1) I was never told how our English teachers graded, you simply wrote the paper and were graded on it (trial and error, over and over)
2) I always got a B on my English papers, one day I traded with a student who always got D's. He still got a D, I still got a B.
3) After a while I gave up trying and copied a paper from the internet, proof read once (replacing words larger than 10 letters with simpler ones). I still got a B, while my friend who worked 5+ hours on it got a D because his was supposedly plagiarized.
From my POV as a student, there was no method to their madness, it was all up to their interpretation as to what sounded like good grammar. I was always a B, and never told why.
This is exactly how I learned computers. No classes, no family members teaching me. Just me sitting down and learning things. It was slow, but it was fun because it was the only technology besides Nintendo that I had.
This is pretty much how I learned about 75% of my knowledge for computers. Maybe about 24% from asking questions/searching the web for answers. Then finally 1% from taking classes.
I'm not saying the officers shouldn't be reprimanded to acting unprofessionally but this should in no way affect a judge's decision as how to punch the criminals.
This is akin to arresting you and taking your car out for a joyride spin. Sure you can argue they waste gas for the car, but they wasted electricity for their entertainment.
Besides, this is unlawful search. I would like to think that unless they had a warrant for this specific task, they could NOT search digital devices. Seeing how it was a drug deal, they could only search physical items (like maybe take apart the wii at the very worst case, but they could NOT digitally open it, or go through all their movies/home movies and watch them all)
Oh.. IANAL, but I use morality to make my decisions.
I wandered up some side streets and got lost.. I was absolutely terrified, and so were they.. I wanted to go home and had no idea where home was, and they had no idea where I was.. Thankfully, back then, the community was more closely knit, and one of my mother's friends saw me and escorted me back home.
So, yes, I can see some perfectly valid cases where this'll head off a lot of grief on both sides if used judiciously.
Yes, agreed. But in the wrong hands, let's say I could track your kid 24/7 and find him wandering off to a place where no one normally goes. I now know when he will be alone which means an easier target.
Taken a step farther: is there a possibility to spoof the location of the watch (send the parents to the bottom of the river just for shits and giggles?)
The ad with music sounds even worse. The direct Microsoft comparison/bashing is just terrible business practice (if not illegal slander? I don't recall any advertisement mentioning a competitor's product and bashing it, it also sounds sleazy if it wasn't illegal).
So 9 women have 9 babies in 18 months! That's almost 1 every 2 months. You're getting closer, damn I love math, how about we give fertility pills for the 9 new octo-moms. Then we could get 72 babies in 18 months or 9 months, you choose!... but why were we trying to make 9 babies to begin with again?
Erm, no it isn't illegal. What if the music you're 'taking without paying for it' has been released as CC or Public Domain?
Exactly this will have fail written all over it. The kid will go to these classes and come home to newgrounds.com, then question it.
That's how I learned (for better or worse), if I could question one thing and prove it's wrong, then the entire lesson could be corrupt and I took it as a "everything taught in this lesson could be true" for later research/discussion outside of the teachers view. Kind of like how they said sex was bad.
even opening and closing your inventory seems delayed
Ahh so input lag:P Which there were several articles on here about testing for such things (meaning the code checks button presses too rarely). Which would mean every action/button press takes at least x frames before the game executes it.
That map is aerial (bird's eye, just the roof). That map isn't in 3D (allowing you to interact with it, circle an entire building from your point of view, go inside the building.)
Not all MMOs cost the same. Some are (USD) $15-wow, others are $5-runescape. Some are free, some are "microtransactions" (you define what you need monthly).
Unfortunately, there's a fair bit of UI lag. Server lag has been almost non-existent â" amazing as that is to say during the launch period of an MMO â" but the responsiveness of the controls is probably the game's biggest technical fault right now. It can be frustrating at times to have your abilities not work as you expect because of this. There's enough of a delay after hitting the button that you won't be sure if it actually triggered the ability. Many abilities require a button to be held down, so if you press it again and then the original trigger goes through, you've wasted a cooldown. Pressing Block right after charging up a power will also sometimes clip the end of it, and cause it not to fire. I would attribute the majority of my deaths so far to the UI lag.
Uhh, sounds like it's server lag where the server authenticates the buttons you press... (It is checking if your cooldown is off before allowing you to do it client side) I've seen this in plenty of MMOs.
