Yes, I am adverse towards children picking up bad language skills.
adverse
adj. Acting or serving to oppose; antagonistic: adverse criticism. Contrary to one's interests or welfare; harmful or unfavorable: adverse circumstances. Moving in an opposite or opposing direction: adverse currents. Archaic. Placed opposite.
Do not confuse creativity with displays of stupidity. In no way is true creativity exercised when trying to interpret the moronic pseudo-English typing of some illiterate, 13-year-old kid posting at the GameFAQs forums.
The pellets come in a bag (much like dog food or bird seed). You get a decent sized funnel, and you pour the pellets from the bag into the pellet tank of your vehicle. Not very difficult!
I don't need to go anywhere else. I can look right here on Slashdot. Not only do the various readers of Slashdot (myself included) have spelling and grammar mistakes, the "editors" do as well.
GameFAQs makes Slashdot look like Oxford, if you can imagine that.
Are you saying that rap music (full of "foul" language and poor grammar) is not creative? Even though I don't particularly care for that genre, I still respect the artists' creativity.
I'm actually disappointed that you would attempt to forbid a child to read a forum because you disagree with the spelling and grammar content. I don't feel particularly moved to commit spelling and grammar mistakes because others do.
Is rap music creative? Yes, I'd say so. But I would hardly call it an intellectual type of creativity. It's far more primal. More about expressing dissent against (or praise for, in some cases) life in the slums, ghettos and trailer parks of America.
Children are impressionable. I would not want my child picking up awful textual communication skills from his or her peers. You, on the other hand, are an adult (or so I would gather). I would expect that you are not as impressionable as a child who is just learning to write.
You're right, monitored posting at such forums is acceptable. My grandson posts at GameFAQs quite frequently. But he always does it with supervision, and hence has learned to use correct spelling and grammar (unlike most of the other fools there). He often ridicules his peers there for their inability to grasp such basic skills. Indeed, it's the unattended, unmonitored posting there that will truly destroy a child's mind.
I know you were joking, but you do raise an interesting point concerning the cultural differences regarding the exposure of children to various content.
It is not uncommon for European children to be exposed to the naked bodies of men and women from a very young age. Boys grow up knowing what a pussy looks like from a very young age, unlike most boys in America. So once they hit their teen years, European boys usually do not go "crazy" for the vulva.
The human body is not as forbidden, and hence young people in Europe are not as inclined to gratuitously and unsafely perform sexual rites on each other. That is why the rate of teen pregnancies in Europe is often so much lower than that of other nations (eg. the US and Australia) that generally forbid the viewing of the human genitals.
Take a peek at the GameFAQs.com forums. They are frequented by youth and young adults. Notice the terrible grammar, horrible spelling, and the inability of many posters there to post coherent, sensible content. Whether this is caused by a lack of proper education, or whether it is just the nature of message boards, is questionable.
Personally, I would never let my children or grandchildren post at the GameFAQs forums without proper supervision. It's not about protecting them from the content there, but more the presentation of the content. I support creativity, and to be truly expressive requires intelligence and at least the ability to read and write with clarity and correctness.
All a child will learn at GameFAQs is how to type and compose written works very poorly. While the Internet can help children become very creative, it can also lead them to become lazy in their communication habits. Frankly, I'd be adverse to letting a child, or even a teen, post frequently at forums like those at GameFAQs, just because of how their creativity could be negatively affected.
Do you believe that the Bang Bus videos are planned and scripted? Or do you think that they actually involve random women who nearly spontaneously participate in sexual relations with a bunch of men in a van, all while being videotaped?
Exactly. The governments of many nations (particularly the US) are quite intertwined with the energy industries. You won't find a government of any significant size willing to promote such technology due to such business relationships between politicians and energy interests.
This technology would render gas stations obsolete. Why would you need to drive to such a station in order to drop a small pellet into your pellet tank? It's completely unnecessary! You could easily buy a bag of these pellets from your local hardware or grocery store, and refill your vehicle in the comfort of your own garage!
If combined with this hydrogen-based technology, we could be on the very edge of a massive breakthrough in computing power. Imagine a laptop that could run for years, literally, on several of these hydrogen pellets. Now imagine a laptop with the specs of the aforementioned laptop. Such a system would be, to put it bluntly, a revolution on personal computing.
Now let's bring it to the desktop. Suppose you fit four, or even eight, of the processors capable of 6.8 GHz into a typical PC desktop. Power it with these hydrogen pellets, removing any dependency on the power grid (potentially reducing costs magnificently). You'll basically be bringing the power of supercomputing to all computer owners.
When you consider what a company like Apple, or the Linux and *BSD projects, can accomplish today with our meager (in comparison) systems, it would be absolutely fantastic to see what they could achieve with such vast amounts of processing power and RAM.
