The real issue here is whose device the kid wants to play with. He doesn't want to play with *his* fisher-price (or other) Toy, he wants to play with *your* laptop, because he sees *you* using your laptop. The kid wants attention, not the toy. Put the laptop (or whatever) away, and get him involved with something you can both do together.
Having two boys, ages 2 and 4, I know that they do not want their daddy to pay attention to his toys, rather, they want daddy to pay attention to *them*.
"Some believe that dedicated e-readers are doomed in the long run to lose out to general-purpose devices such as the iPad" -- Not so fast. I specifically bought the mid-range Sony reader *because* it is a dedicated reader. They have trumped Amazon, and B&N with simplicity, specificity. I can swipe back and forth between pages just as if I was reading a book. I can read *way* more formats than the two other (main) vendors devices support. Does tethering to my computer bother me? Not in the slightest. Being able to download (ONLY FROM the vendor's store) over 3G wireless seems like more of a tether, to me. You're locked in, and that's just the way they like it. The sony I have has two memory slots, a DUO and a standard SD card slot. I can shove ~90 gigabytes of books into this thing (at present).
But that's enough of the features. You can read the specs for yourself elsewhere.
My point about the Sony dedicated reader is that it does it's job, it's simple job, better than the other readers. It's much like a Un*x program: small, specific, perfect for the job at hand. I want to read a book. I don't want to surf blogs, or play games, or fiddle with facebook. I can do that on my Evo. I can do that on my laptop, or desktop. Hell, I can even do net-based things on my Fios tv-box, now.
I bought one of these Unicopies about 8 months ago. I had torn through 4 cheapie-dell keyboards, their $14.00 variety, in the preceding few months. Crap. They felt great for about a week, then, bleh. Rubber.
The sound from these M-clones is amazing. It really lets my coworkers know that I mean business. It also lets them know that their shitty typing skills could use some improvement. I wear noise-canceling headphones, so the Click-Boom is muffled, if not totally eliminated for me. The poor bastards to my left and right can suck it down, get some Bose or Sennys.
Coming home from work, I end up on my Thinkpad. It's a difficult transition, from loud to quiet.
The thinkpad has a great keyboard, similar, I think, to the M. There's a definite resistance on the keys. I buy thinkpads solely because of the Kb & trackpoint.
I love your statement, "... dangerous to any code base". that's just flawless, really.
I'm currently working for a company I interviewed for out of desperation. I really needed a job close to home, as I was about to have a baby. The job was mine, easily, based on my skillset and their desperation for someone to 'bail them out'. After 6 months of doing basically nothing productive at this company, I find myself, on a daily basis, watching my manager, errrr "DIRECTOR!" [don't steal his rank from him!] tearing this company to shreds with his empty promises and lack of self control.
"My cock is HUGE! And behold as I whip it out, and write magnificent code! I will solve all of your problems with one swift stroke!"
This poor COBOL bastard couldn't tell me the difference between preceding-sibling and ancestor-or-self, let alone the difference between a private or public var, yet, this fuckmonkey is in charge of this small family-owned statistics business. Ridiculous.
"I am the Bratt and you shall beat On me with your baseball bat!"... sometimes the prospective employee isn't the dangerous one, rather, it's the inflexible management who is dangerous to the codebase.
If pr0n didn't get google in enough trouble, then this certainly will. The feds just don't want it's citezens to have easy access to this information. Cheers, google. Perhaps now *I* can find those kick ass grants mathew lesko is hawking! profit!
One commonality I see between Christianity & Islam: Denial of Knowledge, scientific or otherwise. If it's not spelled out in the Holy Christian Bible, or Koran, well folks, it's heresy and doesn't exist.
Now I just hope that nodody firebombs Taco's house for this blasphemous post
and backup the backup of the backup, and then backup the backup of the backup of the backup. All on different media, at different times, using different admins speaking different languages located on different contintents.
I quit my 'career' IBM job back in May to take a contract job. I'd been shoved from Sprint -> IBM 6 months prior, and while it took 6 years to become disillusioned with Sprint, it took only 6 months for IBM to rip my soul completely out.
Anyhow. The contract job is, for me, a better job by far. My work ethic is solid, my attention to detail and creativity, equally solid. I was working 60 hours a week for Sprint/IBM, and I work between 60-65 hours a week now, but the results are sooo totally different. I can actually *see* the product materializing before me. My customer is more than thrilled with the results so far.
In summary, my current experience with contract work has been nothing but excellent. I can't imagine going back to a day-to-day grind-job, a "career" job.
I've used gmail now for oh... 18 months, and have yet to get a single spam.
I'd like to see my yahoo account, which I have solely for [cursed] instant messaging do that. It's about 30 days old, my yahoo account, and it's already deluged with that oily, meaty goodness.
Slashdot Mirror
Blowing some karma on this one...
>> No, a Huge Asteroid Is Not "Set To Wipe Out Life On Earth In 2880"
Damnit.
Ok, folks, watch 'em line up for the dick, er, digit-waving! Always fun!
B====D
Take the HD, replace it with a new, and larger one you bought from Newegg, or similar.
They got on the plane, they knew what they were getting into.
I say, let 'em crash." -- Airplane
Get over it. You knew who you were getting into bed with. You signed up. Nobody put a gun to your head.
Forget it. I'm not watching movies when I fly. I'm drinking over-priced booze and groping flight attendants.
They are eating all of our hydrocarbons!
or
It's not man's fault for Global Warming, it's the damned oil-eating bacteria.
The real issue here is whose device the kid wants to play with. He doesn't want to play with *his* fisher-price (or other) Toy, he wants to play with *your* laptop, because he sees *you* using your laptop. The kid wants attention, not the toy. Put the laptop (or whatever) away, and get him involved with something you can both do together.
