Guys, when was the last time you were in a public school system? Money is tight for all of them. I have never seen a public school with an unlimited budget. Just because the guy is complaining about finances being tight doesn't make any difference for what he did. He could have installed star office because that opens MS Office documents last time I checked and it's free. He didn't "have" to go installing office on a few dozen computers in a school system. Both businesses and the government know better than to install a single copy on multiple computers. It's in the damn license agreement for God's sake. If they want to buy microsoft products, they should follow the contract or use something else. Sure it would be cheaper to use open source, but face it. How many high school teachers have you heard of that use linux on a regular basis? Not too many from what I remember. They should have the teachers learn right along with the students how to use a free OS that way they can re use those older pentium computers instead of throwing them away for p3's or p4's like they are now. It's rediculous that they can't just take an hour out of their lives to learn something new that would save the school a lot of money. I mean come on, Linux isn't that hard to learn especially since they would be learning X instead of the command prompt. Ditch these netware using, public school IT biatches, and get a few students to help out to set up a linux network, that way the software is free and there would be less problems. But as far as exploitation goes, that's a whole other rant
I say we find some fluorocarbon that can make some global cooling. Seriously now, it's fucking hot where I live. I don't care if we livein ice and snow all year around, there's always florida to vacation to, just make it cooler here damnit
I have both a P6DGE and a P6SBA, and both of them have worked wonderfully for me. Supermicro does still support older boards if you check into it. They modified both of my boards so they could take coppermine chips, so now I'm running dual 800's with the same board that's 3 years old. I've used just about every motherboard maker out there, and supermicro has always been my favorite. Besides, I kinda like my boards being 6 layers instead of 3 or 4
Ok, I would like to say that no one thought of using the babel fish japanese to english translator. That site was not entirely about a dual socket A motherboard. The supermicro board you saw was the 370ddi board, a new dual p3/celeron board that has 5 SDRAM slots, not DIMM slots. The actual dual socket A part was very small and only mentioned the Tyan board. Please translate before you go posting something like this, because it just creates a lot of hype for things that are false.
Speaking as a nuclear engineering major, I have to say that getting americium is actually pretty easy. Separating the different elements from the spent fuel in a reactor can be done through electricity or steam. As we all may remember from high school chemistry, or not in most cases, electricity separates elements in a solution. This might not be the best way to do it, but it is possible. Steam is a whole other long explanation that I don't know the exacts of but I know the gist of it because I'm not a fission major, I'm plasma:) Anyway, Americium is definitely an idea, but from what I remember, americium is one of the weaker radioactive elements. We might be better off using something better. But then again, I am a plasma major so I support plasma rockets:)
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I very much agree with you, but the way that "democracy" is set up, we have to accomodate everyone equally. I find this quite hard to believe since there are special groups in schools, such as the talented and gifted program at many k-12 institutions, which there are few black students. I feel that we should separate those that want to succeed from those who don't. I took Advanced Placement courses at my high school because I couldn't stand sitting in the classes with the cretons any longer. I received all benefits from that, and I encourage that program to continue because it is a legal way to separate the achievers from the morons. Although, when I take over the world one day, we'll run everything based on intelligence and ability instead of race and gender. But that's not happening anytime soon, so parents, urge your kids into AP courses!
I grew up in an affluent white suburb of Atlanta, GA. I am caucasian, but I am not rich by any means, therefore I have been at a disadvantage at my own schooling. I have never lashed out at anyone for them making me not as wealthy as others in my area, but I managed myself through school and made a name for myself as an individual, NOT as a lower middle class white anglo-saxon protestant.
I have worked in the Technology sector for years now, and I am almost done with college. Being at a major university, I see lots of forms of segregation. None strike me so much as the way that the blacks at my school want to be left alone or given preferential treatment. I use the term blacks because not all people of that race are from africa, I have black friends from england and france who abhor being called an african american. Therefore, I refuse to call every black person I see an african american because that is a stereotype no matter how you see it. Now at my particular college, which shall remain nameless, if you go into the student center at lunch time, you see two things, a section of an assortment of races and genders spread out amongst the room, except for one large cluster in the middle that is predominantly black. Two of my friends are a mix of white and black, and they are ridiculed consistently for sitting with non-blacks. I found this rather peculiar until I learned why. Many blacks at my school consider anyone who is "not black enough" to be rogues of their race. I think that as a white male, I don't care who any white person sits with because they make their choices based on personal comfort not on race. As for being in classes, this rule somewhat applies still.
