If a person chooses to not go to Kent state because of facebook, they aren't mature enough to be in college.
Kent state is protecting their image though. Even though the everyday person will not be able to see the profiles of the athletes, the information up there can get students in trouble. Any images w/ criminal content can be used as evidence in getting a student expelled. At my own college, if you are underage and put drinkig pictures up w/ your profile, expect security to knock on the door.
Did you really? If so, list my third favorite book. If you can't see my profile, then you don't go to my campus and I don't care! Even if you could see my profile, you would find nothing incriminating because I keep my private life private. Everyone should use that sae basic common sense when putting anything on the web.
See, facebook isn't just another myspace copy. Facebook works differently. Anyone and everyone on your campus can see your profile. Students, administration, faculty, anyone who has signed up. There are very few privacy features because that is what facebook was designed to do. It is a way for a college campus to connect online. If there is something that you don't want the campus to know about, don't put it up!
Now, if you go to a different campus, you cannot see the profile of someone at a different campus unless you are friends w/ them.
At my own college, security uses facebook to find out about parties and underage drinking on campus. Chances are, someone put stupid info up and has ruined i for everyone. Do I feel bad for them? Not at all.
I see a lot of comments out there about no caring and to use some kind of substance to help you before a test. I think people tend to forget what school is lie after they are done. Unfortunately, school is important when you are there.
If this is the first time this has ever happened to you, calm down. Longer tests are far more stressful than a two hour test. I panicked on a formal methods test that took me about four hours. I knew the information. I had studied just as I always do. It was just after four hours I was tired and stressed. After that, I went back to my dorm and took a nap. I felt much better. Since this is the first time it has ever happened, do not worry about it. Unless you set up some kind of mental fixation, it probably will not ever happen again.
The best thing you can do is get plenty of sleep. Do not cram the morning of the test. Sleep in. You'll feel great when you go in to take the test.
Not all MMORPGs have a monthly fee. My personal favorite, Guild Wars, has none. Think of all of the money I am saving! $40 for almost never ending fun. Why should I go out and buy more games when this one keeps me enetertained? There are numerous quests and missions, all of which are very entertaining. Plus, all of my reallife friends can play with me at the same time, and we're not spending any money on gas to do so.
So are these games sucking up the market? It hardly surprises me. Teenagers and young people such as myself do not have all of the money in the world for games, so it is much smarter to make a solid investment. Video game companies should invest into MMORPGs. I am sure the future of video games will be shaped by today's MMORPGs.
As time goes by, supply and demand will dictate the price of this new technology. Maybe ine 20 years from now it will be impossible to buy a silicon chip. At least, we can hope so. Nanotechnology has great potential to open the doors to inventions we cannot even begin to dream about. I suspect that over a very short time, these nanowire transistors will become even faster.
Still, there is hope for implanted computers.
If you mean computers implanted directly into my head... no thanks! Too creepy for me. Still, I know a whole bunch of people who are ready to get in line for that bit of surgery.
It's actually fairly simple. State that users of the site must be 18 years of age. Require that everyone purchase an account through the use of a credit card. In the USA, minors cannot sign up for a credit card without consent of the parent. If the parent gives the child their credit card number, or their own credit card, then the parent is the one who is fully responsible for the child, and it is not on MySpace.
Now, obviously this has to be implemented from day 1. What should MySpace do now? Honestly, if I were them, I would turn this completely around. I would have all of my PR people working on making MySpace look like the victim, and turning the parent into the enemy. I would then implement new security features throughout the site. Force people who are signing up from this point forward to be 18 through the above method (unless I totally missed some big hole with my plan). Require an age to be posted (I don't use MySpace, so I don't know if that is there or not). I would go to court, but I would not act defensive. I would simply keep stating, "where were the parents?"
There is always the possibility that the parents had no real idea where their daughter was. It is not uncommon for a little girl to lie to her parents and say, "I'm going to the mall with some girlfriends!" And to then go to the movies with some boy. So are the parents really to blame? Definitely on some level for not monitoring what their underage daughter was doing online. Chances are though, they aren't completely at fault.
Too much of a good thing will always be a bad thing. Just like how a little bit of dark chocolate is good for the heart, a lot is hardly good for the gut. You can't have it go both ways though. Personally, I'd rather Lysol bomb the house than share it with disease carrying bacteria.
I used to always spend all of my time outside, but then I grew up, and now I find myself in a cubicle all of the time. Apparently playing outside from the time I was 2 till probably late middle school years did nothing to prevent allgeries that I have now. I would say I have a predisposition toward them. I have relatives who have the same types of allergies and are sick at the same times as I am. Chances are, like everything else, allergies are a combination of genetics and environment.
