It would appear your daughter is smart and it also appear you are being very courageous. Qualities which tell me that, one way or another, eventually, everything will be fine. The important thing is to spend some time with your daughter. This way she will feel loved, and armed with loads of self worth, there are no challenges she will not be able to face. Wisdom, knowledge, values, I know you already know you can trust her to make the right choices in life. So time together, just conversations with random subjects, or silly games if she is too young, and loads of smiles and cuddles, moments you may want to record, will most probably be the most valuable use of your time. These videos of your interaction together will be worth a lot more than monologues. It will make your connection real. If you think there is wisdom that you need to pass on, maybe you should put together a list of books, together with a few lines explaining what you found in them. When your daughter reads these books, she may experience the same emotions you have, and that will bring you together across the time divide. (I am trying to remember what books influenced me and all I can think is that line where Tintin says to a vengeful Captain Haddock "If we kill them (their attackers) then we would be as bad as them" [The Crab with the Golden Claws]). Putting that list together should take a lot less time, while capitalising on the skills of the writers and their talent to share knowledge. Good luck.
... is another name they could use. At least for the time it will take any court to react.
Who's the next Netscape?
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Call me paranoid, but despite first thinking that it was a great idea and that for once Microsoft was doing somehing original, I'm now thinking they want to do a Netscape on Oracle and MySQL.
If their OS integrates database functionality, that looks to me like a new back-door entry into the database market, once again confusing OS and apps. The best way for the Open source / Free software community to react is, I think, to see convergent efforts to maybe integrate, or provide hooks, for something like MySQL (or others, PostGres?) to work with Linux in the same way WinFS proposes to.
--Teebo
The computer you want always cost $1500
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MRAM in 2004?
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For those wondering what the use would be of an instantly rebootable computer, they obvously haven't been on the phone with NTL support asking you to reboot your machine after every change. Or they're not running mission critical servers were every minute of downtime costs thousands of units of whatever strong currency you're using.
But fast or not, it will not last. I mean, sure I can (could: I haven't tried) boot Windows 3.1 on my 1.4 GHz P4 in 3 seconds flat, but so what? Microsoft is going to always use 150% of your resources just to make sure they're never beaten on the feature list (otherwise known as peeing contest) and the insecure open source community is never far behind (but always so) with ever growing feature lists too as they want to catch up. (I DO love Linux, OK?)
So MRAM technolgy may be all that good, but it will be abused without a doubt as soon as MS get their greasy hands on it and fit all their development machines with it.
To be fair NTL tech support is OK, once you get to them (after about 2 hours) and once they start listening to you (about 30 to 45 minutes).
I got this from my friend who works at the mall - check this girl, she's hot!...
Spam is not a technical problem. It is generated by the most complex processing system known (The Human brain) and obeys to one of the simplest known principle (or absence thereof: greed).
That's a pretty potent combination. Certainly not one for a machine to match.
No AI based solution will ever be able to reliably block spam, it's like handwriting recognition: I can't even read my own handwriting sometimes!
Spam is a human problem that has two sides:
- Some nutters will stop at nothing to sell you something (expecially if the numbers look good).
- Some idiots will genuinely think a girl called Sangria has the hots for them - type in your credit card here darling.
Don't worry: if you've read that far, then you're probably not that dumb.
Of course the solution is legal. Here in the UK, I used to receive a fair amount of junk mail. There is however an opt-out list which I subscribed to and all I get is a few of them a year for the guy who used to live here before me.
So, yes, forged headers should be illegal. And no, an 'Unsollicited mail' one is not a solution: Why? Because of this:
"Hi Tee, I am your long lost cousin in Australia - I found your e-mail on your web page, So good to be in touch again..."
A header that says whether or not the email is advertising is a better idea. If the values of this field follow an agreed classification, you could actually filter IN *voluntarily* things you are genuinely interested in.
