I beg to differ. One of the advantages of open-source software is that anyone can make it. Although there is some stuff like that, in most fields there are many people who can program and have an interest in the software they use. Those projects will never get huge, but they don't need to be huge. Rather, they just need a strong core of developers who actually give a damn, which is the difference with open source software: the programmers give a damn.
They'd get further researching a new community model, as Open Source is likely the only fully-functional meritocracy ever. In other fields, a meritocracy is virtually impossible, but software has no re-production cost.
Learning how to make a meritocracy work can be extremely useful. All companies try to, at least a bit, by giving employees stock options so they benefit from doing well, trying to give promotions to those who are successful, trying lotsa crap ellipsis.
However, that is very hard. If a company could get itself to be a working meritocracy, it would benefit greatly. Just look at how good open source works.
Actually, I've been noticing much more pandering in recent times. Not neccesarily to market droids, but much the same nonetheless.
Many projects shift focus significantly because some random thing isn't popular with the end users. I don't think this is usually bad, but it has caused some occasional problems.
My mom uses computers in the classroom extensively and well. She advocates getting a computer room in every school she works at, and usually gets her way. She isn't close to qualified to be a sysadmin or anything like that. All she knows is some older basic and cobol from her days doing math programming.
In class, she assigns students things which actually involve using a computer. In her 'computer class' we had to program some drawing with quick basic and make a screen-saver over the span of a week. Sure, it's not real heavy stuff, but this is fifth-sixth grade.
Right now, she teaches kids how to write and post web-pages in HTML using notepad.
She also teaches how to use a spreadsheet, including the basics of functions.
She teaches how to use a word processor as a part of her english class.
She never tells people to research using computers. Instead, she uses computer for what they are good for, and teaches people how to use computers.
Obviously, as noted before, I am biased, but I know many people have learned a lot from those classes. What she never does at a school is endorse using computers for things that don't need them.
It's not the computers that are the problem, it's how they're used.
(Obviously, this is mostly out-of-date, as I was in her class some ten years ago for Quick Basic, so some of it needs some updating. I recently convinced her to try looking at some newer programming languages. I'm trying to convince her to do a tutorial in either Python or Javascript if either seems easy enough to her)
I suspect that it is much easier to get right at an early age. Kindergarteners are still young enough to actually do what you say, yet still malleable enough to just see everything as potential. Kindergarten students will use things very inventively and freely, given the chance, but without the maliciousness/insubordination of older students.
If children are already adjusted to using computers in kindergarten, they likely won't be so bad about them later, either.
But it did have a finalization episode, it just sucked. They'd have to change that to make it not be an ending. Still, I have a desperate hope you are correct, because the way that ended was a total let-down.
90% of everything is crap. You've been watching the wrong 10%.
But, in more depth:
Anime has, in several instances, a lot more freedom than you see on American TV. The fact that it often will not pull punches when American TV does is what makes some of it more engaging.
Also, some anime attempts to make encapsulated storylines, while most all American TV attempts to make something which can run eternally. Possibly the best thing about anime is the 13 episode series. It is a different medium than I see in the US. In the US, you have Movies, TV, and Mini-Serieses. Mini-Serieses are somewhat the same, in that they allow more subplots than Movies but still have that encapsulated nature. However, they usually require that each segment fill a two-hour block.
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex has no nudity and virtually no gore. Only about one in every two episodes have and violence whatsoever, and much of that is not displayed in detail. The show is not about violence.
There is some reason for that. Gunslinger Girl is extremely slow paced. Six eps in, it still only does backstory. It's very good, but kinda slow paced. Most Americans have very short attention spans. I assume that this is similar for the rest of the world as well, but I cannot be certain.
However, Ranma is pretty unlikely due to the excessive nudity. Of course, they can censor that stuff, but it's also kinda old.
Just my opinion, but Wolf's Rain really quite bad. The first season was impressive. It set up a lot of potential, and the second season was a total let-down. After four episodes of re-cap, they had weak character development and dumb plot-ideas. All-in-all, it's a bad show.
Witch Hunter Robin was good right up to the end. The very last episode was a little weak, but it was not bad. It was only worse than the previous episodes in that series.
Personally, I think the best serieses deserving a run right now are "Now and Then, Here and There" and "Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu", the first being one of the best all-around stories out there, and the second being just about the funniest thing ever.
How was this modded as informative? Was it intended to be? It just sounded sarcastic to me.
Honestly, none of the things he pointed to does anything about the bandwidth problem, as it all still comes from the server, which promptly dies, unless they've changed a lot since I last looked.
I must say, those folks at Debian really do there jobs. I personally can't stand using Debian, it just doesn't agree with me, but if I ever need a damn stable server, I'm glad there are people out there looking at the security of mah-jong.
You still miss the point that those menus are organized in ways which I would never use, and it is done automatically. With Windows, I pick where something does when I install it.
Every installer under Windows (unless you are installing some real weird shit) has an option to put shortcuts in X place in the menu, options for the quicklaunch bar and the desktop.
