As someone who grew up resenting nature, I can tell you know the problem won't be balance, it'll be finding ways to introduce your children to nature that don't drive them away from it.
Here are some things not to do:
DON'T force your children to go outside and play simply because you think they need to spend sometime outside. Instead, try to come up with reasons why they would WANT to go outside and play.
DON'T tell your children that you aren't going to get them something they want because they 'spend too much time playing with X already, you should go outside more'. That just makes them resent it even more.
DON'T assume that just because you like to camp every week, they do too. Even children want their own time, where they can make their own choices.
Here are somethings to DO:
DO go out and play with your children. If they associate spending time outside with fun, rather than a chore, then they are more likely to want to spend more time outside.
DO limit your purchases, a new game comes out almost every week. Remind them they still have other games to play. Keep them on a budget and let them choose what games they want to get.
DO let them participate in planning the family weekends. If they feel like it was their choice to go camping, then they are far less likely to resent the time spent doing it.
DO realize that you can still over do it. Not everyone needs to be so in tune with nature than small forest creatures follow them around.
Just finished playing it. For any of you wondering if it's worth the download. It very much is.
Beautiful environment, interesting concept, and wonderful soundtrack (I'm hoping to download the soundtrack for later listening after the slashdot effect is over.)
It was created as a school project, so unfortunately the team indicated they won't be able to continue to develop it after they leave Guildhall, but it's still a wonderful work. I've seen recent professional games which don't match up to what these guys pumped out in just five months of college work.
For those of you who didn't notice, you can do the last level as a mini-game if you scroll the 'New Game" menu to the end of the chapter list. My best time so far is a minute and twenty seconds.
Yes we should storm the citidal's and demand the major backbones not block multi-cast traffic.
I mean surely there is no way this could EVER be mis-used.
Well, you know, except for increasing the effectiveness of a zombie bot army from being able to hit 100's of machines at once to millions at once.
But hey! That a small price to pay for instant updates when my favorite porn site finds a new pic to post!
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Part of the problem is there is a limit to how much effort even a DIY'er is realisticly going to put forth to work on a project.
MAKE is aimed at the sort that enjoy DIY but don't want to spend all day on the web looking for things to do and trying to weigh the appearent quality of the information they do find.
I've seen numerous DIY sites online, hundreds of 'once off' DIY project sites, and the one constant all them have is their inconsistancy.
MAKE takes the information and puts it together into a coherent, reliable package.
For many, that's well worth 15$ compaired the the amount of time it would take to be a DIY researcher on top of actually doing the project.
The only thing keeping me from building a file server and ripping all my DVD's onto it so I can safely store them away somewhere is finding a way to save the complete disc rather than just the straight movie.
I don't have access to TFA since I'm at work, however if this is something that can be played back on *nix (I'm fine with ripping using Windows if need be) and handles multiple audio tracks, I'll have found the project I'll be spending the rest of the year working on.
Because if the company wanted you to have 'an evaluation' then they would have provided you with one?
Why is it so easy for people to understand that if I own something, it's not their God given right to come up and take it from me without my permission but so hard for them to understand the exact same premise when it comes to software?
Just because you can RATIONALIZE something, doesn't make it right or the correct course of action.
I've always considered that sort of arguement bunk.
I'm sorry, but using the price of the software as an excuse to steal it is like telling the police "Well, if the speed limit in this residential section wasn't so low, I wouldn't have been going over it by so much."
Using the high price of something is a valid excuse for boycotting it, for going with a compeditor, even for creating your own version. It is NOT an excuse to steal it.
Once you've stolen something you have lost all right to complain about the price IMO. If you and the rest of the world actually played by the rules, they would work and the price would either come down or someone else would pop up with a cheaper product that did what you needed. Instead, you steal it, get locked in and purchase it later on when you decide you can't live without it, and propigate the whole problem of high prices that you were complaining about.
And suddenly we have a world where people can only watch the first half of a show because all the seeds drop off once the show is finished and never upload the last 30 sec to anyone.
No thanks, I'd rather have the current setup where the most rare piece is the highest priority and simply "Tivo" the shows.
You aren't part of the minority, you are part of the silent majority. The reason things have gotten so blown out of porportion in America is that EVERYONE seems to be too effing willing to say "What can we do? We are out numbered!" whenever faced with a challenge.
The current issues occuring with 'family values' and the FCC are driven by a vocal FEW. A few who are mostly unopposed because no one is willing to speak for the opposing viewpoint other than a few broadcasters and comedians.
