the younger kids all play a FPS called 'sudden attack' while the really young kids are addicted to 'Maple Story'
out of the 1500 12-16 year old kids I taught in Korea, only about 3 of them played star craft. all of them where in their final year of middle school. none of the younger kids were interested.
Its only 35 years ago every "Expert" and "Scientist" (sorry to kill your God here Atheists) was telling us we were heading for a new Ice Age. Don't take my word for it, look it up.
ok, i did look it up. here are the results:/quote>...They find very few papers (7 in total) predict global cooling. This isn't surprising. What surprises is that even in the 1970s, on the back of 3 decades of cooling, more papers (42 in total) predict global warming due to CO2 than cooling.
i would like to add to this that in many countries, it is illegal to record audio (but not images) of someone without their permission. if you don't have the professor's permission to record the class, you could be in some legal trouble if you are caught.
note: this didn't stop me from making recordings of several of my courses.
I've archived every single note from every class, and even now, 3 years later, i will review a random class from time to time to keep it fresh in my mind.
Q: "If I buy these songs on your service â" and they're locked to my phone â" what happens when I upgrade my phone in six months' time?" A: "Well, I think you know the answer to that."
I know its microsoft we're dealing with here, and the default way to fill in the blanks is by assuming they will screw you; but, is there a possibility that there is an easy walk-around to this DRM, (sort of like the one in itunes) and he's being vague about it at the moment to keep the media companies happy?
i can't imagine MS would be THAT stupid to ignore such obvious common sense in the face of such steep competition. can they really be that out of touch? are they intentionally trying to fail?
it may be true for many, but not all flash cart users are in it for the piracy.
i have an M3DS simply card. and i will admit, i have pirated several games to try them out, but my DS gets far more use as a day planner and MP3 player, thanks to this card. As a visual artist, people often ask to see my work, so i have JPEGs of my work on my card as well, so if someone wants to see what i do, i can pull out my DS and show them. these cards turn the DS into a very useful tool.
On the rare occasion where I have downloaded a game, It is one i already own. While i do have legitimate copies of these games, I still use the ROMS loaded on my M3, because I can't be bothered to carry around 10 different game cartridges when I can have all of my games on one card, along with my MP3 and photo collection.
and there are some great homebrew games out there. i used to play 'a touch of war' quite often. its a shame nintendo hasn't put out a RTS of its own.
the best way to describe the flavour of these silk worms is: they taste like ass in a can. you know that smell the bottom of a garbage can? silk worms taste just like that, only crunchy.
If you don't mind wasting 2 minutes of your life (since you are posting on/., I will assume that you don't) I made a short youtube video last year of my experience with this 'food'. http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=B1ZoRUGkhEo
the expression on my face will do more to describe the taste of these things than words ever could.
I've got a baseless and unsupportable hypothesis (based on my lack of personal experience and lack of research) that teachers are afraid of technology, because their students know it better than them. And as a result, students are not getting the exposure to tech they need.
my personal experience would support your hypothesis.
back in my high school days (nearly 10 years ago now) I took a lot of 'computers' classes, because i wanted to learn about computers. but, i didn't. instead, I learned how to use things like 'corel word perfect', some power point clone, and 'turing' a programming language so limiting, it makes BASIC seem like C by comparison.
rather than learning about building computers and general computing concepts, i was taught how to use specific and now obsolete software. those courses and that knowledge are now useless to me.
how clueless were the teachers? this was back in 1999, so not knowing about linux was still forgivable, but the misinformation i received, was not.
over the course of 3 years and 3 different computers classes, these are the highlights:
On a test, this question came up: how many companies sell differing operating systems: a. 1 b. 2 c. 3 d. more than 3. apparently, the correct answer was b, not d. silly me...
i got 150% for participation, because i taught the teacher how to use computers before she could teach the class.
i got kicked out of class for playing computer games. but the assignment was 'to write your own computer game' and i was testing my own game! she refused to believe it was mine, even after going through my code line by line.
and finally, i got suspended for 'hacking'. some random 'error' dialogues were popping up on every system every hour or so, and i disabled them on my computer.
