My studies weren't subsidized at all when I was in the US. Care to explain that one? Either UT has a problem (have read two posts about it now), or people at UT are somehow picking up stompies as to what is really going on with forgein students over there.
Sorry, tyrantnine, but I have to agree with Jah-Wren Ryel on this one. It doesn't make much sense for US universities to subsidize forgein students under most circumstances, and I know it certainly wasn't my experience when I was studying at UNLV... (see my other post in this thread).
Unless there are deals going on between Indian companies and US Universities that I'm not aware of, I'd have to say that you are mistaken. As for the percentage of forgein students... the majority of s tudents at UNLV were American (although most of those were out-of-staters). The idea that any US University is made up of 25% forgein students sounds a bit silly - admittedly I'm not at UT and I don't know the current status of UT, but I find it a bit unlikely that that is the case.
The universities may be publicly funded, but the out-of-country tuitions are in no way subsidized by the American tax dollar, in fact they are a significant profit center for most universities.
Thanks for clarifying, I started wondering when I read the grandparent post. I was a forgein student in the US, and my studies were paid for entirely by my father. I thought perhaps the US had some kind of deal with Indian companies to bring people over for training, but I can assure the grandparent poster that that is not the case for forgein students under normal circumstances.
That's where Bush and the idiotic, anti-foreigner "security measures" have been cutting our economy off at the knees. Now the smart kids are staying home, and even the ones that have green cards are leaving and taking their knowledge with them.
I don't know how much things have changed since I was in the US (1999-2001), but when I was studying there, things were quite relaxed towards forgeiners. Overall, I had an excellent time, and I strongly recommend studying in the US to anyone leaning in that direction.
I would have loved to stay in the US, but I basically had a choice: go back to South Africa and work at my father's company, or try and get into the US (H1-B visa or F-2 or something similar), and from what I'd heard and read, working for H1-B wages is not very pleasant, and not something I was very keen on.
My own feeling is, if a company is still selling old products (such as is the case with these ROMs), and you want them, buy them. But if the company stops selling that product, well, they can't have their cake and eat it too. It's like the old Sierra games. They are very difficult to get ahold of, and several abandonware sites don't even carry certain titles anymore, because of legal problems. Yet, can you buy these titles from Sierra? No. That's just being a dog in the manger, IMO.
We spend millions bringing Indians to the US for IT education at our best (publicly funded) universities. We allow indians to move here. Yet, Americans are not allowed to move to India for work.
IANAI (I am not an Indian), but am a forgeiner who studied at an American university (UNLV). Perhaps the Indians' situation is different, but the US certainly didn't try and "bring me over", I had to apply, get an F-1, write the college's entrance tests, and so on. My father paid for everything, including dorm accomodation, college fees, a car, etc. I never worked in the US, btw. I had the opportunity of getting a year of practical experience in the US after my studies, but decided to go back to South Africa and work at my father's company instead.
What the FUCK are you on about? TTT was filmed BEFORE AOTC! They filmed the ENTIRE trilogy in one go, remember? The release date of TTT has nothing to do with anything. What A TOOL!
You do realize that only the principal filming was done? The effects and post-production were done after that. Peter Jackson even stated that this approach was adopted specifically to take advantage of of new technologies and methods, and to polish existing material and add new material. TTT was released in Decemeber 2002, AOTC in May 2002.
Anakin to Padme: "I don't like sand. It's rough. Not soft and smooth like you."
Some of the dialogue in Episode II was cringe-inducing. I feel the special effects were actually underrated, though. For example, people gasped in awe at the opening scene in TTT, (Gandalf diving down under the bridge in Moria after the Balrog), but few realize (or will admit) that those effects were essentially copied from the scene in AOTC where Anakin dives from his speeder.
Ideally, Lucas should aim for both good effects (at which, IMO, he has been fairly consistent), and good direction and dialogue (a bit lacking in AOTC).
You can take your PDFs and stuff 'em. I treasure my spiral-bound manual for Neverwinter Nights.
