Don't kids still go to school and socialize there? Don't they have any extracurricular activities? If their friends live 7 miles away, why can't the parents drive them to see eachother once in a while? Even if you do have a cell phone, it's a good idea to actually see your friend and do activities together, too. The friend-making help I was thinking that parents could do is driving the kids to see friends and/or aquintances and encourages kids to join a baseball team/Girl Scouts/Linux Users Group/whatever so they have opportunities to make friends. Going a week without a cell phone should not be a big loss. As an adult, they might have to make bigger sacrifices, so better they be prepared than spend their whole childhood as spoiled brats and not know what to do when hardship comes.
If a child is so dependant on a cell phone that taking it away is like solitary confinement, then she's got some issues. The parents need to help her get more local friends, or something, but a kid should be able to survive without a cell phone.
They'll still have the traditional combat system in the Gamecube version. Personally, I'm waiting until there's reviews of the finalized combat systems and test systems in game stores for me to try before I decide which one to buy.
What I never understood is the whole browser wars thing, how does MS make money off IE? It's free to download. I guess this signals the end of the browser wars, with both sides sitting down to work together(interesting indeed).
It's kinda like a loss-leader, not that people buy Windows for IE, but it's just another Microsoft product so that people keep Microsoft in their minds when they think of software. I don't think this is really a sign of the end of the browser wars, I think this is Microsoft trying to get to know their enemy. People who switch from IE to Firefox are likely to switch from Outlook to Thunderbird and MS Office to OpenOffice, and are then more likely than other people to switch from Windows to Linux. Microsoft doesn't like that, so you can bet that whatever they're doing is not good for Firefox.
Somebody else made the excellent analogy to a wheelchair ramp. You can't put up a government building and say "Five groups are working on a wheelchair ramp and one of them will get it right soon."
Did you notice the part where I said "and then Mass can move to ODF"? I wasn't suggesting that Mass moves, and then hope the plugins come later. I was saying that once Mass finds an acceptable, then they'll move. If you want to go with a wheelchair ramp analogy, it's like Mass wants to build a new building, but the way they want to build it you can't put normal wheelchair ramps on, but someone has made a new type of wheelchair ramp, so they test that to see if it will work. No one's being locked out of anything. Mass is just testing some plug-ins.
Anyway, that still begs the question of why this wasn't hammered out a year ago. We're talking about Sun, not a project by a couple of teenagers. They had money for lobbyists; they should have had money for developers.
The plug-in that Mass is currently testing was made by the ODF commitee, which is partially funded by Sun. By the time the question of accessibility first came up, they had the Word plug-in ready for testing by Mass. They're on the ball here, there isn't an issue.
The solution is the plug-in for MS Office that Mass. is currently testing. Assuming it works well, then the people who need the accessibility (and whatever else) in MS Office keep MS Office and get the plug-in, and everyone else gets OOo (or KOffice, Abi, whatever). If it doesn't work, there's about 5 other groups working on different ways of getting ODF in Office, so one of them will get it right soon and then Mass can move to ODF.
This isn't a problem. This is FUD spread by Microsoft.
Is Office the only thing your users use? Would they seriously be able to handle a change to Linux as long as they keep Office? If that's the case, wouldn't you just use Crossover Office and keep your exisiting Office licenses instead of buying Office for Linux?
Office will become irrelevant. ODF is going to become the digital equivalent of paper. Universally readable, that'll remove the requirement for Office in a single stroke.
Yeah, wake me when it actually is universally readable.
This weekend, my husband and I decided to catalog our game collection into a nice spreadsheet. I used KSpread and made it all pretty, a tab for every console and a front sheet that calculated the totals. It looked nice, I was happy. Then my husband opened it on his computer with Open Office. The first sheet was *blank*. Gameboy Color was missing (and probably some others) and there were *random* numbers everywhere. Not even going into the font issues, the missing and extra data made it completely unusable.
I was really excited about ODF because I thought it would mean that my husband could use his favorite office program and I could use mine and we wouldn't have to worry about saving the files as.doc or.xls or whatever and worry that the file might come over messed up. Well, we skipped the saving it as a different file, but we kept the biggest problem.
So yeah, let me know when ODF is actually universally readable.
Thanks for the music suggestions. I will check them out.
Anyways, I think it's just my tastes, not artistic laziness that makes me not like every song on any album. I've listened to some excellent albums, but even the best still have a song or two I'd rather skip, not because the artist just put something random to fill time but because what they created just is not my style. Because of that, I love the whole concept of being able to buy only one track, because sometimes songs I really love are on albums with other songs I don't really care for.
I have never heard an album that I liked each and every single song on it. Never. And I don't just listen to pop, either, I like oldies, classic rock, rap, folk, j-pop, etc. Maybe it's not fair to call all the songs I don't like filler, I'm sure they put a lot of effort into them, but I still don't like them. If I limited my music buying only to albums that don't have any song I don't like, then I wouldn't buy any music at all.
Test the efficacy of the 'morning after' pill by creating unwanted pregnancies
That wouldn't work, because once there's a pregnancy it's too late to test the morning after pill. The morning after pill is contraception, not abortion.
