I love it. The final is considerably faster than the Betas or Alphas. My biggest (and probably only) complaint at this point is that, due to the new stupid Volume Controls, I can't unmute the output for Line-In or Mic inputs on my computer. This is important because I use that input for when I play video games using my Xbox360 connected to my monitor.
I agree with the LFD, ubuntu 9.10 has a lot going for it, but not being able to change the login screen really annoys me. This is usually the first thing I do, just to make my computer feel like my computer, instead of feeling like any computer. it's the reason I use linux - because it lets me do whatever I want whenever I want. I know there's workarounds to getting it to look like you want it, but why make it so difficult / why change it in the first place?
Rob - 14 years ago
This world is all about protecting everything. Geesh if we protect our kids from everything they will end up becoming babies, and believe everything should be handed to them. Oh wait we are already there. If she grew up sailing and her family are sailors seriously what would be the difference if she was 18. NOTHING. If she was 18 and did the same exact dream with the same problems and issues there would be no problems. A wave is a wave no mater if you're 10, 16, or 55. I know for sure that I a 35 year old could not do what this 16 year old did but if I had problems nothing would be thought of it.
Lets stop protecting our kids from every little thing and teach them the proper way to do things. Lets make them stronger and smarter not fearful and needy.
Rob
sailing vessel Amante - 14 years ago
This is the point: It was winter in the southern hemisphere.I doubt her support team, any of them, had been in those waters. if they have circumnavigated, they went through the Suez. She probably can sail, but not fix everything mechanically that goes wrong under such circumstances without help. Very wrong decision to send her in winter!
Our western society tends to stifle the adult impulses of our adolescents. It is only recently in history that children of this age have been seen as incompetent. 200 years ago a boy that age would have been apprenticed out and girls could have been put in charge of a household.
John Quincy Adams at 14 years old was a secretary on a mission to St. Petersburg, Russia, to obtain recognition of the new United States.
Not every child can do this,mine certainly could not, but her parents have worked with her and apparently schooled her well. As to "Jim's" comment about boxes. I daresay many children are in those boxes at least in part because they were not challenged to have a great dream like Abby did and end up wasting their lives in drugs, violence, and irresponsible behavior.
Yes the risk is great but so is the potential reward. We take a great risk every time we let a 16 year old take a car onto the streets. All deaths of teenagers is tragic, but is a death more "acceptable" because the risk was going to the mall instead of going around the world?
I applaud the hours and years these parents invested in Abby teaching her not only how to sail and survive but in encouraging her to dream and learning how to take the small steps that lead to great success. I pray this ends well or course, but if it does not, let us as a society realize that we have no right to sit in judgment on any family that is so obviously competent, caring and successful.
Jim - 14 years ago
The parents are responsible for her until she reaches the age of 18, they should have encouraged her dream (as well as their son's) but made them BOTH wait until they were adults. Now that she has been rescued - the discussion should still be to charge them with neglect (endangering her welfare). It's ok for a child to have a dream but the parents needed to act like parents and look out for thier child's welfafe. Thank God she is alive and well - but it could have gone the other way. There is no need to ALLOW your child to put themsleves in needless risk! Mr. Sunderland made the comment about not putting his child into the "boxes of society" - although their careless parenting almost put her in another "box" of society - a COFFIN!
pues la de big bang de las que salen ahi pero nada como Heroes !
But the booting time has increased quite a lot...but I dont mind that since rest of the functionalities are almost perfect.
I love it. The final is considerably faster than the Betas or Alphas. My biggest (and probably only) complaint at this point is that, due to the new stupid Volume Controls, I can't unmute the output for Line-In or Mic inputs on my computer. This is important because I use that input for when I play video games using my Xbox360 connected to my monitor.
I agree with the LFD, ubuntu 9.10 has a lot going for it, but not being able to change the login screen really annoys me. This is usually the first thing I do, just to make my computer feel like my computer, instead of feeling like any computer. it's the reason I use linux - because it lets me do whatever I want whenever I want. I know there's workarounds to getting it to look like you want it, but why make it so difficult / why change it in the first place?
This world is all about protecting everything. Geesh if we protect our kids from everything they will end up becoming babies, and believe everything should be handed to them. Oh wait we are already there. If she grew up sailing and her family are sailors seriously what would be the difference if she was 18. NOTHING. If she was 18 and did the same exact dream with the same problems and issues there would be no problems. A wave is a wave no mater if you're 10, 16, or 55. I know for sure that I a 35 year old could not do what this 16 year old did but if I had problems nothing would be thought of it.
Lets stop protecting our kids from every little thing and teach them the proper way to do things. Lets make them stronger and smarter not fearful and needy.
Rob
This is the point: It was winter in the southern hemisphere.I doubt her support team, any of them, had been in those waters. if they have circumnavigated, they went through the Suez. She probably can sail, but not fix everything mechanically that goes wrong under such circumstances without help. Very wrong decision to send her in winter!
Well said.
Our western society tends to stifle the adult impulses of our adolescents. It is only recently in history that children of this age have been seen as incompetent. 200 years ago a boy that age would have been apprenticed out and girls could have been put in charge of a household.
John Quincy Adams at 14 years old was a secretary on a mission to St. Petersburg, Russia, to obtain recognition of the new United States.
Not every child can do this,mine certainly could not, but her parents have worked with her and apparently schooled her well. As to "Jim's" comment about boxes. I daresay many children are in those boxes at least in part because they were not challenged to have a great dream like Abby did and end up wasting their lives in drugs, violence, and irresponsible behavior.
Yes the risk is great but so is the potential reward. We take a great risk every time we let a 16 year old take a car onto the streets. All deaths of teenagers is tragic, but is a death more "acceptable" because the risk was going to the mall instead of going around the world?
I applaud the hours and years these parents invested in Abby teaching her not only how to sail and survive but in encouraging her to dream and learning how to take the small steps that lead to great success. I pray this ends well or course, but if it does not, let us as a society realize that we have no right to sit in judgment on any family that is so obviously competent, caring and successful.
The parents are responsible for her until she reaches the age of 18, they should have encouraged her dream (as well as their son's) but made them BOTH wait until they were adults. Now that she has been rescued - the discussion should still be to charge them with neglect (endangering her welfare). It's ok for a child to have a dream but the parents needed to act like parents and look out for thier child's welfafe. Thank God she is alive and well - but it could have gone the other way. There is no need to ALLOW your child to put themsleves in needless risk! Mr. Sunderland made the comment about not putting his child into the "boxes of society" - although their careless parenting almost put her in another "box" of society - a COFFIN!