Yep, Doom was the cause for my 486DX -> 486DX2 -> 486DX4 upgrades. And it was Quake that pushed our LAN Party group to go Pentium. We would always competed who had the faster processor. One time my friend got ahead of me but on one particular warm night his machine kept crashing. So he started taking the case off. "What are you doing?" "Putting it back to 166MHz" Busted!
We all had Matrox Milleniums for Doom and related games. Those cards had an amazingly fast framebuffer. Eventually I was the first to get a 3Dfx Voodoo card when games started supporting it. I think it was a raceing game called Whiplash that we played that was the tripping point. Next LAN party everyone else had one.:D
Then it was the Voodoo II. SLI. Eventually I jumped off the 3Dfx bandwagon when they started their Banshee and Voodoo 3 fiascos. Switched to an Nvidia based TNT card and later TNT2 but my friends weren't convinced. Then I got the GeForce 256. Next LAN Party everyone had one.
I was also the first to get a Gravis Ultrasound card. The look of amazement on my friends faces when actual musical instruments were playing in my games was priceless. Next LAN Party everyone had one.
Was over at a friend's house and his little brother was playing Doom. Didn't think much of it since he had his screen so dark I could barely see what was going on. A week later my friend suggested we should play it co-op, all he needed was a null modem cable which I had. He already finished the first two episodes so I started with him on the third. Straight into hell!:D
Eventually I wanted to play 4 player deathmatch so I started looking into the cost of network cards. Eeeep. Way to expensive for a student. Lucky for me a friend's father's company was upgrading their network and I bought 4 arcnet cards and a passive hub for $50. Now I just needed cable. As look would have it there was a roll of several hundred feet of RG62 coax in my basement. Asked my dad what he was going to use it for. Nothing. Sweet! Just had to buy some ends.
The other problem is the cards had no jumpers. Configuration was done via software and the software sucked and didn't work. So I ran it through a disassembler and wrote my own version with nice menus and everything. Now I could play 4 player Doom in my basement with my friends. They'd lug their computers to my place around noon. I covered the windows in the basement so we were in total darkness and we'd play straight on through until 6am. Eighteen hours of pure doom, fueled by cheetos and jolt cola with breaks only for the washroom while I grabbed a new wad file from FidoNet (I ran a node).
One night one friend couldn't make it and we were short for our usual 2 vs 2 deathmatch game. Called up one of my SysOp friends and asked him if he wanted to play. Nope. But he had another SysOp friend of his, who I didn't know, three wayed into the phone call. So I asked if he wanted to play. Sure! Thirty minutes later I had a stranger on my front doorstep with a computer and big CRT monitor in tow. We've been best friends ever since.
So transferring the new wad files to 3 other computers by sneakernet was getting annoying. Especially when one computer could not read the floppy written by another. Booting into Windows for Workgroups was a pain so I had an idea. I told my friends to play without me for a bit and I pulled out the packet driver docs I had handy. "What you doing?" "Writing a file transfer program" "Seriously? Guess you're not playing with us tonight" "We'll see".
In half an hour it was ready. One or two minor bug fixes and it worked. The target machines would fire up the program first. The sender would start last with all the filenames to send. It would send to all receiving machines at once. I used broadcast to send out the file and the receivers would ACK or NAK each packet in a round robin manner to avoid collisions on the arcnet. Fast and efficient. They never doubted me again when I said I'd write something quick.:)
Eventually my new friend started complaining that he had to pull out his ethernet card and swap it out with my arcnet card. So we started hunting around for cheap network cards. We eventually found some and I bought 2 (one for myself and an extra) and he bought an extra. Got some RG58 cable and BNC connectors and we finally were on ethernet. We ended up having a flaky terminator one night so I shoved two 100ohm resistors in parallel into one end and electrical taped it in place.
Eventually my friend got a 4 port 10baseT hub and we switched over to twisted pair. I soon got one as well and we linked them together with the hub's 10base2 uplinks. So we started moving onto games that supported more than 4 players. And that was the end of our Doom deathmatch marathons.
