The difference between math and, well, teaching programming is the fact that if you want to be good at programming, you must understand how anything works and why, before you can use it efficiently. On maths, nowadays you just go like "learn the formula and you're done with it", at least on my case. My teacher taught two methods and he clearly said one required more "thinking" and "understanding" than the other, more standard formula you can just apply to everything.
I would, however, love they would teach programming in my school and not.. say.. how to use MS PowerPoint, or.. MS Word, or.. well, Excel? Perhaps they could, instead of teaching programming, teach how a CPU works, how a GPU works, etc. Or flat-out Logic and Problem Solving.
Ghost recon sure does a lot in the realistic department (sometimes up to annoying in single player) but I do believe playing Multiplayer under those conditions would be joyful. Perhaps I should try it one day, under those rules.
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Sure. That's why you do test when you overclock in order to ensure it's still stable. You should also know that sometimes the CPU is capable working faster than what it was designed because it so-happened-to-be one of those that was produced with a quality greater than expected.
Or sometimes the cpu is already at the end of it's life and you're just giving it a hand to last a little while longer, which is my case, as I have an Intel Pentium D 3.2GHz dual core. It really depends on the case.
That's when you keep your crack at hand. But yes -- Steam is DRM done right. I don't mind running it if the game needs it, they offer these nice sales, and the game is up-to-date for most of the time. You mostly don't have to worry about. The only feature is the ability to install games on other partition/folder, and even that is already covered by independent developers
If I recall correctly, Oblivion was really famous (within the online community) by it's bugs. As a matter of fact, the modding community released multiple unofficial patches to fix the problems Bethesda didn't, effectively adding content to the vanilla experience. And while the AI continues to be dumb as ever in Skyrim, the game is, as you say, fun and beautiful.
I'm sorry to inform you that CoD can be played online with a cracked copy. "Pirates" are not there yet with MW3, and we'll all have to wait until they get there, but they will. Be sure of it. Just look at the alternative to IWNet. Really mindless to use, if you ask me.
I believe this will be helpful for many that are willing to learn but can't go to a university (for a variety of reasons). Teenagers that want to go ahead and learn more and faster than what their high-school teaches them will be able to do so, at a low cost. Those who simply want to expand their knowledge will also be able to do so at a low cost and in a flexible time.
Indeed, the idea behind Google Wave was one with future -- if only people had understood what it really was. Having an assignment for school/university, and it's a group work. You could use Google Wave to work on the same document at the same time, see changes real time, and have a finished work without having to send a file to anybody. All you'd have to do then is more or less copy-paste it to a word processor (and fix possible inconsistencies), but that's just trivial.
Sure. Technologies are not there, and the energy needed (along with materials) would be, perhaps, beyond what we can do today. However, if there is no pursuit towards that goal, it will take even longer to become possible. The same way going to the moon was impossible in the past. Now look where we are now. Now, don't get me wrong -- we should make Earth a clean place to live. And we should be focusing on solving some pending issues here down on Earth.
Having issues that need to be solved down on Earth, however, doesn't mean we shouldn't try outside. I mean, Christopher Columbus "discovered" America, and it was slowly settled, and I'm sure back then Europe had it's problems. They didn't do it all in a day. It took them time. I believe that if we follow the same idea, first put our feet there and then bring the whole home, it is doable.
Perhaps it's important to remember that technology is advancing faster and faster as we go towards the middle of the 21st century. And what we think it's not possible might become a reality within our lifespan, or our children.
Or, you know, we can spend i-don't-know-how-much into making a planet habitable. It could be done -- with lots of hard work and resources on it. Then we would be doing what humanity does best: change the environment to suit its wish*.
* used "suit its wish" instead of "ensure its survival" because we are considering the destruction of humanity because of ourselves, and/or external factors and doing little about it. At least visible change, anyway.
You have a point. Why move to a planet when you can just stop there from time to time? The downside is for people who would like to stay in those planets, so I guess it should be more of a hybrid than just go from A to B to C to A to D to E to B to Somewhere, while obtaining resources. Perhaps have outpost on the planet itself and have the ships go between those outpost. Just saying.
By the way, the ships you just described kind of remind me of Dead Space (without the mutants/monsters/aliens) and/or Stargate: Universe.
