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As somebody who's still a high school student I wonder where I can get a job. As somebody who's still going to an educational institution that has none but the most basic of computer courses I have no certification or anything. I've taught myself C, html, Linux, W95, & some GTK, but not much evidence to show & no easy way to get good networking experience (& I'm not getting any at all until my friend gives me that ethernet card that works w/ Linux). I'm sure there are a lot of us out there who would be willing to work for little pay and mostly just the experience and a complementary letter, but how do we get jobs working in IT?
Incidentally, if you'd be interested in hiring me in the Philadelphia/Montgomery county area, send an e-mail my way).
Just today I recieved an e-mail advertising BellAtlantic's DSL service. I e-mailed them back asking if they supported or planned to support Linux. They then replied that no, they were not going to support Linux because most Linux users wanted to do it all themselves w/o support. I wish I'd kept the e-mail, but it's gone now. What BS. Who wants tech support abolished for their OS of choice?
Is it just me, or did anybody else notice this? "the last thing I want to do is spread fear, uncertainty and doubt in their minds."
I guess it's true though, I could never ever ever picture Microshaft spreading FUD. That's not their style. They go for legitimately sponsored independent tests that prove conclusively that their OSes are superior.
You are a lucky one. While threatening a lawsuit can often work, your other methods are far less likely to do so. My school newspaper kills any article the administration wants with no explanation whatsoever, and if it's challenged, then they dismiss this. Somebody would actually have to sue the school to get this altered and that would need to go up to a rather high level in the ultraconservative community in which I live. This communities misplaced priorities are also the reason why no local paper would ever publish an article criticising the school or expressing any idea of any worth whatsoever.
Wow, I thought that that was a really great story. It really struck a chord w/ me, cause I've had experiences similar to those in the stories. I am a social outcast for the most part and detest my school with a vengeance. I see incompetance and stupidity wherever I look and don't particularly want to waste my time pretending that this is a valid system any of us live in and that it's not completely arbitrary and poorly put together.
In the past few years I've had a bit of a rude awakening. I've discovered that my parents have ceased to understand me. I explain things to them and they simply don't get it. One could make a case that the communications error is on my side, but even when I ask them simple questions they will answer them wrong. It often requires me 2 or 3 repetitions to get the response to the question I asked and not to some other. In school, the administration is incompetant and corrupt. I guess I can't complain totally here, because their corruption and incompetance has saved me from criminal prosecution (shhh, don't tell). Most of the teachers are idiots to the point where the school has finally asked one to leave because his classes would simply put up with him no longer fought with him constantly. We have to put up with poorly lit, unventilated, fume filled classrooms, and poor construction of the new ones that I've heard our Hitler look alike VP refer to as "the final solution." And yet I've intervened w/ by a commitee that is in place to identify "at risk" students, conveniently the week that those kids went postal.
I wear a trenchcoat. I wear all black. Right now I am wearing a T-Shirt that says I HATE THIS TOWN. I do. The area I live in is conservative to the point where it sickens me. They think nothing of going into our school with drug-sniffing dogs, going through our lockers, and searching through our belongings. Our newspaper is highly censored and did not allow me to print an article in which I commented on a field trip to Unisys because of some odd reason of which I cannot ascertain. In that same issue 5 articles (I counted) appeared by one girl pertaining to things I couldn't care less about, including thrift shops and horoscopes. When I am unsatisfied with this system I am branded "at risk."
The people I hang out with (most of whom I dislike, but band together with out of disgust for the rest of the school population) are harrassed by the administration, treated unfairly, and used to be called the "trenchcoat brigade" by the faculty before some kids with more mental problems than us killed their classmates and suddenly having a derogitory name for us became in bad taste, not so much out of concern for our welfare, but out of a misplaced sense of decency that led to one disciplinarian taking me out of my AP Calculus class for 10 mins a week before our mock exam which represents almost all of our grade and a few weeks before the AP exam, led to him harrassing me to take off the trenchcoat, and then led to the principal doing a little repeat performance later that period.
