that was their point..... that business model does not seem to exist. if it does, not on a large scale. that's where low budget college/community radio wins out.
wow... i never knew that..... the only firewire toys i really have is a CD burner (Que!) and i have borrowed a camcorder. neither of those would be bus powered anyway i guess.
is there any designation to indicate if it is a 4 or 6 pin port? any way to tell without peeking? will "firewire" now be associated with the 4 and 6 port versions?
it's funny when you go into a store that does not sell Macs and refer to it as "firewire". i have gotten some snooty correction from them letting me know it's "iLink" or "1394". 1394 i can see, but to tell me it's called "iLink" is so beat.... Sony had no hand in the design. Apple, as well as many other people, spent years working on it.
as posted here already, i will be curious to see what they call "firewire2" or whatever it'll be. Apple trademarked "gigawire", so who knows. i can only assume they already have it figured out since it's something that is nearing release.
a toolbox is good, though a decent multitool (Leatherman, gerber etc... not a cheapo one that breaks) can save the day.
earplugs are good too.... if she can sleep through the noise, i bet she knows someone who can't and can get use of them... college kids always like food. can't go wrong with local food. when my brother was at school we sent him Tastykakes. it wasn't a homesick thing, it's just a Philly thing. most college food sucks, so anything good is valid... anything they can't get at their school from the hometown has to be a bonus. i never did figure out how to ship him waterice......
people really get attached to food i think.... i literally just dropped my brother off at the train.. he was in town for about 5 hours and in that time he had a cheesesteak, waterice and some soft pretzels. i think he threw some tastykakes in his bag too. (no, he's not chubby either)
i was always under the impression that IE was the default browser by some sort of deal with M$ (that 5 year plan of cooperation). granted that deal is technically over now (or this summer?), but both sides have agreed to keep with the spirit of the agreement. i would think M$ would throw a fit if something else was default. it is also odd that over the last 5 years Netscape would sometimes install with the OS and sometimes not. it was never default, but it was sometimes there. when i installed 10.0 and 10.1, there was only IE. i do not know if they figured other browsers were not mature enough yet or what, but the IE that shipped with 10.0 was terrible. as general habit i delete all M$ software from my machine after a fresh install. these days in OS X i use Mozilla for browsing 99% of the time, if it fails me i revert to Omniweb or icab (my previous first choices for OS X). i have not downloaded Chimera yet, but i think i will later. so far i have heard really posi things about it (even with the early early releases).
and totally off on a tangent... i really hope AOL dumps IE, i would be psyched to see lazy web site designers to have to revert back to the true standards. i don't know if it is coincidence or what, but in the last few months i have run into more and more websites that do not properly function with any browser i still have on my machine. to hell with the M$ plans to "streamline the internet when everyone uses our software".
i don't own a PS2 (or an xbox) so i am not totally keeping on top of this, but my understanding was that the PS2 expansion kit included: ethernet card and drive (for the expansion slot in the back) and a keyboard and mouse.
i do not know how true it is, but i heard the expansion kit would allow users to surf the web and whatnot since they will have the ethernet jack. that would/could leave more up to the user in terms of selecting game servers. since there is a hard drive, they can load the OS on there and let you have the game disc in the drive. this is the push for them to work on their linux kit. if this is really how it plays out, i will be psyched. millions of kids with their very own linux box.
then again wasn't this supposed to be out already? i know linux kit was a huge success in Japan when it came out.
oops.... i mean i heard that people do that... i read it online somewhere.
i do have to say that i never thought of that trick on my own. someone came and did it to my Sims neighborhood while i was away..... poor sims. for the creative people with issues there are many ways for sims to die (like walling them in while they sleep, which i have never tried). i think my housemate explored the possibilities after his favorite Sim died from spontanious combustion. another lesson in why you should back up your data.
