If you want your kid to be happy and generally successful in general have him learn:
1) An instrument - Guitar or maybe piano. Something that will get him laid, something cool. Singing counts.
2) A foreign language - Anything but Mexican.
3) A martial art - ideally a -itsu, rather than a -do. Itsus are combat systems, dos are sports. Do will do in a pinch, but an itsu is more about taking the fight out of someone than scoring honorable points.
4) Financial management - Start with Monopoly. Teach him accounting, how to calculate interest and all that crap. Have him run a tiny kid business. There's a kid's version of the Cashflow game.
5) Dance - Let your son be the one straight guy who can dance.
6) Cooking - A great chance to show class.
7) Etiquette - Not which fork goes where, but not to offer his hand to a lady.
8) Flirting - This is a skill that can be learned. Also, teach him that girls come and go, that a kiss isn't a life long binding contract.
9) Fitness - A sport will suffice but the more important lesson is to stay fit. Start the habit early.
10) Leadership - Not sure how to teach this... but learning how to be a leader is a great asset for all aspects of life. Dudes will respect him, chicks will want him.
I get up early when the sleeping pill wakes me I take a wake up pill and fill with energy I power on hard and I check my messages But I don't have any messages I take a driving pill and head to my car I drive around a bit cuz work isn't very far I call my phone and I check my messages But I don't have any messages
All I know is driving on drugs feels better when they're prescription All I know is the world looks beautiful, the world looks so damn beautiful
And I feel fantastic And I never felt as good as how I do right now Except for maybe when I think of how I felt that day When I felt the way that I do right now, right now, right now. And I feel fantastic And I never felt as good as how I do right now Except for maybe when I think of how I felt that day When I felt the way that I do right now, right now, right now.
Work is anything but quiet these days I try to medicate my concentration haze I can feel the day unfold in front of me So I take the stairs and hit the gym The phone is ringing when I get to my desk What was a stinging's now a sharp pain in my chest So I take a Calminex and just chill And then it's time for lunch again
All I know is work is easy when you don't stress out about deadlines All I know is I take my medicine I always take my medicine
And I feel fantastic And I never felt as good as how I do right now Except for maybe when I think of how I felt that day When I felt the way that I do right now, right now, right now. And I feel fantastic And I never felt as good as how I do right now Except for maybe when I think of how I felt that day When I felt the way that I do right now, right now, right now.
Sometimes I'd like to slow things down Enjoy the moment But when I look the moment's gone
Work is over but I can't stay to work late Got to leave and get ready for my second date With a pretty girl that I met at the pharmacy Right in the prescription line I take a pill for my social anxiety I get a table and a nice bottle of chablis Now it's getting late and there's still no sign of her I have another glass of wine
All I know is the wine lasts longer when you don't gotta share it with someone All I know is my steak tastes better when I take my steak tastes better pill
And I feel fantastic And I never felt as good as how I do right now Except for maybe when I think of how I felt that day When I felt the way that I do right now, right now, right now. And I feel fantastic And I never felt as good as how I do right now Except for maybe when I think of how I felt that day When I felt the way that I do right now, right now, right now.
Beta is when you let outsiders test your product. Closed if you are controlling who and how many, open if you aren't.
Alpha is internal testing.
How could something that is alpha or "pre-alpha" be "out"? If it is out... it's should be called beta, or even public beta. If alpha is the first testing, how can there be anything before alpha?
This sounds like it should be called a public beta. Just because it's not on the schedule, doesn't make it less public.
Can i blame Google for causing the abuse of these terms?
Or have i been lied to about these terms ever having meaning?
Please don't mod me a troll for asking an honest question. IANaIPL. If i had the answer i wouldn't be asking.
Why allow software to be patented instead of copyrighted?
- Patents should be for THINGS (concrete stuff). - Copyright should cover TEXT (abstract stuff).
It make sense to me that you should be able to protect the way YOU managed to execute some process, but not the idea of being able to DO the process at all. It seems to me that software companies are trying to patent vehicle direction input devices (as a concept) rather than just 'our particular design for a steering wheel'(a specific implementation).
