It's by design that teachers teach you to live in a prison. Public schools were designed around ideas born from the old craftsmen shops of the Industrial Revolution period.
I'm not sure I follow your solution. I don't think children are capable of making decisions regarding their education. Many parents are just as incapable. There should never be an opt-out option for school. I've known individuals who dropped out of school prior to high school with the support of their parents just cause they didn't like school, and these individuals have always regretted the decision since. Some even harbored resentment to their parents for being so ignorant to let them drop out.
My solution would be to make look at the sociology of education that has accumulated over the years since the '50s and use some modern wisdom to create school environments that encourage students. My best friend is a physics teacher at a high school. He routinely uses fun oddball scenarios to teach his kids, and they learn and have fun. I only wished my high school physics teacher had the balls to think outside the textbook.
Where do you get that teachers aren't allowed to embarrass or harm students? Do you live someplace where teachers have their hands tied? Because this isn't a universal rule. This was not the only option; it wasn't even an option. It was a stupid "zero tolerance" show of force. If the kid is found guilty, she will have a criminal record for bad behavior in school.
Maybe you were at my thanksgiving party the night I finally gave in and rented the movie to watch when someone shouted "I couldn't believe he was dead too!"
My evaluation of the movie totally changed because I focused on how M. Night was concealing that fact from the audience.
Yeah, that definitely was an unfair mod, but eh, I'll survive.
In any case, it seems that in order to benefit from having proper font rendering (at least in terms of smoothing), one has to concentrate on using apps from the KDE or GNOME families, correct me if I'm wrong. I've used a lot of older programs such as FVWM and XV. I do with every app including terminals could automatically get proper font rendering.
I think I would probably still be a Linux user had fonts been properly rendered and smoothed in X as it was in Windows and Mac OS X. That turned out to be a deal breaker for me, looking back, and really the one feature besides DirectX that kept me using Windows. I still know how to configure and compile FreeType to support things like subpixel rendering, but I never could get my fonts the way I liked them. At the very least, kerning was always off. Obviously, I pay a lot of money to have font rendering in all my apps the way I want it.
I guess I was a lucky one then. I didn't have to run Linux on one of those extremely spartan systems. I had Slackware via diskette installed on my luxurious 486 DX33 with a whopping 16MB of RAM and 420MB hard drive. I had no idea what to do with all that extra processing power and disk space.
Then I discovered public FTP archives like wuarchive.wustl.edu for amiga demos, shareware, and vidcaps of hot actresses. Then learned about using tin for usenet porn. Save message attachment, uudecode, save, consume!
Kids today with their bootable DVD distros... screw them. They're never fully appreciate the art of fdisk and deciding just where to place/var and swap partitions on your hard drives, and they'll never get off my lawn.
Unlike you, I had to gradually warm up to Obama. I saw him as being the lesser of many evils. I was excited when Obama won, and I was really hopeful that "Change you can believe in" would be more than just a slogan.
Perhaps my expectations are too lofty, but I'm an old news junkie and political cynic. For all the excitement I showed that night, I expected that this talk of "change" and "fresh ideas" would translate to the smartest government we have ever seen, packed full of rock stars from every field of science and technology; somewhat light on politic savvy, but heavy of brilliance, and with the disruptive, youthful energy and creativity necessary to reject the old way of doing things in favor of something daring and new.
But Obama stacked his administration full of political old-timers; career politicians from the Democratic Old Guard and career lobbyists. There were notable exceptions, but by and large, the administration we're getting doesn't represent change. How can it? They are the same people from across the last two administrations. Their beliefs are still the same, as are their personalities and their tactics. What kind of change could they possibly create? This campaign looked and felt like a Macintosh, but it seems like it might really just be a Zune.
That's a pretty glowing endorsement of Cracked. I always read Cracked second to Mad precisely cause I felt it was an unfunny knock off. But I think I should give it a try. I wonder if Heavy Metal is still as entertaining as it was when I was a kid.
