I'm paying $1000 a month for a one bedroom apartment, and that's a pretty good deal for this area (Fullerton, CA). In my experience, rents are a bit cheaper near a school, but YMMV. Living close to school can also cut your fuel costs quite a bit.
Roommates, studio apartments, or even renting a room in someones house are other things people do to reduce their living costs. Alternative transportation is something else to look at, for example my student ID works as a pass for public transportation here.
Also, there are lots of programs to help people pay for school. EOPS, work study, federal and state grants, student loans, and of course whatever scholarships you can find.
Actually, I'm willing to bet that just about anyone who wants to could quite easily afford it. I don't know where you are, but here in California community college classes are around $13 per unit (hour). Need something higher level than that? No problem, California State University tuition is less than $2000 per semester for a full time student, or less than $1000 for part time (under 12 units). Yeah, books can be expensive, but if you put a little effort into it you can usually find them relatively cheap, and if that's still too much the school library normally has most required textbooks on reserve. There are even some places that will rent textbooks to you.
I know plenty of people making less than $10k per year that manage to do it, while still paying rent, eating food, and maintaining a car. If you can't find the time or money, it's not because you can't afford to, it's because you just don't care enough.
Good points, most of my drive knowledge relates to big RAID installations, so I wasn't thinking about laptops when I responded. My own preference would be to replace the HDD in the laptop entirely, and that's getting more and more reasonable.
Yes, IDE flash drives are pretty expensive, but you can get a 32GB CF card and a CF-IDE adapter for around $150 last time I checked. Supposedly the tech that allows for 32GB CF also makes 64GB possible, which is the sweet spot for me on a laptop, but I don't seem to be seeing them anywhere.
I haven't installed Vista, and honestly I'm not likely to, probably ever. Nothing against doing it, but I switched to Linux several years ago, and now the only windows I come in contact with is what comes pre-installed on a new laptop.
I don't doubt that they've improved the installer, but I don't think it's possible for them to fix the main thing that makes Windows installs so long and complicated: third party drivers.
More and more drivers are included in Windows Update these days, and maybe that's how they're dealing with it, but I've always felt it wise to have my Windows installs complete before I give it any kind of access to the internet.
The A in EULA stands for Agreement. I'm sure you knew that already, but you seem to be confused about what that means, so let me spell out some important legal realities for you:
A EULA is a contract.
Contracts are only valid when both parties agree to them.
the cache policy should be to try to make the hard drive spin less frequently
Actually, this is exactly what you don't want to do. What you really want to do with an HDD is leave it spinning for as long as possible. Spin-up is when you get most of the mechanical wear, thus shortening the life of the drive. As an added bonus it uses a lot of power, too.
I did a similar comparison back in 2001, with Suse 7.something and Win2k.
Suse was up and running, with all the apps I wanted, in about 40 minutes, with not much more interaction from me than Ubuntu requires today.
Windows took about twice as long just to install the OS and drivers, with lots of CD swapping, mucking with dialog boxes, and rebooting. Then I had to install my apps...
I don't do that many OS installs these days, but based on the few I've done, things haven't changed that much.
First, there's about 40 years worth of Moore's Law separating the the audio system in your camera and the audio system used while recording this source material. On top of that, they weren't recording it on a sound stage or in a studio, so there's a lot of noise (background noise, wind, interference, etc) and it's actually pretty hard to clean up audio noise without losing some of the signal you want.
That said, the main reason it sounds like they're talking over CB is because that's more or less exactly what they were doing.
Well, yes, they did think about it. You see, the president has the responsibility to enforce all the law congress passes, and don't you think it would really suck for him if he had no way of saying, "Hey, that law is really stupid, I'm not doing that!"
My own feeling on kimchi is that it works really well as condiment/garnish for meat. It's a lot like sauerkraut; I couldn't stand to eat it straight, but I wouldn't dream of eating a bratwurst without it.
The Tao in Taoism just refers to the universe and its laws.
Yes, but the mistake you're making is applying western definitions to those words. The universe is made up of Qi (energy) and Liu (matter). Qi is definitely beyond the natural laws known to science; hence it is supernatural.
As for Buddhism, you may be confusing the Hindu concept of Karma and Dharma with the Buddhist concepts.
