In the US I don't believe this is about teacher earnings. I haven't yet met a teacher who's said, "I don't get paid enough so I'm just not going to bother teaching subject x." My experience says that this is about parents complaining about their children's grades. A few loudmouths complain because they're "brilliant little girl susie" isn't getting an "A" in their class and before you know it, the class gets easier, and easier. I've seen this first hand - any classes that aren't geared toward a specific level (like AP classes) are just dumbed down to the lowest common denominator. In high school I gave up taking English entirely and went to the local community college. Spending hours copying dictionary entries for common words wasn't my idea of a challenging class.
I want to reply to a number of posts but when I hit "reply" it just sits there, broken, so I'll try to sum up my thoughts here instead...
Having played everything from the original Command and Conquer all the way up to and including World In Conflict I can say that WIC is actually a refreshing break from the usual - spend 90% of the mission grinding out a base and building up a huge army and then just rush and clobber your enemy - style RTS.
The resources you have for building units are just half of the game. There are, in fact, tactical aid points which are awarded to you for accomplishing various objectives. Using these points wisely is almost always a deciding factor in multiplayer games. Players can also switch between different roles - support, infantry, armor, and air. Your team's balance and how you respond to the opposing team's mix definitely requires some good tactics.
Finally, I think that the ground control style game play is more realistic. Let's be honest, very few real battles are a "Rush the enemy and kill / destroy everything - causalities be damned". Kamikaze missions in WIC don't work. Neither do lone rangers. I think there's more strategy in WIC than in most of the "build crap like crazy and then rush" RTS games. I'm not saying I haven't spent hours enjoying those games - just that this is a new, more realistic, type.
Netflix also comes with free streaming movies. The streaming library is much smaller than their DVD library, but it's a nice feature. With Netflix and Redbox I don't see how they think they're going to make any money. Both of those are a much, much better deal.
All it really takes is for journalists and authors everywhere to stop correcting their work for spelling and grammar mistakes... oh... wait... that's already happened. There was a time when a person could read a published article without tripping over simple typos and grammatical errors. Then the Internet happened and people decided that proofreading their work took too much time.
Except that the damaged walls appear to be on the opposite side of the damaged slope section... Unless both sides are damaged and they just decided not to take a picture of it - which is equally plausible.
Right, but the objective here is to use moderation to bubble the main contenders to the top. If you've got two different posts with the same idea being moderated someone will have to be smart enough to combine the total scores together for the single idea. So... it makes sense to just mod the second one redundant and let the points / discussion continue in the other thread.
I've been thinking this myself. I think that most of the people that want rock band have bought / will soon purchase rock band. As an owner of rock band, this new game looks cool and everything, but I really don't need yet *another* set of drums and guitars and mics laying around. That crap already takes up a ton of space in my tiny living room. What am I going to do with 2 sets? eesh.
Yeah, you really should have played expert. Even just as a musician (but not drummer) I found it confusing at times playing some of the lower difficulties on the drums. You'd hit the snare once for every 4 times it was really hit. Or you'd hit the kick once instead of three times. Give it a try on expert - it can be tough, but it's a lot of fun.
Exactly. Atom may not be lightning fast but that's because it's scaled back to sip power. If someone wants to run the thing at 5 watts, like the nano, then I wouldn't be surprised if the kneeling were the other way around.
Sometimes people don't know when to quit... I haven't used FF3 yet so I don't know if it applies but I finally gave up on WinAmp when it started looking too much like WMP. I had used WinAmp starting around 10 years ago (way before napster ruined everything:P ) It was a sleek, small little program. Then they released a new version that added a bunch of "features" they were "missing" that WMP had. I guess they hadn't considered that that was the very reason people like me were using it. At that point I just gave up and went back to using crappy old WMP (they'd finally added MP3 support by that point anyway).
Well exactly. I'd like to set a record too. Let's all set a record for most t-shirts bought in 24 hours. You can buy them from me for only $18. Go now!...This is pretty obviously just marketing glitz. You can't really prove any Internet type record anyway.
Oh Microsoft... You fool me every time! Quit playing with my heart! I always know you're lying... all of my friends tell me you're no good... but I can't quit you! Please, just this once, tell me the truth - is Windows 7 going to have any of the cool useful things you said it would?
What's broken is slashdot's moderation. There have been numerous other posts pointing out that this is a US patent as well.... and yet we end up with a 5-Informative post that claims it isn't. Thanks to Revvy for tracking down the actual patent. Nicely done.