Why wouldn't you want to remember every detail of the Bush '43 era? Whether you're someone who just believes in preserving presidential history in its totality, or someone who loved the Bush '43 White House, or someone who absolutely loathed his regime... especially if you are someone who loathed his regime, it seems that we ought to do all we can to remember.
Look at what Fox News tried to do in arguing the justification for preemptive war in Iraq. They brought on "expert" historians and talking heads who claimed that our war against Germany in WWII was a similar preemptive war. They ran with that for about a week before it died down. What if school kids all across the country locked into that and declared it truth? Peter Jennings (RIP) once commented on digital photography and the risk is posed to the documentation of history. Digital is so convenient, but it's easily faked and it's easily lost, despite the fact that it's easy to share.
They got a bit of a head start at Lakeside vs some kid in the inner city with no access to computer technology, but they Gates and Allen did work for their success too. They could have easily been swept under the rug during the first years. Wasn't one of the themes of millionaire next door also that people who invest in stock as a way to get rich aren't actually working for success and so deserve not much at all being that they assume the smallest risk unlike the entrepreneurs behind the companies investors buy stock in? Maybe I'm thinking about Netscape Time.
Yeah, you probably don't really mean that. I remember having a massive CRT that dwarfed my desk, eclipsed the television on the other side of the room, and generated enough heat seemingly to free an egg. Needed a workspace for writing? Screw you, use the floor.
I used it on a PC running Slackware and FVWM with no wallpaper, just a solid black with magenta and blue Motif window frames. It was beautiful *tears up*
It could be that we're catching it in between evolutionary leaps. Maybe at one point, the species hunted small or larger mammals, but lately due to resource scarcity, it's been relying on insects and grubs, using it's venom for more defensive purposes.
Yeah, Win2K is just one of those operating systems that will continue to live long after its declaration of death. I figured with Vista, the XP Pro SP2 lovers would band together like us BeOS fans did and do everything under the sun to keep supporting the platform ourselves. But I forgot about the Win2K guys.:D
I followed the links. Now I remember why the last computer magazine I ever subscribed to was Computer Shopper back when it was thicker than a Sears catalog and carried The Hard Edge by Alice Hill and Bill O'Brien.
Hacks like this guy are the Ann Coulters of the tech journalism world.
I can attest to that. I was an early adopter of Windows 2000, and I had problems with flaky or unsupported drivers and unsupported apps for a little bit, but it didn't seem very long before things got comfortable. I ran NT 4.0 previously for years without having the wide hardware compatibility that I had wanted. I loved XP from the beginning, and I thought it was better than 2000 after SP1 and the proper "Black Viper" security checks.
I'm tired of the ads too. There's this one I get for Cox that says that the reason the government is forcing the switch is because digital PQ is just better!!! Yay!!!! And there was much fanfare.
Meanwhile, my standard def "digital channels" have bad macro blocking and other artifacts. The audio kinda sucks. Very thin, not at all warm like on my analog channels. My OTA HD channels look great though.
But mostly, I just don't want to see that commercial with that damn old lady telling me about a special government cooo-pon anymore.
Besides there is no important information that you can get on TV that you cant get via the Radio. You may actually get it faster via the radio.
I don't know about that. Perhaps where you are. I'm in a large radio market. the air waves are just congested, and it's all the same Clear Channel radio station whether they are advertising themselves as "The Edge" or "The Mix" or whatever. I haven't tuned into AM in a long time, are there any public radio stations aside from NPR which give you nothing but news? I mean, something other than political talk radio.
Sucker. I knew better than to let any car dealer have my cell number. Sadly they have my address, so I regularly get mail from Lexus -- likely the same stuff you get on robo call. Meh.
I think they'll want us to pay for that technology. As I said in an earlier thread, it seems that unless this ad thing will rely on some new OnStar like service, Lexus' only route into our cars is to pre-load us up with advertisements via the nav computer upgrades they ask us to pay for each year.
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It's by design that teachers teach you to live in a prison. Public schools were designed around ideas born from the old craftsmen shops of the Industrial Revolution period.
