What software exists to provide good computerized education?
I'm talking about software that does more than just replace pen and paper. Scantron-on-computer is -not- computerized education.
As an idea of what I'm talking about, iKnow.co.jp provides Japanese vocabulary (plus English to Japanese, and other languages as well) in a format that would not work well with just pen and paper. It -could- be done with notecards and some strict rules about how to use them, but would take more time to organize and maintain. The scheduling of when to study would also be tricky on paper.
When was the last game that worked out of the box? I don't even remember it. They -all- get patches now.
You didn't pay them for a 'complete, working product'. You paid them for a game that works well enough. All games for the last decade have been that way. You're lucky they -bother- to patch. They could just start working on their next game and ignore that one and it wouldn't hurt their sales hardly at all. They lose money fixing those bugs.
One of the blogs I read was noting this. Their statement was that the patch helped, but didn't cure the problem.
So they chose to release a patch that would lesson the problem while they work on a true solution, and people just bitch about it as if they did nothing. Seriously, they're working on it. Give them a break.
You accuse me of talking out of my ass and armchair quarterbacking when you are doing EXACTLY the same thing. Your only logic is 'he's a doctor, so he must have been right.'
And you'd lose that bet. People can do whatever they want with their money, it doesn't bother me one bit if they give $1 or a million. Or nothing.
And in addition, if that capacity is needed on my current servers (which aren't all cloud-y), how long does it take to scale up? I have to order a new server, install an OS, configure it, install all the software I need, test it, carefully roll it out.
Can I do that in 10 minutes? Not a chance! If I did that in 10 hours it would be a miracle. 10 days is a lot closer to reality, for a true rush job.
I would actually install that plugin, too. Take it a step further and link to a shop aggregator (to get multiple prices and pick the best) and it's even better.
I must admit, though... If I'm willing to buy and I'm at a torrent site, I've already failed to find it anywhere that I would shop at.
The 'common concept' I refer to is that the night sky's background is static, as was mentioned in the summary. I'd have been even more impressed if he'd figured out the Earth wasn't the center of the universe at the same time.
That only gets the stupid ones. The smart ones know how to parse the page to be sure they're getting one of the items, rather than some fake. A friend of mine wrote his own script for this and he hasn't had any false hits on this except the ones he did on purpose to make sure the script would really make it through the buy process.
So for less than $10, he has a shot at a car and quite a bit of experience learning to scrape websites. His wife's a little angry about the lack of attention last weekend, though.
Also, with as many people 'cheating' as there are, they each have a very small shot at each prize. He hasn't managed to snag a single item yet despite multiple computers running scripts multiple times per second.
Gripe? I'm stating an opinion: That surgery should be done properly, no matter who the person is. Thankfully, this time it -was- done properly, despite a bad decision on the part of the doctors involved.
You? You're saying that it's okay to give them cut-rate surgery because the doctor is volunteering his time.
I seriously considering setting up my internal network for IPv6 and trying to get connected to the web via IPv6, but ran into so many roadblocks that I just gave up.
It's no wonder adoption is so slow if this is the way things are.
I'm amazed that he was able to observe that and figure out that the common concept of the sky was wrong at the time. I can't imagine how much thought must have gone into something like that.
This list apparently only includes things the authors think the 'journalists' shouldn't be jailed for. In other words, they disagree with the laws in those countries.
I'm sick of us meddling in the affairs of other countries. If they want to fix their country, let them come to -us-, not the other way around. If they think their country is hopeless, that's what emigration is for. There are plenty of countries that aren't hopeless.
"The only "bad" lawyers (a) work for corporations or (b) are suing you."
Oh man, you couldn't be more wrong. There are many, many lawyers out there just aiming to make a quick buck on someone who "NEEDS" a lawyer and doesn't know how to pick one.
My father hasn't had to deal with lawyers much, and he picked a bad one. It ended up costing him a LOT of money without actually fulfilling his 'need'. The lawyer was good at one thing: Convincing the client to stay with him instead of going elsewhere. No matter what I said, my father refused to leave and find a better lawyer, even after admitting that the guy wasn't doing the job.
Right, because when someone's life is on the line, the unknowledgeable doctor's first concern should be his cellphone bill, rather than having instant feedback from the doctor that knows what is going on.
