I discovered, through having kids, that you need 4 hours of uninterrupted sleep in order to be able to function. I'm going on 6 months now on reduced sleep. I tend to nap when I get a chance, I fall asleep if I get the least bit relaxed. But I still manage to wake up numerous times every night because the damn kid won't sleep. (maybe he's a polyphasic sleeper, he was up for 2 hours last night, at around 3 am, wanting to play).
I'm glad that's not a natural state, I'd hate to have a baby that needed little sleep while I of course need my 8 hours. My 6 month old doesn't give me enough sleep as it is, I'd probably keel over if he was a microsleeper.
That's not an accurate representation of how many wireless networks are actually present. In my zip code, my wireless network isn't there. Neither is my neighbors who I can see from my house.
And in my work's zip code, the throng of wireless networks that I can view on a laptop in the parking lot from the office and various businesses around aren't on there either. either they're only putting up unsecure networks, or there's not that many "war drivers".
My coupon has my name in big print and my name in white lettering across it a couple places. If I make multiple prints of the same coupon will my family be able to get their scoops or do they need their own yahoo account so it has their names on their coupons?
If you think there's no tracking in the real world, you're sorely mistaken. If you have a bank account, a credit card, a debit card, a check book... you can be tracked by the authorities. Even having a job and paying taxes, you can be tracked. The only way to be incognito is to use only cash and be paid under the table, and how many people do that?
I see it could be a good thing. Say it takes a teacher 5 minutes to take attendance. With this system, that 5 minutes could be used for learning. When class periods last only 45 or 50 minutes, 5 minutes is a long time. The kid is SUPPOSED to be at school anyway. If the kid is at the place where the kid is supposed to be, why is there a need for "privacy" in the first place?
THey may not be filling up the gigs and gigs of space on their Ipod. Or they may be ripping their own mp3's from their own CDs. Last I checked most CDs still allowed you to do that (fair use, blah blah blah).
Well, not quite... My desktop at home is a 600 mhz Athlon running win98 SE. It has no firewire, the hard drive is 30 gb (top o' the line back then), and it doesn't do things as automatically as Win XP (since the OS predates newer hardware). It's too slow to install Win XP on and still be productive. My digital camera crashes the computer when it's plugged into it (i had to get a Compactflash reader instead).
My nifty new Powerbook laptop has a DVD burner, firewire, and it does things out of the box that my desktop doesn't (good graphics program, good DVD-burning program, etc). it's got wireless built in while my old Compaq laptop (also Win 98) doesn't. The Compaq laptop doesn't even have Ethernet built in, and it weighs twice as much as the Powerbook with the same size screen.
It's just not only about speed anymore with upgrading to a new computer, it's about functionality.
They'd still turn the AC on so high that you have to take a thick sweater into work. If they were really concerned about energy costs, they'd at least make the office comfortable in short sleeve shirts!
It's possible that those are edited versions of what was said in real life. They may have had kids "try out" to see who might have the sense of humor to say funny lines to make it into the magazine. They could've had them play the game for an hour and pull out just the funny/interesting things that were said. At least that's waht I'd put my money on.
Microsoft support is great (the support you pay for, over the phone, $250/incident). Every time I've had to call them, it's been some nightmare that takes 7 hours on the phone with them to fix. Now with Linux I might not have any nightmare to fix to begin with, but when you have to use MS software because that's what was there before you came, and that's what everyone wants to keep, you do what you have to do.
The support people at Microsoft bend over backwards to have you happy with them, and they're knowledgeable people who don't treat you like a moron (like I get when I call Dell, Sony, HP, etc).
I'll probably be modded down for saying it, but oh well. I can't say I've ever called RH support, but I just had to say that the support at MS has been some of the best support I've ever gotten from software or hardware companies. Now if they'd just make it so that their updates don't screw up obscure settings on things so I don't HAVE to call them.
I'm not sure what the purpose of this/. story was other than to make us late 20-somethings feel old. (and 30-somethings even older).
