you should have to have a bumper sticker or something.
The last thing I need is to be driving to work in the morning, listening to my favorite radio station, and I stop by your car at a stop light and hear some god damned Punk Rock music or whatever you kids are listening to these days over MY radio!
What ever happened to the days when people listened to The Eagles?
(Note: It's a joke, and I like the eagles, and I don't drive to work, and as long as your "Punk Rock" can't stop my 2pac CD, I'm happy)
I'm not super programmer, but I'd be quite happy if some kid (or adult) somewhere figured out how to make one of these a nice little computer system.
After all, a $200 computer for the parents and a happy smile (for taking the cost out of Gate's pocket) would make a happy, happy man. (Is there something wrong when you feel joy at another man's loss?)
but i am 17 and have lived in 4 countries (depending on how you count taiwan, 5) and, generally, have learned about history from 3-4 more perspectives than the average American. so... this kid may not have lived anywhere else or experienced a global perspective... but most adults 40+ haven't experienced what some 17 year-olds have.
ah, and i don't appreciate your agism... this kid may have taken all that from his parents... maybe. but what i know i know because i lived it. so maybe he's the same.
and another product... but this is it!
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Shower mp3 Player?
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Okay.. i spent 10 minutes making YOUR shower better... now _I_ feel dirty. you had better like this... *grumbles to himself for being so damned altruistic*
but way back when there was a product that allowed you to have your computer output your mp3's so they could be picked up with a regular radio (within a range of something like 100 feet)... so.. they're lots of waterproof radios... so hook up one of these mp3->radio setups and listen with a radio.
(sorry.. checked on google... but at 1:30 i'm only gonna spend about 4 seconds trying to solve another guy's shower troubles...)
>I tried it several times during 2001 it was slow and crashed all the flaming time. still stuck in 2001 my friend. its 2002!
i'd say OO has become quite the zippy beast. 6 seconds for "./soffice" on my K7/1Ghz/256MB... not exactly THE beast... but one of them:) (hey... i remember the 2001 days too.. but from 641c to d it has been quite an impressive improvement)
I was really confused for a while before I realized that, at least in America, "Wang" is said Wuh-ang... not Wuh-ah-ng... as it is said (at least) in China...
Then again, i know nothing about the company... but wang, the chinese way, can mean good things (depending on tone, it can mean things like king)
i guess that is one of those culture shock bits...
Here's the difference. Lets take the aztecs as an example. they sacrificed MASS amounts of slaves/prisoners/lower class citizens to keep the sun turning. they truly believed that if they didn't provide human sacrifices to the sun then it would stop turning and they would all die. scientifically inept, in this way yes (though they had amazingly advanced science otherwise). but not barbaric. they wanted to keep the sun turning.
when they went to war they took over places with brute force, but they didn't slaughter people. they came in, said "fight us, you'll lose." they won, then they took the prisoners back as slaves or whatnot. they didn't rape, pillage, or mass murder them. (except when they came back to sacrifice them to keep the sun turning.)
they didn't think their people superior. they just wanted to keep the earth alive (and get land.)
so when the spaniards came and started raping and pillaging... it was just repugnant and suprising. to kill just to show your superiority or to rape women as "plunder" was barbaric to them (and in the universal sence!)
so, yes, i would say the europeans, for whatever reasons, were more sick-minded than the natives. and the chinese. (i tie that to different interpretations of "knowledge is power." the chinese believed that "knowledge is power." in its most basic sense. just having the knowledge is being powerful. with the europeans it is more "knowledge is power, if you apply the knowledge to get power."
look at gunpowder and the compass. the chinese had it forever... but didn't go and take over the world (khan did.. but he was mongolian). the europeans saw the gunpowder... and gave it its current name.
people can hate the chinese all they want, but they have never been as pugnacious as the europeans of days past have been. (and the days when they were aren't long since past...)
that the very best benifit from all of this is that OEM's (the big ones who never think about us poor linux guys) will develop _good_ drivers for CUPS... which will be just as useful for linux as they are for OS X. (if my understanding of the drivers is correct)
Meaning that driver support will skyrocket for linux, which, to many, is the only thing "holding linux back." (I know a few buddies who would have switched 100% to linux if they could get their printers to work)
My best guess, and I've got no inside information, is that the metered rate is simply mimicing the ad views. For instance, the ad company give/. 0.005 cents per page view. So instead of having the ad company give/. 0.005 per page view, the/. subscribers give them the meager amount.
"The government of any country is formed by the people of said country. And all those peoples are responsible for the actions of the government."
