Guess it depends on the person because even though I have had a computer in my bedroom since before I was born I have never had a problem sleeping anywhere or any time. YMMV.
I don't consider myself a parent with any real life experience, being that I have only been one for 3 months, but I have some observations on how my son interacts with certain physical items in his new world:
1. He is not permitted to watch TV. 2. We read books to him a lot. 3. He listens to a lot of music tailored towards children (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIueuNdB2oM)
While he has some attention for books, especially ones where my mother recorded herself reading them and we play it for him while he listens, he has an amazing attention span for my iPhone or the TV. He will go out of his way to crane his neck around to look at the TV if it happens to be on (we don't watch much TV) or physically move himself to look at the TV if he is in a device which allows for him to do that.
I'm guessing that either he's fucking weird (certainly possible considering his parents) or all children love to watch shit. While he gets excited when I come home from work, it's nothing like he gets when he's watching my parents on Google Video Chat. If he's going to feel excited via a particular medium then I say I'm all for it--especially if it helps one particular child learn better than others.
I crossed from MN into Canada for a geocaching trip mainly based in Winnipeg. We were detained at the border for over an hour and witnessed their dealings with three individuals heading to Winnipeg for a wedding. All three had criminal records including indecent exposure, DWI, and something else which I do not remember. They all lied to the border agents. After being admonished for doing so they were permitted to continue on into Canada without having their vehicle searched.
In our case they split us all up and interrogated us separately. We each had a laptop, a GPS (plus two more in the car for car navigation only), etc. They did not really care for our explanation of why we were heading to Winnipeg (recreation does not seem to be a valid reason to head there--although now after being there I understand why they were confused). While they let the three criminals before us go w/o a car search they searched our car thoroughly but they did not seem to care much about our laptops and didn't bother looking for anything on them.
At the end of the process I realized that they had nothing better to do and searching people's cars and hassling them was their job and they enjoyed it. When they weren't actively hassling you they were standing around chatting with cups in their hands. They reminded me of local police officers at the gas station sucking down free coffee.
Conversely, in a country which I always hear as having such awful border controls, when we crossed back into the US they asked us why the fuck we were in Canada and when we told her she simply said, "No one could make up a story like that, go on through." Basically, in other words, Canada's border agents are dicks.
I have also been saying this all along but I disagree with you on this point:
The enormity of the effort they would have to mount given the physics of space travel would be rather significant, and at great cost to themselves.
Who's to say that they just don't think differently than we do? Just because we have a mental block about a particular bit of physics does not mean that they do too. I find it hard to believe that if they think like we do but have solved the physics problem of near light-speed travel that they wouldn't be able to handle their own natural resources for their population.
True CS curriculum require a massive amount of critical thinking and other analytical skills.
It also required Discrete Math. While that fits into one particular way of expressing critical thinking and other analytical skills, it's not at all necessary to write code--something which I can do quite well. I went over into a liberal arts curriculum (History) and used critical thinking and analytical skills in a whole different way.
I wait till the last day when I owe money simply because plenty of other people provide the government with an interest free loan for the entire year. I choose not to do that and I'm certainly not giving them their money until the last possible moment.
I don't use checks for anything except paying the fucking IRS.
$799 federal owed this year, twice as much as last year. No higher taxes on those who make less than $250,000 a year my ass.
It never ceases to amaze me that people do not put together that free software is far superior to pay-for software. This type of data has always been available, for high cost, to those who were able to acquire it (ArcView for example) and be trained to use it. With the advent of Google Earth people can still access much of that ArcView stuff (with SHP2KML conversion) and use this information for a wide range of research.
Say what you want about Google's privacy scares but some of the shit they've put out is absolutely wonderful for those of us more interested in spending our money on what's important.
1. A big company like Google can destroy a little company.
It didn't destroy it, it just wasn't doing things on Dens' schedule. Dodgeball became Google's thing, not Dens' personal side project and thus their desire to add developers to his team was low and their desire to tie him and his staff up in endless meetings was more important.
But as far as the money is concerned, yeah, that's probably true.
I recently watched a "documentary" on Hulu about a dude (possibly this guy, I'm too lazy to look at the video) who set out to break the Missile Command record. He set aside several three day weekends over the course of a year and each time the machine was the culprit--breaking down 10s of hours into the attempt. The documentary ended with him not breaking the record.
