I remember playing Medievia a lot. Color graphics (er, text)! And being on DyrtDev; learning how to create your OWN worlds that others could play in. Good times.
How would you go about teaching 8 to 12 year olds about being Civil Engineers? Jumping right into teaching them engineering statics and dynamics without the benefits of all the backing math?
What about teaching them to Doctor? Should you make it easy for them by diving immediately into pharmacology?
I understand that you're trying to engage them, using the things that they're currently obsessed with, but it will be greatly to their long-term benefit if you don't skip over the required basics to get to the "fun" part. Concentrate instead on problem solving and being able to communicate clearly with their peers. These are applicable to any endeavor they will pursue throughout the rest of their lives, and the areas in which, sadly, most people don't do well.
...A cycle I learned my lesson about many, many moons ago.
At home, I keep a $640 check I wrote back in 1990 for a 486 CPU. It's framed and visible on top of a bookcase to serve as a reminder.
At the time, I thought it was a great deal; screaming processors were never going to get much cheaper than that!
These days, last years tech (or even two years ago tech) is usually MORE than sufficient. Except for games, which always seem to need NEXT years processor in order to be playable...;-)
Quoth the previous AC: >(Probable) fact: This joker has some sort of financial interest in a local commercial >ISP whose business would be threatened by a campus-wide network. >Nobody that stupid runs a >university... but conflicts of interest aren't exactly >unheard-of in that line of work, are they?
I think you're on the right track, just a little off the actual target.
My guess would be that if there were an ulterior motive to the edict, it would be with a thought towards unplugging an inherently uncontrollable (by the University) Community WAN that sidesteps the wired campus LAN that may or may not be monitored for that most heinous crime of all: filesharing. (Afterall, it's an **AA-proven fact that that's the only thing college students want to do with their computers.)
It appears that the only reliable way to read Quicken data is by reading its native files. [...] I will wait for a replacement that reads these files.
You may be waiting for a long time. I think there's a good chance that anyone who tries to do that would find themselves on the sharp end of a 'DMCA-style' lawsuit, courtesy of Intuit. Considering the other current misapplications of the DMCA, that wouldn't be at all surprising.
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I remember playing Medievia a lot. Color graphics (er, text)!
And being on DyrtDev; learning how to create your OWN worlds that others could play in.
Good times.
How would you go about teaching 8 to 12 year olds about being Civil Engineers?
Jumping right into teaching them engineering statics and dynamics without the benefits of all the backing math?
What about teaching them to Doctor? Should you make it easy for them by diving immediately into pharmacology?
I understand that you're trying to engage them, using the things that they're currently obsessed with, but it will be greatly to their long-term benefit if you don't skip over the required basics to get to the "fun" part. Concentrate instead on problem solving and being able to communicate clearly with their peers. These are applicable to any endeavor they will pursue throughout the rest of their lives, and the areas in which, sadly, most people don't do well.
Spock could have built one with only stone knives and bearskins.
>Money doesn't guarantee a movie will be good, but it does heavily indicate the movie won't be appallingly bad.
:)
Two words for ya: Pluto Nash.
As in The Adventures Of Pluto Nash.
'Nuf said.
...A cycle I learned my lesson about many, many moons ago.
;-)
At home, I keep a $640 check I wrote back in 1990 for a 486 CPU.
It's framed and visible on top of a bookcase to serve as a reminder.
At the time, I thought it was a great deal; screaming processors were
never going to get much cheaper than that!
These days, last years tech (or even two years ago tech) is usually
MORE than sufficient. Except for games, which always seem to
need NEXT years processor in order to be playable...
Hmmm... also the way for spammers to defeat the CAPTCHA, perhaps? ;-)
Quoth the previous AC:
>(Probable) fact: This joker has some sort of financial interest in a local commercial
>ISP whose business would be threatened by a campus-wide network.
>Nobody that stupid runs a >university... but conflicts of interest aren't exactly
>unheard-of in that line of work, are they?
I think you're on the right track, just a little off the actual target.
My guess would be that if there were an ulterior motive to the edict, it would be
with a thought towards unplugging an inherently uncontrollable (by the University)
Community WAN that sidesteps the wired campus LAN that may or may not be monitored
for that most heinous crime of all: filesharing. (Afterall, it's an **AA-proven fact
that that's the only thing college students want to do with their computers.)
...and you'll wonder why your pictures of said documents keep coming out black when you try to print them.
...until you edit out the anti-copying watermarks in the images with your trusty copy of Photoshop.
...but it'll probably be too late by that time, as you'll have tripped the 'call the Feds' flag in the printer one too many times...
It appears that the only reliable way to read Quicken data is by reading its native files. [...] I will wait for a replacement that reads these files.
You may be waiting for a long time. I think there's a good chance that anyone who tries to do that would find themselves on the sharp end of a 'DMCA-style' lawsuit, courtesy of Intuit. Considering the other current misapplications of the DMCA, that wouldn't be at all surprising.