Nanny's are a sickening trend?
Playschool is a sickening trend?
Babysitters are a sickening trend?
Boarding schools are sickening trends?
You, sir, are easily sickened.
I think you are in danger of over-simplifying things in order to make an ill-justified point.
I went to a boarding school - but as a day pupil. I was at school (in England) with children who had been sent away to boarding school at the age of 4. From Singapore/Hong Kong/Thailand/Nigeria/etc. They didn't even see their families during the school holidays - they stayed with people in England. What sort of way is that to bring up a child?
Do you really think using a nanny is the best way to bring up a child? I accept that many people have no alternative - but is it honestly the best way of going about things?
Other people have offered you some replies. Here is mine!
How recently did you try out Linux audio software? I suggest you check out PlanetCCRMA - My entire (FC4-based) distribution is provided and kept up-to-date from their repository. There are alternatives.
I have an RME soundcard running very smoothly indeed with ALSA drivers. For now, it gives me 18 digital inputs and 18 digital outputs. I could add more I/Os later - the card will synchronise with other devices using Wordclock.
The icing on the cake is provided by JACK - a daemon which allows you to connect each input and output of your (JACK-capable) applications to each other or to the soundcard's inputs and outputs. Qjackctl provides a friendly graphical interface.
So, now to applications. There's Ardour - which is a well-specified DAW, definitely approaching a state useable by professional engineers. Zynaddsubfx is a useful softsynth. Qsynth provides a GUI for fluidsynth, which plays soundfonts in software. Hydrogen is a drum machine, and there are plenty of LADSPA effects to play with.
Linux doesn't have equivalents yet for certain programs - like Ableton Live, or Acid, but who needs them!
There are some things that you can do with Linux Audio programs which you can not do with the proprietary equivalents. Also, some people already find (some of) the Linux software more stable.
Erm, this is either a weird troll, or some language barrier thing. The term "dual carriageway" is in common usage amongst native speakers of modern English.
It means a road which has a central reservation between two carriageways - one for drivers travelling in each direction.
In the UK, the national speed limit is 60 mph. Exceptions are places with various lower speed limits (like built-up areas), and "motorways and dual carriageways", which have a limit of 70 mph.
That's not to say people don't speed (especially on motorways).
Memory can change the shape of a room; it can change the color of a car. And memories can be distorted.
True. Memories can also be completely fabricated.
I saw a documentary (probably on BBC2) a few years ago, where people were shown (faked) old photographs of them in a hot air balloon. Most of the subjects said that they couldn't remember the occasion.
However, seven days later, when the same subjects were shown the photographs again, almost every one of them said that they could remember it a bit better. They could even say who was with them on the day, and so on.
The brain is a funny thing. Very clever, but a little too clever sometimes...
...get into a discussion with a human female as to whether the toilet seat should be left up or down.
There is a trick to winning that argument. I learnt it from my father.
The key is to start the argument yourself. All you have to do is reverse the roles, and complain about women always leaving the seat up. Don't accept the idea that men do it - that's preposterous, after all!
There's just no way to win against such a foolproof line of reasoning...
My dad usually takes it one step further and complains about women who miss the toilet and make the floor wet. Someone will always try to say that it is physically impossible. For a suitable reply, just use your imagination. It's not as hard as it sounds. Make sure to keep a straight face!
Well, I rang the UK distributor, and spoke to a very friendly and helpful lady there. I told them I was interested in the GP2X but was concerned about the availability of the source.
She told me that she had just read the news herself. She said that 'Craig' - it sounds as though he is her colleague who deals with the manufacturer - was going to contact them himself. She said that she was sure he would put a post on the front page of their website http://www.gp2x.co.uk/ when he had some news. It does look as though they keep the news up to date on their front page.
So, if everyone gets their local distributor to help, maybe we can sort this out...
Which do you think is the more anti-social behaviour - posting misleading information deliberately, or politely pointing out an inaccuracy, for the benefit of anyone who might actually care?
