Posted 11/18/2009 at 12:24:01pm

(mod) WOW that's fast, it runs crysis with extra sparkle at HD res > 60 FPS, amazing.

Posted 11/02/2009 at 12:36:40pm

Personally what I think students need is just a different teacher attitude. Don't get me wrong- computers are great. They teach you to think outside of the box (menu hunting instead of blankly staring like a "special" person, troubleshooting, organization, etc). Later, coding and rich content creation like digital art and 3d modelling is very good. However, it won't turn the kids into super humans, it'll just help.

The attitude of the teachers is what's killing kids. Teachers and kids think that kids will learn by LISTENING to a teacher rant on about something, then do a million repetitive drills in a row. It works, but  very ineffectively. The human brain works by recalling, and a string of drills uses RECENT memory (which means that the kids won't be recalling it, and learning will take longer and be less effective).

Secondly, both sides of a topic are not usually presented in schools. In Canada, we're taught in textbooks that the conservative (right wing non-extremists (extremists would be reformists)) party of Canada believes that anybody who doesn't conform exactly to the mould should be punished. D'oh. It's from the left-wing point of view, but includes no right wing point of view.

We're also taught that Indians and women are continually discriminated against and should almost be treated as super-human (don't get me wrong, they should be treated equal but the way they put it in the books is just extreme). Again, includes the femenist/minority point of view but doesn't really provide the other point of view (eg: people are different, not everybody's the same, and you can't expect all women to behave exactly like guys do and yell at the TV about sports).

Lastly, teachers squashed thinking outside of the box. They wasted several weeks of my life forcing me to draw something and color an entire 8.5' by 11' page with a pencil crayon just because it was what the other kids did and I wasn't allowed to use coloured paper cutouts to be a million times faster. So much for "be creative". Once I told the teacher that putting my freind Dean ( a kid who was a bit different) with the group of girls would hurt him because they would shun him and scar him for life (I should know). She told me to go to the office. I asked her why she was telling me to go to the office. She told me I shouldn't be talking. I asked her why, if she was talking, she didn't have to go to the office. I was again told to go to the office. I pretty much wanted to run away at that point but I had a dream of develloping video games, which kept me in school until I came to my senses and realised I had to put up with the BS. 

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Posted 10/30/2009 at 11:51:56pm

Everyone knows only kids watch adult cartoons, sheesh.

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Posted 10/23/2009 at 08:09:41pm

It's not that I hate intel, but whenever they fumble another company can correct intel's mistake, thus gaining market share, thus being more competitive, thus making their and intel's products better.

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Posted 10/21/2009 at 11:55:11pm

Why would the EULA be scary? All it generally says is lawyerese for "lol don't steel our stuff d00d kthx", right?

As far as I know, microsoft doesn't gain the right to eat my credit cards.

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Posted 10/16/2009 at 12:35:53pm

If I pay for a rugged drive, why can't the cap be the same piece of metal?

Posted 10/16/2009 at 12:19:34pm

This would pretty much be a perfect keyboard IF THEY INCLUDED A GREEN BACKLIGHT

Red and blue give you red, blue, purple, pink, etc. by mixing.

Green added to the mix gives you red, green, blue, yellow, purple, teal, orange, white, in any shade you want!

Seriously, how hard would it be to add a little GREEN?

Posted 10/16/2009 at 12:14:26pm

If this thing rocks a 5770, has 3d, is 15.6 inches, has a backlit keyboard with customizable colours, comes in black, has full HD resolution, an SSD, USB 3, wireless N, bluetooth, and a core i7 M processor, I'm sold.

Posted 10/16/2009 at 12:12:05pm

... aren't videogames just escapism?

 Young men, and grown men are competitive, so we get competitive games where we get to kill/win/compete etc.

It's just natural for a guy to like that kind of stuff.

I guess one problem with games is when we kill people for no reason. If you're not a criminal, not a hero, or not someone in the violent futuristic arene (quake) you should HAVE a reason to kill people- otherwise you're just a mindless asshole in the game, which doesn't give you a purpose for all the panic you're causing.

 Another problem is when there's not enough character to the games. In games, we need character added to the games. A guy who just likes beating stuff up is a lot less fun to play as then a guy you can sympathize with, or actually are unsure of (bordering on good/evil)

Posted 10/16/2009 at 12:08:56pm

...is irony, basically saying that the law (which should be just) attacked an innocent man and drove him to be a ruthless killer.