As for not being obvious about the short sentences... with my youngest son (4th child, now 20 months old), I made the conscious decision not only "no baby talk", but talk in full sentences just like I do to adults.
We basically did the same thing with my daughter, now almost 6 years old. We never used baby talk [no 'baba' or 'wawa', always 'bottle' and 'water]. From day one we would talk to her constantly. We would explain every detail of everything we did in full sentences. Sure, we'd often use the high-pitched baby-talk cadence and tone [kids do respond to that and learn better from it], but always in full sentences .
The end result? Well, she didn't start talking particularly early, but she did move into complex sentences and ideas well before her peers. By the *beginning* of Kindergarten she was reading at a 2nd grade level with full comprehension, and able to get gist of most 3rd grade level stuff and higher. She has an amazing grasp of language. As an example, in the first month of her Kindergarten class, her teacher was walking them through the hallways. The teacher was asking the students not to look into the open doors of other classrooms. The teacher struggled to find the right word when she told them that the other classes might find it 'disturbing'. My daughter immediately pipes up and corrects her, saying, "Actually, I think you mean 'distracting'."
I'm no child development expert by any stretch of the imagination, but that strikes me as an amazing grasp of a very subtle difference in wording for a 5 year old to not only recognize, but immediately come up with the better word.
We still use complex sentences when we speak with her, and make a point to pull out all the stops with the vocabulary we will use with her. She's very good about stopping us and asking us what a word means if there's one she doesn't understand.
The downside to all of this is that she thinks most of her classmates are idiots, but frankly, she needs to learn to interact with people of differing abilities so she'll have to get over it.;)
copyright is jointly held by the person taking the photograph and the person represented
No it isn't. Absent a contract saying something different, the photographer owns the copyright. End of story.
Image rights are quite different and only exist in a very few jurisdictions (and not the UK, which I get the impression you're from).
His phrasing was poor, but the effects are the same. It's not that I [as the subject] hold any kind of copyright 'rights' to the photo.
It doesn't matter who takes a picture of me. If someone wants to use that photograph of me for commercial purposes, they have to get me to sign a model release form. If they don't have that, I have the right to sue the photographer and/or the company that is using my photo for compensation.
I'm going out on a limb here, but I suspect there will be a setting to auto-hide the launcher dock on the side of the screen. And even if not, it's better than having the dock at the bottom of the screen, given the prevalence of widescreen monitors these days.
And I suspect there will be a setting to turn off the 'maximize when you touch the top' action, just as there is in Win 7.
As far as the look is concerned, I doubt it will take long to be heavily customized to look however you want it to look.
You've decided you don't like it based on an early demo of some default settings. Why don't you wait until it's mature, and give it a try before jumping to conclusions?
You don't think the risk changes when you announce that even though we now have many recorded attempts to use things like PETN to kill people on aircraft (and to bring aircraft down into large cities) that we're going to stop checking for it? Why would groups (like AQ) who show a great willingness to use any technique that has worked in the past, change their approach now? Right. They wouldn't, and they haven't.
The existing security worked just fine. It allowed what-his-name to sneak on just enough 'explosives' to set his crotch on fire, but not enough to do any damage to the plane or anyone on it. Nobody was ever in danger on that flight.
I for one will not submit to the total security theater which is AIT/groping pat-downs, nor will I allow my 5-year old daughter to experience it either. I'd rather take the 1-in-a-million chance with my life and my daughter's than get groped/ogled every time we want to take a vacation...
How about they just make Thunderbird work with Exchange?
That's exactly my thought. If they put as much effort into Thunderbird as they have with Firefox, I'd be happier. Even if they added nothing more than the ability to sync with the calendar, I'd be happy.
I have played around with Linux, but at the end of the day I didn't want to make it my career because it is a giant headache far too often. Because I have spent thousands and thousands of hours learning Microsoft products I will be resistant to deploying Linux in any place that makes my boss money. I haven't spent the time on it, nor do I want to. Life is too short to deploy Linux. I want family time.
Funny you should say that. We have a Windows server team [2 sysadmins] and a Unix [Solaris/Linux] server team [2 sysadmins]. There are roughly equal number of servers/apps for each. The Windows guys are constantly working long hours and getting late-night support pages. As a Unix admin, I get maybe 1 after-hours support call ever 3-4 months. Life is too short to deploy Windows. I want family time [and sleep!].
