Oh, aye, sleep in the same room; the sounds of your breathing will often help them sleep longer, anyway. But not in the same bed. That way lies madness.
As a follow to number 1, grok the fullness of the fact that you've a 33 percent chance, simply by being pregnant, of miscarrying, and a miscarriage is generally a *good thing,* as there was a wrongness. You can always try again in a month or two.
Never EVER tiptoe around a sleeping baby. Make normal noise. It will LEARN to sleep THROUGH it. If, however, it is used to having it's sleeping environs quiet as a tomb, it will require it.
Never EVER use 'baby talk.' Do not allow anybody else to babble at your baby like idiots. Your baby will learn what it hears; if you want it to speak, speak to it. If you want it to babble, babble to it. Similarly, read to it.
Reader Rabbit will be your friend. Starts, if I recall, one step below Toddler, with a big-ass track ball, and goes from there.
When you make a bottle, put in some ovol. shake it slightly. Let it get rid of the bubbles. All the tiny little bubbles. Your ears will thank you.
Music-aware screensavers and visualizers are your friend. More accurately, they are your baby's friend. Subwoofers are good, too, for floorbound babies.
If possible, have a friend bring over a two year old kid for a few hours. You will find most of what needs to be babyproofed during that time.
Get rid of pets. This is personal preference, but this is also my personal opinion. When the kid's three, or five, or so, great. But not now.
Learn to enjoy the smell of slightly sour milk and stomach juices now.
Lay down the law with relatives; if you don't want something happening to your kid, or if you have a preferred discipline method, well, it's your kid.
Don't allow smoking anywhere in the house or premises. Period.
If at ALL possible, do NOT give the kid a pacifier. Ever. A couple of hours of peace now is NOT worth it when, at a year old, the kid is SO bloody pacifier-addicted, that if it falls out of the kid's face whilst it's sleeping, the kid is INSTANTLY on it's feet wailing for you to come put it back in, whereupon it INSTANTLY is lying down, sleeping again. It's creepy to see them do it without transition, by the way.
The golden rule: crying has never killed a baby. Sometimes, the kid just wants to cry, so let it. You do NOT always need to go crazy trying to make it laugh; babies need to cry sometimes, for various reasons. You'll learn quickly enough the various noises, and which are ignorable.
Try to avoid becoming a baby taxi; the kid's legs, presumably, aren't painted on. Again, kids are creatures of habit. Promote the good ones, and don't let the bad ones form.
In the same vein, never EVER put the kid to sleep. Get the kid nice and sleepy, then put it down. It'll take a bit, but never EVER let the kid learn that sleep requires feeding, or a favourite video, or something. A ritual, yes, once it's older; bath, jammies, story, teddy, blanket, and night night. But if you nurse the kid to sleep, you'll be doing it for 2 years, minimum, and that sucks for you, and for them.
Similarly, don't let the kid sleep with you, if you can at all avoid it. It's more than capable of sleeping by itself, and you and wifey will be much happier not being booted or rustled out of sleep every ten minutes.
Sex. Have it. (But not with the kid.)
And whatever you do, don't knock your wife back up. Trust me, I speak from experience.
In other words, this is so that local people can put together films and have them shown by bringing them on CD, rather than striking a print; imagine seeing some of your favourites from ifilm.com, for example, on the (relatively) big screen.
Faugh. What's more scary; being under cover but not really being in danger of being hit, or not hearing a single shot, getting up, charging your opponent, and suddenly falling over with a smoking hole in your chest?
For those who have forgotten, or wern't around, he was found legally innocent, in criminal court, of the murder of his wife. He was then found guilty, or responsible, I believe the word was used, in *civil* court.
If they want you badly enough, they'll get you. Ask Kevin Mitnick; nice end run around due process there, eh?
Doesn't pretty much every ISP include, in their terms of service, a disclaimer that they take no responsibility in any way for any data travelling over their network?
That could easily be interpreted as giving up their rights to deny permission, as it's not their permission to give, after they state that.
As soon as you have the concept of 'the self,' you have the concept of 'the other.'
Once you have the concept of 'this versus that,' you develop the concept of comparison.
