Others are trying to protect their culture, their religion. We are decimating their culture fast. We ask, and even force them to change in the name of things like women's rights, human rights (equality of religion), and the worst of it all corporatism. If these people don't succeed in stopping us their culture, their way of life will be a memory in 50 years or so.
You have stated pretty clearly the motivation of the RATIONAL terrorist. Unfortunately you cannot attribute the motivations of rational people to suicide bombers. No one can preserve their way of life by blowing themselves up. A suicide bomber is not "sacrific[ing] his own life in an act of desperation against a superior force" he is simply willing/happy to die in order to murder a bus-load of children, a cafe full of civilians, or two sky-scrapers full of office workers.
This is a very simple conflict. Their culture [murder children == go to heaven] against everyone else's [murder children == go to hell]. You, and I, and every person who is not a suicide bomber can only hope that in "50 years or so" their culture is the same sort of bad memory that Nazi Germany is today.
Do not fall into the trap of believing that just because something is "a culture" that it is valuable.
You are completely correct. I made a baseless assumption that you were of above average intelligence. I apologize.
However even after re-evaluation of your IQ, I stand by my earlier statement. It is YOUR time. Only you can waste it. If you feel school is a waste of your time, and yet you still attend, you have only yourself to blame.
Furthermore, not everyone is over the age of 16. To them, your advice is profoundly unhelpful.
To them my advice is STAY IN SCHOOL. If you are not old enough to drive, you are not old enough to make important decisions like dropping out. Dougie Howser is a fictional character , and a profoundly unrealistic one at that.
I understand how frustrating it can be when you come to the realization that you are enrolled in day-care for teenagers. Many kids have the good fortune to go all the way through high school (and maybe enve the rest of thier lives) without realizing this. Those are the whack-jobs who try to tell kids that high school is the best time of their lives. THEY ARE WRONG. It only gets better after high school. If you have come to the uncomfortable realization that high school is in fact the worst time of your life, you have two choices;
1. Try to bury that knowledge and make the best of however much time you have left in school (I recommend dating cheerleaders, or creating a snowboarding club, or ANYTHING to take your attention away from that gnawing feeling of boredom)
or
2. Get the Hell out of there NOW. Do whatever it takes, promise you parents whatever you have to, get a job if they won't pay for it, in fact get a job even if they will, having your own money is one of the things that makes post-high-school life better.
you fall back on your usual method: unsubstantiated and mean-spirited personal attacks.
Unsubstantiated? I think not.
Mean-spirited? Probably.
Personal? Not a bit. I don't know you, I don't have anything against you. (Or the grand-parent poster) I would tell the same thing to any teenager who tried to tell me how boring high school is. If your are bored, if your time is being wasted, DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.
No one in America is forced to go to school after age 16. If you super-geniuses are really wasting your time in school (BTW you're not, you need to learn social skills, you learn those by being subjected to the company of your peers) then you are welcome to drop out, graduate early, get a GED, go to community college or try to convince an institute of higher learning that your mom is right and you are so "gifted" you should be in college.
This is suprisingly easy to do. In fact if you are actually as smart as you think you are, then your teachers, counselors and school administrators will happily write you letters of reccomendation, help you with the paperwork, and even explain to you the implications of the choices facing you.
Of course you knew that. You are "gifted", you surf the internet, you read all the time. You are just too busy being bored by the waste of time that is school to bother doing anything about it.
It is YOUR time. If it is being wasted, YOU are responsible.
I have mod points, but I couldn't read past this comment without responding.
What do you do for students who passed it easily? That's how we can tell if you actually care about the students or not.
Oh bemoan the tragedy of the ignored "gifted" kid. How sorry we must all feel for him as he sits ignored in the front row with all his homework finished before the class period ends and B+ on the test he didn't study for. How hard and challenging is life when high school coursework is easy! We must take pity on him and do something to prove we care about his terrible plight!
