They certainly don't trust each other because the world is fucked up. And there's a fine line between "Security concerns" and plain old fashioned paranoia.
Here in my country, the grape leftovers are fed to pigs. They get slightly intoxicated sometimes, but the meat is more tender and better tasting afterwards.
It's not a matter of intelligence, but of emotional response (kids get scared and they "shutdown" by yelling, kicking and crying) and, if that's not the case, of attention span. Look at that shiny balloon, hear that cute music from the ice cream car, etc. After all, it depends on how your kid is like. Some panic if they're more than 10 feet away from their parents (seen it with my own eyes). Some are very independent and don't panic at all, but at the same time don't feel like meeting their parents too soon as long as the environment feels safe and is not boring.
Best plan is to teach them to memorize their name and your phone number (also the address where they live is good), because that's what people who find them will ask. I once found a kid wandering in a mall, asked him if he knows his parents phone number, he gave it to me but not entirely, he wasn't sure of two numbers, but at least he was like "3 or 5 or 6" so I only needed 5 attempts to get to the right person. Turns out his mom lost sight of him in a neighboring mall, and the kid went out and got into a different one.
It's very satisfying and accomplishing to return a lost child to his parents.
"Head to the tallest structure" does only work in limited cases. "Memorize your name, phone number and address" works in all cases. And if you give them a phone, it's both simpler and more dangerous. Simpler because whoever finds them can look up "Mom" and "Dad" in an address book, and more dangerous because whoever finds them might be fucked up enough to steal the damn phone.
No, it's because HTTP proxies are still not well supported. I physically moved the machine to a location with direct network access and bam, problem solved. UbuntuOne didn't work at all from behind a proxy, not sure if they solved it already.
But I still don't understand what's wrong with Windows Update.
The fact that I know where my kids are doesn't mean they'll know I know. A kid can have enough freedom even if the parent knows his whereabouts. You, as a parent, just need to be smart about it.
Why is Windows Update horror? Because it asks for restarts? I'm sorry, I really don't understand why. I have a counter-example. I have Oracle Enterprise Linux 6 and in the GUI I see a notification telling me there are updates. I try running the updater from the GUI, it hangs at "downloading headers". Then I forcefully close it, switch to CLI, run yum, yum says there's a lock and waiting for it, so I kill the pid, then run yum again and it works. This happens every.single.time. Not criticizing Linux, it's just a fact I'm stating, a personal experience. I am sure zounds of other people are updating zounds of Linux flavors with no issues; it just happens that I encounter this problem. Whereas Windows Update always worked for me. Didn't work for others so well, instead.
Yes, because kids only get lost in amusement parks with a single tall structure they would definitely remember in the middle of all those wonders surrounding them. especially when they're 3.
Kids are kids, and as such they'll abuse your trust for as long as they can go away with it. If you catch your daughter going to the movies instead of library you need to explain to her that it's the lie that was the problem, not wanting to go to the movies. No punishment is required, just emphasis on the advantages of being honest. And even sweeten the deal by saying "next time, tell me the truth and you'll get money for a snack or a soda at the mall".
I'd give my son a mobile device when he grows up, and it will probably have tracking on. BUT! Having access to tracking technology != abusing it all the time. Yeah, some parents will do just that, but if you're open enough, you'd (as a parent) realize that in case of an emergency your kid can be easily found. Also, you don't consider the fact that one can educate his kid to make the difference between "it's okay for daddy to know where I am" and "it's okay for the government to know where I am". if your kid doesn't make the difference, then you're doing it wrong (or you're a government employee, heh heh).
Please adopt me. Now seriously, you are absolutely right. On a more general note, I have seen mankind getting closer to being control freaks and overprotective and while it has its advantages, this sort of behavior exhibits the danger to turn kids into limited creatures who never learn by occasionally getting hurt (literally). It's hilarious to see kids riding their bikes at 2 mph, wearing HUGE helmets and knee+elbow caps. They look like they're going to some sort of children-friendly armored warfare. Of course I'd rather have my kid hurt-free but I realize that falling from the bike at low speed would raise his awareness and help him establish speed limits by himself when he grows up. I grew up like that, fell from my bike quite a few times and developed a good idea of what's safe, what's dangerous and what's too stupid to attempt. Overprotected kids never find their limits and frankly I think they don't enjoy their childhood, and probably won't enjoy their adult lives either. I already know kids who won't climb 2 feet in a tree because "mommy said I could hurt myself". While true, that statement is also crazy. Given an extreme case, such an overprotected kid might be the most talented climber ever to not have developed his talent because "mommy wanted to keep me safe". Same goes for sports, even; a woman I know won't let her son attend football events at school because he might get hurt; that's because she read Andrea Boccelli's life and found out it was a football accident which left him blind. I think she's fucking crazy. And yes, I do have a child, and when he grows up enough to run around, I won't keep him tied to my leg, but let him run free in safe areas (parks, for example; freeways are no-go:P); I'll expect the best and prepare for the worst. Worrying about one's child is the parent's job, not the child's responsibility.
