Word: contently
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...similar as they are in movie playback, the two platforms are very different in other areas. The PS3 thinks locally - it handles content best when it's on its hard drive, or on a disc in its drive, or on a memory card or USB keychain that's plugged in directly. The Xbox 360 is all about the network...
...Rexes and a gorilla duking it out in your living room. I can't spot the difference between Blu-ray and HD DVD movie; no one but the most finicky of videophiles could. So when looking at both game consoles as a source of high-def movie content, forget about differences in video quality and think more about your gaming preferences as well as the movies themselves, the Blu-ray and HD DVD lineups on Amazon.com or Netflix...
...president’s post at the start of the spring semester. Moore will be joined on The Crimson’s masthead by managing editor-elect Javier C. Hernandez ’08, of Eugene, Ore., and Cabot House, who will oversee the newspaper’s content. Roger R. Lee ’08 of Congers, N.Y., and Quincy House, will serve as business manager. The paper’s outgoing editors elected their successors early Friday morning, and the president of the 133rd Guard, William C. Marra ’07, announced the results to the staff...
...Tuesday, however, this forward-thinking model was endangered. The first regular Faculty meeting to discuss the October general education report was contentious and left no clear decision in sight. Some professors opposed the content-based approach of the report, wishing rather for a methodological emphasis that would introduce students to the tools of various disciplines. Beren Professor of Economics N. Gregory Mankiw, for one, was in this camp. He raised the possibility, as reported in yesterday’s Crimson, of distribution requirements rather than a unified, interdisciplinary approach...
...basically idiots.’” The promulgation of knowledge, Hoffmann seemed to say, must extend beyond mere methodology if it is to help students to accomodate the real challenges they will face beyond college. Most of us are not in the running to become scholars content in understanding one specialized area of the world, as Mankiw’s ideas seem to suggest. Rather, most of us wish to grapple with the big issues in an integrated manner...