The problem isn't that pupils don't have access to computers but the outdated school books. They should learn how to work *without* a pc in their schools and thats good that way because once you know the basics its a small step to use a computer as a *tool*. The main reason to use laptops in school is IMHO that you can forget about those 20-year old biology books (i had several books which were way older than me when i was in school) and use current books so you can create interesting and modern education.
When i boot from windows to linux i have to do the same thing (removing power strip for several seconds) to get my usb devices to work (annoying since my keyboard is connected via usb and there is no way to bring the computer down without the keyboard, no other computer with net access).
With new processors it'll be no problem to run windows/linux/whatever at the same time without the performance hit of e.g. vmware. So i'll just have a windows for my games (maybe the hypervisor can reboot it every 2-3 hours... (;) and use linux for all the important stuff.
Sure it would be nicer to have the games natively for linux but what really bothered me was that i had to reboot my pc just for 10 minutes of gaming.
As TFA is in french i can't check the facts but it sound not really plausible to me. There must be some catch as in "it's shared for a whole block". Otherwise 4 customers would be able to saturate a 10Gb switch
> Large businesses do the same thing. The difference is that the government > has to at least pretend to be acting in the interest of the voters. With > private industry in power, there is no voting them out.
There is. Everyday. You decide everytime you make a contract with someone, e.g. buy an apple or use a private road. With politicians you get to choose every X years and this 'voting out' stuff really seemed to work with Bush (people here were stunned when they saw that you really wanted to keep this guy).
Of course there are situations where your choice is limited. Lets pretend there is a monopoly for the last mile of internet connections (i know, hard to imagine (;). So your choice is not really free if there is only one provider. So you either decide that it doesn't bother you enough and just accept it or you search/build an alternative (like community wlan or something like that). In a society with a state you'll find all kind of regulations which hinder you from doing that (as soon as you don't just do it on a very small scale). A society without a state there is noone which tells you that you're not allowed to provide phone/internet to your communitiy without doing X (X for example being 911 calls) so it's much easier to escape monopolies.
Those "fiercely-guarded monopolies" can only exist in the presence of a state.
"Man, you are a dick. I imagine if some asks you for directions to the corner store you just tell them to fuck off and by a map."
No, you are lazy. You're asking me directions while standing 5 meter next to a big street map. So i have to walk there and look for the street just because you're to lazy to do it yourself. I have no problem doing this for people who can't read the map (i.e. don't know what to search) but most people just don't think about their problem for one minute before asking in a forum/newsgroup.
Why is it so hard to maintain them? I think it shouldn't be to hard to design those tunnels in a way where you can use robots like in the sewage systems. This should enable them to do 99% of their maintance without digging a hole. Anything i don't see?
The special thing is stupidity. Consider the things you see and hear about IT security in real life. People taping their keys next to their door. Banks where you just state a different name and get full access to the corresponding accounts. People stating that they don't bother if other people can access everything in their house as long as they don't do anything that actually harms them ("i don't care if someone can read my mail")
I and probably everyone on slashdot know people who don't give a shit about IT security and if the only way to get them to care is a decent kick in the ass then so be it. A bank robbery now and then is good for *my* security because it keeps banks everywhere concerned about their security measures. Three years ago people laughed when i told them about the stuff they now experience and suddenly they care to take responsibility and secure their PC.
This isn't the only parallel to german history. I read a quote from Herman Goering a week ago and it's frightening how good it fits the current situation:
"Of course the people don't want war. But after all, it's the leaders of the ountry who determine the policy, and it's always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it's a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger." -- Herman Goering at the Nuremberg trials
I'm sure that some people will invoke Godwin's law on me but that doesn't change that it's really scary for me as a German to see which direction the USA is taking.
Publicity is essential. I don't think that it's a big loss for them if they are critiziced over their name because they'll be killed by the media cons just for their agenda
"Sure, eye surgery can solve these problems and it's not very likely that the surgery will "backfire". But that just is not a risk I would like to take with my eyesight."