Once you have comparison, you derive the concepts of 'better than' and 'worse than.'
Once you have those concepts, well, it's a pretty short hop to thowing away the yucky stuff.
The other problem here is that even if they're sentient, they aren't going to think the same way we do. Our motivations won't make sense to them, and theirs won't make sense to us.
If I was running a five year old copy of Sendmail, and asked for a patch for the latest Sendmail bug, the overwhelming (and flaming hot) response from the/. and Linux community would be 'upgrade to the current version of sendmail.'
Actually, it would be more like a serial killer teaching a course on how serial killers work.
Folks, if ANYBODY has something useful to say on easy-to-avoid mistakes, it's Microsoft. The best experience, after all, is hard won...and it is good to learn from your mistakes, but better to learn from somebody else's.
Oh, aye, but TNG was pretty good about bringing the moral ambiguity into the whole thing; such as the suddenly-sentient exocomps; who 'owns' Data (complete with a court case!) or if it's justifiable to release a disease that will slaughter the Borg wholesale.
Or the one where Worf gets his spine broken; a) does he have the right to kill himself? b) What about the crazy doctor with the experimental regen-a-spineomatic machine?
Voyager, of course, went back to the 'black and white' with good old 'Blood and Guts' Janeway. And tanked miserably until Ms. Ryan lowered herself. But did you ever notice that the really really well done episodes, where the acting was stellar, was either her, the Doctor, or both? The one where he's uploaded into her...or the sentient missile...or the one where they take some convicts on board, and one of them gets beaten, so they nanoprobe him, and the nanoprobes fix the brain problems that made him a violent sociopath...that episode is easily my favourite Voyager one. Ever. "No. Give it (bowl of dinner) to him."
Terrorism is what you call it when it's happening to you. Otherwise, it's 'irregular warfare,' or 'guerilla actions,' or 'focused strikes against enemy infrastructure,' or 'agitprop' or any number of interesting things.
In this case, we can go from the 'good' scenario; other arab nations see how happy and propsperous Iraq suddenly becomes when they're a bunch of self-governing capitalists, and the whole area slowly starts to migrate to a happier state of coexistance, or the 'worst' case scenario; America says 'Ok, here's your constitution, your gov't, and your free elections are done. Good luck and good day,' and tips their hats to the, say, Iranian army 'on exercises' right at the border, with a whole lot of nice, happy ground-occupying infantry.
Time will tell, and I think, personally, the only problem with America going into Iraq is that it should have happened ten years ago; if you tell somebody 'don't do that, or I'll spank you,' well, you better spank them pretty damn quick if they do that.
Changing borders and soverengity is very rarely a good idea; keeping Iraq intact and installing a more friendly gov't is result in good times for all, over time.
And, yes, many people can quote countries over the last little why where the States has gone in and nothing's changed; I can quote some that have, and the change has been for the better; Germany and Japan come to mind.
For an idea of what's going to happen, in this region, if borders start changing, take a look at Israel. The only thing keeping them alive is 3 billion dollars US per year, nukes, and a world guilt trip (which is, in and of itself, rather odd, concidering that Japan was doing much the same to China several years before 1939, and killed more Chinese than Hitler ever killed Jews.)
Oh, and colossal stupidity on the part of the Arabs; I've seen several separate and distinct sources all independantly come to the same conclusion; if Palestinians pulled a mass nonviolent sit-in; as was done in India and the US, to name a few, they'd have their own homeland within a year. But no, it's more fun to keep the bloodshed going.
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Well, the 2000 edition of American Heritage dictionary, fourth edition, explicity lists it as a transitive verb.
It's been used since the sixties, or so, I think.
Oh, aye, sleep in the same room; the sounds of your breathing will often help them sleep longer, anyway. But not in the same bed. That way lies madness.
As a follow to number 1, grok the fullness of the fact that you've a 33 percent chance, simply by being pregnant, of miscarrying, and a miscarriage is generally a *good thing,* as there was a wrongness. You can always try again in a month or two.
Oh yeah.
