Probably not being overly humble.
It's probably the "imposter syndrome" effect. It happens to a loooooooot of students in good schools or in graduate school.
Not quite.
It's memorization, kind of like the "look say" method, but instead of memorizing words, you memorize what sounds are usually associated with certain letters and what sounds MIGHT be associated with the letter combinations.
So you will learn that c can be the sound/k/ or/s/ and sometimes might learn situations in which is is more often one or the other.
It has it's faults, because not every word is spelled phonetically in English, but it is a great starting point for words you don't know.
With phonics, if you see the word "inexplicable" you'd take some guesses because "in" is usually not the long "eye" sound, and "ca" is usually "ka" and an e on the end of the word is often silent and com up with the correct pronunciation or something very close (maybe the long "e" sound or the long "i" sound in the middle syllables). You'd at least be close enough that if you KNEW the word (if you'd heard it spoken before), you'd figure it out. But if you saw that word and didn't know how to sound it out ("look say" method), you'd just have to look it up. That's why phonics works better at first and then you learn to recognize words that it doesn't work on.
I mean, it's not all quite as blatant when they are teaching it as I spelled out above, but that's what it comes down to.
I completely agree.
It's not the greatest, but I do enjoy Flex coding (I, too, was forced to do a Flex app for work). It's really easy to pickup, fairly flexible, and makes coding a graphical web app quite simple (even if there are some complex parts to the app).
Now, it doesn't run well, but that's Flash...if Flex was over a different backend it would not be a bad language at all.
One of the reasons, I believe, why phonics works better than the visual method when TEACHING reading is because with phonics, you can sound out words you've never seen before. Whereas, with the 'sight-words' method, you can only read words that you've seen before.
You learn a word by sounding it out. Once you've learned the word and seen it a few times, you can then read it whole-word. If you didn't learn the "sounding out" method, then how would you recognize a word when you were reading it for the first time? You might have to consult a dictionary every time you SEE a word you've never seen before, even if you've HEARD it before.
It's not that complicated. Like many other things, one method is better when learning, another is better for regular use, once you've learned.
That's where I'm lucky at my job.
I work with the HR people a lot (it's a large company, so there is a large HR section, one that actually has uses for a variety of applications that I help develop and maintain). So when they are looking at hiring an IT position and something like that comes up (they say they need experience with one thing, but experience with other, similar things could count, especially when they say things like "Linux Servers" and someone puts a specific version on their resume), they come and ask me: "Does this count? Is this the same thing?" and I help teach them. Our recruiters are learning more and more about this kind of thing.
You are the exception, rather than the rule.
Most people who are scared of MMR do not understand that there is a difference between MMR and getting vaccines for the 3 diseases separately. So if they're scared of one, they're scared of all.
Oh, I completely got the point of that argument. I never said they didn't have the right to decide that. This won't affect me, I'll probably buy the game. It will affect a friend of mine (obviously, he lives somewhere else), he will not buy the game.
Obviously, Blizzard decided that the number of people affected by this wouldn't be enough to affect their bottom line. Maybe there is too much outrage over it or maybe Blizzard didn't realize how much backlash there would be and that it might affect their bottom line more than other system restrictions.
But none of that is relevant to the point I was making. If you look a few posts up, what got us onto this subject was peregrin's asking how this was different from other system requirements. It's very different from other system requirements because of the points made above (the price and inconvenience of finding a new connection, especially in some areas is on a much different scale than just upgrading your graphics card). So, by having other system requirements, you limit yourself to those who have a computer that can run your game AND to those who are willing to spend a relatively LITTLE amount of money to get there (and the "minimum" requirements are also not usually the minimum...you can play with less, but just often things don't run as well). With this, the majority of people who DON'T have the minimum requirement only don't have it because they CAN'T without moving. It's not as simple as that. So they are very different. That was the point.
The only option is moving? Really? Can't find a different game to play? It it really that critical that you MUST play that game?
You're missing the point of the argument.
The only option IF YOU WANT TO PLAY THIS GAME is moving.
Just like, with the other system requirements, IF YOU WANT TO PLAY THE GAME, you must upgrade your computer.
Of course you can play other games or not play games at all. But that's the case with other system requirements as well. My point was that with the other system requirements, getting around them is a relatively minor expense. But with internet connections, it often is NOT. Oftentimes your only options are move or don't play the game. (So of course, people would pick don't play the game).
