Hello, my name is Cory, and I'm just finishing (or at least imagine that I'm just finishing) the stage your are in now. I'm 19 now, done with High School and working full time leading development on e-commerce software. I offer this information merely as a reference for my questions:
Do you feel that your peers (teachers/students) make an attempt to understand you? While in HS, I got a very distinct feeling that no one (parents/teachers/admin./ect) even made an attempt to connect with me. Eventually, I got over the feeling of constant rejection... I'm wondering if you are experiencing similar feelings, or if your community is more open to people of our interests, and how you feel that acceptance (or lack thereof) has changed your feelings about technology.
Are you socially active in HS? I had 0 friends in HS, but had many friends who were older/younger, however, almost none of my friends were my own age. I'm wondering how you interactive with your friends, and what kind of people are they.
Do you feel that people older than you (especially those people in authority positions, teachers/HS admin.) distrust you because of your abilities and intelligence? While I was in HS, I was constantly under suspicion of causing various computer malfunctions, and was even suspended a few times for things I wasn't involved in. Do you feel a similar backlash at school?
Where do you intend to go after HS is done? I haven't made my mind up, but College looks less and less attractive each day. I have a job I like, new job offers almost daily, my own house, privacy, etc. I live in a college town, and from what I see of the social scene / "education" it seems barely better than HS (only with more alcohol involved.) What are your thoughts?
Wow, it's really nice to see a Minivend post on Slashdot...
I work full time creating catalogs and database driven web pages using Minivend (and it's admin system, Minimate.) It's really a great program with lots of potential, and I encourage everyone to take a look.
It is, however, very powerful. With power comes complexity, with flexibility a steep learning curve. It's taken me about a year to really get my mind wrapped around Minivend, but now that I have, I'm a much happier web programmer.
Don't give up because its hard. If I can figure it out, so can you.
That's right, the future;) Checkout "Freenet" on Freshmeant and the homepage, http://freenet.sourceforge.net/ for more info. Freenet is a peer-to-peer network designed to allow the distribution of information over the Internet in an efficient manner, without fear of censorship. It is completely decentralized (there is no person or computer essential to its operation), meaning that Freenet cannot be attacked like centralized peer-to-peer systems such as Napster. Freenet also employs intelligent routing and caching to learn to route requests more efficiently, automatically mirror popular data, make network flooding almost impossible, and move data to where it is in greatest demand.
Mentioning the subway station scene made me laugh out loud about the semi-subtle sound from an old western. i think everyone knows what I mean (the tweedle sound, wooo-wooo-wooo, or something) and it cracked me up!
A couple of lines jumped out at me from this article
"It is the first time we have gone against the search engine process..."
That's a good idea. Who needs search engines anyway? Maybe these guys will "go against" the rest of the internet too. That'll get rid of ALL the MP3s. Who needs the internet anyway?
I think this is a good example of how you cannot fall far behind technology and then, just as it begins to threaten you, start a massive war against it. These types of empty legal threats reveal the music industry to be very uninformed.
Hasn't anyone told them that MP3's are legal? I've got 13G of 100% legal MP3, and I got many of them off Lycos( and that was before mp3.lycos.com, when no one was making a stink!) All search engines will provide links to illegal (at least most of them will) stuff, but not because they endorse it, but because the links are submitted and not moderated.
So, when it's all boiled down, Lycos is being sued for catagorizing it's MP3 search engine to a different machine?
I can understand why "No one at Lycos was immediately available for comment" because they are all too busy laughing.
That's a really good article, and a really sad situtation. The Open Source movement is really picking up steam (preaching to the choir;) and it is encouraging to see companies putting their corporate weight behind it. Sadly, Apple jumped the gun. If they had done more research and gained some understanding of how the OS community works, they could have seen the arguments over the license they have constructed ahead of time. Had Apple done it's homework, they would have either 1) written a different license that appeased more of the OS community or 2) had a long list of arguments (and puns, especially "ring" ones;) to use to support their lisence. All in all, I think Apple jumped the gun, but I'd rather have companies jumping behind OS with good intentions instead of companies who shoot people who even get *near* the source.
I'm not gonna get into this flame war, but I'd like to comment on how funny that post is. I'm not all that concerned with M$ and it's legal floundering (I know we're gonna win, one way or another) but I do like to see good, honestly funny things on slashdot.
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I spend a lot of time with MilSpec laptops, and they are not worth the time or money.
is a programming language. It is beginning to catch on in the EN world, but has been going strong in JP for some time now.
please re-read both your post and mine, and think about it. I'm sure how stupid you sound will become rather obvious.
Thanks.
Clinton --
... I'm wondering if you are experiencing similar feelings, or if your community is more open to people of our interests, and how you feel that acceptance (or lack thereof) has changed your feelings about technology.