Basics only, the PS3 is said to have 256mb of RAM, where as this computer has 2GB of RAM. The size of the harddrive is 320GB, which is about 5 times larger than the 60GB harddrive that comes with the PS3. The processor of the computer is 2.2 Ghz. I have yet to see any specifics on the processor used or the power of the processor for the PS3. These are just the very basic differences.
See what I mean about computers for the same price being far more powerful?
I could spend $1000 on a computer that would be four times more powerful, and I would be able to buy video games for it at a fraction of the price. There's nothing coming out for PS3 that really excites me, so why would I waste that much money on it? Personally, I thought that Xbox 360 was too much money, but compared to the PS3, I think I know what will be bought for Christmas.
Griefer's are nothing new. They are every day people and are often just as annoying in real life as in video games. It is easy to avoid them. First, a great way to enjoy MMOs is to get all of your real life friends to play. Then you have a strong alliance. Also, you're always garunteed a group because your friends will run with you even if they have already done whatever quest. Second, just like how you wouldn't click a link that says "virus.exe" in AIM, don't fall for dumb scams.
Have fun while playing video games, but don't take them so seriously. Treat "n00bs" the way you would want to be treated and Karma will look out for you.
I can do anything I damned well please. My guess is that you're either in an IT program or a very low end wannabe engineering school.
Karma will get you one day. It will get you one day, hard. Trust me. Karma does not spare anyone. Or maybe karma has already gotten you. A man who feels that he can do anything he pleases is often a man who is not married. Now, see how I took one line and changed it into a judgement about you? See how it really doesn't work that way?
Your belief that GNOME is being sexist is based on your one personal experience. However, you do not have the wisdom to see that the world is a much larger place with many other influences swaying it. You can't make a valid judgement based on your experience. Nor can you assume that all women are mediocore programmers because of your one experience. You might just have people start passing judgements about you based on very little fact. That would be karma coming to get you.
I think she means from her fellow students. The professor, if you're on friendly terms with him, is one of your allies. If you are not, well, it doesn't matter if you are male or female then.
For some reason every (yes, every) one of our female engineers hired in to do development ended up in QA or something like build engineering.
Wow, you've pulled out another statistic. At your one job, every woman decided she didn't like programming. Great job, genius. You have an excellent statistical study here. Tell me, how long did it take you to collect that data?
Well, if you are allowed to make a judgement based on your few experiences, then I can make a judgement based on my few experiences too.
I have the highest grades in my department. Men in my department are lined up out the door of the computer lab where I work. They are in line to get help for their programming assignments. And oh, the head of my department gave me that job becasue I was best qualified. So based on my personal experiences, I can conclude that women are much better programmers than men are.
Wow. I have an excellent study here. Let me take this a step farther.
Right now, I'm sitting at my internship. Right now, another female in my department is sitting at her internship. The both of us sit in cubicles and program all day. We are the only women in our department at school. Right now, not a single guy from my department has a programming internship. A few have IT jobs, but that's it. Now since it seems that you are allowed to make judgements based on your one experience, I can conclude that women must be smarter than men! Women must be better programmers as well. Also, women must be harder working and more driven than men.
Do you see why you shouldn't take one experience and base all of your beliefs on it now? My own personal life experiences are the polar opposite of yours. However, I do not begin to assume that my own life experiences represent the bigger picture out there.
My suggestion to you: stop making up statistics and facts. Oh by the way, my hobbies include playing Guild Wars, reading Star Wars books, talking about my cat (which I know you love to hear), programming, going shopping, and doing my nails. Do you see how I don't fall into just one type of stereotype? I know plenty of engineers who are friendly and enjoy talking about their kids. Stop forcing people to fit certain labels.
I absolutely agree with you. Women are treated poorly, at first, in this field. After they prove their worth, they are treated much better.
My first day in the CS department at my college, I wasn't taken seriously at all. I have blonde hair and I love wearing skirts, doing my nails, and dressing up. I'm a total girlie girl at heart. People didn't think I would last past the first semester. Two years later, I have the men in my department asking for my input on how a program should be written, looking to me for tutoring, and respecting me as a person.
I find that being a total girlie girl helps too because then the crude jokes tend not to be made toward you. The guys are instead constantly treating you like lady.
Why do men make up only 43% of college graduates? Okay, first, lets take a look at that number closely. 43%. That's 7 precentage points away from 50. Statistically speaking, that's not really a lot. Especially when you consider some of these next questions, you might realize that 43% really is closer to 50%.
What does college mean in this statistic? Which colleges were surveyed? Are community colleges and two year continuing education programs included? Were mostly all women schools surveyed? Were schools that are traditionally mostly female surveyed? My own college was once an all girls school and right now has a ratio of 3:1 women to men. Who did this survey? Was it a student at one college surveying their college?
