Trust? Hah. I'm sure some kids are trustworthy, but how many of you have honestly taken advantage of your parents trust at least once or twice? Probably almost all. And I myself have never been so sure about the parent-child element of trust (not a parent, 20, and in college). A lot of parents don't realize there kid can do bad until they are caught in the act, and if they have gotten away with it enough times already, it may be hard to get them to stop. Innocent until proven guilty. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but if you have a young teen male with a personal computer (such as laptop), I would think it's very unlikely he won't get curious and check out some porn with the "PORN IS ONLINE! PORN IS ONLINE!" signs you see everywhere. Parental controls and blocking chat rooms could work, but with the difference in computer skill your average parent/child have (child being greater) and many parents passwords for their childs admin account most likely being the childs name or something else simple like that, they can probably be pretty easily to get past, be it accessing the admin account, using a different browser, or just uninstalling the parental control software as I recall hearing could be done in the past without problem.
You know what I hate? When you have some ass around you doing a damn clickathon in class. It's one thing playing games in class, but if your going to play something that is so obvious it is a game (think 10x as much clicking as Diablo), It tends to annoy the crap out of people around you....
To us maybe, but that may not be how the world sees it. I was talking with someone living in Japan, and she said Sony is often seen as making some of the highest quality electronics. I agree there features and ideas are top notch, but I've had more trouble with Sony electronics durability then other manufacturers.
Your comment on it being "real" makes me think of one thing a simple construction worker has over a $60k/yr software engineer. 50 years from now, it's pretty likely their handywork will still exist. 10 years from now, It's very doubtful what a software designer made will be in use (at least it shouldn't), let alone 50 years.
I used to buy from egghead.com in the past. Amazon bought them when they were sinking (partially due to a large credit card # theft as I recall), and the site now links to Amazon's electronics site. I then went to the eggcellent Newegg (couldn't resist...). Anyone know what the deal is with all the eggs? There is no direct relation according to newegg, but I doubt they could have chosen that name w/o knowing the resemblance....
I agree. My main complaint, and what Linspire's real plan is? This scenario....
"Mom! I can't edit this file/whatever on our computuer! I need $50 for a copy of this operating system!" "Ok, here ya go".
I'm well aware OpenOffice could bridge most compatibility issues, but if you know little about computers, and are using some "strange and exotic" operating system at school, I'm guessing your average user would just get that OS, because it seemed to make the most sense. I wouldn't be surprised if Linspire gives them fliers to give to students to get it for home, perhaps for a slight discounted price....
I remember reading about something like this ~8 years ago in a game mazazine. It was supposed to simulate motion by stimulating the inner-ear as I recall. It was going to retail for ~$100, and you can bet I wanted it. I googled (I think hotbot was my main search engine then actually) for a review a few years later later and I found out the effects were barely noticable. Would be great if this newer technology in use is less gimmicky and more functional for immersion *coughrumblepackcough*.
I remember in grade school, our teacher got something that would stimulate muscle movement. I think her son may have been in the medical field, and he was able to get ahold of it. A random classmate was selected, and had terminals of some sort put on her arm. The teacher's son started messing w/ the control box, and her fingers started moving on there own. I was pretty intrigued at the time.
How incredibly new! *sarcasm* I think a lot of us had glow in the dark stars when we were kids. What I'm curious about is if they were able to increase the intensity far greater then those glowing pieces of plastic.... Nothing to see here. Move along.
I couldn't agree more. A friend of mine returned his killed (a failed mod attempt shortly after getting it) PS2 for a new one. Did the person working the return counter notice the sticker with "void" on it, or the lack of one? No. Electronics manufacturers need to work on educating stores on how to tell if something shouldn't be returnable. And I agree with your idea. I was just thinking about RF for a type of embedded tracking device, but that could open up new problems. Ever cover stuff you bought with a jacket or put it in the trunk of your car while shopping so you didn't have to drive home or carry them around with you? Unless you have RF-shielded jackets and trunks, Thieves wouldn't need to see something to know to steal it (I'm assuming it would be possible to create a device to scan for RF transmitters and figure out what they are to).
Rock & Roll and stuff was about having fun, some drinking, some sex... And now adults accept (somewhat) that kids will do that stuff sometimes. I do not want to live in a world where killing, hitting people with cars, and constant drug use is accepted...
Hah. Nice reply. Sounds like you speak from your own experiences. Still sounds about like what I mean. They aren't out after work working on stuff. When work ends, I'm guessing it actually ends from what I've seen, and they do party.
I completely agree. On a related note, the Japanese have been known to be one of the hardest working people due to their success on a global scale. yet, when they party, they party with all sorts of festivals and similar events. I've always thought they seem to have a much clearer boundry between work and play then most american business employees. This brings to mind a past/. article on how American workers got less vacation (paid and unpaid) on average then workers from other countries (I think Britain was one of them).
