I seldom drink CocaCola, however everytime I go to visit my Parents-in-love, I drink a lot because that is what they have in their home (and they drink *a lot* of it, and shure, I also like it so...).
For a short time after I leave their home, I get really strong cravings for a Cola; fortunately slowly but steadily they get lower and lower.
It is 2010 and still here in Germany I have to wait about 4 months to see the newly released movie.
And even then, if I want to see it, I must watch it terribly dubbed in German.
It is 2010 and I still cannot choose to see the shows I like (V, FlashForward, 24,... granted Daily Show I can see, it is nice!) in the language I want... or even in the *original language*.
If I want to see it in the "official" ways, I cannot use my CRT TV (which is the only thing I have, excuse me) and must watch it in the 10'' screen of my netbook (sorry, this is the computer I own); whereas if I use the non-official channels (torrent + Wii + WiiMC) I can download the show, copy it to a hard drive and watch it whenever I want, in my TV... WHY DOESN'T ANYONE SELL ME THAT???
The problem I see is that the content industry is inflating the prices of their products by spending in all these copy protection mechanisms which do not work.
If what this key claims to be is true, it means that every BluRay Disc and BD player sold will have to include a set of mechanisms to be compatible with this "copy protection" even though it is broken.
Media production industry should save all the money they are spending in DRM mechanisms and spend it in the education of people; a *very strong* education campaign so that people realize the wrongs of distributing media without consent.
And even after that, media creators should have in mind that there will *always* be people who illegaly copy content.
Exactly, using a bunch of servers to run a game on a laptop is neither impressive not new. Plus, the game looks nothing like Wolfenstein, which by the way used to run fine on my 386SX - no raytracing there of course. Where are the narrow grey or blue stone-walled corridors? And what is all that furniture doing in Castle Wolfenstein?
My physics teacher on HS gave us two options: We could either had the standard exam in the classrooms or we could choose a test to "take away" home.
The test to take away home consisted of 1 *real life* problem in which you had to apply several of the physics we learnt during that month. Shit it was difficult! I had it once and then gladly took the standard memorize-the-formulas test after that.
I think the students that are saying they need an dictionary for a physics exam are just bullshitting the teacher.
And even though English is not my native language, I say OP should forbid dictionaries and the like during his exams; for god sakes it is not literature of philosophy!
If the original poster has a smallish amount of students, it may be possible to do an "oral" test.
My calculus teacher in my Bachellors did it this way (we were about 15 persons)
First, before the exam date the students selected an order of taking the exam. Then, at the test date, the first guy entered the classroom where *only* the teacher was.
For your test, you had to get one small piece of paper from a bunch, containing 1 exercise (an integral or derivative). You then had to solve it in the blackboard.
Students were able to get everything they wanted to the exam, including calculators, equation sheets, etc. And, the teacher helped you in some ways while you were solving the problem (if you were not completely lost).
Because you did not know which problem you would get, you had to study all of them. For me, it was one of the best exams I had...
Now, on the scoring, the teacher used 2 things to give you a score. First, during the semester, she gave us *a lot* of exercises each week to take home. At the end of the month we had to give them back with answers. Of course we were allowed (and encouraged) to get together to solve them.
At the end of the semester, the teacher considered the amount of exercises you solved and your overal performance in the "oral" test to give you a score.
Believe it or not, from around 40 people only 15 of us passed.
I do not care if a politican is caught watching porn, or if he buys porn.
I DO care if a politician watches porn DURING HIS WORK TIME or using his workplace resources. Mainly because he is wasting our hard earned tax money of which they get a helluva lot.
But if we do not stick together they the company's will just have there way with us.
Sounds good, but you only said "there", without saying where.
Man... your quoted sentence is wrong in so many ways it made my head hurt while trying to parse it:
- "they the company" (as opposed to we the people?) - "The company's will" (so, because they died, they the companies are making a "will" - "Have there way"... as you said... have where??
I am really happy I did not learn English as a second language in Slashdot:(
Just some weeks ago I bought a domain main through Godaddy (the first... and last time I made business with them) due to a brain-fart (as I have always had very good experience with other hosting company)
Their web interface to achieve the simplest domain name tasks is SO slow, horrible and stupid... I decided to transfer my domain to my usual host...
I currently have several web pages with ICDSoft... so far they have been really good. But you can see it for yourself doing a quick google search. In general, people are happy with them.
I bought my first hosting account with them about 3 years ago, and so far, so good.
Aha! thank you! I was wondering what beta version was that because just yesterday I downloaded b5 and after testing I thought it was still quite sluggish.
I though I am not *that* bad at Super Mario World, after playing this implementation...
