My experience says that it's the female sex drive that ceases.
Besides, I don't see an issue: I have my account on the computer, she has hers.... She doesn't know my password. I surf anything I want and she won't know.
Every user on a computer should have their own account... no excuses...
What is funny to me (European talking here). There is no such thing as sick time. If there were, you would be stupid not to take sick time from time to time just to get what you have right to,
But what ticks me off is when I roll into work 30 minutes "late" the next day and it's like "Oh look, weave is rolling in late again."
Nagios wakes me up in the night too...but nobody says a thing when I show up at 11am... I do stay till 19h30 though, just because it's the right think to do.
Today people are more interested in getting expensive vehicles and status symbols than caring for their children.
I am seeing this from a perspective from where getting a place of your own is pretty much impossible if you're single income. What I have noted is that many do get expensive cars, because it is way easier than get a house/apartment because those are out of price. If you have to pay of over 50% of you income to get a place of your own, it is better to rent and live large. Those people say: better live well, I can't do anything more anyway. It is in a way understandable, but because of the way the real estate is priced, their salaries are high enough to do extravagant thing, but housing is beyond extravagant.
With the story you tell, I get the impression that both your siblings had the potential to go to college/university but they lacked the ambition and drive to do so.
My brother: not in a cold day in hell. He's a nice guy, but he couldn't have ever. He knows that, my parents know that and are broken because of that. (Not really, they got to learn to live with it but as a firstborn and with their herdedity/background they expected him to be capable). I could explain you, but this has no place in a public forum, I'm sorry.
My sister... Yes, probably she could have. Definitely not hard sciences, but economics or so would have been possible. Her temperament and music talent however pushed her in another direction. However, if you want to go sound engineer you need a sound base of physics and she didn't have that. Our schooling system is very unforgiving. You fail the higher levels and you drop down never to get up again. I know, I have been a teacher for a while and I remember one teacher conference where one of the kids was elegible to be promoted to the higher levels and pretty much the teachers agreed on "we have the right to have a bright student too"... Completely fucking up her future... (Not really, she had plenty of options, but not all the options) My sister preferred to party and only after graduating she started to realise what she did. Even today, she says to me "if only I had applied myself more". That boat has sailed by now.
It is unfortunate that most middle class kids have the potential but not the drive.
Unfortunately, yes... This is the case of my sister, but not the case of my brother. With my sister she had the drive once she could study what she wanted, but the skills lacked. It is much harder to fix up your holes in education later, than to have your education right from the beginning.
On the other hand, she has a much better social life than I do. That counts for something too, doesn't it?
It is ironic for me that the persons who should actually get children (well off college educated people) are the ones that are the least likely to get children.
Why is this ironic? It is logical. I personally have been married for four years and sometimes we would like to have children. However, we want them to get the best chances and the best environment we can give them. This requires money. So, we first build up what we can. Saving up for a house for example (housing where I live is still horribly expensive). While you can raise a child in a one bedroom apartment, it really isn't what you want to do.
So we wait.... Educated people in general are able to plan their future and also not overstress the resources at their disposal. Sure, with my income it is most likely possible to have ten children or so, if you all give them just enough to live on. Is that really what you want to do to your children?
Besides, one thing to consider. Having educated parents doesn't guarantee that the children will be educated. You can give try to give them a healthy interest in science, maths, arts, literature and whatever you can come up with. It may or may not work. My parents found this out the hard way. Both my dad and mom have University degrees and their first born (my brother) was abysmal at school. He never got any degree (unless you count the painter -not art- apprenticeship he did). My parents had a real hard time accepting that their kid was never going to be as educated as them. I, the second in line was much better at school and I have the University degree to prove it (and the well paying job I now have). The last kid, my sister, managed a high school diploma. I think she could have done better, but she was more interested in partying and socializing. She did do a sound engineer study, but only got the certificate of attendance not the diploma.
We all turned out well, it's not that. My brother is a bus driver and does his job well and earns a decent living. My sister has a sound engineer job, but often has to work as a stage hand if there is a certified sound engineer available.
Of course, my family is not the rule. An uncle of mine has six kids (neither parent had a University degree, but both had done superior studies) and all of their kids have either superior studies or University degrees.
I do this with generic x86 hardware and OpenBSD. Yes, it is not automatic, but I prefer a certain degree of control. Currently, I'm migrating from an AMD64 3000+/2Gig RAM to a Soekris box. I don't need all that power, but I found the AMD in a dumpster, but I probably paid it already several time in power-bills.
