he true purpose of schooling, according to Gatto, is to produce an easily manageable workforce to serve employers in a mass-production economy. Actual education is a secondary and even counterproductive result since educated people tend to be more difficult to control.
I could agree with this, were my school more like a trade school, which it wasn't. Most of my elementary and later teachers actually encouraged some level of independent thinking and creativity -- others were often astounded whenever a student thought of 'the third way' One particularly poor teacher, 2nd grade, seemed only there for the money or until she could get somewhere else -- I was frequently on her bad side and grew to loathe school, prefering to be tardy by as much as 2 hours roaming woods and poking around a creek for frogs and snakes.
I'm more likely to believe the role of schools in NYC was to keep the little animals manageable by compressing their little minds into a one-size-fits-all mould.
I'd later find I had a very high IQ and did exceptionally well in college, after graduating highschool only by the merest of threads.
If you have a kid and your kid seems disinterested or hostile about going to school, you might consider getting more involved and learn about the teacher and the school. At an early age contending with a poor teacher can have a lifelong impact.
I come here for politics. I for one think this section kicks ass-I've been waiting for something like this for some time. Tried Plastic, couldn't get into it, tried Kuro5hin, couldn't get into it, hopefully this will be better:)
You might want to visit CostCo first and stock up on Tin Foil.
"You are under arrest, please come along quietly."
"I haven't done anything! What am I being charged with?"
"We can't tell you."
"What about my Miranda rights?"
"Ok, you may or may not be under arrest."
"I want to contact my lawyer."
"Sorry, where you're going to be held no lawyers are permitted."
"What?!? You can't do that!"
"Ah, but we can and have, it's for the good of the country, you'll understand."
"Oh, well, if it's for the good of the country... but..."
"But what?"
"The country is not the government, but people like me, how can the people be arrested and tried in secrecy for their own good?"
"You ask too many question *fwit*"
"What did you just do?"
"I played the Patriot Card, by questioning the policies and actions of the goverment you're patriotism is now officially called into doubt!"
"Unbelievable!"
"It's a brave new world."
"I'll still need to let my family know I've been arrested."
"Sorry, can't let you do that, either, it might endager their patriotism."
"How?"
"If they feel the same way about this as you, they may call us into question, thus jeopardizing their standing as patriots."
"Um, how is that again?"
"It's for their own good, you see? We need to take you in and not have our policies and procedures called into question."
"Well why am I being taken in?"
"Ok, just between you and me, you'll probably be charged with possible subversion."
"For what?"
"For questioning your arrest."
"Ah."
"Come along now, we have a nice prison to keep you in."
"It's not one of those horrid places, is it?"
"Oh, no, this is run by Halliburton, it's very nice."
Please note, I am not a 'furriner', but I think it would be cool to have coverage of other elections.
I have no issue with the flag being the logo, I just felt that is sort of provided an answer to my question before asking.
I just wanted confirmation of my suspicions.
I think if we included even a few other nations into a prospective mix here we could see the politics section eclipse the rest of slashdot. We see 'free speech' and 'intellectual property' items from the globe, but I do wonder what kind of scope we're supposed to expect here, i.e. the recent pissing contest over Bush's lack of Vietnam service (which a chunk of was actually spent on political campaigns) and the questions over Kerry's medals -- which I feel strongly about, but feel also has no place on slashdot. I don't come here for politics.
having it around pushes Congress to fund something simpler and cheaper.
The way I understand it, later this week GWBush will personally take credit for the hurricane not destroying the shuttles and reinforcing his vision that everything is going to plan and, heck, we'll be landing on Mars any day now.
(We'd be on Mars now, if the probes real intent, to find oil, had discovered anything, it's truly amazing how fast Halliburton can move when properly informed in advance while potential competitors have to scurry to come up with a plan)
...it would act as kind of a DDoS attack against their process, with the two pronged effect of getting the ISPs completely irritated at having to deal with hundreds or thousands of C&D's that are all groundless - which would hopefully lead to the ISPs either ignoring them, or lobbying for some kind of law that restricts their behaviour
[To borrow a bit]
``And how many guys zilched out?''
``Two grillion, m'lud.''
Yeah, that'd get an ISP, legal clerk or judge thinking there's some sort of problem here.
Is ANYONE that's gotten one of these ever going to call them on this bullshit and have them sent to jail for perjury?
