Actually, the funny thing about Ragnarok Offline is that the chain of ripoffs go like this:
*Squaresoft (Final Fantasy Tactics) ripped off... the middle ages, I dunno. *Gravity (Ragnarok Online), a Korean company ripped off the character designs from FFT *French Bread (RBO), a Japanese company, ripped off a Korean company, who ripped off a Japanese company.
You can't see the comment he's replying to because it's been modded down to 0. However, if you'll notice, right next to the [ Reply to This] link, it says [ Parent ]. Click on "Parent". Et viola.
Well, given the state of the GameFAQs message boards for several popular RPGs, I'd say that people don't actually think when playing RPGs -- they just blindly level up. It may be teaching them patience, but it sure as hell isn't teaching them any problem solving skills.
I was under the impression that the Flynn effect was mostly due to increasing nutrition among lower class groups.
In 2005, Colom et al. (Colom, 2005) presented data supporting the nutrition hypothesis, which predicts that gains in IQ will predominantly occur at the low end of the distribution where nutritional deprivation is most severe. Two large samples of Spanish children were assessed with a 30-year gap. Comparison of the IQ distributions indicated that 1) the mean IQ had increased by 9.7 points (the Flynn effect), 2) the gains were concentrated in the lower half of the distribution and negligible in the top half, and 3) the gains gradually decreased from low to high IQ.
Of course, I'd guess that it's due to a large number of different things (but an increased standard of living overall).
If you're actually the Senator's webmaster, I have to congratulate you. I never really got into podcasting before, but hearing one from Sen. Obama made me willing to give it a try. The fact that there's a reccomendation for a program to catch podcasts with Linux is awesome.
Of course, all I did was search for "podcast" in Synaptic though. I 3 Ubuntu.
The world is not divided into U.S. class countries and poverty-stricken African class countries. There are countries inbetween, who can feed their citizens, but where practically everyone has a crappy blue collar job, weak economy, etc. Read the replies to xusr's post.
Frankly, a trial by a jury of your peers can only happen in a case like this when the jury is a mixture of patent lawyers and software engineers. Seriously.
That's more a failing of our education system than anything else. You're taught the facts, but not the why. People fail to get the over-arching concepts connecting everything together. As such, they have a loosely connected mess of facts in their head that they have trouble applying, and have trouble remembering, but this isn't there fault. It's an awesome thing when a class full of people suddenly realizes how the ideal gas law is connected to osmotic pressure, or when they realize why e^(2*i*pi)=1. That's why people often fail to become interested in science, or think it's beyond them. Ultimately, their teachers are failing them, and often because the teachers are forced to do things a certain way.
I think the effects of actively participating teenagers immediately surrounding you is vastly overrated. I haven't seen any of it. It's not so much that "jocks" and "normal people" are bastards who are jealous of your superior intellect, they're just different, and you need to make an effort to connect to them. But it works, and is rewarding. Knowing all different kinds of people is a great experience, but "geeks" tend to form homogeneous cliques of people exactly like them, almost exclusively. There's also the common perception in academia that average people perform menial, no-knowledge jobs, and that they don't know a thing. But they'd be surprised the things their plumber knows, or the kind of political machinations the average secretary or office worker needs to do to get anything done. (Maybe that's a bad example given today's highly politicised publish-or-perish world).
On the other hand, the effects of society as a whole, and the pervasive ideas that "science is for brainy people not like us" is vastly important to consider. The idea that "geeks" are different, and that there are seperate, distinct castes, where communication is forbidden among them, is terrible. It splinters society, and is a terrible thing to put children through.
That all comes from nurture. I'm pressed for time so I won't go into specifics, but you probably contributed to the development of that arrogant attitude, or cheating demeanor.
Probably reminded you of Soju because they're the exact same thing. Both are distilled liquors, usually of rice, barley or sweet potato. If you thought they were much different tasting, it's probably because you got a sweet potato soju and a rice shochu or something. But I digress.
Soju has a relatively storied history, coming to Korea from the Mongolians in the 13th century, and spreading throughout asian from there, but you really can't find many good sojus nowadays. The last one to be really good, in my opinion, is Chamnamutong Malgeun Sul from Jinro. Unfortunately, I don't think they make it any more. All of the newer sojus are pretty much the equivalent of boxed wine (sort of). Cheap, strong, and for the sole purpose of getting drunk off your ass.
BitLord is a crappy, spyware ridden clone of BitComet, which is an awesome, but cheating client. BitLord also hasn't updated to include BitComet's new features.
Kids aren't learning how to factor quadratics in 8th grade, or how photosynthesis works, or what stoichiometry is NOW. I don't think I learned any of that until the 10th grade at least.
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Actually, the funny thing about Ragnarok Offline is that the chain of ripoffs go like this:
*Squaresoft (Final Fantasy Tactics) ripped off... the middle ages, I dunno.
