There was a time when people used to sit around on the porch, in the living room (hence the term "living" room), the kitchen table, etc, and actually talk to each other deeply. I think we humans need that kind of thing. For some reason, that does not happen much in our modern culture. A lot of blogs are kind of an unconscious outreach for that kind of thing, I think. We used to freely give each other therapy on a daily basis - now you have to pay for it and it's seen as a sign of weakness. Blogs offer a sort of new and hip way around that cultural barrier. It is still no substitute for real, honest, caring human interaction - but sometimes it might be all that's available.
Of course I have no actual evidence for this. But that's cuz I'm dumber now than I was yesterday when I'm sure I had the proof bookmarked someplace. It keeps getting worse, too. By this time next week I'll probably forget how to form sentences and have to google each word in order to build up my thoughts. That'll probably suck. Of course since I'll be dumber I won't notice anyway.
Depending on the circumstances, something like an iBook might even work fine. I know of at least one iBook that survived a tour in Iraq recently. From what I hear, it had some battle scars, but still worked fine when he got back.
I presently am in a job situation that allows me to basically work whenever and however long I want assuming the job gets done. I frequently find myself working around 6 hours per day on average and I find I much prefer it over the usual 8 hour per day thing. After about 6 hours I'm just not productive anymore. So I leave. Since I'm paid by the hour, this actually saves the company money, too.
This is basically off topic, but I've been wondering what sorts of things the great firewall of China actually blocks. Does it blocks SSH tunnels? What about new protocols (like an experimental P2P app or tunneling proxy)? How about well-known circumvention tools such as Tor or Freenet? Just curious to hear from anyone who might have lived or is living behind the wall.
"Saying that these people should "just" move on is uncaring, mean, and stupid"
Huh? No one is being uncaring. The fact is that it's stupid to blatantly repeat your past mistakes. Most anything that held any sort of emotional attachment is gone, the people have already been forced to move out, the who delta has been dying, the city was sinking anyway, etc. Now is the perfect time to fix things by relocating the city and starting over and that's not an uncaring statement or making little of the situation in any way.
I've thought about trying to enter this world for a long time, but I frequently run up against two problems:
1) lack of long term attention span
2) artistic ability
The closest I've ever come to a functional game is demonstrated by the stunningly cutting edge and innovative game, PigShooter. (I use the worlds "stunningly", "cutting edge", "innovative", and "game" somewhat loosely...)
I had never heard anything about this, but dang, those are some nice looking special effects! It's hard to tell if the acting is decent or not due to the language barrier, but it seems like a fun movie anyway. I might have to order it...
It seems like ever since I switched to Tiger my PB has been much more prone to long swapping sessions like I've seen Windows boxes do. Plus, moving large files around seems far slower. I have 1GB Ram and 1.67Ghz processor and the system feels quite slow compared to Panther at times. It is very frustrating to say the least. I upgraded from a 1Ghz TiBook which ran Panther and it feels like I downgraded a lot of the time. Anyone know if there's a solution to this? And why the hell does flash take 100% CPU even for small banner ads? That drives me crazy.
I think their goal is to rid the world of pornography and the like - and that's the only result that will make them happy. Simply reducing it isn't enough for them anymore. They don't seem content with making incremental steps to an end goal - they want the end goal realized in its entirety right now.
I suspect they are objecting because they don't think that porn should have ANY visibility or distribution. Period. Creating a.xxx domain is just hiding it. They'd prefer it wasn't even there to begin with, so they figure that this domain acts as some kind of silent endorsement. They think this because they are extremists who try very hard to legislate morality as opposed to dealing with reality.
Totally. My first computer was an Atari 800 with a tape drive, baby, yeah! That was great fun. Many a long hour were spent typing in BASIC programs from books that eventually didn't work or the tape would corrupt while saving... Good times....:-)
Yes, true, that is how we learned and some things are different now, but I don't think modern systems lend themselves very well to learning about the internals. If you want your kid to grow up actually understanding how it works instead of just how to use it, he has to eventually dig in under the hood at some point. There's only a few years where a kid can safely experiment on things that society considers outdated or old fashioned before he learns via his peers and television that he should be using the uber fancy Pentium XP with Windows Ultra and not the old P-233 he's been taking apart and reconfiguring every few days. But, during those innocent years, he'll have learned a hell of a lot more about computers than the other kids with their shiny laptops and now broken iPods. His knowledge can then easily map onto the more "modern" stuff like HTML and Javascript thus propelling him even more far ahead in terms of understanding -- assuming he's still into computers by that point.
Why not think back to how you started and go from there? Did you have someone holding your hand or did you explore yourself from first principals on up?
