"I'm an agnostic psuedo-Jew" Wouldn't that be a "cultural Jew". Pseudo means false and I am assuming that you are Jewish by birth but are not practicing.
And yes I know people that are offended by Merry Christmas. Heck I know people that are offended by any mention of anything to do with Christianity at all. What is so weird is that at least on of them is perfectly willing to go to Hindu religious festivals, Native American Festivals, and "celebrated Hanukkah".
Yes it is. It is just silly. I have a friend that is Jewish. She says Happy Hanukkah to me and I say Merry Christmas to her. It is offensive because it really is Christmas. I am sorry if you have issues dealing with being left out. You don't have to be but it is intolerant to expect people to change just to make you comfortable. It would be like me moving to Isrial or Sudia Arabia and getting bent that they have the nerve to celebrate Yom Kippur or Ramadan! Or for me to try an create a harvest festival that happens around Yom Kippur and try to say that it is just as important. That is offensive, Merry Christmas isn't.
I live in South FL. I can tell you that Cells don't work as well as landlines during and right after hurricanes. For all the crap they pull Bell South did the best job of all the utilities in keeping there system up. I could never go with Vontage simply because my cable modem is down more often than it is up.
As I said everybody has at least one jerk teacher in their life.
They didn't level that class because it was a real BS class. The year before I took it they called it Communism vs Democracy. The changed it to a less Doctor Stranglove like comparative government the year I took it. I think it has be replaced with Economics. Just to show you how things never change I graduated High School in 83. Of course I would have never had gotten into trouble changing fonts on my english paper. Way hard to do it when your word processor was a No. 2 pencil. I actually had a teacher freak out because I used my brand new Commodore 64 to write a school paper. She thought that it was so weird that I would take the time to type draft and that then I could make the changes and retype it so by the next day:)
"* Put government data online for citizen access, analysis, commentary, and action. The document cites environmental data on pollution as one type that could be made available." Nice but a lot of data is already on line. Most people never use it.
"* Effectively "crowd-sourcing" (though that term isn't used) some amount of agency decision-making by tapping the public's distributed expertise." Wonderful take a look at Digg sometime. Without some way to vet the source of the expertise you have no idea the value of it. Slashdot's system is far from perfect. I have had a post of mine that was totally wrong get high mods when someone that corrected me be modded down. For the most part it will just be ignored.
"* Build an online database that enables citizens to track federal grants, contracts, earmarks, and lobbyist contacts with government officials." It would be useful but will never happen. The democrats like their pork just as much as the Republicans do. My democratic senator fought long and hard to keep an old aircraft carrier that the navy wanted to mothball. He used fighting terrorism as the excuse but the real answer was that it was stationed in my home state.
"* Give "the American public an opportunity to review and comment on the White House web site for five days before signing any non-emergency legislation."" Go read the comments on your local newspapers website sometime... We can really hope that most of these will be ignored.
Obama maybe a good choice I haven't looked too hard at him yet since I am a registered Republican. My wife is a registered Democrat and really isn't thrilled with Obama or Clinton. Since she has her degree in Political Science I tend to listen to her on opinion on things like legal policies and such. She tends to listen to mine on Science, Energy, and the Military because of my background.
Over all I am disappointed that things like energy policy and competing global have been largely ignored why Immigration has jumped to the forefront.
"I suspect the OP is talking about things like scheduler performance, task switch latency, per-thread overhead, etc." But that doesn't make a lot of sense. You don't put that into a programing language at all. And if you want to start a fight over scheduler performance Linux is probably the best of all possible OS's to do it on. It was an off topic flame at Microsoft. I am not a big windows fan but this is just dumb.
Hey it happens to everyone at least once. I had a Social Studies teacher in seventh grade that took us to the Library one day a week to do "extra credit". It was the stupidest busy work you can imagine. I think we had to find books using the card catalog or something just as dumb. Since I had a 100+ average in the class I used the time to draw airplanes. I got sent to the deans office for not doing the extra credit.
Your case does seem stupid but looking at it from her point of view I can see the logic. If she had let you do that other project then other students that where not as bright as you might also try to do other stuff. It would have been too hard for her to try and police who could and couldn't do an outside project. Plus we have the famous battle cry of teenagers... It isn't fair.... For you to do that project in class when other students couldn't. The teacher probably should have figured something else for you to do that was class related. Maybe she just didn't have time to deal with you right then.
