PE will not teach kids how to run, how to exercise or anything except this:
You must have gone to a suck-a** school.
When we were in grammar school, they taught us fun things like kickball, dodgeball, softball, basketball, and generally got us moving. Pretty much the only excersize I got at all.
In junior & senior high school, it got harder, but so what? Being a pudgy geek, it emotionally hurt, but now I'm glad they pushed me to do things I'd have never done on my own. Of course, they were Good People, and not sadistic assholes...
don't let them watch tv or use the computer. Kick their little butts outside and let them play, explore the world, use their imagination. Get them books, legos an erector set or anything let will let them build and use their imagination.
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And while you're at it, don't waste their precious time teaching them how to eat with a fork, dress themselves, or brush their teeth. We mustn't take away that important time for fucking around
That's about as logical as W trying to claim that an inheritance tax is a "death tax".
Why not think back to how you started and go from there?
Let him take a course in TRS-80 BASIC when he's a senior in high school?
And then drift away until he has to take a COBOL For Business Majors, and realilzes that even though mainframe COBOL-74 really, really sucks, that computer programming is his great passion?
Seriously, though, I think that putting so many computers in schools is a big waste of time, money and learning.
My children (most probably) won't have to go to a dead tree Encyclopedia Brittanica to do term paper research and thus have the opportnity (like I did) to find interesting articles while flipping thru the pages trying to find the proper article.
Try a text-adventure game, such as one of the classic Infocom games or one of the many text games that others have made since then. That will exercise the important skills of reading, typing, and the imagination, and will be pretty fun too.
Exactly. My son (now 7.5yo) has been playing xnethack (a GUIfied version of nethack) for about a year. Since he's studying Tae Kwon Do, he likes to play the monk character (based on Caine).
There's no sound, lots of reading, and it's turn based, so he can think about what to do, instead of having his attention span turned to mush.
These are terrorists, and need to go to Guantanimo. You can hit them with DMCA and Patriot act charges.
Pull your head out of Michael Moore's ass, stop jerking off to www.moveon.org, and give evidence that people violating the PATRIOT Act are being sent to Guantanamo.
I'll just presume that you tossed the DMCA reference because you were trying to be/. hip.
I spit in the general direction of "conciseness", and it's kinsman "cleverness".
To quote Kernighan:
Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.
I used to be a clever programmer, but then I graduated and got a Real Job, and had to read the code written by both Clever and Grown-up programmers. Guess which code was easier to modify, debug and add functionality to. Guess which code had less bugs.
A good (but not huge!) dose of verbosity and simplicity would go a long way towards making more robust applications.
Another relevant quote, by Jeff Polk, co-creator of CVS:
There's no obfuscated Perl contest because it's pointless.
They are buying 300,000 computers for $500 per school.
Never trust a Slashdot title.
TFA says:
Linspire offers its Linux-based OS to schools for an annual
licensing fee of $500 (with no per-unit installation costs) through its Education Program, according to the program Web site.
You can push a heck of a lot more data thru a half dozen 2Gbps HBAs thru Brocade switches, and onto SANs or "switch-attached tape drives", than you can thru a US$4000/month 155Mbps OC3 pipe.
And now that there are SANs (and "fiber NAS") that use SATA drives, it's easy to make a multi-layer backup strategy, where backups 1st go to cheap SAN/NAS and then to tape.
And every morning an Iron Mountain courier comes to get last night's tapes and bring back last month's tapes.
I think you have your factoids and your triploids mixed up. Any basic genome expert knows that the tetratroids are attached to the bi-fiber hemmeroid layer, resulting in at least a factor of three increase in the simuloid sequencing. If you keep that in mind then the triploid vs biploid all makes sense.
AC could hae given a very lucid correction, or blown smoke up our collective arses. And I'll never know the difference...
PoE or not they still have to isolate the circuit to protect it and what happens is the surge protector takes the hit.. and needs replaced.. guess what... not as easy as just plugging in the ol' tele...
and what do you think will power those access points? oh right POE
RTFA.
Enabling PoE requires network switches or routers that have been built to handle both data and power supply and these can be powered by a UPS.
So called 'midspan' devices from vendors like PowerDsine are about one tenth the cost of a traditional switch and can draw power from the mains and data from a switch or router and feed into a single Ethernet cable. Of course, they too need a UPS if power is to be maintained during an outage.
The port on the mainfraim can be configured to talk to a dumb terminal on a serial port.
connecting a all in one printer to the centronics port on the mainframe.
