Does it have to be computer games? Especially "real gaming" which is usually defined as boring WWII FPS sequels?
You're overseas? Invite friends over to place some kind of euro board/physical game. Yes yes agricola takes 45 minutes to set up all the counters but there's plenty of lighter fare. Settlers of catan? Carcassonee? How about Dominion (a euro-card game)? Or strip-Dominion? Pretty much anything in the Rio Grande catalog?
How about paper and pencil RPG? Yeah if you're overseas in Saudi Arabia they might get nervous about "magic" or whatever fictional religious aspects, but if you're in a civilized part of the world it should be no problem. Pathfinder or classic DnD?
Plain ole card games? You're overseas so invite several locals over for poker night. Better yet if it works out rotate to each players house.
There's a certain theme to the above... yes you can play all of the above "on a computer" but it works just as well in person and that's probably the way to pivot into "computer" gaming if you're the type where the UI matters more than the gameplay or if its occasionally just more convenient to play on a tablet while traveling or whatever. Example: if she likes playing euro-resource-type-games in person using cardboard like "powerline" or WTF its called, its a pretty short jump to Civilization / Simcity.
The funny part is we got 4th on reading, I assume reading English. So the folks who beat us are probably Great Britain and her possessions, and... what like Japan and China or ?
Short version is we're intentionally turning the USA into a 3rd world country including achievement, but forcing school attendance like a 1st world country.
Experts believe that the many thousands who fled from the Fukushima nuclear disaster received very low doses of radiation. But that doesn't mean there won't be health consequences.
Yeah I think having your friends, family, and coworkers drown might stress them a wee bit, even if americans think nothing happened there but a minor nuclear power incident.
I have a trailer hitch on my 4 cyl Integra and it's quite useful. Thanks for reminding me that I need to buy a ballbag for it, though.
Yeah that big turnoff for me isn't the bag hanging underneath, its the bag hanging under the cavernous gaping stretched out hole of a hitch receiver. Always brings up bad memories of goatse and the funniest part is the bag hanging guys on their manly pickup truck are supposed to be all Mr Homophobia, but here they are driving a goatse mobile instead. Maybe they're actually the brokeback mountain cowboys instead. I donno its all very weird. This all came from a discussion claiming a hitch without the ball bag is a "female hitch" and I'm all like there's something anatomically wrong about one with the bag, but now that you mention it there's something eerily familiar about those hitches with the ball bag swinging underneath it... oh no, ugh, now I get grossed out every time I see one, my brain needs bleach to expunge that hideous image.
The reactor in my "backyard" is owned by a company based 1000 miles away in an economic system with a proven track record of not caring about what happens beyond ned quarters numbers. They would kill me and my family in an instant if they thought it would improve their numbers. Currently, it would not, lucky me... so far.
The folks with fingers on the button truly have their bacon in the game, and so far none of them have been crazy enough to want to vaporize their entire family and country just because they're mad at us.
I'd trust a russian general a hell of a lot more than I'd trust an american CEO, any day. Trust does not equal blind obedience or worship... just means... trust.
Not to mention that the golden era he laments, like all such golden eras, never really existed
Sure about that? I'd think mass marketing advertising along the lines of "actor wears white lab coat, makes ridiculous claim in support of product" might poison the well a little bit.
Also some chicken and egg question about the ultra cheesey, terribly popular hollywood movie trope of "evil mad scientist".
TLDR is something like if we pretend there is no such thing as IQ and we all have identical processor, bandwidth, and memory specs (LOL) then the inevitable necessary comparison judgments based on something that we must pretend doesn't, exist sets up all manner of cognitive dissonance. Add in the (intentional?) cultural blindspot about the difference between training, education, and wisdom, add a dash of good ole fashioned anti-intellectualism, a bit of authoritarianism and credentialism, eventual result is FUBAR.
That seems terribly optimistic. Most likely every kindergarden teacher in the world would write their own "see spot run" textbook and charge the little runts $90 per copy (which is OK, because Kindergarten tuition even at the dumpiest schools would rise to $50K/yr) and release a new book edition every semester just to crater the resale market.
