'You can't sit a child in front of a computer and expect him to learn things he needs to succeed in society,'
That's so true it hurts
A basic element of learning-teaching is the teacher, who just can't be replaced, the kids need far more than data, need also affection, support, guidance and motivation, I find hard to believe a computer will provide much of it, not to mention that we might see physical problems later and probably conductual issues.
He and his mother say they look forward to building a better relationship through schoolwork.
A common lie, every teacher knows...that it might be true for a lil' while, but later: "ain't doin' your work".
don't get me started in the lack of arts, music and p.e.
Music is not lyrics I believe that's poetry, good music can do with or without lyrics.
Good music has theme
Most music do...I'll admit to have trouble finding it in some err "songs", and mean theme not badly rewashed old cliches.
connects to reality
sometimes I want to get away from it, maybe I'm not the only one. Sometimes to enhance my current mood or change it.
does something to make you care. Those days are long gone.
Good music transmits an emotion a feeling be love, anger,sadness, whatever. There's lot of it out there, stop listening top xxx's or look music in another genre/countries. There's always good or bad music depending on each one tastes.
Whenever I see a musical I turn it off. Not only they do lousy rehashed goody goody they add insult to injury!!. Whereas anime soundtracks are masterworks Lodoss war, Escaflowne, Hack sign, Noir, Initial D(well is upbeat at least and goes with the show), Ah megami sama, Tsukihime, etc...list can go longer, or at the very least not as...as obstructing, embarrasing, yeah that's the words.
btw as I got older my expectation from Disney has always been the same: what old story, that everybody knows are they gonna rip off now?. With the exception of fanservice series, anime stories are good, some even great and usually well delivered. Animation could be good or could be crappy, 2d or 3d, the story is what matters.
A fad? dunno but looking back to my kid years(80's) I started to notice that plenty of those "cartoons" where actually anime, and where my fave by a long long shot.
one thing I have to agree with is that anime OVA's or Movies are not that great(not that there are put on theaters that much).
And if You didn't noticed those "formulas" are consequences of the characters design which includes "flaws" sometimes serious sometimes not. And the idea of parent was/is "the history" I wonder why you failed to give examples of Evangelion or Escaflowne.
The hook of anime are several but the biggest sellers, at least for me are:
1) Good/great stories, evolving ones, people lives, changes, dies, pain hurts, experiences teach for better or worse.
2) Characters, defined with personalities, attitudes, relationships and once again this thing called evolution/learning/maturing thru a story. chars who are someway between good/evil not plain black/white hats that can a do CHANGE.
3)innovation, creativity, exoticness whatever you want to call it. it usually has imagination, it moves me to a different reality, usually well thought and developed. just like LOTR,Escaflowne takes my mind for a ride, or the detail of GITS or GUNN.
I have never seen anything of the above in disney, it was always lame, the good, the bad, the helpless and the stupid. A formula after a formula. I ain't blind there's a good chunk of chiched anime but far less than disney's 100% cliches.
W2K is great, the reason I'm still using windows, windows XP and the future(longlongerlongesthorn) doesn't look good, I see Linux, *bds o if $$ allows apple as my upgrade, when I can truly run no more W2K. Man ain't excited about an OS change but MS sure makes incentives for it.
I inform you that in spanish, "Libre" (which btw isn't exactly gratis see below) doesn't have any accent, if you add that accent, then is a conjugation of the verb "librar" in past tense, so "libré" actually means "I fought".
fue duro pero [libré] y gane mis batallas it was thought but I [fought] and won my battles
For clarification: libre is like freedom, no strings attached,i.e. your will is the limit, whereas gratis o gratuito means simply "without cost".
so say libre not libré. Native spanish speaker(Mexican).
I really don't desire to others what I wouldn't want for me but... those 250 USA soldiers who are invaders, who are doin' nothing for the good of makind, would die, many more lifes would be saved. The welfare of the majority comes before of the minority. I DO wish for those 250 or more to be killed.
Dude, any goodwill that USA had, has long run dry. I'll go a bit farther, and wish that your country had a attack(s) on your own soil, maybe then, just maybe, You'll learn the horror you unleash on others...