I play games maybe 1h 30m a day on average. My 5 year old dual-core E6750 overclocked at 3.2 GHz handles most of them gracefully, but there are some new releases which require more processing power. However, in choosing a new platform, I'm mostly looking at TDP, not from a consumption perspective, but heat dissipation. I hate having to use a noisy cooler. My current CPU has a TDP of 65W and a Scythe Ninja 1 as cooler, and the fan usually stays at 0% when the CPU is idling. While gaming, I can't figure out whtehr it makes noise, because my GPU cooling system makes enough noise to cover it. And I'd like to keep it that way when I pick my new CPU.
You're saying that graphs are misleading. No, they're not, if one has half a brain. I'm not looking at the hard numbers and the power consumption difference is of about 100W. The i5 3570K draws about 98W and Zambezi and Vishera (who the fuck names these things?) draw around 200W. if you put TWO i5 on top of the other, they barely reach ONE AMD cpu power consumption. Thanks, but things DO look bad for AMD. I'll just have to pass.
Not to mention the awful vertical angle for which screens are not built. In order for the vertical angle to be bearable, you will have to shove the monitor halfway into your belly, if you're thin. If you're even remotely fat, well, shove it with more force. Yay.
I don't have a driver's licence nor do I want to get one. Maybe it was a bad example, but we're essentially talking about the same thing and we're in agreement. Windows 8 is offering less functionality than Windows 7, just as same as a car with a game controller is offering less functionality than one with steering wheel and pedals.
I have the best example to back this up: Office 2007. I loved the ribbon. I still love it and it brought a sizable boost of productivity for me. I clicked with it the first time I saw it. Now I know lots of heavy Office users disliked the Ribbon, and they still do. But it simply worked very well for me. Windows 8 tiles don't work well for me.
Um, dude, I'm a Windows user. Been using Windows since 3.1 and Linux almost not at all. I still think Windows 8 is "the suck". The Windows 8 versus Windows 7 issue, for me at least, is mainly the awful waste of screen estate. I would fit at least 10 icons in just one of those dreadful "tiles". I don't need a 2x2 inch tile to click on a shortcut. And side-scrolling an entire screen to get to more tiles is dumb, especially on the PC. Opening the "All programs" menu shows 28 entries (on my screen) and takes up maybe 1/10 of my screen estate. They're sorted alphabetically, with no bling-bling of colors. Easy to use and intuitive. I have created a shortcuts folder on my desktop and also a games folder on my desktop, with shortcuts to pretty much everything I usually need to run. And I created toolbars on the taskbar pointing to those folders, transforming them into 1-click menus which bring on all the software I use, ready to run and nicely arranged the way I want them to. Windows 8 tiles are way, WAY behind in terms of functionality and speed. I hated having to move my mouse pointer all around the screen to get to that app I needed. Waste of space, as far as I am concerned.
This. I was able to work my way through Windows 8 pretty easily. That's not the issue at hand, at all. this didn't stop me from hating its guts, because I needed to break free from my 15 years old habits and do it differently. Habit change issues is exactly why we don't see cars with gaming controllers instead of the usual wheel-stick-and-pedals system. They might be great for the guy who never used anything before, but horrible for the long haul truck driver with 30 years of driving experience.
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They certainly don't trust each other because the world is fucked up. And there's a fine line between "Security concerns" and plain old fashioned paranoia.
That's what SHE said!
Here in my country, the grape leftovers are fed to pigs. They get slightly intoxicated sometimes, but the meat is more tender and better tasting afterwards.
Drunks, beware of the food crysis.
