Well you get a couple guys in here who go all defacto Tortalini with all their fancy latin words and you can never tell if they are a lawyer or not, so whenever someone mentions some Fianchetto Defense, its nice if they express if they are a lawyer or not.
pulling a Star Destroyer out of the sky was a novel and creative (if poorly implemented) idea.
I think had we not seen the trailer where he makes it look like one fluid motion as some unstoppable force, the scene would have been alright. If they had left the tie fighters out and simply made it more difficult to line the Star Destroyer with Crashing, the scene would have been fine, because it wouldn't have needed any interruption.
But yes - the combat system needs an overhaul. And I mean OVERHAUL. It seemed to boil down to the 2 or 3 advanced combat moves you could pull off (despite how many you had unlocked) - and repeating them over and over until the room was cleared.
If you look at Jedi Outcast / Jedi Academy - where the only light saber combos are meant for fighting lightsaber opponents, and for everyone else they have at least 2 styles of swinging, which you can use to link regular swings into your own combos. This worked very well for those 2 games, and for what its worth, those ones I would recommend more than force unleashed, if not just for simple gameplay mechanics. Don't get me wrong, Jedi Academy wasn't an amazing game by any stretch, unless you include the multiplayer which is probably the best iteration of multiplayer saber combat to date. Not to mention it had a pretty strong modding community for a while, so there were some pretty interesting developments. I think had they studied these games more thoroughly before creating force unleashed, they would have created a better experience.
Teaching students to speak like Parisians would hardly have been useful to them.
Yes, but it's not that she was didn't want to teach us parisian, it's that she singled out a student who KNEW perfect fluent parisian french, when the rest of us are barely capable of pronouncing the words. The student wasn't event correcting the teacher, because they knew there was a difference, but because the student was already so fluent in parisian french, it just didn't come natural to speak it the other way. And anytime the student slipped up, the teacher made an extra effort to point it out.
Having 7 people edit her paper was also cheating unless she disclosed it, in which case I wouldn't blame the professor for not taking her too seriously
No, editting might mean something different to you, but to us it means reading it over and pointing out anything that seems flawed of unclear, then my girlfriend would reword or explain more, and then ask them to review it again.
It was not "Here's my paper, make it better". That is not editting.
I was in the room when she wrote it out by hand with over a dozen textbooks circled around her, only to have her hand it to me to type it up (simply because my words per minute are far higher than hers) - and she had all those people edit it BECAUSE she got a paper back before with a C grade - no feedback, and she didn't know what was wrong and the prof wouldn't tell her when she asked.
When it comes to university, there is no "extra credit". You can't hand it more work or any kind of bonus material to boost your mark, most profs consider that completely unfair to the students. Profs give them a set of guidelines and say "Impress me".
If a student basically writes a good paper based on what they learned, they should be capable of an A. Basically the profs ideology was that unless you offered something completely groundbreaking that shattered the foundations of something they are teaching with some bold new insight, you couldn't get an A+.
And how can you expect an Undergraduate to offer new evidence on something that they are Learning? How can you expect someone who doesn't have a PHD to offer up some new idea they haven't thought of yet?
It's absolutely ludicrous and is not how the education system should be based. This is about educating, and nothing more.
I wasn't suggesting that - but it seems like we're paying people to try and lock their door, I don't remember any Tax break for putting locks on my door, even if my house was filled with other people's personal info.
So, if an Insurance company won't insure someone because they don't put forth the effort to show they even want their stuff protected, why should Tax payer dollars support people who never cared to protect it in the first place?
As an optional incentive, it seems pointless. Corporations will claim they set up security in order to save on taxes.
Exactly. And dealing with a bad teacher is NOT real life training for dealing with a bad boss.
In School, if you correct a teacher about something, if they're a bad teacher, they will tell you that you are wrong and that they are right to save themselves the embarassment. When I was in 7th Grade French Class (being Canadian, learning french is often encouraged), one student was utterly harassed by our teacher for saying things differently. This student happened to have French parents from France where the teacher was born and raised in Quebec, the big French speaking province of Canada. The differences in the language are about as much as you'd expect from Southern States English and The United Kingdom Queen's English. After 2 parent teacher interviews, the student was pulled from the class by their parents, and the French teacher still holds that job to this day, never having gotten a reprimand. I might also point out that after 3 years with this French teacher, I only know how to count to 29 and can barely decipher any french text I come across for some semblance of meaning. To be honest though I never had much interest in learning French, either way, I hated that teacher.
