In TFA, the student was researching (broadly) Islamic Politics. Which seems reasonable enough; it's regrettably a large part of perceived western views on Islamic politics.
Additionally, it wasn't the student who originally downloaded the material who is now being threatened with deportation. Hisham Yezza was asked to print the document in question, and there's no evidence that he even read it.
As far as I remember though, the first wave of S1 wasn't filled with Meta puzzles.
When I heard about this, it was heart-wrenchingly sad. My heart continues to go out to the writers who lost what sounds like the best job in the history of the world.
Sorry, but I abhor this article, and using these two questions to judge the quality of their respective country's education systems is just stupid.
There are no specifics there whatsoever about how hard the respective questions are seen to be. The question from a first year British University course is a low end question which would be set to check a baseline of mathematical knowledge in the undergrads, something that the examiner fully expect everyone to correctly answer. Because it's a University diagnostic question, I also doubt that cost saving when it comes to marking was ever a deciding factor.
Equally, we don't know if the pre-entry question from China was aimed at the brightest or dumbest of students, though I'd guess closer to the top end.
My point is that it would have taken only a different spin and different questions (say, from the STEP papers, which are also pre-entry examination papers for Cambridge/Warwick maths applicants) to make a story about how British education was much better than maths schooling in China - only it wouldn't make as good a story.
It's interesting: in virtually every single discussion board that I have ever read, I have not once noticed someone who's unhappy with purchasing a PS3.
There've been plenty of disgruntled Wii (boring) or 360 (it keeps breaking!) owners, but I suppose they have more people who own them:)
Agree with parent.
I was elated to see the main BBC evening news have a lengthy special report on E3 whilst it was on. This would have been unthinkable years ago; but as gaming becomes more and more mainstream, more and more of the media's demographics will want to see gaming news.
The ATI FGLRX drivers are... ok. They're just exceptionally finickity, tempermental and bad tempered (every update seems to add features but break it entirely). I do believe though that sufficient tampering with xorg and choosing the correct driver version will let you get a complete working hardware accelerated system 9 times out of 10.
Need to download Dapper to supplant Breezy alongside Gentoo: has anyone had problems with buggy dist-upgrades?
I'm curious, why is the cheaper price point version of the PS3 a "cripple". I'm certain that a vast proportion of the market will not think that they need HDMI support, because they don't have an HDMI TV. Even if they do live to regret that sentiment when/if HD becomes the norm.
No, not growing up. Sure, the current generation of gaming teens will grow up - but then there'll be a new generation who are starting gaming.
That said, the article only looks at the former, so I'd have to conclude that it jumps to conclusions about overall teen gaming numbers. I'd say that I'll try to reduce the time that I spend gaming, because of other commitments - but I know that I won't.
Yes, I thought that the article took the Bush article's Protection out of context here. It was protected because it gets vandalised lots, not necessarily because of POV attacks by congressional staffers.
They really need to update their information and sources; I realise that they're probably looking at stock information or old press releases, but it doesn't take much to take:
Wikipedia was founded in 2001 and has since grown to more than 1.8 million articles in 200 languages. Some 800,000 entries are in English.
And instead have:
Wikipedia was founded in 2001 and has since grown to more than 3 million articles in 200 languages. Some 950,000 entries are in English.
It may be a small difference, but you'd expect the BBC to be able to get that right:s
This was turned on briefly (last year sometime) but was turned off again relatively quickly because noone (or not enough people) was marking the articles as patrolled. It's also quite a monotonous job, and it may just degenerate to clicking a button; without paying any attention whatsoever to the content. wikiHow has patrolled articles enabled, and they're running that smoothly:)
A "natural" version of 3 keys? What sort of layout do you want? =P
Though you're probably refering to the full Optimus keyboard, which they might release a natural layout, but as they said, they haven't even made a sample yet...
I think that they're going to release an Open API for it, so yes - they do add extra functionality. My favourite use that I saw for them was on the Engadget link above; from a gamer who said that they'd be great as an indicator of whether he'd recieved any emails, IMs, etc whilst in game.
That's what I'd use it for...
Well, news was spreading quickly through Digg and elsewhere hours before this story was posted.
I don't know where you got that $300 figure from. If you're extrapolating it directly up, it'd be $4000; but Art Lebedev are still claiming that it will cost "Less than a decent mobile phone"; which would then give you $300. Did I just argue myself in circles? ^^
But, for people interested in getting the full keyboard, I can't see any of them forking out an extra $100 for these 3 keys; which don't have the greatest of practical applications.
An Introversion game! And Introversion game!:D
My perfect gaming day is complete; not only is HL2 released, but I learn of DEFCON.
Does anyone have PCG UK? I'll get it tomorrow..
As a UK resident, I haven't yet had the chance to use m.gmail.com; but I have been using http://www.gmailwireless.com/ for some months, which I've been happy with. Probably move to the official version now, but it was useful.
Agree with parent, esp. with regard to Darwinia.
The Movies is also being touted as quite good; and did Guild Wars come out this year?
Most importantly, Shadow Of The Colossus was released this year - so it was a good year for gaming; albeit not for the gamers who look only for more shallow and typical games.
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I think you'll find that people in London, esp. those directly affected by the attacks, care.
One of the more direct differences is that most of the people who do die in Iraq, however unfortunate it is, are military or Police. When signing up for this job, you do accept the possibility of dying, and probability of being exposed to danger. Here, innocent civilians were killed.