It's not a matter of intelligence, but of emotional response (kids get scared and they "shutdown" by yelling, kicking and crying) and, if that's not the case, of attention span. Look at that shiny balloon, hear that cute music from the ice cream car, etc.
After all, it depends on how your kid is like. Some panic if they're more than 10 feet away from their parents (seen it with my own eyes). Some are very independent and don't panic at all, but at the same time don't feel like meeting their parents too soon as long as the environment feels safe and is not boring.
Best plan is to teach them to memorize their name and your phone number (also the address where they live is good), because that's what people who find them will ask. I once found a kid wandering in a mall, asked him if he knows his parents phone number, he gave it to me but not entirely, he wasn't sure of two numbers, but at least he was like "3 or 5 or 6" so I only needed 5 attempts to get to the right person. Turns out his mom lost sight of him in a neighboring mall, and the kid went out and got into a different one.
It's very satisfying and accomplishing to return a lost child to his parents.
"Head to the tallest structure" does only work in limited cases. "Memorize your name, phone number and address" works in all cases. And if you give them a phone, it's both simpler and more dangerous. Simpler because whoever finds them can look up "Mom" and "Dad" in an address book, and more dangerous because whoever finds them might be fucked up enough to steal the damn phone.
No, it's because HTTP proxies are still not well supported. I physically moved the machine to a location with direct network access and bam, problem solved.
UbuntuOne didn't work at all from behind a proxy, not sure if they solved it already.
But I still don't understand what's wrong with Windows Update.
I don't have a console. Fatsie! :)
Again, if you teach your kid that the government is offering them safety... I'm at a lack of words.
The fact that I know where my kids are doesn't mean they'll know I know. A kid can have enough freedom even if the parent knows his whereabouts. You, as a parent, just need to be smart about it.
Why is Windows Update horror? Because it asks for restarts? I'm sorry, I really don't understand why.
I have a counter-example. I have Oracle Enterprise Linux 6 and in the GUI I see a notification telling me there are updates. I try running the updater from the GUI, it hangs at "downloading headers". Then I forcefully close it, switch to CLI, run yum, yum says there's a lock and waiting for it, so I kill the pid, then run yum again and it works. This happens every.single.time.
Not criticizing Linux, it's just a fact I'm stating, a personal experience. I am sure zounds of other people are updating zounds of Linux flavors with no issues; it just happens that I encounter this problem. Whereas Windows Update always worked for me. Didn't work for others so well, instead.
Yes, because kids only get lost in amusement parks with a single tall structure they would definitely remember in the middle of all those wonders surrounding them. especially when they're 3.
Kids are kids, and as such they'll abuse your trust for as long as they can go away with it. If you catch your daughter going to the movies instead of library you need to explain to her that it's the lie that was the problem, not wanting to go to the movies. No punishment is required, just emphasis on the advantages of being honest. And even sweeten the deal by saying "next time, tell me the truth and you'll get money for a snack or a soda at the mall".
I'd give my son a mobile device when he grows up, and it will probably have tracking on.
BUT!
Having access to tracking technology != abusing it all the time. Yeah, some parents will do just that, but if you're open enough, you'd (as a parent) realize that in case of an emergency your kid can be easily found. Also, you don't consider the fact that one can educate his kid to make the difference between "it's okay for daddy to know where I am" and "it's okay for the government to know where I am". if your kid doesn't make the difference, then you're doing it wrong (or you're a government employee, heh heh).
or both.
Please adopt me. :P); I'll expect the best and prepare for the worst. Worrying about one's child is the parent's job, not the child's responsibility.
Now seriously, you are absolutely right. On a more general note, I have seen mankind getting closer to being control freaks and overprotective and while it has its advantages, this sort of behavior exhibits the danger to turn kids into limited creatures who never learn by occasionally getting hurt (literally).
It's hilarious to see kids riding their bikes at 2 mph, wearing HUGE helmets and knee+elbow caps. They look like they're going to some sort of children-friendly armored warfare. Of course I'd rather have my kid hurt-free but I realize that falling from the bike at low speed would raise his awareness and help him establish speed limits by himself when he grows up. I grew up like that, fell from my bike quite a few times and developed a good idea of what's safe, what's dangerous and what's too stupid to attempt.
