What dearth in the past 25 years? We've had The Simpsons, the Daily Show, the Colbert Report, South Park, Firefly, Doctor Who, Scrubs... and that's just the stuff I watch sometimes.
I'm a... well the party that most closely represents my views is the Green Party. Except I'm also a ruthless sonofabitch when it comes time to actually use violence. But I favor legalizing drugs and allowing limited concealed carry in addition to liberal economic policies...
So yeah, basically I'm a Nothingtarian. Nobody actually bothers to represent me. That makes the political aspect of UMass much easier, though they've really gotten moderate in recent years.
Programming is easily outsourced. Computer science is not so easily outsourced, as the number of people capable of it is roughly equal to the number of people capable of doing grad-level pure mathematics.
Sure, except the colleges are a business like any other (at least to some extent) and they have to attract customers (i.e., students). The prospective students have been enticed into expecting fancy rec centers and cushy dorms. Once a few schools start offering those features, pretty much everyone else has to do so to stay competitive.
Define "cushy". At my university our "cushy" dorms still have leaky roofs and clothes-dryers that don't so much dry the clothes as make them slightly less damp. And we pay more to live in half of a dorm room than we would pay for a whole room in an apartment (including utilities).
I always have personally favored just permanently moving the clocks into "daylight savings" time (ie: solar time + 1 hour), but that does unfortunately result in the sun rising at times like 8:30 in the morning where I live. Your proposal would actually make that worse. Having the sun rise an hour before lunchtime would feel horrific.
No it doesn't translate that way. For example, why didn't Valve port the Orange Box, or at least Portal, to the Wii? Those FPS controls in particular are exactly the sort of thing that the motion sensing and location-bar were invented for. I protest because I can run those games without much problem on a middle-of-the-road gaming PC, so I think I should have enough hardware power in the Wii for at least the graphically stripped-down modes.
neo-retro (adj) -- Deliberately creating a game for an older style, thus cutting development costs and allowing developers to concentrate on fun and gameplay instead of media presentation while still allowing developers to take advantage of modern technologies.
For example, "Braid" and rhythm games are neo-retro.
Actually, I always thought that the Sonic/Shadow/Whichever-dumbass-character-they've-added-this-time levels of the 3D Sonic games were quite good. Sonic Team really figured out how to let bad players falter and fail through the games while good players got a fluid, flowing experience quite comparable to the 2D Sonic games.
The real difference is that they added retarded stories, voice acting, extraneous gameplay modes, and too many damned characters to the 3D Sonic games. The core "Sonic mechanic" still works in 3D.
'Tis true. I'm not in favor of the middle/high school requirement either, although I really like the deal for college students. I'd gladly do 100 hours of community service for an otherwise free scholarship.
So if you simply oppose mandatory community service for high school students, why not stop kvetching about Obama's plan, get off your ass, and go get the existing rules/laws of your local school district changed! There's no guarantee Obama's agenda will pass Congress, but if your local schools already require forced labor to graduate you ought to fix that.
Because the scholarships have a very limited number of spots. If Obama wants to create a universal service-based scholarship (ie: do 100 hours a year, get $4000 towards college from Uncle Sam), I'll sign up with enthusiasm because it would let me just get to work instead of having to write a gajillion essays on my plans to cure AIDS and make the desert bloom just to win the privilege of working for money.
Yes, let us give thanks to the Tyrant, the Divided God, Shaitan and Shai-Hulud.
I've often wondered if the entire Bush presidency was a Leto-II-esque, magnificent-bastard gambit to manipulate the United States into choosing someone like Obama.
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What dearth in the past 25 years? We've had The Simpsons, the Daily Show, the Colbert Report, South Park, Firefly, Doctor Who, Scrubs... and that's just the stuff I watch sometimes.
So then why do we do all those "sinful" things again instead of living your Happy Hippy Healthy Lifestyle?
Bi-la kaifa!
Actually it comes second place to Chemical Engineering.
You don't need more coffee, you need less Haskell.
Only if we can finally capture a live Mongolian Deathworm and genetically engineer them to grow hundreds of meters long. Hail Shai-Hulud!
I'm a... well the party that most closely represents my views is the Green Party. Except I'm also a ruthless sonofabitch when it comes time to actually use violence. But I favor legalizing drugs and allowing limited concealed carry in addition to liberal economic policies...
