I swear, they made Information Technology a major. It's essentially Computer Science Lite: take the introductory computer science courses (CS1&2, Data Struct. & Algorithms), strip out the "oh so hard" higher math requirements, and tag on a bunch of management courses.
One very easy, very cheesy, very useless and stupid major. Jumping into IT because the engineering/computer science schools are "too hard" is looked upon about as highly as jumping into the management school for the same reason. That is to say, we point, laugh, and then block all traffic from their compromised IIS dormroom servers. Well, the few that these idiots are capable of setting up, anyway.
Nowadays, we've got weird chairs in the Union that seem to be made out a compressed coffee filters. The material is some sort of plastic-steel hybrid, silver-coloured, with a steeply-inclined, circular back. So it really does look and feel like sitting in a coffee filter. Only without the benefit of being able to make coffee. You can find these trouser-tearing wonders on the third floor. Don't even get me started on the moulded-plastic ergonomic nightmares they put in the McNeil room.
They just recently got finished remodelling/redecorating the Union, so I think the concrete furniture you mentioned is gone. Although most of the new stuff seems to be built for some sort of mythical students with the stature of a (very colourblind) High Elf.
Do they still have the joke where Comp Sci people never actually work?
Yeah, it's still going around, although it's slowly moving over to the Information-Technology 'major' now.
Why is he even bothering with the FAA and United States legal BS? If he launches from some other country, like one near the equator to decrease the amount of fuel needed to get into orbit, he should have to deal with the FAA and the US government at all.
Presumably because he's looking for a customer base among wealthy Americans first, and it wouldn't "look good" to have to go through what the elite probably view as a dirty, third-world country to get to an orbital hotel.
Very true. The big problem with a dedicated anime channel is that you have to find a happy medium between what the HardCore fans want and what the more casual audiences want... Most casual fans want anime to be easily accessible, meaning dubs.. Most hardcore fans, like myself, prefer the original Japanese with English subtitles. A lot of people get very very rabid over that.
Now, with HDTV, we could split the bandwidth we're allocated and broadcast two streams, one dubbed and one subbed, in synch, so you could choose whether you wanted to watch the sub or the dub copy. Kind of like DVD.
... it's still not enough. It's unfortunate that they have to censor something as lightweight as Tenchi. Hopefully it will be done thoughtfully, and not butcher the series like Dragonball, the American version of which has been reduced to complete cack.
What we need is one of two things. The first, a privately-owned anime cable network (probably stuck into cable networks as a 'premium' channel), is not going to happen for a long time; the market is just not there to justify the outlay of capital, and production capacities are still not high enough to deal with 24/7 broadcasting without significant percentages of reruns. And then there's that sticky "licensing" thing... @_@
The second option, for networks to pick up some series with content that would not require censorship and yet still provide enough entertainment value to attract audiences across the age ranges, is unlikely, but easier. I'm talking about comedy series like Slayers (yay!), or adventure series like Escaflowne. There's still the licensing issue, but if you factor in the fact that they won't have to pay anyone to edit "objectionable" material out of the tapes, then it probably would come up attractive in terms of advertising profits. Maybe an e-mail or dead-tree-letter or two might open their eyes to this.
Of course, it'll be a long while before anyone's able to show something as moderately risque as Knights of Ramune on American TV, but every step counts.
Yes, Paul D. Schreiber is a public school in the suburbs of New York City on Long Island. I can tell you this since I graduated from that very school not two months ago. And I must say, I knew Viviana. While bright, I didn't realize she had this sort of potential. And I was certainly surprised to see a classmate's name up in lights on Slashdot! Well done.
All right, disco for the 70s, PCs in the 80s, I can see that.. Perfectly fine.. But..
Where, where, where is Zork, the defining Infocom adventure of the 80s? (Yeah, I know, developed in the 60s and 70s, but wide release was in the 80s...) Nowhere in the 60s is ARPANET. Nowhere in the 70s OR 80s is American Bell's Dataphone (the old name for these newfangled "modem" devices). Quake and DOOM have been carelessly left out of the 90s.
Now, if Al Gore or Steve Case are on the "Internet/WWW" Stamp, heads are gonna roll...
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I swear, they made Information Technology a major. It's essentially Computer Science Lite: take the introductory computer science courses (CS1&2, Data Struct. & Algorithms), strip out the "oh so hard" higher math requirements, and tag on a bunch of management courses.
