I tried.. but they weren't on my ballot. Honestly though It was a breeze... just poke the little holes with the little needle. No major screwups... though I did poke myself in the eye, the same eye, twice. Ahhh.. I thought I said honestly, oh well.
The first I heard of it, Halo was going to be a ground-breaking squad-tactics game that would take you inside and outside of bases and across large terrain. When I first played it... I was dissapointed. I realized that all the rumblings in the "community" were not blown out of proportion at all. The game got nerfed, period. Bungie should have been left with their creative vision to produce it on the PC. I think everyone can admit that a controller is not made for FPS games. Every FPS game that is released cannot be viewed simply in terms of the console it was released for; rather it must be viewed in the light of every game released before it. I hope you do not movies according to their venue. While that is not quite the same... the gameplay of Halo on the PC was horrible. The gameplay of Halo on the Xbox is only good when you have other people that are fun to play with. I'd rather play Counter-Strike and I think that about sums it up.
I attend a military college, and the paradigm on women and on computer science is largely different than anywhere else on the planet. Women were only admited a decade ago and so there's still the "go away" attitude towards them; you know things change slow in the south. Then only about 10% of the CSCI majors are actually in the program to go into "The Industry". The other 90% do it because thier perfered service (USAF, USMC, USA, or USN) told them that they would give them more money to do that program. Basically this means that nobody cares about actually doing the program; so roughly 85% of the people are completely retarted. If you can find a woman in that 15% that can do anything remotely competent... congrats. I'm the president of the ACM Chapter at the school, and I havn't.
As a corollary to that, most of the women (99%-ish) that I have met either as professors or as profesionals in the field have beeen shit hot. My Programming Language/Practical Engineering/Seminar professor has two doctorates and is as demanding a teacher as I have ever had. I honestly belive that without having her my education would not be complete.
In closing, I belive that if women are actually out there, giving a crap, and doing the work... then they must be some of the best in the buisiness to survive. Unless they're from my school, then they're using subversive backchanels to get a free ride. Thank you.
-Chris
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I tried.. but they weren't on my ballot. Honestly though It was a breeze... just poke the little holes with the little needle. No major screwups... though I did poke myself in the eye, the same eye, twice. Ahhh.. I thought I said honestly, oh well.
The first I heard of it, Halo was going to be a ground-breaking squad-tactics game that would take you inside and outside of bases and across large terrain. When I first played it... I was dissapointed. I realized that all the rumblings in the "community" were not blown out of proportion at all. The game got nerfed, period. Bungie should have been left with their creative vision to produce it on the PC. I think everyone can admit that a controller is not made for FPS games. Every FPS game that is released cannot be viewed simply in terms of the console it was released for; rather it must be viewed in the light of every game released before it. I hope you do not movies according to their venue. While that is not quite the same... the gameplay of Halo on the PC was horrible. The gameplay of Halo on the Xbox is only good when you have other people that are fun to play with. I'd rather play Counter-Strike and I think that about sums it up.
Well I hope the people in Fla have learned how to use the machines. Actually, if they're gonna vote for Kerry then I don't hope that...
On an unrelated note, tomorrow is my first time voting so I hope I don't make a tard of myself and that I can use the machines.
I attend a military college, and the paradigm on women and on computer science is largely different than anywhere else on the planet. Women were only admited a decade ago and so there's still the "go away" attitude towards them; you know things change slow in the south. Then only about 10% of the CSCI majors are actually in the program to go into "The Industry". The other 90% do it because thier perfered service (USAF, USMC, USA, or USN) told them that they would give them more money to do that program. Basically this means that nobody cares about actually doing the program; so roughly 85% of the people are completely retarted. If you can find a woman in that 15% that can do anything remotely competent... congrats. I'm the president of the ACM Chapter at the school, and I havn't.
As a corollary to that, most of the women (99%-ish) that I have met either as professors or as profesionals in the field have beeen shit hot. My Programming Language/Practical Engineering/Seminar professor has two doctorates and is as demanding a teacher as I have ever had. I honestly belive that without having her my education would not be complete.
In closing, I belive that if women are actually out there, giving a crap, and doing the work... then they must be some of the best in the buisiness to survive. Unless they're from my school, then they're using subversive backchanels to get a free ride. Thank you. -Chris
I read the other day that some versions of SQL (probably earlier versions) that are case sensative on Unix-ish systems. Can anyone confirm?