When our daughter was four, the grandparents bought one of those LeapFrog reading books that looked like a laptop. It lasted for a few hours on Christmas day and then it was forgotten. Stabbing at the words as fast as you can was the only fun to be had.
Proper books work well. Reading and talking about the stories is so much more fun. There is a lot to gain from having a good selection of books. I know they're expensive but that's what libraries and second-hand book shops are for.
We also have an old P3 650 laptop that I picked up cheap. It runs web pages with Flash fine. There are lots of sites that our daughter visits on her own. The cBBC site is her favourite. She loves Dora on the NickJr site. There are sometimes free games on the fronts of magazines - these are normally Flash based too and run fine on the old thing. She coped with the mouse fine but struggled a little with double-clicking on the touch pad.
At 5 years old she plays Xbox. Fun for all the family:)
Give your two year old a bunch of old keys, some glue (they all love glue), some coloured paper, a few jigsaw puzzles and a hammer. Give him 18 months and create a new user account on the laptop.
I've had quiet a bit of experience killing rats over the years.
I remember when I was very young we had a pet rabbit. A single rat would steal its food each day. We set an old fashion trap and eventually, when food was scarce, it fell for the bait. We heard the rat scream from inside our house - it was painfully loud. My Dad tried to put it out of its misery with the back of an axe handle. He landed a perfect blow to its head and I've never heard a creature scream like it since. This blow would have smashed every bone in my foot had he missed, but the rat was still going strong... It didn't survive the second blow.
I've also had rats in my roof several times over the years. Blame old Victorian houses for that. Poison is very effective. They will eat it when it's familiar to them and they're short of real food. It makes them bleed from the inside, their body feels cold as a result and they go back to their nest to keep warm. It doesn't take long for them to die. Some rats try and eat dirt to dilute the poison but it rarely works.
I've also bought an electronic trap to deal with them. It consists of a few batteries, some sort of capacitor/coil/spark-plug thing and two metal plates inside. It looks like a shoe box with a hole in the front. When the rat steps on both metal plates at once, it gets electrocuted... They're not stupid though and have never climbed inside in the three years I've had it.
The dirty, filthy creatures have to be admired in their strength and survive skills.
I email my photos to my dad who also has a gmail account. He does the same in return. I think he's on about 2% space used at the moment and there's always another 50 invites...
And one stage further is to buy a set of hash tables for $100 that will crack 14 letter password hashes. A simple database lookup is all that is needed after that. Google has a list of people willing to sell you precomputed hash tables.
Is someone's password worth $100 to you? What about two users passwords at $50 each? Three?
If I was in charge, I would have told my engineers to bypass the fuel sensor using a plasma relay switch inside the warp drive manifold. It would have only been a ten minute job.
My first thoughts about the flicker was that the images aren't preloaded.
It's a common mistake. When you're working locally you don't notice. After uploading to the server you notice a slight glitch, but it never came back, so why worry...?
Nice idea. Nice attempt at a solution but it still needs a lot of work.
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I used to use mahogany at work to make full size models of car parts. Lots and lots of mahogany. Lots and lot of waste (although a great deal of it found its way into my home).
People used to say similar things to you about harming the Brazilian rain forests but it's simply not true. The mahogany from the rainforests was never good enough for making models; it was only good enough for making crap furniture. Our wood came from plantations and this was 15 years ago.
I think its all been given a bad spin. Most of the time Pine is used and you can almost watch that grow....I also used plastic. Horrible nasty stuff full of carcinogens. Expanded polystyrene made flies go docile. Scarier than wood.
It would have been more interesting if they started at the bottom and glued the first section to the table. They could have made a time-lapse animation of it being built a few pieces at a time.
There are so many posts in this thread that make me want to be sick. Excuses about speeding and speeding itself is another antisocial behaver that makes my blood boil.
I had a Toyota MR2 ten years ago and I used to speed in it. I used to stop at red lights and challenge people to races around the town. Looking back now I feel ashamed that I risked peoples lives unnecessarily for my kicks.