Actually there's more to it than that. This ties in directly with their decision to offer a real-money auction house. If you don't do everything in your power to prevent cheating - then that auction house will be rife with fraud, people posting a billion duped items etc. - which would massively devalue it for all players and make it unattractive to use.
And there's an easier, more publicly acceptable way to avoid that.
Offer cloud storage of characters, as they are. Allow them to be stored online.
Also allow the offline storage of characters. Allow them to be stored on a local computer and played anytime.
Only allow the cloud characters to be played when you are actually online. Only allow the cloud characters to use the auction house. Do not allow any character to move from offline to online. Do not allow any equipment to be traded between cloud and non-cloud characters.
Done. Now if you want to use the AH or any of the online features, you create a cloud character.
If you don't want those things, then create an offline character.
Cable connectioms across the country arent stable enough leaving 100 million potentioal users in the dirt.
How about servicemen in afgahnistan? Or on deployment on ships? They cant play it either. They cant even play Starcraft againist each other in their down time.
Yes! And what about all those people on laptops or PCs that dont have the graphics horsepower to run the game?
What about those that have maxed out their harddrive storage??
Those bastards!! Why didn't they think of these things and design it so everyone can run it?
What about those things?
People can go out and get a better graphics card. Buy a new hard drive. Even get a new PC or laptop. All of which with relatively minor expenses (yes, getting a new PC is expensive, but in the grand scheme of things, you can get a pretty decent one for not all THAT much).
Many people can't just up and decide to get a better internet connection. Most people have very few, if any, choices as far as internet connections go. If that choice is nothing or a bad connection that cuts out a lot (like peragrin's connection, above), what do they do? The only option is moving. Moving is NOT as easy as buying a new computer, graphics card, or hard drive. Not at all. That's why it's different.
Apparenty they found a computer model that infuses people with a desire to walk and bike:
After running the model, planners discovered a positive feedback loop: More walking and biking would lead to lower obesity rates for Portlanders. In turn, a fitter population would find walking and biking a more attractive option.
I find it very hard to believe that this feedback loop exists in real life to any significant degree. If it really was true, the professional sports athletes would prefer walking and biking over driving their cars, and the sport stars seem to be preferring their luxury sports cars today.
IBM's model must be missing one or more important variables to why people choose cars over walking.
You're misinterpreting that. It said that a fitter population would find walking and biking a more attractive option. Meaning more attractive than an unfit population would.
It's not that most fit people would choose walking over cars, especially not in all situations. It's that a higher percentage of fit people would choose walking or biking than unfit people would. Which makes perfect sense. If I'm going 3 blocks and I'm in good shape, that's not much of a walk. Especially if it's in decent weather. So I may walk it so that I don't have to deal with getting into my car, parking, etc. But if I'm 350 lbs., then that's a difficult walk, so I'm going to take my car.
If I'm going 10 miles or the weather is bad, then I'm driving no matter how fit I am.
You wouldn't believe how many people I've talked to in a panic because they are having an issue and need to access the server, but the ONLY person with the key or password is unreachable. (On vacation with no contact number, not responding for some reason, or in a couple of cases, recently deceased.)
I know security people will often tell you to limit these things, especially passwords, so that only one person has it and it's not written down. Ignore that. You need to control access, but not so tightly that if one thing goes wrong your company is screwed.
This is something a lot of IT (especially IT security) doesn't always get. We are there to provide service for the company. We are there to make things EASIER for the company. If you get TOO strict with your security, you are going to hurt productivity. Sometimes it's worth it (let's say it is the security related to a database containing customer's credit card numbers/social security numbers/etc), sometimes it's not (server passwords, user password resets, etc.). It's important to make the call.
Sometimes the best security practices are just not appropriate.
It's a 1 in 1000 increase. You are not increasing from 3 to 4, you are increasing from 3 per 1000 to 4 per 1000. But, this is only for those that report their infection. And 64bit seems to get hit harder in Win7 than 32bit contrary to what some have said in this thread.
It is an increase of 1/3. Yes, it is an increase of 1 in 1000 in ABSOLUTE numbers, but that matters not in regards to whether things are statistically significant. (actually, even the % increase doesn't matter all that much). And the % increase is MUCH more important than the absolute increase in most things.
