When was the last time you saw a school teacher presented in a positive light in popular media? What is the social status of high school teachers? What is the expectations we place upon teachers? Slightly above janitors.
What are the expectations of the parents? Do they demand performance? Is performance in entrance exams central to one's future?
Watching a lot of anime, I'm always surprised at the level in which study and test performance is placed. In the same manner It's integrated into the culture to an extent we never see. In the same fashion reading, bookstores, librarians, and bibliophiles are given elevated status (consider "Read or Die" or Nodoka in Negima). On the other hand the US has a distinctly anti-intellectual focus in popular culture, coupled with an adulation of career paths such as sports or entertainment with less chances of earning a good wage than the lottery.
I was lucky, I went to the top magnet school in Chicago and had very demanding parents. Dropping out, or even skipping grad school was not an option.
Amen, RMS suffers from "The perfect is the enemy of the good enough" syndrome. Linus was pragmatic enough to go with the "good enough". It's on the order of Ted Nelson and Project Xanadu versus Tim Berners-Lee and the WWW. Xanadu is, in theory, vastly superior, and in practice. well... it doesn't exist, while WWW is a central tool of it's age.
In the same vein, where would GNU be without Linus and the BSD guys?
The lawsuits that we served to the web sites. It was supposed to calm the population, weed out aggression. Well, it works. The people here stopped fighting. And then they stopped everything else. They stopped going to work, they stopped breeding, talking, eating. There's 30 million people here, and they all just let themselves die... I have to be quick! About a tenth of a percent of the population had the opposite reaction to the lawsuits.
Dead on. I rip and keep my CDs as a safeguard against failed hard drives, and the rise of better rippers and formats. I use the Nintendo Play-Yan cartridge as my primary mp3 player, so DRM is out of the question in any case.
If I can't rip, I won't listen anyway since I've become accustomed to having dozens to thousands of tracks handy for listening at any given time.
The same holds for DVDs, I buy them, and if they aren't "big screen" content, I often transcode them to my Play-Yan to watch during travel.
Books are heading the same way. I buy the book, but "obtain" an e-book for my PDA simply to have it on hand for when I have a chance to read. Make that multiple dead tree copies to give to my friends if the book is good.
I'm happy to pay for the content, but I want no DRM and the ability to transcode to portable formats.
Simple in the Sony dialect of English: Target:Feet Shoot early and often.
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If you can't handle real (simulated) combat then take you noob ass to another game... I suggest something involving Barbie dolls.
I'm still waiting for Mattel to Licence the Barbie Deathmatch Adventure FPS with the pink BFG-2000. The only title I want more is the Barbie Sex Worker Adventure!
Another instance of bubblepack computing(like the gumstix, socket pc, OLPC etc.). So cheap it's a giveaway/impulse buy, Linux based with zero maintainence/zero service. Sure, not a gaming rig, but sufficent to do the primary functions of a PC these days websurfing and light office functions. Not likely to be a primary machine, but an excellent kitchen/bedroom terminal, perfect for hotel/public terminal axcess. While they won't replace the present PC they will crowd them out just as PCs did to mini's. What will be interesting will be when the/. crowd starts modding bubblepack computing for specialized apps (wardriving, geolocation, picture frames)
While this still has to drop a bit in price it points to the next big thing. Bubblepack computing. I.E. PC grade computers (this and the OLPC) with preinstalled distros in bubblepacks on the racks by the checkout counters at Target and WalMart. Buy one plug it in, use it. Store your work on removable flash or USB key. When the unit breaks, fails, or is stolen, toss it in the recycle bin and get another. Zero maintenance, zero support. Within a few years the'll make the standard PC look like mainframes.
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Amen to that! Infobukake is a far more dignified term!
I put in the CD that came with my iPod, but the computer isn't working.- an-ipod
I didn't know ESR was in the Indiana School system:
http://geekz.co.uk/lovesraymond/archive/eric-buys
But w/ a 100Gb Ethernet you can download the Real Doll data of the supermodel to your desktop fabber real fast!
When was the last time you saw a school teacher presented in a positive light in popular media? What is the social status of high school teachers? What is the expectations we place upon teachers? Slightly above janitors.
What are the expectations of the parents? Do they demand performance? Is performance in entrance exams central to one's future?
Watching a lot of anime, I'm always surprised at the level in which study and test performance is placed. In the same manner It's integrated into the culture to an extent we never see. In the same fashion reading, bookstores, librarians, and bibliophiles are given elevated status (consider "Read or Die" or Nodoka in Negima). On the other hand the US has a distinctly anti-intellectual focus in popular culture, coupled with an adulation of career paths such as sports or entertainment with less chances of earning a good wage than the lottery.
