Am I the only one who couldn't read the article because of a stupid advertisement that covered the article itself and wouldn't go away with the "close" button? Maybe we should stop linking to sites that have this kind of crap.
I'd call most of the game up until near the end a giant quest. I love how it just went from one thing immediately to another with little in between. It was far from doing the same things over and over again. It got me hooked and I played it obsessively for some time. I still go back to it once in a blue moon.
I know it's easier than hell to generalize christians (especially those who are all "OMG ban gay marriage/video games" and whatever), but please, shut the hell up until you can't.
My little "branch" of christianity if you wanna call it that, is a church of christ. We read the bible and do our best to understand it. And we really don't have a center, unless you want to call the Bible a center. We do meet with a few other churches of christ in the area once in awhile though.
Unfortunately, one cannot know whether he/she will go to heaven, according to the Bible (Judge not). Apparently all the judgement will happen on judgement day/apocalypse/whatever. At least if I'm reading the Bible right. Please pipe up if you think I read wrong.
Indeed. Did this lady just pull all this stuff about avoiding RFID because "it'll end the world" out her ass, or what? I'm a christian too, but wow, that is a VERY extreme point of view there. And as such, it isn't too likely she'll have alot of followers. She should probably point more toward the facts if she really wants to be heard
Go ahead and troll/flame me.
Yeah, I currently go to college myself (not unlike many others here I would imagine) and I carry a laptop there. I don't use it in class too often, though it has been handy to be able to type some notes once in awhile. I mostly just use it during my 3-hour break in the middle of the day. Thank god for Wifi is all I gotta say. And yeah, if I have my laptop out too much, for me it becomes a distraction too.
All in all I would definitely say a laptop is not very useful in most classes at Everett Community College in Washington.
Dude, a Celeron D would be fine for that kind of budget machine, too. And at newegg, I betcha I could pick up a decent motherboard for only 40 bucks. And monitors? CRT is definitely the way to go for for your wallet. The more recent monitors are alot better than the old ones used to be. And a casing? My dad picked up a cheapo casing w/power supply for like 20 bucks like a year ago. These guys do not know how to save money.
At 6 months old, my dad put me in front of a computer program called bang, or something like that. More or less, I just banged my tiny hands on the keyboard and the computer made sounds and and flashed a few colors I think... Keep in mind this was 1987 though. Anyway, my dad having computers and me using them and watching them evolve sorta sparked my heavy passion for the like.
Just my story.
But what is technology? In two words: applied science. Science discovered that certain things when brought into heat in different ways makes very edible/delicious things as well as burning if left in too long. I'd call cooking science.
Another funny thing: It makes you wonder if there's a virus to an incredibly fast metabolic rate or skinnyness. I weigh in at (so heavy... not) 140 pounds. It took me till high school to reach 100 pounds. I've always been a rail. Although it wasn't also until high school, my metabolic rate is amazing; I can down an entire large pizza and 3-3.5 hours later I'm sorta hungry again. Not bragging here, as I could potentially eat myself out of house and home.
And here, we run into an obstacle. How do we get the kids to want to learn? It really wasn't until my sophomore year in high school that I really enjoyed going to school (because I had found the wonders of a career in comps, but that's neither here or there).
I went to Marysville Middle school in Marysville Washington and my experience was similar. You see, at the end of a trimester, we had to have a certain amount of points to get a good grade on that (which was about 20% of our reading grades). The only difference was that the test you mentioned was only a suggestion tool. Alot of the kids read tons of small 3rd-4th grade books to get the points whereas I read a few novels. The harder a book was to read, the more points would be rewarded for completing it.
This doesn't look good for him, but it doesn't make much sense for me. This should have only been just the web server. Maybe I'm an idiot but last I checked, no one put anything crucially important on a web server. That is unless they WANTED to lose that information.
But you have forgotten the nicer parts to owning a computer. 1. You don't have to agree to anything to own a computer. 2. You can do whatever you please with it. 3. A computer can serve more purposes than just gaming (although that is a primary function for mine). etc.
