I never had an Anxiety Disorder but I had plenty of anxiety. I was very shy as a kid and I hated talking in front of people. I hated doing it in High School but I did learn things. In college I was getting a science degree and I had to give some type of presentation in nearly every class - you have to demonstrate what you know. After doing it so often, I realized the things that made me scared didn't really matter. Now I've been asked on several occasions to run training classes both for clients and internally in my company. I actually really enjoy standing up in front of people - something the 15-year old me would have never guessed. Had I not been forced to do it, I'm sure I would have chosen not doing it. Confronting and working past those fears is part of the process and allowing kid's fears about it to change policy is a complete disservice to them and their future.
Yeah, but the Single-Player campaign kinda sucks - it may be fun to play for a while but it ends up being a let-down. Everyone knows that Multiplayer is where it's at. Especially if you can find a good team - then it's a whole new game.
I second this, I got this book from my son's Book Fair. It allows him to code actual playable games - he loves it. He's not learning actual CODE per say, but he's learning concepts like loops, conditional statements, etc. Scratch is great!
Code Your Own Games
It would be absolutely hilarious if this went to court, the court ruled it was a private account, and the next day Twitter blocked the account because of too many abusive language flags.
They could say, "It's a private account, the President is still able to post through the @POTUS account."
It'd never happen, but man, it'd be funny if it did.:)
You can also pay a couple bucks and then not watch any commercials on Hulu. Every once in a while, you get a show that isn't part of that plan and it shows a commercial at the beginning and a commercial at the end. So, you sit through 1 commercial, and then stop the video at/after the credits and not watch the second one. If you watch a lot of shows on Hulu, it's definitely worth a couple bucks.
Well, in all fairness, it's super easy to remember when autocorrect f'ed something up. But when it corrects something you didn't noticed you goofed on, but was the word you wanted, you'd never realize it worked.:D
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Comcast wants users to use 8-Track players, and the FCC wants everyone to use cassette tapes! Meanwhile, customers are happily using their MP3 players.
Why is he the "so-called Donald Trump". He may, or may not, be a lot of things. But I think we're all pretty sure that he is, in fact, actually Donald Trump.
I read a long time ago (so, I don't have a source and I don't even know if it's right) that your REM sleep cycles are around 90 minutes long. If you wake up in the middle of a cycle, you're super tired and groggy. If you hit it between cycles, it's fairly easy to wake up. If you vary both the time you go to bed and the time you wake up, you may be able to hit between those cycles. For a while, I had the stride set at going to bed at 10, and naturally waking up about 15-25 minutes before my alarm went off. Then I started reading Game of Thrones again and stay up well past 11 reading. Now I've been barely able to wake up when my alarm goes off. So, the sleep cycle thing at least FEELS like it's true!:D
Companies are loyal to the bottom line, not to you. Don't sacrifice living your life trying to prove yourself trying to be the best employee ever by doing nothing but work. Companies love for you to make extra effort all the time, but if they can make a million dollars by firing you, it doesn't matter how good of an employee you are. Work hard, do your job, but be ready to leave at a moment's notice when something better is around - you REALLY don't owe them anything.
I'm sure he would have understood that. And then he would have gone around telling us, his grandparents, and anyone else that he had to shit. How would you describe the words Fuck, or Bitch?:D
Besides, when he was a little older and more aware of appropriateness, we had a better discussion about which words are appropriate to say in public. It was a much better way to handle it.
Well, I do enjoy watching videos of other people's kids swearing. It can be pretty cute when they violate social norms they're not aware of. But wow, when it's YOUR kid, it becomes much less funny and much more socially embarrassing.
I will believe you on that. I did learn that there's only so many hours of animated trains that you can watch as an adult before your brain starts to melt. I am glad I have excised the knowledge as much as I already have!:)
Well, he does have a point. When my son was two, we did have some very deep philosophical conversations about moral relativism. I'm sure I could have just explained why he shouldn't shout out "SHIT", even though it made people laugh. He totally would have understood.
