Comment Re:Yeah right (Score 1) 857
Don't forget thinking and questioning authority, though both are starting to fall on the wayside...
Comment Re:Yes (Score 1) 763
Which is why I can justify the money I paid for Neverwinter Nights 1, the two expansions, and the online modules... I must have spent at least a year and a half to two years just playing different types of characters. To a lesser extent, Knights of the Old Republic as well, though the variety isn't as much there...
I think the last PC game I bought that wasn't in a used bin was KOTOR II.
The PS2 games are a little different, I tend to grab up NIS RPGs, which actually entertain me.
Comment Re:News in english about the trial: (Score 1) 664
Why would I pay for my linuxii and tux games when I can get them for free?
Comment Re:Does it include the "Versions"? (Score 1) 332
Is it by 'application' or process? If it is by process what happens to applications, like Chrome, that spawn off multiple processes? "Oh darn, I have three tabs open... *sigh*"
Alaskans Prepare For Volcanic Eruption 293
An anonymous reader writes "Mount Redoubt, or Redoubt Volcano, is an active stratovolcano in the largely volcanic Aleutian Range of Alaska. The once quiet volcano has begun to roar once again. Its last eruption was in 1989 and geologists suggest that the next one is upon us. Alaskans who lived through the earlier eruption are stocking up on breathing masks and goggles. Starting on Friday, January 23 2009, the level of seismic activity increased markedly, and on Sunday AVO raised the Aviation Color Code to ORANGE and the Volcano Alert Level to WATCH. On the basis of all available monitoring data AVO regards that an eruption similar to or smaller than the one that occurred in 1989-90 is the most probable outcome. We expect such an eruption to occur within days to weeks." From the AP article: "Alaska's volcanoes are not like Hawaii's. 'Most of them don't put out the red river of lava,' said the observatory's John Power. Instead, they typically explode and shoot ash 30,000 to 50,000 feet high — more than nine miles — into the jet stream. 'It's a very abrasive kind of rock fragment,' Power said. The particulate has jagged edges and has been used as an industrial abrasive. 'They use this to polish all kinds of metals,' he said." The server for the Alaska Volcano Observatory appears to be overloaded and is unresponsive.
Comment Re:Mine was certainly cruel to us (Score 1) 727
This does assume that the students are exposed in some form or another to programming in middle/high school, which I feel can be a bit of a stretch. I haven't been out of of high school for *that* long (Class of '01) and my high school had programming classes, clubs, or anything. There was a single 'computer' course: typing. I had to go to college to learn to program.
I suppose the argument could be made that those who really want to know can dabble in their spare time, but I know in my case that I had fairly limited access to computers for a large portion of my childhood, so this wasn't very possible.
