If no one else has noticed, the world is AWASH in books. Technology has made book production so cheap that any idiot can publish a book.
Come to think of it, maybe this guy is onto something. With the price of firewood so high, maybe I can get a bunch of used books for less money to burn.
In this particular case, the freedom of civilization to live without states sponsoring radical terrorism.
The only freedom I see being protected by this war is the freedom for war profiteers to use the bodies of non-christians to increase the size of their bank account.
Some people certainly do, as is true in all wars (including WW/II, the war most people agree was necessary). The trouble with people like you is that you focus ONLY on that, rather than all the myriad, complex factors of the thing.
Tell me again why my bottle of water is a terrorist threat?
Because it's possible to mix two clear chemicals to produce a bomb. And before you link me to some idiot who says it isn't possible, John Carmack has actually demonstrated it using hydrogen peroxide (I'm too lazy to dig up the link, but he responded to someone else who said it wasn't possible).
And ask the average Iraqi citizen if they have more or less freedom under the Occupiers as opposed to under Saddam - you might be surprised.
The average Iraqi citizen doesn't have the faintest clue what freedom means after so many years of not having to think about it, particularly in a country with such a religion that dictates so many things. That said, it's interesting how many people voted in the election.
Anyway, there's a difference between security and freedom. Objectively, they certainly have more freedom. But many have a lot less security, so they'd probably say they are "worse off" now than they were before, which is completely different from freedom.
I have a feeling you're one of those people that would pull out the old quote of, "those who would trade freedom for security deserve neither." But apparently you believe that doesn't apply to the Iraqis, where you seem to think that having security is better than freedom.
(this will be my only post on the subject, since I don't want to get into yet another protracted debate that will go nowhere, so I will give you the last word, if you want it)
While they are not responsible for the policies they are being asked to enact, it hardly seems fitting to honor them for their sacrifice when we're looking at over a million dead Muslims by their hand.
A million? Why not use seven million in your delusion, then you'll be able to accuse the U.S. of killing more than the Jewish Holocaust.
And they certainly learned something from this: criticize people who have authority over you and you will be punished.
Oh please. You seriously think they were making a well considered, constructive criticism of the faculty? The little sh** wanted to humiliate his teacher so he could chortle with his cohorts. Frankly, I wouldn't be at all opposed to he and his parents getting sued by the teacher.
What he learned (or should have learned, at least) is that actions have consequences. And yes, civilization WILL punish you if you're an ass and affect the rights of others.
A fight is NOT a fight, a fight is a savage beating by an aggressor on a victim
You're talking about bullying, not fighting. Anyway, where did I say it shouldn't be punished? Of course it should.
But again, a fight affects two kids. This incident affected potentially hundreds of kids or however many were in all of this teacher's classes. Newsflash: Kids are at school to learn. Anything that interferes with learning in a significant way is a big problem.
Are you seriously saying that someone who beats the Hell out of a fellow human being deserves less punishment than someone who mocks another human being? You MUST be an American.
It's downright bizarre how quickly Europe forgets how bloodthirsty and savage they were for the last hundred years, while it was Americans who put troops in place -- at our expense -- to stop you from killing each other... but I digress.
But yes, a fight is a fight. Kids will be kids. But mocking the teacher and creating a disruption on this scale punishes every kid in that teacher's class, because she is a less effective teacher because of the humiliation and lack of respect. The kid is lucky he wasn't expelled, which in my view would be completely appropriate.
Exactly how I read this story. It seems to me that most of the complaints are not that "science" was removed from the exhibit, but that the exhibit isn't political enough!. They want people manipulated politically using "conclusions" that can't be reasonably drawn.
So yes, human tissue that contains water can absorb WiFi radiation. That is a fact.
Well, for loose definitions of "absorb", I suppose, which makes it sound like it makes human tissue radioactive, which it does not. Microwave ovens work by vibrating water molecules with the EM radiation. The worst a WiFi station will do is make your skin heat up a tiny amount (compare 750 watt microwave oven blasting into an enclosed chamber to 100 MW radiating in all directions).
What is not known is: how much absorption of that radiation is bad for the kids?
Right not, it simply is not cost effective to upgrade to Vista.
Oh? And why was it cost effective three years ago when XP came out? What's different? All the PHB needs to hear is "better security" (which is true, although not perfect).
Furthermore, since MSO2007 does not create documents in the file formats that the government accepts, there is no point to using MSO2007.
Vista is so disappointing that even the fanboys are ignoring it and sane people are forbiding it in their work places.
