"They could (and MIT has), but what would be the point? Sitting and passively listening to a lecture, without any opportunity to ask questions, is the least educationally effective method of learning there is. At a good school, what's really beneficial is stuff like having good apparatus for labs, having small lab groups, having opportunities for undergraduate research, being able to ask your TA and prof questions, having someone knowledgeable grade your homework, interacting with other students who are smart,... The list goes on and on. None of that can be reproduced via video."
Yes but my point is it's better to have those videos then none, and have them in an organized site, and have a "wikipedia" like pages for each course/related material, that students / teachers all over can constantly add too and forums. You can do a lot of this on the net, at your own pace. This is my point.
"Secondary education is big business."
And that is part of the problem, you get those fly by night schools or "gaming schools", etc that aren't real schools who are just in it to make a profit.
"There's a pretty simple solution to the problem, which is to set higher standards in math, English, and science in K-12; enforce those standards with standardized tests; and refuse to promote kids to the next grade if they can't demonstrate that they've mastered the material."
The truth is the best teachers should be recording their classes/lectures and puting them on the net, not waiting for the beauracracy to catch up. Kids who want to learn and desire to will, but you have to give them quality teachers who know how to teach and keep kids interested.
I always wondered why schools didn't simply find the best teachers then mass produce their teachings en-mass via video and the internet.
Gradius V in my opinion has to be one of the BEST designed 2 player games for skilled gamers who dig the "old school" shoot-em-up genre before that term was pirated by generations unaquainted with them for first person shooters.
Try playing 2 player gradius in the green slime level, or asteroid belt level and the thing is just one of the most INTENSE gaming experiences you'll ever have.
"2. Your RAID array *will* scramble your data at some point in time. That or your file system will decide to perform the honors instead. And that's only if your fingers don't do the walking before that time."
Oh and how might this occur barring hard drive(s) crash? I run syncs every so often, and I have never had my data swizzled.
I know RAID 5 isn't a *replacement* for backup, but it sure is a lot better then losing an ENTIRE DRIVE to a headcrash now doesn't it?
I've been able to recover entire data from dead drives who've been subject to the dreaded "clicks of death" (constant recalibration).
Believe me when I say I believe you, but most of my data on my RAID is replacable (i.e. can be downloaded againt from the net).
... the real reasons why people can't judge the quality of information they are given.
Lets face it, we are 'zerging' ourselves to death with information.
(Definition: a term from starcraft in which overwhelming numbers of troops are sent at the enemy)
1) People simply do not have the time and brain processing power necessary, even before the internet, the volume of information and propaganda produced simply overwhelms peoples intellectual ability to cope with it. It's enormously tedious and time consuming and would take one many lifetimes if one was to "verify everything" we take a lot of information simply as a "given", because the benefits outway the costs.
2) Citical thinking skills do not apply equally to everybody, due to varying factors in information processing ability of the mind, ever notice that there are people that are expert at detecting when someone is lying about something, while at the same time believing the dumbest shit imaginable?
3) The advent of specialization has now made it exceedingly difficult to impossible for non-specialists to make good decisions about area's of which they are completely ignorant. This is part of the reason that voters in democracy's are increasingly impotent as population sizes and specialization increase.
As someone who uses drives 24/7 (they are on all the time) it is better to sell them on ebay before their warranty is up. Now that Seagate has 5 year warranty on their standard drives, always sell them at around the 1.5-2 year mark and upgrade to newer drives. If you don't use your drives 24/7 and only use them much more rarely then you can get away with not replacing them longer but...
I have learned the hardway from when I was younger: If you can afford RAID, even simply mirroring, do it. I use RAID 5 and there is no way I'm ever going back to a non-RAID setup, you save loads of time in not having to back stuff up to CD or DVD. Although you should ALWAYS back up smaller important files to either 1) Flash or 2) CD/DVD.
Some information is irreplacable, never get complacent. Especially since computers are now the nerve centers of our lives in many respects, they hold countless hours of work and irreplacable memories (photo's, etc).
"but on the other side, it's not the same movie, but a much higher definition, clearer, sharper version.
Worth paying for? Your choice."
Ahh but here's the problem: You already technically own a universal liscense to view the actual CONTENT of movie, is exactly the same. So the cost of the new version for those who already own the liscense already should be at simply the cost of the materials, since you already own the liscense. Funny how no for profit company ever argues copyright law in that direction... considering the consider your purchase a "liscsne to view" their IP.