i wonder how they will deal with crazy 3rd party objects? will that be eliminated. so far The Sims has encouraged people to make their own skins for people and objects for the house. they even give info and link some of the bigger sites. i guess if/when PS2 gets online it will also allow for a keyboard and a hard drive? wasnt that the plan? i guess that will allow people to download 3rd party objects, or make their own with photoshop. i think the customization has been a lot of the success. where else can you make a house occupied by stormshadow (gi joe), darth vader, darth maul, the grim reaper and bill gates? yes, there are bill gates and steve jobs skins so you can make them neighbors and have them duke it out. there are 3rd party downloads to change the computers to Apple models. tons of retarted stuff. i don't play the game all that much (i dont play any games much), but i think the endless possibilities are the key to this game. some days you just want to remove the ladders from all the swimming pools (so people drown and death comes to take them away.... leaving a ghost producing tombstone). it's better than going... outside!
the whole thing is damn scary.... i work at WKDU in Philly. Drexel U college radio. we broadcast FM, but have also been webcasting for a few years. the requirements they wanted were financially impossible as well as technically. unlike crappy top 40 radio, we do not have a pre-pregrammed rotation of songs from a hard drive. we play records. many of the records are released by artists themselves and only 500 or 1,000 exist in the world. there is no way to send out the track data while the song is streaming when you play records. i would say over half of our DJs mostly play records. 90% of the reggae we have is from old 7"s, the dance DJs mix live during their sets, the punk DJs play CDs if the stuff is new, but our record library goes back to the 60s and is full of good vinyl. there is absolutately no way to digitize it. the regualtions they were/are shooting for are totally targetted at mainstream commercial stations. i think in the process they wanted to take out all small, low budget internet only stations.
a few years ago we pondered ditching the music that is copywritten and therefore falls under this proposal. it's not really possible. a lot of indie music is registered, plus all it takes is one band doing one cover song to blow the whole thing. ARGH!
hopefully the revised deal will make more sense to non-commercial stations.
i think the above is an interesting take on motivating factors. makes sense. i think they see many advantages to getting into this market.
i wonder how much of the motivation of it is also to get em while they are young. you figure most kids who have parents that use computers at work are running M$ products. *most* people seem to think M$ products are good (yeah i know, stay with me). with Xbox, they get young kids hooked on M$ in general, and parents probably figure "i bought that damn Sega Saturn and they went belly up, M$ isn't going anywhere".
there is also the stories about the next generation of Xbox incorportaing the functionalities of webTV. both Xbox and Playstation will have web access, keyboards bla. if nothing else they will be needed to get on game servers. if the device has a USB port and ethernet jacks, why not make it do a little web browsing and whatever else. game servers, tips, cheats etc are going to be powerful motivation for little kids to learn how to use this computer. BAM! M$ just scores a generation of young kids that learned to use a computer running some version of windows. now if only Sony gets that linux kit out there.... what a great way to get a zillion vocal young kids to mess with Linux and learn how it really doesnt suck.
Re:Sigh... No 32MB video memory option...
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until today the ibook had 8MB VRAM, i don't see them jumping right up to 32MB when that's what the TiBook is shipping with right now. i agree, iw ould like to see the ibook optimized to take full advantage of all aspects of 10.2, but hey. i do not know how much of an issue it will really be, all reports of people installing the developer version of 10.2 (with lots of begugging stuff added) on 600mghz ibooks said it was way faster than the 10.1.4 they had been running. it wqould have been nice tto start the lower ones with a lil more than 128 megs of ram though. yes, it's cheap and easy to upgrade yourself, but it's the point.
over all i think it's a pretty good upgrade. nothing shocking, but nobody really expected that.
yeah midnight showing was the way to go..... plus the theater i saw it at sold tix over a week in advance.... they had over 3,000 seats showing star wars at the midnight screening (24 screen theater), and from what i hear the 5th screen didnt actually sell out.
i read something in a pranks book once about some guy that always messed with these people. he went off on a long explanation about how he will never need new siding because the previous year he bought black rubber siding. made from recycled tires or something. the person calling him was so so so so confused. playing those games with long distance companies can be risky though, they have that magic power to switch your provider (unless you scrap long distance like we did, cell phones!). make up completely retarted information. keep them on the line as long as you can handle it. they work on comission, so the time they waste with you is money lost. i realize they are just trying to make a paycheck, but there are productive things to do in this world. tele marketing helps nobody. they are as bad a lawyers. just don't give up any true information and have fun. try to annoy them more than they have ever annoyed you, and you'll win.
