I had a math teacher that did this. He had a netbook running Fedora and would use it to record audio and the overhead screen during classes. Since most of what he wrote up there were proofs, it helped a great deal. Last I heard, he and some other people (he's more of a CS guy than anything), were working on some software to stream the classes while in progress, as well as allow interaction from students not physically present.

I definitely concur with SLR. Using a point-and-shoot and moving up to an SLR is a difference of night and day. Shooting with an SLR and then trying to take a decent picture with a point-and-shoot is... frustrating, to say the least. SLRs are a lot more accessible than they used to be.

For me it wasn't age. I simply started making more money than I did before and my time became more valuable. Buying games in store, having to install each one by disk and manually patch everything wasn't any better for me than pirating all of them and stashing them on a spare hard drive somewhere. I stopped pirating games because steam was more convenient and cheaper (time vs money). I've even re-bought some of the games I own on dvd media on steam so I wouldn't have to worry about keeping track of the disks or manually patching after an OS reinstallation.

I hear plenty of arguments from friends as to how "college is completely unnecessary". Yeah, have fun working at McDonalds for the next 60 years. Better to have problems finding a job than to have no skills at all.

You're right, now instead of retarded and lying we have a president that's brilliant and lies.... Personally, I'll take the retard.

Fahrenheit 451

The main dev for AI War is the same way. He spends a lot of time answering questions and helping users on many different forums.

That's one thing when it's a freshman course. But when you get into upper level CS or ECE courses a laptop becomes almost essential. I took almost 200 pages of notes in OpenOffice last semester for just one class.

I grew up with a SNES and an N64. My first FPS was Goldeneye and I didn't start playing games on the PC until about 4 or 5 years ago. There are very few games I prefer a controller to a mouse and keyboard for.

Wow... so they pirated an overrated game with a terrible single player campaign that they can't play online. I wouldn't even waste the bandwidth...

I rarely play on a console unless I'm playing a game like Rainbow 6 Vegas 2 with a friend on splitscreen. I prefer PC's for online gaming and I avoid games populated almost entirely by 12-year old brats like COD (at least most teenagers can't afford a gaming PC). Some of my most memorable moments in gaming the past few years were in my friend's living room eating pizza, drinking vodka, and killing zombies. ("Hey, keep that fire away from my vodka!")

Sorry, only liberals race-bait.

> Sixty-one % of Americans don't know what an integral is. > Sixty-one % of Americans don't know the difference between a router and a switch. > Sixty-one % of Americans think "Internet Explorer" is the internet. Average Americans are too stupid to decide whether or not the "President" should have the right to have such a "kill switch"

I'm the only computer savvy person in my family atm. About a year ago I got a few copies of MS Office 2007 for free and installed them on 3 of our computers. I hated the new interface and only used it for a few specific situations. My mom and my sister couldn't figure it out and asked me to put 2003 back on there. I installed open-office and told them it was ppretty much the same thing.

Boy, that's funny. I've run into a grand total of 1 cheater ever in my 300 hours of TF2 on the PC, but my younger brother runs into an average of one hacker per match when he plays MW2 on the console...