I've got quite a few friends in the department (CS @ UMass Amherst) that play online poker regularly with the sole intent to make money. Some claim to make up to $28/hr. running on four tables online. Their stories sound pretty awesome, it's definitely an advantage to have an analytical background when it comes to certain aspects of poker.
I, too, consider myself to be of the same stereotype as yourself. I've always called it pseudo-ADD, call it what you will.
In all seriousness, the best advice that I can give to you is the advice that I didn't listen to when I was preparing to enter into college. FIND YOURSELF - I found myself after being kicked out of college the first time around. I took 3.5 years off, I worked, I spent some time in the military (and am still an active member of the MA Army Nat'l Guard) for better or for worse, I saw what it was like not having a good education and a decent career path.
The reason that I stress this is that I had a *lot* of problems taking classes that weren't directly associated with my major(s) - Mechanical Engineering, Physics, and finally Computer Science. In the general-ed classes I'd basically go when I felt like it, usually sleep through the class anyways, and not do the work. The time spent in 'the real world' was a huge wake up call for me.
The wake up call is only attainable through experience gained via feelings and thought and realizations gained from seeing what it could be like if you don't apply yourself in every class and get the best grade that you could. Bear in mind, I failed out of UMass without a sip of alcohol and/or drugs entering my body, I was straight-edge until the age of 21.2. It was sheer laziness, or, rather, lack of interest in my general ed classes combined with lack of motivation to actually try in them that caused it. Good luck with whatever you do!
Macromedia Flash's Actionscript is pretty easy, from having glanced at it a bit, and can be used to do some cool stuff very early on. It also means having to buy the program after the free trial runs out, though, but that's my suggestion.
...I was using a pirated version of Windows XP. I'm now using a 100% legit copy, thanks to the MSDNAA and Microsoft's attempt at farming software dependencies.
It's probably in everyone's interest to give out patches to all, even those that Micro$oft knows are illegal copies, as it probably impacts the spread of viruses such as Sasser more than it does their pocketbook.
Right, Anonymous Coward, did you even read what I typed? Maybe I should read it aloud onto a tape and send that to you - '/. posting on tape' and you can play it in your car on your way to work, clearly you can't read.
Despite your claims to the contrary, you obviously do blindly follow the news media in your country.
What are your grounds for making such a claim? I'm curious, fill me in Einstein.
It's unfortunate that people like myself are the minority.
Arrogant asshole? Sir, you've clearly got me all wrong. Let's analyze what you just said.
I'll tell you what: I don't think you're any more credible because you got one.
I agree with you completely, hell, I could be having this stupid flame war with myself for all any other poster knows.
I couldn't care less about who you are and what you do. What you say is important.
So, by your logic I could say that all airplanes are unsafe. I can say that they are unsafe and that nobody should be allowed to fly in them. I could also say that the air we breathe is actually not air at all, it's lithium, and now we all have to pay for the lithium that we breathe. Why? Because I said so - don't ask who I am, I said it, so it must be true, right?
You, sir, have the mentality of almost 99% of the media WORLDWIDE - it is imperative that you consider the source when presented with any information, no matter hoe trivial it may seem. If you don't do that you just sound stupid and end up making an ass out of yourself.
As such, I really can't place much weight on the claims that said person's grandfather was killed by American soldiers - the truth? POW's are killed every fucking day, Geneva Conventions are, well, basically just rules of thumb for both sides - and it's been that way in any war. Believe what you will, but that's a fact.
Don't be afraid to tell me where you're from, I'm not going to start a flame war with you. I'm proud that I am who I am and I'm proud that I'm from where I'm from. I also believe that George Bush is a lying, two faced, money thirsty fuckhead who should be impeached - along with his cabinet - and thrown in jail. It seems like a hypocritical thing to say, but it's really not. I love my country yet despise those in control of it. If you'd just take the time to talk to an intelligent, mature 'mericunt like myself you might actually see that we're not all a bunch of flea infested, inbreeding, obese idiots who believe everything that we see and hear on CNN. Honestly, can't we all just get the fuck along?