Also, my Girlfriend has an English Prof at the university who believes that no student could ever earn an A+, only English majors could earn an A-, and any other student could only get a B+ as their best grade. My girlfriend, a history major and being 0.02 Grade points from making the deans list (which I think was like a 3.8 or something GPA), was very upset to learn this. Her last paper, which earned a B-, had no writing on it to suggest any feedback or errors. It was also editted by 5 English Majors and 2 other friends of hers, so she was pretty confident this would be the booster to her grade. She went on to Appeal her grade which was bumped up to a B+ (thus making the deans list), though there was still no explanation why she didn't garner an A. *** Luckily this university offers students a chance at the end of the year to evaluate the teacher. As far as I know, everyone has given a poor review and are praying they get fired.
As for "Real Life" in the working world? I have found a boss finds the "No" man 5 times more valuable than a "yes" man. If my boss proposes something I don't like, and I tell him why, he has a chance to reconsider, or defend his point by discussing things I might have missed. This is the mark of a good employee - not one that sits there and goes "Yes sir right away sir" everytime an order is barked at them. The School system should NOT be pumping out mindless drones. If there is any reason to have a bad teacher, it's to teach kids to stand up for themselves when they know they are right.
*** As a side note, apparently this teacher didn't show up for 3 classes (without a note or explanation as to why they were absent), and for 2 of them, the prof put on a movie and left.
I mean, an insurance company won't insure your house if you don't put a lock on the door, so why should anyone care for cyber-security if a company doesn't take any measures to protect itself?
If you've got a network worthy of necessary security, it's not that hard to set up a linux firewall between your router and your gateway.
At work we find a lot of our apps need to run in Compatability mode regardless of 32 or 64 bit. - I mean they were written in like PowerBuilder 4 or something... Just finished getting them working with Oracle 10g.
At home, I find that on the odd occaison, Dragon Age Origins will have a glitchy moment, kind of like tearing but not. I mean I've fiddled around with compatability and video options, to no avail - I would normally suspect the graphics card in that case but I was pretty sure a GTS 240 could handle it.
You realize thats as silly as arguing some people only need a windows 95 machine, right? Why would that kind of article be exciting?
You shouldn't even need to spend anything on a video card, everything now-adays has something integrated, from laptops to desktops there is always some form of output. That would fit most people's needs.
People who need stronger video cards should be expecting to shell out a bit of money.
The vast majority of Windows desktops are still running the 32-bit version of Windows XP, and that's not going to change until businesses decide they have a compelling reason to upgrade.
And my guess is that'll happen when they stop supporting XP P3 - which if my memory serves correct is 2014? Can someone back me up on that?
64 bit isn't too far off. As a developer you'd be better off getting a copy soon and work on merging your projects over to work on 64 bit now, rather than wait for crunch time.
We use the 32 bit at work for the compatability with old the old MS Access databases (don't ask... I just work here...)
I use the 64 bit at home - even though it causes some odd glitches with various games here and there, for the most part it runs everything much smoother. I decided that I'd need more than 4 Gigs of RAM to run Visual Studio to Debug my modified Source game.
Your name, essentially, is not private information. Once you tell anyone your name it can be legally shared with anyone without your express permission.
Assuming this gas bubble was created by the universes first perpetual motion machine, so the growth is constant, how long before this gas bubble wipes out all life on Earth. Someone watch my math and make sure I didn't slip up.
(9,460,000,000 * 12) - 5000 = 113519995000 km to go.
113519995000 * 1000 = 113519995000000 hours left.
Or 4729999791666.6 repeating days Or ~675714255952 weeks or ~12994504922 years.
If we do live forever, mark your calendars, 12994506932, Earth is finished.
Are you saying The Pirate Bay is mostly used for illegally transferring copyrighted works? I thought TPB admins have always tried to make a point that they're solely allowing people to transfer information and files with each other.
