Fact of the matter is, he did something illegal. It's irrelevant whether we agree with him, are on his side, or not, he should expect some punishment for his actions. Although I am somewhat glad the blew the top off of this one because it is at least a start to holding the government accountable for some of their actions. However, I think the espionage and aiding the enemy charges are complete bull shit. It is blatantly clear that was not the intent. That is just some embarrassed politician taking out some deep seeded need for revenge on him to set some kind of example. I'm not trying to defend the guy, but come on, don't let them start making shit up to make it look worse than it was.
This is f**king insane, and EXTREMELY poor judgement on the part of our military leaders. So many things could have gone wrong here, not to mention the fact that they are certainly belittling the peoples trust in their own military. You have to wonder if they are just trying to train for overseas urban warfare, or if they are training to put down a revolt against the citizens of this country. Either way, they could have found a better place to do it than the middle of goddamn downtown Miami. Just plan stupid.
Simple solution... Apple gets rights to motorola patents, Googorola gets all its partners and android device manufacturers rights to whatever patents apple thinks they are infringing on and keep suing everyone for. Everybody pays less court and licensing costs, scumbag lawyers lose their biggest clients, consumers get the devices they want, everybody wins.
Additionally... getting him something older and smaller and weaker would, in the future, provide you a lot of opportunity to teach him about building the thing. Upgrading components, and such.
I think what youre looking for is something that has a simple enough interface for him to just putz around and play, but that has the underlying system capable of supporting a great deal of tinkering when the time comes. That said, I would avoid Windows. Although it is great for the average users that want to just get stuff done and dont care to tinker, and although it DOES actually provide a pretty decent amount of guts to play with, it has a tendency to dumb people down in the end. I think what you might be looking for, which I'm sure somebody mentioned, is something like Ubuntu. Simple easy to use interface for now, with a powerful back end for later, and he will learn a LOT more on this platform than any other. There are a decent amount of games and such for linux, and with a little help from daddy and WINE most windows games can be played as well. Not to mention that it is free. The hardware that you put this on is more or less irrelevant at this point, as most games for younger kids are not too intense, later down the line if he gets more into more complex gaming you can upgrade. If I could go back to when my son was that age, I would have done the same thing.
They should put this on kick starter or something? I for one would be more than willing to donate to a US based facility. Granted its would prob only provide a small portion of their funding but would at least show the government that the people are more interested in furthering our understanding of science than we are in killing terrorists and spying on our own citizens. Just sayin.
Same here. build a 1055T rig with 16gb of ram, on a vertex 3 SSD for under $1000 bucks about a year ago, with a Radeon 7950 it plows through every single game I have thrown at it in pretty much max resolution with all the goodies turned on. I have yet to see a reason to "upgrade" to an i7 yet. And probably wont even bother until this thing dies.
This doesn't really sound like a good thing. I understand the desire to want to regulate unproven stem cell therapies. However, if history has shown us anything it is not regulation that they seek, but to stifle the industry entirely. Likely so the large pharma stock holders can hold on to their dividends. Maybe I am understanding this wrong? Anybody with more understanding of the matter, feel free to enlighten me.
Agreed. 2012 total military spending: $1.030–$1.415 trillion! Just a small fraction of that reallocated to research for something that would benefit all of humanity would make a HUGE difference. Hell while they're at it they should toss a couple billion towards this countries waning educational system.
Totally off topic, but I was just reading that article about Michael Crichton... I found it strangely amusing that Crowley found it "worse" that he might be branded as a pharma profiteer, rather than a child rapist. O_o
All of those things are at features or at least possible to do in windows 7 currently, so why upgrade? I would like to see REAL reasons! New file system? Better security model? Whatever. Otherwise its completely pointless. Regarding the simple UI model, well obviously that's a model of perspective. It wouldn't be difficult to develop an app that would look exactly the same on any existing system. In my opinion, its the Metro UI not the OS itself that is going to prevent enterprises from adopting w8. Sure it makes sense with a touch screen but the fact of the matter is, it is not efficient with a mouse and keyboard, even the desktop view is crippled. Like the author said, give the user the choice, and stop trying to force this metro UI garbage down every bodies throat. UI design is NOT a once size fits all endeavor!
