I thought that it was a better idea to use constants rather than #define since debuggers couldn't handle the #defines and you would be missing some important feedback.
Tennis considered this about 10 (?) years ago and rejected it. Both players and administration agreed that the human element was part of the game and they wanted umpires, even with their bad calls (everybody makes mistakes, even the players). In baseball they have a Questek system for balls and strikes but it is used to judge the quality of the umpires (performance review monitoring by the admins) rather than for live action calls. Humans, and their mistakes, are part of the game.
Congratulations on an excellent post. Almost everybody has SOME positive characteristics and courage is a positive one, but someone who has the courage to hurt a lot of people is not admirable.
I would be VERY reluctant to hire a person who, as an adult, has demonstrated a low level of character, no matter what his knowledge level is.
The statement was: have each parent go to Gamer Dad and check things out. Why would the average non-techie know of the existence of Gamer Dad? Not exactly as well known as the Consumer Product Safety Commission, or Consumer Reports. No, if there was porno on the disk, no matter that it had to be unlocked with a publicly available key, it was mislabled and parents wouldn't know. There should be consequences since parents should have the ability to guide their children and that wasn't possible in this case.
Yes, tell us where you live. If those were the police for MY district I would want to know and would complain loudly about the lack of protection. Also, it sounds like the kind of thing that newspapers would be happy to get into. Unless, of course, if the story isn't QUITE how you told it...
I'll third that. My wife found the company and pushed for the gem. She is very happy with it and, therefore, so am I. Better than a diamond, cheaper and morally cleaner.
I took some Chaos theory classes with some community college teachers at U.Md. Their view, which makes sense to me, is that a community college is a place for a "second chance" for high schoolers who didn't get serious until "later". I'm glad there IS such a place, but it shouldn't be confused with a University and you shouldn't expect the classes to be taught at the level of serious University classes.
Sorry, my inability to post well made the comment more lame than funny as I had enclosed my note in HTML brackets "wise guy" and "slash wise guy" which were stripped out. Actually, I think a technically competent artist is a rare and valuable person who can make great contributions. You can go to the mislabelled bird picture by going to his site, clicking on "R1 project", then "image detail" and then the red box on the right side.
And anyway, this is a natural photographer, probably an artist like Ansel Adams, an artist who "really understands what he's looking at" (to quote Feynman).
on his site he points to a blowup of the picture and refers to the red bird. It is, however, as every casual naturalist knows, a red-winged blackbird. So much for "really understands what he's looking at".
Age: a 13-year-old and a 17-year-old should be treated differently. The younger deserves less independence due to their lesser maturity and experience.
Grades: are their grades acceptable? If not, limit the online chatting until they are, since this appears to be simply a phone-replacement and not serious programming, etc.
Variety in their lives: if they never go out and see the people that they are chatting with then their life is too limited.
In any event, when you took on the responsibility of having children, you took on the responsibilty of guiding them ( since they have limited experience ) as long as they stay with you. Too many parent abdicate that responsibility.
I remember seeing a picture like this ( of the US ) on the wall at NASA Greenbelt in the 1980s. I was struck by it because it looked like maps of precipitation and vegetation ( and bird life ) that I had seen previously. At least in the US night-light follows population which follows water. Note the vertical line at about 100 degrees west longitude where the dividing line is between atmospheric moisture that can flow north from the Gulf of Mexico and those areas to the west that don't get that flow.
"Of course we should be informed. We as consumers have the right to be informed of decisions that affect the way we consume the services/products being offered."
Rights only come from laws. We have no RIGHT to anything that isn't a law in our jurisdiction. Since most people don't want to legislate the internet, but rather keep it "free", then we will have no rights.
But, yeah, it would be the "sociable" thing to do to inform people about it. Our society works better when people are good to each other that way.
I have no explanation for this, but every juggling club I've visited is 50%+ geeks and the conversations on the side can be very interesting. In my club, in addition to the usual programming suspects, there is a guy who travels the world setting up nuclear explosion monitoring equipment and another who travels the world setting up secure satellite dishes and equipment. Always a great group! ( fairfaxjugglers.com for us, specifically )
According to the book, "Eniac", the judge 1) totally misunderstood the issues and was simply wrong and/or 2) had in mind to open up computing to many companies due to the importance of the machine and broke the patent for the economic and social benefits.
If I had read many more books about it myself I could say with more authority who was right, but I haven't, so I won't.
Again, from the ENIAC book, the statement was made that the ABC computer never worked, and wasn't really a computer, anyway, lacking a stored program. Is the book wrong in this regard. Macauly went in an entirely different direction than Atanasoff, but kept Atanasoff updated on his progress. Do you have references that contradict this?
The NY Times story doesn't mention Macauly and Eckert at all. If you read the book "Eniac", they developed the ideas to make the first computer and Goldstein was a facilitator for funding, helping out with some of the theoretical background. It's strange they weren't mentioned in the article.
Paper is easier on the eyes over a period of time ( higher res than screens ) and can be held in a more comfortable position for a long time. Score one for old-tech!
