I am in law school and I don't use a laptop. It maybe that in property my professor was a math major in undergrad and likes doing econ and math to help our understanding of property disputes or my civil procedure professor who likes flow charts and Venn diagrams (there are a few diagrams and some equations in law school). It even helps with BPL formulas in torts. I also draw pictures next to most of my cases to remind me of what happened in them (I do this before reading, usually, but occasionally I have to sketch something during class; in either case I couldn't do this with notes on the computer easily).
Also Plants vs. Zombies, e-mail, and Gchat are terrible distractions.
While the majority of people do use laptops, I and a few others don't. I write all my notes in the margins of my text books and it's worked pretty fine so far. I do carry my laptop to school and use it to get email between classes, to make my notes into outlines, and whatever else.
In either case, I do a lot of people slacking off and playing games in classes or checking email or shopping. I think it's disrespectful to the professor and rude. If you want to slack off, don't come. Since I learn best from the class itself, I also find it counterproductive.
My notes are more thorough, things that are not text can be written clearly, and I don't feel like I am hiding from my professor. I think it has contributed to my grades.
That is partially true, but it was the foresight of the Tokugawa and Meiji governments that also helped Japan make that "technological leap" after WW2. The Meiji government especially helped lay down the framework for modernization and that capacity got tested and used during the war itself. While some physical infrastructure was destroyed some did survive and more importantly the intellectual and social framework for it was already in Japanese society because previous governments saw it as the way to compete with Western powers.
I have two problems with slashdot and this is one of them (the other is the moderation system buries good comments if the article isn't new):
I have learned a lot of stuff from slashdot technical discussions; but I was a humanities (a foreign language and literature) major college, not science and I am in law school now. The groupthink here about the humanities and legal concepts is not just poor, it's often flat out wrong. Of course, if you know how to write a Hello World program in Perl, C, and Python, then you know that assault and battery are the same think, Shakespeare was really Francis Bacon, and Citizen Kane was just some flick.
I'm not saying it's better or worse or anything. Just that it seems to have changed and I'm sure it's changed between the start and the days of old when others were decrying the decline. My original point was only really that it's changed; I wonder if we can reasonably say slashdot has "retained" its audience.
I dunno, there are old-timers here who have been around longer than I have, and I go through cycles of posting and not posting, but I think there's been a pretty marked change in both the kinds of users and the stories. I will probably get moderated to hell for saying this, but when I started lurking and then signed up for an account, slashdot at that time was more like some parts of reddit (to disclaim I post in both places, and I think the general quality of comments are better here, but there was a level of free-wheeling, shared culture that isn't quite as present here - it reminded me of the quirkiness of the jargon file). Back in those days everyone would catch and upvote semi-relevant Simpsons and Red Dwarf quotes for example (I got into RD via slashdot, if I remember correctly).
Perhaps the change in stories has been related; it's gotten a lot more general (it probably started before but I remember noticing the change as and after the politics section was added).
So yeah, the site's still around and there are still people posting and it's still relevant (more than I can say for digg), but the focus and community have changed a lot and for better or worse, as far as "net culture" is concerned, it seems like 4chan and the sites that interact with it's culture (reddit, unyclopedia) have more influence.
How many of those Mini 9s ended up getting OS X installed on them? That was the only reason I was planning on getting a 9 and since the Windows version costs more, the Linux version is a no-brainer.
Being sold on the machine and being kept on the machine are two different things.
A lot of these 2D games for these Wii seem to look great at 1080 (well, by a lot I mean this and Muramasa; The Demon Blade). I wonder if this is proof that there may be in fact a Wii HD in the works. I thought they were just the normal fanboy rumors but perhaps Nintendo is already planning on it? Between the motion controls on the other two machines (especially the PS3's) it seems like the 3 major consoles are reaching for parity with each other.
You've been modded funny but I think this is really true; Slashdot's comment moderation system is one of the best on the Net, but the major down side is that comments posted after a while get buried. A lot of good comments just get buried in the mess. I wish there was some way to counter act that but nothing seems readily apparent to me.
No need for you. I tore a ligament in my foot in Japan, had to go to therapy for months. While waiting there one day, downloaded Ace Attorney and Puyo Puyo on my cell phone. Played them waiting everyday I went for months afterwards.
No, my point isn't first party. I'll take a deep game where ever I can find one. It's that these games are not really possible on a phone with no buttons.
That's my point though (I might be old too but...) anything that tries to do everything isn't going to do anything that well.
For example, I am a gamer. Yeah, if I wanted to, I could play Peggle or whatever on the iPhone. But I am not going to get the last Mario RPG game on the iPhone and I don't want to play the casual games on the iPhone. Making the iPhone a good game machine would compromise it as a phone or a camera, or whatever. One extra function is going to compromise the others in some way and to some degree (even if it's just space on the device, but probably even more).
You keep hearing about the things that phones are going to replace and, at least for me, it's never been true.
I like having a Nintendo DS. The iPhone has not provided a game with the depth of most AAA DS titles. It's lack of buttons is a serious problem with gaming.
