Learn new things. That's how you "exercise" your brain. Things that are tough and cause "brain pain" are generally best for you.
Use it or lose it. No magic pills will help. Same for body, as for mind.
Absolutely! I'd add:
Read books. Exercise for the brain, (visualization, following the plot) as opposed to passively watching TV
Do crossword puzzles, sudoku, whatever else makes you "figure things out". Computer games that exercise your mind (eg: sim city) are a lot better than shot-em-ups
Play board games with others - gets you to interact with others, as opposed to being a "loner" - and this exercises other parts of the brain. Trivial pursuit, cranium, pictionary, risk, monopoly, etc.
Exercise your curiosity. Try to figure out "why" something is the way it is, or:how" something does what it does, without just "looking it up on the innertubss". Sharpen your powers of observation.
Lead a healthy lifestyle. Walk a few klicks every day outdoors, rain or shine, sleet or hail (in other words, get a dog that has to be walked). Don't smoke, don't drink to excess but don't be a teetotaler either (moderate alcohol use does NOT kill brain cells, contrary to the old story about "every drink costs you 100,000 brain cells". NO hang-over, no damage, and the other health benefits are worth it).
Do this for 40 years, and you'll be just as sharp at 50 as you were at 20. In other words, if you didn't get into the habit of doing this as a kid, you're probably fscked.
Has anyone else noticed that almost everywhere you look now, the name Google appears. Was a time when Google meant search engine, now it appears the word Google can mean almost anything.... Seems to me that Google is looking to make themselves the biggest brand in the world...and once you have that power, you can sell almost anything, and name your price
Has anyone else googled that almost everywhere you google now, the name Google appears. Was a google when Google meant google google, now it appears the word Google can google almost anything.... Seems to me that Google is googling to make themselves the biggest brand in the googleplex...and once you have that googlishiousness, you can google almost anything, and name your google.
I've found a fair number of friends are using FX with no extensions. When I've found this, I've recommended in the past they switch to Opera, as out of the box it's better than Fx. Now I'm pushing Chrome at them.
Wouldn't it have been easier to just show them the menu item for add-ons, and let them play around a bit?
Because Google paying OEMs to install Firefox--a third party browser built by a non-profit organization--would seriously undermine Mozilla's non-profit status.
Really? Since when are non-profits affected by what 3rd parties do? Next you'll be saying that the Red Cross can't accept in-kind donations, money, gifts, or other philanthropy from business because that will endanger their non-profit status.
I don't use Windows either at home or at work, but I had to use IE8 to debug a problem with some dynamic content under Windows - it might not have Firebug like Firefox, but it's a lot better than it was... If IE8 had been out 6 years ago, Firefox wouldn't be a threat. Then again, if they had introduced Vista 6 years ago, everyone would have had no choice but to run linux or OSX (can you imagine Vista on a 1 ghz Pentium with 128k of ram, a 64 meg video card, and a 20 gig hard drive?)
I downloaded it to do compatibility testing, then decided "why bother?" I don't use Windows on my laptop, my home box, or my box at work; bad enough I have to track down a user who still has IE6 once in a while.
Funny thing was, I had switched to Opera a while back, but a few months ago I switched back to firefox, because Opera stopped working properly (had to right-click to open links). FF3 is a big improvement.
Quick, tell the fundies that they can get the DNA from the Shroud of Turin and, for $10,000,000, they'll have the second coming!
They can also get DNA from one of the millions pf pieces of the cross that are floating around (there's enough pieces of the cross to build a fleet of arks, but that's another story - must be the old "loaves and fishes" trick writ large).
How many people would like to own a clone of Jesus? Or for Catholics - a special - a clone of Mary - you can be the first to Fuck the Mother of God!!! Create a Jesus that has YOUR DNA!!! Only $10,000,000.00
And for atheists - imagine being able to tell Jesus to STFU in PERSON! $10 a head, come on....
... and we'd no longer see those stupid "What Would Jesus Do" stickers. We'd just ask him... think of the $$$ from endorsements!
... and we could see if Wilsons' Nails really ARE better...
... and he'd be a natural first-round draft choice for goalie in the NHL - everyone knows "Jesus Saves!"
... and instead of doing the pretend-cannibalism of "take, drink, this is my blood, take, eat, this is my body" - you could clone parts of him and serve real Jesus Steak, or a real McJesusBurger. Or combine it with fish DNA and get Holy Mackerel!
... and now, if there's damage caused by an "Act of God", you can have someone to SUE!
