Saxon is a publisher of VERY well written math books. It explains everything in easy to understand detail, with a slightly different approach to teaching it. Why every school in the US doesn't use these books is beyond me, but I taught myself using these books and they work very well. Of course they cover topics you would find in k-12 schools (I belive they go as far as calculus), I don't know if they go beyond that. My little sister is in high school, and she brings home her math homework, opens the saxon book she has at home, learns it, then does her assignment. The book she works out of from school tells nothing about the concept it is teaching, and the teachers don't teach it well enough to really understand it - so she learns from the saxon book. www.saxonpublishers.com is their web page, hope this helps,
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Well, in the case of GNOME, their registry isn't just one huge database, it's a bunch of XML files (by default - you can make plugins so it uses a mysql DB if you want), so if one file gets corrupted, the rest is still intact. As for it being a bad idea, I think you are wrong - Windows did it wrong, that doesn't mean there's no right way to do it. You claim it makes installations difficult because you have to modify registry settings when you install, but this would not be a mistake on the registrys part, but the programmers. It's alot like dot files - they aren't normally installed when you _install_ a program, but when you first _run_ the program. If the registry is modified when you install the application, then someone needs to slap the author.
The GNOME project has one implemented already: it's called Gconf. It is like the windows registry in practice, but the configuration files are human-readable (XML). It's pluggable, it has a global config database, and a user-only database. It is easy to use and program for. It also has the ability to use any kind of database you want - while no changes to the application are needed.
The only problem most people see with it right now is the current default database that is being used - it's ugly. But there is another one in the works and (I think) will be the default database in GNOME 2.0. There's even one that uses mysql!
Really, what's the problem with using gconf globally? Imagine how easy it would be to configure things - it would be so much easier to write graphical frontends for these applications. LinuxConf would be rather simple to write and maintain! The advantages are innumerable!:)
People worry about a corrupted database, but each allplication is in it's own file, so if something happens, then it's for that ONE application. I've been using GConf for some time and I've never had a problem with it.
Go ahead and read about it on GNOME's webpage (www.gnome.org).
One must realize that HDTV is HUGE - at about 5GB for a 30 minute television show - you would need some serious hard drive space - not exactly in the price range of most consumers.
Dual Tuner support is already there in the DirecTivos (which, in my opinion is the ONLY option if you have direcTV, the dual tuner support is awesome).
The DirecTiVos also have optical audio outs.
I'm sure there will be better codecs in this next version - undoubtedly with Real video support.
802.11b actually would be very cool - but one still has to look at the cost (including supporting it).
Firewire would be cool as well - being able to record things from your DV camcoder would be sweet!
I think the whole reason why people are blaming video games is they don't know what else to blame- and they are violent, so it's a good reason. To say whether or not video games are the reason, I think it depends on the person, and how they react to the video games. For example, I have been playing video games my whole life, most of which chould be classified as violent. I think Soldier of Fortune is an awesome game. But am I going to go off shooting poeple now? No, not me. So does that mean games aren't harmful? I don't think so. What if a person took the game too seriously and thought it was just no big deal to kill people- they have been doing it on video games forever. Yes, that can happen. But why would they think that? Well, I think that is where the constant teasing and bullying comes in. As Katz, said above, depression usually causes them to be bullied, but that only makes the depression worse. They go to school every day, being teased, pushed around all day long, and they really become desinsitized to it, the violence (yes, it is violence) they go through every day is just a way of life. But if you go through this for so long, without any friends, nobody to help them, they are eventually going to snap - something is going to be the last straw, and they wont know what to do. Well, it worked to the character in the video game. Let's see how it works in real life. So he shoots up the school- and if he doesn't kill himself there, he's got life in prison.
So this person takes his last resort at retaliation, and he's now being bullied by the government. The person needs HELP! Throwing him away in a cage isn't going to help him, it will never help him, it will just be an end to his life So who to blame? The game or the bully? Well, let's blame the game, it's an easy target, the actions the person took were the same as what happened in the game. But that's not a good enough reason. Why did he have to take action? It all starts somewhere, and in this case it started with depression, which led to bullying, which led to violence, which led to life in prison.
