The rebol home page doesn't tell me why my life sucks without rebol. While it is undoubtedly VERY cool to have rebol, I have no idea why I would want to use it. What problem does it solve for me?? -russ
The criticism isn't very well-written. It's just plain flamage when somebody criticizes the GPL as being anti-capitalist, and claims that the BSD license is an improvement over that. -russ
Re:*BSD is the continuation of a failed idea.
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Not a single *BSD partisan addressed my point -- that the maxim "Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door" is false. -russ
No, of course a Linux user wouldn't bother with winmodem. However, at $17 it makes a very servicable telephony interface, particularly when it comes with a full-duplex speakerphone. There's more information on the Linmodems page. -russ
Anybody know if this sell-off includes their SM56 winmodem chipset? Hopefully this will loosen up programming documentation for it, since I'd like to write some Linux code. -russ
*BSD is the continuation of a failed idea.
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*BSD is the continuation of a failed idea -- that quality matters. The lesson of the last 20 years has been that marketing is more important. Unix has always had superior technology to anything Microsoft. Microsoft has always out-marketed Unix vendors. Unix vendors (and this includes the *BSD people) have responded by creating Yet Another Unix which will have higher technical quality than the opposition. But the opposition is not the other Unices, it is Microsoft (or any other proprietary OS vendor).
Me? I use Linux, because I want to make a difference in the world. I will give the *BSD folks an ounce of credibility when they reconcile their differences. -russ
Certification would be good -- we could reduce the number of programmers, and get paid *even more* than we currently are. We have to get some way to keep companies from hiring those unreliable uncertified programmers, though. Maybe we could get the government to prohibit the practice of programming without a license?
Hey, it works for doctors and lawyers. Why should programmers miss the gravy train??? -russ
(Not meant as ad-hominem, but to invoke the Clinton campaign phrase).
Right, so everyone in school is maladjusted, but as soon as they leave school they've gotten a life? Sure sounds like the structure of school is to blame. -russ
The press likes to cover "both sides" of an issue. So if 100 people say "this is great", and 1 person says "this sucks", the press covers "both sides" of the issue.
We're tired of SCO's arrogance. If SCO had priced its products reasonably (remember Linus's reason for writing Linux), it wouldn't have this problem. But it didn't and now it does. Too bad for SCO. -russ
You homeschool them until they homeschool themselves. Do you really think the school can supply an entire high-school education? How many people do you think actually remember the deeper meanings of Shakespeare beyond the day of the test? (test have been done, and the answer is: pitifully few).
How are they going to cope with going to school? Poorly. How would you cope with going to jail, and missing all the interactions with the real world that you usually get?
The answer is that you have a blinkered idea of what homeschooling represents. "Confines of their own home" indeed! My daughter has the whole world to learn in! Schooled children only have what they are allowed to see and learn. -russ
Well, government schooling obviously has its disadvantages, but it also has more subtle disadvantages.
If you spend most of your life at school, with teachers, and with a few close friends, you don't learn how to deal with other people. That could be a serious problem.
Also, leaving the education of children up to the teachers only works if the teachers are themselves responsible enough to teach the children. -russ p.s. the problem with government schooling is that the intellectual model underlying them does not work. You cannot teach the same thing at the same time of day at the same time in history in the same manner to a group of randomly-selected children whose sole common characteristics are geography and age.
As we try to tell people, GIGO: Garbage In, Garbage Out.
FAQ #2 of homeschooling is "what about socialization?"
The answer, simply enough, is that you get socialized by being out in society, not by being in school. School is a very unnatural environment. Knowledge on how to deal with it is useless once you graduate. Avoiding bullies? Useless -- I was never bullied after high school. Learning how to pass the test? Employers don't care about tests -- they want to know if you can do the work. Being the teacher's pet? Kissing the jock's asses? Spending 50% of your waking hours solely interacting with people within one year of your own age? This is socialization??
To the extent that a home-schooling child uses the time gained to be out in society, they will be better socialized. -russ
I'm surprised that nobody has mentioned the obvious solution: drop out and teach yourself. Yes, it's legal in all 50 states. Yes, you don't have to worry about socialization (in-school socialization is called "talking in class", and it's discouraged.) No, you don't have to worry about getting into college. Home-schoolers are typically more self-possessed and confident. They have the time to develop expertise in subjects far beyond that taught in school.
