make them cook their own food, do their own laundry, etc. give them good reasons to leave the PC.
eventually they'll grow out of it, but it could be years and years before they complete that on their own.
help them hate the computer, force them to use IE, force them to go through a proxy where everything they do is monitored. disallow them from installing new software. make them hate the computer. they'll either give up or become so good at computers that their online time will turn into a career.
or you can just do what my dad did when i was hooked on nintendo. pull the fuse and hide it.
but Radio Shack's electronic project kits were the key for me. When my dad showed me how to light a light bulb with a battery i immediately had him take me to radio shack and get me one.
I spent the next 4 years doing nothing but tinkering with my project kits. I made radios, motion detectors, calculators, wind generators... i wound up fixing TVs and walkman radios, and game consoles for friends.... then, when i was about 10, i was working on my project kits and suddenly it hit me... "dude there are girls out there. go get one!" so I went outside, hopped on my bike, rode down the *sidewalk*, and was smashed by a car coming out of the alley at 35mph. i was thrown right into the street, skipping the part of the alley between the sidewalk and the street, some 20 feet away. no broken bones but a concussion and a broken eardrum.
i kept off the electronic project kits but i never did get a girlfriend until i was 18.
my lesson to you - stay away from electronics, and keep the kids away too. I mean it.
this is a true story, by the way. all too true. I still can't hear things like digital watches out of my left ear...
yeah, i thought that's why they were called usb KEYs... I think they were originally designed just for this purpose. my first USB key was 64kb (kilobytes) and held only an encryption key.
Smart cards provide the exact same functionality as my very first usb key.
try it. the response time of whatever bulb he was using was good enough to provide clear sound. being a person of scientific reasoning i was skeptical too. i clearly remember it not sounding muffled at all. i honestly don't know why.
try it yourself. the sound is clearer than you'd think.
try it yourself. i don't know how but the incandescent light changed brightness fast enough - the sound was surprisingly clear. some light bulbs would work better than others, i'd imagine. my dad was a big fan of those big 6V lanterns, the ones that take the big brick 6V batteries.
when i was a kid (early 80s) my dad set up a thing kinda like that. he used a focusable flashlight, hooked it up to an amplifier, and pointed at a sensor he had in the window of our detached garage.
whenever he'd go out there to work, he'd turn on a microphone in the house, and turn the reciever in the garage on. he originally built it when cordless phones were a high-priced luxury, and didn't want to wire a phone just for the garage, but he still wanted to hear the phone ring from in there. later he used it to listen to the TV while he worked outside.
he used a cadmium-sulfide cell on the recieving end. those change resistance according to light. conveniently, they ignore the signal bias (ambient light) and only respond to changes in light intensity. the amplifier inside the house changed the amount of current to the flashlight, and thus the brightness. that variable-intensity light got sent to the CdS cell and the variation in light was reproduced into sound. it sounded surprisingly clear. i don't remember a muffled sound at all.
you could update the design by using polarized light going in two directions. horizontal polarization for transmission, vertical for reception, or simply seperate them a little. our seperated garage had a window adjacent to our home, and light shined into the garage would bounce off the glass and back into the house. if we tried to do two-way then we would have had some signals bouncing off windows in weird ways, and probably some weird sound->light->sound->light feedback loop.
wonder what that would have sounded like...
anyway the setup worked great, and my dad used it until the day he died. good designs last.
I recently tried it again with a laser pointer, but it seems that they have voltage regulators in them that smooth out the variations far too much.
its possible to make eq2 feel like a grind. I found myself doing that just yesterday.
what I did was go around looking for things to do for people. Before long I had dozens of quests to do, and while I am aware that i'm actually changing nothing, helping the various NPCs has been quite enjoyable.
What I'm trying to say is that wandering aimlessly trying to get to the next level is much less fulfilling than doing favors for NPCs. You don't level as fast, but that was the whole point. you get decent rewards and have a feeling of accomplishment.
I'm going to stop levelling as a mage and start working on crafting for a while. It will be nice to make my own spells.