I can keep my menu how I want it, and I can almost guarantee that how I want it is not how you want it. With Linux, I have to install it, have it auto-placed, and then edit it using the incredibly cumbersome menu editor program. In windows, I just open the menu and treat them as normal objects, with drag-and-drop to move, right click for a menu with delete as an option, etc...
The even bigger problem is that it tries to set up file associations for me. Take this as an example: I use MPlayer to play all my videos. Damn, MPlayer bugs me with DVDs. I install Xine. Now Xine is associated with all video files, without me doing anything. Now I need to go back to the Mime-Type editor in KDE (which is very error-prone, by the way) and reset everything by hand.
Under Windows, the installer will show me a list of check-boxes for file types to associate with. I turn them off, and it causes no errors when I decide to install RealOne to play RM files and leave the rest with WinAmp. That's why the current state of things in Linux is so sad.
Note: I exclusively use Linux at home instead of Windows at home because the other errors in Windows piss me off much more. This is just one minor thing which tends to really bug me.
The problem is that this results in menus that are completely useless and things in all sorts of random places. People think too differently. In case you hadn't noticed, no OS automagically adds things to the menu, the installers for programs do that.
What Linux needs is decent installation systems. You know, things with options, instead of the usual "Run the RPM and have it fuck up your file associations and menu layout" shit.
"Those needing a kiosk solution I will recommend the linux-based FirecaseOS"
I've had several people ask me if I knew of any good Linux solutions for Kiosks, and I've had to tell them I don't, so this sounded like something to look into. However, I can't find anything about FirecaseOS with a cursory few searches online. Does FirecaseOS have a homepage, another name, anything I'm missing about it?
Most people, like the poster, incorrectly assume that "begs the question" is the same as "asks the question," not "answers the question," which is still equally wrong.
I mean, most people don't vote for president, or bother with much of anything else. How would they make this easy enough to do that it would be resilient to fraud and commonly done?
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I beg to differ. One of the advantages of open-source software is that anyone can make it. Although there is some stuff like that, in most fields there are many people who can program and have an interest in the software they use. Those projects will never get huge, but they don't need to be huge. Rather, they just need a strong core of developers who actually give a damn, which is the difference with open source software: the programmers give a damn.
They'd get further researching a new community model, as Open Source is likely the only fully-functional meritocracy ever. In other fields, a meritocracy is virtually impossible, but software has no re-production cost.
Learning how to make a meritocracy work can be extremely useful. All companies try to, at least a bit, by giving employees stock options so they benefit from doing well, trying to give promotions to those who are successful, trying lotsa crap ellipsis.
However, that is very hard. If a company could get itself to be a working meritocracy, it would benefit greatly. Just look at how good open source works.
> no pandoring to stupid demands of market droids
Actually, I've been noticing much more pandering in recent times. Not neccesarily to market droids, but much the same nonetheless.
Many projects shift focus significantly because some random thing isn't popular with the end users. I don't think this is usually bad, but it has caused some occasional problems.
In many ways, you are right.
From my personal experience, and yes I am biased:
My mom uses computers in the classroom extensively and well. She advocates getting a computer room in every school she works at, and usually gets her way. She isn't close to qualified to be a sysadmin or anything like that. All she knows is some older basic and cobol from her days doing math programming.
In class, she assigns students things which actually involve using a computer. In her 'computer class' we had to program some drawing with quick basic and make a screen-saver over the span of a week. Sure, it's not real heavy stuff, but this is fifth-sixth grade.
Right now, she teaches kids how to write and post web-pages in HTML using notepad.
She also teaches how to use a spreadsheet, including the basics of functions.
She teaches how to use a word processor as a part of her english class.
She never tells people to research using computers. Instead, she uses computer for what they are good for, and teaches people how to use computers.
Obviously, as noted before, I am biased, but I know many people have learned a lot from those classes. What she never does at a school is endorse using computers for things that don't need them.
It's not the computers that are the problem, it's how they're used.
(Obviously, this is mostly out-of-date, as I was in her class some ten years ago for Quick Basic, so some of it needs some updating. I recently convinced her to try looking at some newer programming languages. I'm trying to convince her to do a tutorial in either Python or Javascript if either seems easy enough to her)
I suspect that it is much easier to get right at an early age. Kindergarteners are still young enough to actually do what you say, yet still malleable enough to just see everything as potential. Kindergarten students will use things very inventively and freely, given the chance, but without the maliciousness/insubordination of older students.
If children are already adjusted to using computers in kindergarten, they likely won't be so bad about them later, either.
"1. Have actual content."
So the Google design is bad?
But it did have a finalization episode, it just sucked. They'd have to change that to make it not be an ending. Still, I have a desperate hope you are correct, because the way that ended was a total let-down.
90% of everything is crap. You've been watching the wrong 10%.
But, in more depth:
Anime has, in several instances, a lot more freedom than you see on American TV. The fact that it often will not pull punches when American TV does is what makes some of it more engaging.
