The most important thing to have is a really big computer room with lots of air-conditioning vents and outlets everywhere. Maybe a squareish room with low counters along all the walls, with appropriately-placed power and CAT-5 access. If you have this, its okay for the rest of the house to be Stone Age-style:-)
Online applications may be convenient if you are running from computer to computer all the time, but if you can't get internet access or don't want to dial up just to read an old email, they aren't that great. Thank god for offline newsreaders.
Funny, I just read the story to which you are referring; I would post the name but I just returned the book and already forgot the title. It may have been "The Wind From The Sun".
The very first thing I thought of when I saw this story was "Hey, just like that story I just read":-)
Whatever it is...for some reason, nothing came along to take these guys' places. What bands to day CAN sell out large stadium shows consistantly? This stuff is being played because there IS a market for it. They cannot force anything down your throat. I'm frankly surprised how popular older groups like Zeppelin, Stones and AC/DC are with younger kids today. I mean, the fact that the Zeppelin DVD was one of the largest selling music videos is amazing. I'm starting to take guitar lessons myself...and I hear young kids in there...10-15 years old, learning Zeppelin riffs. Why is that? I'd say it is because it is just GOOD music...but, then, I'm a little prejudiced on this
I totally agree. I'm 17, and in my opinion Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, Queen, Pink Floyd, etc. are the only music worth listening to. Frankly, 98% of modern music SUCKS. The reason those old songs are still popular is that the music and lyrics are excellent, unlike the crap tunes and crap lyrics of today. Modern music seems to consist of about 5 measures looped over and over with some simplistic/whiny/plain stupid lyrics grunted/groaned over it.
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Funny how the only UNIX that anyone thinks is stylish is MacOS X - and how MacOS X has buttons that are even rounder and jucier than anything Microsoft or KDE have dreamt of drawing.
Actually, I really like the way FVWM and some of the other WM's look; somehow FVWM is indescribably cool. So not everybody thinks OS X is the only stylish UNIX.
At the risk of being offensive, I'm going to ask: Do you really want the Mormons, or any other religious organization, to colonize Mars? All is fine and dandy until they claim the planet as their own and force everyone visiting to convert:-)
I don't know who I'd trust to start a colony, maybe a really trustworthy organization or company.
That's nothing. I had a motherboard die when the barrel of a cap actually BLEW OFF the board... I came home from a trip to find the little metal bit on the bottom of the case and long strands of paper spiraling from the board.
Whites have the privilege of being colorblind because they only rarely have to take into account the possibility that the people whom they have to deal with in their day-to-day existence may be prejudiced against them because of their race.
Allow me to politely interject here: bull. I am white and live in a predominately (70+ percent) Hispanic-populated area (in Washington, U.S.). The number of dirty looks, comments (in Spanish, but I can understand a few, and they aren't polite), and downright uncooperativeness (is that a word?) I receive are at least equal to those of, say, a black man in a predominately white neighborhood. Things work both ways; don't make so many assumptions.
Yeah, make a dexterity check. Since this is an improvised weapon, take a minus 4. You rolled an 18, that is good enough to hit him... he takes 2 points damage.
Really, it isn't worth it. Just get a bunch of old desktop machines from your school and make a cluster. I did that for free, instead of blowing over a thousand bucks on it. It taught me a lot about Linux and clusters. There is some more information about it in my journal, the webpage should be back up soon too.
Is the requirement Spanish, or any foreign language? Here in Washington we must take two years of a foreign language to graduate from my HS, but there are choices. My small school has Spanish and Japanese.
While your irritation is understandable, you violated a basic rule of Slashdot: Never reply to an Anonymous Coward, especially if the post is an obvious troll. A quick look can usually sort the idiots from the rare ACs worth reading or replying to.
Note the overuse of a certain offensive word. Also note that he calls the parent, a supporter of the U.S. military, a Nazi. Even a short post such as the one in question can provide an easy guide to the poster.
By the way, not all the French are obnoxious... to gain the respect of the other denizens of Slashdot, avoid making those kind of generalizations. Better to say stuff like "Windoze suxors!"
That is very interesting. I always use two spaces as that was what they taught me in keyboarding two years ago. When did the rules change?
As for there only being one space after the periods in my post, I don't know why that happened. I typed it with two spaces and it shows up with one... typing-Nazi Slashdot, maybe?:-)
I'm impressed by your great knowledge in both cars and computing; too bad that you never learned how to type correctly. The general practice is to put TWO spaces, not zero, after a period and ONE space, not zero, after a comma.
I'm not trying to troll or anything, but why would anybody take you seriously if you are too lazy to put in spaces?
When I was at Evergreen Boy's State, we started every town meeting off with 2 minutes freestyle drumming... on chairs, desks, notepads, whatever.
