OK, my first response was "What a moron, that's just the server." My second response, on clicking the link, was "HOLY HELL, WHEN DID THAT HAPPEN?!?!" My third response, on trying to get a copy, was "OK, calling it the Half-Life 1 engine is just cruel and misleading, not to mention cruel. Also blatantly false. Did I mention cruel?" (It's just the server.)
P.S. Somebody more knowledgeable, correct me if I'm wrong, and please please say I'm wrong...
This is true, Christianity is by definition a faith, but a belief in Darwinian Evolution requires a similar amount of faith. Neither can be absolutely proven. If Intelligent Design and Creationism have no place in the classroom, neither does Darwinian Evolution.
It's my personal opinion that all the theories should be presented equally, without bias, and leave the students to make up their own minds. To do otherwise would be to force your own beliefs, or the beliefs of the system, upon the student.
Alternatively, teach them nothing about how the world came about/could have come about, and let them find out in their own time, if they really care.
To be honest, I really don't care. Linux is by no means the right OS for everybody. For an average user, with nobody around who understands Linux/UNIX enough to administrate a system, I wouldn't recommend it at all. For those people, Apple/Windows machines are certainly the better option.
I will accept that it's not _that_ easy to do stuff like install software, and configure your system. I just don't like the way the grandparent hideously exaggerates a problem he/she had, by quite blatantly making up information, in other words, lying. That's what makes me angry.
As I say, Linux isn't right for everybody. It does have a learning curve, and if you don't want that, you just want a simple system geared towards non-technical people, then fine, use something else. But saying that a relatively simple task like installing Quake3 (which by the way _is_ as simple as I described) is 'too difficult', as opposed to 'too difficult for you', is like a 12 year old trying to climb Mount Kilimanjaro and then saying that nobody should go mountain climbing, because it's too difficult.
What, you mean emerge quake3? Put the CD in when it says to?
Or do you mean putting the CD in, and clicking on the installer?
Or do you mean not knowing how to do it, and actually asking google?!
Ooh, the pain...
Stop being a wuss, it's not that hard to install stuff in Linux. If you really do find it so difficult, I'm sure you can find something from FisherPrice at your local ToysRus.
Actually, my church requires anybody working with kids to have a Criminal Records Bureau check, and obviously they have to be recognised members of the church as well.
Right. And where's the news? It's just slightly obvious to anybody who knows even a little bit about neuroscience that the brain is an analogue computer. And obviously the brain learns like other biological brains, it _is_ a biological brain, and they all follow pretty much the same kind of design.
I do know when WWII was, and WWI, but I have no clue who the third US president was, or the second, or the fourth, or the fifth, and I don't know how many there have been so far. But does it really matter? Does anybody actually care? I certainly don't, as I'm British... I do, however, know a reasonable amount about the history of communications, and how modern communications devices work. In fact, I make a point of not using any device unless I have at least some idea of how it works.
So really, your generalisation is unfair. A lot of teenagers are actually quite intelligent.
Oh, and more on-topic... Morse code isn't quite as efficient for text entry as predictive texting, unless you've had a lot of practice, and can type it very fast. Even then, you'd want to convert it into 8-bit/5-bit SMS, otherwise it's horribly inconvenient.
David Hemler, president of Microsoft Canada, said Internet pornographers were computer savvy, so the program would put law enforcement officials "on the same level as the bad guys."
This is deranged. You can't just spend some money, build a program, and expect it to enhance your knowledge in a certain field.
Computers are just tools, nothing more. If you don't use the tool properly, it'll be just as much use to you as trying to find child pornographers by asking a spade.
No, that'll create 3 threads, which will put 100% load on 3 CPU's. IF you have 4, that's 75% of the overall system capacity, but that's not often the case;)
I get your irony, and you're exactly right. The Bible says that it's God's will that none should perish. Dunno about you, but I define dying of Cancer as perishing. So, yeah... whenever you hear somebody say that, slap them hard and tell them to read...
Pfft. since when is that a standard? I've been using a 7-bit byte all my life. Sure, I don't have space for some unimportant stuff, like uppercase letters, but I've got a spare bit for a rainy day. Do Microsoft systems have this feature? NO! What happens when they lose a bit? Do they have a backup plan? NO! I invented the 7-bit byte, and nobody, but NOBODY is going to steal my invention!
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> A shell just isn't as hip as an html gui.
Get out. Wannabe!
There's plenty out there. For instance the Motorola A780.
Qt Phone Edition on top of a MontaVista Linux Kernel.
OK, my first response was "What a moron, that's just the server."
My second response, on clicking the link, was "HOLY HELL, WHEN DID THAT HAPPEN?!?!"
My third response, on trying to get a copy, was "OK, calling it the Half-Life 1 engine is just cruel and misleading, not to mention cruel. Also blatantly false. Did I mention cruel?"
(It's just the server.)
P.S.