For my part, I think hard about each one of my posts. They may veer off-topic occasionally, but that's how discussions work, isn't it? If you choose not to read them, that's your loss.
Don't think about "breaking books in". Whatever you are thinking of will probably just damage the spine. And, while I'm on the subject, bending the corners of pages is also a bad idea. Just put a loose piece of paper in the book or something. Buy a bookmark. Treat books nicely, they'll last longer, and more people will get to read them.
But back to what you said... I know exactly what you mean. Maybe even more so, because I like to read whilst playing the guitar! I have tried many times to practice scales, etc, whilst reading a book, but I always find it hard to hold the book open and/or turn pages whilst both my hands are busy!
I'd like a device that will let me read books comfortably, maybe turning pages with a footswitch or something. I expect it's something I should set up myself really. I suppose I should just wire a couple of footswitches to the serial port of a Linux box, and hack together a simple script to get started. That's another little project to add the the ever-growing list!
I had a quick look. Whoever wrote it seems to have conveniently forgotten the early 90s advert when Apple claimed to be selling the "World's first RISC computer".
Those of us who owned Acorns thought it was more than a bit dodgy - but especially funny when Acorn took out an advert in the Times welcoming Apple to the world of RISC... http://www.heyrick.co.uk/assembler/history.html
It's a real shame that Acorn pulled out of the personal computer market. I've used lots of other operating systems and processors since my early computer experiences with Acorns. Not one of them has been anywhere near as well-designed.
Your going to look at the GP and not tell me that Iraq is not implied?
Yes, absolutely.
There is not a single word in the earlier post that would justify the assumption. Think of all the places in the world that the USA military have been involved. He didn't even mention any nationality at all. It seemed to me like a pretty general comment, directed at no-one in particular, explicitly or implicitly.
Then you sir need to wake up and read the news.
That's the way. Suggest that I'm ignorant - that'll make more people agree with you. Also, I find that using as many cliches as possible can't fail to impress people.:o)
Now if your going to talk about innocent civilians getting caught in the middle of a war, it is an unfortunate consequence of a necessary evil.
Ah, well that's ok then.
Anyway, I'd love to continue this discussion elsewhere, but it's Christmas Eve in two days, I have to drive hundreds of miles, get two more days work in, buy presents for two families, decorate two houses, and do a lot of other stuff... So Happy Christmas!
Esperanto, please. No masculine/feminine/neuter, no irregular verbs, only one way to form plurals...
Apparantly it only takes a week to learn Esperanto. When everyone else speaks it, I'll only be a week behind!
I believe that argument was coined by a lady called Trudi Berger (not sure of the spelling, sorry), who used to be a specialist in language crash courses at York University in the 70s.
She used to help her students get top grades in modern language exams in a week (from scratch). The only problem is that you often forget in less than seven days what was learnt in the previous week! So the solution was to follow one of her crash courses with an extended visit to the appropriate country...
Or the fact that you have directed your distaste for the Iraq war at completely the wrong people.
When did the GP mention Iraq?
Don't like the war? Do not take it out on the soldiers, sailors, marines, or airmen; we did not ask to go to war, we did not ask to go to Iraq, take it out on the man that gave the order to do it. G.W. should be the brunt of your comments, my brothers in arms and I are just following orders
The "just following orders" line makes no sense. Do you accept no responsibility for your own actions? Did you not choose to sign up? You can't use someone else as an excuse for your actions.
In normal speech it means quite a bit more. It may be the language barrier...
Ah, OK, the "language barrier"... Sorry, I didn't realise that English wasn't your first language.:o)
...but where I come from it means about the same as 'extreme', being about as far from the norm as you can get.
That sounds about right so far. So, where are you from?:o)
Extreme standpoints are unreasonable, not per definition, but in practice.
On what basis? I think it's your assumption that anything differing from the "norm" is inherently unreasonable that I object to. It's a completely flawed assumption, based on absolutely nothing whatsoever. Can you actually explain your reasoning for such a generalisation?
You seem to be saying that no matter how precisely the original poster used his language, you are free to misunderstand it however you choose. That's true.
