I think that most people just have better things to do with their time than writing such things. The assumption is: if you are able to and genuinely interested in contributing, you will figure out the easy stuff on your own.
Yes, it is compulsory. I don't know what it is like now (it only appeared in my last year of school so I wouldn't be surprised if it had been refined since then), but it used to be the case that nobody could really be bothered and within a few months, nobody in the school was doing any of the work they were meant to. That was probably due to how it was presented: they had these daft booklets which were basically "fill in the blanks" with your opinions on various moral and work related issues. There wasn't a whole lot about the political system as such, it was more an extension of the compulsory GCSE RE syllabus trying to get people to form opinions.
I am far too young to have any fond memories of any arcade games released before about 2000 (besides Final Fight, which they had in the café at a sports centre we used to go to) being born right on the 80s/90s boundary. Yet I have 2 cabs at home and find Pac Man, Donkey Kong etc. fun (not so much Space Invaders though)... Now, just as it was 'back in the day', some people will like these games, and some will not!
I know perfectly well who you are scumbag!:D
I didn't say there weren't Pandora exclusive developers either, but atomicthumbs is a moron and you know it.
GPH are actually being very helpful to homebrew developers this time around - they have been giving out free prototype units and docs for a while now to homebrew game developers (not for emulators).
Well I *am* a teenager, and I have both written video games and done some kernel hacking. As such, I do see it as writing off, and quite insulting to boot.
"Ebay is golden. It's UI is nice, it's search feature generally works, and that's why it's a multi-billion dollar corp."
You've clearly not seen the new UI/search beta they've been forcing on some people in the UK. That is another rubbish idea that will be forced upon all the eBay sites at some point.
"No it doesn't... It just shows that the {INSERT ANY MAJOR PARTY HERE} is dangerously enamoured with technology promises sold to it by IT consultants, and at the same time are ignorant and incompetent about technology...".
It isn't the same at all - the hack requires a mod which has been used for ages to run pirated stuff on the Wii anyway. This really is a homebrew hack.
I work on Open2x (a firmware replacement for the GP2X) and I used chroot to allow backwards compatibility with the official firmware. Nearly all of the incompatibilities lie with different versions of libraries included (the official one uses ancient glibc 2.2.5 and Open2x, glibc 2.3.6 for example) so what I did to work around the issue is to package the whole of the official firmware's filesystem into a loopback image. This is then mounted using a script from the Open2x menu, it chroots into the image and launches the appropriate scripts to get the official firmware running. Of course this doesn't help with kernel incompatibilities, but it seems to do nicely for dealing with different library versions.
"Does it really require a certain type of personality? I'm a very capable female computer engineer, however, due to my emotionality, and my passive nature, I get stomped on at work, and treated extremely poorly."
That just about proves it then. Try getting a man with a similar personality and I expect he'd face similar problems.
I didn't think terrorists were used as justification for CCTV cameras. The British government != American government, despite what many people seem to think.
Ah, you may be right about science - I didn't do that syllabus (so don't know a huge amount about it) but I do know one of the exams is multiple choice and many people get 100% in it. Lots of schools are switching to it for the very reason that it produces good results. The 'combined science' was purely combined in the qualification, nearly all schools treated physics, chemistry and biology as separate subjects regardless. Parts of that report seems a bit strange - mobile phone technology has been on the syllabus for a long time in the form of the EM spectrum (what else to they expect to teach people who aren't all that bright).
I disagree with the idea that French is being made too easy however. I did GCSE French 2 years ago (yes, I'm a young whipper snapper) and while you can use a writing frame to some extent (though it isn't as much as the Telegraph article makes out), you are severely limited as to what grades you could get in doing so (I think it was a maximum of a D, which is basically worthless anyway and will clearly be dragged down even further in the other exams if the candidate needs to use a writing frame for one of the easiest parts of the qualification). To get an A or A*, you genuinely do need to do a lot of extra work, it can't be spoon-fed to you.
Every year there are stories on the media about exams getting easier - don't believe it all. Some of it may be true, but as with most things, the newspapers like to only describe a relatively small part of a large, complicated topic and make that sample out to be representative of the whole thing, depending on what their biases are.
Surely you can't really believe education is dumbed down? Maybe for the 'media science' (as some universities now call it) students but not for those who take more traditional, worthwhile subjects.
Of course they can't force you to use the computers, but if you do, they can force you not to use anything other than what they have installed - seems reasonable enough to me. It's their system, their rules.
You think it is a good idea for children to risk missing out on some of their education when they are kicked out of school just because you disagree with a policy (which does have valid reasons)? Clearly you are quite dense if you believe this.
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Never had a problem myself - I've been using it since the day it released.
I think that most people just have better things to do with their time than writing such things. The assumption is: if you are able to and genuinely interested in contributing, you will figure out the easy stuff on your own.
