The kids love it. And I don't think it's just the novelty. They do ordinary computer stuff on it (typing, reading, research), and it's a lot cheaper than the Dells the district usually buys. The one thing I wish it did is video editing, but I have a bunch of cast-off iMacs for that.
I have been wanting to try logo on it, but I haven't got around to it yet.
Didn't the Morocco earthquake of 2004 originate near Gibraltar? Or maybe it was that huge Lisbon earthquake...
Seriously, though, I'm waiting for my company to buy me an upgrade to 10.5. Tiger is solid, but I watch my buddy with 10.5 and I wish I had some features. It runs great on my Dell Vostro, but it's not the same. I miss startup and shutdown.
I did not ignore your post. In fact, my point was that the United States is bound by the Geneva Conventions regardless of whether or not the enemy has signed. The Geneva Conventions are a limit on what the US will do, but there are limits to what they demand of our patience.
Here's a good example of what I'm talking about. It's from the First Geneva Conventions, and it's talking about who is protected:
(6) Inhabitants of a non-occupied territory, who on the approach of the enemy, spontaneously take up arms to resist the invading forces, without having had time to form themselves into regular armed units, provided they carry arms openly and respect the laws and customs of war.
The Geneva Conventions do not protect those unwilling to abide by it.
I can't comment on the Microsoft employee example, as I can't think up a scenario where they would be considered combatants.
The country that signs is bound by the Geneva Conventions only if the enemy is upholding the Geneva Conventions. Al-Qaeda is not, so the US forces are no longer bound.
The U.S. forces in Iraq are actually following many parts of the Geneva Conventions, such as wearing markings and clothing identifying them as combatants, etc.
I have it on very good authority that construction vehicles are easy to siphon. Of course, you have to be careful to distinguish if it's gas or diesel.
For all of our history parents have taken the position of adult birds teaching young birds how to fly. Are you suggesting we now have the State, or scientists, or whatever, start taking the position of chicken farmers? That is, the position of enlightened men, assuming this position for their own reasons, raising young birds for other purposes of which the young birds know nothing.
One of the problems with causing genetic good to our children is that the people proposing such good to children is that they are very seldom proposing genetic changes to their own children. Who shall decide? And why?
I can understand your frustration with being around parents. As a friend and I said once to each other, "Growing up is for the birds." It's hard. Life does come at you fast. Once people have a stake in society, once society is going to have an effect on what matters to them most, their perspective is going to change quite drastically. For a parent to want to protect his offspring can hardly be irrational.
Maybe one of their experiments could be removing that emotional hardwiring and seeing what happens. That would be very interesting. I doubt a person with no emotional hardwiring would do much of anything at all.
That's not fair. The guy was using an accepted turn of phrase (whatever THAT means) to say something that EVERYBODY understands. He has big problems with his thinking? Fine. Be satisfied to refute that.
...Carter got them to accept Israel as a neighbor and an Israeli/Palestinian peace deal if it passed a referendum. Hamas saying they accept Israel is quite a bit different than actually accepting. Based on past experience, and based on explicit language in Hamas' charter, Israel would be very wise to doubt their sincerity.
A little voice inside me wants to believe them, or at least for Israel to take them at their word. But another little voice inside me answers, "Haven't they tried this before?"
The Democrats are using reverse psychology. Their entire existence depends on a continual state of conflict. If the conflict were removed, there would be no need for any of their divisive of "populist" activities, leaving only a political party. If their party were to attain power, the people that they lead would quickly realize that they are no less corrupt or ineffective than any other US political party has been, and would be voted out of power in 2-4 years.
See, the Congressional Democrats need to have an adversary to leverage. McCain would be the one to ensure the Congressional Democrats' continued existence and influence. That's why they are dragging this primary election out as long as possible, so that all of this in-fighting will bring to light the fact that Clinton has not one iota of integrity, and Obama is nothing more than a Marxist, and many American voters will have a knee-jerk reaction in the opposite direction, which increases McCain's chances of winning.
The non-user-replaceable battery makes it LESS wireless than my Dell, though. Even than my TiBook (if the screen wasn't destroyed). You have to plug it in more often. My buddy still brags that he can go for over 6 hours of movie-watching fun on his TiBook (what, like 5 years old now?) by swapping the battery.
