It would be a great project if teachers tought a course in TCP/IP and computer networking and then applied this knowledge using the laptops and Apache to let the students set up their own web server and make their own home page on their laptops. It would teach them valuable skills which they could apply to a world where computer network knowledge is of ever-growing importance.
But NO! We want them to look at MSNBC.com and make multimedia presentations!
I don't think teaching them to research using the web and having them use fairly straightforward programs like photoshop and powerpoint (or clones), teaches them to be more "tech savvy". To teach them that you will need to teach them to solve problems instead of memorizing formulas and make sure they have a functional understanding of logic and basic algebra. Students going through most public schools in Maine seem to be lacking in these areas. I would say that it is not even worth going to high school, but instead skipping straight to college once someone can read and write. College courses generally teach a much more fundamental understanding of their subjects than any public school I've seen in Maine (except for maybe MSSM).
Remember, computing is learning how to make a computer solve complex problems for you! It is NOT learning to use word or find clip-art for presentations. That kind of thing could be done just as well on the desktop computers schools spend thousands per year on anyway.
Unix is a complex system. If you teach about processes, threads, interprocess communication, job control, etc... the kid will gain much insight into logic and problem solving.
For example, they could write a program that had to accomplish a task with multiple processes working together.
I help support the laptops here in Maine and the program is a complete joke. Schools don't do much more than post information on the Apple run FirstClass mail server and have students use search engines with the things.
Now if a REAL computer curriculum were to be developed around the Unix aspects of Mac OS X that would be something, but integration with the classroom itself isn't going to happen. I don't know how it could really without losing the attention of students who resort to web browsing during dull (and meaningless) lectures.
High School/Public School education is a joke in the U.S. Student's don't even know algebra by the time they graduate with A's in math.
Don't swear off CD purchases for life OneInEveryCrowd! You should check the affiliated record labels out at www.riaa.com, and only boycott those CDs associated with the RIAA. If you refuse to purchase any CDs, maybe some of the ones you would have otherwise gotten have nothing to do with the RIAA. In that case you're hurting the artist who has chosen their label wisely, or a smaller record label that is trying to break free from the RIAA!
There are just as many if not more games that feature little animal characters with bright bouncy happy music and themes that don't involve mindless bloodshed for XBox and PS/2. Take a look.
Do you call the resident evil series that is on the 'Cube right now "children's" material? I don't think Super Smash Bros. Melee is either, I know of no little kids that can play that game as well as adults, and it's THE best fighting game around right now.
The only classic game I care about: PACMAN, will live on forever! PACMAN is still being sold today, and my 21-28 year old group of friends still play it every friday night on an Atari 7800 with beer mixed in.
Ok so it's Ms. PACMAN for the 7800, it's the only one close enough to the arcade on the Atari to bear.
Why do I spell PACMAN with all uppercase? becuse it deserves it!
All Cell service in central Maine (and probably northern too) is complete crap, it doesn't matter what kind of plan you've got if you don't live in Bangor or Portland.
Most people probably don't even know that what they are doing is forbidden by copyright law. It is human nature to share to an extent after all, I bet it doesn't seem wrong to them but the article just indicates that they "don't care".
There are a lot of possibilities, but I like your idea that our job markets could surge because of something like this happening in Asia. I Didn't think of that, but it's a very educated guess.
Articles like this can never be accurate. While his predictions seem somewhat possible, I think his timeline is a bit short for some of these things. Some of his predictions may come true and others may not depending on the various social and political environments of the times.
Even if the author is reasonably correct about the dates, the technology may exist but never be put to use. If it is, then perhaps not in the way the author predicts.
I don't think IPv4 addresses will run out by 2005, especially as more and more people/organizations implement more NAT. I work for a statewide ISP, and we've found that the new IP addresses we just got from ARIN a year ago are being returned to us in large numbers (thousands) by customers who are now persuing NAT solutions and using smaller subnets of 16 addresses or less.
Use lilo to write a boot sector to whatever device you're using it on, dd it to a file, slap that file in C:\ then edit boot.ini.
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120dB is enough to deafen you completely 10 times over in a span of 6 hours.
