So if a colony on Mars won't protect us from ALL disasters, only some, its not worth it?
I didn't say such a thing. In fact I didn't disagree that we should colonise Mars. Why argue with someone who agrees with you? I simply indended to point out that yes, we should colonise Mars and as soon as possible, but that musn't be the be-all end-all of the discussion. If the "perpetual survival of the human race" is to be our motivating factor the implications are that Mars will not be enough.
Having a colony on Mars would not save the human race were the sun to be destroyed, for example. While scientists can/predict/ its heat death several billions of years into the future, that is a prediction and who knows how long it will/really/ burn. Additionally, large enough collisions could destroy the sun, and if a large enough scattering of asteroids passed through the solar system, both Mars and Earth could be wiped out.
the warranty passage you quote explicitly qualifies the memory as "customer-installable" when the mac mini page clearly states that the memory is NOT "customer-installable".
Gold is absolutely not a big part of the endgame (as we know it right now, at least). Besides, this is not a server hack or artificially created wealth, somebody is still getting the actual items off of actual creeps.
Personally I do think that those who violate the ToS shouldn't be surprised if or when their account is purged, but hey. I don't plan on breaking the ToS any time soon.
1. be friendly, but don't try to be our friend. stress to employees that you actually work for/them/ as well and not just the other way around. you are our agent to upper management as much as you are our immediate boss.
2. pass the credit, take the blame. employees notice this behavior most when it happens the other way, when managers pass the blame and take the credit. when upper management lauds you for your groups results, speak highly of the team "behind you" which got it done. when upper management berates your team's work, acknowledge that you were the orchestrator of that work. remember, you are our agent to upper management as much as you are our immediate boss.
3. reward good work. you likely aren't in control of massive raises, bonuses, or promotions, but that doesn't mean that simple things like an e-mail or letter praising good work is useless or wasted time.
4. do not surprise us if at all possible. do not publicly single out employees for behavior, good or bad, without first speaking with the employee. the employee may not want to be embarassed with praise or have attention drawn to their promotion or raise.
When I was in school, we had 1 or 2 Apple//e computers in some classrooms and if you finished your schoolwork in class first, you would get to play Oregon Trail, Carmen Sandiego, or Number Munchers on the Apple//e. In one class, the teacher even had an Apple//gs which could play Tetris. He would play on an overhead projector while you did your classwork but the same rule applied, finish your work quickly and you got to play. I can still do basic multiplication tables or diagram a sentence at a furious pace!
I read far, far more than I ever played video games also. (Well, I had tons of books available at the library and I had no video game system, so this was easy.)
That's a good point about Harry Potter sales, but that is hardly educational, either, unless learning the words to the "Wingardium Leviosa!" spell is the kind of learning we're talking about!
Ditto for "Age of Empires". I have cousins who enjoy playing the missions and then reading the between-mission historical information. Yeah, it's not much, but it's more history than you get from playing Halo 2 on XBox Live! all day.
For spelling games -- hell yeah they can! Check out PopCap GamesTyper Shark and Bookworm. Failing that, get into online Scrabble or something.
(And likely I have spelled something incorrectly in this post. I always do. Peace.)
Number Munchers. Even now I would play that game on occasion. And all the game involves is answering short addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division as quickly as possible (for the most part). Add in some basic sound and parental encouragement, and you might end up with someone who scores 800 on the math portion of the SAT. (Or in my case [redacted], but I still hold a suspicion that the answer key was wrong on that question, damn it! And that was 12 years ago... gotta let go someday I suppose.;)
1. kids don't know they are learning. 2. kids do things they find fun, and as much as we might try, they will learn from other kids that "reading isn't fun, playing games is fun" no matter how much fun reading really is or how suck the games really are.
so to that end I encourage having your kids play some of these games if they want to play games: 1. Typer Shark 2. Bookworm
And if you can find some old-school "Number Munchers" you're on your way to gaming-learning fun. I've placed these two games on desktops I've built for younger cousins and family friends, and the response has been quite good. They learn to type (Typer Shark, duh) and spell (Bookworm) in a creative and fun fashion.
