The reply that you replied to was trying to point out that the article doesn't even understand how endowments work.
Yes, they go towards salaries. The person who donated $10M said they were donating specifically for that purpose. The university cannot touch that money for any other reason. They money does not, usually, go towards new buildings. There is a specific division tasked with raising funds for capital projects. They also go towards scholarships - which does go directly towards tuition. The university has to either pay a fee or hire fund managers directly. They get a great return on investment, so their fund managers usually know what they're doing. Endowments are not a bank account. They are an investment put in place so that the funding of something occurs from the capital gains. A $1B endowment can maybe get $200M on a good year and that goes and pays a lot of professors (directly resulting in lower tuition costs) and scholarships (directly resulting in lower tuition costs). Some of the capital gains are put back into the fund to repair losses from other years. The ratio is way over 50% directly benefitting the students.
General alumni donations do not go into capital projects, like new buildings. When your university is asking you, as a regular person, to donate it is to raise their alumni participation numbers. That affects their national ranking. It's a marker to show that you valued your time there. You do get to specify how you want the money spent.
Capital projects are funded by major gifts - the guys who get their names on the side of the building. This would not be you.
When money is donated to the university, it is categorized into buckets like facilities, capital projects, scholarships, salaries, etc. Some of these things get spent right away or put into a fund that is spent over a short period of time. But certain categories, like scholarships, faculty positions, and some staff positions, can be endowed so that they live on in perpetuity. These endowments need to be large because they fund these based on the capital gains of the investment. The university I work at has almost 200 endowed faculty positions and a TON of endowed scholarships. You need a large investment to have enough returns for to function given market fluctuations. Our board of directors is tight with the endowment because it is a well oiled machine does directly impact the students - and yes it does affect tuition in the form of financial aid grants. It's long term investment and anybody who invests knows that you don't fiddle with your investments for short term gains.
The main cost of tuition is keeping the university running. Most faculty and staff positions are not covered by endowments. Our endowed faculty is under 10% of our total faculty and staff count. Students want less students per class. They want better access to professors and not to be taught by assistants. They want every electronic service imaginable. Both students and parents want electronic front ends to everything. The IT staff to support all of these is not cheap. Universities are not the universities from 50 years ago.
Those edge case high salaries are a pain, yes. It irks me when I see our president's salary publicised. But, it irks me from more of an honor sake. When our university says it is trying to adjust our operating expenses to give the lowest tuition possible and those insane salaries remain untouched, it is somewhat hypocritical in my eyes. In reality though, I don't see it making much change in tuition for the students. Say there are 10 employees making $1M a year. If we cut that in half, that is $5M a year that can go towards a tuition cut. That's huge if you have a school of 500 but nothing if you have a school of 20k. But, from a PR point of view, it affects perception. Coaches have a different job and can get whatever salary they earn because they are a money generating entity all in themselves.
Good lord. I need more coffee to read this. There should be a limit on both the number of parenthesis allowed and the length of parenthetical tangents within.
I know you're trolling, but in case other people read this...
Kids are perfectly capable of traveling. I've flown three times with my son at ages 6 mos, 18 mos, and 4 yrs. He was fine. At 4, he was absolutely a joy to fly with. We were avid world travelers before, filling our passports and getting extension pages sewed in. We have two concerns now. One, our second son is still in diapers. I know they have diapers in other countries but I don't want to have to lug around all that changing gear my wife thinks we need. Plus, there aren't many places to change diapers where we like to go. We're going to wait until he's potty trained. The second concern is shots. Getting all the correct immunizations in place for a particular region is expensive and you can't just go to your local pediatrician and get those.
Our goal is to get the kids out and see as much of the world as possible. You can't really understand the world until you're there enjoying a meal with local people. We're currently living in Texas, which I think has a toxic world view, so it is important for the boys to see things away from here.
