Yes, but the entire pre-.NET VB approach just begged to be thrown in the trash can. It was a pooch. It sucked. It was a badly designed bunch of GUI grap thrown on top of the original Microsoft DOS BASIC. It was great for a learning experience, but life is so much better with a 'real' VB.NET, rather than the suck-ass VBx's of the past.
When my boy was just crawling, I took a keyboard and painted it many colors. It was one of his favorite 'toys', he'd sit next to daddy on the laptop and press the buttons on his keyboard.
Now that he's two, he knows how to turn on the laptop, and knows how to hit Enter at the Lilo prompt to get an OS to load. He knows that you have to type something at the login prompt for either Windows or Linux, just hasn't figured out what to type for the login prompt. But at this point he thinks it's great fun just to type away at the login prompt. Once I log him into Linux, he favorite thing is KStars - it does something different with just about every button pushed or every mouse click.
So, immerse them early. They'll figure things out insanely fast.
Guess I'll play PC games then. No way in hell I'm going to shell out more than $300 on a fucking video game system. I think I fit in with 'common person' here. Sure, there's a bunch of gamer freaks that will. But it's not that much of a draw for most people. I see posts where people seem to think that $500 is acceptable. What planet are you from? Or better, how many of those $500 people still live with their parents? People with real lifes and real bills are like what the fuck ever. I'll throw $300 max at a video card for my PC and go that way. Hell, especially when compared with relatively good systems from Dell for $299. Sure they're basically what was top of the line 2 years ago, but that's still a lot of power. Just a point of reference. If I was to buold a totally new PC, I'd probably throw at least $800 into it, but for a dumb box that I'm only going to use to play games? Not even. Sure, it might have all the 'media center' crap as well, but just not interested. Slouching on a couch trying surf the net with at most 1080 lines of resolution? Nah, too addicted to dual 1600x1200 displays on my PC.
I dunno, they must be targeting some other group of people, but for me I just shake my head in wonder at them. PS3 is looking like a major flop. Was interested since I'm a PS2 owner, but now looking and hoping for the rumors about the new Nintendo system to come true. We'll see... I probably just got trolled by some dumb marketing guy testing the waters. But my max price point is $300. I think I paid $150 for my Atari 2600 back in the day, and that's about what I paid for my PS2, so more than doubling the cost is where I draw the line. Not saying that there's not people out there that will pay it, but I'm betting that it's no more than 10% of the interested people are going to be interested (let alone have the means) in paying over $300 for a damn video game machine.
Unfortunately the majority of farms these days are corporate farms. Sure, there's still a lot of family-owned farms, but they are slowly getting Borged by the CorpFarms. Also lots of sneaky bullshit where CorpFarms set up deals with companies so they get better deals when they sell their products than the family farms can get.
Yah, and it will work the same way as DARE did. Soon as I went to my DARE class and got shown the big poster with all the pretty colored pills on them, I wanted to try each one to see what it would do. As a bonus to the DARE class, it broke the ice on the whole discussion on drugs. By watching the reactions of my other classmates, I was able to determine which ones were 'cool' about drugs. Only took a few days after that to talk to the right people and to get my hands on my first joint. And you can't say it was peer pressure, my geekism (aka quest for learning) actually made it so I was the one looking, wanting to expand my experiences.
DARE typically increases drug use a few percentage points in schools that have it versus schools that do not. See http://www.fcda.org/dare.html
It's been 20+ years since then, and I learned that it's a false demon, but a boring one in the long run. But at the age when I went to DARE, it was like "Check it out, it's like Willy Fuckin Wonka, all kinds of new mind candy you never thought existed!!". Major backfire on the idiots who thought it up.
I've actually persuaded a couple different witnesses to take me out for beer. "Hey, if you take me out for some beer, I'll listen to what you have to say." They did it! Really freaked me out that it worked.
Oh... My... God!!! Hundreds of thousands of acres of crops! Where will we get them?
