Being part of said program. I have to say. It's a bunch of fun. I basically get paid to do everything I used to. I use Apple products in my everyday life. People used to constantly ask me about them. I'd give them any answers they wanted. None of that has changed. I just get paid now.
Of course, I do more now too. Demo table events, talking to faculty.. some of the best stuff comes from this. You never realize how much a college has to offer until you've talked to everyone.
My personal feeling is, while you could turn it into a salesman position. I think such jobs are best served by NOT being a sales drone. Listen and connect, if you have something that will help him the sale almost makes itself after that.
In my own personal experience with the ESRB. They're exactly what most people say. Braindead. Any bit of humor that might be taken in any way as sexual bumps up the rating. However, blowing people to bits is perfectly okay..
That line from the south park movie needs to be amended for the ESRB.
Just remember what the ESRB says: Horrific, deplorable violence is okay, as long as people don't say or do anything sexual.
I must say, as a college student with prior experience in the field I am I am studying (CS, programming since I was 10). I've have very negative things to say about the whole college/university experience.
First, there is no way that 2 hours twice a week will actually teach you how to do something. I've taken three 100, 200 level programming courses in a college, and a university. The average grade in the class was 30. Mind you they curved it so 30 was a C.
Staff at Universities seem to be more concerned with the status of their pet project than that class they teach so they get funding. I had a class where the professor just showed up and read a speech prepared by the TA to go with a slide show prepared by the TA then complained that no one was helping him with his research project. Mind you he was the worst offender I've seen. The general level of incompetence has been a real eye opener. I had a Java professor actually say "final static int variable = 2;" was a syntactically incorrect, not a big deal but it was a question on a midterm....
Then again, I have found knowledgeable professors (Shout out to Prof. Barton). I'm still split.
For those who don't want to read all of that, don't expect college to teach you anything, treat it as advice.
A little while back, I was over my friends house and he was complaining about how Klingon Academy would crash under a NT kernel and nVidia drivers. He missed the game so, as a joke I took a look at the ASM dump. Sure enough, there was a instruction I recognized right at the point of crash. It was a string compare pseudo op. There was a little note next to that instruction in the book I learned assembly from and it was in my friends as well. It turns out that the instruction could be set to run in reverse by setting a processor flag. I figured this was the probable cause of the crash. After failing to reach Interplay via email, phone, website. I took it upon myself to patch the game (in a hex editor with machine code generated from MASM). Now the game works. Well, there still is one bug with the particle generators, but I can't figure that out from the ASM dump. He got his game back, he can live without the particles.
I know someone is going to point out the ethics of editing someone else's binary. However, I do not see the harm in editing a dead companies dead product so it will work again.
If it's based on per-capita output of CO2 then all the US needs is more citizens.. Hey, it turns out illegal immgration is of benefit after all.
In all seriousness, Kyoto is a bad idea. It simply hinders which ever nations sign it. If all of the world signed on, I'd have no problem with our president signing it.
I'm glad this John Doe silliness is over (one would hope). I really think that the DMCA is being abused to push it past constitutionality. Like suing / arresting anyone who says anything about copy protection.
1) Shooting someone for breaking into your house is a no no. 2) The only legitimate use of force is "comparable" force. Which means if he puts up his dukes and attempts to punch you.. you need to punch back. If he produces a knife... you may stab him. If he produces a gun... you may shoot him. This rule also applies if you see him threatening someone else.
Now, this poses a problem if I ever find myself in this situation. Since I must wait for whoever broke in or whatever to produce some kind of weapon before I can respond. If I where to point my gun at him and say "GET OUT". I've escalated the dispute and now he's legally allowed to shoot me. So long story short.
Having a firearm does me no good if he doesn't have a clearly have a gun. Not to say I will never buy one but I think self-defense isn't going to be high on my list of reasons to own one.
-- Who brings a knife to a gun fight? In NY, a smart man.
How will I receive info on how to make my manhood bigger now?
I think it's time that we all realized that SPAM like other internet annoyences can't really be legislated. They are too distributed a problem. You can't get them all. I doubt you can get enough to make a dent.
I can feel your pain. I'm a tech at a college newspaper that uses Macs. We do not own a copy of Office. After all, we have AppleWorks that came with the machine. People don't seem to get the concept that.doc isn't a universal thing. No matter how many times I try to explain this the response I get is "why not?". I put OpenOffice on the machines however, they don't like the interface and refuse to use it.
I've just given up at this point. I have broken down and submitted a request for 10 copies of Office v.X
At this point, I have no sympathy for people who fall for this. Someone must have been smoking some really good stuff to come up with something this stupid.
