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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: Adonai on February 08, 2008, 04:44:06 PM
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:noid Patch update monday? oh noze Shiny new Lgays to shoot down :noid
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P39
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Well Monday will be exactly 2 weeks since the P-39 was announced. :noid :noid
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February 8, 2008
Aces High II: Server Maintenance
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On Monday (February 11) we will be shutting down the Training, Dueling, Axis vs Allies, and Late War Blue Arena server for an update. We expect this to not take any longer than a couple of hours.
At one point during the upgrade cycle, all arenas will have to be reset. During the upgrade period, game scores, via the WEB site, may not be available.
The effected arenas will have an MOTD posted in them with more details.
Hmmm...says a server update nothing about a game update.
Do they teach reading comprehension any more in school?
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Where did you read this? I don't see it on the homepage.
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Originally posted by Ack-Ack
Do they teach reading comprehension any more in school?
Get with it Ack-Ack... reading comprehension went by the wayside back in the 90's...along with math, history, spelling, literature, science, physics, biology, chemistry, civics & English. School is now a 7 hr study hall - lunch period dedicated to text messaging...assuming one even attends those sessions. Meanwhile my property taxes increase 10% a year to underwrite the local school budget. :t
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Some years ago I read a history book with data showing American literacy declining after WW1 and onwards. The data was garnered from tests on soldiers drafted into the military during wartime. So WW2 had lower literacy than WW1, Korea lower than WW2, Vietnam lower than Korea, etc.
So we're way off topic now, but the peak of American literacy was somewhere in the early 20th century before University curriculum's were changed to suit the tastes of industrial capitalists. In 1900 a high school graduate could tell you all about the Illiad, and today a high school grad will answer with something about Homer Simpson.
Shux, I apologize for thread hijacking.:rolleyes:
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Anaxogoras...I'll assist in hijacking it another notch.
The curriculum in U.S. public schools has been in "dumb down" for the past 15+ years. IMHO I lay 90% of the blame of the N.E.A. along with the tenure policy that allows incompetant teachers to remain in the system forever. Holding a "dead-head" back a year due to poor grades only results in a teacher taking it on the chin from all parties. End result..."dead-head" gets promoted to the next level of incompetancy.
Univeristies such as M.I.T., CalTech & Berkley are rife with students from Japan, Korea, India & China. Meanwhile high school students from the U.S.A are hard pressed to punctuate a sentence or write a cohesive paragraph.
Most disturbing of all, I'm not hearing one presidential candidate reflect on this problem. All I hear is "new ideas." How bout THIS idea...teach our kids to learn the fundementals to the extent that they (USA) can compete with the rest of the planet in the coming years. Do it in such a way that makes prudent use of the public tax dollars. Get rid of the system that encourages lousy teachers to remain employeed forever. Bottom line...install a system which makes both the teachers and students accountable for SOMETHING related to progressive education.
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See Rule #5
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Off in the distance, you can hear...
DING!..."Fries are done"
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You both might enjoy a book called In Defence of Elitism by William Henry. It's largely about the dumbing down of education due to egalitarianism run amuck in American culture and institutions. E.g. "sub-saharan Africa had just as much to contribute to western civilization as Greece," and this kind of schlock ends up in text books and is argued over by school boards.
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Originally posted by Max
Get with it Ack-Ack... reading comprehension went by the wayside back in the 90's...along with math, history, spelling, literature, science, physics, biology, chemistry, civics & English. School is now a 7 hr study hall - lunch period dedicated to text messaging...assuming one even attends those sessions. Meanwhile my property taxes increase 10% a year to underwrite the local school budget. :t
Hey! We also have silent sustained reading, a.k.a, nap time. So that money is going to a good cause.:D
donkey
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Originally posted by Max
Get with it Ack-Ack... reading comprehension went by the wayside back in the 90's...along with math, history, spelling, literature, science, physics, biology, chemistry, civics & English. School is now a 7 hr study hall - lunch period dedicated to text messaging...assuming one even attends those sessions. Meanwhile my property taxes increase 10% a year to underwrite the local school budget. :t
That's pretty close, but it's not even a 7hr study hall anymore (or atleast at the school I use to go to). It's now a 7hr long live chat forum with many different chat room, and a lunch time.
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Originally posted by DoNKeY
Hey! We also have silent sustained reading, a.k.a, nap time. So that money is going to a good cause.:D
donkey
That's nice. Meanwhile the portion of my property tax, which now rests at $6,300 per year...about 95% of that slated towards the local school system, cost me almost $18 @ day.
Enjoy the nap.
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Originally posted by Max
Get with it Ack-Ack... reading comprehension went by the wayside back in the 90's...along with math, history, spelling, literature, science, physics, biology, chemistry, civics & English. School is now a 7 hr study hall - lunch period dedicated to text messaging...assuming one even attends those sessions. Meanwhile my property taxes increase 10% a year to underwrite the local school budget. :t
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The education system in Australia is not much different. The emphasis seems to be more upon getting them out the door than equipping them to lead productive lives.
