Discworld, period, good for anyone of any age. You might have to do some research into which books are more appropriate for an 8 year old, but the whole series is phenomenal.
LOTR tends to be too dense for most young kids...in fact even as an adult I have issues with it. It's also very long and sometimes younger kids want to move on to the next story. I would start with The Hobbit as it flows nicely and you can lead into LOTR better with it than vice versa.
Absolutely yes, all of Madeline L'Engle's books are amazing for children. I grew up with the Time Quartet (A Wrinkle In Time, A Wind in the Door, Many Waters, and A Swiftly Tilting Planet [my personal fave]) and they're intelligent, easy to follow, exciting sci-fi books with great characters and original stories.
Yep, this is my experience too. The ntfs-3g module is definitely the way to go, let's you read, write, create new files, do whatever you want. The only limitation I've come across with it is if you try to access a drive that was turned off with hibernate (ie you hibernate your windows and then load up *nix and try to read the drive...doesn't work) but I feel like that's an obvious limitation.
Just let Dell keep it's images, but next time it upgrades or changes the images in any way, Word will have to be removed? Or is that too much bureaucracy?
Is it still insanely counter-intuitive and hard to learn? The blender i used for rendering was nigh-impossible to figure out without at least three tutorials.
I feel like this is a good thing. I wouldn't want the final frontier to suffer the same consequences as other tourist spots. Space is not something that should be exploited for commercial purposes, at least until we all have spaceships and can go wherever we want at will.
Okay, if you wan't anecdotal evidence...
My friends (brothers) have matching laptops. They are both Toshiba Satellites and are pretty decent laptops, but they use ATI cards. A year or so ago, BOTH laptops suddenly started to overheat like crazy (the fan for some reason was on the bottom of the laptop) and could literally only be used by propping them up on something or else they wouldnt last 20 minutes without the power simply shutting off. Even while the laptops were propped up, the screen would flicker, the color would get all messed up, it would go to 640x480 resolution and then BSOD. I kind of play tech support for them, and while they thought their windows installations were corrupted and needed to be reinstalled, but when i watched as the BSODing happened, i figured it must be the graphics card considering all the symptoms are graphical ones. So i was repairing the drivers when it BSODed again. right after i had removed the drivers but before i could install the newer ones. d'oh! so that computer HAD to be reformatted (and it was a driver error or something because it works fine now but i doubt a messy windows installation could cause a computer to overheat in twenty minutes). The other one experienced these symptoms more recently and I don't know what they've done with it yet. Sooo yea..ATI drivers killed their laptops.
Actually quotes are optional and when you use letters you can in fact use an apostrophe to show plurality.
http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O29-APOSTROPHE.ht ml
(2) To indicate a plural form, especially in abbreviations, as in V.I.P.'s (short for very important persons). ...
(2) With letters of the alphabet, as in His i's are just like his a's and Dot your i's and cross your t's. In the phrase do's and don'ts, the apostrophe of plurality occurs in the first word but not the second, which has the apostrophe of omission: by and large, the use of two apostrophes close together (as in don't's) is avoided. ...
4) In family names, especially if they end in -s, as in keeping up with the Jones's, as opposed to the Joneses, a form that is also common. ... etc.
I thought the rule was that if there is no encryption on the network, anybody is free to use it because the burden of encryption is on the owner/manager of the network? Or does that not apply to public places' networks like coffee shops and the like?
This could have been my post, except I got my Wii exactly three weeks ago today.
I definitely enjoy my Wii on my 60", and I have no plans to get a PS3 or even 360.
What's not to say one hasn't? It is entirely possible that an extraterrestrial race has conquered ANOTHER galaxy.
Or even ours! We could be under watch and/or cultivation by a higher race.
SO why does Apple feel the need to have the iPhone change orientation when you make it horizontal? Because it is convenient. Would you rather read things right side up or upside down?
i could see this working even on normal ("non-upsidedown") phones, when you want to text simply flip the phone over and an accelerometer will flip the screen orientaton. kind of like how the iphone will do it
Legitimate questions: aren't matroskas in.mkv format? I thought it was a wrapper format, not a codec. What don't you like about TCMP? the interface is hardly optimal, and the keyboard shortcuts are ugh, but is there specifically something wrong with it? AND: media player classic and zoomplayer are two players that play matroskas fine. (see: http://www.cccp-project.net/). and finally, mplayer plays matroskas perfectly. along with everything else.
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Discworld, period, good for anyone of any age. You might have to do some research into which books are more appropriate for an 8 year old, but the whole series is phenomenal.
