As another high school student I also feel responsible for responding to such a narrow-minded post.
I think it truly depends on how many people you are trying to reach out to. If you want a small group of mostly computer-savy people then certainly, both robotics and programming will grab their attention.
But what I've found with my peers is that they still don't know how to use a computer. My school is almost entirely mac, but the rest of the school has no idea how to use anything other than windows, and even that they dont' know how to use well.
If I were you I would teach them how to _properly_ use whatever OS they have, whatever word processor they have, and whatever presentation software they have.
Half the computers in my school are always broken because people just pull out the plugs when something goes wrong. I would love to learn fortran, but frankly there is a dire need to teach high school students the computer basics.
Then get in touch with the developers! I run linux on my powerbook and while I don't have the know-how to patch the problems I run into I can submit them to the ppc dev mailing list.
I know this doesn't end Sun's use of linux in the market place, but why in god's name would they push solaris on the x86.
Maybe it is just me, but when i can have crontab maintain servers why should i feel the need to switch to solaris?
Well frist off what is gained from posting this to/.? most people here are, well, agains the RIAA....
anyway i simply would like to know what the hell can we do to shut these people down. I mean quite simply they out resource us in the same way mexican druglords do--they have virtually an infinite budget!
not to mention pawns in the senate and house....
anyway, is there anything that we can organise, which really has a chance? as i student i don't have a lot of money or resources, but i do have time. i understand that we can't just stop buying their cd's(although that is a start)BUT THERE NEEDS TO BE SOMETHING MORE THAT WE CAN DO!
so write to your represenatives, hell if we could got together a sort of hate RIAA day similar to the ms return day or something...anything that will draw big media attention...
i dunno if what i'm saying makes any sense, but i keep reading more and more information and it just seems that nothing is really being done about anything
-seth
what ever happened to fair use? Back in the day we could make mix tapes all day long. Hell, you could buy them everywhere.
Just curious, what law or amendment or whatever contains fair use? Does the DMCA violate fair use in any way? I know it is a longshot, but i've never heard anyone talk about it here before...
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As another high school student I also feel responsible for responding to such a narrow-minded post. I think it truly depends on how many people you are trying to reach out to. If you want a small group of mostly computer-savy people then certainly, both robotics and programming will grab their attention. But what I've found with my peers is that they still don't know how to use a computer. My school is almost entirely mac, but the rest of the school has no idea how to use anything other than windows, and even that they dont' know how to use well. If I were you I would teach them how to _properly_ use whatever OS they have, whatever word processor they have, and whatever presentation software they have. Half the computers in my school are always broken because people just pull out the plugs when something goes wrong. I would love to learn fortran, but frankly there is a dire need to teach high school students the computer basics.
Dude, that's way too many references to the British government for one post on slashdot.
Then get in touch with the developers! I run linux on my powerbook and while I don't have the know-how to patch the problems I run into I can submit them to the ppc dev mailing list.
As a matter of fact, not only is it available for 10.2.8 but also for 10.1.5, just check the download page under the OS X tab on apple.com.
If only we got that sort of backwards compatibility with windows...
I know this doesn't end Sun's use of linux in the market place, but why in god's name would they push solaris on the x86. Maybe it is just me, but when i can have crontab maintain servers why should i feel the need to switch to solaris?
Well frist off what is gained from posting this to /.? most people here are, well, agains the RIAA....
anyway i simply would like to know what the hell can we do to shut these people down. I mean quite simply they out resource us in the same way mexican druglords do--they have virtually an infinite budget!
not to mention pawns in the senate and house....
anyway, is there anything that we can organise, which really has a chance? as i student i don't have a lot of money or resources, but i do have time. i understand that we can't just stop buying their cd's(although that is a start)BUT THERE NEEDS TO BE SOMETHING MORE THAT WE CAN DO!
so write to your represenatives, hell if we could got together a sort of hate RIAA day similar to the ms return day or something...anything that will draw big media attention...
i dunno if what i'm saying makes any sense, but i keep reading more and more information and it just seems that nothing is really being done about anything
-seth
gosh think of a Beowulf Cluster of these!
oh wait...
what ever happened to fair use? Back in the day we could make mix tapes all day long. Hell, you could buy them everywhere. Just curious, what law or amendment or whatever contains fair use? Does the DMCA violate fair use in any way? I know it is a longshot, but i've never heard anyone talk about it here before...
faster!?
you gotta be kidding me....
Gosh, think of a beowulf cluster of these ;-)