I agree with the post below... government doesn't belong in education. They do, by virtue of the Constitution, belong in the military.
If it's such a good idea to buy them laptops, why not buy them all cars, so they can have more practice for driver's ed? That's a more basic skill anyway! My family was poor, and not only didn't I get a computer as a kid (even a $200 Commodore), but I was the only kid in my class that didn't have a car! The government should have provided me one so I could explore the world!
If I took your money at gun-point (as the government does), and bought computers with it to give to poor children, I'd go to jail for theft. But that's exactly what the government does.
I just love the new and inventive was that the govnernment figures out to give away gifts (or exchange them for votes) with our tax dollars!
I don't care how "successful" it is, it's nothing more than stealing when they take one person's money to buy gifts for others.
If my kids were ever eligible for such a program (they wouldn't be... they are homeschooled), I would refuse to take it. Beware governments bearing gifts.
dochood
"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largess from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy collapses over loose fiscal policy... always followed by a dictatorship."
But one of the things that keeps people on Windows is all of their old applications. If suddenly, they don't work anymore, they all of a sudden have a new reason to look at a different platform, anyway.
I've found that most of my games and applications don't run on Windows after two or three upgrades, anyway, so making the switch to Mac for my primary ops wasn't that difficult of a decision.
I was considered the smartest kid in my school (tiny, Iowa school) hands down. I got the crap kicked out of me constantly until 6th grade, when I started to learn how to fight back, after which, I won about 55% of my fights. Had it not been for my three older brothers (who also kicked the crap out of me, but didn't like others to do so), I probably would be dead by now.
I got teased, harassed, and picked on because, among other things, my 4th generation hand-me-downs from my three brothers. All the other kids had expensive designer clothes, but my parents couldn't afford them, and wouldn't buy them for me if they did.
I came to associate the trendy fashions and fads with the people who harassed me, and peer pressure had nearly zero effect on my from about 7th grade on. For that reason, I never got into the heavy drinking that most of the kids did for diversion, and I spent my time playing computer games, and learning how to write my own games...
Today, I'm a successful software engineer. I'm going back for my 20th next year, and I'm sure the reaction of the crowd will be different, because we've (most of us) grown up, I'm successful, and I'm now 230 lbs and 6' 1";)...
Anyway, their picking on me made me an individual, free from the herd mentality. I'm glad it happened.
Dochood
This proves that gun control doesn't work...
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With a little ingenuity, you can make a weapon out of anything...
"What's in that?" "Just a few household chemicals mixed in the proper proportions..."
I'm not sure what Pho(e) is, but "Baang" could have several meanings. Another that comes to mind is "direction".
Korean is made up of Native Korean and Sino Korean. Sino Korean is made up of words borrowed from Chinese (represented by Chinese characters). Korean has no tones, like Chinese, so words with different tones often get represented with the same Korean pronuciation and spelling. This is why, even though Korean has a wonderful alphabet, they still use Chinese characters in a lot of publications, because it helps clarify which word is meant, if it is unclear merely from the phonetic spelling.
It is being transliterated that way, or else Americans would pronounce it "Bang" as in "Bang, Bang, you're dead."
The a makes the sound of a in "father".
Almost like "bong" (like the pipe), but with a longer, drawn out sound.
It's not the standard way to transliterate, but Americans get most of the standard tranliteration sounds wrong (unless they are familiar with the system and the Korean alphabet, Hangul.)
dochood Former USAF Korean Linguist Husband of Korean Woman Watcher of Korean Sit-coms and Soap Operas
I wonder then what is the moral equivalence of the RIAA taking realized cash from people who do not download music?"
Well, if they can get the government to collect it for them, it's called "taxation".
Kind of reminds me of elementary school, when one kids stole a candy bar from another, and they just arbitrarily decide to punish the entire class until one fesses up... which he never does!
Borland used to have a debug feature where you could actually follow pointers in structures like linked-lists and stuff, and get a graphical picture of what your data looked like. You had these little boxes that were connected with lines, and you could move them around, kind of like M$ Access's Query Builder tool. That was so awesome! It made it easy to see whether or not your data structure was messed up, or if it contained messed up data.
