Trying to teach a fifty year old salesman what his granddaughter does with ease is almost baffling.
I'm fifty years old you insensitive clod. But I'm a software developer, not a sales drone.
I'm sure there some 50 year olds out there with grandchildren. I'm not one of them. Yes, I'm sure.
I had a laugh the other day when I told my daughter (recent uni. grad), and her friends who she was skyping with, about snakes, baby chicks, and chatroulette.
Maybe in your state... my cub scout shot.22s his last two years in cub scouts.
At a council-run camp? Which council?
BSA's Age-appropriate Guidelines for Scouting Activities (http://www.scouting.org/filestore/pdf/ageguides.pdf) would suggest that your council is out of bounds. Then again, they're only guidelines.
Nope. Cub Scouts have always shot bows and small rifles.
I've just gone through the whole thing with my son from Cub Scout to Eagle Scout, I'm an Eagle Scout myself, was Scout Master of his troop for three years, took Wood Badge, and went with the troop to summer camp, Double H and Philmont. Clearly I wouldn't know anything about the program.
Cub Scouts do not shoot rifles or shotguns. Webelos get to shoot pump action BB guns.
Boy Scouts get to shoot 22 rifles and shotguns, and older boys (14+) get to shoot black powder rifles. At Philmont they get to shoot 30-06 rifles in addition to shotgun and black powder.
About 20 years ago I remember there was a computer related merit badge. There were three steps to earn this badge; one of them was to turn a computer on and then off. The other two steps were only marginally more complex.
There (still) is a Computer Merit Badge for Boy Scouts. It has been available for a lot longer than 20 years -- I earned it over 30 years ago, and there was considerably more to do than just turn a computer on. And yes, the requirements today are different than they were 30 years ago.
Perhaps there was a different award for Cub Scouts. Naturally we would expect them to be easier than Boy Scout Merit Badge requirements.
If the best expected performance of the new technology is just 5 times better than current technology, is it really worth pursuing it?
Moore's law says 2× in two years, but some people think we're running up against the limits of Silicon.
This gives us 5× in one shot.
You ask is it worth it? Are you suggesting that we not engage in pure science any more because it might not pan out in the long run? Only time will tell if it was worth it.
My brand new TV and Blueray player still use IR remotes -- essentially the same tech as was used in the TV and VCR I bought 25 years ago - and it still sucks hind tit.
We've had BT for years now -- it's time for manufacturers to join the 21st century.
It seems that lately every manufacturer is trying to impose new standard in order to maximize their future sales.
After 25 and 20 years I finally replaced my two TVs. I was going to wait for them to die, but the content I watch these days is mostly high def and they were really no longer suitable.
I didn't feel the least bit coerced into buying the new sets. I could have hung on to the old sets a lot longer but I didn't want to.
I wish them luck trying to maximize future sales -- it'll be tough to do if the new sets last anywhere near as long as the old ones did.
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tell you? Or don't tell you?
Yes, it involves the threat of feeding the chick to the snake.
No, I don't know this from firsthand experience.
It is alleged to be an effective tactic.
I hope I don't need to explain any more than I already have.
Trying to teach a fifty year old salesman what his granddaughter does with ease is almost baffling.
I'm fifty years old you insensitive clod. But I'm a software developer, not a sales drone.
I'm sure there some 50 year olds out there with grandchildren. I'm not one of them. Yes, I'm sure.
I had a laugh the other day when I told my daughter (recent uni. grad), and her friends who she was skyping with, about snakes, baby chicks, and chatroulette.
Go figure.
Stockbrokers with smartphones. Ain't going to stop 'em.
I mean, /. does have an "xwindows" section.
I suspect it works on other things that are -- gasp -- !linux.
They're easy to find. They're at the churches.
Oh. They want to find new priests
Maybe in your state ... my cub scout shot .22s his last two years in cub scouts.
At a council-run camp? Which council?
BSA's Age-appropriate Guidelines for Scouting Activities (http://www.scouting.org/filestore/pdf/ageguides.pdf) would suggest that your council is out of bounds. Then again, they're only guidelines.
Our council follows the guildlines.
I still support 7-bit ASCII, you insensitive clod!
7-bit ASCII? Versus what? ASCII is and was only 7-bit.
(And don't try to use http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_ASCII to claim otherwise. Read the first paragraph.)
Nope. Cub Scouts have always shot bows and small rifles.
I've just gone through the whole thing with my son from Cub Scout to Eagle Scout, I'm an Eagle Scout myself, was Scout Master of his troop for three years, took Wood Badge, and went with the troop to summer camp, Double H and Philmont. Clearly I wouldn't know anything about the program.
Cub Scouts do not shoot rifles or shotguns. Webelos get to shoot pump action BB guns.