Frankly, if you're too much of a coward to back up your words with your profile I'm not likely to believe a word that you say. You're just another naysayer (which exist both in France and in America) who's too closed minded to admit that France, too, has its faults. That France, too, has fucked up, and that France, too, is still fucked up in many more ways than any of us will ever know. The USA has all of these traits, most, if not all, nations do - I challenge you to find one that does not.
I didn't say that the Americans won the war, the Allies won the war. The US did enter the battle late, yes, you can read a history book. There are reasons for this - that's out of the scope of this posting, however what happened did, in fact, happen. Frankly, I consider that payback for LaFayette's help in the Revolutionary War, sooooo....we're even!
Where do we go from here? Try respect. I don't hate on the French, there are many positive things that have come out of France, as have come out of the US. The same can be said for the bad things.
I find it disturbing that all of the/.'ers who are replying to this and are, presumably, French or of the French sentiment are replying as Anonymous Cowards. All this does is feed the fire of the stereotype of the cowardly Frenchman. Maybe there's some truth to that rumor?
I read this as both an American (albeit not proud at times) and an American soldier - Army National Guard.
I read this and I feel nothing but pity for you. It's people like yourself that are the problem for the world as a whole - the ones too pig headed to realize you're the problem.
Instead of shit slinging and finger pointing, why not try talking to an actual American? Why not try talking to 95% of the students at my school and ask them how they feel about Bush and American foreign policy. Believe me, you'd be surprised how many people share your views.
You speak of World War II and our cowardness in it. Were you even alive then? I sure wasn't, I know what I've read about the War and what I've heard from American veterans - my family members - who were on the beaches of France on D-Day, the ones who were wounded in the fighting. Let's not forget, as well, that most of southern France was in collaboration with the Nazis - a fact that you subtly glossed over.
I could go on forever about how it's the people like yourself - that exist on both sides of ANY argument - that truly are the problems, the road blocks to progress to a mutual understanding and respect for one another. Realize that we have our problems, you, yourself, have problems as well. Our governments do things that we might not nescessarily like - it's not indicative of the opinion of every single person living in that country. The moral of this post? Don't hate.
...AOL? But AOL's so shiny and fancy, how could it be?!? Pretty, pretty AOL.
A professor of mine had a similar situation with some class mailings that he did. Some odd configuration of his email server had caused AOL to blacklist him - period.
As when reading everything on the internet, you must consider the *source* - the anonymity of the net has positive and negative ramifications. I, myself, have always tried to post intelligent and thoughtful comments about professors.
That being said, I've read some reviews that are exactly as you're saying some are, insulting, immature, and just plain stupid. I've fortunately got the common sense to filter these people out as the ones who probably didn't do all of their homework or read all that they should. It's up to everyone else to do the same thing.
These sites have helped me in the past 3 semesters to pick some of the best professors I've had in my college career, I consider them extremely useful. It'd be a shame to take them down because professor Smith is upset about the comments from one of his under-achievers.
I'm not saying that it's not a brilliant idea, militarily and financially, because it sure is. It would, however, be stupid of you to argue that the spending power of the US Military is substantially greater than that of most countries other countries and as such, it can afford to construct more air bases.
The semantics are a moot point here, both countries have got a different approach to (shoot me for using a Bushism here) "Homeland Defense". To each their own, I guess.
It's all about angular momentum, son, the forces produced in a plane are the same ones that you get in a centrifuge. The minor differences are the relative speeds involved, the plane having a much higher forward velocity.
Yes, I believe that the Swedes actually use some streets as possible war-time landing strips, probably for lack of space and/or money to build proper ones. Or wait a second, isn't that the new 9-3 convertible only being released in the EU? It'd look better with some dubs.
I completely agree with you on this, the people who are going to enable Apple to keep doing this are the consumers...US...we're (some of us) stupid enough to buy their products. While they may be fine products, they certainly are flawed and rivaled by PC-type competition, don't you think that consumers would think twice before paying more for a logo?