Having two boys, ages 2 and 4, I know that they do not want their daddy to pay attention to his toys, rather, they want daddy to pay attention to *them*.
"Some believe that dedicated e-readers are doomed in the long run to lose out to general-purpose devices such as the iPad" -- Not so fast. I specifically bought the mid-range Sony reader *because* it is a dedicated reader. They have trumped Amazon, and B&N with simplicity, specificity. I can swipe back and forth between pages just as if I was reading a book. I can read *way* more formats than the two other (main) vendors devices support. Does tethering to my computer bother me? Not in the slightest. Being able to download (ONLY FROM the vendor's store) over 3G wireless seems like more of a tether, to me. You're locked in, and that's just the way they like it. The sony I have has two memory slots, a DUO and a standard SD card slot. I can shove ~90 gigabytes of books into this thing (at present).
But that's enough of the features. You can read the specs for yourself elsewhere.
My point about the Sony dedicated reader is that it does it's job, it's simple job, better than the other readers. It's much like a Un*x program: small, specific, perfect for the job at hand. I want to read a book. I don't want to surf blogs, or play games, or fiddle with facebook. I can do that on my Evo. I can do that on my laptop, or desktop. Hell, I can even do net-based things on my Fios tv-box, now.
I bought one of these Unicopies about 8 months ago. I had torn through 4 cheapie-dell keyboards, their $14.00 variety, in the preceding few months. Crap. They felt great for about a week, then, bleh. Rubber.
The sound from these M-clones is amazing. It really lets my coworkers know that I mean business. It also lets them know that their shitty typing skills could use some improvement. I wear noise-canceling headphones, so the Click-Boom is muffled, if not totally eliminated for me. The poor bastards to my left and right can suck it down, get some Bose or Sennys.
Coming home from work, I end up on my Thinkpad. It's a difficult transition, from loud to quiet.
The thinkpad has a great keyboard, similar, I think, to the M. There's a definite resistance on the keys. I buy thinkpads solely because of the Kb & trackpoint.
... no SHIT, Dr. Brilliance.
Before, Booooring.
After, SmileX!
Thank you, Joker!
I love your statement, "... dangerous to any code base". that's just flawless, really.
... sometimes the prospective employee isn't the dangerous one, rather, it's the inflexible management who is dangerous to the codebase.
I'm currently working for a company I interviewed for out of desperation. I really needed a job close to home, as I was about to have a baby. The job was mine, easily, based on my skillset and their desperation for someone to 'bail them out'. After 6 months of doing basically nothing productive at this company, I find myself, on a daily basis, watching my manager, errrr "DIRECTOR!" [don't steal his rank from him!] tearing this company to shreds with his empty promises and lack of self control.
"My cock is HUGE! And behold as I whip it out, and write magnificent code! I will solve all of your problems with one swift stroke!"
This poor COBOL bastard couldn't tell me the difference between preceding-sibling and ancestor-or-self, let alone the difference between a private or public var, yet, this fuckmonkey is in charge of this small family-owned statistics business. Ridiculous.
"I am the Bratt and you shall beat On me with your baseball bat!"
If pr0n didn't get google in enough trouble, then this certainly will. The feds just don't want it's citezens to have easy access to this information. Cheers, google. Perhaps now *I* can find those kick ass grants mathew lesko is hawking! profit!
leftist pigs. they all must die (along with the css master behind this new /.) .... gah.
Why is it that Captain Copyright is looking off to the left in so many of these headshots?
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http://www.captaincopyright.ca/Kids/ColouringBook
Hmmmm.
Bullsh*t. Some of you people bitching about the price are the same who drop $500 every year for the next video card from ATI or Nvidia.
... my god. That was 4, 5 years ago? What a bargain.
$500 for this device is quite fair, considering what Sony's promising it will deliver.
I dropped $300 for my PS2 when it first came out, and it felt like a kick in the nuts, but
East Coast kernel-fu vs. West Coast kernel-fu.... FIGHT!
And this is why I'm going back to college so Google will consider me a viable employee. I *want* to work for this company.
One commonality I see between Christianity & Islam: Denial of Knowledge, scientific or otherwise. If it's not spelled out in the Holy Christian Bible, or Koran, well folks, it's heresy and doesn't exist.
Now I just hope that nodody firebombs Taco's house for this blasphemous post
I'm sure the Japanese will figure out a way to get us gaijin to pay $400/oz for sushi.
and backup the backup of the backup, and then backup the backup of the backup of the backup. All on different media, at different times, using different admins speaking different languages located on different contintents.
At least that's the way IBM did/does it.
Given the fact that most microsoft employees are now working for google, it's no wonder they patched it ;)
I wouldn't be surprised if google has a "Let's Patch our former employer tuesday!" party each week.
"Aluminum hats will not foil them"...
that's what THEY would have you believe!
I quit my 'career' IBM job back in May to take a contract job. I'd been shoved from Sprint -> IBM 6 months prior, and while it took 6 years to become disillusioned with Sprint, it took only 6 months for IBM to rip my soul completely out.
Anyhow. The contract job is, for me, a better job by far. My work ethic is solid, my attention to detail and creativity, equally solid. I was working 60 hours a week for Sprint/IBM, and I work between 60-65 hours a week now, but the results are sooo totally different. I can actually *see* the product materializing before me. My customer is more than thrilled with the results so far.
In summary, my current experience with contract work has been nothing but excellent. I can't imagine going back to a day-to-day grind-job, a "career" job.
I've used gmail now for oh... 18 months, and have yet to get a single spam.
I'd like to see my yahoo account, which I have solely for [cursed] instant messaging do that. It's about 30 days old, my yahoo account, and it's already deluged with that oily, meaty goodness.