You know, the GameCube version of Zelda won't require the Wiimote of Nunchunk either. Perhaps you should just buy a nice and inexpensive GC, pick up one of the copies of Zelda for Cube that will be collecting dust;-), and enjoy. Nintendo does seem to be about options these days. Maybe they actually learned from their mistakes this time around.
For many years you couldn't copy CDs; the CD-R and MP3 was not yet invented. Yet CDs did very well and didn't die.
Every CD player I've owned since the advent of the format had a cassette deck with a handy little record button. It may not have been a perfect digital recording, but it was good enough to make mix tapes long before CD-R rose to prominence.
Cracker (sometimes "white cracker") was originally a pejorative term for a white person, mainly used in the Southern United States, and still is in many instances.
Was that an honest question or did I just feed a troll?
Wow, what a truly insightful and enlightening comment. If I had mod points, I'd mod you to oblivion.
TFA stated that 17" monitors tend to come in at 1,920 x 1,200. How can 1,680 x 1,050 be "just a monitor with a different aspect ratio?" That is fugging light on the pixel count for that much real estate, no matter what ratio it's in.
Oh? That's funny. I just saw this very option when I was buying tickets to a Nine Inch Nails concert on Friday. I'd bet that Trent Reznor didn't endorse the bidding on tickets, based on his tendency to release the multi-track recordings of his songs in a variety of formats (What? A major artist open-sourcing his music? OMGWTFBBQ!!!!111!!1!11eleventy!) and his general statements about the music industry.
Public schools already do require proof of vaccinations (at least here in California) and have for more than a few decades at least. So it would appear that your sad day has long since come and gone.
Only took 30 seconds to find it too... Have had mine for years though.
"I want my two dollars!"
Been using one for most of the last year...
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I teach algebra in Orange County, CA, and have been using one of these for most of the last school year. My school has probably 85% of the classrooms equipped with these, with the remaining 15% due to get them early next year. I use a Smart Board with a 12" PowerBook and an Epson LCD projector*. It is front projection, which can be a pain (especially when my clueless 7th and 8th graders look directly into the beam), but I do enjoy using it. With the Smart Board and a PowerPoint** presentation, I can cover more information in a class period than I can by just sitting at an overhead projector. This also allows me to have the full text of what I'm saying on the screen as I'm saying it, which allows both my auditory and visual learners to acquire more of the imformation. I craft the presentations in such a way that the example problems show every step of work on each click of my wireless presentation remote/laser pointer. If I need to highlight/underline/circle/do anything by hand, there is a selection of pens at the ready, just as if I was working at a chalkboard or whiteboard. However, I find being able to walk around the room while I explain how to factor trinomials does wonders for keeping my students on task.
Does the tech make me a better teacher? No, but it does allow me to keep the attention of my 180 hormonal 7th and 8th graders on a bright and sunny June day where you can smell the ocean on the breeze. Do all of the teachers who have Smart Boards at my school make use of them? No. Some simply do not want to while others do not know how to use them or integrate them into their lessons. Here is where the system starts to show flaws. The level of training we receive on technology is almost non-existant. My school and school district could stand to do much more there.
Smart Boards and computers are excellent tools to use in education, but are not a panecea for all of education's ills. Smaller class sizes would be an excellent first step. I have between 35 and 38 students per class, which is far too many to give any kind of individualized attention to in class. 25 to 30 per class would be really nice, and being able to achieve that mythical 20:1 student to teacher ratio would be heaven. Another thing that would be of big help to the level of education we can provide would be to have elemetary teachers who are not afraid of math. So many of my 7th graders barely know their multiplication tables, much less any trace of pre-algebra skills like how to work with formulas. Heaven forbid that I throw a fraction into a problem. We're trying to fix the problem of under-performing schools by making the Jr. High and High Schools so much more advanced, but we aren't getting the foundations laid securely enough to allow that to work. Better pay would be nice, but I'd much rather see math specialists at the elementary levels and more teachers in general first. Education is the foundation of every other career. If we do not support it properly, we're going to see more and more of the other professions suffer in the near future.
