As for university, I dunno about where you went but where I went you could complete it as fast as you could handle. You can CLEP a lot of stuff, and with a dean's permission take as many units as would fit in your schedule. Completing a degree in 2 years would be an amazing amount of work, but perfectly doable if you could handle the load.
Well at my specific university, they stipulate the minimum and maximum number of years you need to complete a degree. Taking classes a year ahead of you isn't allowed due to prerequisite requirements and all that, not to mention that you need credits from one year to advance to the next. They have all sorts of rules and regulations to prevent precisely that which I'm complaining about. The only time you can do it is with the approval of the dean. And that only happens with genius people.
I'm currently in a South African university, University of Pretoria. Supposedly the best one in the country, but I wouldn't be so sure about that, seeing the kind of illiterate people they allow entrance to.
Not everyone enjoyed high school from a social perspective. I sure didn't enjoy it as much as I saw others enjoying it. But when I think about it, I actually miss those days. Social things were so much simpler. Not to to mention the oversimplified courting rituals.
Where I'm from, and we follow the English system, you have primary school, secondary(high school) school, and then college, or oddly enough tertiary education. Primary lasts 7 years, and secondary lasts either 5 or 6.
I'm not too sure how the American system is in terms of years, but I reckon it's similar.
Brilliant little kid, I must say. And I am very glad that he is given the recognition he deserves.
However, I'd like to point out that every time we see an extraordinary case like his, there are countless other examples that are half way there. What I mean is that why do only the "super-genius" kids get to advance faster in schools and colleges? What about those people that are smart and dedicated enough to pass through say high-school in 1-2 years, rather than the usual 5-6. Instead these people are forced to stay 5-6 years doing highschool. Same thing with college.
Not everyone is meant to fit into the average of society. That is why we allow people to repeat grade levels and university subjects. So why not go the other way and allow above average students, or students with above average dedication to finish faster. Sounds like a double standard to me.
Are you nuts? You expecting game developers to develop games for platforms that have a tiny fraction of the market is bonkers, not to mention down right selfish on your part.
Let's do some math. I'll pull some magic numbers out of my ass, definitely biased towards your suggestion. I'll take a reasonably fair number and assume that linux/mac have 15% of the market, currently. Now, how many of those people do you think will actively buy games for their platform? Lets say 30% for linux, say 50% for the mac, and 30% for the windows, to be fair.
0.3 * 0.15 = 4.5% for linux.
0.5 * 0.15 = 7.5% for mac
0.85 * 0.3 = 25.5% for Windows.
Therefore: (4.5 / 25.5 * 100) Profit loss moving development from windows to linux = 100% to 17.64%.
(7.5 / 25.5 * 100) Profit loss moving development from windows to mac = 100% to 29.41%
Now, these are overly generous figures towards your side, and a gross oversimplification of the situation. Not to mention the added cost of developing games for a platform that probably none of your developers have experience in. Or perhaps the added cost of having to develop for 2 or more platforms, even with OpenGL.
So let me get this straight: You are pissed off that they are not willing to reduce their profits four fold?
Here's some homework for you. Promote your favorite platform and maybe, just maybe, someday it will be as successful as Windows currently is. Until then, deal with the fact that your favorite OS is not the best, and quit whining about it.
But see that's where the justification falls apart. You have to actively prove that the current "ratio" is not the one that is meant to be.
And I will agree with you without question if you can prove that what I said in my previous question. I don't mean to sound arrogant about this, but good lucky trying to prove it.
Honestly, we're probably drooling over the hottest of females, as all guys do. But at the end of the day, if we did manage to get them we'd get bored pretty quick. They can only feign interest for so long, then it becomes clear that they really _don't_ like the same things you do.
But at the end of the day, I really have no idea as to why some of your equally geek guy friends aren't doing anything. Unlike the other poster said, I think it's them that might be too timid to take it further. But I do agree with him that the whole no sex before marriage thing is a put off. If that is the case, then maybe you'd have more luck trying to find someone that shares your religious views as well as your geek interests.
Then maybe you should address the pressures themselves, rather than applying a different kind pressure to supposedly fix the first one. What makes your "pressure" more righteous than the natural one that is in society at the moment? For all the girls that you supposedly push into the right direction with your "intervention pressure", how many more are you pressuring in the wrong direction? Just like society's "pressure" doesn't affect all girls, so too will your pressure not affect all girls. It will affect some girls, and those girls may or may not be the ones that were being pressured in the wrong direction in the first place, before you decided to pressure them in what _you_ thought was the right direction.
Woah, I think I said the word pressure like 10 times or something in that last paragraph. Anyways, I hope you all understand my point.