I totally agree. I worked for a guy with like somewhere around 10 Dell optiplexes with Pentium 2's in 'em back in 02. The hardware on them was stable as all hell. I don't remember having to replace any hardware, during the year I was there. He said that pretty much everything but the hard drives were factory. My only problem with those optiplexes was the getting in and replacing hard drives, as you had to figure out how to completely remove the bay (which was took me awhile to do) to do anything. But really, I can't complain about the 'old optiplexes at all.
Indeed. Keep in mind, Slashdot, that there are some of us "nonviolent" christians floating around. Don't blame us for the actions of them. But this kind of stuff makes me sick.
It does nothing; it's what they can do with it is what's important. From your link: "Why is it important for each child to have a computer? What's wrong with community-access centers? One does not think of community pencils--kids have their own. They are tools to think with, sufficiently inexpensive to be used for work and play, drawing, writing, and mathematics. A computer can be the same, but far more powerful. Furthermore, there are many reasons it is important for a child to "own" something--like a football, doll, or book--not the least of which being that these belongings will be well-maintained through love and care."
This more or less, is an open ended set of tools. They could do millions of things with these laptops, really. And of course as is the nature of Linux, they have to do do these things themselves, involving learning. Duh.
Unfortunately that's not completely how it works. DSL and Cable internet are both broadband. What that means is, the bandwith is shared by all customers connected to that area router using that particular service at that point in time. So if you were to pop on with no one else on that edge(area) router, you would get the best speed possible. But of course, the amount of neighbors on at a time shouldn't bring your net to a screeching halt or anything.
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Am I the only one who couldn't read the article because of a stupid advertisement that covered the article itself and wouldn't go away with the "close" button? Maybe we should stop linking to sites that have this kind of crap.
Not just that, but they're comparing apples to oranges too. Nintendo VS Xbox 360 on all of them but WoW. Very partial IMHO.
I'd call most of the game up until near the end a giant quest. I love how it just went from one thing immediately to another with little in between. It was far from doing the same things over and over again. It got me hooked and I played it obsessively for some time. I still go back to it once in a blue moon.
I know it's easier than hell to generalize christians (especially those who are all "OMG ban gay marriage/video games" and whatever), but please, shut the hell up until you can't. My little "branch" of christianity if you wanna call it that, is a church of christ. We read the bible and do our best to understand it. And we really don't have a center, unless you want to call the Bible a center. We do meet with a few other churches of christ in the area once in awhile though.
Unfortunately, one cannot know whether he/she will go to heaven, according to the Bible (Judge not). Apparently all the judgement will happen on judgement day/apocalypse/whatever. At least if I'm reading the Bible right. Please pipe up if you think I read wrong.
Indeed. Did this lady just pull all this stuff about avoiding RFID because "it'll end the world" out her ass, or what? I'm a christian too, but wow, that is a VERY extreme point of view there. And as such, it isn't too likely she'll have alot of followers. She should probably point more toward the facts if she really wants to be heard Go ahead and troll/flame me.
Yeah, I currently go to college myself (not unlike many others here I would imagine) and I carry a laptop there. I don't use it in class too often, though it has been handy to be able to type some notes once in awhile. I mostly just use it during my 3-hour break in the middle of the day. Thank god for Wifi is all I gotta say. And yeah, if I have my laptop out too much, for me it becomes a distraction too. All in all I would definitely say a laptop is not very useful in most classes at Everett Community College in Washington.
Yeah, and at this point, I just get fed up with it all and build my own linux machine from the ground up.
Dude, a Celeron D would be fine for that kind of budget machine, too. And at newegg, I betcha I could pick up a decent motherboard for only 40 bucks. And monitors? CRT is definitely the way to go for for your wallet. The more recent monitors are alot better than the old ones used to be. And a casing? My dad picked up a cheapo casing w/power supply for like 20 bucks like a year ago. These guys do not know how to save money.
