In a nutshell you're mostly right, but don't forget that societies go through trends that do change youth for better or worse. How about all those 12 year old girls dressed like complete (forgive the term) sluts? You didn't see that in 1960! (BTW I'm 21:-) )
You're right for the most part! Instead of being taught what they wanted me to be taught I can chose what I want to learn! I can buy my own M+M's when I want to, and not depend on my parent's donations! I can work as much or as little as I want and lead the life I want to lead! On the other hand, I wish time passed as slowly as when I was 6. And sometimes life can crash down on you hard when you understand how the world works... Oh well I guess it's a good compromise for being able to do what I want when I want!
You have a valid point here. What many posters fail to do is look at this from a historical perspective. Back in the empire times, access to the vast bureaucracy of the empire was allowed or denied by test scores. Many public positions were awarded by your test results solely or partially. Some parts of their university system have to be looked at from that lens.
I agree with your whole list except for the mp3 player part. My video IPOD allows me to watch my music videos while i'm on the bus/plane / subway, which is pretty cool considering I have a TERABYTE of music concerts & video clips. Way cool.
"In most of Europe, you are far more "watched" than in the US"
"Watched" is such a relative term... In the Europe I know best (France, UK, Germany, the Netherlands, the western european countries who started the EU) you're watched more by social services, health services, and police surveillance is about the same as in the US. However their intelligence & military agencies don't waste their time building huge, useless data mining operations. They spend their money on effective antiterrorist measures without interfering with Joe Blo's everydat life. Hopefully the US will wake up in time. If you want effective security just follow Israel's example. Their airport security is by far the best one in the world.
I dunno I just really object to the fact of a child learning not by the values and standards I will have as a parent but by the ones "metered out" and put forth in variables by the makers of the Sims. I don't want my kids learning to react the same way as some emotionally challenged code monkey;-)
As a grade school teacher I must disagree with what you're saying. You're citing two extremes (discover these things for himself/herself, using (and developing) his/her own intellect & kids who have over-protective pearents) either laissez-faire or being overprotective and bossy. Life isn't that well delineated into black and white areas, the most well adjusted kids are usually the ones who's parents are somewhere in the middle of those two extremes, it's always harder to stay clear of extremes and try to be well adjusted.
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I might sound like an ass but if I were to stumble in the 60s or 70s through some time travelling device/portal/wormhole/whatever with my ipod, my laptop and a stack of games and cds and hard drives I wonder if I might not be looked at as a demi-god. A good point on old hardware though is that it has a freaking ON button. No modern OS seems to support such a simple feature. And Vista ain'T gonna help on my aging but still fine hardware.
Hmfff I agree with most of what you're saying, except that as a Canadian my country is much, much better suited to fight this. Our mix of socialist/centrist Ogovernment allows us much better protection against economic pauperization than the States are.
I just got an offer from an employer on monster offering me a better job for a more renowned employer simply by putting my CV up. The only reason I turned down the job was because it was in a region in which I didn't want to work. I wouldn't have had the option to simply apply for the job because it wasn't posted. Employers don't always post job openings, they often look for potential candidates or subcontract that to a HR agency.
I work for Telus, a phone company/ISP/tv provider etc. and ever since we've been unionized work conditions have been going downhill. I sure hope I'm the exception that confirms the rule...
Well actually with intel's new Core architechture and the k8l, new unified shader compatible video cards, mac OS & the new intel macs that will come out for me it makes sense to wait and not buy anything right now. I don'T know if I'd include "windows xp with directx 10" in that list.
I agree that most of what Dvorak shouts out is pure rubbish, but I think he also has a valid point here. Despite its enormous ressources, all MS can account for with IE 7 is a poor imitation of Firefox/Opera with one of the crudest GUIs available out there. Also: security holes galore...
YOU give Google access to your e-mail if at least for ads, and in addition to had over upon subpoena.
And so are you:-)
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What I don't understand is why he's comparing Pine to Gmail. I mean it's a relatively obscure client for IMAP accounts... How about a review of OE or Thunderbird, clients that a significant amount of ppl use?
Yeah and be oblivious to the fact that both do the same job as well, even though one of them cost was built on 1/10th of the budget of another. I'm writing this on a pentium m, a turion would be just as good.
Right now I agree virtualization is too slow for anything that's even remotely "real time" like games, and I'm using the term loosely, but soon with dual-core and quad-core systems coming out it should be possible pretty seamlessly: imagine a quad core conroe/athlon 64 2.6-2.8 GHz, with native OS virtualization (Pacifica for AMD, I dunno for Intel) and 8 gygs of ram... *drool*
So South Park is cheap and easy to produce... That's probably why they've managed to keep the show going despite a slight decrease of the amount of viewers: it's cheap to produce so it's easier to undercut other cartoons.
I don't want to be a bitch, but come on, the moron who chose this story doesn't deserve to be an editor on slashdot, especially after all the articles on impossible sources of energy he's been peddling....
