It isn't the first time a school has punished a kid for something that happens outside of school grounds and hours.
It also depends on what is considered "school grounds." When I was in school, about 5 years ago, our school district stated (I am not sure if this is district policy or that of state or local government) that school grounds is not just school land but also the buses and any area within a few hundred feet from any bus stop. This bus stop consideration can lead to some interesting side effects.
I remember an incident from back in middle school about a kid who liked to engage in horseplay with his little brother. Typical sibling rivalry stuff. They would occasionally have bruises or whatnot from their wrestling and carrying on. One day the little brother showed up to the bus stop with a black eye. He got it when they were playing tackle-football or something in their back yard after school. From what I was told, a teacher asked what had happened and went to the principal of the elementary school. This then went to the principal of the middle school and the kid was suspended for a two weeks for bullying. Because his bus stop was right in front of his house, they used the bus stop clause to designate his back yard as "school property".
Typically this rule is used to keep people from getting beat up or doing stupid stuff at the bus stop. In this case it was grossly misused. I'm assuming the parents contested, but the kid was out for two weeks anyway. Just as well, he was a real asshole and probably would have been suspended sooner or later for something else just as dumb.
I would actually probably prefer the iPad w/ a keyboard but there's no Word/OOo
It will have a version of iWork (Pages, Numbers, and Keynote). If the iPad version is anything like the desktop version, it should be a pretty good Word Processor. No, it doesn't have anywhere near feature parody with Word or OOo, but Pages is still a very usable and friendly word processor that can read and edit MS Office documents
I liked Stargate. Independence Day was fun if you take it as a modern Scifi B-Movie like Mars Attacks. Neither of these are great, but they are not bad films.
Changes in government following lawful elections very clearly do not amount to an overthrow of the state.
Tell that to Fox News and many of the more uneducated people who watch them to get their "news". I occasionally watch Glenn Beck and Bill O'Reilly for a good laugh and the occasional bout of rage because they make Jon Stewart look like Walter Cronkite. Their opinions border on fascism and their evidence is laughable. Glenn Beck is clearly delusional and probably "bat-shit crazy". Ever since the presidential election, the sentiment I have received from Fox News was that their country was stolen from them and the government was overthrown in some sort of Red Dawn scenario as if the "Commie Terrorists" had entered the White House and Congress, shot the patriots, and declared The USA to now be the "People's Soviet Union of Amerika".
What about the sentiment of the people? I can only give the beliefs of my own family. My Catholic Aunt is convinced that Obama is the Anti-Christ and expects the end of the world sometime in the next few years. My great-grandma is convinced that Obama wants to kill all the old people and that anytime she cannot get her pills or an appointment with a doctor she blames it on Obama for "abolishing Medicare to get rid of the old people". My mom will believe almost anything she hears. If she hears it from her coworkers or if it is on Good Morning America, Doctor Oz, or any of the other morning talk shows then it must be true. Evey day seems to have something new, "Obama wants to do this evil thing" or "Obama wants to kill that broad group of citizens".
Now this is a roundabout way of saying that, while I agree with you, there is a vocal group of sore losers who would disagree. These people have positions where they can tell the large, ignorant, angry, politically apathetic mob that their country has been overthrown by 'terrorists' and that these terrorists are the reason that they are out of work, can't afford medical care, and that our country is set to be annexed by China. The problem is that opinions hold more water in the minds of the people than facts. Then again, who doesn't love a good tabloid headline.
Judging by the all the shared titles, it also seems relatively easy to port PS2 games too the Wii and vice versa. The PS2 usually gets the better end of the deal because it doesn't have to deal with waggleware. The wiimote is designed like an NES controller and has two more buttons (not counting home). God forbid any developer actually use them!
I think the article's point is that a machine that only satisfies the limited number of things that a already person knows they want from a computer is a machine that suppresses those unknown urges to tinker.