yeah, if people didnt know about this scam before, i guess a lot of this has come out since the 9-11 aftermath. it's too bad that they pull that crap, and try to guilt trip you into giving money... then in the end something like 2% makes it to the firemen/police/whatever.
in statements issued earlier this year (pdabuzz.com had it a while ago) Palm said they would have bluetooth and 802.11b palms shipping by the end of the year. they also will be switching (at least some models) to an ARM processor. From what i know, this will take the Palm OS to a whole new level. i have been waiting to see what this is before i replace my IIIxe. personally i have no interest in wince/pocketpc and can wait to hold out. if you are not in a hurry i suggest the same. the ARM chip will be so much more powerful, and frankly i wonder how much a current palm can really do over 802.11b to take advantage of the connection. obviously a lot, but in a few months it will do a lot more. they ran a demo of the upcoming Palm os for the ARM and the reports were very positive. guess something woke them up, they've been resting on their past breakthroughs for quite a while now (though i dig the i705).
shipping by the end of the year, no price yet... 3U height *14 drive bays *14 120GB ATA drives - in same hot-plug format as Xserve *1.68TB *Dual 2GB Fibre Channel on system *400MB/second storage throughput
there are some of those nifty Mac tricks to make the CD Rom tray open on restart and whatnot, so not all hope is lost if there is no manual eject hole. It sucks these major label scumbags are selling these things that technically are not audio CDs.... they do not stick to the standards. JERKS!
a former housemate said they recently built one near his parent's house in Maryland (with gas station)..... what's next!?!? waterice, soft pretzels, Goldberg's Peanut Chews and Tastykakes in California!?!?
hmmmmmm Wawa sounds like a good idea..... later friends!
Re:Free as in upgrade or free is in not-free?
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there has been no info about this yet...... though this was a developer conference, so things like that are not the issue at hand (if they even know yet). i don't see how it can be a download if it's as big as it seems it will be. hopefully it will be like the 10.1 upgrade, but i don't know since Apple seemed really pissed about the hack to the 10.1 updater cd to make it a full install cd.
anyway, i can not speak for all the colleges of Drexel, but you can't say that about the engineering school. hell, Drexel was started because people thought UPenn dropped the ball with an engineering school. the initial idea for the Drexel Institute of Technology was to be built up into a top notch engineering school and then UPenn would absorb it (like the rest of west philly! ha!). anyway, that plan didn't follow through and Drexel eventually grew to the university it is today. i don't defend a lot of the actions of the administration, but i do stand by the engineering school.
take all the shots you want at Drexel, but if you were really that smart then you should have gone to MIT. i always have, and always will have a ton of respect for the Drexel engineering program.... but after spending some time at MIT (my brother went there), i was completely blown away. i think a lot of it was because it is a school so focused on science. yes, they have a business school... but nobody seems to know that, and they are a minority. the nrrds are everywhere there, and things are geared that way. it's so freakin' cool.
i'm rambling because i am hungry.... bye!
i started at Drexel in the Mac days (1992). every incoming freshmen had to own a Mac. if you did not own one you could buy it through the school at a really good discount (better than current student prices). so about a week before classes start you (and 99% of incoming freshmen) go pick up your machines. they also give you the "drexel software bundle". it came with a lot of MS software... there was no Office then (i dont think), but i know we got excel, word and some other stuff. actually except for excel i probably have the other stuff still shrinkwrapped at my mom's house (except for excel i used the clarus products... yay dogcow). every Mac in that school that i ever played with had excel, word and whatever else i can't think of right now. there were a few PCs around (i guess) and the email servers were Vax or Unix (DUVM and DUNX! handled most student mail). the fact that MS software was still everywhere would make me think they would try for some blanket policy.
i would like to think Drexel would have fought it, but they have been talked into dumber things. these days i'm sure they go for that... every student get's the freshmen software CDs.... from what i am told they have a boatload of Windows software, and for the remaining mac kids they have somehting like nifty telnet, fetch, eudora, and internet explorer. ugh.
that's awesome that you were an admin while an undergrad... but Drexel is a university. many of the majors can not get off hour jobs in their field and really learn a lot. is it really that big of a deal to spend an extra year there at achool? actually there are majors at Drexel that have coop and are only 4 year programs (they have a 3 and 6 month coop cycle).
