Last year, Mick Ferguson, of the West Yorkshire ambulance service was taking a liver to Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridgeshire when he was found to be driving at 104 mph on the A1 near Grantham, Lincolnshire.
Did anyone else find it weird that an article from the BBC used miles per hour to measure speed? I thought the UK used the metric system -- doesn't the BBC use kilometers per hour to measure speed?
Tejano? So what exactly does the Mexicans winning at the Alamo have to do with someone descended from the native tribes originally living in Texas, anyway?
Nothing! The Tejanos are the descendants of the Spaniards and Mexicans that originally took the land away from the natives. Geez, Texas is 40% Hispano, it would do you some good to learn a little Spanish!
Do you like the idea that a foreign imperialistic power sought to prevent Texas from achieving independence (and ultimately lost, individual battle victories notwithstanding)?
No, that is why Tejanos bitch about the Anglos from the United States invading Tejas to this day. Mexico was not the "foreign imperialistic power" the U.S. was. Mexico let the Anglos into Tejas with the proviso that they become Mexican citizens, become Catholic and learn to speak Spanish, none of which they did.
The whole Texas "independence" movement was nothing but a raw land grab. That is why it is great that you Anglo Texans stopped saying that Texas' "independence" was about "freedom". That was a huge lie because the first thing the Anglo Texans did was make Blacks slaves again (they had been freed by Mexico in 1828, over 30 years before the U.S. fought a civil war that accomplished the same thing in the U.S.).
It is obvious that you have never read the real history of Texas preferring instead to believe the myths and legends called Texas history by the Anglos. If you had you would know that after the Alamo the Mexicans spared Anglo women and children, while after San Jacinto the Texans you seem to idolize massacared Mexican women and children. And I don't even want to get into how the Spanish land grant records "mysteriously" burned after the Anglos took over Texas.
What I think is funny is that if Stephen F. Austin and his band of illiterate Anglo rednecks would try the same thing today they would be called "terrorists". Instead they are called "heroes" and "founding fathers" like they did something good and honorable...
In an attempt to get this back on topic, what in the hell does the Alamo have to do with Miguel de Icaza???
I was not questioning your post in general, only that particular statistic. I have not seen any studies dealing with how the market crash affected the little guy.
I live in Houston, Texas and have read many stories in the local paper's business section about how large companies and institutional investors holding tech stocks also got hit hard when the dot-com market tanked; that is why I commented on that particular statistic...
The only difference is he had direct control over $100M+ of stock, not a few thousand dollars in a "retirement plan" like most dot-bomb victims.
That would be an interesting statistic if you had any documentation to prove that assertion. If it is that one of those "pull it out your ass" statistics then you are just blowing smoke here...
At worst, he should have initiated a quiet lawsuit for his damages instead of ranting.
That is because is not only about the money, his character was attacked too. The best way for someone to rehabilitate a soiled reputation is to put themselves out there in public.
I was personally illegally laid off and have filed a Whistleblower lawsuit against my former employer. They are resorting to character attacks against me so I went public with HCC Sucks! http://www.hccsucks.com
In my mind it is better to go public than to get ulcers because you repress your emotions due to not wanting to say anything about your problems in public.
Joe is cool. I use it to edit the simple stuff when setting up a Linux system. Then I compile FTE and all is right with the World again!
FTE can also be used with Win/DOS and OS/2. It was nice being able to use the same editor in three environments back when I ran OS/2. Boy does that make me feel old, I guess that explains all the gray hair!
Parent is right, FTE hasn't had much development recently. It is written in C++ so if any C++ geeks out there are looking a useful open source programming project, look at the FTE source code. I wish I was better in C++ myself...
The Mac is more like an Audi - although it may not boast any more features than a Ford, it's better thought out and it's more likely to just work.
Yep, it sure is HELL to be driving down the freeway and having to swerve to avoid a non-functional Ford!