No, it's actually just an English lesson - "snuck" is not a real freaking word and the editor should have used "sneaked". Although... I suppose there could be a deeper meaning... but this is Idle and no here really cares about the content anyway:P
Indeed. Sadly the time of the republican party supporting small government and a "hands off" attitude has long since passed. Now it's all about supporting whatever huge corporate conglomerate they get money from.
What happened to state's rights? It seems like people have completely forgotten about them... I have no doubt that if you asked average joe on the street about it you'd get a blank stare.
I always thought they were a big part of making sure that the different groups of people in a country of this size got what they wanted (You don't like our laws? Try another state's). At least then those corporate guys would have to bribe 50 people instead of just a handful:P
That's the most awesome idea I've ever heard. Slashdotters unite! Slow them pesky comcast trucks down! You never know what could be in those things! Could be something bad. Better not let them drive around.
In the first week I got Verizon DSL (years ago) I downloaded around 40GB worth of stuff (tv shows, movies, etc). I filled my hard drive. Never heard anything from them. They're good people. I haven't had the same experience with Comcast...:-/
I want to know if those drums have a kick pedal. Most people I've watched can barely play the four pads and the kick pedal. Good luck with 5 pads that are farther apart and a kick pedal! It'll be fun for "real" drummers though. It'll be interesting to see how they cram visuals for 6 different things and how they arrange them. (In order regardless of height, or put the cymbals at either end, or ??)
Office 2007 has some really excellent improvements over previous versions of office. Not the least of which is the awesome Sharepoint integration. Previous upgrades have often left me saying, "yeah, ok, new office, flashy buttons, whatever." Once you get past the new UI though, this version really is a marked enhancement over previous iterations in many ways. The office team appears to be one of the few (only?) groups at Microsoft that's churning out a better product. ("only" gets a question mark because WHS should be awesome - alas, no 64bit connector makes me sad.)
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sonofa... no sleep = sloppy /. post. Please disregard my awesome use of "they're".
In the US I don't believe this is about teacher earnings. I haven't yet met a teacher who's said, "I don't get paid enough so I'm just not going to bother teaching subject x." My experience says that this is about parents complaining about their children's grades. A few loudmouths complain because they're "brilliant little girl susie" isn't getting an "A" in their class and before you know it, the class gets easier, and easier. I've seen this first hand - any classes that aren't geared toward a specific level (like AP classes) are just dumbed down to the lowest common denominator. In high school I gave up taking English entirely and went to the local community college. Spending hours copying dictionary entries for common words wasn't my idea of a challenging class.
I want to reply to a number of posts but when I hit "reply" it just sits there, broken, so I'll try to sum up my thoughts here instead...
Having played everything from the original Command and Conquer all the way up to and including World In Conflict I can say that WIC is actually a refreshing break from the usual - spend 90% of the mission grinding out a base and building up a huge army and then just rush and clobber your enemy - style RTS.
The resources you have for building units are just half of the game. There are, in fact, tactical aid points which are awarded to you for accomplishing various objectives. Using these points wisely is almost always a deciding factor in multiplayer games. Players can also switch between different roles - support, infantry, armor, and air. Your team's balance and how you respond to the opposing team's mix definitely requires some good tactics.
Finally, I think that the ground control style game play is more realistic. Let's be honest, very few real battles are a "Rush the enemy and kill / destroy everything - causalities be damned". Kamikaze missions in WIC don't work. Neither do lone rangers. I think there's more strategy in WIC than in most of the "build crap like crazy and then rush" RTS games. I'm not saying I haven't spent hours enjoying those games - just that this is a new, more realistic, type.
Netflix also comes with free streaming movies. The streaming library is much smaller than their DVD library, but it's a nice feature. With Netflix and Redbox I don't see how they think they're going to make any money. Both of those are a much, much better deal.
All it really takes is for journalists and authors everywhere to stop correcting their work for spelling and grammar mistakes... oh... wait... that's already happened. There was a time when a person could read a published article without tripping over simple typos and grammatical errors. Then the Internet happened and people decided that proofreading their work took too much time.
Except that the damaged walls appear to be on the opposite side of the damaged slope section... Unless both sides are damaged and they just decided not to take a picture of it - which is equally plausible.
