...to raise kids who'd be successful in their lives. I've met a bunch of commercially successful musicians and art directors in the advertising world. They had pretty normal childhood, unlike what you're putting your kids through.
What he is "putting his kids through" actually seems pretty normal to me. Let's see: they eat their dinners toogether, limit watching of TV, limit usage of computer (the kid is 7, for god's sake!), was there anything else I am forgetting? We don't have specific rules like this, but this is pretty much what we end up doing anyway. Except the loud music, but I am the only one that would violate that rule.
I sincerely hope that your kids won't rebel when the time comes.
Of course they will! That's just the experience you were talking about. I hope my kids will rebel when the time comes (if there is any heredity in that, I am sure they will:)).
Find me three pieces that would be playable by less than a college level performer that use a 5/4 time signature. Much more common would be 2/4 which is often used in music a child of that age might sing or perform. (After just helping my 7 year old prepare for a recital with a piece in a 2/4 time signature,...)
Heh, my 6 year old just finished working on a little sight-reading practice piece that was in 5/4. It was sort of a challenge, but it was fun, and I think at the end he enjoyed seeing that not everything must be in 4/4 or 3/4 time signature. He seemed to have fun, anyway.
As for the chores, those sound typical for any child of that age. But forget the fresh basil, get the fresh catnip instead. Use it as mint in your cooking and then rub the extra on whatever you want the cats to go crazy over. I find that getting good half sharp paprika (not that tasteless garbage you find in most grocers) is far more useful to me than basil.
Of course you need both! I mean paprika and basil, even though I wouldn't necessarily combine them in one dish:)
But why would you want a child to use that bastardized obsolete handwriting system called cursive? I haven't used it for more than my signature (which is rapidly becoming less of a cursive over the past two years) since fourth grade. It is very difficult to read by a human, never mind a computer, and is really not enough faster than print to justify the cost in reading it. If I want to prepare something quickly, I type it.
I believe that we have, especially with all the crappy computer typesetting produced by most wordprocessors, forgotten certain aspects of writing. I will always prefere a beautifully written or setted piece of literature to a crappy one. Even if it makes ot harder to read in some cases. Of course I wouldn't write a math paper or technical manual in cursive. Also, have you ever heard of Chinese calligraphy? Writing something carefully in cursive can be more than just quickly puting it down on paper.
One of the well known high school computer labs (was it Lincoln-Sudbury?) had a rule "You can play any game as long as you wrote it yourself".
I like that approach, but 7 years old is probably a little to early for that.
Anyway, what's the fuss about the "no games" policy? She is 7! There is so much other stuff to do at that age, computer games are such a minor thing. (Of course you let her play Nethack, right?)
Using a CMYK printer, you could put yellow ink in the black cartridge and write a driver that would print in CMY mode with black instead of yellow. Just leave the yellow cartridge completely empty.
Thanks, you just made my day! I figured out what kind of set I had as a kid. It was one of the Merkur ones, made in Czechoslovakia (at that time). It looks like they still make them, you can order pretty decent set for as low as 20 bucks. I think I know what I am buying myself for christmas - even though lot of the other toys mentioned here sound pretty tempting. I guess if I didn't have kids, I would have money to buy some of this stuff:)
You can still buy just a big tub of assorted bricks and pieces.
As far as the little pre-make sets go, they are kind of irritating, but the kids love them. They always beg for the little 10 piece sets, they think the star wars ones are really cool. The funny thing is, 2 days after they get a new set, it end up being all mixed up with the other sets, and they use them all together to build some totally fantastic spaceships. It's kind of funny to see a spaceship occupied by two Darth Vaders with Luke wearing a baseball cap between them.:)
But speaking about classic toys, has anybody seen an erector set lately? The one with all the flat perforated metal pieces and gazzilion litle tiny bolts?
That's actually how the first color photographs were made. You took three shots of a scene with three color filters, and than you projected the three shots onto the same area through color filters. They even had special three lens cameras that took the three pictures at the same time.
