I had a difficult enough time making my LOGO turtle move around.
You make the young kids feel the power of creation. Learn programming like they "learned" an Etch-a-Sketch.
Get them into a brand new technology -- one where their efforts don't differ enormously from a pro.
When version 0.9 of Netscape was new, the only difference between amateur HTML and pro was composition.
Make it like learning piano or guitar where natural talent blooms and shows weekly or even daily improvement.
Create a simplistic 20-line game where they see you break into the source code. Then let them change the
number of lives, make it loop to restart automatically, slow it down to cheat, etc.
to keep nieces and nephews from using Uncle Glas' computer for immoral purposes.
Teenagers are gonna do what teenagers have done for decades, regardless of venue.
They will get "in trouble" whether it is a pool hall, rumble seat, mall, or a chat room.
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Hide the computers.
Hide the kids.
Purity through obscurity.
If I understand all the comments here. I have the option of NOT d/l the WGA, but I will not be able to get any updates.
Just try to stick with SP1 for the past six months. Even the "hide" option for Service Pack 2 fails;
it keeps inserting SP2 ahead of the updates you have specifically picked.
So now Microsoft pushes out non-critical Tuesday updates willy nilly, while sitting three weeks on
truly critical patches so they can be released on a nice predictable schedule
Here's a little summary of a comparable establishment, the Bureau of Indian Affairs
At one point when $25,000 a year exceeded the average wage in the United States,
you could divide the budget for the Bureau by the number of Indians on reservations,
and it was nearly thirty thousand dollars per year per beneficiary.
Pretty meager reparations, but a family of four surely did not see $120,000 per year
or anything approaching even $12,000 a year of anything tangible.
Some prohibit teenagers, bus drivers and drivers with learning permits from using cell phones
Not as good as
last month's story on the PSP-playing bus driver "Steve Allcock was reported by terrified passengers who heard the screams
of characters being butchered" in Grand Theft Auto.
The bus company sacked another driver the previous week for applying makeup.
Why do I have to have to run Internet Explorer every 30 days on the second Tuesday of the month,
in order to fix Internet Explorer... which, if unbundled, wouldn't be a systemwide security problem?
Some CD-ROM drives have two buttons on the front, instead of just a single eject button.
And just to be anal, get a 2X drive to handle the stereo 16 bit PCM coding at 44.1 kHz !
On systems today with PCI soundcards you can reconnect that gray wire, get properties in
Windows for the CDROM and uncheck "enable digital CD audio for this CD-ROM device"
I still keep around an old 12X CDR for copying certain CDs since it was the last to have
constant linear velocity. There's nothing quite like consistency for duplication...
My old iMac used to still play mp3's while it was asleep
My old Windows 3.1 machines used to still play audio CD's after you clicked 'Shutdown'
(and restart in MS-DOS). 640K multitasking in real mode... 1993 style!
Pretty impressive actually - especially for what is esentially a laptop chip
I banged at the 2.0GHz duo core with Prime95 and could not get even a whisper out of a fan.
This was splitting the task equally, or running with affinity set to one CPU or the other.
Disappointedly, on paper it benches 1:1 to a Sempr0n 3000+ at 1.8GHz with 128K L2 cache.
The PRIME95 speedtestsshows the AMD/Intel similarity if you consider the
T2500 is halfway between the results already posted for the T2400 and T2600 on non-Apple.
an article like this that provides no real content, but may inspire limited skirmishes between hotheaded zealots.
Actually it was about as bland as you could get; certainly written to avoid line-by-line nitpicking.
It's like discussing "Love Thy Neighbor" over a few beers with a Unitarian, agnostic, and New Ager.
Several other sites like http://msnbc.com/ has been doing this for years.
I remember a certain pseudo-ISP (sent out 30 million disks per year) also doing it.
Hint: It was far enough back that software distribution was half-floppy, half-CD.
With more breakthrough ideas, this Yahoo company might become the next AOL.
this story is already days old. The linked article was published 2 days ago.