A few years ago when my son was a toddler, he really loved Thomas the Train. He loved watching Thomas the Train clips from the show, people opening new toy packages, etc. One day I heard curse words coming from the iPhone. I grabbed the phone and it was a video of kids filming their own Thomas show with their toys and they were swearing at each other like sailors. That started the "No YouTube Rule" which has been in effect for several years.:)
Fair enough. I know refined uranium is much, much more radioactive (I would assume mostly because it's nothing but Uranium, so it has a much higher concentration of radioactive particles). I'm assuming exposure to that would be of much greater significance that picking up a piece of uranium ore that has very little actual uranium in it! Of course, we're rapidly arriving at the limit of my knowledge of refined uranium, so I'll be the first to admit I don't know what I'm talking about!:D
You can get some for free if you want to take a trip. Right outside of Moab, UT is an old Uranium Mine. There's a tailings pile nearby and you can pick up a piece of it. It's mostly combined in other rocks and has very little radioactivity. It's not the refined, ultra-pure stuff, 5 minutes of exposure will kill you type; that's what they did with all the other stuff they didn't think was crap.
NOTE: While it's not VERY radioactive is still IS radioactive. Don't plan a long camping trip there, or decide carry a piece of it around in your pocket. Ummm... I guess unless you like having tumors.
The strangest thing is that OS X has file versioning built in regardless of whether you choose to use TimeMachine for backups. Perhaps they don't understand the difference.
I think that 1 of 2 things happened: 1) Apple uses Time Machine in their versioning of iWork or 2) Apple took the same interface from Time Machine and integrated that into their versioning system. If it's number 2, it's easy to see why someone could make that mistake. Either way, iWork kinda blows and the versioning in OSX doesn't work with MS Office. The best you could hope for with Time Machine is to restore an earlier version from a few hours before.
I like the versioning on Sharepoint. It's the best thing about Sharepoint. But, Holy Jesus Christ... Sharepoint sucks to administer. I'm not a dev, but I had to help set-up and run and on-prem site; and unless you've taken a class or gotten certification on it, it fucking sucks to setup and maintain. But man, I do like the versioning! If I only ever had to be a user of a site that someone else administers, then I would forever be OK with that!
Seriously though. You want kids to be interested in circuits? Teach them about logical circuits, then get into Minecraft's creative mode and use Redstone to have them build their own circuits. Show them videos of the crazy, elaborate calculators people build. Have them take that practice, and show them how it applies to real-life. If you can make that connection, you open up the possibility for them to engage in some self-learning when they get home. That's how you'll get them interested.
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I never had an Anxiety Disorder but I had plenty of anxiety. I was very shy as a kid and I hated talking in front of people. I hated doing it in High School but I did learn things. In college I was getting a science degree and I had to give some type of presentation in nearly every class - you have to demonstrate what you know. After doing it so often, I realized the things that made me scared didn't really matter. Now I've been asked on several occasions to run training classes both for clients and internally in my company. I actually really enjoy standing up in front of people - something the 15-year old me would have never guessed. Had I not been forced to do it, I'm sure I would have chosen not doing it. Confronting and working past those fears is part of the process and allowing kid's fears about it to change policy is a complete disservice to them and their future.
Yeah, but the Single-Player campaign kinda sucks - it may be fun to play for a while but it ends up being a let-down. Everyone knows that Multiplayer is where it's at. Especially if you can find a good team - then it's a whole new game.
I second this, I got this book from my son's Book Fair. It allows him to code actual playable games - he loves it. He's not learning actual CODE per say, but he's learning concepts like loops, conditional statements, etc. Scratch is great! Code Your Own Games
It would be absolutely hilarious if this went to court, the court ruled it was a private account, and the next day Twitter blocked the account because of too many abusive language flags. :)
They could say, "It's a private account, the President is still able to post through the @POTUS account."
It'd never happen, but man, it'd be funny if it did.
You can also pay a couple bucks and then not watch any commercials on Hulu. Every once in a while, you get a show that isn't part of that plan and it shows a commercial at the beginning and a commercial at the end. So, you sit through 1 commercial, and then stop the video at/after the credits and not watch the second one. If you watch a lot of shows on Hulu, it's definitely worth a couple bucks.
I believe, "Anonymous Coward" sums up your beliefs quite succinctly.
I'm pretty sure everyone in this thread understands what a joke is... except you.
Well, in all fairness, it's super easy to remember when autocorrect f'ed something up. But when it corrects something you didn't noticed you goofed on, but was the word you wanted, you'd never realize it worked. :D
This just in: Comcast wants users to use 8-Track players, and the FCC wants everyone to use cassette tapes! Meanwhile, customers are happily using their MP3 players.
