I am so glad I don't have to see those warnings anymore. I don't know how anyone could possibly not know about it.
The channels here are switching off analog on the original timetable from before the extension. And I have cable anyway so I didn't even need to do anything (except call my parents to make sure they were ready).
I don't care about opening up spectrum for other services when I am not directly benefiting in any way, shape or form by the change over.
Use of some of those services would involve, for example, fire engines on your front lawn using that radio spectrum to coordinate the spraying of water into the cellar-hole where your house was.
So I hope you never need to benefit from those lost radio frequencies.
There would be a market for these in that they could be rented to tourists (like parasailing). But right now, I'm not so sure I could even get a $130,000 loan for a new piece of equipment where making the payments depends on tourists' willingness to leave the house (staycation), come to the beach/lake, and pay to do something like this.
I was at the company website and both these questions are answered in the FAQ.
The hose keeps you from going dangerously high. You aren't any higher in the air than a diving platform. People survive plummets into the water from that height all the time (in fact, there's a whole sport based on it). The biggest risk is falling on the boat.
At ground level, the stream is broken up enough that it is not dangerous. At the nozzle, they warn not to stick your hands under the jets. It isn't very dangerous, but it can cause bruising.
You're not any higher in the air than a diving platform. People plummet into the water from that height on purpose every day. You wouldn't hit the water any harder than a water skier wiping out at full speed (which isn't exactly pleasant, but not catastrophic, either).
Why do people have such a hard time with technology whose primary application (at least for the time being) is as a toy?
Boston! I knew I'd seen one of these when I was a kid, but I couldn't remember where! That was the one. Thanks.
Goes to show you how much of an impression a demo like that is on a science-nerdy kid. I don't remember much else about that trip (I went to a Chuck E Cheese for the first time that day I recall), but I have never forgotten that pendulum showing the rotation of the earth.
I got into the tech industry to leave my white-trash pastimes (like shooting rats at the dump) behind me. I'm not sure that it would be the same in a server room.
Just hope you adopt one that is too dumb to realize that hunting rats is a hassle compared to dumpster diving or finding a soft-touch to feed it Fancy Feast every day.Period.
I'm convinced that the two worst pets are dumb dogs and smart cats.
SAme here. After I had to buy $30 worth of add-on software to make my TX work at all (Warpspeed and PowerDigi) and the flakiness of the on-off button (although it hasn't broken altogether) I told myself this was the last Palm I'd get. I'm still using it, but I'm very close to replacing it with a Touch.
I would have loved a little handheld BeOS machine. Why, Palm, why?
There are gentler styles that still are effective martial arts but without stressing one's body to the point of failure after a few years. This includes Aikido (even though you fall, you fall gently), Iaido (just don't cut yourself), and possibly Kendo.
Their "Run Away! Run Away!" technique seems to avoid most martial arts injuries.
Oh dear. Even on Slashdot the "aikido doesn't work" trolls appear? On the other hand, I knew a black belt who actually was asked by his students what was the best technique to use against an attacker with a knifeâ" he literally ran out of the room. (Actually, he even drove off and came back with a soda 20 minutes later). Just like in a koan: the students were enlightened.
Grandparent's point stands, though. I've practiced aikido with people in their 60s and 70s. This October I narrowly avoided an collision while riding my bike and I rather gracefully rolled out of it rather than doing a faceplant. Taekwondo wasn't going to help me in that situation.
I suppose cellular providers and cable providers will try to take advantage of this...
The thing is, who the hell in northern New England has cable? We used to joke that the Primestar dish was the Maine state flower. (The joke doesn't work as well since they got replaced by DirectTV dishes, which tend to be on the roof instead of the front yard).
I don't want to defend Second Life here, but the one redeeming factor it has is user-generated content. Home lacks that. It's like Second Life without the only thing that made Second Life marginally interesting.
I feel the same way. There is one (1) thing out there that makes me think "Hmm, I wish I had a PS3" and that's Little Big Planet. The major selling feature of LBP is the user-generated content.
