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It won't do any good, at least not for Hollings. The people of South Carolina simply don't care about those issues.
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Hollings wins, but not by large margins. Many people in South Carolina think he's too liberal to represent them in Washington.
Unfortunately, the SC GOP hasn't realized that it isn't too smart to antagonize the 1/3 of the voters in SC who happen to be a different color than they are.
A good Republican candidate could easily defeat Hollings....but that would require the SC GOP to actually do something smart for a change.
True, no one ever lost an election by underestimating the stupidity of South Carolina voters.
All the Republicans have to do is remind the voters of his full page ad that he bought in The State (Columbia, SC) paper defending Bill Clinton in 1999. (Most SC voters HATE Clinton.) Since then it's been more of the same. He'll lose on his liberal voting record, not on trying to infringe on our freedoms.
Hollings is lucky he's not from a technologically oriented state. No matter, he'll be gone in 2004. He's done enough other things to offend the voters of SC in the past four years. (Or else he'll retire)
It's not the processor that's the problem, it's the motherboard. If you have a 7200 or 7500, you can run any version of Linux you want. They are PCI motherboards. If you have a 61xx, 7100, or 8100, good luck. These are nubus machines and are not supported by Linux/PPC (although MKLinux does support them and there is the nubus-pmac project) The 52xx/53xx/62xx/63xx (except the 6360) have a similar problem even though they are 603 machines.
Is it any coincidence that Hollings is the spokesman for all of these bills that are harmful to consumers, but loved by Hollywood? Quite simply, no one in South Carolina cares. I live in South Carolina and I haven't heard any media converage about this.
Hollings is the spokesman for this because he won't take any heat from his constituants. As long as he brings the pork back to Charleston, he'll keep getting re-elected. (Let's face it, getting re-elected to the Senate in South Carolina isn't that difficult.) South Carolina is perhaps the least techonologically savvy states in the country (#1 in percentage of population living in mobile homes, #1 in rates of STD infection, #51 in SAT scores.) People here are too concerned with the damn Confederate flag to notice.
My point is that Disney has lots of other Senators in their pocket. It's just that only Hollings can be so blatant about it.
It amazes me how quickly people that have anything to do with computers like to declare them obsolete.
It reminds me of the guy who had an old 68k Macintosh running Word 5.1. He knew how to use it and it did everything he wanted it to do.
One day the IT people at his company took his mac away and gave him a new PC because the mac was "too slow" Well, what happened?
First of all, he was not familiar with the PC or with the new features availible in Word. Second of all, many of these new features were more annoying than useful, especially when the newer version of Word autocorrected something that didn't need correction. Also. considering that this new, more complex software is both more demanding of hardware and more prone to bugs, He found that his new system was slower than his old one and more prone to crashing.
Let's face it, there's enough competition in the desktop market as it is. Most users don't care about what's under the hood, much less whether it's open or welded shut. They just want to get their work done. Mac OS X and Windows XP are considerably easier to use than Linux and are stable enough for most people. (Considering that these are many of the same people that became accustomed to a GUI during the days of MacOS 7.x and Windows 95, today's operating systems are quite stable.)
Another problem with Linux on the desktop is the lack of applications and games. There simply isn't a market for it. Yeah, you can install WINE, but can you see Joe User wanting to or being able to install it and getting it configured properly? What use is the stablity of Linux if I have to reboot to Windows every time I want to play Age of Empires?
Linux has its place, but not on most people's desktops. It's great for embedded devices. Great for servers too. Great as a Unix workstation. Great for high-end graphics workstations (although MacOS X may provide stiff competition in this area) However, for the average user who wants to get on AOL, listen to some mp3's, burn a CD (try THAT in Linux), and type up some papers in Microsoft Word, it's not going to be a viable choice anywhere in the near future.
Clemson University has had a reverse firewall on all the dorm and classroom ethernet ports. If anyone tries anything, they have the IP address and login name of whoever did it.
Perhaps they could install a silent alarm, much like those they have at banks. Plane is hijacked, alarm is tripped, military is alerted. Plane will be shot down if it goes near a populated area.
First of all, I was refering to state funding. NC State and Georgia Tech are the primary state supported engineering schools in neighboring states.
Yes, Clemson does get a significant amount of money from donations and research. However, their primary source of funding is, like with nearly all state universities, the state. It is in this area that Clemson is underfunded.