There is a reason teachers ignore the "TAG" kids who pass all their tests easily and turn in all their work on time. THEY DON'T NEED US. Oh, maybe their fragile egos need the stroking we are not giving them because we are busy trying to remedy the fact that their classmates can't read or do simple arithmetic, but they do not need us to teach them the material.
"Gifted" kids have such are hard time figuring out that to their teachers they aren't all that special. We were all Tag kids! Every teacher from the sadistic gym teacher who mocked you when you couldn't climb the rope past the big knot, to the guy in the lab coat with the giant inexplicable burn on the back was a TAG kid, and they all know your secret. It was our secret too.
School is EASY for TAG kids. It is boring because we didn't need 45 minutes of explanation to get simple concepts like covalence or differentiation or manifest destiny. The difference between teachers and whiney grown-up "gifted" kids is that we didn't let the ease and boredom of being good at school turn us into angry complainers who blame our teachers for our inability to feel like part of a group. We don't think being gifted makes us superior to the kids who need help in school, just better suited to offer them that help.
A hint, your teachers didn't ignore you because they were sadistic bastards out to step on your individualism and grind you down into a member of the masses, they ignored you because you are NOT as interesting as you think you are.
That's true, but if you are lucky you have already got power outlets in the floor where you need them. If you're not, you let power availability decide where you put the computers. Computers aren't the first thing ever to need electricity, chances are it was already run to where you need it (or close), BEFORE there was a need for network cabling.
Look around you, if you are not in a recently built office building I think you will find you are closer to a power outlet than an ethernet jack.
If their target is the home market, i don't know many people who go around thinking "gee, i wish i could have a hard drive sitting around hidden away, but not inside my computer case."
That's not so unlikley. If you do most of your computing on a laptop, or a tablet, or if you have a mythTV box, network attached storage that was always available would let you shut down your big desktop for a significant energy/noise savings.
I'd love to have my a firewire-to-ethernet bridge to let my external FW drive beaccessible (albeit slowly) without crossing the room and plugging in. Plugging in the FW is still an option when copying DVD images or making backups, but if I just want to pull A file out of a backup, or access the gigs of mp3s that I moved off my laptop because I was running out of storage, why should I have to plug anything in, let alone leave an entire PC running turning money and electricity into heat while it does nothing.
Of course, I have a hard time understanding why several computers in a fixed location would be connected via wireless in the first place when going wired is cheaper, faster and more secure.
Sometimes the speed/security/price advantages of wired in no way make up for the cable clutter. Imagine trying to hack two clusters of half a dozen e/iMacs into a small, school library. You can run wires over the floor (with channel if you are lucky) hubs in the center of each cluster, and presto, you ve ugly wires, trip wires, dozens of wires everywehere! Or one Airport base station, some access cards, and presto, every machine is on the net, nobody trips and calls OSHA on you.
Now you throw one of these HD enclosures in a corner and host disc images of all your reference cds on it. (although I recognize the wireless is not a clear advantage as long as you're tucking it into a corner anyway)
Not every application for a network requires speed, especially if all your network does is share internet access. 802.11b is still fast enough for web access, even streaming media.
Excellent. Now we can have Divx encoded video with mp3 encoded-full-surround-sound audio for our ripped DVDs.
Mind you full surround can be encoded as 6 channel AAC already, pairs up nicely with Xvid video encoding, and can be done in a few easy steps on OS X, (directions here) so I've never looked into other ways of doing it. Maybe someone out there already does it in surround on windows (nah, maybe on Linux).
Boy... I wonder how much memory Corsair donated for that wonderful little plug.
I can tolerate Coke planting their product in sit-coms... but I don't think I would appreciate my newscaster saying "Coke is so refreshing" in the middle of a news story
This example is more akin to product placement than corrupt journalism. Likely Corsair gave them the ram for free, and maybe even threw a little ad revenue their way, in return they plugged the actual product that they actually used in the review.
