I was at a steam powered festival this past weekend (Rough and Tumble near Lancaster, PA). There was a father or grandfather walking through with his children or grandchildren looking at all the neat steam powered devices. We were in a barn full of smaller engines, all whirring and puffing steam. Steam equipment generally needs to be oiled continually so there were gravity fed glass vials of oil all over the machine -- one of which was leaking slightly. The kid put out a finger to touch the trail of oil leaking down the side of the machine, and the adult said "You don't want to touch that, but if you feel you have to, go ahead and do it". The child paused and tapped the oil... and the very hot metal behind it. Minor burn and a major lesson.
Tiny lessons like this throughout childhood is what makes for responsible adults with common sense. Good to see that the schools have officially stated that they have no plans to teach responsibility, common sense, social skills or empathy, all lessions learned on the playground.
This was circa 1996/1997, and even then it was for the wrong reason. Some weird times there as companies scrambled for people who knew what they were doing and the tools to help them.
I remember attending the Microsoft presentation on the soon-to-be-released FrontPage and thinking it was the bees-knees.
Brief aside: all your points are good, and this is a very very minor correction: vim-gtk is available. I use Kubuntu and it installed without installing gnome. That minor point hardly contradicts (or even has much to do with) your other points.
MS FrontPage and all of its DAMN CAPS ON EVERY TAG meant I'd run it through HTML Tidy.
Brief aside: during the dot com webpage crunch we hired loads of "people who know html". We tried to keep enough knowledgeable web developers reviewing their work, but some odd ideas still slipped by. I watched somebody -- by hand -- converting all tags to lowercase because they "were smaller" and "would make the file size smaller and make the page load quicker". The guy was very proud of his "hand edited code".
Just out of curiosity, what packages do you need that Debian has and Ubuntu doesn't? Using Kubuntu, I compile only one app (MPlayer), other than the occasional svn checkout of a new program that somebody asked me to try. Both server (admittedly we've only switched over a couple internal servers to see how it does) and desktop provides pretty much everything I need other than bleeding edge RC and checkout stuff (which pretty much never falls under "need").
Honestly curious... it sounds like you could actually answer without (much) bias.
Also, "I don't really like sudo" is a perfectly acceptable answer. I hated it at first, but it has grown on me. Caveats with crontab, ssh and such apply, so it's a pain in the ass to relearn some pretty basic concepts that have applied (for me) for the past 20+ years. I can understand that one's choice of OS could easily be turned by that one difference.
--
Evan (I'm very parenthetical when I wake up, apparently)
Anybody over about 30 and many people over 20 who are learning their first instrument have to learn some pretty darn fundamental things. They aren't going to be able to get a groove or jam when they can't even keep a basic 4/4 beat. I've known plenty of people who couldn't separate out a Beatles bassline or find and keep the beat on a folk song. People who learned when they were kids or in their 20s have no problem whatsoever and can't understand that others just can't hear the fundamental basics of music. I grew up with a guitar playing father and learned the circle of fifths with my ABCs, but I recognize that many people who didn't have an interest in music early in their lives simply can't pick out individual instruments or the basic beat from even simple songs, or even tell a single note from harmony or a chord from a note.
We're not talking about a teenager learning guitar... this is a older person learning to play, quite possibly for the first time in their lives. If so, they've been ignoring the basic things about music since Lyndon B. Johnson was president and Woodstock was just a bird in a comic strip. There's no problem with that, but things that "cradle you" are often needed just to relearn and slowly internalize what a teenager or child can pick up very quickly right from music.
Exactly. It's just like all the people who have a bad girlfriend or boyfriend and then give up on sex and relationships. Clearly the single example determines the whole.
Um, what exactly is the story here? They talked about and researched the issue before issuing a recall. I have a feeling that could be said about every recall... pretty much every business action that occurs. Seldom are the dart or "mouse with ink on it's feet" methods used anymore. They were alerted to the problem, got confirmation and addressed the problem.
Ah, no worries then... I hesitated before replying and again before hitting Submit because I wasn't sure. I figured I'd toss it out there and at least someone would be educated.
I think I posted it without Karma Bonus. This one certainly is (and again makes me wish I could drop a "parent's eye's only" message into the thread).
On behalf of emacs users around the world, let me ask you to please stop your efforts... Caps Lock makes for such a perfect meta key when reassigned. It would be a crying shame if you were to persist and that lovely key, so large and handy and reassignable, were to disappear forever.
Yes, buying a Qtopia license will get you one -- after all, it's part of the QPE dev kit. Didn't mean to imply that you had to have a Qtopia license in the past to get one.
Actually, I've been curious as to if you get a dev license for Qtopia or just QPE. I've been ignoring the QPE stuff, and almost ignoring Qtopia; our shop only really uses Qt (although my iPaq runs Opie).
These are intended for the phone companies themselves. This is the development model to allow, say, Verizon to stamp their preferences and apps onto it. It is also for companies that develop cell phone applications. It's only available as part of the development kit... not for general use. That said, if you pop your SIM card in, it will likely work. Developer's reference models tend to be very non-carrier specific. Of course, you'll be gambling on that and also getting a phone that isn't intended for use by actual users.