The camera isn't as good as any half way decent point and shoot. I haven't gotten a chance to play with any GPS software for any smart phone, but I hear there are limitations (including the need for cell service) that stand alone GPSes don't have.
Even the music functions of an iPhone aren't as good as a regular iPod or (gasp, because I love Apple gear) a Zune.
And yeah, you can use it as a watch, but any fashionable man knows that a watch is how a guy shows off. It's the only acceptable piece of jewelry for the well dressed man.
Even today's best smart phones are just communications devices with varying degrees of success. Occasionally a smart phone is "good enough" in a pinch; photographers like to say the best camera is the one you have with you, which certainly applies to smart phones. But if I know I want to play games or take pictures, I take my DS or my camera, or whatever. Phones haven't and won't - because each thing needs its own UI and software guidelines, no device is going to be able to do it all well.
I am more surprised that this isn't already the case. I lived in Japan for several years and owned a few au phones. My first year I had a low end au phone and the two years after I had a higher end Casio. The higher end had some great features - good camera, 1seg TV, Japanese/English dictionary etc., but it was locked down to all hell. I couldn't even get my own ringtones on it, let alone MP3s or apps. As much as I wanted to customize my phone and not pay through the nose for approved stuff, I could do nothing.
Feature-wise my current Blackberry Curve is way behind my au phone, but I can at least use it's Bluetooth to connect to my laptop and use my own MP3s as ringtones.
There are actually a couple of remakes or reboots - There's a modern version either out or coming out, for the iPhone with updated graphics.
Also in the mid 90s there was an Amazon Trail game. Not sure if they are related, but the game play was fundamentally the same (even hunting, which became spear fishing from a boat) but with your player character going down the Amazon river.
Ocarina and Majora's Mask are related, but Wind Waker and the Ocarina series are related. WW hints at it in the intro and towards the end. Twilight Princess also hints that its related to those three "modern" Zeldas in one of the dungeons towards the middle of the game when you find a dungeon underneath the Temple Time.
But you're fundamentally right - all of these are just vague hints for fanboys like me. You don't need to know any of that to enjoy the games, which are basically self contained plots.
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I am in law school and I don't use a laptop. It maybe that in property my professor was a math major in undergrad and likes doing econ and math to help our understanding of property disputes or my civil procedure professor who likes flow charts and Venn diagrams (there are a few diagrams and some equations in law school). It even helps with BPL formulas in torts. I also draw pictures next to most of my cases to remind me of what happened in them (I do this before reading, usually, but occasionally I have to sketch something during class; in either case I couldn't do this with notes on the computer easily).
Also Plants vs. Zombies, e-mail, and Gchat are terrible distractions.
While the majority of people do use laptops, I and a few others don't. I write all my notes in the margins of my text books and it's worked pretty fine so far. I do carry my laptop to school and use it to get email between classes, to make my notes into outlines, and whatever else.
In either case, I do a lot of people slacking off and playing games in classes or checking email or shopping. I think it's disrespectful to the professor and rude. If you want to slack off, don't come. Since I learn best from the class itself, I also find it counterproductive.
My notes are more thorough, things that are not text can be written clearly, and I don't feel like I am hiding from my professor. I think it has contributed to my grades.
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That is partially true, but it was the foresight of the Tokugawa and Meiji governments that also helped Japan make that "technological leap" after WW2. The Meiji government especially helped lay down the framework for modernization and that capacity got tested and used during the war itself. While some physical infrastructure was destroyed some did survive and more importantly the intellectual and social framework for it was already in Japanese society because previous governments saw it as the way to compete with Western powers.
Son, there's something I've been meaning to tell you...
Maybe someone will update Conway's game of life with these new findings... ..and I'll get a cool new screensaver.
I have two problems with slashdot and this is one of them (the other is the moderation system buries good comments if the article isn't new):
I have learned a lot of stuff from slashdot technical discussions; but I was a humanities (a foreign language and literature) major college, not science and I am in law school now. The groupthink here about the humanities and legal concepts is not just poor, it's often flat out wrong. Of course, if you know how to write a Hello World program in Perl, C, and Python, then you know that assault and battery are the same think, Shakespeare was really Francis Bacon, and Citizen Kane was just some flick.
I'm not saying it's better or worse or anything. Just that it seems to have changed and I'm sure it's changed between the start and the days of old when others were decrying the decline. My original point was only really that it's changed; I wonder if we can reasonably say slashdot has "retained" its audience.
I dunno, there are old-timers here who have been around longer than I have, and I go through cycles of posting and not posting, but I think there's been a pretty marked change in both the kinds of users and the stories. I will probably get moderated to hell for saying this, but when I started lurking and then signed up for an account, slashdot at that time was more like some parts of reddit (to disclaim I post in both places, and I think the general quality of comments are better here, but there was a level of free-wheeling, shared culture that isn't quite as present here - it reminded me of the quirkiness of the jargon file). Back in those days everyone would catch and upvote semi-relevant Simpsons and Red Dwarf quotes for example (I got into RD via slashdot, if I remember correctly).
