They are few and far between because the touch screen is really quite limited. You may want to believe that the problem is lack of familiearty, but the actual problem is that the screens have no tactile feedback, so it is too easy to remove your fingers from the 'buttons' if you are playing a button style game, and you fingers are covering the screen for other types of games. This works fine for checkers, chess and most physics games but for any kind of arcade game it stinks.
Bluetooth based controllers are here today. On Android search for WiiMoteController. It lets you use the WiiMote as a controller. It also support the Wii Classic controller. It works great.
If teachers really get no say, and just do what they are told, then all of the whining and complaining about teachers salaries is pointless, as teachers are no better than fry cooks at McDonalds. Their much touted education never even comes into play, and their claim of long hours developing curriculum is a lie.
I think you need to reevaluate "less-qualified teachers" if they are providing a more effective education for less money. One of the many problems that the public schools have is their definition of "qualified". A Masters degree in education is about as useful for a 4th grade teachers as a degree from Le Cordon Bleu is for a McDonalds cook. In practice it might even be detrimental.
Your chances of dieing if you play high school football are noticeably higher than your chances of dieing from not getting the chickenpox vaccine. Of course, that might be more of a commentary on the the vaccine than football, so, nevermind.
Saying "The counter to that is generally an uneducated response" before saying something that is obviously and completely wrong doesn't make you right. There is no reason that in depth games cannot be made for phones, but by and large, the games on dedicated hand helds are far more in depth. There is no reason grander games could not be made for the phones. The market just isn't there at this time though. I blame the controls. The touch screen is fine for certain games, but for most it just sucks. Maybe Sony will change the trend with their new experia, but until proper controllers are available for the phone, it will always be what you use when you don't have access to a good gaming system.
The irony in your statement is that studies that show the back seat is the safest place for children to sit are about as good as this one on the 3DS. They all look at what the results are AFTER a crash instead of looking at what caused the crash. Not one of those studies I have seen test for an INCREASE in accidents due to children sitting in the back seat. Most parents keep an eye on their kids. Particularly infants. If they are not watching them to see why the kid is making a particular noise, they are looking to see why they are being quite.
Every time this comes up, the Android folks say that they uninstalled Pandora when they tried to get assess to our personal data. No one talks about the data stealing on iPhones. Is that because we know they are not doing it on iPhone, or because the iPhone doesn't warn the user that the app is stealing their data.
Almost as much as people saying "Derp, I can drive and have passengers fine!" as if we're supposed to [1] just accept that and [2] give them a medal or something.
Although I don't think I have ever heard anyone say that they can text fine while driving. I'm sure they are out there, but they are pretty few and far between.
There is a wide gap between the statement "trying to operate a cell phone while driving" and "eyes are on your Blackberry". I will agree that trying to read and type messages while driving is a problem. Even more so than trying to tune a radio or pick a CD from that 300 disk case sitting on the passenger side floor, but saying that "You can always tell your passenger to shut up" is a silly way to claim that phone calls are worse than passengers. You can always tell the person on the other end of the phone to shut up also. Even more so, you can force the end of a phone conversation which is something that you cannot do to a passenger.
Yes, thinking that someone is more dangers having a conversation with a person because they are not in the car, while a parent trying to watch their kids in the back seat is safe makes you a Luddite. Your position make no sense. You are trying to look at the best case scenario of one because it is old, and the worst case scenario of the other because it is new.
About 5 year ago, when my son was 2, he thought that flat panels were computers and CRTs were TVs. I found this out when at a friends house, he pointed out how strange it was that they had a TV with a computer keyboard.
They do sell the case by itself. The case is mini-itx, and the keyboard is USB, so if you want to plug it into a huge PC hidden under the desk, you can. So, there you go. You asked for it, and CommodoreUSA delivered.
I think you massively under estimate what it takes to retrofit a new motherboard into an old case and get the keyboard working seamlessly. It certainly can be done, but not by a majority of the population, and I would say that most of the people that would want this would not want to go through the effort of trying to do the retrofit themselves. Heck, most people don't even want to deal with putting a motherboard into a new case that was specifically designed to hold the new motherboard.
So, your saying that your 16 year old niece is behaving just like 16 year old girls have since the day teen culture was formed, and you are trying to blame it on current trends? Amazing. At least you can sleep well at night knowing that you have also been behaving exactly like adults have behaved around teens since teen culture has formed.
