I suppose that I could look up the exact tuition, but $8k is in line with other Catholic high schools in major metropolitan areas. That means about $8M a year in tuition, of which $100K is 1.25%.
Or, $100/student.
(That $8M will not be the entire school budget--the Jesuit order heavily subsidizes its schools, even moreso than many other Catholic schools).
it doesn't seem to be very friendly to the formats used by the humanities in general, probably because it's much more commonly used for scientific or mathematical documents),
I dunno about any discipline that doesn't accept LaTeX article class as a valid submission format . ..
:)
hawk, who strongly suspects that both MLA and APA were written by people who couldn't write . ..
Actually, has anyone out there run into any issues with OpenOffice as a substitute for M$ Office?
There's a couple of issues.
No grammar checker (but since this is a Jesuit school, they probably learned to write well as freshmen. Freshman writing papers were done pretty much on an A or F basis when I went . ..).
While the grammar checker still has serious shortcomings, it can help with little issues such as ending sentences with periods, and the like. (But I 'll note that when it first appeared in Word 5.1, not only was it painfully slow [about a minute per paragraph on a machine that was fast for the time], but that *every* single thing it caught was *wrong*. [But then, I'd had a few years of Jesuits]).
And OpenOffice 2.0 can't successfully play the music with the powerpoint slide show that got distributed for our firstgraders.
And there are probably still pagination isssues, where forms that are supposed to be a single page come out a bit over, and the like. (But I seriously suspect that those are actually Word rendering problems--for crying out loud, the footnote spacing bug [leaves grossly excessive space when footnotes are anywhere near the bottom of the page] is *still* there after over twenty years).
hawk, who faced 32 term papers a couple of weaks ago, some of which weree downright painful
Just off the cuff, calculator chips in the 70's used to be used for several models, and articles ran in print magazines such as popular electronics explaining how to add buttons to the case to get the ectra functions.
in at least the 60's, IBM had field upgrades that amounted to removing a plug that disabled alternate clock cycles.
on-chip fuses that control which units are active. after the device is tested and assigned an identity, blow the fuses for the unused portions.
This could also have been done to fight chip counterfitting--fuses inside for the possible speeds, and blow the fuses for speeds that it didn't test as (or wasn't sold as). Alternatively, a bit on the case that is broken off to indicate the speed, with more broken off indicating lower speeds.
Don't feel bad. I remember not knowing what I was going to do with that 16k of memory expansion . . . but 4k just wasn't enough.
16gb is plenty for most things that don't need a desktop.
hawk, sitting next to a machine with a 340mb drive, with a machine with a 40mb drive in the next room and another withnothing but 24kb of static ram upstairs
You look like the right people to ask my question:)
Can raid 5, or something similar, be done with asymmetric disks? The particular application I'm thinking about is a central household server, and periodically replacing the smallest disk from time to time (or just adding more to the mix).
This would seem to give a reasonable safety level (if it works), while adjusting to the reality that backups, umm, tend to get overlooked "at times."
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I suppose that I could look up the exact tuition, but $8k is in line with other Catholic high schools in major metropolitan areas. That means about $8M a year in tuition, of which $100K is 1.25%.
Or, $100/student.
(That $8M will not be the entire school budget--the Jesuit order heavily subsidizes its schools, even moreso than many other Catholic schools).
hawk
I dunno about any discipline that doesn't accept LaTeX article class as a valid submission format . .
hawk, who strongly suspects that both MLA and APA were written by people who couldn't write . .
>Macros typically will not work,
But what about the huge installed base of viruses? How will they run?
hawk
Actually, has anyone out there run into any issues with OpenOffice as a substitute for M$ Office?
.).
There's a couple of issues.
No grammar checker (but since this is a Jesuit school, they probably learned to write well as freshmen. Freshman writing papers were done pretty much on an A or F basis when I went . .
While the grammar checker still has serious shortcomings, it can help with little issues such as ending sentences with periods, and the like. (But I 'll note that when it first appeared in Word 5.1, not only was it painfully slow [about a minute per paragraph on a machine that was fast for the time], but that *every* single thing it caught was *wrong*. [But then, I'd had a few years of Jesuits]).
And OpenOffice 2.0 can't successfully play the music with the powerpoint slide show that got distributed for our firstgraders.
