Granted. Though the claim that the other Gospels are Gospels are that of the author also...yet backed up by a bunch of guys saying "yeah, this is a Gospel and should be in the Bible, otherwise let's stick it in the Apocrypha or Coptics". Such as the Gospel of Thomas and Peter and James etc etc.
But they were edited out...doesn't matter WHEN they were edited out, but they were. Why? Because they smacked in the face of Jesus being pure etc etc. The writings are still out there though, written at or about the same time as the other writings were. Yet we choose to ignore these writings and pay headance to the others. Kind of like at a salad bar, pick and choose what you want and leave the rest. Make it fit to an over-all theme/structure.
As for your comments of Jesus kissing Mary, those are not in Scripture, but are Satan's corruptions of scripture.
Interesting...though wrong. They are "scripture"...just conveniently edited out scripture. But I suppose a good argument could be made contrary to this.
Assumption time here. I know, I shouldn't assume. But my guess here is that since you quoted from the KJV of the bible, you're one that believes in it's purity and thinks that the later translations (NIV, NSV, NKJV) are works of Satan? Yes? Have you read the Apocrypha? That too was translated along with the King James version of 1611. Not too many people read those later books and gospels. Are they Satan's corruptions? If God oversaw the translation of the KJV (which many people believe including the Baptists), wouldn't He also have overseen the Apocrypha?
I think the most wonderful thing a man could offer a woman on their wedding night is the assurance that he has never lusted over another woman in his life.
So lying to her is the most wonderful thing he could offer?
I mean, come ON. What guy out there has never lusted after another woman while growing up (other than gay guys that is...but looking at your sig I doubt you take that into consideration at all)? What would you have teenagers do while growing up to keep busy. I mean, you would have to keep them busy all day long until they dropped from exhaustion...and then start up again the very next day. Every day....for YEARS.
Or better yet, how about fitting them with one of those anti-masturbation harnesses that were so popular at the turn of the last century? All the while telling him about the glory of God!
If a guy doesn't masturbate or anything like that, the instances of wet-dreams will be more frequent. What will you explain to them when that happens? Well, I suppose you could explain like Adam Corolla does: When you have a wet-dream, that's God giving you a hand-job to help things out. Praise the Lord!
All blasphemy aside, what activities do you have planed for the years 9-18 to keep their minds (your mind) off of sex? You know, that basic biological urge.
But hey, good times right? Good luck with your endeavor.
Does anyone other than Richard Stallman really call it GNU/Linux? How come you never hear of GNU/FreeBSD? I mean there are a ton of GNU applications also on BSD right?
That's not true though. Many people DID care. Which is why it was all over the news, newspapers, radio...it was everywhere. Even the old-person's radio station here in Chicago was talking about it!
The thinking of the "Joe Sixpack doesn't care about things like that" is dying out. More and more people, young AND old are getting computer literate. Yes yes, there are still people out there that will never be comfortable with computers and there are people that really don't care...but the majority is changing.
If people really didn't care, then Sony would have kept up with the Root-kit shenanigans to this day. But they got a huge black-eye from it and have to now build back their customer confidence.
Though, in truth, I was only giving back what he was dishing out. Yet I didn't see you posting when he was saying the opposite, which leads me to believe this is really YOU posting now.
Also, check out the caps-lock, it seems to be stuck. Or did you do that on purpose? And the reason was....?
This is true...which has always bugged me about MMORPG's. I mean, I love them, but the quests "say" something but they really have no impact to the world. For instance, playing as a Horde character in the starting area...there is a quest to pick up this guys hammer or pick that he left in the cave. So you go and get it and give it back to him. Now, that hammer is picked up right? Then how could someone else just walk up, get the same quest and go and pick up the hammer again? There is no change in the world. It's all the same. With people saying the "has anyone done the hammer quest? where is it exactly? I need to pick it up".
Why can't they have more dynamic quests generations? Dynamic story generations? You'll be walking along, the computer sees you haven't been over here in a while so it generates a quest for you. "oh sir, my little boy is missing, he was playing over by that cave and he hasn't been seen since! can you find out what happened?". So you go over and then something else generates...the boy is either kidnapped or killed or just lost or something else. Maybe even extending over a long period of time that leads you all over the world!
Now come on, you know something like that is possible. A dynamic quest that only YOU have (or can share if someone you meet along the way wants to join up to help you for a while) that keeps dynamically changing as you move along. Bits and pieces along the way that actually assembles itself into a story-arc. Not something like "ok, I'm doing the marauder quest, anyone else need the lead guy before I kill him?" kind of thing.
