Re:about time..The Day Z-D Journalism Died
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Ziff Davis Teeters
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I stopped buying PC Rag after their ridiculous "comparison" of OS/2 and Win95. It was only two pages, with 80% covered by a single graphic, correctly stating the differences in how each OS protected its running apps. After showing clearly how OS/2 was superior in crash protection, they chose their winner: "Verdict: Windows95 by a mile." After the barrage of hate mail in the next issue's ed page, they responded that they chose Win95 because they knew it would win the bulk of the market share. Technical merit had nothing to do with it. They went with MS, against the facts they presented, because they knew MS would win anyway. That was the last straw for me. They deserve what they are getting now.
I was having real problems with Apache 2 locking up, but after changing the points and condenser, and replacing the Rochester QuadraBog with a Holly 4 barrel, everything is fine.
Next I'll try it on my old Celeron Diesel. Makes a lot of smoke, but runs steady.
Europe - the birthplace of communism and nazism, plus two world wars for good measure. I seem to recall a small role the US played in those wars that allowed you the freedom you have to shoot off your mouth here. Go home, pinko!
For all you Bush bashers - would you REALLY prefer Gore? The tree-hugger who claims he was instrumental in the development of the Internet (years before he came near Congress)??
Bush won the electoral count without the Supremes in the end, anyhow. Every liberal press corps that descended on Florida agreed that Bush won that state. Sorry you don't like it, but that is how the Electoral College votes added up. I hope all you complainers voted. If not, shut up.
There are several replies to your post about how Mom didn't set up Windows, either, so the argument is worthless.
Strawman. There is more to a PC than installing the OS.
Mom can add an app to her Windows PC by running down to Office Depot, coming home (or just downloading something from one of many shareware/PD/freeware sites) and shoving the CD in the drive. After the autorun kicks in, she just clicks Next...Next...Next and she's done. Surprise - the app name is even installed in the Start menu!
Can she do that in Linux? Even if she finds an app on the Web she wants, and downloads the RPM (let's not even talk about compiling source), what can happen? Unsatisfied dependencies? Must log in as root to install? Assuming she gets past all of those, what will she do when she can't find the icon for that new app on the desktop or Start menu?
How about a new CD burner? Do you really want to go there? I'm sure you're going to tell her to RTFM, right?
So you want to make Mom dependent on you for everything? Sounds like the old *nix MIS department thinking.
Hands held? Is this a follow-up to Roseanne Rosana Dana's editorial on "Soviet Jewelry?"
Oh, it's "hand-helds" and not hands held? Nevermiiiiiinndddd.....
That is humbling, but very true. Regardless of whether some of these issues are relevant or not today, this shows how expectations have changed. I'm sure a lot of kids in 1895 didn't care much about a lot of this stuff, either, but they did care about passing their final exams, and they had parents and teachers who demanded that they perform.
Today we just dumb-down standards to keep from offending anyone or making school seem "unfair" to certain "underpriviledged" groups. In 1895 educators demanded that ALL students come UP to meet high standards. What a crock education is today. All that "multiculturalism" has done is make sure that everyone sinks to the bottom. I pray that all parents can educate their kids at home, afford a quality private school, or have a good public school (some are still out there) nearby.
Want good eductation? All you need is a student who wants to learn and a teacher who wants to teach. If you have those two things everything else is irrelevant.
And therein lies the tremendous success of home schooling. Remainder of your post snipped due to total agreement with all your points.
Those saying "just use books" haven't been reading education research. People, not just kids, learn best when they can get at concepts through multiple modalities: type, graphics, animations, sounds, music. It's not just for fun, people. Take a look at the math and science tools near the bottom here [ncrel.org].
Sorry, can't buy it, regardless of what some "education research" says. High-school grads of today can't hold a candle to 18th century farm kids when it comes to reading and math. You should see some grade-school texts from back then. Our experience as a nation (US, anyhow) has proven that kids learn best when they are taught the basics, taught how to be responsible, and are stretched beyond what they think they can do whether it is fun or not.
I do agree with the idea, though, that all students should have ready access to the data world. I hate to see such a potent tool of empowerment not being available to the disadvantaged.
Here is part of the problem. We have been brainwashed by the educrats to think that COMPUTERS==EMPOWERMENT. BALONEY!! EDUCATION==EMPOWERMENT. Web access and education are not connected. No, Johnny can't read, but he can download fake celeb porn, play on-line games, and hack corporate networks. What else does he need to succeed in life?
