The mentality of adults having priviledges that kids don't have makes kids curious. You always want something you can't have.
The policy makes sense on paper and a lot of kids will be fine with this. The majority will end up with an overgrown sense of curiosity.
The real world is way, way less structured / just once you get there. Becoming a parent makes a person acutely aware of this. Parenting isn't about right and wrong. It's way more of a head game than that. Not to say it's all about psychology, I'm just saying you can't make up rules and expect them to work based on simple principles.
How long does it take to plan to get a guy in a country, get some decent explosives in hand, and have them blow something up? A year of planning, and it was still in its infancy?
If terrorists really just wanted to terrorize Americans, I think they'd make smaller plans in greater numbers. It'd be so easy to pull off something like that. Instead, they go and make these elaborate plots involving all sorts of communications.
I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but their methods are incongruent with their alleged goals. Something's amiss.
How many people here are looking for a 15+ lb. machine to replace their desktop priced at $2000+ USD?
Okay, now how many people are looking for a sub-5 lb. machine in a laptop form factor that can run basic productivity software with excellent battery life priced at less than $800 USD?
Why are there so few options for the latter scenario? And an even better question: why are there so many options for the former scenario!?
I wanted to program games since I was 4, but it wasn't until I was 9 that a babysitter told me about QBASIC. Before then, I'd never even heard of a way to actually program a computer; I was convinced that it was done by punching in 1s and 0s.
The sitter showed me as much as he could in a single sitting. He certainly wasn't a programmer. I think he knew print, let, goto and while, and that was about it. Using that skillset and what little I could glean from the built in help, I wrote my own game when I was maybe 10.
Looking to broaden my skillset in to more useful things, EVERYONE discouraged me. "Programming is soo, so hard," "you have to do a LOT of studying to program a computer," "maybe some day you'll learn how." I pretty much gave up because I didn't have the college degree everyone apparently thought I needed.
When I was ~16, I picked up VB 6 learning edition. I didn't have Internet access, so I had to make due with the books that came with the CD. What a letdown that was. I just took it as proof that everyone was right, programming was too hard for a kid.
When I was 17, I taught myself HTML in 3 days. Yeah, it was crappy table / frame-based layout stuff, but given what I had to work with, I think I was pretty damn handy with HTML after 3 days. I made a few sites and people loved my work.
Starting in college, I found that I knew HTML and was at the stage in my life that everyone always told me I had to be in to program a computer. My cousin showed me Linux, and from there I discovered Python and PHP. I took CS161 (C/++ centric at my school).
Ya know what I found out? Everything I'd been hearing all those years was total bullshit. I could've been programming in perl and C for over a DECADE if someone had just told me it wasn't difficult at all. I'll never stop feeling like I wasted a lot of potential learning time. I filled that time with video games. I'll never get that decade back.
Now I'm a dad, and you bet your ass my kids are going to know that anyone is capable of anything.
Would it be possible for XP to be installed beside / within OS X, then have OS X be aware of this installation and use files straight from said XP installation to run XP apps from within OS X? It'd only take a few wrappers to make such apps integrate with the OS X desktop.
I think it's important for us to figure out what parts of Global Warming are real and what parts aren't, but seriously, shouldn't we be more concerned with preparing ourselves for *anything*? Maybe my grandkids will live in a desert planet, maybe they'll live in an ice planet. Either way, let's be prepared.
Oh, and let's do what we can to not dink with the environment. Not so that we stop polluting or anything, but because research like that can lead to developments useful for other facets of technology. Unless we talk about *that*, all this Global Warming flamewar is just a public wanking session.
Maybe this is one of those areas I found confusing. Maybe it could be made more comprehensive, if not simpler.
Not to knock it, as I'm in no position to do it. It's great stuff. Just saying, that sounds needlessly complicated. I know that stuff I do has some needless complications.
I did. Maybe I'm easily distracted, I dunno. I'm just saying, one was simpler throughout. Simpler doesn't map 1:1 to better, but whatever the details, the result is that I went with the one that was easier to digest.
The reasons listed in TFA are nowhere near why I don't use it (granted, I've only used databases as toys thusfar).
