Satellites are in orbit of what? The earth? the sun? the milky way? The local galaxy group? The answer is yes to all these questions. THe point im making is, in a universe interpreted by the human mind, there are no facts, merely observations we hold to be true for the time being. By declaring what facts are, you are wading deep into philosophical territory.
Which they finally rectified by soldering 4 GB flash to the mobo and allowing USB sticks as HDD. After looking at the whole arc of the story, its hard to call the hard drive decision a 'disaster'. Non-optimal, sure, but they fixed it without altering the base platform other then providing alternate and easy paths to the base config. And now hard drive is pretty much assumed, one way or another.
I would buy a 361 with advanced post-processing in a heartbeat. Forget even changing anything about the code at all, jsut apply better post-process with more AA, more Aniso, faster frames etc.
It was politically motivated, not technologically. Can you not see the fundamental difference? The university has NO BUSINESS deciding what political sites should be visitable on political grounds alone. That is not their function and to allow them to operate in such a manner should be incompatible with the taking of taxpayer money.
If he was blocking legitimate normal amounts of mail not because of the volume but because of their content, then YES its an issue. If hes blocking spam, thats something else entirely. Change.org was politically censored, not blocked for technical reasons.
Blocking political websites using taxpayer money is a big no-no. You are dead wrong about the students having no rights. When I was in college (not ASU), i was the liaison to the deans regarding technology and network access.
They are government granted monopolies, granted to enrich the holder, for the purpose of promoting the useful arts and sciences. If patents are not serving the public, then there is no point to grant one. Patents are a NICETY we extend, not a natural Creator-given right.
To answer your question, any school that receives public tax money should be held to the same standard. From a funding point of view, school IT administrators have an obligation to follow the law as well as secure IT policy. Here's a tip, there is no network without funding.....
Here is the crux of the issue.: Publicly funded (i.e. they take taxpayer money) universities dont have the luxury of interfering in this manner. Either stop taking taxpayer funds or stop blocking political websites. Period, full stop.
Except for the plane, I can do everything else you listed without an ID quite readily. Hell, for the train i can BOARD without a ticket and buy it en-route. Even for a plane im sure i could charter a flight with no ID as long as I had enough cash.
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I should have jsut countered with 'Every Android phone sold subsidizes Win Phone.'
Huge landmass, with a giant density hole in the middle.
Apple would BUY them at that point or just roll their own. Apple is sitting on a MOUNTAIN of cash.
Gotta love the implied righteousness of this post.
I played Skyrim with a 360 controller, it was fine.
And in the process make no progress.
You're an idiot. Spend more time with people, fall down, laugh, make mistakes, be human.
Im sure glad i dont live in your world of faultless humans. HUMANS MAKE MISTAKES, its our nature, as is forgiveness.
Satellites are in orbit of what? The earth? the sun? the milky way? The local galaxy group? The answer is yes to all these questions. THe point im making is, in a universe interpreted by the human mind, there are no facts, merely observations we hold to be true for the time being. By declaring what facts are, you are wading deep into philosophical territory.
We get some second rate ports sure, but the first rate stuff we get FAR outweighs the bad. Even bad ports still look better on PCs.
Which they finally rectified by soldering 4 GB flash to the mobo and allowing USB sticks as HDD. After looking at the whole arc of the story, its hard to call the hard drive decision a 'disaster'. Non-optimal, sure, but they fixed it without altering the base platform other then providing alternate and easy paths to the base config. And now hard drive is pretty much assumed, one way or another.
I would buy a 361 with advanced post-processing in a heartbeat. Forget even changing anything about the code at all, jsut apply better post-process with more AA, more Aniso, faster frames etc.
It was politically motivated, not technologically. Can you not see the fundamental difference? The university has NO BUSINESS deciding what political sites should be visitable on political grounds alone. That is not their function and to allow them to operate in such a manner should be incompatible with the taking of taxpayer money.
If he was blocking legitimate normal amounts of mail not because of the volume but because of their content, then YES its an issue. If hes blocking spam, thats something else entirely. Change.org was politically censored, not blocked for technical reasons.
Blocking political websites using taxpayer money is a big no-no. You are dead wrong about the students having no rights. When I was in college (not ASU), i was the liaison to the deans regarding technology and network access.
They are government granted monopolies, granted to enrich the holder, for the purpose of promoting the useful arts and sciences. If patents are not serving the public, then there is no point to grant one. Patents are a NICETY we extend, not a natural Creator-given right.
We use the same legal definition of fair that we use in eminent domain cases.
Compulsory requirements often come with a reasonableness clause.
To answer your question, any school that receives public tax money should be held to the same standard. From a funding point of view, school IT administrators have an obligation to follow the law as well as secure IT policy. Here's a tip, there is no network without funding.....
Here is the crux of the issue.: Publicly funded (i.e. they take taxpayer money) universities dont have the luxury of interfering in this manner. Either stop taking taxpayer funds or stop blocking political websites. Period, full stop.
What part of PUBLICLY FUNDED UNIVERSITY do you not understand?
On your last point. That may be true today, but it certainly wasnt true as recently as 2004.
"You know that you can run your own email server? - It's easy."
Yes, setting up your own mail server is easy. Operating it is a completely different story.
Except for the plane, I can do everything else you listed without an ID quite readily. Hell, for the train i can BOARD without a ticket and buy it en-route. Even for a plane im sure i could charter a flight with no ID as long as I had enough cash.
This is always my biggest indictment of religion. It stopped human progress for 1000 years. Infuriating.