We have just as many Cyberathletic scholarships as Athletic scholarships. Schools shouldn't waste money on athletics, the majority of students are there to learn.
No, they're after your stuff, not you. Fighting back will only make it worse since you're probably outnumbered and a weak geek anyway. I don't see what good could possibly come out of fighting back except for some bullshit imaginary moral victory you can enjoy all the way to the emergency room.
"Remember, Liberalism is when A gets together with B to decide how much money C should give to D. YOU'RE C !"
Uh, what the hell? Last time i checked, being Liberal = being pro-freedom.In America, being liberal isn't the same as wanting less government, less taxes and more rights and freedom for the individual? What's your word for "fast", is it "slow"? So there won't be any misunderstandings.
I don't know if Sweden is #1 or something, but I've had 100mbit for about $12 since christmas 2001. The expensive thing was getting all the fiber optics in the ground, I believe that cost about $120 000 for our entire neighborhood (100 houses).
The problem with MMORPGs is that they're not really multiplayer. Sure, you play with thousands of people, but what do you do? Kill AI monsters? It's just Diablo II with a bunch of players. This is what I call pseudo-multiplayer, something I would compare to maybe playing tetris and comparing your score with others.
Sure, there may be Player versus player or even big realm battles or whatever the concept was in DAoC, but the majority of the time is spent hacking and slashing and slashing without interacting with other players. Compare this to extremely popular games like Starcraft and Counterstrike where the objective of the entire game is to defeat another human being, hence, the added fun.
I've sat down and played MMORPGs for hours, and whenever I reached level 20 and got that supersword I asked myself, "What the hell am I doing? I'm playing freaking single-player here". And single-player sucks. Bad.
My dream, which however is not possible, is a much more open MMORPG, where everything is player created. I don't know if you should even have NPCS. Constructing towns, taking over towns, forming merchant trade routes, hiring guards and so on. In my dreams, this is all great, although it would probably suck in real life, much because of the unwritten rule that everyone you meet on the Internet are complete jerks.
So you answered a):Boot time matters. Nice. But what about b)?
My linux system boots in 10 seconds, doesn't yours? What the hell are you people tormenting your computers with?
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We have just as many Cyberathletic scholarships as Athletic scholarships. Schools shouldn't waste money on athletics, the majority of students are there to learn.
Wow, what company pays you >$50/hour? Can i work there?
Finding time to install Linux isn't difficult, especially since most people here on Slashdot are techgeeks and enjoy it anyway.
No, they're after your stuff, not you. Fighting back will only make it worse since you're probably outnumbered and a weak geek anyway. I don't see what good could possibly come out of fighting back except for some bullshit imaginary moral victory you can enjoy all the way to the emergency room.
Carrying around weapons seems like an excellent way of getting yourself assaulted or killed instead of just losing some stuff.
First guess submitted on 2001-01-06
Most optimistic guess: 2001-01-05 by Bill Segall
Bill, you're a GENIUS!
"Remember, Liberalism is when A gets together with B to decide how much money C should give to D. YOU'RE C !" Uh, what the hell? Last time i checked, being Liberal = being pro-freedom.In America, being liberal isn't the same as wanting less government, less taxes and more rights and freedom for the individual? What's your word for "fast", is it "slow"? So there won't be any misunderstandings.
I don't know if Sweden is #1 or something, but I've had 100mbit for about $12 since christmas 2001. The expensive thing was getting all the fiber optics in the ground, I believe that cost about $120 000 for our entire neighborhood (100 houses).
The problem with MMORPGs is that they're not really multiplayer. Sure, you play with thousands of people, but what do you do? Kill AI monsters? It's just Diablo II with a bunch of players. This is what I call pseudo-multiplayer, something I would compare to maybe playing tetris and comparing your score with others. Sure, there may be Player versus player or even big realm battles or whatever the concept was in DAoC, but the majority of the time is spent hacking and slashing and slashing without interacting with other players. Compare this to extremely popular games like Starcraft and Counterstrike where the objective of the entire game is to defeat another human being, hence, the added fun. I've sat down and played MMORPGs for hours, and whenever I reached level 20 and got that supersword I asked myself, "What the hell am I doing? I'm playing freaking single-player here". And single-player sucks. Bad. My dream, which however is not possible, is a much more open MMORPG, where everything is player created. I don't know if you should even have NPCS. Constructing towns, taking over towns, forming merchant trade routes, hiring guards and so on. In my dreams, this is all great, although it would probably suck in real life, much because of the unwritten rule that everyone you meet on the Internet are complete jerks.
Might be because Firebird does the same thing without costing money.
So you answered a):Boot time matters. Nice. But what about b)? My linux system boots in 10 seconds, doesn't yours? What the hell are you people tormenting your computers with?