I've been using RedHat Linux 8 since it came out as my primary desktop. I've not had to tinker with it for a long time - it just works.
My (non-flame) take on Red Hat is that since one has to install lots of additional software to make it useful on the desktop one might as well install Mandrake. Red Hat is a pretty good server OS though...
put the prospective Sys Admin in a room with a sabotaged computer... and say: Fix it. Then walk out of the room... Hire the fastest one.
I don't think that speed should be the only criterion used to judge a prospective systems administrator.
Say the sabotaged computer has 10 things wrong with it. Would you rather hire someone who fixes 3 items in 30 minutes or someone who fixes 8 items in 60 minutes?
Detail oriented people sometimes take longer to accomplish tasks but they often tend to do a better job...
Er... so, "La Raza" isn't inclusive, then, or is it? You're contradicting yourself here, pal.
Well it depends on the individual Chicana or Chicano as to how inclusive we are but we tend to be pretty open to the idea of intermarriage. I myself like White girls named Debbie!;-)
(I wonder if your average slashdotter will get that cultural reference, or is it too obscure?)
California is now being overrun by Mexicans, who want to live well but instead turn it into "new new" Mexico...
The Mexicans have proved that NO ONE WANTS TO LIVE IN MEXICO. And I'll be damned if they aren't turning California into Mexico right now...
What a load of crap! There were Mexicans in California even before California existed. Of course it is easier for White Americans to pick on immigrant Mexicans than to come right out and say what is on their mind, that there are too many Chicanos in Califas. Your average White American would rather come across as xenophobic than racist...
"La Raza!"
You'd be well informed to learn what that means. It is an exclusionary statement. I saw it everywhere in California.
Even more bullshit. La Raza means "the people" and the Chicano people are composed of a complex intermix of white, yellow, red and black people. To me that is about as inclusive as you can get.
And FYI, you too can become part of La Raza if you could get a Chicana to marry you, but with your attitude I doubt if you can get a Chicana to even look at you, much less go out with you.
SO IF YOU THINK THAT I AM SOME REACTIONARY REDNECK, think again.
If you don't want people to think you are a reactionary redneck, then quit saying ignorant things that lead them to believe that you are one in the first place!
In a capitalist economy there is NEVER such a thing as too many choices! Look at cars: Ford, GM, Toyota, Nissan, Audi, BMW, etc. How would so many car companies exist if consumers had a hard time choosing between them?
The average user just wants something put down in front of them that works.
That is where standards come into play. If every car had the controls in different places can you imagine the confusion?
Having to choose, and understand why they are choosing, one particular distribution over all the others is beyond most of them and beyond what they care about.
That is where experts come into play. If you want to make sure the car you want to buy is not a lemon then you go to a mechanic. Why should buying a computer be any different?
For most, they know they need whatever is the latest Windows to run all their software and games.
That is a cultural, not a technical issue. Microsoft has convinced the less-than-clueful that everyone must drive a six-cylinder sedan with automatic transmission that comes in one color only! That in spite of the fact that some people need more power, some need better gas mileage, etc.
Choice is always good, but Linux needs a six-cylinder sedan with automatic transmission that comes in one color too. Some people will never progress beyond driving that kind of car but Linux needs to keep giving people options in case they need a pickup truck or want a sports car instead...
I've wasted a dozen hours I couldn't afford trying to get Mandrake 9.1 working on a network on my very well-supported IBM laptop. It installs OK, but absolutely refuses to get correct DNS server information from DHCP.
You can either edit resolv.conf and manually add a DNS server entry (one line!) or set up a local DNS cache. Both are simple fixes, and should take no more than a couple of minutes for your AVERAGE computer geek to accomplish.
No Windows client (9x, NT, 2K) has ever had a problem, but Mandrake refuses to let itself talk to the rest of the world, making it totally useless for anything more serious than frozen bubble.
