I would love to see more doctors prescribe healthy living.
To be given a drug is a physical reminder of a "solution" to a problem, but we rarely see exercise, lifestyle changes, and diet as prescriptions. Maybe if there were an official reminder of it to stick on your fridge or something, it would sink in better.
I've gone for health problems where I know that my extra weight didn't necessarily cause the problem, but probably exasperated it. Only once have I heard a doctor say "you need to lose weight to help this". Why the hesitation? Even so, it was a short comment that wasn't discussed.
Instead of waiting for the RIAA to take over every device that we come up with, why don't we come up with a new device or standard that specifically (legally) excludes/forbids their involvement? Beat them to the punch.
Make something awesome that everyone will want to get on board with.
I'm about to lose my mother to cancer, so last week my fiance and I decided we'd get married this Saturday (instead of October) so she could still remember it and she knows she'll be able to make it.
One of the things I just realized today, is that the things that Mom that will stay with me are the things I have directly from her. She taught me to knit and sew (and do other crafty things), and I plan on using some of her quilting fabric at home to make a quilt for ourselves, as she is unable to anymore.
I also have some church cookbooks from the church she attended with her recipes in there (and a reproduced one from the 50's with my Grandma's recipes in there).
Are there hobbies or skills that your wife does that the kids can learn from her?
I used to be quite anti-pink, but I've often been making the choice to get the item in that colour, when I have a choice. I'm female, so there's nothing passe about it for me.
When choosing between a silver Canon digital camera, or a pink one, I choose pink because it'd be easier to identify as mine, and people might think twice about stealing it.
My last cell phone wasn't pink, but when I had to choose between black, silver, and red, I chose red. My most current cell phone is only available in black, and I find I lose it in the apartment a lot more often.
My bike will probably need a paint job next year, and I'll do it in pink. Maybe even with Hello Kitty stickers (which I am not a fan of).
You know, I like playing a few games here and there, but as soon as I read
Bissell talks about the difficulties in describing gameplay to non-gamers. 'A lot of casual games sort of submerge their storytelling to an almost subliminal level while upping the gameplay sophistication,'
My eyes glazed over and my brain went elsewhere. Kind of like when someone really excited about gaming starts to ramble on about it.
My gaming serves a purpose for me - take my brain elsewhere for a while. Why do I expect that non-gamers should be able to relate to a game they don't play themselves? Even if they did play the same game, most things we relate to each other are going to be the same. Do we start a conversation where most responses are going to be "me too"?
Posting it all over slashdot is a start. Maybe Comcast can be encouraged to try better (versus one tier-1 buddy looking at the buddy next to him and saying... "hey... can you take this call and pretend you're a manager?"
Happens the same whether you're on channel 1, 6, or 11? (the only b/g channels that don't overlap)
I know in my high-rise apartment, almost everyone is on channel 6, and I wouldn't be surprised if peak usage was mid-evening.
Did you double-check that some rule didn't accidentally get selected, which filters you out (either in the router interface... of you're using software that has scheduling...)
If you're using a radio type that is using the 5Ghz channel, someone's old beastly cordless phone might be affecting it too. If you're using a dual-band radio on your router, try using the other band and see what happens.
Running Wireshark (free) might not tell you what specifically is causing the problem, but you can narrow it down to see if packets are timing out, or getting filtered. Maybe there's traffic you didn't expect to be there? http://www.wireshark.org/download.html
I pick up Make at the library, subscribe to LinuxJournal (so cheap there's no need to go to the library), go to local Unix User Group meetings, plus I acquire old equipment to tinker with whenever the opportunity presents itself. A crappy box goes a long way to alleviating any fears of breaking something.
As someone else pointed out, the internet and wikipedia are newer supplements to this idea too. Hardware and the way it's implemented is a fair bit more complex than 20 or 30 years ago (or, at least, there's a lot more to learn if you want to know the different designs).
I've heard good things about the legend of Byte, unfortunately, it's something I haven't grown up with.
Cisco gear *and* a professional group supporting it is more expensive than somebody's buddy "who knows computer stuff" picking up a $40 AP from Future Shop. A business may or may not decide to make that impact how they do their wireless access. Or... they may have other reasons for doing so (i.e. not wanting it abused). I am game for free unrestricted access everywhere, but businesses are free to do as they please when providing this service.
And clearly, we have learned that business vs personal internet access pricing is not comparable all over the globe. Sometimes there is a big variation, sometimes there is not.
Third, I hope you don't express yourself like this in person and at work. It would be nice if us nerds could shed our reputation of having poor personal skills. I know the internets aren't really serious business, but let's keep it professional, ok?
Here, high-speed internet is about $40/month for a residential address, but $300/month for business (with a cap of either 50 or 200 GB, depending on who you're dealing with). The speeds aren't that much different than residential, but you get web space and five shiny static IPs.
I doubt any small-ish coffee house would require a FT3 or T3, but it does make me wonder what "options" for connections they are even offered as a business. The cost of wireless itself could be essentially nil as you could do one or two cheap access point set up on different radios. It's possible the cheapest wired connection offered to their building isn't cheap. I'm speculating, here.