A laid-back attitude, foregoing the daily grind, the rush of life, and just doing what is interesting and helpful is the way to do it to have fun i think.
1.0109×10^38 (101097362223624462291180422369532000000) is the number of cube combinations that you can create by moving stickers.
4.3252×10^19 (43252003274489856000) is the number of cube combinations that you can create by rotating cube faces (as it is designed).
the odds that you'll create a valid cube combination by moving stickers is slim. Even if you make all faces solid color the chances that the internals of the cube correctly representing the face colors is slim.
3.2×10^22 (32000000000000000000000) is the approximate number of stars in the universe.
I understand why i'm not allowed to install firefox, but i'm just not used to being forbidden from using it. I left my previous jobs because I wanted to, i was asked by management many, many times to remain in those positions, and was offered 35-45% raises to stay in those cases. I would be earning more money in either of those jobs than I am here. I left those positions because I had automated enough of my job to lose interest in that job.
I agree, litigation does seem less expensive, but for whatever reason, paying through the nose for indemnification is the choice that was made.
It is necessary to take a 7 week course before having WSAD installed because S**** F*** doesn't want to pay $8k per seat for you to use WSAD unless they are sure you know how to use it. They won't even give their own employees product support unless you attend the course. Even the seasoned Java programmers in my component can't have it installed without attending a 7-week beginner-intermediate Java course.
"Technical Analyst" is a generic title. I'm a full-time programmer. I do zero sys admin, zero network admin, zero windows admin. If it isn't Perl or Java programming, I don't do it. Full time programmer in my (8500 person) department = "Technical Analyst". Full time non-programmer in the same department = "Technical Analyst".
that's the S**** F*** i'm talking about. i'm in corp south.
hah I'm like that
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All my previous jobs have been positions where I was in control of what happened. I was the sysadmin and primary developer. I was the regional MIS Manager. etc.
Now I work at S**** F*** and I'm just a Technical Analyst. The shock of going from ruler on-high to "cube occupation device" has been tremendously shocking.
It took weeks to get admin rights to a machine I have physical control over. I cannot install any software on my own, under any circumstances. The only software that can EVER be installed is done remotely via SMS issuance. I do most of my coding in Notepad because I don't want to waste seven weeks on an absolute beginners Java course so that I can install WSAD.
The rules in place here are unbelieveable. I can't even run FireFox from my USB key. (I can't use a USB key at all!)
If Galilleo worked here he would have never discovered anything. He would waste away and the only thing he'd have to look forward to is his 30th anniversary ceremony, which lasts an entire 5 minutes.
Now I'm becoming a conspiracy theorist.
We buy all our software (all of it, even pay-for software) from a company of unknown origin (more on that in a second) who provides indemnification for us. We can't even use Perl unless we buy it from this company and have them provide us a binary. Same for every other common-sense utility or peice of software that I used to install with reckless abandon at my previous employers.
This company (known as STA) charges hundreds of dollars PER LINE OF SOURCE CODE to provide indemnification, including lines that consist entirely of "}" or "{". I believe that STA has been formed by some of the higher up lawyers in S**** F*** and since they mandate that ALL software (even things like MS Windows XP) be purchased through STA, that they stand to benefit from its existance. Whoever decided to start up companies to provide indemnification against software was a genius. I wish I'd thought of that. I woudln't be a cube occupation device, I'd be a tropical beach occupation device.
So yeah, *takes drink of 35th cup of coffee* you can say I've changed. My company has over 130k employees. I simply cannot change anything, and am forced to spend my energy coming up with reasons why I can't do the things I'm so very used to doing.
huh. well i don't get popups because of the popup blocker, but all new windows that pop up because of a mouse click show up in a new tab.
to be perfectly honest i'm not sure what i enabled to make it work, but i can tell you with 100% certainty that whatever option i enabled/changed is in the gui. I haven't had to fiddle with about:config for a while.
i'm sure you can figure it out if you look for it.
i can't speak about the download manager resuming, but i've never had a problem downloading with firefox.
i don't recall reading anything that said FireFox would import your passwords. i could be wrong, though. you DO remember your passwords, don't you? if not, that's not firefox's fault, its your fault.
