Anyone else scared to actually complete that application? It makes me question the authenticity of this company...
For example, it ask the question "What Console or Consoles do you or have you owned?" implying you can own more than one console. BUT, it's a drop down list. You can only select one console!
Not to mention the purty flash is a little much for me...
It is an absolute no-brainer that illegal piracy and downloading is cutting into the industry's sales. No matter how unpalatable that truth is to us.
I don't think it's a no-brainer at all. For me, shitty artists promoted by big money is what's cutting in the industry's sales.
I haven't bought a CD in 5 years because of one shitty artist. I kept hearing this song on the radio that I liked. So, being the good consumer, I went and bought the $18 CD. Lowe and behold, that song I had heard so many times was the only decent song on the entire CD. I paid $18 for one song. That is the only reason my money doesn't go the recording industry.
Sure I enjoy the faster loadtimes for web-pages and the occasional P2P, but I needed the broadband so I could continue my internet gaming after leaving school.
Do adults ever get to blame movies, books, and videogames for their crimes? Ummm, no. They may try, but no.
Yes, yes they do. Check out this CNN article from a few days ago.
I quote "Just last week, Hamilton, Ohio, resident Tonda Lynn Ansley was found not guilty by reason of insanity after claiming she thought her landlord was part of a conspiracy to brainwash and kill her."
I agree completely with that. Unfortunately, it's quite possible that giving your kid a good whack upside the head is quite possibly illegal nowadays... regardless of the reason.
Nope, not illegal. At least not in my state and not on a national level. I believe the line is drawn if the discipline leaves a mark. If you smack your kid upside the head and your ring cuts his scalp open, then ya, you might get some flack for that. There was a case in the news about a woman that was caught on a security camera at the mall beating her child, and that's illegal. Which is why the emotion plays a big deal.
I really don't think a 10 year old should be seeing R-rated movies by themselves
I was watching R movies by the time I was that age(maybe 11-12). Of course, I was doing it without the explicit permission of my parents. If they had allowed me to watch them in the first place, along with them instead of kicking me out of the room, I wouldn't have had to hide it from them. As a result, I saw things that they wouldn't approve of. If they had gone with me to rent movies and watched them with me, they could've restricted my viewing. See what I'm saying?
As far as being violent... I don't think it's about the video games or movies. He needs to be educated, disciplined and taught responsiblity. Punish a child for acting violent and he will learn/realize that it is inappropriate. Note that I said punish, not beat. It is extremely important that the punishment(whether it be grounding, taking away toys or spanking) be done without anger from the parent. If a parent is angry while punishing a child, it will only make the child mad at the parent. He will not learn anything from it other than that his parent is mean.
All I know is that the freenet actually went down during a project at school which involved the freenet. We couldn't get ANY documents. Even the supposedly most popular ones!
Fact is, a huge percentage of file sharing is done to illegally share music and movies. So, if you are running a file sharing service, you are probably sharing files illegally. Which gives law enforcment probable cause to search your computer for illegal content.
Having the ability to break the law is not probable cause! Just like me having a DVD burner in my computer doesn't give law enforcement probable cause to search because I might be burning movies to them.
Can't understand the newer technology? I'm put it in old-fashioned terms. How many people own VCR's? I can use that VCR to copy movies, even sell the tapes. Does owning the VCR give law enforcement probable cause? The courts say no. I don't have a link, but this was a big thing when VCR's first came out. Google it if you don't want to take my word for it. The mere fact that it has a legal use means you can't assume anyone who owns it/uses it is breaking the law.
However, keep in mind that they are approaching the game as diciplined soldiers, not "733t Cyb3r N!nj@ 007" types.
There's a difference?;-)
Plus their mod has a one-hit-kills policy: all awp all the time. Sounds like a MUCH different game from typical CS - in which anyone using the one-shot kill weapon is derided as a "awp whore."
Actually, I stopped using the awp when they took away the one-shot kill feature. I loved pegging someone in the foot and them falling over dead... It's not the one-shot kill that gets you branded as an awp whore. I often use the M3 shotgun which is one-shot kill when used right(close enough range or headshot). It's using the awp at inappropriate times and on inappropriate maps. There's nothing worse than someone awping on a map like fy_iceworld, which is like speedball where it's all about rushing. One server I play on only allows you to use the awp if your team is losing.
