I believe tax money funds CSPAN as well, which was wall-to-wall impeachment at the time.
I haven't finished talking to you yet.
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A learning experience involves taking a 12 guage to the TV
And the precise lesson here would be what? That if you don't like something it's OK to destroy it? That violence solves problems? The nasty dinosaur won't get you so long as you have a gun handy?
Speaking as the possessor of an extremely good education, it's overrated. Being able to solve problems is not as important as being able to identify which problems are important in the first place. If you cannot realize that my family, where the children watch 75% less television that the national average and 100% less commercial television, is not the problem, then maybe you are too educated.
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I'm betting my children's emotional and intellectual wellbeing on it. Do you know of higher stakes?
Children are supposed to giggle. I would hate to live in your world, where there are no more discoveries no more misteries [sic]. I still discover stuff every day, and there are many mysteries (like the 2.3 Linux kernel).
Small children do not learn on a 101/201/301 schedule. They are constantly relearning everything they know. they need a balance of challenge, guidance and passive learning, as well as giggling and running around in circles until they fall over.
I wouldn't read Lord of the Rings to either of them yet. When they get old enough to appreciate it, I will. Currently we read a lot of Thomas the Tank Engine (the Rev. Awdry originals, not the Britt Alcroft crap) and Arthur.
Just because the TV is on does not make it a babysitter. Children can learn from TV, a particular point of PBS. On Monday we had a child development person from KTCA (Twin Cities PBS station) to our house to talk to our daycare provider, some of her other parents, my sister-in-law and other friends about how to use TV as an education aid. No doubt this is a flagrant misuse of Rombuu's money, but if it reduces "TV babysitting" I think it's worthwhile.
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Teletubbies "for children who are already thinking but only just starting to speak". She also appears to enjoy Barney.
I know she appears to enjoy it because I am in the room when she watches (or my wife is). Then we turn the TV off and play similar games, or dance similar dances. It reinforces the learning experience.
I didn't want to watch your president's sex life being talked about for weeks on end. I could have turned off the TV. But no-one gave me the choice of whether or not I wanted to pay for it.
Save my tax dollars for impeachments!
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My tax dollars go to PBS too. At least you get a vote to decide how they get spent. #include "taxation_without_representation_rant.h"
Discovery and A&E do not show anything suitable for my children (3 years and 10 months respectively). While the content of childrens programming on other networks can be good, the content of the adverts is totally unacceptable. Like the ad last year that had Santa on the rocket powered sleigh and the red battle armor. Almost ruined my 3 year old's Christmas. We fired a babysitter because we caught her watching WB while the kids were in the room.
That's why I donate additional money to PBS. I just wish that once you give them money you could turn off the appeals and go back to the programming (maybe with multicasting;-).
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Not that I think the RIAA will take the slightest bit of notice. SDMI has more manufacturers and content providers behind it than Divx did. However, the similarities are there to threaten them with the same fate.
Anyone would think you guys had never done anything just because you could. I've been playing with this all morning, and although admittedly it's sucked my batteries dry (they were already low) the search speed on "Find" is way impressive.
The FAQ says that the next version will be able to set the clock rate individually by application. That would be really useful - a nice comporomise between speed and battery life. Too bad "Find" isn't an app.
How many years between Gen X and Gen Next? And then how many between Gen Next & the Millenials?
Since this is a piece of marketing, we have to use marketers definitions of generation, which appears to be logarithmic. "At least" a generation could be five minutes by the end of next year.
I long for a world without the RIAA and recording artists in general. No more Spice Girls, or similar groups that can only put out 3 minutes of acceptable audio if you lock them in a studio for a whole day.
Also (AIUI & IANAL) you can't unfairly restrict other people from using your patent. You can charge royalties, but they have to be reasonable. If Nintendo patents their technology, they have to let the emulator writers use those patents. Words in italics have their meanings determined by a judge.
Or do what many people at my company do: have one "managed" PC with all the corporate tools on it, and then a box under your own control where you can get some real work done.
