Offtopic: Does anybody remember a very obscure '80s game that involved a top-down perspective of a spaceship that moved at a fixed speed forward and could be rotated to the left or right, over a landscape where you could both bomb stuff on the ground and shoot down ships in the air? I used to LOVE that game back in the day, and I have no idea what it was...
Why does it always have to be about who will exploit the other more instead of countries trying to reach reasonable agreements like they used to.
Umm, countries have always been interested in explotation - that hasn't changed. What has changed is that some countries (and not only the US) now vastly outweigh the others in resources, influence, and the ability to do that exploiting.
And, need I remind you that the two biggest wars in history both started in Europe? Things haven't exactly been all peaceful and reasonable on that side of the world either.
And, if you'll forgive me, your attitude showcases how many in Europe and/or Asia seem to insist that American citizens always have the same stance and views as the US government.
A clue: We don't. People disagree with the government's policies, sometimes very vehemently. Sometimes things get changed because of it, sometimes they don't. Assuming that 100% of America's citizens totally support our government at all times is complete lunacy.
You don't seem to care about that, though, especially when you see a convinient chance for mudslinging.
Sounds kinda neat...Reminds me of some sci-fi books i've read, where a character will do programming/design work by playing musical notes, drawing connections on a screen, etc.
Fine. I really don't want to get in a flame war with an AC here, but the first two categories:
5(Works perfectly): 7. One of those being Diablo 2, which has been out for almost 5 years, and 2 of the other being Warcraft 3+expansion. And another being a Hoyle Card Game collection.
4(Playable with minor irritations): 278. Including such gems as "Blair Witch, Volume 2: The Legend of Coffin Rock", "Putt-Putt and Pep's Balloon-O-Rama", "Revenge of Marjorie the Chicken", or "Hello Kitty: Cutie World".
Sure, there's "real" games on there as well, but the vast majority with this rating fall into the category of:
1) FPS games.
2) Games from at least 2-5 years ago.
Which is all well and good, but doesn't really fit with "it is just as good as Windows for games, in fact better", does it? If that were true, it would work with any game designed for Windows, with no problems other than hardware incompatibilities or the occasional DOS/Win95 game not wanting to work under XP/2000.
Also, I don't know about you, but many people have interests other than shoot-emups, and don't care that WineX can play Quake 3, Unreal or every version of Half-Life ever made perfectly.
The rest of the list, ranging from "Playable with major irritations" to "May install but there is no gameplay", down to "Does not install and does not work" contains 591 titles, or more than twice the amount of working titles. Take from that what you will.
I'll probably get blasted for stereotyping here, but many of the "hardcore" linux users and programmers i've observed don't seem to really see the point of/don't want to play video/computer games.
I think that's one reason why some people can't fathom somebody staying with Windows - Linux may rox0r in almost every other way possible, but when it comes to just being able to grab any old game off the shelf and play it, it's just not there yet. Some people just aren't willing to give that up, no matter how bad Windows' other faults may be.
RIT is most certainly not filled with sunlight-averse people. Anytime the weather clears up, people flood outside, especially along the "Quarter-Mile" near the academic side and all around the dorms/frat houses.
But unless it's changed significantly over the last few years, the social life on campus seemed to be terminally ill.
I visited there on several occasions while choosing schools, and each time remarked how quiet it was...More than once it was a bright, sunny, beautiful day, and yet there was nobody outside. Instead, they all seemed to be clustered inside the computer labs and such.
Even better, when the worm forges your mail address on some idiots messages, and then an AV gateway sends the forged message back to you with a copy of the virus. Checked my own Yahoo account again after seeing your message, and found at least 7 mails like that.
Also, lots of spam mails with one real sentence, and then a paragraph or two of random English words at the bottom...Something new to defeat filtering?
"Understand, that SPEWS does not block anyone, all they do is make available a list of spam-friendly, and spam-supporting providers."
Okay, so they don't do any direct blocking, but they put info on the list, knowing full well that the large number of people using the list are more than likely going to block those netblocks.
Read your post complaining about American-invented ADHD, and then read mine again. Repeat until you get the point I was trying to make, which apparently needs to be driven home with a sledgehammer in your case.
Guess what? The first diagnosis and much of the early clinical work related to ADHD circa 1902 was done by a British pediatrician. One link for you would be this. On a UK website, even, not by us evvvvvviiiilll Americans.