Same here. I'm thinking about implanting contact lenses into my eyes (ICL) because it is a reversible operation (you can take them out any time). So the risk is reduced to the risk of a normal eye surgery. If i get something like ghosts or halos i can take them out but i can't put back the parts of my eye which the laser removed.
"It's a shame, but Wikipedia is at fault for trusting human nature to be good, when it isn't. We are a destructive species and Wikipedia is on the tipping point of being a big enough target for utter destruction"
I have to disagree. If we were a destructive species something like Wikipedia wouldn't be possible at all. The problem is that a small group can do great harm. 1% of the users are enough in a open system like wikipedia to give the impression that people tend to vandalize just for fun, but the big majority is either helping or at least not hurting the project.
I really don't get why Wikipedia doesn't introduce a trust-system. Maybe something like a page which is open for anyone, one which is only open for editors which have proven to be trustworthy (ala web of trust) where they can pull good content from the open page (you could make the level of trust needed to do this edits dependand on the article) and a stable version, which is created from the dev. site. Then the user has the choice which site he wants to view.
But even keeping the current count of nukes is bad. The US currently pushes Iran not to build the bomb because of a treaty they violate themself by just _keeping_ the same number of bombs, not to mention building new ones to keep this level. The US signed into reducing their own stockpile of atomic weapons in exchange for everyone else outside the atomic club not building them in the first place.
you don't have to look at 3rd world countries to see this effect. I live in germany and the main reason why i keep a close look at American politics is that bad laws in america come to us 2-3 years later (either as a national law or more and more as a law dictated by the EU). Looks like politicians and lobby groups here look to America to see what they could get away with
Newbies don't know how to hit right. Most of them don't even know how to make a fist (the put their thumb under their other fingers). The most common way of hurting oneself as a martial arts newbie is by hitting something and hurting you hand/wrist.
But i have to agree with the previous posts, hitting with objects or using you knees/elbows is really, really dangerous (even if you don't know how to inflict maximum damage)
I like it because its more like a swiss army knife for text than just an editor. Let me give you an example. I downloaded some mp3's with filenames like "track01.mp3" or even worse (and they don't have id tags) but i know the album and the interpret. So i go to www.freedb.org and lookup the information. Then i go into the directory with the files and execute: ls -1 > out && vim out I paste the information from freedb into this file. The file will look something like this:
----
track01.mp3 track02.mp3
1. 3:22Freeze Time
2. 3:43Come Original
----
Then i'll record my actions on one line to repeat it for every other line. I'm currently on the line "track01.mp3". qq}jf:lll"ad$dd{{jimv "^]A" ""^]"aPa.mp3^]kddo^]jq
so, this looks really horrible but for a vim freak something like this comes without thinking. This will result in a file looking like this:
---- mv "track01.mp3" "Freeze Time.mp3"
----
with a simple sh./out you'll have nice filenames to generate id-tags from.
Don't know any other editor which can do stuff like this that easy
I can only agree with the previous post. Ion was a big change for my way of using a computer. It is a real window*manager*, not just a toolkit for displaying fancy borders around windows and letting me deal with placing them. It's very good for dual-head setups and is scriptable via lua, which is something i wouldn't want to miss anymore since it gave me the power over my wm which i got over my shell via perl/ruby.
To give an example how you can use lua in your wm: I wrote myself a "goto_or_run" function (which i replaced by a script from the ion repository because it was better than mine but anyway) which starts a program if its not already running or takes me to the frame if it is. That changed the way i used my wm because before that i used to memorize where my applications where. Now i just use my keybindings and get where i want to go without thinking or searching.
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The problem isn't that pupils don't have access to computers but the outdated school books. They should learn how to work *without* a pc in their schools and thats good that way because once you know the basics its a small step to use a computer as a *tool*. The main reason to use laptops in school is IMHO that you can forget about those 20-year old biology books (i had several books which were way older than me when i was in school) and use current books so you can create interesting and modern education.
