If I had mod points, you'd be getting them. Still, don't lump all "American Christians" into the same bucket, either. Some of us do have a bit of sense. Regarding the homosexuality issue, as I told a friend of mine once, "A few lines later the bible condems men with long hair. You don't see any 'God Hates Mullets' signs, do you?"
I didn't read the other replies, so I don't know if anyone's addressed these issues already.
Personally, I really like my 360. I've never had a failure and I've owned mine for over a year now. Plus, mine came with a 3-year warranty. I don't think it's all that noisy, but then again, I have my noisy-as-hell laptop sitting next to it. The scratched disks are an issue, however. It seems that the DVD drives they used in the 360s were never meant to be stood on their sides... so if you leave your 360 standing up and so much as bump it, you're probably going to get a hell of a scratch in your disk. I almost ruined Gears of War this way. However, if you lay the 360 on its side, that should take care of the problem. I haven't had a disk scratched since.
Ah, reading this article and the comments brings back memories of my grad school days as a CS major. Most of the professors could give a damn if the code we wrote was our own. However, there were a few professors that checked... with hilarious results. Prof: "Okay, and why did you do that?" Student #1: "Umm... well, we..." Prof: "You made the same mistake last year's students made... even after I told you multiple times over the last three weeks to watch out for it!"
My code may have been crap, but I could at least explain why I did every line of code and every bad decision. It was crap, but it was my crap.
You can always do what I did to deter people from clicking "reply to all" for everything.
Put a whiteboard close to your desk/cube with the words "Every time you Reply to All, God kills a kitten" (or in your case, "every time you spam..."). Be sure to include a picture of a sad kitten next to it and keep a running counter of "Kittens killed". Didn't stop people from replying to all, but it did slow things down.... and made my supervisors question my sanity for some reason.
After doing a 30-second search for "Anascape", the only thing I could find on them are the law suits. Though, to be fair, most every gaming news site is covering this one. Still, who are these people? Have they done anything besides file the patents and then smack down anyone that uses "their technology"?
Side note: Something the summary doesn't mention. Anascape originally sued Sony over the Playstation controllers. Then, they went after Microsoft and Nintendo at the same time. They don't seem to have any problems with the wiimote yet. Just the classic controller and the Gamecube controller.
My thoughts exactly. If I had mod points, you'd be getting +1 insightful. Customs probably dig a bit deeper than my local airport security, but when I went flying, they didn't give my digital camera a second thought. they also didn't seem to notice that I had a spare SD card in my wallet, though that may be because I had some loose change and a spare key in there, too.
Would the X-ray machine be able to see the card then, or would it just look like a big pile of metal thingies?
Other reports are more credible. At quarter past midnight on Christmas Day 1985, three police officers in Woking were surprised by a white light descending on the Horsell area.
Finally! Undeniable proof in the existance of Santa Claus! I knew it!
Don't forget that it's also available for the XBox 360, which is about $20 more and gets a whopping 3 frames per second when trying to play with another person. 3 FPS if you're lucky.
Honestly, I think age has a lot to do with how crappy it seems. When I was a kid, Transformers was amazing to me. When I was a teenager, not so much. Now that I'm in my 20's, I can recognize that it's campy as hell but still fun to watch. Why not try renting the Speed Racer DVDs and watching an episode or two? It'll only set you back $3 and an hour of your time. You have to admit, though. robotech was pretty good, but still had its moments of crapitude. Particularly Minmei's singing.... her horrible, horrible karaoke-quality singing... Though, Harmoy Gold recently made a sequel movie. Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles
Lucky you. I hear we're upgrading to a newer version of Lotus Notes simply because Lotus said "This version has been dead for years. We're not supporting it any more!"
It didn't. For a dollar, you get to listen to a song without the drum beat. You have a drum set you can play, but they give you no cues as to what you should be playing and no score. Plus, all the machies around here were broken in one way or another (someone went a bit overboard on the bass pedal).
Personally, I saved my money and went to Guitar Center and played the drum sets while listening to whatever rock they had going through the speakers.
As many have said before me, nothing beats real-world experience. Everyone will want a different language, and you can't learn them all by heart. Know a few of the big name languages really well and have a good grasp on where to go when you want to learn another language. Plus, try out a few languages that are vastly different from each other. Knowing Java can help you get a grasp of C/C++ early on, but would help you nil with something like LISP, ProLog, PostScript or assembly.
Personally, my first language was C++. Every language I've learned since then, I've asked myself "Okay, how is this like C++ and how is it different?" After graduating, I've had to use C++, Java (heavily), Python, and some strange variation of VB6.
Off-topic: Personally, I don't see how Java is "damaging" to students. True, you don't need a GUI on every program, but I wish I'd had a decent class on how to make a GUI in Java when I was an undergrad. Though, I can't argue the issue of code overhead and hitting the system harder than necessary.
