It might sound surprising, but my Onkyo DV-S353 lets me skip right past the warnings and all. I just pop the disc in and hit the menu button as soon as the warning / trailers / other annoying things come on.
Okay, so it is region locked, but you don't have to wait and you get a nice picture and sound without buying too expensive of a player.
(Oh, the bad news is that it doesn't appear to play anything on CDRs, unlike my old Apex.)
I'd say this is probably a good way to look at things. Although I'm only a sophomore in college, I've been getting a general burnt-out feeling. I was one of the classic "person without a life" cases in high school, and that only made matters worse for how things are now.
As of late I've been forcing myself to get out a little more and look for fun things to do. It does seem to help a lot, too. After all, one can't forget about the old saying "All work and no play..."
I don't know what your classes are like, but the classes at my college so far have not been showing any signs of teaching much that is useful. Instead of having to write decent sized programs that actually do something, we're forced time and time again to write really short programs that essentially do nothing. Not only that, but knowing that nobody uses the programs and that mine do the exact same thing as everybody elses isn't exactly reassuring.
The way I look at it, if I stick it out through the classes where nothing gets done, sooner or later I'll be able to get back to writing programs that do something, and people will be able to use them. For me, that's all it takes for writing a program to be fun: the knowledge that it can be used.
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It might sound surprising, but my Onkyo DV-S353 lets me skip right past the warnings and all. I just pop the disc in and hit the menu button as soon as the warning / trailers / other annoying things come on.
Okay, so it is region locked, but you don't have to wait and you get a nice picture and sound without buying too expensive of a player.
(Oh, the bad news is that it doesn't appear to play anything on CDRs, unlike my old Apex.)
I'd say this is probably a good way to look at things. Although I'm only a sophomore in college, I've been getting a general burnt-out feeling. I was one of the classic "person without a life" cases in high school, and that only made matters worse for how things are now.
As of late I've been forcing myself to get out a little more and look for fun things to do. It does seem to help a lot, too. After all, one can't forget about the old saying "All work and no play..."
I don't know what your classes are like, but the classes at my college so far have not been showing any signs of teaching much that is useful. Instead of having to write decent sized programs that actually do something, we're forced time and time again to write really short programs that essentially do nothing. Not only that, but knowing that nobody uses the programs and that mine do the exact same thing as everybody elses isn't exactly reassuring.
The way I look at it, if I stick it out through the classes where nothing gets done, sooner or later I'll be able to get back to writing programs that do something, and people will be able to use them. For me, that's all it takes for writing a program to be fun: the knowledge that it can be used.