All the mice in the school are 2 button mice. Yes, the default mouse from Apple has 1 button(you have to hit ctrl-click to get the 2nd), but OS X has had support for 2 button scroll mice for quite a while, just plug it in and the OS recognizes it.
It would make sense, as the purpose of the game is to get people to use their SDK, and what better way to show off how to use it than to open the source to the game, but TFA says nothing about source being opened. I'll guess we will just have to wait and see.
but there is a reason for that. You have them do it on paper, and after they have learned how to do that then show them the computer software(Though I personally would recommend they just buy one of those newfangled Ti calcs, it doesn't have quite the set of features that the math software has but the UI is much nicer IMO), but anyway I digress.
If they learn what the software is actually doing first, then they will appreciate it that much more, but even more importantly, they will be able to do stuff where the software breaks down. I have had this happen to me, I became WAAAAY to dependent on my calculator to do everything, and I was kind of in for a shock in my 400 level college math classes because I learned the hard way that you can make the problem much simpler by doing it by hand than trying it on a computer. Also makes proofs that much easier. Skip the computers, the world's greatest mathematicians didn't use them when they were growing up, kids don't need to use them to do math today.
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why not give the reference from somewhere important, instead of from the coasts of a country most of the world hates?
Um, please read the grandparent's post before trolling next time, he was asking for relation via the west coast. Thanks for trolling on an internet site that is based in the country you love to hate, please troll again real soon.
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Japan is over the international dateline, +17 hours west coast(14 east cost), so for example, right now it is 6:20 am Tuesday Japan time.
Heh, I know it's a joke, but TFA does mention that much like Apple laptops(don't know if others do this as well, probably do) if the battery level drops below a certain point, the PSP will put itself to sleep, allowing you to resume your adventures provided you charge it within a reasonable amount of time.
Slightly off topic, but do people here seem to have a problem with getting spam in every language under the sun?
So far I have receieved spam in:
Chinese
Russian
German
Urdu(Maybe, I'm not sure what it was, something that looked south Asian)
French
and Japanese(which recently has been almost every day all about the same thing, some girl meeting club or something, probably run by the Yakuza)
I have only been to a country that speaks one of those languages, and yet I get spam in all of them, fascinating.....maybe because I have an easily searchable university address...
Probably because if they are talking to a person they just met(more than likely on a plane), they won't talk about whatever discharges are coming from whatever orafices like they do on phones:P
the kitchen?
I have thought about this system myself as well. You can get cards for many PDAs that will scan barcodes, so that way you can "cross" things off at the supermarket(though I would expect some strange looks). Hell, if you like writing code, you could even have the software plan out your shopping, have it locate the aisles everything is in and tell you where to go.
Apple bundles IE with Macs because a few sites refuse to work with any other browser, yeah I suppose I should have boycotted them, but I needed cheap health insurance so I just had to suck it up and use IE for about 5 minutes. Not entirely useful, but nice to have in case of emergencies and it doesn't really take up much disk space nor does it appear on the dock by default, so no harm in having it there.
Little anectdotal evidence from someone who goes to Penn State:No.
When I am on campus and need to print something(something that seems to come up fairly often since most hw assignments for certain classes are avaialable only online), I always laugh at the fact that students are willing to stand in line and wait for a windows computer rather than use the Macs which are always available. Doesn't bother me though, I just go right to the front of the line and go in, do what I need to do, and get out. I highly doubt most of the students are doing anything on those windows machines that cannot be done on a Mac, but for whatever reason they refuse to use them.....I will leave guesses as to the reason as an exercise for the reader.
The internet is your savior again. Hell, they can even combine late breaking news with boobs if they so desired(nakednews.com can, but they alas lack up to the minute news coverage). Now if only you could get candy and pop through the internet, there would no longer be any need to go to a newstand again.
Pretty much like everything else Sony does, the technology is roughly equivalent, but pointlessly proprietary.
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and can organize it, why not be a pack rat? The biggest problem is of course organizing all your digital data. I used to just stick all my non-spam email in my inbox, then have to use Mail's search utility to find it, but then I discovered the joys of seperate mailboxes. Same goes with MP3s, as long as you can keep them organized on your portable device, who cares if you have a billion(IP issues aside of course). iTunes was my savior there...
