Yes. I would like a computer which is just as fast and powerful as the one I have now, but that doesn't heat my entire apartment. Thanks to the Athlon 64 and my 450-watt power supply space heaters are a thing of the past.
Additionally, it would be nice if we could get past the "My specular lighting and bump mapping is slightly better than yours" pissing contest that causes all these hardware upgrades. I'm perfectly happy playing System Shock 2 at upwards of 200 frames per second because it's an engrossing game. Am I alone in saying that I don't really want a quad-core CPU? How about an offering that addresses power consumption and heat output exclusively.
How can we evaluate all the data if it is not present in the article? A list of broad, sweeping, generalizations about the way the planet is changing is not data. I really disapprove of the way the article talks about how the seas are heating up and then segeways into OH MY GOD GLOBAL WARMING IS BAD, then back into how the world is changing followed by more OH MY GOD GLOBAL WARMING IS BAD. It's like they're trying to scare us into some kind of action. By the way, did you know that Saddam Hussein has Weapons of Mass Destruction? It's true. He's been hiding them for years.
The Charter guy who came over to "install" my cable basically stopped in to bring me parts, call in about the MAC address of my modem, and to call in about my Digital reciever for cable. He didn't give me any shit about installing software, just made a couple of phone calls, replaced a cable when it was evident that it was split during shipping, then left.
In fact, the fact that lead-acid batteries emit hydrogen is the reason that you're supposed to attach the ground in a pair of jumper cables to the body of the car and not to the ground on the battery, as it may spark and cause a gas explosion.
Also, I've had a NiMH battery short in my pocket from touching spare change, and It got hot enough to burn me.
>...this development, along with the Bill and Melinda foundation, means we now >have extremely large, extremely rich companies doing what our governments should >be doing.
Finally, my dream of seeing a dragon run for president may be coming true! Dunkelzahn for President in 2056!
The problem with forcing teachers to compete with each other for numbers is that nobody will want to try anything new. The focus will cease to be education and start to be raising test scores. Think about how cookie-cutter our corporations are, and how little innovation is done by most companies. Now imagine how little innovation will occour in a classroom environment when teachers are risking their livelihood on such a venture. Hell, think about what would happen when half the class decides they hate their teacher, so they fail on purpose "just to show him."
Also, could you please explain to me how teachers' unions damage the education system? I'd really like to understand what you mean by that.
Would you email me? I've got a business proposition for you.
I would like to sell you a stone--but not just any stone, no--this stone is unique. Why, you ask?
It wards off tigers. Now before you dismiss me, take a look around you. Do you see any tigers? No? Then the stone must be working, for if it didn't clearly there would be tigers.
Do you see any terrorists? No? Then clearly Bush is working, for if he didn't then there would be tig--err, terrorists.
>>High School was to teach us that we're going to have to get up really early, and hate it, for much of our lives. It does its job well (if I can still see goddamn Venus over the top of the school when I'm walking in to the building, for most of the school season [not just deep Winter], ten minutes before the first class starts, your starting time is set WAY, WAY too early. Bastards.)
You live in Washington too? My god, we could see the moon too.
You're not actually thinking about it the way most of us players think about it. We tend toward choosing a role and then choosing skills that define that role. If I want to be a magic user, I will choose magic skills because that makes sense for my role. If I want to be a warrior, I will pick a weapon skill and a bunch of close-combat and support skills. If I want to be a merchant, a manufacturer, or anything of that sort, I will pick utility skills appropriate to that plus some combative or magic skills depending on what my preferred method of combat is.
In Asheron's Call you had what, 50+ skills? Yet we were all able to hash out specific classes and roles using those skills. It really falls to developers in those games to actually PLAY the roles that use skills they're evaluating. Even though we had a few very powerful skill combinations, it was still possible to play an effective anything. We had craft mules that we would take leveling just to raise their skills. I still regard that game as the pinnacle of the genre simply because nothing else has come close to providing the kind of immersive storyline, developer involvement, and free-form system that I enjoy. The only games that I had more fun in than AC are my pencil and paper RPGs.