You are no different than every other childless person who knows more about having children than people who actually have children. You won't believe that, but that is part of the proof.
Sigh. I you mistakenly believe that just because you have hundreds of hours of experience with a handful of specific children only you can know anything about raising children in general. Parents are experts on their children. They do not necessarily know more about raising other children than a childless person does. If the childless person had more exposure to different types of kids then they would be more knowledgeable in general to a parent's specific knowledge. Plus there are some really bad parents out there. Having kids didn't make them experts.
I never claimed I know more about how to raise a child. All I wrote was how a child/teenager might feel/react in a specific situation. It's not child rearing. It's psychology.
There are two groups in this discussion. Those who feel that they need to control every aspect of their child and those who give their kids more freedom. I'm not a believer in the strict/authoritarian child raising. And there are studies that show that it can causes behavioral problems and low self esteem plus depression and anxiety.
I really guessed you as being late teens. Based on your reply, I'd guess mid-to-late 20's. You don't say how old your friends' kids are. Regardless, you don't know what works and what doesn't. At best, you know what works for your friends' kids. If you try to use those techniques on any future children of yours, without modification, almost guaranteed you will fail. Because every child is an individual.
You're doing a lot of assuming.:) I never said this will work with your kid. Never said it will work on my kids if/when I have any. I was just countering your logical fallacy that I can't know anything about raising kids because I don't have kids.
You set up the scenario -- she was being secretive and hiding the screen. I played a parent that trusted the daughter but questioned her hiding the screen. And the result is that she now doesn't trust me. I didn't have reason to not trust her before, but you indicated hiding a phone screen is a sign of secrecy so I investigated and that was the result. Your idea, not mine.
Oy, you sure love twisting things around. Guess I was not clear enough. Chronic hiding of her screen may be cause for concern if there is other evidence. It's your daughter, you should be able to tell if it may be something benign or serious. You're scenario would probably play out more like you innocently ask her what's she doing and her answering back with a big smile "Noooothing". Hmm. Birthday is close, that might be it. Let's see if this behavior continues after my birthday. And even if you did mistakenly accuse her you can always apologize and ask for forgiveness. Losing trust over one indecent is nothing compared to loosing trust when you demand her passcode and possibly after a secret search.
And it was you who made this specific about your daughter. I was talking more in general. On how your daughter reacts, you're the expert. I can't argue with you on that specific case except for one point. You may think she doesn't resent you for invading her privacy but there's no way to really find out unless she goes super private when she hits 18.
It also depends on the parent. If they've snooped through their kid's rooms or tried listening in on conversations in the past then demanding a passcode is just a big invasion of privacy. On the other hand if they're like you where you haven't given the kid any reason not to believe you won't go snooping then it may work.
But let's step back from this discussion and focus on the idea of trust. Picture an all-American average family -- mother, father, two kids; let's assume one girl and one boy. Let's look at how trust works in this situation:
Not going to quote all that.:) One friend has a couple of kids and they've been using tablets from a very young age. And yes, she had full access to their devices. The devices we're still her property in fact. So I agree with you fully here. It's at this stage where you learn how responsible they are online and teach them how to avoid dangers. But there comes a point where you don't need full access to their device. That's where the trust part comes in. You trust the won't drink at a friends house, you trust the won't wreck your car and you trust they will operate online as you taught them.
If they ever break that trust, that's when the restrictions should kick in. And if you determine they can't be trusted with a device, don't give them a personal one. Give them a one that's yours then feel free to be able to check it out. If they don't like it they're perfectly find to decline and get internet access elsewhere.
I sense this is not how your childhood went. Substantially this is how my childhood went. Substantially this is how my children's childhoods are going.
Correct. My parents gave me freedom and trust based on my past behavior. If a new situation came up th
I too enjoy how people that are around parents or have the same 'all my friends have children' and believe that makes them experts.
Never claimed to be an expert. I just really hate the "you don't have kids so you don't know anything" attitude. Sometimes it takes an outside view to get the whole picture. How does a parent know how their kids behave when they are not around for example.
