The grind feeling is greatly lessened due to the massive amount of quests in the game. Instead of killing and killing, trying to get your level up (killing things for no apparent reason), you have many smaller goals. Each smaller goal (a quest) rewards you with quite a bit of experience as well as an sometimes item and/or cash.
I never thought quests would make that big of a difference. The last MMO I played was EQ and it's been years since I"ve played it. But, quests have made a huge difference. Don't underestimate what those smaller goals can do to the game. That grind feeling is all but gone for me.
I have no college degree, and no high school diploma. Someone in my situation at this point in time with no work experience would have a hard time finding someone to give them a chance. There are a couple of things that either I did or that were circumstantial at the time that made it easier for me.
1. "Work Experience" - This is in quotes, because most people would not consider what I put down on my resume as work experience as work experience. I put down various side jobs that I had done in high school such as adminning various small web hosting provider boxes and shell hosts for free, or creating programming projects for myself such as ODS. Why admin someone else's boxes for free? I did it because I enjoyed it. Little did I know that it would help me a couple of years down the line to land my first job (at IBM of all places - full time job at age 16.)
2. It was a very good time to find jobs in the technology fields. This was 1999. That alone should be enough to give you an idea.
Once I had IBM on my resume (in addition to my other less accepted "Work Experience"), getting the second job (which paid twice as much) was a lot easier. It still took a little bit of searching, but it worked out. And now, I have 4 "real" jobs that I can put down on my resume. In fact, finding this last one took less than 1 week from the day I put my resume out, to the day I received an offer that I liked. That was in March of this year.
To sum up. In my experience, work experience is king. I think all a degree helps people in our field with (unless they are doing research or teaching) is to get their first, and maybe second jobs. If you can manage to snag that first job by yourself, and you have the knowledge and drive to do the job they give you, then everything else will fall into place. After the second or third job is when it really starts getting easier.
They owned quite a few shares at one point which have since all been sold (should of held on to them considering apple's stock has tripled in the past year)
One other idea would be to do it by congressional district. Each congressional district would have the equivalent of an electoral vote. And states do not come into play at all. There is no 'winning a state'. You win the districts that you win majority in, period. This would be similar to the electoral college, except that there would be a geographical region associated with each vote. This would probably also motivate those people who are typically not motivated to go out and vote (for example, up-state New Yorkers who might lean Republican.) I think the mistake of the electoral college is that there's no region associated with each vote, and also I think the idea of 'winning a state' is flawed.
No way.. People in cities don't mean less than people in rural areas and vice versa. You're telling me that the state of California, which has at least 2 major cities and many rural areas as well only deserves 1 vote? You're essentially saying that a person's vote in california is worth a lot less than someone's vote in Wyoming. In fact, candidates in this situation would likely just visit the smallest states, as they would be the easiest to cover. Smallest in size (New England states), as well as smallest in population (Wyoming, Dakotas, etc). I don't have any major gripes about how the system works now, but population of a state should definitely be a factor in how many votes it has. The idea is that the PEOPLE are supposed to vote. The only way your suggestion would have a chance of being fair is if we were to both break up some of the more populous states like California into multiple smaller states, and expand some of the midwestern states to encompass larger areas (for example, combine Wyoming and Montana). But that's essentially what the electoral college is, it's a step short of doing just that. And it's a lot easier to give a state another electoral vote than it is to constantly change state border lines.
While you can fast forward on an iPod by holding down the next track button, the best way to span long distances is to press the center button and then scrub through the song/book with the scroll wheel. I'm guessing this player offers no such option, which is part of the problem.
Agreed.. This sounds like Time Warner's issue. I have had no problems with Comcast's HD DVR service. Granted, the DVR portion could be a little smarter (like knowing when shows are rescheduled and changing the recording as appropriate), however, overall, no complaints.
For larger systems such as powermacs and probably iMacs, serious repairs are done at your house. For laptops, they send you a prepaid shipment box which you use to overnight to them (and they then overnight it back to you).
I have absolutely no issues with the mac version of MS Word. Never asks for a CD, starts up really quick, does what it's supposed to do and gets out of your way for the most part. I haven't used the windows version in a while though, so I don't know how similar they are?
You think of it like he's fighting a war. It's not that he hates apple or hates microsoft. There are other motivating factors involved. Here's a couple of likely reasons:
1) He wants VideoLAN to support m4p files (market leader) and he wants VideoLAN to be able to stream to airport express
2) He wants to be able to play m4p files on Linux, and wants to be able to stream to an Airport Express.
These hacks could simply be a result of his desire to want to do all of this. Not necessarily him enacting some sort of vengeance on Apple.
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He said sparsely populated. That could just mean a larger state with a slightly larger population (e.g. Montana or Alaska)
irb(main):010:0> "hello".each_byte do |ch|
irb(main):011:1* puts "%c" % [ch]
irb(main):012:1> end
h
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l
l
o
=> "hello"
Are you referring to something other than what I just demonstrated?
Mine did as well.. My girlfriend has joined me. She's even a higher level than I. And she has never been one for MMOs in the past.
Regards,
-JD-
Maybe he was referring to MajorMUD as well.. I loved that game :)
The grind feeling is greatly lessened due to the massive amount of quests in the game. Instead of killing and killing, trying to get your level up (killing things for no apparent reason), you have many smaller goals. Each smaller goal (a quest) rewards you with quite a bit of experience as well as an sometimes item and/or cash.