I agree. TripMaster Monkey should be an editor here. He's got the knowledge and intelligence to post fantastic articles. He can efficiently get us the info we need to know. To let his talent go to waste would be a terrible thing.
The main thing to consider is the economics. More to the point, how will the existing oil/energy companies financially benefit from such technology? For if they don't have an interest in this product, it will never come to fruition, regardless of its technical merit.
Do you realize how much data 1.5 TB is? It's a fair bit. Several years ago that much data storage would have been considered quite unthinkable in a single, desktop PC. But it's quite possible today, and even becoming quite common.
What is considered "large" today will be amongst the smallest problems in the near future. That is just how fast technology progresses.
Had Jimmy lived in a society that wasn't so fucking stuck up about the very natural concept of sexual relationships, then he wouldn't have to be whacking his peter to pornography in his arithmetics class.
What sport are those results from? More specifically, who exactly is "Kaka"? "Kaka" is a term normally used by children to refer to faeces. It is indeed quite a hilarity that it would be the name of an athlete!
Also, what sort of device is that? Is that device required to modify and view the images that are displayed? If so, that looks to be less portable than your typical PDA.
You can easily rip paper pulling it out of your pocket. If anything, this technology will most likely be stronger than paper. Of course, that does not mean that it is invulnerable. But compared to paper, it may very well be far more durable.
There was a time when the best personal computers had screens of that quality. But over time the technology develops, and things will improve. While not perfect, I would hardly suggest that this technology is useless. It is merely a stepping stone to far greater achievements.
Compression algorithms do matter.
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Compression algorithms matter quite a bit. Remember, if you can save even 100 bytes for every second of data flow, that adds up quickly. That's 6000 bytes/minute. That's 360000 bytes/hour. That's 8640000 bytes/day. Over the course of a year you'd save around 3 GB. That can very well impact on bandwidth costs when multiplied by several (if not hundreds of) users.
It's factors like that which make OpenSSL, especially OpenSSL 4.2, very appealing to network administrators who must take into account bandwidth costs.
No problem, Bill. After all, open source software (especially that under the BSD license) is meant to be shared and used by all, basically however they see fit. That's the name of the game, Mr. Gates.
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The general consensus at OSNews is that this is a fraud and a complete lie.
http://osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=11784
Some people have pointed out some interesting discrepancies in the images and so forth.
Did you steal the money you used to buy that cable you bought when you were 9, or did you earn it in some other way?
Do not confuse creativity with displays of stupidity. In no way is true creativity exercised when trying to interpret the moronic pseudo-English typing of some illiterate, 13-year-old kid posting at the GameFAQs forums.
Any American who supports censorship and suppression of free, open discussion is not a true American.
The pellets come in a bag (much like dog food or bird seed). You get a decent sized funnel, and you pour the pellets from the bag into the pellet tank of your vehicle. Not very difficult!
"Pellet" implies "small", to the point of being easily handled in large numbers by a human.
I don't need to go anywhere else. I can look right here on Slashdot. Not only do the various readers of Slashdot (myself included) have spelling and grammar mistakes, the "editors" do as well.
GameFAQs makes Slashdot look like Oxford, if you can imagine that.
Are you saying that rap music (full of "foul" language and poor grammar) is not creative? Even though I don't particularly care for that genre, I still respect the artists' creativity.
I'm actually disappointed that you would attempt to forbid a child to read a forum because you disagree with the spelling and grammar content. I don't feel particularly moved to commit spelling and grammar mistakes because others do.
Is rap music creative? Yes, I'd say so. But I would hardly call it an intellectual type of creativity. It's far more primal. More about expressing dissent against (or praise for, in some cases) life in the slums, ghettos and trailer parks of America.
Children are impressionable. I would not want my child picking up awful textual communication skills from his or her peers. You, on the other hand, are an adult (or so I would gather). I would expect that you are not as impressionable as a child who is just learning to write.
You're right, monitored posting at such forums is acceptable. My grandson posts at GameFAQs quite frequently. But he always does it with supervision, and hence has learned to use correct spelling and grammar (unlike most of the other fools there). He often ridicules his peers there for their inability to grasp such basic skills. Indeed, it's the unattended, unmonitored posting there that will truly destroy a child's mind.
I know you were joking, but you do raise an interesting point concerning the cultural differences regarding the exposure of children to various content.
It is not uncommon for European children to be exposed to the naked bodies of men and women from a very young age. Boys grow up knowing what a pussy looks like from a very young age, unlike most boys in America. So once they hit their teen years, European boys usually do not go "crazy" for the vulva.
The human body is not as forbidden, and hence young people in Europe are not as inclined to gratuitously and unsafely perform sexual rites on each other. That is why the rate of teen pregnancies in Europe is often so much lower than that of other nations (eg. the US and Australia) that generally forbid the viewing of the human genitals.
