I have a 6 and a 3 year old and I will second this recommendation. Both of my kids used this a lot. It is pretty good training on how to use a mouse and it is creative. I pretty much limit their usage it to this and letting the older one go on the PBS Kids webpage though you might not like that as much if you are strict on TV.
It looks like a stopwatch? There is absolutely nothing sexy about a stopwatch. The sex appeal of cigarettes is well documented.
It is all a matter of taste. I didn't own an i-Pod until the touch came out. I found the original interface too simple and I could never stomach using iTunes. However I have to recognize that my tastes are not the same as that the general population. Examining all the things i love that becomes painfully obvious.
There is an elegance in simplicity, I just don't always like it.;-)
Rio burnt too many early adopters to be successful and besides aesthetically there is honestly no comparison between the two devices. Apple won because it was simple and elegant.
Did yours have any children that would claim their thoughts as their own?
If you define a smart phone by the ability to surf the web then you are absolutely correct. But if you talk about making a phone that makes it so that you don't have to surf the web then you are totally wrong. The iPhone is the device for people who don't surd the web, they use apps. There was no viable peer of that at the time of release.
And no, all of my parents children died. It is quite tragic you insensitive clod!
And that will surely continue to happen forever and ever. That is why I am typing this on a machine made by Digital Equipment through cables owned by Bell.
A Microsoft store in Belle Square is purely a bad ploy on Microsofts part, especially with so many people in the area employed by the company and getting those same products at a fraction of the price.
The only people who are still taking a side in the Microsoft / Apple debate are people who don't understand that they are barely even direct competitors any more. I know a lot of people who run Windows 7 on their Macbooks. One thing they have in common is that they are both finding themselves late entrants into the 7inch tablet market.
There is no doubting that Apple has been successful, They will continue to bring money in for the foreseeable future, but I don't think you are going to be seeing any more years of 76% share price increase.
That is not necessarily a good analogy. Apple has already proved with the publishing industry that it isn't above meddling in the affairs of content providers, telling them how much they are going to charge for things.
If UPS bought Exxon-Mobile (which I know is ridiculous) do you think there would be a problem? Apple, being the big boy now will have to deal with these sort of claims when entering into smaller markets in which they have some level of control of how the market work.
Microsoft got sued for Internet Explorer, for fucks sake. It's a free product in a the market full of other free products.
My pithy saying was gunning for +1 Funny, not +1 Insightful. I genuinely believe that Apple's influence has either peaked or is peaking. This doesn't mean that they aren't going to be the major player for a the foreseeable future. I find it unlikely that they will be able to maintain their rate of growth and if they start to grow much more vertically they are going to start getting a lot of unwanted government attention.
Additionally, past the iPad there hasn't been a whole lot of innovation coming from them. They haven't showed up in the 7 inch market yet. That is not to see that they won't sell a bajillion iPad mini's when they drop, but that is going to come primarily from within the segment of the market that they already own. The iPod was a great device that had no peer so it got a ton of people on the platform. The iPhone was a great device that had no peer so it got a ton of people onto the platform. The IPad was a great device that had no peer so it got a ton of people onto the platform. The mini isn't even out yet but already there are bunch of peers on the market that work pretty darn well, so I think the opportunity there is missed. We will have to wait and see where Apple will be innovating from here out, but I am betting that there days of first to market are shortening.
I didn't say they wouldn't be on top, but they aren't going to be a growth stock as they have in the past. Additionally, if you think Apple will be immune from the anti-trust problems that you saw with Microsoft, I think you will be surprised in the coming years. It gets hot under the spotlight and with the way they are pushing the lawsuits around it is quite obvious that they are transitioning their posture to defend their share as opposed to growing it.
Seriously, go look at a prison and then look around you.If it truly resembles that, then go some where else cause where you are is no good. Don't take that as "Leave America" jingoism. It is okay to be pissed off at the world as there is a lot to be pissed off at, but you don't have to make it out to be worse than it is to make your point.
And I would say that you are prone to hyperbole as well. You are devaluing the barbarism of the past to speak of indignities today. You do us a disservice from how far we have come, even if we still have a long way to go.
"The deputy was holding a warrant to arrest Mr. Stearns for not paying $4,024.88 owed to a unit of American International Group Inc."
Wrong, the warrant was issued for not showing up to a court hearing as it says in earlier in the paragraph. This sentence is journalistic embellishment.
"Emmie Nichols, 26 years old, was arrested in June at her mother's house after lawyers for Capital One Financial Corp. won an arrest warrant against her for skipping a court hearing about $1,159.87 she owed on a credit card from the company."
Being arrested for skipping court dates != being put in jail because you didn't pay your debts. I am sure that there is fraud in the system, don't get me wrong but this sort of journalism feeds hysteria. Hysteria is the enemy of reason.
The real story here is not that students are getting denied their transcripts because they haven't paid their loans, it's that these companies are able to make these risky loans that are guaranteed by our (the USofA) government. The housing bubble happened for the same reason, and and this bubble is bigger and has very little real value to reclaim.