You can't honestly try to push that "drug laws" are the reason for there being more black people in prison than white people. Unless you're implying that black people use/sell more drugs than white people. I can give you quite a few plausible reasons for that disparity, at least for drug related crimes:
-Bias by police.
-Bias by juries.
-Culture in black communities.
-Culture in white communities.
-Hip-hop and RnB culture. You'd be surprised how many young black children are badly influenced by that kind of music.
Nooo thank you, buddy. We don't want "pretty boys" in our classes, thank you very much. Just what we need is for a bunch of frat boys to ruin the experience for the rest of us. I mean, it's bad enough that lots of CS classes are filled with people just doing CS because it's the "in thing" to do at the moment, we don't need frat boys bringing blond bimbo's in so they can distract the rest of us. Not to mention the stupid snickers and comments they'd make at what the lecturer is talking about.
What we do want, and I'm sure lots of my fellow CS students will agree with me on this, is females that are equally attractive and smart as we are. Oh and they have to be into geek stuff, like Star Trek and RPG games:) I would give my left testicle for a girl like that.
It's the equivalent of me driving down the highway and actively not looking at the huge billboards plastered along the way. Would you have us believe that I'm "stealing" from those advertisers as well?
Obviously you're twisting the definition of "stealing". I can not steal something that _you_ don't have. And if I choose not look at ads, then I also probably would have chosen not to click on them and buy whatever Viagra product you're selling.
Not to mention that huge billboards on the side of a highway are road hazards. There have been way too many close calls because I had my attention diverted to a flashy, and sometimes animated, billboard. It's one thing putting them on the streets and buildings. But once they start putting them on the sides of high-speed traffic areas, then they're a problem.
At least obnoxious and distracting ads on web pages aren't life threatening.
They can "serve" me ads all day. If I choose not to look is my business. Same goes with "restaurant attendants". They can serve me all day, but at the end of the day, I am _not_ obliged to tip them. Many people that I know feel it some sort of law that you have to leave 10%, citing all sorts of reasons. From low waiters salaries to "doing the right thing". Tell you what, I'll take your tip and give it to the beggar down the street. Obviously it's the right thing to do, duh.
I'm with you on this one. It's so lame when someone makes up an entire post that basically revolves around them stating some cool fact about themselves, or some uber item they have.
Worse still when they get modded up for posting nothing useful. I'm not talking about the the guy trying to run IE8 on Ubuntu, if anyone thinks that.
We'll are happy letting the stupid subsidize our internet browsing experience.
Seriously now, anyone with half a mind and some internet experience totally avoids clicking on ads. Everyone I have ever spoken to about this, including non tech-savvy people, make it clear that they have never clicked an advertisement on a webpage. Except maybe when they first started out.
Things got even worse when Google came with their "text-only" insidious ads that magically made it easy to make money, provided you spammed these ads in all your countless, pointless, copied web pages.
Things are never that black and white. Just because he hates Microsoft doesn't mean he has to hate everything that Microsoft produces. Not everyone is a fanatic in these sorts of things. Most fall into a grey area.
Failing that, perhaps we should just wait and see what he replies to your question.
The day that IE gives me add-ons, the menu bar's persistently staying at the top and my favorite add-ons, is the day I switch back to IE. Until then, it's Firefox for my main browsing, and if a site is being a pain in the ass and doesn't want to load properly, or load at all then I open that site in IE.
All these Microsoft haters will never point out that Firefox has more sites that don't work with it. As if that fact alone makes Firefox worse than IE, it in fact doesn't. Just like Windows having more viruses that are made for it, than Linux does.
As opposed to the literally countless movies glorifying macho, burly men with big egos and hairy chests? Nevermind the fact that they are witty tree trunks with an equally large intelligence.
The few examples you wrote really are few and far between, if not utterly against the current media portrayal of geeks and nerds. In fact, I reckon I've seen more movies where geeks/nerds are ridiculed than I have seen movies where nerds are glorified, or happen to be the main protagonists.
It's just the way things currently are. And as much as it bothers me, I've learned to accept it and embrace it.
Easy. You don't. Just because Microsoft comes out with a spanking new OS that your old computer can't handle doesn't mean that they are telling or asking you to upgrade. Geeze, stop rehashing that old non-sense. No one is forcing you to upgrade to Vista, just like no one is forcing you to "buy a new computer".
Computers become obsolete, that's a fact of life. People need to start dealing with it.
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Not sure how the mods missed your sarcasm? My sarcasm meter went through the roof!
As for university, I dunno about where you went but where I went you could complete it as fast as you could handle. You can CLEP a lot of stuff, and with a dean's permission take as many units as would fit in your schedule. Completing a degree in 2 years would be an amazing amount of work, but perfectly doable if you could handle the load.
