Perhaps I should have said "tiny minority" instead of "0.001%".
Yes, maybe the pressure is very high, but if the vast majority of people do not commit suicide then that doesn't change the fact that the tiny minority are reacting in a terrible way to something that the vast majority are somehow able to live with.
You're obviously against medicating a problem, but to say that the only alternative to these suicides is to change the entire educational system... that's just not going to happen even if it should happen (and I'm not sure it should). I'm a practical person and I like to do what can be done. If I lived in that environment then I'd choose to get counselling and medication for my kids.
I suppose so, but I suspect he'd be even lower on the befriend list of other people his own age. Middle school and highschool is pretty socially disfunctional as it is (at least in the US). Being a smart guy doesn't get you much in that environment. In college being a smart guy may be rewarded.
Which college rushed person modded my comment a troll? I was being perfectly serious. Only a hippy would value social achievement over intellectual achievement.
Slashdot always has numerous comments regarding not being able to get dates. Perhaps all those comments are referring to are a nerd's inability to get into a fulfilling long term relationship. But, my guess is that they're all talking about sex. My comment was in response to those comments. Obviously, finding a fulfilling relationship isn't easy for anyone whether they're a nerd or not.
However, no matter what you're looking for, you can never go wrong with complements. As Homer Simpson put it, when it comes to complements, women are ravenous monsters always wanting more, more more!
So you're saying that everyone should become a hippy because 0.001% of the students are committing suicide?
Perhaps it would be more productive to just get the depressed kids some counseling and Prozac?
If that's true then there's something wrong with the school system. It essentially means that most people utterly waste 10 years of their lives for no reason whatsoever.
If what you say is true then what I'd like to see is thousands of 8 year olds entering college. Then they'll have peers while also gaining the benefit of leaving the land of the idiots. Perhaps that sort of thing will encourage change in the system.
If that many 8 year olds entered college then someone could start a college for 8 year olds. It'd be like a Harry Potter school.
Why do so many people think it's so awesome to be a kid? Being a kid sucks! Life doesn't get good until you get into college. It sounds to me like this kid is skipping the crappy parts of growing up.
You honestly think this kid would grow up normally if you let him stay with other kids his age? When I was growing up I always felt like I was surrounded by idiots. I'm sure this kid would feel that only times a thousand. It'd be like forcing an average kid to spend 12 years in special education classes with the mentally handicapped.
People keep saying this over and over.
Listen up: Boatloads of people will be buying a PS3. The success of the PS3 is almost assured. Therefore, those blu-ray discs will always be playable because new PS3s will be available until the PS4 comes along.
Maybe HD-DVD will win on the content production side or maybe it won't. But the people who buy HD-DVD discs are the only ones taking any risk.
A better economy means new products at a quicker rate. Maybe you're a hippie who enjoys living in a non-materialistic world, but I am not. The more products the better. The better the economy is the sooner we'll have all those fancy futuristic things in science fiction books.
I'm a very materialistic person and most things I buy are long term things that make me very happy. I bought some expensive camera equipment, some expensive woodworking equipment, an expensive computer, an expensive embroidery machine, and some expensive electronics equipment (stuff like an oscilloscope, etc.).
Buddha was a sucker.
It was a one-of-a-kind service how many years ago? I bought my first ReplayTV in November of 2000. I bought a new one a year ago so that I could copy shows to my PC over the network. ReplayTV has never pulled any of this crap that you Tivo owners are putting up with.
Buy a ReplayTV. Tivo isn't the only game in town. Slashdot has had a bunch of Tivo articles complaining about Tivo restrictions. ReplayTV has all the same features without any of that stupid stuff.
That sounds like a typical humanities paper written by a blowhard. True or not, it's written stupidly. It uses twice as many words using words that are twice as long as necessary.
Here's a quick summary: Government bad. Capitalism bad. Aggressive driving bad. Army bad. Tech industry bad.
I seem to recall that there was a way to make SWT draw its controls using AWT on those platforms where native SWT isn't implemented. At that point we're back where we started, but it at least provides an advantage for those OSes where SWT uses native controls.
> Native Windows App you mean. Or how does it handle different behavior in different Operating Systems (clipboard, hotkeys for moving the cursor, OK/Cancel Button Placement,...)?