Even during the rush hour I'd try and beat everyone to the next roundabout. Undertaking people, tailgating others, popping up the headlights and giving a people quick flash to get out of the way. What a wanker I must have been.
I'd start my journey with a Blue Ford Escort 1.0L behind me with a sensible driver at the wheel. 5 miles down the road I could still see it in my rear view mirror. Did I really get to my destination any quicker? Like bollocks did I.
Then there's the environmental factors involved with speeding. I was burning £50 GBP a week on petrol. Yes, I'm truly sorry to all the future generations. I have grown up a little now. Sorry again.
My Dad was a policeman for half a dozen years. He says that the majority of accidents are caused by speeding. Ask yourself a question next time you have a crash or someone else has a crash: could the accident have been prevented by someone going a little slower? Could they then have stopped in time? The answer is normally yes. The highway code, the law of the road, also states that if you don't have enough time to stop, in any situation, you are going to fast. The 30 mph speed sign you see is not the recommended speed; it is the maximum allowed speed.
My Dad actually left the force because he witnessed an accident where a father lost his son and half his left leg. The father was speeding. What a selfish wanker.
As someone from the UK, I love it people from around the world could share the cost of my TV licence. I don't watch a lot of TV and the cost of the licence is not good value for money. Any reduction would be good. I wonder if their are any groups campaigning for global access?
Only today the vacuum cleaner broke so I thought I'd look at http://www.electrolux.co.uk/ for some phone numbers. I wouldn't have minded a blank page but crashing Firefox with half a dozen tabs open was not funny.
Speaking of clueless users too; I had an amusing experience with my clueless user mate the other day. It started with an instant message...
Clueless mate: the racing post keeps crashing ie Clueless mate: something about java
Me: I used to get that too. Use Firefox. www.getfirefox.com
10 minutes later:
Clueless mate: shit hot it works a treat Clueless mate: firefox is alright
A week later I go round his house. In his taskbar I see Firefox with the Racing Post title displayed. Good I thought. Next to that was 10 or so instances of IE grouped together...
He only uses Firefox for the Racing Post. I tried.
I've always fancied doing to The London Monopoly Pub Crawl.
You take the board under one arm and start at the first pub you can find in the Old Kent Road. After a pint you move onto a pub in Whitechapel Road. Pretty standard pub crawl stuff. Maybe a half would have to do though.
The only thing that bothers me is the amount of money the government wants me to pay for my new card and the amount of money they want for making changes to the card. Anything more than 0p is too much in my eyes.
I grow a plant called Scardy Cat (Coleus canina) in my garden. It's supposed to smell like Lion dung but having never smelt Lion dung I can't comfirm it. It does keep the cats away though.
This argument is getting old. Just like the AC who replied, I too have a phone with a camera and maybe the kitchen sink.
The battery lasts a week with normal phone calls and a bit of texting. If I was to turn the phone off when I go to bed then I'm sure it would last 10 days.
The phone is 18 months old and was one of the cheapest on the market...
Like I said, this really is an old argument that doesn't hold any weight.
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We have the right to silence in the UK but anything we later rely on in court will be used against us.
So basically you have to start lying from the beginning.
When our daughter was four, the grandparents bought one of those LeapFrog reading books that looked like a laptop. It lasted for a few hours on Christmas day and then it was forgotten. Stabbing at the words as fast as you can was the only fun to be had.
:)
Proper books work well. Reading and talking about the stories is so much more fun. There is a lot to gain from having a good selection of books. I know they're expensive but that's what libraries and second-hand book shops are for.
We also have an old P3 650 laptop that I picked up cheap. It runs web pages with Flash fine. There are lots of sites that our daughter visits on her own. The cBBC site is her favourite. She loves Dora on the NickJr site. There are sometimes free games on the fronts of magazines - these are normally Flash based too and run fine on the old thing. She coped with the mouse fine but struggled a little with double-clicking on the touch pad.
