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I remember when the ROKR came out, everyone was saying immediately that not only would it be a flop, but that Apple had put little effort into it because they wanted it to be a flop. Because then, they would be justified when they say "See? The cel phone guys can't do this right, we obviously have to make one ourselves."
And now it seems they were possibly right... So even if it was a flop, it's not clear that that wasn't exactly what Apple wanted.
Your enjoyment of Rayman can also depend on your sense of humor. I really liked the rhythm-game part, but things like pulling worms out of decaying teeth and fart jokes didn't appeal to me - the associated games would have been more fun without the 13-year-old sensibilities.
But then, as most posters here are male, 13 is probably right up their alley.;)
I know, I know, you're going to get this a lot in reply to this post. But I figure I might as well chime in because maybe, just maybe, mine will be the reply to get through to you.
THE SOLUTION TO YOUR PROBLEM IS TO NOT USE THE CEL PHONE WHILE YOU'RE DRIVING, DUMBASS!
There. I hope my contribution has helped to sway you to make safer (and less aggravating for the rest of us) decisions.
If you're paying for the service, they can probably afford to pay the royalties, or could charge a bit more. Although, would you be willing to pay a subscription fee that works out to 19c/song? The free stuff, though, would be gone instantly. Yahoo probably figures they'll piss more people off by not giving them what they paid for for a day than they will convince people to take action.
I actually think that's pretty standard. I've used libraries at four universities in the past three years, and they all had those. Some are easier to use than others - at William & Mary, the buttons that lock them in place tend to get stuck so you can't move them when you need to.
Ding ding ding! We have a winner. You can pick up your prize if you can get to the Mitchell Multimedia Center without doing a complete loop around the Forum Room first.
Projects like Google's digitization could definitely lead to that level of tagging... Assuming the publishing companies don't manage to stop them. There's also something I really like, though, about having books physically near each other for browsing - just as sometimes it's easier to flip through a book for info that to dig through a website or PDF, sometimes having things that are a like physically near each other helps you find things in ways that online tagging wouldn't. Perhaps, though, in the future, the tagging would inform new ways of organizing physical books beyond the dewey decimal system.
The tagging idea is interesting, because I kind of feel like the shelving system is almost "old-school tagging." When I go to find a book on a particular topic, I'll often do one of two things: a) Find the book I wanted, and then peruse the other books shelved with it to see if any of them would be useful, or b) Instead of finding a particular book, look at the call #s for several books with relevant titles and find one or two call # sections to look through to find the best match. The Dewey decimal system is used like an online tagging system. There must be some way to put that to use in making the library more accessible.
He's not saying the libraries should be organized by the seat of your pants. He's saying you should be able to start using them by the seat of your pants, rather than having to sit through an orientation presentation or something first, because today's information-seekers are going to be trying to do just that. You don't read a manual on how to use scholar.google.com - you go there and start searching, and figure out how it works as you go. People use libraries the same way, and librarians should be ready to handle that.
My university's main library feels plenty like a video game. In particular, it feels like you're trying to navigate the bowels of some weird starship, with lots of circular rooms with books arranged in spoke-like shelves and no signs telling you where the exits are. I get the same feeling of disorientation and slight nausea that I sometimes do trying to navigate 3D games.
(Bonus points if you can identify the major US university I'm referring to.)
In that case, I challenge you to tell me what working hours would be distinctly unusual in academia. Some people work 9-5, some people work noon-midnight, some people work on the weekends and Wednesday, some people work from home unless they have a class or meeting, some people come in for a while in the morning and then again after dinner... Nothing is particularly usual or unusual, particularly if the academic in question doesn't have a family to get home to (including those whose families live in a different place).
Then why is candlelight considered so romantic? A flashlight to the chin is very directed light. More diffuse illumination from below can help hide a lot of flaws.
Nah, just as many charter schools fail (either financially or academically) that don't have corporate angels backing them. They're experiments, and some are very poorly thought-out experiments. Hopefully soon people will start focusing on replicating the successful ones rather than trying random new ones - but even that isn't a guarantee of success, seeing as how there are several other successful HTHs that didn't run into the same problems this one did.
