"If you release you code under the GPL, there is nothing to stop you (as the copyright holder) from re-releasing the code under a more commercial license if your open source project is popular or you find a market for it. "
except im guesing he it would be on sourceforge so people could help develope, except they own the copyrights on the bits of code that they wrote. You can still sell the software, you just have to provide the source.
this business model works well with customers that dont know what compile means.
While for the most part I think this is not the time due to our current budget problems, I would have to say that TECHNICALLY... one could make the argument that the investment in space technologies now will lead to eventual space mining endevors, bringing back ores much more useful than gold.
I would say that the best investment would be in the moon and the moon only. Because once you have a functioning moon base it becomes your cheap gateway to the solar system.
"And that, of course, is assuming that the CPU is fully loaded the entire year. If you aren't using 100% CPU power then the CPU will reduce its power draw -- not massively (these aren't laptop CPUs), but somewhat."
Actually, with AMD's "cool and quiet" the athlon 64's act much like laptop processors, they will underclock themselves down to 800 MHz when not in use, and once the load is at 100% the processor scales up the clock until its not 100%.
This is assuming that you have a motherboard that supports it, and according to Toms Hardware, there are only a few that give it good support.
So actually the power savings are pretty big with AMD 64, so the grandparent is even more wrong lol.
I don't think the which ones are messed up, or what do they mean are important here.
The firs problem is to figure out if something looks strange in the file, and would warrant further review by people and/or machines.
If they can figure out that something was hidden and sent out from a USAF computer they at least know they cant trust anyone using that computer, even if they don't know what was hidden.
It raises the likelihood of consequences for DOD personnel who leak info using such technology.
Sorry but I am responding to both your posts, dont hate me. I am complaining both about your non link urls and Slahdot's inability to convert them to links...
If you are going to post urls, you might as well put the link tags in there...
BUT! why doesn't slashdot auto convert URLs to links?? Come on, forum software, even the really crappy ones, have had that feature for ages.
I figured that the act of computation requires energy, and the heat given off is just a side effect of our inefficient means of performing computation....
Isnt there work being done than giving off heat???
we probably use a good amount of it, I have never seen the connection speed bog down, there have been technical problems where service sucked for a day because of maintenance, and when it was up you would get like dial up speeds
However their use policy is sooo out dated. They have all these restrictions on running "servers". Even if it s just apersonal website, you cant do it, and they say this because it will use too much bandwidth, when clearly the p2p apps are the ones that suck up the bandwidth.
I have always run my webserver on port 8080 and they never noticed. But a friend of mine ran his on 80 and within days they canceld his service, he had to call to get it reinstated.
Outdated policy if you ask me... and selectivly enforced.
Meaning he is the richest guy that uses his money to make more money in a business.
There are some royalty in the mid-east and asia that technically have more money, but they don't do anything with it except maybe an investment portfolio.
Thats how I heard it, Forbes only lists businessmen in their listing of ## richest people articles...
I would get a 20 dollar check every month just for running that ad banner thing at night.
I cant believe there are any of those paid to surf companies still around.
Anyone who uses them are the people that can break the rules, or they are just the massive pyramid scheemer guys that host websites for the sole purpose of refering people to such site so they get x percentages of whatever their referers do.
Well I remember reading some where that one of the strategies is to take lower denominations like 1's and 5's and soak them in a chemical or it might just be water... that removes the ink
Then you scan in a 20 at a high res and use some of the higher res printers, still retail ones though, inkjets have gotten pretty good. And then you print the 20 on the paper of a 1 dollar bill.
The only think that would recognize it is a soda machine or similar...
This probably doesn't work with the new bills that are coming out like the new 20, at least I hope they don't work.
Does counterfeiting money cause inflation or deflation? I'm not sure, I wonder how much of an effect it has on the value of the dollar. or any currency for that matter.
This would put a stop to all of the filtering programs and shit.
Sure you would get joe smoe posting his nudies on his personal? site but statistically there is a very small chance any child would see that.
