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I'm suppose to have VA Healthcare I was discharged out of the Army being 40% disabled. Yeah....I'm still on a waiting list to get it started more than 5 years later. I haven't heard anything from the VA about it either, they send me my monthly check and that is it. Your suppose to have to go back every year to get re-evaluated, even that isn't happening. From what I've seen so far from my experience the VA is utter fail at the moment.
When I was like 2 years old the eye doctor told my mom to buy me an NES to help exercise my eye ( I had a lazy eye ). Well, the NES fixed my lazy eye and I believe helped me build problem solving skills and helped my education. I spent ALOT of time playing NES as a child and believe it contributed to my reading, writing and mathematic skills. I had a few educational games ( The sesame street one ) but mostly played other games like Mario and stuff like that. I could see where blowing your entire afternoon playing playstation could have an adverse effect on learning....I guess it really depends on what kind of games you are playing. It seems to me though that heavy text based games or strategy games that make you think would be beneficial.
This is what I wish people understood. It wasn't EASY being a PK, there were consequences that deterred people from doing it. Alot of people on here either never played or have forgotten about stat loss that PK's incurred upon death. If you went red dying was one of the worst things that could happen to you. The grind from 90-100 of any real skill in UO took alot of time, it wasn't something to be taken lightly.
I remember there was this PK that lived a little north of the mining shack we had, he would try and grief us from time to time. One day we got the drop on him and killed him like 2 times. Screwed him all up. Needless to say, he wasn't much of a threat anymore after stat loss got through with him.
You guys are all leaving out statloss if you died as a red. That was a serious deterrant. It wasn't easy to get back the skill points you lost, especially if you were 5 or 6X GM. You'd lose days of grind time if you were red status and got killed......it really did suck. This is one reason all the reds always ran together in huge gangs. Also the bounty system, I remember there were some guys on my server ( Alice Cooper ), if you could get his head to turn in for the bounty you would be a VERY rich man for doing so.
UO was the grief fest everyone made it out to be, I found it to be rather balanced and will always miss it.
I didn't realize Mastodon was on Warner. I played guitar for a long time(10 years)....then my band needed a bass player so I picked up the bass and left the guitar behind. Been playing bass probably 5 or 6 years now. I sing to.
Hardly,
The 'Hippies' were a small subculture. There were plenty of red-blooded conservative Americans during the 60's that went to vietnam and such....those are the ones in charge.
From what I've seen it's all mainstream crap that I would rather than hear it either turn it off, if that is not an option....I get up and leave the room. Although, I am quite an asshole when it comes to music.....being a musician and all.
At my University, one of the last classes we take before graduation is a Senior Seminar class, at the time the class was about ethics. Well, the class was assigned a paper to write about ethics. The professor actually read the papers, upon reading one girls paper he said.....'Hey, this girls English isn't this good. There is no way she wrote this. He googles the first time of the paper, bam, this 25 page paper pops up. Turns out she had copied and pasted 14 pages of the 25 page paper and turned it in. Well, she was kicked out of University one class from graduation. I thought it was rather funny. She ended up moving back to India, who knows what happened after that.
It amazes me how some of you can rationalize pirating. Just because they have some shitty DRM system that is a reason to pirate......no.....it is a reason to avoid the game all together. Piracy = theft. Someone had to write the code for these games and that takes time and we all know, Time = Money. I often get disgusted with the slashdot community when it comes to issues like this. Piracy is wrong, it is that simple. If you can not afford a car, you do not go and steal one, you just do not have a car. If you cannot afford a game title you should not go steal the game. It is pretty much the same thing, theft is theft.
I just graduated a little over 9 months ago, and I to can attest to the fact that the CS program felt watered down. However, they did not lighten up on the Math, at my school the Computer Science department was actually the Math/Computer Science department. We had to take a lot of Math classes ( upper level courses ). Three more math courses and I'd have a BS in Mathematics along with my BS in Computer Science, however, I don't want to butcher my GPA since I have to study very hard to get good grades in Math, where, even with the more conceptual theoretical parts of Computer Science it is easy for me.
