Geocaching is lots of fun, and caches are everywhere! There's even a few on mt. kilomanjaro. I just use my eyes and a fairly cheap (less than $400 CAD) handheld GPS. The sport is designed to be easy and not requiring a lot of equipment, yet still be entertaining..so what more help do you need? Go out there and do it:)
Why not put both into/boot and add both to your bootloader? There are lots of tutorials for doing that, for 'testing' in case a newly compiled kernel doesn't work. I have this on my Slackware -current computer. A vanilla 2.4, vanilla 2.6.10, and compiled 2.6.10 which I use and have had no issues with. I plan on compiling 2.6.13 soon, to keep up to date with bug fixes and improvements.
I was introduced with those games, and Reader Rabbit is a very good series. Same with Operation Neptune, an old DOS game where you would pilot a submarine and 'shoot' sea creatures with ink pellets which would make them possible to pass momentarily. At predefined areas in each level, you had to answer questions that had something to do with your mission - if fractions math was turned on, then you could get something like "If you use 15 1/2 gallons of water per day, and have 220 gallons, how many days until a refill is needed?".
The Dr.Brain series of games are fun too, and mainly work with just puzzle solving than with numbers and vocabulary.
Whatever you do, do not introduce him to IRC. That's just child abuse.
I got my programming/computer skills with DOS 5.0/6.2 upgrade..introducing someone to linux would be great though. Let them get an early use and learning of the shell.. I was del *.*'ing in DOS when I was around that age _
My first 'real' language I learned was C++, but what led me to it was GameMaker (www.gamemaker.nl). It's a program designed to make games, but once learned you can create really quick apps (much like VB's RAD principle). GM is OOP-based, teaches a lot of things like GUI creation and making the back-end, and leads well into higher languages. It follows C-style syntax, but it lacks power, compilation speed, and flexibility..thus people will want to progress to different and better languages:) It's meant to be an easy game creation tool, and it does its job well.
How long will it take before users will react with ad-free game patches and tricks to stop the ads from being downloaded/displayed or statistics recorded? A simple trick might be to block a certain port from the game, if they use a seperate server for the ad system..
Wouldn't this technology still be vulnerable to current problems? Things like where somebody steals your card, or records the data being sent/received whether it's from a computer or some machine somewhere.
Wouldn't all LUGs apply to that category? They would consist of people looking for open-source solutions, and *should* contain professionals of some sort.. Same with linux forums.
Rename all the files to something like "[porn star] hot secks bath tub", and list all the filename conversions on your website with HTML. Then distribute these torrents on popular trackers and let them handle the torrent:)
Hmm...releasing hydrogen from coal. Coal is formed of mostly carbon and hydrogen, correct? That would mean that lots of carbon would be released too, which has to go somewhere. If it's burned it'll become carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide. Of course, they could always strap a pencil-lead-making-facility on to the side of the factory and convert the carbon to graphite. "Coal; Now creates power, hydrogen, and pencils!"
This is a very signifigant step up to using hydrogen as a fuel source, although we're still a ways away from using fuel cells as TFA states.
Hydrogen is expensive to make and difficult to store. You might want to check out http://unitednuclear.com/h2.htm, which is their R & D page. They have been working on hydrogen powered vehicles in a much more sensible method for the short-term: just convert gasoline engines to run on hydrogen. They use a solar-powered electrolysis station (though they do say their current models are too slow) to get hydrogen from water. It's then transfered into metal-hydride tanks in your vehicle, which is a brilliant way to store it. Heating elements inside the tank release the hydrogen, and very little modification needs to be done to the engine. If the tank is cut and burned, the hydrogen is still released slowly enough to just smolder. This is a neat method, since most people think of hydrogen powered cars as electric vehicles that run off of fuel cells. Sadly, it isn't available for diesel vehicles due to the lack of a spark plug.
Probably, the real causes of RSI are more related to stress and the way you sit behind the computer, or just not taking enough (short) breaks I take all sorts of short breaks constantly when using a computer (using QWERTY now) and I don't have RSI, therefore that's the cure. Lazy people, rejoice! Chronic masturbators, too. I believe 99% of/.'ers fit into those categories..
This keyboard's weighted patterns don't fit for dvorak-style. It's stupid to have a QWERTY keyboard that's supposed to be ergonomic, as qwerty (I love typing that on a qwerty keyboard) was originally designed to slow typists hands to stop jamming mechanical typewriters.
"No, I don't want to work on curing cancer or AIDS. I'm going to go figure out why some popcorn kernels don't pop!"
Oh, the joys of what modern science is like.
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32 simultaneous porn streams?! Oh my! I don't need to be going at 20mph for that..
