It's also led to one of the worst backlashes ever. I mean, half of the PCGamer review of AC2 was about the DRM scheme and how it sucked. This thing is so intrusive and aggressive that people WILL notice it, even the less tech savvy. Further, those same non-geeks won't get what's going on (people who do understand what's happening might just wait, knowing there isn't much else to do), will angrily flood Ubisoft's tech support asking for answers and thus maybe one day Ubisoft will understand that it may not be the best way to go.
Check out Canada then... We've got a slightly higher density compared to Australia, but we have COLD winter (-20C isn't uncommon). Postal delivery at those temperatures isn't enjoyable at all.
Have you clicked on the link above? I see no magnifying glass there. If apps are that important to customers, you'd most likely want to have a look around what's available before you purchase the phone (so you know, through a web browser).
Very true, history seems to be painted into a corner and isolated from the other courses most of the time, even though it should be integrated in order to be really compelling. Learning dates and facts you don't care about will never attract students, but learning where what you're using every single day comes from is insightful.
I also think we're sticking too much to the standard "teach them the basics, the necessary" formula. It is necessary, but it shouldn't be the ONLY thing. Math is full of quirks and fun things to ponder on. I think children could gain by being shown things like that on top of the necessary stuff because it's how you'll keep their interest high! I found maths boring during all of elementary school and most of high school. Only a few teachers realized that it was good to give some variety to maths, and so sometimes we were introduced to pretty much entirely unrelated but still nice stuff like 0.999 = 1 or the golden ratio or prime number properties or probabilities in poker, but it was all too rare. People in general need to see the applications ("What will learning this help me with?") of what they learn in order to find the interest to learn it.
I can say that reducing math further than it already is would dumb down school beyond the point of non-return. We already are using the lowest common denominator enough, if we keep on this way you won't learn anything. I know someone whose child needs to get book from home during school because the teaching is so slow, boring and dumbed down that there's no point to listening when she grasped everything in the first five minutes.
Everything is proportional. Repairing a house costs in the thousands for something worth hundreds of thousands. Repairing a computer costs tens for something worth hundreds (and that's if you're not clever enough to use the ton of free software out there that does the job all well and fine). Saying that you should buy a new computer when it breaks just because it isn't as expensive as a house is entirely the kind of stupid things big corporations want you to do.
If you hadn't noticed, most of my analogies were related to extremely cheap and DIY things that anyone with a little bit of knowledge could do by themselves. That people prefer to replace their computer after 6 months just because it has SPYWARE is I think an excellent example of how ignorant they are (would you buy a new house because it needed some vacuuming?) and, more importantly, what a mess it creates. They lose money for nothing, they create additional waste also for nothing and they complain/give a bad name to computers in general because of it.
Yet you know that if your roof leaks you can either look at the tiles and try to patch it yourself, or you call a professional to do it for you. You know that if your house is dirty, you must clean it. You know that if you get bugs, you must call an exterminator to get rid of them.
You know that if you buy a house, you must be ready to maintain it if you don't want it to fall apart. The same SHOULD be said of computer owners, yet this is not the case.
At least SSDs tend to fail over time, meaning you only lose a fraction of your data (if any) unless you're being REALLY careless. HDDs have a tendency to just explode, leaving you with nothing unless you've done backups frequently. That's not counting advantages of speed, power consumption, size factor, heat generation, reliability potential (no moving parts means that there eventually WILL be a consensus that SSDs are more reliable than HDDs) and more.
I also haven't seen any evidence to say SSDs would be less reliable than HDDs. Remember it's easy enough to say that they "only" last half of what they could, but if that "only" is 5 years, then it's also the average HDD's lifetime.
In other words, one case does not a rule make. And your last line makes your entire post crumble because it's a totally unfounded claim (whether it is true is moot, it's just totally unrelated to the subject at hand and is backed up in no way).
Don't make another gimmicky console overflowing with copious amounts of shovelware. I just can't bring myself to pick up a console marketed for grandmas and babies, especially when you also show your most veteran fans the finger by barely releasing the games WE want. Remember how at one time you had plenty of good, genuinely fun games? You know, back when Wii Sports wasn't your #1 source of revenue? Yes, the consoles are original and well made, but if the games on them suck or do not appeal to me (IE I'm not a ten years old or a grandma), it won't change anything. And no, first-party shouldn't be the sole source of quality games.
I'm just sick of games like Imagine Babyz plaguing the console whose predecessors hosted the likes of Conker, the first Final Fantasy games, Goldeneye and much more.
Lily Allen, and unfortunately many other artists like her, often appear to be mere puppets used by the record companies to further their own goals. They either don't know or don't care about what they're saying and only say it because their label told them to. It's fairly easy to manipulate people who are clueless about a subject of choice.
