Teach the basics: reading, writing, history and math. Ditch the crap. Two hours of athletic activity per day all through school. Encourage discovery and show them how to use libraries and the internet to delve deep into other topics if they are interrested. Right now schools cover so much crap that nothing sticks for a big chunk of the students. Gifted students will find their own way with a little nudging.
GEDCOM is the standard file format for geneology information. There are plenty of products that import or use this format. GEDCOM was developed by the LDS Church (Mormons). They also have a free program to manage your geneological data called Personal Ancestral File. Personally I use PHPGEDView to manage my family geneology data (view here
The last 2KM they where whining quite a bit but after an hour of rest they were bouncing around. Granted, they are pretty active kids. Here are some pics from the trip:
I guess to some people it is difficult to explain the self enlightment gained from pushing youself past what you believe your limits are. I'm trying to ithat lesson in my kids too. We spent the last three weeks driving to Mexico to explore Mexico's Copper canyon.
Over a three week period they got to experience some really long hikes to waterfalls, cliffs and caves. They got to explore ruins and ride through the the hills on a horse. At one point we hiked over 18KM to find a waterfall and back. We took a train ride though the mountains and stayed in a town that tooks a 45minute ride up a steep mountain to access. Not bad for three kids aged 6,8 and 9.
And I'd be proud of any othe them if they decided to join the military when they grow up.
Go ahead and rant. Go ahead and tell your kids not to listen to the evil recruiters. At that age you virtually gaurantee they will want to join. The military is a valid career alternative for anyone regardless of their highschool grades or economic status. The military cranks out more skilled tradesmen and managers than any other organization or school.
I went from a 2.4 GPA in highschool to operating a nucleap power plant in two years. When I did finally go to college I was at the top of my class. I credit the Navy for gettign me where I am today.
Whatever you do make sure yo uorder big plasma screens for the room that way even though the rest of the equipment goes t waste yo uhave an awesome room for a LAN party.
Reading a book on computer is an unpleasant annoyance. Most consumers are more than willing to fork out $5-8 for a bound copy. Those cusumers who choose to read rather than exclusivly watch DVDs for entrertainment anyhow.
THe "big deal" for a lot of web developers is that you can avoid annoying refreshes to update content. Using XMLHTTP you can retrieve your information in the background and use the XML DOM/DHTML to update only what needs to be updated - instead of redownloading an entire page (and flickering). I wrote a chat app a few year ago that worked this way and it was amazingly responsive.
I had a similar problem when I tied work and material schedules together at a large manufacturer and discovered that managers were intentionally fudging schedules when it was plainly obvious that certain material items would be very, very late. For six months they kept fighting my schedule reports until it was announced that the scheduling and meterial would be tied together in a new SAP ERP environment. Of course that caused a lot of other problems but my report paled in comparison to the accountability of a realtime scheduling program. As a side note, SAP was so painful it is still causing long,even now. In a realtime system there is no real way to perform what-if analysis and it is difficult to move resources around rapidly without fear of a trainwreck.
I guess I look at it this way. At at least a dozen locations around the world there are humans standing around very large rocks balanced on thin foundations. These odidties attract so much attention because the probability of the foundation below a large rock eroding in just such a way that the base erodes faster than the top yet has the strength to support the top is rare.
Every day imagery analysts and specilized softtware routines sort though tons of imagry to find manmade objects. Manmade objects tend to stand out easily in most sensor data because of things light perfect right angles. Manmade objects just aren't as random as tneighboring objects. I personally know of one case where SAR RADAR techniques were used to find a month old planewreck across a two state area.
Now imagine that rock balanced on that thin strip of dirt/stone. Imagine a pyramid perched on top of the rock and a large disc perfectly balanced on top of the pyramid. At what point does it seem just too coincidental and "unnatural" to be a natural occurance?
The ID argument is the extension of this. There are a large number of really odd coincidences in nature that all add up to allowing for our existance.
The argument is much more complex than that. Gravity, boiling point of water, molecular behaviour, yadda, yadda, yadda. Anyhow, assuming all these odd happenstances coming together in a universe rife with entropy and the long march to randomness, the liklihood that everything fits "perfectly" to allow the creation of a self aware being is pretty awesome.
A lot of these arguments will place Creationism against the evolution strawman and will miss the entire point of the intelligent design theory. What I've read of the intelligent design argument is that there really are a bizarrely huge number of coincidences that exist that allow for living creatures to exist. Change even one and the entire sytem will falter. The only decent argument to refute that I've managed to come up with is to consider that in a endless universe there are limitless posabilities.
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Oops, there goes my Fruitloops out my nose.
Back in 2002 there were still a lot of folks running Win98 on Laptops/Notebooks.
Like I said. With the tools in the hands of every citizen (in the US), access to information is not the limiting factor.
And it is getting tougher and tougher to find people who even know the basics.