When i boot from windows to linux i have to do the same thing (removing power strip for several seconds) to get my usb devices to work (annoying since my keyboard is connected via usb and there is no way to bring the computer down without the keyboard, no other computer with net access).
With new processors it'll be no problem to run windows/linux/whatever at the same time without the performance hit of e.g. vmware. So i'll just have a windows for my games (maybe the hypervisor can reboot it every 2-3 hours ... (;) and use linux for all the important stuff.
Sure it would be nicer to have the games natively for linux but what really bothered me was that i had to reboot my pc just for 10 minutes of gaming.
As TFA is in french i can't check the facts but it sound not really plausible to me. There must be some catch as in "it's shared for a whole block". Otherwise 4 customers would be able to saturate a 10Gb switch
> Large businesses do the same thing. The difference is that the government
> has to at least pretend to be acting in the interest of the voters. With
> private industry in power, there is no voting them out.
There is. Everyday. You decide everytime you make a contract with someone, e.g. buy an apple or use a private road. With politicians you get to choose every X years and this 'voting out' stuff really seemed to work with Bush (people here were stunned when they saw that you really wanted to keep this guy).
Of course there are situations where your choice is limited. Lets pretend there is a monopoly for the last mile of internet connections (i know, hard to imagine (;). So your choice is not really free if there is only one provider. So you either decide that it doesn't bother you enough and just accept it or you search/build an alternative (like community wlan or something like that). In a society with a state you'll find all kind of regulations which hinder you from doing that (as soon as you don't just do it on a very small scale). A society without a state there is noone which tells you that you're not allowed to provide phone/internet to your communitiy without doing X (X for example being 911 calls) so it's much easier to escape monopolies.
Those "fiercely-guarded monopolies" can only exist in the presence of a state.
"Why should American's be denied drugs just because their govenment makes such huge efforts to limit the drugs flowing into America?"
Good question. Can you answer it?
"Man, you are a dick.
I imagine if some asks you for directions to the corner store you just tell them to fuck off and by a map."
No, you are lazy.
You're asking me directions while standing 5 meter next to a big street map. So i have to walk there and look for the street just because you're to lazy to do it yourself.
I have no problem doing this for people who can't read the map (i.e. don't know what to search) but most people just don't think about their problem for one minute before asking in a forum/newsgroup.
Why is it so hard to maintain them? I think it shouldn't be to hard to design those tunnels in a way where you can use robots like in the sewage systems. This should enable them to do 99% of their maintance without digging a hole. Anything i don't see?
The special thing is stupidity. Consider the things you see and hear about IT security in real life.
People taping their keys next to their door.
Banks where you just state a different name and get full access to the corresponding accounts.
People stating that they don't bother if other people can access everything in their house as long as they don't do anything that actually harms them ("i don't care if someone can read my mail")
I and probably everyone on slashdot know people who don't give a shit about IT security and if the only way to get them to care is a decent kick in the ass then so be it. A bank robbery now and then is good for *my* security because it keeps banks everywhere concerned about their security measures. Three years ago people laughed when i told them about the stuff they now experience and suddenly they care to take responsibility and secure their PC.
This isn't the only parallel to german history. I read a quote from Herman Goering a week ago and it's frightening how good it fits the current situation:
"Of course the people don't want war. But after all, it's the leaders of the ountry who determine the policy, and it's always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it's a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger." -- Herman Goering at the Nuremberg trials
I'm sure that some people will invoke Godwin's law on me but that doesn't change that it's really scary for me as a German to see which direction the USA is taking.
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Publicity is essential. I don't think that it's a big loss for them if they are critiziced over their name because they'll be killed by the media cons just for their agenda
"Sure, eye surgery can solve these problems and it's not very likely that the surgery will "backfire". But that just is not a risk I would like to take with my eyesight."
Same here. I'm thinking about implanting contact lenses into my eyes (ICL) because it is a reversible operation (you can take them out any time). So the risk is reduced to the risk of a normal eye surgery. If i get something like ghosts or halos i can take them out but i can't put back the parts of my eye which the laser removed.