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That's right on..... people seemed to take what steve said wrong. You need the newer graphics cards FOR THE CARD TO DO ALL THE RENDERING. Otherwise, like today, some is done by the processor. It is a move to free up processor power that is currently making shadows and lil candy-like objects on the screen. Seems like a cool idea to me. I have a bad feeling my Rage128 card will feel even pokier in 10.2, but i'll still upgrrade as soon as i can.
He also said you need an AGP 2x slot, from what i know ALL Macs with AGP slots have AGP 2x. I have the first G4 motherboard with AGP (the sawtooth). My Rage128 card is only 16MB VRAM, but i can get another card to replace it. I would prefer to not put much more money into my machine and sttart saving for a new one next year sometime (G5?), but dropping some money for a video card doesn't seem unreasonable to me. My windows running, game playing housemate has replaced his video card twice since he bought his computer about 3.5 years ago. I'm not a gamer, so i do not care as much, but this OS upgrade might be enough make me go shopping.
there have been rumors circulating for a while in the gaming world that Sony might push up the release of PS3 instead of making a PS2.5
the PS2 ethernet/harddrive kit is getting a pokey release. i can assume it is because they do not have everything ready for big game servers, or the games really ready tto go online? xbox includes tthe ethernet card, and though they do not officially support online game linking, you can still link them together with standard Cat5 cable (like maybe in a dorm?). to link PS2 it requires USB cable or something expensive, and nobody has a 150' USB cable. my housemate has a PS2.... if i had one we could link them, but they have to be a USB cable apart.... so we would havve to put the consoles in the hallway and run superlong AV-out cables and gamepade extender cables. if we both had an xbox we just make a Cat5 cable and run it through the walls. don't get me wrong, i'll never buy an Xbox, but that is one thing they have up right now (not that most consumers care enough to make that decide which path to take).
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that was their point..... that business model does not seem to exist. if it does, not on a large scale. that's where low budget college/community radio wins out.
wow... i never knew that..... the only firewire toys i really have is a CD burner (Que!) and i have borrowed a camcorder. neither of those would be bus powered anyway i guess.
is there any designation to indicate if it is a 4 or 6 pin port? any way to tell without peeking? will "firewire" now be associated with the 4 and 6 port versions?
it's funny when you go into a store that does not sell Macs and refer to it as "firewire". i have gotten some snooty correction from them letting me know it's "iLink" or "1394". 1394 i can see, but to tell me it's called "iLink" is so beat.... Sony had no hand in the design. Apple, as well as many other people, spent years working on it.
as posted here already, i will be curious to see what they call "firewire2" or whatever it'll be. Apple trademarked "gigawire", so who knows. i can only assume they already have it figured out since it's something that is nearing release.
a toolbox is good, though a decent multitool (Leatherman, gerber etc... not a cheapo one that breaks) can save the day.
earplugs are good too.... if she can sleep through the noise, i bet she knows someone who can't and can get use of them... college kids always like food. can't go wrong with local food. when my brother was at school we sent him Tastykakes. it wasn't a homesick thing, it's just a Philly thing. most college food sucks, so anything good is valid... anything they can't get at their school from the hometown has to be a bonus. i never did figure out how to ship him waterice......
people really get attached to food i think.... i literally just dropped my brother off at the train.. he was in town for about 5 hours and in that time he had a cheesesteak, waterice and some soft pretzels. i think he threw some tastykakes in his bag too. (no, he's not chubby either)
i was always under the impression that IE was the default browser by some sort of deal with M$ (that 5 year plan of cooperation). granted that deal is technically over now (or this summer?), but both sides have agreed to keep with the spirit of the agreement. i would think M$ would throw a fit if something else was default.
it is also odd that over the last 5 years Netscape would sometimes install with the OS and sometimes not. it was never default, but it was sometimes there. when i installed 10.0 and 10.1, there was only IE. i do not know if they figured other browsers were not mature enough yet or what, but the IE that shipped with 10.0 was terrible. as general habit i delete all M$ software from my machine after a fresh install. these days in OS X i use Mozilla for browsing 99% of the time, if it fails me i revert to Omniweb or icab (my previous first choices for OS X). i have not downloaded Chimera yet, but i think i will later. so far i have heard really posi things about it (even with the early early releases).