My experience shows me that you are correct. most teachers do not understand the technology that the students are growing up with.
last year, when booting up my laptop for one of my lessons, one of my students saw my ubuntu desktop and yelled out 'that's my system, too!'
no, you would need at least 16 cards, but likely more. much more.
800 shots per job is not an overestimate, it is actually a very reasonable number.
I use one set of cards for each particular job. each set of cards is numbered and lettered. (1a, 1b, 1c, 1d, 2a, 2b, 2c...etc.) for one job, i use my '1x' set, while the next job, i use my '2x' set.
use a sharpie, never pencil, to label your cards. different colours can help, too.
I copy the images to a properly named folder on a hard drive at the end of the night, and put those memory cards into a clearly labeled box. (I use an Altoids tin with some padding material thrown in) at the start of the next day, I insert the next set of cards into my camera bag for the next job.
you ONLY format those cards and re-use them after the job is complete. before then, a minimum of 2 copies of the data must be kept. even after the job is complete, i keep the data on the cards until i need to format them for another job.
A professional has no excuse for lost data. but even at the amateur level, you don't want to lose your data. those photos could become treasured memories for generations to come.
being raised in a rural town, i suspect that I notice this effect much more strongly than urbanites. when i'm in the city, everything is fighting for my attention simultaneously, so i just tune everything out.
I wonder if something similar occurs when using a multitasking operating system.
in the old days, a personal computer would be set to do one thing and one thing only at any one time. now i have music running in the background, along with gimp and pidgin, while i try to post on Slashdot. I'm so distracted, this post took me nearly 45 minutes to type up, and i can almost guarantee I wont get a +5 insightful.
the old nikon d70 has a fantastic feature for these types of situations, where you could 'hide' photos. The camera would skip past them, as if they were deleted, but when you copied the photos on to your computer, ta-da! they're back!
the laws in Canada (excluding Quebec) and the US are very similar regarding photography. no photos of military gear, or anything else that could be a national security threat, but otherwise, its all fair game and no one can tell you otherwise. however, if they tell you to stop/leave, you must obey. taking more pictures would be trespassing, but those photos are yours.
forcing you to delete a photo is either 1. destruction of personal property, or 2. destruction of evidence, neither is allowed.
Honestly, I wish people would just sit back, relax, and realize that there mere EXISTENCE of open source is the real victory here. Do we really need more than that?
yes, we do. we need software that actually works. some of us have work that needs to get done. (that's why i use gnome and winXP.)
India is the last place for a panopticon. Do you have any idea how many people there are there?
almost as many as China?
If India can't monitor their citizens use of the internet and control their access to information, certainly China wouldn't be able to that, either....oh, wait...
I have currently have 6 CFLs running in my studio. all but 1 start up instantly, the other one, being 5 years old, takes a second or so. the larger ones (2 40-watt bulbs) may take a few seconds to reach full brightness, but enough light is there the second I hit the switch. the 25 watt bulbs all start up instantly.
i have never had a CFL overheat or burn out. if you are running into all of these problems, i would suggest trying out higher quality bulbs. Sometimes, there is a reason for the difference in price between to brands. I pay about $3.50 for each 25 watt bulb, and $10 for the 40 watt bulbs, and they work much better than the cheaper ones you find in dollar stores.
cool white CFL is no where near the same as a white LED light. a white LED is usually blue light passed through a yellow filter to look 'white'. put the 2 side by side, and you will notice a huge difference. LEDs make colours look flat, CFLs make them look much better.
what is so special about the colour of an incandescent bulb? i find the yellow cast of an incandescent to be quite unpleasant.
have you tried using one of each? In my studio, i have one of those fans with 3 sockets. I find that 2 cool whites and one warm white is a pretty nice combination.
but Canadians are not equally spread out across the continent. about 90% of the country is open land where no one lives, and there would be no need for cell towers in those uninhabited areas. people in the far north uses satellite phones, because there are no towers up there.