The inforcement problem about spam will eventually be resolved. Europe is getting bigger and more integrated, the USA are a big chunk too. Now if these two and, say Japan or Taiwan agreed to block any other network that does not adhere to the guidelines, there will be a lot of pressure from inside those banned countries to make them adopt compatible legislation.
Of course it takes guts (something politicians rarely have), technical awareness (ditto) and time (Well fortunately we have plenty of that - it's only our patience that's running out.)
... Or imagine Google recording all possible audio streams (TV, radio,... streets?) and allowing us to search those? All it takes is enough procesors, a bit of wiring...
Now if you record street conversations or all types of public conversations... Do a search on 'bomb'... How appealing is that to big brother.
>Next they find the gene for understanding math Well they might.
If your assumption were true, it would be possible, with enough patience and care, to teach a chimp to talk and be just like us, so the chimp could go to school, get a job, and say, run slashdot. This is clearly not the case despite more and more findings that chimps have really advanced mental capabilities.
Of course we could not have gone from mischevious banana eaters to programmers just like that. Chimps have nearly all the abilities. But they are lacking some crucial genes. Even if those only are regulatory genes. And those genes are to be found, logically, within the fraction of a 100th percent that separates us from them.
However the recently discovered genes don't account for speech. You can use sign language! Being able to produce sounds is not enough, otherwise parrots, as clever as they may be, could also go to school and get a job. So the gene(s) that have just been found are not the whole story. Plenty of genes are sure required for speech, including chimp legacy ones.
As far as culture is concerned, it's the other way round. You can't retain culture if you haven't got the intellectual mechanisms to understand / store / re-phrase. So we have culture because we have speech. No the other way round.
Slashdot Mirror
Spot on.
It would appear your daughter is smart and it also appear you are being very courageous. Qualities which tell me that, one way or another, eventually, everything will be fine.
The important thing is to spend some time with your daughter. This way she will feel loved, and armed with loads of self worth, there are no challenges she will not be able to face. Wisdom, knowledge, values, I know you already know you can trust her to make the right choices in life.
So time together, just conversations with random subjects, or silly games if she is too young, and loads of smiles and cuddles, moments you may want to record, will most probably be the most valuable use of your time. These videos of your interaction together will be worth a lot more than monologues. It will make your connection real.
If you think there is wisdom that you need to pass on, maybe you should put together a list of books, together with a few lines explaining what you found in them. When your daughter reads these books, she may experience the same emotions you have, and that will bring you together across the time divide.
(I am trying to remember what books influenced me and all I can think is that line where Tintin says to a vengeful Captain Haddock "If we kill them (their attackers) then we would be as bad as them" [The Crab with the Golden Claws]).
Putting that list together should take a lot less time, while capitalising on the skills of the writers and their talent to share knowledge.
Good luck.
It seems that our views on addiction need to change.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
Well I postulate it's been found by a Conservative. A Liberal would have highlighted the other variant as a conservative gene.
... is another name they could use. At least for the time it will take any court to react.
Call me paranoid, but despite first thinking that it was a great idea and that for once Microsoft was doing somehing original, I'm now thinking they want to do a Netscape on Oracle and MySQL.
If their OS integrates database functionality, that looks to me like a new back-door entry into the database market, once again confusing OS and apps.
The best way for the Open source / Free software community to react is, I think, to see convergent efforts to maybe integrate, or provide hooks, for something like MySQL (or others, PostGres?) to work with Linux in the same way WinFS proposes to.
--Teebo
For those wondering what the use would be of an instantly rebootable computer, they obvously haven't been on the phone with NTL support asking you to reboot your machine after every change.
Or they're not running mission critical servers were every minute of downtime costs thousands of units of whatever strong currency you're using.
But fast or not, it will not last. I mean, sure I can (could: I haven't tried) boot Windows 3.1 on my 1.4 GHz P4 in 3 seconds flat, but so what? Microsoft is going to always use 150% of your resources just to make sure they're never beaten on the feature list (otherwise known as peeing contest) and the insecure open source community is never far behind (but always so) with ever growing feature lists too as they want to catch up. (I DO love Linux, OK?)
