You've gotta be kidding me. The X-Box 360 is not a monopoly. It may be the best system available, but there's plenty of other providers of console entertainment.
The problem is that people are saying they were "forced" to buy things with their X-Box 360. This is, of course, not the case. No one held their children hostage and demanded a purchase. If someone tries to bundle stuff you don't want with a console, you just don't buy it from that someone. I really don't see the problem here. I can only assume that people wanted a luxury entertainment item SO BADLY that they bought stuff they didn't want and had buyer's remorse later on.
As has been said by many people, this is really only a problem for people who, for some odd reason, desperately *need* to have a new videogame system. If it was cancer drugs, this'd be a problem. Since it's a console system, I really gotta ask, "what's the big deal?"
Eh, not necessarily. You can be a hired CEO of a privately-held firm and not really care about the people that work for the company. It's less likely to happen, I'd tend to agree, but it's still quite possible and even rather probable.
Be careful, it's possible to have a corporation that isn't a public company. That is, it's not necessarily the case that Incorporated == publicly traded. As such, if a private company (which is incorporated or one of the other business organizations that aren't of the "Sole proprietorship" liability types) goes under, the CEO is still not out any money other than that which s/he potentially could have earned by way of salary in the future. S/he is not responsible for the losses suffered by the company or its creditors (assuming the corporation was run properly).
Actually, the technologies that the Romans are most known for are largely Etruscan, not Greek (the Etruscans did use Greek letters in their alphabet, though, if I remember; but culturally they weren't Greek).
Anyone else find it weird when people use phrases that imply conscious actions to describe processes? Seems they use this a lot with financial markets, as well.
You can just try to find an old VHS copy of it. The "home" version did indeed at one point not have the bits where the Klingon was really a Federation guy in disguise, etc, because I remember seeing it.
But yeah, the home version I think is better, anyway.
And, though we all laughed about it, I was in polite company and it was embarrassing - who are you to judge me for that?
I wasn't aware that one needed some sort of special qualification to judge someone else, we make judgements all the time. You sound like the people who make horrendous, uneducated decisions about their children and then deny that someone can point out the flaws in their decisions with "I'm his/her parent, I know what's best."
I was relating what I thought was a personal and funny anecdote about why you might want to pay attention to what you are watching when kids are around for reasons other than morality - which I am sure you would complain about as well.
Actually I find most children of that age refreshingly blunt and tactless, a true example of humans unemcumbered by the idea that behaviors and social rules shouldn't be challenged, and a reminder to ourselves on a regular basis of how silly our self-made complex lives are today. I'll admit I hate it when people bring kids into a movie theater, but I hate the *adults* who are too stupid to realize it's a bad idea. When you have kids, you self-limit what you can do with your life (assuming you want to raise them right). Taking them to a movie theather at 10:30pm to an action movie (or really, any movie at all) is just stupid. Good way to get a couple hundred people mad at you, though.
Finally, if you consider twat the common vernacular of our society that should readily be applied by children of any age then you are welcome not to give me advice because I suspect I won't be taking it anyway.
It's ignorant to think that this _isn't_ the vernacular of the vast majority of children in the US (in addition to pretty much all other sexual slang). A little early in your 4-year-old's case, but by the time they get to grade school they get themselves a crash-course in American society. All but the most sheltered children are well versed in the slang of a language long before they learn proper English. It's more likely they picked up the terminology from his parents at this point, than from a movie. Since obviously they spend more time listening to you than to some movie star. Most kids know much more than their parents think, but most of them are also more clued than to let their parents know. Hopefully your child will learn this soon, and you can maintain your illusion that his childhood can somehow remain a sheltered quasi-paradise.
You sound like one of the "just let kids be" crowd who is then the first to bitch when somebody else's kid bothers you and everyone has to listen to you whine for the next hour about how the parents are doing a shitty job raising their kid.
And you sound like a parent protesting that someone is challenging their choices in raising their kids by, ironically, using the same arguments that their children will be using in about a decade. Namely "you don't know me!" and "you don't understand me!".
No one is suggesting that kids have free reign, but kids are also just little adults that don't have as many experiences as you or I do filling up their brain with the countless social rules we've set up for ourselves. They haven't had the benefit of figuring out who in our society likes what sounds and harshly dislikes other sounds.
I may seem to be harsh and overreacting, but the fact of the matter is that most parents suck at parenting. The fact that you were actually embarassed by your 4 year old comitting a faux pas suggests to me that you're gonna be absolutely lost when they start doing that sort of thing on purpose to _get_ the reaction out of you.
1) Did you know he knew the word "twat", and fail to sufficiently educate him about the social situations that it was appropriate or inappropriate to use it in?
