Let's put aside the fact that a LOT of professors don't like the idea of students even bringing smartphones into class, much less tablets and notebooks. Let's put aside the fact this guy sounds like someone whining about his budget, who has possibly been approached by a slick salesman who's sold him on the idea of some app that's just going to require a "small investment." Let's put aside the fact the professors are still, by and large, a bunch of old farts--many of whom are still using the same blackboard presentations and transparencies that they were using 30 years ago.
To me, the most obvious counter to this assertion is the notebook. Students have had notebooks en masse for 10-15 years now, and THOSE didn't really revolutionize the classroom. And if notebooks, which are way more powerful and open than tablets, didn't really change things all that much--then what makes him think that tablets will?
Greetings, time traveler from the 19th century. "And" has been an acceptable opening segue for some time now here in 2012. Also, we attempt to use gender-neutral language, which has made using the plural "they" and its variants as singular forms increasingly acceptable. In addition, the delineation between "effect" and "affect" seems to be fading in popular usage as well, as have traditional meanings of "irony" and "hacker" (a word which probably means something REALLY different to you).
Oh, and we have a cure or treatment for every venereal disease now! And we have a polio vaccine too!
Once you've smelled burning kangaroo mixed with the acrid stench of melted dune-buggy and dead mutant, you're never the same again. I can still hear the koalas screaming in my nightmares.
Hell, I would buy some of the CS2 stuff, if they would sell it at a reasonable price. $25-$50 for a copy of Photoshop CS3 would actually be very attractive to a lot of people.
Being a nerd, I feel compelled to point out that Batman has TONS of boundaries. He won't use guns, won't kill--generally won't do anything to criminals aside from beating them up and maybe helping provide some evidence for police of their criminal activity (evidence that would almost certainly be worthless in a courtroom). It's one of the many reasons why he and other comic book heroes look great in a comic book or movie, but could never exist in real life.
offer modular component updates, including the option to upgrade the PC's CPU and RAM.
I will *not* get back into that chase again, thank you very much. The whole reason I left PC gaming years ago was because I got tired of the specs chase. Consoles meant never having to look on the box and see if I needed yet another upgrade to play a game. I've even still got the stack of old video cards and MB's to remind me of how much money I wasted back then.
Not going back to that. And if I was, I would just build my own PC and connect it to my TV (why bother with Valve's box?). After all, if I'm going back to the chase, may as well get the freedom of a PC too.
God, I used to hate group projects in school. Group projects for the smart A-student almost always translated to "I do all the work, everyone else in the group gets a free ride." It was basically teacher-sanctioned cheating and plagiarism, IMHO. I get to bust my ass, everyone else gets to copy my work.
There is an expectation when you have physical media. If you pay full retail for something, and you can hold the installation (or game media), you should be able to sell it.
That hasn't been the case with PC games for years now (and PC gamers stood by and let it happen with barely a whimper). They're just bringing it over to consoles now.
Unless he's making your own job a lot harder or you're his boss (or project manager), it's not your place. Your "help" will likely only piss him off more and more and cause problems in the office. Not only will it in *no way* benefit you, but it will very likely *hurt* you and your career--since your manager will come to view you as a source of headaches, your co-worker(s) will view you as a pretentious little prick, and (contrary to popular belief) the guy who helps produce better overall product is almost never rewarded for it anyway. About the fastest way for anyone to piss off their co-workers and bosses is to walk around with a "I'm the best coder here" attitude all day, whether it's true or not. Don't do it.
So, STFU and let management deal with him (or not). That's what they're paid for, not you. Don't offer *any* unsolicited criticism, and even if solicited, offer only a few minor criticisms at a time.
Because Shilling was a Republican, of course. That makes him a champion of free market capitalism and all that (until *he* needs a handout from Uncle Sam, of course).
I presume that's just the startup costs. Otherwise, it seems a little low to me. I mean, if they're going to stay among the elite in the genre today, they're going to have to compete with EVE Online and X3.
If it's anything like my old office, it's filled with a mixture of people unwilling or unable to learn ANYTHING new. ANYTHING new, no matter how simple.