At 5 years old she plays Xbox. Fun for all the family
Give your two year old a bunch of old keys, some glue (they all love glue), some coloured paper, a few jigsaw puzzles and a hammer. Give him 18 months and create a new user account on the laptop.
WHERE'S STar wars 10??? why it not posted yet??? cmon GUBA where is it? i've paid my money now post it!!!
Oh how I love thy Usenet.
I've had quiet a bit of experience killing rats over the years.
I remember when I was very young we had a pet rabbit. A single rat would steal its food each day. We set an old fashion trap and eventually, when food was scarce, it fell for the bait. We heard the rat scream from inside our house - it was painfully loud. My Dad tried to put it out of its misery with the back of an axe handle. He landed a perfect blow to its head and I've never heard a creature scream like it since. This blow would have smashed every bone in my foot had he missed, but the rat was still going strong... It didn't survive the second blow.
I've also had rats in my roof several times over the years. Blame old Victorian houses for that. Poison is very effective. They will eat it when it's familiar to them and they're short of real food. It makes them bleed from the inside, their body feels cold as a result and they go back to their nest to keep warm. It doesn't take long for them to die. Some rats try and eat dirt to dilute the poison but it rarely works.
I've also bought an electronic trap to deal with them. It consists of a few batteries, some sort of capacitor/coil/spark-plug thing and two metal plates inside. It looks like a shoe box with a hole in the front. When the rat steps on both metal plates at once, it gets electrocuted... They're not stupid though and have never climbed inside in the three years I've had it.
The dirty, filthy creatures have to be admired in their strength and survive skills.
Thanks for linking the Goatse Man image in the article. Oh how I've missed being tricked into viewing thee.
The link is not work safe.
I email my photos to my dad who also has a gmail account. He does the same in return. I think he's on about 2% space used at the moment and there's always another 50 invites...
In Google we trust.
76 USD? Both ways?!?! Please pass me a tissue because I think I'm going to cry.
I pay more than that for 3mbps here.
And one stage further is to buy a set of hash tables for $100 that will crack 14 letter password hashes. A simple database lookup is all that is needed after that. Google has a list of people willing to sell you precomputed hash tables.
Is someone's password worth $100 to you? What about two users passwords at $50 each? Three?
Passwords are obsolete. Sad but true.
If I was in charge, I would have told my engineers to bypass the fuel sensor using a plasma relay switch inside the warp drive manifold. It would have only been a ten minute job.
My first thoughts about the flicker was that the images aren't preloaded.
It's a common mistake. When you're working locally you don't notice. After uploading to the server you notice a slight glitch, but it never came back, so why worry...?
Nice idea. Nice attempt at a solution but it still needs a lot of work.
I used to use mahogany at work to make full size models of car parts. Lots and lots of mahogany. Lots and lot of waste (although a great deal of it found its way into my home).
...I also used plastic. Horrible nasty stuff full of carcinogens. Expanded polystyrene made flies go docile. Scarier than wood.
People used to say similar things to you about harming the Brazilian rain forests but it's simply not true. The mahogany from the rainforests was never good enough for making models; it was only good enough for making crap furniture. Our wood came from plantations and this was 15 years ago.
I think its all been given a bad spin. Most of the time Pine is used and you can almost watch that grow.
I was expecting something different...
It would have been more interesting if they started at the bottom and glued the first section to the table. They could have made a time-lapse animation of it being built a few pieces at a time.
There are so many posts in this thread that make me want to be sick. Excuses about speeding and speeding itself is another antisocial behaver that makes my blood boil.
I had a Toyota MR2 ten years ago and I used to speed in it. I used to stop at red lights and challenge people to races around the town. Looking back now I feel ashamed that I risked peoples lives unnecessarily for my kicks.
Even during the rush hour I'd try and beat everyone to the next roundabout. Undertaking people, tailgating others, popping up the headlights and giving a people quick flash to get out of the way. What a wanker I must have been.