Yeah, my PC is stuck. I've tried every trick on every page I find and nothing works. I've probably spent 30 hours on it so far. I had no problems upgrading to 8.1. I'm now to the point where I'm uninstalling software to see if it works. If tonight's series of tests do not work, I have to flash the OS... and I'm not putting 8 on it again.
Have you ever had your cell phone within a few feet of a TV, radio, or computer speakers and hear interference? My speakers don't run in any of the frequency ranges you state yet there is definitely interference.
Take that interference and amplify it 100x and add a few more layers of sound that you are not hearing on your TV speakers. That is what I hear on my pilot headset when my copilot's cell phone goes off or he receives a SMS.
Granted, a passenger on a 737 is not as close as a copilot would be but the aluminum tube construction of modern planes is supposed to cause a resonating effect which would bounce the signals around until they annoy something. Plus, in my plane I do not know what was actually causing the noise. It could have been the receiver or the antenna. Both were within 6 feet. On the larger planes, the antennas are away from the pilots so if the antenna is where the interference begins then there is a good chance that can be close enough to a passenger to cause problems.
This all occured when flying VFR. I have yet to fly true IFR but when I do cell phones are going to be the first thing that are turned off.
Three days ago I was flying a Cessna with my flight instructor. The flight was going well when suddently over my headset was the most annoying (and very loud) squeal. I thought this was a sign that either my radios, the entire electrical system, or alternator was in the process of dying. My instructor doesn't say anything and then pulls out his cell phone and starts talking. It was 30 seconds of pure auditory hell.
During that first blast, I didn't look at my navs to see if they were affected but on subsequent calls I did. I always turn my cell phone off so I never get to test it. So, here was my chance.
I tuned both VORs and watched their needles - both were fine when the calls came in. GPS was ok too. When I was close enough to tune in the ILS, he didn't get any more calls but did get an SMS which didn't alter the ILS readings at all. Over the headset, the text message didn't sound nearly as loud as his regular calls.
This wasn't really much of a test, though. Air is bumpy and needles move around a lot anyway. There's no chance of seeing it mess with my compass. I just wanted to see from an "average situation" point of view. Any future passengers will be asked to turn off their cell phones just so I don't have to listen to that squeal over my headset. If I do hear it, maybe somebody will experience a little sudden turbulance.
On a side note, this was in a Cessna 172 which has an completely different shape than commercial planes. The fact that they are tubular could present a whole new series of issues with resonance.
I don't think the airlines really think they're much of a problem. If they actually thought they were a threat, they would either have the instruments shielded or have detectors in the plane. Imagine the situation where everybody on the plane has a cell phone and turns them all on at the same time. Sure, statistically it wouldn't happen but certain "organizations" could cheaply fill a plane and give everybody a few cell phones. Or even maybe not the entire plane, but 20% of it. At what point could they become dangerous?
What if said organization knew of a flight into a certain airport that has an obstacle within a few degrees of the glide slope? Could activating a large number of cell phones at a certain point during decent deflect the glide slope readings enough to where the pilot adjusts and inadvertantly decends into the obstacle? What about deflecting it the other way? Could you cause the pilot to land long and travel off the end of the runnway?
So either they've tested and determined they're not a real threat or they haven't tested anything and are just waiting for something to happen and public pressure requires them to test.
Sorry for the rambling.. I needed a break from coding.:)
Then try to say 'I want democracy, not communism.' in vietnamese and count the seconds before you're arrested.
They don't call it "Communism". That is our label. And from a political point of view, I don't know if they really see voting as that much of a benefit. The fact that you state it this way shows that you're still stuck in the 1970's.
They see their political ladder as a series of steps fueled by corruption. And guess what, they see ours the same way. And maybe they're better off because they're not dupped by lies.
I spent a year there and never once had a good argument as to why democracy was better. The only thing I could think of is that we have the freedom to protest and complain.