Buddha was a Hindu. His big breakthrough was finding a way to achieve enlightenment in a single lifetime. I'm not putting it down, I'm a Buddhist myself, but a lot of the concepts in Buddhism are drawn directly from Hinduism.
Karma and Dharma both deal with fate. Karma is the fate we bring upon ourselves do to our own actions (cause and effect). Dharma is the "divine plan", or the fate that's just part of everything that's going on (i.e., why do bad things happen to good people).
You can't have Taoism without a belief in the Tao, which I would certainly consider a supernatural force. Similarly, I haven't encountered a variety of Buddhism that doesn't include Karma and Dharma (they may have other names, but it's the same idea), which I would also consider supernatural in that they attempt to explain things for which there is no readily observable reason (e.g., why did lighting strike my house and not my neighbor's).
I would rather suffer eternal torment than give in to a bully.
Well put. I seriously wonder how people can go around spouting all this "God is great!" BS and then follow it up with descriptions of behavior I wouldn't tolerate from a toddler. If he's really the "one, true God", then what is he so jealous of? If doing my best to be a good person isn't enough for him, then he can kiss my ass.
Similarly, Confucianism incorporates the older Chinese traditions of ancestor worship, and Taoism has (duh!) the Tao. All three are pretty definitely religions, despite the fact that they may not have an anthropomorphic deity (or deities with defined roles).
I'm honestly pretty confused as to where the idea that they are not religions comes from. My best guess is based on a "comparative religions" book I ran across years ago, put out by the Jehovah's Witnesses IIRC, which pretty much described every religion it covered in terms of belief in the Christian God. As with every other meme, it then gets parroted by a bunch of people who basically have no idea what they're talking about.
I never suggested it was an adverb. In the original version of the sentence it is an adjective modifying another adjective (How big is the rock? Fuck-off big.), which is perfectly acceptable according to my understanding of English grammar.
I've never had an issue with Dell's quality, but then my only real experience for comparison is to Gateway, who's hardware I've found to be pretty unstable. What's killing Dell is their service.
I used to work in customer service repair at a company that sold PowerEdges as part of a high-end video production suite. We had a premium service contract with Dell, which explicitly stated that they would provide a technician on-site for any service call. We paid a lot for that contract, on top of the millions of dollars a year we spent on buying their hardware.
Since I was the tech on the product line that these were a part of, part of my job was to call up Dell and give them the trouble info so they could send a guy with the right parts (not required by our contract, BTW, but I try to be helpful). Every single time I called it turned into a fight with the phone guys just to get them to send a tech. I always kept it polite, since I was representing the company, but I got hung up on several times. Every time I ended up having to get purchasing involved to "politely remind" them of their contractual obligations.
It probably would have been much cheaper for the company to just have me do the repairs, especially since Dell chassis are really well designed for servicability.
I'm sure somebody will produce educational games for it eventually
Gcompris, which in my opinion is some of the best educational software out there, is already involved in OLPC.
Let me just say that most of the educational software I've seen is poorly made, and of dubious educational value at best. Gcompris could use some better graphics perhaps, but the actual activities and overall playability are far beyond any of the "professional" products I've seen.
You don't need statistics to show that vaccines work. it is scientifically provable.
Oh really? How exactly do you prove something "scientifically" without analyzing data? And how do we analyze data? Oh damn... there's that nasty "statistics" again...
It's really unfortunate that you got modded into oblivion, because everything you've said is absolutely true.
Netscape Navigator was was a fantastic browser, and Communicator was a bloated, buggy pile of steaming crap. It was so slow, and crashed so often, that it was basically unusable. I stuck with Navigator as long as I could, but at some point you really have to upgrade, and there was just no place to go but IE. It was like Netscape was deliberately pushing its fans over to MS.
I don't think that's what he was referring to. I think he was referring to the fact that Novell owns Suse, and is thus one of the major players in the commercial Linux space. This puts them in a pretty strong position to be called a steward of Linux.
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That pretty much describes my marriage, which is why I'm divorced and not interested in dating American women.
I'm paying $1000 a month for a one bedroom apartment, and that's a pretty good deal for this area (Fullerton, CA). In my experience, rents are a bit cheaper near a school, but YMMV. Living close to school can also cut your fuel costs quite a bit.