I have an original 1982 Ms. Pacman cocktail. The video reminded me that I need to get a new monitor for it, something which is becoming rare apparently. The price has gone up more than $100 in the last 5 years due to their scarcity.
Just so you know businesses care about all websites that have a high Google Rank. I, almost daily, deal with astroturfing except I have no problems researching and outing these people when I catch them. Nothing better than teaching businesses not to be fucking stupid. Here's today's example: http://www.lazylightning.org/rack-shack-bbq-burnsville-mn#comment-49534
Yelp was helping them be stupid while being stupid themselves. Double negatives are a no-no.
And considering that the majority of the movie going public are assholes, it's perfect for predicting box office revenue--or any number of other questions which can be answered by large samples of asshole behavior.
"In one case, a 9-year-old girl accidentally shared her contact list in Gmail with a person who has a 'sexually charged' username, the lawmakers said in the letter."
In one case, the parents of a 9 year old girl weren't paying attention, like they should have been, while their daughter surfed the web and they were upset at their lack of parenting skills and decided it imperative that they defer to the Federal Government to help them solve this problem.
Depends on the roundabout design. Roundabouts here sometimes have a lane which splits off and goes around the roundabout (which defeats the entire purpose of the roundabout but yet they do it...) thus the signaling in and out.
Here in Minnesota they like to add roundabouts everywhere to force you to slow down. What the traffic engineers did not seem to anticipate is that people do not know how to use them and routinely stop traffic into the circle (instead of yielding) or don't signal in and out of them so people have no idea what traffic is doing.
Now, this just adds to the whole slow down of traffic idea they were trying to get at but it causes many other issues including accidents (even though they claim they're reduced), higher short-term costs (they claim that over 25 to 30 years it's less expensive than a four-way), and poor design (including one-way streets into one side of the roundabouts causing exiting confusion).
They're pretty straight forward if you know what you're doing and what formats the original SHPs were in. The Minnesota DNR likes to use something other than WGS84 so I have to do a conversion: ogr2ogr -s_srs EPSG:32615 -t_srs WGS84 out.shp in.shp
Replacing ARCView. Honestly I use a couple of OSS applications to convert SHP files to KML and then display them in Google Earth. Here are a few examples of Minnesota DNR/county data: http://www.lazylightning.org/boundaries/.
What's wrong with people like you asking for an itemized bill and then raising a stink about the shoddy bookkeeping? What does the government need to be involved?
What would you like me to do about it? I can complain, bitch, moan, and whine until I'm blue in the face but when it comes down to it the hospital knows there is nothing I can do about it because they are not held accountable for this. If we're going to have "Healthcare Reform" let's do it right ok?
There's some good stuff in the bill such as getting rid of preexisting condition limitations etc.. but unfortunately without the public option, there will be no competition or healh care reform.
My wife and I recently had our first child. There were mistakes during the epidural phase which required another one to be done about 8 hours after we arrived. Due to this we wanted to see an itemized bill and what we received was right in line with what all the horror stories tell you:
1. $14.05 for one 600mg Ibuprofen (people, bring your own bottle of 200mg Advil and take three)
2. Incoherent and unintelligible charges (Doctor Visit $1496.23 is not itemized enough, sorry)
3. When they thought my child was uninsured (he was on his mother's but they didn't yet notify the hospital) charges were halved for the "uninsured discount".
Etc.
Now, instead of having a public option--which will just push this burden on to the people while "insuring" those who are currently uninsured, the government should have made it clear that this type of overcharging and clearly obtuse billing charges are unacceptable. But no, instead we're going to pass a bill which costs a trillion dollars (of money which we don't already have) and then it's going to do very little to fix the real problems inherent in the health care industry.
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Guess it depends on the person because even though I have had a computer in my bedroom since before I was born I have never had a problem sleeping anywhere or any time. YMMV.
I don't consider myself a parent with any real life experience, being that I have only been one for 3 months, but I have some observations on how my son interacts with certain physical items in his new world:
1. He is not permitted to watch TV.
2. We read books to him a lot.
3. He listens to a lot of music tailored towards children (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIueuNdB2oM)
While he has some attention for books, especially ones where my mother recorded herself reading them and we play it for him while he listens, he has an amazing attention span for my iPhone or the TV. He will go out of his way to crane his neck around to look at the TV if it happens to be on (we don't watch much TV) or physically move himself to look at the TV if he is in a device which allows for him to do that.
