h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I'm doing a two year communications and media arts at my local community college. Not the most exciting course of study, but with any luck I'll be able to get a job that actually requires thought when I'm done. I'm in my second year, but it's actually going to take me three years to get a two year degree, because I go part time.

That's cool. I know a few people who have come out with degrees in communication and done really well. I think it is a good overall grounding. I can definitely understand the part-time thing. I think I will have been in school 7 years by the time I get my 4-year degree. Work and life always seem to get in the way.

I really wish that all those official types who talk about how important education is would get off their buttocks and actually make it easier for folks like us. There's nothing like getting home from work and relaxing with a womping big stack of homework.

What's your degree going to be?

I finally got around to playing battlenet. When you get around to it, watch for a barbarian called BigMadMeanie, thats me.

Yeah, I know what you mean. Working and going to school can be very difficult. Especially when the extra homework robs you of any chance for a social life....

I am getting a degree in Business with a concentration in MIS. Shouldn't be too bad, some business stuff, some computer stuff, so right up my ally.

I actually haven't been playing Diablo too much lately, and I am not sure why. I think I have just been too busy with other stuff. I hope to get back to it soon though. I want to beat it with AT LEAST one of my characters....

Yeah. I've decided that Im going to beat it on battle.net. More difficult, but more of an accomplisment too.

Business degree sounds like a good idea. I almost did computer science, but decided that I had better stick to what I'm good at.

Bye

I still haven't played on battlenet. I am scared to try it over a modem. Maybe when I get my DSL installed.....

Yeah, I contemplated Computer Science as well. I just decided that I really didn't like software programming THAT much.

I just decided that I would never have the cash to buy all the gadgets that you apparently need to be a comsci major. (palm pilots and suchlike) Also, the thought of everything I'd learned going obsolete in two years made me think a bit.

My internet connection usually runs around 32k or so, and I haven't had too much trouble with lag on battle.net. Well, except for games with like 6 people in them. You should try it. If it sucks, then wait for DSL.

Well, now that I have let this coversation COMPLETELY die for a while......

I don't think you actually NEED all those gadgets to be CSc (Computer Science), I think that people that are in CSc just naturally gravitate towards buying them. And while some of the stuff you learn, you are right, will be obsolete in a a few years, the major concepts and theory are pretty well established. Yeah, you may have to learn a different language in 5 years when the next Java comes along....but once you hare learned a few programming languages, it becomes pretty easy to pick up the next one.

Yeah, I just got my cable-modem yesterday, so I finally have some bandwidth. I may actually venture onto battlenet now.

Cool!

I've been hanging around battle.net way too much. If you do go there, my account name is Archaia, and you can whisper messages to me by typing /msg Archaia (message here)

I share my account wth someone though...so if you get a confused response its not me. but just tell him I told you to message an=d that your someone I know from H2G2 and he'll be freindly.

If you do message me on b-net I'll give your charecter some usefull stuff.

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Heres an interesting thing...The computer I'm on now uses SD ram....which is practically obsolete already....and the thing is not more than a year and a half old!

This worries me....I was hoping computers would be like vcrs...you can hook a brand new vcr up to a tv thats 15 years old and it'll still work. But computers wont communicate with anything not closely related to themselves...if you know what I mean.

bye now

Unfortunately, I haven't had time to do anything like battlenet recently. Too much work and school. However, I am hoping to get back into Diablo some day, and I will definitely look you up. Especially now that I have a cable modem and am not tying up the phone line.

Computers are an interesting beast when it comes to hardware compatability. If you pay attention to where computer standards are going when you purchase a computer, you can usually gain yourself an extra 6 months or so of upgradability. Like my current computer. I can still upgrade the processor, RAM and Video cards to the next-to-latest line of stuff. However, if I wanted to go to 100% top-of-the-line, then I would have to buy 70% of a new system. It is crazy, and I don't think it will ever slow down. I imagine that someday people are just going to budget for buying a new computer system every 18months or so.

Gad...they'd be like cars....just lease a new one every 12 months...