My 13yo daughter is being encouraged to take a test equivalent to that given to piano majors entering college. She's the NY state champion at identifying plants. She's very good at art. And she's typically the leader of any group she's in. -russ
Sorry, Kestrel, but it's obvious that we can't keep drugs out of our country. How do you think we could keep guns out?
Equally obvious (I'm surprised you missed it) is that criminals only need to be to be better-armed than the people around them. Gun control helps criminals by disarming their victims. -russ
I finished the book, but only because I'd previously taken Automata Theory, a bitch of a graduate-level math course. A substantial portion of the book *is* automata theory. -russ
Yup. I hated high school. Junior high was worse. Talk to an botanist, and she'll tell you about monocropping -- the practice of planting a whole field full of one crop. The bugs just love it. Well, in government schools, we monocrop children by age. All the fourteen-year-olds ever do is talk to other fourteen-year-olds. And the way bullying and fighting is tolerated or winked at? This is sick, sick, sick. -russ
*I* HAD ACCESS, I HATED PEOPLE@SCHOOL
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So why didn't I kill anyone? The answer can only be that your thesis "free access is sufficient" is wrong. -russ
Hey! Where'd you learn to spell?? Probably in a government school.
Yeah, my wife and I blame all this on compulsory schooling. You never see this happening at a sports arena, or a mall. Gotta be a reason why kids go to school to kill. -russ
Guns Guns and More Guns
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1) I was a geek in high school. I felt like no one liked me.
2) I had access to a 9mm semiautomatic handgun.
If you are right, then I should have killed my hated classmates. I didn't; therefore you are wrong. -russ
Would it surprise anyone? Caldera started with Redhat, Slackware started with SLS, it only makes sense to start with an existing distribution. And KDE is very pretty, although I think GNOME has a better headstart on CORBA. -russ
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My whois record predates *NSI*, much less any copyright they may claim over it.
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You didn't tell me what problem it solves.
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The rebol home page doesn't tell me why my life sucks without rebol. While it is undoubtedly VERY cool to have rebol, I have no idea why I would want to use it. What problem does it solve for me??
-russ
My whois information is in the public domain, and always will be.
-russ
The criticism isn't very well-written. It's just plain flamage when somebody criticizes the GPL as being anti-capitalist, and claims that the BSD license is an improvement over that.
-russ
Not a single *BSD partisan addressed my point -- that the maxim "Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door" is false.
-russ
No, of course a Linux user wouldn't bother with winmodem. However, at $17 it makes a very servicable telephony interface, particularly when it comes with a full-duplex speakerphone. There's more information on the Linmodems page.
-russ
Anybody know if this sell-off includes their SM56 winmodem chipset? Hopefully this will loosen up programming documentation for it, since I'd like to write some Linux code.
-russ
*BSD is the continuation of a failed idea -- that quality matters. The lesson of the last 20 years has been that marketing is more important. Unix has always had superior technology to anything Microsoft. Microsoft has always out-marketed Unix vendors. Unix vendors (and this includes the *BSD people) have responded by creating Yet Another Unix which will have higher technical quality than the opposition. But the opposition is not the other Unices, it is Microsoft (or any other proprietary OS vendor).
Me? I use Linux, because I want to make a difference in the world. I will give the *BSD folks an ounce of credibility when they reconcile their differences.
-russ
Certification would be good -- we could reduce the number of programmers, and get paid *even more* than we currently are. We have to get some way to keep companies from hiring those unreliable uncertified programmers, though. Maybe we could get the government to prohibit the practice of programming without a license?
Hey, it works for doctors and lawyers. Why should programmers miss the gravy train???
-russ
(Not meant as ad-hominem, but to invoke the Clinton campaign phrase).
Right, so everyone in school is maladjusted, but as soon as they leave school they've gotten a life? Sure sounds like the structure of school is to blame.
-russ
The press likes to cover "both sides" of an issue. So if 100 people say "this is great", and 1 person says "this sucks", the press covers "both sides" of the issue.