Had they said "We used some ram we had lying around, but if you really want snappy performance try Corsair Ram" you would have the equivalent of newscasters plugging Coke during the evening news.
Besides, the evening news is no less entertainment TV than Friends, less entertaining, but not less entertainment.
Why must everyone be involved with music these days? Pepsi, Coke, Starbucks....
What's next? I'm going to get a free song with a Happy Meal?
That's not even a LITTLE farfetched. Mini CDs are being distributed on the lids of soft drinks already. There is nothing standing in the way of McDonalds joining the likes of Regal Movie Theaters or Universal theme parks and starting to pass out music with soft drinks.
Q: who are you?
You aren't going to age
You have super-sensory perceptions.
Society has stepped all over you with painfull treatments to force you to fake normalcy.
You have an enhanced memory.
Huge organizations oppose your existence and are trying to give you cancer.
A: you are a mutant.
But the real question is what year did you graduate from Professor Xavier's Shool
for Gifted Youngsters? Class of 2000? 1999? Or are you old school?
YOU try telling my 4-year-old nephew (with the SpongeBob clothes, SpongeBob bedding, SpongeBob wallpaper, Spongebob Toys, Spongebob Toilet paper... &c.) that he has to watch "Scooby Doo" instead of Spongebob, THEN intimate that it's the same thing (if you can still hear with your ears bleeding).
It sounds to me like the problem is with the 4 year-old, and the parents, not Viacom or DISH. A four year-old human being is at least as trainable as a Golden Retriever puppy. This one has apparently been trained to break into ear splitting screams wheneve Sponge Bob is not on the TV/his bed/his clothes/wiping his ass.
If you did that poor a job training a dog it would bark non-stop except when it was terrorizing the cat or peeing on the carpet. Remember people, you can't take your kid back to the pound if you fail to raise them right.
One of the things I really miss when I sit behind a windows computer is a bash shell, tab completion . . .
Ahh, tab-completion. How many times while typing away in a word-processor and do I just hit [tab] and then wonder for a second why 'Wed' didn't just become 'Wednesday'!
Seriously, the numbers are not high enough now to have that effect, but can you imagine having to pay for every channel the same way you do for HBO and Showtime?
That would be FANTASTIC!! I don't want HGTV. I don't want Spike TV. I don't want Fox News. AND I DON'T WANT TO PAY FOR THEM!
I want to subscribe to the fewer than 10 channels I actually watch, and pay only for them. Instead I have to pay for 150 channels of garbage to get the 10 I want, and then program my TV to skip all the rest.
Tivo is a step toward video-on-demand, but paying for channels ala carte would be too.
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Nuclear power seems pretty damn clean to me, and I live about 15 miles from a nuc plant that produces my power, far cheaper (per Kwh) than anything else with no polution that I can see.
I'm not trying to start a debate about the damage damns can cause, but NOTHING makes energy cheaper with less pollution than hydropower. Hydro-damn generates electricity is essentially pollution free, and cheaper/Kwh than any other source.
IANAC (I am not a canadian) but The Canadian Nuclear FAQ says "The only large-scale electricity-generating technology in Canada with cleaner air emissions than nuclear plants is hydroelectric power"
Firewire Target disk mode is great, it is a fantastic way to clone systems, dump a large file (DVD image, DV from firewire cameras, etc.) but it doesn't solve this problem.
A Mac in target disk mode is still an Apple, and its HD is still in HFS+, not something you can access from a WinXP box.
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Here is a link at Adobe where you can turn any PDF into HTML.
This is a very simple conflict. Their culture [murder children == go to heaven] against everyone else's [murder children == go to hell]. You, and I, and every person who is not a suicide bomber can only hope that in "50 years or so" their culture is the same sort of bad memory that Nazi Germany is today.
Do not fall into the trap of believing that just because something is "a culture" that it is valuable.
