To learn Spanish, what comes to mind is a standard adventure game, where the conversations you have with people are increasingly in Spanish. In order to get through the game, you basically have to learn the language in context.
For the metabolization process, a very basic 2d puzzle game would work. You have a payload you need to drop in a certain place. You can put "shields" of various compounds or drugs around your payload. Then you drop it into the system and see how close you get to the intended locations, watching it progress as it goes. Higher levels have multiple payloads in one drug. Even higher levels start to take into account side-effects as "bad" payloads that you don't want to reach certain places.
For heart attack rates, use the Sims and add in "heart attack inducing factors" Get students to start choosing between them in an effort to maximize their sim's life. ("No! Don't smoke! Whoops.. now you're eating too much.. don't do that either.. stress? What do you mean stress? Just because I won't let you do anything you little onscreen basta...")
Really, it's not *that* difficult to come up with ideas, the problem seems to be that a lot of educational game designers are just crap game designers in the first place. The trick is that you don't want a game where you "explicitly" learn. If you set the game up to explicitly do anything but be a game, you've failed. What you first need is a good game. Once you have that, you set up the game in such a way that learning is required to excel at it.
Here's a hint though, don't use arcade games. Any game that allows you to get "in the zone" is by definition a poor game for learning. People don't learn when they're in the zone, all they do is maximize their current ability. This is why Math Blaster (in my opinion) completely sucked as a learning program. Fine as a drill program, but to actually teach? Get serious.
If you've got a good patent like that, a lawyer would take it on a contingency basis.
Of course, this still means you might get nothing, but hey, the lawyer would get rich and Goodyear would have to explain to stockbrokers what this huge legal fine was.
So you're suggesting that having listened to his biology teacher doesn't count as "getting the facts"?
Tell me, where do we draw the lines at when we've "gotten the facts"? After all, a biology teacher seems a reasonable place to get the facts on a biological disease.. or maybe that's just me. Of course, if we can't trust the biology teacher, why should we trust the biology books? After all, they're what the teacher likely got the knowledge from. And if we can't trust the books, why should we trust the scientists?
The problem with your position is that you would put us in the place where we need to verify everything with our own two eyes before we take any action at all.. sorry, I just don't have the time for that, and frankly, neither do you.
Now, if he'd have gotten the information from kids in the schoolground, you might have a point. The thing is, he got his bad information from a source he should have been able to trust as having good information. The source is what makes the difference.
Yes, just like the laughably phallic handle on my frying pan, the laughably phallic handle on a tennis racket, or the laughably phallic bannana I had for breakfast today.
Oh come on, I'm sure the handle on your frying pan or tennis racket don't look like this.
And if your bananas do, you should seriously consider shopping somewhere else.
The origial was quite cool. Played it a lot back on the Apple//e.
Top down view, but you could sneak up on SS guards by hiding behind a wall while they walked by, kill them with your knife, then steal their uniform and walk brazenly through room after room of guards -- until you got challenged by another SS guard of course. Then you had to be lucky or had to start running/fighting.
I take it you didn't actually purchase a computer between 1995 and 2000.
Had you done so, you would have found that your choices for purchasing a computer without Windows were extremely limited. And this was no doubt in large part to the anti-competitive OEM agreements that Microsoft foisted upon any company that wanted to sell Windows at all.
But hey, you knew this already and were just trying to troll me, I realize..
Give your missles this and it makes it A) Harder for laser to track precisely B) Harder for laser to create a breach or overheat of fuel.
On the downside, wobble lowers targeting accuracy, but if you're firing ICBMs, you probably have some sort of large yield warhead anyway, so a few hundred meters accuracy isn't going to make a difference.
As a side benefit, wobble will also serve to make interception (even) less likely.
Very nice to start a file transfer, then just drag and drop the tab onto the task-bar and then shut down Opera while your transfer completes.
It's also nice because dragging and dropping a browser tab gives you a browser page taking that can take up less screen real-estate than IE yet still have all your functionality if you've set up your address bar correctly.
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And how do you determine if it was my pollution on my property that harmed your air?
To learn Spanish, what comes to mind is a standard adventure game, where the conversations you have with people are increasingly in Spanish. In order to get through the game, you basically have to learn the language in context.
For the metabolization process, a very basic 2d puzzle game would work. You have a payload you need to drop in a certain place. You can put "shields" of various compounds or drugs around your payload. Then you drop it into the system and see how close you get to the intended locations, watching it progress as it goes. Higher levels have multiple payloads in one drug. Even higher levels start to take into account side-effects as "bad" payloads that you don't want to reach certain places.
For heart attack rates, use the Sims and add in "heart attack inducing factors" Get students to start choosing between them in an effort to maximize their sim's life. ("No! Don't smoke! Whoops.. now you're eating too much.. don't do that either.. stress? What do you mean stress? Just because I won't let you do anything you little onscreen basta...")
