Also, you can install k9 for free. http://www1.k9webprotection.com/ You can then include whatever categories you care about. Are there ways around it? Of course. But be your child's teammate, not their adversary. Tell them why you are installing it. They wl appreciate that you are trying to protect them, even if they don't agree, and they will feel empowered to talk to you if they don't. Respect is a two-way street.
I have the Asus, and I love playing with emulators for every system and game I ever owned and watching movies ripped from my collection using Handbrake. We hooked up the HDMI out cable and watched a movie with the grandparents the other day and it was great.
As colleges keep raising the prices high above the inflation rate, it becomes a worse and worse deal for those involved. It's really that simple. Also, advanced degrees are often detrimental to software development jobs, since degree-holders like to waste time arguing about technologies and methods rather than getting around to using something and getting a job done.
Also, for most of us, our CS degree wasted our time with endless amounts of calculus and physics that we haven't used once since, but neglected to teach us tons of things that would have actually helped.
So you'll forgive us if we are distrustful of college, since it was only about halfway helpful for our job.
And yes, I also don't agree that everyone needs to be running around over-educated. College should absolutely be a trade school for intellectual careers. It's positioned that way to employers anyway.
While not strictly RPG, I loved playing the Lego series with my kids (Lego Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Batman, Pirates of the Caribbean was recently released). There are puzzles to solve and you get to run around through movie scenes and it's easy to play 2 players at once.
No. But when the dollar goes down compared to foreign currency because we have to print billions in currency to "bail out" banks that are poor because they're stashing all their money in Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Monaco and the Cayman Islands, the rest of the world goes, "Good! America's back!" and invests even more, causing the dollar to go up against foreign currency.
Say what; how about we arrest all married males from Iran travelling through Western countries on suspicion of child molestation (what with age of consent there being 9 years for girls); and if their wives - even if not travelling with them - are younger than whatever is the age of consent in the country of detention, we put them on trial as pedophiles? Because that would be roughly as meaningful.
Careful. You just insulted Mohamed, which is illegal in about 23 countries.
My friend's Dad was an engineer at Boeing and tested exactly this. Beyond old planes (DC-9 and older), electronics were not a problem, as everything was shielded enough not to interfere. But people have a hard time understanding "you can do it on this plane, but not on that one" if they are used to a behavior.
Cell phones are a problem for the cell towers, not the planes. The number of handoffs that happen on calls from the air is pretty bad.
Delta would go out of business really quick. Within a day or two. So I say they should have done it.
Besides, TSA regulations allow airports to hire 3rd party security other than the TSA. Why not just get all the airports in Texas to stop using the TSA and switch to 3rd party contractors?
I had a boss that sat in a "boss cube" next to me with a keyboard like this. It was so unbelievably distracting to everyone within earshot. Sure, HE got his work done 10% faster. But everyone else went 25% slower.
Or purposely changing the file extension, which is often why people call me to do something they can't. "The instructions say, 'Rename blah.ext to blah.ext.old and then download a new blah.ext.'
Firefox 4 on my tablet is already completely unusable because there just aren't any buttons or bars on the thing. I've installed it and uninstalled it twice now, hoping that it would work for me.
The default browser is almost as bad, but at least there is a dropdown on the current tab which brings the address bar back.
I taught a CS101 BASIC class as an adjunct professor at a school with no CS department. It was a requirement for HS teachers and our school was great at churning out teachers. Some other people took it just to "find out about computers".
So I am teaching people QBASIC to avoid $500 for the students. I had a guy who didn't know how to type and had never touched a computer before. I gave hard assignments, too, programs that actually did things like a menu system to launch all the standard programs on the lab machines, solving 8 queens, etc. Most of my students got As and nobody failed. (I was using a strict points system and showed everyone weekly where their letter grade was.)
The shocking part? Almost all of them went into computer-related fields. The teachers became the programming teacher at the HS, even though they "didn't think they were good at it" (they were). You CAN teach people CS, even if they don't know programming, have little interest (at the beginning), have never touched a computer, etc.
Now, one of the school cheerleaders was taking the class and asked me whether I thought she should drop it. I told her yes, because we both saw that there was no way she would do well. It just wasn't her thing.
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It would have been better to seize their Cayman Islands and Liechtenstein accounts and then bail them out with that.
That's what Artificial Intelligence is. Or was.
Also, you can install k9 for free. http://www1.k9webprotection.com/ You can then include whatever categories you care about. Are there ways around it? Of course. But be your child's teammate, not their adversary. Tell them why you are installing it. They wl appreciate that you are trying to protect them, even if they don't agree, and they will feel empowered to talk to you if they don't. Respect is a two-way street.
I have the Asus, and I love playing with emulators for every system and game I ever owned and watching movies ripped from my collection using Handbrake. We hooked up the HDMI out cable and watched a movie with the grandparents the other day and it was great.
All of which, I can't do with an IPad.