Trying to say there is no "server lag", but there is "alternative" lag is a bit misleading to those who don't understand it.
More like: the stop lights are on about 2-3 minute cycles, so you could save 2-4 minutes by passing, not to mention if you decided to ride behind someone all the way into town, they will also go slow in town and screw up the light timings, adding another 2-3 minutes per light they cant catch.
I've done the math, for me (about 9 lights) that's 19-28 minutes. I just missed an episode of Simpsons! I just got fired for being late to work! More than 10 minutes of lateness anywhere is unacceptable.
First I thought this was about relationships/dating. Which I would've said hell no.
But for a co-worker, yea competence is a must, but I prefer the balance between polite and competent after speaking to some less friendly "know it alls" who weren't even willing to help.
Yes.... NOW, but back in the day there were holy wars. After becoming well established and having many people, they are less cultish. But then you got bible thumpers ringing your doorbell, putting out adverts on your doorstep and other stupid crap forcing it in your face. Talking in a private conversation, and saying you hate someone's religion really pisses people off too (yet when they say they hate people who aren't religious... we tend not to care.) Then there's colleges which offer full scholarships to their private little place, but require you must pass their religious courses. Which you may say is fine, since it's private, but its immoral to pay you to learn their religion. It would be like me giving you $100 to say you like x brand sandwiches.
There are few religions that are aggressive towards non-believers. You don't see me running around making adverts saying down with other religions or "STOP BELIEVING" (I wouldn't doubt getting thrown in jail for putting it out). I believe what I want, you can say what you like only when I ask for it, like reading posts online, that was my choice and I could close it after the first few words. But I cannot simply ignore a piece of paper taped to my damn door telling me that Jesus is coming, repent and convert.
Not being racist, and not that this may make much difference, but you can at least tell they were all black (based on the walk, clothes, and I'm sure if you zoomed in you could tell by their hands). So find any group/5+ of black friends, although some are going to argue that's profiling....
PSH, they could technically already do it. About a month ago, my internet had gone down. It was constantly going down, and every time I called them up, it was "a server was down" auto message for 3 states. It normally got fixed within a couple hours, until one time it took more than 6 hours and I called up pissed asking how the hell can an internet company as big as mediacom be down in 3 entire states, when the entire philosophy of the internet (2nd paragraph) was to route around damage.
Obviously (or strangely) he yelled back that why would they put redundancy in a civilian network? That's right, apparently there's a kill switch for the "civilian internet" that allows you to take down at least 3 states with just 1 fiber cut. Seeing how they are a monopoly, I consider them the internet for these 3 states.
I'm still a bit pissed off by it, only because I hold the belief that the internet was made to prevent censorship and damage.
I rarely have problems with cheaters. Especially when it comes to instanced servers in FPSs/RTSs, if they cheat, find another server/"game" (as in just look for another host).
If you are that afraid of cheaters, try MMOs where cheating is near impossible (it can still exist, but only after updates, so depending on the company and how fast their response time is, it only affects 1 portion for 3 days at most, and you can usually expect a ban hammer for them too).
Back in the day, cheating was everywhere, nowadays it's only in the crap games where client packets are considered trusted. Most professionally made games treat a server like an actual server. "Hey, you wanted to jump 500 feet? Let me check if that's possible...hey, you wanted to fire 2000 bullets in half a second? etc." Although the 2nd example FPSs tend to have issues with this because they trust the client's framerate and assume they can lag for a couple bullets (I played one where the faster your framerate was, the faster you could shoot, so turning GFX down was a sure way to do 2x damage). The game is built around the notion that there will be cheaters. Although, we are still getting to that phase where they treat it like their source code is exposed at all times.
And to respond to the GP, anyone can "cheat". It depends on how you define it. Maybe you "cheated" to make it flash the winning image whenever you lose, when in reality you lost on the server.
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1) I was never told how our English teachers graded, you simply wrote the paper and were graded on it (trial and error, over and over)
2) I always got a B on my English papers, one day I traded with a student who always got D's. He still got a D, I still got a B.
3) After a while I gave up trying and copied a paper from the internet, proof read once (replacing words larger than 10 letters with simpler ones). I still got a B, while my friend who worked 5+ hours on it got a D because his was supposedly plagiarized.
From my POV as a student, there was no method to their madness, it was all up to their interpretation as to what sounded like good grammar. I was always a B, and never told why.
