Valdosta State did have some serious boneheads in the IT Dept. I had several friends that held student positions in the department and they complained alot about the management. That being said, for a AA sized ( and growing ) Statue University it is a great school. They have an excellent business and education department. The Math/CS department is good for a small school to. We had some excellent professors when I was there. I enjoyed my time at VSU and I wouldn't judge the college based on this stupid idea. The campus has a lot of good Professors and is a nice place to go to school...just the administrative side of the campus is a little crazy ( well alot ). You also have to remember...this is in South Georgia...it is almost like stepping back in time when it comes to politics and law enforcement on the local level.
I heard the same thing when I lived in Valdosta and I do not doubt it. If you look at the percentage of people that live in poverty in Lowndes County it is pretty high. It also has ( not to be racial in anyway ) a large population of poor minorities that greatly contribute to that statistic. If you can find the statistics ( I'm not looking for them at the moment maybe I can find them later this afternoon )...if they broke down the VD cases by ethnicity you would see a large portion of the poorer minority groups have a high rate of VD. It is not uncommon to hear about 11 and 12 year olds having sex and the older they get the more they have it and the more partners they have it with.
Football is very serious in Valdosta. Both of the high schools (Valdosta High, the city high school and Lowndes High, the county high school) have won numerous state championships and I believe Valdosta High has won national championships. Football is also huge at VSU they have won 2 or 3 national championships in the AA division. You are right, it really is a big deal. Saying Atlanta is north of Valdosta is an understatement though, it is on the complete other side of the state. I grew up about an hour from Valdosta.
The town I grew up in this gothic chick drove an old beat up half broke down hearse. She had a skull on the front of it where the hood ornament should have been. It was flat black and ugly as hell. The bad part was you would see her all over town broke down on the side of the road.
Which is sad because here in Georgia in Dodge county a sheriff was prosecuted for buying votes with 'money, alcohol, and drugs' and only got 18 months but regular people can get 5+ years for 'Conspiracy to sell a controlled substance'. The sheriff would buy absentee ballots off people and fill them out himself and send them in.
Replying to my post. I think what Boll's people are doing here is wrong and I'm not advocating this mafia like law attack.....but still. Pay for the content you consume don't copy it because of some twisted sense of ethics and reality you have conjured up to serve your own highly selfish personal wants.
I'm so sick of seeing this argument. No you are not depriving the original owner of the data from their copy of the data, however, you are getting for free data which should be paid for which pretty much amounts to theft...if not theft there is some other definition that fits it better but it is still WRONG.
You are getting for free what some entity put money, time and effort into to create when you should be paying for it. You are depriving the entity that created the content you are copying of their just compensation which is theft. Quit justifying piracy with this stupid argument it is pathetic. If you write a program and charge $20 for it you expect to be paid $20. When I buy your $20 program then make a copy and give it to my buddy for free you just lost $20. You can argue that maybe he wouldn't have bought it so it isn't a lost sale but that is beside the point the fact is he has your $20 product and you received no compensation for your investment of time/energy/money whatever. Which to any remotely sane person is wrong. Slashdot seems to be full of all these twits who think they should get all their software/music/movies/games for free. If the creators are not profiting from the things they create they will stop making it. Then where are you going to get all your software/music/movies/games from when no one makes it anymore because it is a collosal waste of time because it is completely unprofitable. These people have to eat to you selfish bastard.
I'm with you guys...and won't be posting this as an AC. But then again I've been flamed before for pointing out how Slashdotters seem to have an uncanny ability to justify pirating media ( which I equate with theft...although the folks around here have somehow come up with some weird pseudo-philosophical argument about how it is not theft ).
Oh yeah because admins have a choice in what they are administrating...I'm not sure what world all you guys work in but the one I'm in some fat cat desk jocky that doesn't work or possibly never worked an admin position makes the decisions on what software we use and doesn't care what you want to run. You admin what your told not what you want to.
If I had mod points I'd mod you out of flamebait status...I've tried to say something similar to this on slashdot before and got railed for it. However dirty and underhanded the tactics of the lawyers may be..pirating is theft slashdotters just have a hard time accepting that.
