Uh, how do you go from my comment about giving my child 30 minutes on the PS2 to a rant about porn, privacy, and sitting over him with a timer? What does porn have to do with this? Did I say that I stand over my child with a timer? Did I say I make him do all of this in "public"? What does this have to do with anything?
If you're so interested, I'll have you know that we do use a timer. But he sets it and starts it. When its up, it's his responsibility to finish the level, save the game, and turn the PS2 off. If he's good and has done his work, he gets the 30 minutes pretty much whenever he wants it. He can play it in the morning or save it for later. When he plays it early and complains about not being able to play it later, he's learning (whether he likes it or not) about delaying gratification and time management.
I'm also teaching him about not jumping to conclusions or judging a book by its cover. Perhaps you'd like to join him.
...such as soccer practice, playing in the front yard, or reading comic books.
Face it, we all have limited time, particularly on weekdays. After dinner, getting ready for bed, baths, etc., there's limited time for homework or study. If you waste it, children will do worse, no matter how you waste it.
My wife and I limit our first grader to 30 minutes on the PS2, assuming that there's time, he'e been good at school, and that he'll complete his homework (which isn't that much) before snack time before bed. Anybody with an ounce of common sense could tell you that his academic work would suffer if we reduced study time to allow more play time, regardless of whether or not it was on the PS2 or playing Mille Borne or Sorry! or any other game...or even just playing with Legos.
This is a time management issue, not a video game issue.
...and that can often include "extras." Extras like lead (Pb). I work with a salesman who had a customer who bought paint from a plant in China because it was incredibly cheap. Something like a third of the cost in the US. Testing showed it to be full of lead, something they used years ago as pigment. Luckily, the company never actually used it, though I never heard of how they disposed of it.
I'm sure a less ethical company would just "overlook" that and send lead-painted product out the door.
We haven't advanced genetic engineering, AI, and the like to the point where Blade Runner type issues could arise. When we start engineering replicants and the first replicant refuses to fight in a war, then we'll have those issues and can see if it was ahead of its time or not....
Plus, keep in mind that a lot of Blade Runner was simply film noir....
or the **AA would have had to sue the hell out of them. The ultimate nightmare for a **AA executive is a "college Zune party." A bunch of people get together, swap a ton of music/movies/etc., and leave. No torrents, web servers, or IP addresses to list in a lawsuit or threatening letter to a college administrator. Microsoft would have been guilty of enabling illegal file sharing/IP theft without this DRM wrapper.
The recent story about a lawyer who killed a suspected molester should give pause to anyone who backs this registry. How long until some vigilante tracks down someone on this proposed registry and kills him/her and we later find out the person was listed due to false statements?
I wonder what's to stop the victim's family (victim here being the registered person, not the accuser) from suing someone who petitioned the courts to put the name on the list. How long until the courts become flooded with people attempting to list others for revenge, blackmail, better chances in divorce/custody cases, and so forth? How long until someone is listed simply because he/she had some porn on his/her computer or bought a skin mag while a Mrs. Lovejoy was watching?
Surely you are trolling. I have only a couple apps on my XP Home box that require admin access. One is a Enemy Territory (and then only because I play with punkbuster activated) and a seveal year old Winnie the Pooh game for toddlers. I don't have a single "average user" app that requires admin privledge.
Just about every game that I've installed for my kids requires me to run in administrator mode. Heck, I can't get Office 2000 to run properly unless I run it in administrator mode in XP. I set up my mother-in-law's computer, and I had a difficult time getting most stuff she would use to run in regular user mode. I kind of gave up and told her that I couldn't install the software instead of letting her run in administrator mode.
This is a huge problem that Microsoft is either ignoring or unaware of. Lots of people will still run want to run "legacy" programs that won't play nice in regular user mode.
If Vendors would stop preaching that they are the next 'silver-bullet' then perhaps this would stop.
Actually, it would only stop if potential customers would stop believing in silver-bullets. I work in the specialty chemical industry. You would not believe how many times I have been asked for a 'silver bullet', even when I explain that said bullet is impossible because it violates one or more laws of nature. Vendors offer them because customers want them, reality be damned.