But you know, since you're a man, and I am a woman, you must be better than math at me. You must have a greater understanding of statistics. I am merely mediocore in all things I do math and science wise.
Do not assume that the women GNOME will hire are mediocore. You might find that women are harder working because they have more to prove. And now you ask, "What do they have to prove?" They have to prove to people like you that they are not mediocore.
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If a person chooses to not go to Kent state because of facebook, they aren't mature enough to be in college.
Kent state is protecting their image though. Even though the everyday person will not be able to see the profiles of the athletes, the information up there can get students in trouble. Any images w/ criminal content can be used as evidence in getting a student expelled. At my own college, if you are underage and put drinkig pictures up w/ your profile, expect security to knock on the door.
Did you really? If so, list my third favorite book. If you can't see my profile, then you don't go to my campus and I don't care! Even if you could see my profile, you would find nothing incriminating because I keep my private life private. Everyone should use that sae basic common sense when putting anything on the web.
See, facebook isn't just another myspace copy. Facebook works differently. Anyone and everyone on your campus can see your profile. Students, administration, faculty, anyone who has signed up. There are very few privacy features because that is what facebook was designed to do. It is a way for a college campus to connect online. If there is something that you don't want the campus to know about, don't put it up!
Now, if you go to a different campus, you cannot see the profile of someone at a different campus unless you are friends w/ them.
At my own college, security uses facebook to find out about parties and underage drinking on campus. Chances are, someone put stupid info up and has ruined i for everyone. Do I feel bad for them? Not at all.
I see a lot of comments out there about no caring and to use some kind of substance to help you before a test. I think people tend to forget what school is lie after they are done. Unfortunately, school is important when you are there.
If this is the first time this has ever happened to you, calm down. Longer tests are far more stressful than a two hour test. I panicked on a formal methods test that took me about four hours. I knew the information. I had studied just as I always do. It was just after four hours I was tired and stressed. After that, I went back to my dorm and took a nap. I felt much better. Since this is the first time it has ever happened, do not worry about it. Unless you set up some kind of mental fixation, it probably will not ever happen again.
The best thing you can do is get plenty of sleep. Do not cram the morning of the test. Sleep in. You'll feel great when you go in to take the test.
Not all MMORPGs have a monthly fee. My personal favorite, Guild Wars, has none. Think of all of the money I am saving! $40 for almost never ending fun. Why should I go out and buy more games when this one keeps me enetertained? There are numerous quests and missions, all of which are very entertaining. Plus, all of my reallife friends can play with me at the same time, and we're not spending any money on gas to do so.
So are these games sucking up the market? It hardly surprises me. Teenagers and young people such as myself do not have all of the money in the world for games, so it is much smarter to make a solid investment. Video game companies should invest into MMORPGs. I am sure the future of video games will be shaped by today's MMORPGs.
It's actually fairly simple. State that users of the site must be 18 years of age. Require that everyone purchase an account through the use of a credit card. In the USA, minors cannot sign up for a credit card without consent of the parent. If the parent gives the child their credit card number, or their own credit card, then the parent is the one who is fully responsible for the child, and it is not on MySpace.
Now, obviously this has to be implemented from day 1. What should MySpace do now? Honestly, if I were them, I would turn this completely around. I would have all of my PR people working on making MySpace look like the victim, and turning the parent into the enemy. I would then implement new security features throughout the site. Force people who are signing up from this point forward to be 18 through the above method (unless I totally missed some big hole with my plan). Require an age to be posted (I don't use MySpace, so I don't know if that is there or not). I would go to court, but I would not act defensive. I would simply keep stating, "where were the parents?"
There is always the possibility that the parents had no real idea where their daughter was. It is not uncommon for a little girl to lie to her parents and say, "I'm going to the mall with some girlfriends!" And to then go to the movies with some boy. So are the parents really to blame? Definitely on some level for not monitoring what their underage daughter was doing online. Chances are though, they aren't completely at fault.
Too much of a good thing will always be a bad thing. Just like how a little bit of dark chocolate is good for the heart, a lot is hardly good for the gut. You can't have it go both ways though. Personally, I'd rather Lysol bomb the house than share it with disease carrying bacteria.
I used to always spend all of my time outside, but then I grew up, and now I find myself in a cubicle all of the time. Apparently playing outside from the time I was 2 till probably late middle school years did nothing to prevent allgeries that I have now. I would say I have a predisposition toward them. I have relatives who have the same types of allergies and are sick at the same times as I am. Chances are, like everything else, allergies are a combination of genetics and environment.