Hey Mr. JonathanX why do you need a room full of your "brothers marines"? huh? your post shows who's the coward. Can have it like men? are you even one to understand what You show in your post? don't talk of cojones obviously you don't what's that.
You win? what? yup the cowardice contest.
COWARDICE: we aren't brave, but we're many...and we have the guns.
In the first place I intended to provide the same functionality not the same technique by redefining + itself which is far easy, but since you complain that about the 'user' specifically using a new method then:
class Fixnum
alias plus +
def +(b)
if self==2
return self
else
return self.plus(b)
end
end end
p a=2 #=>2 p a+1 #=>2 p a+2 #=>2
p a=1 #=>1 p a+1 #=>2 p a+2 #=>3
to avoid the recursive problem in the self+b I just setted an alias for + and used internally in the redefinition of 'self+b', so doesn't need to know what's going under the hood.
btw I never intended to prove that my ruby was bigger than your python, it was just a silly comparison...don't read that much into this.
* Children. They aren't considered to be full humans, until on their 18th birthday they make an overnight magical transformation into a full adult. Prisoners have more rights than them.
The word You were looking for is: 'person' not human...or what, we're half-monkeys when young?(mmmh ok, sometimes children behave like that).
Some people were itching to use their new toy, tens of thousands of civil lifes were acceptable losses, they weren't 'them'...back then and today, the fact that at the same time they were fearing the world-power that actually defeated the germans... and in their fear o'em, in their rush to show 'their power', they gave an amoral and unnecesary order. USA has never had any respect for life now nor ever.
Once there was Mutually Assured Destruction, today is just one sided stupidity.
You!! yes, You are and acceptable 'loss' as I am. Freaking warring Nation Karma is an acceptable loss, life is NOT
Well You're rigth most guitarrists will agree, as I'm doing now, for playing guitar a nice tube amp, listening the result? a solid state one(why I would want additional distortion/compression/etc when listening to a finished song).
Solid state amps and DSP are becomming better but at the very least I still can hear differences: a more rigid sound a higher volume, and other subtle ways of sound and/or reaction, and its sound is somehow tiring(must be the higher freqs).
When I *play* music an amp that "Sounds Like You Intended/Mean" is what I want and not a "Sounds Absolutely Exactly as was Inputed". But is the other way for listening music...
An ageing 15G maxtor is up and perfect, while the last three seagates I've bought 2 o' em are already in a garbage bin somewhere, and this one is soon to follow, plus another I've to return 'cos it was defective from the start, damned POS.
If cornice is stealing seagate's tech, then I'll put 'em in my 'do not ever buy list' along with seagate.
Windows binaries available? True, but Ruby also compiles cleanly in windows(no hacks needed, much less a ton of questions like , "if *this* doesn't make sense accept default (n)").
I have tried Ruby, never managed to get deep in Perl, PHP is quite decent, Python? uh I don't like a lot of it.But don't trust me, try Ruby, You're for a big surprise(a good one mind you).
Bushy-boy and co. lying? ha! you call that news? their mouths keep moving...
OT
The USA got a lot of support after 11/09 which lost very fast thanks to Bush unilateralism/lies, Now the world(hey at least me) supports US citizens to get a *NEW* president, hopefully a better one, anybody in the world can see what kind of loon is Bush, we don't need those.
Disclaimer no I'm not from USA(and you don't know how much I thank that fact at the moment), I don't intend to tell you what to do, You're free to repeat mistakes. and please don't reply I'm busy;-).
thanks for the link, learn something everyday ne, anyway googling for said theory concludes that a strong determinism of thought upon the language used is an error, and indeed I think so, if You have cared to read with more detail you would notice that I agreed that thought is affected by language but is minimal(which part of SLIGHTLY didn't get?), the real effect comes after you comunicate those thoughts. That's my experience and wouldn't change 'til it shows me otherwise. besides this is/.;-)
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A basic element of learning-teaching is the teacher, who just can't be replaced, the kids need far more than data, need also affection, support, guidance and motivation, I find hard to believe a computer will provide much of it, not to mention that we might see physical problems later and probably conductual issues.
A common lie, every teacher knows...that it might be true for a lil' while, but later: "ain't doin' your work".
don't get me started in the lack of arts, music and p.e.
