"What I meant was, with cellphones banned the plane would be peaceful."
Wha?
Cell phones are already banned, and planes are anything but peaceful.
Ban noisy children, and then you're starting out on the right track. I don't know how one would test to see if a child will be noisy on a plane, though. Maybe some sort of certification process.:)
I have an interest in some of these ROMs, and I'd pay $1.25 per ROM if I could get them in an easy-to-use format. None of this "rar" or "zip" crap for files that can fit 10 to a floppy or whathaveyou. No.nfo files. Just pure ROM files that I can pop in to an emulator and play.
I'd probably pay up to $3 or so.
I sure wouldn't pay $20 for those GBA ported NES games I've seen at Fry's though.
emusic.com isn't quite 10 times less than iTunes and real's service, but at around 25 cents a track (what I've been paying) it's damned competitive. No DRM, just MP3s.
I'm not going to be picking up a iPod either -- Apple isn't really surprising me with their antics here.
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It's one thing to want to play with other people, it's an entirely different thing if you have to play with other people simply to progress in the game. I've seen many people argue against my thoughts there using that exact same idea -- that I should be playing single player games instead.
Games should be fun, and should not have excessive requirements. Games should NOT involve standing around shouting "Level N druid/warrior/whatever LFG" for an hour (LFG meaning "Looking For Group") but that's what EverQuest involved. If you could solo while you were waiting (druids could, slowly), it wouldn't be so bad.
Or if you could adventure out there and help someone fight a monster, without having to have this artificial "group" mechanism, that would be great, too. (XP based on damage/actions, something where you're not "kill stealing").
It sounds as though EQ2 and WoW both have "forced" grouping in later levels. Definitely not the games for me.
Nope. If they're old enough to be out unsuprvised with friends, you have to accept that they might (and probably will) do things you wouldn't let them do in your own home.
Eh, if a parent is such a control freak that they have to go so far as to know what movies their kids are watching with friends, maybe the parent shouldn't let their kids outside the house at all. I mean, that's bordering on obsessive compulsive already.
" First, I would like to point out that the original post of this thread is marked as a troll. What is going on with he slashdot community that you have become such Nazis about people opinions?"
The community needs more metamoderators, with powers to revoke moderator privileges.
"although I doubt it... the patents don't prevent you from coming up with your own idea, they just prevent you from abusing someone else's."
Of course, as an inventor, you already need to have a metric buttload of money available to have patent searches done for your inventions, before you release them for free to the public, else you're probably going to get sued. Heck, you'd probably still get sued, anyways. Thanks to patents.
The patent system is ancient. 20 years used to be just a long time. Now it's several eternities.
Does profit mean something different in the UK English than in US English? 'cause the way I'm reading that, they're stating that the retail price for a game == profit, ignoring the cost associated.
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I always enjoy when someone calls a black guy "African American" even when it's clear they're not American in any way.
I know this is sad, but I even remember a Cosby Show episode where they did that, about some leader of another country.
"It sounds like you are actually complaining about "professors""
Mostly, although we had TA's in high school, too.
I'm afraid I haven't had enough time in my life to witness a majority of teaching styles; I can only go by what I've experienced myself, by what my friends/associates have gone through, and partly by what I've read.
I'd love to go to college with some small classes, or college at all, but I still need to save up some money to get in (I'm a white male childless high school dropout (GED, high school was worthless) so I'm excluded from many/most scholarships, at least judging by FastWeb.)
I am curious, are you forced to work for the union, or can you get out of that? It sounds like it's a really raw deal (as it seems to be with most unions).
In my area teachers get 0% mortgages, but that might just be a local thing.
Ah, didn't know that. I have only been through the educational system in the US (specifically, Lake Washington, in King County, WA)). I don't remember much application, just memorization and homework regurgitating what was memorized.
The only classes I remember that weren't like that were the math classes. I think that's because you have to apply knowledge to solve an equation, instead of just reading the equation and knowing the answer.
Money isn't the answer. I've known plenty of people who made tons of money and were still incompetent dickheads.:)
Agreed on the union, though, 100%.
A big part of the problem with our educational system is how heavily dependant it is on companies to produce the curriculum (via teachers books and such), instead of the teachers doing so. Imagine a teacher that would be capable of creating the entire year's curriculum -- that teacher would have to be quite knowledgable about the subject, and probably very interested in it as well.
I've known very few that do care, but most do not appear to. Many, perhaps even most, don't even grade assignments themselves, they farm it out to so-called "teacher assistants". I wonder how they could be further out of touch with their students. Maybe they could telecommute!
"This is in the way that they don't really like learning"
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Teaching here is almost all memorization and regurgitation. Teachers don't care, though -- no reason to. Their jobs are safe. The worse they do the more money their school gets. A great system, American public education...
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"What I meant was, with cellphones banned the plane would be peaceful."
:)
Wha?
Cell phones are already banned, and planes are anything but peaceful.
Ban noisy children, and then you're starting out on the right track. I don't know how one would test to see if a child will be noisy on a plane, though. Maybe some sort of certification process.
emusic.com is legal in the US. allofmp3.com probably would not be.
I have an interest in some of these ROMs, and I'd pay $1.25 per ROM if I could get them in an easy-to-use format. None of this "rar" or "zip" crap for files that can fit 10 to a floppy or whathaveyou. No .nfo files. Just pure ROM files that I can pop in to an emulator and play.