I find that the major contributing factor to the uselessness of online print is that, with my CRT, reading a book off my screen is like staring at a light-bulb for hours. In High School the CRTs would also give me refresh-headaches. The major problem I have with PDFs is that I can't change the color of the background or the text color or both to make it more comfortable for my eyes. Every single website, document, PDF, ebook, and even information dialogue assumes that the screen is EXACTLY LIKE THE PRINT WORD IN EVERY WAY. It conveniently ignores the fact that displays are light-colored instead of pigment-colored and that bright white tends to drown out the sharpness of lettering whereas white letters on black tends to be very easy on the eyes.
And yes, even in a well-lit room I have to take eye-breaks when I'm reading using a computer. This is not so in print.
People haven't forgotten morality, they've forgotten what it means to be profitable, why money exists, and who enables profitability. We've become disconnected from people, because there are so many of them. We've forgotten that the poor bastard working in a cubicle across the hall from us isn't just a service. He's probably got a girlfriend, or a wife, and they would likely lose their house/apartment were they to lose his job. We've become so embroiled in our little technological pissing contest that we're letting ourselves get pulled apart from each other, and we're losing our humanity. Little by little I start to believe that the Amish are right about technological innovation.
Not to point out the obvious or anything, but it's also possible to set up an antenna on the inside which will repeat a signal to an antenna on the outside of a building. They do this in sports stadiums and various other places because of the lack of reception. The antenna doesn't repeat all frequencies, meaning that you can set it to repeat your crackberry's signal but not your ultra-secure Wifi signal.
Wait, so they've got multiple discrete processors on a single die with a huge amount of bandwidth and they don't even want to spend the 2% of the available CPU cycles compressing something so that we don't need Blueray?
Safeway will have sales that are exclusively linked to their card. For example, I could buy a 12-pack of coke, and with my club card pay $3.00, or without pay $4.50. In exchange for these deals they use your information to personally tailor marketing, and occasionally send you free stuff. Heh. For my 19th birthday Safeway sent me a razor. Free.
I believe that we solved that problem in my first Computer Science course by using Integers and long integers. Essentially we took the monetary value, turned it from dollars into cents for calculation, then back into dollars for output. The only error would be in our method of using division for conversion, which could have been remedied by some other methods I can think of which are probably solved by much better people than I.
How is this flamebait modded insightful? The moderators defy logic sometimes...
If you can answer how using Windows makes my work difficult or establish any criterion for what "good" for me is, then maybe it might be insightful. Could you explain who "he" is? Not to be pedantic or anything. I'm only asking because your attitude pisses me off.
I just thought I'd take a moment out of my busy day to inform you that you don't need to install WGA if you don't want to. You can still continue patching your machine. Why, just the other day I got the latest security updates from Microsoft. WGA isn't being forced on anyone who is savvy enough to know that they don't want it.
Of course, the government is in control of what "wrong" is defined as. The sheep that suggest that a top-secret information gathering program can't be used to damage law-abiding citizens should think about how easily the government's sense of "law-abiding" can be changed by committee or legislation.
Remember that anything is justifiable in the cause of The Party. Deciet and treachery are made acceptable because they believe that their goals are noble. In a way it's just as despicable as invading a soverign nation to depose a despot. The Party wouldn't accept that as just, but did it all the same. Frankly I think that the fact that they think they can lead us around by our collective asses using our own information-sharing technology speaks volumes of their morality, or lack thereof.
In Washington we draw lines to complete arrows. There's about an inch or so between lines, and only one arrow per line of text. Yes, even the Yes/no options have the arrows vertical instead of horizontal. The only thing the machine has to do is read that there is or isn't a mark on that line. The ballots are all made out of cardboard, so they're very durable, and frequently there's a paragraph description or explanation of what we're voting for so there's plenty of whitespace between the scantron options. They aren't like the shitty little papers you use for testing.
Not to point out the obvious, or anything, but you can call Microsoft if you want to register your version of windows. They provided this option for the first version of XP because not everyone had internet access back then. If you're hell-bent on getting a legit version, then call them up and ask if you can register/activate your copy of Windows.
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Jesus, if I could get my textbooks on this thing, at say, $10/piece sans software, I'd buy it in a heartbeat.
Fullscreen DivX video, 640x480, on an Intel Celeron 333. 100% CPU use, but it still gets all the frames out.