Perhaps the change in stories has been related; it's gotten a lot more general (it probably started before but I remember noticing the change as and after the politics section was added).
So yeah, the site's still around and there are still people posting and it's still relevant (more than I can say for digg), but the focus and community have changed a lot and for better or worse, as far as "net culture" is concerned, it seems like 4chan and the sites that interact with it's culture (reddit, unyclopedia) have more influence.
Don't get my wrong, I still love the slashie.
I'm curious about CmdrTaco saying the site isn't always what he wants it to be; care to elaborate?
I'm seriously not trying to start a flame war or anything like that; just curious as to how the site has differed from your vision for it.
How many of those Mini 9s ended up getting OS X installed on them? That was the only reason I was planning on getting a 9 and since the Windows version costs more, the Linux version is a no-brainer.
Being sold on the machine and being kept on the machine are two different things.
A lot of these 2D games for these Wii seem to look great at 1080 (well, by a lot I mean this and Muramasa; The Demon Blade). I wonder if this is proof that there may be in fact a Wii HD in the works. I thought they were just the normal fanboy rumors but perhaps Nintendo is already planning on it? Between the motion controls on the other two machines (especially the PS3's) it seems like the 3 major consoles are reaching for parity with each other.
You've been modded funny but I think this is really true; Slashdot's comment moderation system is one of the best on the Net, but the major down side is that comments posted after a while get buried. A lot of good comments just get buried in the mess. I wish there was some way to counter act that but nothing seems readily apparent to me.
No need for you. I tore a ligament in my foot in Japan, had to go to therapy for months. While waiting there one day, downloaded Ace Attorney and Puyo Puyo on my cell phone. Played them waiting everyday I went for months afterwards.
It may have all the features but the UI is worse and it's harder to get to those features. I just want to play my bloody music.
No, but there are no equivalents of Okamiden or Mario RPG on the iPhone.
No, my point isn't first party. I'll take a deep game where ever I can find one. It's that these games are not really possible on a phone with no buttons.
That's my point though (I might be old too but...) anything that tries to do everything isn't going to do anything that well.
For example, I am a gamer. Yeah, if I wanted to, I could play Peggle or whatever on the iPhone. But I am not going to get the last Mario RPG game on the iPhone and I don't want to play the casual games on the iPhone. Making the iPhone a good game machine would compromise it as a phone or a camera, or whatever. One extra function is going to compromise the others in some way and to some degree (even if it's just space on the device, but probably even more).
I mean in relation to the iPod Classic / nano.
You keep hearing about the things that phones are going to replace and, at least for me, it's never been true.
I like having a Nintendo DS. The iPhone has not provided a game with the depth of most AAA DS titles. It's lack of buttons is a serious problem with gaming.
The camera isn't as good as any half way decent point and shoot. I haven't gotten a chance to play with any GPS software for any smart phone, but I hear there are limitations (including the need for cell service) that stand alone GPSes don't have.
Even the music functions of an iPhone aren't as good as a regular iPod or (gasp, because I love Apple gear) a Zune.
And yeah, you can use it as a watch, but any fashionable man knows that a watch is how a guy shows off. It's the only acceptable piece of jewelry for the well dressed man.
Even today's best smart phones are just communications devices with varying degrees of success. Occasionally a smart phone is "good enough" in a pinch; photographers like to say the best camera is the one you have with you, which certainly applies to smart phones. But if I know I want to play games or take pictures, I take my DS or my camera, or whatever. Phones haven't and won't - because each thing needs its own UI and software guidelines, no device is going to be able to do it all well.
Mmmm, breaded mudskipper.
I am more surprised that this isn't already the case. I lived in Japan for several years and owned a few au phones. My first year I had a low end au phone and the two years after I had a higher end Casio. The higher end had some great features - good camera, 1seg TV, Japanese/English dictionary etc., but it was locked down to all hell. I couldn't even get my own ringtones on it, let alone MP3s or apps. As much as I wanted to customize my phone and not pay through the nose for approved stuff, I could do nothing.
Feature-wise my current Blackberry Curve is way behind my au phone, but I can at least use it's Bluetooth to connect to my laptop and use my own MP3s as ringtones.
There are actually a couple of remakes or reboots -
There's a modern version either out or coming out, for the iPhone with updated graphics.
Also in the mid 90s there was an Amazon Trail game. Not sure if they are related, but the game play was fundamentally the same (even hunting, which became spear fishing from a boat) but with your player character going down the Amazon river.
Temple of Time, that is.
Ocarina and Majora's Mask are related, but Wind Waker and the Ocarina series are related. WW hints at it in the intro and towards the end. Twilight Princess also hints that its related to those three "modern" Zeldas in one of the dungeons towards the middle of the game when you find a dungeon underneath the Temple Time.
But you're fundamentally right - all of these are just vague hints for fanboys like me. You don't need to know any of that to enjoy the games, which are basically self contained plots.
The Sonic Advance games, for the Gameboy Advance aren't quite as good as the original Sonic games, but are still miles better than the 3D ones.