Roommates, studio apartments, or even renting a room in someones house are other things people do to reduce their living costs. Alternative transportation is something else to look at, for example my student ID works as a pass for public transportation here.
Also, there are lots of programs to help people pay for school. EOPS, work study, federal and state grants, student loans, and of course whatever scholarships you can find.
Actually, I'm willing to bet that just about anyone who wants to could quite easily afford it. I don't know where you are, but here in California community college classes are around $13 per unit (hour). Need something higher level than that? No problem, California State University tuition is less than $2000 per semester for a full time student, or less than $1000 for part time (under 12 units). Yeah, books can be expensive, but if you put a little effort into it you can usually find them relatively cheap, and if that's still too much the school library normally has most required textbooks on reserve. There are even some places that will rent textbooks to you.
I know plenty of people making less than $10k per year that manage to do it, while still paying rent, eating food, and maintaining a car. If you can't find the time or money, it's not because you can't afford to, it's because you just don't care enough.
Good points, most of my drive knowledge relates to big RAID installations, so I wasn't thinking about laptops when I responded. My own preference would be to replace the HDD in the laptop entirely, and that's getting more and more reasonable.
Yes, IDE flash drives are pretty expensive, but you can get a 32GB CF card and a CF-IDE adapter for around $150 last time I checked. Supposedly the tech that allows for 32GB CF also makes 64GB possible, which is the sweet spot for me on a laptop, but I don't seem to be seeing them anywhere.
I haven't installed Vista, and honestly I'm not likely to, probably ever. Nothing against doing it, but I switched to Linux several years ago, and now the only windows I come in contact with is what comes pre-installed on a new laptop.
I don't doubt that they've improved the installer, but I don't think it's possible for them to fix the main thing that makes Windows installs so long and complicated: third party drivers.
More and more drivers are included in Windows Update these days, and maybe that's how they're dealing with it, but I've always felt it wise to have my Windows installs complete before I give it any kind of access to the internet.
The A in EULA stands for Agreement. I'm sure you knew that already, but you seem to be confused about what that means, so let me spell out some important legal realities for you:
A EULA is a contract.
Contracts are only valid when both parties agree to them.
Copyright law does not require a use license.
the cache policy should be to try to make the hard drive spin less frequently
Actually, this is exactly what you don't want to do. What you really want to do with an HDD is leave it spinning for as long as possible. Spin-up is when you get most of the mechanical wear, thus shortening the life of the drive. As an added bonus it uses a lot of power, too.I did a similar comparison back in 2001, with Suse 7.something and Win2k.
Suse was up and running, with all the apps I wanted, in about 40 minutes, with not much more interaction from me than Ubuntu requires today.
Windows took about twice as long just to install the OS and drivers, with lots of CD swapping, mucking with dialog boxes, and rebooting. Then I had to install my apps...
I don't do that many OS installs these days, but based on the few I've done, things haven't changed that much.
First, there's about 40 years worth of Moore's Law separating the the audio system in your camera and the audio system used while recording this source material. On top of that, they weren't recording it on a sound stage or in a studio, so there's a lot of noise (background noise, wind, interference, etc) and it's actually pretty hard to clean up audio noise without losing some of the signal you want.
That said, the main reason it sounds like they're talking over CB is because that's more or less exactly what they were doing.
Quadriplegics with lasers on their heads?
I dunno, I think sharks are cooler.
Well, yes, they did think about it. You see, the president has the responsibility to enforce all the law congress passes, and don't you think it would really suck for him if he had no way of saying, "Hey, that law is really stupid, I'm not doing that!"
"cue up" is pretty common in the US media production industry. I'd actually never seen it spelled "queue" until I took Data Structures.
Korean BBQ is fantastic!
My own feeling on kimchi is that it works really well as condiment/garnish for meat. It's a lot like sauerkraut; I couldn't stand to eat it straight, but I wouldn't dream of eating a bratwurst without it.
The Tao in Taoism just refers to the universe and its laws.
Yes, but the mistake you're making is applying western definitions to those words. The universe is made up of Qi (energy) and Liu (matter). Qi is definitely beyond the natural laws known to science; hence it is supernatural.
As for Buddhism, you may be confusing the Hindu concept of Karma and Dharma with the Buddhist concepts.