2) Did you forget he's a 4 year old, and that people will, by and large, be amused by the youngin's stereotypical bluntness?
He's a kid, he's not an extension of you to pose properly as a tool to maintain your social graces with others. Kids say things that are sometimes inappropriate. The solution isn't to isolate them from what is basically the common vernacular of our society, but rather to realize that he's FOUR YEARS OLD
What they want is the courses that will actually be useful to them in the real world that you're not going to get at DeVry, like determining the upper and lower bounds on an algorithm (the Big O, Big Omega, Big Theta stuff)
Take an algorithms class?
some good solid grounding in application design and project management.
Take a project management class?
Seriously, CS is CS. If you want to learn software engineering, find a place that actually has a degree in that. If your CS program doesn't have an algorithms class, something is amiss. And project management... that's what your college of business is for.
I hate to be a jackass, but isn't using a PDA or laptop to take notes a little bit of overkill? I mean, the whole point of notetaking is to jot things down in order to flesh out a concept, or add information that isn't in a book, lecture, etc. Seems like a bit of overkill anyway.
When I was an undergrad, the profs were just starting to make their lecture slides available before or after the lecture. Then again, I always read the book ahead of time (not all at once, mind you), so the lectures were "additional content" that helped me get more out of the info I already had (in the best case scenario, anyway; sometimes, as many know, it was just a rehash).
Just don't know if this is the "right tool" for the problem(?) you are having.
I work in a company that makes a lot of custom software. It's quite possible to do. Sure, it's a pain, but when there's active exploits already in the wild (as there was short warning of in this case), you gotta devote the time, or just accept that you're gonna be running around with removable media for the next week cleaning up.
Though if their w2k workstations had been patched properly, and their IT people paying attention, it shouldn't really have been a problem. I find it hard to believe that thousands upon thousands of end-user machines were so mission-critical that they couldn't be down for 1/2 an hour earlier this week in order to properly patch.
Sure, it mighta been a pain in the ass, but much less than cleaning up tons of infected desktops/laptops.
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I'm not sure what the problem is here. If you're not being forced, it's your own choice to buy or not to buy.
You've gotta be kidding me. The X-Box 360 is not a monopoly. It may be the best system available, but there's plenty of other providers of console entertainment.
The problem is that people are saying they were "forced" to buy things with their X-Box 360. This is, of course, not the case. No one held their children hostage and demanded a purchase. If someone tries to bundle stuff you don't want with a console, you just don't buy it from that someone. I really don't see the problem here. I can only assume that people wanted a luxury entertainment item SO BADLY that they bought stuff they didn't want and had buyer's remorse later on.
Of course, you're also a moron if you paid through the nose just to be one of the first people to get an Xbox 360.
I have little pity for people who got "hurt" by this. If you were able to control your consumerism just a little bit, it wouldn't have been an issue.
I installed on an MSI Neo Platinum-whatever board not a month ago using slipstreamed 32-bit WinXP sp2. It detected it fine.
I for one have been waiting for people to get bored of the Internet so that we can all go back to pre-97 days. Hey, a guy can dream, can't he?
As has been said by many people, this is really only a problem for people who, for some odd reason, desperately *need* to have a new videogame system. If it was cancer drugs, this'd be a problem. Since it's a console system, I really gotta ask, "what's the big deal?"
Which, believe it or not, actually look like they've had useful new features put into them, instead of fluff.
First time I've ever seen someone say that California had "affordable stuff".
Eh, not necessarily. You can be a hired CEO of a privately-held firm and not really care about the people that work for the company. It's less likely to happen, I'd tend to agree, but it's still quite possible and even rather probable.
Be careful, it's possible to have a corporation that isn't a public company. That is, it's not necessarily the case that Incorporated == publicly traded. As such, if a private company (which is incorporated or one of the other business organizations that aren't of the "Sole proprietorship" liability types) goes under, the CEO is still not out any money other than that which s/he potentially could have earned by way of salary in the future. S/he is not responsible for the losses suffered by the company or its creditors (assuming the corporation was run properly).
Actually, the technologies that the Romans are most known for are largely Etruscan, not Greek (the Etruscans did use Greek letters in their alphabet, though, if I remember; but culturally they weren't Greek).
And the point of notifying someone that you're tapping their lines would be?
Anyone else find it weird when people use phrases that imply conscious actions to describe processes? Seems they use this a lot with financial markets, as well.
You can just try to find an old VHS copy of it. The "home" version did indeed at one point not have the bits where the Klingon was really a Federation guy in disguise, etc, because I remember seeing it. But yeah, the home version I think is better, anyway.
