err More so the Georgia Board of Regents (remember it's usually not the specific institution that sets the cirriculum...).
Let's see 2 english composition classes...a "wellness elective" (actually i can pick one of 2 health classes, the difference between the 2 being one i run and bike in the other I don't). Oh yes, technical communications practices...hahaha, i love that one. Yes the first two years are ANY state university are filled with some useful academics - 4 semesters of calculus, 2 of physics, 1 of chmistry although i have thoughts on it's usefullness in EVERY major! The list goes on, but geez there are some requirements that could be filled with stuff more related to my field (computer engineering)! For instance I can see 1 semester of english compsition, but i think 2 is overkill...and i could go on but I guess my point is there.
How is that going to offend someone, and so what if it does, again they don't have to listen. I know you weren't saying it should be banned, but, my point still is: they don't have to listen. Also, how many people knew what rooster was a about? I did, because a friend of mine bows down and worships alice in chains, but most people aren't and you wouldn't know just by listening.
Unfortunately, one of our big rock stations in atlanta IS a clear channel station (96 Rock) and the other I believe is Cox.
Ever think maybe it is jewish holy land also? Hey, palestinians butcher just a many civilians...noticed the cars loaded down with bombs being driven into hospitals? Cut the crap, they start a war with the Israelis, the lose, the lose land in the process, they try to get that land back and can't so they commit acts of terrorism.
It had nothing to do with retribution, it's "Holy War." It's their free pass into heaven. Kill a Christian or jew while killing yourself, so long as Allah is in a good mood next thing you'll see is 2 virgins and an all you can eat buffet for eternity. They see us as full of Christians and Jews, so...prime target. They want to destroy Israel because Mohammed (sic?) predicted the arabs would one day control all of the middle east...never mind Israel was there until the Babylonians and later the Romans overtook them. They are going to control it one day. That's what he says...if it doesnt happen their religion becomes a farce and they do not want that.
Okay, you obviously don't if the person i was replying to represents the general consensus of other countries. Also, I was syaing we don't give a damn what you think of us. We obviously give a damna bout the rest of the world, cause hey, France in WW2...period. I wont even bring up France in WW1...how about Papua-New Guinea...they don't have anything to thank us for. Wha tdo we get? Made fun of, bad opinions of us, and so on so forth.
Vietnam was stupid the Balkans (not Balcans) uh we weren't the only ones, Cold War...blame Russia. Africa...maybe Somalia or Libya? umm how'd we screw them up? and i sure hope your not french cause we could have jus let the nazis run your country, or if you're a brit we didn't have to help you gus and if you're chinese...we didnt have to help you either. (Nuke on hiroshima and nagasaki...)
You don't like America? I got 2 words, FUCK YOU! We frankly don't give a damn!
Muslims have this lovely belief that if Allah is in a good mood and you kill yourself while killing a Christian you get a free pass to 2 virgins and an all you can eat buffet for eternity, that's fine they wanna kill us no problem let's give them a free trip to meet Allah.
Use a few B61s (tactical nukes) and turn the middle east into a big piece of glass if necesary, I don't care just kill 'em!
I might write my Rep. and tell him to kill all the mother f**kers and let Allah sort them all out.
We see int he middle east how well pleas for peace work out...massive counter-strikes work better it seems. Remember this affects you too: _World_ Trade Center...some of your country men might have been in there.
I would hardly classify SoF as "disgustingly violent." I'd say Diablo and Doom were much much much violent. No one kicked upa fuss over either of them! The difference? SoF has a nifty graphics engine mod that allows for certain body parts to be removed based on where the fatal blow hit. Rather kewl if you ask me! This comes from a 17 year old who has play such games (I play all three above) since the days of Wolfenstein 3D. (Which, I have.) Violence shouldn't be deemed something for adults only! Heck, I'd be more worried about them!
Fact: The kids who go on shooting sprees ins chools and such have difficulty distinguishing between illusion and reality. They have difficulty seeing hmm in SoF I die and others die and I reload and we all come back, however, in real life that doesn't happen.
Ratings will not stop them from getting them.
So ban em you might say. Well, television offers the same illusion. How many of you will ban television?
