"2. In your favor most colleges use some form of unix..."
The college I'm majoring in CS at (a fairly large state university) has precisely one UNIX/Linux box that I know of. It's an x86 running Red Hat 6.1, and only CS students can log into it. Furthermore, the machine is a fairly tightly-kept secret... a student or faculty member has to go ask a certain professor in person during his office hours in order to get a password. Why so secret? You tell me. I've never been able to get a satisfactory answer out of anyone.
Once upon a time, the campus network was (I believe) VMS, but about four years ago the switch was made to NT. With the exception of a few MacOS boxes in the open labs and a few Win9x boxes in faculty offices, everything on campus runs NT. Why sell all the terminals, switch to NT, and buy expensive PCs to replace every VMS term, when students have already been using VMS, and therefore could probably stomach Linux? Again, you tell me; I've never been agle to get a satisfactory answer out of anyone.
Actually, Clarke writes in The Lost Worlds of 2001 that he and the late Kubrick wrote their respective works simultaneously. They frequently consulted one another, to keep the two efforts from straying too far apart.
Also, I believe 2010 [the book, not the movie] mentions that Chandra had started work on HAL 10^4, but 2061 reveals he never finished.
Get addicted to Unreal Tournament, and I think you'll find that your desk gets arranged in such a way that simultaneous keyboard and mouse is supported. Where there's a will, there's a way.
A "LARGE, GLOBAL advertising campaign" might not be the best thing in the world for Linux right now. Linux is still not quite ready for mass consumption. Not in the gamer market (which is where it will break first, like it or not), and definitely not the general luser market. If Linux 'goes pop' too soon, it gets even more of a reputation for being inscrutable... though a global ad campaign might be good for Corel's stock;)
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"2. In your favor most colleges use some form of unix..."
The college I'm majoring in CS at (a fairly large state university) has precisely one UNIX/Linux box that I know of. It's an x86 running Red Hat 6.1, and only CS students can log into it. Furthermore, the machine is a fairly tightly-kept secret... a student or faculty member has to go ask a certain professor in person during his office hours in order to get a password. Why so secret? You tell me. I've never been able to get a satisfactory answer out of anyone.
Once upon a time, the campus network was (I believe) VMS, but about four years ago the switch was made to NT. With the exception of a few MacOS boxes in the open labs and a few Win9x boxes in faculty offices, everything on campus runs NT. Why sell all the terminals, switch to NT, and buy expensive PCs to replace every VMS term, when students have already been using VMS, and therefore could probably stomach Linux? Again, you tell me; I've never been agle to get a satisfactory answer out of anyone.
Actually, Clarke writes in The Lost Worlds of 2001 that he and the late Kubrick wrote their respective works simultaneously. They frequently consulted one another, to keep the two efforts from straying too far apart.
Also, I believe 2010 [the book, not the movie] mentions that Chandra had started work on HAL 10^4, but 2061 reveals he never finished.
Get addicted to Unreal Tournament, and I think you'll find that your desk gets arranged in such a way that simultaneous keyboard and mouse is supported. Where there's a will, there's a way.
A "LARGE, GLOBAL advertising campaign" might not be the best thing in the world for Linux right now. Linux is still not quite ready for mass consumption. Not in the gamer market (which is where it will break first, like it or not), and definitely not the general luser market. If Linux 'goes pop' too soon, it gets even more of a reputation for being inscrutable... though a global ad campaign might be good for Corel's stock ;)