I would really like to agree with you at least a little bit, but it isn't 1995 anymore. Waving off ignorance as "I don't understand computers" isn't a valid answer anymore. It is basic safety when using a telephone not to give out credit card numbers or any other personal information to someone that calls you. Not typing things into your computer and giving access to someone that calls you isn't "Computer Knowledge" it is "Telephone Knowledge", and the telephone has been in wide use long enough that claiming you don't know how to use it isn't a valid answer either.
They should just dump the entire ip4 address space into 0001::0000-FFFF:0000-FFFF and call it a day. I had originally thought that this was the plan in the beginning. It would only take minor text massaging to convert 0001::FFFF:FFFF to the current standard of 255.255.255.255 (FF.FF.FF.FF)
We could then stop having people throw hissy fits over the numbering convention. They could stick to their AOLesque corner of the internet for as long as they like.
No kidding. It is almost as bad as CPU news. Fast processing, lower cost. At least recently, they have started to throw in some better efficiency, but man did the 80's and 90's suck for processors.
GPS tracking has recovered my son's stolen phone on one occasion. He was at a children play facility, and his phone was in his cubby with his shoes. When we came to pick him up, the phone was gone. The owners of the facility were quick to remind us that they are not responsible for lost or stolen items, and they had no idea what might have happened to the phone.
I explained that while it would be unfortunate if someone walked off with it, they didn't need to worry about it as I had the phone updating it's GPS location. I proceeded to look up the phones location using my own phone. That's when it was 'remembered' that one of the employees "put the phone in the office to make sure no one stole it."
Too late. Suggesting universal chipping a social faux pas that skips right over Hitler. It is kind of like going straight from 'dare' to 'triple dog dare' without the appropriate 'double dog dare' in between.
If you are going to count media, I think you are right in saying 99% is generous. I have yet to meet a person over the age of 5 that hasn't pirated some form of media. Unauthorized derivative works, and unauthorized public performances run rampant in the under 8 set.
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I'm not sure if a Pavlovian response to the word 'Nuclear' can really be counted as thinking....
And that is a lot of the problem. If these were adults who had already mastered reading, converting letters on a page to words in their head would hold little value. It would just be another trivial way of transferring the information. These were kids though. Their parents were teaching them to take credit for completing a task that they were incapable of completing. A.K.A Cheating.
I don't have a problem with listening to stories on CD. I am of the opinion that once you can read fluently, there is little to no gain in getting your story from the printed page as opposed to audio or video.
The problems were:
1) This was a book club. Not a CD club. Not a movie club. A book club. That means reading.
2) All of these kids were not fluent at reading yet. Not even close to fluent. The excuse most of the parents gave for not having their kids read the books was that the kids couldn't read well enough.
3) The content of the books were way beyond most of the kids.
4) It was clear that the books were chosen so that the parents could sit around patting each other on the back for how 'cultured' and educated they were making their kids when in fact the kids would have gotten dramatically more out of skill level appropriate ( I hate to say age appropriate) books that they read themselves.
5) All of the above taught those children that it didn't matter if they actually did the work or not. It only mattered if they claimed they did the work. AKA "Cheating is OK".
This is systemic in our culture. My 8 year old son was part of a 'Book Club' recently. It was sad because the other parents insisted that the books their child "chose" be well outside of the reading level for the group. While my son wanted to do the club, we insisted that he actually read all of the books. It was a lot of hard work for him, and it entailed discussions throughout the book since much subject matter was more suited to High School students or adults.
When the meetings came around, he was the only child that had actually read the books. The rest of the group were split in about thirds. 1/3 the parent read the book to the child and edited it as they did it to cut out any parts they didn't want their kid to hear. 1/3 just played the book on tape for the kid, and 1/3 just watched the movie adaptation when it was available.
Every one of them patted themselves on the back for giving their kid 'culture' and being involved with their education.
That is the key. There are few places that I would be happy with just a keyboard. My TV (which is a Linux computer build into the TV) is the closest, but I'm not really happy with the interface. It just sucks less than every other option. Likewise there are very few places I would be happy with just a mouse.
This wouldn't be a good replacement for a mouse, just as a mouse isn't a good replacement for a keyboard. I would be great as an addition though. Take volume control as an example. There are (at least in American culture) universal hand gestures for telling someone you want them to increase or decrease volume as well as mute. There is also a universal gesture to indicate that you want the current activity to stop dead in it's tracks. I'm sure that we could think of all sorts of natural hand gestures that we already use that we would like our computers to understand.