It's a popular media topic of late. The story broke here in NY on CBS channel 2 news about a week and change ago. I figured it would boil over like the Doom stuff after the school shootings. On Monday I saw that Fox 5 was running a story on:: brace yourself:: Duke Nukem 3D! Just what I've come to expect from network news, timely, fair and balenced.
I may not have seen Indian code, but I have had personal experience with Romanian outsourcing. I was not impressed. It was probably the programmer who worked on it. However, my professor has had similar experiences with a few financial institutions and outsourcing. I can't claim he is objective since he was eventually laid off for Indian labor.
Oh, and please don't call me racist. My last GF was Indian.
I don't think of MTV when I think of music. I think of MTV when I think of gothic rock stars with wannabe kids and their own reality show.
Honestly, I do not watch MTV. The quality of their "music" does not appeal to me. iTunes Music store and Napster are my 2 big bets in the music downloading biz.
What I tend to find is that most RPGs, not just MMORPGs have high mind goals. Yet, when you break the game down to a series of steps it follows one of two paths.
1) The Fetch Mission. Go to person. Get mission. Kill something the way to point X. Get object at point X. Kill something on the walk back from point X to person. Give object to person. Person thanks you and gives you something.
Should this get old.
2) Level. Go to woods. Find something to kill. Kill it. Get points. Repeat. At such time as you level, get a cool new ability to help you kill things more effectively.
I don't mean to sound like a troll but every MMORPG / RPG I have ever played can be described in those 2 actions (perhaps I've been playing the wrong games) So the answer to this question in my mind, "Are MMORPGs too complex?". A simple answer. No.
Just what the world needs more of... Bad movies based on games with bad stories. Dead or Alive is my favorite example of a bad story. Anyone even know what the story is? I don't, I just know some lucky SOB got to program a boob bounce matrix!
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Being part of said program. I have to say. It's a bunch of fun. I basically get paid to do everything I used to. I use Apple products in my everyday life. People used to constantly ask me about them. I'd give them any answers they wanted. None of that has changed. I just get paid now.
Of course, I do more now too. Demo table events, talking to faculty.. some of the best stuff comes from this. You never realize how much a college has to offer until you've talked to everyone.
My personal feeling is, while you could turn it into a salesman position. I think such jobs are best served by NOT being a sales drone. Listen and connect, if you have something that will help him the sale almost makes itself after that.
Provided your Windows install is not on a FAT partition. In which case, security what's that?
It's just further proof of the greed of the record industry.
In my own personal experience with the ESRB. They're exactly what most people say. Braindead. Any bit of humor that might be taken in any way as sexual bumps up the rating. However, blowing people to bits is perfectly okay..
That line from the south park movie needs to be amended for the ESRB.
Just remember what the ESRB says: Horrific, deplorable violence is okay, as long as people don't say or do anything sexual.
I must say, as a college student with prior experience in the field I am I am studying (CS, programming since I was 10). I've have very negative things to say about the whole college/university experience.
First, there is no way that 2 hours twice a week will actually teach you how to do something. I've taken three 100, 200 level programming courses in a college, and a university. The average grade in the class was 30. Mind you they curved it so 30 was a C.
Staff at Universities seem to be more concerned with the status of their pet project than that class they teach so they get funding. I had a class where the professor just showed up and read a speech prepared by the TA to go with a slide show prepared by the TA then complained that no one was helping him with his research project. Mind you he was the worst offender I've seen. The general level of incompetence has been a real eye opener. I had a Java professor actually say "final static int variable = 2;" was a syntactically incorrect, not a big deal but it was a question on a midterm....
Then again, I have found knowledgeable professors (Shout out to Prof. Barton). I'm still split.
For those who don't want to read all of that, don't expect college to teach you anything, treat it as advice.
Here's product support for you..
A little while back, I was over my friends house and he was complaining about how Klingon Academy would crash under a NT kernel and nVidia drivers. He missed the game so, as a joke I took a look at the ASM dump. Sure enough, there was a instruction I recognized right at the point of crash. It was a string compare pseudo op. There was a little note next to that instruction in the book I learned assembly from and it was in my friends as well. It turns out that the instruction could be set to run in reverse by setting a processor flag. I figured this was the probable cause of the crash. After failing to reach Interplay via email, phone, website. I took it upon myself to patch the game (in a hex editor with machine code generated from MASM). Now the game works. Well, there still is one bug with the particle generators, but I can't figure that out from the ASM dump. He got his game back, he can live without the particles.
I know someone is going to point out the ethics of editing someone else's binary. However, I do not see the harm in editing a dead companies dead product so it will work again.
If it's based on per-capita output of CO2 then all the US needs is more citizens.. Hey, it turns out illegal immgration is of benefit after all.