It bears pointing out -- although replying to (-1) Offtopic -- that one of the five tags on this story actually is "dupe"
Ya shoulda been modded (-1) Redundant!
Forget the costs of making it quiet for the 18-34 demographic group:
1. 35 and overs lose 3db hearing with each passing decade.
2. Farsightedness makes them sit back 1" further each year.
3. They have more money to spend than younger people do.
I've watched Proctor-Silex redefine a "full cup" over the years from 8 to 6 ounces and now five ounces.
Get a suitably porous ceramic material, and it can absorb all four ounces (2006 model) as freefall begins.
we are facing a surplus of "scientists" with tech-level skills and a deficit of scientists able to carry out intensive research
Try visiting a good teaching hospital these days, where you can observe "medical science" in practice.
While you can't see behind-the-scenes research, you can see various statistical trials being conducted.
For every person with a science background there were 10+ who probably never even took an AP test.
I consistently saw no difference between hospital workers and those at McDonalds or WalMart -- other
than employees being paid $50,000 per year with an accompanying much lower turnover rate.
With everywhere becoming a KwikLube or Tires'R'US with fancy machines, you don't need science.
won't output a full-HD signal from their component-video connections, since those jacks are analog instead of digital
I just polled the 5-10 people within shouting distance of my desk, whether they "care about people who
spent $6000-$9000 on stupid television sets." It's unanimous: 1 loud NO, with the remainder abstaining.
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This vote was not scientific, and reflects only the opinions of those
users who have chosen to participate. The results cannot be assumed to
represent the opinions of users in general, nor the public as a whole.
(This vote has not been certified by Diebold, Danaher, Sequoia or AVS)
The simple truth is that interstellar distances will not fit into the human imagination
"Have some sense of proportion!" she would say 38 times a day.
And so he built the total perspective vortex just to show her.
And one in end he plugged the whole of reality as extrapolated
from a faery cake, and in the other end he plugged his wife so
that when he turned it on, she saw in one instant the whole
infinity of creation and herself in relation to it.
So Adams also shows that interstellar distances co-exist with human imagination for one instant, before Trintragula's invention annihilates it.
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You make the young kids feel the power of creation. Learn programming like they "learned" an Etch-a-Sketch.
Get them into a brand new technology -- one where their efforts don't differ enormously from a pro.
When version 0.9 of Netscape was new, the only difference between amateur HTML and pro was composition.
Make it like learning piano or guitar where natural talent blooms and shows weekly or even daily improvement.
Create a simplistic 20-line game where they see you break into the source code. Then let them change the
number of lives, make it loop to restart automatically, slow it down to cheat, etc.
Teenagers are gonna do what teenagers have done for decades, regardless of venue.
They will get "in trouble" whether it is a pool hall, rumble seat, mall, or a chat room.
--
Hide the computers.
Hide the kids.
Purity through obscurity.
Just try to stick with SP1 for the past six months. Even the "hide" option for Service Pack 2 fails;
it keeps inserting SP2 ahead of the updates you have specifically picked.
So now Microsoft pushes out non-critical Tuesday updates willy nilly, while sitting three weeks on
truly critical patches so they can be released on a nice predictable schedule
At one point when $25,000 a year exceeded the average wage in the United States,
you could divide the budget for the Bureau by the number of Indians on reservations,
and it was nearly thirty thousand dollars per year per beneficiary.
Pretty meager reparations, but a family of four surely did not see $120,000 per year
or anything approaching even $12,000 a year of anything tangible.
Scott McNealy's days at Sun are numbered 8001 with tomorrow being #8002.
Not as good as last month's story on the PSP-playing bus driver
"Steve Allcock was reported by terrified passengers who heard the screams
of characters being butchered" in Grand Theft Auto.
The bus company sacked another driver the previous week for applying makeup.
Why do I have to have to run Internet Explorer every 30 days on the second Tuesday of the month, ... which, if unbundled, wouldn't be a systemwide security problem?
in order to fix Internet Explorer
I'm not sure what it means, but Jobs probably did market research on the BootCamp opening screen:
Macintosh .... Microsoft .... Microsoft .... PC .... Windows
Apple
Macintosh
OS X
None_of_the_above
HINT -- Apple went with choosing a hardware brand versus a software brand.