Ah, but if it IS mostly used for illegally transfering copyrighted works, than the host of the file cannot be held liable for the copyrighted work if they are in a country that does not hold up that copyright agreement (and as far as I know ACTA hasn't been passed). So the most the **AA could sue someone for liable damages would then be ~$1. If you ARE going to somehow create the host responsible, than these Argentinians would be liable for the crime of hacking a database, regardless that hacking is legal in Argentina.
So - I mean, they can't exactly have their cake and eat it too.
Well, you are correct. The very last statement is worded specifically to insight an arguement, so really it SHOULD have been moderated Flamebait. Come on Mods, get your head in the game.
Isn't that still way more then most people can reasonably pay and completely disproportionate to the actual damages caused? He'll probably still have to declare bankruptcy.
While completely disproportionate to actual damages, that is easily within a payable range (though not all at once).
It's less than a house, and there are people who can afford two of those. If they make him do monthly installments over 6 years he should be able to pull it off.
Problem is that malware scanners come and go in terms of effectiveness.
I'd even go as far as to say that Malwarebytes no longer holds my top spot for Anti-malware, as there are a few that seem a little more effective, or at least, effective in some areas that MB lacks. SuperAntiSpyware, iobit security 360, there's a handful of them that pick up things MB miss.
Even those won't be good forever. We're talking an ubuntu distro that has to change every 6 months or so. Not that it'd be a bad project, in fact, it might push some developers to try and stay within the distro, but then things would get highly political. For Open source, that's not good.
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I'm not sure if I'd want him repairing monuments with lego blocks. It's like to trying to restore the ceiling of Notre Dame with finger paints.
Well you get a couple guys in here who go all defacto Tortalini with all their fancy latin words and you can never tell if they are a lawyer or not, so whenever someone mentions some Fianchetto Defense, its nice if they express if they are a lawyer or not.
pulling a Star Destroyer out of the sky was a novel and creative (if poorly implemented) idea.
I think had we not seen the trailer where he makes it look like one fluid motion as some unstoppable force, the scene would have been alright. If they had left the tie fighters out and simply made it more difficult to line the Star Destroyer with Crashing, the scene would have been fine, because it wouldn't have needed any interruption.
But yes - the combat system needs an overhaul. And I mean OVERHAUL. It seemed to boil down to the 2 or 3 advanced combat moves you could pull off (despite how many you had unlocked) - and repeating them over and over until the room was cleared.
If you look at Jedi Outcast / Jedi Academy - where the only light saber combos are meant for fighting lightsaber opponents, and for everyone else they have at least 2 styles of swinging, which you can use to link regular swings into your own combos. This worked very well for those 2 games, and for what its worth, those ones I would recommend more than force unleashed, if not just for simple gameplay mechanics. Don't get me wrong, Jedi Academy wasn't an amazing game by any stretch, unless you include the multiplayer which is probably the best iteration of multiplayer saber combat to date. Not to mention it had a pretty strong modding community for a while, so there were some pretty interesting developments. I think had they studied these games more thoroughly before creating force unleashed, they would have created a better experience.
You know, learn from your ancestors, so to speak.
Teaching students to speak like Parisians would hardly have been useful to them.
Yes, but it's not that she was didn't want to teach us parisian, it's that she singled out a student who KNEW perfect fluent parisian french, when the rest of us are barely capable of pronouncing the words. The student wasn't event correcting the teacher, because they knew there was a difference, but because the student was already so fluent in parisian french, it just didn't come natural to speak it the other way. And anytime the student slipped up, the teacher made an extra effort to point it out.
Having 7 people edit her paper was also cheating unless she disclosed it, in which case I wouldn't blame the professor for not taking her too seriously
No, editting might mean something different to you, but to us it means reading it over and pointing out anything that seems flawed of unclear, then my girlfriend would reword or explain more, and then ask them to review it again.
It was not "Here's my paper, make it better". That is not editting.
I was in the room when she wrote it out by hand with over a dozen textbooks circled around her, only to have her hand it to me to type it up (simply because my words per minute are far higher than hers) - and she had all those people edit it BECAUSE she got a paper back before with a C grade - no feedback, and she didn't know what was wrong and the prof wouldn't tell her when she asked.