177dB is so dangerous the lower frequencies may cause physical harm in certain situations, never mind taking your hearing away exponentially faster than 120dB audio!
What kind of hearing protection to they use for these things? They must use something!
You could always run 6 copies of winamp, each instance outputting to one of the 6 soundcards... It's a little hard to manage I guess.. but.. heh heh.. cheapo.
just tell the directsound driver on each one to use a different device explicitly in the dsound output plugin properties of winamp 2.91.
you'll also need to make sure the option is enabled in the config to allow multiple winamp instances.
I can see it now, I wake up to find out that millions of computers have been destroyed by a new fast moving worm that infects windows based computers and issues the almighty kill command. Now, I hear them talking about how they want to protect networks from terrorists, this is opening the front doors up and issuing an invite to Osama!
IBM should just sue SCO for causing damage to the consumer. With this type of move, obviously SCO is hoping that IBM would sense possible damage to its consumers and back off like a good mommy. However, I just think that IBM will sue SCO;). Everyone hates SCO more than Microsoft now, you'd think they'd get the hint. SCO will not be a company in a few months.
I say just install the most stable package of redhat you have encountered thus far and hack it until you get it the way you want it, then make a disk image of the installation.
You could make a generic image with all kinds of services ready to go and just disable and update accordingly each time you restore the image.
How come creative does not yet support ASIO drivers? I guess they never will for some reason. Also, Directsound and most apps still only do 48K/16bps PCM right? Maybe I'm wrong about the directsound support, but I know most applications don't yet use directsound except for games and all pro apps use ASIO... making the audigy 2 a little not worth it.
I believe FLAC uses rice coding too??? Anyhow, all lossless compressors I've seen never manage to get to 50% with most files.. it's usually more like 60-70%
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It would be a great project if teachers tought a course in TCP/IP and computer networking and then applied this knowledge using the laptops and Apache to let the students set up their own web server and make their own home page on their laptops. It would teach them valuable skills which they could apply to a world where computer network knowledge is of ever-growing importance.
But NO! We want them to look at MSNBC.com and make multimedia presentations!
I don't think teaching them to research using the web and having them use fairly straightforward programs like photoshop and powerpoint (or clones), teaches them to be more "tech savvy". To teach them that you will need to teach them to solve problems instead of memorizing formulas and make sure they have a functional understanding of logic and basic algebra. Students going through most public schools in Maine seem to be lacking in these areas. I would say that it is not even worth going to high school, but instead skipping straight to college once someone can read and write. College courses generally teach a much more fundamental understanding of their subjects than any public school I've seen in Maine (except for maybe MSSM).
Remember, computing is learning how to make a computer solve complex problems for you! It is NOT learning to use word or find clip-art for presentations. That kind of thing could be done just as well on the desktop computers schools spend thousands per year on anyway.
Unix is a complex system. If you teach about processes, threads, interprocess communication, job control, etc... the kid will gain much insight into logic and problem solving.
For example, they could write a program that had to accomplish a task with multiple processes working together.
I help support the laptops here in Maine and the program is a complete joke. Schools don't do much more than post information on the Apple run FirstClass mail server and have students use search engines with the things.
Now if a REAL computer curriculum were to be developed around the Unix aspects of Mac OS X that would be something, but integration with the classroom itself isn't going to happen. I don't know how it could really without losing the attention of students who resort to web browsing during dull (and meaningless) lectures.
High School/Public School education is a joke in the U.S. Student's don't even know algebra by the time they graduate with A's in math.
The best way artists can speak out against the policies of the RIAA is to sign to non-RIAA affiliated companies.
:)
If I owned a completely independent record company I would stick little "not RIAA affiliated" stickers on my CDs.
Don't swear off CD purchases for life OneInEveryCrowd! You should check the affiliated record labels out at www.riaa.com, and only boycott those CDs associated with the RIAA. If you refuse to purchase any CDs, maybe some of the ones you would have otherwise gotten have nothing to do with the RIAA. In that case you're hurting the artist who has chosen their label wisely, or a smaller record label that is trying to break free from the RIAA!
There are just as many if not more games that feature little animal characters with bright bouncy happy music and themes that don't involve mindless bloodshed for XBox and PS/2. Take a look.