That isn't really what he was asking for. He doesn't want to cool all that water by constantly running it through a radiator. He also doesn't want to heat his house by turning his plumbing into a radiator that is always running full blast.
Most driving isn't done on long roads. Being less fatigued isn't helpful if that means you are energetically doing things other than paying attention to your driving. There are all sorts of activities that would make driving on a long boring road safer, while being more dangerous in other driving situations.
The idea that stimulants would make driving on a long boring road (boring is the real culpret in those studies) less dangerous in no way implies "it's practically axiomatic that *any* stimulant would at least somewhat reduce the risk of preventable accidents." in general driving conditions.
We know that caffeine is a stimulant. We don't know that it would stimulate you in such a way as to reduce accidents or injury. And yes, we are just making wild speculations.
Nope Elvis' Evil Hips turned innocent young girls into Satan worshiping drug addled depraved sex addicts who turned into prostitutes to sate their demonic insired sexual addiction.
While I agree, the above poster has a point as well. I fully believe that texting while driving is dangerous, but the reason that it is being vilified in the media is not because of that. It is because it is considered a youth activity. The two are not mutually elusive. The hoopla surrounding talking on the phone while driving shows it much better. Confirmation bias is in full swing when the word cellphone comes into play.
The article was clear to specifically not make any guess as to whether or not there was causation. I made the guess that it is strictly correlation given that the effects (reduced accident and injury) pretty much would need to be due to either stimulant intake or placebo. If there is no difference in rate between the placebo and the stimulant, placebo all the way is the more likely answer.
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I would really like to agree with you at least a little bit, but it isn't 1995 anymore. Waving off ignorance as "I don't understand computers" isn't a valid answer anymore. It is basic safety when using a telephone not to give out credit card numbers or any other personal information to someone that calls you. Not typing things into your computer and giving access to someone that calls you isn't "Computer Knowledge" it is "Telephone Knowledge", and the telephone has been in wide use long enough that claiming you don't know how to use it isn't a valid answer either.
I thought there was something about it. Perhaps they decided that trying to shim in a hack wasn't worth the trouble.
They should just dump the entire ip4 address space into 0001::0000-FFFF:0000-FFFF and call it a day. I had originally thought that this was the plan in the beginning. It would only take minor text massaging to convert 0001::FFFF:FFFF to the current standard of 255.255.255.255 (FF.FF.FF.FF)
We could then stop having people throw hissy fits over the numbering convention. They could stick to their AOLesque corner of the internet for as long as they like.
Irony....
It wasn't day care. It was a business that runs an indoor inflatable playground. Bounce house type structures. But, no, we have not been back.
No kidding. It is almost as bad as CPU news. Fast processing, lower cost. At least recently, they have started to throw in some better efficiency, but man did the 80's and 90's suck for processors.
GPS tracking has recovered my son's stolen phone on one occasion. He was at a children play facility, and his phone was in his cubby with his shoes. When we came to pick him up, the phone was gone. The owners of the facility were quick to remind us that they are not responsible for lost or stolen items, and they had no idea what might have happened to the phone.
I explained that while it would be unfortunate if someone walked off with it, they didn't need to worry about it as I had the phone updating it's GPS location. I proceeded to look up the phones location using my own phone. That's when it was 'remembered' that one of the employees "put the phone in the office to make sure no one stole it."
Too late. Suggesting universal chipping a social faux pas that skips right over Hitler. It is kind of like going straight from 'dare' to 'triple dog dare' without the appropriate 'double dog dare' in between.
The first Android phone used a hardware keyboard as it's only way to enter text.
If you are going to count media, I think you are right in saying 99% is generous. I have yet to meet a person over the age of 5 that hasn't pirated some form of media. Unauthorized derivative works, and unauthorized public performances run rampant in the under 8 set.
I'm not sure if a Pavlovian response to the word 'Nuclear' can really be counted as thinking....
And that is a lot of the problem. If these were adults who had already mastered reading, converting letters on a page to words in their head would hold little value. It would just be another trivial way of transferring the information. These were kids though. Their parents were teaching them to take credit for completing a task that they were incapable of completing. A.K.A Cheating.
