A bunch of my friends and I decided to restart the school's computer club one day last year. We had tons of ideas at first- all of which were crushed by the school's adminstration. For instance, the school's programming lab has +30 Windows95 computers, all with networking cards, but none hooked to the network. So we got the idea of putting Linux on them and making our own small network.
But the school would hear nothing of it.
We tried explaining that they would still boot to Windows unless you had the Linux boot disk (so students wouldn't be confused or anything). And that it wouldn't take up much space (leaving over a gig or so left over for Office doc's and C++ programs). One of our main arguments was the fact that these +30 computers sat there after school doing nothing- except maybe wasting power. One or two computers were used by after school students and we would only use at the most five computers at a time. These computers were sitting there just asking to be done something to. Network cards and everything! We even had the hubs and cables to do it.
But in the end the adminstration wouldn't allow it, and for very weak reasons too.
We tried other things (like fundraiser LAN parties to buy our own comps and helping teachers out with stuff) but everything we could think of was shot down by the school. See, schools like to tell the public/parents that they're "a technology educational model," but in reality, they are scared and hard-headed when it comes to technology.
(Also the explanation that if Computer Science teachers were any good at programming, then they'd have a real job making more money really hits the nail on the head about the situation)
I don't even display the navigation bar. All the buttons can be accessed through keyboard shortcuts and the pop-up menu (when you right click). It's loads faster to right-click and move mouse 2 pixels than to move the mouse allllll the way up to click the back button.
I do however, have the Personal Toolbar. For my "special buttons" it goes: Slashdot, Dictionary.com (javascript window pops up and asks for word, then searches dictionary.com for it), TechWeb (same as dictionary.com but TechWeb is a little more "techish"), Google (again, window pops up and asks for words and then searches google with 1-100 results), Search/. (again, window asking for words), and finally, BabelFish (window thing too, but it only translates phrase from French to English (can be customized))
You don't even need a hex-editor for these. Simply find the folder called Personal Toolbar Folder, and create bookmarks with these URLs:
The Osborne was the first laptop - they don't seem to have an up-to-date product list, though. Seems to me that there's a fairly long list of latter-day heretics being financial stake.
Osborne died from their own problems (Reader's Digest version: Osborne came out, was very popular, Osborne2 promoted to be 10 fold better than original, consumers stopped buying original- waiting for Osborne2, company went out of buisness from warehouses full of Osborne1's). Not because consumers rejected the whole "mobile computing" concept.
They have merely resolved to form a subcommittee to investigate it. And of course they would unanimously agree that this sort of law needs more research into its effects.
"RESOLVED by the House of Delegates, the Senate concurring, That a joint subcommittee be established to study the Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act."
In the last article someone had already pointed this out. Slashdotters aren't idiots. They don't take some article's word for it, they find out for yourself at the source! Media isn't always right, I hate to say this- no matter how painfully obvious -but simply linking to a news site who says something does not mean it is true.
I certainly do not expect the Slashdot authors to research every story, but atleast read score 4 or lower comments on an article before posting a follow-up.
On another issue, Eastern states are generally more protective of its citizens than any other. Colonial states tend to be more fearful of government control; it is something that has stuck with us since the Revolutionary War's battle grounds stare us in the face everyday. For instance, in Virginia we have Magistrates who's sole purpose is to decide whether the police arrested you fairly and how much bail shall be. Magistrates are not even lawyers or policemen, they are ordinary citizens with "intellectual backgrounds". In California, their version is a policman who works for the police department. So you have the police checking the police...
Of course, I'm not saying Virginia is perfect, nor is it close.
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Heh, we're both in the same positions, just different enviroments. Read my comment just before yours (#208).
A bunch of my friends and I decided to restart the school's computer club one day last year. We had tons of ideas at first- all of which were crushed by the school's adminstration. For instance, the school's programming lab has +30 Windows95 computers, all with networking cards, but none hooked to the network. So we got the idea of putting Linux on them and making our own small network.
But the school would hear nothing of it.
