Seriously, I was never able to learn it to my teachers' satisfaction in grade school. They always told me that my writing was messy and hard to read and that they would take points off for not writing in cursive.
This is what amazes me. Cursive is meant to be a faster method of writing because you have the pen to the paper from start to finish when writing your words when you print you lift the pen off the paper more often. Well, now we have computers everywhere and children are more computer literate. Touch typing is significantly faster than cursive writing and there is no real reason to continue teaching other than most people still use cursive to sign thier name; however, I have seen some people that just print thier name.
My biggest problem with writing cursive is not only was it slow, but I could barely read my own handwriting let alone anyone elses. The teacher that was attempting to teach it to us also had horrible handwriting. He printed throughout most of the schoolyear and wrote in cursive during the period that he was teaching it. From that point on I wrote anyting I had to in cursive and everything else I just printed. My printing, while small, is very legible. Hand writing may never go away entirely, but I see no logical reason why cursive can't. If they want to complain about computers and the Internet damaging peoples writing they should start by putting more of a focus on teaching proper sentance structure, spelling, and grammar.
Did you ever consider he was only hearing one side of the story? Sadly it appears that most of the laws that end up on the books are not completly understood by those that pass them. They rely on aids and advisors to help them understand the pros and cons of the bills. If he only go the lobbyists side of the story initially and the ACTUALLY LISTENED to his constituents he is a helluva lot better than most of his peers. The problem is that if you look more closely at the story these are only temporary setbacks in both Oregon and Colorado.
The telco's for example know better than to pull a stunt like this. I know of few if any DSL providers that stick you with the full modemn cost (somewhere ~$250), and most have constant 'special promotions' that include a 'free' modemn. The cost of this comes back to them in the monthly fees.
Telcos have charged outrageous fees for modems and installation for DSL/cable etc. ISPs that offer DSL not provided by the telcos are often charging full price for modems. I've recently seen the costs of installation and modems drop because the telcos are trying to increase their market and that is a good way to get people over the initial cost several hundred dollars. Of course they just make it right back through higher monthly fees and modem rental fees, but they have a larger burden to offset than game manufacturers.
I think that paying $50 for a box, that lasts only 1 month before becoming fairly useless on its own is a bit of a ripoff. They need a better buisness model.
Why should they get a better business model when this one is working fine for them now? There seem to be relatively few people bitching about the initial cost to buy into the game. Mostly, I think, due to the fact that most games cost $40 - $50 up front. Charging less for the game initially might draw in more people, but some bean counter would have to sit down and see if it actually increased profits.
AC is a bad game to compare to UO. If you want the abillity to kill other players at almost any time in AC you have to play on Darktide. The PvP all the time game play style wasn't the the intent of the AC designers.
You completely ignored the initial development cost which can be said to be paid for by selling the boxed copy. Many people will buy the game and then never pay for a month of play deciding they don't like the game or don't think it's worth $13 a month.
I've seen that same disc and the quality wasn't that great. I believe that to be because the original DVD sent out for "Academy review" weren't the best quality though.
I'm fairly certain that the main character you are reffering to will be there, however quite possibly more powerfull than ever before. The other characters might find a new found power in a differant place as well.
Oh, I also just thought of something. There is a scene where Neo intentionally places his hand inside of Trinity to help her. There are also plenty of instances of Smith doing the same to other people. It is possible that the scene you metnion wasn't fussed over as you might come to the realization that it is possible for one entity to pass through another in the matrix as the rules can be broken. Look at the two wraith like guys that move through other objects as another example.
You are probably right that there are definatly cg mistakes, but it's a bit hard to tell on the big screen playing at full speed. I also think the other people in the audience might have kicked my ass if I had asked the projectionist to show it to us slow enough that we could catch those errors;)
I think you have it close to right. The "real world" is either just more of the simulation or Neo is god, of course that doesn't explain him not recovering after stopping the sentinals so the first part is most likely correct. Of course it appears that all of the Neos reacted differantly and the architect noted that this, the sixth, neo responded more quickly than any of the others. It is possible that this is the first One that will actually break outside into the real real world.
