BS. His job is to learn. There's an incredible amount of stuff that's vital for a kid to learn. Some things are learned by playing (e.g. using your imagination, behaving in social contexts etc), other things are learned by working (e.g. if you put in work, you get paid). Not making your child do any work is a great disservice. Of course, making your child do too much work or work under bad conditions is just plain cruel. But in the end, working is something that has to be learned, and it's an essential thing to learn -- whether it be "wage work" or "entrepreneurial work".
Mod parent up! Immediate feedback v. important, and probably to blame for the success of the early home computers: You turned on the computer, and youo could immediately go "circle 10, 10, 10" and have a pretty circle. From there comes wanting to make more, then making it easier, at which point control structures, variables etc come in. If you have to learn to use and editor and a compiler and a graphics library and so on just to get your first results, it will look cumbersome. Unfortunately, there are few places to go for that. My best shot would probably be Javascript with an appropriate web page that includes basic graphics stuff, then just use the FireBug console.
No shit. I took a minor in math, really loved and grokked things, up to a certain level. Beyond that I suddenly have no fscking clue what they're even talking about. When looking at similar levels of, say, biology, I at least have a faint idea of what it's about. High-level math is weird.
No, I send them when I need to. They still take time to write, but in-country the cost is definitely not the concern. Out-of-country, however, is typically about 50 cents!
Why would you want a SSD vendor to know anything about hard disks? Do you care whether your car salesman knows anything about boats?
Comparing SCSI to handheld devices is like comparing apples and handgrenades. Guy at my former workplace did extensive testing of high-performance (RAID, 15K, SCSI) HD vs. SSDs on Lucene searches and found speedups of a factor 2-5. That's where the SSDs really shine right now, and it's an area where there's a lot of focus on energy.
I *am* rather shocked at the high idle power usage. That needs some fixin'.
Agreed. The system for international calls and texting here in.dk is that you can only be charged if you have the option to refuse. Thus you can never be charged extra for receiving SMSes, since you can't avoid receiving them. If you can know that something is an international call (i.e. you're in another country or someone with a different country code is calling you) you can be charged extra. But if a.dk phone in.uk calls my.dk phone, only the caller gets the extra charge.
Already back in 2000, Xerox PARC had a modular robot prototype that could reconfigure itself into various shapes, like a wheel, a spider, or indeed a snake for narrow places. It was wicked cool, and as usual Xerox has failed to profit from it.
Apart from the sample size being way too low to say anything this broad, there's also other factors that haven't been taken into account, such as that it takes a special kind of woman to make it into such a male-dominated field, which may reflect on how well they do their job.
What I've noticed is a tendency I've seen for female programmers to be assigned "soft" tasks like documenting and translating. I've seen that in two very different workplaces, I get the (gut) feeling that it's in an attempt to "protect" the women. Stupid. That's exactly what doesn't get more women into programming.
I've seen all genders write obfuscated code--but it worked. Please describe what other genders than male and female you've seen writing obfuscated code. I'm most curious now.
As a long-time Linux user, I appreciate being able to tweak, but over time I've also come to like things that "just work". I've spent so much time tweaking window managers, for instance, fortunately the defaults on current window managers are very close to what I want.
The interface on the iPhone is really delicious, more so than I've *ever* seen on anything open-source. It's all well and good to be able to tweak things, but on a small gadget, a well-thought-out interface can make the difference between another piece of uselessness and something that's helpful in your everyday life.
No, I'm not happy about the closedness either, and I'm starting to get worried about how Apple uses proprietary things all over, but for a "secondary" computer, it's a price I'm willing to pay.
Not clear, see http://ispcolumn.isoc.org/2002-01/Uncommon.html - but if they don't have CC statys, then we can certainly sue the for, say, spam being sent across their networks. And the CAN-SPAM act has shown to give significant fines to spammers, consider how many spams are carried by the average ISP...
Then solution is easy: Have the RIAA/MPAA/anybody else slap them with a billion dollar lawsuit for not filtering out pirated/obscene/hate/terrorist/etc content. So far, they have been able to claim "common carrier" protection. If they can do DPI, they are liable for *anything* that gets transmitted over teh internetz.
Standard CF bulbs are being marketed as using 20% of the energy of normal bulbs. Is it really worth it to throw $20M at those 3 percentage-points? The article doesn't say anything about other requirements, such as price, durability, quality of light, etc (not that incandescent light is "good" by any stretch).
Actually, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors should have declared that copyright 'substantially interferes with the interest of the public in the quality of life and community peace, lawful commerce in the county, property values, and is detrimental to the public health, safety, and welfare of the county's citizens, its businesses and its visitors.'
It's kinda like the game that John Stewart made up recently: Take any prediction that Bush makes about what happens if we fail in Iraq, and it'll be exactly what is happening right now. It's like he has a magical way to predict the present!:) And what the RIAA etc says are the dangers of copyright infringement are pretty much what copyright is doing today.
What I was hoping for was some improvements in making use of the characteristics of SSDs. But maybe that'd have to be an entirely new filesystem that is not designed with seek time as a generic assumption. Any takers?
-Lars
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BS. His job is to learn. There's an incredible amount of stuff that's vital for a kid to learn. Some things are learned by playing (e.g. using your imagination, behaving in social contexts etc), other things are learned by working (e.g. if you put in work, you get paid). Not making your child do any work is a great disservice. Of course, making your child do too much work or work under bad conditions is just plain cruel. But in the end, working is something that has to be learned, and it's an essential thing to learn -- whether it be "wage work" or "entrepreneurial work".
