A lot of people here are telling you that top tier schools aren't worth the investment in terms of money, and they're largely correct. However, if you don't go to a school you're really proud to be a part of, then you won't get as much out of it as you could anyway. If you can get excited about going to a school that isn't the best of the best, then by all means, that is your best bet, but don't "settle" just because of some numbers in a RoI equation.
It's nice of them to share their copyrighted material. That being said, it would be much nicer of them if they'd just let it enter the public domain like it should have done in the first place. My biggest concern is that actions like this will calm public outcry enough that copyright terms are extended YET AGAIN in 2015. However they want to spin it, you can't change the fact that they are profiting from something that would belong to everyone if they hadn't continuously lobbied to have the law changed in their favor.
Unfortunately, no. There are lots of people just like you who will inappropriately apply the label "ironic." But having the last name Anderson is so common that it will almost never be ironic.
That's just it. As I understand it, Alan Moore didn't want LoEG to be made into a movie at all, because he didn't think it would tranlate well visually.
Even so, I think it's pretty obvious not to add Tom Sawyer to the cast. I know I was annoyed when my friends refer to the suckiness of the League when they've only seen the movie.
It doesn't seem like this data would be very useful to Slashdotters. Most of us live in Computer Science or Engineering, which are bound to have their own computer resources seperate from the rest of the school.
I know at UW-Madison the general computer resources are pretty lackluster but the Engineering college has its own lab which is much more useful. They even provide their own wifi which is seperate from the wireless access for the general university. The ratios for students with access to these seperate resources will clearly be different. It's not clear if the data in this report has taken this into account.
I agree. When was the last time you found a bug in a 2D adventure game? That's because it's just a new story on top of the same engine. As long as you make sure you can play through the entire game, you're pretty much fine. Really the only testing you need on the playable product is to play through the whole game a few times to make sure it's possible to win. The only real bugs that can occur then are broken room or item objects in the game. In most of these cases, the worst that happens is the user can no longer win, which is a valid choice for some adventure games. (Although recently most adventure games stay away from that.) On the off chance that there is some massive unintended error, the company can just patch it. Most users probably won't notice the bug at all and will be fine without it. No one is going to get pissed because they lost a death match over a bug.
Believe me, adventure gamers are going to be much more tolerant of bugs than players of other genres. These guys are used to dying for incredibly inane reasons. They've been trained to save every ten minutes in case something goes wrong. Click on a honey comb? Bees kill you. Walk over an ant hill? Fire ants. Look at old woman? Turn to stone. Unprotected sex with hooker? Death by horrible STD. Anyone who's played through a few * Quest games knows what I'm talking open.
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Obviously he's never seen the envelope art in Nintendo Power.
A lot of people here are telling you that top tier schools aren't worth the investment in terms of money, and they're largely correct. However, if you don't go to a school you're really proud to be a part of, then you won't get as much out of it as you could anyway. If you can get excited about going to a school that isn't the best of the best, then by all means, that is your best bet, but don't "settle" just because of some numbers in a RoI equation.
Not a whole lot of actual information in the article, but it's a fairly entertaining rebuke of Macromedia's letter.
Yeah, I have two islands open. Good luck finding that artifact.
Whenever I tap trees, I get green mana.
That should read: "waiting to correct his or her grammer errors."
The fact is, there are less people who actually know about something, then those who think they know something.
Also, that should read: "The fact is, there are fewer people"
It's nice of them to share their copyrighted material. That being said, it would be much nicer of them if they'd just let it enter the public domain like it should have done in the first place. My biggest concern is that actions like this will calm public outcry enough that copyright terms are extended YET AGAIN in 2015. However they want to spin it, you can't change the fact that they are profiting from something that would belong to everyone if they hadn't continuously lobbied to have the law changed in their favor.
Hey, it worked just fine for the Kryptonians.
Unfortunately, no. There are lots of people just like you who will inappropriately apply the label "ironic." But having the last name Anderson is so common that it will almost never be ironic.
> I can't even bring a cell phone to work that has a camera nor a voice recorder in it due to security restrictions
A cell phone *is* a voice recorder.
That's what I did when I started using Dvorak and realized the keys were never going to be accurate anyway.
That's just it. As I understand it, Alan Moore didn't want LoEG to be made into a movie at all, because he didn't think it would tranlate well visually. Even so, I think it's pretty obvious not to add Tom Sawyer to the cast. I know I was annoyed when my friends refer to the suckiness of the League when they've only seen the movie.
I kind of like "until the publishing author dies -10 years."
I'm pretty sure I'm going to be sick at least 2 days _after_ I see it.
Now if only Nethack would follow suit.
It's already been commented that the list is not a ranking. A casual glance will indicate that it is simply alphabetically ordered.
It doesn't seem like this data would be very useful to Slashdotters. Most of us live in Computer Science or Engineering, which are bound to have their own computer resources seperate from the rest of the school.
I know at UW-Madison the general computer resources are pretty lackluster but the Engineering college has its own lab which is much more useful. They even provide their own wifi which is seperate from the wireless access for the general university. The ratios for students with access to these seperate resources will clearly be different. It's not clear if the data in this report has taken this into account.
I agree. When was the last time you found a bug in a 2D adventure game? That's because it's just a new story on top of the same engine. As long as you make sure you can play through the entire game, you're pretty much fine. Really the only testing you need on the playable product is to play through the whole game a few times to make sure it's possible to win. The only real bugs that can occur then are broken room or item objects in the game. In most of these cases, the worst that happens is the user can no longer win, which is a valid choice for some adventure games. (Although recently most adventure games stay away from that.) On the off chance that there is some massive unintended error, the company can just patch it. Most users probably won't notice the bug at all and will be fine without it. No one is going to get pissed because they lost a death match over a bug.
Believe me, adventure gamers are going to be much more tolerant of bugs than players of other genres. These guys are used to dying for incredibly inane reasons. They've been trained to save every ten minutes in case something goes wrong. Click on a honey comb? Bees kill you. Walk over an ant hill? Fire ants. Look at old woman? Turn to stone. Unprotected sex with hooker? Death by horrible STD. Anyone who's played through a few * Quest games knows what I'm talking open.
Would the US government really allow a technology that it couldn't eavesdrop?
On the otherhand, if you were just trying to point out how you've had sex, then point taken.