Ah, but it was the "hackers" using ssh within a building in the matrix controlled by the machines. The particular network was also in a fairly important building;)
I dunno, I thought it all made perfect sense. Even the ending they leave with us makes a great deal of sense. The question is of course. Once Neo realizes the truth, what is the truth? We don't get to find out for six months.
of this release is not having Revolutions waiting right there for you to see. They could have lined up 90% of the people from that theatre and herded us into the next theatre emtpying our wallets as we went.
While the ending is not surprising it certainly leaves you wanting to see the rest of the story. I personally didn't notice any cg mistakes, but I usually don't until my second viewing of a film unless they are just glaring mistakes.
The main flaws with the movie are a slow start that really does little to develop the characters. If they wanted to break from the constant action for that purpose they didn't do the best job. I heard several people in the theatre complain about the somewhat technical dialog that takes place in the movie. That was no big deal to me as it all made perfect sense, but I could see how others might not like it or pick up on it. Then again I laughed out loud when I saw the terminal with ssh 10.2.2.2 on it;)
You are absolutly correct, and this is the one point that antiblacklist people choose to ignore yet is th emost important. Use of the lists is completely voluntary. The operators of these lists are in no way interfering with anyones right to free speech. If you don't want your ISP to use these lists tell your ISP. If you run a mail server and think these lists are wrong then don't use them; however, don't bitch about those of us that feel this is a good preventative measure and knowingly use the lists to block messages. We are _knowingly_ blocking messages from these addresses and accept the chance for valid email being blocked along with the junk.
However it is not an official client, nor is it likely to be the majority of the kazaa clients in use. So no matter how many mac clients stop connecting to the kazaa network it will likely have little impact on the overall network health. Hence the comment is still relativly meaningless in reference to kazaa.
I've got a humanscale freedom chair (one of the choices availble in the linked article) and while I love the chair I do still find it difficult to change positions. I find this chair to be much more comfortable than the aerons in general though.
This would be a relevant comment if iTunes for Windows was available. Until then you are only seeing Mac users buying music. As there isn't a version of kazaa for the mac.
One small problem. Those fall outside of his price range, and since they are parts meant for repairing a broken display he would probably need to build some sort of enclosure or method for standing the LCD up as well. He'd be better off just going out and buying a decent LCD based on what you've provided.
Now, he could possibly call these people and see if they have any crappy displays sitting around, but someone has already suggested calling the manufacturers directly or going to repair shops so this would be no differant.
Too bad that is a misprint. It's a CRT not an LCD. We just called these people to double check with them and that link should be updated shortly... err they already fixed it.
Believe it or not there are plenty of people that work fourty hours a week and then turn around and play for fourty or more hours per week. From playing a Turbine game (AC1) for around three years I can gaurantee you they have no problem catering to those that play more than 10 hours per week without making much of an effort to please those that don't. There were always small concessions for those that played a little, and towards the end of my playing time with that game they changed thier ways quite a bit however many casual players had long since left. I hear the same complaints on the boards about AC2. Based on that I have a hard time believing that MEO will be much differant. So while you would think that they can't cater exclusively to those that play fourty or more hours per weeek, in practice that is exactly what has happened previously.
Then you'll simply see the inital charge in place to cover bandwidth costs like with Anarchy Online. There were plenty of people that downloaded Anarchy Online, but I don't believe it was at an even reduced fee.
If you are only planning on spending 10 hours per week playing I don't think you are really thier target audience. They seem to focus more on the people that play 40 hours per week. That's just my opinion though.
I still don't think they care about losing a few customers that don't want the box. It seems from reading other threads and having played MMOGs for a while that you are in the minority and will probably not be catered to.
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Seriously, I was never able to learn it to my teachers' satisfaction in grade school. They always told me that my writing was messy and hard to read and that they would take points off for not writing in cursive.
