Jumping spiders do in fact make great pets. Their eyesight is sharp enough they seem to be watching you when you move around, and jumping spiders are quite ferocious for their size, making feeding a matter of getting small crickets (or houseflies depending on the size of the spider)
Depending on what part of the nation you live in you could possibly also find wolf spiders (Lycosa spp., I think) which get a bit larger if your kids want something more visible. Or you could get them a tarantula...
With the example of your birds, think: Do baby birds get born with the advantage? If no, it's adaptation (And they are certainly not born knowing lawnmowers = food. That is learned behavior)
I was hoping for the ability to tweak a worm's parameters (infection rate, pool of vulnerable hosts, etc) and see how the infection rate changes....no such luck i guess, this is more like an animated gif or something. Several of the worms do look alot the same but Slammer and Sobig do seem to be distinct.
I've never, ever done the uninstall-reboot-reinstall cycle for upgrading graphics card drivers for the same make and model card and have never suffered for it. Have you actually run into situations where not uninstalling first led to issues?
I'm afraid that I've never met an extremist zealot who homeschooled...
Perhaps extremist zealot isn't accurate here (No doubt that depends on who you ask.) but I might guess that some percentage go in for it as much for control as other benefits. I'm glad to hear that your experience differs, as I find it depressing that parents homeschool sheerly for the control-factor, but here's what I've encountered.
At the last church I attended homeschooling had a strong following, and the parents motivations for it had at least as much to do with isolating their children from "bad" influences as it did with improving the quality of education.
Talking with the youth there (by youth i mean middle and highschool, myself being 18 or 19 at the time) I was floored from time to time by the way they responded to conversation (aside from being more or less socially inept I'd get comments like "Oh right, Metallica...I read about them in world magazine once..") or the naivete they exhibited.
---they were all bright kids, no doubt, and probably knew their stuff academically better than the average highschooler. However you could tell that they were sheltered. It wasn't a matter of waiting until the kid was mature enough to deal with something, the line of thinking was "I don't think my children should encoutner this, so instead of teaching them how to deal with things and make decisions, I'll just make sure they never see it." (As a Christian I never understood that idea, but that's another discussion I guess)
I find it funny in some odd way that Firefox supporters might at some point write the same sort of website they crusade against (i.e., "Your browser isn't compatible with this page, sorry.")
There were some sequences I enjoyed, but in others I felt like I was watching Power Rangers with guns. I'd hafta go back and watch the movie over to pick out examples, but I left it feeling like it would have been alot better if the gun-fu hadn't been so showy (for lack of a better word)
I like Bale but the "gun-fu" in equilibrium really didn't do it for me. I'm not sure if it was the actual action or the cinematography but something just didnt click
Universities might have their own security personnel, but any real police on campus are a part of the local force (and sometimes their own separate precinct depending on the size of the campus)
There is a saying which goes something like "You get what you pay for." If I buy cheap service from GoDaddy, I want to know if I get cheap service, or something better.
Based on my experience places abide by release dates as part of the contract with their distributor (regardless of the item or medium) If you break a release date, at the very least the distributor can cancel your account and refuse to do business with you again.
I work at a bookstore. Depending on how hyped the book is we may start getting in boxes five days or a week early. Woe betide anyone who so much as touches those boxes, and God help you if you put them on the shelf early, as the store can get severely penalized for breaking the release date.
Why the hell weren't the shipments of OSX clearly labeled with a "Do not sell until $date" sticker? Or were they and these establishments ignored it?
I'm in engineering, but I take a handfull of compsci courses over the course of my degree (From basic programming up to more advanced things if i choose) and it seems, based on my observations, that nearly all of the females (and to be fair, alot of the guys) are in it because they thought it was the place to be, not out of any love or interest for computing or programming. Some are in comp sci and can't even effectively *use* a computer.
Am I supposed to be confident someone like that can write good code?
The other responder's comparison to music degrees is spot on. You audition for alot (all?) of places' music departments. If you don't love it, and aren't already good, you're not in. Period.
Burglars that injure themselves breaking into a house may be able to win damages from the homeowner in some cases
Can you explain to me how that works? Assuming I havent done anything like set traps around the perimeter of my house or under windows, why is it my responsibility if someone injures themself in the process of stealing from me?
I second Pratchett. Even when his stories aren't pure humor (Night Watch, Men at Arms, etc, IMHO) they're still good reads, with plenty of humor and oddity masterfully injected.
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Off topic but:
Jumping spiders do in fact make great pets. Their eyesight is sharp enough they seem to be watching you when you move around, and jumping spiders are quite ferocious for their size, making feeding a matter of getting small crickets (or houseflies depending on the size of the spider)
Depending on what part of the nation you live in you could possibly also find wolf spiders (Lycosa spp., I think) which get a bit larger if your kids want something more visible. Or you could get them a tarantula...
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Adaptation is a change in behavior.
Evolution is a chage of genetics.