So yeah, basically I'm a Nothingtarian. Nobody actually bothers to represent me. That makes the political aspect of UMass much easier, though they've really gotten moderate in recent years.
Programming is easily outsourced. Computer science is not so easily outsourced, as the number of people capable of it is roughly equal to the number of people capable of doing grad-level pure mathematics.
Sure, except the colleges are a business like any other (at least to some extent) and they have to attract customers (i.e., students). The prospective students have been enticed into expecting fancy rec centers and cushy dorms. Once a few schools start offering those features, pretty much everyone else has to do so to stay competitive.
Define "cushy". At my university our "cushy" dorms still have leaky roofs and clothes-dryers that don't so much dry the clothes as make them slightly less damp. And we pay more to live in half of a dorm room than we would pay for a whole room in an apartment (including utilities).
"Cushy" my ass.
Heya. What was your field/major? I'm at UMass Amherst right now and could use some tips from an alum on surviving here.
Because forgiving outstanding student loans punishes those of us who chose a slightly worse school so that we could afford not to take loans.
I think I speak for all of us, when I say I understand /
Why you folks might hesitate /
To submit to our demand.
But here's an FYI /
You're all gonna die screaming!
ALL WE WANNA DO IS EAT YOUR BRAINS!!!
We're not unreasonable /
I mean noone's gonna eat your eyes.
I always have personally favored just permanently moving the clocks into "daylight savings" time (ie: solar time + 1 hour), but that does unfortunately result in the sun rising at times like 8:30 in the morning where I live. Your proposal would actually make that worse. Having the sun rise an hour before lunchtime would feel horrific.
No it doesn't translate that way. For example, why didn't Valve port the Orange Box, or at least Portal, to the Wii? Those FPS controls in particular are exactly the sort of thing that the motion sensing and location-bar were invented for. I protest because I can run those games without much problem on a middle-of-the-road gaming PC, so I think I should have enough hardware power in the Wii for at least the graphically stripped-down modes.
How about...
neo-retro (adj) -- Deliberately creating a game for an older style, thus cutting development costs and allowing developers to concentrate on fun and gameplay instead of media presentation while still allowing developers to take advantage of modern technologies.
For example, "Braid" and rhythm games are neo-retro.
And yet all the Big Deal games keep coming out on the XBox and PS3...
Yes, I'm a bitter Wii owner.
Sure it does. Now given PS3's market penetration, how many people will get to play LittleBigPlanet?
Actually, I always thought that the Sonic/Shadow/Whichever-dumbass-character-they've-added-this-time levels of the 3D Sonic games were quite good. Sonic Team really figured out how to let bad players falter and fail through the games while good players got a fluid, flowing experience quite comparable to the 2D Sonic games.
The real difference is that they added retarded stories, voice acting, extraneous gameplay modes, and too many damned characters to the 3D Sonic games. The core "Sonic mechanic" still works in 3D.
'Tis true. I'm not in favor of the middle/high school requirement either, although I really like the deal for college students. I'd gladly do 100 hours of community service for an otherwise free scholarship.
Well yeah, the math class bit is also involuntary servitude.
So if you simply oppose mandatory community service for high school students, why not stop kvetching about Obama's plan, get off your ass, and go get the existing rules/laws of your local school district changed! There's no guarantee Obama's agenda will pass Congress, but if your local schools already require forced labor to graduate you ought to fix that.
Because the scholarships have a very limited number of spots. If Obama wants to create a universal service-based scholarship (ie: do 100 hours a year, get $4000 towards college from Uncle Sam), I'll sign up with enthusiasm because it would let me just get to work instead of having to write a gajillion essays on my plans to cure AIDS and make the desert bloom just to win the privilege of working for money.
It is a bit high, because they have to appeal to college students who by now often pay college bills larger than many people's incomes.
One might argue that the brain is merely a biological computer not fully understood.
Or, perhaps, humans could be nondeterministic and therefore not computers at all.
Yes, let us give thanks to the Tyrant, the Divided God, Shaitan and Shai-Hulud.
I've often wondered if the entire Bush presidency was a Leto-II-esque, magnificent-bastard gambit to manipulate the United States into choosing someone like Obama.