-Lars
Mod parent up! Immediate feedback v. important, and probably to blame for the success of the early home computers: You turned on the computer, and youo could immediately go "circle 10, 10, 10" and have a pretty circle. From there comes wanting to make more, then making it easier, at which point control structures, variables etc come in. If you have to learn to use and editor and a compiler and a graphics library and so on just to get your first results, it will look cumbersome. Unfortunately, there are few places to go for that. My best shot would probably be Javascript with an appropriate web page that includes basic graphics stuff, then just use the FireBug console.
No shit. I took a minor in math, really loved and grokked things, up to a certain level. Beyond that I suddenly have no fscking clue what they're even talking about. When looking at similar levels of, say, biology, I at least have a faint idea of what it's about. High-level math is weird.
No, I send them when I need to. They still take time to write, but in-country the cost is definitely not the concern. Out-of-country, however, is typically about 50 cents!
-Lars
Why would you want a SSD vendor to know anything about hard disks? Do you care whether your car salesman knows anything about boats?
Comparing SCSI to handheld devices is like comparing apples and handgrenades. Guy at my former workplace did extensive testing of high-performance (RAID, 15K, SCSI) HD vs. SSDs on Lucene searches and found speedups of a factor 2-5. That's where the SSDs really shine right now, and it's an area where there's a lot of focus on energy.
I *am* rather shocked at the high idle power usage. That needs some fixin'.
ITYM $0.12. Dude, that's more than twice what it costs in .dk.
Agreed. The system for international calls and texting here in .dk is that you can only be charged if you have the option to refuse. Thus you can never be charged extra for receiving SMSes, since you can't avoid receiving them. If you can know that something is an international call (i.e. you're in another country or someone with a different country code is calling you) you can be charged extra. But if a .dk phone in .uk calls my .dk phone, only the caller gets the extra charge.
-Lars
Texting prices in .dk: ~5 cents and falling. Yay free market economy! The US should try it one day.
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Already back in 2000, Xerox PARC had a modular robot prototype that could reconfigure itself into various shapes, like a wheel, a spider, or indeed a snake for narrow places. It was wicked cool, and as usual Xerox has failed to profit from it.
-Lars
Apart from the sample size being way too low to say anything this broad, there's also other factors that haven't been taken into account, such as that it takes a special kind of woman to make it into such a male-dominated field, which may reflect on how well they do their job.
What I've noticed is a tendency I've seen for female programmers to be assigned "soft" tasks like documenting and translating. I've seen that in two very different workplaces, I get the (gut) feeling that it's in an attempt to "protect" the women. Stupid. That's exactly what doesn't get more women into programming.
-Lars
As a long-time Linux user, I appreciate being able to tweak, but over time I've also come to like things that "just work". I've spent so much time tweaking window managers, for instance, fortunately the defaults on current window managers are very close to what I want.
The interface on the iPhone is really delicious, more so than I've *ever* seen on anything open-source. It's all well and good to be able to tweak things, but on a small gadget, a well-thought-out interface can make the difference between another piece of uselessness and something that's helpful in your everyday life.
No, I'm not happy about the closedness either, and I'm starting to get worried about how Apple uses proprietary things all over, but for a "secondary" computer, it's a price I'm willing to pay.
-Lars
All I want for my iPhone is enough disk space to do its regular stuff and have Wikipedia at the same time. Then it's the perfect gadget.
-Lars
Not clear, see http://ispcolumn.isoc.org/2002-01/Uncommon.html - but if they don't have CC statys, then we can certainly sue the for, say, spam being sent across their networks. And the CAN-SPAM act has shown to give significant fines to spammers, consider how many spams are carried by the average ISP...
-Lars
Then solution is easy: Have the RIAA/MPAA/anybody else slap them with a billion dollar lawsuit for not filtering out pirated/obscene/hate/terrorist/etc content. So far, they have been able to claim "common carrier" protection. If they can do DPI, they are liable for *anything* that gets transmitted over teh internetz.
-Lars
Standard CF bulbs are being marketed as using 20% of the energy of normal bulbs. Is it really worth it to throw $20M at those 3 percentage-points? The article doesn't say anything about other requirements, such as price, durability, quality of light, etc (not that incandescent light is "good" by any stretch).
Check out dealextreme.com, they have them available. No, not down to CF prices yet, but significantly more efficient.
"manufacture" == "copy"
"sell" == "make available" (for ad money or for getting other works)
They got you.
Actually, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors should have declared that copyright 'substantially interferes with the interest of the public in the quality of life and community peace, lawful commerce in the county, property values, and is detrimental to the public health, safety, and welfare of the county's citizens, its businesses and its visitors.'
:) And what the RIAA etc says are the dangers of copyright infringement are pretty much what copyright is doing today.
It's kinda like the game that John Stewart made up recently: Take any prediction that Bush makes about what happens if we fail in Iraq, and it'll be exactly what is happening right now. It's like he has a magical way to predict the present!
-Lars
What I was hoping for was some improvements in making use of the characteristics of SSDs. But maybe that'd have to be an entirely new filesystem that is not designed with seek time as a generic assumption. Any takers? -Lars