...who will be paying for the retrofit to the thousands of CRT and TV manufacturing plants around the world to make this possible[?]
The answer is obvious to anybody who has studied business in college or in RL. The manufacturers will invest the extra money to adapt the manufacturing process, add the costs into the selling price of HDTV (maybe recovering a portion of the costs in current equipment sales over the next four years as well...), and ultimately the consumer will pay. If the manufacturers collectively cry poormouth through their trade associatons and lobbies, the government will give tax breaks to the manufacturers, ultimately passing the bill to taxpayers who may or may not be consumers of this technology.
Don't worry--the manufacturers will profit from this. How else would you explain the level of confidence that encouraged them to enlist Michael Powell to issue the decree that all devices with video tuners be HDTV-capable by 2006?
What a poor proposition in general. Sure, players do "learn" while playing, in terms of improving their game-playing skills. They also remember details reinforced through multiple plays. However, video games present an environment too distracting for educational purposes. The already overstimulated kids would be receiving multiple aural and visual inputs from the game, applying some cognitive decision-making, then producing outputs on the game controller. Since this would ostensibly be done in a game-playing environment, there would probably be other distractions as well. Human Factors research shows that cognitive performance decreases rapidly with the number of inputs, the number of input modalities (aural/visual/etc...), and the complexity of the outputs. In short, you can not expect to really learn while playing a video game.
I agree with a previous poster that video games should only be assigned as homework for courses in Computer Graphics.
The quality of education in this country has become abyssmal. People 10 years younger than I have to reach for a calculator to multiply two two-digit numbers or to compute a 20% tip (double the bill, move the decimal one tick to the left). The average incoming freshman at my uni had a high school GPA of 3.7 or higher, but the research papers written by them--even as sophomores and juniors--would have earned me a "C" back in 6th grade. Have any of you "older" (30-40 y.o.) readers seen a contemporary textbook? They resemble USA Today with slick, meaningless graphics, horribly slanted and inaccurate "facts", and so little depth. Kids today are already being crippled by their shoddy education. Don't cripple them by expecting them to learn from video games.
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They'll never let me on a plane, what with my nick and all.
America's new National Anthem:
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Take their gas!
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They "definately" didn't help your "spalling" any.
Though I've heard that if you smack the joystick left twice, hit fire, then hit start, the correct spelling--definitely--appears on the screen.
The answer is obvious to anybody who has studied business in college or in RL. The manufacturers will invest the extra money to adapt the manufacturing process, add the costs into the selling price of HDTV (maybe recovering a portion of the costs in current equipment sales over the next four years as well...), and ultimately the consumer will pay. If the manufacturers collectively cry poormouth through their trade associatons and lobbies, the government will give tax breaks to the manufacturers, ultimately passing the bill to taxpayers who may or may not be consumers of this technology.
Don't worry--the manufacturers will profit from this. How else would you explain the level of confidence that encouraged them to enlist Michael Powell to issue the decree that all devices with video tuners be HDTV-capable by 2006?
What a poor proposition in general. Sure, players do "learn" while playing, in terms of improving their game-playing skills. They also remember details reinforced through multiple plays. However, video games present an environment too distracting for educational purposes. The already overstimulated kids would be receiving multiple aural and visual inputs from the game, applying some cognitive decision-making, then producing outputs on the game controller. Since this would ostensibly be done in a game-playing environment, there would probably be other distractions as well. Human Factors research shows that cognitive performance decreases rapidly with the number of inputs, the number of input modalities (aural/visual/etc...), and the complexity of the outputs. In short, you can not expect to really learn while playing a video game.
I agree with a previous poster that video games should only be assigned as homework for courses in Computer Graphics.
The quality of education in this country has become abyssmal. People 10 years younger than I have to reach for a calculator to multiply two two-digit numbers or to compute a 20% tip (double the bill, move the decimal one tick to the left). The average incoming freshman at my uni had a high school GPA of 3.7 or higher, but the research papers written by them--even as sophomores and juniors--would have earned me a "C" back in 6th grade. Have any of you "older" (30-40 y.o.) readers seen a contemporary textbook? They resemble USA Today with slick, meaningless graphics, horribly slanted and inaccurate "facts", and so little depth. Kids today are already being crippled by their shoddy education. Don't cripple them by expecting them to learn from video games.
The article didn't say anything about self-cleaning crack pipes. Noelle Bush might be interested in one.
If you get going too fast, you can always use the air brake!
2,000 chicks at the same time, man.