Seems to me that these systems should exist to prevent others from stealing your specific work, the result of *your* labor; not to prevent others from engaging in the same line of business. Which seems to be the point of much of software patenting.
And why allow it to be patented instead of having it copyrighted?
Am i missing something?
Tangent/Rant:
If the intent of copyright and patenting is to encourage innovation, i think it has failed. i have tons of doodles and outlines for things i'd like to see on the market or share. But when i look at what would be involved... i'd rather do anything else. Wash dishes, scoop the litter box or watch TV... than hire a lawyer and go through the years of waiting, piles of paper work and enormous expense of dealing with the nightmare of IP. Even if i do it all and do it all correctly it could still be taken from me by a better paid lawyer.
The idea is to have effectively... a clean install for each game.
Build the core OS with everything you'll want to play *any* game (browser, audio and video drivers). Then have VM snapshot of that + the game you're installing. So in my case, i'd have MAIN + PlanetSide. It would be like having a separate, pristine system for each game. No iTunes or Google Services running in the background. Just a clean system running that one game.
Wouldn't be worth the effort for 90% of the population or even 90% of gamers. But it would indeed rock the LAN party.
If partitions can offer the same kind of flexibility as VMs then sure.
With some VM systems, it is possible to have forks off a central VM. i could have MAIN, MAIN + GAME1, MAIN + GAME2.... If some super hard core LAN gamer wanted to do that they could end up with a dozens partitions... or one VM with several snapshots.
Are there partitioning systems, or tricks with partitioning that might do something like that?
How could a/. member be ignorant of a committing a fallacy esp. when they use its name in the commission? i have to wonder if you are trolling. Most rational people,/.er or not, understand that freedoms are never absolute, they require responsibility. Free speech doesn't protect criminal behavior: libel, slander, endangerment, inciting violence/criminal behavior or making threats. Freedoms are never absolute. It's part of the social contract. If you want to be around other people you forfeit part of your rights. If you want to HAVE rights, you forfeit some of your rights.
Threatening to kill someone is illegal pretty much everywhere in the US.
If this person was just talking smack, she'll be on her way soon. She should be a grown up about it and accept that what she did was wrong AND stupid. If she was planning to harm/kill someone... off to the pokey.
Piracy is ship to ship armed robbery. Calling copyright infringement piracy makes light of murderous thugs, and makes infringement sound worse than it is. It doesn't even work as a metaphor. When we use their misnomer, they win. Then one of two things will happen. Either infringers will be demonized people sharing 1s and 0s or the word piracy will lose its gravity.
Cue the "langwijiz morf, get/it" crowd.
And yeah, get off my lawn, or whatever other dismissiveness you want to conjure. Disagree all you want, but try to do it without dismissing me as pedantic or a grammar nazi. Try some substance.
Language matters; word choice matters. All actions start as thoughts, thoughts happen in words. By calling a government a regime, we can make overthrowing it more palatable. By calling a person a kike, nigger, rag head, witch etc, we can make them not human, so killing them won't be murder. Hacker was a positive term. The "man" (media, law, etc) has corrupted the word hacker to refer to criminals. It's like calling Nazis German over and over until the word German means Nazi. When we blur the distinction between words we lose expressiveness and have to invent awkward ways to regain specificity that we threw away out of laziness and ignorance. Yeah languages change over time, but there is evolution and there is devolution and corruption. Change is not inherently good.
And stand up for yourselves.
Last time you guys modded this "redundant", let's see if you do better this time!
"The idiotic "everyone's entitled to their own opinion, and nobody's opinion is inherently better" idea is resulting in homeopathy being immune from criticism because their opinions are equal to the opinions of qualified doctors." Maybe you're confusing opinions and statements of facts/claims.
An opinion would be "I like Lady Gaga" or "I hate Lady Gaga". Opinions are not CLAIMS. They are immune to criticism because the only aspect of it we CAN attack is the speaker's honesty. Generally people don't lie about what like or dislike. If someone likes/hates something you hate/like, any debate would be junior high school. In such a case, the grown up thing to do is to listen to what you like and let everyone else do the same.