I will say I enjoyed one prof who seemed to delight in running right along the razor edge of "fair use" by basically copying a page or two out of hundreds of different books to give us what amounted to a looseleaf textbook, for a class where in his opinion there existed no good textbook and he was too busy to write/edit one. It was an upper level EE type class in a rather obscure subject (well, at that time anyway)
If you want to join.mil, basic training in.mil would be about four to six years long, you'd have to pay $50K and all expenses to.mil for your first 4 years, afterward for a couple years they might (or might not) provide you room and board while you're basically a drill instructor to the new recruits, then if they like your work, and most importantly if you're lucky, about 1/4 to 1/2 of you would get hired to become Generals, of which maybe 1/2 would get tenure and $1M/yr jobs and everyone else who didn't make it would have to quit the whole subject and become freelance computer programmers or bums or whatever. And no one would get more than $20K/yr except a couple elite tenured Generals at the top none of whom would make less than $100K/yr (actually kind of sounds like the corporate view of the ideal future)
Your solvent was a trick question, because water and NH3 are both polar so there is at least some overlap in solubility. Also they dissolve ridiculously well in each other. If you spec'd liq methane or some weird liq fluorocarbon then there's practically no overlap given methane is non polar.
Anyway yeah its the solubility thing which is indirectly related to pH. Its not very hard on earth to figure out if something was sitting in a water tank or an ammonia tank same thing on mars.
Also temp and pressure. Maybe you could do something weird with NH3 at 10 bar and 500 deg that looks kinda like water related corrosion, but no one will believe that happened on martian surface.
Its pretty easy to see where they are active, typical slashdot stories have around 200 posts, where they are active, it is much greater.
I donno about that... a typical "book report" might only score 10 comments, usually one of them is me asking why/how the book is better than "google for it"
I see small comment numbers on "tech" and large comment numbers on "politics". If it sounds like something you'd see screencasted on Hak5 or audio podcasted on hacker public radio theres like 50 comments, if it sounds like something you'd see on fox news or dr phil its got about 200 comments. If its the kind of thing the lamestream media would interrupt dancing with the stars or a football game to report live, you'll get about 500 comments.
The shills are pretty hard to separate from the trolls, even if you follow the money. The "I love e-ink" and "I can't read text on a LCD" (hello, unless you're using text2speech what are you doing here?) crowd, wtf are they trolls or shills or ? Or who's seriously paying the "I'll never buy an electric car until I can fill it with gas and drive for 18 continuous hours and my electric car needs a trailer hitch to hang my fake pickuptruck nuts" crowd?
"deployed years later".. isn't there a risk that the equipment would be obsolete? Field equipment is changing rather rapidly in this day and age, especially electronics.
Clearly not been in.mil. Some high tech stuff, lots thats not...
Sterile bags of saline solution, IV stuff, band aids, field dressings, pioneer tools, food...
At least theoretically, if they put a giant red cross on a submarine full of band-aids, other nations wouldn't depth charge it?
Although "obviously" if the US were about to invade a country they'd be out there trying to blow up the storage boxes, wasting time and ammo?
Non-lethal = when a fishing trawler hauls it off the seabed they can't claim insurance costs etc for their ship blowing up? Also if "everyone knows" subsea storage is all non-lethal (yeah like thats gonna happen long term) then the US is somewhat less liable for EOD costs. Hauling up a net of fish, lobsters... and a mine... is kinda scary to the crew.
So the CIA will trade arms to the afgahani's for heroin, who will sell it to the italians for cash to pay for black ops or wtf the CIA does with all its money. So, "obviously" if you accidentally capture a container and its full of AK47s, we "never" put lethal arms in one, so it was all a plant to make the USA look bad, or all a fake. In other words practically all of them are going to be full of non-domestic arms with the serial numbers filed off or whatever, but we'll pretend none are.
5.) IPv4 is Cobol and I come back and get a fat paycheque because I still remember how it works.
Step 5 is that IPv4 is one of the most common IP versions in business environments and plenty of people will still be trained to use it?