20 years ago, our father installed a lightswitch in your house. It came to our attention that you are still using that switch. However, our records indicate that we have never received proper royalty payments from you. With the royalty fee of 10 cents per click, with the national average of 6 clicks per day, you now owe us an excess of $4380 in royalties. Please send us the check written to the above mentioned sum by November 15, 2004. Your failure to do so will result in legal proceedings against you. "
I completely agree with Rosen! You know, I really think it is unfair that farmers can leave the farm to their children, but I cannot leave my students to my kids! I think it is time to change the law, so that my students would be required to pay royalties to me or my descendants every time they use anything they learned in my classes!
When using the link to cgi script included in the bug report from my work computer, I was only able to crash links and "hang" lynx. Firefox and IE worked fine.
But when I downloaded the program and installed it on my home computer and ran it locally with the auto-reload feature, galeon and other mozilla based browsers lasted about 5 minutes, lynx went down almost immediately. It looks like most, if not all, of the problems were with memory exhaustion and subsequent crash.
IE on another computer, connecting to my server, survived for 20 minutes, after that I terminated the test. It wasn't the latest version of IE, too.
I didn't have time to look at the code yet, but it seems to me, at least from the gallery examples and behavior of the browsers during the test, that the script tries to make browsers allocate some huge amount of memory. Possibly IE has a check agains this sort of problems.
This sort of test does not really prove that IE is bug free, it just show that the other browsers are not. Some major bug-squashing should follow.
...with all browsers I have installed on this system. Sat there with IE for about 10 minutes, firefox for 2 10 minutes periods, lynx for about 5 minutes, hitting the reload button over and over, approx about ever 1 - 5 seconds, depending how fast did each page load.
No crash in IE or firefox. No crash in lynx, either, hanged lynx after 5 minutes. I didn't have time to wait and see if lynx eventually comes back (in the gallery example, lynx didn't actually go into an infinite loop as the site claims, it just took about 10 minutes or so to render the page).
Crashed links almost immediately every time I tried it.
As far as I can tell, both Firefox and IE handeled it pretty well, considering the garbage being thrown at them.
Tried the gallery examples, firefox crashes reliebly, links does too (from the error messages it looks like they actually catch the NULL pointer - it says "malloc returned NULL pointer" - but don't react to it)
However, I was not able to crash lynx with the example. It takes a while to render the page, but it renders it just fine (considering it is actually invalid HTML). Perhaps it depends on the amount of memory you have.
If I remember correctly, while ago there were rumors being circulated that IE is specifically designed to deal well with invalid HTML. Lot of people were of the oppinion that it is really bad, and that invalid HTML code should be rejected. Thay said IE basically encouraged sloppy web design.
This is ontopic. AOL does more to perpetuate stupidity than anyother company. ITs comercians now ask for suggustions on how AOL can "improve the internet". As if they are in charge of the entire network. They also promise to provide users with a "Better Internet"
I tried links2, but it can't beat lynx's vi like navigation with "links and form fields are numbered" option on. Maybe there is an option like that in links2, but I couldn't find it.
Lot of math sites use animated gifs to display animates graphs, rotating 3D objects etc. You do not want to make your audience (in many cases - when teaching remedial level math - quite computer illiterate) download whole sorts op plugins just to view few simple animations. Besides, most of other options for viewing animations are not exactly cross-platform.
Emacs uses ^c for whole bunch of stuff (mode-specific-command-prefix). Vim uses ^v for inserting literal control characters, and disabling keyboard mappings and abbreviations.
That's just quickly from my (rather poor) memory.
As for ^x... let's not even go there.
No matter what you do, you are bound to break something. You could use the "window" key, byt that's not on every keyboard. It's easier on a Mac, you are guaranteed to have certain keys.
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...to raise kids who'd be successful in their lives. I've met a bunch of commercially successful musicians and art directors in the advertising world. They had pretty normal childhood, unlike what you're putting your kids through.
:)).
What he is "putting his kids through" actually seems pretty normal to me. Let's see: they eat their dinners toogether, limit watching of TV, limit usage of computer (the kid is 7, for god's sake!), was there anything else I am forgetting? We don't have specific rules like this, but this is pretty much what we end up doing anyway.