LOTR tends to be too dense for most young kids...in fact even as an adult I have issues with it. It's also very long and sometimes younger kids want to move on to the next story. I would start with The Hobbit as it flows nicely and you can lead into LOTR better with it than vice versa.
Absolutely yes, all of Madeline L'Engle's books are amazing for children. I grew up with the Time Quartet (A Wrinkle In Time, A Wind in the Door, Many Waters, and A Swiftly Tilting Planet [my personal fave]) and they're intelligent, easy to follow, exciting sci-fi books with great characters and original stories.
Yep, this is my experience too. The ntfs-3g module is definitely the way to go, let's you read, write, create new files, do whatever you want. The only limitation I've come across with it is if you try to access a drive that was turned off with hibernate (ie you hibernate your windows and then load up *nix and try to read the drive...doesn't work) but I feel like that's an obvious limitation.
Just let Dell keep it's images, but next time it upgrades or changes the images in any way, Word will have to be removed? Or is that too much bureaucracy?
i remember reading about this several years ago in a magazine in a doctors office...
Is it still insanely counter-intuitive and hard to learn? The blender i used for rendering was nigh-impossible to figure out without at least three tutorials.
I feel like this is a good thing. I wouldn't want the final frontier to suffer the same consequences as other tourist spots. Space is not something that should be exploited for commercial purposes, at least until we all have spaceships and can go wherever we want at will.
Okay, if you wan't anecdotal evidence... My friends (brothers) have matching laptops. They are both Toshiba Satellites and are pretty decent laptops, but they use ATI cards. A year or so ago, BOTH laptops suddenly started to overheat like crazy (the fan for some reason was on the bottom of the laptop) and could literally only be used by propping them up on something or else they wouldnt last 20 minutes without the power simply shutting off. Even while the laptops were propped up, the screen would flicker, the color would get all messed up, it would go to 640x480 resolution and then BSOD. I kind of play tech support for them, and while they thought their windows installations were corrupted and needed to be reinstalled, but when i watched as the BSODing happened, i figured it must be the graphics card considering all the symptoms are graphical ones. So i was repairing the drivers when it BSODed again. right after i had removed the drivers but before i could install the newer ones. d'oh! so that computer HAD to be reformatted (and it was a driver error or something because it works fine now but i doubt a messy windows installation could cause a computer to overheat in twenty minutes). The other one experienced these symptoms more recently and I don't know what they've done with it yet. Sooo yea..ATI drivers killed their laptops.
gtkpod for my brother's iPod, and I haven't used it myself, but am aware that Amarok has syncing capabilities.
(2) With letters of the alphabet, as in His i's are just like his a's and Dot your i's and cross your t's. In the phrase do's and don'ts, the apostrophe of plurality occurs in the first word but not the second, which has the apostrophe of omission: by and large, the use of two apostrophes close together (as in don't's) is avoided.
4) In family names, especially if they end in -s, as in keeping up with the Jones's, as opposed to the Joneses, a form that is also common.
etc.
I thought the rule was that if there is no encryption on the network, anybody is free to use it because the burden of encryption is on the owner/manager of the network? Or does that not apply to public places' networks like coffee shops and the like?
or video that demonstrates it a little differently
if you are wedded to the reality of reality, how would knowing that reality exists when youre not looking make you sad? i dont understand the summary.
thats fine and dandy. how about some suggestions to how we can keep our boxes secure?
My personal test for HD is as follows
is it 16:9?
is it 720p or better?
This could have been my post, except I got my Wii exactly three weeks ago today. I definitely enjoy my Wii on my 60", and I have no plans to get a PS3 or even 360.
What's not to say one hasn't? It is entirely possible that an extraterrestrial race has conquered ANOTHER galaxy. Or even ours! We could be under watch and/or cultivation by a higher race.
SO why does Apple feel the need to have the iPhone change orientation when you make it horizontal? Because it is convenient. Would you rather read things right side up or upside down?
i could see this working even on normal ("non-upsidedown") phones, when you want to text simply flip the phone over and an accelerometer will flip the screen orientaton. kind of like how the iphone will do it
You mean, $0.002.
You are correct. What the GP meant was "To die is an intransitive verb."
You have a choice (usuallY) with software. You never have a choice with race.
Legitimate questions: aren't matroskas in .mkv format? I thought it was a wrapper format, not a codec. What don't you like about TCMP? the interface is hardly optimal, and the keyboard shortcuts are ugh, but is there specifically something wrong with it? AND: media player classic and zoomplayer are two players that play matroskas fine. (see: http://www.cccp-project.net/). and finally, mplayer plays matroskas perfectly. along with everything else.
i know what you are talking about, but what if said user uploads the picture to, say, imageshack or photobucket? how would that be blocked?