So firefox doesn't take three to five seconds to load? That's what it does on Debian. I still wonder what I did wrong. (I made some changes within thunderbird to make the compose message window more usable, but for the rest not much)
I'm also an 701 4G owner. I upgraded it to 2GB RAM, but in hindsight that was not necessary. However, there are a few things that annoy me a lot at this netbook (and I like that netbook, really)
Battery life. Not to mention that if you put it in sleep, it eats 10% per hour.
Performance. I know this is only a 900MHz Celeron, but I have used a P-III 600MHz laptop that was more responsive (albeit that one ran Window). It insists on clocking itself down to 630MHz. I have a cron job which checks it every 5 minutes and sets it back to 900MHz, but that's just a hack. Do note that if you let it do what it wants, it doesn't affect battery life.
Screen size.... I think the 900s were better, using the whole space. 800x480 is just barely enogh. I find myself using Firefox in full screen (F11) pretty much all the time.
The operating system. I used the preinstalled Xandros for a long time. It was fine and ran reasonably fast and supported the hardware well. Alas, Asus doesn't update it well, the repositories were pretty much horrible. I opted for Debian Lenny to have a way out. Debian Lenny is very slow on it, even though I use LXDE. I'm still looking to find a better operating system.
It's fun to have it, and neat to have around, but I wouldn't call it sufficient. I like my netbook, but I wouldn't recommend the 701 to anyone except hardcore geeks who can live with its shortcomings.
I just want to say that there is a big difference in statement between "a teenager sneaking to his daughters room" than a "a naked teenager high on acid and potentially dangerous sneaking to his daughters room"
The first one definitely implies that it's harmless (what teenager didn't sneak to the room of his teenage-love?). Being shot in that context is a world of a difference than being shot in the case what you described. Your original post, however, implied the harmless version.
Oh, and just for the record. The guy being black was totally irrelevant and you could have left it out. The fact that you didn't leave it out tells a lot more about you than you think. (Including even the typical "I have friends of all races", how cliché )
Not really... They kick out drivers where the firmware need to be uploaded.... That's fine for a laptop, but when I'm installing blades, I don't want to mess with firmware and have to create new initrd's just because.
Believe me, you dont learn a new keyboard in 30 seconds.. more like 3 days for just so/so speed
Actually, it's more or less 20 minutes. I live in a country where AZERTY (two varieties, the FR an de BE) and QWERTZ (two varieties, the DE and the CH-FR, CH-DE - which are essentially the same) are all common. As a computer geek, I also have the typical American Model M with US layout and I often set it to US-International which is yet another adaptation. I switch around between them on a daily base and usually the q/a w/z/y errors only occur in the first 20 minutes.
Just a simple run-through of what I have in my household:
My netbook, ordered in Germany (cheapest place I could get it) is QWERTZ
My personal laptop. Bought when on sale, they only had the AZERTY version (BE variety)
Wifes computer is QWERTZ with my account set to CH-FR and hers set to CH-DE
My desktop is QWERTY with US International
Now, learning a drastically different layout like Dvorak or something not based on QWERTY, now that's going to take more time. Switching between the related ones, not so.
The "pointing" problem isn't restricted to kids.... I witnessed it many times with adults too. (Not on TVs but on LCD screens, but it's a similar problem).
Absolutely... I pointed out the fact that older TVs are recycled specifically for console gaming in another in another post somewhere here.
It's the same problem that BlueRay faces.... You spend a lot on a player (or console in this case) and it then becomes pretty much mandatory to shell out even more to actually make it useful on a new TV.
It's a very costly upgrade.... 1000€ is a lot of money for an average family.
I haven't seen one in use either since around the same year.
TVs have lifespans in the range of 10 years. So, you'd expect to see SDTV still in use in 2016 or later. Yes, they are still around, even if not sold anymore.
In my in-law family, I can only think of two families that bought HDTV sets. One of those SDTV sets serve now.... as output screens for the kids consoles.... The other is simply used as a TV in a different room.
I have no HDTV, my parents have no HDTV, my sister has no HDTV.... The only one actually having a HDTV in my close family is my brother, and only because he's just moved out from my parents and, well, that's typically when you buy your own TV.
Try to explain me why I should replace a perfectly working SDTV bought in 2004.... I do not see a good reason except for throwing away money. The TV cost about 1000€ back then. Which boils down to about 17€ per month. If I keep it another 5 years, the cost per month will be about 8€. The longer I keep it, the longer those 1000€ have been useful to me.
almost every TV set sold today is able to have a better picture quality than the classic PAL or NTSC
I bolded the text that is relevant here. I bought my TV in 2004 and it's a 82cm 16:9 CRT TV. That still cost a lot of money back then and HDTVs were either cost prohibitive or simply not sold yet (I really wouldn't know). A TV, to me, as the lifespan in the range of a decade... and if it doesn't break: much longer. There are still people, like me, who do not toss away "older" gear, just because something newer is out. The TV is still good, I can watch Cable, I can play with my PS2 and I can play DVDs.
