This is really not that strange. Back in elementary school, (I'm in college now) the school used to have a sealed plastic bag that contained a napkin, a spork, a knife, and a wet nap. Of course, my friends and I never used the wet naps and instead collected them. Throughout the year, I collected quite a variety of them and just a few years ago, I was cleaning out some stuff and a found a box of wet naps. Of course, they were all dried up.
This just shows what we'll collect. Then again, I wouldn't collect wet naps now.:)
I've been using Office 2003 Beta 2 for about a month now and the XML support seems fairly poor. I've saved some of my Word documents in XML format and tried opening them in some other XML supported programs , but had a hard time opening them. I guess MS needs to work some more on the XML support in Office.
I'm at the University of Rochester (about 90 minutes from Ithaca, where Cornell is) and I must say, this worries me somewhat. Now, my school doesn't have a download limit but instead has a upload limit of X GB per week. (I'm not sure of the exact number anymore) The first time you go over, you get a warning, the second time I believe you get cut off for a couple days, and the third time even longer, and so on. I think a system like that is much better than charging students per GB. That's just insane.
For a student paying $30,000+ a year, why should they be charged for bandwidth? If they want to do something, they should block the ports that Kazaa uses or throttle everyone's connection to 128k or 256k. Just my opinion.
Over christmas break while I was back home, I decided to pick up my Atari 2600 from the attic and take it back to my college dorm. Now everyone is having a great time playing "combat" even though we have such fancy games as, "Sim City 4," "AoM," etc.
I was in Berlin last February and I saw Blinkenlights on the evening of 12th at Alexanderplatz and it was so great to watch. Hopefully we'll see something like this again some time. I wasn't able to make it to the one in Paris, but I'm sure it was just as great to watch.
I'm at UR too and I've used the wireless network a few times. It works pretty good. I'm actually considering getting a wi-fi card for my PDA.
On a different note, I have a Linksys access point in my dorm room (SBA) too but haven't been able to get signal half a mile away. Of course I haven't tried either, although I don't get a very good signal two doors down.
This is definately something I would have never believed just a few years ago. On the other hand, this is a great thing. Nintendo and Sega can team up to bring gamers something great.
I was in Berlin last week and I saw Blinkenlights on the evening of 12th at Alexanderplatz and it was so great to watch. Hopefully we'll see something like this again some time.
Mostly last mile issues. Here in Germany DSL is available in larger cities, but little towns like mine will never get a taste for broadband since DSL is pretty much the only option for now.
Germans still used this up to now for the so called 'Classic' applications such as home banking. T-Online (large German ISP) was the one that kept this system up until now mostly for the homebanking applications, but they have now migrated it to regular TCP/IP protocols.
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I've definately done that too--but with T-Mobile GPRS.
David
Amazon the next Google?
David
Battery Park!
I so agree!
I went to London for the first time in January and if it weren't for thoese "Look" signs, I would have been killed. Those things are great though.
David
I'm at the Frankfurt (FRA) airport at least four times a year. This will make the long lines even more fun.
David
Oh well, there's always Pepsi starting in February...
David
I submitted this earlier today, but was rejected. So here's what I had to say. It contains a bit more information.
After the University of Rochester announced last week in its school newspaper that students there would be offered legal music downloads starting the spring semester, Penn State President Graham B. Spanier announced today that his University has signed an agreement with Napster to launch a program in which Penn State will make Napster's Premium Service available at no cost to its students. This comes from the annual EDUCAUSE meeting of thousands of information technology administrators from universities around the country. Most notably are the panelists who are part of a P2P file sharing disscussion. They include, Cary Sherman of the RIAA, Jack Valenti of the MPAA, the Provost of the University of Rochester, and the President of Penn State. Too bad it's Napster and not iTunes.
Also check out the University of Rochester Computer Interest Floor's Linux pumpkin here.
David
Next up, some character from LOTR.
David
This is really not that strange. Back in elementary school, (I'm in college now) the school used to have a sealed plastic bag that contained a napkin, a spork, a knife, and a wet nap. Of course, my friends and I never used the wet naps and instead collected them. Throughout the year, I collected quite a variety of them and just a few years ago, I was cleaning out some stuff and a found a box of wet naps. Of course, they were all dried up.
:)
This just shows what we'll collect. Then again, I wouldn't collect wet naps now.
David
I've been using Office 2003 Beta 2 for about a month now and the XML support seems fairly poor. I've saved some of my Word documents in XML format and tried opening them in some other XML supported programs , but had a hard time opening them. I guess MS needs to work some more on the XML support in Office.
David
I'm at the University of Rochester (about 90 minutes from Ithaca, where Cornell is) and I must say, this worries me somewhat. Now, my school doesn't have a download limit but instead has a upload limit of X GB per week. (I'm not sure of the exact number anymore) The first time you go over, you get a warning, the second time I believe you get cut off for a couple days, and the third time even longer, and so on. I think a system like that is much better than charging students per GB. That's just insane.
For a student paying $30,000+ a year, why should they be charged for bandwidth? If they want to do something, they should block the ports that Kazaa uses or throttle everyone's connection to 128k or 256k. Just my opinion.
David
Over christmas break while I was back home, I decided to pick up my Atari 2600 from the attic and take it back to my college dorm. Now everyone is having a great time playing "combat" even though we have such fancy games as, "Sim City 4," "AoM," etc.
Funny how that works out.
dacs
I was in Berlin last February and I saw Blinkenlights on the evening of 12th at Alexanderplatz and it was so great to watch. Hopefully we'll see something like this again some time. I wasn't able to make it to the one in Paris, but I'm sure it was just as great to watch.
dacs
Same at UR. Ha, ha...
Yeah, I want to know this...
:) and where is it at UR?
Is your access point secure?
David
I'm at UR too and I've used the wireless network a few times. It works pretty good. I'm actually considering getting a wi-fi card for my PDA.
On a different note, I have a Linksys access point in my dorm room (SBA) too but haven't been able to get signal half a mile away. Of course I haven't tried either, although I don't get a very good signal two doors down.
David
Why don't you learn to write proper sentences?
This is definately something I would have never believed just a few years ago. On the other hand, this is a great thing. Nintendo and Sega can team up to bring gamers something great.
Dacs
I was in Berlin last week and I saw Blinkenlights on the evening of 12th at Alexanderplatz and it was so great to watch. Hopefully we'll see something like this again some time.
Dacs
"What's holding up broadband in the world?"
Mostly last mile issues. Here in Germany DSL is available in larger cities, but little towns like mine will never get a taste for broadband since DSL is pretty much the only option for now.
PAL out?
Jurassic Park, here we go!!!
Germans still used this up to now for the so called 'Classic' applications such as home banking. T-Online (large German ISP) was the one that kept this system up until now mostly for the homebanking applications, but they have now migrated it to regular TCP/IP protocols.
So now they can finally get rid of it.
The Register reported this already on Thursday. The article can be found at http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22975.html