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Electric engines have been hauling much, much more than articulated lorries for decades. All it requires is the right transport policy. Here's a photograph of one of these new fangled electric engine thingies hauling a load of frieght:

http://jasonrodhouse.fotopic.net/p43746708.html

They need a PARENT to encourage them ...
They need the right environment at home.
And they don't need competing forms of passive entertainment (TV).
Don't expect the school system to do it for you.

My 11 years old son Daniel programs using a variety of tools and has been doing so for a couple of years already (Visual basic, a variety of flavors of Logo, Game Maker. I'll let /.ers find out what he's using in this photo). He also does other creative things like creating scenes and animations using Art of Illusion - this also involves kind of programming, like creating procedural textures/materials. He learns some math/geometry doing this, since his programming experience drives him to manipulate the data (coordinates) directly to get exact results. He also learns some physics for getting the right results, like making gravitation work close to correct in this game (/.ers should be able to tell what link is the game. Hint: the file extension is .exe*). (well... It not just parent encouragement. After school activity played an important role. School only taught him to use the computer as a typewriter).

His 5 year old brother Jonatan already learned to do some "visual programming" using Game Maker, producing working games (though still not one another kid would want to play with. He does get useful things produced this way: Birthday "greeting cards" that can only be made using programming). The need to do everything that his big brother does is enough motivation.

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* I thought that the game should really be open sourced (or "free-softwared") but the Game Maker "sources" (.gm6 files) are actually binary, and though the license allows distribution of the created games, it's not clear to me how exactly it can be done with an Open source or CC license. Compiling the "sources" requires (gratis) proprietary software.

** comments, and suggestions of useful software that can encourage kids to becreative are welcome.

They need a PARENT to encourage them ...
They need the right environment at home.
And they don't need competing forms of passive entertainment (TV).
Don't expect the school system to do it for you.

My 11 years old son Daniel programs using a variety of tools and has been doing so for a couple of years already (Visual basic, a variety of flavors of Logo, Game Maker. I'll let /.ers find out what he's using in this photo). He also does other creative things like creating scenes and animations using Art of Illusion - this also involves kind of programming, like creating procedural textures/materials. He learns some math/geometry doing this, since his programming experience drives him to manipulate the data (coordinates) directly to get exact results. He also learns some physics for getting the right results, like making gravitation work close to correct in this game (/.ers should be able to tell what link is the game. Hint: the file extension is .exe*). (well... It not just parent encouragement. After school activity played an important role. School only taught him to use the computer as a typewriter).

His 5 year old brother Jonatan already learned to do some "visual programming" using Game Maker, producing working games (though still not one another kid would want to play with. He does get useful things produced this way: Birthday "greeting cards" that can only be made using programming). The need to do everything that his big brother does is enough motivation.

___________________________
* I thought that the game should really be open sourced (or "free-softwared") but the Game Maker "sources" (.gm6 files) are actually binary, and though the license allows distribution of the created games, it's not clear to me how exactly it can be done with an Open source or CC license. Compiling the "sources" requires (gratis) proprietary software.

** comments, and suggestions of useful software that can encourage kids to becreative are welcome.

They need a PARENT to encourage them ...
They need the right environment at home.
And they don't need competing forms of passive entertainment (TV).
Don't expect the school system to do it for you.

My 11 years old son Daniel programs using a variety of tools and has been doing so for a couple of years already (Visual basic, a variety of flavors of Logo, Game Maker. I'll let /.ers find out what he's using in this photo). He also does other creative things like creating scenes and animations using Art of Illusion - this also involves kind of programming, like creating procedural textures/materials. He learns some math/geometry doing this, since his programming experience drives him to manipulate the data (coordinates) directly to get exact results. He also learns some physics for getting the right results, like making gravitation work close to correct in this game (/.ers should be able to tell what link is the game. Hint: the file extension is .exe*). (well... It not just parent encouragement. After school activity played an important role. School only taught him to use the computer as a typewriter).