Well at my specific university, they stipulate the minimum and maximum number of years you need to complete a degree. Taking classes a year ahead of you isn't allowed due to prerequisite requirements and all that, not to mention that you need credits from one year to advance to the next. They have all sorts of rules and regulations to prevent precisely that which I'm complaining about. The only time you can do it is with the approval of the dean. And that only happens with genius people.
I'm currently in a South African university, University of Pretoria. Supposedly the best one in the country, but I wouldn't be so sure about that, seeing the kind of illiterate people they allow entrance to.
Not everyone enjoyed high school from a social perspective. I sure didn't enjoy it as much as I saw others enjoying it. But when I think about it, I actually miss those days. Social things were so much simpler. Not to to mention the oversimplified courting rituals.
Where I'm from, and we follow the English system, you have primary school, secondary(high school) school, and then college, or oddly enough tertiary education. Primary lasts 7 years, and secondary lasts either 5 or 6.
I'm not too sure how the American system is in terms of years, but I reckon it's similar.
Brilliant little kid, I must say. And I am very glad that he is given the recognition he deserves.
However, I'd like to point out that every time we see an extraordinary case like his, there are countless other examples that are half way there. What I mean is that why do only the "super-genius" kids get to advance faster in schools and colleges? What about those people that are smart and dedicated enough to pass through say high-school in 1-2 years, rather than the usual 5-6. Instead these people are forced to stay 5-6 years doing highschool. Same thing with college.
Not everyone is meant to fit into the average of society. That is why we allow people to repeat grade levels and university subjects. So why not go the other way and allow above average students, or students with above average dedication to finish faster. Sounds like a double standard to me.
It's a logical fallacy, and it's called "deriving ought from is". i.e. Just because something is, doesn't mean it ought to be.
Are you nuts? You expecting game developers to develop games for platforms that have a tiny fraction of the market is bonkers, not to mention down right selfish on your part.
Let's do some math. I'll pull some magic numbers out of my ass, definitely biased towards your suggestion. I'll take a reasonably fair number and assume that linux/mac have 15% of the market, currently. Now, how many of those people do you think will actively buy games for their platform? Lets say 30% for linux, say 50% for the mac, and 30% for the windows, to be fair.
0.3 * 0.15 = 4.5% for linux.
0.5 * 0.15 = 7.5% for mac
0.85 * 0.3 = 25.5% for Windows.
Therefore:
(4.5 / 25.5 * 100) Profit loss moving development from windows to linux = 100% to 17.64%.
(7.5 / 25.5 * 100) Profit loss moving development from windows to mac = 100% to 29.41%
Now, these are overly generous figures towards your side, and a gross oversimplification of the situation. Not to mention the added cost of developing games for a platform that probably none of your developers have experience in. Or perhaps the added cost of having to develop for 2 or more platforms, even with OpenGL.
So let me get this straight: You are pissed off that they are not willing to reduce their profits four fold?
Here's some homework for you. Promote your favorite platform and maybe, just maybe, someday it will be as successful as Windows currently is. Until then, deal with the fact that your favorite OS is not the best, and quit whining about it.
Wow, blatant disregard for facts and logic. You truly are a hardcore Microsoft hater!
But see that's where the justification falls apart. You have to actively prove that the current "ratio" is not the one that is meant to be. And I will agree with you without question if you can prove that what I said in my previous question. I don't mean to sound arrogant about this, but good lucky trying to prove it.
Honestly, we're probably drooling over the hottest of females, as all guys do. But at the end of the day, if we did manage to get them we'd get bored pretty quick. They can only feign interest for so long, then it becomes clear that they really _don't_ like the same things you do.
But at the end of the day, I really have no idea as to why some of your equally geek guy friends aren't doing anything. Unlike the other poster said, I think it's them that might be too timid to take it further. But I do agree with him that the whole no sex before marriage thing is a put off. If that is the case, then maybe you'd have more luck trying to find someone that shares your religious views as well as your geek interests.
Then maybe you should address the pressures themselves, rather than applying a different kind pressure to supposedly fix the first one. What makes your "pressure" more righteous than the natural one that is in society at the moment? For all the girls that you supposedly push into the right direction with your "intervention pressure", how many more are you pressuring in the wrong direction? Just like society's "pressure" doesn't affect all girls, so too will your pressure not affect all girls. It will affect some girls, and those girls may or may not be the ones that were being pressured in the wrong direction in the first place, before you decided to pressure them in what _you_ thought was the right direction.
Woah, I think I said the word pressure like 10 times or something in that last paragraph. Anyways, I hope you all understand my point.
