Anecdote != data, love those citations. I guess you just want everyone off your yard. <br><br> (1) If this is a feature you want it's easy to replicate on an infix calculator, but I'd rather just look over my entered equation and then hit enter instead of hitting enter and checking each intermediate result, to each their own. <br><br> (2) Is this seriously a problem for some people? These are graphing calculators, if you typo you press the left arrow and fix it<br><br> (3) and an Abacus is faster then both so why aren't you promoting those? It could be exposure to lisp but I actually prefer parens and I like being able to easily break apart an equation into discrete chunks and deal with them as relations. I prefer my calculator input mirror my hand written notes, reverse polish notation would have made systems/connaps/statics that much more annoying for no benefit to the student. I never met a single engineering professor at school who recommended the use of RPN over infix and I can't recall ever using RPN in matlab/maple/mathematica.<br><br> You present the same whiny doomsday arguments about how nothings as good as it was back when you did it with zero actual support for your position, congratulations AC! If there was an actual benefit to RPN it would still be taught instead of being a dead-end in the history of calculators and a standard mini project for CS students.
Uh as someone who went through a hardcore engineering program, no. RPN was common for awhile because at some point in the dark ages of personal computing the amount of ram/rom that would be needed for a machine to convert infix to postfix was actually a sizable amount. The only arguable superiority of RPN is not needing parenthesis for order of operations, however since every child is raised from kindergarten on infix it's hardly an advantage. This isn't dumbing down of society anymore then making compilers instead of writing raw machine code by hand is dumbing down programming. There's no benefit to doing unnecessary work as an engineer just to make life easier on a computer.
So you're being purposefully stupid? Here's a list of these 'advantages' you really want to see in your mmorpgs. "Laggy menus, Awful interface design, No keyboard shortcuts,Crafting requires you to go through 4 or so menus and confirmations. You then start a (slow) crafting process,manually visit dozens of player stores and hope one of them has the item you're after, Worthless maps, You then have to open a help website, Limits to the number of quests, copy and paste scenery, Nowhere near enough content, solo grinding or quests (which are limited)." Gosh I really hope you start your own mmorpg so the whole world can enjoy your innovative game design methodology of 'make the shittiest user experience possible.'
I actually never really looked over zune seriously because I assumed its music selection would suck. I went and looked at their song selection, it's actually pretty reasonable, I went for some random stuff and they had it all. Decapitated, death, celtic frost, nile, bolt thrower, devil driver, etc. I may have to consider giving them some money.
Any decent lawyer wouldn't be stupid enough to take this case. You choose not to pay for a service, you don't receive the service, enough said. There's no incentive to join into a risk/insurance prevent program if you can just wait until you need the service then try to pay the one time fee. The industry would collapse if it was designed that shoddily as tens of other posters in this thread have already explained more clearly then I.
I'm in a friends and families guild that has no outside recruitment and the range of ADHD kids up to old married couples playing, we've knocked down Lich King on normal and all hard modes except sindy, PP, death whisper and LK. We do that in two sub 3 hour raid nights a week, although with extend-able raid id's that doesn't much matter. Our invite policy is reverse attendance priority, so we bring in the least experienced set of players that still has a viable make up. The content was perfectly within most players grasp. If a guild still doesn't have Lich King down now with 30% buffs in the zone you are either a couple of standard deviations down on average skill or more likely, your guild members just aren't interested in it.
Odd, I've got a healer main and every other healer I know is desperately looking forward to the expansion so healing won't be face smashingly easy anymore.
I don't think you're getting it. Brute forcing a one time pad makes "The account numbers to the secret Swiss Bank account are 3432376482 and 367282345. Please do not access the accounts more than once a month." just as likely as "The account numbers to the secret Swiss Bank account are 123456789 and 987654321. Please do not access the accounts more than once a month." and you have no way of telling which one was the original message.
Well, yes, but then I've never heard anyone refer to "Economics" as "Econ",
Er.. what? I went to an engineering school and it was incredibly common to hear someone say "I'm late for Econ." or "I've got an Econ paper to work on this weekend." Politics was polysci and Thermodynamics was therm or thermal. About the only thing that got abbreviated and kept its 's' was conservation and accounting principles -> conaps, which is probably an exception because the class sucked so much./fistshake http://www.rose-hulman.edu/~richards/courses/es201/index.htm/
let me help you with the reading. if you bought stuff from the bookstore. Although very few of the books we used in undergrad were actually on resale site, when you go to a sub 2000 attendance college there's a good chance you aren't on the big buy lists. Normally you'd buy books from friends who'd taken the class previously provided you didn't get version owned. Even then the savings wouldn't always be phenomenal since you'd need to split the difference between the price the store payed to buy them back, and the cost of used books at the store.