Well, let's say you do. Hey we still have books.
Ban books and so on and so forth down the line.
PointleSS!!!!
It's just another waste of government monies.
On the other hand, ratings are not bad, the problem is requiring "AO" ame sbeing places in a seperate room. Translation, "We know stores that sell games don't have seperate rooms so we are forcing them not to sell such games."
First off, It's already been reverse engineered! I've been using licq for quitesome time and i like it much! This API spec is USELESS! Many open libraries out there are free to use et cetera.
Second, the prohibition on 13 years olds is due to a rather silly law passed a couple of years ago, that the liar in chief managed to sign int he name of "protection" (in other words government trying to parent and butting into our lives further!)
It's rather dumb and pointless, I was using icq at the age of 12, and no harm came to me! I was using IRC, so on so forth at the age of 9! No harm came to me! I'm 17 and it hasn't damaged me, i was never molested...because i used commonsense and had parents who taught me such things, not because the government "protected" (sheltered) me!
I plan to attend GA Tech in the fall, and what the school is telling me (I was looking into doing a dual major Comp-Sci and Electrical Engineering) is the computer engineering combines comp-sci and electrical engineering into one major, with leaning towards electrical engineering. Wheny ou look in the paper and see that they want someone with a computer-science or equiv. degree, comp-eng would probably be equiv.:-)
You can learn anythign as you go, so why bother with colelge at all...duh because when you apply for a job they ask that you have a CS or equiv. degree (comptuer engineering would also work...)
Derek
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Name one popular game with a European or Far Eastern aim?
You can't I bet!
Your comment is incorrect, by simple ignorance. Games made in the U.S. are targetted towards the U.S. because the majority of computer game sales are in the U.S., irregardless of the size of other country's (or continent's) economies!
Games are very much aimed at broadband users, and it irritates the snot out of me because I can't even consider played quake 3 on the internet! Half-life I can play when the server allows someone with a 200+ ping to connect!
I'm stuck on a 56k modem, and I'm in a suburb of Atlanta! I'm in a very well populated part of townt hat happens to be the only part still not serviced by cable modems or DSL. Yet nothing is out there in games (it wouldnt be hard to set timing up to evening the reception of the data by each client in a game....) to help me. Oh well, I live with it...
I'd much more recommend xine. It is MUCH MUCH MUCH farther along! I watch my anime and my lovely movies on it...in fullscreen mode. It's sometimes a chore to get it working...but it works! In fact it's no where near the chore that OMS is!
Unfortunately they aren't brave enough to bundle the CSS plug-in with it. In fact they've gone to great length to make it very unvisible and must be found here.
I can verify this! I was very close to working helpdesk at Delta, but at the time i didn't have the training money. In reality, I've seen a lot of employers doing this in recent years, because training expenses have become high and employee turnovers are the reason. Not because they job sucks, simply because it's a highly competitive job market! For the record as someone who paid his $2500 (the price has since changed) for the seminar, they never said we will only hire you if...they said your experience and your knowledge (based on a small 50 question general computer repair and networking quiz I was given) shows you can handle the job, and here are your three routes: pass our tests, start your job, , pass the SAIR tests, start your job, take the class and pass either sets of tests, and start your job. I chose the third, reason...while I'm a fairly seasoned linux user, I felt I might be lackign some knowledge. I was! I learned alot! especially about networking and system administration tasks!
I must admit, it sounded fishy to me at first, but I did some homework, said well seems worth a risk, and I enjoyed the class, and while I feel it could have been MUCH more than it was, It was very good in my opinion. However, it's very hard to fit all the linux information one needs into 1 month!
No one ever said no class no employment, and I have been told for a month I will probably be put with someone else who is more experienced to polish some skills.
It's a pointing device sure, but your keyboard on wheels comparison is hardly justified! i'm sorry but is 3 mouse buttons a difficult request??? I'd merely like to bring up the pop-up menus without moving my hand across the keyboard. As for that third button, hell, it can be mapped quite easily to something useful...now it makes alot of sense to put those 3 buttons on, so that the peopel who want em have and the people who dont, dont have to use them! That so hard to understand?