I tried to go over to linux, but I found that there is a problem with the drivers, and that is not helping at all. Sure, there has been progress, but (as it has been stated before) until I can just install and play any game, I'm going to be forced to stay in Windows.
I must agree with you. The internet is a place where you can find anything. I do advocate the "if you don't want it on the internet, don't put it there". Specially since if anybody really wanted to make sure something you (or anyone) said stays online it will be easier, faster and less costly for THEM to keep it online than for you to take it down.
On the other hand, the argument about: "I might argue about something and 20 years later I might say the opposite" just does not stand to be a valid one. At least not to me.
I guess it's just that I find it irritating that what the internet is for me - this free place where anything can last forever* - is being slowly legislated and with rules being thrown at it because people can't be bothered to think for themselves for a second, nor they can be bothered to be civilized enough as to understand what you, I or anybody may have done in the past is on the past.
You're supposed to lose part of your consciousness (or even die?) during the first turn, besides, considering the speed -- it's not like it would be too much time in pain.
To be honest, if it was to more... mature pupils I'd say it *could* improve learning (provided it's done the right way [does it even exist?]). But for kindergartners, I don't think it will. Prove me wrong though. I would love to be proven wrong, specially when it comes to using computers (this includes iPads) to learn.
It's nice to see that kind of speed being sold to the public. Really. And I would be one of those who would pay for it (never mind the benefit, just being able to have it is enough for me -- but that's beside the point). However, once you really look into it, it would be better to have the following:
a) Decreased latency. This also goes for the need to be able to cope with everyone maxing out their connections and the amount of packets dropped due to overflow (too many packets too fast) be around 0.00.............1%
b) Increased Upload Speeds. This is one that bugs me the most. While downloading works great (you only need to tell the other end "got it"), when you have to send information, or there are too many people using internet, even if you have the awesome speed of 1Gbit DOWN, you won't enjoy it.
Fix those two points, and THEN we can talk about increasing what you offer to customers. Oh yeah, don't forget the hardware to deal with it.
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The difference between math and, well, teaching programming is the fact that if you want to be good at programming, you must understand how anything works and why, before you can use it efficiently. On maths, nowadays you just go like "learn the formula and you're done with it", at least on my case. My teacher taught two methods and he clearly said one required more "thinking" and "understanding" than the other, more standard formula you can just apply to everything.
I would, however, love they would teach programming in my school and not.. say.. how to use MS PowerPoint, or.. MS Word, or.. well, Excel? Perhaps they could, instead of teaching programming, teach how a CPU works, how a GPU works, etc. Or flat-out Logic and Problem Solving.
Ghost recon sure does a lot in the realistic department (sometimes up to annoying in single player) but I do believe playing Multiplayer under those conditions would be joyful. Perhaps I should try it one day, under those rules.
Sure. That's why you do test when you overclock in order to ensure it's still stable. You should also know that sometimes the CPU is capable working faster than what it was designed because it so-happened-to-be one of those that was produced with a quality greater than expected.
Or sometimes the cpu is already at the end of it's life and you're just giving it a hand to last a little while longer, which is my case, as I have an Intel Pentium D 3.2GHz dual core. It really depends on the case.
That's when you keep your crack at hand. But yes -- Steam is DRM done right. I don't mind running it if the game needs it, they offer these nice sales, and the game is up-to-date for most of the time. You mostly don't have to worry about. The only feature is the ability to install games on other partition/folder, and even that is already covered by independent developers
If I recall correctly, Oblivion was really famous (within the online community) by it's bugs. As a matter of fact, the modding community released multiple unofficial patches to fix the problems Bethesda didn't, effectively adding content to the vanilla experience. And while the AI continues to be dumb as ever in Skyrim, the game is, as you say, fun and beautiful.
I'm sorry to inform you that CoD can be played online with a cracked copy. "Pirates" are not there yet with MW3, and we'll all have to wait until they get there, but they will. Be sure of it. Just look at the alternative to IWNet. Really mindless to use, if you ask me.
Hopefully further studies will show us if what you fear is true or not (hopefully not, as I want one of those :] ).
I believe this will be helpful for many that are willing to learn but can't go to a university (for a variety of reasons). Teenagers that want to go ahead and learn more and faster than what their high-school teaches them will be able to do so, at a low cost. Those who simply want to expand their knowledge will also be able to do so at a low cost and in a flexible time.
