Ditto for the most part. I finished school much earlier. During early schooling, usually by 11am. Same education or better (I could read far better and faster, out loud and by myself, than any public schooler I knew back then) in about 3 hours a day. The rest of my day? Outside playing and using my imagination; tinkering on a computer and learning to type; taking piano and trumpet lessons; playing basketball, soccer, etc.; swimming lessons, etc...
I didn't do swim team but did do basketball in the Parks and Rec and also the YMCA.
Prom... didn't care. Don't see the point.
We were one of those "for religious" reasons, partially. But also because the education at home was far better, and my parents knew it.
I enjoyed life. And socializing with teens is a lot different, I have found, from social interaction at my job. A lot different. People at my job are actually responsible human beings, for the most part. They have to be. Otherwise they get fired. Unfortunately, we don't "fire" (flunk) kids from school anymore.
Social interaction with whom? I am surviving in the work force. I'm a software tester. I'm active in several community things, including music. I played in an ultimate frisbee league with a bunch of complete strangers.
I didn't say "social interaction" wasn't important. I said that learning how to "socialize" with teenage high school students (and even college students, now) doesn't really prepare you for interacting with other hopefully-thinking adults.
I'm not sure if you've noticed it or not, but it seems that most HS and college students are pretty immature. Their idea of doing well is partying as many nights of the week as they can and doing as little work as they can. Or myspace, facebook, and twitter. The best thing I could learn from there is how not to live and how not to talk.
Office gossip ever annoy you? I wonder why people gossip so much. Maybe because they've been doing it for the 12-16 years before working full time after graduating...
the major draw of high school isn't so much learning more as it is socializing with other teens.
Yup. Gotta love socializing with teens. It does wonders for your maturity when you have to interact with adults...
Incidentally (previous paragraph was sarcastic, btw), I was homeschooled. It's interesting to me that "no social life!!!!11" was one of the major "what, you were homeschooled?" reactions when I went to a junior college for two years. It would appear that "learning" takes second place to "fun" and "social life." Apparently, education is secondary to teenage social skills when it comes to business after college.
Most online "social network" sites kinda HAVE to be sensitive to their public image. People don't go visit social network websites that have a bad public image/reputation now, would they? That's just not cool...
So, out of curiosity, did you buy the browser you are using?
Maybe they explicitly were trying to drive Netscape out of business, I don't actually know. To me, though, it'd also be a pretty good selling point for your software. "Includes FREE web browser, a $30 value!"
If Linux had risen instead of Windows, and included a free browser, would it not have put Netscape out of business, too?
Erm. So a free web browser is anti-competitive because other web browser developers make you pay money for theirs?
It seems to me that Microsoft did us all a favor by shipping a web browser for free. I would hate to pay $30 just to browse the web. I'm very glad the Netscape Navigator model died off. I like my free browsers.
Mostly personal experience. It worked pretty well for about a month. Things started degrading from there - even though I was not installing oodles of software and smilie packs, of course.
I also ran into issues with software not running very well in 32 bit mode... i.e., "unsupported OS" being complained about by software installers. Of course, that's the software's problem, but XP's 32 bit emulation didn't work terribly well, it would seem.
All in all, XP x64 really felt like a "hack" to XP. Which, as I understand it, it basically was. It didn't seem to be particularly stable, either, and would crash a bit more often than XP.
I know I'm talking fairly generically - I haven't run it in about 4 years, so...:) I went back to 32 bit XP though, before going to Vista x64 after getting more than 4gb of RAM.
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The UK, as we all know, has a great reputation for complete freedom and non-big-brother-government behavior.
The sun doesn't rise, either. I enjoy a good morning earth turn.
You should work for a news agency. I like your style of leaving out the unimportant parts of quotes. ;)
Ditto for the most part. I finished school much earlier. During early schooling, usually by 11am. Same education or better (I could read far better and faster, out loud and by myself, than any public schooler I knew back then) in about 3 hours a day. The rest of my day? Outside playing and using my imagination; tinkering on a computer and learning to type; taking piano and trumpet lessons; playing basketball, soccer, etc.; swimming lessons, etc...
I didn't do swim team but did do basketball in the Parks and Rec and also the YMCA.
Prom... didn't care. Don't see the point.