Back in high school (1992), I cheated on a report for history class, copying a bunch of material off of an encyclopedia cd-rom, printing it on our dot-matrix printer, and coloring the graphics in with colored pencil. I kind of felt like a tool when the teacher held the report in front of the class and said "This is the best report I've ever seen, you all should learn something from it!" Do something on a computer with graphics for a class now, and that's the normal expected thing to do. Even color, no need for colored pencils.
Late 1994 I started college and heard about this thing called "email". I asked around, searching high and low how to get to use this email thing, and they finally told me that I had to go to the library, fill out a form, watch a video on how to use it. And lo it was beautiful. Pine, all text. They had an IRC that was the lively hangout for the email-elite.
And then, the discovery of the BBS... which quite a few ancients still hang out on: ISCA. Used to be a hangout of college kids. Now chock full of a 25+ crowd, and not a teenager to be found anywhere.
Back when MUDs were the big time-waster, there was speculation about graphical MUDs. And how slow and cludgy they were. WHo would have ever imagined Everquest and the like, back then?
TO go back in time, back pre-spam, pre-spyware/adware, back when we were all innocents. That would be cool.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who saw that... pay your $25 to "reserve" your i-name (which is useful for what?) for 50 years, only the site goes belly-up in a few months and your $25 and your "iname" go bye-bye.
Why not just offer Itunes in English, with whatever languages they already have translated, and have the currency in Euros? That'd cover a whole bunch of countries. People all listen to a lot of American music anyway with a handful of local artists. Just do the American music and work with the local artists/labels after the site's up.
Or heck just have one big Itunes web site for the whole world, so Americans can get that obscure Italian artist or something. I don't see why they need to regionalize it. We're not talking local sports and weather, we're talking music and you can find a lot of the same music in the stores all over the world.
That's a lot of work just to be able to buy from Canadian Itunes and save a few pennies. Even with a Canadian friend. Get the canadian friend to let you have a credit card be billed to their address. Then they have to mail you the credit card if you don't live by the border.
We were talking about newborns... because these gadgets are made to supposedly tell the parents if the baby might be dying of SIDS, or one to rock the baby to sleep so the parent doesn't have to. A newborn is going to be disruptive to the parents' sleep no matter where the baby sleeps.
Older kids it would just depend on the family what they want to do, but newborns I believe belong with the mother, 24/7. There was a thing on the standard lite-rock radio this morning on "the Parent report" on co-sleeping, in fact, and it was positive, saying that the mother and baby sleep patterns are in sync when they sleep together so the mom is in a lighter sleep when the baby starts to be in a lighter sleep. They also say that the breathing pattern of the mother keeps the baby "remembering" to breathe too.
My daughter didn't always sleep well, she woke up once a night until 16 months. But co-sleeping didn't make her insist on sleeping with us, nor was it some long painful process getting her to sleep in her own room. That is one of the things people object to, saying they'll never get the kid out of their bed. They also say that you'll never teach the child to go to sleep on their own, and mine did just fine once she was able to understand the things you say. And if mine can, I sincerely doubt she's the grand exception to the rule.
And just because "they" say it's ok, doesn't automatically mean that it is. Parenting has changed a lot over the last 100, 50, 30, 20 years. "They" change their minds constantly over what is acceptable and what isn't. Just because it's acceptable now, doesn't mean they won't decide that it's not 20 years from now. As a parent you need to look at all sides of the fence and decide for yourself what you think is right rather than just follow the herd like a sheep.
If you think it's ok to try to manipulate a baby that doesn't understand waht's going on with sleep training then you go right ahead. But I've got a well-adjusted child that goes to sleep on her own with no fighting, and did not have to use the "well-accepted norm" that I feel goes against good parenting practices.
Other than nonexistant statistics that it's not safe (it's only not safe if you smoke, drink, etc).
My daughter sleeps fine on her own, and we coslept pretty much all the time until 6 or 8 mos or so, then we'd put her to bed, and bring her in our bed when she'd wake up. Then she started sleeping through the night. Then we transitioned to a toddler bed and she now even goes to bed without a fuss. No sleep training, no cry it out, no nothing, and we did the family bed for awhile.
I did, statistics are not higher. In fact, there are very very few cases of a baby dying in the parental bed as long as the parents are following the safe co-sleeping rules which include not smoking or drinking.
