We already have to filter all spam perfectly without deleting a single one of their legitimate e-mails, and well as ensure they never get a virus or any spyware. Evar.
I learned about this by reading the excellent panda book. I've decided to extend the quotation rule to also include hyperlinks, since that little period can get easily get lost when displayed in a strange color and underlined.
No, strange is expecting to find answers to scientific questions in a book that condenses the creation of the whole fucking universe into less than 750 words!
I may have been trolled here, but a lot of people need to hear what I just said.
You have a valid point about Windows, but much of the reasons for the popularity of Windows are precisely the reasons you have given - the well engineered mediocrity and conformity hard coded into the Windows univers
One of the biochem professors like to put board-type questions up and have the students respond with the clickers. Then he shifts the focus of his lectures to address topics in which we need more instruction, and not waste our time going over stuff we've already mastered. In that respect, I kinda like 'em.
Thank you for the insightful reply. I hadn't really considered that particular way of using the clickers.
I only object to using them as a way of expressing opinions without having to articulate them. My philosophy is that any opinion you can't articulate or explain is worthless. The thought of using Clickers to avoid discussing important social issues (the example given in the article description) strikes me as idiotic.
In medical school, the students who speak up in class are often annoying little sycophants who are only speaking in order to show off how much they know and suck up to the professor.
Ouch. It hasn't been that way in any of my classes, but I'm a CSCI major. I feel for you. I suggest you purchase several of these and hand them out to like-minded classmates.;)
Thank you for the insightful reply. I hadn't really considered that particular way of using the clickers.
I only object to using them as a way of expressing opinions without having to articulate them. My philosophy is that any opinion you can't articulate or explain is worthless. The thought of using Clickers to avoid discussing important social issues (the example given in the article description) strikes me as idiotic.
Red vs Blue isn't that great. Sure, it can be funny in a stupid sort of way. But there are far better methods of entertainment out there. Hell, I'd rather read an online comic strip.
These "clickers" sound like bullshit, and I'll tell you why. I think this will encourage students to pick someone else's ready-made answer instead of synthesizing their own. It's troubling to see our nation's fast food culture* worming its way into the education system. Life isn't a multiple-choice quiz, and education shouldn't be, either.
* I'm not referring to the book Fast Food Nation, but to our tendency to pick the easiest, fastest, least-thought-required solution to problems.
The ideal application for free wifi is to turn it on only during otherwise slow hours and post those hours prominently. This way you can use it as necc to hopefully drive business.
That's a good idea, but what if you did things a little differently? Offer free access, but cap it at 5KB/s. Paid access could have a higher cap. Maybe between 20 and 40KB/s, since that's plenty fast to surf most of the web.
Whatever the submitter does, I hope they don't just hook up a cable modem and a wireless router. If they do that, they won't be able to cap bandwidth (unless it's an awesome router) and they won't be able to filter access at all. (There are a lot of things the owner probably doesn't want patrons to be browsing in plain sight.)
Surely you can explain to me what an RPG is, then.
Sure. A game where you take on the role of a fantasy character and make choices that have a real impact on game events and the overall story. I can't think of a purer console roleplaying experience than AC. Stats and dice rolling get tacked on (to various extents) to resolve how events unfold in a semi-objective fashion.
Linear or single-ending games simply don't count AFAIK. Neither do games that are nothing more than small-scale, dressed-up war games.
The only problem here is that Grandma is contributing to the deliquency of a minor
Only if she's in that one fucked-up state where the ESRB ratings are backed by law. AFAIK, New York is not that state.;) Would be funny to see her get slapped with some jail time, though.
Fuck Granny, and the horse she road in on! Even someone as someone who was raised on "murder simulators" like Doom and Castle Wolfenstein, I wouldn't by a fourteen year old a copy of GTA.
Become active in your local school districts don't accept the use of federal funds in your schools. Become more active in other local governments and refuse federal funding to build local roads, stimulate local economies, etc. Refusing to accept federal funds will make it much easier to get votes to curtail federal spending. When there is less money in government it will less attractive to empire-building bureaucrats and corrupt politicians.
But there won't be less money in the federal government. The feds will just give the money to someone else. I understand that's not what you're getting at, but it's still true. I think it would take a loooong time to have an effect with such small-scale and oblique tactics.
