As a father myself of two adorable li'l monsters, I've decided that they won't play with computers at all until later in their childhood. Computers and TV both seem to encourage a lot of button-pushing, while I'd rather they learn to think and make things in their world. Putting together a unix-alike will be child's play once their little brains are appropriately wired to see the world as the great big machine it is.
The thing is, there is a lot of interesting work out there if you don't have the paper. You just need to go to smaller companies, for the most part.
And if you think that the really heavily thinking-reliant work will only come to you at a big company or a specialized one, open yourself up as a garage business and be your own inspired thinker. Think of Jeri Ellsworth.
does this mean we could buy pepper shakers filled with RFID tags, set our computers up to randomly auto-assign responses to them, and then walk through a clothing store, flaking out bogus tags everywhere?
database poisoning on a graaaand scale! how much fun that'd be! or when our cell phones can be programmed with add-on modules that project and flood out millions of random RFID tags a second.. what will a sensor do when the short-range air waves around a person are a massive wash of RFID?
could this be the start of a new home-electronics-hobbyist revolution? heeeeee, what fun..
Related to a serb by marriage...the language indeed is written using cyrillic letters, but is also commonly written using the roman alphabet. I see a lot of hand-written things around my sister's house that use my native alphabet but that I can't read--and I can read russian. the cyrillic alphabet the serbs use indeed has a few characters different from the russian alphabet.
So.. if someone can't do their job, we should forgive them and let them continue failing to do their job? If you're dyslexic, maybe you shouldn't have to read long strings of characters all day long.
The gears turn slowly in processing that article, and I'm left with a question someone smarter than me ought to know - what is a string? What would one look like or how could one be described?
I spend more for food that was grown locally, and for clothing that was manufactured by regional outfits instead of multinationals. I also see (and pay for) a lot of live music and buy the artist's cds, but rarely buy anything from a major label. Turns out it's expensive to live in accord with one's principles, but it can be done. I am voting with my dollar. Is everyone else?
Cause you won't want to ride your bike four miles in a business suit on a day after it's rained. You won't have very many nice suits if you do that too many times. Riding the segway, on the other hand, gets you to the office as clean as if you'd driven, minus the vehicle emissions.
One suggestion - make sure that whoever intervenes, they can speak fluent spanish, too. If the RIAA is cracking down on hispanics, let's take every advantage we have to be heard out over their noise!@
Speaking as someone who is licensed and has done private security work (the test strictly quizzes you on the legal specifics of performing a citizen's arrest), anyone can place anyone else under citizen's arrest for any crime that they have witnessed. Not just violent crimes, but property damage or even trespass. The perpetrator can only be forcefully restrained in violent situations; otherwise, if they refuse to be placed under citizen's arrest, they cannot be held against their will.
The arresting citizen (or security officer, in my case) then must sign the arrest report; this is the crucial point that prevents a private citizen from wantonly placing others under citizen's arrest, because if you are unwilling to sign the arrest report, then you are liable for false imprisonment, kidnapping, etc. Once you sign the report, though, in the eyes of the law it is no different from a police or parole officer had conducting the arrest.
now watch as all leap to google's defense. it seems our critical judgment facilities go out the window when google or linus is on the line - thinking is replaced by blind love!
Just do it. yeah, it sucks. yeah, you'll whine and complain. maybe you can pay attention and catch yourself before you bitch out too many people, even. It goes away in a week, and you never have to do it again. (till you let yourself get hooked the next time.)
Wow, +1 america-bashing. Why is this insightful and not flamebait? How about "I'm sorry I fed political dissidents and members of the losing soccer team into a woodchipper, but I was the lunatic son of a despot?" Oh, wait, that isn't america-bashing.
Vegetable-oil vehicles haven't gone away; they just smell strongly of fast food and aren't very efficient, and vegetable oil is a very costly substitute, energy-wise, for gas motors. It's not sustainable once it stops being a trendy ego-friendly niche.
There are, too, cars that get extremely high mileage, but the public doesn't want them. They're low-power and small, and we want Powerful vhicles. Don't credit to conspiracy what can be attributed to a short-sighted public.
It's actually pretty boring. If you like sitting around talking and joking with your friends, do that. This game doesn't really add anything that you won't get in a good conversation, but it does take away from it.
No, not trolling..yes, I've played it. it gets old quickly.
and you don't think in the three years they've had since that was posted, they could have thought about it carefully (as he says would be necessary), and done something?
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As a father myself of two adorable li'l monsters, I've decided that they won't play with computers at all until later in their childhood. Computers and TV both seem to encourage a lot of button-pushing, while I'd rather they learn to think and make things in their world. Putting together a unix-alike will be child's play once their little brains are appropriately wired to see the world as the great big machine it is.