I don't have a problem with listening to stories on CD. I am of the opinion that once you can read fluently, there is little to no gain in getting your story from the printed page as opposed to audio or video.
The problems were: 1) This was a book club. Not a CD club. Not a movie club. A book club. That means reading.
2) All of these kids were not fluent at reading yet. Not even close to fluent. The excuse most of the parents gave for not having their kids read the books was that the kids couldn't read well enough.
3) The content of the books were way beyond most of the kids.
4) It was clear that the books were chosen so that the parents could sit around patting each other on the back for how 'cultured' and educated they were making their kids when in fact the kids would have gotten dramatically more out of skill level appropriate ( I hate to say age appropriate) books that they read themselves. 5) All of the above taught those children that it didn't matter if they actually did the work or not. It only mattered if they claimed they did the work. AKA "Cheating is OK".
This is systemic in our culture. My 8 year old son was part of a 'Book Club' recently. It was sad because the other parents insisted that the books their child "chose" be well outside of the reading level for the group. While my son wanted to do the club, we insisted that he actually read all of the books. It was a lot of hard work for him, and it entailed discussions throughout the book since much subject matter was more suited to High School students or adults.
When the meetings came around, he was the only child that had actually read the books. The rest of the group were split in about thirds. 1/3 the parent read the book to the child and edited it as they did it to cut out any parts they didn't want their kid to hear. 1/3 just played the book on tape for the kid, and 1/3 just watched the movie adaptation when it was available.
Every one of them patted themselves on the back for giving their kid 'culture' and being involved with their education.
Can you imagine the firestorm that would ensue if research started showing that to be the case?
That is the key. There are few places that I would be happy with just a keyboard. My TV (which is a Linux computer build into the TV) is the closest, but I'm not really happy with the interface. It just sucks less than every other option. Likewise there are very few places I would be happy with just a mouse.
This wouldn't be a good replacement for a mouse, just as a mouse isn't a good replacement for a keyboard. I would be great as an addition though. Take volume control as an example. There are (at least in American culture) universal hand gestures for telling someone you want them to increase or decrease volume as well as mute. There is also a universal gesture to indicate that you want the current activity to stop dead in it's tracks. I'm sure that we could think of all sorts of natural hand gestures that we already use that we would like our computers to understand.
That isn't really what he was asking for. He doesn't want to cool all that water by constantly running it through a radiator. He also doesn't want to heat his house by turning his plumbing into a radiator that is always running full blast.
You are right that he can do it though.
This will pump the cold water out of the hot water pipe into the cold water pipe for $169.92:
http://www.smarthome.com/54001/Chilipepper-Sales-Inc-CP6000-Hot-Water-Demand-Pump/p.aspx
And this will make it happen when you enter the room for $34.99:
http://www.smarthome.com/2420M/Skylink-Wireless-INSTEON-Motion-Occupancy-Sensor/p.aspx
Most driving isn't done on long roads. Being less fatigued isn't helpful if that means you are energetically doing things other than paying attention to your driving. There are all sorts of activities that would make driving on a long boring road safer, while being more dangerous in other driving situations.
The idea that stimulants would make driving on a long boring road (boring is the real culpret in those studies) less dangerous in no way implies "it's practically axiomatic that *any* stimulant would at least somewhat reduce the risk of preventable accidents." in general driving conditions.
Unless it increases them. Would you feel safer driving in rush hour traffic if every other driver was hopped up on meth?
We know that caffeine is a stimulant. We don't know that it would stimulate you in such a way as to reduce accidents or injury. And yes, we are just making wild speculations.
Nope Elvis' Evil Hips turned innocent young girls into Satan worshiping drug addled depraved sex addicts who turned into prostitutes to sate their demonic insired sexual addiction.
Says the guy that puts others in grave danger every time he gets on the road, but doesn't see anything wrong with HIS behavior....
While I agree, the above poster has a point as well. I fully believe that texting while driving is dangerous, but the reason that it is being vilified in the media is not because of that. It is because it is considered a youth activity. The two are not mutually elusive. The hoopla surrounding talking on the phone while driving shows it much better. Confirmation bias is in full swing when the word cellphone comes into play.
The article was clear to specifically not make any guess as to whether or not there was causation. I made the guess that it is strictly correlation given that the effects (reduced accident and injury) pretty much would need to be due to either stimulant intake or placebo. If there is no difference in rate between the placebo and the stimulant, placebo all the way is the more likely answer.