I what you described was very similar to my own computer usage habits in my teen years. I was a social introvert, and felt like I could communicate more easily over IRC.
What i've now realized is that this very stale and limited form of communication (words pale in comparison to things such as body language, tone, eye contact) had curbed my ability to socialize with people in real life. I was not able to handle all of this information being thrown at me when I talked to someone face to face, it became overwhelming. And I became a jerk for a big part of it, what i thought would be sarcastic or witty jokes, ended up being horrible offenses against the people I was talking to, for the very fact that taken as a string of words, it wasn't much, but saying it face to face with a person, making eye contact, etc. changed its meaning.
What helped me break out of this was some serious away from computer community building experiences. I went to a non traditional boarding school (http://www.shackleton.org) that forced me to deal with people face to face. Once I was able to discover a sense of closeness with people there, being online just felt fake. There are other options too, outward bound is a good one, that will not only get your kids outside for a couple of weeks, but really push their limits and help them figure out what they are capable of.
I would also suggest limiting their internet access, and having them do outside sports, interaction with people, jobs, and physical exercise, all of which helped me through the difficult stages of puberty and figure out with a little more clarity what I wanted to do with my life.
I also suggest you take a look at "Letters at 3Am: Reports on Endarkenment" By Michael Ventura, specifically the essay "Age of endarkenment" which is an amazing piece on puberty in western cultures. Also take a look at "Shame and Pride: Affect, Sex, and the Birth of the Self" by Donald Nathanson.
And talk to your kids, tell them about your life growing up and what it was like at that time, not in a shaming way or a contrived way, but just share your experiences with what they may be going through.
I am not a shrink, or a developmental psychologist or anything of that nature, I have had to deal with my own puberty and I am currently in a stage in my life self relfecting on it and these are the things that I (and my therapist) have discovered to be helpful.
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As a resident of PA who can only drink Fat Tire when as close as the far east distribution center of new belgium as St. Louis, I sir crie sacrilage at wasting such a precious natural resource as a Fat Tire!
or their tripples, or their wheat ales, or just about anything NBB makes.
Documentary, and you will see that they had a complete story arc. (and for those who haven't beaten the game, don't keep reading this). Originally they were going to fight on earth, go back to a halo, and then go back to earth to resolve the game. Thats it, bing, nothing, no Halo 3.
Instead, they ran out of time, they were pushing in so many different directions, that they just had to simplify things. So I would not be surprised if they cut the last two levels from the game, since they were not finished, only to plan on releasing them 4 months later, which would be plenty of time to finish the levels themselves, now that the engine was complete.
It could also just be the planned release of new multiplayer maps.
All halo 2 needs is about two more maps to wrap things up, maybe three so it doesn't feel rushed. But I am glad it ended how it did, because each level felt finished and polished, and I would have rather that had, instead of the Halo 1 "10 minute race to the end" that felt like it was made up just to fill space.
Because the Mod community does not want to get involved with legal hassles.
MS is letting these mod folks get away with what they are doing because in effect they are helping MS develop a more secure computing platform (palladium anyone?). MS figures they develop games that have massive XBox Live appeal, keep the system setup to keep the games secure, and then you end up with a revenue stream and research in how to develop a physically secure box to deliver content and services to users also.
As a resident of Greenwich, I can say there are a lot of dicks in the area.
But the beach issue just pissed me off. As a resident, I pay taxes which go towards the maintenance of the beach. It keeps it clean, and its more than just a beach, its a bird sanctuary, and pretty much a park. I realize the classist issues that many people saw when they did not none residents going to the beach, but I always saw it as an environmental concern.
If the budget was not going to increase funding for the beach, but there were going to be more people going to it, how was it going to be kept clean? Well they have found a solution for it, that town residents get parking stickers and if you don't have one you have to pay like $20 to park there. I realize the town is a bunch of elitist pricks, but I was with them on that issue on the grounds of finding a sustainable solution for the beach.
Of course, i live in the cheap part of town, compared to the private estates in back country that have huge drive ways and elaborate fences.
This is also a town where the chief of police tried to shut down the highschool from having its flood lights on at night during the summer, so families could have picnics on the field, on the grounds that teenagers would use it as a location to have parties.
