I wouldn't worry about doing or saying specific things. There is a temptation to make grand gestures. Don't worry about all of that. Spend a lot of time with her and just be yourself. My mom spent the last month of her life seeing people and helping them deal with the fact that she would be gone soon. She focused on making sure that we were as prepared as we could be for her being gone. It was weird and sad and great all at once. The time we spent together was, despite the obvious differences, very much like the rest of our lives together. We got angry, we got sad, we laughed...in short we lived. Nothing was left unsaid. When she did die I was sad for myself but happy that she was done with her ordeal.
Videos are great but again I would focus on keeping it simple. When I watch the few videos we have of my mom I am far more interested in seeing and hearing her than what she is actually saying. I'd rather have a video of her just interacting with people and having fun than a video to me specifically.
What I miss the most are the daily interactions with my mom. I can't have those again but having ways to re-create the experience her being "around" is what means the most to me. Your daughter will have a lot of people to give her advice...what she'll miss is experiencing you as a human being. Maybe you can give her that by just recording your life with her and your family. She is smart and insightful and she'll get what she needs out of it when she needs it.
All the makerbot does is find the lowest acceptable bar for accuracy and repeatability...which is pretty damn low when comared to even hobby CNC XYZ systems. They can get away with it because the maximum precision the can get from the medium is relatively low as well. At the end of the day the only think that makerbot has going for it is that it is an additive process instead of subtractive.
The real devil with all 3D printing (additive CNC) is that it is, at its core, a materials science problem. You can throw better software and hardware at the problem until the cows come home. Until you solve the fundemental material science problems you will always be better off with a 5 axis mill if you want to build stuff that is actually usefull.
Man I wonder how everyone survived and flourished before sayyyyyy 1800. These people need to learn how to feed themselves without begging for internet handouts before I'd take any advice from them on restarting civilization.
Yah but they are a self sustaining village so they need more money so they can continue sustaining themselves. I guess $64,000 goes fast when you are building shitty tractors instead of actually farming.
These folks pop up every year or so. I'm assuming it's around when they run out of money and need to find some more suckers to fund them. I've been following them and their "Compressed Earth Brick" huts (sod huts anywhere else) for a few years. They would be better off buying some Oxen, Pigs, Horses and maybe and old 8N tractor. The the concept is fundamentally flawed the hubris involved is off the charts. If they want to be self sufficient the first thing they should do is dump anything invented post 1900. This classic DIY'itis. Gahh so annoying, what a waste of 30 acres of good land.
The more I read the claptrap coming out of the Brooklyn "Maker" scene the more I realise what the so called maker movement is all about. I think a few other people have pointed out that the hobby engineering community has been around for a long time. We have been hacking , futzing, inventing and maybe even selling since the industrial revolution, hell, long before that even. The "Maker" revolution is really all about exploiting the hobby engineering market. Make magazine only exists to Make money. It has no other useful purpose. We had mailing lists, web sites, forums and catalogues long before Make existed. Torrone and his ilk are salesmen. They make a tidy profit selling other people's work to the masses. There are no "unspoken rules" in open source. The only rules that are worth anything are ones that can be enforced by law. If that were not the case we wouldn't need the open source license in the first place. Phil should stick to riding Limor's coat tails, coming up with new stickers and badges to hock and re-publishing other people's projects.
Sorry I've been dealing this crap for years. If Drupal is a framework than so is Jira, Joomla, Media Wiki...hell I'll even throw in Excel. You can extend it's functionality you say??? Oh yah it's a framework now baby. I am so sick of bad developers trying to re-define things instead of just admitting that they are wrong and learning from their mistakes. Besides being a huge bucket of swill, Drupal is the second most mis-used piece of software on the planet (Excel has to be #1). Anyone who suggests Drupal as a solution should have a D branded on their forehead so all will know their sins. GahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhHHHHHH!
