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General Discussion / Re: Hi

« on: January 02, 2012, 05:53:58 pm »

Incidentally - I bought this, but i keep getting the startup message. Something like: You have not yet started the game, please go through and set up the game config. It's really obnoxious, but oh well.

Work harder. Alternatively, rip+upload the ISOs and I'll try it when my new laptop gets here. And then we can all play!

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General Discussion / Re: <obligatory-new-year's-resolutions-thread>

« on: December 29, 2011, 06:52:20 pm »

Mine is usually to stop biting my nails and it falls through about a week into the new year.

You did remind me not to go to the gym for at least a month after school starts, though. All sorts of kids are gonna be in there all the time working out, trying to adhere to their resolution or whatever. :p

I've got time to think of some, right?

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General Discussion / Re: GoDaddy Reaps What it Sows

« on: December 25, 2011, 04:40:19 pm »

However out of the 50 Million domains registered by Godaddy over 32 Million of these have use Godaddy.com default server of Domaincontrol.com so its a pretty good indication of overall movement.

60000/50000000 = 0.0012

That's 0.12% of their customers. I doubt they even notice or care. I'm surprised they even tried to do anything about it.

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General Discussion / Re: RIP hitchens

« on: December 21, 2011, 09:14:23 am »

Not to derail this amazing discussion, but I still have no clue who hitchens is.

(Granted, I've only read posts on this thread pertaining to him. Maybe I should read the Wikipedia article...)

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General Discussion / Re: Did you know it's Ergot's birthday?

« on: December 15, 2011, 08:48:34 am »

You forgot the "I couldn't care less" option.

No, you could care less -- you simply wouldn't have posted. =P

(And the equivalent to the option you're looking for is "No")

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General Discussion / Re: TeX users...thoughts?

« on: December 10, 2011, 06:07:10 pm »

I started using Word to take notes in class (Math AutoCorrect + 150wpm = I can keep up with the professor's lecture)... all this talk about LaTeX has me thinking perhaps I should just spend my time learning TeX while taking notes. Thoughts on that?

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General Discussion / Re: Let's hear it!

« on: December 08, 2011, 06:48:15 pm »

Doesn't' your school have provisions for that? I know that if you tell your professors about that ahead of time here (eg: start of semester) they give you extra time if you have medical problems during.

Most likely. I'm gonna go to on-campus health services and ask what I should do if this happens. For now I'll deal with it if it happens during my last final... which is proving impossible to get motivated for.

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General Discussion / Re: Let's hear it!

« on: December 06, 2011, 03:05:59 pm »

So I got diagnosed with migraines ~6 months back or so.

Never really thought them a huge deal. They forced me to lie down in a dark room and roll back and forth in pain until I passed out. Shitty, but they do no physical damage to me, so whatever. They occasionally cause me to vomit, but alcohol causes that way more frequently so the vomiting aspect of them wasn't much worse than the pain.

Then I got back to school. I started getting them nearly every other few days. I eventually got used to the pain and just dealt with it when they did happen. Then I started getting them while doing schoolwork on campus. And I thought, gee, there's no way they could get more inconvenient than that.

That is, until one happened during my final exam 3 hours ago. If there is a God, he wants me staying a full fifth year in college. Damn I hope I passed that exam/class. I think I'll be scheduling an appointment with a specialist relatively soon.

Worst part? I've got another final in an hour. I'm hoping I don't get one there too. But given that I've had two today (one this morning around 130am prior to the final exam one) it wouldn't surprise me too greatly. Bleh. :/

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General Discussion / Re: Let's hear it!

« on: December 04, 2011, 04:09:24 pm »

Well, there's always grad school.  But I have a feeling that you'll actually prefer life after undergrad.  There are lots of interesting opportunities.

Yeah. I'm not sure what graduate schooling I'd like to do.

Physics? Really have close to no interest in the subject. The rigorous 4 year crash course in algebra (that the university calls a physics program) only made me realize nothing in physics is worth the tiny bit of money you can make doing research in it. I'm definitely not that great at it -- it's not for me. It's interesting, but it's not something I'd like to study.

A similar story for CS, but a bit more interest in the subject and a better grasp of the subject material.

Ideally I'd like to blend the two fields for a graduate program (some research in quantum computing comes to mind) but I wouldn't even know where to begin hunting down viable programs for me to apply to, given my lack of actual research experience and my pathetic 3.3 GPA.

I'd rather take my degrees/work experience (which I have a solid amount of) and get a sweet job somewhere. But that's terrifying too. Real responsibilities? Boo!

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General Discussion / Re: Let's hear it!

« on: December 03, 2011, 04:34:52 pm »

Congrats! 

Meh, I can't even fathom the idea of children at this time... I'm still at point A trying to get to point B, forget point C.

I can barely fathom the idea of life after undergrad. It's terrifying.

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Tabletop Gaming/RPGs / Re: DM'ing

« on: December 01, 2011, 02:19:50 am »

I miss playing D&D.

Me too man. Me too.

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General Discussion / Re: Hi

« on: November 17, 2011, 07:07:59 pm »

Who even regularly plays video games amongst us anymore? I know I don't -- I've stopped caring for the online culture. I play once or twice a week in pick-me-up games to kill time or to play, but I lose heart quickly. Similarly, I imagine as we all got out of our teens and into college, PhD programs, work, etc. we've either lost the time or desire to pursue regular gaming.

I'm definitely one of those that has lost the time. My Thanksgiving break will be spent hungover playing Skyrim -- it's the only break I'll get in the quarter to play that game.

And hopefully I'm graduated when Diablo 3 comes out. I feel it'll be easier to balance a game and work than it will school and work. School is currently a flurry of work. It's like they want you to burn out right before you finish. Bastards.

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General Discussion / Re: SD Card Data Recovery

« on: November 17, 2011, 07:06:01 pm »

cool. Does anyone have any recommendations for a Windows equivalent? I'll probably run a search for one later tonight.

I second this request. I tried a Windows dd-equivalent, but it was pretty much worthless.

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Entertainment District / Re: TV: Dexter

« on: November 16, 2011, 11:14:55 pm »

Doomsday Killer is kinda boring. And the last episode was weird. What the shit was that random road trip to Nebraska? All the events that happened on that were totally not Dexter-like whatsoever. It's a solid season so far but it's fading fast -- something cool needs to fucking happen already.

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General Discussion / Re: Hi

« on: November 16, 2011, 11:13:00 pm »

I'd rather the former, but if its the latter, let's hope it goes out in a giant explosion; those are always cool.

I second this.

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I digress, I check this place semi-frequently but I definitely wouldn't be able to keep up if this board got back to 6000 posts/month. I'm way busy as of late. We need some young blood here that can. I know we said we'd get some activity when SC2 came out. Let's just shoot for D3 and if that fails, blow up the computer hosting the server.