No. Biologists have RATIONALIZED that the brain does not for to complete maturity until around the age of 23. There is a big difference between becoming fully mature, and no longer changing in a positive way. No doubt the biologists you speak of are over the age of 23 themselves. This not only leaves a gread deal of room for conformation bias, but it also leads to definitions like "don't reach maturity until 23" instead of "begins it's inevitable degradation at 23".
I find it really sad that kids the current standard is to make your kids retarded instead of helping them reach their potential.
That is a whole different issue. If I were Emperor of the world, I would replace all food payments with a variant of K-rations. I would make sure that it was healthy, had a long shelf life, and tasted like total crap. I would make sure that no normal person would enjoy the flavor, and if people figured out how to make it taste good, I would change the recipe. Why? Because then it could just be handed out without the heavy need to track where it goes. Your hunger? Have some food. Giving people food that they don't like the taste of is not abuse. We do it to our children all the time. At least the good parents do. This would cut the cost of all the tracking, reduce fraud, make sure people that needed it had access to it without needing to jump through hoops, and give an incentive to get off the government dole.
No doubt there would be some people that would take it no matter what. There are just some people that will refuse to take part in society no matter what you do. We would save them and ourselves the trouble of trying to force them into society.
You are not MY problem, as I don't have a weight problem. You are societies problem, and given that you said you wouldn't buy clothes larger than a size six, please explain how you got dressed when you were 50 overweight.
Sodium is only really a problem if you already have health problems. If you are in generally good health otherwise, you will simply pass the extra sodium when you pee.
You certainly have a point. It isn't an option for everyone though, and it is a pretty major educational endeavor that also will often have costs that rival the savings. I don't disagree with any of your points, but unless you are putting in a very serious effort into getting the very lowest price, fast food is frequently dramatically cheaper than eating at home.
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They are few and far between because the touch screen is really quite limited. You may want to believe that the problem is lack of familiearty, but the actual problem is that the screens have no tactile feedback, so it is too easy to remove your fingers from the 'buttons' if you are playing a button style game, and you fingers are covering the screen for other types of games. This works fine for checkers, chess and most physics games but for any kind of arcade game it stinks.
Bluetooth based controllers are here today. On Android search for WiiMoteController. It lets you use the WiiMote as a controller. It also support the Wii Classic controller. It works great.
If teachers really get no say, and just do what they are told, then all of the whining and complaining about teachers salaries is pointless, as teachers are no better than fry cooks at McDonalds. Their much touted education never even comes into play, and their claim of long hours developing curriculum is a lie.
I cannot agree with that more.
I think you need to reevaluate "less-qualified teachers" if they are providing a more effective education for less money. One of the many problems that the public schools have is their definition of "qualified". A Masters degree in education is about as useful for a 4th grade teachers as a degree from Le Cordon Bleu is for a McDonalds cook. In practice it might even be detrimental.
Your chances of dieing if you play high school football are noticeably higher than your chances of dieing from not getting the chickenpox vaccine. Of course, that might be more of a commentary on the the vaccine than football, so, nevermind.
Saying "The counter to that is generally an uneducated response" before saying something that is obviously and completely wrong doesn't make you right. There is no reason that in depth games cannot be made for phones, but by and large, the games on dedicated hand helds are far more in depth. There is no reason grander games could not be made for the phones. The market just isn't there at this time though. I blame the controls. The touch screen is fine for certain games, but for most it just sucks. Maybe Sony will change the trend with their new experia, but until proper controllers are available for the phone, it will always be what you use when you don't have access to a good gaming system.
The irony in your statement is that studies that show the back seat is the safest place for children to sit are about as good as this one on the 3DS. They all look at what the results are AFTER a crash instead of looking at what caused the crash. Not one of those studies I have seen test for an INCREASE in accidents due to children sitting in the back seat. Most parents keep an eye on their kids. Particularly infants. If they are not watching them to see why the kid is making a particular noise, they are looking to see why they are being quite.
Every time this comes up, the Android folks say that they uninstalled Pandora when they tried to get assess to our personal data. No one talks about the data stealing on iPhones. Is that because we know they are not doing it on iPhone, or because the iPhone doesn't warn the user that the app is stealing their data.