If you want to go even farther back, I see on that linked site that the first probable reference to a child with ADHD was made in the poems of a German physician in 1865.
I don't believe in ADHD/ADD at all. Children are naturally naughty, curious, and full of energy. Why must Americans attempt to find something wrong with everyone, handing labels out willy-nilly.
As someone that's suffered some mental health issues of his own, I can safely say you're full of it. Like it or not, some people DO have problems, and are "labled" correctly as having such. Often, it can be because something needs to be formally diagnosed before you can get certain treatment, extra help from the school system, etc.
At the end of the day "kids will be kids"--Yes, that is an actual saying folks. If you pump the little sods full of these sedatives or whatnot you are ruining the learning experience of a child, in respect to social rules.
As someone has already said, WRONG. One of the more common drugs, Ritalin (Methylphenidate), is actually a CNS stimulant.
Take your ill-informed attempts at US-bashing elsewhere, please. Judging by your other posts, you're not very good at it.
I've been looking for something exactly like this for months....Thanks!
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The same person with half a brain or someone to teach them can use Linux.
Quite true. What I was attempting to say, though, is that even if it can't be made as good as Linux, you can at least batten down the hatches, so to speak. That way it'll be relatively secure and yet still what they're used to.
Never been bit by the Windows Messenger Popups? You must have a firewall or you know enough to disable the Messenger service. Starting to look like a Linux candidate to me.
Nope. And yes, I do have a firewall. Two, I guess, if you count the software firewall behind my router/switch. That said, though, none of my non-techie family, friends, classmates, etc. have ever mentioned recieving Messenger popups. Maybe i'm just extremely lucky in that regard, I dunno.
Again, anybody with the brains and energy to go through this ritual could easily handle the "fun" of installing Linux.
I'll grant that the registry editing may not be trivial to everyone. But have you ever actually used Ad-Aware? You start the program, pick which drive you want scanned, and hit the Start button. 15 or 20 minutes later, after watching the progress bar crawl by, you select (near) everything that it found, and hit the button to clean it all off. Done. Once in a while you have to update the definition file, which takes 2 clicks.
Easy though Linux may be to install these days, it's still not that easy.
Let's see, in Windows, settings can be changed by using the control panel, customizing the start menu, using the registry editor or searching for files to edit. In modern Linux distributions, settings can be changed by using the desktop manager's control panel, using the DM menu builder or searching for config files to edit. Guess which one sounds easier.
Well, seeing as we're talking about less knowledgeable users here, who likely don't even know the registry or config files exist, let alone how to edit them, i'd have to say they're both pretty close to the same. Probably a slight edge to Windows again, due to the handholding of the environment.
Nor am I a Linux zealot. But I wanted you to see that your post does a much better job of arguing in favor of Linux than you might have thought.
Well, I did ask for an explanation. Nothing like a little critiquing to make things clearer:)
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True enough...As I said in that sentence, though, some users need to be taught what's wrong or right by that top 95th percentile.
I'd say just about anyone with a Windows-based computer has access to some way of learning how to protect themselves, the problem's just getting them to take advantage of it, or getting the geeky types to deign to help a bit. Which is another whole discussion in itself, I suppose.
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Where, exactly, did I say or imply that?
Personally, i've learned to use Linux fairly well, but it took much longer than it did for me to learn Windows.
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- being able to enjoy those cute "I love you" and "Anna Kurovina" messages automatically forwarded from your best friends, co-workers, and total strangers.
Anyone with half a brain and/or access to someone that can take the time to teach them a bit will be perfectly safe from such things.
- The ability to browse every site online, at least every one selling X10 cameras and pictures you wouldn't want your boss to see.
Funny, I don't see any ad pop-ups at all while i'm browsing with Firebird's blocking on, and everyone I know that's still using IE (even my computer-cluelesss grandma) has a pop-up blocker installed. I'll let you in on a little secret, too - those ads and porn pop-ups aren't limited to only Windows.
- Software so advanced it installs automatically while you browse, no user intervention required. Uninstalling is as simple as wiping your main partition and re-installing Windows.
This is a legitimate gripe. Again, however, anyone with half a brain or access to a help desk minion/techie friend or family member will be able to remove such software through programs like Ad-Aware or Spybot. I'm sorry, but if someone thinks the only way to get rid of ad/spyware is a complete wipe of the drive, then they're an idiot. Even for the stuff that can't be auto-removed somehow, there's almost always a fairly easy way to fix it in the registry, found through Google.