The porn industry should take it upon itself to lobby for this as it would make it easy for people to find porn, and all the names that are taken up by.com.gov.net or . org that would make good porn site names would get there.sex domain.
But alas any step to bring porn into legitimacy are always hated like by giving them.sex we are finally saying porn exists and its not the evil incarnate we said it was... whatever.sex is a good solution to many horrible problems!
but i dont see anything wrong with them, and they should be official and not hidden in vague terminology of addmisions procedures.
shhhh! but they dont REALLY have "quotas" right??
haha
you know there are internal quotas and if they arent met they do everything they possibly can to get there.
I actually dont mind addmission quotas all that much, its the financial aid based on race that makes no sense! its not racial aide its financial aid! and should only be based on your financial status.
Financial aide = grants, loans, scholarships, work study, anything else i mean anything. It should all be based on money nothing else.
The goal of the world is to bring people out of financial trouble by helping them get an education, not trying to get people out of racial trouble whther it exists or not. The free market makes race a non issue, a resteraunt not allowing blacks to eat just lost 15-35% of its revenue. Markets work.
The reason a quota system wouldnt be terrible is this
If all state schools had to enrol a within 5% of their respective states' racial, gender, and/or religous statistics. Then if you couldnt enroll in your first choice school because of quotas, eventually you would find a school that you could enroll in.
Atleast you would be enrolled, now you have to find the money to pay for your schooling and room and board. This would be easy under a financial based financial aid system.
Even with quotas you can find a school to accept you no matter what your catagory, and under my system the money dispersment would be given to those than need it. Not those that get it because they are belonging to a certain category. And they should only get as much as they NEED. not a penny more.
quotas stop some peopel from getitng into their college of choice or the "best college" but eventually when that hurts enough people, the other colleges will quickly become "better" because of more qualified students. so the system of quotas would even out education quality among unversities way faster than affirmative action will ever be able to truly raise the educational quality given to "minorities" and has an even better goal.
Im white/m/Texas/Catholic/60k a year parents(total)/ 1 of 3 kids...
I would almost rather make it illegal to do grants and scholarships. Though the first amendment would probably come into play here...
And instead set up a system when people can still choose who they give money to (for instance maybe they could be allowed to say only hispanic student, but it would still have to meet the required income levels, if this ends up having money left over, this would show that the current system is a terrible form of racism, because it would show that if you based on financials which is the real problem with college not race.... but it must be in the form of a loan. It can have a jack squat interest rate or even 0 interest.
This way everyone truly would have equal oppertunity And these loans would preferably only be able to be given out on a realistic financial basis.
This would stop all the free loading based on whatever and would teach everyone how loans work.
Also with money being given back eventually the endowment type grants would begin to baloon! the system would be able to help WAY more people this way,
And wouldn't discriminate against anything except your financial ability to pay, your grades,
And your work load, 12 hour students are killing the University of Texas with administrative costs because people take so horendously long to graduate (one of the longest avg graduation times in the nation, if not the longest).
I dont get how the people who get federal grants to universities and end up making the same amount of money as the people who paid throuh other means arent forced to pay back their money.
Then college would bea true investment. and noe a freeloading system that hurts itself...
Can some one criticize this, its a rough one off post but would it work?
im tired... and now im angry...yeah im on loans all the way my parents added together make about 60k dollars per year, I was the number 2 student in my class of 450 (a blue ribbon high school if that means anything) and i didnt get a single scholarship...
I realize MANY people's families make less than my family, but my system would only help them more so maybe i am just a whiner but im whinign for myself and those less fortunate.
"Games... I believe most gamers run closed-source code, so be careful. x86-64 will run faster, but you might have a hard time getting the software"
Actually game developers have been some of the biggest proponents of the 64 bit DESKTOP(more specifically the one designed by AMD).