In other countries where it's the norm to co-sleep, SIDS is pretty much unheard of.
We actually quit co-sleeping because she was crawling in her sleep, climbing on us, bonking her head on the wall at the head of the bed, and keeping us awake.
Before that though, I got more sleep because I could nurse her in my sleep and not have to get up several times a night, sit in a chair and nurse until she falls asleep, then put her down. That would've been a huge pain. She slept with her head on my shoulder and my arm around her, and I didn't move (had some muscle soreness) most of the night. I knew she was OK and breathing and fine, I slept better when she woke up to nurse, I always followed the safe co-sleeping rules.
I think you need to re-check the statistics, I don't know what statistics you're looking at, but the ones I've seen show nothing to do with co-sleeping if you co-sleep safely.
The problem with Babywise and breastfeeding is that breastfeeding isn't something that can be put on a schedule. You try to put it on a schedule, and you end up with a hungry baby and a too-low supply, and end up having to switch to formula.
Also what you can do is hire the babysitter to babysit while you're there. Get some work done around the house. Watch the babysitter interact with the baby. You should be able to get some decent vibes from that.
We co-slept, jumped out of bed whenever she cried, rocked her to sleep, nursed her whenever she wanted...
And I have a 21 mo old who, when we ask her if she wants to go to bed, she'll say "uh huh", and we'll go brush teeth, put jammies on, she climbs in bed, asks for her puppy dog and the covers pulled up, we give her a kiss, she closes her eyes and goes to sleep. (She started this pretty much the day we bought her a toddler bed, 2 or 3 mos ago).
No fighting, no nothing. She's content and knows that if she needs something, Mommy or Daddy are there for her.
I suppose if someone locked you in a cell by yourself, you'd scream and scream... and finally stop due to sheer exhaustion and no one hearing you. If no one hears you, what's the point? That's kind of a sad thing to teach a little baby.
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I discovered, through having kids, that you need 4 hours of uninterrupted sleep in order to be able to function. I'm going on 6 months now on reduced sleep. I tend to nap when I get a chance, I fall asleep if I get the least bit relaxed. But I still manage to wake up numerous times every night because the damn kid won't sleep. (maybe he's a polyphasic sleeper, he was up for 2 hours last night, at around 3 am, wanting to play).
I'm glad that's not a natural state, I'd hate to have a baby that needed little sleep while I of course need my 8 hours. My 6 month old doesn't give me enough sleep as it is, I'd probably keel over if he was a microsleeper.
I don't know how far he'll get trying to swim inland, either...
That's not an accurate representation of how many wireless networks are actually present. In my zip code, my wireless network isn't there. Neither is my neighbors who I can see from my house.
And in my work's zip code, the throng of wireless networks that I can view on a laptop in the parking lot from the office and various businesses around aren't on there either. either they're only putting up unsecure networks, or there's not that many "war drivers".
My coupon has my name in big print and my name in white lettering across it a couple places. If I make multiple prints of the same coupon will my family be able to get their scoops or do they need their own yahoo account so it has their names on their coupons?
If you think there's no tracking in the real world, you're sorely mistaken. If you have a bank account, a credit card, a debit card, a check book... you can be tracked by the authorities. Even having a job and paying taxes, you can be tracked. The only way to be incognito is to use only cash and be paid under the table, and how many people do that?
I see it could be a good thing. Say it takes a teacher 5 minutes to take attendance. With this system, that 5 minutes could be used for learning. When class periods last only 45 or 50 minutes, 5 minutes is a long time. The kid is SUPPOSED to be at school anyway. If the kid is at the place where the kid is supposed to be, why is there a need for "privacy" in the first place?
Except with Napster if you quit paying the $15/mo you don't get to listen to the songs you've downloaded anymore.
THey may not be filling up the gigs and gigs of space on their Ipod. Or they may be ripping their own mp3's from their own CDs. Last I checked most CDs still allowed you to do that (fair use, blah blah blah).
