To explain, you broke your childs trust the minute you decided they can't be trusted with their own decisions.
No. You only break your child's trust if you lie about the level of secrecy they enjoy on the machine.
To explain seven year olds' decisions can't always be trusted. Which is why it is a bad idea to let them drive heavy plant machinery or have completely unfettered access to the Internet.
... and found you had installed a computer with Internet access and given my 7 year old a password protected account, I would format the disk and return it to you. It is not your job to be her parent or deliberately circumvent their wishes.
If you think their methods are wrong. Talk to them and tell them why and what methods are better.
I and yes, I know that makes me sound like a middle aged control freak, but that's because, with a 7 year old, being a middle aged control freak is part of the parents' job description.
Actually, I see a false dichotomy here. Knowing either lots about Shakespear or Nanotech mean that you are educated. That is all. You've been educated in different fields. Intelligence has more to do (in my opinion) with the ability to manipulate this knowledge and extrapolate from it in useful ways. The scope for extrapolation and manipulation is arguably greater with nanotech than Shakespear.
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In the real world all businesses are striving to eliminate all competition so that they can then treat suppliers and customers as cash-cows to be milked dry.
No. In the theoretical "real world" maybe. In the actual real world most real people - even businessmen do not think that way. They are too busy thinking about how to create an improved product with large margins that customers would love to buy and will keep buying. Some might think of business as a zero sum game, but I've hardly ever met any of them.
Take small presents that you can give to the local kids. ball point pens, small cheap items. Take photos of back home that you can show to people *if they ask*.
Don't try to cram too much in. Stop places a while and watch the other tourists come and go. Learn a few words of the language.
Get an old SLR and take plenty of film with you. Mail back the rolls of film as you go. You'll still be able to get 35mm film no trouble all over the world.
Buy yourself a nice little fat black hardback notebook with good quality paper and buy yourself a nice pen. Write in it at night around the camp fire and by candle light. Make sketches and stick things into it while you travel. Enjoy it as an artifact of your travel. Thumb through it and show it to the kids in 20 years time.
However, however... much of what makes Zimbra interesting to enterprises is held in the Network Edition, which includes large amounts of closed code. For example our company uses a Zimbra hosted service and I usethe Zimbra iSync connector to sync shared calendars on the network with iCal on my machine. There are a quite a few additional components like this which are not open.
So. apart from a better standard of living, better health, longer life, better nutrition, more leisure time and the ability to experience more of the world than previous generations, we are all worse off. Got it.
If this was a extrension cord that came on a wind-up reel, one of the warnings should have been to make sure the thing was fully extended before use. Several times I have had to explain to people that having a high wattage going around a tightly coiled wire was a Bad Idea before extending to show how the wire was already too hot to touch.
They may have been great composers irrespective of whether or not they got paid. Whether they would have had the time to create such an amazing corpus of work, in between having to work as music teachers to pay the rent is another matter. The fact is that most of the historically great artists made their living by being commissioned by patrons. To suggest that remuneration has little or nothing to do with an artist's ability to find the time to create is plain silly.
Well Beethoven was able to write music only because people like Rudolf Johannes Joseph Rainier Cardinal von Habsburg-Lothringen, Archduke and Prince Imperial of Austria, Prince Royal of Hungry and Bohemia paid him large amounts of money to do so.
Bach, by contrast was paid to write by (among others) Duke Wilhelm Ernst of Saxe-Weimar.
It's a bit more than that. The question of whether Pluto belongs to the class 'Planet' is basically decide by one metric only: size. A phylogenomic study is rather more interesting than that since it casts light on the actual intrinsic interrelationships between different organisms and their likely evolution paths.
I've had a quick look at the paper you linked to, and frankly its over my head. My degree was genetics/molecular biology but that was 20 years ago and taxonomy used to bore me rigid.
Gentleman, we've pinned it down. I'm 43 and at school was taught that a billion was a million million, but by the time I got to work thousand million was the norm.
I have to say there are quite a few plants that die after flowering once, including Agave americana so this is not really that bizarre. There also also animals that die after reproducing (the salmon, for one).
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How about DEC or SGI? Or Texas Instruments? I believe the transputer might be the wave of the future too.
... and found you had installed a computer with Internet access and given my 7 year old a password protected account, I would format the disk and return it to you. It is not your job to be her parent or deliberately circumvent their wishes.
If you think their methods are wrong. Talk to them and tell them why and what methods are better.