Yeah, but it wasn't designed to be flat out incompetent, which seems to be the primary complaint of many a conservative who desires for small government.
Which ends up being self-fulfilling prophecy. Why even try to be competent if you truly believe from the outset that competent governance is impossible? Being competent at governing can only prove small-government conservatives wrong. I'm convinced this was the primary factor in the Bush Administration.
There is a continuous spectrum of cognitive capacity from near-vegetative to super-genius. Are we supposed to decide people's right to live based on arbitrary cut-offs on tests that we already know aren't perfectly valid? Absolutely not.
I really wish that my advisor would get her study submitted and published so that I could link to it here. (I'm sure she says the same thing about my own as well).
She's been doing early intervention with DS kids much earlier than ever before and providing high-tech means for them to communicate. After 5 years the kids are entering school on-par with their peers.
It is starting to look like mental retardation is a secondary symptom of DS, not a primary one. DS results in SPEECH disability, which messes up language development, which in turn screws up cognitive development. We've been providing an alternative, non-speech, means to communication development and it has led to surprisingly positive results in cognition development. (This falls into the category of "manuscript in progress" and hasn't been published in a peer-reviewed journal yet, but I expect it to pass that hurdle in the next year or so). Here is a description of the study methods. http://www.aac-rerc.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=135&Itemid=152 It's in Breeze. Sorry about that.
So, if it becomes known that Down syndrome only causes mental retardation when we fail to provide the right care and education, do you still think that abortion/eugenics is an appropriate treatment???
Read "Toxic Childhood" by Sue Palmer - available from Amazon. It explains why kids are getting so badly f&*ked up these days. Summary, too much TV, too little interaction with parents, junk food, lack of sleep. Result, often low grade autism.
So when people here (and on other websites) boast about being functional autistic I just think you poor sod, your parents were too busy to play with you when you were young...
Oh, is the "blame-the-parents" autism meme back in style? It comes and goes in cycles. Jenny McCarthy has a book about autism, too. Forget reading pop-psych books about autism and read some real science.
Most of the smartest people I know play sports and most of the best athletes in any sport tend to be the smartest players on the field. The kid's computer use is one play activity among many.
Tiger Woods started playing golf at 2. I'm sure people told his father was told that climbing trees and building with blocks are more appropriate. I don't think anyone thinks that Tiger is a one-trick prodigy.
There are so many "kids don't need computers" replies, but I have lots of experience to the contrary, mostly with kids with disabilities. One of the things we've discovered is that the concept of "precursor skills" is total crap. You learn to do things by doing them, no need to wait for kids to be "ready" to do it. (This is the core of tenet of the Constructivist theory of learning that OLPC subscribes to). Kids don't need to read and spell to use a computer successfully.
No one is suggesting substituting computer use for other types of play, but kids want to do things that they see adults at large doing. Computer use is now, and for the foreseeable future, a standard part of our culture now. It will be one toy/tool among many in his/her environment.
I'm a strong believer in Paint as a first program. Best mouse training ever.
Followed by word processing. Try to read whatever they write and pretend like they are writing something completely relevant and meaningful every time. You'll see it evolve into real writing over time.
The term they've started using at the Center for Literacy and Disability Studies at UNC Chapel Hill is "Alternative Pencil."
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I am so glad I don't have to see those warnings anymore. I don't know how anyone could possibly not know about it.
The channels here are switching off analog on the original timetable from before the extension. And I have cable anyway so I didn't even need to do anything (except call my parents to make sure they were ready).
I don't care about opening up spectrum for other services when I am not directly benefiting in any way, shape or form by the change over.
Use of some of those services would involve, for example, fire engines on your front lawn using that radio spectrum to coordinate the spraying of water into the cellar-hole where your house was.
So I hope you never need to benefit from those lost radio frequencies.
Good call.