My university managed to fuck up and cancel my mail for about 3 months, when I got it back, I was still getting hammered by spam, though the rate had dropped off a bit(it picked back up again without me even doing anything). YMMV
iPod.
They cannot not make the iPod mini fast enough to meet Japanese consumer demand....but the iPod isn't Japanese. Just goes to show that anyone anywhere can create some very interesting gadgets. While it's true that the US has less than Japan, I don't know how many of us need usb aroma therapy....
The only good thing they really have on us is cellular service, but there are a lot of reasons it's hard to do in the US, and honestly, I'm not entirely confortable with my phone doing a lot more things than being a phone....
What would be interesting to see if student's doing that type of search are actually getting the background information as well. When I was in elementary school I had to look things up, and I had to at the very least skim a lot of the "irrelevant"(irrelevant in this case meaning irrelevant to the current task at hand) info to get at what was needed for the report. This gave me at least a cursory understanding of how the information mattered in context, which is important for further understanding as well as rention(To this day I am still an American History buff even though I have not studied it in 8 years). The best history teachers are not ones that cram useless info down your throat but get you to think about everything in relation to eachother.
But nowadays all students have to do is google it then use their browsers search function to hone in on certain keywords(or even have the search engine color them) and plop a bunch of sentences down in a paper. The result has a lot of the important facts, but without the context they are meaningless.
But the problem is they don't HAVE to get the FCC to do anything in order to be successful. If they complain to the FCC enough, a company may just voluntarily pull content because it wants to avoid another Howard Stern-esque debacle(in terms of both the fine and the PR problems). The squeaky wheel gets the grease it seems.....
Slashdot Mirror
That slashdot gets a psp icon? Kind of strange having the ps2 controller and the gameboy represent the psp....
All the mice in the school are 2 button mice. Yes, the default mouse from Apple has 1 button(you have to hit ctrl-click to get the 2nd), but OS X has had support for 2 button scroll mice for quite a while, just plug it in and the OS recognizes it.
It would make sense, as the purpose of the game is to get people to use their SDK, and what better way to show off how to use it than to open the source to the game, but TFA says nothing about source being opened. I'll guess we will just have to wait and see.
But I love bonzi buddy, there is nothing better than a computerized monkey reading porn stories to help one go to sleep at night.
but there is a reason for that. You have them do it on paper, and after they have learned how to do that then show them the computer software(Though I personally would recommend they just buy one of those newfangled Ti calcs, it doesn't have quite the set of features that the math software has but the UI is much nicer IMO), but anyway I digress.
If they learn what the software is actually doing first, then they will appreciate it that much more, but even more importantly, they will be able to do stuff where the software breaks down. I have had this happen to me, I became WAAAAY to dependent on my calculator to do everything, and I was kind of in for a shock in my 400 level college math classes because I learned the hard way that you can make the problem much simpler by doing it by hand than trying it on a computer. Also makes proofs that much easier. Skip the computers, the world's greatest mathematicians didn't use them when they were growing up, kids don't need to use them to do math today.
why not give the reference from somewhere important, instead of from the coasts of a country most of the world hates?
Um, please read the grandparent's post before trolling next time, he was asking for relation via the west coast. Thanks for trolling on an internet site that is based in the country you love to hate, please troll again real soon.
Japan is over the international dateline, +17 hours west coast(14 east cost), so for example, right now it is 6:20 am Tuesday Japan time.
Heh, I know it's a joke, but TFA does mention that much like Apple laptops(don't know if others do this as well, probably do) if the battery level drops below a certain point, the PSP will put itself to sleep, allowing you to resume your adventures provided you charge it within a reasonable amount of time.
Slightly off topic, but do people here seem to have a problem with getting spam in every language under the sun?
So far I have receieved spam in:
Chinese
Russian
German
Urdu(Maybe, I'm not sure what it was, something that looked south Asian)
French
and Japanese(which recently has been almost every day all about the same thing, some girl meeting club or something, probably run by the Yakuza)
I have only been to a country that speaks one of those languages, and yet I get spam in all of them, fascinating.....maybe because I have an easily searchable university address...