if you find that spinning circle of dots more annoying than the waving IE flag, well I just don't know how to respond to that, other than to say "change it" or "disable it". both are easy to do, disabling takes about 5 seconds.... i was all ready to write more, but those are you only two reasons you provide. its true, you really have no need to switch. you seem to like useful popup blocking, and tabbed browsing isn't what you'd call a desireable feature. incidentally my grandfather still shaves with a straight razor, still cuts himself every time he shaves, and thinks "those new fangled razors" aren't worth beans.
it amazes me how many people on slashdot.org *seem* to be spammers. 100bigcoupons.com? you can't be serious. i'm not downloading ANYTHING from 100bigcoupons.com, even if it was the homepage of the Grand Unified Theory solution.
and how many times have I seen "free ipod" or "free LCD monitor" in the sigs here? have we all become slaves to money and free stuff?
Bungie is no more, Microsoft bought Bungie. If I liked the first game I would be slightly inclined to ignore that fact, but I didn't, so i'm not going to try again to like a Microsoft game.
lucasarts want's nothing to do with consumers that are only HALF committed to their products.
you are therefore ignored. as am I. as is every intelligent person.
its the same elitism that makes GL refuse to listen to anyone who actually has a rational thought about his movies. he's making them his way no matter what.
we also just voted in a president that is the same way. yay democracy.
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did anyone else notice what she was writing?
"hacked by realloc(" and she's drawing the ")"
... a stuck pixel i mean. right in the middle of the bottom screen, always red.
:)
it doesn't bother me much, but i'm very likely to return it in a few months once stocks have gone up again, since they're offering
... until they stop acting like trolls.
make them cook their own food, do their own laundry, etc. give them good reasons to leave the PC.
eventually they'll grow out of it, but it could be years and years before they complete that on their own.
help them hate the computer, force them to use IE, force them to go through a proxy where everything they do is monitored. disallow them from installing new software. make them hate the computer. they'll either give up or become so good at computers that their online time will turn into a career.
or you can just do what my dad did when i was hooked on nintendo. pull the fuse and hide it.
but Radio Shack's electronic project kits were the key for me. When my dad showed me how to light a light bulb with a battery i immediately had him take me to radio shack and get me one.
... then, when i was about 10, i was working on my project kits and suddenly it hit me... "dude there are girls out there. go get one!" so I went outside, hopped on my bike, rode down the *sidewalk*, and was smashed by a car coming out of the alley at 35mph. i was thrown right into the street, skipping the part of the alley between the sidewalk and the street, some 20 feet away. no broken bones but a concussion and a broken eardrum.
...
I spent the next 4 years doing nothing but tinkering with my project kits. I made radios, motion detectors, calculators, wind generators... i wound up fixing TVs and walkman radios, and game consoles for friends.
i kept off the electronic project kits but i never did get a girlfriend until i was 18.
my lesson to you - stay away from electronics, and keep the kids away too. I mean it.
this is a true story, by the way. all too true. I still can't hear things like digital watches out of my left ear
vivendi are arsewipes. every time someone deals with them they get burnt. Every. Single. Time.
hrm.. I've never heard of it.
perhaps "greatest" is subjective...
ding! we have a winner. For those of us on Tivo anyway.
i set this to 30 and press it 5 times to get through commercials. takes one whole second.
yeah, i thought that's why they were called usb KEYs... I think they were originally designed just for this purpose. my first USB key was 64kb (kilobytes) and held only an encryption key.
