I still have a geocities email account, from 95ish or so, I tied it into my yahoo account whenever they first allowed that. Sure I only ever receive spam on it, but there is a part of me that would be sad to lose my oldest remaining email address (my first aol account has long since passed away).
It is just you that is having this problem. The first thing I did after installing Windows 7 was launch IE and download Firefox. I've been running FF with 0 issues since.
As someone who has taken the same position as your friend I'm not going to simply "shut up" like you demand.
Asking me to simply shut up so people can revel in idiotic naivety is ridiculous.
I don't see why I'm being criticized for not being a blind sheep like everyone else.
Political zealots are all the same, no matter which cult of personality they are following.
I'm trying to remember my verizon set up. I know I couldn't get it to work with OS X and had to reboot my MBP into Windows XP to get the modem to work right. Although IIRC this might have just been me trying to make the modem work before they actually got my service up and running. My modem isn't currently connected to any PC directly, just a router.
Aside from that I use my Dell Mini 9 with Ubuntu 8.10 and Netbook Remix just fine with my Verizon service.
Game pipe is still a mess and I wouldn't recommend it to anyone except as a minor. I can only imagine how bad the full degree is.
I majored in CS and took ITP 280, 380 and 485. I also took the big game project course 499 or whatever the number is. As long as they have Victor Lacour "teaching" it the class will be a joke.
Game engines was the only class that really proved relevant in my job search and interview process. Everything else I needed to know came from standard CS and EE courses.
That's your only hope of success. If you can make a demo in something like say Flash and post it online for people to play and validate then maybe, just maybe you'll generate some publisher interest.
A good example of this is Alien Hominid, started as a simple flash game and ended up being on every console and XBLA.
You're never going to walk into EA, Activision or THQ and just show your game concept off. But if you make a demo and get people excited about it, then maybe someone will take interest.
not gamers.
Read this:
http://www.oldmanmurray.com/features/77.html
Unless you mean puzzle games as in things like Peggle, or Puzzle Quest etc etc. These games live on in budget form and web/flash games.
but only for CS majors and no other Engineers. In fact you could major in CECS and then your foreign language got replaced with a class on engineer economics and some more EE.
I personally took Japanese as I had taken it in HS and enjoyed it. The first semester was largely a refresher but the second and third semesters were a nightmare. They would've been manageable had I not been a CS major who was too busy with CS to study Japanese.
As far as usefulness I didn't learn anything remotely near enough to consider it useful, although I did get 1 job opportunity that was because of it.
Personally I think that the requirements for the course were too much for someone who was an engineer. I had a friend who was in the same Japanese classes and CS classes who agreed.
And herein lies the problem with a lot of CS majors. They think CS is all about being a "programmer" and don't realize that the degree teaches you how to be something of a theoretical scientist instead.
Anyone who bitches about not learning recent technologies from their main CS classes is missing the point or at a bad university. The theories and thinking/learning skills you get should enable you to learn programming language X or API Y without too many problems.
I doubt it. The best roms will be saved for slow periods/special events.
Anyone who went in thinking otherwise was fooling themselves or simply ignorant of Nintendo's release practices.
As long as they're making the same kind of money on over priced roms as they currently are there's no way they'll change this.
The great part about requiring a college email address was that it was a great way to prevent spammers from signing up. I can sign into Facebook, check some stuff out and not come away with my inbox being full of friend requests from crappy Jam bands, wanna be stand up Comedians, and fake profiles for webcam sites.
I'm not a heavy facebook user by any means, but if the spam becomes as bad as MySpace then my usage will drop to nonexistant.
A starter on our basketball team (a computer engineering major no less!) got pranked pretty hard by an opposing school after an elaborate IM ruse that all started from someone acquiring his AIM screen name off his facebook account.
OTOH I think people should really just use a bit more common sense about this stuff and realize that there are potential repercussions for putting this stuff outthere.
I just can't shake the feeling that facebook is slowly going to go away. Especially as more and more administrative types begin using it under the guise of students.
For this particular course or just a bunch in general? I've recently become very interested in crypto so for this it would be kinda cool. Plus having others would help me keep at it more than by myself.
Double Dragon was about rescuing your girlfriend from a street gang. You could just be beating the thugs into submission, not killing. It's never explicitly stated that they're dead...
Agreed our CS department makes almost all programming exercises language and OS independent. By and large we're recommended to do all our work on the schools command line unix machines. Even in my graphics course the work didn't have to be built specifically for windows.
I was over at my friends yesterday and he was showing that thing off. The concept of a mouse with weights was completely foreign to me. I am however not nearly the hardcore FPS gamer he is.
I have not seen or even played Halo2; however, I find it very hard to believe that it could possibly deserve less than a C (mid 7's) for its gameplay. If that were so, it would not have sold a single copy after the first week.
You're kidding right? Go look up Enter the Matrix. An absolute trash title that sold millions on name and hype alone. A game doesn't have to be quality if the hype machine is big enough. Halo 2 one upped Enter the Matrix in that regard by buying out all the reviews too.
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I still have a geocities email account, from 95ish or so, I tied it into my yahoo account whenever they first allowed that. Sure I only ever receive spam on it, but there is a part of me that would be sad to lose my oldest remaining email address (my first aol account has long since passed away).
TimesSquare/Arcade/8192 RIP
Ditto that. I'm using UNR on my Dell Mini 9 and it is a pleasant to look at black theme. Works rather well. I'm using 8.10 though not 8.04.