Mandrake works great for me on both my workstation at work and my PC at home. I was actually surprised at how easily it set up my internet connection sharing, I thought I would have to read a few FAQs and HOW-TOs and manually edit some config files. As a computer geek I look forward to doing stuff like that but if I can free up a few minutes so that I can do other stuff I will not complain too much!:->
I no longer have time to spend trying to figure out how to fix broken software, so I'm sticking with Windows on the desktop for another year or two.
It's sad really, I've been regularly giving Linux a try on the desktop since 1997, and it's never made the grade even once - that's right, not even one time have I had any Linux distro I've tried flawlessly install and allow access to the network.
PEBKAC. Don't blame Linux for your shortcomings as as computer geek.
This is pretty basic stuff, and I'm a 20-year Unix veteran, so I'm pretty capable, but I also have better things to do than chase endless bugs and misconfigurations in flaky distros - bugs that should have been fixed long before the software shipped.
Hmmm... how about all the security updates that Microsoft has been putting out? Do you blindly install all of them due to a lack of time or do you take time to inspect each and every one to see what "endless bug" or "misconfiguration" Microsoft has foisted on you this time?
It really is sad, but even today, Linux is still not up to snuff as a desktop, which is why it will have to remain confined to server duty for another year or two - until someone finally builds a distro that *does* work.
Well for me and millions of others out there Linux works! It obviously works on the server or else people would be migrating to the various BSDs. It also works well on the desktop, otherwise you would be seeing millions of ex-Linux users switching to OS-X...
ISDHO (In SlashDot's Humble Opinion), <br> approximately equals <p> anyway. If you'd prefixed your <blockquote>s with <p>s, your post would have been much easier to read. (-:
I agree with you and usually do put the extra space in there but I usually put <br>s instead of <p>s since no closing tag is required.
While laziness is a virtue I guess I should really be typing <br/>...
As far as the computers, I wouldn't use them for anything beyond in-class typewriters. Certainly don't make them do powerpoint presentations or webpages. What on earth does that have to do with English.
Bad idea. Most English majors do not become teachers, they enter the job market. In the workplace many work in communications or in marketing. Try getting a job in those field without knowing Powerpoint or at least having passing knowledge of the internet.
Communication is just not about the words you use. Formatting of the words is equally important, and I am not trying to be overly critical here, but if you had used a few <br> tags your post would have been much easier to read.
Some sort of continuing reading response diary is a good idea, but make sure out-loud discussion and debate outweighs typing.
What is this supposed to be, an English class or a speech/debate class? Focus on the writing!
Also, to me at least, typing is much faster than writing by hand. The only C I got in high school was in typing (it was a vocational class for future secretaries) but that C was worth it because those typing skills have proved invaluable to me in the workplace over the last 25 years.
IANAT but I do tech support for over 100 of them for a community college where I have also been taking computer classes the last three years. With over 300 college hours I am pretty familar with the student role too. I generally agree with you but I have a few comments:
The same student drifts off and decides to check, say, Slashdot. They start reading an article. Decide to post a response, etc. Suddenly 20 minutes has gone by. At this point even if they turn back to the lesson odds are they've fallen way behind in it and will have trouble following it.
That assumes that the student in question can't multitask. In my Cisco I and II class last semester I would read Slashdot, as well as check work e-mail while maintaining several SSH and VNC sessions to my server and workstation (being on the internal network rocks!).
Why should I have to follow along with the Cisco Flash presentation on my PC when it is being projected up on the screen? Besides you are supposed to read the material BEFORE you go to class and the instructor should be reinforcing the material. To do well in school the student needs to do the reading and preparation beforehand.
This can lead to less than brilliant questions about content covered 10 minutes before - wasting other peoples time (and irritating those who are paying attention). They may distract and disturb those around them.
