Yeah, I live in Madison, so I've been on UAH. While I know it's not much, at least it's seperated from the city, whereas UAB (which I was at last week visiting some folks) is literally just this school with some buildings in Birmingham --- there's really nothing to distinguish it.
That's true. I visited some friends at UAB just last week....seems as though everyone and their brother has "bio" somewhere in their degree there.
Unfortunately, though, UAB's campus kind of sucks.:\ But I've never been to Auburn, so I don't know about there....although I believe I have heard before that they were good at something, just that no one seemed to give anything specific.
As a resident of the state of Alabama, I'm greatly appalled that one of our major schools is actually offering something like this. I mean, this is like, progressive or something....
Actually, in reality, this is nice and all, but I agree with most other people in this post: it's rather worthless because it's too specific and based on the current trend. Sounds like AU just wanted to get some national recongition for something else besides football and their upcoming SACS accreditation review.
Basically, all this really means is that the best engineering school in the state is the one in my backyard, UAH.
3. microsoft can afford to not make money from licensing for many years and can hold out while the other console manufacturers have their 'air supply cut off.'
It's not the like the other console makers aren't heavyweights. Remember, Sony is one of the, if not, largest consumer electronics manufacturers on Earth. Nintendo has a TON of money in the back and has the backing of Panasonic, which is Sony's biggest rival.
Microsoft isn't sure to win the console market, and there's a general feeling amongst even regular gamers that Microsoft isn't all the great, and I don't believe many are going to be quick to jump on there, espicially since gamers have a long running trust in their old standbys: Sony, Nintendo, and Sega (even though they're just software now).
3. microsoft can afford to not make money from licensing for many years and can hold out while the other console manufacturers have their 'air supply cut off.'
Nintendo and Sony have played this game for years. (This applies to Sony more than Nintendo because most of their banner games are developed by Nintendo.) Take Square or Rare, for instance. While we've hear rumors that Square might dump Sony, that doesn't appear likely. These companies are considered what are called "2nd parties", meaning that they get breaks and development kits from the mother company before the 3rd parties do. (3rd parties would be, for example, companies like EA.) Oftentimes (I know this is true for Nintendo, not sure about Sony) the main company will invest heavily in the 2nd party, sometimes even more than 50% of the 2nd party! (I'm pretty sure Nintendo has a controlling interest in Rare, and while they've encouraged 3rd party support for the GameCube, they still have a healthy supply of 2nd parties, including companies like Silicon Knights and, to a less extent, Factor 5.)
Anyhow, I got away from my inital point: Microsoft just can't walk into the console market becuase it's not ripe to be taken over by them. Sure, MS may try to force its way in, but they need the support of the Old Guard of gamers, who, in general, don't like the Xbox because it's essentially a repackaged PC with a crappy controller. (Ever seen one of MS's PC contollers? those things rock, yet they come up with that uncomfortable mess for the box. And yes, I've held one.) I know there are those who'll like the Xbox because, of its PC nature, make it much eaier to hack, but some of us just want to play our games.:)
They aren't. Like I said, ticalc.org has the largest archives....ti-files has gone *way* downhill. The only other notable sites are calc.org and tinews.org.
1) The name of the system Gamecube.
2) Because it *doesn't* have DVD playback capability, and because it has to compete with PS2 and Xbox, it will cost $200 AT THE MOST.
They are creating an unprecidented level of public contempt for their entire industry.
Public contempt? I garuntee (okay, not quite garuntee, but you get the point) you walk into any electronic store in the nation and 4/5 of the people shopping for DVDs will have never heard of this stuff.
Let's look at the several aspects of this, in a nutshell:
1. Us geeks don't agree on everything. We can't even get along on our hot-button issues, or we hold really contridicting beliefs (like me, for example...pro-open source....pro-copyrights). 2. This makes it impossible for us to organize one lobby group so we can have one voice. 3. So what do we do? Nothing? Well, that's apperntly not working. Organize into several small lobbies? That will probably be ineffective. Organize into one big lobby? Well, reason 1 tells why that won't work....it'd eventually break into the aforementioned several, ineffective groups.
Unless hard drive prices skyrocket, I'm not sure disk space is that much of an issue. I hate to admit it, but my Linux partition is about 1.5 GB right now becuase Win98 is still my primary OS...and since it is, it gets the other 10 GB or so....
I know that's pretty sad.....but it's unforunately the sad truth....the good news is that I've got a new 10 GB hard drive that I plan to split in half in the near future (half for Win, half for Linux).