A few years ago, I decided to learn a DBMS and teach myself SQL. I tried Access because it's "user friendly." Call me crazy, but I felt it was anything but. So I tried Postgres because everyone spoke so highly of it (and I'm very comfy with the command line). I read a lot of documentation and did a lot of things that felt like "progress" before I gave up.
I picked up MySQL next. It had some quirks, sure, but it was maybe an hour before I was comfortable enough with the DBMS that it didn't stand between me and learning SQL.
I picked up Postgres again last year and got much further along with it. I actually made a database, and it had tables and everything. I gave up because everything just "felt" more complicated than in MySQL.
I really want to learn Postgres. I do. I'm convinced it's more powerful and flexible. I just don't have the time, patience, or need.
Both MySQL and Postgres have their quirks that make it so you can't just jump in and start playing with SQL, and that sets the bar higher than it needs to be. Sure, every product will have some such complexity, but the lower the bar, the wider the userbase.
Not to say price isn't currently a problem- much less mass production- but at 50 MPG, it's a bit less of a problem. And this was designed by kids. Hopefully, engineers could get some better fuel economy.
I'm a little surprised how quickly people forget what it was like to be in this kid's shoes. To this day, I still find myself lost in a sea of information. I have no understanding of Java as a platform, but people In The Know would probably flame me for asking.
This is one of the best Ask Slashdots I've ever seen. Every single person reading has been there at some point.
I give the asker a little extra credit; he isn't completely confused and seems to know what questions to ask, or at least moreso than I ever did at that stage.
Is there any way you can save some money in the short-term so you can take some time off?
I'm paying to live in a house and feed a family all by myself, on a less-than-average wage. There's a lot we live without, and we run on a tight, tight budget, but we manage.
On the other hand, this temporary dip could be the price for a long term boom if they emerge as the only company in their market with an ounce of ethics. A small fraction of the people who hate Bush (and aren't even necessarily geeks) are going to start prefering Google.
Today I try to address what things I think are important before I click 'Save'.
The heathen admits to using a WIMP interface!!!! He clicks!! He clicks!!! Someone, get this man a shell prompt!!!
As with all things, it's not whether something's good or bad, it's how it's done that matters. Nothing is so black and white. Where I work, we have one meeting a week, lasting maybe 45 minutes. We also have meetings any time we need to agree on decisions that need to be made. The sales people where I work spend a lot of time in meetings... because their entire job is to find out what people want, find out what it takes to accomplish that, and make sure everyone's aware of what's going on.
Maybe you've had a bad experience with meetings, but I have no idea how you were marked "Insightful" and not "Flamebait." Just because YOUR meetings go badly doesn't mean meeting in general are bad. You've just got to use them right.
By your reasoning, food could be a terrible thing if you don't know how to eat it.
I don't think anything needs to be done about this. Slashdot has a high concentration of tin-foil-hat types, and it's to be expected.
Mods, mod these guys down. Responders to posts about conspiracy theories, tell the theorists to submit as many stories as the mega-submitters. Too busy with a job? Well, maybe the mega-submitters aren't.
There's so inanely little to gain from what they're doing if you put it in to perspective.
I agree, RPM's? The old installer, while weird about multiple users, worked on my system without a hitch. OO.o wasn't that important to me anyway, I guess. I'll stick to KOffice and MS Office under Crossover. *shrug* If someone makes a Slackware package, maybe I'll take another look.
I do office work that's completely unrelated to IT in the geek sense. Does that make me any less of a geek? I need a job to support my family, and at this job, I can do that. I'm still fishing around for an IT job, but in the meantime, I'm still a geek, even if it's not my job to be so.
X.org is an implementation of the X11 protocol. X11R6 is the 6th revision of the X11 protocol. There was supposedly an X10 protocol before X11.
What people have begun abandoning is XFree86, and not everyone is leaving it. I think NetBSD still uses it.
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The mentality of adults having priviledges that kids don't have makes kids curious. You always want something you can't have.
The policy makes sense on paper and a lot of kids will be fine with this. The majority will end up with an overgrown sense of curiosity.