SB: "No, if they were well-controlled there wouldn't be a need for insurance."
SR: "First, damn near everything is insured these days. Second, the firms are preying on the unfounded fears of their clients."
This answer skips around the fact that your phrase "well-controlled" presumes a mastery of technologies which are still primitive, in a chaotic world where interrelationships constantly surprise us and unintended consequences keep us constantly backpedalling. The insurance companies may be playing on the "fears of their clients" but this does not prove that the fears are unfounded.
"except that they have small, well controlled features"
No, if they were well-controlled there wouldn't be a need for insurance.
"To make real-world examples, here are some things that would meet the definition of nanotech: "
No, again, tech stuff is not natural ( technology is man-made ). Peacock feathers, salt and living cells are not tech.
Throwing around these phrases so loosely makes your whole understanding questionable.
I've lived in Northern VA most of my life and I remember the infestation in the 1950s that covered everything, killed some of our peach trees and filled the air so that you could grab them, when they flew by, and throw them into a large jar (ineffective insect control, but you felt that you had to do something). As time went by, the woods and fields were paved, the cicadas were trapped underground and their numbers declined. Now the eruptions hardly stand out from the usual cicada broods that appear annually. See, all of that development is GOOD for the environment:)!
To repeat myself, my friend Robert Clemenzi has put up a page on Mars in stereo and has written a program, that can be downloaded, that allows you to study the pictures from the rovers in either cross-eyed stereo or over-under.
http://www.cpcug.org/user/clemenzi/science/MarsIma ges_3D.html
My friend Robert Clemenzi created a program to view the Mars pictures in stereo. It downloads JPL pictures and then allows you to view them in cross-eyed stereo. He believes that some of the debris looks like spiral conch shells. Whether or not this is true, it is an enjoyable program to play with and I recommend it:
http://www.cpcug.org/user/clemenzi/science/MarsIma ges_3D.html
My brother, Norm, wrote a book with Dobson, which is unfortunately out of print now. I copied the following from the net. It should be useful if you can find it:
"How and Why to Make a User-Friendly Sidewalk Telescope"
by John Dobson with Norm Sperling
169 pages; 154 clear,friendly line drawings; 9 photos.
Hardbound in plywood (Dobson's favorite material)
Exclusive source. $39.95
Proving mathematics true, from basic axioms which were unproven, was done by Russell and Whitehead about 100 years ago. I read the first several pages of their Principia Mathematica, but didn't have the enthusiasm to continue. Prior to that the Peano postulates were a major step in the right direction.
Plato, and his student Aristotle, knew nothing of set theory.
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I thought that it was a better idea to use constants rather than #define since debuggers couldn't handle the #defines and you would be missing some important feedback.
Tennis considered this about 10 (?) years ago and rejected it. Both players and administration agreed that the human element was part of the game and they wanted umpires, even with their bad calls (everybody makes mistakes, even the players). In baseball they have a Questek system for balls and strikes but it is used to judge the quality of the umpires (performance review monitoring by the admins) rather than for live action calls. Humans, and their mistakes, are part of the game.
Congratulations on an excellent post. Almost everybody has SOME positive characteristics and courage is a positive one, but someone who has the courage to hurt a lot of people is not admirable. I would be VERY reluctant to hire a person who, as an adult, has demonstrated a low level of character, no matter what his knowledge level is.
The statement was: have each parent go to Gamer Dad and check things out. Why would the average non-techie know of the existence of Gamer Dad? Not exactly as well known as the Consumer Product Safety Commission, or Consumer Reports. No, if there was porno on the disk, no matter that it had to be unlocked with a publicly available key, it was mislabled and parents wouldn't know. There should be consequences since parents should have the ability to guide their children and that wasn't possible in this case.
Yes, tell us where you live. If those were the police for MY district I would want to know and would complain loudly about the lack of protection. Also, it sounds like the kind of thing that newspapers would be happy to get into. Unless, of course, if the story isn't QUITE how you told it...
I'll third that. My wife found the company and pushed for the gem. She is very happy with it and, therefore, so am I. Better than a diamond, cheaper and morally cleaner.
I took some Chaos theory classes with some community college teachers at U.Md. Their view, which makes sense to me, is that a community college is a place for a "second chance" for high schoolers who didn't get serious until "later". I'm glad there IS such a place, but it shouldn't be confused with a University and you shouldn't expect the classes to be taught at the level of serious University classes.
Sorry, my inability to post well made the comment more lame than funny as I had enclosed my note in HTML brackets "wise guy" and "slash wise guy" which were stripped out. Actually, I think a technically competent artist is a rare and valuable person who can make great contributions. You can go to the mislabelled bird picture by going to his site, clicking on "R1 project", then "image detail" and then the red box on the right side.
And anyway, this is a natural photographer, probably an artist like Ansel Adams, an artist who "really understands what he's looking at" (to quote Feynman). on his site he points to a blowup of the picture and refers to the red bird. It is, however, as every casual naturalist knows, a red-winged blackbird. So much for "really understands what he's looking at".