Way back when I was in high school we had to take a class called comparative government. Basically it was "communism bad democracy good". It was in no way leveled so every class was a mix of students. A friend and I where in the class together and we really liked the subject. We kept asking questions and having discussions. The poor teacher finally took us to one side and explained that some kids where going to fail that class if we kept it up. He would bring in extra books for us to read and we could ask him questions after class if we wanted too. We both got an A in the class with no real effort. That teacher had limited amount of time and we where taking up too much of it. It happens, teachers are not perfect and I would like to think that most of them do the best they can with the resources available.
Let me tell you a story. We had a guy at my office that really knew Foxpro. He wanted to write some programs for internal use in Foxpro. Nobody in this office knew Foxpro and we really didn't want to learn it. We told him he could use Foxpro but he would have to use Postgres as the back end. Well he couldn't figure out how to use Postgres as the back end and then tried created a little utility. He was told to not put his little utility into production until it was tested. He did and it caused issues with one of our mission critical apps. He later left. Had we let him build big parts of our infrastructure with Fox we would be in a world of hurt. Was Foxpro a better tool. For him personally yes since he knew it. For the company no.
This story was a total fraud from the start. It never happened but if it had. Why would Firefox be a better tool than IE? Yes I use FF and have it customized to work they way I want it but would IE have in anyway made the job harder?
"Parents, Grandparents, good friends, etc might be looking to get someone a Wii for year-end Holidays (in whatever form they choose to celebrate)." It is called Christmas! That is the Holiday that most people are celebrating even if they are not Christians. Any one that is looking for a Wii as a Hanukkah present is an idiot or really shopping ahead since it ended about five days ago. It is Christmas or Hanukkah...
"It's as simple as that. Treat them with respect and they'll treat you with respect." You really think that if you treat EVERY teenager with "respect" they will treat you with respect? What is worse is that the "teacher" never did a thing wrong! This was a fraud, scam, lie, a work of fiction.
That it was a fraud. I am surprised that even I fell for it. 1. Why would the teacher call it Firefox.exe? They where smart enough to figure out the name of the executable but don't know what firefox is? 2. Why put down that much detail for a two hour detention? "After being asked twice the student refused to follow the teachers instructions". Or the teacher could have just put down. "Student failed to follow school policy."
We where scammed and will now probably end up on snopes.com.
I find it funny that you think it is reasonable to trust a students opinion on what programs should or should not be installed on a PC? Ever see a computer that is used by a teen? Ever clean the malware off a computer used by the average teen?
What teachers hate are know it all students that try to make the teacher look stupid. This teacher could have been an art teacher, english teacher, or goodness know what. Why should they have to know EVERY browser on the planet? If you will READ you will find that the teacher asked the student twice before the student was sent to the office. Yea I was a smart kid also. I often knew more than my teachers on some subject. As I have gotten older I have learned that there is a right way and a wrong way to do things. In this case it looks like the kid picked the wrong way.
A high school shouldn't have to lock down ANYTHING. In High School you are old enough to drive or soon will be. Just because it is possible to do something it doesn't mean that it is okay. I see time and time again people on slashdot saying that teenagers are no children. Well it is real simple. The rule is that you do what the teacher asks you within reason. If the teacher says use IE then you use I. If you have a problem with it take it up with the teacher after class. In other words handle it like an adult.
Hat to point out facts but the 2.4 unregulated spectrum predates Bush. 802.11b was made an official standard in 1999. It had to be in the works for years before that. When the FCC made the 2.4 ghz spectrum I doubt that they ever dreamed of every joe on the planet having a wifi network, wireless phone, wireless mouse, wireless keyboard, and a cell phone with Bluetooth. So yea partition hack sounds very accurate.
But Windows doesn't provide any less help with multi-threaded programming than Linux. An OS could provide sort libraries and implement multi threaded solutions but I haven't seen Linux provide them anymore than Windows does. I will say this much. If any effort is put into the average Linux distro to improve multi-threaded support please let it be in X-Windows. As far as I know X is still single threaded.