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Basics only, the PS3 is said to have 256mb of RAM, where as this computer has 2GB of RAM. The size of the harddrive is 320GB, which is about 5 times larger than the 60GB harddrive that comes with the PS3. The processor of the computer is 2.2 Ghz. I have yet to see any specifics on the processor used or the power of the processor for the PS3. These are just the very basic differences.
See what I mean about computers for the same price being far more powerful?
I could spend $1000 on a computer that would be four times more powerful, and I would be able to buy video games for it at a fraction of the price. There's nothing coming out for PS3 that really excites me, so why would I waste that much money on it? Personally, I thought that Xbox 360 was too much money, but compared to the PS3, I think I know what will be bought for Christmas.
Griefer's are nothing new. They are every day people and are often just as annoying in real life as in video games. It is easy to avoid them. First, a great way to enjoy MMOs is to get all of your real life friends to play. Then you have a strong alliance. Also, you're always garunteed a group because your friends will run with you even if they have already done whatever quest. Second, just like how you wouldn't click a link that says "virus.exe" in AIM, don't fall for dumb scams.
Have fun while playing video games, but don't take them so seriously. Treat "n00bs" the way you would want to be treated and Karma will look out for you.
Your belief that GNOME is being sexist is based on your one personal experience. However, you do not have the wisdom to see that the world is a much larger place with many other influences swaying it. You can't make a valid judgement based on your experience. Nor can you assume that all women are mediocore programmers because of your one experience. You might just have people start passing judgements about you based on very little fact. That would be karma coming to get you.
I think she means from her fellow students. The professor, if you're on friendly terms with him, is one of your allies. If you are not, well, it doesn't matter if you are male or female then.
Wow, you've pulled out another statistic. At your one job, every woman decided she didn't like programming. Great job, genius. You have an excellent statistical study here. Tell me, how long did it take you to collect that data?
Well, if you are allowed to make a judgement based on your few experiences, then I can make a judgement based on my few experiences too.
I have the highest grades in my department. Men in my department are lined up out the door of the computer lab where I work. They are in line to get help for their programming assignments. And oh, the head of my department gave me that job becasue I was best qualified. So based on my personal experiences, I can conclude that women are much better programmers than men are.
Wow. I have an excellent study here. Let me take this a step farther.
Right now, I'm sitting at my internship. Right now, another female in my department is sitting at her internship. The both of us sit in cubicles and program all day. We are the only women in our department at school. Right now, not a single guy from my department has a programming internship. A few have IT jobs, but that's it. Now since it seems that you are allowed to make judgements based on your one experience, I can conclude that women must be smarter than men! Women must be better programmers as well. Also, women must be harder working and more driven than men.
Do you see why you shouldn't take one experience and base all of your beliefs on it now? My own personal life experiences are the polar opposite of yours. However, I do not begin to assume that my own life experiences represent the bigger picture out there.
My suggestion to you: stop making up statistics and facts. Oh by the way, my hobbies include playing Guild Wars, reading Star Wars books, talking about my cat (which I know you love to hear), programming, going shopping, and doing my nails. Do you see how I don't fall into just one type of stereotype? I know plenty of engineers who are friendly and enjoy talking about their kids. Stop forcing people to fit certain labels.
I absolutely agree with you. Women are treated poorly, at first, in this field. After they prove their worth, they are treated much better. My first day in the CS department at my college, I wasn't taken seriously at all. I have blonde hair and I love wearing skirts, doing my nails, and dressing up. I'm a total girlie girl at heart. People didn't think I would last past the first semester. Two years later, I have the men in my department asking for my input on how a program should be written, looking to me for tutoring, and respecting me as a person. I find that being a total girlie girl helps too because then the crude jokes tend not to be made toward you. The guys are instead constantly treating you like lady.
Why do men make up only 43% of college graduates? Okay, first, lets take a look at that number closely. 43%. That's 7 precentage points away from 50. Statistically speaking, that's not really a lot. Especially when you consider some of these next questions, you might realize that 43% really is closer to 50%. What does college mean in this statistic? Which colleges were surveyed? Are community colleges and two year continuing education programs included? Were mostly all women schools surveyed? Were schools that are traditionally mostly female surveyed? My own college was once an all girls school and right now has a ratio of 3:1 women to men. Who did this survey? Was it a student at one college surveying their college? But you know, since you're a man, and I am a woman, you must be better than math at me. You must have a greater understanding of statistics. I am merely mediocore in all things I do math and science wise. Do not assume that the women GNOME will hire are mediocore. You might find that women are harder working because they have more to prove. And now you ask, "What do they have to prove?" They have to prove to people like you that they are not mediocore.