Look at it this way:
If person A makes $500,000/year and person B makes $50,000/year and both get a $20,000/year raise, which one got the better raise? Sure, in absolute numbers they both got the same amount. But Person A (who got a 4% raise) is going to be living at roughly the same "lifestyle" as they were before, while person B (who got a 40% raise) is going to be living a MUCH better life.
When you look at increases and decreases, it's the PERCENTAGE that matters, except in very specific situations.
Whereas I pay an unreasonable price (at least when compared to people I know who live in other cities and don't have Comcast), don't have another choice if I want high-speed internet and have never had a good experience with their support.
Our HD DVR failed because, for some reason, there was a 20-year old part in there. The technician was shocked, as he didn't know they even USED that part anymore. In fact, he said he wouldn't have known what exactly it was if he hadn't been with Comcast for a long time.
Our entire neighborhood's internet was out for 3 days. On day 2, they were STILL telling me it was my router.
I asked this of another poster.
Does this mean you support getting mp3 out of the tag in all browsers?
My understanding is that Chrome supports it. Is that a bad idea?
I find it better to look at the content of a decision before I judge it right or wrong, rather than just see who agrees with the decision.
Normally I disagree with MS. This time I agree with them.
Difference being at that time MS was wrong because W3C standards are better than MS's bastardized HTML.
This time, from everything I've read on the subject, H.264 is better.
Google should also support both.
And really, from everything I've read (I'm no expert, though), H.264 appears to be the better standard and I definitely remember reading from multiple sources that it is more efficient. So that should be the supported standard. Don't support one because it's your friends making it. Support it because it's the best.
Do you work or know anyone who doesn't really know computers very well? A lot of them go to the help links when they need something. A lot less now than did it 10 years ago, sure, but it still happens. And some legitimate applications use hcp protocols for their help.
And sometimes when you're using a new application, going to the "help" can get you your answer quicker than on the internet (especially if it's not a program used by millions of people). I haven't used Windows Help & Support in ages, but sometimes when I am forced to help support a user using a program I've never used before, I find the program's help files to actually prove useful. Especially if it's an odd program that is only used by a group of people in a certain business.
Microsoft had to release a "remedial fix" for an exploit that was known and in the wild. This remedial fix breaks all local, legitimate help links. This could affect users who, y'know, might want to use said help links.
If this exploit was still unknown, these users would be able to use their help links without much legitimate chance of being attacked. This could have given Microsoft time to patch in a fix that DIDN'T break all the help links.
And while you or I might not use help links all that often, there are users who do.
And if you use any government service, I hope that the money for that service is budgeted incorrectly in your area because of people like you. I hope it directly affects you in a negative way. The government having the WRONG information has actual real-world consequences; consequences that can be more negative than the consequences of them having the RIGHT information could be.
The aggregate data is not LINKED data.
Sure, in a census block (the smallest unit of measurement), they might tell you how many people are black, plus the ages of the people in that block, but they won't tell you that "this person was black and 34 years old."
Now, IPUMS does release linked data upon request, but only for larger areas, and they limit what you can get out of that and there are complex protocols in place to make sure that you CAN'T determine individual answers. That's why you have to submit each request individually...and that's why the data isn't available immediately.
Trust me, I've done a good bit of research in demography (as in, that's my field, not that I did a lot of "research" on the net). You can't determine individuals from this information.
Because this data is used for more than just "here's the count, now throw it away."
The government bases money and grants on this kinds of things.
It is helpful for the CDC to know info about the racial composition of areas if there are diseases that are more common in one race (or age group, or ethnicity, etc) than others (which there are).
It is helpful to DOT if there are differences in the amount of travel done by different races (there are).
It is helpful when budgeting for police departments if some races commit more crimes than others (unfortunately true, in the aggregate).
These are just a few examples. It is VERY useful information. Why make each gov't agency do their own survey?
Or would you rather the government just guess and HOPE that everything is budgeted right for your area?
So it adds nothing to your particular style of roleplaying, at least in that game.
In a game where the players aren't constantly keeping secrets from each other, it's fine.
Hell, it'd probably be fine in that game if you had players who can separate OOC knowledge with IC knowledge.
It definitely could have its uses at times, but like anything else, it has its flaws.