Where is this mass disappointment? It doesn't exist in the normal world. Sure, there's a lot of wishful thinking, but there's not exactly huge lines outside Best Buy returning Vista. Like I said, we had EXACTLY the same stories last time. "XP is getting slow adoption", "Everybody hates XP's new crayola user interface", "Even new computer manufacturers are offering Win/2000 or ME instead of XP", blah, blah, blah. I dare you -- look at some of the old stories on Slashdot and you'll read comments just like yours.
Only free software has long term credibility.
Software is software. No one in the mainstream cares what methodology was used to develop it, they only care how useful it is and what applications are available, and whether it's compatible with the software they already have.
Vista is a flop and will soon be replaced by something else, just like ME was replaced by W2K and W2K was replaced by XP.
Microsoft would take a "flop" like Vista every day of the week.
However, if Vista does not sell well, then a good number of us won't have to worry about touching it.
It doesn't matter how well Vista sells at the moment. It's inevitable that all new computers will sell Vista, just like it was inevitable that new computers sold XP. We had exactly these same stories when XP came out. After Vista achieves a critical mass and everyone is used to it, everyone else will slowly upgrade..
It is simply impossible in the current world that Vista won't eventually be the mainstream operating system, probably within a year, two at the outside.
Most artists hate people like you. I've heard it over and over in interviews... they want to create music that is more sophisticated and better represents their art and nature. The labels, knowing that the masses are ignorant alfalfa-chewing barbarians, make them produce a couple of simplistic heavy-beat pop songs. Then people like you complain that the whole album isn't simplistic pop songs.
Of course, there are exceptions (e.g., Pink Floyd NEVER wrote any pop songs, but occasionally one was close enough to play on the radio), but welcome to the world that you created.
Most of the stuff put out by the big labels is repetitive drivel, made to sound just right as to not offend anyone so they have the chance of the most people buying it.
Apparently you don't listen to classical music. Or classic rock, for that matter.
There's plenty of good music from independent labels.
How many runaway word-of-mouth successes have we had that aren't signed to major label? There's probably a couple of minor successes, but there's certainly no poster child for it. Let's face it, most amateur music is pretty bad, although I'm sure there are some out there that are worth listening to.
Money doesn't make good music, good musicians make good music.
Good musicians make good music -- in their studio (assuming they have good instruments). But money makes a good recording.
The reason that programming is the most important skill a child should be learning is that there will soon come a time when being able to 'talk to machines' by at least having mastery of a high level programming language will be a basic prerequisite to starting, managing, or working for a company.
That's like saying that since most people will drive to their jobs, everyone should be able to do automotive engineering.
That picture, to be completely honest, looks gifted to me. I still can't draw that well. (Or color, for that matter).
That's because you don't know the "magic secret" of drawing*. I used to totally suck at drawing, until I found The Book. See that picture on the cover? Any idiot can draw that picture in a couple of weeks to a month if you do the exercises and practice every day. People never believe me when I say this, but drawing from life is so easy that it'll piss you off that no one ever taught you how to do it properly. The book has tons before and after pictures of adults that went from pictures that looked like a 3-year-old did it to life-like drawings in two weeks. The lessons in this book are oriented toward adults and would be too tricky for small children, which is why I went seeking a book oriented toward kids (though, Drawing With Kids would work fine for adults as well).
*The magic secret is that drawing is learning how to see, not learning how to draw.
Why is only a small minority interested? Could it be that their interest has traditionally been inhibited by a lack of age-appropriate tools?
For the same reason that only a minority of kids are typically interested in building toys.
Why do you think art training is more important than computer training?
On the other hand, when it comes to art and drawing, it's nearly a universal desire among people to be able to draw competently. Art is a fundamental mechanism of the brain, unfortunately neglected in modern education.
As a creative outlet, Scratch appears to be as likely a candidate for inspiring creativity as any.
While I agree that programming can be quite creative, and I get a great deal of pleasure out of modeling abstract algorithms via programming, not that many people get any pleasure out of it. You seem to think that this has never been tried, yet it's tried every day. Most people HATE dealing with computers! Hell, they hate programming the clock on their VCR. They simply don't enjoy the process of expressing mechanical things as algorithms -- and that's fine! Not everybody enjoys classifying bugs and wants to be an entymologist, either.
Thank you! EXACTLY what I was going to post. Screw programming! Certainly kids who are interested in that should be encouraged, but it's a VERY small minority that have a true interest. There are far more important skills that we should be encouraging.
Such as? How about true art training? Studies (which I don't have a link to) have shown that kids that are taught to draw realistically tend to do better in ALL subjects, probably because of the quiet concentration that it requires. Kids as young as 4 or 5 can be taught to do realistic art, but even a lot of art schools don't do beginning classes until 8 or 9, and the closest typical schools get is just letting the kids slap paint on paper without any instruction at all. Only gifted people learn to play piano by banging keys, and only gifted people learn to draw by scribbling. Yet anyone can learn piano through instruction, and anyone can draw realistically through instruction as well.
