I don't think it's to "help" the student, but rather to "help" the university afford the costs of buying thousands of public computers every few years. Pawn the cost off onto the students (not like they don't do it via tuition hikes anyways, but it's less staff they need as well to maintain them, and you can always get students to do the phone tech support for the laptops.)
That's generally not the case with MS products. If you're on the correct version of office, the Powerpoint in Professional has all the features of Powerpoint in Enterprise. Office Professional may be lacking all the applications of Enterprise, but any that it overlaps with should have all the same features.
The word games reminds us of the necessity of the activity. While everyone needs some R&R to recover from the day's hard work, games are, by definition, not productive. You might say, "I need some recovery time" (and many do say just that with regards to gaming). But make no bones...a game is entertainment. It is not cleaning the floors, cracking a non-fiction book, repairing the car.
All that being said, in the setting of an MMORPG, it's not what you know, but who you know. As in any social situation, there's potential for meeting someone out there who will change your life.
And it's a wonder why they did incorporate graphics. More money to develop the art when they had a good thing going. Granted it's tough to charge $50 for a text-adventure game, because that's like charging $50 for scrambled eggs...they might be great scrambled eggs, sure. But they just don't require that much time and manpower to create.
MMORPG players can be harsh in general. As long as the gay guild wasn't obnoxious about it (Spamming general chat with Guild Recruitment Notices....which would be unnacceptable from any guild) and willing to put up with general slander which you'll get for doing anything on an MMORPG (heck, I was running for the zone in EQ once and the train following me killed off some female party member of another group...I thought I was going to be lynched there was so much testosteronic chivalry going on), then I say let Blizzard pay it no mind.
People are obnoxious enough when you know them. People who are anonymous on the Internet are unbelievable. Fact of life. But the presence of a gay guild sticking out the inevitable abuse will only breed acceptance as people get bored with the bashing.
Aren't we sort of paying this way now? I get so much bandwidth for $49.95 per month from my Cable provider. I can upgrade for more bandwidth for more money. What else am I paying for? I have this same problem with TV ads. I'm paying another $60 for cable TV, yet I still get 18 minutes of actual programming every 30.
Meh. Troll you call me, but my point is sound. Where do YOU see the future of the planet if humanity doesn't start working with the earth, instead of paving over it? Population growth isn't slowing, more than 1 billion people are going to finally be an open market to the auto industry, and still no one will make a decisive move and say, "If we don't change, we're screwed." You don't even need to "believe" that humans have an effect on climate change to see that, eventually, our kennel is going to be too pooped upon to lie in, and we've got no place to go.
Happily, the earth doesn't care whether we perish as a race, so long as we don't take her with it. The sooner we take ourselves out of the picture, the better for all other species involved.
But really, we should figure ourselves out. Are we living within nature, or in spite of it?
There's no public outcry because 90% of users don't know what's actually happening. "Oh, I hate these darn ads!" they'll say, but they don't know why they are there or that they can easily get rid of them. I am constantly amazed by the level of computer knowledge people demonstrate, despite the fact they are parked in front of one 8-10 hours per day. In fact, a good PhD Engineering friend of mine IMs me and asks if the web server is down, he wanted to look up someone's address on the site directory. I told him yes it was down and gave him the email address. He then asks: "Well, if the website is down, can I still email them?"
People are learning, I'll admit, but even "saavy" users don't really know much about spyware, adware, viruses, hijacking, firewalls, etc. Have they heard of them? Maybe. But they don't really know how to deal with them or even what to look for.
With public boards allowing people to go through other users' old posts, "anonymity" is fading, and you're composed of not just the thoughts in your current post, but of your past posts (should anyone take the time to check...and they do). If you have a tendency to exaggerate, people will take note. If you preach uncited "facts", people will always question you. So while you as a person remain message_board_user_045, message_board_user_045 does have a history, a personality, a fanbase (or detractors).
I've found myself with 5 moderator points...I'd like to mod the parent "Funny" but I'm not certain the person was trying to be funny. No points for you, scary person.
At the University, faculty are pretty resistant to putting confidential documents online. When you tell them that, "No, unless I disable your 'print screen' key, a copy can always be made somehow", they aren't excited. Less excited about not have a print screen key, so things move along anyway.
Spoken like someone who reads too much and doesn't buy enough. I've used Dell products for about 9 years now...thousands of PCs. I've had problems, real out-of-the-box hardware problems, maybe 10 times. Hardware will fail eventually, sure. But for the parts and warranty, as well as ease of online management of both, you can't beat Dell.
It's Dungeons and Dragons. There are only a few items that rank higher in the "News for Nerds" category than material that is Dungeons and Dragons related. DnD news supercedes the IGN/Fileplanet crossover issues.
I wonder if the reason they have this clause is the fact that they will indeed be collecting the data. Says nothing about not selling the data once collected, just that they won't use it to determine whether to hire you or not.
My biggest issue with my position in the various places I've held it, is that you never feel part of what's going on. You are behind the scenes. I work for an educational institution, but I couldn't tell you what the faculty do every day, or what the needs of the students are, or help set up for bbq's for the staff, etc. I work on computers, wherever I am. It's what I do. It's all I do. And I'm not going to stop until...
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Just did my first search using Firefox 1.5. Still waiting for a result. Been about 2 minutes now. Time to make the Rose of the Prophets...
I don't think it's to "help" the student, but rather to "help" the university afford the costs of buying thousands of public computers every few years. Pawn the cost off onto the students (not like they don't do it via tuition hikes anyways, but it's less staff they need as well to maintain them, and you can always get students to do the phone tech support for the laptops.)
- Really really lame paraphrase of Top Gun. I'm bored.