Of course, if the business needs to hire someone to set it up for them (especially if it's a chain), they are likely buying Cisco equipment at full price somewhere, not on eBay.
You forgot what decade we're in. You need to push hard for the idea of how green it is (to the alternative of lots of pages shipped all over the place). Then, proceed to demonize anyone who's against the idea as hating the planet.
(At least in this case, the whole green standpoint is valid and substantial.)
I wouldn't say so. Everyone's told they must go to university or college to get a good job, so if the university has a captive audience, why wouldn't they charge what they can get away with?
In my campus bookstore, they are selling some books at 5% or 10% over list price... plus they make sure you don't get the booklist until three days before classes start. No ISBNs on the list. They're sure not doing this for the convenience of students.
I still think encouraging tinkering is the best route. Taking things apart, experimenting (even silly experiments), seeing how things work.
Unfortunately, we're already criminalizing some of those. Cue the hilarity of a kid at a science fair who mixed a brand-name seed with another getting taken down by Monsanto, or a new programmer trying to figure out how codecs work getting nailed by the movie or music industry.
The whole %0.5 of it, or whatever it is? Unlikely.
My University had a God-like math professor who wrote many texts. He encouraged students to buy the book, photocopy it, and return it. He said he barely got anything for them, and he would rather have the students in his class to have the book and be able to follow along in the lecture. "$150 is just stupid, I have no say in it."
And those of us who are perfectionists beat ourselves up for not being able to "handle" it all.
Bookmarks and lesser to-do lists, unfinished projects or "projects I should really do sometime" become a guilty burden. When we have the expectation that we're supposed to do everything and follow every lead, we feel like failures when we don't.
It's going to take more than one party to pass this. So no matter what party your MP belongs to, let them know you are most definitely not amused. And other parties *have* had a hand in this before.
I've always worried about the ramifications of discouraging people from tinkering, innovation and creative thinking. What happens to a technical creative process go when people are scared of doing something against the law? What does fear to do a creative mind, and what does it mean to our younger generation, and the future of our country?
So if you care, please inform others about this, and encourage them to follow through on making themselves heard... no matter who their favorites in parliament are.
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I would love to see more doctors prescribe healthy living.
To be given a drug is a physical reminder of a "solution" to a problem, but we rarely see exercise, lifestyle changes, and diet as prescriptions. Maybe if there were an official reminder of it to stick on your fridge or something, it would sink in better.
I've gone for health problems where I know that my extra weight didn't necessarily cause the problem, but probably exasperated it. Only once have I heard a doctor say "you need to lose weight to help this". Why the hesitation? Even so, it was a short comment that wasn't discussed.
Instead of waiting for the RIAA to take over every device that we come up with, why don't we come up with a new device or standard that specifically (legally) excludes/forbids their involvement? Beat them to the punch.
Make something awesome that everyone will want to get on board with.
I'm about to lose my mother to cancer, so last week my fiance and I decided we'd get married this Saturday (instead of October) so she could still remember it and she knows she'll be able to make it.
One of the things I just realized today, is that the things that Mom that will stay with me are the things I have directly from her. She taught me to knit and sew (and do other crafty things), and I plan on using some of her quilting fabric at home to make a quilt for ourselves, as she is unable to anymore.
I also have some church cookbooks from the church she attended with her recipes in there (and a reproduced one from the 50's with my Grandma's recipes in there).
Are there hobbies or skills that your wife does that the kids can learn from her?
I used to be quite anti-pink, but I've often been making the choice to get the item in that colour, when I have a choice. I'm female, so there's nothing passe about it for me.
When choosing between a silver Canon digital camera, or a pink one, I choose pink because it'd be easier to identify as mine, and people might think twice about stealing it.
My last cell phone wasn't pink, but when I had to choose between black, silver, and red, I chose red. My most current cell phone is only available in black, and I find I lose it in the apartment a lot more often.
My bike will probably need a paint job next year, and I'll do it in pink. Maybe even with Hello Kitty stickers (which I am not a fan of).
Bissell talks about the difficulties in describing gameplay to non-gamers. 'A lot of casual games sort of submerge their storytelling to an almost subliminal level while upping the gameplay sophistication,'
My eyes glazed over and my brain went elsewhere. Kind of like when someone really excited about gaming starts to ramble on about it.
My gaming serves a purpose for me - take my brain elsewhere for a while. Why do I expect that non-gamers should be able to relate to a game they don't play themselves? Even if they did play the same game, most things we relate to each other are going to be the same. Do we start a conversation where most responses are going to be "me too"?
Posting it all over slashdot is a start. Maybe Comcast can be encouraged to try better (versus one tier-1 buddy looking at the buddy next to him and saying... "hey... can you take this call and pretend you're a manager?"
Android users in Canada use SIPdroid and ???
(Google Voice no worky here... not really, anyway) //noob, but very interested
Sometimes the software on a pc or device shows it when you select a Wireless Network. Sometimes it doesn't.
Network Stumbler does.
That reminds me, welding will bork things up spectacularly. Not likely in this case, I think, but worth a mention.