The thing is, there is a lot of interesting work out there if you don't have the paper. You just need to go to smaller companies, for the most part.
And if you think that the really heavily thinking-reliant work will only come to you at a big company or a specialized one, open yourself up as a garage business and be your own inspired thinker. Think of Jeri Ellsworth.
What clever technology!
does this mean we could buy pepper shakers filled with RFID tags, set our computers up to randomly auto-assign responses to them, and then walk through a clothing store, flaking out bogus tags everywhere?
database poisoning on a graaaand scale! how much fun that'd be! or when our cell phones can be programmed with add-on modules that project and flood out millions of random RFID tags a second.. what will a sensor do when the short-range air waves around a person are a massive wash of RFID?
could this be the start of a new home-electronics-hobbyist revolution? heeeeee, what fun..
Like dcop?
Related to a serb by marriage...the language indeed is written using cyrillic letters, but is also commonly written using the roman alphabet. I see a lot of hand-written things around my sister's house that use my native alphabet but that I can't read--and I can read russian. the cyrillic alphabet the serbs use indeed has a few characters different from the russian alphabet.
probably too much useless info, though...
Thank you. Words cannot express how the added whimsy has improved my command line, so instead I will say:
:)
So.. if someone can't do their job, we should forgive them and let them continue failing to do their job? If you're dyslexic, maybe you shouldn't have to read long strings of characters all day long.
If one of my employees had done that, I would have let them go. Stupidity is forgivable, ignoring company directives isn't always.
So..what does that say about all the hot air on Venus?
The gears turn slowly in processing that article, and I'm left with a question someone smarter than me ought to know - what is a string? What would one look like or how could one be described?
Another thing on that note..
I spend more for food that was grown locally, and for clothing that was manufactured by regional outfits instead of multinationals. I also see (and pay for) a lot of live music and buy the artist's cds, but rarely buy anything from a major label. Turns out it's expensive to live in accord with one's principles, but it can be done. I am voting with my dollar. Is everyone else?
That's because geek IQ is not a desirable trait for continuation of the species, as popular a thought as that may be here.
so.. you can be a geek and wreck things, or you can be a badass and figure them out without wrecking them?
instead of what? living forever?
Cause you won't want to ride your bike four miles in a business suit on a day after it's rained. You won't have very many nice suits if you do that too many times. Riding the segway, on the other hand, gets you to the office as clean as if you'd driven, minus the vehicle emissions.
One suggestion - make sure that whoever intervenes, they can speak fluent spanish, too. If the RIAA is cracking down on hispanics, let's take every advantage we have to be heard out over their noise!@
Speaking as someone who is licensed and has done private security work (the test strictly quizzes you on the legal specifics of performing a citizen's arrest), anyone can place anyone else under citizen's arrest for any crime that they have witnessed. Not just violent crimes, but property damage or even trespass. The perpetrator can only be forcefully restrained in violent situations; otherwise, if they refuse to be placed under citizen's arrest, they cannot be held against their will.
The arresting citizen (or security officer, in my case) then must sign the arrest report; this is the crucial point that prevents a private citizen from wantonly placing others under citizen's arrest, because if you are unwilling to sign the arrest report, then you are liable for false imprisonment, kidnapping, etc. Once you sign the report, though, in the eyes of the law it is no different from a police or parole officer had conducting the arrest.
now watch as all leap to google's defense. it seems our critical judgment facilities go out the window when google or linus is on the line - thinking is replaced by blind love!
Just do it. yeah, it sucks. yeah, you'll whine and complain. maybe you can pay attention and catch yourself before you bitch out too many people, even. It goes away in a week, and you never have to do it again. (till you let yourself get hooked the next time.)
Wow, +1 america-bashing. Why is this insightful and not flamebait? How about "I'm sorry I fed political dissidents and members of the losing soccer team into a woodchipper, but I was the lunatic son of a despot?" Oh, wait, that isn't america-bashing.
The purification rundown is dangerous nonsense. Please mod the parent down.
Vegetable-oil vehicles haven't gone away; they just smell strongly of fast food and aren't very efficient, and vegetable oil is a very costly substitute, energy-wise, for gas motors. It's not sustainable once it stops being a trendy ego-friendly niche. There are, too, cars that get extremely high mileage, but the public doesn't want them. They're low-power and small, and we want Powerful vhicles. Don't credit to conspiracy what can be attributed to a short-sighted public.
It's actually pretty boring. If you like sitting around talking and joking with your friends, do that. This game doesn't really add anything that you won't get in a good conversation, but it does take away from it.
No, not trolling..yes, I've played it. it gets old quickly.
Really..you need both facts and an ability to get new ones and process them. Thinking without facts is like building without bricks.
and you don't think in the three years they've had since that was posted, they could have thought about it carefully (as he says would be necessary), and done something?