Does anyone else think it's time for a new Constitutional Congress?
Oops, did I say that? Better put a pot of coffee on for when the Feds get here...;)
I do welcome the Twilight Princess game, but I'd like to see them make another game with the Wind Waker style graphics.
What if they went further and made it with a grittier, more detailed style? Picture a bad-ass adult Link drawn with as much detail as a character from Akira or Ghost in the Shell. That would make my day.
Well, he's probably coming from the chess or pawn shop schools of thought.
No, he's just not very well read.:P
In the chess school of thought, the pawn is the weakest piece (some would say the strongest, but that's a point for another post). So, if you "pawn" someone, you make them weak, or they were already weak and you kill them.
Back in Chess Club, the ultimate humiliation was being checkmated by a pawn. I loved doing that to people.
I think you've misread my argument that copyright is incompatible with a free market as an argument to abolish copyright. All I'm saying is that copyright is incompatible with a free market.
Probably. It's someting I've been pondering for a while.
The Street Performer Protocol partially solves this. However, it's reputation based, and doesn't address the problem of gaining a reputation in the first place.
Reputation could be gained exactly as the Wikipedia article suggests: make some stuff for free (probably small games) or make enticing demos of stuff you'd like to turn into a full game.
Incremental development could also occur. I.e., the dev makes and releases a 3d platformer with a few levels, but he's not going to go all-out and make dozens of levels unless people are willing to pay. Games could continue to grow through the addition of new features and content for as long as people were willing to pay for more.
Another example would be a Gran Turismo-like racing game. Give the dev more money, and he can spend time improving the physics and adding more cars and tracks.
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Posting the article twice after he pays up - Priceless
Agreed. I've always thought it's the weakest song on The Bends.
I, for one, disagree with your sig. :)
We already have to filter all spam perfectly without deleting a single one of their legitimate e-mails, and well as ensure they never get a virus or any spyware. Evar.
:)
So besides that, what's it like working at AOL?
I kid, I kid!
I learned about this by reading the excellent panda book. I've decided to extend the quotation rule to also include hyperlinks, since that little period can get easily get lost when displayed in a strange color and underlined.
It's like worrying about the emotions your hand feels when you jack off. And really, isn't screwing a robot essentially the same thing?
Nope. Thanks to small heating elements, the robot will never have cold hands!
the number of branches to and from each node is too high.
Exactly. Good luck tracking down that nefarious "linksys-g" node when there are four of them on the same block.
No, strange is expecting to find answers to scientific questions in a book that condenses the creation of the whole fucking universe into less than 750 words!
I may have been trolled here, but a lot of people need to hear what I just said.
You have a valid point about Windows, but much of the reasons for the popularity of Windows are precisely the reasons you have given - the well engineered mediocrity and conformity hard coded into the Windows univers
Fixed it for you.
One of the biochem professors like to put board-type questions up and have the students respond with the clickers. Then he shifts the focus of his lectures to address topics in which we need more instruction, and not waste our time going over stuff we've already mastered. In that respect, I kinda like 'em.
;)
Thank you for the insightful reply. I hadn't really considered that particular way of using the clickers.
I only object to using them as a way of expressing opinions without having to articulate them. My philosophy is that any opinion you can't articulate or explain is worthless. The thought of using Clickers to avoid discussing important social issues (the example given in the article description) strikes me as idiotic.
In medical school, the students who speak up in class are often annoying little sycophants who are only speaking in order to show off how much they know and suck up to the professor.
Ouch. It hasn't been that way in any of my classes, but I'm a CSCI major. I feel for you. I suggest you purchase several of these and hand them out to like-minded classmates.
Thank you for the insightful reply. I hadn't really considered that particular way of using the clickers.
I only object to using them as a way of expressing opinions without having to articulate them. My philosophy is that any opinion you can't articulate or explain is worthless. The thought of using Clickers to avoid discussing important social issues (the example given in the article description) strikes me as idiotic.
Red vs Blue isn't that great. Sure, it can be funny in a stupid sort of way. But there are far better methods of entertainment out there. Hell, I'd rather read an online comic strip.
8-bit Theater
Ctrl-Alt-Del
Van Von Hunter
Cup of Suffering
Elf Only Inn
Enjoy.
