Yup, the embarrassment factor is usually the killer. Usually when bringing a girlfriend home for the first time and mum bringing out the family photo album and saying "ooh, look at his little willy".... as if i was going to get a shag with the girl after this!!!
Its now only a small step to being done for having photos of your own kids nude. Hell, ive event sent pics of my kids nude to my mum, so guessing i could also be done for distributing child porn.
Amazing.
And how is this different from girls flashing boys in the woods or stripping off at parties (yes, there were such parties when i was at school).
Its called life and growing up. Boys are interested in girls, girls are interested in boys, and sometimes even same gender likes same.
Mobile technologies just add an extra element to this and make it a bit easier to do for the kids. Also safer. Girl can take a pic in the privacy of her room and send it to boy who can whack one off in the privacy of his room. In my day there was always the risk of getting caught with the girl in the woods and getting an ear bashing from the local bobby or parents.
Agree with this statement but i feel forgiveness is too much. Acceptance of loss, not hatred, the son obviously has mental problems, not sure how i would feel.
While there are some good points about things that need fixing, it would be fine with me if new features did indeed slow down and they simply fixed it up to work right and then just a few devs left for maintainence.
Do we actually need more features? Microsoft keep putting more and more crap into Office that 0.001% of people in the world will use. They create a new shiny interface (urgh), but the basic apps are not so different from the old Office 3.1. Word is a word processes, Excel does maths and graphs, Powerpoint is used by managers who cant talk, Access is a poor mans db app.
Not saying that OO development can stop, but it certainly can slow down towards maintainence mode until we have an suite that works right and then only touch it as necessary. We dont need bells and whistles. We need something that just works.
One of the big problems in the dev world though is most devs dont like fixing bugs, they prefer to work on new features, screw the bugs and let someone else clean it up. As a PM for a software company i experience this with my devs. They are quite happy while we are building an app, but as soon as it comes to support and im hoping for volunteers, they all start looking for other projects and start pointing at each other.
PS: To those who live in a sheltered world - online office apps are not the way for the moment. Availability, cost (broadband is not available all over the world, and isn't cheap everwhere), and finally, when the program exists on my computer, i choose when to upgrade and if i want to upgrade, not dependent on the provider. I also own the software (screw what the EULA states).
This is 2008... Russia is a democratic capitalist country now. There isnt much left in the way of government housing. Utility bills were quite well subsidized but have been creeping upwards over the last few years. Soon be reaching western levels!
No, the government does not tell you where to live. Propiska is simply a stamp registering where you live. Without a propiska you can have some problems with buracracy and administration if you need anything, and theoretically im sure the police can give you some hassle over not having it. Also, I have never been stopped in the street by the police, on the roads by the menty -not sure how to transliterate this... its a bad word for police- a few times... occasionally for speeding, but they are more interested in driving licence, insurance, maybe a bribe, and occasionally want to discuss English football.
One thing for sure. Since coming to Russia i feel a lot more free than i did living in the UK. Could be just the government are a lot more skilled here at giving the illusion of freedom.... the politicians in the west are pure amateurs when compared to Putin and his gang;-)
Agreed, i just wanted to go back to when survival and life were more important that what god said or moral debates existed over the rights and wrongs of having sex with younger people.
Look at the Romans.... they thought having sex with young boys (sodomy) was perfectly normal.
At out school we had the rural science teacher give the "talk". To demonstrate he brought in two rabbits that were in the mood and let them go at it on the desk.... that was basically the education we had. Still, by this time we had long been sharing copies of playboy in the playground and knew as much about sex as the teacher im sure.
One of my friends had a really gross phrase he liked to come out with:
"If she is old enough to bleed, she is old enough to breed."
While this is morally dubious in our society, its perfectly correct from natures perspective. When a girl starts with menstruation it is natures signal that she is ready to start having children. In the old days girls did have kids quite young especially going very far back (cavemen times) when life expectancy was very low and the need to reproduce young was an imperative for the tribe to survive.
You are given a room with a bed and a girl and you have to show you know how to f**k. Maybe getting the girl to have a (non-faked) orgasm gets you extra credit.
Assembly. Once you can program in that, the rest is a piece of piss.
I started with Assembly and i can already write "Hello World" in Basic!
Seriously, once you really know what you are doing at the low level it gives all sorts of extra relevance to what you are really doing at the high level. A lot of programmers who have been factory produced by Universities have no real idea of what they are actually doing when they write printf, cout, >> or whatever....
Hell, at high level you dont even have to worry much about stacks, pointers, allocating memory, interrupts, its all happily abstracted away.
Going back a few years so not sure what the market is like these days for new starters, but when i first started looking for a job in IT they required BOTH experience (5 years preferred) and a degree.
However, this was mainly a bag a shit because they rarely could find people with all their requirements and would settle for someone who could demonstrate they knew their stuff.
I took temp work until i got a junior sys admin type roll (mainframe and dumb terminals... man, those were the days), and built up from there. I've worked for some big companies over the years as well as some smaller ones as well.