I love the emails they send out, like "tonight we are upgrading your desktop to VB6.0. You must be logged out. The install will take 2 hours and 5 reboots." I kid you not
-- Rupert @ TechEd Windows2000 will save the world.
This is especially interesting for me, as we are designing a new POS system at my employer right now, and the OSes being considered are NT Embedded and CE 3.0. All because our Pentium-equivalent, 48Mb RAM registers won't handle NT5.0! At least Linux exists!
I'll keep fighting. I had a great opportunity this morning when someone was warning of the dangers of M$ switching tracks on us and leaving us with unsupported technology. I pointed out that if we had the source code to the OS that that couldn't happen. Linux again? they groaned. Oh well, at least they know what I'm talking about, even if they don't agree.
RSI as I understand it is caused by the repetitive action, and only exacerbated by the poor ergonomics of most keyboards. The only cure is for motion detectors on the fingernails and to type on air.
They're also the prime candidates for dying in a traffic accident, but I haven't seen any irrational spoutings on traffic laws.
One of the toughest parts of being a parent is letting your kids into the big, nasty world outside. You just hope that when they get to school, or out on the web, or wherever, that they have enough knowledge and confidence to handle whatever the world throws at them. You don't want your kids looking at porn? Tell them not to. Tell them that porn is out there, and it can be harmful. That's what I tell my kids about churches.
Gosh, you people are touchy. I make an innocent little comment about how if you really wanted to find the fastest web server under $5k you wouldn't be buying Dells and I get flamed.
We use Dells at work, and I really like them. The 2300 is a bit widgy for what I do (currently using 6100s, going to 6300s), and if you buy them by the thousand they get really cheap, but for a one-off competition they are not a low cost option.
BTW that was my first/. post. Now I feel all rejected. Sniff.
It's not a deal, it's a Dell. If they'd gone to the bother of finding the fastest PC under $5k and putting Linux/Apache on it they might not have been able to prove their point.
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I believe tax money funds CSPAN as well, which was wall-to-wall impeachment at the time.
A learning experience involves taking a 12 guage to the TV
And the precise lesson here would be what? That if you don't like something it's OK to destroy it? That violence solves problems? The nasty dinosaur won't get you so long as you have a gun handy?
Speaking as the possessor of an extremely good education, it's overrated. Being able to solve problems is not as important as being able to identify which problems are important in the first place. If you cannot realize that my family, where the children watch 75% less television that the national average and 100% less commercial television, is not the problem, then maybe you are too educated.
I'm betting my children's emotional and intellectual wellbeing on it. Do you know of higher stakes?
Children are supposed to giggle. I would hate to live in your world, where there are no more discoveries no more misteries [sic]. I still discover stuff every day, and there are many mysteries (like the 2.3 Linux kernel).
Small children do not learn on a 101/201/301 schedule. They are constantly relearning everything they know. they need a balance of challenge, guidance and passive learning, as well as giggling and running around in circles until they fall over.
I wouldn't read Lord of the Rings to either of them yet. When they get old enough to appreciate it, I will. Currently we read a lot of Thomas the Tank Engine (the Rev. Awdry originals, not the Britt Alcroft crap) and Arthur.
Just because the TV is on does not make it a babysitter. Children can learn from TV, a particular point of PBS. On Monday we had a child development person from KTCA (Twin Cities PBS station) to our house to talk to our daycare provider, some of her other parents, my sister-in-law and other friends about how to use TV as an education aid. No doubt this is a flagrant misuse of Rombuu's money, but if it reduces "TV babysitting" I think it's worthwhile.
Teletubbies "for children who are already thinking but only just starting to speak". She also appears to enjoy Barney.
I know she appears to enjoy it because I am in the room when she watches (or my wife is). Then we turn the TV off and play similar games, or dance similar dances. It reinforces the learning experience.
I didn't want to watch your president's sex life being talked about for weeks on end. I could have turned off the TV. But no-one gave me the choice of whether or not I wanted to pay for it.
My tax dollars go to PBS too. At least you get a vote to decide how they get spent.
