I am currently just about to exit college and enter the 'real world'. Because of some poor choices as a freshman, I am graduating with an English degree. Now, not to knock English degrees TOO much, but I am at least moderately interested in this program simply because it offers a quick way to get a useful specialty in today's world. English majors aren't exactly overpaid. As for the burnout rate, I suspect it will be high. But med school (which looks for roughly the same level of candidate) generally has a similar level of intensity, especially during intern shifts. So maybe it wouldn't be that bad after all. I just wish there was something that you could receive -- if not a Masters, perhaps a second BS so that the work is evident to everyone as having been harder than DeVry's Technical Institute.
I really get the feeling that Pinkerton arranged this meeting with Jon to try and get people to stop harassing them... something on the order of "Sir, the geeks are revolting!" "Well, arrange a meeting with their spokesperson, that oughta shut them up."
"I am not revolting, I've just not shaved today..."
In the same schools where young adults are taught that generalizations are almost always wrong and that absolutes tend to corrupt truth, a Zero Tolerance policy on ANYTHING is hogwash. I am in college now, fortunately, but I have seen friends getting 'busted' for having a bottle of Tylenol in their locker. I have seen nail clippers and nail files taken away from girls since they 'could be a weapon.' They only tried once to take away my swiss army knife (with a 1.5 inch blade) until I mentioned that I might sue and had talked with the ACLU (a bluff, but... ) Schools are so paranoid right now that they are hugely overreacting to everything, in matters where a little logic and trust in some decision maker would help the system immensely more than a rigid 'Zero-Tolerance' policy.
Populous was one of the first "God Games" where your goal was to make your people happy, so that they would worship you, create more people, and eventually launch a holy war against the other people led by the other god. It was rather cool -- you could raise and lower landscape features to make nice flat land for your people, create 'Acts of God" to kill off the other people (I enjoyed 'Volcano' myself) and just generally be a deity. I recommend picking up a copy if you haven't seen it. The game is somewhat dated technically, but it's like SimCity.. the gameplay carries it through the graphics.
Actually, the original design for the Enterprise was heavily influenced by NASA concepts... the bio for the series remarked that Roddenberry went there and asked everyone everything to get something realistic. Oh, and what real spacecraft has Babylon 5 sparked? Funny how there's a real Enterprise, because when that Space Shuttle was rolled out there was nothing else that the people would let it be called. And the command crew of the ST show were invited to stand next to it at the press conference... so perhaps you should think a little more before mouthing off.
Dana Lyons tried to make some money off the bovine population a while back with the immortal classic "Cows With Guns". Heard it recently? Me neither, except once on the John Boy and Billy show. So much for a new market. On the other hand, they DO make lovely jackets, and the upside is that when you're done taking the skin off you can have a burger.
Virginia Tech was one of the areas that got it before release... the day after it was installed on a simple computer lab network, someone got the blue screen o' death. We put up a poster congratulating that person, left it up for a week or so before it was mysteriously stolen.
The problem with it autosetting the clock depends on where it gets the time hack. My Zenith VCR has a similar 'auto-set' feature, which btw cannot be overridden by the user... well, my local cable system evidently can't tell time, because the time hack it gets varies by up to three hours off from real time. Gets annoying when I have to try and calculate what time the VCR will THINK it is when my show starts... and that's assuming it doesn't get another false time hack between then and now.
I agree, because I am using my VCR in that fashion. When I found out how much an RF modulator would be to drop the DVD AV outputs down to cable, I laughed in his face. The Apex has saved me a nice bundle right there.
Friend, Boeing is a private company that picks up government contracts occasionally. So is Whistler, the company that makes radar detectors but on the side supplied some components for the F-4. Amtrak is a government company. Get it straight.
I believe 'freezing' is synonymous with 'hanging' or 'the infamous blue screen of MS death'... not actually lowering their temperature. It gets annoying to watch Crash hang in midair for a half hour while the system sorts itself out.
ABC would happily destroy anything even close to raunchy if they got a chance to let their censors run with it. Remember Mallrats, and what they did to that? Among other things, they severely digitally edited it because some of the imagery was offensive, and cut quite a few lines (and scenes). Check it out at http://www.viewaskew.com/tv/abcrats/ to see the full extent of their idiocy. I hope Trey comes up with something that is perfectly legal, but features the SP gang flipping off censorship in general, and ABC in particular.
Beam-It is a concept that lets you listen to the CDs that YOU OWN at other places without having to lug the whole album of CDs with you. Say I want to play a track from my new CD at my friend's house. Instead of having to drive home and get it, I can log on to their server, log in to my Beam-It window (where I had uploaded proof that I owned the disc beforehand) and immediately play it. Where's the piracy?
I am simply amazed that nobody is doing anything to Xing for being stupid about encrypting the keys anyway. Jon didn't decrypt the stuff, he just wrote a GUI for an app and posted it. But, Xing let the cat out of the bag that would have been far more difficult to break without their help. Is there such a tort as corporate malpractice/negligence?