You can't honestly try to push that "drug laws" are the reason for there being more black people in prison than white people. Unless you're implying that black people use/sell more drugs than white people. I can give you quite a few plausible reasons for that disparity, at least for drug related crimes:
-Bias by police.
-Bias by juries.
-Culture in black communities.
-Culture in white communities.
-Hip-hop and RnB culture. You'd be surprised how many young black children are badly influenced by that kind of music.
Nooo thank you, buddy. We don't want "pretty boys" in our classes, thank you very much. Just what we need is for a bunch of frat boys to ruin the experience for the rest of us. I mean, it's bad enough that lots of CS classes are filled with people just doing CS because it's the "in thing" to do at the moment, we don't need frat boys bringing blond bimbo's in so they can distract the rest of us. Not to mention the stupid snickers and comments they'd make at what the lecturer is talking about.
:) I would give my left testicle for a girl like that.
What we do want, and I'm sure lots of my fellow CS students will agree with me on this, is females that are equally attractive and smart as we are. Oh and they have to be into geek stuff, like Star Trek and RPG games
It's the equivalent of me driving down the highway and actively not looking at the huge billboards plastered along the way. Would you have us believe that I'm "stealing" from those advertisers as well?
Obviously you're twisting the definition of "stealing". I can not steal something that _you_ don't have. And if I choose not look at ads, then I also probably would have chosen not to click on them and buy whatever Viagra product you're selling.
Not to mention that huge billboards on the side of a highway are road hazards. There have been way too many close calls because I had my attention diverted to a flashy, and sometimes animated, billboard. It's one thing putting them on the streets and buildings. But once they start putting them on the sides of high-speed traffic areas, then they're a problem.
At least obnoxious and distracting ads on web pages aren't life threatening.
They can "serve" me ads all day. If I choose not to look is my business. Same goes with "restaurant attendants". They can serve me all day, but at the end of the day, I am _not_ obliged to tip them. Many people that I know feel it some sort of law that you have to leave 10%, citing all sorts of reasons. From low waiters salaries to "doing the right thing". Tell you what, I'll take your tip and give it to the beggar down the street. Obviously it's the right thing to do, duh.
I'm with you on this one. It's so lame when someone makes up an entire post that basically revolves around them stating some cool fact about themselves, or some uber item they have.
Worse still when they get modded up for posting nothing useful. I'm not talking about the the guy trying to run IE8 on Ubuntu, if anyone thinks that.
We'll are happy letting the stupid subsidize our internet browsing experience.
Seriously now, anyone with half a mind and some internet experience totally avoids clicking on ads. Everyone I have ever spoken to about this, including non tech-savvy people, make it clear that they have never clicked an advertisement on a webpage. Except maybe when they first started out.
Things got even worse when Google came with their "text-only" insidious ads that magically made it easy to make money, provided you spammed these ads in all your countless, pointless, copied web pages.
Things are never that black and white. Just because he hates Microsoft doesn't mean he has to hate everything that Microsoft produces. Not everyone is a fanatic in these sorts of things. Most fall into a grey area.
Failing that, perhaps we should just wait and see what he replies to your question.
The day that IE gives me add-ons, the menu bar's persistently staying at the top and my favorite add-ons, is the day I switch back to IE. Until then, it's Firefox for my main browsing, and if a site is being a pain in the ass and doesn't want to load properly, or load at all then I open that site in IE.
All these Microsoft haters will never point out that Firefox has more sites that don't work with it. As if that fact alone makes Firefox worse than IE, it in fact doesn't. Just like Windows having more viruses that are made for it, than Linux does.
As opposed to the literally countless movies glorifying macho, burly men with big egos and hairy chests? Nevermind the fact that they are witty tree trunks with an equally large intelligence.
The few examples you wrote really are few and far between, if not utterly against the current media portrayal of geeks and nerds. In fact, I reckon I've seen more movies where geeks/nerds are ridiculed than I have seen movies where nerds are glorified, or happen to be the main protagonists.
It's just the way things currently are. And as much as it bothers me, I've learned to accept it and embrace it.
We are very grateful, thank you.
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I find it odd that the raving lunatic hobo your replied to got modded up and your sane, rational comment got no moderation at all.
Sad, Slashdot, just sad.
Same here. It's really something when us power users have that kind of first-time experience with linux.
Can linux play my mp3 files? Well?
What, don't tell me you expect to be modded up for that useless comment? Geeze, talk about whoring for moderation.
Easy. You don't. Just because Microsoft comes out with a spanking new OS that your old computer can't handle doesn't mean that they are telling or asking you to upgrade. Geeze, stop rehashing that old non-sense. No one is forcing you to upgrade to Vista, just like no one is forcing you to "buy a new computer".
Computers become obsolete, that's a fact of life. People need to start dealing with it.