Dude a similar article was on/. at the beginning of last semester! Yes text books cost a lot. Get into publishing and stop whining or accept it and stop whining.
I can't find the article but there were plenty of links to sites that will sell you the exact same book from over seas for half the cost. One I remember was a book that was around 150 here and 50 shipped from the UK.
How much more bandwidth can be consumed by fuckers and their Flash/Full-Motion Video ads. WTF. If I want your shit I'll be looking for you, you don't have to annoy the piss out of me, and if you're preying on people that have impulse buying problems, then you're a shady bitch that I wouldn't want to do business with anyway.
Bush didn't have anything to do with teachers being so behind the kids when it comes to computers. As a student I got into trouble for messing with their now retired Novell system along with a few other friends. It was the same back (92-93).
They even hired me after I graduated (98) and it was the same then, the teachers were always behind and didn't understand how it worked.
Interestingly enough the ones that did know what was going on were long time Mac users who were pissed when they were told they couldn't have their Macs any more (some had laptops they'd bought on their own they could use but no more desktops). They too were then behind after being thrown into a Windows environment. (Not to say Macs are better just thats what they knew.)
To prove that the manuscript is a hoax, one would need to produce entire sections using this technique, says Pelling. Tweaking the grilles and tables should make this possible, reckons Rugg.
Because GPL violations are not too hard to detect even without source code.
Sure if you get a million monkeys to sit and look at every piece of closed source "proprietary" software out there forever just to make sure. Obvious in widely popular applications, but what about not so popular apps that small firms, consultants or what have you may write and not give out the source?
i got a magellan 315 of $150 and it has yet to not do anything i've wanted ti to so far. and if there is something it cant do i just hook it to my laptop (you know you wanna do this geek boy) and with the right software, can do anything. if you want advanced mapping features you need to go to something else for that, the handheld units just arn't that great for it. while i havent used all the units out there, the ones i have just dont have the map detail for doing anything off road, like hiking for off road driving.
you didnt get too specific about your wants/needs so i cant make too many guesses about what you'll need but i say get somethign cheaper (like a magellen 315 or so, it does float! hows that for rugged?) and then use the extra cash left over to get a datacable and some nice software to go with it, you'll be far better off for any GPSable task you might want to do. whats the fun of geocaching if the map shows you right where to go? i'd rather have it give me the arrow of the direction of where to go and set off on my own.
To clarify a point that the blurb muddled (played the first couple months quit from lack of time. it's fun if u have enough friends.) anyway, to unlock the Jedi slot you have to take your regular character and get them on a specific (seemingly random from most accounts) career path.
When you unlock a FS (force sensitive) character slot, you create a character that you level up through the Jedi tree. This Jedi can die after I think 3 or 4 deaths (regular character slots can be cloned and blah blah Jedi cannot.). However you don't LOSE the FS character slot. You do however have to create a new Jedi (you start sub padawan I believe, but this is 2nd hand from Sept, it could have changed by now). Unless you reach Jedi Master, then you become a blue glowy, but what impact you can have on the game, I dunno.
I don't see a big problem with the way it works. It keeps to the idea there aren't a million true Jedi around during the OT, however I'm sure the Galaxy is full of force sensitives during the time period.
Slightly Off Topic: I was thinking of buying a 30 - 60 day game card just to check out the new features, what I'm really lookin' for is a MMORPG that players run on their own. Setup your own servers and play with friends, like NWN Persistent worlds, but gameplay more along the lines of Zelda games or FF Crystal Chronicles. Anyone know of such a thing?
Both ur questions are answered in their respective properties.
In T2 its mentioned that Skynet becomes self-aware and makes some questionable decisions so the US tries to pull the plug, it bombs Russia knowing they'll retaliate.
The answers for The Matrix are in the Renaissance shorts, basically we ban them from our countries, they build their own, we don't like it and try to take them out.
Basically humans are at fault. Which is usually quite true.
Aren't technically Rockstars property. They now belong to the retailer, so unless Rockstar caves even more and takes them all back tough titty.
I'll be pissed if their next patch for the pc version alters the game. I realize I can always uninstall and play it fresh, they can't change the cd, but I bought the game last spring and understand it how its meant to be understood.
I'm all for RPG elements plunked into FPS games or mixing any game genre with another. I'm not a big fan of "genre bias" in the first place. However mix and matching different gameplay elements should ONLY be done to make the game more interesting for the gamer to play their own way, it should not be done just to advertise "IT'S THE WORLDS FIRST FPS/RPG!" in the hopes people will buy it on a whim.
The first 3 rules of game design should always be, "Gameplay, gameplay, gameplay!"
I haven't checked out the selection in the article (I'll wait to avoid helping to/. them) but garage band has a large selection from every area and a lot of good stuff.
"...no matter what proponents claim, they lead to violent behavior."
Wotta crock. The root of their violent behavior is probably because their parent's (or anyone they have a close connection with) abuse them physically or emotionally creating an unstable individual.
