Seemingly along with most of Higher Education. It used to be that when I went to Internet2 or Educause conferences there were about 90% thinkpads and 10% power/ibooks. Now it is usually around 60%-70% power/ibooks. and I have noticed a lot more Linux installs on the Thinkpads.
Apple seems to have made a massive dent in Universities.
Look pal, I'm just playing with you, but it sounds like you are practically foaming at the mouth with hatred of amateur radio. Were you molested as a kid by a ham operator or something? I mean sheesh, calm down.
Go talk to Kenwood, Vertex, Icom, and Ten Tec about business and amateur radio. They seem fine with it. And out of curiousity, what are YOUR credentials that you feel you can lecture on "airspace usage".
Every time this has has happened (CB, FRS) the community as a whole demonstrates they are vulgar, abusive, ignorant idiots. Seriously go into any major city and listen to CB or FRS traffic and ask yourself if this is what you want more of.
And Amateur radio spectrum is an international thing, not FCC mandated. The ITU controls it and as far as I can tell there has been no push to remove it. Probably because it routinely proves to be an useful service in emergencies.
What makes you think it is an ilegal amplifer? Amateurs are allowed to build their own amps and transmit up to 1500 watts on certain bands.
Now it is possible that his equipment is faulty, but generally what this falls down to is crappy (read ultra cheap) consumer electronic devices that fail to filter out this stuff. A low pass filter should be on his antenna and a high pass filter should be on your TV naturally.
Have you talked to the guy? I have never met a ham who wasn't interested in improving his station and fixing any problems that are brought to his attention. (granted, some are assholes, like any other demographic). Broadcasting through your speakers with the computer turned off sound a little extreme, the only device I have seen capable of that is an AT&T GPRS phone (like a Treo) and the speakers still have to be turned on.
Remember that to an extent it is your responsibility to shield your equipment from legal RF interference. Some manufacturers cut corners and that sucks, but if he is operating lawfully there is really not much you can do other than trying to reason with him or come to some arrangement (or shield your equipment).
I don't think the EFF plan plan included the part where if you ever stop paying (or more likely, Napster goes out of business or gets bought out be someone who decides to stop this service), you lose all the music you downloaded. This is more like the DIVX model that consumers have constantly rejected.
I've found the opposite to be true. Most people from the "real world" (especially vendors) cannot comprehend that we run a kerberos realm supporting 150,000 principals spread out over 23 locatations. Or run an email server that processes over 6 million emails a day. Or ended up writing most of our own central services (webmail, portal, business logic, finance logic, interfaces to these) because commercial offerings at the time did not scale to our size. And we support researchers who have billions in grants for a more diverisfied range of applications than any private company would ever deal with.
No, I do not find the error tolerence to be nearly what I have seen the private sector accept.
Making neither of them technically a monopoly. However that does not preclude one from being convicted of abusing a monopoly position, as Microsoft have been. I don't see anyone accusing Google of abusing their "monopoly".
Ok, I will freely admit to working for a University, and not the private sector. Are certifications really held in such high regard out there? I know here they mean squat (and rightfully so imho, all they show is that you could afford to take the certification test). Heck, some departments around here will automatically disregard your resume if you put MCSE on it:)
No it isn't. Finding life on other planets would be the most important find since fire. It would change the religious and philosophic views of billions of people.
Not to understate the importance of such a find, but how would this change anyone's religious or philosophic views?
I don't know of any religious teaching that address life on other planets, but then I don't know of any religious teaching that address nuclear fusion either.
I'm not trying to be a smart ass (although probably succeding), I'm just curious why you feel this would have that kind of impact.
The question of course is where do you draw the line? What level of "geek trivia" can we assume? I do not want to see submissions that get so wrapped up in basic descriptions that it is hard to parse what the news is actually about.
There is really going to be no way to please everyone in this case.
It reminds me of when my town's high school started making kids wear their sudent ID's around their necks in response to Columbine, with the stated purpose of trying to prevent such a situation in our town by discouraging unauthorized people from entering the school.
Only problem is, there has not been a school shooting I know if that was not perpetrated by a student who is authorized to be at that school.
After Columbine there was a rash of investigative reporters trying to sneak into schools to show how easy it was get into a high school. Many security mesaures had to be taken just to prevent this. No joking.
So you are perfectly ok with living under laws that you are not allowed to read or know about?
And if you think showing ID does one bit of good regarding airline security, I would love to join you in that dream world. Are you under the impression that IDs are hard to get? Do you believe that the 9/11 guys did not have valid IDs?
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Building computers and sliding cpus, ram, and pci cards into sockets are totally different ballgames.
That said, I am totally with you in wanting some PPC chips.
eTrade. Although I am done with them, nice web interface, horrible customer service.
Seemingly along with most of Higher Education. It used to be that when I went to Internet2 or Educause conferences there were about 90% thinkpads and 10% power/ibooks. Now it is usually around 60%-70% power/ibooks. and I have noticed a lot more Linux installs on the Thinkpads.
Apple seems to have made a massive dent in Universities.
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I bought Apple stock a while ago at $14. I thought I was being smart by selling it at $30. I was wrong :(
Course we are only talking about five shares.
Finkployd
I know, but I'm bored and sometimes playing with trolls can be fun. Actually it looks like this same guy posted all over this story.
