Actually I don't think that deal fell apart, I think it was more that IBM also signed on. That joint venture is called "Project Monterrey" if memory serves, and I believe it is SCO, HP, IBM, Intel and one other partner that I can't remember.
I shouldn't feed the Trolls, but hearing that SCO donates money to the NRA (assuming this is in fact true) would be one of the first GOOD things I've heard about them in a long time. As for the assertations that the NRA is pro-violence, it seems to me that the venom is in your rhetoric, not the NRAs. On the other hand, you could be posting just to get a reaction, if so, your just a little too far over the edge to have much credibility.
I can't speak for UnixWare, since it won't install on my test machine at the office, but I hear it really isn't bad
From what I've seen of it, it is pretty much a formula SVR4 product (based on older versions, I don't know how much it has diverged since then). It reminded me a lot of other direct SVR4 descendants like Solaris 2.x). Compared with OpenServer which has a lot of goofy baggage from Xenix to carry around, UnixWare seems like a lot more clean product.
(of course, SCO didn't write it, they bought it from Novell.
Who in turn bought it from AT&T.
Other than add-ons of Netware connectivity, the last version of UnixWare I saw didn't look all that much different than when AT&T still owned USL. I think one of the reasons that Novell sold USL was that they never really figured out what to do with it, and what they did wasn't that much.
Well, I live way out in the middle of nowhere (midwest), and the school district of the town I live in is using Linux. They still have Macs and Windows boxes of course, but the role of Linux is growing. It is also worth noting that Linux is being used in a major role in primary schools in Mexico. Universities generally do things first, but don't underestimate the influence that they have on K-12 schools.
Unfortunately, very few OSes are secure out of the box with the default install. Most newbies with any given OS will generally install it in a less than optimal way as far as security goes. This isn't something that is unique to Linux, or unique in the Linux world to Red Hat. Certainly the same things are true of Windows 9x and NT, and true to a perhaps somewhat lesser extent to the *BSDs. Even the commercial *nixes default installs aren't locked down tight.
What I would like to see Red Hat do is provide some options right up front on security settings similar to how you select 'client', 'server' or 'custom' so that you could pick whether you want your machine locked down tight, locked down a little, wide open, or let the advanced user pick and choose what they want for custom installs.
Of course, we still have to see if any schools take them up on the offer,
Linux is already growing in popularity in schools.
and if they do, are they putting those students at a disadvantage in a Microsoft-dominated world.
Actually, students who learn Linux are more likely to learn the abstract concepts and in-depth knowledge that is really valuable. Too many people who learn only MS products only learn to point and click through pre-solved problems like MSCE instruction programs and never really learn what they are doing or why. They often can't solve differing problems or adapt to different ways of doing the same thing.
And at any rate, there is no guarantee that this will always be a Microsoft dominated world, and getting to the students of today is a smart move on Red Hat's part, as they will be the people making purchasing decisions later on. With Linux, inlike Microsoft who like to set up deals to exclude everyone else, there is no reason why schools can't teach something else as well. Having more broad educational experiences is a good thing in most cases.
DVD isn't intended to replace VCRs much the same way an audio CD was never intended to replace a cassette deck.
Regardless of whether DVD was intended to replace VCRs, once a suitable writable/rewritable media comes out for the format they will be capable of doing so. The same thing is true of audio CD's, while they were intended to replace vinyl records and not audio cassettes, once a writable/rewritable media came out, they are now capable of replacing cassettes. While I still have cassette decks, I haven't used one in a long time. I find it preferablee to use CD-R for the things I used to use cassettes for.
I can't say how the numbers stack up, but I own three VCRs and no DVD player, and I have no intention of buying a DVD player until this whole mess is settled. I have a practical reason for this -- I don't trust that the motion picture companies won't abandon current generation DVD players and/or format in order to get around the problem of CSS being broken. At this point I am taking a wait and see attitude, which won't really hurt me since the price of DVD players like VCRs will only continue to drop (you can buy a name brand, 4-head, HiFi stereo, HQ VCR for under $100 these days).
Another reason I am holding off is that the local video rental stores around here have a couple dozen titles on DVD. They carry a few thousand titles on VHS. They also charge more for a DVD rental than for a new-release VHS rental. Until the selection on DVD gets better and the price comes into line, I am not that interested.
