I'm surprised at how the FPS sequals do. I bought BF2 when it came out and have had a blast with it (after spending 1.4 million dollars on upgrades). Same with the Medal of Honor games. Same damn game, different settings. I think I'm like most people though. I want a solid game, and then cool mods to come out for it. I played many mods in BF1942 as I'm sure a lot of others came out.
EA just seems to be cashing in on commercial mods.
I replaced it as their default homepage this morning. Oh the joys of Group Policy.
Re:pay the teachers and give them their dignity ba
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Teachers get paid okay if you consider they get 2 and half months off each year. I don't know what the starting pay is there, but divide that by 12, then multiple the answer by 2.5 In Orange County, Florida, you start here at about $35k. If you make that equal to a yearly salary, they start at $42. Ain't half bad.
Stop pandering to the lowest common denominator
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Teachers spend so much time trying to teach the dumb students, that the brighter ones are somewhat forced to stay at their level. Its not politically correct to acknowledge that some students are smarter than others, so we're stuck with a system that treats everybody the same. They've already got some programs for the advanced students, but the dumb ones are grouped in with everybody else.
Allow the bright ones to move on quicker, and keep the not so bright ones held back. Its sick that some people who spend 13 years in school can't read past a 6th grade level. Thats not creating a workforce, thats preparing them for poverty, which the bright kids later have to fund.
The most important thing though would be to get the parents involved. Kids whose parents are involved usually do better in school. Who in their right mind lets their children go off for 6.5 hours a day to be watched over by a stranger? And then they do this for their entire youth?? Parental involvement is key.
As for pay, I think they get paid alright. I might be in the minority here, but starting pay is $35k or so, and you get two and a half months off during the year. If you were to assume they made that same money during those two months, thats more than $42 to start. Not to bad.
I think if your daughter or son was brutally raped and killed because a sex offender was allowed to leave early, you would want to throw away any tests that gives the opinion they might fix themselves.
It's almost the same thinking with gays, "if we treat them with therapy they'll become straight again". It doesn't work that way.
I do feel bad for 17 year olds who get locked up for being with a 16 year old girl. We had two instances of that at the University I went to, and they put the poor guys face all over the school for sleeping with someone who was underage, when HE was underage.
Something like this needs to be evaluated case by case.
When I'm a time traveller, I'm only going to come back in the morning, that way I get the whole day ahead of me...
How can you get tired of Settlers?
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That game was introduced to me about 3 years ago and my now fiance and I play it whenever we have friends over. Since I live in lovely Florida, we had about a month off of work for all the hurricanes. I showed my folks how to play, now my family has been hooked.
Try getting one of the expansion, Knights of Cattan or Seafarers of Cattan.
Another good strategy game thats fairly quick is Sequence.
Sadly, I looked up "carson" and the front page expecting to find plenty of Johnny Carson links... unfortunately all that came up was Carson Daly from MTV. Bleh.
Its amazing how much these are going for on ebay. I started looking for the game about a week ago and it was sold out of all the stores. Even all the little computer stores. And I'm talking about all of Orlando.
Ebay had the game going for about $90 the past couple of days or you can Buy It Now for $100. Yikes!
I wonder if the poor sap that wrote the software is reading through all these comments and just smacking his heaed.
How do you go home at night and tell your wife that you signed an int, and it ruined Christmas for a whole lotta people?
Good point. Sadly, I think Congress would rather vote themselves all raises this year and increase their pensions instead of putting much more money to the space program. Although, they are increasing NASA's budget, just not One Billion Dollars worth.
As long as there are users there will always be need for support staff. I can't imagine Judy from Accounting fixing using the microsoft tools to fix her Access.
I can't imagine support staff being cut at all actually.
I bet there are plenty of Chinese investors that have it in their interest to have the filtered news. Its kinda sad, before Google went public I envisioned them as the David, then I started to view them as the lovable Goliath. But now...
Regardless, I wish I had bought $100k worth of their stock when it first came out. I would have almost doubled my money by now.
I had absolutely no interest in Python until I read Slashdots review of Dive Into Python. Its right on target and got me excited to run home and see what I could do. Of course that only lasted for about a month, but I'll be sure to head home and take a peak at it again.
You have to wonder if he's going after other organizations by just saying "oh sure, we've got 20-30 other organizations that have paid us money". The man at Mens Warehouse tried the same technique on me just last week. Although I would hope that the large companies that paid the loot are above GroupThink.
I wonder how the legal community operates? In this country, you'd be disbarred for sending an SMS to a judge or use AIM to communicate with opposing council (for serious matters). As much as email is used, all the documents we use at our firm are typed up and made official.
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2004 is so last year.
EA just seems to be cashing in on commercial mods.