The RAM is over 3 years old. It's likely that it went bad due to some mucking about I did with the motherboard, not a specific issue with the RAM.
And what hoops are you talking about? I went onto their website, put in the model and SN, with a description of the problem and what I had done to test it. They responded with an RMA number. Not exactly a difficult process for me. Sorry if you had so much trouble with it.
And yet some companies still do. I recently put in an RMA on a set of 2x1GB DDR2 memory with OCZ. I got an email back stating that they are no longer able to provide replacement parts for that set, and that they are sending me a set of 2x2GB instead [and better timings as well]. Probably not costing them much (if anything) more, but increases the likelihood that I will purchase another OCZ product in the future.
Yes, those of us in the southern US (I'm in the Dallas area) do need our AC on. But you don't need it to be at 72F all day.
We have a programmable thermostat. I have it set to go to 80-82F while we're at work, then back down to about 74F shortly before we usually get home. This keeps the house from getting stupidly hot, and keeps the dog from frying.:) But there's no way I could get away with turning the AC off completely all day, especially in July/August. Aside from the dog having problems, I suspect the house would get so hot that the AC would have to run for 1-2 hours solid just to get the temp back down to a comfortable level.
Granted, I have an older house which is drafty as heck and has terrible insulation in the attic (We're slowly fixing all this), but it already is warm enough that the house hits 80F within about 2 hours of the AC going off, which puts it at about 11am. The hottest part of the day isn't until 2-4pm.
No, no place is perfect, but even the little 6 employee firm I used to work for had a better IT infrastructure than you're describing.
#6 - He's not talking about learning every line of code for the app. He's just talking about looking at the app running [monitoring] and knowing if the app is CPU, RAM or IO bound. So that when you DO have some budget [hey they spent $2mil on Siebel, they've got SOME sort of budget], you know if that money needs to go towards CPU, RAM or spindles.
And just because the advice doesn't apply to the crap-hole job you seem to be stuck in, doesn't mean it's BS for the rest of the world...
It may be moderately simple, basic advice. But nothing there is BS.
Darn right we do. Weekly Full + Daily Incrementals -> Disk Array. Kept for 35 days Monthly Archive -> Tape. Shipped offsite and held for 7 years.
Luckily the data being archived to tape fits on a single LTO4 tape.
At todays prices, 7 years worth of LTO4 monthly offsite tapes costs about $6000 7 years worth of 1TB drives [Enterprise class] to ship offsite would cost about $25,000
Yup. Even after paying $4000 for a 24tape robot [1 x LTO4 drive], tape wins handily for us, even ignoring the much better shelf reliability of tape.
I'm in the "Only the keys you need" camp. I HATE having a ton of keys weighing me down and jangling all over the place.
I have a carabiner clip. And then I have my keys grouped on key-rings. I have my car key and fob on one ring. I have my motorcycle key on one ring. I have my house key, and my work desk key on one ring, etc.
I only bring the rings I need. If I'm on the bike, it's an easy move to pull the car-key ring off the clip and leave it on the hall table. If I'm in the car, I don't bring the bike key. I usually have the house+work key, unless I leave it in the car or whatever when I'm not planning on being home/work for awhile.
The 3GS has 256Mb, but the 2G and 3G do only have 128Mb.
This will be nice even if only for google's turn by turn app. I love my iPhone, but I don;t love TomTom's ludicrous price for their app.
Well, you could always look into other options, such as Waze. It's not that great with home addresses but it works fine with most businesses I've tried. Plus it gives turn-by-turn voice directions, learns improved routes as you use it, and it's Open Source.
As with much OSS, it's not perfect, but it seems to be steadily improving since I've started using it.
