The girls played it too. They just didn't become competitive over it, they didn't compare scores and try and one-up eachother. So while the program may have been beneficial to them, they didn't get the same sort of exposure to it the boys did. It just didn't hold their interest.
That and the fact that all the boys would crowd around the single PC and be loud and noisy. This is 10-year-olds we're talking about.
In my last year of Primary School, the single class computer was oversubscribed because of the one game it had: a simple maze game, where certain paths were blocked with 'enemies'. On the earliest levels, these enemies would bring up simple addition problems which had to solved in under 10 seconds. I can't recall the exact penalty for failure, but the motivation to get it right was there. On later stages, subtraction, multiplication, division and simple algebra became commonplace. The quickest way around a maze would take you through harder problems - longer routes would evade the problem but reduce your overall score for a level. For a few solid weeks, it became highly competitive amongst all the boys in our class.
Being brought up with games, both at home and in school, I see no reason to oppose them now. Provided they're correctly and professionally designed, appeal to both boys and girls, and are usable by both students and teachers, they'll help increase mathematical, literary, and scientific skills. The only thing they're unlikely to help with are more creative subjects, and I'm sure the spread of computers will be the ruination of handwriting everywhere.
I wish that was the case here at UEA... the whole university, not just CMP students, uses a horrendous hybrid of "Portal" and BlackBoard... which is all tied in to the Athens library service. It's not quite as bad as some hyperbole in this topic/newspost suggests, but that may just be me rationalising the fact that I'll be stuck with it for another 3 years (and I've already put up with it for 2...)
That'd probably be the 10th Terran Mission in the original campaign, "The Hammer Falls", where you have to take out the Ion Cannon. The only risk with the Battlecruiser Rush tactic at the end of that level are the Ghosts with the Lockdown ability. Once a significant number of Battlecruisers are locked down, you're completely boned.
Regardless of atrocities committed (and atrocities are committed by humans, not religions), there certainly seems to be a higher atrocity/individual rate in current Islamic culture than any other current faiths.
Retrospectively, I think you'll find it's about equal to Christianity in all regards, with a few rather nasty atheists involved throughout history, their own worst point being one shared with Christians, the holocaust. And mentioning that, I'm pretty sure the Jewish faith has caused more than a few problems, although they generally get as many atrocities committed against them as they actually commit.
All in all, I think pretty much any large, organised group, be their grouping religious or otherwise, are prone to manipulation from nasty buggers who want other groups to cease existing.
Regarding the actual article... Wikipedia's all about verifiable groupthink. It'll be a heavily contested page, just like the one on circumcision or any other 'delicate topic'. All in all, the pictures are pretty much required to illustrate various controversies like the Posten issue, and generally to reflect a worldwide view on the topic. At least they chose the symbolic depiction for the article header and category.
1 Kings 7:23 "He made the Sea of cast metal, circular in shape, measuring ten cubits from rim to rim and five cubits high. It took a line of thirty cubits to measure around it." or "And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other: it was round all about, and his height was five cubits: and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about."
While the Bible doesn't actually state the nature of pi, and a cubit is an extremely rough unit anyway, it's amusing to note that if you properly define cubit as being a fixed length and assert that the word circular refers to a near-perfect circle, the units just don't work out unless you redefine space, and along with it, Pi. Putting the "fun" back in "fundies".
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Not in the UK! Absolutely crawling (not literally, at least I'd hope) with takeout joints for just about anything - if a place doesn't offer pizza, burgers, döner meat, chicken, fish and chips it's either not worth the time or it's a single-product takeout (Fish 'n' Chips, Chinese, Pizza, Burgers and so on).
It's excellent when you can get a half-pound burger with salad delivered to your door in ten minutes. The benefits of living in a student city.
Go back and play it again. And again. And again. Until you realise what you're supposed to do - maybe look at the achievements page and realize you're missing both "Partygoer" and "Heartbreaker" (the latter is for beating Portal)
Nintendo has continued this trend with the Wii. Although I've noticed the doors in Metroid Prime 3: Corruption are stickier than the ones in Prime and Prime 2: Echoes. Super Mario Galaxy is well-masked, as is Twilight Princess. They still have Area Transitions, and AT animations, but they're well done enough that it doesn't feel the same as "a loading screen".
It means it'll take 5 days for them to make any money from Google. Rightly so - anyone trying to cash in on a meme THAT quickly? (Under 5 days?) Real memes stick. Google's just attacking their weak point for massive damage.