If America has one true and fatal flaw, it's the willingness of it's citzens to convince themselves that they are only one person and therefore can't acutally do anything about a situation.
Your mind is willing to accept imperfect visuals and extrapolate from there. It's part of what you do in normal everyday life.
Your mind is not willing to accept imperfect audio and extrapolate, at least not to the same extent we are with visuals.
Think of it this way, you are perfectly capable of watching a cartoon and being able to identify almost anything you see in any scene in that cartoon, even though it is probably not anything close to the actual look of the object being represented.
Now, take a typical voice syth and play with it for a few hours. At you might recognize what it's suppose to be saying but are you ever at a point where you can just suspend your disbelief and think of the voice as a living person?
The funniest thing I see in this discussion are how many people are nay saying the concept not realizing that they already have a crippled version of it on their computer as FOLDERS.
I'm seeing people complaining about namespace clashes, removeable media, flat file systems, mis-labeling, labeling, and 'lost files'.
People, these are issues you ALREADY deal with.
Folders, ARE NOT REAL. They are labels created for your conveience in an extremely limited database. Your file does not exist in a manila sheet of folded paper on your hard drive. It already exists as just an entry in a database pointing to a location on the hard drive.
Your hard drive is, for all intents and purposes, a flat file system! With all that this entails.
Namespace conflicts are moot if you aren't tying the file's ID to the name but instead an internal field. As most filesystems already do.
You already lose files, you already forget files. The advantage in this case goes to the "Smart Folders" since you can atleast set up criteria like "Created today" or "Last accessed a year ago" to find what you've lost.
We already have solutions to removeable media, it's called a seperate database for each filesystem attached to the computer which is stored on the media the filesystem resides in.
And the arguement that "It's going to be too hard to label everything" is just pure silliness. You already use either file things by name or by some sort of 'grouping', applying this minimal amount of organization is already required just by deciding where to save a file and what name to save it under. Why would this be any harder under a system with even more options?
Players control how flash is seen, not the creators.
Allowing alternative players (assuming they actually have a problem with it and it's not just a CYA laywer insert) means that you can no longer 'promise' objects created in Flash will appear the same everywhere.
Remove that promise, and the draw to use Flash, as opposed to any of the other alternatives out there, is less.
Plus, if the alternative is better than the official version then Macromedia loses control of the language if people should choose to 'embrace and extend' the protocol. Then Macromedia is forced to play catch-up.
Think what MS would do if they were free to release their own Flash player.
Actually if you read the agreements through which that documentation is avaliable, you'll notice that they are provided with the intent of allowing you to create SWF, not play it.
Be sure to include the 'under lighting' option so when your CEO needs to be seen in the dark room, he'll conviently be illuminated from below.
Also, try to gauge his laugh and have a sound board setup in case his own laughter doesn't have that 'evil bastard' quality to it... but he's a CEO so that really shouldn't be a problem.
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Did you read the link provided when you saw that message? It gives you a pretty straight forward explaination of why you are getting the message.
Nokia won't let us use their super-duper patent that revolutionizes the industry, so we plan on creating a dummy FOSS project which just does enough to allow us to use their patent as a FOSS project but we plan on doing everything else as a closed source project!
Use one of the many iTune clones, most of which are free and/or open source, which can read and write to the iPod's music database and the steps go like this:
1. Import a CD to your music library. 2. Plug in your iPod.
Amazingly, just as simple, and not tied to that nasty ol'apple guy.
Me though, for now I'll use iTunes. The only real advantage I see to not using iTunes is to be able to brag to people that I'm not using iTunes... not exactly a big selling point to me.
Back in the day, people were assured that SSN's would not be used as a "Citizen number".
This was actually so much an issue before the Social Security program went into place that it was written specificly in the law that the government could not use a SSN as a means of identifying an indivdual.
And for a time, SSN's were kept as simply a number to ID you to the Social Security Administration.
Then, after people became used to the idea, companies slowly started using SSN's as your ID as well. First it was just people who could legitimately say "Well we have to report our dealings with you to the SSA, so we need it anyway", then it was "Well we have to report to the government, so we need it.", and now a days it's "Well, you could be a terrorist, we need to to make sure you aren't."
I have absolute faith that the current administration over there has every intention of protection my privacy. But what happens when they leave? What happens if some gloy hound politian makes a great show about how "This protects the pedophiles! Won't someone think of the children?" and pushes something through to remove the Act or make it meaningless?