My job provides me with a Samsung Omnia II since I'm on call 24/7...and I have been very happy with this phone and impressed with the WinMo experience. I haven't had any problems with it. It rarely locks up, runs fast, web sites load fast...I often receive my email on my phone before I get it in my Outlook box on my desktop. I don't see why everyone hates WinMo. With the Omnia II's custom interface I NEVER use my stylus...the only thing I could wish for is a physical keyboard because I hate texting on touch screen keyboards. I would recommend the Omnia II to anyone especially someone new to WinMo. I mean really, if you have used Windows the learning curve with WinMo isn't that great.
I hate it for you if you don't want your kids hearing things you find offensive while you walk around in public. I can see where you are coming from but I guarantee you he hears the same things or much worse when he is at recess with his little friends in school. Trying to protect children from this kind of thing is futile. The language kids used when I was coming up through school in the 90s - early 00s was MUCH worse than anything I heard or saw on TV. The playground was like Robocop 2 on steroids (* if you haven't seen Robocop 2 or haven't seen it in a while I think whoever wrote the script through each sentence had to have at least a minimum of 2 curse words ).
The best you can do is just try to teach your kids what you think is decent/indecent and hope for the best. Unless you lock them up in your home and home school them they will always be exposed to far worse things from their classmates than they will from the media.
From everything I'm reading from you guys that have played the game.....it doesn't sound like an Amazing game. It sounds like an incredibly easy game with a joke of a combat system that just has pretty graphics/art. Haven't played it but just from reading several of the comments it sounds like the Fallout 3 combat system was much more superior. ( I really enjoyed combat in Fallout 3 ). One of the things in Fallout 3 that made the game challenging was finding ammunition....being one of the main reasons I believe most players leaned heavily on VATS. It does help the immersion factor though, I mean, ammunition would probably be hard to come by in such a situation. I really enjoyed Fallout 3 and how easy it was to sink into your characters role. I remember I started one character and was going to be a good guy....then I saw the Sheriffs weapon in the first town you come to....started another character the first thing I did when I rolled into town was offed the Sheriff and took his gun then continued to slay a lot of the towns folk. It was fun playing an evil character in Fallout 3. Hehehe, I can't remember the title I ended up with but my karma was WAY low. I was like Dreadlord of the Waste or something. I'm still waiting for Fallout 3 to drop below $40 on the PC so I can buy it. Me thinks combat would be alot more fun with a mouse to aim instead of a stupid PS3 joystick ( which made me lean heavily on VAX ). It was fun playing a melee/small guns stealther. Get the flame sword thing sneak up behind a Brute and one shit him with VATS.
If it were only that simple.......some people I swear.
So when all corporations have crazy external personal conduct rules that no one in there right mind would agree to do you just starve? I'm wondering how this works in the current economic situation is it really that easy to find another job that pays enough to maintain your current financial obligations? Last time I checked a lot of people were happy just having a job. Most Americans currently do not have the luxury of being so sought after they can just up and quit there job and have another one the next day.
That comment reeks of 'still living in mom's basement'.
50% Homework / 50% Tests?!?!?
In my college math courses you were often lucky to have 10 problems on the test. Most of the time you would have something like 8. If you missed one questions, there goes your A grade. Completing a CS degree at the University I went to left you 2 or 3 courses short of a BS in mathematics and the math department was not easy at all......so if you sucked at math, well, there went your GPA. Some classes you'd have 6 questions on the test. I WISH they counted our homework towards our grades. Then again, we had quite the evil math department for a small university. The students who made good grades were excellent mathematicians.
When I was an undergrad we had a Spanish presentation we had to present infront of our classes...in Spanish. So this one group of students wrote there power point up in english, went to a translator site and translated it...problem was, they went to the French translation instead of the Spanish. So these 3 idiots stood up in front of the class reading these French words the way Spanish should be read and pronounced. No one said anything, when they were done the professor commented, "That would have been really nice, if it was in Spanish.". Everyone died laughing. What a bunch of tools.