Also to the example you replied to, a daughter who is normally not secretive and suddenly becomes so, is cause for concern. You only get that type of vibe after living with someone for years and years, not just from visiting friends with kids.
Never claimed that I would pick up on a behavior change in someone else's kid. But if a child starts being secretive close to your birthday then a few other indications would be in order before assuming they're up to no good. And the grandparents should know better than to get the kid to be sneaky near a paranoid parent.:)
Also, how about acknowledging the fact that the constant connection to the Internet of this generation is vastly different than you and your 1200 baud modem? Did your parents actually understand the risks of the bbs's or what you could do with a computer?
The only difference is that it's slower. I was still communicating with people I had never met before. And yes, my dad was quite aware what a computer and a BBS was.
My son had and still does have my code for mine and my wife's phones because shit happens and I would rather he have it and not need it then the alternative, just like I have his. To me it's kinda like owning a gun, I don't want to use it but I'd rather have it than not, especially when it's needed.
I have no issues white people mutually agreeing to have access to each others phones.
I don't know how old you are. But guaranteed: I've been your age, you've not been my age. I'm a parent, you're not. Guaranteed.
Odds are we're about a decade apart or less. You are correct that I am not a parent. Pretty much all my friends are. I've seen the entire spectrum of child rearing techniques. I know what works and what doesn't.
Try this hypothetical on for size:
Me: Kathryn, you keep hiding your phone. What's going on?
Me: (read texts between her and her aunt and grandparents about a surprise party for my 50th birthday . ..)
Now tell me she won't have that same sense of betrayal and that same sense of "you don't trust me."
If all it takes is one instance of her being secretive for you to go all search and seizure on her you've just proven my point. You don't trust her. And how does that scenario play out if you have her passcode? She'll be making secretive phone calls and hanging up when you walk by. Or use the library/school/friends computer because "daddy is spying on her".
With that attitude, if you were my child, you wouldn't have an electronic device. And if you went and got one behind my back, tacit proof you are untrustworthy.
You would be the one setting the tone on that situation initially. You're actions requiring me to surrender my passcode tells me you don't trust me. Me secretly getting a device can not be untrustworthy since you don't trust me to begin with. I can not betray your trust if you haven't given me your trust.
This is proof enough you know zilch about parenting.
I know plenty about parenting. Reproducing does not magically make you an expert on raising kids. I love how parents dismiss people without kids as not knowing anything about parenting. Like I wrote above, virtually all my friends are parents. I've seen what works and what doesn't and how kids react to parents that are way too "invasive".
You see, in the old days, like when I was raised, parents were parents. Any sense of friendship was secondary. Parents were the authority figures. That doesn't have to mean they were dictators -- but as a child you knew they were in charge.
Believe me. My parents were definitely in charge. If I messed up, boy did I get it. But they trusted me. I could go out all day on my bike anywhere within a 3.5 sq km area without any supervision. When I finally got a 1200 baud modem so I could dial up some BBSes I was not supervised because the trusted me. I did not do anything to betray that trust because I didn't want to loose that freedom.
Nowdays society and parents are way more paranoid. Some of it justified, most of it not. Someone else already mentioned "helicopter parents".
Note that I have never accessed my daughter's phone without her knowledge or permission.
Then you don't need her passcode then. If you're going to access it with here knowledge and permission she can unlock it for you.
But I can in the event that i need to. Why? Because I am the parent. Because I am in charge.
And yet you didn't answer my question on why you'd ever need to access her phone without her knowledge and/or permission. Yes, you're the parent. Yes, you're in charge. Yes, you're responsible. But that doesn't mean you should invade her privacy. You don't barge into her room I hope. You knock and wait for permission before entering (for courtesy and legal reasons). That room does not belong to her but you still respect her privacy in regards to it.
