I agree 100% with this. Parents aren't taking responsibility for raising their kids. My parents were all about raising my brother an I better than their parents raised them. Teaching us the things they wish they had been taught and had learned the hard way. I think more often than not these days kids are sent off to day care during the work day and then sit in front of the t.v. when everyone is home for the day. A lot of the shootings in schools these days could probably be prevented if parents took an active role in their child's life.
I'm not saying that video games, television, music, etc. doesn't play a role in any of this but I don't think its the main problem. I mean, hell, when i was in junior high, I remember hearing LL Cool J's song "Mama Said Knock You Out" and I didn't use it as an excuse to go beat up some other kid on the playground or on the soccer field. My parents taught me what was right and what was wrong by that point. To those parents out there, talk to your kids and ask them how they feel about certain issues, teach them that when they see someone get shot on t.v. that its wrong, and just plainly play a role in your child's everyday life.
Well, I can see a reason for and against picking one language. For picking one, it probably makes grading the exam easier. All answers pertain to one language, thus no idiosyncrosies. However, for not picking one language, couldn't the exam concentrate on themes within computer science which can apply to any language. For instance the exam could cover recursion, file systems, memory allocation, etc. No reason to conform to one language...afterall, Computer Science is not the study of one language but the study of the science of computers, which would, as far as I know, encompass all languages.
One thing I find very displeasing, is how politicians and the media (more so the media I think) blame the troubles of todays youth on guns, rock and roll, the internet, etc. Its not these things that turn children into violent maniacs...its the fact that nobody is paying attention to them while they grow up.
In most families, both parents work. Usually they put their children into day care by the time they are toddlers. If both parents are working and come home at the end of the day tired, are they really going to want to listen to their children's questions or ask them how their day was? No, instead they put them in front of the t.v. or a video game console. As much as we all like t.v. and video games, this isn't something that young children need to be imersed in. There's plenty of time for that later.
I guess to make my point, I'd like to reference the columbine incident. The media has blamed everything from guns to the ineternet on this tragedy (I didn't follow it all that closely so I'm not 100% sure). But isn't anyone going to blame the parents? I mean, from what I heard, the children had the weapons and stuff like that in their own homes! Even papers talking about it...Doesn't anyone pay attention to their children or take responsibility for what their children do?
The blame needs to be put on bad parenting...not the internet or television. Someone needs to be there when a child sees a cartoon kill another cartoon on t.v. and remind them that killing isn't acceptable, what they're seeing is "make believe." Expand childrens minds with television and the internet. The information is very powerful if used correctly so why don't we use it properly to teach children what's right from what's wrong. Obviously some children these days don't know the difference. Perhaps we should spend more time pointing out that parenting is a problem these days and that we need to guide people towards being better parents for their children.
Neither Bush nor Gore should be debating about the internet filling the heads of today's youth with bad ideas and thoughts. They should be debating about how today's parents aren't teaching their children the values and morals that our parent's parent's had as children. Yeah, there was murder and what not back then, but nothing like we have today.
Thats exactly what you have to do. Between my sophomore and junior year I ended up interning for Compaq working on Tru64. As a college student, it was an excellent way to learn the innerworkings of the UNIX platform as well as get exposure to some of the more sophisticated code that is out there.
To get the job, basically I went to the career fair at my college and walked up to the representative there and he offered me an interview after talking to him for about 15 minutes. It did help that he was the head of the kernel development group.
I thought of that right after I posted...duh. I'm curious though why there isn't something in place that saves the original files in tarball or something. I guess you could eventually have a lot of wasted space if you do a thing like that though.
Biggest reason it won't happen is cost probably. I used to work at Compaq on Tru64 UNIX and the amount of testing that was done to make sure software was compliant with various standards was mind boggling. The amount of man hours put into it is incredible. Not only do you have the people who are testing the software working on it, you have the engineers fixing the code if it turns out that it isn't compliant. Like post #37 said, it would take too long and cost too much to certify free software so don't count on it happening.
First: I mean, really.. The government makes the laws, and the DoD is an appendant body of the government, so therefore, the government can say that Copyright Licenses do not apply to the DoD, and bypass the GPL without so much as an 'excuse me'.