Sorry for the pseudo-rant on art classes, but I've been looking for art instruction for my young children, and it's very difficult to find. I finally found great book and I'm doing it myself.:) Note the picture on the cover that was done by a non-gifted five year old, BTW.
Before I tell you what George Lucas said at the all-star Time magazine dinner for the 100 most influential people, let's cut to the chase: Cate Blanchett arrived and looked gorgeous. She looked completely unlike the picture that ran everywhere Tuesday that depicted her as an anorexic skeleton.
To paraphrase The Princess Bride, I don't think 'gorgeous' and 'anorexic' mean what you think they mean.
-shudder- That is one seriously disturbing picture.
Reduce theatre prices, as obviously people want to spend 80$ every time you take the kids to a show.
$80?? How many kids do you have?? The most I've ever seen a ticket price is $10, and it's typically around $8 where I live.
Now, let's really examine that $8. EIGHT FREAKING DOLLARS. To see a production that they possibly spent hundreds of millions of dollars to produce. Ever priced live theatre? The circus? A concert? Sports events?
It always floors me that people complain about the price of tickets. What, exactly, do you expect them to cost?
Now, granted, food is rip-off, but too many people feel that they're obligated to stuff their traps while being entertained. Sheesh, stop eating for a couple of hours. Trust me, you'll survive.
Score editing was going to be my big question, so thanks for pointing that out. Any other recommendations for that area? Anyone?
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the drm which is in there left and right adds additional processor cycles
Look, I know that DRM is really unpopular, but could we not have absolutely ridiculously stupid assertions like this that DRM is affecting everyting "left and right" and is somehow running down the battery in a noticeable way?
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If no one else has noticed, the world is AWASH in books. Technology has made book production so cheap that any idiot can publish a book.
Come to think of it, maybe this guy is onto something. With the price of firewood so high, maybe I can get a bunch of used books for less money to burn.
what freedoms are they fighting to protect
In this particular case, the freedom of civilization to live without states sponsoring radical terrorism.
The only freedom I see being protected by this war is the freedom for war profiteers to use the bodies of non-christians to increase the size of their bank account.
Some people certainly do, as is true in all wars (including WW/II, the war most people agree was necessary). The trouble with people like you is that you focus ONLY on that, rather than all the myriad, complex factors of the thing.
Tell me again why my bottle of water is a terrorist threat?
Because it's possible to mix two clear chemicals to produce a bomb. And before you link me to some idiot who says it isn't possible, John Carmack has actually demonstrated it using hydrogen peroxide (I'm too lazy to dig up the link, but he responded to someone else who said it wasn't possible).
And ask the average Iraqi citizen if they have more or less freedom under the Occupiers as opposed to under Saddam - you might be surprised.
The average Iraqi citizen doesn't have the faintest clue what freedom means after so many years of not having to think about it, particularly in a country with such a religion that dictates so many things. That said, it's interesting how many people voted in the election.
Anyway, there's a difference between security and freedom. Objectively, they certainly have more freedom. But many have a lot less security, so they'd probably say they are "worse off" now than they were before, which is completely different from freedom.
I have a feeling you're one of those people that would pull out the old quote of, "those who would trade freedom for security deserve neither." But apparently you believe that doesn't apply to the Iraqis, where you seem to think that having security is better than freedom.
(this will be my only post on the subject, since I don't want to get into yet another protracted debate that will go nowhere, so I will give you the last word, if you want it)
Fair enough, but unless you hang out with 60 or so peeps you're not guaranteed to have seen one.
OK, I know math isn't everyone's best subject, but... sheesh.
(60 doesn't 'guarantee' you anything, it only increases the odds. Neither does 100. or 1,000.)
While they are not responsible for the policies they are being asked to enact, it hardly seems fitting to honor them for their sacrifice when we're looking at over a million dead Muslims by their hand.
A million? Why not use seven million in your delusion, then you'll be able to accuse the U.S. of killing more than the Jewish Holocaust.
Long story short (too late), I never got the laptop fixed.
Too late now, but drag their ass into small claims court. They'll probably settle and fix the laptop just so they don't have send a manager to court.
And they certainly learned something from this: criticize people who have authority over you and you will be punished.
Oh please. You seriously think they were making a well considered, constructive criticism of the faculty? The little sh** wanted to humiliate his teacher so he could chortle with his cohorts. Frankly, I wouldn't be at all opposed to he and his parents getting sued by the teacher.