This is what amazes me. Cursive is meant to be a faster method of writing because you have the pen to the paper from start to finish when writing your words when you print you lift the pen off the paper more often. Well, now we have computers everywhere and children are more computer literate. Touch typing is significantly faster than cursive writing and there is no real reason to continue teaching other than most people still use cursive to sign thier name; however, I have seen some people that just print thier name.
My biggest problem with writing cursive is not only was it slow, but I could barely read my own handwriting let alone anyone elses. The teacher that was attempting to teach it to us also had horrible handwriting. He printed throughout most of the schoolyear and wrote in cursive during the period that he was teaching it. From that point on I wrote anyting I had to in cursive and everything else I just printed. My printing, while small, is very legible. Hand writing may never go away entirely, but I see no logical reason why cursive can't. If they want to complain about computers and the Internet damaging peoples writing they should start by putting more of a focus on teaching proper sentance structure, spelling, and grammar.
Did you ever consider he was only hearing one side of the story? Sadly it appears that most of the laws that end up on the books are not completly understood by those that pass them. They rely on aids and advisors to help them understand the pros and cons of the bills. If he only go the lobbyists side of the story initially and the ACTUALLY LISTENED to his constituents he is a helluva lot better than most of his peers. The problem is that if you look more closely at the story these are only temporary setbacks in both Oregon and Colorado.
The telco's for example know better than to pull a stunt like this. I know of few if any DSL providers that stick you with the full modemn cost (somewhere ~$250), and most have constant 'special promotions' that include a 'free' modemn. The cost of this comes back to them in the monthly fees.
Telcos have charged outrageous fees for modems and installation for DSL/cable etc. ISPs that offer DSL not provided by the telcos are often charging full price for modems. I've recently seen the costs of installation and modems drop because the telcos are trying to increase their market and that is a good way to get people over the initial cost several hundred dollars. Of course they just make it right back through higher monthly fees and modem rental fees, but they have a larger burden to offset than game manufacturers.
I think that paying $50 for a box, that lasts only 1 month before becoming fairly useless on its own is a bit of a ripoff. They need a better buisness model.
Why should they get a better business model when this one is working fine for them now? There seem to be relatively few people bitching about the initial cost to buy into the game. Mostly, I think, due to the fact that most games cost $40 - $50 up front. Charging less for the game initially might draw in more people, but some bean counter would have to sit down and see if it actually increased profits.
AC is a bad game to compare to UO. If you want the abillity to kill other players at almost any time in AC you have to play on Darktide. The PvP all the time game play style wasn't the the intent of the AC designers.
You completely ignored the initial development cost which can be said to be paid for by selling the boxed copy. Many people will buy the game and then never pay for a month of play deciding they don't like the game or don't think it's worth $13 a month.
I've seen that same disc and the quality wasn't that great. I believe that to be because the original DVD sent out for "Academy review" weren't the best quality though.
Sorry, I assumed you were reffering to the one character that looked somewhat out of the picture at the end of the movie.
I'm fairly certain that the main character you are reffering to will be there, however quite possibly more powerfull than ever before. The other characters might find a new found power in a differant place as well.
Oh, I also just thought of something. There is a scene where Neo intentionally places his hand inside of Trinity to help her. There are also plenty of instances of Smith doing the same to other people. It is possible that the scene you metnion wasn't fussed over as you might come to the realization that it is possible for one entity to pass through another in the matrix as the rules can be broken. Look at the two wraith like guys that move through other objects as another example.
You are probably right that there are definatly cg mistakes, but it's a bit hard to tell on the big screen playing at full speed. I also think the other people in the audience might have kicked my ass if I had asked the projectionist to show it to us slow enough that we could catch those errors ;)
I think you have it close to right. The "real world" is either just more of the simulation or Neo is god, of course that doesn't explain him not recovering after stopping the sentinals so the first part is most likely correct. Of course it appears that all of the Neos reacted differantly and the architect noted that this, the sixth, neo responded more quickly than any of the others. It is possible that this is the first One that will actually break outside into the real real world.