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I am currently just about to exit college and enter the 'real world'. Because of some poor choices as a freshman, I am graduating with an English degree. Now, not to knock English degrees TOO much, but I am at least moderately interested in this program simply because it offers a quick way to get a useful specialty in today's world. English majors aren't exactly overpaid. As for the burnout rate, I suspect it will be high. But med school (which looks for roughly the same level of candidate) generally has a similar level of intensity, especially during intern shifts. So maybe it wouldn't be that bad after all. I just wish there was something that you could receive -- if not a Masters, perhaps a second BS so that the work is evident to everyone as having been harder than DeVry's Technical Institute.
I really get the feeling that Pinkerton arranged this meeting with Jon to try and get people to stop harassing them... something on the order of "Sir, the geeks are revolting!" "Well, arrange a meeting with their spokesperson, that oughta shut them up."
"I am not revolting, I've just not shaved today..."
In the same schools where young adults are taught that generalizations are almost always wrong and that absolutes tend to corrupt truth, a Zero Tolerance policy on ANYTHING is hogwash. I am in college now, fortunately, but I have seen friends getting 'busted' for having a bottle of Tylenol in their locker. I have seen nail clippers and nail files taken away from girls since they 'could be a weapon.' They only tried once to take away my swiss army knife (with a 1.5 inch blade) until I mentioned that I might sue and had talked with the ACLU (a bluff, but... ) Schools are so paranoid right now that they are hugely overreacting to everything, in matters where a little logic and trust in some decision maker would help the system immensely more than a rigid 'Zero-Tolerance' policy.
Populous was one of the first "God Games" where your goal was to make your people happy, so that they would worship you, create more people, and eventually launch a holy war against the other people led by the other god. It was rather cool -- you could raise and lower landscape features to make nice flat land for your people, create 'Acts of God" to kill off the other people (I enjoyed 'Volcano' myself) and just generally be a deity. I recommend picking up a copy if you haven't seen it. The game is somewhat dated technically, but it's like SimCity.. the gameplay carries it through the graphics.
Actually, the original design for the Enterprise was heavily influenced by NASA concepts... the bio for the series remarked that Roddenberry went there and asked everyone everything to get something realistic. Oh, and what real spacecraft has Babylon 5 sparked? Funny how there's a real Enterprise, because when that Space Shuttle was rolled out there was nothing else that the people would let it be called. And the command crew of the ST show were invited to stand next to it at the press conference... so perhaps you should think a little more before mouthing off.
Dana Lyons tried to make some money off the bovine population a while back with the immortal classic "Cows With Guns". Heard it recently? Me neither, except once on the John Boy and Billy show. So much for a new market. On the other hand, they DO make lovely jackets, and the upside is that when you're done taking the skin off you can have a burger.
Wasn't Gigantor, something large enough to give Godzilla a run for his money, piloted entirely by a kid on the shy side of 10?
Virginia Tech was one of the areas that got it before release... the day after it was installed on a simple computer lab network, someone got the blue screen o' death. We put up a poster congratulating that person, left it up for a week or so before it was mysteriously stolen.
The problem with it autosetting the clock depends on where it gets the time hack. My Zenith VCR has a similar 'auto-set' feature, which btw cannot be overridden by the user... well, my local cable system evidently can't tell time, because the time hack it gets varies by up to three hours off from real time. Gets annoying when I have to try and calculate what time the VCR will THINK it is when my show starts... and that's assuming it doesn't get another false time hack between then and now.
I agree, because I am using my VCR in that fashion. When I found out how much an RF modulator would be to drop the DVD AV outputs down to cable, I laughed in his face. The Apex has saved me a nice bundle right there.
Friend, Boeing is a private company that picks up government contracts occasionally. So is Whistler, the company that makes radar detectors but on the side supplied some components for the F-4. Amtrak is a government company. Get it straight.
I believe 'freezing' is synonymous with 'hanging' or 'the infamous blue screen of MS death' ... not actually lowering their temperature. It gets annoying to watch Crash hang in midair for a half hour while the system sorts itself out.
Funny, you said it was what Microsoft was learning... I thought it was Netscape that was the goat of that lesson.
ABC would happily destroy anything even close to raunchy if they got a chance to let their censors run with it. Remember Mallrats, and what they did to that? Among other things, they severely digitally edited it because some of the imagery was offensive, and cut quite a few lines (and scenes). Check it out at
http://www.viewaskew.com/tv/abcrats/
to see the full extent of their idiocy. I hope Trey comes up with something that is perfectly legal, but features the SP gang flipping off censorship in general, and ABC in particular.
Beam-It is a concept that lets you listen to the CDs that YOU OWN at other places without having to lug the whole album of CDs with you. Say I want to play a track from my new CD at my friend's house. Instead of having to drive home and get it, I can log on to their server, log in to my Beam-It window (where I had uploaded proof that I owned the disc beforehand) and immediately play it. Where's the piracy?
Virginia Tech has also had a CAVE prototype for at least four years... I've used it. It's interesting, but the holodeck is still a LONG ways off.
I am simply amazed that nobody is doing anything to Xing for being stupid about encrypting the keys anyway. Jon didn't decrypt the stuff, he just wrote a GUI for an app and posted it. But, Xing let the cat out of the bag that would have been far more difficult to break without their help. Is there such a tort as corporate malpractice/negligence?