I feel like the Universities are producing poor quality graduates from Computer Science. I was top of my class when I graduated, my co-worker was top of the class the year before I graduated......there were very few students who were even close to our skill levels and I'm not saying I'm the greatest coder. However, I am good at Computer Science ( which really has very little to do with coding ). Universities are not preparing students for jobs writing software, that is something you have to do on your own time outside of class. My university taught the Science of Computing, not 'How to write Software for *insert industry here*.
I did the same thing. My senior year in college I got a co-op position with a manufacturing plant writing software. It was an hour long commute to the job (which really sucked) but hey, you have to get that experience somewhere. There were SO many students in my graduating class and the class below me that flat out refused to look for internships or co-op positions. They were just completely uninterested. They would say, 'Oh I'm still in school I will worry about that when I graduate'. Well when graduation came, I got a contract position with the company ( due to a hiring freeze ) which turned into a full time position 6 months later when my contract was up. Pretty good salary for entry level in South Georgia.....and those guys who wouldn't look for an internship or a co-op position, well, most of them are still looking for a job in the industry and quite honestly I would only hire a hand full of them as most of them were useless for writing code in school, and I assume are still useless to this day.
You gotta get out there, the money may not be what is use to be, but there seems to be an overall decline in wages in many fields that use to pay good. I blame it on the government and outsourcing. You can't outsource everything, when you do, the only jobs left will be service industry and who can afford to be a consumer on those salaries. Just doesn't make sense.
In Japan in Older Generations when an Old Person would 'Go to the mountain' it was kind of like, they were going there to die and be with the spirits. My fiance told me something like that (she's Japanese). I thought it was kind of strange sending old people to the mountain to die. Maybe someone should do that with Pat Robertson!
I remember when I was growing up if you found a Sega Game with a Yellow Tab on the side (indicating it was an EA Game), you could almsot bet it was going to be a badass game. I guess some of you never experienced the glories of the yellow tab Genesis games. I've had several friends agree with me. Although recently EA just seems to buy up companies and bastardize the games. I'll never forgive them for what they did to Origins with Ultima Online. After EA bought Origins the game went to complete shite.
In Tribes you actually had to lead your targets....if you were good, YES you could snipe moving targets falling through the air, successfully land a headshot and bring them down. I've done it, and it has happened to me on numerous occasions.
The game that ONLY ran if you had ONE specific video card ( I believe the Nvidia card that came with the original XBox). It's like the game was coded for the X-Box then converted over to the PC, if you didn't have that Nvidia card, ( I believe it was in the 4 series, 4880 or something, it was years ago ) you were NOT going to play the game. Pity to, the game had tons of potential.....I honestly could not believe they released that crap in the state it was in. Needless to say the release killed the game outright. Some other company has snapped it up now and renamed it Istaria but it will never recover from the horrid launch.
Unfortunately I bought the game and had an ATI card at the time, I was rather disappointed:{(
He was fully in his right to ask why his car was being searched. He did not have to consent to having his car searched to begin with officers need a warrant to do this. Anytime an officer asked to search my car I politely refuse. I have nothing to hide but I do not enjoy all the contents of my car being strewn about and torn apart so that I later have to put everything back where it belongs. Often police searching your vehicle have no respect whatsoever for your personal property and will toss it everywhere.
I am always very polite when I interact with officers of the law and I would say probably 80% of the time I am met with rudeness and an overall dickhead attitude that is undeserved. I do not care if your job sucks, if it is so bad you act like a dickhead to everyone you interact with then quit. I think one of the major problems is the overall intellect of most officers is not very high. Most local police officers did poorly in high school and never sought education past that. It scares me so much to know that someone who is less intelligent than me and often bullishly ignorant has so much power over my life. One of the posters mentioned...'so fight it in court'. Well I for one never want it to end up in court. The fact that it resulted in a court case means I probably spent time in the county jail and had to pay bail or either sit there for 4 months waiting for my trial thereby interrupting my life and probably resulting in a loss of my job and hurting my credit score all because of some bullshit charge that should have never been made to start with.