Canada has 3.2 people per square km. Australia has a population density of 2.6/km2. texting costs them 20 cents each, not 40 (20 to send and 20 to receive.)
if economies of scale are the cause, why is Australia cheaper than Canada? we are still being hosed.
in South Korea, incoming anything, voice or text, is always free.
outgoing text messages are about 20-30 won each (2 or 3 cents US).
now that I'm back in Canada, I hear that incoming texts are 20 cents each. WTF? I don't understand how North American companies can get away with such terrible prices and terrible service.
but all of these taxes are not vanishing into a black hole. they are giving people jobs, and this money is used to pay salaries. those salaries are then used to buy things (perhaps even at a store owned by a friend or relative of yours)
its not just roads that taxes support, it's police men, fire fighters, librarians, teachers, soldiers, the agriculture industry, the automotive industry, research grants, small business grants, (and in my country, doctors and nurses)
taxes pay for civilization. sure, things may go way to far, bureaucracy is wasteful and inefficient, but what is the alternative?
Overall, would you rather live the heavily taxed life you live now, or would you like to keep all your money, but have no roads, no public education, no security, no fire protection, no nation defense, no libraries, no public parks, no affordable foods, no technological progress due to a lack of funds, etc.?
the technology that we use to play these games has improved greatly over the past 5 years. so why aren't the games that are played on this hardware getting any better?
rather than bitch about how no one is buying your new games, start making good games that get me excited, so I want to go and buy them right away.
when you make a game that most likely sucks, i can't return, and infects my computer with another one of your DRM viruses, im not going to get all excited about it.
i still play red alert 2, unreal trournament, doom, a link to the past, etc, because those are great games that i enjoy playing.
start making games that are fun, and i will start buying. Or, you can recycle the crappy games from last year, throw in a few more polygons to make things pretty and go out of business.
while i do agree with that, (after the 360's price drop, it's lowest model is actually cheaper than the wii) nintendo has absolutely no reason whatsoever to lower their prices. the Wii is still frequently sold out, I've seen some stores with a 2 month waiting list.
when demand is so high, why would they lower their price?
I'd expect a wii price drop only when the xbox 360 starts to outsell the wii, and not a moment sooner.
but you can return them, it just takes some effort.
take a print out of a screen shot of the programs EULA, the part where it says something along the lines of:
YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THE TERMS OF THIS EULA BY INSTALLING, COPYING, OR OTHERWISE USING THE SOFTWARE. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE, DO NOT INSTALL, COPY, OR USE THE SOFTWARE; YOU MAY RETURN IT TO YOUR PLACE OF PURCHASE FOR A FULL REFUND.
talk to the guy on the floor, he will say 'no, it can't be done', ask him to get his manager. the part time manager will say 'no'. ask to see his boss. this guy will make it happen. you just have to be civil, polite, but firm.
it's worked for me on more than one occasion. also, my friend was a manager at staples, and he was FIRED when he refused to refund some software, and the customer called the big guys at head office.
however, i will agree that its bullshit, the hoops they make you jump through just to play a damn PC game. that's why i pirate everything these days, even if i have a legit copy.
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In Korea, only old people play Starcraft.
the younger kids all play a FPS called 'sudden attack' while the really young kids are addicted to 'Maple Story'
out of the 1500 12-16 year old kids I taught in Korea, only about 3 of them played star craft. all of them where in their final year of middle school. none of the younger kids were interested.
Wow, that was strained and ugly.
perhaps you should have involved cars?
Its only 35 years ago every "Expert" and "Scientist" (sorry to kill your God here Atheists) was telling us we were heading for a new Ice Age.