This will continue to happen until the finance people say things like "sorry, I am not going to finance your history degree to the tune of $80,000 as I don't think you will ever be able to pay it all back".
'It's worse than indentured servitude,' said NYU Professor Andrew Ross who completed his post doctorate work in Hyperbole at the University of Bologna.
My first exposure to your music was seeing the video for "Don't Lets Start" on a Dr. Demento video countdown on MTV in the mid to late 80s. Looking back, I don't really find that song all that weird, but then again I have spent all of that time being influenced by your music.
Were you always out to hit that weird nerve? Where you surprised to be picked up by the Good Doctor, who is perhaps best known for promoting parodies and songs that are humorous and/or ridiculous? Did this influence the evolution of your sound at all?
It seems like I have been doing this whole nerd thing forever. Occasionally, I am reminded that people have been doing it better and longer than I have. Thanks, jerk!
I thank you for helping to foster in me a love of open source software which has opened a number of doors for me, both professionally and personally. Though I have not been reading or contributing much lately do to other concerns (these kids ain't gonna raise themselves), I continue to hold you and this site in high regard.
Best of luck in whatever you decide to do. May there be many Tacos. Matt
Pretending my previous experience doesn't exist is a futile experiment.
Unless I can be reinfected with the excitement I previously had I will most likely not change my habits. For something like Wave to be successful it needs to change your behavior and it missed its opportunity to do that easily with me.
To address, the demand issue, there WAS demand for it back when invites were difficult to get. Had they thrown open the flood gates then they would have had a better chance of being successful. The only time the invite only Beta has been exceptionally successful for Google has been with Gmail and Gmail wasn't really changing a behavior for most people.
I started using Wave in the Beta. At first my level of excitement was very high as I figured out ways that technology could be useful.
Unfortunately that excitement waned as I discovered I had very few people to share it with as invites were scarce and not many people I wanted to communicate with regularly had one.
Now the product is free and open but it has missed its opportunity to integrate itself into my routine. I think that Google might have lost a lot of community Evangelists on this one.
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As you are the KING of smeg, no. Only girls get pot for free.
Indeed, and then I even got to feel like actually voted cause I took my ballot to the county annex and watched it get stuffed in the box.
I even got a sticker!
Bad HTML is Bad. PBS Kids REAL website
I have a 6 and a 3 year old and I will second this recommendation. Both of my kids used this a lot. It is pretty good training on how to use a mouse and it is creative. I pretty much limit their usage it to this and letting the older one go on the PBS Kids webpage though you might not like that as much if you are strict on TV.
15 years and no mention of Linux?
And no Cowboy Neal option either.
I would label "radical optimism" as a virus.
It looks like a stopwatch? There is absolutely nothing sexy about a stopwatch. The sex appeal of cigarettes is well documented.
It is all a matter of taste. I didn't own an i-Pod until the touch came out. I found the original interface too simple and I could never stomach using iTunes. However I have to recognize that my tastes are not the same as that the general population. Examining all the things i love that becomes painfully obvious.
There is an elegance in simplicity, I just don't always like it. ;-)
Rio burnt too many early adopters to be successful and besides aesthetically there is honestly no comparison between the two devices. Apple won because it was simple and elegant.
Did yours have any children that would claim their thoughts as their own?
If you define a smart phone by the ability to surf the web then you are absolutely correct. But if you talk about making a phone that makes it so that you don't have to surf the web then you are totally wrong. The iPhone is the device for people who don't surd the web, they use apps. There was no viable peer of that at the time of release.
And no, all of my parents children died. It is quite tragic you insensitive clod!
And that will surely continue to happen forever and ever. That is why I am typing this on a machine made by Digital Equipment through cables owned by Bell.
A Microsoft store in Belle Square is purely a bad ploy on Microsofts part, especially with so many people in the area employed by the company and getting those same products at a fraction of the price.
The only people who are still taking a side in the Microsoft / Apple debate are people who don't understand that they are barely even direct competitors any more. I know a lot of people who run Windows 7 on their Macbooks. One thing they have in common is that they are both finding themselves late entrants into the 7inch tablet market.
There is no doubting that Apple has been successful, They will continue to bring money in for the foreseeable future, but I don't think you are going to be seeing any more years of 76% share price increase.
That is not necessarily a good analogy. Apple has already proved with the publishing industry that it isn't above meddling in the affairs of content providers, telling them how much they are going to charge for things.
http://money.cnn.com/2012/04/11/technology/apple-doj-ebooks/index.htm
If UPS bought Exxon-Mobile (which I know is ridiculous) do you think there would be a problem? Apple, being the big boy now will have to deal with these sort of claims when entering into smaller markets in which they have some level of control of how the market work.
Microsoft got sued for Internet Explorer, for fucks sake. It's a free product in a the market full of other free products.