We have an election in 2002. This way Gov. Hodges can blame the legislature for the shortfall and the legislature can blame Gov. Hodges. Works well for everyone. (except the people of South Carolina)
We need better design, not higher clock speed. However, clock speed sells. Does Joe user know that his 800Mhz Celeron runs at the same Bus Speed that the original Pentium (66Mhz) did? Does he care? No, he just sees a big number at an affordable price. The marketing departments at AMD & Intel like the big numbers so that's what you'll get.
note to young-earthers:
The Hebrew word for day as used in Genesis can mean 12 hours, 24 hours, or an era (e.g. in my day...) If you consider day to mean an era, you find that Genesis actually matches the fossil record pretty well.
At my university we have quite a few workstations running Solaris. The engineering department runs Solaris 8 on Ultra 1's 5's and 10's The comp. sci. department runs Solaris 7 on Ultra 5's and Intel hardware. You say that Solaris/x86 sucks, which it probably does for a server installation, but the intel machines are considerably faster as a workstation. Sun's biggest problem is that they have saddled a workstation with a really nice processor with a really sh!tty graphics card. Even the older video cards on the Gateway PII-300's beat the hell out of even the newer Creator 3d cards on the Ultra 10's. X performance is terrible, especially with the bloated CDE running.
As for Linux vs. Solaris, as far as performance is concerned, Linux wins hands down. Admittedly I don't own a SPARC, but on Intel my Gateway PII-300 can run Linux quite comfortably, while the simlarly configured computers at the school running Solaris 7 seem a bit sluggish in comparison.
However, it should be noted that both kick Win 2k's ass. Our school recently "upgraded" to Windows 2000, only to find that Lose 2k is so bloated that everything under a PII 400 Mhz is obsolete.
that's still better than the Win 2k boxes at the computer labs here. One has a permenent BSOD, most of them have problems with Novell, and all of them are slow as $#!T
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It won't do any good, at least not for Hollings. The people of South Carolina simply don't care about those issues.
Hollings wins, but not by large margins. Many people in South Carolina think he's too liberal to represent them in Washington.
...but that would require the SC GOP to actually do something smart for a change.
Unfortunately, the SC GOP hasn't realized that it isn't too smart to antagonize the 1/3 of the voters in SC who happen to be a different color than they are.
A good Republican candidate could easily defeat Hollings.
True, no one ever lost an election by underestimating the stupidity of South Carolina voters.
All the Republicans have to do is remind the voters of his full page ad that he bought in The State (Columbia, SC) paper defending Bill Clinton in 1999. (Most SC voters HATE Clinton.) Since then it's been more of the same. He'll lose on his liberal voting record, not on trying to infringe on our freedoms.
Hollings is lucky he's not from a technologically oriented state. No matter, he'll be gone in 2004. He's done enough other things to offend the voters of SC in the past four years. (Or else he'll retire)
It's not the processor that's the problem, it's the motherboard. If you have a 7200 or 7500, you can run any version of Linux you want. They are PCI motherboards. If you have a 61xx, 7100, or 8100, good luck. These are nubus machines and are not supported by Linux/PPC (although MKLinux does support them and there is the nubus-pmac project) The 52xx/53xx/62xx/63xx (except the 6360) have a similar problem even though they are 603 machines.
Is it any coincidence that Hollings is the spokesman for all of these bills that are harmful to consumers, but loved by Hollywood? Quite simply, no one in South Carolina cares. I live in South Carolina and I haven't heard any media converage about this.
Hollings is the spokesman for this because he won't take any heat from his constituants. As long as he brings the pork back to Charleston, he'll keep getting re-elected. (Let's face it, getting re-elected to the Senate in South Carolina isn't that difficult.) South Carolina is perhaps the least techonologically savvy states in the country (#1 in percentage of population living in mobile homes, #1 in rates of STD infection, #51 in SAT scores.) People here are too concerned with the damn Confederate flag to notice.
My point is that Disney has lots of other Senators in their pocket. It's just that only Hollings can be so blatant about it.
...and this is one reason why so many students from Georgia get their Engineering/C.S. degrees at Clemson or Auburn.
It amazes me how quickly people that have anything to do with computers like to declare them obsolete.
It reminds me of the guy who had an old 68k Macintosh running Word 5.1. He knew how to use it and it did everything he wanted it to do.
One day the IT people at his company took his mac away and gave him a new PC because the mac was "too slow" Well, what happened?
