I like this. When I did career day and my kids were in elementary school, I did a couple of things.
At the time, I did embedded systems, so first , I asked them how many computers they thought were in their Mom's car. And then I used that as a jumping off point to explain (at a very high level) embedded systems.
Then I talked a little about how I write software. I asked them, if they were building a house, would they just start hammering, would would they make a plan. Pointed out the same thing for software.
The last thing I did was to make the teacher happy. I asked them what they thought one of the most important tools I used (besides a computer) was. They guessed for a bit, and then I brought out a book (picked the biggest programming book I could, I think it was Petzold 5ed at the time), and kind of played with it a bit until someone figured out "books". Pointed out you need to read.
Career day was always tough for me, because my daughter was always in the same class as the guy who did lasers (no frickin' sharks).
I can't find the actual Slashdot post -- I never was able to figure out how to get the site search to work for me -- but here's the History of the World, According to Slashdot. 2.5 million B.C.: OOG the Open Source Caveman develops the axe and releases it under the GPL. The axe quickly gains popularity as a means of crushing moderators' heads.
100,000 B.C.: Man domesticates the AIBO.
10,000 B.C.: Civilization begins when early farmers first learn to cultivate hot grits.
3000 B.C.: Sumerians develop a primitive cuneiform perl script.
2920 B.C.: A legendary flood sweeps Slashdot, filling up a Borland / Inprise story with hundreds of offtopic posts.
1750 B.C.: Hammurabi, a Mesopotamian king, codifies the first EULA.
490 B.C.: Greek city-states unite to defeat the Persians. ESR triumphantly proclaims that the Greeks "get it".
399 B.C.: Socrates is convicted of impiety. Despite the efforts of freesocrates.com, he is forced to kill himself by drinking hemlock.
336 B.C.: Fat-Time Charlie becomes King of Macedonia and conquers Persia.
4 B.C.: Following the Star (as in hot young actress) of Bethelem, wise men travel from far away to troll for baby Jesus.
A.D. 476: The Roman Empire BSODs.
A.D. 610: The Glorious MEEPT!! founds Islam after receiving a revelation from God. Following his disappearance from Slashdot in 632, a succession dispute results in the emergence of two troll factions: the Pythonni and the Perliites.
A.D. 800: Charlemagne conquers nearly all of Germany, only to be acquired by andover.net.
A.D. 874: Linus the Red discovers Iceland. A.D. 1000: The epic of the Beowulf Cluster is written down. It is the first English epic poem.
A.D. 1095: Pope Bruce II calls for a crusade against the Turks when it is revealed they are violating the GPL. Later investigation reveals that Pope Bruce II had not yet contacted the Turks before calling for the crusade.
A.D. 1215: Bowing to pressure to open-source the British government, King John signs the Magna Carta, limiting the British monarchy's power. ESR triumphantly proclaims that the British monarchy "gets it".
A.D. 1348: The ILOVEYOU virus kills over half the population of Europe. (The other half was not using Outlook.)
A.D. 1420: Johann Gutenberg invents the printing press. He is immediately sued by monks claiming that the technology will promote the copying of hand-transcribed books, thus violating the church's intellectual property.
A.D. 1429: Natalie Portman of Arc gathers an army of Slashdot trolls to do battle with the moderators. She is eventually tried as a heretic and stoned (as in petrified).
A.D. 1478: The Catholic Church partners with doubleclick.net to launch the Spanish Inquisition.
A.D. 1492: Christopher Columbus arrives in what he believes to be "India", but which RMS informs him is actually "GNU/India".
A.D. 1508-12: Michaelengelo attempts to paint the Sistine Chapel ceiling with ASCII art, only to have his plan thwarted by the "Lameness Filter."
A.D. 1517: Martin Luther nails his 95 Theses to the church door and is promptly moderated down to (-1, Flamebait).
A.D. 1553: "Bloody" Mary ascends the throne of England and begins an infamous crusade against Protestants. ESR eats his words.
A.D. 1588: The "IF I EVER MEET YOU, I WILL KICK YOUR ASS" guy meets the Spanish Armada.
A.D. 1603: Tokugawa Ieyasu unites the feuding pancake-eating ninjas of Japan.
A.D. 1611: Mattel adds Galileo Galilei to its CyberPatrol block list for proposing that the Earth revolves around the sun.
A.D. 1688: In the so-called "Glorious Revolution", King James II is bloodlessly forced out of power and flees to France. ESR again triumphantly proclaims that the British monarchy "gets it".
A.D. 1692: Anti-GIF hysteria in the New World comes to a head in the infamous "Salem GIF Trials", in which 20 alleged GIFs are burned at the stake. Later investigation
I don't see how this will work, since Sony management is so lousy at detecting the emotions of the criminals^Wcustomers out there using their products.
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I wonder if you can boot Unix on it?
I still have the "Ancient Unix" from SCO/Caldera -- just before Ransom Love left, and they turned evil.
And if I put a wireless router on my LAN behind the PPPoE login?
Back to square 1.
Except the hoverboard worked in 1955, where there were definitely no mag-lev roads.
Yeah, everyone knows that the REAL thing is the Circle of Trust!!!
1992: James P. Hogan, Giant's Star
C&C had THE BEST introduction to pointers that I have EVER read.
It was the introductory text at UCSC (CIS 12A/B) in the early '80s.
Damn straight. You beat me to it.
Close. She's 21, and the other is 18.
I like this. When I did career day and my kids were in elementary school, I did a couple of things.
At the time, I did embedded systems, so first , I asked them how many computers they thought were in their Mom's car. And then I used that as a jumping off point to explain (at a very high level) embedded systems.