Practically a String Conjecture. It's near-bloody-useless right now and until we get something like the LHC fired up it's barely worth wasting time over. I mean, yes, people will continue to waste time on it, and it may or may not turn out to be productive, but seeing as we're nowhere near to a solid "theory" (as in "evolution theory" and "gravity theory") their time is very much like building an elaborate house of cards on a rug which needs vacuuming when your mother is standing at the top of the basement entrance wielding a Dyson like a broadsword.
I really need to sleep now, that was a terrible analogy.
I quite deliberately said pristine, as those ARE in short supply. And you're right, emulation (especially official emulation under Live Arcade and Virtual Console) is definitely going to hit the retrogaming market prices. Oh well, more antique boxes for me to clutter my living room with.:D
Which Nintendo? Because a Nintendo Virtual Boy will definitely go UP in value over the next 10 years. The NES/Famicom probably won't go up much, but as supply drops due to (1) no longer being manufactured (2) damage and disrepair over time, the price of a pristine NES will definitely go up.
I think you're being a bit pedantic there - someone who is lazy will eventually become bored and seek entertainment, by a more active means. However, when TV provided entertainment with no active element, the lazy person will not become bored, thus they stay inactive.
Yes, there's a strong correlation between obesity and the abstract concept of 'lazy', and there's a strong correlation between lazy and TV. It sounds like a vicious circle: lazy person is inactive, lazy person watches TV, lazy person is entertained so has no motivation to become active, inactivity encourages them to keep watching... when the analogue TVs shut off, they'll be forced into pursuits marginally more intelligent than watching TV. Even if it's just trashy magazines and videogames, at least both of them require some thought compared to watching Hollyoaks and Eastenders.
I personally loved the free-roaming Strider/Hunter fight at the climax of Episode 2. HARD AS HELL, but damn was it worth it. I think saying that free-roaming is their antithesis is wrong; especially when their AI is both highly dynamic and highly scriptable, Half-Life can and does go 'off the rails'. Yes, that antlion guard on your tail was scripted to be there at exactly the right moment, but in GTA each individual mission is just as scripted. The same thugs will pour from the same buildings, the items will all be in the same place... the only free-roaming aspect is how you GET to said mission. So, theoretically, what if Gordon Freeman suddenly found himself unpressured by the Combine, and without people bossing him around? You can go outside and play catch with D0G and the gravity gun, you can help Dr Kleiner hunt for Lamarr, you're free to roam around White Forest doing 'missions' for people, without the arbitrary boundaries enforced upon you. And if you don't like the missions, I'm sure there's plenty you can do with a gravity gun and a fuelled-up car. It wouldn't even have to be limited to White Forest. Drive off across the countryside, looking for survivors and enemies to fight! Maybe that's too distant from Half-Life, but in terms of its existing story and game mechanics, it's more than plausible. Hell, I'd love to see a stylistic blend of Half-Life and Zelda; a large, free-roaming world, with obstructions that prevent you accessing every area initially. As you gather weapons and tools, the world opens up to you, and eventually, everywhere can be explored freely. Backtracking becomes not only possible or mandatory, but properly free. Valve has the skill and the technology; while I'm sure they'll pursue episodic gaming to its limits and finish (or at least, solidly resolve) the Half-Life story before attempting anything quite that different, I know they're more than capable of doing it and more than a few of their developers would love to do it. That field at White Forest was just the beginning. Their cinematic magic will expand to encompass whole different types of player interaction.
Biological evolution has ceased, according to yourself. However, mental and social evolution continues. Any further biological evolution of humans will only be on the "resistance to disease" level, and that which we do ourselves. Transhumanists are gonna love this news. Augmentation's always getting closer.
Amen to that. I actually prefer the 'introduction movie' version, with the digital sound effects overlaid, the soldiers moving into formation, and the 'pieces' of the logo locking together... the clean version of the song I have on my computer sounds hollow by comparison, those effects feel like part of the music. Especially the "step into formation" one.
Blender is a user interface nightmare. GIMP's no good for commercial artwork (Pantone swatches and CYMYK and whatnot) I can't comment on Inkscape. They're more "challenged" than a challenge to commercial programs.
Metal Gear (Solid or not) is a professional shark-jumping series. I'll be surprised if we don't see an actual, physical shark to jump before the series ends.
Good luck identifying which tapes contained what data initially... and who's to say the archive even kept the overwritten tapes? Surely they degrade after a point... that was before the concept of individual master-copies was applied to TV...
Who could've said back then just how 'culturally significant' they would be? It was just another episode at the time, nothing era-defining. Another episode that was sitting on a big, expensive, broadcast-quality tape that they needed for other shows.
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The girls played it too. They just didn't become competitive over it, they didn't compare scores and try and one-up eachother. So while the program may have been beneficial to them, they didn't get the same sort of exposure to it the boys did. It just didn't hold their interest.
