In some places, this isn't an issue. In the last issue of Canta (student magazine published here) they did a survey of different universities around the world and found that Ireland has the best off with no fees, no debt and the government re-imberses your living costs (!!!) with Germany closely followed (with just the living costs).
In New Zealand, the fees aren't too bad and debt is manageable, but they found that the US and UK are the worst for squeezing the money out of students.
No it wouldn't as that would be a horrible marketing strategy to release two games that are going to be very popular at the same time, from the same company!
CS seems to be slowly dying from it's own problems and I don't think anybody knows when that thing will show itself again (because hopefully valve is focusing on HL2 and not a 3yr old MOD).
But how long before this becomes the next TF2? Hopefully, Valve is serious this time and manages to make a great game (like what TF2 could have been). Too bad we'll have to wait until E3 before they break this silence.
Might I remind people that Linux is not the entire open source community. That's how MS thinks it is and I hate it when people use the term "Linux" and "Open Source" interchangeably.
It's the same misconception that makes people think that all software for Linux is free.
As a big reader (and reviewer) of technical books, they usually aren't much of a problem for me as material I already know can patch the code (and usually it's as basic as misspelling a keyword of something trivial like that).
I've never once had to look up errata for the book because of coding errors (although for a couple of Wrox books that had pages and pages of code, I couldn't be bothered debugging the code and downloaded it).
Whoever does the traffic lights over here (I think it's the LTSA, but whoever it is doesn't really matter) is slowly changing traffic lights (busted ones and new ones) over to using LEDs instead of the traditional light-bulb. The change is quite noticeable (when you see 500 LEDs peering back instead of a large bulb), but the LEDs seem to provide greater brightness in addition to a longer-life and better energy efficency (which is always good during our annual energy-crisis).
Over here, (in school at least) we just print out the circuit diagram onto a transparency sheet (inkjet printer of course) and then just use a UV light to destroy the appropriate parts of the circuit.
Use some chemicals (stored in a safe location and brewable in your own home) and you've got a nice PCB for you to use.
He's already destroyed star trek and he's digging an even deeper hole for himself (to soon be filled with molten lead).
Enterprise has already broken the star trek timeline so many times that it's just not funny anymore. The plot lines are cheesy rip-offs and hold no future for the show. I bet his idea of "quite startling" is "implied nudity" and "cliffhanger" is "predictable ending" and "new twist" is "old and abused nonsense."
Since NZ isn't in this war either, I can usually use http://www.nzoom.com/ (which covers our major news network there). Probably http://www.bbc.co.uk (as well as many other of the great bbc sites)
It looks to be a very intresting platform, but the acceptance rate for these type of advantages that could really help the world is very low and doesn't look like it's going to increase (due to the ignorance of consumers and the iron-claw of business monopolies). Even if it does take off, it will probably be mutated into some sort of corporate-owned POS.
The problem is that there would be hardly any way to enforce this because millions may put their email addresses on the list just so that hundreds of spammers can get a fresh batch to add to their spam lists.
I'd be too scared to put my email address on any do-not-spam me list as it would probably cause more trouble than it would solve. I prefer my method - email of 10000 forwards.
The same thing happens on some versions of the support.ms.com site and it's annoying as hell. I belive that MS just takes the default IE one and then strips out what they think to be for "inferior browsers" which leaves a broken and messed up template.
Sounds to me like they are making all of this complicated planning (I had to read the article a few times to get what they're doing).
With all of the SP1a, SP1b, SP2 and other crap relating to other versions of windows, users may be forced upon with a few hundred MB of downloads (depending on how they get their patches).
It is a very interesting idea, but the workload to keep it updated and maintained would be huge, not to mention examining the websites and making sure everybody likes it before it is added to the list.
Over here in christchurch, the public libraries have public internet terminals which you can only access sites within.nz (kinda lame, but otherwise everybody would use them for porn) or you can pay for access. I just use my connection at home.
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In some places, this isn't an issue. In the last issue of Canta (student magazine published here) they did a survey of different universities around the world and found that Ireland has the best off with no fees, no debt and the government re-imberses your living costs (!!!) with Germany closely followed (with just the living costs).
In New Zealand, the fees aren't too bad and debt is manageable, but they found that the US and UK are the worst for squeezing the money out of students.
Over here, anybody getting beaten up is a rare thing, but harrassed and teased is another story.
Unless your school is very tech focused, prepare for much public humiliation.
At my school, there are about 4-5 people who have any technical aptitude (that includes teachers) and it's scary for all of us.
