Same to you. :-D ~The Chad

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Hey CodeBubba, Oh, I know what you mean. I'm not a big fan of it when people get addicted to the online games. I remember when I got pretty big into my Nintendo 64 system - my brother and I would sneak in time to play because our Mom tried to limit us to 1-hour a day, but of course that can't happen. You just can't get far enough in the game like that. I have friends that have gotten into this World of Warcraft thing and are just losing their lives in it. I agree with you, but I also think the opportunity is amazing, and if you aren't spending 8 hours a day on it - it actually is a great time. I just joined SecondLife last week, and played one time since then. It was a pretty good time and a neat way to get connected around the world. ~The Chad

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Yes and no; it'll be interesting to look back in 10 years and see if this thing is still going. If it is, there are going to be the people who make claims about how stupid it is and 10 years later wish they had gotten in on it. Or if it dies in a year, then the people who threw in 50K might be upset. But for now, it's been going strong for a few years and shows only signs of growth. Besides individual people using it, universities are using it for training, and now employers are using it - definitely growth. Especially now that some lady has made 1,000,000 dollars through the game! ~The Chad

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I never would have been an electrical engineer; I really don't like that stuff. I like figuring out how to write programs as well as numbers, logic puzzles, and Sudoku's, so I probably would have been some kind of financial analyst who did Sudoku's puzzles for fun. ~The Chad

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I think Java is a pretty cool language to learn; it can be as challenging or as easy as someone makes it for you based on what libraries/packages you use. I think everyone's right though that you should focus first on the concepts, and secondly on the syntax. The programming language that I actually learned basic coding skills in was ADA - which is old school, but learning the fundamentals through that helped me branch out into other languages with more ease!

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