Of course, you're right about people changing, but I've known some gangsta types, and they are not the huggable "Hey, I just wanna get outta the ghetto and I was peer pressured into a criminal life, man!" we just gotta give em a chance types that you might see on tv. The gang lifestyle attracted them in the first place because they fit a profile, personalitywise, and most of them aren't going to change that much.
"The point of view the the city of milwaukee has taken on this may not be the most agreeable stane, but what does it say about the city? It say they care about the people in the city, and they figure that perhaps as these gang bangers get out of jail with some really useful skills, they might help the up and coming generation understand that there more to life than gang banging."
Unless I misread, the city of Milwaukee basically said, "Well, we've got to do something with these fuck-ups, and we can't line them up against a wall and shoot them, so lets give them well paying jobs and get them out of our hair." I'm afraid that all the up and coming generation is going to learn is that it's okay if you steal people's shit and kill, because some one will come along and help you out.
People change, yeah, and some kids in gangs are just confused and need a chance, but I know too many uneducated, good hearted people who bust their asses at a minimum wage job every day to try and pay the bills and feed their families to fully get behind giving criminals the opportunity that some law-abiding Americans won't get.
I think I still have the blue book...somewhere...My dad brought us home a TI-994a when he worked for TI, and we gave it to a neighbor. I missed it so much, I had to buy another one on eBay. Parsec rocked, and Hunt the Wumpus
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Preach it, brother!
In '96 or 97, I was saddled with an old Compaq386s with 4mb ram and 40mb hard drive. Windows3.11 crashed a lot, and I tried to get by with just DOS (Nettamer, anyone?), but it just didn't please me. Enter Slackware. I was able to install a minimum installation with TCP/IP networking tools and I was hooked. Virtual consoles! True multitasking! It thrashed around a lot, and it was strictly command line, and I couldn't even fit on development tools, but it was perfect for my use. It was plenty fast, even if it swapped a lot, and it NEVER EVER crashed or hung.
And that's where Linux really has it over Windows. I can strip a Linux installation down to the barebones for old hardware, or bloat it up on new.
"In theory it was good, but in reality, the engine would kick down to 6 or 4 cyls while at WOT (wide open throttle) for no apparent reason. Most people said to hell with it and unplugged the 8-6-4 control module. I know this is a bit offtopic, but I had to add my.02 about something I know a little something about "
Actually, I came really close to buying a SWEET mid-80s Biarritz last year, and the 4-6-8 engine it had was what killed the deal. I knew they were made for a while, and the concept sounded like a good one, but I never heard anything good or bad about them. The vision of being on the freeway with my engine stuck in 4cyl mode was a frightening one. It's a shame, though, because that car was drop-dead gorgeous and in perfect condition.
I'll third it. I bought an old PC from ebay for $150 and paid by postal M.O. Never got the PC, and the seller stopped answering his email. I waited as long as I possibly could, then went crying to the Post Office. I received a refund for the amount of the money order a couple of weeks later; never found out what happened to the seller.
I personally would never buy anything off eBay for more than $300, and anything over $50, I get a postal money order for.
"They got NO radio play. NO MTV play. You heard about them by word of mouth, from your friend who got this tape from his brother or something. You got a bootleg copy and fell in love, started buying all the Metallica you could get your hands on. They were a band of the people - no hairspray or makeup, just long haired guys in jeans and t shirts playing kickass metal."
Oh, yeah, well, the Napster thing isn't the first instance of Metallica hypocrisy. Remember when they SWORE they would never make videos and pander to the MTV crowd? Well, they made "One" which I could forgive, since it was pretty revolutionary at the time, but before long they were churning out crap, just like every other MTV video they had previously condemned. I guess the $$ tasted too sweet. I used to like Metallica, but after the Napster debacle, they just leave a bad taste in my mouth.
I don't begrudge the artist wanting to make a buck, and I don't damn automatically for being greedy, but when you compare the generosity of Dave Matthews (as mentioned by other slashdotters) to Metallica, and Joe Lansdale (who offers a free story every week at http://www.joerlansdale.com/stories.shtml) to Stephen King (I guess The Plant didn't make as much money as he thought it would), it's interesting to see who the money grabbing dragons are.
Believe it. I worked tech support a few years ago, and even the more savvy users had trouble with that crazy right click concept. Instead of saying, "Okay, now, right click once on your My Computer icon..." I quickly learned to say, "Okay, now, put your mouse pointer over the My Computer icon and click ONCE with the RIGHT mouse button..." Even then, with the emphasis on ONCE, I would still often hear from my user, "Okay, I see Control Panel, C:, Printers..."