I try to ignore that and think of Neverwinter Nights (much better).
No it wouldn't as that would be a horrible marketing strategy to release two games that are going to be very popular at the same time, from the same company!
CS seems to be slowly dying from it's own problems and I don't think anybody knows when that thing will show itself again (because hopefully valve is focusing on HL2 and not a 3yr old MOD).
This has been waited for sooooooo long.
But how long before this becomes the next TF2? Hopefully, Valve is serious this time and manages to make a great game (like what TF2 could have been). Too bad we'll have to wait until E3 before they break this silence.
Might I remind people that Linux is not the entire open source community. That's how MS thinks it is and I hate it when people use the term "Linux" and "Open Source" interchangeably.
It's the same misconception that makes people think that all software for Linux is free.
I've never seen any of these old-school comics (maybe because NZ never got them). But they're a great classic.
As a big reader (and reviewer) of technical books, they usually aren't much of a problem for me as material I already know can patch the code (and usually it's as basic as misspelling a keyword of something trivial like that).
I've never once had to look up errata for the book because of coding errors (although for a couple of Wrox books that had pages and pages of code, I couldn't be bothered debugging the code and downloaded it).
Whoever does the traffic lights over here (I think it's the LTSA, but whoever it is doesn't really matter) is slowly changing traffic lights (busted ones and new ones) over to using LEDs instead of the traditional light-bulb.
The change is quite noticeable (when you see 500 LEDs peering back instead of a large bulb), but the LEDs seem to provide greater brightness in addition to a longer-life and better energy efficency (which is always good during our annual energy-crisis).
Over here, (in school at least) we just print out the circuit diagram onto a transparency sheet (inkjet printer of course) and then just use a UV light to destroy the appropriate parts of the circuit.
Use some chemicals (stored in a safe location and brewable in your own home) and you've got a nice PCB for you to use.
He's already destroyed star trek and he's digging an even deeper hole for himself (to soon be filled with molten lead).
Enterprise has already broken the star trek timeline so many times that it's just not funny anymore. The plot lines are cheesy rip-offs and hold no future for the show.
I bet his idea of "quite startling" is "implied nudity" and "cliffhanger" is "predictable ending" and "new twist" is "old and abused nonsense."
All I've ever used on a machine is tcsh and I simly think it's the best no matter what anybody says.
Oh yeah! I forgot about them.
l has a bunch of streams for National Radio.
Also, http://xtramsn.co.nz/musicandvideo/0,,6151,00.htm
Since NZ isn't in this war either, I can usually use http://www.nzoom.com/ (which covers our major news network there). Probably http://www.bbc.co.uk (as well as many other of the great bbc sites)
Who really needs a GUI for an application these days, console-based apps will once more rule the world. Bwahahahahahaaha!!!!
Too bad we can't say the same for J2SE 1.4 and J2EE.
It looks to be a very intresting platform, but the acceptance rate for these type of advantages that could really help the world is very low and doesn't look like it's going to increase (due to the ignorance of consumers and the iron-claw of business monopolies). Even if it does take off, it will probably be mutated into some sort of corporate-owned POS.
The problem is that there would be hardly any way to enforce this because millions may put their email addresses on the list just so that hundreds of spammers can get a fresh batch to add to their spam lists.
I'd be too scared to put my email address on any do-not-spam me list as it would probably cause more trouble than it would solve. I prefer my method - email of 10000 forwards.
The same thing happens on some versions of the support.ms.com site and it's annoying as hell. I belive that MS just takes the default IE one and then strips out what they think to be for "inferior browsers" which leaves a broken and messed up template.
Sounds to me like they are making all of this complicated planning (I had to read the article a few times to get what they're doing).
With all of the SP1a, SP1b, SP2 and other crap relating to other versions of windows, users may be forced upon with a few hundred MB of downloads (depending on how they get their patches).
So, if we crank up the temperature, will we boil them (mmmm, tasty) or electricute them (fried is better) first?
I'm curious about how (if) the US will execute the shutdown when all of the stuff is off-shore and not under US juristiction?
Let me guess, all of the fonts look like Times New Roman.
It is a very interesting idea, but the workload to keep it updated and maintained would be huge, not to mention examining the websites and making sure everybody likes it before it is added to the list.
.nz (kinda lame, but otherwise everybody would use them for porn) or you can pay for access. I just use my connection at home.
Over here in christchurch, the public libraries have public internet terminals which you can only access sites within