I'm not your guy, buddy!
I'm not your buddy, pal.
If only I had mod points! :D
Why is he the "so-called Donald Trump". He may, or may not, be a lot of things. But I think we're all pretty sure that he is, in fact, actually Donald Trump.
I read a long time ago (so, I don't have a source and I don't even know if it's right) that your REM sleep cycles are around 90 minutes long. If you wake up in the middle of a cycle, you're super tired and groggy. If you hit it between cycles, it's fairly easy to wake up. If you vary both the time you go to bed and the time you wake up, you may be able to hit between those cycles. For a while, I had the stride set at going to bed at 10, and naturally waking up about 15-25 minutes before my alarm went off. Then I started reading Game of Thrones again and stay up well past 11 reading. Now I've been barely able to wake up when my alarm goes off. So, the sleep cycle thing at least FEELS like it's true! :D
Companies are loyal to the bottom line, not to you. Don't sacrifice living your life trying to prove yourself trying to be the best employee ever by doing nothing but work. Companies love for you to make extra effort all the time, but if they can make a million dollars by firing you, it doesn't matter how good of an employee you are. Work hard, do your job, but be ready to leave at a moment's notice when something better is around - you REALLY don't owe them anything.
Besides, when he was a little older and more aware of appropriateness, we had a better discussion about which words are appropriate to say in public. It was a much better way to handle it.
Well, I do enjoy watching videos of other people's kids swearing. It can be pretty cute when they violate social norms they're not aware of. But wow, when it's YOUR kid, it becomes much less funny and much more socially embarrassing.
I will believe you on that. I did learn that there's only so many hours of animated trains that you can watch as an adult before your brain starts to melt. I am glad I have excised the knowledge as much as I already have! :)
Well, he does have a point. When my son was two, we did have some very deep philosophical conversations about moral relativism. I'm sure I could have just explained why he shouldn't shout out "SHIT", even though it made people laugh. He totally would have understood.
A few years ago when my son was a toddler, he really loved Thomas the Train. He loved watching Thomas the Train clips from the show, people opening new toy packages, etc. One day I heard curse words coming from the iPhone. I grabbed the phone and it was a video of kids filming their own Thomas show with their toys and they were swearing at each other like sailors. That started the "No YouTube Rule" which has been in effect for several years. :)
Fair enough. I know refined uranium is much, much more radioactive (I would assume mostly because it's nothing but Uranium, so it has a much higher concentration of radioactive particles). I'm assuming exposure to that would be of much greater significance that picking up a piece of uranium ore that has very little actual uranium in it! Of course, we're rapidly arriving at the limit of my knowledge of refined uranium, so I'll be the first to admit I don't know what I'm talking about! :D
NOTE: While it's not VERY radioactive is still IS radioactive. Don't plan a long camping trip there, or decide carry a piece of it around in your pocket. Ummm... I guess unless you like having tumors.
The strangest thing is that OS X has file versioning built in regardless of whether you choose to use TimeMachine for backups. Perhaps they don't understand the difference.
I think that 1 of 2 things happened: 1) Apple uses Time Machine in their versioning of iWork or 2) Apple took the same interface from Time Machine and integrated that into their versioning system. If it's number 2, it's easy to see why someone could make that mistake. Either way, iWork kinda blows and the versioning in OSX doesn't work with MS Office. The best you could hope for with Time Machine is to restore an earlier version from a few hours before.
I like the versioning on Sharepoint. It's the best thing about Sharepoint. But, Holy Jesus Christ... Sharepoint sucks to administer. I'm not a dev, but I had to help set-up and run and on-prem site; and unless you've taken a class or gotten certification on it, it fucking sucks to setup and maintain. But man, I do like the versioning! If I only ever had to be a user of a site that someone else administers, then I would forever be OK with that!
Seriously though. You want kids to be interested in circuits? Teach them about logical circuits, then get into Minecraft's creative mode and use Redstone to have them build their own circuits. Show them videos of the crazy, elaborate calculators people build. Have them take that practice, and show them how it applies to real-life. If you can make that connection, you open up the possibility for them to engage in some self-learning when they get home. That's how you'll get them interested.