Hopefully, in the not so distant future (somewhere in time and space...), all 23 GB will be Linux.
Do you know what kind of flame war you could be starting? Espicially(sp?) since it is quite possible to be both a consoler and PC junkie at the same time....and as the earlier poster said, us Nintendo user are espicially fanatical about our consoles.
Um....correct me if I'm wrong, but one would think Microsoft could give themselves a "discount" on a Win2K license, espicially since they'll be using only the bear essentials of the kernal anyway.
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Yeah, I live in Madison, so I've been on UAH. While I know it's not much, at least it's seperated from the city, whereas UAB (which I was at last week visiting some folks) is literally just this school with some buildings in Birmingham --- there's really nothing to distinguish it.
That's true. I visited some friends at UAB just last week....seems as though everyone and their brother has "bio" somewhere in their degree there.
:\ But I've never been to Auburn, so I don't know about there....although I believe I have heard before that they were good at something, just that no one seemed to give anything specific.
Unfortunately, though, UAB's campus kind of sucks.
As a resident of the state of Alabama, I'm greatly appalled that one of our major schools is actually offering something like this. I mean, this is like, progressive or something....
Actually, in reality, this is nice and all, but I agree with most other people in this post: it's rather worthless because it's too specific and based on the current trend. Sounds like AU just wanted to get some national recongition for something else besides football and their upcoming SACS accreditation review.
Basically, all this really means is that the best engineering school in the state is the one in my backyard, UAH.
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I see dead people!
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I'm not dead!
THE END.
Amen. I, too, live in the Huntsville area, and I always get a little smile on my face when I see some positiive converage of the south anywhere.
Anyhow, I got away from my inital point: Microsoft just can't walk into the console market becuase it's not ripe to be taken over by them. Sure, MS may try to force its way in, but they need the support of the Old Guard of gamers, who, in general, don't like the Xbox because it's essentially a repackaged PC with a crappy controller. (Ever seen one of MS's PC contollers? those things rock, yet they come up with that uncomfortable mess for the box. And yes, I've held one.) I know there are those who'll like the Xbox because, of its PC nature, make it much eaier to hack, but some of us just want to play our games.
(sigh)
They aren't. Like I said, ticalc.org has the largest archives....ti-files has gone *way* downhill. The only other notable sites are calc.org and tinews.org.
http://ticalc.org If it's not there, it's not anywhere.
1) The name of the system Gamecube.
2) Because it *doesn't* have DVD playback capability, and because it has to compete with PS2 and Xbox, it will cost $200 AT THE MOST.
it isn't out yet.
Public contempt? I garuntee (okay, not quite garuntee, but you get the point) you walk into any electronic store in the nation and 4/5 of the people shopping for DVDs will have never heard of this stuff.
Let's look at the several aspects of this, in a nutshell:
1. Us geeks don't agree on everything. We can't even get along on our hot-button issues, or we hold really contridicting beliefs (like me, for example...pro-open source....pro-copyrights).
2. This makes it impossible for us to organize one lobby group so we can have one voice.
3. So what do we do? Nothing? Well, that's apperntly not working. Organize into several small lobbies? That will probably be ineffective. Organize into one big lobby? Well, reason 1 tells why that won't work....it'd eventually break into the aforementioned several, ineffective groups.
Geeks of the world, unite! (somehow)
Unless hard drive prices skyrocket, I'm not sure disk space is that much of an issue. I hate to admit it, but my Linux partition is about 1.5 GB right now becuase Win98 is still my primary OS...and since it is, it gets the other 10 GB or so....
I know that's pretty sad.....but it's unforunately the sad truth....the good news is that I've got a new 10 GB hard drive that I plan to split in half in the near future (half for Win, half for Linux).
Hopefully, in the not so distant future (somewhere in time and space...), all 23 GB will be Linux.
Do you know what kind of flame war you could be starting? Espicially(sp?) since it is quite possible to be both a consoler and PC junkie at the same time....and as the earlier poster said, us Nintendo user are espicially fanatical about our consoles.
Um....correct me if I'm wrong, but one would think Microsoft could give themselves a "discount" on a Win2K license, espicially since they'll be using only the bear essentials of the kernal anyway.
That's what I think, and I could be wrong....
I'll use Linux as my only OS when /. looks as good in Linux using Netscape as it does in Windows using IE. Until then, long live dual booting!