Yes most schools require it, but I believe you're allowed out of them for religious reasons which was the BS reason my uncle gave his son's school as to why they didn't have him vaccinated. (The real reason being they wanted an 'all natural' child. This poor kid got a concussion a few months ago and they refused to take him to the ER). School's aren't allowed to verify that one, and I imagine most parents who are against vaccines for stupid reasons use this get out of jail free card.
And with all the crazy lawsuits they get slammed with. If we can sue them for our health, then it certainly seems fair for them to say "you aren't listening, go away". Especially because of the number of people who might then sue the poor doctor over something that they themselves wouldn't listen to the doctor about.
I like KOTOR, Dragon Age, and many others because they tell an interesting story. I love Dragon Age because I get to manipulate that story. I really could care less about the gameplay as long as the UI is polished and sensible. But that's me. Someone else may like game-play and not care about the story. Both of these viewpoints are fine. Both together is an awesome combination.
Every time this happens, I wish that the politician in question finally opens his or her eyes to how out of whack our fair use has gotten. But in the end they just want to be special and be allowed to do the things they think we the people should not be able to do.
And after all, they are special. They work for the corporations.
2d->3d converted media is much more likely to make people feel sick or get headaches from the video than media recorded directly in 3d. There are two reasons for this. Firstly, because you lack some information. For instance if you look at a box that is obscuring your vision of the objects behind it in the real world, each eye has different information based on its perspective. (Try looking at something with one eye, then the other, and look at what changes behind the object). 2d media will only have the information for one eye, and you'll have to make up/fake out that second eye. Secondly, you're trying to fake out the depth cues and it's very hard to do right because you often don't have the depth buffer necessary to do it right.
I would think that this would be the exact opposite of what SOPA supporters want. They've successfully shut down a pirate site *without* the extra rights that SOPA and PIPA were supposed to provide. This proves that they don't need further laws, the current ones suffice. (Though most of us would agree that even the current ones are too much)
The worst is they never seem to respond to the customers needs. I have Heroes VI (one of the games with the always networked DRM of horribleness). I bought it for christmas and there was a period of 36 hours straight where the server was down. There were three separate days where it was down for at least an hour. And this primarily a single player game. The reviews for Heroes VI on Amazon almost all complain about the DRM and it has 2.5 stars as a result.
At this point, there seems to be nothing to do except to refrain from purchasing from them until they go belly up.
The only use for the 3D technology that I've seen since it came out doesn't even involve the 3D aspect. Someone was talking about using it to let two people play an FPS together on the same TV without a) being able to screen look and b) getting the whole screen to themselves. To do this they were just talking about assigning the left eye to one player and the right eye to the other, and setting the glasses up to only pick up images for one eye, instead of displaying 3D images.
I love playing Halo multiplayer (or MarioKart) but hate split-screen. But I don't have enough room or money for a second TV. So if this feature could be added (seems doable to me) and it wasn't too much more for the 3D set, I'd pay for it.
A four-year degree at an in-state school should not cost more than $15-20,000 including fees. If you went $60k into debt for school, consider that a $40-45k math lesson. Teach your kids that one at home so they don't have to pay for it again.
Not sure what in-state university you're talking about. U-Mass Amherst was going to cost me 12,000/year as an in-state student and that was 2000-2004. I have to imagine the price has only gone up since then. In fact http://www.umass.edu/umfa/basics/costs/ says 22k-24k per year for in state students (that's 1k-2k for books and transportation).
"C. Option 3 for reasons for variance is interest. Anyone who's ever had a boy and a girl, tried to be gender neutral with them, and watched the boy chase trucks and guns, and the girl chase dolls...there are questions of focus."
As a woman who worked in 3rd grade class rooms trying to teach children to program lego robots, the big fault with your statement is "ever had a boy *and* a girl." For some reason, that I don't entirely understand, put a box of legos in front of girls and boys and the boys will grab all the trucks and the girls will grab all the little people. Put the box in front of a group of *only* girls and their initial grab will still be for the little people, and then they will start to explore the rest.
In my experience, girls will play with boy toys when there are no boys around, but they will not do so if there are boys around because the boys will get the boy toys first and the girls will get the girl toys first.
*disclaimer: I grew up in a household of 3 girls where we had barbies and legos. And we played with the legos just as much as the barbies.
