I work at a state university where the largest campus lab (over 120 seats) are 20" iMacs. The lab is on a 2 year upgrade schedule, and the other mac labs on campus (another 140 or so seats total) are on a 3 year upgrade schedule. We have G5's, new iMac's or G4 towers (with cinema displays) in all the public labs. OS X is standard (Panther after this summer).
The PC's (I'm talking labs, not faculty or department setups) on campus probably double the Mac's as there is not one mac in the Business school (maybe 200 PC's), and PC's usually are next to major mac labs.
We have a few people very high up on the IT pecking order who push hard for Apple, and we keep the technology cutting edge to stay relevant. Also high-tech media labs that do video, music and graphics really need a top of the line mac setup (industry standard), which gives mac os a foothold on campus.
have word from apple that the reason G5's aren't being rolled out yet is that Panther won't run on them. The machines are ready to go but there's no OS to run on them.
The version of OSX that will ship with the G5's is 10.2.7, which has backwards hacks of 10.3 stuff like expose... which is an incredible trick btw.
Graduating senior who works for campus networking here.
as far as bang for the buck, and ease of use on campus networks (read: little to no configuration, built in wireless), the iBook is where its at. even the $999 flavor
I got one 2 years ago and everyone who sees me using it asks to check it out. I have 6 friends who have bought them to use at school.
People aren't going to be able to pull new features and UI improvements out of their asses, guys.
Oh yes they are. Programmers (designers - one in the same?) have been doing it for decades now. new version coming out - add features! God forbid we look at what never gets used, or serves only to confuse the majority of users (none of whom are/. readers). You will never see a MS release that is simpler than the previous version.
if programmers don't decide that most users are goal driven, and don't care about the beautiful process of obtaining that goal (which are highly refined tasks, wonderful code and the substance of the program, which leads to new and more complex widgets) then the new release will always be more complex, and lead to jading most users, except the programmers who understand the substance of the program.
And this jading will lead to cloning, as people just aren't thinking thats there is a paradigm other than the ultraSuite that is Office.
Screw interface design. Stop designing for the computer and around its rules, which MS has branded into commercial software. most programs suck, and we can't change that until we stop thinking in terms of whats popular.
I find it funny when someone who happens to be much better at extremely technical and demanding studying bashes on kids in the Business school !
I'm an IS major, and dumped CS to go here. I couldn't take the work ! but I didn't fail.. I knew that if I wanted to become an expert in AI I would have to drop any shred of a social life. the stuff just doesn't come easy to me, and college is more about life than anything. wait till grad school to crack down 100%
you know they put this on such a random, sure fire non-platinum cd for a reson. they want to see us break the shit so they can make it better ! Which I'm sure people will do.
Christ, and I thought Boulder had enough ambigous racism encoded into the society - I dont see more than 5 african americans a day as is on the university campus, now middle school kids are told its bad to think about stuff like this.
I gotta move back to NY
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How long have you been listening to the world's famous?
'Bout six weeks.
Six weeks!
The anti-anti-drug movement has come so far, why stop fighting? Anyone who agrees with me needs to show their true colors and say something about it!!
Amen my brother !
I had a bad experience with LSD when I was younger, before I really knew much about drugs (besides marijuana). I ended up taking too much, not understanding what the drug would do to me in the first place, not knowing the drug could be laced with something really harmful (like PCP, which the doses I bought turned out to be combined with). Plain and simple I should have looked into the facts about the drug (hyperreal) before I ate too much and ended up in the hospital! And with kids today trying more substances earlier in thier lives, we need open information on drugs readily available.
--- How long have you been listening to the world's famous? 'Bout six weeks. Six weeks!
What I want to know is how much of an impact on the recreational drug culture we can expect after the next dedcade or so. Are there going to be fun new designer drugs that only work on one type of person? Enhance a drug experience like crazy for one type of person, not work on or kill another person?
--- How long have you been listening to the world's famous? 'Bout six weeks. Six weeks!
My friend got "Metallicaed" as he put it from napster due to one song -- this song was a rare remix of a Metallica song by one of his favorite bands - KMFDM... Now thats lame.