BTW, with no VCR, how do you record something off broadcast/cable/sattelite if you want to watch it later? Until DVD's are a read/write medium, they aren't really a replacement for a VCR.
Well, I'm not saying that all police officers over here have no sense of humor, but it only takes one that doesn't to ruin your whole day (or worse). The big problem is that you don't have any reliable way of telling which ones have a sense of humor and which don't. Therefore I recommend a 'better safe than sorry' attitude. In general, it shouldn't be that much of an issue unless you like to party a little too crazy or something. I find it pretty easy to avoid any direct contact with the police almost all of the time.
Yet all the anti-religious comments made in/. are not "intentionally inflamitory" and yet they still stay on the postings.
I haven't seen very many anti-religious comments here, nor are anti-religious comments necessarily intentionally inflamitory. If I was a moderator and I saw anti-religious comments that were intentionally inflamitory, I'd moderate them down.
How about the postings like "I posted first" and such, do they get taken out, not usally.
Say what? First posters are almost immediately moderated down, although most people seem to think that a simple 'first post' is appropriately labeled as 'offtopic' not 'flamebait'. Being moderated down isn't the same as being 'taken out' either. Adjust your threshold if you really want to read all of the -1 and 0 posts. The post you were complaining about being moderated down is still there and readable to me, as I read with my threshold set to -1.
Americans, on the other hand, appear to like crusading for free speech, as if your government is so evil that it might prevent you from talking one day. Fair enough; it might too. But I doubt it.
Well, not being an American you can be forgiven for not knowing American History (sadly, most younger Americans these days know little about it as well). However, we are paranoid about free speech because the governments (federal, state and local) over here have a long history of trying to infringe upon it. Ask Larry Flynt.
BTW, if you swear at the wrong cops around most of the US, you are likely to end up in a bad way on some crazy trumped up charges. Highly not recommended, should you ever visit here.
No, actually that post was a good example of something that is at least borderline flamebait. I'd first beg to differ with your assessment of it as 'well written'. Secondly, it is written in such a way as to be intentionally inflamitory, which is how I'd define flamebait. As for it being based on a well known theory of constitutional law, I'd say it would be more fair to characterize it as a misinterpretation of such. Your conclusion doesn't seem at all obvious to me. I've seen plenty of times when a well stated 'non-majority' opinion has been moderated up, and I don't see this as an example of the opposite. You are free to disagree with me, and I expect you will, but I'm still not convinced by your argument.
What makes you think the Democrats are any more interested in preserving any of your rights? They seem perfectly content, even eager, to deny us other rights which they seem to think are politically inconvenient.
A valid point. Not all Democrats have a good record on freedom issues either. It is worth noting that for example, the former senator that wrote the much hated CDA was Senator Exon, who was a Democrat, that it was supported by most of the Democrats in congress, and signed by president Clinton, who is a Democrat.
I don't intend this to be a slam against Democrats in general, it is just that I think people need to be aware that party affiliation can't always be used as a reliable indicator in such matters.
Offer any opinion that deviates from the party line at Slashdot and you will be censored.
That is largely a load of crap. I've seen lots of posts that don't follow the 'party line' that were moderated up. What matters more is how they are written. Sure, if you post something that is obviously a troll or flamebait, you can expect to get moderated down. But I think that most moderators accept that a well written post of a differing opinion is still valid. I can tell you this much, if I was hypothetically meta-moderating (is it against the rules to say if you meta-moderate or not?), if I saw stuff that wasn't being moderated that way, I would mark it as 'unfair'.
If the patent was applied for in 1995, then it may be a pretty close call, since if the first Pilots shipped in 1996, they had to have been in development for at least a year or two before that. Obviously Xerox has at least fairly reasonable grounds for a suit otherwise it would have been thrown out, but whether it is a winnable suit or not is another question. 3Com probably won't fight this either if they don't think they have a chance to win.
Actually I don't think they can do much against Apple. Microsoft may or may not be in such a good position, but I believe Apple actually licensed a lot of their GUI technologu from Xerox back in the early 80's. Given that there have been numerous lawsuits over GUI look and feel that have largely never been very precedent setting, I doubt Xerox will try something in that area.
I'm surprised that there are very many patents filed by Xerox PARC that are still in effect? I thought that PARC had basically disbanded by the early 80's, and any patent granted prior to 1983 is expired now.