When you sit down with a Vietnamese person and compare notes, the USA is not the land of milk and honey. Not by any stretch of the imagination. Just start going down the list of all the different the US/state/county/city governments can enforce their will on you and I bet your list will be longer than theirs.
In Vietnam, today, people may not even move unless explicitly allowed to by the state.
I don't think that's true. I know three people who have moved within the past few years and I never heard them mention having to get cleared by the gov to do so. Maybe they did but it's such a no-brainer that it doesn't bother them.
Let alone running a successful business.
What is that supposed to mean? The business world is completely different there. There are a lot of private successful businesses... and there are successful state-run businesses. But, just like anywhere, you have to know your market. I hope you're not implying that everything is state-run.
No real criticism of the state is tolerated.
Right now, this is probably true. And to a point, it is understandable. They had a civil war. The people involved in that civil war are still alive. Most of the youth (under 30) think the government is just fine and don't complain anyway.
When sending mail to your Vietnamese friends, never send a CD-R. The government will open your mail and check for political/ideological content.
yes, this is what you are told. They're also searching for things like child pornography. But, I don't know how thorough this is. I ordered a laptop and had it shipped to VN and was told that it would have to be inspected. It never was. It was never even turned on. And, unless they're really good with repackaging thing (and I doubt they are), it was never even opened. I only had to grease some palms to get it through w/out having to pay taxes on it, but that's a whole 'nuther story.
And about every Viet would love to move to America, if he/she could.
Nope. That is not the case. Not one of the many friends I made over there wants to come to America. One girl did arrange a marriage so she could come over and work for a few years but she is going back as soon as she can.
When I was there, my wife and I asked this question a lot, just to see how they felt. She taught English and was exposed to, what I would think would be the most prone group to want to go, students in their 20's. Most of them love American products but would not want to live here.
A few do, yes. And most of the people who do want to move here view America as a big utopia where you can do whatever you want and make as much money as you want. I'm sure if you talk to somebody in the small towns, they'll wish they could. But that is the same in any country.
No, I'm not American.
I am.
I hope you're not Viet Kieu. Before I went to VN, a lot of Viet Kieu (and older Americans who lived thru the war) tried to tell me how bad it was and how it was going to be one of the hardest years of my life. How wrong they were. It turned out to be the best.
I spent a year in various Asian countries and they all had those wall-mounted on-demand water heaters and they satisfied my "American" style of showering just fine. In fact, they were too hot. One of my friends had a bath tub and the wall-mounted heater was capable of filling that with hot water. I'm not too sure what you're basing your "first gallon" idea on.
In Japan, they had a smaller version attached to the kitchen sink and produced temperatures that could be used for cooking noodles or making tea.
Considering when Civ2 was released, I could have only used money I found on the street and under my couch and still had the real game in my hands 5 years ago.
Would it be art if had typoGenerator file and passed it off as my own creation? It would then be up to the viewer to try to find all of my intended meaning.
What if I transfered it to a canvas and painted over it?
Who's to say Pollock didn't just dip a bunch of gerbils in paint and let them have their way with a canvas?
I think Pollock and typoGenerator are in the same caregory and both can not be classified as art. No matter what is said, those random splats of paint are not deliberate when slung from a fast moving brush.
Now, if Pollock used smaller brush strokes to draw out each "splat" then it should be classied as art. It's deliberate.
Right now, they are just something fun (or painful in the case of Pollock) to look at.
If I recall correctly, Windows 1.0 was ASCII windows - not graphical. They didn't do the graphics until 2.0 and even this was a sort of "tag along" with other programs. You bought, say PageMaker for Windows and Windows was only launched as a wrapper around PageMaker.
The phone interferes with the VHF radio - I know this because I can hear it.
I haven't heard it mess with my radio (yet), but I do know that if my Nokia is anywhere near my Lightspeed headset when it rings, it sends all kinds noise across the noise reduction circuits. It needs to be about two feet away to not be heard. This only happens when it "rings", even if all ringing and vibration is turned off and the phone is in silent mode.
