Social-Darwinism is likely like regular Darwinism. The things you expect to be most useful aren't necessarily the ones that work best. That competition-driven asshole, for example, may manage to do well at work, but without the introspection and contemplation to understand that a balance between life and work is needed for sustainable growth in both career and life, he'll burn all his bridges, and burn himself out, and ignite his chances and doing any better for himself, thus removing him from the social genepool.
I agree wholeheartedly. My first few calculus courses used this massive textbook with literally hundreds of problems I could keep hammering through until I got the process hammered into my mind. After I finished those problems, I didn't have any more problems with my fundamentals. I can still do those fundamental things with my eyes closed(or open, or while bungee jumping).
Later, the classes started getting dodgy, with very few examples, no textbook, and only 1-2 questions to actually apply the maths. I was getting As in the earlier courses, but I barely managed to scrape through the later classes, not because the maths got too difficult, but because I didn't get enough chances to apply them. Sure, the very basest concepts were there, but without applying them enough times and seeing the places which could cause problems, actually using them became impractical.
It's frustrating, because it represents a hole in my skill-set. I've been meaning to borrow some advanced calculus books from some other engineers where I work so I can finally get my skills up to where I believe it's my duty to have them, rather than the level where I can get more than 51% in a course.
That's true. To be perfectly fair though, with that problem solving skill, I learned how to do useful maths, which I then learned to apply to real-world problems. You'd be shocked to discover how many calculators you can afford to buy with the sort of salary you make solving problems. I could work it out for you, but I'm too lazy.
Maybe you should finish learning English before you bother learning a new language. The teacher could contribute to the situation, or, more likely, the teacher could attribute this to 'not being challenged'.
I know, don't be a pedant, don't get so caught up on semantics - but really, if you're going to use a phrase, shouldn't you know what it is first?
As far as I'm concerned, you're an adult by college. Either adapt, change Majors, or quit. By that point, you're an adult, and the onus is on you, not them, to ensure you're going to make it through.
I was getting like a 15% in one course back in college going into the finals. I did poorly on the assignments, I botched the mid-terms, and I was crucified on the practical final. I was fully prepared to fail, but by then I was also spending hours and hours and hours every night studying(From the midterms onwards. I failed the practical final from stress/pressure, not from incompetence). I managed to swing a godlike mark on the final and passed, but it was only because of hard work and luck. If I failed, it doesn't matter if it was because my learning style was different than the teaching style, or because my background was different. I would have failed, and as an adult, I would have had to accept my failure, because I'm adult.
Of course, I was in a program where nearly 75% failed out and dropped out in the first couple terms, so it's not like I would have been special. In certain professions, you can't pussyfoot around. You either know your shit or you don't, and if you don't, you either learn it or you find another profession.
This is great. I had no idea there was something this stupid in the world. I particularly liked this:
-"Gas-brake dippin'" - Driving while quickly alternating between stomping on the gas and the brake. Also known as "Raping both your vehicle and our mother earth fashionably".
-"Scrapers" - Vintage four-door American sedans with whistling pipes, oversized spinning rims and a powerful stereo system. They hang low in the back and send off sparks when one is "gas-brake dippin". Also known as "Overly accessorised shit-box cars that last a mile before their gas falls out"
Who says it's a left/right wing thing? Who is to say the school board isn't just relenting to demands from parents that their children face no possibility of failure?
If that's the case, you could have both a teacher and a parent who want to turn the middle east into glass, regularly lynch homosexuals and abortion doctors, and think that FDR destroyed the country, but the parent says "Fuck you, you're not failing my kid, I'll get you fired and make your life hell if you even try", and a teacher who says "Fine. It's not my kid. I don't care if your bloodline goes to the trailer park because your kid is illiterate.
Joke's on you! I worked hard, payed my dues, finally graduated college and got a good job, and now I pay good money to live in SOMEONE ELSE'S moms basement!
Just because they're a loss leader doesn't mean you want to ignore the money you drop into it.
Erm...Unless you're Sony.
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I have to call bullshit on the 'upgrade treadmill'. If you bought a top-of-the-line PC years ago, odds are the only thing you'd need to be ready to play just about anything is a 100 dollar video card. If you bought a top of the line Geforce 3 when the XBox came out, you would have been in good shape more or less until the 360 came out(Lower resolutions, perhaps, but nothing lower than your xbox would have to pull), and if you bought a 7800 or whatever last year, you'll probably be in good shape for quite a while yet. I'm not going to pretend that the silliness of the 8800 isn't going to add a layer of stuff you can't use, but let's face it, the PS3 vs. the XBox 360 will be the same.