But since the GPL only applies if someone redistribues or sells the software, this probably wouldn't ever happen. I mean, why on earth would the DoD redistribute the software with their changes in it. According to them, that would probably be a threat to national security.
Though, the government has been known to do shadier things than sell software and break a public licesnse to raise a buck or two...*shudder*
I tend to think that plenty of people would be willing to test unstable as well. Though, might it be kind of cool to allow changes to linux to be broken up into "patches" until they are incorporated into the next release. This would give people who want the latest and greatest a chance to get it without a full release or cd image. We could even allow the "patch" to be installed and save the original file contents elsewhere in case the user decides what they just installed was too unstable for their use. This way they can revert to the files they had before the "patch" was put in place.
I'm only using the word patch here for lack of a better word. There could be different types of things here...patches, add-ons, etc. I think it'd be cool though to install new software in its various stages and be able to uninstall it easily with a script.
This sort of thing may exist already and I may just not be aware of it.
Mebbe someone with better GPL knowledge can say whether or not the DOD would have to release the source if they made modifications to the kernel to make themselves happy.
From what I know of the GPL, it only keeps the software that it covers free. It doesn't require you to distribute any changes that you make. If I decided to modify the kernel to support some new nifty hardware, I don't need to release the code to the world. It would be nice if I did, but the license does not require me to. However, I can't sell that code with the rest of the linux kernel, since the kernel itself is free software.
However, I could be totally and utterly wrong about this. =)
There was a post made yesterday that I think sums the whole thing up really well. It said something about only wanting to be able to play a movie on a Linux box. Without the decryption code, we'd never be able to do that. Do you really think those DVD fellas would bother to whip something up for us linux users to use to play our DVDs? Probably not, and then it would cost you something if they did...which isn't quite in the spirit of the Linux movement. Another good point that I think I read was that did CD manufacturers start sueing the general public when CD-Rs came out? Not even that silly music association got involved. What makes the movie industry think its so important it can do whatever it wants? Just another reason to invest wisely on Wallstreet, buy your own island, and start anew. Of course we'd outlaw Microsoft products! =)
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I agree 100% with this. Parents aren't taking responsibility for raising their kids. My parents were all about raising my brother an I better than their parents raised them. Teaching us the things they wish they had been taught and had learned the hard way. I think more often than not these days kids are sent off to day care during the work day and then sit in front of the t.v. when everyone is home for the day. A lot of the shootings in schools these days could probably be prevented if parents took an active role in their child's life.
I'm not saying that video games, television, music, etc. doesn't play a role in any of this but I don't think its the main problem. I mean, hell, when i was in junior high, I remember hearing LL Cool J's song "Mama Said Knock You Out" and I didn't use it as an excuse to go beat up some other kid on the playground or on the soccer field. My parents taught me what was right and what was wrong by that point. To those parents out there, talk to your kids and ask them how they feel about certain issues, teach them that when they see someone get shot on t.v. that its wrong, and just plainly play a role in your child's everyday life.
Just my two cents...
Well, I can see a reason for and against picking one language. For picking one, it probably makes grading the exam easier. All answers pertain to one language, thus no idiosyncrosies. However, for not picking one language, couldn't the exam concentrate on themes within computer science which can apply to any language. For instance the exam could cover recursion, file systems, memory allocation, etc. No reason to conform to one language...afterall, Computer Science is not the study of one language but the study of the science of computers, which would, as far as I know, encompass all languages.
One thing I find very displeasing, is how politicians and the media (more so the media I think) blame the troubles of todays youth on guns, rock and roll, the internet, etc. Its not these things that turn children into violent maniacs...its the fact that nobody is paying attention to them while they grow up.
In most families, both parents work. Usually they put their children into day care by the time they are toddlers. If both parents are working and come home at the end of the day tired, are they really going to want to listen to their children's questions or ask them how their day was? No, instead they put them in front of the t.v. or a video game console. As much as we all like t.v. and video games, this isn't something that young children need to be imersed in. There's plenty of time for that later.