Stephen King once commented about why horror books and movies do so well. His point was that we need to feel fear in order to process the emotion without our real fears paralyzing us. He pointed out real fears: that we'll get cancer, our loved ones will die in car accidents, that our children will be kidnapped or molested. These are all very real fears that could actually come true. Yet, we read books and watch movies in which bad things (both plausible and unplausible) happen. Why intentionally scare yourself? Because the experience (as the article somewhat mentions) lets you live out or experience the emotion and yet go on with your everyday life.
It seems as though you're looking for some type of development platform, not necessarily a database. Fact is, that's why a lot of people use Access for small stuff. It essentially allows them to quickly develop an "application" (from the user's viewpoint). Yeah, there's good and bad to that.
This seems to be more of a policy/management issue than a technology issue. If people even think for a moment that what they want may one day be used over the net or by more than one or two people, they should be contacting IT first to see what can be done. Otherwise, they're on their own. It's either that or be prepared to train a lot of people on how to properly design databases.....which most users are not going to be interested in.
Making an argument against eating arsenic.
Making an argument against sticking a wet finger in an electrical outlet.
Making an argument to end the vi/emacs debate once and for all.
If you read the details of the case, you'll see that Ceballos found out that a sheriff basically lied to obtain a search warrant. He wrote a memo about this and notified the defense attorney.
His boss forced him to rewrite the memo. The defense attorney subpoenaed him while attempting to have the case dismissed, but the prosecution deftly managed to prevent Ceballos from admitting on the record that the prosecutor's office knew about the lie and still went ahead with the prosecution.
You can find details about the case and tests used here.
What's frightening to me is that no one seems to be raising concerns about a prosecutor's office knowingly proceeding with a case that has been tainted. I guess it's now ok for all law enforcement officials to lie to obtain warrants.
Could they at least change the name of their party? They're really giving way to a new form of Communism that only seems to select and use the parts that are useful to them given the time and place.
The same could be same of just about any political party and/or political belief. For example, in the US, Republicans favor small government and despise government intrusion in people's lives....unless, of course, they're enforcing moral/religious viewpoints. Similar examples can be offered for Democrats.
In all my experience as an engineer, the most important thing is to use active voice. For those unaware of what this means, here's an example:
Passive: The boy *is riding* his bike to the store.
Active: The boy *rides* his bike to the store.
Writing active voice for technical material can provide a real challenge. Most of the material is very dry. Writing in active voice challenges the writer. However, active voice can really differentiate your writing from others. Very few engineers use it. But those who do can make technical material very engaging, even to non-technical people.
A lot of Europeans complain that Americans are sheltered and don't know anything about the rest of the world. And why should we? We're hard pressed to find any time to travel. If you travel for just one week out of an entire year, that leaves you with just five available vacation days to plan for friends' weddings, a visit from family, a camping trip, etc.
Very true. I recently had dinner with a gentleman who works for a US based company with global operations. He actually had to ask foreign nationals about the best places to go at US national parks because no one in the US had ever taken the time to visit them. Given their generous vacation benefits, these foreign nationals had more of an opportunity to enjoy the US's natural resources than Americans. Very sad when you think about it....
Before you TN residents/lovers start bashing me, I have to say I like the state. Very beautiful and the mountains/hills are great. I've got some real neat photographs of thunderstorms running through valleys.
That said, if these guys want to make laws, maybe they should look at Newport, TN. They had a big cock fighting ring busted down there. They even snagged cops and judges in the bust. Before cock fighting, it was stolen cars. Before that, drugs. Before that, moonshine. Although I'm fairly libertarian, I'd say if they want to work on eradicating "bad" behavior, maybe they should work on other things....
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Uh, how do you go from my comment about giving my child 30 minutes on the PS2 to a rant about porn, privacy, and sitting over him with a timer? What does porn have to do with this? Did I say that I stand over my child with a timer? Did I say I make him do all of this in "public"? What does this have to do with anything?
