Even my cheap cell phone has GPS in it. I can't go geocaching with it, but it's a basic feature for them to be able to locate me in an emergency. In fact, I recommend everybody who is concerned about their 911 coverage from VoIP service to just buy a cheap pay as you go phone. IIRC, you can still make 911 calls on a cell phone without having an active service plan. A cheap VirginMobile K7 would do the trick. Or any GPS capable phone from eBay.
I would suggest you make sure she understands that she does not have the right to remain unoffended. Otherwise, she could become one of the people that tries to get laws passed because she doesn't like something, not because it's actually harmful.
Point well taken...
And that shows a good grasp of reality? Not knowing the difference between sitting in the driver's seat and actually driving a car?
For a seven year old? Yes. I'm not trying to make him an adult overnight, but it's a start.
I could argue with this analogy. What if I gave him a cigarette to hold (the 'drivers seat') or asked him to smoke it ('driving' the car). If he personally refused to even hold the cigarette, then it reduces the curiosity of smoking it.
I know, not the perfect analogy. I wouldn't think of encouraging him to smoke. As a parent, I can only keep making sure he makes what I feel are the right decisions until he's a legal adult. Or 16 years old in the case of driving.
I learned from my parents that keeping an open line of communications with your kids covers 80% of the effort. The rest is easy to deal with. That communication doesn't even need to be only for guidance and comforting. Keep them mentally and creatively stimulated. Let them ask their questions. Just give them honest answers.
However, as I'm soon to experience, teenage peer pressure naturally works against this.
.it is the fault of the child's parents who have failed to instruct the child in the fundamental differences between fantasy and reality. They are the ones who should and must be held accountable for the misdeeds of their progeny.
Easy to do... when you keep your children locked up in the high tower.
Are you going to deprive your children of neighborhood friends? What if there are few choices for your children to find neighborhood friends their own age? My children will not lead a sheltered life. However, I understand that comes as a cost. I apply more effort at making sure they make the right decisions. You can't be with them all the time when they are with friends at school or daycare. The only thing you can hope for is that they don't feel embarrassed or hesitant to tell you what went on in your absence.
In a way, I feel lucky I can keep the ball rolling in the right direction (for now). My kids are pre-teen and they hold the moral high ground. There's a lot going on around them trying to knock them down a notch. My Daughter (9 yrs.) has come to me recently saying that the hip-hop/rap music (aka junk) that the day camp van driver was letting them listen to on a day trip contained swear words. My Daughter spoke up about that and the other kids ridiculed her saying "music isn't good unless it has swear words" and that her favorite artist (Hillary Duff) is gay [sic]. She felt comfortable enough to tell me about it so I can bring my concern up to the day camp director. Of course, my daughter now has a stigma about her because they can't listen to music anymore on the field trips. The kids got over it, but apparently they still comment about it from time to time. I sure hope those kids complain to their parents as to why they were denied music on the trips. I would hope the parents agree with my concern. I have yet to have the tide come back to me on that one. I continually tell my daughter that she did the right thing. It makes her feel good that she's doing the right thing standing up for her convictions that explicit lyrics are bad (and serve no useful purpose).
My Son proved to me that he has a grasp on the difference between reality and fantasy. He's only seven, but he loves his driving games. I'm no slacker at them, but he beats me in races more often than I wish to admit. He especially likes the crash and bang games (like Burnout). The more metal twisting, the better. Yet, when we're in the car and I ask him if he wants me to floor it and whizz past other traffic, he promptly tells me to turn around and watch the road and keep both hands on the wheel because you can't do that on the real roads. He started saying that on his own. I never prompted him to do so. When we go away, my Wife will sometimes ask me "Who's driving?". Occasionally I'll point to my Son and say he's driving. He speaks up real loud and says "No, No, No. I'm not old enough to drive. You have to be 16 years old to drive". He even refuses to sit in the driver's seat for the fun of it when the car is parked, for the same reason. Once again, I didn't have to grill it into him. He just understood the first time I answered his questions one time about being allowed to drive a real car.
I just need to keep nurturing those ideals.
