No one I know wants Windows 8. No one I know is even talking about it. I don't want Windows 8. I don't want Windows RT. I don't care about Microsoft products anymore. No one I know does. The last time I paid for an MS product was a promotional copy of Windows 7 Ultimate for $30 from one of their retail partners I worked at. I got a copy of Office 2007 from my University for $10. I will never purchase another MS product at full price. The only way they could get me to upgrade is by knocking 90% off the retail price.
I have decided to stop giving them my money, and I've switched almost entirely to Apple. I'd much rather use Mac or Linux, since nowadays there is more support than ever for comparable programs to run on those platforms.
MSFT will slowly fade into obscurity. Consumers, and even businesses, don't care about them anymore. The only people who will buy their products are big businesses, OEMs and college students who can already get the software for 90% off. And heck I don't even know any big businesses who have upgraded their systems from Windows XP. I know a small handful who have gone to Windows 7.
Still haven't seen any good articles about where they have offloaded all that generation to. Are they burning more coal now that 53 reactors are offline?
I worked at BBY for awhile and it was apparent which customers purchased "defective" merchandise versus something they damaged or improperly installed and broke themselves. The amount of defective merchandise sold was very small in comparison to items that the customer either couldn't figure out how to use or they damaged in the process of trying to install.
Scanning drivers licenses is one thing that will help reduce the fraud or identify which customers are the loss leaders, and with their huge $1.7 billion quarterly losses they need to do everything in their power to stay afloat.
A couple years ago Best Buy stripped out their movies and music selection in favor of more floorspace to sell cell phones and TVs and expand the gaming section.
If anything it's more like maybe 25% floor space is taken up by media and games. And that's pushing it.
Great. So now we'll have Sprint/Nextel using WiMax on 2.5ghz, Verizon using CDMA on 850/1900mhz, Cingular using UMTS/HSPDA on 850/1900/2100mhz, and TMobile using GSM 1900mhz. Why can't we be like Europeans and just settle on one wireless technology?
My prediction is that one of the cameras will break off during launch and strike a critical tile. Causing complete destruction and a loss of all 107 cameras. Then there will be 214 cameras on the next shuttle launch just for redundancy/backup purposes.
Well, a residential environment isn't the most friendly place for Wi-Fi. On top of AP's interfering with each other left and right, you also have cordless phones and other devices that can wreak havoc.
On a college campus, the Wi-Fi environment is largely much better controlled. Engineers strategically place the access points in buildings so that co-channel interference is kept to a minimum, while maximizing coverage.
Also most institutions have strict policies as to rogue non-managed access points. Most universities prohibit AP's that are not centrally managed and installed by the central IT department. Where I work, we disconnect offending rogue AP's from the network altogether, causing it to be more of an inconvenience to run a rogue unit for the person who installs it.
It would seem this has legal ramifications, but it seems like a genious idea. If only I could shut up all those damn chirping phones that go off in accounting class!!!
Odd. My Sony Vaio came with that IBM DJSA-series hard drive, and it croaked after the first 1-foot drop it took while the PC was running. Sony replaced it with a Toshiba.
I'd have to see the hard drive compartment to believe it.
As an addendum I should note that WAP stands for "Wireless Access Point" in this context, some anal reader below has pointed out that it refers to the protocol. Also, I meant 6 WAP's per res. hall, not per lounge. We originally intended to have a maximum of four WAP's per dorm, but it turns out the signal does not penetrate these buildings as well as we expected.
As for security concerns, WEP (not to be confused with WAP) encryption should be mandatory. Although it is easily compromised (and it's up to you whether you let people know this), but advanced users will know ways to secure their connections. Yeah, it's a major setback (Disclaimer: hey, here's this wireless apartment network, I am not responsible for someone sniffing your passwords...)
I am an assistant network engineer at a large midwestern university. Currently, like you we're in the process of figuring out how to deploy wireless access points. Our campus's Engineering Computer Network let us borrow a mobile testing appratus that has a WAP and an Antenna on it (looks like a camera tripod). We take it to different parts of our residence halls and, with a laptop, we take SNR readings from different parts of the surrounding rooms and record our measurements on the building blueprints. We figure we need about 6 WAP's to sufficiently cover the lounge areas of the older dormitories (with their steel and concrete infrastructure), but for your sake 2 WAP's should sufficiently cover a medium-sized apartment building and more. We also plan to cover several large outdoor areas, a library, and our Union right off the bat. The equipment we are using is Enterasys Roamabouts ($1000 a pop), [link] and they are highly configurable and have a ton of management features. We figure each WAP will get connected to a switch port on the Cisco Catalysts in our buildings. So far, we haven't done much in terms of the deployment because it is a long process, where the Physical Facilities department has to do the actual installation of the equipment, data jacks, etc. I assume in your case you can better coordinate this without all the red tape. We figure that by the time these are all installed and our userbase is well-informed of the network, we will have a great system that will scale to thousands of students and staff in the future. http://www.purdue.edu/ITaP/projects/wireless.shtml
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No one I know wants Windows 8. No one I know is even talking about it. I don't want Windows 8. I don't want Windows RT. I don't care about Microsoft products anymore. No one I know does. The last time I paid for an MS product was a promotional copy of Windows 7 Ultimate for $30 from one of their retail partners I worked at. I got a copy of Office 2007 from my University for $10. I will never purchase another MS product at full price. The only way they could get me to upgrade is by knocking 90% off the retail price.
I have decided to stop giving them my money, and I've switched almost entirely to Apple. I'd much rather use Mac or Linux, since nowadays there is more support than ever for comparable programs to run on those platforms.