I say cheap because they should be, although for some reason the mother-in-law bought my son when he was 3 a computer that was more powerful than my gaming beast in every area except graphics (and still quite decent at that).
Both son and daughter were doing the "which animals make noises" type games at 2 or earlier, and son now at 4 is playing Spore quite happliy (and creating some of the strangest creatures you can imagine... out of H.P. Lovecraft!, and sending them into the water until the monster comes up), Quake 3 (jumping from pillar to pillar to get the mega health, and swiming down until out of air), Sims 2 (making the Sim swim until he drowns), and just loaded for him GTA3-SA (his first idea... you got it, jumping the guy into the river and swiming down until he drowns).
Now this may give you the impression that my son is a deranged manic with a fetish for drowning things... you would be wrong, that would be my daughter. My son just loves swimming and cant seem to get the concept that the characters can run out of air/energy.
Still, this is quite impressive for a 4 year old and my daughter is only 2.5 and can do some good stuff as well.
So, back to the point of it all, why restrict your kid to a small fragile netbook? Give them the full desktop experience, im sure they will love you for it.
Only caveat here - be prepared to buy mice and keyboards (another reason for not getting a laptop/netbook). My son is on his 4th mouse due to extreme use and two keyboards have died due to excessive spillage of juices.
.... with two kids of my own growing up hear i am most pleased to hear about this move.
Cant see how MS will handle this one. After all their usual strategy is to bribe... ahem, encourage converts back into the fold by offering cheap licences... but russian schools are so poor (well the public ones anyway, private ones are loaded) that MS would practically have to offer it for free otherwise they will go with Linux (or use pirated versions).
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Yup, the embarrassment factor is usually the killer. Usually when bringing a girlfriend home for the first time and mum bringing out the family photo album and saying "ooh, look at his little willy".... as if i was going to get a shag with the girl after this!!!
Yes... but he converted the text to OO.o format before posting :-)
;-) First sex at 13 (she was 15). Guess i should be locked up for the safety of children everywhere.
Yes, the parties were good, but it was usually the ugly girls stripped off first.... urgh!
LOL.... Loki was known for falsehoods among other things... maybe i am lying. ;-)
Its now only a small step to being done for having photos of your own kids nude. Hell, ive event sent pics of my kids nude to my mum, so guessing i could also be done for distributing child porn.
Amazing.
And how is this different from girls flashing boys in the woods or stripping off at parties (yes, there were such parties when i was at school).
Its called life and growing up. Boys are interested in girls, girls are interested in boys, and sometimes even same gender likes same.
Mobile technologies just add an extra element to this and make it a bit easier to do for the kids. Also safer. Girl can take a pic in the privacy of her room and send it to boy who can whack one off in the privacy of his room. In my day there was always the risk of getting caught with the girl in the woods and getting an ear bashing from the local bobby or parents.
You forgot TVR, although a Russian bought it last i heard.
Agree with this statement but i feel forgiveness is too much. Acceptance of loss, not hatred, the son obviously has mental problems, not sure how i would feel.
Anyway, nothing to see here, move along...
Amazing the father forgave him. Those religious types eh? Really forgiving people.
"Don't worry son, next time you feel a little pent up, just shoot me in the head and it will all be better".
On the other hand, maybe the father really didn't like his wife and secretly thanked the son for bumping her off.... and gave him a copy of Halo 3.
While there are some good points about things that need fixing, it would be fine with me if new features did indeed slow down and they simply fixed it up to work right and then just a few devs left for maintainence.
Do we actually need more features? Microsoft keep putting more and more crap into Office that 0.001% of people in the world will use. They create a new shiny interface (urgh), but the basic apps are not so different from the old Office 3.1. Word is a word processes, Excel does maths and graphs, Powerpoint is used by managers who cant talk, Access is a poor mans db app.
Not saying that OO development can stop, but it certainly can slow down towards maintainence mode until we have an suite that works right and then only touch it as necessary. We dont need bells and whistles. We need something that just works.
One of the big problems in the dev world though is most devs dont like fixing bugs, they prefer to work on new features, screw the bugs and let someone else clean it up. As a PM for a software company i experience this with my devs. They are quite happy while we are building an app, but as soon as it comes to support and im hoping for volunteers, they all start looking for other projects and start pointing at each other.
PS: To those who live in a sheltered world - online office apps are not the way for the moment. Availability, cost (broadband is not available all over the world, and isn't cheap everwhere), and finally, when the program exists on my computer, i choose when to upgrade and if i want to upgrade, not dependent on the provider. I also own the software (screw what the EULA states).
I dont know actually, i dont work for the UK secret service.
This is 2008... Russia is a democratic capitalist country now. There isnt much left in the way of government housing. Utility bills were quite well subsidized but have been creeping upwards over the last few years. Soon be reaching western levels!
