You have a point about the craftyness of a 15-year-old. But everything else you wrote is BS.
If you're a parent, you have the right to discipline your child. If that means you ground them - go for it. Obviously you have to let the kid eat and pee, but other than that, "locking them in their room" for a week is totally in your rights. Too bad some perverts have messed that up for people.
And the cops? Hello, call the cops on the 23-year-old who's preying on your daughter! Not the kid, she's locked up in her room.
The problem with that approach, of course, is that it requires the granting of "copyright" and the associated powers to individuals, and not the ??AA. Or other money-grubbing corporations. Who's gonna support that?
Exactly. I was so upset when I heard about poor Meigs that I swore I wouldn't visit Chicago again until there's an airport operating out there again. This is just one more reason to uphold that vow.
Do the administrators force you to keep things in your locker? Of course not. Your teachers don't walk by every day and make sure the students are keeping their lockers full.
The lockers are there as a convenience, so students have a convenient place at the school to store their things. The student doesn't own the locker and the school should have every right to run a dog through every now and then. That said, if you're actually dumb enough to be keeping drugs in your locker, you deserve to be caught.
Happened to a small-town officer in SD not too long ago... although it was a councilperson's daughter running a stop sign. The guy had an excellent performance record, just recently had gotten a nice raise, but he writes this ticket and suddenly they're showing him the door.
In most cases that I've seen, it's actually a problem with Firefox - but only if you've got Acrobat Pro installed. That's the only difference between 2 of my machines - one hangs, one doesn't. Simple as that.
Oh muy - an acceptance speech by Will Wright? I think I just had a minor orgasm reading that. The dude was my idol way back when in the SimCity days...
All the same, it's pretty much undeniable that gaming (and gamERS) has been one of the driving forces behind technology from day one. What's the biggest push for faster processors? It's not so you can crunch your Excel sheets, it's so you can squeeze another 3 fps out of Doom 3. Pretty much every video card manufactured today is capable of basic 3d acceleration, and believe me it's not to make your Word documents look prettier.
But look what happens: Microsoft sees that everybody has 3d-capable video systems on their computer and integrates it into the operating system. No, we haven't seen what exactly this 3dOS will do for productivity or anything, but the fact remains that it's not something they would push without the already-massive installed base of hardware, which wouldn't be there without games.
John C. Dvorak wrote a rather compelling article about this topic a few years back. Too bad I can't find it anymore.
But these (admittedly cool and often useful) features aren't shoved in your face when you surf to Google. They're there for the user who needs them, but if John Doe just wants to do a quick search, they don't slow him down in the least.
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You have a point about the craftyness of a 15-year-old. But everything else you wrote is BS.
If you're a parent, you have the right to discipline your child. If that means you ground them - go for it. Obviously you have to let the kid eat and pee, but other than that, "locking them in their room" for a week is totally in your rights. Too bad some perverts have messed that up for people.
And the cops? Hello, call the cops on the 23-year-old who's preying on your daughter! Not the kid, she's locked up in her room.
And ten years ago TiVo didn't exist.
It's expected that as HME progresses the DVR capabilities will be added in. Not right now, today - but soon.
The problem with that approach, of course, is that it requires the granting of "copyright" and the associated powers to individuals, and not the ??AA. Or other money-grubbing corporations. Who's gonna support that?
Exactly. I was so upset when I heard about poor Meigs that I swore I wouldn't visit Chicago again until there's an airport operating out there again. This is just one more reason to uphold that vow.
Having a locker may be "mandatory"...
Stuffing weed into it isn't.
Do the administrators force you to keep things in your locker? Of course not. Your teachers don't walk by every day and make sure the students are keeping their lockers full.
The lockers are there as a convenience, so students have a convenient place at the school to store their things. The student doesn't own the locker and the school should have every right to run a dog through every now and then. That said, if you're actually dumb enough to be keeping drugs in your locker, you deserve to be caught.
Only on /. would a comment like this be modded +5 Informative.
Well, thanks for the info, I guess...
Happened to a small-town officer in SD not too long ago... although it was a councilperson's daughter running a stop sign. The guy had an excellent performance record, just recently had gotten a nice raise, but he writes this ticket and suddenly they're showing him the door.
*sigh* gotta love the US of A...
In most cases that I've seen, it's actually a problem with Firefox - but only if you've got Acrobat Pro installed. That's the only difference between 2 of my machines - one hangs, one doesn't. Simple as that.
Oh muy - an acceptance speech by Will Wright? I think I just had a minor orgasm reading that. The dude was my idol way back when in the SimCity days...
Wow... you mean people actually play and enjoy Katamari Damacy? Personally I think Greg Dean said it best...
"I thought my PS2 took a hit of acid or something."
All the same, it's pretty much undeniable that gaming (and gamERS) has been one of the driving forces behind technology from day one. What's the biggest push for faster processors? It's not so you can crunch your Excel sheets, it's so you can squeeze another 3 fps out of Doom 3. Pretty much every video card manufactured today is capable of basic 3d acceleration, and believe me it's not to make your Word documents look prettier. But look what happens: Microsoft sees that everybody has 3d-capable video systems on their computer and integrates it into the operating system. No, we haven't seen what exactly this 3dOS will do for productivity or anything, but the fact remains that it's not something they would push without the already-massive installed base of hardware, which wouldn't be there without games. John C. Dvorak wrote a rather compelling article about this topic a few years back. Too bad I can't find it anymore.
But these (admittedly cool and often useful) features aren't shoved in your face when you surf to Google. They're there for the user who needs them, but if John Doe just wants to do a quick search, they don't slow him down in the least.
Ahem, *two*. Daveigh Chase isn't a huge name because she's still so young but nonetheless she's got a kick-ass resume put together.
Wow. Well your comments are appreciated, Michael Moore.