If we're going to blame some form of popular media, it should be the news media, in my opinion. Sure, you can argue that maybe video games desensitize people to violence and (apparently) allow people to keep score (ban Parcheesi too, or cribbage), but I would say that the constant coverage of killers and whatnot on the news is what makes it worse. I have no evidence to back this up, but it certainly gives people ideas about what to do or how to do it, as well as showing them that if they do this sort of thing they're going to live on in news coverage long after they're dead. If these are, as often portrayed, lost souls reaching out for something (in a very inappropriate way), what better way to go than to emblazon your name across all news outlets?
Seconded. Good storyline, doesn't drag too much, and with the age things kids can relate. Maybe.
But, as others have said, don't push too hard to get him to like them. Just show them that you like them and he'll think they're cool by association. If he wants to try other stuff, let him, but make sure he sees you reading some of these books and he'll copy you.
Whoa. This order just blew my mind. My girlfriend has never seen them (obligatory joke blah blah, yes she's real, and it's faults like never having seen Star Wars that I have to put up with to have one), and she's now going to watch them in this order. My sister is about to have a kid too, and I might suggest this.
It may be required to be a good scientist, but not to get a job as one.
Exactly. And, really, there's nothing that says you can't be good at reasoning but decide to become an artist. I just think it would be interesting to look at it.
Agreed, I'd like to see the scores from other countries.
Also, I'd like to see this with adults in different professions. For instance, are scientists better at this than artists? And what about creativity scores?
My gut says that a) all children will probably not be great at this and b) adults probably aren't either. And sadly it probably doesn't match up as well with profession as we might like. I'm a molecular biologist and plenty of my colleagues would probably struggle with these tasks. I wish I could take the test to see how I do (but I'm also afraid I would fail miserably).
Personally I want to know how they managed to get through the school system before the age of 18. The system which seems designed more to keep young people off the streets than it is to educate them.
It depends a lot on your parents. Aside from the possibility of home schooling (which has to bring about all sorts of problems for university admissions) they can do a lot to push you through more quickly, or not allow it. For one thing, they can send you to better schools that will actually look for gifted students and help them along. Alternatively, they can fight for (or against) advancement. For instance, it was twice suggested that I skip a grade, but my parents wouldn't let me because I was already small for my age and they were worried about me being picked on. Similarly, if my parents had fought for it, I could have graduated high school in 3 years. Probably could have done college in 3 years too, if I'd worked harder at it.
That said, I'm glad my parents did what they did. I'm working on my PhD in molecular biology now, and I'm in no hurry to be done. All those extra years in school didn't teach me any more bio, or math, or better writing skills, but I had a lot of fun during that time and definitely formed a lot of relationships that are important to me. That's what I always think people like this are missing out on.
Yeah, I thought that too at first. But I have to assume the point is that the kinect can see if you lift the hand, but not how to orient it it. Plus the buttons on the wiimotes give a way to open and close the fingers.
Why does everyone bring this up? That support is leaving in 11.10 so the argument only works as a stopgap for another few months. Sure you can choose that now, but in the long run if you don't want to use unity (and who does?) you have to switch someday.
The big question is where will people go; slackware? Fedora? Xubuntu? I know Ubunutu is trying to get more mainstream, but they'll lose some of their hardcore users, and I have to wonder how that'll affect their devs.
I have a blu-ray player, but I still buy a lot of movies on DVD (because they're cheaper). The main reason is just that a lot of the movies I buy don't really benefit from having better graphics. Sure, if I'm watching the new Tron, I want good graphics, but if I'm watching some random comedy film, do I really need that boost?
Because of that, I rarely stream action movies from Netflix, because I do want the bump in graphics. Mostly on Netflix I watch TV shows, since the quality isn't going to be great anyway and it doesn't matter, and go out and buy my favorite movies.
I agree. I mean, the prequels aren't the best movies of all time, but the originals are pretty campy too. I love them though; probably largely because I watched them every week for the first 10 years of my life and played the video games and all that. I predict that my kids (who I will force Star Wars upon) will probably like all six of them, as they'll grow up watching all of them, and won't be surprised if they like the prequels better because they have better special effects.