We were one of those "for religious" reasons, partially. But also because the education at home was far better, and my parents knew it.
I enjoyed life. And socializing with teens is a lot different, I have found, from social interaction at my job. A lot different. People at my job are actually responsible human beings, for the most part. They have to be. Otherwise they get fired. Unfortunately, we don't "fire" (flunk) kids from school anymore.
Social interaction with whom? I am surviving in the work force. I'm a software tester. I'm active in several community things, including music. I played in an ultimate frisbee league with a bunch of complete strangers.
I didn't say "social interaction" wasn't important. I said that learning how to "socialize" with teenage high school students (and even college students, now) doesn't really prepare you for interacting with other hopefully-thinking adults.
I'm not sure if you've noticed it or not, but it seems that most HS and college students are pretty immature. Their idea of doing well is partying as many nights of the week as they can and doing as little work as they can. Or myspace, facebook, and twitter. The best thing I could learn from there is how not to live and how not to talk.
Office gossip ever annoy you? I wonder why people gossip so much. Maybe because they've been doing it for the 12-16 years before working full time after graduating...
It was apparently good enough to fool everyone for quite a while.
Recent versions of Windows prompts and asks if you want to run it.
Mail fraud, financial fraud, computer fraud and forgery. What have I missed?
We're on Slashdot. At least insult them properly: they probably use Windows.
Touche. With the accent thing.
the major draw of high school isn't so much learning more as it is socializing with other teens.
Yup. Gotta love socializing with teens. It does wonders for your maturity when you have to interact with adults...
Incidentally (previous paragraph was sarcastic, btw), I was homeschooled. It's interesting to me that "no social life!!!!11" was one of the major "what, you were homeschooled?" reactions when I went to a junior college for two years. It would appear that "learning" takes second place to "fun" and "social life." Apparently, education is secondary to teenage social skills when it comes to business after college.
Sewing and piano have been around a while. A lot longer than computer classes. ;)
Deprived of instruction or deprived of instruction days? It seems to me that we're more concerned with "days" than "instruction."
It WAS green, at one time! ;)
as long as "the state" == chavez.
I'm glad there are all those other countries trying to support the "good guys." you know. like cuba, russia, china, france.
Not about reducing? That depends on the intent and motive... whether it does or not is the motive-ignoring debate.
Enforcing morality? Somehow, I doubt that Chavez is interested in "enforcing morality." He's so moral himself.
Most online "social network" sites kinda HAVE to be sensitive to their public image. People don't go visit social network websites that have a bad public image/reputation now, would they? That's just not cool...
So, out of curiosity, did you buy the browser you are using?
Maybe they explicitly were trying to drive Netscape out of business, I don't actually know. To me, though, it'd also be a pretty good selling point for your software. "Includes FREE web browser, a $30 value!"
If Linux had risen instead of Windows, and included a free browser, would it not have put Netscape out of business, too?
For a minute, I thought you were going to say "cakes with files baked in them" in the fashion of Monkey Island's cake that Guybrush gets from Otis...
Can I send a text message with that in it?
Erm. So a free web browser is anti-competitive because other web browser developers make you pay money for theirs?
It seems to me that Microsoft did us all a favor by shipping a web browser for free. I would hate to pay $30 just to browse the web. I'm very glad the Netscape Navigator model died off. I like my free browsers.
I look forward to the day when an entire Slashdot submission is just a blog's URL.
Just imagine if they used the IPv6 address instead of the domain name! ;)
Mostly personal experience. It worked pretty well for about a month. Things started degrading from there - even though I was not installing oodles of software and smilie packs, of course.
I also ran into issues with software not running very well in 32 bit mode... i.e., "unsupported OS" being complained about by software installers. Of course, that's the software's problem, but XP's 32 bit emulation didn't work terribly well, it would seem.
All in all, XP x64 really felt like a "hack" to XP. Which, as I understand it, it basically was. It didn't seem to be particularly stable, either, and would crash a bit more often than XP.
I know I'm talking fairly generically - I haven't run it in about 4 years, so... :) I went back to 32 bit XP though, before going to Vista x64 after getting more than 4gb of RAM.
No, I mean any IO. Even just I, without O. As in, running a program from disk...