Yeah like SNA/SDLC. My VTAM skills are not exactly in demand and are pretty rusty anyway. Or DECTALK. How bout Novell IPX/SPX? Classic Appletalk? Or my first home LAN tech, that being ye olde Arcnet? Although you could run ip over arcnet and that was my plan using early linux. I would imagine recent linux kernels no longer support the arcnet card (there was only like one implementation for arcnet as I recall) A pity I threw out all the weird arcnet coax a decade or so ago, I believe it was something weird like 93 ohm impedance.
Just recently an IPv6 proponent sent me a chart showing IPv6 traffic growing from 0.25% to 1% of the Internet in a year as proof of its "impending success" and "rapid adoption".
In the unlikely even that 400% annual growth continues, get back to us in four years when ipv6 is 256% of the internet.
I can't speak to the customer owned routers, but for the modems, given how often my cablemodem dies on the RF side from lightning or "whatever" and how very long its been illegal to install anything but docsis 3.0 ipv6 compatible modems, I'm unimpressed. That was a pretty good argument in '03 but its '13 now.
I also can't speak for the DSL users. Maybe they're stuck in the stone age, maybe they've also all been ipv6 compatible since the 00s.
You can also cut them off on ipv4 with cg nat (did you know the marketing name changed from c-nat to cgnat not because there's anything wrong with "carrier nat" as a name, but everyone was calling it "crappy nat" instead?)
Then the end users can all connect to ipv6 providers. Free tunnels from he.net, or maybe their game company. I think it would be interesting if every windows machine connected to steam lit up a ipv6 tunnel for game server purposes.
In the long run I agree it would be nice to provide ipv6 direct support in parallel.
Its attitude. Where I live in order of cash: 1) Fancy expensive private after school activities / clubs / daycare 2) Parks and Rec dept after school activities / clubs fairly cheap 3) Library activities after school absolutely free. You can get banned from the library for being disruptive 4) Go hang out downtown and stay out of trouble (basically free and until you're on parole no one can kick you off the streets)
So from a after school kid perspective we're talking about people who won't spend $15 for their kid to go to a parks and rec activity for a month. Somehow they always afford $35 cartons of cigs, iphones, malt liquor, but their kids aren't even worth $15 to them... or the parks and rec kicked them out for disruptive behavior, gang activity, etc. Either way the local library seems to be positioning itself away from "thats where the nerds go to read books" and more toward being daycare for one small social strata just above the level of the ghetto.
I would expect "masters in library arts" programs to start resembling the existing "early childhood education" classes more than their traditional research oriented curricula. Which is too bad, because we've already got a glut of ECE grads unemployed or making minimum wage, so adding more competition isn't all that great of an idea.
Fundamentally, the correct way to distribute lots of important files, is a large, heavily geographically distributed vaguely according to population, ultra heavily redundant content distribution network, right?
And coincidentally there is some value in having a building providing wifi access to this CDN, tables, chairs, lights, baby sitters (only halfway kidding) etc for the patrons to access this super-duper-cultural-CDN?
And coincidentally we already have these buildings sitting around waiting for the CDN to drop their racks and wifi WAPs into?
I've noticed a fixation on e-book and e-reader and e-library discussion revolving solely around the end user reading device... forgetting those hand held devices are pretty useless without the rest of the system, which boils down to a library without many bookshelves and a mini-datacenter, which seems to be the trend in libraries recently anyway WRT having public access internet and coffee bars and meeting rooms and such.
I'd be much more interested in a public library supported local mirror in every library of project gutenberg, archive.org, and related efforts than "me-too end user device #1513516246" trying to do exactly the same thing as "me-too end user device #1513516245" but now with more, better PR.
Slashdot Mirror
Does it have to be computer games? Especially "real gaming" which is usually defined as boring WWII FPS sequels?
You're overseas? Invite friends over to place some kind of euro board/physical game. Yes yes agricola takes 45 minutes to set up all the counters but there's plenty of lighter fare. Settlers of catan? Carcassonee? How about Dominion (a euro-card game)? Or strip-Dominion? Pretty much anything in the Rio Grande catalog?