The same thing goes for the new Indiana Jones. People are all "Aliens, in Indiana Jones?! That's not okay!" but it really isn't any less believable than a guy pulling out someone's heart through their chest.
Complain about the acting, hate on Jar Jar, whatever, but Mark Hamill couldn't act either, and C-3PO is annoying in all 6 movies.
Yes, but they'd have to do something more that just that or you wouldn't be able to actually move your arms (I know this is suggested as being for people without arms, but if you had no hands but still had arms it could be useful) without causing the car to steer. Having the car veer every time you tried to scratch an itch would be a problem, so it couldn't stay this general.
I think this could only be viable if we had an I-Robot like automatically driving car situation. So you could just think of where you want to go (to the jogger's apartment) and the car will drive there automatically without further input. And, hopefully, by talking to the other cars would do so without accident. If you have to sit and think "turn left" it would probably end poorly. People's minds just wander too much.
It's not a translation problem, some of the original manuscripts have different text. Kind of a problem with the days before copy machines. I think more versions have 666, but the older ones have 616.
Donald Trump tried to patent "you're fired," so there's precedent for trying. He failed though (luckily) and I have to assume Nintendo will fail too. Also, I'd keep using it and not paying them royalties so it would really only affect print usage, and I doubt it's a common phrase in the Times.
You could run it on a tablet (Archos and a couple others did it, I hear Dell has plans to, but we'll see if that pans out) or an e-reader (Nook) or a netbook (Aspire One). It still runs, you can still do what you want/need to with it, but you don't need the phone (or the contracts)
Granted, most of these have proprietary overlays, but it doesn't make the OS itself any less open. I'd even posit that the fact that so many different companies are using it for so many different purposes indicates that it is open.
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If this bomb was a weapon of mass destruction then it turns out Bush was right! Iraq totally had WMDs. See, the whole war on terror is justified.
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If we're going to blame some form of popular media, it should be the news media, in my opinion. Sure, you can argue that maybe video games desensitize people to violence and (apparently) allow people to keep score (ban Parcheesi too, or cribbage), but I would say that the constant coverage of killers and whatnot on the news is what makes it worse. I have no evidence to back this up, but it certainly gives people ideas about what to do or how to do it, as well as showing them that if they do this sort of thing they're going to live on in news coverage long after they're dead. If these are, as often portrayed, lost souls reaching out for something (in a very inappropriate way), what better way to go than to emblazon your name across all news outlets?
Hotmail still exists?
If it brings back American Gladiators I might have to allow it
Seconded. Good storyline, doesn't drag too much, and with the age things kids can relate. Maybe.
But, as others have said, don't push too hard to get him to like them. Just show them that you like them and he'll think they're cool by association. If he wants to try other stuff, let him, but make sure he sees you reading some of these books and he'll copy you.
Whoa. This order just blew my mind. My girlfriend has never seen them (obligatory joke blah blah, yes she's real, and it's faults like never having seen Star Wars that I have to put up with to have one), and she's now going to watch them in this order. My sister is about to have a kid too, and I might suggest this.
Reasoning is required to be a scientist.
It may be required to be a good scientist, but not to get a job as one.
Exactly. And, really, there's nothing that says you can't be good at reasoning but decide to become an artist. I just think it would be interesting to look at it.
Agreed, I'd like to see the scores from other countries.
Also, I'd like to see this with adults in different professions. For instance, are scientists better at this than artists? And what about creativity scores?
My gut says that a) all children will probably not be great at this and b) adults probably aren't either. And sadly it probably doesn't match up as well with profession as we might like. I'm a molecular biologist and plenty of my colleagues would probably struggle with these tasks. I wish I could take the test to see how I do (but I'm also afraid I would fail miserably).
Personally I want to know how they managed to get through the school system before the age of 18. The system which seems designed more to keep young people off the streets than it is to educate them.
