Use technology as a tool and a toy, not as a substitute for parental guidance like so many do.
In my opinion, children should be introduced to as much as the world has to offer. The problems occur when parents sit a child in front of a television or a computer and say "here, entertain yourself."
These are the kids that grow up with technology as a substitute for guidance. They will obviously become attached.
I work at a school that received the E-Rate "grant". Unfortunately, I wish they would have given me a million dollars to work with and do it myself. There are various ethernet ports that seem to go nowhere. Many of the hubs were placed in the most ridiculous places. I am actually typing this right now over an E-Rate installed network.
Being the school's "everything digital" guy, I expected to have a little access to the routers, switches, etc... Unfortunately, not only am I not allowed to telnet in, all the equipment is locked up preventing me from even troubleshooting the ports to nowhere.
Overall, I ejoyed our strands of CAT-5 that were strung throughout the school by parent volunteers better than our new million dollar network.
Can we possibly get some real news today? One bogus story is fun, two bogus stories is entertaining, 3 starts to get old and 4+ is down right irritating.
Well, two B's and a C were elected recently(to the presidency). But C beat a B, then beat a D. Then a B beat a G. Not Quite alphabetic. But maybe your theory stands for California's politics.
A D got recalled for an S, hrmm... Oh Yeah! We all know him as A!
I've seen so many robot articles. Robots to mow your lawn, vacuum your carpet, walk your dog...
Where are they though? I have yet to walk down my street and see a mowing robot or visit a friends house and see a robot cleaning the windows. Most of these articles will say that they will be available to consumers in the next year or so.
Funny, I've been reading articles about robots for what seems like forever
I'm not a big follower of the space program itself, but common sense seems to lend itself to this idea. One would think that if NASA's software was open-sourced and being contributed to by people all over the world, it would greatly reduce the number of million dollar mishaps. This wouldn't help with hardware problems (malfunctioning sensors, etc...) but I strongly believe this move would make our space program that much better.
I truly hope this isn't a public relations ploy to take attention away from the shuttle disaster. I hope that this is a smart move to help keep a similar event from happening again.
I've been using MPlayer (www.mplayerhq.hu) to play my DVDs, MPEGs, and DivXs for quite some time now. It still has a lot of room for improvement, but is always being worked on. It works quite well, and even has a gui now. For linux media playing, I don't think it can be beat.
Also the line about trying to download movies is definitely suspicious. At 9600 baud perhaps? OK, give them the benefit of the doubt, 28.8k. Doesn't sound too believable to me.
Does anyone here not remember the days before broadband? Are you seriously telling me that no one here ever downloaded a movie or cd image over dial-up? I know I sure as hell did. It took days, but I still did it. Who's to say he's not doing the same?
I've ordered a couple laptops from dell, every time I tell them that I want no operating system they give me some BS about "we have to install the operating system to test it"
I've never been able to save money without an operating system? What's the secret password?
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Use technology as a tool and a toy, not as a substitute for parental guidance like so many do.
In my opinion, children should be introduced to as much as the world has to offer. The problems occur when parents sit a child in front of a television or a computer and say "here, entertain yourself."
These are the kids that grow up with technology as a substitute for guidance. They will obviously become attached.
Moderation and interaction are the key.
I was just about to say, wouldn't that be a downgrade?
I work at a school that received the E-Rate "grant". Unfortunately, I wish they would have given me a million dollars to work with and do it myself. There are various ethernet ports that seem to go nowhere. Many of the hubs were placed in the most ridiculous places. I am actually typing this right now over an E-Rate installed network.
Being the school's "everything digital" guy, I expected to have a little access to the routers, switches, etc... Unfortunately, not only am I not allowed to telnet in, all the equipment is locked up preventing me from even troubleshooting the ports to nowhere.
Overall, I ejoyed our strands of CAT-5 that were strung throughout the school by parent volunteers better than our new million dollar network.
Going back to windows is by far the most annoying result thing after getting used to the highlight + middle click.
I constantly try and paste with a middle-click to no avail.
After much frustration, I finally realize I'm in windows!
As a fellow geek that does this exact drive about 4 times a year, I must say that 6 minutes is extremely appealing.
Many times during the monotony of the drive up I-5 I've wished I could teleport (even only 20 miles at a time). Mach 9 sounds just as appealing.
good god man, men with no guns? that's like a geek without mountain dew. It's just unnatural!
The proof of concept can't even take a little slashdotting.
is linux!!!
Can we possibly get some real news today? One bogus story is fun, two bogus stories is entertaining, 3 starts to get old and 4+ is down right irritating.
Alas, I am alone in the world!
You're god damn right!
Unfortunately, my TiVo only has two options, cable and antenna. How would my TiVo know how to control a satellite receiver?
TiVo will work, but to my knowledge, you need one specifically for satellite (i.e., standard store bought one for cable won't work).
We have a TiVo that we used for cable at an old residence. We recently moved and setup satellite, no go.
The problem is my TiVo has a cable tuner, not a satellite tuner built in.
Maybe the newer models support both satellite and TV.
rofl!!!!
Well, two B's and a C were elected recently(to the presidency). But C beat a B, then beat a D. Then a B beat a G. Not Quite alphabetic. But maybe your theory stands for California's politics.
A D got recalled for an S, hrmm... Oh Yeah! We all know him as A!
Not all gun calibers are measured in millimeters.
.22 the .357 the .38 the .40 the .44 the .45 the .50 cal, etc...
Take a look at the
All measured in inches. As a matter of fact. The only caliber I can think of measured in millimeters is the 9mm.
I've seen so many robot articles. Robots to mow your lawn, vacuum your carpet, walk your dog...
Where are they though? I have yet to walk down my street and see a mowing robot or visit a friends house and see a robot cleaning the windows. Most of these articles will say that they will be available to consumers in the next year or so.
Funny, I've been reading articles about robots for what seems like forever
I'm not a big follower of the space program itself, but common sense seems to lend itself to this idea. One would think that if NASA's software was open-sourced and being contributed to by people all over the world, it would greatly reduce the number of million dollar mishaps. This wouldn't help with hardware problems (malfunctioning sensors, etc...) but I strongly believe this move would make our space program that much better.
I truly hope this isn't a public relations ploy to take attention away from the shuttle disaster. I hope that this is a smart move to help keep a similar event from happening again.
I've been using MPlayer (www.mplayerhq.hu) to play my DVDs, MPEGs, and DivXs for quite some time now. It still has a lot of room for improvement, but is always being worked on. It works quite well, and even has a gui now. For linux media playing, I don't think it can be beat.
You stated it best, "I would think"
Do you really know? Do any of us? Have you ever lived in oppression?
Also the line about trying to download movies is definitely suspicious. At 9600 baud perhaps? OK, give them the benefit of the doubt, 28.8k. Doesn't sound too believable to me.
Does anyone here not remember the days before broadband? Are you seriously telling me that no one here ever downloaded a movie or cd image over dial-up? I know I sure as hell did. It took days, but I still did it. Who's to say he's not doing the same?
I've ordered a couple laptops from dell, every time I tell them that I want no operating system they give me some BS about "we have to install the operating system to test it"
I've never been able to save money without an operating system? What's the secret password?