in my courses (physics) the point of lectures is to obtain a set of notes good enough to work completely on their own in most cases.
So, if that's the point of the lecture, it would work just as well if your buddy took the notes and gave them to you, right? How about if your buddy bound the notes for you? How about if somebody else did this for you and called it a "book"?
I'm sure lots of people had different educational experiences than mine. I purposefully went to college with relatively small classes because (to me) the only value to a lecture over a book is the interchange between the professor and the student, both the answering and asking of questions. Truth is I skipped (or slept through) those few big lectures. They were just less efficient ways of acquiring information.
Sim City also teaches that trains are better than cars (agree), nuclear reactors will eventually melt down (disagree), and that Godzilla will smash your city (undecided).
There's also something in the premise of the game that's unavoidable -- the assumption that a planning body should dictate the zoning of the land.
We already have too many TLAs -- DVD, VCR, ATM, SUV. All because no one can come up with a decent name for a new class of objects, only too-verbose phrases. "Automatic Teller Machine" is clearly too much to say, so the lazy thing to do is acronymify it, and you get "aee tee em".
Those aren't acronyms.
T'would be better to come up with an easy, catchy, single-word, pronouncable term for it (as in some European countries -- "autobank" or "bankomat" do nicely).
Like an acronym.
acronym ( P ) Pronunciation Key (kr-nm) n. A word formed from the initial letters of a name, such as WAC for Women's Army Corps, or by combining initial letters or parts of a series of words, such as radar for radio detecting and ranging.
Because all of the PHBs used "acronym" when they meant "abbreviation" (trying to appear smart), the strict definition has become diluted. It's sad, too, because it's a useful concept.
t's been my experience that the last sentence you wrote means the person is never going to learn what you are trying to teach them. Why remember when you can just look on that battered, coffee stained, 2 year old sheet of paper that tells you how to do it?
Wow, imagine how stupid we could get if we had whole books around.
Well then you should try going to a movie without knowing the plot. It's a totally different experience. I HATE trailers, and try never to watch them... I try to turn my attention to something else during the trailers before a movie.
I've always wished I could have seen Terminator 2 without having first seen the trailers and hoopla. There's a scene where the two terminators are approaching John Conner in a hallway. It would have been very cool if I was still expecting Arnold to be the villain.
most cable companies already require a digital box.
In the places I've lived, this has never been the case. You need the digital cable box for certain channels, but basic cable has always been available using only analog.
There was this law that says they have to be all digital by 2006 or something like that.
I believe you're referring to over-the-air requirements there. I don't believe there's such a requirement for cable. There *is* a brewing requirement for digital cable decoders in TVs, but not (as far as I know) a requirement for the content to be all digital.
I could be mistaken though, but comcast in my area requires a box on each tv, if you want to get any advanced programming.
Sure, if the channel is broadcast in digital format, you need a digital receiver.
I'm confused, the link to the 3rd page of the article is "Your cause should be just -- why amoral games like "Grand Theft Auto" are wrong"
But nowhere in the 3rd page, or in the entire interview do they talk about GTA infact the Eugene Jarvis talks about how we need to stop blaming games for our problems.
Yes, they do. On page 4.
You have a cause and you're not just out there creating mayhem. That's, I guess, my objection to "Grand Theft Auto." I really don't like the amoralistic games where you're out there doing bad stuff just for fun. It's kind of like video vandalism, you know?
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I was with you until NTSC. There's a sh'load of PAL variants, and NTSC is certainly not US-only.
Totally. I agree.
The problem with the concept of a "war on terror" is that it makes as little sense as having "terrorism against wars". It might be hard to end.
Are you sure that isn't Mark Twain or Proverbs 17:28?
So, if that's the point of the lecture, it would work just as well if your buddy took the notes and gave them to you, right? How about if your buddy bound the notes for you? How about if somebody else did this for you and called it a "book"?
I'm sure lots of people had different educational experiences than mine. I purposefully went to college with relatively small classes because (to me) the only value to a lecture over a book is the interchange between the professor and the student, both the answering and asking of questions. Truth is I skipped (or slept through) those few big lectures. They were just less efficient ways of acquiring information.
Sim City also teaches that trains are better than cars (agree), nuclear reactors will eventually melt down (disagree), and that Godzilla will smash your city (undecided).
There's also something in the premise of the game that's unavoidable -- the assumption that a planning body should dictate the zoning of the land.
If I'm not mistaken, google works on a bidding system so the charge depends on the word.
Uhh they aren't. They aren't words. We say Dee-Vee-Dee. See how's that different than RADAR? We don't say ARE-AY-DEE-AY-ARE.
You're only modded up because of the SMOD (Some Moderators on Drugs) factor.
I'm not making this up. The w3c had to clear it up because people were using the markup tags wrong.
Those aren't acronyms.
Like an acronym.
Because all of the PHBs used "acronym" when they meant "abbreviation" (trying to appear smart), the strict definition has become diluted. It's sad, too, because it's a useful concept.
In a related note, 15% of all passwords are actually Thx4ChocolateDumbAzz.
Wow, imagine how stupid we could get if we had whole books around.
I've always wished I could have seen Terminator 2 without having first seen the trailers and hoopla. There's a scene where the two terminators are approaching John Conner in a hallway. It would have been very cool if I was still expecting Arnold to be the villain.
In the places I've lived, this has never been the case. You need the digital cable box for certain channels, but basic cable has always been available using only analog.
I believe you're referring to over-the-air requirements there. I don't believe there's such a requirement for cable. There *is* a brewing requirement for digital cable decoders in TVs, but not (as far as I know) a requirement for the content to be all digital.
Sure, if the channel is broadcast in digital format, you need a digital receiver.
Agreed.
AAC != MPEG BC, which is the stuff on DVDs
That's true in a practical sense for North Americans, but MPEG audio is valid under the DVD specification.
If the video is NTSC, a DVD must contain either AC-3 or LPCM. It may also contain MPEG-1, MPEG-2, DTS, or SDDS audio.
See also the DVD FAQ.
The airline will hold it for you for a couple of weeks. I left my Swiss army knife with Northwest baggage claim and picked it back up on my return.
Right. The enemy can just tap in and type "a/s/l ?" now.
Yes, they do. On page 4.
Give me a break. Filter out the subject if you don't care about it.
Insightful my ass.
No. Read this
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It's not a dupe, it's a mirror image.
Like Godwin's law for TV?
When you finally do release the original product, it's a huge boost with lots of publicity, and you make a lot of money?
Yeah, I think they might have learned that lesson.