Funny you mention swimming pool... with the amount of money spent on technology labs at my former college, they could have easily repaired the busted swimming pool. The ugly side of technology tax is it will never go away, it's arrived and made education that much more expensive, period.
Funny thing is... I read like a fiend now, but when I was in school they couldn't get me to. At least I had the opportunity to read, and in my junior or sernior year in HS I finally caught on to reading. Computers were just coming in and I couldn't seem to find enough hours in a day to play around with them. Now that I have computers all over the place, I'm reading about one novel per week and surfing much less than before.
Ever notice how so many candidates in the last general election were "THE education" candidates?
Reminds me of a The Brain For President shirt I have... among the top reasons, "I believe in education: I'll teach you a lesson"
I do believe purchasing officers around the country wring their hands every time it comes to paying tech companies tuition. Sadly, from personal experience, I've seen a college spend huge bucks on building labs and then fretting over how to keep heads above water as they repair/maintain and eventually have to replace computers and software every few years. I do believe they're getting the hang of it, but it's very, very expensive and buildings are crumbling and other programs suffer at the expense.
What the _? You saved money, so you spent it? How the _ is that saving money. That money was spent either _ing way.
I guess you haven't got to studying government, yet. That's the way it works. Governments don't save money, some are actually barred from carrying over money from one year to the next, or in the case of budgets "use it or lose it."
My personal observations:
Democrats: Tax and spend.
Republicans: Don't tax, but spend as much and blame on Democrats.
It's sort of the same way in public institutions. "We don't have enough money", "we got money, quick get out your wish-lists", "we ran out of money, plead for some more."
The funny, or should I say ironic, thing is schools got along for centuries without computers, let alone Microsoft stuff. Isn't it a wonder, when you add it all up, what it costs to involve computers in education. Certainly students will need some familiarity with computers, maybe even some common apps, like word processing or spread sheets, but it seems to me that a book is still a book and a pen is still a pen, if you can't work with either of those, you'll be lucky to get a job pumping gas.
Last I heard Oracle was, probably for PR reasons if not goodwill, going to let the state off the hook, same for Logicon which negotiated the *cough* no bid *cough* contract.
There's other fun fish to fry for California, if you've not heard, Enron documents detailing the strategy to screw California by playing shell games with power, actually written in 2000 by Enron lawyers. What a mess.
BTW, trying to find the smoking-gun-memo on FERC I got this It's December 3869, do you know how to set a system clock?
I just got peek at the article but it has to be a seriously squirmy moment on the stand for yet-another-ill-prepared-Microsoft-executive-and/o r-witness, as Will Poole couldn't offer a satisfactory explanation why nothing was changed for XP despite the antitrust ruling.
IIRC, "we gotta get it out the door to do our part to help the economy, can't stop now to do the right thing, W.'s counting on us!" -- hmm soft stance of the DoJ... scratch my back, I'll scratch yours? Seems to fit in with the recent pattern of sucking up to industry.
Anyway, RealNetworks (love 'em, hate 'em) gripes are valid, if Microsoft rolls out a "tested and Q/A Approved (the MCSEs all playing solitaire never found any bugs) Final version" and mysteriously competitors products (which you know they've had a keen eye towards making sure all is well) malfunction and look shoddy.
Other than being rich and arrogant, I wouldn't want to be in their shoes.
Actually... I remember where I used to work people wouldn't replace ribbons in their dot-matrix printers until it was little more than the compressed paper they were reading. The incredible contrast of a new ribbon would asound them. But I agree on the ink thing, these basically stop printing that color, period.
Seriously, I've had some heated debates with my manager in the past couple weeks and apart from coming away from these encounters with the feeling "I do the impossible for the unbelieving and ungrateful, why bother." To managers, have some faith in your programmers / analysts. If we fuck-up, think of tactful ways to handle it, but have some faith.
Nothing, in my humble experience, beats printing out source code on fan-fold paper on impact printers, hence I still have my old Alps ALQ 224e. Trying to organize single sheets of code from a 500+ line module can get really hairy. Besides, it's much easier to draw notes from page to page, however long a segment I'm focusing on spans. Have laser printers and work and just hate printing source on them.
Refilling would be one thing, but indeed I had to wonder about the duplication of Lexmark smartchips. This bit from the Espon rep. smells like BS
"We're really giving customers a benefit they didn't have before," said Epson
marketing manager Rajeev Mishra, whose company has installed smart chips on
many replacement cartridges. Mishra says it's done so customers can track ink use
and other printing statistics.
I've got an HP, but after reading this I'm highly unlikely to buy an Epson if that's their attitude -- the old "it's not a swindle, it's a service" line is pretty transparent.
Well, I got what I paid for -- a printer which does nice color copies, for only $150, problem is as the post says, the carts cost ~$50 for a new set, which is about once a year, and I hardly do any printing. I can't imagine the expense for someone who prints every day (or every week even.)
