Well I officially hate Rosetta Stone. Not only because I used it to take my language courses. I was helping set it up and it has a REALLY annoying system called SMS or Student Management System. Basically this is what it does. It helps a teacher set up a class by using one computer as a server. The class schedual then gets transmitted over LAN to other computers that has the programming on it. In doing so it helps make a nice, clean, set-up. Well obviously, this might be great for a public school, but since my little sister who is taking it at home has to use the program, it is an entire different matter. After the installation of the program, it was denying logging in. Saying the server wasn't connecting. Seeing the SMS option, I explored to see what it was. After watching 30 minutes of a stupid tutorial on how to set up SMS (the tutorial was designed for people who had NO SKILL WHATSOEVER with computers.....Which made for ANNOYINGNESS!!!!). I set up the SMS server to how it was supposed to be. Well....After taking 20 mins to set up the stupid server, we try again. Still...No connection to server. Now it is really starting to be annoying. Going into the programming of it, I find this small option....An option to be a stand-alone program. After seeing that, it really gets me mad for all the annoying, and worthless work I did... So now, I am really annoyed at Rosetta Stone...They should have set it up to be independent other than being set up by SMS originally. Sigh...I feel so sorry for all those teachers who DO have to watch that tutorial for their classes though. Probably shot the computer afterwards....
Well, thats about it.
-Ryan
I was reading in my government book and I came across something. The Puritans originally founded the American government to be limited. Now keep this in mind. How is it that the government has so much power now? Getting on to people for disciplining their children, thinking that if a baby has an accident it is now considered as child neglect. Lawsuits over sad issues like being burned by coffee winning. Does this sound like a limited government now? What happened? Well the government might be making a few bad decisions. That is why we need keep active with our government and keep praying for our nation. That is all.
-Ryan
I was talking to a friend today and came up with something. You have heard the saying that everything tastes like chicken. But, lets look at that saying a different way. If everything taste like chicken, then does chicken taste like everything? Well if we look at it in that perspective, then lets change the situation. People conform to what happens in the world. So does that mean the world conforms to us? If it did, it would go against the Christian Perspective that God has complete control of what happens to the world. But lets give and example...I.E. Lets say that there is a bad word, and people start to spread that it isn't a bad word...Then eventually, the world would conform and it would change the perspective of the word. Even if it still is bad. Or...The environmentalists use this perspective to their gain. Saying that with all the pollution that we put out, it harms the world (world conforming to us). But if it did, then why are problems not happening today? God has a hold of everything that happens. But in both cases, we need to stand strong as Christians. We need to hold strong, and always trust in God that he will help us stand firm. But it is an interesting theory to think about. Especially when applying it to other things.
-Ryan
Well since some wanted this to be more "professional". I created a new blog.
More posts soon...
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