It depends a lot on your parents. Aside from the possibility of home schooling (which has to bring about all sorts of problems for university admissions) they can do a lot to push you through more quickly, or not allow it. For one thing, they can send you to better schools that will actually look for gifted students and help them along. Alternatively, they can fight for (or against) advancement. For instance, it was twice suggested that I skip a grade, but my parents wouldn't let me because I was already small for my age and they were worried about me being picked on. Similarly, if my parents had fought for it, I could have graduated high school in 3 years. Probably could have done college in 3 years too, if I'd worked harder at it.
That said, I'm glad my parents did what they did. I'm working on my PhD in molecular biology now, and I'm in no hurry to be done. All those extra years in school didn't teach me any more bio, or math, or better writing skills, but I had a lot of fun during that time and definitely formed a lot of relationships that are important to me. That's what I always think people like this are missing out on.
Yeah, I thought that too at first. But I have to assume the point is that the kinect can see if you lift the hand, but not how to orient it it. Plus the buttons on the wiimotes give a way to open and close the fingers.
Things always come in threes, right?
Why does everyone bring this up? That support is leaving in 11.10 so the argument only works as a stopgap for another few months. Sure you can choose that now, but in the long run if you don't want to use unity (and who does?) you have to switch someday.
The big question is where will people go; slackware? Fedora? Xubuntu? I know Ubunutu is trying to get more mainstream, but they'll lose some of their hardcore users, and I have to wonder how that'll affect their devs.
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I have a blu-ray player, but I still buy a lot of movies on DVD (because they're cheaper). The main reason is just that a lot of the movies I buy don't really benefit from having better graphics. Sure, if I'm watching the new Tron, I want good graphics, but if I'm watching some random comedy film, do I really need that boost?
Because of that, I rarely stream action movies from Netflix, because I do want the bump in graphics. Mostly on Netflix I watch TV shows, since the quality isn't going to be great anyway and it doesn't matter, and go out and buy my favorite movies.
I agree. I mean, the prequels aren't the best movies of all time, but the originals are pretty campy too. I love them though; probably largely because I watched them every week for the first 10 years of my life and played the video games and all that. I predict that my kids (who I will force Star Wars upon) will probably like all six of them, as they'll grow up watching all of them, and won't be surprised if they like the prequels better because they have better special effects.
The same thing goes for the new Indiana Jones. People are all "Aliens, in Indiana Jones?! That's not okay!" but it really isn't any less believable than a guy pulling out someone's heart through their chest.
Complain about the acting, hate on Jar Jar, whatever, but Mark Hamill couldn't act either, and C-3PO is annoying in all 6 movies.
Yes, but they'd have to do something more that just that or you wouldn't be able to actually move your arms (I know this is suggested as being for people without arms, but if you had no hands but still had arms it could be useful) without causing the car to steer. Having the car veer every time you tried to scratch an itch would be a problem, so it couldn't stay this general.
I think this could only be viable if we had an I-Robot like automatically driving car situation. So you could just think of where you want to go (to the jogger's apartment) and the car will drive there automatically without further input. And, hopefully, by talking to the other cars would do so without accident. If you have to sit and think "turn left" it would probably end poorly. People's minds just wander too much.
Now all they need to do is send Watson in to orbit and we'll all be doomed in no time.
I, for one, welcome our new robotic overlords.
It's not a translation problem, some of the original manuscripts have different text. Kind of a problem with the days before copy machines. I think more versions have 666, but the older ones have 616.
Donald Trump tried to patent "you're fired," so there's precedent for trying. He failed though (luckily) and I have to assume Nintendo will fail too. Also, I'd keep using it and not paying them royalties so it would really only affect print usage, and I doubt it's a common phrase in the Times.
A Strange game. The only winning move is not to play. How about a nice game of chess?
You could run it on a tablet (Archos and a couple others did it, I hear Dell has plans to, but we'll see if that pans out) or an e-reader (Nook) or a netbook (Aspire One). It still runs, you can still do what you want/need to with it, but you don't need the phone (or the contracts)
Granted, most of these have proprietary overlays, but it doesn't make the OS itself any less open. I'd even posit that the fact that so many different companies are using it for so many different purposes indicates that it is open.
That's not a problem with Android, it's a problem with the phones.
And I think we can all (users of Android, iOS, BB, Windows Mobile, Symbian, whatever) agree that the real evil is the phone companies.