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Probably not being overly humble. It's probably the "imposter syndrome" effect. It happens to a loooooooot of students in good schools or in graduate school.
Not quite. It's memorization, kind of like the "look say" method, but instead of memorizing words, you memorize what sounds are usually associated with certain letters and what sounds MIGHT be associated with the letter combinations. So you will learn that c can be the sound /k/ or /s/ and sometimes might learn situations in which is is more often one or the other.
It has it's faults, because not every word is spelled phonetically in English, but it is a great starting point for words you don't know.
With phonics, if you see the word "inexplicable" you'd take some guesses because "in" is usually not the long "eye" sound, and "ca" is usually "ka" and an e on the end of the word is often silent and com up with the correct pronunciation or something very close (maybe the long "e" sound or the long "i" sound in the middle syllables). You'd at least be close enough that if you KNEW the word (if you'd heard it spoken before), you'd figure it out. But if you saw that word and didn't know how to sound it out ("look say" method), you'd just have to look it up. That's why phonics works better at first and then you learn to recognize words that it doesn't work on.
I mean, it's not all quite as blatant when they are teaching it as I spelled out above, but that's what it comes down to.
I completely agree. It's not the greatest, but I do enjoy Flex coding (I, too, was forced to do a Flex app for work). It's really easy to pickup, fairly flexible, and makes coding a graphical web app quite simple (even if there are some complex parts to the app). Now, it doesn't run well, but that's Flash...if Flex was over a different backend it would not be a bad language at all.
One of the reasons, I believe, why phonics works better than the visual method when TEACHING reading is because with phonics, you can sound out words you've never seen before. Whereas, with the 'sight-words' method, you can only read words that you've seen before.
You learn a word by sounding it out. Once you've learned the word and seen it a few times, you can then read it whole-word. If you didn't learn the "sounding out" method, then how would you recognize a word when you were reading it for the first time? You might have to consult a dictionary every time you SEE a word you've never seen before, even if you've HEARD it before.
It's not that complicated. Like many other things, one method is better when learning, another is better for regular use, once you've learned.
That's where I'm lucky at my job. I work with the HR people a lot (it's a large company, so there is a large HR section, one that actually has uses for a variety of applications that I help develop and maintain). So when they are looking at hiring an IT position and something like that comes up (they say they need experience with one thing, but experience with other, similar things could count, especially when they say things like "Linux Servers" and someone puts a specific version on their resume), they come and ask me: "Does this count? Is this the same thing?" and I help teach them. Our recruiters are learning more and more about this kind of thing.
You are the exception, rather than the rule. Most people who are scared of MMR do not understand that there is a difference between MMR and getting vaccines for the 3 diseases separately. So if they're scared of one, they're scared of all.
Oh, I completely got the point of that argument. I never said they didn't have the right to decide that. This won't affect me, I'll probably buy the game. It will affect a friend of mine (obviously, he lives somewhere else), he will not buy the game.
Obviously, Blizzard decided that the number of people affected by this wouldn't be enough to affect their bottom line. Maybe there is too much outrage over it or maybe Blizzard didn't realize how much backlash there would be and that it might affect their bottom line more than other system restrictions.
But none of that is relevant to the point I was making. If you look a few posts up, what got us onto this subject was peregrin's asking how this was different from other system requirements. It's very different from other system requirements because of the points made above (the price and inconvenience of finding a new connection, especially in some areas is on a much different scale than just upgrading your graphics card). So, by having other system requirements, you limit yourself to those who have a computer that can run your game AND to those who are willing to spend a relatively LITTLE amount of money to get there (and the "minimum" requirements are also not usually the minimum...you can play with less, but just often things don't run as well). With this, the majority of people who DON'T have the minimum requirement only don't have it because they CAN'T without moving. It's not as simple as that. So they are very different. That was the point.
The only option is moving? Really? Can't find a different game to play? It it really that critical that you MUST play that game?
You're missing the point of the argument.
The only option IF YOU WANT TO PLAY THIS GAME is moving.
Just like, with the other system requirements, IF YOU WANT TO PLAY THE GAME, you must upgrade your computer.
Of course you can play other games or not play games at all. But that's the case with other system requirements as well. My point was that with the other system requirements, getting around them is a relatively minor expense. But with internet connections, it often is NOT. Oftentimes your only options are move or don't play the game. (So of course, people would pick don't play the game).