I'm actually pretty jealous they get these kinds of things. I should put up a page on my site with some old junk files, like resumees or code from old projects tar'd and gz'd and see if I can attract one of these fine letters. I feel it's important to be the first one on my block to receive and frame one of these masterpieces, before all you other weasels realize what fun this could be and set up your own web pages with likenamed and structured directories and files.
Suppose after they've spun tens of thousands of these things they might realize they're on the wrong track with automating such a lame process?
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You seem utterly clueless.
Oh, really? Let me disect your arguments...
The power rating of the PSU is how much power it *can deliver*, not how much it will drain from the grid just because you plug it in.
Right, but if you could get by on 100 watts, or less, then why do you need 350, 400, 500, or larger PSU? Because you will need most of that and the remainder is a safety margin or room to expand. The fact remains your box draws more power than your monitor, by a large margin. It's power you didn't consume before PC's got nice and fast and hot. My Apple ][, C64 and first PC drew, combined, under 200 watts.
And fans draw practically no power at all, maybe one or two watts, so I don't see why you drag them into the discussion...
Practically nothing + practically nothing + practically nothing + nth practically nothing, it adds up. Each fan draws at least a watt, the inefficiences of converting 115 VAC to the various voltages and currents required for all the little DC items in that box, furthered by the switching power supplies on board, plus all those chips, even the ones I'm not using but are wired in and consume power anyway, all add up. Each memory module, each hard drive, each LED, and so on, all contribute to consuming power. I know my powerbill doubled after I built my home PC and it's not even overclocked (declocked a bit actually) and I can put my hand behind the PSU fan and feel that warm air coming out as anecdotal eveidence that AC current is being converted to heat somwhere in the box.
Maybe you don't pay for the power your personal machine uses, that doesn't mean you aren't using any.
If you're interested in using less power, get something with a Transmeta CPU or other CPU which is low power and minimize the features and components of your computer. And by all means, turn the damn thing off when you're not using it.
WMP10 is for PCs, but they timed its release to coincide with the launch of Windows Mobile Portable Media Center.
And their online music store.
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100+ watt CRT versus 30 watt LCD monitor
It's not the CRT, look at your freaking PSU, how many watts is that sucker? Why do you need 1 fan for CPU, 1 fan for GPU, 1 fan PSU and possibly a few more to move more air through to move air through the box. Heck, mine might as well say HOOVER on the front.
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I'll take the 10 megawatts model for my house.
Considering my last power bill, these bigger and faster CPUs really need some juice and if you go multicore and such, you may not be exaggerating. All this bitching about nuclear power being safe, pollution from Coal and Gas plants, how ineffective Solar or Wind are -- doesn't anyone realize we're using more electrical power than ever before? Even when we have vaccum tube TV's?
Looking at the octopi at work and around home it seems my next house should have powerstrips along the walls, not just outlets.
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Just add C4, Dynamite or Fuel and Fertilizer if you're really hard up.
Leaving a nuclear reactor in a developing country
I trust this means stable and reasonably secure developing country.
Some of us have learned some things in the last few years. Some of us have learned a lot
in the last 72 hours.:-(
Of course I am. I'm also being cynical. It's parody!
WMP is software meant to be run on a desktop or laptop machine. And because there are lots of tiny PC options that can run WMP (unlike iTunes), using it in the park is a lot less silly than running iTunes when jogging in the park!
The article makes comparison between WMP 10 (or should we call it WMP X (Wimpex?)) and the iPod. Both have completely different uses, but the comparison is only relavent if you're glued to your computer and listening to an iPod at the same time. Jogging with a laptop is absurd.
you should really like Sony's 1.85 pound laptop that runs XP! You can run WMP 10 just fine on this, whereever you are.
For about 2 hours or whatever battery life is. You think 2 lbs is light? Stand in line holding it for about 30 minutes and check back.
since WS2003 can do almost anything that XP can yet is more stable and can do a lot of testing for work related activites I have that as one of my main computers at home... I tired to install Media Player 10 and it won't install, apparently its only for XP
Unbelievable! I mean, what Sys Admin should be denied the ability to listen to Paula Abdul in the server room, surrounded by cooling fans moving about 500 CFM? Microsoft just doesn't get it. tsk tsk tsk.
FWIW, we actually had a guitar speaker mounted in the ceiling in our computer center, years ago (it's probably still there:-) and used to crank it up in there, among the servers and minis.
