How many times after playing quake for a few hours in a row have you gone outside for a walk and seen somone walking far away and thought "Gee if I only had the railgun..." Or saw a large group of people and thought "man the BFG would take them out nicely."
I've actually thought that... Although I also had a thought the preceeded those "IF THIS WERE QUAKE"
These people need to be slapped around by the judge. Or sued for the wast of time of thousands if not millions of people around the world (like myself) who should be studying, working, whatever but instead are posting messages like this one, or talking about how crappy america is becoming at the water cooler.
Same thing happened at my school. I took a data structures class in C++, and had too work about 30 hrs on every assignment (most of us did).
I'm taking the class over now ('cause I spent more like 29 hrs on each one) in java. I've put in a grand total of 6 hrs on the first three assignments. We just have to write a few algorithms, and they call it an assignment.
It's pathetic. Maybe that's a "feature" of java but that still doesn't teach what data structures are, and it barely teaches us how to use them.
Note about the first time I took the class.. had I taken the course from the other instructor teaching the class that semester I would've passed the class. We had the same assignments, the same exams, and the same homework. One graded on a standard curve, the other curved to the class. I'm I sueing? No... and I am an American...
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To all those who have played quake,
How many times after playing quake for a few hours in a row have you gone outside for a walk and seen somone walking far away and thought "Gee if I only had the railgun..." Or saw a large group of people and thought "man the BFG would take them out nicely."
I've actually thought that... Although I also had a thought the preceeded those "IF THIS WERE QUAKE"
These people need to be slapped around by the judge. Or sued for the wast of time of thousands if not millions of people around the world (like myself) who should be studying, working, whatever but instead are posting messages like this one, or talking about how crappy america is becoming at the water cooler.
Wait wouldn't that be a silly lawsuit too...
I'm taking the class over now ('cause I spent more like 29 hrs on each one) in java. I've put in a grand total of 6 hrs on the first three assignments. We just have to write a few algorithms, and they call it an assignment.
It's pathetic. Maybe that's a "feature" of java but that still doesn't teach what data structures are, and it barely teaches us how to use them.
Note about the first time I took the class.. had I taken the course from the other instructor teaching the class that semester I would've passed the class. We had the same assignments, the same exams, and the same homework. One graded on a standard curve, the other curved to the class. I'm I sueing? No... and I am an American...
Take your lumps you probably deserve it.
-ErR