I will give my account name to nobody. It is nobody's business what I do or write in my spare time.
Library? For bunnies sakes, what has this to remotely do with the competence of a person to do a job?
Do you really ask these questions
We lost a very good unix programmer who surfed slashdot daily; and nobody begrudged him the breaks to get a "change of perspective", etc. He's been impossible to replace. So yes, if they get all "wtf" when you say "Who are CowboyNeil and the goat guy?", but they can go on and on about the latest video card or their techniques for gold pharming...
Why do you have a problem with the personal library issue? Anyone who is serious about their career should be willing to invest in more then just the latest graphics card. This includes programming manuals, reference manuals, etc. They've "put their money where their mouth is", so to speak. An eclectic library, on the other hand, shows that they also have a broader field of interest, and are more likely to grok different perspectives or points of view.
It shows initiative, where their priorities are, and that they probably CAN read. I can't believe the people who are now whining "I'm a 'visual learner' - I can't learn from a book!'
Seriously. If they go "what?" just shake your head and go "NEXT!"
Look at their posting history. If all they talk about is code code code, again, skip over them. People skills are more important.
Once you're old enough, you don't have to get into "pissing contests", and the younger ones around you don't waste their time trying, either, because they know it's not a good idea...
Also, ask what their physical (you know, "dead-tree") library is like. They should have a decent number of books on the technology you're hiring them for, as well as IT in general. Also, books in unrelated areas, like sci-fi, mystery, crime, or biographies. They should have more books than games. Lots more books.
Also look for a sense of humor - you need it in this business. A sad sack will just drag everyone else down with them.
In fact I have jury duty tomorrow, and my Kindle will help me pass the time. I don't know what I will be in the mood to read when I get there, or how much time I will have to read. I can decide then.
As opposed to when I had jury duty - we watched The Simpsons on my cell phone during breaks, a movie on another juror's laptop, played poker, etc. The Kindle is a single-user device.
As a minimum I'll have the day's WSJ to read.
Not once you're sequestered, you won't. Better bring a deck of cards and a few board games. No TV, no radio, no cell phones, no newspapers, no laptops... not even books.
Get a better screen. The cheap LCDs are terrible for the eyes - the expensive ones are NICE. I can look at them for hours, whereas the cheap ones, I can't look at for more than a minute at the most, and even then, my eyeballs feel like they're bleeding.
Any material where being able to 'search' would be a benefit.
Dead tree manuals offer both indexes (prepared by humans, so usually much easier to find the relevant text than just searching for a string) and meta-indexes - a.k.a "Table of Contents."
Plus you can physically dog-ear a page, scribble on it, stick post-its on various pages, scan and make notes on a printed copy, and find them years later easily. Not so easy with DRM'd stuff.
I have an excellent library only a couple of miles from my house, giving me access to the latest hardcovers... it's far more sensible than squandering money on DRM encumbered "copies" that I can't easily share with my wife, lend to a friend or resell.
You can resell the books you borrow from the library? PROFIT!!!
There is nothing better than going in the library, firing up a premium cigar or my pipe and doing either some actual real book work-reading of leisurely reading.
Oh, there is something better: reading while not inhaling noxious fumes.
He *did* say he was "going to the library." Depending on how his intestines react to yesterday's burritos, noxious fumes may not be optional...
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Absolutely! I'd add:
Do this for 40 years, and you'll be just as sharp at 50 as you were at 20. In other words, if you didn't get into the habit of doing this as a kid, you're probably fscked.
... how soon before the ISPs currently serving the community sue?
Has anyone else googled that almost everywhere you google now, the name Google appears. Was a google when Google meant google google, now it appears the word Google can google almost anything.... Seems to me that Google is googling to make themselves the biggest brand in the googleplex...and once you have that googlishiousness, you can google almost anything, and name your google.
There - fixed it for you.
-- (signed) : Your evil^Wgoogle overlord.
Wouldn't it have been easier to just show them the menu item for add-ons, and let them play around a bit?
Really? Since when are non-profits affected by what 3rd parties do? Next you'll be saying that the Red Cross can't accept in-kind donations, money, gifts, or other philanthropy from business because that will endanger their non-profit status.
Are you running Windows? That could explain it ... I've had NO problems under linux on an AMD64 dual 1.9 w 4 gig ram.
They really WILL become a "tabula rasa".