I dont remember the quote anyore or who said it, so I dont expect you to entirely believe me. LOL I have good Karma so maybe that makes me more reliable? LOL But it went something like this, "We run into this certain 32 bit limitation everyday in our game developement process, and so we have to do some crazy work arounds. If we could write our code the way we need to the games would be MUCH faster"
So yeah thats like heresay...after amnesia but you will have to take my word for it, the games companies loves x86-64. But like others have said it probably has more to do with the increase in registers and not the 64 bit address space. But if you are going to make a jump, might ass well be a big one, right?
Kudlow and Cramer on CNBC have been hoping that google would be the first to do a true free market auction style IPO.
Its sad they didnt go for it. It could have all been done online, there owuld be no need to have some company oversee the IPO, computers would have done a better job and cheaper too.
Who will we find to take the risk of a non traditional IPO other than google???
Well as far as I know the hope is that once we perfect the production of carbon nanotubes. (Which is a long ways off) we will be able to build a surprisingly thin wire to space, with awesome tensile strength.
You then use technology similar to maglev trains to lift your payload into orbit, I haven't heard anything about counterweight like a traditional elevator like some other posters have mentions...
That is my very loose grasp on the subject, don't worry about not knowing much, even the space elevator proponents don't know all the much for sure it's a lot of hopes that are really promising and I hope to see them come true but only time will tell.
I'm guessing a little googling would bring you more information than my post, but you will probably find yourself reading the same stuff over and over again. A lot of abstract, what if kind stuff. Probably pretty hard to find the serious academic papers on the subject.
I have some Asian friends and it doesn't matter if they are male or female. They are almost all pushed to work hard and their parents lead by example.
My room mate's mother and father came over from Korea poor as shit.
They live in a 1.5 million dollar house now.
How did they do it? They fucking worked their asses off like no tomorrow.
His mom owns a store and cash checking business. She works a 12 hour shift and his dad works the other 12 hours. They are RICH but they still run the story, even though they could easily toss all their money into stocks and be set for life.
Asians work harder because their culture encourages it, where as American culture encourages people to be lazy as fuck.
Some times I think that Asian parent are too hard on their kids and they should sacrifice some test scores for some stress relief for their kids.
BUT you can't argue with the results.
I am a very NON PC (not talking about computers) person. I make racial jokes all the time and if some one gets offended they a go fuck themselves. People who get offended are weak; they have been taught that certain things are offensive so they go with the flow.
And on the issue of Asians being less sexist, you are WAY wrong.
The grand parents on the father's side of the above family came to visit form Korea, my room mates had to act like their dad was big and macho and wore the pant in the family for 2 weeks.
But in reality his mother makes all the decisions. And as a result I've noticed that it has hurt my room mate in many ways that are just now becoming apparent. He is extremely passive in relationships. And I'm not talking about just being too nice, a girl could ask him to fuck him and he would say "uh, what are you trying to say? I think you want to have sex with me but I'm not sure"
He over analyzes everything he says and thinks there is connotation to everything (like most women) to the point where he wont speak his mind at all. Unless he gets mad then everything comes out, it's really unhealthy, and it's because he had no true father figure in the household growing up.
Now physically he is pretty manly, he isn't ripped but he's pretty strong and he doesn't even really work out.
But mentally he is way too feminine.
He made Eagle Scout, and his dad didn't even fucking go to the ceremony because he was working the store.
Stereo types are just that, stereo types but they get there for a reason. They aren't invented (for the most part though). The Asian stereotype is that your family is rich your parents work their kids asses off and they work their asses off. Also strict discipline, and because of these they are "smart" really just more educated...through hard work in school.
Of course there are exceptions, I know a couple lazy fat Asians that are dumb as fuck, but they were still in the AP classes in HS, they could make C's with out trying so they just didn't try. If they worked hard they would have made A's.
I was a grade Nazi in HS I was always "smart" so I didn't study much. And my parents expect nothing better than a C, though I would get scolded for sure, I still made sure I made A's in almost all my classes, the only class I ever had trouble with was English, I would always make Low B's in English. As such, please don't kill me for bad writing, though I did grammar and spell check it.