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In a nutshell you're mostly right, but don't forget that societies go through trends that do change youth for better or worse. How about all those 12 year old girls dressed like complete (forgive the term) sluts? You didn't see that in 1960! (BTW I'm 21 :-) )
You're right for the most part! Instead of being taught what they wanted me to be taught I can chose what I want to learn! I can buy my own M+M's when I want to, and not depend on my parent's donations! I can work as much or as little as I want and lead the life I want to lead! On the other hand, I wish time passed as slowly as when I was 6. And sometimes life can crash down on you hard when you understand how the world works... Oh well I guess it's a good compromise for being able to do what I want when I want!
You have a valid point here. What many posters fail to do is look at this from a historical perspective. Back in the empire times, access to the vast bureaucracy of the empire was allowed or denied by test scores. Many public positions were awarded by your test results solely or partially. Some parts of their university system have to be looked at from that lens.
I agree with your whole list except for the mp3 player part. My video IPOD allows me to watch my music videos while i'm on the bus /plane / subway, which is pretty cool considering I have a TERABYTE of music concerts & video clips. Way cool.
"In most of Europe, you are far more "watched" than in the US" "Watched" is such a relative term... In the Europe I know best (France, UK, Germany, the Netherlands, the western european countries who started the EU) you're watched more by social services, health services, and police surveillance is about the same as in the US. However their intelligence & military agencies don't waste their time building huge, useless data mining operations. They spend their money on effective antiterrorist measures without interfering with Joe Blo's everydat life. Hopefully the US will wake up in time. If you want effective security just follow Israel's example. Their airport security is by far the best one in the world.
When the OS and the browser are as tightly integraded as windows and IE, that makes your point moot!
I dunno I just really object to the fact of a child learning not by the values and standards I will have as a parent but by the ones "metered out" and put forth in variables by the makers of the Sims. I don't want my kids learning to react the same way as some emotionally challenged code monkey ;-)
As a grade school teacher I must disagree with what you're saying. You're citing two extremes (discover these things for himself/herself, using (and developing) his/her own intellect & kids who have over-protective pearents) either laissez-faire or being overprotective and bossy. Life isn't that well delineated into black and white areas, the most well adjusted kids are usually the ones who's parents are somewhere in the middle of those two extremes, it's always harder to stay clear of extremes and try to be well adjusted.
I might sound like an ass but if I were to stumble in the 60s or 70s through some time travelling device/portal/wormhole/whatever with my ipod, my laptop and a stack of games and cds and hard drives I wonder if I might not be looked at as a demi-god. A good point on old hardware though is that it has a freaking ON button. No modern OS seems to support such a simple feature. And Vista ain'T gonna help on my aging but still fine hardware.
Hmfff I agree with most of what you're saying, except that as a Canadian my country is much, much better suited to fight this. Our mix of socialist/centrist Ogovernment allows us much better protection against economic pauperization than the States are.
I just got an offer from an employer on monster offering me a better job for a more renowned employer simply by putting my CV up. The only reason I turned down the job was because it was in a region in which I didn't want to work. I wouldn't have had the option to simply apply for the job because it wasn't posted. Employers don't always post job openings, they often look for potential candidates or subcontract that to a HR agency.
I work for Telus, a phone company/ISP/tv provider etc. and ever since we've been unionized work conditions have been going downhill. I sure hope I'm the exception that confirms the rule...
Well actually with intel's new Core architechture and the k8l, new unified shader compatible video cards, mac OS & the new intel macs that will come out for me it makes sense to wait and not buy anything right now. I don'T know if I'd include "windows xp with directx 10" in that list.
I agree that most of what Dvorak shouts out is pure rubbish, but I think he also has a valid point here. Despite its enormous ressources, all MS can account for with IE 7 is a poor imitation of Firefox/Opera with one of the crudest GUIs available out there. Also: security holes galore...
"I as a nerd am not so interested in the pornbusiness" i thought as geeks porn was our only sexual outlet :-)
Why is it that users who paste the contents of the article get modded ++ ?? I'll start copy-pasting myself, might turn my karma around :-/
YOU give Google access to your e-mail if at least for ads, and in addition to had over upon subpoena. And so are you :-)
What I don't understand is why he's comparing Pine to Gmail. I mean it's a relatively obscure client for IMAP accounts... How about a review of OE or Thunderbird, clients that a significant amount of ppl use?
Uhh.. there is really nothing wrong with line numbers and gotos. It just makes debugging a nightmare. And modifying the code.
Yeah and be oblivious to the fact that both do the same job as well, even though one of them cost was built on 1/10th of the budget of another. I'm writing this on a pentium m, a turion would be just as good.
That with 1/10th of Intel's R&D budget AMD still makes them play catchup for more than 2 1/2, almost 3 years after the Athlon 64 was released.
Right now I agree virtualization is too slow for anything that's even remotely "real time" like games, and I'm using the term loosely, but soon with dual-core and quad-core systems coming out it should be possible pretty seamlessly: imagine a quad core conroe/athlon 64 2.6-2.8 GHz, with native OS virtualization (Pacifica for AMD, I dunno for Intel) and 8 gygs of ram... *drool*
comprimised? ;-)
So South Park is cheap and easy to produce... That's probably why they've managed to keep the show going despite a slight decrease of the amount of viewers: it's cheap to produce so it's easier to undercut other cartoons.
I don't want to be a bitch, but come on, the moron who chose this story doesn't deserve to be an editor on slashdot, especially after all the articles on impossible sources of energy he's been peddling....