I've said it before and I'll say it again. Ain't nothing special about Apple products beyond a cute case and a marketed "cool" factor which for me personally are just two more reasons not to buy Apple. Apple doesn't stand for anything more than a healthy bottom line. It's all smoke and mirrors folks! And just for the record Steve Jobs isn't a revolutionary, he's a dick. Always has been always will be. Woz was the revolutionary if there was one and he left...why? Cause Steve Jobs is a meglomaniacle asshole. Mark this as a troll all you want. It just proves taht your are an Apple Fanboy.
Yet another set of crappy ads. Honestly all Apple sells now is "cool", that's it. I'd say 90% of the Apple users I know also own a VW (or a mini), an iPod and a Razor phone. You apple fanboys are little clones of each other. Seeing you all prance around and is as revolting as watching a pack of frat boys. You all think you are soo superior because of the stupid crap that some marketer tricked you into buying. Shit at least the frat boys know they aren't unique. Mac-heads all think that buying an Apple product makes them a special little snowflake.
I am suprised that people have not caught on to this sooner. Vista, from what I have seen, addresses some very deep technical issues while opening software development up to the masses. I think MS has done a lot of thinking about what an OS needs to do. People will be able to easily create usable applications with a minimal amount of programming skills. If you take a good look under the hood Vista is a pretty big leap from XP. As far as release dalays, I don't see why everyone trashes them for it. Blizzard does the same thing with their games, they don't release until it is ready. I'd much rather have something delayed for a year than buy a product that was pushed out the door to make some marketers deadline even though it was buggy. Considering the number of problems they have had with security would you expect anything else? If they had released Vista 6 months ago you would all be trashing them for shoddy code. Now they are waiting so they can release good code and you are all trashing them for the delay. I'm not an MS fanboy but you gotta be fair, otherwise you just come off as a zealot.
To the people who are looking at Windows Vista and saying it's the same as OSX based on visuals...well you must be mac users. I don't care how my OS looks as long as it gives me the information i want when I want it. Everyone is slammign Vista but (and I am NOT an MS fanboy) some of the stuff that they are doing with Vista is really very cool. I am actually suprised it has snuck under the radar for so long. MS has never been an original company but they work very hard at giving users what they want. When I was a kid I loved Apple and Mac. Now that I know a computer is just a tool I don't really care. I am forced to use macs at work and I don't like OSX at all past the command line. It always seems cluttered with windows and slow to use. I feel like I am trying to tie my shoes with mittens on.
Here is a new iAcronym for all you Mini driving, VW loving , iPod listening Mac fanboys out there. iJam (It's Just A Machine)
The only reason Apple released Boot Camp is that it was already being done. Rather than giving the hackers the glory (and the control) they reelased it themselves. At the end of the day this was nothing more than a power play. Quite frankly I think that now that Apple switched to intel there is a real case of the emperor not having any clothes. The ONLY reason to switch to Apple now is MacOS and while it is pretty and has a great UI there isn't much else that makes it any better or worse than windows (other than that it isn't windows). Sure there are a couple niche markets that have software only for OSX but 99 percent of users out there just want email, office, internet, movies and music. For all the flamers who want to call me a troll I say iJam. (it's Just a machine)
Maybe I am wrong but it seems to me that a couple well aimed paintball could blind that puppy pretty easily...thy should put some wipers on the cameras.
First, always use version control. It's saved me more than once. I personally love mis-using version control (see putting your home directory in SVN). I know you have claimed Novice status but perhaps you should look into setting up your own PEAR instance anyway. I set up my own PEAR repository on my server and use it to store my code "modules". PEAR has a lot of best practices (which are called that for a reason) but if you are lazy you certainly don't have to follow them just to get you code into your own personal repository. It makes it really easy to roll out changes although packaging can be a little tedious sometimes. You could probably use any package management system you want depending on your platform/language of choice.