Time for the consumer to use that double-edged sword I say.:)
The problem is there is simply no way you can stop cybercrime when even regular people become petty criminals, they simply overwhelm the available resources of the law enforcement agencies that attempt to put a stop to it.
I call it "zerging", a term from starcraft:
Zerging describes a tactic, originating in real-time strategy games but used in many different computer games that is analogous to the human wave attack in real-world ground warfare, in which overwhelming numbers of troops are sent at the enemy, disregarding tactics or casualties. It gets its name from the zergling rush tactic from Starcraft.
"The real reason why the PS2 was such a success, is that it was a very cheap DVD player, and DVDs had just become established technology."
I really doubt it, how many people knew the PS2 doubled as a DVD player? I'd venture to guess not that many (at least in north america) maybe in Japan where the people are more tech savvy and cultured. The xbox also played DVD's yet didn't sell anywhere close to what the PS2 did. People bought the PS2 because they were looking forward to the sequels of their favorite games. Don't kid yourself. It's the same reason people bought a Super Nintendo, after the NES era, they knew all their favorite games would be on the platform.
It's the games that sell the system.
Lastly, Nintendo and Xbox sold roughly the same units worldwide, yet the Gamecube had no DVD player functionality, yet the Xbox did... so how do we explain the nearly equal installed base? It's the games...
"Assuming that 360 sales continue to at the pace they are at now (an underestimate, to be sure), then we're looking at January 2008ish as the earliest that Sony can feasibly be the market leader. "
As always the system selling games, wide library and their exclusivity will determine the sell through of the console. Most people who aren't gamers and who have a good grasp of gaming history are not really able to comment on why something is or isn't successful. Gamers get consoles to play games, before PS1 hit, Nintendo was #1 for two consecutive generations, they would have been just as big as the PS1 was if they hadn't screwed up the N64 technologically by chaining it to a cartridge based system.
Ultimately developers knew where they wanted to go to make the money and that was with graphically enhancing games, and so the PS1 was a no brainer with the huge storage capacity for games like FF7. The problem is now for competitors is brand dominance, Playstation as a brand = "I don't have to worry about the games I want not being available".
That's ultimately what gamers want, gamers give their money to those who serve their interests.
"Who knows? I can say that in the past, sometimes the 2 companies offering, 1 of them has been designed slightly differently which has led to performance hits in certain modes (iirc ATI's competitor to the GF3 was fairly ho-hum, but don't quote me on that)"
ATI was a complete shit factory during most of the 3D card wars when 3Dfx was still around. ATI was not even in the game until the 9500 / 9500 pro. Nvidia was king for a while until the time of the GF4
I'm not surprised, the culture in the UK is pretty superior to what you find in the US. Less religious, more rational, etc, more immune to capitalist propaganda that you find in the states and their easy manipulation of their people.
Let me tell you that Privacy is an illusion... I have had firsthand experience with the RCMP in Canada.
* They have moles (aka spies) in cities and townships and schools
* Wealthy corporations hire criminals or corrupt officials, military men, "ex-spies", etc to spy on populations in "democractic" nations.
* Governments co-operate to spy on their own people to manage dissent and document instabilities, people, etc.
* Many internet providers and other internet businesses are subsidiaries of larger parent companies that collect as much data as they can, illegally or legally, either directly through their own company or through shell companies (i.e. contractors, foreign businesses, etc).
* Free email services are not private
* Web boards and google, many people on the internet "anonymously" post the intimate details of their personal and professional life to web-boards around the internet to get answers, or whatever they are looking for (sympathy, cheer oneself up, the intellectual stimulation, etc).
* Data mining and Crawlers that crawl the internet and hack into sites (backdoors) or directly but do no damage, they just want to match the data with IP addresses and any other relevant information.
Lastly satellite technology and 3D mapping make privacy a thing of the past. Computational power will make tracking all objects on the ground fuck-shit easy.
Go see maps.google.com and go get a small taste then imagine what the real intelligence agencies must have.
I wouldn't be surprised if sony is in on the ebay scam themselves, it's not beyond a company to double dipp. And ebay and Sony are both powerful enough and corrupt enough to come to such a lucrative agreement.
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They want information they can track back to IP addresses, google mail and other free email services I wouldn't be surprised if everything you've told your friends about your private and personal life is now recorded in many governments and certain private corporate databases around the world.
Geotargetting using IP addresses is not difficult.
