This distro is not for you. It is also not for hackers, l33t d00dz and power users. It is for little Granny Rose down the street who wants to check her email and browse some recipes/news/pr0n while she has lunch. They're not forcing you to use this distro, and thank christ for that.
Hmm, funny, cos in a day I can set up a Debian box with KDE 3.1.4 and let my family loose on it. They love it-it's fast, it's stable, it's pretty and it's EASY. Beat that.
I hear that in order to make their forces extra aggressive, the Chinese government forbids their soldiers from partaking in sexual activity. No sex, no masturbation, no nothing.
With these facts brought to light, the Taiwanese are fucked.
This reminds me of something London Underground has been doing for a few months now. Instead of having paper tickets, season ticket passengers can just wave a piece of plastic at a "validator", then at a ticket gate, and can then travel on the service.
HOWEVER...
With this idea, real money is involved, real money that I really don't want to lose. Thanks but no thanks.
cheating during exams I think are perfectly fine uses of cell-phone jammers and should be illegal
In the UK, all the major exam boards will drop you from every subject you do with that board if you so much as walk into an exam room with a mobile phone. THis is one of the few decent things AQA and Edexcel have ever done, ever (Jesus christ, they make Standard Oil look like Greenpeace).
SCO is gonna have to show this code or get their asses turfed out of court and into contempt. Not from court. Just from us. (Though whether we already hold contempt for SCO is debatable).
In other words I AM PLEASED!
This is like the greatest Christmas present ever...3 weeks before Christmas:D
I've submitted a few links to my site a few times (with a different account-they were rejected) and really, I see no problem with it SO LONG AS YOUR SITE CARRIES NO ADS. If you're going to profit in some way, it's just plain stupid.
One of my brothers' schools is giving out devices called AlphaSmarts, which are essentially keyboards with vi on a small LCD screen. The students are made to use these in class, and very little pen and paper work is done. There is also Literacy class-like English, but on computers.
What's the point? In a GCSE exam (upper level qualifications in the UK) he would not be allowed to even take the AlphaSmart into the exam room, let alone use it. And why bother with Literacy on the computers? Use a book. A book is tangible, you can annotate it, read it on the bus. You can't do that on a computer (laptops aside).
My brothers' handwriting is absolutely atrocious, and his spelling isn't too good either. How will a computer help improve his handwriting.
It seems that the main benefits here are not in the education industry, but the computer industry. Microsoft want their software in schools so kids know how to use Windows/Office and that software only. Apple regularly put full page adverts in papers like The Independent, championing the eBook for every class.
Another problem is the GCSE IT course. This course is not a "do a web page/spreadsheet/mail merge/database, then hand it in and see how good it is" affair, it's a "do a web page/spreadsheet/mail merge/database, then write a lengthy 30 page+ document with lots of pointless details about how you did it" affair. WTF!? If you do that, then you aren't marking students on how good they are at using software, you're marking them on their writing skills, and it's not really preparing them for the real world. I mean, how many times have you made a spreadsheet, after sketching it and meticulously planning it (yes, you have to sketch everything on GCSE IT)?
The classroom computers thing needs as a serious sanity check, and the IT courses at schools must be changed NOW, if only to make them relevant to the subject at hand.
In the UK there was a campaign for a "Sarah's Law" (in reference to the Sarah Payne abduction around Y2k), mostly spearheaded by the News Of The World newspaper (The Daily Mail with porn basically). Said paper even went as far as listing the names of some 100 registered sex offenders, which led to vigilante attacks on people who merely looked like those printed. This move drew widespread condemnation from everyone with a semblance of sanity.
Thank the holy lord Jesus Christ that the law never became legislature.
You could, for example, make a GPL-protected book, and I mean a physical book and not an e-book. Then someone could theoretically change the book... add new characters, whatever.
I know General Electric make them, no idea about them.
Over here in the UK, one of the London Underground's lines is completely automated (forget which). No drivers. It just works. The DLR works the same too.
The BBC has only been a pile of steaming horseshit because of the mess that the Tories made of broadcasting regulations, the resulting lack of standards on ITV and the consequential dive in quality at the BBC because of their perennial game of catch-up. The BBC is still a hell of a lot better than anyone else, BTW.
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So it's not a bug, it's a feature...
You. Have. Missed. The. POINT!!!!!!!
This distro is not for you. It is also not for hackers, l33t d00dz and power users. It is for little Granny Rose down the street who wants to check her email and browse some recipes/news/pr0n while she has lunch. They're not forcing you to use this distro, and thank christ for that.
"Someone's buying this crap and someone's going to get raped."
Pleeeeease say Darl...
Ha ha! You replaced all the Cs with Ks! HAHAHA! LOLOLOLZORZ! You are teh l33t! Haw haw!
Fool.
Yo.