I sure hope there still are a lot of people like me.
Finally: it is true, that if my TV would break, I wouldn't bother to bring it to repairs. That said: I wonder how long the lifespan is of those new fancy flat HDTVs. Their longevity hasn't been proven yet.
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How are you going to explain that if you want to sell that house???
Two words: "Guest Account"
I do not get this, in the day and age of computers that are finally pretty much all multi-user capable... nobody uses it.
My experience says that it's the female sex drive that ceases.
Besides, I don't see an issue: I have my account on the computer, she has hers.... She doesn't know my password. I surf anything I want and she won't know.
Every user on a computer should have their own account... no excuses...
What is funny to me (European talking here). There is no such thing as sick time. If there were, you would be stupid not to take sick time from time to time just to get what you have right to,
Nagios wakes me up in the night too...but nobody says a thing when I show up at 11am... I do stay till 19h30 though, just because it's the right think to do.
I am seeing this from a perspective from where getting a place of your own is pretty much impossible if you're single income. What I have noted is that many do get expensive cars, because it is way easier than get a house/apartment because those are out of price. If you have to pay of over 50% of you income to get a place of your own, it is better to rent and live large. Those people say: better live well, I can't do anything more anyway. It is in a way understandable, but because of the way the real estate is priced, their salaries are high enough to do extravagant thing, but housing is beyond extravagant.
My brother: not in a cold day in hell. He's a nice guy, but he couldn't have ever. He knows that, my parents know that and are broken because of that. (Not really, they got to learn to live with it but as a firstborn and with their herdedity/background they expected him to be capable). I could explain you, but this has no place in a public forum, I'm sorry.
My sister... Yes, probably she could have. Definitely not hard sciences, but economics or so would have been possible. Her temperament and music talent however pushed her in another direction. However, if you want to go sound engineer you need a sound base of physics and she didn't have that. Our schooling system is very unforgiving. You fail the higher levels and you drop down never to get up again. I know, I have been a teacher for a while and I remember one teacher conference where one of the kids was elegible to be promoted to the higher levels and pretty much the teachers agreed on "we have the right to have a bright student too"... Completely fucking up her future... (Not really, she had plenty of options, but not all the options) My sister preferred to party and only after graduating she started to realise what she did. Even today, she says to me "if only I had applied myself more". That boat has sailed by now.
Unfortunately, yes... This is the case of my sister, but not the case of my brother. With my sister she had the drive once she could study what she wanted, but the skills lacked. It is much harder to fix up your holes in education later, than to have your education right from the beginning.
On the other hand, she has a much better social life than I do. That counts for something too, doesn't it?
Why is this ironic? It is logical. I personally have been married for four years and sometimes we would like to have children. However, we want them to get the best chances and the best environment we can give them. This requires money. So, we first build up what we can. Saving up for a house for example (housing where I live is still horribly expensive). While you can raise a child in a one bedroom apartment, it really isn't what you want to do.
So we wait.... Educated people in general are able to plan their future and also not overstress the resources at their disposal. Sure, with my income it is most likely possible to have ten children or so, if you all give them just enough to live on. Is that really what you want to do to your children?
Besides, one thing to consider. Having educated parents doesn't guarantee that the children will be educated. You can give try to give them a healthy interest in science, maths, arts, literature and whatever you can come up with. It may or may not work. My parents found this out the hard way. Both my dad and mom have University degrees and their first born (my brother) was abysmal at school. He never got any degree (unless you count the painter -not art- apprenticeship he did). My parents had a real hard time accepting that their kid was never going to be as educated as them. I, the second in line was much better at school and I have the University degree to prove it (and the well paying job I now have). The last kid, my sister, managed a high school diploma. I think she could have done better, but she was more interested in partying and socializing. She did do a sound engineer study, but only got the certificate of attendance not the diploma.
We all turned out well, it's not that. My brother is a bus driver and does his job well and earns a decent living. My sister has a sound engineer job, but often has to work as a stage hand if there is a certified sound engineer available.
Of course, my family is not the rule. An uncle of mine has six kids (neither parent had a University degree, but both had done superior studies) and all of their kids have either superior studies or University degrees.