Age: a 13-year-old and a 17-year-old should be treated differently. The younger deserves less independence due to their lesser maturity and experience. Grades: are their grades acceptable? If not, limit the online chatting until they are, since this appears to be simply a phone-replacement and not serious programming, etc. Variety in their lives: if they never go out and see the people that they are chatting with then their life is too limited. In any event, when you took on the responsibility of having children, you took on the responsibilty of guiding them ( since they have limited experience ) as long as they stay with you. Too many parent abdicate that responsibility.
I remember seeing a picture like this ( of the US ) on the wall at NASA Greenbelt in the 1980s. I was struck by it because it looked like maps of precipitation and vegetation ( and bird life ) that I had seen previously. At least in the US night-light follows population which follows water. Note the vertical line at about 100 degrees west longitude where the dividing line is between atmospheric moisture that can flow north from the Gulf of Mexico and those areas to the west that don't get that flow.
Rights only come from laws. We have no RIGHT to anything that isn't a law in our jurisdiction. Since most people don't want to legislate the internet, but rather keep it "free", then we will have no rights.
But, yeah, it would be the "sociable" thing to do to inform people about it. Our society works better when people are good to each other that way.
I have no explanation for this, but every juggling club I've visited is 50%+ geeks and the conversations on the side can be very interesting. In my club, in addition to the usual programming suspects, there is a guy who travels the world setting up nuclear explosion monitoring equipment and another who travels the world setting up secure satellite dishes and equipment. Always a great group! ( fairfaxjugglers.com for us, specifically )
According to the book, "Eniac", the judge 1) totally misunderstood the issues and was simply wrong and/or 2) had in mind to open up computing to many companies due to the importance of the machine and broke the patent for the economic and social benefits. If I had read many more books about it myself I could say with more authority who was right, but I haven't, so I won't.
Again, from the ENIAC book, the statement was made that the ABC computer never worked, and wasn't really a computer, anyway, lacking a stored program. Is the book wrong in this regard. Macauly went in an entirely different direction than Atanasoff, but kept Atanasoff updated on his progress. Do you have references that contradict this?
The NY Times story doesn't mention Macauly and Eckert at all. If you read the book "Eniac", they developed the ideas to make the first computer and Goldstein was a facilitator for funding, helping out with some of the theoretical background. It's strange they weren't mentioned in the article.
Paper is easier on the eyes over a period of time ( higher res than screens ) and can be held in a more comfortable position for a long time. Score one for old-tech!
SB: "No, if they were well-controlled there wouldn't be a need for insurance."
SR: "First, damn near everything is insured these days. Second, the firms are preying on the unfounded fears of their clients."
This answer skips around the fact that your phrase "well-controlled" presumes a mastery of technologies which are still primitive, in a chaotic world where interrelationships constantly surprise us and unintended consequences keep us constantly backpedalling. The insurance companies may be playing on the "fears of their clients" but this does not prove that the fears are unfounded.
"except that they have small, well controlled features"
No, if they were well-controlled there wouldn't be a need for insurance. "To make real-world examples, here are some things that would meet the definition of nanotech: " No, again, tech stuff is not natural ( technology is man-made ). Peacock feathers, salt and living cells are not tech. Throwing around these phrases so loosely makes your whole understanding questionable.
passing clubs, balls, devil sticks; hitting the streets You've GOT to get out of the chair, move and focus your eyes at a distance greater than 18"!
I've lived in Northern VA most of my life and I remember the infestation in the 1950s that covered everything, killed some of our peach trees and filled the air so that you could grab them, when they flew by, and throw them into a large jar (ineffective insect control, but you felt that you had to do something). As time went by, the woods and fields were paved, the cicadas were trapped underground and their numbers declined. Now the eruptions hardly stand out from the usual cicada broods that appear annually. See, all of that development is GOOD for the environment :)!
To repeat myself, my friend Robert Clemenzi has put up a page on Mars in stereo and has written a program, that can be downloaded, that allows you to study the pictures from the rovers in either cross-eyed stereo or over-under. http://www.cpcug.org/user/clemenzi/science/MarsIma ges_3D.html
My friend Robert Clemenzi created a program to view the Mars pictures in stereo. It downloads JPL pictures and then allows you to view them in cross-eyed stereo. He believes that some of the debris looks like spiral conch shells. Whether or not this is true, it is an enjoyable program to play with and I recommend it: http://www.cpcug.org/user/clemenzi/science/MarsIma ges_3D.html
My brother, Norm, wrote a book with Dobson, which is unfortunately out of print now. I copied the following from the net. It should be useful if you can find it: "How and Why to Make a User-Friendly Sidewalk Telescope" by John Dobson with Norm Sperling 169 pages; 154 clear,friendly line drawings; 9 photos. Hardbound in plywood (Dobson's favorite material) Exclusive source. $39.95
Proving mathematics true, from basic axioms which were unproven, was done by Russell and Whitehead about 100 years ago. I read the first several pages of their Principia Mathematica, but didn't have the enthusiasm to continue. Prior to that the Peano postulates were a major step in the right direction. Plato, and his student Aristotle, knew nothing of set theory.