You damn mods need to go back to elementary school science. Who the hell modded this up? Birds have some of the best vision in the animal world. How on earth would a bird find its nest again if it couldn't see its stationary eggs/nest structure?
I bought an iPod and iTunes aside (I prefer using Xplay because much of my music is already in a directory structure) I love Apple. I'm hoping to buy a laptop before I go abroad next fall and, cash permitting, its defintely going to be an iBook or Powerbook. The look and feel of OS X is great and then the Unix underpinnings mean a lot of the stuff I learned about Linux and other Unix-y systems will come in handy and there's a veritable bonanza of software on Freshmeat and the traditional Mac shareware developers.
I have a lot of experience with Macs at my work and I enjoy them greatly. The idea of dragging a kludgy Windows laptop across the Pacific has no appeal to me; if I can't get an Apple laptop, I'm not taking a computer.
Tiger is only making the pot sweeter; there are a few simple Windows apps (dictionaries and the like) I depend on, but I think they can pretty easily be rewritten for Dashboard.
Unforutunately, I don't think a computer can ever beat a teacher (whether that's a peer teaching you or a classroom instructor). Language is a relationship between people and its almost impossible to pick that "one-sided" (tapes, even shows and things).
I'm a Japanese minor, speak Bengali and English at home, and while many of my friends have been native Japanese people who come over for college, I don't feel prepared for my study abroad over there next year. I know the experience however, will improve the naturalness of my speech.
I know we're on slashdot and all and we have to tow the company line (Windows machines will EAT YOUR BABIES), but I have use XP pretty regularly. All the machines in my house (XP ones) get locked down before getting on the net: Agnitum Outpost, Spybot and Adaware, and Norton AV. I've been running that set up (mor or less) for several years now (regularly running the two spyware programs) and I recently downloaded MS's spyware proggie; the only thing it could come up with was that TightVNS might be a threat (I use it to access a machine at home from work). I could be mistaken, of course, but its been working for me so far.
You don't even need to patch regularly if you follow good computing procedures(I'm on SP1 on this machine as I can't bare to take it down for a half day anytime soon). It's stupid that it takes so much extra software to secure Windows, but once it was done, I haven't had a major problem.
Does it work? I think there was a news clip recently on TV Tokyo (I can't remember which channel exactly) where Japanese college and highschool students were shown a map with England in the center (the ones us Americans are used to) rather than a map with Japan in the center (like they are used to) and were asked to pick out countries like Iraq, Ukraine, and America.
They didn't do so hot. Not because they hadn't studied the subject (though one guy said "There are too many countries!") but because the memorized the Japan centered map and were off balance when asked to think about that information in a new way.
Not to diss Japanese education completely, but Asian rote memorization isn't everything its cracked up to be.
So, in my relationship, my girlfriend, who programs in Java (compiles and all!), and does math, is the guy, and the liberal arts/writing guy (me) is the girl?
I'm not a huge fan of sports games but I know a lot of people that are. They are, mostly, casual gamers (the Halo and beer types). SEGA, EA, they don't care who they are, as long as they pay for the games, of course. Those folks won't be interested in generic football. Period.
SEGA has two options, really; either get into college ball. In the states a good college football based game would be a huge coup. The other option (which I think is less likely or workable) is to create a generic game (with a good engine) where players can completely customize the teams and allow users to exchange that customized data. Someone will make the real NFL and with a small shot in the arm style update they can unofficially play the NFL teams.
I have to disagree (and of course, everything is subjective) but the episodes that didn't touch on the series plot, over the whole course of the series, were more interesting to me. After awhile the mythos became so stupid and convoluted that the freak of the week stuff offered a lot more entertainment.
This actually seems responsible to me. Rather than sell the promise of server space along with the game or selling a game that has no value without the ability to long onto the server, they are holding copies back until they can fix the issues properly. If this is what they are actually doing, kudos to Blizzard; certainly the backlash they've been getting has something to do with it, but this is more responsibility than many game companies will take (and I say that as someone who isn't really a fan of WoW or the company's RTSes). To a large degree, WoW is like a forum or chat service and I've known forums to freeze new accounts to fix mySQL problems.
Of course, this could be a ploy just to drive up sales with rumors of a new player "blackout." But Blizzard is really well known for taking drastic actions to make sure their games are as good as possible. Is there any reason Blizzard should be bashed for this?
This will create a huge blackmarket for people selling their characters and accounts, though...
And you're quite the jackass, no? It doesn't change the fact that its an inappropriate time to mail my friend's phone. If I wanted to spend all day arguing with a trolling AC who doesn't know shitty gunjin from his ass, well..I'd be up at 3am.