Most music do...I'll admit to have trouble finding it in some err "songs", and mean theme not badly rewashed old cliches.
sometimes I want to get away from it, maybe I'm not the only one. Sometimes to enhance my current mood or change it.
Good music transmits an emotion a feeling be love, anger,sadness, whatever. There's lot of it out there, stop listening top xxx's or look music in another genre/countries. There's always good or bad music depending on each one tastes.
musicals, ohhh no, make it stop, stooooooooop.
Whenever I see a musical I turn it off. Not only they do lousy rehashed goody goody they add insult to injury!!. Whereas anime soundtracks are masterworks Lodoss war, Escaflowne, Hack sign, Noir, Initial D(well is upbeat at least and goes with the show), Ah megami sama, Tsukihime, etc...list can go longer, or at the very least not as...as obstructing, embarrasing, yeah that's the words.
btw as I got older my expectation from Disney has always been the same: what old story, that everybody knows are they gonna rip off now?. With the exception of fanservice series, anime stories are good, some even great and usually well delivered. Animation could be good or could be crappy, 2d or 3d, the story is what matters.
A fad? dunno but looking back to my kid years(80's) I started to notice that plenty of those "cartoons" where actually anime, and where my fave by a long long shot.
one thing I have to agree with is that anime OVA's or Movies are not that great(not that there are put on theaters that much).
And if You didn't noticed those "formulas" are consequences of the characters design which includes "flaws" sometimes serious sometimes not. And the idea of parent was/is "the history" I wonder why you failed to give examples of Evangelion or Escaflowne.
The hook of anime are several but the biggest sellers, at least for me are:
1) Good/great stories, evolving ones, people lives, changes, dies, pain hurts, experiences teach for better or worse.
2) Characters, defined with personalities, attitudes, relationships and once again this thing called evolution/learning/maturing thru a story. chars who are someway between good/evil not plain black/white hats that can a do CHANGE.
3)innovation, creativity, exoticness whatever you want to call it. it usually has imagination, it moves me to a different reality, usually well thought and developed. just like LOTR,Escaflowne takes my mind for a ride, or the detail of GITS or GUNN.
I have never seen anything of the above in disney, it was always lame, the good, the bad, the helpless and the stupid. A formula after a formula. I ain't blind there's a good chunk of chiched anime but far less than disney's 100% cliches.
A fan of good stories anime or not.
torrent can be found here http://torrentsearch.us/browse/linux-150.php but tracker is the symphonyos site so: tracker return code 500 ;-(
W2K is great, the reason I'm still using windows, windows XP and the future(longlongerlongesthorn) doesn't look good, I see Linux, *bds o if $$ allows apple as my upgrade, when I can truly run no more W2K. Man ain't excited about an OS change but MS sure makes incentives for it.
I inform you that in spanish, "Libre" (which btw isn't exactly gratis see below) doesn't have any accent, if you add that accent, then is a conjugation of the verb "librar" in past tense, so "libré" actually means "I fought".
fue duro pero [libré] y gane mis batallas
it was thought but I [fought] and won my battles
For clarification: libre is like freedom, no strings attached,i.e. your will is the limit, whereas gratis o gratuito means simply "without cost".
so say libre not libré.
Native spanish speaker(Mexican).
I really don't desire to others what I wouldn't want for me but... those 250 USA soldiers who are invaders, who are doin' nothing for the good of makind, would die, many more lifes would be saved. The welfare of the majority comes before of the minority. I DO wish for those 250 or more to be killed.
Dude, any goodwill that USA had, has long run dry.
I'll go a bit farther, and wish that your country had a attack(s) on your own soil, maybe then, just maybe, You'll learn the horror you unleash on others...
where do I sign.
Hey Mr. JonathanX why do you need a room full of your "brothers marines"? huh? your post shows who's the coward. Can have it like men? are you even one to understand what You show in your post? don't talk of cojones obviously you don't what's that.
You win? what? yup the cowardice contest.
COWARDICE: we aren't brave, but we're many...and we have the guns.