What he learned (or should have learned, at least) is that actions have consequences. And yes, civilization WILL punish you if you're an ass and affect the rights of others.
A fight is NOT a fight, a fight is a savage beating by an aggressor on a victim
You're talking about bullying, not fighting. Anyway, where did I say it shouldn't be punished? Of course it should.
But again, a fight affects two kids. This incident affected potentially hundreds of kids or however many were in all of this teacher's classes. Newsflash: Kids are at school to learn. Anything that interferes with learning in a significant way is a big problem.
Are you seriously saying that someone who beats the Hell out of a fellow human being deserves less punishment than someone who mocks another human being? You MUST be an American.
It's downright bizarre how quickly Europe forgets how bloodthirsty and savage they were for the last hundred years, while it was Americans who put troops in place -- at our expense -- to stop you from killing each other... but I digress.
But yes, a fight is a fight. Kids will be kids. But mocking the teacher and creating a disruption on this scale punishes every kid in that teacher's class, because she is a less effective teacher because of the humiliation and lack of respect. The kid is lucky he wasn't expelled, which in my view would be completely appropriate.
Exactly how I read this story. It seems to me that most of the complaints are not that "science" was removed from the exhibit, but that the exhibit isn't political enough!. They want people manipulated politically using "conclusions" that can't be reasonably drawn.
So yes, human tissue that contains water can absorb WiFi radiation. That is a fact.
Well, for loose definitions of "absorb", I suppose, which makes it sound like it makes human tissue radioactive, which it does not. Microwave ovens work by vibrating water molecules with the EM radiation. The worst a WiFi station will do is make your skin heat up a tiny amount (compare 750 watt microwave oven blasting into an enclosed chamber to 100 MW radiating in all directions).
What is not known is: how much absorption of that radiation is bad for the kids?
Actually, that is known: exactly none.
Right not, it simply is not cost effective to upgrade to Vista.
Oh? And why was it cost effective three years ago when XP came out? What's different? All the PHB needs to hear is "better security" (which is true, although not perfect).
Furthermore, since MSO2007 does not create documents in the file formats that the government accepts, there is no point to using MSO2007.
Au contraire, Office has a plugin for ODF.
Vista is so disappointing that even the fanboys are ignoring it and sane people are forbiding it in their work places.
Where is this mass disappointment? It doesn't exist in the normal world. Sure, there's a lot of wishful thinking, but there's not exactly huge lines outside Best Buy returning Vista. Like I said, we had EXACTLY the same stories last time. "XP is getting slow adoption", "Everybody hates XP's new crayola user interface", "Even new computer manufacturers are offering Win/2000 or ME instead of XP", blah, blah, blah. I dare you -- look at some of the old stories on Slashdot and you'll read comments just like yours.
Only free software has long term credibility.
Software is software. No one in the mainstream cares what methodology was used to develop it, they only care how useful it is and what applications are available, and whether it's compatible with the software they already have.
Vista is a flop and will soon be replaced by something else, just like ME was replaced by W2K and W2K was replaced by XP.
Microsoft would take a "flop" like Vista every day of the week.
However, if Vista does not sell well, then a good number of us won't have to worry about touching it.
It doesn't matter how well Vista sells at the moment. It's inevitable that all new computers will sell Vista, just like it was inevitable that new computers sold XP. We had exactly these same stories when XP came out. After Vista achieves a critical mass and everyone is used to it, everyone else will slowly upgrade..
It is simply impossible in the current world that Vista won't eventually be the mainstream operating system, probably within a year, two at the outside.
Oh, and have more than 1 good song on them.
Most artists hate people like you. I've heard it over and over in interviews... they want to create music that is more sophisticated and better represents their art and nature. The labels, knowing that the masses are ignorant alfalfa-chewing barbarians, make them produce a couple of simplistic heavy-beat pop songs. Then people like you complain that the whole album isn't simplistic pop songs.
Of course, there are exceptions (e.g., Pink Floyd NEVER wrote any pop songs, but occasionally one was close enough to play on the radio), but welcome to the world that you created.
Most of the stuff put out by the big labels is repetitive drivel, made to sound just right as to not offend anyone so they have the chance of the most people buying it.
Apparently you don't listen to classical music. Or classic rock, for that matter.
There's plenty of good music from independent labels.
How many runaway word-of-mouth successes have we had that aren't signed to major label? There's probably a couple of minor successes, but there's certainly no poster child for it. Let's face it, most amateur music is pretty bad, although I'm sure there are some out there that are worth listening to.
Money doesn't make good music, good musicians make good music.