Except the loud music, but I am the only one that would violate that rule.
I sincerely hope that your kids won't rebel when the time comes.
Of course they will! That's just the experience you were talking about. I hope my kids will rebel when the time comes (if there is any heredity in that, I am sure they will
Find me three pieces that would be playable by less than a college level performer that use a 5/4 time signature. Much more common would be 2/4 which is often used in music a child of that age might sing or perform. (After just helping my 7 year old prepare for a recital with a piece in a 2/4 time signature,...)
:)
Heh, my 6 year old just finished working on a little sight-reading practice piece that was in 5/4. It was sort of a challenge, but it was fun, and I think at the end he enjoyed seeing that not everything must be in 4/4 or 3/4 time signature. He seemed to have fun, anyway.
As for the chores, those sound typical for any child of that age. But forget the fresh basil, get the fresh catnip instead. Use it as mint in your cooking and then rub the extra on whatever you want the cats to go crazy over. I find that getting good half sharp paprika (not that tasteless garbage you find in most grocers) is far more useful to me than basil.
Of course you need both! I mean paprika and basil, even though I wouldn't necessarily combine them in one dish
But why would you want a child to use that bastardized obsolete handwriting system called cursive? I haven't used it for more than my signature (which is rapidly becoming less of a cursive over the past two years) since fourth grade. It is very difficult to read by a human, never mind a computer, and is really not enough faster than print to justify the cost in reading it. If I want to prepare something quickly, I type it.
I believe that we have, especially with all the crappy computer typesetting produced by most wordprocessors, forgotten certain aspects of writing. I will always prefere a beautifully written or setted piece of literature to a crappy one. Even if it makes ot harder to read in some cases. Of course I wouldn't write a math paper or technical manual in cursive. Also, have you ever heard of Chinese calligraphy? Writing something carefully in cursive can be more than just quickly puting it down on paper.
One of the well known high school computer labs (was it Lincoln-Sudbury?) had a rule "You can play any game as long as you wrote it yourself".
I like that approach, but 7 years old is probably a little to early for that.
Anyway, what's the fuss about the "no games" policy? She is 7! There is so much other stuff to do at that age, computer games are such a minor thing. (Of course you let her play Nethack, right?)
It's a pity Europe still fades into oblivion at the eastward of the Austrian border...
:)
You mean northward?
Please read before replying. I was never suggesting to print without yellow.
I have heard about this before. Now just imagine you use this and plug in a different camera, say infrared, or with a fisheye lense...
Using a CMYK printer, you could put yellow ink in the black cartridge and write a driver that would print in CMY mode with black instead of yellow. Just leave the yellow cartridge completely empty.
Please, somebody who maintains a langauge, can you implement these operators? When are we going to have iSnot operator in Brainfuck, for example?
Thanks, you just made my day! I figured out what kind of set I had as a kid. It was one of the Merkur ones, made in Czechoslovakia (at that time). It looks like they still make them, you can order pretty decent set for as low as 20 bucks. I think I know what I am buying myself for christmas - even though lot of the other toys mentioned here sound pretty tempting. I guess if I didn't have kids, I would have money to buy some of this stuff :)
Kids will have fun with that for days.
Yeah, what happened to those? I haven't seen one in a toy store for ages. One of the greatest toys I have ever had. It sure beats Lego!
You can still buy just a big tub of assorted bricks and pieces.
:)
As far as the little pre-make sets go, they are kind of irritating, but the kids love them. They always beg for the little 10 piece sets, they think the star wars ones are really cool. The funny thing is, 2 days after they get a new set, it end up being all mixed up with the other sets, and they use them all together to build some totally fantastic spaceships. It's kind of funny to see a spaceship occupied by two Darth Vaders with Luke wearing a baseball cap between them.
But speaking about classic toys, has anybody seen an erector set lately? The one with all the flat perforated metal pieces and gazzilion litle tiny bolts?
That's actually how the first color photographs were made. You took three shots of a scene with three color filters, and than you projected the three shots onto the same area through color filters. They even had special three lens cameras that took the three pictures at the same time.