Well, I never had that problem with Best Buy. As a matter of fact, I've even gotten them to price-match an item from another online-only store. It was easy. 1. Print out page showing online price [Crutchfield in this case, $179 free shipping, for a Logitech Harmony One] 2. Bring print out to local Best Buy - regular price $250 but on sale that day for $225 - plus tax of course] 3. Nicely speak with the sales rep. Mention that you know they don't *HAVE* to match the price from a non-local online ad, but that you would appreciate it if they would do so anyway. Maybe make some mention of what great customer service that would be, and that while it'd be nice to be able to pick it up today, for that kind of price difference you'd be willing to wait to have it shipped]. 4. They may offer a lower price, but not fully matched to your offer. 5. Mention [still politely] that you're already going to have to spend like $15 more on tax by choosing to purchase it locally. 6. Purchase your nicely price-matched item.:)
I'll admit, I did have one minor extra advantage. When I walked up to the sales guy he was discussing the same remote with another potential customer, who asked that he put it on hold while they looked at other items and thought about getting it. I added to the sales guy that if he would price match the online price, I would be nice and not mention to the other customer that he could purchase the exact same remote for $46 less.:)
The point is, act polite. Understand their point of view. Be willing to walk away but not huffy or angry about it. Most of the time, you'll get the price you want.
That's odd. The videos people link to work, but any other video I try doesn't work. The mode isn't selectable in the selection box, and appending &textp=fool doesn't work. [shrug]
ftfa: "My parents came to visit recently, and they brought clothes that said 'he's not the messiah, he's a very naughty boy'. To them, it's just amusing.":)
His parents are obviously way more 'geek cool' than my parents!
Seems I'm also confused as hell about what exactly has "passed" [the House].
After looking at it again, it seems that: H.R. 3590 was the main piece of legislation commonly called the 'Health Care Bill' which was voted on yesterday.
H.R.4872 is the 'reconciliation' portion with the amendments that the house wanted.
They were both voted successfully in the house: Here and Here .
I'm guessing the first one is basically done and needs to be signed by the president. The second one still needs to go through the Senate? I'm not sure.
At any rate, the parent post I responded to had linked to a bill that was old and irrelevant.
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As for not being obvious about the short sentences... with my youngest son (4th child, now 20 months old), I made the conscious decision not only "no baby talk", but talk in full sentences just like I do to adults.
We basically did the same thing with my daughter, now almost 6 years old. We never used baby talk [no 'baba' or 'wawa', always 'bottle' and 'water]. From day one we would talk to her constantly. We would explain every detail of everything we did in full sentences. Sure, we'd often use the high-pitched baby-talk cadence and tone [kids do respond to that and learn better from it], but always in full sentences .
The end result? Well, she didn't start talking particularly early, but she did move into complex sentences and ideas well before her peers. By the *beginning* of Kindergarten she was reading at a 2nd grade level with full comprehension, and able to get gist of most 3rd grade level stuff and higher. She has an amazing grasp of language. As an example, in the first month of her Kindergarten class, her teacher was walking them through the hallways. The teacher was asking the students not to look into the open doors of other classrooms. The teacher struggled to find the right word when she told them that the other classes might find it 'disturbing'. My daughter immediately pipes up and corrects her, saying, "Actually, I think you mean 'distracting'."
I'm no child development expert by any stretch of the imagination, but that strikes me as an amazing grasp of a very subtle difference in wording for a 5 year old to not only recognize, but immediately come up with the better word.
We still use complex sentences when we speak with her, and make a point to pull out all the stops with the vocabulary we will use with her. She's very good about stopping us and asking us what a word means if there's one she doesn't understand.
The downside to all of this is that she thinks most of her classmates are idiots, but frankly, she needs to learn to interact with people of differing abilities so she'll have to get over it. ;)
Now we just need to work on her math skills...
Probably from the USPS? They make it freely available on their website. Zip codes are surprisingly narrow.
My zip isn't THAT narrow. They had highlighted the exact block that I live on, and it's not the center of said zip code.
Ok, color me creeped out. All I did was put in my zip code, and it brought up a map of the block I live on... Not sure where they pulled that data.
No it isn't. Absent a contract saying something different, the photographer owns the copyright. End of story.
Image rights are quite different and only exist in a very few jurisdictions (and not the UK, which I get the impression you're from).
His phrasing was poor, but the effects are the same. It's not that I [as the subject] hold any kind of copyright 'rights' to the photo.
It doesn't matter who takes a picture of me. If someone wants to use that photograph of me for commercial purposes, they have to get me to sign a model release form. If they don't have that, I have the right to sue the photographer and/or the company that is using my photo for compensation.
I'm going out on a limb here, but I suspect there will be a setting to auto-hide the launcher dock on the side of the screen. And even if not, it's better than having the dock at the bottom of the screen, given the prevalence of widescreen monitors these days.
