Americans killed their way to freedom in the Revolution, killed those who supported slavery until they surrendered at Appomattox, and if the government gets bad enough will vote with the bullet again.
The Civil War wasn't fought to end slavery, it was about money. The southern states seceded due to fundamental differences in economic philosophies, which happened to include slavery. The federal government acted to suppress a rebellion. Banning slavery was just an afterthought enacted towards the end of the war to further punish the southern states.
Ask yourself why the 10 results don't show me a little thumbnail of the page, even if that comes in after the results, that would be much more helpful in a lot of cases. Why isn't there an option at least to turn that on?
Click on the Show Options... link on a search results page, then click the Page Previews option.
AIM still has the largest userbase of any IM client in the US. It would be interesting if they could leverage that into a new generation of IM/social networking application.
Coming from a Java/Eclipse background, there are some things about Visual Studio that really annoy me.
1. Go To Definition works about 75% of the time in VS, but it seems to need to do a lot of searching in order to find where a class or interface is declared. In Eclipse, I can control-click on a class, method, or variable, and 100% of the time it will quickly jump to its definition.
2. Go To Reference is worthless and just does not work in VS. Contrast this with Eclipse, which will not only find all references of a given class, method, variable, etc, but can give me a call hierarchy to let me jump back in the call stack to find out how low-level methods are called.
3. I miss Eclipse's Open Type, where I can start typing the first few letters of a class and have it list matching classes in the project.
It's not all bad, I do like some things about VS and C#. I do like C# properties. I like the Command Window in the debugger, and I like being able to right click a statement and set another line as the next statement while debugging. The point-and-clickyness of the form designer is nice.
However, it seems like I do a lot more plain old text searching in VS (for classes, methods, etc.) than I ever did in Eclipse. I feel that Eclipse lets me code at a higher level of abstraction than VS does.
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For PS2, I'd recommend Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance. My fiance and I played through that together. We also ran through the coop missions in Timesplitters 2, although that wasn't as entertaining.
The most fun we've had playing video games together recently is with Pikmin 2. Though the game is mostly single player, there's both a coop and versus mode, both of which we have enjoyed. The single player game is surprisingly fun, too!
I have a Cellsocket for my Verizon Motorola T730. Overall, it's an okay solution.
My main problem is lack of cell reception at my house. If I stand outside on the deck or next to a window, I have marginal reception and can *usually* make a call. However, service inside the house is useless... ie, the phone might ring, but the call will cut out immediately.
I was thinking that the Cellsocket with its external antenna would eliminate my problems. I could just place it next to the window and all would be fine.
That turned out not to be the case. The antenna that the Cellsocket came with actually turned out to have worse reception than the phone's itself in my case. When plugged into the Cellsocket, the phone would show 2 or 3 bars of service. However, I would not be able to place calls, or my calls would drop within the first minute.
I finally solved the problem by buying an external antenna... a magnetic one that I believe is intended to mount on top of your car temporarily. I bought that and an adapter to screw into the Cellsocket's antenna connection. After putting the antenna on top of a metal filing cabinet next to the window, my reception problems disappeared. Oddly enough, my phone shows only one or two bars of signal strength, but my calls very rarely drop anymore.
My last complaint is the firmware seems to be a bit flaky. Sometimes the speed dial doesn't work. Sometimes I can place calls through a connected phone, I can hear who I'm calling, but they can't hear me. Cycling the cellphone's power seems to fix that one.
Oh, and any calls which require touchtone input (especially accessing my voicemail) require the input on the docked cellphone itself, not the attached phone.
Overall, it's a decent product. It's allowed me to use my cellphone inside my house, which I was almost unable to do before. But due to its unreliability, I had to suck it up and pay for a landline.
It's not the appearance, it's the functionality. The keyboard shortcuts are awesome and very intuitive once you learn how to use them. For example, I constantly finding myself hitting C or R in Outlook (for my work email) trying to compose or reply to a message.
Plus, I love the fact that the titlebar of the browser window gives an unread message count, and that the Gmail inbox periodically refreshes itself. That way, at work I can leave a browser window open and periodically check the taskbar to see if I have new mail.
(As an aside... hey Google... a proxy setting would have been nice in the Gmail Notifier applet.)
I want to second the parent poster's suggestion to get your Masters right after you get your Bachelors. I am currently working full time and trying to get my Masters in CS part time at night.
If you try to go part time, your school options will be very limited. Luckily for me there's a local university with a decent CS program, so I can continue to work and pay the bills while I'm trying to further my education. There's no way I could afford to quit my job and go back to school full time.
Also, I could be done with my degree in 3 semesters if I went full time. It's going to take me over 3 years to finish it part time.
The added stress of having reading, projects, and tests hanging over my head while trying to still do my job well at work is tough. I've stayed up very late several times over the past couple years trying to get last minute schoolwork done.
On a related note... Walmart will not sell music with the Parental Advisory sticker, yet they sell guns and R rated movies. I wouldn't be surprised if they stopped selling M rated games.