When it comes to university, there is no "extra credit". You can't hand it more work or any kind of bonus material to boost your mark, most profs consider that completely unfair to the students. Profs give them a set of guidelines and say "Impress me".
If a student basically writes a good paper based on what they learned, they should be capable of an A. Basically the profs ideology was that unless you offered something completely groundbreaking that shattered the foundations of something they are teaching with some bold new insight, you couldn't get an A+.
And how can you expect an Undergraduate to offer new evidence on something that they are Learning? How can you expect someone who doesn't have a PHD to offer up some new idea they haven't thought of yet?
It's absolutely ludicrous and is not how the education system should be based. This is about educating, and nothing more.
I wasn't suggesting that - but it seems like we're paying people to try and lock their door, I don't remember any Tax break for putting locks on my door, even if my house was filled with other people's personal info.
So, if an Insurance company won't insure someone because they don't put forth the effort to show they even want their stuff protected, why should Tax payer dollars support people who never cared to protect it in the first place?
As an optional incentive, it seems pointless. Corporations will claim they set up security in order to save on taxes.
You're stronger at playing video games if you're better at playing video games.
You know that stronger can be applied to more than just physical strength.
One might say that Video games are one my strengths.
You know English is flexible like that, which sure is a bitch to people learning it.
Exactly. And dealing with a bad teacher is NOT real life training for dealing with a bad boss.
In School, if you correct a teacher about something, if they're a bad teacher, they will tell you that you are wrong and that they are right to save themselves the embarassment. When I was in 7th Grade French Class (being Canadian, learning french is often encouraged), one student was utterly harassed by our teacher for saying things differently. This student happened to have French parents from France where the teacher was born and raised in Quebec, the big French speaking province of Canada. The differences in the language are about as much as you'd expect from Southern States English and The United Kingdom Queen's English. After 2 parent teacher interviews, the student was pulled from the class by their parents, and the French teacher still holds that job to this day, never having gotten a reprimand. I might also point out that after 3 years with this French teacher, I only know how to count to 29 and can barely decipher any french text I come across for some semblance of meaning. To be honest though I never had much interest in learning French, either way, I hated that teacher.
Also, my Girlfriend has an English Prof at the university who believes that no student could ever earn an A+, only English majors could earn an A-, and any other student could only get a B+ as their best grade. My girlfriend, a history major and being 0.02 Grade points from making the deans list (which I think was like a 3.8 or something GPA), was very upset to learn this. Her last paper, which earned a B-, had no writing on it to suggest any feedback or errors. It was also editted by 5 English Majors and 2 other friends of hers, so she was pretty confident this would be the booster to her grade. She went on to Appeal her grade which was bumped up to a B+ (thus making the deans list), though there was still no explanation why she didn't garner an A. *** Luckily this university offers students a chance at the end of the year to evaluate the teacher. As far as I know, everyone has given a poor review and are praying they get fired.
As for "Real Life" in the working world? I have found a boss finds the "No" man 5 times more valuable than a "yes" man. If my boss proposes something I don't like, and I tell him why, he has a chance to reconsider, or defend his point by discussing things I might have missed. This is the mark of a good employee - not one that sits there and goes "Yes sir right away sir" everytime an order is barked at them. The School system should NOT be pumping out mindless drones. If there is any reason to have a bad teacher, it's to teach kids to stand up for themselves when they know they are right.
*** As a side note, apparently this teacher didn't show up for 3 classes (without a note or explanation as to why they were absent), and for 2 of them, the prof put on a movie and left.
I mean, an insurance company won't insure your house if you don't put a lock on the door, so why should anyone care for cyber-security if a company doesn't take any measures to protect itself?
If you've got a network worthy of necessary security, it's not that hard to set up a linux firewall between your router and your gateway.
At work we find a lot of our apps need to run in Compatability mode regardless of 32 or 64 bit. - I mean they were written in like PowerBuilder 4 or something... Just finished getting them working with Oracle 10g.
At home, I find that on the odd occaison, Dragon Age Origins will have a glitchy moment, kind of like tearing but not. I mean I've fiddled around with compatability and video options, to no avail - I would normally suspect the graphics card in that case but I was pretty sure a GTS 240 could handle it.