How could anyone do a thing to a person who just started his life? To just throw it away, without help. If he does get help, he's gonna get it for no reason, cause he's going to be in jail forever anyway.
The blame is pointless. You can blame the music, the tv, the games, or whatever you want, but there is something to blame that needs to take care of this. It's the bullys. And even though I didnt mention it before, the parents. Are the parents paying too much attention to to themselves that they don't even realize their own child is suffering from something? Do they even notice that their kid is home by himself all day long, and stays in his room all day, or never talks about what he did in school? PARENTS NEED TO PAY ATTENTION! Check up on your kid, establish a relationship with them, so they arent embarassed to go to you when they have a problem like this. If you go to work all day, them come home and say you need time for yourself, you are being selfish, and neglecting your child. Give him all the toys you want, give him anything, but you can't find any material item comparable to the love you give them. If you dont spend time with them, you will never know there is a problem.
As for the bullies, you as parents need to find out if your child is being bullied, or if your child IS the bully. And take care of it. If you think bullying is harmless, you are wrong. You are VERY wrong.
The shootings are obviously less common than suicides, but it's the same problem- just a person who doesn't know what else to do. Some think they are the problem and decide to take their own life, and others see the bullies as the problem and get rid of them.
This condition can be treated, and it wont get fixed by throwing them in jail, or having them killed. There is medication for depression, and can have a significant change in a persons life. But for a child, they don't realize that. The parents need to help their children with this. They can't do it themselves.
Being that IMAP is a superior protocol , it suprises me that it isn't a high priority. I would try it out, but since there's no IMAP, I'll have to stick with Evolution... Which, has had IMAP from the start, even if it was pretty bad in the first betas...
But I DO have to admit, Aethra DOES look pretty...
The worst part of this is that I can't remember the stupid name, let alone pronounce it. Everytime I wanted to go to it today, I had to go to/. just to get the name... and how the heck do you SPELL it?!
-Brandon
>>>if you cannot figure out a few simple commands, maybe you shouldn't be using
>>>Linux in the first place !!! Its not for joe average, its for people who like to get under the hood and tinker around.
I disagree... It may have been that way before, but more and more windows users are moving to linux, probably just because of the hype so they are curious. But the easier it is for any user to install and maintain packages, the more users will stay with linux. Sure sometimes its a good idea to compile the sources, but if there's already a package out there, it's just a waste of time. Ideally, no user should ever have to compile the sources- just have it there in case they want it. The thing that is keeping that from happening is the lack of a standard packaging system. RPM works fine, but I really like the apt-get feature of debs. But now that apt is being ported to rpm, then I think I'll just stick with rpm. In the meantime, whoever makes package management easier has got my support.
But on a side note, I think the interface for this piece of software is ugly and is poor UI design. I personally cant wait for RedCarpet from Helix to be available - that looks like the best bet right now for package management.
Well, they did day that it was a _New_ platet- or whatever they wanna call it...
They dont say, but I'm guessing it was just passing through and graviy did it's thing... blah blah blah...
but I really dont know...
What's so bad about playing a DVD in another reigon? I don't see a problem on which DVD player you play it on. As long as I bought the DVD, I should be able to play it anywhere... At least that's the way I see it.
Hey hackers- WE LIKE YOU!!! But if you dont take your software off the net, we'll SUE THE PANTS OFF YA!
What a load of bull... It's just a little ploy to save face. If they really did like hackers, then all these site that were out there would still be out there!
-Brandon
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You know, that's what really makes me mad about all this... Sure, it CAN be used for evil, but alot of people don't. So what does Congress do? They try to destroy the technology. Hey, what if these allaged Drug Lords are using the internet so send the lat and long of the stuff? Maybe Congress should bal all internet routers in/to the US - THAT might fix it.
There are numerous things that can be used for evil instead of good, but that doesn't mean you should stop making good things, like, for example - GPS.