You got really lucky then. 100 dollars was on the low-end of the book spectrum when I was doing engineering and maths 6-8 years ago. Hell the book for Reals was like 100 pages long and 6 inches by 9 yet cost around 100 dollars. It wasn't uncommon to spend 500-800 a quarter if you bought stuff from the bookstore. And this was all undergrad (although good undergrad is probably the same books as a crappy masters at some schools.)
Except you aren't forced to pay for any of it, you can earn it all via playing the game (albeit slowly). But if you have one specific instance hub that's your favorite it's trivial to earn that many points.
Turbine runs the free to play D&D:O. Paying didn't offer any real huge advantages, other then time saving. The concerns about 'omg they'll buy the sword of truths!' are overstated amongst western MMO's. There are games where that's a real problem, but it's not by any means a guarantee.
Talk about wasting potential. I remember release day population. Great day to be on Empire, chaos was over filled on every server so wait times were like 30 seconds for a pvp match. The game was pretty enjoyable up until about level 30.
Actually I agree with the AC more, even in a guild that was only in the top 100~'s of NA guilds once we had an instance clear in an expansion raid times got damn quick. You could clear all the useful content in 1 night of raiding, sometimes a second to pick up a last boss or two you missed. The really good guilds could knock it out in one night. Once people know strats and you can chain pull the trash all the way through clear times dropped dramatically. This is all directed at WoW, but as someone who lead a guild that got all the server firsts other then gruul/magtheridon in TBC, you're wrong in trying to speak for all guilds, The AC is right about most good guilds. Look at EJ or other world first guilds schedules, they do a burst for a week or two tops when new content is released then settle into 1-2 farm nights until the next content patch.
On the topic of being a condescending asshole, can I just say I was immensely relieved to at least see this wasn't the U.S. this time when it came to teaching idiocy./glances at Texas.
Why is it reasonable for a company to treat its customers as potential criminals (by forcing them to prove purchase) when the people that didn't buy it wont have that inconvenience?
I actually consider it much more reasonable to do a single online activation than almost any other form of DRM. I want my copy registered with blizzard so if I lose my discs or can't find my cd key when I reinstall a few years down the line it won't be an issue. Also how in the hell can you complain that pirates don't have to go through the activation, then list multiple other forms of DRM that pirates ignore while in the same breath calling them more reasonable? what the hell?
Reasonable is even an invisible check for the physical DVD
What? CD checks are easily bypassed or else insanely annoying. Companies that disc check either have completely shitty checks which are doing neither them, or me (who's prone to disk loss) any good, while requiring I keep track of a CD for years to come. On the off chance they make a good disc check it's going to block daemon tools and any kind of virtual disk mounting software which is just a pain in the ass.
I'm sorry but I just can't agree with any of the points you raised, you've suggested two horrible solutions instead of a method I actually enjoy and provides added value to me the customer.
While I'll admit I laughed when I read this, I think the debunking to this argument would probably center around the fact that music and movies have legal avenues of purchase/sales that CP doesn't. Perhaps comparing it to going after distributors versus users and the war on drugs might yield some more useful comparisons.
Wiping out the 4 mods I was going to make to post this, but I can offer some information. I've had my droid for a bit over 4 months, never had the alarm fail to go off. The phone has locked up once since I got it but that was obvious and easily corrected. That was when it was on 2.01, my provider pushed out 2.1 and I haven't seen any hiccups since.
Oh god don't mention yahoo mail as better then g-mail. It's search function randomly breaks. I mean it just stops searching. I submitted the bug to them and they basically said "Yeah that happens, we'll poke the database from the back end and see if it clears up." Now every time I search for something I have to wonder if what I'm looking for isn't there, or did my search break silently again? Even on the user interface side it's annoying, the what's new tab you can't close. If you accidentally shrink your preview frame it starts opening all mail in new tabs. It's just generally ugly and trying hard to be unintuitive as a webmail app can be.
We keep hearing endlessly about everything Australia is doing to combat CP, once a week a new story comes along about them. I'm left to wonder, how bad exactly is their CP problem? It's starting to seem like it's a national epidemic over there.