This is exactly how I learned computers. No classes, no family members teaching me. Just me sitting down and learning things. It was slow, but it was fun because it was the only technology besides Nintendo that I had.
This is pretty much how I learned about 75% of my knowledge for computers. Maybe about 24% from asking questions/searching the web for answers. Then finally 1% from taking classes.
I'm not saying the officers shouldn't be reprimanded to acting unprofessionally but this should in no way affect a judge's decision as how to punch the criminals.
This is akin to arresting you and taking your car out for a joyride spin. Sure you can argue they waste gas for the car, but they wasted electricity for their entertainment.
Besides, this is unlawful search. I would like to think that unless they had a warrant for this specific task, they could NOT search digital devices. Seeing how it was a drug deal, they could only search physical items (like maybe take apart the wii at the very worst case, but they could NOT digitally open it, or go through all their movies/home movies and watch them all)
Oh.. IANAL, but I use morality to make my decisions.
Why hasn't this been modded up? This sounds insightful to me.
I wandered up some side streets and got lost.. I was absolutely terrified, and so were they.. I wanted to go home and had no idea where home was, and they had no idea where I was.. Thankfully, back then, the community was more closely knit, and one of my mother's friends saw me and escorted me back home. So, yes, I can see some perfectly valid cases where this'll head off a lot of grief on both sides if used judiciously.
Yes, agreed. But in the wrong hands, let's say I could track your kid 24/7 and find him wandering off to a place where no one normally goes. I now know when he will be alone which means an easier target.
Taken a step farther: is there a possibility to spoof the location of the watch (send the parents to the bottom of the river just for shits and giggles?)
The ad with music sounds even worse. The direct Microsoft comparison/bashing is just terrible business practice (if not illegal slander? I don't recall any advertisement mentioning a competitor's product and bashing it, it also sounds sleazy if it wasn't illegal).
So 9 women have 9 babies in 18 months! That's almost 1 every 2 months. You're getting closer, damn I love math, how about we give fertility pills for the 9 new octo-moms. Then we could get 72 babies in 18 months or 9 months, you choose! ... but why were we trying to make 9 babies to begin with again?
Stupid pedestrians? Stupid drivers? How about neither???
*Ahem*: Parking lots. Some people step out of parking lots (if the lot is curved incorrectly, it's near impossible to see who's coming and going).
Don't bother starting with that "go 5mph", because it would take you going about 2mph to even make a difference.
Yea! Get on my lawn!
No. $200-$2000 computer is nowhere near credit card/banking account access for life (at least 5 years?). Granted, one is more risky.
Erm, no it isn't illegal. What if the music you're 'taking without paying for it' has been released as CC or Public Domain?
Exactly this will have fail written all over it. The kid will go to these classes and come home to newgrounds.com, then question it.
That's how I learned (for better or worse), if I could question one thing and prove it's wrong, then the entire lesson could be corrupt and I took it as a "everything taught in this lesson could be true" for later research/discussion outside of the teachers view. Kind of like how they said sex was bad.
That sucks! Now everyone will know about my Pokemon collection in 2 days!
even opening and closing your inventory seems delayed
Ahh so input lag :P Which there were several articles on here about testing for such things (meaning the code checks button presses too rarely). Which would mean every action/button press takes at least x frames before the game executes it.
That map is aerial (bird's eye, just the roof). That map isn't in 3D (allowing you to interact with it, circle an entire building from your point of view, go inside the building.)
Not all MMOs cost the same. Some are (USD) $15-wow, others are $5-runescape. Some are free, some are "microtransactions" (you define what you need monthly).
Unfortunately, there's a fair bit of UI lag. Server lag has been almost non-existent â" amazing as that is to say during the launch period of an MMO â" but the responsiveness of the controls is probably the game's biggest technical fault right now. It can be frustrating at times to have your abilities not work as you expect because of this. There's enough of a delay after hitting the button that you won't be sure if it actually triggered the ability. Many abilities require a button to be held down, so if you press it again and then the original trigger goes through, you've wasted a cooldown. Pressing Block right after charging up a power will also sometimes clip the end of it, and cause it not to fire. I would attribute the majority of my deaths so far to the UI lag.
Uhh, sounds like it's server lag where the server authenticates the buttons you press... (It is checking if your cooldown is off before allowing you to do it client side) I've seen this in plenty of MMOs.
