Smallville has solved the problem of invulnerability by introducing relationship drama and emotional damage. It's very teen friendly and has a hot cast but basically it's Clark's relationship with his parents, friends, etc that make or break the show. I think Buffy the Vampire Slayer did this best. Smallville's not as good.
Physical fighting and damage are passe especially for a superhero movie. The trailer I saw had a voiceover from Jor-El about why he sent Supes to Earth. I hope the movie is more about that kind of thing than about explosions.
Although the majority of the draft Kansas standards could proudly serve as a model for other states to emulate, there are significant errors regarding the theory of evolution. These inaccuracies are of such importance that they compromise the Kansas State Board of Education's (KSBE) stated vision and mission for these Standards, not to mention all of science.
that's hard core
I'm glad to see Mr. Padilla is not mincing words on this.
Lack of good teachers? Excuse me but current education reform from the federal government is focused on getting kids and money out of public schools. This is accomplished by creating a set of standards that seem reasonable, then failing schools on the basis of their students with special needs. No community deserves a failing school, right? They deserve vouchers.
Go back to warehousing and you'd see the numbers change. No one wants to go back to warehousing special needs kids that's like the stone age. Part of the above theories are my own concoction and the rest is from a professor I had last year. He's been in education going on 50 years.
There's a risk associated with speeding that corresponds to the fine you get. This is why it's a higher fine for worse speeding. No one's been able to do a good job measuring the cost to society when I download a movie and don't buy it. I admit that it costs someone something when I don't go to the theater or don't rent the movie. By saving their attention for egregious cases, IP owners have been able to propose really big fines, probably greater by far than their actual loss. If someone finds a way to get an actual number for the loss per MB or loss per song or per movie or something I think that would help.
I agree with both of yall. I think, however, that OP might have meant that emulation from a company like MS in a case like this is a sucky way out. If you get MAME and a ROM and it doesn't work perfectly you're not likely to get more than annoyed by it. You're not out $300 and you don't have an easy target like Microsoft to blame for it. At least that's how I'd feel.
The essence of roleplaying is making choices about characters. That seems broad but my idea of character is, I guess, narrow in the context of video games. Character is about what you do and say in a situation, and is not about combat abilities or spell damage. The RPG crowd uses the word very differently from the number crunchers.
I myself am more of a number cruncher and I'm always after that next item to increase my armor value or critical hit rate. But I don't pretend I'm playing an RPG. These current MMO games (I've played Lineage II and WOW) can be played as an RPG or not it's more like a framework and what you're playing in it depends on you.
I had a theory that NCLB is really designed to take money out of the public school system. I'm just a teacher though and have little knowledge/decision making authority about education policy so I didn't put much weight in my theory. Last summer, though, I took a class in research methods and was surprised to hear the professor (a man of 40 years' standing in many levels of public education) advance the same theory as though it was pretty much common knowledge.
Do you know, for example, that students with severe special needs take the same tests as everyone else? How many specialists does that take, and how does that affect teacher-student ratios in the rest of the building? Staffing funds are not unlimited. Do you understand how much emphasis is placed on testing and Adequate Yearly Progress on high stakes tests? I've been reading some of the other posts about how to improve education and they all seem to rely on abandoning high stakes tests. There are many ways to evaluate progress and tell if someone should pass or fail a class, and if they fail I'm all for them having to repeat. It can be done without reliance on tests that determine (sometimes all by themselves) whether you pass or fail, and were created by people who haven't taught in years.
Many of the changes proposed are more like what happens in private schools which have less detailed oversight than public schools. Increase the federal and state government's role in schools to the point where education is impossible (we're not there yet) and people will get fed up and look to private schools (hello vouchers) as the answer. Maybe rightly so kids don't get 2 tries at their formative years.
It's too bad you posted AC because now I can't be a fan. You've summed up a big problem in education reform which is that people making decisions believe in their expertise when they shouldn't. Some people (and you can spot them right away) enter teaching in order to do something else. There's nothing wrong with being career-minded but these people want to "get 5 years of teaching under their belt" so they can work for the state or go into administration. I guess they don't realize that the farther they get from those five years the less relevant they will be.
It's a rare administrator who understands that you know your job better than they do.
I heard about this on Morning Edition on NPR. My impression from the story was that Citibank wanted this shipped with minimal fanfare. If it looked like just another package no one would think to steal it. Security through obscurity and here's some proof that it doesn't work.
All in all, teaching is not an easy job. Teaching kids to think, rather than giving them all the answers is tricky.