We use STL in M$ Visual C++ 6.0. When I need to look at an item in the middle of a vector, I have to iterate through it in the code. I don't think there's anyway to view an item in the middle of the list (you get the first item and the last item) without doing this.
BTW, if anyone knows of a way to do this, please fill me in!
People tend to have very little sympathy for those addicted to something that they are not or would not be. They write them off as being "obsessive/compulsive", who would fall to some other addiction if video games were not around.
What if with all of our boredom with life, and all of the "artificial" distractions, we are creating O/C's by the thousands, or even millions, who would not otherwise be so?
Just because there are people wandering near the edge of the cliff pondering suicide, does that give us the right to push them over?
I'm just wondering where the love of money and lack of love for our neighbor is going to lead us...
I have a Linux firewall / gateway that serves the several computers in my house. It uses fetchmail to pull mail from a company e-mail server (for personal use) and from Earthlink. Procmail has a filter to mangle dangerous file extension names to prevent virus-infected files from being clicked on accidently (by my kids). Earthlink e-mail gets dumped to/dev/null. I'm going to shut it down soon, because it gets nothing but Spam.
It also pipes it to SpamAssassin, which works tremendously well. I've never gotten a false positive, and I may see one spam a month in my regular inbox.
The other thing I have (through my company) is a "vanity" domain name, that sends all the e-mail (except my wife and kids) to my inbox, no matter what the address. I hand out an address like "amazon@mydomain.com" to Amazon, etc, and if I receive spam on it, I pipe it to/dev/null, and I know who to blame, and who to quit doing business with.
Every year, Missouri publishes information on the number of deer hunting accidents.
For the last five years, I have read of no more than 10 accidents in a given year. Sometimes there are fatalities (2-5 a year), and I don't think I've ever read about one from a bow (injury to the hunter or a bystander).
The numbers are astoundingly low, considering there are about 400,000+ firearms hunters in the woods, and about 30-40,000 bow hunters, during a relatively short period of time.
It turns out that deer hunting is actually safer than most other sports. This usually comes from the fact that a gun in a person's hand usually SOBERS them a bit into realizing that they do carry death in their hands, and must be careful. Also, many states have Gun Safety class requirements (such as Missouri) as well.
That's why the Conservation Department encourages Bow Hunting in the "urban" counties by selling the cheap permits.
A bow has an effective range of around 40 yards, and a maximum of probably no more than 80 or 100 yards.
And there are laws against shooting a gun too close to a residence, and the last time I checked, trespassing (especially by knocking down someone's fence) is still illegal. There's no excuse for that kind of criminal behavior.
No matter what group of people you look at, there will be a small percentage that act STUPID enough to make it look like the entire group is, as you put it, "camouflaged, inebriated yahoos". I think that the statistics show (VERY low accident rate, considering 400,000+ hunters in the woods during firearms seasone) that the majority of hunters are ethical.
Unfortunately, that'e exactly the WRONG reaction! We need MORE hunters, not FEWER!
If I had gotten one this year, and they offered to test the animal for me, I'd have taken them up on it, and waited for the results before eating, just as a precaution. But I certainly wouldn't have foregone my yearly hunt out of fear, and fear of a disease that is infecting a small number of deer, mostly in certain counties of certains states.
Or, we could let them breed out of control until they are all over your yard, in your garage, and jumping in front of your car, killing you and your family members.
Deer hunting is the best way to keep the herds thin and help prevent the spread of disease.
Some bunny-huggers out there think they are doing the deer a favor by trying to stop hunting and implementing deer-transfers from heavily human-populated areas, when they may, in fact, be contributing to the problem.
In Missouri, hunters take about 225,000 deer a year out of about 1 million or so. This taking of about one quarter of the herd has helped keep the numbers fairly steady. This steady hunting pressure keeps the herd at sustainable numbers in most areas.