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Anecdote != data, love those citations. I guess you just want everyone off your yard.
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(1) If this is a feature you want it's easy to replicate on an infix calculator, but I'd rather just look over my entered equation and then hit enter instead of hitting enter and checking each intermediate result, to each their own. <br><br>
(2) Is this seriously a problem for some people? These are graphing calculators, if you typo you press the left arrow and fix it<br><br>
(3) and an Abacus is faster then both so why aren't you promoting those? It could be exposure to lisp but I actually prefer parens and I like being able to easily break apart an equation into discrete chunks and deal with them as relations. I prefer my calculator input mirror my hand written notes, reverse polish notation would have made systems/connaps/statics that much more annoying for no benefit to the student. I never met a single engineering professor at school who recommended the use of RPN over infix and I can't recall ever using RPN in matlab/maple/mathematica.<br><br>
You present the same whiny doomsday arguments about how nothings as good as it was back when you did it with zero actual support for your position, congratulations AC! If there was an actual benefit to RPN it would still be taught instead of being a dead-end in the history of calculators and a standard mini project for CS students.
Uh as someone who went through a hardcore engineering program, no. RPN was common for awhile because at some point in the dark ages of personal computing the amount of ram/rom that would be needed for a machine to convert infix to postfix was actually a sizable amount. The only arguable superiority of RPN is not needing parenthesis for order of operations, however since every child is raised from kindergarten on infix it's hardly an advantage. This isn't dumbing down of society anymore then making compilers instead of writing raw machine code by hand is dumbing down programming. There's no benefit to doing unnecessary work as an engineer just to make life easier on a computer.
So you're being purposefully stupid? Here's a list of these 'advantages' you really want to see in your mmorpgs. "Laggy menus, Awful interface design, No keyboard shortcuts,Crafting requires you to go through 4 or so menus and confirmations. You then start a (slow) crafting process,manually visit dozens of player stores and hope one of them has the item you're after, Worthless maps, You then have to open a help website, Limits to the number of quests, copy and paste scenery, Nowhere near enough content, solo grinding or quests (which are limited)." Gosh I really hope you start your own mmorpg so the whole world can enjoy your innovative game design methodology of 'make the shittiest user experience possible.'
I actually never really looked over zune seriously because I assumed its music selection would suck. I went and looked at their song selection, it's actually pretty reasonable, I went for some random stuff and they had it all. Decapitated, death, celtic frost, nile, bolt thrower, devil driver, etc. I may have to consider giving them some money.
Any decent lawyer wouldn't be stupid enough to take this case. You choose not to pay for a service, you don't receive the service, enough said. There's no incentive to join into a risk/insurance prevent program if you can just wait until you need the service then try to pay the one time fee. The industry would collapse if it was designed that shoddily as tens of other posters in this thread have already explained more clearly then I.
I'm in a friends and families guild that has no outside recruitment and the range of ADHD kids up to old married couples playing, we've knocked down Lich King on normal and all hard modes except sindy, PP, death whisper and LK. We do that in two sub 3 hour raid nights a week, although with extend-able raid id's that doesn't much matter. Our invite policy is reverse attendance priority, so we bring in the least experienced set of players that still has a viable make up. The content was perfectly within most players grasp. If a guild still doesn't have Lich King down now with 30% buffs in the zone you are either a couple of standard deviations down on average skill or more likely, your guild members just aren't interested in it.
Odd, I've got a healer main and every other healer I know is desperately looking forward to the expansion so healing won't be face smashingly easy anymore.
Man I wish I had mod points for you today. I approve of your analogy.
Eh nevermind just ignore my post, I just saw your other 'pendant' comment; you have to be a troll.
I don't think you're getting it.
Brute forcing a one time pad makes "The account numbers to the secret Swiss Bank account are 3432376482 and 367282345. Please do not access the accounts more than once a month." just as likely as "The account numbers to the secret Swiss Bank account are 123456789 and 987654321. Please do not access the accounts more than once a month." and you have no way of telling which one was the original message.
Er.. what? I went to an engineering school and it was incredibly common to hear someone say "I'm late for Econ." or "I've got an Econ paper to work on this weekend." Politics was polysci and Thermodynamics was therm or thermal. About the only thing that got abbreviated and kept its 's' was conservation and accounting principles -> conaps, which is probably an exception because the class sucked so much. /fistshake http://www.rose-hulman.edu/~richards/courses/es201/index.htm/
let me help you with the reading. if you bought stuff from the bookstore. Although very few of the books we used in undergrad were actually on resale site, when you go to a sub 2000 attendance college there's a good chance you aren't on the big buy lists. Normally you'd buy books from friends who'd taken the class previously provided you didn't get version owned. Even then the savings wouldn't always be phenomenal since you'd need to split the difference between the price the store payed to buy them back, and the cost of used books at the store.