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In TFA, the student was researching (broadly) Islamic Politics. Which seems reasonable enough; it's regrettably a large part of perceived western views on Islamic politics. Additionally, it wasn't the student who originally downloaded the material who is now being threatened with deportation. Hisham Yezza was asked to print the document in question, and there's no evidence that he even read it.
As far as I remember though, the first wave of S1 wasn't filled with Meta puzzles. When I heard about this, it was heart-wrenchingly sad. My heart continues to go out to the writers who lost what sounds like the best job in the history of the world.
Did anyone really expect it to be released this year?
Sorry, but I abhor this article, and using these two questions to judge the quality of their respective country's education systems is just stupid. There are no specifics there whatsoever about how hard the respective questions are seen to be. The question from a first year British University course is a low end question which would be set to check a baseline of mathematical knowledge in the undergrads, something that the examiner fully expect everyone to correctly answer. Because it's a University diagnostic question, I also doubt that cost saving when it comes to marking was ever a deciding factor. Equally, we don't know if the pre-entry question from China was aimed at the brightest or dumbest of students, though I'd guess closer to the top end. My point is that it would have taken only a different spin and different questions (say, from the STEP papers, which are also pre-entry examination papers for Cambridge/Warwick maths applicants) to make a story about how British education was much better than maths schooling in China - only it wouldn't make as good a story.
It's interesting: in virtually every single discussion board that I have ever read, I have not once noticed someone who's unhappy with purchasing a PS3. There've been plenty of disgruntled Wii (boring) or 360 (it keeps breaking!) owners, but I suppose they have more people who own them :)
Umm, they are doing more movies... or perhaps a new TV show; they haven't confirmed it yet.
The sane amongst you might prefer the plain HTML version: http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1548258/20061218/ id_0.jhtml
Agree with parent.
I was elated to see the main BBC evening news have a lengthy special report on E3 whilst it was on. This would have been unthinkable years ago; but as gaming becomes more and more mainstream, more and more of the media's demographics will want to see gaming news.
The ATI FGLRX drivers are... ok. They're just exceptionally finickity, tempermental and bad tempered (every update seems to add features but break it entirely). I do believe though that sufficient tampering with xorg and choosing the correct driver version will let you get a complete working hardware accelerated system 9 times out of 10. Need to download Dapper to supplant Breezy alongside Gentoo: has anyone had problems with buggy dist-upgrades?
I'm curious, why is the cheaper price point version of the PS3 a "cripple". I'm certain that a vast proportion of the market will not think that they need HDMI support, because they don't have an HDMI TV. Even if they do live to regret that sentiment when/if HD becomes the norm.
Gaming Horizons seems to sideline all their stuff to http://www.e3updates.com/
No, not growing up. Sure, the current generation of gaming teens will grow up - but then there'll be a new generation who are starting gaming. That said, the article only looks at the former, so I'd have to conclude that it jumps to conclusions about overall teen gaming numbers. I'd say that I'll try to reduce the time that I spend gaming, because of other commitments - but I know that I won't.
Yes, I thought that the article took the Bush article's Protection out of context here. It was protected because it gets vandalised lots, not necessarily because of POV attacks by congressional staffers.
wikiHow has patrolled articles enabled, and they're running that smoothly
A "natural" version of 3 keys? What sort of layout do you want? =P
Though you're probably refering to the full Optimus keyboard, which they might release a natural layout, but as they said, they haven't even made a sample yet...
I think that they're going to release an Open API for it, so yes - they do add extra functionality. My favourite use that I saw for them was on the Engadget link above; from a gamer who said that they'd be great as an indicator of whether he'd recieved any emails, IMs, etc whilst in game.
That's what I'd use it for...
Well, news was spreading quickly through Digg and elsewhere hours before this story was posted.
I don't know where you got that $300 figure from. If you're extrapolating it directly up, it'd be $4000; but Art Lebedev are still claiming that it will cost "Less than a decent mobile phone"; which would then give you $300. Did I just argue myself in circles? ^^
But, for people interested in getting the full keyboard, I can't see any of them forking out an extra $100 for these 3 keys; which don't have the greatest of practical applications.
An Introversion game! And Introversion game! :D
My perfect gaming day is complete; not only is HL2 released, but I learn of DEFCON.
Does anyone have PCG UK? I'll get it tomorrow..
What sort of meteor is a "Gaint"? Is it a bit like Elton John?
Yes, that was something I considered... but I haven't seen any bad come of it so far :)
As a UK resident, I haven't yet had the chance to use m.gmail.com; but I have been using http://www.gmailwireless.com/ for some months, which I've been happy with. Probably move to the official version now, but it was useful.
Agree with parent, esp. with regard to Darwinia. The Movies is also being touted as quite good; and did Guild Wars come out this year? Most importantly, Shadow Of The Colossus was released this year - so it was a good year for gaming; albeit not for the gamers who look only for more shallow and typical games.
Alas, it is a truely sad day for Bristol, animation, and most importantly Aardman animations. I truly feel for all those affected by this.
I think you'll find that people in London, esp. those directly affected by the attacks, care. One of the more direct differences is that most of the people who do die in Iraq, however unfortunate it is, are military or Police. When signing up for this job, you do accept the possibility of dying, and probability of being exposed to danger. Here, innocent civilians were killed.