Just out of curiosity, what constitutes "legal" in your definition?
MPEG-2 is an open standard. MPEG-1 layer 2 audio is an open standard. LPCM is an open standard. Now Dolby Digital and DTS, those are pesky and admittedly there probably aren't legal open-sources codecs for them, but to say that there is no legal DVD codec is kinda out there. MPEG-2 with your choice of LPCM and MPEG-1 layer 2 audio is spec for DVD (mp2 being optional on NTSC).
c'mon Sorresso... you know MS aren't t3h cool as Google. Google is the good guy, and MS is the bad guy, so it's obvious that MS is behind...
Wait, what's the word for that thinking... "fallacy?"
In all seriousness, I think plenty of people just get the feeling that Google is ahead of MS, if nothing other than the fact that plenty of IE users change their default searches away from MSN (either by typing in google or actually changing it, if they are tech-literate enough).
This was our life cycle course: get an internship or do a "directed project." Well, being in mid-Illinois, there weren't a whole lot of internships available, and those that were available got snapped up by those who have the GPA but not the skill, because OBVIOUSLY those who do better in general education are more prepared to write code than those who ace the CS courses (no, no chip on my shoulder, move along).
So we had a "directed project" where we were told to find a real-world project. Pitch it, plan it, do it, demo it. Basically it was a huge joke, as most anyone can imagine how something so open could be abused.
After graduation, I know a good number of my interviews went nowhere because I couldn't say I knew the development cycle with a straight face. Small shops were the only ones willing to pull me on board.
Bottom line: Yes, the cycle is important. It is very important. It's not hard to pick up, so there really does need to be life cycle in a curriculum. So take a course in it at a community college if you need to, or be prepared to search for some time for those small shops willing to break you in, but who aren't going to relocate you.
I sure as hell didn't see it coming, but after.... wow (holy shit!), 13 hours of consciousness, my really great day turned really shitty really fast. 13s abound, it seems.
Did you somehow miss my admittance that it "wasn't a cool thing to do" or something? Did you somehow not notice the word "found" (past tense)? I didn't say I still thought it was funny, nor did I claim that it was in any way, shape or form acceptable. I just said it happened and my opinion of it eight years ago. Where do you find in it that the later three years of high school never changed my perception?
And for my other point, her father was a pastor at my family's church, so we DID have contact from outside school. And I said I would have PREFERED the police rather than school, because the police would have been JUSTIFIED. I'm not saying I wasn't lucky, I'm saying the school had nothing to do with it.
As for never using "bigot," I don't know where you think I hated someone because of their beliefs. I didn't hate her because of her beliefs. I didn't even hate her. I was messing with her because I knew I would get a shocked and appalled response. How is that hate? That's just being an ass.
Here's my beef with the (public) education system: they want to control students, want to mold them as they so desire and punish them if they stray from this path.
My sob story: I got suspended eight years ago for sending an email to a classmate (at 6:00 PM on a Friday -- well out of school hours) that was opened by said classmate at school almost a month later. It was full of nasty, perverse things which I said I wanted to do to her.
Granted, it wasn't a cool thing to do (although I found it hysterical to fuck with a prim Christian princess who was beyond sheltered until that year and whose father was a pastor), but it had nothing to do with school. I sent it outside of hours, and it was to a Yahoo! account, so it had nothing to do with school, and yet they suspended me. I say that an acceptable action would have been a restraining order or something, but schools go too far with power. Public schools should not be able to do things like that (and I don't think that private schools should, but they have the right to suddenly no accept your money anymore, so whatever) as their sphere of influence penetrates only so far as SCHOOL grounds, time, activities and nothing outside of that.
I can't help but share an experience from an old job.
It was this shop that basically bought and refurbished 2-year old PCs and sold them to people who didn't need a buttload of computing power. Internet surfing, e-mail, and word processing is basically all these people needed. The owner bought a load that had token ring cards in it. As he pulled one out and replaced it with an ethernet card, he exclaimed "Uuugh. Token ring. I feel dirty." This was five years ago.
People still use token ring? Of course. Many people still use token ring? Hell no.