The gamers already take overclocking for granted, so that doesn't really count does it? My point is that gamers don't scrimp on hardware accelleration for video and sound, why would they want to do so on their modem? I think it is because due to the general lack of information, most of them don't know any better. If they knew the whole story, I think most of them would insist on a hardware modem.
I probably shouldn't respond to this obvious flamebait, but...
Jesus Christ, it seems like about every technology is in a "this is being fixed" or "it's planned for release soon" stage on Linux.
Uh, and this is different from other OSes how? Microsoft is always saying the same sorts of things. Otherwise everyone who was using NT 3.5 would have just stayed there and not upgraded to 4.0, and the people on 4.0 wouldn't be at all interested in 2000. Even the commercial UNIXes have areas they are working on improving. This is something that is industry wide.
Now do you see why people who've been computing for years (read: grown up since the HaX0r days, actually work with modern OSes)
How about someone who is in their mid 30's, and works every day with Solaris, works occasionally with AIX and IRIX, and has the occasional misfortune of having to deal with Windows NT? I've tried the *BSDs as well.
just might think Linux is a piece of shit toy OS?
Actually, I think only people who have some sort of ulterior motive or are incredibly stupid would think that. For most people and most purposes, Linux is pretty good already. Is Linux perfect? No. Is any OS perfect? No. There are areas where Linux is better than the *BSD's and areas where the *BSDs may be better than Linux. There are areas where the commercial *nixes are better than Linux, and areas where Linux is better than the commercial *nixes. In my opinion, Linux is better than NT in just about every way that matters, other people may not agree. Sure, you can come up with wacky configurations and benchmarks to prove whatever you want, but those things matter little in the real world. Let me set up the parameters for the test, and I can prove that a Geo Metro can outperform a Lamborghini Diablo (one answer below).
Have fun waiting around for it.
As slow as Microsoft is, I think I will have less time to wait to get important things with Linux than I would have to if I used NT.
Now for the answer to the Metro vs. Diablo: Give each of them only 5 gallons of gas and a 200 mile course. The Metro wins as the Diablo would have to be pushed more than half way.
Most of the serious gamers probably have cable/dsl by now though.
I can't understand why a serious gamer would buy a Winmodem. They pay huge premiums to get the fastest 3-D accellerated video cards and sound cards and the fastest CPU's, then they scrimp on a modem that is going to suck 7 to 10% of their speed back away. Crazy. Modem manufacturers should specifically label hardware modems as better for gaming to justify the slightly higher price.
And if either party produced a driver that could run the software modem just as well as a legacy modem,
That will never happen if you count the additional CPU overhead of doing things like DSP and error detection/correction in software against the software modem.
I'd prefer to buy the software modem, because they're about half the price.
You get what you pay for. Software modems will always be a drag on CPU and RAM resources in your machine. A friend of mine says that he has measured between 7-10% extra CPU usage when running a Winmodem in his P-III 450 under NT. Is 7-10% CPU on a processor that fast worth saving $20 on a modem? Buying a CPU that is 7-10% faster will often cost you more than $20 difference.
Another option for him is to go the 2-year associates degree community college route, then get a private sector job that will assist in paying tuition for him to complete his degree in a night program (most larger companies have some sort of program like this). I've known quite a number of people who have taken this route and been successful with it. It may take him 6 or 7 years to get a bachelor's degree this way, but he will get much better experience and not have to be essentially an indentured servant to the government for a fixed period of time. Chances are he would get to his nice private sector job at 24 or 25 instead of 26 too.
There are some pretty good paying (when you consider benefits, hours worked, etc, not just base salary) government jobs. Unfortunately, there are very few of them. Most of them as you note, pay considerably below what private industry would for the same work. Unfortunately, most of the good paying government jobs tend to be filled with PhD's, so a program designed primarily to get people undergraduate degrees is only going to be turning out candidates for the poorly paying government jobs. Even more wacky is that I get the same sort of salary range you are talking about in private industry even with no degree at all, and I probably wouldn't even be considered for a lot of government jobs at considerably lower rates because they are more picky about formal education versus experience than the private sector is.
assuming all of that $91M gets dispersed to the students
That is a pretty big assumption. Given how the government usually works, I'd be surprised if even half that amount actually went to students, the other half would likely disappear into the black hole of Washington beaurocratic overhead and administrative overhead.
