You were once those feckless youth, and I'm sure believed what you had to say was of utmost importance. We have been conned into thinking that text messages actually cost the network operators anything, but while this is to do with the critical faculties of the general public it isn't about those teenagers utilising our new social conference ground. They are wiser than you assume.
It seems we have a candidate that has passed the Turing test. This work was judged as being of human origin by a panel of experts, to the point of invitation. Is this a failure of academia, the test or humanity in general?
Indeed, it's the lingua franca of our times. The licenses don't need translation, it's in leagalese anyway so it's probably half latin. They can be universally understood or at least interpreted by courts and lawyers, hell plain english needs interpretation in a courts jurisdiction. It's the man files they should be worried about.
All is great advice, if you must use Windows the above post is the least you should do for an elderly newbie.
I'd recommend the Windows Media Player should be removed or set as a backup to VLC media player.
Also a decent zoom app of some sort is good, the elderly tend to appreciate it. Adjusting default fonts and icons to larger also is welcomed.
Really though, security is paramount and Windows falls far behind MacOS and Linux/BSD. As you said, IE is unavoidable and so is malware even with up to date protection. An XP VM on top of Linux would be best for a Windows setup.
This is the solution I've been using, except for the few offline friends who I update manually. The systems have never been reduced to an unusable state, and the glitches have been minor.
I totally agree. It's sorta how I came around - it was either charge them to maintain their setup or give them something that is stable enough that I don't need to be bothered. Not so surprisingly they were suddenly very keen on the alternatives.
Not just for parents, I've been upgrading all my less computer literate friends to ubuntu and the formerly frequent tech support calls have all but disappeared. Only hitch was getting Photoshop CS2 working under wine for one friend, but that worked out in the end. Only friend left with windows is a hardcore gamer who knows enough to maintain it himself. I never realised how much time I spent on fixing friends windows boxen until recently.
There's the irony - most kids would have a less than average knowledge of the trivial ways to bypass their filters if the filters weren't so overzealous in what they block. You might be able to keep porn off your network, but not porn + social networks + flash games + whatever else (some block wikipedia!)
It's 50 Hz interlaced, making for 25 full frames per second. If our persistence of vision didn't kick in at 25 fps we would not benefit from interlacing and we would not see smooth motion at all. Interlacing might make the motion smoother, but it doesn't help at low frame rates, it just makes everything look messy. Try watching a 12 fps video interlaced to 24 Hz to see this.
This brings up another tangent - while south park have made their episodes free online (at least in the US) as have the BBC with the IT crowd (at least in the UK) neither site allows for derivative fan based works like youtube does. Allowing these mashups increases the exposure and popularity of both series, with no negative side effects I can see beyond possibly providing spoilers for a scene or two. Taking down full episodes from youtube and providing your own is all well and good, but by not allowing fair use excerpts in compilations they are denying themselves publicity and exposure, effectively shooting themselves in the foot.
It's living, growing human cells. In my books that counts as a human life. I disagree with the entire notion of potential life, it's either alive or it's dead.
Being patched thousands of times will just increase vulnerabilities and potential exploits, not reduce them. You need to build it right the first time.
Free IDEs, free source code, videos, documentation.... that only applies to, oh I don't know, every language and platform I've ever encountered. A flavour of C is ok to start with, but it's also a bit much for the beginning 11 year old. Hell, teach them Perl if you want to know if they have a REAL interest and knack.
11-14 year olds are not going to be making the most out of multi-core CPUs. Scala, F#, Erlang and Haskell won't fit the math abilities of these kids either (and the syntax doesn't help). I like your suggestion of Lisp and Logo though, especially the Logo.
So, effectively the students are paying a music tax whether they wish to download music or not? Well, at least it's only indirectly lining Warner's pockets.
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retard (ri-tard') v., -tarded, -tarding, -tards.
(v.tr.) To cause to move or proceed slowly; delay or impede.
(v.intr.) To be delayed.
(n.) 1. A slowing down or hindering of progress; a delay.
2. Music. A slackening of tempo.
[Middle English retarden, from Old French retarder, from Latin retardÄre : re-, re- + tardÄre, to delay (from tardus, slow).]
Needs multiplayer as well. MoMIME is working on it, but don't hold your breath.
