I was honestly thinking about this as I walked home from a funeral the other day 'What is it that brings the end, how do I stop it'.
I recently have been quite healthy, insuring a much more fun way of life for many years, but the fear of something along the lines of cancer still sits in my head.
I thought about applying the ideas of logic to the problem, ie: 1) how do we grow? 2) What stops our regeneration process? etc etc......
I agree compleatly, but sadly most teenagers these days arn't that smart.
I'm a teen myself, and I laugh to myself when I look at my 'buddy list' and see 30 people online. Most of these people sit there, with MSN messenger open, ither starting meangingless conversations, or tuneing out to TV at the same time. If they have been doing this for over a year, some of them have figured out how to run Kazza at the same time.
The real fact is, the majority of IM useres are as dumb in real life as they are online, THEY AREN"T LEARNING ANYTHING NEW. Pretty much a new way for them to waste time.
Now if it were my children, I would make them figure out how to do it from the Console on Linux, or if you have some real smarties lock them out of everything except for Linux from Scratch.;)
The Internet is full of wonderful things, but you need to use it: Sitting on Computer != Learning skills to use a computer on.
When was the last time knowing all the emicons on MSN messenger landed someone a job?
ICBM's enter orbit, and then with a little help, fall on to their target, most people assume that its a regular parabola trajectory becuase when they see that map from War Games, they see a flat planet.
Use your head, if an ICBM wanted to get to the other side of the world, how do you make a parbola that is shaped like that? To make arch it like your describing, its going to be ither flying like a plane horizontally most of the way, or need to maintain a constant burn of its engine to maintain a circular motion. (rember kids, Volicity is a vector quanity).
You would actually need a whole new platform to use a nuclear wepon in outer space, they can only steer in one direction when their up there: down.
Black Hawk down, Never really happened. I know there is the movie, and there is the book, etc, but it didn't happen.
Now hear me out. Going through London, A cabby picks us up. One of my friends mentions the billboard for "black hawk down" and the caby pipes up "That didn't happen".
We al give Him a look, and he tells us that he was their when they say it all happened. That its all made up. He could be Lieing to me, But I believe everything cabby's tell me.
I am the oldest grandchild on my mothers side of the family, fallowed closely by my brother. We were the ONLY grand children on that side of the family for 9 years. Then my aunt finally starts pumping out kids. She has two kids by the time I'm 12. I'm 16 now, and for those of you doing their math, that means her oldest, is now 7.
What is really surprising about them growing up around me and my brother, is how they watch our behavior. (Here it comes), Regarding gaming, I got my first consoler (n64) , when i was nine, and me and my brother were of course hooked. So we have my little cousin watching us throw away a few years of our lives to things like Ocarina of Time, and now, he Just got his first ps2, at age 7.
This kid loves the thing, but every time he plays, he sets his watch for 45 mins. When it goes off, he saves, he gets up, and turns off "Hulk" or whatever he thinks is a good game. His parents didn't teach this to him, even though they always thought me and my little brother spent to much time gaming. The fact is, he doesn't want to become us. A bit insulting, but understandable. He only plays it once a day, and will just put on a movie if he has some free time.
I'm glad I got off my gaming habits, I don't have time for my day-to-day activities, let alone the newest fps. Not that I don't game, i just choose my battles a lot more (heh, HL2 is going to rock). I guess its a mixed blessing, means i have no reason to touch my windows box until November:p.
I was a caffine freak, and i knew it. My friends knew it, my teachers new it. It wasn't normal to sweat durring the winter, but it happened:p
so i tried an experiment, no caffine for a month. Heh, good times. At first i was having alot of trouble staying awake, without my 11 in the mornning coke, i would fall asleep durring math.
But i gave it some time, toughed it out, and pulled off the month. It changed my system. I could sit down in a chair, and talk to someone without screaming. I didn't even relize these effects untill i was off the wagon.
I'm very pleased i tried to get off it, (even though im back on it), mainly becuase it led me to try a no sugar month, and finaly, the healthy month. Overall my body loves me now. AND IF YOU FALLOW MY PLAN IT WILL WORK FOR YOU TOO!!!!1111 JUST SEND ONE DOLLER TOO 473 Bran ~background shuffling~
I spend alot of my time online, but i don't regret it, the alternaties, of watching mind numbing TV, or trying to spend time with people who arn't worth the time, are not very inviting.