"It's a shame, but Wikipedia is at fault for trusting human nature to be good, when it isn't. We are a destructive species and Wikipedia is on the tipping point of being a big enough target for utter destruction"
I have to disagree. If we were a destructive species something like Wikipedia wouldn't be possible at all. The problem is that a small group can do great harm. 1% of the users are enough in a open system like wikipedia to give the impression that people tend to vandalize just for fun, but the big majority is either helping or at least not hurting the project.
I really don't get why Wikipedia doesn't introduce a trust-system. Maybe something like a page which is open for anyone, one which is only open for editors which have proven to be trustworthy (ala web of trust) where they can pull good content from the open page (you could make the level of trust needed to do this edits dependand on the article) and a stable version, which is created from the dev. site. Then the user has the choice which site he wants to view.
But even keeping the current count of nukes is bad. The US currently pushes Iran not to build the bomb because of a treaty they violate themself by just _keeping_ the same number of bombs, not to mention building new ones to keep this level. The US signed into reducing their own stockpile of atomic weapons in exchange for everyone else outside the atomic club not building them in the first place.
you don't have to look at 3rd world countries to see this effect. I live in germany and the main reason why i keep a close look at American politics is that bad laws in america come to us 2-3 years later (either as a national law or more and more as a law dictated by the EU). Looks like politicians and lobby groups here look to America to see what they could get away with
... which will cause your kids to be really conforming, never questioning anything. Tell them to "Respect My Authority!" and you'll get some rebels
Newbies don't know how to hit right. Most of them don't even know how to make a fist (the put their thumb under their other fingers). The most common way of hurting oneself as a martial arts newbie is by hitting something and hurting you hand/wrist.
But i have to agree with the previous posts, hitting with objects or using you knees/elbows is really, really dangerous (even if you don't know how to inflict maximum damage)
> Would we do away with all human suffering?
I'm sure that we as humans find far more valuable things to do with it
Weapon,HK MP5,loaded
Same problem with ion but IIRC the problem wasn't firefox but gtk. Google the ion mailing list if you want to know more
*grrr* not using "code"-mode ...
set pastetoggle=<insert>
is useful for turning 'paste' on and off
set pastetoggle=
is useful for turning 'paste' on and off
I like it because its more like a swiss army knife for text than just an editor. Let me give you an example.
./out you'll have nice filenames to generate id-tags from.
I downloaded some mp3's with filenames like "track01.mp3" or even worse (and they don't have id tags) but i know the album and the interpret. So i go to www.freedb.org and lookup the information. Then i go into the directory with the files and execute:
ls -1 > out && vim out
I paste the information from freedb into this file. The file will look something like this:
----
track01.mp3
track02.mp3
1. 3:22Freeze Time
2. 3:43Come Original
----
Then i'll record my actions on one line to repeat it for every other line. I'm currently
on the line "track01.mp3".
qq}jf:lll"ad$dd{{jimv "^]A" ""^]"aPa.mp3^]kddo^]jq
so, this looks really horrible but for a vim freak something like this comes without thinking.
This will result in a file looking like this:
----
mv "track01.mp3" "Freeze Time.mp3"
----
with a simple sh
Don't know any other editor which can do stuff like this that easy
I can only agree with the previous post. Ion was a big change for my way of using a computer. It is a real window*manager*, not just a toolkit for displaying fancy borders around windows and letting me deal with placing them. It's very good for dual-head setups and is scriptable via lua, which is something i wouldn't want to miss anymore since it gave me the power over my wm which i got over my shell via perl/ruby.
To give an example how you can use lua in your wm: I wrote myself a "goto_or_run" function (which i replaced by a script from the ion repository because it was better than mine but anyway) which starts a program if its not already running or takes me to the frame if it is. That changed the way i used my wm because before that i used to memorize where my applications where. Now i just use my keybindings and get where i want to go without thinking or searching.