WMP makes for a throughly enjoyable experience, whether you are jogging through the park with a laptop slung over your shoulder or sitting at your
desk listening to the Beatles over the hum and whirr of cooling fans.
Clearly it's a superior means of enjoying musical content over having that annoying 100 gram iPod Mini which you can actually forget you
have with you, because it requires no bulky computer or extension cord and that insidious battery will last for up to 8 hours.
Microsoft Windows Media Player 10, because your not going anywhere anyway.
You may be right, but if you investigate those similar systems it might be very helpful to the whole experiment. Let's say that arabic readers rely more on word shape and hebrew readers more on serial letter recognition. Comparing different writing methods and their reading methods will certainly lead to more insights.
And then there's the matter of style, which you have to drum out of every original thinking scribbler out there (also people like me who have really poor penmanship because we type everything).
I worked on a character recognition system for a while, the price of doing this stuff is probably only second to launching rockers.
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Of course, you spelled ridiculous as 'rediculous'
Many people completely missed what I was doing with that word spelled wrong, I was quoting the parent.
'Nukular' was what W. said a few times and even still has a tendency to stammer on the word, trying to remember how to say it correctly.
My dictionary is where I left it -- 6.5 feet below the cookie jar.
hat's a bit arbitrary since GNU doesn't claim to be responsible for your data--but at least GNU doesn't charge you $200/copy for it.
GNU: Lots of contributors not standing behind it, some of whom will try to address the problems post haste, some of whom will offer help free of charge, some of whom will be your best friend for a hearty thanks if they successfully sort it out for you.
Microsoft: Multi-billion $ company not standing behind it.
The worst nuclear disaster in history, Cherynobl, killed a total of 3,000 people. That includes long term deaths attributed to radiation poisoning and increased cancer rates.
Man. I'm glad I saw you spell it that way, but you surprised me by not writing 'nucular'. 3,000 killed? In case you didn't noticed there's a large dead zone and tens of thousands more, including downriver and downwind areas have been affected.
Ok, blame it on the people who ran the plant, their practices, the old graphite reactor, etc, but don't play the tune that nuclear power is safe. These are among the most toxic substances on earth and half-lives are in decades if not centuries. All it takes is an accident.
Storage of waste is also a serious issue, probably easier for the Beijing governement to handle as they have a way of handling protesters that US administrations can only fantasize about. The Hanford site, in Washinton state is a damn mess and we still don't have Yucca mountain or anything else permanent. All waste in the US is 'temporarily housed' and piling up. Touchy stuff to transport, too.
Better hope the chinese do an excellent job on those, all it takes is one Oops and another thousand square miles is dead land for centuries.
Actually they have, all the latest Office stuff works with XML and the.net development kit is loaded with XML stuff. They also have their own standard, which was a/. topic about a year back (i'd look it up but the/. search really is pretty useless)
They rolled it out pretty quietly.
Maybe they borrowed their marketing strategy from Paul Masson (not before it's time,...)
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I could agree with this, were my school more like a trade school, which it wasn't. Most of my elementary and later teachers actually encouraged some level of independent thinking and creativity -- others were often astounded whenever a student thought of 'the third way' One particularly poor teacher, 2nd grade, seemed only there for the money or until she could get somewhere else -- I was frequently on her bad side and grew to loathe school, prefering to be tardy by as much as 2 hours roaming woods and poking around a creek for frogs and snakes.
I'm more likely to believe the role of schools in NYC was to keep the little animals manageable by compressing their little minds into a one-size-fits-all mould.
I'd later find I had a very high IQ and did exceptionally well in college, after graduating highschool only by the merest of threads.
If you have a kid and your kid seems disinterested or hostile about going to school, you might consider getting more involved and learn about the teacher and the school. At an early age contending with a poor teacher can have a lifelong impact.
You might want to visit CostCo first and stock up on Tin Foil.
"You are under arrest, please come along quietly."
"I haven't done anything! What am I being charged with?"
"We can't tell you."
"What about my Miranda rights?"
"Ok, you may or may not be under arrest."
"I want to contact my lawyer."
"Sorry, where you're going to be held no lawyers are permitted."
"What?!? You can't do that!"
"Ah, but we can and have, it's for the good of the country, you'll understand."
"Oh, well, if it's for the good of the country... but..."
"But what?"
"The country is not the government, but people like me, how can the people be arrested and tried in secrecy for their own good?"
"You ask too many question *fwit*"
"What did you just do?"
