I find staying one step behind helps a lot from an economical standpoint. I am currently playing N64, PSX, and Dreamcast games and I can get em dirt cheap. $10-$20 a piece. Same thing with PC games. I play all the older ones I can find in the $10-$20 range. Great games like HomeWorld, FIFA 2002, Grim Fandango, Serious Sam 1, Max Payne, Unreal Tournament (not 2003), etc. These games run fine on moderate hardware. I concentrate on gameplay and I don't care if the graphics are the latest and greatest. The increase in eye candy I would get by "staying current" is not worth the extra $30-$40 per game and the extra $$$ for hardware/consoles I'd have to spend. By waiting, I can also Google for any game and get loads of professional and personal reviews. My time is also valuable. I only want to be playing the absolute best games.
I actually left the workforce (because every job would become mundane after a couple of months) and went back to school with the intention of applying to graduate school. I have a completely different perspectice now, am actually enjoying the CS courses, and I definitely feel that academics is where I belong. I will hopefully get recommendations from my professors this semester and will be applying to grad school. I have already started researching. Research is fun and exciting for me. Try it. You might like it, too.
My father is an ophthalmologist and, as such, I hear about this issue all the time. He performs a lot of laser surgery, but not LASIK. (In fact, he has a cool portable laser he carries around.) For what it's worth, my father is vehemently opposed to LASIK. Most people used to just wave him off as old school, so my father started collecting articles from various journals to prove his point. One of those articles appeared 2 years back and mentioned that nearly 1% of all LASIK patients developed serious complications. More recently, there have been articles telling of patients' eyes bulging due to weakened corneas. This is something my father hypothesized a couple years back. We (the greedy family) really pushed hard to get my father to perform LASIK because that's where all the money is these days, but he refuses to do so until the procedure is perfected and there is empirical data to that effect. Moreover, my father always mentions that you will rarely, if ever, see non-LASIK ophthalmologists have LASIK done on them or, for that matter, even wear contacts. Just recently, some LASIK surgeons are beginning to have the surgery performed on themselves so they don't appear hypocritical, but most LASIK surgeons still wear glasses. Don't you think if this surgery was so great and what not, the LASIK surgeons would have LASIK done on themselves? Looks like they don't have confidence in their own procedure.
Keep in mind that there are individuals who have completely lost their eyesight as a result of this procedure.
As a disclaimer, I have never directly spoke with my father about this issue since everyone that comes over always brings it up and I know he is tired of defending his stance. Because what I have typed above is from what I have overheard, it's possible I slightly mangled something my father said, but I'm pretty sure this is accurate.
Because there are plenty of other capable, non-virus-prone e-mail clients for Windows. TheBat, Eudora Pro, Pegasus Mail, etc. Just go to Tucows and do a search.
Why not just have IT give you the image on CDs and you could reimage yourself whenever things went awry? Surely developers have the knowledge to do this.
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I find staying one step behind helps a lot from an economical standpoint. I am currently playing N64, PSX, and Dreamcast games and I can get em dirt cheap. $10-$20 a piece. Same thing with PC games. I play all the older ones I can find in the $10-$20 range. Great games like HomeWorld, FIFA 2002, Grim Fandango, Serious Sam 1, Max Payne, Unreal Tournament (not 2003), etc. These games run fine on moderate hardware. I concentrate on gameplay and I don't care if the graphics are the latest and greatest. The increase in eye candy I would get by "staying current" is not worth the extra $30-$40 per game and the extra $$$ for hardware/consoles I'd have to spend. By waiting, I can also Google for any game and get loads of professional and personal reviews. My time is also valuable. I only want to be playing the absolute best games.
I actually left the workforce (because every job would become mundane after a couple of months) and went back to school with the intention of applying to graduate school. I have a completely different perspectice now, am actually enjoying the CS courses, and I definitely feel that academics is where I belong. I will hopefully get recommendations from my professors this semester and will be applying to grad school. I have already started researching. Research is fun and exciting for me. Try it. You might like it, too.
Keep in mind that there are individuals who have completely lost their eyesight as a result of this procedure.
As a disclaimer, I have never directly spoke with my father about this issue since everyone that comes over always brings it up and I know he is tired of defending his stance. Because what I have typed above is from what I have overheard, it's possible I slightly mangled something my father said, but I'm pretty sure this is accurate.Because there are plenty of other capable, non-virus-prone e-mail clients for Windows. TheBat, Eudora Pro, Pegasus Mail, etc. Just go to Tucows and do a search.
Why not just have IT give you the image on CDs and you could reimage yourself whenever things went awry? Surely developers have the knowledge to do this.
... Aghanistan begins to sound like the land of the free.