Don't get me wrong, I think WoW and EQ and EQ2 are fun, but an MMORPG can be SO much more than the way it is now.
Wow, we really are polar opposites on this issue. Everything you say can almost be flipped around. I consider Baldur's Gate one of the best computer games ever made, along with NWN and the Elder Scrolls. I mean, these are real RPG's and not just movies where you hit a button here or there. If I wanted a story to watch, I'd rent a movie. If I wanted to be immersed into and become part of the story, then I play an RPG. A real RPG.
Have you played Oblivion? If not, then how can you say what it has or doesn't have? If you bought it, why? Why buy the sequel to something you hated? Or did you play 5 minutes of a friends copy and get confused because you actually had to do something other than hit "auto-play" to let the "movie" unfold? Bah...this is too easy.
I've yet to see an Eastern RPG. Not sure one exists. Sure, you can call them an RPG, but that doesn't make them an RPG. They're movies with a lame "what should we do next?!?!" button on it. That's it. There, I've broken down all Eastern style "RPG's" for anyone that's interested. If that's your thing, then go to it!
It's the opposite for me. The "Eastern" movies (I refuse to call them RPGs because they're nothing but interactive movies) are hopefully going away. I mean, they can hang around all they want, but I just don't want them influencing the real RPGs.
Disney pushes for faster DVD releases to combat piracy? If I were to be downloading movies instead of buying them....theoretically that is (glances around nervously)...I would wait until the movie is available for download in it's DVD "screener" or DVD release version (terms I would imagine pirates use, not that I have any first hand account of any of this...it is hot in here? Can I get a glass of water maybe?). I mean, who would really want to see the video-camed version of still-in-theater movies with people laughing or talking or whatever? They suck (or so I've heard...from newspapers and such. I don't know anyone that is now, or was a member of, the Pirate Party. Do I need a lawyer?).
So Disney pushing for faster DVD releases only pushes it faster into pirates hands!
Yeah really. I don't think it will be long before stores stop stocking PSP games! I'm just not that impressed by it, nor do I even know anyone that has one.
My son and all his friends all have Nintendo DS systems. That seems to be the rage now.
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Seven Mask films? I suppose that the other 5 haven't been released yet? (or even made yet). Also, ILM wasn't responsible for Jar-Jar....you can only thank Lucas for that.
Also, ILM didn't "make" those movies...and hasn't actually "made" any movies. They're an FX house. They provide a service to someone that pays them. Like any other service industry really.
But as the other posters said above, don't blame ILM for movies sucking. They did some effects for "Schindler's List" and "Saving Private Ryan"...so should we not thank them for those movies and others that you probably didn't even know they had a hand in?
Are you even suppose to be submitting stories? Where's Zonk? Is Zonk on the phone? Get him in here....
I just picture Taco in a bathrobe and slippers shuffling into "Slashdot Central" when Zonk and the others are out of the room and sitting down and submitting articles until they come back in, slap his hand and lead him back to his room to up his medications.
Put down the submit key! PUT IT DOWN!
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Though, it's true. I still haven't personally known anyone that's gotten a computer virus other than the Macintosh one from way back in the System 8 days. Maybe it true and everyone around me has just be incredibly lucky. I dunno...
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Well, if you had read my other posts...which isn't your fault...you would have seen that I keep up-to-date on patches, I'm behind two firewalls (hardware and software, something I would do on any OS, regardless of Linux/Windows/OSX) and I scan for both spyware and viruses with at least two separate products each. Plus, which I didn't post before, every once in a while I'll boot with a Knoppix live DVD and scan my HD that way, I do that maybe once a month or so. But, even with all these defensive moves, I've yet to actually find a virus infection on any of my systems.
Malware and spyware are one thing...I've had my share of those. But I'm talking about viruses specifically. Trust me, if I have a virus, I would know about it.
Also, I'm not saying the viruses are NOT a problem. I'm just going from personal experience here and you're right, anecdotal evidence is worthless. Just because I've never actually seen one doesn't mean they're not out there.
And as I said before, having said all that I've probabaly jinxed myself and will get every virus known.
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When the Blaster went around some years back, for example, you didn't have to do anything but be connected to the Internet and have it directed at your IP. I think you only escaped it if you were fortunate to get patched before it came your way or you weren't on the Internet at all. Which was your case because of the few Windows users I know, they all got it.