Still, there is no need for such explicit content in video games without an enforced (meaning consequences for someone) underage use policy. The video game industry, like the music industry, is dead on ideas and should concentrate efforts on new and challenging gameplay ideas instead of immoral easter eggs. Dance, Dance, Revolution is a good example of a new idea. My kids love it...
The idea here is not for long movies, it is for short clips. I personally believe there would be a market for that type of thing.
That's what Mattel thought with their Juice Box before they fell from the market. Then again, had Mattel allowed personal video to be played with the SD/MMC adaptor along with the MP3 capabilities, they'd probably still have the item on the market.
Didn't Mattel learn their lesson in the 80's with the Intellivision II when it came to locking out third party addons?
You forgot to configure your PC to also crack the running game CD and DVD movie, simultaneously, while writing their contents to two seperate recorders at speeds of at least 12x. At the same time you're doing the stuff you're mentioning.
I reserve a $2000 PC for productive use. The slight gaming advantage a PC may have over a console does not justify the $1700 price difference. I use my PC for DV editing of home movies. My console has another shining aspect in that the games don't eat up precious HD space. When working with DV, 1GB is about 5 minutes of video, so every little bit counts.
The only thing you impressed us with is your chronic level of ADHD.
My HAM Radio license allows me to use a small portion of the UHF band to broadcast video at low power. However, I must have my call sign in the picture or as a 'bug' in the video image.
Whatever method I use to generate the signal, as long as I remain within the power and frequency band, there's not going to be any major problems.
I'd love to be able to generate an NTSC signal like this. Some of the transmitters for HAM radio are expensive.
But everybody that learnt morse 120 years ago is dead! Don't learn it I say!
Ahh, but you can't SMS the other driver that cuts you off in traffic. Morse Code works great by allowing you to vent your frustrations on the horn (in morse). We all know people must let their frustrations out in a healthy manner. It's kind of like yelling profanities in another language to someone. They may not understand it, but you feel much better saying it.
Keep in mind that standard electric motors generate heat. That heat is power from the battery being dissipated, and wasted, as unuseable energy (unless you want to keep your hands warm in front of the motor).
This newer motor design seems more efficient. Regular electric motors use brute force power consumption to overcome physics laws of motion (body at rest) to turn the armature (and make heat). Ever wonder why turning on a large electric motor can cause the lights to dim slightly? A prime example is starting your car with the lights on. That little starter motor can be a big drain. This new motor appears to be using short bursts of energy to get the motor to turn to the next "burst point" (yes, I made up that term). Have enough of these burst points around the full rotation of the armature and these short bursts would be more efficient.
Please, just give me one reason why what the gp said was poor communication
Who said anything about poor communication? I really did add it to my lexicon. The problem I personally need to deal with right now is not sounding like a fool around the paople I know. They don't know or care about SCO at all. Using the term 'SCOing' around them will require at least 10 minutes discussing the etymology of the word.
3) Choose 'Download updates for me, but let me choose when to install them.' (this was the default, by the way!)
Still doesn't explain why my choices are all ghosted out, while logged in as administrator. If grandma even got this far to change the settings, what would she do next? Also, your default selection wasn't the selected item on my screen.
teach grandma how to get her syntax exactly right at the command prompt. That's much better.
A lot of Grandmothers were skilled at typing. After all, keyboards were around long before they were on computers. Spell checks weren't available to save them from mistyping what they read. The Post-It apt-get instructions on the monitor would be followed verbatim.
Clicks Start | All Programs | Windows Update Hmm.... just sends me to a MS web page. Meanwhile, for some reason I can't shut down the IE window until it finishes "checking" my computer for updated "Update Software"
Clicks Start | All Programs | Accessories | System Tools. Hmm..... Nothing there for Windows Update.
Left click on the Windows Update icon in the system tray (it's GOTTA be there..) Up pops a "Ready to Install" update screen.
Whoops, I forgot I should RIGHT-CLICK the icon to get a detailed menu of choices. I right-click Up pops a "Ready to Install" update screen, no menu
Ah, Control Panel... Click on Start | Control Panel Double Click on Automatic Updates There we go. A window with a green shield and a red shield and 4 radio buttons. Wait, they're all ghosted out!! And I'm logged in as an Administrator. I can't believe I go so far only to be blocked from changing the settings....