And I suspect there will be a setting to turn off the 'maximize when you touch the top' action, just as there is in Win 7.
As far as the look is concerned, I doubt it will take long to be heavily customized to look however you want it to look.
You've decided you don't like it based on an early demo of some default settings. Why don't you wait until it's mature, and give it a try before jumping to conclusions?
that infinitesimal risk
You don't think the risk changes when you announce that even though we now have many recorded attempts to use things like PETN to kill people on aircraft (and to bring aircraft down into large cities) that we're going to stop checking for it? Why would groups (like AQ) who show a great willingness to use any technique that has worked in the past, change their approach now? Right. They wouldn't, and they haven't.
The existing security worked just fine. It allowed what-his-name to sneak on just enough 'explosives' to set his crotch on fire, but not enough to do any damage to the plane or anyone on it. Nobody was ever in danger on that flight.
I for one will not submit to the total security theater which is AIT/groping pat-downs, nor will I allow my 5-year old daughter to experience it either. I'd rather take the 1-in-a-million chance with my life and my daughter's than get groped/ogled every time we want to take a vacation...
How about they just make Thunderbird work with Exchange?
That's exactly my thought. If they put as much effort into Thunderbird as they have with Firefox, I'd be happier. Even if they added nothing more than the ability to sync with the calendar, I'd be happy.
I have played around with Linux, but at the end of the day I didn't want to make it my career because it is a giant headache far too often. Because I have spent thousands and thousands of hours learning Microsoft products I will be resistant to deploying Linux in any place that makes my boss money. I haven't spent the time on it, nor do I want to. Life is too short to deploy Linux. I want family time.
Funny you should say that. We have a Windows server team [2 sysadmins] and a Unix [Solaris/Linux] server team [2 sysadmins]. There are roughly equal number of servers/apps for each. The Windows guys are constantly working long hours and getting late-night support pages. As a Unix admin, I get maybe 1 after-hours support call ever 3-4 months.
Life is too short to deploy Windows. I want family time [and sleep!].
The RAM is over 3 years old. It's likely that it went bad due to some mucking about I did with the motherboard, not a specific issue with the RAM.
And what hoops are you talking about? I went onto their website, put in the model and SN, with a description of the problem and what I had done to test it. They responded with an RMA number. Not exactly a difficult process for me. Sorry if you had so much trouble with it.
And yet some companies still do. I recently put in an RMA on a set of 2x1GB DDR2 memory with OCZ. I got an email back stating that they are no longer able to provide replacement parts for that set, and that they are sending me a set of 2x2GB instead [and better timings as well]. Probably not costing them much (if anything) more, but increases the likelihood that I will purchase another OCZ product in the future.
I purchased a nice pony-tail holder from at artist at a fair once. He wrote on the back of the card: "Lifetime Warranty. Mine, not yours. " :)
Yes, those of us in the southern US (I'm in the Dallas area) do need our AC on. But you don't need it to be at 72F all day.
We have a programmable thermostat. I have it set to go to 80-82F while we're at work, then back down to about 74F shortly before we usually get home. This keeps the house from getting stupidly hot, and keeps the dog from frying. :) But there's no way I could get away with turning the AC off completely all day, especially in July/August. Aside from the dog having problems, I suspect the house would get so hot that the AC would have to run for 1-2 hours solid just to get the temp back down to a comfortable level.
Granted, I have an older house which is drafty as heck and has terrible insulation in the attic (We're slowly fixing all this), but it already is warm enough that the house hits 80F within about 2 hours of the AC going off, which puts it at about 11am. The hottest part of the day isn't until 2-4pm.
Man, you seriously need to find a better job.
No, no place is perfect, but even the little 6 employee firm I used to work for had a better IT infrastructure than you're describing.
#6 - He's not talking about learning every line of code for the app. He's just talking about looking at the app running [monitoring] and knowing if the app is CPU, RAM or IO bound. So that when you DO have some budget [hey they spent $2mil on Siebel, they've got SOME sort of budget], you know if that money needs to go towards CPU, RAM or spindles.
And just because the advice doesn't apply to the crap-hole job you seem to be stuck in, doesn't mean it's BS for the rest of the world...
It may be moderately simple, basic advice. But nothing there is BS.