Everyone seems so worried about kids having these little devices and not harnessing the power within them.
For good reason: they DON'T harness that power. Public education has already forgotten its purpose. We graduate 18 year olds who can't read their own diplomas, but who can play every computer game ever produced. Government (the military in particular) and private industry spends lots of money on remedial education to bring employees up to 12th grade reading levels.
I currently use my PDA all the time (PalmIII, cauze that's all my OSAP poor ass can afford). It holds contact info, appointments, SCHEDULES MY CLASSES (its really important not to forget to go to a class). Now that's what it was ment for.
Sorry, but this is a really poor argument for handhelds. School kids are not corporate execs. They don't need contact managers. They don't need schedulers any more than we did in the '60s and '70s. I never once forget to go to class because I didn't have a computer to remind me. That is ridiculous. Any student who can't remember when to go to class needs to see his doctor and get some good supplements.
Seems to me that the quality of our education varies inversely with the amount of computer technology thrown at education.
I'm glad a don't live in San Antonio and have to fund this with my tax dollars. It is a stupid and clueless waste, and a cop out for real education.
That pretty much sums up the NEA.
A computer lab should be enough. We have such a freaking gadget fetish, and now we're shoving it onto kids? So they are not allowed to carry cell phones and pages, but handhelds are now mandatory?
Not much sense to that.
These will largely just be used for games and various other bullshit and time wasting. The most valuable part of education will come from teachers and books - not the technological gadget of the day.
Too bad our public eduction system forgot that its job is to teach kids how to THINK instead of how to build an empire with ever-increasing budgets for themselves.
Imagine a teacher having to compete for attention with the handhelds of each student. Hey, I have a really cool handheld: a notepad and a freakin pencil.
Wal-Mart has a great hand-held size Etch-A-Sketch that sells for about $3.
a little IO device called "studying."
Don't you mean a little-known, seldom-used IO device called "studying?"
We live in a time when students in NY public schools can be asked, "How would you answer this problem: 75/3," and respond "With a calculator" and get full credit!
You would think that falling education standards and performance would be enough evidence to convince even the dullest educrat that computers contribute nothing to education if you don't teach kids to read, write, and count with their BRAINS.
Same here. Anyone who can learn this stuff just from the online docs is an experienced programmer or a Einstein clone. For the rest of us, we need more.
And I suppose man pages are all you need to learn Linux, right?:)
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I stopped buying PC Rag after their ridiculous "comparison" of OS/2 and Win95. It was only two pages, with 80% covered by a single graphic, correctly stating the differences in how each OS protected its running apps. After showing clearly how OS/2 was superior in crash protection, they chose their winner: "Verdict: Windows95 by a mile." After the barrage of hate mail in the next issue's ed page, they responded that they chose Win95 because they knew it would win the bulk of the market share. Technical merit had nothing to do with it. They went with MS, against the facts they presented, because they knew MS would win anyway. That was the last straw for me. They deserve what they are getting now.
I was having real problems with Apache 2 locking up, but after changing the points and condenser, and replacing the Rochester QuadraBog with a Holly 4 barrel, everything is fine. Next I'll try it on my old Celeron Diesel. Makes a lot of smoke, but runs steady.
Europe - the birthplace of communism and nazism, plus two world wars for good measure. I seem to recall a small role the US played in those wars that allowed you the freedom you have to shoot off your mouth here. Go home, pinko!
For all you Bush bashers - would you REALLY prefer Gore? The tree-hugger who claims he was instrumental in the development of the Internet (years before he came near Congress)??
Bush won the electoral count without the Supremes in the end, anyhow. Every liberal press corps that descended on Florida agreed that Bush won that state. Sorry you don't like it, but that is how the Electoral College votes added up. I hope all you complainers voted. If not, shut up.
There are several replies to your post about how Mom didn't set up Windows, either, so the argument is worthless.
Strawman. There is more to a PC than installing the OS.
Mom can add an app to her Windows PC by running down to Office Depot, coming home (or just downloading something from one of many shareware/PD/freeware sites) and shoving the CD in the drive. After the autorun kicks in, she just clicks Next...Next...Next and she's done. Surprise - the app name is even installed in the Start menu!
Can she do that in Linux? Even if she finds an app on the Web she wants, and downloads the RPM (let's not even talk about compiling source), what can happen? Unsatisfied dependencies? Must log in as root to install? Assuming she gets past all of those, what will she do when she can't find the icon for that new app on the desktop or Start menu?