Now in college I am not a grade Nazi, I don't see the point in pushing myself so hard so I am fine with making B's of course I still try to do my best and get A's cus I know I can, but the difficulty of college classes can require much more study time than I am used to and therefore one of my grades was a B this semester but I'm not sweating it. I don't plan to go to graduate school so I don't need a perfect 4.0.
I don't know what my point was or if there even was one, I am just telling some anecdotal stories that I have experienced.
While to you or me the differences between Hinduism and Islam should be pretty much common knowledge, unfortunately it is not.
Perhaps some people will learn something from my post. It annoys me a lot ever since 911 when I hear people talk about "the Indian guy at the corner store" and call him a "fucking Arab" or "sand nigger" or what not.
Not that those would be appropriate things to call some one who actually was an Arab/Muslim but most of the people in the US think that everything below Russia, to the east of Africa and the west of China is an entirely Islamic zone, and it is most definitely not...
If anyone is wondering, I'm a white Catholic, so it's not like learned this stuff in some religious place. It's called pay attention in school, read/listen/watch the news.
Please people; try not to be so ignorant! It makes everyone in the USA look bad.
Ever since we got multiple computers and I taught my mom how to use aim, when dinner is ready I will get an IM instead of her screaming at the top of her lungs, much more civilized.
Not so much anymore since I live in an apartment at college but it has resumed now that I am home for the holidays.
Also getting mom and Dad used ot talkign to me on AIM has caused them to pickup more and more computer skills and experience and they nw chat with family and friends online, as well as myself when im at college.
If its important I will still get a call on my cell phone but if its your avg. "how was your day?" I get an IM, I like it that way.
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Isn't that nearly impossible?
Modems use analog. Cell phones are digital.
You can't run a normal modem through any type of cell phone adapter as far as I know.
"If you release you code under the GPL, there is nothing to stop you (as the copyright holder) from re-releasing the code under a more commercial license if your open source project is popular or you find a market for it. "
except im guesing he it would be on sourceforge so people could help develope, except they own the copyrights on the bits of code that they wrote. You can still sell the software, you just have to provide the source.
this business model works well with customers that dont know what compile means.
While for the most part I think this is not the time due to our current budget problems, I would have to say that TECHNICALLY... one could make the argument that the investment in space technologies now will lead to eventual space mining endevors, bringing back ores much more useful than gold.
I would say that the best investment would be in the moon and the moon only. Because once you have a functioning moon base it becomes your cheap gateway to the solar system.
Actually, with AMD's "cool and quiet" the athlon 64's act much like laptop processors, they will underclock themselves down to 800 MHz when not in use, and once the load is at 100% the processor scales up the clock until its not 100%.
This is assuming that you have a motherboard that supports it, and according to Toms Hardware, there are only a few that give it good support.
So actually the power savings are pretty big with AMD 64, so the grandparent is even more wrong lol.
I don't think the which ones are messed up, or what do they mean are important here.
The firs problem is to figure out if something looks strange in the file, and would warrant further review by people and/or machines.
If they can figure out that something was hidden and sent out from a USAF computer they at least know they cant trust anyone using that computer, even if they don't know what was hidden.
It raises the likelihood of consequences for DOD personnel who leak info using such technology.
Why doesn't slashdot auto convert URLs to links?? Come on, forum software, even the really crappy ones, have had that feature for ages.
Sorry but I am responding to both your posts, dont hate me. I am complaining both about your non link urls and Slahdot's inability to convert them to links...
If you are going to post urls, you might as well put the link tags in there...
BUT! why doesn't slashdot auto convert URLs to links?? Come on, forum software, even the really crappy ones, have had that feature for ages.
I figured that the act of computation requires energy, and the heat given off is just a side effect of our inefficient means of performing computation....
Isnt there work being done than giving off heat???
Is that dissipated heat?
If so, ouch! that system is gonna need a huge heat sink or water cooling will be needed.
I would loves to see standardized water cooling parts for computers.
That way all you would need to do is buy the hosess and your favorite pump.
I have road runner in Austin and San Antonio.
