It's called Stetson University. Because it only does BA/BS in most subjects, it's actually not very well known but the caliber of education is excellent. I've never been in a class with more than 40 people, and many of my classes haven't had more than 15. That kind of face time with professors, where they actually know your name and care whether or not you succeed, has been invaluable to my intellectual progress. Stetson's trying to do some "rebranding" and get more national recognition, but I figure it'd be better if we just stayed a small, somewhat inward-looking university. It helps to help keep class sizes down, and gives us faculty who are focused on educating students rather than getting research grants. The down sides are they accept almost anyone (though there's a very high dropout rate freshman year,) and it costs $30,000/year which is only $5000 less than Harvard.
Slashdot is getting to be like Fark: there's always someone (usually multiple someones) around to crap on someone elses' parade for the sheer malicious joy of doing it. STFU. If you didn't think it was front page material, why did you bother to read the article in the first place? Why did you waste eighteen seconds of your life to tell everyone else how stupid it is? Why can't you just move on without making a snide comment? The same intellectual runoff in every thread is getting kind of dull.
I think it's a great article. I had the exact same reaction the first time I played FFVII, and I think a lot of other people did too. It's also topical - FFVII might itself be old material, but the video game industry is cranking out one unsatisfying suvivial horror after another. So what if it's dated - FFVII did right what a hundred other games have done spectacularly wrong. I think that if a few creative minds in the industry were tipped off to this article, they might reconsider the plot devices used to scare gamers. FFVII was scarier in its places than any Resident Evil I've ever played.
Instead of using a hotel keycard, they should code the lock to allow you to open your door with your own credit card. That's something you're far more likely to take good care of, and then you don't have to worry about duplicates of that information floating around.
It was a good Q&A session but it doesn't seem to reflect the truth about MS. Look - they recently broke OpenGL and they can't even be assed to use the OASIS document format they helped develop! Frankly, I recognize that this is for the most part a Windows world, but I'm tired of having to save my documents under several different extensions just to get them to print on the school printer. Maybe when they start actually playing nice instead of just talking nice, I'll be able to believe that the vision Hilf obviously has for MS will come to pass.
That's true, but a) I can probably still sell the PS2 for ~$20, enough for a decent discount off the next console. b) I'd rather not have my space cluttered with obselete consoles - the dorm room is small enough as it is.
I'm gonna be hella pissed off if my old saves won't work on the PS3, or if I have to buy some crappy $30 gizmo to do it. I've invested well over 100 hours into some of my RPGs (slow summer, give me a break!) and if Sony's gonna throw all those hours out the window... I'm gonna be one unhappy camper.
These events are just a backhanded attempt to censor Rockstar. Of course, given the current march of freedom in this country, it's probably only a matter of time before they get shut down.
You damned jackass. It's the conservatives who are PASSING this shit, and the liberals who are fighting it! Hell-fucking-o, you do realize that conservatives control 2.5/3 branches of gov't, right?
There's also a GNU tool called sourceinstall that I've been enjoying a lot lately. Just run it in X as root, add a.tar.gz, and it handles all the installing and management. Sure I can./configure, but why bother if the graphical tool will not only do it for me, but also keep track of what versions of what I have installed where, something I'm notoriously absentminded about.
What the other responder said, and:
I'd assume that there will always be the option to turn this stuff off, and that it'll be easy enough to skin it as KDE 3.x, Windows Longhorn, or just about any other OS theme you can think of and more. That's the great thing about KDE... options, options, options.
Uh, no offense, but if you don't know, you probably don't care. It's a gaming company that publishes Vampire: The Masquerade and a variety of other LARPS and TTRPGs.
That's a pretty steep price tag for a poor college student like me. That had better be the price with a decent sized harddrive, and Linux preinstalled. Being able to use it as a toy, entertainment system, and cutting edge computer might be the only way for me to justify blowing that much money on it.
Do you think maybe someday I'll have an opportunity to stick my finger in the nail wounds, before being cast into everlasting darkness and fire for not believing the right thing?
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It's called Stetson University. Because it only does BA/BS in most subjects, it's actually not very well known but the caliber of education is excellent. I've never been in a class with more than 40 people, and many of my classes haven't had more than 15. That kind of face time with professors, where they actually know your name and care whether or not you succeed, has been invaluable to my intellectual progress. Stetson's trying to do some "rebranding" and get more national recognition, but I figure it'd be better if we just stayed a small, somewhat inward-looking university. It helps to help keep class sizes down, and gives us faculty who are focused on educating students rather than getting research grants. The down sides are they accept almost anyone (though there's a very high dropout rate freshman year,) and it costs $30,000/year which is only $5000 less than Harvard.