Overprotected kids never find their limits and frankly I think they don't enjoy their childhood, and probably won't enjoy their adult lives either. I already know kids who won't climb 2 feet in a tree because "mommy said I could hurt myself". While true, that statement is also crazy. Given an extreme case, such an overprotected kid might be the most talented climber ever to not have developed his talent because "mommy wanted to keep me safe". Same goes for sports, even; a woman I know won't let her son attend football events at school because he might get hurt; that's because she read Andrea Boccelli's life and found out it was a football accident which left him blind. I think she's fucking crazy. And yes, I do have a child, and when he grows up enough to run around, I won't keep him tied to my leg, but let him run free in safe areas (parks, for example; freeways are no-go
And therefore his goal is fulfilled: so that you won't be able to find him.
Outsmarted by a kid. I guess a "woooooosh!" is in order.
Isn't it, like... quite the other way around?
"If NVidia, AMD and Intel will improve OpenGL support, then Linux gaming takes off" - that's the correct statement.
Apple shill detected. RUN!
Yeah, I have a Gigabyte P35 DS4 which is pretty good.
I play games maybe 1h 30m a day on average. My 5 year old dual-core E6750 overclocked at 3.2 GHz handles most of them gracefully, but there are some new releases which require more processing power. However, in choosing a new platform, I'm mostly looking at TDP, not from a consumption perspective, but heat dissipation. I hate having to use a noisy cooler.
My current CPU has a TDP of 65W and a Scythe Ninja 1 as cooler, and the fan usually stays at 0% when the CPU is idling. While gaming, I can't figure out whtehr it makes noise, because my GPU cooling system makes enough noise to cover it. And I'd like to keep it that way when I pick my new CPU.
You're saying that graphs are misleading. No, they're not, if one has half a brain. I'm not looking at the hard numbers and the power consumption difference is of about 100W. The i5 3570K draws about 98W and Zambezi and Vishera (who the fuck names these things?) draw around 200W. if you put TWO i5 on top of the other, they barely reach ONE AMD cpu power consumption. Thanks, but things DO look bad for AMD. I'll just have to pass.
Not to mention the awful vertical angle for which screens are not built. In order for the vertical angle to be bearable, you will have to shove the monitor halfway into your belly, if you're thin. If you're even remotely fat, well, shove it with more force. Yay.
I think the correct expression is "any devices which DO have the awfully horrible Quicktime software installed". So thanks, but... no, thanks.
I don't have a driver's licence nor do I want to get one. Maybe it was a bad example, but we're essentially talking about the same thing and we're in agreement. Windows 8 is offering less functionality than Windows 7, just as same as a car with a game controller is offering less functionality than one with steering wheel and pedals.
I have the best example to back this up: Office 2007. I loved the ribbon. I still love it and it brought a sizable boost of productivity for me. I clicked with it the first time I saw it.
Now I know lots of heavy Office users disliked the Ribbon, and they still do. But it simply worked very well for me.
Windows 8 tiles don't work well for me.
Um, dude, I'm a Windows user. Been using Windows since 3.1 and Linux almost not at all. I still think Windows 8 is "the suck".
The Windows 8 versus Windows 7 issue, for me at least, is mainly the awful waste of screen estate. I would fit at least 10 icons in just one of those dreadful "tiles". I don't need a 2x2 inch tile to click on a shortcut. And side-scrolling an entire screen to get to more tiles is dumb, especially on the PC.
Opening the "All programs" menu shows 28 entries (on my screen) and takes up maybe 1/10 of my screen estate. They're sorted alphabetically, with no bling-bling of colors. Easy to use and intuitive. I have created a shortcuts folder on my desktop and also a games folder on my desktop, with shortcuts to pretty much everything I usually need to run. And I created toolbars on the taskbar pointing to those folders, transforming them into 1-click menus which bring on all the software I use, ready to run and nicely arranged the way I want them to. Windows 8 tiles are way, WAY behind in terms of functionality and speed. I hated having to move my mouse pointer all around the screen to get to that app I needed. Waste of space, as far as I am concerned.
This.
I was able to work my way through Windows 8 pretty easily. That's not the issue at hand, at all. this didn't stop me from hating its guts, because I needed to break free from my 15 years old habits and do it differently.
Habit change issues is exactly why we don't see cars with gaming controllers instead of the usual wheel-stick-and-pedals system. They might be great for the guy who never used anything before, but horrible for the long haul truck driver with 30 years of driving experience.