Well, I suppose I can understand it. Movie one world one. Movie two world two. Movie three..... ???
Have I said too much?
Ah, but it was the "hackers" using ssh within a building in the matrix controlled by the machines. The particular network was also in a fairly important building ;)
I think the accent made that much worse than it should have been.
I dunno, I thought it all made perfect sense. Even the ending they leave with us makes a great deal of sense. The question is of course. Once Neo realizes the truth, what is the truth? We don't get to find out for six months.
of this release is not having Revolutions waiting right there for you to see. They could have lined up 90% of the people from that theatre and herded us into the next theatre emtpying our wallets as we went.
;)
While the ending is not surprising it certainly leaves you wanting to see the rest of the story. I personally didn't notice any cg mistakes, but I usually don't until my second viewing of a film unless they are just glaring mistakes.
The main flaws with the movie are a slow start that really does little to develop the characters. If they wanted to break from the constant action for that purpose they didn't do the best job. I heard several people in the theatre complain about the somewhat technical dialog that takes place in the movie. That was no big deal to me as it all made perfect sense, but I could see how others might not like it or pick up on it. Then again I laughed out loud when I saw the terminal with ssh 10.2.2.2 on it
You are absolutly correct, and this is the one point that antiblacklist people choose to ignore yet is th emost important. Use of the lists is completely voluntary. The operators of these lists are in no way interfering with anyones right to free speech. If you don't want your ISP to use these lists tell your ISP. If you run a mail server and think these lists are wrong then don't use them; however, don't bitch about those of us that feel this is a good preventative measure and knowingly use the lists to block messages. We are _knowingly_ blocking messages from these addresses and accept the chance for valid email being blocked along with the junk.
However it is not an official client, nor is it likely to be the majority of the kazaa clients in use. So no matter how many mac clients stop connecting to the kazaa network it will likely have little impact on the overall network health. Hence the comment is still relativly meaningless in reference to kazaa.
I've got a humanscale freedom chair (one of the choices availble in the linked article) and while I love the chair I do still find it difficult to change positions. I find this chair to be much more comfortable than the aerons in general though.
This would be a relevant comment if iTunes for Windows was available. Until then you are only seeing Mac users buying music. As there isn't a version of kazaa for the mac.
One small problem. Those fall outside of his price range, and since they are parts meant for repairing a broken display he would probably need to build some sort of enclosure or method for standing the LCD up as well. He'd be better off just going out and buying a decent LCD based on what you've provided.
Now, he could possibly call these people and see if they have any crappy displays sitting around, but someone has already suggested calling the manufacturers directly or going to repair shops so this would be no differant.
Too bad that is a misprint. It's a CRT not an LCD. We just called these people to double check with them and that link should be updated shortly... err they already fixed it.
Believe it or not there are plenty of people that work fourty hours a week and then turn around and play for fourty or more hours per week. From playing a Turbine game (AC1) for around three years I can gaurantee you they have no problem catering to those that play more than 10 hours per week without making much of an effort to please those that don't. There were always small concessions for those that played a little, and towards the end of my playing time with that game they changed thier ways quite a bit however many casual players had long since left. I hear the same complaints on the boards about AC2. Based on that I have a hard time believing that MEO will be much differant. So while you would think that they can't cater exclusively to those that play fourty or more hours per weeek, in practice that is exactly what has happened previously.
Then you'll simply see the inital charge in place to cover bandwidth costs like with Anarchy Online. There were plenty of people that downloaded Anarchy Online, but I don't believe it was at an even reduced fee.
If you are only planning on spending 10 hours per week playing I don't think you are really thier target audience. They seem to focus more on the people that play 40 hours per week. That's just my opinion though.
I still don't think they care about losing a few customers that don't want the box. It seems from reading other threads and having played MMOGs for a while that you are in the minority and will probably not be catered to.