and totally off on a tangent... i really hope AOL dumps IE, i would be psyched to see lazy web site designers to have to revert back to the true standards. i don't know if it is coincidence or what, but in the last few months i have run into more and more websites that do not properly function with any browser i still have on my machine. to hell with the M$ plans to "streamline the internet when everyone uses our software".
i don't own a PS2 (or an xbox) so i am not totally keeping on top of this, but my understanding was that the PS2 expansion kit included: ethernet card and drive (for the expansion slot in the back) and a keyboard and mouse.
i do not know how true it is, but i heard the expansion kit would allow users to surf the web and whatnot since they will have the ethernet jack. that would/could leave more up to the user in terms of selecting game servers. since there is a hard drive, they can load the OS on there and let you have the game disc in the drive. this is the push for them to work on their linux kit. if this is really how it plays out, i will be psyched. millions of kids with their very own linux box.
then again wasn't this supposed to be out already? i know linux kit was a huge success in Japan when it came out.
oops.... i mean i heard that people do that... i read it online somewhere.
i do have to say that i never thought of that trick on my own. someone came and did it to my Sims neighborhood while i was away..... poor sims. for the creative people with issues there are many ways for sims to die (like walling them in while they sleep, which i have never tried). i think my housemate explored the possibilities after his favorite Sim died from spontanious combustion. another lesson in why you should back up your data.
i wonder how they will deal with crazy 3rd party objects? will that be eliminated. so far The Sims has encouraged people to make their own skins for people and objects for the house. they even give info and link some of the bigger sites. i guess if/when PS2 gets online it will also allow for a keyboard and a hard drive? wasnt that the plan? i guess that will allow people to download 3rd party objects, or make their own with photoshop. i think the customization has been a lot of the success. where else can you make a house occupied by stormshadow (gi joe), darth vader, darth maul, the grim reaper and bill gates? yes, there are bill gates and steve jobs skins so you can make them neighbors and have them duke it out. there are 3rd party downloads to change the computers to Apple models. tons of retarted stuff. i don't play the game all that much (i dont play any games much), but i think the endless possibilities are the key to this game. some days you just want to remove the ladders from all the swimming pools (so people drown and death comes to take them away.... leaving a ghost producing tombstone). it's better than going... outside!
the whole thing is damn scary.... i work at WKDU in Philly. Drexel U college radio. we broadcast FM, but have also been webcasting for a few years. the requirements they wanted were financially impossible as well as technically. unlike crappy top 40 radio, we do not have a pre-pregrammed rotation of songs from a hard drive. we play records. many of the records are released by artists themselves and only 500 or 1,000 exist in the world. there is no way to send out the track data while the song is streaming when you play records. i would say over half of our DJs mostly play records. 90% of the reggae we have is from old 7"s, the dance DJs mix live during their sets, the punk DJs play CDs if the stuff is new, but our record library goes back to the 60s and is full of good vinyl. there is absolutately no way to digitize it.
the regualtions they were/are shooting for are totally targetted at mainstream commercial stations. i think in the process they wanted to take out all small, low budget internet only stations.
a few years ago we pondered ditching the music that is copywritten and therefore falls under this proposal. it's not really possible. a lot of indie music is registered, plus all it takes is one band doing one cover song to blow the whole thing. ARGH!
hopefully the revised deal will make more sense to non-commercial stations.
i think the above is an interesting take on motivating factors. makes sense. i think they see many advantages to getting into this market.
i wonder how much of the motivation of it is also to get em while they are young. you figure most kids who have parents that use computers at work are running M$ products. *most* people seem to think M$ products are good (yeah i know, stay with me). with Xbox, they get young kids hooked on M$ in general, and parents probably figure "i bought that damn Sega Saturn and they went belly up, M$ isn't going anywhere".