In my school, a big engineering school, I have seen few black students. There are some who distinguish themselves and are model students. Then there are also many african american culture majors who ride by with C's and D's all through college. I notice that very few blacks go into CS or CIS at all. Mostly I see white males, Indians, and Asians. Believe me, we are not gender bias in the CS department. We would LOVE for any female who wishes to enter our classes to do so. Believe me, we really REALLY want more women in CS.
I find that microsoft, based in multitudes of countries in the world, breaking both racial and ethnic barriers, is obviously not guilty of racism. Is microsoft to blame for an employee feeling out of place at their job? No. That employee can request a transfer within the company to a department more to their liking, which is allowed and encouraged instead of leaving. Some may say that this is wrong because they make the employee move, well Microsoft does not make the employee move. Microsoft employees must adhere at all times to certain standards set by the company, and if an employee breaks those standards, that employee may be fired, as with any other company on the planet. By this I mean that if a manager or co-worker were to make a racist joke or comment, that worker would be fired. I personally am more offended by gansta rap and the black entertainment channel than I am by hearing a white joke at work. Yes we can't dance, and believe me, I don't even try. Now should a black person at my work make a comment about race, I'll take it in good humor. If they go putting kill whitey signs in my cubicle, then I'll probably type harder:) After a while, then I would complain to the manager, but personally, I don't see how putting up with other people's crap is grounds for stealing 5 Billion dollars from a company. Believe me, this is nothing more than a scam for a few people to get rich off the fat of a successful company and I hope they lose on grounds of stupidity. I commend microsoft for hiring a diverse group, asians, blacks, hispanics, caucasians, indians, and especially arabs, check iran the next time encryption software is made..... To make a long story short, these jilted few who are suing microsoft deserve to be sued themselves for trying to take advantage of their race for financial gain. If being poor and white in an extremely wealthy white area meant that I could sue for billions, I wouldn't even do it. The issue isn't racism, but rather integrity and honesty.
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you're exactly right, comparing apples and oranges, at least make an honest attept to conduct fair and equal tests.
Guys, when was the last time you were in a public school system? Money is tight for all of them. I have never seen a public school with an unlimited budget. Just because the guy is complaining about finances being tight doesn't make any difference for what he did. He could have installed star office because that opens MS Office documents last time I checked and it's free. He didn't "have" to go installing office on a few dozen computers in a school system. Both businesses and the government know better than to install a single copy on multiple computers. It's in the damn license agreement for God's sake. If they want to buy microsoft products, they should follow the contract or use something else. Sure it would be cheaper to use open source, but face it. How many high school teachers have you heard of that use linux on a regular basis? Not too many from what I remember. They should have the teachers learn right along with the students how to use a free OS that way they can re use those older pentium computers instead of throwing them away for p3's or p4's like they are now. It's rediculous that they can't just take an hour out of their lives to learn something new that would save the school a lot of money. I mean come on, Linux isn't that hard to learn especially since they would be learning X instead of the command prompt. Ditch these netware using, public school IT biatches, and get a few students to help out to set up a linux network, that way the software is free and there would be less problems. But as far as exploitation goes, that's a whole other rant
I say we find some fluorocarbon that can make some global cooling. Seriously now, it's fucking hot where I live. I don't care if we livein ice and snow all year around, there's always florida to vacation to, just make it cooler here damnit
I have both a P6DGE and a P6SBA, and both of them have worked wonderfully for me. Supermicro does still support older boards if you check into it. They modified both of my boards so they could take coppermine chips, so now I'm running dual 800's with the same board that's 3 years old. I've used just about every motherboard maker out there, and supermicro has always been my favorite. Besides, I kinda like my boards being 6 layers instead of 3 or 4
Ok, I would like to say that no one thought of using the babel fish japanese to english translator. That site was not entirely about a dual socket A motherboard. The supermicro board you saw was the 370ddi board, a new dual p3/celeron board that has 5 SDRAM slots, not DIMM slots. The actual dual socket A part was very small and only mentioned the Tyan board. Please translate before you go posting something like this, because it just creates a lot of hype for things that are false.