My house caught on fire recently and I called the local fire department and as always the police came with them to the scene. I had a friend staying with me that night, he had been going through some hard times with his fiance and needed someone to talk with, since it was late and an hour drive back to his house I told him to just stay with me. While the fire department were putting out the fire one of the officers start circling his vehicle and shining his flashlight in the windows. My friend who was upset about the situation asked the officer, 'Hey man, since you are looking all in my truck did you want to search it or something?' . The officer responded that yes he would like to search the vehicle. Having nothing to hide my friend unlocked his doors and let the officer search his car. My question here is.....why the hell did the officer even look in there in the first place?!? I called the fire department because my house had caught on fire not because I suspected my friend had drugs on him or something. It was total bullshit. Just one more of the interactions I've had with law enforcement that has soured my opinion of them.
I also had some 10-13 year old kids vandalize my car ( at 11:30PM on a saturday night at a gas station......why the hell the attendant had not called the police to report a gang of 10 very young kids hanging out in front of the station for that late is beyond me, they were standing out there harassing everyone who came in and out of the store and being a bunch of little punk asses). When I called the police to do a report the guy showed up and was being a HUGE dickhead. Hey buddy, I'm the victim here, don't come over and act like an asshole to me because I need a police report done.
When confronted with an officer of the law the best thing you can do is assume they are going to be incredibly rude and act like the biggest dickhead you have ever met, just be as polite and respectful as you possibly can and hope they don't want to start some shit with you if they do you are pretty much screwed since they can make up shit all the want and generally be believed. Whether you win in court or not is not the question, if they want you to you will spend time in the county and face charges from which you will have to be bailed out on which whether you were innocent or guilty will hurt your reputation and have other unwanted effects on your life.
You do realize there are people who work in robotics and computer science who are not 'geeky' programmer types. There are a number of psychology professionals who work in and with people in the field. I would think these kind of people would be the ones developing the algorithms for the body language recognition, not the aforementioned 'geeky' programmer types. You can convey the idea and algorithms to the programmer and have him code it if you do not do that kind of thing. There are many psychology professionals who work on GUI designs and making software easier to use and understand and get paid very well for doing so.
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I'm suppose to have VA Healthcare I was discharged out of the Army being 40% disabled. Yeah....I'm still on a waiting list to get it started more than 5 years later. I haven't heard anything from the VA about it either, they send me my monthly check and that is it. Your suppose to have to go back every year to get re-evaluated, even that isn't happening. From what I've seen so far from my experience the VA is utter fail at the moment.
FoxPro? Yeah scary stuff.
When I was like 2 years old the eye doctor told my mom to buy me an NES to help exercise my eye ( I had a lazy eye ). Well, the NES fixed my lazy eye and I believe helped me build problem solving skills and helped my education. I spent ALOT of time playing NES as a child and believe it contributed to my reading, writing and mathematic skills. I had a few educational games ( The sesame street one ) but mostly played other games like Mario and stuff like that. I could see where blowing your entire afternoon playing playstation could have an adverse effect on learning....I guess it really depends on what kind of games you are playing. It seems to me though that heavy text based games or strategy games that make you think would be beneficial.
I actually read an article once about some cannibals who said that the Japanese taste the best, especially Japanese Women. Pretty crazy!
This is what I wish people understood. It wasn't EASY being a PK, there were consequences that deterred people from doing it. Alot of people on here either never played or have forgotten about stat loss that PK's incurred upon death. If you went red dying was one of the worst things that could happen to you. The grind from 90-100 of any real skill in UO took alot of time, it wasn't something to be taken lightly. I remember there was this PK that lived a little north of the mining shack we had, he would try and grief us from time to time. One day we got the drop on him and killed him like 2 times. Screwed him all up. Needless to say, he wasn't much of a threat anymore after stat loss got through with him.
You guys are all leaving out statloss if you died as a red. That was a serious deterrant. It wasn't easy to get back the skill points you lost, especially if you were 5 or 6X GM. You'd lose days of grind time if you were red status and got killed......it really did suck. This is one reason all the reds always ran together in huge gangs. Also the bounty system, I remember there were some guys on my server ( Alice Cooper ), if you could get his head to turn in for the bounty you would be a VERY rich man for doing so. UO was the grief fest everyone made it out to be, I found it to be rather balanced and will always miss it.
I didn't realize Mastodon was on Warner. I played guitar for a long time(10 years)....then my band needed a bass player so I picked up the bass and left the guitar behind. Been playing bass probably 5 or 6 years now. I sing to.