I do have to spend a few weeks a year, with minimum access, when i have to go up to my cottage. I noticed i enjoy it alot more when i go up with a laptop, just to get a few things done. I love the view up there, but i don't do too much, i don't like swimming, and my family is not very entertaining.
flash back to the city, were i spend the rest of my summer. and i divied my time pretty well. I do spend many hours a day on the net, but a good deal of them are after dark. When i see a pretty day outside, i am COMPELLED to get out on my bike, and hit the hills for an hour or a bit, or if my other geeky friends arn't clan matching ( i do not understand there obsession with Counter Strike), then i get them to play frissbee with me. (for some reason, geeks like frissbee, norms don't).
highschool is very frustrating, every day, it is boaring, and sometimes annoying (people can be troublesome), so its nice to know you can go home, and spend time developing skills that you find interesting AND can get you out of this some day. If this builds dependence on the internet, then im willing to give it that, becuase its a way better alternative than TV, Drugs, Obbsession with music. (thouse pretty much sum up what people my age 'do').
the main problems come from people who are unbalenced anyway, and internet gives them a way to become even unhelthier. I like the net, becuase it fills time, and is productive for me,but if you are unbalenced, it can be just as harmful as 'tv drugs'. (come to think of it, all are fine for you in moderation, (don't do drugs kids))
Nasa has had a working version of some of this technology since the late ninties i believe, they were using it experimentaly on the new generation of CanadaArms for the ISS. It was being developed so that there would be another way to see if the arm was hitting anything, besieds just looking out the window. If i rember correctly the project was having some problems becuase it was taking a huge amount of power to run the touch sensative surface.
Haven't hered anything about it in the last 2-3 years, but Yeah, not new.
hey your right, i did waste alot of my childhood infront of a tv , you think i did it by choice? if i could change my young years, i would, becuase god damit: its been hard to loose the 40 pouds i gained from my late childhood. i here outside would have been nice that time of year too.
being good at reading and reading alot, don't go hand in hand, especialy when your trying to get ouver some learning disabiltiys. Yeah, your right, my spelling sucks, but i can be happy my parents did what they did, and angry at what they didn't, and at the very least learn a lesson to make me a better parent when that time comes.
the first five years of any childs life (and i assume, becuase its YOUR child, its more important than anyone elses), is the most important time for you to be a good parent. Your little girl is growing faster than anyother point in her life, and right now, your scrulpting her.
My parents read to me everynight, since i was born, dosen't matter that i don't rember it, but at this point, I actualy read still UNLIKE EVERY OTHER PERSON I KNOW MY AGE (im 17).
If i ever become a parent, thouse years are going to be the most stressfull part of my life, period. People spend so much of there damned time making sure that they get the best for there kids, while in the first 5 years of there life, they just threw them infront of a televison.
read to her, all the time, make sure she loves what ever you read to her, sooner than later, have her sitting in your lap, to read the book along with you. You'll be proud too when shes the only two year old who can read basic sentances.
Don't be afraid to throw tons of postive influences at her, (i know, clieche'), i wish my parents HAD sent me to lern piano, when i was 4. i wish my parents HAD just left me at book stores for hours on end INSTEAD of babbysitters.
oh, probebly biggest thing, if you want to make sure shes not going to grow up mentally handycapped : cancel your cable bill. maybe by her a snes or somthing. movies are great, go by her the kubric collection or somthign:D.
i went to see it last night, with a few friends of mine. I enjoyed the theme , the whole 20's era comic book idea was a good show,
but, it started to get tiresome, and then of cource in the climax of the movie, the projector cut out and the sound kept playing.
This was a PACKED theater, becuase this movie has gotten good reviews so far were i live. so after a bit of the horrible shouts and hollers from the crowd, some little 18th level manager comes in, without a microphone, trys to announce that there are projector problems, and promplty gets a drink thrown at him.
go figure.
while everyone got a refund, and a free ticket for a show of there choice, i sure know im not sitting through it again just too se what happens. i sure just wanted them all to die like they should. god knows that wouldn't happen.
i do have two free tickets now, maybe i could take a date and not pay , WHO AM I KIDDING i'll just go see the next starwars for free for the first two shows.
so what if its big enough to be noticed by a satilite, in the mid 90's, satilites could find were i lost my golf ball's! since then, they've been able to zoom into the one'square'meter area.
so what, now they can find if some north korean kid has been throwin marbles in the sand? thouse craters are noticible when your looking at square meters....
