I saw something recently (i.e. sometime in the last three months) on discovery (or possibly the learning channel) that explored the connection between average global temperature and deep sea currents. apparently, so long as the deep sea currents continue on un abated, avg. temperatures stay stable from year to year, and temperatures don't get too extreme in different areas of the globe. the last major disruption began around the end of the last ice age, and we humans have had an usually steady climate during our reign as king species.
There are plenty more of us who think that the "5c4|pt k|dd|35" who like to do that kind of shit are useless pricks who need to grow the fuck up, and say, "serves 'em right for being a dumbass" when they get caught.
regardless of that, it's certainly a horrible, abominable thing when the government says "if you do this, you'll go to jail, unless you are a big corporation." this is the most grevious, heinous example of how much the US govt. is controlled by corporate interests.
perhaps more proper to say, GNU started out as an alternative to proprietary code. Linux then came along and took some GNU stuff to make it completely usable, and was an alternative to proprietary software. not so much Unix of M$, just un-free software.
.... Um, did you read the article? He metioned BeOS and not wanting to go to it because they have gone belly up. whoops. glossed over that part. *hits self in head*
i can understand not wnating to use BeOS, since Be they went belly-up, but that didn't become official 'till november last year, and wasn't a real certainty 'till around the beginning of last year. this guy had two years when Be was still a possible contender to have tried BeOS, which is more what I was trying to get at.
why didn't he just use BeOS. His main concerns seem to be ease of use, attractive interfaces, stability and cost. Be got good marks in all those areas. If he had really done his homework about OS's, he should have come across BeOS.
i live in a school district where, by the end of the decade, every student at every school will be issued a laptop computer and every school will have wifi access. i did some observations at the one school where it has already been set up this past semester. here, in brief, are my observations. THE GOOD: 1) no more handouts--i always disliked the fact that about 3 or 4 trees a day die to supply a school with enough paper for handouts. teachers can just email documents or have students retrieve them from a shared folder on the network. 2) speeds up the grading/correcting process--i saw one teacher in particular who would have her students e-mail her their essays. she would open them in word, type her comments in parentheses, in bold face, in red, and email them back to the students. this also helps with the reduction in wasted paper. 3) allows a greater flexibility in projects--one teacher assigned a mock-newspaper assignment, so they used a desktop publishing program. in another class, some students who were doing projects on commercials as propaganda used powerpoint to create a parody nike commercial. sure you could have done these projects before the computers, but the computers helped to facillitate those projects. 4) puts the internet right there for research--this might not be such a great thing, considering some of the crap that is on the web, but over all, i think this is a good thing. THE BAD: 1) new forms of note passing--i saw lots of kids chatting with each other on MSN, AIM, trillian, etc. there are obvious ways to stop this (disallowing access to certain ports leaps to mind) but for some reason they had not done anything to prevent it. 2) games--i also saw on one or two occasions kids playing games on the computers, not that i have a problem with games qua games, just games when they ought to be studying. 3) just simply playing with technology--i saw one particular occasion where these two guys were downloading pictures of various celebs off the web and were mutilating them in some very humorous ways using photoshop when they should have been working on something else (though i have to admit, i did laugh at what they did to britney spears). 4) file sharing--the school, as i heard from several teachers and administrators, is worried about being attacked by the RIAA/MPAA/whatever in the form of DMCA violations. 5) misc. illegal activities--though i didn't see any kids looking at pr0n or w4r3z sites, i imagine that at least a handful do when they're at lunch or something. THE UGLY: 1)cost--it's not cheap to keep all those laptops running, and as M$ pushes out new "upgrades" the district will have to buy new software and new hardware to run it on. fortunately, the school district has a pretty strong source of revenue in lots of businesses paying property taxes, despite being a majority-minority school district.
overall, i think the pros outweigh the cons here. to properly implement a program like this takes lots of staff development, so that the teachers know how to properly integrate the technology into the classroom, as opposed to being overwhelmed by it.
i really wish people on slashdot would realize that fundamentalist!=Christian. fundamentalist is a subset of Christian. to pass that site off as indicative of all Christian belief is about as irresponsible as equating Islam with terrorism, and just as ignorant. i'm not very Christian myself anymore, but I still find such generalizations insulting.
this will be a tremendous help...to all those struggling telcos trying to sell people on DSL instead of cable. if they do change their pricing, i guess i'll have to move from one evil empire (at&t) to another (verizon).