You got really lucky then. 100 dollars was on the low-end of the book spectrum when I was doing engineering and maths 6-8 years ago. Hell the book for Reals was like 100 pages long and 6 inches by 9 yet cost around 100 dollars. It wasn't uncommon to spend 500-800 a quarter if you bought stuff from the bookstore. And this was all undergrad (although good undergrad is probably the same books as a crappy masters at some schools.)
Yeah am I missing something? I really can't spot pixels in normal usage on my droid, even getting it closer than is comfortable.
Except you aren't forced to pay for any of it, you can earn it all via playing the game (albeit slowly). But if you have one specific instance hub that's your favorite it's trivial to earn that many points.
Turbine runs the free to play D&D:O. Paying didn't offer any real huge advantages, other then time saving. The concerns about 'omg they'll buy the sword of truths!' are overstated amongst western MMO's. There are games where that's a real problem, but it's not by any means a guarantee.
Talk about wasting potential. I remember release day population. Great day to be on Empire, chaos was over filled on every server so wait times were like 30 seconds for a pvp match. The game was pretty enjoyable up until about level 30.
Actually I agree with the AC more, even in a guild that was only in the top 100~'s of NA guilds once we had an instance clear in an expansion raid times got damn quick. You could clear all the useful content in 1 night of raiding, sometimes a second to pick up a last boss or two you missed. The really good guilds could knock it out in one night. Once people know strats and you can chain pull the trash all the way through clear times dropped dramatically. This is all directed at WoW, but as someone who lead a guild that got all the server firsts other then gruul/magtheridon in TBC, you're wrong in trying to speak for all guilds, The AC is right about most good guilds. Look at EJ or other world first guilds schedules, they do a burst for a week or two tops when new content is released then settle into 1-2 farm nights until the next content patch.
On the topic of being a condescending asshole, can I just say I was immensely relieved to at least see this wasn't the U.S. this time when it came to teaching idiocy. /glances at Texas.
I actually consider it much more reasonable to do a single online activation than almost any other form of DRM. I want my copy registered with blizzard so if I lose my discs or can't find my cd key when I reinstall a few years down the line it won't be an issue. Also how in the hell can you complain that pirates don't have to go through the activation, then list multiple other forms of DRM that pirates ignore while in the same breath calling them more reasonable? what the hell?
What? CD checks are easily bypassed or else insanely annoying. Companies that disc check either have completely shitty checks which are doing neither them, or me (who's prone to disk loss) any good, while requiring I keep track of a CD for years to come. On the off chance they make a good disc check it's going to block daemon tools and any kind of virtual disk mounting software which is just a pain in the ass. I'm sorry but I just can't agree with any of the points you raised, you've suggested two horrible solutions instead of a method I actually enjoy and provides added value to me the customer.
While I'll admit I laughed when I read this, I think the debunking to this argument would probably center around the fact that music and movies have legal avenues of purchase/sales that CP doesn't. Perhaps comparing it to going after distributors versus users and the war on drugs might yield some more useful comparisons.
Wiping out the 4 mods I was going to make to post this, but I can offer some information. I've had my droid for a bit over 4 months, never had the alarm fail to go off. The phone has locked up once since I got it but that was obvious and easily corrected. That was when it was on 2.01, my provider pushed out 2.1 and I haven't seen any hiccups since.
www.dontslashdotmydrupalsite.com?
Oh god don't mention yahoo mail as better then g-mail. It's search function randomly breaks. I mean it just stops searching. I submitted the bug to them and they basically said "Yeah that happens, we'll poke the database from the back end and see if it clears up." Now every time I search for something I have to wonder if what I'm looking for isn't there, or did my search break silently again? Even on the user interface side it's annoying, the what's new tab you can't close. If you accidentally shrink your preview frame it starts opening all mail in new tabs. It's just generally ugly and trying hard to be unintuitive as a webmail app can be.
We keep hearing endlessly about everything Australia is doing to combat CP, once a week a new story comes along about them. I'm left to wonder, how bad exactly is their CP problem? It's starting to seem like it's a national epidemic over there.