If you're so interested, I'll have you know that we do use a timer. But he sets it and starts it. When its up, it's his responsibility to finish the level, save the game, and turn the PS2 off. If he's good and has done his work, he gets the 30 minutes pretty much whenever he wants it. He can play it in the morning or save it for later. When he plays it early and complains about not being able to play it later, he's learning (whether he likes it or not) about delaying gratification and time management.
I'm also teaching him about not jumping to conclusions or judging a book by its cover. Perhaps you'd like to join him.
...such as soccer practice, playing in the front yard, or reading comic books.
Face it, we all have limited time, particularly on weekdays. After dinner, getting ready for bed, baths, etc., there's limited time for homework or study. If you waste it, children will do worse, no matter how you waste it.
My wife and I limit our first grader to 30 minutes on the PS2, assuming that there's time, he'e been good at school, and that he'll complete his homework (which isn't that much) before snack time before bed. Anybody with an ounce of common sense could tell you that his academic work would suffer if we reduced study time to allow more play time, regardless of whether or not it was on the PS2 or playing Mille Borne or Sorry! or any other game...or even just playing with Legos.
This is a time management issue, not a video game issue.
...and that can often include "extras." Extras like lead (Pb). I work with a salesman who had a customer who bought paint from a plant in China because it was incredibly cheap. Something like a third of the cost in the US. Testing showed it to be full of lead, something they used years ago as pigment. Luckily, the company never actually used it, though I never heard of how they disposed of it.
I'm sure a less ethical company would just "overlook" that and send lead-painted product out the door.
So, like, that's what this site should be worth, right?
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Damn those opportunistic Swedes....
Yeah, man, but it had "space madness." Not just madness.....SPACE MADNESS!
We haven't advanced genetic engineering, AI, and the like to the point where Blade Runner type issues could arise. When we start engineering replicants and the first replicant refuses to fight in a war, then we'll have those issues and can see if it was ahead of its time or not....
Plus, keep in mind that a lot of Blade Runner was simply film noir....
They want their business model back.
or the **AA would have had to sue the hell out of them. The ultimate nightmare for a **AA executive is a "college Zune party." A bunch of people get together, swap a ton of music/movies/etc., and leave. No torrents, web servers, or IP addresses to list in a lawsuit or threatening letter to a college administrator. Microsoft would have been guilty of enabling illegal file sharing/IP theft without this DRM wrapper.
The recent story about a lawyer who killed a suspected molester should give pause to anyone who backs this registry. How long until some vigilante tracks down someone on this proposed registry and kills him/her and we later find out the person was listed due to false statements? I wonder what's to stop the victim's family (victim here being the registered person, not the accuser) from suing someone who petitioned the courts to put the name on the list. How long until the courts become flooded with people attempting to list others for revenge, blackmail, better chances in divorce/custody cases, and so forth? How long until someone is listed simply because he/she had some porn on his/her computer or bought a skin mag while a Mrs. Lovejoy was watching?
Surely you are trolling. I have only a couple apps on my XP Home box that require admin access. One is a Enemy Territory (and then only because I play with punkbuster activated) and a seveal year old Winnie the Pooh game for toddlers. I don't have a single "average user" app that requires admin privledge.
Just about every game that I've installed for my kids requires me to run in administrator mode. Heck, I can't get Office 2000 to run properly unless I run it in administrator mode in XP. I set up my mother-in-law's computer, and I had a difficult time getting most stuff she would use to run in regular user mode. I kind of gave up and told her that I couldn't install the software instead of letting her run in administrator mode.
This is a huge problem that Microsoft is either ignoring or unaware of. Lots of people will still run want to run "legacy" programs that won't play nice in regular user mode.
Then maybe he can mind meld with Matt and get some acting skills......
If Vendors would stop preaching that they are the next 'silver-bullet' then perhaps this would stop.
Actually, it would only stop if potential customers would stop believing in silver-bullets. I work in the specialty chemical industry. You would not believe how many times I have been asked for a 'silver bullet', even when I explain that said bullet is impossible because it violates one or more laws of nature. Vendors offer them because customers want them, reality be damned.