Yes, it is compulsory. I don't know what it is like now (it only appeared in my last year of school so I wouldn't be surprised if it had been refined since then), but it used to be the case that nobody could really be bothered and within a few months, nobody in the school was doing any of the work they were meant to. That was probably due to how it was presented: they had these daft booklets which were basically "fill in the blanks" with your opinions on various moral and work related issues. There wasn't a whole lot about the political system as such, it was more an extension of the compulsory GCSE RE syllabus trying to get people to form opinions.
And... how many have you sold so far? ;)
Why is this marked as 'Troll'?
I am far too young to have any fond memories of any arcade games released before about 2000 (besides Final Fight, which they had in the café at a sports centre we used to go to) being born right on the 80s/90s boundary. Yet I have 2 cabs at home and find Pac Man, Donkey Kong etc. fun (not so much Space Invaders though)... Now, just as it was 'back in the day', some people will like these games, and some will not!
I know perfectly well who you are scumbag! :D
I didn't say there weren't Pandora exclusive developers either, but atomicthumbs is a moron and you know it.
GPH are actually being very helpful to homebrew developers this time around - they have been giving out free prototype units and docs for a while now to homebrew game developers (not for emulators).
Actually, a lot of the GP2X homebrew devs are interested in the Wiz either exclusively or in addition to the Pandora.
Well I *am* a teenager, and I have both written video games and done some kernel hacking. As such, I do see it as writing off, and quite insulting to boot.
Nice way to write off everybody between the ages 13 and 19 there.
Did you actually read the whole thing or stop there?
"Ebay is golden. It's UI is nice, it's search feature generally works, and that's why it's a multi-billion dollar corp."
You've clearly not seen the new UI/search beta they've been forcing on some people in the UK. That is another rubbish idea that will be forced upon all the eBay sites at some point.
"No it doesn't ... It just shows that the {INSERT ANY MAJOR PARTY HERE} is dangerously enamoured with technology promises sold to it by IT consultants, and at the same time are ignorant and incompetent about technology...".
I'm 17 and *I* was taught it is a million millions at school!
It isn't the same at all - the hack requires a mod which has been used for ages to run pirated stuff on the Wii anyway. This really is a homebrew hack.
Why would the US not have to? It is they that is being punished...
Quite the opposite.
I work on Open2x (a firmware replacement for the GP2X) and I used chroot to allow backwards compatibility with the official firmware. Nearly all of the incompatibilities lie with different versions of libraries included (the official one uses ancient glibc 2.2.5 and Open2x, glibc 2.3.6 for example) so what I did to work around the issue is to package the whole of the official firmware's filesystem into a loopback image. This is then mounted using a script from the Open2x menu, it chroots into the image and launches the appropriate scripts to get the official firmware running. Of course this doesn't help with kernel incompatibilities, but it seems to do nicely for dealing with different library versions.
"Does it really require a certain type of personality? I'm a very capable female computer engineer, however, due to my emotionality, and my passive nature, I get stomped on at work, and treated extremely poorly." That just about proves it then. Try getting a man with a similar personality and I expect he'd face similar problems.
I didn't think terrorists were used as justification for CCTV cameras. The British government != American government, despite what many people seem to think.
Ah, you may be right about science - I didn't do that syllabus (so don't know a huge amount about it) but I do know one of the exams is multiple choice and many people get 100% in it. Lots of schools are switching to it for the very reason that it produces good results. The 'combined science' was purely combined in the qualification, nearly all schools treated physics, chemistry and biology as separate subjects regardless. Parts of that report seems a bit strange - mobile phone technology has been on the syllabus for a long time in the form of the EM spectrum (what else to they expect to teach people who aren't all that bright).
I disagree with the idea that French is being made too easy however. I did GCSE French 2 years ago (yes, I'm a young whipper snapper) and while you can use a writing frame to some extent (though it isn't as much as the Telegraph article makes out), you are severely limited as to what grades you could get in doing so (I think it was a maximum of a D, which is basically worthless anyway and will clearly be dragged down even further in the other exams if the candidate needs to use a writing frame for one of the easiest parts of the qualification). To get an A or A*, you genuinely do need to do a lot of extra work, it can't be spoon-fed to you.
Every year there are stories on the media about exams getting easier - don't believe it all. Some of it may be true, but as with most things, the newspapers like to only describe a relatively small part of a large, complicated topic and make that sample out to be representative of the whole thing, depending on what their biases are.
Surely you can't really believe education is dumbed down? Maybe for the 'media science' (as some universities now call it) students but not for those who take more traditional, worthwhile subjects.
Of course they can't force you to use the computers, but if you do, they can force you not to use anything other than what they have installed - seems reasonable enough to me. It's their system, their rules.
You think it is a good idea for children to risk missing out on some of their education when they are kicked out of school just because you disagree with a policy (which does have valid reasons)? Clearly you are quite dense if you believe this.