I hope to be getting my IFR soon and will definitely be testing to see if it causes any problems. Not that I want to have it on up there, but sometimes I forget.
Back in the day, it was recommended to put all system DLLs into the main system folder and all your custom DLLs into the app folder. But, Windows' awkward design and poor installation utilities led to many system DLLs being overwritten with old or broken versions. You would find yourself with a broken app and really no way to tell what caused it.
So, to stop the headache, we started putting system DLLs locally, thanks to the path priority built into Windows - it always checks local folders first. And it worked, most of the time. If you asked for a DLL by name and another app was using an incompatible version, you would get still the stinky one. But, if you were first to the call then you knew you would get yours.
But, the trend had taken root and like any good weed it is hard to get rid of.
I don't even think this tool is checking for the other sneaky developer trick of renaming the DLLs, either to hide the fact that it's not licensed or other legal yet obscure reasons.
One summer, I was moving my girlfriend from Delaware back to our hometown in New Mexico. We were closing her bank account and wanted to wire the money to her account in New Mexico. It took about 2 hours (and 3 people) to convince the bank idiots that it was inside the USA and they didn't need to charge us an international wire transfer fee.
Also, I did tech support calls for a few years in college and at least once a month some idiot would make a reference to us being "foreign". My favorite was "You speak very good English for living in a foreign country." "I try my best..." is all I could come up with.
I seem to recal this type of artificial heart in a movie that came out sometime in the early 80's. I don't remember much about it mainly because I was 13 or so but I think it had Donald Sutherland in it.
For 10 years I was a net junkie. If I didn't get my email, news, laugh, or enough time on my fav mmorpg then I was twitchy and grouchy.
Then, two years ago my wife and I decided to take a year off and go tour SE Asia, mainly Viet Nam.
Yes, they have Internet there but it is mainly in Internet cafes, which are hot, crowded, and quite slow. There are dialups but once you've lived on broadband for such a long time the dialup becomes something you use only when you have to. And so that was what happened. Internet became something that was used when needed. I still checked my email regularly but instead of every hour it was every 2 or 3 days, same with Slashdot.:)
I had a few personal (programming) projects I was working on which fit nicely onto the laptop, along with a good 20gig of mp3s. I was amazed at how fast I detached from the net. My productivity shot thru the roof, namely because my concentration was focused.
Even here in the states I have yet to reach that state of Zen again primarily because, even though I try, I know the net is right there. The little net thoughts nag at you.
But, back to the topic. You would be amazed at how much technical work you can accomplish without the net being there.
Would I give up what I have now and go back? You bet. Would I miss it? Nope. Broadband is used for P2P or games. That's all I use broadband for anyway.:) But while I'm here in the states, I *need* to be connected. I think because everybody else is.
On a global scope, 99% of all the really cool groundbreaking stuff in the last 100 years, computer or not, was done detached from the net.
The thing that annoys me most is how Cisco is going to handle this.
I bought one of their home/soho routers, the "cheap" $300 one. I wanted more meat to my home broadband than what Linksys had to offer.
The day after I buy it I find out that the software is out of date and there are upgrades. Am I able to get them? Nope. I have to pay an extra $100/year to just get the software updates.
Needless to say, this will be the last Cisco product I own.
Considering the small form factor PCs out there, custom Linux firewall is in the works.
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The reply that you replied to was trying to point out that the article doesn't even understand how endowments work.
Yes, they go towards salaries. The person who donated $10M said they were donating specifically for that purpose. The university cannot touch that money for any other reason. They money does not, usually, go towards new buildings. There is a specific division tasked with raising funds for capital projects. They also go towards scholarships - which does go directly towards tuition. The university has to either pay a fee or hire fund managers directly. They get a great return on investment, so their fund managers usually know what they're doing. Endowments are not a bank account. They are an investment put in place so that the funding of something occurs from the capital gains. A $1B endowment can maybe get $200M on a good year and that goes and pays a lot of professors (directly resulting in lower tuition costs) and scholarships (directly resulting in lower tuition costs). Some of the capital gains are put back into the fund to repair losses from other years. The ratio is way over 50% directly benefitting the students.
