I am watching the "new generation" use the internet/web browser. They don't do it the way we (I?) did. They have little concept of "url" or web site address. Any resource they access is entered into the ever-present search box or "magic combo url bar", as series of search terms or a common name. They rely on the (non-standartized but helpful) search subsystem (usually, Google, but not always) to bring them to the right place.
Seriously, how many things do you look up out of curiosity, or for a relative or friend, or because your favorite TV character supposedly contracted it, or...
Care to explain? This is what the author of TFA is asking advice on.
Kindle Fire - most recent version, I think - has a good set of parental controls.
My wife set it up, so I don't have the terminology and specifics at hand. I can say that it works really well though. I was skeptical, but I'm impressed.
Software protection is just a crutch, the real protection is education and vigilance.
Hmm, well, I do both.
Educate on the one hand, but on the other hand I'm also more devoted to maintaining a healthy home than I am to faux sophistication. Family computer right in the living room. Parental controls on the tablet. No smartphones for the kids.
Ooh, oh no, how awful I am. Their lives will be so impoverished if they have to wait a few more years to experience worthless crap.
Here are some consensus predictions from Slashdot:
1. Smart phones are stupid, and will never catch on. They are a solution looking for a problem.
2. Tablets are even stupider, and will definitely fail, because you can't write code on a tablet.
3. Facebook will be out of business by 2008.
4. Nobody will use "the cloud" because any home user can build their own triple-redundant RAID storage system, and battery backed whole-house conditioned power.
5. Socialized medicine will lower costs and result in better care.
(Oops; did I say something true and genuinely subversive again? Quick, mod me down!)
Submarines and aircraft basically can't touch each other (specialized ASW aircraft notwithstanding).
That last clause of yours is a pretty big one. Why don't they count?
As a submariner I was scared witless of helicopters and ASW planes. We didn't have anything we could use against them, and probably wouldn't even have known they were there until they dropped a depth charge or torpedo on us.
Hearing that many of these points are in homes makes me wonder if anyone is running a social media site/group just for people with EV chargers. You could make your charger open to people with chargers who would make them available to you... Presumably (heh heh) you could add something like this to your home for relatively little money by adding something that would provide an external charging lead with a keypad or iButton contact or NFC or whatever, with a socket inside into which you plugged your charging connector when you wanted to make it available. Plugging into the back of the unit would power it up, at which point it would connect to the network and announce availability. It would require relatively little penetration of an external wall, or routing through conduits to an appropriate mounting location.
In seconds, regulators would show up to make things nice and safe for you...
It's very difficult having a spouse with a chronic illness. (I know.) Even harder when you have children.
As much as it sucks, have her in child care as much as possible. Yes, it's horrifically expensive, it's not ideal, it's not what you envisioned (I assume, as much as you want to let her stay home with mom). But it makes sense.
If it's your wife that you are primarily worried about, then you need to figure out what can help her. Can a neighbor check on her fairly frequently? Another family member? Also, I've seen devices advertised (primarily to elderly) which claim to be able to detect falls.
For both - child and wife - check with local social workers about what is available. You may be eligible for subsidized child care due to the situation. Your wife may be eligible for some kinds of help.
Hang in there, and don't be ashamed to reach out for help.
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2017 cannot come fast enough.
You don't actually believe this will change anything, do you?
Why not? 2008/9 sure changed a lot.
Oh wait, that's right; there was some fabulous advance in robotics right then. Or something. That's it.
Whatever shall we do, without buzzwords?
... this is what actual totalitarianism looks like.
Isn't the very *definition* of making code more "maintainable" that it makes the code "easier to analyze or change"?
No, judging from common usage, "maintainable" actually means "my favorite flavor of 'object oriented'".
It has no real world correlation with actual ease of maintenance.
I am watching the "new generation" use the internet/web browser. They don't do it the way we (I?) did. They have little concept of "url" or web site address. Any resource they access is entered into the ever-present search box or "magic combo url bar", as series of search terms or a common name. They rely on the (non-standartized but helpful) search subsystem (usually, Google, but not always) to bring them to the right place.