This was a charter school, not a private school. Charters are public and, like all public schools, free to attend. Some are associated with particular school districts, some are not and are overseen solely at the state level. It sounds like this one was not affiliated with the school district, but that does NOT make it private.
If you have folders within folders, how does it handle that? Do you wind up with yet another grid? I really like having my Documents folder in the dock, with a right-click I can get into all the subfolders by hovering and get to documents much more quickly than through a finder window.
I'm in a different field, but in my experience Master's programs are also willing to forgive bad grades if you can make a good impression otherwise in admissions. My best friend and I both got into great master's programs even though our college grades were less than stellar. I got a 4.0 in the Master's which helped me get into a PhD program that would have been inaccessible straight out of college.
I say at least apply to a few Master's programs, and structure your time next year so that if you do get in you can graduate but if you don't you can take a fifth year and do the repeats.
Please point out which part of my statement was false.
Breaking the law is a risk. Sometimes, it can be worth it to take that risk if you're desperate. But that doesn't make it less of a risk, and that doesn't mean that the rest of the world should bend over backwards to make sure the risk works out for you.
I do think that if we have so many illegals coming over, we should probably take that as a sign that we're making it too hard to immigrate legally. But those people who do take the risk of coming illegally should realize that it's not a guaranteed way to make a living, and we have no responsibility to make it one.
Which, to me, makes it far more deserving of annoying emails complaining about it. I'd thought before that I should give sites the benefit of the doubt and think they did this out of simple ignorance, and maybe an email would open their eyes, but now that I know it's pure laziness I feel much more justified trying to annoy them.
You realize that I can set Safari to tell your site that it's whatever browser I want it to be, right? One of my pet peeves is when I do this, it fools the site, and then the site works perfectly in Safari. I usually find the webmaster's email and send them an annoyed email. Maybe I should send several - you inconvenience me, I'll inconvenience you.
(Actually, I don't even use Safari that often, but when I find a site that tells me I can't use FF I'll fire up Safari and go through this process.)
Please show me where I said that this factoid must be true. What I said was, either it is true or the person who wrote it is not very good at using "figures of speech" effectively, because this would be a stupid time to use such an exagerration.
Besides, why couldn't you take out a second mortgage for $20K and use part of it for a crazy TV, part for a crazy stereo/surround sound system, and then part of it for remodeling?
Actually, I am, and have watched birth-order effects in action with quite a lot of interest.
I also have a master's in Gifted Education and am getting a PhD in learning sciences, and the nature of intelligence is one of my primary research interests.
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And now it seems they were possibly right... So even if it was a flop, it's not clear that that wasn't exactly what Apple wanted.
But then, as most posters here are male, 13 is probably right up their alley. ;)
Aw, you're a cute widdle twoll. *cuddles you* Trying so hard! You even used big-boy words like fuck!
THE SOLUTION TO YOUR PROBLEM IS TO NOT USE THE CEL PHONE WHILE YOU'RE DRIVING, DUMBASS!
There. I hope my contribution has helped to sway you to make safer (and less aggravating for the rest of us) decisions.
If you're paying for the service, they can probably afford to pay the royalties, or could charge a bit more. Although, would you be willing to pay a subscription fee that works out to 19c/song? The free stuff, though, would be gone instantly. Yahoo probably figures they'll piss more people off by not giving them what they paid for for a day than they will convince people to take action.
I actually think that's pretty standard. I've used libraries at four universities in the past three years, and they all had those. Some are easier to use than others - at William & Mary, the buttons that lock them in place tend to get stuck so you can't move them when you need to.
With the notable exceptions of Circus Circus, none of the casinos in Las Vegas made me as dizzy as this library.
Ding ding ding! We have a winner. You can pick up your prize if you can get to the Mitchell Multimedia Center without doing a complete loop around the Forum Room first.