Actually there's more to it than that. This ties in directly with their decision to offer a real-money auction house. If you don't do everything in your power to prevent cheating - then that auction house will be rife with fraud, people posting a billion duped items etc. - which would massively devalue it for all players and make it unattractive to use.
And there's an easier, more publicly acceptable way to avoid that.
Offer cloud storage of characters, as they are. Allow them to be stored online.
Also allow the offline storage of characters. Allow them to be stored on a local computer and played anytime.
Only allow the cloud characters to be played when you are actually online. Only allow the cloud characters to use the auction house. Do not allow any character to move from offline to online. Do not allow any equipment to be traded between cloud and non-cloud characters.
Done. Now if you want to use the AH or any of the online features, you create a cloud character.
If you don't want those things, then create an offline character.
Cable connectioms across the country arent stable enough leaving 100 million potentioal users in the dirt. How about servicemen in afgahnistan? Or on deployment on ships? They cant play it either. They cant even play Starcraft againist each other in their down time.
Yes! And what about all those people on laptops or PCs that dont have the graphics horsepower to run the game?
What about those that have maxed out their harddrive storage??
Those bastards!! Why didn't they think of these things and design it so everyone can run it?
What about those things? People can go out and get a better graphics card. Buy a new hard drive. Even get a new PC or laptop. All of which with relatively minor expenses (yes, getting a new PC is expensive, but in the grand scheme of things, you can get a pretty decent one for not all THAT much). Many people can't just up and decide to get a better internet connection. Most people have very few, if any, choices as far as internet connections go. If that choice is nothing or a bad connection that cuts out a lot (like peragrin's connection, above), what do they do? The only option is moving. Moving is NOT as easy as buying a new computer, graphics card, or hard drive. Not at all. That's why it's different.
Apparenty they found a computer model that infuses people with a desire to walk and bike:
After running the model, planners discovered a positive feedback loop: More walking and biking would lead to lower obesity rates for Portlanders. In turn, a fitter population would find walking and biking a more attractive option.
I find it very hard to believe that this feedback loop exists in real life to any significant degree. If it really was true, the professional sports athletes would prefer walking and biking over driving their cars, and the sport stars seem to be preferring their luxury sports cars today.
IBM's model must be missing one or more important variables to why people choose cars over walking.
You're misinterpreting that. It said that a fitter population would find walking and biking a more attractive option. Meaning more attractive than an unfit population would.
It's not that most fit people would choose walking over cars, especially not in all situations. It's that a higher percentage of fit people would choose walking or biking than unfit people would. Which makes perfect sense. If I'm going 3 blocks and I'm in good shape, that's not much of a walk. Especially if it's in decent weather. So I may walk it so that I don't have to deal with getting into my car, parking, etc. But if I'm 350 lbs., then that's a difficult walk, so I'm going to take my car.
If I'm going 10 miles or the weather is bad, then I'm driving no matter how fit I am.
You wouldn't believe how many people I've talked to in a panic because they are having an issue and need to access the server, but the ONLY person with the key or password is unreachable. (On vacation with no contact number, not responding for some reason, or in a couple of cases, recently deceased.) I know security people will often tell you to limit these things, especially passwords, so that only one person has it and it's not written down. Ignore that. You need to control access, but not so tightly that if one thing goes wrong your company is screwed.
This is something a lot of IT (especially IT security) doesn't always get. We are there to provide service for the company. We are there to make things EASIER for the company. If you get TOO strict with your security, you are going to hurt productivity. Sometimes it's worth it (let's say it is the security related to a database containing customer's credit card numbers/social security numbers/etc), sometimes it's not (server passwords, user password resets, etc.). It's important to make the call. Sometimes the best security practices are just not appropriate.
It's a 1 in 1000 increase. You are not increasing from 3 to 4, you are increasing from 3 per 1000 to 4 per 1000. But, this is only for those that report their infection. And 64bit seems to get hit harder in Win7 than 32bit contrary to what some have said in this thread.