I like how everybody likes to blame their problems on "weak design" on the part of the developers. That may very well be true, but who is to say what is weak design and what isn't? As a developer, I often find that when beginning a project that has some characteristics that I have never worked with before, that it is almost impossible to find solid established information as to what actually is "strong design." And by that I mean good patterns and practices for a specific applications that really aren't very common. Sure there are a few good basic/general practices to adhere to, but for the most part its each coder for their own. So I wonder, what the hell the FDA things they are going to contribute to a world of code that they likely cant even comprehend? You can sit on the outside and say something like; I require 6 9's of up time, and such and such SLA, and this square brick fits into this hole; but what is done to make that happen will vary infinitely behind the scenes.
If they really want to improve the stability and reliability of the code that supports these systems the need to open up the architecture to the entire community instead of keeping everything closed off for patent reasons or whatever. Obviously the companies that make this stuff are more concerned about their profit margin than they are about the safety of the patients that their equipment is treating. That's my opinion on the matter at least.
Religion is belief,and as such nothing more than the opinion of the believer, and we all know what they say about opinions. You cannot legislate, dictate or control the moral compass of mankind. They can sit around and talk about it all day, but they will never get any further than where they started. As the previous poster mentioned however, I do find it rather ironic that the convention was sponsored by a software company, clearly in an attempt to promote their product. I guess money is a bigger motivator than morality.
I was able to convince my cable company to provide me with the highest plan they had at a discounted rate, after going through similar annoyances is with getting far less than I paid for. I told them I wanted to remain their customer, but I had alternative providers that I could have gone to and was willing to pay for the fastest plan they had otherwise. I guess there's something to be said for having competition in an area vying for your business.
I have been doing this for quite some time now with my Android tablet, my phone as well. Why is it that whenever people write stupid articles like this they act like the iPad is some how leading the charge?? The only thing the iPad really has going for it is market share, otherwise this is nothing new.
I have found this generally to be the case. Although I have gotten a few tools into production use this way, but its rare at places that don't have other programmers, generally for those reasons. I was however, able to negotiate other things for my services at one job. Namely a few extra paid days off, and a few poss paid lunches. That was payment enough for me! Might have more luck asking for that rather than compensation.
How does having only one child makes my opinion useless, I grew up in a family with three siblings and never did ANY of us randomly eat obviously inedible objects at 6 years old. I realize many kids are much harder to manage than one, but that doesn't make the point any less valid. Take an active role in raising a child (don't just sit a child in front of the TV or somewhere unsupervised), be mindful of what is left laying around, and generally don't be a idiot and I promise you, kids will be a lot less problematic with regards to things like this. Certainly kids will be kids, and you cant control every variable, but they generally have a capacity for learning way beyond what we give them credit for. That said, they only learn what their parents choose to teach them.
The senate and house can come up with all the laws and other bull shit they want. But ultimately it should be up to the people not these bone heads to vote on them. I understand that in 1776 there was a need to have representatives in government due to the lack of speedy communication from constituents. However in this day and age, we have the technology to allow people to vote on all of these issues. There is no longer any need for electoral college, and obviously our senators no longer speak for their districts so there is no longer any need for them to have the power to vote on laws that apply to us. I know this is unlikely to ever happen, but I can dream cant I?
I have a child, he is 12 now. He NEVER had a problem swallowing stupid shit when he was young. At 6 years old he was at least competent enough to know not to swallow anything but food. When he was a bit younger yea sure that might have posed a risk but we were very attentive parents and always kept an eye on him and were very careful about what we left out. Additionally we talked to him constantly and warned him about the risk of such things, and yes believe it or not that does work. Children are smarter than we give them credit for and allow them to be by dumbing everything down for them. Personally, I think that if you have 6 year old still doing that sort of thing you've got more problems than you know. Lets just say the problem extends beyond your child, stupid parents make stupid babies.
