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My wife and I have been talking about getting a pair of portable DVD players for the kids - or, as I call it, "sanity preservers" so during the 10-12 hour drive to Grandma's house, Dad doesn't kill them after the 6000th "Are we there yet? I'm bored!"
My kid is still a baby, so I haven't experienced the "Are we there yet?" years too much. And I'm not trying to be preachy-- I just want to know what other parents do with their kids.
You and I survived these long car rides with books, games, puppets, imagination and long period of staring out the window (a great time for day dreaming and thinking, and I still do it). We didn't have this constant stream of stimulation being pushed at us, and we survived fine.
Are you sure you want to push your kids (and you and your wife) for 10-12 hours? How about getting a hotel somewhere in the middle there. You all need more rest then that, and the drive would be more leasurely-- you could even drive for a few hours, take a break and see some of the sights and get some exercise, and then drive again. You'll also drive much more safer...
Dvd or not, 10-12 hours in a car can't be good for you or your kids.
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Well, you can use your Camera Cell Phone to take a picture of them watching their TV Cell Phone (Be sure to get a picture of their License plate), and notify their insurance company.
And I'll use my Video Cell Phone to take a movie of you watching your Camera Cell Phone to watch them...
I also hate how his main characters always tend to be supergeniuses with no character flaws, or AI constructs with (what amounts to) superpowers and other stuff like that.
Well, frequently his characters do have flaws: Ender was constantly plagued by self-doubt, and Bean's mutant brain was getting too big for his skull.
I'm also annoyed by the main characters having these "Super genius powers", but it does tie into his religious philosophy somewhat: Many religions, such as the LDS church, believe that God grants special gifts to individuals, or that some people are "chosen", but that these chosen people are often forced to face some horrible, epic trials-- Noah carried all animals on a boat during the great flood, Moses lived for 300 years, David fought Goliath...
Right, now compare that article against all articles from the last 6 months. Make sure you check against the keywords and common synonyms of the keywords.
The editors could do this by hand, and in this case a computer could have caught "15 lines" and "p2p" if it could figure out that those were the keywords...
Now, why is "30 Years of Adventure: A Celebration of D&D" in the results page for "world's shortest p2p app: 15 lines"...
I was a subscriber at one point, and I submitted emails when I noticed a duplicate article in the queue, but the duplicate articles were rarely ever removed, and email to "daddypants" frequently bounced.
There are thousands of stories in the Archive. Comparing every article submission against every story
It wouldn't be difficult to automate.
Really? How? Computers have a really hard time parsing human language, and comparing two paragraphs to see if they are about the same subject would be quite difficult. If you could write a program to do that well you'd be a billionare.
The computer could check URLs, but often the URLs in dupe stories are different then in the original story.
Private citizens are too well armed (legally) and too, for lack of a better term, righteous.
I think Isreali citizens are probably better armed then most Americans... and they can be pretty damn righteous.
This righteousness and Religious fanaticism is one of the reasons they are targeted by terrorists.
we have thousands of illegal middle easterners in the country, arms and explosives are easy to aquire in the USA - why don't we have "retail" terrorism?
Because most of those illegal middle easterners aren't here to terrorize anyone. They are here because it's nice country to live in, and still provides many opportunities.
I've always thought there should be two versions of linux: bleeding edge, and ignorant housewife editions.
There's a third: A powerful version that is stable. I need to spend my time using Linux to do things for my job, I don't like to spend time debugging the OS.
2- Hydrogen is only a vector. It is not an energy source, it's only a way to carry energy created elsewhere. There is no "hydrogen economy", just the existing energy economy with an additional vector that can be compared to batteries.
Couldn't you say the same for any energy source? Oil is just a way to carry energy created elsewhere...
'The natural world began forming its own hydrogen economy 3 billion years ago, when it developed photosynthesis to convert CO2, water, and sunlight into hydrogen and oxygen'.
Well, as the official sponsor of the Big Bang, I claim all copyright on that whole electrons and protons forming into a 1-1 molecule and will hereby sue the ass of any plant who dars to reverse engineer my process to produce Hydrogen
If you look at Gap's advertisement, you'll see Sarah Jessica Parker wearing Gap clothing. But that doesn't mean that she really wears Gap clothing in real life.
Sorry, I was unclear. I meant to say "In her gallery, do you see any pictures of her playing video games"...
My bad.
I'm sure she plays video games, but the focus is on her good looks and curly red hair. If this is truely about video games, then where are the action shots of her playing video games?
I don't play FPS very often, and I don't actually play many computer games on my 1997-era PC. I'm too cheap to buy a gaming computer.
I'm sure these women can play games and that they are pretty decent, but it's pretty obvious that the concept of the 'Frag Dolls' is a PR campaign first, and a gaming clan second.