Take a peek at the GameFAQs.com forums. They are frequented by youth and young adults. Notice the terrible grammar, horrible spelling, and the inability of many posters there to post coherent, sensible content. Whether this is caused by a lack of proper education, or whether it is just the nature of message boards, is questionable.
Personally, I would never let my children or grandchildren post at the GameFAQs forums without proper supervision. It's not about protecting them from the content there, but more the presentation of the content. I support creativity, and to be truly expressive requires intelligence and at least the ability to read and write with clarity and correctness.
All a child will learn at GameFAQs is how to type and compose written works very poorly. While the Internet can help children become very creative, it can also lead them to become lazy in their communication habits. Frankly, I'd be adverse to letting a child, or even a teen, post frequently at forums like those at GameFAQs, just because of how their creativity could be negatively affected.
Do you believe that the Bang Bus videos are planned and scripted? Or do you think that they actually involve random women who nearly spontaneously participate in sexual relations with a bunch of men in a van, all while being videotaped?
How DARE you besmirch the reputation of TripMaster Monkey!
Exactly. The governments of many nations (particularly the US) are quite intertwined with the energy industries. You won't find a government of any significant size willing to promote such technology due to such business relationships between politicians and energy interests.
This technology would render gas stations obsolete. Why would you need to drive to such a station in order to drop a small pellet into your pellet tank? It's completely unnecessary! You could easily buy a bag of these pellets from your local hardware or grocery store, and refill your vehicle in the comfort of your own garage!
OSNews has posted an article describing a laptop with a 6.8 GHz laptop processor and over 1 TB of RAM and solid-state storage.
If combined with this hydrogen-based technology, we could be on the very edge of a massive breakthrough in computing power. Imagine a laptop that could run for years, literally, on several of these hydrogen pellets. Now imagine a laptop with the specs of the aforementioned laptop. Such a system would be, to put it bluntly, a revolution on personal computing.
Now let's bring it to the desktop. Suppose you fit four, or even eight, of the processors capable of 6.8 GHz into a typical PC desktop. Power it with these hydrogen pellets, removing any dependency on the power grid (potentially reducing costs magnificently). You'll basically be bringing the power of supercomputing to all computer owners.
When you consider what a company like Apple, or the Linux and *BSD projects, can accomplish today with our meager (in comparison) systems, it would be absolutely fantastic to see what they could achieve with such vast amounts of processing power and RAM.
I agree. TripMaster Monkey should be an editor here. He's got the knowledge and intelligence to post fantastic articles. He can efficiently get us the info we need to know. To let his talent go to waste would be a terrible thing.
The main thing to consider is the economics. More to the point, how will the existing oil/energy companies financially benefit from such technology? For if they don't have an interest in this product, it will never come to fruition, regardless of its technical merit.
Do you realize how much data 1.5 TB is? It's a fair bit. Several years ago that much data storage would have been considered quite unthinkable in a single, desktop PC. But it's quite possible today, and even becoming quite common.
What is considered "large" today will be amongst the smallest problems in the near future. That is just how fast technology progresses.
Had Jimmy lived in a society that wasn't so fucking stuck up about the very natural concept of sexual relationships, then he wouldn't have to be whacking his peter to pornography in his arithmetics class.
Re: the first image.
What sport are those results from? More specifically, who exactly is "Kaka"? "Kaka" is a term normally used by children to refer to faeces. It is indeed quite a hilarity that it would be the name of an athlete!
Also, what sort of device is that? Is that device required to modify and view the images that are displayed? If so, that looks to be less portable than your typical PDA.
You can easily rip paper pulling it out of your pocket. If anything, this technology will most likely be stronger than paper. Of course, that does not mean that it is invulnerable. But compared to paper, it may very well be far more durable.
There was a time when the best personal computers had screens of that quality. But over time the technology develops, and things will improve. While not perfect, I would hardly suggest that this technology is useless. It is merely a stepping stone to far greater achievements.
Compression algorithms matter quite a bit. Remember, if you can save even 100 bytes for every second of data flow, that adds up quickly. That's 6000 bytes/minute. That's 360000 bytes/hour. That's 8640000 bytes/day. Over the course of a year you'd save around 3 GB. That can very well impact on bandwidth costs when multiplied by several (if not hundreds of) users.
It's factors like that which make OpenSSL, especially OpenSSL 4.2, very appealing to network administrators who must take into account bandwidth costs.
Thank you for the clarification. I agree, calling it Mac OS X Intel is far clearer. And it doesn't make you look like a complete cock.
No problem, Bill. After all, open source software (especially that under the BSD license) is meant to be shared and used by all, basically however they see fit. That's the name of the game, Mr. Gates.