I've expected that HP's "highly profitable printer business" (as a news article last week stated) had less to do with selling printers than to do with selling supplies.
Buyer beware. It's not so black and white when the sales people push a miraculous printer in front of you for what seems a bargain price. (Still, it's way better than I got out of my old ALQ 224e 8 years ago)
Spider-Man picked up
an Amazing $114 million dollars at the box office, squishing Harry Potter's
$90.3 million like a bug.
Really, I never could give a rat's ass for these kinds of announcements, and it means little to me whether Sam Raimi is a capable director or not. I take the numbers with a salt lick, as from my impression it's just a device to try to drum up attendance. Is it ever verified? Or would it just be some great trick pulled by the MPAA on a repeatedly duped public, who will then be wondering why such a successful movie doesn't get squat for academy awards.
The story was pretty good, the live stuff was pretty good, the computer animation was on par with 10, maybe 15 years go, or a typical video game today -- how do you applaud someone for letting that drek into the finished film?
As for profitable, you ought to know by now that Hollywood has a strange, imoral and probably illegal way of keeping track of money. The receipts for these movies are also a statistical measure, because you know they really don't have some central database system tracking all this when some theaters are still handing out little orange stubs and stuffing the money in a drawer to be counted later, probably Monday.
As for opening days, first weeks, overalls, etc. it would really be interesting to see how this stacks up against opening of Gone With the Wind, ET or Return of the Jedi with dollars adjusted for inflation. What you never hear is an estimate of how many bodies they got into theater seats, also, track it next weekend, as the word-of-mouth gets around and we see whether it has lasting power.
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Techies do care, however, the media companies (particularly those who claim to have been so hurt under copying) spend scads of money to keep people down. I wonder how long before we see law firms listed on the NYSE, as they've done a booming business under this tyranny. And, yes, the common man on the street doesn't know and doesn't care about it until the police knock on the door because the kids are running a file sharing service or have written some really clever decrypting software and have it on their website.
To some degree the common man is more worried about employment, terrorism, war in the Middle East. When the press (which is largely owned by companies just happy as hell with the DMCA) tells the common man it's a bad thing, then he'll care. Don't see that happening, do you?
Imagine if politicians were so interested in voter participation!
Where I live they are, the parties are and everyone who has strong agreement with or against inundates me with with doorknob hangings, fliers in the screen door, through the mail (I have a POB as well as the home addr) and the sad part is I don't have a way to convert it all to methanol.
HP-Compaq-Digital... The one I miss the most is Digital.
How about a widow and daughter to support. I genuinely feel for them, and hope it wasn't just because of some contractual obligation, i.e. Douglas receiving an advance, spending it, then taking a huge amount of time to do the book. Not like it's happened before. For a good understanding read Don't Panic by Neil Gaiman
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Isn't this amazing in the face of this? Why, it's a veritable scandal and it's happening everywhere. People should be outraged, nothing less.
Funny thing is... I read like a fiend now, but when I was in school they couldn't get me to. At least I had the opportunity to read, and in my junior or sernior year in HS I finally caught on to reading. Computers were just coming in and I couldn't seem to find enough hours in a day to play around with them. Now that I have computers all over the place, I'm reading about one novel per week and surfing much less than before.
Reminds me of a The Brain For President shirt I have... among the top reasons, "I believe in education: I'll teach you a lesson"
I do believe purchasing officers around the country wring their hands every time it comes to paying tech companies tuition. Sadly, from personal experience, I've seen a college spend huge bucks on building labs and then fretting over how to keep heads above water as they repair/maintain and eventually have to replace computers and software every few years. I do believe they're getting the hang of it, but it's very, very expensive and buildings are crumbling and other programs suffer at the expense.
I guess you haven't got to studying government, yet. That's the way it works. Governments don't save money, some are actually barred from carrying over money from one year to the next, or in the case of budgets "use it or lose it."
My personal observations:
Democrats: Tax and spend.
Republicans: Don't tax, but spend as much and blame on Democrats.
It's sort of the same way in public institutions. "We don't have enough money", "we got money, quick get out your wish-lists", "we ran out of money, plead for some more."
The funny, or should I say ironic, thing is schools got along for centuries without computers, let alone Microsoft stuff. Isn't it a wonder, when you add it all up, what it costs to involve computers in education. Certainly students will need some familiarity with computers, maybe even some common apps, like word processing or spread sheets, but it seems to me that a book is still a book and a pen is still a pen, if you can't work with either of those, you'll be lucky to get a job pumping gas.
Last I heard Oracle was, probably for PR reasons if not goodwill, going to let the state off the hook, same for Logicon which negotiated the *cough* no bid *cough* contract.