People have their heads so up their collective ass here its ridiculous.
Yeah, its scary, my roommate freshman year is still with his girlfriend he met over an orientation back packing trip.
We are now in our senior year.
I have to wonder, if college is about growing up and expanding your horizons, you (typically) aren't getting anywhere by clinging to one person your entire stay at school.
Just because someone can afford to go to college does not mean they are clean. I'm not talking about AIDS, most people are tested for that. I'm talking about genital warts, herpes, and other fun STDs.
A freshman girl came to school last year without being tested, and spread HPV (genital warts) to 9 other people, which then fanned out to probably about 30 at this point. Numbers are one in two or one in four of the people you meet at college will be exposed to HPV. Then if you are a responsible partner, you will have to inform other partners before hooking up with them. If you aren't, well then you don't deserve to have sex knowingly spreading a possible cancer causing illness.
And avoid sleeping with anyone on you hall. It probably wont last, and it makes things weird.
I meant as something to add the music to the music portion of the ipod, you copy a file over to your ipod's data track, it wont play it, unless there is something that has changed dramatically since the last ipod stats i looked at. You still need to add the file to the database, and have the pointers setup right to go to the right file, etc.
You can get a new 2000mAh battery for that model if you want to drop $90 on it.
Various iPod batteries
I may pick one up myself for this 2G i just got from my sister (first ipod owner too, im such a nerd but I can't afford to buy one myself).
Well, part of how the ipod is so fast is that itunes actually generates the file database on its end for the ipod. There is a specific file structure on the ipod that is meant to streamline the listening experience. Instead of having ot read file names with long extensions, possibly none english characters, all of that information is stored in a database and the song files are give just a number.
You can get yourself an Archos which you can just drop mp3s onto and play it back that way, but the battery life from my experience is shorter, its bulkier, and it still takes a while just to browse the disk for files. Also, the ipod has two processors, one for audio playback and one for the gui. So it makes sense that apple would make as simple streamlined file structure that the gui processor can feed to the audio playback (ie, user selects to play "Bob Marley - No Woman.mp3" and the gui system feeds/1234/456/32.mp3 to the audio processor).
Its ingeniously simple: why make processor on the ipod built for effeciency have to do all this directory / database management (althou the 3g ones do this now) when you can get a desktop computer to do it in a snap.
And i believe there are third party programs out there which you can mount on the ipods "data share" that will easily let you drag and drop files back and forth from the playable section of your ipod.
Actually, what i've seen in a college campus is that the movie ripping / softwarez scene is almost always done by a few students, who then setup shares that the rest of the campus access, here at Bucknell, students will pass around smb paths and watch the movies from that, and of course, there is the pre summer ritual of downloading every movie off of everyone elses machine and burning them to cds so they can watch them over the summer. We even had a file server local to the university run by the students that distributed just about any file under the sun, but it had a horrible gui interface. All I think the campus needs is a custom gnutella client meant to operate inside the school network with a local tracker (run by students of course) since the student fileserver was run by rich as kid with a massive terabyte raid setup. Pretty much we just need a searchable interface for all of the smb / windows shares, which is around, but no one has setup a concise server for it.
What I am wondering about is if someone would throw a small condenser ontop of the bong, to reuse the water mist. I mean, you could just run it through a decent sized radiator block and get a collection of water at the other end, and have it go back into the bong system.
Wow, creative uses for modifying a bong that has nothing to do with weed.
Did anyone else catch Jameson's son doing that huge leap to get to MJ near the end?
I am convinced its a nod to showing him having the symbiot in him (from the cartoon, not the comic books) where I believe he contracted it while in space.
Anyway, I think for a sequel (or triquel?) now that we have: A) love interest issues resolved (no more harping over MJ) B) identity issue resolved
We need something to spice it up some more. We obviously have the green goblin 2 coming in the next one, but what about Venom? Any thoughts on this? (i may have the names mixed up, it's been a while since i've read the comics / cartoons).
I remember from when 10.1 came out (or sometime around that), some ingenious folks threw together a.pkg that would install all the features and options of the 10.1 server at the time (pretty much redid some config files, and made a nice server interface).