First and foremost, I found it strange to move with the right hand and jump/run with the other (A,S keys).
Second, as you say the "physics" are not completely the same. For example the jumping on the turtles for a second time won't have the same effect as in the real game.
And you can do a "ninja Gaiden" jump when you fall in a pit... that is also not in the original.
It definitely depends where you are living... I am sure the original article mentions that the study is constrained to USA (no, I didn't RTFA... we are in slashdot no?).
Earning USD $75,000 in Mexico means you are rich (e.g. average income in mexico is around $6,500)...
Now, if you were living in London... 75k would be OK-ish only
So... that means I am half-happy... as I earn around USD$35,0000 (in Euros) but live in Germany...
Sure, I am happy enough (no need to pay healthcare, pretty good services, etc) but I definitely could use some more paste:( (I maintain myself and my wife )
Nah... I have followed the Wiiscene for quite some time (including the demise of TehSkeen, Marcan's whiny rants,etc ) and some "scene" guys are angry at Waninkoko/Wiigator, etc because they release stuff allowing to run backups.
See, there is a certain segment of the WiiScene which are a bunch of Mother Theressas and the only mention of backup launcher gets their panties in a bunch.
Other segment just do not see software itself as "evil" or bad and use whatever tools there are to increase the functionality of the console (as other person commented in this story for the PS3, it is good being able to rip your games into a USB drive).
And of course there is people who use such tools to steal software.
Is the word "effect" correctly used in this sentence? or should parent poster have used "affect".
I ask as a non-native English speaker... as from my English education I know it should be *affect* but I have seen a lot of people in slashdot use "effect" in this sense and now I am confused:(
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Yes, CocaCola cravings do indeed exist.
I seldom drink CocaCola, however everytime I go to visit my Parents-in-love, I drink a lot because that is what they have in their home (and they drink *a lot* of it, and shure, I also like it so...).
For a short time after I leave their home, I get really strong cravings for a Cola; fortunately slowly but steadily they get lower and lower.
So mainly someone at Intel thought "40 should be enough for anybody" uh?.
It is 2010 and still here in Germany I have to wait about 4 months to see the newly released movie.
And even then, if I want to see it, I must watch it terribly dubbed in German.
It is 2010 and I still cannot choose to see the shows I like (V, FlashForward, 24, ... granted Daily Show I can see, it is nice!) in the language I want... or even in the *original language*.
If I want to see it in the "official" ways, I cannot use my CRT TV (which is the only thing I have, excuse me) and must watch it in the 10'' screen of my netbook (sorry, this is the computer I own); whereas if I use the non-official channels (torrent + Wii + WiiMC) I can download the show, copy it to a hard drive and watch it whenever I want, in my TV... WHY DOESN'T ANYONE SELL ME THAT???
The problem I see is that the content industry is inflating the prices of their products by spending in all these copy protection mechanisms which do not work.
If what this key claims to be is true, it means that every BluRay Disc and BD player sold will have to include a set of mechanisms to be compatible with this "copy protection" even though it is broken.
Media production industry should save all the money they are spending in DRM mechanisms and spend it in the education of people; a *very strong* education campaign so that people realize the wrongs of distributing media without consent.
And even after that, media creators should have in mind that there will *always* be people who illegaly copy content.
Cryptome has an interesting reading on the weakness of the key
Nah, I can not wait to see Tshirts with this number... or someone's Slashdot signature ;)
Exactly, using a bunch of servers to run a game on a laptop is neither impressive not new.
Plus, the game looks nothing like Wolfenstein, which by the way used to run fine on my 386SX - no raytracing there of course. Where are the narrow grey or blue stone-walled corridors? And what is all that furniture doing in Castle Wolfenstein?
Mmm nope you are wrong. You are thinking of Wolfenstein 3D, the game they are presenting is indeed called Wolfenstein.
Haha, that reminded me of my High School.
My physics teacher on HS gave us two options: We could either had the standard exam in the classrooms or we could choose a test to "take away" home.
The test to take away home consisted of 1 *real life* problem in which you had to apply several of the physics we learnt during that month. Shit it was difficult! I had it once and then gladly took the standard memorize-the-formulas test after that.
I completely agree.
I think the students that are saying they need an dictionary for a physics exam are just bullshitting the teacher.
And even though English is not my native language, I say OP should forbid dictionaries and the like during his exams; for god sakes it is not literature of philosophy!
If the original poster has a smallish amount of students, it may be possible to do an "oral" test.
My calculus teacher in my Bachellors did it this way (we were about 15 persons)
First, before the exam date the students selected an order of taking the exam. Then, at the test date, the first guy entered the classroom where *only* the teacher was.
