If I had to wait until Jr. High. before I was exposed to computers, I probably would have had to waste money on college.
But that doens't mean that MY path to 'success' (which includes my first born at 20, and 3 kids by 25), should be duplicated to the world.
Like I said, I have 3 kids. The eldest (8) has no interest in computers, and likes to watch Animal Planet after her homework is done. She's a mostly loner at home, but the leader with her friends. My son (5) likes computers, Dreamcast, and Cartoons.. that doesn't mean that's ALL he does. He actually spends most of his time playing with his 2 year old sister.
Having a kid in 2nd grade, and another one entering full-time Kindergarten in the fall, I think schools need to concentrate on LEARNING. 1st grade was a crock. 2nd grade is better, but they don't teach the kids right and wrong. "4+4 = 9.. Well, you're close.." No. it's wrong. 4+4=8. They don't do that. And if the kid doesn't learn 4+4=8, but they do ok in other areas, they're moved on to the next grade, where, hopefully, the next teacher can 'work' on the student.
It's fucking pitiful. The whole school system needs a make-over. When I was in 2nd grade we ALREADY had multiple reading groups.. From Advanced on down. What happened to that? (and my kid is in the same district I was)
I realize all kids aren't the same, but the way 'averaging' is being done now, kids who don't want to keep up (like myself) get through school much easier than those who work hard, with just as much to show for it. It's funny and sad.. flunkies doing good = honor students doing good AND flunkies doing bad = honor students doing bad.
In the end, both have a piece of paper that says they met the requirements to get the piece of paper, and both have just as real a chance at success or failure.
So if life is what you make it, why isn't there more 'custom' schooling?
No, I will not home-school. I thought I was a social wall-flower, when those kids grow up, they need to AVOID social contact. It's just better for the rest of us.
How could a scanner get a complete inventory of everything on your person? Wouldn't all these tags be scanned simultaneously? What kind of computer could sort out the simultaenous transmission of multiple 96-bit data streams?
My thoughts exactly, but apply that to the 'airport' scene layed out. 96 items on hundreds of people? A little interference maybe?
What will this do to Transgaming? They will no longer be able to make changes and keep them to themselves - kind of seems like it destroys their business model.
Remember, Transgaming also has a subscription server where subscribers can 'vote' on the options
that need work.
For example, I want my FoxPro 5 apps to work. The only current problem is Window regression. My current issues were only caused after major code changes in June 01. IIRC, one of the top 'voted' options has 400-some votes. Again, IIRC, If each vote is $2, I could spend $1000 one votes for Transgaming to work on my issue caused by the regressions.
I can easily see even a small company like mine paying for something like that.
You also know that the only difference between 360k "Single Sided" 5-1/4" floppies, and 1.2MB "Double Sided" floppies is a notch in the side, opposite of the write protect notch.
Yet another example of the industry pushing 'crap' data to the pubic to sell more product.
I used to use a 1/4" drill bit to make my 3-1/2" floppys "High Density" floppies.
The only REAL difference between double density and high density is a hole the the corner (opposite of the write protect tab).
Flame on!
People who think my post is flamebait obviously havn't 'Hacked' in the true sense of the word. That just pisses me off. Self-rightous bastards.
Not only have I done this, I actually happen to have the drive (Connor 120mb), but havn't you guys ever cut down a motherboard to fit a case?
It's kinda nifty. Drop the thing under an arm saw (Is that the name? I'm a computer guy, not woodworking), and slice the side off. Sparks galore. Had to do that to get a 286 board to fit in a 486 case.
You guys need to try some new things, and stop taking people at their word, because some 'publication' says that's not supposed to happen.
That's right.. And cars are manufactured in factories by robots, so you shouldn't be doing any work on them because you're not a robot.:)
Bad example, but I know where you're headed.
Seriously. I'm not saying that dust isn't an issue, but it's blown WAY out of proportion.
Some people forget that there are POLAR opinions to issues. I think it's not a HUGE issue to take apart your HD. Others here think RF emissions from an 'unprotected' HD will interfere with air-traffic control...
You many think I mean the guy who says "My HD works just fine after I opened the case", but I'm not.
Manufacturers SCARE you with "You MUST open this in a Clean Room, or you will have an unworking drive."
Companies do that crap all the time.
Personally, I think that's bullshit. If people knew they could take a platter with data they needed, and move it to a working drive for $200 (the cost of a new drive), they wouldn't spend THOUSANDS to have a company do it for them.
Just check out the ads in the back of Computer Shopper.