Slippery slopes are tired cliches, I know. But the reason they are used so often is because many of us realize how easy it is to push through things that no one today would even think of accepting, simply by doing it slowly and in steps.
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As someone who grew up resenting nature, I can tell you know the problem won't be balance, it'll be finding ways to introduce your children to nature that don't drive them away from it.
Here are some things not to do:
DON'T force your children to go outside and play simply because you think they need to spend sometime outside. Instead, try to come up with reasons why they would WANT to go outside and play.
DON'T tell your children that you aren't going to get them something they want because they 'spend too much time playing with X already, you should go outside more'. That just makes them resent it even more.
DON'T assume that just because you like to camp every week, they do too. Even children want their own time, where they can make their own choices.
Here are somethings to DO:
DO go out and play with your children. If they associate spending time outside with fun, rather than a chore, then they are more likely to want to spend more time outside.
DO limit your purchases, a new game comes out almost every week. Remind them they still have other games to play. Keep them on a budget and let them choose what games they want to get.
DO let them participate in planning the family weekends. If they feel like it was their choice to go camping, then they are far less likely to resent the time spent doing it.
DO realize that you can still over do it. Not everyone needs to be so in tune with nature than small forest creatures follow them around.
Just finished playing it. For any of you wondering if it's worth the download. It very much is.
Beautiful environment, interesting concept, and wonderful soundtrack (I'm hoping to download the soundtrack for later listening after the slashdot effect is over.)
It was created as a school project, so unfortunately the team indicated they won't be able to continue to develop it after they leave Guildhall, but it's still a wonderful work. I've seen recent professional games which don't match up to what these guys pumped out in just five months of college work.
For those of you who didn't notice, you can do the last level as a mini-game if you scroll the 'New Game" menu to the end of the chapter list. My best time so far is a minute and twenty seconds.
Yes we should storm the citidal's and demand the major backbones not block multi-cast traffic.
I mean surely there is no way this could EVER be mis-used.
Well, you know, except for increasing the effectiveness of a zombie bot army from being able to hit 100's of machines at once to millions at once.
But hey! That a small price to pay for instant updates when my favorite porn site finds a new pic to post!
Part of the problem is there is a limit to how much effort even a DIY'er is realisticly going to put forth to work on a project.
MAKE is aimed at the sort that enjoy DIY but don't want to spend all day on the web looking for things to do and trying to weigh the appearent quality of the information they do find.
I've seen numerous DIY sites online, hundreds of 'once off' DIY project sites, and the one constant all them have is their inconsistancy.
MAKE takes the information and puts it together into a coherent, reliable package.
For many, that's well worth 15$ compaired the the amount of time it would take to be a DIY researcher on top of actually doing the project.
The only thing keeping me from building a file server and ripping all my DVD's onto it so I can safely store them away somewhere is finding a way to save the complete disc rather than just the straight movie.
I don't have access to TFA since I'm at work, however if this is something that can be played back on *nix (I'm fine with ripping using Windows if need be) and handles multiple audio tracks, I'll have found the project I'll be spending the rest of the year working on.
Because if the company wanted you to have 'an evaluation' then they would have provided you with one?
Why is it so easy for people to understand that if I own something, it's not their God given right to come up and take it from me without my permission but so hard for them to understand the exact same premise when it comes to software?
Just because you can RATIONALIZE something, doesn't make it right or the correct course of action.
I've always considered that sort of arguement bunk.
I'm sorry, but using the price of the software as an excuse to steal it is like telling the police "Well, if the speed limit in this residential section wasn't so low, I wouldn't have been going over it by so much."
Using the high price of something is a valid excuse for boycotting it, for going with a compeditor, even for creating your own version. It is NOT an excuse to steal it.
Once you've stolen something you have lost all right to complain about the price IMO. If you and the rest of the world actually played by the rules, they would work and the price would either come down or someone else would pop up with a cheaper product that did what you needed. Instead, you steal it, get locked in and purchase it later on when you decide you can't live without it, and propigate the whole problem of high prices that you were complaining about.
Don't know about the rest.
And suddenly we have a world where people can only watch the first half of a show because all the seeds drop off once the show is finished and never upload the last 30 sec to anyone.
No thanks, I'd rather have the current setup where the most rare piece is the highest priority and simply "Tivo" the shows.
That's right damn it! You should be called a facist! :-P
I call BS.
You aren't part of the minority, you are part of the silent majority. The reason things have gotten so blown out of porportion in America is that EVERYONE seems to be too effing willing to say "What can we do? We are out numbered!" whenever faced with a challenge.