At 6 months old, my dad put me in front of a computer program called bang, or something like that. More or less, I just banged my tiny hands on the keyboard and the computer made sounds and and flashed a few colors I think... Keep in mind this was 1987 though. Anyway, my dad having computers and me using them and watching them evolve sorta sparked my heavy passion for the like. Just my story.
But what is technology? In two words: applied science. Science discovered that certain things when brought into heat in different ways makes very edible/delicious things as well as burning if left in too long. I'd call cooking science.
If you hate the "piss-poor quality of writing" on this site, why do you still come here? It just seems like a strange sort of masochism to me.
You seem to have forgotten one very important thing: NOSTALGIA WILL ONLY BE ONE ASPECT OF THE REVOLUTION! Okay, rant over.
Another funny thing: It makes you wonder if there's a virus to an incredibly fast metabolic rate or skinnyness. I weigh in at (so heavy... not) 140 pounds. It took me till high school to reach 100 pounds. I've always been a rail. Although it wasn't also until high school, my metabolic rate is amazing; I can down an entire large pizza and 3-3.5 hours later I'm sorta hungry again. Not bragging here, as I could potentially eat myself out of house and home.
And here, we run into an obstacle. How do we get the kids to want to learn? It really wasn't until my sophomore year in high school that I really enjoyed going to school (because I had found the wonders of a career in comps, but that's neither here or there).
I went to Marysville Middle school in Marysville Washington and my experience was similar. You see, at the end of a trimester, we had to have a certain amount of points to get a good grade on that (which was about 20% of our reading grades). The only difference was that the test you mentioned was only a suggestion tool. Alot of the kids read tons of small 3rd-4th grade books to get the points whereas I read a few novels. The harder a book was to read, the more points would be rewarded for completing it.
This doesn't look good for him, but it doesn't make much sense for me. This should have only been just the web server. Maybe I'm an idiot but last I checked, no one put anything crucially important on a web server. That is unless they WANTED to lose that information.
Yeah, but that's only if you really believe the EULA is binding in any way.
But you have forgotten the nicer parts to owning a computer. 1. You don't have to agree to anything to own a computer. 2. You can do whatever you please with it. 3. A computer can serve more purposes than just gaming (although that is a primary function for mine). etc.
Need I go on?
I totally agree. I worked for a guy with like somewhere around 10 Dell optiplexes with Pentium 2's in 'em back in 02. The hardware on them was stable as all hell. I don't remember having to replace any hardware, during the year I was there. He said that pretty much everything but the hard drives were factory. My only problem with those optiplexes was the getting in and replacing hard drives, as you had to figure out how to completely remove the bay (which was took me awhile to do) to do anything. But really, I can't complain about the 'old optiplexes at all.
Well, think of it this way: If you bought some used cars, you would expect them to go, right?
Go right on ahead.
Indeed. Keep in mind, Slashdot, that there are some of us "nonviolent" christians floating around. Don't blame us for the actions of them. But this kind of stuff makes me sick.
It does nothing; it's what they can do with it is what's important.
From your link:
"Why is it important for each child to have a computer? What's wrong with community-access centers?
One does not think of community pencils--kids have their own. They are tools to think with, sufficiently inexpensive to be used for work and play, drawing, writing, and mathematics. A computer can be the same, but far more powerful. Furthermore, there are many reasons it is important for a child to "own" something--like a football, doll, or book--not the least of which being that these belongings will be well-maintained through love and care."
This more or less, is an open ended set of tools. They could do millions of things with these laptops, really. And of course as is the nature of Linux, they have to do do these things themselves, involving learning. Duh.
Unfortunately that's not completely how it works. DSL and Cable internet are both broadband. What that means is, the bandwith is shared by all customers connected to that area router using that particular service at that point in time. So if you were to pop on with no one else on that edge(area) router, you would get the best speed possible. But of course, the amount of neighbors on at a time shouldn't bring your net to a screeching halt or anything.