Nothing personal at all...but this is the attitude that drove me away from counterstrike. CS is advertised as this "realism mod" but the tactics used by most public server players are anything but. But people who use cautious strategies (from what I understand - how the game was intended) on public servers get chastised and sometimes even banned! Particularly if you use the awp, which exists (again, from what I understand) to prevent unrealistic gung-ho rushes.
Perhaps you were just playing on the wrong servers and maps? Plus, there's a different between being cautious and camping. There is also a difference between camping and sniping. Those two activities become camping when used in excess, so much so that it annoys the other players. You have to understand that the people first playing counter-strike were coming from half-life and TFC where there is no waiting after you die. So you can imagine why they'd be so annoyed by sitting there staring at the screen for 5 minutes after they've died because some jackass is holed up in a remote part of the map where no one else is near. I'd probably get annoyed too if we were playing single elimination PB and I had to sit out and wait forever because someone was hiding rather than fighting.
Meanwhile, most paintball games consist of people creeping around taking aimed shots at people - i.e. "camping." In good games, the volume of fire is very little. Rushing positions - "bunkering" - is extremely risky and in my experience paintball newbs (myself included) don't have the guts to do it.
Creeping around and finding good cover is not considered camping. When outnumbered, any good player would immediately go "stealth". Camping is when someone stays in the same spot from a few seconds after spawn till the round ends. HUGE difference...
Anyone who has played soccer or football is going to have a big advantage over those with only CS experience. (Of course, anyone with military training would have an advantage over both).
I disagree. Sure your soccer player or football player would be better at running, but they don't have the military edge you get from CS. Don't believe CS gives you a military edge? The British Army does! This article talks about how they use a Half-life mod to give their troops virtual combat. Now it's not CS, but they obviously thought the half-life engine was close enough to reality to use for virtual combat.
Obviously playing CS isn't going to prepare you for all the sprinting, but you would have faster reaction times. I also think "CSers" would be used to team work and know where to look for them damn campers...
I think the strategies are transferable also. The rushing strategy can actually be very effective in paintball. I know I played one arena in which the "expert" paintballers were adamant that we get to a certain point before the opposite team.
The mental skills of CS do transfer--at least partly--to paintball.
Um, rocket jump? This is a counter-strike map. No rockets...
Since CS is designed to be fairly realistic, I think the games translates well into paintball. Of course, you'd need to scale down the map for it to be playable by humans. No human wants to sprint the 100+ "meters" like I do from spawn on de_dust. Plus, by scaling down the lengths and heights, those impossible jumps become possible.
The hard part is when you attempt to be polite. If you aren't rude and hang up on them, they take that as a "Ya! Send me a bunch of shit for $100's". I was polite to one guy. He didn't even ask if I was interested. Because I hadn't hung up on him he started putting my information in to the computer to send some "free" trial.
If the telemarketers acted like decent human beings and followed some phone etiquette, a simple "No thanks" would work. But most of them don't accept that. They keep going "but why don't you want it? it's free!". Bastards...
But didn't you have to be at a machine to access that account? If everyone in a class needed to use Maple for an assignment, there wouldn't be enough machines in the labs. That's why having a laptop is so beneficial, even if the students are just using the laptop to SSH into a Unix machine.
I'm sure I know the answer, but are you able to sell it back to them after you're done with it? Is the price of the laptop taken off from the price of tuition? And was it required (I think you mentioned it was)? What if you wanted to spend time studying instead of working, how are you supposed to pay for the laptop?
No, you can't sell it back to them. Actually, the price is added in to tuition. I don't remember how much I paid freshman year, but since tuition is fairly constant throughout the four years I would guess freshman year is slightly cheaper than the other years. Yes, the laptop is required. Not any laptop, but the specific one the comittee chose. Like most student loans, it is deferred. Meaning you don't have to pay anything until like 6 months after you graduate.
I just think it's a very bad idea to require students to have laptops. I even think it's a bad idea (for most people, at least) to have them in classrooms, except for higher Math & Science classes (C.S. included).