I'm looking for the Asahi article I read it in as we speak, actually.
I'd reference my Okinawan friend as she's not into traditional dance, but she's busy today and I can never remember how to convert from Eastern time to Japanese time.
Tell that to the Okinawans; as young people, especially girls, leave the prefecture, they are having a harder and harder time finding people to learn traditional Okinawan dances. Is it better for the dance to be completely lost than for a robot to do it? Surely someone can learn it from the robot, but if its gone, its gone.
I'm sure a lot of people said the same thing when television could bring theatre into the home. A play on TV isn't real theatre, it loses its meaning.
Furthermore, it seems to me that you seem to think that the Japanese are all going to teach their robots to dance and they won't have to bother. That seems pretty unlikely. This is obviously another step in getting functioning robots, not a government program to make dancing machines. In short, I call typical American xenophobia.
Am I the only one who thinks that possibly, just about everyone who wants a GCN has one? I bought mine at launch, a PS2 6 months after that, and my younger brother got around to buying an Xbox now (heavily discounted).
His plans for the machine? A couple of used games and every emulator he can get his grubby mitts on. Basically, MS is not going to see a dime from him, other than for the (again, discounted) machine. Contrast to his buying habits of usually getting GC titles at launch and mine of getting (T-RPGs and Katamari Damashii) PS2 games.
My household ending up buying three GC titles this Christmas season - Paper Mario, Metroid Prime 2, and Naruto 3 (imported). We're looking at importing Donkey Konga 1+2 and buying Pikmin 2. That's, of course, not to mention numerous GBA games. My point being, I would like to see software sales for both machines as well as hardware and worldwide sales. I believe I saw sales in the 300s recently for the Xbox in Japan.
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MWHAHAHAHA.
You damn mods need to go back to elementary school science. Who the hell modded this up? Birds have some of the best vision in the animal world. How on earth would a bird find its nest again if it couldn't see its stationary eggs/nest structure?
I bought an iPod and iTunes aside (I prefer using Xplay because much of my music is already in a directory structure) I love Apple. I'm hoping to buy a laptop before I go abroad next fall and, cash permitting, its defintely going to be an iBook or Powerbook. The look and feel of OS X is great and then the Unix underpinnings mean a lot of the stuff I learned about Linux and other Unix-y systems will come in handy and there's a veritable bonanza of software on Freshmeat and the traditional Mac shareware developers.
I have a lot of experience with Macs at my work and I enjoy them greatly. The idea of dragging a kludgy Windows laptop across the Pacific has no appeal to me; if I can't get an Apple laptop, I'm not taking a computer.
Tiger is only making the pot sweeter; there are a few simple Windows apps (dictionaries and the like) I depend on, but I think they can pretty easily be rewritten for Dashboard.
In short, I can't wait to jump ship.
Unforutunately, I don't think a computer can ever beat a teacher (whether that's a peer teaching you or a classroom instructor). Language is a relationship between people and its almost impossible to pick that "one-sided" (tapes, even shows and things).
I'm a Japanese minor, speak Bengali and English at home, and while many of my friends have been native Japanese people who come over for college, I don't feel prepared for my study abroad over there next year. I know the experience however, will improve the naturalness of my speech.
I know we're on slashdot and all and we have to tow the company line (Windows machines will EAT YOUR BABIES), but I have use XP pretty regularly. All the machines in my house (XP ones) get locked down before getting on the net: Agnitum Outpost, Spybot and Adaware, and Norton AV. I've been running that set up (mor or less) for several years now (regularly running the two spyware programs) and I recently downloaded MS's spyware proggie; the only thing it could come up with was that TightVNS might be a threat (I use it to access a machine at home from work). I could be mistaken, of course, but its been working for me so far.
You don't even need to patch regularly if you follow good computing procedures(I'm on SP1 on this machine as I can't bare to take it down for a half day anytime soon). It's stupid that it takes so much extra software to secure Windows, but once it was done, I haven't had a major problem.
As a hard up typical Slashdot reader, I too feel I need more releases.
"I will make him an offer he can't refuse...
...2 piece spicy, 4 regular."
Does it work? I think there was a news clip recently on TV Tokyo (I can't remember which channel exactly) where Japanese college and highschool students were shown a map with England in the center (the ones us Americans are used to) rather than a map with Japan in the center (like they are used to) and were asked to pick out countries like Iraq, Ukraine, and America.
They didn't do so hot. Not because they hadn't studied the subject (though one guy said "There are too many countries!") but because the memorized the Japan centered map and were off balance when asked to think about that information in a new way.