Hey, why not get congress to ban DRUGS in the US? That'll fix it.:)
-Brandon
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... Or worse, plants a bomb in it... Open it up... BOOM!
Maybe this isn't as fun as it originally sounded.
This is rediculous. Why not quit with the "KDE is better than gnome because..." And the "Gnome has a better license because..." crap and just use what works for you.
If you use Gnome, then who cares what KDE does? I think both projects are doing great, and whatever is better for me, I use.
I think it's great that QT is GPL'd, And I wish KDE best of luck with their development. But on the other hand, GNOME is a great enviornment too, and I wish them best of luck too.
Both have their good stuff and bad stuff - no program that big is going to be 100% perfect.
Let's just forget about all this garbage and let them spend more time writing code, instead of writing responses to stupid editorials.
I always thought USB was a good idea, but the problem is that it has taken so long to become noticed.
It will be nice (if it happens) to just have like 8 or 10 USB ports on your motherboard and all external devices plug into that - no "This goes in the small round one, and this goes in the big 'd' shaped one" crap. Especially for new users.
I think it would be nice if they got rid of the 2 types of USB jacks though... If it's universal, why do I have to buy an adapter?
One other major problem is speed. 60MB/s? That's garbage compared to FireWire2.0. USB should be fast enough for a hard drive. Heck, if it got fast enough, it would be nice to replace IDE stuff internally too. DEATH TO RIBBON CABLES!!! I hate those things.
I used to sit there and wish that Microsoft would port their apps to Linux. They make good software, but I dont like the OS. So now that they are finally doing it, I could care less. First I wanted IE, but now there's Mozilla/Galeon doing my web browing, and then there was Outlook Express, but Evolution is gonna be here pretty quick, and Pine still works for me. And Office - Star Office is just as good (slow tho), but now that it's being GPL'd, it'll get better.
I don't think Microsoft has a chance in Linux anymore. If they would have done it a year ago, it would have been great, but now... Who cares? By the time they get all the apps ported, all the good stuff will be done with Gnome, Star Office and everything else, that we wont need their apps.
I havent downloaded it yet (cant) But I'm pretty sure the tarball isn't just Nautilus. Nautilus depends on a bunch of different things like GnomeVFS, Bonobo, etc. The tarball contains all its dependencies, making the package bigger. Hey, it's better than downloading all the packages separately and installing them by hand, don't you think?
I assume what they mean by tabbed widgets are the tabs that everyone uses in any GUI toolkit. So why only Macromedia? They could sue Microsoft, the developers of GTK+, Trolltech, Sun, etc, etc, etc... Everyone uses tabs.
I'm sure they are just scared of Flash and Dreamweaver (which is an AWESOME HTML editor BTW).
Welp, good luck to Macromedia, hope they can find something to countersue with
Wasn't the patent system created to HELP innovate* technologies, not sue-everyone-who-uses-my-patent?
* Innovation is a registered trademark/patent of Microsoft Inc.
Looking at the features, I dont see why this would be a 7.0 release. The only real major upgrade is XFree86... I think they should release this as 6.3, and when Gnome2, KDE2, Kernel2.4, etc is out, and stable, then make it a 7.0 release. -Brandon
I actually think it will be a good idea. Not easy though. It is going to take alot of effort to get this going. I have always liked Windows, but I use mostly linux because of its stability. Windows isn't nearly as stable as I'd like it to be, but it has alot of good stuff in it, clean interface, software support, etc. I just don't like the BSOD's. I think it will be a very good alternative to windows if it works and if its stable. I also wonder if any of the code used in WINE will be helpful, they have done alot with the windows API...
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Saxon is a publisher of VERY well written math books. It explains everything in easy to understand detail, with a slightly different approach to teaching it. Why every school in the US doesn't use these books is beyond me, but I taught myself using these books and they work very well. Of course they cover topics you would find in k-12 schools (I belive they go as far as calculus), I don't know if they go beyond that.