So, a device that gives the user nothing that they want would do nothing but inspire creativity? Only a very small percentage of users will ever want to write a program or tinker with a device. We are looking at one out of a hundred people on the high end, most likely way less. Creative and technical people will always be creative and use their skills and knowledge to do cool stuff. Some of them may use this device, others will refuse to touch it. The only problem is whether this will be the object of that creativity. The answer to that is, "who cares?" Now, if this device is worth hacking, someone, somewhere will hack it. If it isn't, I guarantee that in a few months, a better device will come along. Maybe it will be more open, maybe not. Either way, if it is a good device there will be a respectable community built around it, ready to take it to the next level.
Simply put, Hackers will hack and artists will create. It is just who we are. The only flaw is thinking that everyone is artist and a hacker. Most people just want to look at a few web pages, keep a simple calendar, watch movies, and play a crappy game or two. They don't care and never will.
No, the Dreamcast died because Sega was an expert on sabotaging its own products and success. Sega was its own worst enemy. The PS2 didn't help either.
There is nothing that I can add that the guy in the video didn't eloquently say. I have a bookshelf filled with PC games I have bought over the years many of which do not work anymore due to age and DRM. Some I have had to resort to re-buying on steam (luckily they were on sale over christmas). It is utterly shitty that I have to re-purchase those games because their disc was defective by design. What is worse is the games that I can't re-buy and my only recourse is to let them sit on a shelf or to download cracks from shady warez site.
Personally, I wish the Microsoft would replace all the backwards compatibility cruft with a decent virtualization solution. I had hoped that Windows 7 would have done that with their Virtual PC application (Yes, I know about XP Mode, but it isn't the same). DOSbox has a pretty good emulation right now. I have used it to run old games and Windows 3.11 with applications. I hear that some have even gotten it to run Windows 95. Now that there are decent emulators and virtualization solutions, I think it would be the time for Microsoft to finally streamline Windows into the ultramodern OS it needs to be.
By the way, if using an emulator or a virtual appliance is not an option, I don't think they will be upgrading to a new computer anyway.
Point is kids today are pussies. Hell, my aunt won't even let her kids watch Looney Tunes because it is "too violent". I grew up watching Looney Tunes, as did my parents and grand parents even. We also grew up on Grimm's Fairy Tales. Not the sanitized Disney versions either. The real badass ones. We all turned out fine.
A good manager doesn't hover. They just stay out of the way until needed. If I decide to stay late, I don't need anyone else to stay with me. However, If my boss says that I need to work late, he sure as hell better be set to burn the midnight oil as well. IMO, making everyone work late or weekends while he gets to go home or play golf or whatever is just a dick move.
It was a nice looking bird, but nothing looks as badass as the F-117. The only way it could have been better is if it had a fucking gun. You only have so many missiles. A good pilot could take out quite a few bandits with a good cannon.
Actually, the TI-99/4a is a nice looking computer with its stylish metal on black plastic case. Many of the early-to-mid 80's computers had very stylish designs. It wasn't until the beige-box era when computers stopped being cool looking devices and started being bland office tools.
Maybe I am reading too much into your post but Engineering, science, and math all require and foster creativity and imagination. These fields do not want or need number crunchers, that is what calculators and MATLAB are for. The best science is putting current applications and ideas together in new and interesting ways.
I agree with you that the arts should be taught in schools. I also believe that schools should start teaching subjects and how to learn and stop teaching test answers. I am only arguing that STEM programs are just as creative endeavors as liberal arts courses.
Apples to oranges, mi amigo. You are talking about two entirely different cultures with different values and different standards. Also, I would say that the focus of their education is rote memorization and blind obedience without the critical thinking of problem solving. I met plenty of these kids in college and while they were great at memorizing the material, they were fairly bad at using the material to solve problems that were not given in the book. Obviously, this is only my experience, YMMV.
I am not saying that we have a great system. I am only saying that they have their own set of problems.
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It isn't the first time a school has punished a kid for something that happens outside of school grounds and hours.
It also depends on what is considered "school grounds." When I was in school, about 5 years ago, our school district stated (I am not sure if this is district policy or that of state or local government) that school grounds is not just school land but also the buses and any area within a few hundred feet from any bus stop. This bus stop consideration can lead to some interesting side effects.
