I think the point of the research is that many parents expect things from their very young children that are just not possible. They think their kid is being stubborn or misbehaving when it is just developmental. So many parents get frustrated and angry at their child when they should just realize that they just have to wait for the kid to grow up a bit.
I try to give my kids the chance to get more experience when they don't do as I need them to do. For instance, when we go out (winter time now) I tell my kids to start putting clothes on. My older ones (5) obviously get it, whereas my younger ones 2.5 sometimes do, and sometimes run away laughing.
So I take one of the smaller kids and put their clothes on. Once done I take the other one, start doing the same thing. If they cooperate we're done in 5 mins or so (4 kids), whereas if they don't it can take ages.
So if my younger ones don't cooperate I tell them that daddy will open the door soon and it will get cold unless they let me dress them. Eventually I do, they go "cooooold" and I get to dress them right away.:)
So it seems I'm doing things right. I give them the chance to try and reason in their own way, and finally I give them proper incentive to do as I suggested in the first place by introducing nice motivating sensory stimuli.;)
Nice project! I have to show it to some friends of mine who have Maemo devices. I wish I could afford getting one myself, but as it is now I don't really need it... want it though.;)
I don't think the keyboard+mouse combo needs replacing, for most applications. But I do see immense potential in touch screen tech.
My "dream desk"? A huge normal monitor, a keyboard+mouse combo, and a horisontal touch screen / tablet beside them.
Touch manipulation just makes more sense on a horisontal surface to me. Touch wouln't hurt on vertical monitors, but it's not for continuous work. So give me a solution where I can, say doodle a graphic on my touch screen / tablet, lying on my desk, but don't make me give up my keyboard and mouse or hover my arms in the air for that.
Also, a horisontal touch screen would be an ideal secondary controller for games and stuff...:)
Isn't it pretty much a foregone conclusion that cellulose based ethanol makes no sense when compared to algae or Jatropha (or similar oil seed plants that can grow on non-arable land) which can be converted to biodiesel? Even if the yield per acre were similar (they're not) the process sure looks to be much more complicated and the MUCH lower energy density of ethanol means you are going to waste a lot more of the harvested energy in transporting the fuel.
On the other hand, cellulose-producing plants can be found everywhere. Instead of having huge plants and transporting fuel long distances we could potentially have a small plant for each and every neighborhood. If we can use pretty much anything with enough cellulose as raw material the energy density is not necessarily a huge issue.
You think depriving people of access to the Internet == which is quickly becoming an essential resource to many -- is more fair than suing people left and right?
Yes. It sucks, but dragging someone into a legal process which can literally destroy their life is a greater evil than depriving them of Internet access.
A lot of people have commented on how easily this can be abused, and I agree. But I still withhold that on a theoretical level it's a lesser evil than lawsuits to address the problem. I never claimed I support or like the idea. I was merely answering this question in TF summary:
Why has the 'three strikes' idea caught on where others have failed?
Also, it's easier to sell to gullible lawmakers.
A real solution, of course, would be the content holders to get off their collective asses and make way for a global and non DRM:d way to access content at a reasonable fee. I'd be happy to pay a Euro or so for downloading (and being able to keep) fresh episodes of my favorite shows directly after they have aired.
Which is why it's caught on. Sharing someone else's copyrighted material is still not legal, and this approach, while stupid, does give people a fair chance to stop.
(Although I can't see it working here in Finland, where people _need_ the net to do stuff like banking.)
We are providing full quality video files with no DRM. The biggest problem regarding this project is to clear all the rights we need to be able to distribute content in such an open system. NRK is a big content producer, but record labels, actors, external production companies and format rights owners usually have contracts that prevent us from distributing our content freely in the internet.
I may be overly optimistic, but we can at least hope this will eventually drive publicly funded and independent media away from global content conglomerates and towards a future where open licenses like Creative Commons and independent artists have a greater role.
Boxed games aren't as cool as they use to be. I remember my original Sid Meyer's Pirates... There was a huge printed map and you actually needed to use it.
Manuals were on nice paper, and the disks needed space too. The glamour is gone now... The box is just for getting the game home. Cool materials are too expensive. I sure prefer to be able to download nowadays, but there will always be that special something that only physical media can give.
I'm so annoyed right now I only have the manuals and disks from my original King's Quest I and Space Quest I. It would be awesome to have the whole box intact.