We tried explaining that they would still boot to Windows unless you had the Linux boot disk (so students wouldn't be confused or anything). And that it wouldn't take up much space (leaving over a gig or so left over for Office doc's and C++ programs). One of our main arguments was the fact that these +30 computers sat there after school doing nothing- except maybe wasting power. One or two computers were used by after school students and we would only use at the most five computers at a time.
These computers were sitting there just asking to be done something to. Network cards and everything! We even had the hubs and cables to do it.
But in the end the adminstration wouldn't allow it, and for very weak reasons too.
We tried other things (like fundraiser LAN parties to buy our own comps and helping teachers out with stuff) but everything we could think of was shot down by the school. See, schools like to tell the public/parents that they're "a technology educational model," but in reality, they are scared and hard-headed when it comes to technology.
(Also the explanation that if Computer Science teachers were any good at programming, then they'd have a real job making more money really hits the nail on the head about the situation)
I don't even display the navigation bar. All the buttons can be accessed through keyboard shortcuts and the pop-up menu (when you right click). It's loads faster to right-click and move mouse 2 pixels than to move the mouse allllll the way up to click the back button.
/. (again, window asking for words), and finally, BabelFish (window thing too, but it only translates phrase from French to English (can be customized))
t ionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term='+escape (term)
h web.com/encyclopedia/defineterm?term='+e scape(term)
g le.com/search?q='+escape(term)+'&num=100 &sa=Google+Search'
s hdot.org/search.pl?query='+escape(term)
f ='http://babelfish.altavista.com/cgi-bin /translate?jss&lp=en_fr&urltext='+escape(term)
I do however, have the Personal Toolbar. For my "special buttons" it goes: Slashdot, Dictionary.com (javascript window pops up and asks for word, then searches dictionary.com for it), TechWeb (same as dictionary.com but TechWeb is a little more "techish"), Google (again, window pops up and asks for words and then searches google with 1-100 results), Search
You don't even need a hex-editor for these. Simply find the folder called Personal Toolbar Folder, and create bookmarks with these URLs:
http://slashdot.org/
javascript:{void(term=prompt('Search word:',''))}if(term)location.href='http://www.dic
javascript:{void(term=prompt('Search word:',''))}if(term)location.href='http://www.tec
javascript:{void(term=prompt('Search word:',''))}if(term)location.href='http://www.goo
javascript:{void(term=prompt('Search word:',''))}if(term)location.href='http://www.sla
javascript:{void(t erm=prompt('Translate:',''))}if(term)location.hre
Now, isn't that easier than having to drag out your hex-editor?
The Osborne was the first laptop - they don't seem to have an up-to-date product list, though. Seems to me that there's a fairly long list of latter-day heretics being financial stake.
Osborne died from their own problems (Reader's Digest version: Osborne came out, was very popular, Osborne2 promoted to be 10 fold better than original, consumers stopped buying original- waiting for Osborne2, company went out of buisness from warehouses full of Osborne1's). Not because consumers rejected the whole "mobile computing" concept.
-Fact Number 2
-Fact Number 3
They have merely resolved to form a subcommittee to investigate it. And of course they would unanimously agree that this sort of law needs more research into its effects.
In the last article someone had already pointed this out. Slashdotters aren't idiots. They don't take some article's word for it, they find out for yourself at the source! Media isn't always right, I hate to say this- no matter how painfully obvious -but simply linking to a news site who says something does not mean it is true.
I certainly do not expect the Slashdot authors to research every story, but atleast read score 4 or lower comments on an article before posting a follow-up.
On another issue, Eastern states are generally more protective of its citizens than any other. Colonial states tend to be more fearful of government control; it is something that has stuck with us since the Revolutionary War's battle grounds stare us in the face everyday. For instance, in Virginia we have Magistrates who's sole purpose is to decide whether the police arrested you fairly and how much bail shall be. Magistrates are not even lawyers or policemen, they are ordinary citizens with "intellectual backgrounds". In California, their version is a policman who works for the police department. So you have the police checking the police...
Of course, I'm not saying Virginia is perfect, nor is it close.
The electromagnetic force has photons and gravity has gravitons, but why do all the books say that the strong force has 8 gluons? Why must it be 8?