My father is a Malacologist (study of Molluscs). When I was younger, he once told me about one mollusc (he told me the exact name, but I can not recall) that never died of "old age" but just due to predation.
This mollusc supposedly just kept growing and growing and migrating its shell when it was not big enough.
Have you read or heard about this? or more generally, have you any other similar example of an organism in nature which observes such kind of cell regenerating behaviour that we (humans) can learn to duplicate and use to our advantage?
You mean like an exam or something? Seriously, let the kid think for himself, let him discover ideas by himself, don't try to guide his fantasies.
No way! I know what GP is getting at. It is similar to as when you go to the movies and after watching The Matix (or LOTR, or whatever you like) with your friends, you go out and like to talk about it.
My father did that with my brother and I. Several of the books we started to read, my father had read before. And because we also used to travel a lot (camping and such kind of things), we used to talk a lot in the car while my dad or mom were driving.
It was really good to be able to talk about my thoughts on the books. My brother and my father shared more "detective" or war novels like Black Hawk down, Tom Clancy stuff and Jack Higgins, while I shared more Science Fiction stuff like Isaac Asimov, Arthur C Clarke, etc.
That's why I loved reading so much. I certainly would have read a lot less if it was another "listen to your parent" thing.
Funny, the reason I loved talking about the stories with my parents was *because* it meant time interacting with my father, besides of the father-son typical interaction (school,eat,afternoon-school,tv,nintendo,dinner,bed).
I agree that the Foundation Books would be great... I love them.
However, I think that the *best* book to start is the "I Robot", for two reasons. First, the book is a collection of short stories. Therefore your kids won't get bored after reading the first N pages. This was one of the reasons I love this book. It really got me reading after having stopped reading novels for about 5 years.
Secondly, the book is friendly for kids. You have the two heroes doing some things to save the day. After some of the novels, you have more elements and characters (like the beautiful Dr. Susan Calvin) are introduced, but by that time your kids won't be able to put the book down.
Ah yeah!, Jules Verne was a good starting for me too. When I was like 7 my father used to buy us "condensed" stories of Jules Verne (less words, however, they had no pictures).
I find funny how this story is tagged "lotr", and that a lot of people here are recommending stories with dragons and witches and whatnot.
LOTR and dragonlance and all those are fantasy books. People here might not think there is a difference but there is. Personally I do not like fantasy books. I can't finish them, however, I just read "Rendevouz with Rama" and am in the middle of "stranger in a strange land". And have read all Asimov's science fiction books.
I would strongly recommend people to get into languages while they are undergrads. It really is the time to learn all that you can.
When I was in undergrad I took a year of German (along with English, which I have been studying since I was in basic school). I "dropped" after the first year of German because I thought I did not have enough time. The fact is that I was just lazy.
Now after some years I might get to work in Germany, and although I have a general sense of what German is about, I will still need to take some serious courses in Germany to learn it by hard.
You can go to as many classes as you like,but it's an entirely different thing to actually use a language.
You do NOT have to be there to use a language. Sheesh, just now I am practising a second language with you. Don't you see it? it is called "the internet" and will hopefully allow people from remote locations to communicate in the future.
There is instant messenger, and Skype even if you want voice and video chat. There are these cool skype talk rooms where you can enter just to listen to people discussing in one language and if you feel like, you can practice a bit of talking.
There are tons and tons of resources on the net to practice language learning. I would recommend the Michel Thomas series for learning French, German and Spanish. I used them (in conjunction with the Rosseta Stone) to learn German, and I was impressed when I visited Germany at how not-as-bad as I thought was I.
As a person who has learnt English as a second language, I really believe that learning a language is good for every person. It does not matter what career do you have, learning a language will help you broaden your way of thinking, if not only because you will invariably learn a bit about the culture of the people that uses such language.
I would not want him tortured... torture is one of the worst things humanity has invented (do yo uknow any other animal species that tortures for any reason?).
But dead, why not? the guy killed a person, willingly and then lied about it, premeditatedly.
These are the kind of people that should not be maintained by your our taxes. They should go working hard only to get enough food and water to live, for the rest of their lives, and give the rest to society as a contribution.
My mother did the life of my father quite unbearable for 15 years. Starting from a bad decision made by him (of moving from to another city).
My father waited until my brother and I finished school and then just went away with another woman he knew.
Personally, I think my father should have done it before.
A bitter divorce is thousand times better than living somehow in a "theatre" family. My brother and I never needed anything, appart from the absense of "love" showing between my parents.
Now, I know my father's girlfriend, and I am really happy seeing that he is happy. My mother is also quite happy not having to see my father around. They of course can't see each other.