This is the reason our daughter is going to get a lot of education outside of the school system. She's 21 months old, can count to 10, is beginning to form sentences and can use a tool to get the lid off her locked toy box (She used a screwdriver to remove the hinge screws :lol )
She is beginning to learn to identify some small words and all numbers up to 10 by basic pattern recognition, so spelling may be on the agenda in the next year or so.
IMO if the school system is dropping the ball there is no excuse for a parent not to pick up the slack. Admittedly we should not HAVE to, but we owe it to our children to make up for the systems' indifference.
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So does walking uphill both ways to school in the snow make me smarter? They tell me I will be a genius tomorrow when i do it barefooted.
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It's not the work you do to get there that's important. :lol
Nice one Rash but you forgot the 15 miles :rofl
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I can vouch for Rash. He walks right by my house on his trek. I offered him some of my old running shoes but he just mumbles something about "the old days" and keeps on going.....
:rolleyes:
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I predict a large feeding frenzy on P39s for a whole week, maybe eight days......then you will rarely see them.
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Yeager...how dare you try and un-hijack this this thread :t
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I predict everyone flying above 12k just so they're candy arses don't get whopped by a mean new ride.
with the elheywatchit seven's still doin' what they have always done, but being flown more than ever for the new eye candy "least thats the reason they will give".
Should be interesting to say the least, the future is bright! :rofl
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Dang i got school monday.
shhh dont tell them im fakin sick!:noid
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Most of the kids in school just play on the computer. A lot more can be accomplished if the schools block webpages/domains at the router level
If they killed off myspace, facebook, all ports for chat programs they would save countless amounts of bandwith and maybe the kids will learn something.
At the college if I see a kid in class goofing off on myspace. I will wait until he leaves to go on break and then I have some fun with the hosts file :t
Watch his expression when he gets a 404 error on it. He's like :cry
If I get promoted to run the servers/routers there in class, the first two domains that will be blocked are myspace and facebook. Class is to study, not play.
Myspace sucks.
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Originally posted by Meatwad
Most of the kids in school just play on the computer. A lot more can be accomplished if the schools block webpages/domains at the router level
If they killed off myspace, facebook, all ports for chat programs they would save countless amounts of bandwith and maybe the kids will learn something.
At the college if I see a kid in class goofing off on myspace. I will wait until he leaves to go on break and then I have some fun with the hosts file :t
Watch his expression when he gets a 404 error on it. He's like :cry
You dont think they try? Kids are creative. There will always be a way.
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I know, but its fun to make them work for it.
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See Rule #6
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See Rules #4, #5
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what? this is the end of the thread? i was just getting into that, starting to get a grip on the many twists.... please continue.
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See Rules #4, #5
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See Rule #5
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Houston the eagle has landed. Wait whats that? Looks like we arent the first to land here.
(http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/4/24/1013733/ackack.bmp)
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Originally posted by Ack-Ack
See Rules #4, #5
And like the 3+ year old thread everyone is as bored now as they were then about the story.
...-Gixer
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:rolleyes:
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wow skuzzy worked hard editing all them posts.
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Originally posted by VansCrew1
wow skuzzy worked hard editing all them posts.
:D :D
Poor guy's got nothing better to do on his weekends.
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Me thinks everybody has forgotten that patches have almost always been introduced on fridays. This is so everything can go to crap throughout the weekend so they can work on a new patch to fix the stuff that the patch messed up on monday. It's a thing working folks like to call "Job Security". ROFLOL
All the Best...
Jay
awDoc1
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Originally posted by doc1kelley
Me thinks everybody has forgotten that patches have almost always been introduced on fridays. This is so everything can go to crap throughout the weekend so they can work on a new patch to fix the stuff that the patch messed up on monday. It's a thing working folks like to call "Job Security". ROFLOL
All the Best...
Jay
awDoc1
:lol :lol
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Originally posted by Larry
Houston the eagle has landed. Wait whats that? Looks like we arent the first to land here.
(http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/4/24/1013733/ackack.bmp)
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^^^ LOL X2
and Skuzzy instead of editing the childish posts why dont you clear up the confusion and lock it up :aok
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Well new patch...err update is tomorrow. Is it the P39 or is it another 2weeks?
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I want to see a rule #. I never get to see a rule # :cry
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Originally posted by republic
I want to see a rule #. I never get to see a rule # :cry
They are not hard to find....
http://forums.hitechcreations.com/forums/announcement.php?s=&forumid=9
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Damn, just as I was getting into that hijack Skuzzy no0ks it, heh.
Btw best hijack in a while, good points made.
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Is the update done? Is it a server-side update only, or have they loaded any Ah patches for us clients as well?
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Nope :cry