Wait, so if someone came at the hospital bleeding to death but didn't have insurance, you'd let him die off? Seriously, what the hell? You may not have a legal obligation to heal the person, but you have a moral obligation to do so (and if you don't, you have other issues).
You do realize that by your definition it would be possible to say that Christianism was a cult back when it first started? Charismatic leader? Check. Concealing of beliefs? Check. Heck, it could still fit the description to a lesser extent if you didn't mind the leader being long dead (or maybe you'd consider the pope instead).
As much as there are differences between cults and religions, the two notions are very much alike still.
That the primary motivator for the vaccine is greed does not change the fact that the vaccine will (assuming no scamming) also provide a health benefit. This shouldn't be an argument against taking a vaccine, especially since you can't go in the head of everyone who worked on the vaccine in some form or another to determine whether it actually is greed. After all, who's to tell the scientist(s) who did the actual vaccine discovery was(were) greedy?
Why is porting to the PS3 any different than to the Mac? They still have to rewrite great parts of their engine and code and I'm not so sure the fanbase is THAT great on there. I mean, most gamers who own a Mac already have Bootcamp with Windows, and I doubt there are a lot of players who strictly play Valve games, hence having to go back to Windows anyways.
Unless they're utterly lying, you can see in one of the videos given by this poster a wrist-attached smartphone that's both shown on the wrist and deployed flat. I'm unsure whether they have the actual technology figured out or if this is still at the concept stage, but it is most likely that at the very least they plan on having a flexible and somehow "lockable" smartphone available some time in the future (I say lockable because it should stay attached to your wrist once there, so it might be possible to control the flexibility of the device so it becomes rigid when wrapped on your wrist).
I do know that OLED screens are flexible; with properly designed components it may be possible to create such a device.
Oh give me a break. That looks like a ThinkPad from 1995. That Waveface project has a detachable keyboard that covers a flexible touchscreen panel. You can roll it up if you want! From the tech demos, it also seems much larger than 8.9".
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It's also led to one of the worst backlashes ever. I mean, half of the PCGamer review of AC2 was about the DRM scheme and how it sucked. This thing is so intrusive and aggressive that people WILL notice it, even the less tech savvy. Further, those same non-geeks won't get what's going on (people who do understand what's happening might just wait, knowing there isn't much else to do), will angrily flood Ubisoft's tech support asking for answers and thus maybe one day Ubisoft will understand that it may not be the best way to go.
Check out Canada then... We've got a slightly higher density compared to Australia, but we have COLD winter (-20C isn't uncommon). Postal delivery at those temperatures isn't enjoyable at all.
Have you clicked on the link above? I see no magnifying glass there. If apps are that important to customers, you'd most likely want to have a look around what's available before you purchase the phone (so you know, through a web browser).
How ironic that the market of a search engine developer does not have a search function. It's not like they don't have the tech to do it!
Abstinence is like communism: in a perfect world, it'd work.
Uh... Why is the page you linked considered dangerous by Firefox?
If chaos has to be part of "working", then the model is flawed.
Poor guy. Not only did he serve under Bush, he's also the single most filtered guy on the Internet.
Very true, history seems to be painted into a corner and isolated from the other courses most of the time, even though it should be integrated in order to be really compelling. Learning dates and facts you don't care about will never attract students, but learning where what you're using every single day comes from is insightful.
I also think we're sticking too much to the standard "teach them the basics, the necessary" formula. It is necessary, but it shouldn't be the ONLY thing. Math is full of quirks and fun things to ponder on. I think children could gain by being shown things like that on top of the necessary stuff because it's how you'll keep their interest high! I found maths boring during all of elementary school and most of high school. Only a few teachers realized that it was good to give some variety to maths, and so sometimes we were introduced to pretty much entirely unrelated but still nice stuff like 0.999 = 1 or the golden ratio or prime number properties or probabilities in poker, but it was all too rare. People in general need to see the applications ("What will learning this help me with?") of what they learn in order to find the interest to learn it.
I can say that reducing math further than it already is would dumb down school beyond the point of non-return. We already are using the lowest common denominator enough, if we keep on this way you won't learn anything. I know someone whose child needs to get book from home during school because the teaching is so slow, boring and dumbed down that there's no point to listening when she grasped everything in the first five minutes.
For once, think of the bright children!
Everything is proportional. Repairing a house costs in the thousands for something worth hundreds of thousands. Repairing a computer costs tens for something worth hundreds (and that's if you're not clever enough to use the ton of free software out there that does the job all well and fine). Saying that you should buy a new computer when it breaks just because it isn't as expensive as a house is entirely the kind of stupid things big corporations want you to do.