So yeah, bitter divorces are bad. But I would suggest no one to avoid divorcing just "because of the kids".
I think the main problem with "web applications" is the fact that they are being developed over the most completely incorrect protocol, that is HTTP.
What is needed is a new standard protocol, client manager (something like a web browser but conceived with the specific aim of web applications) and a set standards for interaction.
Maybe the framework that Adobe is doing is going that way. Maybe XUL could be used for that. But what is certain is that HTTP has been oversued and raped until it has nothing more to give now.
I am waiting for the same thing on Linux. It would be specially useful in my case, where the file system of my university is managed from a central server (which is in charge of backing up and whatnot), and we do not have root access to our clients.
It would be really useful being able to use truecrypt without having to install it in Linux.
It's okay for GUI tools and programs to just be front-ends for their command-line equivalents, even if it puts unnecessary limits on the graphical version.
On the other hand, there's a pretty strong argument this should always be the case EXCEPT for the tools that build the GUIs themselves.
The problem is that I have found lots of frontend GUIs in which their "options" configuration window is just a text box where you are supposed to write the CLI command modifiers... WTF is that?
Or, even worst, just a bunch of checkboxes with the modifier as the text of them like:
[ ] -n [ ] -l [ ] -x
It goes to show that programmers lack complete understanding of UI design.
. A company in the business that AVG is in should have seen this coming, what makes you think more of the same "quality" is not in the future?
No, I certainly won't be looking. There are just a handful of companies which *listen* to its customers. There fewer that listen to the users of their product which use it for free.
AVG shown that at least they do listen to their users, and are likely to rectify when they screw up. Similar to what happened with Netflix.
A bad company is not one which makes wrong choices, we all make wrong choices. But when the company is not able to acknowledge their errors and rectify, is when you should start looking for someone else to make business with.
I use AVG Free and recommend it to all the people who come to ask me for an Antivirus. The truth (in my opinion) is that such a thing should be provided with Microsoft Windows for free, after all it is the fault of their crappy Operating System that the computers get all infected.
The headline as factual as saying, "In the USA, Touching Another Person May Be Punishable By Death." There are lots of other situations in which you can touch people than in the act of killing them.
Shit, and by the standards of my country (Mexico), in the USA, touching another person is punishable as "sexual harassment".
he problem you may be having is with your sampling group. Unless you happen to be traveling to Iran itself, the people you are meeting are travelers themselves, and possibly of a different overall mindset than hardliners
That is very true. I always have the same sense about Americans. The majority (if not all) of the Americans I have met (outside the USA of course) are very angry about their country. And it is not *only* about Bush, but about how all the system works, including foreign policy and what not.
I find it really funny, because I know for a fact that Americans are *very* very really proud of their country (defend it even blindly), however, looking at the sample I have been in contact with, it would seem completely backwards.
The truth is that, lots of the people you see, outside their country, are there because in one way or another they want to get out of their own country (I have lived outside Mexico partly for the same reason)... and they *always* have a more wide vision than the standard citizens.
Of course every data you try to obtain from such group will be skewed.
I am no expert in America History, but I remember reading there where people defending the slaves several years ago... sure, they were seen as Mr. Beckerman at that time, defending the people that was overwhelmed by unjust causes.
Part of the focus of charity foundations is education. And education is the way how you fight population overgrowth.
I read an article sometime ago (don't have the source sorry) of a study that shown the relation between how poor the people was and the number of children, and how in developed countries, people use to have less children.
Basically (at least in Mexico) poor farmers must have more kids to help them manage the crops. Also some girls to help their moms in the kitchen and clean the harvested corn.
Which was about to be kickstarted with Open Source (with the backup of HP, IBM, Sun, etc)... until Bill Gates went to Mexico to speak with Presidente Fox... aaaaand, guess what:
Microsoft has pledged $60 million in software and training to help fund Internet kiosks that are being built in remote communities. The software maker has also allotted $10 million to train workers in small and mid-size businesses, along with an additional grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to the country's VAMOS MEXICO program to be used to move the country's libraries online.
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All the other gibberish you write is redundant. :)
My father is a Malacologist (study of Molluscs). When I was younger, he once told me about one mollusc (he told me the exact name, but I can not recall) that never died of "old age" but just due to predation.
This mollusc supposedly just kept growing and growing and migrating its shell when it was not big enough.
Have you read or heard about this? or more generally, have you any other similar example of an organism in nature which observes such kind of cell regenerating behaviour that we (humans) can learn to duplicate and use to our advantage?