"Homeopathy works", is an assailable *claim*. The claim "homeopathy works" is not an opinion (or a fact), it's a claim. One that we can attack on its merits all day long. It's not the same as an opinion.
As is "Lady Gaga ruelz/sux". It's an opinion/feeling expressed as if it were a fact.
"I only want people to recognize that "free speech" as an absolute principle, while being all nice and cuddly as a concept, has very grave problems."
Freedom is inherently problematic. It's troublesome for the society and for individual. For an example, look at the life of a prisoner or monk. Precious few choices... minimal freedom. For the monk, life is very safe, very tidy. At the other end of the spectrum we have anarchy. Tons of options and daily life is a HUGE risk. Suburban life following the game plan laid out for us is rather limiting, but also very comfy. Starting a business is a big risk, but can buy you great freedom.
It's all about balance. We can let advertisers basically LIE about products, but we also let people call advertisers on their bullshit. We also allow lawsuits. Maybe the solution is to make sure both sides get a turn to talk and let people decide for themselves.
Tricky stuff.
Education seems to be key. Teach kids to be skeptical, to try to see multiple angles, to step back and look at the big picture.
Slashdot Mirror
i wish i had mod points for you. i applaud your courage for posting something so honest and well said.
No, it was Dances with Thundercats.
Thundercats are badass; Smurfs are decidedly not.
If you want your kid to be happy and generally successful in general have him learn:
1) An instrument - Guitar or maybe piano. Something that will get him laid, something cool. Singing counts.
2) A foreign language - Anything but Mexican.
3) A martial art - ideally a -itsu, rather than a -do. Itsus are combat systems, dos are sports. Do will do in a pinch, but an itsu is more about taking the fight out of someone than scoring honorable points.
4) Financial management - Start with Monopoly. Teach him accounting, how to calculate interest and all that crap. Have him run a tiny kid business. There's a kid's version of the Cashflow game.
5) Dance - Let your son be the one straight guy who can dance.
6) Cooking - A great chance to show class.
7) Etiquette - Not which fork goes where, but not to offer his hand to a lady.
8) Flirting - This is a skill that can be learned. Also, teach him that girls come and go, that a kiss isn't a life long binding contract.
9) Fitness - A sport will suffice but the more important lesson is to stay fit. Start the habit early.
10) Leadership - Not sure how to teach this... but learning how to be a leader is a great asset for all aspects of life. Dudes will respect him, chicks will want him.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zidiWe9yq88
I get up early when the sleeping pill wakes me
I take a wake up pill and fill with energy
I power on hard and I check my messages
But I don't have any messages
I take a driving pill and head to my car
I drive around a bit cuz work isn't very far
I call my phone and I check my messages
But I don't have any messages
All I know is driving on drugs feels better when they're prescription
All I know is the world looks beautiful, the world looks so damn beautiful
And I feel fantastic
And I never felt as good as how I do right now
Except for maybe when I think of how I felt that day
When I felt the way that I do right now, right now, right now.
And I feel fantastic
And I never felt as good as how I do right now
Except for maybe when I think of how I felt that day
When I felt the way that I do right now, right now, right now.
Work is anything but quiet these days
I try to medicate my concentration haze
I can feel the day unfold in front of me
So I take the stairs and hit the gym
The phone is ringing when I get to my desk
What was a stinging's now a sharp pain in my chest
So I take a Calminex and just chill
And then it's time for lunch again
All I know is work is easy when you don't stress out about deadlines
All I know is I take my medicine I always take my medicine
And I feel fantastic
And I never felt as good as how I do right now
Except for maybe when I think of how I felt that day
When I felt the way that I do right now, right now, right now.
And I feel fantastic
And I never felt as good as how I do right now
Except for maybe when I think of how I felt that day
When I felt the way that I do right now, right now, right now.
