Clicking on an icon and a couple of "next" buttons may be more convenient but... Have you ever come to the point where you decided you didn't like that particular piece of software and used the uninstall "feature"?
Yupp, RAM. Now I know it's the common Microsoftie excuse ("just throw more RAM at it"), but it just makes a huge difference. I think IBM recommends 48megs as min. requirement. BTW it also runs with 32, but it's slow, whereas with 128meg it's great. Personally, I think it's worth it...
I won't comment on the subject itself (musicians need to be paid for their music), altough I don't agree with you. Now maybe you had a good point in your post, or maybe not, but do you think you're going to convince anyone if you just keep insulting him?
I grew up in Switzerland where we have a similar system, and I totally agree with you, altough I never had realized it before.
I suffered somewhat in the early schoolyears because all the farmers kids (no offense) around were in the same classes, and would rather tear a good novel apart than read it. It was not until I got mad enough once and had a fight with another kid that I gained some respect.
But it got alot better later when those who didn't have any interest in intellectual work went to other schools while I prepared for university. We call the equivalent of US high school "College" (at least in the french part of Switzerland) and there the environment was already alot friendlier for so-called geeks. Hell, we were all geeks;).
Our programming class teacher, seeing that two friends of mine and me had alot more knowledge than the others let us skip the class altogether and create our own projects which would be rated. We made a civilization clone among others (I guess he also did this to save the other students from being continuously harassed by unknown "chatter" viruses, but that's and other story altogether).
Anyway my point was.. What was it again...(getting all nostalgic)
Yes, it seems to me that our educational system may be a good way to prevent this kind of problems. A counterpoint I see coming already is that this system excludes less gifted children of going to universtity. But I actually think the inverse is the case, because like in Holland, you can switch to the higher levels if your grades are sufficient.
Another thing is that in Switzerland there are only few US style private schools. It's actually the students who aren't able to follow the public schools that go to private ones.
Greetings from Cheeseland
PS: Sorry for all grammar/spelling/etc mistakes... there's still a large part of the world whose native language isn't english (mine is Pascal:/ )
Now compare the murder rate Seattle to a similar town in Switzerland where most houses contain fully automatic assault rifles and the like. Seattle's murder rate is going to be much, much higher.
[snip] WAIT A MINUTE!
I'm a swiss citizen and have completed my military service, which means that - yes - I have an automatic assault rifle in my house. BUT... Not everybody has an assault rifle in Switzerland, only those who have fullfilled their military service and been rated as "capable of carrying a gun" get one. In addition to this the ammo you get is enclosed and sealed and you are only allowed to open it in war situation (not complying is heavily punished by law). Also, we have to train using the gun every year. This does not mean going into the next forest and just shooting, but also safe manipulation etc.
Except for that, gun laws are very strict (as in the rest of Europe).
But even in this situation, we have had some ugly incidents of some weirdos using their army weapon to kill (often racist crimes). This would not have happened if those guns hadn't been in their possession.
A previous poster said that guns should be heavily regulated because they serve no other purpose than killing. I agree with that fully. Some people may be using firearms for sports, but the primary goal of firing a gun is still killing. We don't need to be able to kill (and if I remember correctly, the law even prohibits it in most countries;). So why should a normal person be allowed to carry a gun?
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Clicking on an icon and a couple of "next" buttons may be more convenient but... Have you ever come to the point where you decided you didn't like that particular piece of software and used the uninstall "feature"?
Yupp, RAM. Now I know it's the common Microsoftie excuse ("just throw more RAM at it"), but it just makes a huge difference. I think IBM recommends 48megs as min. requirement. BTW it also runs with 32, but it's slow, whereas with 128meg it's great. Personally, I think it's worth it...
I won't comment on the subject itself (musicians need to be paid for their music), altough I don't agree with you. Now maybe you had a good point in your post, or maybe not, but do you think you're going to convince anyone if you just keep insulting him?
>>Sami Tammilehto wins the second prize. Some large connectionless packets can cause crashes.
>So! Who else recognizes that name? Does the name 'Future Crew' ring a bell? ^_^/
>Hehe. It's nice to see that those guys are still hanging in there.
Shit the name sounds right. Would that be possible? I loved they're second reality demo so much (because of the soundtrack)... And screamtracker!
Hey Sami! Maybe you're even reading this! Yes you! What happened?
aaaanyway, nostalgia...
BEEEEEP!
>America is still far more tolerant of teen angst than any place in the world.
Where did you dig that up?
Not that it would matter to qualify any place in the world as "geek heaven"...
I grew up in Switzerland where we have a similar system, and I totally agree with you, altough I never had realized it before.
;).
:/ )
I suffered somewhat in the early schoolyears because all the farmers kids (no offense) around were in the same classes, and would rather tear a good novel apart than read it. It was not until I got mad enough once and had a fight with another kid that I gained some respect.
But it got alot better later when those who didn't have any interest in intellectual work went to other schools while I prepared for university. We call the equivalent of US high school "College" (at least in the french part of Switzerland) and there the environment was already alot friendlier for so-called geeks. Hell, we were all geeks
Our programming class teacher, seeing that two friends of mine and me had alot more knowledge than the others let us skip the class altogether and create our own projects which would be rated. We made a civilization clone among others (I guess he also did this to save the other students from being continuously harassed by unknown "chatter" viruses, but that's and other story altogether).
Anyway my point was.. What was it again...(getting all nostalgic)
Yes, it seems to me that our educational system may be a good way to prevent this kind of problems. A counterpoint I see coming already is that this system excludes less gifted children of going to universtity. But I actually think the inverse is the case, because like in Holland, you can switch to the higher levels if your grades are sufficient.
Another thing is that in Switzerland there are only few US style private schools. It's actually the students who aren't able to follow the public schools that go to private ones.
Greetings from Cheeseland
PS: Sorry for all grammar/spelling/etc mistakes... there's still a large part of the world whose native language isn't english (mine is Pascal
Now compare the murder rate Seattle to a similar town in Switzerland where most houses contain fully automatic assault rifles and the like. Seattle's murder rate is going to be much, much higher.
[snip]
WAIT A MINUTE!
I'm a swiss citizen and have completed my military service, which means that - yes - I have an automatic assault rifle in my house. BUT... Not everybody has an assault rifle in Switzerland, only those who have fullfilled their military service and been rated as "capable of carrying a gun" get one. In addition to this the ammo you get is enclosed and sealed and you are only allowed to open it in war situation (not complying is heavily punished by law). Also, we have to train using the gun every year. This does not mean going into the next forest and just shooting, but also safe manipulation etc.
Except for that, gun laws are very strict (as in the rest of Europe).
But even in this situation, we have had some ugly incidents of some weirdos using their army weapon to kill (often racist crimes). This would not have happened if those guns hadn't been in their possession.
A previous poster said that guns should be heavily regulated because they serve no other purpose than killing. I agree with that fully. Some people may be using firearms for sports, but the primary goal of firing a gun is still killing. We don't need to be able to kill (and if I remember correctly, the law even prohibits it in most countries ;). So why should a normal person be allowed to carry a gun?