Hmm, funny, cos in a day I can set up a Debian box with KDE 3.1.4 and let my family loose on it. They love it-it's fast, it's stable, it's pretty and it's EASY. Beat that.
Judging by the statistics, you'd think it was required, but guess what...
Innate respect for the elderly clashing with innate disgust for people selling me ways to naturally enlarge my cock! AAARGH!!! THE CONFUSION!
I hear that in order to make their forces extra aggressive, the Chinese government forbids their soldiers from partaking in sexual activity. No sex, no masturbation, no nothing.
With these facts brought to light, the Taiwanese are fucked.
This reminds me of something London Underground has been doing for a few months now. Instead of having paper tickets, season ticket passengers can just wave a piece of plastic at a "validator", then at a ticket gate, and can then travel on the service.
HOWEVER...
With this idea, real money is involved, real money that I really don't want to lose. Thanks but no thanks.
"Especially Boies or Darl naked."
What's to see?
"And please don't reccomend iMesh. I don't know if I could have intentionally installed that much spyware on my computer."
Instructions:
1. Go to Google.
2. Search for CleaniMesh
3. Download CleaniMesh
4. ???
5. Profit, I suppose
Zeropaid? Stealing? Never!
In the UK, all the major exam boards will drop you from every subject you do with that board if you so much as walk into an exam room with a mobile phone. THis is one of the few decent things AQA and Edexcel have ever done, ever (Jesus christ, they make Standard Oil look like Greenpeace).
Yippee yay!
:D
Boot to the head!
Down with SCO!
Go Linux!
SCO is gonna have to show this code or get their asses turfed out of court and into contempt. Not from court. Just from us. (Though whether we already hold contempt for SCO is debatable).
In other words I AM PLEASED!
This is like the greatest Christmas present ever...3 weeks before Christmas
I've submitted a few links to my site a few times (with a different account-they were rejected) and really, I see no problem with it SO LONG AS YOUR SITE CARRIES NO ADS. If you're going to profit in some way, it's just plain stupid.
One of my brothers' schools is giving out devices called AlphaSmarts, which are essentially keyboards with vi on a small LCD screen. The students are made to use these in class, and very little pen and paper work is done. There is also Literacy class-like English, but on computers.
What's the point? In a GCSE exam (upper level qualifications in the UK) he would not be allowed to even take the AlphaSmart into the exam room, let alone use it. And why bother with Literacy on the computers? Use a book. A book is tangible, you can annotate it, read it on the bus. You can't do that on a computer (laptops aside).
My brothers' handwriting is absolutely atrocious, and his spelling isn't too good either. How will a computer help improve his handwriting.
It seems that the main benefits here are not in the education industry, but the computer industry. Microsoft want their software in schools so kids know how to use Windows/Office and that software only. Apple regularly put full page adverts in papers like The Independent, championing the eBook for every class.
Another problem is the GCSE IT course. This course is not a "do a web page/spreadsheet/mail merge/database, then hand it in and see how good it is" affair, it's a "do a web page/spreadsheet/mail merge/database, then write a lengthy 30 page+ document with lots of pointless details about how you did it" affair. WTF!? If you do that, then you aren't marking students on how good they are at using software, you're marking them on their writing skills, and it's not really preparing them for the real world. I mean, how many times have you made a spreadsheet, after sketching it and meticulously planning it (yes, you have to sketch everything on GCSE IT)?
The classroom computers thing needs as a serious sanity check, and the IT courses at schools must be changed NOW, if only to make them relevant to the subject at hand.
In the UK there was a campaign for a "Sarah's Law" (in reference to the Sarah Payne abduction around Y2k), mostly spearheaded by the News Of The World newspaper (The Daily Mail with porn basically). Said paper even went as far as listing the names of some 100 registered sex offenders, which led to vigilante attacks on people who merely looked like those printed. This move drew widespread condemnation from everyone with a semblance of sanity.
Thank the holy lord Jesus Christ that the law never became legislature.
Bloody hell, that guy has awful spelling!
And he's coded what is obviously the *worst idea ever!*
Do you want to shoot him or shall I?
COnsidering that this is GNER, the net will probably be faster than the train.
What, like Wikipedia?
Remember that Slashdot story a while back, about the guy who made a fusion generator in his dorm room?
:)
He made it for fun: I NEED it
I know General Electric make them, no idea about them.
Over here in the UK, one of the London Underground's lines is completely automated (forget which). No drivers. It just works. The DLR works the same too.
The BBC has only been a pile of steaming horseshit because of the mess that the Tories made of broadcasting regulations, the resulting lack of standards on ITV and the consequential dive in quality at the BBC because of their perennial game of catch-up. The BBC is still a hell of a lot better than anyone else, BTW.
Want to discuss this further? Try this site.
'Tis tomorrow in Blighty. See here.
Ah, adbusters...nicely odd.