Good musicians make good music -- in their studio (assuming they have good instruments). But money makes a good recording.
The reason that programming is the most important skill a child should be learning is that there will soon come a time when being able to 'talk to machines' by at least having mastery of a high level programming language will be a basic prerequisite to starting, managing, or working for a company.
That's like saying that since most people will drive to their jobs, everyone should be able to do automotive engineering.
That picture, to be completely honest, looks gifted to me. I still can't draw that well. (Or color, for that matter).
That's because you don't know the "magic secret" of drawing*. I used to totally suck at drawing, until I found The Book. See that picture on the cover? Any idiot can draw that picture in a couple of weeks to a month if you do the exercises and practice every day. People never believe me when I say this, but drawing from life is so easy that it'll piss you off that no one ever taught you how to do it properly. The book has tons before and after pictures of adults that went from pictures that looked like a 3-year-old did it to life-like drawings in two weeks. The lessons in this book are oriented toward adults and would be too tricky for small children, which is why I went seeking a book oriented toward kids (though, Drawing With Kids would work fine for adults as well).
*The magic secret is that drawing is learning how to see, not learning how to draw.
Why is only a small minority interested? Could it be that their interest has traditionally been inhibited by a lack of age-appropriate tools?
For the same reason that only a minority of kids are typically interested in building toys.
Why do you think art training is more important than computer training?
On the other hand, when it comes to art and drawing, it's nearly a universal desire among people to be able to draw competently. Art is a fundamental mechanism of the brain, unfortunately neglected in modern education.
As a creative outlet, Scratch appears to be as likely a candidate for inspiring creativity as any.
While I agree that programming can be quite creative, and I get a great deal of pleasure out of modeling abstract algorithms via programming, not that many people get any pleasure out of it. You seem to think that this has never been tried, yet it's tried every day. Most people HATE dealing with computers! Hell, they hate programming the clock on their VCR. They simply don't enjoy the process of expressing mechanical things as algorithms -- and that's fine! Not everybody enjoys classifying bugs and wants to be an entymologist, either.
Thank you! EXACTLY what I was going to post. Screw programming! Certainly kids who are interested in that should be encouraged, but it's a VERY small minority that have a true interest. There are far more important skills that we should be encouraging.
Such as? How about true art training? Studies (which I don't have a link to) have shown that kids that are taught to draw realistically tend to do better in ALL subjects, probably because of the quiet concentration that it requires. Kids as young as 4 or 5 can be taught to do realistic art, but even a lot of art schools don't do beginning classes until 8 or 9, and the closest typical schools get is just letting the kids slap paint on paper without any instruction at all. Only gifted people learn to play piano by banging keys, and only gifted people learn to draw by scribbling. Yet anyone can learn piano through instruction, and anyone can draw realistically through instruction as well.
Sorry for the pseudo-rant on art classes, but I've been looking for art instruction for my young children, and it's very difficult to find. I finally found great book and I'm doing it myself. :) Note the picture on the cover that was done by a non-gifted five year old, BTW.
Before I tell you what George Lucas said at the all-star Time magazine dinner for the 100 most influential people, let's cut to the chase: Cate Blanchett arrived and looked gorgeous. She looked completely unlike the picture that ran everywhere Tuesday that depicted her as an anorexic skeleton.
To paraphrase The Princess Bride, I don't think 'gorgeous' and 'anorexic' mean what you think they mean.
-shudder- That is one seriously disturbing picture.
Reduce theatre prices, as obviously people want to spend 80$ every time you take the kids to a show.
$80?? How many kids do you have?? The most I've ever seen a ticket price is $10, and it's typically around $8 where I live.
Now, let's really examine that $8. EIGHT FREAKING DOLLARS. To see a production that they possibly spent hundreds of millions of dollars to produce. Ever priced live theatre? The circus? A concert? Sports events?
It always floors me that people complain about the price of tickets. What, exactly, do you expect them to cost?
Now, granted, food is rip-off, but too many people feel that they're obligated to stuff their traps while being entertained. Sheesh, stop eating for a couple of hours. Trust me, you'll survive.
Score editing was going to be my big question, so thanks for pointing that out. Any other recommendations for that area? Anyone?
the drm which is in there left and right adds additional processor cycles
Look, I know that DRM is really unpopular, but could we not have absolutely ridiculously stupid assertions like this that DRM is affecting everyting "left and right" and is somehow running down the battery in a noticeable way?
Sheesh.
Ebay didn't kill anyone, sheesh
In all fairness, the submitter didn't imply eBay killed the students, he's only implying that Meg Whitman killed them. :)
Does anyone have good recs for free (or low cost) sheet music editors?