The areas in MO that have the worst deer population problems are around the big cities (St Louis, Kansas City, and Jefferson City). People are constantly running into them with their cars in the suburbs. The conservation department tries to encourage bow hunting around these areas by selling up to 5 $5 "urban archery" permits per hunter. But it's hard to hunt (even bow hunt) where people are too close by, because a lot of city-folks seem to have a negative attitude towards hunting.
dochood MO Deer Hunter
Re:And there will be one Master Ring
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Backwards compatibility between Win 3.1 and Win 95 was pretty important, and between 95 and NT, and it seemed to work fairly well.
I just made the switch from Windows to Mac OS/X because I had over 50% of my old games (and my kids' old games) and programs break on me going to Windows XP! I have several games that say they need 95 or 98 to run, and no longer function. The ones that still work I've gotten bored with, anyway.
There was a huge boost to the economy when Win 95 and NT came out, because there was a huge demand for 32 bit programs. One could argue that this was a good thing, because there was value in going to 32 bit programs. But what about Microsoft breaking compatibility for no good reason? I wonder how well that will go over, especially with businesses who have a custom software program that will only run on the older platforms?
Mental symptoms such as lethargy, anxiety and "reluctance to go to work," as well as sleep-related problems including insomnia and fatigue, were most common among workers who spent more than 5 hours a day glued to their computer screen.
I wonder about those people they surveyed... were they all using Windows? Perhaps there might be a different factor they are overlooking in the study!
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I agree with the post below... government doesn't belong in education. They do, by virtue of the Constitution, belong in the military.
If it's such a good idea to buy them laptops, why not buy them all cars, so they can have more practice for driver's ed? That's a more basic skill anyway! My family was poor, and not only didn't I get a computer as a kid (even a $200 Commodore), but I was the only kid in my class that didn't have a car! The government should have provided me one so I could explore the world!
If I took your money at gun-point (as the government does), and bought computers with it to give to poor children, I'd go to jail for theft. But that's exactly what the government does.
dochood
I just love the new and inventive was that the govnernment figures out to give away gifts (or exchange them for votes) with our tax dollars!
... always followed by a dictatorship."
I don't care how "successful" it is, it's nothing more than stealing when they take one person's money to buy gifts for others.
If my kids were ever eligible for such a program (they wouldn't be... they are homeschooled), I would refuse to take it. Beware governments bearing gifts.
dochood
"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largess from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy collapses over loose fiscal policy
de Tocqueville
But one of the things that keeps people on Windows is all of their old applications. If suddenly, they don't work anymore, they all of a sudden have a new reason to look at a different platform, anyway.
I've found that most of my games and applications don't run on Windows after two or three upgrades, anyway, so making the switch to Mac for my primary ops wasn't that difficult of a decision.
dochood
I was considered the smartest kid in my school (tiny, Iowa school) hands down. I got the crap kicked out of me constantly until 6th grade, when I started to learn how to fight back, after which, I won about 55% of my fights. Had it not been for my three older brothers (who also kicked the crap out of me, but didn't like others to do so), I probably would be dead by now.
;) ...
I got teased, harassed, and picked on because, among other things, my 4th generation hand-me-downs from my three brothers. All the other kids had expensive designer clothes, but my parents couldn't afford them, and wouldn't buy them for me if they did.
I came to associate the trendy fashions and fads with the people who harassed me, and peer pressure had nearly zero effect on my from about 7th grade on. For that reason, I never got into the heavy drinking that most of the kids did for diversion, and I spent my time playing computer games, and learning how to write my own games...
Today, I'm a successful software engineer. I'm going back for my 20th next year, and I'm sure the reaction of the crowd will be different, because we've (most of us) grown up, I'm successful, and I'm now 230 lbs and 6' 1"
Anyway, their picking on me made me an individual, free from the herd mentality. I'm glad it happened.
Dochood
With a little ingenuity, you can make a weapon out of anything...
"What's in that?"
"Just a few household chemicals mixed in the proper proportions..."
(from Tremors [sorry if quote slightly off...])
dochood
Oops! Duh, no "F" sound in Korean! Silly mistake!
Um, well, I really thought he meant the aspirated "P" sound! Yeah, yeah, that's the ticket!
dochood
Tell me about it!