MSFT will slowly fade into obscurity. Consumers, and even businesses, don't care about them anymore. The only people who will buy their products are big businesses, OEMs and college students who can already get the software for 90% off. And heck I don't even know any big businesses who have upgraded their systems from Windows XP. I know a small handful who have gone to Windows 7.
Christ. JUST as I was getting used to the new MicroSIM format that the iphone4 used. Wasn't that small enough?
Still haven't seen any good articles about where they have offloaded all that generation to. Are they burning more coal now that 53 reactors are offline?
I worked at BBY for awhile and it was apparent which customers purchased "defective" merchandise versus something they damaged or improperly installed and broke themselves. The amount of defective merchandise sold was very small in comparison to items that the customer either couldn't figure out how to use or they damaged in the process of trying to install.
Scanning drivers licenses is one thing that will help reduce the fraud or identify which customers are the loss leaders, and with their huge $1.7 billion quarterly losses they need to do everything in their power to stay afloat.
What?! 70%? By lately do you mean 10 years ago??
A couple years ago Best Buy stripped out their movies and music selection in favor of more floorspace to sell cell phones and TVs and expand the gaming section.
If anything it's more like maybe 25% floor space is taken up by media and games. And that's pushing it.
Where can we get a DVD ISO of the entire thing so we don't have to burn 4 separate CDs?
I wonder what the battery life is like and how many calls you get before your watch goes dead.
Um, that is what I was referring to in the first place.
Great. So now we'll have Sprint/Nextel using WiMax on 2.5ghz, Verizon using CDMA on 850/1900mhz, Cingular using UMTS/HSPDA on 850/1900/2100mhz, and TMobile using GSM 1900mhz. Why can't we be like Europeans and just settle on one wireless technology?
Pluto doesn't really exist, and we haven't landed on the moon.
My prediction is that one of the cameras will break off during launch and strike a critical tile. Causing complete destruction and a loss of all 107 cameras. Then there will be 214 cameras on the next shuttle launch just for redundancy/backup purposes.
you forgot to mention one of the biggest pros:
all of the young eye-candy walking around campus.
you won't find that working for IBM or Dell.
Well, a residential environment isn't the most friendly place for Wi-Fi. On top of AP's interfering with each other left and right, you also have cordless phones and other devices that can wreak havoc.
On a college campus, the Wi-Fi environment is largely much better controlled. Engineers strategically place the access points in buildings so that co-channel interference is kept to a minimum, while maximizing coverage.
Also most institutions have strict policies as to rogue non-managed access points. Most universities prohibit AP's that are not centrally managed and installed by the central IT department. Where I work, we disconnect offending rogue AP's from the network altogether, causing it to be more of an inconvenience to run a rogue unit for the person who installs it.
I'm gonna WAP the next person on the head who alludes to the cell phone WAP technology as the "correct" usage of the term WAP!!!
It's 2005 and we STILL have to use throwaway accounts to read the New York Times?
from anonymous sources:
(4 ea) ws-x4515
(6 ea) ws-x6724-sfp
(5 ea) ws-f6700-cfc
(10 ea) ws-sup720
(10 ea) ws-f6k-pfc3a
(8 ea) ws-x6704-10ge
(32 ea) xenpak 10000mbps 802.3 line cards
Also, I wonder if it works on all the major cellular (800mhz SMR [Nextel], 850mhz cellular) and PCS (1900mhz) frequency bands, or just a single one?
It would seem this has legal ramifications, but it seems like a genious idea. If only I could shut up all those damn chirping phones that go off in accounting class!!!
I'd have to see the hard drive compartment to believe it.
Didn't this story run like yesterday?
I just love that. I wonder which "major university" study sponsored this keyboard...
As an addendum I should note that WAP stands for "Wireless Access Point" in this context, some anal reader below has pointed out that it refers to the protocol. Also, I meant 6 WAP's per res. hall, not per lounge. We originally intended to have a maximum of four WAP's per dorm, but it turns out the signal does not penetrate these buildings as well as we expected.
As for security concerns, WEP (not to be confused with WAP) encryption should be mandatory. Although it is easily compromised (and it's up to you whether you let people know this), but advanced users will know ways to secure their connections. Yeah, it's a major setback (Disclaimer: hey, here's this wireless apartment network, I am not responsible for someone sniffing your passwords...)
Just couldn't resist a shameless plug at the end.
I am an assistant network engineer at a large midwestern university. Currently, like you we're in the process of figuring out how to deploy wireless access points. Our campus's Engineering Computer Network let us borrow a mobile testing appratus that has a WAP and an Antenna on it (looks like a camera tripod). We take it to different parts of our residence halls and, with a laptop, we take SNR readings from different parts of the surrounding rooms and record our measurements on the building blueprints. We figure we need about 6 WAP's to sufficiently cover the lounge areas of the older dormitories (with their steel and concrete infrastructure), but for your sake 2 WAP's should sufficiently cover a medium-sized apartment building and more. We also plan to cover several large outdoor areas, a library, and our Union right off the bat. The equipment we are using is Enterasys Roamabouts ($1000 a pop), [link] and they are highly configurable and have a ton of management features. We figure each WAP will get connected to a switch port on the Cisco Catalysts in our buildings. So far, we haven't done much in terms of the deployment because it is a long process, where the Physical Facilities department has to do the actual installation of the equipment, data jacks, etc. I assume in your case you can better coordinate this without all the red tape. We figure that by the time these are all installed and our userbase is well-informed of the network, we will have a great system that will scale to thousands of students and staff in the future.l
http://www.purdue.edu/ITaP/projects/wireless.shtm
You've got that nice P3 with all that RAM, and you're putting it to waste with a DOS-based Windows operating system? Jeez, throw Win2k on that puppy.