Don't take my word for it, look it up.
ok, i did look it up. here are the results: /quote>...They find very few papers (7 in total) predict global cooling. This isn't surprising. What surprises is that even in the 1970s, on the back of 3 decades of cooling, more papers (42 in total) predict global warming due to CO2 than cooling.
http://www.skepticalscience.com/What-1970s-science-said-about-global-cooling.html
i don't know how you define the word "every, but "7 out of 42" is not certainly not how I would define it.
i would like to add to this that in many countries, it is illegal to record audio (but not images) of someone without their permission. if you don't have the professor's permission to record the class, you could be in some legal trouble if you are caught.
note: this didn't stop me from making recordings of several of my courses.
I've archived every single note from every class, and even now, 3 years later, i will review a random class from time to time to keep it fresh in my mind.
your written notes are yours, and yours alone.
Q: "If I buy these songs on your service â" and they're locked to my phone â" what happens when I upgrade my phone in six months' time?"
A: "Well, I think you know the answer to that."
I know its microsoft we're dealing with here, and the default way to fill in the blanks is by assuming they will screw you; but, is there a possibility that there is an easy walk-around to this DRM, (sort of like the one in itunes) and he's being vague about it at the moment to keep the media companies happy?
i can't imagine MS would be THAT stupid to ignore such obvious common sense in the face of such steep competition. can they really be that out of touch? are they intentionally trying to fail?
I distinctly remember watching youtube on my television through my Wii 2 years ago.
my house had wifi, the wii picked it up, i went to youtube, and watched a bunch of videos.
what is new here?
a streamlined interface?
is that it?
it may be true for many, but not all flash cart users are in it for the piracy.
i have an M3DS simply card. and i will admit, i have pirated several games to try them out, but my DS gets far more use as a day planner and MP3 player, thanks to this card. As a visual artist, people often ask to see my work, so i have JPEGs of my work on my card as well, so if someone wants to see what i do, i can pull out my DS and show them. these cards turn the DS into a very useful tool.
On the rare occasion where I have downloaded a game, It is one i already own. While i do have legitimate copies of these games, I still use the ROMS loaded on my M3, because I can't be bothered to carry around 10 different game cartridges when I can have all of my games on one card, along with my MP3 and photo collection.
and there are some great homebrew games out there. i used to play 'a touch of war' quite often. its a shame nintendo hasn't put out a RTS of its own.
they already have one, its called DOS, it has extremely low system requirements, it boots in seconds, even on hardware that is nearly 20 years old!
the best way to describe the flavour of these silk worms is: they taste like ass in a can.
you know that smell the bottom of a garbage can? silk worms taste just like that, only crunchy.
If you don't mind wasting 2 minutes of your life (since you are posting on /., I will assume that you don't) I made a short youtube video last year of my experience with this 'food'.
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=B1ZoRUGkhEo
the expression on my face will do more to describe the taste of these things than words ever could.
I've got a baseless and unsupportable hypothesis (based on my lack of personal experience and lack of research) that teachers are afraid of technology, because their students know it better than them. And as a result, students are not getting the exposure to tech they need.
my personal experience would support your hypothesis.
back in my high school days (nearly 10 years ago now) I took a lot of 'computers' classes, because i wanted to learn about computers. but, i didn't. instead, I learned how to use things like 'corel word perfect', some power point clone, and 'turing' a programming language so limiting, it makes BASIC seem like C by comparison.
rather than learning about building computers and general computing concepts, i was taught how to use specific and now obsolete software. those courses and that knowledge are now useless to me.
how clueless were the teachers?
this was back in 1999, so not knowing about linux was still forgivable, but the misinformation i received, was not.
over the course of 3 years and 3 different computers classes, these are the highlights:
On a test, this question came up:
how many companies sell differing operating systems:
a. 1
b. 2
c. 3
d. more than 3.
apparently, the correct answer was b, not d. silly me...
i got 150% for participation, because i taught the teacher how to use computers before she could teach the class.
i got kicked out of class for playing computer games. but the assignment was 'to write your own computer game' and i was testing my own game! she refused to believe it was mine, even after going through my code line by line.
and finally, i got suspended for 'hacking'. some random 'error' dialogues were popping up on every system every hour or so, and i disabled them on my computer.
