...or do you have to buy the governator separately?
That's actually an interesting question. I believe that they digitized Arnold after the third movie and they used a computerized model of him in the last one. So if someone purchased the franchise, do they also own the digital Arnold?
That being said, even seeing a commercial these days just feels odd to me, let alone watching it.
It's funny how things change from generation to generation. My 6 year old doesn't even know what a VCR is. She actually enjoys commercials as she so rarely sees them. It's even funnier when we go to someones house and she watches TV and they don't have a DVR. She gets somewhat puzzled that you can't simply pause a show.
For some reason everyone seems to forget about Intel's campaign in the mid-90's that you would never have to upgrade your computer again. Simply plug a new processor into your existing mobo. Of course the Pentium OverDrive chip was majorly delayed, way more expensive than indicated, had compatibility issues, and underperformed. And then Intel moved on to the Slot-1 processors anyhow.
>>>You've lost me here. We are talking about children, so why would anyone in their right mind "adopt a more-adult attitude"? Let kids be kids. I think it's totally unfair to make them grow up any faster than they already have to. >>>
Because.
When my 8-year-old asked, "Where do babies come from?" I told him the answer straight up - "When a married man and woman are sleeping together in bed, the man puts his penis into her. Then a baby grows inside." He went "ewww" and that was the end of it. He was no more traumatized by that info then he was traumatized about wiping poo off his bottom. And I think your idea that kids should be kept in the dark or lied to ("babies come from the stork") is akin to mental child abuse.
Ahh. I guess it makes a difference once you specify an age. My daughter first asked us about this at 2.5 years. My wife and I chose to tell her that it was something that we felt should be discussed when she was older. And no, we did not tell her some dumb ass lie about storks or baby fairies. I agree that lying to your children is akin to child abuse, however I think in many cases withholding some things until they are old enough to process and understand it is important. While we didn't tell her about the baby making aspects of a penis and vagina, she did know what they were and which gender had which. I think all of the baby talk and stupid terms parents come up with are developmentally horrible for children.
Okay granted YOU didn't say you lie to your kids, but I know a lot of parents who do. Then later the kid gets pregnant or knocks-up a girl at age 13, and they wonder how that happened. Duh. It's because they never TAUGHT the kid how their bodies work, that's why. I don't see any reason to withhold knowledge. Better they learn it from me under my supervision, then on their own or from someone else.
I totally agree with you as you put the age into context. Anyone who has not discussed this with their child by the time they have entered puberty should have never been allowed to breed in the first place. I remember seeing a news interview in the late 70's or early 80's with a women in one of the southern states who just gave birth to her 18th baby. She had absolutely no clue as to why she kept getting pregnant.
I don't want my internet to be as dull and uninteresting as broadcast TV (no nudity, no curse words). If you don't like your children seeing such things, change the channel, don't buy cable, install filtering software, don't let the kids use the computer unless you're there, and so on.
I totally agree with this.
Or adopt a more-adult attitude or realizing your kids are going to be having sex someday. Now is as good a time as any to teach them about the birds and bees,
You've lost me here. We are talking about children, so why would anyone in their right mind "adopt a more-adult attitude"? Let kids be kids. I think it's totally unfair to make them grow up any faster than they already have to.
I think every parent should be able to determine when this needs to be discussed. Personally I don't think that 3 years old is appropriate. Younger kids don't understand the consequences of their actions or have the wisdom of how to use that knowledge. Many adults don't for that matter.
and stop having a fit if they see a naked body.
Again, I agree with you. It is silly to teach children that this is somehow a bad or "unnatural" thing. But it's also quite different from images of consenting adults (or anyone for that matter) having sex.
That being said, I have no objection to how you raise your children as long as you don't object to how I raise mine. Furthermore, I don't feel the gov't has the right to tell people how to raise their children in general. I agree with you and also strongly believe that parents need to take more responsibility for raising their children, after all the government didn't birth them.
... the word "aluminum". Some use the US spelling, the other use the correct spelling.
FTFY
Maybe if Humphry Davy wouldn't have taken 5 years to make up his mind about what to call it this wouldn't be an issue. He initially called it alumium. Then changed it to aluminum and eventually called it aluminium.
In March 2008, a United Airlines employee placed a flashlight in the storage compartment of a Boeing 757 at the Denver airport. A report said the flashlight exploded “like gunshots,” turning the on-off switch into a projectile.
I found this interesting and wish it mentioned what type of battery was in the flashlight. I've noticed that I've had a lot more alkaline batteries leak in the last several years than I have seen in previous years. On a separate note, but possibly related; During a flight last year one of the flight attendants dropped an unopened can of soda while at 30K+ feet and the sound was easily mistaken as a gunshot by several passengers. The can bounced off of the ceiling then the floor and traveled through the air up the isle. It was interesting how much more violent this was at the lower pressures external to the can in a pressurized cabin. I wonder what effect lowered external pressure has on sealed batteries.