Bigger list:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_colleges_and_universities_in_the_United_States_by_endowment
General alumni donations do not go into capital projects, like new buildings. When your university is asking you, as a regular person, to donate it is to raise their alumni participation numbers. That affects their national ranking. It's a marker to show that you valued your time there. You do get to specify how you want the money spent.
Capital projects are funded by major gifts - the guys who get their names on the side of the building. This would not be you.
When money is donated to the university, it is categorized into buckets like facilities, capital projects, scholarships, salaries, etc. Some of these things get spent right away or put into a fund that is spent over a short period of time. But certain categories, like scholarships, faculty positions, and some staff positions, can be endowed so that they live on in perpetuity. These endowments need to be large because they fund these based on the capital gains of the investment. The university I work at has almost 200 endowed faculty positions and a TON of endowed scholarships. You need a large investment to have enough returns for to function given market fluctuations. Our board of directors is tight with the endowment because it is a well oiled machine does directly impact the students - and yes it does affect tuition in the form of financial aid grants. It's long term investment and anybody who invests knows that you don't fiddle with your investments for short term gains.
The main cost of tuition is keeping the university running. Most faculty and staff positions are not covered by endowments. Our endowed faculty is under 10% of our total faculty and staff count. Students want less students per class. They want better access to professors and not to be taught by assistants. They want every electronic service imaginable. Both students and parents want electronic front ends to everything. The IT staff to support all of these is not cheap. Universities are not the universities from 50 years ago.
Those edge case high salaries are a pain, yes. It irks me when I see our president's salary publicised. But, it irks me from more of an honor sake. When our university says it is trying to adjust our operating expenses to give the lowest tuition possible and those insane salaries remain untouched, it is somewhat hypocritical in my eyes. In reality though, I don't see it making much change in tuition for the students. Say there are 10 employees making $1M a year. If we cut that in half, that is $5M a year that can go towards a tuition cut. That's huge if you have a school of 500 but nothing if you have a school of 20k. But, from a PR point of view, it affects perception. Coaches have a different job and can get whatever salary they earn because they are a money generating entity all in themselves.
Good lord. I need more coffee to read this. There should be a limit on both the number of parenthesis allowed and the length of parenthetical tangents within.
I know you're trolling, but in case other people read this...
Kids are perfectly capable of traveling. I've flown three times with my son at ages 6 mos, 18 mos, and 4 yrs. He was fine. At 4, he was absolutely a joy to fly with.
We were avid world travelers before, filling our passports and getting extension pages sewed in. We have two concerns now. One, our second son is still in diapers. I know they have diapers in other countries but I don't want to have to lug around all that changing gear my wife thinks we need. Plus, there aren't many places to change diapers where we like to go. We're going to wait until he's potty trained. The second concern is shots. Getting all the correct immunizations in place for a particular region is expensive and you can't just go to your local pediatrician and get those.
Our goal is to get the kids out and see as much of the world as possible. You can't really understand the world until you're there enjoying a meal with local people. We're currently living in Texas, which I think has a toxic world view, so it is important for the boys to see things away from here.
Yeah, my PC is stuck. I've tried every trick on every page I find and nothing works. I've probably spent 30 hours on it so far. I had no problems upgrading to 8.1. I'm now to the point where I'm uninstalling software to see if it works. If tonight's series of tests do not work, I have to flash the OS... and I'm not putting 8 on it again.
Is this spoken from experience?
Have you ever had your cell phone within a few feet of a TV, radio, or computer speakers and hear interference?
My speakers don't run in any of the frequency ranges you state yet there is definitely interference.
