In 8th grade I had a TI-83 calculator. I already knew algebra, so I was naturally bored and restless in math class. Being a bit antisocial, I started reading books in class, which my teacher disapproved of. I figured out that if I was messing with my calculator, it looked like I was paying attention and following along, or at least engaged in math. So I discovered that I could write programs. I still had the calculator manual, so I read that to get an overview of the programming commands, of which the most important to me were commands that would write a letter or a pixel to a location onscreen. At first I amused myself by little graphical programs that just drew things on screen, but I discovered that I could make them interactive, so I made increasingly sophisticated games.
This sounds awesome, and apparently unlike everyone else here, I would totally want to hang out with you while you were doing this. Would I act differently? Probably I would only be *more* motivated to be awesome. There's a wide variety of forehead-mounted video cameras you could choose from. Probably having a long-lasting storage device that you could carry on your person would be a harder problem.
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In 8th grade I had a TI-83 calculator. I already knew algebra, so I was naturally bored and restless in math class. Being a bit antisocial, I started reading books in class, which my teacher disapproved of. I figured out that if I was messing with my calculator, it looked like I was paying attention and following along, or at least engaged in math. So I discovered that I could write programs. I still had the calculator manual, so I read that to get an overview of the programming commands, of which the most important to me were commands that would write a letter or a pixel to a location onscreen. At first I amused myself by little graphical programs that just drew things on screen, but I discovered that I could make them interactive, so I made increasingly sophisticated games.
This sounds awesome, and apparently unlike everyone else here, I would totally want to hang out with you while you were doing this. Would I act differently? Probably I would only be *more* motivated to be awesome. There's a wide variety of forehead-mounted video cameras you could choose from. Probably having a long-lasting storage device that you could carry on your person would be a harder problem.
I also enjoy answering the questions posed to Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reference_desk
The persecution replaces rule of law.
Can't we just say sponsored by the US instead of acting like we don't know who created this?
Would it be technically possible to have a system where people pay to get faster speeds on the Tor network? I would do that.