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  1. Arizona v Arizona State by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on The Phoenix Has Landed

    Interesting the diffence in the types of images each school tries to capture
    Arizona - Images of Mars
    Arizona State - Images of Girls

  2. Does Google support IMAP yet? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting · on University Migrating Students to Windows Live Mail?

    My University is switching to Google. One of my concerns is that I really like my desktop clients (alpine and thunderbird) and prefer IMAP. While gmail is an excellent web-client, I don't really use my gmail account that much, because it doesn't offer IMAP & POP is both "flaky" and limiting.

    Does google's hosted service offer IMAP? Or are there plans to in the near future?

  3. Re:It's about time by dozer · · Score: 1 · on Piracy Not To Blame In Decline of Moviegoers

    Next thing they'll do is start commercial breaks in the middle of the movies.

    They already do! Have you seen The Island? It was a nonstop 2 hour commercial break! So kind of Michael Bay to just whore out his audience like that.

    And the studio wonders why nobody went to go see it...

  4. Peoplesoft @ Northwestern U by the_truk_stop · · Score: 3, Interesting · on U.S. Attempts to Block Oracle Bid for PeopleSoft

    My university uses Peoplesoft as a vendor; we use them for class scheduling and managing class documents and communication. But they output some of the shoddiest HTML I've seen in a long time. It's a strange mix of HTML and CSS, and obviously hasn't been tested except on one browser. It's been published in our school's most-distributed newspaper: Use IE to avoid problems.

    Our school's course management system is one of the more infuriating sites around. For instance, hitting enter in a form doesn't submit the form. Rather, it reloads the page. And blanks all of your entries. And you can't stop the reload.

    I have a serious problem with Peoplesoft's products.
    </rant>

    I don't know or understand all of the stakes involved in the acquisition or lawsuit, but I have this to say: I can only hope that Peoplesoft cleans up its act (read: HTML output). I don't like having to use other people's computers when Firefox doesn't know how to deal the poor output.

  5. oprah? by 2MuchC0ffeeMan · · Score: 2 · on University offers 'Simpsons' as Philosophy Class

    this isn't much of a surprise, as an oprah class has been in the works for awhile...

    and they say education in the us isn't going downhill...

  6. You think 5% is bad? by ryanhos · · Score: 2 · on Universities Begin to Ban Napster

    You think 5% of total bandwidth is bad? Try up around 20%! Northwestern University in Chicago banne d access to Napster because it was sucking up nearly 20% of their bandwidth. My college, the Illinois Institute of Technology, never had a problem w/ the bandwidth usage, but the RIAA did come in and threaten to sue if the school didn't shut the student-run MP3 servers down. There's now a special rule that expels any student who runs an MP3 server on the campus network. Hmm, I wonder if the RIAA considers Napster an MP3 server.

  7. Nanotechnology - on campus by Jungle+Boy · · Score: 1 · on Rise of the Nanobots

    Northwestern University is currently in the process of building a new chemistry building specifically for nanotechnology. It has been named the "Center for Nanofabrication and Molecular Self-Assembly". Here's an article on the whole business.
    Unfortunately, I work in the building that they're tearing down for this...