That and the fact that all the boys would crowd around the single PC and be loud and noisy. This is 10-year-olds we're talking about.
In my last year of Primary School, the single class computer was oversubscribed because of the one game it had: a simple maze game, where certain paths were blocked with 'enemies'. On the earliest levels, these enemies would bring up simple addition problems which had to solved in under 10 seconds. I can't recall the exact penalty for failure, but the motivation to get it right was there. On later stages, subtraction, multiplication, division and simple algebra became commonplace. The quickest way around a maze would take you through harder problems - longer routes would evade the problem but reduce your overall score for a level. For a few solid weeks, it became highly competitive amongst all the boys in our class.
Being brought up with games, both at home and in school, I see no reason to oppose them now. Provided they're correctly and professionally designed, appeal to both boys and girls, and are usable by both students and teachers, they'll help increase mathematical, literary, and scientific skills. The only thing they're unlikely to help with are more creative subjects, and I'm sure the spread of computers will be the ruination of handwriting everywhere.
Actually, the music itself is experimental. You'd know that if you'd taken the time to click the link, and maybe download the free sample of 9 tracks.
I wish that was the case here at UEA... the whole university, not just CMP students, uses a horrendous hybrid of "Portal" and BlackBoard... which is all tied in to the Athens library service.
It's not quite as bad as some hyperbole in this topic/newspost suggests, but that may just be me rationalising the fact that I'll be stuck with it for another 3 years (and I've already put up with it for 2...)
That'd probably be the 10th Terran Mission in the original campaign, "The Hammer Falls", where you have to take out the Ion Cannon. The only risk with the Battlecruiser Rush tactic at the end of that level are the Ghosts with the Lockdown ability. Once a significant number of Battlecruisers are locked down, you're completely boned.
As a Brit, I often refer to (US) Americans as "United Statesians". Just to clearly point out I don't mean Canadia or Mehico.
Regardless of atrocities committed (and atrocities are committed by humans, not religions), there certainly seems to be a higher atrocity/individual rate in current Islamic culture than any other current faiths.
Retrospectively, I think you'll find it's about equal to Christianity in all regards, with a few rather nasty atheists involved throughout history, their own worst point being one shared with Christians, the holocaust. And mentioning that, I'm pretty sure the Jewish faith has caused more than a few problems, although they generally get as many atrocities committed against them as they actually commit.
All in all, I think pretty much any large, organised group, be their grouping religious or otherwise, are prone to manipulation from nasty buggers who want other groups to cease existing.
Regarding the actual article... Wikipedia's all about verifiable groupthink. It'll be a heavily contested page, just like the one on circumcision or any other 'delicate topic'. All in all, the pictures are pretty much required to illustrate various controversies like the Posten issue, and generally to reflect a worldwide view on the topic. At least they chose the symbolic depiction for the article header and category.
1 Kings 7:23 "He made the Sea of cast metal, circular in shape, measuring ten cubits from rim to rim and five cubits high. It took a line of thirty cubits to measure around it." or "And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other: it was round all about, and his height was five cubits: and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about."
While the Bible doesn't actually state the nature of pi, and a cubit is an extremely rough unit anyway, it's amusing to note that if you properly define cubit as being a fixed length and assert that the word circular refers to a near-perfect circle, the units just don't work out unless you redefine space, and along with it, Pi. Putting the "fun" back in "fundies".
http://everything2.com/index.pl?node=Pi%20in%20the%20Bible
Not in the UK! Absolutely crawling (not literally, at least I'd hope) with takeout joints for just about anything - if a place doesn't offer pizza, burgers, döner meat, chicken, fish and chips it's either not worth the time or it's a single-product takeout (Fish 'n' Chips, Chinese, Pizza, Burgers and so on).
It's excellent when you can get a half-pound burger with salad delivered to your door in ten minutes. The benefits of living in a student city.
Go back and play it again. And again. And again. Until you realise what you're supposed to do - maybe look at the achievements page and realize you're missing both "Partygoer" and "Heartbreaker" (the latter is for beating Portal)
Nintendo has continued this trend with the Wii. Although I've noticed the doors in Metroid Prime 3: Corruption are stickier than the ones in Prime and Prime 2: Echoes. Super Mario Galaxy is well-masked, as is Twilight Princess. They still have Area Transitions, and AT animations, but they're well done enough that it doesn't feel the same as "a loading screen".
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It means it'll take 5 days for them to make any money from Google. Rightly so - anyone trying to cash in on a meme THAT quickly? (Under 5 days?) Real memes stick. Google's just attacking their weak point for massive damage.