The gift will be in the form of a gift card, redeemable at the place of purchase for the actual item. The item cannot be picked up without a fingerprint.
Thus opening up a new revenue stream for the industry. Litigious Income. Since there would be many more pirates, the MPAA will sue them for damages. They'll take that revenue to buy legislation to enact a guilty before innocent law on DVD pirating.
The mass income comes from using that law to sue every Joe and Jane Sixpack because if they're smart enough to know how to turn on the DVD player, they must be smart enough to copy them. More revenue for the industry.
What is it with high-tech solutions to low-tech problems?
This borders on hypocrisy. Every parent is guilty one way or another of taking the easy way out with their children, or setting a poor example. How many times has any given parent really been a good example when they add up their monthly bills on a calculator while their kids are struggling in math and are told by the parent they need to learn to do the problems on paper. Heck, I even switched to an analog wristwatch while they were learning to tell time.
This isn't the "Hi honey, I'm home" 1950/60 era anymore. The Square Eyes device has some merit for families where both parents work. The after school baby sitter (ANY baby sitter) cannot be fully trusted to follow a strict set of television watching rules. Square Eyes (and similar devices) can at least help ensure privileges can be limited if that's desired.
Hell, if I want to print it out and use it as toilet paper, I will.
Don't use an inkjet printer to do this. The sweat on the cheeks will cause the ink from the goatse.cx links to stain the skin and you'll become a walking advertisement at the next sun club event.
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Even my cheap cell phone has GPS in it. I can't go geocaching with it, but it's a basic feature for them to be able to locate me in an emergency. In fact, I recommend everybody who is concerned about their 911 coverage from VoIP service to just buy a cheap pay as you go phone. IIRC, you can still make 911 calls on a cell phone without having an active service plan. A cheap VirginMobile K7 would do the trick. Or any GPS capable phone from eBay.
I would suggest you make sure she understands that she does not have the right to remain unoffended. Otherwise, she could become one of the people that tries to get laws passed because she doesn't like something, not because it's actually harmful.
Point well taken...
And that shows a good grasp of reality? Not knowing the difference between sitting in the driver's seat and actually driving a car?
For a seven year old? Yes. I'm not trying to make him an adult overnight, but it's a start.
I could argue with this analogy. What if I gave him a cigarette to hold (the 'drivers seat') or asked him to smoke it ('driving' the car). If he personally refused to even hold the cigarette, then it reduces the curiosity of smoking it.
I know, not the perfect analogy. I wouldn't think of encouraging him to smoke. As a parent, I can only keep making sure he makes what I feel are the right decisions until he's a legal adult. Or 16 years old in the case of driving.
Thanks,
I learned from my parents that keeping an open line of communications with your kids covers 80% of the effort. The rest is easy to deal with. That communication doesn't even need to be only for guidance and comforting. Keep them mentally and creatively stimulated. Let them ask their questions. Just give them honest answers.
However, as I'm soon to experience, teenage peer pressure naturally works against this.
.it is the fault of the child's parents who have failed to instruct the child in the fundamental differences between fantasy and reality. They are the ones who should and must be held accountable for the misdeeds of their progeny.
Easy to do... when you keep your children locked up in the high tower.
Are you going to deprive your children of neighborhood friends? What if there are few choices for your children to find neighborhood friends their own age? My children will not lead a sheltered life. However, I understand that comes as a cost. I apply more effort at making sure they make the right decisions. You can't be with them all the time when they are with friends at school or daycare. The only thing you can hope for is that they don't feel embarrassed or hesitant to tell you what went on in your absence.
In a way, I feel lucky I can keep the ball rolling in the right direction (for now). My kids are pre-teen and they hold the moral high ground. There's a lot going on around them trying to knock them down a notch. My Daughter (9 yrs.) has come to me recently saying that the hip-hop/rap music (aka junk) that the day camp van driver was letting them listen to on a day trip contained swear words. My Daughter spoke up about that and the other kids ridiculed her saying "music isn't good unless it has swear words" and that her favorite artist (Hillary Duff) is gay [sic]. She felt comfortable enough to tell me about it so I can bring my concern up to the day camp director. Of course, my daughter now has a stigma about her because they can't listen to music anymore on the field trips. The kids got over it, but apparently they still comment about it from time to time. I sure hope those kids complain to their parents as to why they were denied music on the trips. I would hope the parents agree with my concern. I have yet to have the tide come back to me on that one. I continually tell my daughter that she did the right thing. It makes her feel good that she's doing the right thing standing up for her convictions that explicit lyrics are bad (and serve no useful purpose).