And just to be anal, get a 2X drive to handle the stereo 16 bit PCM coding at 44.1 kHz !
On systems today with PCI soundcards you can reconnect that gray wire, get properties in
Windows for the CDROM and uncheck "enable digital CD audio for this CD-ROM device"
I still keep around an old 12X CDR for copying certain CDs since it was the last to have
constant linear velocity. There's nothing quite like consistency for duplication...
My old Windows 3.1 machines used to still play audio CD's after you clicked 'Shutdown' ... 1993 style!
(and restart in MS-DOS). 640K multitasking in real mode
CORRECTION:
Some of the states tried to leave the United States
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"One Nation, indivisible" (original Pledge)
"One Nation, under God" (1954 Red scare)
I banged at the 2.0GHz duo core with Prime95 and could not get even a whisper out of a fan.
This was splitting the task equally, or running with affinity set to one CPU or the other.
Disappointedly, on paper it benches 1:1 to a Sempr0n 3000+ at 1.8GHz with 128K L2 cache.
The PRIME95 speedtestsshows the AMD/Intel similarity if you consider the
T2500 is halfway between the results already posted for the T2400 and T2600 on non-Apple.
Because the 2003 anti-spam code was so totally effective to reduce all spam, let's have another.
Actually it was about as bland as you could get; certainly written to avoid line-by-line nitpicking.
It's like discussing "Love Thy Neighbor" over a few beers with a Unitarian, agnostic, and New Ager.
I remember a certain pseudo-ISP (sent out 30 million disks per year) also doing it.
Hint: It was far enough back that software distribution was half-floppy, half-CD.
With more breakthrough ideas, this Yahoo company might become the next AOL.
It bears pointing out -- although replying to (-1) Offtopic -- that one of the five tags on this story actually is "dupe"
Ya shoulda been modded (-1) Redundant!
1. 35 and overs lose 3db hearing with each passing decade.
2. Farsightedness makes them sit back 1" further each year.
3. They have more money to spend than younger people do.
Is that an AC Linux box or a DC Linux box?
There are still 9 more days to work on that tan, until summers endsin Australia.
Maybe a strike is the best way to get a day off.
I've watched Proctor-Silex redefine a "full cup" over the years from 8 to 6 ounces and now five ounces.
Get a suitably porous ceramic material, and it can absorb all four ounces (2006 model) as freefall begins.
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Send the prize money to my nonprofit SIG
Try visiting a good teaching hospital these days, where you can observe "medical science" in practice.
While you can't see behind-the-scenes research, you can see various statistical trials being conducted.
For every person with a science background there were 10+ who probably never even took an AP test.
I consistently saw no difference between hospital workers and those at McDonalds or WalMart -- other
than employees being paid $50,000 per year with an accompanying much lower turnover rate.
With everywhere becoming a KwikLube or Tires'R'US with fancy machines, you don't need science.
I just polled the 5-10 people within shouting distance of my desk, whether they "care about people who
spent $6000-$9000 on stupid television sets." It's unanimous: 1 loud NO, with the remainder abstaining.
--
This vote was not scientific, and reflects only the opinions of those
users who have chosen to participate. The results cannot be assumed to
represent the opinions of users in general, nor the public as a whole.
(This vote has not been certified by Diebold, Danaher, Sequoia or AVS)
There is no such thing as "stupidly paranoid" when it comes to intel agencies.
"Have some sense of proportion!" she would say 38 times a day.
And so he built the total perspective vortex just to show her.
And one in end he plugged the whole of reality as extrapolated
from a faery cake, and in the other end he plugged his wife so
that when he turned it on, she saw in one instant the whole
infinity of creation and herself in relation to it.
So Adams also shows that interstellar distances co-exist with human imagination for one instant, before Trintragula's invention annihilates it.
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Slowbad Don doesn't believe in moderation