I'd start my journey with a Blue Ford Escort 1.0L behind me with a sensible driver at the wheel. 5 miles down the road I could still see it in my rear view mirror. Did I really get to my destination any quicker? Like bollocks did I.
Then there's the environmental factors involved with speeding. I was burning £50 GBP a week on petrol. Yes, I'm truly sorry to all the future generations. I have grown up a little now. Sorry again.
My Dad was a policeman for half a dozen years. He says that the majority of accidents are caused by speeding. Ask yourself a question next time you have a crash or someone else has a crash: could the accident have been prevented by someone going a little slower? Could they then have stopped in time? The answer is normally yes. The highway code, the law of the road, also states that if you don't have enough time to stop, in any situation, you are going to fast. The 30 mph speed sign you see is not the recommended speed; it is the maximum allowed speed.
My Dad actually left the force because he witnessed an accident where a father lost his son and half his left leg. The father was speeding. What a selfish wanker.
Speeders are no better than drink drivers.
As someone from the UK, I love it people from around the world could share the cost of my TV licence. I don't watch a lot of TV and the cost of the licence is not good value for money. Any reduction would be good. I wonder if their are any groups campaigning for global access?
My 2 year old low-cost, bargin-basement phone lasts nearly 200 hours on standby. And it does Java, photos, internet, makes the tea...
200 hours is not impressive.
Only today the vacuum cleaner broke so I thought I'd look at http://www.electrolux.co.uk/ for some phone numbers. I wouldn't have minded a blank page but crashing Firefox with half a dozen tabs open was not funny.
Speaking of clueless users too; I had an amusing experience with my clueless user mate the other day. It started with an instant message...
Clueless mate: the racing post keeps crashing ie
Clueless mate: something about java
Me: I used to get that too. Use Firefox. www.getfirefox.com
10 minutes later:
Clueless mate: shit hot it works a treat
Clueless mate: firefox is alright
A week later I go round his house. In his taskbar I see Firefox with the Racing Post title displayed. Good I thought. Next to that was 10 or so instances of IE grouped together...
He only uses Firefox for the Racing Post. I tried.
I've always fancied doing to The London Monopoly Pub Crawl.
You take the board under one arm and start at the first pub you can find in the Old Kent Road. After a pint you move onto a pub in Whitechapel Road. Pretty standard pub crawl stuff. Maybe a half would have to do though.
Loads of people have given it a go.
Hitting civilian targets was a Nazi idea. When we copied their idea we made sure we did a better job; the Dresden bombings were truly catastrophic.
If we'd bombed Japan in the normal way there would have been many more casualties.
Not that I'm trying to excuse the a-bombs. Life would be better without them.
I used to take cans of beer into the cinema. No one ever complained. Same goes for chocolate for the Missus.
...
I didn't think I'd get away with smoking the green in there though.
I'd hate to count the number of times I've fallen asleep in the cinema. There's something about sitting down in the dark that makes me drift off.
The UK Passport service will look after the database.
All our normal Data Protection Act laws will apply.
You will not be forced to carry it around with you 24/7.
More from the Home Office's FAQ here: http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/comrace/identitycards /faq.html
The only thing that bothers me is the amount of money the government wants me to pay for my new card and the amount of money they want for making changes to the card. Anything more than 0p is too much in my eyes.
I grow a plant called Scardy Cat (Coleus canina) in my garden. It's supposed to smell like Lion dung but having never smelt Lion dung I can't comfirm it. It does keep the cats away though.
http://www.scardy-cat.com/
This argument is getting old. Just like the AC who replied, I too have a phone with a camera and maybe the kitchen sink.
The battery lasts a week with normal phone calls and a bit of texting. If I was to turn the phone off when I go to bed then I'm sure it would last 10 days.
The phone is 18 months old and was one of the cheapest on the market...
Like I said, this really is an old argument that doesn't hold any weight.
10 million? I think that's a bit low. There were 6,500 people after a single Xbox game last night... from one single source.
NO! I was the first STABLE windows plat...