* - When using my LCD projector or overhead projector, I do not have to keep my room "oppressively dark." I have mini-blinds on my south-facing bank of windows and paper covering 80% of my north-facing windows, which is sufficient to be able to see either image source. In fact, my students almost uniformly prefer the dimmed room and natural lighting opposed to the harsh flourescents flooding the room. There is a chorus of groans whenever I turn the lights back on. Supposedly, we were going to get blackout curtains last year, and to be fair, we did get the runners installed, but here it is, 9 school days left, and no curtains yet. The paper stays on the windows.
** - I only use PowerPoint because it has Equation Editor and MathType. If Apple (or a third party) has something similar for use with KeyNote, I'd switch in a heartbeat. Maybe I should submit an "Ask Slashdot" for that one...
Verant has stated that they routinely patch their servers and the client program to try to prevent cheat programs from working. They merely thought about scanning for certain executibles to make their job a little bit easier. They thought it over, put the question to their playerbase, listened, and agreed with the well thought-out arguments of the minority. That is what brought out Verant's about face on the issue. Figure of the 15% that voted against it, 2/3 actually responded, and half of that was not flame. That would mean that Verant chose to listen to only 5% of their playerbase and found those arguments enlightned enough to change their minds. That is how the net is suppose to work, not by mindless boycots but by intelligent conversation. BTW, I was part of the 85% that had no problem with it.
Upgrades don't always work either. Take a look at the failed Sega 32X add-on for the Genesis. That tanked rather quickly. Also, the Game Boy Color is backwards compatable, there are games that take advantage of the new features while still being able to be played on the old, and there are an increasing amount of games that are GBC only. Nintendo plans on keeping the backwards comapatability going in the next-gen GB as well. If handled properly, b/c can be very useful. I think I'm gonna wait for the Dolphin, though. I've heard of few problems with that, whereas the emotion engin in PSXII is glitchy, or so I've heard. But that's just my opinion, I could be wrong.
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You know, the GameCube version of Zelda won't require the Wiimote of Nunchunk either. Perhaps you should just buy a nice and inexpensive GC, pick up one of the copies of Zelda for Cube that will be collecting dust ;-), and enjoy. Nintendo does seem to be about options these days. Maybe they actually learned from their mistakes this time around.
I haven't heard of any wired version of the Wiimote. Care to source that?
Everything I've heard is that the only wire is for the nunchunk or if you plug in a GameCube controller.
Every CD player I've owned since the advent of the format had a cassette deck with a handy little record button. It may not have been a perfect digital recording, but it was good enough to make mix tapes long before CD-R rose to prominence.
Was that an honest question or did I just feed a troll?
Of course, on some planets, that could go like this...
"Hey, check out this here marklar on this here marklar."
Although, would a Marklar use the marklar "here" in his marklars?
Wow, what a truly insightful and enlightening comment. If I had mod points, I'd mod you to oblivion.
TFA stated that 17" monitors tend to come in at 1,920 x 1,200. How can 1,680 x 1,050 be "just a monitor with a different aspect ratio?" That is fugging light on the pixel count for that much real estate, no matter what ratio it's in.
*/troll fed/*
Oh? That's funny. I just saw this very option when I was buying tickets to a Nine Inch Nails concert on Friday. I'd bet that Trent Reznor didn't endorse the bidding on tickets, based on his tendency to release the multi-track recordings of his songs in a variety of formats (What? A major artist open-sourcing his music? OMGWTFBBQ!!!!111!!1!11eleventy!) and his general statements about the music industry.
Public schools already do require proof of vaccinations (at least here in California) and have for more than a few decades at least. So it would appear that your sad day has long since come and gone.
Thank you, come again.
Have you looked here?
Only took 30 seconds to find it too... Have had mine for years though.
"I want my two dollars!"
