I've always been a big fan of AQ2 because of the realism. I hear Rouge Spear is also realistic, so I guess Rouge Spear, StarCraft and Tiberian Sun gets my votes!
No offense, but I really hate it when people say they hate a series, and then it turns out they've only seen 5 episodes.
DUH!
FYI, Voyager's very different nowadays. I've seen season 1, 2, 4, 5 and some random episodes in season 3. 4 & 5 are completely different than the first, and the second seson definitely shows the beginnings of that change.
First of all, it's never been stated that Warp 9 is the absolute speed limit in Star Trek. What *has* been stated, is that, on the post-TOS Warp scale, Warp 10, by definition, equals infinite velocity. That's never been contradicted (although "Threshhold" sucked because they treated Warp 10 so poorly).
I agree with you about Voyager's good (my favorite series), but there *is* room for improvement. But I don't think it's a soap either - DS9 falls into that category though.
You're wrong. In the episode (titled "Genesis") the crew "de-evloved" into *one* previous species. For example, Riker and Picard are both human, but according to Data Picard would "de-evlove" into something else than Riker did. Nothing in "Genesis" really contradicts what was said in "The Chase", although one might argue that a lot of things in general condradict what was said in "The Chase"...
I find this discussion very interesting, since I am planing on going to the U.S. next year myself, to study C.S. at the undergraduate level.
I'm planning on applying to at least the University of Maryland (www.umd.edu), and South Carolina State University as a backup, plus two more I haven't selected yet.
I chose UMD because they seem to * have many courses that interests me * they don't brag about their "Macs and PC:s" (meaning MacOS and Windows)[1]. * are just about within my financial range (around $22k total per year, for an international student, including residency). * they claim to have a highly ranked C.S. department
Am I making a misstake? Does anyone know more about UMD (or SCSU for that matter)?
[1] I honestly can't take a C.S. department seriously if all they do is teach students how to use Microsoft products and click around in MacOS. And I also want to learn more about Unix (because I'm far from being an expert, even if I love Linux).
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I've always been a big fan of AQ2 because of the realism. I hear Rouge Spear is also realistic, so I guess Rouge Spear, StarCraft and Tiberian Sun gets my votes!
No offense, but I really hate it when people
say they hate a series, and then it turns out
they've only seen 5 episodes.
DUH!
FYI, Voyager's very different nowadays. I've
seen season 1, 2, 4, 5 and some random episodes in
season 3. 4 & 5 are completely different than the first, and the second seson definitely shows
the beginnings of that change.
First of all, it's never been stated that
Warp 9 is the absolute speed limit in Star Trek.
What *has* been stated, is that, on the post-TOS
Warp scale, Warp 10, by definition, equals infinite velocity. That's never been contradicted
(although "Threshhold" sucked because they treated Warp 10 so poorly).
I agree with you about Voyager's good (my favorite
series), but there *is* room for improvement. But
I don't think it's a soap either - DS9 falls into
that category though.
You're wrong. In the episode (titled "Genesis") the crew "de-evloved" into *one* previous species. For example, Riker and Picard are both human, but according to Data Picard would "de-evlove" into something else than Riker did. Nothing in "Genesis" really contradicts what was said in "The Chase", although one might argue that a lot of things in general condradict what was said in "The Chase"...
I find this discussion very interesting, since
I am planing on going to the U.S. next year
myself, to study C.S. at the undergraduate
level.
I'm planning on applying to at least the University of Maryland (www.umd.edu), and
South Carolina State University as a backup, plus
two more I haven't selected yet.
I chose UMD because they seem to
* have many courses that interests me
* they don't brag about their "Macs and PC:s" (meaning MacOS and Windows)[1].
* are just about within my financial range
(around $22k total per year, for an international
student, including residency).
* they claim to have a highly ranked C.S.
department
Am I making a misstake? Does anyone know more about UMD (or SCSU for that matter)?
[1] I honestly can't take a C.S. department seriously if all they do is teach students how to use Microsoft products and click around in MacOS.
And I also want to learn more about Unix (because
I'm far from being an expert, even if I love Linux).