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Actually I don't think that deal fell apart, I think it was more that IBM also signed on. That joint venture is called "Project Monterrey" if memory serves, and I believe it is SCO, HP, IBM, Intel and one other partner that I can't remember.
I shouldn't feed the Trolls, but hearing that SCO donates money to the NRA (assuming this is in fact true) would be one of the first GOOD things I've heard about them in a long time. As for the assertations that the NRA is pro-violence, it seems to me that the venom is in your rhetoric, not the NRAs. On the other hand, you could be posting just to get a reaction, if so, your just a little too far over the edge to have much credibility.
I can't speak for UnixWare, since it won't install on my test machine at the office, but I hear it really isn't bad
From what I've seen of it, it is pretty much a formula SVR4 product (based on older versions, I don't know how much it has diverged since then). It reminded me a lot of other direct SVR4 descendants like Solaris 2.x). Compared with OpenServer which has a lot of goofy baggage from Xenix to carry around, UnixWare seems like a lot more clean product.
(of course, SCO didn't write it, they bought it from Novell.
Who in turn bought it from AT&T.
Other than add-ons of Netware connectivity, the last version of UnixWare I saw didn't look all that much different than when AT&T still owned USL. I think one of the reasons that Novell sold USL was that they never really figured out what to do with it, and what they did wasn't that much.
Well, I live way out in the middle of nowhere (midwest), and the school district of the town I live in is using Linux. They still have Macs and Windows boxes of course, but the role of Linux is growing. It is also worth noting that Linux is being used in a major role in primary schools in Mexico. Universities generally do things first, but don't underestimate the influence that they have on K-12 schools.
Unfortunately, very few OSes are secure out of the box with the default install. Most newbies with any given OS will generally install it in a less than optimal way as far as security goes. This isn't something that is unique to Linux, or unique in the Linux world to Red Hat. Certainly the same things are true of Windows 9x and NT, and true to a perhaps somewhat lesser extent to the *BSDs. Even the commercial *nixes default installs aren't locked down tight.
What I would like to see Red Hat do is provide some options right up front on security settings similar to how you select 'client', 'server' or 'custom' so that you could pick whether you want your machine locked down tight, locked down a little, wide open, or let the advanced user pick and choose what they want for custom installs.
Of course, we still have to see if any schools take them up on the offer,
Linux is already growing in popularity in schools.
and if they do, are they putting those students at a disadvantage in a Microsoft-dominated world.
Actually, students who learn Linux are more likely to learn the abstract concepts and in-depth knowledge that is really valuable. Too many people who learn only MS products only learn to point and click through pre-solved problems like MSCE instruction programs and never really learn what they are doing or why. They often can't solve differing problems or adapt to different ways of doing the same thing.
And at any rate, there is no guarantee that this will always be a Microsoft dominated world, and getting to the students of today is a smart move on Red Hat's part, as they will be the people making purchasing decisions later on. With Linux, inlike Microsoft who like to set up deals to exclude everyone else, there is no reason why schools can't teach something else as well. Having more broad educational experiences is a good thing in most cases.
DVD isn't intended to replace VCRs much the same way an audio CD was never intended to replace a cassette deck.
Regardless of whether DVD was intended to replace VCRs, once a suitable writable/rewritable media comes out for the format they will be capable of doing so. The same thing is true of audio CD's, while they were intended to replace vinyl records and not audio cassettes, once a writable/rewritable media came out, they are now capable of replacing cassettes. While I still have cassette decks, I haven't used one in a long time. I find it preferablee to use CD-R for the things I used to use cassettes for.
I can't say how the numbers stack up, but I own three VCRs and no DVD player, and I have no intention of buying a DVD player until this whole mess is settled. I have a practical reason for this -- I don't trust that the motion picture companies won't abandon current generation DVD players and/or format in order to get around the problem of CSS being broken. At this point I am taking a wait and see attitude, which won't really hurt me since the price of DVD players like VCRs will only continue to drop (you can buy a name brand, 4-head, HiFi stereo, HQ VCR for under $100 these days).
Another reason I am holding off is that the local video rental stores around here have a couple dozen titles on DVD. They carry a few thousand titles on VHS. They also charge more for a DVD rental than for a new-release VHS rental. Until the selection on DVD gets better and the price comes into line, I am not that interested.
BTW, with no VCR, how do you record something off broadcast/cable/sattelite if you want to watch it later? Until DVD's are a read/write medium, they aren't really a replacement for a VCR.