How many of you who claim a clean room is needed, have ever TRIED taking apart a HD, and putting it back togerther? I have, and it worked fine.
You people open TV's and VCR's and PC Power Supplies (I know you do, because I do), why havn't you opened a HD?
Take another perspective, can you name a service that could handle 100% of it subscribers at once?
I can't. Everything from the local fire house and Police Department to Dial-up ISP's, and Grocery stores cannot handle all their customers at single instant.
That's why Cable Modem service at night is like Best Buy on December 23rd.
This was asked a while ago..
I'm sure the consensus that I felt was expressed will be the same: go analog.
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"Going one step further, her team then trained the monkey to simply think about a movement, without reaching out and touching the screen."
So how exactly do you train a monkey to think about doing something without doing it?
I would ask why they even wasted their time training a monkey to *think* about moving a mouse. Just give him the mouse, and disconnect the damn thing.
THEN, if successful, maybe go to that step.. but since we don't need paralyzed monkey's moving mice, I would recommend doing something a little more useful.
Airlines are cheap-ass companies. Next thing you know, when an Airline moves its own computer terminals, they'll say "Hey, we don't have to run any wire, we can just piggy-back on this wireless thing.."
This being the community of paranioa, need I say more?
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The only way to handle bad stuff is to make people responsible for their own sh*t, and have them maintain it themselves.
So everyone is supposed to have their own copy of the tree to make patches to? Without a 'source' CVS to sync it up to before submitting a patch, why would anyone WANT do that?
What if I submit my patch, and make changes that conflict with SamtheEagle's source tree he's workting off of?
I think there should be a source CVS tree, that Linus maintains. Before I submit my patch, I should sync my CVS to Linus', and apply the patch. Then submit the patch, referring to the current tag on the source CVS maintained by Linus. That way, Linus can apply all patches serially, and make requests to developers to resync submitted patches, when a new CVS tag is created.
No 'patch' management program, just a way to serialize patches for applying to the source.
Does anyone know how many EZ forms are used? That's about the only thing that could be done via the web... You're supposed to send copies of all your deductions along with the form.
In my case have a mortgage, property taxes, consolidation loan (Never do one of those), 3 kids (ok, can't send them, though sometimes I'd like to), and 401k crap that needs to be sent...
If you WANT to be audited, then I suggest taking a lot of deductions, and not sending any proof..
Except they havn't. The Internet is a new medium, and up until now, Microsoft allows use of the term 'Windows' in ways other than in Microsoft Windows (version) througout this medium.
As I said, there are example of this on Google from 1998. That was a 2 minute search. If K-C can dictate how authors use the term "Kleenex", and Microsoft has not done so for the terms Windows, Lindows, Winux, when used by reviewers, it has become commonplace, and should not be protected.
Didn't Bayer lose 'Aspirin'? Maybe that was a better example.
I would say use of the word "Windows" in other product names, and "lindows" being used on the internet, in conversation long before Lindows.com existed, only strenghtens Lindows.com's case.
but. Tis all IMHO. I think MS should be broken up too.
You beat around the bush saying that Mac's aren't easy to use, people don't want sexy, they want easy to use, then you say that must be why Apple has 5% market share.
Umm. WTF? Did someone completely forget about this whole monopoly thing?
Yes, Mac's a cool. YES! Mac's are easy to use. The article should mention (I fell asleep towards the end), that having this cool, sexy easy to use "Shell" doesn't mean a damn thing when you can't put anything in the shell.
"Yeah, I have this 10000 square foot mansion, but I have to buy specialty furniture, and Appliances, because everyone else has 3ft wide doors, and AC.. While I only have rotating doors (What are those circular things?), and DC power. It's not easy having what I think is 'cool'."
I knew I never should have started reading that article. What a waste of time.
On google, I found references to Lindows and Winux in 1998. Years before Lindows.com even existed.
If Microsoft didn't attempt to stop use of the term "Lindows" (in one case, directly referring to Red Hat 'becoming' Windows 95"), wouldn't it be free to use by now?
Besides, do you call your "Windows" installation Windows, or Windows 2k, or Windows 9x or Windows XP? There are so many of them that are distincly different..
Kinda of like the Kleenex thing (You can't legally call non "Kleenex" tissue paper "Kleenex", but everyone does it anyways..)
Lego tried the same thing 10 or 15 years ago.. I remember reading "Lego would appreciate it if our loyal customers called Lego Building Blocks by their true name, "Lego Building Blocks", and not just "Lego's"... yadda yadda yadda..
