I am acting like a 15 year old and my point is not well thought-out or has simple flaws.
OR
I am missing something that is obvious to anyone who has any knowledge of today's 15 year olds.
In either case, you don't explain either what the problem with my argument is or what I am missing.
The only two points I get is that teenagers are argumentive (but then so are adults) or that you don't have enough time in class to waste time (but you do find the time to use "rhetorical devices frequently").
The rest is just you going on about how teaching is personally fulfilling. Great. But what does that have to do with anything I posted or the fact that you put me into one of two pigeon holes?
>In practice, the idea that satellites can read license plates is a myth. See here.
Then you quote someone's faq;
>Can spy satellites actually read automobile license plates? >Probably not. They most certainly can tell how
"Probably not" does not mean that its not true (a myth).
There are alot of technical problems with high resolution pictures from space, but think about this; the Hubble Telescope was sent into space to avoid atmospheric distortion. Yet military pictures looking the other way (space to earth) this distortion is non-existant, yet it should be there. Makes you wonder if the top-secret satalities have figured other technical problems.
"Now, imagine being a science teacher with a classroom full of 15-year old students who believe the television accounts of the face on Mars, cities on the Moon, alien autopsies, etc., and you are teaching your unit on space and astronomy. A careful excursion through the characteristics of the planets and their moons interests your students; the red spot on Jupiter would hold at least 3 Earths, a cool factoid, but it doesn't grab them. The face on Mars does. And this was what I discussed with the science teacher at NSTA. "
Have you've ever thought it is the failing of teachers, not of the students or tv producers? If these shows are wrong, prove it to them. Show the students how to questions these things. You could talk about media motivation, about what other scientists points of view are. You can talk about past things which were thought that were wrong. There are a lot of things that a teacher can do. Don't blame the student for being a weak teacher.
>And you still think the US is such a great economic power?
Actually, yes.
Do you think that a weak country could even begin to get close to their size of what they owe the rest of the world? US interest rates are insanely low (~1%) and they still lend them money. Not a sign of what people think is a weak country.
>If you start making enough money using things that you don't legally own, you're going to eventually get busted, whether you're stealing electricity, or stealing software.
Stealing electrictity removes revenue from a big corporation (usually with ties with the government). Stealing software is not viewed in the same way in third world countries where they openly sell pirated software/movies openly.
HalfLife was the perfect game until you got to the end and there was the jumping puzzle from hell. The audio and visual effects and different creatures created the alien feeling. The jumping puzzles added nothing to this.
To this day I still have no idea what the level designers where thinking. It had nothing to do with the rest of the game, it was boring and tedious (Woops you were 1 second off, reload and repeat).
Today, Far Cry has point saves (You can only save at certain points). Why would they do this on a PC game? Why do game designers force you to play something in one sitting?
When its fun, its a challenge. When its not, it gets me out of the "game" mode and start thinking about how poor the level designers were when they had to resort to making things difficult which has nothing to do with the game or having fun.
>Every technology comes along and integrates itself into our society... so far.
The chance of a global nuclear war occuring is much less than it was during the 80's because of pro-active action, not by saying "those bombs will eventually be integrated into society"
One day, one of my colleagues came to me and asked (absolutely furious) " Why do DON'T you send me gay porn on my email address? ".
Then the 70's pr0n music started...
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>Why does it matter if it is art or not?
Because it gives a legitmate name to something.
Is it a piece of retro-art referencing the state of forced maturation of the post-GenX youth in today's modern society or is it a Fisher-Price toy from Toy's R Us that goes "whooop!"?
>The server wouldn't pause for you so before I could even load the dungeon my guy would die.
If its the end boss of ActII, then it was a problem with the coding.
Lots of people had that issue because you meet a boss in a small area. There was a patch that preloaded the small area before you went in which helped alot of people.
It happens all the time. Why would you buy a DVD of something you already saw? Pay $20 for commentaries and a behind the scenes documentary?
>seeing that it's poor quality and then (justifibily) never plunking down $20 for a crappy movie
I assume that you mean poor quality as in image/sound. Do you think that anyone who has seen a movie in a theater thinks that its normal to be blockly?
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What are you trying to say?
I am acting like a 15 year old and my point is not well thought-out or has simple flaws.
OR
I am missing something that is obvious to anyone who has any knowledge of today's 15 year olds.
In either case, you don't explain either what the problem with my argument is or what I am missing.
The only two points I get is that teenagers are argumentive (but then so are adults) or that you don't have enough time in class to waste time (but you do find the time to use "rhetorical devices frequently").
The rest is just you going on about how teaching is personally fulfilling. Great. But what does that have to do with anything I posted or the fact that you put me into one of two pigeon holes?
>In practice, the idea that satellites can read license plates is a myth. See here.
Then you quote someone's faq;
>Can spy satellites actually read automobile license plates?
>Probably not. They most certainly can tell how
"Probably not" does not mean that its not true (a myth).
There are alot of technical problems with high resolution pictures from space, but think about this; the Hubble Telescope was sent into space to avoid atmospheric distortion. Yet military pictures looking the other way (space to earth) this distortion is non-existant, yet it should be there. Makes you wonder if the top-secret satalities have figured other technical problems.
>"Hey, we found a watery brine on Mars,"
I'm not even sure if you said "Hey, we found a watery brine on Oprah" you would get a different response.