2-3 Mbits/s down 368 kbit/s up
we probably use a good amount of it, I have never seen the connection speed bog down, there have been technical problems where service sucked for a day because of maintenance, and when it was up you would get like dial up speeds
However their use policy is sooo out dated. They have all these restrictions on running "servers". Even if it s just apersonal website, you cant do it, and they say this because it will use too much bandwidth, when clearly the p2p apps are the ones that suck up the bandwidth.
I have always run my webserver on port 8080 and they never noticed. But a friend of mine ran his on 80 and within days they canceld his service, he had to call to get it reinstated.
Outdated policy if you ask me... and selectivly enforced.
I thought Film Gimp/Cinepaint was for video: Gimp is to PhotoShop as CinePaint is to Premiere
I dont actually know this I just thought thats what the old name implied.... Maybe thats why they changed the name, I dunno...
I'm guessing I got that wrong...
Bill Gates is the richest working man.
Meaning he is the richest guy that uses his money to make more money in a business.
There are some royalty in the mid-east and asia that technically have more money, but they don't do anything with it except maybe an investment portfolio.
Thats how I heard it, Forbes only lists businessmen in their listing of ## richest people articles...
Oh how I use to love that site lol...
I would get a 20 dollar check every month just for running that ad banner thing at night.
I cant believe there are any of those paid to surf companies still around.
Anyone who uses them are the people that can break the rules, or they are just the massive pyramid scheemer guys that host websites for the sole purpose of refering people to such site so they get x percentages of whatever their referers do.
Well I remember reading some where that one of the strategies is to take lower denominations like 1's and 5's and soak them in a chemical or it might just be water... that removes the ink
Then you scan in a 20 at a high res and use some of the higher res printers, still retail ones though, inkjets have gotten pretty good. And then you print the 20 on the paper of a 1 dollar bill.
The only think that would recognize it is a soda machine or similar...
This probably doesn't work with the new bills that are coming out like the new 20, at least I hope they don't work.
Does counterfeiting money cause inflation or deflation? I'm not sure, I wonder how much of an effect it has on the value of the dollar. or any currency for that matter.
MY GOD WHY HAS THIS NOT BEEN DONE????
.com .gov .net or . org that would make good porn site names would get there .sex domain.
.sex we are finally saying porn exists and its not the evil incarnate we said it was... whatever .sex is a good solution to many horrible problems!
This would put a stop to all of the filtering programs and shit.
Sure you would get joe smoe posting his nudies on his personal? site but statistically there is a very small chance any child would see that.
The porn industry should take it upon itself to lobby for this as it would make it easy for people to find porn, and all the names that are taken up by
But alas any step to bring porn into legitimacy are always hated like by giving them
Show some proof please
but i dont see anything wrong with them, and they should be official and not hidden in vague terminology of addmisions procedures.
shhhh! but they dont REALLY have "quotas" right??
haha
you know there are internal quotas and if they arent met they do everything they possibly can to get there.
I actually dont mind addmission quotas all that much, its the financial aid based on race that makes no sense! its not racial aide its financial aid! and should only be based on your financial status.
Financial aide = grants, loans, scholarships, work study, anything else i mean anything. It should all be based on money nothing else.
The goal of the world is to bring people out of financial trouble by helping them get an education, not trying to get people out of racial trouble whther it exists or not. The free market makes race a non issue, a resteraunt not allowing blacks to eat just lost 15-35% of its revenue. Markets work.
The reason a quota system wouldnt be terrible is this
If all state schools had to enrol a within 5% of their respective states' racial, gender, and/or religous statistics. Then if you couldnt enroll in your first choice school because of quotas, eventually you would find a school that you could enroll in.
Atleast you would be enrolled, now you have to find the money to pay for your schooling and room and board. This would be easy under a financial based financial aid system.
Even with quotas you can find a school to accept you no matter what your catagory, and under my system the money dispersment would be given to those than need it. Not those that get it because they are belonging to a certain category. And they should only get as much as they NEED. not a penny more.
quotas stop some peopel from getitng into their college of choice or the "best college" but eventually when that hurts enough people, the other colleges will quickly become "better" because of more qualified students. so the system of quotas would even out education quality among unversities way faster than affirmative action will ever be able to truly raise the educational quality given to "minorities" and has an even better goal.
