I know with the super famicom they had a somewhat similar system called the satellaview (It wasn't over the internet so much as a Satellite system or something). While I haven't played many of the games made for that system (seeing as though I don't speak japanese), the complete remake of Zelda 1 (BS-Zelda) was captured and eventually stored somehow, even though it was a download game, as well as being time based (you could only play it certain times I think). There are patches that allow you to play it anytime you want in english, which is totally awesome since this game never got a full remake in America.
I would imagine that someone out there found a way to preserve games with xbox live and hence in the future I would hope you could play those games again.
I definitely agree with that. Teachers are our mentors and mental caregivers early on, and yet they get paid so little and a lot of great people who would be great teachers don't simply because you can't make a very good living out of it. It's one of the most confusing things about our society in America (then again I think a lot in America is backwards). Haven't the mentors and teachers of a culture typically been the ones that were revered the most?
I've known some really great and really talented teachers who are only in it for the joy of teaching. If it were just about money they said they definitely would have chosen another field.
So I definitely think our country should put their money where their mouth is. Education reformation always seems to come up in elections or in politics in general, but do teacher salaries ever get more than a cursory glance?
As the parent said, double the salary and then see how many teachers we start getting.
Everything about that article rings true for me... high school was a nightmare for me too. I hated it. Now that I'm finally past it (and have been for the last 5 years) my mind is starting to forget the pain, but you don't really forget it.
Just because you're different, no matter what that difference is, you are bad to them.
And even if it weren't a hellhole trying to be in school, I wouldn't have wanted some of those people as my friends because they are so shallow and cruel.
I really feel for those people quoted above... thankfully I never was singled out for dangerous behavior (I had a principal who valued brainiacs), but I realize I could have been.. and that is scary.
High school is one seriously fucked up place. When is this country going to realize that!!?? It pisses me off so much that this kind of thing is blatantly still allowed in schools!
This is exactly the kind of crap I'm going through right now in my computability theory class (its not calculus, but its a ton of math and logic), and it was the same with all the other math related advanced level courses. The material is hard enough as it is, I don't need teachers making it even harder..
I mean, I know they know the material backside down, but that is not grounds for assuming they know *how to teach it*. Knowing something and knowing how to teach it are two different stories, and unfortunately, most phd professors just don't care about the second part....
As far as examples go, they love sticking with the easy examples that everyone understands, but when it comes to homework and test time, they also love jacking the difficulty up a bazillion notches just to see if you can figure it out on your own.
I was like, burning some audio cds from my mp3s.. and it was like BLEEP BLEEP BLEEP, and I was like, what happened? And it went BLEEP BLEEP BLEEP BLEEP again and the next thing I knew, my mp3s were gone. They were some really good mp3s.
I dunno about you but, when I was using OO to type up my 5 page exam paper, I needed to make sure I had at least 1500 words, so I asked my friend (who has always used Word and windows, etc.) where the word count was, figuring that the developers of OO had cloned more-or-less the whole interface. It's in the same spot that MS Word has it. File-> Document Properties -> Statistics.
To make a better computing experience for your customers...Develop a Better Operating System!!
But no, they want to engulf hardware now..
How much you want to bet customer support people will hear this?
"Yeah, I uhh...my computer just crashed and now my case turned a bright shade of blue with a skull and crossbones on it..."
Well, at least it might be a cool way to give out those stupid system crash errors....
RE was definitely one of the coolest series I've ever played. I'll never forget playing it when it first came out and jumping out of my seat when the dogs crashed through the windows:P Before that, it was just RPGS (FF4,6, and secret of evermore definitely) that made my day. I love survival horror now along with the (semi-decent) rpgs coming out today, and I'm definitely going to make my own sh one day, the genre just rocks!
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I know with the super famicom they had a somewhat similar system called the satellaview (It wasn't over the internet so much as a Satellite system or something). While I haven't played many of the games made for that system (seeing as though I don't speak japanese), the complete remake of Zelda 1 (BS-Zelda) was captured and eventually stored somehow, even though it was a download game, as well as being time based (you could only play it certain times I think). There are patches that allow you to play it anytime you want in english, which is totally awesome since this game never got a full remake in America.
I would imagine that someone out there found a way to preserve games with xbox live and hence in the future I would hope you could play those games again.
