It's rather up to the parents, not the kids. When men can't get enough money so that wives are able to be home with kids, it's a bad social problem IMHO. Anyway - a _dad_ sitting at the computer instead of playing (or whatelse) with his kids on the weekend is much more wrong than a said kid doing the same. And of course it would've rocked if schools were keeping children at other activities that sitting at the desk much more. But who wants to take extra effort and responsibility for that? Especially if they know that they will be sued to death if something happens to a kid when on a walk in the forest.
Probably, yes. Don't tell me that most of the crap they teach in schools is anywhere remotely useful though. Like - name 10 differences of plain worms neurology from round worms. Or how to calculate integrals analytically. (Even though I liked math, and sciences in general, I strongly protest that _everyone_ should be taught that stuff. 12 years in general school??? That's ridiculous beyond being funny). They would've been far better teaching kids basic practical psychology, or medicine, or how to drink properly (I'm semi-serious on that. No worse than "sex-ed" IMHO).
Yes, I tend to agree that (some) games are better than (some) books, but boy.... HalfLife! Halo! I don't intend to bash them but what can they teach one? Surely there are better examples. Heck, even a decent racing sim gives you much more food for thought and trains your concentration skills. Not to say that something like good adventure games are invaluable if English is not native for your kids.
Shit dude, I somehow missed this part of text: ", an HP500C" when reading your message (must be because it stands after an acronym). Was that a weird joke. Yes, I'm serious.
1) I dunno - last time I bought Canon it had Linux drivers in the box. 2) Epson's not a bad choice?! Well, if you are ok that it spits over a buck (IIRC) worth of ink every time it decides to clean the head...
Well, I guess the "technical fields" existed for long enough so that women would've had enough time to overcome the prejudices if nothing else of substance would come to play, no? Take cars for example. Or sports. Or politics.
Is it because of increased Solar activity? Can the real cause be ever discovered? If it's because of the Sun, can we have protective magnetic fields (akin to Earth's own) generated around our space vehicles in emergency? Like - if we ever go to Mars won't it be better to have active shielding instead of thick lead plating? (I know nothing)
Remember guys - RPM per se means virtually nothing. I have 5400 Samsung drive and it has sustained read/write speed (>50 Megs/sec from Windows filesystem) more than all the 7200 Seagates I've seen (at similar volume). Also - don't forget than notebook drives are 2.5" and since have much smaller platter radius. Even if you have 7200 RPM drive with the same density you will have (much) lower data xfer rate than with the "big" drive. Actually, it mostly comes down to the density (roughly you may say that it increases with drive volume div number of working platters) and seek quality. All 7200 gives you for sure is increased heat and more noise. It's a pity that 5400 drives that are perfectly runnable without any cooling are extinct.
To all the fellow northerners who say "hi-ho!" I say this: it may be that way but I guess it is a tad more complicated than that. See - if you get a flu and lie in your bed with high temperature you don't heal it by taking an ultra-cold shower or walking outside in the snow in your shorts only. Earth nature is an amazingly balanced and complex thing and "one-step-forward" thinking may not work as we expect.
1. It does not run MacOS-X. 2. It's not tiny. 3. It's not fanless. 4. It does not run MacOS-X.
Crap. Order Mac mini w/ 512 megs of RAM and you have _fully_blown_ modern computer that everyone can use and that you can carry in your pocket (I'm sure it would fit in my coat's).
You are afraid of something if you don't know what to expect. With MS stuff you pretty much do know. It's so omnipresent no-one can fully evade it and people know their bad and better sides from personal experiences.
U = Uncertainty
You mean I, having read the article, would be uncertain whether to use or not MS product as a server? Boo.. I'm _certain_ I won't use it for anything remotely important by my own good will if I want to do my job well because _certainly_ it will break one day by overflowing the logs or leaking to death or whatever.
D = Doubt
I have no doubt that IIS is an utter piece of crap (on par with MSSQL for example). It _is_ slow, it _is_ inconvient, it _is_ opaque, it _is_ unreliable, it _does_ have crappiest management interface. I'm generally a Windows developer (oh, my) and know its ways. But IIS is so fucked up compared to Apache. Apache - I was able to setup virtual hosts/dirs, PHP, Python processing and whatnot in 15 minutes max each. It's all well documented and transparent (mostly). IIS' GUI management and docs are beyond crap. So, do you think I will have _doubt_ about going with IIS? Heck, no.
Oh! While we are talking about it... Have you ever tried holding "Ctrl-Minus" key for a while in FF on Windows. The font gets tiny and then BANG! it gets huge again. Yes, it's a WinAPI quirk but still... Opera does not suffer of it.