There are literally thousands of problems with your scenario, and zero with ASCII. Try again.
You were once those feckless youth, and I'm sure believed what you had to say was of utmost importance. We have been conned into thinking that text messages actually cost the network operators anything, but while this is to do with the critical faculties of the general public it isn't about those teenagers utilising our new social conference ground. They are wiser than you assume.
It seems we have a candidate that has passed the Turing test. This work was judged as being of human origin by a panel of experts, to the point of invitation. Is this a failure of academia, the test or humanity in general?
Indeed, it's the lingua franca of our times. The licenses don't need translation, it's in leagalese anyway so it's probably half latin. They can be universally understood or at least interpreted by courts and lawyers, hell plain english needs interpretation in a courts jurisdiction. It's the man files they should be worried about.
All is great advice, if you must use Windows the above post is the least you should do for an elderly newbie.
I'd recommend the Windows Media Player should be removed or set as a backup to VLC media player.
Also a decent zoom app of some sort is good, the elderly tend to appreciate it. Adjusting default fonts and icons to larger also is welcomed.
Really though, security is paramount and Windows falls far behind MacOS and Linux/BSD. As you said, IE is unavoidable and so is malware even with up to date protection. An XP VM on top of Linux would be best for a Windows setup.
This is the solution I've been using, except for the few offline friends who I update manually. The systems have never been reduced to an unusable state, and the glitches have been minor.
I totally agree. It's sorta how I came around - it was either charge them to maintain their setup or give them something that is stable enough that I don't need to be bothered. Not so surprisingly they were suddenly very keen on the alternatives.
Not just for parents, I've been upgrading all my less computer literate friends to ubuntu and the formerly frequent tech support calls have all but disappeared. Only hitch was getting Photoshop CS2 working under wine for one friend, but that worked out in the end. Only friend left with windows is a hardcore gamer who knows enough to maintain it himself. I never realised how much time I spent on fixing friends windows boxen until recently.
There's the irony - most kids would have a less than average knowledge of the trivial ways to bypass their filters if the filters weren't so overzealous in what they block. You might be able to keep porn off your network, but not porn + social networks + flash games + whatever else (some block wikipedia!)
It's 50 Hz interlaced, making for 25 full frames per second. If our persistence of vision didn't kick in at 25 fps we would not benefit from interlacing and we would not see smooth motion at all. Interlacing might make the motion smoother, but it doesn't help at low frame rates, it just makes everything look messy. Try watching a 12 fps video interlaced to 24 Hz to see this.
This brings up another tangent - while south park have made their episodes free online (at least in the US) as have the BBC with the IT crowd (at least in the UK) neither site allows for derivative fan based works like youtube does. Allowing these mashups increases the exposure and popularity of both series, with no negative side effects I can see beyond possibly providing spoilers for a scene or two. Taking down full episodes from youtube and providing your own is all well and good, but by not allowing fair use excerpts in compilations they are denying themselves publicity and exposure, effectively shooting themselves in the foot.
It's living, growing human cells. In my books that counts as a human life. I disagree with the entire notion of potential life, it's either alive or it's dead.
Being patched thousands of times will just increase vulnerabilities and potential exploits, not reduce them. You need to build it right the first time.
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You obviously just need some windscreen wipers to get a clear view.
Try loading it up and reading a page. It's painful. A lighter weight is far more pleasant than this mess.
You can break the internet!
The Australian government is serious about protecting your family online.
So where, pray tell, can I get my hands on one of these free pixars?
Free IDEs, free source code, videos, documentation.... that only applies to, oh I don't know, every language and platform I've ever encountered. A flavour of C is ok to start with, but it's also a bit much for the beginning 11 year old. Hell, teach them Perl if you want to know if they have a REAL interest and knack.
11-14 year olds are not going to be making the most out of multi-core CPUs. Scala, F#, Erlang and Haskell won't fit the math abilities of these kids either (and the syntax doesn't help). I like your suggestion of Lisp and Logo though, especially the Logo.
Nobody cares about the Secret Nazi UFO bases anymore :!(
So, effectively the students are paying a music tax whether they wish to download music or not? Well, at least it's only indirectly lining Warner's pockets.