Read the damn article. It's not available for "average 20 something" -- it includes *all* features because it's the developer's reference, and they need all the available features so they can develop for and test them. You won't be able to buy it alone... it's part of the Qtopia Phone Edition development kit. They will not, nor are they intending, to sell this to any member of the general public: This is for developers only; it is part of their developer kit.
Well, it's not intended for the mass market -- it's a reference implementation of the standard, a developer tool for testing. Somewhere out there you can buy Wii development hardware with flashable memory and all sorts of debuggers and such wired into it. I don't think that's comparable to what the Wii will be when it is released.
Presumably the actual mass market release will not have as malleable a system and be locked to a provider, etc. This, the phone intended for developers, isn't.
Considering it's a reference implementation, not an actual product, it makes sense to use the color as a version. Greenphone, a la Redbook (CD-audio standard). It makes it easy to refer to it in testing situations, which is what this phone is intended for (it's not a phone for users, just developers).
Problem is, I just don't see these taking off. [...] If these phones make it to market
If they make it to market, then a mistake was made... these are for developers, not the market. These are a reference model for QPE (Qtopia Phone Edition).
It doesn't matter -- it's a development device intended for developers, not a product for the general public. You'll likely not be able to get hold of one... unless you have a Qtopia License and/or are an active developer.
Some do, some don't. Some appear to and feed dirty power to the system (i.e., they aren't intended to run for extended periods without a working battery, even when they are plugged in). Very seldom is the information published about particular models. Although I'd question this; I'd imagine that they'd rather have some people fry their systems and replace them than have a battery explode after they had alerted the person.
I think he's come to terms with the fact that he was fifteen and the writers overused his character. His actual acting wasn't that bad -- and that's with him as a young'un actor next to the likes of Patrick Stewart. The recent stuff he's been in (the crazy homeless guy in CSI, for example) has been downright good. Wesley was a poorly handed character, but not due to Wheaton's performance.
Exactly. Protect the action (whistle blowing, publically announcing), not the person by virtue of their profession. I have no problem whatsoever with that (and that would suffice to protect most reporters, since they are commonly engaging in actions that are, in some cases, legally sheltered). There's also the issue that a grand jury is supposed to see absolutely everything including things that are not usable during the trial, but that's a different kettle of fish.
He bought a thousand dollar machine designed specifically to annoy other human beings. No other purpose -- it's marketed as a device to piss off fellow humans and get them to leave the area. Then he turned it on in his neighborhood. At that point, it's probably a bit past just asking him to turn it off.
Slashdot Mirror
Tiny lessons like this throughout childhood is what makes for responsible adults with common sense. Good to see that the schools have officially stated that they have no plans to teach responsibility, common sense, social skills or empathy, all lessions learned on the playground.
--
Evan
--
Evan
--
Evan
--
Evan
Brief aside: during the dot com webpage crunch we hired loads of "people who know html". We tried to keep enough knowledgeable web developers reviewing their work, but some odd ideas still slipped by. I watched somebody -- by hand -- converting all tags to lowercase because they "were smaller" and "would make the file size smaller and make the page load quicker". The guy was very proud of his "hand edited code".
--
Evan
Honestly curious... it sounds like you could actually answer without (much) bias.
Also, "I don't really like sudo" is a perfectly acceptable answer. I hated it at first, but it has grown on me. Caveats with crontab, ssh and such apply, so it's a pain in the ass to relearn some pretty basic concepts that have applied (for me) for the past 20+ years. I can understand that one's choice of OS could easily be turned by that one difference.
--
Evan (I'm very parenthetical when I wake up, apparently)
We're not talking about a teenager learning guitar... this is a older person learning to play, quite possibly for the first time in their lives. If so, they've been ignoring the basic things about music since Lyndon B. Johnson was president and Woodstock was just a bird in a comic strip. There's no problem with that, but things that "cradle you" are often needed just to relearn and slowly internalize what a teenager or child can pick up very quickly right from music.
--
Evan
--
Evan
So what exactly is the story?
--
Evan
I think I posted it without Karma Bonus. This one certainly is (and again makes me wish I could drop a "parent's eye's only" message into the thread).
--
Evan
--
Evan
--
Evan
Actually, I've been curious as to if you get a dev license for Qtopia or just QPE. I've been ignoring the QPE stuff, and almost ignoring Qtopia; our shop only really uses Qt (although my iPaq runs Opie).
--
Evan
Your call.
--
Evan "I wrote this just for that pun"
--
Evan
Presumably the actual mass market release will not have as malleable a system and be locked to a provider, etc. This, the phone intended for developers, isn't.
--
Evan
--
Evan
--
Evan
If they make it to market, then a mistake was made... these are for developers, not the market. These are a reference model for QPE (Qtopia Phone Edition).
--
Evan
--
Evan
--
Evan
--
Evan
--
Evan
--
Evan
--
Evan