As colleges keep raising the prices high above the inflation rate, it becomes a worse and worse deal for those involved. It's really that simple. Also, advanced degrees are often detrimental to software development jobs, since degree-holders like to waste time arguing about technologies and methods rather than getting around to using something and getting a job done.
Also, for most of us, our CS degree wasted our time with endless amounts of calculus and physics that we haven't used once since, but neglected to teach us tons of things that would have actually helped.
So you'll forgive us if we are distrustful of college, since it was only about halfway helpful for our job.
And yes, I also don't agree that everyone needs to be running around over-educated. College should absolutely be a trade school for intellectual careers. It's positioned that way to employers anyway.
because if this turns out to be another widespread hack like the others reccently it'd be the last time I ever buy an Apple product.
What, Steve Jobs controlling every aspect of your life wasn't enough?
While not strictly RPG, I loved playing the Lego series with my kids (Lego Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Batman, Pirates of the Caribbean was recently released). There are puzzles to solve and you get to run around through movie scenes and it's easy to play 2 players at once.
No. But when the dollar goes down compared to foreign currency because we have to print billions in currency to "bail out" banks that are poor because they're stashing all their money in Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Monaco and the Cayman Islands, the rest of the world goes, "Good! America's back!" and invests even more, causing the dollar to go up against foreign currency.
Got it?
Try taking $10,000+ US cash out of your account without the bank having to fill out FBI forms.
Try sending $10,000+ US worth of Bitcoins to Eastern Europe.
Just like cash, but much easier.
I read the rejected story.... Weird.
MAME still does high scores. Just make sure you have an NVRAM folder set up and add -autosave to the command line options (or in an options dialog).
Mod parent up. That is a true LOL.
Say what; how about we arrest all married males from Iran travelling through Western countries on suspicion of child molestation (what with age of consent there being 9 years for girls); and if their wives - even if not travelling with them - are younger than whatever is the age of consent in the country of detention, we put them on trial as pedophiles? Because that would be roughly as meaningful.
Careful. You just insulted Mohamed, which is illegal in about 23 countries.
Hope they don't need to reference the manuals in an emergency takeoff or landing situation...
My friend's Dad was an engineer at Boeing and tested exactly this. Beyond old planes (DC-9 and older), electronics were not a problem, as everything was shielded enough not to interfere. But people have a hard time understanding "you can do it on this plane, but not on that one" if they are used to a behavior.
Cell phones are a problem for the cell towers, not the planes. The number of handoffs that happen on calls from the air is pretty bad.
They didn't install an app which spies on you and sends all your entertainment preferences to Sprint.com
They didn't make asinine statements to you about how their major screwups are "little hiccups".
They didn't sue you for rooting your phone, and claim you fled the country when you went on vacation.
They didn't lose millions of customer credit card numbers to hackers.
They have a looong way to go to catch Sony. But it's a step in the wrong direction.
Delta would go out of business really quick. Within a day or two. So I say they should have done it.
Besides, TSA regulations allow airports to hire 3rd party security other than the TSA. Why not just get all the airports in Texas to stop using the TSA and switch to 3rd party contractors?
I had a boss that sat in a "boss cube" next to me with a keyboard like this. It was so unbelievably distracting to everyone within earshot. Sure, HE got his work done 10% faster. But everyone else went 25% slower.
That's one of the features I put in my own Keyboard driver that I install on all my PCs. (Here if you want it.) Also, it has AltGr support for accented characters as well as ©®¼±÷ etc. It's really easy with the Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator.
Address Bar in the browser so I can go to another site quickly.
Yes, because that is uncrackable unless you can convince a woman go to dinner with a nerd, which we all know would never happen in the real world...
Or purposely changing the file extension, which is often why people call me to do something they can't. "The instructions say, 'Rename blah.ext to blah.ext.old and then download a new blah.ext.'
Firefox 4 on my tablet is already completely unusable because there just aren't any buttons or bars on the thing. I've installed it and uninstalled it twice now, hoping that it would work for me.
The default browser is almost as bad, but at least there is a dropdown on the current tab which brings the address bar back.
I taught a CS101 BASIC class as an adjunct professor at a school with no CS department. It was a requirement for HS teachers and our school was great at churning out teachers. Some other people took it just to "find out about computers".
So I am teaching people QBASIC to avoid $500 for the students. I had a guy who didn't know how to type and had never touched a computer before. I gave hard assignments, too, programs that actually did things like a menu system to launch all the standard programs on the lab machines, solving 8 queens, etc. Most of my students got As and nobody failed. (I was using a strict points system and showed everyone weekly where their letter grade was.)
The shocking part? Almost all of them went into computer-related fields. The teachers became the programming teacher at the HS, even though they "didn't think they were good at it" (they were). You CAN teach people CS, even if they don't know programming, have little interest (at the beginning), have never touched a computer, etc.
Now, one of the school cheerleaders was taking the class and asked me whether I thought she should drop it. I told her yes, because we both saw that there was no way she would do well. It just wasn't her thing.