I'm 23 and I'm already starting to wonder (and am slightly scared of) what might cause me to go 'oh ban this stuff before it distorts their fragile little minds' when I'm a good bit older, say 45.
It'll have to be some fucked up trend like I dunno, direct neural manipulation or something because as far as I can see at the moment, the media does very little to screw kids up that weren't fucked up before.
That being the case, it should be easy enough to use flash or shockwave to create new variations of dance and directional games..... flash can listen for joypads as well as keystrokes.... interesting:o)
Oh, combine that with flash's webcam ability, and you can maybe do something with your hands too:o)
Stanford researchers patent door with secret handshake function to ensure frat houses remain secure against non fraternity members. Apparently comes with electric shock hand buzzer defense mechanism if handshake is incorrect.
He was talking about the accents and punctuation characterised by languages like Spanish, French, German, Italian and so on. The punctuation marks are there as guides to pronuncation and meaning, and actually help clarify the use of language.
50,000 different messages & variations sent to 1.2 million people. Perhaps they could actually have gotten thousands of different messages each, meaning possibly billions of individual spams?
I think this is pretty sensible- the older machines will run 'nix quite comfortably (as a previous sladshdot story semi-helpfully pointed out) and the new machines shouldn't have a problem with XP.
For better or worse, there will always be a need for machines running Windows in this kind of environment, as whatever random CD-ROM or learning application the teacher decides to introduce to the classroom will probably need windows, and you're not going to look to good telling them that they can't teach the junior kids their multiplication tables, but hey you can teach PHP to the older kids:o)
Equally, Linux on the lower specced machines will give kids an intoduction to alternative operating sysetms (freeing their fragile little minds), will allow them to browse the internet, send email and do word processing and graphics stuff (under supervision of course), and none of this will cost the school a cent in licencing fees. The machines would probably be easier to maintain in the long run, and will of course be a much smaller security vulnerability.
2. I'm saying that I do care about what I put in my face, and that the Tesco value chicken is just as good as the more expensive chicken out there. There's no real reason not to buy it, as it isn't any different to stuff in shiny packaging.
There is, however a reason not to buy some of the other 'value' products, like the toilet paper, which has a tendency for structural weakness that isn't very hygenic.
They've also managed to release a number of PVRs as well that perform very nicely and at a great price point- they've been partly instrumental in brining down Philips's prices I think; they need to work a bit on their interface, but I'm really happy with my Lite-On
You're not far wrong on at least some of the generic 'own brand' food; I used to work in a chicken processing plant where the same product was sold as Tesco value chicken as was sold as more expensive chicken- I'm sure it's not far wrong to assume that the same people who make more expensive foods also have lucrative contracts witht the big suppliers.
Im still not touching their value toilet roll, though.
I though the article was going to point out that continuous internet access might mean unrestricted campus access to porn, and therefore damage to the eyesight of the students, who would no doubt be whacking off in class instead of taking notes.
Nope, truth is stranger than fiction and we've got someone banning wifi with an effective range of maybe 50m (depending on line of sight) when every student has a mobile phone that broadcasts a much more powerful signal and that they keep on their person at all times.
Actually the biggest wifi/cancer risk is probably from students sitting on their unwired asses all day drinking coke and ordering pizza online when they get hungry, instead of hauling their asses over to the library.
To heap more praise on Samsung, remember that they also promise that all their LCD panels, including TVs, are dead-pixel free. I like what samsung are doing as of late, and hope they don't screw it up.
I think that the overall accuracy of a slept-upon decision may be also partly to do with the attenuation of some emotional factors in the decision making process- we're probably a bit less passionate about a decision like buying a car or a house when we've had some distance and a chance to sleep on it. Logic would have more of an influence in the decision making process, which should result in better decisions.
Of course, like a lot of other posters to this thread, if you let me sleep on it, I may come back to you with a better decision.
I'm talking about the real world of millions of offices who don't have computers as their main business and who need smart office workers who can use computers. The parent poster for my comment said that all schools and univerisites should move to linux for everything to save money, but if business, science and design students, plus the general highschool populace (who tend to learn very little about computers anyway) come out of the education system having only learned about linux, then they're going to walk into a brick wall when they start their first job and they're handed a sodding Windoze machine with all the afforementioned shitty M$ software on it. What one computer literate person learns in your weekend of a Foo for Dummies book, most people just about pick up in their entire computing lives.
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I'm 23 and I'm already starting to wonder (and am slightly scared of) what might cause me to go 'oh ban this stuff before it distorts their fragile little minds' when I'm a good bit older, say 45.
:o)
It'll have to be some fucked up trend like I dunno, direct neural manipulation or something because as far as I can see at the moment, the media does very little to screw kids up that weren't fucked up before.
I blame the parents
Yea that did occur to me .04 of a nanosecond after hitting post .......... there's always a tazer... or three.
I'm hoping it gives cabin crew the right to pepper spray and forcibly restrain them, but then I'm just being hopeful.
That being the case, it should be easy enough to use flash or shockwave to create new variations of dance and directional games..... flash can listen for joypads as well as keystrokes.... interesting :o)
:o)
Oh, combine that with flash's webcam ability, and you can maybe do something with your hands too
Stanford researchers patent door with secret handshake function to ensure frat houses remain secure against non fraternity members. Apparently comes with electric shock hand buzzer defense mechanism if handshake is incorrect.