Right, but the objective here is to use moderation to bubble the main contenders to the top. If you've got two different posts with the same idea being moderated someone will have to be smart enough to combine the total scores together for the single idea. So... it makes sense to just mod the second one redundant and let the points / discussion continue in the other thread.
I've been thinking this myself. I think that most of the people that want rock band have bought / will soon purchase rock band. As an owner of rock band, this new game looks cool and everything, but I really don't need yet *another* set of drums and guitars and mics laying around. That crap already takes up a ton of space in my tiny living room. What am I going to do with 2 sets? eesh.
Yeah, you really should have played expert. Even just as a musician (but not drummer) I found it confusing at times playing some of the lower difficulties on the drums. You'd hit the snare once for every 4 times it was really hit. Or you'd hit the kick once instead of three times. Give it a try on expert - it can be tough, but it's a lot of fun.
Those aren't just DDR pads - they look like stainless steel DDR pads. Those things should be in a rest area bathroom.
Exactly. Atom may not be lightning fast but that's because it's scaled back to sip power. If someone wants to run the thing at 5 watts, like the nano, then I wouldn't be surprised if the kneeling were the other way around.
Sometimes people don't know when to quit... I haven't used FF3 yet so I don't know if it applies but I finally gave up on WinAmp when it started looking too much like WMP. I had used WinAmp starting around 10 years ago (way before napster ruined everything :P ) It was a sleek, small little program. Then they released a new version that added a bunch of "features" they were "missing" that WMP had. I guess they hadn't considered that that was the very reason people like me were using it. At that point I just gave up and went back to using crappy old WMP (they'd finally added MP3 support by that point anyway).
Well exactly. I'd like to set a record too. Let's all set a record for most t-shirts bought in 24 hours. You can buy them from me for only $18. Go now! ...This is pretty obviously just marketing glitz. You can't really prove any Internet type record anyway.
Oh Microsoft... You fool me every time! Quit playing with my heart! I always know you're lying... all of my friends tell me you're no good... but I can't quit you! Please, just this once, tell me the truth - is Windows 7 going to have any of the cool useful things you said it would?
*blank stare*
Gah! I knew it!
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If security were *really* a concern at soccer games they wouldn't let *anyone* in. Those soccer hooligans are fierce!!
What's broken is slashdot's moderation. There have been numerous other posts pointing out that this is a US patent as well.... and yet we end up with a 5-Informative post that claims it isn't. Thanks to Revvy for tracking down the actual patent. Nicely done.
What're we doing tonight Brain? The same thing we do every night Pinky... Try to sue the world!
No, it's actually just an English lesson - "snuck" is not a real freaking word and the editor should have used "sneaked". Although... I suppose there could be a deeper meaning... but this is Idle and no here really cares about the content anyway :P
Indeed. Sadly the time of the republican party supporting small government and a "hands off" attitude has long since passed. Now it's all about supporting whatever huge corporate conglomerate they get money from.
:P
What happened to state's rights? It seems like people have completely forgotten about them... I have no doubt that if you asked average joe on the street about it you'd get a blank stare.
I always thought they were a big part of making sure that the different groups of people in a country of this size got what they wanted (You don't like our laws? Try another state's). At least then those corporate guys would have to bribe 50 people instead of just a handful
That's the most awesome idea I've ever heard. Slashdotters unite! Slow them pesky comcast trucks down! You never know what could be in those things! Could be something bad. Better not let them drive around.
In the first week I got Verizon DSL (years ago) I downloaded around 40GB worth of stuff (tv shows, movies, etc). I filled my hard drive. Never heard anything from them. They're good people. I haven't had the same experience with Comcast... :-/
I want to know if those drums have a kick pedal. Most people I've watched can barely play the four pads and the kick pedal. Good luck with 5 pads that are farther apart and a kick pedal! It'll be fun for "real" drummers though. It'll be interesting to see how they cram visuals for 6 different things and how they arrange them. (In order regardless of height, or put the cymbals at either end, or ??)
Office 2007 has some really excellent improvements over previous versions of office. Not the least of which is the awesome Sharepoint integration. Previous upgrades have often left me saying, "yeah, ok, new office, flashy buttons, whatever." Once you get past the new UI though, this version really is a marked enhancement over previous iterations in many ways. The office team appears to be one of the few (only?) groups at Microsoft that's churning out a better product. ("only" gets a question mark because WHS should be awesome - alas, no 64bit connector makes me sad.)
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