Actually, in my experience, home-schooled children are poorly prepared for life outside of the home.
I just don't get it. All of the homeschooled children that I know personally are exposed to a much wider variety of social interaction than sitting in rows (or bunches) of their peers in front of one or a few instructors every day. They are typically much better prepared to deal with strangers than a random child of similar demography is, and make such interactions rewarding for the other party and enriching for themselves. Do you guys have a particular problem with people "home schooling" when all they're really doing is isolating them? WHat's the missing ingredient?
...your Mum's job involves dealing almost exclusively with problem children, because my experience has been completely different. I have seen (Western Australia) countless children screwed up by their State schooling - unquestionably by their school environment - and at least 19/20 of the homeschooled children I've seen are happier, more outgoing, more inquisitive, more inclined to do and figure things out for themselves than their State-schooled counterparts. This is completely aside from issues like the absolutely hopeless basic literacy in many (not all) State schools. If the HS kids have a fault, it's that they're too precocious (a flaw also found in their privately schooled peers, who seem to fall about halfway between the two camps) and self-important. I personally know a handful of families who homeschool in self defence, because the State schools - despite having a budget for such things - were completely failing to do anything constructive with their learning-disabled (and in some cases physically disabled) children.
...about USD$30 per seat for the MS-Windows fileserver licence, and a similar amount for MS-Exchange seats if you do email, and heaven help the poor buggers if they need SQL access too. And even though your techs are cheaper, you need more of them (expect to pay around 3-4x as much in total once you're up), and don't forget to factor in the extra downtime.
Or do the whole lot with Linux and save about USD$100 off each system - plus the per-seat licences and cost of Minesweeper Experts mentioned above if you're not taking the Mac route.
most people in education are not growing up to be computer techies and will be using Windows with Office.
Justify that presumption, I dare you!
Will Microsoft be in business when by 13yod hits the workforce in 5 years? Probably. But how about my 4yos, in 14 years? Maybe, maybe not - but the office tools will be completely different. His older sister won't have hit 30 yet, and the stuff she was taught in school will already be totally obselete.
Teaching kids to use a single toolset (and this applies outside the computing arena too) by rote is stupid, stupid, stupid. Teach them how to find out by themselves for themselves, exemplify it by teaching them with at least three different toolsets.
...sometimes turn up in advance of any patch for them. If all of your servers are homogeneous, they're all dead no matter how early you apply the patch. Diversity is yet another useful tool for administrators that don't suck.
...and shut down my computer from KDE. Does that mean KDE wins and the GNOME team can all go home now? (-: Joke, James, it was a JOKE, OK? Mr Henstridge? Please put down that reobar! What are you doing, James? Aaaaahhh...! <thud>:-)
...was having ProDOS replaced. Timesharing that works. User management that works. Memory management that works. SMP. What else...?
A command-line you can bolt on any old time. Port bash to Mac OS 8 if you dare.
Linux doen't actually need a shell (-: the cries of "stone him!" grow steadily nearer in the background:-) to work, you could run the whole box of cogs in Python or Ruby or TCL or PERL quite nicely and push all stdout/stderr into (a) logfile(s) or into a pipe to a GUI tool, no worries.
More or less the equivalent of a 900GHz supercomputer. Raytracing in realtime, and so on. Hard to resist for their Maths and CompSci people, but the resident IT idiots are resisting tooth and nail because they know naff-all about anything but MS-Windows, and they also know their jobs are toast the year after this goes ahead - if they can't stop it.
Note that you can do Beowulfy tricks with OS X just as easily as with Linux - well, as with disk-bound Linux (nothing beats ClusterKnoppix for convenience). It just costs more to do so (like, nearly double), and sadly the schools figure that if they're going to change, it will be to one system only: and the almighty buck rules. However, I figure that a desktop loosed from MS-Windows' clutches is a desktop freed, never mind the beauty competitions. (-: PS, it tickles my funnybone that the linked OS X page - written by an afficiondo of the stylish Mac - looks ugly and says so.:-)
Wow, things that no elementary, middle, or high school age students will be learning at their school.