I'd probably pay up to $3 or so.
I sure wouldn't pay $20 for those GBA ported NES games I've seen at Fry's though.
emusic.com isn't quite 10 times less than iTunes and real's service, but at around 25 cents a track (what I've been paying) it's damned competitive. No DRM, just MP3s.
I'm not going to be picking up a iPod either -- Apple isn't really surprising me with their antics here.
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You can save those house plans forever. Nobody can (legally) take them from you.
This "Virtual Island" could be shut down at any time.
If mom can call, why did she send an email? When her son didn't reply, why not call then?
Your logic makes no sense. Your racism (your concern about racism barely masks it) is showing.
You're reading way too much in to this. Or maybe you're racist yourself, and are concerned it may become revealed here?
I see no connection between whatsoever between race and IP firewalling. Most people you talk to would agree.
Hmm, interesting. I do like the idea of pairing up with people occasionally, just not having to work out a schedule with them as to when I'll be on.
You can tell what mobs are elites from a distance I assume?
Btw, are you Moonshadow from EQ Stratics?
I've had the same issue as the grandparent.
It's one thing to want to play with other people, it's an entirely different thing if you have to play with other people simply to progress in the game. I've seen many people argue against my thoughts there using that exact same idea -- that I should be playing single player games instead.
Games should be fun, and should not have excessive requirements. Games should NOT involve standing around shouting "Level N druid/warrior/whatever LFG" for an hour (LFG meaning "Looking For Group") but that's what EverQuest involved. If you could solo while you were waiting (druids could, slowly), it wouldn't be so bad.
Or if you could adventure out there and help someone fight a monster, without having to have this artificial "group" mechanism, that would be great, too. (XP based on damage/actions, something where you're not "kill stealing").
It sounds as though EQ2 and WoW both have "forced" grouping in later levels. Definitely not the games for me.
Nope. If they're old enough to be out unsuprvised with friends, you have to accept that they might (and probably will) do things you wouldn't let them do in your own home.
Eh, if a parent is such a control freak that they have to go so far as to know what movies their kids are watching with friends, maybe the parent shouldn't let their kids outside the house at all. I mean, that's bordering on obsessive compulsive already.
The whole GPS thing is worse, by far, of course.
Go to a movie theater that uses cell phone jammers ONE TIME and you lose the car!
" First, I would like to point out that the original post of this thread is marked as a troll. What is going on with he slashdot community that you have become such Nazis about people opinions?"
The community needs more metamoderators, with powers to revoke moderator privileges.
"although I doubt it... the patents don't prevent you from coming up with your own idea, they just prevent you from abusing someone else's."
Of course, as an inventor, you already need to have a metric buttload of money available to have patent searches done for your inventions, before you release them for free to the public, else you're probably going to get sued. Heck, you'd probably still get sued, anyways. Thanks to patents.
The patent system is ancient. 20 years used to be just a long time. Now it's several eternities.
Does profit mean something different in the UK English than in US English? 'cause the way I'm reading that, they're stating that the retail price for a game == profit, ignoring the cost associated.
I always enjoy when someone calls a black guy "African American" even when it's clear they're not American in any way.
I know this is sad, but I even remember a Cosby Show episode where they did that, about some leader of another country.
And people wonder why I'm so anti-union. I didn't know about that generality, though. Even worse.
"It sounds like you are actually complaining about "professors""
Mostly, although we had TA's in high school, too.
I'm afraid I haven't had enough time in my life to witness a majority of teaching styles; I can only go by what I've experienced myself, by what my friends/associates have gone through, and partly by what I've read.
I'd love to go to college with some small classes, or college at all, but I still need to save up some money to get in (I'm a white male childless high school dropout (GED, high school was worthless) so I'm excluded from many/most scholarships, at least judging by FastWeb.)
I am curious, are you forced to work for the union, or can you get out of that? It sounds like it's a really raw deal (as it seems to be with most unions).
In my area teachers get 0% mortgages, but that might just be a local thing.
Ah, didn't know that. I have only been through the educational system in the US (specifically, Lake Washington, in King County, WA)). I don't remember much application, just memorization and homework regurgitating what was memorized.
The only classes I remember that weren't like that were the math classes. I think that's because you have to apply knowledge to solve an equation, instead of just reading the equation and knowing the answer.
Money isn't the answer. I've known plenty of people who made tons of money and were still incompetent dickheads. :)
Agreed on the union, though, 100%.
A big part of the problem with our educational system is how heavily dependant it is on companies to produce the curriculum (via teachers books and such), instead of the teachers doing so. Imagine a teacher that would be capable of creating the entire year's curriculum -- that teacher would have to be quite knowledgable about the subject, and probably very interested in it as well.
I've known very few that do care, but most do not appear to. Many, perhaps even most, don't even grade assignments themselves, they farm it out to so-called "teacher assistants". I wonder how they could be further out of touch with their students. Maybe they could telecommute!
"This is in the way that they don't really like learning"
s/learning/teaching/
Teaching here is almost all memorization and regurgitation. Teachers don't care, though -- no reason to. Their jobs are safe. The worse they do the more money their school gets. A great system, American public education...