They banned fingernail clippers, why not batteries?
That ban has been lifted for some time now. The one of lighters has been as well. Frankly IME I've found butane lighters to have a much better chance of causing an accidental fire than batteries.
Indeed! For instance, did you know that the Spartans actually spoke Doric Greek?
There was no "Madness? THIS IS SPARTA!"
As I recall from school the Spartans told them to "Dig it out yourselves" when they tossed the Persian envoy into the well. This was in reference to their demand for earth and water. Obviously this was the English translation. The Athenians did not surrender either. They threw the Persians in a pit after putting them on trial.
Most home computer hardware failures come from "brownouts".
If you notice that your lights dim a little bit when your fridge compressor or AirCon comes on, that is a recipe for a computer failure. Spend $50 get a UPS Btw, i noticed that my linksys wifi router was also extremely sensitive to brownouts. It would get funked up and need to be power cycled. Plug it into a UPS , no more wifi problems either.
I learned this the hard way when i moved to an old building in the east village of NYC and had 3 motherboards/cpu fail within a 3 month period.
What you really need in the case you describe is a good line conditioner. I didn't look at the 'UPS' you mentioned, but many in that price range are not a true UPS and will still allow for under voltage to occur, albeit for a shorter period if you're lucky. .
What do you think the carbon nanotubes are for? We are going to run those to the moon to drop ping times down to more acceptable level. Everyone know wired is way faster than wireless...
No, no, no. Everyone knows wireless is faster. You just have to re-route a tachyon pulse through the Heisenberg compensator and then into the main deflector dish.
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We need this about as much as we need a much stronger more deadly flu virus.
This is just a stepping stone to create things that will change the world for the better..
...For instance, a monkey with four asses.
Williams said the link between PC infection rates and piracy is due to the hesitancy of users of pirated software to use Windows Update.
Make Windows free.
...or do you have to buy the governator separately?
That's actually an interesting question. I believe that they digitized Arnold after the third movie and they used a computerized model of him in the last one. So if someone purchased the franchise, do they also own the digital Arnold?
That being said, even seeing a commercial these days just feels odd to me, let alone watching it.
It's funny how things change from generation to generation. My 6 year old doesn't even know what a VCR is. She actually enjoys commercials as she so rarely sees them. It's even funnier when we go to someones house and she watches TV and they don't have a DVR. She gets somewhat puzzled that you can't simply pause a show.
For some reason everyone seems to forget about Intel's campaign in the mid-90's that you would never have to upgrade your computer again. Simply plug a new processor into your existing mobo. Of course the Pentium OverDrive chip was majorly delayed, way more expensive than indicated, had compatibility issues, and underperformed. And then Intel moved on to the Slot-1 processors anyhow.
So long as two computers can communicate with each other, so you will have P2P.
So long as two people can communicate with each other, so you will have leaked documents.
>>>You've lost me here. We are talking about children, so why would anyone in their right mind "adopt a more-adult attitude"? Let kids be kids. I think it's totally unfair to make them grow up any faster than they already have to.
>>>
Because.
When my 8-year-old asked, "Where do babies come from?" I told him the answer straight up - "When a married man and woman are sleeping together in bed, the man puts his penis into her. Then a baby grows inside." He went "ewww" and that was the end of it. He was no more traumatized by that info then he was traumatized about wiping poo off his bottom. And I think your idea that kids should be kept in the dark or lied to ("babies come from the stork") is akin to mental child abuse.
Ahh. I guess it makes a difference once you specify an age. My daughter first asked us about this at 2.5 years. My wife and I chose to tell her that it was something that we felt should be discussed when she was older. And no, we did not tell her some dumb ass lie about storks or baby fairies. I agree that lying to your children is akin to child abuse, however I think in many cases withholding some things until they are old enough to process and understand it is important. While we didn't tell her about the baby making aspects of a penis and vagina, she did know what they were and which gender had which. I think all of the baby talk and stupid terms parents come up with are developmentally horrible for children.
Okay granted YOU didn't say you lie to your kids, but I know a lot of parents who do. Then later the kid gets pregnant or knocks-up a girl at age 13, and they wonder how that happened. Duh. It's because they never TAUGHT the kid how their bodies work, that's why. I don't see any reason to withhold knowledge. Better they learn it from me under my supervision, then on their own or from someone else.
I totally agree with you as you put the age into context. Anyone who has not discussed this with their child by the time they have entered puberty should have never been allowed to breed in the first place. I remember seeing a news interview in the late 70's or early 80's with a women in one of the southern states who just gave birth to her 18th baby. She had absolutely no clue as to why she kept getting pregnant.
I don't want my internet to be as dull and uninteresting as broadcast TV (no nudity, no curse words). If you don't like your children seeing such things, change the channel, don't buy cable, install filtering software, don't let the kids use the computer unless you're there, and so on.
I totally agree with this.