- Enjoy desktop environments where settings are spread around 3 different menus and where sometimes they inexplicably don't stick etc. etc. in general using software developed by investors free from the limiting boundaries of friendliness and caring about your users.
Way to generalize. And settings spread out in Windows? I think not. 99.9% of anything you need to change can be accessed through the Control Panels or a simple file search for something to edit.
- A wide swath of available content, all provided to your trusted platform ensuring that your purchased programs will run forever... Until you lose the disk, upgrade your system, ban the program from spying on your browsing habits, or the producer decides to turn the software off remotely.
True for some software, not true for the vast majority. I won't claim to know exactly what you do for a living, but you sound like the type that uses only (in Windows) MS Office, and maybe some development apps, along some small utilities - and you draw your opinions on Windows software behavior soley from that base. Please, feel free to respond and prove me wrong, though.
Don't get me wrong, i'm not saying Windows is perfect, i'm just saying that your perceptions seem to be a bit off as well.
I agree that the parent post is not a shining example of humor, but maybe you shouldn't try to speak for anyone else.
yet the vast majority of you have never even left your home state, let alone gone to another country
I'm an American, and yet i've stayed for lengths of time (not just passing through) 17 different states, as well as parts of Canada. I can think of several people I know that have done the same or more, including long stays in Russia, Japan, England, Spain, etc.
Travel is not a rarity here, despite whatever your myopic, ethnocentric, and otherwise prejudiced views may have lead you to believe.
Apparently ignorance is now something to be proud of these days, which is really very funny until you find yourself listed in the Darwin awards with a genuinely funny story about how you managed to kill yourself through an act of your your own stupidity.
I have plenty of European friends I talk to on a regular basis, but geez...It's idiots like you that make my opinion on the rest of the continent continue a downward spiral.
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Not exactly traditional tanks, but try Gunbound if you can stand the way Koreans seem to mangle English, and playing with a lot of Korean and Singaporean players.
It's still in beta-testing (I think), online multi-player, free to play, and is actually pretty darn fun.
Next, assume the student is working for 1/2 tuition credit (which a lot of colleges like to do for part time work), at ~ $14,500
What? Where in the world did you pull that number from?
I currently attend (and work at) another large techinical school - RIT. That said, I can tell you that for 99% of students here, they're stuck doing jobs like working in the cafeteria, manning the library desks, sitting around as computer lab assistants, and such....At around $6.50-8/hour. Even the few jobs paying higher will only be $10-12/hour at the most. And yes, i've seen more than a few postings for part-time and full-time co-op positions at rates like those.
Sure, there's going to be some exceptions, but in general, you're going to be laughed at to your face for suggesting that ~20 hours/week should somehow be worth half a student's tuition at a school like RIT, MIT, or lots of other private tech schools.
Since they're working part time and going to school, lets be generous and say they work three days a week: 24 hours.
I can also say that that's more than likely off as well....Assuming you're talking about a student doing software development work or somesuch, and not just navel-gazing in a computer lab or something...~20 hours of real work combined with a full 4-5 class schedule at someplace like MIT is going to burn you out real fast.
They typically censor many of their anime series for violence, sex and random gore. For example, in 'Knights of the Zodiac', their censored version of Saint Seiya, They go as far as butchering dialogue to make the series more acceptable for the 'American Public'
I guess that's what the DVD's are for. At this stage in the game, i'd just be glad anime and other adult cartoons are actually being shown regularly on a national mainstream cable channel.
However bad it may have been in the past, it's getting better, though. In (for example) the later episodes of Dragonball Z on CN, I recall seeing red blood, and "die", "death", "kill", etc. many a time- and this on a show that's marketed to hell and back for teens and preteens.
It should be noted, too, that the actual translation and dubbing is not done by CN, but rather by an outside studio- like Funimation, Ocean, ZRO Limit, etc.
but I still wouldn't keep my hopes up for uncensored, original content.
Just for the record, CN aired all of Gundam Wing uncut about 3 or 4 years ago, in part of the same time slot that Adult Swim currently occupies.
And it only becomes tedious if you don't have a game system and/or a DM that can work with it. You should look at some of the character classes and skills at the Epic level sometime - Very impressive stuff, but also controlled, as well as being insanely hard to attain.
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Hmm, not really sure then...I have an almost full MAME set sitting around somewhere (yes, I know it's evil), maybe i'll take a look this weekend.