And there are probably still pagination isssues, where forms that are supposed to be a single page come out a bit over, and the like. (But I seriously suspect that those are actually Word rendering problems--for crying out loud, the footnote spacing bug [leaves grossly excessive space when footnotes are anywhere near the bottom of the page] is *still* there after over twenty years).
hawk, who faced 32 term papers a couple of weaks ago, some of which weree downright painful
It always makes me laugh to hear "old-school" gamers complain about companies putting graphics ahead of gameplay.
No, those are newbies. Old timers complain about having graphics in games at all.
hawk who understands that nethack is the only game that matters
hawk
True, I read the calculator articles as they printed.
:)
However, IBM was doing this before I was born.
History--a wonderful thing
hawk
actually, it's turnabout :)
.
Windows 3.1 didn't come with built-in internet capacity. It was added with your browser.
When explorer was introduced (or was it an upgrade?), it overwrote some of netscape's files, disabling netscape.
It's only fair that netscape return the favor . .
hawk
Just off the cuff, calculator chips in the 70's used to be used for several models, and articles ran in print magazines such as popular electronics explaining how to add buttons to the case to get the ectra functions.
in at least the 60's, IBM had field upgrades that amounted to removing a plug that disabled alternate clock cycles.
And I'm sure that there are even older examples.
on-chip fuses that control which units are active. after the device is tested and assigned an identity, blow the fuses for the unused portions.
This could also have been done to fight chip counterfitting--fuses inside for the possible speeds, and blow the fuses for speeds that it didn't test as (or wasn't sold as). Alternatively, a bit on the case that is broken off to indicate the speed, with more broken off indicating lower speeds.
The original TRS-80 used the same connector for power, video, and cassette.
I learned this from my fuming boss who had reached behind the unit to connect cords he couldn't see. Found sockets that fit everything, and *ZAP!!!*.
He was even more dismayed that anyone would design such an idiotic system than he was angry at losing the system.
hawk
That wasn't informative--it was just plain *wrong*.
No prototype is required in the US.
hawk
ahh. Thanks.
hawk
I don't suppose you'd want to tell us what that option is? :)
hawk
THus, there will soon be plenty of little left-handers about.
hawk
For those of us used to sacrificing small rodents (and the occasional freshman) to scsi chains, that doesn't sound like a big deal . .
hawk
hawk
Don't feel bad. I remember not knowing what I was going to do with that 16k of memory expansion . . . but 4k just wasn't enough.
16gb is plenty for most things that don't need a desktop.
hawk, sitting next to a machine with a 340mb drive, with a machine with a 40mb drive in the next room and another withnothing but 24kb of static ram upstairs
All your files are belong to us . .
hawk
I had a preliminary interview with an ag econ deparment in the Dakotas, the North I think.
They were quite interested in my algorithm for genetic improvement, after asking if it could be used on chickens.
Iowa winters were bad enough, but when he told me that it would hit -60F and stay there . . . I never sent a resume.
hawk
Not only that, but he got his facts wrong.
Those toolbox routines weren't in assembler, but hand-assembled hex code. There *was* no source code for them (well, maybe scribblings on paper).
Had there been assembly code, it would have ben a great start for cross-compiling.
hawk
Taking my hand off the wheel to change gears, and then screwing with the clutch...it's just another distraction
If you find shifting gears a distraction, you plain and simply lack the aptitude to operate an automobile (or, possibly, are speaking from ignorance).
If shifting gears requires any portion of attention, and you are not in your first couple of weeks with a real transmission . . . *shudder*
hawk, who may get stiffed with an automatic in his uhaul due to incompetent drivers
but please someone get the flaming torches and the villagers with pitchforks, and put a stake through the thing's heart
We're trying, really! Unfortunately, we were already asked to do this with the Amiga.
We held Amiga down, drove the stake through, and stopped to admire our handywork. And then it got up and ran away, stake and all.
So, just as soon as we catch Amiga and recover our stake, we'll try it on this monster.
You look like the right people to ask my question :)
Can raid 5, or something similar, be done with asymmetric disks? The particular application I'm thinking about is a central household server, and periodically replacing the smallest disk from time to time (or just adding more to the mix).
This would seem to give a reasonable safety level (if it works), while adjusting to the reality that backups, umm, tend to get overlooked "at times."
hawk
"Ten thousand XXXXXX slashdot editors
ran through the weeds,
chased by vun norvegian"
hawk