The not-so-good news is that in a "compromise," the board also voted to require that students "in all fields of science, analyze, evaluate and critique scientific explanations... including examining all sides of scientific evidence of those scientific explanations, so as to encourage critical thinking by the student."
How is this not-so-good news?
I think it is good news. Isn't this the Scientific Method and the basis of Peer Review?
Sounds more like a win for science.
Nobody will ever need more than 640k of RAM.
You will never be able to fill an 80M hard drive, just get the 20M one.
8 MHz! That's way too fast for my software, you will have to turn the turbo button off.
Probably more unusual to someone from the 1920s would be the staggering number of career choices available as a result of the technology boom of the 20th century. In the 20s, career options had been basically unchanged for hundreds of years. Educated people would have been lawyers, doctors or accountants. Trained people would have been blacksmiths, farmers, etc. Other people would have been factory workers (still a fairly new career path at the time), artists, etc.
Now there are careers, companies and entire industries worth trillions of dollars, that did not even exist then. These are the people and entities that created the things mentioned in Dvorak's article, and would far more unusual to someone from the 20s than their strange creations.
I installed Boot Camp last week, and other than some issues with some older games running too fast or not correctly measuring the speed of the processor, it worked great.
I ran out and bought Oblivion, and it installed and runs great.
I found the same issues as those in the article, but they are easaily resolved with some very minor tweaking.
I don't really consider myself a gamer, but I was inpressed with the distance cueing limits, etc. and the frame rate was good.
I was able to play four several hours and the only problem I found was that if you have anti-aliasing on the Oblivion Gates slow the framerate right down when they are on screen. Keep it on the default HDR setting and everything is fine.
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The not-so-good news is that in a "compromise," the board also voted to require that students "in all fields of science, analyze, evaluate and critique scientific explanations... including examining all sides of scientific evidence of those scientific explanations, so as to encourage critical thinking by the student."
How is this not-so-good news?
I think it is good news. Isn't this the Scientific Method and the basis of Peer Review? Sounds more like a win for science.
Microsoft Flight Simulator: Virtual airplanes = Virtual escape from the island. The Sims: Virtual human vs. real coconuts with faces carved in them.
Nobody will ever need more than 640k of RAM.
You will never be able to fill an 80M hard drive, just get the 20M one.
8 MHz! That's way too fast for my software, you will have to turn the turbo button off.
Etc., Etc., Etc.
Probably more unusual to someone from the 1920s would be the staggering number of career choices available as a result of the technology boom of the 20th century. In the 20s, career options had been basically unchanged for hundreds of years. Educated people would have been lawyers, doctors or accountants. Trained people would have been blacksmiths, farmers, etc. Other people would have been factory workers (still a fairly new career path at the time), artists, etc.
Now there are careers, companies and entire industries worth trillions of dollars, that did not even exist then. These are the people and entities that created the things mentioned in Dvorak's article, and would far more unusual to someone from the 20s than their strange creations.
I installed Boot Camp last week, and other than some issues with some older games running too fast or not correctly measuring the speed of the processor, it worked great. I ran out and bought Oblivion, and it installed and runs great. I found the same issues as those in the article, but they are easaily resolved with some very minor tweaking. I don't really consider myself a gamer, but I was inpressed with the distance cueing limits, etc. and the frame rate was good. I was able to play four several hours and the only problem I found was that if you have anti-aliasing on the Oblivion Gates slow the framerate right down when they are on screen. Keep it on the default HDR setting and everything is fine.