Get him into game modding. If the kid plays WoW, the modding community is great, and it was the only thing that made me endure the game for a year. WoW uses LUA, which is a great and easy to use language, couple with XML for interfaces and data transfer.
Another option is creating mods and maps for Civilization IV. With Civ V coming this year, with even better modding potential, this is really worth a shot. Otherwise, try to check what is writable for whatever the kid is playing. Coupling the gaming experience with the more "productive" time codding, is his better shot.
1) One might want to specifically not encourage certain approaches if they had other negative results (we'd certainly feel that way about a process that improves building insulation using the flesh of newborn babies).
That is very simple to do with a blacklist. And that's how the legislation should have been done. Set the target, blacklist what should not be used. In fact, no need to blacklist, there is already regulation that will deal with most of the problematic solutions, just put some working that reminds people that the other guidelines and regulations are still effective. If there is a need, blacklist some other small stuff. But never whitelist.
Out of curiosity, are you doing anything "weird" with your PS3, such as running other OSs or anything?
I wouldn't call weird something that was part of the spec and a possibility. Bricking a console for doing what you allowed to do, is beyond ridiculous. Those who has one and got shafted, need to enter with a class action suit against Sony to fight this silliness.
If people don't like a work of art, it's not a great work of art!
That goes for Citizen Kane which everyone hates as well as the horribly boring 2001: Space Odessey and Shakespeare.
Riiiiiing. Wrong! First of all, "which people"? the unwashed masses? The American Idol crop, pick your poison. And second, art is defined by taste. And taste is different. I may tell you one thing, what you believe is a great work of art, I believe is pusillanimous piece of shit.
There is clearly an intent to mislead. Using the term "sync" rather than "unpack it and make sure it works" is clearly intended to make it sound like something you can't do yourself because you're not a 3D TV geek. The idea is to inflate the perceived value of the unpacking and turning on service.
Don't forget the delivering, installation, network plugging and all that jazz they do. Seriously, Best Buy answer was very informative and put the issue into perspective.
These trials are placebo-controlled, randomized, double-blind studies (the hallmark of research). Statistical analysis then allows you to determine if the therapy was effective in improving outcomes.
You know, I know it is necessary to have the control group, and more important to not have them be know. But in case of diseases like cancer, it must be a bloody hellish thing to be one of the placebo users.
and it makes a hell of a lot of sense to bind sex up in taboos and rules
No it doesn't.
sex is immensely pleasurable. its also an emotional minefield.
That depends on how you choose to deal it. Look like it is too, I'm sorry to hear that.
there is no such thing, nor will there ever be, a successful human society with a cavalier attitude towards sex.
History proves you wrong.
sex is extremely powerful. as such, it is treated, and should be treated, extremely carefully, and always will be
deal with it
No it shouldn't. Just because people like you was raised or had some psychological problems that made you treat it with such fear, just because you can't deal with the good alone, it doesn't mean that it is any more dangerous than a gun to your fucking head (pun not intended) or than a terrorist scarecrow.
If I choose to mod it then, yes, I'm violating EULA and Microsoft no longer has to offer me support or access to their network, but they do not have the right to modify my hardware's offline capabilities.
It's worse than that, too "hard" punishment for a "minor" crime can push people towards committing worse crimes when the difference in sentence isn't too big.
Prove it. I've seen this argument slinged around more times that I can count and I've never seen a proof about it. And let me give you a counter-example.
I live in Brazil, a country where we not just don't have death penalty, but we don't have life without parole either. In fact, you can't stay in prison more than 25 years. So 1 murder may get you 10 years in jail, 3 murders will get you 25 years, 20 murders will get you the same 25 years. The only difference is when you will have the chance to get parole or a semi-open regiment (daylight outside jail, must spend the night in jail).
A mass raper and a mass murderer will get exactly the same time in jail, 25 years. Using your argument it would mean that every rapist would just go and kill his victim afterward. After all, it wouldn't change his punishment AND he would kill his main witness, lessening the likelihood that he would go to jail. But that is not what happens. Rapists are rapists, murderers are murderers, and there are the evil ones that do it all. But that is THEIR prerogative and there is nothing to do with the punishment.
But then again I find people slandering other people over being "intellectuals" to be rather silly.
Let me tell you, you have it easy there. Here in Brazil our president is uneducated (only finished high school), and he is PRAISED for that as a good trait for a president. And he goes on to slander his critics because they studied too much and are far from the people because of that. Which boils to: "I'm as ignorant as the mass and that makes me better than you.". Which is fucking insane.
Don't forget http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HotDog. For many years, the best of the best editors. It had 2 views!!! With code on one window and the render on another. AMAZING!
That's at least 17 tables for starters, and that's not even touching ballot formatting, tabulation, alternate audio/image versions, text translations, etc.
All things that shouldn't be on the database. And another thing, it shouldn't be completely generic. There is a problem of course with voting for many different things together on the same day. That way you can't prepare and hash the system to verification.
Slashdot Mirror
Highly recommended for anyone out there looking for a PHP framework that actually makes sense.
Wish I had mod points. Kohana is the natural evolution of CI and made for PHP 5. It is much, much better than CI.
Get him into game modding. If the kid plays WoW, the modding community is great, and it was the only thing that made me endure the game for a year. WoW uses LUA, which is a great and easy to use language, couple with XML for interfaces and data transfer.
Another option is creating mods and maps for Civilization IV. With Civ V coming this year, with even better modding potential, this is really worth a shot. Otherwise, try to check what is writable for whatever the kid is playing. Coupling the gaming experience with the more "productive" time codding, is his better shot.
