The Rock: FINALLY... the Rock has COME BACK to Las Vegas
Bill Gates: Hi there, Rock. We're here to...
The Rock: Shut your mouth and know your role, jabronie! No one interupts the Rock when the Rock is speaking!
Bill Gates: Sorry, Rock, but...
The Rock: You're doing it AGAIN! But the Rock will forgive you this time because you enough money to buy the Rock's mother and use her for a nickel whore.
But make no mistake. With the almighty power of the X-Box, the Rock WILL regain the WWF World Heavyweight Championship. X stands for exciting, which is what the world will see when the Rock and Bill Gates team up to present the X-Box.
And the Rock will take that Sony GayStation 2, shine it up REAL nice, turn that sum-bitch sideways, and stick it straight up Sony's candy-ass!
No wonder! It's in Transylvania County, NC, for crying out loud! We all know that all the weird stuff in the world comes from Transylvania. Or is it North Carolina?
The release on Friday and resulting speculations have been across the internet and back several times already. I still have yet to see anything from Sega saying that they're developing for rival consoles. Yes, they are going to license the Dreamcast technology to PCs and cellular devices, and they're going to continue to develop software for these devices.
Until there's a press release from Sega saying that they're going to develop for _____ console, I've got to believe that Sega's going to stick with their homebrews.
Hmmm... if fighting games is the only stuff you use a console for, then the Dreamcast should very amply fulfill your needs.
It doesn't have TTT and SFEX3, but it does have Soul Calibur, Dead or Alive 2 (so does PS2), two versions of SF3, SFA3, VF3, and tons more. Wait 'til Guilty Gear X comes out, too.
Besides, Tekken and SFEX are rather poor fighting games.
Sega is introducing Phantasy Star Online either late this year or early next year for their Dreamcast. What's the big whoop-de-doo, you say? Well, I guess it qualifies as a MMORPG, and it's got the added bonus that you'll be able to play with people from Asia and Europe, as well as here in America.
They're going to use a more pictogram system, I guess so that things like, "Let's go kill the dragon over here." can be spoken in pictures rather than words to avoid the translation problems. All that, and a broadband connection soon in US. (It's already out in Japan.)
I'd give you a URL, but there are alot already. Just go check out some console gaming sites or something.
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...or at least whoever is making up the test. I, for one, like it! A good college education should not be about memorizing information or being able to retrieve it. It should be about analyzing information and synthesizing new ideas.
Just about every exam I've taken in college was take-home. Some were open-book, others weren't. Heck, there were even a few infinite-time finals. But, a good number of these tests held information not in your standard textbook. Normally we had to come up with a new application of a theorem or a new proof. Or, here, let's change a few of the universal physical constants around. OK, go derive Maxwell's equations again. If you knew your stuff back and forth, you could do it. If you didn't know what was going on, consultation with a machine wouldn't help.
I keep hearing these instances of people memorizing where information is or bookmarking key sections. If your college class is based on the students learning where the information is now, that college is doing a disservice to its students. Think about it this way: I'll even use some Linux, since this is slashdot and all. Would you rather take a class that taught you Linux syntax and what all the commands meant, and the exam for the class was some rudimentary sysadmin stuff; or would you rather have a more generalized class which didn't use any specific OS, but taught you not only how to do things, but also how the computer functions worked and why they did that way. Then your exam would be something more along the lines of, ok, right me a new command for the pseudo-OS that did THIS. In one case, yes, you're quite prepared for NOW (or the near-future anyway), in the other, you're quite prepared for now and then and even what's to come.
Open book exams place the onus on the professor. They must now come up with exams that test not only what a students knows now, but how well that student is able to come up with new ideas, or at least analyze and criticize the ideas that are presented to him (or her).
Let's see here. I went to amazon (unfortunately), CDNow, DVD Express, Barnes & Nobles, Hawaiian Vintage Chocolate, and despair. I got all of them before Christmas, although I will admit that I didn't buy anything in the last week.
That, to me, is half of the equation. You've got to realize that a good number of these places are going to get slammed later in December. It's just like shopping in the mall. If you go in the first couple of weekends, you're not going to have a problem. You try going in the last week, good luck! e-commerce or brick and mortar, you run into those problems, depending on WHEN you shop.
I think it'd be fantastic if some third-party site (like, say a bizrate or SOMETHING) would come along next year around December and say, "OK, this site had a n% success rate. Don't order from them past x date." etc. etc. It's this kind of objective (read: non-subsidized, non-associate) statistic reporting that can go rather far in promoting e-commerce. After all, the bad companies will have to shape up or be eliminated, and the good companies will be rewarded.
I expect things to get better next year, though. I will once again advise people to shop early! It's easy. You're ON the web already, people. And if a company's burned you before, don't go back there.
