I genuinely believe that the next two books will happen a lot faster than the previous two did. From what I understand, the long delays on AFFC and ADWD occurred because of restructuring/rewriting. This restructuring occurred because Martin had originally intended to have them take place after a 5-year gap (in-book time), but realized after partially writing it that this necessitated too many flashbacks and wasn't working, and changed it so that the events in AFFC and ADWD take place immediately after A Storm of Swords.
I think Martin will probably have gotten most of the parts of the books that the timeline change affected out of the way with ADWD. Also, he has a few chapters banked for the next book already. Besides, he'll have to write faster so the new HBO series based on his books doesn't catch up with him.
MIT doesn't automatically give everyone static IPs anymore, although you can get several of them if you want.
What happens now is that the first time you try to use your computer to log onto the internet at MIT, you have to first register your mac address. You can't access the internet unless your mac address has been registered.
Once you've done that, whenever you connect you're given a random IP via dhcp.
So, 'technically' they can attach a name to IP because you've registered your mac address, but it's entirely possible to spoof that.
It's kind of funny...if someone so much as *sneezes* at MIT, it seems to appear on slashdot. I'm an MIT student, and I find out more about what MIT is doing from slashdot than I do by being here.
Two things I'd like to say:
1. The people dealing with the rankings and US News are probably not professors and students and the like. Don't confuse the business/political aspects of MIT with the school itself.
2. With regards to students doing stupid things...people here are brilliant. Brilliant does not equal common sense. In fact, there are large groups of people here that lack any kind of social awareness whatsoever (a friend of mine once referred to it as having "an air of asperger's to them"). However, this certainly does not make up the majority of MIT. Stupid people just get the press, unfortunately.
I'm a EECS sophomore at MIT. The impression I've gotten from the admissions office is that grades, leadership positions and all that are pretty much there to weed out the people who couldn't handle the school, and what's really important is the personality they glean from your application and whether they feel like you're a 'good fit' for the school.
This is actually quite important, at least at MIT. A common saying around here is "Getting and education from MIT is like taking a drink from a firehose." If this isn't the place for you, if you don't absolutely love it here, you're going to end up bitter and hating it. I'm heard people joke more than once about how the "M" in MIT stands for "Masochist". At the same time, if this is the place for you, it doesn't matter how huge your workload is...you'll still be happy.
Don't worry about trying to do extra things at this point to get you into college; grades and extracurriculars and SATs only get you so far. Concentrate on finding the place that you think you'll be happiest at...even if that's not a top-tier school. That's what really matters.
Actually, I've found, those aren't really the reasons that people pirate anime. The most prevalent reason is that when anime are dubbed into English, they tend to be butchered, scenes are cut, translations are totally wrong (not to mention some of the voices are downright terrible). People watch pirated subtitled anime because it's 'truer' to the original. The people who pirate these are people who really love the series, so the do as much to preserve all the original meaning.
Second, many very good series just aren't brougth to America. Many wouldn't translate very good (I personally know at least one that was so full of of jokes based on Japanese culture/language that it would nearly be impossible to translate and keep the real meaning). Pirated anime has much more variety than whatever you'd find on television or at the store in America.
I do agree that actually buying all this anime would be prohibitively expensive. That point you made is extremely true.
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I could be wrong here, but I think the Secu-ROM is DRM added by whatever company made the game, and not something that's part of Steam itself.
I genuinely believe that the next two books will happen a lot faster than the previous two did. From what I understand, the long delays on AFFC and ADWD occurred because of restructuring/rewriting. This restructuring occurred because Martin had originally intended to have them take place after a 5-year gap (in-book time), but realized after partially writing it that this necessitated too many flashbacks and wasn't working, and changed it so that the events in AFFC and ADWD take place immediately after A Storm of Swords. I think Martin will probably have gotten most of the parts of the books that the timeline change affected out of the way with ADWD. Also, he has a few chapters banked for the next book already. Besides, he'll have to write faster so the new HBO series based on his books doesn't catch up with him.
Am I the only one who thought this story was about the British TV show at first glance because of the capitalization? Great show, btw.
MIT doesn't automatically give everyone static IPs anymore, although you can get several of them if you want. What happens now is that the first time you try to use your computer to log onto the internet at MIT, you have to first register your mac address. You can't access the internet unless your mac address has been registered. Once you've done that, whenever you connect you're given a random IP via dhcp. So, 'technically' they can attach a name to IP because you've registered your mac address, but it's entirely possible to spoof that.
Two things I'd like to say:
1. The people dealing with the rankings and US News are probably not professors and students and the like. Don't confuse the business/political aspects of MIT with the school itself.
2. With regards to students doing stupid things...people here are brilliant. Brilliant does not equal common sense. In fact, there are large groups of people here that lack any kind of social awareness whatsoever (a friend of mine once referred to it as having "an air of asperger's to them"). However, this certainly does not make up the majority of MIT. Stupid people just get the press, unfortunately.
I'm a EECS sophomore at MIT. The impression I've gotten from the admissions office is that grades, leadership positions and all that are pretty much there to weed out the people who couldn't handle the school, and what's really important is the personality they glean from your application and whether they feel like you're a 'good fit' for the school. This is actually quite important, at least at MIT. A common saying around here is "Getting and education from MIT is like taking a drink from a firehose." If this isn't the place for you, if you don't absolutely love it here, you're going to end up bitter and hating it. I'm heard people joke more than once about how the "M" in MIT stands for "Masochist". At the same time, if this is the place for you, it doesn't matter how huge your workload is...you'll still be happy. Don't worry about trying to do extra things at this point to get you into college; grades and extracurriculars and SATs only get you so far. Concentrate on finding the place that you think you'll be happiest at...even if that's not a top-tier school. That's what really matters.
Actually, I've found, those aren't really the reasons that people pirate anime. The most prevalent reason is that when anime are dubbed into English, they tend to be butchered, scenes are cut, translations are totally wrong (not to mention some of the voices are downright terrible). People watch pirated subtitled anime because it's 'truer' to the original. The people who pirate these are people who really love the series, so the do as much to preserve all the original meaning. Second, many very good series just aren't brougth to America. Many wouldn't translate very good (I personally know at least one that was so full of of jokes based on Japanese culture/language that it would nearly be impossible to translate and keep the real meaning). Pirated anime has much more variety than whatever you'd find on television or at the store in America. I do agree that actually buying all this anime would be prohibitively expensive. That point you made is extremely true.
Personally, I'd LOVE if a guy wrote me a love poem in elvish. Granted, he might have to translate it for me...but I'd still love it.