I always thought that being radical anything means you are not a reasonable person?
Sorry, that's your misunderstanding. You must have been thinking of the word unreasonable. The word radical means that something differs markedly from the usual. Nothing to do with whether it is reasonable or not.
Erm... I already have a touchscreen working on a Linux box.
There's nothing to it. The screens are widely available (look on eBay) and it uses a USB interface. The driver's in the kernel already. All I had to do was to flip the X and Y axes in xorg.conf, because the driver doesn't match my model precisely.
I've also tried it on Windows 2000, and it wasn't so easy to get working. But you knew that already!
I was just curious... I do know a fair few people who don't mind eating some meats, but who object strenuously to others - with fairly limited reasoning, it seems to me.
As an example, I know many people who eat lamb happily, but would object to eating dog, because dogs are "cute". Where's the logic in that?
My dad actually told my mum to keep the rabbit for a stew....she didnt...
Why not? Does she cook meat otherwise? Beef, lamb, pork, bacon, ham, gammon, chicken, turkey?
For the record, I'm vegetarian, for several reasons. However, I didn't used to be vegetarian, and my mum loves cooking, so I have enjoyed all of the above meats, as well as other things like duck, eel, pheasant and rabbit.
Why eat one animal and not another? I never understand why some people will happily eat a lamb, but draw the line at dog. What's the difference? The animal's already dead.
Obviously, I'm assuming that the animal was healthy, and newly killed, amongst other things.
Maybe they should crack down on the rioters first?
Erm... From what I have seen reported on the news (here in the UK), they have been! And it's been suggested that the "heavy-handedness" of the French police has resulted in heavier rioting. (I'm just relaying what I heard, nothing more.)
They want each console to be (and LOOK) different than the others, to have its own character.
You're right, that is clearly the reason for the non-conformity, however...
Is it true that every box that conforms to the (fairly) standard dimensions of hi-fi equipment needs to look similar? Dimensions and shape aren't the only things that can make a product stand out.
I'm sure that a good design team could come up with a stunning eye-catching console that will stack neatly with other equipment.
This is not as important for stereo components.
I feel the need to question why... There are countless hi-fi components that sell very well without having to have some wacky shape. Why can't a console manufacturer sell a console on the basic of its features, the games that are available for it, or maybe, let's say, the convenience of a conventional shape?
Maybe the first console that does this will sell successfully, because it is distinctive. Maybe some will prefer having a collection of consoles that aren't so obvious - there might be people who would prefer that their smart trendy living room doesn't make visitors think of a teenager's bedroom.
Personally, I'd like all of my audio, video, and computing hardware to be 19" rack-mountable. I'm getting there slowly... Next I'm going to build myself a desk and entertainment centre with rack shelves incorporated.
1. I can't afford to pay for Windows & all of the third party software which I would like. If I bought proprietary equivalents of all the software that I use frequently, the bill would definitely run into thousands of pounds (sterling), maybe tens of thousands. I used to use some pirated software, but it makes me feel bad - especially as I now work for a software developer!
2. I like the dynamic feeling that I get running Linux. Sure, bugs turn up - but then, they are often fixed quite quickly, and I do use some pretty bleeding-edge software.
3. I use Linux and various open source utilities at work. On a fair few occasions, I have had reason to post to a newsgroup or email a list with a problem. Almost every time, I have had a relevant/helpful reply within hours - often from the main developer of the program. It always makes me feel good.
4. I spend a fair bit of time learning new things - either for fun or from necessity. I don't mind this at all, as I don't feel that the time is wasted - the goalposts won't change every time that someone decides to upgrade software.
5. As a kind of combination of the earlier reasons... Linux gives me proper soundcard drivers (ALSA drivers for an RME Hammerfall), an incredibly flexible audio routing program (JACK), and a professional recording program (Ardour). As if this weren't enough, I get the opportunity to exchange emails with the developers of these programs - and get a fast helpful reply if my question merited it!
