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written Thursday, June 2 2005 12:57
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There's always the Character Editor. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00 |
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written Thursday, June 2 2005 11:36
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Certainly it's true that my teachers sucking wasn't entirely their own fault. They still pretty much sucked. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00 |
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written Thursday, June 2 2005 10:46
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quote::P -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00 |
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written Thursday, June 2 2005 10:07
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See those choices right under "Post Reply"? The ones that say, "my profile," "register," "search," etc.? The search button is there. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00 |
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written Thursday, June 2 2005 09:21
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More to the point, perhaps, is anyone using 10.4 yet? -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00 |
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written Thursday, June 2 2005 09:21
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More to the point, perhaps, is anyone using 10.4 yet? -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00 |
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written Thursday, June 2 2005 09:18
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You have been warned by an admin. Saying to Stareye, "Really children, grow up," is not recommended. [ Thursday, June 02, 2005 09:19: Message edited by: Thurylandon ] -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00 |
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written Thursday, June 2 2005 07:58
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quote:It was more that my teachers sucked. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00 |
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written Wednesday, June 1 2005 22:56
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Yeah, it pretty much felt like assuming the result, but I couldn't quite see exactly how. I guess that's why. EDIT: That's funny, though. My teacher made a big deal out of disagreeing with the wording in the book that said that it would just "postulate" the Schro Eqn. He said that it was "not a postulate," that it had been proven. I just assumed that we weren't shown the real deal. [ Wednesday, June 01, 2005 23:11: Message edited by: Thurylandon ] -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00 |
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written Wednesday, June 1 2005 22:21
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I don't see anyone "bullying" him.... Canned is sort of a warning to stop spamming and causing problems. Canned is the last step before the C changes to a B. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00 |
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written Wednesday, June 1 2005 22:14
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Hey, my physics classes may have been largely wasted so far, but my Latin, Greek, and English have been wonderful. And so were my other classes, by and large (except Rhetoric — ick). And I'm hoping the physics improves. I've just had three pretty bad teachers in a row. Well, two sorta bad ones and one horrible one. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00 |
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written Wednesday, June 1 2005 22:08
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What we did was more or less like this, although a tad more rigorous (but not by much). This doesn't look like a real derivation, but I can't pinpoint why. EDIT: Zeviz, I took H7A, H7B, and 7C. And I would've been fine focusing on derivations if that's what we were graded on, but it seems wrong to focus on one thing in class and then grade on something fairly different. [ Wednesday, June 01, 2005 22:10: Message edited by: Thurylandon ] -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00 |
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written Wednesday, June 1 2005 21:57
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EDIT: This is what I get for not reading the initial post thoroughly. [ Wednesday, June 01, 2005 22:23: Message edited by: Thurylandon ] -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00 |
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written Wednesday, June 1 2005 21:52
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*digs through his notes* The derivation has to do with... the E=hf equation that comes from the photoelectric effect, the de Broglie equation p=h/lambda, and... uh... nope, I can't understand my notes anymore. But there was a derivation. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00 |
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written Wednesday, June 1 2005 20:26
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SoT, you don't have to explain every conceivable problem ever, but you should at least explain one conceivable problem with each major equation. Deriving Schrodinger's Equation is great, but having seen the derivation sort of doesn't help when you're trying to solve for the wave equation of a particle in a finite square well if you haven't seen any application of it ever. Yes, there were homework problems, but I did not once solve a homework problem independently during the entirety of my first two physics courses at Cal. I simply did not ever have the right equations or the right tools. Bear in mind that I got A's in these classes. Something was direly wrong. [ Wednesday, June 01, 2005 20:45: Message edited by: Thurylandon ] -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00 |
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written Wednesday, June 1 2005 19:33
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quote:I can't think of any more perfect description for this. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00 |