So in other words, AOL keywords.
The photo at BBC does look blue and black. The photo at PBS looks white and gold.
Not seeing where black comes into it. Don't see any black at all.
I looked at the PBS story version.
"the head or tail of the Web"? What the file system check is that?
Will keeping it in "plastic cells" from the very beginning — before it is even harvested — not affect the taste at all?
Why do you think that it would?
Encourage her to learn from books from other ages, not just our own. Even if they would be considered offensive today.
$whatever_year_it_happenes_to_be does not have a monopoly on wisdom.
Seriously, how many things do you look up out of curiosity, or for a relative or friend, or because your favorite TV character supposedly contracted it, or ...
What's with all the scare quotes?
> Parental controls on the tablet.
Care to explain? This is what the author of TFA is asking advice on.
Kindle Fire - most recent version, I think - has a good set of parental controls.
My wife set it up, so I don't have the terminology and specifics at hand. I can say that it works really well though. I was skeptical, but I'm impressed.
stop trying to use technical measures to avoid parenting.
Right, because it's impossible to do both. Technical measures should never be used as part of a comprehensive plan to accomplish anything.
Software protection is just a crutch, the real protection is education and vigilance.
Hmm, well, I do both.
Educate on the one hand, but on the other hand I'm also more devoted to maintaining a healthy home than I am to faux sophistication. Family computer right in the living room. Parental controls on the tablet. No smartphones for the kids.
Ooh, oh no, how awful I am. Their lives will be so impoverished if they have to wait a few more years to experience worthless crap.
So you think you're getting lower costs and better care?
Here are some consensus predictions from Slashdot:
1. Smart phones are stupid, and will never catch on. They are a solution looking for a problem. 2. Tablets are even stupider, and will definitely fail, because you can't write code on a tablet. 3. Facebook will be out of business by 2008. 4. Nobody will use "the cloud" because any home user can build their own triple-redundant RAID storage system, and battery backed whole-house conditioned power.
5. Socialized medicine will lower costs and result in better care.
(Oops; did I say something true and genuinely subversive again? Quick, mod me down!)
We're supposed to be "afraid" that government services might be made to cost less?
This is a murder of potentially trillions of human beings and as such an obvious affront to god!
Har har.
Yet, you will be replaced by people who don't use it.
"Nuclear plan takes reasonable - or possibly even excessive - precaution." Eek. My skirts are all aflutter ...
Submarines and aircraft basically can't touch each other (specialized ASW aircraft notwithstanding).
That last clause of yours is a pretty big one. Why don't they count?
As a submariner I was scared witless of helicopters and ASW planes. We didn't have anything we could use against them, and probably wouldn't even have known they were there until they dropped a depth charge or torpedo on us.
Hearing that many of these points are in homes makes me wonder if anyone is running a social media site/group just for people with EV chargers. You could make your charger open to people with chargers who would make them available to you... Presumably (heh heh) you could add something like this to your home for relatively little money by adding something that would provide an external charging lead with a keypad or iButton contact or NFC or whatever, with a socket inside into which you plugged your charging connector when you wanted to make it available. Plugging into the back of the unit would power it up, at which point it would connect to the network and announce availability. It would require relatively little penetration of an external wall, or routing through conduits to an appropriate mounting location.
In seconds, regulators would show up to make things nice and safe for you ...
particularly in smaller, more population dense technologically advanced countries like Japan
Fixed that for you.
It's very difficult having a spouse with a chronic illness. (I know.) Even harder when you have children.
As much as it sucks, have her in child care as much as possible. Yes, it's horrifically expensive, it's not ideal, it's not what you envisioned (I assume, as much as you want to let her stay home with mom). But it makes sense.
If it's your wife that you are primarily worried about, then you need to figure out what can help her. Can a neighbor check on her fairly frequently? Another family member? Also, I've seen devices advertised (primarily to elderly) which claim to be able to detect falls.
For both - child and wife - check with local social workers about what is available. You may be eligible for subsidized child care due to the situation. Your wife may be eligible for some kinds of help.
Hang in there, and don't be ashamed to reach out for help.
Also known as "hobby".