In the past few months I've had some checks stolen. All the checks were used at the same grocery store and they used the electronic scan thing where they pretty much run the check kind of like they do a debit card. I went to the grocery store ( Harvey's Supermarket....I'm outing them because of how shady this is.) the same day I noticed the check was ran and asked the manager if they still had the check because I wanted to see how it was signed. He told me they do not keep copies of the checks and explained the electronic system they use. I asked him 'So you guys don't ask to see identification when someone is writing a check?' ( I personally believe anytime a check or debit/credit transaction is made presenting an ID should be required. ) his reply was.....'Well, we use to, but then I ended up spending so much time in court because of all the people we were catching writing fraudulent checks that we quit checking IDs'. So I'm like 'So, you quit checking IDs because you were catching so many people?'....his reply...'Well, I know it sounds bad but yeah.'. So I'm like, 'Well that is just great.'. It's pretty obvious if you check someones ID and the name on the ID is not the same as the name on the check that something is up. I mean, come on....your catching people and have to go to court over it so you just stop checking? What kind of shit is that? It really sucked, they don't have a copy of the check, do not keep the original check and since they do the electronic scan I can't see a copy of the check with my online banking ( like every other check I write ) so there was no way to do anything about it. I was pretty much assed out of quite a bit of money and ended up with a couple of bounced checks which ended up costing me more money because of the fees that bounced checks incur. I ended up having to cancel quite a few of my checks just to make sure I wouldn't have more of them written fraudulently which cost me more money. It was a total let down because my bank would not reimburse me and Harvey's Supermarket were surely not going to reimburse me. I was just shocked at the logic. I'm sure there is a good car analogy for this situation but I'm not to good with car analogies....maybe something like the police saying.....'Well, we kept catching people with stolen cars when we set up a roadblock in this neighborhood, it was causing us so much paperwork and court time so we decided to just stop setting up roadblocks in that area.' What a bunch of hosers!
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Ninja's have captured the President...are you a bad enough dude to get him back?
Excellent film! That film is actually part of a trilogy and they are all great films.
Valdosta State did have some serious boneheads in the IT Dept. I had several friends that held student positions in the department and they complained alot about the management. That being said, for a AA sized ( and growing ) Statue University it is a great school. They have an excellent business and education department. The Math/CS department is good for a small school to. We had some excellent professors when I was there. I enjoyed my time at VSU and I wouldn't judge the college based on this stupid idea. The campus has a lot of good Professors and is a nice place to go to school...just the administrative side of the campus is a little crazy ( well alot ). You also have to remember...this is in South Georgia...it is almost like stepping back in time when it comes to politics and law enforcement on the local level.
I heard the same thing when I lived in Valdosta and I do not doubt it. If you look at the percentage of people that live in poverty in Lowndes County it is pretty high. It also has ( not to be racial in anyway ) a large population of poor minorities that greatly contribute to that statistic. If you can find the statistics ( I'm not looking for them at the moment maybe I can find them later this afternoon )...if they broke down the VD cases by ethnicity you would see a large portion of the poorer minority groups have a high rate of VD. It is not uncommon to hear about 11 and 12 year olds having sex and the older they get the more they have it and the more partners they have it with.
Football is very serious in Valdosta. Both of the high schools (Valdosta High, the city high school and Lowndes High, the county high school) have won numerous state championships and I believe Valdosta High has won national championships. Football is also huge at VSU they have won 2 or 3 national championships in the AA division. You are right, it really is a big deal. Saying Atlanta is north of Valdosta is an understatement though, it is on the complete other side of the state. I grew up about an hour from Valdosta.
The town I grew up in this gothic chick drove an old beat up half broke down hearse. She had a skull on the front of it where the hood ornament should have been. It was flat black and ugly as hell. The bad part was you would see her all over town broke down on the side of the road.
Ballmer has a hard-on for tablets!
Which is sad because here in Georgia in Dodge county a sheriff was prosecuted for buying votes with 'money, alcohol, and drugs' and only got 18 months but regular people can get 5+ years for 'Conspiracy to sell a controlled substance'. The sheriff would buy absentee ballots off people and fill them out himself and send them in.
Ooooo....modded flamebait what a suprise. That is ok I got karma to burn.