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NOTE: Publishers develop games for where there is a market, and if the market isn't on Vista, new games won't be developed for Vista.
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Maybe you should lurk moar. Modern video cards can output to a video output, and modern sound cards are thrilled when they can output a digital signal. For example, I've got my computer hooked to my 6.1 rig right now. No drivers involved, just "Plug in here, plug in here, set your media unit to video 2, play away with 6.1 stereo and hdtv video"
I'm not going to pretend I disagree with you, because I don't. I've got a PS2 and an XBox hooked up(I was going to school during the last console generation, so I've got a lot of gaming to catch up on), and honestly, on there I don't have to worry about whether some asshole in accounting put some spyware-like copy protection on the DVD, because I just put in the disk and go. I don't have to worry about losing the CD-Key and losing the ability to play a game I paid good money for because the company thinks I'm a thief, because you just put the disk in and go. I don't need to worry about whether the system specs quoted on the box are blatantly wrong (I'm looking at you, Oblivion!), because I just put the disk in and go. On the X-Box, I don't neccessarily even need to put the disk in. If I like the game a lot, I can rip it to the hard drive and play with faster load times(It's modded, but for apps, not for piracy), so it's just go.
I just want to make sure you're knocking PC gaming for the right reasons.
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Is performance really an issue right now? I mean, I'm running a 100 dollar video card, and I can play any game on the market at a pretty damned decent resolution with the shiny stuff turned on.
If I opened a cyber-cafe, I'd use a linux machine with a kiosk-like setup.
That way you can eliminate the viruses and malware as a source of grief on one end, and you don't have idiot users costing you more than they're earning you because they're breaking your machines all the time with their bonsai buddy crap.
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Social-Darwinism is likely like regular Darwinism. The things you expect to be most useful aren't necessarily the ones that work best. That competition-driven asshole, for example, may manage to do well at work, but without the introspection and contemplation to understand that a balance between life and work is needed for sustainable growth in both career and life, he'll burn all his bridges, and burn himself out, and ignite his chances and doing any better for himself, thus removing him from the social genepool.
Is your post satire?
I agree wholeheartedly. My first few calculus courses used this massive textbook with literally hundreds of problems I could keep hammering through until I got the process hammered into my mind. After I finished those problems, I didn't have any more problems with my fundamentals. I can still do those fundamental things with my eyes closed(or open, or while bungee jumping).
Later, the classes started getting dodgy, with very few examples, no textbook, and only 1-2 questions to actually apply the maths. I was getting As in the earlier courses, but I barely managed to scrape through the later classes, not because the maths got too difficult, but because I didn't get enough chances to apply them. Sure, the very basest concepts were there, but without applying them enough times and seeing the places which could cause problems, actually using them became impractical.
It's frustrating, because it represents a hole in my skill-set. I've been meaning to borrow some advanced calculus books from some other engineers where I work so I can finally get my skills up to where I believe it's my duty to have them, rather than the level where I can get more than 51% in a course.
That's true. To be perfectly fair though, with that problem solving skill, I learned how to do useful maths, which I then learned to apply to real-world problems. You'd be shocked to discover how many calculators you can afford to buy with the sort of salary you make solving problems. I could work it out for you, but I'm too lazy.
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Asia is a big place. In China, for example, teachers have a quota, and thus will pass students who would fail in more meritocratic countries.
"The teacher contributes this to"
Maybe you should finish learning English before you bother learning a new language. The teacher could contribute to the situation, or, more likely, the teacher could attribute this to 'not being challenged'.
I know, don't be a pedant, don't get so caught up on semantics - but really, if you're going to use a phrase, shouldn't you know what it is first?
As far as I'm concerned, you're an adult by college. Either adapt, change Majors, or quit. By that point, you're an adult, and the onus is on you, not them, to ensure you're going to make it through.
I was getting like a 15% in one course back in college going into the finals. I did poorly on the assignments, I botched the mid-terms, and I was crucified on the practical final. I was fully prepared to fail, but by then I was also spending hours and hours and hours every night studying(From the midterms onwards. I failed the practical final from stress/pressure, not from incompetence). I managed to swing a godlike mark on the final and passed, but it was only because of hard work and luck. If I failed, it doesn't matter if it was because my learning style was different than the teaching style, or because my background was different. I would have failed, and as an adult, I would have had to accept my failure, because I'm adult.