Hardly, The 'Hippies' were a small subculture. There were plenty of red-blooded conservative Americans during the 60's that went to vietnam and such....those are the ones in charge.
From what I've seen it's all mainstream crap that I would rather than hear it either turn it off, if that is not an option....I get up and leave the room. Although, I am quite an asshole when it comes to music.....being a musician and all.
At my University, one of the last classes we take before graduation is a Senior Seminar class, at the time the class was about ethics. Well, the class was assigned a paper to write about ethics. The professor actually read the papers, upon reading one girls paper he said.....'Hey, this girls English isn't this good. There is no way she wrote this. He googles the first time of the paper, bam, this 25 page paper pops up. Turns out she had copied and pasted 14 pages of the 25 page paper and turned it in. Well, she was kicked out of University one class from graduation. I thought it was rather funny. She ended up moving back to India, who knows what happened after that.
It amazes me how some of you can rationalize pirating. Just because they have some shitty DRM system that is a reason to pirate......no.....it is a reason to avoid the game all together. Piracy = theft. Someone had to write the code for these games and that takes time and we all know, Time = Money. I often get disgusted with the slashdot community when it comes to issues like this. Piracy is wrong, it is that simple. If you can not afford a car, you do not go and steal one, you just do not have a car. If you cannot afford a game title you should not go steal the game. It is pretty much the same thing, theft is theft.
I just graduated a little over 9 months ago, and I to can attest to the fact that the CS program felt watered down. However, they did not lighten up on the Math, at my school the Computer Science department was actually the Math/Computer Science department. We had to take a lot of Math classes ( upper level courses ). Three more math courses and I'd have a BS in Mathematics along with my BS in Computer Science, however, I don't want to butcher my GPA since I have to study very hard to get good grades in Math, where, even with the more conceptual theoretical parts of Computer Science it is easy for me. I feel like the Universities are producing poor quality graduates from Computer Science. I was top of my class when I graduated, my co-worker was top of the class the year before I graduated......there were very few students who were even close to our skill levels and I'm not saying I'm the greatest coder. However, I am good at Computer Science ( which really has very little to do with coding ). Universities are not preparing students for jobs writing software, that is something you have to do on your own time outside of class. My university taught the Science of Computing, not 'How to write Software for *insert industry here*.
I did the same thing. My senior year in college I got a co-op position with a manufacturing plant writing software. It was an hour long commute to the job (which really sucked) but hey, you have to get that experience somewhere. There were SO many students in my graduating class and the class below me that flat out refused to look for internships or co-op positions. They were just completely uninterested. They would say, 'Oh I'm still in school I will worry about that when I graduate'. Well when graduation came, I got a contract position with the company ( due to a hiring freeze ) which turned into a full time position 6 months later when my contract was up. Pretty good salary for entry level in South Georgia.....and those guys who wouldn't look for an internship or a co-op position, well, most of them are still looking for a job in the industry and quite honestly I would only hire a hand full of them as most of them were useless for writing code in school, and I assume are still useless to this day. You gotta get out there, the money may not be what is use to be, but there seems to be an overall decline in wages in many fields that use to pay good. I blame it on the government and outsourcing. You can't outsource everything, when you do, the only jobs left will be service industry and who can afford to be a consumer on those salaries. Just doesn't make sense.
In Japan in Older Generations when an Old Person would 'Go to the mountain' it was kind of like, they were going there to die and be with the spirits. My fiance told me something like that (she's Japanese). I thought it was kind of strange sending old people to the mountain to die. Maybe someone should do that with Pat Robertson!
I remember when I was growing up if you found a Sega Game with a Yellow Tab on the side (indicating it was an EA Game), you could almsot bet it was going to be a badass game. I guess some of you never experienced the glories of the yellow tab Genesis games. I've had several friends agree with me. Although recently EA just seems to buy up companies and bastardize the games. I'll never forgive them for what they did to Origins with Ultima Online. After EA bought Origins the game went to complete shite.
I was 2 when I got mine, many years were spent yelling "The game is cheating!"
In Tribes you actually had to lead your targets....if you were good, YES you could snipe moving targets falling through the air, successfully land a headshot and bring them down. I've done it, and it has happened to me on numerous occasions.
