I own a t41p th servell serves me well. I used my friends T60 and the new keyboard arrangement annoyed me. I was impressed by the build quality of the dell Vostro and the HP NC8460(they have the nub which I still like to use sometimes)
There is only one barrier that matters in Engineering. It is hard! anthing short of 100% determination (and ofcourse being rasonably smart)and you will loose interest and/or fail out. If I had another carreer option that I could have found myself being reasonably good at, I might have quit too. As for geek culture, what exactly is it and how does it alienate women? I have been told I am a geek, but aside from my having a good handle on all things technical, what exactly makes me a geek?
A little off argument, but I have three sisters all of whom are brilliant engineers. But only because anything short of Doctor/Engineer doesn't get much respect where we came from, and medicine was so far out of the realm of interest.
First of all I have to say I find the ignorance of some of the replies here quite discusting. May I remind people here the Africa is a continent with many entirely separate nations not all of which are poor or wartorn. Having said that I am in Zambia.
I am posting off a 256K radio link broadband connection that costs $100/month (Its worth it if only for International Skype calls). The downside is the latency because the ISP uses vsat links. There is no access to coastline fiber because we are landlocked and hooking up to a coastline countries network requires a hell of alot of politicall will. The main issue is few people inderstand the value of the internet aside from the occasional e-mail. Meanwhile we have 5 competing cell phone providers charging ridiculous rates and raking in the $$$. The political response is usually "we have people starving and dying in the villages so why worring about internet access." Never mind the fact that local businesses can't compete on the global market without internet and thus the place never improves.
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I own a t41p th servell serves me well. I used my friends T60 and the new keyboard arrangement annoyed me. I was impressed by the build quality of the dell Vostro and the HP NC8460(they have the nub which I still like to use sometimes)
There is only one barrier that matters in Engineering. It is hard! anthing short of 100% determination (and ofcourse being rasonably smart)and you will loose interest and/or fail out. If I had another carreer option that I could have found myself being reasonably good at, I might have quit too. As for geek culture, what exactly is it and how does it alienate women? I have been told I am a geek, but aside from my having a good handle on all things technical, what exactly makes me a geek? A little off argument, but I have three sisters all of whom are brilliant engineers. But only because anything short of Doctor/Engineer doesn't get much respect where we came from, and medicine was so far out of the realm of interest.
First of all I have to say I find the ignorance of some of the replies here quite discusting. May I remind people here the Africa is a continent with many entirely separate nations not all of which are poor or wartorn. Having said that I am in Zambia. I am posting off a 256K radio link broadband connection that costs $100/month (Its worth it if only for International Skype calls). The downside is the latency because the ISP uses vsat links. There is no access to coastline fiber because we are landlocked and hooking up to a coastline countries network requires a hell of alot of politicall will. The main issue is few people inderstand the value of the internet aside from the occasional e-mail. Meanwhile we have 5 competing cell phone providers charging ridiculous rates and raking in the $$$. The political response is usually "we have people starving and dying in the villages so why worring about internet access." Never mind the fact that local businesses can't compete on the global market without internet and thus the place never improves.