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Completely there with you man. Initially I started playing and didn't understand why I couldn't use that weak shale you can dig easily with your hands for a pick and why the harder stone wasn't yielding anything. Once I figured out how to make all wood tools to get better resources, It was over man. I've now made like 5 different homes, and learned how to mark them from the spawn point. My memories of exploration and mining trump those of my daily duties in real life. My latest story was of mining a sub basement of my home, and discovering a vast underground cavern with zombies. I died, and lost that homes location. In the effort to find it, I discovered new land, with more features that replicated the movie Avatar. I have picked the tallest mountain in the clouds for my next project. A case of beer or mt. dew, and a free night, and I will conquer that mountain...

This game makes me want to start mining out of my basement in real life. However my landlord won't let me.

I'd also like to point out that this is the exact success story I needed to boost my ego for my day job and daily projects for startups and indie development.

book? just pick a problem and a language, and solve it dude. Start something. You learn through doing. no book solves this.

that lifted my spirits.

I'm not a fan of medication. I believe some people really do need it to balance out, but I think others just need some proper dieting and exercise to balance their body's chemistry out. Our bodies aren't made to sit around all day on a computer, we need to have some physical activity to stimulate the rest of your body and give your mind a break. Perhaps thats the problem people have with focus'ing, is that they are overworking their mind. My friends, colleagues, joke I have adult add, or whatever you call it, because I jump from topic to topic. Perhaps. But when summer came rolling around I began hiking miles and miles of the Adirondack Mountains. I began to bike around. Not to mention I picked up a motorcycle and began riding that. These activities away from the screen, really help. I still jump on topics, but when I work, I'm focused on what i do. Granted I can't wait to get out of work to go on another ride or hike. Get off the computer, and read a book, go for a walk, do something that doesn't require you being near a screen. Get some real achievements in life, not on the xbox. Check your diet for being healthy. You will have to google on this one cause everybody's diet is different. For me as I try and lose more and more weight (so I can go skydiving), I tend to eat leaner protein, and keep on the carbs for energy, making sure to exercise to burn the carbs right. Some of you might want some St. John's Wort, for your moods, others may want to get some more Omega3's in their body. I'm no dietition, I just like to research what I can eat naturally before turning to synthetic drugs pushed by a corrupt government and group of doctors looking for money in treatments and never the cures. Once a day I try and push myself physically to a racing heart, and it in turn clears my mind. The joy you can get from pushing your body will clear your mind and help you appreciate it much more.

I'm fairly young, so I ask this question to the more experienced in life. Isn't this always the case? The rich stay rich by keeping their money and the poor stay poor by never keeping their money. So what is the tone and point of this document exactly, to fix the rich or fix the poor? Or am I overdoing it by looking for a side in this? I'm not trying to be a troll or start a flamewar, but when I read these articles all that I can think of is, "so are we going to redistribute the wealth communism style, or teach people to build their OWN wealth?" Reasons why I can't be a politician or a leader in society, I don't want to be the one that determines whats fair for the people, and define whos the slacker and whos truly in need. Who the hell am I to judge? and who the hell are you to take away my hard earned paper? Thats just what goes through my mind, and I comment here to see if anybody can help me out with my thought process.

I've been using Chrome for the last 2 months, and today was told Firefox wasn't working with a wordpress blog I have to administer... since when does firefox have problems viewing things? I thought that was IE's job.

This is fine, while companies like Infinity Ward / Activision / Blizzard censor artists and developers and remove creativity from PC Gamers, companies like Id, Epic, and Valve are filling in the gaps. Valve just released Alien Swarm for free with all the dev tools needed to modify the game. Blizzard, you need to return to your roots, and remember your fans, not your wallets.

#1, Pick what you love to do, so you are passionate everyday of life instead of hating what you do and being miserable.

From a personal story. I got my degree in Computer Engineering Technology, because I had fallen in love with robotics and computer hardware in high school robotics club. We did the FIRST robotics competition, and that was the best memory I have of high school.

However, after graduation, I've taken a job in the IT sector as a systems admin, and computer hardware has taken a back burner position as a hobby and possibly a side startup skill. I've only been graduated for alittle over a year. Although I haven't landed a job doing hardware like I love, I do have a positive attitude to learn and enjoy the IT side of things. In that view, I have networked with co-workers, employers and peers who have years and years of experience and are sharing it with me. In a matter of a few hours I learned more about software engineering and web programming than college ever taught me.

I wish I was more organized on these thoughts, but I basically have to say, find what you love to do, diversify your knowledge, and be very damn proactive in college, because nobody is going to hold your hand. Get involved in clubs, events, etc. to meet people and network, and find new opportunities. Always talk to your professors about projects you could help with or start up. Do not become a hobbit in your room with world of warcraft or any video games, unless you're passion is to just play video games. Personally we used to hack the games in college and host private servers for downtime after studies.

As far as computer hardware, imaging, robotics, that sort. Computer Science theory plays a huge roll in that for logic analysis. Ultimately I think what you should do, is try talking to advisors, professors, and maybe even try searching for employers and asking them what they look for to prepare you for the industry.

warning, you may think you know what you're doing now, but college opens doors and you will have so many ideas and options, that your dreams may change.

This can be summed up to the following "Be proactive, happen to life or life won't happen to you" .

I've never trusted migration tools to work properly in windows or even on my mac for that matter. I keep everything organized on a samba share, map the drive and tweak the registry to point to that drive for the programs and documents I need.

Thats kinda what I was thinking, but I don't want to be mean, and get voted down. It just feels like another mac love story. we get it, macs just work, fantastic for you. There are plenty of OTHER places on the web for the whole mac addict thing. (Like mac addicts).

I've never installed an update in linux/windows/osx without researching it first for any potential effects it could have... Thats been a rule of thumb I've heard from gurus of back in the day.

I've seen/learned this from many programmers.

Also just another point. don't over work yourself, we're all humans (except those damn bots) and you have to give yourself down time to let your brain simmer on the latest and greatest thoughts.

Buy gum instead, and chew. Seriously. I won't say I quit smoking completely, because I have a cigar on holidays or during celebration, but I haven't bought a pack of cigarettes in years. When my mother was diagnosed with cancer, It really made me think, so I went cold turkey and I chewed dentyne ice peppermint gum whenever I wanted a cigarette. Eventually the store bought cigarettes really became gross to me, and the only tobacco I have now is cured tobacco from a smoke shop, sheisha, or a good cigar. Other then that, my daily routine absolutely rarely includes smoking. You don't need a cigarette when you drive. You don't need a cigarette when you drink. You don't need a cigarette to walk to the car. You don't need a cigarette.

I still hate how they remove LAN play from games now'a'days. My buddies and I have lan parties all the time, and its getting harder and harder to have them when lan play isn't allowed and you can't host a local server.