I doubt it's necessary. There's hundreds of great colleges all across America; anyone can get accepted to a decent school somewhere here. It might not be Harvard, but that doesn't matter. I went to a fairly unknown university, learned many things, expanded my thinking, gained new perspectives, and did all of the things anyone should do in college.
I remember from high school that many people are worried about getting in at all or about going to someplace famous. Getting accepted someplace that's decent isn't difficult and getting accepted someplace famous isn't important. The most important thing is deciding that you have a lust for knowledge, having a vague inclination of something you'd love to know more about, and pursuing it. Too many people with no ambition waste their time in college and come out with only a piece of paper to show for it.
I don't understand what's unusual about EA releasing too many sequels to an otherwise excellent franchise.
Admittedly, the only Battlefield game I've played much was 1942, but that was one of the best PC games I've ever played. I never bought any of the sequels because BF:Vietnam was released while 1942 still had thousands of active servers at any given time and I could tell they were just going to run it into the ground like all their other franchises. Since Heroes will be free I'll give it a shot, but I bet they'll find a way to make it suck.
I don't know what books or newspapers would gain from being in 3D, aside from children's books. My web browsing is really not very different from how I interact with printed media, except for things like posting comments. What would a browser gain?
I've never understood the drive for a 3D GUI on a computer. I have yet to see anything more usable than the current WIMP setups included with today's major operating systems.
When you use a private account to conduct public business, it really seems just that the account suddenly becomes a public one.
My employer gives me my own e-mail address to use for work and my work and personal e-mails never end up in the wrong account. For anything else to happen would be more than a simple mistake.
I think we give accolades to professional athletes because whenever one of them turns out not to be a total asshole, it comes as a surprise to everyone.
When a librarian turns out to be a decent person, it's business as usual.
It's all about where they do the posting. I started posting on Slashdot many years ago when I was a teenager, as revealed by my handle. This website has shaped and developed my ability for written communication by providing both good and bad examples, and by providing me with feedback on the things I say.
Youtube is different; posting there is like throwing your words away. Discussion does not take place; people throw the words out and then turn their back on them. Here, people come back and see if their comments have scored well. In so doing, they notice replies and reenter the discussion that they had participated in earlier in the day.
Well, that's how it's worked for me. Obviously, there's plenty of terrible comments here, but overall this is easily among the best forums on the internet.
Real life right now is using pre-release versions of standards that do not interoperate with each other properly. So at the moment, real life reflects the unfinished nature of the standard very well.
Actually, this housing thing is perfect for you. I graduated from college in May and just got my first good job two weeks ago. I'm not making that much money right now, but I can live comfortably and save at the same time. In a couple years, buying a house should be no problem for me because the market crashed and I have good credit.
Having good credit isn't hard, just pay your bills on time and keep a close eye on your spending. Anyone with good credit and sufficient income can still get a loan to buy a house, it's just the people who suck at paying their bills who are getting left in the cold.
The North Carolina factory just went online a year or two ago after my (former) home state gave them millions of dollars in incentives (corporate welfare) to move in.
Glad to get away from that goddamn buncha crooks. Now I live in Arizona where I'm so far unaware of systematic political crime like that, aside from Sheriff Joe Arpaio.
I guess life's a bitch somehow no matter where you live, except maybe Iceland.
Yes, exactly like Vendetta except more fun. Hopefully Vendetta can keep itself afloat for a few more years and actually become interesting.
I played it for a good two months or so. The combat and such isn't bad, but I was never able to get into any groove playing the game. I never felt compelled to see what would come next or felt excited about what new abilities/property I would acquire next.
EVE Online doesn't actually allow players to fly their own ship or do any of the usual space captain things. Combat is pretty much exactly the same as any other MMO.
I prefer to call Eve a "massively multiplayer 3D online chat room". Something like X3:Reunion except MMO would really be the space game everyone's been waiting for.
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I prefer X-window forwarding on Linux or RDP on Windows because my history/cookies still exist on my home machine instead of the work computer.
They have no way of tacking what I do when I'm ssh'd to my own machine at home!
They should just include cURL, then people can download whatever they want. (sarcasm)
I doubt it's necessary. There's hundreds of great colleges all across America; anyone can get accepted to a decent school somewhere here. It might not be Harvard, but that doesn't matter. I went to a fairly unknown university, learned many things, expanded my thinking, gained new perspectives, and did all of the things anyone should do in college.
I remember from high school that many people are worried about getting in at all or about going to someplace famous. Getting accepted someplace that's decent isn't difficult and getting accepted someplace famous isn't important. The most important thing is deciding that you have a lust for knowledge, having a vague inclination of something you'd love to know more about, and pursuing it. Too many people with no ambition waste their time in college and come out with only a piece of paper to show for it.