It won't be unrated forever. Once it's rated, even if it's rated M, Wal-Mart can sell it to a 17 year old. Not just legally (legally they can sell it to whoever they want) but by normal standards of appropriateness it's ok to sell a game rated for 17 and up to 17 year olds.
Give me more games, not more wierd shit. While I love Valkyrie Profile, can I have some good games that are not Playstation ports? Gamers by game systems to play games, so game makers should focus on giving us games to play.
I would hope that if a child's laptop gets stolen/broke/whatever, that the would have alternatives so the child can learn without it (school desktop computers, textbooks, etc) until another laptop is donated. I really would hope schools wouldn't expect, or force, parents to replace it.
i was about 20 when i took that ride and i'm not a small guy. plus the guy who picked me up was a hippie, so i didn't mind. i wouldn't have if he seemed sketchy.
And how would you have gotten to the pay phone if he was too sketchy to ride with? Would you have just waited until you found someone else? I'm not saying that you personally made a bad decision, but I wouldn't want a kid to be put in that position. You might have been able to protect yourself, but what about a 16 year old girl?
pay phones around where i've grown up and live now are quite common.
Not everyone lives where you do. Pay phones are nearly impossible to find where I live.
i think cell phones are a luxury, not a necessity. i ask how people grew up just fine without them for so long with the same exact issues... so why do kids need them now?
People got along fine without toilets for so long, why do we need them now? That's a stupid arguement. If a parent thinks that a cell phone would be useful for their child then why would that be wrong? What, does it build charactor to wander around a mall for an hour until you find a pay phone? Is it better for kids to just wait around after basketball practice ends early instead of calling their parents and going home? What is bad about having a cell phone?
Pay phones used to be common enough to do that, but now they aren't, and they're just getting less and less common. I would much rather get my kid a cell phone than have them take rides with "nice guys" to where there might be a pay phone. Even if it's unlikely that a kid would ever not be around a pay phone or an adult w/ a cell phone or whatever, why put them through the hassle of finding a pay phone or asking random people for their phones when for $10 or $20 a month you can make sure they can always contact you?
My point was you shouldn't assume there will be payphones around. The post I was replying to said there should be pay phones around where teens are, and I said there aren't. Also, what if the kid decides 20 minutes in that these people are actually lame (maybe they're trying to get her to smoke pot, whatever), or what if after the hour is up the kid decides she really really wants more time with her friends?
A cell phone is a very practical tool. I'm not sure why, at a tech site of all places, people are arguing that this technology "isn't necessary" so we shouldn't have it. I guess computers and cars and landline phones aren't necessary either, but no one argues we shouldn't have them. If parents think that a cell phone is useful for their kid(s), the what's the problem?
Yes public phones are getting more rare but they should still be in most public places that a teenager would have to call from.
"Should" is different from "are". Pizza Hut should have a pay phone, but the last time I need to make a call from there they didn't have one. Nor did the gas station next store, the place across the street, etc, until I realized it would be faster just to drive home and make the call from there. Kids often don't have cars, so they don't have the option of just driving home. If you dropped off your teen at Pizza Hut and told them to call you when they're done hanging out with their friends, what would they do when they found out there was no pay phone? Cell phones can be very practical, even for kids.
When was the last time you made a pay phone call? There's almost none left. Everytime I've ever needed to use a pay phone there's been none. They took them all out of the malls, restaurants, everywhere where I live. Kids (and adults) can't rely on pay phones any more because they're just not common enough any more.
at googvid and yousetoobs, where it's flash, I can not get the sound to function. I get the video OK, but no sound, and right clicking to the alleged control panel gives me a blob box with some non functional buttons that do who knows what. And once that is open it won't go away.. All my other a/v stuff does sound and vid fine under linux, but go over there to check out a vid-no dice. I googled around for a fix and it appears to be beyond esoteric into the sacrafice chickens realm. FWIW, FC5. Probably me, frequently is, but shoot, would be nice if worked, those sites are popular and have some good stuff sometimes.
I had the same problem with Ubuntu for the longest time. I don't remember exactly how I fixed it, but it involved routing flash's sound through ESD, everything else through Alsa, and then setting up ESD to refresh every few seconds so it wouldn't conflict with Alsa. Or something like that. I should find out and write it down, in case I ever have to reinstall or something.
You should try Mepis or one of the other distros that come with Flash. I believe they work a little better with it.
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Don't kids still go to school and socialize there? Don't they have any extracurricular activities? If their friends live 7 miles away, why can't the parents drive them to see eachother once in a while? Even if you do have a cell phone, it's a good idea to actually see your friend and do activities together, too. The friend-making help I was thinking that parents could do is driving the kids to see friends and/or aquintances and encourages kids to join a baseball team/Girl Scouts/Linux Users Group/whatever so they have opportunities to make friends. Going a week without a cell phone should not be a big loss. As an adult, they might have to make bigger sacrifices, so better they be prepared than spend their whole childhood as spoiled brats and not know what to do when hardship comes.
If a child is so dependant on a cell phone that taking it away is like solitary confinement, then she's got some issues. The parents need to help her get more local friends, or something, but a kid should be able to survive without a cell phone.