They learned how to fax stuff when they started in 1987, and that is the way they will do it until they die. And if you try to make them change, they will feign near-catatonic levels of stupidity, throw fits, intentionally sabotage equipment (yep, actually seen it happen), and generally throw up any roadblock they can manage to stand in the way of learning even the simplest new task.
I'm just impressed they were able to sober up enough to write the stories in the first place. They must have rounded up all five sober people in Dublin to pull that off.
There have been remote mining posts throughout human history that exchanged food, furs, and tools for raw materials. Why would a base on another planet be different?
Aside from the lack of water, oxygen, atmospheric pressure, radiation shielding, soil, and a multitude of needed minerals and ores, you mean?
I love the fact that you have absolute faith in our ability to journey across space and terraform an entire world--complete with soil, oxygen, water, radiation shielding, atmospheric pressure, etc.--to create a self-sustaining colony on a completely hostile world with almost none of the native resources that are absolutely necessary for human survival.
But you have no faith at all in our ability to dig a deep tunnel on earth.
No, I would just rather invest our resources in a realistic plan that can help humanity survive in the long term, vs. an ill-thought-out plan that will only divert our time and resources to other worlds which we cannot ever realistically inhabit.
I fucking hate when people make that thoughtless analogy. Christopher Columbus lived in a time when sea travel was well-understood. He traveled a little longer than most others traveled, to an island where there was food and fresh water, and then back again. You could colonize the New World in those days because the New World, while not as developed was still BASICALLY THE SAME as the old world. Oxygen didn't suddenly disappear when you crossed the ocean, water was still present, food could still be grown in the soil, the forests still had wild game. Aside from cities and better roads, it was THE SAME.
For a more proper analogy, imagine Christopher Columbia launching himself into an the magma flow of an active volcano to establish a colony there or announcing that he was journeying to the deepest part of the Mariana Trench to establish deep-sea colonies.
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No, he just needed to make it clear that this was a reference to the non-gay one.
After all, he's fresh from a CS program where they taught him everything.
Let's put aside the fact that a LOT of professors don't like the idea of students even bringing smartphones into class, much less tablets and notebooks. Let's put aside the fact this guy sounds like someone whining about his budget, who has possibly been approached by a slick salesman who's sold him on the idea of some app that's just going to require a "small investment." Let's put aside the fact the professors are still, by and large, a bunch of old farts--many of whom are still using the same blackboard presentations and transparencies that they were using 30 years ago.
To me, the most obvious counter to this assertion is the notebook. Students have had notebooks en masse for 10-15 years now, and THOSE didn't really revolutionize the classroom. And if notebooks, which are way more powerful and open than tablets, didn't really change things all that much--then what makes him think that tablets will?
Greetings, time traveler from the 19th century. "And" has been an acceptable opening segue for some time now here in 2012. Also, we attempt to use gender-neutral language, which has made using the plural "they" and its variants as singular forms increasingly acceptable. In addition, the delineation between "effect" and "affect" seems to be fading in popular usage as well, as have traditional meanings of "irony" and "hacker" (a word which probably means something REALLY different to you).
Oh, and we have a cure or treatment for every venereal disease now! And we have a polio vaccine too!
Once you've smelled burning kangaroo mixed with the acrid stench of melted dune-buggy and dead mutant, you're never the same again. I can still hear the koalas screaming in my nightmares.
do not sufficiently appreciate the difficulty of attributing the source of an attack
And they were so happy when they successfully traced the latest attack to user "goatse" at fbi.gov.
Hey, why doesn't someone make a gaming PC, but without all the pesky mouse and keyboard to get in the way?
Hell, I would buy some of the CS2 stuff, if they would sell it at a reasonable price. $25-$50 for a copy of Photoshop CS3 would actually be very attractive to a lot of people.
Being a nerd, I feel compelled to point out that Batman has TONS of boundaries. He won't use guns, won't kill--generally won't do anything to criminals aside from beating them up and maybe helping provide some evidence for police of their criminal activity (evidence that would almost certainly be worthless in a courtroom). It's one of the many reasons why he and other comic book heroes look great in a comic book or movie, but could never exist in real life.
offer modular component updates, including the option to upgrade the PC's CPU and RAM.