I thought that I had it rough then until I heard some of the other stories. I did not realize that arbitrary suspensions, expulsions, and arrests were not merely isolated incidents, but more a trend in schools. Sometimes I wish that the school would pull the same shit that they did with some of these students and do something that's more an outright violation of my civil rights. I would get so much joy out of suing them that it's unfathomable to their puny little minds. Of course sometimes I worry when I read summaries of state and federal Supreme Court deicisions. I worry that the days of just, constitutional decisions are over and that these recent decisions in favor of organized religion, brutal police, and Big Brother schools are just a grim portent of things to come.
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face-for ever. -George Orwell, 1984
Well if you could somehow have some kind of channels in the screen that directed light towards a certain source and were able to manipulate their direction (chemically most likely), then by having 2 different sets of channels you could present a 3D image.
Obviously this test was grossly biased. And if you did another one, then you'd probably get another biased, if not equally biased study. It could go either way depending on who it was doing the test, but you can't get bias free.
So why worry about bias at all? Why not just put out a challenge and find 2 very capable teams. A Linux team & an NT team. That way each will know enough to tweak their box & won't intentionally or subconsciously disable features on the OS they like least. Of course this could actually benefit NT, if some Linux people disabled 1/2 the "features" that MS packages into any of their products.
The HW could be a mutually agreed upon by both teams as could the exact tests thrown at the servers.
Nicholas brought up and then ignored the most crucial flaw with open source IP gaming:
"the online mode for most games disables all the cheats that are available to you in single-player mode"
How long do you think the open source version of some game will be out before some jackass decides to make a few simple modifications and blow away everybody else? I'm all for the free exchange of information, but I know that that would really suck to have a gaming environment in which anybody could modify the game to be how they wanted it. How about a compromise? Maybe if open source games were released, then they wouldn't include some kind of authentication so that they couldn't prove they weren't modified. That way you could choose whether to take your chances playing them. That could also give the game companies an incentive to release the source, because if you wanted to be able to play with most of the people you'd still have to buy the game. I don't like it, but I'd rather have that than pointless games where the biggest cheat wins.
Why not make a little pad you could sit on that would power your computer by heat and/or piezo electric crystals that would get power just from shifting your weight.
Or how about a little foot pedal you pump? That could be pretty compact.
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As somebody who's still a high school student I wonder where I can get a job. As somebody who's still going to an educational institution that has none but the most basic of computer courses I have no certification or anything. I've taught myself C, html, Linux, W95, & some GTK, but not much evidence to show & no easy way to get good networking experience (& I'm not getting any at all until my friend gives me that ethernet card that works w/ Linux). I'm sure there are a lot of us out there who would be willing to work for little pay and mostly just the experience and a complementary letter, but how do we get jobs working in IT?
Incidentally, if you'd be interested in hiring me in the Philadelphia/Montgomery county area, send an e-mail my way).
Just today I recieved an e-mail advertising BellAtlantic's DSL service. I e-mailed them back asking if they supported or planned to support Linux. They then replied that no, they were not going to support Linux because most Linux users wanted to do it all themselves w/o support. I wish I'd kept the e-mail, but it's gone now. What BS. Who wants tech support abolished for their OS of choice?
Is it just me, or did anybody else notice this?
"the last thing I want to do is spread fear, uncertainty and doubt in their minds."
I guess it's true though, I could never ever ever picture Microshaft spreading FUD. That's not their style. They go for legitimately sponsored independent tests that prove conclusively that their OSes are superior.
You are a lucky one. While threatening a lawsuit can often work, your other methods are far less likely to do so. My school newspaper kills any article the administration wants with no explanation whatsoever, and if it's challenged, then they dismiss this. Somebody would actually have to sue the school to get this altered and that would need to go up to a rather high level in the ultraconservative community in which I live. This communities misplaced priorities are also the reason why no local paper would ever publish an article criticising the school or expressing any idea of any worth whatsoever.
Nice little essay you've got there, but I'm thinking you need to look up the word superlative, though I'd definitely define Hitler as such.
Wow, I thought that that was a really great story. It really struck a chord w/ me, cause I've had experiences similar to those in the stories. I am a social outcast for the most part and detest my school with a vengeance. I see incompetance and stupidity wherever I look and don't particularly want to waste my time pretending that this is a valid system any of us live in and that it's not completely arbitrary and poorly put together.