"But seriously, isn't the OS responsible for the heavy lifting with regards to task scheduling and concurrency? Oh, wait, this is Microsoft, right? Perhaps this is similar to their take on Security being somebody else's problem." Huhhh? My guess is that you never wrote any code. Linux doesn't do any more heavy lifting for you than Windows does. I doubt that OS/X does. So what are you talking about. An OS will never figure out what part of your program is going to need to be in which thread. A compiler MAY at some time do it but they are just now doing a good job with vectors.
"At best they get a version which was skewed and slanted through the prism of their family religion." All morals have a religious foundation. What you are talking about is ethics. I am very afraid that most people don't get any religious instruction at home. Most of the people I know at work don't take their kids to church. We have a have a world where parents are letting children figure out sex, ethics, morals, and religion for themselves. Just not a good idea.
"In copyright parlance, 'piracy' means large scale commercial reproduction and resale of copies." So piracy wouldn't be used to describe a TV station that broadcast a copy of a show and sold ads without the paying for that right? As much as I don't like the RIAA and MPAA many web sites like Pirate's Bay do just that.
But the US rarely attacks to gain territory. During the first two wars why didn't evey civilian leave Iraq? They knew that US troops where going to attack. The US attacks enemy combat troops and not civilians. They do their best to just take out the enemy and leave the Civilians alive.
"morally speaking, when attacking an enemy town, you should give everyone a warning and a chance to get away from it before attacking.
something like going on the loudspeakers and giving a warning in any possible language the people there might understand. tell them which way is open for escape, then give sufficient time for everyone to get away. after that, you can turn the place into a parking lot to save the lives of your soldiers."
It also gives the enemy time to leave, move in prisoners, move in human shields to become victims, prepare for the attack, get ready to mount a counter attack. If you don't think people would do that then you are just nuts.
"eliminating the 1500 lb airbags for landing has its appeal"
"Landing on land lets it be lighter, check."
The airbags are used for landing on LAND. They are not flotation devices. Any thing that can fly is going to light enough float on water if it doesn't leak. The airbags are to reduce the impact.
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"I'm an agnostic psuedo-Jew"
Wouldn't that be a "cultural Jew". Pseudo means false and I am assuming that you are Jewish by birth but are not practicing.
And yes I know people that are offended by Merry Christmas. Heck I know people that are offended by any mention of anything to do with Christianity at all. What is so weird is that at least on of them is perfectly willing to go to Hindu religious festivals, Native American Festivals, and "celebrated Hanukkah".
Yes it is. It is just silly.
I have a friend that is Jewish. She says Happy Hanukkah to me and I say Merry Christmas to her. It is offensive because it really is Christmas. I am sorry if you have issues dealing with being left out. You don't have to be but it is intolerant to expect people to change just to make you comfortable. It would be like me moving to Isrial or Sudia Arabia and getting bent that they have the nerve to celebrate Yom Kippur or Ramadan! Or for me to try an create a harvest festival that happens around Yom Kippur and try to say that it is just as important.
That is offensive, Merry Christmas isn't.
I live in South FL. I can tell you that Cells don't work as well as landlines during and right after hurricanes. For all the crap they pull Bell South did the best job of all the utilities in keeping there system up. I could never go with Vontage simply because my cable modem is down more often than it is up.
As I said everybody has at least one jerk teacher in their life.
:)
They didn't level that class because it was a real BS class. The year before I took it they called it Communism vs Democracy. The changed it to a less Doctor Stranglove like comparative government the year I took it. I think it has be replaced with Economics. Just to show you how things never change I graduated High School in 83.
Of course I would have never had gotten into trouble changing fonts on my english paper. Way hard to do it when your word processor was a No. 2 pencil. I actually had a teacher freak out because I used my brand new Commodore 64 to write a school paper. She thought that it was so weird that I would take the time to type draft and that then I could make the changes and retype it so by the next day
"* Put government data online for citizen access, analysis, commentary, and action. The document cites environmental data on pollution as one type that could be made available."
Nice but a lot of data is already on line. Most people never use it.
"* Effectively "crowd-sourcing" (though that term isn't used) some amount of agency decision-making by tapping the public's distributed expertise."
Wonderful take a look at Digg sometime. Without some way to vet the source of the expertise you have no idea the value of it. Slashdot's system is far from perfect. I have had a post of mine that was totally wrong get high mods when someone that corrected me be modded down. For the most part it will just be ignored.
