The under-30 set are usually the ones who protest the hardest (see: the 60s), but as a 29-year-old, the world I grew up in was one with cameras in every hallway at school, self-censoring in case a teacher or administrator got the idea that I might shoot up the school, and to top it off, 9/11 happened when I was a high school Junior. The Patriot Act has been in place since before I got the right to vote. We've been conditioned to go along with security theater and surveillance our whole lives.
Is it any wonder that the under-30s don't see any reason to protest?
As a CS major* at the U of U, 35% sounds about right. I'm no rockstar, but there is a definite divide between those who Get It, and those who don't. The professors are great, so if someone fails out of Engineering then I'd guess they don't belong there in the first place and just somehow managed to bluff their way through the pre-major courses.
*Blah blah blah, CS isn't Engineering, etc.. At the U, it's in the School of Engineering, and from talking to other Engineering students, the difficulty is comparable to other programs in the SoE.
As someone who "didn't like anime", I loved Fullmetal Alchemist. It's what got me to give other anime a chance (still don't like 95% of it, but the 5% that is good is really superb).
If you think the Greens are ineffective, I'd start with them. I'd take ineffective over actively malicious any day, if those are the only options. At the end of the day, even if your vote didn't make a difference you can at least take solace in the fact that you're not one of the people who voted for the guy who's screwing you (and everyone else) over.
Well, they should change that law, because the current primary system sucks at picking presidents.
I'm not trolling. Seriously, something needs to change.
My upstairs neighbor had one of those beds, so I put a strong electromagnet on my ceiling rigged up to a pressure sensor under his bed, and use it to transform his mag-foam bed into a giant slingshot, which would fling him out of his bed every 30 seconds after he laid down.
True story. *sip*
Well, I try to install an OS (XP or Ubuntu), the startup fails after the initial installation (soft lockup on Ubuntu, STOP BSOD on XP). I've tried everything I can think of, and no matter what, the installs just won't stick. I finally caved and bought a new drive (I was installing Ubuntu to get at the x64 version of PCSX2 0.93). I've resigned myself to just using XP x64 edition due to fear of the same thing happening again. If you have a suggestion to restore my hard drive, I'd love to hear it, as I wouldn't mind not letting an 160GB drive go to waste.
I installed Ubuntu about 2 weeks ago, and somehow the installation screwed up my hard drive completely. I even tried a low-level format; nothing worked. At the time, I figured it was GRUB that had done it, but according to this news, it was Ubuntu. Which is really sad, because I was planning to finally complete that jump to Linux. Oh well, once this problem is resolved somehow, maybe I'll give it another shot.
I finally beat Rollgoal after much yelling and cursing, but then my gamesave got deleted. I doubt I'll ever use the frog lure again because of that unless I use a cheat code. I guess what really makes that game so frustrating is that it's harder than the final boss fight!
Maybe that's not a problem for you, but it punishes early adopters of HDTV (like me) who own sets that only support 1080i. And as far as only affecting some games is concerned, Resistance: Fall of Man, the only worthwhile game in the whole launch lineup, doesn't support 1080i, so if I decide to get a PS3 (now out of the question unless they come up with a firmware update to fix this), I'll be stuck playing Resistance in 480p. I'll stick with Gears of War in 1080i, thank you.
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Me too. The Shadow Temple was bloody and gross, but there's something genuinely creepy about the Bottom of the Well. Especially when you fight Dead Hand.
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...uses a magnetic stylist to monitor where the child is pressing on the page...
Do these magnetic stylists you speak of have to go to magnetocosmetology school before they can work for LeapFrog?
*ducks*
Yeah, except for the part when Gandalf remarks that Bilbo hasn't aged a day upon seeing him at the beginning of LoTR. So maybe, just maybe, he'll look exactly the same as he did at the beginning of the Fellowship movie.
It's true. I'd heard a lot about it, but I had never watched it until recently. I was hooked from the first episode, and I just finished watching all the episodes for the first time 2 days ago. I think there is a very large audience for Firefly, the problem is that Fox did absolutely jack to promote it, and for that reason most people have never even heard of it. If I had seen commercials for it when it was actually on, I definitely would have watched it regularly during its initial run if I had just known about it. I really hope it gets picked up for some straight-to-DVD releases. The show has way too much potential to just let it go to waste.
If everyone picked up a penny the inflation in america would go down 100 thousand dollars.
Technically, it would raise inflation, as it would be adding otherwise-unused money to the money supply.
Actually, now that I think about it, if you rounded up $1000 worth of pennies and melted them down into their Zinc and Copper components, you might well end up with over $1000 worth of metal...I'm going to have to do some research on that...
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The under-30 set are usually the ones who protest the hardest (see: the 60s), but as a 29-year-old, the world I grew up in was one with cameras in every hallway at school, self-censoring in case a teacher or administrator got the idea that I might shoot up the school, and to top it off, 9/11 happened when I was a high school Junior. The Patriot Act has been in place since before I got the right to vote. We've been conditioned to go along with security theater and surveillance our whole lives.
Is it any wonder that the under-30s don't see any reason to protest?
The downside is that without herding cows in space we won't have Firefly in real life.
