"Clearly their [sic] are huge pitfalls to such things."
Clearly?! But, but, he went to SCHOOL for that knowledge! How can you expect him to program when his mind is busy struggling with the staggeringly complex ideas of god classes, and other things with names made up by some bored professor?
"Seriously don't expect university graduates to be able to do any professional job well, engineering, architecture or software coding, all the graduates will require years of training to become anything approaching useful."
Years of training, eh? Hmmm... if only there was some kind of institution that could offer this training, perhaps for a tuition fee...
So you're telling me I shouldn't have licked the samples when I was working as a lab assistant there?
Seriously, they aren't shooting them up or anything, and it's just as likely that we've evolved some super-effective method of removing these microbes in the meantime. Maybe that's even what caused them to seek out the safety of the frozen north!
Steps to send to MMS: Click picture, select MMS, select contact.
Steps to send to e-mail: Click picture, select MMS, select THE NEW CONTACT THAT YOU PUT IN FOR HER THAT IS YOUR E-MAIL.
That's it. ONE different step, and it's not even a different step. It just requires that she clicks 'Son (e-mail)' or 'Son (pictures)' instead of 'Son'. If your mother can't handle that then I hope to god she doesn't have a car.
So either A) you don't have money, and wouldn't have gotten treatment under either system, or B) you do have money and can still afford to cut out your own cancer.
How the hell is any of the budget spent on 'fun'? You're going to need a game designer either way, and it's not like they come up with better ideas when you drown them in cash.
The simple question to ask is: would you enjoy Wii bowling more if it had better graphics, physics, and AI?
You can't even talk about affordability anymore; a 360 is cheaper than a Wii now.
Good News Everyone! (Score:1) by strength_of_10_men (967050) on Thursday June 11, @09:46AM (#28293783) They've found the Jumbonium that I've misplaced!
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Good news everybody! (Score:2) by Bozzio (183974) on Thursday June 11, @09:46AM (#28293793) We could name it Jumbonium!
First and foremost, games teach problem solving. You'd know this if you've ever spent time watching people fail at video games. It's embarrassing, really, to watch people struggle with concepts like 'bring the key to the door without getting hit by a monster' (the person I'm referring to was one who actually called me to help them fill up their car with gas, because they couldn't figure it out... true story). Someone who's spent a lot of time playing video games will, in most cases, be able to quickly identify problems and their solutions simply because they've trained their brains to do so. Admittedly, they'll be more proficient at saving virtual princesses than babies in a burning building or what have you, but the basic problem solving processes remain the same for real life.
Video games also teach through osmosis. Well, not exactly osmosis, but I think you get what I'm saying. Games are often designed by intelligent people, and written by highly literate writers (at least, they used to be). There's no telling how much of my vocabulary was gleaned from video games. The text in video games isn't somehow worth less than the text in books just because it's pixelated. And experience, even virtual experience, also tends to teach better than sheer memorization for a test. I don't think I'd know what the Nemean games were, had I not had seen my athletes trotting off to attend them every two years in 'Zeus: Master of Olympus'.
Finally, when it comes down to it, 99% of video games are just math. Most have easy math: if I have ten sniper rounds, and enemies take two shots to kill, should I detour to get more ammo before attempting to cross the hall with six enemies? However, a good number of them have fairly complex math: deciding which pieces of gear to put on while maximizing both STR and AGI with STR having a higher value is an excellent example of a knapsack problem. Read into some of the 'theorycrafting' for games like World of Warcraft for better examples.
Mine is a weak argument for sure, but you can't say video games are good for nothing. I mean, at the very least they improve your reaction time.
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I'll get off your lawn now, grandpa ;)
"Clearly their [sic] are huge pitfalls to such things."
Clearly?! But, but, he went to SCHOOL for that knowledge! How can you expect him to program when his mind is busy struggling with the staggeringly complex ideas of god classes, and other things with names made up by some bored professor?
"Seriously don't expect university graduates to be able to do any professional job well, engineering, architecture or software coding, all the graduates will require years of training to become anything approaching useful."
Years of training, eh? Hmmm... if only there was some kind of institution that could offer this training, perhaps for a tuition fee...
You haven't met my parents or my siblings, have you?
My guy supports shorter copyrights etc., but their guy fights pedophiles and is against killing babies.
...and nobody will point it out because we all know which one we'd rather have extinct.
So you're telling me I shouldn't have licked the samples when I was working as a lab assistant there?
Seriously, they aren't shooting them up or anything, and it's just as likely that we've evolved some super-effective method of removing these microbes in the meantime. Maybe that's even what caused them to seek out the safety of the frozen north!
Nevermind, I just read OP.
Still, it's possible to do it over wifi.