Well, you could always print out the PDFs (print the even numbered pages first, flip them over and then print the odd numbered pages). Then, of course, have the resulting script punched and ring-bound:)
The advantage of this approach is twofold:
1. You have an digital backup, without scanning or using Optical Character Recognition to digitize the book.
2. You can print out as many copies as you want, and the printed out versions will have all the benefits of a traditional dead-tree book
In 1998, RealPlayer was the only commercial-grade streaming player for Linux. Sure, it might be surpassed by other solutions in most ways now, but is it really that bad? No. The ads are annoying, but you don't have to view them - just fire up Real when you need it and go into full screen mode.
You understood openness correctly, but mis-understood security. A safe is secure, even if 500 people know the combo... as long as those people are trustworthy.
Interesting point.
But using the same example, what if an outsider pretended to be someone that one of those 50 people knew, found out details from that person, and used it to trick one of the other 50 people, etc...
One thing that struck me about American culture in general is that people seem to be a lot more trusting, and despite what a lot of Americans think, it IS a lot more of an open society than (probably most) other parts of the world.
Coming from South Africa to study in the US (between 1999 and 2001) was an eye-opening experience. I don't know how much things have changed since the 9-11 incident and so on, but back then I was amazed at how open and helpful people were, for example, getting student visas, a social security number, a driver's license at the DMV...all very smooth, despite the fact that I was a complete forgeiner. In South Africa, it is often more difficult to get basic things like licenses and so forth processed as a citizen than it was to get them done as a forgein student in the USA! I don't know if it's just a different outlook people in the USA have, but dealing with South African bureaucracy has become even more painful since I returned to South Africa, remembering how comparitively smooth everything was in the US.
The same with campus security. I'm fairly sure that if someone wanted to be underhanded, they could fairly easily socially engineer situations to break security systems.
I attend the University of Alabama in Huntsville, an engineering/research institution with enrollment around 15k. The Network Services people around here aren't really concerned about the value of openness to academia; in fact, most of their security is directed inward, against the students who have to use the machines.
Wow, sounds exactly the opposite to UNLV. I remember one department had a few NT lab machines that students often remotely accessed and filled the Desktop folders with shortcuts... made a complete mess of the desktops... the networking guys weren't impressed. To be fair, though, they did fix it (added profiles/policies), and most of the network was actually pretty secure.
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My studies weren't subsidized at all when I was in the US. Care to explain that one? Either UT has a problem (have read two posts about it now), or people at UT are somehow picking up stompies as to what is really going on with forgein students over there.
Sorry, tyrantnine, but I have to agree with Jah-Wren Ryel on this one. It doesn't make much sense for US universities to subsidize forgein students under most circumstances, and I know it certainly wasn't my experience when I was studying at UNLV... (see my other post in this thread).
Unless there are deals going on between Indian companies and US Universities that I'm not aware of, I'd have to say that you are mistaken. As for the percentage of forgein students... the majority of s tudents at UNLV were American (although most of those were out-of-staters). The idea that any US University is made up of 25% forgein students sounds a bit silly - admittedly I'm not at UT and I don't know the current status of UT, but I find it a bit unlikely that that is the case.
The universities may be publicly funded, but the out-of-country tuitions are in no way subsidized by the American tax dollar, in fact they are a significant profit center for most universities.
Thanks for clarifying, I started wondering when I read the grandparent post. I was a forgein student in the US, and my studies were paid for entirely by my father. I thought perhaps the US had some kind of deal with Indian companies to bring people over for training, but I can assure the grandparent poster that that is not the case for forgein students under normal circumstances.
That's where Bush and the idiotic, anti-foreigner "security measures" have been cutting our economy off at the knees. Now the smart kids are staying home, and even the ones that have green cards are leaving and taking their knowledge with them.
I don't know how much things have changed since I was in the US (1999-2001), but when I was studying there, things were quite relaxed towards forgeiners. Overall, I had an excellent time, and I strongly recommend studying in the US to anyone leaning in that direction.
I would have loved to stay in the US, but I basically had a choice: go back to South Africa and work at my father's company, or try and get into the US (H1-B visa or F-2 or something similar), and from what I'd heard and read, working for H1-B wages is not very pleasant, and not something I was very keen on.
My own feeling is, if a company is still selling old products (such as is the case with these ROMs), and you want them, buy them. But if the company stops selling that product, well, they can't have their cake and eat it too. It's like the old Sierra games. They are very difficult to get ahold of, and several abandonware sites don't even carry certain titles anymore, because of legal problems. Yet, can you buy these titles from Sierra? No. That's just being a dog in the manger, IMO.
