If you watch the trailer for the entire series only the second renaissance one explain any history. The other seven are all just unrelated stories in the matrix world. However buying the dvd would be worth it so you don't have to pay money to see the Animatrices that come before shitty movies like Dreamcatcher. All the ones that will be released on the internet have been, the other five will be shorts before movies, as was Flight of the Osiris, which was the CG one before Dreamcatcher.
The obvious intent here is to make it so they are not liable for people who overclocked their CPUs and broke them, because anybody overclocking would definately upgrade thier cooling system.
That is the reason why the health book used at my highschool does not contain the word condom at all. They didn't want to get banned from conservative communities, so the went for the lowest denominator. Which is a bad idea in a 85% minority, poor school with high rates of teen pregnancy/STDs.
I'm a high school sophomore and at my school (public) we have a similar problem with dumbing down. However it is carried out in a different manner. Instead of having bullshit prerequisits that make it impossible to get into classes, they let almost everyone into the advanced class. Someone with a D in regular 10th grade chemistry who can't grasp the concept behind a mole or titration, even after weeks of review on the subject, should not be in an AP Chem class the next year. However, the school lets them in and the teacher feels obligated to teach to the bottom, or atleast near bottom.
This is especially problematic when it's an AP class with a set curriculum for the AP exam. My chemistry teacher actually said to me, "I don't teach the stuff on the AP Chem exam because most of the class wouldn't be able to keep up." That's no way to run a class at all.
I-Drive is tauted by BMW as less distracting than having many buttons to adjust all the things in your car, such as volume, temperature, deforst, etc. However when you think about it, it takes you more time, and is therefore more distracting, to navigate through many menus just to turn on the radio.
In my car I am distracted only slightly when turning on the radio because I already know where the knob is, therefore all i do is glance down for a fraction of a second and get my bearings, put my eyes back on the road, reach for the knob with one hand while keeping the other on the wheel, and hit the knob. That is much simpler and intuitive.
It is not tech fear that causes people to hate the I-Drive, it is the poor, distracting UI. The underlying system behind I-Drive is probably fine (although it is Windows..) but people will not like it unless the UI is better designed.
I never have known and will never be able to explain why I disliked that movie, but after I saw it I was left with a feeling that it didn't quite fit together. I wouldn't say I disliked it, and I surely wasn't hung up on its possibly gratuitous violence, it's just it didn't feel right. Did anyone else get this feeling?
Star Trek turned one of my friends into an idiot that thought communism could actually work. Now all he does is talk about how bad globalization is. Gee thanks!
If you are a bad driver and get into a car crash that was your fault, the automaker is definately not responsible. If you overdose on medicine, the drug company is not responsible.
If you are inept and don't keep your system up to date, the software company is not liable.
You summed up my feelings for WC3 so much better than I could have. I know exactly what you mean about wanting to enjoy it but never really having fun with it. I personally think the 90 unit limit, upkeep, and hero leveling are annoying features. I just hope that if they ever realease a Starcraft 2 (not SC: Ghost) that they not mess with it too much. I like massive 200 unit blood baths, and i don't wanna go around killing creeps to level up Tassadar.
I have always noticed that it's much easier to drive a car in real life than a video game. Why would you want to give it the disconnected feel of a video game anyway?
Also GM's drive by wire stuff seems to be utterly rediculous and I hope it never gets produced in its current stae. Making people brake with their hands is simply rediculous. If you had to make an evasive manuever and slam on the brakes at the same time, how on earth would you do that?
I have never heard of AIM/ICQ/MSN/... messages getting dropped unless one of the people's client got disconnected and it hadn't registered yet. Also, AIM et al message are always instantaneous.
I have a sprint phone, and I whole-heartedly agree with you. I honestly don't know how their implementation of SMS got out of design stage. Or maybe there was none.
Sprints messaging, as well as entire web system, is clunky at best. The fact that you have to lauch the browswer, which takes quite a while, counts as a call, and doesnt work half the time, is ridiculous. It should a feature directly built into the phone. A friend of mine has Verizon or Cingular (can't remember) and for him sending and recieving SMS is built in part of the phone that doesnt require launching a browswer.
IMHO, Sprint tries to make everything to browser based instead of application based. For instance, if you go online and try games, they are actually browser games. If you want to play tic tac toe, you type in B3 or wherever you want to place your mark and hit send. That is ridiculous.
All this news might not be a good thing for them. Potential and current subscribers to their linkfarming services may stop paying search king when they learn that google has downgraded searchkings pagerank. They would not want to continue paying the same price for a service diminishing in value rapidly. Also, if Searchking is publically traided, investors may not want to touch a company that looks like its in a idiotic lawsuit with google.
I think postal workers will be compensated enough by getting to go around on Seg-Ways that the US government is going to buy for them. I personally know I would be;)
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If you watch the trailer for the entire series only the second renaissance one explain any history. The other seven are all just unrelated stories in the matrix world. However buying the dvd would be worth it so you don't have to pay money to see the Animatrices that come before shitty movies like Dreamcatcher. All the ones that will be released on the internet have been, the other five will be shorts before movies, as was Flight of the Osiris, which was the CG one before Dreamcatcher.