My experience shows me that you are correct. most teachers do not understand the technology that the students are growing up with.
last year, when booting up my laptop for one of my lessons, one of my students saw my ubuntu desktop and yelled out 'that's my system, too!'
no, you would need at least 16 cards, but likely more. much more.
800 shots per job is not an overestimate, it is actually a very reasonable number.
I use one set of cards for each particular job. each set of cards is numbered and lettered. (1a, 1b, 1c, 1d, 2a, 2b, 2c ...etc.)
for one job, i use my '1x' set, while the next job, i use my '2x' set.
use a sharpie, never pencil, to label your cards. different colours can help, too.
I copy the images to a properly named folder on a hard drive at the end of the night, and put those memory cards into a clearly labeled box. (I use an Altoids tin with some padding material thrown in)
at the start of the next day, I insert the next set of cards into my camera bag for the next job.
you ONLY format those cards and re-use them after the job is complete. before then, a minimum of 2 copies of the data must be kept. even after the job is complete, i keep the data on the cards until i need to format them for another job.
A professional has no excuse for lost data. but even at the amateur level, you don't want to lose your data. those photos could become treasured memories for generations to come.
being raised in a rural town, i suspect that I notice this effect much more strongly than urbanites. when i'm in the city, everything is fighting for my attention simultaneously, so i just tune everything out.
I wonder if something similar occurs when using a multitasking operating system.
in the old days, a personal computer would be set to do one thing and one thing only at any one time. now i have music running in the background, along with gimp and pidgin, while i try to post on Slashdot. I'm so distracted, this post took me nearly 45 minutes to type up, and i can almost guarantee I wont get a +5 insightful.
the old nikon d70 has a fantastic feature for these types of situations, where you could 'hide' photos. The camera would skip past them, as if they were deleted, but when you copied the photos on to your computer, ta-da! they're back!
the laws in Canada (excluding Quebec) and the US are very similar regarding photography.
no photos of military gear, or anything else that could be a national security threat, but otherwise, its all fair game and no one can tell you otherwise.
however, if they tell you to stop/leave, you must obey. taking more pictures would be trespassing, but those photos are yours.
forcing you to delete a photo is either 1. destruction of personal property, or 2. destruction of evidence, neither is allowed.
Honestly, I wish people would just sit back, relax, and realize that there mere EXISTENCE of open source is the real victory here. Do we really need more than that?
yes, we do. we need software that actually works.
some of us have work that needs to get done. (that's why i use gnome and winXP.)
India is the last place for a panopticon. Do you have any idea how many people there are there?
almost as many as China?
If India can't monitor their citizens use of the internet and control their access to information, certainly China wouldn't be able to that, either. ...oh, wait...
what start up delay?
I have currently have 6 CFLs running in my studio. all but 1 start up instantly, the other one, being 5 years old, takes a second or so. the larger ones (2 40-watt bulbs) may take a few seconds to reach full brightness, but enough light is there the second I hit the switch. the 25 watt bulbs all start up instantly.
i have never had a CFL overheat or burn out. if you are running into all of these problems, i would suggest trying out higher quality bulbs. Sometimes, there is a reason for the difference in price between to brands.
I pay about $3.50 for each 25 watt bulb, and $10 for the 40 watt bulbs, and they work much better than the cheaper ones you find in dollar stores.
cool white CFL is no where near the same as a white LED light. a white LED is usually blue light passed through a yellow filter to look 'white'. put the 2 side by side, and you will notice a huge difference. LEDs make colours look flat, CFLs make them look much better.
what is so special about the colour of an incandescent bulb? i find the yellow cast of an incandescent to be quite unpleasant.
have you tried using one of each? In my studio, i have one of those fans with 3 sockets. I find that 2 cool whites and one warm white is a pretty nice combination.
but Canadians are not equally spread out across the continent. about 90% of the country is open land where no one lives, and there would be no need for cell towers in those uninhabited areas. people in the far north uses satellite phones, because there are no towers up there.