I am -so- glad someone finally put this in writing. Hopefully every game developer from here out will read this article and have some clue how to keep a gamer entralled.
Some games already do it, and others utterly fail. At this point, I only have time to play the games that succeed at this (the ones that fail just can't keep me playing... There's always something better to do.)
Are you kidding? There's always some kid (like I was) that would love to pop a whole in this. Even if he's in the wrong and they're in the right. It's a challenge, and someone would probably step up to the plate.
Having said that, law students aren't lawyers and aren't as likely to actually succeed with something you can use.
Cutting out school days would only worsen the problem. Then you'd have fewer qualified teachers willing to work for the money. Parents would get angry, non-parents wouldn't take any more notice than normal, and politicians would continue to promise to do something about it and then claim there just isn't enough budget to kill people in Iraq and support the school system, too.
That's exactly it. I -do- mind. I bought a copy a long time ago and lost it in a move. If I had backups, they would have been kept separately and I would still have it.
"your kids learning"
Kids will be kids. They aren't born trained. If you never trust them with anything, they'll never learn to take care of it. That doesn't mean I should have to buy a new copy of the game to teach -them- that lesson, though. It's -my- game, not theirs.
Kids aren't the only way discs get destroyed. Animals, accidents, fire, flood... There are inumerable ways to destroy that disc and most aren't covered on your home owner's insurance... If you have any.
Whether you like it or not, backups are legitimate.
Piracy and backups. The same method that pirates use will always be useful for people who want to make sure that $60 game continues to play after the neighbor's kid uses a key on it. (Because it's never YOUR kid, no!)
'Just buy another, it'll be cheaper by then' isn't a valid argument either because there are tons of games on EBay that are more expensive than they were originally due to stopped production. Try to buy Final Fantasy 7 or Suikoden 2.
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What software exists to provide good computerized education?
I'm talking about software that does more than just replace pen and paper. Scantron-on-computer is -not- computerized education.
As an idea of what I'm talking about, iKnow.co.jp provides Japanese vocabulary (plus English to Japanese, and other languages as well) in a format that would not work well with just pen and paper. It -could- be done with notecards and some strict rules about how to use them, but would take more time to organize and maintain. The scheduling of when to study would also be tricky on paper.
When was the last game that worked out of the box? I don't even remember it. They -all- get patches now.
You didn't pay them for a 'complete, working product'. You paid them for a game that works well enough. All games for the last decade have been that way. You're lucky they -bother- to patch. They could just start working on their next game and ignore that one and it wouldn't hurt their sales hardly at all. They lose money fixing those bugs.
One of the blogs I read was noting this. Their statement was that the patch helped, but didn't cure the problem.
So they chose to release a patch that would lesson the problem while they work on a true solution, and people just bitch about it as if they did nothing. Seriously, they're working on it. Give them a break.
You accuse me of talking out of my ass and armchair quarterbacking when you are doing EXACTLY the same thing. Your only logic is 'he's a doctor, so he must have been right.'
And you'd lose that bet. People can do whatever they want with their money, it doesn't bother me one bit if they give $1 or a million. Or nothing.
And in addition, if that capacity is needed on my current servers (which aren't all cloud-y), how long does it take to scale up? I have to order a new server, install an OS, configure it, install all the software I need, test it, carefully roll it out.
Can I do that in 10 minutes? Not a chance! If I did that in 10 hours it would be a miracle. 10 days is a lot closer to reality, for a true rush job.
I would actually install that plugin, too. Take it a step further and link to a shop aggregator (to get multiple prices and pick the best) and it's even better.
I must admit, though... If I'm willing to buy and I'm at a torrent site, I've already failed to find it anywhere that I would shop at.
You fail at reading comprehension.
Next time, read the post 3 times before you reply to it, and then maybe you won't look like such a putz.
The 'common concept' I refer to is that the night sky's background is static, as was mentioned in the summary. I'd have been even more impressed if he'd figured out the Earth wasn't the center of the universe at the same time.
That only gets the stupid ones. The smart ones know how to parse the page to be sure they're getting one of the items, rather than some fake. A friend of mine wrote his own script for this and he hasn't had any false hits on this except the ones he did on purpose to make sure the script would really make it through the buy process.
So for less than $10, he has a shot at a car and quite a bit of experience learning to scrape websites. His wife's a little angry about the lack of attention last weekend, though.
