That kind of crap is almost exactly what I associate about a third of my Facebook feed to, people love click-bait garbage and they love sharing it and debating it constantly
Facebook trends actually match what trends on Facebook (and it's terrible,) surprised? No....I get a lot of use out of that mute feature...
I wish the author had defined what they consider reasonable because without that the article has no meaning.
I mean, you can argue the point, but to me it has never been easier or more affordable to build a gaming PC. Hell you don't even need a screwdriver anymore, everything clicks together like Lego bricks now - which I guess is how I fell for this click-baity article - by clicking and reading the damn thing to try and determine how far the intersection between cranium and rectum were.
The first thing they told me about attendance when I went to college was literally "you paid to be here if you don't show up to classes we don't care, we have your money"
I'm visually impaired, when I went into the Computer Systems Technology program at NAIT they hadn't really dealt with a visually impaired person before. The committee running the program at the time recommended I take semesters in halves so I wouldn't get overloaded. I took this advice and started during the summer intake. That first half semester was a bitch, they didn't have materials to help me along and the 13" monitors they had were brutal for my vision. Anyway, I got OK grades in most classes, but nothing great, in the introduction to programming I passed with a 65% (bare minimum pass) but I felt like it just wasn't for me. The instructor there at the time took me aside during one of the last days before the semester closed and told me that I had a lot of potential and that I should give it another try.
The next half-semester I re-took the introduction to programming, by now the program had purchased 17" monitors and my grade shot up 30%. Maybe it was finally having the equipment I needed, maybe it was taking the course for the second time but I know it was the words of encouragement that made me do labs as soon as I got them, try to work harder in other courses too, connecting the dots between them.
After that second half-semester I decided to go to normal semesters like everyone else and excelled. Turned out I was naturally gifted for problem solving and all sorts of other things that I didn't really think I was capable of.
Anyway I graduated in 1999 with a love of programming and a lot of confidence. Sometimes I wonder where I would have been now if I hadn't been given that little boost of encouragement from a person I respected, it's not easy to want to achieve things when you are a "minority" particularly when you have a disability because the deck is stacked against you, but then somebody tells you it doesn't matter and maybe the first time in my life I really believed it.
I remember basically living at work for a few years, slaving away for no good reason (other than ship-ship-ship). I had a friend of mine who worked for a fairly well-known maker of tax software, half their year was basically crunch time complete with in-office cots. They were treated well outside crunch time but I swear to god it aged him prematurely.
I don't think I'd ever work like that again, at the end of the day the code quality was poor and it burnt out all the talent. I didn't think it would be possible to be sick of pizza, but you learn these things.
Sure made the bastard CEO a hell of lot of money...
I remember going to see "Video Games Live" back in 2010 and it got me hooked, I bought season tickets to the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra a few years back and never regretted it. YMMV but I was surprised at how inexpensive tickets were, and how much music you got...
A lot of games incorporate an orchestral score, hearing the music live though is absolutely worth checking out (even if you don't play the games.)
My parents use their computer to browse the internet, connect with people via social media and play browser based games. All these things are achieved with an average smartphone / tablet.
I use a computer to make software, do business, make artwork, play video games. A phone is nice but it will be along time before I'm running Visual Studio off it, a PC fits my needs.
I'll take a wild ass guess that most people don't need a desktop computer to do what they need, and that's why there is a shift, and why there is no need to realign them.
There is a market for desktop computing, it's just not nearly as big anymore.
But I only have limited experience as a lesbian bondage school girl uniform milf best deals memory SD card entity framework linq execute not in select no duplicates top ten nick cage movies minecraft obs settings
I forgot to disable the in-game radio for GTA V for livestream footage I posted to YouTube and was Content ID'd almost instantly, so whatever money I might have made (had I enabled monetization) is going to UMG now
When I started I poured everything into a shit-ass job and they were MORE than happy to squeeze more and more out of me (because recent grad +.COM bubble burst, insanity, etc). After 6 years I was completely burnt out, extremely cynical, suffering depression and anxiety issues (which I'm still dealing with.)
After I quit that hellhole I went somewhere "normal" and I had a really hard time adjusting to not having to have everything done simultaneously as quickly as possible, I got my nights and weekends back and I didn't know what to do with myself. It was surreal.
That place started to go south (after it was gobbled up by a capital investment group) so I went to my current place which is even better still.
So the lesson I would give to my younger self is that don't be afraid to keep looking around for opportunities, sometimes the grass really is greener.
I bought it on launch on the 360 and it was okay but something wasn't right and I kind of let it rot for a while, now with the PC version having HD textures and a relatively steady 60 fps the game is a lot more fun (for me at least)
For some reason the online play on PC is a lot more fun as well, I really can't say why that is, it just is
My only gripe are the hoops for multiplayer modding, because let's face it if you're playing GTA on a PC you might as well be Batman fighting Horses with shotguns with 0 friction and low gravity
Slashdot Mirror
They also ported Powershell to Linux
My best wild ass guess is that they themselves are using it more and need common tools across OS's
That kind of crap is almost exactly what I associate about a third of my Facebook feed to, people love click-bait garbage and they love sharing it and debating it constantly
Facebook trends actually match what trends on Facebook (and it's terrible,) surprised? No. ...I get a lot of use out of that mute feature...
This is days before a huge LAN party I'm going to, I finally got everything set up the way I want it in Windows 10
IT BURNS
I wish the author had defined what they consider reasonable because without that the article has no meaning.
I mean, you can argue the point, but to me it has never been easier or more affordable to build a gaming PC. Hell you don't even need a screwdriver anymore, everything clicks together like Lego bricks now - which I guess is how I fell for this click-baity article - by clicking and reading the damn thing to try and determine how far the intersection between cranium and rectum were.
