Heh.. When I first started looking at colleges, Vancouver was one of my first choices. Even with the costs involved in leaving the US, it would have been cheaper.
The only reason I stayed was for the full ride. (Remember kids. Take your PSAT. It may seem like it doesn't matter, but National Merit Scholar Finalists get $$$ ^_^ )
The Rochester Institute of Technology(which I currently attend), for example, lets practically anyone with the motor skills to fill out an application in. They charge them their $26 000 or so for their first year, and then they fail half of them. You see, RIT happens to have an attrition rate over 50%.
Now, that $26 000 certainly isn't spent on the freshman taking English 101 and "Intro to VB." It's spent on the upperclassmen. The failures end up subsidizing the upperclassmen, and everything's great.
Almost all of the music I download is foreign: mostly Japanese and Korean. (Yes, I'm a USian.) I don't want any of the music the RIAA's "artists" have to offer. I never bought domestic CDs, even before the "Napster era."
Now, I find it highly unlikely that these networks would ever be able to get licenses to most foreign artists' works. Thus, I would continue to use WinMX to get my music. The RIAA can't touch me (I'm not infringing on -their- copyrights), the University can't touch me (RIT won't act unless on a specific complaint from a copyright holder), and the foreign labels can't/won't touch me (lotsa reasons for that one).
I don't want to generalize, but college studends tend (TEND!) to have more ecclectic tastes than the foaming masses. I highly doubt that they use p2p primarily to get their "Top 40" fix every night.
That's a good point I failed to see. You're the man.
We do indeed benefit greatly in being able to control the value of the currency used to purchase things such as oil. Especially considering that currency is an abstract thing with no intrinsic value, while oil makes a military/economy/social order continue to function.
Before the Euro, the international black market dealt mostly in American currency. Part of the reason for that is the fact that it behooves the US economy's controllers to have large amounts of it's currency base outside of the country. (Think about it. Print more money, buy 'things' with it, make sure monies paid leave country. Monies are not local to the economy, so inflation does not increase. Oversimplified, yes, but I'm making a general point here.)
The Euro was a threat to that black market monopoly. A strong Euro would be serious competition, and would likely drive at least some of the US's expatriated currency back within its own borders, wreaking havoc with the economy.
With the advent of tracking capabilities in the currency itself, the Euro is keeping itself out of the black market, which is good for the United States.
Europe had a chance to take a bite out of US hegemony. So much for that ^_^
A geek can use a piece of hardware/software and tell you it's strengths/weaknesses pretty easily. Outside of geeks, marketoids and management types don't have that "magic touch," so they demand numbers that they can then put into charts and graphs.
They don't want to hear "Card A is good at foo, but it everheats, and card B is good at bar, but slow at foo..." They want to hear "Card A is 125 foobars better than Card B."
Back in the day, Voodoo cards were the fastest (non-pro) cards around when they first came out. A significant subset of users became Voodoo fanboys, which was ok, since Voodoo was the best.
Voodoo was beaten squarely by other, better video cards in short order. The fanboys kept buying Voodoo cards, and we all know what happened to them;^)
GeForce cards appeared. They were the best. They have their fanboys. Radeon cards are slowly becoming the "other, better" cards now.
Interesting....
(I'm not sure what point I was trying to make. I'm not saying that nVidia will suck, or that Radeon cards are the best-o. The moral of this story is: fanboys suck, no matter their orientation.)
The small ones near the old CS building? Those are "temporary" GCCIS buildings. They're due to be demolished as temporary buildings oft are.
(For non-RIT folk, there are "temporary" apartments on campus from the '70s that are still being used.)
Riverknoll is slated to be replaced by a new apartment complex in 2013. They're building a new College of Business building in the near future. The abandoned townhouses in Raquet Club are being turned in an old folk's home (no joke...).
I heard UC from the school itself. I met some older students who called it Capstone. I started calling it Capstone. Now, I'm the "older student," and I'm finding that the younger RITers I know and interact with call it Capstone because I call it Capstone, the same reason I called it Capstone in the first place.
Thus, there will likely always be "lines" of students who call it Capstone, since they tend to emulate their (seemingly) cooler elders.
At my college, RIT, there have been changes to the names of things in the recent past. "Physical Plant," our janitorial service, became "FMS." A bunch of apartments called "Capstones" are now called "University Commons."
You know what? Everyone calls them "Physical Plant" and "Capstone."
Everyone I know still calls it "Phoenix." I still do.
How could a radio boycott actually work? It doesn't cost them anything for you to listen, and they have no way of knowing of you're listening or not.
The ratings are determined by a system that ignores most of the radio-listening population, and only exists so that advertisers will think that they're getting their money's worth. The advertiser, the only person in the world who cares if you're listening, has no way of knowing if you do so.