Here is the key part of the article.
"Now, imagine being a science teacher with a classroom full of 15-year old students who believe the television accounts of the face on Mars, cities on the Moon, alien autopsies, etc., and you are teaching your unit on space and astronomy. A careful excursion through the characteristics of the planets and their moons interests your students; the red spot on Jupiter would hold at least 3 Earths, a cool factoid, but it doesn't grab them. The face on Mars does. And this was what I discussed with the science teacher at NSTA. "
Have you've ever thought it is the failing of teachers, not of the students or tv producers? If these shows are wrong, prove it to them. Show the students how to questions these things. You could talk about media motivation, about what other scientists points of view are. You can talk about past things which were thought that were wrong. There are a lot of things that a teacher can do. Don't blame the student for being a weak teacher.
>And you still think the US is such a great economic power?
Actually, yes.
Do you think that a weak country could even begin to get close to their size of what they owe the rest of the world? US interest rates are insanely low (~1%) and they still lend them money. Not a sign of what people think is a weak country.
>Two countries that simply refuse to be bullied by anybody.
No, thats the US. China and Russia are strong but nothing compaired to the US.
>China, as we have seen went out of their way to develop an alternative DVD standard
So did BestBuy.
>And they almost went their own way on WiFi too.
The US has gone their own way with alot of standards. They "did", not "almost".
>economy of Europe is quickly becoming simmilar to the economy of the US
US vs. an entire contient. What does this show?
How about North America vs. the Europe? Then its ~12 trillion vs 9.5 trillion.
>Europe is coming up fast
How are "they coming up fast"? What are you using to base this on?
>If you start making enough money using things that you don't legally own, you're going to eventually get busted, whether you're stealing electricity, or stealing software.
Stealing electrictity removes revenue from a big corporation (usually with ties with the government). Stealing software is not viewed in the same way in third world countries where they openly sell pirated software/movies openly.
>Everyone I've spoken to who played it agreed that the only way through was:
This is pure poor game design.
It effectively the level designer playing a game of "Guess what I'm thinking."
And its never clever or fantasitc once you figured it out, its just annoying.
HalfLife was the perfect game until you got to the end and there was the jumping puzzle from hell. The audio and visual effects and different creatures created the alien feeling. The jumping puzzles added nothing to this.
To this day I still have no idea what the level designers where thinking. It had nothing to do with the rest of the game, it was boring and tedious (Woops you were 1 second off, reload and repeat).
Today, Far Cry has point saves (You can only save at certain points). Why would they do this on a PC game? Why do game designers force you to play something in one sitting?
When its fun, its a challenge. When its not, it gets me out of the "game" mode and start thinking about how poor the level designers were when they had to resort to making things difficult which has nothing to do with the game or having fun.
Worms/virus/spyware/"things that messup your computer" will not go away just because a patch is easily available.
Its up to the end-user (Windows or Linux) to protect themselves. It doesn't matter how much people or organizations scream and push security issues.
And Windows Update is free.
>can they perfectly model a woman's personality?
I think you are using pr0n wrong.
Why would I care about someone named Kmitnic? Is his last name starting with K suppose to be special?
It could be your DVD/CD drives.
To find what it is just start unplugging devices (Turn off computer, unplug, turn on, repeat as needed).
Thats how I found that my CRT monitor makes more sound than my computer.
>5 years from now they'll be restating their earnings for 2005 because of some black voodoo in the finance dept
And why does this effect if I use them for searching or not?
>Not playing Cassandra here but we've just been pretty lucky so far...
I totally agree. Its just that even in the worse case, there aren't multiple nuclear bombs pointed at the majority of the world's population.
>Every technology comes along and integrates itself into our society ... so far.
The chance of a global nuclear war occuring is much less than it was during the 80's because of pro-active action, not by saying "those bombs will eventually be integrated into society"
If we outlaw nanotech, only mad scientists will have nanotech.
Like a dream I had last night...
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One day, one of my colleagues came to me and asked (absolutely furious) " Why do DON'T you send me gay porn on my email address? ".
Then the 70's pr0n music started
>Why does it matter if it is art or not?
Because it gives a legitmate name to something.
Is it a piece of retro-art referencing the state of forced maturation of the post-GenX youth in today's modern society or is it a Fisher-Price toy from Toy's R Us that goes "whooop!"?
"Independent research analyst META Group found that Linux costs are not lower than Windows."
Such conflicting views.
"The goal of the game [D&D] would be to see who could obtain the most erotic pleasure"
No, thats the Internet.
>The server wouldn't pause for you so before I could even load the dungeon my guy would die.
If its the end boss of ActII, then it was a problem with the coding.
Lots of people had that issue because you meet a boss in a small area. There was a patch that preloaded the small area before you went in which helped alot of people.
Is it a "bug" or a "performance" issue?
>While that probably does happen to some extent
It happens all the time. Why would you buy a DVD of something you already saw? Pay $20 for commentaries and a behind the scenes documentary?
>seeing that it's poor quality and then (justifibily) never plunking down $20 for a crappy movie
I assume that you mean poor quality as in image/sound. Do you think that anyone who has seen a movie in a theater thinks that its normal to be blockly?
>The second is downloading, where consumers want to see a movie (probably poor quality) before plunking down $20 to buy the DVD.
What about when I download a movie, its in excellent quality (or even half decent), and then he never plunks down the $20?