We're tired of SCO's arrogance. If SCO had priced its products reasonably (remember Linus's reason for writing Linux), it wouldn't have this problem. But it didn't and now it does. Too bad for SCO.
-russ
You homeschool them until they homeschool themselves. Do you really think the school can supply an entire high-school education? How many people do you think actually remember the deeper meanings of Shakespeare beyond the day of the test? (test have been done, and the answer is: pitifully few).
How are they going to cope with going to school? Poorly. How would you cope with going to jail, and missing all the interactions with the real world that you usually get?
The answer is that you have a blinkered idea of what homeschooling represents. "Confines of their own home" indeed! My daughter has the whole world to learn in! Schooled children only have what they are allowed to see and learn.
-russ
Well, government schooling obviously has its disadvantages, but it also has more subtle disadvantages.
If you spend most of your life at school, with teachers, and with a few close friends, you don't learn how to deal with other people. That could be a serious problem.
Also, leaving the education of children up to the teachers only works if the teachers are themselves responsible enough to teach the children.
-russ
p.s. the problem with government schooling is that the intellectual model underlying them does not work. You cannot teach the same thing at the same time of day at the same time in history in the same manner to a group of randomly-selected children whose sole common characteristics are geography and age.
As we try to tell people, GIGO: Garbage In, Garbage Out.
FAQ #1 of homeschooling is "is it legal?"
FAQ #2 of homeschooling is "what about socialization?"
The answer, simply enough, is that you get socialized by being out in society, not by being in school. School is a very unnatural environment. Knowledge on how to deal with it is useless once you graduate. Avoiding bullies? Useless -- I was never bullied after high school. Learning how to pass the test? Employers don't care about tests -- they want to know if you can do the work. Being the teacher's pet? Kissing the jock's asses? Spending 50% of your waking hours solely interacting with people within one year of your own age? This is socialization??
To the extent that a home-schooling child uses the time gained to be out in society, they will be better socialized.
-russ
I'm surprised that nobody has mentioned the obvious solution: drop out and teach yourself. Yes, it's legal in all 50 states. Yes, you don't have to worry about socialization (in-school socialization is called "talking in class", and it's discouraged.) No, you don't have to worry about getting into college. Home-schoolers are typically more self-possessed and confident. They have the time to develop expertise in subjects far beyond that taught in school.
My 13yo daughter is being encouraged to take a test equivalent to that given to piano majors entering college. She's the NY state champion at identifying plants. She's very good at art. And she's typically the leader of any group she's in.
-russ
Sorry, Kestrel, but it's obvious that we can't keep drugs out of our country. How do you think we could keep guns out?
Equally obvious (I'm surprised you missed it) is that criminals only need to be to be better-armed than the people around them. Gun control helps criminals by disarming their victims.
-russ
Who are you, and why are you writing about my life?
-russ
p.s. actually I knew right where to find my Dad's captured Japanese 9mm pistol.
I finished the book, but only because I'd previously taken Automata Theory, a bitch of a graduate-level math course. A substantial portion of the book *is* automata theory.
-russ
Yup. I hated high school. Junior high was worse. Talk to an botanist, and she'll tell you about monocropping -- the practice of planting a whole field full of one crop. The bugs just love it. Well, in government schools, we monocrop children by age. All the fourteen-year-olds ever do is talk to other fourteen-year-olds. And the way bullying and fighting is tolerated or winked at? This is sick, sick, sick.
-russ
So why didn't I kill anyone? The answer can only be that your thesis "free access is sufficient" is wrong.
-russ
Hey! Where'd you learn to spell?? Probably in a government school.
Yeah, my wife and I blame all this on compulsory schooling. You never see this happening at a sports arena, or a mall. Gotta be a reason why kids go to school to kill.
-russ
1) I was a geek in high school. I felt like no one liked me.
2) I had access to a 9mm semiautomatic handgun.
If you are right, then I should have killed my hated classmates. I didn't; therefore you are wrong.
-russ
When guns are outlawed, outlaws will use pipe bombs.
Oh, oops, they already did.
-russ
Would it surprise anyone? Caldera started with Redhat, Slackware started with SLS, it only makes sense to start with an existing distribution. And KDE is very pretty, although I think GNOME has a better headstart on CORBA.
-russ