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I wouldn't worry about doing or saying specific things. There is a temptation to make grand gestures. Don't worry about all of that. Spend a lot of time with her and just be yourself. My mom spent the last month of her life seeing people and helping them deal with the fact that she would be gone soon. She focused on making sure that we were as prepared as we could be for her being gone. It was weird and sad and great all at once. The time we spent together was, despite the obvious differences, very much like the rest of our lives together. We got angry, we got sad, we laughed...in short we lived. Nothing was left unsaid. When she did die I was sad for myself but happy that she was done with her ordeal.
Videos are great but again I would focus on keeping it simple. When I watch the few videos we have of my mom I am far more interested in seeing and hearing her than what she is actually saying. I'd rather have a video of her just interacting with people and having fun than a video to me specifically.
What I miss the most are the daily interactions with my mom. I can't have those again but having ways to re-create the experience her being "around" is what means the most to me. Your daughter will have a lot of people to give her advice...what she'll miss is experiencing you as a human being. Maybe you can give her that by just recording your life with her and your family. She is smart and insightful and she'll get what she needs out of it when she needs it.
I wish you all the best.
All the makerbot does is find the lowest acceptable bar for accuracy and repeatability...which is pretty damn low when comared to even hobby CNC XYZ systems. They can get away with it because the maximum precision the can get from the medium is relatively low as well. At the end of the day the only think that makerbot has going for it is that it is an additive process instead of subtractive.
The real devil with all 3D printing (additive CNC) is that it is, at its core, a materials science problem. You can throw better software and hardware at the problem until the cows come home. Until you solve the fundemental material science problems you will always be better off with a 5 axis mill if you want to build stuff that is actually usefull.
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Man I wonder how everyone survived and flourished before sayyyyyy 1800. These people need to learn how to feed themselves without begging for internet handouts before I'd take any advice from them on restarting civilization.
Yah but they are a self sustaining village so they need more money so they can continue sustaining themselves. I guess $64,000 goes fast when you are building shitty tractors instead of actually farming.
These folks pop up every year or so. I'm assuming it's around when they run out of money and need to find some more suckers to fund them. I've been following them and their "Compressed Earth Brick" huts (sod huts anywhere else) for a few years. They would be better off buying some Oxen, Pigs, Horses and maybe and old 8N tractor. The the concept is fundamentally flawed the hubris involved is off the charts. If they want to be self sufficient the first thing they should do is dump anything invented post 1900. This classic DIY'itis. Gahh so annoying, what a waste of 30 acres of good land.
The more I read the claptrap coming out of the Brooklyn "Maker" scene the more I realise what the so called maker movement is all about. I think a few other people have pointed out that the hobby engineering community has been around for a long time. We have been hacking , futzing, inventing and maybe even selling since the industrial revolution, hell, long before that even. The "Maker" revolution is really all about exploiting the hobby engineering market. Make magazine only exists to Make money. It has no other useful purpose. We had mailing lists, web sites, forums and catalogues long before Make existed. Torrone and his ilk are salesmen. They make a tidy profit selling other people's work to the masses. There are no "unspoken rules" in open source. The only rules that are worth anything are ones that can be enforced by law. If that were not the case we wouldn't need the open source license in the first place. Phil should stick to riding Limor's coat tails, coming up with new stickers and badges to hock and re-publishing other people's projects.
It says CMS in the title!!!
Sorry I've been dealing this crap for years. If Drupal is a framework than so is Jira, Joomla, Media Wiki...hell I'll even throw in Excel. You can extend it's functionality you say??? Oh yah it's a framework now baby. I am so sick of bad developers trying to re-define things instead of just admitting that they are wrong and learning from their mistakes. Besides being a huge bucket of swill, Drupal is the second most mis-used piece of software on the planet (Excel has to be #1). Anyone who suggests Drupal as a solution should have a D branded on their forehead so all will know their sins. GahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhHHHHHH!
It isn't a good house and it isn't a good boat...
I think Steve Jobs is a Pod.