His 5 year old brother Jonatan already learned to do some "visual programming" using Game Maker, producing working games (though still not one another kid would want to play with. He does get useful things produced this way: Birthday "greeting cards" that can only be made using programming). The need to do everything that his big brother does is enough motivation.

___________________________
* I thought that the game should really be open sourced (or "free-softwared") but the Game Maker "sources" (.gm6 files) are actually binary, and though the license allows distribution of the created games, it's not clear to me how exactly it can be done with an Open source or CC license. Compiling the "sources" requires (gratis) proprietary software.

** comments, and suggestions of useful software that can encourage kids to becreative are welcome.

Err, we DO get that sort of warning on our fag packets but titled "Chief Medical Officer's Warning:". We even have large labels on them saying "Smoking kills!" - I think legally tobacco companies has to print them covering about 50% one of the largest sides. Like this and this.

That's about the same age my younger son Jonatan started using the computer intensively. The older one (Daniel) started a bit later (about 4 1/2). But we had a laptop with only a touchpad back then so it was more difficult for him. Last year the children's demand for the computer became so high that I set them up with their own computers (photo of their room, that my wife would never have allowed me to publish if she could prevent it...).

Whatever they play, on the computer or not on the computer, the most important thing is that it should be a tool to aid their creativity, not to limit it. In "Hardware toys" it means things like Lego basic constrution sets (and other manufacturers. Both quality and quantity are mportant factors here: lack of each limits the child's creativity).

With Daniel we started with some cheap commercial games from Office Depot clearance. I don't think it's the right way. These quite limit the child to following instructions.

With Jonatan, we didn't make the effort to look for things to buy. He's a second child... So it was more like finding whatever we have that can occupy him so he doesn't bother us, and it worked better. M$ Paint turned out to be really great for him. It was simple enough to use, and he was very creative with it. Then he discovered Google: he uses Google images to look for pictures, then he cpopies and pastes them into his own works (He got a bit addicted to Google, and when we went on a 3 weeks vacation and he didn't have acess to the computer he was drawing pictures of the Google logo with his crayons... A few months ago when he wanted to find something his granfather told him it cannot be found on Google. So he said to his Grandpa: "Grandpa, anything can be found on Google if you know how to look for it!". Even searching Google requires creativity).

Another good piece of Children's software that encourages creativity is Drape (Drawing Programming Environment). It is a sort of programming environment similar to to Logo in some respect, but not exactly the same. One advantage is that it allows for very easy mouse interaction, so a child can create things that "work" quite easily (i.e., with just a bit of adult intervention). Form the same source, Game Maker is more suitable for older children. It is a programming environment to create games, either by using drag and drop or a builtin programming language. I've seen nice cooperation between the younger and older brother here: the young one chooses the objects and graphics, and drwas the levels of the games. The older one completes the game by adding the more abstract parts: actions and interactions. Logo is of course a very good thing for children. For the smaller ones the online r-logo is very easy and fun to use. For more serious Logo programming MSWlogo is a much more powerful implementation (including 3-dimensionality and multi-tasking). There's no need to "choose one". My son Daniel first thinks of an idea he wants to implement, then chooses the most appropriate tool, just like a programmer choosing the most appropriate programming languge for the job (he has several flavors of Logo and choses the one that has what he needs for a project. He also uses Visual Basic that he learned at school).

What else?
For several months my kids were addicted to Enigma. It's "just a game", but actually it involved loads of creativity in solving an entirely different puzzle in each level, and has the right balance between sing the brain and coordinating mo

There's some pics from UKUUG linked at groups.fotopic.net/ukuug05.

You could apply that to cannabis, sex, music... , twat, fucking moronic twat, you do eat at Tesco don't you, Jesus that shit food has a lot to answer for.

Ok, sex releases amongst other things dopamine, know what that is? that's right it's that stuff that gets released when you smoke a crack pipe, so yeh I'd say sex may be a tad addictive. (BTW You don't get many physical withdraw symptoms when you come off of crack, your not trying to say it isn't addictive are you?)