Also, some anime attempts to make encapsulated storylines, while most all American TV attempts to make something which can run eternally. Possibly the best thing about anime is the 13 episode series. It is a different medium than I see in the US. In the US, you have Movies, TV, and Mini-Serieses. Mini-Serieses are somewhat the same, in that they allow more subplots than Movies but still have that encapsulated nature. However, they usually require that each segment fill a two-hour block.
Yeah, that's a good point. Last Exile, then.
I have seen the entire series. It is clean of anything. No nudity, very low violence. Easily on par with Cowboy Bebop as it was shown on Adult Swim.
The show is not about violence.
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex has no nudity and virtually no gore. Only about one in every two episodes have and violence whatsoever, and much of that is not displayed in detail. The show is not about violence.
There is some reason for that. Gunslinger Girl is extremely slow paced. Six eps in, it still only does backstory. It's very good, but kinda slow paced. Most Americans have very short attention spans. I assume that this is similar for the rest of the world as well, but I cannot be certain.
However, Ranma is pretty unlikely due to the excessive nudity. Of course, they can censor that stuff, but it's also kinda old.
Just my opinion, but Wolf's Rain really quite bad. The first season was impressive. It set up a lot of potential, and the second season was a total let-down. After four episodes of re-cap, they had weak character development and dumb plot-ideas. All-in-all, it's a bad show.
Witch Hunter Robin was good right up to the end. The very last episode was a little weak, but it was not bad. It was only worse than the previous episodes in that series.
Personally, I think the best serieses deserving a run right now are "Now and Then, Here and There" and "Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu", the first being one of the best all-around stories out there, and the second being just about the funniest thing ever.
How was this modded as informative? Was it intended to be? It just sounded sarcastic to me.
Honestly, none of the things he pointed to does anything about the bandwidth problem, as it all still comes from the server, which promptly dies, unless they've changed a lot since I last looked.
There are security vulnerabilities in mah-jong.
I must say, those folks at Debian really do there jobs. I personally can't stand using Debian, it just doesn't agree with me, but if I ever need a damn stable server, I'm glad there are people out there looking at the security of mah-jong.
You still miss the point that those menus are organized in ways which I would never use, and it is done automatically. With Windows, I pick where something does when I install it.
Every installer under Windows (unless you are installing some real weird shit) has an option to put shortcuts in X place in the menu, options for the quicklaunch bar and the desktop.
I can keep my menu how I want it, and I can almost guarantee that how I want it is not how you want it. With Linux, I have to install it, have it auto-placed, and then edit it using the incredibly cumbersome menu editor program. In windows, I just open the menu and treat them as normal objects, with drag-and-drop to move, right click for a menu with delete as an option, etc...
The even bigger problem is that it tries to set up file associations for me. Take this as an example: I use MPlayer to play all my videos. Damn, MPlayer bugs me with DVDs. I install Xine. Now Xine is associated with all video files, without me doing anything. Now I need to go back to the Mime-Type editor in KDE (which is very error-prone, by the way) and reset everything by hand.
Under Windows, the installer will show me a list of check-boxes for file types to associate with. I turn them off, and it causes no errors when I decide to install RealOne to play RM files and leave the rest with WinAmp. That's why the current state of things in Linux is so sad.
Note: I exclusively use Linux at home instead of Windows at home because the other errors in Windows piss me off much more. This is just one minor thing which tends to really bug me.
I was not aware Louisiana had finally raised their drinking age. Likewise, I thought Montana still had no speed limit. Sorry for the mistake.
The problem is that this results in menus that are completely useless and things in all sorts of random places. People think too differently. In case you hadn't noticed, no OS automagically adds things to the menu, the installers for programs do that.
What Linux needs is decent installation systems. You know, things with options, instead of the usual "Run the RPM and have it fuck up your file associations and menu layout" shit.
Yet somehow Louisiana still has a drinking age of 18 and several states have no speed limits.
"Those needing a kiosk solution I will recommend the linux-based FirecaseOS"
I've had several people ask me if I knew of any good Linux solutions for Kiosks, and I've had to tell them I don't, so this sounded like something to look into. However, I can't find anything about FirecaseOS with a cursory few searches online. Does FirecaseOS have a homepage, another name, anything I'm missing about it?
Nice limited view of reality there
OSS == Good && Proprietary == Bad ?
How about this:
Crap == Bad && Proprietary == Bad && OSS == Good && Reliable == Good && Polluting == Bad && ellipsis
Try to look at good/evil/right/wrong/good/bad/positive/negative in a slightly broad view. There is more to the world than OSS and the GPL.
To the contrary: People have every right to complain, but no right to legal action.
This is a very distinctive difference, because bad press and legal action are about equally harmful in the US.
Of course, the bad press might do nothing. However, it might do something.
Most people, like the poster, incorrectly assume that "begs the question" is the same as "asks the question," not "answers the question," which is still equally wrong.
I don't know, that paper clip was pretty damn innovative. I mean, who else would think to make something like that?
What happens when most people don't bother?
I mean, most people don't vote for president, or bother with much of anything else. How would they make this easy enough to do that it would be resilient to fraud and commonly done?