Speaking as a nuclear engineering major, I have to say that getting americium is actually pretty easy. Separating the different elements from the spent fuel in a reactor can be done through electricity or steam. As we all may remember from high school chemistry, or not in most cases, electricity separates elements in a solution. This might not be the best way to do it, but it is possible. Steam is a whole other long explanation that I don't know the exacts of but I know the gist of it because I'm not a fission major, I'm plasma :) Anyway, Americium is definitely an idea, but from what I remember, americium is one of the weaker radioactive elements. We might be better off using something better. But then again, I am a plasma major so I support plasma rockets :)
I very much agree with you, but the way that "democracy" is set up, we have to accomodate everyone equally. I find this quite hard to believe since there are special groups in schools, such as the talented and gifted program at many k-12 institutions, which there are few black students. I feel that we should separate those that want to succeed from those who don't. I took Advanced Placement courses at my high school because I couldn't stand sitting in the classes with the cretons any longer. I received all benefits from that, and I encourage that program to continue because it is a legal way to separate the achievers from the morons. Although, when I take over the world one day, we'll run everything based on intelligence and ability instead of race and gender. But that's not happening anytime soon, so parents, urge your kids into AP courses!
I grew up in an affluent white suburb of Atlanta, GA. I am caucasian, but I am not rich by any means, therefore I have been at a disadvantage at my own schooling. I have never lashed out at anyone for them making me not as wealthy as others in my area, but I managed myself through school and made a name for myself as an individual, NOT as a lower middle class white anglo-saxon protestant. I have worked in the Technology sector for years now, and I am almost done with college. Being at a major university, I see lots of forms of segregation. None strike me so much as the way that the blacks at my school want to be left alone or given preferential treatment. I use the term blacks because not all people of that race are from africa, I have black friends from england and france who abhor being called an african american. Therefore, I refuse to call every black person I see an african american because that is a stereotype no matter how you see it. Now at my particular college, which shall remain nameless, if you go into the student center at lunch time, you see two things, a section of an assortment of races and genders spread out amongst the room, except for one large cluster in the middle that is predominantly black. Two of my friends are a mix of white and black, and they are ridiculed consistently for sitting with non-blacks. I found this rather peculiar until I learned why. Many blacks at my school consider anyone who is "not black enough" to be rogues of their race. I think that as a white male, I don't care who any white person sits with because they make their choices based on personal comfort not on race. As for being in classes, this rule somewhat applies still. In my school, a big engineering school, I have seen few black students. There are some who distinguish themselves and are model students. Then there are also many african american culture majors who ride by with C's and D's all through college. I notice that very few blacks go into CS or CIS at all. Mostly I see white males, Indians, and Asians. Believe me, we are not gender bias in the CS department. We would LOVE for any female who wishes to enter our classes to do so. Believe me, we really REALLY want more women in CS. I find that microsoft, based in multitudes of countries in the world, breaking both racial and ethnic barriers, is obviously not guilty of racism. Is microsoft to blame for an employee feeling out of place at their job? No. That employee can request a transfer within the company to a department more to their liking, which is allowed and encouraged instead of leaving. Some may say that this is wrong because they make the employee move, well Microsoft does not make the employee move. Microsoft employees must adhere at all times to certain standards set by the company, and if an employee breaks those standards, that employee may be fired, as with any other company on the planet. By this I mean that if a manager or co-worker were to make a racist joke or comment, that worker would be fired. I personally am more offended by gansta rap and the black entertainment channel than I am by hearing a white joke at work. Yes we can't dance, and believe me, I don't even try. Now should a black person at my work make a comment about race, I'll take it in good humor. If they go putting kill whitey signs in my cubicle, then I'll probably type harder :) After a while, then I would complain to the manager, but personally, I don't see how putting up with other people's crap is grounds for stealing 5 Billion dollars from a company. Believe me, this is nothing more than a scam for a few people to get rich off the fat of a successful company and I hope they lose on grounds of stupidity. I commend microsoft for hiring a diverse group, asians, blacks, hispanics, caucasians, indians, and especially arabs, check iran the next time encryption software is made..... To make a long story short, these jilted few who are suing microsoft deserve to be sued themselves for trying to take advantage of their race for financial gain. If being poor and white in an extremely wealthy white area meant that I could sue for billions, I wouldn't even do it. The issue isn't racism, but rather integrity and honesty.