How about paper and pencil RPG? Yeah if you're overseas in Saudi Arabia they might get nervous about "magic" or whatever fictional religious aspects, but if you're in a civilized part of the world it should be no problem. Pathfinder or classic DnD?
Plain ole card games? You're overseas so invite several locals over for poker night. Better yet if it works out rotate to each players house.
There's a certain theme to the above... yes you can play all of the above "on a computer" but it works just as well in person and that's probably the way to pivot into "computer" gaming if you're the type where the UI matters more than the gameplay or if its occasionally just more convenient to play on a tablet while traveling or whatever. Example: if she likes playing euro-resource-type-games in person using cardboard like "powerline" or WTF its called, its a pretty short jump to Civilization / Simcity.
The funny part is we got 4th on reading, I assume reading English. So the folks who beat us are probably Great Britain and her possessions, and ... what like Japan and China or ?
Short version is we're intentionally turning the USA into a 3rd world country including achievement, but forcing school attendance like a 1st world country.
Experts believe that the many thousands who fled from the Fukushima nuclear disaster received very low doses of radiation. But that doesn't mean there won't be health consequences.
Yeah I think having your friends, family, and coworkers drown might stress them a wee bit, even if americans think nothing happened there but a minor nuclear power incident.
poorly paraphrasing almost the same idea
Making a mockery of those interested in forcing the white house
As if this is bad? The point is awareness that unless you pay money, nothing will change. Making a joke about a joke is not bad.
I have a trailer hitch on my 4 cyl Integra and it's quite useful. Thanks for reminding me that I need to buy a ballbag for it, though.
Yeah that big turnoff for me isn't the bag hanging underneath, its the bag hanging under the cavernous gaping stretched out hole of a hitch receiver. Always brings up bad memories of goatse and the funniest part is the bag hanging guys on their manly pickup truck are supposed to be all Mr Homophobia, but here they are driving a goatse mobile instead. Maybe they're actually the brokeback mountain cowboys instead. I donno its all very weird. This all came from a discussion claiming a hitch without the ball bag is a "female hitch" and I'm all like there's something anatomically wrong about one with the bag, but now that you mention it there's something eerily familiar about those hitches with the ball bag swinging underneath it... oh no, ugh, now I get grossed out every time I see one, my brain needs bleach to expunge that hideous image.
no, its highly intelligent.
The reactor in my "backyard" is owned by a company based 1000 miles away in an economic system with a proven track record of not caring about what happens beyond ned quarters numbers. They would kill me and my family in an instant if they thought it would improve their numbers. Currently, it would not, lucky me... so far.
The folks with fingers on the button truly have their bacon in the game, and so far none of them have been crazy enough to want to vaporize their entire family and country just because they're mad at us.
I'd trust a russian general a hell of a lot more than I'd trust an american CEO, any day. Trust does not equal blind obedience or worship... just means... trust.
Not to mention that the golden era he laments, like all such golden eras, never really existed
Sure about that? I'd think mass marketing advertising along the lines of "actor wears white lab coat, makes ridiculous claim in support of product" might poison the well a little bit.
Also some chicken and egg question about the ultra cheesey, terribly popular hollywood movie trope of "evil mad scientist".
TLDR is something like if we pretend there is no such thing as IQ and we all have identical processor, bandwidth, and memory specs (LOL) then the inevitable necessary comparison judgments based on something that we must pretend doesn't, exist sets up all manner of cognitive dissonance. Add in the (intentional?) cultural blindspot about the difference between training, education, and wisdom, add a dash of good ole fashioned anti-intellectualism, a bit of authoritarianism and credentialism, eventual result is FUBAR.
That seems terribly optimistic. Most likely every kindergarden teacher in the world would write their own "see spot run" textbook and charge the little runts $90 per copy (which is OK, because Kindergarten tuition even at the dumpiest schools would rise to $50K/yr) and release a new book edition every semester just to crater the resale market.