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I was honestly thinking about this as I walked home from a funeral the other day 'What is it that brings the end, how do I stop it'. I recently have been quite healthy, insuring a much more fun way of life for many years, but the fear of something along the lines of cancer still sits in my head. I thought about applying the ideas of logic to the problem, ie: 1) how do we grow? 2) What stops our regeneration process? etc etc......
I think it means Slashdot cares, when they all post anonymously.
I'm a teen myself, and I laugh to myself when I look at my 'buddy list' and see 30 people online. Most of these people sit there, with MSN messenger open, ither starting meangingless conversations, or tuneing out to TV at the same time. If they have been doing this for over a year, some of them have figured out how to run Kazza at the same time.
The real fact is, the majority of IM useres are as dumb in real life as they are online, THEY AREN"T LEARNING ANYTHING NEW. Pretty much a new way for them to waste time.
Now if it were my children, I would make them figure out how to do it from the Console on Linux, or if you have some real smarties lock them out of everything except for Linux from Scratch. ;)
The Internet is full of wonderful things, but you need to use it: Sitting on Computer != Learning skills to use a computer on.
When was the last time knowing all the emicons on MSN messenger landed someone a job?
This really bothers me, anyone know if there is anyway I can not-support this trend? (Btw, I'm a Canadian Citizen)
ICBM's enter orbit, and then with a little help, fall on to their target, most people assume that its a regular parabola trajectory becuase when they see that map from War Games, they see a flat planet.
Use your head, if an ICBM wanted to get to the other side of the world, how do you make a parbola that is shaped like that? To make arch it like your describing, its going to be ither flying like a plane horizontally most of the way, or need to maintain a constant burn of its engine to maintain a circular motion. (rember kids, Volicity is a vector quanity).
You would actually need a whole new platform to use a nuclear wepon in outer space, they can only steer in one direction when their up there: down.
.....don't fix it.
I agree why use water when you can do this:http://www.overclockers.com/tips1156/
...I for one welcome our new, disembodied rat brain overlords!
I for one welcome our new, self-controlled flying lawnmower overlords!
Black Hawk down, Never really happened. I know there is the movie, and there is the book, etc, but it didn't happen.
Now hear me out. Going through London, A cabby picks us up. One of my friends mentions the billboard for "black hawk down" and the caby pipes up "That didn't happen".
We al give Him a look, and he tells us that he was their when they say it all happened. That its all made up.
He could be Lieing to me, But I believe everything cabby's tell me.
I wouldn't worry to much, have you ever seen how badly written their usual drivers are? This will all blow over.
How many people in your department, and how many switched? Are these people who had not used Linux before?
What is really surprising about them growing up around me and my brother, is how they watch our behavior. (Here it comes), Regarding gaming, I got my first consoler (n64) , when i was nine, and me and my brother were of course hooked. So we have my little cousin watching us throw away a few years of our lives to things like Ocarina of Time, and now, he Just got his first ps2, at age 7.
This kid loves the thing, but every time he plays, he sets his watch for 45 mins. When it goes off, he saves, he gets up, and turns off "Hulk" or whatever he thinks is a good game. His parents didn't teach this to him, even though they always thought me and my little brother spent to much time gaming. The fact is, he doesn't want to become us. A bit insulting, but understandable. He only plays it once a day, and will just put on a movie if he has some free time.
I'm glad I got off my gaming habits, I don't have time for my day-to-day activities, let alone the newest fps. Not that I don't game, i just choose my battles a lot more (heh, HL2 is going to rock). I guess its a mixed blessing, means i have no reason to touch my windows box until November :p.
If your asking this question, you obviously shouldn't be on /.
The SCO lawsuit shows nothing, they are just protecting there asses.
so i tried an experiment, no caffine for a month. Heh, good times. At first i was having alot of trouble staying awake, without my 11 in the mornning coke, i would fall asleep durring math.
But i gave it some time, toughed it out, and pulled off the month. It changed my system. I could sit down in a chair, and talk to someone without screaming. I didn't even relize these effects untill i was off the wagon.