--- How long have you been listening to the world's famous? 'Bout six weeks. Six weeks!
Yeah, there's a huge difference between an algorithm of *instant*, or one operation, run time and a *logorithmic* run time algorithm, when it comes to massive databases.
Actually, am I even able to use such words when discussing QC?
--- How long have you been listening to the world's famous? 'Bout six weeks. Six weeks!
Considering how long WIN has been running and tweaking how both 3D hardware and software work with the OS in relation to games, I'd say Linux is doing great.
--- How long have you been listening to the world's famous? 'Bout six weeks. Six weeks!
Agreed, the artists don't get *nearly* what they deserve (I heard Tribe Called Quest actually made like $.50 an album for one of their older LP's). I could care weather every A&R, record exec etc "lives dies, or grows hair in their crack". But when my favorite artists (people who's music, and therefor opinions I agree with) express the fact that they are peeved by the potential pirate ship that which is Napster, I am inclined to at the very least, briefly rethink my convictions.
And yes, we do have a right to know where all the money from CD's are going, I want to find a breakdown somewhere too...
--- How long have you been listening to the world's famous? 'Bout six weeks. Six weeks!
I was an avid Napster user (my dorm had a freakin' OC-12, how could I not be) and was all about free music. Now that artists I'm a fan of, like Dre and Eminem are speaking out on Napster, I actually have stopped using it. So now that other powerful media figures are speaking their mind on the service, how does the general geek public find themselves affected? I could have downloaded the new Eminem album, but quite frankly, I can wait till tommorrow for the offocial release, so my hard earned money becomes someone else who I respect's hard earned money. Download singles, buy the album is my new maxim.
--- How long have you been listening to the world's famous? 'Bout six weeks. Six weeks!
You should go ahead and make a massive intelligent agent that cruizes around the web, gathering information it finds "relevant", "interesting", and eventually contacts a similar agent somewhere in Centuari.
--- How long have you been listening to the world's famous? 'Bout six weeks. Six weeks!
Wow, these are bold words. Sue napster users? Of course Dre would have to go after users to get his songs off of Napster, as Napster themselves actually has nothing to do with the distribution of specific mp3's. Anybody know that Dre's lawyer is the same guy who represents Metallica? And we all know how they got Yale to shut down Napster service. Personally, as far as hip-hop goes I think Napster is just like mix tapes, no direct revenue to the musicians, but they get their stuff heard, and that can only be a good thing. Please read further into Dre's (and now Napster users) dilemma at Aka : here and here.
/me unshares all his Dr. Dre mp3's
--- How long have you been listening to the world's famous? 'Bout six weeks. Six weeks!
I was pondering just the same thing. Doom wasn't the first 2.5D FPS, Wolfenstein was! None the less an id game. So yes, I think id then has ownership rights on every FPS?
I see nanotechnology as the single most interesting/important aspect to the advancement of technology. (yeah, I said it!) If we can create *little* robots that can interact with matter on a molecular basis, what can't they do? Take the atoms from a pile of dirt and make a building with it? Go into our bodies and fix diseases on a molecular level? Create food from useless items? Actually 'hold' out cars to the road? Anyone read the Wired a while back about future technology? There was some very interesting hypothetical inventions in there based soley on nanotech. Boots that turn into a car etc. Personally I'm super psyched for nano, and I hop I live to see high-level implementation.
Of course, I'm a fan, not the man of nano, so please feel free to flame away at my foolishness.
Slashdot Mirror
should have read "anyone who uses Windows"
I work at a state university where the largest campus lab (over 120 seats) are 20" iMacs. The lab is on a 2 year upgrade schedule, and the other mac labs on campus (another 140 or so seats total) are on a 3 year upgrade schedule. We have G5's, new iMac's or G4 towers (with cinema displays) in all the public labs. OS X is standard (Panther after this summer).
The PC's (I'm talking labs, not faculty or department setups) on campus probably double the Mac's as there is not one mac in the Business school (maybe 200 PC's), and PC's usually are next to major mac labs.