I'm guessing that either he's fucking weird (certainly possible considering his parents) or all children love to watch shit. While he gets excited when I come home from work, it's nothing like he gets when he's watching my parents on Google Video Chat. If he's going to feel excited via a particular medium then I say I'm all for it--especially if it helps one particular child learn better than others.
I crossed from MN into Canada for a geocaching trip mainly based in Winnipeg. We were detained at the border for over an hour and witnessed their dealings with three individuals heading to Winnipeg for a wedding. All three had criminal records including indecent exposure, DWI, and something else which I do not remember. They all lied to the border agents. After being admonished for doing so they were permitted to continue on into Canada without having their vehicle searched.
In our case they split us all up and interrogated us separately. We each had a laptop, a GPS (plus two more in the car for car navigation only), etc. They did not really care for our explanation of why we were heading to Winnipeg (recreation does not seem to be a valid reason to head there--although now after being there I understand why they were confused). While they let the three criminals before us go w/o a car search they searched our car thoroughly but they did not seem to care much about our laptops and didn't bother looking for anything on them.
At the end of the process I realized that they had nothing better to do and searching people's cars and hassling them was their job and they enjoyed it. When they weren't actively hassling you they were standing around chatting with cups in their hands. They reminded me of local police officers at the gas station sucking down free coffee.
Conversely, in a country which I always hear as having such awful border controls, when we crossed back into the US they asked us why the fuck we were in Canada and when we told her she simply said, "No one could make up a story like that, go on through." Basically, in other words, Canada's border agents are dicks.
I have also been saying this all along but I disagree with you on this point:
The enormity of the effort they would have to mount given the physics of space travel would be rather significant, and at great cost to themselves.
Who's to say that they just don't think differently than we do? Just because we have a mental block about a particular bit of physics does not mean that they do too. I find it hard to believe that if they think like we do but have solved the physics problem of near light-speed travel that they wouldn't be able to handle their own natural resources for their population.
True CS curriculum require a massive amount of critical thinking and other analytical skills.
It also required Discrete Math. While that fits into one particular way of expressing critical thinking and other analytical skills, it's not at all necessary to write code--something which I can do quite well. I went over into a liberal arts curriculum (History) and used critical thinking and analytical skills in a whole different way.
Oh and I still write code for a living.
Feed lots and the like suck, don't get me wrong - but it is the willing price we pay for meat.
It's not a price I'm willing to pay for meat and as such I get my meat from local, organic, and free range farmers and you should too.
I wait till the last day when I owe money simply because plenty of other people provide the government with an interest free loan for the entire year. I choose not to do that and I'm certainly not giving them their money until the last possible moment.
I don't use checks for anything except paying the fucking IRS.
$799 federal owed this year, twice as much as last year. No higher taxes on those who make less than $250,000 a year my ass.
It never ceases to amaze me that people do not put together that free software is far superior to pay-for software. This type of data has always been available, for high cost, to those who were able to acquire it (ArcView for example) and be trained to use it. With the advent of Google Earth people can still access much of that ArcView stuff (with SHP2KML conversion) and use this information for a wide range of research.
Say what you want about Google's privacy scares but some of the shit they've put out is absolutely wonderful for those of us more interested in spending our money on what's important.
No, we stuff people in wood chippers and call casseroles 'hot dish'. This, this is how the Internet has affected me ;-)
Why? Because when I'm driving 27 hours to the beach from Minnesota I'll want true Internet access in my car, not just my iPhone?
1. A big company like Google can destroy a little company.
It didn't destroy it, it just wasn't doing things on Dens' schedule. Dodgeball became Google's thing, not Dens' personal side project and thus their desire to add developers to his team was low and their desire to tie him and his staff up in endless meetings was more important.
But as far as the money is concerned, yeah, that's probably true.
I recently watched a "documentary" on Hulu about a dude (possibly this guy, I'm too lazy to look at the video) who set out to break the Missile Command record. He set aside several three day weekends over the course of a year and each time the machine was the culprit--breaking down 10s of hours into the attempt. The documentary ended with him not breaking the record.