"But that isnt the cause of the divide. The culture inside public schools is almost as immobile as governments, because the younger children adopt the values of the older ones to try to fit in, be cool, and seem more mature. The effect of peers on kids growing up has more profound effects than any specific media they are consuming - it is more a product of their behavior around one another than it is from what they watch on tv"
A good book to read is Unlocking the Clubhouse. While the book is about Computer Science and not Math in general, it has a lot of insight into why the culture continues.
When did we as consumers decide to forgo quality over convenience? I recently tested Netflix. I was sorely disappointed with the quality of the video as well as the lack-luster audio quality. I quickly deleted my account within minutes of opening it. Until they are able to stream true HD sound I see no reason to give up disks. 7.1 is a beautiful thing...not going to waste it.:-)
Film -> digital cameras. CDs -> MP3s. Each of these came with a quality drop but offered massive convenience. For many the quality wasn't enough worse to worry.
If I don't care about handwriting recognition, then I use EverNote + a hp tx2000 from 4 years ago. (That's a tablet before iPad commandeered the name to mean something entirely different) Evernote has a nice interface for using a stylus to write a note but Evernote retains the original handwriting and never translates it to text. For what I write up via the stylus that works just fine. You should be able to find a modern tablet with a real digitizer, but I haven't a clue what one would call it in order to locate it via google.
It's not that the conservatives believe that $30K-40K makes you rich. It's that they think that $30K is enough to live on, and that's all you deserve if you're income comes from the government. They believe that if you made your own company from the ground up that you don't owe any of your money to the government because they built it with their money. (Insert crotchety get off my lawn line here) They don't really care about what benefits they got from the government to get there and are often deluded into believing that they're doing something for the people (like making jobs) so they shouldn't have to give back via taxes too.
Because when I purchased a laptop 3 years ago they were one of the few big box stores that offered an accidental damage warranty. And sure enough, when my tablet (real tablet PC, not one of those new fangled iPad excuses for a tablet) got hit by a frisbee and it cracked my monitor case, they replaced the whole damned monitor without any hassle.
Also, while it's annoying that they install stuff on the laptop, actually burning the recovery disks for end users is nice. I know many of the people I play tech support for don't bother until it's too late (ie the computer's fried). If only the manufacturers still shipped the stupid CDs.
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Yes most schools require it, but I believe you're allowed out of them for religious reasons which was the BS reason my uncle gave his son's school as to why they didn't have him vaccinated. (The real reason being they wanted an 'all natural' child. This poor kid got a concussion a few months ago and they refused to take him to the ER). School's aren't allowed to verify that one, and I imagine most parents who are against vaccines for stupid reasons use this get out of jail free card.
And with all the crazy lawsuits they get slammed with. If we can sue them for our health, then it certainly seems fair for them to say "you aren't listening, go away". Especially because of the number of people who might then sue the poor doctor over something that they themselves wouldn't listen to the doctor about.
Or for his contributions to Pixar.
Like they do in 5th element?
At least then we wouldn't have to stress out about the horrible treatment, the sardine can like seats, or the lack of mobility for n hours.
I like KOTOR, Dragon Age, and many others because they tell an interesting story. I love Dragon Age because I get to manipulate that story. I really could care less about the gameplay as long as the UI is polished and sensible. But that's me. Someone else may like game-play and not care about the story. Both of these viewpoints are fine. Both together is an awesome combination.
Every time this happens, I wish that the politician in question finally opens his or her eyes to how out of whack our fair use has gotten. But in the end they just want to be special and be allowed to do the things they think we the people should not be able to do.
And after all, they are special. They work for the corporations.
2d->3d converted media is much more likely to make people feel sick or get headaches from the video than media recorded directly in 3d. There are two reasons for this. Firstly, because you lack some information. For instance if you look at a box that is obscuring your vision of the objects behind it in the real world, each eye has different information based on its perspective. (Try looking at something with one eye, then the other, and look at what changes behind the object). 2d media will only have the information for one eye, and you'll have to make up/fake out that second eye. Secondly, you're trying to fake out the depth cues and it's very hard to do right because you often don't have the depth buffer necessary to do it right.
I would think that this would be the exact opposite of what SOPA supporters want. They've successfully shut down a pirate site *without* the extra rights that SOPA and PIPA were supposed to provide. This proves that they don't need further laws, the current ones suffice. (Though most of us would agree that even the current ones are too much)
Amen :-) I played Dark Messiah for exactly 5 minutes.