No I'm not.
No he didn't.
1) One might want to specifically not encourage certain approaches if they had other negative results (we'd certainly feel that way about a process that improves building insulation using the flesh of newborn babies).
That is very simple to do with a blacklist. And that's how the legislation should have been done. Set the target, blacklist what should not be used. In fact, no need to blacklist, there is already regulation that will deal with most of the problematic solutions, just put some working that reminds people that the other guidelines and regulations are still effective. If there is a need, blacklist some other small stuff. But never whitelist.
Out of curiosity, are you doing anything "weird" with your PS3, such as running other OSs or anything?
I wouldn't call weird something that was part of the spec and a possibility. Bricking a console for doing what you allowed to do, is beyond ridiculous. Those who has one and got shafted, need to enter with a class action suit against Sony to fight this silliness.
If people don't like a work of art, it's not a great work of art! That goes for Citizen Kane which everyone hates as well as the horribly boring 2001: Space Odessey and Shakespeare.
Riiiiiing. Wrong! First of all, "which people"? the unwashed masses? The American Idol crop, pick your poison. And second, art is defined by taste. And taste is different. I may tell you one thing, what you believe is a great work of art, I believe is pusillanimous piece of shit.
They could have said "X by Y by Z", where X is the length, Y is the width, and Z is the depth.
Sorry. I don't check science news expecting to do any math.
There is clearly an intent to mislead. Using the term "sync" rather than "unpack it and make sure it works" is clearly intended to make it sound like something you can't do yourself because you're not a 3D TV geek. The idea is to inflate the perceived value of the unpacking and turning on service.
Don't forget the delivering, installation, network plugging and all that jazz they do. Seriously, Best Buy answer was very informative and put the issue into perspective.
These trials are placebo-controlled, randomized, double-blind studies (the hallmark of research). Statistical analysis then allows you to determine if the therapy was effective in improving outcomes.
You know, I know it is necessary to have the control group, and more important to not have them be know. But in case of diseases like cancer, it must be a bloody hellish thing to be one of the placebo users.
and it makes a hell of a lot of sense to bind sex up in taboos and rules
No it doesn't.
sex is immensely pleasurable. its also an emotional minefield.
That depends on how you choose to deal it. Look like it is too, I'm sorry to hear that.
there is no such thing, nor will there ever be, a successful human society with a cavalier attitude towards sex.
History proves you wrong.
sex is extremely powerful. as such, it is treated, and should be treated, extremely carefully, and always will be
deal with it
No it shouldn't. Just because people like you was raised or had some psychological problems that made you treat it with such fear, just because you can't deal with the good alone, it doesn't mean that it is any more dangerous than a gun to your fucking head (pun not intended) or than a terrorist scarecrow.
Deal with it!
If you want YouTube to be taken offline, just say so. It is less disruptive.
Heck, I might be willing to pay more than retail for a DRM free version.
Their work here is done.
The genitals are pretty much the same for everybody.
Mine disagree with that statement.
In Brazil too. But we do have the magnetic stripes for the cases where a chip can't be read.
Why do you think they packed extra socks this time?
If I choose to mod it then, yes, I'm violating EULA and Microsoft no longer has to offer me support or access to their network, but they do not have the right to modify my hardware's offline capabilities.
So Sue them.
What is this Disco thing you are talking about?
It's worse than that, too "hard" punishment for a "minor" crime can push people towards committing worse crimes when the difference in sentence isn't too big.
Prove it. I've seen this argument slinged around more times that I can count and I've never seen a proof about it. And let me give you a counter-example.
I live in Brazil, a country where we not just don't have death penalty, but we don't have life without parole either. In fact, you can't stay in prison more than 25 years. So 1 murder may get you 10 years in jail, 3 murders will get you 25 years, 20 murders will get you the same 25 years. The only difference is when you will have the chance to get parole or a semi-open regiment (daylight outside jail, must spend the night in jail).
A mass raper and a mass murderer will get exactly the same time in jail, 25 years. Using your argument it would mean that every rapist would just go and kill his victim afterward. After all, it wouldn't change his punishment AND he would kill his main witness, lessening the likelihood that he would go to jail. But that is not what happens. Rapists are rapists, murderers are murderers, and there are the evil ones that do it all. But that is THEIR prerogative and there is nothing to do with the punishment.
from the darkside?
(Sure I can google it, but usually I just move on)
Do you want me to tie your shoes for you, your highness?
But then again I find people slandering other people over being "intellectuals" to be rather silly.
Let me tell you, you have it easy there. Here in Brazil our president is uneducated (only finished high school), and he is PRAISED for that as a good trait for a president. And he goes on to slander his critics because they studied too much and are far from the people because of that. Which boils to: "I'm as ignorant as the mass and that makes me better than you.". Which is fucking insane.
Is there any guarantee that the source code they release is the actual code that will run on the machines during an election?
Not unless they are forced to has the source released and the source on the machine. Upload it in front of the people and verify the hash.
Don't forget http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HotDog. For many years, the best of the best editors. It had 2 views!!! With code on one window and the render on another. AMAZING!
That's at least 17 tables for starters, and that's not even touching ballot formatting, tabulation, alternate audio/image versions, text translations, etc.
All things that shouldn't be on the database. And another thing, it shouldn't be completely generic. There is a problem of course with voting for many different things together on the same day. That way you can't prepare and hash the system to verification.