So I guess this means I get to save a few hundred bucks the next time I buy a PC that "luckily" comes bundled with a $200 copy of Windows XP that I have "purchased" by opening the top of the box?
In truthfulness, I think we should just give them legal rights when they have the ability to ask for them. And no, I don't mean "printf('I want legal rights! Give me liberty!');".
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The RIAA/MPAA announced today that the controversial book, "The Day Nobody Shared", would be banned and removed from all Kindergarten and Pre-School shelves.
Well, keep in mind many people, especially in rural areas, still use antenneas to recieve their broadcasting - it sure isn't the best quality, but it's still open broadcasting nonetheless.
And I assume you're complaining about them adding the Fill tool, when it's plain to see any true GIMP user prefers to fill in the pixels with the paintbrush?
But seriously though, this does strike me as kinda annoying on behalf of those involved. Don't they have better things to work on than making sorting more important to a file than the file itself? How about fixing the classically-bad GUI?
If the OS was built into the laptop's BIOS, it didn't keep any part of the memory on the flash drive (you'd either need a lot of memory or some other method of storing extra memory), and the replacement flash drives would be easily replaced and removed for a less-than-insane cost, then yes, it could be possible.
So, wait - currently the ReactOS project, in what has apparently been many years of work, has the interface and power of an early beta of Win95. Longhorn comes out in a few years. Explain to me how you plan to forge such an OS, when you have to constantly rely on remaking the system whenever Microsoft has a slight whim towards another direction? Or is the ultimate goal of ReactOS to run pre-95 applications once they are complete broken? I don't fully understand the sanity here.
PS: I'm a Windows user who personally finds the Linux/OSS philosophy appealing, but I'm just more comfortable in a Windows environment for the time being. It'd be a great project if I could actually hold it to something more than a dry implementation of the Windows OS. Besides, the current version still crashes almost everytime I use the LiveCD. Amazing.
Yup, yet another High School student, this time speaking directly from South Carolina. I really feel the problem in the situation here is not so much finding the right niche, but rather, making it apply to some non-abstract concept of their life. You have to realize, I come from a school with a large drop-out rate, and we're one of the top in the state. Students are constantly being driven away from the school because of the generally-inane methods of teaching they alternate between, and the fact that, yes, some students really just don't give a damn.
What could capture their interest? What could make them stop and think? How about stop treating us like empty vesicles and instead doing something original? Rid us of the timeslots, the shuffling of periods, trying to form us into everymen, and instead realize that by the time the average student turns 15, they already have some outstanding interests, and that by not allowing them to act on them for the next four years (longer depending on the student's ability to wake-up in the morning), they begin to treat school as "just another place". No, I don't want to become an everyman - no one is really an everyman, and usually if someone thinks they are, they aren't involved with the cogs of the education machine (home-school, alternate schooling for the "mentally gifted", et cetera).
Anyway, to answer your question - the problem is no so much that they aren't inspired nor that they don't want to be inspired; rather, they need to come there with their own free will, as opposed to basically being thrown into the mix and forced to learn. And I don't mean that "relaxed enviroment" bullshit - be strict with them, give them work. But get rid of the requirements of the courses, kill those over-obsessive, "Is Our Children Learning?", mandated tests, and realize that not everyone carries a definite interest in every subject that could possibly be presented in a high school environment.
Oh, and robot kitten combat would be very nice, too.
Well, I figure, of all the things they could do to save money, cutting function names doesn't strike me as the top one on the list. I guess maybe for a low-impact kind of thing, and it couldn't hurt.
So, wait. Google is willing to offer dozens of these little free services (blog photo hosting, gigabyte e-mail, etc), and yet it's worried about an extra three to four characters for function names? I don't believe you.
'"It seems like a natural fit: Encarta has a long-standing commitment to furthering education, and I've had a lot of kids tell me that watching me on "Jeopardy!" has made reading and learning seem just a little cooler," Jennings told Microsoft in an interview.'
"She (Elizabeth Spoilsport) is 7, is bilingual in French and English, writes in cursive, and does her times tables. She can recognise 4/4, 3/4, and 5/4 time signatures. She's my little pride and joy, when she's not acting like a spoiled little snot (which only happens when she's tired or grumpy)."
Yes, and we'll see how long this lasts once she hits the teen years.