IMNSHO, the MacBook Air, in its attempt to be less wired than any other computer in the world, still manages to be (in many important ways) less useful than the EeePC.
I installed that, and I'm using it, but it's a little too lite for my tastes. I am keeping it on there though, mostly because it's such a pain to reinstall to the SDHC card.
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The kids love it. And I don't think it's just the novelty. They do ordinary computer stuff on it (typing, reading, research), and it's a lot cheaper than the Dells the district usually buys. The one thing I wish it did is video editing, but I have a bunch of cast-off iMacs for that. I have been wanting to try logo on it, but I haven't got around to it yet.
Ironically, I tried to get some OLPCs but had to settle for an EEE, as the OLPCs weren't for sale to me in the USA.
What about using something like that under Windows so I can read my HFS+ disks from XP?
I just hate the thought of paying for one more program to make my Mac work the way I want it to.
Didn't the Morocco earthquake of 2004 originate near Gibraltar? Or maybe it was that huge Lisbon earthquake...
Seriously, though, I'm waiting for my company to buy me an upgrade to 10.5. Tiger is solid, but I watch my buddy with 10.5 and I wish I had some features. It runs great on my Dell Vostro, but it's not the same. I miss startup and shutdown.
Here's a good example of what I'm talking about. It's from the First Geneva Conventions, and it's talking about who is protected: The Geneva Conventions do not protect those unwilling to abide by it.
I can't comment on the Microsoft employee example, as I can't think up a scenario where they would be considered combatants.
The U.S. forces in Iraq are actually following many parts of the Geneva Conventions, such as wearing markings and clothing identifying them as combatants, etc.
Note the double meaning of actual: real and in the present time.
Oh, if only there were a prophet to tell us what parts to keep and what parts to discard!
For 10 bucks, get the Dell 1390 card off eBay. If my Eee belonged to me I'd do that right now.
I teach too, and I've looked into this a bit. I would say that parental involvement is the most influential factor.
Except that (as far as I know) there is no evidence whatsoever linking increased funding to increased student achievement.
I have it on very good authority that construction vehicles are easy to siphon. Of course, you have to be careful to distinguish if it's gas or diesel.
I'm sure they'll get to us eventually. We're in the only semi-populated area left in the state that hasn't been done yet.
This is the nice thing about living in a town no one cares about/knows about.
One of the problems with causing genetic good to our children is that the people proposing such good to children is that they are very seldom proposing genetic changes to their own children. Who shall decide? And why?
I can understand your frustration with being around parents. As a friend and I said once to each other, "Growing up is for the birds." It's hard. Life does come at you fast. Once people have a stake in society, once society is going to have an effect on what matters to them most, their perspective is going to change quite drastically. For a parent to want to protect his offspring can hardly be irrational.
Maybe one of their experiments could be removing that emotional hardwiring and seeing what happens. That would be very interesting. I doubt a person with no emotional hardwiring would do much of anything at all.I'm thinking of the huge increases in average height in Japan following WWII.
That's not fair. The guy was using an accepted turn of phrase (whatever THAT means) to say something that EVERYBODY understands. He has big problems with his thinking? Fine. Be satisfied to refute that.
...Carter got them to accept Israel as a neighbor and an Israeli/Palestinian peace deal if it passed a referendum. Hamas saying they accept Israel is quite a bit different than actually accepting. Based on past experience, and based on explicit language in Hamas' charter, Israel would be very wise to doubt their sincerity.A little voice inside me wants to believe them, or at least for Israel to take them at their word. But another little voice inside me answers, "Haven't they tried this before?"
See, the Congressional Democrats need to have an adversary to leverage. McCain would be the one to ensure the Congressional Democrats' continued existence and influence. That's why they are dragging this primary election out as long as possible, so that all of this in-fighting will bring to light the fact that Clinton has not one iota of integrity, and Obama is nothing more than a Marxist, and many American voters will have a knee-jerk reaction in the opposite direction, which increases McCain's chances of winning.
These diversions do work pretty well. You almost had me.
IMNSHO, the MacBook Air, in its attempt to be less wired than any other computer in the world, still manages to be (in many important ways) less useful than the EeePC.
There is only ever one justification for terrorism, or indeed for any kind of rebellion: success.
I installed that, and I'm using it, but it's a little too lite for my tastes. I am keeping it on there though, mostly because it's such a pain to reinstall to the SDHC card.