(Me? I... uh... waste my brain away playing World of Warcraft, personally, but "I'm allowed to decide for myself, being 27" just don't tell the wife...;)
just as the/true/ grail grants life, a/false/ one will take it from you.
the opposite of true is false. the opposite of fake is authentic.
also, a comment like "PS2 gamers are the only true gamers" is perhaps one of the most fanboy 12-year-old type of comment imaginable. there were plenty of "true" gamers long before the PS2 or even the original PlayStation, and there will be plenty of us around when the PS2 is long gone. a "true" gamer isn't about a "my console is longer^H^H^H^H^H^H^H better than yours" pissing contest, or divisive flames, they are about having a good time and experiencing the best games, old and new, tried and tired, experimental and old-school.
peace. i may not be a "true" gamer, but i am certainly a gamer. i was a gamer before Sony put together their first PS2 and i'll be a gamer long after Sony puts together their last PS2, barring death, dismemberment, and the like.
I also play on Argent Dawn. Small world, I suppose. Well, I'm on the Horde side, and while we may be outnumbered, I believe that at least many of/us/ are on the right server (Argent Dawn is a Blizzard-denoted RP server) unlike the endless hordes of "did you see the latest Ashlee Simpson video?" night elves.
I don't understand your comment, as I don't know of the verb "severe". Too bad, perhaps I could have complied with your request. Maybe you meant sever? But I guess requesting actual verbs in their pithy comments is too much to ask of "the world gene pool".
For the record, I don't hand out or accept "weird sized CD media", but the standard (for many years) Mini CD media should be playable in any device which calls itself a CD-ROM or a derivative of one.
Consider me corrected. But it still stands to question: "What kind of people are the kind who hand out those weird business-card sized CD media?" Oh yeah, Mac type people. Yet those CD media do not work in most Macs. Chalk another Apple decision to form over function, I guess.
Official Apple document on the issue: "Learn about the sizes and shape of discs that can be used in the CD-ROM and DVD-ROM drives in various Macintosh computers."
Particularly:
Warning: Inserting a nonstandard sized or shaped disc into a drive that is not designed to accommodate it may damage the drive. Some slot-loading drives may be able to accomodate 80 mm round discs, but their use is not supported and any damage caused will not be covered under your Apple warranty or applicable extended service contract.
So unless you like playing roullette with your non-easily-fixed proprietary box... do not use mini CD media in your slot loading Mac.
to answer my own question: Putting Mini-CD's in a slot loading drive? thread where everyone seems to agree that putting a Mini-CD into your slot loading drive will either destroy the drive or require you taking the drive apart to get it out, or both.
The usewr manual specifically states not to use any non-standard discs. It even shows pictures of ones not to use, including mini-disks, the credit-card shaped discs, and the triangular shaped discs (though I've never seen on of those myself. Look around page 98 on the Getting Started pdf for the powerbook (mine is a 15" pb).
Not having that manual lying around... that is probably why I have the idea that you shouldn't put Mini-CD media into a slot loading Apple drive.
Ok, rant time. What the hell is wrong with people? I don't want a slot loading drive -- they never (AFAIK) take the industry standard Mini-CDR or Mini-CDRW or Mini-DVD discs, while a "regular" CD loading system does. Thanks a lot, Apple, for giving me this nice little unit... that I have to plug in an almost equal-sized external drive into to use my optical media. And for what? You can't tell me they are saving any size on that box by making it slot loading, it just "looks cooler" or some crap like that. Okay, rant off.
Yup, I'm getting a Mac Mini anyway. Ah well. Can't wait to run MacOS X at home finally, but damn the slot loaders of the world. Damn them straight to Windows hell.
he claims that high level players have nearly no expenses. simple solution (which worked well on several MUDs) is to make repair costs for high level items very, very expensive.