Things to remember to bring today:
Brain.
Oh, well. (-:
In point of fact, the Mac will avoid teaching them how to reboot their machine when it wedges, but it will show them what a nice UI actually looks like (by 2005, I'm sure MS-Windows-YQ will look the same but Apple will have moved on), and give an even more fundamental lesson: that not everything out there has a Start button (to stop it with, no less) in the bottom left corner of the screen or gets shipped by the most cashed-up company in the world. Most students won't get far past this, but for those that do the variety of lessons beyond will be invaluable.
Monoculture in general is bad, monoculture in education is lethal. One of the reasons that home schoolers do so much better on average than State schools (despite the absence of qualified teachers, dearth of material and limited common facilities) is that they're not a monoculture.
In some ways, Apple sucks. If schools were to lose just one platform, it should be Microsoft. If schools were to switch to a monoculture, it should be a Linux distribution (for the felxibility that gives). However, I firmly believe that schools should teach as many systems as practical for the important lessons to be learned therein, including the Greatest PERL Lesson: TMTOWTDI. (-: Note that I say this as a near-non-PERL-programmer:-).
The Greatest PERL Lesson is a more important thing to know (not just hear occasionally) than most if not all of the entire high-school courses I can remember.
Schools really should be teaching principles, not single-obsolete-system recipes. That way when the systems they were taught on are obsolete, the students aren't left high and dry, a herd of one-trick ponies - and The Greatest PERL Lesson will continue to serve them well in area's they not yet faced, perhaps in areas that don't yet exist. The "How to produce greeting cards in MS-Publisher 101" course won't even make a dent in that.
Have a 32Mb video card? Well at *least* 32Mb of your virtual address space isn't mapping into system ram, it's mapped into video ram.
The 16MB Banshee EvilQueen sitting across the room maps three copies of its 16MB into main RAM (so 48MB total, plus maybe another 4MB for a busy X server); apparently each copy is mapped in a different way optimised for different ops.
The case is about contract violations. But none of the contracts in question have been violated by anything TSG is climing. OTOH, TSG have violated those same contracts on two counts and at least three occasions.
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I just don't get it. All of the homeschooled children that I know personally are exposed to a much wider variety of social interaction than sitting in rows (or bunches) of their peers in front of one or a few instructors every day. They are typically much better prepared to deal with strangers than a random child of similar demography is, and make such interactions rewarding for the other party and enriching for themselves. Do you guys have a particular problem with people "home schooling" when all they're really doing is isolating them? WHat's the missing ingredient?
...your Mum's job involves dealing almost exclusively with problem children, because my experience has been completely different. I have seen (Western Australia) countless children screwed up by their State schooling - unquestionably by their school environment - and at least 19/20 of the homeschooled children I've seen are happier, more outgoing, more inquisitive, more inclined to do and figure things out for themselves than their State-schooled counterparts. This is completely aside from issues like the absolutely hopeless basic literacy in many (not all) State schools. If the HS kids have a fault, it's that they're too precocious (a flaw also found in their privately schooled peers, who seem to fall about halfway between the two camps) and self-important. I personally know a handful of families who homeschool in self defence, because the State schools - despite having a budget for such things - were completely failing to do anything constructive with their learning-disabled (and in some cases physically disabled) children.
Damn, I wish I could save up my mod points for special occasions!
...try Vax school.
Or do the whole lot with Linux and save about USD$100 off each system - plus the per-seat licences and cost of Minesweeper Experts mentioned above if you're not taking the Mac route.
Justify that presumption, I dare you!
Will Microsoft be in business when by 13yod hits the workforce in 5 years? Probably. But how about my 4yos, in 14 years? Maybe, maybe not - but the office tools will be completely different. His older sister won't have hit 30 yet, and the stuff she was taught in school will already be totally obselete.
