It's gonna work out like a Daniel Auteuil film, deek. You'll reach 50 or so, your adorable wife will invite all of your splendid friends over for dinner, and it will all come out.
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It's gonna work out like a Daniel Auteuil film, deek. You'll reach 50 or so, your adorable wife will invite all of your splendid friends over for dinner, and it will all come out.
bodyboarder
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Ah. That's fair enough then. I would have taken it as well in that position.
On a related note, my manager finally came though today on a secondment she had been "promising" me for a while. From the sounds of it, it will only be a few hours a week. Though with any luck it will lead somewhere.
viciouskillersquirrel
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I wouldn't bother. OPs are useful exactly once. I got an OP 1 and it never did me any good. The entry requirement for Electrical Engineering in my year was like an 8 or something.
They were offering engineering scholarships that year to OP1s, (which were pretty sweet - you got your degree paid for through Masters, got to attend a bunch of swanky exclusive industry meet-and-greets and you did an accelerated course where you got both your Bachelors and Masters in the time normal people did their Bachelors in), but apparently, some OP1s are better than others and I got rejected.
See, because the previous year they got six applicants, all of them got in. In our year is was more like thirty, so they changed the rules so that only people who also got 1 in all their field positions got in, which left me SOL as I got a 2 in one of mine.
Bottom line was that I could have spent all of year 11 and 12 doing what everyone else did and actually had a life and I'd be in the same spot I am today, HECS/HELP debt and all. Alternatively, I could have studied a LOT harder to get that perfect exit certificate, which would have been impossible because that was the exact same time my mother was undergoing chemotherapy for a disease that is very similar to, but not quite, leukemia.
No, I'm not still bitter about the arbitrary, unannounced rule change at all. Why do you ask?
reptilescorpio
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Seriously, how many fucking times in our lives will we ever handwrite that amount of shit? For that matter most exams are more about what you can cram into short term memory and regurgitated onto a page, life isn't a fucking series of 3 hour crunches, exams are just a fucking stupid outdated idea that are incorrectly implemented more times than not.
Fucking clownshoes. More applied learning, less copying out of textbooks.
Back in Year 11 and 12 I was obsessed with the idea that bringing back the apprenticeship system in such a way that it didn't tie you down like in the olden days would solve a lot of problems xD
reptilescorpio
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Worth $12.50. Maybe even $13.25 if you like Kurt Russell or John Carpenter.
fappenmeister
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I bought it the moment I read it. Yes. You know you're going to anyway.
codswallop
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A game's been discounted? That means a Steam sale must be imminent!
On Amazon, so probably not: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007V6MQR6/?tag=neogaf0e-20
Ashes Cricket 09 is 25% off though, so you're probably right! http://store.steampowered.com/app/12860
shanshan310
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Yeah, the whole education system is really outdated. You guys should listen to this really great speech on it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDZFcDGpL4U
There is no steam sale! Its all a lie!
There is no steam sale! Its all a lie!
reptilescorpio
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The 360 version is almost as good as Shane Warne on the PSOne! Easy cheevos though.
Also Steam Holiday Sale starts tomorrow!
codswallop
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History has proven me right on at least one occasion (due to my slapdash calculations, the final result may show one more occasion than has actually occurred).
So it must be!
Higgs Boson confirmed! I have no idea what's going on here: http://webcast.web.cern.ch/webcast/play_higgs.html
It means we know why things have mass. Sorta mind blowing that at a basic level, we never really knew. There are probably a bunch of consequences about knowing shit as fundamental as this but I'm nowhere near smart enough to know what.
We already know how to travel at light speed: become a massless particle.
And everything The Project says about the higgs can be ignored. It will be five minutes of god particle fluff.
The real test now is how to explain dark matter, because a higgs particle confirms the standard model sort of. Super symmetry, the alternative, would offer explanations for DM. Discovering one higgs, and not several flavours of higgs supersymmetrical partners puts a spanner in the works as far as SUSY goes.
It's not like there weren't competing theories. They didn't spend $10 billion building the LHC because they thought it was a long shot though. Higgs first article describing it was rejected by one of the main scientific journals! He had to rewrite and resubmit. It took a while for everyone to come around I think.
Edit: Everyone just cheered! Sweet graphs. Comic sans though.
So basically from now on I can take the opposite of whatever they say and feel correct.