The real world is way, way less structured / just once you get there. Becoming a parent makes a person acutely aware of this. Parenting isn't about right and wrong. It's way more of a head game than that. Not to say it's all about psychology, I'm just saying you can't make up rules and expect them to work based on simple principles.
How long does it take to plan to get a guy in a country, get some decent explosives in hand, and have them blow something up? A year of planning, and it was still in its infancy?
If terrorists really just wanted to terrorize Americans, I think they'd make smaller plans in greater numbers. It'd be so easy to pull off something like that. Instead, they go and make these elaborate plots involving all sorts of communications.
I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but their methods are incongruent with their alleged goals. Something's amiss.
Used laptops have long lasting batteries?
How many people here are looking for a 15+ lb. machine to replace their desktop priced at $2000+ USD?
Okay, now how many people are looking for a sub-5 lb. machine in a laptop form factor that can run basic productivity software with excellent battery life priced at less than $800 USD?
Why are there so few options for the latter scenario? And an even better question: why are there so many options for the former scenario!?
I wanted to program games since I was 4, but it wasn't until I was 9 that a babysitter told me about QBASIC. Before then, I'd never even heard of a way to actually program a computer; I was convinced that it was done by punching in 1s and 0s. The sitter showed me as much as he could in a single sitting. He certainly wasn't a programmer. I think he knew print, let, goto and while, and that was about it. Using that skillset and what little I could glean from the built in help, I wrote my own game when I was maybe 10. Looking to broaden my skillset in to more useful things, EVERYONE discouraged me. "Programming is soo, so hard," "you have to do a LOT of studying to program a computer," "maybe some day you'll learn how." I pretty much gave up because I didn't have the college degree everyone apparently thought I needed. When I was ~16, I picked up VB 6 learning edition. I didn't have Internet access, so I had to make due with the books that came with the CD. What a letdown that was. I just took it as proof that everyone was right, programming was too hard for a kid. When I was 17, I taught myself HTML in 3 days. Yeah, it was crappy table / frame-based layout stuff, but given what I had to work with, I think I was pretty damn handy with HTML after 3 days. I made a few sites and people loved my work. Starting in college, I found that I knew HTML and was at the stage in my life that everyone always told me I had to be in to program a computer. My cousin showed me Linux, and from there I discovered Python and PHP. I took CS161 (C/++ centric at my school). Ya know what I found out? Everything I'd been hearing all those years was total bullshit. I could've been programming in perl and C for over a DECADE if someone had just told me it wasn't difficult at all. I'll never stop feeling like I wasted a lot of potential learning time. I filled that time with video games. I'll never get that decade back. Now I'm a dad, and you bet your ass my kids are going to know that anyone is capable of anything.
Would it be possible for XP to be installed beside / within OS X, then have OS X be aware of this installation and use files straight from said XP installation to run XP apps from within OS X? It'd only take a few wrappers to make such apps integrate with the OS X desktop.
I think it's important for us to figure out what parts of Global Warming are real and what parts aren't, but seriously, shouldn't we be more concerned with preparing ourselves for *anything*? Maybe my grandkids will live in a desert planet, maybe they'll live in an ice planet. Either way, let's be prepared. Oh, and let's do what we can to not dink with the environment. Not so that we stop polluting or anything, but because research like that can lead to developments useful for other facets of technology. Unless we talk about *that*, all this Global Warming flamewar is just a public wanking session.
Maybe this is one of those areas I found confusing. Maybe it could be made more comprehensive, if not simpler. Not to knock it, as I'm in no position to do it. It's great stuff. Just saying, that sounds needlessly complicated. I know that stuff I do has some needless complications.
I did. Maybe I'm easily distracted, I dunno. I'm just saying, one was simpler throughout. Simpler doesn't map 1:1 to better, but whatever the details, the result is that I went with the one that was easier to digest.
Really? Cool. Thanks. I didn't find anything like that on the Internet either time I tried.
The reasons listed in TFA are nowhere near why I don't use it (granted, I've only used databases as toys thusfar).
