Yes! Teach the kid how the world really works... You do all the work, your name is destroyed, you die alone(at least this was by choice)...then *after* you are dead people realize you were a genius...
Tesla is a hero of mine, but just depressing.
This spider is not news... it was last August, but not now...
I mean...anyone that knows anything about spiders has known about it for over a year, it was even covered in major publications. Congrats on being late to the party like most of the internet.
I would recommend something like a solar engine car or something similar. These are both cheap and easy for kids to make. Plus, you can have the kids race them.;)
Something like this, perhaps they could work out a deal with you to get it down to a more reasonable price: http://www.solarbotics.com/products/make06solarroller/
This is why I liked Anarchy Online. Good selection of vehicles, the whompahs, and the grid/fixer grid... All great methods of transportation, and some are completely available to lower levels...
Too bad much of the rest of the game sucked.
I didn't invent anything this clever when I was 15. How about you?
steveha
Uhh... At 15 I had built my own taser, a rail gun, an air cannon that shot projectiles over 200 yards, and a trebuchet that threw golf balls the same distance. All this from seeing the things work and going out to figure out how to build them.
Not exactly something amazing for a 15 y/o to do. Anyone can string together ideas and concepts, yes, even kids younger than him.
Im not really all that impressed by it, but I am impressed every time I see a kid help someone for no reason other than to help, every time I see kids out volunteering because they want to, and every time I see a kid that stands up for another kid. Those are things that not all kids can do. Lets give those kids some support before we go off praising a kid for doing something every human can do.
Not that surprising, really... I lived with symptomatic celiac for 14.5 years w/o knowing it. I never liked sandwiches and self-regulated. Only when I was in HS did I start taking in enough gluten to actually make it impossible for me to function anywhere near normally(I missed 80 days of school in one quarter of the year).
Even with all that going on it took doctors 3 years to figure it out. And then it was a test that wasnt supposed to be run but was a typo. The joys of not fitting the one major symptom(frailty/stunted growth from malnourishment) but rather being 6'2" and 265lbs and thus not having the doctors check for it at all... After being diagnosed, almost all the illnesses in my life made sense, which is just excellent evidence that simple things do slip by doctors, even doctors who are specialists in a certain field.
Indeed, but that is also something everyone has heard about... How about one involving the possibility of "Nemesis" existing?
I would even settle for an article about a look back at 2008 in viruses/malware...
Now it's one thing for kids to be looking at age-inappropriate entertainment while Mom and Dad are at work, it's quite another thing for them to be in contact with sexual predators. This is very much the domain of law enforcement.
It seems you have missed the point of Colmore's post... Children should not be on the internet alone, especially not if they are at an age where they dont have the ability to make decently thought out decisions(lets say
I mean, really...how hard is it to watch your kid while they do what they want to do online for a set amount of time?
For a kid the internet isnt something that should be constantly available. A decent comparison would be junk food and nutritious food. The internet is like junk food and books/family activities/parental involvement is nutritious food...
Given the independent choice what do you think kids are going to choose?
30 atoms doing the work of 14 transistors... Does this mean that the amount of transistors(logic gates) able to be fit on a chip is now more than exponentially larger? Of course, depending on how easy this would be to adapt to commercial production(and get them talking to eachother) might it be the plateau that Moore's law predicts?
...why don't you just go in and militarily wipe the territory clean. It would be faster and you'd more evenly hurt the civilians and the militants, rather than mostly the civilians as they're doing now.
I think the point is to put the *innocent* people in a position where they will force out the militants...Something otherwise not possible with a sort of clean sweep military operation(something that would also draw far more international complaint than the blockade). So, not only would the Israelis look bad, they would look worse than Hamas...
How exactly would this be adding to the scope of their actions in your daily life? I would like to think that the majority of the/. readers out there have broadband already...broadband that is already monitored both by their ISP *and* the government.
I mean, I am personally opposed to the amount of regulation already present on the internet, but I doubt this would cause that to increase in any significant manner...