I do this with generic x86 hardware and OpenBSD. Yes, it is not automatic, but I prefer a certain degree of control. Currently, I'm migrating from an AMD64 3000+/2Gig RAM to a Soekris box. I don't need all that power, but I found the AMD in a dumpster, but I probably paid it already several time in power-bills.
Last.fm is pretty useless for pretty much everyone on this world.
InfraRecorder: Fully OpenSource.
On Windows, Ghostscript and RedMon does the job too. Just a bit more work.
So firefox doesn't take three to five seconds to load? That's what it does on Debian. I still wonder what I did wrong. (I made some changes within thunderbird to make the compose message window more usable, but for the rest not much)
It's fun to have it, and neat to have around, but I wouldn't call it sufficient. I like my netbook, but I wouldn't recommend the 701 to anyone except hardcore geeks who can live with its shortcomings.
I just want to say that there is a big difference in statement between "a teenager sneaking to his daughters room" than a "a naked teenager high on acid and potentially dangerous sneaking to his daughters room"
The first one definitely implies that it's harmless (what teenager didn't sneak to the room of his teenage-love?). Being shot in that context is a world of a difference than being shot in the case what you described. Your original post, however, implied the harmless version.
Oh, and just for the record. The guy being black was totally irrelevant and you could have left it out. The fact that you didn't leave it out tells a lot more about you than you think. (Including even the typical "I have friends of all races", how cliché )
And you find that okay? I'm not even going into the psychological damage that girl got when a friend (not even lover) got killed in front of her eyes.
Not really... They kick out drivers where the firmware need to be uploaded.... That's fine for a laptop, but when I'm installing blades, I don't want to mess with firmware and have to create new initrd's just because.
It's a bit disconcerting the first time, but if you switch regularly it's not really a big deal.
Actually, it's more or less 20 minutes. I live in a country where AZERTY (two varieties, the FR an de BE) and QWERTZ (two varieties, the DE and the CH-FR, CH-DE - which are essentially the same) are all common. As a computer geek, I also have the typical American Model M with US layout and I often set it to US-International which is yet another adaptation. I switch around between them on a daily base and usually the q/a w/z/y errors only occur in the first 20 minutes.
Just a simple run-through of what I have in my household:
Now, learning a drastically different layout like Dvorak or something not based on QWERTY, now that's going to take more time. Switching between the related ones, not so.
(Typed on an AZERTY)
And noone would be surprised that it survived so far into the future. Probably Scottys grandkids are still going to be able to use it....
Where are touchscreens prominent, except on the iPhone?
The "pointing" problem isn't restricted to kids.... I witnessed it many times with adults too. (Not on TVs but on LCD screens, but it's a similar problem).
Absolutely... I pointed out the fact that older TVs are recycled specifically for console gaming in another in another post somewhere here.
It's the same problem that BlueRay faces.... You spend a lot on a player (or console in this case) and it then becomes pretty much mandatory to shell out even more to actually make it useful on a new TV.
It's a very costly upgrade.... 1000€ is a lot of money for an average family.
TVs have lifespans in the range of 10 years. So, you'd expect to see SDTV still in use in 2016 or later. Yes, they are still around, even if not sold anymore.
In my in-law family, I can only think of two families that bought HDTV sets. One of those SDTV sets serve now.... as output screens for the kids consoles.... The other is simply used as a TV in a different room.
I have no HDTV, my parents have no HDTV, my sister has no HDTV.... The only one actually having a HDTV in my close family is my brother, and only because he's just moved out from my parents and, well, that's typically when you buy your own TV.
Try to explain me why I should replace a perfectly working SDTV bought in 2004.... I do not see a good reason except for throwing away money. The TV cost about 1000€ back then. Which boils down to about 17€ per month. If I keep it another 5 years, the cost per month will be about 8€. The longer I keep it, the longer those 1000€ have been useful to me.
I bolded the text that is relevant here. I bought my TV in 2004 and it's a 82cm 16:9 CRT TV. That still cost a lot of money back then and HDTVs were either cost prohibitive or simply not sold yet (I really wouldn't know). A TV, to me, as the lifespan in the range of a decade... and if it doesn't break: much longer. There are still people, like me, who do not toss away "older" gear, just because something newer is out. The TV is still good, I can watch Cable, I can play with my PS2 and I can play DVDs.
I sure hope there still are a lot of people like me.
Finally: it is true, that if my TV would break, I wouldn't bother to bring it to repairs. That said: I wonder how long the lifespan is of those new fancy flat HDTVs. Their longevity hasn't been proven yet.
It doesn't... :-(