And here I thought Fred's super sauce was the reason for super chickens.....
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Yet another great reason to live in Pittsburgh.....
Stephen King once commented about why horror books and movies do so well. His point was that we need to feel fear in order to process the emotion without our real fears paralyzing us. He pointed out real fears: that we'll get cancer, our loved ones will die in car accidents, that our children will be kidnapped or molested. These are all very real fears that could actually come true. Yet, we read books and watch movies in which bad things (both plausible and unplausible) happen. Why intentionally scare yourself? Because the experience (as the article somewhat mentions) lets you live out or experience the emotion and yet go on with your everyday life.
So that makes Evolution a cancer on Windows and Christians?
That assumes that Windows was intelligently designed.....
It seems as though you're looking for some type of development platform, not necessarily a database. Fact is, that's why a lot of people use Access for small stuff. It essentially allows them to quickly develop an "application" (from the user's viewpoint). Yeah, there's good and bad to that.
This seems to be more of a policy/management issue than a technology issue. If people even think for a moment that what they want may one day be used over the net or by more than one or two people, they should be contacting IT first to see what can be done. Otherwise, they're on their own. It's either that or be prepared to train a lot of people on how to properly design databases.....which most users are not going to be interested in.
Not as much as "Real People".
Making an argument against eating arsenic.
Making an argument against sticking a wet finger in an electrical outlet.
Making an argument to end the vi/emacs debate once and for all.
If you read the details of the case, you'll see that Ceballos found out that a sheriff basically lied to obtain a search warrant. He wrote a memo about this and notified the defense attorney.
His boss forced him to rewrite the memo. The defense attorney subpoenaed him while attempting to have the case dismissed, but the prosecution deftly managed to prevent Ceballos from admitting on the record that the prosecutor's office knew about the lie and still went ahead with the prosecution.
You can find details about the case and tests used here.
What's frightening to me is that no one seems to be raising concerns about a prosecutor's office knowingly proceeding with a case that has been tainted. I guess it's now ok for all law enforcement officials to lie to obtain warrants.
Could they at least change the name of their party? They're really giving way to a new form of Communism that only seems to select and use the parts that are useful to them given the time and place.
The same could be same of just about any political party and/or political belief. For example, in the US, Republicans favor small government and despise government intrusion in people's lives....unless, of course, they're enforcing moral/religious viewpoints. Similar examples can be offered for Democrats.
Also, less is more. I repeated myself in the post. Writing sober also seems to help.
In all my experience as an engineer, the most important thing is to use active voice. For those unaware of what this means, here's an example:
Passive: The boy *is riding* his bike to the store.
Active: The boy *rides* his bike to the store.
Writing active voice for technical material can provide a real challenge. Most of the material is very dry. Writing in active voice challenges the writer. However, active voice can really differentiate your writing from others. Very few engineers use it. But those who do can make technical material very engaging, even to non-technical people.
A lot of Europeans complain that Americans are sheltered and don't know anything about the rest of the world. And why should we? We're hard pressed to find any time to travel. If you travel for just one week out of an entire year, that leaves you with just five available vacation days to plan for friends' weddings, a visit from family, a camping trip, etc.
Very true. I recently had dinner with a gentleman who works for a US based company with global operations. He actually had to ask foreign nationals about the best places to go at US national parks because no one in the US had ever taken the time to visit them. Given their generous vacation benefits, these foreign nationals had more of an opportunity to enjoy the US's natural resources than Americans. Very sad when you think about it....
...and it will still outperform 80-90% of money fund managers, year-in, year-out. There is nothing to see here, at least for the S&P500.
Before you TN residents/lovers start bashing me, I have to say I like the state. Very beautiful and the mountains/hills are great. I've got some real neat photographs of thunderstorms running through valleys.
That said, if these guys want to make laws, maybe they should look at Newport, TN. They had a big cock fighting ring busted down there. They even snagged cops and judges in the bust. Before cock fighting, it was stolen cars. Before that, drugs. Before that, moonshine. Although I'm fairly libertarian, I'd say if they want to work on eradicating "bad" behavior, maybe they should work on other things....