...it wanted its comic based bubble chat back.
"It seems to me that you are searching for porn"...
My I suggest you the "Kleenex Ultra Smooth" link?
You mean like an exam or something? Seriously, let the kid think for himself, let him discover ideas by himself, don't try to guide his fantasies.
No way! I know what GP is getting at. It is similar to as when you go to the movies and after watching The Matix (or LOTR, or whatever you like) with your friends, you go out and like to talk about it.
My father did that with my brother and I. Several of the books we started to read, my father had read before. And because we also used to travel a lot (camping and such kind of things), we used to talk a lot in the car while my dad or mom were driving.
It was really good to be able to talk about my thoughts on the books. My brother and my father shared more "detective" or war novels like Black Hawk down, Tom Clancy stuff and Jack Higgins, while I shared more Science Fiction stuff like Isaac Asimov, Arthur C Clarke, etc.
That's why I loved reading so much. I certainly would have read a lot less if it was another "listen to your parent" thing.
Funny, the reason I loved talking about the stories with my parents was *because* it meant time interacting with my father, besides of the father-son typical interaction (school,eat,afternoon-school,tv,nintendo,dinner,bed).
I agree that the Foundation Books would be great... I love them.
However, I think that the *best* book to start is the "I Robot", for two reasons. First, the book is a collection of short stories. Therefore your kids won't get bored after reading the first N pages. This was one of the reasons I love this book. It really got me reading after having stopped reading novels for about 5 years.
Secondly, the book is friendly for kids. You have the two heroes doing some things to save the day. After some of the novels, you have more elements and characters (like the beautiful Dr. Susan Calvin) are introduced, but by that time your kids won't be able to put the book down.
I told each of our daughters that they were abs... ...They're both Straight-A students (one in university now)
May I be the first to say...
PICS OR IT DID'NT HAPPEN!
Ah yeah!, Jules Verne was a good starting for me too. When I was like 7 my father used to buy us "condensed" stories of Jules Verne (less words, however, they had no pictures).
I find funny how this story is tagged "lotr", and that a lot of people here are recommending stories with dragons and witches and whatnot.
LOTR and dragonlance and all those are fantasy books. People here might not think there is a difference but there is. Personally I do not like fantasy books. I can't finish them, however, I just read "Rendevouz with Rama" and am in the middle of "stranger in a strange land". And have read all Asimov's science fiction books.
I second that.
I would strongly recommend people to get into languages while they are undergrads. It really is the time to learn all that you can.
When I was in undergrad I took a year of German (along with English, which I have been studying since I was in basic school). I "dropped" after the first year of German because I thought I did not have enough time. The fact is that I was just lazy.
Now after some years I might get to work in Germany, and although I have a general sense of what German is about, I will still need to take some serious courses in Germany to learn it by hard.
You can go to as many classes as you like,but it's an entirely different thing to actually use a language.
You do NOT have to be there to use a language. Sheesh, just now I am practising a second language with you. Don't you see it? it is called "the internet" and will hopefully allow people from remote locations to communicate in the future.
There is instant messenger, and Skype even if you want voice and video chat. There are these cool skype talk rooms where you can enter just to listen to people discussing in one language and if you feel like, you can practice a bit of talking.
There are tons and tons of resources on the net to practice language learning. I would recommend the Michel Thomas series for learning French, German and Spanish. I used them (in conjunction with the Rosseta Stone) to learn German, and I was impressed when I visited Germany at how not-as-bad as I thought was I.
As a person who has learnt English as a second language, I really believe that learning a language is good for every person. It does not matter what career do you have, learning a language will help you broaden your way of thinking, if not only because you will invariably learn a bit about the culture of the people that uses such language.
I would not want him tortured... torture is one of the worst things humanity has invented (do yo uknow any other animal species that tortures for any reason?).
But dead, why not? the guy killed a person, willingly and then lied about it, premeditatedly.
These are the kind of people that should not be maintained by your our taxes. They should go working hard only to get enough food and water to live, for the rest of their lives, and give the rest to society as a contribution.
My mother did the life of my father quite unbearable for 15 years. Starting from a bad decision made by him (of moving from to another city).
My father waited until my brother and I finished school and then just went away with another woman he knew.
Personally, I think my father should have done it before.
A bitter divorce is thousand times better than living somehow in a "theatre" family. My brother and I never needed anything, appart from the absense of "love" showing between my parents.
Now, I know my father's girlfriend, and I am really happy seeing that he is happy. My mother is also quite happy not having to see my father around. They of course can't see each other.
So yeah, bitter divorces are bad. But I would suggest no one to avoid divorcing just "because of the kids".