My Son proved to me that he has a grasp on the difference between reality and fantasy. He's only seven, but he loves his driving games. I'm no slacker at them, but he beats me in races more often than I wish to admit. He especially likes the crash and bang games (like Burnout). The more metal twisting, the better. Yet, when we're in the car and I ask him if he wants me to floor it and whizz past other traffic, he promptly tells me to turn around and watch the road and keep both hands on the wheel because you can't do that on the real roads. He started saying that on his own. I never prompted him to do so. When we go away, my Wife will sometimes ask me "Who's driving?". Occasionally I'll point to my Son and say he's driving. He speaks up real loud and says "No, No, No. I'm not old enough to drive. You have to be 16 years old to drive". He even refuses to sit in the driver's seat for the fun of it when the car is parked, for the same reason. Once again, I didn't have to grill it into him. He just understood the first time I answered his questions one time about being allowed to drive a real car.
I just need to keep nurturing those ideals.
Still, there is no need for such explicit content in video games without an enforced (meaning consequences for someone) underage use policy. The video game industry, like the music industry, is dead on ideas and should concentrate efforts on new and challenging gameplay ideas instead of immoral easter eggs. Dance, Dance, Revolution is a good example of a new idea. My kids love it...
The idea here is not for long movies, it is for short clips. I personally believe there would be a market for that type of thing.
That's what Mattel thought with their Juice Box before they fell from the market. Then again, had Mattel allowed personal video to be played with the SD/MMC adaptor along with the MP3 capabilities, they'd probably still have the item on the market.
Didn't Mattel learn their lesson in the 80's with the Intellivision II when it came to locking out third party addons?
You need to use a Spyuretic once a month to remove the spyware bloat.
We just use tiny little slide projectors behind each key. When you hear this sound: "Bink!", go to the next key image.
It costs a fortune changing all those light bulbs though, but it keeps your fingers warm.
think the worst Christina Aguilar photo you've probably come across
Do you imply that there's a GOOD picture of her?
You forgot to configure your PC to also crack the running game CD and DVD movie, simultaneously, while writing their contents to two seperate recorders at speeds of at least 12x. At the same time you're doing the stuff you're mentioning.
I reserve a $2000 PC for productive use. The slight gaming advantage a PC may have over a console does not justify the $1700 price difference. I use my PC for DV editing of home movies. My console has another shining aspect in that the games don't eat up precious HD space. When working with DV, 1GB is about 5 minutes of video, so every little bit counts.
The only thing you impressed us with is your chronic level of ADHD.
My HAM Radio license allows me to use a small portion of the UHF band to broadcast video at low power. However, I must have my call sign in the picture or as a 'bug' in the video image.
Whatever method I use to generate the signal, as long as I remain within the power and frequency band, there's not going to be any major problems.
I'd love to be able to generate an NTSC signal like this. Some of the transmitters for HAM radio are expensive.
But everybody that learnt morse 120 years ago is dead! Don't learn it I say!
Ahh, but you can't SMS the other driver that cuts you off in traffic. Morse Code works great by allowing you to vent your frustrations on the horn (in morse). We all know people must let their frustrations out in a healthy manner. It's kind of like yelling profanities in another language to someone. They may not understand it, but you feel much better saying it.
Keep in mind that standard electric motors generate heat. That heat is power from the battery being dissipated, and wasted, as unuseable energy (unless you want to keep your hands warm in front of the motor).
This newer motor design seems more efficient. Regular electric motors use brute force power consumption to overcome physics laws of motion (body at rest) to turn the armature (and make heat). Ever wonder why turning on a large electric motor can cause the lights to dim slightly? A prime example is starting your car with the lights on. That little starter motor can be a big drain. This new motor appears to be using short bursts of energy to get the motor to turn to the next "burst point" (yes, I made up that term). Have enough of these burst points around the full rotation of the armature and these short bursts would be more efficient.