Once, in the early ninties, I got the FORM virus from an infected floppy. It was mostly harmless, so I kept it on my machine, kind of like a pet. (Ahh, back when viruses were silly and harmless... Ogre aside). It never caused me any trouble.
Beyond my "pet," I've never have a Trojan, virus, worm, or exploit bother me. I don't blindly run executables, I don't boot from strange floppies...
It's hard to get a virus unless you're an idiot. That's just my opinion, but I hold to it. Te only people I've known who have EVER had a problem (both at home and at work) were less-than-bright bulbs.
"Lottery = your chances in getting picked out the pool may be one in a million, but your chances of picking the right number on the right day and being that one in a million are impossible odds"
No. It's still one in a million. The odds determined here are that your number, one number out of a million choices, is randomly chosen as the winner. There are one million possibly outcomes. It doesn't matter which number you choose (multiple winners and real-world lottery bullocks like that aside).
For two years, I bugged my Biology teachers to let my try the Miller experiment with the school's equipment. (Of course, I was the same one who wanted them to let me make a gauss rifle, a betatron, and potato gun...)
I remember being fascinated when I first heard of the experiment. It seemed so 'important,' despite the fact that they brushed right over it and no one else in my classes understood or cared.
Of course, now I'm in college, and I can try all of these things with my own equipment.
With CG actors, you still need someone to do the voice. (At least for now). Not so much in America, but in other countries (Japan), some of these voice actors can be just as bad as your primadonnas here.
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Gotta get a perfect score ;^)
Helps to take the test 6 times, since they only see the last score you got.
I remember a Dilbert cartoon from long ago.
Girl: "Where's dilbert?"
Dogbert: "He's been in the holodeck since January."
Imagine an immersive, virtual reality world that felt real. How many people would choose it over their own pathetc lives?
Heh.. When I first started looking at colleges, Vancouver was one of my first choices. Even with the costs involved in leaving the US, it would have been cheaper.
The only reason I stayed was for the full ride. (Remember kids. Take your PSAT. It may seem like it doesn't matter, but National Merit Scholar Finalists get $$$ ^_^ )
I'm not bitching ;^) I'm one of those upperclassmen. I know tons of people who couldn't cut it, and I have no sympathy for them.
There's just growing sentiment that RIT secretly -likes- the attrition rate where it is, since it brings large amounts of money into the college.
Some colleges even work tuition like a scam.
The Rochester Institute of Technology(which I currently attend), for example, lets practically anyone with the motor skills to fill out an application in. They charge them their $26 000 or so for their first year, and then they fail half of them. You see, RIT happens to have an attrition rate over 50%.
Now, that $26 000 certainly isn't spent on the freshman taking English 101 and "Intro to VB." It's spent on the upperclassmen. The failures end up subsidizing the upperclassmen, and everything's great.
I'm just ranting. Ignore me.
Almost all of the music I download is foreign: mostly Japanese and Korean. (Yes, I'm a USian.) I don't want any of the music the RIAA's "artists" have to offer. I never bought domestic CDs, even before the "Napster era."
Now, I find it highly unlikely that these networks would ever be able to get licenses to most foreign artists' works. Thus, I would continue to use WinMX to get my music. The RIAA can't touch me (I'm not infringing on -their- copyrights), the University can't touch me (RIT won't act unless on a specific complaint from a copyright holder), and the foreign labels can't/won't touch me (lotsa reasons for that one).
I don't want to generalize, but college studends tend (TEND!) to have more ecclectic tastes than the foaming masses. I highly doubt that they use p2p primarily to get their "Top 40" fix every night.
That's a good point I failed to see. You're the man.
We do indeed benefit greatly in being able to control the value of the currency used to purchase things such as oil. Especially considering that currency is an abstract thing with no intrinsic value, while oil makes a military/economy/social order continue to function.
This is a good thing... for the US!
Before the Euro, the international black market dealt mostly in American currency. Part of the reason for that is the fact that it behooves the US economy's controllers to have large amounts of it's currency base outside of the country. (Think about it. Print more money, buy 'things' with it, make sure monies paid leave country. Monies are not local to the economy, so inflation does not increase. Oversimplified, yes, but I'm making a general point here.)
The Euro was a threat to that black market monopoly. A strong Euro would be serious competition, and would likely drive at least some of the US's expatriated currency back within its own borders, wreaking havoc with the economy.
With the advent of tracking capabilities in the currency itself, the Euro is keeping itself out of the black market, which is good for the United States.
Europe had a chance to take a bite out of US hegemony. So much for that ^_^
"He's asking anyone who sees the Segway or knows where it might be to call Kent police at 911."