There would be a market for these in that they could be rented to tourists (like parasailing). But right now, I'm not so sure I could even get a $130,000 loan for a new piece of equipment where making the payments depends on tourists' willingness to leave the house (staycation), come to the beach/lake, and pay to do something like this.
I was at the company website and both these questions are answered in the FAQ.
The hose keeps you from going dangerously high. You aren't any higher in the air than a diving platform. People survive plummets into the water from that height all the time (in fact, there's a whole sport based on it). The biggest risk is falling on the boat.
At ground level, the stream is broken up enough that it is not dangerous. At the nozzle, they warn not to stick your hands under the jets. It isn't very dangerous, but it can cause bruising.
You're not any higher in the air than a diving platform. People plummet into the water from that height on purpose every day.
You wouldn't hit the water any harder than a water skier wiping out at full speed (which isn't exactly pleasant, but not catastrophic, either).
Why do people have such a hard time with technology whose primary application (at least for the time being) is as a toy?
Umberto Eco FTW!
Boston! I knew I'd seen one of these when I was a kid, but I couldn't remember where! That was the one. Thanks.
Goes to show you how much of an impression a demo like that is on a science-nerdy kid. I don't remember much else about that trip (I went to a Chuck E Cheese for the first time that day I recall), but I have never forgotten that pendulum showing the rotation of the earth.
Well that's +1 informative to me. All of my air rifles were .177, but .22 ones do exist. http://www.airgundepot.com/rws-air-rifles-22.html
I got into the tech industry to leave my white-trash pastimes (like shooting rats at the dump) behind me. I'm not sure that it would be the same in a server room.
Just hope you adopt one that is too dumb to realize that hunting rats is a hassle compared to dumpster diving or finding a soft-touch to feed it Fancy Feast every day.Period.
I'm convinced that the two worst pets are dumb dogs and smart cats.
SAme here. After I had to buy $30 worth of add-on software to make my TX work at all (Warpspeed and PowerDigi) and the flakiness of the on-off button (although it hasn't broken altogether) I told myself this was the last Palm I'd get. I'm still using it, but I'm very close to replacing it with a Touch.
I would have loved a little handheld BeOS machine. Why, Palm, why?
There's also the sense of body position, whose name escapes me, but that's not an external sense.
Proprioception
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proprioception
Kinesthetic. It's the feedback to the motor centers about how stretched your muscle fibers are and how much tension they are under.
There are gentler styles that still are effective martial arts but without stressing one's body to the point of failure after a few years. This includes Aikido (even though you fall, you fall gently), Iaido (just don't cut yourself), and possibly Kendo.
Their "Run Away! Run Away!" technique seems to avoid most martial arts injuries.
Oh dear. Even on Slashdot the "aikido doesn't work" trolls appear?
On the other hand, I knew a black belt who actually was asked by his students what was the best technique to use against an attacker with a knifeâ" he literally ran out of the room. (Actually, he even drove off and came back with a soda 20 minutes later). Just like in a koan: the students were enlightened.
Grandparent's point stands, though. I've practiced aikido with people in their 60s and 70s. This October I narrowly avoided an collision while riding my bike and I rather gracefully rolled out of it rather than doing a faceplant. Taekwondo wasn't going to help me in that situation.
Except for the users who are only Apple users AFTER they got their iPod and iPhone and loved them. There are lots of those.
Unfortunately, some people don't care. And even worse, they often get angry when you tell them that they mispelled a word.
Don't you mean "they loose there temper when you tell them they misspelled a word?"
I suppose cellular providers and cable providers will try to take advantage of this...
The thing is, who the hell in northern New England has cable? We used to joke that the Primestar dish was the Maine state flower. (The joke doesn't work as well since they got replaced by DirectTV dishes, which tend to be on the roof instead of the front yard).
A lot of users in Fairpoint's area (including my parents) can't get cable. Verizon/Fairpoint is the only option for broadband ISP.
So start throwing paper balls at her!
Kids nowadays, know nothing about attraction...