I've said it before and I'll say it again. Ain't nothing special about Apple products beyond a cute case and a marketed "cool" factor which for me personally are just two more reasons not to buy Apple. Apple doesn't stand for anything more than a healthy bottom line. It's all smoke and mirrors folks! And just for the record Steve Jobs isn't a revolutionary, he's a dick. Always has been always will be. Woz was the revolutionary if there was one and he left...why? Cause Steve Jobs is a meglomaniacle asshole. Mark this as a troll all you want. It just proves taht your are an Apple Fanboy.
Well then the inverse would be equally hard to prove now wouldn't it.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2285904448 784173497&q=macs+suck&pl=true
Yet another set of crappy ads. Honestly all Apple sells now is "cool", that's it. I'd say 90% of the Apple users I know also own a VW (or a mini), an iPod and a Razor phone. You apple fanboys are little clones of each other. Seeing you all prance around and is as revolting as watching a pack of frat boys. You all think you are soo superior because of the stupid crap that some marketer tricked you into buying. Shit at least the frat boys know they aren't unique. Mac-heads all think that buying an Apple product makes them a special little snowflake.
iJam (It's Just A Machine)
Anyone....anyone? Well it's apple so I guess when they do it it's just cute...
I am suprised that people have not caught on to this sooner. Vista, from what I have seen, addresses some very deep technical issues while opening software development up to the masses. I think MS has done a lot of thinking about what an OS needs to do. People will be able to easily create usable applications with a minimal amount of programming skills. If you take a good look under the hood Vista is a pretty big leap from XP. As far as release dalays, I don't see why everyone trashes them for it. Blizzard does the same thing with their games, they don't release until it is ready. I'd much rather have something delayed for a year than buy a product that was pushed out the door to make some marketers deadline even though it was buggy. Considering the number of problems they have had with security would you expect anything else? If they had released Vista 6 months ago you would all be trashing them for shoddy code. Now they are waiting so they can release good code and you are all trashing them for the delay. I'm not an MS fanboy but you gotta be fair, otherwise you just come off as a zealot.
To the people who are looking at Windows Vista and saying it's the same as OSX based on visuals...well you must be mac users. I don't care how my OS looks as long as it gives me the information i want when I want it. Everyone is slammign Vista but (and I am NOT an MS fanboy) some of the stuff that they are doing with Vista is really very cool. I am actually suprised it has snuck under the radar for so long. MS has never been an original company but they work very hard at giving users what they want. When I was a kid I loved Apple and Mac. Now that I know a computer is just a tool I don't really care. I am forced to use macs at work and I don't like OSX at all past the command line. It always seems cluttered with windows and slow to use. I feel like I am trying to tie my shoes with mittens on.
Here is a new iAcronym for all you Mini driving, VW loving , iPod listening Mac fanboys out there. iJam (It's Just A Machine)
The only reason Apple released Boot Camp is that it was already being done. Rather than giving the hackers the glory (and the control) they reelased it themselves. At the end of the day this was nothing more than a power play. Quite frankly I think that now that Apple switched to intel there is a real case of the emperor not having any clothes. The ONLY reason to switch to Apple now is MacOS and while it is pretty and has a great UI there isn't much else that makes it any better or worse than windows (other than that it isn't windows). Sure there are a couple niche markets that have software only for OSX but 99 percent of users out there just want email, office, internet, movies and music. For all the flamers who want to call me a troll I say iJam. (it's Just a machine)
Maybe I am wrong but it seems to me that a couple well aimed paintball could blind that puppy pretty easily...thy should put some wipers on the cameras.
First, always use version control. It's saved me more than once. I personally love mis-using version control (see putting your home directory in SVN). I know you have claimed Novice status but perhaps you should look into setting up your own PEAR instance anyway. I set up my own PEAR repository on my server and use it to store my code "modules". PEAR has a lot of best practices (which are called that for a reason) but if you are lazy you certainly don't have to follow them just to get you code into your own personal repository. It makes it really easy to roll out changes although packaging can be a little tedious sometimes. You could probably use any package management system you want depending on your platform/language of choice.