I used to be heavy Opera user. Now I'm exclusively FF user. Not 100% happy with both. You've heard about their selling points, here's what pisses _me_ off (BTW - I use either a dialup line or traffic limited b/b line. If you have a fat free pipe you may not care about this):
Opera: 1) No option to ban loading images from third party sites. (In FF it's "Load Images.. for originating sites only"). 2) No option to "Block images from this site". 3) Some versions are more buggy than others. A bit of a checkered pattern. 4) I miss history for forms. I like when I can type a couple of letters on Google search and search again for that stuff in FF. 5) I dunno, v8 kinda fixes it but I can't help feeling that the rendered page feels somewhat watered down or something. Can't explain it better.
FF: 1) Image-less browsing is rudimentary and is a PITA. Please - can I have a button on taskbar to toggle - "show all images / show cached images / no images" like in Opera! Also - when I right click on an image to show it - feel free to show it inline. Also - don't ignore the (known) image size for image placeholders. 2) Since 1.0pr(?) this "You need a plugin" popup bar SO pisses me off! NO! I won't fucking install Flash!!! Shove your ads.... 3) Back button is slow sometimes. 4) Tabbed browsing / MDI does not hold a candle to Opera. I tried TabBrowser Extensions but they help only so-so. And they are buggy. 5) It loses a cache all too often. With "modern" pages having hundreds of kb's of images it's an annoyance sometimes. Not to say that offline browsing suffers.
Both: 1) I _SO_ crave for an option to disable iframes "from other sites". Combined with image blocking it would've killed stupid ads dead. 2) Option to save a web page with images and CSS to a single MIME file is a killer feature (in MSIE, gah) when you need to have something after doing your web research. A matter of convenience of course but imagine that Linux kernel would've been distributed as a set of *.c.bz2 files.
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It's rather up to the parents, not the kids. When men can't get enough money so that wives are able to be home with kids, it's a bad social problem IMHO. Anyway - a _dad_ sitting at the computer instead of playing (or whatelse) with his kids on the weekend is much more wrong than a said kid doing the same. And of course it would've rocked if schools were keeping children at other activities that sitting at the desk much more. But who wants to take extra effort and responsibility for that? Especially if they know that they will be sued to death if something happens to a kid when on a walk in the forest.
Probably, yes. Don't tell me that most of the crap they teach in schools is anywhere remotely useful though. Like - name 10 differences of plain worms neurology from round worms. Or how to calculate integrals analytically. (Even though I liked math, and sciences in general, I strongly protest that _everyone_ should be taught that stuff. 12 years in general school??? That's ridiculous beyond being funny). They would've been far better teaching kids basic practical psychology, or medicine, or how to drink properly (I'm semi-serious on that. No worse than "sex-ed" IMHO).
Don't tell me you propose that teachers should start dromming Little Jimmies from the tree-heights, do you?
Yes, I tend to agree that (some) games are better than (some) books, but boy.... HalfLife! Halo! I don't intend to bash them but what can they teach one? Surely there are better examples. Heck, even a decent racing sim gives you much more food for thought and trains your concentration skills. Not to say that something like good adventure games are invaluable if English is not native for your kids.
Shit dude, I somehow missed this part of text: ", an HP500C" when reading your message (must be because it stands after an acronym). Was that a weird joke. Yes, I'm serious.
1) I dunno - last time I bought Canon it had Linux drivers in the box.
2) Epson's not a bad choice?! Well, if you are ok that it spits over a buck (IIRC) worth of ink every time it decides to clean the head...
No. But Canon kinda comes close. In short - go to your shop and check out the cartridges costs. Go to Usenet and check out for how long do they last.
Bragging on /. about using MSIE.... Well, it's like... like.... Oh, nothing comes close.
Here's the Python source for the bot to detect whether I'd like a song on the local FM or not:
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print "Nope"
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Well, I guess the "technical fields" existed for long enough so that women would've had enough time to overcome the prejudices if nothing else of substance would come to play, no? Take cars for example. Or sports. Or politics.
Bwah, _majority_ of the current electronics, software and stuffs are based on KISS principle: "Keep It Simply Stupid".
Is it because of increased Solar activity? Can the real cause be ever discovered? If it's because of the Sun, can we have protective magnetic fields (akin to Earth's own) generated around our space vehicles in emergency? Like - if we ever go to Mars won't it be better to have active shielding instead of thick lead plating? (I know nothing)
Not to mention /. is always on. Well, when it's not busy serving 503s, I mean.