"The Cell has about 20x the processing power as a Core Duo with a high-end graphics card combined."
Where did you get this idea? Maybe you should have read the article here --> http://gprime.net/board/archive/index.php/t-5989.h tml that was pulled from anandtech.
I dont know how clueless these people are but mis-spellings and mis-typings get you page hits and adds viewed. Thats why the pages of those sites are usually filled with adds.
"There's black comedy and there's black comedy, and the latter kind implies that your sympathies lie with the perpetrators. Do you think, maybe, this is a bad way to start an article?"
You must have never been defrauded before for a SERIOUS amont of money that represents a large chunk of you time spent having worked
Tell me have you ever been ripped off for a large amount of money? I don't care WHO you are, but when you've worked months and months for money and someone defrauds you of thousands of dollars, thats MONTHS or YEARS of your life you can't get back, money gives a person control of their time and their life, it supports their family, when someone steals that money, THEIR PROPERTY, LIFE AND TIME HAS BEEN STOLEN FROM THEM.
It's a perfectly valid response. You have to understand paypal does stupid fucking things, I got defrauded once and paypal gave me a hell of a time simply because I bought from a buyer who did not have "paypal buyer protection" after the sale because he ripped off a bunch of people and then the flurry of negative feedback came on ebay, but he DID have buyer ptoection wgeb I made the sale, but he lost it due to bad ebay feedback and I had to haggle with paypal for my money of technicality.
Sure bombing may seem extreme from our side because we are not the person who has been defrauded, but if it was a big enough amount of money it surely would be very difficult to settle onself if you're not in a position to get it back.
If they can make the movie more like the 1994/95 classic, except with more professional writing, but keep the same excitement and awesome fights, then they might have a good chance at making it decent.
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"They could (and MIT has), but what would be the point? Sitting and passively listening to a lecture, without any opportunity to ask questions, is the least educationally effective method of learning there is. At a good school, what's really beneficial is stuff like having good apparatus for labs, having small lab groups, having opportunities for undergraduate research, being able to ask your TA and prof questions, having someone knowledgeable grade your homework, interacting with other students who are smart, ... The list goes on and on. None of that can be reproduced via video."
Yes but my point is it's better to have those videos then none, and have them in an organized site, and have a "wikipedia" like pages for each course/related material, that students / teachers all over can constantly add too and forums. You can do a lot of this on the net, at your own pace. This is my point.
"Secondary education is big business." And that is part of the problem, you get those fly by night schools or "gaming schools", etc that aren't real schools who are just in it to make a profit.
"There's a pretty simple solution to the problem, which is to set higher standards in math, English, and science in K-12; enforce those standards with standardized tests; and refuse to promote kids to the next grade if they can't demonstrate that they've mastered the material."
The truth is the best teachers should be recording their classes/lectures and puting them on the net, not waiting for the beauracracy to catch up. Kids who want to learn and desire to will, but you have to give them quality teachers who know how to teach and keep kids interested.
I always wondered why schools didn't simply find the best teachers then mass produce their teachings en-mass via video and the internet.
Soul Calibur 2 is also an excellent 2 player game.
Gradius V in my opinion has to be one of the BEST designed 2 player games for skilled gamers who dig the "old school" shoot-em-up genre before that term was pirated by generations unaquainted with them for first person shooters.
Try playing 2 player gradius in the green slime level, or asteroid belt level and the thing is just one of the most INTENSE gaming experiences you'll ever have.
"2. Your RAID array *will* scramble your data at some point in time. That or your file system will decide to perform the honors instead. And that's only if your fingers don't do the walking before that time."
Oh and how might this occur barring hard drive(s) crash? I run syncs every so often, and I have never had my data swizzled.
I know RAID 5 isn't a *replacement* for backup, but it sure is a lot better then losing an ENTIRE DRIVE to a headcrash now doesn't it?
I've been able to recover entire data from dead drives who've been subject to the dreaded "clicks of death" (constant recalibration).
Believe me when I say I believe you, but most of my data on my RAID is replacable (i.e. can be downloaded againt from the net).