My little sister is in high school, and she brings home her math homework, opens the saxon book she has at home, learns it, then does her assignment. The book she works out of from school tells nothing about the concept it is teaching, and the teachers don't teach it well enough to really understand it - so she learns from the saxon book.
www.saxonpublishers.com is their web page, hope this helps,
Brandon
yes
-Brandon
Well, in the case of GNOME, their registry isn't just one huge database, it's a bunch of XML files (by default - you can make plugins so it uses a mysql DB if you want), so if one file gets corrupted, the rest is still intact. As for it being a bad idea, I think you are wrong - Windows did it wrong, that doesn't mean there's no right way to do it.
You claim it makes installations difficult because you have to modify registry settings when you install, but this would not be a mistake on the registrys part, but the programmers. It's alot like dot files - they aren't normally installed when you _install_ a program, but when you first _run_ the program. If the registry is modified when you install the application, then someone needs to slap the author.
-Brandon
The GNOME project has one implemented already: it's called Gconf. It is like the windows registry in practice, but the configuration files are human-readable (XML). It's pluggable, it has a global config database, and a user-only database. It is easy to use and program for. It also has the ability to use any kind of database you want - while no changes to the application are needed. :)
The only problem most people see with it right now is the current default database that is being used - it's ugly. But there is another one in the works and (I think) will be the default database in GNOME 2.0. There's even one that uses mysql!
Really, what's the problem with using gconf globally? Imagine how easy it would be to configure things - it would be so much easier to write graphical frontends for these applications. LinuxConf would be rather simple to write and maintain! The advantages are innumerable!
People worry about a corrupted database, but each allplication is in it's own file, so if something happens, then it's for that ONE application. I've been using GConf for some time and I've never had a problem with it.
Go ahead and read about it on GNOME's webpage (www.gnome.org).
-Brandon
One must realize that HDTV is HUGE - at about 5GB for a 30 minute television show - you would need some serious hard drive space - not exactly in the price range of most consumers.
Dual Tuner support is already there in the DirecTivos (which, in my opinion is the ONLY option if you have direcTV, the dual tuner support is awesome).
The DirecTiVos also have optical audio outs.
I'm sure there will be better codecs in this next version - undoubtedly with Real video support.
802.11b actually would be very cool - but one still has to look at the cost (including supporting it).
Firewire would be cool as well - being able to record things from your DV camcoder would be sweet!
I think the whole reason why people are blaming video games is they don't know what else to blame- and they are violent, so it's a good reason. To say whether or not video games are the reason, I think it depends on the person, and how they react to the video games. For example, I have been playing video games my whole life, most of which chould be classified as violent. I think Soldier of Fortune is an awesome game. But am I going to go off shooting poeple now? No, not me. So does that mean games aren't harmful? I don't think so. What if a person took the game too seriously and thought it was just no big deal to kill people- they have been doing it on video games forever. Yes, that can happen. But why would they think that? Well, I think that is where the constant teasing and bullying comes in. As Katz, said above, depression usually causes them to be bullied, but that only makes the depression worse. They go to school every day, being teased, pushed around all day long, and they really become desinsitized to it, the violence (yes, it is violence) they go through every day is just a way of life. But if you go through this for so long, without any friends, nobody to help them, they are eventually going to snap - something is going to be the last straw, and they wont know what to do. Well, it worked to the character in the video game. Let's see how it works in real life. So he shoots up the school- and if he doesn't kill himself there, he's got life in prison.
So this person takes his last resort at retaliation, and he's now being bullied by the government. The person needs HELP! Throwing him away in a cage isn't going to help him, it will never help him, it will just be an end to his life So who to blame? The game or the bully? Well, let's blame the game, it's an easy target, the actions the person took were the same as what happened in the game. But that's not a good enough reason. Why did he have to take action? It all starts somewhere, and in this case it started with depression, which led to bullying, which led to violence, which led to life in prison.
How could anyone do a thing to a person who just started his life? To just throw it away, without help. If he does get help, he's gonna get it for no reason, cause he's going to be in jail forever anyway.