Well, not quite... My desktop at home is a 600 mhz Athlon running win98 SE. It has no firewire, the hard drive is 30 gb (top o' the line back then), and it doesn't do things as automatically as Win XP (since the OS predates newer hardware). It's too slow to install Win XP on and still be productive. My digital camera crashes the computer when it's plugged into it (i had to get a Compactflash reader instead).
My nifty new Powerbook laptop has a DVD burner, firewire, and it does things out of the box that my desktop doesn't (good graphics program, good DVD-burning program, etc). it's got wireless built in while my old Compaq laptop (also Win 98) doesn't. The Compaq laptop doesn't even have Ethernet built in, and it weighs twice as much as the Powerbook with the same size screen.
It's just not only about speed anymore with upgrading to a new computer, it's about functionality.
Which makes it ideal to keep your coffee warm... :-D
If it's 3 years old, shouldn't the article be titled Google has 23 years of Usenet postings?
They'd still turn the AC on so high that you have to take a thick sweater into work. If they were really concerned about energy costs, they'd at least make the office comfortable in short sleeve shirts!
It's possible that those are edited versions of what was said in real life. They may have had kids "try out" to see who might have the sense of humor to say funny lines to make it into the magazine. They could've had them play the game for an hour and pull out just the funny/interesting things that were said. At least that's waht I'd put my money on.
Microsoft support is great (the support you pay for, over the phone, $250/incident). Every time I've had to call them, it's been some nightmare that takes 7 hours on the phone with them to fix. Now with Linux I might not have any nightmare to fix to begin with, but when you have to use MS software because that's what was there before you came, and that's what everyone wants to keep, you do what you have to do.
The support people at Microsoft bend over backwards to have you happy with them, and they're knowledgeable people who don't treat you like a moron (like I get when I call Dell, Sony, HP, etc).
I'll probably be modded down for saying it, but oh well. I can't say I've ever called RH support, but I just had to say that the support at MS has been some of the best support I've ever gotten from software or hardware companies. Now if they'd just make it so that their updates don't screw up obscure settings on things so I don't HAVE to call them.
I'm not sure what the purpose of this /. story was other than to make us late 20-somethings feel old. (and 30-somethings even older).
Back in high school (1992), I cheated on a report for history class, copying a bunch of material off of an encyclopedia cd-rom, printing it on our dot-matrix printer, and coloring the graphics in with colored pencil. I kind of felt like a tool when the teacher held the report in front of the class and said "This is the best report I've ever seen, you all should learn something from it!" Do something on a computer with graphics for a class now, and that's the normal expected thing to do. Even color, no need for colored pencils.
Late 1994 I started college and heard about this thing called "email". I asked around, searching high and low how to get to use this email thing, and they finally told me that I had to go to the library, fill out a form, watch a video on how to use it. And lo it was beautiful. Pine, all text. They had an IRC that was the lively hangout for the email-elite.
And then, the discovery of the BBS... which quite a few ancients still hang out on: ISCA. Used to be a hangout of college kids. Now chock full of a 25+ crowd, and not a teenager to be found anywhere.
Back when MUDs were the big time-waster, there was speculation about graphical MUDs. And how slow and cludgy they were. WHo would have ever imagined Everquest and the like, back then?
TO go back in time, back pre-spam, pre-spyware/adware, back when we were all innocents. That would be cool.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who saw that... pay your $25 to "reserve" your i-name (which is useful for what?) for 50 years, only the site goes belly-up in a few months and your $25 and your "iname" go bye-bye.
Why not just offer Itunes in English, with whatever languages they already have translated, and have the currency in Euros? That'd cover a whole bunch of countries. People all listen to a lot of American music anyway with a handful of local artists. Just do the American music and work with the local artists/labels after the site's up.
Or heck just have one big Itunes web site for the whole world, so Americans can get that obscure Italian artist or something. I don't see why they need to regionalize it. We're not talking local sports and weather, we're talking music and you can find a lot of the same music in the stores all over the world.
That's a lot of work just to be able to buy from Canadian Itunes and save a few pennies. Even with a Canadian friend. Get the canadian friend to let you have a credit card be billed to their address. Then they have to mail you the credit card if you don't live by the border.
