I agree here. I lost my father when I was 21 in a car accident - my whole family (mother and 2 sisters) were in the car and he was the only one injured.
Spend time with your wife. Let your children experience her as the naturally do. Drop the camera and live the moment. Take pictures when you would if you didn't have the knowledge. The reality of the recording media can sometimes dilute the memory. I'm sure some of the memories of my father did not happen the way I remember - but they are my memories and I look back at them fondly when I think of my father. I'd rather remember the memories fondly rather than potentially have a "digital archive" show me that it really didn't happen the way my memories recorded them (or potentially having my current view of life polluting the memory.)
We as human beings have survived many many hundreds of years without digital archives. We remember or ancestors. You don't want to look back and think - "I should have been on the other side of that camera."
I remember my first job as a sysadmin, spending days trying to get Mosaic to compile on my schools DecStation 5000. When it finally built and ran, it was a proud achievement of mine to show off to all my geek buddies!
Sitting on a fractional T-1 thinking I was the Sh!t!
What the gadget designers need to do is get with the clamshell designers... you practically need plasma cutters to get the gadget out of the packaging....or maybe the clamshells are so strong because the gadgets are so frail?
Check out http://www.hokeyspokes.com - 3 blades mount between spokes on a standard bicycle wheel and generates several different patterns in different colors.
People have beem modifying Alpine CVA1000's (their in-dash navagation system) for over a year now. By default they're supposed to be installed so that the parking brake must be engaged to operate, but there are several hacks to get around this.
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I agree here. I lost my father when I was 21 in a car accident - my whole family (mother and 2 sisters) were in the car and he was the only one injured.
Spend time with your wife. Let your children experience her as the naturally do. Drop the camera and live the moment. Take pictures when you would if you didn't have the knowledge. The reality of the recording media can sometimes dilute the memory. I'm sure some of the memories of my father did not happen the way I remember - but they are my memories and I look back at them fondly when I think of my father. I'd rather remember the memories fondly rather than potentially have a "digital archive" show me that it really didn't happen the way my memories recorded them (or potentially having my current view of life polluting the memory.)
We as human beings have survived many many hundreds of years without digital archives. We remember or ancestors. You don't want to look back and think - "I should have been on the other side of that camera."
They'd be easy to spot: just look for shiny hard drives (wiped) with the numbers 1010 written (hopefully using a sharpie) all over it!
I remember my first job as a sysadmin, spending days trying to get Mosaic to compile on my schools DecStation 5000. When it finally built and ran, it was a proud achievement of mine to show off to all my geek buddies!
Sitting on a fractional T-1 thinking I was the Sh!t!
What the gadget designers need to do is get with the clamshell designers... you practically need plasma cutters to get the gadget out of the packaging. ...or maybe the clamshells are so strong because the gadgets are so frail?
Check out http://www.hokeyspokes.com - 3 blades mount between spokes on a standard bicycle wheel and generates several different patterns in different colors.
Ah-Ha! So I should buy up all the Generators from the whole Y2k scare!
People have beem modifying Alpine CVA1000's (their in-dash navagation system) for over a year now. By default they're supposed to be installed so that the parking brake must be engaged to operate, but there are several hacks to get around this.
I agree. The obituaries for all other OSes will more than likely be typed up on a Unix box in ed.