Wine has regressions because it is currenty in a "developer only release" state. The Wine team is making the 1.0 push, and when they hit 1.0, you shouldn't see regressions in that branch.
Umm...BEOS has come and gone, and Wine has still not reached 1.0.
I that says a lot. I don't mean it in a negative way, but that's a LONG time. That's a long time that I've waited for a single application to work in Wine... It's slowly gotten better. I don't have anything useful to contribute, so I don't push for my application. I watch other things begin to work, and FoxPro slowly get better. Then everything regresses, and after yet another round of discussion about the Licensing Model, the leaders on wine-devel decide to implement some testing procedures. Step back a second. Why are programmers, who are trying to hit a moving target, debating licensing models?
Because of this moving target, incomplete code is being rewritten, and not thoroughly tested. Wine is moving forwards and backwards at the same time.
Poke around on www.winehq.com, and fine the roadmap, change log, etc. to see where they've been, where they're going, and where they are.
I've watched for QUITE a long time. I've watched, and tested, Odin also. I've seen it 'merge' with Wine, I've seen OS/2 essentially die. Now, we all work in technology here. We've all built our own "stuff". Wine is still 'reaching' 1.0. I'm now seeing the things I built (eg.. Warp 3.0 server doing DHCP/DNS, running WarpCron, doing auto-downloads with REXX scripts I wrote), be replaced with "New-Generation" things. Why? Because the people who took over my network, don't know half of what I put together to make things work. And still, Wine hasn't reached 1.0.
This isn't a rant about Wine. It's just my point of view, and why I think HEAVY corporate sponsorship is needed in large Open Source projects.
Like I said before, I can VERY easily see Lindows.com doing the very regression testing that the Wine-devel guys are now putting in place, and ALREADY having solved enough of the problems that exist to get Office working decently. THAT is what money and open source can do.
Now, whether Lindows.com will push what they've done back into CVS is another question. Maybe the Wine Project would be better off gaining some of the "Management Vibe" instead? Again, not that Alexandre Julliard is doing a bad job, but maybe there's a perspective there, a way of doing things, that hasn't been presented on wine-devel...
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But that doens't mean that MY path to 'success' (which includes my first born at 20, and 3 kids by 25), should be duplicated to the world.
Like I said, I have 3 kids. The eldest (8) has no interest in computers, and likes to watch Animal Planet after her homework is done. She's a mostly loner at home, but the leader with her friends. My son (5) likes computers, Dreamcast, and Cartoons.. that doesn't mean that's ALL he does. He actually spends most of his time playing with his 2 year old sister.
Having a kid in 2nd grade, and another one entering full-time Kindergarten in the fall, I think schools need to concentrate on LEARNING. 1st grade was a crock. 2nd grade is better, but they don't teach the kids right and wrong.
"4+4 = 9.. Well, you're close.." No. it's wrong. 4+4=8. They don't do that.
And if the kid doesn't learn 4+4=8, but they do ok in other areas, they're moved on to the next grade, where, hopefully, the next teacher can 'work' on the student.
It's fucking pitiful. The whole school system needs a make-over. When I was in 2nd grade we ALREADY had multiple reading groups.. From Advanced on down. What happened to that? (and my kid is in the same district I was)
I realize all kids aren't the same, but the way 'averaging' is being done now, kids who don't want to keep up (like myself) get through school much easier than those who work hard, with just as much to show for it.
It's funny and sad.. flunkies doing good = honor students doing good AND flunkies doing bad = honor students doing bad.
In the end, both have a piece of paper that says they met the requirements to get the piece of paper, and both have just as real a chance at success or failure.
So if life is what you make it, why isn't there more 'custom' schooling?
No, I will not home-school. I thought I was a social wall-flower, when those kids grow up, they need to AVOID social contact. It's just better for the rest of us.
(Quality(Rose)* totalroses) + Quality(dinner) = total_sex_time
Where Quality() is a seperate program for each chick, based on past total_sex_time :)
My thoughts exactly, but apply that to the 'airport' scene layed out. 96 items on hundreds of people? A little interference maybe?
Remember, Transgaming also has a subscription server where subscribers can 'vote' on the options that need work.
For example, I want my FoxPro 5 apps to work. The only current problem is Window regression. My current issues were only caused after major code changes in June 01. IIRC, one of the top 'voted' options has 400-some votes. Again, IIRC, If each vote is $2, I could spend $1000 one votes for Transgaming to work on my issue caused by the regressions.