Or adopt a more-adult attitude or realizing your kids are going to be having sex someday. Now is as good a time as any to teach them about the birds and bees,
You've lost me here. We are talking about children, so why would anyone in their right mind "adopt a more-adult attitude"? Let kids be kids. I think it's totally unfair to make them grow up any faster than they already have to.
I think every parent should be able to determine when this needs to be discussed. Personally I don't think that 3 years old is appropriate. Younger kids don't understand the consequences of their actions or have the wisdom of how to use that knowledge. Many adults don't for that matter.
and stop having a fit if they see a naked body.
Again, I agree with you. It is silly to teach children that this is somehow a bad or "unnatural" thing. But it's also quite different from images of consenting adults (or anyone for that matter) having sex.
That being said, I have no objection to how you raise your children as long as you don't object to how I raise mine. Furthermore, I don't feel the gov't has the right to tell people how to raise their children in general. I agree with you and also strongly believe that parents need to take more responsibility for raising their children, after all the government didn't birth them.
... the word "aluminum". Some use the US spelling, the other use the correct spelling.
FTFY
Maybe if Humphry Davy wouldn't have taken 5 years to make up his mind about what to call it this wouldn't be an issue. He initially called it alumium. Then changed it to aluminum and eventually called it aluminium.
[citation needed]
For what?
FTA
In March 2008, a United Airlines employee placed a flashlight in the storage compartment of a Boeing 757 at the Denver airport. A report said the flashlight exploded “like gunshots,” turning the on-off switch into a projectile.
I found this interesting and wish it mentioned what type of battery was in the flashlight. I've noticed that I've had a lot more alkaline batteries leak in the last several years than I have seen in previous years. On a separate note, but possibly related; During a flight last year one of the flight attendants dropped an unopened can of soda while at 30K+ feet and the sound was easily mistaken as a gunshot by several passengers. The can bounced off of the ceiling then the floor and traveled through the air up the isle. It was interesting how much more violent this was at the lower pressures external to the can in a pressurized cabin. I wonder what effect lowered external pressure has on sealed batteries.
They banned fingernail clippers, why not batteries?
That ban has been lifted for some time now. The one of lighters has been as well. Frankly IME I've found butane lighters to have a much better chance of causing an accidental fire than batteries.
Pigeon net. Apparently a carrier pigeon is faster as well.
Cool. This means that I can stop trying to get my wife to make more rational decisions. At least until someone invents a time machine.
Indeed! For instance, did you know that the Spartans actually spoke Doric Greek?
There was no "Madness? THIS IS SPARTA!"
As I recall from school the Spartans told them to "Dig it out yourselves" when they tossed the Persian envoy into the well. This was in reference to their demand for earth and water. Obviously this was the English translation. The Athenians did not surrender either. They threw the Persians in a pit after putting them on trial.
Bullshit. If the Nokia N900 is so good, why are people buying 10x as many iPhones?
Effective marketing.
There is a workaround for that.
http://icrontic.com/articles/upgrade-the-windows-7-rc-to-retail
Indeed there is. You can find it here: http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download
Modern cars, sadly, have little of the feedback of old.
I'm not sure what your definition of old is, but it's obvious you never drove a 1970's era Chrysler vehicle w/ power steering.
What about Myst? I'd say it was a pretty significant PC game in it's day.
Negative. Tag this nexus!
'"This ribbon winds between the two Voyager spacecraft and was not observed by either of them.'"
Or the birth of V'ger
Bastards! I still only have 215 kbit internet!
S.O.B, I still only have 300 baud.
I would suggest that you upgrade to carrier pigeon service then.
http://idle.slashdot.org/story/09/09/10/0318203/Pigeon-Turns-Out-To-Be-Faster-Than-S-African-Net
But would you be able to smuggle it though airport security?
I think it's better than 50/50 that you could get it through LAX.
Though I'm not sure I would want to store my data in it.
It's probably safer than using this Microsoft/Danger server.
Most home computer hardware failures come from "brownouts".
If you notice that your lights dim a little bit when your fridge compressor or AirCon comes on, that is a recipe for a computer failure. Spend $50 get a UPS
Btw, i noticed that my linksys wifi router was also extremely sensitive to brownouts. It would get funked up and need to be power cycled. Plug it into a UPS , no more wifi problems either.
I learned this the hard way when i moved to an old building in the east village of NYC and had 3 motherboards/cpu fail within a 3 month period.
What you really need in the case you describe is a good line conditioner. I didn't look at the 'UPS' you mentioned, but many in that price range are not a true UPS and will still allow for under voltage to occur, albeit for a shorter period if you're lucky. .
What do you think the carbon nanotubes are for? We are going to run those to the moon to drop ping times down to more acceptable level. Everyone know wired is way faster than wireless...
No, no, no. Everyone knows wireless is faster. You just have to re-route a tachyon pulse through the Heisenberg compensator and then into the main deflector dish.