Must've been a short semester if you didn't see the same stuff I did.
I suppose you didn't get a whole bunch of foreign TA's that can't speak English either. Good for you then, because we sure as hell did.
I've lived in Lafayette/West Lafayette all my life and I don't see hardly any difference between the two besides a shitload of retarded fratboys, high school skaters pretending to be college students, and hordes of Indian exchange students.
Who the fuck is you to tell us what consumers "really want"?
If they really wanted something different then the "unoriginal" and "evolutionary not revolutionary" stuff on the market, it wouldn't be selling.
I myself would rather play a "evolutionary" FPS with good AI, a nice graphics engine, great multiplayer, and a passable story, than some avant-garde crap like Black&White.
I sure don't see a decrease of people taking computer related courses here. I go to community college (mostly since my only other real choice here is Purdue, and I have yet to hear anything good about it from any student there I've met. Nevermind the cost.) and the CIS classes are typically jam packed, especially the Cisco/MCSE/A+/Whatever+ classes.
Then again, none of that is programming.
As for jobs, hell, there's a $50k per year sysadmin job I'm applying for right now. I meet the requirements and all I have right now are a couple certs and an associates degree. Go fig.
I was never a fan of Unreal2k3 to begin with. The original UT was a masterpiece, and both Unreal2k3/4 feel like dumbed down Quake 3 clones IMO.
2k4's readdition of assault puts a smile in my heart, especially since they put in an actual sniper rifle instead of the awful, awful lightning gun, but most people are going to be playing the rather boring onslaught mode because of the vehicles (the new thing all FPS's MUST HAVE).
To me onslaught is just Unreal2k4 pretending it's Battlefield 1942 and Halo.
Epic: "Hey wait! Please don't go! We can put in vehicles too! See!? Please buy it....please?......PLEASE?"...god, I must sound really angry. Frownies.
So, you're telling me that one more Linux game from a company that's had a pretty good history of supporting Linux means there's enough Linux games coming for you to chide those who use Windows for gaming?
Silly trolls.
First it was the national debate topic when I was in High School, and then I was forced to debate it yet again in a philosophy class, a logic class, and now just recently in a sociology class.
It's not really important what study says what, because most violence studies are inherently flawed by their over-correlation and over simplification.
The only significant evidence I've found in relation to this issue is that toddlers very often directly imitate what they see since they aren't to the point they can separate fantasy from reality. Strangely enough this demographic isn't the one that's targeted by the media and government.
Actually it is, considering my MP3 CD player has a filebrowser built in and programmable playlists.
Even if it didn't, taking a few more seconds to reach a song you feel like hearing is worth $150+ more?
There aren't any glaring omissions that won't end up in a special edition DVD, and none of the changes are worth whining about really.
Peter did a pretty good job considering he managed to convince the studios to let him make not one, but three ~3 hour movies. That's a trick by itself, nevermind the amount of content he managed to cram into them.
The site moved, but well, that's been mentioned already.
I'd just like to say that Slax kicks ass. It's small enough to fit on one of those small-form CDR's, so you can carry it in your pocket should you need it. Slax is a really nice, fast tool for fishing data off of damaged/dying drives when you just can't boot.
Jesus, you'd think that Bill Gates spent his days stomping on puppies and biting the heads off of kittens with all this burning hatred for the man.
Seriously, fuck you people. The guy donated 26 billion dollars to malaria research. That's a good thing, regardless of your groupthink.
Does it instantly make Bill Gates a good guy?
Of course not.
Does it make him deserving of Knighthood?
I'd certainly say so.
I'd say in the grand scheme of things the lives his donated money will save goes far beyond the bullshit of the software business and your sad personal worlds where Gates is hiding outside your window waiting to steal your computer and rape your mom.
Grow up.
I'm not even going to pretend to understand the otaku facination with Eva. I just don't get it.
I've taken 4 years of Japanese, studied the culture, watched scads of movies and anime, everything short of taking the long-ass plane ride there, and I still don't see what's so special about it.
I've watched the whole thing twice and to me it's just a mediocre, low budget looking big robot anime with a mishmash of religious symbolism tacked on so it only holds meaning to those with a tenuous grasp of the bible. It's so shallow people seem to mistake it for depth.
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Must've been a short semester if you didn't see the same stuff I did. I suppose you didn't get a whole bunch of foreign TA's that can't speak English either. Good for you then, because we sure as hell did.