So I was searching shopbot.com.au for Dualshock controllers and found this:
http://www.tmart.com/Wireless-Dual-...eferral&utm_term=V5206WH&utm_campaign=product
$18.75. A ludicrous price, will they steal my dollars?
http://www.tmart.com/Wireless-Dual-...eferral&utm_term=V5206WH&utm_campaign=product
$18.75. A ludicrous price, will they steal my dollars?
Could be fakes. There was a GAF thread recently about fake dualshocks. That gold one looks a little odd. $19 for a third party wireless controller is still pretty good though.
Edit: I couldn't find the recent thread, but this old thread http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=396910 pointed out that fakes are often wireless and not bluetooth, so they come with a USB infra red dongle, as those ones do. Pretty sure they're fake.
thats fucking gold. Comic sans on the biggest scientific discovery in decades
just ridiculous lol
Physicists are too busy with real problems to bother with the issues that keep HR departments and graphic designers awake at night.
The real joke would be if they're using non open source software in their presentation, but that's a minor quibble.
Real physicists laugh at scripting and write everything in machine code
Or they just invented machine code and let programmers do it for them.
Nice guess by the ref there. In favour of nsw ;p
Choc actually watch the game instead of Mastershit.
Thanks, I thought they might be but always thought I could trust shopbot. Guess not.
Binary Domain's awesome, worth $10.
Controller may be fake. I bought one that looked genuine enough, but before too long it had all indications of being fake: namely, wouldn't sync up wirelessly at all... despite everything looking perfectly legit (but there were subtle signs, like how even the joins of the controller were and the screen printing on the controller itself that you wouldn't recognise unless it was out of the package). Don't buy from anywhere that you don't know to be 100% legit unless you're willing to take a risk. Even if they say they're genuine, unless they have something to lose (like business) then they're probably fake. Stay away from eBay completely.
Higgs boson thing is cool. Intergalactic planetary, bitches. First contact. I'm naming my kid Zefram Cochran just to be sure.
Thread title's still shit. Not even close to resubscribing again.
Controller may be fake. I bought one that looked genuine enough, but before too long it had all indications of being fake: namely, wouldn't sync up wirelessly at all... despite everything looking perfectly legit (but there were subtle signs, like how even the joins of the controller were and the screen printing on the controller itself that you wouldn't recognise unless it was out of the package). Don't buy from anywhere that you don't know to be 100% legit unless you're willing to take a risk. Even if they say they're genuine, unless they have something to lose (like business) then they're probably fake. Stay away from eBay completely.
Higgs boson thing is cool. Intergalactic planetary, bitches. First contact. I'm naming my kid Zefram Cochran just to be sure.
Thread title's still shit. Not even close to resubscribing again.
Its great to see news items about something as fundamental as particles. Makes a nice change from depressing news about celebrity haircuts and sports stars twitter posts.
Although I only found out today that the Higgs boson was originally nicknamed the Goddamn particle, not the god particle, because of how hard it was to find.
Although I only found out today that the Higgs boson was originally nicknamed the Goddamn particle, not the god particle, because of how hard it was to find.
reptilescorpio
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Finished Spec Ops. It was good! Really enjoyed the story.
EDIT: OH! And Nolan North is really fucking good in it. Loved how the ambient soldier noise changed as you went through more and more shit. By the end every bullet is accompanied with "DIE DIE DIE!"
EDIT: OH! And Nolan North is really fucking good in it. Loved how the ambient soldier noise changed as you went through more and more shit. By the end every bullet is accompanied with "DIE DIE DIE!"
bodyboarder
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Fuck its cold.
reptilescorpio
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Oh also I enjoyed the gameplay more in Spec Ops than I did in Gears 3. Easily.
Really? Shit. Was looking forward to it due only to my love of cricket and how awesome that whole transformation was. Oh well.
Even though the cool shit gameplay-wise was mainly in the first half. Still enjoyed killing probably more dudes than I did in even Max Fucking Payne 3.
Really? Shit. Was looking forward to it due only to my love of cricket and how awesome that whole transformation was. Oh well.
Really? Shit. Was looking forward to it due only to my love of cricket and how awesome that whole transformation was. Oh well.
In all fairness I'm already pretty displeased with home-grown television, but the wigs and acting were just too much in the minute long preview during Origin. Considering your interest you may be able to look past it, but it's just not my thing.
According to 9 it's the 'Drama event of the year', so who knows? haha.
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