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Yes! Teach the kid how the world really works... You do all the work, your name is destroyed, you die alone(at least this was by choice)...then *after* you are dead people realize you were a genius... Tesla is a hero of mine, but just depressing.
This spider is not news... it was last August, but not now... I mean...anyone that knows anything about spiders has known about it for over a year, it was even covered in major publications. Congrats on being late to the party like most of the internet.
I would recommend something like a solar engine car or something similar. These are both cheap and easy for kids to make. Plus, you can have the kids race them. ;)
Something like this, perhaps they could work out a deal with you to get it down to a more reasonable price: http://www.solarbotics.com/products/make06solarroller/
This is why I liked Anarchy Online. Good selection of vehicles, the whompahs, and the grid/fixer grid... All great methods of transportation, and some are completely available to lower levels... Too bad much of the rest of the game sucked.
I didn't invent anything this clever when I was 15. How about you?
steveha
Uhh... At 15 I had built my own taser, a rail gun, an air cannon that shot projectiles over 200 yards, and a trebuchet that threw golf balls the same distance. All this from seeing the things work and going out to figure out how to build them.
Not exactly something amazing for a 15 y/o to do. Anyone can string together ideas and concepts, yes, even kids younger than him.
Im not really all that impressed by it, but I am impressed every time I see a kid help someone for no reason other than to help, every time I see kids out volunteering because they want to, and every time I see a kid that stands up for another kid. Those are things that not all kids can do. Lets give those kids some support before we go off praising a kid for doing something every human can do.
Not that surprising, really... I lived with symptomatic celiac for 14.5 years w/o knowing it. I never liked sandwiches and self-regulated. Only when I was in HS did I start taking in enough gluten to actually make it impossible for me to function anywhere near normally(I missed 80 days of school in one quarter of the year). Even with all that going on it took doctors 3 years to figure it out. And then it was a test that wasnt supposed to be run but was a typo. The joys of not fitting the one major symptom(frailty/stunted growth from malnourishment) but rather being 6'2" and 265lbs and thus not having the doctors check for it at all... After being diagnosed, almost all the illnesses in my life made sense, which is just excellent evidence that simple things do slip by doctors, even doctors who are specialists in a certain field.
Indeed, but that is also something everyone has heard about... How about one involving the possibility of "Nemesis" existing? I would even settle for an article about a look back at 2008 in viruses/malware...
Damn...*Matt Perry's post...
Now it's one thing for kids to be looking at age-inappropriate entertainment while Mom and Dad are at work, it's quite another thing for them to be in contact with sexual predators. This is very much the domain of law enforcement.
It seems you have missed the point of Colmore's post... Children should not be on the internet alone, especially not if they are at an age where they dont have the ability to make decently thought out decisions(lets say
I mean, really...how hard is it to watch your kid while they do what they want to do online for a set amount of time?
For a kid the internet isnt something that should be constantly available. A decent comparison would be junk food and nutritious food. The internet is like junk food and books/family activities/parental involvement is nutritious food...
Given the independent choice what do you think kids are going to choose?
People actually use Vista?!
30 atoms doing the work of 14 transistors... Does this mean that the amount of transistors(logic gates) able to be fit on a chip is now more than exponentially larger? Of course, depending on how easy this would be to adapt to commercial production(and get them talking to eachother) might it be the plateau that Moore's law predicts?
...why don't you just go in and militarily wipe the territory clean. It would be faster and you'd more evenly hurt the civilians and the militants, rather than mostly the civilians as they're doing now.
I think the point is to put the *innocent* people in a position where they will force out the militants...Something otherwise not possible with a sort of clean sweep military operation(something that would also draw far more international complaint than the blockade). So, not only would the Israelis look bad, they would look worse than Hamas...
How exactly would this be adding to the scope of their actions in your daily life? I would like to think that the majority of the /. readers out there have broadband already...broadband that is already monitored both by their ISP *and* the government.
I mean, I am personally opposed to the amount of regulation already present on the internet, but I doubt this would cause that to increase in any significant manner...
This just in, the US government is pissed off at an international organization... Oh...wait, nothing new here.