Yes. I would like a computer which is just as fast and powerful as the one I have now, but that doesn't heat my entire apartment. Thanks to the Athlon 64 and my 450-watt power supply space heaters are a thing of the past.
Additionally, it would be nice if we could get past the "My specular lighting and bump mapping is slightly better than yours" pissing contest that causes all these hardware upgrades. I'm perfectly happy playing System Shock 2 at upwards of 200 frames per second because it's an engrossing game. Am I alone in saying that I don't really want a quad-core CPU? How about an offering that addresses power consumption and heat output exclusively.
How can we evaluate all the data if it is not present in the article? A list of broad, sweeping, generalizations about the way the planet is changing is not data. I really disapprove of the way the article talks about how the seas are heating up and then segeways into OH MY GOD GLOBAL WARMING IS BAD, then back into how the world is changing followed by more OH MY GOD GLOBAL WARMING IS BAD. It's like they're trying to scare us into some kind of action. By the way, did you know that Saddam Hussein has Weapons of Mass Destruction? It's true. He's been hiding them for years.
Hell, as a desktop user I'd appreciate that kind of attention being paid. Electricity isn't cheap you know.
The Charter guy who came over to "install" my cable basically stopped in to bring me parts, call in about the MAC address of my modem, and to call in about my Digital reciever for cable. He didn't give me any shit about installing software, just made a couple of phone calls, replaced a cable when it was evident that it was split during shipping, then left.
In fact, the fact that lead-acid batteries emit hydrogen is the reason that you're supposed to attach the ground in a pair of jumper cables to the body of the car and not to the ground on the battery, as it may spark and cause a gas explosion.
Also, I've had a NiMH battery short in my pocket from touching spare change, and It got hot enough to burn me.
>...this development, along with the Bill and Melinda foundation, means we now
>have extremely large, extremely rich companies doing what our governments should
>be doing.
Finally, my dream of seeing a dragon run for president may be coming true! Dunkelzahn for President in 2056!
The problem with forcing teachers to compete with each other for numbers is that nobody will want to try anything new. The focus will cease to be education and start to be raising test scores. Think about how cookie-cutter our corporations are, and how little innovation is done by most companies. Now imagine how little innovation will occour in a classroom environment when teachers are risking their livelihood on such a venture. Hell, think about what would happen when half the class decides they hate their teacher, so they fail on purpose "just to show him."
Also, could you please explain to me how teachers' unions damage the education system? I'd really like to understand what you mean by that.
Would you email me? I've got a business proposition for you.
I would like to sell you a stone--but not just any stone, no--this stone is unique. Why, you ask?
It wards off tigers. Now before you dismiss me, take a look around you. Do you see any tigers? No? Then the stone must be working, for if it didn't clearly there would be tigers.
Do you see any terrorists? No? Then clearly Bush is working, for if he didn't then there would be tig--err, terrorists.
>>High School was to teach us that we're going to have to get up really early, and hate it, for much of our lives. It does its job well (if I can still see goddamn Venus over the top of the school when I'm walking in to the building, for most of the school season [not just deep Winter], ten minutes before the first class starts, your starting time is set WAY, WAY too early. Bastards.)
You live in Washington too? My god, we could see the moon too.
You're not actually thinking about it the way most of us players think about it. We tend toward choosing a role and then choosing skills that define that role. If I want to be a magic user, I will choose magic skills because that makes sense for my role. If I want to be a warrior, I will pick a weapon skill and a bunch of close-combat and support skills. If I want to be a merchant, a manufacturer, or anything of that sort, I will pick utility skills appropriate to that plus some combative or magic skills depending on what my preferred method of combat is.
In Asheron's Call you had what, 50+ skills? Yet we were all able to hash out specific classes and roles using those skills. It really falls to developers in those games to actually PLAY the roles that use skills they're evaluating. Even though we had a few very powerful skill combinations, it was still possible to play an effective anything. We had craft mules that we would take leveling just to raise their skills. I still regard that game as the pinnacle of the genre simply because nothing else has come close to providing the kind of immersive storyline, developer involvement, and free-form system that I enjoy. The only games that I had more fun in than AC are my pencil and paper RPGs.