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in this case, I think these would receive the protections offered to parody and satire under copyright law.
teachers get paid a full $30,000+ a year to baby-sit. that's rediculous. they only work 180 days a year, so that's all we should pay them for. first off, we should pay them a babysitters wage. let's say, $3/hr from each parent. but remember, they only work 5.5 hours per day. i'm not going to pay for some "planning period." so lets say some teacher averages 25 students/class. so that's 25 sets of parents paying $3/hr each hour for 5.5 hours, for 180 days. ok, let's multiply this all out, 25*3*5.5*180 equals uh... $74,250 uh-oh, wait a minute... speaking as someone about to go into the teaching profession (i will be student teaching this coming fall) i find your remarks very narrow-minded and ignorant. as far as being able to do a real days work, i used to pull 12 hour shifts in an un-air-conditioned plumbing supply warehouse in texas. now you tell me who would drop dead after a real days worth of work.
interesting...Code Red, a worm exploiting a security whole in a MS product, hits Qwest so bad that they sell part of their company off to MS. maybe this is why security in Windows has been so lousy.
does all this stuff, saves files to.doc,.xls, and.pdf and is due out for linux Real Soon Now(TM). oh yeah, it also costs the same right now. and also the license that comes with Gobe Productive is much more user friendly. apart from the fact that this is out for linux now, it doesn't seem all that impressive.
BeOS never had a problem BSOD'ing. BeOS also is a great platform for software synthesis due to the low audio latencies, though this hasn't quite been exploited yet (only a few synths exist:( and one commercial no longer is available) BeOS is also is great for MIDI stuff; the MIDI implementation in BeOS is probably the best I've ever encountered (i never really understood MIDI until I used it in BeOS). MIDI apps work nice and seamlessly with one another, too. *sigh* I hope OpenBeOS reaches a point of usability soon.
The cost of IT personel/sys. admins. is going to be the same whether they are administering open-source or MS software. A business is going to pay only as much as it is willing for IT people, regardless of the software it's running.
In terms of company tech support, considering that MS charges what, $135/hr, you probably end up saving money on support costs as well by switching to OSS, though you prolly could have the same kind of savings switching to a different set of proprietary software as well.
go to lebuzz.com for a litany of products that had just been released, were moving into beta phase, or were on the horizon for BeOS, when Be, Inc. anounced their infamous focus shift to internet appliances.
there are stations that play only music from non-major label sources. you just have to look around for them. i like BeOSRadio myself, but that's 'cause i'm Be biased.:)
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I saw something recently (i.e. sometime in the last three months) on discovery (or possibly the learning channel) that explored the connection between average global temperature and deep sea currents. apparently, so long as the deep sea currents continue on un abated, avg. temperatures stay stable from year to year, and temperatures don't get too extreme in different areas of the globe.
the last major disruption began around the end of the last ice age, and we humans have had an usually steady climate during our reign as king species.
There are plenty more of us who think that the "5c4|pt k|dd|35" who like to do that kind of shit are useless pricks who need to grow the fuck up, and say, "serves 'em right for being a dumbass" when they get caught.
regardless of that, it's certainly a horrible, abominable thing when the government says "if you do this, you'll go to jail, unless you are a big corporation." this is the most grevious, heinous example of how much the US govt. is controlled by corporate interests.
perhaps more proper to say, GNU started out as an alternative to proprietary code. Linux then came along and took some GNU stuff to make it completely usable, and was an alternative to proprietary software. not so much Unix of M$, just un-free software.
whoops. glossed over that part. *hits self in head*
i can understand not wnating to use BeOS, since Be they went belly-up, but that didn't become official 'till november last year, and wasn't a real certainty 'till around the beginning of last year. this guy had two years when Be was still a possible contender to have tried BeOS, which is more what I was trying to get at.
go check out sourcemage. they are, in fact, doing some of the very things you talked about in your post.
why didn't he just use BeOS. His main concerns seem to be ease of use, attractive interfaces, stability and cost. Be got good marks in all those areas. If he had really done his homework about OS's, he should have come across BeOS.
i live in a school district where, by the end of the decade, every student at every school will be issued a laptop computer and every school will have wifi access. i did some observations at the one school where it has already been set up this past semester. here, in brief, are my observations.
THE GOOD:
1) no more handouts--i always disliked the fact that about 3 or 4 trees a day die to supply a school with enough paper for handouts. teachers can just email documents or have students retrieve them from a shared folder on the network.
2) speeds up the grading/correcting process--i saw one teacher in particular who would have her students e-mail her their essays. she would open them in word, type her comments in parentheses, in bold face, in red, and email them back to the students. this also helps with the reduction in wasted paper.
3) allows a greater flexibility in projects--one teacher assigned a mock-newspaper assignment, so they used a desktop publishing program. in another class, some students who were doing projects on commercials as propaganda used powerpoint to create a parody nike commercial. sure you could have done these projects before the computers, but the computers helped to facillitate those projects.
4) puts the internet right there for research--this might not be such a great thing, considering some of the crap that is on the web, but over all, i think this is a good thing.
THE BAD:
1) new forms of note passing--i saw lots of kids chatting with each other on MSN, AIM, trillian, etc. there are obvious ways to stop this (disallowing access to certain ports leaps to mind) but for some reason they had not done anything to prevent it.