I totally forgot the name, someone else here may bring it up.
Bloxsom is already out for OS X, you can use that.
Jabber... I'm not to sure if apple will released their jabber server, i really wish they would open up the iChat SDK. And check the darwin forums, apple may have to release their Jabber server (and it makes sense for them to have ichat support / features from jabber available on other servers).
One could call that, but most social programs have been shown to employ more people and stimulate the economy.
I saw an economist speak at my university (unfortunatly I forgot his name) who made a simple point. 87 billion spent on the STATE level instead of FEDERAL level would stimulate the economy, just by the fact that states tend to employ more people and man power (you know, how oregon has only 8 state troopers on duty during some nights, for the entire state). And it has been shown that middle class and lower class people are more likely to spend their money (you know, to live, since they are just above the poverty line in a lot of places) than people who already have a savings account, two houses and a forth car.
Yeah, maybe us democrats are buying votes, you know, with jobs, employement and healthcare. Instead of lies, other peoples money, and misinformation. I know I would vote for the candidate that would garuntee i would never have to pay for healthcare again.
Well, I don't know if you have seen the movie yet or not, but Moore is hardly in the movie at all.
It is a collection of clips from news media outlets. So unless moore has a really good way to edit video and fake the records of multiple new companies, I find it hard to see moore as "lieing" since it is bush, cheney, ashcroft, powel, et al saying these words.
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I what you described was very similar to my own computer usage habits in my teen years. I was a social introvert, and felt like I could communicate more easily over IRC.
What i've now realized is that this very stale and limited form of communication (words pale in comparison to things such as body language, tone, eye contact) had curbed my ability to socialize with people in real life. I was not able to handle all of this information being thrown at me when I talked to someone face to face, it became overwhelming. And I became a jerk for a big part of it, what i thought would be sarcastic or witty jokes, ended up being horrible offenses against the people I was talking to, for the very fact that taken as a string of words, it wasn't much, but saying it face to face with a person, making eye contact, etc. changed its meaning.
What helped me break out of this was some serious away from computer community building experiences. I went to a non traditional boarding school (http://www.shackleton.org) that forced me to deal with people face to face. Once I was able to discover a sense of closeness with people there, being online just felt fake. There are other options too, outward bound is a good one, that will not only get your kids outside for a couple of weeks, but really push their limits and help them figure out what they are capable of.
I would also suggest limiting their internet access, and having them do outside sports, interaction with people, jobs, and physical exercise, all of which helped me through the difficult stages of puberty and figure out with a little more clarity what I wanted to do with my life.
I also suggest you take a look at "Letters at 3Am: Reports on Endarkenment" By Michael Ventura, specifically the essay "Age of endarkenment" which is an amazing piece on puberty in western cultures. Also take a look at "Shame and Pride: Affect, Sex, and the Birth of the Self" by Donald Nathanson.
And talk to your kids, tell them about your life growing up and what it was like at that time, not in a shaming way or a contrived way, but just share your experiences with what they may be going through.
I am not a shrink, or a developmental psychologist or anything of that nature, I have had to deal with my own puberty and I am currently in a stage in my life self relfecting on it and these are the things that I (and my therapist) have discovered to be helpful.
As a resident of PA who can only drink Fat Tire when as close as the far east distribution center of new belgium as St. Louis, I sir crie sacrilage at wasting such a precious natural resource as a Fat Tire!
or their tripples, or their wheat ales, or just about anything NBB makes.
Documentary, and you will see that they had a complete story arc. (and for those who haven't beaten the game, don't keep reading this). Originally they were going to fight on earth, go back to a halo, and then go back to earth to resolve the game. Thats it, bing, nothing, no Halo 3.
Instead, they ran out of time, they were pushing in so many different directions, that they just had to simplify things. So I would not be surprised if they cut the last two levels from the game, since they were not finished, only to plan on releasing them 4 months later, which would be plenty of time to finish the levels themselves, now that the engine was complete.
It could also just be the planned release of new multiplayer maps.
All halo 2 needs is about two more maps to wrap things up, maybe three so it doesn't feel rushed. But I am glad it ended how it did, because each level felt finished and polished, and I would have rather that had, instead of the Halo 1 "10 minute race to the end" that felt like it was made up just to fill space.