Whoa, I think you're more paranoid than I am (and that's saying a lot).
Then again, I didn't exactly give details on the other guy's situation. His first and only offense was 7 years ago. Statatory rape of a 16 year old (I'm thinking it's a "I swear she said she was 18" thing). He's since gotten married and has kids. But, that one offense was enough for him to get labeled (which is apparently enough for someone to hunt you down). I think keeping a few spare print-outs of his stats from the database would suffice.
Considering the only people that visit me are my family and the pizza guy, I know when to point people the other way.
What are the odds of having two people in an apartment building that happen to have the same name? Well, it happened to me. First, last and middle initial. The other guy is a registered sex offender. Despite the two of us living in different apartments (A5 vs A7), I've had several people coming to my door looking for him.... Including the local police. Yes, even though the database of sex offenders has his address as A7 and has pictures (he looks nothing like me), the police insisted that I was a sex offender until I provided an ID to show we had different birthdates.
So now I have to worry about whackos trying to kill the other guy and getting me instead? Great.
I'm a big guy. Not exactly a star athelete, but I can throw pretty hard when I want to (or need to). I also have big, sweaty hands, particularly when holding a controller for any length of time.
I play without a wrist strap. I've never had a problem. And, yes, I get into it.
As a bit of a personal test (after horrible images of my wiimote snapping from its strap, becomming entient, flying around my room and breaking my TV passed through my head) I put the strap on and let the wiimote hang from my wrist. Looked fine. I bounced it up and down a bit. Still fine. Considering the wiimote wouldn't get more than a couple inches from my hand if I screwed up, this was good enough for me.
BUT! The strap is pretty thin. But, this also begs the question, why didn't people make better straps for themselves upon seeing how thin the straps were and hearing all the horror stories? A length of yarn would have worked, for crying out loud.
Plus, Nintendo's replacing all the wrist straps! (I'm keeping mine, thank you very much) They're pretty much saying "We realize you're getting a bit more into it than we thought you would. And we don't want anyone to get hurt, so we're replacing your straps at no charge." Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think they're doing it for free.
This greatly reminds me Weird Al's "I'll Sue Ya"... If only there was a "Don't be a dumbass" law...
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If I had mod points, you'd be getting them.
Still, don't lump all "American Christians" into the same bucket, either. Some of us do have a bit of sense.
Regarding the homosexuality issue, as I told a friend of mine once, "A few lines later the bible condems men with long hair. You don't see any 'God Hates Mullets' signs, do you?"
I didn't read the other replies, so I don't know if anyone's addressed these issues already.
Personally, I really like my 360. I've never had a failure and I've owned mine for over a year now. Plus, mine came with a 3-year warranty. I don't think it's all that noisy, but then again, I have my noisy-as-hell laptop sitting next to it.
The scratched disks are an issue, however. It seems that the DVD drives they used in the 360s were never meant to be stood on their sides... so if you leave your 360 standing up and so much as bump it, you're probably going to get a hell of a scratch in your disk. I almost ruined Gears of War this way. However, if you lay the 360 on its side, that should take care of the problem. I haven't had a disk scratched since.
Just my 2 cents.
"No, actually. It takes off, flies at six times the speed of sound and then explodes without warning. We're still working on that last part."
Ah, reading this article and the comments brings back memories of my grad school days as a CS major. Most of the professors could give a damn if the code we wrote was our own. However, there were a few professors that checked... with hilarious results.
Prof: "Okay, and why did you do that?"
Student #1: "Umm... well, we..."
Prof: "You made the same mistake last year's students made... even after I told you multiple times over the last three weeks to watch out for it!"
My code may have been crap, but I could at least explain why I did every line of code and every bad decision. It was crap, but it was my crap.
You can always do what I did to deter people from clicking "reply to all" for everything.
... and made my supervisors question my sanity for some reason.
Put a whiteboard close to your desk/cube with the words "Every time you Reply to All, God kills a kitten" (or in your case, "every time you spam..."). Be sure to include a picture of a sad kitten next to it and keep a running counter of "Kittens killed".
Didn't stop people from replying to all, but it did slow things down.
Probably along the Illinois river.
Ah, I can see my score now.
Those that live along the river give me +5 Funny.
Everyone else gives me -inf Offtopic.
After doing a 30-second search for "Anascape", the only thing I could find on them are the law suits. Though, to be fair, most every gaming news site is covering this one. Still, who are these people? Have they done anything besides file the patents and then smack down anyone that uses "their technology"? Side note: Something the summary doesn't mention. Anascape originally sued Sony over the Playstation controllers. Then, they went after Microsoft and Nintendo at the same time. They don't seem to have any problems with the wiimote yet. Just the classic controller and the Gamecube controller.
My thoughts exactly. If I had mod points, you'd be getting +1 insightful. Customs probably dig a bit deeper than my local airport security, but when I went flying, they didn't give my digital camera a second thought. they also didn't seem to notice that I had a spare SD card in my wallet, though that may be because I had some loose change and a spare key in there, too.