Teaching kids to use a single toolset (and this applies outside the computing arena too) by rote is stupid, stupid, stupid. Teach them how to find out by themselves for themselves, exemplify it by teaching them with at least three different toolsets.
...that I was too sarcastic. (-:
...sometimes turn up in advance of any patch for them. If all of your servers are homogeneous, they're all dead no matter how early you apply the patch. Diversity is yet another useful tool for administrators that don't suck.
Dunno about you, but thinking about my public school days would make a pretty good prophylactic.
It seems that Orwell was right about the principles, he just got the date wrong.
...and shut down my computer from KDE. Does that mean KDE wins and the GNOME team can all go home now? (-: Joke, James, it was a JOKE, OK? Mr Henstridge? Please put down that reobar! What are you doing, James? Aaaaahhh...! <thud> :-)
A command-line you can bolt on any old time. Port bash to Mac OS 8 if you dare.
Linux doen't actually need a shell (-: the cries of "stone him!" grow steadily nearer in the background :-) to work, you could run the whole box of cogs in Python or Ruby or TCL or PERL quite nicely and push all stdout/stderr into (a) logfile(s) or into a pipe to a GUI tool, no worries.
Note that you can do Beowulfy tricks with OS X just as easily as with Linux - well, as with disk-bound Linux (nothing beats ClusterKnoppix for convenience). It just costs more to do so (like, nearly double), and sadly the schools figure that if they're going to change, it will be to one system only: and the almighty buck rules. However, I figure that a desktop loosed from MS-Windows' clutches is a desktop freed, never mind the beauty competitions. (-: PS, it tickles my funnybone that the linked OS X page - written by an afficiondo of the stylish Mac - looks ugly and says so. :-)
I'm in WA, if that's too far off, I'll find somewhere closer to your school that will take those babies and use them! 0409655359
Things to remember to bring today:
- Brain.
Oh, well. (-:In point of fact, the Mac will avoid teaching them how to reboot their machine when it wedges, but it will show them what a nice UI actually looks like (by 2005, I'm sure MS-Windows-YQ will look the same but Apple will have moved on), and give an even more fundamental lesson: that not everything out there has a Start button (to stop it with, no less) in the bottom left corner of the screen or gets shipped by the most cashed-up company in the world. Most students won't get far past this, but for those that do the variety of lessons beyond will be invaluable.
Like, QED, man. (-:
In some ways, Apple sucks. If schools were to lose just one platform, it should be Microsoft. If schools were to switch to a monoculture, it should be a Linux distribution (for the felxibility that gives). However, I firmly believe that schools should teach as many systems as practical for the important lessons to be learned therein, including the Greatest PERL Lesson: TMTOWTDI. (-: Note that I say this as a near-non-PERL-programmer :-).
The Greatest PERL Lesson is a more important thing to know (not just hear occasionally) than most if not all of the entire high-school courses I can remember.
Schools really should be teaching principles, not single-obsolete-system recipes. That way when the systems they were taught on are obsolete, the students aren't left high and dry, a herd of one-trick ponies - and The Greatest PERL Lesson will continue to serve them well in area's they not yet faced, perhaps in areas that don't yet exist. The "How to produce greeting cards in MS-Publisher 101" course won't even make a dent in that.
See sibling post.
Well, it's not MS-Windows, and that's probably close enough for him... (-:
The 16MB Banshee EvilQueen sitting across the room maps three copies of its 16MB into main RAM (so 48MB total, plus maybe another 4MB for a busy X server); apparently each copy is mapped in a different way optimised for different ops.
-1 Weak joke?
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Are we done yet?
...to show a silhouette of D'ohl holding a pistol to a penguin's head.
To wit, deliberately making a "You're new here" post on SlashDot with intent to solicit karma?
The case is about contract violations. But none of the contracts in question have been violated by anything TSG is climing. OTOH, TSG have violated those same contracts on two counts and at least three occasions.