Timothy, congratulations on your new addition. My daughter is a little over a year old now. In response to exactly the same concerns that you and your family had I have been developing http://digitalheirloom.org where I store photos, videos, pdfs, and audio files that I want to preserve for my daughter. The idea being that these documents are an heirloom to pass on to future generations.
This is a budding project, but I would be happy to have more beta testers. Beyond the ability to store/view files, I have also developed screensavers for windows and mac users to see photos from the website. That means that as I upload new photos, my mother's screensaver (which is a repurposed old laptop) automatically displays the new photos without her having to log into a website or check email.
This project was in response to several of your (and my concerns). I wanted a project developed with open standards so that it would not be a slave to a corporation or technology, and would be compatible with future devices/browsers. I wanted full access to all of my documents and how they are organized (e.g. through FTP). I wanted to consolidate photos that my wife had on her laptop, photos I had on my computers, and so on into a single authoritative place. I wanted RAID and offsite backup of all the documents (which the site provides). I wanted a space that could respond to the specific needs of families that want to archive and share documents. I wanted to know that the person managing the site cared as much about the content as I do. There are more features than I care to get into here, but I hope you get the idea.
My intention for the project is to file for non-profit status, and have users make one-time payments that would go into a trust to perpetuate the project. Please take a look at the site, my sense is that it would be a good fit for you and what you are looking for. Contact information is available on the site. I would be happy to discuss the project further.
Good luck and enjoy every minute you have with your family
My wife and I frequently play scrabble where we sum our scores and try to beat previous high scores. With young kids you can look at each others letters to help them find words.
Just catagorize the bugs and rate the severity of the bug with the link. That way you avoid the copyright violation, and people don't have to go through every bug report to find what their looking for.
IF your wrists are still sore, try doing some light weight training to strengthen them. I have noticed a tremendous improvement even from light training. Plus I feel better about the hours in front of the computer.
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I'm curious if anyone has successfully changed their contract and been hired into a company. Maybe we should come up with a contract that employers have to sign before we agree to be hired. Companies that agree to this will get the best and the brightest employees.
The problem is that I have become very jaded with this sort of thing. For example donating money to Third world organizations and finding out that your money isn't even reaching it's intended destination. How do you get around this?
I can give food, but not money to people on the street. I think that we should give equipment and not money to Open Source projects. If something like a membership is needed then you should get 15 like minded people together to buy the membership.
I might be more open to a site where Open Source projects post hardware that they need. I even have a 386 that I would be willing to part with for the right project (the cost of shipping is probably more than the machine is worth).
Don't kid yourself into believing there is a bank account out there with $4.? billion dollars, these companies just convert Geocity stock to Yahoo stock, effectively printing their own money and a deal is made. I've considered turning myself public just so I can pull the same kind of stuff.
The argument that Moore's law is going to break down, therefore there will not be artificial intelligence is wrong. There are still many areas that we can expand computation. Chips right now are mostly 2-D, what happens when we can make them 3-D. We have also only begun to explore multiprocessing platforms. Obviously the amount of logic necessary for human intelligence fits inside the human brain. It doesn't matter if instead of taking 20 it takes 40 years to create a computer capable of intelligent thought.
Something is going to happen when that much logic is put into a single computer, or network of computers. It won't be the best scenario, and it won't be the worst. Perhaps by thinking about it now we can make the transition to whatever comes a little easier.
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Timothy, congratulations on your new addition. My daughter is a little over a year old now. In response to exactly the same concerns that you and your family had I have been developing http://digitalheirloom.org where I store photos, videos, pdfs, and audio files that I want to preserve for my daughter. The idea being that these documents are an heirloom to pass on to future generations.
This is a budding project, but I would be happy to have more beta testers. Beyond the ability to store/view files, I have also developed screensavers for windows and mac users to see photos from the website. That means that as I upload new photos, my mother's screensaver (which is a repurposed old laptop) automatically displays the new photos without her having to log into a website or check email.
This project was in response to several of your (and my concerns). I wanted a project developed with open standards so that it would not be a slave to a corporation or technology, and would be compatible with future devices/browsers. I wanted full access to all of my documents and how they are organized (e.g. through FTP). I wanted to consolidate photos that my wife had on her laptop, photos I had on my computers, and so on into a single authoritative place. I wanted RAID and offsite backup of all the documents (which the site provides). I wanted a space that could respond to the specific needs of families that want to archive and share documents. I wanted to know that the person managing the site cared as much about the content as I do. There are more features than I care to get into here, but I hope you get the idea.
My intention for the project is to file for non-profit status, and have users make one-time payments that would go into a trust to perpetuate the project. Please take a look at the site, my sense is that it would be a good fit for you and what you are looking for. Contact information is available on the site. I would be happy to discuss the project further.
Good luck and enjoy every minute you have with your family
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My wife and I frequently play scrabble where we sum our scores and try to beat previous high scores. With young kids you can look at each others letters to help them find words.
Just catagorize the bugs and rate the severity of the bug with the link. That way you avoid the copyright violation, and people don't have to go through every bug report to find what their looking for.
Thank you
IF your wrists are still sore, try doing some light weight training to strengthen them. I have noticed a tremendous improvement even from light training. Plus I feel better about the hours in front of the computer.
There are only two ways to end any conflict:
Annihilation or compromise
Take your pick.
I'm curious if anyone has successfully changed their contract and been hired into a company. Maybe we should come up with a contract that employers have to sign before we agree to be hired. Companies that agree to this will get the best and the brightest employees.
The problem is that I have become very jaded with this sort of thing. For example donating money to Third world organizations and finding out that your money isn't even reaching it's intended destination. How do you get around this?
I can give food, but not money to people on the street. I think that we should give equipment and not money to Open Source projects. If something like a membership is needed then you should get 15 like minded people together to buy the membership.
I might be more open to a site where Open Source projects post hardware that they need. I even have a 386 that I would be willing to part with for the right project (the cost of shipping is probably more than the machine is worth).
Instead of complaining about the lack of privacy we should be complaining about the abuse of personal information.
Don't kid yourself into believing there is a bank account out there with $4.? billion dollars, these companies just convert Geocity stock to Yahoo stock, effectively printing their own money and a deal is made. I've considered turning myself public just so I can pull the same kind of stuff.
The argument that Moore's law is going to break down, therefore there will not be artificial intelligence is wrong. There are still many areas that we can expand computation. Chips right now are mostly 2-D, what happens when we can make them 3-D. We have also only begun to explore multiprocessing platforms. Obviously the amount of logic necessary for human intelligence fits inside the human brain. It doesn't matter if instead of taking 20 it takes 40 years to create a computer capable of intelligent thought.
Something is going to happen when that much logic is put into a single computer, or network of computers. It won't be the best scenario, and it won't be the worst. Perhaps by thinking about it now we can make the transition to whatever comes a little easier.