I know dozens of people that have stable family lives, a good group of friends, and they play violent video games (mostly MOHAA or other war games) and they find games like GTA fun but obviously realize it's only a game and move on.
I bet most of the people performing violent acts after playing video games have greater issues in their personal lives that should be addressed rather than just sueing game companies into the ground looking to take the blame out one someone else.
It isn't games, music or movies that cause people to shoot shit up it's piss poor parenting, a social setting (most of these violent acts are committed my middle school and high school age kids) that's all about being the "in kid". It's society at large.
Who's to blame for last years beltway snipers popping shots off at people? Didn't one of them have military training? That made him effective at killing but the seeds to kill were planted years before I guarantee.
This year we'll blame Rockstar b/c their game influenced some f'ed up quacks to draw attention to themselves by taking pot shots at semis. Has anyone done some background checking on these guys to see what their lives have been like?
Let's all just pop some happy pills, blame everyone else and go on living truly screwed up lives because we're too lazy to actually work through our problems.
(firmly inserting tongue in cheek) Actually I believe you're wrong about the swearing in Chinese being geeky.
Approx. 900 million people speak Chinese on this planet. I would assume many of these people don't (or at least try not to) swear at all but still there has to be a large number that do, thus making swearing in Chinese a pretty popular past time.
I've found that it's usually tech savvy people who are most likely to keep the mp3s they download especially if they buy the cd. Who here doesn't have an mp3/ogg/cd-r backup their favorite discs?
My mom, sister, sister's friends, aunt, download music to see if they like it then in most cases get rid out of a "So we don't get caught" state of mind even if they've bought the cd.
How does what he's talking about have anything to do with Linux being a viable distribution model? He's just saying that games are too in-depth for casual players and Sega is looking to do something about it.
I want a computer that does what I say when I implicitly tell it to, not make a good guess. Someday someones automated house is going to sense someone setting their hand on a counter top and think its a steak and lop off some fingers.
I bought an operating system from a company, Micro something, that doesn't seem to work quite well on my computer either. Has anyone heard about a refund from them?
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Dude a similar article was on /. at the beginning of last semester! Yes text books cost a lot. Get into publishing and stop whining or accept it and stop whining.
I can't find the article but there were plenty of links to sites that will sell you the exact same book from over seas for half the cost. One I remember was a book that was around 150 here and 50 shipped from the UK.
Under a collar? Who sat and figured that one out? What other places did they stuff it before they decided the collar was the best?
Because Wallstreet watches CNBC and probably doesn't know /. exists.
How much more bandwidth can be consumed by fuckers and their Flash/Full-Motion Video ads. WTF. If I want your shit I'll be looking for you, you don't have to annoy the piss out of me, and if you're preying on people that have impulse buying problems, then you're a shady bitch that I wouldn't want to do business with anyway.
Bush didn't have anything to do with teachers being so behind the kids when it comes to computers. As a student I got into trouble for messing with their now retired Novell system along with a few other friends. It was the same back (92-93).
They even hired me after I graduated (98) and it was the same then, the teachers were always behind and didn't understand how it worked.
Interestingly enough the ones that did know what was going on were long time Mac users who were pissed when they were told they couldn't have their Macs any more (some had laptops they'd bought on their own they could use but no more desktops). They too were then behind after being thrown into a Windows environment. (Not to say Macs are better just thats what they knew.)
This stories been up for 2 hours now and no comments about the battery lasting for a few nanoseconds?
Pls don't make me lower my viewing threshold it's scary down there.
10. Run it on a distro dedicated to multimedia playback and post it on /.
The rest is up to you
To prove that the manuscript is a hoax, one would need to produce entire sections using this technique, says Pelling. Tweaking the grilles and tables should make this possible, reckons Rugg.
It's called a Xerox machine man.
Because GPL violations are not too hard to detect even without source code.
Sure if you get a million monkeys to sit and look at every piece of closed source "proprietary" software out there forever just to make sure. Obvious in widely popular applications, but what about not so popular apps that small firms, consultants or what have you may write and not give out the source?
i got a magellan 315 of $150 and it has yet to not do anything i've wanted ti to so far. and if there is something it cant do i just hook it to my laptop (you know you wanna do this geek boy) and with the right software, can do anything. if you want advanced mapping features you need to go to something else for that, the handheld units just arn't that great for it. while i havent used all the units out there, the ones i have just dont have the map detail for doing anything off road, like hiking for off road driving.
you didnt get too specific about your wants/needs so i cant make too many guesses about what you'll need but i say get somethign cheaper (like a magellen 315 or so, it does float! hows that for rugged?) and then use the extra cash left over to get a datacable and some nice software to go with it, you'll be far better off for any GPSable task you might want to do. whats the fun of geocaching if the map shows you right where to go? i'd rather have it give me the arrow of the direction of where to go and set off on my own.
but thats just me.
To clarify a point that the blurb muddled (played the first couple months quit from lack of time. it's fun if u have enough friends.) anyway, to unlock the Jedi slot you have to take your regular character and get them on a specific (seemingly random from most accounts) career path.