I'd rather walk a user through typing in a command any day of the week - the fewer distracting, pretty icons, the better.
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"Lets see, for approx the same money, I can get a black+white, slow, and low-featured Palm, or I can get a full featured (voice recording, sound, full color, video, full-motion games, Word, Internet Explorer, and about a billion other features) in a PocketPC. "
Last time I looked, m100s were $130 at just about every electronics store in town. Tell me where I can get a full color PocketPC for that, and I'll run out and buy one this weekend.
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Here's my two cents, from a Palm perspective: I bought a VIIx to play with about six months ago - the price was right ($199 on sale, with an additional $100 rebate if you cared to sign up for the $29.99 a month service plan for palm.net for a year). I love it - the only thing I don't like is the additional weight from the modem, which I don't use that much, anyway. I'm redecorating my house, and I keep all the measurements from wall, ceilings, floors, etc on it. Passwords on GNUKeyring, contacts, phone numbers. I keep e-texts on it, and it's been worth the purchase price just to have something to read during those unexpected waits. It's easy to whip out and take down a quick phone number or note, as opposed to groping for a paper and pen, and then later losing the paper. I find PalmOS and it's small, elegant apps appealing in a time when even boxes of Linux distros claim they need 32mb of RAM or better.
Color, the ability to play mp3s, do voice recording, play videos and whatever else whizbang things PocketPC can do just plain don't appeal to me, especially when they come with the penalty of added size/weight and shorter battery life. I'd rather read a book than watch TV, anyway, so maybe that's just me. If I were going to consider a PocketPC, especially for notetaking purposes, I would seriously consider going with a used sub-notebook instead.
"What he's really saying is that the real criminals will be able to steal it anyway, and we're trying to defeat everyone else, whom we are defining as "casual easy-to-foil criminals". "
That's exactly what he's saying, and it doesn't make a hell of a lot of sense. Most of what he said didn't make any sense. Take the following gem: "Yes, I have. I've used Napster, and both my kids have used Napster...I (also) smoked once but I didn't inhale.." WTF? Also: "We need to explain to people that the financial result of using file-sharing services is not good[..]" I had a high stress drive to work today, and my tolerance levels have dropped way below normal, but I feel pretty confident in calling this guy a braying jackass.
"Consider this: You are an instructor for a firearms class. One of your students uses the knowledge gained to assasinate the president. You are arrested for teaching the student a skill that was used for an illegal activity. "
Actually, it's more like the hypothetical firearms teacher teaching firearms skills, railing about bringing down the government, and funding the assasination. Let's call it conspiracy.
"The US Gov has yet to produce any evidence that would prove this beyond reasonable doubt. "
Agreed...at least, not that I've seen. But, hasn't bin Laden claimed responsibility for other terrorist attacks? If so, he is certainly a target for Bush's "war on terrorism" whether he is guilty of Tuesday's attack or not.
Incidentally, I'm curious if that "war" also applies to Americans who call in bomb threats to, and firebomb mosques, and shoot down Indian Sikhs. That qualifies as terrorism as far as I'm concerned.
"It wasn't a 'declaration of war', it was a group of angry individuals doing what they thought was best for their people."
Bin Laden declared war on the US and US citizens in 1998. The people who did this were horribly stupid or misguided if they didn't think there would be repercussions.
" The US cannot 'avenge' the dead innocents by killing more. Go home, take your anti-islamic rhetoric off your pickup trucks, and ask your leaders for a more sane approach to the situation. "
We can't avenge, but I think the idea is to deter future attacks.
As for anti-Islamic rhetoric, I haven't read through this entire discussion yet, but I haven't seen any so far. And if ya wanna talk anti-Islamic, if I'm not mistaken, the Koran forbids slaughtering civilians, livestock or burning crops in times of war. Also mentions that Allah does not love a transgressor. Hey, whaddaya know, Muslim fundamentalists twist the meanings of their holy texts just like Christians!
Possibly there *was* something in the lake way back when, that has since died, left or been captured by the Weekly World News, and every sighting since can be explained by natural causes coupled with the notion planted into peoples heads that there is "something in the lake."
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Of course, you're right about people changing, but I've known some gangsta types, and they are not the huggable "Hey, I just wanna get outta the ghetto and I was peer pressured into a criminal life, man!" we just gotta give em a chance types that you might see on tv. The gang lifestyle attracted them in the first place because they fit a profile, personalitywise, and most of them aren't going to change that much.
