Renton

I guess it depends what you do I suppose. As it happens I found some innovative results for my project that my undergraduate dissertation was based on.

Try writing a PhD thesis. 100,000 words followed by an interview (viva) on it (with two or three experts in the field) that takes a whole day. There's a good chance you will fail too.

A week before I had to hand in my thesis, I managed to delete my entire reference/citation database (on a program called endonote) just by pressing the wrong button once. 5000 references and abstracts collected over 5 years, gone in a flash. No back up. ARGHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Unbeilevable that I hadn't made a copy, to this day I can't believe it. What an idiot. Fortunately I only needed to reenter about 400 citations for my thesis, which took me about 48 hours virtually non stop - I still have nightmares thinking about it though.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2005460833,00.html British Legal System produces reformed characters .... Whats the phrase you use Rob "he's done his time, leave him be " ? 43904[/snapback] I'm not sure I can see what the point of that article is tbh. Do you think we should change the law as necessary an immediately because someone's a scumbag? Anyway, I think for the past 3 pages this thread should have been moved to general chat. Can't a mod move it?

You on a Mac? 43831[/snapback] Sure as hell am. Far superior to PC's imo and no virus carry on. Been on BB for 2 year and never even had a sniff of a virus 43918[/snapback] I use a Mac for music. I've never had a days grief out of it. I even sold my last one for £300 on ebay and it was nearly 4 years old. 43931[/snapback] Not much cop for games though. To be fair, a PC is perfectly adequate for everything I want to do - I think the time when Macs were genuinely superior than PCs passed with Windows 95.

Having been a student I've first-hand knowledge of what it's like.... 38 hours a day?? Think you need to start picking up a book amd learning something GF - obviously spent far too much time in the union bar! Expend more effort at Uni than you have done anywhere else?? Fuck me, you're in for one big shock... BTW - what are josticks?? 43700[/snapback] The work I did at university was the most intellectually challenging I've ever faced. I worked throughout my time at university and I'm working full time now and it doesn't compare. It's tiring and hard work, just very different altogether. Certainly not more difficult, but more taxing (and not just the fact I have to pay tax now!) 43816[/snapback] Depends what job you end up doing really though doesn't it (and this is by no means a slight on what you are doing, as I don't even know what that is). I know my first 3 years in my training contract to be a chartered accountant were fucking horrendous and the exams were on a whole different level of difficulty to anything I'd ever faced before - added to the fact that you were working full time whilst trying to study for the exams. University in comparison was an absolute doddle and as much as I get to piss around on here a bit during the day, I'd sharp swap lying in til lunchtime for what I do now. 43891[/snapback] Oh, completely, it just depends on what you're doing really. Your training was an extension of university with a job chucked in too, by the sounds of it, which isn't necessarily what most graduates end up doing. I just meant that university and the working world require different skills. If you take university seriously, it can be hard work, it depends on whether you want to do the bare minimum. I guess I was just trying to find a middle ground between university = piece of piss and the working world = very difficult, incredibly hard work. I do miss my lie ins and being able to work when it suited me, but I don't miss being skint and having a week to read a vast array of books and cobble something together, showing how well I understand it and exams. Working in local government, where most of the people I come across are graduates, they don't exactly have to kill themselves with work and earn decent money. 43916[/snapback] What do you do Bridget, if you don't mind me asking? I thought you were still at Uni? Personally I found doing a PhD probably the hardest thing I have done. You are in a kind of 'No man's land' between work and being a student. You are still officially a student, but sometimes have to work 7 day weeks, 12 hours a day. Add in the fact you may not get any meaningful results for months or even years on end, and it is enough to drive anyone insane, which has obvioulsy happened to me. My work now in comparison is really qute easy and for the most part actually quite satisfying. As long as I get my work quota done, which I do, I have a free reign to piss about on the internet all day and work from home if I want to. Not bad really, plus I have some money.

Can't believe anybody still ues floppys tbh. A lot of modern PCs don't even have floppy drives, especially lap tops. Truely ancient technology.

Firefox = home IE = work ????

I spent that much time playing Super Mario Sunshine I nearly went 'radio rental'. Class though, as my girlfriend didn't say at the time. 43769[/snapback] Well, I almost failed my degree playing Super Mario World the first time round. Just as well my telly blew up when it did tbh.

I was trying to avoid that horrible conclusion, you bastid! I'm not even good at the old games any more - I think my reactions are going.

I can't share the patterns, because unfortunately its not a direct emulation - if it was, the title would be mine. I might check this game out again on Mame or something. I love 80's games. The way you can just pick up and play them for a few minutes, and the Shear addictive quality of some of the better ones. It's funny. The graphics on new games would have been unimaginable when I was a kid, but it hasn't made them that much more fun. I can't work out why.

And don't be trying to steal my Pac man title again or we'll be having words. 43275[/snapback] 43567[/snapback] Sod. Seriously, good score, an incredible leap from what you had before. I concede! What level did you get to if you don't mind me asking? I reckon one of the bell levels? 43630[/snapback] Think it was level 11 at least so its not impossible to beat it. Theres the pink fruit then the banana then the pear thats level i got upto. They become super fast and its about 3secs later before they return to normal after you eat one of them big yellow things which makes em turn to ghosts. 43743[/snapback] It's a canny faithful replica of the original as I stated earlier. The levels go like this iirc: Cherry Strawberry 2 x peach 2 x apple 2 x grape 2 x "thunderbird" (actually a Galaxian command ship) 2 x bell 9 x key My record in the arcades was the 5th key, but then I had memorised patterns that cleared most the dots. Kind of cheating, but still hard because they were very complex and you needed to learn a few. At the 5th key level the monsters don't turn blue at all. And before anyone calls me a nerd, this is a piece of arcade history, you phillistines!

Incense sticks, Not that I burn em or owt.. 43707[/snapback] How can Craig have been a student and not know what a joss stick is? 43708[/snapback] I know what a joss stick is, but that is something you burn, not smoke.... I wanted to know what our 'university educated' GF thought a jostick was! 43712[/snapback] Aye, they would knack your lungs I suppose. And GF's spelling is shocking - he's obviously not doing an English module.

Incense sticks, Not that I burn em or owt.. 43707[/snapback] How can Craig have been a student and not know what a joss stick is?

It's mainly luck I think. Aim for around 45 degrees and full power, You'll have to hit three trampolines to beat the top score, and they move around (so there won't always be a trampoline at 139 metres for example). 43666[/snapback] About as much skill as tossing a coin tbh.

What we're missing is a conceited statement from AF and 15 pages of abuse. Get to it AF. 43650[/snapback] Exactly

Fair point really.

Seems Zathras is right.

And don't be trying to steal my Pac man title again or we'll be having words. 43275[/snapback] 43567[/snapback] Sod. Seriously, good score, an incredible leap from what you had before. I concede! What level did you get to if you don't mind me asking? I reckon one of the bell levels?

What a stupid poll. We can't even sign anyone until Christmas, and maybe not even then.

I'm sure Renton will find something to moan about though! 43453[/snapback] The only thing I'll moan about is speculative threads not even remotely based on reality, and the strange belief we can spend indefinitely. How are we going to fund this?

Same with women. 43444[/snapback]

Happy birthday! Mind, a word of warning - drinking isn't as much fun once it's legal!

Can't you stick it on your house contents insurance? Mine is - a lot cheaper than £60 a year.

Ahh, 'Nam. Be careful there like. Streetmap is also quite useful, has several zoom levels etc.