Measuring the ability to think is also difficult, and so most school systems and state exams don't bother with it. Part of what's needed is novelty in the test items, or just a different type of test. Even more difficult: getting parents and students to go for a test with items that aren't exactly the same in form and content as things they've seen before.
Also someone should compare the length of the school days and school years in different countries with whatever test results the study used.
I guess it's because they conceived the matrix as 3 movies, and not a live action show, a cartoon series, a board game, a roleplaying game, a series of novels, a comic book, a collectible card game, and um...webquest...xanga
There are other franchises whose futures seem to lie in MMO games (IMHO star trek) and if they decided that the game was going to be the primary location of continuity events, they could create some really compelling stuff for fans.
The best thing about these movies for me has been how they recall the older movies. That's why episode II was better than I because we had things like the imperial march, and some stormtrooper-esque dudes in it. I haven't seen ROTS yet either but I'm guessing that it will contain even more of the old music, sounds (music and dialogue), and sights from the older movies. With an episode before Ep. I, this would not make logical sense.
I don't see anything about it at wikipedia but it was my understanding of credit unions that they do rely on banks for certain things. In that case, are credit unions as a whole exposed to this problem? Can anyone clarify?
Our school system recently (this year) went from SSN as the student identifier to a 5 digit random ID number. These are used for things such as attendance records, academic records, etc. I think one reason we do have (and we do) students' SSN is for communicating with other school systems who may have their own ID number scheme. Or maybe hospitals. I'm not saying this justifies the school having all this info but that's probably one reason.
That's a hilarious video I've watched it a few times now so a couple of things stuck out at me:
That group should have known that the appropriate response to a bad pull is to let the puller die to save the group.
They should have known that Divine Intervention kills the caster to protect someone else, who is immobilized for 30 seconds as a tradeoff for being immune to damage and ignored by monsters. The leader called that tactic before Leeroy got up and ran in so it wasn't just desperation.
32.33% (repeating of course) chance of survival? wtf?
I've been in groups where wipes could have been avoided too but not at level 60 in one of the end game areas.
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Smallville has solved the problem of invulnerability by introducing relationship drama and emotional damage. It's very teen friendly and has a hot cast but basically it's Clark's relationship with his parents, friends, etc that make or break the show. I think Buffy the Vampire Slayer did this best. Smallville's not as good.
Physical fighting and damage are passe especially for a superhero movie. The trailer I saw had a voiceover from Jor-El about why he sent Supes to Earth. I hope the movie is more about that kind of thing than about explosions.
Someone find a patent on wiki and sue. You know you want to.
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that's hard coreI'm glad to see Mr. Padilla is not mincing words on this.
Lack of good teachers? Excuse me but current education reform from the federal government is focused on getting kids and money out of public schools. This is accomplished by creating a set of standards that seem reasonable, then failing schools on the basis of their students with special needs. No community deserves a failing school, right? They deserve vouchers.
Go back to warehousing and you'd see the numbers change. No one wants to go back to warehousing special needs kids that's like the stone age. Part of the above theories are my own concoction and the rest is from a professor I had last year. He's been in education going on 50 years.
Disclaimer: I teach high school.
There's a risk associated with speeding that corresponds to the fine you get. This is why it's a higher fine for worse speeding. No one's been able to do a good job measuring the cost to society when I download a movie and don't buy it. I admit that it costs someone something when I don't go to the theater or don't rent the movie. By saving their attention for egregious cases, IP owners have been able to propose really big fines, probably greater by far than their actual loss. If someone finds a way to get an actual number for the loss per MB or loss per song or per movie or something I think that would help.
Here is the community managers' answer to your question. Developers may have something different to say though:
w ow-general&t=4449108&s=blizzard&tmp=1#blizzard
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.aspx?fn=
I agree with both of yall. I think, however, that OP might have meant that emulation from a company like MS in a case like this is a sucky way out. If you get MAME and a ROM and it doesn't work perfectly you're not likely to get more than annoyed by it. You're not out $300 and you don't have an easy target like Microsoft to blame for it. At least that's how I'd feel.
The essence of roleplaying is making choices about characters. That seems broad but my idea of character is, I guess, narrow in the context of video games. Character is about what you do and say in a situation, and is not about combat abilities or spell damage. The RPG crowd uses the word very differently from the number crunchers.
I myself am more of a number cruncher and I'm always after that next item to increase my armor value or critical hit rate. But I don't pretend I'm playing an RPG. These current MMO games (I've played Lineage II and WOW) can be played as an RPG or not it's more like a framework and what you're playing in it depends on you.