Take that interference and amplify it 100x and add a few more layers of sound that you are not hearing on your TV speakers. That is what I hear on my pilot headset when my copilot's cell phone goes off or he receives a SMS.
Granted, a passenger on a 737 is not as close as a copilot would be but the aluminum tube construction of modern planes is supposed to cause a resonating effect which would bounce the signals around until they annoy something. Plus, in my plane I do not know what was actually causing the noise. It could have been the receiver or the antenna. Both were within 6 feet. On the larger planes, the antennas are away from the pilots so if the antenna is where the interference begins then there is a good chance that can be close enough to a passenger to cause problems.
This all occured when flying VFR. I have yet to fly true IFR but when I do cell phones are going to be the first thing that are turned off.
Three days ago I was flying a Cessna with my flight instructor. The flight was going well when suddently over my headset was the most annoying (and very loud) squeal. I thought this was a sign that either my radios, the entire electrical system, or alternator was in the process of dying. My instructor doesn't say anything and then pulls out his cell phone and starts talking. It was 30 seconds of pure auditory hell.
:)
During that first blast, I didn't look at my navs to see if they were affected but on subsequent calls I did. I always turn my cell phone off so I never get to test it. So, here was my chance.
I tuned both VORs and watched their needles - both were fine when the calls came in. GPS was ok too. When I was close enough to tune in the ILS, he didn't get any more calls but did get an SMS which didn't alter the ILS readings at all. Over the headset, the text message didn't sound nearly as loud as his regular calls.
This wasn't really much of a test, though. Air is bumpy and needles move around a lot anyway. There's no chance of seeing it mess with my compass. I just wanted to see from an "average situation" point of view. Any future passengers will be asked to turn off their cell phones just so I don't have to listen to that squeal over my headset. If I do hear it, maybe somebody will experience a little sudden turbulance.
On a side note, this was in a Cessna 172 which has an completely different shape than commercial planes. The fact that they are tubular could present a whole new series of issues with resonance.
I don't think the airlines really think they're much of a problem. If they actually thought they were a threat, they would either have the instruments shielded or have detectors in the plane. Imagine the situation where everybody on the plane has a cell phone and turns them all on at the same time. Sure, statistically it wouldn't happen but certain "organizations" could cheaply fill a plane and give everybody a few cell phones. Or even maybe not the entire plane, but 20% of it. At what point could they become dangerous?
What if said organization knew of a flight into a certain airport that has an obstacle within a few degrees of the glide slope? Could activating a large number of cell phones at a certain point during decent deflect the glide slope readings enough to where the pilot adjusts and inadvertantly decends into the obstacle? What about deflecting it the other way? Could you cause the pilot to land long and travel off the end of the runnway?
So either they've tested and determined they're not a real threat or they haven't tested anything and are just waiting for something to happen and public pressure requires them to test.
Sorry for the rambling.. I needed a break from coding.
Flying is fun. It's the crashing part that sucks.
"Skyhawk 87E, you are cleared for the option..."
Then try to say 'I want democracy, not communism.' in vietnamese and count the seconds before you're arrested.
They don't call it "Communism". That is our label. And from a political point of view, I don't know if they really see voting as that much of a benefit. The fact that you state it this way shows that you're still stuck in the 1970's.
They see their political ladder as a series of steps fueled by corruption. And guess what, they see ours the same way. And maybe they're better off because they're not dupped by lies.
I spent a year there and never once had a good argument as to why democracy was better. The only thing I could think of is that we have the freedom to protest and complain.
When you sit down with a Vietnamese person and compare notes, the USA is not the land of milk and honey. Not by any stretch of the imagination. Just start going down the list of all the different the US/state/county/city governments can enforce their will on you and I bet your list will be longer than theirs.
In Vietnam, today, people may not even move unless explicitly allowed to by the state.