You realize thats as silly as arguing some people only need a windows 95 machine, right? Why would that kind of article be exciting?
You shouldn't even need to spend anything on a video card, everything now-adays has something integrated, from laptops to desktops there is always some form of output. That would fit most people's needs.
People who need stronger video cards should be expecting to shell out a bit of money.
The vast majority of Windows desktops are still running the 32-bit version of Windows XP, and that's not going to change until businesses decide they have a compelling reason to upgrade.
And my guess is that'll happen when they stop supporting XP P3 - which if my memory serves correct is 2014? Can someone back me up on that?
64 bit isn't too far off. As a developer you'd be better off getting a copy soon and work on merging your projects over to work on 64 bit now, rather than wait for crunch time.
We use the 32 bit at work for the compatability with old the old MS Access databases (don't ask... I just work here...)
I use the 64 bit at home - even though it causes some odd glitches with various games here and there, for the most part it runs everything much smoother. I decided that I'd need more than 4 Gigs of RAM to run Visual Studio to Debug my modified Source game.
I know what they overlooked...
N Gage 4.0
Seriously you guys, it'll work this time.
But by that time an entire bubble with a radius of 12 million 1 thousand light years will have engulfed part of our space.
Your name, essentially, is not private information. Once you tell anyone your name it can be legally shared with anyone without your express permission.
Let's do this grade 6 math puzzle style.
Expanding at ~1,000,000 km/h
12 million light years away.
It already has a radius of 1000 light years.
Assume a light year is 9.46 trillion km long.
Assuming this gas bubble was created by the universes first perpetual motion machine, so the growth is constant, how long before this gas bubble wipes out all life on Earth. Someone watch my math and make sure I didn't slip up.
(9,460,000,000 * 12) - 5000 = 113519995000 km to go.
113519995000 * 1000 = 113519995000000 hours left.
Or 4729999791666.6 repeating days
Or ~675714255952 weeks
or ~12994504922 years.
If we do live forever, mark your calendars, 12994506932, Earth is finished.
The emails they SHOULD be using are HOPEFULLY throwaway addresses.
I just wonder how many aren't though.
$1 per song I mean, which is funny because the Tenenbaum update was just posted moments ago.
The RIAA downloading the leaked file of TPB user credentials would go precisely against everything they are working for.
Are you saying The Pirate Bay is mostly used for illegally transferring copyrighted works? I thought TPB admins have always tried to make a point that they're solely allowing people to transfer information and files with each other.
Ah, but if it IS mostly used for illegally transfering copyrighted works, than the host of the file cannot be held liable for the copyrighted work if they are in a country that does not hold up that copyright agreement (and as far as I know ACTA hasn't been passed). So the most the **AA could sue someone for liable damages would then be ~$1. If you ARE going to somehow create the host responsible, than these Argentinians would be liable for the crime of hacking a database, regardless that hacking is legal in Argentina.
So - I mean, they can't exactly have their cake and eat it too.
Explain how this post get hit with troll pts.
Well, you are correct. The very last statement is worded specifically to insight an arguement, so really it SHOULD have been moderated Flamebait. Come on Mods, get your head in the game.
Open information and knowledge is always for the better, right?
I don't believe anyone has ever said that, other than trolls perpetuating it as an arguement we never said.
Ouch, I was just answering the question. I wasn't siding with them or anything.
Isn't that still way more then most people can reasonably pay and completely disproportionate to the actual damages caused? He'll probably still have to declare bankruptcy.
While completely disproportionate to actual damages, that is easily within a payable range (though not all at once).
It's less than a house, and there are people who can afford two of those. If they make him do monthly installments over 6 years he should be able to pull it off.
Problem is that malware scanners come and go in terms of effectiveness.
I'd even go as far as to say that Malwarebytes no longer holds my top spot for Anti-malware, as there are a few that seem a little more effective, or at least, effective in some areas that MB lacks. SuperAntiSpyware, iobit security 360, there's a handful of them that pick up things MB miss.
Even those won't be good forever. We're talking an ubuntu distro that has to change every 6 months or so. Not that it'd be a bad project, in fact, it might push some developers to try and stay within the distro, but then things would get highly political. For Open source, that's not good.