Indeed, the idea behind Google Wave was one with future -- if only people had understood what it really was. Having an assignment for school/university, and it's a group work. You could use Google Wave to work on the same document at the same time, see changes real time, and have a finished work without having to send a file to anybody. All you'd have to do then is more or less copy-paste it to a word processor (and fix possible inconsistencies), but that's just trivial.
Sure. Technologies are not there, and the energy needed (along with materials) would be, perhaps, beyond what we can do today. However, if there is no pursuit towards that goal, it will take even longer to become possible. The same way going to the moon was impossible in the past. Now look where we are now. Now, don't get me wrong -- we should make Earth a clean place to live. And we should be focusing on solving some pending issues here down on Earth.
Having issues that need to be solved down on Earth, however, doesn't mean we shouldn't try outside. I mean, Christopher Columbus "discovered" America, and it was slowly settled, and I'm sure back then Europe had it's problems. They didn't do it all in a day. It took them time. I believe that if we follow the same idea, first put our feet there and then bring the whole home, it is doable.
Perhaps it's important to remember that technology is advancing faster and faster as we go towards the middle of the 21st century. And what we think it's not possible might become a reality within our lifespan, or our children.
Or, you know, we can spend i-don't-know-how-much into making a planet habitable. It could be done -- with lots of hard work and resources on it. Then we would be doing what humanity does best: change the environment to suit its wish*.
* used "suit its wish" instead of "ensure its survival" because we are considering the destruction of humanity because of ourselves, and/or external factors and doing little about it. At least visible change, anyway.
You have a point. Why move to a planet when you can just stop there from time to time? The downside is for people who would like to stay in those planets, so I guess it should be more of a hybrid than just go from A to B to C to A to D to E to B to Somewhere, while obtaining resources. Perhaps have outpost on the planet itself and have the ships go between those outpost. Just saying.
By the way, the ships you just described kind of remind me of Dead Space (without the mutants/monsters/aliens) and/or Stargate: Universe.
Except that the UK is exempt from abiding by it. The same way the UK got around keeping their pounds instead of adopting the Euro.
I tried to go over to linux, but I found that there is a problem with the drivers, and that is not helping at all. Sure, there has been progress, but (as it has been stated before) until I can just install and play any game, I'm going to be forced to stay in Windows.
And this is what could happen if somebody really wanted something to stay online.
I must agree with you. The internet is a place where you can find anything. I do advocate the "if you don't want it on the internet, don't put it there". Specially since if anybody really wanted to make sure something you (or anyone) said stays online it will be easier, faster and less costly for THEM to keep it online than for you to take it down.
On the other hand, the argument about: "I might argue about something and 20 years later I might say the opposite" just does not stand to be a valid one. At least not to me.
I guess it's just that I find it irritating that what the internet is for me - this free place where anything can last forever* - is being slowly legislated and with rules being thrown at it because people can't be bothered to think for themselves for a second, nor they can be bothered to be civilized enough as to understand what you, I or anybody may have done in the past is on the past.
Why not, instead do this: pirate it, and when you can afford it, buy it?
This way, you get to play it, and they get their money :D
You're supposed to lose part of your consciousness (or even die?) during the first turn, besides, considering the speed -- it's not like it would be too much time in pain.
To be honest, if it was to more... mature pupils I'd say it *could* improve learning (provided it's done the right way [does it even exist?]). But for kindergartners, I don't think it will. Prove me wrong though. I would love to be proven wrong, specially when it comes to using computers (this includes iPads) to learn.
It's nice to see that kind of speed being sold to the public. Really. And I would be one of those who would pay for it (never mind the benefit, just being able to have it is enough for me -- but that's beside the point). However, once you really look into it, it would be better to have the following: a) Decreased latency. This also goes for the need to be able to cope with everyone maxing out their connections and the amount of packets dropped due to overflow (too many packets too fast) be around 0.00.............1% b) Increased Upload Speeds. This is one that bugs me the most. While downloading works great (you only need to tell the other end "got it"), when you have to send information, or there are too many people using internet, even if you have the awesome speed of 1Gbit DOWN, you won't enjoy it. Fix those two points, and THEN we can talk about increasing what you offer to customers. Oh yeah, don't forget the hardware to deal with it.