Replying to my post. I think what Boll's people are doing here is wrong and I'm not advocating this mafia like law attack.....but still. Pay for the content you consume don't copy it because of some twisted sense of ethics and reality you have conjured up to serve your own highly selfish personal wants.
I'm so sick of seeing this argument. No you are not depriving the original owner of the data from their copy of the data, however, you are getting for free data which should be paid for which pretty much amounts to theft...if not theft there is some other definition that fits it better but it is still WRONG.
You are getting for free what some entity put money, time and effort into to create when you should be paying for it. You are depriving the entity that created the content you are copying of their just compensation which is theft. Quit justifying piracy with this stupid argument it is pathetic. If you write a program and charge $20 for it you expect to be paid $20. When I buy your $20 program then make a copy and give it to my buddy for free you just lost $20. You can argue that maybe he wouldn't have bought it so it isn't a lost sale but that is beside the point the fact is he has your $20 product and you received no compensation for your investment of time/energy/money whatever. Which to any remotely sane person is wrong. Slashdot seems to be full of all these twits who think they should get all their software/music/movies/games for free. If the creators are not profiting from the things they create they will stop making it. Then where are you going to get all your software/music/movies/games from when no one makes it anymore because it is a collosal waste of time because it is completely unprofitable. These people have to eat to you selfish bastard.
I believe Glenn Beck holds the patent on adding question marks to the end of slanderous statements.
I'm with you guys...and won't be posting this as an AC. But then again I've been flamed before for pointing out how Slashdotters seem to have an uncanny ability to justify pirating media ( which I equate with theft...although the folks around here have somehow come up with some weird pseudo-philosophical argument about how it is not theft ).
Oh yeah because admins have a choice in what they are administrating...I'm not sure what world all you guys work in but the one I'm in some fat cat desk jocky that doesn't work or possibly never worked an admin position makes the decisions on what software we use and doesn't care what you want to run. You admin what your told not what you want to.
If I had mod points I'd mod you out of flamebait status...I've tried to say something similar to this on slashdot before and got railed for it. However dirty and underhanded the tactics of the lawyers may be..pirating is theft slashdotters just have a hard time accepting that.
My job provides me with a Samsung Omnia II since I'm on call 24/7...and I have been very happy with this phone and impressed with the WinMo experience. I haven't had any problems with it. It rarely locks up, runs fast, web sites load fast...I often receive my email on my phone before I get it in my Outlook box on my desktop. I don't see why everyone hates WinMo. With the Omnia II's custom interface I NEVER use my stylus...the only thing I could wish for is a physical keyboard because I hate texting on touch screen keyboards. I would recommend the Omnia II to anyone especially someone new to WinMo. I mean really, if you have used Windows the learning curve with WinMo isn't that great.
I hate it for you if you don't want your kids hearing things you find offensive while you walk around in public. I can see where you are coming from but I guarantee you he hears the same things or much worse when he is at recess with his little friends in school. Trying to protect children from this kind of thing is futile. The language kids used when I was coming up through school in the 90s - early 00s was MUCH worse than anything I heard or saw on TV. The playground was like Robocop 2 on steroids (* if you haven't seen Robocop 2 or haven't seen it in a while I think whoever wrote the script through each sentence had to have at least a minimum of 2 curse words ). The best you can do is just try to teach your kids what you think is decent/indecent and hope for the best. Unless you lock them up in your home and home school them they will always be exposed to far worse things from their classmates than they will from the media.