Sometimes I'd like to slow things down
Enjoy the moment
But when I look the moment's gone
Work is over but I can't stay to work late
Got to leave and get ready for my second date
With a pretty girl that I met at the pharmacy
Right in the prescription line
I take a pill for my social anxiety
I get a table and a nice bottle of chablis
Now it's getting late and there's still no sign of her
I have another glass of wine
All I know is the wine lasts longer when you don't gotta share it with someone
All I know is my steak tastes better when I take my steak tastes better pill
And I feel fantastic
And I never felt as good as how I do right now
Except for maybe when I think of how I felt that day
When I felt the way that I do right now, right now, right now.
And I feel fantastic
And I never felt as good as how I do right now
Except for maybe when I think of how I felt that day
When I felt the way that I do right now, right now, right now.
+1 Informative. Thanks. Gave you a point on the goldfish thread.
Beta is when you let outsiders test your product. Closed if you are controlling who and how many, open if you aren't.
Alpha is internal testing.
How could something that is alpha or "pre-alpha" be "out"? If it is out... it's should be called beta, or even public beta. If alpha is the first testing, how can there be anything before alpha?
This sounds like it should be called a public beta. Just because it's not on the schedule, doesn't make it less public.
Can i blame Google for causing the abuse of these terms?
Or have i been lied to about these terms ever having meaning?
Is it FOSS?
Thanks! That clears up quite a bit. i can't mod you here so i'll see if i can mod you elsewhere.
Please don't mod me a troll for asking an honest question. IANaIPL. If i had the answer i wouldn't be asking.
Why allow software to be patented instead of copyrighted?
- Patents should be for THINGS (concrete stuff).
- Copyright should cover TEXT (abstract stuff).
It make sense to me that you should be able to protect the way YOU managed to execute some process, but not the idea of being able to DO the process at all. It seems to me that software companies are trying to patent vehicle direction input devices (as a concept) rather than just 'our particular design for a steering wheel'(a specific implementation).
Seems to me that these systems should exist to prevent others from stealing your specific work, the result of *your* labor; not to prevent others from engaging in the same line of business. Which seems to be the point of much of software patenting.
And why allow it to be patented instead of having it copyrighted?
Am i missing something?
Tangent/Rant:
If the intent of copyright and patenting is to encourage innovation, i think it has failed. i have tons of doodles and outlines for things i'd like to see on the market or share. But when i look at what would be involved... i'd rather do anything else. Wash dishes, scoop the litter box or watch TV... than hire a lawyer and go through the years of waiting, piles of paper work and enormous expense of dealing with the nightmare of IP. Even if i do it all and do it all correctly it could still be taken from me by a better paid lawyer.
Is it monopolistic or anti-competitive when Google does it? Will we put Borg implants on Larry Page's face?
Has there been any WHARGARBLE over Apple having a monopoly in the Japanese SmartPhone market?
Bah! Nothing that a little Lasig surgery couldn't fix!
Haha. Well done.
Not at once. One at a time.
The idea is to have effectively... a clean install for each game.
Build the core OS with everything you'll want to play *any* game (browser, audio and video drivers). Then have VM snapshot of that + the game you're installing. So in my case, i'd have MAIN + PlanetSide. It would be like having a separate, pristine system for each game. No iTunes or Google Services running in the background. Just a clean system running that one game.
Wouldn't be worth the effort for 90% of the population or even 90% of gamers. But it would indeed rock the LAN party.
If partitions can offer the same kind of flexibility as VMs then sure.
With some VM systems, it is possible to have forks off a central VM. i could have MAIN, MAIN + GAME1, MAIN + GAME2.... If some super hard core LAN gamer wanted to do that they could end up with a dozens partitions... or one VM with several snapshots.
Are there partitioning systems, or tricks with partitioning that might do something like that?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slippery_slope
How could a /. member be ignorant of a committing a fallacy esp. when they use its name in the commission? i have to wonder if you are trolling. Most rational people, /.er or not, understand that freedoms are never absolute, they require responsibility. Free speech doesn't protect criminal behavior: libel, slander, endangerment, inciting violence/criminal behavior or making threats. Freedoms are never absolute. It's part of the social contract. If you want to be around other people you forfeit part of your rights. If you want to HAVE rights, you forfeit some of your rights.