Somebody more knowledgeable, correct me if I'm wrong, and please please say I'm wrong...
Why is it always a Dave?
Friends?
So are you. Does that make the GP racist?
Heck yeah... I can't wait until I've got Electricity-over-IP! ...or is that irony?
This is true, Christianity is by definition a faith, but a belief in Darwinian Evolution requires a similar amount of faith. Neither can be absolutely proven.
If Intelligent Design and Creationism have no place in the classroom, neither does Darwinian Evolution.
It's my personal opinion that all the theories should be presented equally, without bias, and leave the students to make up their own minds. To do otherwise would be to force your own beliefs, or the beliefs of the system, upon the student.
Alternatively, teach them nothing about how the world came about/could have come about, and let them find out in their own time, if they really care.
Is this a joke? ...or is the US "Air Force Space Command"'s crest meant to have an Original Series commbadge slapped on top of it?
To be honest, I really don't care. Linux is by no means the right OS for everybody.
For an average user, with nobody around who understands Linux/UNIX enough to administrate a system, I wouldn't recommend it at all.
For those people, Apple/Windows machines are certainly the better option.
I will accept that it's not _that_ easy to do stuff like install software, and configure your system. I just don't like the way the grandparent hideously exaggerates a problem he/she had, by quite blatantly making up information, in other words, lying. That's what makes me angry.
As I say, Linux isn't right for everybody. It does have a learning curve, and if you don't want that, you just want a simple system geared towards non-technical people, then fine, use something else. But saying that a relatively simple task like installing Quake3 (which by the way _is_ as simple as I described) is 'too difficult', as opposed to 'too difficult for you', is like a 12 year old trying to climb Mount Kilimanjaro and then saying that nobody should go mountain climbing, because it's too difficult.
What, you mean emerge quake3?
Put the CD in when it says to?
Or do you mean putting the CD in, and clicking on the installer?
Or do you mean not knowing how to do it, and actually asking google?!
Ooh, the pain...
Stop being a wuss, it's not that hard to install stuff in Linux. If you really do find it so difficult, I'm sure you can find something from FisherPrice at your local ToysRus.
Actually, my church requires anybody working with kids to have a Criminal Records Bureau check, and obviously they have to be recognised members of the church as well.
Right. And where's the news?
It's just slightly obvious to anybody who knows even a little bit about neuroscience that the brain is an analogue computer.
And obviously the brain learns like other biological brains, it _is_ a biological brain, and they all follow pretty much the same kind of design.
Hi, I'm 16. I.E. A teenager.
I do know when WWII was, and WWI, but I have no clue who the third US president was, or the second, or the fourth, or the fifth, and I don't know how many there have been so far.
But does it really matter? Does anybody actually care? I certainly don't, as I'm British...
I do, however, know a reasonable amount about the history of communications, and how modern communications devices work. In fact, I make a point of not using any device unless I have at least some idea of how it works.
So really, your generalisation is unfair. A lot of teenagers are actually quite intelligent.
Oh, and more on-topic... Morse code isn't quite as efficient for text entry as predictive texting, unless you've had a lot of practice, and can type it very fast. Even then, you'd want to convert it into 8-bit/5-bit SMS, otherwise it's horribly inconvenient.
For a desktop machine, definitely use CKO.
David Hemler, president of Microsoft Canada, said Internet pornographers were computer savvy, so the program would put law enforcement officials "on the same level as the bad guys."
This is deranged. You can't just spend some money, build a program, and expect it to enhance your knowledge in a certain field.
Computers are just tools, nothing more. If you don't use the tool properly, it'll be just as much use to you as trying to find child pornographers by asking a spade.
No, that'll create 3 threads, which will put 100% load on 3 CPU's. IF you have 4, that's 75% of the overall system capacity, but that's not often the case ;)
It's not news either ;)
Is it just me, or is this "coding system" a little stupid...
It's like having a game about sex...
(19:57) OI! Shag me!
(19:57) OK
(19:58) *You have both attained nakedness*
(20:02) *You have reached orgasm*
(20:03) *She has reached orgasm*
The End.
It's like... it's an abomination to sex, like this is an abomination to real coding!
Forrest Gump?
I get your irony, and you're exactly right.
The Bible says that it's God's will that none should perish. Dunno about you, but I define dying of Cancer as perishing.
So, yeah... whenever you hear somebody say that, slap them hard and tell them to read...
> I mean, if dual cores could cook, I'd marry it.
You can cook _on_ them... you can't do that with a normal wife, not without handcuffs.
...w00t!
Both options are equally retarded...
Pfft. since when is that a standard? I've been using a 7-bit byte all my life.
Sure, I don't have space for some unimportant stuff, like uppercase letters, but I've got a spare bit for a rainy day. Do Microsoft systems have this feature? NO! What happens when they lose a bit? Do they have a backup plan? NO!
I invented the 7-bit byte, and nobody, but NOBODY is going to steal my invention!