They seem to be testing at my school
I had a theory that NCLB is really designed to take money out of the public school system. I'm just a teacher though and have little knowledge/decision making authority about education policy so I didn't put much weight in my theory. Last summer, though, I took a class in research methods and was surprised to hear the professor (a man of 40 years' standing in many levels of public education) advance the same theory as though it was pretty much common knowledge.
Do you know, for example, that students with severe special needs take the same tests as everyone else? How many specialists does that take, and how does that affect teacher-student ratios in the rest of the building? Staffing funds are not unlimited. Do you understand how much emphasis is placed on testing and Adequate Yearly Progress on high stakes tests? I've been reading some of the other posts about how to improve education and they all seem to rely on abandoning high stakes tests. There are many ways to evaluate progress and tell if someone should pass or fail a class, and if they fail I'm all for them having to repeat. It can be done without reliance on tests that determine (sometimes all by themselves) whether you pass or fail, and were created by people who haven't taught in years.
Many of the changes proposed are more like what happens in private schools which have less detailed oversight than public schools. Increase the federal and state government's role in schools to the point where education is impossible (we're not there yet) and people will get fed up and look to private schools (hello vouchers) as the answer. Maybe rightly so kids don't get 2 tries at their formative years.
It's too bad you posted AC because now I can't be a fan. You've summed up a big problem in education reform which is that people making decisions believe in their expertise when they shouldn't. Some people (and you can spot them right away) enter teaching in order to do something else. There's nothing wrong with being career-minded but these people want to "get 5 years of teaching under their belt" so they can work for the state or go into administration. I guess they don't realize that the farther they get from those five years the less relevant they will be. It's a rare administrator who understands that you know your job better than they do.
I think I've discovered a simplification they could do.
I heard about this on Morning Edition on NPR. My impression from the story was that Citibank wanted this shipped with minimal fanfare. If it looked like just another package no one would think to steal it. Security through obscurity and here's some proof that it doesn't work.
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Not to mention "Keyboard are Havens for Supergerms"
Some months ago, bin Laden made a videotaped statement outlining some of those things you mentioned. I remember reading the translated text of this:
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/79C6AF22- 98FB-4A1C-B21F-2BC36E87F61F.htm
and when I looked around at major media articles about it they mostly discounted him as insane and raving.
Measuring the ability to think is also difficult, and so most school systems and state exams don't bother with it. Part of what's needed is novelty in the test items, or just a different type of test. Even more difficult: getting parents and students to go for a test with items that aren't exactly the same in form and content as things they've seen before.
Also someone should compare the length of the school days and school years in different countries with whatever test results the study used.
It sounds like you want to play Lineage II except the character models are a lot less than original
I guess it's because they conceived the matrix as 3 movies, and not a live action show, a cartoon series, a board game, a roleplaying game, a series of novels, a comic book, a collectible card game, and um...webquest...xanga
There are other franchises whose futures seem to lie in MMO games (IMHO star trek) and if they decided that the game was going to be the primary location of continuity events, they could create some really compelling stuff for fans.
The best thing about these movies for me has been how they recall the older movies. That's why episode II was better than I because we had things like the imperial march, and some stormtrooper-esque dudes in it. I haven't seen ROTS yet either but I'm guessing that it will contain even more of the old music, sounds (music and dialogue), and sights from the older movies. With an episode before Ep. I, this would not make logical sense.
But wait.
I don't see anything about it at wikipedia but it was my understanding of credit unions that they do rely on banks for certain things. In that case, are credit unions as a whole exposed to this problem? Can anyone clarify?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit_union
Our school system recently (this year) went from SSN as the student identifier to a 5 digit random ID number. These are used for things such as attendance records, academic records, etc. I think one reason we do have (and we do) students' SSN is for communicating with other school systems who may have their own ID number scheme. Or maybe hospitals. I'm not saying this justifies the school having all this info but that's probably one reason.
hehehe I was half thinking that while I wrote that post but my desire to be a know it all got the better of me.
Thanks for that other link :)
That's a hilarious video I've watched it a few times now so a couple of things stuck out at me:
- That group should have known that the appropriate response to a bad pull is to let the puller die to save the group.
- They should have known that Divine Intervention kills the caster to protect someone else, who is immobilized for 30 seconds as a tradeoff for being immune to damage and ignored by monsters. The leader called that tactic before Leeroy got up and ran in so it wasn't just desperation.
- 32.33% (repeating of course) chance of survival? wtf?
I've been in groups where wipes could have been avoided too but not at level 60 in one of the end game areas.touche maybe I should have said "futile"