I find that the major contributing factor to the uselessness of online print is that, with my CRT, reading a book off my screen is like staring at a light-bulb for hours. In High School the CRTs would also give me refresh-headaches. The major problem I have with PDFs is that I can't change the color of the background or the text color or both to make it more comfortable for my eyes. Every single website, document, PDF, ebook, and even information dialogue assumes that the screen is EXACTLY LIKE THE PRINT WORD IN EVERY WAY. It conveniently ignores the fact that displays are light-colored instead of pigment-colored and that bright white tends to drown out the sharpness of lettering whereas white letters on black tends to be very easy on the eyes.
And yes, even in a well-lit room I have to take eye-breaks when I'm reading using a computer. This is not so in print.
People haven't forgotten morality, they've forgotten what it means to be profitable, why money exists, and who enables profitability. We've become disconnected from people, because there are so many of them. We've forgotten that the poor bastard working in a cubicle across the hall from us isn't just a service. He's probably got a girlfriend, or a wife, and they would likely lose their house/apartment were they to lose his job. We've become so embroiled in our little technological pissing contest that we're letting ourselves get pulled apart from each other, and we're losing our humanity. Little by little I start to believe that the Amish are right about technological innovation.
Not to point out the obvious or anything, but it's also possible to set up an antenna on the inside which will repeat a signal to an antenna on the outside of a building. They do this in sports stadiums and various other places because of the lack of reception. The antenna doesn't repeat all frequencies, meaning that you can set it to repeat your crackberry's signal but not your ultra-secure Wifi signal.
Wait, so they've got multiple discrete processors on a single die with a huge amount of bandwidth and they don't even want to spend the 2% of the available CPU cycles compressing something so that we don't need Blueray?
RIIIIDGE RAAAACER!
Safeway will have sales that are exclusively linked to their card. For example, I could buy a 12-pack of coke, and with my club card pay $3.00, or without pay $4.50. In exchange for these deals they use your information to personally tailor marketing, and occasionally send you free stuff. Heh. For my 19th birthday Safeway sent me a razor. Free.
I believe that we solved that problem in my first Computer Science course by using Integers and long integers. Essentially we took the monetary value, turned it from dollars into cents for calculation, then back into dollars for output. The only error would be in our method of using division for conversion, which could have been remedied by some other methods I can think of which are probably solved by much better people than I.
How is this flamebait modded insightful? The moderators defy logic sometimes...
If you can answer how using Windows makes my work difficult or establish any criterion for what "good" for me is, then maybe it might be insightful. Could you explain who "he" is? Not to be pedantic or anything. I'm only asking because your attitude pisses me off.
I just thought I'd take a moment out of my busy day to inform you that you don't need to install WGA if you don't want to. You can still continue patching your machine. Why, just the other day I got the latest security updates from Microsoft. WGA isn't being forced on anyone who is savvy enough to know that they don't want it.
Of course, the government is in control of what "wrong" is defined as. The sheep that suggest that a top-secret information gathering program can't be used to damage law-abiding citizens should think about how easily the government's sense of "law-abiding" can be changed by committee or legislation.
Remember that anything is justifiable in the cause of The Party. Deciet and treachery are made acceptable because they believe that their goals are noble. In a way it's just as despicable as invading a soverign nation to depose a despot. The Party wouldn't accept that as just, but did it all the same. Frankly I think that the fact that they think they can lead us around by our collective asses using our own information-sharing technology speaks volumes of their morality, or lack thereof.
In Washington we draw lines to complete arrows. There's about an inch or so between lines, and only one arrow per line of text. Yes, even the Yes/no options have the arrows vertical instead of horizontal. The only thing the machine has to do is read that there is or isn't a mark on that line. The ballots are all made out of cardboard, so they're very durable, and frequently there's a paragraph description or explanation of what we're voting for so there's plenty of whitespace between the scantron options. They aren't like the shitty little papers you use for testing.
All I know is that both look great next to a Red Stripe beer.
Not to point out the obvious, or anything, but you can call Microsoft if you want to register your version of windows. They provided this option for the first version of XP because not everyone had internet access back then. If you're hell-bent on getting a legit version, then call them up and ask if you can register/activate your copy of Windows.