... a lawsuit by doing this. The more rules they try to make to cover these situations the more they highlight the potentially harmful situations they haven't decided to cover. Unless they make rules to cover every conceivable situation there will always be something a kid can do to hurt themselves. And if they could cover ever possibility (doubtful!) they are looking at a discipline nightmare where kids are eventually expelled for being kids.
They'd be much better off making parents sign an indemnity stating that any child hurt during any activity on school property that is not related to a specific school activity is not the responsibility of the school system. Of course IANAL so I'm sure it could be worded better then that...
btw, referencing D&D in this is the wrong game, D&D was never said to be something that will ruin your life
I beg to differ... It's not so popular now but back in the 80's when a) I was into D&D and b) Mazes and Monsters came out people like this were everywhere! And this guy is jut one example (albeit an extreme one).
My opinion then was that it's ridiculous to blame the game/manufacturer and as far as WoW is concerned my opinion hasn't changed.
Gutter aside, I meant it in the metaphorical sense that the parent was describing in his Ghostbusters analogy. As in Illinois is comparable to the idiot EPA guy in this case.
You know I try to avoid pseudo-modding with my comments. But the pp is just about as far opposite of offtopic as you can get. He clearly and insightfully replied to the gpp and explained his perspective on google's motive.
Anyway, you made a compelling argument that made sense to me. Before reading your post I was kind of on the "why the heck would google do something like this" side of the fence myself.
So I can buy one of these new laptops with dual screens from MS too? Or were they just showing off the possiblity? This is the first real product I've heard of that actually implements the technology that MS provides.
Homer: No, I do not know what shaden-frawde is. [sarcasm] Please tell me, because I'm dying to know.
Lisa: It's a German term for `shameful joy', taking pleasure in the suffering of others.
Homer: Oh, come on Lisa. I'm just glad to see him fall flat on his butt! [getting mad] He's usually all happy and comfortable, and surrounded by loved ones, and it makes me feel... What's the opposite of that shameful joy thing of yours?
Lisa: [nastily] Sour grapes.
Homer: Boy, those Germans have a word for everything!
Not if they read comments at 3-5. Yes a few rants slip through but I find the moderation system weeds out most of them. Unless I'm moderating I read everything at 3+, maybe 2 if it's a topic I'm particularly interested in or it's a fresh story with few comments.
Rants or criticism, whatever you want to call them, comments modded 5 about Microsoft most likely give a pretty good feel about how savvy users and developers are feeling about them or a given product of theirs.
... "undeniably slow that she was forced by necessity to upgrade to WinXP"
I always found that if I tried to run XP on a mcahine designed for 98 that it was undeniably slow.
As others have pointed out I think anyone upgrading from Windows 98 in response to MS ending support will just buy a new PC.
My feeling that home/inexperienced users will just go to Best Buy or whatever and pick up a new Windows PC. Small to mid size businesses that are still running 98 are probably somewhat miserly about spending money on IT so hopefully a few of them do some research and figure out just how well newer distros like Ubunutu run and save themselves the cost of buying new PCs with Vista on them.
A combination like Tiger Direct and Ubuntu can go a long way toward saving money on an office full of PCs. Sure it will take a little time to get it set up but a lot of people can A) probably find a friendly geek/kid around the corner to help them out or B) have at least one employee on the payroll bright and willing enough to take on the task.
Of course the above assumes their not completely locked into using a single vendor by some piece of "essential" software that won't run on anything but Windows... If that's the case though, they've probably been forced to upgrade long ago to keep up with the latest version of everything else.
If you use it as a DNS server the 1GB of space will be more then enough. In fact it would work for a web server too, so long as you don't plan on serving up music or video content. And if the screen is broken, stick SSHD on it and plan on logging into it from your other boxes and just leaving it sit in the corner with the lid closed.
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... a lawsuit by doing this. The more rules they try to make to cover these situations the more they highlight the potentially harmful situations they haven't decided to cover. Unless they make rules to cover every conceivable situation there will always be something a kid can do to hurt themselves. And if they could cover ever possibility (doubtful!) they are looking at a discipline nightmare where kids are eventually expelled for being kids.
They'd be much better off making parents sign an indemnity stating that any child hurt during any activity on school property that is not related to a specific school activity is not the responsibility of the school system. Of course IANAL so I'm sure it could be worded better then that...
btw, referencing D&D in this is the wrong game, D&D was never said to be something that will ruin your life
I beg to differ... It's not so popular now but back in the 80's when a) I was into D&D and b) Mazes and Monsters came
out people like this were everywhere! And this guy is jut one
example (albeit an extreme one).