It's about attracting male gamers to the Ubisoft product line. They are booth babes who are good at video games. It's manufactured group, just like the Bud girls and Britany Spears. They are using sex to manipulate you.
If the FragDolls were about Gaming first, and marketing second. then you might see more pictures of the ladies playing games, instead of sitting there looking pretty. Do you even see a video game in this lady's profile? What does her eye and hair color have to do with her gaming ability?
No different from any other marketing in the world,
But this is very different from most other clans and other FPS teams. Most clans and FPS teams aren't a marketing campaign...
It really seems like this is a Marketing Campaign-- a "New Kids on the Block" kind of clan.
Ubisoft wanted a guerilla advertising campaign targeted at young male gamers, so they hired 8 pretty girls to form a clan. It's not very authentic. Using sex to advertise a product is all too common.
Most women, despite the common opinion, are not offended by scantily clad women.
There's nothing offensive about scantily clad women.
But promoting women as simple, sexual objects with unrealistic body proportions to sell a product to stupid men is offensive.
Many young men are so warped by the fake silicone and false stereotypes they have no idea what a real women is like. Hopefully these men won't breed.
It's offensive to most women that I know, and it's offensive to me as a man, because the coropations are trying to use sex to manipulate me. Sex is very primal, it is hard to ignore.
I think you're missing the human part of the equasion. You sound young or inexperienced with death and the impact it has on you.
We all know that life happens. We all know that death comes. But death still sucks.
I hope you live long and have a happy life. But when you are lying there on your death bed, or when your friend is dying from cancer, or when your son is bleeding to death after a car accident or when your daughter is smashed to death by a massive ocean wave, I sincerely hope that some jerk doesn't come to you and say "Life happens then death comes - deal with it".
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My wife and I have been talking about getting a pair of portable DVD players for the kids - or, as I call it, "sanity preservers" so during the 10-12 hour drive to Grandma's house, Dad doesn't kill them after the 6000th "Are we there yet? I'm bored!"
My kid is still a baby, so I haven't experienced the "Are we there yet?" years too much. And I'm not trying to be preachy-- I just want to know what other parents do with their kids.
You and I survived these long car rides with books, games, puppets, imagination and long period of staring out the window (a great time for day dreaming and thinking, and I still do it). We didn't have this constant stream of stimulation being pushed at us, and we survived fine.
Are you sure you want to push your kids (and you and your wife) for 10-12 hours? How about getting a hotel somewhere in the middle there. You all need more rest then that, and the drive would be more leasurely-- you could even drive for a few hours, take a break and see some of the sights and get some exercise, and then drive again. You'll also drive much more safer...
Dvd or not, 10-12 hours in a car can't be good for you or your kids.
Well, you can use your Camera Cell Phone to take a picture of them watching their TV Cell Phone (Be sure to get a picture of their License plate), and notify their insurance company.
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And I'll use my Video Cell Phone to take a movie of you watching your Camera Cell Phone to watch them
I also hate how his main characters always tend to be supergeniuses with no character flaws, or AI constructs with (what amounts to) superpowers and other stuff like that.
Well, frequently his characters do have flaws: Ender was constantly plagued by self-doubt, and Bean's mutant brain was getting too big for his skull.
I'm also annoyed by the main characters having these "Super genius powers", but it does tie into his religious philosophy somewhat: Many religions, such as the LDS church, believe that God grants special gifts to individuals, or that some people are "chosen", but that these chosen people are often forced to face some horrible, epic trials-- Noah carried all animals on a boat during the great flood, Moses lived for 300 years, David fought Goliath...
ok, fine. I owe you a beer.
Right, now compare that article against all articles from the last 6 months. Make sure you check against the keywords and common synonyms of the keywords.
...
The editors could do this by hand, and in this case a computer could have caught "15 lines" and "p2p" if it could figure out that those were the keywords...
Now, why is "30 Years of Adventure: A Celebration of D&D" in the results page for "world's shortest p2p app: 15 lines"
./ subscribers can preview articles.
I was a subscriber at one point, and I submitted emails when I noticed a duplicate article in the queue, but the duplicate articles were rarely ever removed, and email to "daddypants" frequently bounced.
There are thousands of stories in the Archive. Comparing every article submission against every story
It wouldn't be difficult to automate.
Really? How? Computers have a really hard time parsing human language, and comparing two paragraphs to see if they are about the same subject would be quite difficult. If you could write a program to do that well you'd be a billionare.
The computer could check URLs, but often the URLs in dupe stories are different then in the original story.
Private citizens are too well armed (legally) and too, for lack of a better term, righteous.
I think Isreali citizens are probably better armed then most Americans... and they can be pretty damn righteous.
This righteousness and Religious fanaticism is one of the reasons they are targeted by terrorists.
we have thousands of illegal middle easterners in the country, arms and explosives are easy to aquire in the USA - why don't we have "retail" terrorism?