A friend of mine recently bought a Rio Karma. With a battery life hours longer than the iPod and the ability to play Ogg, MP3, and.wav (maybe more), the same capacity as an iPod but better (in his opinion) features, etc. I'm just saying that just because it's Apple doesn't mean that it's been touched by God himself/herself, maybe we, the consumers, should think twice about running out and buying an Apple product.
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I've got quite a few friends in the department (CS @ UMass Amherst) that play online poker regularly with the sole intent to make money. Some claim to make up to $28/hr. running on four tables online. Their stories sound pretty awesome, it's definitely an advantage to have an analytical background when it comes to certain aspects of poker.
I, too, consider myself to be of the same stereotype as yourself. I've always called it pseudo-ADD, call it what you will.
In all seriousness, the best advice that I can give to you is the advice that I didn't listen to when I was preparing to enter into college. FIND YOURSELF - I found myself after being kicked out of college the first time around. I took 3.5 years off, I worked, I spent some time in the military (and am still an active member of the MA Army Nat'l Guard) for better or for worse, I saw what it was like not having a good education and a decent career path.
The reason that I stress this is that I had a *lot* of problems taking classes that weren't directly associated with my major(s) - Mechanical Engineering, Physics, and finally Computer Science. In the general-ed classes I'd basically go when I felt like it, usually sleep through the class anyways, and not do the work. The time spent in 'the real world' was a huge wake up call for me.
The wake up call is only attainable through experience gained via feelings and thought and realizations gained from seeing what it could be like if you don't apply yourself in every class and get the best grade that you could. Bear in mind, I failed out of UMass without a sip of alcohol and/or drugs entering my body, I was straight-edge until the age of 21.2. It was sheer laziness, or, rather, lack of interest in my general ed classes combined with lack of motivation to actually try in them that caused it. Good luck with whatever you do!
Macromedia Flash's Actionscript is pretty easy, from having glanced at it a bit, and can be used to do some cool stuff very early on. It also means having to buy the program after the free trial runs out, though, but that's my suggestion.
scott_richter422@yahoo.com
Tell him how you feel!
It's probably in everyone's interest to give out patches to all, even those that Micro$oft knows are illegal copies, as it probably impacts the spread of viruses such as Sasser more than it does their pocketbook.
Sounds like a pissed off CS dropout to me. Out of curiosity, what school kicked you out?
Despite your claims to the contrary, you obviously do blindly follow the news media in your country.
What are your grounds for making such a claim? I'm curious, fill me in Einstein.
It's unfortunate that people like myself are the minority.
I'll tell you what: I don't think you're any more credible because you got one.
I agree with you completely, hell, I could be having this stupid flame war with myself for all any other poster knows.
I couldn't care less about who you are and what you do. What you say is important.
So, by your logic I could say that all airplanes are unsafe. I can say that they are unsafe and that nobody should be allowed to fly in them. I could also say that the air we breathe is actually not air at all, it's lithium, and now we all have to pay for the lithium that we breathe. Why? Because I said so - don't ask who I am, I said it, so it must be true, right?
You, sir, have the mentality of almost 99% of the media WORLDWIDE - it is imperative that you consider the source when presented with any information, no matter hoe trivial it may seem. If you don't do that you just sound stupid and end up making an ass out of yourself.
As such, I really can't place much weight on the claims that said person's grandfather was killed by American soldiers - the truth? POW's are killed every fucking day, Geneva Conventions are, well, basically just rules of thumb for both sides - and it's been that way in any war. Believe what you will, but that's a fact.
Don't be afraid to tell me where you're from, I'm not going to start a flame war with you. I'm proud that I am who I am and I'm proud that I'm from where I'm from. I also believe that George Bush is a lying, two faced, money thirsty fuckhead who should be impeached - along with his cabinet - and thrown in jail. It seems like a hypocritical thing to say, but it's really not. I love my country yet despise those in control of it. If you'd just take the time to talk to an intelligent, mature 'mericunt like myself you might actually see that we're not all a bunch of flea infested, inbreeding, obese idiots who believe everything that we see and hear on CNN. Honestly, can't we all just get the fuck along?