One very easy, very cheesy, very useless and stupid major. Jumping into IT because the engineering/computer science schools are "too hard" is looked upon about as highly as jumping into the management school for the same reason. That is to say, we point, laugh, and then block all traffic from their compromised IIS dormroom servers. Well, the few that these idiots are capable of setting up, anyway.
Nowadays, we've got weird chairs in the Union that seem to be made out a compressed coffee filters. The material is some sort of plastic-steel hybrid, silver-coloured, with a steeply-inclined, circular back. So it really does look and feel like sitting in a coffee filter. Only without the benefit of being able to make coffee. You can find these trouser-tearing wonders on the third floor. Don't even get me started on the moulded-plastic ergonomic nightmares they put in the McNeil room.
They just recently got finished remodelling/redecorating the Union, so I think the concrete furniture you mentioned is gone. Although most of the new stuff seems to be built for some sort of mythical students with the stature of a (very colourblind) High Elf.
Yeah, it's still going around, although it's slowly moving over to the Information-Technology 'major' now.
So that's where I parked the Pinto...! Man, my insurance company is going to kill me...
Oops. Sorry about that. Proper link here.
Personally, I use boards that have American Megatrends BIOSes at the moment.
Fortunately, they haven't made any boneheaded moves like this. Yet. *crosses fingers*
Why is he even bothering with the FAA and United States legal BS? If he launches from some other country, like one near the equator to decrease the amount of fuel needed to get into orbit, he should have to deal with the FAA and the US government at all.
Presumably because he's looking for a customer base among wealthy Americans first, and it wouldn't "look good" to have to go through what the elite probably view as a dirty, third-world country to get to an orbital hotel.
Very true. The big problem with a dedicated anime channel is that you have to find a happy medium between what the HardCore fans want and what the more casual audiences want... Most casual fans want anime to be easily accessible, meaning dubs.. Most hardcore fans, like myself, prefer the original Japanese with English subtitles. A lot of people get very very rabid over that.
Now, with HDTV, we could split the bandwidth we're allocated and broadcast two streams, one dubbed and one subbed, in synch, so you could choose whether you wanted to watch the sub or the dub copy. Kind of like DVD.
... it's still not enough. It's unfortunate that they have to censor something as lightweight as Tenchi. Hopefully it will be done thoughtfully, and not butcher the series like Dragonball, the American version of which has been reduced to complete cack.
What we need is one of two things. The first, a privately-owned anime cable network (probably stuck into cable networks as a 'premium' channel), is not going to happen for a long time; the market is just not there to justify the outlay of capital, and production capacities are still not high enough to deal with 24/7 broadcasting without significant percentages of reruns. And then there's that sticky "licensing" thing... @_@
The second option, for networks to pick up some series with content that would not require censorship and yet still provide enough entertainment value to attract audiences across the age ranges, is unlikely, but easier. I'm talking about comedy series like Slayers (yay!), or adventure series like Escaflowne. There's still the licensing issue, but if you factor in the fact that they won't have to pay anyone to edit "objectionable" material out of the tapes, then it probably would come up attractive in terms of advertising profits. Maybe an e-mail or dead-tree-letter or two might open their eyes to this.
Of course, it'll be a long while before anyone's able to show something as moderately risque as Knights of Ramune on American TV, but every step counts.
Yes, Paul D. Schreiber is a public school in the suburbs of New York City on Long Island. I can tell you this since I graduated from that very school not two months ago.
And I must say, I knew Viviana. While bright, I didn't realize she had this sort of potential. And I was certainly surprised to see a classmate's name up in lights on Slashdot!
Well done.
All right, disco for the 70s, PCs in the 80s, I can see that.. Perfectly fine.. But..
Where, where, where is Zork, the defining Infocom adventure of the 80s? (Yeah, I know, developed in the 60s and 70s, but wide release was in the 80s...) Nowhere in the 60s is ARPANET. Nowhere in the 70s OR 80s is American Bell's Dataphone (the old name for these newfangled "modem" devices). Quake and DOOM have been carelessly left out of the 90s.
Now, if Al Gore or Steve Case are on the "Internet/WWW" Stamp, heads are gonna roll...
Doesn't this comply directly with the First Law of Beer?
What froths up must go down, smoothly.
-- Yoru