Everything you consume at one point came from an ecosystem...so in a round about way....yeah you ARE paying for them and they ARE valuable.
And jeese....whats up with all the liberal/hippy bashing or did I miss some sarcasm in there or something?
Just realized HTML tags work here hehe.
The game that ONLY ran if you had ONE specific video card ( I believe the Nvidia card that came with the original XBox). It's like the game was coded for the X-Box then converted over to the PC, if you didn't have that Nvidia card, ( I believe it was in the 4 series, 4880 or something, it was years ago ) you were NOT going to play the game. Pity to, the game had tons of potential.....I honestly could not believe they released that crap in the state it was in. Needless to say the release killed the game outright. Some other company has snapped it up now and renamed it Istaria but it will never recover from the horrid launch. Unfortunately I bought the game and had an ATI card at the time, I was rather disappointed :{(
He was fully in his right to ask why his car was being searched. He did not have to consent to having his car searched to begin with officers need a warrant to do this. Anytime an officer asked to search my car I politely refuse. I have nothing to hide but I do not enjoy all the contents of my car being strewn about and torn apart so that I later have to put everything back where it belongs. Often police searching your vehicle have no respect whatsoever for your personal property and will toss it everywhere. I am always very polite when I interact with officers of the law and I would say probably 80% of the time I am met with rudeness and an overall dickhead attitude that is undeserved. I do not care if your job sucks, if it is so bad you act like a dickhead to everyone you interact with then quit. I think one of the major problems is the overall intellect of most officers is not very high. Most local police officers did poorly in high school and never sought education past that. It scares me so much to know that someone who is less intelligent than me and often bullishly ignorant has so much power over my life. One of the posters mentioned...'so fight it in court'. Well I for one never want it to end up in court. The fact that it resulted in a court case means I probably spent time in the county jail and had to pay bail or either sit there for 4 months waiting for my trial thereby interrupting my life and probably resulting in a loss of my job and hurting my credit score all because of some bullshit charge that should have never been made to start with. My house caught on fire recently and I called the local fire department and as always the police came with them to the scene. I had a friend staying with me that night, he had been going through some hard times with his fiance and needed someone to talk with, since it was late and an hour drive back to his house I told him to just stay with me. While the fire department were putting out the fire one of the officers start circling his vehicle and shining his flashlight in the windows. My friend who was upset about the situation asked the officer, 'Hey man, since you are looking all in my truck did you want to search it or something?' . The officer responded that yes he would like to search the vehicle. Having nothing to hide my friend unlocked his doors and let the officer search his car. My question here is.....why the hell did the officer even look in there in the first place?!? I called the fire department because my house had caught on fire not because I suspected my friend had drugs on him or something. It was total bullshit. Just one more of the interactions I've had with law enforcement that has soured my opinion of them. I also had some 10-13 year old kids vandalize my car ( at 11:30PM on a saturday night at a gas station......why the hell the attendant had not called the police to report a gang of 10 very young kids hanging out in front of the station for that late is beyond me, they were standing out there harassing everyone who came in and out of the store and being a bunch of little punk asses). When I called the police to do a report the guy showed up and was being a HUGE dickhead. Hey buddy, I'm the victim here, don't come over and act like an asshole to me because I need a police report done. When confronted with an officer of the law the best thing you can do is assume they are going to be incredibly rude and act like the biggest dickhead you have ever met, just be as polite and respectful as you possibly can and hope they don't want to start some shit with you if they do you are pretty much screwed since they can make up shit all the want and generally be believed. Whether you win in court or not is not the question, if they want you to you will spend time in the county and face charges from which you will have to be bailed out on which whether you were innocent or guilty will hurt your reputation and have other unwanted effects on your life.
You do realize there are people who work in robotics and computer science who are not 'geeky' programmer types. There are a number of psychology professionals who work in and with people in the field. I would think these kind of people would be the ones developing the algorithms for the body language recognition, not the aforementioned 'geeky' programmer types. You can convey the idea and algorithms to the programmer and have him code it if you do not do that kind of thing. There are many psychology professionals who work on GUI designs and making software easier to use and understand and get paid very well for doing so.