However even after re-evaluation of your IQ, I stand by my earlier statement. It is YOUR time. Only you can waste it. If you feel school is a waste of your time, and yet you still attend, you have only yourself to blame.
To them my advice is STAY IN SCHOOL. If you are not old enough to drive, you are not old enough to make important decisions like dropping out. Dougie Howser is a fictional character , and a profoundly unrealistic one at that.I understand how frustrating it can be when you come to the realization that you are enrolled in day-care for teenagers. Many kids have the good fortune to go all the way through high school (and maybe enve the rest of thier lives) without realizing this. Those are the whack-jobs who try to tell kids that high school is the best time of their lives. THEY ARE WRONG. It only gets better after high school. If you have come to the uncomfortable realization that high school is in fact the worst time of your life, you have two choices;
1. Try to bury that knowledge and make the best of however much time you have left in school (I recommend dating cheerleaders, or creating a snowboarding club, or ANYTHING to take your attention away from that gnawing feeling of boredom)
or
2. Get the Hell out of there NOW. Do whatever it takes, promise you parents whatever you have to, get a job if they won't pay for it, in fact get a job even if they will, having your own money is one of the things that makes post-high-school life better.
Unsubstantiated? I think not.
Mean-spirited? Probably.
Personal? Not a bit. I don't know you, I don't have anything against you. (Or the grand-parent poster) I would tell the same thing to any teenager who tried to tell me how boring high school is. If your are bored, if your time is being wasted, DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.
No one in America is forced to go to school after age 16. If you super-geniuses are really wasting your time in school (BTW you're not, you need to learn social skills, you learn those by being subjected to the company of your peers) then you are welcome to drop out, graduate early, get a GED, go to community college or try to convince an institute of higher learning that your mom is right and you are so "gifted" you should be in college.
This is suprisingly easy to do. In fact if you are actually as smart as you think you are, then your teachers, counselors and school administrators will happily write you letters of reccomendation, help you with the paperwork, and even explain to you the implications of the choices facing you.
Of course you knew that. You are "gifted", you surf the internet, you read all the time. You are just too busy being bored by the waste of time that is school to bother doing anything about it.
It is YOUR time. If it is being wasted, YOU are responsible.
There is a reason teachers ignore the "TAG" kids who pass all their tests easily and turn in all their work on time. THEY DON'T NEED US. Oh, maybe their fragile egos need the stroking we are not giving them because we are busy trying to remedy the fact that their classmates can't read or do simple arithmetic, but they do not need us to teach them the material.
"Gifted" kids have such are hard time figuring out that to their teachers they aren't all that special. We were all Tag kids! Every teacher from the sadistic gym teacher who mocked you when you couldn't climb the rope past the big knot, to the guy in the lab coat with the giant inexplicable burn on the back was a TAG kid, and they all know your secret. It was our secret too.
School is EASY for TAG kids. It is boring because we didn't need 45 minutes of explanation to get simple concepts like covalence or differentiation or manifest destiny. The difference between teachers and whiney grown-up "gifted" kids is that we didn't let the ease and boredom of being good at school turn us into angry complainers who blame our teachers for our inability to feel like part of a group. We don't think being gifted makes us superior to the kids who need help in school, just better suited to offer them that help.
A hint, your teachers didn't ignore you because they were sadistic bastards out to step on your individualism and grind you down into a member of the masses, they ignored you because you are NOT as interesting as you think you are.
Look around you, if you are not in a recently built office building I think you will find you are closer to a power outlet than an ethernet jack.
That's not so unlikley. If you do most of your computing on a laptop, or a tablet, or if you have a mythTV box, network attached storage that was always available would let you shut down your big desktop for a significant energy/noise savings.
I'd love to have my a firewire-to-ethernet bridge to let my external FW drive beaccessible (albeit slowly) without crossing the room and plugging in. Plugging in the FW is still an option when copying DVD images or making backups, but if I just want to pull A file out of a backup, or access the gigs of mp3s that I moved off my laptop because I was running out of storage, why should I have to plug anything in, let alone leave an entire PC running turning money and electricity into heat while it does nothing.