I don't think that there is any thing as a bad question if the student does the necessary prep work, but indeed if some of your students consistently fall behind because the computer is a distraction, maybe you need to integrate the computer a little more as part of your lecture. The student's interest factor comes into play here, if you USE the computer as part of the class it does not sit there like a siren beckoning you to caress its keyboard!:->
The students who are totally wiped out from work and need a few Zzzz's I'll tend to leave alone. Those who are just goofing off, well, they get called on a lot. Hearing your name and looking up to see the lecture has stopped and everyone is staring at you tends to encourage people to follow along.
If the student needs to sleep, he/she should just skip the class and stay home and sleep there. They are not doing themselves or the class a service by sleeping in class and it is disrepectful to the instructor (especially if you snore loudly like me!). And how do you know they are tired from work and not because they stayed up till 2 AM partying?
As far as your "call on the student" tactic all the student needs to do is give the instructor the right answer every time they are asked a question. Once the student does that a few times the instructor will usually stop calling on her/him. At that point you it is best to let the student in question keep quietly working on the computer in class because they are obviously keeping up with the classwork.
Learning is work, nobody likes work. It's a balance though, a sterile and boring class will hold nobody's attention.
I find learning fun, it does not seem like work unless I don't like the topic. That is why computer classes are so much fun when you like to work with computers (like I do) because then everything is fun -- both work and school -- so interest is not a problem. You as the instructor need to make the topic interesting, if you do the students will remember you as one of their favorite teachers even if they hate your particular subject.
You try to mix things up and keep it interesting as much as you can while keeping it relevant... but sometimes rules and enforcement are needed for the good of both the distracted student, as well as the class as a whole.
I hate that part of school. In my mind when schools and teachers get the students to submit to petty rules it is to shape them into good little sheep ready to enter the ca
The word "warcraft" was NOT a word in the english language (or any language on the planet) at the time that Blizzard thought it up for their first game in the series.
For instance, last year, Apple paid out $7400 in liscensing for the OS8.6 update. It includes several sorenson codecs and a few TCP/IP network protocols that have to paid for.
Jeez, I didn't know Apple was so hard up for cash that $7400 would make a difference!
And where exactly do you buy TCP/IP protocols? Ebay?
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The whole Texas "independence" movement was nothing but a raw land grab. That is why it is great that you Anglo Texans stopped saying that Texas' "independence" was about "freedom". That was a huge lie because the first thing the Anglo Texans did was make Blacks slaves again (they had been freed by Mexico in 1828, over 30 years before the U.S. fought a civil war that accomplished the same thing in the U.S.).
It is obvious that you have never read the real history of Texas preferring instead to believe the myths and legends called Texas history by the Anglos. If you had you would know that after the Alamo the Mexicans spared Anglo women and children, while after San Jacinto the Texans you seem to idolize massacared Mexican women and children. And I don't even want to get into how the Spanish land grant records "mysteriously" burned after the Anglos took over Texas.
What I think is funny is that if Stephen F. Austin and his band of illiterate Anglo rednecks would try the same thing today they would be called "terrorists". Instead they are called "heroes" and "founding fathers" like they did something good and honorable...
In an attempt to get this back on topic, what in the hell does the Alamo have to do with Miguel de Icaza???
Hint it wasn't the Texans...
It's called a sense of humor, pal. Get one!
I was not questioning your post in general, only that particular statistic. I have not seen any studies dealing with how the market crash affected the little guy.
I live in Houston, Texas and have read many stories in the local paper's business section about how large companies and institutional investors holding tech stocks also got hit hard when the dot-com market tanked; that is why I commented on that particular statistic...
I was personally illegally laid off and have filed a Whistleblower lawsuit against my former employer. They are resorting to character attacks against me so I went public with HCC Sucks! http://www.hccsucks.com
In my mind it is better to go public than to get ulcers because you repress your emotions due to not wanting to say anything about your problems in public.
FTE can also be used with Win/DOS and OS/2. It was nice being able to use the same editor in three environments back when I ran OS/2. Boy does that make me feel old, I guess that explains all the gray hair!