Shit loads of people will tell you that their psychologically hooked on cannabis, so much so that stopping causes depression which is a real physical as well as mental illness.

As for music, well that helps with alpha wave and makes you feel 'good' and if something makes you feel good it's an adictive nerochemical that's doing that too. (not God).

Yeah, they're good for you too.

Ok, long chain carbs and water soluable fiber are pretty good for you, they reduce the risk of bowel cancer for a start.

short chain carbs (sugars, white bread, starch, potatoes) are good for you in the same way that crack is good for you, a little crack and you performance will improve, too much and you fucked. Basically you might as well deprive yourself of insulin and stick a block of lard under you skin instead of eating sugars, because that's exactly what happens when you eat them.

Fotopic keep tabs on it like this.

Cheers

jx

But no chance of roads getting better.

Here are some pictures of modern highways http://surajsphotos.fotopic.net/ .

A project which seeks to 4-lane the 5800 km long "Golden Quadrilateral" (linkages between 4 major metros) has been in progress for the past five years and the new government is committed to continuing it.

Here is a comprehensive discussion on Indian roads. http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php ?t=75

On the main page of the previous site, you will find threads of discussion on India's infrastructure, telecom, etc., i.e., on this page http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/phpBB2/viewforum.php ?f=2&sid=7623067261caec98cadfdd4c9950e47c

Hope that helps.

so it's not unheard of for companies to allow this.

I assume you're being funny with that statement. If it's genuinely unusual for phones in the US to have fully featured Bluetooth, you need to move to a first world country! My SonyEricsson T610 and my T68i before that have both been fully featured and unrestricted. It's why I bought them. In fact when I recently went abroad on Vacation I got roaming enabled and published photos taken with the T610 on fotopic by transfering them on to my Zaurus PDA from the phone and then using GPRS via the phone to upload them on to the net. All of it via bluetooth.

If you just like looking at good looking women, redheads or not, Visit Orfie's avvies site and see the Avatars that she uses on Stumble Upon and other places. I think a few of them are redheads too.

Nothing is worse then trying to download a really important email, but being stuck waiting for a hand full of large, mostly less-important messages to download.

Well, one solution - which is something I'm already doing with yahoo - is using a large capacity webmail account to recieve big attachments, making the account a bit like the upload directory of your own ftp server. You can then use the webmail interface to choose whether or not you want to download the file, without interfering with your normal email.

Mind you - I completely agree with you about not sending photos via email, simply because it's much easier to view lots of photos on a dedicated photo hosting website. I've found fotopic.net to be extremely good in this regard.

Hey, it's just an idea. :)

Hey, it's just an idea. :)

Mirror of images from second link

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I've also got it running nicely on my laptop (HP Omnibook 9000), it's damn fine. Kudos to Pat and the gang.

try Fotopic. No ads, 250MB storage, FTP access, can be used with your own domain...the interface leaves a bit to be desired, but still is better than all others i have used. Very geek oriented. I don't understand why so few people know about it, although i think i just took care of that problem ;)

am not paid anything by them for this "promotion", just a very satisfied user.

Ghoul2

;)

Well, it's not too bad - certainly playable, although I couldn't get the sound to work. The catch is that it requires so much damn memory to run that you have to shut down *every* application on the phone, and free up as much memory as possible. So while it's installed, you can't even add addresses.

Not worth it for me, but it's a nice gimmick. Shows what these devices are capable of if they had at least a little bit more memory in - 4MB isn't enough, are you listening Nokia? ;)

For those interested, I put my Nokia 7650 pics up at http://nokia7650.fotopic.net - you should be able to get an idea of quality from there. It's... not very good ;)

Photos using the Nokia 7650 can be viewed at nokia7650.fotopic.net

I'll try and get round to installing this video stuff and do some messing though. The 7650's not a bad phone, pity Nokia's SDK sucks so much.