"The point of view the the city of milwaukee has taken on this may not be the most agreeable stane, but what does it say about the city? It say they care about the people in the city, and they figure that perhaps as these gang bangers get out of jail with some really useful skills, they might help the up and coming generation understand that there more to life than gang banging."
Unless I misread, the city of Milwaukee basically said, "Well, we've got to do something with these fuck-ups, and we can't line them up against a wall and shoot them, so lets give them well paying jobs and get them out of our hair." I'm afraid that all the up and coming generation is going to learn is that it's okay if you steal people's shit and kill, because some one will come along and help you out.
People change, yeah, and some kids in gangs are just confused and need a chance, but I know too many uneducated, good hearted people who bust their asses at a minimum wage job every day to try and pay the bills and feed their families to fully get behind giving criminals the opportunity that some law-abiding Americans won't get.
The Great Brain books were great...author, John D. Fitzgerald
I think I still have the blue book...somewhere...My dad brought us home a TI-994a when he worked for TI, and we gave it to a neighbor. I missed it so much, I had to buy another one on eBay. Parsec rocked, and Hunt the Wumpus
Preach it, brother!
In '96 or 97, I was saddled with an old Compaq386s with 4mb ram and 40mb hard drive. Windows3.11 crashed a lot, and I tried to get by with just DOS (Nettamer, anyone?), but it just didn't please me. Enter Slackware. I was able to install a minimum installation with TCP/IP networking tools and I was hooked. Virtual consoles! True multitasking! It thrashed around a lot, and it was strictly command line, and I couldn't even fit on development tools, but it was perfect for my use. It was plenty fast, even if it swapped a lot, and it NEVER EVER crashed or hung.
And that's where Linux really has it over Windows. I can strip a Linux installation down to the barebones for old hardware, or bloat it up on new.
"In theory it was good, but in reality, the engine would kick down to 6 or 4 cyls while at WOT (wide open throttle) for no apparent reason. Most people said to hell with it and unplugged the 8-6-4 control module. I know this is a bit offtopic, but I had to add my .02 about something I know a little something about "
Actually, I came really close to buying a SWEET mid-80s Biarritz last year, and the 4-6-8 engine it had was what killed the deal. I knew they were made for a while, and the concept sounded like a good one, but I never heard anything good or bad about them. The vision of being on the freeway with my engine stuck in 4cyl mode was a frightening one. It's a shame, though, because that car was drop-dead gorgeous and in perfect condition.
I'll third it. I bought an old PC from ebay for $150 and paid by postal M.O. Never got the PC, and the seller stopped answering his email. I waited as long as I possibly could, then went crying to the Post Office. I received a refund for the amount of the money order a couple of weeks later; never found out what happened to the seller.
I personally would never buy anything off eBay for more than $300, and anything over $50, I get a postal money order for.
"They got NO radio play. NO MTV play. You heard about them by word of mouth, from your friend who got this tape from his brother or something. You got a bootleg copy and fell in love, started buying all the Metallica you could get your hands on. They were a band of the people - no hairspray or makeup, just long haired guys in jeans and t shirts playing kickass metal."
Oh, yeah, well, the Napster thing isn't the first instance of Metallica hypocrisy. Remember when they SWORE they would never make videos and pander to the MTV crowd? Well, they made "One" which I could forgive, since it was pretty revolutionary at the time, but before long they were churning out crap, just like every other MTV video they had previously condemned. I guess the $$ tasted too sweet. I used to like Metallica, but after the Napster debacle, they just leave a bad taste in my mouth.
I don't begrudge the artist wanting to make a buck, and I don't damn automatically for being greedy, but when you compare the generosity of Dave Matthews (as mentioned by other slashdotters) to Metallica, and Joe Lansdale (who offers a free story every week at http://www.joerlansdale.com/stories.shtml) to Stephen King (I guess The Plant didn't make as much money as he thought it would), it's interesting to see who the money grabbing dragons are.
When I first moved out to the sticks in '97, the only real choices were AOL, Earthlink, and a local ISP that offered filtered content for Christians.
Believe it. I worked tech support a few years ago, and even the more savvy users had trouble with that crazy right click concept. Instead of saying, "Okay, now, right click once on your My Computer icon..." I quickly learned to say, "Okay, now, put your mouse pointer over the My Computer icon and click ONCE with the RIGHT mouse button..." Even then, with the emphasis on ONCE, I would still often hear from my user, "Okay, I see Control Panel, C:, Printers..."