It's not my quote. It's Larry Niven's. (And if you don't know Niven, head on over to library/bookstore. Go ahead. I'll wait.) My point is this: Lest we lose sight of the Big Picture, there are, in fact, several GOOD reasons why the government wants to invade privacy. In the worst-case scenario, people could operate covertly virtually under everyone's noses. I don't believe that a great number of people would want to give terrorists the opportunity to blow everything they have up merely because they felt insecure that the government was looking over their shoulder. I certainly do not advocate that the government (or any agency) should have ultimate power and be able to know absolutely everything about me. However, people must also consider the reasons behind the government's actions. To completely lock observers out of the loop is as dangerous as giving the government carte blanche. Who is to say where that limit should be? Before everyone gets in a uproar about encryption and how everything needs to be encrypted, and how we should keep Big Brother from looking over our shoulder, they should think what the consequences of such an action may be. As a final note, Niven has noted that the constant is not the same for each individual, or even for individual governments. If technology can find a way to increase the constant, I'm all for it.
Well, I do like them both, but prefer Gibson over Stephenson. I'd guess that I'm Gen X. Where would you draw the line anyway? around 22 or something like that? Gibson's style seems more 80's to me in a way. You know, fast-paced, hopping around, MTV, Miami Vice kind of stuff. Stephenson takes the jumping around but keeps everything separate, IMHO. If you look at Gibson's books, it may be told from several different perspectives, yet the cool part is that all of these points of views eventually all meet somewhere. What each of these individuals takes away from the situation is dependent on their past history and what their personal perspective is. Sort of like real life. Stephenson seems to keep things rather separate. There may be different people in the story, but their interactions are not as involved as Gibson's. To each his own, I suppose. And if we're talking about research, which would rather subscribe to? The trodes on your head that provide a consensual hallucinatory vision of cyberspace? (Neuromancer) or the laser that shoots in your eye? (Snow Crash) (I find both to be rather silly, but that's just me.)
Hopefully 3Com will get their act more together with Handspring breathing down their necks. A nice color Palm with a form factor of a V. A wireless model off of the VII with color would be marvelous also. They are definitely on the right track with color palms. This was about the only detractor when people were comparing PalmOS with WinCE. But, I can't imagine Handspring being TOO far behind the curve here with their own color models. I would guess that once they get past their current production delays, then into Christmas, they will probably wait and see how the technology goes and announce some stuff around early next year. Now we need a color PDQ. Color PalmOS, plus cellular phone. Woo hoo!
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Goodness, doesn't ANYONE here watch wrestling?
The Rock: FINALLY... the Rock has COME BACK to Las Vegas
Bill Gates: Hi there, Rock. We're here to...
The Rock: Shut your mouth and know your role, jabronie! No one interupts the Rock when the Rock is speaking!
Bill Gates: Sorry, Rock, but...
The Rock: You're doing it AGAIN! But the Rock will forgive you this time because you enough money to buy the Rock's mother and use her for a nickel whore.
But make no mistake. With the almighty power of the X-Box, the Rock WILL regain the WWF World Heavyweight Championship. X stands for exciting, which is what the world will see when the Rock and Bill Gates team up to present the X-Box.
And the Rock will take that Sony GayStation 2, shine it up REAL nice, turn that sum-bitch sideways, and stick it straight up Sony's candy-ass!
If you smellllllllll what the Rock is cooking
No wonder! It's in Transylvania County, NC, for crying out loud! We all know that all the weird stuff in the world comes from Transylvania. Or is it North Carolina?
The release on Friday and resulting speculations have been across the internet and back several times already. I still have yet to see anything from Sega saying that they're developing for rival consoles. Yes, they are going to license the Dreamcast technology to PCs and cellular devices, and they're going to continue to develop software for these devices.
Until there's a press release from Sega saying that they're going to develop for _____ console, I've got to believe that Sega's going to stick with their homebrews.
Hmmm... if fighting games is the only stuff you use a console for, then the Dreamcast should very amply fulfill your needs. It doesn't have TTT and SFEX3, but it does have Soul Calibur, Dead or Alive 2 (so does PS2), two versions of SF3, SFA3, VF3, and tons more. Wait 'til Guilty Gear X comes out, too. Besides, Tekken and SFEX are rather poor fighting games.
Sega is introducing Phantasy Star Online either late this year or early next year for their Dreamcast. What's the big whoop-de-doo, you say? Well, I guess it qualifies as a MMORPG, and it's got the added bonus that you'll be able to play with people from Asia and Europe, as well as here in America.
They're going to use a more pictogram system, I guess so that things like, "Let's go kill the dragon over here." can be spoken in pictures rather than words to avoid the translation problems. All that, and a broadband connection soon in US. (It's already out in Japan.)
I'd give you a URL, but there are alot already. Just go check out some console gaming sites or something.
...or at least whoever is making up the test. I, for one, like it! A good college education should not be about memorizing information or being able to retrieve it. It should be about analyzing information and synthesizing new ideas.