That's generally not the case with MS products. If you're on the correct version of office, the Powerpoint in Professional has all the features of Powerpoint in Enterprise. Office Professional may be lacking all the applications of Enterprise, but any that it overlaps with should have all the same features.
The word games reminds us of the necessity of the activity. While everyone needs some R&R to recover from the day's hard work, games are, by definition, not productive. You might say, "I need some recovery time" (and many do say just that with regards to gaming). But make no bones...a game is entertainment. It is not cleaning the floors, cracking a non-fiction book, repairing the car.
All that being said, in the setting of an MMORPG, it's not what you know, but who you know. As in any social situation, there's potential for meeting someone out there who will change your life.
And it's a wonder why they did incorporate graphics. More money to develop the art when they had a good thing going. Granted it's tough to charge $50 for a text-adventure game, because that's like charging $50 for scrambled eggs...they might be great scrambled eggs, sure. But they just don't require that much time and manpower to create.
MMORPG players can be harsh in general. As long as the gay guild wasn't obnoxious about it (Spamming general chat with Guild Recruitment Notices....which would be unnacceptable from any guild) and willing to put up with general slander which you'll get for doing anything on an MMORPG (heck, I was running for the zone in EQ once and the train following me killed off some female party member of another group...I thought I was going to be lynched there was so much testosteronic chivalry going on), then I say let Blizzard pay it no mind.
People are obnoxious enough when you know them. People who are anonymous on the Internet are unbelievable. Fact of life. But the presence of a gay guild sticking out the inevitable abuse will only breed acceptance as people get bored with the bashing.
"I can't believe this crap got modded up"
Yep...my mod points expired or I'd hit it with a big TROLL which is all that it was. -5 Idiotic at best.
Aren't we sort of paying this way now? I get so much bandwidth for $49.95 per month from my Cable provider. I can upgrade for more bandwidth for more money. What else am I paying for? I have this same problem with TV ads. I'm paying another $60 for cable TV, yet I still get 18 minutes of actual programming every 30.
Sheesh.
Meh. Troll you call me, but my point is sound. Where do YOU see the future of the planet if humanity doesn't start working with the earth, instead of paving over it? Population growth isn't slowing, more than 1 billion people are going to finally be an open market to the auto industry, and still no one will make a decisive move and say, "If we don't change, we're screwed." You don't even need to "believe" that humans have an effect on climate change to see that, eventually, our kennel is going to be too pooped upon to lie in, and we've got no place to go.
Happily, the earth doesn't care whether we perish as a race, so long as we don't take her with it. The sooner we take ourselves out of the picture, the better for all other species involved.
But really, we should figure ourselves out. Are we living within nature, or in spite of it?
There's no public outcry because 90% of users don't know what's actually happening. "Oh, I hate these darn ads!" they'll say, but they don't know why they are there or that they can easily get rid of them. I am constantly amazed by the level of computer knowledge people demonstrate, despite the fact they are parked in front of one 8-10 hours per day. In fact, a good PhD Engineering friend of mine IMs me and asks if the web server is down, he wanted to look up someone's address on the site directory. I told him yes it was down and gave him the email address. He then asks: "Well, if the website is down, can I still email them?"
People are learning, I'll admit, but even "saavy" users don't really know much about spyware, adware, viruses, hijacking, firewalls, etc. Have they heard of them? Maybe. But they don't really know how to deal with them or even what to look for.
With public boards allowing people to go through other users' old posts, "anonymity" is fading, and you're composed of not just the thoughts in your current post, but of your past posts (should anyone take the time to check...and they do). If you have a tendency to exaggerate, people will take note. If you preach uncited "facts", people will always question you. So while you as a person remain message_board_user_045, message_board_user_045 does have a history, a personality, a fanbase (or detractors).
I've found myself with 5 moderator points...I'd like to mod the parent "Funny" but I'm not certain the person was trying to be funny. No points for you, scary person.
Think of the taglines!
- Do you have the Urge to dance?
- Do you have the Urge to make love?
- The Urge is rising!
- Feel the Urge!
At the University, faculty are pretty resistant to putting confidential documents online. When you tell them that, "No, unless I disable your 'print screen' key, a copy can always be made somehow", they aren't excited. Less excited about not have a print screen key, so things move along anyway.
Problem Exists Between...umm..hmmm...the k'chair? Like g'nome's are g'nice?
Clearly I need to look up the new meaning of the abbreviation (PEBCAC - Chair and Computer).
Spoken like someone who reads too much and doesn't buy enough. I've used Dell products for about 9 years now...thousands of PCs. I've had problems, real out-of-the-box hardware problems, maybe 10 times. Hardware will fail eventually, sure. But for the parts and warranty, as well as ease of online management of both, you can't beat Dell.
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Exactly. But do we need both? I'll just keep using the faster one.
It's Dungeons and Dragons. There are only a few items that rank higher in the "News for Nerds" category than material that is Dungeons and Dragons related. DnD news supercedes the IGN/Fileplanet crossover issues.
I'm sure Kent was messing with the optics again....
I wonder if the reason they have this clause is the fact that they will indeed be collecting the data. Says nothing about not selling the data once collected, just that they won't use it to determine whether to hire you or not.
My biggest issue with my position in the various places I've held it, is that you never feel part of what's going on. You are behind the scenes. I work for an educational institution, but I couldn't tell you what the faculty do every day, or what the needs of the students are, or help set up for bbq's for the staff, etc. I work on computers, wherever I am. It's what I do. It's all I do. And I'm not going to stop until...
Okay, bub. You cannot, repeat, CANNOT lump Prius owners and BMW owners into one group.
You can't buy a Prius without turn signals...
Attitudes about sex are strongly influenced by culture.
If only there were more gangs throwing condoms or orgy invitations out their windows instead of bullets...