Yet with a phone you have no respect for her privacy at all. And the phone, unlike her room, is most likely her property (christmas/birthday gift perhaps?). Yes, you can exercise control over her use of that property but using her property without her permission just doesn't sit right wit
What emergency requires you to access your child's phone when they are not around? If you suspect something serious is going on (because they keep hiding the screen every time you're around for example) then you ask them to show you. Basically it's "I trusted you but you're acting very suspicious, what are you hiding?" and now they know it's their fault.
You having the passcode however tells them you don't trust them, even if you mistakenly think it has to do with mutual trust. Chances are they'll actually start doing bad stuff because why not, you don't trust them anyways. Not breaking a parent's trust is a very powerful motivator to not do bad things.
When I was young my parents trusted me because of how they raised me. If I screwed up and broke that trust it was then that I had to earn it back. Sad to see that now kids are starting from zero trust and having to work their way up.
If I was a kid these days and my parents required the passcode to my phone I'd just save up some money until I could buy an older used phone and use that for my private communication. Check the "compromised" device all you want. And if I got into some kind of trouble, they would not be the people I'd go to for help. It would be a teacher or guidance counselor as I would trust them more than my parents.
I used to work at a company who installed access control systems but I wasn't shy about doing that when visiting customers sites. I did it once in an elevator because I was carrying a large box. The look of surprise on the woman's face in the elevator was priceless.
She asked me how I did that and I replied "It's the new model we're experimenting with. It sniffs your butt like a dog to see if it should give you access." She could not stop laughing all the way up to her floor.
"beloved gun registry"
Huh? All of the people I know think it's a waste of money. 2 billion dollars to make people 'feel' safe? First of all, the criminals won't register their guns. And second, I just read in todays paper which quoted a cop saying the police were told not to use it as it contained stale data. Beloved my ass...
And growing biofules takes that carbon right back out again. The problem with fossil fuels is that we're taking carbon that was taken from the atmosphere millions of years ago over a long period of time and releasing it now in a short period of time.
I do agree however that nuclear, solar and wind are the way to go. Hopefully the nuclear fission will be replaced by nuclear fusion in my lifetime.
Even though 1080i is interlaced the console still has to render it internally at 1080p and then just displays half the lines from each full frame. Both the 360 and the PS3 have 1080p output capability so both can push more pixels than a PC at 1600x1200. I doubt that there are many casual PC gamers that have a rig that can do more than 1600x1200 at a decent frame rate. My current PC monitor maxes out at 1600x1200@60Hz.
1920x1080 = 2,073,600 pixels
1600x1200 = 1,920,000 pixels
1280x 720 = 921,600 pixels
BTW, most current 360 games render internally at 720p and upscale to 1080i/p.
Actually, it's very easy to wipe the information from a BlackBerry. The article mentioned two of the methods: using the wipe option on the handheld or just entering your password wrong 11 times.
There's also a third way, using the wipe option from the desktop software. That one not only nukes the user data but also all the apps and the OS as well.
The wipe process takes quite a while so it is erasing the data and not just the "directory" information.
You have it backwards. Daylight savings time is what gives more sunlight later in the day. The children getting on the bus argument is against making DST a larger percentage of the year or shifting the time more than just one hour.
And remember DX offers MORE than just graphics. It also does sound, input and networking.
DirectX's networking protocol is pure crap. It is not client/server so both machines must be able to accept incoming connections. If you're behind a firewall you have to open about a hundred ports to get it to work and if you have any kind of NAT/sharing device you can only have ONE machine able to play games over the net.
Fortunately most developers have realized this and code their own networking code.
That article on Tom's Hardware Guide, "Performance Impact of Rambus" says that RDRAM's bus width had to be reduced by 75% to 16 bits (2 bytes) to run at 800MHz. Going backwards and you get 8 bytes for SDRAM (8 - 75% = 2).
Now if we divide all your SDRAM access times by 2 we get 20ns for 100MHz DDR SDRAM which is the same as 800MHz rambus.
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Same! Got a SoundBlaster because of Doom. Also got a Gravis Ultrasound later on because of Doom.