I guess it would help to mention that this is an engineering college. So basically all classes are math and science.
The other benefit of requiring a computer is that the professor can send an e-mail out and not have to worry about someone complaining that they had no way to read it. Also, the professors are much more likely to release electronic materials via the web saving time and paper. It has really helped me learn having the laptop. I can't imagine how I would function at a school that didn't emphasize the use of the internet, network and computers.
Just use KazaaLite. And then run Ad-Aware to remove Gator and all the other evil spyware and crap Kazaa installs. Plus, KazaaLite makes you a super user. Supposedly that has benefits...
They drop the price to lure folks like me to purchase it. No matter how cool a game looks, I can't afford to shell out $50+ for a game. Once it drops to $20, I re-evaluate it's worth and am much more likely to purchase it.
Spider-man is a great example. I saw someone play this two years ago and it looked awesome. Now that the price has dropped, I might go buy it.
It's clear that having a wireless notebook in class is a big distraction.
While a laptop could be a huge distraction, it can also be an invaluable tool. Something that inhances the lecture rather than detracting from it. For example, my professors often have examples available online that I could go over as he/she was discussing it. Having it in class made it possible to ask question about then instead of at 8 o'clock that night when I started my homework and realized I didn't understand the example.
Do kids just type faster now?
Perhaps "kids" do type faster now. I know I've been perfecting my typing skills since 6th grade, so by the time I got to college I could type as fast as the professor could speak.
Well, I'm not a business major and we used our laptops regularly in class. Especially for calculus and other math classes. Ever heard of Maple?
Also, we did have "labs" in my CS courses in which we were required to have the laptop in class in order to complete the exercises. Sorry you went to a shitty school, but we actually have a use for our craptops.
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Anyone else scared to actually complete that application? It makes me question the authenticity of this company...
For example, it ask the question "What Console or Consoles do you or have you owned?" implying you can own more than one console. BUT, it's a drop down list. You can only select one console!
Not to mention the purty flash is a little much for me...
I haven't bought a CD in 5 years because of one shitty artist. I kept hearing this song on the radio that I liked. So, being the good consumer, I went and bought the $18 CD. Lowe and behold, that song I had heard so many times was the only decent song on the entire CD. I paid $18 for one song. That is the only reason my money doesn't go the recording industry.
Counter-strike is the reason I have broadband.
Sure I enjoy the faster loadtimes for web-pages and the occasional P2P, but I needed the broadband so I could continue my internet gaming after leaving school.
Ya, I guess it does depend on how you define "getting away with it"...
I quote "Just last week, Hamilton, Ohio, resident Tonda Lynn Ansley was found not guilty by reason of insanity after claiming she thought her landlord was part of a conspiracy to brainwash and kill her."
They do blame movies and the do get away with it
As far as being violent... I don't think it's about the video games or movies. He needs to be educated, disciplined and taught responsiblity. Punish a child for acting violent and he will learn/realize that it is inappropriate. Note that I said punish, not beat. It is extremely important that the punishment(whether it be grounding, taking away toys or spanking) be done without anger from the parent. If a parent is angry while punishing a child, it will only make the child mad at the parent. He will not learn anything from it other than that his parent is mean.
All I know is that the freenet actually went down during a project at school which involved the freenet. We couldn't get ANY documents. Even the supposedly most popular ones!
It was a good idea, but it won't be successful until almost everyone on the net has high bandwidth connections.
Can't understand the newer technology? I'm put it in old-fashioned terms. How many people own VCR's? I can use that VCR to copy movies, even sell the tapes. Does owning the VCR give law enforcement probable cause? The courts say no. I don't have a link, but this was a big thing when VCR's first came out. Google it if you don't want to take my word for it. The mere fact that it has a legal use means you can't assume anyone who owns it/uses it is breaking the law.
Actually, I stopped using the awp when they took away the one-shot kill feature. I loved pegging someone in the foot and them falling over dead... It's not the one-shot kill that gets you branded as an awp whore. I often use the M3 shotgun which is one-shot kill when used right(close enough range or headshot). It's using the awp at inappropriate times and on inappropriate maps. There's nothing worse than someone awping on a map like fy_iceworld, which is like speedball where it's all about rushing. One server I play on only allows you to use the awp if your team is losing.