Hence the part where the plan includes me being Emperor of the world.
Almost as much as people saying "Derp, I can drive and have passengers fine!" as if we're supposed to [1] just accept that and [2] give them a medal or something.
Although I don't think I have ever heard anyone say that they can text fine while driving. I'm sure they are out there, but they are pretty few and far between.
There is a wide gap between the statement "trying to operate a cell phone while driving" and "eyes are on your Blackberry". I will agree that trying to read and type messages while driving is a problem. Even more so than trying to tune a radio or pick a CD from that 300 disk case sitting on the passenger side floor, but saying that "You can always tell your passenger to shut up" is a silly way to claim that phone calls are worse than passengers. You can always tell the person on the other end of the phone to shut up also. Even more so, you can force the end of a phone conversation which is something that you cannot do to a passenger.
Yes, thinking that someone is more dangers having a conversation with a person because they are not in the car, while a parent trying to watch their kids in the back seat is safe makes you a Luddite. Your position make no sense. You are trying to look at the best case scenario of one because it is old, and the worst case scenario of the other because it is new.
About 5 year ago, when my son was 2, he thought that flat panels were computers and CRTs were TVs. I found this out when at a friends house, he pointed out how strange it was that they had a TV with a computer keyboard.
They do sell the case by itself. The case is mini-itx, and the keyboard is USB, so if you want to plug it into a huge PC hidden under the desk, you can. So, there you go. You asked for it, and CommodoreUSA delivered.
I think you massively under estimate what it takes to retrofit a new motherboard into an old case and get the keyboard working seamlessly. It certainly can be done, but not by a majority of the population, and I would say that most of the people that would want this would not want to go through the effort of trying to do the retrofit themselves. Heck, most people don't even want to deal with putting a motherboard into a new case that was specifically designed to hold the new motherboard.
Hulu already does this.
So, the exact same behavior that we saw in people BEFORE cell phones? I'm not really surprised.
As, long as they outlaw passangers while they are at it, I'm on board with you. Otherwise, you just come off as a Luddite technophobe.
So, your saying that your 16 year old niece is behaving just like 16 year old girls have since the day teen culture was formed, and you are trying to blame it on current trends? Amazing. At least you can sleep well at night knowing that you have also been behaving exactly like adults have behaved around teens since teen culture has formed.
No. Biologists have RATIONALIZED that the brain does not for to complete maturity until around the age of 23. There is a big difference between becoming fully mature, and no longer changing in a positive way. No doubt the biologists you speak of are over the age of 23 themselves. This not only leaves a gread deal of room for conformation bias, but it also leads to definitions like "don't reach maturity until 23" instead of "begins it's inevitable degradation at 23".
I find it really sad that kids the current standard is to make your kids retarded instead of helping them reach their potential.
That is a whole different issue. If I were Emperor of the world, I would replace all food payments with a variant of K-rations. I would make sure that it was healthy, had a long shelf life, and tasted like total crap. I would make sure that no normal person would enjoy the flavor, and if people figured out how to make it taste good, I would change the recipe. Why? Because then it could just be handed out without the heavy need to track where it goes. Your hunger? Have some food. Giving people food that they don't like the taste of is not abuse. We do it to our children all the time. At least the good parents do. This would cut the cost of all the tracking, reduce fraud, make sure people that needed it had access to it without needing to jump through hoops, and give an incentive to get off the government dole.
No doubt there would be some people that would take it no matter what. There are just some people that will refuse to take part in society no matter what you do. We would save them and ourselves the trouble of trying to force them into society.
Ahh... Your to stupid to know what sugar is, so I must be fat? Nice logic there.
You are not MY problem, as I don't have a weight problem. You are societies problem, and given that you said you wouldn't buy clothes larger than a size six, please explain how you got dressed when you were 50 overweight.
Sodium is only really a problem if you already have health problems. If you are in generally good health otherwise, you will simply pass the extra sodium when you pee.
You certainly have a point. It isn't an option for everyone though, and it is a pretty major educational endeavor that also will often have costs that rival the savings. I don't disagree with any of your points, but unless you are putting in a very serious effort into getting the very lowest price, fast food is frequently dramatically cheaper than eating at home.
I refer to that has being a biological space heater.