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written Wednesday, June 1 2005 17:08
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It was the full run of lower div physics: mechanics, E &M, bits of thermo and optics, and basic relativity and quantum, basically duplicating AP Physics. What made them terrible was that the teachers never adhered to the basic physics method, which is to explain the concepts, give the general equation, and then show how the general equation can be used to solve problems. We were not at any point taught how to solve problems, and only one of our books actually had any instructions about doing so. One teacher loved going off on tangential discussions. Another loved derivations. A third... well... he never made any sense at all, so it didn't really matter. Their reviews for mid-terms and finals tended to be inadequate; all I really wanted was a sheet of equations, not to do the derivations over again. The important derivations should be done in class once and, if they are not in the book, handed out in paper form or posted online. The books were on the whole atrocious. Purcell's E & M book is annoying in the extreme since it has no worked examples. None. Zero. Tipler's Modern Physics book is slightly better, but it still suffers from a dearth of examples, and I thought it had rather inadequate chapter summaries, a problem exacerbated by the poor organization of the chapters — I could never find the equation that I was looking for. I spent twenty minutes paging through it knowing that I was looking for the relativistic Law of Addition of Velocities. K & K's mechanics book (the MIT one) is similarly annoying. The only book I could stand was the Giancoli one — that one I actually liked a lot. Lab never had anything to do with what we were studying, and generally it consisted of: "Connect black box A to black box B and read off the numbers. Then plug them into equation C, which you have never seen before, and see how close the number you get out matches up with fundamental constant D, which you don't know anything about." But I guess what really killed it was that we never learned how to solve problems at all but then were asked to do so on tests. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00 |
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written Wednesday, June 1 2005 16:42
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Classical Languages (Greek and Latin), with a minor in Physics, intending to apply to law school. The minor in Physics is getting a little less likely, though: I've had three terrible physics classes in a row, and unless the next one is any good, I'm not going to continue. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00 |
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written Wednesday, June 1 2005 15:41
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Try to confine the hysteria to this thread only. All excess hysteria will be treated as spam. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00 |
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written Wednesday, June 1 2005 15:37
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From Mariann: "Midnight tonight is fine." "Yup, your right, this time we'll probably do it by scenarios, rather then designer. So some might get multiple awards." -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00 |
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written Wednesday, June 1 2005 15:36
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Take it as a comment about precision in language, then. Say, "I feel more engaged" rather than "one feels more engaged," if that's what you mean. I wouldn't've said anything except that it seems to be pretty pervasive throughout this thread. At least try to be correct. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00 |
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written Wednesday, June 1 2005 08:38
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That's funny — I misremembered that call. I thought that it said the opposite thing. This clearly means that BoA doesn't do an internal check within the app, so a change to the editor is entirely feasible and should be implemented in whatever the next release is. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00 |
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That's funny — I misremembered that call. I thought that it said the opposite thing. This clearly means that BoA doesn't do an internal check within the app, so a change to the editor is entirely feasible and should be implemented in whatever the next release is. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00 |
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written Wednesday, June 1 2005 08:35
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SAT doesn't actually stand for anything anymore. It used to be the Scholastic Aptitude Test, and then it was the Scholastic Achievement Test briefly in the mid-90's, but since then, ETS has never called it anything but the SAT. I think technicaly it's still registered as Scholastic Achievement Test, but no one, not even ETS, thinks of it as that at this point. The closest thing that SAT stands for is the day of the week that the test is offered. It's kind of like the old (but false) joke that KFC doesn't stand for anything anymore because they can't legally call it chicken, except it's kind of true about the SAT. Anything else you want me to rant about? How about the new Writing section? I can go off on that for a while if you like. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00 |
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written Wednesday, June 1 2005 08:14
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I was going based on what Olympia does. EDIT: I just sent an e-mail asking about this sort of stuff to Mariann, with whom I've been in conversation about the contest anyway and who has been very kind in answering my questions and responding to my requests. Hopefully we'll find out soon. [ Wednesday, June 01, 2005 08:31: Message edited by: Thurylandon ] -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00 |