I was lucky, I went to the top magnet school in Chicago and had very demanding parents. Dropping out, or even skipping grad school was not an option.
That not only must you pay $600+ for the console, but you must upgrade your HDTV!
If it gets any better you'll need a third job to buy one!
Amen, RMS suffers from "The perfect is the enemy of the good enough" syndrome. Linus was pragmatic enough to go with the "good enough". It's on the order of Ted Nelson and Project Xanadu versus Tim Berners-Lee and the WWW. Xanadu is, in theory, vastly superior, and in practice. well... it doesn't exist, while WWW is a central tool of it's age.
In the same vein, where would GNU be without Linus and the BSD guys?
Is to convert all robots to Judaism.
Then we'll be fine until we hit the Y5K crisis.
Is having a national release tomorrow! One day only!
By uploading detailed nuclear bomb plans to the web in Arabic:/ 03/1811235
http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/11
That M$ would go with the inventors, SCO!
Get Rooted!
Lik-Sang Must Die!
Lithium Ion Inferno!
Fire All Batteries!
Where's UMD?
It's too late!:l ly-boy-on-boy-kiss-goes-mainstream/
http://www.joystiq.com/2006/10/28/warm-tea-the-bu
...as soon as they are done in Iraq.
Chavez will probably have died of old age.
The lawsuits that we served to the web sites. It was supposed to calm the population, weed out aggression. Well, it works. The people here stopped fighting. And then they stopped everything else. They stopped going to work, they stopped breeding, talking, eating. There's 30 million people here, and they all just let themselves die...
I have to be quick! About a tenth of a percent of the population had the opposite reaction to the lawsuits.
This is another sign of bubblepack (as in a bubblepack on the shelves at wallmart/target) computing.
In hardware, bubblepack computing is focused on using present technology to create dirt cheap, very low power consumption platforms.
In software, bubblepack computing implements small and elegant code in modern software enviroments.
The software impact extends to use on older machines which run linux, and USB key distros.
How can they write 419 email without it?
"She's the LADY MARYAM ABACHA, deposed.
These days can't even get her caps-lock key unfroze" -MC Frontalot
Dead on.
I rip and keep my CDs as a safeguard against failed hard drives, and the rise of better rippers and formats. I use the Nintendo Play-Yan cartridge as my primary mp3 player, so DRM is out of the question in any case.
If I can't rip, I won't listen anyway since I've become accustomed to having dozens to thousands of tracks handy for listening at any given time.
The same holds for DVDs, I buy them, and if they aren't "big screen" content, I often transcode them to my Play-Yan to watch during travel.
Books are heading the same way. I buy the book, but "obtain" an e-book for my PDA simply to have it on hand for when I have a chance to read. Make that multiple dead tree copies to give to my friends if the book is good.
I'm happy to pay for the content, but I want no DRM and the ability to transcode to portable formats.
"All your base are belong to us!"
Simple in the Sony dialect of English:
Target:Feet
Shoot early and often.
If you can't handle real (simulated) combat then take you noob ass to another game... I suggest something involving Barbie dolls.
I'm still waiting for Mattel to Licence the Barbie Deathmatch Adventure FPS with the pink BFG-2000. The only title I want more is the Barbie Sex Worker Adventure!
"Foley" in which you play a Congressman and the Chairman of the "Missing and Exploited Children Commitee". In the game you pursue pages and ...
Just think of the children!!!
No, No, No!!!/ 2115235
The PS3 is a computer! and There is only One (as verified by the current production news) and It's too cheap!
http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/06/08
Actually as I remember, they don't even pull dead machines until there are a large number of them gone.
Another instance of bubblepack computing(like the gumstix, socket pc, OLPC etc.). So cheap it's a giveaway/impulse buy, Linux based with zero maintainence/zero service. Sure, not a gaming rig, but sufficent to do the primary functions of a PC these days websurfing and light office functions. Not likely to be a primary machine, but an excellent kitchen/bedroom terminal, perfect for hotel/public terminal axcess. While they won't replace the present PC they will crowd them out just as PCs did to mini's. /. crowd starts modding bubblepack computing for specialized apps (wardriving, geolocation, picture frames)
What will be interesting will be when the
While this still has to drop a bit in price it points to the next big thing. Bubblepack computing. I.E. PC grade computers (this and the OLPC) with preinstalled distros in bubblepacks on the racks by the checkout counters at Target and WalMart. Buy one plug it in, use it. Store your work on removable flash or USB key. When the unit breaks, fails, or is stolen, toss it in the recycle bin and get another. Zero maintenance, zero support. Within a few years the'll make the standard PC look like mainframes.