It will be news once they have a silent server. My office is right near the servers, and those lovely Proliant's just don't know how to keep it quiet.
Fanless servers... the untapped not niche market.
I replaced it as their default homepage this morning. Oh the joys of Group Policy.
Teachers get paid okay if you consider they get 2 and half months off each year. I don't know what the starting pay is there, but divide that by 12, then multiple the answer by 2.5 In Orange County, Florida, you start here at about $35k. If you make that equal to a yearly salary, they start at $42. Ain't half bad.
Teachers spend so much time trying to teach the dumb students, that the brighter ones are somewhat forced to stay at their level. Its not politically correct to acknowledge that some students are smarter than others, so we're stuck with a system that treats everybody the same. They've already got some programs for the advanced students, but the dumb ones are grouped in with everybody else.
Allow the bright ones to move on quicker, and keep the not so bright ones held back. Its sick that some people who spend 13 years in school can't read past a 6th grade level. Thats not creating a workforce, thats preparing them for poverty, which the bright kids later have to fund.
The most important thing though would be to get the parents involved. Kids whose parents are involved usually do better in school. Who in their right mind lets their children go off for 6.5 hours a day to be watched over by a stranger? And then they do this for their entire youth?? Parental involvement is key.
As for pay, I think they get paid alright. I might be in the minority here, but starting pay is $35k or so, and you get two and a half months off during the year. If you were to assume they made that same money during those two months, thats more than $42 to start. Not to bad.
I hate to bring it up, but Microsoft Bob was one innovative original piece of software.
I think if your daughter or son was brutally raped and killed because a sex offender was allowed to leave early, you would want to throw away any tests that gives the opinion they might fix themselves.
It's almost the same thinking with gays, "if we treat them with therapy they'll become straight again". It doesn't work that way.
I do feel bad for 17 year olds who get locked up for being with a 16 year old girl. We had two instances of that at the University I went to, and they put the poor guys face all over the school for sleeping with someone who was underage, when HE was underage.
Something like this needs to be evaluated case by case.
When I'm a time traveller, I'm only going to come back in the morning, that way I get the whole day ahead of me...
That game was introduced to me about 3 years ago and my now fiance and I play it whenever we have friends over. Since I live in lovely Florida, we had about a month off of work for all the hurricanes. I showed my folks how to play, now my family has been hooked.
Try getting one of the expansion, Knights of Cattan or Seafarers of Cattan.
Another good strategy game thats fairly quick is Sequence.
Perhaps the submitter IS the Chinese Government!
"Last year the Slammer worm infected 13,000 Bank of America ATMs as a result of them moving to a Windows-based operating system."
Sadly, I looked up "carson" and the front page expecting to find plenty of Johnny Carson links... unfortunately all that came up was Carson Daly from MTV. Bleh.
Anyone else realize that the acronym for this operation is SWORDS?
Special Weapons Observation Reconnaissance Detection Systems.
Fun!
Its amazing how much these are going for on ebay. I started looking for the game about a week ago and it was sold out of all the stores. Even all the little computer stores. And I'm talking about all of Orlando. Ebay had the game going for about $90 the past couple of days or you can Buy It Now for $100. Yikes!
I wonder if the poor sap that wrote the software is reading through all these comments and just smacking his heaed. How do you go home at night and tell your wife that you signed an int, and it ruined Christmas for a whole lotta people?
Good point. Sadly, I think Congress would rather vote themselves all raises this year and increase their pensions instead of putting much more money to the space program. Although, they are increasing NASA's budget, just not One Billion Dollars worth.
"One Billion Dollars!" --Dr. Evil
The government is finally useful! I'm partying tonight!
As long as there are users there will always be need for support staff. I can't imagine Judy from Accounting fixing using the microsoft tools to fix her Access. I can't imagine support staff being cut at all actually.
I bet there are plenty of Chinese investors that have it in their interest to have the filtered news. Its kinda sad, before Google went public I envisioned them as the David, then I started to view them as the lovable Goliath. But now... Regardless, I wish I had bought $100k worth of their stock when it first came out. I would have almost doubled my money by now.
Oh, well if privacy is assured.... sign me up!
I had absolutely no interest in Python until I read Slashdots review of Dive Into Python. Its right on target and got me excited to run home and see what I could do. Of course that only lasted for about a month, but I'll be sure to head home and take a peak at it again.
You have to wonder if he's going after other organizations by just saying "oh sure, we've got 20-30 other organizations that have paid us money". The man at Mens Warehouse tried the same technique on me just last week. Although I would hope that the large companies that paid the loot are above GroupThink.
I wonder how the legal community operates? In this country, you'd be disbarred for sending an SMS to a judge or use AIM to communicate with opposing council (for serious matters). As much as email is used, all the documents we use at our firm are typed up and made official.