There's other fun fish to fry for California, if you've not heard, Enron documents detailing the strategy to screw California by playing shell games with power, actually written in 2000 by Enron lawyers. What a mess.
BTW, trying to find the smoking-gun-memo on FERC I got this It's December 3869, do you know how to set a system clock?
IIRC, "we gotta get it out the door to do our part to help the economy, can't stop now to do the right thing, W.'s counting on us!" -- hmm soft stance of the DoJ... scratch my back, I'll scratch yours? Seems to fit in with the recent pattern of sucking up to industry.
Anyway, RealNetworks (love 'em, hate 'em) gripes are valid, if Microsoft rolls out a "tested and Q/A Approved (the MCSEs all playing solitaire never found any bugs) Final version" and mysteriously competitors products (which you know they've had a keen eye towards making sure all is well) malfunction and look shoddy.
Other than being rich and arrogant, I wouldn't want to be in their shoes.
I recall Dow Chemical, Co, having a laser that ran from rolled paper. It pretty much had to, considering the volume of paychecks, and other printouts.
Actually... I remember where I used to work people wouldn't replace ribbons in their dot-matrix printers until it was little more than the compressed paper they were reading. The incredible contrast of a new ribbon would asound them. But I agree on the ink thing, these basically stop printing that color, period.
Seriously, I've had some heated debates with my manager in the past couple weeks and apart from coming away from these encounters with the feeling "I do the impossible for the unbelieving and ungrateful, why bother." To managers, have some faith in your programmers / analysts. If we fuck-up, think of tactful ways to handle it, but have some faith.
Nothing, in my humble experience, beats printing out source code on fan-fold paper on impact printers, hence I still have my old Alps ALQ 224e. Trying to organize single sheets of code from a 500+ line module can get really hairy. Besides, it's much easier to draw notes from page to page, however long a segment I'm focusing on spans. Have laser printers and work and just hate printing source on them.
I've got an HP, but after reading this I'm highly unlikely to buy an Epson if that's their attitude -- the old "it's not a swindle, it's a service" line is pretty transparent.
I've expected that HP's "highly profitable printer business" (as a news article last week stated) had less to do with selling printers than to do with selling supplies.
Buyer beware. It's not so black and white when the sales people push a miraculous printer in front of you for what seems a bargain price. (Still, it's way better than I got out of my old ALQ 224e 8 years ago)
Regards,
Madison Priest
You're mad! Mad, I say, mad!
BTW, how long till the first OS-9 emulator hits the fan? ;)
Who's face would you most prefer on your own personal dartboard? Why?
PS Ya don't suppose Taco feels vindicated at outdoing Harry, do you? After all, both really are kids flicks. ;)
What? No Captain Klutz? ;)
Really, I never could give a rat's ass for these kinds of announcements, and it means little to me whether Sam Raimi is a capable director or not. I take the numbers with a salt lick, as from my impression it's just a device to try to drum up attendance. Is it ever verified? Or would it just be some great trick pulled by the MPAA on a repeatedly duped public, who will then be wondering why such a successful movie doesn't get squat for academy awards.
The story was pretty good, the live stuff was pretty good, the computer animation was on par with 10, maybe 15 years go, or a typical video game today -- how do you applaud someone for letting that drek into the finished film?
As for profitable, you ought to know by now that Hollywood has a strange, imoral and probably illegal way of keeping track of money. The receipts for these movies are also a statistical measure, because you know they really don't have some central database system tracking all this when some theaters are still handing out little orange stubs and stuffing the money in a drawer to be counted later, probably Monday.
As for opening days, first weeks, overalls, etc. it would really be interesting to see how this stacks up against opening of Gone With the Wind, ET or Return of the Jedi with dollars adjusted for inflation. What you never hear is an estimate of how many bodies they got into theater seats, also, track it next weekend, as the word-of-mouth gets around and we see whether it has lasting power.
To some degree the common man is more worried about employment, terrorism, war in the Middle East. When the press (which is largely owned by companies just happy as hell with the DMCA) tells the common man it's a bad thing, then he'll care. Don't see that happening, do you?
Oh, bugger. It doesn't seem as funny under these actual circumstances, does it.
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Where I live they are, the parties are and everyone who has strong agreement with or against inundates me with with doorknob hangings, fliers in the screen door, through the mail (I have a POB as well as the home addr) and the sad part is I don't have a way to convert it all to methanol.
HP-Compaq-Digital ... The one I miss the most is Digital.
How about a widow and daughter to support. I genuinely feel for them, and hope it wasn't just because of some contractual obligation, i.e. Douglas receiving an advance, spending it, then taking a huge amount of time to do the book. Not like it's happened before. For a good understanding read Don't Panic by Neil Gaiman
Probably brought on a sudden resurgence in the poetry of Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings of Greenbridge, Essex, England