We could have used this robot, it would have been the only one with a sense of tempo:-) For a bunch of musicians (probably half of us played), we sure couldn't keep a beat.
Note that my "city" was probably the weirdest of all. We had our drumming, we came up with the first "boring meeting call-and-response" things, we had the white guy with dreadlocks, we had a Greeting Committee to tell us how to say hi to each other, a Most Elite Gaming Committee for setting up Ultimate Frisbee games, a rule that non-residents must ask permission before entering our hallways, and the call "bombs away" was required when flushing a toilet.
Wow, I digress. Drumming robots good, drum circles bad.
On a similar note, the computers at my school will not allow you to save a program from the Internet, but you can say "open" at the download dialog. I run Putty this way almost every day to log into my Linux box and play nethack or check email:-)
The moral is, no matter what the admins do, somebody will get around it
As far as I can tell, it is Debian with "Ubuntu" slapped in place of "Debian" and with some bugs fixed from unstable. Whooohooo. They don't even have a better installer, although the review makes note of the nice installer, which is EXACTLY THE SAME as in base Debian.
Wewt, Debian with a cooler name. I'll check it out again when they actually have something more to offer besides extra GNOME themes.
Seriously, everyone I know (I am a HS Senior) uses their computer only for IM and Web browsing, maybe some gaming on the side. Maybe I should start a computer club and get more interested...
Well, at risk of burning some karma, I'd say you wouldn't feel or taste much as you would die pretty quickly outside of a pressure suit!
I have often heard you could survive on Mars with just warm clothes and an oxygen mask. There is an atmosphere, and it isn't that cold. Probably something like at the top of a mountain.
No, I will not bring forth anything scientific to support this, I am too lazy to Google.
Simple. Buy the cheapest HP printer at Wal-Mart, then try to get it working under Debian stable, which you installed months earlier with zero Debian experience. Yep, that should do it:-)
A lot of people (if not most) don't even install Windows. I don't expect your mom to be installing Debian, I expect you or somebody who knows Linux to do it. As for configuring the network, it isn't really that hard provided you don't have really strange hardware; you could probably talk somebody through configuring the network over the phone.
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The most important thing to have is a really big computer room with lots of air-conditioning vents and outlets everywhere. Maybe a squareish room with low counters along all the walls, with appropriately-placed power and CAT-5 access. If you have this, its okay for the rest of the house to be Stone Age-style :-)
Dry with no moisture, you say? Impressive, but not nearly as impressive as the rare dry with moisture :-)
Online applications may be convenient if you are running from computer to computer all the time, but if you can't get internet access or don't want to dial up just to read an old email, they aren't that great. Thank god for offline newsreaders.
Funny, I just read the story to which you are referring; I would post the name but I just returned the book and already forgot the title. It may have been "The Wind From The Sun".
The very first thing I thought of when I saw this story was "Hey, just like that story I just read" :-)
Yet Another Contentless PostWhatever it is...for some reason, nothing came along to take these guys' places. What bands to day CAN sell out large stadium shows consistantly? This stuff is being played because there IS a market for it. They cannot force anything down your throat. I'm frankly surprised how popular older groups like Zeppelin, Stones and AC/DC are with younger kids today. I mean, the fact that the Zeppelin DVD was one of the largest selling music videos is amazing. I'm starting to take guitar lessons myself...and I hear young kids in there...10-15 years old, learning Zeppelin riffs. Why is that? I'd say it is because it is just GOOD music...but, then, I'm a little prejudiced on this
I totally agree. I'm 17, and in my opinion Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, Queen, Pink Floyd, etc. are the only music worth listening to. Frankly, 98% of modern music SUCKS. The reason those old songs are still popular is that the music and lyrics are excellent, unlike the crap tunes and crap lyrics of today. Modern music seems to consist of about 5 measures looped over and over with some simplistic/whiny/plain stupid lyrics grunted/groaned over it.
Funny how the only UNIX that anyone thinks is stylish is MacOS X - and how MacOS X has buttons that are even rounder and jucier than anything Microsoft or KDE have dreamt of drawing.
Actually, I really like the way FVWM and some of the other WM's look; somehow FVWM is indescribably cool. So not everybody thinks OS X is the only stylish UNIX.
At the risk of being offensive, I'm going to ask: Do you really want the Mormons, or any other religious organization, to colonize Mars? All is fine and dandy until they claim the planet as their own and force everyone visiting to convert :-)
I don't know who I'd trust to start a colony, maybe a really trustworthy organization or company.
That's nothing. I had a motherboard die when the barrel of a cap actually BLEW OFF the board... I came home from a trip to find the little metal bit on the bottom of the case and long strands of paper spiraling from the board.