"I played the Patriot Card, by questioning the policies and actions of the goverment you're patriotism is now officially called into doubt!"
"Unbelievable!"
"It's a brave new world."
"I'll still need to let my family know I've been arrested."
"Sorry, can't let you do that, either, it might endager their patriotism."
"How?"
"If they feel the same way about this as you, they may call us into question, thus jeopardizing their standing as patriots."
"Um, how is that again?"
"It's for their own good, you see? We need to take you in and not have our policies and procedures called into question."
"Well why am I being taken in?"
"Ok, just between you and me, you'll probably be charged with possible subversion."
"For what?"
"For questioning your arrest."
"Ah."
"Come along now, we have a nice prison to keep you in."
"It's not one of those horrid places, is it?"
"Oh, no, this is run by Halliburton, it's very nice."
I have no issue with the flag being the logo, I just felt that is sort of provided an answer to my question before asking.
I just wanted confirmation of my suspicions.
I think if we included even a few other nations into a prospective mix here we could see the politics section eclipse the rest of slashdot. We see 'free speech' and 'intellectual property' items from the globe, but I do wonder what kind of scope we're supposed to expect here, i.e. the recent pissing contest over Bush's lack of Vietnam service (which a chunk of was actually spent on political campaigns) and the questions over Kerry's medals -- which I feel strongly about, but feel also has no place on slashdot. I don't come here for politics.
No... they'll be rated in Godwin Points.
+1 for Informative, Interesting, Insightful
-1 for inciteful (i.e. inciting a riot)
-2 for comparing poster to Hitler or Nazis
Let's be brutally honest here:
the american flag is clodishly insensitive to furriners
furriners taking issue with the choice of colors are clodishly insensitive to american needs to vent (free speech)
Can we pick red/blue headings?
"Now zen ween deed you suddenly become avare of zee obvious? Hmm?"
The way I understand it, later this week GWBush will personally take credit for the hurricane not destroying the shuttles and reinforcing his vision that everything is going to plan and, heck, we'll be landing on Mars any day now.
(We'd be on Mars now, if the probes real intent, to find oil, had discovered anything, it's truly amazing how fast Halliburton can move when properly informed in advance while potential competitors have to scurry to come up with a plan)
And you blame congress...
One can only hope. It's bad enough shelling $$$ for graphics cards without seeing them incompatible not for bruteforce reasons, but for software.
Probably will happen anyway as developers are among the first to turn against old hardware, wanting more of this more of that to play with.
"Look! 8192 new shades of dark gray for d00m 4!"
[To borrow a bit]
``And how many guys zilched out?''
``Two grillion, m'lud.''
Yeah, that'd get an ISP, legal clerk or judge thinking there's some sort of problem here.
I think this should be taken to a competition level. The one to attract the most of these wins a prize. =)
I'm actually pretty jealous they get these kinds of things. I should put up a page on my site with some old junk files, like resumees or code from old projects tar'd and gz'd and see if I can attract one of these fine letters. I feel it's important to be the first one on my block to receive and frame one of these masterpieces, before all you other weasels realize what fun this could be and set up your own web pages with likenamed and structured directories and files.
Suppose after they've spun tens of thousands of these things they might realize they're on the wrong track with automating such a lame process?
Oh, really? Let me disect your arguments...
The power rating of the PSU is how much power it *can deliver*, not how much it will drain from the grid just because you plug it in.
Right, but if you could get by on 100 watts, or less, then why do you need 350, 400, 500, or larger PSU? Because you will need most of that and the remainder is a safety margin or room to expand. The fact remains your box draws more power than your monitor, by a large margin. It's power you didn't consume before PC's got nice and fast and hot. My Apple ][, C64 and first PC drew, combined, under 200 watts.
And fans draw practically no power at all, maybe one or two watts, so I don't see why you drag them into the discussion...
Practically nothing + practically nothing + practically nothing + nth practically nothing, it adds up. Each fan draws at least a watt, the inefficiences of converting 115 VAC to the various voltages and currents required for all the little DC items in that box, furthered by the switching power supplies on board, plus all those chips, even the ones I'm not using but are wired in and consume power anyway, all add up. Each memory module, each hard drive, each LED, and so on, all contribute to consuming power. I know my powerbill doubled after I built my home PC and it's not even overclocked (declocked a bit actually) and I can put my hand behind the PSU fan and feel that warm air coming out as anecdotal eveidence that AC current is being converted to heat somwhere in the box.
