The end of an mini-era, bye encarta!

[PDH]

Where do students go these days for information that is reliable?  I doubt that anyone hits the stacks anymore like we did in the pre-online world but maybe I am wrong.

See, the flaw in your question is that students want information that is reliable rather than easy to get.

Good students still go to the library, get access to books and online journals there, and read stuff to gain a balanced viewpoint to support their papers.  I presently have 3 of these students out of the 40-odd in my Civ II class...

[Warspite]

I presently have 3 of these students out of the 40-odd in my Civ II class...

[Malthus]

Where do students go these days for information that is reliable?  I doubt that anyone hits the stacks anymore like we did in the pre-online world but maybe I am wrong.

See, the flaw in your question is that students want information that is reliable rather than easy to get.

Good students still go to the library, get access to books and online journals there, and read stuff to gain a balanced viewpoint to support their papers.  I presently have 3 of these students out of the 40-odd in my Civ II class...

They teach classes in that?

I would think that at least they would have Civ IV by now. 

That 'phalanx killed my battleship' thing in Civ II was pretty annoying. 

[PDH]

They teach classes in that?

I would think that at least they would have Civ IV by now. 

That 'phalanx killed my battleship' thing in Civ II was pretty annoying. 

I once made a joke about that...then I remembered to never tell jokes in class.  I am sure some students took notes on proper placement of cities...

[DGuller]

Damn, I take one minute to reply, and already get beaten to the punch on the Civ II joke by two posters.

[DGuller]

That 'phalanx killed my battleship' thing in Civ II was pretty annoying. 

I once lost a carrier full of jet fighters (that for some reason were called stealth fighters) by trying to attack an engineer with it for some reason.

[Savonarola]

I once made a joke about that...then I remembered to never tell jokes in class.  I am sure some students took notes on proper placement of cities...

It was probably before their time.  I went to school in the 90's.  My college roommate was a mechanical engineering student.  In one of his machinery class the professor was discussing a device called a resolver; "Which," he joked, "Was named after a Beatles album."  The entire class went  as the prof chorlted at his own joke.

[Savonarola]

I once lost a carrier full of jet fighters (that for some reason were called stealth fighters) by trying to attack an engineer with it for some reason.

We're more ferocious than you'd think. 

[Malthus]

I once lost a carrier full of jet fighters (that for some reason were called stealth fighters) by trying to attack an engineer with it for some reason.

We're more ferocious than you'd think.

Now we know what the slide-rule holsters are for.

[Valmy]

It was probably before their time.  I went to school in the 90's.  My college roommate was a mechanical engineering student.  In one of his machinery class the professor was discussing a device called a resolver; "Which," he joked, "Was named after a Beatles album."  The entire class went  as the prof chorlted at his own joke.

Yeah but CIV is still a popular game in its present iteration.  It would be like making a Final Fantasy gag even though the last version you played was on the Nintendo classic back in 1992.

[Savonarola]

Now we know what the slide-rule holsters are for.

As an engineer, you never know when you'll be attacke by an Aztec Aircraft Carrier; it's a professional risk.

[Savonarola]

Yeah but CIV is still a popular game in its present iteration.  It would be like making a Final Fantasy gag even though the last version you played was on the Nintendo classic back in 1992.

Does the sinking battleship with a phalanx feature still exist?  I lost interest in the genre about halfway through my first CIV III game.

[Malthus]

Yeah but CIV is still a popular game in its present iteration.  It would be like making a Final Fantasy gag even though the last version you played was on the Nintendo classic back in 1992.

Does the sinking battleship with a phalanx feature still exist?  I lost interest in the genre about halfway through my first CIV III game.

Civ IV is a much superior product compared to Civ III. It is no longer possible to sink a battleship with a phalanx.

[The Nickname Who Was Thursday]

I believe it's theoretically possible to sink a battleship with a trireme though. Assuming they have a unit called a "battleship" (I rarely play past gunpowder).

[Malthus]

I believe it's theoretically possible to sink a battleship with a trireme though. Assuming they have a unit called a "battleship" (I rarely play past gunpowder).

They do. I suppose it is theoretically possible.