Do you think that once OSX arrives on the scene with a UNIX ¥or UNIX-like environment LinuxPPC will suffer any loss of users? --
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This reminds me of what seems to be happening to the French language here in Canada. Works like "hotdog", "hamburger" ect not to mention the huge number of computer-related buzzwords and jargon have successfully entered the language.
(Of course, this is exactly the kind of thing that the language police are trying to stop...)
If you look at it closely, this kind of thing is how languages eveolve. Rarely do you see one tongue uninfluenced by any others. Granted, this might be being... excelerated.... by the dominance of the culture which uses English, but I still think that this is quite natural.
Is this going to be like the "paperless workplace" they promised us? Will we just get more wires (in form of hubs, wiring our houses so devices work all over, ect) as wireless becomes more prevolent?
If/as technology like this becomes more common-place, you'd begin to see people using it to make ice cubes and such.
heheeh
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Video games in school = Bad Idea
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But most education and media institutions still refuse to take this new form of culture seriously, dismissing videogamers as either a trifling teen entertainment, or a corrosive influence on young minds. They also refuse to recognize that the compulsively entertaining and stimulating nature of games makes schools and other environs seem boring, even suffocating.
Well, DUH. And it's better that way. When adults try to make school exciting, all you end up with is a class full of bored kids mocking the way things are being done.
The fact is that some things are just boring. Solving linear algebraic equasions will always be boring (I'm talking about the general population here -- of course there are some who are lucky enough to be interested in this stuff). And if they managed to make a videogame that was non-lame, succeeded at teaching, et al, then regular video games would have to get much better in response.
Besides, I'm sure the problem isn't that the teachers "refuse to recognise" how much some kids are into gaming, it's just that they realise this is not an effective medium for this sort of thing.
Also, I'd like to note that I hate video games. I find them so intolerable boring that if we were made to play them at school, I'd do worse then I already do.:-)
I think this would be a useful widget, but I don't think it should be required by law. Personally, I *like* the idea of being able to retrive things I accidentally delete. It seems to me that this guy is trying to make a name for himself, or perhpas go down in history as some sort of high-tech law maker, standing up for the common man, et al.
This also makes one wonder what this judge has been doing on his computer to want to do this...;) --
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If they can alter code written for an Intel box, could they also potentially alter code for say a PPC prog, so you could run (real, not softPC) Windows and (real) Mac OS on the same machine? Some sort of double boot could be possible....
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Perhaps, rather than suing the company for money, they should try and force them to institute some program to fight racism©
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Here in Ontario we chicks got that right a couple of years ago with much ado from feminists and horny guys© I don't know what that says about quality of living, but I know what it says about that stance we take towards personal freedoms© ;
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I tried changing them in the user info page, but they come back© :¥ They're supposed to be periods© For me, they come out as % A 9 ¥with spaces ni there so the browser doesn't turn them into another wierd charector©
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Do you think that once OSX arrives on the scene with a UNIX ¥or UNIX-like environment LinuxPPC will suffer any loss of users?
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whoops, I guess my html didn't work properly, because the URL didn't come out for that FAQ©:
U NI X_Linux_ect/comp©security©unix_and_comp©security©m isc_FAQ©txt
http://cognosco©datablocks©net/txt/OS_Specific/
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¥but they DID make it seem as if there were, didn't they?
[1] - Yes, that was a shameless plug for my website© :-
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From my experience, the types of people who use Linux and who are involved in Open Source tend to be the type to try out new software just for the thrill of learning it© People who don't want to try new things generally stick with Windows©
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This reminds me of what seems to be happening to the French language here in Canada. Works like "hotdog", "hamburger" ect not to mention the huge number of computer-related buzzwords and jargon have successfully entered the language.
(Of course, this is exactly the kind of thing that the language police are trying to stop...)
If you look at it closely, this kind of thing is how languages eveolve. Rarely do you see one tongue uninfluenced by any others. Granted, this might be being ... excelerated.... by the dominance of the culture which uses English, but I still think that this is quite natural.
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Cognosco: (Latin) To examine, enquire, learn
this is like the article that was in wired a while back about that old artificial island in the north seas.
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This is so stupid...
I'm glad I live in Canada. :)
Aside from that, I really don't think government should regulate "morality" at all.
What's that saying?... ah, yes:
"If electricity comes from electrons, then does morality come from morons?"
;)
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Is this going to be like the "paperless workplace" they promised us? Will we just get more wires (in form of hubs, wiring our houses so devices work all over, ect) as wireless becomes more prevolent?
hmmm.....
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Cognosco: (Latin) To examine, enquire, learn
If/as technology like this becomes more common-place, you'd begin to see people using it to make ice cubes and such.
heheeh
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Cognosco: (Latin) To examine, enquire, learn
But most education and media institutions still refuse to take this new form of culture seriously, dismissing videogamers as either a trifling teen entertainment, or a corrosive influence on young minds. They also refuse to recognize that the compulsively entertaining and stimulating nature of games makes schools and other environs seem boring, even suffocating.
Well, DUH. And it's better that way. When adults try to make school exciting, all you end up with is a class full of bored kids mocking the way things are being done.
The fact is that some things are just boring. Solving linear algebraic equasions will always be boring (I'm talking about the general population here -- of course there are some who are lucky enough to be interested in this stuff). And if they managed to make a videogame that was non-lame, succeeded at teaching, et al, then regular video games would have to get much better in response.
Besides, I'm sure the problem isn't that the teachers "refuse to recognise" how much some kids are into gaming, it's just that they realise this is not an effective medium for this sort of thing.
Also, I'd like to note that I hate video games. I find them so intolerable boring that if we were made to play them at school, I'd do worse then I already do. :-)
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Cognosco: (Latin) To examine, enquire, learn
I think this would be a useful widget, but I don't think it should be required by law. Personally, I *like* the idea of being able to retrive things I accidentally delete. It seems to me that this guy is trying to make a name for himself, or perhpas go down in history as some sort of high-tech law maker, standing up for the common man, et al.
;)
This also makes one wonder what this judge has been doing on his computer to want to do this...
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That would be sweet.
GWEN