That's just it... Mainframes don't have ports. They have busses.
Modems get plugged into communications servers, and the communication server plugs into the mainframe. Then the mainframe communicates with the commserv using VTAM.
Terminals (EBCIDIC based 3278s) connect via FEPs (Front End Processors). These are like super-powerful terminal servers, since 327x terminals are block-mode instead of interactive.
I don't remember what printers plug into, but it's definitely not the mainframe. Nothing, except dedicated interface computers, plugs into a mainframe.
All these front ends are one of the reasons that relatively low power mainframes can support so many simultaneous users.
Heh. When I 1st used VMS, it was after being an MS-DOS user for a few years, and seperately, an MS-DOS & DOS/VSE progammer for a couple of years.
I thought I had died & gone to heaven! The interactivity of MS-DOS & the richness of the m/f all wrapped into one perfect package.
The most annoying things about VMS - to a UNIX geek - are
a) no 'cd' command -
SET DEF
b) apparent lack of relative paths
DIR [---.FOO.BAR.SNIVLE]SNAGGLE.BAZ Each "-" send you up one level, and ".", if you remember, is the subdirectory delimiter
c) system-wide date/time a la Windows,
Huh?
Unix was very strange to me, with it's cryptic commands and *ix could definitely learn a thing or 20 from the VMS command-line parser, like only having to type in a maximum of 4 characters for each command and option, even when it's a long command like DIRECTORY.
But bash & grep have grown on me and DCL is really showing it's age.
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Really?
Really. Of course, it was an expensive prep school, back when parents expected more for their money than a fancy diploma and a high GPA.
The kid's 6 years old and you're now thinking about letting him...
How did the aerospace engineers of the 1960s build the moon rockets without having grown up with NeoPets and god damned flash game sites?
You're right! It's impossible! This proves that the moon landings were faked, and that everything up until 1995 was an illusion.
But wait. How did people build the first computers, if they themselves hadn't grown up with computers?
PE will not teach kids how to run, how to exercise or anything except this:
You must have gone to a suck-a** school.
When we were in grammar school, they taught us fun things like kickball, dodgeball, softball, basketball, and generally got us moving. Pretty much the only excersize I got at all.
In junior & senior high school, it got harder, but so what? Being a pudgy geek, it emotionally hurt, but now I'm glad they pushed me to do things I'd have never done on my own. Of course, they were Good People, and not sadistic assholes...
That's about as logical as W trying to claim that an inheritance tax is a "death tax".
Why not think back to how you started and go from there?
Let him take a course in TRS-80 BASIC when he's a senior in high school?
And then drift away until he has to take a COBOL For Business Majors, and realilzes that even though mainframe COBOL-74 really, really sucks, that computer programming is his great passion?
Seriously, though, I think that putting so many computers in schools is a big waste of time, money and learning.
My children (most probably) won't have to go to a dead tree Encyclopedia Brittanica to do term paper research and thus have the opportnity (like I did) to find interesting articles while flipping thru the pages trying to find the proper article.
stfu fascist
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Wow, that's the most cogent response I've ever read on
Too bad you're a chicken sh*t AC.
Try a text-adventure game, such as one of the classic Infocom games or one of the many text games that others have made since then. That will exercise the important skills of reading, typing, and the imagination, and will be pretty fun too.
Exactly. My son (now 7.5yo) has been playing xnethack (a GUIfied version of nethack) for about a year. Since he's studying Tae Kwon Do, he likes to play the monk character (based on Caine).
There's no sound, lots of reading, and it's turn based, so he can think about what to do, instead of having his attention span turned to mush.
These are terrorists, and need to go to Guantanimo. You can hit them with DMCA and Patriot act charges.
/. hip.
Pull your head out of Michael Moore's ass, stop jerking off to www.moveon.org, and give evidence that people violating the PATRIOT Act are being sent to Guantanamo.
I'll just presume that you tossed the DMCA reference because you were trying to be
hit by a drunk bastard in a 1/4 ton pickup at 60 mph and lived to type this message
The way you wrote it, the drunk bastard was in the 1/4 ton pickup. Is that accurate, or did you mean that you were in the 1/4 ton pickup?
At an "unfinished furniture" store, we (wife & I) found a coffee table where the "upper flat part" of the table is on spring-loaded hinges.
Thus, if you are sitting at the edge of the sofa, you lift up the top of the table, and it pivots up to you.
Very handy.
seriously though, ive heard the damage is only done by heavy use of GOTOs
Hogwash. Every programmer uses GOTO every time he/she programs.