I and yes, I know that makes me sound like a middle aged control freak, but that's because, with a 7 year old, being a middle aged control freak is part of the parents' job description.
I can't really see why a small electric motor couldn't be incorporated into the design to do this, surely it would be much more convenient?
I take it sir is familiar with right-click 'Show in Finder'?
Actually, I see a false dichotomy here. Knowing either lots about Shakespear or Nanotech mean that you are educated. That is all. You've been educated in different fields. Intelligence has more to do (in my opinion) with the ability to manipulate this knowledge and extrapolate from it in useful ways. The scope for extrapolation and manipulation is arguably greater with nanotech than Shakespear.
No. In the theoretical "real world" maybe. In the actual real world most real people - even businessmen do not think that way. They are too busy thinking about how to create an improved product with large margins that customers would love to buy and will keep buying. Some might think of business as a zero sum game, but I've hardly ever met any of them.
Take small presents that you can give to the local kids. ball point pens, small cheap items. Take photos of back home that you can show to people *if they ask*.
Don't try to cram too much in. Stop places a while and watch the other tourists come and go. Learn a few words of the language.
Get an old SLR and take plenty of film with you. Mail back the rolls of film as you go. You'll still be able to get 35mm film no trouble all over the world.
Buy yourself a nice little fat black hardback notebook with good quality paper and buy yourself a nice pen. Write in it at night around the camp fire and by candle light. Make sketches and stick things into it while you travel. Enjoy it as an artifact of your travel. Thumb through it and show it to the kids in 20 years time.
However, however... much of what makes Zimbra interesting to enterprises is held in the Network Edition, which includes large amounts of closed code. For example our company uses a Zimbra hosted service and I usethe Zimbra iSync connector to sync shared calendars on the network with iCal on my machine. There are a quite a few additional components like this which are not open.
It's a tense problem. I think. the author is using present continuous, where past tense would be more appropriate:
So XMPP was designed from the beginning as an open technology for generalized XML routing."
Better?
Nope, mail hasn't become part of the Web, some mail systems have Web interfaces.
So. apart from a better standard of living, better health, longer life, better nutrition, more leisure time and the ability to experience more of the world than previous generations, we are all worse off. Got it.
I have to ask - are they still operating?
Don't think you meant to use the word 'impunity' there.
If this was a extrension cord that came on a wind-up reel, one of the warnings should have been to make sure the thing was fully extended before use. Several times I have had to explain to people that having a high wattage going around a tightly coiled wire was a Bad Idea before extending to show how the wire was already too hot to touch.
They may have been great composers irrespective of whether or not they got paid. Whether they would have had the time to create such an amazing corpus of work, in between having to work as music teachers to pay the rent is another matter. The fact is that most of the historically great artists made their living by being commissioned by patrons. To suggest that remuneration has little or nothing to do with an artist's ability to find the time to create is plain silly.
Well Beethoven was able to write music only because people like Rudolf Johannes Joseph Rainier Cardinal von Habsburg-Lothringen, Archduke and Prince Imperial of Austria, Prince Royal of Hungry and Bohemia paid him large amounts of money to do so.
Bach, by contrast was paid to write by (among others) Duke Wilhelm Ernst of Saxe-Weimar.
So to be clear, are you saying that if any aspect of the Bible were shown to be erroneous, there would be no more Christians a week later?
It's a bit more than that. The question of whether Pluto belongs to the class 'Planet' is basically decide by one metric only: size. A phylogenomic study is rather more interesting than that since it casts light on the actual intrinsic interrelationships between different organisms and their likely evolution paths.
I've had a quick look at the paper you linked to, and frankly its over my head. My degree was genetics/molecular biology but that was 20 years ago and taxonomy used to bore me rigid.
Have a look at the stuff from Expand Network. No, I don't have practical experience with myself, but they seem to have their heads screwed on.
Gentleman, we've pinned it down. I'm 43 and at school was taught that a billion was a million million, but by the time I got to work thousand million was the norm.
Hmmm, lets see if a small amendment to the metric could circumvent that problem.... no, you're right it's an impossibly difficult flaw to fix.
I have to say there are quite a few plants that die after flowering once, including Agave americana so this is not really that bizarre. There also also animals that die after reproducing (the salmon, for one).
Just because you choose not to understand the distinction, doesn't mean there isn't one old chum.
Next week: Why hackers and crackers are actually the same thing, eh?