I'm not sure I follow your solution. I don't think children are capable of making decisions regarding their education. Many parents are just as incapable. There should never be an opt-out option for school. I've known individuals who dropped out of school prior to high school with the support of their parents just cause they didn't like school, and these individuals have always regretted the decision since. Some even harbored resentment to their parents for being so ignorant to let them drop out.
My solution would be to make look at the sociology of education that has accumulated over the years since the '50s and use some modern wisdom to create school environments that encourage students. My best friend is a physics teacher at a high school. He routinely uses fun oddball scenarios to teach his kids, and they learn and have fun. I only wished my high school physics teacher had the balls to think outside the textbook.
Where do you get that teachers aren't allowed to embarrass or harm students? Do you live someplace where teachers have their hands tied? Because this isn't a universal rule. This was not the only option; it wasn't even an option. It was a stupid "zero tolerance" show of force. If the kid is found guilty, she will have a criminal record for bad behavior in school.
You mean... it would evolve into a cogent argument?
Kinda. It was made for Macintosh though. Yeah, nevermind. You're right.
Maybe you were at my thanksgiving party the night I finally gave in and rented the movie to watch when someone shouted "I couldn't believe he was dead too!"
My evaluation of the movie totally changed because I focused on how M. Night was concealing that fact from the audience.
Yeah, that definitely was an unfair mod, but eh, I'll survive.
In any case, it seems that in order to benefit from having proper font rendering (at least in terms of smoothing), one has to concentrate on using apps from the KDE or GNOME families, correct me if I'm wrong. I've used a lot of older programs such as FVWM and XV. I do with every app including terminals could automatically get proper font rendering.
I think I would probably still be a Linux user had fonts been properly rendered and smoothed in X as it was in Windows and Mac OS X. That turned out to be a deal breaker for me, looking back, and really the one feature besides DirectX that kept me using Windows. I still know how to configure and compile FreeType to support things like subpixel rendering, but I never could get my fonts the way I liked them. At the very least, kerning was always off. Obviously, I pay a lot of money to have font rendering in all my apps the way I want it.
I guess I was a lucky one then. I didn't have to run Linux on one of those extremely spartan systems. I had Slackware via diskette installed on my luxurious 486 DX33 with a whopping 16MB of RAM and 420MB hard drive. I had no idea what to do with all that extra processing power and disk space.
Then I discovered public FTP archives like wuarchive.wustl.edu for amiga demos, shareware, and vidcaps of hot actresses. Then learned about using tin for usenet porn. Save message attachment, uudecode, save, consume!
Kids today with their bootable DVD distros... screw them. They're never fully appreciate the art of fdisk and deciding just where to place /var and swap partitions on your hard drives, and they'll never get off my lawn.
Unlike you, I had to gradually warm up to Obama. I saw him as being the lesser of many evils. I was excited when Obama won, and I was really hopeful that "Change you can believe in" would be more than just a slogan.
Perhaps my expectations are too lofty, but I'm an old news junkie and political cynic. For all the excitement I showed that night, I expected that this talk of "change" and "fresh ideas" would translate to the smartest government we have ever seen, packed full of rock stars from every field of science and technology; somewhat light on politic savvy, but heavy of brilliance, and with the disruptive, youthful energy and creativity necessary to reject the old way of doing things in favor of something daring and new.
But Obama stacked his administration full of political old-timers; career politicians from the Democratic Old Guard and career lobbyists. There were notable exceptions, but by and large, the administration we're getting doesn't represent change. How can it? They are the same people from across the last two administrations. Their beliefs are still the same, as are their personalities and their tactics. What kind of change could they possibly create? This campaign looked and felt like a Macintosh, but it seems like it might really just be a Zune.
No, we spent the last 8 years being lectured daily on how dissent is most certainly *not* patriotic; and is even likely to be treasonous.
That's a pretty glowing endorsement of Cracked. I always read Cracked second to Mad precisely cause I felt it was an unfunny knock off. But I think I should give it a try. I wonder if Heavy Metal is still as entertaining as it was when I was a kid.
Why wouldn't you want to remember every detail of the Bush '43 era? Whether you're someone who just believes in preserving presidential history in its totality, or someone who loved the Bush '43 White House, or someone who absolutely loathed his regime... especially if you are someone who loathed his regime, it seems that we ought to do all we can to remember.