It is an increase of 1/3. Yes, it is an increase of 1 in 1000 in ABSOLUTE numbers, but that matters not in regards to whether things are statistically significant. (actually, even the % increase doesn't matter all that much). And the % increase is MUCH more important than the absolute increase in most things. Look at it this way: If person A makes $500,000/year and person B makes $50,000/year and both get a $20,000/year raise, which one got the better raise? Sure, in absolute numbers they both got the same amount. But Person A (who got a 4% raise) is going to be living at roughly the same "lifestyle" as they were before, while person B (who got a 40% raise) is going to be living a MUCH better life. When you look at increases and decreases, it's the PERCENTAGE that matters, except in very specific situations.
Whereas I pay an unreasonable price (at least when compared to people I know who live in other cities and don't have Comcast), don't have another choice if I want high-speed internet and have never had a good experience with their support. Our HD DVR failed because, for some reason, there was a 20-year old part in there. The technician was shocked, as he didn't know they even USED that part anymore. In fact, he said he wouldn't have known what exactly it was if he hadn't been with Comcast for a long time. Our entire neighborhood's internet was out for 3 days. On day 2, they were STILL telling me it was my router.
I asked this of another poster. Does this mean you support getting mp3 out of the tag in all browsers? My understanding is that Chrome supports it. Is that a bad idea?
So you also believe that chrome (and all browsers) should drop support for MP3 in the tag, I take it?
I find it better to look at the content of a decision before I judge it right or wrong, rather than just see who agrees with the decision. Normally I disagree with MS. This time I agree with them.
Difference being at that time MS was wrong because W3C standards are better than MS's bastardized HTML. This time, from everything I've read on the subject, H.264 is better.
Google should also support both. And really, from everything I've read (I'm no expert, though), H.264 appears to be the better standard and I definitely remember reading from multiple sources that it is more efficient. So that should be the supported standard. Don't support one because it's your friends making it. Support it because it's the best.
Do you work or know anyone who doesn't really know computers very well? A lot of them go to the help links when they need something. A lot less now than did it 10 years ago, sure, but it still happens. And some legitimate applications use hcp protocols for their help. And sometimes when you're using a new application, going to the "help" can get you your answer quicker than on the internet (especially if it's not a program used by millions of people). I haven't used Windows Help & Support in ages, but sometimes when I am forced to help support a user using a program I've never used before, I find the program's help files to actually prove useful. Especially if it's an odd program that is only used by a group of people in a certain business.
Microsoft had to release a "remedial fix" for an exploit that was known and in the wild. This remedial fix breaks all local, legitimate help links. This could affect users who, y'know, might want to use said help links. If this exploit was still unknown, these users would be able to use their help links without much legitimate chance of being attacked. This could have given Microsoft time to patch in a fix that DIDN'T break all the help links. And while you or I might not use help links all that often, there are users who do.
And if you use any government service, I hope that the money for that service is budgeted incorrectly in your area because of people like you. I hope it directly affects you in a negative way. The government having the WRONG information has actual real-world consequences; consequences that can be more negative than the consequences of them having the RIGHT information could be.
The aggregate data is not LINKED data. Sure, in a census block (the smallest unit of measurement), they might tell you how many people are black, plus the ages of the people in that block, but they won't tell you that "this person was black and 34 years old." Now, IPUMS does release linked data upon request, but only for larger areas, and they limit what you can get out of that and there are complex protocols in place to make sure that you CAN'T determine individual answers. That's why you have to submit each request individually...and that's why the data isn't available immediately. Trust me, I've done a good bit of research in demography (as in, that's my field, not that I did a lot of "research" on the net). You can't determine individuals from this information.
Because this data is used for more than just "here's the count, now throw it away." The government bases money and grants on this kinds of things. It is helpful for the CDC to know info about the racial composition of areas if there are diseases that are more common in one race (or age group, or ethnicity, etc) than others (which there are). It is helpful to DOT if there are differences in the amount of travel done by different races (there are). It is helpful when budgeting for police departments if some races commit more crimes than others (unfortunately true, in the aggregate). These are just a few examples. It is VERY useful information. Why make each gov't agency do their own survey? Or would you rather the government just guess and HOPE that everything is budgeted right for your area?
So it adds nothing to your particular style of roleplaying, at least in that game. In a game where the players aren't constantly keeping secrets from each other, it's fine. Hell, it'd probably be fine in that game if you had players who can separate OOC knowledge with IC knowledge. It definitely could have its uses at times, but like anything else, it has its flaws.