"Microsoft's ecosystem of device manufacturers"
Sounds less like an ecosystem, and more like the inside of a Big Brother house, or maybe some fungus growing at the foot of an iPod shaped monolith.
Also, hardcore coders will still fail to get a girlfriend, whereas average Joe still has a shot.
*hides*
Ahhh, so it's a design feature. All is clear to me now.
:op
I was thinking more along the lines of your finger penetrating the 10 layers of tissue you seem to require and poking yourself in the ass
He was talking about the accents and punctuation characterised by languages like Spanish, French, German, Italian and so on. The punctuation marks are there as guides to pronuncation and meaning, and actually help clarify the use of language.
50,000 different messages & variations sent to 1.2 million people. Perhaps they could actually have gotten thousands of different messages each, meaning possibly billions of individual spams?
I think this is pretty sensible- the older machines will run 'nix quite comfortably (as a previous sladshdot story semi-helpfully pointed out) and the new machines shouldn't have a problem with XP.
:o)
For better or worse, there will always be a need for machines running Windows in this kind of environment, as whatever random CD-ROM or learning application the teacher decides to introduce to the classroom will probably need windows, and you're not going to look to good telling them that they can't teach the junior kids their multiplication tables, but hey you can teach PHP to the older kids
Equally, Linux on the lower specced machines will give kids an intoduction to alternative operating sysetms (freeing their fragile little minds), will allow them to browse the internet, send email and do word processing and graphics stuff (under supervision of course), and none of this will cost the school a cent in licencing fees. The machines would probably be easier to maintain in the long run, and will of course be a much smaller security vulnerability.
1. Fuck off I'm not a brit :op
2. I'm saying that I do care about what I put in my face, and that the Tesco value chicken is just as good as the more expensive chicken out there. There's no real reason not to buy it, as it isn't any different to stuff in shiny packaging.
There is, however a reason not to buy some of the other 'value' products, like the toilet paper, which has a tendency for structural weakness that isn't very hygenic.
They've also managed to release a number of PVRs as well that perform very nicely and at a great price point- they've been partly instrumental in brining down Philips's prices I think; they need to work a bit on their interface, but I'm really happy with my Lite-On
You're not far wrong on at least some of the generic 'own brand' food; I used to work in a chicken processing plant where the same product was sold as Tesco value chicken as was sold as more expensive chicken- I'm sure it's not far wrong to assume that the same people who make more expensive foods also have lucrative contracts witht the big suppliers.
Im still not touching their value toilet roll, though.
So, does that make you or your wife the server? I do hope she's a thin client.
I hope you both take adequate precautions before opening one of your ports.
Does your network require a username and password- I bet your username was 'marry_m3' and the password 'i_d0'
If you ever have trouble logging on, chocolate and flower patches tend to help ease network restrictions.
Also, if you're feeling adventurous, you may seek to interface with an alternative port, but you may be met with resistance.
Hehe, and when it does, we don't know about it until we observe it (distance from event)/(speed of light) seconds later :o)
This week on slashdot
"HD DVD to Screw Early HDTV Adopters"
next week on slashdot:
"Blu-Ray to Screw Early, Mid-Phase, Late and even Non-HDTV adopters"
Word is that Mike Myers has been hired for the next macworld conference, presumably to appear onstage and exclaim
"One BILLION DOWNLOADS"
Or not.
Why is the Patent pending icon up there? Surely it should be the Monty Python foot. No?
I though the article was going to point out that continuous internet access might mean unrestricted campus access to porn, and therefore damage to the eyesight of the students, who would no doubt be whacking off in class instead of taking notes.
Nope, truth is stranger than fiction and we've got someone banning wifi with an effective range of maybe 50m (depending on line of sight) when every student has a mobile phone that broadcasts a much more powerful signal and that they keep on their person at all times.
Actually the biggest wifi/cancer risk is probably from students sitting on their unwired asses all day drinking coke and ordering pizza online when they get hungry, instead of hauling their asses over to the library.
To heap more praise on Samsung, remember that they also promise that all their LCD panels, including TVs, are dead-pixel free. I like what samsung are doing as of late, and hope they don't screw it up.
Aaaand the backup server in another country goes live in 3....2....1
Or, think before posting. Another smacktard who hasn't been paying attention and doesn't recognise an apple marketing slogan when he sees one.
I think that the overall accuracy of a slept-upon decision may be also partly to do with the attenuation of some emotional factors in the decision making process- we're probably a bit less passionate about a decision like buying a car or a house when we've had some distance and a chance to sleep on it. Logic would have more of an influence in the decision making process, which should result in better decisions.
Of course, like a lot of other posters to this thread, if you let me sleep on it, I may come back to you with a better decision.
I'm talking about the real world of millions of offices who don't have computers as their main business and who need smart office workers who can use computers. The parent poster for my comment said that all schools and univerisites should move to linux for everything to save money, but if business, science and design students, plus the general highschool populace (who tend to learn very little about computers anyway) come out of the education system having only learned about linux, then they're going to walk into a brick wall when they start their first job and they're handed a sodding Windoze machine with all the afforementioned shitty M$ software on it. What one computer literate person learns in your weekend of a Foo for Dummies book, most people just about pick up in their entire computing lives.