He could spell his name, so password and username were not a problem. The rest is unnecessary to know. Ubuntu has sane defaults for installation, so you only need to 'next' through the installation. Really, if you have to make the decision to use DHCP during your OS install in this day and age, your using a broken OS. Do you really sit and ponder these things when installing a OS at home?
I did not tell him what to buttons to press. I formatted his drive to remove the old install, and handed him an install disk. From there, he did the rest on his own with no input from me. I do take it as a great complement when people think I am lying about the capabilities of my child. It does make some things a challenge; like explaining to him that the other 2 and 3 year olds do not know how to play chess or Risk, but that they cannot be taught how, while not turning him into an arrogant ass.
That being said, if my kid can do a Linux install at 2, I think it is safe to say that the request that installation be simple enough for a 5 year old has been met, as I expect that a normal 5 year old should be at least as smart as my kid was at 2.
Actually, the problems of invasive species are due to the fact that we were relying on existing ecology, or felt that the prior ecology was better than the new ecology that forms after the introduction of the new species. I have never heard of a single instance where an 'invasive species' has made an environment toxic to the point that humans cannot live there. One of the joys of the moon is that we don't have to worry about wiping out native flora and fauna. If we introduce a species that takes over, we can introduce another one that feeds on the first without having to worry about it also destroying the natural flora and fauna. Even better yet, we can introduce a species that eats all of the current species, and dies without food, as leaving the moon a barren wasteland is simply not the problem that leaving, say, Australia, a barren wasteland might be.
Unfortunately, you made a fundamental, but common mistake. You cannot future proof your home by running any kind of cable. You should have run conduit. That is the only way to future proof a home for data. When I renovated my last home, I ran conduit to every room. It was pretty cool in that I didn't run any data cables at all until the house was finished. When The house was done, I just pulled the phone, coax and Ethernet lines to the rooms I wanted. If and when fiber, or a higher quality copper is needed, it i will just be a matter of taping the new cable to the end of the old, and pulling it through.
"If anything, Red Hat aught to produce a home user version that is so easy to install a 5 year old could do it."
My son did his first Ubuntu install just after turning 2. Not saying Red Hat is more difficult, just that it isn't what my son installed. The point is that Linux installs have been easy enough for a 5 year old to install for a couple of years now.
It is more flawed than that. It is not illegal for people to use the posters car. If a car is parked on the street. You will not be arrested for sitting on it. If you drive off in it, that would be a different story, but it is very clear that unauthorized use of a car is not inherently a crime.
"Why can't I live in the parts of your house you're not using?"
Because I lock more doors, and I do not have a sign on the front of my house saying "Come on in and use my house". If I left my doors unlocked, and did have a sign out front inviting you in, you would not be able to find a cop that was willing to make an arrest.
"I mean, you are trying to hang all kinds of responsibilities on their shoulders that they never agreed to accept and when they don't accept it you say that they are trying to "own the world"."
I think that is unfairly down playing what is going on. What is happening with Monsanto is the kind of stuff that you see supervillains doing in James Bond stories, or sci-fi. This corp. is making a product that seizes ownership of other peoples property. This is the act of a criminal. Now add to this that we are not dealing with the a food supply, and you raise the bar to villain. Up the facts to this is a product being distributed around the world, and you now have a supervillain.
You know, I thought it was bad enough that we decided to give up on having schools educate kids in favor of kids sports, but now you want mess with the weather for it too? Seriously, high school football is just not that important.
That is not true. There are many jobs that are perfectly suited to an idiot. In fact, there are many jobs that are done better by an idiot. They just have to be trained properly. When you have them trained, you need commands to initiate the activities that you have trained them to do.
For me, the year of Linux was 2006. That was the year that I came out of my office into my living room where my wife was having a "Moms Club" play date for the kids. As I poured myself a cup of coffee, I heard three of the stay at home moms discussing the move to Linux for their home computers. One had already moved, one was currently trying it out, and the third had heard of Linux but had not tried it. When stay at home moms are discussing Linux, it has obviously reached its "Year".
I have not read the OOXML document, but as I understand it, they don't even need to do that. As I understand it, the OOXML 'standard' allows for binary blobs. If that is the case, the 'standard' is simply whatever the hell MS wants wrapped in a readable wrapper. It is simply a standard way to use a non-standard file format.