"My idea (and I'm completely serious, I think this would work if it caught on!) is to get people to use IM and chat room clients that check the grammar and spelling of anything they type, and then refuse to transmit anything that's incorrect. People will over time develop impeccable linguistic skills! "...Or they'll uninstall that program and switch to AIM. No one in their right mind would use that program. I consider myself very literate, but even so, I still use the occasional "brb" or "lol". Does this make me stupid or dyslexic? No, it just means that I have to go, and it's a word that most people mutually understand and respect. I mean, if I started speaking in proper French, would that be considered proper? It's a true language, but no one I speak with knows it enough to bother speaking in it. So why would that be prefered over just simple slang?
Aren't you missing the whole point here? Just because it has wide-spread coverage doesn't mean I give a damn to listen to it. That's the advantage of P2P. A start-up band can post some tracks online, and have basically world-wide access. The more popular a song, the more downloads and the more sources are available, and thus, even more downloads.
As for touring, do you really need a multi-billion dollar company to get you a small tour arranged? You can still have people with connections, without having to run under the umbrella of a company that takes huge bites out of any money you may have made, might make, and will now never make.
The kid who spends his time reading "Monster Truck Mash-azine" does poorer than the kid who reads "Scientific American". Therefore, magazines are bad for all children.
If that's illegal, then what does one do to defend the Slashdot Effect? I guess you could argue that, "It wasn't meant in malicious harm", until someone purposely comes forward stating they linked to Such-and-Such website on Such-and-Such article because they dislike Such-and-Such, and suddenly all Hell breaks loose.
I wouldn't call it illegal per se - only if the spammers have every right to DDoS the sites promoting or supporting the DDoS'ing of their servers as well. The freedom of the Internet will always come at a price, but at least it's still better than CAN...
These things aren't exactly new. Mario has been in an RPG [Mario RPG], a racing cart game [Mario Cart], and even a tennis game (I don't even need to note this one). It's really not that people have turned against mascots - rather, the competition for mascots has filled-out a bit since then. Master Chief, anyone?
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Mind you, you aren't considering the other bundle of joy Microsoft throws in - Office.
So I guess this means I get to save a few hundred bucks the next time I buy a PC that "luckily" comes bundled with a $200 copy of Windows XP that I have "purchased" by opening the top of the box?
Coming Soon, "Game Industry Bigger Than Jesus". Then the backlash.
I guess now would be the wrong time to tell them it's free, right?
In truthfulness, I think we should just give them legal rights when they have the ability to ask for them. And no, I don't mean "printf('I want legal rights! Give me liberty!');".
I really don't think computers should be consider leOH GOD THE USB CABLE IS ENTERING MY EYESOCKET!
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The RIAA/MPAA announced today that the controversial book, "The Day Nobody Shared", would be banned and removed from all Kindergarten and Pre-School shelves.
The RIAA/MPAA announced today that the controversial book, "The Day Nobody Shared", would be banned and removed from all Kindergarten and Pre-School shelves. When asked about motive, a representative simply replied, "Those Care Bears should just be ashamed".
Well, keep in mind many people, especially in rural areas, still use antenneas to recieve their broadcasting - it sure isn't the best quality, but it's still open broadcasting nonetheless.
And I assume you're complaining about them adding the Fill tool, when it's plain to see any true GIMP user prefers to fill in the pixels with the paintbrush?
But seriously though, this does strike me as kinda annoying on behalf of those involved. Don't they have better things to work on than making sorting more important to a file than the file itself? How about fixing the classically-bad GUI?
If the OS was built into the laptop's BIOS, it didn't keep any part of the memory on the flash drive (you'd either need a lot of memory or some other method of storing extra memory), and the replacement flash drives would be easily replaced and removed for a less-than-insane cost, then yes, it could be possible.
So, wait - currently the ReactOS project, in what has apparently been many years of work, has the interface and power of an early beta of Win95. Longhorn comes out in a few years. Explain to me how you plan to forge such an OS, when you have to constantly rely on remaking the system whenever Microsoft has a slight whim towards another direction? Or is the ultimate goal of ReactOS to run pre-95 applications once they are complete broken? I don't fully understand the sanity here.
PS: I'm a Windows user who personally finds the Linux/OSS philosophy appealing, but I'm just more comfortable in a Windows environment for the time being. It'd be a great project if I could actually hold it to something more than a dry implementation of the Windows OS. Besides, the current version still crashes almost everytime I use the LiveCD. Amazing.
Yup, yet another High School student, this time speaking directly from South Carolina. I really feel the problem in the situation here is not so much finding the right niche, but rather, making it apply to some non-abstract concept of their life. You have to realize, I come from a school with a large drop-out rate, and we're one of the top in the state. Students are constantly being driven away from the school because of the generally-inane methods of teaching they alternate between, and the fact that, yes, some students really just don't give a damn.
