorry that you have not met more LDS people who share my views. That is unfortunate for them and you.
Please, in the future don't place us all in the basket of intolerance. Even though tolerance is one of our most important ideals, we are still human.
I have been using Slack on x86 for about 1-1/2 years (ever since Redhat released 6.0). I love it! I love my sparc station, but I am not crazy about Debian or RedHat and up till now the only other choice was rolling your own.
This is gonna be great!
In Houston, TX there is a trio of Apartment
complexes that are all linked via an OC3. Each
Apartment can have either a 10mbps or a 100mbps
connection and either 1 or 2 static IP addresses.
(You can buy more if you like.) In addition each
room in every apartment is wired for cat-5 utp
ethernet cable.
There are even hookups outside by the pool.
Walden Apartments
A couple of years ago I bought an AST (don't ask me why..). With it came a Disaster recovery disk and a 'Windows Companion CD' which was nothing more than a neutered Windoze Ninety Five... no installation program.
When I got sick of the AST pulled everything useful from and tried to use it to build a generic machine, your guessed it, the disaster recovery disk would only work with an AST.
And people wonder why only my wifes machine has windoze on it. That makes three out of four machine running Linux. Give me time.....
If you want a well known opinion on the subject I suggest that you start with How to become a hacker.
As for my own opinion.... I am not sure that starting off with something as high level as Mindstorm is such a good idea. This may create a level of expectation that might be unreasonable. They may get the idea that that is the way that programming is.
I have to admit that this is an uninformed opion as to Mindstorm, I have only read about it. But my impression is that this is something that is easy to use and simple to see results. Although this can sometimes be true of general programming, it is more often a painstaking process that requires patience and careful planning. And the results are not always readily seen.
The instant gratification that a tool like this might bring is the same idea that promotes Visual Basic and similiar products (Before you flame me know that I am currently a professional VB programmer). Rapid is the watchword with these environments. These products have their place, but it is not what I recommend to a beginner and it is not what I learned with. I was fluent in (vanilla) BASIC, Pascal and C before I got indepth with VB. I cannot tell you how much knowing those languages help me in my career and in my learning VB. I do not use them on a daily basis in my professional career, but the concepts and knowledge of the underlying structure are of immeasurable value.
One thing that you can point out to these kids is that 90% of games that are written are written in C. If they truly want to follow in your footsteps and be a *nix guru then C is almost a prerequisite.
If you do use something like Mindstorm to teach only use it to teach the basic concepts. The one thing that I don't think you would want to happen is for them to become trapped in a single language or platform. I know programmers that have no knowledge of C. While this does not currently hurt their professional careers, I can clearly see a difference in the quality of their programming with those who do understand the underlying structure of the systems that they work on, the knowledge that intimate knowledge of C brings.
Whatever you do, teach them well. Teach them to write quality code. And for the sake of all that is good and just teach them to think outside of the box! These are the programmers that are going to shape the technological world in the coming decades.
Actually the Air Force has an Adaptive Optics Telescope called the Starfire Range that can see the shuttle and mir and anything else in orbit with surprising clarity. I saw the photos and they are quite good.
I also suffered with sleep deprivation due to sleep apnea and had yet another condition which impedded my ability to retain information. (I had scored genius level on many tests I just had a difficult time grasping and retaining new concepts.) This affected my grades quite severly at times.
I was never violent to others, in fact I would run from a fight. I was not dangerous to anyone. Yet I am sure that I would have been snared by this program.
As a result of all of the above I suffered from depression on a regular basis. I have since with the help of kind and generous parents and a loving wife recovered from all of these things and am living a happy life.
My point in telling you this?
Due to the above I feel that I have a firm grasp on this issue. Viewing this problem from my perspective I can't help but think that this is a knee jerk reaction to a deep-seated problem. I also can't help but think that this is treating a symptom and ignoring the disease.
If you really want to make good use of those dollars then try doing something intelligent with them. The root of the problem is that these kids that you consider dangerous are really just looking for acceptance.
If you recall the targets of the Collumbine massacre they were jocks and popular kids. I feel that I can confidently say that these kids who commited these acts of violence were suffering from a severe form of feeling rejected by their peers. I also recall that the parents clained complete had no idea that their children were capable of this behavior, and also clained ignorance to the materials used in the events that were being stored in their garage.
Oh Please. Any parents (I am a parent) that do not keep tabs on their children and try to stay actively involved in their lives are asking for trouble.
You want a solution? Try this.
Train the parents. Teach them to teach their children kindness, tolerance and patience. Children need to be taught tolerance and patience at the very youngest of ages, as soon as they can even begin to understand. Before that (and during) the parents need to set an example of moral and tolerant behavior, so that the children have an example to learn from.
Children need alot of attention, but instead of giving it to them the people in this country have a tendency to stick them in front of a TV or game machine or pawn them off on our friends and neighborsor or baby sitters, when instead they need a good game of catch or to have them read a story too, or even help with their homework, or even just simply be listened to.
What is needed is to retrain this culture to get away from selfish attitudes. Parents need to be selfless with their time and heart with their children and children need to be taught to be selfless and tolerant with/of each other. If this had been done with the students that were on both sides of the violence in Colorado the violence would never have happened. The jocks/popular kids would never have been cruel and intolerant and the perpetrators of the violence would have had a strong enough moral compass to know that violence against another human being is just plain wrong.
And for those of you who are saying 'what about defending yourself against an attacker?' I will defend myself and my family from violence, but consider this: what if the attacker had been taught the values from an early age and had a good example of it in their lives? Would they have been an attacker then?
Parents! Teach your children! Do not pawn them off on someone/something else! If you do not then the fault is yours and yours alone!
This program is not the solution. It's the beginning of new problems.
I once read what I thought was an excellent explanation of the Quantum Processing theory, I'll try to reproduce it here.
- -----------------|
- -LO--------------|
Imagine an office building in which there is a single briefcase in one of the offices. It is not known which one.
In order to find the briefcase you would have to search room by room until it was found.
This is the way that modern computer systems work.
Now imagine if you were to temporarily produce clones of yourself whose count match the exact number of rooms in the building. Each of them could stand outside a room and all of them enter their room simultaneously. Then cause all of the clones that did not find the briefcase to disappear leaving only the clone with the find.
This is how I understand Quantum Computer to work.
The quantum states of n qubits are combined to produce 2^n unique simultaneous results. Then only the result that is correct is caused to remain.
Now for a Practical Application besides code breaking.
What about a memory system? If it was a 64 qubit system the following could take place:
Determine the address of the memory location by masking out the high order (HO) double word (dw)of the system, thereby determining the address in the low order (LO) dw, and mask out the LO dw to retrieve the instruction or data in the HO dw stored at that address.
Pardon my ascii art.
|-------------------------------64-------------
|---------------HO---------------||------------
|-------Instruction / Data---------||------------Address-----------|
If my understanding of the qubit system is correct then the only limit on the amount of memory in the system would be the address bus of the CPU. There would be no need for an array of memory cells ('chips') a single qubit register would provide all of the memory locations needed.
This assumes that the CPU processes 32 bit data and uses 32 bit addresses.