Because most of those illegal middle easterners aren't here to terrorize anyone. They are here because it's nice country to live in, and still provides many opportunities.
Thanks for the link BTW
You got that wrong, it's "Thanks for the Fucking Link BTW"... sheesh. Some people.
Yes. Knoppix is great for client-side stuff or even a small server, but it's not a server OS.
Call me silly, but I don't think it's a good idea to run an Enterprise website off of a CD.
You're not supposed to be able to. Thats the point.
Welcome new apartment tenant, I'm your landlord. Here's the kitchen. Please don't plug in any appliances. By the way, the stove might blow up.
Except the National Enquirer doesn't have the Page 3 girls.
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There's no nipples, but there are sometimes plenty of pictures of scantily clad women. Not that I've read it since the 80s
I've always thought there should be two versions of linux: bleeding edge, and ignorant housewife editions.
There's a third: A powerful version that is stable. I need to spend my time using Linux to do things for my job, I don't like to spend time debugging the OS.
2- Hydrogen is only a vector. It is not an energy source, it's only a way to carry energy created elsewhere. There is no "hydrogen economy", just the existing energy economy with an additional vector that can be compared to batteries.
Couldn't you say the same for any energy source? Oil is just a way to carry energy created elsewhere...
Take it about as seriously as the Weekly World News.
Except it has one of the mostly widely distrubuted newspaper in the UK, a bit like the National Enquirer here in the States...
Be scared...
In other news, the Sun's "Page 3 Girl" has FAKE BOOBS and Sun didn't mention it anywhere in their paper.
Shocking!
'The natural world began forming its own hydrogen economy 3 billion years ago, when it developed photosynthesis to convert CO2, water, and sunlight into hydrogen and oxygen'.
Well, as the official sponsor of the Big Bang, I claim all copyright on that whole electrons and protons forming into a 1-1 molecule and will hereby sue the ass of any plant who dars to reverse engineer my process to produce Hydrogen
If you look at Gap's advertisement, you'll see Sarah Jessica Parker wearing Gap clothing. But that doesn't mean that she really wears Gap clothing in real life.
It's advertising.
Sorry, I was unclear. I meant to say "In her gallery, do you see any pictures of her playing video games"...
My bad.
I'm sure she plays video games, but the focus is on her good looks and curly red hair. If this is truely about video games, then where are the action shots of her playing video games?
I don't play FPS very often, and I don't actually play many computer games on my 1997-era PC. I'm too cheap to buy a gaming computer.
I'm sure these women can play games and that they are pretty decent, but it's pretty obvious that the concept of the 'Frag Dolls' is a PR campaign first, and a gaming clan second.
It's about attracting male gamers to the Ubisoft product line. They are booth babes who are good at video games. It's manufactured group, just like the Bud girls and Britany Spears. They are using sex to manipulate you.
If the FragDolls were about Gaming first, and marketing second. then you might see more pictures of the ladies playing games, instead of sitting there looking pretty. Do you even see a video game in this lady's profile? What does her eye and hair color have to do with her gaming ability?
No different from any other marketing in the world,
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But this is very different from most other clans and other FPS teams. Most clans and FPS teams aren't a marketing campaign
It really seems like this is a Marketing Campaign-- a "New Kids on the Block" kind of clan.
Ubisoft wanted a guerilla advertising campaign targeted at young male gamers, so they hired 8 pretty girls to form a clan. It's not very authentic. Using sex to advertise a product is all too common.
Most women, despite the common opinion, are not offended by scantily clad women.
There's nothing offensive about scantily clad women.
But promoting women as simple, sexual objects with unrealistic body proportions to sell a product to stupid men is offensive.
Many young men are so warped by the fake silicone and false stereotypes they have no idea what a real women is like. Hopefully these men won't breed.
It's offensive to most women that I know, and it's offensive to me as a man, because the coropations are trying to use sex to manipulate me. Sex is very primal, it is hard to ignore.
Back then, you called long distance to the BBS of interest.
And let me tell you, using a 300bps modem really was like walking to school in the snow, uphill, both ways...
It's a good analogy; IMHO!
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It's a perfect analogy... except for the death, war and genocide.
A cable TV show won't have much impact on the world, but Hitler sure did. Comparing the two is like comparing a pop-rock to a nuclear bomb
Life happens then death comes - deal with it.
I think you're missing the human part of the equasion. You sound young or inexperienced with death and the impact it has on you.
We all know that life happens. We all know that death comes. But death still sucks.
I hope you live long and have a happy life. But when you are lying there on your death bed, or when your friend is dying from cancer, or when your son is bleeding to death after a car accident or when your daughter is smashed to death by a massive ocean wave, I sincerely hope that some jerk doesn't come to you and say
"Life happens then death comes - deal with it".