We spend millions bringing Indians to the US for IT education at our best (publicly funded) universities. We allow indians to move here. Yet, Americans are not allowed to move to India for work.
IANAI (I am not an Indian), but am a forgeiner who studied at an American university (UNLV). Perhaps the Indians' situation is different, but the US certainly didn't try and "bring me over", I had to apply, get an F-1, write the college's entrance tests, and so on. My father paid for everything, including dorm accomodation, college fees, a car, etc. I never worked in the US, btw. I had the opportunity of getting a year of practical experience in the US after my studies, but decided to go back to South Africa and work at my father's company instead.
What the FUCK are you on about? TTT was filmed BEFORE AOTC! They filmed the ENTIRE trilogy in one go, remember? The release date of TTT has nothing to do with anything. What A TOOL!
You do realize that only the principal filming was done? The effects and post-production were done after that. Peter Jackson even stated that this approach was adopted specifically to take advantage of of new technologies and methods, and to polish existing material and add new material. TTT was released in Decemeber 2002, AOTC in May 2002.
Try The 5th Element , taxi scenes. Visual effects for falling/fighting are nothing new.
This is true enough, although the similarities between the specific scenes I mentioned in AOTC and TTT are very difficult to ignore.
Anakin to Padme: "I don't like sand. It's rough. Not soft and smooth like you."
Some of the dialogue in Episode II was cringe-inducing. I feel the special effects were actually underrated, though. For example, people gasped in awe at the opening scene in TTT, (Gandalf diving down under the bridge in Moria after the Balrog), but few realize (or will admit) that those effects were essentially copied from the scene in AOTC where Anakin dives from his speeder.Ideally, Lucas should aim for both good effects (at which, IMO, he has been fairly consistent), and good direction and dialogue (a bit lacking in AOTC).
You can take your PDFs and stuff 'em. I treasure my spiral-bound manual for Neverwinter Nights.
Well, you could always print out the PDFs (print the even numbered pages first, flip them over and then print the odd numbered pages). Then, of course, have the resulting script punched and ring-bound :)
The advantage of this approach is twofold:
1. You have an digital backup, without scanning or using Optical Character Recognition to digitize the book.2. You can print out as many copies as you want, and the printed out versions will have all the benefits of a traditional dead-tree book
In 1998, RealPlayer was the only commercial-grade streaming player for Linux. Sure, it might be surpassed by other solutions in most ways now, but is it really that bad? No. The ads are annoying, but you don't have to view them - just fire up Real when you need it and go into full screen mode.
You understood openness correctly, but mis-understood security. A safe is secure, even if 500 people know the combo... as long as those people are trustworthy.
Interesting point.
But using the same example, what if an outsider pretended to be someone that one of those 50 people knew, found out details from that person, and used it to trick one of the other 50 people, etc...
One thing that struck me about American culture in general is that people seem to be a lot more trusting, and despite what a lot of Americans think, it IS a lot more of an open society than (probably most) other parts of the world.
Coming from South Africa to study in the US (between 1999 and 2001) was an eye-opening experience. I don't know how much things have changed since the 9-11 incident and so on, but back then I was amazed at how open and helpful people were, for example, getting student visas, a social security number, a driver's license at the DMV...all very smooth, despite the fact that I was a complete forgeiner. In South Africa, it is often more difficult to get basic things like licenses and so forth processed as a citizen than it was to get them done as a forgein student in the USA! I don't know if it's just a different outlook people in the USA have, but dealing with South African bureaucracy has become even more painful since I returned to South Africa, remembering how comparitively smooth everything was in the US.
The same with campus security. I'm fairly sure that if someone wanted to be underhanded, they could fairly easily socially engineer situations to break security systems.
I attend the University of Alabama in Huntsville, an engineering/research institution with enrollment around 15k. The Network Services people around here aren't really concerned about the value of openness to academia; in fact, most of their security is directed inward, against the students who have to use the machines.
Wow, sounds exactly the opposite to UNLV. I remember one department had a few NT lab machines that students often remotely accessed and filled the Desktop folders with shortcuts... made a complete mess of the desktops... the networking guys weren't impressed. To be fair, though, they did fix it (added profiles/policies), and most of the network was actually pretty secure.