there is also the stories about the next generation of Xbox incorportaing the functionalities of webTV. both Xbox and Playstation will have web access, keyboards bla. if nothing else they will be needed to get on game servers. if the device has a USB port and ethernet jacks, why not make it do a little web browsing and whatever else. game servers, tips, cheats etc are going to be powerful motivation for little kids to learn how to use this computer. BAM! M$ just scores a generation of young kids that learned to use a computer running some version of windows. now if only Sony gets that linux kit out there.... what a great way to get a zillion vocal young kids to mess with Linux and learn how it really doesnt suck.
until today the ibook had 8MB VRAM, i don't see them jumping right up to 32MB when that's what the TiBook is shipping with right now. i agree, iw ould like to see the ibook optimized to take full advantage of all aspects of 10.2, but hey. i do not know how much of an issue it will really be, all reports of people installing the developer version of 10.2 (with lots of begugging stuff added) on 600mghz ibooks said it was way faster than the 10.1.4 they had been running. it wqould have been nice tto start the lower ones with a lil more than 128 megs of ram though. yes, it's cheap and easy to upgrade yourself, but it's the point.
over all i think it's a pretty good upgrade. nothing shocking, but nobody really expected that.
yeah midnight showing was the way to go..... plus the theater i saw it at sold tix over a week in advance.... they had over 3,000 seats showing star wars at the midnight screening (24 screen theater), and from what i hear the 5th screen didnt actually sell out.
i read something in a pranks book once about some guy that always messed with these people. he went off on a long explanation about how he will never need new siding because the previous year he bought black rubber siding. made from recycled tires or something. the person calling him was so so so so confused.
playing those games with long distance companies can be risky though, they have that magic power to switch your provider (unless you scrap long distance like we did, cell phones!). make up completely retarted information. keep them on the line as long as you can handle it. they work on comission, so the time they waste with you is money lost. i realize they are just trying to make a paycheck, but there are productive things to do in this world. tele marketing helps nobody. they are as bad a lawyers. just don't give up any true information and have fun. try to annoy them more than they have ever annoyed you, and you'll win.
yeah, if people didnt know about this scam before, i guess a lot of this has come out since the 9-11 aftermath. it's too bad that they pull that crap, and try to guilt trip you into giving money... then in the end something like 2% makes it to the firemen/police/whatever.
in statements issued earlier this year (pdabuzz.com had it a while ago) Palm said they would have bluetooth and 802.11b palms shipping by the end of the year. they also will be switching (at least some models) to an ARM processor. From what i know, this will take the Palm OS to a whole new level. i have been waiting to see what this is before i replace my IIIxe. personally i have no interest in wince/pocketpc and can wait to hold out. if you are not in a hurry i suggest the same. the ARM chip will be so much more powerful, and frankly i wonder how much a current palm can really do over 802.11b to take advantage of the connection. obviously a lot, but in a few months it will do a lot more. they ran a demo of the upcoming Palm os for the ARM and the reports were very positive. guess something woke them up, they've been resting on their past breakthroughs for quite a while now (though i dig the i705).
up at apple.com
http://www.apple.com/xserve/specs.html
p.s. if i had any mod points left, you would have gotten a "funny" for that
shipping by the end of the year, no price yet...
3U height
*14 drive bays
*14 120GB ATA drives - in same hot-plug format as Xserve
*1.68TB
*Dual 2GB Fibre Channel on system
*400MB/second storage throughput
full info posted at apple.com any time now
Apple info page on the topic:a se.woa/wa/query?searchMode=Expert&type=id&val=KC.1 06882
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http://kbase.info.apple.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/kb
MacSlash reported it here (users comments too):
http://www.macslash.com/articles/02/05/10/239216.
there are some of those nifty Mac tricks to make the CD Rom tray open on restart and whatnot, so not all hope is lost if there is no manual eject hole. It sucks these major label scumbags are selling these things that technically are not audio CDs.... they do not stick to the standards. JERKS!
a former housemate said they recently built one near his parent's house in Maryland (with gas station)..... what's next!?!? waterice, soft pretzels, Goldberg's Peanut Chews and Tastykakes in California!?!?
hmmmmmm Wawa sounds like a good idea..... later friends!
there has been no info about this yet......
though this was a developer conference, so things like that are not the issue at hand (if they even know yet). i don't see how it can be a download if it's as big as it seems it will be. hopefully it will be like the 10.1 upgrade, but i don't know since Apple seemed really pissed about the hack to the 10.1 updater cd to make it a full install cd.