Never EVER tiptoe around a sleeping baby. Make normal noise. It will LEARN to sleep THROUGH it. If, however, it is used to having it's sleeping environs quiet as a tomb, it will require it.
Never EVER use 'baby talk.' Do not allow anybody else to babble at your baby like idiots. Your baby will learn what it hears; if you want it to speak, speak to it. If you want it to babble, babble to it. Similarly, read to it.
Reader Rabbit will be your friend. Starts, if I recall, one step below Toddler, with a big-ass track ball, and goes from there.
Ovol is the One True Substance.
When you make a bottle, put in some ovol. shake it slightly. Let it get rid of the bubbles. All the tiny little bubbles. Your ears will thank you.
Music-aware screensavers and visualizers are your friend. More accurately, they are your baby's friend. Subwoofers are good, too, for floorbound babies.
If possible, have a friend bring over a two year old kid for a few hours. You will find most of what needs to be babyproofed during that time.
Get rid of pets. This is personal preference, but this is also my personal opinion. When the kid's three, or five, or so, great. But not now.
Learn to enjoy the smell of slightly sour milk and stomach juices now.
Lay down the law with relatives; if you don't want something happening to your kid, or if you have a preferred discipline method, well, it's your kid.
Don't allow smoking anywhere in the house or premises. Period.
If at ALL possible, do NOT give the kid a pacifier. Ever. A couple of hours of peace now is NOT worth it when, at a year old, the kid is SO bloody pacifier-addicted, that if it falls out of the kid's face whilst it's sleeping, the kid is INSTANTLY on it's feet wailing for you to come put it back in, whereupon it INSTANTLY is lying down, sleeping again. It's creepy to see them do it without transition, by the way.
The golden rule: crying has never killed a baby. Sometimes, the kid just wants to cry, so let it. You do NOT always need to go crazy trying to make it laugh; babies need to cry sometimes, for various reasons. You'll learn quickly enough the various noises, and which are ignorable.
Try to avoid becoming a baby taxi; the kid's legs, presumably, aren't painted on. Again, kids are creatures of habit. Promote the good ones, and don't let the bad ones form.
In the same vein, never EVER put the kid to sleep. Get the kid nice and sleepy, then put it down. It'll take a bit, but never EVER let the kid learn that sleep requires feeding, or a favourite video, or something. A ritual, yes, once it's older; bath, jammies, story, teddy, blanket, and night night. But if you nurse the kid to sleep, you'll be doing it for 2 years, minimum, and that sucks for you, and for them.
Similarly, don't let the kid sleep with you, if you can at all avoid it. It's more than capable of sleeping by itself, and you and wifey will be much happier not being booted or rustled out of sleep every ten minutes.
Sex. Have it. (But not with the kid.)
And whatever you do, don't knock your wife back up. Trust me, I speak from experience.
Perhaps, but it also means that when you're running the accounts batch at night, NOBODY LOOK AT THE COMPUTER! You might change the balances....
That's not having an atomically precise clock; that's using an atomically precise clock to automatically adjust your not-so-precise clock.
Spoken at a microphone.
Maybe it is, for the sort of people who, at the moment, would be looking for Linux information on MSN.
Christ, that puts it in perspective.
In other words, this is so that local people can put together films and have them shown by bringing them on CD, rather than striking a print; imagine seeing some of your favourites from ifilm.com, for example, on the (relatively) big screen.
That just means they were overly compressed.
Big difference between 'photographers' and 'newspaper photographers.'
Faugh. What's more scary; being under cover but not really being in danger of being hit, or not hearing a single shot, getting up, charging your opponent, and suddenly falling over with a smoking hole in your chest?
Tell that to OJ Simpson.
For those who have forgotten, or wern't around, he was found legally innocent, in criminal court, of the murder of his wife. He was then found guilty, or responsible, I believe the word was used, in *civil* court.
If they want you badly enough, they'll get you. Ask Kevin Mitnick; nice end run around due process there, eh?
I think a good name for a speed metal band would be 'Bio Mechanical Innards.'
Doesn't pretty much every ISP include, in their terms of service, a disclaimer that they take no responsibility in any way for any data travelling over their network?