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I was replying to the AC who replied to you, who seems to have many ham related anger issues to work out.
wow, you must have failed it multiple times :)
Look pal, I'm just playing with you, but it sounds like you are practically foaming at the mouth with hatred of amateur radio. Were you molested as a kid by a ham operator or something? I mean sheesh, calm down.
Go talk to Kenwood, Vertex, Icom, and Ten Tec about business and amateur radio. They seem fine with it. And out of curiousity, what are YOUR credentials that you feel you can lecture on "airspace usage".
Finkployd
Awwww, someone failed his ham radio test :)
Every time this has has happened (CB, FRS) the community as a whole demonstrates they are vulgar, abusive, ignorant idiots. Seriously go into any major city and listen to CB or FRS traffic and ask yourself if this is what you want more of.
And Amateur radio spectrum is an international thing, not FCC mandated. The ITU controls it and as far as I can tell there has been no push to remove it. Probably because it routinely proves to be an useful service in emergencies.
What makes you think it is an ilegal amplifer? Amateurs are allowed to build their own amps and transmit up to 1500 watts on certain bands.
Now it is possible that his equipment is faulty, but generally what this falls down to is crappy (read ultra cheap) consumer electronic devices that fail to filter out this stuff. A low pass filter should be on his antenna and a high pass filter should be on your TV naturally.
Have you talked to the guy? I have never met a ham who wasn't interested in improving his station and fixing any problems that are brought to his attention. (granted, some are assholes, like any other demographic). Broadcasting through your speakers with the computer turned off sound a little extreme, the only device I have seen capable of that is an AT&T GPRS phone (like a Treo) and the speakers still have to be turned on.
Remember that to an extent it is your responsibility to shield your equipment from legal RF interference. Some manufacturers cut corners and that sucks, but if he is operating lawfully there is really not much you can do other than trying to reason with him or come to some arrangement (or shield your equipment).
Finkployd
I don't think the EFF plan plan included the part where if you ever stop paying (or more likely, Napster goes out of business or gets bought out be someone who decides to stop this service), you lose all the music you downloaded. This is more like the DIVX model that consumers have constantly rejected.
Finkployd
Several hours? Who pays you a good salary when it takes you several hours to do what should take about 5-10 minutes tops?
Finkployd
I've found the opposite to be true. Most people from the "real world" (especially vendors) cannot comprehend that we run a kerberos realm supporting 150,000 principals spread out over 23 locatations. Or run an email server that processes over 6 million emails a day. Or ended up writing most of our own central services (webmail, portal, business logic, finance logic, interfaces to these) because commercial offerings at the time did not scale to our size. And we support researchers who have billions in grants for a more diverisfied range of applications than any private company would ever deal with.
No, I do not find the error tolerence to be nearly what I have seen the private sector accept.
Finkployd
Making neither of them technically a monopoly. However that does not preclude one from being convicted of abusing a monopoly position, as Microsoft have been. I don't see anyone accusing Google of abusing their "monopoly".
Finkployd
Ok, I will freely admit to working for a University, and not the private sector. Are certifications really held in such high regard out there? I know here they mean squat (and rightfully so imho, all they show is that you could afford to take the certification test). Heck, some departments around here will automatically disregard your resume if you put MCSE on it :)
Finkployd
mmm to be a monopoly and its perks
Yeah, because no other search engines exist.
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No it isn't. Finding life on other planets would be the most important find since fire. It would change the religious and philosophic views of billions of people.
Not to understate the importance of such a find, but how would this change anyone's religious or philosophic views?
I don't know of any religious teaching that address life on other planets, but then I don't know of any religious teaching that address nuclear fusion either.
I'm not trying to be a smart ass (although probably succeding), I'm just curious why you feel this would have that kind of impact.
I would probably go crazy at the thought and kill myself before it happened.
:)
You are safe, you will not remember where you put that gun, or how to tie a noose, etc.
Ok, this HAS to be the most insensitive comment I have ever posted on Slashdot.
Finkployd
Those of us who installed Linux before ATAPI CDROMS are well aquainted with the name "Matsushita" :)
Finkployd
Your analogy sucks.
And yours is somehow even worse.
Finkployd
The question of course is where do you draw the line? What level of "geek trivia" can we assume? I do not want to see submissions that get so wrapped up in basic descriptions that it is hard to parse what the news is actually about.
There is really going to be no way to please everyone in this case.
Finkployd
You watch The View? :P
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I suppose you were born with an innate knowledge of all acronyms appearing on the Slashdot front page?
I was actually born with an ability to google things I didn't already know.
It reminds me of when my town's high school started making kids wear their sudent ID's around their necks in response to Columbine, with the stated purpose of trying to prevent such a situation in our town by discouraging unauthorized people from entering the school.
Only problem is, there has not been a school shooting I know if that was not perpetrated by a student who is authorized to be at that school.
After Columbine there was a rash of investigative reporters trying to sneak into schools to show how easy it was get into a high school. Many security mesaures had to be taken just to prevent this. No joking.
Finkployd
So you are perfectly ok with living under laws that you are not allowed to read or know about?
And if you think showing ID does one bit of good regarding airline security, I would love to join you in that dream world. Are you under the impression that IDs are hard to get? Do you believe that the 9/11 guys did not have valid IDs?
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