My wife's name is "Sang Cha", and she's heard so many variations on it, that she's just given up, and says "Yup, that's me!"
I'm a little more anal about it myself!
dochood
"Doe [as in female deer] Jaang" (where J is somewhere between "j" and "ch")
I'm assuming you are talking about the word which means "a place to learn and practice Tae Kwon Do".
dochood
I'm not sure what Pho(e) is, but "Baang" could have several meanings. Another that comes to mind is "direction".
Korean is made up of Native Korean and Sino Korean. Sino Korean is made up of words borrowed from Chinese (represented by Chinese characters). Korean has no tones, like Chinese, so words with different tones often get represented with the same Korean pronuciation and spelling. This is why, even though Korean has a wonderful alphabet, they still use Chinese characters in a lot of publications, because it helps clarify which word is meant, if it is unclear merely from the phonetic spelling.
dochood
Oh, yeah...
And "Baang" simply means "Room".
PC Baang == PC Room
Norae Baang == Song Room (Karaoke Place)
dochood
Yes.
It is being transliterated that way, or else Americans would pronounce it "Bang" as in "Bang, Bang, you're dead."
The a makes the sound of a in "father".
Almost like "bong" (like the pipe), but with a longer, drawn out sound.
It's not the standard way to transliterate, but Americans get most of the standard tranliteration sounds wrong (unless they are familiar with the system and the Korean alphabet, Hangul.)
dochood
Former USAF Korean Linguist
Husband of Korean Woman
Watcher of Korean Sit-coms and Soap Operas
I wonder then what is the moral equivalence of the RIAA taking realized cash from people who do not download music?"
Well, if they can get the government to collect it for them, it's called "taxation".
Kind of reminds me of elementary school, when one kids stole a candy bar from another, and they just arbitrarily decide to punish the entire class until one fesses up... which he never does!
dochood
Borland used to have a debug feature where you could actually follow pointers in structures like linked-lists and stuff, and get a graphical picture of what your data looked like. You had these little boxes that were connected with lines, and you could move them around, kind of like M$ Access's Query Builder tool. That was so awesome! It made it easy to see whether or not your data structure was messed up, or if it contained messed up data.
We use STL in M$ Visual C++ 6.0. When I need to look at an item in the middle of a vector, I have to iterate through it in the code. I don't think there's anyway to view an item in the middle of the list (you get the first item and the last item) without doing this.
BTW, if anyone knows of a way to do this, please fill me in!
dochood
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Woman's voice: Thank you for using Microsoft DotNet. Please deposit 25 cents to continue....
tick-tock, tick-tock.... 60 seconds later:
Woman's voice: Thank you.... Please deposit 25 cents to continue....
dochood
... Debian will probably build for that architecture!
(That's what I did with a Sun that my company no longer wanted... now it's my firewall!)
dochood
People tend to have very little sympathy for those addicted to something that they are not or would not be. They write them off as being "obsessive/compulsive", who would fall to some other addiction if video games were not around.
What if with all of our boredom with life, and all of the "artificial" distractions, we are creating O/C's by the thousands, or even millions, who would not otherwise be so?
Just because there are people wandering near the edge of the cliff pondering suicide, does that give us the right to push them over?
I'm just wondering where the love of money and lack of love for our neighbor is going to lead us...
dochood
I have a Linux firewall / gateway that serves the several computers in my house. It uses fetchmail to pull mail from a company e-mail server (for personal use) and from Earthlink. Procmail has a filter to mangle dangerous file extension names to prevent virus-infected files from being clicked on accidently (by my kids). Earthlink e-mail gets dumped to /dev/null. I'm going to shut it down soon, because it gets nothing but Spam.
/dev/null, and I know who to blame, and who to quit doing business with.
m ail-security.html
It also pipes it to SpamAssassin, which works tremendously well. I've never gotten a false positive, and I may see one spam a month in my regular inbox.