The current issues occuring with 'family values' and the FCC are driven by a vocal FEW. A few who are mostly unopposed because no one is willing to speak for the opposing viewpoint other than a few broadcasters and comedians.
If America has one true and fatal flaw, it's the willingness of it's citzens to convince themselves that they are only one person and therefore can't acutally do anything about a situation.
Your mind is willing to accept imperfect visuals and extrapolate from there. It's part of what you do in normal everyday life.
Your mind is not willing to accept imperfect audio and extrapolate, at least not to the same extent we are with visuals.
Think of it this way, you are perfectly capable of watching a cartoon and being able to identify almost anything you see in any scene in that cartoon, even though it is probably not anything close to the actual look of the object being represented.
Now, take a typical voice syth and play with it for a few hours. At you might recognize what it's suppose to be saying but are you ever at a point where you can just suspend your disbelief and think of the voice as a living person?
I'm seeing people complaining about namespace clashes, removeable media, flat file systems, mis-labeling, labeling, and 'lost files'.
People, these are issues you ALREADY deal with.
DUH! Are you brave enough to call the WSJ a liar?
Steve probably had to throw the idea together in the car on the way to the Keynote.
Phbt. Think what other rumors WSJ could publish about Apple if he got on their wrong side?
Players control how flash is seen, not the creators.
Allowing alternative players (assuming they actually have a problem with it and it's not just a CYA laywer insert) means that you can no longer 'promise' objects created in Flash will appear the same everywhere.
Remove that promise, and the draw to use Flash, as opposed to any of the other alternatives out there, is less.
Plus, if the alternative is better than the official version then Macromedia loses control of the language if people should choose to 'embrace and extend' the protocol. Then Macromedia is forced to play catch-up.
Think what MS would do if they were free to release their own Flash player.
Actually if you read the agreements through which that documentation is avaliable, you'll notice that they are provided with the intent of allowing you to create SWF, not play it.
Because it is only free as in iPods. Not free as in speech.
Because what's avaliable isn't really that great.
Because they think they can do better.
Here's the solution to the lack of a modem:USB
Be sure to include the 'under lighting' option so when your CEO needs to be seen in the dark room, he'll conviently be illuminated from below.
Also, try to gauge his laugh and have a sound board setup in case his own laughter doesn't have that 'evil bastard' quality to it... but he's a CEO so that really shouldn't be a problem.
Did you read the link provided when you saw that message? It gives you a pretty straight forward explaination of why you are getting the message.
Hi! I'm Suckia! Nokia's compeditor!
Nokia won't let us use their super-duper patent that revolutionizes the industry, so we plan on creating a dummy FOSS project which just does enough to allow us to use their patent as a FOSS project but we plan on doing everything else as a closed source project!
*nelson*HA HA!*/nelson*
Use one of the many iTune clones, most of which are free and/or open source, which can read and write to the iPod's music database and the steps go like this:
1. Import a CD to your music library.
2. Plug in your iPod.
Amazingly, just as simple, and not tied to that nasty ol'apple guy.
Me though, for now I'll use iTunes. The only real advantage I see to not using iTunes is to be able to brag to people that I'm not using iTunes... not exactly a big selling point to me.
I did. I even still have the DVD I burnt of the complete 'story'.
Perhaps the world doesn't revolve around you after all?
Back in the day, people were assured that SSN's would not be used as a "Citizen number".
This was actually so much an issue before the Social Security program went into place that it was written specificly in the law that the government could not use a SSN as a means of identifying an indivdual.
And for a time, SSN's were kept as simply a number to ID you to the Social Security Administration.
Then, after people became used to the idea, companies slowly started using SSN's as your ID as well. First it was just people who could legitimately say "Well we have to report our dealings with you to the SSA, so we need it anyway", then it was "Well we have to report to the government, so we need it.", and now a days it's "Well, you could be a terrorist, we need to to make sure you aren't."
I have absolute faith that the current administration over there has every intention of protection my privacy. But what happens when they leave? What happens if some gloy hound politian makes a great show about how "This protects the pedophiles! Won't someone think of the children?" and pushes something through to remove the Act or make it meaningless?
Slippery slopes are tired cliches, I know. But the reason they are used so often is because many of us realize how easy it is to push through things that no one today would even think of accepting, simply by doing it slowly and in steps.
On the other hand, consider how much easier it will be to maintain duplicate back-ups if you only need to copy one disk instead of 100?