Yes, their lobby imposes on kids. I don't like that. On government trying to shield kids from life, perhaps my favorite quote is from someone whose name I have forgotten:
"Anyone who thinks that kids don't know the F-word is far too naive to be running a country capable of nuclear warfare."
I have seen a good deal of school playgrounds, and I can agree that you will see a lot of people hitting each other, starting nasty rumors about each other, accusing each other of being homosexual (this seems very popular), and seeming to think that this makes them better. This isn't limited to males; females do this sort of thing, except less physically.
There are some people who simply have violent personalities, and typically this comes partly from--you guessed it--bad parenting.
Hey parents! Find your children and do some fun things with them! Give them some good books to read! Give them a lot of slack! Good parents beget good children.
My idea for this is simple, and worked excellently for me. Give a kid adult level novels to read once they're up to reading it, get some books which touch on right/wrong (I would reccomend the Xanth series, by Piers Anthony), and soon this little kid likes books and can tell right from wrong, reality from fantasy, etc.
I don't mind these people spreading their opinions (IMHO bullshit), but when they try to excercise authority over other people, like me, I don't like that. They can attempt to ban these harmless things from their kids and get no more than an annoyed grunt from me, but but they become quite bad when the government gets into the mix.
For the record, I'm a Christian. That's right, let the flames begin.
I'm not, but I won't flame you. Please, no one else flame for so crazy a reason.
And yes, if I had kids I would not object to them doing the same, but at the same time I would teach them the differences between firing a virtual bullet, and firing a real one, and the major responsibilities inherent with any real-life firearm.
Exactly. If half the effort these people spent on web page design was put into teching kids about ethics and the consequences of their actions, the world would be a happier place.
Political correctness can often be incorrect in reality. I have played various first-person shooters, often deathmatches with my cousins, and it is just fun, not turning me into a psychopath. If anything it causes more friendship because we entertain each other with our funniest jokes. I wouldn't dream about taking a flame thrower to anyone in real life.
He has a point, albeit slightly off topic. With all this processor progress, why can't they make improvements to other essential parts of the computer, like the bus architecture, or adding more irqs and ide options and make an all-around excellent system?
I have a feeling that if they want to make a better BIOS, this may be helpful pretty soon.
Any time a huge company has lots of loose money, they can and should use it on things like this. Bring on the basic research! Contribute to Linux and such! Get everyone to forgive you for huge mainframes that needed special cooling and lots of power and used EBCDIC!
Plus, it helps solve one of the problems in the world: the future is taking too long.
Stop thinking about Duke Nukem 3D, think about what the future may bring!
How would you like to have a deathmatch in a beautifully rendered cathedral with huge numbers of polygons and some realtime raytracing? How about etherial enemies that look like something out of a movie special effects department? How about a mission to the power center of a Darco from SimCity, one that looked real?
Wouldn't it be better to just to be content with the current CPU performance level and trim down the power consumption instead?
That's what things like the Crusoe chip are trying to do. There's a niche for such devices, but processor speed goes onward, and programs can do more cool things. Don't you like cool things?
I for one am fed up with all the cooling gadgets. Processors should be able to run without any additional cooling.
But if you improve the cooling system--there's really no reason not to--you can get better performance. Everyone wants faster computers, right?
Yes, perhaps he was trying to do cool "skin tone reproduction" research, or maybe he was downloading topographic maps, or weather data, or genetic stuff, or Quake I, II, and III, or perhaps something completely different.
Maybe he was having a conference via the internet. You never know.
If that happens, hopefully there will be a bunch of introverts there who will get the idea and join you. I know I would, especially if this hypothetical person had been drinking. Not much coordination, you know....
But with this method There isn't the unanimously declared intent of getting a date; people just do, sometimes. Everyone trying improves chances. Very interesting idea...
With QT embedded we should have quite a few programs ported over to that pretty quickly, especially since it uses Linux. Some of KDE's flashyness would probably go over nicely. Some of KDE's programs will probably go over nicely, for that matter....
IE is compatible with more web sites because of idiotic site design. No one really needs to use the marquee tag or any such thing.
Assuming you appreciate that, Opera is compatible with every web site I've visited, it runs on Linux, it is a small download, and it doesn't have all the huge bulk of IE that makes it so slow to do stuff with. It can even check your email and browse usenet!
But how long will it be until enough companies decide to bribe MICROS~1 to make the options here harder to reach, like putting them in the "system" control panel?
BTW, long live Opera. I don't have these things obscuring my pages with this browser!
If you're taking a Linux class, you shouldn't settle for "This is an icon. Click on it. The file opens up!". It really is helpful to know the shell stuff along with the GUI. I typically keep a console window open all the time.
If it's just a little Intro to Linux thing, sure, most people won't care about writing commands like rm -Rf textbook.p[df,s]
I think that an essential part of any "Remedy" proposal here is that for every version of every standard or file format that MS makes there be a specification on the internet and portable, open source programs for converting MS file formats to open ones like ASCII, HTML, TeX, etc. That would help avoid bringing proprietary lock-in to Linux.
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How many of the faxes sent actually do better than email could if people bothered to do it right?
There you go, reinforcing the pro-FAX arguement.