The review said the side buttons didn't work for Windows. I'm guessing that with Linux, you can configure it the same way as all other multi-button mice and get them working (although yes, a lot of the means of getting those buttons to do something can be a pain).
These things have "steal me" written all over them. Every small school (less then 600 students) would have at least a few (and most likely more) stolen a year if they were used in US schools, and I'd imagine with them being as rare as they are there, they would be a huge target for theft both by some students, and by adults. I think books from here that are "old" should be donated to them. Perhaps it wouldn't work well due to public schools having somewhat dated text books in use as is, but at least for semi-higher education, I'd imagine plenty of people that still give their $100 books to their University book store (Yes, I'm well aware you can get much more selling them online to another student, but I don't think many bother) for $10 would much rather they go to good use then be resold by the original seller for $80.
According to this Acid test, my image w/ Firefox 1.0.6 is quite a bit off from their rendering. Perhaps Safari, standard Mozilla, Opera, and others are compliant? Because this doesn't seem too pro-Firefox in my eyes (which seems good, since it may not be biased).
I agree. I was about to make the same comment. I took a Computer Organization class in the spring, and we used MIPS assembly (R2000). That stuff could probably be a bastard for even the original programmer to fully understand if he has to go back to something in a large source file in some cases. The lack of variable names other then $S#,$T# (at least in MIPS) is what I really hate about asm....
I do think whoever bought it should give it to the Star Wars kid. He seems deserving.... although he might break it if he hasn't worked on his balance and "force".... Guess he could have done worse and used fluorescent light bulbs....
Very true. Just yesterday a friend of mine said he didn't really download any music online until recently when he started just because the ads against it pissed him off.
It would more be the end of US dominance (and US military presence) in space. I recall reading open documents (from here I think) about the US Air Forces plans for space, and I don't like it. Aside from communication/imagery satellites, the UN should tightly monitor Space launches, because the type of weaponry I read about sounds like it could be consideribly more dangerous to humanity (maybe not to the earth) then nukes ever were.
I didn't think there was an open source equivilant to Illustrator (What little I have used of it I liked). At first I just thought "oh great, another art program. Anyone can do cool things with them if they know a little bit about how to use them". But I didn't realize it was Vector based.
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Trust? Hah. I'm sure some kids are trustworthy, but how many of you have honestly taken advantage of your parents trust at least once or twice? Probably almost all. And I myself have never been so sure about the parent-child element of trust (not a parent, 20, and in college). A lot of parents don't realize there kid can do bad until they are caught in the act, and if they have gotten away with it enough times already, it may be hard to get them to stop. Innocent until proven guilty. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but if you have a young teen male with a personal computer (such as laptop), I would think it's very unlikely he won't get curious and check out some porn with the "PORN IS ONLINE! PORN IS ONLINE!" signs you see everywhere. Parental controls and blocking chat rooms could work, but with the difference in computer skill your average parent/child have (child being greater) and many parents passwords for their childs admin account most likely being the childs name or something else simple like that, they can probably be pretty easily to get past, be it accessing the admin account, using a different browser, or just uninstalling the parental control software as I recall hearing could be done in the past without problem.
You know what I hate? When you have some ass around you doing a damn clickathon in class. It's one thing playing games in class, but if your going to play something that is so obvious it is a game (think 10x as much clicking as Diablo), It tends to annoy the crap out of people around you....
To us maybe, but that may not be how the world sees it. I was talking with someone living in Japan, and she said Sony is often seen as making some of the highest quality electronics. I agree there features and ideas are top notch, but I've had more trouble with Sony electronics durability then other manufacturers.
Your comment on it being "real" makes me think of one thing a simple construction worker has over a $60k/yr software engineer. 50 years from now, it's pretty likely their handywork will still exist. 10 years from now, It's very doubtful what a software designer made will be in use (at least it shouldn't), let alone 50 years.
I used to buy from egghead.com in the past. Amazon bought them when they were sinking (partially due to a large credit card # theft as I recall), and the site now links to Amazon's electronics site. I then went to the eggcellent Newegg (couldn't resist...). Anyone know what the deal is with all the eggs? There is no direct relation according to newegg, but I doubt they could have chosen that name w/o knowing the resemblance....
I agree. My main complaint, and what Linspire's real plan is? This scenario.... "Mom! I can't edit this file/whatever on our computuer! I need $50 for a copy of this operating system!" "Ok, here ya go". I'm well aware OpenOffice could bridge most compatibility issues, but if you know little about computers, and are using some "strange and exotic" operating system at school, I'm guessing your average user would just get that OS, because it seemed to make the most sense. I wouldn't be surprised if Linspire gives them fliers to give to students to get it for home, perhaps for a slight discounted price....
I think..... I can't do this......