No, the government does not tell you where to live. Propiska is simply a stamp registering where you live. Without a propiska you can have some problems with buracracy and administration if you need anything, and theoretically im sure the police can give you some hassle over not having it.
Also, I have never been stopped in the street by the police, on the roads by the menty -not sure how to transliterate this... its a bad word for police- a few times... occasionally for speeding, but they are more interested in driving licence, insurance, maybe a bribe, and occasionally want to discuss English football.
One thing for sure. Since coming to Russia i feel a lot more free than i did living in the UK. Could be just the government are a lot more skilled here at giving the illusion of freedom.... the politicians in the west are pure amateurs when compared to Putin and his gang ;-)
But IE7 doesnt pass the Acid 2 test....
Agreed, i just wanted to go back to when survival and life were more important that what god said or moral debates existed over the rights and wrongs of having sex with younger people.
Look at the Romans.... they thought having sex with young boys (sodomy) was perfectly normal.
At out school we had the rural science teacher give the "talk". To demonstrate he brought in two rabbits that were in the mood and let them go at it on the desk.... that was basically the education we had. Still, by this time we had long been sharing copies of playboy in the playground and knew as much about sex as the teacher im sure.
Thanks for the pointer for the word hysteria. This means that all people are hysterical... not just women. Knew something was wrong with the world ;-)
One of my friends had a really gross phrase he liked to come out with:
"If she is old enough to bleed, she is old enough to breed."
While this is morally dubious in our society, its perfectly correct from natures perspective. When a girl starts with menstruation it is natures signal that she is ready to start having children. In the old days girls did have kids quite young especially going very far back (cavemen times) when life expectancy was very low and the need to reproduce young was an imperative for the tribe to survive.
LOL... i thought test as in:
You are given a room with a bed and a girl and you have to show you know how to f**k. Maybe getting the girl to have a (non-faked) orgasm gets you extra credit.
Assembly. Once you can program in that, the rest is a piece of piss.
I started with Assembly and i can already write "Hello World" in Basic!
Seriously, once you really know what you are doing at the low level it gives all sorts of extra relevance to what you are really doing at the high level. A lot of programmers who have been factory produced by Universities have no real idea of what they are actually doing when they write printf, cout, >> or whatever....
Hell, at high level you dont even have to worry much about stacks, pointers, allocating memory, interrupts, its all happily abstracted away.
Going back a few years so not sure what the market is like these days for new starters, but when i first started looking for a job in IT they required BOTH experience (5 years preferred) and a degree.
However, this was mainly a bag a shit because they rarely could find people with all their requirements and would settle for someone who could demonstrate they knew their stuff.
I took temp work until i got a junior sys admin type roll (mainframe and dumb terminals... man, those were the days), and built up from there. I've worked for some big companies over the years as well as some smaller ones as well.
All without a degree. ;-)
I say cheap because they should be, although for some reason the mother-in-law bought my son when he was 3 a computer that was more powerful than my gaming beast in every area except graphics (and still quite decent at that).
Both son and daughter were doing the "which animals make noises" type games at 2 or earlier, and son now at 4 is playing Spore quite happliy (and creating some of the strangest creatures you can imagine... out of H.P. Lovecraft!, and sending them into the water until the monster comes up), Quake 3 (jumping from pillar to pillar to get the mega health, and swiming down until out of air), Sims 2 (making the Sim swim until he drowns), and just loaded for him GTA3-SA (his first idea... you got it, jumping the guy into the river and swiming down until he drowns).
Now this may give you the impression that my son is a deranged manic with a fetish for drowning things... you would be wrong, that would be my daughter. My son just loves swimming and cant seem to get the concept that the characters can run out of air/energy.
Still, this is quite impressive for a 4 year old and my daughter is only 2.5 and can do some good stuff as well.
So, back to the point of it all, why restrict your kid to a small fragile netbook? Give them the full desktop experience, im sure they will love you for it.
Only caveat here - be prepared to buy mice and keyboards (another reason for not getting a laptop/netbook). My son is on his 4th mouse due to extreme use and two keyboards have died due to excessive spillage of juices.
Dear Sirs,
As a user of facebook i am most upset.
I have NEVER been bombarded by adverts for sex and drugs on Facebook!
I hope this situation is rectified as soon as possible.
Regards.
.... with two kids of my own growing up hear i am most pleased to hear about this move.
Cant see how MS will handle this one. After all their usual strategy is to bribe... ahem, encourage converts back into the fold by offering cheap licences... but russian schools are so poor (well the public ones anyway, private ones are loaded) that MS would practically have to offer it for free otherwise they will go with Linux (or use pirated versions).
Two variants of binary time here:
1) The JBC binary clock under linux was always fun... "Whats the time?" "1001 10011 PM"
2) Basic - 1 or 0. Either it is or it isnt ;-)
ST:A2 is very moddable and some great mods out there.
The Babylon 5 mod (Total Conversion) is class and special mention is deserving to Fleet Operations which does some amazing things with the A2 engine.