I've lived in Lafayette/West Lafayette all my life and I don't see hardly any difference between the two besides a shitload of retarded fratboys, high school skaters pretending to be college students, and hordes of Indian exchange students.
It's amazing how much in denial most of the people here are about how utterly unfunny the Simpsons are now.
Can we please put this nigh-legendary series to bed and find something better before even the diehards start saying it sucks?
Been here long?
It's okay if Apple does anything bad, because well, You gotta FIGHT TEH MAN.
Who the fuck is you to tell us what consumers "really want"?
If they really wanted something different then the "unoriginal" and "evolutionary not revolutionary" stuff on the market, it wouldn't be selling.
I myself would rather play a "evolutionary" FPS with good AI, a nice graphics engine, great multiplayer, and a passable story, than some avant-garde crap like Black&White.
Different != Better.
It's not a cop out if you don't care.
I sure don't see a decrease of people taking computer related courses here. I go to community college (mostly since my only other real choice here is Purdue, and I have yet to hear anything good about it from any student there I've met. Nevermind the cost.) and the CIS classes are typically jam packed, especially the Cisco/MCSE/A+/Whatever+ classes.
Then again, none of that is programming.
As for jobs, hell, there's a $50k per year sysadmin job I'm applying for right now. I meet the requirements and all I have right now are a couple certs and an associates degree. Go fig.
I was never a fan of Unreal2k3 to begin with. The original UT was a masterpiece, and both Unreal2k3/4 feel like dumbed down Quake 3 clones IMO.
......PLEASE?" ...god, I must sound really angry. Frownies.
2k4's readdition of assault puts a smile in my heart, especially since they put in an actual sniper rifle instead of the awful, awful lightning gun, but most people are going to be playing the rather boring onslaught mode because of the vehicles (the new thing all FPS's MUST HAVE).
To me onslaught is just Unreal2k4 pretending it's Battlefield 1942 and Halo.
Epic: "Hey wait! Please don't go! We can put in vehicles too! See!? Please buy it....please?
So, you're telling me that one more Linux game from a company that's had a pretty good history of supporting Linux means there's enough Linux games coming for you to chide those who use Windows for gaming? Silly trolls.
First it was the national debate topic when I was in High School, and then I was forced to debate it yet again in a philosophy class, a logic class, and now just recently in a sociology class. It's not really important what study says what, because most violence studies are inherently flawed by their over-correlation and over simplification. The only significant evidence I've found in relation to this issue is that toddlers very often directly imitate what they see since they aren't to the point they can separate fantasy from reality. Strangely enough this demographic isn't the one that's targeted by the media and government.
Actually it is, considering my MP3 CD player has a filebrowser built in and programmable playlists. Even if it didn't, taking a few more seconds to reach a song you feel like hearing is worth $150+ more?
...I just use my $40 MP3 CD player with burned CDs.
There aren't any glaring omissions that won't end up in a special edition DVD, and none of the changes are worth whining about really. Peter did a pretty good job considering he managed to convince the studios to let him make not one, but three ~3 hour movies. That's a trick by itself, nevermind the amount of content he managed to cram into them.
The site moved, but well, that's been mentioned already. I'd just like to say that Slax kicks ass. It's small enough to fit on one of those small-form CDR's, so you can carry it in your pocket should you need it. Slax is a really nice, fast tool for fishing data off of damaged/dying drives when you just can't boot.
Jesus, you'd think that Bill Gates spent his days stomping on puppies and biting the heads off of kittens with all this burning hatred for the man. Seriously, fuck you people. The guy donated 26 billion dollars to malaria research. That's a good thing, regardless of your groupthink. Does it instantly make Bill Gates a good guy? Of course not. Does it make him deserving of Knighthood? I'd certainly say so. I'd say in the grand scheme of things the lives his donated money will save goes far beyond the bullshit of the software business and your sad personal worlds where Gates is hiding outside your window waiting to steal your computer and rape your mom. Grow up.
I'm not even going to pretend to understand the otaku facination with Eva. I just don't get it.
I've taken 4 years of Japanese, studied the culture, watched scads of movies and anime, everything short of taking the long-ass plane ride there, and I still don't see what's so special about it.
I've watched the whole thing twice and to me it's just a mediocre, low budget looking big robot anime with a mishmash of religious symbolism tacked on so it only holds meaning to those with a tenuous grasp of the bible. It's so shallow people seem to mistake it for depth.
Forgive the rant.