I think this is the best reply I've received in a long, long time.
I leave you this contribution "pop up anime dickgirl book"
I don't understand what's unusual about EA releasing too many sequels to an otherwise excellent franchise.
Admittedly, the only Battlefield game I've played much was 1942, but that was one of the best PC games I've ever played. I never bought any of the sequels because BF:Vietnam was released while 1942 still had thousands of active servers at any given time and I could tell they were just going to run it into the ground like all their other franchises. Since Heroes will be free I'll give it a shot, but I bet they'll find a way to make it suck.
I don't know what books or newspapers would gain from being in 3D, aside from children's books. My web browsing is really not very different from how I interact with printed media, except for things like posting comments. What would a browser gain?
I've never understood the drive for a 3D GUI on a computer. I have yet to see anything more usable than the current WIMP setups included with today's major operating systems.
I am not a public servant who is suspected of conducting public business on a personal account in order to avoid public scrutiny of my dealings.
When you use a private account to conduct public business, it really seems just that the account suddenly becomes a public one.
My employer gives me my own e-mail address to use for work and my work and personal e-mails never end up in the wrong account. For anything else to happen would be more than a simple mistake.
Do you really expect a government employee to take that much effort?
I think we give accolades to professional athletes because whenever one of them turns out not to be a total asshole, it comes as a surprise to everyone.
When a librarian turns out to be a decent person, it's business as usual.
I know that was a joke, but in case someone missed the point here, my handle is juvenile. I was not alive in 1977.
It's all about where they do the posting. I started posting on Slashdot many years ago when I was a teenager, as revealed by my handle. This website has shaped and developed my ability for written communication by providing both good and bad examples, and by providing me with feedback on the things I say.
Youtube is different; posting there is like throwing your words away. Discussion does not take place; people throw the words out and then turn their back on them. Here, people come back and see if their comments have scored well. In so doing, they notice replies and reenter the discussion that they had participated in earlier in the day.
Well, that's how it's worked for me.
Obviously, there's plenty of terrible comments here, but overall this is easily among the best forums on the internet.
So I imagine that would be some sort of injection attack...?
Pun intended.
It'll be like Slashdot; people will post good comments until they have good karma and then use the good karma to troll.
Faggot.
Minor correction: the ship's class is Firefly, her name is Serenity.
Real life right now is using pre-release versions of standards that do not interoperate with each other properly. So at the moment, real life reflects the unfinished nature of the standard very well.
Nobody has brought us N yet. According to Wikipedia, it probably won't be ratified until November 2009. They should probably work on that first.
A few weeks ago I went to a job interview where the interviewer mentioned seeing my Digg profile (because I used my real name)
Bonus: My profile picture was a pot leaf
Double Bonus: I got hired and I'm typing this post from work
Freenet has been doing this for years. Basically all it is is a distributed, encrypted filesystem with some HTTP front end.
That's a ridiculous oversimplification, but that's how it works to the user.
Wait for it to come out on Steam. Their DRM is tolerable for most folks and it won't alter your system. It might happen, someday...
Actually, this housing thing is perfect for you. I graduated from college in May and just got my first good job two weeks ago. I'm not making that much money right now, but I can live comfortably and save at the same time. In a couple years, buying a house should be no problem for me because the market crashed and I have good credit.
Having good credit isn't hard, just pay your bills on time and keep a close eye on your spending. Anyone with good credit and sufficient income can still get a loan to buy a house, it's just the people who suck at paying their bills who are getting left in the cold.
The North Carolina factory just went online a year or two ago after my (former) home state gave them millions of dollars in incentives (corporate welfare) to move in.
Glad to get away from that goddamn buncha crooks. Now I live in Arizona where I'm so far unaware of systematic political crime like that, aside from Sheriff Joe Arpaio.
I guess life's a bitch somehow no matter where you live, except maybe Iceland.
Yes, exactly like Vendetta except more fun. Hopefully Vendetta can keep itself afloat for a few more years and actually become interesting.
I played it for a good two months or so. The combat and such isn't bad, but I was never able to get into any groove playing the game. I never felt compelled to see what would come next or felt excited about what new abilities/property I would acquire next.
EVE Online doesn't actually allow players to fly their own ship or do any of the usual space captain things. Combat is pretty much exactly the same as any other MMO.
I prefer to call Eve a "massively multiplayer 3D online chat room".
Something like X3:Reunion except MMO would really be the space game everyone's been waiting for.