The reson that BF2 wouldn't work just as well on a console, (also the reason why some people are so anit-console) is because of the lack of suitable controller.
One thing i think is cool though, is that the speed skiing record is about 75 mph faster than a free-fall sky diver.
That's one of the two essential ingredients that has been achieved separately. The other is a zero fall rate with respect to the ground, which has also been achieved.
For those who haven't seen it already, it's a video of a guy in a wingsuit flying down a mountain slope, at an altitude of maybe 15-20 feet AGL max.... for at least a few seconds.
In order to pass __________, you must scratch on a piece of paper with some graphite to replicate the patterns of chalk on a blackboard and behave yourself and not "talk back." etc.
Cute, but pointless. It is well-established that the first stage of learning is rote memorization and repetition. It's only after that that higher-order connections are made, concepts are correlated, and people can start thinking critically about something.
This has been the way of teaching up until a decade or two ago, until people suddently started having oh-so-many problems with it. Now it's too much for our kids to handle.
Oh yeah, let's overhaul the system. Maybe we should start letting the students design the curricula. Maybe we should give them total control over what subjects to take. Maybe we should give them the choice of going to school or not. Maybe, blah blah blah, you see where I'm going...
I'm with the "buckle down and put away the playstation for a little bit" camp.
It worked for genearations past, and it should work today if we remember who's the parent and who's the kid. As Christopher Thomas said, if it were up to most kids, they'd play all day; it's the parent's job to instill a little discipline and get the little'uns to crack a book.
If we really cared about learning, then you'd have to do something involving chemicals to pass chemistry, something involving living things to pass biology, something involving numeric problem-solving to pass mathematics, and something involving high-function communication to pass English.
Of course there should be practical experiments and applications of the subjects; no one's arguing against that. But that is built upon the theory, which itself is built upon the "graphite symbols" and such.
Aw, come on... you're not exaggerating even a tiny bit? Everyone from school literally might as well have played video games till they were 18, with regards to reading, writing, and 'rithmetic (and the basic sciences)?? I doubt it.
But let's assume that's true. Isn't that more of a commentary on the quality of the school you happened to end up in, rather than "the system?" The students at your school got the short end of life's stick, but what are we suppoed to do to rectify that? Stop teaching those classes? Then what? If that's what I think you're saying, I hope I just misunderstood your point. I thought the basic idea of school is to actually teach those classes, but in your instance it failed. Fix the classes and/or the school; don't cut off your nose to spite your face.
You miss the point. School is by no means there to "determine the course of one's life." It's there to provide a basic modicum of all-around knowledge and common history/culture so the person can grow up with at least a clue as to the context of his/her surroundings, and be able to be a functioning member of society.
Can't you follow a simple argument? With his examples of Germany and Japan, he was refuting the othe poster's claim that you can't stamp out evil because resentment for you from the peers of those you killed will propagate.
The existance of the Japanese and German populations who do not subscribe to Nazism, do not hold Hitler in high regard, and do not hate us for the elimination of both, precisely support the grandparent post's argument.
What exactly were you trying to provide a counterexample to?
I feel dumb not to have thought of this myself, but then again so should the Wachowkis. The first alternate plausible explanation I've seen for the Matrix, none of this stupid battery bullshit.
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The reson that BF2 wouldn't work just as well on a console, (also the reason why some people are so anit-console) is because of the lack of suitable controller.
1. Never fuck anyone from the office.
You don't have much to worry about here....
That's the first human I've heard about that's essentially failed a Turing test...
Yes.
Oops, wrong video.
here.
That's one of the two essential ingredients that has been achieved separately. The other is a zero fall rate with respect to the ground, which has also been achieved.
http://www.para-net.org/paramag/archives/directliv e/direct192/images/SoulFlyers.mpg
For those who haven't seen it already, it's a video of a guy in a wingsuit flying down a mountain slope, at an altitude of maybe 15-20 feet AGL max.... for at least a few seconds.
Ah, the moderation system in swift action (insert rolling eyes smiley.)
Small correction: SS1's first space flight was in June, not last week.
What do you call one who burglarizes?
A burglarizer
The parent said that, not me. In fact if you re-read my post, I was criticizing him for overexaggerating.
In order to pass __________, you must scratch on a piece of paper with some graphite to replicate the patterns of chalk on a blackboard and behave yourself and not "talk back." etc.
Cute, but pointless. It is well-established that the first stage of learning is rote memorization and repetition. It's only after that that higher-order connections are made, concepts are correlated, and people can start thinking critically about something.
This has been the way of teaching up until a decade or two ago, until people suddently started having oh-so-many problems with it. Now it's too much for our kids to handle.
Oh yeah, let's overhaul the system. Maybe we should start letting the students design the curricula. Maybe we should give them total control over what subjects to take. Maybe we should give them the choice of going to school or not. Maybe, blah blah blah, you see where I'm going...
I'm with the "buckle down and put away the playstation for a little bit" camp.
It worked for genearations past, and it should work today if we remember who's the parent and who's the kid. As Christopher Thomas said, if it were up to most kids, they'd play all day; it's the parent's job to instill a little discipline and get the little'uns to crack a book.
If we really cared about learning, then you'd have to do something involving chemicals to pass chemistry, something involving living things to pass biology, something involving numeric problem-solving to pass mathematics, and something involving high-function communication to pass English.
Of course there should be practical experiments and applications of the subjects; no one's arguing against that. But that is built upon the theory, which itself is built upon the "graphite symbols" and such.
Aw, come on... you're not exaggerating even a tiny bit? Everyone from school literally might as well have played video games till they were 18, with regards to reading, writing, and 'rithmetic (and the basic sciences)?? I doubt it.
But let's assume that's true. Isn't that more of a commentary on the quality of the school you happened to end up in, rather than "the system?" The students at your school got the short end of life's stick, but what are we suppoed to do to rectify that? Stop teaching those classes? Then what? If that's what I think you're saying, I hope I just misunderstood your point. I thought the basic idea of school is to actually teach those classes, but in your instance it failed. Fix the classes and/or the school; don't cut off your nose to spite your face.
You miss the point. School is by no means there to "determine the course of one's life." It's there to provide a basic modicum of all-around knowledge and common history/culture so the person can grow up with at least a clue as to the context of his/her surroundings, and be able to be a functioning member of society.
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You mean Llamasoft?
Hah, don't you wish there was a (-1, RTFC)?
"U R" dumb if you need every single assumption down to the most obvious level behind a piece of writing spelled out for you.
Or have I just been had by a really really boring troll?
No you haven't. What are you talking about?
Have you ever heard of the Ho Chi Minh trail? (That is not a rhetorical question.)
Can't you follow a simple argument? With his examples of Germany and Japan, he was refuting the othe poster's claim that you can't stamp out evil because resentment for you from the peers of those you killed will propagate.
The existance of the Japanese and German populations who do not subscribe to Nazism, do not hold Hitler in high regard, and do not hate us for the elimination of both, precisely support the grandparent post's argument.
What exactly were you trying to provide a counterexample to?
Joke's on you.
-1? Huh?
Um. Except that many, many cosmonauts died in accidents.
Holy shit, +10 insightful!
I feel dumb not to have thought of this myself, but then again so should the Wachowkis. The first alternate plausible explanation I've seen for the Matrix, none of this stupid battery bullshit.
So, uh, what do you suggest? We let people steal your code and commit other crimes? Huh?