I didn't say that the Americans won the war, the Allies won the war. The US did enter the battle late, yes, you can read a history book. There are reasons for this - that's out of the scope of this posting, however what happened did, in fact, happen. Frankly, I consider that payback for LaFayette's help in the Revolutionary War, sooooo....we're even!
Where do we go from here? Try respect. I don't hate on the French, there are many positive things that have come out of France, as have come out of the US. The same can be said for the bad things.
I find it disturbing that all of the /.'ers who are replying to this and are, presumably, French or of the French sentiment are replying as Anonymous Cowards. All this does is feed the fire of the stereotype of the cowardly Frenchman. Maybe there's some truth to that rumor?
I read this and I feel nothing but pity for you. It's people like yourself that are the problem for the world as a whole - the ones too pig headed to realize you're the problem.
Instead of shit slinging and finger pointing, why not try talking to an actual American? Why not try talking to 95% of the students at my school and ask them how they feel about Bush and American foreign policy. Believe me, you'd be surprised how many people share your views.
You speak of World War II and our cowardness in it. Were you even alive then? I sure wasn't, I know what I've read about the War and what I've heard from American veterans - my family members - who were on the beaches of France on D-Day, the ones who were wounded in the fighting. Let's not forget, as well, that most of southern France was in collaboration with the Nazis - a fact that you subtly glossed over.
I could go on forever about how it's the people like yourself - that exist on both sides of ANY argument - that truly are the problems, the road blocks to progress to a mutual understanding and respect for one another. Realize that we have our problems, you, yourself, have problems as well. Our governments do things that we might not nescessarily like - it's not indicative of the opinion of every single person living in that country. The moral of this post? Don't hate.
A professor of mine had a similar situation with some class mailings that he did. Some odd configuration of his email server had caused AOL to blacklist him - period.
As when reading everything on the internet, you must consider the *source* - the anonymity of the net has positive and negative ramifications. I, myself, have always tried to post intelligent and thoughtful comments about professors. That being said, I've read some reviews that are exactly as you're saying some are, insulting, immature, and just plain stupid. I've fortunately got the common sense to filter these people out as the ones who probably didn't do all of their homework or read all that they should. It's up to everyone else to do the same thing. These sites have helped me in the past 3 semesters to pick some of the best professors I've had in my college career, I consider them extremely useful. It'd be a shame to take them down because professor Smith is upset about the comments from one of his under-achievers.
This thing deserves a 5, come on! Well done, sir.
I'm not saying that it's not a brilliant idea, militarily and financially, because it sure is. It would, however, be stupid of you to argue that the spending power of the US Military is substantially greater than that of most countries other countries and as such, it can afford to construct more air bases. The semantics are a moot point here, both countries have got a different approach to (shoot me for using a Bushism here) "Homeland Defense". To each their own, I guess.
It's all about angular momentum, son, the forces produced in a plane are the same ones that you get in a centrifuge. The minor differences are the relative speeds involved, the plane having a much higher forward velocity.
So eloquently stated, sir, thanks for remind me to commit my weekly murder. Ciao!
Yes, I believe that the Swedes actually use some streets as possible war-time landing strips, probably for lack of space and/or money to build proper ones. Or wait a second, isn't that the new 9-3 convertible only being released in the EU? It'd look better with some dubs.
I completely agree with you on this, the people who are going to enable Apple to keep doing this are the consumers...US...we're (some of us) stupid enough to buy their products. While they may be fine products, they certainly are flawed and rivaled by PC-type competition, don't you think that consumers would think twice before paying more for a logo?
.wav (maybe more), the same capacity as an iPod but better (in his opinion) features, etc. I'm just saying that just because it's Apple doesn't mean that it's been touched by God himself/herself, maybe we, the consumers, should think twice about running out and buying an Apple product.
A friend of mine recently bought a Rio Karma. With a battery life hours longer than the iPod and the ability to play Ogg, MP3, and