I've only used it on Windows, so I really couldn't say. But, it's an IBM organized project, so it would be surprising if there wasn't a strong Linux following who made sure it was just as good on that OS. Someone else will have to chime in with that info if they have it.
It uses an api called SWT. SWT is supposed to be an alternative to the AWT/swing api included with java. AWT/swing is an entirely java api whereas SWT is written using the native controls for each os. The app can determine which controls are not present and choose to either not use them or to emulate them if desired.
> You misspelled "just as slow".
Hah. Actually, I have a very fast machine (dual Xeon 3.6Ghz, 2GB ram), so it's actually just as fast as a simple text editor on my machine. It opens in just a few seconds and everything is as snappy as can be.
Before I upgraded (single AMD 1.5Ghz, 1GB ram) it was not as fast as a simple text editor, but it was acceptable.
Client side java apps have tended not to look professional up until recently, but if you have ever used the Eclipse IDE you'll have seen what the future of client side Java applications is. It looks identical to any native app and is just as fast as other comparable IDEs.
Expensive compared to what? You could have launched the entire ISS on one Saturn V launch. How many shuttle launches at $0.5 billion each has it taken to get a partially complete ISS?
That's $25 billion to launch the ISS with the shuttle and perhaps $4.8 billion in today's dollars (that's just a rough guess assuming inflation doubling values every 20 years) to launch it with a Saturn V.
CiderPress appears not to support those disks. "[Works for PC-format disks. Does not work with Apple-format 800KB and 1.6MB disks, nor 140KB 5.25" disks.]"
The PCTransporter card looks tricky since it requires hooking up a special drive.
But, the compact flash reader looks very promising!
<URL:http://dreher.net/?s=projects/CFforAppleII&c= projects/CFforAppleII/main.php> The only problem there is that they're not actually selling anymore right now. I've emailed them. Hopefully they'll do another run.
My parents still have the Apple//e that I used as a kid to learn to program. I'd like to copy some of those old programs off, but I have no way to do so.
Does anyone know how I could copy stuff off of an Apple//e?
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Yes, maybe the pressure is very high, but if the vast majority of people do not commit suicide then that doesn't change the fact that the tiny minority are reacting in a terrible way to something that the vast majority are somehow able to live with.
You're obviously against medicating a problem, but to say that the only alternative to these suicides is to change the entire educational system... that's just not going to happen even if it should happen (and I'm not sure it should). I'm a practical person and I like to do what can be done. If I lived in that environment then I'd choose to get counselling and medication for my kids.
I suppose so, but I suspect he'd be even lower on the befriend list of other people his own age. Middle school and highschool is pretty socially disfunctional as it is (at least in the US). Being a smart guy doesn't get you much in that environment. In college being a smart guy may be rewarded.
Which college rushed person modded my comment a troll? I was being perfectly serious. Only a hippy would value social achievement over intellectual achievement.
However, no matter what you're looking for, you can never go wrong with complements. As Homer Simpson put it, when it comes to complements, women are ravenous monsters always wanting more, more more!
So you're saying that everyone should become a hippy because 0.001% of the students are committing suicide? Perhaps it would be more productive to just get the depressed kids some counseling and Prozac?
The difficulty of getting a date is overstated. Find a depressed woman and complement her.
If that's true then there's something wrong with the school system. It essentially means that most people utterly waste 10 years of their lives for no reason whatsoever. If what you say is true then what I'd like to see is thousands of 8 year olds entering college. Then they'll have peers while also gaining the benefit of leaving the land of the idiots. Perhaps that sort of thing will encourage change in the system. If that many 8 year olds entered college then someone could start a college for 8 year olds. It'd be like a Harry Potter school.
Why do so many people think it's so awesome to be a kid? Being a kid sucks! Life doesn't get good until you get into college. It sounds to me like this kid is skipping the crappy parts of growing up.
Being socially well adjusted is overrated.
You honestly think this kid would grow up normally if you let him stay with other kids his age? When I was growing up I always felt like I was surrounded by idiots. I'm sure this kid would feel that only times a thousand. It'd be like forcing an average kid to spend 12 years in special education classes with the mentally handicapped.
