If you're paying $20-30 a dvd (which I frequently do) you might be fond of hard to find or foreign titles. I can't remember when I last paid less than $20 for a DVD. I've paid well over $30 as well.
DAoC's unofficial helper program rarely used? I'm usually flagged as an advisor when I'm in DAoC. I get at least one question a night, usually more. It's not at all the same as being a guide or gm, you can't help with game mechanics problems. EQ guides had a lot more power, but also had to go through a selection process. In DAoC all you need is 14 hours played and you can give/advice.
Back in my misspent university days, 99% (made up statistic!) of the phone calls I overheard on campus consisted of: "Hey, it's me, where are you? Cool, be right there!"
"but dumbing down *nix for the average Apple user, who still cant understand why you would ever need more than one button on a mouse"
What? One button mice have ways of doing the same thing as two button mice. I have used both. I prefer a cirque touchpad to either. Trust me, most Mac users aren't using one button mice because they are too DUMB to grasp two buttons. I hope that was intended to be hyperbole, because otherwise it's one of the silliest comments I've read on Slashdot, and that is saying a lot.
The general myth that Mac users are dumb and/or non-technically inclined really bugs me. Most of the Mac users I have known are in love with their computers and at least as comfortable with the technical details of what is going on as your average PC user.
One of the key beliefs of the Mac community back when that was ALL I used (our house is now multi-platform, linux, win98 and OSX) was that Macs are more easily customisable (in terms of system configuration and software) than windows boxes. Mac folk developed shareware to improve the useability of the OS, and took pride in the amount of tweaking that they could perform. Some Mac users even enjoy hardware hacking (oh, the horror.)
Your average Apple user is a straw man. The average Apple user, I assert, is neither stupider nor less technically inclined than your average PC user.
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Girls don't want to watch action/sci-fi/fantasy movies?
Some girls may not. While I will grant that there's a larger audience of boys for this kind of film, I'd suggest that there are also plenty of girls who enjoyed the original Star Wars films, and did not need to be pandered to in this ludicrous sort of way.
I very much enjoyed the original three films when I was a young girl. I can't be the only one who did.
I wish that managers were more sparing with the exclamation marks. Here's a sample from an email I received today from my manager: "Breakfast will be served !!!!!" And here's the entire text of one email that she sent: "Any takers ???????????????"
I wish I were joking.
Business writing courses for management level folk are at the top of my professional wish list.
I learned to use a word processor on a very strange old Amstrad. Then I worked on macs for a while. Then I had to switch to Windows when I went off to university.
Now, I am comfortable using basic office software at an intermediate/expert level under mac, windows, linux, and am confident that I could learn to use basic office software under any given OS.
Teaching to one set of office software is pointless. Eventually it will be outmoded, whatever it is. Teach kids to be comfortable with computers, and comfortable teaching themselves to use new software. It'll do them much more good than harm in the long term.
I agree completely with the value of the auxillary learning in college. But keep in mind that college is not for everybody at all times of their lives. Some people are not at the point in their lives where they can appreciate the courses which you mentioned. Is it worth while for a student to sit through a philosophy course it that student can not open him or herself to learning? Often students only go to college to get the paper that says I paid $50,000 to this school and am qualified because this paper says I am. Those students probably should skip college if they can get a job since they won't get much out of the additional courses.
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I'd rather shoot things.
Oh, and then solve problems like what to do with the bodies.
Way to generalise buddy.
If you're paying $20-30 a dvd (which I frequently do) you might be fond of hard to find or foreign titles. I can't remember when I last paid less than $20 for a DVD. I've paid well over $30 as well.
DAoC's unofficial helper program rarely used? /advice.
I'm usually flagged as an advisor when I'm in DAoC. I get at least one question a night, usually more. It's not at all the same as being a guide or gm, you can't help with game mechanics problems. EQ guides had a lot more power, but also had to go through a selection process. In DAoC all you need is 14 hours played and you can give
Back in my misspent university days, 99% (made up statistic!) of the phone calls I overheard on campus consisted of: "Hey, it's me, where are you? Cool, be right there!"
This would save making those phone calls.
"but dumbing down *nix for the average Apple user, who still cant understand why you would ever need more than one button on a mouse"
What? One button mice have ways of doing the same thing as two button mice. I have used both. I prefer a cirque touchpad to either. Trust me, most Mac users aren't using one button mice because they are too DUMB to grasp two buttons. I hope that was intended to be hyperbole, because otherwise it's one of the silliest comments I've read on Slashdot, and that is saying a lot.
The general myth that Mac users are dumb and/or non-technically inclined really bugs me. Most of the Mac users I have known are in love with their computers and at least as comfortable with the technical details of what is going on as your average PC user.
One of the key beliefs of the Mac community back when that was ALL I used (our house is now multi-platform, linux, win98 and OSX) was that Macs are more easily customisable (in terms of system configuration and software) than windows boxes. Mac folk developed shareware to improve the useability of the OS, and took pride in the amount of tweaking that they could perform. Some Mac users even enjoy hardware hacking (oh, the horror.)
Your average Apple user is a straw man. The average Apple user, I assert, is neither stupider nor less technically inclined than your average PC user.
Girls don't want to watch action/sci-fi/fantasy movies?
Some girls may not. While I will grant that there's a larger audience of boys for this kind of film, I'd suggest that there are also plenty of girls who enjoyed the original Star Wars films, and did not need to be pandered to in this ludicrous sort of way.
I very much enjoyed the original three films when I was a young girl. I can't be the only one who did.
I wish that managers were more sparing with the exclamation marks. Here's a sample from an email I received today from my manager: "Breakfast will be served !!!!!" And here's the entire text of one email that she sent: "Any takers ???????????????"
I wish I were joking.
Business writing courses for management level folk are at the top of my professional wish list.
Oh dear.
I learned to use a word processor on a very strange old Amstrad. Then I worked on macs for a while. Then I had to switch to Windows when I went off to university.
Now, I am comfortable using basic office software at an intermediate/expert level under mac, windows, linux, and am confident that I could learn to use basic office software under any given OS.
Teaching to one set of office software is pointless. Eventually it will be outmoded, whatever it is. Teach kids to be comfortable with computers, and comfortable teaching themselves to use new software. It'll do them much more good than harm in the long term.
I agree completely with the value of the auxillary learning in college. But keep in mind that college is not for everybody at all times of their lives. Some people are not at the point in their lives where they can appreciate the courses which you mentioned. Is it worth while for a student to sit through a philosophy course it that student can not open him or herself to learning? Often students only go to college to get the paper that says I paid $50,000 to this school and am qualified because this paper says I am. Those students probably should skip college if they can get a job since they won't get much out of the additional courses.