Institute "Turn Off" days.. turn off the computer, the TV, everything and break out a milton bradly board game, or a deck of cards. I realize that the idea will be more difficult as the kids get older, but they seem to understand that a videogame is like candy for your mind. Its cool and all, its fun, but it doesn't actually help you do anything. We've also been a lot more open to allowing the kids to pusue physical activities (baseball, taekwondo, gymnastics) that my more "intellectually" minded parents weren't interested in having us pursue. As long as you actually pay some attention to them, they'd be plenty happy tossing a ball around outside, or playing a game of cards, or putting a puzzle together.
Ok.. so when will we see the OfficePro 9500 console? Filled to the brim with office apps and productivity software... VOIP, and lan built in.. shell out $100/user and off you go.
don't worry about worms or OS issues, since it boots fresh every time.
George swallows the pill, but it goes into a mummy on display at the local museum, and the doctor thinks he's dying.. ahh the Jetson's prior-art strikes again.
Thats interesting. I listened to a radio monologue, on NPR, about a kid in Chicago with OCD - and getting over it. His Therapist didn't do drugs, she taught him to "do it wrong" until the urge passed. Where he had an urge to repeat everything backwards, she had him repeat it - but forewards. Eventually, much of his behavior subsided. Then, I saw your post on the blank sheet... and started wondering if, psychologically, we have to have *something* to work with - even a random line. Not sure how to express the thought right now, but I'm sure there is something telling about creativity and art and that little random line.
Wow.. I can see the advert now: "Nope, you can't really hijak a train and take it somewhere that doesn't have rails... and you can get on and off as you please! No frisking, no Xrays. Welcome to Amtrak, the last form of mass transit to preserve your rights as an American!"
Spiritually, I can almost see a "mother goddess" story thing here.. with a good (O?) blood type, she could be organ donor to thousands... Here is woman, from whom your entire body can be reborn. kinda mystical.
Many of the best coders I ever met did *NOT* go to school for CS... lets see, a nurse, construction management, Horticulture, even myself (International Studies).. They were hobbyists who had the strong desire to learn the trade, and because of that they tended to read a lot of the current literature and had an inbuilt desire to solve the problem by researching how others did it online, instead of saying "Oh, here's how we did that in school".
And if we channel a reverse impulse through the reflector dish, the superstring will disperse the space-time anomoly. Aren't you waiting for some of this quantum research to accidentally unleash a super-mega-quantum bomb.. "safety tip - avoid trying to look under God's skirts".
Ok.. so you build a big "balloon" of this material, laminated with the mylar stuff to make a tough and springy space habitat. assuming you can find water where you are going, it would seriously cut down on your shipping needs.
How about having robots replace slaves in general? Heck, the word robot came from the root word for slave in czech. (ala, R.U.R. ) Hmm.. how long before McJobs are replaced?
What about stroke patients?
I've also met a gentleman who had a large metal pole cut through his head in a motorcycle accident, he was able to retrain and gain much back.
I agree that an infant has an astronomical ability to train their neural pathways unlike an adult.. But I believe that it is possible... its just a neural net, as long as the being is capable of building connections, they can retrain it.
No one seems to have publically noticed this effect until now.. funny. Say, I heard Christopher Columbus met this crazy bunch of people called the Caribs!
I was an interpreter for some time, and learned one magic thing about implants adding abilities missing from birth or from accidents... it only works to the degree that the person accepts the information. If the blind person (from birth) *WANTED*, they would most definitely train their brain to use the data. maybe not perfectly, but they would have some sight. I knew deaf people who WANTED to hear with their implant, and could quite well after a few years of training.. others who never did get the hang of it. Its like trying to train someone to smell music... if some device provided the input, and you really wanted it, you'd learn. with much dammit and aggrivation, but you'd do it.
go ahead and get your A.A./A.S.... once you have a degree it sort of "locks in" your level of expertise. You'd have much better success tansferring in as a junior with an A.A. instead of "just some classes"
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A customer of mine is a book distributor. The crates are ALSO marked "Hannukka".
What about having it vibe out incoming text messages in morse.. or sound them out.
Institute "Turn Off" days.. turn off the computer, the TV, everything and break out a milton bradly board game, or a deck of cards. I realize that the idea will be more difficult as the kids get older, but they seem to understand that a videogame is like candy for your mind. Its cool and all, its fun, but it doesn't actually help you do anything. We've also been a lot more open to allowing the kids to pusue physical activities (baseball, taekwondo, gymnastics) that my more "intellectually" minded parents weren't interested in having us pursue. As long as you actually pay some attention to them, they'd be plenty happy tossing a ball around outside, or playing a game of cards, or putting a puzzle together.