That could easily be interpreted as giving up their rights to deny permission, as it's not their permission to give, after they state that.
As soon as you have the concept of 'the self,' you have the concept of 'the other.'
Once you have the concept of 'this versus that,' you develop the concept of comparison.
Once you have comparison, you derive the concepts of 'better than' and 'worse than.'
Once you have those concepts, well, it's a pretty short hop to thowing away the yucky stuff.
The other problem here is that even if they're sentient, they aren't going to think the same way we do. Our motivations won't make sense to them, and theirs won't make sense to us.
Pretty volitile mix.
If I was running a five year old copy of Sendmail, and asked for a patch for the latest Sendmail bug, the overwhelming (and flaming hot) response from the /. and Linux community would be 'upgrade to the current version of sendmail.'
But if this thing is doing diffs of web pages, that's a big help too.
Slashdot posted a new article? Download that chunk of text, not the entire front page.
Hacker leaks unreleased CERT reports. When asked about it, he had this to say:
Well, the cynical yet honest answer would probably be 'warlords in Rwanda and Yugoslavia can't do bad things to American citizens. Saddam can.'
Actually, it would be more like a serial killer teaching a course on how serial killers work.
Folks, if ANYBODY has something useful to say on easy-to-avoid mistakes, it's Microsoft. The best experience, after all, is hard won...and it is good to learn from your mistakes, but better to learn from somebody else's.
Oh, aye, but TNG was pretty good about bringing the moral ambiguity into the whole thing; such as the suddenly-sentient exocomps; who 'owns' Data (complete with a court case!) or if it's justifiable to release a disease that will slaughter the Borg wholesale.
Or the one where Worf gets his spine broken; a) does he have the right to kill himself? b) What about the crazy doctor with the experimental regen-a-spineomatic machine?
Voyager, of course, went back to the 'black and white' with good old 'Blood and Guts' Janeway. And tanked miserably until Ms. Ryan lowered herself. But did you ever notice that the really really well done episodes, where the acting was stellar, was either her, the Doctor, or both? The one where he's uploaded into her...or the sentient missile...or the one where they take some convicts on board, and one of them gets beaten, so they nanoprobe him, and the nanoprobes fix the brain problems that made him a violent sociopath...that episode is easily my favourite Voyager one. Ever. "No. Give it (bowl of dinner) to him."
Terrorism is what you call it when it's happening to you. Otherwise, it's 'irregular warfare,' or 'guerilla actions,' or 'focused strikes against enemy infrastructure,' or 'agitprop' or any number of interesting things.
In this case, we can go from the 'good' scenario; other arab nations see how happy and propsperous Iraq suddenly becomes when they're a bunch of self-governing capitalists, and the whole area slowly starts to migrate to a happier state of coexistance, or the 'worst' case scenario; America says 'Ok, here's your constitution, your gov't, and your free elections are done. Good luck and good day,' and tips their hats to the, say, Iranian army 'on exercises' right at the border, with a whole lot of nice, happy ground-occupying infantry.
Time will tell, and I think, personally, the only problem with America going into Iraq is that it should have happened ten years ago; if you tell somebody 'don't do that, or I'll spank you,' well, you better spank them pretty damn quick if they do that.
Changing borders and soverengity is very rarely a good idea; keeping Iraq intact and installing a more friendly gov't is result in good times for all, over time.
And, yes, many people can quote countries over the last little why where the States has gone in and nothing's changed; I can quote some that have, and the change has been for the better; Germany and Japan come to mind.
For an idea of what's going to happen, in this region, if borders start changing, take a look at Israel. The only thing keeping them alive is 3 billion dollars US per year, nukes, and a world guilt trip (which is, in and of itself, rather odd, concidering that Japan was doing much the same to China several years before 1939, and killed more Chinese than Hitler ever killed Jews.)
Oh, and colossal stupidity on the part of the Arabs; I've seen several separate and distinct sources all independantly come to the same conclusion; if Palestinians pulled a mass nonviolent sit-in; as was done in India and the US, to name a few, they'd have their own homeland within a year. But no, it's more fun to keep the bloodshed going.