"* Build an online database that enables citizens to track federal grants, contracts, earmarks, and lobbyist contacts with government officials." It would be useful but will never happen. The democrats like their pork just as much as the Republicans do. My democratic senator fought long and hard to keep an old aircraft carrier that the navy wanted to mothball. He used fighting terrorism as the excuse but the real answer was that it was stationed in my home state.
"* Give "the American public an opportunity to review and comment on the White House web site for five days before signing any non-emergency legislation.""
Go read the comments on your local newspapers website sometime... We can really hope that most of these will be ignored.
Obama maybe a good choice I haven't looked too hard at him yet since I am a registered Republican. My wife is a registered Democrat and really isn't thrilled with Obama or Clinton. Since she has her degree in Political Science I tend to listen to her on opinion on things like legal policies and such. She tends to listen to mine on Science, Energy, and the Military because of my background.
Over all I am disappointed that things like energy policy and competing global have been largely ignored why Immigration has jumped to the forefront.
"I suspect the OP is talking about things like scheduler performance, task switch latency, per-thread overhead, etc."
But that doesn't make a lot of sense. You don't put that into a programing language at all.
And if you want to start a fight over scheduler performance Linux is probably the best of all possible OS's to do it on.
It was an off topic flame at Microsoft. I am not a big windows fan but this is just dumb.
Hey it happens to everyone at least once.
I had a Social Studies teacher in seventh grade that took us to the Library one day a week to do "extra credit". It was the stupidest busy work you can imagine. I think we had to find books using the card catalog or something just as dumb.
Since I had a 100+ average in the class I used the time to draw airplanes. I got sent to the deans office for not doing the extra credit.
Your case does seem stupid but looking at it from her point of view I can see the logic. If she had let you do that other project then other students that where not as bright as you might also try to do other stuff. It would have been too hard for her to try and police who could and couldn't do an outside project. Plus we have the famous battle cry of teenagers... It isn't fair.... For you to do that project in class when other students couldn't.
The teacher probably should have figured something else for you to do that was class related. Maybe she just didn't have time to deal with you right then.
Way back when I was in high school we had to take a class called comparative government. Basically it was "communism bad democracy good".
It was in no way leveled so every class was a mix of students.
A friend and I where in the class together and we really liked the subject. We kept asking questions and having discussions. The poor teacher finally took us to one side and explained that some kids where going to fail that class if we kept it up. He would bring in extra books for us to read and we could ask him questions after class if we wanted too.
We both got an A in the class with no real effort. That teacher had limited amount of time and we where taking up too much of it.
It happens, teachers are not perfect and I would like to think that most of them do the best they can with the resources available.
Let me tell you a story. We had a guy at my office that really knew Foxpro. He wanted to write some programs for internal use in Foxpro. Nobody in this office knew Foxpro and we really didn't want to learn it. We told him he could use Foxpro but he would have to use Postgres as the back end. Well he couldn't figure out how to use Postgres as the back end and then tried created a little utility. He was told to not put his little utility into production until it was tested.
He did and it caused issues with one of our mission critical apps.
He later left.
Had we let him build big parts of our infrastructure with Fox we would be in a world of hurt. Was Foxpro a better tool. For him personally yes since he knew it. For the company no.
This story was a total fraud from the start. It never happened but if it had.
Why would Firefox be a better tool than IE? Yes I use FF and have it customized to work they way I want it but would IE have in anyway made the job harder?
"Parents, Grandparents, good friends, etc might be looking to get someone a Wii for year-end Holidays (in whatever form they choose to celebrate)."
It is called Christmas! That is the Holiday that most people are celebrating even if they are not Christians. Any one that is looking for a Wii as a Hanukkah present is an idiot or really shopping ahead since it ended about five days ago.
It is Christmas or Hanukkah...
"It's as simple as that. Treat them with respect and they'll treat you with respect."
You really think that if you treat EVERY teenager with "respect" they will treat you with respect?
What is worse is that the "teacher" never did a thing wrong! This was a fraud, scam, lie, a work of fiction.
That it was a fraud.
I am surprised that even I fell for it.
1. Why would the teacher call it Firefox.exe? They where smart enough to figure out the name of the executable but don't know what firefox is?
2. Why put down that much detail for a two hour detention? "After being asked twice the student refused to follow the teachers instructions". Or the teacher could have just put down. "Student failed to follow school policy."
