it remains to be seen how innovative your shoulder will feel after an hour's play.
I doubt your shoulder will be any more sore than after an hour's play of real football, baseball, or tennis (or killing people).
If the biggest problem with the Wii is that it's more realistic than the others (and apparently fun enough to play until you're sore), then props to Nintendo.
The article mentioned vinyls being used primarily for singles, not entire albums. Thus, you're not trying to fit more than 35 minutes on a vinyl - it's more like 4 or 5. So you don't have to worry about a lot of compression.
Granted, vinyl still has some inherent "problems" that cause lower quality, but for what the article is about, compression isn't one of them.
He discusses his son's years-long effort to find a way to use his math book's BASIC programming examples.
The small snippets in math books (at least in the ones we used to have...and I only graduated high school a year ago) at written for use in calculators. I remember programming my TI-83 in middle school to cheat on math tests.
Definitely easy to learn. Not the greatest for learning programming syntax (or anything, for that matter), but it can help in getting you in the programming frame of thought. Gets kids thinking about loops and how to use variables.
The coolest thing about BASIC on the TI-83 is that you didn't need to do the coding on your computer and transfer it - that was only if you planned on doing ASM programming. You could do it all from your calculator, so you could learn it during math class.
Smart boards aren't anything special at all. It's very good technology, don't get me wrong. You display your computer's screen up on a board, and you can write on the board / click buttons / etc, and it all works correctly.
However, it's nothing new. The high school my mom teaches at in Jasper, MO has had them for about 5 years. They have a graduating class of around 30 each year, and the students are often late to their first class because it took longer than usual to feed the cattle that morning. They have never had a single non-white student. They are that far behind the rest of the country, and they have these Smart Boards. The school I went to in Neosho, MO is slightly larger, with 250 kids in my graduating class, and we have the Smart Boards as well.
MO schools have them. It's not specials that M$ schools would.
Since when are free markets incompatible with democracies? Free markets != anarchism. Free market deals with the government's involvement in the economy, and democracy deals with the people's involvement with the government.
Furthermore, the checks and balances in a free market are that people don't want to get screwed over. Take monopolies (your "concentration of wealth" argument) for example. In a free market, a monopoly could exist. It's very possible. However, an abusive monopoly is not likely. Let's say WalMart took over every single dime of grocery sales. Is it bad? It could be - WalMart could jack prices and rip everyone off.
However, if they did that, people wouldn't be happy. The public would be willing to shop somewhere else. Businessmen would be willing to start competitors, because they can be significantly lower than WalMart and still make a nice profit. Thus, the people check / balance corporations through that "invisible hand".
And that's something that anti-trust laws will never be able to solve.
It shouldn't be that easy for children (under 13) to accomplish. The article is correct - it should ask for the birthday, not a box.
An average 13 year old kid will know that they have to check the box to get in. Asking for a birthday (especially if you put it between some other boxes) won't get a second thought from most kids. It's an easy, yet effective (not perfect, but pretty close) age validation.
As far as the "kids will go back and change their birthday" - that's avoidable, too. I remember many years ago I tried signing up for a Yahoo account (goodbye positive karma), but was underage (I think you had to be 16. Either way, I wasn't old enough). They used the birthday trick. However, when I went back to change the birthday, they told me that I was trying to trick them. They kept a log of recently applied-for accounts that were denied because of age, and if too many fields match, they wouldn't let you re-apply.
Why can't Xanga do something like that? We're talking about "tricking" 13 year old kids to tell the truth about their age. It shouldn't be that hard.
And then, this. MySpace is the most inaccessible, untrustworthy, badly coded website made worse by the piles of pasted code by pre-teen posers onto their profile to add 7 streaming videos, 20 animated cursor trails, and a background image that matches perfectly with the text of the entire page.
I agree - even the summary says that Google is planning on a new service with AP stories.
Many people will say that this drifts away from Google's main mission because it doesn't "send people off" to other websites, which is the core of web searching.
However, this should make AP articles (and maybe Reuters + others later?) faster loading, ad-less, and centralized. Plus, it's not the first time Google has helped by not "sending people off": they've done it to Usenet, blogs, maps, and all their new content platforms (video, Base, page creator, etc.)
Unfortunately, political groups are exempt from the "Do Not Call" lists. I don't have a home phone, so I have the joy of not having to worry about any telemarketers. From various web sources, it looks like there's no real action you can take (legally) to proactively defend yourself. However, I've found two possible solutions:
When you do get a telephone solicitation, find out on whose behalf they are calling, ask that you be permanently removed from their calling list, and tell them that you are writing this information down. If they call back, demand to talk to a manager and complain and/or call the Consumer Protection Division of your local State Attorney General's office.
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Time to bring it back to beta for a while . . .
If the biggest problem with the Wii is that it's more realistic than the others (and apparently fun enough to play until you're sore), then props to Nintendo.