People keep saying this over and over. Listen up: Boatloads of people will be buying a PS3. The success of the PS3 is almost assured. Therefore, those blu-ray discs will always be playable because new PS3s will be available until the PS4 comes along. Maybe HD-DVD will win on the content production side or maybe it won't. But the people who buy HD-DVD discs are the only ones taking any risk.
A better economy means new products at a quicker rate. Maybe you're a hippie who enjoys living in a non-materialistic world, but I am not. The more products the better. The better the economy is the sooner we'll have all those fancy futuristic things in science fiction books.
I'm a very materialistic person and most things I buy are long term things that make me very happy. I bought some expensive camera equipment, some expensive woodworking equipment, an expensive computer, an expensive embroidery machine, and some expensive electronics equipment (stuff like an oscilloscope, etc.). Buddha was a sucker.
It was a one-of-a-kind service how many years ago? I bought my first ReplayTV in November of 2000. I bought a new one a year ago so that I could copy shows to my PC over the network. ReplayTV has never pulled any of this crap that you Tivo owners are putting up with.
It's funnier if you say "dreams and rainbows". Obviously there really are cars that run on sunshine.
Buy a ReplayTV. Tivo isn't the only game in town. Slashdot has had a bunch of Tivo articles complaining about Tivo restrictions. ReplayTV has all the same features without any of that stupid stuff.
The model# on my ReplayTV is RTV5504 and I've got commercial skipping.
That's not faith, it's extrapolation. There's a difference.
That sounds like a typical humanities paper written by a blowhard. True or not, it's written stupidly. It uses twice as many words using words that are twice as long as necessary.
Here's a quick summary:
Government bad. Capitalism bad. Aggressive driving bad. Army bad. Tech industry bad.
I seem to recall that there was a way to make SWT draw its controls using AWT on those platforms where native SWT isn't implemented. At that point we're back where we started, but it at least provides an advantage for those OSes where SWT uses native controls.
> Native Windows App you mean. Or how does it handle different behavior in different Operating Systems (clipboard, hotkeys for moving the cursor, OK/Cancel Button Placement,...)?
I've only used it on Windows, so I really couldn't say. But, it's an IBM organized project, so it would be surprising if there wasn't a strong Linux following who made sure it was just as good on that OS. Someone else will have to chime in with that info if they have it.
It uses an api called SWT. SWT is supposed to be an alternative to the AWT/swing api included with java. AWT/swing is an entirely java api whereas SWT is written using the native controls for each os. The app can determine which controls are not present and choose to either not use them or to emulate them if desired.
> You misspelled "just as slow".
Hah. Actually, I have a very fast machine (dual Xeon 3.6Ghz, 2GB ram), so it's actually just as fast as a simple text editor on my machine. It opens in just a few seconds and everything is as snappy as can be.
Before I upgraded (single AMD 1.5Ghz, 1GB ram) it was not as fast as a simple text editor, but it was acceptable.
Client side java apps have tended not to look professional up until recently, but if you have ever used the Eclipse IDE you'll have seen what the future of client side Java applications is. It looks identical to any native app and is just as fast as other comparable IDEs.
According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_V the most expensive Saturn V cost $1.2 billion (1966 dollars) for a single launch.
According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Space_S tation it will take more than 50 shuttle launches to complete the ISS.
That's $25 billion to launch the ISS with the shuttle and perhaps $4.8 billion in today's dollars (that's just a rough guess assuming inflation doubling values every 20 years) to launch it with a Saturn V.
All of my disks are 5.25".
= projects/CFforAppleII/main.php>
CiderPress appears not to support those disks. "[Works for PC-format disks. Does not work with Apple-format 800KB and 1.6MB disks, nor 140KB 5.25" disks.]"
The PCTransporter card looks tricky since it requires hooking up a special drive.
But, the compact flash reader looks very promising!
<URL:http://dreher.net/?s=projects/CFforAppleII&c
The only problem there is that they're not actually selling anymore right now. I've emailed them. Hopefully they'll do another run.
My parents still have the Apple //e that I used as a kid to learn to program. I'd like to copy some of those old programs off, but I have no way to do so.
//e?
Does anyone know how I could copy stuff off of an Apple