Now that the new Sam n Max game has been cancelled, perhaps I'll dig through my closet and salvage the floppies from the original game to play through again...
It works fine ~90% of the time, and now I can't imagine going back to watching TV without a DVR. The other 10% is what pisses me off. I pay an extra $10 a month (through Comcast) and I expect it to just work.
I don't consider it acceptable when I press rewind when watching live TV and the box displays a black screen for ~30 seconds, then promptly shuts itself off, reboots, and then takes 60 seconds to load the guide. It happened during the Super Bowl. Twice.
Overall it really has changed the way I watched TV, but I would really like the machine to be less flaky. The interface could use some polish too.
...then it will be a major failure. I have the Scientific Atlanta Explorer 8000 DVR ($10/month through Comcast) and the thing is a major POS. The interface is terrible. Occasionally I have to wait 10-20 seconds for the channel to change while the recorder catches up. Sometimes the box dies, and has to reboot itself. Oh, and from time to time it forgets about its recording schedule.
Its only advantages over Tivo are the fact that it can record 2 channels at the same time, and doesn't require a landline connection (don't have one).
It seems like a product that was rushed to market. Given their track record with this, I can't help but think that a game system produced by them would be a major flop.
Considering all the hulabaloo over GTA3 in our over-litigious socieity, I'm not surprised that EA is steering away from making a new version of Syndicate. I haven't played the game in 10 years, but I remember lighting civilians and enemy agents up with flamethrowers and miniguns.
Even an M rating doesn't prevent kids from getting their hands on violent games, and once people start making noise about them, it's a PR nightmare for the company.
I agree... I got my current job (back in December) through washingtonjobs.com. I think it is more of a function of the economy slowly recovering than anything else though.
I'm surprised more hasn't been said about the fact that both were members of the Skull and Bones society... especially with all the tinfoil hat types around here. It's also interesting to note that Bush said he didn't know Kerry, even though they were only 2 years apart and the Skull and Bones society apparently only initiates 15 people a year.
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Americans killed their way to freedom in the Revolution, killed those who supported slavery until they surrendered at Appomattox, and if the government gets bad enough will vote with the bullet again.
The Civil War wasn't fought to end slavery, it was about money. The southern states seceded due to fundamental differences in economic philosophies, which happened to include slavery. The federal government acted to suppress a rebellion. Banning slavery was just an afterthought enacted towards the end of the war to further punish the southern states.
Ask yourself why the 10 results don't show me a little thumbnail of the page, even if that comes in after the results, that would be much more helpful in a lot of cases. Why isn't there an option at least to turn that on?
Click on the Show Options... link on a search results page, then click the Page Previews option.
AIM still has the largest userbase of any IM client in the US. It would be interesting if they could leverage that into a new generation of IM/social networking application.
Maybe you've never used Eclipse before. VS.net is an okay IDE; Eclipse is a great one.
Coming from a Java/Eclipse background, there are some things about Visual Studio that really annoy me.
1. Go To Definition works about 75% of the time in VS, but it seems to need to do a lot of searching in order to find where a class or interface is declared. In Eclipse, I can control-click on a class, method, or variable, and 100% of the time it will quickly jump to its definition.
2. Go To Reference is worthless and just does not work in VS. Contrast this with Eclipse, which will not only find all references of a given class, method, variable, etc, but can give me a call hierarchy to let me jump back in the call stack to find out how low-level methods are called.
3. I miss Eclipse's Open Type, where I can start typing the first few letters of a class and have it list matching classes in the project.
It's not all bad, I do like some things about VS and C#. I do like C# properties. I like the Command Window in the debugger, and I like being able to right click a statement and set another line as the next statement while debugging. The point-and-clickyness of the form designer is nice.
However, it seems like I do a lot more plain old text searching in VS (for classes, methods, etc.) than I ever did in Eclipse. I feel that Eclipse lets me code at a higher level of abstraction than VS does.
If you loved Star Control 2, check out The Ur-Quan Masters.
For PS2, I'd recommend Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance. My fiance and I played through that together. We also ran through the coop missions in Timesplitters 2, although that wasn't as entertaining.
The most fun we've had playing video games together recently is with Pikmin 2. Though the game is mostly single player, there's both a coop and versus mode, both of which we have enjoyed. The single player game is surprisingly fun, too!
The White House's roof seems to be changed, as do the roofs of buildings in the surrounding area.
Strange, as the Pentagon and CIA buildings are plainly visible.
I have a Cellsocket for my Verizon Motorola T730. Overall, it's an okay solution.
My main problem is lack of cell reception at my house. If I stand outside on the deck or next to a window, I have marginal reception and can *usually* make a call. However, service inside the house is useless... ie, the phone might ring, but the call will cut out immediately.
I was thinking that the Cellsocket with its external antenna would eliminate my problems. I could just place it next to the window and all would be fine.