In the first place I intended to provide the same functionality not the same technique by redefining + itself which is far easy, but since you complain that about the 'user' specifically using a new method then:
class Fixnum
alias plus +
def +(b)
if self==2
return self
else
return self.plus(b)
end
end
end
p a=2 #=>2
p a+1 #=>2
p a+2 #=>2
p a=1 #=>1
p a+1 #=>2
p a+2 #=>3
to avoid the recursive problem in the self+b I just setted an alias for + and used internally in the redefinition of 'self+b', so doesn't need to know what's going under the hood.
btw I never intended to prove that my ruby was bigger than your python, it was just a silly comparison...don't read that much into this.
Boy those __whatever__ are as ugly as they come, not to mention self in __add__(self,b) why?
just for comparison:
class Fixnum
def add(b)
if self==2
return self
else
return self+b
end
end
end
a=2 #=>2
a.add(1) #=>2
a.add(2) #=>2
a=1 #=>1
a.add(1) #=>2
a.add(2) #=>3
that's ruby...can't redef '+' because when
'return self+b'
it becomes messy: Stack level too deep...so I extended Fixnum
mmmmh let me think it out...NO!!
list.each{|thing| do_something(thing)}
is far clearer to me...
remember kids just say NO.
Anybody and their dog would want one of 'em.
The word You were looking for is: 'person' not human...or what, we're half-monkeys when young?(mmmh ok, sometimes children behave like that).
Nice goin' mod...
if post.true? && post.mod=='Troll'
metamod(mod.id)
end
*hint* this one should be 'offtopic'
Some people were itching to use their new toy, tens of thousands of civil lifes were acceptable losses, they weren't 'them'...back then and today, the fact that at the same time they were fearing the world-power that actually defeated the germans... and in their fear o'em, in their rush to show 'their power', they gave an amoral and unnecesary order. USA has never had any respect for life now nor ever.
Once there was Mutually Assured Destruction, today is just one sided stupidity.
You!! yes, You are and acceptable 'loss' as I am.
Freaking warring Nation
Karma is an acceptable loss, life is NOT
Well You're rigth most guitarrists will agree, as I'm doing now, for playing guitar a nice tube amp, listening the result? a solid state one(why I would want additional distortion/compression/etc when listening to a finished song). Solid state amps and DSP are becomming better but at the very least I still can hear differences: a more rigid sound a higher volume, and other subtle ways of sound and/or reaction, and its sound is somehow tiring(must be the higher freqs). When I *play* music an amp that "Sounds Like You Intended/Mean" is what I want and not a "Sounds Absolutely Exactly as was Inputed". But is the other way for listening music...
Spend their time making reliable HD's?
An ageing 15G maxtor is up and perfect, while the last three seagates I've bought 2 o' em are already in a garbage bin somewhere, and this one is soon to follow, plus another I've to return 'cos it was defective from the start, damned POS.
If cornice is stealing seagate's tech, then I'll put 'em in my 'do not ever buy list' along with seagate.
Windows binaries available? True, but Ruby also compiles cleanly in windows(no hacks needed, much less a ton of questions like , "if *this* doesn't make sense accept default (n)").
I have tried Ruby, never managed to get deep in Perl, PHP is quite decent, Python? uh I don't like a lot of it.But don't trust me, try Ruby, You're for a big surprise(a good one mind you).
Bushy-boy and co. lying? ha! you call that news? their mouths keep moving...
;-).
OT The USA got a lot of support after 11/09 which lost very fast thanks to Bush unilateralism/lies, Now the world(hey at least me) supports US citizens to get a *NEW* president, hopefully a better one, anybody in the world can see what kind of loon is Bush, we don't need those.
Disclaimer no I'm not from USA(and you don't know how much I thank that fact at the moment), I don't intend to tell you what to do, You're free to repeat mistakes. and please don't reply I'm busy
thanks for the link, learn something everyday ne, anyway googling for said theory concludes that a strong determinism of thought upon the language used is an error, and indeed I think so, if You have cared to read with more detail you would notice that I agreed that thought is affected by language but is minimal(which part of SLIGHTLY didn't get?), the real effect comes after you comunicate those thoughts. That's my experience and wouldn't change 'til it shows me otherwise. besides this is /. ;-)