Conspiracy theorists also like to tout the idea that NT on Alpha was a concession made to keep
DEC from suing their asses.
Conspiracy theorists also like to point out that W(indows)NT = VMS if you shift the letters one place. (Like HAL in "2001" gives IBM if you shift the letters by one.)
Here's a serious suggestion -- go to a smaller school that focuses on undergrad education... As an adult, you'll have to be able to get a job. In CS this won't be hard. But you'll also want to understand social and political issues and you're gonna need to be a polished writer no matter what you do. You can theoretically go through a big school without ever writing a paper. And though freebees are cool every now and then, they're not why you go to college.
I could not agree more strongly with this comment.
I was a physics major at Carleton College, a small but highly-regarded liberal arts college in Minnesota. I have spent the rest of my career teaching at Great Research Universities, such as Johns Hopkins and the University of Michigan, which are terrific graduate institutions, but where the undergraduate experience can be the impersonal, polar opposite of what a great liberal arts school can give you. If you want to learn the flavor-of-the-month programming language go to a community college or your local bookstore. If you want to become an educated person, someone with the desire and the skills to keep learning throughout your life (not just about programming, but about literature, science, music...) then consider a liberal arts school such as Carleton, Swarthmore, Amherst, Haverford, Williams, Grinnell, Oberlin, the University of Chicago, etc. These schools produce impressive, well-rounded, incredibly talented graduates who have learning skills that last a lifetime.
That's really what education, as opposed to vocational training, is all about: learning how to learn.
I seem to recall that the current server was installed just 6-9 months ago. I'd be curious to see a plot of number of pages served per day as a function of time. If the old server only lasted this long before getting beaten to a pulp, I can hardly wait to see what you'll need to upgrade to a year from now:)
A DVD player on a laptop has also proved to be a great thing for our young kids on long car trips. Beyond that, I agree, I'd rather watch movies on TV or at the local megaplex.
You don't need power, just high voltage -- which you can get from a static generator like a van de Graaf machine.
Well, it takes power to establish the high voltage in the first place. Actually the power required goes like the square of the voltage.
Also, if you are using the HV to accelerate something, you will have to supply power, because the battery or whatever it is that's creating the electric field is doing work on the particles it accelerates, and that energy has to come from somewhere. Otherwise, if what you say is true, your powerless accelerator would make a nice engine for a perpetual motion machine...
BTW, I work in the physics dept. at the Univ. of Michigan, and Fred Niell, one of the students who built the reactor, is coming to graduate school here in the fall. I am gonna treat that guy with respect!
There is a gate system, but visitors can enter and leave the site during working hours without signing in or being escorted. You just get a ticket from an automatic dispenser at the gate, and return it when you leave. At night you do need a pass that is available only to employees or scientific visitors.
Perhaps you are confusing Fermilab with Argonne National Lab, which is also in the Chicago vicinity and does have the stricter security policy you mentioned. For a federal research facility, Fermilab is actually quite open.
"We feel that 2 to 20 percent of Linux shipments turn out to be 'shelfware,'" he said. "From what we can tell, real-world deployments of Linux are very thin." I would be happy to provide Mr. Muth with my shelfware copies of Windows 95 and Windows NT. I do not, however, anticipate a refund...
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Conspiracy theorists also like to tout the idea that NT on Alpha was a concession made to keep
DEC from suing their asses.
Conspiracy theorists also like to point out that W(indows)NT = VMS if you shift the letters one place. (Like HAL in "2001" gives IBM if you shift the letters by one.)
I could not agree more strongly with this comment.
I was a physics major at Carleton College, a small but highly-regarded liberal arts college in Minnesota. I have spent the rest of my career teaching at Great Research Universities, such as Johns Hopkins and the University of Michigan, which are terrific graduate institutions, but where the undergraduate experience can be the impersonal, polar opposite of what a great liberal arts school can give you. If you want to learn the flavor-of-the-month programming language go to a community college or your local bookstore. If you want to become an educated person, someone with the desire and the skills to keep learning throughout your life (not just about programming, but about literature, science, music...) then consider a liberal arts school such as Carleton, Swarthmore, Amherst, Haverford, Williams, Grinnell, Oberlin, the University of Chicago, etc. These schools produce impressive, well-rounded, incredibly talented graduates who have learning skills that last a lifetime.
That's really what education, as opposed to vocational training, is all about: learning how to learn.
Can someone please clue me in about the "PS/2 mouse problem in later Linux kernels" that is fixed in this release?
I seem to recall that the current server was installed just 6-9 months ago. I'd be curious to :)
see a plot of number of pages served per day as a function of time. If the old server only
lasted this long before getting beaten to a pulp, I can hardly wait to see what you'll need to upgrade to a year from now
A DVD player on a laptop has also proved to be a great thing for our young kids on long car trips. Beyond that, I agree, I'd rather watch movies on TV or at the local megaplex.
You don't need power, just high voltage -- which you can get from a static generator like a van de Graaf machine.
Well, it takes power to establish the high voltage in the first place. Actually the power required goes like the square of the voltage.
Also, if you are using the HV to accelerate something, you will have to supply power, because the battery or whatever it is that's creating the electric field is doing work on the particles it accelerates, and that energy has to come from somewhere. Otherwise, if what you say is true, your powerless accelerator would make a nice engine for a perpetual motion machine...
BTW, I work in the physics dept. at the Univ. of Michigan, and Fred Niell, one of the students who built the reactor, is coming to graduate school here in the fall. I am gonna treat that guy with respect!
Uh, wrong...
There is a gate system, but visitors can enter and leave the site during working hours without signing in or being escorted. You just get a ticket from an automatic dispenser at the gate, and return it when you leave. At night you do need a pass that is available only to employees or scientific visitors.
Perhaps you are confusing Fermilab with Argonne National Lab, which is also in the Chicago vicinity and does have the stricter security policy you mentioned. For a federal research facility, Fermilab is actually quite open.
"We feel that 2 to 20 percent of Linux shipments turn out to be 'shelfware,'" he said. "From what we can tell, real-world deployments of Linux are very thin."
I would be happy to provide Mr. Muth with my shelfware copies of Windows 95 and Windows NT. I do not, however, anticipate a refund...