Threatening to kill someone is illegal pretty much everywhere in the US.
If this person was just talking smack, she'll be on her way soon. She should be a grown up about it and accept that what she did was wrong AND stupid. If she was planning to harm/kill someone... off to the pokey.
For the 88th Time:
Piracy is ship to ship armed robbery. Calling copyright infringement piracy makes light of murderous thugs, and makes infringement sound worse than it is. It doesn't even work as a metaphor. When we use their misnomer, they win. Then one of two things will happen. Either infringers will be demonized people sharing 1s and 0s or the word piracy will lose its gravity.
Cue the "langwijiz morf, get/it" crowd.
And yeah, get off my lawn, or whatever other dismissiveness you want to conjure. Disagree all you want, but try to do it without dismissing me as pedantic or a grammar nazi. Try some substance.
Language matters; word choice matters. All actions start as thoughts, thoughts happen in words. By calling a government a regime, we can make overthrowing it more palatable. By calling a person a kike, nigger, rag head, witch etc, we can make them not human, so killing them won't be murder. Hacker was a positive term. The "man" (media, law, etc) has corrupted the word hacker to refer to criminals. It's like calling Nazis German over and over until the word German means Nazi. When we blur the distinction between words we lose expressiveness and have to invent awkward ways to regain specificity that we threw away out of laziness and ignorance. Yeah languages change over time, but there is evolution and there is devolution and corruption. Change is not inherently good.
And stand up for yourselves.
Last time you guys modded this "redundant", let's see if you do better this time!
He should have employed sheep's bladders.
i couldn't mod your post here, so i gave you +1 Funny on the LoLCat bit in the other thread.
Well done!
Or is that 5 versions away?
i'll take the Sean Young model.
"The idiotic "everyone's entitled to their own opinion, and nobody's opinion is inherently better" idea is resulting in homeopathy being immune from criticism because their opinions are equal to the opinions of qualified doctors."
Maybe you're confusing opinions and statements of facts/claims.
An opinion would be "I like Lady Gaga" or "I hate Lady Gaga". Opinions are not CLAIMS. They are immune to criticism because the only aspect of it we CAN attack is the speaker's honesty. Generally people don't lie about what like or dislike. If someone likes/hates something you hate/like, any debate would be junior high school. In such a case, the grown up thing to do is to listen to what you like and let everyone else do the same.
"Homeopathy works", is an assailable *claim*. The claim "homeopathy works" is not an opinion (or a fact), it's a claim. One that we can attack on its merits all day long. It's not the same as an opinion.
As is "Lady Gaga ruelz/sux". It's an opinion/feeling expressed as if it were a fact.
"I only want people to recognize that "free speech" as an absolute principle, while being all nice and cuddly as a concept, has very grave problems."
Freedom is inherently problematic. It's troublesome for the society and for individual. For an example, look at the life of a prisoner or monk. Precious few choices... minimal freedom. For the monk, life is very safe, very tidy. At the other end of the spectrum we have anarchy. Tons of options and daily life is a HUGE risk. Suburban life following the game plan laid out for us is rather limiting, but also very comfy. Starting a business is a big risk, but can buy you great freedom.
It's all about balance. We can let advertisers basically LIE about products, but we also let people call advertisers on their bullshit. We also allow lawsuits. Maybe the solution is to make sure both sides get a turn to talk and let people decide for themselves.
Tricky stuff.
Education seems to be key. Teach kids to be skeptical, to try to see multiple angles, to step back and look at the big picture.
Do you want to date her avatar?
i wish i could mod this up, my points just expired.
+1 Funny
And oh so slippery.
i wonder if this is a kind of smack talk. Moz guy might be wagging his finger at Google with a bit of a threat implied.
i doubt Moz would get in bed with M$, they're pseudo rivals with supposedly opposing views on what to charge for software. Sorta.