Well, I'm not saying that all police officers over here have no sense of humor, but it only takes one that doesn't to ruin your whole day (or worse). The big problem is that you don't have any reliable way of telling which ones have a sense of humor and which don't. Therefore I recommend a 'better safe than sorry' attitude. In general, it shouldn't be that much of an issue unless you like to party a little too crazy or something. I find it pretty easy to avoid any direct contact with the police almost all of the time.
Yet all the anti-religious comments made in /. are not "intentionally inflamitory" and yet they still stay on the postings.
I haven't seen very many anti-religious comments here, nor are anti-religious comments necessarily intentionally inflamitory. If I was a moderator and I saw anti-religious comments that were intentionally inflamitory, I'd moderate them down.
How about the postings like "I posted first" and such, do they get taken out, not usally.
Say what? First posters are almost immediately moderated down, although most people seem to think that a simple 'first post' is appropriately labeled as 'offtopic' not 'flamebait'. Being moderated down isn't the same as being 'taken out' either. Adjust your threshold if you really want to read all of the -1 and 0 posts. The post you were complaining about being moderated down is still there and readable to me, as I read with my threshold set to -1.
Americans, on the other hand, appear to like crusading for free speech, as if your government is so evil that it might prevent you from talking one day. Fair enough; it might too. But I doubt it.
Well, not being an American you can be forgiven for not knowing American History (sadly, most younger Americans these days know little about it as well). However, we are paranoid about free speech because the governments (federal, state and local) over here have a long history of trying to infringe upon it. Ask Larry Flynt.
BTW, if you swear at the wrong cops around most of the US, you are likely to end up in a bad way on some crazy trumped up charges. Highly not recommended, should you ever visit here.
Actually, that seems like a well thought out system that is about as close to something that could be widely accepted as anything I could think of.
No, actually that post was a good example of something that is at least borderline flamebait. I'd first beg to differ with your assessment of it as 'well written'. Secondly, it is written in such a way as to be intentionally inflamitory, which is how I'd define flamebait. As for it being based on a well known theory of constitutional law, I'd say it would be more fair to characterize it as a misinterpretation of such. Your conclusion doesn't seem at all obvious to me. I've seen plenty of times when a well stated 'non-majority' opinion has been moderated up, and I don't see this as an example of the opposite. You are free to disagree with me, and I expect you will, but I'm still not convinced by your argument.
What makes you think the Democrats are any more interested in preserving any of your rights? They seem perfectly content, even eager, to deny us other rights which they seem to think are politically inconvenient.
A valid point. Not all Democrats have a good record on freedom issues either. It is worth noting that for example, the former senator that wrote the much hated CDA was Senator Exon, who was a Democrat, that it was supported by most of the Democrats in congress, and signed by president Clinton, who is a Democrat.
I don't intend this to be a slam against Democrats in general, it is just that I think people need to be aware that party affiliation can't always be used as a reliable indicator in such matters.
Offer any opinion that deviates from the party line at Slashdot and you will be censored.
That is largely a load of crap. I've seen lots of posts that don't follow the 'party line' that were moderated up. What matters more is how they are written. Sure, if you post something that is obviously a troll or flamebait, you can expect to get moderated down. But I think that most moderators accept that a well written post of a differing opinion is still valid. I can tell you this much, if I was hypothetically meta-moderating (is it against the rules to say if you meta-moderate or not?), if I saw stuff that wasn't being moderated that way, I would mark it as 'unfair'.
If the patent was applied for in 1995, then it may be a pretty close call, since if the first Pilots shipped in 1996, they had to have been in development for at least a year or two before that. Obviously Xerox has at least fairly reasonable grounds for a suit otherwise it would have been thrown out, but whether it is a winnable suit or not is another question. 3Com probably won't fight this either if they don't think they have a chance to win.
Actually I don't think they can do much against Apple. Microsoft may or may not be in such a good position, but I believe Apple actually licensed a lot of their GUI technologu from Xerox back in the early 80's. Given that there have been numerous lawsuits over GUI look and feel that have largely never been very precedent setting, I doubt Xerox will try something in that area.
I'm surprised that there are very many patents filed by Xerox PARC that are still in effect? I thought that PARC had basically disbanded by the early 80's, and any patent granted prior to 1983 is expired now.
