I was on my way to North Gustaberg, I was playing 3rd view and Leaping Lizzy popped right behind me. If I had been playing in 1st view I would've missed it.
This was the first time I ever saw it. I managed to kill it and got the boots. I bet your really hate me now.
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Okay, how about this then: a few days ago I was in a party of three, and we were leveling in that area. We were, of course, killing lizards, just in case we might make LL pop. One of the guy seemed to be AFK, but what the heck, we kept fighting and let him have free exp. In such a low-level area, who cares.
Then, LL pops. We managed to kill it, and would you know it, we got the boots. However, since I already had them, and the other non-AFK player also already had them, we both passed on it. Let the AFK'er have them.
Well, the AFK guy had a full inventory so the boots were lost.
Depends if you learned to use "Wordperfect 4 for DOS" or if you learned to use a word processor.;-)
Some people learn the tools/steps to do things. Those are lost if you make them use something else (i.e. "where's the blue E to view the web?"
Others learn how to do things, and those adapt to the tools you give them (the web is the web, it doesn't really matter if they use IE, Firefox, Opera, Safari, etc).
I'm just saying that if we're talking about a class that teaches about computers, then children need to be taught that something else exists besides Microsoft Windows. I'm not talking about deep learning, but just being able to know that a web browser isn't a "big blue E" on a "Windows computer" would already be a good start.
We shouldn't limit the knowledge of students based on wether or not they're going to use that knowledge for employment opportunities.
By your analogy, most kids don't become doctors, so why the hell do they need to learn about biology? Etc.
That was my point. Some kids might want to become admins, so for these kids it would be something useful to learn about.
As for the others, well, let's just look at all the new netbooks. A lot of them run Linux, so it wouldn't be a complete waste of time for them to learn that something else than Windows exists.
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Save PC power, save the world.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiocracy
Please don't generalize, eh?
Especially his walls.
How about "Score:5, Recursive Joke"?
I have a Tandy Color Computer 3. It boots in about half a second.
No DSL here either, but they offer high-speed via cable.
Oh come on! Télébec covers ALL the rural areas of Québec!
We can't help you with known options if you don't tell us where you live.
I was on my way to North Gustaberg, I was playing 3rd view and Leaping Lizzy popped right behind me. If I had been playing in 1st view I would've missed it.
This was the first time I ever saw it. I managed to kill it and got the boots. I bet your really hate me now.
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Okay, how about this then: a few days ago I was in a party of three, and we were leveling in that area. We were, of course, killing lizards, just in case we might make LL pop. One of the guy seemed to be AFK, but what the heck, we kept fighting and let him have free exp. In such a low-level area, who cares.
Then, LL pops. We managed to kill it, and would you know it, we got the boots. However, since I already had them, and the other non-AFK player also already had them, we both passed on it. Let the AFK'er have them.
Well, the AFK guy had a full inventory so the boots were lost.
How's that for a sad story?
Spreadsheets for the MAC? What?
I know this is slashdot, but stop acting like a bunch of twelve year olds with nothing better to do, preaching about your platform in this case.
You must be new here.
I wonder if your co-workers call you "I drew butts" (being in design and all).
Also, I'm sorry if I just started a new tease about your name.
Ok, sure, but wtf do you call that?
Version 2008.11
How could it be any simpler? It's the november 2008 version.
No "Vista", "Leopard" or "Feisty Fawn" (geeze, wtf is that one).
Congratulations on using a version number that anyone can understand.
Are .rtf files now unsafe on Windows?
Depends if you learned to use "Wordperfect 4 for DOS" or if you learned to use a word processor. ;-)
Some people learn the tools/steps to do things. Those are lost if you make them use something else (i.e. "where's the blue E to view the web?"
Others learn how to do things, and those adapt to the tools you give them (the web is the web, it doesn't really matter if they use IE, Firefox, Opera, Safari, etc).
My mistake, I thought it was a computers class.
And yes, teaching Linux/OpenOffice and/or Mac OS/iWork to the exclusion of Microsoft Windows/Office is a mis-service to the students.
I'm just saying that if we're talking about a class that teaches about computers, then children need to be taught that something else exists besides Microsoft Windows. I'm not talking about deep learning, but just being able to know that a web browser isn't a "big blue E" on a "Windows computer" would already be a good start.
We shouldn't limit the knowledge of students based on wether or not they're going to use that knowledge for employment opportunities.
By your analogy, most kids don't become doctors, so why the hell do they need to learn about biology? Etc.
That was my point. Some kids might want to become admins, so for these kids it would be something useful to learn about.
As for the others, well, let's just look at all the new netbooks. A lot of them run Linux, so it wouldn't be a complete waste of time for them to learn that something else than Windows exists.
So what you're saying is that eMusic should get their music from torrents?
People listen to music on $2 headphones? What a bunch of morons. I paid around three times that for mine!
Only James Bond has the right to chmod 007 a directory.
We buy them Macs?
How about linking to the actual article instead of Digg?