I will *not* get back into that chase again, thank you very much. The whole reason I left PC gaming years ago was because I got tired of the specs chase. Consoles meant never having to look on the box and see if I needed yet another upgrade to play a game. I've even still got the stack of old video cards and MB's to remind me of how much money I wasted back then.
Not going back to that. And if I was, I would just build my own PC and connect it to my TV (why bother with Valve's box?). After all, if I'm going back to the chase, may as well get the freedom of a PC too.
God, I used to hate group projects in school. Group projects for the smart A-student almost always translated to "I do all the work, everyone else in the group gets a free ride." It was basically teacher-sanctioned cheating and plagiarism, IMHO. I get to bust my ass, everyone else gets to copy my work.
There is an expectation when you have physical media. If you pay full retail for something, and you can hold the installation (or game media), you should be able to sell it.
That hasn't been the case with PC games for years now (and PC gamers stood by and let it happen with barely a whimper). They're just bringing it over to consoles now.
Can you resell your Steam game?
Sony shiting on its customers
Film at eleven?
Always behind on technology, but on the cutting edge of evil.
Unless he's making your own job a lot harder or you're his boss (or project manager), it's not your place. Your "help" will likely only piss him off more and more and cause problems in the office. Not only will it in *no way* benefit you, but it will very likely *hurt* you and your career--since your manager will come to view you as a source of headaches, your co-worker(s) will view you as a pretentious little prick, and (contrary to popular belief) the guy who helps produce better overall product is almost never rewarded for it anyway. About the fastest way for anyone to piss off their co-workers and bosses is to walk around with a "I'm the best coder here" attitude all day, whether it's true or not. Don't do it.
So, STFU and let management deal with him (or not). That's what they're paid for, not you. Don't offer *any* unsolicited criticism, and even if solicited, offer only a few minor criticisms at a time.
In short: Lighten up, Francis.
How is that capitalism?
Because Shilling was a Republican, of course. That makes him a champion of free market capitalism and all that (until *he* needs a handout from Uncle Sam, of course).
I presume that's just the startup costs. Otherwise, it seems a little low to me. I mean, if they're going to stay among the elite in the genre today, they're going to have to compete with EVE Online and X3.
If it's anything like my old office, it's filled with a mixture of people unwilling or unable to learn ANYTHING new. ANYTHING new, no matter how simple.
They learned how to fax stuff when they started in 1987, and that is the way they will do it until they die. And if you try to make them change, they will feign near-catatonic levels of stupidity, throw fits, intentionally sabotage equipment (yep, actually seen it happen), and generally throw up any roadblock they can manage to stand in the way of learning even the simplest new task.
I'm just impressed they were able to sober up enough to write the stories in the first place. They must have rounded up all five sober people in Dublin to pull that off.
I know I'm 5'2", uncoordinated, and blind--but I want to be an NBA star, dad!
I mean, anything is possible when you dream, right?
There have been remote mining posts throughout human history that exchanged food, furs, and tools for raw materials. Why would a base on another planet be different?
Aside from the lack of water, oxygen, atmospheric pressure, radiation shielding, soil, and a multitude of needed minerals and ores, you mean?
I love the fact that you have absolute faith in our ability to journey across space and terraform an entire world--complete with soil, oxygen, water, radiation shielding, atmospheric pressure, etc.--to create a self-sustaining colony on a completely hostile world with almost none of the native resources that are absolutely necessary for human survival.
But you have no faith at all in our ability to dig a deep tunnel on earth.
You think so small.
No, I would just rather invest our resources in a realistic plan that can help humanity survive in the long term, vs. an ill-thought-out plan that will only divert our time and resources to other worlds which we cannot ever realistically inhabit.
I fucking hate when people make that thoughtless analogy. Christopher Columbus lived in a time when sea travel was well-understood. He traveled a little longer than most others traveled, to an island where there was food and fresh water, and then back again. You could colonize the New World in those days because the New World, while not as developed was still BASICALLY THE SAME as the old world. Oxygen didn't suddenly disappear when you crossed the ocean, water was still present, food could still be grown in the soil, the forests still had wild game. Aside from cities and better roads, it was THE SAME.
For a more proper analogy, imagine Christopher Columbia launching himself into an the magma flow of an active volcano to establish a colony there or announcing that he was journeying to the deepest part of the Mariana Trench to establish deep-sea colonies.