Picture this:
You're on an airplane or jet or whatever your favorite reference is, and you're playing with your powerbook running linux...sure normally you'd just plug your nice Intellimouse Explorer (or facsimile thereof - and copy-cats very much exist...the nereby MicroCenter has some fo rlike uh $20, for all your people who wont even buy an MS labelled mouse!) into the USB port...but the guy next to you keeps telling you to get your damned mouse off his crotch...damn your company for not springing for first class! damn them!
That's why Numero Uno won't work.
Numero dos...well, why would you want to??????????
Remember, us PC folk would love to come to the apple side of things except in my own case atleast...those damned mice piss me off, and it's not like I can go to my local comptuer store and buy the parts to build my own and fix my own if I'd like. Which I would!
You're quote is quite correct, but my self-esteem once was very high until I started to try and get dates...and women love to tell guys they dont like about every single inadequacy they have. That is why my self-esteem is now non-existant. 20 something women after I started I've gone on 2 dates witht he same girl who dumped me by hanging up on me when I called.
They point is, teenage girls really dont give a rip about your self-esteem, they want a guy who'll spend money on them, a jock who'll bang em until they impregnate them and then run away, or someone along those lines, they dont think about their futures and that hey this guy is into computers, he's a technician at a computer store he's about to go work as a network engineer and he's only 17.
They think does he drive a 2001 Ford Mustang right NOW?
no.
Was his pictur einthe paper for sports?
no.
Do I want him?
no.
Simple as that, but hey I live in Atlanta where everything is weird so...
My question was asked simply because I'm curious if other guys like me (since I know none!) have the same troubles. And if not possibly find out if it's what they do differently or if it jsut has to do with there locale because I'm beginning to suspect that is my problem is that the girls in this area are jsut that way.
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err More so the Georgia Board of Regents (remember it's usually not the specific institution that sets the cirriculum...).
Let's see 2 english composition classes...a "wellness elective" (actually i can pick one of 2 health classes, the difference between the 2 being one i run and bike in the other I don't). Oh yes, technical communications practices...hahaha, i love that one. Yes the first two years are ANY state university are filled with some useful academics - 4 semesters of calculus, 2 of physics, 1 of chmistry although i have thoughts on it's usefullness in EVERY major! The list goes on, but geez there are some requirements that could be filled with stuff more related to my field (computer engineering)! For instance I can see 1 semester of english compsition, but i think 2 is overkill...and i could go on but I guess my point is there.
How is that going to offend someone, and so what if it does, again they don't have to listen. I know you weren't saying it should be banned, but, my point still is: they don't have to listen. Also, how many people knew what rooster was a about? I did, because a friend of mine bows down and worships alice in chains, but most people aren't and you wouldn't know just by listening.
Unfortunately, one of our big rock stations in atlanta IS a clear channel station (96 Rock) and the other I believe is Cox.
I'm sorry, but "Tuesday's Gone"...it's about a friggen girl!
Rooster by Alice in Chains? Smooth Criminal (The Alien Ant Farm version?)
That's a moronic comment, if theyc an't handle a lynyrd skynyrd missing a girl either turn the radio off or become a "Jumper"
They don't HAVE to listen.
Ever think maybe it is jewish holy land also? Hey, palestinians butcher just a many civilians...noticed the cars loaded down with bombs being driven into hospitals? Cut the crap, they start a war with the Israelis, the lose, the lose land in the process, they try to get that land back and can't so they commit acts of terrorism.
AM 750 WSB here in Atlanta, which is very much connected with CNN, the Canadian border is closed. So, I can't confirm anything.
It had nothing to do with retribution, it's "Holy War." It's their free pass into heaven. Kill a Christian or jew while killing yourself, so long as Allah is in a good mood next thing you'll see is 2 virgins and an all you can eat buffet for eternity. They see us as full of Christians and Jews, so...prime target. They want to destroy Israel because Mohammed (sic?) predicted the arabs would one day control all of the middle east...never mind Israel was there until the Babylonians and later the Romans overtook them. They are going to control it one day. That's what he says...if it doesnt happen their religion becomes a farce and they do not want that.
Canadian border has been since sealed.