I can easily see even a small company like mine paying for something like that.
You also know that the only difference between 360k "Single Sided" 5-1/4" floppies, and 1.2MB "Double Sided" floppies is a notch in the side, opposite of the write protect notch.
Yet another example of the industry pushing 'crap' data to the pubic to sell more product.
I used to use a 1/4" drill bit to make my 3-1/2" floppys "High Density" floppies.
The only REAL difference between double density and high density is a hole the the corner (opposite of the write protect tab).
Flame on!
People who think my post is flamebait obviously havn't 'Hacked' in the true sense of the word. That just pisses me off.
Self-rightous bastards.
Not only have I done this, I actually happen to have the drive (Connor 120mb), but havn't you guys ever cut down a motherboard to fit a case?
It's kinda nifty. Drop the thing under an arm saw (Is that the name? I'm a computer guy, not woodworking), and slice the side off. Sparks galore. Had to do that to get a 286 board to fit in a 486 case.
You guys need to try some new things, and stop taking people at their word, because some 'publication' says that's not supposed to happen.
All I can say to that is:
Have you ever had a WD 1.6 GB? As soon as they were taken out of the box, I found out those things had MBTF's of two weeks.
They must have had a 50% failure rate. So much for the exalted "clean room".
Again, YMMV
That's right.. And cars are manufactured in factories by robots, so you shouldn't be doing any work on them because you're not a robot. :)
Bad example, but I know where you're headed.
Seriously. I'm not saying that dust isn't an issue, but it's blown WAY out of proportion.
Some people forget that there are POLAR opinions to issues. I think it's not a HUGE issue to take apart your HD. Others here think RF emissions from an 'unprotected' HD will interfere with air-traffic control...
YMMV
You many think I mean the guy who says "My HD works just fine after I opened the case", but I'm not.
Manufacturers SCARE you with "You MUST open this in a Clean Room, or you will have an unworking drive." Companies do that crap all the time.
Personally, I think that's bullshit. If people knew they could take a platter with data they needed, and move it to a working drive for $200 (the cost of a new drive), they wouldn't spend THOUSANDS to have a company do it for them. Just check out the ads in the back of Computer Shopper.
How many of you who claim a clean room is needed, have ever TRIED taking apart a HD, and putting it back togerther? I have, and it worked fine.
You people open TV's and VCR's and PC Power Supplies (I know you do, because I do), why havn't you opened a HD?
EVERY SERVICE WORKS THIS WAY.
Take another perspective, can you name a service that could handle 100% of it subscribers at once?
I can't. Everything from the local fire house and Police Department to Dial-up ISP's, and Grocery stores cannot handle all their customers at single instant.
That's why Cable Modem service at night is like Best Buy on December 23rd.
This was asked a while ago ..
I'm sure the consensus that I felt was expressed will be the same: go analog.
So how exactly do you train a monkey to think about doing something without doing it?
I would ask why they even wasted their time training a monkey to *think* about moving a mouse. Just give him the mouse, and disconnect the damn thing.
THEN, if successful, maybe go to that step.. but since we don't need paralyzed monkey's moving mice, I would recommend doing something a little more useful.
Airlines are cheap-ass companies. Next thing you know, when an Airline moves its own computer terminals, they'll say "Hey, we don't have to run any wire, we can just piggy-back on this wireless thing.."
This being the community of paranioa, need I say more?
So everyone is supposed to have their own copy of the tree to make patches to? Without a 'source' CVS to sync it up to before submitting a patch, why would anyone WANT do that?
What if I submit my patch, and make changes that conflict with SamtheEagle's source tree he's workting off of?
I think there should be a source CVS tree, that Linus maintains. Before I submit my patch, I should sync my CVS to Linus', and apply the patch. Then submit the patch, referring to the current tag on the source CVS maintained by Linus. That way, Linus can apply all patches serially, and make requests to developers to resync submitted patches, when a new CVS tag is created.
No 'patch' management program, just a way to serialize patches for applying to the source.
Does anyone know how many EZ forms are used? That's about the only thing that could be done via the web... You're supposed to send copies of all your deductions along with the form. In my case have a mortgage, property taxes, consolidation loan (Never do one of those), 3 kids (ok, can't send them, though sometimes I'd like to), and 401k crap that needs to be sent... If you WANT to be audited, then I suggest taking a lot of deductions, and not sending any proof..
Granted, I'm not an expert on local power consumption around the globe, but isn't that why we all have 110/220 switches on our Power supplies?