When you unlock a FS (force sensitive) character slot, you create a character that you level up through the Jedi tree. This Jedi can die after I think 3 or 4 deaths (regular character slots can be cloned and blah blah Jedi cannot.). However you don't LOSE the FS character slot. You do however have to create a new Jedi (you start sub padawan I believe, but this is 2nd hand from Sept, it could have changed by now). Unless you reach Jedi Master, then you become a blue glowy, but what impact you can have on the game, I dunno.
I don't see a big problem with the way it works. It keeps to the idea there aren't a million true Jedi around during the OT, however I'm sure the Galaxy is full of force sensitives during the time period.
Slightly Off Topic: I was thinking of buying a 30 - 60 day game card just to check out the new features, what I'm really lookin' for is a MMORPG that players run on their own. Setup your own servers and play with friends, like NWN Persistent worlds, but gameplay more along the lines of Zelda games or FF Crystal Chronicles. Anyone know of such a thing?
Both ur questions are answered in their respective properties.
In T2 its mentioned that Skynet becomes self-aware and makes some questionable decisions so the US tries to pull the plug, it bombs Russia knowing they'll retaliate.
The answers for The Matrix are in the Renaissance shorts, basically we ban them from our countries, they build their own, we don't like it and try to take them out.
Basically humans are at fault. Which is usually quite true.
Aren't technically Rockstars property. They now belong to the retailer, so unless Rockstar caves even more and takes them all back tough titty.
I'll be pissed if their next patch for the pc version alters the game. I realize I can always uninstall and play it fresh, they can't change the cd, but I bought the game last spring and understand it how its meant to be understood.
I'm all for RPG elements plunked into FPS games or mixing any game genre with another. I'm not a big fan of "genre bias" in the first place. However mix and matching different gameplay elements should ONLY be done to make the game more interesting for the gamer to play their own way, it should not be done just to advertise "IT'S THE WORLDS FIRST FPS/RPG!" in the hopes people will buy it on a whim.
The first 3 rules of game design should always be, "Gameplay, gameplay, gameplay!"
http://www.garageband.com
/. them) but garage band has a large selection from every area and a lot of good stuff.
I haven't checked out the selection in the article (I'll wait to avoid helping to
For a moment I thought /. was posting pr0n. Imagine my disappointment
If I had 40+ billion dollars just burning a hole in my pocket I'd buy my way into the games industry too.
"...no matter what proponents claim, they lead to violent behavior."
Wotta crock. The root of their violent behavior is probably because their parent's (or anyone they have a close connection with) abuse them physically or emotionally creating an unstable individual.
I know dozens of people that have stable family lives, a good group of friends, and they play violent video games (mostly MOHAA or other war games) and they find games like GTA fun but obviously realize it's only a game and move on.
I bet most of the people performing violent acts after playing video games have greater issues in their personal lives that should be addressed rather than just sueing game companies into the ground looking to take the blame out one someone else.
It isn't games, music or movies that cause people to shoot shit up it's piss poor parenting, a social setting (most of these violent acts are committed my middle school and high school age kids) that's all about being the "in kid". It's society at large.
Who's to blame for last years beltway snipers popping shots off at people? Didn't one of them have military training? That made him effective at killing but the seeds to kill were planted years before I guarantee.
This year we'll blame Rockstar b/c their game influenced some f'ed up quacks to draw attention to themselves by taking pot shots at semis. Has anyone done some background checking on these guys to see what their lives have been like?
Let's all just pop some happy pills, blame everyone else and go on living truly screwed up lives because we're too lazy to actually work through our problems.
Band/Choir and non sport related after school activities that promote communication with real people were cancelled from lack of funds.
(firmly inserting tongue in cheek)
Actually I believe you're wrong about the swearing in Chinese being geeky.
Approx. 900 million people speak Chinese on this planet. I would assume many of these people don't (or at least try not to) swear at all but still there has to be a large number that do, thus making swearing in Chinese a pretty popular past time.
As we all know Geeks != Popular
I've found that it's usually tech savvy people who are most likely to keep the mp3s they download especially if they buy the cd. Who here doesn't have an mp3/ogg/cd-r backup their favorite discs?
My mom, sister, sister's friends, aunt, download music to see if they like it then in most cases get rid out of a "So we don't get caught" state of mind even if they've bought the cd.
How does what he's talking about have anything to do with Linux being a viable distribution model? He's just saying that games are too in-depth for casual players and Sega is looking to do something about it.
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I want a computer that does what I say when I implicitly tell it to, not make a good guess. Someday someones automated house is going to sense someone setting their hand on a counter top and think its a steak and lop off some fingers.
I bought an operating system from a company, Micro something, that doesn't seem to work quite well on my computer either. Has anyone heard about a refund from them?
Why not use the prisoners that are full of shame and have hurt society?
Because man! We'd all end up with vengeful hearts or kidneys that turn us into killer zombies!