I'm very pleased i tried to get off it, (even though im back on it), mainly becuase it led me to try a no sugar month, and finaly, the healthy month. Overall my body loves me now. AND IF YOU FALLOW MY PLAN IT WILL WORK FOR YOU TOO!!!!1111 JUST SEND ONE DOLLER TOO 473 Bran ~background shuffling~
~post cut off by healthy overlord~
honestly all that intuition is just "random guesses' any way, start off with a random choice picker, and then build a retartedly basic neral net.
I do have to spend a few weeks a year, with minimum access, when i have to go up to my cottage. I noticed i enjoy it alot more when i go up with a laptop, just to get a few things done. I love the view up there, but i don't do too much, i don't like swimming, and my family is not very entertaining.
flash back to the city, were i spend the rest of my summer. and i divied my time pretty well. I do spend many hours a day on the net, but a good deal of them are after dark. When i see a pretty day outside, i am COMPELLED to get out on my bike, and hit the hills for an hour or a bit, or if my other geeky friends arn't clan matching ( i do not understand there obsession with Counter Strike), then i get them to play frissbee with me. (for some reason, geeks like frissbee, norms don't).
highschool is very frustrating, every day, it is boaring, and sometimes annoying (people can be troublesome), so its nice to know you can go home, and spend time developing skills that you find interesting AND can get you out of this some day. If this builds dependence on the internet, then im willing to give it that, becuase its a way better alternative than TV, Drugs, Obbsession with music. (thouse pretty much sum up what people my age 'do').
the main problems come from people who are unbalenced anyway, and internet gives them a way to become even unhelthier. I like the net, becuase it fills time, and is productive for me,but if you are unbalenced, it can be just as harmful as 'tv drugs'. (come to think of it, all are fine for you in moderation, (don't do drugs kids))
Haven't hered anything about it in the last 2-3 years, but Yeah, not new.
being good at reading and reading alot, don't go hand in hand, especialy when your trying to get ouver some learning disabiltiys. Yeah, your right, my spelling sucks, but i can be happy my parents did what they did, and angry at what they didn't, and at the very least learn a lesson to make me a better parent when that time comes.
My parents read to me everynight, since i was born, dosen't matter that i don't rember it, but at this point, I actualy read still UNLIKE EVERY OTHER PERSON I KNOW MY AGE (im 17).
If i ever become a parent, thouse years are going to be the most stressfull part of my life, period. People spend so much of there damned time making sure that they get the best for there kids, while in the first 5 years of there life, they just threw them infront of a televison.
read to her, all the time, make sure she loves what ever you read to her, sooner than later, have her sitting in your lap, to read the book along with you. You'll be proud too when shes the only two year old who can read basic sentances.
Don't be afraid to throw tons of postive influences at her, (i know, clieche'), i wish my parents HAD sent me to lern piano, when i was 4. i wish my parents HAD just left me at book stores for hours on end INSTEAD of babbysitters.
oh, probebly biggest thing, if you want to make sure shes not going to grow up mentally handycapped : cancel your cable bill. maybe by her a snes or somthing. movies are great, go by her the kubric collection or somthign :D.
i went to see it last night, with a few friends of mine. ,
I enjoyed the theme , the whole 20's era comic book idea was a good show
but, it started to get tiresome, and then of cource in the climax of the movie, the projector cut out and the sound kept playing.
This was a PACKED theater, becuase this movie has gotten good reviews so far were i live. so after a bit of the horrible shouts and hollers from the crowd, some little 18th level manager comes in, without a microphone, trys to announce that there are projector problems, and promplty gets a drink thrown at him.
go figure.
while everyone got a refund, and a free ticket for a show of there choice, i sure know im not sitting through it again just too se what happens. i sure just wanted them all to die like they should. god knows that wouldn't happen.
i do have two free tickets now, maybe i could take a date and not pay , WHO AM I KIDDING i'll just go see the next starwars for free for the first two shows.
http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/ladies/5981/, told my faviorite girl im getting her one, shes exsited :P.
so what if its big enough to be noticed by a satilite, in the mid 90's, satilites could find were i lost my golf ball's! since then, they've been able to zoom into the one'square'meter area. so what, now they can find if some north korean kid has been throwin marbles in the sand? thouse craters are noticible when your looking at square meters....