911? IIRC, that's that newfangled emergency number. You know, for emergencies. Like heart attacks and SARS. Not missing pieces of metal and plastic.
A geek can use a piece of hardware/software and tell you it's strengths/weaknesses pretty easily. Outside of geeks, marketoids and management types don't have that "magic touch," so they demand numbers that they can then put into charts and graphs.
They don't want to hear "Card A is good at foo, but it everheats, and card B is good at bar, but slow at foo..." They want to hear "Card A is 125 foobars better than Card B."
Back in the day, Voodoo cards were the fastest (non-pro) cards around when they first came out. A significant subset of users became Voodoo fanboys, which was ok, since Voodoo was the best.
;^)
Voodoo was beaten squarely by other, better video cards in short order. The fanboys kept buying Voodoo cards, and we all know what happened to them
GeForce cards appeared. They were the best. They have their fanboys. Radeon cards are slowly becoming the "other, better" cards now.
Interesting....
(I'm not sure what point I was trying to make. I'm not saying that nVidia will suck, or that Radeon cards are the best-o. The moral of this story is: fanboys suck, no matter their orientation.)
The small ones near the old CS building? Those are "temporary" GCCIS buildings. They're due to be demolished as temporary buildings oft are.
(For non-RIT folk, there are "temporary" apartments on campus from the '70s that are still being used.)
Riverknoll is slated to be replaced by a new apartment complex in 2013. They're building a new College of Business building in the near future. The abandoned townhouses in Raquet Club are being turned in an old folk's home (no joke...).
I love RIT.
I'm the pride of the peaches.
Don't mod me down! I didn't even use my karma bonus for this one! =p
Troll? An honest question. Does anyone outside of the affected parties actually care?
True, but I've noticed an interesting phenomenon.
I heard UC from the school itself. I met some older students who called it Capstone. I started calling it Capstone. Now, I'm the "older student," and I'm finding that the younger RITers I know and interact with call it Capstone because I call it Capstone, the same reason I called it Capstone in the first place.
Thus, there will likely always be "lines" of students who call it Capstone, since they tend to emulate their (seemingly) cooler elders.
At my college, RIT, there have been changes to the names of things in the recent past. "Physical Plant," our janitorial service, became "FMS." A bunch of apartments called "Capstones" are now called "University Commons."
You know what? Everyone calls them "Physical Plant" and "Capstone."
Everyone I know still calls it "Phoenix." I still do.
Heh.. I never thought about the call-in promotions that way. I hope you get modded up.
I hate people who post "MOD PARENT UP," but, for the first time, I -really- wish I had mod points right at this moment.
Well said.
How could a radio boycott actually work? It doesn't cost them anything for you to listen, and they have no way of knowing of you're listening or not.
The ratings are determined by a system that ignores most of the radio-listening population, and only exists so that advertisers will think that they're getting their money's worth. The advertiser, the only person in the world who cares if you're listening, has no way of knowing if you do so.
Just thinking, that's all..
That's why I thank the gods for NPR. My CD player has been broken for a few weeks, and I'll die before I'll listen to Top 40.
The way things are going, we should just give in and make it the national anthem.
Plus, then we could collect proper royalties from every school and sporting event in the nation.
Here here!
Once, in the early ninties, I got the FORM virus from an infected floppy. It was mostly harmless, so I kept it on my machine, kind of like a pet. (Ahh, back when viruses were silly and harmless... Ogre aside). It never caused me any trouble.
Beyond my "pet," I've never have a Trojan, virus, worm, or exploit bother me. I don't blindly run executables, I don't boot from strange floppies...
It's hard to get a virus unless you're an idiot. That's just my opinion, but I hold to it. Te only people I've known who have EVER had a problem (both at home and at work) were less-than-bright bulbs.
"Lottery = your chances in getting picked out the pool may be one in a million, but your chances of picking the right number on the right day and being that one in a million are impossible odds"
No. It's still one in a million. The odds determined here are that your number, one number out of a million choices, is randomly chosen as the winner. There are one million possibly outcomes. It doesn't matter which number you choose (multiple winners and real-world lottery bullocks like that aside).
For two years, I bugged my Biology teachers to let my try the Miller experiment with the school's equipment. (Of course, I was the same one who wanted them to let me make a gauss rifle, a betatron, and potato gun...)
I remember being fascinated when I first heard of the experiment. It seemed so 'important,' despite the fact that they brushed right over it and no one else in my classes understood or cared.
Of course, now I'm in college, and I can try all of these things with my own equipment.
With CG actors, you still need someone to do the voice. (At least for now). Not so much in America, but in other countries (Japan), some of these voice actors can be just as bad as your primadonnas here.