There is no broom.
The obvious intent here is to make it so they are not liable for people who overclocked their CPUs and broke them, because anybody overclocking would definately upgrade thier cooling system.
That is the reason why the health book used at my highschool does not contain the word condom at all. They didn't want to get banned from conservative communities, so the went for the lowest denominator. Which is a bad idea in a 85% minority, poor school with high rates of teen pregnancy/STDs.
I'm a high school sophomore and at my school (public) we have a similar problem with dumbing down. However it is carried out in a different manner. Instead of having bullshit prerequisits that make it impossible to get into classes, they let almost everyone into the advanced class. Someone with a D in regular 10th grade chemistry who can't grasp the concept behind a mole or titration, even after weeks of review on the subject, should not be in an AP Chem class the next year. However, the school lets them in and the teacher feels obligated to teach to the bottom, or atleast near bottom.
This is especially problematic when it's an AP class with a set curriculum for the AP exam. My chemistry teacher actually said to me, "I don't teach the stuff on the AP Chem exam because most of the class wouldn't be able to keep up." That's no way to run a class at all.
How does something I don't pay for support terrorism? Someone explain.
Ummm I wouldn't mind her in a porno either
I-Drive is tauted by BMW as less distracting than having many buttons to adjust all the things in your car, such as volume, temperature, deforst, etc. However when you think about it, it takes you more time, and is therefore more distracting, to navigate through many menus just to turn on the radio.
In my car I am distracted only slightly when turning on the radio because I already know where the knob is, therefore all i do is glance down for a fraction of a second and get my bearings, put my eyes back on the road, reach for the knob with one hand while keeping the other on the wheel, and hit the knob. That is much simpler and intuitive.
It is not tech fear that causes people to hate the I-Drive, it is the poor, distracting UI. The underlying system behind I-Drive is probably fine (although it is Windows..) but people will not like it unless the UI is better designed.
If I had mod points I'd mod that up as funny so I could feel intellectual.
I never have known and will never be able to explain why I disliked that movie, but after I saw it I was left with a feeling that it didn't quite fit together. I wouldn't say I disliked it, and I surely wasn't hung up on its possibly gratuitous violence, it's just it didn't feel right. Did anyone else get this feeling?
Star Trek turned one of my friends into an idiot that thought communism could actually work. Now all he does is talk about how bad globalization is. Gee thanks!
If you are a bad driver and get into a car crash that was your fault, the automaker is definately not responsible. If you overdose on medicine, the drug company is not responsible.
If you are inept and don't keep your system up to date, the software company is not liable.
You summed up my feelings for WC3 so much better than I could have. I know exactly what you mean about wanting to enjoy it but never really having fun with it. I personally think the 90 unit limit, upkeep, and hero leveling are annoying features. I just hope that if they ever realease a Starcraft 2 (not SC: Ghost) that they not mess with it too much. I like massive 200 unit blood baths, and i don't wanna go around killing creeps to level up Tassadar.
BTW I will not buy the expansion
I have always noticed that it's much easier to drive a car in real life than a video game. Why would you want to give it the disconnected feel of a video game anyway?
Also GM's drive by wire stuff seems to be utterly rediculous and I hope it never gets produced in its current stae. Making people brake with their hands is simply rediculous. If you had to make an evasive manuever and slam on the brakes at the same time, how on earth would you do that?
I don't know about update, but you can get the windows tinted at many car audio stores.
I have never heard of AIM/ICQ/MSN/... messages getting dropped unless one of the people's client got disconnected and it hadn't registered yet. Also, AIM et al message are always instantaneous.
I have a sprint phone, and I whole-heartedly agree with you. I honestly don't know how their implementation of SMS got out of design stage. Or maybe there was none.
Sprints messaging, as well as entire web system, is clunky at best. The fact that you have to lauch the browswer, which takes quite a while, counts as a call, and doesnt work half the time, is ridiculous. It should a feature directly built into the phone. A friend of mine has Verizon or Cingular (can't remember) and for him sending and recieving SMS is built in part of the phone that doesnt require launching a browswer.
IMHO, Sprint tries to make everything to browser based instead of application based. For instance, if you go online and try games, they are actually browser games. If you want to play tic tac toe, you type in B3 or wherever you want to place your mark and hit send. That is ridiculous.
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All this news might not be a good thing for them. Potential and current subscribers to their linkfarming services may stop paying search king when they learn that google has downgraded searchkings pagerank. They would not want to continue paying the same price for a service diminishing in value rapidly. Also, if Searchking is publically traided, investors may not want to touch a company that looks like its in a idiotic lawsuit with google.
I remember seeing that available for preorder on Amazon a year ago. Then it mysteriously disappeared. I don't know why they even put it up.
Just so we can be like China, a beacon of human rights in a sea oppressors...oh wait!
Ummm standardized test forms and college applications ask for these all the time.
I think postal workers will be compensated enough by getting to go around on Seg-Ways that the US government is going to buy for them. I personally know I would be;)
I wanna win his money!