6. Some other reasons which I don't have the energy to go into. It's the end of the week, I'm tired, and I have a cold...
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I think you are in danger of over-simplifying things in order to make an ill-justified point.
I went to a boarding school - but as a day pupil. I was at school (in England) with children who had been sent away to boarding school at the age of 4. From Singapore/Hong Kong/Thailand/Nigeria/etc. They didn't even see their families during the school holidays - they stayed with people in England. What sort of way is that to bring up a child?
Do you really think using a nanny is the best way to bring up a child? I accept that many people have no alternative - but is it honestly the best way of going about things?
That's lucky, because one is an adjective describing things from England, and the other is a system for defining measurements. :o)
Good point, well made. I just wish I had mod points right now.
Other people have offered you some replies. Here is mine!
How recently did you try out Linux audio software? I suggest you check out PlanetCCRMA - My entire (FC4-based) distribution is provided and kept up-to-date from their repository. There are alternatives.
I have an RME soundcard running very smoothly indeed with ALSA drivers. For now, it gives me 18 digital inputs and 18 digital outputs. I could add more I/Os later - the card will synchronise with other devices using Wordclock.
The icing on the cake is provided by JACK - a daemon which allows you to connect each input and output of your (JACK-capable) applications to each other or to the soundcard's inputs and outputs. Qjackctl provides a friendly graphical interface.
So, now to applications. There's Ardour - which is a well-specified DAW, definitely approaching a state useable by professional engineers. Zynaddsubfx is a useful softsynth. Qsynth provides a GUI for fluidsynth, which plays soundfonts in software. Hydrogen is a drum machine, and there are plenty of LADSPA effects to play with.
Linux doesn't have equivalents yet for certain programs - like Ableton Live, or Acid, but who needs them!
There are some things that you can do with Linux Audio programs which you can not do with the proprietary equivalents. Also, some people already find (some of) the Linux software more stable.
Incredibly is the right word. I can hardly believe it myself. :o)
Erm, this is either a weird troll, or some language barrier thing. The term "dual carriageway" is in common usage amongst native speakers of modern English.
It means a road which has a central reservation between two carriageways - one for drivers travelling in each direction.
In the UK, the national speed limit is 60 mph. Exceptions are places with various lower speed limits (like built-up areas), and "motorways and dual carriageways", which have a limit of 70 mph.
That's not to say people don't speed (especially on motorways).
True. Memories can also be completely fabricated.
I saw a documentary (probably on BBC2) a few years ago, where people were shown (faked) old photographs of them in a hot air balloon. Most of the subjects said that they couldn't remember the occasion.
However, seven days later, when the same subjects were shown the photographs again, almost every one of them said that they could remember it a bit better. They could even say who was with them on the day, and so on.
The brain is a funny thing. Very clever, but a little too clever sometimes...
I know that the parent is clearly flamebait.
So, (tongue-in-cheek) what's up with that pansy sport called American football?
Surely real men play rugby, or Gaelic/Aussie rules football. Personally, I like cricket.
There is a trick to winning that argument. I learnt it from my father.
The key is to start the argument yourself. All you have to do is reverse the roles, and complain about women always leaving the seat up. Don't accept the idea that men do it - that's preposterous, after all!
There's just no way to win against such a foolproof line of reasoning...
My dad usually takes it one step further and complains about women who miss the toilet and make the floor wet. Someone will always try to say that it is physically impossible. For a suitable reply, just use your imagination. It's not as hard as it sounds. Make sure to keep a straight face!
Well, I rang the UK distributor, and spoke to a very friendly and helpful lady there. I told them I was interested in the GP2X but was concerned about the availability of the source.
She told me that she had just read the news herself. She said that 'Craig' - it sounds as though he is her colleague who deals with the manufacturer - was going to contact them himself. She said that she was sure he would put a post on the front page of their website http://www.gp2x.co.uk/ when he had some news. It does look as though they keep the news up to date on their front page.
So, if everyone gets their local distributor to help, maybe we can sort this out...
So?