Trying to say there is no "server lag", but there is "alternative" lag is a bit misleading to those who don't understand it.
Start-up Claims SSD Achieves 180,000 IOPS
Claims? As in no one else but the company has stated this "fact"? I wish this article waited for a review before being posted :S
More like: the stop lights are on about 2-3 minute cycles, so you could save 2-4 minutes by passing, not to mention if you decided to ride behind someone all the way into town, they will also go slow in town and screw up the light timings, adding another 2-3 minutes per light they cant catch.
I've done the math, for me (about 9 lights) that's 19-28 minutes. I just missed an episode of Simpsons! I just got fired for being late to work! More than 10 minutes of lateness anywhere is unacceptable.
First I thought this was about relationships/dating. Which I would've said hell no.
But for a co-worker, yea competence is a must, but I prefer the balance between polite and competent after speaking to some less friendly "know it alls" who weren't even willing to help.
Yes.... NOW, but back in the day there were holy wars. After becoming well established and having many people, they are less cultish. But then you got bible thumpers ringing your doorbell, putting out adverts on your doorstep and other stupid crap forcing it in your face. Talking in a private conversation, and saying you hate someone's religion really pisses people off too (yet when they say they hate people who aren't religious... we tend not to care.) Then there's colleges which offer full scholarships to their private little place, but require you must pass their religious courses. Which you may say is fine, since it's private, but its immoral to pay you to learn their religion. It would be like me giving you $100 to say you like x brand sandwiches.
There are few religions that are aggressive towards non-believers. You don't see me running around making adverts saying down with other religions or "STOP BELIEVING" (I wouldn't doubt getting thrown in jail for putting it out). I believe what I want, you can say what you like only when I ask for it, like reading posts online, that was my choice and I could close it after the first few words. But I cannot simply ignore a piece of paper taped to my damn door telling me that Jesus is coming, repent and convert.
Not being racist, and not that this may make much difference, but you can at least tell they were all black (based on the walk, clothes, and I'm sure if you zoomed in you could tell by their hands). So find any group/5+ of black friends, although some are going to argue that's profiling....
Next, they should lower the speed of light, that way new technology can be 10x faster than the regulated speed of light, and charge us 10x more.
PSH, they could technically already do it. About a month ago, my internet had gone down. It was constantly going down, and every time I called them up, it was "a server was down" auto message for 3 states. It normally got fixed within a couple hours, until one time it took more than 6 hours and I called up pissed asking how the hell can an internet company as big as mediacom be down in 3 entire states, when the entire philosophy of the internet (2nd paragraph) was to route around damage.
Obviously (or strangely) he yelled back that why would they put redundancy in a civilian network? That's right, apparently there's a kill switch for the "civilian internet" that allows you to take down at least 3 states with just 1 fiber cut. Seeing how they are a monopoly, I consider them the internet for these 3 states.
I'm still a bit pissed off by it, only because I hold the belief that the internet was made to prevent censorship and damage.
I rarely have problems with cheaters. Especially when it comes to instanced servers in FPSs/RTSs, if they cheat, find another server/"game" (as in just look for another host).
If you are that afraid of cheaters, try MMOs where cheating is near impossible (it can still exist, but only after updates, so depending on the company and how fast their response time is, it only affects 1 portion for 3 days at most, and you can usually expect a ban hammer for them too).
Back in the day, cheating was everywhere, nowadays it's only in the crap games where client packets are considered trusted. Most professionally made games treat a server like an actual server. "Hey, you wanted to jump 500 feet? Let me check if that's possible...hey, you wanted to fire 2000 bullets in half a second? etc." Although the 2nd example FPSs tend to have issues with this because they trust the client's framerate and assume they can lag for a couple bullets (I played one where the faster your framerate was, the faster you could shoot, so turning GFX down was a sure way to do 2x damage). The game is built around the notion that there will be cheaters. Although, we are still getting to that phase where they treat it like their source code is exposed at all times.
And to respond to the GP, anyone can "cheat". It depends on how you define it. Maybe you "cheated" to make it flash the winning image whenever you lose, when in reality you lost on the server.
So yeah, screw growing new organs - get me some new teeth!
Cause teeth aren't vital, some people actually need organs to survive, teeth are more "cosmetic" (you can survive without them).
if I could get those replaced? I'd almost be willing to kill for that
Technically you would already be, if you got teeth while someone missed out on a vital new organ.