If you hadn't noticed, most of my analogies were related to extremely cheap and DIY things that anyone with a little bit of knowledge could do by themselves. That people prefer to replace their computer after 6 months just because it has SPYWARE is I think an excellent example of how ignorant they are (would you buy a new house because it needed some vacuuming?) and, more importantly, what a mess it creates. They lose money for nothing, they create additional waste also for nothing and they complain/give a bad name to computers in general because of it.
Yet you know that if your roof leaks you can either look at the tiles and try to patch it yourself, or you call a professional to do it for you. You know that if your house is dirty, you must clean it. You know that if you get bugs, you must call an exterminator to get rid of them.
You know that if you buy a house, you must be ready to maintain it if you don't want it to fall apart. The same SHOULD be said of computer owners, yet this is not the case.
At least SSDs tend to fail over time, meaning you only lose a fraction of your data (if any) unless you're being REALLY careless. HDDs have a tendency to just explode, leaving you with nothing unless you've done backups frequently. That's not counting advantages of speed, power consumption, size factor, heat generation, reliability potential (no moving parts means that there eventually WILL be a consensus that SSDs are more reliable than HDDs) and more.
I also haven't seen any evidence to say SSDs would be less reliable than HDDs. Remember it's easy enough to say that they "only" last half of what they could, but if that "only" is 5 years, then it's also the average HDD's lifetime.
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In other words, one case does not a rule make. And your last line makes your entire post crumble because it's a totally unfounded claim (whether it is true is moot, it's just totally unrelated to the subject at hand and is backed up in no way).
Don't make another gimmicky console overflowing with copious amounts of shovelware. I just can't bring myself to pick up a console marketed for grandmas and babies, especially when you also show your most veteran fans the finger by barely releasing the games WE want. Remember how at one time you had plenty of good, genuinely fun games? You know, back when Wii Sports wasn't your #1 source of revenue? Yes, the consoles are original and well made, but if the games on them suck or do not appeal to me (IE I'm not a ten years old or a grandma), it won't change anything. And no, first-party shouldn't be the sole source of quality games.
I'm just sick of games like Imagine Babyz plaguing the console whose predecessors hosted the likes of Conker, the first Final Fantasy games, Goldeneye and much more.
Lily Allen, and unfortunately many other artists like her, often appear to be mere puppets used by the record companies to further their own goals. They either don't know or don't care about what they're saying and only say it because their label told them to. It's fairly easy to manipulate people who are clueless about a subject of choice.
Even the common citizen can't seem to agree on WHAT reform to do, so don't expect politicians with an agenda to be able to.
Wait, so if someone came at the hospital bleeding to death but didn't have insurance, you'd let him die off? Seriously, what the hell? You may not have a legal obligation to heal the person, but you have a moral obligation to do so (and if you don't, you have other issues).
Valid files detected as "FakeAlert"? Wow, irony DOES go a long way.
You do realize that by your definition it would be possible to say that Christianism was a cult back when it first started? Charismatic leader? Check. Concealing of beliefs? Check. Heck, it could still fit the description to a lesser extent if you didn't mind the leader being long dead (or maybe you'd consider the pope instead).
As much as there are differences between cults and religions, the two notions are very much alike still.
That the primary motivator for the vaccine is greed does not change the fact that the vaccine will (assuming no scamming) also provide a health benefit. This shouldn't be an argument against taking a vaccine, especially since you can't go in the head of everyone who worked on the vaccine in some form or another to determine whether it actually is greed. After all, who's to tell the scientist(s) who did the actual vaccine discovery was(were) greedy?
No need to go back that far. There was a time where multiplayer was assumed to be free; paying for it wasn't even a question.
Why do I suddenly feel old?
Why is porting to the PS3 any different than to the Mac? They still have to rewrite great parts of their engine and code and I'm not so sure the fanbase is THAT great on there. I mean, most gamers who own a Mac already have Bootcamp with Windows, and I doubt there are a lot of players who strictly play Valve games, hence having to go back to Windows anyways.
Unless they're utterly lying, you can see in one of the videos given by this poster a wrist-attached smartphone that's both shown on the wrist and deployed flat. I'm unsure whether they have the actual technology figured out or if this is still at the concept stage, but it is most likely that at the very least they plan on having a flexible and somehow "lockable" smartphone available some time in the future (I say lockable because it should stay attached to your wrist once there, so it might be possible to control the flexibility of the device so it becomes rigid when wrapped on your wrist).
I do know that OLED screens are flexible; with properly designed components it may be possible to create such a device.
Oh give me a break. That looks like a ThinkPad from 1995. That Waveface project has a detachable keyboard that covers a flexible touchscreen panel. You can roll it up if you want! From the tech demos, it also seems much larger than 8.9".