I know this will be screamed down by the psychotic anti-corporates on this site, but teach him.
No CS grad can compete with an experienced developer in the short term. You teach them and they will see how far short they are of being able to replace you. Take it like they had given you anyone else to train without the implied potential replacement side.
I don't get this argument on this site in particular. We scream for open source, free information, anti-copyright but the second we are asked to pass on any information of our own the response is the equivalent of closing the source, giving no documentation, and threatening lawsuits.
What a load of crap. That relationship is unbalanced because it's unbalanced. It has nothing to do with whether kids are there or not. That relationship has always been unbalanced.
If a relationship is balanced before kids it will remain balanced after. My wife gets her time, I get mine. Do we both wish for more? Absolutely. But we both get our time. If mine is fragging people and hers is watching another episode of Jersey Shore what difference does it make?
Hello,
Thought you would like to meet me. I am a 32 year old married male with a 2.5yr old daughter and another daughter on the way. My wife is currently a stay at home mum but until my daughter was born she worked along side me in building our (and I do stress OUR) business. She was successful to the point that she was nominated for national awards for business and commerce. When someone comes from a successful, professional, background and has worked with you at exactly the same level what do you think the chances are that home things aren't evenly split? While I might go into an office to work, she works by raising our children. When I am not in the office the expectation is that tasks are split.
Despite this I find time to game. Not as much as I would like to, but I don't get to ride my motorcycle as much as I want either. Those are the breaks. You simply have to manage your time and make sure you get things done efficiently. If you can you can always find time to do things that are important to you.
To the OP. When I met my wife she was a total non gamer outside of owning but not playing a ps2. We started by playing Bubble Bobble with a drink being consumed by the loser.... Then I talked to her to find out what sort of thing she thought she might be interested in playing. From that she started playing Baldurs Gate. And here is where I learnt the key. I've been a gamer since I was about 6. Games come naturally to me. To her comments like, my god why did they do that it's stupid, and I don't get it, are common. So I learnt to spend a couple of hours just sitting next to her while she learns the particular mechanics of a game. First baldur's gate, then Civ 4. For a long time that was it. She would play them over and over and over and over again. She was damn good at Civ.
Now she is playing Bioshock, her first ever FPS. To be really really nice she has a handle on the controls (mouse look and key move) which is definitely a bit better than my 2 year old... But she enjoys it. As long as I sit with her and help her. She can only do about 20 minutes though before her heart rate is over 400bpm and she is freaked out. But it's fun sitting there watching her try and shoot something.:P
However a game she is playing LOADs and fits with having a kid is Hero Academy. She has that running 24/7 in the background of her PC. She is even playing against random people on the internet for the first time. It's turn based, there is no time pressure and she likes beating people.
So I would say, sit down with your wife. Ask her what type of things she thinks would interest her. Find the SIMPLEST game that matches that and then sit next to her and walk her through it. And make it fun. Try a side bet or something.
I'll put money on it being chermside - they are installing the electronic car gates and charging for parking over the coming months. They are going to want to measure exactly the changes in shopper behaviour as they increase the parking costs so they can see how far they can charge before people baulk.
It's called an injunction and I would have thought the US would have something similar.
Apple have claimed that the importation and sale of the galaxy will cause irreparable harm that cannot be reasonably fixed through the payment of money. The judge has accepted this claim and so has issued an injunction on Samsung. But it's not without risk to Apple. If Apple loses the case they will have to pay Samsung significant financial penalties and may have other non financial penalties levied against them.
This is pretty normal practice.
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I know this will be screamed down by the psychotic anti-corporates on this site, but teach him.
No CS grad can compete with an experienced developer in the short term. You teach them and they will see how far short they are of being able to replace you. Take it like they had given you anyone else to train without the implied potential replacement side.
I don't get this argument on this site in particular. We scream for open source, free information, anti-copyright but the second we are asked to pass on any information of our own the response is the equivalent of closing the source, giving no documentation, and threatening lawsuits.
What a load of crap. That relationship is unbalanced because it's unbalanced. It has nothing to do with whether kids are there or not. That relationship has always been unbalanced. If a relationship is balanced before kids it will remain balanced after. My wife gets her time, I get mine. Do we both wish for more? Absolutely. But we both get our time. If mine is fragging people and hers is watching another episode of Jersey Shore what difference does it make?
Hello, Thought you would like to meet me. I am a 32 year old married male with a 2.5yr old daughter and another daughter on the way. My wife is currently a stay at home mum but until my daughter was born she worked along side me in building our (and I do stress OUR) business. She was successful to the point that she was nominated for national awards for business and commerce. When someone comes from a successful, professional, background and has worked with you at exactly the same level what do you think the chances are that home things aren't evenly split? While I might go into an office to work, she works by raising our children. When I am not in the office the expectation is that tasks are split. Despite this I find time to game. Not as much as I would like to, but I don't get to ride my motorcycle as much as I want either. Those are the breaks. You simply have to manage your time and make sure you get things done efficiently. If you can you can always find time to do things that are important to you. To the OP. When I met my wife she was a total non gamer outside of owning but not playing a ps2. We started by playing Bubble Bobble with a drink being consumed by the loser.... Then I talked to her to find out what sort of thing she thought she might be interested in playing. From that she started playing Baldurs Gate. And here is where I learnt the key. I've been a gamer since I was about 6. Games come naturally to me. To her comments like, my god why did they do that it's stupid, and I don't get it, are common. So I learnt to spend a couple of hours just sitting next to her while she learns the particular mechanics of a game. First baldur's gate, then Civ 4. For a long time that was it. She would play them over and over and over and over again. She was damn good at Civ. Now she is playing Bioshock, her first ever FPS. To be really really nice she has a handle on the controls (mouse look and key move) which is definitely a bit better than my 2 year old... But she enjoys it. As long as I sit with her and help her. She can only do about 20 minutes though before her heart rate is over 400bpm and she is freaked out. But it's fun sitting there watching her try and shoot something. :P
However a game she is playing LOADs and fits with having a kid is Hero Academy. She has that running 24/7 in the background of her PC. She is even playing against random people on the internet for the first time. It's turn based, there is no time pressure and she likes beating people.
So I would say, sit down with your wife. Ask her what type of things she thinks would interest her. Find the SIMPLEST game that matches that and then sit next to her and walk her through it. And make it fun. Try a side bet or something.
I'll put money on it being chermside - they are installing the electronic car gates and charging for parking over the coming months. They are going to want to measure exactly the changes in shopper behaviour as they increase the parking costs so they can see how far they can charge before people baulk.
It's called an injunction and I would have thought the US would have something similar. Apple have claimed that the importation and sale of the galaxy will cause irreparable harm that cannot be reasonably fixed through the payment of money. The judge has accepted this claim and so has issued an injunction on Samsung. But it's not without risk to Apple. If Apple loses the case they will have to pay Samsung significant financial penalties and may have other non financial penalties levied against them. This is pretty normal practice.