There is a Zelda-esque Final Fantasy. It's called Final Fantasy Chronicles and it's for the GameCube. Unfotunately, it's designed for multiplayer gaming, not solo action, and it really isn't all it could have been.
This is a simple Final Fight-esque fighter where you go around and kill screaming Chinamen circa 200 AD. It's based off of the historical novel (that's an understatement; the thing's huge!) Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
Anyway, the skill level varies and characters' stats can go up, so a leveled down character for you with a leveled up character for your girlfriend would work wonders on normal difficulty. Plus its a challenge for anyone moderately skilled at games to die but in no way hard; you're almost always allowed to retreat. Plus the "plot" is pretty interresting,seeing how three kingdoms make and break alliances to conquer their enemies in their quest to unify China.
Fun game, I can't tell you how much time my buddies and I have wasted in these past four years of college on this series. We still haven't gotten everything in the games, and we have logged HOURS on our saves. Plenty of fun to be had, and you don't need to get the extra stuff to have a good time. Plus there's over thirty characters to choose from, including a decent amount of female characters.
1) I don't own any portable devices. I'm a poor college student.
2) There's no way I could stand reading a book from any kind of computer screen.
3) DRM can eat my ass.
As a soon-to-graduate senior, I can't possibly express how much I want to avoid Microsoft, but I can try.
For one, you have anti-compete clauses. Although from what I've seen and heard these are pretty common, but MS is in everything. I think the only IT industry they haven't infiltrated is porn, and while it is a very richeous and worthwhile industry, that isn't what I'm trying to do with my life.
Combine that with the fact that their development is very dictated: 'this is what we want, we just need manpower to actually type the code in.'
Microsoft, you used to be cool. What happened to you? You fell off and started making things quick and cheap (no so quick in Vista's case) to make as much money as possible. While this may be a smart approach to business, it isn't a smart approach to customers. These problems are what net you all the criticism
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Just out of curiosity, what constitutes "legal" in your definition?
MPEG-2 is an open standard. MPEG-1 layer 2 audio is an open standard. LPCM is an open standard. Now Dolby Digital and DTS, those are pesky and admittedly there probably aren't legal open-sources codecs for them, but to say that there is no legal DVD codec is kinda out there. MPEG-2 with your choice of LPCM and MPEG-1 layer 2 audio is spec for DVD (mp2 being optional on NTSC).
Just askin' and sayin.'
I second that.
c'mon Sorresso... you know MS aren't t3h cool as Google. Google is the good guy, and MS is the bad guy, so it's obvious that MS is behind...
Wait, what's the word for that thinking... "fallacy?"
In all seriousness, I think plenty of people just get the feeling that Google is ahead of MS, if nothing other than the fact that plenty of IE users change their default searches away from MSN (either by typing in google or actually changing it, if they are tech-literate enough).
This was our life cycle course: get an internship or do a "directed project." Well, being in mid-Illinois, there weren't a whole lot of internships available, and those that were available got snapped up by those who have the GPA but not the skill, because OBVIOUSLY those who do better in general education are more prepared to write code than those who ace the CS courses (no, no chip on my shoulder, move along).
So we had a "directed project" where we were told to find a real-world project. Pitch it, plan it, do it, demo it. Basically it was a huge joke, as most anyone can imagine how something so open could be abused.
After graduation, I know a good number of my interviews went nowhere because I couldn't say I knew the development cycle with a straight face. Small shops were the only ones willing to pull me on board.
Bottom line: Yes, the cycle is important. It is very important. It's not hard to pick up, so there really does need to be life cycle in a curriculum. So take a course in it at a community college if you need to, or be prepared to search for some time for those small shops willing to break you in, but who aren't going to relocate you.
I sure as hell didn't see it coming, but after.... wow (holy shit!), 13 hours of consciousness, my really great day turned really shitty really fast. 13s abound, it seems.
Did you somehow miss my admittance that it "wasn't a cool thing to do" or something? Did you somehow not notice the word "found" (past tense)? I didn't say I still thought it was funny, nor did I claim that it was in any way, shape or form acceptable. I just said it happened and my opinion of it eight years ago. Where do you find in it that the later three years of high school never changed my perception?