My opinion then was that it's ridiculous to blame the game/manufacturer and as far as WoW is concerned my opinion hasn't changed.
a local utility recently switched from SCO to Linux ( I love saying that! )
Could you elaborate on this a bit more please? It would really help me with a situation
I'm dealing with right now!
Thanks,
Darl
And the winner is SPAM! By a landslide:
:-)
spam -email -filter: 233,000,000 results
hot dogs: 49,700,000 results
I love googlefight
Which meat product is more popular?
...damn vikings.
Hippie.
Just doin' my part, no need to thank me.
(by the way I a) agree, b) like hippies, c) was just joking...)
Gutter aside, I meant it in the metaphorical sense that the parent was describing in his Ghostbusters analogy. As in Illinois is comparable to the idiot EPA guy in this case.
That and I was going for +1 funny...
In a nutshell: I agree, the Illinois has no dick.
You know I try to avoid pseudo-modding with my comments. But the pp is just about as far opposite of offtopic as you can get. He clearly and insightfully replied to the gpp and explained his perspective on google's motive.
Anyway, you made a compelling argument that made sense to me. Before reading your post I was kind of on the "why the heck would google do something like this" side of the fence myself.
+1 Insightful...
So if I reverse engineer this GRM rootkit properly I can turn myself into whoever I want? Say, Chuck Norris? Sweet...
(Legal implications aside of course)
So I can buy one of these new laptops with dual screens from MS too? Or were they just showing off the possiblity? This is the first real product I've heard of that actually implements the technology that MS provides.
Lisa: Dad, do you know what Schadenfreude is?
Homer: No, I do not know what shaden-frawde is. [sarcasm] Please tell me, because I'm dying to know.
Lisa: It's a German term for `shameful joy', taking pleasure in the suffering of others.
Homer: Oh, come on Lisa. I'm just glad to see him fall flat on his butt! [getting mad] He's usually all happy and comfortable, and surrounded by loved ones, and it makes me feel... What's the opposite of that shameful joy thing of yours?
Lisa: [nastily] Sour grapes.
Homer: Boy, those Germans have a word for everything!
Not if they read comments at 3-5. Yes a few rants slip through but I find the moderation system weeds out most of them. Unless I'm moderating I read everything at 3+, maybe 2 if it's a topic I'm particularly interested in or it's a fresh story with few comments.
Rants or criticism, whatever you want to call them, comments modded 5 about Microsoft most likely give a pretty good feel about how savvy users and developers are feeling about them or a given product of theirs.
5K isn't going to be enough
Agreed. People are going to need at *least* 640K.
An unperson? That's unpossible!
But mind you, check what kind of batteries it uses first.
... "undeniably slow that she was forced by necessity to upgrade to WinXP"
I always found that if I tried to run XP on a mcahine designed for 98 that it was undeniably slow.
As others have pointed out I think anyone upgrading from Windows 98 in response to MS ending support will just buy a new PC.
My feeling that home/inexperienced users will just go to Best Buy or whatever and pick up a new Windows PC. Small to mid size
businesses that are still running 98 are probably somewhat miserly about spending money on IT so hopefully a few of them do some
research and figure out just how well newer distros like Ubunutu run and save themselves the cost of buying new PCs with Vista
on them.
A combination like Tiger Direct and Ubuntu can go a long way toward saving money on an office full of PCs. Sure it will take a
little time to get it set up but a lot of people can A) probably find a friendly geek/kid around the corner to help them out or
B) have at least one employee on the payroll bright and willing enough to take on the task.
Of course the above assumes their not completely locked into using a single vendor by some piece of "essential" software that
won't run on anything but Windows... If that's the case though, they've probably been forced to upgrade long ago to keep up
with the latest version of everything else.
If you use it as a DNS server the 1GB of space will be more then enough. In fact it would work for a web server too, so long as you don't plan on serving up music or video content. And if the screen is broken, stick SSHD on it and plan on logging into it from your other boxes and just leaving it sit in the corner with the lid closed.
I think his name was Mel.
Shyah, right, next you'll be telling me that the Hungarians are naming a bridge after a tv show host.
So what you're saying is the key is...
Developers, developers, developers, developers. Developers, developers, developers, developers!
It just goes to show that the best defense is still abstinence. ;-)
Don't you remember that episode of Futurama?
Guenther: "Eureka! The hat goes on the head. It's all so logical now!"
So it's not a truck? Or series of tubes. Man I just can't figure these internet things out!