I don't have a PhD:P
Nor am I teaching English here. Also, if you make $250,000 a year at a job in CANADA with a BSc. in Engineering, then you are not a representative sample. The average graduate with a BSc. degree in Canada is not pulling in that much dough. 95% of them are probably working in jobs that aren't in their field, and I'd venture that a large porportion of that 95% are making barely enough to survive.
You got lucky, sir. Does your father own the company or something?
I am Canadian. I live and work in South Korea. The country that used to be one of the poorest in the world is paying me more and treating me better than my home country.
Canada needs to learn how to not be two-faced. On the one side, Canada is a diverse, safe country with arms wide open to the world. At the same time, if you are born and raised in Canada and go to a Canadian University (say, to obtain a PhD in Physics or even Business Administration), you'll be lucky if you can land anything above minimum wage.
I payed $130 dollars for Half-Life when it first came out. I remember the exact price, because I was in Middle School at the time and I starved myself at lunch every single day for months in order to save up that much dough ($2 a day).
I went to Radioshack and bought it, mainly because I was a fourteen year old geek and PCGamer said it was excellent.
For $130 I got hundreds upon hundreds of hours of game time completely outside of the core content. I played every mod religiously, made custom maps, joined mod teams and clans and checked out the IRC chatrooms of all my favourite mods.
Ten years later, I'm playing Half-Life 2 (got it for $29.99 I believe) which was released years ago and isn't even close to it's death yet. Great game, great mods, and great community.
Where would we be today if it weren't for Bald's Rights patriots, such as Lex Luther and Kevin Spacey?
Is this some vein attempt to undo everything they've done?
You want these students to try?
Well, if you want to educate them in anything, why don't you tell them the truth:
Trying is the first step towards failure.
Great job, guys! It's too bad she didn't have any dirty secrets on there, it seemed to be the most typical inbox someone like her could have.
Therefore, you have a new assignment. Hack more crappy politicians, like McCain! Oh wait, you'd have to show him how to use the tubes first...
How about removing difficulty mods in FPS games altogether?
I usually found difficulty modes in these types of games to be a charade anyway. In Id software's older games, they simply tweaked the damage points both for the player and the opponent. An Imp in easy mode has twenty health, thirty on normal and fifty on hard. His projectiles do 20% damage on easy, but 50% on hard. There are ten Imps in hard mode where there were five in easy mode, etc.
Some newer games have the right idea in allowing the player to choose the difficulty of the mission ingame. Engines are open and varied enough these days to allow the player alternatives for every situation. They also present the choice of taking the path directly in front of the machine gun nest or avoiding it completely. That is what creates a difficulty setting.
More adept players will want to try experimenting while more novice players might shy away from anything that will probably get them killed one hundred times.
Actually, it could serve as a way to punish criminals without burning through tax dollars with prison time.
Just take all of their most beloved memories and replace them with a picture of Chuck Norris and the sensation of being kicked in the groin.
For example, from their wedding day, all they'll remember is: "Honey, I d--Chuck Norris?! Ow, my groin!"
I remember reading an article that stated that "love" is a chemical reaction that lasts roughly six months, given or take a couple of months. I guess it's enough time to bond and mate.
Six months? What a ridiculous number. It can take as little as ten minutes on prom night.
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I don't have a PhD :P
Nor am I teaching English here. Also, if you make $250,000 a year at a job in CANADA with a BSc. in Engineering, then you are not a representative sample. The average graduate with a BSc. degree in Canada is not pulling in that much dough. 95% of them are probably working in jobs that aren't in their field, and I'd venture that a large porportion of that 95% are making barely enough to survive.
You got lucky, sir. Does your father own the company or something?
Yeah, I'd much rather eat the one that was made of plastic and sprayed with Windex! :P
Canada needs to learn how to not be two-faced. On the one side, Canada is a diverse, safe country with arms wide open to the world. At the same time, if you are born and raised in Canada and go to a Canadian University (say, to obtain a PhD in Physics or even Business Administration), you'll be lucky if you can land anything above minimum wage.
Nice to hear that we stole Hawking, though.
I went to Radioshack and bought it, mainly because I was a fourteen year old geek and PCGamer said it was excellent.
For $130 I got hundreds upon hundreds of hours of game time completely outside of the core content. I played every mod religiously, made custom maps, joined mod teams and clans and checked out the IRC chatrooms of all my favourite mods.
Ten years later, I'm playing Half-Life 2 (got it for $29.99 I believe) which was released years ago and isn't even close to it's death yet. Great game, great mods, and great community.
Best purchases I've ever made!
Better than "World Wide Tubes".
"No, I just threw away the last one, sir!"
FRICKIN'STRIKE.
Everyone is creative in the shower with the exception of Eunuchs.
I just got my ass handed to me by "1337_bananaz" in Counter-Strike. Looks like we have our culprit right here.
Where would we be today if it weren't for Bald's Rights patriots, such as Lex Luther and Kevin Spacey? Is this some vein attempt to undo everything they've done?
In Soviet Russia, satellite smiles at you!
So it's essentially like a giant vacuum (cleaner)?
Now I feel even smaller than I did yesterday. Good job, science!
You want these students to try? Well, if you want to educate them in anything, why don't you tell them the truth: Trying is the first step towards failure.
I think I'd be more suited for the job. See, I plan on building the space elevator by using a series of tubes...
I'm seen some (virtual) things man... I've seen some (virtual) things you wouldn't believe, man!
Great job, guys! It's too bad she didn't have any dirty secrets on there, it seemed to be the most typical inbox someone like her could have. Therefore, you have a new assignment. Hack more crappy politicians, like McCain! Oh wait, you'd have to show him how to use the tubes first...
I usually found difficulty modes in these types of games to be a charade anyway. In Id software's older games, they simply tweaked the damage points both for the player and the opponent. An Imp in easy mode has twenty health, thirty on normal and fifty on hard. His projectiles do 20% damage on easy, but 50% on hard. There are ten Imps in hard mode where there were five in easy mode, etc.
Some newer games have the right idea in allowing the player to choose the difficulty of the mission ingame. Engines are open and varied enough these days to allow the player alternatives for every situation. They also present the choice of taking the path directly in front of the machine gun nest or avoiding it completely. That is what creates a difficulty setting.
More adept players will want to try experimenting while more novice players might shy away from anything that will probably get them killed one hundred times.
Maybe they should try cleaning off the lens?
Space... The final frontier, WOULD YOU LIKE A BIGGGER PENIS? CLICK HERE. No wonder why the aliens won't talk to us.
"Men shouldn't play god!" "Can we play Spore, then?"
It's what people from Halifax call themselves. Haligonians :)
Actually, it could serve as a way to punish criminals without burning through tax dollars with prison time. Just take all of their most beloved memories and replace them with a picture of Chuck Norris and the sensation of being kicked in the groin. For example, from their wedding day, all they'll remember is: "Honey, I d--Chuck Norris?! Ow, my groin!"
Six months? What a ridiculous number. It can take as little as ten minutes on prom night.
Even Lumbergh.