I don't use Windows either at home or at work, but I had to use IE8 to debug a problem with some dynamic content under Windows - it might not have Firebug like Firefox, but it's a lot better than it was ... If IE8 had been out 6 years ago, Firefox wouldn't be a threat. Then again, if they had introduced Vista 6 years ago, everyone would have had no choice but to run linux or OSX (can you imagine Vista on a 1 ghz Pentium with 128k of ram, a 64 meg video card, and a 20 gig hard drive?)
I downloaded it to do compatibility testing, then decided "why bother?" I don't use Windows on my laptop, my home box, or my box at work; bad enough I have to track down a user who still has IE6 once in a while.
Funny thing was, I had switched to Opera a while back, but a few months ago I switched back to firefox, because Opera stopped working properly (had to right-click to open links). FF3 is a big improvement.
Firefox and Opera aren't standing still ...
Any browser on a modern laptop is fast.
Chrome isn't ready for prime time ... not a good idea at this point.
Why not just get them to include firefox and google apps, giving something of more perceived value?
The good, the bad, and the ugly.
Of course, which is which changes on a daily basis, depending on which one has made the latest frak-up ...
You cannot patent a games' rules (which is the "invention" part of the game). Heck, you can't even prevent people from copying them via copyright.
copyright != patent !
Quick, tell the fundies that they can get the DNA from the Shroud of Turin and, for $10,000,000, they'll have the second coming!
They can also get DNA from one of the millions pf pieces of the cross that are floating around (there's enough pieces of the cross to build a fleet of arks, but that's another story - must be the old "loaves and fishes" trick writ large).
How many people would like to own a clone of Jesus? Or for Catholics - a special - a clone of Mary - you can be the first to Fuck the Mother of God!!! Create a Jesus that has YOUR DNA!!! Only $10,000,000.00
And for atheists - imagine being able to tell Jesus to STFU in PERSON! $10 a head, come on ....
We lost a very good unix programmer who surfed slashdot daily; and nobody begrudged him the breaks to get a "change of perspective", etc. He's been impossible to replace. So yes, if they get all "wtf" when you say "Who are CowboyNeil and the goat guy?", but they can go on and on about the latest video card or their techniques for gold pharming ...
Why do you have a problem with the personal library issue? Anyone who is serious about their career should be willing to invest in more then just the latest graphics card. This includes programming manuals, reference manuals, etc. They've "put their money where their mouth is", so to speak. An eclectic library, on the other hand, shows that they also have a broader field of interest, and are more likely to grok different perspectives or points of view.
It shows initiative, where their priorities are, and that they probably CAN read. I can't believe the people who are now whining "I'm a 'visual learner' - I can't learn from a book!'
In Soviet Russia, mammoth mount YOU!
aka "Fatal Attraction 2".
Seriously. If they go "what?" just shake your head and go "NEXT!"
Look at their posting history. If all they talk about is code code code, again, skip over them. People skills are more important.
Once you're old enough, you don't have to get into "pissing contests", and the younger ones around you don't waste their time trying, either, because they know it's not a good idea ...
Also, ask what their physical (you know, "dead-tree") library is like. They should have a decent number of books on the technology you're hiring them for, as well as IT in general. Also, books in unrelated areas, like sci-fi, mystery, crime, or biographies. They should have more books than games. Lots more books.
Also look for a sense of humor - you need it in this business. A sad sack will just drag everyone else down with them.
Somehow I don't think the military are going to buy your line of reasoning, recruit ...
As opposed to when I had jury duty - we watched The Simpsons on my cell phone during breaks, a movie on another juror's laptop, played poker, etc. The Kindle is a single-user device.
Not once you're sequestered, you won't. Better bring a deck of cards and a few board games. No TV, no radio, no cell phones, no newspapers, no laptops ... not even books.
Get a better screen. The cheap LCDs are terrible for the eyes - the expensive ones are NICE. I can look at them for hours, whereas the cheap ones, I can't look at for more than a minute at the most, and even then, my eyeballs feel like they're bleeding.
Dead tree manuals offer both indexes (prepared by humans, so usually much easier to find the relevant text than just searching for a string) and meta-indexes - a.k.a "Table of Contents."
Plus you can physically dog-ear a page, scribble on it, stick post-its on various pages, scan and make notes on a printed copy, and find them years later easily. Not so easy with DRM'd stuff.
You can resell the books you borrow from the library? PROFIT!!!
He *did* say he was "going to the library." Depending on how his intestines react to yesterday's burritos, noxious fumes may not be optional ...