How about a new CD burner? Do you really want to go there? I'm sure you're going to tell her to RTFM, right?
So you want to make Mom dependent on you for everything? Sounds like the old *nix MIS department thinking.
Hands held? Is this a follow-up to Roseanne Rosana Dana's editorial on "Soviet Jewelry?" Oh, it's "hand-helds" and not hands held? Nevermiiiiiinndddd.....
That is humbling, but very true. Regardless of whether some of these issues are relevant or not today, this shows how expectations have changed. I'm sure a lot of kids in 1895 didn't care much about a lot of this stuff, either, but they did care about passing their final exams, and they had parents and teachers who demanded that they perform.
Today we just dumb-down standards to keep from offending anyone or making school seem "unfair" to certain "underpriviledged" groups. In 1895 educators demanded that ALL students come UP to meet high standards. What a crock education is today. All that "multiculturalism" has done is make sure that everyone sinks to the bottom. I pray that all parents can educate their kids at home, afford a quality private school, or have a good public school (some are still out there) nearby.
And therein lies the tremendous success of home schooling. Remainder of your post snipped due to total agreement with all your points.
Sorry, can't buy it, regardless of what some "education research" says. High-school grads of today can't hold a candle to 18th century farm kids when it comes to reading and math. You should see some grade-school texts from back then. Our experience as a nation (US, anyhow) has proven that kids learn best when they are taught the basics, taught how to be responsible, and are stretched beyond what they think they can do whether it is fun or not.
BULLSEYE!
Here is part of the problem. We have been brainwashed by the educrats to think that COMPUTERS==EMPOWERMENT. BALONEY!! EDUCATION==EMPOWERMENT. Web access and education are not connected. No, Johnny can't read, but he can download fake celeb porn, play on-line games, and hack corporate networks. What else does he need to succeed in life?
Education has been turned upside-down!
For good reason: they DON'T harness that power. Public education has already forgotten its purpose. We graduate 18 year olds who can't read their own diplomas, but who can play every computer game ever produced. Government (the military in particular) and private industry spends lots of money on remedial education to bring employees up to 12th grade reading levels.
I currently use my PDA all the time (PalmIII, cauze that's all my OSAP poor ass can afford). It holds contact info, appointments, SCHEDULES MY CLASSES (its really important not to forget to go to a class). Now that's what it was ment for.Sorry, but this is a really poor argument for handhelds. School kids are not corporate execs. They don't need contact managers. They don't need schedulers any more than we did in the '60s and '70s. I never once forget to go to class because I didn't have a computer to remind me. That is ridiculous. Any student who can't remember when to go to class needs to see his doctor and get some good supplements.
Seems to me that the quality of our education varies inversely with the amount of computer technology thrown at education.
That pretty much sums up the NEA.
A computer lab should be enough. We have such a freaking gadget fetish, and now we're shoving it onto kids? So they are not allowed to carry cell phones and pages, but handhelds are now mandatory?Not much sense to that.
These will largely just be used for games and various other bullshit and time wasting. The most valuable part of education will come from teachers and books - not the technological gadget of the day.Too bad our public eduction system forgot that its job is to teach kids how to THINK instead of how to build an empire with ever-increasing budgets for themselves.
Imagine a teacher having to compete for attention with the handhelds of each student. Hey, I have a really cool handheld: a notepad and a freakin pencil.Wal-Mart has a great hand-held size Etch-A-Sketch that sells for about $3.
a little IO device called "studying." Don't you mean a little-known, seldom-used IO device called "studying?" We live in a time when students in NY public schools can be asked, "How would you answer this problem: 75/3," and respond "With a calculator" and get full credit! You would think that falling education standards and performance would be enough evidence to convince even the dullest educrat that computers contribute nothing to education if you don't teach kids to read, write, and count with their BRAINS.
Same here. Anyone who can learn this stuff just from the online docs is an experienced programmer or a Einstein clone. For the rest of us, we need more. And I suppose man pages are all you need to learn Linux, right? :)
JUSTICE meaning when Israel is driven into the Med, right?
I note that more of those suicide bombers (teen girls) are blowing themselves up too soon. Those bombs must be running Windows Server.
Just one more...
On a creaky 500MHz Celeron, 184MB RAM...
Java 1.3: 185s (using only Sun JDK).
C#: 116s.
Java 1.3 108s (compiled to EXE with JET 2.1)