I also loved this 'level' of HL. A bit too much perhaps.
A day after spending way too much time playing through this section, I started my first day at work on the local townships road crew. As i walked through the garage toward the punch clock, a CB in a dump truck squelched just before someone was about to talk, and i dropped to the ground thinking it was marines. Luckily no one saw me.
One of my friends went to school for animation and had a related experience. He had to buy an IBM Thinkpad for the course. We looked at his options, and were disapointed. For an animation program, the video card nor the RAM were near sufficient. We contacted the school and begged them to let him buy a dell we were looking at that was not only cheaper, it was superior in every respect. They refused, claiming that the schools support staff was only familiar with the IBM thinkpads. We gave up, he bought the thinkpad.
Near the end of the first year of school, he did actually run across an issue with his machine. He did was he was supposed to, and brought the machine into the schools computer store for 'repairs'. Their solution, format the machine and give it back to him.
Halfway through the second year, as many other students were having problems with his machine, the school admitted its mistake and offered to buy back the laptops from anyone who wanted so they could get the laptop they would prefer. He ended up spending a little extra cash and got a nice alienware.
I think its a great idea to have students have laptops, but it would be nice to offer some insightful guidance as to which machine they should purchase, and not limit their options too much.
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I also loved this 'level' of HL. A bit too much perhaps. A day after spending way too much time playing through this section, I started my first day at work on the local townships road crew. As i walked through the garage toward the punch clock, a CB in a dump truck squelched just before someone was about to talk, and i dropped to the ground thinking it was marines. Luckily no one saw me.
One of my friends went to school for animation and had a related experience. He had to buy an IBM Thinkpad for the course. We looked at his options, and were disapointed. For an animation program, the video card nor the RAM were near sufficient. We contacted the school and begged them to let him buy a dell we were looking at that was not only cheaper, it was superior in every respect. They refused, claiming that the schools support staff was only familiar with the IBM thinkpads. We gave up, he bought the thinkpad. Near the end of the first year of school, he did actually run across an issue with his machine. He did was he was supposed to, and brought the machine into the schools computer store for 'repairs'. Their solution, format the machine and give it back to him. Halfway through the second year, as many other students were having problems with his machine, the school admitted its mistake and offered to buy back the laptops from anyone who wanted so they could get the laptop they would prefer. He ended up spending a little extra cash and got a nice alienware. I think its a great idea to have students have laptops, but it would be nice to offer some insightful guidance as to which machine they should purchase, and not limit their options too much.
One thing that has to be in this book. Deleting the desktop shortcut DOES NOT delete the program.