What?
Did you just say you watch tv while swimming? unless you project it on the bottom of your pool, i doubt you are doing more than "floating."
And one for a bomb shelter?
please tell me this is for real, or else I am smoking crack.
Because the Mod community does not want to get involved with legal hassles.
MS is letting these mod folks get away with what they are doing because in effect they are helping MS develop a more secure computing platform (palladium anyone?). MS figures they develop games that have massive XBox Live appeal, keep the system setup to keep the games secure, and then you end up with a revenue stream and research in how to develop a physically secure box to deliver content and services to users also.
He has a BanDai PIPPIN!
Do you know how rare that is?
It's apple excursion into a settop entertainment system.. back in 96. A horrible endevour, so they had Bandai carry the name for them.
Part of the reason apple is having some slow goings doing it again.
As a resident of Greenwich, I can say there are a lot of dicks in the area.
But the beach issue just pissed me off. As a resident, I pay taxes which go towards the maintenance of the beach. It keeps it clean, and its more than just a beach, its a bird sanctuary, and pretty much a park. I realize the classist issues that many people saw when they did not none residents going to the beach, but I always saw it as an environmental concern.
If the budget was not going to increase funding for the beach, but there were going to be more people going to it, how was it going to be kept clean? Well they have found a solution for it, that town residents get parking stickers and if you don't have one you have to pay like $20 to park there. I realize the town is a bunch of elitist pricks, but I was with them on that issue on the grounds of finding a sustainable solution for the beach.
Of course, i live in the cheap part of town, compared to the private estates in back country that have huge drive ways and elaborate fences.
This is also a town where the chief of police tried to shut down the highschool from having its flood lights on at night during the summer, so families could have picnics on the field, on the grounds that teenagers would use it as a location to have parties.
People have their heads so up their collective ass here its ridiculous.
Yeah, its scary, my roommate freshman year is still with his girlfriend he met over an orientation back packing trip.
We are now in our senior year.
I have to wonder, if college is about growing up and expanding your horizons, you (typically) aren't getting anywhere by clinging to one person your entire stay at school.
For 1.
be careful also.
Just because someone can afford to go to college does not mean they are clean. I'm not talking about AIDS, most people are tested for that. I'm talking about genital warts, herpes, and other fun STDs.
A freshman girl came to school last year without being tested, and spread HPV (genital warts) to 9 other people, which then fanned out to probably about 30 at this point. Numbers are one in two or one in four of the people you meet at college will be exposed to HPV. Then if you are a responsible partner, you will have to inform other partners before hooking up with them. If you aren't, well then you don't deserve to have sex knowingly spreading a possible cancer causing illness.
And avoid sleeping with anyone on you hall. It probably wont last, and it makes things weird.
This is 8 on 8 multiplayer.
Bungie has said that single player maps are better quality, for performance issues.
Also this is the beta build from E3 2004, there have been a lot of improvements since then.
Ninja Gaiden, from my experience, does not have the level of baddies swarming over the maps that a halo level does.
Aluminum Foil on your window.
Will keep it nice and pitch black. Trick I learned from a friend who lived in Arizona.
I meant as something to add the music to the music portion of the ipod, you copy a file over to your ipod's data track, it wont play it, unless there is something that has changed dramatically since the last ipod stats i looked at. You still need to add the file to the database, and have the pointers setup right to go to the right file, etc.
You can get a new 2000mAh battery for that model if you want to drop $90 on it.
Various iPod batteries
I may pick one up myself for this 2G i just got from my sister (first ipod owner too, im such a nerd but I can't afford to buy one myself).
Well, part of how the ipod is so fast is that itunes actually generates the file database on its end for the ipod. There is a specific file structure on the ipod that is meant to streamline the listening experience. Instead of having ot read file names with long extensions, possibly none english characters, all of that information is stored in a database and the song files are give just a number.
/1234/456/32.mp3 to the audio processor).