Do you call the resident evil series that is on the 'Cube right now "children's" material? I don't think Super Smash Bros. Melee is either, I know of no little kids that can play that game as well as adults, and it's THE best fighting game around right now.
With little new exciting game ideas, all the Final Fantasy, Grand Theft Auto, and first person shooter clones will destroy the video game industry.
Will they blame their lost sales on piracy and mod-chips then?
The only classic game I care about: PACMAN, will live on forever! PACMAN is still being sold today, and my 21-28 year old group of friends still play it every friday night on an Atari 7800 with beer mixed in.
Ok so it's Ms. PACMAN for the 7800, it's the only one close enough to the arcade on the Atari to bear.
Why do I spell PACMAN with all uppercase? becuse it deserves it!
All Cell service in central Maine (and probably northern too) is complete crap, it doesn't matter what kind of plan you've got if you don't live in Bangor or Portland.
Most people probably don't even know that what they are doing is forbidden by copyright law. It is human nature to share to an extent after all, I bet it doesn't seem wrong to them but the article just indicates that they "don't care".
There are a lot of possibilities, but I like your idea that our job markets could surge because of something like this happening in Asia. I Didn't think of that, but it's a very educated guess.
Articles like this can never be accurate. While his predictions seem somewhat possible, I think his timeline is a bit short for some of these things. Some of his predictions may come true and others may not depending on the various social and political environments of the times.
Even if the author is reasonably correct about the dates, the technology may exist but never be put to use. If it is, then perhaps not in the way the author predicts.
I don't think IPv4 addresses will run out by 2005, especially as more and more people/organizations implement more NAT. I work for a statewide ISP, and we've found that the new IP addresses we just got from ARIN a year ago are being returned to us in large numbers (thousands) by customers who are now persuing NAT solutions and using smaller subnets of 16 addresses or less.
Use lilo to write a boot sector to whatever device you're using it on, dd it to a file, slap that file in C:\ then edit boot.ini.
120dB is enough to deafen you completely 10 times over in a span of 6 hours.
177dB is so dangerous the lower frequencies may cause physical harm in certain situations, never mind taking your hearing away exponentially faster than 120dB audio!
What kind of hearing protection to they use for these things? They must use something!
You could always run 6 copies of winamp, each instance outputting to one of the 6 soundcards... It's a little hard to manage I guess.. but .. heh heh.. cheapo.
just tell the directsound driver on each one to use a different device explicitly in the dsound output plugin properties of winamp 2.91.
you'll also need to make sure the option is enabled in the config to allow multiple winamp instances.
"a smart filter can learn from a user's personal preferences to create a unique, anti-spam immune system"
If it's anti-spam immune then I assume this means microsoft will be pouring only _its_ spam into your inbox?
I can see it now, I wake up to find out that millions of computers have been destroyed by a new fast moving worm that infects windows based computers and issues the almighty kill command. Now, I hear them talking about how they want to protect networks from terrorists, this is opening the front doors up and issuing an invite to Osama!
IBM should just sue SCO for causing damage to the consumer. With this type of move, obviously SCO is hoping that IBM would sense possible damage to its consumers and back off like a good mommy. However, I just think that IBM will sue SCO ;). Everyone hates SCO more than Microsoft now, you'd think they'd get the hint. SCO will not be a company in a few months.
I say just install the most stable package of redhat you have encountered thus far and hack it until you get it the way you want it, then make a disk image of the installation.
You could make a generic image with all kinds of services ready to go and just disable and update accordingly each time you restore the image.
ADAT was dead a long time ago, you should use an ASIO compatible 24/96 sound card with software that supports it.
Linux needs VST, and most importantly, ASIO support before it can even begin to be remotely considered for professional use.
How come creative does not yet support ASIO drivers? I guess they never will for some reason. Also, Directsound and most apps still only do 48K/16bps PCM right? Maybe I'm wrong about the directsound support, but I know most applications don't yet use directsound except for games and all pro apps use ASIO... making the audigy 2 a little not worth it.
I believe FLAC uses rice coding too??? Anyhow, all lossless compressors I've seen never manage to get to 50% with most files.. it's usually more like 60-70%