Smart cards provide the exact same functionality as my very first usb key.
try it. the response time of whatever bulb he was using was good enough to provide clear sound. being a person of scientific reasoning i was skeptical too. i clearly remember it not sounding muffled at all. i honestly don't know why.
try it yourself. the sound is clearer than you'd think.
try it yourself. i don't know how but the incandescent light changed brightness fast enough - the sound was surprisingly clear. some light bulbs would work better than others, i'd imagine. my dad was a big fan of those big 6V lanterns, the ones that take the big brick 6V batteries.
when i was a kid (early 80s) my dad set up a thing kinda like that. he used a focusable flashlight, hooked it up to an amplifier, and pointed at a sensor he had in the window of our detached garage.
whenever he'd go out there to work, he'd turn on a microphone in the house, and turn the reciever in the garage on. he originally built it when cordless phones were a high-priced luxury, and didn't want to wire a phone just for the garage, but he still wanted to hear the phone ring from in there. later he used it to listen to the TV while he worked outside.
he used a cadmium-sulfide cell on the recieving end. those change resistance according to light. conveniently, they ignore the signal bias (ambient light) and only respond to changes in light intensity. the amplifier inside the house changed the amount of current to the flashlight, and thus the brightness. that variable-intensity light got sent to the CdS cell and the variation in light was reproduced into sound. it sounded surprisingly clear. i don't remember a muffled sound at all.
you could update the design by using polarized light going in two directions. horizontal polarization for transmission, vertical for reception, or simply seperate them a little. our seperated garage had a window adjacent to our home, and light shined into the garage would bounce off the glass and back into the house. if we tried to do two-way then we would have had some signals bouncing off windows in weird ways, and probably some weird sound->light->sound->light feedback loop.
wonder what that would have sounded like...
anyway the setup worked great, and my dad used it until the day he died. good designs last.
I recently tried it again with a laser pointer, but it seems that they have voltage regulators in them that smooth out the variations far too much.
its possible to make eq2 feel like a grind. I found myself doing that just yesterday.
what I did was go around looking for things to do for people. Before long I had dozens of quests to do, and while I am aware that i'm actually changing nothing, helping the various NPCs has been quite enjoyable.
What I'm trying to say is that wandering aimlessly trying to get to the next level is much less fulfilling than doing favors for NPCs. You don't level as fast, but that was the whole point. you get decent rewards and have a feeling of accomplishment.
I'm going to stop levelling as a mage and start working on crafting for a while. It will be nice to make my own spells.
A laid-back attitude, foregoing the daily grind, the rush of life, and just doing what is interesting and helpful is the way to do it to have fun i think.
for those of us that are greedy, this seems like an attractive option, with the obvious exception of the jail term.
whatever you do, always make sure you make spamming attractive to those of us who are short on money. cripes.
1.0109×10^38 (101097362223624462291180422369532000000) is the number of cube combinations that you can create by moving stickers.
h p)
4.3252×10^19 (43252003274489856000) is the number of cube combinations that you can create by rotating cube faces (as it is designed).
the odds that you'll create a valid cube combination by moving stickers is slim. Even if you make all faces solid color the chances that the internals of the cube correctly representing the face colors is slim.
3.2×10^22 (32000000000000000000000) is the approximate number of stars in the universe.
(all of this from http://www.greenhodge.net/g/read/math/numbers-6.p
I understand why i'm not allowed to install firefox, but i'm just not used to being forbidden from using it. I left my previous jobs because I wanted to, i was asked by management many, many times to remain in those positions, and was offered 35-45% raises to stay in those cases. I would be earning more money in either of those jobs than I am here. I left those positions because I had automated enough of my job to lose interest in that job.
I agree, litigation does seem less expensive, but for whatever reason, paying through the nose for indemnification is the choice that was made.
It is necessary to take a 7 week course before having WSAD installed because S**** F*** doesn't want to pay $8k per seat for you to use WSAD unless they are sure you know how to use it. They won't even give their own employees product support unless you attend the course. Even the seasoned Java programmers in my component can't have it installed without attending a 7-week beginner-intermediate Java course.
"Technical Analyst" is a generic title. I'm a full-time programmer. I do zero sys admin, zero network admin, zero windows admin. If it isn't Perl or Java programming, I don't do it. Full time programmer in my (8500 person) department = "Technical Analyst". Full time non-programmer in the same department = "Technical Analyst".
that's the S**** F*** i'm talking about. i'm in corp south.
All my previous jobs have been positions where I was in control of what happened. I was the sysadmin and primary developer. I was the regional MIS Manager. etc.
