Isn't this the point though? If we had ever had a war on our soil, would we be so quick to start wars with other countries or would we try harder to find a peaceful solution?
Honestly, at this point, I hope we invade every country out there until someone finally just say F' it and starts the inevitable nuclear war that kills us all.
Anybody who is confused and completely taken in by a sponsored site is probably not in a position to make a decision about migrating a company to linux, nor is it likely that they're technically able to use linux. Therefore, I'm not sure that the fact that this ad is front and center really matters all that much.
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I think American's conveniently forget sometimes that we have weapons of mass destruction too. What's different about us? If we force other countries to disarm, we should as well. A world with NO weapons of mass destruction would be much better off. Iraq's weapons do need to go, but so do ours.
That's pretty much what I've been taught here too. More theory than actual applications. And I don't really have a problem with this. I think I probably could go out and work on games given my education that I will have recieved when I graduate. But my point was that there are no classes specifically geared towards game development.
At the small private college I attend, we have absolutely nothing that might prepare us for programming in a game environment. Especially nothing graphical or in the realm of artificial intelligence. The only thing I have done with graphics so far has been writing a small solitaire program in java for a class on object oriented programming. And even then all we learned was enough to get the program to draw itself correctly. The focus was more on the actual objects in the program. As to artificial intelligence, there is usually a course offered here once a year, and I have yet to have the opportunity to take it, so we'll see how that turns out.
All in all, I'd say that most universities turn out computer science students who know how to program applications. Word processors and the like. I doubt that many universities take video games seriously because they only came onto the scene in my lifetime. Give it another 10 years and we'll see where things are at then.
While I agree with some of your comments regarding everyone jumping on one bandwagon or another (transparency, icons, OSX, XP) when designing a theme or skin. However, I think you're wrong in saying that skinning is not for 'hardcore' computer people. I'm a CS student and spend a fair amount of my free time playing around with computers... running linux on old family computers, writing programs outside of class, and just generally playing around with them. However, when I have to use windows for my senior project, I run webshots for my background. I personally like the fact that it'll change the background for me every 15 minutes. And to a random picture that is in a collection that I define. There is nothing wrong with skinning as long as it's asthetically pleasing to the user.
I bought my Presario because when I bought it (just starting college) it had basically everything I wanted in it and it was really cheap because of a sale going on at the time. My next computer will be one that I build or have built by a local shop. BTW, I really haven't had that many problems with my Presario....other than winXP crashing on me, but a linux partition has solved that for the most part...
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On the other hand, the DOD is a major customer of Boeing. It's possible this could also help their business.
Isn't this the point though? If we had ever had a war on our soil, would we be so quick to start wars with other countries or would we try harder to find a peaceful solution?
Honestly, at this point, I hope we invade every country out there until someone finally just say F' it and starts the inevitable nuclear war that kills us all.
Anybody who is confused and completely taken in by a sponsored site is probably not in a position to make a decision about migrating a company to linux, nor is it likely that they're technically able to use linux. Therefore, I'm not sure that the fact that this ad is front and center really matters all that much.
I think American's conveniently forget sometimes that we have weapons of mass destruction too. What's different about us? If we force other countries to disarm, we should as well. A world with NO weapons of mass destruction would be much better off. Iraq's weapons do need to go, but so do ours.
That's pretty much what I've been taught here too. More theory than actual applications. And I don't really have a problem with this. I think I probably could go out and work on games given my education that I will have recieved when I graduate. But my point was that there are no classes specifically geared towards game development.
All in all, I'd say that most universities turn out computer science students who know how to program applications. Word processors and the like. I doubt that many universities take video games seriously because they only came onto the scene in my lifetime. Give it another 10 years and we'll see where things are at then.
While I agree with some of your comments regarding everyone jumping on one bandwagon or another (transparency, icons, OSX, XP) when designing a theme or skin. However, I think you're wrong in saying that skinning is not for 'hardcore' computer people. I'm a CS student and spend a fair amount of my free time playing around with computers ... running linux on old family computers, writing programs outside of class, and just generally playing around with them. However, when I have to use windows for my senior project, I run webshots for my background. I personally like the fact that it'll change the background for me every 15 minutes. And to a random picture that is in a collection that I define. There is nothing wrong with skinning as long as it's asthetically pleasing to the user.
I bought my Presario because when I bought it (just starting college) it had basically everything I wanted in it and it was really cheap because of a sale going on at the time. My next computer will be one that I build or have built by a local shop. BTW, I really haven't had that many problems with my Presario....other than winXP crashing on me, but a linux partition has solved that for the most part...