This is interesting... so you are saying that the American people are responsible for the actions of their gov't... So if I think that America is doing something evil, I can destroy a couple of privately owned business towers to fight against the American government?
have something for them to read to further their ideas (if they become interested in the book.)
some good ol' Locke (Essay on Human Understanding) or More's Utopia, or even go back to (a favorite) Plato and do the Republic. Maybe there are better examples (hey! I'm a high school student who spends 25 hours a week doing extra curricular activities.. i can only have so much time to read philosophy.. and these books aren't thin) but I just think it would be smart to be prepared for "that kid" who really gets into this and asks you for something else to consume... And maybe if you get this one kid to care about the love of wisdom/knowledge (the definition of philosophy) we will have the next Sartre, Camus, Descartes, or Paine. (at least that is my hope:))
I fell your pain (from the perspective of a high school senior.)
I do find this question interesting (though I would like to know if you intended on asking the adults who frequent or the l33t kids who do) because it raises the issue of the master-disciple relationship and the Socratic method (which has been mentioned.)
As Xunzi said, "Though the blue dye comes from the indigo plant, it is bluer than indigo." (referring to the dye as the student and the plant as the teacher with the student being bluer because of ages of re-dying from the plant -- hence being taught) Just as was the case with Plato and Socrates (and Aristotle and Plato, and Xunzi and Confucius) the master did (if they were good masters) hope for the student to be able to bring some wisdom back to the teacher after they have presented what they are capable of presenting.
So, as the Socratic method states, come in with some (well thought out) ideas (I liked the one about giving up civil liberties and such) and then play the role of Socrates (who, at least in the Republic, would insist that he was wrong and ask to be "corrected") and watch them ponder examples that one who isn't a high school student (any longer) couldn't fathom.
I started a Philosopher's Club here (at my high school) based entirely on the apparent willingness of all great (teachers and) philosopher's to facilitate discussion and then to sit back and ask (instead of preach) about their ideas.
I can (warning: slightly off topic) sympathize with the difficulty in what I have proposed. It isn't so easy to get people interested in the depth of meaning in a book (or any other work.) I see it everyday. We live (at least at my high school) a life where the trouble associated with (with respect to the ease of switching on digital cable and choosing from our 700 channels) thinking makes it unpopular. This can also be a theme in your unit, however, since the parallel with the people in the book just watching their movie-walls and "taking life as it is handed to them" is easily drawn (though not easily accepted by people who it applies to.)
So I wish you the best of luck and I beg you allow me to give you this honor: teaching is the most important occupation (second only to parenting -- which, by my observation, is failing and depending on teaching more and more) and I would say you are of a beautifully courageous type to pursue such a respectable profession.
Much luck, and thank you for listening to my humble opinion.
Thank God Sex is not licensed under GPL or everyone would get to watch! -- me
i think i would be more scared that i would have to give up my sexual secrets! (after all, as a guy i have the express interest of not giving my competition any pointers...)
I don't know if in 2.ed kernels Linus still likes the "small patch" idea. but this is pretty amazing. I am no kernel coder, but some of these tests showed 600% percent improvement and (seemed to me to be) impressive scaling. All the kernel gurus out there, what is the chance that this will make it into the kernel? (2.5)
Linux for sure. I don't understand why we shouldn't be "hoping" for Linux on the desktop by 2004. I can understand that a lot of people don't think that granny could use Linux "out of the box." Well, hey. she can't use windows "out of the box" either. I use blackbox at home and my mother has never figured out how to use anything but she has figured out KDE and Kword and Konq. that is all she needs. Now i won't lie; we need much better microsoft compatibility for office documents, but openoffice doesn't do too bad of a job and by 2004 they will have become staroffice 6. maybe 6.5 or something.
anyway. enough babble. linux is here to stay, we all admit that. i think we can also admit that linux is only getting better, and better faster than MS (even if it is catching up right now.) so, using the much fabled idea of "math" and "logic" I predict that at some point they will pass MS.
"what about drivers?"
hey, when i started using slackware back in 96' there were NO drivers. now i can get drivers from quite a few HW distributers. Not to mention the fact that i prefer the OSS drivers. they are nice. (and ideologically i refused to use closed code so nvidia isn't gonna be doing anything 3d for me) but OEMs figure these things out, though slowly, and soon enough there will be enough driver-power for linux to contend with MS.
I grew up in china (a white guy) and have stayed in caves with peasants whos sons are off in the local town/city working and then buying their parents VCD players and TVs. Computers in the cave? no. but he has a motorcycle and a lot of chickens.
because, as much as i don't care for terrorism, i also don't care for my CPU cycles working towards creating precedent so someday they can call me a terrorist and find and kill me.
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you should have to have a bumper sticker or something.
The last thing I need is to be driving to work in the morning, listening to my favorite radio station, and I stop by your car at a stop light and hear some god damned Punk Rock music or whatever you kids are listening to these days over MY radio!
What ever happened to the days when people listened to The Eagles?
(Note: It's a joke, and I like the eagles, and I don't drive to work, and as long as your "Punk Rock" can't stop my 2pac CD, I'm happy)
GNU/Linux to run on this thing?