I never thought quests would make that big of a difference. The last MMO I played was EQ and it's been years since I"ve played it. But, quests have made a huge difference. Don't underestimate what those smaller goals can do to the game. That grind feeling is all but gone for me.
Regards,
-JD-
I have no college degree, and no high school diploma. Someone in my situation at this point in time with no work experience would have a hard time finding someone to give them a chance. There are a couple of things that either I did or that were circumstantial at the time that made it easier for me.
1. "Work Experience" - This is in quotes, because most people would not consider what I put down on my resume as work experience as work experience. I put down various side jobs that I had done in high school such as adminning various small web hosting provider boxes and shell hosts for free, or creating programming projects for myself such as ODS. Why admin someone else's boxes for free? I did it because I enjoyed it. Little did I know that it would help me a couple of years down the line to land my first job (at IBM of all places - full time job at age 16.)
2. It was a very good time to find jobs in the technology fields. This was 1999. That alone should be enough to give you an idea.
Once I had IBM on my resume (in addition to my other less accepted "Work Experience"), getting the second job (which paid twice as much) was a lot easier. It still took a little bit of searching, but it worked out. And now, I have 4 "real" jobs that I can put down on my resume. In fact, finding this last one took less than 1 week from the day I put my resume out, to the day I received an offer that I liked. That was in March of this year.
To sum up. In my experience, work experience is king. I think all a degree helps people in our field with (unless they are doing research or teaching) is to get their first, and maybe second jobs. If you can manage to snag that first job by yourself, and you have the knowledge and drive to do the job they give you, then everything else will fall into place. After the second or third job is when it really starts getting easier.
Regards,
-JD-
They owned quite a few shares at one point which have since all been sold (should of held on to them considering apple's stock has tripled in the past year)
One other idea would be to do it by congressional district. Each congressional district would have the equivalent of an electoral vote. And states do not come into play at all. There is no 'winning a state'. You win the districts that you win majority in, period. This would be similar to the electoral college, except that there would be a geographical region associated with each vote. This would probably also motivate those people who are typically not motivated to go out and vote (for example, up-state New Yorkers who might lean Republican.) I think the mistake of the electoral college is that there's no region associated with each vote, and also I think the idea of 'winning a state' is flawed.
No way.. People in cities don't mean less than people in rural areas and vice versa. You're telling me that the state of California, which has at least 2 major cities and many rural areas as well only deserves 1 vote? You're essentially saying that a person's vote in california is worth a lot less than someone's vote in Wyoming. In fact, candidates in this situation would likely just visit the smallest states, as they would be the easiest to cover. Smallest in size (New England states), as well as smallest in population (Wyoming, Dakotas, etc). I don't have any major gripes about how the system works now, but population of a state should definitely be a factor in how many votes it has. The idea is that the PEOPLE are supposed to vote. The only way your suggestion would have a chance of being fair is if we were to both break up some of the more populous states like California into multiple smaller states, and expand some of the midwestern states to encompass larger areas (for example, combine Wyoming and Montana). But that's essentially what the electoral college is, it's a step short of doing just that. And it's a lot easier to give a state another electoral vote than it is to constantly change state border lines.
While you can fast forward on an iPod by holding down the next track button, the best way to span long distances is to press the center button and then scrub through the song/book with the scroll wheel. I'm guessing this player offers no such option, which is part of the problem.
-JD-
A couple of thousand? Try well over eleven thousand.
Looks more like the BSD license to me..
Agreed.. This sounds like Time Warner's issue. I have had no problems with Comcast's HD DVR service. Granted, the DVR portion could be a little smarter (like knowing when shows are rescheduled and changing the recording as appropriate), however, overall, no complaints.
You're quite simply.. wrong.. The powerbooks either come with an nvidia geforce fx or a radeon mobility. I personally have a mobility 9600.
Well i've never heard of anyone getting busted for it yet. Nor have I heard a statement from the RIAA saying that the site was illegal.
Wireless access points are and have been banned from GWU for a while now. Why is this considered something new?
I would say it's more likely that they just borrowed code from Jon Lech Johansen. Hymn is just a wrapper around jlj's code.
For larger systems such as powermacs and probably iMacs, serious repairs are done at your house. For laptops, they send you a prepaid shipment box which you use to overnight to them (and they then overnight it back to you).
Regards,
-JD-
I have absolutely no issues with the mac version of MS Word. Never asks for a CD, starts up really quick, does what it's supposed to do and gets out of your way for the most part. I haven't used the windows version in a while though, so I don't know how similar they are?
You think of it like he's fighting a war. It's not that he hates apple or hates microsoft. There are other motivating factors involved. Here's a couple of likely reasons:
1) He wants VideoLAN to support m4p files (market leader) and he wants VideoLAN to be able to stream to airport express
2) He wants to be able to play m4p files on Linux, and wants to be able to stream to an Airport Express.
These hacks could simply be a result of his desire to want to do all of this. Not necessarily him enacting some sort of vengeance on Apple.
Regards,
-JD-
I have talked with Jon on a few occasions. His ego is not an issue. He is a very modest and friendly human being. You'd be surprised.
Regards,
-JD-
I love you, Ruby!
So you mean he makes $10/yr now? His salary at Apple is $1.
This isn't the DMCA. This is the Patriot Act. The ACLU does in fact hate the patriot act and has actively fought it in the past.
Are you sure you're not thinking of a hernia?