If you sell a product that when used correctly is still going to damage other peoples property, you are liable. If you manufacture and sell a toaster that you know catches fire and burns down houses, the fact that you sold the toaster to my neighbor does not absolve you of responsibility when his house fire spreads to my house. You are responsible for making sure that the products you manufacture are not create an undue threat to other peoples property when used as designed.
I've never understood why that situation means that Monsanto gets to sue the farmer instead of the other way around. Usually, if you do something in your yard, and that something comes over my fence and destroys my property, you are liable for paying to fix the problem. Yes, Monsanto seems to have lots of lawyers, but they must have deep pockets too.
I have found the I prefer the glossy screens because they clean better. No matter how much I snap at people for touching my screen, inveriably someone get their fingers in their within a month or two of having the monitor. With the non-glossy screens, I just end up having to live with the fingerprint on the screen, as cleaning it often ends up just making things worse. With the glossy screens, I have been able to wipe the fingerprints off.
Bad attitudes like yours always crack me up. Why? Because, with the exception of the mainframe administrators, it is exactly the kind of user you are complaining about that CRATED YOUR JOB. No, I don't mean users. I mean those Arse-scratching chimps that think they are superusers. The PC in the work place is a direct result of people trying to get computing power under the radar of the mainframe administrators. So, if people had followed your advice 30 years ago, you wouldn't have a job.
That's what I was thinking. The news article should read. "People subconsciously think ahead" I'm not sure that this should be a big surprise, and I don't see what it has to do with free will.
Well, really it should read "Sometimes people subconsciously think ahead"
The reason you would do this is because you have already been authorized to spend a crap load of money on the Cisco switches. An extra $800 or $900 won't even get noticed. It you want to put the app on a $500 pc, you have to start from the beginning to get authorization. That's not even going to touch on the fact that you might have to rationalize new software on a PC, while it might only be considered a upgrade on the switch.
Your confusing people who spend their time at home working so they can get ahead with people who love what they do enough that they would do it for free and really want to do it all of the time.
Of course it's all shades of gray, and if an employer pushes people to work beyond what they are really paid for, it is time to find a new job. Basically, the parent is right that it would be a good way to pick employees, but if you do, you are likely to drive the good ones away. Kind of a Schrödinger's cat sort of thing.
Since you are already going to be digging, you should really consider putting down large conduit, much like sewer pipes. Yes, it would be more expensive, but when you are done, you would have the benefit that upgrading would be dramatically simpler. You could also rent out the space to anyone that wants to run their own data lines. While the idea is that you will offer the data lines yourself, having the backup plan of being able to offer citizens multiple data lines from different sources would be a huge boon. Plus, local industry would be able to rent space to have their own dedicated lines for intranet service between location without having to re-dig up the road system. The just pay their monthly fee, and have someone pull the lines for them. This should also help with some of the fears associated with a government agency trying to be an ISP. If it really sucks, other players can come into the market. After all, the biggest roadblock to competition in data delivery is the cost of digging up all of the roads, and the right of way issues.
Thanks. Look I'll take a look. No, I did not do scholar.google.com. I did a regular Google search. The biggest reason that you should find it hard to believe that I sorted through thousands of studies is that sorting through thousands of studies is would not be the 'quick' search on Google I said I did. One could hardly believe that I would spend large amounts of time trying to track down a paper that is unlikely to even exists. Particularly when the person that prompted it was likely to have better information on finding the said papers. Just like you did. Don't think that I don't believe it isn't possible to do legitimate studies. I am just unlikely to ever see one due to the extremely heavy bias against TV and video games, even by the people who regularly use them. This leads to a mountain of bad pseudo-research that one would have to search through to find any good research.
Maybe you can point a couple out that are obviously flawed. I can't say that I have spent a good deal of time looking for studies on TV any more than I have spent a good deal of time looking for studies on children's exposure to mirrors, fingers, or doors. Every study that has happened to come my way, has been total BS. Even the ones that said good thing about it.
(I did do a quick search on Google for studies on TV, and did not find anything legitimate.)
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He could spell his name, so password and username were not a problem. The rest is unnecessary to know. Ubuntu has sane defaults for installation, so you only need to 'next' through the installation. Really, if you have to make the decision to use DHCP during your OS install in this day and age, your using a broken OS. Do you really sit and ponder these things when installing a OS at home?