First of all, he was not familiar with the PC or with the new features availible in Word. Second of all, many of these new features were more annoying than useful, especially when the newer version of Word autocorrected something that didn't need correction. Also. considering that this new, more complex software is both more demanding of hardware and more prone to bugs, He found that his new system was slower than his old one and more prone to crashing.
So, why again was that Mac obsolete?
Let's face it, there's enough competition in the desktop market as it is. Most users don't care about what's under the hood, much less whether it's open or welded shut. They just want to get their work done. Mac OS X and Windows XP are considerably easier to use than Linux and are stable enough for most people. (Considering that these are many of the same people that became accustomed to a GUI during the days of MacOS 7.x and Windows 95, today's operating systems are quite stable.)
Another problem with Linux on the desktop is the lack of applications and games. There simply isn't a market for it. Yeah, you can install WINE, but can you see Joe User wanting to or being able to install it and getting it configured properly? What use is the stablity of Linux if I have to reboot to Windows every time I want to play Age of Empires?
Linux has its place, but not on most people's desktops. It's great for embedded devices. Great for servers too. Great as a Unix workstation. Great for high-end graphics workstations (although MacOS X may provide stiff competition in this area) However, for the average user who wants to get on AOL, listen to some mp3's, burn a CD (try THAT in Linux), and type up some papers in Microsoft Word, it's not going to be a viable choice anywhere in the near future.
Clemson University has had a reverse firewall on all the dorm and classroom ethernet ports. If anyone tries anything, they have the IP address and login name of whoever did it.
Not quite:
Gunfire + Pressurized Cabin = Really Bad Idea
Perhaps they could install a silent alarm, much like those they have at banks. Plane is hijacked, alarm is tripped, military is alerted. Plane will be shot down if it goes near a populated area.
First of all, I was refering to state funding. NC State and Georgia Tech are the primary state supported engineering schools in neighboring states.
Yes, Clemson does get a significant amount of money from donations and research. However, their primary source of funding is, like with nearly all state universities, the state. It is in this area that Clemson is underfunded.
Unfortunately, there are no good export converters. Try opening a Word 5.1 Mac file in Linux. You have to use RTF to transfer files.
That a South Carolina institution has tried to block access to certain internet sites
It makes perfect sense.
We have an election in 2002. This way Gov. Hodges can blame the legislature for the shortfall and the legislature can blame Gov. Hodges. Works well for everyone. (except the people of South Carolina)
Clemson is still underfunded. We only get about 2/3 the funding per student that NC State and Georgia Tech get.
Cocks suck cocks
...at least our mascot isn't named after a chicken
Cyrix also made a 5x86 processor as well. However, it was only available in speeds of 100 and 120Mhz with no P-rating.
We need better design, not higher clock speed. However, clock speed sells. Does Joe user know that his 800Mhz Celeron runs at the same Bus Speed that the original Pentium (66Mhz) did? Does he care? No, he just sees a big number at an affordable price. The marketing departments at AMD & Intel like the big numbers so that's what you'll get.
Now Netscape will crash faster than ever!
Sklyarov grows up in the Soviet Union, only to be arrested in the United States for writing the wrong code.
How sadly ironic.
The Hebrew word for day as used in Genesis can mean 12 hours, 24 hours, or an era (e.g. in my day...) If you consider day to mean an era, you find that Genesis actually matches the fossil record pretty well.
At my university we have quite a few workstations running Solaris. The engineering department runs Solaris 8 on Ultra 1's 5's and 10's The comp. sci. department runs Solaris 7 on Ultra 5's and Intel hardware. You say that Solaris/x86 sucks, which it probably does for a server installation, but the intel machines are considerably faster as a workstation. Sun's biggest problem is that they have saddled a workstation with a really nice processor with a really sh!tty graphics card. Even the older video cards on the Gateway PII-300's beat the hell out of even the newer Creator 3d cards on the Ultra 10's. X performance is terrible, especially with the bloated CDE running. As for Linux vs. Solaris, as far as performance is concerned, Linux wins hands down. Admittedly I don't own a SPARC, but on Intel my Gateway PII-300 can run Linux quite comfortably, while the simlarly configured computers at the school running Solaris 7 seem a bit sluggish in comparison. However, it should be noted that both kick Win 2k's ass. Our school recently "upgraded" to Windows 2000, only to find that Lose 2k is so bloated that everything under a PII 400 Mhz is obsolete.
and these are new Dell P-III 833 boxes with 128MB RAM
that's still better than the Win 2k boxes at the computer labs here. One has a permenent BSOD, most of them have problems with Novell, and all of them are slow as $#!T