I guess my real question was, what's so good about the SPARC. Or rather, the SPARC has a high reputation and a high price tag to boot - if it's good why is it so rare to actually find people using one? Or really, I hate IBM, apple is great but slowly diminshing, where can a bum (as in, no money) get something made with quality in mind without huge sums of money being involved. Sparc isn't the answer I know, but could it lead to one?
I actually paid for slackware. Not much tho.
I didn't like the idea of downloading 1200MB worth via a 56KBaud modem. Bad stuff indeed, especially when I pay 0.28 cents/meg over 300MB every month.
I've read all the above posts and although there is an aweful (truly) lot of rubbish up there, there's also some good pointers in it all. Here's some things I think they missed.
For the most part, I think there is an inate fear of somehow hurting an intellectually gifted child's learning, or muting it in some way. The trick to remember is he (or she), like every other child, 'is' intelligent and is capable to some degree of deciding what they do and don't want to learn. Discipline has only ever been meant for those times when a child makes a choice about their learning that is deemed 'inappropriate' by their peer/s.
The other trick is to let him/her 'learn from' you, and from what you have to offer (as little or great as that may be), rather than 'teach' them what you know.
The point made about not "diving in" to the most complex current technological (fad?) develepment/s is probably 100% correct. I've heard parents of gifted children being interviewed on TV saying they had made the mistake of putting their child too far up in their classes at school, so making the mistake of assuming the heightened intellectual level of the child will cope with anything presented to them is one easily avoidable. Start simple (grounding), let the kid learn from there.
Also there was another point made about getting the kid interacting with other kids his/her own age. Also another good idea I would think. Social contact would allow the "humanitarian" perspective to creep through, i.e. people are people and people need people no matter how intelligent this person or that person is. I would think this is the key to anyone's happiness. Other kids might learn something from this kid, and that can't be a bad thing (and vice versa).
Anyhow, I thought I'd throw that in there, since more than half of the posts above are total gibberish. Hope it provides a useful source of ideas!
Re:Why not? by DeeEm on Friday July 14, @03:59AM EDT
But the net SHOULD be free
I've always wondered where this philosophy comes from. Even in the grand ol' days of BBS's, they generally had a charge for full access. It takes money, but more so, time, to run something like a server box, no matter which platform. "The Internet" will never be free because it has the (ever increasing) commercial potential to it.
But I've also read somewhere that "The Internet" is not the only internet. So if you wanted a "Free" internet, you could potentially fool around with some already established protocols and some kind of multimedia formatting software and 'voila', there you have it, you very own internet for free.
Not many people have the ability, time, or inclination to do something like that though (laziness usually takes precedence to madness in my experience). But who knows?
Slashdot Mirror
It's still a rare thing in Aus. I've found one tho, but ADSL is coming out in a month, so why bother?
-JB
I guess my real question was, what's so good about the SPARC. Or rather, the SPARC has a high reputation and a high price tag to boot - if it's good why is it so rare to actually find people using one? Or really, I hate IBM, apple is great but slowly diminshing, where can a bum (as in, no money) get something made with quality in mind without huge sums of money being involved. Sparc isn't the answer I know, but could it lead to one?
-JB
I actually paid for slackware. Not much tho.
I didn't like the idea of downloading 1200MB worth via a 56KBaud modem. Bad stuff indeed, especially when I pay 0.28 cents/meg over 300MB every month.
So what does this mean for OSS and GNU? Another architecture conquered, but to what end?
I've read all the above posts and although there is an aweful (truly) lot of rubbish up there, there's also some good pointers in it all. Here's some things I think they missed.
For the most part, I think there is an inate fear of somehow hurting an intellectually gifted child's learning, or muting it in some way. The trick to remember is he (or she), like every other child, 'is' intelligent and is capable to some degree of deciding what they do and don't want to learn. Discipline has only ever been meant for those times when a child makes a choice about their learning that is deemed 'inappropriate' by their peer/s.
The other trick is to let him/her 'learn from' you, and from what you have to offer (as little or great as that may be), rather than 'teach' them what you know.
The point made about not "diving in" to the most complex current technological (fad?) develepment/s is probably 100% correct. I've heard parents of gifted children being interviewed on TV saying they had made the mistake of putting their child too far up in their classes at school, so making the mistake of assuming the heightened intellectual level of the child will cope with anything presented to them is one easily avoidable. Start simple (grounding), let the kid learn from there.
Also there was another point made about getting the kid interacting with other kids his/her own age. Also another good idea I would think. Social contact would allow the "humanitarian" perspective to creep through, i.e. people are people and people need people no matter how intelligent this person or that person is. I would think this is the key to anyone's happiness. Other kids might learn something from this kid, and that can't be a bad thing (and vice versa).
Anyhow, I thought I'd throw that in there, since more than half of the posts above are total gibberish. Hope it provides a useful source of ideas!
-JB
by DeeEm on Friday July 14, @03:59AM EDT
But the net SHOULD be free
I've always wondered where this philosophy comes from. Even in the grand ol' days of BBS's, they generally had a charge for full access. It takes money, but more so, time, to run something like a server box, no matter which platform. "The Internet" will never be free because it has the (ever increasing) commercial potential to it.
But I've also read somewhere that "The Internet" is not the only internet. So if you wanted a "Free" internet, you could potentially fool around with some already established protocols and some kind of multimedia formatting software and 'voila', there you have it, you very own internet for free.
Not many people have the ability, time, or inclination to do something like that though (laziness usually takes precedence to madness in my experience). But who knows?
Jedi BingleBop