Also, with as many people 'cheating' as there are, they each have a very small shot at each prize. He hasn't managed to snag a single item yet despite multiple computers running scripts multiple times per second.
Gripe? I'm stating an opinion: That surgery should be done properly, no matter who the person is. Thankfully, this time it -was- done properly, despite a bad decision on the part of the doctors involved.
You? You're saying that it's okay to give them cut-rate surgery because the doctor is volunteering his time.
Now who makes who sick?
I don't know. Maybe if I did, my father wouldn't have picked such a bad one.
I seriously considering setting up my internal network for IPv6 and trying to get connected to the web via IPv6, but ran into so many roadblocks that I just gave up.
It's no wonder adoption is so slow if this is the way things are.
We get it from basic English skills. It's "up 300%" not "300% of what it was".
1 -> 3 = 300% of what it was.
1 -> 4 = up 300%.
Again:
300% x 1 = 3
1 + 3 = 4
I'm amazed that he was able to observe that and figure out that the common concept of the sky was wrong at the time. I can't imagine how much thought must have gone into something like that.
This list apparently only includes things the authors think the 'journalists' shouldn't be jailed for. In other words, they disagree with the laws in those countries.
I'm sick of us meddling in the affairs of other countries. If they want to fix their country, let them come to -us-, not the other way around. If they think their country is hopeless, that's what emigration is for. There are plenty of countries that aren't hopeless.
"The only "bad" lawyers (a) work for corporations or (b) are suing you."
Oh man, you couldn't be more wrong. There are many, many lawyers out there just aiming to make a quick buck on someone who "NEEDS" a lawyer and doesn't know how to pick one.
My father hasn't had to deal with lawyers much, and he picked a bad one. It ended up costing him a LOT of money without actually fulfilling his 'need'. The lawyer was good at one thing: Convincing the client to stay with him instead of going elsewhere. No matter what I said, my father refused to leave and find a better lawyer, even after admitting that the guy wasn't doing the job.
Right, because when someone's life is on the line, the unknowledgeable doctor's first concern should be his cellphone bill, rather than having instant feedback from the doctor that knows what is going on.
Why do you assume that the good coders are the same people who can't be precise when they are speaking?
Who is crazy enough to install a beta Microsoft service pack?
I am -so- glad someone finally put this in writing. Hopefully every game developer from here out will read this article and have some clue how to keep a gamer entralled.
Some games already do it, and others utterly fail. At this point, I only have time to play the games that succeed at this (the ones that fail just can't keep me playing... There's always something better to do.)
Are you kidding? There's always some kid (like I was) that would love to pop a whole in this. Even if he's in the wrong and they're in the right. It's a challenge, and someone would probably step up to the plate.
Having said that, law students aren't lawyers and aren't as likely to actually succeed with something you can use.
That's the same as saying people don't pay for cars, they pay for:
1) a pure conscience
2) a guarantee against jailtime
3) not having to take the bus
4) not having to pay a taxi every day
No, they buy cars. There's a billion reasons why, but they buy it.
Cutting out school days would only worsen the problem. Then you'd have fewer qualified teachers willing to work for the money. Parents would get angry, non-parents wouldn't take any more notice than normal, and politicians would continue to promise to do something about it and then claim there just isn't enough budget to kill people in Iraq and support the school system, too.
"paying heavily for your does of nostalgia."
That's exactly it. I -do- mind. I bought a copy a long time ago and lost it in a move. If I had backups, they would have been kept separately and I would still have it.
"your kids learning"
Kids will be kids. They aren't born trained. If you never trust them with anything, they'll never learn to take care of it. That doesn't mean I should have to buy a new copy of the game to teach -them- that lesson, though. It's -my- game, not theirs.
Kids aren't the only way discs get destroyed. Animals, accidents, fire, flood... There are inumerable ways to destroy that disc and most aren't covered on your home owner's insurance... If you have any.
Whether you like it or not, backups are legitimate.
Piracy and backups. The same method that pirates use will always be useful for people who want to make sure that $60 game continues to play after the neighbor's kid uses a key on it. (Because it's never YOUR kid, no!)
'Just buy another, it'll be cheaper by then' isn't a valid argument either because there are tons of games on EBay that are more expensive than they were originally due to stopped production. Try to buy Final Fantasy 7 or Suikoden 2.