anyway, i can not speak for all the colleges of Drexel, but you can't say that about the engineering school. hell, Drexel was started because people thought UPenn dropped the ball with an engineering school. the initial idea for the Drexel Institute of Technology was to be built up into a top notch engineering school and then UPenn would absorb it (like the rest of west philly! ha!). anyway, that plan didn't follow through and Drexel eventually grew to the university it is today. i don't defend a lot of the actions of the administration, but i do stand by the engineering school.
take all the shots you want at Drexel, but if you were really that smart then you should have gone to MIT. i always have, and always will have a ton of respect for the Drexel engineering program.... but after spending some time at MIT (my brother went there), i was completely blown away. i think a lot of it was because it is a school so focused on science. yes, they have a business school... but nobody seems to know that, and they are a minority. the nrrds are everywhere there, and things are geared that way. it's so freakin' cool.
i'm rambling because i am hungry.... bye!
i started at Drexel in the Mac days (1992). every incoming freshmen had to own a Mac. if you did not own one you could buy it through the school at a really good discount (better than current student prices). so about a week before classes start you (and 99% of incoming freshmen) go pick up your machines. they also give you the "drexel software bundle". it came with a lot of MS software... there was no Office then (i dont think), but i know we got excel, word and some other stuff. actually except for excel i probably have the other stuff still shrinkwrapped at my mom's house (except for excel i used the clarus products... yay dogcow). every Mac in that school that i ever played with had excel, word and whatever else i can't think of right now. there were a few PCs around (i guess) and the email servers were Vax or Unix (DUVM and DUNX! handled most student mail). the fact that MS software was still everywhere would make me think they would try for some blanket policy.
i would like to think Drexel would have fought it, but they have been talked into dumber things. these days i'm sure they go for that... every student get's the freshmen software CDs.... from what i am told they have a boatload of Windows software, and for the remaining mac kids they have somehting like nifty telnet, fetch, eudora, and internet explorer. ugh.
that's awesome that you were an admin while an undergrad... but Drexel is a university. many of the majors can not get off hour jobs in their field and really learn a lot. is it really that big of a deal to spend an extra year there at achool? actually there are majors at Drexel that have coop and are only 4 year programs (they have a 3 and 6 month coop cycle).
That's right on..... people seemed to take what steve said wrong. You need the newer graphics cards FOR THE CARD TO DO ALL THE RENDERING. Otherwise, like today, some is done by the processor. It is a move to free up processor power that is currently making shadows and lil candy-like objects on the screen. Seems like a cool idea to me. I have a bad feeling my Rage128 card will feel even pokier in 10.2, but i'll still upgrrade as soon as i can.
He also said you need an AGP 2x slot, from what i know ALL Macs with AGP slots have AGP 2x. I have the first G4 motherboard with AGP (the sawtooth). My Rage128 card is only 16MB VRAM, but i can get another card to replace it. I would prefer to not put much more money into my machine and sttart saving for a new one next year sometime (G5?), but dropping some money for a video card doesn't seem unreasonable to me. My windows running, game playing housemate has replaced his video card twice since he bought his computer about 3.5 years ago. I'm not a gamer, so i do not care as much, but this OS upgrade might be enough make me go shopping.
there have been rumors circulating for a while in the gaming world that Sony might push up the release of PS3 instead of making a PS2.5
the PS2 ethernet/harddrive kit is getting a pokey release. i can assume it is because they do not have everything ready for big game servers, or the games really ready tto go online? xbox includes tthe ethernet card, and though they do not officially support online game linking, you can still link them together with standard Cat5 cable (like maybe in a dorm?). to link PS2 it requires USB cable or something expensive, and nobody has a 150' USB cable. my housemate has a PS2.... if i had one we could link them, but they have to be a USB cable apart.... so we would havve to put the consoles in the hallway and run superlong AV-out cables and gamepade extender cables. if we both had an xbox we just make a Cat5 cable and run it through the walls. don't get me wrong, i'll never buy an Xbox, but that is one thing they have up right now (not that most consumers care enough to make that decide which path to take).