Okay, you obviously don't if the person i was replying to represents the general consensus of other countries. Also, I was syaing we don't give a damn what you think of us. We obviously give a damna bout the rest of the world, cause hey, France in WW2...period. I wont even bring up France in WW1...how about Papua-New Guinea...they don't have anything to thank us for. Wha tdo we get? Made fun of, bad opinions of us, and so on so forth.
I hope you're using sarcasm, if not you're on crack.
Vietnam was stupid the Balkans (not Balcans) uh we weren't the only ones, Cold War...blame Russia. Africa...maybe Somalia or Libya? umm how'd we screw them up? and i sure hope your not french cause we could have jus let the nazis run your country, or if you're a brit we didn't have to help you gus and if you're chinese...we didnt have to help you either. (Nuke on hiroshima and nagasaki...)
You don't like America? I got 2 words, FUCK YOU! We frankly don't give a damn!
I'll bite.
Kill 'em all.
Muslims have this lovely belief that if Allah is in a good mood and you kill yourself while killing a Christian you get a free pass to 2 virgins and an all you can eat buffet for eternity, that's fine they wanna kill us no problem let's give them a free trip to meet Allah.
Use a few B61s (tactical nukes) and turn the middle east into a big piece of glass if necesary, I don't care just kill 'em!
I might write my Rep. and tell him to kill all the mother f**kers and let Allah sort them all out.
We see int he middle east how well pleas for peace work out...massive counter-strikes work better it seems. Remember this affects you too: _World_ Trade Center...some of your country men might have been in there.
I would hardly classify SoF as "disgustingly violent." I'd say Diablo and Doom were much much much violent. No one kicked upa fuss over either of them! The difference? SoF has a nifty graphics engine mod that allows for certain body parts to be removed based on where the fatal blow hit. Rather kewl if you ask me! This comes from a 17 year old who has play such games (I play all three above) since the days of Wolfenstein 3D. (Which, I have.) Violence shouldn't be deemed something for adults only! Heck, I'd be more worried about them!
Fact: The kids who go on shooting sprees ins chools and such have difficulty distinguishing between illusion and reality. They have difficulty seeing hmm in SoF I die and others die and I reload and we all come back, however, in real life that doesn't happen.
Ratings will not stop them from getting them.
So ban em you might say. Well, television offers the same illusion. How many of you will ban television?
Well, let's say you do. Hey we still have books.
Ban books and so on and so forth down the line.
PointleSS!!!!
It's just another waste of government monies.
On the other hand, ratings are not bad, the problem is requiring "AO" ame sbeing places in a seperate room. Translation, "We know stores that sell games don't have seperate rooms so we are forcing them not to sell such games."
Now that IS censorship!
Derek Greene
First off, It's already been reverse engineered! I've been using licq for quitesome time and i like it much! This API spec is USELESS! Many open libraries out there are free to use et cetera.
Second, the prohibition on 13 years olds is due to a rather silly law passed a couple of years ago, that the liar in chief managed to sign int he name of "protection" (in other words government trying to parent and butting into our lives further!)
It's rather dumb and pointless, I was using icq at the age of 12, and no harm came to me! I was using IRC, so on so forth at the age of 9! No harm came to me! I'm 17 and it hasn't damaged me, i was never molested...because i used commonsense and had parents who taught me such things, not because the government "protected" (sheltered) me!
UGH!
Derek Greene
I plan to attend GA Tech in the fall, and what the school is telling me (I was looking into doing a dual major Comp-Sci and Electrical Engineering) is the computer engineering combines comp-sci and electrical engineering into one major, with leaning towards electrical engineering. Wheny ou look in the paper and see that they want someone with a computer-science or equiv. degree, comp-eng would probably be equiv. :-)
Derek
You can learn anythign as you go, so why bother with colelge at all...duh because when you apply for a job they ask that you have a CS or equiv. degree (comptuer engineering would also work...)
Derek
You can't I bet!
Your comment is incorrect, by simple ignorance. Games made in the U.S. are targetted towards the U.S. because the majority of computer game sales are in the U.S., irregardless of the size of other country's (or continent's) economies!