Really, it's not *that* difficult to come up with ideas, the problem seems to be that a lot of educational game designers are just crap game designers in the first place. The trick is that you don't want a game where you "explicitly" learn. If you set the game up to explicitly do anything but be a game, you've failed. What you first need is a good game. Once you have that, you set up the game in such a way that learning is required to excel at it.
Here's a hint though, don't use arcade games. Any game that allows you to get "in the zone" is by definition a poor game for learning. People don't learn when they're in the zone, all they do is maximize their current ability. This is why Math Blaster (in my opinion) completely sucked as a learning program. Fine as a drill program, but to actually teach? Get serious.
..file for bankruptcy because you're paying people to do all this while not having a product to put out.
What? You want text to add to that glorious title?
Stupid lame filter.
..is this really the best way to do things?
Perhaps if investors could have been held liable we would not have seen Exxon Valdez or Bhopal.
Yes, this would slow the economy down quite a bit. Then again, I've never been one to agree with "economy uber-alles" anyway.
If you've got a good patent like that, a lawyer would take it on a contingency basis.
Of course, this still means you might get nothing, but hey, the lawyer would get rich and Goodyear would have to explain to stockbrokers what this huge legal fine was.
So you're suggesting that having listened to his biology teacher doesn't count as "getting the facts"?
Tell me, where do we draw the lines at when we've "gotten the facts"? After all, a biology teacher seems a reasonable place to get the facts on a biological disease.. or maybe that's just me. Of course, if we can't trust the biology teacher, why should we trust the biology books? After all, they're what the teacher likely got the knowledge from. And if we can't trust the books, why should we trust the scientists?
The problem with your position is that you would put us in the place where we need to verify everything with our own two eyes before we take any action at all.. sorry, I just don't have the time for that, and frankly, neither do you.
Now, if he'd have gotten the information from kids in the schoolground, you might have a point. The thing is, he got his bad information from a source he should have been able to trust as having good information. The source is what makes the difference.
Joysticks haven't been phallic since the war pilots who came up with the name.
Care to re-think that?
Yes, just like the laughably phallic handle on my frying pan, the laughably phallic handle on a tennis racket, or the laughably phallic bannana I had for breakfast today.
Oh come on, I'm sure the handle on your frying pan or tennis racket don't look like this.
And if your bananas do, you should seriously consider shopping somewhere else.
Sounds like licensing 3 and 4 have been reduced to one version only:
No Access
Easy.. it's called:
"The fine print"
You really think there won't be some way for MS to back out?
Further engineering proof. :)
Material consumption is important.
People can be employed or let go as the need arises, so not as critical.
..unfortunately, the whole Gore/Bush thing is already done. Try again in a year or so.
What they're talking about is Congressional. You know, the guys who actually *write* the laws?
For to accept money to teach means an incentive to make the learning hard and the topic overcomplicated.
Only if you get paid by the hour.
Ender had few advantages over other 'armies' but he always pulled out ahead. Why?
Well, could it be -- and this is just a guess mind you -- could it be that he always pulled out ahead because he's the hero in a work of fiction?
No.. I'm sure that couldn't have had anything to do with it.
You forgot the imaginary portion of your sqrt(-x)
And conquest used to be one of the most significant means of economic advancement throughout history.
We had (until recently) gotten better about that. Why can't we do so about warfare?
seem like a bit of a kludge
Uhh.. isn't that the point of Junkyard Wars?
The origial was quite cool. Played it a lot back on the Apple //e.
Top down view, but you could sneak up on SS guards by hiding behind a wall while they walked by, kill them with your knife, then steal their uniform and walk brazenly through room after room of guards -- until you got challenged by another SS guard of course. Then you had to be lucky or had to start running/fighting.
So, why is it wrong for MS... but alright for Red Hat, Mandrake, etc?
Say it with me..
MO-NO-PO-LY
I take it you didn't actually purchase a computer between 1995 and 2000.
Had you done so, you would have found that your choices for purchasing a computer without Windows were extremely limited. And this was no doubt in large part to the anti-competitive OEM agreements that Microsoft foisted upon any company that wanted to sell Windows at all.
But hey, you knew this already and were just trying to troll me, I realize..
Hence the sig...
"Spin" and "Wobble"
Give your missles this and it makes it
A) Harder for laser to track precisely
B) Harder for laser to create a breach or overheat of fuel.
On the downside, wobble lowers targeting accuracy, but if you're firing ICBMs, you probably have some sort of large yield warhead anyway, so a few hundred meters accuracy isn't going to make a difference.
As a side benefit, wobble will also serve to make interception (even) less likely.
..but it's probably the most action a /. junkie will have.
Overwhelming weapons begats assymetric warfare techniques.
This has been shown to be true in every region where it occurs, Israel, Chechnya, America.
And too often, assymetric warfare techniques mean a concentration on the civilian populace as victims.
The tabs are all drag and droppable.
Very nice to start a file transfer, then just drag and drop the tab onto the task-bar and then shut down Opera while your transfer completes.
It's also nice because dragging and dropping a browser tab gives you a browser page taking that can take up less screen real-estate than IE yet still have all your functionality if you've set up your address bar correctly.