I don't think that's true. I know three people who have moved within the past few years and I never heard them mention having to get cleared by the gov to do so. Maybe they did but it's such a no-brainer that it doesn't bother them.
Let alone running a successful business.
What is that supposed to mean? The business world is completely different there. There are a lot of private successful businesses... and there are successful state-run businesses. But, just like anywhere, you have to know your market. I hope you're not implying that everything is state-run.
No real criticism of the state is tolerated.
Right now, this is probably true. And to a point, it is understandable. They had a civil war. The people involved in that civil war are still alive. Most of the youth (under 30) think the government is just fine and don't complain anyway.
When sending mail to your Vietnamese friends, never send a CD-R. The government will open your mail and check for political/ideological content.
yes, this is what you are told. They're also searching for things like child pornography. But, I don't know how thorough this is. I ordered a laptop and had it shipped to VN and was told that it would have to be inspected. It never was. It was never even turned on. And, unless they're really good with repackaging thing (and I doubt they are), it was never even opened. I only had to grease some palms to get it through w/out having to pay taxes on it, but that's a whole 'nuther story.
And about every Viet would love to move to America, if he/she could.
Nope. That is not the case. Not one of the many friends I made over there wants to come to America. One girl did arrange a marriage so she could come over and work for a few years but she is going back as soon as she can.
When I was there, my wife and I asked this question a lot, just to see how they felt. She taught English and was exposed to, what I would think would be the most prone group to want to go, students in their 20's. Most of them love American products but would not want to live here.
A few do, yes. And most of the people who do want to move here view America as a big utopia where you can do whatever you want and make as much money as you want. I'm sure if you talk to somebody in the small towns, they'll wish they could. But that is the same in any country.
No, I'm not American.
I am.
I hope you're not Viet Kieu. Before I went to VN, a lot of Viet Kieu (and older Americans who lived thru the war) tried to tell me how bad it was and how it was going to be one of the hardest years of my life. How wrong they were. It turned out to be the best.
Once everybody over there is running Windows...
Funny thing is, everybody over there already is running windows.
I spent a year in various Asian countries and they all had those wall-mounted on-demand water heaters and they satisfied my "American" style of showering just fine. In fact, they were too hot. One of my friends had a bath tub and the wall-mounted heater was capable of filling that with hot water. I'm not too sure what you're basing your "first gallon" idea on.
In Japan, they had a smaller version attached to the kitchen sink and produced temperatures that could be used for cooking noodles or making tea.
How long did this take?
Are there any real breakthru's in OSS here?
Considering when Civ2 was released, I could have only used money I found on the street and under my couch and still had the real game in my hands 5 years ago.
What is so important about freeciv?
Would it be art if had typoGenerator file and passed it off as my own creation? It would then be up to the viewer to try to find all of my intended meaning.
What if I transfered it to a canvas and painted over it?
Who's to say Pollock didn't just dip a bunch of gerbils in paint and let them have their way with a canvas?
I think Pollock and typoGenerator are in the same caregory and both can not be classified as art. No matter what is said, those random splats of paint are not deliberate when slung from a fast moving brush.
Now, if Pollock used smaller brush strokes to draw out each "splat" then it should be classied as art. It's deliberate.
Right now, they are just something fun (or painful in the case of Pollock) to look at.
If I recall correctly, Windows 1.0 was ASCII windows - not graphical. They didn't do the graphics until 2.0 and even this was a sort of "tag along" with other programs. You bought, say PageMaker for Windows and Windows was only launched as a wrapper around PageMaker.
The phone interferes with the VHF radio - I know this because I can hear it.
I haven't heard it mess with my radio (yet), but I do know that if my Nokia is anywhere near my Lightspeed headset when it rings, it sends all kinds noise across the noise reduction circuits. It needs to be about two feet away to not be heard. This only happens when it "rings", even if all ringing and vibration is turned off and the phone is in silent mode.
I hope to be getting my IFR soon and will definitely be testing to see if it causes any problems. Not that I want to have it on up there, but sometimes I forget.
