The Internet Archive -- www.archive.org -- is a great place to find reviews for SF books. Search for a book you already know you like and find a reviewer who liked it too. Her other reviews might point you to books you'll enjoy.
(Full disclosure - I am Managing Editor at Strange Horizons -- www.strangehorizons.com).
I first look at the company dashboard, then the IT dashboard then, finally, my schedule. Since it is usually about 6:15 AM, I next answer e-mails. They call this managing.
Atari states in a press release dated 4/18/2006 that (paraphrase) all PC games will be patched through the in-game patcher due to rampant piracy. Atari's forum attitude is that most problems with the game are due to pirates and cracks. Given the abundance of NWN2 copies on the Web, I understand their position.
As for the game, I am just three hours in and having a ball. I loved Oblivion and BG/BGII; this game is also great fun for me. I journey alone, so party AI isn't a problem. The camera is easily fixed, as others have mentioned. I play for the story so graphics need only be good enough to tell the difference between friend and foe.
All in all, a proper next step in D&D computer gaming.
This works out to $59.85 for the trilogy. This seems expensive, when I only paid $36 for HL2. The Steam distribution method also eliminates Valve costs for physical components (DVD, Box, Manual) as well as distributor and retailer profits. (Yes, there are additional costs for servers and distribution bandwidth, but I'll wager this is a small fraction of regular distribution channels costs. In other words the thing should cost less than retail but Valve charges more. (BTW, they are charging the same for boxed retail goods. Hmmm.) This looks like an attempt for PC game companies to start charging $60 per game like Xbox 360. I will stop buying commercial games at that price and content myself with the wonderful work being done by the independent game creators.
As others have noted: Another degree isn't going to help you if you don't know what you want to do. Get some experience in industry, in retail, in anything but academia. Learn about your people skills; this will lead you to or away from business analysis. Are you a coder with mad skillz, a designer with a user-friendly touch, a communications hacker with mystic diagnostic ability? So, you try a few things and they don't work; just keep trying. A couple of years doing that is better than spending them in class. My 2 cents.
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The Internet Archive -- www.archive.org -- is a great place to find reviews for SF books. Search for a book you already know you like and find a reviewer who liked it too. Her other reviews might point you to books you'll enjoy. (Full disclosure - I am Managing Editor at Strange Horizons -- www.strangehorizons.com).
I first look at the company dashboard, then the IT dashboard then, finally, my schedule. Since it is usually about 6:15 AM, I next answer e-mails. They call this managing.
Atari states in a press release dated 4/18/2006 that (paraphrase) all PC games will be patched through the in-game patcher due to rampant piracy. Atari's forum attitude is that most problems with the game are due to pirates and cracks. Given the abundance of NWN2 copies on the Web, I understand their position. As for the game, I am just three hours in and having a ball. I loved Oblivion and BG/BGII; this game is also great fun for me. I journey alone, so party AI isn't a problem. The camera is easily fixed, as others have mentioned. I play for the story so graphics need only be good enough to tell the difference between friend and foe. All in all, a proper next step in D&D computer gaming.
This works out to $59.85 for the trilogy. This seems expensive, when I only paid $36 for HL2. The Steam distribution method also eliminates Valve costs for physical components (DVD, Box, Manual) as well as distributor and retailer profits. (Yes, there are additional costs for servers and distribution bandwidth, but I'll wager this is a small fraction of regular distribution channels costs. In other words the thing should cost less than retail but Valve charges more. (BTW, they are charging the same for boxed retail goods. Hmmm.) This looks like an attempt for PC game companies to start charging $60 per game like Xbox 360. I will stop buying commercial games at that price and content myself with the wonderful work being done by the independent game creators.
As others have noted: Another degree isn't going to help you if you don't know what you want to do. Get some experience in industry, in retail, in anything but academia. Learn about your people skills; this will lead you to or away from business analysis. Are you a coder with mad skillz, a designer with a user-friendly touch, a communications hacker with mystic diagnostic ability? So, you try a few things and they don't work; just keep trying. A couple of years doing that is better than spending them in class. My 2 cents.