And for my other point, her father was a pastor at my family's church, so we DID have contact from outside school. And I said I would have PREFERED the police rather than school, because the police would have been JUSTIFIED. I'm not saying I wasn't lucky, I'm saying the school had nothing to do with it.
As for never using "bigot," I don't know where you think I hated someone because of their beliefs. I didn't hate her because of her beliefs. I didn't even hate her. I was messing with her because I knew I would get a shocked and appalled response. How is that hate? That's just being an ass.
P.S.: Fuck off.
Here's my beef with the (public) education system: they want to control students, want to mold them as they so desire and punish them if they stray from this path.
My sob story: I got suspended eight years ago for sending an email to a classmate (at 6:00 PM on a Friday -- well out of school hours) that was opened by said classmate at school almost a month later. It was full of nasty, perverse things which I said I wanted to do to her.
Granted, it wasn't a cool thing to do (although I found it hysterical to fuck with a prim Christian princess who was beyond sheltered until that year and whose father was a pastor), but it had nothing to do with school. I sent it outside of hours, and it was to a Yahoo! account, so it had nothing to do with school, and yet they suspended me. I say that an acceptable action would have been a restraining order or something, but schools go too far with power. Public schools should not be able to do things like that (and I don't think that private schools should, but they have the right to suddenly no accept your money anymore, so whatever) as their sphere of influence penetrates only so far as SCHOOL grounds, time, activities and nothing outside of that.
Just my $.50 (well more than $.02 I'd say).
I can't help but share an experience from an old job.
It was this shop that basically bought and refurbished 2-year old PCs and sold them to people who didn't need a buttload of computing power. Internet surfing, e-mail, and word processing is basically all these people needed. The owner bought a load that had token ring cards in it. As he pulled one out and replaced it with an ethernet card, he exclaimed "Uuugh. Token ring. I feel dirty." This was five years ago.
People still use token ring? Of course. Many people still use token ring? Hell no.
There is a Zelda-esque Final Fantasy. It's called Final Fantasy Chronicles and it's for the GameCube. Unfotunately, it's designed for multiplayer gaming, not solo action, and it really isn't all it could have been.
Screaming from Meng Huo on an elephant? Try bowmen and Very Hard mode. THAT generates screaming.
Dynasty Warriors (3, 4, 5 +- Xtreme Legends addons)
,seeing how three kingdoms make and break alliances to conquer their enemies in their quest to unify China.
This is a simple Final Fight-esque fighter where you go around and kill screaming Chinamen circa 200 AD. It's based off of the historical novel (that's an understatement; the thing's huge!) Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
Anyway, the skill level varies and characters' stats can go up, so a leveled down character for you with a leveled up character for your girlfriend would work wonders on normal difficulty. Plus its a challenge for anyone moderately skilled at games to die but in no way hard; you're almost always allowed to retreat. Plus the "plot" is pretty interresting
Fun game, I can't tell you how much time my buddies and I have wasted in these past four years of college on this series. We still haven't gotten everything in the games, and we have logged HOURS on our saves. Plenty of fun to be had, and you don't need to get the extra stuff to have a good time. Plus there's over thirty characters to choose from, including a decent amount of female characters.
1) I don't own any portable devices. I'm a poor college student.
2) There's no way I could stand reading a book from any kind of computer screen.
3) DRM can eat my ass.
I'm just curious... how traumatic would rape be to someone who fucks for a living? I mean really?
As a soon-to-graduate senior, I can't possibly express how much I want to avoid Microsoft, but I can try. For one, you have anti-compete clauses. Although from what I've seen and heard these are pretty common, but MS is in everything. I think the only IT industry they haven't infiltrated is porn, and while it is a very richeous and worthwhile industry, that isn't what I'm trying to do with my life. Combine that with the fact that their development is very dictated: 'this is what we want, we just need manpower to actually type the code in.' Microsoft, you used to be cool. What happened to you? You fell off and started making things quick and cheap (no so quick in Vista's case) to make as much money as possible. While this may be a smart approach to business, it isn't a smart approach to customers. These problems are what net you all the criticism