Boy Scouts get to shoot 22 rifles and shotguns, and older boys (14+) get to shoot black powder rifles. At Philmont they get to shoot 30-06 rifles in addition to shotgun and black powder.
About 20 years ago I remember there was a computer related merit badge. There were three steps to earn this badge; one of them was to turn a computer on and then off. The other two steps were only marginally more complex.
There (still) is a Computer Merit Badge for Boy Scouts. It has been available for a lot longer than 20 years -- I earned it over 30 years ago, and there was considerably more to do than just turn a computer on. And yes, the requirements today are different than they were 30 years ago.
Perhaps there was a different award for Cub Scouts. Naturally we would expect them to be easier than Boy Scout Merit Badge requirements.
| "Oh, right. No first person shooters...(sigh)"
"Archery, Rifle, and Shotgun are Boy Scout merit badges.
The Video Gaming awards are for Cub Scouts"
The point I was trying to make was one of mixed messages. I think it still stands.
Perhaps I read too much into your erroneous comment about FPSs not being allowed.
Without that, what mixed message do you think there is?
For the record, it's only the Faux News commentator who suggested that FPSs should not be allowed; but there is no such restriction.
Can I apply that to my Archery badge?
Or maybe Left 4 Dead will apply to my Rifle Shooting badge or maybe even my Shotgun Shooting badge if I stick to those weapons?
Archery, Rifle, and Shotgun are Boy Scout merit badges.
The Video Gaming awards are for Cub Scouts
close, but no cidar.
Damn slashdot swallowed my cent characters. Hey slashdot, it's 2010, can't we join the 21st century and allow ISO8859-1 characters?
A dollar today has the buying power of 6 cents in 1940. But don't take my word for it, here's one of many inflation calculators http://www.coinnews.net/tools/cpi-inflation-calculator/ [coinnews.net]
Can you imagine your grandparents carrying a wallet stuffed with 5 cent notes? Or a pocket full of .06 coins?
Time to get rid of them. Time to stop wasting 100s of millions of dollars every year printing and minting them.
A dollar today has the buying power of 6 in 1940. But don't take my word for it, here's one of many inflation calculators http://www.coinnews.net/tools/cpi-inflation-calculator/
Can you imagine your grandparents carrying a wallet stuffed with 5 notes? Or a pocket full of .06 coins?
Time to get rid of them. Time to stop wasting 100s of millions of dollars every year printing and minting them.
Right. (As in I agree.)
And there's no doubt in my mind that Apple knows exactly which employees have which items with which serial numbers.
Once they get it back, they'd know who lost it anyway.
Wearing Mal Reynolds's costume was a bit silly IMO.
Weary? Leary? Wary? Some combination of all three?
Maybe it's one of those 3G USB dongles you plug into your laptop.
http://www.t-mobile.com/shop/phones/Cell-Phone-Detail.aspx?cell-phone=T-Mobile-webConnect-USB-Laptop-Stick&Wt.z_searchCategory=Site+Search+Summary&Wt.z_searchZone=Products&WT.z_searchTerm=usb&WT.z_searchProduct=webConnect%99+USB+Laptop+Stick
You mean like hand painting 160,000+ cels and then photographing them? To create 90 minute feature length films?
If I'm not mistaken, Disney and Warner Brothers, to name two, were doing that long before 1964.
This is somehow special because it was "CGI" -- ASCII or KOI-8 art printed out and photographed?
Bah. Go ahead, mod me down, but I"m unimpressed.
If the best expected performance of the new technology is just 5 times better than current technology, is it really worth pursuing it?
Moore's law says 2× in two years, but some people think we're running up against the limits of Silicon.
This gives us 5× in one shot.
You ask is it worth it? Are you suggesting that we not engage in pure science any more because it might not pan out in the long run? Only time will tell if it was worth it.
Probably has more to do with the fact that historically some hardware had byte and word sizes that weren't multiples of 8.
E.g. see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/36-bit
My brand new TV and Blueray player still use IR remotes -- essentially the same tech as was used in the TV and VCR I bought 25 years ago - and it still sucks hind tit.
We've had BT for years now -- it's time for manufacturers to join the 21st century.
On top of that I'd add staying awake until the world stops spinning.
Works every time.
And Google and Yahoo! did something with it.
What did Xerox do with this particular bit of "innovative" property.
It seems that lately every manufacturer is trying to impose new standard in order to maximize their future sales.
After 25 and 20 years I finally replaced my two TVs. I was going to wait for them to die, but the content I watch these days is mostly high def and they were really no longer suitable.
I didn't feel the least bit coerced into buying the new sets. I could have hung on to the old sets a lot longer but I didn't want to.
I wish them luck trying to maximize future sales -- it'll be tough to do if the new sets last anywhere near as long as the old ones did.