In all seriousness, Kyoto is a bad idea. It simply hinders which ever nations sign it. If all of the world signed on, I'd have no problem with our president signing it.
I'm glad this John Doe silliness is over (one would hope). I really think that the DMCA is being abused to push it past constitutionality. Like suing / arresting anyone who says anything about copy protection.
What ever happened to the standard of fair use?
New York has a "odd" law regarding self-defense.
1) Shooting someone for breaking into your house is a no no.
2) The only legitimate use of force is "comparable" force. Which means if he puts up his dukes and attempts to punch you.. you need to punch back. If he produces a knife... you may stab him. If he produces a gun... you may shoot him. This rule also applies if you see him threatening someone else.
Now, this poses a problem if I ever find myself in this situation. Since I must wait for whoever broke in or whatever to produce some kind of weapon before I can respond. If I where to point my gun at him and say "GET OUT". I've escalated the dispute and now he's legally allowed to shoot me. So long story short.
Having a firearm does me no good if he doesn't have a clearly have a gun. Not to say I will never buy one but I think self-defense isn't going to be high on my list of reasons to own one.
-- Who brings a knife to a gun fight? In NY, a smart man.
Note To Self:
Swiss robbery spree = Bad idea.
How will I receive info on how to make my manhood bigger now?
I think it's time that we all realized that SPAM like other internet annoyences can't really be legislated. They are too distributed a problem. You can't get them all. I doubt you can get enough to make a dent.
I can feel your pain. I'm a tech at a college newspaper that uses Macs. We do not own a copy of Office. After all, we have AppleWorks that came with the machine. People don't seem to get the concept that .doc isn't a universal thing. No matter how many times I try to explain this the response I get is "why not?". I put OpenOffice on the machines however, they don't like the interface and refuse to use it.
I've just given up at this point. I have broken down and submitted a request for 10 copies of Office v.X
I think it's amazing. I guess now when I make a joke about Micheal Jackson being from Mars I might actually be sort of right.
Certainly makes me think. Somewhere, Darwin is laughing...
At this point, I have no sympathy for people who fall for this. Someone must have been smoking some really good stuff to come up with something this stupid.
I get the feeling there's some alien looking out his rear view monitor wondering if that piece of trash veicle he hit is following him.
I'll catch you next time TORVALDS!!!
Next Up: SCO vs US Government
"Wall thicknesses 2 feet to 14 feet."
So, this mean my WiFi won't work throughout the silo?
I tried it.. It's not true. The bill wasn't even warm.
I really think this is a clever new business model. Charge people for using another company / group's product.
Hey Windows users, you owe me $99.95 a year for those "Icon" things I invented last year.
It's a popular media topic of late. The story broke here in NY on CBS channel 2 news about a week and change ago. I figured it would boil over like the Doom stuff after the school shootings. On Monday I saw that Fox 5 was running a story on :: brace yourself :: Duke Nukem 3D! Just what I've come to expect from network news, timely, fair and balenced.
I'm just worried that this sets a bad example.
I may not have seen Indian code, but I have had personal experience with Romanian outsourcing. I was not impressed. It was probably the programmer who worked on it. However, my professor has had similar experiences with a few financial institutions and outsourcing. I can't claim he is objective since he was eventually laid off for Indian labor.
Oh, and please don't call me racist. My last GF was Indian.
McDonald's giving away free music with food. You guys think this will result in a "expansion" of the iTunes user base?
In all fairness I don't eat at McDonald's because I don't believe what they sell is actually food. So I'm not effected by said deal.
I don't think of MTV when I think of music. I think of MTV when I think of gothic rock stars with wannabe kids and their own reality show.
Honestly, I do not watch MTV. The quality of their "music" does not appeal to me. iTunes Music store and Napster are my 2 big bets in the music downloading biz.
What I tend to find is that most RPGs, not just MMORPGs have high mind goals. Yet, when you break the game down to a series of steps it follows one of two paths.
1) The Fetch Mission. Go to person. Get mission. Kill something the way to point X. Get object at point X. Kill something on the walk back from point X to person. Give object to person. Person thanks you and gives you something.
Should this get old.
2) Level. Go to woods. Find something to kill. Kill it. Get points. Repeat. At such time as you level, get a cool new ability to help you kill things more effectively.
I don't mean to sound like a troll but every MMORPG / RPG I have ever played can be described in those 2 actions (perhaps I've been playing the wrong games) So the answer to this question in my mind, "Are MMORPGs too complex?". A simple answer. No.
Just what the world needs more of... Bad movies based on games with bad stories. Dead or Alive is my favorite example of a bad story. Anyone even know what the story is? I don't, I just know some lucky SOB got to program a boob bounce matrix!