I should hope so. Their Internet Free Trade Zone would be pretty silly if they didn't.
Or use a Web-based brokerage service that might export into .CSV and then reverse-engineer their formatting for your own spreadsheet-y delight.
I wasn't aware that one needed some sort of special qualification to judge someone else, we make judgements all the time. You sound like the people who make horrendous, uneducated decisions about their children and then deny that someone can point out the flaws in their decisions with "I'm his/her parent, I know what's best."
I was relating what I thought was a personal and funny anecdote about why you might want to pay attention to what you are watching when kids are around for reasons other than morality - which I am sure you would complain about as well.
Actually I find most children of that age refreshingly blunt and tactless, a true example of humans unemcumbered by the idea that behaviors and social rules shouldn't be challenged, and a reminder to ourselves on a regular basis of how silly our self-made complex lives are today. I'll admit I hate it when people bring kids into a movie theater, but I hate the *adults* who are too stupid to realize it's a bad idea. When you have kids, you self-limit what you can do with your life (assuming you want to raise them right). Taking them to a movie theather at 10:30pm to an action movie (or really, any movie at all) is just stupid. Good way to get a couple hundred people mad at you, though.
Finally, if you consider twat the common vernacular of our society that should readily be applied by children of any age then you are welcome not to give me advice because I suspect I won't be taking it anyway.
It's ignorant to think that this _isn't_ the vernacular of the vast majority of children in the US (in addition to pretty much all other sexual slang). A little early in your 4-year-old's case, but by the time they get to grade school they get themselves a crash-course in American society. All but the most sheltered children are well versed in the slang of a language long before they learn proper English. It's more likely they picked up the terminology from his parents at this point, than from a movie. Since obviously they spend more time listening to you than to some movie star. Most kids know much more than their parents think, but most of them are also more clued than to let their parents know. Hopefully your child will learn this soon, and you can maintain your illusion that his childhood can somehow remain a sheltered quasi-paradise.
You sound like one of the "just let kids be" crowd who is then the first to bitch when somebody else's kid bothers you and everyone has to listen to you whine for the next hour about how the parents are doing a shitty job raising their kid.
And you sound like a parent protesting that someone is challenging their choices in raising their kids by, ironically, using the same arguments that their children will be using in about a decade. Namely "you don't know me!" and "you don't understand me!".
No one is suggesting that kids have free reign, but kids are also just little adults that don't have as many experiences as you or I do filling up their brain with the countless social rules we've set up for ourselves. They haven't had the benefit of figuring out who in our society likes what sounds and harshly dislikes other sounds.
I may seem to be harsh and overreacting, but the fact of the matter is that most parents suck at parenting. The fact that you were actually embarassed by your 4 year old comitting a faux pas suggests to me that you're gonna be absolutely lost when they start doing that sort of thing on purpose to _get_ the reaction out of you.
Well, this brings up two questions:
1) Did you know he knew the word "twat", and fail to sufficiently educate him about the social situations that it was appropriate or inappropriate to use it in?
2) Did you forget he's a 4 year old, and that people will, by and large, be amused by the youngin's stereotypical bluntness?
He's a kid, he's not an extension of you to pose properly as a tool to maintain your social graces with others. Kids say things that are sometimes inappropriate. The solution isn't to isolate them from what is basically the common vernacular of our society, but rather to realize that he's FOUR YEARS OLD
My advice: Stick, from your ass, remove.
Take an algorithms class?
some good solid grounding in application design and project management.
Take a project management class?
Seriously, CS is CS. If you want to learn software engineering, find a place that actually has a degree in that. If your CS program doesn't have an algorithms class, something is amiss. And project management... that's what your college of business is for.
And on the off chance that it isn't. Get over yourself.
Her boss comes over and threatens to fire her whole department on a weekly basis
Are you confused, or is the boss confused? Threatening to fire someone who has tenure is about as toothless a threat as one can get.
Their IT department sounds like a buncha tools.
When I was an undergrad, the profs were just starting to make their lecture slides available before or after the lecture. Then again, I always read the book ahead of time (not all at once, mind you), so the lectures were "additional content" that helped me get more out of the info I already had (in the best case scenario, anyway; sometimes, as many know, it was just a rehash).
Just don't know if this is the "right tool" for the problem(?) you are having.
I work in a company that makes a lot of custom software. It's quite possible to do. Sure, it's a pain, but when there's active exploits already in the wild (as there was short warning of in this case), you gotta devote the time, or just accept that you're gonna be running around with removable media for the next week cleaning up.
Sure, it mighta been a pain in the ass, but much less than cleaning up tons of infected desktops/laptops.