A few years ago, I decided to learn a DBMS and teach myself SQL. I tried Access because it's "user friendly." Call me crazy, but I felt it was anything but. So I tried Postgres because everyone spoke so highly of it (and I'm very comfy with the command line). I read a lot of documentation and did a lot of things that felt like "progress" before I gave up.
I picked up MySQL next. It had some quirks, sure, but it was maybe an hour before I was comfortable enough with the DBMS that it didn't stand between me and learning SQL.
I picked up Postgres again last year and got much further along with it. I actually made a database, and it had tables and everything. I gave up because everything just "felt" more complicated than in MySQL.
I really want to learn Postgres. I do. I'm convinced it's more powerful and flexible. I just don't have the time, patience, or need.
Both MySQL and Postgres have their quirks that make it so you can't just jump in and start playing with SQL, and that sets the bar higher than it needs to be. Sure, every product will have some such complexity, but the lower the bar, the wider the userbase.
I need more sleep. I could've sworn I read, "Say the local QuikEMart is knocked up..."
Not to say price isn't currently a problem- much less mass production- but at 50 MPG, it's a bit less of a problem. And this was designed by kids. Hopefully, engineers could get some better fuel economy.
I'm a little surprised how quickly people forget what it was like to be in this kid's shoes. To this day, I still find myself lost in a sea of information. I have no understanding of Java as a platform, but people In The Know would probably flame me for asking. This is one of the best Ask Slashdots I've ever seen. Every single person reading has been there at some point. I give the asker a little extra credit; he isn't completely confused and seems to know what questions to ask, or at least moreso than I ever did at that stage.
Your wife's /. handle is paulthomas?
Is there any way you can save some money in the short-term so you can take some time off? I'm paying to live in a house and feed a family all by myself, on a less-than-average wage. There's a lot we live without, and we run on a tight, tight budget, but we manage.
I think it'd look a bit clearer if it was broken up in to lines :-)
On the other hand, this temporary dip could be the price for a long term boom if they emerge as the only company in their market with an ounce of ethics. A small fraction of the people who hate Bush (and aren't even necessarily geeks) are going to start prefering Google.
Today I try to address what things I think are important before I click 'Save'. The heathen admits to using a WIMP interface!!!! He clicks!! He clicks!!! Someone, get this man a shell prompt!!!
As with all things, it's not whether something's good or bad, it's how it's done that matters. Nothing is so black and white. Where I work, we have one meeting a week, lasting maybe 45 minutes. We also have meetings any time we need to agree on decisions that need to be made. The sales people where I work spend a lot of time in meetings... because their entire job is to find out what people want, find out what it takes to accomplish that, and make sure everyone's aware of what's going on. Maybe you've had a bad experience with meetings, but I have no idea how you were marked "Insightful" and not "Flamebait." Just because YOUR meetings go badly doesn't mean meeting in general are bad. You've just got to use them right. By your reasoning, food could be a terrible thing if you don't know how to eat it.
No way. Do you think they're really going to use "We Just Don't Give A Shit Anymore" for all their future branding?
I mean, it speaks to *me*, but I doubt it speaks to, say, my mom.
I don't think anything needs to be done about this. Slashdot has a high concentration of tin-foil-hat types, and it's to be expected.
Mods, mod these guys down. Responders to posts about conspiracy theories, tell the theorists to submit as many stories as the mega-submitters. Too busy with a job? Well, maybe the mega-submitters aren't.
There's so inanely little to gain from what they're doing if you put it in to perspective.
I agree, RPM's? The old installer, while weird about multiple users, worked on my system without a hitch. OO.o wasn't that important to me anyway, I guess. I'll stick to KOffice and MS Office under Crossover. *shrug* If someone makes a Slackware package, maybe I'll take another look.
I do office work that's completely unrelated to IT in the geek sense. Does that make me any less of a geek? I need a job to support my family, and at this job, I can do that. I'm still fishing around for an IT job, but in the meantime, I'm still a geek, even if it's not my job to be so.
X.org is an implementation of the X11 protocol. X11R6 is the 6th revision of the X11 protocol. There was supposedly an X10 protocol before X11. What people have begun abandoning is XFree86, and not everyone is leaving it. I think NetBSD still uses it.