Whites have the privilege of being colorblind because they only rarely have to take into account the possibility that the people whom they have to deal with in their day-to-day existence may be prejudiced against them because of their race.
Allow me to politely interject here: bull. I am white and live in a predominately (70+ percent) Hispanic-populated area (in Washington, U.S.). The number of dirty looks, comments (in Spanish, but I can understand a few, and they aren't polite), and downright uncooperativeness (is that a word?) I receive are at least equal to those of, say, a black man in a predominately white neighborhood. Things work both ways; don't make so many assumptions.
Yeah, make a dexterity check. Since this is an improvised weapon, take a minus 4. You rolled an 18, that is good enough to hit him... he takes 2 points damage.
Yes, I am a geek. *grins*
Really, it isn't worth it. Just get a bunch of old desktop machines from your school and make a cluster. I did that for free, instead of blowing over a thousand bucks on it. It taught me a lot about Linux and clusters. There is some more information about it in my journal, the webpage should be back up soon too.
Is the requirement Spanish, or any foreign language? Here in Washington we must take two years of a foreign language to graduate from my HS, but there are choices. My small school has Spanish and Japanese.
While your irritation is understandable, you violated a basic rule of Slashdot: Never reply to an Anonymous Coward, especially if the post is an obvious troll. A quick look can usually sort the idiots from the rare ACs worth reading or replying to.
Note the overuse of a certain offensive word. Also note that he calls the parent, a supporter of the U.S. military, a Nazi. Even a short post such as the one in question can provide an easy guide to the poster.
By the way, not all the French are obnoxious... to gain the respect of the other denizens of Slashdot, avoid making those kind of generalizations. Better to say stuff like "Windoze suxors!"
That is very interesting. I always use two spaces as that was what they taught me in keyboarding two years ago. When did the rules change?
As for there only being one space after the periods in my post, I don't know why that happened. I typed it with two spaces and it shows up with one... typing-Nazi Slashdot, maybe? :-)
Those whirly-bird seeds are from maple trees.
I'm impressed by your great knowledge in both cars and computing; too bad that you never learned how to type correctly. The general practice is to put TWO spaces, not zero, after a period and ONE space, not zero, after a comma.
I'm not trying to troll or anything, but why would anybody take you seriously if you are too lazy to put in spaces?
If you don't eat your meat, you can't have any pudding! How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?
Drum circles, heh.
When I was at Evergreen Boy's State, we started every town meeting off with 2 minutes freestyle drumming... on chairs, desks, notepads, whatever.
We could have used this robot, it would have been the only one with a sense of tempo :-) For a bunch of musicians (probably half of us played), we sure couldn't keep a beat.
Note that my "city" was probably the weirdest of all. We had our drumming, we came up with the first "boring meeting call-and-response" things, we had the white guy with dreadlocks, we had a Greeting Committee to tell us how to say hi to each other, a Most Elite Gaming Committee for setting up Ultimate Frisbee games, a rule that non-residents must ask permission before entering our hallways, and the call "bombs away" was required when flushing a toilet.
Wow, I digress. Drumming robots good, drum circles bad.
On a similar note, the computers at my school will not allow you to save a program from the Internet, but you can say "open" at the download dialog. I run Putty this way almost every day to log into my Linux box and play nethack or check email :-)
The moral is, no matter what the admins do, somebody will get around it
As far as I can tell, it is Debian with "Ubuntu" slapped in place of "Debian" and with some bugs fixed from unstable. Whooohooo. They don't even have a better installer, although the review makes note of the nice installer, which is EXACTLY THE SAME as in base Debian.
Wewt, Debian with a cooler name. I'll check it out again when they actually have something more to offer besides extra GNOME themes.
Where do you find these kids? :-)
Seriously, everyone I know (I am a HS Senior) uses their computer only for IM and Web browsing, maybe some gaming on the side. Maybe I should start a computer club and get more interested...
Well, at risk of burning some karma, I'd say you wouldn't feel or taste much as you would die pretty quickly outside of a pressure suit!
I have often heard you could survive on Mars with just warm clothes and an oxygen mask. There is an atmosphere, and it isn't that cold. Probably something like at the top of a mountain.
No, I will not bring forth anything scientific to support this, I am too lazy to Google.
As I heard it, they couldn't get the rod fully extended, so the flag ended up with the wrinkle in it, making it look like it was blowing in the wind.
Simple. Buy the cheapest HP printer at Wal-Mart, then try to get it working under Debian stable, which you installed months earlier with zero Debian experience. Yep, that should do it :-)
A lot of people (if not most) don't even install Windows. I don't expect your mom to be installing Debian, I expect you or somebody who knows Linux to do it. As for configuring the network, it isn't really that hard provided you don't have really strange hardware; you could probably talk somebody through configuring the network over the phone.