*Gravity (Ragnarok Online), a Korean company ripped off the character designs from FFT
*French Bread (RBO), a Japanese company, ripped off a Korean company, who ripped off a Japanese company.
I don't know about you, but my cousin (3 years old) forces me to watch god damned Dora the Explorer or Thomas the fucking Tank Engine all day.
You can't see the comment he's replying to because it's been modded down to 0. However, if you'll notice, right next to the [ Reply to This] link, it says [ Parent ]. Click on "Parent". Et viola.
I guess you've never heard of the Flynn Effect.
Well, given the state of the GameFAQs message boards for several popular RPGs, I'd say that people don't actually think when playing RPGs -- they just blindly level up. It may be teaching them patience, but it sure as hell isn't teaching them any problem solving skills.
It violated wikipedia guidelines, and was biased information. Therefore, it was fixed. I have no idea what you're trying to say.
*points at Finland and Norway*
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I'd say, copy them. Top of the Program for International Student Assessment and Human Development Index.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PISA_(student_assess
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_development_in
I would think twice before you quote that (falsified) article attributing that quote (just a goddamned piece of paper) to Pres. Bush. Just saying.
If you're actually the Senator's webmaster, I have to congratulate you. I never really got into podcasting before, but hearing one from Sen. Obama made me willing to give it a try. The fact that there's a reccomendation for a program to catch podcasts with Linux is awesome.
Of course, all I did was search for "podcast" in Synaptic though. I 3 Ubuntu.
The world is not divided into U.S. class countries and poverty-stricken African class countries. There are countries inbetween, who can feed their citizens, but where practically everyone has a crappy blue collar job, weak economy, etc. Read the replies to xusr's post.
...to Massachusets wanting to switch everything to open file formats. That way they don't get fucked by Diebold or MS.
Frankly, a trial by a jury of your peers can only happen in a case like this when the jury is a mixture of patent lawyers and software engineers. Seriously.
...that he gave up creating games and went on to design childrens playgrounds in Japan. Was that just a rumor or something?
That's more a failing of our education system than anything else. You're taught the facts, but not the why. People fail to get the over-arching concepts connecting everything together. As such, they have a loosely connected mess of facts in their head that they have trouble applying, and have trouble remembering, but this isn't there fault. It's an awesome thing when a class full of people suddenly realizes how the ideal gas law is connected to osmotic pressure, or when they realize why e^(2*i*pi)=1. That's why people often fail to become interested in science, or think it's beyond them. Ultimately, their teachers are failing them, and often because the teachers are forced to do things a certain way.
I think the effects of actively participating teenagers immediately surrounding you is vastly overrated. I haven't seen any of it. It's not so much that "jocks" and "normal people" are bastards who are jealous of your superior intellect, they're just different, and you need to make an effort to connect to them. But it works, and is rewarding. Knowing all different kinds of people is a great experience, but "geeks" tend to form homogeneous cliques of people exactly like them, almost exclusively. There's also the common perception in academia that average people perform menial, no-knowledge jobs, and that they don't know a thing. But they'd be surprised the things their plumber knows, or the kind of political machinations the average secretary or office worker needs to do to get anything done. (Maybe that's a bad example given today's highly politicised publish-or-perish world).
On the other hand, the effects of society as a whole, and the pervasive ideas that "science is for brainy people not like us" is vastly important to consider. The idea that "geeks" are different, and that there are seperate, distinct castes, where communication is forbidden among them, is terrible. It splinters society, and is a terrible thing to put children through.
That all comes from nurture. I'm pressed for time so I won't go into specifics, but you probably contributed to the development of that arrogant attitude, or cheating demeanor.
Who, Conan O'Brien? Well, Conan killed Colbert... so you never know.
Probably reminded you of Soju because they're the exact same thing. Both are distilled liquors, usually of rice, barley or sweet potato. If you thought they were much different tasting, it's probably because you got a sweet potato soju and a rice shochu or something. But I digress.
Soju has a relatively storied history, coming to Korea from the Mongolians in the 13th century, and spreading throughout asian from there, but you really can't find many good sojus nowadays. The last one to be really good, in my opinion, is Chamnamutong Malgeun Sul from Jinro. Unfortunately, I don't think they make it any more. All of the newer sojus are pretty much the equivalent of boxed wine (sort of). Cheap, strong, and for the sole purpose of getting drunk off your ass.
You mean Soju?
Don't feed the trolls. Especially not by trolling.
Your sig is sad, but true. Golf clap for you.
BitLord is a crappy, spyware ridden clone of BitComet, which is an awesome, but cheating client. BitLord also hasn't updated to include BitComet's new features.
In short, use uTorrent with Windows.
People don't have cell walls. Plants do. We have cell membranes.
/Pedantic mode off.
Kids aren't learning how to factor quadratics in 8th grade, or how photosynthesis works, or what stoichiometry is NOW. I don't think I learned any of that until the 10th grade at least.