I remember reading about something like this ~8 years ago in a game mazazine. It was supposed to simulate motion by stimulating the inner-ear as I recall. It was going to retail for ~$100, and you can bet I wanted it. I googled (I think hotbot was my main search engine then actually) for a review a few years later later and I found out the effects were barely noticable. Would be great if this newer technology in use is less gimmicky and more functional for immersion *coughrumblepackcough*.
I remember in grade school, our teacher got something that would stimulate muscle movement. I think her son may have been in the medical field, and he was able to get ahold of it. A random classmate was selected, and had terminals of some sort put on her arm. The teacher's son started messing w/ the control box, and her fingers started moving on there own. I was pretty intrigued at the time.
How incredibly new! *sarcasm* I think a lot of us had glow in the dark stars when we were kids. What I'm curious about is if they were able to increase the intensity far greater then those glowing pieces of plastic.... Nothing to see here. Move along.
I couldn't agree more. A friend of mine returned his killed (a failed mod attempt shortly after getting it) PS2 for a new one. Did the person working the return counter notice the sticker with "void" on it, or the lack of one? No. Electronics manufacturers need to work on educating stores on how to tell if something shouldn't be returnable. And I agree with your idea. I was just thinking about RF for a type of embedded tracking device, but that could open up new problems. Ever cover stuff you bought with a jacket or put it in the trunk of your car while shopping so you didn't have to drive home or carry them around with you? Unless you have RF-shielded jackets and trunks, Thieves wouldn't need to see something to know to steal it (I'm assuming it would be possible to create a device to scan for RF transmitters and figure out what they are to).
Rock & Roll and stuff was about having fun, some drinking, some sex... And now adults accept (somewhat) that kids will do that stuff sometimes. I do not want to live in a world where killing, hitting people with cars, and constant drug use is accepted...
Hah. Nice reply. Sounds like you speak from your own experiences. Still sounds about like what I mean. They aren't out after work working on stuff. When work ends, I'm guessing it actually ends from what I've seen, and they do party.
I completely agree. On a related note, the Japanese have been known to be one of the hardest working people due to their success on a global scale. yet, when they party, they party with all sorts of festivals and similar events. I've always thought they seem to have a much clearer boundry between work and play then most american business employees. This brings to mind a past /. article on how American workers got less vacation (paid and unpaid) on average then workers from other countries (I think Britain was one of them).
Simple. It's a direct cause, while subsidizing of tobacco farmers is indirectly related to tobacco related cancer.
Like you do with clothes.... You just pull a little thread, the next you know, what you were wearing is completely falling apart....
The review said the side buttons didn't work for Windows. I'm guessing that with Linux, you can configure it the same way as all other multi-button mice and get them working (although yes, a lot of the means of getting those buttons to do something can be a pain).
These things have "steal me" written all over them. Every small school (less then 600 students) would have at least a few (and most likely more) stolen a year if they were used in US schools, and I'd imagine with them being as rare as they are there, they would be a huge target for theft both by some students, and by adults. I think books from here that are "old" should be donated to them. Perhaps it wouldn't work well due to public schools having somewhat dated text books in use as is, but at least for semi-higher education, I'd imagine plenty of people that still give their $100 books to their University book store (Yes, I'm well aware you can get much more selling them online to another student, but I don't think many bother) for $10 would much rather they go to good use then be resold by the original seller for $80.
If it were BlueTooth, I'd buy it when I get my *Book. (hint hint).
According to this Acid test, my image w/ Firefox 1.0.6 is quite a bit off from their rendering. Perhaps Safari, standard Mozilla, Opera, and others are compliant? Because this doesn't seem too pro-Firefox in my eyes (which seems good, since it may not be biased).
I agree. I was about to make the same comment. I took a Computer Organization class in the spring, and we used MIPS assembly (R2000). That stuff could probably be a bastard for even the original programmer to fully understand if he has to go back to something in a large source file in some cases. The lack of variable names other then $S#,$T# (at least in MIPS) is what I really hate about asm....
I do think whoever bought it should give it to the Star Wars kid. He seems deserving.... although he might break it if he hasn't worked on his balance and "force".... Guess he could have done worse and used fluorescent light bulbs....
Very true. Just yesterday a friend of mine said he didn't really download any music online until recently when he started just because the ads against it pissed him off.
It would more be the end of US dominance (and US military presence) in space. I recall reading open documents (from here I think) about the US Air Forces plans for space, and I don't like it. Aside from communication/imagery satellites, the UN should tightly monitor Space launches, because the type of weaponry I read about sounds like it could be consideribly more dangerous to humanity (maybe not to the earth) then nukes ever were.
I didn't think there was an open source equivilant to Illustrator (What little I have used of it I liked). At first I just thought "oh great, another art program. Anyone can do cool things with them if they know a little bit about how to use them". But I didn't realize it was Vector based.