Nope, didn't get it. And I've been on the Internet since '89...yes, before there was the World Wide Web. Back when the Internet was basically Email, Usenet, FTP and IRC...oh, and the occational Gopher site here and there.
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yes, of course I run anti-virus and anti-spyware on my computers, and nowhere did I imply otherwise. That's probably WHY I haven't gotten a virus in all that time. That's the thing, I run all of these things nightly, am behind both a hardware and software firewall (which I would be anyway regardless of OS).
But that takes hardly any effort on my part. It's certainly not the total pain-in-the-ass that everyone makes it out to be.
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Windows PCs are plagued with viruses.
They are? Then would you mind telling me why in all the years of using Windows...from Windows 3.1 through 95 through 98 to XP I've never once gotten a virus? Ever. Granted, I only use Firefox because I think it's better...not out of some fear of IE.
I don't even personally know anyone that's ever gotten a virus on Windows. My in-laws. My wife's sister. My co-workers past and present. My work computers. The computers at my sons school.
So if Windows is plagued with viruses, where are they? Maybe I'm just lucky...as are my in-laws, and sister-in-law...and co-workers...and my sons school. We're all just lucky. Ironically enough, the only virus I've personally seen on a computer was on a Macintosh. This was years ago on System 8 of the OS. Was a nasty one that spread through Syquest drive swapping. We got it from a customer.
Of course, having said all this I'll probably contract every computer virus known to exist now.
Just say it was all a dream...the revamp was a dream and they just revert back to the way it was before. You know, with creature handlers and all. Then from THERE they work WITH the community to FIX the problems.
Nah, screw the people that play it...THIS is how SOE wants the game to be, now pay your fees and play it dammit!
No, now that AT&T has reformed back into the beast that it once was...they're taking back their old attitude of "We don't care because we don't have to. We're the phone company".
Now, I have two options on getting hooked up to high-speed internet where I'm at. Either SBC(AT&T) or Comcast. Damned if I do on either one.
I was on the tail end of the EQ2 beta and also played for a little while before being lured away by WoW...which I played for over a year.
Then I read a couple of reviews of the "revamp" of EQ2 and I went back to take a look. I was really impressed by how far it had come and decided to continue on with my character. There's a lot of depth there that was lacking when it first came out.
Traveling around in EQ2 isn't bad...no worse than WoW. But then again, I'm one that thinks traveling around EQ1 is WAY too easy than it used to be. The "good ol days" for EQ1, to me, was only the original game and the first two expansions...Kunark and Velious. After that it was the vocal whiners that got the game to where it was almost "teleport directly to the mob, have the mobs line up, die automatically for you, you get the experience, you get whatever you needed. NEXT". It was fun when it was more of a free-wheeling place, where you had to sell your own stuff, where you had to get a port out of some place. The world of EQ seemed SO big back then. Taking a Barbarian from Halas to Freeport was a daunting task of running through the Karanas. It was great. It was an adventure right there. Now...meh...you're a barbarian in Halas just gate up to the Plane of Knowledge and go wherever you want. No biggy. And to me, no fun. Again, that's just me. I'm a little goofy.
But I've been having a blast with EQ2. Well, not at the moment as all my attention is on Elder Scrolls: Oblivion.
The fact is, you are getting paid by the people that attend your school. Right or wrong, this is the way of things. You act like an asshole in your classroom, you'll either get your ass kicked from here to the state-line or perhaps even worse...an enterprising young co-ed will call "sexual harassment" on you and your career will go up in a puff of smoke. I'm only saying this as a warning. Be warned the next time you attempt you're shenanigans on a student that's stood up to you, as they are NOT powerless. All it takes is an individual that's a tad unstable. It would be interesting to see how often this actually happens.
Education today IS a business and the students ARE the customers. They are only stopping by the university to pick up their degree and creds to move on to the big job...and if you're standing in their way, watch out. I'm not sure what fantasy-land you're living in, but it's time to wake up. I'm certainly not condoning any of this, just throwing water on your face. It sickens me to no end that it's gotten to that point...to where it's just a business.
I actually think we DO need to go back to the days of unpaid apprenticeships. Education should be a fundamental pillar, only that is being eroded away.
Good luck to you MustardMan, and PLEASE be careful out there.
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No one is insulting anyone. It's all just good fun. If you don't like it, take a big dose of Ambien and sleep through the entire day.
Well, it's the station I listen to also at nights as it has a nice clear signal. WGN in Chicago. It's really a general talk station.
