Games these days are insignificant experiences for people who've already played plenty of them. Taking Secret of Mana, that was surely the first game at all of its kind that I'd played. But I'd barely part with any money to buy an RPG today. Games today have a much harder job being original, and tend to be shameless in their lack of originality anyhow.
Well, some high ranking schools are said to admit a subset of minorities who can't do the work, which has a ripple effect on down. E.g. look at the "minorities as mascots" thesis, and I think Thomas Sowell has written on this.
MIT, for a bunch of reasons I've mentioned, plus intense self-selection in just deciding to apply in the first place, doesn't have this problem. Certainly didn't in the dozen years I was a member of the community, '79-'91, I never met a student who couldn't do the work.
Now, there are students who don't succeed because of financial issues (my problem, and one of at least one close friend), and personal issues (more than a few), but these are not things the admissions office can do as good a job in screening for.
It was a few years back that FF was so sluggish in linux. (fast in Debian now)
That was the time I tried Opera. The difference in bootup time was like night and day, and it was quicker rendering certain pages, but in the long run those pages were outnumbered by ones Opera was actually slower at.
For those who go straight-to-comments on HN (myself included):
Users first play a series of games with cartoon spiders, which start out as cute and harmless-looking but gradually become more realistic.
One early task involves helping a spider hide in a slipper while someone is using a vacuum cleaner.
This needs more votes, simply for reminding people that bullying isn't some generic situation. The least bad case of bullying is when you have a single bully, who can be made to start treating you as a human being without going as far as a fight. The worst case is a group, who chronically hate you for whatever reason. Not every situation in life has a solution, if you have enough enemies.
If it applies, oderint dum metuant, "let them hate, so long as they fear". If making a stark object lesson out of one or more of the bullies will prompt all of them to find easier targets, it's an option. Or have your father make credible threats to their families: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7646566
In other situations, some described in this discussion, that won't work. Although you have to factor in your own psychological health:
Ah, yes, I forgot, I was subjected to one group "bullying" incident in college (assault, actually), and I replied with a credible threat of lethal force, was in fact one step from planting a Kabar knife in the gut of the closest adversary, as in that would have happened if he'd moved one step further and finished trying to place his hands on me.
He and the group decided there were easier targets. And, sure, they hated me, but they never dared try anything again. And I would have never been able to respect myself if I hadn't stood up to them that night.
(A few more details: there was some harassment later that night, busting my door knob by hurdling a shopping cart? into it repeatedly, turning off my power, pretty much pathetic stuff like that. But absolutely none after, except for shunning. And the dorm floor graduate counselor/baby sitter? probably talked to them, perhaps pointing out the consequences of assaulting people. I know he did to me, but it was just to confirm that I wasn't the sort of person to threaten or use lethal force without proper justification.)
One day, pal. I believe it will become possibile too. There are various upsides and downsides to humans achieving self engineering, I realised a terrible one recently - people would truly have nothing that belongs to themselves.