Which do you think is the more anti-social behaviour - posting misleading information deliberately, or politely pointing out an inaccuracy, for the benefit of anyone who might actually care?
For my part, I think hard about each one of my posts. They may veer off-topic occasionally, but that's how discussions work, isn't it? If you choose not to read them, that's your loss.
It is true, without doubt, but it really isn't the whole story. As it happens, either word can be used as a transitive verb, or a noun.
The differences are in the meaning of the words. Have a look at these definitions: http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=effect and http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=affect.
I know it's pedantic, but I just couldn't help myself.
Don't think about "breaking books in". Whatever you are thinking of will probably just damage the spine. And, while I'm on the subject, bending the corners of pages is also a bad idea. Just put a loose piece of paper in the book or something. Buy a bookmark. Treat books nicely, they'll last longer, and more people will get to read them.
But back to what you said... I know exactly what you mean. Maybe even more so, because I like to read whilst playing the guitar! I have tried many times to practice scales, etc, whilst reading a book, but I always find it hard to hold the book open and/or turn pages whilst both my hands are busy!
I'd like a device that will let me read books comfortably, maybe turning pages with a footswitch or something. I expect it's something I should set up myself really. I suppose I should just wire a couple of footswitches to the serial port of a Linux box, and hack together a simple script to get started. That's another little project to add the the ever-growing list!
I had a quick look. Whoever wrote it seems to have conveniently forgotten the early 90s advert when Apple claimed to be selling the "World's first RISC computer".
Those of us who owned Acorns thought it was more than a bit dodgy - but especially funny when Acorn took out an advert in the Times welcoming Apple to the world of RISC... http://www.heyrick.co.uk/assembler/history.html
It's a real shame that Acorn pulled out of the personal computer market. I've used lots of other operating systems and processors since my early computer experiences with Acorns. Not one of them has been anywhere near as well-designed.
Yes, absolutely.
There is not a single word in the earlier post that would justify the assumption. Think of all the places in the world that the USA military have been involved. He didn't even mention any nationality at all. It seemed to me like a pretty general comment, directed at no-one in particular, explicitly or implicitly.
That's the way. Suggest that I'm ignorant - that'll make more people agree with you. Also, I find that using as many cliches as possible can't fail to impress people. :o)
Ah, well that's ok then.
Anyway, I'd love to continue this discussion elsewhere, but it's Christmas Eve in two days, I have to drive hundreds of miles, get two more days work in, buy presents for two families, decorate two houses, and do a lot of other stuff... So Happy Christmas!
Apparantly it only takes a week to learn Esperanto. When everyone else speaks it, I'll only be a week behind!
I believe that argument was coined by a lady called Trudi Berger (not sure of the spelling, sorry), who used to be a specialist in language crash courses at York University in the 70s.
She used to help her students get top grades in modern language exams in a week (from scratch). The only problem is that you often forget in less than seven days what was learnt in the previous week! So the solution was to follow one of her crash courses with an extended visit to the appropriate country...
Or the fact that you have directed your distaste for the Iraq war at completely the wrong people.
When did the GP mention Iraq?
Don't like the war? Do not take it out on the soldiers, sailors, marines, or airmen; we did not ask to go to war, we did not ask to go to Iraq, take it out on the man that gave the order to do it. G.W. should be the brunt of your comments, my brothers in arms and I are just following orders
The "just following orders" line makes no sense. Do you accept no responsibility for your own actions? Did you not choose to sign up? You can't use someone else as an excuse for your actions.
Ah, OK, the "language barrier"... Sorry, I didn't realise that English wasn't your first language. :o)
That sounds about right so far. So, where are you from? :o)
On what basis? I think it's your assumption that anything differing from the "norm" is inherently unreasonable that I object to. It's a completely flawed assumption, based on absolutely nothing whatsoever. Can you actually explain your reasoning for such a generalisation?
You seem to be saying that no matter how precisely the original poster used his language, you are free to misunderstand it however you choose. That's true.
I always thought that being radical anything means you are not a reasonable person?