/HS admin.) distrust you because of your abilities and intelligence? While I was in HS, I was constantly under suspicion of causing various computer malfunctions, and was even suspended a few times for things I wasn't involved in. Do you feel a similar backlash at school?
Hello, my name is Cory, and I'm just finishing (or at least imagine that I'm just finishing) the stage your are in now. I'm 19 now, done with High School and working full time leading development on e-commerce software. I offer this information merely as a reference for my questions:
Do you feel that your peers (teachers/students) make an attempt to understand you? While in HS, I got a very distinct feeling that no one (parents/teachers/admin./ect) even made an attempt to connect with me. Eventually, I got over the feeling of constant rejection
Are you socially active in HS? I had 0 friends in HS, but had many friends who were older/younger, however, almost none of my friends were my own age. I'm wondering how you interactive with your friends, and what kind of people are they.
Do you feel that people older than you (especially those people in authority positions, teachers
Where do you intend to go after HS is done? I haven't made my mind up, but College looks less and less attractive each day. I have a job I like, new job offers almost daily, my own house, privacy, etc. I live in a college town, and from what I see of the social scene / "education" it seems barely better than HS (only with more alcohol involved.) What are your thoughts?
Athens, OH
Nameless ((digital@frognet.net))
I bet the author of that book and John would get along really well. Someone in the know should set them up. LOL
Nameless
Wow, it's really nice to see a Minivend post on Slashdot...
I work full time creating catalogs and database driven web pages using Minivend (and it's admin system, Minimate.) It's really a great program with lots of potential, and I encourage everyone to take a look.
It is, however, very powerful. With power comes complexity, with flexibility a steep learning curve. It's taken me about a year to really get my mind wrapped around Minivend, but now that I have, I'm a much happier web programmer.
Don't give up because its hard. If I can figure it out, so can you.
nameless
That's right, the future ;) Checkout "Freenet" on Freshmeant and the homepage, http://freenet.sourceforge.net/ for more info. Freenet is a peer-to-peer network designed to allow the distribution of information over the Internet in an efficient manner, without fear of censorship. It is completely decentralized (there is no person or computer essential to its operation), meaning that Freenet cannot be attacked like centralized peer-to-peer systems such as Napster. Freenet also employs intelligent routing and caching to learn to route requests more efficiently, automatically mirror popular data, make network flooding almost impossible, and move data to where it is in greatest demand.
Abe --
Who told you that hacking ever involved
using Cult of the Dead Cow software? Are
you really a hacker?
I would advise you to hang onto your Palm. I've lost mine twice and had to buy a new one. Pain in
David is busy writting patches for the kernel. He'll have his day soon enough.
Mentioning the subway station scene made me laugh out loud about the semi-subtle sound from an old western. i think everyone knows what I mean (the tweedle sound, wooo-wooo-wooo, or something) and it cracked me up!
~Nameless
A couple of lines jumped out at me from this article
"It is the first time we have gone against the search engine process..."
That's a good idea. Who needs search engines anyway? Maybe these guys will "go against" the rest of the internet too. That'll get rid of ALL the MP3s. Who needs the internet anyway?
I think this is a good example of how you cannot fall far behind technology and then, just as it begins to threaten you, start a massive war against it. These types of empty legal threats reveal the music industry to be very uninformed.
Hasn't anyone told them that MP3's are legal? I've got 13G of 100% legal MP3, and I got many of them off Lycos( and that was before mp3.lycos.com, when no one was making a stink!) All search engines will provide links to illegal (at least most of them will) stuff, but not because they endorse it, but because the links are submitted and not moderated.
So, when it's all boiled down, Lycos is being sued for catagorizing it's MP3 search engine to a different machine?
I can understand why "No one at Lycos was immediately available for comment" because they are all too busy laughing.
~Nameless, the blameless moderator
That's a really good article, and a really sad situtation. The Open Source movement is really picking up steam (preaching to the choir ;) and it is encouraging to see companies putting their corporate weight behind it. Sadly, Apple jumped the gun. If they had done more research and gained some understanding of how the OS community works, they could have seen the arguments over the license they have constructed ahead of time. Had Apple done it's homework, they would have either 1) written a different license that appeased more of the OS community or 2) had a long list of arguments (and puns, especially "ring" ones ;) to use to support their lisence. All in all, I think Apple jumped the gun, but I'd rather have companies jumping behind OS with good intentions instead of companies who shoot people who even get *near* the source.
;0
~Nameless, the fearless moderator!
I'm not gonna get into this flame war, but I'd like to comment on how funny that post is. I'm not all that concerned with M$ and it's legal floundering (I know we're gonna win, one way or another) but I do like to see good, honestly funny things on slashdot.
;)
Fantastic Post!
~nameless
ps : i do hate microsoft, don't get me wrong