Happens the same whether you're on channel 1, 6, or 11? (the only b/g channels that don't overlap)
I know in my high-rise apartment, almost everyone is on channel 6, and I wouldn't be surprised if peak usage was mid-evening.
Did you double-check that some rule didn't accidentally get selected, which filters you out (either in the router interface... of you're using software that has scheduling...)
If you're using a radio type that is using the 5Ghz channel, someone's old beastly cordless phone might be affecting it too. If you're using a dual-band radio on your router, try using the other band and see what happens.
Running Wireshark (free) might not tell you what specifically is causing the problem, but you can narrow it down to see if packets are timing out, or getting filtered. Maybe there's traffic you didn't expect to be there? http://www.wireshark.org/download.html
Companies get their panties in a bunch to gain free publicity. special on Marketing in the 21st Century at 11:30pm.
Probably referring to RFC 1149 and its successor, RFC 2549. And yes, it's been implemented.
How about a space shuttle?
I pick up Make at the library, subscribe to LinuxJournal (so cheap there's no need to go to the library), go to local Unix User Group meetings, plus I acquire old equipment to tinker with whenever the opportunity presents itself. A crappy box goes a long way to alleviating any fears of breaking something.
As someone else pointed out, the internet and wikipedia are newer supplements to this idea too. Hardware and the way it's implemented is a fair bit more complex than 20 or 30 years ago (or, at least, there's a lot more to learn if you want to know the different designs).
I've heard good things about the legend of Byte, unfortunately, it's something I haven't grown up with.
Cisco gear *and* a professional group supporting it is more expensive than somebody's buddy "who knows computer stuff" picking up a $40 AP from Future Shop. A business may or may not decide to make that impact how they do their wireless access. Or... they may have other reasons for doing so (i.e. not wanting it abused). I am game for free unrestricted access everywhere, but businesses are free to do as they please when providing this service.
And clearly, we have learned that business vs personal internet access pricing is not comparable all over the globe. Sometimes there is a big variation, sometimes there is not.
Third, I hope you don't express yourself like this in person and at work. It would be nice if us nerds could shed our reputation of having poor personal skills. I know the internets aren't really serious business, but let's keep it professional, ok?
Here, high-speed internet is about $40/month for a residential address, but $300/month for business (with a cap of either 50 or 200 GB, depending on who you're dealing with). The speeds aren't that much different than residential, but you get web space and five shiny static IPs.
I doubt any small-ish coffee house would require a FT3 or T3, but it does make me wonder what "options" for connections they are even offered as a business. The cost of wireless itself could be essentially nil as you could do one or two cheap access point set up on different radios. It's possible the cheapest wired connection offered to their building isn't cheap. I'm speculating, here.
Of course, if the business needs to hire someone to set it up for them (especially if it's a chain), they are likely buying Cisco equipment at full price somewhere, not on eBay.
You forgot what decade we're in. You need to push hard for the idea of how green it is (to the alternative of lots of pages shipped all over the place). Then, proceed to demonize anyone who's against the idea as hating the planet.
(At least in this case, the whole green standpoint is valid and substantial.)
I wouldn't say so. Everyone's told they must go to university or college to get a good job, so if the university has a captive audience, why wouldn't they charge what they can get away with?
In my campus bookstore, they are selling some books at 5% or 10% over list price... plus they make sure you don't get the booklist until three days before classes start. No ISBNs on the list. They're sure not doing this for the convenience of students.
I still think encouraging tinkering is the best route. Taking things apart, experimenting (even silly experiments), seeing how things work.
Unfortunately, we're already criminalizing some of those. Cue the hilarity of a kid at a science fair who mixed a brand-name seed with another getting taken down by Monsanto, or a new programmer trying to figure out how codecs work getting nailed by the movie or music industry.
I wonder how many people have tested out buffer overflow. What's the longest-named or most numerous interests you can think of?
The whole %0.5 of it, or whatever it is? Unlikely.
My University had a God-like math professor who wrote many texts. He encouraged students to buy the book, photocopy it, and return it. He said he barely got anything for them, and he would rather have the students in his class to have the book and be able to follow along in the lecture. "$150 is just stupid, I have no say in it."
fwall=time_gaming_talk / probability_someone_getting_in_pants
fwall is very small to begin with, but quickly approaches 0. Inverse relationship, worse as time goes on.
I'd watch hockey if it wasn't boxing. If I wanted to go see boxing, I'd go to a boxing match.
And those of us who are perfectionists beat ourselves up for not being able to "handle" it all.
Bookmarks and lesser to-do lists, unfinished projects or "projects I should really do sometime" become a guilty burden. When we have the expectation that we're supposed to do everything and follow every lead, we feel like failures when we don't.
It's going to take more than one party to pass this. So no matter what party your MP belongs to, let them know you are most definitely not amused. And other parties *have* had a hand in this before.
I've always worried about the ramifications of discouraging people from tinkering, innovation and creative thinking. What happens to a technical creative process go when people are scared of doing something against the law? What does fear to do a creative mind, and what does it mean to our younger generation, and the future of our country?
So if you care, please inform others about this, and encourage them to follow through on making themselves heard... no matter who their favorites in parliament are.
(Love Make magazine's motto: void your warranty).