The article mentioned vinyls being used primarily for singles, not entire albums. Thus, you're not trying to fit more than 35 minutes on a vinyl - it's more like 4 or 5. So you don't have to worry about a lot of compression.
Granted, vinyl still has some inherent "problems" that cause lower quality, but for what the article is about, compression isn't one of them.
It's hard to get excited when you have no soul.
...given the opportunity, no one here should deny a date with anyone, evil or not.
Definitely easy to learn. Not the greatest for learning programming syntax (or anything, for that matter), but it can help in getting you in the programming frame of thought. Gets kids thinking about loops and how to use variables.
The coolest thing about BASIC on the TI-83 is that you didn't need to do the coding on your computer and transfer it - that was only if you planned on doing ASM programming. You could do it all from your calculator, so you could learn it during math class.
- Oldest: black with jet black background
- Little newer: Yellow on orange
- Tad bit newer: Light blue with seventeen exclamation points
- Couple days old: ALL CAPS BABY
- Posted today: Embedded into a crappy Flash movie from www.pimpandrockoutyourwikipediavids.com
Then it will be truly distinguishable.Think heaven could get /.ed?
Smart boards aren't anything special at all. It's very good technology, don't get me wrong. You display your computer's screen up on a board, and you can write on the board / click buttons / etc, and it all works correctly.
However, it's nothing new. The high school my mom teaches at in Jasper, MO has had them for about 5 years. They have a graduating class of around 30 each year, and the students are often late to their first class because it took longer than usual to feed the cattle that morning. They have never had a single non-white student. They are that far behind the rest of the country, and they have these Smart Boards. The school I went to in Neosho, MO is slightly larger, with 250 kids in my graduating class, and we have the Smart Boards as well.
MO schools have them. It's not specials that M$ schools would.
Why would you want your Xanga to be under someone else's name, e-mail address, birthday, and everything else that you aren't?
That's only for old men on MySpace.
I'm running 2.0b2 right now. I wonder how many of them have already been fixed?
Since when are free markets incompatible with democracies? Free markets != anarchism. Free market deals with the government's involvement in the economy, and democracy deals with the people's involvement with the government.
Furthermore, the checks and balances in a free market are that people don't want to get screwed over. Take monopolies (your "concentration of wealth" argument) for example. In a free market, a monopoly could exist. It's very possible. However, an abusive monopoly is not likely. Let's say WalMart took over every single dime of grocery sales. Is it bad? It could be - WalMart could jack prices and rip everyone off.
However, if they did that, people wouldn't be happy. The public would be willing to shop somewhere else. Businessmen would be willing to start competitors, because they can be significantly lower than WalMart and still make a nice profit. Thus, the people check / balance corporations through that "invisible hand".
And that's something that anti-trust laws will never be able to solve.
It shouldn't be that easy for children (under 13) to accomplish. The article is correct - it should ask for the birthday, not a box.
An average 13 year old kid will know that they have to check the box to get in. Asking for a birthday (especially if you put it between some other boxes) won't get a second thought from most kids. It's an easy, yet effective (not perfect, but pretty close) age validation.
As far as the "kids will go back and change their birthday" - that's avoidable, too. I remember many years ago I tried signing up for a Yahoo account (goodbye positive karma), but was underage (I think you had to be 16. Either way, I wasn't old enough). They used the birthday trick. However, when I went back to change the birthday, they told me that I was trying to trick them. They kept a log of recently applied-for accounts that were denied because of age, and if too many fields match, they wouldn't let you re-apply.
Why can't Xanga do something like that? We're talking about "tricking" 13 year old kids to tell the truth about their age. It shouldn't be that hard.
Google X is back! Yes!
Blowing in the Nintendo game consoles over and over and over again to get them working?
Then why can't that software simply convert all the text to uppercase? It's not hard, in any language.
First, we hear about accessibility. Then, we get protection.
And then, this. MySpace is the most inaccessible, untrustworthy, badly coded website made worse by the piles of pasted code by pre-teen posers onto their profile to add 7 streaming videos, 20 animated cursor trails, and a background image that matches perfectly with the text of the entire page.
What strange bedfellows....
chmod 711
I agree - even the summary says that Google is planning on a new service with AP stories.
Many people will say that this drifts away from Google's main mission because it doesn't "send people off" to other websites, which is the core of web searching.
However, this should make AP articles (and maybe Reuters + others later?) faster loading, ad-less, and centralized. Plus, it's not the first time Google has helped by not "sending people off": they've done it to Usenet, blogs, maps, and all their new content platforms (video, Base, page creator, etc.)
Even if they manage to shut down Limewire, people will just move to another client in the Gnutella network.
No different than Napster and Kazaa, to name a few.
Will the RIAA ever realize this?
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7. Profit!