I teach algebra in Orange County, CA, and have been using one of these for most of the last school year. My school has probably 85% of the classrooms equipped with these, with the remaining 15% due to get them early next year. I use a Smart Board with a 12" PowerBook and an Epson LCD projector*. It is front projection, which can be a pain (especially when my clueless 7th and 8th graders look directly into the beam), but I do enjoy using it. With the Smart Board and a PowerPoint** presentation, I can cover more information in a class period than I can by just sitting at an overhead projector. This also allows me to have the full text of what I'm saying on the screen as I'm saying it, which allows both my auditory and visual learners to acquire more of the imformation. I craft the presentations in such a way that the example problems show every step of work on each click of my wireless presentation remote/laser pointer. If I need to highlight/underline/circle/do anything by hand, there is a selection of pens at the ready, just as if I was working at a chalkboard or whiteboard. However, I find being able to walk around the room while I explain how to factor trinomials does wonders for keeping my students on task.
Does the tech make me a better teacher? No, but it does allow me to keep the attention of my 180 hormonal 7th and 8th graders on a bright and sunny June day where you can smell the ocean on the breeze. Do all of the teachers who have Smart Boards at my school make use of them? No. Some simply do not want to while others do not know how to use them or integrate them into their lessons. Here is where the system starts to show flaws. The level of training we receive on technology is almost non-existant. My school and school district could stand to do much more there.
Smart Boards and computers are excellent tools to use in education, but are not a panecea for all of education's ills. Smaller class sizes would be an excellent first step. I have between 35 and 38 students per class, which is far too many to give any kind of individualized attention to in class. 25 to 30 per class would be really nice, and being able to achieve that mythical 20:1 student to teacher ratio would be heaven. Another thing that would be of big help to the level of education we can provide would be to have elemetary teachers who are not afraid of math. So many of my 7th graders barely know their multiplication tables, much less any trace of pre-algebra skills like how to work with formulas. Heaven forbid that I throw a fraction into a problem. We're trying to fix the problem of under-performing schools by making the Jr. High and High Schools so much more advanced, but we aren't getting the foundations laid securely enough to allow that to work. Better pay would be nice, but I'd much rather see math specialists at the elementary levels and more teachers in general first. Education is the foundation of every other career. If we do not support it properly, we're going to see more and more of the other professions suffer in the near future.
* - When using my LCD projector or overhead projector, I do not have to keep my room "oppressively dark." I have mini-blinds on my south-facing bank of windows and paper covering 80% of my north-facing windows, which is sufficient to be able to see either image source. In fact, my students almost uniformly prefer the dimmed room and natural lighting opposed to the harsh flourescents flooding the room. There is a chorus of groans whenever I turn the lights back on. Supposedly, we were going to get blackout curtains last year, and to be fair, we did get the runners installed, but here it is, 9 school days left, and no curtains yet. The paper stays on the windows.
** - I only use PowerPoint because it has Equation Editor and MathType. If Apple (or a third party) has something similar for use with KeyNote, I'd switch in a heartbeat. Maybe I should submit an "Ask Slashdot" for that one...
Having just had to teach a bit of 3-D geometry to 7th graders who didn't even know what area meant, technically that's an 11-sided prism.
Verant has stated that they routinely patch their servers and the client program to try to prevent cheat programs from working. They merely thought about scanning for certain executibles to make their job a little bit easier. They thought it over, put the question to their playerbase, listened, and agreed with the well thought-out arguments of the minority. That is what brought out Verant's about face on the issue. Figure of the 15% that voted against it, 2/3 actually responded, and half of that was not flame. That would mean that Verant chose to listen to only 5% of their playerbase and found those arguments enlightned enough to change their minds. That is how the net is suppose to work, not by mindless boycots but by intelligent conversation. BTW, I was part of the 85% that had no problem with it.
Upgrades don't always work either. Take a look at the failed Sega 32X add-on for the Genesis. That tanked rather quickly. Also, the Game Boy Color is backwards compatable, there are games that take advantage of the new features while still being able to be played on the old, and there are an increasing amount of games that are GBC only. Nintendo plans on keeping the backwards comapatability going in the next-gen GB as well. If handled properly, b/c can be very useful. I think I'm gonna wait for the Dolphin, though. I've heard of few problems with that, whereas the emotion engin in PSXII is glitchy, or so I've heard. But that's just my opinion, I could be wrong.