They'll still have the traditional combat system in the Gamecube version. Personally, I'm waiting until there's reviews of the finalized combat systems and test systems in game stores for me to try before I decide which one to buy.
The plug-in that Mass is currently testing was made by the ODF commitee, which is partially funded by Sun. By the time the question of accessibility first came up, they had the Word plug-in ready for testing by Mass. They're on the ball here, there isn't an issue.
The solution is the plug-in for MS Office that Mass. is currently testing. Assuming it works well, then the people who need the accessibility (and whatever else) in MS Office keep MS Office and get the plug-in, and everyone else gets OOo (or KOffice, Abi, whatever). If it doesn't work, there's about 5 other groups working on different ways of getting ODF in Office, so one of them will get it right soon and then Mass can move to ODF.
This isn't a problem. This is FUD spread by Microsoft.
Is Office the only thing your users use? Would they seriously be able to handle a change to Linux as long as they keep Office? If that's the case, wouldn't you just use Crossover Office and keep your exisiting Office licenses instead of buying Office for Linux?
This weekend, my husband and I decided to catalog our game collection into a nice spreadsheet. I used KSpread and made it all pretty, a tab for every console and a front sheet that calculated the totals. It looked nice, I was happy. Then my husband opened it on his computer with Open Office. The first sheet was *blank*. Gameboy Color was missing (and probably some others) and there were *random* numbers everywhere. Not even going into the font issues, the missing and extra data made it completely unusable.
I was really excited about ODF because I thought it would mean that my husband could use his favorite office program and I could use mine and we wouldn't have to worry about saving the files as
So yeah, let me know when ODF is actually universally readable.
Thanks for the music suggestions. I will check them out.
Anyways, I think it's just my tastes, not artistic laziness that makes me not like every song on any album. I've listened to some excellent albums, but even the best still have a song or two I'd rather skip, not because the artist just put something random to fill time but because what they created just is not my style. Because of that, I love the whole concept of being able to buy only one track, because sometimes songs I really love are on albums with other songs I don't really care for.
I have never heard an album that I liked each and every single song on it. Never. And I don't just listen to pop, either, I like oldies, classic rock, rap, folk, j-pop, etc. Maybe it's not fair to call all the songs I don't like filler, I'm sure they put a lot of effort into them, but I still don't like them. If I limited my music buying only to albums that don't have any song I don't like, then I wouldn't buy any music at all.
It won't be unrated forever. Once it's rated, even if it's rated M, Wal-Mart can sell it to a 17 year old. Not just legally (legally they can sell it to whoever they want) but by normal standards of appropriateness it's ok to sell a game rated for 17 and up to 17 year olds.
What is a .nfo anyways? And, more importantly, how do you open them? I get them a lot with my downloads, and I have no idea what to do with them.
Give me more games, not more wierd shit. While I love Valkyrie Profile, can I have some good games that are not Playstation ports? Gamers by game systems to play games, so game makers should focus on giving us games to play.
I would hope that if a child's laptop gets stolen/broke/whatever, that the would have alternatives so the child can learn without it (school desktop computers, textbooks, etc) until another laptop is donated. I really would hope schools wouldn't expect, or force, parents to replace it.
Not everyone lives where you do. Pay phones are nearly impossible to find where I live.
People got along fine without toilets for so long, why do we need them now? That's a stupid arguement. If a parent thinks that a cell phone would be useful for their child then why would that be wrong? What, does it build charactor to wander around a mall for an hour until you find a pay phone? Is it better for kids to just wait around after basketball practice ends early instead of calling their parents and going home? What is bad about having a cell phone?
Pay phones used to be common enough to do that, but now they aren't, and they're just getting less and less common. I would much rather get my kid a cell phone than have them take rides with "nice guys" to where there might be a pay phone. Even if it's unlikely that a kid would ever not be around a pay phone or an adult w/ a cell phone or whatever, why put them through the hassle of finding a pay phone or asking random people for their phones when for $10 or $20 a month you can make sure they can always contact you?
My point was you shouldn't assume there will be payphones around. The post I was replying to said there should be pay phones around where teens are, and I said there aren't. Also, what if the kid decides 20 minutes in that these people are actually lame (maybe they're trying to get her to smoke pot, whatever), or what if after the hour is up the kid decides she really really wants more time with her friends?
A cell phone is a very practical tool. I'm not sure why, at a tech site of all places, people are arguing that this technology "isn't necessary" so we shouldn't have it. I guess computers and cars and landline phones aren't necessary either, but no one argues we shouldn't have them. If parents think that a cell phone is useful for their kid(s), the what's the problem?
Non-Hobbit tweens are about 9-12 years old, be'tween' being little kids and being teens.
When was the last time you made a pay phone call? There's almost none left. Everytime I've ever needed to use a pay phone there's been none. They took them all out of the malls, restaurants, everywhere where I live. Kids (and adults) can't rely on pay phones any more because they're just not common enough any more.
Sometimes, you're stuck with people no matter what software they run on their computers.
You should try Mepis or one of the other distros that come with Flash. I believe they work a little better with it.