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Fact of the matter is, he did something illegal. It's irrelevant whether we agree with him, are on his side, or not, he should expect some punishment for his actions. Although I am somewhat glad the blew the top off of this one because it is at least a start to holding the government accountable for some of their actions. However, I think the espionage and aiding the enemy charges are complete bull shit. It is blatantly clear that was not the intent. That is just some embarrassed politician taking out some deep seeded need for revenge on him to set some kind of example. I'm not trying to defend the guy, but come on, don't let them start making shit up to make it look worse than it was.
Glad to know they are wasting our tax money on their extreme paranoia! 0_o
This is f**king insane, and EXTREMELY poor judgement on the part of our military leaders. So many things could have gone wrong here, not to mention the fact that they are certainly belittling the peoples trust in their own military. You have to wonder if they are just trying to train for overseas urban warfare, or if they are training to put down a revolt against the citizens of this country. Either way, they could have found a better place to do it than the middle of goddamn downtown Miami. Just plan stupid.
Simple solution... Apple gets rights to motorola patents, Googorola gets all its partners and android device manufacturers rights to whatever patents apple thinks they are infringing on and keep suing everyone for. Everybody pays less court and licensing costs, scumbag lawyers lose their biggest clients, consumers get the devices they want, everybody wins.
Now maybe my Molycorp stock will go back up! :D
Additionally... getting him something older and smaller and weaker would, in the future, provide you a lot of opportunity to teach him about building the thing. Upgrading components, and such.
I think what youre looking for is something that has a simple enough interface for him to just putz around and play, but that has the underlying system capable of supporting a great deal of tinkering when the time comes. That said, I would avoid Windows. Although it is great for the average users that want to just get stuff done and dont care to tinker, and although it DOES actually provide a pretty decent amount of guts to play with, it has a tendency to dumb people down in the end. I think what you might be looking for, which I'm sure somebody mentioned, is something like Ubuntu. Simple easy to use interface for now, with a powerful back end for later, and he will learn a LOT more on this platform than any other. There are a decent amount of games and such for linux, and with a little help from daddy and WINE most windows games can be played as well. Not to mention that it is free. The hardware that you put this on is more or less irrelevant at this point, as most games for younger kids are not too intense, later down the line if he gets more into more complex gaming you can upgrade. If I could go back to when my son was that age, I would have done the same thing.
I would say, "hell no you're not putting that shit in my drink!" and chug it really quick!
They should put this on kick starter or something? I for one would be more than willing to donate to a US based facility. Granted its would prob only provide a small portion of their funding but would at least show the government that the people are more interested in furthering our understanding of science than we are in killing terrorists and spying on our own citizens. Just sayin.
Same here. build a 1055T rig with 16gb of ram, on a vertex 3 SSD for under $1000 bucks about a year ago, with a Radeon 7950 it plows through every single game I have thrown at it in pretty much max resolution with all the goodies turned on. I have yet to see a reason to "upgrade" to an i7 yet. And probably wont even bother until this thing dies.
This doesn't really sound like a good thing. I understand the desire to want to regulate unproven stem cell therapies. However, if history has shown us anything it is not regulation that they seek, but to stifle the industry entirely. Likely so the large pharma stock holders can hold on to their dividends. Maybe I am understanding this wrong? Anybody with more understanding of the matter, feel free to enlighten me.
Agreed. 2012 total military spending: $1.030–$1.415 trillion! Just a small fraction of that reallocated to research for something that would benefit all of humanity would make a HUGE difference. Hell while they're at it they should toss a couple billion towards this countries waning educational system.
Totally off topic, but I was just reading that article about Michael Crichton... I found it strangely amusing that Crowley found it "worse" that he might be branded as a pharma profiteer, rather than a child rapist. O_o
So how do they expect people to find the programs they want to pin to the task bar in the first place? Browse through C:\Program Files??
All of those things are at features or at least possible to do in windows 7 currently, so why upgrade? I would like to see REAL reasons! New file system? Better security model? Whatever. Otherwise its completely pointless. Regarding the simple UI model, well obviously that's a model of perspective. It wouldn't be difficult to develop an app that would look exactly the same on any existing system. In my opinion, its the Metro UI not the OS itself that is going to prevent enterprises from adopting w8. Sure it makes sense with a touch screen but the fact of the matter is, it is not efficient with a mouse and keyboard, even the desktop view is crippled. Like the author said, give the user the choice, and stop trying to force this metro UI garbage down every bodies throat. UI design is NOT a once size fits all endeavor!
