Comment Great way to go (Score 1) 479
I'm sorry for your loss. I'm sure he's looking down from somewhere and giving you the thumbs up for following his wishes.
I'm sorry for your loss. I'm sure he's looking down from somewhere and giving you the thumbs up for following his wishes.
There's actually several of these kind of devices on the market, I've seen different watches, cell phones and even a backpack. They have their place, I have 3 kids all under the age of 10 and kids that age can get lost very easily if you don't keep a close eye on them. I've put serious consideration into buying some kind of GPS tracker for my kids.
It's important to realise, however that a kid is going to get abducted even if they are wearing some wizzbang locater device if they're not first taught how to defend themselves. There's no substitute for teaching your kids the most important lesson of all: Stay away from strangers! I've taught my kids some very important things, that all parents should teach them:
- Don't approach strangers
- If one approaches you, run
- If the worst happens and someone grabs you, make a huge fuss - kick and scream, do what ever you can to draw attention.
Right now, I'm investing my $250 not into a GPS device but into taking my kids to self defense classes. Much apart from the fact it's great exercise and teaches them discipline and respect, it may save their lives one day. Plus, they're having a lot of fun doing it
We have...
* Insufferably hot and humid with afternoon storms and tourists (June-September)
* Nice and mild with no tourists (October-April)
* Winter (a couple of nights in January, if we're lucky).
I would never buy a Kindle, unless it was about $50 and didn't have all that DRM crap. I tried the Sony reader and it was OK I suppose. Even then, I would use it solely for technical manuals. I've tried reading fiction on an electronic device and it just feels wrong. Sitting down and reading a good book is one of life's simple pleasures, and life is too complicated nowadays.
The only advantage I can really see with an E-Book is if my library caught fire it'd be a lot easier to replace everything!
It's surprisingly easy because we used to be nobility up until the reformation happened. We had backed the Parliamentarians, and once the King Charles II came to power we lost the majority of our lands. Oh well!
Time Travel - Not feasible (in spite of how much I'd love to skip forward a few hundred years)
FTL Travel - Goes against the laws of physics, but I'd like to think we'd be able to find a way around this one someday or we're stuck in one part of the Universe forever.
Human-Level AI - I expect to see this in my lifetime.
Discovery of Aliens - I'm in the "they're out there somewhere" club, but I don't think we've had any contact yet. I hope we'll find evidence of other life before I die, probably in our own Solar System first.
Immortality - I can trace my family history with near certainty back to the year 780. I have 3 kids of my own. You could say we're already immortal (at least for the next generation). I doubt true immortality will ever be a reality, but current research shows promise for significantly increased lifespan.
World Peace - Ha! Not a chance.
Sharks With Frickin' Lasers - Technically already feasible, but very silly.
Not to worry, most of the kids who bullied me in grade school are now working menial jobs because they felt making other people's lives miserable was more important at the time than studying. It's the best form of revenge.
You'll love college, most of the people are there because they WANT to be not because their parents forced them. Therefore, the maturity level is higher. Mostly.
Just another clueless web designer putting up an open relay form. I thought I'd seen the last of these back in the 1990s! I'm sure the web site in question has been blacklisted by all the major DNSBL lists by now.
It was fook'n good! Did you not feel like saying fook a lot after watching it?
Wikus
I'm actually pretty good at finding my way around when alone, the problem is if someone else is driving I tend to not pay attention to the route we're taking.
This got really embarrassing when I first started driving (I didn't start driving regularly until I was in my 20s because frankly I didn't need a car until then) because I would make ridiculous wrong turns in areas I'd been travelling around regularly for years.
I have a tendency to explore off the beaten track which definitely helps in learning how to navigate.
I'll agree with other posters, I moved from the UK to the US and was screwed up for several months because the stars where in a different place (relatively speaking).
I recall buying a 512Mb thumb drive in 2004 for something approaching $60. Now you can pick up 2Gb ones at Wal-Mart for $15. I've ditched USB thumb drives now I have an SD converter since those cards are even cheaper.
They're useful if I want to transfer large files from work to home since they can be a little touchy about me throwing gigabytes of data over the network, but beyond that they spend most of their time gathering dust.
Why they post that is beyond me. Serves no purpose.
Having interviewed for a position at the postal training center, they used PHP on Apache and Solaris for the OS (Oracle for the DB).
I'm not sure which training location they are talking about but one of the main ones (Postal Training Center is in Norman, OK).
I read about it somewhere. Said it actually raised temps 2-3ÂF while in operation.
My baby toys are at my parent's house and my nephews play with them. The Fisher Price ones from the 70s have survived nearly 40 years being played with by dozens of kids and are still good as new! They will probably be excavated intact by some future society thousands of years from now, long after the rest of our civilisation has crumbled.
"Been through Hell? Whaddya bring back for me?" -- A. Brilliant