Granted. Though the claim that the other Gospels are Gospels are that of the author also...yet backed up by a bunch of guys saying "yeah, this is a Gospel and should be in the Bible, otherwise let's stick it in the Apocrypha or Coptics". Such as the Gospel of Thomas and Peter and James etc etc.
But they were edited out...doesn't matter WHEN they were edited out, but they were. Why? Because they smacked in the face of Jesus being pure etc etc. The writings are still out there though, written at or about the same time as the other writings were. Yet we choose to ignore these writings and pay headance to the others. Kind of like at a salad bar, pick and choose what you want and leave the rest. Make it fit to an over-all theme/structure.
As for your comments of Jesus kissing Mary, those are not in Scripture, but are Satan's corruptions of scripture.
Interesting...though wrong. They are "scripture"...just conveniently edited out scripture. But I suppose a good argument could be made contrary to this.
Assumption time here. I know, I shouldn't assume. But my guess here is that since you quoted from the KJV of the bible, you're one that believes in it's purity and thinks that the later translations (NIV, NSV, NKJV) are works of Satan? Yes? Have you read the Apocrypha? That too was translated along with the King James version of 1611. Not too many people read those later books and gospels. Are they Satan's corruptions? If God oversaw the translation of the KJV (which many people believe including the Baptists), wouldn't He also have overseen the Apocrypha?
Just wondering....
I think the most wonderful thing a man could offer a woman on their wedding night is the assurance that he has never lusted over another woman in his life.
So lying to her is the most wonderful thing he could offer?
I mean, come ON. What guy out there has never lusted after another woman while growing up (other than gay guys that is...but looking at your sig I doubt you take that into consideration at all)? What would you have teenagers do while growing up to keep busy. I mean, you would have to keep them busy all day long until they dropped from exhaustion...and then start up again the very next day. Every day....for YEARS.
Or better yet, how about fitting them with one of those anti-masturbation harnesses that were so popular at the turn of the last century? All the while telling him about the glory of God!
If a guy doesn't masturbate or anything like that, the instances of wet-dreams will be more frequent. What will you explain to them when that happens? Well, I suppose you could explain like Adam Corolla does: When you have a wet-dream, that's God giving you a hand-job to help things out. Praise the Lord!
All blasphemy aside, what activities do you have planed for the years 9-18 to keep their minds (your mind) off of sex? You know, that basic biological urge.
But hey, good times right? Good luck with your endeavor.
Does anyone other than Richard Stallman really call it GNU/Linux? How come you never hear of GNU/FreeBSD? I mean there are a ton of GNU applications also on BSD right?
Just wondering....
That's not true though. Many people DID care. Which is why it was all over the news, newspapers, radio...it was everywhere. Even the old-person's radio station here in Chicago was talking about it!
The thinking of the "Joe Sixpack doesn't care about things like that" is dying out. More and more people, young AND old are getting computer literate. Yes yes, there are still people out there that will never be comfortable with computers and there are people that really don't care...but the majority is changing.
If people really didn't care, then Sony would have kept up with the Root-kit shenanigans to this day. But they got a huge black-eye from it and have to now build back their customer confidence.
Though, in truth, I was only giving back what he was dishing out. Yet I didn't see you posting when he was saying the opposite, which leads me to believe this is really YOU posting now.
Also, check out the caps-lock, it seems to be stuck. Or did you do that on purpose? And the reason was....?
But hey, good times right?
This is true...which has always bugged me about MMORPG's. I mean, I love them, but the quests "say" something but they really have no impact to the world. For instance, playing as a Horde character in the starting area...there is a quest to pick up this guys hammer or pick that he left in the cave. So you go and get it and give it back to him. Now, that hammer is picked up right? Then how could someone else just walk up, get the same quest and go and pick up the hammer again? There is no change in the world. It's all the same. With people saying the "has anyone done the hammer quest? where is it exactly? I need to pick it up".
Why can't they have more dynamic quests generations? Dynamic story generations? You'll be walking along, the computer sees you haven't been over here in a while so it generates a quest for you. "oh sir, my little boy is missing, he was playing over by that cave and he hasn't been seen since! can you find out what happened?". So you go over and then something else generates...the boy is either kidnapped or killed or just lost or something else. Maybe even extending over a long period of time that leads you all over the world!
Now come on, you know something like that is possible. A dynamic quest that only YOU have (or can share if someone you meet along the way wants to join up to help you for a while) that keeps dynamically changing as you move along. Bits and pieces along the way that actually assembles itself into a story-arc. Not something like "ok, I'm doing the marauder quest, anyone else need the lead guy before I kill him?" kind of thing.