The blame is pointless. You can blame the music, the tv, the games, or whatever you want, but there is something to blame that needs to take care of this. It's the bullys. And even though I didnt mention it before, the parents. Are the parents paying too much attention to to themselves that they don't even realize their own child is suffering from something? Do they even notice that their kid is home by himself all day long, and stays in his room all day, or never talks about what he did in school? PARENTS NEED TO PAY ATTENTION! Check up on your kid, establish a relationship with them, so they arent embarassed to go to you when they have a problem like this. If you go to work all day, them come home and say you need time for yourself, you are being selfish, and neglecting your child. Give him all the toys you want, give him anything, but you can't find any material item comparable to the love you give them. If you dont spend time with them, you will never know there is a problem.
As for the bullies, you as parents need to find out if your child is being bullied, or if your child IS the bully. And take care of it. If you think bullying is harmless, you are wrong. You are VERY wrong.
The shootings are obviously less common than suicides, but it's the same problem- just a person who doesn't know what else to do. Some think they are the problem and decide to take their own life, and others see the bullies as the problem and get rid of them.
This condition can be treated, and it wont get fixed by throwing them in jail, or having them killed. There is medication for depression, and can have a significant change in a persons life. But for a child, they don't realize that. The parents need to help their children with this. They can't do it themselves.
-Brandon
I would rather spend $.30 on a few unreliable floppies to transfer data than pay $69 for a 16MB mmemory card. Let's hope IBM's way is cheaper
-Brandon
Being that IMAP is a superior protocol , it suprises me that it isn't a high priority. I would try it out, but since there's no IMAP, I'll have to stick with Evolution... Which, has had IMAP from the start, even if it was pretty bad in the first betas...
But I DO have to admit, Aethra DOES look pretty...
-Brandon
The worst part of this is that I can't remember the stupid name, let alone pronounce it. Everytime I wanted to go to it today, I had to go to /. just to get the name... and how the heck do you SPELL it?!
-Brandon
>>>if you cannot figure out a few simple commands, maybe you shouldn't be using
>>>Linux in the first place !!! Its not for joe average, its for people who like to get under the hood and tinker around.
I disagree... It may have been that way before, but more and more windows users are moving to linux, probably just because of the hype so they are curious. But the easier it is for any user to install and maintain packages, the more users will stay with linux. Sure sometimes its a good idea to compile the sources, but if there's already a package out there, it's just a waste of time. Ideally, no user should ever have to compile the sources- just have it there in case they want it. The thing that is keeping that from happening is the lack of a standard packaging system. RPM works fine, but I really like the apt-get feature of debs. But now that apt is being ported to rpm, then I think I'll just stick with rpm. In the meantime, whoever makes package management easier has got my support.
But on a side note, I think the interface for this piece of software is ugly and is poor UI design. I personally cant wait for RedCarpet from Helix to be available - that looks like the best bet right now for package management.
-Brandon
Well, they did day that it was a _New_ platet- or whatever they wanna call it...
They dont say, but I'm guessing it was just passing through and graviy did it's thing... blah blah blah...
but I really dont know...
What's so bad about playing a DVD in another reigon? I don't see a problem on which DVD player you play it on. As long as I bought the DVD, I should be able to play it anywhere... At least that's the way I see it.
-Brandon
Hey hackers- WE LIKE YOU!!! But if you dont take your software off the net, we'll SUE THE PANTS OFF YA!
What a load of bull... It's just a little ploy to save face. If they really did like hackers, then all these site that were out there would still be out there!
-Brandon
You know, that's what really makes me mad about all this... Sure, it CAN be used for evil, but alot of people don't. So what does Congress do? They try to destroy the technology. Hey, what if these allaged Drug Lords are using the internet so send the lat and long of the stuff? Maybe Congress should bal all internet routers in/to the US - THAT might fix it. :)
There are numerous things that can be used for evil instead of good, but that doesn't mean you should stop making good things, like, for example - GPS.
Hey, why not get congress to ban DRUGS in the US? That'll fix it.
-Brandon
... Or worse, plants a bomb in it... Open it up... BOOM!
Maybe this isn't as fun as it originally sounded.