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I have a strategy for avoiding spam. First, never give your real email address to a company. Give a fake one, such as sketerpot@yahoo.com, which I use. It really exists, but I never check it. To people you trust, give your real email address. This has worked very well for me. Very little spam.
Something I see too much of is people overdoing email and html by adding JavaScript and garish pictures and basically jazzing things up until no one would wait the time it takes to load just to be tortured by the sight of it. I hope executable files never become common attachments. Unportable, and a security risk.
Some people just don't appreciate the simple beauty of a plain ASCII email message, clearly written.
I am optimistic about the future. There is a shortage of organ transplants; this could fix that. You are welcome to your opinion that this kind of research is wrong, and I hope none of your taxes goes to support it. I, however, think that this research has tremendous possibilities and the risks can be avoided by taking reasonable precautions.
If they can't lowball on price, they'll start making up costs -- one of their favorites currently is that you have to hire administrative staff, but you can administer your Windows machines with a bunch of monkeys, so (they say) Microsoft software is still less expensive.
You can administer windows machines with some barely trained people who read Win2K Administration for Dummies, but if you do, your machines are going to behave like crap. You can get more skilled people and your machines will behave better. Put the skilled people to work on Linux and it will be wonderful.
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"Anyone who thinks that kids don't know the F-word is far too naive to be running a country capable of nuclear warfare."
There are some people who simply have violent personalities, and typically this comes partly from--you guessed it--bad parenting.
Hey parents! Find your children and do some fun things with them! Give them some good books to read! Give them a lot of slack! Good parents beget good children.
My idea for this is simple, and worked excellently for me. Give a kid adult level novels to read once they're up to reading it, get some books which touch on right/wrong (I would reccomend the Xanth series, by Piers Anthony), and soon this little kid likes books and can tell right from wrong, reality from fantasy, etc.
They can't win, anyway.
I'm not, but I won't flame you. Please, no one else flame for so crazy a reason.
Exactly. If half the effort these people spent on web page design was put into teching kids about ethics and the consequences of their actions, the world would be a happier place.
Political correctness can often be incorrect in reality. I have played various first-person shooters, often deathmatches with my cousins, and it is just fun, not turning me into a psychopath. If anything it causes more friendship because we entertain each other with our funniest jokes. I wouldn't dream about taking a flame thrower to anyone in real life.
End parental neglect; teach people ethics!
I have a feeling that if they want to make a better BIOS, this may be helpful pretty soon.
Plus, it helps solve one of the problems in the world: the future is taking too long.
How would you like to have a deathmatch in a beautifully rendered cathedral with huge numbers of polygons and some realtime raytracing? How about etherial enemies that look like something out of a movie special effects department? How about a mission to the power center of a Darco from SimCity, one that looked real?
Think about the future, and don't think small!
That's what things like the Crusoe chip are trying to do. There's a niche for such devices, but processor speed goes onward, and programs can do more cool things. Don't you like cool things?
But if you improve the cooling system--there's really no reason not to--you can get better performance. Everyone wants faster computers, right?
Maybe he was having a conference via the internet. You never know.
If that happens, hopefully there will be a bunch of introverts there who will get the idea and join you. I know I would, especially if this hypothetical person had been drinking. Not much coordination, you know....
This still doesn't seem like a good answer. I'd turn off most girls in seven minutes easily.
But with this method There isn't the unanimously declared intent of getting a date; people just do, sometimes. Everyone trying improves chances. Very interesting idea...
With slashdot you don't have to register, you can read and post anonymously.
With QT embedded we should have quite a few programs ported over to that pretty quickly, especially since it uses Linux. Some of KDE's flashyness would probably go over nicely. Some of KDE's programs will probably go over nicely, for that matter....
At least it's not "256 grey shades of gray that happen to look remarkably graye".
Assuming you appreciate that, Opera is compatible with every web site I've visited, it runs on Linux, it is a small download, and it doesn't have all the huge bulk of IE that makes it so slow to do stuff with. It can even check your email and browse usenet!
A good web browser and Linux. Hooray!
BTW, long live Opera. I don't have these things obscuring my pages with this browser!
If it's just a little Intro to Linux thing, sure, most people won't care about writing commands like rm -Rf textbook.p[df,s]
I think that an essential part of any "Remedy" proposal here is that for every version of every standard or file format that MS makes there be a specification on the internet and portable, open source programs for converting MS file formats to open ones like ASCII, HTML, TeX, etc. That would help avoid bringing proprietary lock-in to Linux.
There you go, reinforcing the pro-FAX arguement.
I have a strategy for avoiding spam. First, never give your real email address to a company. Give a fake one, such as sketerpot@yahoo.com, which I use. It really exists, but I never check it. To people you trust, give your real email address. This has worked very well for me. Very little spam.
Some people just don't appreciate the simple beauty of a plain ASCII email message, clearly written.
I am optimistic about the future. There is a shortage of organ transplants; this could fix that. You are welcome to your opinion that this kind of research is wrong, and I hope none of your taxes goes to support it. I, however, think that this research has tremendous possibilities and the risks can be avoided by taking reasonable precautions.
You can administer windows machines with some barely trained people who read Win2K Administration for Dummies, but if you do, your machines are going to behave like crap. You can get more skilled people and your machines will behave better. Put the skilled people to work on Linux and it will be wonderful.