She is a dadaist. I thought THAT was a well known fact!
...which says:
"Dear Sir;
20 years ago, our father installed a lightswitch in your house. It came to our attention that you are still using that switch. However, our records indicate that we have never received proper royalty payments from you. With the royalty fee of 10 cents per click, with the national average of 6 clicks per day, you now owe us an excess of $4380 in royalties. Please send us the check written to the above mentioned sum by November 15, 2004. Your failure to do so will result in legal proceedings against you. "
I completely agree with Rosen! You know, I really think it is unfair that farmers can leave the farm to their children, but I cannot leave my students to my kids! I think it is time to change the law, so that my students would be required to pay royalties to me or my descendants every time they use anything they learned in my classes!
that means that soon the only place to find any info will be slashdot...
When using the link to cgi script included in the bug report from my work computer, I was only able to crash links and "hang" lynx. Firefox and IE worked fine.
But when I downloaded the program and installed it on my home computer and ran it locally with the auto-reload feature, galeon and other mozilla based browsers lasted about 5 minutes, lynx went down almost immediately. It looks like most, if not all, of the problems were with memory exhaustion and subsequent crash.
IE on another computer, connecting to my server, survived for 20 minutes, after that I terminated the test. It wasn't the latest version of IE, too.
I didn't have time to look at the code yet, but it seems to me, at least from the gallery examples and behavior of the browsers during the test, that the script tries to make browsers allocate some huge amount of memory. Possibly IE has a check agains this sort of problems.
This sort of test does not really prove that IE is bug free, it just show that the other browsers are not. Some major bug-squashing should follow.
...with all browsers I have installed on this system.
Sat there with IE for about 10 minutes, firefox for 2 10 minutes periods, lynx for about 5 minutes, hitting the reload button over and over, approx about ever 1 - 5 seconds, depending how fast did each page load.
No crash in IE or firefox. No crash in lynx, either, hanged lynx after 5 minutes. I didn't have time to wait and see if lynx eventually comes back (in the gallery example, lynx didn't actually go into an infinite loop as the site claims, it just took about 10 minutes or so to render the page).
Crashed links almost immediately every time I tried it.
As far as I can tell, both Firefox and IE handeled it pretty well, considering the garbage being thrown at them.
Tried the gallery examples, firefox crashes reliebly, links does too (from the error messages it looks like they actually catch the NULL pointer - it says "malloc returned NULL pointer" - but don't react to it)
However, I was not able to crash lynx with the example. It takes a while to render the page, but it renders it just fine (considering it is actually invalid HTML). Perhaps it depends on the amount of memory you have.
If I remember correctly, while ago there were rumors being circulated that IE is specifically designed to deal well with invalid HTML. Lot of people were of the oppinion that it is really bad, and that invalid HTML code should be rejected. Thay said IE basically encouraged sloppy web design.
This is ontopic. AOL does more to perpetuate stupidity than anyother company. ITs comercians now ask for suggustions on how AOL can "improve the internet". As if they are in charge of the entire network. They also promise to provide users with a "Better Internet"
What did you expect? It's America online!
Does it have anything to do with the fact that their train tracks are wider? :)
I tried links2, but it can't beat lynx's vi like navigation with "links and form fields are numbered" option on. Maybe there is an option like that in links2, but I couldn't find it.
Lot of math sites use animated gifs to display animates graphs, rotating 3D objects etc. You do not want to make your audience (in many cases - when teaching remedial level math - quite computer illiterate) download whole sorts op plugins just to view few simple animations. Besides, most of other options for viewing animations are not exactly cross-platform.
Emacs uses ^c for whole bunch of stuff (mode-specific-command-prefix). Vim uses ^v for inserting literal control characters, and disabling keyboard mappings and abbreviations.
... let's not even go there.
That's just quickly from my (rather poor) memory.
As for ^x
No matter what you do, you are bound to break something. You could use the "window" key, byt that's not on every keyboard. It's easier on a Mac, you are guaranteed to have certain keys.