Geocaching is lots of fun, and caches are everywhere! There's even a few on mt. kilomanjaro. :)
I just use my eyes and a fairly cheap (less than $400 CAD) handheld GPS. The sport is designed to be easy and not requiring a lot of equipment, yet still be entertaining..so what more help do you need? Go out there and do it
Why not put both into /boot and add both to your bootloader? There are lots of tutorials for doing that, for 'testing' in case a newly compiled kernel doesn't work.
I have this on my Slackware -current computer. A vanilla 2.4, vanilla 2.6.10, and compiled 2.6.10 which I use and have had no issues with. I plan on compiling 2.6.13 soon, to keep up to date with bug fixes and improvements.
I was introduced with those games, and Reader Rabbit is a very good series. Same with Operation Neptune, an old DOS game where you would pilot a submarine and 'shoot' sea creatures with ink pellets which would make them possible to pass momentarily. At predefined areas in each level, you had to answer questions that had something to do with your mission - if fractions math was turned on, then you could get something like "If you use 15 1/2 gallons of water per day, and have 220 gallons, how many days until a refill is needed?".
The Dr.Brain series of games are fun too, and mainly work with just puzzle solving than with numbers and vocabulary.
Whatever you do, do not introduce him to IRC. That's just child abuse.
I got my programming/computer skills with DOS 5.0/6.2 upgrade..introducing someone to linux would be great though. Let them get an early use and learning of the shell.. I was del *.*'ing in DOS when I was around that age _
My first 'real' language I learned was C++, but what led me to it was GameMaker (www.gamemaker.nl). It's a program designed to make games, but once learned you can create really quick apps (much like VB's RAD principle). GM is OOP-based, teaches a lot of things like GUI creation and making the back-end, and leads well into higher languages. It follows C-style syntax, but it lacks power, compilation speed, and flexibility..thus people will want to progress to different and better languages :)
It's meant to be an easy game creation tool, and it does its job well.
How long will it take before users will react with ad-free game patches and tricks to stop the ads from being downloaded/displayed or statistics recorded? A simple trick might be to block a certain port from the game, if they use a seperate server for the ad system..
Wouldn't this technology still be vulnerable to current problems? Things like where somebody steals your card, or records the data being sent/received whether it's from a computer or some machine somewhere.
Now what? Where do I get my money? :(
Wouldn't all LUGs apply to that category? They would consist of people looking for open-source solutions, and *should* contain professionals of some sort..
Same with linux forums.
Rename all the files to something like "[porn star] hot secks bath tub", and list all the filename conversions on your website with HTML. Then distribute these torrents on popular trackers and let them handle the torrent :)
Hmm...releasing hydrogen from coal. Coal is formed of mostly carbon and hydrogen, correct? That would mean that lots of carbon would be released too, which has to go somewhere. If it's burned it'll become carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide.
Of course, they could always strap a pencil-lead-making-facility on to the side of the factory and convert the carbon to graphite. "Coal; Now creates power, hydrogen, and pencils!"
This is a very signifigant step up to using hydrogen as a fuel source, although we're still a ways away from using fuel cells as TFA states.
Hydrogen is expensive to make and difficult to store.
You might want to check out http://unitednuclear.com/h2.htm, which is their R & D page. They have been working on hydrogen powered vehicles in a much more sensible method for the short-term: just convert gasoline engines to run on hydrogen. They use a solar-powered electrolysis station (though they do say their current models are too slow) to get hydrogen from water. It's then transfered into metal-hydride tanks in your vehicle, which is a brilliant way to store it. Heating elements inside the tank release the hydrogen, and very little modification needs to be done to the engine. If the tank is cut and burned, the hydrogen is still released slowly enough to just smolder.
This is a neat method, since most people think of hydrogen powered cars as electric vehicles that run off of fuel cells.
Sadly, it isn't available for diesel vehicles due to the lack of a spark plug.
Probably, the real causes of RSI are more related to stress and the way you sit behind the computer, or just not taking enough (short) breaks /.'ers fit into those categories..
I take all sorts of short breaks constantly when using a computer (using QWERTY now) and I don't have RSI, therefore that's the cure.
Lazy people, rejoice! Chronic masturbators, too. I believe 99% of
BOFH stories read by a text-to-speech program.
This keyboard's weighted patterns don't fit for dvorak-style. It's stupid to have a QWERTY keyboard that's supposed to be ergonomic, as qwerty (I love typing that on a qwerty keyboard) was originally designed to slow typists hands to stop jamming mechanical typewriters.
"No, I don't want to work on curing cancer or AIDS. I'm going to go figure out why some popcorn kernels don't pop!" Oh, the joys of what modern science is like.
Wow, after careful re-reading, I realized that there wasn't drugs found in the shuttle tank. Space shuttle tanks, now 100% crack and opium free!
It's been done for only a few grand - http://unitednuclear.com/h2.htm Make your own solar powered hydrolysis machine in your backyard :)