Now I work at S**** F*** and I'm just a Technical Analyst. The shock of going from ruler on-high to "cube occupation device" has been tremendously shocking.
It took weeks to get admin rights to a machine I have physical control over. I cannot install any software on my own, under any circumstances. The only software that can EVER be installed is done remotely via SMS issuance. I do most of my coding in Notepad because I don't want to waste seven weeks on an absolute beginners Java course so that I can install WSAD.
The rules in place here are unbelieveable. I can't even run FireFox from my USB key. (I can't use a USB key at all!)
If Galilleo worked here he would have never discovered anything. He would waste away and the only thing he'd have to look forward to is his 30th anniversary ceremony, which lasts an entire 5 minutes.
Now I'm becoming a conspiracy theorist.
We buy all our software (all of it, even pay-for software) from a company of unknown origin (more on that in a second) who provides indemnification for us. We can't even use Perl unless we buy it from this company and have them provide us a binary. Same for every other common-sense utility or peice of software that I used to install with reckless abandon at my previous employers.
This company (known as STA) charges hundreds of dollars PER LINE OF SOURCE CODE to provide indemnification, including lines that consist entirely of "}" or "{". I believe that STA has been formed by some of the higher up lawyers in S**** F*** and since they mandate that ALL software (even things like MS Windows XP) be purchased through STA, that they stand to benefit from its existance. Whoever decided to start up companies to provide indemnification against software was a genius. I wish I'd thought of that. I woudln't be a cube occupation device, I'd be a tropical beach occupation device.
So yeah, *takes drink of 35th cup of coffee* you can say I've changed. My company has over 130k employees. I simply cannot change anything, and am forced to spend my energy coming up with reasons why I can't do the things I'm so very used to doing.
(fight club reference)
Multiply number of vehicles in the field (A)
by probable rate of failure (B),
by average out of court settlement (C).
A * B * C = X.
If X is less than the cost of a recall, no recall is made.
It is a common practice to this day.
huh. well i don't get popups because of the popup blocker, but all new windows that pop up because of a mouse click show up in a new tab.
to be perfectly honest i'm not sure what i enabled to make it work, but i can tell you with 100% certainty that whatever option i enabled/changed is in the gui. I haven't had to fiddle with about:config for a while.
i'm sure you can figure it out if you look for it.
i can't speak about the download manager resuming, but i've never had a problem downloading with firefox.
i don't recall reading anything that said FireFox would import your passwords. i could be wrong, though. you DO remember your passwords, don't you? if not, that's not firefox's fault, its your fault.
... i was all ready to write more, but those are you only two reasons you provide. its true, you really have no need to switch. you seem to like useful popup blocking, and tabbed browsing isn't what you'd call a desireable feature. incidentally my grandfather still shaves with a straight razor, still cuts himself every time he shaves, and thinks "those new fangled razors" aren't worth beans.
if you find that spinning circle of dots more annoying than the waving IE flag, well I just don't know how to respond to that, other than to say "change it" or "disable it". both are easy to do, disabling takes about 5 seconds.
progress just leaves some people behind i guess.
it amazes me how many people on slashdot.org *seem* to be spammers. 100bigcoupons.com? you can't be serious. i'm not downloading ANYTHING from 100bigcoupons.com, even if it was the homepage of the Grand Unified Theory solution.
and how many times have I seen "free ipod" or "free LCD monitor" in the sigs here? have we all become slaves to money and free stuff?
Bungie has done it again!
Bungie is no more, Microsoft bought Bungie. If I liked the first game I would be slightly inclined to ignore that fact, but I didn't, so i'm not going to try again to like a Microsoft game.
lucasarts want's nothing to do with consumers that are only HALF committed to their products.
you are therefore ignored. as am I. as is every intelligent person.
its the same elitism that makes GL refuse to listen to anyone who actually has a rational thought about his movies. he's making them his way no matter what.
we also just voted in a president that is the same way. yay democracy.
And these are the guys that totally screwed over the BNetD team when they did nothing wrong.
I will NOT be buying this game.
Blizzard Sucks ASS.
hey humor-impaired moderator! its a joke ya terd!