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can't wait. nothing in the world is perfect, and no movie dealing with this book could meet everyone's expectations.
but it sure looks like they could have made worse rubbish, judging from the trailer. huzzah.
I'm trying to figure out why my WoW framerate dropped when I "upgraded" from my old-ass GeForce2 32MB card to a GeForce4 128MB card. Any ideas?
So if a colony on Mars won't protect us from ALL disasters, only some, its not worth it?
I didn't say such a thing. In fact I didn't disagree that we should colonise Mars. Why argue with someone who agrees with you? I simply indended to point out that yes, we should colonise Mars and as soon as possible, but that musn't be the be-all end-all of the discussion. If the "perpetual survival of the human race" is to be our motivating factor the implications are that Mars will not be enough.
Having a colony on Mars would not save the human race were the sun to be destroyed, for example. While scientists can /predict/ its heat death several billions of years into the future, that is a prediction and who knows how long it will /really/ burn. Additionally, large enough collisions could destroy the sun, and if a large enough scattering of asteroids passed through the solar system, both Mars and Earth could be wiped out.
If this kind of thinking interests you, you might be interested in some fiction over at kuro5hin.org:
Passages in the Void
The Passage Home
Mortal Passage
the warranty passage you quote explicitly qualifies the memory as "customer-installable" when the mac mini page clearly states that the memory is NOT "customer-installable".
Gold is absolutely not a big part of the endgame (as we know it right now, at least). Besides, this is not a server hack or artificially created wealth, somebody is still getting the actual items off of actual creeps.
Personally I do think that those who violate the ToS shouldn't be surprised if or when their account is purged, but hey. I don't plan on breaking the ToS any time soon.
1. be friendly, but don't try to be our friend. stress to employees that you actually work for /them/ as well and not just the other way around. you are our agent to upper management as much as you are our immediate boss.
2. pass the credit, take the blame. employees notice this behavior most when it happens the other way, when managers pass the blame and take the credit. when upper management lauds you for your groups results, speak highly of the team "behind you" which got it done. when upper management berates your team's work, acknowledge that you were the orchestrator of that work. remember, you are our agent to upper management as much as you are our immediate boss.
3. reward good work. you likely aren't in control of massive raises, bonuses, or promotions, but that doesn't mean that simple things like an e-mail or letter praising good work is useless or wasted time.
4. do not surprise us if at all possible. do not publicly single out employees for behavior, good or bad, without first speaking with the employee. the employee may not want to be embarassed with praise or have attention drawn to their promotion or raise.
that's a good start, at least.
What were the name of the monsters? I can't remember.
Troggles!!
When I was in school, we had 1 or 2 Apple //e computers in some classrooms and if you finished your schoolwork in class first, you would get to play Oregon Trail, Carmen Sandiego, or Number Munchers on the Apple //e. In one class, the teacher even had an Apple //gs which could play Tetris. He would play on an overhead projector while you did your classwork but the same rule applied, finish your work quickly and you got to play. I can still do basic multiplication tables or diagram a sentence at a furious pace!
I read far, far more than I ever played video games also. (Well, I had tons of books available at the library and I had no video game system, so this was easy.)
That's a good point about Harry Potter sales, but that is hardly educational, either, unless learning the words to the "Wingardium Leviosa!" spell is the kind of learning we're talking about!
Ditto for "Age of Empires". I have cousins who enjoy playing the missions and then reading the between-mission historical information. Yeah, it's not much, but it's more history than you get from playing Halo 2 on XBox Live! all day.
For spelling games -- hell yeah they can! Check out PopCap Games Typer Shark and Bookworm. Failing that, get into online Scrabble or something.
(And likely I have spelled something incorrectly in this post. I always do. Peace.)
Number Munchers. Even now I would play that game on occasion. And all the game involves is answering short addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division as quickly as possible (for the most part). Add in some basic sound and parental encouragement, and you might end up with someone who scores 800 on the math portion of the SAT. (Or in my case [redacted], but I still hold a suspicion that the answer key was wrong on that question, damn it! And that was 12 years ago... gotta let go someday I suppose. ;)
1. kids don't know they are learning.