My pithy saying was gunning for +1 Funny, not +1 Insightful. I genuinely believe that Apple's influence has either peaked or is peaking. This doesn't mean that they aren't going to be the major player for a the foreseeable future. I find it unlikely that they will be able to maintain their rate of growth and if they start to grow much more vertically they are going to start getting a lot of unwanted government attention.
Additionally, past the iPad there hasn't been a whole lot of innovation coming from them. They haven't showed up in the 7 inch market yet. That is not to see that they won't sell a bajillion iPad mini's when they drop, but that is going to come primarily from within the segment of the market that they already own. The iPod was a great device that had no peer so it got a ton of people on the platform. The iPhone was a great device that had no peer so it got a ton of people onto the platform. The IPad was a great device that had no peer so it got a ton of people onto the platform. The mini isn't even out yet but already there are bunch of peers on the market that work pretty darn well, so I think the opportunity there is missed. We will have to wait and see where Apple will be innovating from here out, but I am betting that there days of first to market are shortening.
I didn't say they wouldn't be on top, but they aren't going to be a growth stock as they have in the past. Additionally, if you think Apple will be immune from the anti-trust problems that you saw with Microsoft, I think you will be surprised in the coming years. It gets hot under the spotlight and with the way they are pushing the lawsuits around it is quite obvious that they are transitioning their posture to defend their share as opposed to growing it.
Issac Newton knew a thing or two about apples. What goes up must come down.
I have started substituting the phrase " The Fog" for "The Cloud". It's starting to get kind of thick.
Seriously, go look at a prison and then look around you.If it truly resembles that, then go some where else cause where you are is no good. Don't take that as "Leave America" jingoism. It is okay to be pissed off at the world as there is a lot to be pissed off at, but you don't have to make it out to be worse than it is to make your point.
And I would say that you are prone to hyperbole as well. You are devaluing the barbarism of the past to speak of indignities today. You do us a disservice from how far we have come, even if we still have a long way to go.
"The deputy was holding a warrant to arrest Mr. Stearns for not paying $4,024.88 owed to a unit of American International Group Inc."
Wrong, the warrant was issued for not showing up to a court hearing as it says in earlier in the paragraph. This sentence is journalistic embellishment.
"Emmie Nichols, 26 years old, was arrested in June at her mother's house after lawyers for Capital One Financial Corp. won an arrest warrant against her for skipping a court hearing about $1,159.87 she owed on a credit card from the company."
Being arrested for skipping court dates != being put in jail because you didn't pay your debts. I am sure that there is fraud in the system, don't get me wrong but this sort of journalism feeds hysteria. Hysteria is the enemy of reason.
The real story here is not that students are getting denied their transcripts because they haven't paid their loans, it's that these companies are able to make these risky loans that are guaranteed by our (the USofA) government. The housing bubble happened for the same reason, and and this bubble is bigger and has very little real value to reclaim.
This will continue to happen until the finance people say things like "sorry, I am not going to finance your history degree to the tune of $80,000 as I don't think you will ever be able to pay it all back".
'It's worse than indentured servitude,' said NYU Professor Andrew Ross who completed his post doctorate work in Hyperbole at the University of Bologna.
Seriously, show me the debtors prisons..
My first exposure to your music was seeing the video for "Don't Lets Start" on a Dr. Demento video countdown on MTV in the mid to late 80s. Looking back, I don't really find that song all that weird, but then again I have spent all of that time being influenced by your music.
Were you always out to hit that weird nerve? Where you surprised to be picked up by the Good Doctor, who is perhaps best known for promoting parodies and songs that are humorous and/or ridiculous? Did this influence the evolution of your sound at all?
Thanks,
Matt
RM,
It seems like I have been doing this whole nerd thing forever. Occasionally, I am reminded that people have been doing it better and longer than I have. Thanks, jerk!
I thank you for helping to foster in me a love of open source software which has opened a number of doors for me, both professionally and personally. Though I have not been reading or contributing much lately do to other concerns (these kids ain't gonna raise themselves), I continue to hold you and this site in high regard.
Best of luck in whatever you decide to do. May there be many Tacos.
Matt
Pretending my previous experience doesn't exist is a futile experiment.
Unless I can be reinfected with the excitement I previously had I will most likely not change my habits. For something like Wave to be successful it needs to change your behavior and it missed its opportunity to do that easily with me.
To address, the demand issue, there WAS demand for it back when invites were difficult to get. Had they thrown open the flood gates then they would have had a better chance of being successful. The only time the invite only Beta has been exceptionally successful for Google has been with Gmail and Gmail wasn't really changing a behavior for most people.
I started using Wave in the Beta. At first my level of excitement was very high as I figured out ways that technology could be useful.
Unfortunately that excitement waned as I discovered I had very few people to share it with as invites were scarce and not many people I wanted to communicate with regularly had one.
Now the product is free and open but it has missed its opportunity to integrate itself into my routine. I think that Google might have lost a lot of community Evangelists on this one.
Google has failed me as a spell checker.
I care not, I am not a med-nerd.
Also, I live in my own house and it's difficult to watch porn with the screen saver going, otherwise you aren't far off.