Dumb City Boy... That ain't shit. There's 640 acres in a square mile. Say you just a mile of land on either side of Interstate 80 going through Nebraska (455 miles to go from Iowa to Wyoming on I-80 in Nebraska), you're talking 455(miles long) * 2(miles wide) * 640(acres per square mile) = 582,400 acres. Not a drop in the bucket when compared with all the farmland in the whole state.
Nebraska has more farmland than that sitting unused. Even smaller states like Indiana have millions of acres of farmland. In use, you're talking MILLIONS of acres, just in Nebraska. (When you equalize for the panhandle in the northwest, and the curved side on northeast, you're looking around a 400x200 mile area (84,400 square miles) total (So around 54 MILLION acres of land) Management is pretty simple, definitely not difficult, other than some hard physical labor in planting, irrigating, harvesting, transporting.
And even better, since ethanol isn't meant for human consumption, you can make it with relatively dirty water, rather than having to divert precious drinkable water for it.
*Waits for city boy to figure out what water has to do with alcohol*
What if a man walks by seeing a woman viewing porn? Can he sue on grounds of sexual harassment, or is it a one way street? If denied, then can the man sue on grounds of sexual discrimination?
And actually, simply having a lame proxy filter in place is enough to prove due diligence in court.
Installing an antivirus or antispyware most certainly does not take away my right to install a virus. (Wow, can we say Red Herring argument here?) My right to uninstall that antivirus or antispyware, and then 'install' the virus/spyware (Yah, right, whatever, can we come up with a dumber argument?) is not taken away.
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Please tell us more about BSD and Solaris. I didn't get enough in your other thread.
You just find out about them and are all excited or what? Settle down, Beavis.
Solaris blows chunks anyway.
It's the my dick is smaller than your dick game! I'm currently in the lead! :)
Or...
Blu-Ray is the New Gay...
Blu-Ray is Eww-Gay!
Yes, but the entire pre-.NET VB approach just begged to be thrown in the trash can. It was a pooch. It sucked. It was a badly designed bunch of GUI grap thrown on top of the original Microsoft DOS BASIC. It was great for a learning experience, but life is so much better with a 'real' VB.NET, rather than the suck-ass VBx's of the past.
I could care less WHO won, the important issue is that the voting is tracked accurately and verifiably.
Back in your box, blindman.
When my boy was just crawling, I took a keyboard and painted it many colors. It was one of his favorite 'toys', he'd sit next to daddy on the laptop and press the buttons on his keyboard.
Now that he's two, he knows how to turn on the laptop, and knows how to hit Enter at the Lilo prompt to get an OS to load. He knows that you have to type something at the login prompt for either Windows or Linux, just hasn't figured out what to type for the login prompt. But at this point he thinks it's great fun just to type away at the login prompt. Once I log him into Linux, he favorite thing is KStars - it does something different with just about every button pushed or every mouse click.
So, immerse them early. They'll figure things out insanely fast.
I just bought the White Album in .lit format, I am NOT changing formats again!
Guess I'll play PC games then. No way in hell I'm going to shell out more than $300 on a fucking video game system. I think I fit in with 'common person' here. Sure, there's a bunch of gamer freaks that will. But it's not that much of a draw for most people. I see posts where people seem to think that $500 is acceptable. What planet are you from? Or better, how many of those $500 people still live with their parents? People with real lifes and real bills are like what the fuck ever. I'll throw $300 max at a video card for my PC and go that way. Hell, especially when compared with relatively good systems from Dell for $299. Sure they're basically what was top of the line 2 years ago, but that's still a lot of power. Just a point of reference. If I was to buold a totally new PC, I'd probably throw at least $800 into it, but for a dumb box that I'm only going to use to play games? Not even. Sure, it might have all the 'media center' crap as well, but just not interested. Slouching on a couch trying surf the net with at most 1080 lines of resolution? Nah, too addicted to dual 1600x1200 displays on my PC.
I dunno, they must be targeting some other group of people, but for me I just shake my head in wonder at them. PS3 is looking like a major flop. Was interested since I'm a PS2 owner, but now looking and hoping for the rumors about the new Nintendo system to come true. We'll see... I probably just got trolled by some dumb marketing guy testing the waters. But my max price point is $300. I think I paid $150 for my Atari 2600 back in the day, and that's about what I paid for my PS2, so more than doubling the cost is where I draw the line. Not saying that there's not people out there that will pay it, but I'm betting that it's no more than 10% of the interested people are going to be interested (let alone have the means) in paying over $300 for a damn video game machine.