... the real reasons why people can't judge the quality of information they are given. Lets face it, we are 'zerging' ourselves to death with information. (Definition: a term from starcraft in which overwhelming numbers of troops are sent at the enemy) 1) People simply do not have the time and brain processing power necessary, even before the internet, the volume of information and propaganda produced simply overwhelms peoples intellectual ability to cope with it. It's enormously tedious and time consuming and would take one many lifetimes if one was to "verify everything" we take a lot of information simply as a "given", because the benefits outway the costs. 2) Citical thinking skills do not apply equally to everybody, due to varying factors in information processing ability of the mind, ever notice that there are people that are expert at detecting when someone is lying about something, while at the same time believing the dumbest shit imaginable? 3) The advent of specialization has now made it exceedingly difficult to impossible for non-specialists to make good decisions about area's of which they are completely ignorant. This is part of the reason that voters in democracy's are increasingly impotent as population sizes and specialization increase.
As someone who uses drives 24/7 (they are on all the time) it is better to sell them on ebay before their warranty is up. Now that Seagate has 5 year warranty on their standard drives, always sell them at around the 1.5-2 year mark and upgrade to newer drives. If you don't use your drives 24/7 and only use them much more rarely then you can get away with not replacing them longer but...
I have learned the hardway from when I was younger: If you can afford RAID, even simply mirroring, do it. I use RAID 5 and there is no way I'm ever going back to a non-RAID setup, you save loads of time in not having to back stuff up to CD or DVD. Although you should ALWAYS back up smaller important files to either 1) Flash or 2) CD/DVD.
Some information is irreplacable, never get complacent. Especially since computers are now the nerve centers of our lives in many respects, they hold countless hours of work and irreplacable memories (photo's, etc).
"but on the other side, it's not the same movie, but a much higher definition, clearer, sharper version.
:)
Worth paying for? Your choice."
Ahh but here's the problem: You already technically own a universal liscense to view the actual CONTENT of movie, is exactly the same. So the cost of the new version for those who already own the liscense already should be at simply the cost of the materials, since you already own the liscense. Funny how no for profit company ever argues copyright law in that direction... considering the consider your purchase a "liscsne to view" their IP.
Time for the consumer to use that double-edged sword I say.
"I was blown away. Are these in-game shots? If so, wow wow wow."
Yeah and you'll be blown away by how bored you get after playing it. I couldn't stand how slow paced and non-action oriented the game was.
The problem is there is simply no way you can stop cybercrime when even regular people become petty criminals, they simply overwhelm the available resources of the law enforcement agencies that attempt to put a stop to it.
I call it "zerging", a term from starcraft:
Zerging describes a tactic, originating in real-time strategy games but used in many different computer games that is analogous to the human wave attack in real-world ground warfare, in which overwhelming numbers of troops are sent at the enemy, disregarding tactics or casualties. It gets its name from the zergling rush tactic from Starcraft.
"The real reason why the PS2 was such a success, is that it was a very cheap DVD player, and DVDs had just become established technology."
I really doubt it, how many people knew the PS2 doubled as a DVD player? I'd venture to guess not that many (at least in north america) maybe in Japan where the people are more tech savvy and cultured. The xbox also played DVD's yet didn't sell anywhere close to what the PS2 did. People bought the PS2 because they were looking forward to the sequels of their favorite games. Don't kid yourself. It's the same reason people bought a Super Nintendo, after the NES era, they knew all their favorite games would be on the platform.
It's the games that sell the system.
Lastly, Nintendo and Xbox sold roughly the same units worldwide, yet the Gamecube had no DVD player functionality, yet the Xbox did... so how do we explain the nearly equal installed base? It's the games...
"Assuming that 360 sales continue to at the pace they are at now (an underestimate, to be sure), then we're looking at January 2008ish as the earliest that Sony can feasibly be the market leader. "
As always the system selling games, wide library and their exclusivity will determine the sell through of the console. Most people who aren't gamers and who have a good grasp of gaming history are not really able to comment on why something is or isn't successful. Gamers get consoles to play games, before PS1 hit, Nintendo was #1 for two consecutive generations, they would have been just as big as the PS1 was if they hadn't screwed up the N64 technologically by chaining it to a cartridge based system.
Ultimately developers knew where they wanted to go to make the money and that was with graphically enhancing games, and so the PS1 was a no brainer with the huge storage capacity for games like FF7. The problem is now for competitors is brand dominance, Playstation as a brand = "I don't have to worry about the games I want not being available".
That's ultimately what gamers want, gamers give their money to those who serve their interests.
"This is one small step for a man, and one GIANT LEAP in my profits!"