Of course, I was in a program where nearly 75% failed out and dropped out in the first couple terms, so it's not like I would have been special. In certain professions, you can't pussyfoot around. You either know your shit or you don't, and if you don't, you either learn it or you find another profession.
This is great. I had no idea there was something this stupid in the world. I particularly liked this:
-"Gas-brake dippin'" - Driving while quickly alternating between stomping on the gas and the brake. Also known as "Raping both your vehicle and our mother earth fashionably".
-"Scrapers" - Vintage four-door American sedans with whistling pipes, oversized spinning rims and a powerful stereo system. They hang low in the back and send off sparks when one is "gas-brake dippin". Also known as "Overly accessorised shit-box cars that last a mile before their gas falls out"
Who says it's a left/right wing thing? Who is to say the school board isn't just relenting to demands from parents that their children face no possibility of failure?
If that's the case, you could have both a teacher and a parent who want to turn the middle east into glass, regularly lynch homosexuals and abortion doctors, and think that FDR destroyed the country, but the parent says "Fuck you, you're not failing my kid, I'll get you fired and make your life hell if you even try", and a teacher who says "Fine. It's not my kid. I don't care if your bloodline goes to the trailer park because your kid is illiterate.
The president's unfit you must acquit 'cause the glove doesn't fit over Saddam's naughty bit.
Joke's on you! I worked hard, payed my dues, finally graduated college and got a good job, and now I pay good money to live in SOMEONE ELSE'S moms basement!
The units are for humans. The computer knows the entire number.
Your post is redundant, uninformative, unimaginative, and redundant.
I know I worry about viruses on linux.
"Oh! My....erm...home directory with no executables in it to speak of........."
If you knew the deal before you signed up, why the hell are you making a stink when the cheap period finally ends?
Just because they're a loss leader doesn't mean you want to ignore the money you drop into it.
Erm...Unless you're Sony.
I have to call bullshit on the 'upgrade treadmill'. If you bought a top-of-the-line PC years ago, odds are the only thing you'd need to be ready to play just about anything is a 100 dollar video card. If you bought a top of the line Geforce 3 when the XBox came out, you would have been in good shape more or less until the 360 came out(Lower resolutions, perhaps, but nothing lower than your xbox would have to pull), and if you bought a 7800 or whatever last year, you'll probably be in good shape for quite a while yet. I'm not going to pretend that the silliness of the 8800 isn't going to add a layer of stuff you can't use, but let's face it, the PS3 vs. the XBox 360 will be the same.
NOTE: Publishers develop games for where there is a market, and if the market isn't on Vista, new games won't be developed for Vista.
Maybe you should lurk moar. Modern video cards can output to a video output, and modern sound cards are thrilled when they can output a digital signal. For example, I've got my computer hooked to my 6.1 rig right now. No drivers involved, just "Plug in here, plug in here, set your media unit to video 2, play away with 6.1 stereo and hdtv video"
I'm not going to pretend I disagree with you, because I don't. I've got a PS2 and an XBox hooked up(I was going to school during the last console generation, so I've got a lot of gaming to catch up on), and honestly, on there I don't have to worry about whether some asshole in accounting put some spyware-like copy protection on the DVD, because I just put in the disk and go. I don't have to worry about losing the CD-Key and losing the ability to play a game I paid good money for because the company thinks I'm a thief, because you just put the disk in and go. I don't need to worry about whether the system specs quoted on the box are blatantly wrong (I'm looking at you, Oblivion!), because I just put the disk in and go. On the X-Box, I don't neccessarily even need to put the disk in. If I like the game a lot, I can rip it to the hard drive and play with faster load times(It's modded, but for apps, not for piracy), so it's just go.
I just want to make sure you're knocking PC gaming for the right reasons.
Is performance really an issue right now? I mean, I'm running a 100 dollar video card, and I can play any game on the market at a pretty damned decent resolution with the shiny stuff turned on.
If I opened a cyber-cafe, I'd use a linux machine with a kiosk-like setup.
That way you can eliminate the viruses and malware as a source of grief on one end, and you don't have idiot users costing you more than they're earning you because they're breaking your machines all the time with their bonsai buddy crap.
The reason is simple. The reason is your mom is so fat she sat on a rainbow and skittles popped out.
You gain the priviledge of it being even easier for MS to force you to buy another copy! Yaaaay!
(Yeah, when XP becomes useless, I think I'll be using Ubuntu.)
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