;-).
#include "taxation_without_representation_rant.h"
Discovery and A&E do not show anything suitable for my children (3 years and 10 months respectively). While the content of childrens programming on other networks can be good, the content of the adverts is totally unacceptable. Like the ad last year that had Santa on the rocket powered sleigh and the red battle armor. Almost ruined my 3 year old's Christmas. We fired a babysitter because we caught her watching WB while the kids were in the room.
That's why I donate additional money to PBS. I just wish that once you give them money you could turn off the appeals and go back to the programming (maybe with multicasting
Not that I think the RIAA will take the slightest bit of notice. SDMI has more manufacturers and content providers behind it than Divx did. However, the similarities are there to threaten them with the same fate.
Anyone would think you guys had never done anything just because you could. I've been playing with this all morning, and although admittedly it's sucked my batteries dry (they were already low) the search speed on "Find" is way impressive.
The FAQ says that the next version will be able to set the clock rate individually by application. That would be really useful - a nice comporomise between speed and battery life. Too bad "Find" isn't an app.
How many years between Gen X and Gen Next? And then how many between Gen Next & the Millenials?
Since this is a piece of marketing, we have to use marketers definitions of generation, which appears to be logarithmic. "At least" a generation could be five minutes by the end of next year.
I long for a world without the RIAA and recording artists in general. No more Spice Girls, or similar groups that can only put out 3 minutes of acceptable audio if you lock them in a studio for a whole day.
Also (AIUI & IANAL) you can't unfairly restrict other people from using your patent. You can charge royalties, but they have to be reasonable. If Nintendo patents their technology, they have to let the emulator writers use those patents. Words in italics have their meanings determined by a judge.
Or do what many people at my company do: have one "managed" PC with all the corporate tools on it, and then a box under your own control where you can get some real work done.
I love the emails they send out, like "tonight we are upgrading your desktop to VB6.0. You must be logged out. The install will take 2 hours and 5 reboots." I kid you not
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Rupert @ TechEd
Windows2000 will save the world.
From what I can gather, Burlington Coat Factory is retaining its DOS POS application. Jay Jacobs, on the other hand, is going Linux at POS.
This is especially interesting for me, as we are designing a new POS system at my employer right now, and the OSes being considered are NT Embedded and CE 3.0. All because our Pentium-equivalent, 48Mb RAM registers won't handle NT5.0! At least Linux exists!
I'll keep fighting. I had a great opportunity this morning when someone was warning of the dangers of M$ switching tracks on us and leaving us with unsupported technology. I pointed out that if we had the source code to the OS that that couldn't happen. Linux again? they groaned. Oh well, at least they know what I'm talking about, even if they don't agree.
It is referred to as the "Queen's English", so I suppose she owns it.
...the under-the-ass keyboard.
RSI as I understand it is caused by the repetitive action, and only exacerbated by the poor ergonomics of most keyboards. The only cure is for motion detectors on the fingernails and to type on air.
They're also the prime candidates for dying in a traffic accident, but I haven't seen any irrational spoutings on traffic laws.
One of the toughest parts of being a parent is letting your kids into the big, nasty world outside. You just hope that when they get to school, or out on the web, or wherever, that they have enough knowledge and confidence to handle whatever the world throws at them. You don't want your kids looking at porn? Tell them not to. Tell them that porn is out there, and it can be harmful. That's what I tell my kids about churches.
I think it was being on Cruel Site of the Day that did them in.
Gosh, you people are touchy. I make an innocent little comment about how if you really wanted to find the fastest web server under $5k you wouldn't be buying Dells and I get flamed.
/. post. Now I feel all rejected. Sniff.
We use Dells at work, and I really like them. The 2300 is a bit widgy for what I do (currently using 6100s, going to 6300s), and if you buy them by the thousand they get really cheap, but for a one-off competition they are not a low cost option.
BTW that was my first
It's not a deal, it's a Dell. If they'd gone to the bother of finding the fastest PC under $5k and putting Linux/Apache on it they might not have been able to prove their point.