Not to diss Japanese education completely, but Asian rote memorization isn't everything its cracked up to be.
So, in my relationship, my girlfriend, who programs in Java (compiles and all!), and does math, is the guy, and the liberal arts/writing guy (me) is the girl?
In short, you're a dope.
Professor: And this is my Universal Translator. Unfortunately, it only translates into an incomprehensible dead language.
Cubert: Hello.
Translator: Bonjour.
Professor: Crazy gibberish!
Goddamn, what fucking assholes. I've never heard such blatant jackassery outside of politics.
I wish that would mean there wouldn't be regional lockouts on the Playstation 3. But I doubt it.
I'm not a huge fan of sports games but I know a lot of people that are. They are, mostly, casual gamers (the Halo and beer types). SEGA, EA, they don't care who they are, as long as they pay for the games, of course. Those folks won't be interested in generic football. Period.
SEGA has two options, really; either get into college ball. In the states a good college football based game would be a huge coup. The other option (which I think is less likely or workable) is to create a generic game (with a good engine) where players can completely customize the teams and allow users to exchange that customized data. Someone will make the real NFL and with a small shot in the arm style update they can unofficially play the NFL teams.
I have to disagree (and of course, everything is subjective) but the episodes that didn't touch on the series plot, over the whole course of the series, were more interesting to me. After awhile the mythos became so stupid and convoluted that the freak of the week stuff offered a lot more entertainment.
This actually seems responsible to me. Rather than sell the promise of server space along with the game or selling a game that has no value without the ability to long onto the server, they are holding copies back until they can fix the issues properly. If this is what they are actually doing, kudos to Blizzard; certainly the backlash they've been getting has something to do with it, but this is more responsibility than many game companies will take (and I say that as someone who isn't really a fan of WoW or the company's RTSes). To a large degree, WoW is like a forum or chat service and I've known forums to freeze new accounts to fix mySQL problems.
Of course, this could be a ploy just to drive up sales with rumors of a new player "blackout." But Blizzard is really well known for taking drastic actions to make sure their games are as good as possible. Is there any reason Blizzard should be bashed for this?
This will create a huge blackmarket for people selling their characters and accounts, though...
Wait, so my math professor is really a man and since I don't like or understand math as well as English, writing, and languages, I'm a girl?
Finally, a chance to admit my crush on Harrison Ford...
You're 0 for 2, genius.
Oh well, you don't have the balls to not post AC and I'm getting to bed. Ta, loser, you've got quite a chip on your shoulder.
You think I'm American?
I'm Muslim and Bangladeshi you dumbass. I care far more about Iraq and Iran than you would.
And you're quite the jackass, no? It doesn't change the fact that its an inappropriate time to mail my friend's phone. If I wanted to spend all day arguing with a trolling AC who doesn't know shitty gunjin from his ass, well..I'd be up at 3am.
I'm looking for the Asahi article I read it in as we speak, actually.
I'd reference my Okinawan friend as she's not into traditional dance, but she's busy today and I can never remember how to convert from Eastern time to Japanese time.
If you think I'm an SOFA weenie, you're stupid. I'm as much against the base as anyone.
Dork.
Tell that to the Okinawans; as young people, especially girls, leave the prefecture, they are having a harder and harder time finding people to learn traditional Okinawan dances. Is it better for the dance to be completely lost than for a robot to do it? Surely someone can learn it from the robot, but if its gone, its gone.
I'm sure a lot of people said the same thing when television could bring theatre into the home. A play on TV isn't real theatre, it loses its meaning.
Furthermore, it seems to me that you seem to think that the Japanese are all going to teach their robots to dance and they won't have to bother. That seems pretty unlikely. This is obviously another step in getting functioning robots, not a government program to make dancing machines. In short, I call typical American xenophobia.
Is that lens flare really necessary? You'd think they were 12 year olds who just warez'd Paint Shop Pro...
If you're anything like a typical slashdotter, you might want to turn that feature off ;)
*ducks*
His plans for the machine? A couple of used games and every emulator he can get his grubby mitts on. Basically, MS is not going to see a dime from him, other than for the (again, discounted) machine. Contrast to his buying habits of usually getting GC titles at launch and mine of getting (T-RPGs and Katamari Damashii) PS2 games.
My household ending up buying three GC titles this Christmas season - Paper Mario, Metroid Prime 2, and Naruto 3 (imported). We're looking at importing Donkey Konga 1+2 and buying Pikmin 2. That's, of course, not to mention numerous GBA games. My point being, I would like to see software sales for both machines as well as hardware and worldwide sales. I believe I saw sales in the 300s recently for the Xbox in Japan.