I'm not super programmer, but I'd be quite happy if some kid (or adult) somewhere figured out how to make one of these a nice little computer system.
After all, a $200 computer for the parents and a happy smile (for taking the cost out of Gate's pocket) would make a happy, happy man. (Is there something wrong when you feel joy at another man's loss?)
but i am 17 and have lived in 4 countries (depending on how you count taiwan, 5) and, generally, have learned about history from 3-4 more perspectives than the average American. so... this kid may not have lived anywhere else or experienced a global perspective... but most adults 40+ haven't experienced what some 17 year-olds have.
ah, and i don't appreciate your agism... this kid may have taken all that from his parents... maybe. but what i know i know because i lived it. so maybe he's the same.
More Super Radio Thingy
Okay.. i spent 10 minutes making YOUR shower better... now _I_ feel dirty. you had better like this...
*grumbles to himself for being so damned altruistic*
Super Radio Thingy
i don't know if this was the product i remembered from way back when... but it does the same thing.
enjoy your shower.
but way back when there was a product that allowed you to have your computer output your mp3's so they could be picked up with a regular radio (within a range of something like 100 feet)... so.. they're lots of waterproof radios... so hook up one of these mp3->radio setups and listen with a radio.
(sorry.. checked on google... but at 1:30 i'm only gonna spend about 4 seconds trying to solve another guy's shower troubles...)
>I tried it several times during 2001 it was slow and crashed all the flaming time.
:) (hey... i remember the 2001 days too.. but from 641c to d it has been quite an impressive improvement)
still stuck in 2001 my friend. its 2002!
i'd say OO has become quite the zippy beast. 6 seconds for "./soffice" on my K7/1Ghz/256MB... not exactly THE beast... but one of them
I was really confused for a while before I realized that, at least in America, "Wang" is said Wuh-ang... not Wuh-ah-ng... as it is said (at least) in China...
Then again, i know nothing about the company... but wang, the chinese way, can mean good things (depending on tone, it can mean things like king)
i guess that is one of those culture shock bits...
Here's the difference. Lets take the aztecs as an example. they sacrificed MASS amounts of slaves/prisoners/lower class citizens to keep the sun turning. they truly believed that if they didn't provide human sacrifices to the sun then it would stop turning and they would all die. scientifically inept, in this way yes (though they had amazingly advanced science otherwise). but not barbaric. they wanted to keep the sun turning.
when they went to war they took over places with brute force, but they didn't slaughter people. they came in, said "fight us, you'll lose." they won, then they took the prisoners back as slaves or whatnot. they didn't rape, pillage, or mass murder them. (except when they came back to sacrifice them to keep the sun turning.)
they didn't think their people superior. they just wanted to keep the earth alive (and get land.)
so when the spaniards came and started raping and pillaging... it was just repugnant and suprising. to kill just to show your superiority or to rape women as "plunder" was barbaric to them (and in the universal sence!)
so, yes, i would say the europeans, for whatever reasons, were more sick-minded than the natives. and the chinese. (i tie that to different interpretations of "knowledge is power." the chinese believed that "knowledge is power." in its most basic sense. just having the knowledge is being powerful. with the europeans it is more "knowledge is power, if you apply the knowledge to get power."
look at gunpowder and the compass. the chinese had it forever... but didn't go and take over the world (khan did.. but he was mongolian). the europeans saw the gunpowder... and gave it its current name.
people can hate the chinese all they want, but they have never been as pugnacious as the europeans of days past have been. (and the days when they were aren't long since past...)
Who said a GNU/Linux box couldn't run modern games! I'll show them!
Umm... he asked for "free." Now, I agree that 2 cents isn't a lot... but maybe this guy is on a tight budget...
that the very best benifit from all of this is that OEM's (the big ones who never think about us poor linux guys) will develop _good_ drivers for CUPS... which will be just as useful for linux as they are for OS X. (if my understanding of the drivers is correct)
Meaning that driver support will skyrocket for linux, which, to many, is the only thing "holding linux back." (I know a few buddies who would have switched 100% to linux if they could get their printers to work)
My best guess, and I've got no inside information, is that the metered rate is simply mimicing the ad views. For instance, the ad company give /. 0.005 cents per page view. So instead of having the ad company give /. 0.005 per page view, the /. subscribers give them the meager amount.
Or am I wrong here?
question above. pls answer. much appreciated. :)
(see screenshot of the browser)
"The government of any country is formed by the people of said country. And all those peoples are responsible for the actions of the government."
This is interesting... so you are saying that the American people are responsible for the actions of their gov't... So if I think that America is doing something evil, I can destroy a couple of privately owned business towers to fight against the American government?
Just checking.
I just thought...