As a CS major* at the U of U, 35% sounds about right. I'm no rockstar, but there is a definite divide between those who Get It, and those who don't. The professors are great, so if someone fails out of Engineering then I'd guess they don't belong there in the first place and just somehow managed to bluff their way through the pre-major courses.
*Blah blah blah, CS isn't Engineering, etc.. At the U, it's in the School of Engineering, and from talking to other Engineering students, the difficulty is comparable to other programs in the SoE.
As someone who "didn't like anime", I loved Fullmetal Alchemist. It's what got me to give other anime a chance (still don't like 95% of it, but the 5% that is good is really superb).
If you think the Greens are ineffective, I'd start with them. I'd take ineffective over actively malicious any day, if those are the only options. At the end of the day, even if your vote didn't make a difference you can at least take solace in the fact that you're not one of the people who voted for the guy who's screwing you (and everyone else) over.
You don't have to do either one. If people stop voting Republican and Democrat, we won't have to deal with them.
On the flipside, if you continue to vote for the lesser of two evils, you're still voting for evil and you deserve to get screwed.
Well, yeah. First we have to build the automated cars, then they rise up and destroy us all.
And they won't be out until 2012. Coincidence? I think not.
Well, they should change that law, because the current primary system sucks at picking presidents. I'm not trolling. Seriously, something needs to change.
My upstairs neighbor had one of those beds, so I put a strong electromagnet on my ceiling rigged up to a pressure sensor under his bed, and use it to transform his mag-foam bed into a giant slingshot, which would fling him out of his bed every 30 seconds after he laid down. True story. *sip*
Thanks, I didn't know that. So, always install Ubuntu before Windows, or just avoid dual-boots altogether?
Well, I try to install an OS (XP or Ubuntu), the startup fails after the initial installation (soft lockup on Ubuntu, STOP BSOD on XP). I've tried everything I can think of, and no matter what, the installs just won't stick. I finally caved and bought a new drive (I was installing Ubuntu to get at the x64 version of PCSX2 0.93). I've resigned myself to just using XP x64 edition due to fear of the same thing happening again. If you have a suggestion to restore my hard drive, I'd love to hear it, as I wouldn't mind not letting an 160GB drive go to waste.
I installed Ubuntu about 2 weeks ago, and somehow the installation screwed up my hard drive completely. I even tried a low-level format; nothing worked. At the time, I figured it was GRUB that had done it, but according to this news, it was Ubuntu. Which is really sad, because I was planning to finally complete that jump to Linux. Oh well, once this problem is resolved somehow, maybe I'll give it another shot.
I finally beat Rollgoal after much yelling and cursing, but then my gamesave got deleted. I doubt I'll ever use the frog lure again because of that unless I use a cheat code.
I guess what really makes that game so frustrating is that it's harder than the final boss fight!
You read my mind. I LOVE that game. I wish I had modpoints so I mod you up. I just hope it doesn't get Perfect Dark Zeroed if they do make a sequel.
If a game isn't fun enough to be worth playing in 480p, it isn't fun enough to play in 1080i either! So why get it at all?
True, but if I'm going to be playing games in 480p, I'm not going to be buying a PS3 for $500+, I'm going to get a Wii for $250.
Maybe that's not a problem for you, but it punishes early adopters of HDTV (like me) who own sets that only support 1080i. And as far as only affecting some games is concerned, Resistance: Fall of Man, the only worthwhile game in the whole launch lineup, doesn't support 1080i, so if I decide to get a PS3 (now out of the question unless they come up with a firmware update to fix this), I'll be stuck playing Resistance in 480p. I'll stick with Gears of War in 1080i, thank you.
Me too. The Shadow Temple was bloody and gross, but there's something genuinely creepy about the Bottom of the Well. Especially when you fight Dead Hand.
...uses a magnetic stylist to monitor where the child is pressing on the page...
Do these magnetic stylists you speak of have to go to magnetocosmetology school before they can work for LeapFrog? *ducks*
If you can afford a PS3, you have no business NOT having broadband. Period.
Yeah, except for the part when Gandalf remarks that Bilbo hasn't aged a day upon seeing him at the beginning of LoTR. So maybe, just maybe, he'll look exactly the same as he did at the beginning of the Fellowship movie.
Nintendo has revealed that they intend to ship 6 million units by March 2007, but yeah, they haven't revealed the rest of that stuff yet.
None. If there's anything /.ers are experts on, it's exactly how much you can do with a wrist before it becomes strained.
I have seen it as well, and it is an excellent and frightening documentary.
It's true. I'd heard a lot about it, but I had never watched it until recently. I was hooked from the first episode, and I just finished watching all the episodes for the first time 2 days ago. I think there is a very large audience for Firefly, the problem is that Fox did absolutely jack to promote it, and for that reason most people have never even heard of it. If I had seen commercials for it when it was actually on, I definitely would have watched it regularly during its initial run if I had just known about it. I really hope it gets picked up for some straight-to-DVD releases. The show has way too much potential to just let it go to waste.
If everyone picked up a penny the inflation in america would go down 100 thousand dollars.
Technically, it would raise inflation, as it would be adding otherwise-unused money to the money supply.
Actually, now that I think about it, if you rounded up $1000 worth of pennies and melted them down into their Zinc and Copper components, you might well end up with over $1000 worth of metal...I'm going to have to do some research on that...