Games are very much aimed at broadband users, and it irritates the snot out of me because I can't even consider played quake 3 on the internet! Half-life I can play when the server allows someone with a 200+ ping to connect!
I'm stuck on a 56k modem, and I'm in a suburb of Atlanta! I'm in a very well populated part of townt hat happens to be the only part still not serviced by cable modems or DSL. Yet nothing is out there in games (it wouldnt be hard to set timing up to evening the reception of the data by each client in a game....) to help me. Oh well, I live with it...
Derek
Actually, that's sounding about right! OMS has hideous performance... :-(
Unfortunately they aren't brave enough to bundle the CSS plug-in with it. In fact they've gone to great length to make it very unvisible and must be found here.
Have fun!
Derek
I can verify this! I was very close to working helpdesk at Delta, but at the time i didn't have the training money. In reality, I've seen a lot of employers doing this in recent years, because training expenses have become high and employee turnovers are the reason. Not because they job sucks, simply because it's a highly competitive job market! For the record as someone who paid his $2500 (the price has since changed) for the seminar, they never said we will only hire you if...they said your experience and your knowledge (based on a small 50 question general computer repair and networking quiz I was given) shows you can handle the job, and here are your three routes: pass our tests, start your job, , pass the SAIR tests, start your job, take the class and pass either sets of tests, and start your job. I chose the third, reason...while I'm a fairly seasoned linux user, I felt I might be lackign some knowledge. I was! I learned alot! especially about networking and system administration tasks!
I must admit, it sounded fishy to me at first, but I did some homework, said well seems worth a risk, and I enjoyed the class, and while I feel it could have been MUCH more than it was, It was very good in my opinion. However, it's very hard to fit all the linux information one needs into 1 month!
No one ever said no class no employment, and I have been told for a month I will probably be put with someone else who is more experienced to polish some skills.
It's a pointing device sure, but your keyboard on wheels comparison is hardly justified! i'm sorry but is 3 mouse buttons a difficult request??? I'd merely like to bring up the pop-up menus without moving my hand across the keyboard. As for that third button, hell, it can be mapped quite easily to something useful...now it makes alot of sense to put those 3 buttons on, so that the peopel who want em have and the people who dont, dont have to use them! That so hard to understand?
and before anyone other than my friends comments about my misspelling "nearby", sorry..I'm tired ok???
Picture this: You're on an airplane or jet or whatever your favorite reference is, and you're playing with your powerbook running linux...sure normally you'd just plug your nice Intellimouse Explorer (or facsimile thereof - and copy-cats very much exist...the nereby MicroCenter has some fo rlike uh $20, for all your people who wont even buy an MS labelled mouse!) into the USB port...but the guy next to you keeps telling you to get your damned mouse off his crotch...damn your company for not springing for first class! damn them! That's why Numero Uno won't work. Numero dos...well, why would you want to?????????? Remember, us PC folk would love to come to the apple side of things except in my own case atleast...those damned mice piss me off, and it's not like I can go to my local comptuer store and buy the parts to build my own and fix my own if I'd like. Which I would!
You're quote is quite correct, but my self-esteem once was very high until I started to try and get dates...and women love to tell guys they dont like about every single inadequacy they have. That is why my self-esteem is now non-existant. 20 something women after I started I've gone on 2 dates witht he same girl who dumped me by hanging up on me when I called.
They point is, teenage girls really dont give a rip about your self-esteem, they want a guy who'll spend money on them, a jock who'll bang em until they impregnate them and then run away, or someone along those lines, they dont think about their futures and that hey this guy is into computers, he's a technician at a computer store he's about to go work as a network engineer and he's only 17.
They think does he drive a 2001 Ford Mustang right NOW?
no.
Was his pictur einthe paper for sports?
no.
Do I want him?
no.
Simple as that, but hey I live in Atlanta where everything is weird so...
My question was asked simply because I'm curious if other guys like me (since I know none!) have the same troubles. And if not possibly find out if it's what they do differently or if it jsut has to do with there locale because I'm beginning to suspect that is my problem is that the girls in this area are jsut that way.
Being a teen geek myself, I have a horrid time finding a date! Do you have such troubles? If yes does it bother you? If no, what's your secret????!!!!