Yep, Doom was the cause for my 486DX -> 486DX2 -> 486DX4 upgrades. And it was Quake that pushed our LAN Party group to go Pentium. We would always competed who had the faster processor. One time my friend got ahead of me but on one particular warm night his machine kept crashing. So he started taking the case off. "What are you doing?" "Putting it back to 166MHz" Busted!
We all had Matrox Milleniums for Doom and related games. Those cards had an amazingly fast framebuffer. Eventually I was the first to get a 3Dfx Voodoo card when games started supporting it. I think it was a raceing game called Whiplash that we played that was the tripping point. Next LAN party everyone else had one. :D
Then it was the Voodoo II. SLI. Eventually I jumped off the 3Dfx bandwagon when they started their Banshee and Voodoo 3 fiascos. Switched to an Nvidia based TNT card and later TNT2 but my friends weren't convinced. Then I got the GeForce 256. Next LAN Party everyone had one.
I was also the first to get a Gravis Ultrasound card. The look of amazement on my friends faces when actual musical instruments were playing in my games was priceless. Next LAN Party everyone had one.
Did they get the idea for RFC1149 from you? :D
Was over at a friend's house and his little brother was playing Doom. Didn't think much of it since he had his screen so dark I could barely see what was going on. A week later my friend suggested we should play it co-op, all he needed was a null modem cable which I had. He already finished the first two episodes so I started with him on the third. Straight into hell! :D
Eventually I wanted to play 4 player deathmatch so I started looking into the cost of network cards. Eeeep. Way to expensive for a student. Lucky for me a friend's father's company was upgrading their network and I bought 4 arcnet cards and a passive hub for $50. Now I just needed cable. As look would have it there was a roll of several hundred feet of RG62 coax in my basement. Asked my dad what he was going to use it for. Nothing. Sweet! Just had to buy some ends.
The other problem is the cards had no jumpers. Configuration was done via software and the software sucked and didn't work. So I ran it through a disassembler and wrote my own version with nice menus and everything. Now I could play 4 player Doom in my basement with my friends. They'd lug their computers to my place around noon. I covered the windows in the basement so we were in total darkness and we'd play straight on through until 6am. Eighteen hours of pure doom, fueled by cheetos and jolt cola with breaks only for the washroom while I grabbed a new wad file from FidoNet (I ran a node).
One night one friend couldn't make it and we were short for our usual 2 vs 2 deathmatch game. Called up one of my SysOp friends and asked him if he wanted to play. Nope. But he had another SysOp friend of his, who I didn't know, three wayed into the phone call. So I asked if he wanted to play. Sure! Thirty minutes later I had a stranger on my front doorstep with a computer and big CRT monitor in tow. We've been best friends ever since.
So transferring the new wad files to 3 other computers by sneakernet was getting annoying. Especially when one computer could not read the floppy written by another. Booting into Windows for Workgroups was a pain so I had an idea. I told my friends to play without me for a bit and I pulled out the packet driver docs I had handy. "What you doing?" "Writing a file transfer program" "Seriously? Guess you're not playing with us tonight" "We'll see".
In half an hour it was ready. One or two minor bug fixes and it worked. The target machines would fire up the program first. The sender would start last with all the filenames to send. It would send to all receiving machines at once. I used broadcast to send out the file and the receivers would ACK or NAK each packet in a round robin manner to avoid collisions on the arcnet. Fast and efficient. They never doubted me again when I said I'd write something quick. :)
Eventually my new friend started complaining that he had to pull out his ethernet card and swap it out with my arcnet card. So we started hunting around for cheap network cards. We eventually found some and I bought 2 (one for myself and an extra) and he bought an extra. Got some RG58 cable and BNC connectors and we finally were on ethernet. We ended up having a flaky terminator one night so I shoved two 100ohm resistors in parallel into one end and electrical taped it in place.
Eventually my friend got a 4 port 10baseT hub and we switched over to twisted pair. I soon got one as well and we linked them together with the hub's 10base2 uplinks. So we started moving onto games that supported more than 4 players. And that was the end of our Doom deathmatch marathons.