;)
2. kids do things they find fun, and as much as we might try, they will learn from other kids that "reading isn't fun, playing games is fun" no matter how much fun reading really is or how suck the games really are.
so to that end I encourage having your kids play some of these games if they want to play games:
1. Typer Shark
2. Bookworm
And if you can find some old-school "Number Munchers" you're on your way to gaming-learning fun. I've placed these two games on desktops I've built for younger cousins and family friends, and the response has been quite good. They learn to type (Typer Shark, duh) and spell (Bookworm) in a creative and fun fashion.
(Me? I... uh... waste my brain away playing World of Warcraft, personally, but "I'm allowed to decide for myself, being 27" just don't tell the wife...
just as the /true/ grail grants life, a /false/ one will take it from you.
the opposite of true is false. the opposite of fake is authentic.
also, a comment like "PS2 gamers are the only true gamers" is perhaps one of the most fanboy 12-year-old type of comment imaginable. there were plenty of "true" gamers long before the PS2 or even the original PlayStation, and there will be plenty of us around when the PS2 is long gone. a "true" gamer isn't about a "my console is longer^H^H^H^H^H^H^H better than yours" pissing contest, or divisive flames, they are about having a good time and experiencing the best games, old and new, tried and tired, experimental and old-school.
peace. i may not be a "true" gamer, but i am certainly a gamer. i was a gamer before Sony put together their first PS2 and i'll be a gamer long after Sony puts together their last PS2, barring death, dismemberment, and the like.
I also play on Argent Dawn. Small world, I suppose. Well, I'm on the Horde side, and while we may be outnumbered, I believe that at least many of /us/ are on the right server (Argent Dawn is a Blizzard-denoted RP server) unlike the endless hordes of "did you see the latest Ashlee Simpson video?" night elves.
silent forever
forever is a very long time...
he's comparing EA to News Corp, and you're comparing EA to Activision.
I don't understand your comment, as I don't know of the verb "severe". Too bad, perhaps I could have complied with your request. Maybe you meant sever? But I guess requesting actual verbs in their pithy comments is too much to ask of "the world gene pool".
For the record, I don't hand out or accept "weird sized CD media", but the standard (for many years) Mini CD media should be playable in any device which calls itself a CD-ROM or a derivative of one.
Consider me corrected. But it still stands to question: "What kind of people are the kind who hand out those weird business-card sized CD media?" Oh yeah, Mac type people. Yet those CD media do not work in most Macs. Chalk another Apple decision to form over function, I guess.
Particularly:
So unless you like playing roullette with your non-easily-fixed proprietary box... do not use mini CD media in your slot loading Mac.
Not having that manual lying around... that is probably why I have the idea that you shouldn't put Mini-CD media into a slot loading Apple drive.
Slot loading drives will take mini-cd and mini-dvd just fine.
awesome... why have I always had problems with this then?
"Mac Mini" what a suck name. Ah well.
Ok, rant time. What the hell is wrong with people? I don't want a slot loading drive -- they never (AFAIK) take the industry standard Mini-CDR or Mini-CDRW or Mini-DVD discs, while a "regular" CD loading system does. Thanks a lot, Apple, for giving me this nice little unit... that I have to plug in an almost equal-sized external drive into to use my optical media. And for what? You can't tell me they are saving any size on that box by making it slot loading, it just "looks cooler" or some crap like that. Okay, rant off.
Yup, I'm getting a Mac Mini anyway. Ah well. Can't wait to run MacOS X at home finally, but damn the slot loaders of the world. Damn them straight to Windows hell.
is this really true? (the refusing aid part, obviously they are not actual nazis).
he claims that high level players have nearly no expenses. simple solution (which worked well on several MUDs) is to make repair costs for high level items very, very expensive.