Tim, is that you? Please turn off the brainwashing talk radio you use to make your decisions for you and get back to your lame code monkey job.
Eewwww! You've got a 20 year old Vulva?
Unfortunately the majority of farms these days are corporate farms. Sure, there's still a lot of family-owned farms, but they are slowly getting Borged by the CorpFarms. Also lots of sneaky bullshit where CorpFarms set up deals with companies so they get better deals when they sell their products than the family farms can get.
Yah, and it will work the same way as DARE did. Soon as I went to my DARE class and got shown the big poster with all the pretty colored pills on them, I wanted to try each one to see what it would do. As a bonus to the DARE class, it broke the ice on the whole discussion on drugs. By watching the reactions of my other classmates, I was able to determine which ones were 'cool' about drugs. Only took a few days after that to talk to the right people and to get my hands on my first joint. And you can't say it was peer pressure, my geekism (aka quest for learning) actually made it so I was the one looking, wanting to expand my experiences.
DARE typically increases drug use a few percentage points in schools that have it versus schools that do not. See http://www.fcda.org/dare.html
It's been 20+ years since then, and I learned that it's a false demon, but a boring one in the long run. But at the age when I went to DARE, it was like "Check it out, it's like Willy Fuckin Wonka, all kinds of new mind candy you never thought existed!!". Major backfire on the idiots who thought it up.
Here's some pictures of sick people eating from the litter box, even worse, they fed some to a little kid.
I've actually persuaded a couple different witnesses to take me out for beer. "Hey, if you take me out for some beer, I'll listen to what you have to say." They did it! Really freaked me out that it worked.
A master stroke on Microsoft's part. Expect Google to change its tune momentarily.
Ain't that when they take away your MCSE?
Oh... My... God!!! Hundreds of thousands of acres of crops! Where will we get them?
Dumb City Boy... That ain't shit. There's 640 acres in a square mile. Say you just a mile of land on either side of Interstate 80 going through Nebraska (455 miles to go from Iowa to Wyoming on I-80 in Nebraska), you're talking 455(miles long) * 2(miles wide) * 640(acres per square mile) = 582,400 acres. Not a drop in the bucket when compared with all the farmland in the whole state.
Nebraska has more farmland than that sitting unused. Even smaller states like Indiana have millions of acres of farmland. In use, you're talking MILLIONS of acres, just in Nebraska. (When you equalize for the panhandle in the northwest, and the curved side on northeast, you're looking around a 400x200 mile area (84,400 square miles) total (So around 54 MILLION acres of land) Management is pretty simple, definitely not difficult, other than some hard physical labor in planting, irrigating, harvesting, transporting.
And even better, since ethanol isn't meant for human consumption, you can make it with relatively dirty water, rather than having to divert precious drinkable water for it.
*Waits for city boy to figure out what water has to do with alcohol*
(Posted from Nebraska)
Um, it is... Isn't it??
Remember, it's all in fun until someone loses a finger!
What if a man walks by seeing a woman viewing porn? Can he sue on grounds of sexual harassment, or is it a one way street? If denied, then can the man sue on grounds of sexual discrimination?
And actually, simply having a lame proxy filter in place is enough to prove due diligence in court.
Installing an antivirus or antispyware most certainly does not take away my right to install a virus. (Wow, can we say Red Herring argument here?) My right to uninstall that antivirus or antispyware, and then 'install' the virus/spyware (Yah, right, whatever, can we come up with a dumber argument?) is not taken away.
Piping opposite waves into your ear negates the non-opposite waves, so how does that cause any ear damage?
"people should eventually end up with just as many access rights as they need to function on their computer and no more."
Whoa whoa whoa! In which contexts are you looking at the situation? Sure, in an educational or corporate environment, limiting access is acceptable.
But what about on personally owned machines? It's my box, I get full access rights, no questions about it.