I did not tell him what to buttons to press. I formatted his drive to remove the old install, and handed him an install disk. From there, he did the rest on his own with no input from me. I do take it as a great complement when people think I am lying about the capabilities of my child. It does make some things a challenge; like explaining to him that the other 2 and 3 year olds do not know how to play chess or Risk, but that they cannot be taught how, while not turning him into an arrogant ass.
That being said, if my kid can do a Linux install at 2, I think it is safe to say that the request that installation be simple enough for a 5 year old has been met, as I expect that a normal 5 year old should be at least as smart as my kid was at 2.
Actually, the problems of invasive species are due to the fact that we were relying on existing ecology, or felt that the prior ecology was better than the new ecology that forms after the introduction of the new species. I have never heard of a single instance where an 'invasive species' has made an environment toxic to the point that humans cannot live there. One of the joys of the moon is that we don't have to worry about wiping out native flora and fauna. If we introduce a species that takes over, we can introduce another one that feeds on the first without having to worry about it also destroying the natural flora and fauna. Even better yet, we can introduce a species that eats all of the current species, and dies without food, as leaving the moon a barren wasteland is simply not the problem that leaving, say, Australia, a barren wasteland might be.
Unfortunately, you made a fundamental, but common mistake. You cannot future proof your home by running any kind of cable. You should have run conduit. That is the only way to future proof a home for data. When I renovated my last home, I ran conduit to every room. It was pretty cool in that I didn't run any data cables at all until the house was finished. When The house was done, I just pulled the phone, coax and Ethernet lines to the rooms I wanted. If and when fiber, or a higher quality copper is needed, it i will just be a matter of taping the new cable to the end of the old, and pulling it through.
"If anything, Red Hat aught to produce a home user version that is so easy to install a 5 year old could do it."
My son did his first Ubuntu install just after turning 2. Not saying Red Hat is more difficult, just that it isn't what my son installed. The point is that Linux installs have been easy enough for a 5 year old to install for a couple of years now.
It is more flawed than that. It is not illegal for people to use the posters car. If a car is parked on the street. You will not be arrested for sitting on it. If you drive off in it, that would be a different story, but it is very clear that unauthorized use of a car is not inherently a crime.
"Why can't I live in the parts of your house you're not using?"
Because I lock more doors, and I do not have a sign on the front of my house saying "Come on in and use my house". If I left my doors unlocked, and did have a sign out front inviting you in, you would not be able to find a cop that was willing to make an arrest.
"It's 2008. I think the idea that educational institutions are anything but commercial meat-grinders has expired."
Honestly, most people have either not figured this out, or are in complete denial about this.
"I mean, you are trying to hang all kinds of responsibilities on their shoulders that they never agreed to accept and when they don't accept it you say that they are trying to "own the world"."
I think that is unfairly down playing what is going on. What is happening with Monsanto is the kind of stuff that you see supervillains doing in James Bond stories, or sci-fi. This corp. is making a product that seizes ownership of other peoples property. This is the act of a criminal. Now add to this that we are not dealing with the a food supply, and you raise the bar to villain. Up the facts to this is a product being distributed around the world, and you now have a supervillain.
You know, I thought it was bad enough that we decided to give up on having schools educate kids in favor of kids sports, but now you want mess with the weather for it too? Seriously, high school football is just not that important.
Yes, you have installed the software. Psystar would have a much better chance of fighting this directly.
That is not true. There are many jobs that are perfectly suited to an idiot. In fact, there are many jobs that are done better by an idiot. They just have to be trained properly. When you have them trained, you need commands to initiate the activities that you have trained them to do.
Well, that's what I tell all my friends happened, but I figured the truth was OK for Slashdot.
Ahhh... The arrogance of youth... You know, there were businesses before 1985. Even big successful ones.
For me, the year of Linux was 2006. That was the year that I came out of my office into my living room where my wife was having a "Moms Club" play date for the kids. As I poured myself a cup of coffee, I heard three of the stay at home moms discussing the move to Linux for their home computers. One had already moved, one was currently trying it out, and the third had heard of Linux but had not tried it. When stay at home moms are discussing Linux, it has obviously reached its "Year".