Then again, I was in primary school at the time... Stupid kids.;)
While I'm not sure where to stand, here are some of the things I've "pirated":
* Last nights survivor episode. * Anime fansubs I can't buy anyway. * Professional software I've been curious to try at home for fun and/or education. (Ended up saying Photoshop indeed is worth the money at work...) * The entire Friends series. After concluding it's worth it I ended up buying the DVD's. * Ditto with Sex and the City.
So who lost money? I'm not saying what I did was right, but I don't think I should be put in jail for it either. These are not simple matters.
Disclaimer: The wife mostly watches Sex and the City and Friends.
If an employer doesn't like what they find, I don't want to work for them.
I agree to this. I'm pretty visible on the web, especially having been given a name which is more or less unique in the world. I do think about what I post on the web, but I don't filter out much really. I'm pretty open about who I am in interviews, and I figure if my web presence or persona in general puts off a potential employer it wouldn't have been a good fit anyway.
The dualshock wasn't the worst controller in history, but they really should have corrected its mistakes somewhere along the line... E.g., don't put the !@#% digital pad in the sweet spot, when nobody uses it for the main controls (the sony dpad was a horrid dpad too, literally painful to use for any length of time).
Did it ever occur to you that not everyone shares the same anatomical configuration? I've always felt the PS-series controllers were quite nice to use. Not that I'm a hardcore games, but none the less...
Well, that argument goes both ways. If there were no competitors to IE you wouldn't have to spend all those man hours getting to work on other browsers.
True, but that is exactly why, almost ten years after the CSS 2 spec was done, it's still not fully supported in IE... The lack of competition stifles innovation. Innovation is goood, 'mkaay?;)
Yet another person who doesn't understand why we regulate monopolies.
Indeed. If we calculated the amount of man hours lost due to abysmal web standard support by IE6 due to their practical monopoly of the browser market there is more than enough evidence to see how much damage this has caused. Just my personal acumulation must amount to thousands of dollars worth of lost time...
Aaah... Took my brain till right about now to catch that one. I'm not exactly dyslectic, but the occasional mess up does find it's way into my wording from time to time.
Time to pull up the old "English is my third language" -card.;)
But strive to have female friends too, and talk to stuff about them.
Why? Is this a ploy to make them think that you're both interested in them and mildly insane?
Nah, but deepening the understanding of the opposite sex is easier with a friend of said sex than a boy/girlfriend. The stakes aren't so high so you can discuss stuff more freely.
I tend to stay away from some subjects with my wife, given that I know I don't have the option to not see her for a while if I strike a foul note.;)
Yeah. Any tips, dude? How do I charm and seduce the mysterious species known as "females"?
--- "Why do they have to travel in packs? And how are you supposed to get one alone long enough to ask them?"
OK, totally off topic by now...;)
I find that spending enough time with girls/women helps develop a sense of what works and what doesn't. Use the economies of scale to your advantage, ask enough of them out and sooner or later one will agree to go on a date.
Beware of the "friend zone", spending so much casual time with a girl that she regards you as a friend usually eliminates the dating possibilities. But strive to have female friends too, and talk to stuff about them.
The sexes are different, that's just something to accept. You can't necessarily ever understand women very well, hell I can't often comprehend my wife even after almost ten years by now...;)
Also use the net, go on plenty of blind dates with people. Don't make the mistake to mail/chat back and forth forever, just go for coffee and see if it works or not.
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I think the point of the research is that many parents expect things from their very young children that are just not possible. They think their kid is being stubborn or misbehaving when it is just developmental. So many parents get frustrated and angry at their child when they should just realize that they just have to wait for the kid to grow up a bit.
I try to give my kids the chance to get more experience when they don't do as I need them to do. For instance, when we go out (winter time now) I tell my kids to start putting clothes on. My older ones (5) obviously get it, whereas my younger ones 2.5 sometimes do, and sometimes run away laughing.
So I take one of the smaller kids and put their clothes on. Once done I take the other one, start doing the same thing. If they cooperate we're done in 5 mins or so (4 kids), whereas if they don't it can take ages.