Im white/m/Texas/Catholic/60k a year parents(total)/ 1 of 3 kids...
Did i forget to disclaim anything?
it annoys me too...
I would almost rather make it illegal to do grants and scholarships. Though the first amendment would probably come into play here...
And instead set up a system when people can still choose who they give money to (for instance maybe they could be allowed to say only hispanic student, but it would still have to meet the required income levels, if this ends up having money left over, this would show that the current system is a terrible form of racism, because it would show that if you based on financials which is the real problem with college not race.... but it must be in the form of a loan. It can have a jack squat interest rate or even 0 interest.
This way everyone truly would have equal oppertunity And these loans would preferably only be able to be given out on a realistic financial basis.
This would stop all the free loading based on whatever and would teach everyone how loans work.
Also with money being given back eventually the endowment type grants would begin to baloon! the system would be able to help WAY more people this way,
And wouldn't discriminate against anything except your financial ability to pay, your grades,
And your work load, 12 hour students are killing the University of Texas with administrative costs because people take so horendously long to graduate (one of the longest avg graduation times in the nation, if not the longest).
I dont get how the people who get federal grants to universities and end up making the same amount of money as the people who paid throuh other means arent forced to pay back their money.
Then college would bea true investment. and noe a freeloading system that hurts itself...
Can some one criticize this, its a rough one off post but would it work?
im tired... and now im angry...yeah im on loans all the way my parents added together make about 60k dollars per year, I was the number 2 student in my class of 450 (a blue ribbon high school if that means anything) and i didnt get a single scholarship...
I realize MANY people's families make less than my family, but my system would only help them more so maybe i am just a whiner but im whinign for myself and those less fortunate.
Actually game developers have been some of the biggest proponents of the 64 bit DESKTOP(more specifically the one designed by AMD).
I dont remember the quote anyore or who said it, so I dont expect you to entirely believe me. LOL I have good Karma so maybe that makes me more reliable? LOL But it went something like this, "We run into this certain 32 bit limitation everyday in our game developement process, and so we have to do some crazy work arounds. If we could write our code the way we need to the games would be MUCH faster"
So yeah thats like heresay...after amnesia but you will have to take my word for it, the games companies loves x86-64. But like others have said it probably has more to do with the increase in registers and not the 64 bit address space. But if you are going to make a jump, might ass well be a big one, right?
Kudlow and Cramer on CNBC have been hoping that google would be the first to do a true free market auction style IPO.
Its sad they didnt go for it. It could have all been done online, there owuld be no need to have some company oversee the IPO, computers would have done a better job and cheaper too.
Who will we find to take the risk of a non traditional IPO other than google???
Well as far as I know the hope is that once we perfect the production of carbon nanotubes. (Which is a long ways off) we will be able to build a surprisingly thin wire to space, with awesome tensile strength.
You then use technology similar to maglev trains to lift your payload into orbit, I haven't heard anything about counterweight like a traditional elevator like some other posters have mentions...
That is my very loose grasp on the subject, don't worry about not knowing much, even the space elevator proponents don't know all the much for sure it's a lot of hopes that are really promising and I hope to see them come true but only time will tell.
I'm guessing a little googling would bring you more information than my post, but you will probably find yourself reading the same stuff over and over again. A lot of abstract, what if kind stuff. Probably pretty hard to find the serious academic papers on the subject.
I have some Asian friends and it doesn't matter if they are male or female. They are almost all pushed to work hard and their parents lead by example.
My room mate's mother and father came over from Korea poor as shit.
They live in a 1.5 million dollar house now.
How did they do it? They fucking worked their asses off like no tomorrow.
His mom owns a store and cash checking business. She works a 12 hour shift and his dad works the other 12 hours. They are RICH but they still run the story, even though they could easily toss all their money into stocks and be set for life.