Would the X-ray machine be able to see the card then, or would it just look like a big pile of metal thingies?
Finally! Undeniable proof in the existance of Santa Claus! I knew it!
Don't forget that it's also available for the XBox 360, which is about $20 more and gets a whopping 3 frames per second when trying to play with another person. 3 FPS if you're lucky.
Honestly, I think age has a lot to do with how crappy it seems. When I was a kid, Transformers was amazing to me. When I was a teenager, not so much. Now that I'm in my 20's, I can recognize that it's campy as hell but still fun to watch. ... her horrible, horrible karaoke-quality singing...
Why not try renting the Speed Racer DVDs and watching an episode or two? It'll only set you back $3 and an hour of your time.
You have to admit, though. robotech was pretty good, but still had its moments of crapitude. Particularly Minmei's singing.
Though, Harmoy Gold recently made a sequel movie. Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles
Lucky you. I hear we're upgrading to a newer version of Lotus Notes simply because Lotus said "This version has been dead for years. We're not supporting it any more!"
You've never actually used Lotus Notes, have you?
It didn't. For a dollar, you get to listen to a song without the drum beat. You have a drum set you can play, but they give you no cues as to what you should be playing and no score. Plus, all the machies around here were broken in one way or another (someone went a bit overboard on the bass pedal).
Personally, I saved my money and went to Guitar Center and played the drum sets while listening to whatever rock they had going through the speakers.
I can see it now. "Fresh Prince of Bel Air: The Game"
Wow. I'd almost forgotten about Spore.
Maybe that's why I didn't forget Duke Nukem Forever: every so often there's a report that it's "coming soon".
Obligatory quote: "Gamers have short attention spans. At least, that's what the guy at the video store tells me."
As many have said before me, nothing beats real-world experience. Everyone will want a different language, and you can't learn them all by heart. Know a few of the big name languages really well and have a good grasp on where to go when you want to learn another language. Plus, try out a few languages that are vastly different from each other. Knowing Java can help you get a grasp of C/C++ early on, but would help you nil with something like LISP, ProLog, PostScript or assembly.
Personally, my first language was C++. Every language I've learned since then, I've asked myself "Okay, how is this like C++ and how is it different?" After graduating, I've had to use C++, Java (heavily), Python, and some strange variation of VB6.
Off-topic: Personally, I don't see how Java is "damaging" to students. True, you don't need a GUI on every program, but I wish I'd had a decent class on how to make a GUI in Java when I was an undergrad. Though, I can't argue the issue of code overhead and hitting the system harder than necessary.
Whoa, I think you're more paranoid than I am (and that's saying a lot).
Then again, I didn't exactly give details on the other guy's situation. His first and only offense was 7 years ago. Statatory rape of a 16 year old (I'm thinking it's a "I swear she said she was 18" thing). He's since gotten married and has kids. But, that one offense was enough for him to get labeled (which is apparently enough for someone to hunt you down). I think keeping a few spare print-outs of his stats from the database would suffice.
Considering the only people that visit me are my family and the pizza guy, I know when to point people the other way.
What are the odds of having two people in an apartment building that happen to have the same name? Well, it happened to me. First, last and middle initial. The other guy is a registered sex offender. Despite the two of us living in different apartments (A5 vs A7), I've had several people coming to my door looking for him. ... Including the local police.
Yes, even though the database of sex offenders has his address as A7 and has pictures (he looks nothing like me), the police insisted that I was a sex offender until I provided an ID to show we had different birthdates.
So now I have to worry about whackos trying to kill the other guy and getting me instead? Great.
I'm a big guy. Not exactly a star athelete, but I can throw pretty hard when I want to (or need to). I also have big, sweaty hands, particularly when holding a controller for any length of time.
I play without a wrist strap. I've never had a problem. And, yes, I get into it.
As a bit of a personal test (after horrible images of my wiimote snapping from its strap, becomming entient, flying around my room and breaking my TV passed through my head) I put the strap on and let the wiimote hang from my wrist. Looked fine. I bounced it up and down a bit. Still fine. Considering the wiimote wouldn't get more than a couple inches from my hand if I screwed up, this was good enough for me.
BUT! The strap is pretty thin. But, this also begs the question, why didn't people make better straps for themselves upon seeing how thin the straps were and hearing all the horror stories? A length of yarn would have worked, for crying out loud.
Plus, Nintendo's replacing all the wrist straps! (I'm keeping mine, thank you very much) They're pretty much saying "We realize you're getting a bit more into it than we thought you would. And we don't want anyone to get hurt, so we're replacing your straps at no charge." Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think they're doing it for free.
This greatly reminds me Weird Al's "I'll Sue Ya"...
If only there was a "Don't be a dumbass" law...