Offtopic: Does anybody remember a very obscure '80s game that involved a top-down perspective of a spaceship that moved at a fixed speed forward and could be rotated to the left or right, over a landscape where you could both bomb stuff on the ground and shoot down ships in the air? I used to LOVE that game back in the day, and I have no idea what it was...
Xevious.
Why does it always have to be about who will exploit the other more instead of countries trying to reach reasonable agreements like they used to.
Umm, countries have always been interested in explotation - that hasn't changed. What has changed is that some countries (and not only the US) now vastly outweigh the others in resources, influence, and the ability to do that exploiting.
And, need I remind you that the two biggest wars in history both started in Europe? Things haven't exactly been all peaceful and reasonable on that side of the world either.
And, if you'll forgive me, your attitude showcases how many in Europe and/or Asia seem to insist that American citizens always have the same stance and views as the US government.
A clue: We don't. People disagree with the government's policies, sometimes very vehemently. Sometimes things get changed because of it, sometimes they don't. Assuming that 100% of America's citizens totally support our government at all times is complete lunacy.
You don't seem to care about that, though, especially when you see a convinient chance for mudslinging.
Sounds kinda neat...Reminds me of some sci-fi books i've read, where a character will do programming/design work by playing musical notes, drawing connections on a screen, etc.
Fine. I really don't want to get in a flame war with an AC here, but the first two categories:
5(Works perfectly): 7. One of those being Diablo 2, which has been out for almost 5 years, and 2 of the other being Warcraft 3+expansion. And another being a Hoyle Card Game collection.
4(Playable with minor irritations): 278. Including such gems as "Blair Witch, Volume 2: The Legend of Coffin Rock", "Putt-Putt and Pep's Balloon-O-Rama", "Revenge of Marjorie the Chicken", or "Hello Kitty: Cutie World".
Sure, there's "real" games on there as well, but the vast majority with this rating fall into the category of:
1) FPS games.
2) Games from at least 2-5 years ago.
Which is all well and good, but doesn't really fit with "it is just as good as Windows for games, in fact better", does it? If that were true, it would work with any game designed for Windows, with no problems other than hardware incompatibilities or the occasional DOS/Win95 game not wanting to work under XP/2000.
Also, I don't know about you, but many people have interests other than shoot-emups, and don't care that WineX can play Quake 3, Unreal or every version of Half-Life ever made perfectly.
The rest of the list, ranging from "Playable with major irritations" to "May install but there is no gameplay", down to "Does not install and does not work" contains 591 titles, or more than twice the amount of working titles. Take from that what you will.
Umm, i'm not really sure about that.
I'll probably get blasted for stereotyping here, but many of the "hardcore" linux users and programmers i've observed don't seem to really see the point of/don't want to play video/computer games.
I think that's one reason why some people can't fathom somebody staying with Windows - Linux may rox0r in almost every other way possible, but when it comes to just being able to grab any old game off the shelf and play it, it's just not there yet. Some people just aren't willing to give that up, no matter how bad Windows' other faults may be.
RIT is most certainly not filled with sunlight-averse people. Anytime the weather clears up, people flood outside, especially along the "Quarter-Mile" near the academic side and all around the dorms/frat houses.
Umm...I was responding to a comment about RPI, actually. I guess that's what I get for replying to an AC comment :P
But unless it's changed significantly over the last few years, the social life on campus seemed to be terminally ill.
I visited there on several occasions while choosing schools, and each time remarked how quiet it was...More than once it was a bright, sunny, beautiful day, and yet there was nobody outside. Instead, they all seemed to be clustered inside the computer labs and such.
Even better, when the worm forges your mail address on some idiots messages, and then an AV gateway sends the forged message back to you with a copy of the virus. Checked my own Yahoo account again after seeing your message, and found at least 7 mails like that.
Also, lots of spam mails with one real sentence, and then a paragraph or two of random English words at the bottom...Something new to defeat filtering?
"Understand, that SPEWS does not block anyone, all they do is make available a list of spam-friendly, and spam-supporting providers."
Okay, so they don't do any direct blocking, but they put info on the list, knowing full well that the large number of people using the list are more than likely going to block those netblocks.
How big a difference is there, really?
Read your post complaining about American-invented ADHD, and then read mine again. Repeat until you get the point I was trying to make, which apparently needs to be driven home with a sledgehammer in your case.
Okay, now you're just a dumbass, seriously...