For your test, you had to get one small piece of paper from a bunch, containing 1 exercise (an integral or derivative). You then had to solve it in the blackboard.
Students were able to get everything they wanted to the exam, including calculators, equation sheets, etc. And, the teacher helped you in some ways while you were solving the problem (if you were not completely lost).
Because you did not know which problem you would get, you had to study all of them. For me, it was one of the best exams I had...
Now, on the scoring, the teacher used 2 things to give you a score. First, during the semester, she gave us *a lot* of exercises each week to take home. At the end of the month we had to give them back with answers. Of course we were allowed (and encouraged) to get together to solve them.
At the end of the semester, the teacher considered the amount of exercises you solved and your overal performance in the "oral" test to give you a score.
Believe it or not, from around 40 people only 15 of us passed.
I do not care if a politican is caught watching porn, or if he buys porn.
I DO care if a politician watches porn DURING HIS WORK TIME or using his workplace resources. Mainly because he is wasting our hard earned tax money of which they get a helluva lot.
aaah excite and altavista.digital.com
now *those* where the days (well... those and my toddler Gophering days :)
Sounds good, but you only said "there", without saying where.
Man... your quoted sentence is wrong in so many ways it made my head hurt while trying to parse it:
- "they the company" (as opposed to we the people?) ... as you said... have where??
- "The company's will" (so, because they died, they the companies are making a "will"
- "Have there way"
I am really happy I did not learn English as a second language in Slashdot :(
Haha... tell me about.
Just some weeks ago I bought a domain main through Godaddy (the first ... and last time I made business with them) due to a brain-fart (as I have always had very good experience with other hosting company)
Their web interface to achieve the simplest domain name tasks is SO slow, horrible and stupid... I decided to transfer my domain to my usual host...
I currently have several web pages with ICDSoft... so far they have been really good. But you can see it for yourself doing a quick google search. In general, people are happy with them.
I bought my first hosting account with them about 3 years ago, and so far, so good.
WTF are you smoking? there's no mention of your troll comment in the linked page.
Moreover to GP, who said that using a vacuum cleaner was bad, he is wrong:
If vacuuming is needed after all visible materials are removed, vacuum the area where the bulb was broken.
Thank you!
People should mod parent up more. This comment explains in a succinct way what is wrong with the images of HDR.
I saw the video and I felt something did not look right although I could not point it. Parent's comment is spot on.
Aha! thank you! I was wondering what beta version was that because just yesterday I downloaded b5 and after testing I thought it was still quite sluggish.
Question:
Is this the Beta 5?? Just yesterday I downloaded and installed beta 5.. is this the same?
BTW, Am I the only one who didn't like this Panorama (tab candy) feature? I prefer to have all my tabs as a tree-list using treestyle tab.
I though I am not *that* bad at Super Mario World, after playing this implementation...
First and foremost, I found it strange to move with the right hand and jump/run with the other (A,S keys).
Second, as you say the "physics" are not completely the same. For example the jumping on the turtles for a second time won't have the same effect as in the real game.
And you can do a "ninja Gaiden" jump when you fall in a pit... that is also not in the original.
Nevertheless the idea is interesting...
It definitely depends where you are living... I am sure the original article mentions that the study is constrained to USA (no, I didn't RTFA... we are in slashdot no?).
Earning USD $75,000 in Mexico means you are rich (e.g. average income in mexico is around $6,500)...
Now, if you were living in London... 75k would be OK-ish only
So... that means I am half-happy... as I earn around USD$35,0000 (in Euros) but live in Germany...
Sure, I am happy enough (no need to pay healthcare, pretty good services, etc) but I definitely could use some more paste :( (I maintain myself and my wife )
Money does not make happiness...it buys it made.
Nah... I have followed the Wiiscene for quite some time (including the demise of TehSkeen, Marcan's whiny rants,etc ) and some "scene" guys are angry at Waninkoko/Wiigator, etc because they release stuff allowing to run backups.
See, there is a certain segment of the WiiScene which are a bunch of Mother Theressas and the only mention of backup launcher gets their panties in a bunch.
Other segment just do not see software itself as "evil" or bad and use whatever tools there are to increase the functionality of the console (as other person commented in this story for the PS3, it is good being able to rip your games into a USB drive).
And of course there is people who use such tools to steal software.
How does 'focus' effect things?
Grammar question:
Is the word "effect" correctly used in this sentence? or should parent poster have used "affect".
I ask as a non-native English speaker... as from my English education I know it should be *affect* but I have seen a lot of people in slashdot use "effect" in this sense and now I am confused :(