10base2? You must have been rich to afford that kind of hardware. :)
We played doom on 4 arcnet cards and a passive hub I bought second had for $50.
Did someone say remote controlled chainsaw?
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You are no different than every other childless person who knows more about having children than people who actually have children. You won't believe that, but that is part of the proof.
Sigh. I you mistakenly believe that just because you have hundreds of hours of experience with a handful of specific children only you can know anything about raising children in general. Parents are experts on their children. They do not necessarily know more about raising other children than a childless person does. If the childless person had more exposure to different types of kids then they would be more knowledgeable in general to a parent's specific knowledge. Plus there are some really bad parents out there. Having kids didn't make them experts.
I never claimed I know more about how to raise a child. All I wrote was how a child/teenager might feel/react in a specific situation. It's not child rearing. It's psychology.
There are two groups in this discussion. Those who feel that they need to control every aspect of their child and those who give their kids more freedom. I'm not a believer in the strict/authoritarian child raising. And there are studies that show that it can causes behavioral problems and low self esteem plus depression and anxiety.
I really guessed you as being late teens. Based on your reply, I'd guess mid-to-late 20's. You don't say how old your friends' kids are. Regardless, you don't know what works and what doesn't. At best, you know what works for your friends' kids. If you try to use those techniques on any future children of yours, without modification, almost guaranteed you will fail. Because every child is an individual.
You're doing a lot of assuming. :) I never said this will work with your kid. Never said it will work on my kids if/when I have any. I was just countering your logical fallacy that I can't know anything about raising kids because I don't have kids.
You set up the scenario -- she was being secretive and hiding the screen. I played a parent that trusted the daughter but questioned her hiding the screen. And the result is that she now doesn't trust me. I didn't have reason to not trust her before, but you indicated hiding a phone screen is a sign of secrecy so I investigated and that was the result. Your idea, not mine.
Oy, you sure love twisting things around. Guess I was not clear enough. Chronic hiding of her screen may be cause for concern if there is other evidence. It's your daughter, you should be able to tell if it may be something benign or serious. You're scenario would probably play out more like you innocently ask her what's she doing and her answering back with a big smile "Noooothing". Hmm. Birthday is close, that might be it. Let's see if this behavior continues after my birthday. And even if you did mistakenly accuse her you can always apologize and ask for forgiveness. Losing trust over one indecent is nothing compared to loosing trust when you demand her passcode and possibly after a secret search.
And it was you who made this specific about your daughter. I was talking more in general. On how your daughter reacts, you're the expert. I can't argue with you on that specific case except for one point. You may think she doesn't resent you for invading her privacy but there's no way to really find out unless she goes super private when she hits 18.
It also depends on the parent. If they've snooped through their kid's rooms or tried listening in on conversations in the past then demanding a passcode is just a big invasion of privacy. On the other hand if they're like you where you haven't given the kid any reason not to believe you won't go snooping then it may work.
But let's step back from this discussion and focus on the idea of trust. Picture an all-American average family -- mother, father, two kids; let's assume one girl and one boy. Let's look at how trust works in this situation:
Not going to quote all that. :) One friend has a couple of kids and they've been using tablets from a very young age. And yes, she had full access to their devices. The devices we're still her property in fact. So I agree with you fully here. It's at this stage where you learn how responsible they are online and teach them how to avoid dangers. But there comes a point where you don't need full access to their device. That's where the trust part comes in. You trust the won't drink at a friends house, you trust the won't wreck your car and you trust they will operate online as you taught them.
If they ever break that trust, that's when the restrictions should kick in. And if you determine they can't be trusted with a device, don't give them a personal one. Give them a one that's yours then feel free to be able to check it out. If they don't like it they're perfectly find to decline and get internet access elsewhere.
I sense this is not how your childhood went. Substantially this is how my childhood went. Substantially this is how my children's childhoods are going.
Correct. My parents gave me freedom and trust based on my past behavior. If a new situation came up th
I too enjoy how people that are around parents or have the same 'all my friends have children' and believe that makes them experts.