Look at what Fox News tried to do in arguing the justification for preemptive war in Iraq. They brought on "expert" historians and talking heads who claimed that our war against Germany in WWII was a similar preemptive war. They ran with that for about a week before it died down. What if school kids all across the country locked into that and declared it truth? Peter Jennings (RIP) once commented on digital photography and the risk is posed to the documentation of history. Digital is so convenient, but it's easily faked and it's easily lost, despite the fact that it's easy to share.
They got a bit of a head start at Lakeside vs some kid in the inner city with no access to computer technology, but they Gates and Allen did work for their success too. They could have easily been swept under the rug during the first years. Wasn't one of the themes of millionaire next door also that people who invest in stock as a way to get rich aren't actually working for success and so deserve not much at all being that they assume the smallest risk unlike the entrepreneurs behind the companies investors buy stock in? Maybe I'm thinking about Netscape Time.
That is just sick... freaking hilarious... but sick. Mod up. I mean down, I mean up. I feel so guilty.
There's that word again... heavy. Why are things so heavy in the future? ls there a problem with the Earth's gravity?
Yeah, you probably don't really mean that. I remember having a massive CRT that dwarfed my desk, eclipsed the television on the other side of the room, and generated enough heat seemingly to free an egg. Needed a workspace for writing? Screw you, use the floor.
I used it on a PC running Slackware and FVWM with no wallpaper, just a solid black with magenta and blue Motif window frames. It was beautiful *tears up*
It could be that we're catching it in between evolutionary leaps. Maybe at one point, the species hunted small or larger mammals, but lately due to resource scarcity, it's been relying on insects and grubs, using it's venom for more defensive purposes.
An African swallow maybe, but not a European swallow.
mmmmmm... cream sauce. aaaaaaaagghhhh
Yeah, Win2K is just one of those operating systems that will continue to live long after its declaration of death. I figured with Vista, the XP Pro SP2 lovers would band together like us BeOS fans did and do everything under the sun to keep supporting the platform ourselves. But I forgot about the Win2K guys. :D
I followed the links. Now I remember why the last computer magazine I ever subscribed to was Computer Shopper back when it was thicker than a Sears catalog and carried The Hard Edge by Alice Hill and Bill O'Brien.
Hacks like this guy are the Ann Coulters of the tech journalism world.
I can attest to that. I was an early adopter of Windows 2000, and I had problems with flaky or unsupported drivers and unsupported apps for a little bit, but it didn't seem very long before things got comfortable. I ran NT 4.0 previously for years without having the wide hardware compatibility that I had wanted. I loved XP from the beginning, and I thought it was better than 2000 after SP1 and the proper "Black Viper" security checks.
I'm tired of the ads too. There's this one I get for Cox that says that the reason the government is forcing the switch is because digital PQ is just better!!! Yay!!!! And there was much fanfare.
Meanwhile, my standard def "digital channels" have bad macro blocking and other artifacts. The audio kinda sucks. Very thin, not at all warm like on my analog channels. My OTA HD channels look great though.
But mostly, I just don't want to see that commercial with that damn old lady telling me about a special government cooo-pon anymore.
Besides there is no important information that you can get on TV that you cant get via the Radio. You may actually get it faster via the radio.
I don't know about that. Perhaps where you are. I'm in a large radio market. the air waves are just congested, and it's all the same Clear Channel radio station whether they are advertising themselves as "The Edge" or "The Mix" or whatever. I haven't tuned into AM in a long time, are there any public radio stations aside from NPR which give you nothing but news? I mean, something other than political talk radio.
Sucker. I knew better than to let any car dealer have my cell number. Sadly they have my address, so I regularly get mail from Lexus -- likely the same stuff you get on robo call. Meh.
I think they'll want us to pay for that technology. As I said in an earlier thread, it seems that unless this ad thing will rely on some new OnStar like service, Lexus' only route into our cars is to pre-load us up with advertisements via the nav computer upgrades they ask us to pay for each year.