I like how everybody likes to blame their problems on "weak design" on the part of the developers. That may very well be true, but who is to say what is weak design and what isn't? As a developer, I often find that when beginning a project that has some characteristics that I have never worked with before, that it is almost impossible to find solid established information as to what actually is "strong design." And by that I mean good patterns and practices for a specific applications that really aren't very common. Sure there are a few good basic/general practices to adhere to, but for the most part its each coder for their own. So I wonder, what the hell the FDA things they are going to contribute to a world of code that they likely cant even comprehend? You can sit on the outside and say something like; I require 6 9's of up time, and such and such SLA, and this square brick fits into this hole; but what is done to make that happen will vary infinitely behind the scenes.
If they really want to improve the stability and reliability of the code that supports these systems the need to open up the architecture to the entire community instead of keeping everything closed off for patent reasons or whatever. Obviously the companies that make this stuff are more concerned about their profit margin than they are about the safety of the patients that their equipment is treating. That's my opinion on the matter at least.
Religion is belief,and as such nothing more than the opinion of the believer, and we all know what they say about opinions. You cannot legislate, dictate or control the moral compass of mankind. They can sit around and talk about it all day, but they will never get any further than where they started. As the previous poster mentioned however, I do find it rather ironic that the convention was sponsored by a software company, clearly in an attempt to promote their product. I guess money is a bigger motivator than morality.
I was able to convince my cable company to provide me with the highest plan they had at a discounted rate, after going through similar annoyances is with getting far less than I paid for. I told them I wanted to remain their customer, but I had alternative providers that I could have gone to and was willing to pay for the fastest plan they had otherwise. I guess there's something to be said for having competition in an area vying for your business.
Sounds to me like some nut job teacher pushing their political agenda on their students.
My sentiments exactly. Well said.
I have been doing this for quite some time now with my Android tablet, my phone as well. Why is it that whenever people write stupid articles like this they act like the iPad is some how leading the charge?? The only thing the iPad really has going for it is market share, otherwise this is nothing new.
I have found this generally to be the case. Although I have gotten a few tools into production use this way, but its rare at places that don't have other programmers, generally for those reasons. I was however, able to negotiate other things for my services at one job. Namely a few extra paid days off, and a few poss paid lunches. That was payment enough for me! Might have more luck asking for that rather than compensation.
How does having only one child makes my opinion useless, I grew up in a family with three siblings and never did ANY of us randomly eat obviously inedible objects at 6 years old. I realize many kids are much harder to manage than one, but that doesn't make the point any less valid. Take an active role in raising a child (don't just sit a child in front of the TV or somewhere unsupervised), be mindful of what is left laying around, and generally don't be a idiot and I promise you, kids will be a lot less problematic with regards to things like this. Certainly kids will be kids, and you cant control every variable, but they generally have a capacity for learning way beyond what we give them credit for. That said, they only learn what their parents choose to teach them.
The senate and house can come up with all the laws and other bull shit they want. But ultimately it should be up to the people not these bone heads to vote on them. I understand that in 1776 there was a need to have representatives in government due to the lack of speedy communication from constituents. However in this day and age, we have the technology to allow people to vote on all of these issues. There is no longer any need for electoral college, and obviously our senators no longer speak for their districts so there is no longer any need for them to have the power to vote on laws that apply to us. I know this is unlikely to ever happen, but I can dream cant I?
I have a child, he is 12 now. He NEVER had a problem swallowing stupid shit when he was young. At 6 years old he was at least competent enough to know not to swallow anything but food. When he was a bit younger yea sure that might have posed a risk but we were very attentive parents and always kept an eye on him and were very careful about what we left out. Additionally we talked to him constantly and warned him about the risk of such things, and yes believe it or not that does work. Children are smarter than we give them credit for and allow them to be by dumbing everything down for them. Personally, I think that if you have 6 year old still doing that sort of thing you've got more problems than you know. Lets just say the problem extends beyond your child, stupid parents make stupid babies.