That turned out not to be the case. The antenna that the Cellsocket came with actually turned out to have worse reception than the phone's itself in my case. When plugged into the Cellsocket, the phone would show 2 or 3 bars of service. However, I would not be able to place calls, or my calls would drop within the first minute.
I finally solved the problem by buying an external antenna... a magnetic one that I believe is intended to mount on top of your car temporarily. I bought that and an adapter to screw into the Cellsocket's antenna connection. After putting the antenna on top of a metal filing cabinet next to the window, my reception problems disappeared. Oddly enough, my phone shows only one or two bars of signal strength, but my calls very rarely drop anymore.
My last complaint is the firmware seems to be a bit flaky. Sometimes the speed dial doesn't work. Sometimes I can place calls through a connected phone, I can hear who I'm calling, but they can't hear me. Cycling the cellphone's power seems to fix that one.
Oh, and any calls which require touchtone input (especially accessing my voicemail) require the input on the docked cellphone itself, not the attached phone.
Overall, it's a decent product. It's allowed me to use my cellphone inside my house, which I was almost unable to do before. But due to its unreliability, I had to suck it up and pay for a landline.
It's not the appearance, it's the functionality. The keyboard shortcuts are awesome and very intuitive once you learn how to use them. For example, I constantly finding myself hitting C or R in Outlook (for my work email) trying to compose or reply to a message.
Plus, I love the fact that the titlebar of the browser window gives an unread message count, and that the Gmail inbox periodically refreshes itself. That way, at work I can leave a browser window open and periodically check the taskbar to see if I have new mail.
(As an aside... hey Google... a proxy setting would have been nice in the Gmail Notifier applet.)
I want to second the parent poster's suggestion to get your Masters right after you get your Bachelors. I am currently working full time and trying to get my Masters in CS part time at night.
If you try to go part time, your school options will be very limited. Luckily for me there's a local university with a decent CS program, so I can continue to work and pay the bills while I'm trying to further my education. There's no way I could afford to quit my job and go back to school full time.
Also, I could be done with my degree in 3 semesters if I went full time. It's going to take me over 3 years to finish it part time.
The added stress of having reading, projects, and tests hanging over my head while trying to still do my job well at work is tough. I've stayed up very late several times over the past couple years trying to get last minute schoolwork done.
Apparently Jim Crow laws are still on the books of several southern states.
Hotmail: 2 megabytes
Hotmail is still their main competitor, at least until Gmail comes out of beta and everyone and their mother can sign up for an account.
Nope, "only" 100MB like the rest of the unwashed masses.
Actually, only baseball has an antitrust exemption from Congress. The other sports leagues don't.
The EFF didn't send me a card when I joined, but I did get a nifty tshirt and hat.
On a related note... Walmart will not sell music with the Parental Advisory sticker, yet they sell guns and R rated movies. I wouldn't be surprised if they stopped selling M rated games.
Now that the new Sam n Max game has been cancelled, perhaps I'll dig through my closet and salvage the floppies from the original game to play through again...
What is this arcane developer menu that you speak of?
It works fine ~90% of the time, and now I can't imagine going back to watching TV without a DVR. The other 10% is what pisses me off. I pay an extra $10 a month (through Comcast) and I expect it to just work.
I don't consider it acceptable when I press rewind when watching live TV and the box displays a black screen for ~30 seconds, then promptly shuts itself off, reboots, and then takes 60 seconds to load the guide. It happened during the Super Bowl. Twice.
Overall it really has changed the way I watched TV, but I would really like the machine to be less flaky. The interface could use some polish too.
...then it will be a major failure. I have the Scientific Atlanta Explorer 8000 DVR ($10/month through Comcast) and the thing is a major POS. The interface is terrible. Occasionally I have to wait 10-20 seconds for the channel to change while the recorder catches up. Sometimes the box dies, and has to reboot itself. Oh, and from time to time it forgets about its recording schedule.
Its only advantages over Tivo are the fact that it can record 2 channels at the same time, and doesn't require a landline connection (don't have one).
It seems like a product that was rushed to market. Given their track record with this, I can't help but think that a game system produced by them would be a major flop.
Considering all the hulabaloo over GTA3 in our over-litigious socieity, I'm not surprised that EA is steering away from making a new version of Syndicate. I haven't played the game in 10 years, but I remember lighting civilians and enemy agents up with flamethrowers and miniguns.
Even an M rating doesn't prevent kids from getting their hands on violent games, and once people start making noise about them, it's a PR nightmare for the company.
I agree... I got my current job (back in December) through washingtonjobs.com. I think it is more of a function of the economy slowly recovering than anything else though.
I'm surprised more hasn't been said about the fact that both were members of the Skull and Bones society... especially with all the tinfoil hat types around here. It's also interesting to note that Bush said he didn't know Kerry, even though they were only 2 years apart and the Skull and Bones society apparently only initiates 15 people a year.
Mars is a private company.