Guess what? The first diagnosis and much of the early clinical work related to ADHD circa 1902 was done by a British pediatrician. One link for you would be this. On a UK website, even, not by us evvvvvviiiilll Americans.
If you want to go even farther back, I see on that linked site that the first probable reference to a child with ADHD was made in the poems of a German physician in 1865.
I don't believe in ADHD/ADD at all. Children are naturally naughty, curious, and full of energy. Why must Americans attempt to find something wrong with everyone, handing labels out willy-nilly.
As someone that's suffered some mental health issues of his own, I can safely say you're full of it. Like it or not, some people DO have problems, and are "labled" correctly as having such. Often, it can be because something needs to be formally diagnosed before you can get certain treatment, extra help from the school system, etc.
At the end of the day "kids will be kids"--Yes, that is an actual saying folks. If you pump the little sods full of these sedatives or whatnot you are ruining the learning experience of a child, in respect to social rules.
As someone has already said, WRONG. One of the more common drugs, Ritalin (Methylphenidate), is actually a CNS stimulant.
Take your ill-informed attempts at US-bashing elsewhere, please. Judging by your other posts, you're not very good at it.
I've been looking for something exactly like this for months....Thanks!
The same person with half a brain or someone to teach them can use Linux.
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Quite true. What I was attempting to say, though, is that even if it can't be made as good as Linux, you can at least batten down the hatches, so to speak. That way it'll be relatively secure and yet still what they're used to.
Never been bit by the Windows Messenger Popups? You must have a firewall or you know enough to disable the Messenger service. Starting to look like a Linux candidate to me.
Nope. And yes, I do have a firewall. Two, I guess, if you count the software firewall behind my router/switch. That said, though, none of my non-techie family, friends, classmates, etc. have ever mentioned recieving Messenger popups. Maybe i'm just extremely lucky in that regard, I dunno.
Again, anybody with the brains and energy to go through this ritual could easily handle the "fun" of installing Linux.
I'll grant that the registry editing may not be trivial to everyone. But have you ever actually used Ad-Aware? You start the program, pick which drive you want scanned, and hit the Start button. 15 or 20 minutes later, after watching the progress bar crawl by, you select (near) everything that it found, and hit the button to clean it all off. Done. Once in a while you have to update the definition file, which takes 2 clicks.
Easy though Linux may be to install these days, it's still not that easy.
Let's see, in Windows, settings can be changed by using the control panel, customizing the start menu, using the registry editor or searching for files to edit. In modern Linux distributions, settings can be changed by using the desktop manager's control panel, using the DM menu builder or searching for config files to edit. Guess which one sounds easier.
Well, seeing as we're talking about less knowledgeable users here, who likely don't even know the registry or config files exist, let alone how to edit them, i'd have to say they're both pretty close to the same. Probably a slight edge to Windows again, due to the handholding of the environment.
Nor am I a Linux zealot. But I wanted you to see that your post does a much better job of arguing in favor of Linux than you might have thought.
Well, I did ask for an explanation. Nothing like a little critiquing to make things clearer
True enough...As I said in that sentence, though, some users need to be taught what's wrong or right by that top 95th percentile.
I'd say just about anyone with a Windows-based computer has access to some way of learning how to protect themselves, the problem's just getting them to take advantage of it, or getting the geeky types to deign to help a bit. Which is another whole discussion in itself, I suppose.
Where, exactly, did I say or imply that?
Personally, i've learned to use Linux fairly well, but it took much longer than it did for me to learn Windows.
- being able to enjoy those cute "I love you" and "Anna Kurovina" messages automatically forwarded from your best friends, co-workers, and total strangers.
Anyone with half a brain and/or access to someone that can take the time to teach them a bit will be perfectly safe from such things.
- The ability to browse every site online, at least every one selling X10 cameras and pictures you wouldn't want your boss to see.
Funny, I don't see any ad pop-ups at all while i'm browsing with Firebird's blocking on, and everyone I know that's still using IE (even my computer-cluelesss grandma) has a pop-up blocker installed. I'll let you in on a little secret, too - those ads and porn pop-ups aren't limited to only Windows.
- Software so advanced it installs automatically while you browse, no user intervention required. Uninstalling is as simple as wiping your main partition and re-installing Windows.
This is a legitimate gripe. Again, however, anyone with half a brain or access to a help desk minion/techie friend or family member will be able to remove such software through programs like Ad-Aware or Spybot. I'm sorry, but if someone thinks the only way to get rid of ad/spyware is a complete wipe of the drive, then they're an idiot. Even for the stuff that can't be auto-removed somehow, there's almost always a fairly easy way to fix it in the registry, found through Google.
