An older post mentioned that students need to spend time with caring adults who set good models. Why not use the kids' curiosity to pull apart the machines, put them back together, and install linux? All can be done under the watchful eye of the adult and kids get to spend time with a good role model and they may learn a thing or two about computers. Putting together a script of commands/syntax (with a WOW! LOOK WHAT WE DID! at the end) can be a great lesson in following directions, reading, typing, etc... once the computers are up and running.
It really sucks to be one of the ones pulling the XP average up. a faulty S3 driver+ memory upgrade in my compaq laptop puts XP at about 8% sessions where I don't have to do a power switch reboot. The laptop I didn't just recieve for work probably averages 1-2 week uptime running slackware.
I've had numerous InterVideo software users ask me why they can't watch DVDs on their computers. The software they write is terrible junk and I hope that they don't bring the same low quality to this idea, one that i like.
even if you didn't drop them at the same time, but merely had the bowling ball sized neutron star nearby while you dropped the real bowling ball you would get somewhat (everything would get smooshed together) bad data.
Nautilus is slow when first installed. most of the themes which come with the package don't help matters. they have too much eye candy and slow it down tremendously. with plain-type buttons, folders and background nautilus is usable and even moderately fast. my problems have been with freezing. and other bugs...
right now with my comments cut off at somewhere between 3 and 5 points i see five or six postings correcting misinformation in the document, a couple of very intelligent and insightful ones about threading and the rest about how bad "Myth Dispellor" is and how it is FUD. constructive help is always better than mean hearted criticism.
it's only a minor point, but india is highly anglicized. a large portion of the upper/proffesional class speak english because it is the language of business today and because it was once an english colony
as a relatively young senior in high school i am banned from solitarily viewing R and NC-17 rated movies. everytime I get asked for an I.D. i shake my head in disgust and envision causing a rucus because i know that I should not be censored from the movie/artform/popular media. Thanks to my parents I have the education (thanks chaucer/milton/Bolt etc) to know my rights privledges and responsibilities as a human. I know I can handle any movie in the box office. I think the fundamental problem is that kids are not educated to think for themselves. Maybe if kids were allowed (encouraged?) to read steinbeck/ salinger etc corporate america would not have to censor the populace.
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if the idea is to have the criminals stop committing crimes then no, this "jail" idea usually does not do the trick.
An older post mentioned that students need to spend time with caring adults who set good models. Why not use the kids' curiosity to pull apart the machines, put them back together, and install linux? All can be done under the watchful eye of the adult and kids get to spend time with a good role model and they may learn a thing or two about computers. Putting together a script of commands/syntax (with a WOW! LOOK WHAT WE DID! at the end) can be a great lesson in following directions, reading, typing, etc... once the computers are up and running.
apple does not have market power in the tying product market (the operating system market)
It really sucks to be one of the ones pulling the XP average up. a faulty S3 driver+ memory upgrade in my compaq laptop puts XP at about 8% sessions where I don't have to do a power switch reboot. The laptop I didn't just recieve for work probably averages 1-2 week uptime running slackware.
I've had numerous InterVideo software users ask me why they can't watch DVDs on their computers. The software they write is terrible junk and I hope that they don't bring the same low quality to this idea, one that i like.
endnote would launch it to the top of the list for many, if not most academics. they are debatebly more experimental than the world at large.
any day now we'll have the true mosaic killer...
>Only a moron would lose
i am comp-u-comp
even if you didn't drop them at the same time, but merely had the bowling ball sized neutron star nearby while you dropped the real bowling ball you would get somewhat (everything would get smooshed together) bad data.
when it runs on gameboy
Nautilus is slow when first installed. most of the themes which come with the package don't help matters. they have too much eye candy and slow it down tremendously. with plain-type buttons, folders and background nautilus is usable and even moderately fast. my problems have been with freezing. and other bugs...
maybe we all really do need 3 national id cards
ballsy, true but ballsy
right now with my comments cut off at somewhere between 3 and 5 points i see five or six postings correcting misinformation in the document, a couple of very intelligent and insightful ones about threading and the rest about how bad "Myth Dispellor" is and how it is FUD. constructive help is always better than mean hearted criticism.
it's only a minor point, but india is highly anglicized. a large portion of the upper/proffesional class speak english because it is the language of business today and because it was once an english colony
as a relatively young senior in high school i am banned from solitarily viewing R and NC-17 rated movies. everytime I get asked for an I.D. i shake my head in disgust and envision causing a rucus because i know that I should not be censored from the movie/artform/popular media. Thanks to my parents I have the education (thanks chaucer/milton/Bolt etc) to know my rights privledges and responsibilities as a human. I know I can handle any movie in the box office. I think the fundamental problem is that kids are not educated to think for themselves. Maybe if kids were allowed (encouraged?) to read steinbeck/ salinger etc corporate america would not have to censor the populace.