You can get yourself an Archos which you can just drop mp3s onto and play it back that way, but the battery life from my experience is shorter, its bulkier, and it still takes a while just to browse the disk for files. Also, the ipod has two processors, one for audio playback and one for the gui. So it makes sense that apple would make as simple streamlined file structure that the gui processor can feed to the audio playback (ie, user selects to play "Bob Marley - No Woman.mp3" and the gui system feeds
Its ingeniously simple: why make processor on the ipod built for effeciency have to do all this directory / database management (althou the 3g ones do this now) when you can get a desktop computer to do it in a snap.
And i believe there are third party programs out there which you can mount on the ipods "data share" that will easily let you drag and drop files back and forth from the playable section of your ipod.
Actually, what i've seen in a college campus is that the movie ripping / softwarez scene is almost always done by a few students, who then setup shares that the rest of the campus access, here at Bucknell, students will pass around smb paths and watch the movies from that, and of course, there is the pre summer ritual of downloading every movie off of everyone elses machine and burning them to cds so they can watch them over the summer. We even had a file server local to the university run by the students that distributed just about any file under the sun, but it had a horrible gui interface. All I think the campus needs is a custom gnutella client meant to operate inside the school network with a local tracker (run by students of course) since the student fileserver was run by rich as kid with a massive terabyte raid setup. Pretty much we just need a searchable interface for all of the smb / windows shares, which is around, but no one has setup a concise server for it.
What I am wondering about is if someone would throw a small condenser ontop of the bong, to reuse the water mist. I mean, you could just run it through a decent sized radiator block and get a collection of water at the other end, and have it go back into the bong system.
Wow, creative uses for modifying a bong that has nothing to do with weed.
sorry, i meant to be more clear. I have the shitty cam copy, and while they could watch that, i'd rather give them a good telesync copy instead.
The being able to pause it and take breaks was in regards to watching it in the house instead of the theatre, not the data format.
In halo, if you don't do anything for a while, the master chief plays with his guns, fiddles with settings, etc.
No, i got the vcd cam version.
I wish someone would do a telesync of it already, my parents would love to see it, but would need to be able to pause it and take breaks.
Yes, about 15 minutes are missing. I have seen both the download and the movie in theatres (twice now).
fellow Spiderman fans.
Did anyone else catch Jameson's son doing that huge leap to get to MJ near the end?
I am convinced its a nod to showing him having the symbiot in him (from the cartoon, not the comic books) where I believe he contracted it while in space.
Anyway, I think for a sequel (or triquel?) now that we have:
A) love interest issues resolved (no more harping over MJ)
B) identity issue resolved
We need something to spice it up some more. We obviously have the green goblin 2 coming in the next one, but what about Venom? Any thoughts on this? (i may have the names mixed up, it's been a while since i've read the comics / cartoons).
I remember from when 10.1 came out (or sometime around that), some ingenious folks threw together a .pkg that would install all the features and options of the 10.1 server at the time (pretty much redid some config files, and made a nice server interface).
I totally forgot the name, someone else here may bring it up.
Bloxsom is already out for OS X, you can use that.
Jabber... I'm not to sure if apple will released their jabber server, i really wish they would open up the iChat SDK. And check the darwin forums, apple may have to release their Jabber server (and it makes sense for them to have ichat support / features from jabber available on other servers).
One could call that, but most social programs have been shown to employ more people and stimulate the economy.
I saw an economist speak at my university (unfortunatly I forgot his name) who made a simple point. 87 billion spent on the STATE level instead of FEDERAL level would stimulate the economy, just by the fact that states tend to employ more people and man power (you know, how oregon has only 8 state troopers on duty during some nights, for the entire state). And it has been shown that middle class and lower class people are more likely to spend their money (you know, to live, since they are just above the poverty line in a lot of places) than people who already have a savings account, two houses and a forth car.
Yeah, maybe us democrats are buying votes, you know, with jobs, employement and healthcare. Instead of lies, other peoples money, and misinformation. I know I would vote for the candidate that would garuntee i would never have to pay for healthcare again.
Well, I don't know if you have seen the movie yet or not, but Moore is hardly in the movie at all.
It is a collection of clips from news media outlets. So unless moore has a really good way to edit video and fake the records of multiple new companies, I find it hard to see moore as "lieing" since it is bush, cheney, ashcroft, powel, et al saying these words.
"This is the Guy who Tried to Kill My Dad"
*boink*