The first thing they told me about attendance when I went to college was literally "you paid to be here if you don't show up to classes we don't care, we have your money"
That sobered up a lot of people...
I'm visually impaired, when I went into the Computer Systems Technology program at NAIT they hadn't really dealt with a visually impaired person before. The committee running the program at the time recommended I take semesters in halves so I wouldn't get overloaded. I took this advice and started during the summer intake. That first half semester was a bitch, they didn't have materials to help me along and the 13" monitors they had were brutal for my vision. Anyway, I got OK grades in most classes, but nothing great, in the introduction to programming I passed with a 65% (bare minimum pass) but I felt like it just wasn't for me. The instructor there at the time took me aside during one of the last days before the semester closed and told me that I had a lot of potential and that I should give it another try.
The next half-semester I re-took the introduction to programming, by now the program had purchased 17" monitors and my grade shot up 30%. Maybe it was finally having the equipment I needed, maybe it was taking the course for the second time but I know it was the words of encouragement that made me do labs as soon as I got them, try to work harder in other courses too, connecting the dots between them.
After that second half-semester I decided to go to normal semesters like everyone else and excelled. Turned out I was naturally gifted for problem solving and all sorts of other things that I didn't really think I was capable of.
Anyway I graduated in 1999 with a love of programming and a lot of confidence. Sometimes I wonder where I would have been now if I hadn't been given that little boost of encouragement from a person I respected, it's not easy to want to achieve things when you are a "minority" particularly when you have a disability because the deck is stacked against you, but then somebody tells you it doesn't matter and maybe the first time in my life I really believed it.
Let's replace CEOs and stupid tech blogs with AI and put them on their own internet
The real solution is better proctoring, do they have a proctor shortage in Iraq?
I shared it with all my Google Buzz friends
I remember basically living at work for a few years, slaving away for no good reason (other than ship-ship-ship). I had a friend of mine who worked for a fairly well-known maker of tax software, half their year was basically crunch time complete with in-office cots. They were treated well outside crunch time but I swear to god it aged him prematurely.
I don't think I'd ever work like that again, at the end of the day the code quality was poor and it burnt out all the talent. I didn't think it would be possible to be sick of pizza, but you learn these things.
Sure made the bastard CEO a hell of lot of money...
They manufactured a problem and now sell a solution, classy.
Or
I just switch to some other file manager. Done
For those not in venture capital circles:
Pssh, Nanobots? Nanobots won't cure a sword to the neck
THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE
Reminds me of one of the true classics of our time....
"Hello this is Lenny"
Bender: Now Wireless Joe Jackson, there was a blern hitting machine!
Leela: Exactly! He was a machine designed to hit blerns! I mean come on! Wireless Joe was nothing but a programmable bat on wheels.
Bender: Oh and I suppose Pitch-o-Mat 5000 was just a modified howitzer.
Leela: Yep.
Well, first you get some Corbomite...
I remember going to see "Video Games Live" back in 2010 and it got me hooked, I bought season tickets to the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra a few years back and never regretted it. YMMV but I was surprised at how inexpensive tickets were, and how much music you got...
A lot of games incorporate an orchestral score, hearing the music live though is absolutely worth checking out (even if you don't play the games.)
My parents use their computer to browse the internet, connect with people via social media and play browser based games. All these things are achieved with an average smartphone / tablet.
I use a computer to make software, do business, make artwork, play video games. A phone is nice but it will be along time before I'm running Visual Studio off it, a PC fits my needs.
I'll take a wild ass guess that most people don't need a desktop computer to do what they need, and that's why there is a shift, and why there is no need to realign them.
There is a market for desktop computing, it's just not nearly as big anymore.
But I only have limited experience as a lesbian bondage school girl uniform milf best deals memory SD card entity framework linq execute not in select no duplicates top ten nick cage movies minecraft obs settings
I forgot to disable the in-game radio for GTA V for livestream footage I posted to YouTube and was Content ID'd almost instantly, so whatever money I might have made (had I enabled monetization) is going to UMG now
OH I remember the JET Engine
When I started I poured everything into a shit-ass job and they were MORE than happy to squeeze more and more out of me (because recent grad + .COM bubble burst, insanity, etc). After 6 years I was completely burnt out, extremely cynical, suffering depression and anxiety issues (which I'm still dealing with.)
After I quit that hellhole I went somewhere "normal" and I had a really hard time adjusting to not having to have everything done simultaneously as quickly as possible, I got my nights and weekends back and I didn't know what to do with myself. It was surreal.
That place started to go south (after it was gobbled up by a capital investment group) so I went to my current place which is even better still.
So the lesson I would give to my younger self is that don't be afraid to keep looking around for opportunities, sometimes the grass really is greener.
Answer: Butter the bottom
(alt: affix cat to superstructure)
Exactly, this is why GTA IV was so heavily pirated I would guess, likely GTA V will be in the same boat (if it isn't already)
If 2K just learned to accept modders they might understand why crap like Garry's Mod ( http://imgur.com/FsKngOB , http://store.steampowered.com/...) and Minecraft are still still leading sales years after they came out.
Then again, when you buy a big franchise game like this you kind of know what dumb lock-in you're going to get so...
I bought it on launch on the 360 and it was okay but something wasn't right and I kind of let it rot for a while, now with the PC version having HD textures and a relatively steady 60 fps the game is a lot more fun (for me at least)
For some reason the online play on PC is a lot more fun as well, I really can't say why that is, it just is
My only gripe are the hoops for multiplayer modding, because let's face it if you're playing GTA on a PC you might as well be Batman fighting Horses with shotguns with 0 friction and low gravity