Back in the day, it was recommended to put all system DLLs into the main system folder and all your custom DLLs into the app folder. But, Windows' awkward design and poor installation utilities led to many system DLLs being overwritten with old or broken versions. You would find yourself with a broken app and really no way to tell what caused it.
So, to stop the headache, we started putting system DLLs locally, thanks to the path priority built into Windows - it always checks local folders first. And it worked, most of the time. If you asked for a DLL by name and another app was using an incompatible version, you would get still the stinky one. But, if you were first to the call then you knew you would get yours.
But, the trend had taken root and like any good weed it is hard to get rid of.
I don't even think this tool is checking for the other sneaky developer trick of renaming the DLLs, either to hide the fact that it's not licensed or other legal yet obscure reasons.
One summer, I was moving my girlfriend from Delaware back to our hometown in New Mexico. We were closing her bank account and wanted to wire the money to her account in New Mexico. It took about 2 hours (and 3 people) to convince the bank idiots that it was inside the USA and they didn't need to charge us an international wire transfer fee.
Also, I did tech support calls for a few years in college and at least once a month some idiot would make a reference to us being "foreign". My favorite was "You speak very good English for living in a foreign country." "I try my best..." is all I could come up with.
I seem to recal this type of artificial heart in a movie that came out sometime in the early 80's. I don't remember much about it mainly because I was 13 or so but I think it had Donald Sutherland in it.
Any ideas?
For 10 years I was a net junkie. If I didn't get my email, news, laugh, or enough time on my fav mmorpg then I was twitchy and grouchy.
:)
:) But while I'm here in the states, I *need* to be connected. I think because everybody else is.
Then, two years ago my wife and I decided to take a year off and go tour SE Asia, mainly Viet Nam.
Yes, they have Internet there but it is mainly in Internet cafes, which are hot, crowded, and quite slow. There are dialups but once you've lived on broadband for such a long time the dialup becomes something you use only when you have to. And so that was what happened. Internet became something that was used when needed. I still checked my email regularly but instead of every hour it was every 2 or 3 days, same with Slashdot.
I had a few personal (programming) projects I was working on which fit nicely onto the laptop, along with a good 20gig of mp3s. I was amazed at how fast I detached from the net. My productivity shot thru the roof, namely because my concentration was focused.
Even here in the states I have yet to reach that state of Zen again primarily because, even though I try, I know the net is right there. The little net thoughts nag at you.
But, back to the topic. You would be amazed at how much technical work you can accomplish without the net being there.
Would I give up what I have now and go back? You bet. Would I miss it? Nope. Broadband is used for P2P or games. That's all I use broadband for anyway.
On a global scope, 99% of all the really cool groundbreaking stuff in the last 100 years, computer or not, was done detached from the net.
I logged in this morning and saw the new user interface and the 2G limit. I've never had my yahoo mail down to 1% before. :)
And another bonus is that yahoo does not count items in their bulk mail (spam) folder towards your quota.
Now to fill up my 2G limit. I think I'll mail myself some CDs.
Comcast allows for business accounts.
I'm pretty sure it's going to run thru same backbone as residential.
The thing that annoys me most is how Cisco is going to handle this.
I bought one of their home/soho routers, the "cheap" $300 one. I wanted more meat to my home broadband than what Linksys had to offer.
The day after I buy it I find out that the software is out of date and there are upgrades. Am I able to get them? Nope. I have to pay an extra $100/year to just get the software updates.
Needless to say, this will be the last Cisco product I own.
Considering the small form factor PCs out there, custom Linux firewall is in the works.
Longhorn replaces Win32 with .NET
.NET into the OS. It is no longer a layer that sits on top like in XP and Win2K.
I'm not too sure what the scope of that statement is because you still have to be able to run legacy stuff that uses the Win32 APIs.
But, Server 2003 already weaved