You may want to post this on thinkcycle.org as additional information for some of their cooling projects
Ok.. so when will we see the OfficePro 9500 console? Filled to the brim with office apps and productivity software... VOIP, and lan built in.. shell out $100/user and off you go.
don't worry about worms or OS issues, since it boots fresh every time.
George swallows the pill, but it goes into a mummy on display at the local museum, and the doctor thinks he's dying.. ahh the Jetson's prior-art strikes again.
Thats interesting. I listened to a radio monologue, on NPR, about a kid in Chicago with OCD - and getting over it. His Therapist didn't do drugs, she taught him to "do it wrong" until the urge passed. Where he had an urge to repeat everything backwards, she had him repeat it - but forewards. Eventually, much of his behavior subsided. Then, I saw your post on the blank sheet... and started wondering if, psychologically, we have to have *something* to work with - even a random line. Not sure how to express the thought right now, but I'm sure there is something telling about creativity and art and that little random line.
CyberPunk was much cooler... no silly magic.
Wow.. I can see the advert now: "Nope, you can't really hijak a train and take it somewhere that doesn't have rails... and you can get on and off as you please! No frisking, no Xrays. Welcome to Amtrak, the last form of mass transit to preserve your rights as an American!"
Spiritually, I can almost see a "mother goddess" story thing here.. with a good (O?) blood type, she could be organ donor to thousands... Here is woman, from whom your entire body can be reborn. kinda mystical.
So, I can go down to Chiba city and buy a new liver? Shillin' these 3 meg ram sticks is rough business. Know a guy named Armitage?
Many of the best coders I ever met did *NOT* go to school for CS... lets see, a nurse, construction management, Horticulture, even myself (International Studies).. They were hobbyists who had the strong desire to learn the trade, and because of that they tended to read a lot of the current literature and had an inbuilt desire to solve the problem by researching how others did it online, instead of saying "Oh, here's how we did that in school".
How about a swarm of high altitude balloons that form a telescope array? using their fans, they can stay in relative position to one another.
Pedialyte.. once those grape-flavored elctrolytes get inbetween the plastic layers, they do wonderful things to a ps-2 bus.
And if we channel a reverse impulse through the reflector dish, the superstring will disperse the space-time anomoly. Aren't you waiting for some of this quantum research to accidentally unleash a super-mega-quantum bomb.. "safety tip - avoid trying to look under God's skirts".
How about a p2p style standard to publish these bounties out where anyone and everyone can find them, work on them and submit responses.
Ok.. so you build a big "balloon" of this material, laminated with the mylar stuff to make a tough and springy space habitat. assuming you can find water where you are going, it would seriously cut down on your shipping needs.
Just create a reverse polarity tachyon pulse from the reflector dish.. oh wait, nevermind.
How about having robots replace slaves in general? Heck, the word robot came from the root word for slave in czech. (ala, R.U.R. ) Hmm.. how long before McJobs are replaced?
Add a link to your servers, and post a front page link on slashdot!
put a sleep(1) in the loop or usleep(100) .. and it won't eat all your CPU
What about stroke patients? I've also met a gentleman who had a large metal pole cut through his head in a motorcycle accident, he was able to retrain and gain much back. I agree that an infant has an astronomical ability to train their neural pathways unlike an adult.. But I believe that it is possible... its just a neural net, as long as the being is capable of building connections, they can retrain it.
No one seems to have publically noticed this effect until now.. funny. Say, I heard Christopher Columbus met this crazy bunch of people called the Caribs!
I was an interpreter for some time, and learned one magic thing about implants adding abilities missing from birth or from accidents... it only works to the degree that the person accepts the information. If the blind person (from birth) *WANTED*, they would most definitely train their brain to use the data. maybe not perfectly, but they would have some sight. I knew deaf people who WANTED to hear with their implant, and could quite well after a few years of training.. others who never did get the hang of it. Its like trying to train someone to smell music... if some device provided the input, and you really wanted it, you'd learn. with much dammit and aggrivation, but you'd do it.
go ahead and get your A.A./A.S. ... once you have a degree it sort of "locks in" your level of expertise. You'd have much better success tansferring in as a junior with an A.A. instead of "just some classes"