We were talking about newborns... because these gadgets are made to supposedly tell the parents if the baby might be dying of SIDS, or one to rock the baby to sleep so the parent doesn't have to. A newborn is going to be disruptive to the parents' sleep no matter where the baby sleeps.
Older kids it would just depend on the family what they want to do, but newborns I believe belong with the mother, 24/7. There was a thing on the standard lite-rock radio this morning on "the Parent report" on co-sleeping, in fact, and it was positive, saying that the mother and baby sleep patterns are in sync when they sleep together so the mom is in a lighter sleep when the baby starts to be in a lighter sleep. They also say that the breathing pattern of the mother keeps the baby "remembering" to breathe too.
My daughter didn't always sleep well, she woke up once a night until 16 months. But co-sleeping didn't make her insist on sleeping with us, nor was it some long painful process getting her to sleep in her own room. That is one of the things people object to, saying they'll never get the kid out of their bed. They also say that you'll never teach the child to go to sleep on their own, and mine did just fine once she was able to understand the things you say. And if mine can, I sincerely doubt she's the grand exception to the rule.
And just because "they" say it's ok, doesn't automatically mean that it is. Parenting has changed a lot over the last 100, 50, 30, 20 years. "They" change their minds constantly over what is acceptable and what isn't. Just because it's acceptable now, doesn't mean they won't decide that it's not 20 years from now. As a parent you need to look at all sides of the fence and decide for yourself what you think is right rather than just follow the herd like a sheep.
If you think it's ok to try to manipulate a baby that doesn't understand waht's going on with sleep training then you go right ahead. But I've got a well-adjusted child that goes to sleep on her own with no fighting, and did not have to use the "well-accepted norm" that I feel goes against good parenting practices.
Other than nonexistant statistics that it's not safe (it's only not safe if you smoke, drink, etc).
My daughter sleeps fine on her own, and we coslept pretty much all the time until 6 or 8 mos or so, then we'd put her to bed, and bring her in our bed when she'd wake up. Then she started sleeping through the night. Then we transitioned to a toddler bed and she now even goes to bed without a fuss. No sleep training, no cry it out, no nothing, and we did the family bed for awhile.
I did, statistics are not higher. In fact, there are very very few cases of a baby dying in the parental bed as long as the parents are following the safe co-sleeping rules which include not smoking or drinking.
In other countries where it's the norm to co-sleep, SIDS is pretty much unheard of.
We actually quit co-sleeping because she was crawling in her sleep, climbing on us, bonking her head on the wall at the head of the bed, and keeping us awake.
Before that though, I got more sleep because I could nurse her in my sleep and not have to get up several times a night, sit in a chair and nurse until she falls asleep, then put her down. That would've been a huge pain. She slept with her head on my shoulder and my arm around her, and I didn't move (had some muscle soreness) most of the night. I knew she was OK and breathing and fine, I slept better when she woke up to nurse, I always followed the safe co-sleeping rules.
I think you need to re-check the statistics, I don't know what statistics you're looking at, but the ones I've seen show nothing to do with co-sleeping if you co-sleep safely.
The problem with Babywise and breastfeeding is that breastfeeding isn't something that can be put on a schedule. You try to put it on a schedule, and you end up with a hungry baby and a too-low supply, and end up having to switch to formula.
Also what you can do is hire the babysitter to babysit while you're there. Get some work done around the house. Watch the babysitter interact with the baby. You should be able to get some decent vibes from that.
We co-slept, jumped out of bed whenever she cried, rocked her to sleep, nursed her whenever she wanted...
And I have a 21 mo old who, when we ask her if she wants to go to bed, she'll say "uh huh", and we'll go brush teeth, put jammies on, she climbs in bed, asks for her puppy dog and the covers pulled up, we give her a kiss, she closes her eyes and goes to sleep. (She started this pretty much the day we bought her a toddler bed, 2 or 3 mos ago).
No fighting, no nothing. She's content and knows that if she needs something, Mommy or Daddy are there for her.
I suppose if someone locked you in a cell by yourself, you'd scream and scream... and finally stop due to sheer exhaustion and no one hearing you. If no one hears you, what's the point? That's kind of a sad thing to teach a little baby.