Don't get me wrong, I think WoW and EQ and EQ2 are fun, but an MMORPG can be SO much more than the way it is now.
Wow, we really are polar opposites on this issue. Everything you say can almost be flipped around. I consider Baldur's Gate one of the best computer games ever made, along with NWN and the Elder Scrolls. I mean, these are real RPG's and not just movies where you hit a button here or there. If I wanted a story to watch, I'd rent a movie. If I wanted to be immersed into and become part of the story, then I play an RPG. A real RPG.
Have you played Oblivion? If not, then how can you say what it has or doesn't have? If you bought it, why? Why buy the sequel to something you hated? Or did you play 5 minutes of a friends copy and get confused because you actually had to do something other than hit "auto-play" to let the "movie" unfold? Bah...this is too easy.
I've yet to see an Eastern RPG. Not sure one exists. Sure, you can call them an RPG, but that doesn't make them an RPG. They're movies with a lame "what should we do next?!?!" button on it. That's it. There, I've broken down all Eastern style "RPG's" for anyone that's interested. If that's your thing, then go to it!
It's the opposite for me. The "Eastern" movies (I refuse to call them RPGs because they're nothing but interactive movies) are hopefully going away. I mean, they can hang around all they want, but I just don't want them influencing the real RPGs.
Disney pushes for faster DVD releases to combat piracy? If I were to be downloading movies instead of buying them....theoretically that is (glances around nervously)...I would wait until the movie is available for download in it's DVD "screener" or DVD release version (terms I would imagine pirates use, not that I have any first hand account of any of this...it is hot in here? Can I get a glass of water maybe?). I mean, who would really want to see the video-camed version of still-in-theater movies with people laughing or talking or whatever? They suck (or so I've heard...from newspapers and such. I don't know anyone that is now, or was a member of, the Pirate Party. Do I need a lawyer?).
So Disney pushing for faster DVD releases only pushes it faster into pirates hands!
Yeah really. I don't think it will be long before stores stop stocking PSP games! I'm just not that impressed by it, nor do I even know anyone that has one.
My son and all his friends all have Nintendo DS systems. That seems to be the rage now.
Seven Mask films? I suppose that the other 5 haven't been released yet? (or even made yet). Also, ILM wasn't responsible for Jar-Jar....you can only thank Lucas for that.
Also, ILM didn't "make" those movies...and hasn't actually "made" any movies. They're an FX house. They provide a service to someone that pays them. Like any other service industry really.
But as the other posters said above, don't blame ILM for movies sucking. They did some effects for "Schindler's List" and "Saving Private Ryan"...so should we not thank them for those movies and others that you probably didn't even know they had a hand in?
Are you even suppose to be submitting stories? Where's Zonk? Is Zonk on the phone? Get him in here....
I just picture Taco in a bathrobe and slippers shuffling into "Slashdot Central" when Zonk and the others are out of the room and sitting down and submitting articles until they come back in, slap his hand and lead him back to his room to up his medications.
Put down the submit key! PUT IT DOWN!
Though, it's true. I still haven't personally known anyone that's gotten a computer virus other than the Macintosh one from way back in the System 8 days. Maybe it true and everyone around me has just be incredibly lucky. I dunno...
Well, if you had read my other posts...which isn't your fault...you would have seen that I keep up-to-date on patches, I'm behind two firewalls (hardware and software, something I would do on any OS, regardless of Linux/Windows/OSX) and I scan for both spyware and viruses with at least two separate products each. Plus, which I didn't post before, every once in a while I'll boot with a Knoppix live DVD and scan my HD that way, I do that maybe once a month or so. But, even with all these defensive moves, I've yet to actually find a virus infection on any of my systems.
Malware and spyware are one thing...I've had my share of those. But I'm talking about viruses specifically. Trust me, if I have a virus, I would know about it.
Also, I'm not saying the viruses are NOT a problem. I'm just going from personal experience here and you're right, anecdotal evidence is worthless. Just because I've never actually seen one doesn't mean they're not out there.
And as I said before, having said all that I've probabaly jinxed myself and will get every virus known.
When the Blaster went around some years back, for example, you didn't have to do anything but be connected to the Internet and have it directed at your IP. I think you only escaped it if you were fortunate to get patched before it came your way or you weren't on the Internet at all. Which was your case because of the few Windows users I know, they all got it.