Creeping around and finding good cover is not considered camping. When outnumbered, any good player would immediately go "stealth". Camping is when someone stays in the same spot from a few seconds after spawn till the round ends. HUGE difference...
I disagree. Sure your soccer player or football player would be better at running, but they don't have the military edge you get from CS. Don't believe CS gives you a military edge? The British Army does! This article talks about how they use a Half-life mod to give their troops virtual combat. Now it's not CS, but they obviously thought the half-life engine was close enough to reality to use for virtual combat.
Isn't it interesting that first CS imitates paintball(ever play one of the speedball maps?), then paintball imitates CS?
Why aren't skills transferable?
Obviously playing CS isn't going to prepare you for all the sprinting, but you would have faster reaction times. I also think "CSers" would be used to team work and know where to look for them damn campers...
I think the strategies are transferable also. The rushing strategy can actually be very effective in paintball. I know I played one arena in which the "expert" paintballers were adamant that we get to a certain point before the opposite team.
The mental skills of CS do transfer--at least partly--to paintball.
You'd be amazed how much FPS's prepare you for paintball. At least strategy and aiming, not running...
For example, FPS's like counter-strike improve your vision, so you can see better and even aim faster(because you'd be better at finding your target).
Um, rocket jump? This is a counter-strike map. No rockets...
Since CS is designed to be fairly realistic, I think the games translates well into paintball. Of course, you'd need to scale down the map for it to be playable by humans. No human wants to sprint the 100+ "meters" like I do from spawn on de_dust. Plus, by scaling down the lengths and heights, those impossible jumps become possible.
The hard part is when you attempt to be polite. If you aren't rude and hang up on them, they take that as a "Ya! Send me a bunch of shit for $100's". I was polite to one guy. He didn't even ask if I was interested. Because I hadn't hung up on him he started putting my information in to the computer to send some "free" trial.
If the telemarketers acted like decent human beings and followed some phone etiquette, a simple "No thanks" would work. But most of them don't accept that. They keep going "but why don't you want it? it's free!". Bastards...
But didn't you have to be at a machine to access that account? If everyone in a class needed to use Maple for an assignment, there wouldn't be enough machines in the labs. That's why having a laptop is so beneficial, even if the students are just using the laptop to SSH into a Unix machine.
Actually, the price is added in to tuition. I don't remember how much I paid freshman year, but since tuition is fairly constant throughout the four years I would guess freshman year is slightly cheaper than the other years.
Yes, the laptop is required. Not any laptop, but the specific one the comittee chose.
Like most student loans, it is deferred. Meaning you don't have to pay anything until like 6 months after you graduate.
I guess it would help to mention that this is an engineering college. So basically all classes are math and science.
The other benefit of requiring a computer is that the professor can send an e-mail out and not have to worry about someone complaining that they had no way to read it. Also, the professors are much more likely to release electronic materials via the web saving time and paper. It has really helped me learn having the laptop. I can't imagine how I would function at a school that didn't emphasize the use of the internet, network and computers.
Wealthy? I wish...
You ever hear of student loans? Assuming you couldn't pay for it upfront(which few could), everyone was given the laptop loan.
Nice troll...
Just use KazaaLite. And then run Ad-Aware to remove Gator and all the other evil spyware and crap Kazaa installs. Plus, KazaaLite makes you a super user. Supposedly that has benefits...
They drop the price to lure folks like me to purchase it. No matter how cool a game looks, I can't afford to shell out $50+ for a game. Once it drops to $20, I re-evaluate it's worth and am much more likely to purchase it.
Spider-man is a great example. I saw someone play this two years ago and it looked awesome. Now that the price has dropped, I might go buy it.
Perhaps "kids" do type faster now. I know I've been perfecting my typing skills since 6th grade, so by the time I got to college I could type as fast as the professor could speak.
Well, I'm not a business major and we used our laptops regularly in class. Especially for calculus and other math classes. Ever heard of Maple?
Also, we did have "labs" in my CS courses in which we were required to have the laptop in class in order to complete the exercises. Sorry you went to a shitty school, but we actually have a use for our craptops.