I have not read the OOXML document, but as I understand it, they don't even need to do that. As I understand it, the OOXML 'standard' allows for binary blobs. If that is the case, the 'standard' is simply whatever the hell MS wants wrapped in a readable wrapper. It is simply a standard way to use a non-standard file format.
If you sell a product that when used correctly is still going to damage other peoples property, you are liable. If you manufacture and sell a toaster that you know catches fire and burns down houses, the fact that you sold the toaster to my neighbor does not absolve you of responsibility when his house fire spreads to my house. You are responsible for making sure that the products you manufacture are not create an undue threat to other peoples property when used as designed.
I've never understood why that situation means that Monsanto gets to sue the farmer instead of the other way around. Usually, if you do something in your yard, and that something comes over my fence and destroys my property, you are liable for paying to fix the problem. Yes, Monsanto seems to have lots of lawyers, but they must have deep pockets too.
I have found the I prefer the glossy screens because they clean better. No matter how much I snap at people for touching my screen, inveriably someone get their fingers in their within a month or two of having the monitor. With the non-glossy screens, I just end up having to live with the fingerprint on the screen, as cleaning it often ends up just making things worse. With the glossy screens, I have been able to wipe the fingerprints off.
Bad attitudes like yours always crack me up. Why? Because, with the exception of the mainframe administrators, it is exactly the kind of user you are complaining about that CRATED YOUR JOB. No, I don't mean users. I mean those Arse-scratching chimps that think they are superusers. The PC in the work place is a direct result of people trying to get computing power under the radar of the mainframe administrators. So, if people had followed your advice 30 years ago, you wouldn't have a job.
That's what I was thinking. The news article should read. "People subconsciously think ahead" I'm not sure that this should be a big surprise, and I don't see what it has to do with free will.
Well, really it should read "Sometimes people subconsciously think ahead"
The reason you would do this is because you have already been authorized to spend a crap load of money on the Cisco switches. An extra $800 or $900 won't even get noticed. It you want to put the app on a $500 pc, you have to start from the beginning to get authorization. That's not even going to touch on the fact that you might have to rationalize new software on a PC, while it might only be considered a upgrade on the switch.
Stupid? Yes.
Does it happen? Yes.
Your confusing people who spend their time at home working so they can get ahead with people who love what they do enough that they would do it for free and really want to do it all of the time.
Of course it's all shades of gray, and if an employer pushes people to work beyond what they are really paid for, it is time to find a new job. Basically, the parent is right that it would be a good way to pick employees, but if you do, you are likely to drive the good ones away. Kind of a Schrödinger's cat sort of thing.
Since you are already going to be digging, you should really consider putting down large conduit, much like sewer pipes. Yes, it would be more expensive, but when you are done, you would have the benefit that upgrading would be dramatically simpler. You could also rent out the space to anyone that wants to run their own data lines. While the idea is that you will offer the data lines yourself, having the backup plan of being able to offer citizens multiple data lines from different sources would be a huge boon. Plus, local industry would be able to rent space to have their own dedicated lines for intranet service between location without having to re-dig up the road system. The just pay their monthly fee, and have someone pull the lines for them. This should also help with some of the fears associated with a government agency trying to be an ISP. If it really sucks, other players can come into the market. After all, the biggest roadblock to competition in data delivery is the cost of digging up all of the roads, and the right of way issues.
Thanks. Look I'll take a look. No, I did not do scholar.google.com. I did a regular Google search. The biggest reason that you should find it hard to believe that I sorted through thousands of studies is that sorting through thousands of studies is would not be the 'quick' search on Google I said I did. One could hardly believe that I would spend large amounts of time trying to track down a paper that is unlikely to even exists. Particularly when the person that prompted it was likely to have better information on finding the said papers. Just like you did. Don't think that I don't believe it isn't possible to do legitimate studies. I am just unlikely to ever see one due to the extremely heavy bias against TV and video games, even by the people who regularly use them. This leads to a mountain of bad pseudo-research that one would have to search through to find any good research.
Maybe you can point a couple out that are obviously flawed. I can't say that I have spent a good deal of time looking for studies on TV any more than I have spent a good deal of time looking for studies on children's exposure to mirrors, fingers, or doors. Every study that has happened to come my way, has been total BS. Even the ones that said good thing about it.
(I did do a quick search on Google for studies on TV, and did not find anything legitimate.)