When the Atom Netbook came out, Asus' Linux netbooks were still better specced for the same price, and it would be a few months before Acer and Dell would cut options off Linux books, HP still has the fully powered linux option outside the American continent (which is admittedly better than the HP VIA netbook did) and only MSI had fudded because they were too moronic to do as a corporation what a few million users easily had done on their own.
Okay, I'm kidding. I keep hearing about a nice local ISP in Toronto, forgot their name. I know Montreal and Southern Quebec has CoopTel which isn't too predatory.
In that format, they're close to build price - I want a small, portable server that can be moved around easily if we have to change offices/apartment/studios again as happens a lot and that I can keep an eye on - I also like having a low power footprint. And I like not paying for colo for something that spends half its time being a mailbox.
The two hard drives cost about 120$ each. This motherboard for slightly bigger (one inch) is about 150, the cpu goes from 100 to 200 depending on whether I go for regular c2d or c2d mobile - I'd rather go with the second. RAM, Wifi, Bluetooth add about 100-200. And then money for a case, power, etc, which in mini-itx formats seems like this package could run 150-ish. I have long build part lists because I want to do light and low-power, and the mac mini was always the computer I built against because it's easy to go over when you're shopping for mini-itx sized parts.
Maybe you fail at sarcasm, too. My specialty is essentially a branch of linguistics, but because of an administrative thing I went from BS to BA between terms. Stupidly enough, a slightly different course load in college would have led to something else, and whichever the little letter at the end is, grad schools don't care.
Also, all that stuff is applied, applied is not the end all be all of academic scientific research and you know it just as well as I do. Also, economic value of something is not measure by the number of 0s in your paycheque, but by the impact it has insociety, otherwise, the MBAs you scorn have a higher economic value than you do.
Oxbridge got kicked down a notch when it turned out they were just barely in the top 10 in the UK. Their exclusivity is not necessarily financial although the kind of requirements they have tend to link to a certain social level.
It doesn't provide these directly - and most of physics and maths research won't pan out into practicalities. There's also a lot of the "fluff degrees" that provide rather important fundamental research that is constantly ignored or assumed to be farted out of the unconscious collective as some sort of truth.
The hard sciences weren't alone involved in some of the things you mention, either.
Physics and maths are just theory, they have no economic value at face value and anyone who thinks otherwise is a moronic anti-intellectual who has no idea what either of those is or does. Also, someone who doesn't understand the meaning of economic value.
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When the Atom Netbook came out, Asus' Linux netbooks were still better specced for the same price, and it would be a few months before Acer and Dell would cut options off Linux books, HP still has the fully powered linux option outside the American continent (which is admittedly better than the HP VIA netbook did) and only MSI had fudded because they were too moronic to do as a corporation what a few million users easily had done on their own.
*shrugs* I'd wish it was, they're basically in the media monopolists' camp.
London, ON to Quebec, QC corridor: roughly 200 people per square mile, half the country's population.
Most of the population in the West is on the southern border, also in dense zones.
You're the first to do it, and bringing up an obscure sub department of Army R&D is very very stretching it.
Videotron?
Okay, I'm kidding. I keep hearing about a nice local ISP in Toronto, forgot their name. I know Montreal and Southern Quebec has CoopTel which isn't too predatory.
Which is why you keep a master in as close to lossless compared to the original as possible.
netboot, boot from firewire, boot from USB.
No, it uses the same NVidia chipset, but with C2D processors (as do the 13 inch and cheapest 15 inch MBP).
In that format, they're close to build price - I want a small, portable server that can be moved around easily if we have to change offices/apartment/studios again as happens a lot and that I can keep an eye on - I also like having a low power footprint. And I like not paying for colo for something that spends half its time being a mailbox.
The two hard drives cost about 120$ each. This motherboard for slightly bigger (one inch) is about 150, the cpu goes from 100 to 200 depending on whether I go for regular c2d or c2d mobile - I'd rather go with the second. RAM, Wifi, Bluetooth add about 100-200. And then money for a case, power, etc, which in mini-itx formats seems like this package could run 150-ish. I have long build part lists because I want to do light and low-power, and the mac mini was always the computer I built against because it's easy to go over when you're shopping for mini-itx sized parts.
Let me rephrase for the reading comprehension deprived
If the 0s are more important, then the MBA has you beat for economic value. If not, then it's a silly argument to use.
And they were still paid through the state, nothing precludes them from being fully state funded, it was just seen as more practical.
That might be when Jefferson convinced the state legislatures of PA and VA to set up a fledgeling university system.
Also, US foreign is kind of a drop in the bucket for education.
Maybe you fail at sarcasm, too. My specialty is essentially a branch of linguistics, but because of an administrative thing I went from BS to BA between terms. Stupidly enough, a slightly different course load in college would have led to something else, and whichever the little letter at the end is, grad schools don't care.
Also, all that stuff is applied, applied is not the end all be all of academic scientific research and you know it just as well as I do. Also, economic value of something is not measure by the number of 0s in your paycheque, but by the impact it has insociety, otherwise, the MBAs you scorn have a higher economic value than you do.
Oxbridge got kicked down a notch when it turned out they were just barely in the top 10 in the UK. Their exclusivity is not necessarily financial although the kind of requirements they have tend to link to a certain social level.
Surgery, partially true
Law, no - law was a college degree from day one.
I know a lot of physicists and mathematicians who would groan a lot at that line.
It doesn't provide these directly - and most of physics and maths research won't pan out into practicalities. There's also a lot of the "fluff degrees" that provide rather important fundamental research that is constantly ignored or assumed to be farted out of the unconscious collective as some sort of truth.
The hard sciences weren't alone involved in some of the things you mention, either.
Same in France, and opening up your first practice is subsidized. Of course they can afford to live on 50k Euros with that support.
No more than 15% of the population should be going on to university
With smart ideas like these, when do we reinstate the feudal system so my social class can get the power it deserves, too.
So you agree physics, biology and maths should also be suppressed? After all, only applied shit has visible economic value.
Physics and maths are just theory, they have no economic value at face value and anyone who thinks otherwise is a moronic anti-intellectual who has no idea what either of those is or does. Also, someone who doesn't understand the meaning of economic value.
If your argument made any sense, it would be in favor of keeping multiple OS platforms and multiplatform tools.
No, you can actually copy paste them in terminal if they're complicated.
Navigating an obfuscating GUI to deal with configs is ridiculous in comparison.
Why am I not surprised the attitude of the Ubuntu dev list wouldn't be so far from its genitor Debian... tree falling close to the tree much?
YA, RLY, pretty much as usual.