Watch out! he is coming for....
BRRRAAAAAAIIIINNNNNS!!
Any chance there is something similar for Linux?
Why does Windows guys always get the good shiny apps with GUI?
I think the main problem with "web applications" is the fact that they are being developed over the most completely incorrect protocol, that is HTTP.
What is needed is a new standard protocol, client manager (something like a web browser but conceived with the specific aim of web applications) and a set standards for interaction.
Maybe the framework that Adobe is doing is going that way. Maybe XUL could be used for that. But what is certain is that HTTP has been oversued and raped until it has nothing more to give now.
I am waiting for the same thing on Linux. It would be specially useful in my case, where the file system of my university is managed from a central server (which is in charge of backing up and whatnot), and we do not have root access to our clients.
It would be really useful being able to use truecrypt without having to install it in Linux.
It's okay for GUI tools and programs to just be front-ends for their command-line equivalents, even if it puts unnecessary limits on the graphical version.
On the other hand, there's a pretty strong argument this should always be the case EXCEPT for the tools that build the GUIs themselves.
The problem is that I have found lots of frontend GUIs in which their "options" configuration window is just a text box where you are supposed to write the CLI command modifiers... WTF is that?
Or, even worst, just a bunch of checkboxes with the modifier as the text of them like:
[ ] -n
[ ] -l
[ ] -x
It goes to show that programmers lack complete understanding of UI design.
. A company in the business that AVG is in should have seen this coming, what makes you think more of the same "quality" is not in the future?
No, I certainly won't be looking. There are just a handful of companies which *listen* to its customers. There fewer that listen to the users of their product which use it for free.
AVG shown that at least they do listen to their users, and are likely to rectify when they screw up. Similar to what happened with Netflix.
A bad company is not one which makes wrong choices, we all make wrong choices. But when the company is not able to acknowledge their errors and rectify, is when you should start looking for someone else to make business with.
I use AVG Free and recommend it to all the people who come to ask me for an Antivirus. The truth (in my opinion) is that such a thing should be provided with Microsoft Windows for free, after all it is the fault of their crappy Operating System that the computers get all infected.
The headline as factual as saying, "In the USA, Touching Another Person May Be Punishable By Death." There are lots of other situations in which you can touch people than in the act of killing them.
Shit, and by the standards of my country (Mexico), in the USA, touching another person is punishable as "sexual harassment".
Hahaha... parent talked like a true red neck... GP really hurt you didn't he?
he problem you may be having is with your sampling group. Unless you happen to be traveling to Iran itself, the people you are meeting are travelers themselves, and possibly of a different overall mindset than hardliners
That is very true. I always have the same sense about Americans. The majority (if not all) of the Americans I have met (outside the USA of course) are very angry about their country. And it is not *only* about Bush, but about how all the system works, including foreign policy and what not.
I find it really funny, because I know for a fact that Americans are *very* very really proud of their country (defend it even blindly), however, looking at the sample I have been in contact with, it would seem completely backwards.
The truth is that, lots of the people you see, outside their country, are there because in one way or another they want to get out of their own country (I have lived outside Mexico partly for the same reason)... and they *always* have a more wide vision than the standard citizens.
Of course every data you try to obtain from such group will be skewed.
And some of them get really big nuts.
I am no expert in America History, but I remember reading there where people defending the slaves several years ago... sure, they were seen as Mr. Beckerman at that time, defending the people that was overwhelmed by unjust causes.
Yeah, someone.
Part of the focus of charity foundations is education. And education is the way how you fight population overgrowth.
I read an article sometime ago (don't have the source sorry) of a study that shown the relation between how poor the people was and the number of children, and how in developed countries, people use to have less children.
Basically (at least in Mexico) poor farmers must have more kids to help them manage the crops. Also some girls to help their moms in the kitchen and clean the harvested corn.
Ahem, ahem...
I am not really impressed by B&M gates foundation... and the use they have given to it:
e-Mexico.
Which was about to be kickstarted with Open Source (with the backup of HP, IBM, Sun, etc)... until Bill Gates went to Mexico to speak with Presidente Fox... aaaaand, guess what:
Microsoft has pledged $60 million in software and training to help fund Internet kiosks that are being built in remote communities. The software maker has also allotted $10 million to train workers in small and mid-size businesses, along with an additional grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to the country's VAMOS MEXICO program to be used to move the country's libraries online.
Ohh, Vamos Mexico... the foundation from Fox's wife which has been investigated for allegued corruption practices.
Oh yes, B&M Gates foundation are God's messengers.