And I thought they'd made a motor out of grapes...
Maybe it runs on grape juice. A higher octane version would be called Wine. Have your fuel blessed at communion.
Or for other denominations, Kosher Fuel
A: A modern scene re-creation from Caligula.
Beige and boxy with neon trim. Sweeeeet.
The Plymouth K-Car series has come and gone....
You described my grandmother's Reliant perfectly.
Please, just give me one reason why what the gp said was poor communication
Who said anything about poor communication? I really did add it to my lexicon. The problem I personally need to deal with right now is not sounding like a fool around the paople I know. They don't know or care about SCO at all. Using the term 'SCOing' around them will require at least 10 minutes discussing the etymology of the word.
They're SCOing themselves in the foot.
I'll add this to my lexicon. SCO has become an Action Verb !!
Time to remake Schoolhouse Rock
I was servicing Data General Nova 4x mini-computers as a day job
If they're anything like the CPT Word Processing Systems I used to work on, then I understand fully.
3) Choose 'Download updates for me, but let me choose when to install them.' (this was the default, by the way!)
Still doesn't explain why my choices are all ghosted out, while logged in as administrator. If grandma even got this far to change the settings, what would she do next? Also, your default selection wasn't the selected item on my screen.
teach grandma how to get her syntax exactly right at the command prompt. That's much better.
A lot of Grandmothers were skilled at typing. After all, keyboards were around long before they were on computers. Spell checks weren't available to save them from mistyping what they read. The Post-It apt-get instructions on the monitor would be followed verbatim.
It's a couple of mouse clicks.
OK. Sound easy. Let's do it.
Clicks Start | All Programs | Windows Update
Hmm.... just sends me to a MS web page. Meanwhile, for some reason I can't shut down the IE window until it finishes "checking" my computer for updated "Update Software"
Clicks Start | All Programs | Accessories | System Tools.
Hmm..... Nothing there for Windows Update.
Left click on the Windows Update icon in the system tray (it's GOTTA be there..)
Up pops a "Ready to Install" update screen.
Whoops, I forgot I should RIGHT-CLICK the icon to get a detailed menu of choices. I right-click
Up pops a "Ready to Install" update screen, no menu
Ah, Control Panel...
Click on Start | Control Panel
Double Click on Automatic Updates
There we go. A window with a green shield and a red shield and 4 radio buttons. Wait, they're all ghosted out!! And I'm logged in as an Administrator. I can't believe I go so far only to be blocked from changing the settings....
apt-get and emerge seems so much easier to use...
just ask my former cable company
How many others did you convince to do the same? Yes you feel better, but without the herd of others, the cable company couldn't care less.
Allow me to portend....
The gift will be in the form of a gift card, redeemable at the place of purchase for the actual item. The item cannot be picked up without a fingerprint.
Thus opening up a new revenue stream for the industry. Litigious Income. Since there would be many more pirates, the MPAA will sue them for damages. They'll take that revenue to buy legislation to enact a guilty before innocent law on DVD pirating.
The mass income comes from using that law to sue every Joe and Jane Sixpack because if they're smart enough to know how to turn on the DVD player, they must be smart enough to copy them. More revenue for the industry.
What is it with high-tech solutions to low-tech problems?
This borders on hypocrisy. Every parent is guilty one way or another of taking the easy way out with their children, or setting a poor example. How many times has any given parent really been a good example when they add up their monthly bills on a calculator while their kids are struggling in math and are told by the parent they need to learn to do the problems on paper. Heck, I even switched to an analog wristwatch while they were learning to tell time.
This isn't the "Hi honey, I'm home" 1950/60 era anymore. The Square Eyes device has some merit for families where both parents work. The after school baby sitter (ANY baby sitter) cannot be fully trusted to follow a strict set of television watching rules. Square Eyes (and similar devices) can at least help ensure privileges can be limited if that's desired.
Don't use an inkjet printer to do this. The sweat on the cheeks will cause the ink from the goatse.cx links to stain the skin and you'll become a walking advertisement at the next sun club event.