The gamers already take overclocking for granted, so that doesn't really count does it? My point is that gamers don't scrimp on hardware accelleration for video and sound, why would they want to do so on their modem? I think it is because due to the general lack of information, most of them don't know any better. If they knew the whole story, I think most of them would insist on a hardware modem.
I probably shouldn't respond to this obvious flamebait, but...
Jesus Christ, it seems like about every technology is in a "this is being fixed" or "it's planned for release soon" stage on Linux.
Uh, and this is different from other OSes how? Microsoft is always saying the same sorts of things. Otherwise everyone who was using NT 3.5 would have just stayed there and not upgraded to 4.0, and the people on 4.0 wouldn't be at all interested in 2000. Even the commercial UNIXes have areas they are working on improving. This is something that is industry wide.
Now do you see why people who've been computing for years (read: grown up since the HaX0r days, actually work with modern OSes)
How about someone who is in their mid 30's, and works every day with Solaris, works occasionally with AIX and IRIX, and has the occasional misfortune of having to deal with Windows NT? I've tried the *BSDs as well.
just might think Linux is a piece of shit toy OS?
Actually, I think only people who have some sort of ulterior motive or are incredibly stupid would think that. For most people and most purposes, Linux is pretty good already. Is Linux perfect? No. Is any OS perfect? No. There are areas where Linux is better than the *BSD's and areas where the *BSDs may be better than Linux. There are areas where the commercial *nixes are better than Linux, and areas where Linux is better than the commercial *nixes. In my opinion, Linux is better than NT in just about every way that matters, other people may not agree. Sure, you can come up with wacky configurations and benchmarks to prove whatever you want, but those things matter little in the real world. Let me set up the parameters for the test, and I can prove that a Geo Metro can outperform a Lamborghini Diablo (one answer below).
Have fun waiting around for it.
As slow as Microsoft is, I think I will have less time to wait to get important things with Linux than I would have to if I used NT.
Now for the answer to the Metro vs. Diablo: Give each of them only 5 gallons of gas and a 200 mile course. The Metro wins as the Diablo would have to be pushed more than half way.
Most of the serious gamers probably have cable/dsl by now though.
I can't understand why a serious gamer would buy a Winmodem. They pay huge premiums to get the fastest 3-D accellerated video cards and sound cards and the fastest CPU's, then they scrimp on a modem that is going to suck 7 to 10% of their speed back away. Crazy. Modem manufacturers should specifically label hardware modems as better for gaming to justify the slightly higher price.
And if either party produced a driver that could run the software modem just as well as a legacy modem,
That will never happen if you count the additional CPU overhead of doing things like DSP and error detection/correction in software against the software modem.
I'd prefer to buy the software modem, because they're about half the price.
You get what you pay for. Software modems will always be a drag on CPU and RAM resources in your machine. A friend of mine says that he has measured between 7-10% extra CPU usage when running a Winmodem in his P-III 450 under NT. Is 7-10% CPU on a processor that fast worth saving $20 on a modem? Buying a CPU that is 7-10% faster will often cost you more than $20 difference.
Another option for him is to go the 2-year associates degree community college route, then get a private sector job that will assist in paying tuition for him to complete his degree in a night program (most larger companies have some sort of program like this). I've known quite a number of people who have taken this route and been successful with it. It may take him 6 or 7 years to get a bachelor's degree this way, but he will get much better experience and not have to be essentially an indentured servant to the government for a fixed period of time. Chances are he would get to his nice private sector job at 24 or 25 instead of 26 too.
There are some pretty good paying (when you consider benefits, hours worked, etc, not just base salary) government jobs. Unfortunately, there are very few of them. Most of them as you note, pay considerably below what private industry would for the same work. Unfortunately, most of the good paying government jobs tend to be filled with PhD's, so a program designed primarily to get people undergraduate degrees is only going to be turning out candidates for the poorly paying government jobs. Even more wacky is that I get the same sort of salary range you are talking about in private industry even with no degree at all, and I probably wouldn't even be considered for a lot of government jobs at considerably lower rates because they are more picky about formal education versus experience than the private sector is.
assuming all of that $91M gets dispersed to the students
That is a pretty big assumption. Given how the government usually works, I'd be surprised if even half that amount actually went to students, the other half would likely disappear into the black hole of Washington beaurocratic overhead and administrative overhead.