This has absolutely nothing to do with moral objection, as many Liberal members broke rank from their party and actually voted *for* the bill.
This is true. Well, it is if by 'many' you mean 'one' (of the members present one voted for the measures, one abstained and the rest voted against keeping the measures). While the Liberal party did introduce the measures, they also built in a sunset clause in to the measure. So now, five years later, most of them feel the clauses are not necessary and they allowed them to expire.
I also have the Mac at work, PC at home combo and I find I prefer Windows, for all its flaws. Of course, of the two Macs I am mostly using at work both are on the older side, running older OSes (7.6 and 10.2 respectively) and the mice are of the one button, no scroll wheel variety so I'm sure that my experience is somewhat tainted, making the comparison less than fair.
I think gaming has potential as a spectator sport, but I'm not too confident in the ability for it to be presented well. Up till now the only show I know of that ever tried to make a spectator sport out of gaming was Arena and they did a horrible job of it. The matches were always cut down to a couple of minutes, meaning everything tended to be very disjointed.
I'm not sure FPS is the ideal genre for a spectator sport either. The number of players and the limitation of the first-person view make it tough for the audience to really keep track of what is happening and where all the players are.
RTS games may make better viewing. They tend to last longer and the overhead view, coupled with the slower pace should make it easier for an audience to follow what is going on.
The first time I played through Star Ocean: TSS, I was having trouble beating Indalecio so I decided to leave the dungeon and do some leveling. While on the world map I figured I would hit all the cities on last time in case I had missed a Private Action at some point. To my surprise, I did find a PA with Indalecio's daughter. Little did I know, this PA (only available if you have a save at the last save point in the game) turns off Indalecio limiter which means instead of needing to be level 70-80 to beat him, you pretty much need to go all the way up to 255.
I didn't realize that and when I went back to fight the boss again, I foolishly saved over the earlier save. About 5 seconds in to the fight Indalecio wiped out my whole team. It wasn't until years later that I played through the game again and actually beat it.
On when they would do a full hand-count, if needed: "Our plan was to regroup after Christmas and just work through it."
That quote strikes me as awfully suspicious itself. If the election results were in dispute, waiting a couple months to actually start counting all the ballots by hand seems incredibly lax, at best.
I wouldn't really worry about access to the podcasts online. From my experience if a student is skipping a lot of classes, chances are they aren't going to bother with getting notes from a friend let alone going to the trouble of downloading and listening to podcasts of the missed classes.
And sometimes you would want people who missed the class to have access to those podcasts anyway (i.e. if a student was out sick or if there was a family emergency). Sure you could set up a system where students with legitimate excuses could request the podcast, but I think that would be more hassle than it is worth giving the small number of likely abuses of the system.
If you're really worried about increased truancy though, be sure to include a few things in class that are not part of the podcast to encourage attendence.
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This has absolutely nothing to do with moral objection, as many Liberal members broke rank from their party and actually voted *for* the bill. This is true. Well, it is if by 'many' you mean 'one' (of the members present one voted for the measures, one abstained and the rest voted against keeping the measures). While the Liberal party did introduce the measures, they also built in a sunset clause in to the measure. So now, five years later, most of them feel the clauses are not necessary and they allowed them to expire.
I also have the Mac at work, PC at home combo and I find I prefer Windows, for all its flaws. Of course, of the two Macs I am mostly using at work both are on the older side, running older OSes (7.6 and 10.2 respectively) and the mice are of the one button, no scroll wheel variety so I'm sure that my experience is somewhat tainted, making the comparison less than fair.
I think gaming has potential as a spectator sport, but I'm not too confident in the ability for it to be presented well. Up till now the only show I know of that ever tried to make a spectator sport out of gaming was Arena and they did a horrible job of it. The matches were always cut down to a couple of minutes, meaning everything tended to be very disjointed.
I'm not sure FPS is the ideal genre for a spectator sport either. The number of players and the limitation of the first-person view make it tough for the audience to really keep track of what is happening and where all the players are.
RTS games may make better viewing. They tend to last longer and the overhead view, coupled with the slower pace should make it easier for an audience to follow what is going on.
The first time I played through Star Ocean: TSS, I was having trouble beating Indalecio so I decided to leave the dungeon and do some leveling. While on the world map I figured I would hit all the cities on last time in case I had missed a Private Action at some point. To my surprise, I did find a PA with Indalecio's daughter. Little did I know, this PA (only available if you have a save at the last save point in the game) turns off Indalecio limiter which means instead of needing to be level 70-80 to beat him, you pretty much need to go all the way up to 255.
I didn't realize that and when I went back to fight the boss again, I foolishly saved over the earlier save. About 5 seconds in to the fight Indalecio wiped out my whole team. It wasn't until years later that I played through the game again and actually beat it.
Alternatively: Kids, you tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is, never try. -- Still Homer
On when they would do a full hand-count, if needed: "Our plan was to regroup after Christmas and just work through it." That quote strikes me as awfully suspicious itself. If the election results were in dispute, waiting a couple months to actually start counting all the ballots by hand seems incredibly lax, at best.
I wouldn't really worry about access to the podcasts online. From my experience if a student is skipping a lot of classes, chances are they aren't going to bother with getting notes from a friend let alone going to the trouble of downloading and listening to podcasts of the missed classes. And sometimes you would want people who missed the class to have access to those podcasts anyway (i.e. if a student was out sick or if there was a family emergency). Sure you could set up a system where students with legitimate excuses could request the podcast, but I think that would be more hassle than it is worth giving the small number of likely abuses of the system. If you're really worried about increased truancy though, be sure to include a few things in class that are not part of the podcast to encourage attendence.