I remember an incident from back in middle school about a kid who liked to engage in horseplay with his little brother. Typical sibling rivalry stuff. They would occasionally have bruises or whatnot from their wrestling and carrying on. One day the little brother showed up to the bus stop with a black eye. He got it when they were playing tackle-football or something in their back yard after school. From what I was told, a teacher asked what had happened and went to the principal of the elementary school. This then went to the principal of the middle school and the kid was suspended for a two weeks for bullying. Because his bus stop was right in front of his house, they used the bus stop clause to designate his back yard as "school property".
Typically this rule is used to keep people from getting beat up or doing stupid stuff at the bus stop. In this case it was grossly misused. I'm assuming the parents contested, but the kid was out for two weeks anyway. Just as well, he was a real asshole and probably would have been suspended sooner or later for something else just as dumb.
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I would actually probably prefer the iPad w/ a keyboard but there's no Word/OOo
It will have a version of iWork (Pages, Numbers, and Keynote). If the iPad version is anything like the desktop version, it should be a pretty good Word Processor. No, it doesn't have anywhere near feature parody with Word or OOo, but Pages is still a very usable and friendly word processor that can read and edit MS Office documents
I liked Stargate. Independence Day was fun if you take it as a modern Scifi B-Movie like Mars Attacks. Neither of these are great, but they are not bad films.
Then again, I completely agree you.
Changes in government following lawful elections very clearly do not amount to an overthrow of the state.
Tell that to Fox News and many of the more uneducated people who watch them to get their "news". I occasionally watch Glenn Beck and Bill O'Reilly for a good laugh and the occasional bout of rage because they make Jon Stewart look like Walter Cronkite. Their opinions border on fascism and their evidence is laughable. Glenn Beck is clearly delusional and probably "bat-shit crazy". Ever since the presidential election, the sentiment I have received from Fox News was that their country was stolen from them and the government was overthrown in some sort of Red Dawn scenario as if the "Commie Terrorists" had entered the White House and Congress, shot the patriots, and declared The USA to now be the "People's Soviet Union of Amerika".
What about the sentiment of the people? I can only give the beliefs of my own family. My Catholic Aunt is convinced that Obama is the Anti-Christ and expects the end of the world sometime in the next few years. My great-grandma is convinced that Obama wants to kill all the old people and that anytime she cannot get her pills or an appointment with a doctor she blames it on Obama for "abolishing Medicare to get rid of the old people". My mom will believe almost anything she hears. If she hears it from her coworkers or if it is on Good Morning America, Doctor Oz, or any of the other morning talk shows then it must be true. Evey day seems to have something new, "Obama wants to do this evil thing" or "Obama wants to kill that broad group of citizens".
Now this is a roundabout way of saying that, while I agree with you, there is a vocal group of sore losers who would disagree. These people have positions where they can tell the large, ignorant, angry, politically apathetic mob that their country has been overthrown by 'terrorists' and that these terrorists are the reason that they are out of work, can't afford medical care, and that our country is set to be annexed by China. The problem is that opinions hold more water in the minds of the people than facts. Then again, who doesn't love a good tabloid headline.
It is sad when you actually have to cite a reference to a Loony Tunes character.
Judging by the all the shared titles, it also seems relatively easy to port PS2 games too the Wii and vice versa. The PS2 usually gets the better end of the deal because it doesn't have to deal with waggleware. The wiimote is designed like an NES controller and has two more buttons (not counting home). God forbid any developer actually use them!
I think the article's point is that a machine that only satisfies the limited number of things that a already person knows they want from a computer is a machine that suppresses those unknown urges to tinker.
So, a device that gives the user nothing that they want would do nothing but inspire creativity? Only a very small percentage of users will ever want to write a program or tinker with a device. We are looking at one out of a hundred people on the high end, most likely way less. Creative and technical people will always be creative and use their skills and knowledge to do cool stuff. Some of them may use this device, others will refuse to touch it. The only problem is whether this will be the object of that creativity. The answer to that is, "who cares?" Now, if this device is worth hacking, someone, somewhere will hack it. If it isn't, I guarantee that in a few months, a better device will come along. Maybe it will be more open, maybe not. Either way, if it is a good device there will be a respectable community built around it, ready to take it to the next level.
Simply put, Hackers will hack and artists will create. It is just who we are. The only flaw is thinking that everyone is artist and a hacker. Most people just want to look at a few web pages, keep a simple calendar, watch movies, and play a crappy game or two. They don't care and never will.