-Brandon
Hey now... You have to admit the MSN comercial with the guy that has the hiccups isn't funny. I laugh every time. :)
...
"Is it really a good idea to scare him? Look at him, he's 75 years old"
"AAAAAAAAHHGGG!!!!!"
-Brandon
Hey, in the article it says it might be bossible to make a black hole by making a hydrogen bomb using all the water on earth... LET'S DO IT!!!
This is rediculous. Why not quit with the "KDE is better than gnome because..." And the "Gnome has a better license because..." crap and just use what works for you.
If you use Gnome, then who cares what KDE does? I think both projects are doing great, and whatever is better for me, I use.
I think it's great that QT is GPL'd, And I wish KDE best of luck with their development. But on the other hand, GNOME is a great enviornment too, and I wish them best of luck too.
Both have their good stuff and bad stuff - no program that big is going to be 100% perfect.
Let's just forget about all this garbage and let them spend more time writing code, instead of writing responses to stupid editorials.
-Brandon
I always thought USB was a good idea, but the problem is that it has taken so long to become noticed.
It will be nice (if it happens) to just have like 8 or 10 USB ports on your motherboard and all external devices plug into that - no "This goes in the small round one, and this goes in the big 'd' shaped one" crap. Especially for new users.
I think it would be nice if they got rid of the 2 types of USB jacks though... If it's universal, why do I have to buy an adapter?
One other major problem is speed. 60MB/s? That's garbage compared to FireWire2.0. USB should be fast enough for a hard drive. Heck, if it got fast enough, it would be nice to replace IDE stuff internally too. DEATH TO RIBBON CABLES!!! I hate those things.
Anyway, that's just my opinion on things...
-Brandon
Woah, 2.3MB for a freecell game.
Yup, that would be a Microsoft product.
-Brandon
I used to sit there and wish that Microsoft would port their apps to Linux. They make good software, but I dont like the OS. So now that they are finally doing it, I could care less. First I wanted IE, but now there's Mozilla/Galeon doing my web browing, and then there was Outlook Express, but Evolution is gonna be here pretty quick, and Pine still works for me. And Office - Star Office is just as good (slow tho), but now that it's being GPL'd, it'll get better.
I don't think Microsoft has a chance in Linux anymore. If they would have done it a year ago, it would have been great, but now... Who cares? By the time they get all the apps ported, all the good stuff will be done with Gnome, Star Office and everything else, that we wont need their apps.
-Brandon
I havent downloaded it yet (cant) But I'm pretty sure the tarball isn't just Nautilus. Nautilus depends on a bunch of different things like GnomeVFS, Bonobo, etc. The tarball contains all its dependencies, making the package bigger. Hey, it's better than downloading all the packages separately and installing them by hand, don't you think?
-Brandon
I assume what they mean by tabbed widgets are the tabs that everyone uses in any GUI toolkit. So why only Macromedia? They could sue Microsoft, the developers of GTK+, Trolltech, Sun, etc, etc, etc... Everyone uses tabs.
I'm sure they are just scared of Flash and Dreamweaver (which is an AWESOME HTML editor BTW).
Welp, good luck to Macromedia, hope they can find something to countersue with
Wasn't the patent system created to HELP innovate* technologies, not sue-everyone-who-uses-my-patent?
* Innovation is a registered trademark/patent of Microsoft Inc.
-Brandon
Looking at the features, I dont see why this would be a 7.0 release. The only real major upgrade is XFree86... I think they should release this as 6.3, and when Gnome2, KDE2, Kernel2.4, etc is out, and stable, then make it a 7.0 release.
-Brandon
I actually think it will be a good idea. Not easy though. It is going to take alot of effort to get this going.
I have always liked Windows, but I use mostly linux because of its stability. Windows isn't nearly as stable as I'd like it to be, but it has alot of good stuff in it, clean interface, software support, etc. I just don't like the BSOD's.
I think it will be a very good alternative to windows if it works and if its stable.
I also wonder if any of the code used in WINE will be helpful, they have done alot with the windows API...
-Brandon