What could capture their interest? What could make them stop and think? How about stop treating us like empty vesicles and instead doing something original? Rid us of the timeslots, the shuffling of periods, trying to form us into everymen, and instead realize that by the time the average student turns 15, they already have some outstanding interests, and that by not allowing them to act on them for the next four years (longer depending on the student's ability to wake-up in the morning), they begin to treat school as "just another place". No, I don't want to become an everyman - no one is really an everyman, and usually if someone thinks they are, they aren't involved with the cogs of the education machine (home-school, alternate schooling for the "mentally gifted", et cetera).
Anyway, to answer your question - the problem is no so much that they aren't inspired nor that they don't want to be inspired; rather, they need to come there with their own free will, as opposed to basically being thrown into the mix and forced to learn. And I don't mean that "relaxed enviroment" bullshit - be strict with them, give them work. But get rid of the requirements of the courses, kill those over-obsessive, "Is Our Children Learning?", mandated tests, and realize that not everyone carries a definite interest in every subject that could possibly be presented in a high school environment.
Oh, and robot kitten combat would be very nice, too.
Well, I figure, of all the things they could do to save money, cutting function names doesn't strike me as the top one on the list. I guess maybe for a low-impact kind of thing, and it couldn't hurt.
So, wait. Google is willing to offer dozens of these little free services (blog photo hosting, gigabyte e-mail, etc), and yet it's worried about an extra three to four characters for function names? I don't believe you.
'"It seems like a natural fit: Encarta has a long-standing commitment to furthering education, and I've had a lot of kids tell me that watching me on "Jeopardy!" has made reading and learning seem just a little cooler," Jennings told Microsoft in an interview.'
http://chronicle.com/free/2000/08/2000081501t.htm
"She (Elizabeth Spoilsport) is 7, is bilingual in French and English, writes in cursive, and does her times tables. She can recognise 4/4, 3/4, and 5/4 time signatures. She's my little pride and joy, when she's not acting like a spoiled little snot (which only happens when she's tired or grumpy)."
Yes, and we'll see how long this lasts once she hits the teen years.
"My idea (and I'm completely serious, I think this would work if it caught on!) is to get people to use IM and chat room clients that check the grammar and spelling of anything they type, and then refuse to transmit anything that's incorrect. People will over time develop impeccable linguistic skills! " ...Or they'll uninstall that program and switch to AIM. No one in their right mind would use that program. I consider myself very literate, but even so, I still use the occasional "brb" or "lol". Does this make me stupid or dyslexic? No, it just means that I have to go, and it's a word that most people mutually understand and respect. I mean, if I started speaking in proper French, would that be considered proper? It's a true language, but no one I speak with knows it enough to bother speaking in it. So why would that be prefered over just simple slang?
"Let's be honest. How many of us sit down to "just check e-mail" and find that nearly an hour has passed without really doing anything productive?"
Oh shit, I'm supposed to be writing a paper. BRB.
Aren't you missing the whole point here? Just because it has wide-spread coverage doesn't mean I give a damn to listen to it. That's the advantage of P2P. A start-up band can post some tracks online, and have basically world-wide access. The more popular a song, the more downloads and the more sources are available, and thus, even more downloads.
As for touring, do you really need a multi-billion dollar company to get you a small tour arranged? You can still have people with connections, without having to run under the umbrella of a company that takes huge bites out of any money you may have made, might make, and will now never make.
I think the answer is Unlimited.
The kid who spends his time reading "Monster Truck Mash-azine" does poorer than the kid who reads "Scientific American". Therefore, magazines are bad for all children.
"Are my Slashdot stories flowing into each other again?"
http://hardgrok.org/blog/item/slashfix-firefox-ext ension.html
If that's illegal, then what does one do to defend the Slashdot Effect? I guess you could argue that, "It wasn't meant in malicious harm", until someone purposely comes forward stating they linked to Such-and-Such website on Such-and-Such article because they dislike Such-and-Such, and suddenly all Hell breaks loose. I wouldn't call it illegal per se - only if the spammers have every right to DDoS the sites promoting or supporting the DDoS'ing of their servers as well. The freedom of the Internet will always come at a price, but at least it's still better than CAN...
These things aren't exactly new. Mario has been in an RPG [Mario RPG], a racing cart game [Mario Cart], and even a tennis game (I don't even need to note this one). It's really not that people have turned against mascots - rather, the competition for mascots has filled-out a bit since then. Master Chief, anyone?