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 wouldn't think too deeply about it, I read it more as an attempt at a wake-up call to all the right-wing supporters who insist that trickle-down economics works (even though it's never, ever worked). "The rich get richer and the poor get poorer" has been the mantra as long as mankind has existed on this planet.

Now I, for the very reasons you gave, will never support or suggest any sort of "wealth redistribution," it flies in the face of capitalism and has been proven to only breed discent and anger. What should happen is that the government stops treating the rich like special citizens. Warren Buffet has said before that he's paying fewer taxes now than he ever has in his life, and it's sick how the richest people in the country get the most help / special attention from the government, help none of them at all need.

The problem is that the GOP have a very long history of getting into power, then passing laws that help line their own pockets and protect their wealth from being "stolen" by the government (aka, themselves, it doesn't makes sense to me either). This view then leaves the other 90% of Americans as "well you should have tried harder, this is what you can do when you're rich!" while at the same time somehow convincing this 90% that the GOP in power is the best thing for them.

That's what I see when I read these kinds of articles.

"The rich stay rich by keeping their money"

Maybe old-rich, but most rich people generally get richer by investing. I seems to remember a bible story talking about this (25:14-30). Take a look at the stories of the luxury taxes in the US and their affect on yacht builders (labor intensive, good paying jobs).

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.

Tell me about it. At work I need to check Firefox too besides IE to see if the app works correctly. Chrome rarely has any problem.

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.

Over the past decade I've used OS X's firewire migration option... (counts on fingers) five times for myself and friends. Four of those times the transfer was flawless and (surprisingly) painless. The one problematic time was because the new machine arrived with bad RAM; although it booted, the new box was for all practical purposes DOA. One warranted replacement later, the migration process worked every bit as well as I'd come to expect.

I think the "app-as-folder" convention and the lack of a central registry are the main contributors to the success of these migrations. "Move this list of folders and files from A to B" is a simple, if tedious, task.

FWIW, I have NOT performed that migration on any machine that had Parallels or VMWare installed; Adobe installs have been the most complicated thing that I've migrated using this utility. If any readers have used the migration on machines containing software (vmware, parallels, etc) that adds kernel extensions, I would be very interested to read the results.