Remember guys - RPM per se means virtually nothing. I have 5400 Samsung drive and it has sustained read/write speed (>50 Megs/sec from Windows filesystem) more than all the 7200 Seagates I've seen (at similar volume). Also - don't forget than notebook drives are 2.5" and since have much smaller platter radius. Even if you have 7200 RPM drive with the same density you will have (much) lower data xfer rate than with the "big" drive. Actually, it mostly comes down to the density (roughly you may say that it increases with drive volume div number of working platters) and seek quality. All 7200 gives you for sure is increased heat and more noise. It's a pity that 5400 drives that are perfectly runnable without any cooling are extinct.
".NET is garbage-collected"
:)
Duh, learn your punctuation! It should be ".NET is garbage, collected".
To all the fellow northerners who say "hi-ho!" I say this: it may be that way but I guess it is a tad more complicated than that. See - if you get a flu and lie in your bed with high temperature you don't heal it by taking an ultra-cold shower or walking outside in the snow in your shorts only. Earth nature is an amazingly balanced and complex thing and "one-step-forward" thinking may not work as we expect.
Well, yes, because between us and Sun there is that thing called athmosphere that we shit into and that takes the hit (and the heat).
But then you need to spend more to set up a Mac to give your PC a decent computer. : )
1. It does not run MacOS-X.
2. It's not tiny.
3. It's not fanless.
4. It does not run MacOS-X.
Crap. Order Mac mini w/ 512 megs of RAM and you have _fully_blown_ modern computer that everyone can use and that you can carry in your pocket (I'm sure it would fit in my coat's).
Yes, but PC in PowerPC stands for "Performance Chip".
I don't know whether to laugh or to cry. Who the heck "samzenpus" is? (Yes, it is redundant, what else do you expect in this thread?)
PS: Uhm, and it's not quite the "PC". I mean - it does windows but it does not Windows...
FUD? FUD about MS? What do you mean?
F = Fear
You are afraid of something if you don't know what to expect. With MS stuff you pretty much do know. It's so omnipresent no-one can fully evade it and people know their bad and better sides from personal experiences.
U = Uncertainty
You mean I, having read the article, would be uncertain whether to use or not MS product as a server? Boo.. I'm _certain_ I won't use it for anything remotely important by my own good will if I want to do my job well because _certainly_ it will break one day by overflowing the logs or leaking to death or whatever.
D = Doubt
I have no doubt that IIS is an utter piece of crap (on par with MSSQL for example). It _is_ slow, it _is_ inconvient, it _is_ opaque, it _is_ unreliable, it _does_ have crappiest management interface. I'm generally a Windows developer (oh, my) and know its ways. But IIS is so fucked up compared to Apache. Apache - I was able to setup virtual hosts/dirs, PHP, Python processing and whatnot in 15 minutes max each. It's all well documented and transparent (mostly). IIS' GUI management and docs are beyond crap. So, do you think I will have _doubt_ about going with IIS? Heck, no.
Oh! While we are talking about it... Have you ever tried holding "Ctrl-Minus" key for a while in FF on Windows. The font gets tiny and then BANG! it gets huge again. Yes, it's a WinAPI quirk but still... Opera does not suffer of it.
I used to be heavy Opera user. Now I'm exclusively FF user. Not 100% happy with both. You've heard about their selling points, here's what pisses _me_ off (BTW - I use either a dialup line or traffic limited b/b line. If you have a fat free pipe you may not care about this):
Opera:
1) No option to ban loading images from third party sites. (In FF it's "Load Images.. for originating sites only").
2) No option to "Block images from this site".
3) Some versions are more buggy than others. A bit of a checkered pattern.
4) I miss history for forms. I like when I can type a couple of letters on Google search and search again for that stuff in FF.
5) I dunno, v8 kinda fixes it but I can't help feeling that the rendered page feels somewhat watered down or something. Can't explain it better.
FF:
1) Image-less browsing is rudimentary and is a PITA. Please - can I have a button on taskbar to toggle - "show all images / show cached images / no images" like in Opera! Also - when I right click on an image to show it - feel free to show it inline. Also - don't ignore the (known) image size for image placeholders.
2) Since 1.0pr(?) this "You need a plugin" popup bar SO pisses me off! NO! I won't fucking install Flash!!! Shove your ads....
3) Back button is slow sometimes.
4) Tabbed browsing / MDI does not hold a candle to Opera. I tried TabBrowser Extensions but they help only so-so. And they are buggy.
5) It loses a cache all too often. With "modern" pages having hundreds of kb's of images it's an annoyance sometimes. Not to say that offline browsing suffers.
Both:
1) I _SO_ crave for an option to disable iframes "from other sites". Combined with image blocking it would've killed stupid ads dead.
2) Option to save a web page with images and CSS to a single MIME file is a killer feature (in MSIE, gah) when you need to have something after doing your web research. A matter of convenience of course but imagine that Linux kernel would've been distributed as a set of *.c.bz2 files.