Darn right we do.
Weekly Full + Daily Incrementals -> Disk Array. Kept for 35 days
Monthly Archive -> Tape. Shipped offsite and held for 7 years.
Luckily the data being archived to tape fits on a single LTO4 tape.
At todays prices, 7 years worth of LTO4 monthly offsite tapes costs about $6000
7 years worth of 1TB drives [Enterprise class] to ship offsite would cost about $25,000
Yup. Even after paying $4000 for a 24tape robot [1 x LTO4 drive], tape wins handily for us, even ignoring the much better shelf reliability of tape.
I'm in the "Only the keys you need" camp. I HATE having a ton of keys weighing me down and jangling all over the place.
I have a carabiner clip. And then I have my keys grouped on key-rings. I have my car key and fob on one ring. I have my motorcycle key on one ring. I have my house key, and my work desk key on one ring, etc.
I only bring the rings I need. If I'm on the bike, it's an easy move to pull the car-key ring off the clip and leave it on the hall table. If I'm in the car, I don't bring the bike key. I usually have the house+work key, unless I leave it in the car or whatever when I'm not planning on being home/work for awhile.
I just tested this and I was able to download firmware for some of our x86 servers with no issues.
The 3GS has 256Mb, but the 2G and 3G do only have 128Mb.
This will be nice even if only for google's turn by turn app. I love my iPhone, but I don;t love TomTom's ludicrous price for their app.
Well, you could always look into other options, such as Waze. It's not that great with home addresses but it works fine with most businesses I've tried. Plus it gives turn-by-turn voice directions, learns improved routes as you use it, and it's Open Source.
As with much OSS, it's not perfect, but it seems to be steadily improving since I've started using it.
I didn't say I'd never heard of it. I said I never *had* that problem. Try reading it again, thanks.
Well, I never had that problem with Best Buy. As a matter of fact, I've even gotten them to price-match an item from another online-only store. It was easy. :)
1. Print out page showing online price [Crutchfield in this case, $179 free shipping, for a Logitech Harmony One]
2. Bring print out to local Best Buy - regular price $250 but on sale that day for $225 - plus tax of course]
3. Nicely speak with the sales rep. Mention that you know they don't *HAVE* to match the price from a non-local online ad, but that you would appreciate it if they would do so anyway. Maybe make some mention of what great customer service that would be, and that while it'd be nice to be able to pick it up today, for that kind of price difference you'd be willing to wait to have it shipped].
4. They may offer a lower price, but not fully matched to your offer.
5. Mention [still politely] that you're already going to have to spend like $15 more on tax by choosing to purchase it locally.
6. Purchase your nicely price-matched item.
I'll admit, I did have one minor extra advantage. When I walked up to the sales guy he was discussing the same remote with another potential customer, who asked that he put it on hold while they looked at other items and thought about getting it. I added to the sales guy that if he would price match the online price, I would be nice and not mention to the other customer that he could purchase the exact same remote for $46 less. :)
The point is, act polite. Understand their point of view. Be willing to walk away but not huffy or angry about it. Most of the time, you'll get the price you want.
That's odd. The videos people link to work, but any other video I try doesn't work. The mode isn't selectable in the selection box, and appending &textp=fool doesn't work. [shrug]
Around here it's all Maruchan or Nissin.
Which would suggest he's got a blood-salt level of about .9 :)
enough for 2 days maybe....
Geez man, how much Ramen do you eat? Around here you can find them for $0.25/package normally, on on occasion, half that.
He's NOT the messaiah, he is a very naughty boy!
ftfa: "My parents came to visit recently, and they brought clothes that said 'he's not the messiah, he's a very naughty boy'. To them, it's just amusing." :)
His parents are obviously way more 'geek cool' than my parents!
Seems I'm also confused as hell about what exactly has "passed" [the House].
After looking at it again, it seems that:
H.R. 3590 was the main piece of legislation commonly called the 'Health Care Bill' which was voted on yesterday.
H.R.4872 is the 'reconciliation' portion with the amendments that the house wanted.
They were both voted successfully in the house: Here and Here .
I'm guessing the first one is basically done and needs to be signed by the president. The second one still needs to go through the Senate? I'm not sure.
At any rate, the parent post I responded to had linked to a bill that was old and irrelevant.