No, the Dreamcast died because Sega was an expert on sabotaging its own products and success. Sega was its own worst enemy. The PS2 didn't help either.
This.
There is nothing that I can add that the guy in the video didn't eloquently say. I have a bookshelf filled with PC games I have bought over the years many of which do not work anymore due to age and DRM. Some I have had to resort to re-buying on steam (luckily they were on sale over christmas). It is utterly shitty that I have to re-purchase those games because their disc was defective by design. What is worse is the games that I can't re-buy and my only recourse is to let them sit on a shelf or to download cracks from shady warez site.
Personally, I wish the Microsoft would replace all the backwards compatibility cruft with a decent virtualization solution. I had hoped that Windows 7 would have done that with their Virtual PC application (Yes, I know about XP Mode, but it isn't the same). DOSbox has a pretty good emulation right now. I have used it to run old games and Windows 3.11 with applications. I hear that some have even gotten it to run Windows 95. Now that there are decent emulators and virtualization solutions, I think it would be the time for Microsoft to finally streamline Windows into the ultramodern OS it needs to be.
By the way, if using an emulator or a virtual appliance is not an option, I don't think they will be upgrading to a new computer anyway.
No, the Wii just sucks for streaming video. I guess it is something about a crappy wifi card and too little memory.
As great as KotOR and Mass Effect was, why can't they just do KotOR 3? Why does everything always have to be an MMO these days?
BTW, that was a rhetorical question. I am well aware why game producers love MMO's.
Don't forget Lorne Greene. None can compare to the "Voice of Canada" and Badass cattle rancher, Lorne "Adama Cartwright" Greene.
and his mother got killed by sandpeople (one thing that never showed up in the movies).
I am pretty sure that was in Attack of the Clones. Mommy dies and he goes apeshit and murders them all.
Point is kids today are pussies. Hell, my aunt won't even let her kids watch Looney Tunes because it is "too violent". I grew up watching Looney Tunes, as did my parents and grand parents even. We also grew up on Grimm's Fairy Tales. Not the sanitized Disney versions either. The real badass ones. We all turned out fine.
A good manager doesn't hover. They just stay out of the way until needed. If I decide to stay late, I don't need anyone else to stay with me. However, If my boss says that I need to work late, he sure as hell better be set to burn the midnight oil as well. IMO, making everyone work late or weekends while he gets to go home or play golf or whatever is just a dick move.
It was a nice looking bird, but nothing looks as badass as the F-117. The only way it could have been better is if it had a fucking gun. You only have so many missiles. A good pilot could take out quite a few bandits with a good cannon.
Actually, the TI-99/4a is a nice looking computer with its stylish metal on black plastic case. Many of the early-to-mid 80's computers had very stylish designs. It wasn't until the beige-box era when computers stopped being cool looking devices and started being bland office tools.
Yes, because you have to be sick in the head to be an engineer. The real cool kids love flipping burgers!
Maybe I am reading too much into your post but Engineering, science, and math all require and foster creativity and imagination. These fields do not want or need number crunchers, that is what calculators and MATLAB are for. The best science is putting current applications and ideas together in new and interesting ways.
I agree with you that the arts should be taught in schools. I also believe that schools should start teaching subjects and how to learn and stop teaching test answers. I am only arguing that STEM programs are just as creative endeavors as liberal arts courses.
Normal Calculator, yes. But they can have my TI-89, Voyage 200, TI-86, and HP-50g when they pry them from MY COLD DEAD HANDS!
Now, where is my sliderule...
The Star Wars Battlefront PC games were pretty good. The console ports were also decent IMO.
The Star Wars Battlefront PC games were pretty good. The console ports were decent too.
Apples to oranges, mi amigo. You are talking about two entirely different cultures with different values and different standards. Also, I would say that the focus of their education is rote memorization and blind obedience without the critical thinking of problem solving. I met plenty of these kids in college and while they were great at memorizing the material, they were fairly bad at using the material to solve problems that were not given in the book. Obviously, this is only my experience, YMMV.
I am not saying that we have a great system. I am only saying that they have their own set of problems.