I will say I enjoyed one prof who seemed to delight in running right along the razor edge of "fair use" by basically copying a page or two out of hundreds of different books to give us what amounted to a looseleaf textbook, for a class where in his opinion there existed no good textbook and he was too busy to write/edit one. It was an upper level EE type class in a rather obscure subject (well, at that time anyway)
LOL if science was in charge of global security:
If you want to join .mil, basic training in .mil would be about four to six years long, you'd have to pay $50K and all expenses to .mil for your first 4 years, afterward for a couple years they might (or might not) provide you room and board while you're basically a drill instructor to the new recruits, then if they like your work, and most importantly if you're lucky, about 1/4 to 1/2 of you would get hired to become Generals, of which maybe 1/2 would get tenure and $1M/yr jobs and everyone else who didn't make it would have to quit the whole subject and become freelance computer programmers or bums or whatever. And no one would get more than $20K/yr except a couple elite tenured Generals at the top none of whom would make less than $100K/yr (actually kind of sounds like the corporate view of the ideal future)
Your solvent was a trick question, because water and NH3 are both polar so there is at least some overlap in solubility. Also they dissolve ridiculously well in each other. If you spec'd liq methane or some weird liq fluorocarbon then there's practically no overlap given methane is non polar.
Anyway yeah its the solubility thing which is indirectly related to pH. Its not very hard on earth to figure out if something was sitting in a water tank or an ammonia tank same thing on mars.
Also temp and pressure. Maybe you could do something weird with NH3 at 10 bar and 500 deg that looks kinda like water related corrosion, but no one will believe that happened on martian surface.
Cultural not genetic, and class mobility is dead dead dead so basically yes.
Its pretty easy to see where they are active, typical slashdot stories have around 200 posts, where they are active, it is much greater.
I donno about that... a typical "book report" might only score 10 comments, usually one of them is me asking why/how the book is better than "google for it"
I see small comment numbers on "tech" and large comment numbers on "politics". If it sounds like something you'd see screencasted on Hak5 or audio podcasted on hacker public radio theres like 50 comments, if it sounds like something you'd see on fox news or dr phil its got about 200 comments. If its the kind of thing the lamestream media would interrupt dancing with the stars or a football game to report live, you'll get about 500 comments.
The shills are pretty hard to separate from the trolls, even if you follow the money. The "I love e-ink" and "I can't read text on a LCD" (hello, unless you're using text2speech what are you doing here?) crowd, wtf are they trolls or shills or ? Or who's seriously paying the "I'll never buy an electric car until I can fill it with gas and drive for 18 continuous hours and my electric car needs a trailer hitch to hang my fake pickuptruck nuts" crowd?
"deployed years later" .. isn't there a risk that the equipment would be obsolete? Field equipment is changing rather rapidly in this day and age, especially electronics.
Clearly not been in .mil. Some high tech stuff, lots thats not...
Sterile bags of saline solution, IV stuff, band aids, field dressings, pioneer tools, food...
At least theoretically, if they put a giant red cross on a submarine full of band-aids, other nations wouldn't depth charge it?
Although "obviously" if the US were about to invade a country they'd be out there trying to blow up the storage boxes, wasting time and ammo?
Non-lethal = when a fishing trawler hauls it off the seabed they can't claim insurance costs etc for their ship blowing up? Also if "everyone knows" subsea storage is all non-lethal (yeah like thats gonna happen long term) then the US is somewhat less liable for EOD costs. Hauling up a net of fish, lobsters... and a mine... is kinda scary to the crew.
So the CIA will trade arms to the afgahani's for heroin, who will sell it to the italians for cash to pay for black ops or wtf the CIA does with all its money. So, "obviously" if you accidentally capture a container and its full of AK47s, we "never" put lethal arms in one, so it was all a plant to make the USA look bad, or all a fake. In other words practically all of them are going to be full of non-domestic arms with the serial numbers filed off or whatever, but we'll pretend none are.
5.) IPv4 is Cobol and I come back and get a fat paycheque because I still remember how it works.
Step 5 is that IPv4 is one of the most common IP versions in business environments and plenty of people will still be trained to use it?