These "clickers" sound like bullshit, and I'll tell you why. I think this will encourage students to pick someone else's ready-made answer instead of synthesizing their own. It's troubling to see our nation's fast food culture* worming its way into the education system. Life isn't a multiple-choice quiz, and education shouldn't be, either.
* I'm not referring to the book Fast Food Nation, but to our tendency to pick the easiest, fastest, least-thought-required solution to problems.
Mod this whole article as flamebait!
The ideal application for free wifi is to turn it on only during otherwise slow hours and post those hours prominently. This way you can use it as necc to hopefully drive business.
That's a good idea, but what if you did things a little differently? Offer free access, but cap it at 5KB/s. Paid access could have a higher cap. Maybe between 20 and 40KB/s, since that's plenty fast to surf most of the web.
Whatever the submitter does, I hope they don't just hook up a cable modem and a wireless router. If they do that, they won't be able to cap bandwidth (unless it's an awesome router) and they won't be able to filter access at all. (There are a lot of things the owner probably doesn't want patrons to be browsing in plain sight.)
Surely you can explain to me what an RPG is, then.
Sure. A game where you take on the role of a fantasy character and make choices that have a real impact on game events and the overall story. I can't think of a purer console roleplaying experience than AC. Stats and dice rolling get tacked on (to various extents) to resolve how events unfold in a semi-objective fashion.
Linear or single-ending games simply don't count AFAIK. Neither do games that are nothing more than small-scale, dressed-up war games.
The only problem here is that Grandma is contributing to the deliquency of a minor
;) Would be funny to see her get slapped with some jail time, though.
Only if she's in that one fucked-up state where the ESRB ratings are backed by law. AFAIK, New York is not that state.
Fuck Granny, and the horse she road in on! Even someone as someone who was raised on "murder simulators" like Doom and Castle Wolfenstein, I wouldn't by a fourteen year old a copy of GTA.
Become active in your local school districts don't accept the use of federal funds in your schools. Become more active in other local governments and refuse federal funding to build local roads, stimulate local economies, etc. Refusing to accept federal funds will make it much easier to get votes to curtail federal spending. When there is less money in government it will less attractive to empire-building bureaucrats and corrupt politicians.
;)
But there won't be less money in the federal government. The feds will just give the money to someone else. I understand that's not what you're getting at, but it's still true. I think it would take a loooong time to have an effect with such small-scale and oblique tactics.
Does anyone else think it's time for a new Constitutional Congress?
Oops, did I say that? Better put a pot of coffee on for when the Feds get here...
Nintendo is the only one who actually makes a profit, yet all the Sony/Microsoft-buttfuckers call Nintendo the "loser" of this generation.
I think you mean "buttfuckees".
I do welcome the Twilight Princess game, but I'd like to see them make another game with the Wind Waker style graphics.
What if they went further and made it with a grittier, more detailed style? Picture a bad-ass adult Link drawn with as much detail as a character from Akira or Ghost in the Shell. That would make my day.
Movies, music, now games...and kids still beat off at age 14.
I was 13 when I started, you insensitive clod!
Well, he's probably coming from the chess or pawn shop schools of thought.
:P
No, he's just not very well read.
In the chess school of thought, the pawn is the weakest piece (some would say the strongest, but that's a point for another post). So, if you "pawn" someone, you make them weak, or they were already weak and you kill them.
Back in Chess Club, the ultimate humiliation was being checkmated by a pawn. I loved doing that to people.
I think you've misread my argument that copyright is incompatible with a free market as an argument to abolish copyright. All I'm saying is that copyright is incompatible with a free market.
Probably. It's someting I've been pondering for a while.
The Street Performer Protocol partially solves this. However, it's reputation based, and doesn't address the problem of gaining a reputation in the first place.
Reputation could be gained exactly as the Wikipedia article suggests: make some stuff for free (probably small games) or make enticing demos of stuff you'd like to turn into a full game.
Incremental development could also occur. I.e., the dev makes and releases a 3d platformer with a few levels, but he's not going to go all-out and make dozens of levels unless people are willing to pay. Games could continue to grow through the addition of new features and content for as long as people were willing to pay for more.
Another example would be a Gran Turismo-like racing game. Give the dev more money, and he can spend time improving the physics and adding more cars and tracks.
I think this could work pretty well, actually.
I stand corrected. Please mod my first post "Uninformative". How many games do these tools work with?