So if my younger ones don't cooperate I tell them that daddy will open the door soon and it will get cold unless they let me dress them. Eventually I do, they go "cooooold" and I get to dress them right away. :)
So it seems I'm doing things right. I give them the chance to try and reason in their own way, and finally I give them proper incentive to do as I suggested in the first place by introducing nice motivating sensory stimuli. ;)
Nice project! I have to show it to some friends of mine who have Maemo devices. I wish I could afford getting one myself, but as it is now I don't really need it... want it though. ;)
I don't think the keyboard+mouse combo needs replacing, for most applications. But I do see immense potential in touch screen tech.
My "dream desk"? A huge normal monitor, a keyboard+mouse combo, and a horisontal touch screen / tablet beside them.
Touch manipulation just makes more sense on a horisontal surface to me. Touch wouln't hurt on vertical monitors, but it's not for continuous work. So give me a solution where I can, say doodle a graphic on my touch screen / tablet, lying on my desk, but don't make me give up my keyboard and mouse or hover my arms in the air for that.
Also, a horisontal touch screen would be an ideal secondary controller for games and stuff... :)
I read about what they intend to do, and they seem to have quite a few interesting ideas... But there are also major drawbacks:
- No Windows support (apparently a Linux-only VM in the plans)
- No Python 3.0 support
And thus no guarantees most of the work will merge back into CPython.
But competition is good, I can't really see a problem with having an alternative faster Python runtime, even if it's not as compatible as CPython. :)
Isn't the most logical Linux birthday when Linus first posted his code for others to improve upon? If memory serves me correctly it was a Usenet post?
It seems sill when my 240â Nokia "Average Joe" 3G phone can do most of what it can and more... Using it as a Bluetooth modem is no issue.
The iPhone is a great phone, but lets face it: It's not that feature-packed or open. It's just a well designed product.
Isn't it pretty much a foregone conclusion that cellulose based ethanol makes no sense when compared to algae or Jatropha (or similar oil seed plants that can grow on non-arable land) which can be converted to biodiesel? Even if the yield per acre were similar (they're not) the process sure looks to be much more complicated and the MUCH lower energy density of ethanol means you are going to waste a lot more of the harvested energy in transporting the fuel.
On the other hand, cellulose-producing plants can be found everywhere. Instead of having huge plants and transporting fuel long distances we could potentially have a small plant for each and every neighborhood. If we can use pretty much anything with enough cellulose as raw material the energy density is not necessarily a huge issue.
IE8 doesn't even have full CSS3 support. No corner-radius? What the heck is MS thinking?
And you Sir, are clueless as to the current state of CSS3.
Huge parts of the standard are still in the working draft stage.
http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/current-work
Supporting a subset of CSS2 or CSS3 correctly is much more important. Bugs are far worse problems than omissions.
You think depriving people of access to the Internet == which is quickly becoming an essential resource to many -- is more fair than suing people left and right?
Yes. It sucks, but dragging someone into a legal process which can literally destroy their life is a greater evil than depriving them of Internet access.
A lot of people have commented on how easily this can be abused, and I agree. But I still withhold that on a theoretical level it's a lesser evil than lawsuits to address the problem. I never claimed I support or like the idea. I was merely answering this question in TF summary:
Why has the 'three strikes' idea caught on where others have failed?
Also, it's easier to sell to gullible lawmakers.
A real solution, of course, would be the content holders to get off their collective asses and make way for a global and non DRM:d way to access content at a reasonable fee. I'd be happy to pay a Euro or so for downloading (and being able to keep) fresh episodes of my favorite shows directly after they have aired.
Which is why it's caught on. Sharing someone else's copyrighted material is still not legal, and this approach, while stupid, does give people a fair chance to stop.
(Although I can't see it working here in Finland, where people _need_ the net to do stuff like banking.)
From the article:
We are providing full quality video files with no DRM. The biggest problem regarding this project is to clear all the rights we need to be able to distribute content in such an open system. NRK is a big content producer, but record labels, actors, external production companies and format rights owners usually have contracts that prevent us from distributing our content freely in the internet.
I may be overly optimistic, but we can at least hope this will eventually drive publicly funded and independent media away from global content conglomerates and towards a future where open licenses like Creative Commons and independent artists have a greater role.
Where's the link to TFA?
2g1c
If you really want to mess with your head, locate 1g1c. I frikkin tops goatse. I'm still mad at my co-worker for that one...
You mean the ability to reinstall without limits or activation bullshit just for single player? They found a "solution" to that "bug";)
You do have a good point. I mostly game on our Wii these days, and so far I haven't had it break... That might indeed be ugly.