Then I talked a little about how I write software. I asked them, if they were building a house, would they just start hammering, would would they make a plan. Pointed out the same thing for software.
The last thing I did was to make the teacher happy. I asked them what they thought one of the most important tools I used (besides a computer) was. They guessed for a bit, and then I brought out a book (picked the biggest programming book I could, I think it was Petzold 5ed at the time), and kind of played with it a bit until someone figured out "books". Pointed out you need to read.
Career day was always tough for me, because my daughter was always in the same class as the guy who did lasers (no frickin' sharks).
I did this with my daughter's 3rd grade class, only I showed them how a computer counts to 5.
Someone was the CPU, someone was the display, someone was memory, etc...
Fuck you very much, Jenny McCarthy.
Except there are no patent claims in either Novell or IBM.
Oops. Did a search for "futurama" and didn't see anything.
That's very different. Never mind.
OK, it's worms instead of bacteria, but still....
Ares I was a major clusterfuck, and a complete piece of idiocy.
What I didn't like was the cancellation of Ares V. There is *NO* Saturn class launcher available, and Ares V would have fit the bill.
NOOOO!!!!!! Don't use the word 'shit'!!! It causes bubonic plague!!!
Don't forget "homo" sapiens.
Michael Bay, is that you?
What about Charlie Sheens?
You don't patent fucking idea. You patent inventions. You patents processes.
YOU DO NOT PATENT IDEAS
How many pieces of flair did she have?
PJ also retired from running Groklaw earlier this year.
I can't find the actual Slashdot post -- I never was able to figure out how to get the site search to work for me -- but here's the History of the World, According to Slashdot.
2.5 million B.C.: OOG the Open Source Caveman develops the axe and releases it under the GPL. The axe quickly gains popularity as a means of crushing moderators' heads.
100,000 B.C.: Man domesticates the AIBO.
10,000 B.C.: Civilization begins when early farmers first learn to cultivate hot grits.
3000 B.C.: Sumerians develop a primitive cuneiform perl script.
2920 B.C.: A legendary flood sweeps Slashdot, filling up a Borland / Inprise story with hundreds of offtopic posts.
1750 B.C.: Hammurabi, a Mesopotamian king, codifies the first EULA.
490 B.C.: Greek city-states unite to defeat the Persians. ESR triumphantly proclaims that the Greeks "get it".
399 B.C.: Socrates is convicted of impiety. Despite the efforts of freesocrates.com, he is forced to kill himself by drinking hemlock.
336 B.C.: Fat-Time Charlie becomes King of Macedonia and conquers Persia.
4 B.C.: Following the Star (as in hot young actress) of Bethelem, wise men travel from far away to troll for baby Jesus.
A.D. 476: The Roman Empire BSODs.
A.D. 610: The Glorious MEEPT!! founds Islam after receiving a revelation from God. Following his disappearance from Slashdot in 632, a succession dispute results in the emergence of two troll factions: the Pythonni and the Perliites.
A.D. 800: Charlemagne conquers nearly all of Germany, only to be acquired by andover.net.
A.D. 874: Linus the Red discovers Iceland.
A.D. 1000: The epic of the Beowulf Cluster is written down. It is the first English epic poem.
A.D. 1095: Pope Bruce II calls for a crusade against the Turks when it is revealed they are violating the GPL. Later investigation reveals that Pope Bruce II had not yet contacted the Turks before calling for the crusade.
A.D. 1215: Bowing to pressure to open-source the British government, King John signs the Magna Carta, limiting the British monarchy's power. ESR triumphantly proclaims that the British monarchy "gets it".
A.D. 1348: The ILOVEYOU virus kills over half the population of Europe. (The other half was not using Outlook.)
A.D. 1420: Johann Gutenberg invents the printing press. He is immediately sued by monks claiming that the technology will promote the copying of hand-transcribed books, thus violating the church's intellectual property.
A.D. 1429: Natalie Portman of Arc gathers an army of Slashdot trolls to do battle with the moderators. She is eventually tried as a heretic and stoned (as in petrified).
A.D. 1478: The Catholic Church partners with doubleclick.net to launch the Spanish Inquisition.
A.D. 1492: Christopher Columbus arrives in what he believes to be "India", but which RMS informs him is actually "GNU/India".
A.D. 1508-12: Michaelengelo attempts to paint the Sistine Chapel ceiling with ASCII art, only to have his plan thwarted by the "Lameness Filter."
A.D. 1517: Martin Luther nails his 95 Theses to the church door and is promptly moderated down to (-1, Flamebait).
A.D. 1553: "Bloody" Mary ascends the throne of England and begins an infamous crusade against Protestants. ESR eats his words.
A.D. 1588: The "IF I EVER MEET YOU, I WILL KICK YOUR ASS" guy meets the Spanish Armada.
A.D. 1603: Tokugawa Ieyasu unites the feuding pancake-eating ninjas of Japan.
A.D. 1611: Mattel adds Galileo Galilei to its CyberPatrol block list for proposing that the Earth revolves around the sun.
A.D. 1688: In the so-called "Glorious Revolution", King James II is bloodlessly forced out of power and flees to France. ESR again triumphantly proclaims that the British monarchy "gets it".
A.D. 1692: Anti-GIF hysteria in the New World comes to a head in the infamous "Salem GIF Trials", in which 20 alleged GIFs are burned at the stake. Later investigation
Me too. I waited about 3 or 4 months. I probably could have been sub-50K.
I don't see how this will work, since Sony management is so lousy at detecting the emotions of the criminals^Wcustomers out there using their products.