We have a few people very high up on the IT pecking order who push hard for Apple, and we keep the technology cutting edge to stay relevant. Also high-tech media labs that do video, music and graphics really need a top of the line mac setup (industry standard), which gives mac os a foothold on campus.
maybe palmsource knows something we dont re: isync?
have word from apple that the reason G5's aren't being rolled out yet is that Panther won't run on them. The machines are ready to go but there's no OS to run on them.
... which is an incredible trick btw.
The version of OSX that will ship with the G5's is 10.2.7, which has backwards hacks of 10.3 stuff like expose
Graduating senior who works for campus networking here.
as far as bang for the buck, and ease of use on campus networks (read: little to no configuration, built in wireless), the iBook is where its at. even the $999 flavor
I got one 2 years ago and everyone who sees me using it asks to check it out. I have 6 friends who have bought them to use at school.
People aren't going to be able to pull new features and UI improvements out of their asses, guys.
/. readers). You will never see a MS release that is simpler than the previous version.
Oh yes they are. Programmers (designers - one in the same?) have been doing it for decades now. new version coming out - add features! God forbid we look at what never gets used, or serves only to confuse the majority of users (none of whom are
if programmers don't decide that most users are goal driven, and don't care about the beautiful process of obtaining that goal (which are highly refined tasks, wonderful code and the substance of the program, which leads to new and more complex widgets) then the new release will always be more complex, and lead to jading most users, except the programmers who understand the substance of the program.
And this jading will lead to cloning, as people just aren't thinking thats there is a paradigm other than the ultraSuite that is Office.
Screw interface design. Stop designing for the computer and around its rules, which MS has branded into commercial software. most programs suck, and we can't change that until we stop thinking in terms of whats popular.
I find it funny when someone who happens to be much better at extremely technical and demanding studying bashes on kids in the Business school !
.. I knew that if I wanted to become an expert in AI I would have to drop any shred of a social life. the stuff just doesn't come easy to me, and college is more about life than anything. wait till grad school to crack down 100%
I'm an IS major, and dumped CS to go here. I couldn't take the work ! but I didn't fail
I'm going drinking
you know they put this on such a random, sure fire non-platinum cd for a reson. they want to see us break the shit so they can make it better ! Which I'm sure people will do.
"mom, it'll increase hand-eye cordination and concentration ! " - huge line I gave my folks begging for the original Nintendo.
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How long have you been listening to the world's famous?
'Bout six weeks.
Six weeks!
Christ, and I thought Boulder had enough ambigous racism encoded into the society - I dont see more than 5 african americans a day as is on the university campus, now middle school kids are told its bad to think about stuff like this.
I gotta move back to NY
---
How long have you been listening to the world's famous?
'Bout six weeks.
Six weeks!
The anti-anti-drug movement has come so far, why stop fighting? Anyone who agrees with me needs to show their true colors and say something about it!!
Amen my brother !
I had a bad experience with LSD when I was younger, before I really knew much about drugs (besides marijuana). I ended up taking too much, not understanding what the drug would do to me in the first place, not knowing the drug could be laced with something really harmful (like PCP, which the doses I bought turned out to be combined with). Plain and simple I should have looked into the facts about the drug (hyperreal) before I ate too much and ended up in the hospital! And with kids today trying more substances earlier in thier lives, we need open information on drugs readily available.
---
How long have you been listening to the world's famous?
'Bout six weeks.
Six weeks!
What I want to know is how much of an impact on the recreational drug culture we can expect after the next dedcade or so. Are there going to be fun new designer drugs that only work on one type of person? Enhance a drug experience like crazy for one type of person, not work on or kill another person?
---
How long have you been listening to the world's famous?
'Bout six weeks.
Six weeks!
So how long until movies are released on the web before they hit theatres? And how long until the first trial?
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How long have you been listening to the world's famous?
'Bout six weeks.
Six weeks!
I believe the remix was released on a KMFDM album, if it was released at all ...
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How long have you been listening to the world's famous?
'Bout six weeks.
Six weeks!