Never claimed to be an expert. I just really hate the "you don't have kids so you don't know anything" attitude. Sometimes it takes an outside view to get the whole picture. How does a parent know how their kids behave when they are not around for example.
Also to the example you replied to, a daughter who is normally not secretive and suddenly becomes so, is cause for concern. You only get that type of vibe after living with someone for years and years, not just from visiting friends with kids.
Never claimed that I would pick up on a behavior change in someone else's kid. But if a child starts being secretive close to your birthday then a few other indications would be in order before assuming they're up to no good. And the grandparents should know better than to get the kid to be sneaky near a paranoid parent. :)
Also, how about acknowledging the fact that the constant connection to the Internet of this generation is vastly different than you and your 1200 baud modem? Did your parents actually understand the risks of the bbs's or what you could do with a computer?
The only difference is that it's slower. I was still communicating with people I had never met before. And yes, my dad was quite aware what a computer and a BBS was.
My son had and still does have my code for mine and my wife's phones because shit happens and I would rather he have it and not need it then the alternative, just like I have his. To me it's kinda like owning a gun, I don't want to use it but I'd rather have it than not, especially when it's needed.
I have no issues white people mutually agreeing to have access to each others phones.
I don't know how old you are. But guaranteed: I've been your age, you've not been my age. I'm a parent, you're not. Guaranteed.
Odds are we're about a decade apart or less. You are correct that I am not a parent. Pretty much all my friends are. I've seen the entire spectrum of child rearing techniques. I know what works and what doesn't.
Try this hypothetical on for size:
Me: Kathryn, you keep hiding your phone. What's going on? Me: (read texts between her and her aunt and grandparents about a surprise party for my 50th birthday . . .)
Now tell me she won't have that same sense of betrayal and that same sense of "you don't trust me."
If all it takes is one instance of her being secretive for you to go all search and seizure on her you've just proven my point. You don't trust her. And how does that scenario play out if you have her passcode? She'll be making secretive phone calls and hanging up when you walk by. Or use the library/school/friends computer because "daddy is spying on her".
With that attitude, if you were my child, you wouldn't have an electronic device. And if you went and got one behind my back, tacit proof you are untrustworthy.
You would be the one setting the tone on that situation initially. You're actions requiring me to surrender my passcode tells me you don't trust me. Me secretly getting a device can not be untrustworthy since you don't trust me to begin with. I can not betray your trust if you haven't given me your trust.
This is proof enough you know zilch about parenting.
I know plenty about parenting. Reproducing does not magically make you an expert on raising kids. I love how parents dismiss people without kids as not knowing anything about parenting. Like I wrote above, virtually all my friends are parents. I've seen what works and what doesn't and how kids react to parents that are way too "invasive".
You see, in the old days, like when I was raised, parents were parents. Any sense of friendship was secondary. Parents were the authority figures. That doesn't have to mean they were dictators -- but as a child you knew they were in charge.
Believe me. My parents were definitely in charge. If I messed up, boy did I get it. But they trusted me. I could go out all day on my bike anywhere within a 3.5 sq km area without any supervision. When I finally got a 1200 baud modem so I could dial up some BBSes I was not supervised because the trusted me. I did not do anything to betray that trust because I didn't want to loose that freedom.
Nowdays society and parents are way more paranoid. Some of it justified, most of it not. Someone else already mentioned "helicopter parents".
Note that I have never accessed my daughter's phone without her knowledge or permission.
Then you don't need her passcode then. If you're going to access it with here knowledge and permission she can unlock it for you.
But I can in the event that i need to. Why? Because I am the parent. Because I am in charge.
And yet you didn't answer my question on why you'd ever need to access her phone without her knowledge and/or permission. Yes, you're the parent. Yes, you're in charge. Yes, you're responsible. But that doesn't mean you should invade her privacy. You don't barge into her room I hope. You knock and wait for permission before entering (for courtesy and legal reasons). That room does not belong to her but you still respect her privacy in regards to it.