Putting a spider in her hair is another time-honored flirting method
I don't want to defend Second Life here, but the one redeeming factor it has is user-generated content. Home lacks that. It's like Second Life without the only thing that made Second Life marginally interesting.
I feel the same way. There is one (1) thing out there that makes me think "Hmm, I wish I had a PS3" and that's Little Big Planet. The major selling feature of LBP is the user-generated content.
Yeah, but it wasn't designed to be flat out incompetent, which seems to be the primary complaint of many a conservative who desires for small government.
Which ends up being self-fulfilling prophecy. Why even try to be competent if you truly believe from the outset that competent governance is impossible? Being competent at governing can only prove small-government conservatives wrong. I'm convinced this was the primary factor in the Bush Administration.
Yeah, sorry about that. I was mostly agreeing with you and adding on.
There is a continuous spectrum of cognitive capacity from near-vegetative to super-genius. Are we supposed to decide people's right to live based on arbitrary cut-offs on tests that we already know aren't perfectly valid? Absolutely not.
I really wish that my advisor would get her study submitted and published so that I could link to it here. (I'm sure she says the same thing about my own as well).
She's been doing early intervention with DS kids much earlier than ever before and providing high-tech means for them to communicate. After 5 years the kids are entering school on-par with their peers.
It is starting to look like mental retardation is a secondary symptom of DS, not a primary one. DS results in SPEECH disability, which messes up language development, which in turn screws up cognitive development. We've been providing an alternative, non-speech, means to communication development and it has led to surprisingly positive results in cognition development. (This falls into the category of "manuscript in progress" and hasn't been published in a peer-reviewed journal yet, but I expect it to pass that hurdle in the next year or so).
Here is a description of the study methods.
http://www.aac-rerc.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=135&Itemid=152
It's in Breeze. Sorry about that.
So, if it becomes known that Down syndrome only causes mental retardation when we fail to provide the right care and education, do you still think that abortion/eugenics is an appropriate treatment???
Say it brother.
Read "Toxic Childhood" by Sue Palmer - available from Amazon. It explains why kids are getting so badly f&*ked up these days. Summary, too much TV, too little interaction with parents, junk food, lack of sleep. Result, often low grade autism.
So when people here (and on other websites) boast about being functional autistic I just think you poor sod, your parents were too busy to play with you when you were young...
Oh, is the "blame-the-parents" autism meme back in style? It comes and goes in cycles. Jenny McCarthy has a book about autism, too.
Forget reading pop-psych books about autism and read some real science.
Why does it have to be either-or???
Most of the smartest people I know play sports and most of the best athletes in any sport tend to be the smartest players on the field. The kid's computer use is one play activity among many.
Tiger Woods started playing golf at 2. I'm sure people told his father was told that climbing trees and building with blocks are more appropriate. I don't think anyone thinks that Tiger is a one-trick prodigy.
There are so many "kids don't need computers" replies, but I have lots of experience to the contrary, mostly with kids with disabilities. One of the things we've discovered is that the concept of "precursor skills" is total crap. You learn to do things by doing them, no need to wait for kids to be "ready" to do it. (This is the core of tenet of the Constructivist theory of learning that OLPC subscribes to). Kids don't need to read and spell to use a computer successfully.
No one is suggesting substituting computer use for other types of play, but kids want to do things that they see adults at large doing. Computer use is now, and for the foreseeable future, a standard part of our culture now. It will be one toy/tool among many in his/her environment.
I'm a strong believer in Paint as a first program. Best mouse training ever.
Followed by word processing. Try to read whatever they write and pretend like they are writing something completely relevant and meaningful every time. You'll see it evolve into real writing over time.
The term they've started using at the Center for Literacy and Disability Studies at UNC Chapel Hill is "Alternative Pencil."
http://www.aac-rerc.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=135&Itemid=152
http://alltogether.wordpress.com/2007/11/13/tar-heel-typer-an-open-source-alternative-pencil/
https://otot.wikispaces.com/Alternative+Pencil+Directions
Eco's Island of the Day Before would be an interesting puzzle level.