:))
have something for them to read to further their ideas (if they become interested in the book.)
some good ol' Locke (Essay on Human Understanding) or More's Utopia, or even go back to (a favorite) Plato and do the Republic. Maybe there are better examples (hey! I'm a high school student who spends 25 hours a week doing extra curricular activities.. i can only have so much time to read philosophy.. and these books aren't thin) but I just think it would be smart to be prepared for "that kid" who really gets into this and asks you for something else to consume... And maybe if you get this one kid to care about the love of wisdom/knowledge (the definition of philosophy) we will have the next Sartre, Camus, Descartes, or Paine. (at least that is my hope
I fell your pain (from the perspective of a high school senior.)
I do find this question interesting (though I would like to know if you intended on asking the adults who frequent or the l33t kids who do) because it raises the issue of the master-disciple relationship and the Socratic method (which has been mentioned.)
As Xunzi said, "Though the blue dye comes from the indigo plant, it is bluer than indigo." (referring to the dye as the student and the plant as the teacher with the student being bluer because of ages of re-dying from the plant -- hence being taught) Just as was the case with Plato and Socrates (and Aristotle and Plato, and Xunzi and Confucius) the master did (if they were good masters) hope for the student to be able to bring some wisdom back to the teacher after they have presented what they are capable of presenting.
So, as the Socratic method states, come in with some (well thought out) ideas (I liked the one about giving up civil liberties and such) and then play the role of Socrates (who, at least in the Republic, would insist that he was wrong and ask to be "corrected") and watch them ponder examples that one who isn't a high school student (any longer) couldn't fathom.
I started a Philosopher's Club here (at my high school) based entirely on the apparent willingness of all great (teachers and) philosopher's to facilitate discussion and then to sit back and ask (instead of preach) about their ideas.
I can (warning: slightly off topic) sympathize with the difficulty in what I have proposed. It isn't so easy to get people interested in the depth of meaning in a book (or any other work.) I see it everyday. We live (at least at my high school) a life where the trouble associated with (with respect to the ease of switching on digital cable and choosing from our 700 channels) thinking makes it unpopular. This can also be a theme in your unit, however, since the parallel with the people in the book just watching their movie-walls and "taking life as it is handed to them" is easily drawn (though not easily accepted by people who it applies to.)
So I wish you the best of luck and I beg you allow me to give you this honor: teaching is the most important occupation (second only to parenting -- which, by my observation, is failing and depending on teaching more and more) and I would say you are of a beautifully courageous type to pursue such a respectable profession.
Much luck, and thank you for listening to my humble opinion.
I'm thinking this must be how people get their first "first post." boring topics that no one is going to stay up to reply to. (well, except me.)
Thank God Sex is not licensed under GPL or everyone would get to watch! -- me
i think i would be more scared that i would have to give up my sexual secrets! (after all, as a guy i have the express interest of not giving my competition any pointers...)
of myself)
I don't know if in 2.ed kernels Linus still likes the "small patch" idea. but this is pretty amazing. I am no kernel coder, but some of these tests showed 600% percent improvement and (seemed to me to be) impressive scaling. All the kernel gurus out there, what is the chance that this will make it into the kernel? (2.5)
Linux for sure. I don't understand why we shouldn't be "hoping" for Linux on the desktop by 2004. I can understand that a lot of people don't think that granny could use Linux "out of the box." Well, hey. she can't use windows "out of the box" either. I use blackbox at home and my mother has never figured out how to use anything but she has figured out KDE and Kword and Konq. that is all she needs. Now i won't lie; we need much better microsoft compatibility for office documents, but openoffice doesn't do too bad of a job and by 2004 they will have become staroffice 6. maybe 6.5 or something.
anyway. enough babble. linux is here to stay, we all admit that. i think we can also admit that linux is only getting better, and better faster than MS (even if it is catching up right now.) so, using the much fabled idea of "math" and "logic" I predict that at some point they will pass MS.
"what about drivers?"
hey, when i started using slackware back in 96' there were NO drivers. now i can get drivers from quite a few HW distributers. Not to mention the fact that i prefer the OSS drivers. they are nice. (and ideologically i refused to use closed code so nvidia isn't gonna be doing anything 3d for me) but OEMs figure these things out, though slowly, and soon enough there will be enough driver-power for linux to contend with MS.
I grew up in china (a white guy) and have stayed in caves with peasants whos sons are off in the local town/city working and then buying their parents VCD players and TVs. Computers in the cave? no. but he has a motorcycle and a lot of chickens.
It is in SiChuan. it is called chongqing. (on the yangze river)... it is a municipality the size of austria with 30M+ people.
because, as much as i don't care for terrorism, i also don't care for my CPU cycles working towards creating precedent so someday they can call me a terrorist and find and kill me.
I think it is obvious. debian, apt-get update/upgrade nightly. and you are set.
*poof*