I guess to make my point, I'd like to reference the columbine incident. The media has blamed everything from guns to the ineternet on this tragedy (I didn't follow it all that closely so I'm not 100% sure). But isn't anyone going to blame the parents? I mean, from what I heard, the children had the weapons and stuff like that in their own homes! Even papers talking about it...Doesn't anyone pay attention to their children or take responsibility for what their children do?
The blame needs to be put on bad parenting...not the internet or television. Someone needs to be there when a child sees a cartoon kill another cartoon on t.v. and remind them that killing isn't acceptable, what they're seeing is "make believe." Expand childrens minds with television and the internet. The information is very powerful if used correctly so why don't we use it properly to teach children what's right from what's wrong. Obviously some children these days don't know the difference. Perhaps we should spend more time pointing out that parenting is a problem these days and that we need to guide people towards being better parents for their children.
Neither Bush nor Gore should be debating about the internet filling the heads of today's youth with bad ideas and thoughts. They should be debating about how today's parents aren't teaching their children the values and morals that our parent's parent's had as children. Yeah, there was murder and what not back then, but nothing like we have today.
Thats exactly what you have to do. Between my sophomore and junior year I ended up interning for Compaq working on Tru64. As a college student, it was an excellent way to learn the innerworkings of the UNIX platform as well as get exposure to some of the more sophisticated code that is out there.
To get the job, basically I went to the career fair at my college and walked up to the representative there and he offered me an interview after talking to him for about 15 minutes. It did help that he was the head of the kernel development group.
I thought of that right after I posted...duh. I'm curious though why there isn't something in place that saves the original files in tarball or something. I guess you could eventually have a lot of wasted space if you do a thing like that though.
Biggest reason it won't happen is cost probably. I used to work at Compaq on Tru64 UNIX and the amount of testing that was done to make sure software was compliant with various standards was mind boggling. The amount of man hours put into it is incredible. Not only do you have the people who are testing the software working on it, you have the engineers fixing the code if it turns out that it isn't compliant. Like post #37 said, it would take too long and cost too much to certify free software so don't count on it happening.
But since the GPL only applies if someone redistribues or sells the software, this probably wouldn't ever happen. I mean, why on earth would the DoD redistribute the software with their changes in it. According to them, that would probably be a threat to national security.
Though, the government has been known to do shadier things than sell software and break a public licesnse to raise a buck or two...*shudder*
I tend to think that plenty of people would be willing to test unstable as well. Though, might it be kind of cool to allow changes to linux to be broken up into "patches" until they are incorporated into the next release. This would give people who want the latest and greatest a chance to get it without a full release or cd image. We could even allow the "patch" to be installed and save the original file contents elsewhere in case the user decides what they just installed was too unstable for their use. This way they can revert to the files they had before the "patch" was put in place.
I'm only using the word patch here for lack of a better word. There could be different types of things here...patches, add-ons, etc. I think it'd be cool though to install new software in its various stages and be able to uninstall it easily with a script.
This sort of thing may exist already and I may just not be aware of it.
From what I know of the GPL, it only keeps the software that it covers free. It doesn't require you to distribute any changes that you make. If I decided to modify the kernel to support some new nifty hardware, I don't need to release the code to the world. It would be nice if I did, but the license does not require me to. However, I can't sell that code with the rest of the linux kernel, since the kernel itself is free software.
However, I could be totally and utterly wrong about this. =)
I was wondering how much the initial offering was going to be and how you guys think Andover.net going IPO will affect Slashdot?
There was a post made yesterday that I think sums the whole thing up really well. It said something about only wanting to be able to play a movie on a Linux box. Without the decryption code, we'd never be able to do that. Do you really think those DVD fellas would bother to whip something up for us linux users to use to play our DVDs? Probably not, and then it would cost you something if they did...which isn't quite in the spirit of the Linux movement. Another good point that I think I read was that did CD manufacturers start sueing the general public when CD-Rs came out? Not even that silly music association got involved. What makes the movie industry think its so important it can do whatever it wants? Just another reason to invest wisely on Wallstreet, buy your own island, and start anew. Of course we'd outlaw Microsoft products! =)