Buddha was a Hindu. His big breakthrough was finding a way to achieve enlightenment in a single lifetime. I'm not putting it down, I'm a Buddhist myself, but a lot of the concepts in Buddhism are drawn directly from Hinduism.
Karma and Dharma both deal with fate. Karma is the fate we bring upon ourselves do to our own actions (cause and effect). Dharma is the "divine plan", or the fate that's just part of everything that's going on (i.e., why do bad things happen to good people).
You can't have Taoism without a belief in the Tao, which I would certainly consider a supernatural force. Similarly, I haven't encountered a variety of Buddhism that doesn't include Karma and Dharma (they may have other names, but it's the same idea), which I would also consider supernatural in that they attempt to explain things for which there is no readily observable reason (e.g., why did lighting strike my house and not my neighbor's).
I would rather suffer eternal torment than give in to a bully.
Well put. I seriously wonder how people can go around spouting all this "God is great!" BS and then follow it up with descriptions of behavior I wouldn't tolerate from a toddler. If he's really the "one, true God", then what is he so jealous of? If doing my best to be a good person isn't enough for him, then he can kiss my ass.
Similarly, Confucianism incorporates the older Chinese traditions of ancestor worship, and Taoism has (duh!) the Tao. All three are pretty definitely religions, despite the fact that they may not have an anthropomorphic deity (or deities with defined roles).
I'm honestly pretty confused as to where the idea that they are not religions comes from. My best guess is based on a "comparative religions" book I ran across years ago, put out by the Jehovah's Witnesses IIRC, which pretty much described every religion it covered in terms of belief in the Christian God. As with every other meme, it then gets parroted by a bunch of people who basically have no idea what they're talking about.
I never suggested it was an adverb. In the original version of the sentence it is an adjective modifying another adjective (How big is the rock? Fuck-off big.), which is perfectly acceptable according to my understanding of English grammar.
"Fuck-off" modifies "big", not "rock", so I think the original is correct.
"Give me all your money or I shall throw a really, big rock at you."
"Give me all your money or I shall throw a big, really rock at you."
Both of these are clearly wrong.
for profit corporations...are _obliged by law_ to maximize their shareholder value
I see this argument a lot around here, but I have never actually seen anyone cite the alleged law.
I've never had an issue with Dell's quality, but then my only real experience for comparison is to Gateway, who's hardware I've found to be pretty unstable. What's killing Dell is their service.
I used to work in customer service repair at a company that sold PowerEdges as part of a high-end video production suite. We had a premium service contract with Dell, which explicitly stated that they would provide a technician on-site for any service call. We paid a lot for that contract, on top of the millions of dollars a year we spent on buying their hardware.
Since I was the tech on the product line that these were a part of, part of my job was to call up Dell and give them the trouble info so they could send a guy with the right parts (not required by our contract, BTW, but I try to be helpful). Every single time I called it turned into a fight with the phone guys just to get them to send a tech. I always kept it polite, since I was representing the company, but I got hung up on several times. Every time I ended up having to get purchasing involved to "politely remind" them of their contractual obligations.
It probably would have been much cheaper for the company to just have me do the repairs, especially since Dell chassis are really well designed for servicability.
I'm sure somebody will produce educational games for it eventually
Gcompris, which in my opinion is some of the best educational software out there, is already involved in OLPC.
Let me just say that most of the educational software I've seen is poorly made, and of dubious educational value at best. Gcompris could use some better graphics perhaps, but the actual activities and overall playability are far beyond any of the "professional" products I've seen.
You don't need statistics to show that vaccines work. it is scientifically provable.
Oh really? How exactly do you prove something "scientifically" without analyzing data? And how do we analyze data? Oh damn... there's that nasty "statistics" again...
It's really unfortunate that you got modded into oblivion, because everything you've said is absolutely true.
Netscape Navigator was was a fantastic browser, and Communicator was a bloated, buggy pile of steaming crap. It was so slow, and crashed so often, that it was basically unusable. I stuck with Navigator as long as I could, but at some point you really have to upgrade, and there was just no place to go but IE. It was like Netscape was deliberately pushing its fans over to MS.
I don't think that's what he was referring to. I think he was referring to the fact that Novell owns Suse, and is thus one of the major players in the commercial Linux space. This puts them in a pretty strong position to be called a steward of Linux.