It is just you that is having this problem. The first thing I did after installing Windows 7 was launch IE and download Firefox. I've been running FF with 0 issues since.
They seem to be available on Youtube. When I was working IT in college my last supervisor would watch these soaps on youtube between calls.
As someone who has taken the same position as your friend I'm not going to simply "shut up" like you demand. Asking me to simply shut up so people can revel in idiotic naivety is ridiculous. I don't see why I'm being criticized for not being a blind sheep like everyone else. Political zealots are all the same, no matter which cult of personality they are following.
I'm trying to remember my verizon set up. I know I couldn't get it to work with OS X and had to reboot my MBP into Windows XP to get the modem to work right. Although IIRC this might have just been me trying to make the modem work before they actually got my service up and running. My modem isn't currently connected to any PC directly, just a router. Aside from that I use my Dell Mini 9 with Ubuntu 8.10 and Netbook Remix just fine with my Verizon service.
Game pipe is still a mess and I wouldn't recommend it to anyone except as a minor. I can only imagine how bad the full degree is. I majored in CS and took ITP 280, 380 and 485. I also took the big game project course 499 or whatever the number is. As long as they have Victor Lacour "teaching" it the class will be a joke. Game engines was the only class that really proved relevant in my job search and interview process. Everything else I needed to know came from standard CS and EE courses.
decent way to introduce a lot of CS related topics.
Simple, we have to take Operating Systems. At my school this was easily the most demanding class for under grads.
That being said I started as Aerospace and I think average AE kid was far smarter than the average CS kid. They also had a far higher attrition rate.
I almost finished the first book of the Baroque Cycle when I realized I was 700 pages in and he hadn't left the damn harbor.
That's your only hope of success. If you can make a demo in something like say Flash and post it online for people to play and validate then maybe, just maybe you'll generate some publisher interest. A good example of this is Alien Hominid, started as a simple flash game and ended up being on every console and XBLA. You're never going to walk into EA, Activision or THQ and just show your game concept off. But if you make a demo and get people excited about it, then maybe someone will take interest.
not gamers. Read this: http://www.oldmanmurray.com/features/77.html Unless you mean puzzle games as in things like Peggle, or Puzzle Quest etc etc. These games live on in budget form and web/flash games.
but only for CS majors and no other Engineers. In fact you could major in CECS and then your foreign language got replaced with a class on engineer economics and some more EE. I personally took Japanese as I had taken it in HS and enjoyed it. The first semester was largely a refresher but the second and third semesters were a nightmare. They would've been manageable had I not been a CS major who was too busy with CS to study Japanese. As far as usefulness I didn't learn anything remotely near enough to consider it useful, although I did get 1 job opportunity that was because of it. Personally I think that the requirements for the course were too much for someone who was an engineer. I had a friend who was in the same Japanese classes and CS classes who agreed.
And herein lies the problem with a lot of CS majors. They think CS is all about being a "programmer" and don't realize that the degree teaches you how to be something of a theoretical scientist instead.
Anyone who bitches about not learning recent technologies from their main CS classes is missing the point or at a bad university. The theories and thinking/learning skills you get should enable you to learn programming language X or API Y without too many problems.
I doubt it. The best roms will be saved for slow periods/special events. Anyone who went in thinking otherwise was fooling themselves or simply ignorant of Nintendo's release practices. As long as they're making the same kind of money on over priced roms as they currently are there's no way they'll change this.
What fantasy land do you live in? In Los Angeles I think I've found maybe one McDonalds with free WiFi and 0 Starbucks with free WiFi.
The great part about requiring a college email address was that it was a great way to prevent spammers from signing up. I can sign into Facebook, check some stuff out and not come away with my inbox being full of friend requests from crappy Jam bands, wanna be stand up Comedians, and fake profiles for webcam sites. I'm not a heavy facebook user by any means, but if the spam becomes as bad as MySpace then my usage will drop to nonexistant.
A starter on our basketball team (a computer engineering major no less!) got pranked pretty hard by an opposing school after an elaborate IM ruse that all started from someone acquiring his AIM screen name off his facebook account. OTOH I think people should really just use a bit more common sense about this stuff and realize that there are potential repercussions for putting this stuff outthere. I just can't shake the feeling that facebook is slowly going to go away. Especially as more and more administrative types begin using it under the guise of students.
For this particular course or just a bunch in general? I've recently become very interested in crypto so for this it would be kinda cool. Plus having others would help me keep at it more than by myself.
Double Dragon was about rescuing your girlfriend from a street gang. You could just be beating the thugs into submission, not killing. It's never explicitly stated that they're dead...
Agreed our CS department makes almost all programming exercises language and OS independent. By and large we're recommended to do all our work on the schools command line unix machines. Even in my graphics course the work didn't have to be built specifically for windows.
I was over at my friends yesterday and he was showing that thing off. The concept of a mouse with weights was completely foreign to me. I am however not nearly the hardcore FPS gamer he is.
I have not seen or even played Halo2; however, I find it very hard to believe that it could possibly deserve less than a C (mid 7's) for its gameplay. If that were so, it would not have sold a single copy after the first week. You're kidding right? Go look up Enter the Matrix. An absolute trash title that sold millions on name and hype alone. A game doesn't have to be quality if the hype machine is big enough. Halo 2 one upped Enter the Matrix in that regard by buying out all the reviews too.
Let's be honest, this is slashdot. It's a guy.