With the example of your birds, think: Do baby birds get born with the advantage? If no, it's adaptation (And they are certainly not born knowing lawnmowers = food. That is learned behavior)
Breaks. Lost. Stolen. Upgraded.
There are plenty of reasons not to have all your gadgetry eggs in one basket.
I was hoping for the ability to tweak a worm's parameters (infection rate, pool of vulnerable hosts, etc) and see how the infection rate changes....no such luck i guess, this is more like an animated gif or something. Several of the worms do look alot the same but Slammer and Sobig do seem to be distinct.
Most any Symantec product will insist on a reboot upon installation and any system-level (ie other than virus definitions) update
I've never, ever done the uninstall-reboot-reinstall cycle for upgrading graphics card drivers for the same make and model card and have never suffered for it. Have you actually run into situations where not uninstalling first led to issues?
I'm afraid that I've never met an extremist zealot who homeschooled...
Perhaps extremist zealot isn't accurate here (No doubt that depends on who you ask.) but I might guess that some percentage go in for it as much for control as other benefits. I'm glad to hear that your experience differs, as I find it depressing that parents homeschool sheerly for the control-factor, but here's what I've encountered.
At the last church I attended homeschooling had a strong following, and the parents motivations for it had at least as much to do with isolating their children from "bad" influences as it did with improving the quality of education.
Talking with the youth there (by youth i mean middle and highschool, myself being 18 or 19 at the time) I was floored from time to time by the way they responded to conversation (aside from being more or less socially inept I'd get comments like "Oh right, Metallica...I read about them in world magazine once..") or the naivete they exhibited.
---they were all bright kids, no doubt, and probably knew their stuff academically better than the average highschooler. However you could tell that they were sheltered. It wasn't a matter of waiting until the kid was mature enough to deal with something, the line of thinking was "I don't think my children should encoutner this, so instead of teaching them how to deal with things and make decisions, I'll just make sure they never see it." (As a Christian I never understood that idea, but that's another discussion I guess)
I find it funny in some odd way that Firefox supporters might at some point write the same sort of website they crusade against (i.e., "Your browser isn't compatible with this page, sorry.")
There were some sequences I enjoyed, but in others I felt like I was watching Power Rangers with guns. I'd hafta go back and watch the movie over to pick out examples, but I left it feeling like it would have been alot better if the gun-fu hadn't been so showy (for lack of a better word)
I like Bale but the "gun-fu" in equilibrium really didn't do it for me. I'm not sure if it was the actual action or the cinematography but something just didnt click
Universities might have their own security personnel, but any real police on campus are a part of the local force (and sometimes their own separate precinct depending on the size of the campus)
There is a saying which goes something like "You get what you pay for." If I buy cheap service from GoDaddy, I want to know if I get cheap service, or something better.
Same here. Main reason I bought it was the whole "free upgrades for a year" thing. He promptly stopped releasing after that.
Right now I use Dotster for my domain, it's around twice what GoDaddy charges, but other than price, why should I switch?
sounds like alot of features have been taken from the functionality added by the DeadAIM plugin
You only gave me the bag, but since you didn't take the chickens out, I still have (am in posession of) two (of your) chickens.
Based on my experience places abide by release dates as part of the contract with their distributor (regardless of the item or medium) If you break a release date, at the very least the distributor can cancel your account and refuse to do business with you again.
I work at a bookstore. Depending on how hyped the book is we may start getting in boxes five days or a week early. Woe betide anyone who so much as touches those boxes, and God help you if you put them on the shelf early, as the store can get severely penalized for breaking the release date.
Why the hell weren't the shipments of OSX clearly labeled with a "Do not sell until $date" sticker? Or were they and these establishments ignored it?
Good point. Bah, excellent point.
I'm in engineering, but I take a handfull of compsci courses over the course of my degree (From basic programming up to more advanced things if i choose) and it seems, based on my observations, that nearly all of the females (and to be fair, alot of the guys) are in it because they thought it was the place to be, not out of any love or interest for computing or programming. Some are in comp sci and can't even effectively *use* a computer.
Am I supposed to be confident someone like that can write good code?
The other responder's comparison to music degrees is spot on. You audition for alot (all?) of places' music departments. If you don't love it, and aren't already good, you're not in. Period.
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Off topic but,
Burglars that injure themselves breaking into a house may be able to win damages from the homeowner in some cases
Can you explain to me how that works? Assuming I havent done anything like set traps around the perimeter of my house or under windows, why is it my responsibility if someone injures themself in the process of stealing from me?
I second Pratchett. Even when his stories aren't pure humor (Night Watch, Men at Arms, etc, IMHO) they're still good reads, with plenty of humor and oddity masterfully injected.
Just a thought- What are the odds you can get to a computer if you're in need of Mountain or Caving rescue?
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if something breaks, the company just puts its hands up and says "opps, sorry..."
Doesn't Microsoft (and indeed most software comapnies) do that with *all* their products?