Every time I sit down to read my online text books for school, I always ended up saying "What's on slashdot" and then I rarely get any reading done for the evening..
Having electronic forms of the text books are good for travel, but if you are going to use ONLY them, you have to be very self disciplined.
Why are we seeing all these abaondware games (Keen, GTA, Lost Vikings) coming back? I personally think it doest with the nostalgia trend... you know how everyone is in love with Transformers again, or wearing Thundercats t-shirts... It's now progressed to the classic DOS games. I have mixed feelings about this movementâ"its nice to see the toys and games I grew up with coming back again, but at the same time itâ(TM)s must like seeing my past being whored out for a quick buck. I could probably go on with this prostitute analogy but this isnâ(TM)t the time or place for itâ¦
Getting back on topic: Yes it would be nice to see Keen, Captain Comic and others of those type to come back and be available for the palm platform, or even as a free game for an X desktop (much like XBill and Xcivâ"think Keen as new FreeCell for your OS)-- but the age old adage stole holds - "If there is a buck to made... two bucks will be charged"
I also remember one day reinstalling Wing Commander 2 on my Pentium MMX, and losing very bad to the fact my computer was just to fast for the game⦠Would these games be recoded to account for the increase in processor speed since then?
I'm going to try and reply to a series of threads here in one go.. so please I apologize for length.
Actually a quick correction, there are currently three acredited programs in Ontario for software engineering. These are offered at McMaster University, Western and Ottawa.
Waterloo started its program this year, and will be up for acredition (from my understandign of the CEAB (Canadian Engineering Accredition Board) the year of the gradutation class.
So what makes software engineer? At McMaster where I attend, it is the idea of taking common engineering practises and incorperating it into computer science.
Each school offers a different flavor due to the strength of their Engineering Faculty and Computer Science faculty. I currently attend the McMaster program and I'm sorry if this seems one sided.
Our prgoram works due to karge part of Dr. Parnas, who has envisioned this feild for sometime. Another strong point of our program appears to be that a large portion of our professors have industry experince(Nuclear Plant Shutdown systems, the design of IMPS).
One person mentioend that we should be sure to be using open source software in these programs. So far in my education, we've using nothing but opensource, and (suprise, surprise) slashdot is the default load page for our redhat lab. (I don't think our unix lab has a default load page currently).
The biggest problem here at McMaster currently is the education of industry. IBM, SUN and NORTEL I believe understand the difference between a SFWR Enigneer and a CS grad.
As the world shifts mroe and more to software, it's becoming that computer programing is more then an art. It's an art that needs to be drawn with the responsibility of a professional engieer.
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Every time I sit down to read my online text books for school, I always ended up saying "What's on slashdot" and then I rarely get any reading done for the evening..
Having electronic forms of the text books are good for travel, but if you are going to use ONLY them, you have to be very self disciplined.
Why are we seeing all these abaondware games (Keen, GTA, Lost Vikings) coming back? I personally think it doest with the nostalgia trend... you know how everyone is in love with Transformers again, or wearing Thundercats t-shirts... It's now progressed to the classic DOS games. I have mixed feelings about this movementâ"its nice to see the toys and games I grew up with coming back again, but at the same time itâ(TM)s must like seeing my past being whored out for a quick buck. I could probably go on with this prostitute analogy but this isnâ(TM)t the time or place for itâ¦
Getting back on topic:
Yes it would be nice to see Keen, Captain Comic and others of those type to come back and be available for the palm platform, or even as a free game for an X desktop (much like XBill and Xcivâ"think Keen as new FreeCell for your OS)-- but the age old adage stole holds - "If there is a buck to made... two bucks will be charged"
I also remember one day reinstalling Wing Commander 2 on my Pentium MMX, and losing very bad to the fact my computer was just to fast for the game⦠Would these games be recoded to account for the increase in processor speed since then?
I'm going to try and reply to a series of threads here in one go.. so please I apologize for length.
Actually a quick correction, there are currently three acredited programs in Ontario for software engineering. These are offered at McMaster University, Western and Ottawa.
Waterloo started its program this year, and will be up for acredition (from my understandign of the CEAB (Canadian Engineering Accredition Board) the year of the gradutation class.
So what makes software engineer? At McMaster where I attend, it is the idea of taking common engineering practises and incorperating it into computer science.
Each school offers a different flavor due to the strength of their Engineering Faculty and Computer Science faculty. I currently attend the McMaster program and I'm sorry if this seems one sided.
Our prgoram works due to karge part of Dr. Parnas, who has envisioned this feild for sometime. Another strong point of our program appears to be that a large portion of our professors have industry experince(Nuclear Plant Shutdown systems, the design of IMPS).
One person mentioend that we should be sure to be using open source software in these programs. So far in my education, we've using nothing but opensource, and (suprise, surprise) slashdot is the default load page for our redhat lab. (I don't think our unix lab has a default load page currently).
The biggest problem here at McMaster currently is the education of industry. IBM, SUN and NORTEL I believe understand the difference between a SFWR Enigneer and a CS grad.
As the world shifts mroe and more to software, it's becoming that computer programing is more then an art. It's an art that needs to be drawn with the responsibility of a professional engieer.