My friend got "Metallicaed" as he put it from napster due to one song -- this song was a rare remix of a Metallica song by one of his favorite bands - KMFDM... Now thats lame.
---
How long have you been listening to the world's famous?
'Bout six weeks.
Six weeks!
Yeah, there's a huge difference between an algorithm of *instant*, or one operation, run time and a *logorithmic* run time algorithm, when it comes to massive databases.
Actually, am I even able to use such words when discussing QC?
---
How long have you been listening to the world's famous?
'Bout six weeks.
Six weeks!
Considering how long WIN has been running and tweaking how both 3D hardware and software work with the OS in relation to games, I'd say Linux is doing great.
---
How long have you been listening to the world's famous?
'Bout six weeks.
Six weeks!
Hearty agreement! I am running OS X DR 4 on a G3 300, and although the load time for apps seems to be a little sticky, the interface has me hooked.
:)
...
It is weird (nice?) to have a shell running in a pretty window with glowing gel buttons on the title bar, tho.
I was psyched when the first thing OS X setup asked me for was a new root password
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How long have you been listening to the world's famous?
'Bout six weeks.
Six weeks!
Agreed, the artists don't get *nearly* what they deserve (I heard Tribe Called Quest actually made like $.50 an album for one of their older LP's). I could care weather every A&R, record exec etc "lives dies, or grows hair in their crack". But when my favorite artists (people who's music, and therefor opinions I agree with) express the fact that they are peeved by the potential pirate ship that which is Napster, I am inclined to at the very least, briefly rethink my convictions.
...
And yes, we do have a right to know where all the money from CD's are going, I want to find a breakdown somewhere too
---
How long have you been listening to the world's famous?
'Bout six weeks.
Six weeks!
I was an avid Napster user (my dorm had a freakin' OC-12, how could I not be) and was all about free music. Now that artists I'm a fan of, like Dre and Eminem are speaking out on Napster, I actually have stopped using it. So now that other powerful media figures are speaking their mind on the service, how does the general geek public find themselves affected? I could have downloaded the new Eminem album, but quite frankly, I can wait till tommorrow for the offocial release, so my hard earned money becomes someone else who I respect's hard earned money. Download singles, buy the album is my new maxim.
---
How long have you been listening to the world's famous?
'Bout six weeks.
Six weeks!
You should go ahead and make a massive intelligent agent that cruizes around the web, gathering information it finds "relevant", "interesting", and eventually contacts a similar agent somewhere in Centuari.
---
How long have you been listening to the world's famous?
'Bout six weeks.
Six weeks!
Wow, these are bold words. Sue napster users? Of course Dre would have to go after users to get his songs off of Napster, as Napster themselves actually has nothing to do with the distribution of specific mp3's.
/me unshares all his Dr. Dre mp3's
Anybody know that Dre's lawyer is the same guy who represents Metallica? And we all know how they got Yale to shut down Napster service. Personally, as far as hip-hop goes I think Napster is just like mix tapes, no direct revenue to the musicians, but they get their stuff heard, and that can only be a good thing. Please read further into Dre's (and now Napster users) dilemma at Aka : here and here.
---
How long have you been listening to the world's famous?
'Bout six weeks.
Six weeks!
I was pondering just the same thing. Doom wasn't the first 2.5D FPS, Wolfenstein was! None the less an id game. So yes, I think id then has ownership rights on every FPS?
I see nanotechnology as the single most interesting/important aspect to the advancement of technology. (yeah, I said it!) If we can create *little* robots that can interact with matter on a molecular basis, what can't they do? Take the atoms from a pile of dirt and make a building with it? Go into our bodies and fix diseases on a molecular level? Create food from useless items? Actually 'hold' out cars to the road? Anyone read the Wired a while back about future technology? There was some very interesting hypothetical inventions in there based soley on nanotech. Boots that turn into a car etc. Personally I'm super psyched for nano, and I hop I live to see high-level implementation.
Of course, I'm a fan, not the man of nano, so please feel free to flame away at my foolishness.
klyX
www.radiospy.com will tell ya how to set up / maintain / listen to streaming mp3.