Maybe you don't pay for the power your personal machine uses, that doesn't mean you aren't using any.
If you're interested in using less power, get something with a Transmeta CPU or other CPU which is low power and minimize the features and components of your computer. And by all means, turn the damn thing off when you're not using it.
And their online music store.
It's not the CRT, look at your freaking PSU, how many watts is that sucker? Why do you need 1 fan for CPU, 1 fan for GPU, 1 fan PSU and possibly a few more to move more air through to move air through the box. Heck, mine might as well say HOOVER on the front.
Considering my last power bill, these bigger and faster CPUs really need some juice and if you go multicore and such, you may not be exaggerating. All this bitching about nuclear power being safe, pollution from Coal and Gas plants, how ineffective Solar or Wind are -- doesn't anyone realize we're using more electrical power than ever before? Even when we have vaccum tube TV's?
Looking at the octopi at work and around home it seems my next house should have powerstrips along the walls, not just outlets.
Leaving a nuclear reactor in a developing country
I trust this means stable and reasonably secure developing country. Some of us have learned some things in the last few years. Some of us have learned a lot in the last 72 hours. :-(
Of course I am. I'm also being cynical. It's parody!
WMP is software meant to be run on a desktop or laptop machine. And because there are lots of tiny PC options that can run WMP (unlike iTunes), using it in the park is a lot less silly than running iTunes when jogging in the park!
The article makes comparison between WMP 10 (or should we call it WMP X (Wimpex?)) and the iPod. Both have completely different uses, but the comparison is only relavent if you're glued to your computer and listening to an iPod at the same time. Jogging with a laptop is absurd.
you should really like Sony's 1.85 pound laptop that runs XP! You can run WMP 10 just fine on this, whereever you are.
For about 2 hours or whatever battery life is. You think 2 lbs is light? Stand in line holding it for about 30 minutes and check back.
Unbelievable! I mean, what Sys Admin should be denied the ability to listen to Paula Abdul in the server room, surrounded by cooling fans moving about 500 CFM? Microsoft just doesn't get it. tsk tsk tsk.
FWIW, we actually had a guitar speaker mounted in the ceiling in our computer center, years ago (it's probably still there :-) and used to crank it up in there, among the servers and minis.
Clearly it's a superior means of enjoying musical content over having that annoying 100 gram iPod Mini which you can actually forget you have with you, because it requires no bulky computer or extension cord and that insidious battery will last for up to 8 hours.
Microsoft Windows Media Player 10, because your not going anywhere anyway.
And then there's the matter of style, which you have to drum out of every original thinking scribbler out there (also people like me who have really poor penmanship because we type everything).
I worked on a character recognition system for a while, the price of doing this stuff is probably only second to launching rockers.
Many people completely missed what I was doing with that word spelled wrong, I was quoting the parent.
'Nukular' was what W. said a few times and even still has a tendency to stammer on the word, trying to remember how to say it correctly.
My dictionary is where I left it -- 6.5 feet below the cookie jar.
GNU: Lots of contributors not standing behind it, some of whom will try to address the problems post haste, some of whom will offer help free of charge, some of whom will be your best friend for a hearty thanks if they successfully sort it out for you.
Microsoft: Multi-billion $ company not standing behind it.
Man. I'm glad I saw you spell it that way, but you surprised me by not writing 'nucular'. 3,000 killed? In case you didn't noticed there's a large dead zone and tens of thousands more, including downriver and downwind areas have been affected.
Ok, blame it on the people who ran the plant, their practices, the old graphite reactor, etc, but don't play the tune that nuclear power is safe. These are among the most toxic substances on earth and half-lives are in decades if not centuries. All it takes is an accident.
Storage of waste is also a serious issue, probably easier for the Beijing governement to handle as they have a way of handling protesters that US administrations can only fantasize about. The Hanford site, in Washinton state is a damn mess and we still don't have Yucca mountain or anything else permanent. All waste in the US is 'temporarily housed' and piling up. Touchy stuff to transport, too.
Better hope the chinese do an excellent job on those, all it takes is one Oops and another thousand square miles is dead land for centuries.
Actually they have, all the latest Office stuff works with XML and the .net development kit is loaded with XML stuff. They also have their own standard, which was a /. topic about a year back (i'd look it up but the /. search really is pretty useless)
They rolled it out pretty quietly.
Maybe they borrowed their marketing strategy from Paul Masson (not before it's time, ...)