In the past few years I've had a bit of a rude awakening. I've discovered that my parents have ceased to understand me. I explain things to them and they simply don't get it. One could make a case that the communications error is on my side, but even when I ask them simple questions they will answer them wrong. It often requires me 2 or 3 repetitions to get the response to the question I asked and not to some other. In school, the administration is incompetant and corrupt. I guess I can't complain totally here, because their corruption and incompetance has saved me from criminal prosecution (shhh, don't tell). Most of the teachers are idiots to the point where the school has finally asked one to leave because his classes would simply put up with him no longer fought with him constantly. We have to put up with poorly lit, unventilated, fume filled classrooms, and poor construction of the new ones that I've heard our Hitler look alike VP refer to as "the final solution." And yet I've intervened w/ by a commitee that is in place to identify "at risk" students, conveniently the week that those kids went postal.
I wear a trenchcoat. I wear all black. Right now I am wearing a T-Shirt that says I HATE THIS TOWN. I do. The area I live in is conservative to the point where it sickens me. They think nothing of going into our school with drug-sniffing dogs, going through our lockers, and searching through our belongings. Our newspaper is highly censored and did not allow me to print an article in which I commented on a field trip to Unisys because of some odd reason of which I cannot ascertain. In that same issue 5 articles (I counted) appeared by one girl pertaining to things I couldn't care less about, including thrift shops and horoscopes. When I am unsatisfied with this system I am branded "at risk."
The people I hang out with (most of whom I dislike, but band together with out of disgust for the rest of the school population) are harrassed by the administration, treated unfairly, and used to be called the "trenchcoat brigade" by the faculty before some kids with more mental problems than us killed their classmates and suddenly having a derogitory name for us became in bad taste, not so much out of concern for our welfare, but out of a misplaced sense of decency that led to one disciplinarian taking me out of my AP Calculus class for 10 mins a week before our mock exam which represents almost all of our grade and a few weeks before the AP exam, led to him harrassing me to take off the trenchcoat, and then led to the principal doing a little repeat performance later that period.
I thought that I had it rough then until I heard some of the other stories. I did not realize that arbitrary suspensions, expulsions, and arrests were not merely isolated incidents, but more a trend in schools. Sometimes I wish that the school would pull the same shit that they did with some of these students and do something that's more an outright violation of my civil rights. I would get so much joy out of suing them that it's unfathomable to their puny little minds. Of course sometimes I worry when I read summaries of state and federal Supreme Court deicisions. I worry that the days of just, constitutional decisions are over and that these recent decisions in favor of organized religion, brutal police, and Big Brother schools are just a grim portent of things to come.
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face-for ever.
-George Orwell, 1984
Well if you could somehow have some kind of channels in the screen that directed light towards a certain source and were able to manipulate their direction (chemically most likely), then by having 2 different sets of channels you could present a 3D image.
Obviously this test was grossly biased. And if you did another one, then you'd probably get another biased, if not equally biased study. It could go either way depending on who it was doing the test, but you can't get bias free.
So why worry about bias at all? Why not just put out a challenge and find 2 very capable teams. A Linux team & an NT team. That way each will know enough to tweak their box & won't intentionally or subconsciously disable features on the OS they like least. Of course this could actually benefit NT, if some Linux people disabled 1/2 the "features" that MS packages into any of their products.
The HW could be a mutually agreed upon by both teams as could the exact tests thrown at the servers.
This looks pretty fishy. After reading everybody elses posts I think I'm gonna go w/ the opinion that it's fake.
Isn't it a bit late for April fools jokes? Especially ones this bad? This never should've made it as a story.
Nicholas brought up and then ignored the most crucial flaw with open source IP gaming:
"the online mode for most games disables all the cheats that are available to you in single-player mode"
How long do you think the open source version of some game will be out before some jackass decides to make a few simple modifications and blow away everybody else? I'm all for the free exchange of information, but I know that that would really suck to have a gaming environment in which anybody could modify the game to be how they wanted it. How about a compromise? Maybe if open source games were released, then they wouldn't include some kind of authentication so that they couldn't prove they weren't modified. That way you could choose whether to take your chances playing them. That could also give the game companies an incentive to release the source, because if you wanted to be able to play with most of the people you'd still have to buy the game. I don't like it, but I'd rather have that than pointless games where the biggest cheat wins.
Why not make a little pad you could sit on that would power your computer by heat and/or piezo electric crystals that would get power just from shifting your weight.
Or how about a little foot pedal you pump? That could be pretty compact.