We where scammed and will now probably end up on snopes.com.
I find it funny that you think it is reasonable to trust a students opinion on what programs should or should not be installed on a PC? Ever see a computer that is used by a teen? Ever clean the malware off a computer used by the average teen?
"Your link's message sounds like damage control PR to me."
And if it was a fraud then what would they say differently?
What teachers hate are know it all students that try to make the teacher look stupid. This teacher could have been an art teacher, english teacher, or goodness know what. Why should they have to know EVERY browser on the planet? If you will READ you will find that the teacher asked the student twice before the student was sent to the office.
Yea I was a smart kid also. I often knew more than my teachers on some subject. As I have gotten older I have learned that there is a right way and a wrong way to do things.
In this case it looks like the kid picked the wrong way.
A high school shouldn't have to lock down ANYTHING. In High School you are old enough to drive or soon will be. Just because it is possible to do something it doesn't mean that it is okay.
I see time and time again people on slashdot saying that teenagers are no children. Well it is real simple. The rule is that you do what the teacher asks you within reason. If the teacher says use IE then you use I. If you have a problem with it take it up with the teacher after class. In other words handle it like an adult.
Yes. After the first time I would. The correct way would be to take it up with the dean after the fact.
Hat to point out facts but the 2.4 unregulated spectrum predates Bush.
802.11b was made an official standard in 1999. It had to be in the works for years before that.
When the FCC made the 2.4 ghz spectrum I doubt that they ever dreamed of every joe on the planet having a wifi network, wireless phone, wireless mouse, wireless keyboard, and a cell phone with Bluetooth.
So yea partition hack sounds very accurate.
But Windows doesn't provide any less help with multi-threaded programming than Linux.
An OS could provide sort libraries and implement multi threaded solutions but I haven't seen Linux provide them anymore than Windows does.
I will say this much. If any effort is put into the average Linux distro to improve multi-threaded support please let it be in X-Windows. As far as I know X is still single threaded.
You really need to stop trying to be reasonable.
The Student was told twice to close Firefox and use IE.
He should have just fired up IE.
"But seriously, isn't the OS responsible for the heavy lifting with regards to task scheduling and concurrency? Oh, wait, this is Microsoft, right? Perhaps this is similar to their take on Security being somebody else's problem."
Huhhh?
My guess is that you never wrote any code.
Linux doesn't do any more heavy lifting for you than Windows does. I doubt that OS/X does.
So what are you talking about.
An OS will never figure out what part of your program is going to need to be in which thread. A compiler MAY at some time do it but they are just now doing a good job with vectors.
"At best they get a version which was skewed and slanted through the prism of their family religion."
All morals have a religious foundation. What you are talking about is ethics.
I am very afraid that most people don't get any religious instruction at home. Most of the people I know at work don't take their kids to church.
We have a have a world where parents are letting children figure out sex, ethics, morals, and religion for themselves. Just not a good idea.
"In copyright parlance, 'piracy' means large scale commercial reproduction and resale of copies."
So piracy wouldn't be used to describe a TV station that broadcast a copy of a show and sold ads without the paying for that right?
As much as I don't like the RIAA and MPAA many web sites like Pirate's Bay do just that.
Yep I made the assumption that the designers are not stupid.
But the US rarely attacks to gain territory. During the first two wars why didn't evey civilian leave Iraq?
They knew that US troops where going to attack.
The US attacks enemy combat troops and not civilians. They do their best to just take out the enemy and leave the Civilians alive.
"morally speaking, when attacking an enemy town, you should give everyone a warning and a chance to get away from it before attacking.
something like going on the loudspeakers and giving a warning in any possible language the people there might understand. tell them which way is open for escape, then give sufficient time for everyone to get away. after that, you can turn the place into a parking lot to save the lives of your soldiers."
It also gives the enemy time to leave, move in prisoners, move in human shields to become victims, prepare for the attack, get ready to mount a counter attack.
If you don't think people would do that then you are just nuts.
"eliminating the 1500 lb airbags for landing has its appeal"
"Landing on land lets it be lighter, check."
The airbags are used for landing on LAND.
They are not flotation devices. Any thing that can fly is going to light enough float on water if it doesn't leak.
The airbags are to reduce the impact.