Unless it tethers over wifi, which happens to be the current topic of conversation.
But hey, at least you can spell, right?
You're completely missing it.
Steps to send to MMS:
Click picture, select MMS, select contact.
Steps to send to e-mail:
Click picture, select MMS, select THE NEW CONTACT THAT YOU PUT IN FOR HER THAT IS YOUR E-MAIL.
That's it. ONE different step, and it's not even a different step. It just requires that she clicks 'Son (e-mail)' or 'Son (pictures)' instead of 'Son'. If your mother can't handle that then I hope to god she doesn't have a car.
Which part of the design, exactly?
What was it that the iPhone did first again?
How is that revolutionary? The Mona frickin' Lisa maintains eye contact as you move around it.
So either A) you don't have money, and wouldn't have gotten treatment under either system, or B) you do have money and can still afford to cut out your own cancer.
Sounds good to me.
Not a likely scenario given Ballmer's threats to move Microsoft the hell out of the USA...
"Not a fair analogy. In your example you would not have gotten anything out of the lottery ticket had you had a dollar or not."
So 'woosh' it's not even funny.
Wii: A, B, D-pad, 1, 2, Home, +, -, nunchuck top button, nunchuck bottom button, nunchuck analog stick, pointer, accelerometer. 13.
360: left stick, right stick, D-pad, start, back, A, B, X, Y, left trigger, left button, right trigger, right button. 13.
You were saying?
How the hell is any of the budget spent on 'fun'? You're going to need a game designer either way, and it's not like they come up with better ideas when you drown them in cash.
The simple question to ask is: would you enjoy Wii bowling more if it had better graphics, physics, and AI?
You can't even talk about affordability anymore; a 360 is cheaper than a Wii now.
Rock Band 2 for the Wii:
- Shittier graphics (like, way shitty)
- Less songs
- Occasional framerate issues
Call me an inbred if you want, but if you don't recognize that as watered down then you're only deluding yourself.
Good News Everyone! (Score:1)
by strength_of_10_men (967050) on Thursday June 11, @09:46AM (#28293783)
They've found the Jumbonium that I've misplaced!
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Good news everybody! (Score:2)
by Bozzio (183974) on Thursday June 11, @09:46AM (#28293793)
We could name it Jumbonium!
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Scary...
Google for 'Android Cupcake' and then consider buying yourself a new phone.
"There's no OpenGL ES 2.0 support in the iPhone 3GS, which makes me rather disseminated."
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Wrong.
First and foremost, games teach problem solving. You'd know this if you've ever spent time watching people fail at video games. It's embarrassing, really, to watch people struggle with concepts like 'bring the key to the door without getting hit by a monster' (the person I'm referring to was one who actually called me to help them fill up their car with gas, because they couldn't figure it out... true story). Someone who's spent a lot of time playing video games will, in most cases, be able to quickly identify problems and their solutions simply because they've trained their brains to do so. Admittedly, they'll be more proficient at saving virtual princesses than babies in a burning building or what have you, but the basic problem solving processes remain the same for real life.
Video games also teach through osmosis. Well, not exactly osmosis, but I think you get what I'm saying. Games are often designed by intelligent people, and written by highly literate writers (at least, they used to be). There's no telling how much of my vocabulary was gleaned from video games. The text in video games isn't somehow worth less than the text in books just because it's pixelated. And experience, even virtual experience, also tends to teach better than sheer memorization for a test. I don't think I'd know what the Nemean games were, had I not had seen my athletes trotting off to attend them every two years in 'Zeus: Master of Olympus'.
Finally, when it comes down to it, 99% of video games are just math. Most have easy math: if I have ten sniper rounds, and enemies take two shots to kill, should I detour to get more ammo before attempting to cross the hall with six enemies? However, a good number of them have fairly complex math: deciding which pieces of gear to put on while maximizing both STR and AGI with STR having a higher value is an excellent example of a knapsack problem. Read into some of the 'theorycrafting' for games like World of Warcraft for better examples.
Mine is a weak argument for sure, but you can't say video games are good for nothing. I mean, at the very least they improve your reaction time.
You've got to be kidding me.
They have a video of Wikitude on the G1 already doing all of this crap in an article HYPING THE IPHONE.
Steve Jobs must have sold his soul to the devil to get his freakishly skilled marketing department.
"Nobody gives a shit about Opera."
"Nobody except a total moron!"
You do realize the logical conclusion of this, right?
"Nobody except a total moron gives a shit about Opera."
Holy shit Jesus reads Slashdot
D:
http://www.google.com/squared/search?q=world+of+warcraft+bosses
Yo, someone warn Sweden, Highlord Kruul is apparently hiding out there.