Maybe if the game industry had more software engineering background we wouldn't be forced to deal with games that need a dozen patches to actually work.
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And, even if you vote 'wrong', you're still voting. If your demographic is known not to vote, then the politicians won't take action in the interests of your demographic.
Are there any other viruses that can cause AIDS? Are there any other diseases caused by HIV? Is there any rational reason to make the distinction between the two?
If you're in HS and taking classes at the CC, you'd probably speed through college in 3yr, if you don't get sidetracked. You'll enjoy yourself a lot more spending 4-5hr/day on courses and coursework and then doing what you want than you will working 8hr/day in some demoralizing, unrewarding, shitty job and then trying to gather the energy to learn on your own when you get home.
One thing you're overlooking is that the just being a college student opens you up to a world of opportunities - there's tons of student jobs on campus for talented, motivated students that don't expect much (if any) experience. Being a student actually makes it possible to get internships. It gets you exposed to recruiters - many larger companies have employment programs exclusively for new grads. At the end of school, if you've done it right, you not only have your 'piece of paper', you've also got some actual, relevant, job experience....and you can't really make decisions about going off to a 4-yr school based on your opinions of community college. As Adam Carolla is fond of saying, community college is like "highschool with ashtrays". Move out of your parents' house, and go to school at least an hour or two's drive from home. It might help you lose that "fuck the man, I don't want to play his game and get certifications/degrees" attitude (which is going to hurt your chances at getting a career at least as much as actually lacking the degree.)
Perhaps it is old but with lines like "I'm going to try to keep this analogy simple because I think it's important everyone understands: After you've seen two Uwe Boll movies, watching a third is like jamming a third coat hanger into your urethra. It's certainly possible, but every instinct in your body will keep you from doing it." it definately deserves to be linked.
If you think about it, they're being pretty generous giving goblins a 30% chance to drop a nose. While I've never met a goblin, I'll have to assume their noses are as well attached as humans'. In nearly 30 years, other than the times as a small child that my father stole my nose, I have never detached my nose, let alone dropped it, nor has anyone else I know.
If he's basing this on some sort of online sex-crime registration database, he's probably violating the TOS, and possibly local laws, by publicizing the info. Many places have restrictions on use of the database as well as laws protecting registered sex offenders from harassment.
A year abroad as an undergrad is an entirely different process than actually applying for admission as an undergrad. AFAIK it doesn't involve SAT scores.
If they're concerned about making things easy for mobile devices, which usually have somewhat limited input facilities, then wouldn't they pick a 2 or 3 letter TLD instead of 4? If they were concerned about ease of typing this in, they wouldn't have put M & O next to eachother (look at your cellphone).
There's plenty of tools out there for any kid who wants to learn, and they -are- doing it. The thing is that, unlike 20 years ago when the author was playing on his Commodore or his Apple, computers are in nearly every home. 20 years ago, fewer people, those more likely to be tinkerers and gadget freaks, had computers. Their children would, more than likely, get interested in tinkering with the machine as well. There's probably more curious kids tinkering with programming today than there ever were.
He talks about the death of BASIC as a bad thing because it "maps to how computers really work". I'm pretty sure that these days GOTO is considered harmful. Sure, we have all those that had to cut their teeth on assembly that still say it's the best way to learn but programming is -not- about pushing bits around - it's about logic and abstraction. In this day of high-level, interpreted scripting languages and 'limitless' RAM and CPU, why not start higher up the tree?
It's not a matter of strategy guides coming out "in a month or two". The publishers are obviously working with the strategy guide authors since most new games have guides available at launch date.
It's no suprise that Dell ranks highly. They don't do any electronics manufacturing (a dirty process) - they simply assemble components they source from other vendors. I'm sure they would've scored far worse if the manufacturing processes of their supliers were included in the ranking.
I'm thinking that having a second computer (or a VM image on an external drive) would probably be an even better choice - when asked to give up the system, there's Nothing To See Here.
If they were cruising the block with music blaring, a fixed position high-frequency noise emitter with a max range of about 65 feet would be rather ineffective...
It's not like Ubuntu came out of nowhere - it's a derivative of Debian which, other than centralized commercial support and certification, has always been a better server distro than Redhat. Ubuntu takes all the things that made Debian great and sticks them into a more traditional business model. Canonical has managed to get IBM DB2 certification and MySQL certification - I'm sure that they're pushing to get more (and have the resources to do it).
I'm not sure this is the 'end of Redhat' but I know many admins that would -love- to run something other than Redhat but are forced to stick with it (or the other RPM-based distro) by managers and vendors.
...and having worked doing desktop support in a larger corporate/academic environment, if you're not billing hourly, any system that take more than about 30 minutes to fix is a prime candidate for reimaging.
It predates this and goes back to 8-bit machines, such as the Commodore 64. The sound hardware of the C=64, the SID chip, with both it's limitations and unheard of features (it was only 3 voices and could only do a few basic digital waveforms but it also had analog filters and flexible voice arpegiation), is the basis of the "chip tune" style of music that is still very much popular in the Demo Scene.
What I don't understand is why Israel is taking all the heat here. Where is the scathing criticism of the Lebanese government for allowing a force like Hezbolah to operate from their soil? The fact that Israel is forced to deal with a problem that the Lebanese should be cleaning up themselves seems to be the real issue - I doubt Israel would be as interested in retaliation if the government of Lebanon sent their own army in to take care of things.
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Maybe if the game industry had more software engineering background we wouldn't be forced to deal with games that need a dozen patches to actually work.
Changed the names...
And, even if you vote 'wrong', you're still voting. If your demographic is known not to vote, then the politicians won't take action in the interests of your demographic.