Practically a String Conjecture. It's near-bloody-useless right now and until we get something like the LHC fired up it's barely worth wasting time over. I mean, yes, people will continue to waste time on it, and it may or may not turn out to be productive, but seeing as we're nowhere near to a solid "theory" (as in "evolution theory" and "gravity theory") their time is very much like building an elaborate house of cards on a rug which needs vacuuming when your mother is standing at the top of the basement entrance wielding a Dyson like a broadsword.
I really need to sleep now, that was a terrible analogy.
I quite deliberately said pristine, as those ARE in short supply. :D
And you're right, emulation (especially official emulation under Live Arcade and Virtual Console) is definitely going to hit the retrogaming market prices. Oh well, more antique boxes for me to clutter my living room with.
Which Nintendo? Because a Nintendo Virtual Boy will definitely go UP in value over the next 10 years.
The NES/Famicom probably won't go up much, but as supply drops due to (1) no longer being manufactured (2) damage and disrepair over time, the price of a pristine NES will definitely go up.
I think you're being a bit pedantic there - someone who is lazy will eventually become bored and seek entertainment, by a more active means. However, when TV provided entertainment with no active element, the lazy person will not become bored, thus they stay inactive.
Yes, there's a strong correlation between obesity and the abstract concept of 'lazy', and there's a strong correlation between lazy and TV. It sounds like a vicious circle: lazy person is inactive, lazy person watches TV, lazy person is entertained so has no motivation to become active, inactivity encourages them to keep watching...
when the analogue TVs shut off, they'll be forced into pursuits marginally more intelligent than watching TV. Even if it's just trashy magazines and videogames, at least both of them require some thought compared to watching Hollyoaks and Eastenders.
I personally loved the free-roaming Strider/Hunter fight at the climax of Episode 2. HARD AS HELL, but damn was it worth it. I think saying that free-roaming is their antithesis is wrong; especially when their AI is both highly dynamic and highly scriptable, Half-Life can and does go 'off the rails'. Yes, that antlion guard on your tail was scripted to be there at exactly the right moment, but in GTA each individual mission is just as scripted. The same thugs will pour from the same buildings, the items will all be in the same place... the only free-roaming aspect is how you GET to said mission.
So, theoretically, what if Gordon Freeman suddenly found himself unpressured by the Combine, and without people bossing him around? You can go outside and play catch with D0G and the gravity gun, you can help Dr Kleiner hunt for Lamarr, you're free to roam around White Forest doing 'missions' for people, without the arbitrary boundaries enforced upon you. And if you don't like the missions, I'm sure there's plenty you can do with a gravity gun and a fuelled-up car. It wouldn't even have to be limited to White Forest. Drive off across the countryside, looking for survivors and enemies to fight! Maybe that's too distant from Half-Life, but in terms of its existing story and game mechanics, it's more than plausible.
Hell, I'd love to see a stylistic blend of Half-Life and Zelda; a large, free-roaming world, with obstructions that prevent you accessing every area initially. As you gather weapons and tools, the world opens up to you, and eventually, everywhere can be explored freely. Backtracking becomes not only possible or mandatory, but properly free. Valve has the skill and the technology; while I'm sure they'll pursue episodic gaming to its limits and finish (or at least, solidly resolve) the Half-Life story before attempting anything quite that different, I know they're more than capable of doing it and more than a few of their developers would love to do it. That field at White Forest was just the beginning. Their cinematic magic will expand to encompass whole different types of player interaction.
Biological evolution has ceased, according to yourself.
However, mental and social evolution continues.
Any further biological evolution of humans will only be on the "resistance to disease" level, and that which we do ourselves. Transhumanists are gonna love this news. Augmentation's always getting closer.
Amen to that. I actually prefer the 'introduction movie' version, with the digital sound effects overlaid, the soldiers moving into formation, and the 'pieces' of the logo locking together... the clean version of the song I have on my computer sounds hollow by comparison, those effects feel like part of the music. Especially the "step into formation" one.
Blender is a user interface nightmare.
GIMP's no good for commercial artwork (Pantone swatches and CYMYK and whatnot)
I can't comment on Inkscape.
They're more "challenged" than a challenge to commercial programs.
Metal Gear (Solid or not) is a professional shark-jumping series. I'll be surprised if we don't see an actual, physical shark to jump before the series ends.
Good luck identifying which tapes contained what data initially... and who's to say the archive even kept the overwritten tapes? Surely they degrade after a point... that was before the concept of individual master-copies was applied to TV...
Who could've said back then just how 'culturally significant' they would be? It was just another episode at the time, nothing era-defining. Another episode that was sitting on a big, expensive, broadcast-quality tape that they needed for other shows.
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