The reason I suggest this is that back when I was that age, I did all the computer learning myself. My parents had no clue and never used the thing so that left it entirely in my hands. I wasn't monitored on the net or while playing games, typing in BASIC programs, etc. (Of course things were different back then as I didn't even get online with BBSes until I was around 14 or 15 with the net following soon after.)
All my parents did was buy the computer equipment (up until I got a job working for the first local ISP), take me to the library to get computer books now and then, and paid for the subscription to a couple magazines over my time growing up, and take me to swap meets (hamfests were awesome). The rest of the time I was typing in BASIC programs, playing games, hacking games, taking the machines apart and putting them back together, understanding IRQs, etc. by myself as I didn't have anyone around to ask. I think if I had had someone to ask all of the time, I'd not be nearly so into computers as I am. (For better or worse...)
If your kid is showing an interest in digging in and understand the machines as opposed to just using them, give them tools, books, magazines, and old hardware and just stand back and see what happens. Something interesting to try might be to not allow access to the web until the kid is able to build a computer from a pile of parts complete with working ethernet to connect it to the network. That might not be entirely reasonable, but it is certainly one way to go. If your kid is showing that kind of desire to understand the internals, you probably want to keep him challenged. Giving him a state of the art computer complete with broadband which you might feel you have to monitor right from the start is like handing him the keys to the Ferrari and telling him to keep it under 45. If he has to build his computer and figure out how to get connected himself, it might go a long ways towards building not only self esteem and pride, but useful skills that many of his peers are going to lack.
Perhaps they found a different approach than the ones you've heard about. Maybe their approach is better. Who cares if they use the latest and greatest mathematical buzzwords if it LOOKS good? That's what all this is about anyway - approximating real life. There's surely more than one or two ways to do it. It's all smoke and mirrors, anyway. Very very pretty smoke and mirrors...
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Hmm, TV or socializing with friends or family. You choose.
The other person(s) have to choose too, otherwise you'd have no one to talk to even if you wanted to.
Its a prerequisite to being "human", do a search or read about feral children if you don't believe me.
Why wouldn't I believe you? I voiced almost the exact same sentiment.
There was a time when people used to sit around on the porch, in the living room (hence the term "living" room), the kitchen table, etc, and actually talk to each other deeply. I think we humans need that kind of thing. For some reason, that does not happen much in our modern culture. A lot of blogs are kind of an unconscious outreach for that kind of thing, I think. We used to freely give each other therapy on a daily basis - now you have to pay for it and it's seen as a sign of weakness. Blogs offer a sort of new and hip way around that cultural barrier. It is still no substitute for real, honest, caring human interaction - but sometimes it might be all that's available.
Oh yes. Certainly dumber.
Of course I have no actual evidence for this. But that's cuz I'm dumber now than I was yesterday when I'm sure I had the proof bookmarked someplace. It keeps getting worse, too. By this time next week I'll probably forget how to form sentences and have to google each word in order to build up my thoughts. That'll probably suck. Of course since I'll be dumber I won't notice anyway.
Depending on the circumstances, something like an iBook might even work fine. I know of at least one iBook that survived a tour in Iraq recently. From what I hear, it had some battle scars, but still worked fine when he got back.
I presently am in a job situation that allows me to basically work whenever and however long I want assuming the job gets done. I frequently find myself working around 6 hours per day on average and I find I much prefer it over the usual 8 hour per day thing. After about 6 hours I'm just not productive anymore. So I leave. Since I'm paid by the hour, this actually saves the company money, too.
This is basically off topic, but I've been wondering what sorts of things the great firewall of China actually blocks. Does it blocks SSH tunnels? What about new protocols (like an experimental P2P app or tunneling proxy)? How about well-known circumvention tools such as Tor or Freenet? Just curious to hear from anyone who might have lived or is living behind the wall.
Hee hee.. Thanks for the feedback. :-)
"Saying that these people should "just" move on is uncaring, mean, and stupid"
Huh? No one is being uncaring. The fact is that it's stupid to blatantly repeat your past mistakes. Most anything that held any sort of emotional attachment is gone, the people have already been forced to move out, the who delta has been dying, the city was sinking anyway, etc. Now is the perfect time to fix things by relocating the city and starting over and that's not an uncaring statement or making little of the situation in any way.
So do it, then! It is very easy with all the no code requirements now.
I've thought about trying to enter this world for a long time, but I frequently run up against two problems:
1) lack of long term attention span
2) artistic ability
The closest I've ever come to a functional game is demonstrated by the stunningly cutting edge and innovative game, PigShooter. (I use the worlds "stunningly", "cutting edge", "innovative", and "game" somewhat loosely...)