I'd rather walk a user through typing in a command any day of the week - the fewer distracting, pretty icons, the better.
"Lets see, for approx the same money, I can get a black+white, slow, and low-featured Palm, or I can get a full featured (voice recording, sound, full color, video, full-motion games, Word, Internet Explorer, and about a billion other features) in a PocketPC. "
Last time I looked, m100s were $130 at just about every electronics store in town. Tell me where I can get a full color PocketPC for that, and I'll run out and buy one this weekend.
Here's my two cents, from a Palm perspective: I bought a VIIx to play with about six months ago - the price was right ($199 on sale, with an additional $100 rebate if you cared to sign up for the $29.99 a month service plan for palm.net for a year). I love it - the only thing I don't like is the additional weight from the modem, which I don't use that much, anyway. I'm redecorating my house, and I keep all the measurements from wall, ceilings, floors, etc on it. Passwords on GNUKeyring, contacts, phone numbers. I keep e-texts on it, and it's been worth the purchase price just to have something to read during those unexpected waits. It's easy to whip out and take down a quick phone number or note, as opposed to groping for a paper and pen, and then later losing the paper. I find PalmOS and it's small, elegant apps appealing in a time when even boxes of Linux distros claim they need 32mb of RAM or better.
Color, the ability to play mp3s, do voice recording, play videos and whatever else whizbang things PocketPC can do just plain don't appeal to me, especially when they come with the penalty of added size/weight and shorter battery life. I'd rather read a book than watch TV, anyway, so maybe that's just me. If I were going to consider a PocketPC, especially for notetaking purposes, I would seriously consider going with a used sub-notebook instead.
"What he's really saying is that the real criminals will be able to steal it anyway, and we're trying to defeat everyone else, whom we are defining as "casual easy-to-foil criminals". "
That's exactly what he's saying, and it doesn't make a hell of a lot of sense. Most of what he said didn't make any sense. Take the following gem: "Yes, I have. I've used Napster, and both my kids have used Napster...I (also) smoked once but I didn't inhale.." WTF? Also: "We need to explain to people that the financial result of using file-sharing services is not good[..]" I had a high stress drive to work today, and my tolerance levels have dropped way below normal, but I feel pretty confident in calling this guy a braying jackass.
Color me selfish, but one of the first things that sprang to my mind was, "God, no! What about the Dark Tower series?"
"Consider this: You are an instructor for a firearms class. One of your students uses the knowledge gained to assasinate the president. You are arrested for teaching the student a skill that was used for an illegal activity. "
Actually, it's more like the hypothetical firearms teacher teaching firearms skills, railing about bringing down the government, and funding the assasination. Let's call it conspiracy.
"The US Gov has yet to produce any evidence that would prove this beyond reasonable doubt. "
Agreed...at least, not that I've seen. But, hasn't bin Laden claimed responsibility for other terrorist attacks? If so, he is certainly a target for Bush's "war on terrorism" whether he is guilty of Tuesday's attack or not.
Incidentally, I'm curious if that "war" also applies to Americans who call in bomb threats to, and firebomb mosques, and shoot down Indian Sikhs. That qualifies as terrorism as far as I'm concerned.
"It wasn't a 'declaration of war', it was a group of angry individuals doing what they thought was best for their people."
Bin Laden declared war on the US and US citizens in 1998. The people who did this were horribly stupid or misguided if they didn't think there would be repercussions.
" The US cannot 'avenge' the dead innocents by killing more. Go home, take your anti-islamic rhetoric off your pickup trucks, and ask your leaders for a more sane approach to the situation. "
We can't avenge, but I think the idea is to deter future attacks.
As for anti-Islamic rhetoric, I haven't read through this entire discussion yet, but I haven't seen any so far. And if ya wanna talk anti-Islamic, if I'm not mistaken, the Koran forbids slaughtering civilians, livestock or burning crops in times of war. Also mentions that Allah does not love a transgressor. Hey, whaddaya know, Muslim fundamentalists twist the meanings of their holy texts just like Christians!
errr..rather, What can Linux do on a Palm device that PalmOS DOESN'T already do admirably well. There, much better.
What can Linux do on a Palm device that PalmOS already does admirably well?
Possibly there *was* something in the lake way back when, that has since died, left or been captured by the Weekly World News, and every sighting since can be explained by natural causes coupled with the notion planted into peoples heads that there is "something in the lake."