From everything I'm reading from you guys that have played the game.....it doesn't sound like an Amazing game. It sounds like an incredibly easy game with a joke of a combat system that just has pretty graphics/art. Haven't played it but just from reading several of the comments it sounds like the Fallout 3 combat system was much more superior. ( I really enjoyed combat in Fallout 3 ). One of the things in Fallout 3 that made the game challenging was finding ammunition....being one of the main reasons I believe most players leaned heavily on VATS. It does help the immersion factor though, I mean, ammunition would probably be hard to come by in such a situation. I really enjoyed Fallout 3 and how easy it was to sink into your characters role. I remember I started one character and was going to be a good guy....then I saw the Sheriffs weapon in the first town you come to....started another character the first thing I did when I rolled into town was offed the Sheriff and took his gun then continued to slay a lot of the towns folk. It was fun playing an evil character in Fallout 3. Hehehe, I can't remember the title I ended up with but my karma was WAY low. I was like Dreadlord of the Waste or something. I'm still waiting for Fallout 3 to drop below $40 on the PC so I can buy it. Me thinks combat would be alot more fun with a mouse to aim instead of a stupid PS3 joystick ( which made me lean heavily on VAX ). It was fun playing a melee/small guns stealther. Get the flame sword thing sneak up behind a Brute and one shit him with VATS.
Dont like the job requirements, dont work there.
If it were only that simple.......some people I swear. So when all corporations have crazy external personal conduct rules that no one in there right mind would agree to do you just starve? I'm wondering how this works in the current economic situation is it really that easy to find another job that pays enough to maintain your current financial obligations? Last time I checked a lot of people were happy just having a job. Most Americans currently do not have the luxury of being so sought after they can just up and quit there job and have another one the next day. That comment reeks of 'still living in mom's basement'.
I feel your pain. We are trying to kill the Fox in my shop to. We still have some stuff on Fox 2.5 OUCH!
50% Homework / 50% Tests?!?!? In my college math courses you were often lucky to have 10 problems on the test. Most of the time you would have something like 8. If you missed one questions, there goes your A grade. Completing a CS degree at the University I went to left you 2 or 3 courses short of a BS in mathematics and the math department was not easy at all......so if you sucked at math, well, there went your GPA. Some classes you'd have 6 questions on the test. I WISH they counted our homework towards our grades. Then again, we had quite the evil math department for a small university. The students who made good grades were excellent mathematicians.
When I was an undergrad we had a Spanish presentation we had to present infront of our classes...in Spanish. So this one group of students wrote there power point up in english, went to a translator site and translated it...problem was, they went to the French translation instead of the Spanish. So these 3 idiots stood up in front of the class reading these French words the way Spanish should be read and pronounced. No one said anything, when they were done the professor commented, "That would have been really nice, if it was in Spanish.". Everyone died laughing. What a bunch of tools.
In the past few months I've had some checks stolen. All the checks were used at the same grocery store and they used the electronic scan thing where they pretty much run the check kind of like they do a debit card. I went to the grocery store ( Harvey's Supermarket....I'm outing them because of how shady this is.) the same day I noticed the check was ran and asked the manager if they still had the check because I wanted to see how it was signed. He told me they do not keep copies of the checks and explained the electronic system they use. I asked him 'So you guys don't ask to see identification when someone is writing a check?' ( I personally believe anytime a check or debit/credit transaction is made presenting an ID should be required. ) his reply was.....'Well, we use to, but then I ended up spending so much time in court because of all the people we were catching writing fraudulent checks that we quit checking IDs'. So I'm like 'So, you quit checking IDs because you were catching so many people?'....his reply...'Well, I know it sounds bad but yeah.'. So I'm like, 'Well that is just great.'. It's pretty obvious if you check someones ID and the name on the ID is not the same as the name on the check that something is up. I mean, come on....your catching people and have to go to court over it so you just stop checking? What kind of shit is that? It really sucked, they don't have a copy of the check, do not keep the original check and since they do the electronic scan I can't see a copy of the check with my online banking ( like every other check I write ) so there was no way to do anything about it. I was pretty much assed out of quite a bit of money and ended up with a couple of bounced checks which ended up costing me more money because of the fees that bounced checks incur. I ended up having to cancel quite a few of my checks just to make sure I wouldn't have more of them written fraudulently which cost me more money. It was a total let down because my bank would not reimburse me and Harvey's Supermarket were surely not going to reimburse me. I was just shocked at the logic. I'm sure there is a good car analogy for this situation but I'm not to good with car analogies....maybe something like the police saying.....'Well, we kept catching people with stolen cars when we set up a roadblock in this neighborhood, it was causing us so much paperwork and court time so we decided to just stop setting up roadblocks in that area.' What a bunch of hosers!