2) games--i also saw on one or two occasions kids playing games on the computers, not that i have a problem with games qua games, just games when they ought to be studying.
3) just simply playing with technology--i saw one particular occasion where these two guys were downloading pictures of various celebs off the web and were mutilating them in some very humorous ways using photoshop when they should have been working on something else (though i have to admit, i did laugh at what they did to britney spears).
4) file sharing--the school, as i heard from several teachers and administrators, is worried about being attacked by the RIAA/MPAA/whatever in the form of DMCA violations.
5) misc. illegal activities--though i didn't see any kids looking at pr0n or w4r3z sites, i imagine that at least a handful do when they're at lunch or something.
THE UGLY:
1)cost--it's not cheap to keep all those laptops running, and as M$ pushes out new "upgrades" the district will have to buy new software and new hardware to run it on. fortunately, the school district has a pretty strong source of revenue in lots of businesses paying property taxes, despite being a majority-minority school district.
overall, i think the pros outweigh the cons here. to properly implement a program like this takes lots of staff development, so that the teachers know how to properly integrate the technology into the classroom, as opposed to being overwhelmed by it.
Why should they GIVE you anything? If you want something, usually, you have to pay for it.
i really wish people on slashdot would realize that fundamentalist!=Christian.
fundamentalist is a subset of Christian. to pass that site off as indicative of all Christian belief is about as irresponsible as equating Islam with terrorism, and just as ignorant.
i'm not very Christian myself anymore, but I still find such generalizations insulting.
this will be a tremendous help...to all those struggling telcos trying to sell people on DSL instead of cable. if they do change their pricing, i guess i'll have to move from one evil empire (at&t) to another (verizon).
in this case, I think these would receive the protections offered to parody and satire under copyright law.
teachers get paid a full $30,000+ a year to baby-sit. that's rediculous. they only work 180 days a year, so that's all we should pay them for. first off, we should pay them a babysitters wage. let's say, $3/hr from each parent. but remember, they only work 5.5 hours per day. i'm not going to pay for some "planning period." so lets say some teacher averages 25 students/class. so that's 25 sets of parents paying $3/hr each hour for 5.5 hours, for 180 days. ok, let's multiply this all out, 25*3*5.5*180 equals uh...
$74,250
uh-oh, wait a minute...
speaking as someone about to go into the teaching profession (i will be student teaching this coming fall) i find your remarks very narrow-minded and ignorant. as far as being able to do a real days work, i used to pull 12 hour shifts in an un-air-conditioned plumbing supply warehouse in texas. now you tell me who would drop dead after a real days worth of work.
inhabitable = able to be inhabited
inhabit v. tr. - To live or reside in
habitable isn't a word. the inverse or opposite of inhabitable would be uninhabitable.
interesting...Code Red, a worm exploiting a security whole in a MS product, hits Qwest so bad that they sell part of their company off to MS.
maybe this is why security in Windows has been so lousy.
does all this stuff, saves files to .doc, .xls, and .pdf and is due out for linux Real Soon Now(TM). oh yeah, it also costs the same right now. and also the license that comes with Gobe Productive is much more user friendly. apart from the fact that this is out for linux now, it doesn't seem all that impressive.
FYI: Gobe's website.
that mulder might show up for the funeral. after all, he was the one that brought them to the party.
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(this is here b/c slashdot didn't like having just a $).
about the possibility of self-cooling, carbon-based computer chips?
BeOS never had a problem BSOD'ing. BeOS also is a great platform for software synthesis due to the low audio latencies, though this hasn't quite been exploited yet (only a few synths exist :( and one commercial no longer is available) BeOS is also is great for MIDI stuff; the MIDI implementation in BeOS is probably the best I've ever encountered (i never really understood MIDI until I used it in BeOS). MIDI apps work nice and seamlessly with one another, too. *sigh*
I hope OpenBeOS reaches a point of usability soon.
The cost of IT personel/sys. admins. is going to be the same whether they are administering open-source or MS software. A business is going to pay only as much as it is willing for IT people, regardless of the software it's running.
In terms of company tech support, considering that MS charges what, $135/hr, you probably end up saving money on support costs as well by switching to OSS, though you prolly could have the same kind of savings switching to a different set of proprietary software as well.
go to lebuzz.com for a litany of products that had just been released, were moving into beta phase, or were on the horizon for BeOS, when Be, Inc. anounced their infamous focus shift to internet appliances.
Jedis use Argon in their lightsabers, and the Sith use Krypton or Helium Neon ion gas in theirs.
there are stations that play only music from non-major label sources. you just have to look around for them. i like BeOSRadio myself, but that's 'cause i'm Be biased. :)
the e-mail address is uce@ftc.gov
now i don't have to worry about them sending my room mate (whose name is on the account) spam based on my surfing habits.