Asians work harder because their culture encourages it, where as American culture encourages people to be lazy as fuck.
Some times I think that Asian parent are too hard on their kids and they should sacrifice some test scores for some stress relief for their kids.
BUT you can't argue with the results.
I am a very NON PC (not talking about computers) person. I make racial jokes all the time and if some one gets offended they a go fuck themselves. People who get offended are weak; they have been taught that certain things are offensive so they go with the flow.
And on the issue of Asians being less sexist, you are WAY wrong.
The grand parents on the father's side of the above family came to visit form Korea, my room mates had to act like their dad was big and macho and wore the pant in the family for 2 weeks.
But in reality his mother makes all the decisions. And as a result I've noticed that it has hurt my room mate in many ways that are just now becoming apparent. He is extremely passive in relationships. And I'm not talking about just being too nice, a girl could ask him to fuck him and he would say "uh, what are you trying to say? I think you want to have sex with me but I'm not sure"
He over analyzes everything he says and thinks there is connotation to everything (like most women) to the point where he wont speak his mind at all. Unless he gets mad then everything comes out, it's really unhealthy, and it's because he had no true father figure in the household growing up.
Now physically he is pretty manly, he isn't ripped but he's pretty strong and he doesn't even really work out.
But mentally he is way too feminine.
He made Eagle Scout, and his dad didn't even fucking go to the ceremony because he was working the store.
Stereo types are just that, stereo types but they get there for a reason. They aren't invented (for the most part though). The Asian stereotype is that your family is rich your parents work their kids asses off and they work their asses off. Also strict discipline, and because of these they are "smart" really just more educated...through hard work in school.
Of course there are exceptions, I know a couple lazy fat Asians that are dumb as fuck, but they were still in the AP classes in HS, they could make C's with out trying so they just didn't try. If they worked hard they would have made A's.
I was a grade Nazi in HS I was always "smart" so I didn't study much. And my parents expect nothing better than a C, though I would get scolded for sure, I still made sure I made A's in almost all my classes, the only class I ever had trouble with was English, I would always make Low B's in English. As such, please don't kill me for bad writing, though I did grammar and spell check it.
Now in college I am not a grade Nazi, I don't see the point in pushing myself so hard so I am fine with making B's of course I still try to do my best and get A's cus I know I can, but the difficulty of college classes can require much more study time than I am used to and therefore one of my grades was a B this semester but I'm not sweating it. I don't plan to go to graduate school so I don't need a perfect 4.0.
I don't know what my point was or if there even was one, I am just telling some anecdotal stories that I have experienced.
Some main points:
Asians work hard
Asians are just as
You do realize if all those idiots didn't have and want computers, you woudln't have one today either and Linux would have never been written.
If only the tech elite were allowed to use computers then it would have never been financially viable to sell personal computers.
While to you or me the differences between Hinduism and Islam should be pretty much common knowledge, unfortunately it is not.
Perhaps some people will learn something from my post. It annoys me a lot ever since 911 when I hear people talk about "the Indian guy at the corner store" and call him a "fucking Arab" or "sand nigger" or what not.
Not that those would be appropriate things to call some one who actually was an Arab/Muslim but most of the people in the US think that everything below Russia, to the east of Africa and the west of China is an entirely Islamic zone, and it is most definitely not...
If anyone is wondering, I'm a white Catholic, so it's not like learned this stuff in some religious place. It's called pay attention in school, read/listen/watch the news.
Please people; try not to be so ignorant! It makes everyone in the USA look bad.
Ever since we got multiple computers and I taught my mom how to use aim, when dinner is ready I will get an IM instead of her screaming at the top of her lungs, much more civilized.
Not so much anymore since I live in an apartment at college but it has resumed now that I am home for the holidays.
Also getting mom and Dad used ot talkign to me on AIM has caused them to pickup more and more computer skills and experience and they nw chat with family and friends online, as well as myself when im at college.
If its important I will still get a call on my cell phone but if its your avg. "how was your day?" I get an IM, I like it that way.