Sometimes the speed/security/price advantages of wired in no way make up for the cable clutter. Imagine trying to hack two clusters of half a dozen e/iMacs into a small, school library. You can run wires over the floor (with channel if you are lucky) hubs in the center of each cluster, and presto, you ve ugly wires, trip wires, dozens of wires everywehere! Or one Airport base station, some access cards, and presto, every machine is on the net, nobody trips and calls OSHA on you.
Now you throw one of these HD enclosures in a corner and host disc images of all your reference cds on it. (although I recognize the wireless is not a clear advantage as long as you're tucking it into a corner anyway)
Not every application for a network requires speed, especially if all your network does is share internet access. 802.11b is still fast enough for web access, even streaming media.
Excellent. Now we can have Divx encoded video with mp3 encoded-full-surround-sound audio for our ripped DVDs.
Mind you full surround can be encoded as 6 channel AAC already, pairs up nicely with Xvid video encoding, and can be done in a few easy steps on OS X, (directions here) so I've never looked into other ways of doing it. Maybe someone out there already does it in surround on windows (nah, maybe on Linux) .
This example is more akin to product placement than corrupt journalism. Likely Corsair gave them the ram for free, and maybe even threw a little ad revenue their way, in return they plugged the actual product that they actually used in the review.
Had they said "We used some ram we had lying around, but if you really want snappy performance try Corsair Ram" you would have the equivalent of newscasters plugging Coke during the evening news.
Besides, the evening news is no less entertainment TV than Friends, less entertaining, but not less entertainment.
to dual G5 Xserves!
Q: who are you?
A: you are a mutant.You aren't going to age
You have super-sensory perceptions.
Society has stepped all over you with painfull treatments to force you to fake normalcy.
You have an enhanced memory.
Huge organizations oppose your existence and are trying to give you cancer.
But the real question is what year did you graduate from Professor Xavier's Shool for Gifted Youngsters? Class of 2000? 1999? Or are you old school?
It sounds to me like the problem is with the 4 year-old, and the parents, not Viacom or DISH. A four year-old human being is at least as trainable as a Golden Retriever puppy. This one has apparently been trained to break into ear splitting screams wheneve Sponge Bob is not on the TV/his bed/his clothes/wiping his ass.
If you did that poor a job training a dog it would bark non-stop except when it was terrorizing the cat or peeing on the carpet. Remember people, you can't take your kid back to the pound if you fail to raise them right.
Ahh, tab-completion. How many times while typing away in a word-processor and do I just hit [tab] and then wonder for a second why 'Wed' didn't just become 'Wednesday'!
Everything should have tab-completion!That would be FANTASTIC!! I don't want HGTV. I don't want Spike TV. I don't want Fox News. AND I DON'T WANT TO PAY FOR THEM!
I want to subscribe to the fewer than 10 channels I actually watch, and pay only for them. Instead I have to pay for 150 channels of garbage to get the 10 I want, and then program my TV to skip all the rest.
Tivo is a step toward video-on-demand, but paying for channels ala carte would be too.
I'm not trying to start a debate about the damage damns can cause, but NOTHING makes energy cheaper with less pollution than hydropower. Hydro-damn generates electricity is essentially pollution free, and cheaper /Kwh than any other source.
IANAC (I am not a canadian) but The Canadian Nuclear FAQ says "The only large-scale electricity-generating technology in Canada with cleaner air emissions than nuclear plants is hydroelectric power"
Firewire Target disk mode is great, it is a fantastic way to clone systems, dump a large file (DVD image, DV from firewire cameras, etc.) but it doesn't solve this problem.
A Mac in target disk mode is still an Apple, and its HD is still in HFS+, not something you can access from a WinXP box.