Yet with a phone you have no respect for her privacy at all. And the phone, unlike her room, is most likely her property (christmas/birthday gift perhaps?). Yes, you can exercise control over her use of that property but using her property without her permission just doesn't sit right wit
What emergency requires you to access your child's phone when they are not around? If you suspect something serious is going on (because they keep hiding the screen every time you're around for example) then you ask them to show you. Basically it's "I trusted you but you're acting very suspicious, what are you hiding?" and now they know it's their fault.
You having the passcode however tells them you don't trust them, even if you mistakenly think it has to do with mutual trust. Chances are they'll actually start doing bad stuff because why not, you don't trust them anyways. Not breaking a parent's trust is a very powerful motivator to not do bad things.
When I was young my parents trusted me because of how they raised me. If I screwed up and broke that trust it was then that I had to earn it back. Sad to see that now kids are starting from zero trust and having to work their way up.
If I was a kid these days and my parents required the passcode to my phone I'd just save up some money until I could buy an older used phone and use that for my private communication. Check the "compromised" device all you want. And if I got into some kind of trouble, they would not be the people I'd go to for help. It would be a teacher or guidance counselor as I would trust them more than my parents.
I used to work at a company who installed access control systems but I wasn't shy about doing that when visiting customers sites. I did it once in an elevator because I was carrying a large box. The look of surprise on the woman's face in the elevator was priceless. She asked me how I did that and I replied "It's the new model we're experimenting with. It sniffs your butt like a dog to see if it should give you access." She could not stop laughing all the way up to her floor.
"beloved gun registry" Huh? All of the people I know think it's a waste of money. 2 billion dollars to make people 'feel' safe? First of all, the criminals won't register their guns. And second, I just read in todays paper which quoted a cop saying the police were told not to use it as it contained stale data. Beloved my ass...
And growing biofules takes that carbon right back out again. The problem with fossil fuels is that we're taking carbon that was taken from the atmosphere millions of years ago over a long period of time and releasing it now in a short period of time. I do agree however that nuclear, solar and wind are the way to go. Hopefully the nuclear fission will be replaced by nuclear fusion in my lifetime.
Even though 1080i is interlaced the console still has to render it internally at 1080p and then just displays half the lines from each full frame. Both the 360 and the PS3 have 1080p output capability so both can push more pixels than a PC at 1600x1200. I doubt that there are many casual PC gamers that have a rig that can do more than 1600x1200 at a decent frame rate. My current PC monitor maxes out at 1600x1200@60Hz. 1920x1080 = 2,073,600 pixels 1600x1200 = 1,920,000 pixels 1280x 720 = 921,600 pixels BTW, most current 360 games render internally at 720p and upscale to 1080i/p.
Actually, it's very easy to wipe the information from a BlackBerry. The article mentioned two of the methods: using the wipe option on the handheld or just entering your password wrong 11 times.
There's also a third way, using the wipe option from the desktop software. That one not only nukes the user data but also all the apps and the OS as well.
The wipe process takes quite a while so it is erasing the data and not just the "directory" information.
You have it backwards. Daylight savings time is what gives more sunlight later in the day. The children getting on the bus argument is against making DST a larger percentage of the year or shifting the time more than just one hour.
President Schwarzenegger. Just like in Demolition Man....
And remember DX offers MORE than just graphics. It also does sound, input and networking.
DirectX's networking protocol is pure crap. It is not client/server so both machines must be able to accept incoming connections. If you're behind a firewall you have to open about a hundred ports to get it to work and if you have any kind of NAT/sharing device you can only have ONE machine able to play games over the net.
Fortunately most developers have realized this and code their own networking code.
SDRAM DIMMS are 8 bytes wide (64 bits).
That article on Tom's Hardware Guide, " Performance Impact of Rambus " says that RDRAM's bus width had to be reduced by 75% to 16 bits (2 bytes) to run at 800MHz. Going backwards and you get 8 bytes for SDRAM (8 - 75% = 2).
Now if we divide all your SDRAM access times by 2 we get 20ns for 100MHz DDR SDRAM which is the same as 800MHz rambus.