Yeah like SNA/SDLC. My VTAM skills are not exactly in demand and are pretty rusty anyway. Or DECTALK. How bout Novell IPX/SPX? Classic Appletalk? Or my first home LAN tech, that being ye olde Arcnet? Although you could run ip over arcnet and that was my plan using early linux. I would imagine recent linux kernels no longer support the arcnet card (there was only like one implementation for arcnet as I recall) A pity I threw out all the weird arcnet coax a decade or so ago, I believe it was something weird like 93 ohm impedance.
All the computers and network equipment at my house has been ready for IPv6 for years. I am just waiting for my ISP to get with the program.
Get a free ipv6 tunnel, like I did... more than a decade ago.
Once it works, its actually pretty boring. It has gotten easier over the past decade or two.
Just recently an IPv6 proponent sent me a chart showing IPv6 traffic growing from 0.25% to 1% of the Internet in a year as proof of its "impending success" and "rapid adoption".
In the unlikely even that 400% annual growth continues, get back to us in four years when ipv6 is 256% of the internet.
I can't speak to the customer owned routers, but for the modems, given how often my cablemodem dies on the RF side from lightning or "whatever" and how very long its been illegal to install anything but docsis 3.0 ipv6 compatible modems, I'm unimpressed. That was a pretty good argument in '03 but its '13 now.
I also can't speak for the DSL users. Maybe they're stuck in the stone age, maybe they've also all been ipv6 compatible since the 00s.
You can also cut them off on ipv4 with cg nat (did you know the marketing name changed from c-nat to cgnat not because there's anything wrong with "carrier nat" as a name, but everyone was calling it "crappy nat" instead?)
Then the end users can all connect to ipv6 providers. Free tunnels from he.net, or maybe their game company. I think it would be interesting if every windows machine connected to steam lit up a ipv6 tunnel for game server purposes.
In the long run I agree it would be nice to provide ipv6 direct support in parallel.
Its attitude. Where I live in order of cash:
1) Fancy expensive private after school activities / clubs / daycare
2) Parks and Rec dept after school activities / clubs fairly cheap
3) Library activities after school absolutely free. You can get banned from the library for being disruptive
4) Go hang out downtown and stay out of trouble (basically free and until you're on parole no one can kick you off the streets)
So from a after school kid perspective we're talking about people who won't spend $15 for their kid to go to a parks and rec activity for a month. Somehow they always afford $35 cartons of cigs, iphones, malt liquor, but their kids aren't even worth $15 to them... or the parks and rec kicked them out for disruptive behavior, gang activity, etc. Either way the local library seems to be positioning itself away from "thats where the nerds go to read books" and more toward being daycare for one small social strata just above the level of the ghetto.
I would expect "masters in library arts" programs to start resembling the existing "early childhood education" classes more than their traditional research oriented curricula. Which is too bad, because we've already got a glut of ECE grads unemployed or making minimum wage, so adding more competition isn't all that great of an idea.
somehow tying reading to a physical building.
Fundamentally, the correct way to distribute lots of important files, is a large, heavily geographically distributed vaguely according to population, ultra heavily redundant content distribution network, right?
And coincidentally there is some value in having a building providing wifi access to this CDN, tables, chairs, lights, baby sitters (only halfway kidding) etc for the patrons to access this super-duper-cultural-CDN?
And coincidentally we already have these buildings sitting around waiting for the CDN to drop their racks and wifi WAPs into?
I've noticed a fixation on e-book and e-reader and e-library discussion revolving solely around the end user reading device... forgetting those hand held devices are pretty useless without the rest of the system, which boils down to a library without many bookshelves and a mini-datacenter, which seems to be the trend in libraries recently anyway WRT having public access internet and coffee bars and meeting rooms and such.
I'd be much more interested in a public library supported local mirror in every library of project gutenberg, archive.org, and related efforts than "me-too end user device #1513516246" trying to do exactly the same thing as "me-too end user device #1513516245" but now with more, better PR.
When everybody chooses to just "like" whatever everybody likes, how useful will that information be to FB?
Hey marketing people, here's a self selected population of people who will do whatever seems popular... now go do your thing against them...