Nope, didn't get it. And I've been on the Internet since '89...yes, before there was the World Wide Web. Back when the Internet was basically Email, Usenet, FTP and IRC...oh, and the occational Gopher site here and there.
yes, of course I run anti-virus and anti-spyware on my computers, and nowhere did I imply otherwise. That's probably WHY I haven't gotten a virus in all that time. That's the thing, I run all of these things nightly, am behind both a hardware and software firewall (which I would be anyway regardless of OS).
But that takes hardly any effort on my part. It's certainly not the total pain-in-the-ass that everyone makes it out to be.
Windows PCs are plagued with viruses.
They are? Then would you mind telling me why in all the years of using Windows...from Windows 3.1 through 95 through 98 to XP I've never once gotten a virus? Ever. Granted, I only use Firefox because I think it's better...not out of some fear of IE.
I don't even personally know anyone that's ever gotten a virus on Windows. My in-laws. My wife's sister. My co-workers past and present. My work computers. The computers at my sons school.
So if Windows is plagued with viruses, where are they? Maybe I'm just lucky...as are my in-laws, and sister-in-law...and co-workers...and my sons school. We're all just lucky. Ironically enough, the only virus I've personally seen on a computer was on a Macintosh. This was years ago on System 8 of the OS. Was a nasty one that spread through Syquest drive swapping. We got it from a customer.
Of course, having said all this I'll probably contract every computer virus known to exist now.
Just say it was all a dream...the revamp was a dream and they just revert back to the way it was before. You know, with creature handlers and all. Then from THERE they work WITH the community to FIX the problems.
Nah, screw the people that play it...THIS is how SOE wants the game to be, now pay your fees and play it dammit!
No, now that AT&T has reformed back into the beast that it once was...they're taking back their old attitude of "We don't care because we don't have to. We're the phone company".
Now, I have two options on getting hooked up to high-speed internet where I'm at. Either SBC(AT&T) or Comcast. Damned if I do on either one.
I was on the tail end of the EQ2 beta and also played for a little while before being lured away by WoW...which I played for over a year.
Then I read a couple of reviews of the "revamp" of EQ2 and I went back to take a look. I was really impressed by how far it had come and decided to continue on with my character. There's a lot of depth there that was lacking when it first came out.
Traveling around in EQ2 isn't bad...no worse than WoW. But then again, I'm one that thinks traveling around EQ1 is WAY too easy than it used to be. The "good ol days" for EQ1, to me, was only the original game and the first two expansions...Kunark and Velious. After that it was the vocal whiners that got the game to where it was almost "teleport directly to the mob, have the mobs line up, die automatically for you, you get the experience, you get whatever you needed. NEXT". It was fun when it was more of a free-wheeling place, where you had to sell your own stuff, where you had to get a port out of some place. The world of EQ seemed SO big back then. Taking a Barbarian from Halas to Freeport was a daunting task of running through the Karanas. It was great. It was an adventure right there. Now...meh...you're a barbarian in Halas just gate up to the Plane of Knowledge and go wherever you want. No biggy. And to me, no fun. Again, that's just me. I'm a little goofy.
But I've been having a blast with EQ2. Well, not at the moment as all my attention is on Elder Scrolls: Oblivion.
But considering that I'm actually using the Beta for IE7 on XP now, it seems to be working.
Or are you talking more that it will be tested on XP and all, but the final version won't be available?
By the way, you can download and run the beta now. It's open. Even has an uninstall on it.
The fact is, you are getting paid by the people that attend your school. Right or wrong, this is the way of things. You act like an asshole in your classroom, you'll either get your ass kicked from here to the state-line or perhaps even worse...an enterprising young co-ed will call "sexual harassment" on you and your career will go up in a puff of smoke. I'm only saying this as a warning. Be warned the next time you attempt you're shenanigans on a student that's stood up to you, as they are NOT powerless. All it takes is an individual that's a tad unstable. It would be interesting to see how often this actually happens.
Education today IS a business and the students ARE the customers. They are only stopping by the university to pick up their degree and creds to move on to the big job...and if you're standing in their way, watch out. I'm not sure what fantasy-land you're living in, but it's time to wake up. I'm certainly not condoning any of this, just throwing water on your face. It sickens me to no end that it's gotten to that point...to where it's just a business.
I actually think we DO need to go back to the days of unpaid apprenticeships. Education should be a fundamental pillar, only that is being eroded away.
Good luck to you MustardMan, and PLEASE be careful out there.