Since I go to a prestigious university in Florida, I guess you can use *Florida.* But thanks for proving my point.
Slashdot is getting to be like Fark: there's always someone (usually multiple someones) around to crap on someone elses' parade for the sheer malicious joy of doing it. STFU. If you didn't think it was front page material, why did you bother to read the article in the first place? Why did you waste eighteen seconds of your life to tell everyone else how stupid it is? Why can't you just move on without making a snide comment? The same intellectual runoff in every thread is getting kind of dull.
I think it's a great article. I had the exact same reaction the first time I played FFVII, and I think a lot of other people did too. It's also topical - FFVII might itself be old material, but the video game industry is cranking out one unsatisfying suvivial horror after another. So what if it's dated - FFVII did right what a hundred other games have done spectacularly wrong. I think that if a few creative minds in the industry were tipped off to this article, they might reconsider the plot devices used to scare gamers. FFVII was scarier in its places than any Resident Evil I've ever played.
Hey, they treat the dolphins as bad as they treat people!
I'm sure that's precisely how it went.
Please stop giving the rest of us Americans a bad name with your drivel.
Instead of using a hotel keycard, they should code the lock to allow you to open your door with your own credit card. That's something you're far more likely to take good care of, and then you don't have to worry about duplicates of that information floating around.
It was a good Q&A session but it doesn't seem to reflect the truth about MS. Look - they recently broke OpenGL and they can't even be assed to use the OASIS document format they helped develop! Frankly, I recognize that this is for the most part a Windows world, but I'm tired of having to save my documents under several different extensions just to get them to print on the school printer. Maybe when they start actually playing nice instead of just talking nice, I'll be able to believe that the vision Hilf obviously has for MS will come to pass.
This isn't rocket science you know.
That's true, but a) I can probably still sell the PS2 for ~$20, enough for a decent discount off the next console. b) I'd rather not have my space cluttered with obselete consoles - the dorm room is small enough as it is.
I'm gonna be hella pissed off if my old saves won't work on the PS3, or if I have to buy some crappy $30 gizmo to do it. I've invested well over 100 hours into some of my RPGs (slow summer, give me a break!) and if Sony's gonna throw all those hours out the window... I'm gonna be one unhappy camper.
These events are just a backhanded attempt to censor Rockstar. Of course, given the current march of freedom in this country, it's probably only a matter of time before they get shut down.
Dude, it's been delayed so many times they're gonna have to release it for the PS3. *remembers when the release date was Spring 2005*
Minor quibble - Sony's PSX was taken very seriously after a few months, partly due to third party exclusives.
They're consolidating power in the Executive Branch in hopes of turning us into a defacto Imperial oligarchy.
Hey, you asked!
In case you don't know/are interested, you can run World of Warcraft on Linux using Cedega.
You damned jackass. It's the conservatives who are PASSING this shit, and the liberals who are fighting it! Hell-fucking-o, you do realize that conservatives control 2.5/3 branches of gov't, right?
I agree. Bungie for the most part has been like a kinder, gentler claw on the hand of Microsoft Satan.
There's also a GNU tool called sourceinstall that I've been enjoying a lot lately. Just run it in X as root, add a .tar.gz, and it handles all the installing and management. Sure I can ./configure, but why bother if the graphical tool will not only do it for me, but also keep track of what versions of what I have installed where, something I'm notoriously absentminded about.
There's a difference, not a different. Hehe. ;)
What the other responder said, and:
I'd assume that there will always be the option to turn this stuff off, and that it'll be easy enough to skin it as KDE 3.x, Windows Longhorn, or just about any other OS theme you can think of and more. That's the great thing about KDE... options, options, options.
Uh, no offense, but if you don't know, you probably don't care. It's a gaming company that publishes Vampire: The Masquerade and a variety of other LARPS and TTRPGs.
"Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public."
That's a pretty steep price tag for a poor college student like me. That had better be the price with a decent sized harddrive, and Linux preinstalled. Being able to use it as a toy, entertainment system, and cutting edge computer might be the only way for me to justify blowing that much money on it.
Do you think maybe someday I'll have an opportunity to stick my finger in the nail wounds, before being cast into everlasting darkness and fire for not believing the right thing?
Hey, the point of comparison could be blue supergiants!