Sorry, that's your misunderstanding. You must have been thinking of the word unreasonable. The word radical means that something differs markedly from the usual. Nothing to do with whether it is reasonable or not.
Erm... I already have a touchscreen working on a Linux box.
There's nothing to it. The screens are widely available (look on eBay) and it uses a USB interface. The driver's in the kernel already. All I had to do was to flip the X and Y axes in xorg.conf, because the driver doesn't match my model precisely.
I've also tried it on Windows 2000, and it wasn't so easy to get working. But you knew that already!
Fair enough! I didn't mean any criticism by it.
I was just curious... I do know a fair few people who don't mind eating some meats, but who object strenuously to others - with fairly limited reasoning, it seems to me.
As an example, I know many people who eat lamb happily, but would object to eating dog, because dogs are "cute". Where's the logic in that?
My dad actually told my mum to keep the rabbit for a stew....she didnt...
Why not? Does she cook meat otherwise? Beef, lamb, pork, bacon, ham, gammon, chicken, turkey?
For the record, I'm vegetarian, for several reasons. However, I didn't used to be vegetarian, and my mum loves cooking, so I have enjoyed all of the above meats, as well as other things like duck, eel, pheasant and rabbit.
Why eat one animal and not another? I never understand why some people will happily eat a lamb, but draw the line at dog. What's the difference? The animal's already dead.
Obviously, I'm assuming that the animal was healthy, and newly killed, amongst other things.
Maybe they should crack down on the rioters first?
Erm... From what I have seen reported on the news (here in the UK), they have been! And it's been suggested that the "heavy-handedness" of the French police has resulted in heavier rioting. (I'm just relaying what I heard, nothing more.)
They want each console to be (and LOOK) different than the others, to have its own character.
You're right, that is clearly the reason for the non-conformity, however...
Is it true that every box that conforms to the (fairly) standard dimensions of hi-fi equipment needs to look similar? Dimensions and shape aren't the only things that can make a product stand out.
I'm sure that a good design team could come up with a stunning eye-catching console that will stack neatly with other equipment.
This is not as important for stereo components.
I feel the need to question why... There are countless hi-fi components that sell very well without having to have some wacky shape. Why can't a console manufacturer sell a console on the basic of its features, the games that are available for it, or maybe, let's say, the convenience of a conventional shape?
Maybe the first console that does this will sell successfully, because it is distinctive. Maybe some will prefer having a collection of consoles that aren't so obvious - there might be people who would prefer that their smart trendy living room doesn't make visitors think of a teenager's bedroom.
Personally, I'd like all of my audio, video, and computing hardware to be 19" rack-mountable. I'm getting there slowly... Next I'm going to build myself a desk and entertainment centre with rack shelves incorporated.
1. I can't afford to pay for Windows & all of the third party software which I would like. If I bought proprietary equivalents of all the software that I use frequently, the bill would definitely run into thousands of pounds (sterling), maybe tens of thousands. I used to use some pirated software, but it makes me feel bad - especially as I now work for a software developer!
2. I like the dynamic feeling that I get running Linux. Sure, bugs turn up - but then, they are often fixed quite quickly, and I do use some pretty bleeding-edge software.
3. I use Linux and various open source utilities at work. On a fair few occasions, I have had reason to post to a newsgroup or email a list with a problem. Almost every time, I have had a relevant/helpful reply within hours - often from the main developer of the program. It always makes me feel good.
4. I spend a fair bit of time learning new things - either for fun or from necessity. I don't mind this at all, as I don't feel that the time is wasted - the goalposts won't change every time that someone decides to upgrade software.
5. As a kind of combination of the earlier reasons... Linux gives me proper soundcard drivers (ALSA drivers for an RME Hammerfall), an incredibly flexible audio routing program (JACK), and a professional recording program (Ardour). As if this weren't enough, I get the opportunity to exchange emails with the developers of these programs - and get a fast helpful reply if my question merited it!
6. Some other reasons which I don't have the energy to go into. It's the end of the week, I'm tired, and I have a cold...