Hell, we've been killing Nazis for ages (Wolfenstein, etc) LONG before we were killing over races in video games, and you don't hear the Germans complain.
Are we as a people ever going to grow up to the point where we can watch a movie and know it's fantasy? If people are stupid enough to enroll into a career based on a bunch of 2D moving pictures, then they deserve to fail.
Do you get a kick when shows/movies make fun of you or your distinctive way of speaking? Shatner jokes seem to pop up in about every form of entertainment, from animated shows (Family Guy) to the dregs of the Internet. Does this sort of attention make you feel like you left your mark on entertainment (I know I would)
"....(Microsloth) does not contain licensing provisions that require an OEM, and potentially its licensees, to disclose the source code for its intellectual property in a widespread fashion to open source participants.." Um... isn't the the whole point of OPEN source software?
I have been playing video games since early Atari (around age 7-8), and since then have played most major console releases. But (gasp), I am also a devoted reader (Stephen King, Tracy Hickman) plus run a quite deep and well-thought about D&D campaign with a ton of creativity. I live in a very rural area, where the r's are drawn out and high speed internet access is the stuff of fantasy. Had it not been for gaming, I am quite sure I would have turn into a beer swillin' (wait, I drink... nevermind) redneck with EXTREMELY low creativity. How long were these people studied, what type of gaming was used, etc. I find this report full of wholes and quite candidly, insulting. But that's just my opinion, I could be wrong (basks in roar of crowd)
I'm actually quite good in math. I got my first B in a math class my last year at Tech (it was in Differiental Equations, I think), and I'm quite good at C++. I am also fluent in PHP, scripting, and have two webpages under my belt, which I built completely and totally on my own. It's not that I lack the skills, it's that the ones I use, I LEARNED. And I know college is suppose to stimulate your mind so you continue to learn, but when I'm paying 10,000 dollars a year, I expect a certain amount force fed to me. Just to let you guys know, when I was going there, they had 2 OR 3 Unix classes. An early one, that was the "We're going to teach you all the switches for every terminal command" and the "You're going to code C++... just in Linux this time" And NO database classes. Makes a lot of sense seeing that a HUGE number of businesses using Unix servers combined with databases to ensure their day to day operations...
I have to agree with this article. I'm a three year student at Virginia Tech majoring in Computer Science, and even though I've tell everyone I've take a break due to "finicial" reasons, it's really because the curriculum isn't taking me anywhere. Pretty much all the teach is calculus and C++, and every computer related job in my area (a fairly rural one)has asked for experience in everything EXCEPT calculus and C++. More frequent questions are "How is your database experience?" and "What is your web experience?". Maybe in a large city, being a strict programmer will get you somewhere, but in a rural/suburban area, C++ and intense math are about as useful as underwater basketweaving.
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Hell, we've been killing Nazis for ages (Wolfenstein, etc) LONG before we were killing over races in video games, and you don't hear the Germans complain.
I don't care if the port of MLF2 was incredible and even featured MLF3 as a bonus. Ikaruga would still kick it's ass.
Are we as a people ever going to grow up to the point where we can watch a movie and know it's fantasy? If people are stupid enough to enroll into a career based on a bunch of 2D moving pictures, then they deserve to fail.
Do you get a kick when shows/movies make fun of you or your distinctive way of speaking? Shatner jokes seem to pop up in about every form of entertainment, from animated shows (Family Guy) to the dregs of the Internet. Does this sort of attention make you feel like you left your mark on entertainment (I know I would)
"....(Microsloth) does not contain licensing provisions that require an OEM, and potentially its licensees, to disclose the source code for its intellectual property in a widespread fashion to open source participants.."
Um... isn't the the whole point of OPEN source software?
I have been playing video games since early Atari (around age 7-8), and since then have played most major console releases. But (gasp), I am also a devoted reader (Stephen King, Tracy Hickman) plus run a quite deep and well-thought about D&D campaign with a ton of creativity. I live in a very rural area, where the r's are drawn out and high speed internet access is the stuff of fantasy. Had it not been for gaming, I am quite sure I would have turn into a beer swillin' (wait, I drink... nevermind) redneck with EXTREMELY low creativity. How long were these people studied, what type of gaming was used, etc. I find this report full of wholes and quite candidly, insulting.
But that's just my opinion, I could be wrong (basks in roar of crowd)
I'm actually quite good in math. I got my first B in a math class my last year at Tech (it was in Differiental Equations, I think), and I'm quite good at C++. I am also fluent in PHP, scripting, and have two webpages under my belt, which I built completely and totally on my own.
It's not that I lack the skills, it's that the ones I use, I LEARNED. And I know college is suppose to stimulate your mind so you continue to learn, but when I'm paying 10,000 dollars a year, I expect a certain amount force fed to me.
Just to let you guys know, when I was going there, they had 2 OR 3 Unix classes. An early one, that was the "We're going to teach you all the switches for every terminal command" and the "You're going to code C++... just in Linux this time" And NO database classes. Makes a lot of sense seeing that a HUGE number of businesses using Unix servers combined with databases to ensure their day to day operations...
I have to agree with this article. I'm a three year student at Virginia Tech majoring in Computer Science, and even though I've tell everyone I've take a break due to "finicial" reasons, it's really because the curriculum isn't taking me anywhere. Pretty much all the teach is calculus and C++, and every computer related job in my area (a fairly rural one)has asked for experience in everything EXCEPT calculus and C++. More frequent questions are "How is your database experience?" and "What is your web experience?". Maybe in a large city, being a strict programmer will get you somewhere, but in a rural/suburban area, C++ and intense math are about as useful as underwater basketweaving.
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