Probably because if they are talking to a person they just met(more than likely on a plane), they won't talk about whatever discharges are coming from whatever orafices like they do on phones :P
till some creative troll figures out how to make goatse out of Christmas lights?
How can we have a list of anything without a Cowboy Neil optioin?
the kitchen?
I have thought about this system myself as well. You can get cards for many PDAs that will scan barcodes, so that way you can "cross" things off at the supermarket(though I would expect some strange looks). Hell, if you like writing code, you could even have the software plan out your shopping, have it locate the aisles everything is in and tell you where to go.
Apple bundles IE with Macs because a few sites refuse to work with any other browser, yeah I suppose I should have boycotted them, but I needed cheap health insurance so I just had to suck it up and use IE for about 5 minutes. Not entirely useful, but nice to have in case of emergencies and it doesn't really take up much disk space nor does it appear on the dock by default, so no harm in having it there.
I say "We are", you say "Penn State"
...Penn State
....Penn State
We are...
We are....
Now I say "We are", you say, "using an open-source, secure and standards complaint browser!"
Hmm...just doesn't have the same ring to it...
Little anectdotal evidence from someone who goes to Penn State:No.
When I am on campus and need to print something(something that seems to come up fairly often since most hw assignments for certain classes are avaialable only online), I always laugh at the fact that students are willing to stand in line and wait for a windows computer rather than use the Macs which are always available. Doesn't bother me though, I just go right to the front of the line and go in, do what I need to do, and get out. I highly doubt most of the students are doing anything on those windows machines that cannot be done on a Mac, but for whatever reason they refuse to use them.....I will leave guesses as to the reason as an exercise for the reader.
The internet is your savior again. Hell, they can even combine late breaking news with boobs if they so desired(nakednews.com can, but they alas lack up to the minute news coverage). Now if only you could get candy and pop through the internet, there would no longer be any need to go to a newstand again.
Pretty much like everything else Sony does, the technology is roughly equivalent, but pointlessly proprietary.
and can organize it, why not be a pack rat? The biggest problem is of course organizing all your digital data. I used to just stick all my non-spam email in my inbox, then have to use Mail's search utility to find it, but then I discovered the joys of seperate mailboxes. Same goes with MP3s, as long as you can keep them organized on your portable device, who cares if you have a billion(IP issues aside of course). iTunes was my savior there...
Good to see you back SCO$699FeeTroll, it's been too long....
My university managed to fuck up and cancel my mail for about 3 months, when I got it back, I was still getting hammered by spam, though the rate had dropped off a bit(it picked back up again without me even doing anything). YMMV
iPod.
They cannot not make the iPod mini fast enough to meet Japanese consumer demand....but the iPod isn't Japanese. Just goes to show that anyone anywhere can create some very interesting gadgets. While it's true that the US has less than Japan, I don't know how many of us need usb aroma therapy....
The only good thing they really have on us is cellular service, but there are a lot of reasons it's hard to do in the US, and honestly, I'm not entirely confortable with my phone doing a lot more things than being a phone....
in the sky
I would rue the day I walk outside, looked up, and saw goatse.....
What would be interesting to see if student's doing that type of search are actually getting the background information as well. When I was in elementary school I had to look things up, and I had to at the very least skim a lot of the "irrelevant"(irrelevant in this case meaning irrelevant to the current task at hand) info to get at what was needed for the report. This gave me at least a cursory understanding of how the information mattered in context, which is important for further understanding as well as rention(To this day I am still an American History buff even though I have not studied it in 8 years). The best history teachers are not ones that cram useless info down your throat but get you to think about everything in relation to eachother.
But nowadays all students have to do is google it then use their browsers search function to hone in on certain keywords(or even have the search engine color them) and plop a bunch of sentences down in a paper. The result has a lot of the important facts, but without the context they are meaningless.
But the problem is they don't HAVE to get the FCC to do anything in order to be successful. If they complain to the FCC enough, a company may just voluntarily pull content because it wants to avoid another Howard Stern-esque debacle(in terms of both the fine and the PR problems). The squeaky wheel gets the grease it seems.....