Each looping construct is an IF, a label & a GOTO.
While I dearly love do.while, while..do, for, loop..until, etc, some (ancient but still used) languages don't have them.
The key, as with all programming, is mental discipline..
I spit in the general direction of "conciseness", and it's kinsman "cleverness".
To quote Kernighan:
I used to be a clever programmer, but then I graduated and got a Real Job, and had to read the code written by both Clever and Grown-up programmers. Guess which code was easier to modify, debug and add functionality to. Guess which code had less bugs.
A good (but not huge!) dose of verbosity and simplicity would go a long way towards making more robust applications.
Another relevant quote, by Jeff Polk, co-creator of CVS:
Never trust a Slashdot title.
TFA says:
Wintergreen Systems is selling them the hardware.
The internet was never made for storage.
So true.
You can push a heck of a lot more data thru a half dozen 2Gbps HBAs thru Brocade switches, and onto SANs or "switch-attached tape drives", than you can thru a US$4000/month 155Mbps OC3 pipe.
And now that there are SANs (and "fiber NAS") that use SATA drives, it's easy to make a multi-layer backup strategy, where backups 1st go to cheap SAN/NAS and then to tape.
And every morning an Iron Mountain courier comes to get last night's tapes and bring back last month's tapes.
There's a reason tape is still King in the enterprise.
http://www.stortek.com/products/product_page2283.h tml
Get it with 8 LTO3 drives and 60 slots. Add more later, if needed.
Using parallel backups, it'll slam out that 3TB in no time.
I think you have your factoids and your triploids mixed up. Any basic genome expert knows that the tetratroids are attached to the bi-fiber hemmeroid layer, resulting in at least a factor of three increase in the simuloid sequencing. If you keep that in mind then the triploid vs biploid all makes sense.
AC could hae given a very lucid correction, or blown smoke up our collective arses. And I'll never know the difference...
You can't resolve something that's barely 4 meters from a terrestrial telescope with current technology.
So use an extraterrestrial telescope.
whose neuronal pathways have pretty much hardened in 'Windows mode'. Thankfully, there is, and will only ever be, one generation of these guys.
Hmmm, don't bet on it.
As much as I "love" Linux/GNOME/FF/blah, Windows is going to stay the dominant desktop OS for 1 reason:
DMCA
PoE or not they still have to isolate the circuit to protect it and what happens is the surge protector takes the hit.. and needs replaced.. guess what... not as easy as just plugging in the ol' tele...
One acronym: UPS.
Even in the home, they work like a champ.
and what do you think will power those access points? oh right POE
RTFA.
Enabling PoE requires network switches or routers that have been built to handle both data and power supply and these can be powered by a UPS.
So called 'midspan' devices from vendors like PowerDsine are about one tenth the cost of a traditional switch and can draw power from the mains and data from a switch or router and feed into a single Ethernet cable. Of course, they too need a UPS if power is to be maintained during an outage.
I've had a wireless phone for years, never a single problem during a blackout, it works fine.
By wireless, do you mean cell phones or cordless phones?
Cordless phones definitely "die" during a blackout.
UNIX has per-user date/time, derived from the system clock combined with the per-user TZ environment variable
:-)
oh, ok.
Shell aliases and tab completion have been around for many years now.
"shell alias" is one usage of VMS "symbols".
The command parser is a completely different kettle of fish.
That's just it... Mainframes don't have ports. They have busses.
Modems get plugged into communications servers, and the communication server plugs into the mainframe. Then the mainframe communicates with the commserv using VTAM.
Terminals (EBCIDIC based 3278s) connect via FEPs (Front End Processors). These are like super-powerful terminal servers, since 327x terminals are block-mode instead of interactive.
I don't remember what printers plug into, but it's definitely not the mainframe. Nothing, except dedicated interface computers, plugs into a mainframe.
All these front ends are one of the reasons that relatively low power mainframes can support so many simultaneous users.
Heh. When I 1st used VMS, it was after being an MS-DOS user for a few years, and seperately, an MS-DOS & DOS/VSE progammer for a couple of years.
I thought I had died & gone to heaven! The interactivity of MS-DOS & the richness of the m/f all wrapped into one perfect package.
The most annoying things about VMS - to a UNIX geek - are
Unix was very strange to me, with it's cryptic commands and *ix could definitely learn a thing or 20 from the VMS command-line parser, like only having to type in a maximum of 4 characters for each command and option, even when it's a long command like DIRECTORY.
But bash & grep have grown on me and DCL is really showing it's age.