Are there any other viruses that can cause AIDS? Are there any other diseases caused by HIV? Is there any rational reason to make the distinction between the two?
If you're in HS and taking classes at the CC, you'd probably speed through college in 3yr, if you don't get sidetracked. You'll enjoy yourself a lot more spending 4-5hr/day on courses and coursework and then doing what you want than you will working 8hr/day in some demoralizing, unrewarding, shitty job and then trying to gather the energy to learn on your own when you get home.
...and you can't really make decisions about going off to a 4-yr school based on your opinions of community college. As Adam Carolla is fond of saying, community college is like "highschool with ashtrays". Move out of your parents' house, and go to school at least an hour or two's drive from home. It might help you lose that "fuck the man, I don't want to play his game and get certifications/degrees" attitude (which is going to hurt your chances at getting a career at least as much as actually lacking the degree.)
One thing you're overlooking is that the just being a college student opens you up to a world of opportunities - there's tons of student jobs on campus for talented, motivated students that don't expect much (if any) experience. Being a student actually makes it possible to get internships. It gets you exposed to recruiters - many larger companies have employment programs exclusively for new grads. At the end of school, if you've done it right, you not only have your 'piece of paper', you've also got some actual, relevant, job experience.
Perhaps it is old but with lines like "I'm going to try to keep this analogy simple because I think it's important everyone understands: After you've seen two Uwe Boll movies, watching a third is like jamming a third coat hanger into your urethra. It's certainly possible, but every instinct in your body will keep you from doing it." it definately deserves to be linked.
If you think about it, they're being pretty generous giving goblins a 30% chance to drop a nose. While I've never met a goblin, I'll have to assume their noses are as well attached as humans'. In nearly 30 years, other than the times as a small child that my father stole my nose, I have never detached my nose, let alone dropped it, nor has anyone else I know.
If he's basing this on some sort of online sex-crime registration database, he's probably violating the TOS, and possibly local laws, by publicizing the info. Many places have restrictions on use of the database as well as laws protecting registered sex offenders from harassment.
A year abroad as an undergrad is an entirely different process than actually applying for admission as an undergrad. AFAIK it doesn't involve SAT scores.
If they're concerned about making things easy for mobile devices, which usually have somewhat limited input facilities, then wouldn't they pick a 2 or 3 letter TLD instead of 4? If they were concerned about ease of typing this in, they wouldn't have put M & O next to eachother (look at your cellphone).
There's plenty of tools out there for any kid who wants to learn, and they -are- doing it. The thing is that, unlike 20 years ago when the author was playing on his Commodore or his Apple, computers are in nearly every home. 20 years ago, fewer people, those more likely to be tinkerers and gadget freaks, had computers. Their children would, more than likely, get interested in tinkering with the machine as well. There's probably more curious kids tinkering with programming today than there ever were.
He talks about the death of BASIC as a bad thing because it "maps to how computers really work". I'm pretty sure that these days GOTO is considered harmful. Sure, we have all those that had to cut their teeth on assembly that still say it's the best way to learn but programming is -not- about pushing bits around - it's about logic and abstraction. In this day of high-level, interpreted scripting languages and 'limitless' RAM and CPU, why not start higher up the tree?
You're just saying that because you're Human.
It's not a matter of strategy guides coming out "in a month or two". The publishers are obviously working with the strategy guide authors since most new games have guides available at launch date.
It's no suprise that Dell ranks highly. They don't do any electronics manufacturing (a dirty process) - they simply assemble components they source from other vendors. I'm sure they would've scored far worse if the manufacturing processes of their supliers were included in the ranking.
I'm thinking that having a second computer (or a VM image on an external drive) would probably be an even better choice - when asked to give up the system, there's Nothing To See Here.
It doesn't matter how good of a lock you have if a $10 crow bar will break the door open.
They're Apple's users too (and they're Apple's customers).
If they were cruising the block with music blaring, a fixed position high-frequency noise emitter with a max range of about 65 feet would be rather ineffective...
Remember how, a few years back, advertisers were giving out URLs and AOL keywords?
Pretty much the same thing - if you find a large clustering of LCD users, you have to translate from the real internet into their world.
It's not like Ubuntu came out of nowhere - it's a derivative of Debian which, other than centralized commercial support and certification, has always been a better server distro than Redhat. Ubuntu takes all the things that made Debian great and sticks them into a more traditional business model. Canonical has managed to get IBM DB2 certification and MySQL certification - I'm sure that they're pushing to get more (and have the resources to do it).
I'm not sure this is the 'end of Redhat' but I know many admins that would -love- to run something other than Redhat but are forced to stick with it (or the other RPM-based distro) by managers and vendors.
This only adresses the pirated copy of Windows, not the other half-dozen applications that were probably included as a 'bonus'.
...and having worked doing desktop support in a larger corporate/academic environment, if you're not billing hourly, any system that take more than about 30 minutes to fix is a prime candidate for reimaging.
It predates this and goes back to 8-bit machines, such as the Commodore 64. The sound hardware of the C=64, the SID chip, with both it's limitations and unheard of features (it was only 3 voices and could only do a few basic digital waveforms but it also had analog filters and flexible voice arpegiation), is the basis of the "chip tune" style of music that is still very much popular in the Demo Scene.
What I don't understand is why Israel is taking all the heat here. Where is the scathing criticism of the Lebanese government for allowing a force like Hezbolah to operate from their soil? The fact that Israel is forced to deal with a problem that the Lebanese should be cleaning up themselves seems to be the real issue - I doubt Israel would be as interested in retaliation if the government of Lebanon sent their own army in to take care of things.