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I have a better idea , buy him a mountain bike
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He has a mountain bike. And a BMX. Three skateboards, two or three scooters, his own skatepark (well, four or five ramps) and spends much of his free time playing outside with his friends, or down the beach surfing or body-boarding, or playing soccer.
So rather than being a smarmy git, why not answer the question or just don't respond at all ?
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Because we live in a culture when a 2 year old has a ipad or similar (and yes i know a guy with 2 children buying for each of them ipads )
I believe that the ipad is not a good gift for a child yes its shiny and it can do many things like for example cheat in school. You are giving him a great example and opportunity. But what actually he can do with it which really matters to him and showing off is not a valid answer. Does he really needs it ?
I wrote my answer only to suggest a better gift(in my opinion) and it was with no intention to tell you what to do. I just replied topic and in any case it was not written with squinty look and/or a superior smile on my face and i don't even know what git means.
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Argonia wrote: Because we live in a culture when a 2 year old has a ipad or similar
My son will be 11
Argonia wrote: I believe that the ipad is not a good gift for a child
I disagree
Argonia wrote: its shiny and it can do many things
So is a BMX bike
Argonia wrote: cheat in school.
He's not allowed any electronic equipment at his school - and in schools where devices are allowed they're not used for 'cheating' - often they use them for giving out resources such as course notes, videos etc. which is actually far more cost effective than providing copies for each child, and much harder for the children to misplace.
Argonia wrote: But what actually he can do with it which really matters to him
He can play games. That matters to him
He can use it to look things up on the internet (for example, he just built himself a crossbow following instructions found on youtube)
He can us it to skype his relatives who live overseas.
He can use it to video himself and his friends at the skatepark.
etc.
All that really matters to him'
Argonia wrote: showing off is not a valid answer.
Why not? Kids like to show off! If he got a new bike, new skateboard, new anything, one of the things he is going to do with it is show off - that's what kids do!
Argonia wrote: Does he really needs it ?
Need? No of course not. Does he need a mountain bike, skateboard, trampoline, swimming pool, trip to the movies, lollies, nice clothes etc.?
Argonia wrote: I wrote my answer only to suggest a better gift(in my opinion)
I was having a particularly bad day, yesterday, and you took the brunt of my frustration at work, for which I apologise.
However, I am sick and tired of people online not actually answering a question - your answer was typical of many a Q&A answer.
Q. I want to do X - can someone help me out with the code?
A. You shouldn't do X you should do Y it's better/faster/etc.
Whereas the better answer would be
Are you
sure you want to do X, as Y would be better and faster, but if you want to do X then you can do it like this...
Argonia wrote: i don't even know what git means
Here[^]
the definition reads a little harsher than I used it, though!
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_Maxxx_ wrote: He has a mountain bike. And a BMX. Three skateboards, two or three scooters, his own skatepark (well, four or five ramps) and spends much of his free time playing outside with his friends, or down the beach surfing or body-boarding, or playing soccer.
rather than being a smarmy git, why not answer the question or just don't respond at all ?
Possibly because he wanted to warn you that all of that's gonna get completely ignored once he gets his tablet. That's pretty much what happened when my sister's ex gave one to his kid (he's 9). He also used to spend a lot of time playing cards and traditional board games with his grandparents--now his attitude is pretty much to hell with them, unless he forgets to bring it.
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I bought my brother an HP Slate 7. Lovely little device. He put it in a draw to mature for a few years while he sends his 10 year old PC out to be 'repaired' by the local 'little man in the shop'.
That will save him from upgrading windows for almost a month.
You can lead a twit to a tablet, but in the end they really should have had the mountain bike. 
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Here[^].
Like it?
And the first person to guess how I made this gets an upvote.
EDIT: I used The Powder Toy[^] to create this.
I used FIRW to create the color and had the game in persistent mode.
<voice type="Ebeneezer Scrooge"> Bah. dumb bugs </voice>
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Brisingr Aerowing wrote: how I made this
You dropped your new box of colour toner cartridges onto the carpet.
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Funny, but no. It is CG.
Still, you get an upvote for making me laugh.
<voice type="Ebeneezer Scrooge"> Bah. dumb bugs </voice>
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Cool! Some kind of fractal generator?
"I've seen more information on a frickin' sticky note!" - Dave Kreskowiak
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Fed your cat food color and chili?
This space intentionally left blank.
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How you made this?? With an absolute lack of taste (or a severe color blindness)
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It is hideous. I happen to love my eyes and would prefer keeping it out of sight. BTW, I think this is something to do with not a professional image processing code.
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My eyes hurt. Are you listening Ummagumma? 
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The catch-phrase "bit salad," used in the early days of so-called "desktop publishing" by graphic designers who were horrified by the pixellacious monstrosities cranked out by the barbarian hordes of the Cult of Mac storming their citadels of narcissism ... comes to mind.
Or, maybe, the inside of a mind on bad acid at a death-metal concert, as the lateral geniculate nucleus is fried ?
“The best hope is that one of these days the Ground will get disgusted enough just to walk away ~ leaving people with nothing more to stand ON than what they have so bloody well stood FOR up to now.” Kenneth Patchen, Poet
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Nice!
But there is a problem. Look at the 8451 pixels from the left and 1244 from the top, that pixel seems out of place. I think it should be an easy fix. 
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Rutvik Dave wrote: Look at the 8451 pixels from the left and 1244
Its the 8452 
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Whatever floats your boat, I guess. Not my cup of tea though.
"Real men drive manual transmission" - Rajesh.
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Sorry, but its a big  from here....
If your neighbours don't listen to The Ramones, turn it up real loud so they can.
“We didn't have a positive song until we wrote 'Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue!'” ― Dee Dee Ramone
"The Democrats want my guns and the Republicans want my porno mags and I ain't giving up either" - Joey Ramone
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Aaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrggggghhh! 
Don't do that to me again! EVER! 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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I really like Windows 8. It has made me more productive at work, and is more intuitive to use that earlier versions of Windows, or Max OS or Android or Ios.
It looks and feels like a grown-up operating system and, as a developer, features such as opening the desktop with no 'hourglass' when I run some apps and just opening full screen for others opens some doors for us in product development.
The ease of use whether using keyboard/mouse or touch screen or a combination is so intuitive that our users don't even notice the transition and never have problems accidentally scrolling when they meant to swipe to close, or have issues trying to position the mouse in the corner of multiple desktops!
Well done Microsoft - this is the future of the desktop and the tablet, rolled into one.
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I agree that it is a step forward. Most people resist change so anything that is different is automatically bad for them.
It only took me a day or two to get used to the look and feel.
I must admit that I use a lot of keyboard shortcuts to avoid mouse clicks which probably made the transition a little easier.
I am on Windows 8.1 now and like it even more than Windows 8.
Try Windows 8.1 if you can.
I know you are joking but I am not. It really is better.
The report of my death was an exaggeration - Mark Twain
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