Parent is right, FTE hasn't had much development recently. It is written in C++ so if any C++ geeks out there are looking a useful open source programming project, look at the FTE source code. I wish I was better in C++ myself...
Funny:
- Natalie Portman and hot petrified grits
- All your base are belong to us.
- A Beowulf cluster of something
- In Soviet Russia...
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- Something
- ???
- Profit!
Troll:- *BSD is dead
- Apple Mac OS-X is God's OS
- Linux is not ready for the desktop
- Microsoft Windows is secure
The distinctions are subtle, but if you waste enough time here you too will able to tell the difference!If you made it up you should call it "mantera's law" and grab a piece of internet posterity!
2. ???
3. Profit!!!
Say the sabotaged computer has 10 things wrong with it. Would you rather hire someone who fixes 3 items in 30 minutes or someone who fixes 8 items in 60 minutes?
Detail oriented people sometimes take longer to accomplish tasks but they often tend to do a better job...
(I wonder if your average slashdotter will get that cultural reference, or is it too obscure?)
And FYI, you too can become part of La Raza if you could get a Chicana to marry you, but with your attitude I doubt if you can get a Chicana to even look at you, much less go out with you.If you don't want people to think you are a reactionary redneck, then quit saying ignorant things that lead them to believe that you are one in the first place!
Choice is always good, but Linux needs a six-cylinder sedan with automatic transmission that comes in one color too. Some people will never progress beyond driving that kind of car but Linux needs to keep giving people options in case they need a pickup truck or want a sports car instead...
I agree with you and usually do put the extra space in there but I usually put <br>s instead of <p>s since no closing tag is required.
While laziness is a virtue I guess I should really be typing <br
Communication is just not about the words you use. Formatting of the words is equally important, and I am not trying to be overly critical here, but if you had used a few <br> tags your post would have been much easier to read.What is this supposed to be, an English class or a speech/debate class? Focus on the writing!
Also, to me at least, typing is much faster than writing by hand. The only C I got in high school was in typing (it was a vocational class for future secretaries) but that C was worth it because those typing skills have proved invaluable to me in the workplace over the last 25 years.
That assumes that the student in question can't multitask. In my Cisco I and II class last semester I would read Slashdot, as well as check work e-mail while maintaining several SSH and VNC sessions to my server and workstation (being on the internal network rocks!).
Why should I have to follow along with the Cisco Flash presentation on my PC when it is being projected up on the screen? Besides you are supposed to read the material BEFORE you go to class and the instructor should be reinforcing the material. To do well in school the student needs to do the reading and preparation beforehand.
I don't think that there is any thing as a bad question if the student does the necessary prep work, but indeed if some of your students consistently fall behind because the computer is a distraction, maybe you need to integrate the computer a little more as part of your lecture. The student's interest factor comes into play here, if you USE the computer as part of the class it does not sit there like a siren beckoning you to caress its keyboard! :->
If the student needs to sleep, he/she should just skip the class and stay home and sleep there. They are not doing themselves or the class a service by sleeping in class and it is disrepectful to the instructor (especially if you snore loudly like me!). And how do you know they are tired from work and not because they stayed up till 2 AM partying?
As far as your "call on the student" tactic all the student needs to do is give the instructor the right answer every time they are asked a question. Once the student does that a few times the instructor will usually stop calling on her/him. At that point you it is best to let the student in question keep quietly working on the computer in class because they are obviously keeping up with the classwork.
I find learning fun, it does not seem like work unless I don't like the topic. That is why computer classes are so much fun when you like to work with computers (like I do) because then everything is fun -- both work and school -- so interest is not a problem. You as the instructor need to make the topic interesting, if you do the students will remember you as one of their favorite teachers even if they hate your particular subject.
I hate that part of school. In my mind when schools and teachers get the students to submit to petty rules it is to shape them into good little sheep ready to enter the ca
It all makes sense now!
And where exactly do you buy TCP/IP protocols? Ebay?