I have an original 1982 Ms. Pacman cocktail. The video reminded me that I need to get a new monitor for it, something which is becoming rare apparently. The price has gone up more than $100 in the last 5 years due to their scarcity.
Just so you know businesses care about all websites that have a high Google Rank. I, almost daily, deal with astroturfing except I have no problems researching and outing these people when I catch them. Nothing better than teaching businesses not to be fucking stupid. Here's today's example: http://www.lazylightning.org/rack-shack-bbq-burnsville-mn#comment-49534
Yelp was helping them be stupid while being stupid themselves. Double negatives are a no-no.
The real reason could be as simple as the sample size is fucking tiny.
And considering that the majority of the movie going public are assholes, it's perfect for predicting box office revenue--or any number of other questions which can be answered by large samples of asshole behavior.
"In one case, a 9-year-old girl accidentally shared her contact list in Gmail with a person who has a 'sexually charged' username, the lawmakers said in the letter."
In one case, the parents of a 9 year old girl weren't paying attention, like they should have been, while their daughter surfed the web and they were upset at their lack of parenting skills and decided it imperative that they defer to the Federal Government to help them solve this problem.
Depends on the roundabout design. Roundabouts here sometimes have a lane which splits off and goes around the roundabout (which defeats the entire purpose of the roundabout but yet they do it...) thus the signaling in and out.
Nice attempt at a troll though!
These are nothing like what I think of when I think "roundabout" so I'm guessing they fit your definition of "mini".
Here in Minnesota they like to add roundabouts everywhere to force you to slow down. What the traffic engineers did not seem to anticipate is that people do not know how to use them and routinely stop traffic into the circle (instead of yielding) or don't signal in and out of them so people have no idea what traffic is doing.
Now, this just adds to the whole slow down of traffic idea they were trying to get at but it causes many other issues including accidents (even though they claim they're reduced), higher short-term costs (they claim that over 25 to 30 years it's less expensive than a four-way), and poor design (including one-way streets into one side of the roundabouts causing exiting confusion).
Ugh.
They're pretty straight forward if you know what you're doing and what formats the original SHPs were in. The Minnesota DNR likes to use something other than WGS84 so I have to do a conversion: ogr2ogr -s_srs EPSG:32615 -t_srs WGS84 out.shp in.shp
Replacing ARCView. Honestly I use a couple of OSS applications to convert SHP files to KML and then display them in Google Earth. Here are a few examples of Minnesota DNR/county data: http://www.lazylightning.org/boundaries/.
Awesome indeed.
Clearly hdguru.com needs to sync their database with their httpd.
Because it wouldn't surprise me if some employers used this health care bill as an excuse to jack up the employee-paid portion, so that they pay less.
Either way I pay more. I don't care how it works, I don't want to do that.
What's wrong with people like you asking for an itemized bill and then raising a stink about the shoddy bookkeeping? What does the government need to be involved?
What would you like me to do about it? I can complain, bitch, moan, and whine until I'm blue in the face but when it comes down to it the hospital knows there is nothing I can do about it because they are not held accountable for this. If we're going to have "Healthcare Reform" let's do it right ok?
There's some good stuff in the bill such as getting rid of preexisting condition limitations etc.. but unfortunately without the public option, there will be no competition or healh care reform.
My wife and I recently had our first child. There were mistakes during the epidural phase which required another one to be done about 8 hours after we arrived. Due to this we wanted to see an itemized bill and what we received was right in line with what all the horror stories tell you:
1. $14.05 for one 600mg Ibuprofen (people, bring your own bottle of 200mg Advil and take three)
2. Incoherent and unintelligible charges (Doctor Visit $1496.23 is not itemized enough, sorry)
3. When they thought my child was uninsured (he was on his mother's but they didn't yet notify the hospital) charges were halved for the "uninsured discount".
Etc.
Now, instead of having a public option--which will just push this burden on to the people while "insuring" those who are currently uninsured, the government should have made it clear that this type of overcharging and clearly obtuse billing charges are unacceptable. But no, instead we're going to pass a bill which costs a trillion dollars (of money which we don't already have) and then it's going to do very little to fix the real problems inherent in the health care industry.
This is not a win for anyone.