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Virtual-U (SimUniversity) Now Available
Ben Sawyer writes "The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation's Virtual U project recently shipped a new version our university simulator. This software simulation game, available at www.virtual-u.org lets you play as president of a U.S. university. You choose how faculty spend time, allocate funds, and decide if you should give special admission to athletes. Version 2.0 improves the model, and adds new features. The product is supported through a grant by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The product runs on Windows 2000/XP/9X/ME. The software is being used by a number of university education programs, and is part of an overall project to improve thinking about how universities are managed." No word on if virtual-u features a "BSA attack" scenario.
... the address to download a Cmdr. Taco and Wife set of skins?
Someone, or many someones (perhaps a campaign or something) should call the BSA hotline (1-888-NO PIRACY) claiming that the BSA themselves use unlicensed software. This of course is a lost call for them, and enough at the same time would be about the same as a DoS attack, wouldn't it?
I'd bet that it would certainly piss them off enough to track people down, so if you do this, make sure that it's from a payphone and that you're wearing gloves. Heh.
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... for the Panty Raid Party Pack!
"Derp de derp."
Wichita State University ( www.wichita.edu ) is INFAMOUS for this. WSU has a VERY high arab student population. In fact, most of those news stories you heard about student visas included profiling our school. One of first WTC bombing guys had an expired WSU student Visa (never came to WSU, just got accepted and the visa to get in the US). Rumor has it that one of the 9/11 pilots did the same, however that is un-confirmed. That, however is beside the point. The point is that a heavy minority of the student population does not speak native english, and ESL (English as a Second Language - which I do TA for Spanish -> English) is not flying. Example:
I started out as a CS major. First college class: Calc I. I had looked at calc stuff before, had a basic understanding - but was ready to learn. My teacher was a jack-ass who normally only taught grad-courses but taught calc once every 3 years "to stay fresh." Luckily, we have a "math-lab" (always sounds like meth-lab) for students. Problem: You can not understand the god damned tutor. I polietly asked him to repeate himself time and time again, and I still had no fucking clue. For the 6 weeks I was in Calc, before I dropped and changed majors, we had 3 subs - one russian, two arabs of some sort. I could not understand one fucking word that came out of their mouths. Reminder: I am a spanish major and I am pretty good at listening and picking things out. My boss at the time had a stroke and I could understand him.
Anyways, simulate having such a small pool of elligable profesors to where you have to put people who can not "speaka da english" and then you have a winner. (I would not play it, but I would not play Sims and thats a best seller - who the fuck knows. I cant wait for the sim where you sim playing sims!)
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I want to donate a copy of this to some of Stanford's management staff. They've made some bad decisions lately. Splitting off the hospital as a for-profit operation, then merging it back a year later, for example.