The worst is they never seem to respond to the customers needs. I have Heroes VI (one of the games with the always networked DRM of horribleness). I bought it for christmas and there was a period of 36 hours straight where the server was down. There were three separate days where it was down for at least an hour. And this primarily a single player game. The reviews for Heroes VI on Amazon almost all complain about the DRM and it has 2.5 stars as a result. At this point, there seems to be nothing to do except to refrain from purchasing from them until they go belly up.
So you might die, but at least you didn't do what the law says?
Because *they* own the patent of course!
The only use for the 3D technology that I've seen since it came out doesn't even involve the 3D aspect. Someone was talking about using it to let two people play an FPS together on the same TV without a) being able to screen look and b) getting the whole screen to themselves. To do this they were just talking about assigning the left eye to one player and the right eye to the other, and setting the glasses up to only pick up images for one eye, instead of displaying 3D images.
I love playing Halo multiplayer (or MarioKart) but hate split-screen. But I don't have enough room or money for a second TV. So if this feature could be added (seems doable to me) and it wasn't too much more for the 3D set, I'd pay for it.
He did *know* it was stolen.
A four-year degree at an in-state school should not cost more than $15-20,000 including fees. If you went $60k into debt for school, consider that a $40-45k math lesson. Teach your kids that one at home so they don't have to pay for it again.
Not sure what in-state university you're talking about. U-Mass Amherst was going to cost me 12,000/year as an in-state student and that was 2000-2004. I have to imagine the price has only gone up since then. In fact http://www.umass.edu/umfa/basics/costs/ says 22k-24k per year for in state students (that's 1k-2k for books and transportation).
As a woman who worked in 3rd grade class rooms trying to teach children to program lego robots, the big fault with your statement is "ever had a boy *and* a girl." For some reason, that I don't entirely understand, put a box of legos in front of girls and boys and the boys will grab all the trucks and the girls will grab all the little people. Put the box in front of a group of *only* girls and their initial grab will still be for the little people, and then they will start to explore the rest.
In my experience, girls will play with boy toys when there are no boys around, but they will not do so if there are boys around because the boys will get the boy toys first and the girls will get the girl toys first.
*disclaimer: I grew up in a household of 3 girls where we had barbies and legos. And we played with the legos just as much as the barbies.
"But that isnt the cause of the divide. The culture inside public schools is almost as immobile as governments, because the younger children adopt the values of the older ones to try to fit in, be cool, and seem more mature. The effect of peers on kids growing up has more profound effects than any specific media they are consuming - it is more a product of their behavior around one another than it is from what they watch on tv" A good book to read is Unlocking the Clubhouse. While the book is about Computer Science and not Math in general, it has a lot of insight into why the culture continues.
When did we as consumers decide to forgo quality over convenience? I recently tested Netflix. I was sorely disappointed with the quality of the video as well as the lack-luster audio quality. I quickly deleted my account within minutes of opening it. Until they are able to stream true HD sound I see no reason to give up disks. 7.1 is a beautiful thing...not going to waste it. :-)
Film -> digital cameras. CDs -> MP3s. Each of these came with a quality drop but offered massive convenience. For many the quality wasn't enough worse to worry.
If I don't care about handwriting recognition, then I use EverNote + a hp tx2000 from 4 years ago. (That's a tablet before iPad commandeered the name to mean something entirely different) Evernote has a nice interface for using a stylus to write a note but Evernote retains the original handwriting and never translates it to text. For what I write up via the stylus that works just fine. You should be able to find a modern tablet with a real digitizer, but I haven't a clue what one would call it in order to locate it via google.
It's not that the conservatives believe that $30K-40K makes you rich. It's that they think that $30K is enough to live on, and that's all you deserve if you're income comes from the government. They believe that if you made your own company from the ground up that you don't owe any of your money to the government because they built it with their money. (Insert crotchety get off my lawn line here) They don't really care about what benefits they got from the government to get there and are often deluded into believing that they're doing something for the people (like making jobs) so they shouldn't have to give back via taxes too.
Because when I purchased a laptop 3 years ago they were one of the few big box stores that offered an accidental damage warranty. And sure enough, when my tablet (real tablet PC, not one of those new fangled iPad excuses for a tablet) got hit by a frisbee and it cracked my monitor case, they replaced the whole damned monitor without any hassle.
Also, while it's annoying that they install stuff on the laptop, actually burning the recovery disks for end users is nice. I know many of the people I play tech support for don't bother until it's too late (ie the computer's fried). If only the manufacturers still shipped the stupid CDs.