The other thing I have (through my company) is a "vanity" domain name, that sends all the e-mail (except my wife and kids) to my inbox, no matter what the address. I hand out an address like "amazon@mydomain.com" to Amazon, etc, and if I receive spam on it, I pipe it to
This system has worked wonders for me!
dochood
File-name mangler procmail script:
ftp://ftp.rubyriver.com/pub/jhardin/antispam/proc
SpamAssassin:
http://www.spamassassin.org
After you.
Every year, Missouri publishes information on the number of deer hunting accidents.
For the last five years, I have read of no more than 10 accidents in a given year. Sometimes there are fatalities (2-5 a year), and I don't think I've ever read about one from a bow (injury to the hunter or a bystander).
The numbers are astoundingly low, considering there are about 400,000+ firearms hunters in the woods, and about 30-40,000 bow hunters, during a relatively short period of time.
It turns out that deer hunting is actually safer than most other sports. This usually comes from the fact that a gun in a person's hand usually SOBERS them a bit into realizing that they do carry death in their hands, and must be careful. Also, many states have Gun Safety class requirements (such as Missouri) as well.
dochood
That's why the Conservation Department encourages Bow Hunting in the "urban" counties by selling the cheap permits.
A bow has an effective range of around 40 yards, and a maximum of probably no more than 80 or 100 yards.
And there are laws against shooting a gun too close to a residence, and the last time I checked, trespassing (especially by knocking down someone's fence) is still illegal. There's no excuse for that kind of criminal behavior.
No matter what group of people you look at, there will be a small percentage that act STUPID enough to make it look like the entire group is, as you put it, "camouflaged, inebriated yahoos". I think that the statistics show (VERY low accident rate, considering 400,000+ hunters in the woods during firearms seasone) that the majority of hunters are ethical.
dochood
Unfortunately, that'e exactly the WRONG reaction! We need MORE hunters, not FEWER!
If I had gotten one this year, and they offered to test the animal for me, I'd have taken them up on it, and waited for the results before eating, just as a precaution. But I certainly wouldn't have foregone my yearly hunt out of fear, and fear of a disease that is infecting a small number of deer, mostly in certain counties of certains states.
dochood
Or, we could let them breed out of control until they are all over your yard, in your garage, and jumping in front of your car, killing you and your family members.
Which do you prefer, you Troll?
dochood
Deer hunting is the best way to keep the herds thin and help prevent the spread of disease.
Some bunny-huggers out there think they are doing the deer a favor by trying to stop hunting and implementing deer-transfers from heavily human-populated areas, when they may, in fact, be contributing to the problem.
In Missouri, hunters take about 225,000 deer a year out of about 1 million or so. This taking of about one quarter of the herd has helped keep the numbers fairly steady. This steady hunting pressure keeps the herd at sustainable numbers in most areas.
The areas in MO that have the worst deer population problems are around the big cities (St Louis, Kansas City, and Jefferson City). People are constantly running into them with their cars in the suburbs. The conservation department tries to encourage bow hunting around these areas by selling up to 5 $5 "urban archery" permits per hunter. But it's hard to hunt (even bow hunt) where people are too close by, because a lot of city-folks seem to have a negative attitude towards hunting.
dochood
MO Deer Hunter
Backwards compatibility between Win 3.1 and Win 95 was pretty important, and between 95 and NT, and it seemed to work fairly well.
I just made the switch from Windows to Mac OS/X because I had over 50% of my old games (and my kids' old games) and programs break on me going to Windows XP! I have several games that say they need 95 or 98 to run, and no longer function. The ones that still work I've gotten bored with, anyway.
There was a huge boost to the economy when Win 95 and NT came out, because there was a huge demand for 32 bit programs. One could argue that this was a good thing, because there was value in going to 32 bit programs. But what about Microsoft breaking compatibility for no good reason? I wonder how well that will go over, especially with businesses who have a custom software program that will only run on the older platforms?
dochood
Mental symptoms such as lethargy, anxiety and "reluctance to go to work," as well as sleep-related problems including insomnia and fatigue, were most common among workers who spent more than 5 hours a day glued to their computer screen.
I wonder about those people they surveyed... were they all using Windows? Perhaps there might be a different factor they are overlooking in the study!
dochood