- Enjoy desktop environments where settings are spread around 3 different menus and where sometimes they inexplicably don't stick etc. etc. in general using software developed by investors free from the limiting boundaries of friendliness and caring about your users.
Way to generalize. And settings spread out in Windows? I think not. 99.9% of anything you need to change can be accessed through the Control Panels or a simple file search for something to edit.
- A wide swath of available content, all provided to your trusted platform ensuring that your purchased programs will run forever... Until you lose the disk, upgrade your system, ban the program from spying on your browsing habits, or the producer decides to turn the software off remotely.
True for some software, not true for the vast majority. I won't claim to know exactly what you do for a living, but you sound like the type that uses only (in Windows) MS Office, and maybe some development apps, along some small utilities - and you draw your opinions on Windows software behavior soley from that base. Please, feel free to respond and prove me wrong, though.
Don't get me wrong, i'm not saying Windows is perfect, i'm just saying that your perceptions seem to be a bit off as well.
I agree that the parent post is not a shining example of humor, but maybe you shouldn't try to speak for anyone else.
yet the vast majority of you have never even left your home state, let alone gone to another country
I'm an American, and yet i've stayed for lengths of time (not just passing through) 17 different states, as well as parts of Canada. I can think of several people I know that have done the same or more, including long stays in Russia, Japan, England, Spain, etc.
Travel is not a rarity here, despite whatever your myopic, ethnocentric, and otherwise prejudiced views may have lead you to believe.
Apparently ignorance is now something to be proud of these days, which is really very funny until you find yourself listed in the Darwin awards with a genuinely funny story about how you managed to kill yourself through an act of your your own stupidity.
I have plenty of European friends I talk to on a regular basis, but geez...It's idiots like you that make my opinion on the rest of the continent continue a downward spiral.
Not exactly traditional tanks, but try Gunbound if you can stand the way Koreans seem to mangle English, and playing with a lot of Korean and Singaporean players.
It's still in beta-testing (I think), online multi-player, free to play, and is actually pretty darn fun.
Next, assume the student is working for 1/2 tuition credit (which a lot of colleges like to do for part time work), at ~ $14,500
What? Where in the world did you pull that number from?
I currently attend (and work at) another large techinical school - RIT. That said, I can tell you that for 99% of students here, they're stuck doing jobs like working in the cafeteria, manning the library desks, sitting around as computer lab assistants, and such....At around $6.50-8/hour. Even the few jobs paying higher will only be $10-12/hour at the most. And yes, i've seen more than a few postings for part-time and full-time co-op positions at rates like those.
Sure, there's going to be some exceptions, but in general, you're going to be laughed at to your face for suggesting that ~20 hours/week should somehow be worth half a student's tuition at a school like RIT, MIT, or lots of other private tech schools.
Since they're working part time and going to school, lets be generous and say they work three days a week: 24 hours.
I can also say that that's more than likely off as well....Assuming you're talking about a student doing software development work or somesuch, and not just navel-gazing in a computer lab or something...~20 hours of real work combined with a full 4-5 class schedule at someplace like MIT is going to burn you out real fast.
They typically censor many of their anime series for violence, sex and random gore. For example, in 'Knights of the Zodiac', their censored version of Saint Seiya, They go as far as butchering dialogue to make the series more acceptable for the 'American Public'
I guess that's what the DVD's are for. At this stage in the game, i'd just be glad anime and other adult cartoons are actually being shown regularly on a national mainstream cable channel.
However bad it may have been in the past, it's getting better, though. In (for example) the later episodes of Dragonball Z on CN, I recall seeing red blood, and "die", "death", "kill", etc. many a time- and this on a show that's marketed to hell and back for teens and preteens.
It should be noted, too, that the actual translation and dubbing is not done by CN, but rather by an outside studio- like Funimation, Ocean, ZRO Limit, etc.
but I still wouldn't keep my hopes up for uncensored, original content.
Just for the record, CN aired all of Gundam Wing uncut about 3 or 4 years ago, in part of the same time slot that Adult Swim currently occupies.
Key word there being allows.
And it only becomes tedious if you don't have a game system and/or a DM that can work with it. You should look at some of the character classes and skills at the Epic level sometime - Very impressive stuff, but also controlled, as well as being insanely hard to attain.