The DRM issues are indeed a huge and very valid point.
Boxed games aren't as cool as they use to be. I remember my original Sid Meyer's Pirates... There was a huge printed map and you actually needed to use it.
Manuals were on nice paper, and the disks needed space too. The glamour is gone now... The box is just for getting the game home. Cool materials are too expensive. I sure prefer to be able to download nowadays, but there will always be that special something that only physical media can give.
I'm so annoyed right now I only have the manuals and disks from my original King's Quest I and Space Quest I. It would be awesome to have the whole box intact.
Then again, I was in primary school at the time... Stupid kids. ;)
While I'm not sure where to stand, here are some of the things I've "pirated":
* Last nights survivor episode.
* Anime fansubs I can't buy anyway.
* Professional software I've been curious to try at home for fun and/or education. (Ended up saying Photoshop indeed is worth the money at work...)
* The entire Friends series. After concluding it's worth it I ended up buying the DVD's.
* Ditto with Sex and the City.
So who lost money? I'm not saying what I did was right, but I don't think I should be put in jail for it either. These are not simple matters.
Disclaimer: The wife mostly watches Sex and the City and Friends.
If an employer doesn't like what they find, I don't want to work for them.
I agree to this. I'm pretty visible on the web, especially having been given a name which is more or less unique in the world. I do think about what I post on the web, but I don't filter out much really. I'm pretty open about who I am in interviews, and I figure if my web presence or persona in general puts off a potential employer it wouldn't have been a good fit anyway.
Any sufficiently complex system should be heterogeneous, so that not all parts of the system can fail due to the same flaw.
Any homogeneous system will inevitably be at greater risk of failure due to a flaw in the common "gene pool" so to speak.
Biology, computers, economics, politics... I could go on.
The dualshock wasn't the worst controller in history, but they really should have corrected its mistakes somewhere along the line... E.g., don't put the !@#% digital pad in the sweet spot, when nobody uses it for the main controls (the sony dpad was a horrid dpad too, literally painful to use for any length of time).
Did it ever occur to you that not everyone shares the same anatomical configuration? I've always felt the PS-series controllers were quite nice to use. Not that I'm a hardcore games, but none the less...
Well, that argument goes both ways. If there were no competitors to IE you wouldn't have to spend all those man hours getting to work on other browsers.
True, but that is exactly why, almost ten years after the CSS 2 spec was done, it's still not fully supported in IE... The lack of competition stifles innovation. Innovation is goood, 'mkaay? ;)
Yet another person who doesn't understand why we regulate monopolies.
Indeed. If we calculated the amount of man hours lost due to abysmal web standard support by IE6 due to their practical monopoly of the browser market there is more than enough evidence to see how much damage this has caused. Just my personal acumulation must amount to thousands of dollars worth of lost time...
Aaah... Took my brain till right about now to catch that one. I'm not exactly dyslectic, but the occasional mess up does find it's way into my wording from time to time.
Time to pull up the old "English is my third language" -card. ;)
But strive to have female friends too, and talk to stuff about them.
Why? Is this a ploy to make them think that you're both interested in them and mildly insane?
Nah, but deepening the understanding of the opposite sex is easier with a friend of said sex than a boy/girlfriend. The stakes aren't so high so you can discuss stuff more freely.
I tend to stay away from some subjects with my wife, given that I know I don't have the option to not see her for a while if I strike a foul note. ;)
Yeah. Any tips, dude? How do I charm and seduce the mysterious species known as "females"?
---
"Why do they have to travel in packs? And how are you supposed to get one alone long enough to ask them?"
OK, totally off topic by now... ;)
I find that spending enough time with girls/women helps develop a sense of what works and what doesn't. Use the economies of scale to your advantage, ask enough of them out and sooner or later one will agree to go on a date.
Beware of the "friend zone", spending so much casual time with a girl that she regards you as a friend usually eliminates the dating possibilities. But strive to have female friends too, and talk to stuff about them.
The sexes are different, that's just something to accept. You can't necessarily ever understand women very well, hell I can't often comprehend my wife even after almost ten years by now... ;)
Also use the net, go on plenty of blind dates with people. Don't make the mistake to mail/chat back and forth forever, just go for coffee and see if it works or not.