I suppose I could do a Google search, but then again, I'm not an editor..
As if ANYONE on this site hasn't ever had to explain something that a some moron ^H^H^H^H^H^H manager said could or couldn't be done..
HIS boss is still the boss, wtf is he supposed to say?
So where do you stand damnit?!?
:)
(I'm so f*cking lost now..
"I can't give you a brain, so I'll give you a diploma" - The Great Oz (blatently stolen sig)
Did you even reply to the right comment?
:)
I guess the Subject still hold true
Except they havn't. The Internet is a new medium, and up until now, Microsoft allows use of the term 'Windows' in ways other than in Microsoft Windows (version) througout this medium.
As I said, there are example of this on Google from 1998. That was a 2 minute search. If K-C can dictate how authors use the term "Kleenex", and Microsoft has not done so for the terms Windows, Lindows, Winux, when used by reviewers, it has become commonplace, and should not be protected.
Didn't Bayer lose 'Aspirin'? Maybe that was a better example.
I would say use of the word "Windows" in other product names, and "lindows" being used on the internet, in conversation long before Lindows.com existed, only strenghtens Lindows.com's case.
but. Tis all IMHO. I think MS should be broken up too.
Umm. WTF? Did someone completely forget about this whole monopoly thing?
Yes, Mac's a cool. YES! Mac's are easy to use. The article should mention (I fell asleep towards the end), that having this cool, sexy easy to use "Shell" doesn't mean a damn thing when you can't put anything in the shell.
"Yeah, I have this 10000 square foot mansion, but I have to buy specialty furniture, and Appliances, because everyone else has 3ft wide doors, and AC.. While I only have rotating doors (What are those circular things?), and DC power. It's not easy having what I think is 'cool'."
I knew I never should have started reading that article. What a waste of time.
On google, I found references to Lindows and Winux in 1998. Years before Lindows.com even existed.
... yadda yadda yadda..
If Microsoft didn't attempt to stop use of the term "Lindows" (in one case, directly referring to Red Hat 'becoming' Windows 95"), wouldn't it be free to use by now?
Besides, do you call your "Windows" installation Windows, or Windows 2k, or Windows 9x or Windows XP? There are so many of them that are distincly different..
Kinda of like the Kleenex thing (You can't legally call non "Kleenex" tissue paper "Kleenex", but everyone does it anyways..)
Lego tried the same thing 10 or 15 years ago.. I remember reading "Lego would appreciate it if our loyal customers called Lego Building Blocks by their true name, "Lego Building Blocks", and not just "Lego's"
Umm...BEOS has come and gone, and Wine has still not reached 1.0.
I that says a lot. I don't mean it in a negative way, but that's a LONG time. That's a long time that I've waited for a single application to work in Wine... It's slowly gotten better. I don't have anything useful to contribute, so I don't push for my application. I watch other things begin to work, and FoxPro slowly get better. Then everything regresses, and after yet another round of discussion about the Licensing Model, the leaders on wine-devel decide to implement some testing procedures.
Step back a second. Why are programmers, who are trying to hit a moving target, debating licensing models?
Because of this moving target, incomplete code is being rewritten, and not thoroughly tested. Wine is moving forwards and backwards at the same time.
Poke around on www.winehq.com, and fine the roadmap, change log, etc. to see where they've been, where they're going, and where they are.
I've watched for QUITE a long time. I've watched, and tested, Odin also. I've seen it 'merge' with Wine, I've seen OS/2 essentially die. Now, we all work in technology here. We've all built our own "stuff".
Wine is still 'reaching' 1.0. I'm now seeing the things I built (eg.. Warp 3.0 server doing DHCP/DNS, running WarpCron, doing auto-downloads with REXX scripts I wrote), be replaced with "New-Generation" things. Why? Because the people who took over my network, don't know half of what I put together to make things work. And still, Wine hasn't reached 1.0.
This isn't a rant about Wine. It's just my point of view, and why I think HEAVY corporate sponsorship is needed in large Open Source projects.
Like I said before, I can VERY easily see Lindows.com doing the very regression testing that the Wine-devel guys are now putting in place, and ALREADY having solved enough of the problems that exist to get Office working decently. THAT is what money and open source can do.
Now, whether Lindows.com will push what they've done back into CVS is another question. Maybe the Wine Project would be better off gaining some of the "Management Vibe" instead? Again, not that Alexandre Julliard is doing a bad job, but maybe there's a perspective there, a way of doing things, that hasn't been presented on wine-devel...