"Who knows? I can say that in the past, sometimes the 2 companies offering, 1 of them has been designed slightly differently which has led to performance hits in certain modes (iirc ATI's competitor to the GF3 was fairly ho-hum, but don't quote me on that)"
ATI was a complete shit factory during most of the 3D card wars when 3Dfx was still around. ATI was not even in the game until the 9500 / 9500 pro. Nvidia was king for a while until the time of the GF4
I'm not surprised, the culture in the UK is pretty superior to what you find in the US. Less religious, more rational, etc, more immune to capitalist propaganda that you find in the states and their easy manipulation of their people.
Let me tell you that Privacy is an illusion... I have had firsthand experience with the RCMP in Canada.
* They have moles (aka spies) in cities and townships and schools
* Wealthy corporations hire criminals or corrupt officials, military men, "ex-spies", etc to spy on populations in "democractic" nations.
* Governments co-operate to spy on their own people to manage dissent and document instabilities, people, etc.
* Many internet providers and other internet businesses are subsidiaries of larger parent companies that collect as much data as they can, illegally or legally, either directly through their own company or through shell companies (i.e. contractors, foreign businesses, etc).
* Free email services are not private
* Web boards and google, many people on the internet "anonymously" post the intimate details of their personal and professional life to web-boards around the internet to get answers, or whatever they are looking for (sympathy, cheer oneself up, the intellectual stimulation, etc).
* Data mining and Crawlers that crawl the internet and hack into sites (backdoors) or directly but do no damage, they just want to match the data with IP addresses and any other relevant information.
Lastly satellite technology and 3D mapping make privacy a thing of the past. Computational power will make tracking all objects on the ground fuck-shit easy.
Go see maps.google.com and go get a small taste then imagine what the real intelligence agencies must have.
I wouldn't be surprised if sony is in on the ebay scam themselves, it's not beyond a company to double dipp. And ebay and Sony are both powerful enough and corrupt enough to come to such a lucrative agreement.
They want information they can track back to IP addresses, google mail and other free email services I wouldn't be surprised if everything you've told your friends about your private and personal life is now recorded in many governments and certain private corporate databases around the world.
Geotargetting using IP addresses is not difficult.
"The Cell has about 20x the processing power as a Core Duo with a high-end graphics card combined."
h tml [gprime.net] that was pulled from anandtech.
Where did you get this idea? Maybe you should have read the article here --> http://gprime.net/board/archive/index.php/t-5989.
"The Cell has about 20x the processing power as a Core Duo with a high-end graphics card combined." Where did you get this idea? Maybe you should have read the article here --> http://gprime.net/board/archive/index.php/t-5989.h tml that was pulled from anandtech.
I dont know how clueless these people are but mis-spellings and mis-typings get you page hits and adds viewed. Thats why the pages of those sites are usually filled with adds.
Immature Blue ray drive technology causing the drain? I have a feeling thats where a lot of the power consumption is going.
"There's black comedy and there's black comedy, and the latter kind implies that your sympathies lie with the perpetrators. Do you think, maybe, this is a bad way to start an article?"
You must have never been defrauded before for a SERIOUS amont of money that represents a large chunk of you time spent having worked
Tell me have you ever been ripped off for a large amount of money? I don't care WHO you are, but when you've worked months and months for money and someone defrauds you of thousands of dollars, thats MONTHS or YEARS of your life you can't get back, money gives a person control of their time and their life, it supports their family, when someone steals that money, THEIR PROPERTY, LIFE AND TIME HAS BEEN STOLEN FROM THEM.
It's a perfectly valid response. You have to understand paypal does stupid fucking things, I got defrauded once and paypal gave me a hell of a time simply because I bought from a buyer who did not have "paypal buyer protection" after the sale because he ripped off a bunch of people and then the flurry of negative feedback came on ebay, but he DID have buyer ptoection wgeb I made the sale, but he lost it due to bad ebay feedback and I had to haggle with paypal for my money of technicality.
Sure bombing may seem extreme from our side because we are not the person who has been defrauded, but if it was a big enough amount of money it surely would be very difficult to settle onself if you're not in a position to get it back.
"Another street fighter movie?"
M ovie/dp/1573306886/sr=1-3/qid=1162312713/ref=pd_bb s_3/002-8879132-9336042?ie=UTF8&s=dvd
If they can make the movie more like the 1994/95 classic, except with more professional writing, but keep the same excitement and awesome fights, then they might have a good chance at making it decent.
http://www.amazon.com/Street-Fighter-II-Animated-