I read through the whole article and failed to notice any sign of a control group of "non-violent" students. If this is the case, of course, who's to say that the behaviors and conditions that they've included as indicating potential violence aren't present in a group of mentally healthy children as well? I find that prospect rather disturbing, especially in light of the fact that this is supposed to replace the "subjective" opinions of school administrators yet seems to lack any attempt at proper psychometric measures.
>AT&T had a monopoly that was greatly based upon >the government giving them one as a >public utility (allowing them to dig cables, >erect lines, etc. with no competition allowed). >Microsoft is not a utility like AT&T was.
I sincerely hope that you don't expect me to belive that IBM liscensing their OS from MS (Allowing them to be on every PC, no competition) had nothing to do with Microsoft's current monopoly. Microsoft achived it's monopoly the same way AT&T did; by getting there first. Furthermore, I have no qualms about punishing them for their anti-competitive bussiness practices. If you attempt to swat a fly which lands on your cheeseburger and fries, you would technically be "competing" with that fly for your food, but unlike the fly you're not in mortal danger. That is essentially the caliber of competition bettween Microsoft and say, Be Inc. I don't think this is the kind of competition which the writers of the Sherman Antitrust laws had in mind. Furthermore, it's not the kind of competition which results in good products; Microsoft no longer has any incentive to "innovate" nor to improve their product. IMHO, you're just flat wrong.
Having started out with slackware 3.somethingorother, I'd like to point out that Slackware is probably one of the most difficult distros to set up. It took me a long time (more than a year) to get to the point where I could set up slackware on most boxen in less than 4 hours and have it be right. Then I switched to SuSE due to the fact that I needed a copy of Linux fast one day and it was the cheapest ($30) thing I could get my hands on. I was amazed at how easily it went in; it was almost on par with Windows. (Not quite, but close.) Thus, as much as I love it, I don't think Slackware is really a fair distro to judge ease of use by...
Why do I have this image of deleting files and killing errant processes becoming a much more dramatic act?:) Kind of reminds me of that old exit message in Doom, "Don't leave, DOS is much worse."
but that still feels bizarre on my tounge. "Microsoft is right." "Microsoft is for open standards." And I thought it was kind of bizarre when IBM started to convert...
>>they have some sort of power. NOBODY has EVER bought a computer because it has AOL on it. No. They figure they can use one of the 40 AOL starter disks they have at home to get on AOL if it isn't on there already.
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I read through the whole article and failed to notice any sign of a control group of "non-violent" students. If this is the case, of course, who's to say that the behaviors and conditions that they've included as indicating potential violence aren't present in a group of mentally healthy children as well? I find that prospect rather disturbing, especially in light of the fact that this is supposed to replace the "subjective" opinions of school administrators yet seems to lack any attempt at proper psychometric measures.
>AT&T had a monopoly that was greatly based upon
>the government giving them one as a
>public utility (allowing them to dig cables,
>erect lines, etc. with no competition allowed).
>Microsoft is not a utility like AT&T was.
I sincerely hope that you don't expect me to belive that IBM liscensing their OS from MS (Allowing them to be on every PC, no competition) had nothing to do with Microsoft's current monopoly. Microsoft achived it's monopoly the same way AT&T did; by getting there first. Furthermore, I have no qualms about punishing them for their anti-competitive bussiness practices. If you attempt to swat a fly which lands on your cheeseburger and fries, you would technically be "competing" with that fly for your food, but unlike the fly you're not in mortal danger. That is essentially the caliber of competition bettween Microsoft and say, Be Inc. I don't think this is the kind of competition which the writers of the Sherman Antitrust laws had in mind. Furthermore, it's not the kind of competition which results in good products; Microsoft no longer has any incentive to "innovate" nor to improve their product. IMHO, you're just flat wrong.
Having started out with slackware 3.somethingorother, I'd like to point out that Slackware is probably one of the most difficult distros to set up. It took me a long time (more than a year) to get to the point where I could set up slackware on most boxen in less than 4 hours and have it be right. Then I switched to SuSE due to the fact that I needed a copy of Linux fast one day and it was the cheapest ($30) thing I could get my hands on. I was amazed at how easily it went in; it was almost on par with Windows. (Not quite, but close.) Thus, as much as I love it, I don't think Slackware is really a fair distro to judge ease of use by...
I'd be willing to bet 80% of the pages Netscrape hangs on predictably are made by Frontpage or it's MS-Kin...
Why do I have this image of deleting files and killing errant processes becoming a much more dramatic act? :) Kind of reminds me of that old exit message in Doom, "Don't leave, DOS is much worse."
but that still feels bizarre on my tounge. "Microsoft is right." "Microsoft is for open standards." And I thought it was kind of bizarre when IBM started to convert...
It's dated 1997.
No. My digital cell (GSM) was $30. (My company sells them, it was at cost.) It retails for $50 normally, without a service contract, free with one.
>>they have some sort of power. NOBODY has EVER bought a computer because it has AOL on it.
No. They figure they can use one of the 40 AOL starter disks they have at home to get on AOL if it isn't on there already.
The PHB's strike again...
Took the words right out of my mouth.
'nuff said.
Yes, but you have to convince the PHB of that...