Projects like Google's digitization could definitely lead to that level of tagging... Assuming the publishing companies don't manage to stop them. There's also something I really like, though, about having books physically near each other for browsing - just as sometimes it's easier to flip through a book for info that to dig through a website or PDF, sometimes having things that are a like physically near each other helps you find things in ways that online tagging wouldn't. Perhaps, though, in the future, the tagging would inform new ways of organizing physical books beyond the dewey decimal system.
The tagging idea is interesting, because I kind of feel like the shelving system is almost "old-school tagging." When I go to find a book on a particular topic, I'll often do one of two things: a) Find the book I wanted, and then peruse the other books shelved with it to see if any of them would be useful, or b) Instead of finding a particular book, look at the call #s for several books with relevant titles and find one or two call # sections to look through to find the best match. The Dewey decimal system is used like an online tagging system. There must be some way to put that to use in making the library more accessible.
He's not saying the libraries should be organized by the seat of your pants. He's saying you should be able to start using them by the seat of your pants, rather than having to sit through an orientation presentation or something first, because today's information-seekers are going to be trying to do just that. You don't read a manual on how to use scholar.google.com - you go there and start searching, and figure out how it works as you go. People use libraries the same way, and librarians should be ready to handle that.
(Bonus points if you can identify the major US university I'm referring to.)
Teenagers divide into cliques and label themselves and each other, even online! Film at 11.
In that case, I challenge you to tell me what working hours would be distinctly unusual in academia. Some people work 9-5, some people work noon-midnight, some people work on the weekends and Wednesday, some people work from home unless they have a class or meeting, some people come in for a while in the morning and then again after dinner... Nothing is particularly usual or unusual, particularly if the academic in question doesn't have a family to get home to (including those whose families live in a different place).
Then why is candlelight considered so romantic? A flashlight to the chin is very directed light. More diffuse illumination from below can help hide a lot of flaws.
Nah, just as many charter schools fail (either financially or academically) that don't have corporate angels backing them. They're experiments, and some are very poorly thought-out experiments. Hopefully soon people will start focusing on replicating the successful ones rather than trying random new ones - but even that isn't a guarantee of success, seeing as how there are several other successful HTHs that didn't run into the same problems this one did.
This was a charter school, not a private school. Charters are public and, like all public schools, free to attend. Some are associated with particular school districts, some are not and are overseen solely at the state level. It sounds like this one was not affiliated with the school district, but that does NOT make it private.
If you have folders within folders, how does it handle that? Do you wind up with yet another grid? I really like having my Documents folder in the dock, with a right-click I can get into all the subfolders by hovering and get to documents much more quickly than through a finder window.
I say at least apply to a few Master's programs, and structure your time next year so that if you do get in you can graduate but if you don't you can take a fifth year and do the repeats.
Breaking the law is a risk. Sometimes, it can be worth it to take that risk if you're desperate. But that doesn't make it less of a risk, and that doesn't mean that the rest of the world should bend over backwards to make sure the risk works out for you.
I do think that if we have so many illegals coming over, we should probably take that as a sign that we're making it too hard to immigrate legally. But those people who do take the risk of coming illegally should realize that it's not a guaranteed way to make a living, and we have no responsibility to make it one.
Of course not. But sometimes when you bet your entire future on an illegal act, you don't wind up happy.
Which, to me, makes it far more deserving of annoying emails complaining about it. I'd thought before that I should give sites the benefit of the doubt and think they did this out of simple ignorance, and maybe an email would open their eyes, but now that I know it's pure laziness I feel much more justified trying to annoy them.
(Actually, I don't even use Safari that often, but when I find a site that tells me I can't use FF I'll fire up Safari and go through this process.)
Besides, why couldn't you take out a second mortgage for $20K and use part of it for a crazy TV, part for a crazy stereo/surround sound system, and then part of it for remodeling?
I also have a master's in Gifted Education and am getting a PhD in learning sciences, and the nature of intelligence is one of my primary research interests.