Teach the basics: reading, writing, history and math. Ditch the crap. Two hours of athletic activity per day all through school. Encourage discovery and show them how to use libraries and the internet to delve deep into other topics if they are interrested. Right now schools cover so much crap that nothing sticks for a big chunk of the students. Gifted students will find their own way with a little nudging.
GEDCOM is the standard file format for geneology information. There are plenty of products that import or use this format. GEDCOM was developed by the LDS Church (Mormons). They also have a free program to manage your geneological data called Personal Ancestral File. Personally I use PHPGEDView to manage my family geneology data (view here
Nice selective memory you have.
Maybe to license a third-party's TCP/IP stack implementation?
Seriously folks, corporate america ownz the government.
What moron let this title slip by. Uhhhh, the sun? Numerous research reactors?
The last 2KM they where whining quite a bit but after an hour of rest they were bouncing around. Granted, they are pretty active kids. Here are some pics from the trip:
http://lowing.org/mexico/
I guess to some people it is difficult to explain the self enlightment gained from pushing youself past what you believe your limits are. I'm trying to ithat lesson in my kids too. We spent the last three weeks driving to Mexico to explore Mexico's Copper canyon.
Over a three week period they got to experience some really long hikes to waterfalls, cliffs and caves. They got to explore ruins and ride through the the hills on a horse. At one point we hiked over 18KM to find a waterfall and back. We took a train ride though the mountains and stayed in a town that tooks a 45minute ride up a steep mountain to access. Not bad for three kids aged 6,8 and 9.
And I'd be proud of any othe them if they decided to join the military when they grow up.
Thanks. If I only would have taken that typing class in highschool.
Go ahead and rant. Go ahead and tell your kids not to listen to the evil recruiters. At that age you virtually gaurantee they will want to join. The military is a valid career alternative for anyone regardless of their highschool grades or economic status. The military cranks out more skilled tradesmen and managers than any other organization or school.
I went from a 2.4 GPA in highschool to operating a nucleap power plant in two years. When I did finally go to college I was at the top of my class. I credit the Navy for gettign me where I am today.
Whatever you do make sure yo uorder big plasma screens for the room that way even though the rest of the equipment goes t waste yo uhave an awesome room for a LAN party.
Reading a book on computer is an unpleasant annoyance. Most consumers are more than willing to fork out $5-8 for a bound copy. Those cusumers who choose to read rather than exclusivly watch DVDs for entrertainment anyhow.
Information wants to be free. No more free rides. If you want to survive then develop a book reader you can use in the bathtub and market it.
THe "big deal" for a lot of web developers is that you can avoid annoying refreshes to update content. Using XMLHTTP you can retrieve your information in the background and use the XML DOM/DHTML to update only what needs to be updated - instead of redownloading an entire page (and flickering). I wrote a chat app a few year ago that worked this way and it was amazingly responsive.
Banks are evil. Use Credit Unions.
I had a similar problem when I tied work and material schedules together at a large manufacturer and discovered that managers were intentionally fudging schedules when it was plainly obvious that certain material items would be very, very late. For six months they kept fighting my schedule reports until it was announced that the scheduling and meterial would be tied together in a new SAP ERP environment. Of course that caused a lot of other problems but my report paled in comparison to the accountability of a realtime scheduling program. As a side note, SAP was so painful it is still causing long ,even now. In a realtime system there is no real way to perform what-if analysis and it is difficult to move resources around rapidly without fear of a trainwreck.
Oh yea!
I guess I look at it this way. At at least a dozen locations around the world there are humans standing around very large rocks balanced on thin foundations. These odidties attract so much attention because the probability of the foundation below a large rock eroding in just such a way that the base erodes faster than the top yet has the strength to support the top is rare.
Every day imagery analysts and specilized softtware routines sort though tons of imagry to find manmade objects. Manmade objects tend to stand out easily in most sensor data because of things light perfect right angles. Manmade objects just aren't as random as tneighboring objects. I personally know of one case where SAR RADAR techniques were used to find a month old planewreck across a two state area.
Now imagine that rock balanced on that thin strip of dirt/stone. Imagine a pyramid perched on top of the rock and a large disc perfectly balanced on top of the pyramid. At what point does it seem just too coincidental and "unnatural" to be a natural occurance?
The ID argument is the extension of this. There are a large number of really odd coincidences in nature that all add up to allowing for our existance.
Maybe he was referring to this trend?
The argument is much more complex than that. Gravity, boiling point of water, molecular behaviour, yadda, yadda, yadda. Anyhow, assuming all these odd happenstances coming together in a universe rife with entropy and the long march to randomness, the liklihood that everything fits "perfectly" to allow the creation of a self aware being is pretty awesome.
A lot of these arguments will place Creationism against the evolution strawman and will miss the entire point of the intelligent design theory. What I've read of the intelligent design argument is that there really are a bizarrely huge number of coincidences that exist that allow for living creatures to exist. Change even one and the entire sytem will falter. The only decent argument to refute that I've managed to come up with is to consider that in a endless universe there are limitless posabilities.