Is it bad that I was reading this, thinking you're serious, and agreeing? Hmm..
This is really going to mess up the gold farming economies...
I had never heard anything about this, but dang, those are some nice looking special effects! It's hard to tell if the acting is decent or not due to the language barrier, but it seems like a fun movie anyway. I might have to order it...
Nope. And I don't use an encrypted disk image or anything like that, either.
It seems like ever since I switched to Tiger my PB has been much more prone to long swapping sessions like I've seen Windows boxes do. Plus, moving large files around seems far slower. I have 1GB Ram and 1.67Ghz processor and the system feels quite slow compared to Panther at times. It is very frustrating to say the least. I upgraded from a 1Ghz TiBook which ran Panther and it feels like I downgraded a lot of the time. Anyone know if there's a solution to this? And why the hell does flash take 100% CPU even for small banner ads? That drives me crazy.
Take a look at the average shape of an average American... do you really want to see that wrapped in spandex? *shiver*
I think their goal is to rid the world of pornography and the like - and that's the only result that will make them happy. Simply reducing it isn't enough for them anymore. They don't seem content with making incremental steps to an end goal - they want the end goal realized in its entirety right now.
I suspect they are objecting because they don't think that porn should have ANY visibility or distribution. Period. Creating a .xxx domain is just hiding it. They'd prefer it wasn't even there to begin with, so they figure that this domain acts as some kind of silent endorsement. They think this because they are extremists who try very hard to legislate morality as opposed to dealing with reality.
Any video of the event at all that anyone has found?
Totally. My first computer was an Atari 800 with a tape drive, baby, yeah! That was great fun. Many a long hour were spent typing in BASIC programs from books that eventually didn't work or the tape would corrupt while saving... Good times.... :-)
Yes, true, that is how we learned and some things are different now, but I don't think modern systems lend themselves very well to learning about the internals. If you want your kid to grow up actually understanding how it works instead of just how to use it, he has to eventually dig in under the hood at some point. There's only a few years where a kid can safely experiment on things that society considers outdated or old fashioned before he learns via his peers and television that he should be using the uber fancy Pentium XP with Windows Ultra and not the old P-233 he's been taking apart and reconfiguring every few days. But, during those innocent years, he'll have learned a hell of a lot more about computers than the other kids with their shiny laptops and now broken iPods. His knowledge can then easily map onto the more "modern" stuff like HTML and Javascript thus propelling him even more far ahead in terms of understanding -- assuming he's still into computers by that point.
Why not think back to how you started and go from there? Did you have someone holding your hand or did you explore yourself from first principals on up?
The reason I suggest this is that back when I was that age, I did all the computer learning myself. My parents had no clue and never used the thing so that left it entirely in my hands. I wasn't monitored on the net or while playing games, typing in BASIC programs, etc. (Of course things were different back then as I didn't even get online with BBSes until I was around 14 or 15 with the net following soon after.)
All my parents did was buy the computer equipment (up until I got a job working for the first local ISP), take me to the library to get computer books now and then, and paid for the subscription to a couple magazines over my time growing up, and take me to swap meets (hamfests were awesome). The rest of the time I was typing in BASIC programs, playing games, hacking games, taking the machines apart and putting them back together, understanding IRQs, etc. by myself as I didn't have anyone around to ask. I think if I had had someone to ask all of the time, I'd not be nearly so into computers as I am. (For better or worse...)
If your kid is showing an interest in digging in and understand the machines as opposed to just using them, give them tools, books, magazines, and old hardware and just stand back and see what happens. Something interesting to try might be to not allow access to the web until the kid is able to build a computer from a pile of parts complete with working ethernet to connect it to the network. That might not be entirely reasonable, but it is certainly one way to go. If your kid is showing that kind of desire to understand the internals, you probably want to keep him challenged. Giving him a state of the art computer complete with broadband which you might feel you have to monitor right from the start is like handing him the keys to the Ferrari and telling him to keep it under 45. If he has to build his computer and figure out how to get connected himself, it might go a long ways towards building not only self esteem and pride, but useful skills that many of his peers are going to lack.
Don't be an ass. I said "rough description." Yeah, it's not much, but there *is* some info there to get an idea of where they plan to go with this.
Perhaps they found a different approach than the ones you've heard about. Maybe their approach is better. Who cares if they use the latest and greatest mathematical buzzwords if it LOOKS good? That's what all this is about anyway - approximating real life. There's surely more than one or two ways to do it. It's all smoke and mirrors, anyway. Very very pretty smoke and mirrors...