Oh man, I laughed so hard I spit out my OJ accidentally. That totally made my day :)
I definitely agree with that. Teachers are our mentors and mental caregivers early on, and yet they get paid so little and a lot of great people who would be great teachers don't simply because you can't make a very good living out of it. It's one of the most confusing things about our society in America (then again I think a lot in America is backwards). Haven't the mentors and teachers of a culture typically been the ones that were revered the most?
I've known some really great and really talented teachers who are only in it for the joy of teaching. If it were just about money they said they definitely would have chosen another field.
So I definitely think our country should put their money where their mouth is. Education reformation always seems to come up in elections or in politics in general, but do teacher salaries ever get more than a cursory glance?
As the parent said, double the salary and then see how many teachers we start getting.
"Even if it's no big deal this time, who's to say what could happen in the future if mutant infected lab animals are allowed to roam free? ;-)"
Teenage Mutant Ninja Mice!
Everything about that article rings true for me... high school was a nightmare for me too. I hated it. Now that I'm finally past it (and have been for the last 5 years) my mind is starting to forget the pain, but you don't really forget it. Just because you're different, no matter what that difference is, you are bad to them. And even if it weren't a hellhole trying to be in school, I wouldn't have wanted some of those people as my friends because they are so shallow and cruel. I really feel for those people quoted above... thankfully I never was singled out for dangerous behavior (I had a principal who valued brainiacs), but I realize I could have been.. and that is scary. High school is one seriously fucked up place. When is this country going to realize that!!?? It pisses me off so much that this kind of thing is blatantly still allowed in schools!
Better get some robot insurance fast!
My hard drive lied to me? I KNEW it was cheating on me with that graphics card! I should have known when I saw that red polygon on his platter!
Holy shit, I nearly died laughing, THAT was funny :)
My thoughts exactly. What's wrong with an article with some humor? Helps liven the day :P
Al Gore didn't invent the internet, I did! Al Gore is the DEVIL!
Like a baby, we won't really appreciate its value until it's matured a bit
I'll just have to make sure you never babysit for me, if babies are that value-less to you.
Didn't they already find out that birds could talk?. This language stuff is already for the snakes...err, I mean birds.
It would suck then to have a BSOD... though at least the color changes from nothing to blue.
The military focuses its new psycho-telekinetic research progam to include warping yourself into lunar orbit...
Fry: They had ads in movies, tv, magazines, windows, clothes, on the internet... but [games]? Never!
Inconceivable!!
This is exactly the kind of crap I'm going through right now in my computability theory class (its not calculus, but its a ton of math and logic), and it was the same with all the other math related advanced level courses. The material is hard enough as it is, I don't need teachers making it even harder..
I mean, I know they know the material backside down, but that is not grounds for assuming they know *how to teach it*. Knowing something and knowing how to teach it are two different stories, and unfortunately, most phd professors just don't care about the second part....
As far as examples go, they love sticking with the easy examples that everyone understands, but when it comes to homework and test time, they also love jacking the difficulty up a bazillion notches just to see if you can figure it out on your own.
I was like, burning some audio cds from my mp3s.. and it was like BLEEP BLEEP BLEEP, and I was like, what happened? And it went BLEEP BLEEP BLEEP BLEEP again and the next thing I knew, my mp3s were gone. They were some really good mp3s.
Ballmer patents life itself... Sorry, guess we're screwed then.
I dunno about you but, when I was using OO to type up my 5 page exam paper, I needed to make sure I had at least 1500 words, so I asked my friend (who has always used Word and windows, etc.) where the word count was, figuring that the developers of OO had cloned more-or-less the whole interface. It's in the same spot that MS Word has it. File-> Document Properties -> Statistics.
Too bad Jobs never said that about the Mac :P
Opens a can of Fresh Air (tm) and breathes in deeply...
I believe the IE bug isn't really that new
"a new IE exploit was found that crashes almost any version of Internet Explorer past 4.0"
4.0 isnt exactly all that new...
To make a better computing experience for your customers...Develop a Better Operating System!! But no, they want to engulf hardware now.. How much you want to bet customer support people will hear this? "Yeah, I uhh...my computer just crashed and now my case turned a bright shade of blue with a skull and crossbones on it..." Well, at least it might be a cool way to give out those stupid system crash errors....
RE was definitely one of the coolest series I've ever played. I'll never forget playing it when it first came out and jumping out of my seat when the dogs crashed through the windows :P Before that, it was just RPGS (FF4,6, and secret of evermore definitely) that made my day. I love survival horror now along with the (semi-decent) rpgs coming out today, and I'm definitely going to make my own sh one day, the genre just rocks!