So MRAM technolgy may be all that good, but it will be abused without a doubt as soon as MS get their greasy hands on it and fit all their development machines with it.
To be fair NTL tech support is OK, once you get to them (after about 2 hours) and once they start listening to you (about 30 to 45 minutes).
Hi John,
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I got this from my friend who works at the mall - check this girl, she's hot!
Spam is not a technical problem.
It is generated by the most complex processing system known (The Human brain) and obeys to one of the simplest known principle (or absence thereof: greed).
That's a pretty potent combination.
Certainly not one for a machine to match.
No AI based solution will ever be able to reliably block spam, it's like handwriting recognition: I can't even read my own handwriting sometimes!
Spam is a human problem that has two sides:
- Some nutters will stop at nothing to sell you something (expecially if the numbers look good).
- Some idiots will genuinely think a girl called Sangria has the hots for them - type in your credit card here darling.
Don't worry: if you've read that far, then you're probably not that dumb.
Of course the solution is legal.
Here in the UK, I used to receive a fair amount of junk mail. There is however an opt-out list which I subscribed to and all I get is a few of them a year for the guy who used to live here before me.
So, yes, forged headers should be illegal.
And no, an 'Unsollicited mail' one is not a solution:
Why?
Because of this:
"Hi Tee, I am your long lost cousin in Australia - I found your e-mail on your web page, So good to be in touch again..."
A header that says whether or not the email is advertising is a better idea. If the values of this field follow an agreed classification, you could actually filter IN *voluntarily* things you are genuinely interested in.
The inforcement problem about spam will eventually be resolved. Europe is getting bigger and more integrated, the USA are a big chunk too. Now if these two and, say Japan or Taiwan agreed to block any other network that does not adhere to the guidelines, there will be a lot of pressure from inside those banned countries to make them adopt compatible legislation.
Of course it takes guts (something politicians rarely have), technical awareness (ditto) and time (Well fortunately we have plenty of that - it's only our patience that's running out.)
Check this site it's hot: http://www.aptilis.com/
(Sorry couldn't help...)
Teebo.
Actually I think some people remember their own births... But it's messy.
They then think they have been abducted by aliens.
Abduction recollections parallel how one is born. I won't expand here, it's in details at:
http://village.glaine.net/~teebo/aliens.html
... Or imagine Google recording all possible audio streams (TV, radio, ... streets?) and allowing us to search those? All it takes is enough procesors, a bit of wiring...
Now if you record street conversations or all types of public conversations... Do a search on 'bomb'... How appealing is that to big brother.
All right... I'm learning sign language. Now.
I haven't read all the posts, but to me nothing beats:
"Keyboard Error or no keyboard present. Press F1 to continue."
>Next they find the gene for understanding math
Well they might.
If your assumption were true, it would be possible, with enough patience and care, to teach a chimp to talk and be just like us, so the chimp could go to school, get a job, and say, run slashdot. This is clearly not the case despite more and more findings that chimps have really advanced mental capabilities.
Of course we could not have gone from mischevious banana eaters to programmers just like that. Chimps have nearly all the abilities. But they are lacking some crucial genes. Even if those only are regulatory genes.
And those genes are to be found, logically, within the fraction of a 100th percent that separates us from them.
However the recently discovered genes don't account for speech. You can use sign language!
Being able to produce sounds is not enough, otherwise parrots, as clever as they may be, could also go to school and get a job.
So the gene(s) that have just been found are not the whole story. Plenty of genes are sure required for speech, including chimp legacy ones.
As far as culture is concerned, it's the other way round. You can't retain culture if you haven't got the intellectual mechanisms to understand / store / re-phrase. So we have culture because we have speech. No the other way round.
-T
PS. Sign me up for a talking dog too.