Just about every exam I've taken in college was take-home. Some were open-book, others weren't. Heck, there were even a few infinite-time finals. But, a good number of these tests held information not in your standard textbook. Normally we had to come up with a new application of a theorem or a new proof. Or, here, let's change a few of the universal physical constants around. OK, go derive Maxwell's equations again. If you knew your stuff back and forth, you could do it. If you didn't know what was going on, consultation with a machine wouldn't help.
I keep hearing these instances of people memorizing where information is or bookmarking key sections. If your college class is based on the students learning where the information is now, that college is doing a disservice to its students. Think about it this way: I'll even use some Linux, since this is slashdot and all. Would you rather take a class that taught you Linux syntax and what all the commands meant, and the exam for the class was some rudimentary sysadmin stuff; or would you rather have a more generalized class which didn't use any specific OS, but taught you not only how to do things, but also how the computer functions worked and why they did that way. Then your exam would be something more along the lines of, ok, right me a new command for the pseudo-OS that did THIS. In one case, yes, you're quite prepared for NOW (or the near-future anyway), in the other, you're quite prepared for now and then and even what's to come.
Open book exams place the onus on the professor. They must now come up with exams that test not only what a students knows now, but how well that student is able to come up with new ideas, or at least analyze and criticize the ideas that are presented to him (or her).
Let's see here. I went to amazon (unfortunately), CDNow, DVD Express, Barnes & Nobles, Hawaiian Vintage Chocolate, and despair. I got all of them before Christmas, although I will admit that I didn't buy anything in the last week.
That, to me, is half of the equation. You've got to realize that a good number of these places are going to get slammed later in December. It's just like shopping in the mall. If you go in the first couple of weekends, you're not going to have a problem. You try going in the last week, good luck! e-commerce or brick and mortar, you run into those problems, depending on WHEN you shop.
I think it'd be fantastic if some third-party site (like, say a bizrate or SOMETHING) would come along next year around December and say, "OK, this site had a n% success rate. Don't order from them past x date." etc. etc. It's this kind of objective (read: non-subsidized, non-associate) statistic reporting that can go rather far in promoting e-commerce. After all, the bad companies will have to shape up or be eliminated, and the good companies will be rewarded.
I expect things to get better next year, though. I will once again advise people to shop early! It's easy. You're ON the web already, people. And if a company's burned you before, don't go back there.
It's not my quote. It's Larry Niven's. (And if you don't know Niven, head on over to library/bookstore. Go ahead. I'll wait.) My point is this: Lest we lose sight of the Big Picture, there are, in fact, several GOOD reasons why the government wants to invade privacy. In the worst-case scenario, people could operate covertly virtually under everyone's noses. I don't believe that a great number of people would want to give terrorists the opportunity to blow everything they have up merely because they felt insecure that the government was looking over their shoulder. I certainly do not advocate that the government (or any agency) should have ultimate power and be able to know absolutely everything about me. However, people must also consider the reasons behind the government's actions. To completely lock observers out of the loop is as dangerous as giving the government carte blanche. Who is to say where that limit should be? Before everyone gets in a uproar about encryption and how everything needs to be encrypted, and how we should keep Big Brother from looking over our shoulder, they should think what the consequences of such an action may be. As a final note, Niven has noted that the constant is not the same for each individual, or even for individual governments. If technology can find a way to increase the constant, I'm all for it.
Well, I do like them both, but prefer Gibson over Stephenson. I'd guess that I'm Gen X. Where would you draw the line anyway? around 22 or something like that? Gibson's style seems more 80's to me in a way. You know, fast-paced, hopping around, MTV, Miami Vice kind of stuff. Stephenson takes the jumping around but keeps everything separate, IMHO. If you look at Gibson's books, it may be told from several different perspectives, yet the cool part is that all of these points of views eventually all meet somewhere. What each of these individuals takes away from the situation is dependent on their past history and what their personal perspective is. Sort of like real life. Stephenson seems to keep things rather separate. There may be different people in the story, but their interactions are not as involved as Gibson's. To each his own, I suppose. And if we're talking about research, which would rather subscribe to? The trodes on your head that provide a consensual hallucinatory vision of cyberspace? (Neuromancer) or the laser that shoots in your eye? (Snow Crash) (I find both to be rather silly, but that's just me.)
Hopefully 3Com will get their act more together with Handspring breathing down their necks. A nice color Palm with a form factor of a V. A wireless model off of the VII with color would be marvelous also. They are definitely on the right track with color palms. This was about the only detractor when people were comparing PalmOS with WinCE. But, I can't imagine Handspring being TOO far behind the curve here with their own color models. I would guess that once they get past their current production delays, then into Christmas, they will probably wait and see how the technology goes and announce some stuff around early next year. Now we need a color PDQ. Color PalmOS, plus cellular phone. Woo hoo!