Canada has 3.2 people per square km.
Australia has a population density of 2.6/km2.
texting costs them 20 cents each, not 40 (20 to send and 20 to receive.)
if economies of scale are the cause, why is Australia cheaper than Canada?
we are still being hosed.
in South Korea, incoming anything, voice or text, is always free.
outgoing text messages are about 20-30 won each (2 or 3 cents US).
now that I'm back in Canada, I hear that incoming texts are 20 cents each. WTF? I don't understand how North American companies can get away with such terrible prices and terrible service.
was this professor involved with the design of vista at all?
there is this thing called 'documentation' that you add to your code so other people can understand it.
ignore your instructor. as a user, i very much appreciate whatever gains in efficiency i can get.
but all of these taxes are not vanishing into a black hole. they are giving people jobs, and this money is used to pay salaries. those salaries are then used to buy things (perhaps even at a store owned by a friend or relative of yours)
its not just roads that taxes support, it's police men, fire fighters, librarians, teachers, soldiers, the agriculture industry, the automotive industry, research grants, small business grants, (and in my country, doctors and nurses)
taxes pay for civilization. sure, things may go way to far, bureaucracy is wasteful and inefficient, but what is the alternative?
Overall, would you rather live the heavily taxed life you live now, or would you like to keep all your money, but have no roads, no public education, no security, no fire protection, no nation defense, no libraries, no public parks, no affordable foods, no technological progress due to a lack of funds, etc.?
the technology that we use to play these games has improved greatly over the past 5 years. so why aren't the games that are played on this hardware getting any better?
rather than bitch about how no one is buying your new games, start making good games that get me excited, so I want to go and buy them right away.
when you make a game that most likely sucks, i can't return, and infects my computer with another one of your DRM viruses, im not going to get all excited about it.
i still play red alert 2, unreal trournament, doom, a link to the past, etc, because those are great games that i enjoy playing.
start making games that are fun, and i will start buying. Or, you can recycle the crappy games from last year, throw in a few more polygons to make things pretty and go out of business.
while i do agree with that, (after the 360's price drop, it's lowest model is actually cheaper than the wii) nintendo has absolutely no reason whatsoever to lower their prices. the Wii is still frequently sold out, I've seen some stores with a 2 month waiting list.
when demand is so high, why would they lower their price?
I'd expect a wii price drop only when the xbox 360 starts to outsell the wii, and not a moment sooner.
interesting idea.
let me make sure i understand it correctly:
an RTS AI took a FPS AI out for a couple of drinks, and the resulting offspring would be an awesome AI that can work in teams to defeat all humans.
i'm sure someone can throw 2 AIs together relatively quickly, release a game and see what happens.
maybe a command and conquer: renegade 2?
but you can return them, it just takes some effort.
take a print out of a screen shot of the programs EULA, the part where it says something along the lines of:
YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THE TERMS OF THIS EULA BY INSTALLING, COPYING, OR OTHERWISE USING THE SOFTWARE. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE, DO NOT INSTALL, COPY, OR USE THE SOFTWARE; YOU MAY RETURN IT TO YOUR PLACE OF PURCHASE FOR A FULL REFUND.
talk to the guy on the floor, he will say 'no, it can't be done',
ask him to get his manager. the part time manager will say 'no'. ask to see his boss.
this guy will make it happen.
you just have to be civil, polite, but firm.
it's worked for me on more than one occasion. also, my friend was a manager at staples, and he was FIRED when he refused to refund some software, and the customer called the big guys at head office.
however, i will agree that its bullshit, the hoops they make you jump through just to play a damn PC game. that's why i pirate everything these days, even if i have a legit copy.