Professor Grimaldi sounds like someone whose inner conflict is a lot more important to him than anything else. He sounds like the kind of professor who doesn't care if he is communicating.
I have to disagree, having had personal experience with him as a teacher (two different classes). At least to me, it seemed he did care very much that the students were learning (meaning he did care if he was communicating). He was incredibly helpful and accessible if you were having problems (as I did often). I can't remember well enough his in-class communication methods, but I do remember I enjoyed the class.
His personality did conflict with many students, however, so I can understand the sentiment.
This is exactly what's happening in Naperville, IL. Yes, in the city in which Lucent's HQ is located, we have no good broadband connection (and the phone lines are bad too).
A company called AccessBig is using Proxim's equipment (including the new 802.11a stuff) to do this. A couple of other companies in the area are using other (802.11b-only, as far as I know) systems. The backbone connections to AccessBIG are less than 100Mb, I believe, but should be more than adequate for the city (so far).
Napster (within the context of a company that is licensing a technology) is a single entity, thus treating it as plural is just wrong. Now, if each employee of Napster invidually licensed something, it would be plural. It's simple, but it seems like 90% of Slashdot submitters and commenters can't get it right.
Although this new comment by Microsoft deals with the service's now being back on (mostly, at least), Microsoft posted comments late last week about the outage. Not that this (or the previous) comment is any more revealing, but I just want to correct the story poster and get the (trivial) facts straight.
You say that external power supplies are bad, but you didn't say why. I'm curious about this idea, so i'd like to know why they're bad. Substantiate your arguments, that's all I ask. =)
I don't think PBS is *vital* to our nation. It's nice, yes. But it shouldn't be given all this (MY) tax money. Stations like Discovery Channel, History Channel, TLC, and even Bravo, are making better programs, AND earning money to do it. Yes, PBS is available to those without cable, while those stations i mentioned aren't, but it's still definitely not as vital as it may have been in the past.
Don't put 100% of the blame on the deregulation. How about the fact that in the last ten years, the population of California has doubled, but NO power plants have been built. There are many issues regarding why no new plants were built, but that'd be way too off-topic.
I haven't had time to research this more, so I may be incorrect, but what part do the companies proposing these TLDs have if their TLDs are selected? Do they get to be the root servers for those particular TLDs, or do they just get credit for coming up with the name?
If they do happen to get to be root servers for their TLDs, do they get control over what's registered under their TLDs? If so, wouldn't they be regulating it?
I realize there are a lot more questions than comments in this post, so please feel free to fill me in on what i don't know (which is a lot)!
The same story at the Daily Radar mentions that this could be like the Cabbage Patch Dolls situation. It could be a smart marketing ploy to peak demand quickly, and continue it when it turns out that there isn't a shortage.
I'm don't buy that theory though, although i'm not dismissing it either. There is some sort of an electronics parts shortage, so that could very well affect Sony's production. I'm not a manufacturing engineer-type person, but i would've thought that Sony would have secured the amount of parts they needed to meet their desired output.
In any case, I'm guessing this will peak the demand for them - pre-orders will be flying out of the door. I, being a poor college student, will hold out until the price lowers.
Justin
It'd be nice if we didn't have to check the links before clicking on them (not that it's very harmful anyway, although i would rather not click on "bad" links). =)
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I have to disagree, having had personal experience with him as a teacher (two different classes). At least to me, it seemed he did care very much that the students were learning (meaning he did care if he was communicating). He was incredibly helpful and accessible if you were having problems (as I did often). I can't remember well enough his in-class communication methods, but I do remember I enjoyed the class.
His personality did conflict with many students, however, so I can understand the sentiment.
A company called AccessBig is using Proxim's equipment (including the new 802.11a stuff) to do this. A couple of other companies in the area are using other (802.11b-only, as far as I know) systems. The backbone connections to AccessBIG are less than 100Mb, I believe, but should be more than adequate for the city (so far).
That's just another reason why breaking off with Britain was a good thing.
Napster (within the context of a company that is licensing a technology) is a single entity, thus treating it as plural is just wrong. Now, if each employee of Napster invidually licensed something, it would be plural. It's simple, but it seems like 90% of Slashdot submitters and commenters can't get it right.
Without having the time to look up any information about them, I fail to see how providing security as well as running prisons makes them evil.
How are they evil? (I'm not bashing you; I don't know much about them, and I'm seriously curious about your opinion.)
Although this new comment by Microsoft deals with the service's now being back on (mostly, at least), Microsoft posted comments late last week about the outage. Not that this (or the previous) comment is any more revealing, but I just want to correct the story poster and get the (trivial) facts straight.
You say that external power supplies are bad, but you didn't say why. I'm curious about this idea, so i'd like to know why they're bad. Substantiate your arguments, that's all I ask. =)
get's?
This is completely off topic, but i saw that too, and i immediately started reading The Fountainhead again. It was a good show.
I don't think PBS is *vital* to our nation. It's nice, yes. But it shouldn't be given all this (MY) tax money. Stations like Discovery Channel, History Channel, TLC, and even Bravo, are making better programs, AND earning money to do it. Yes, PBS is available to those without cable, while those stations i mentioned aren't, but it's still definitely not as vital as it may have been in the past.
"CommuniTech.Net extends a 30-day unconditional cancellation guarantee to all dedicated server clients, regardless of the contract term length."
You didn't say how long you have currently been with them, but you seem to imply that you're fairly new with them, so I hope this helps!Wow, grammar at its best.
Don't put 100% of the blame on the deregulation. How about the fact that in the last ten years, the population of California has doubled, but NO power plants have been built. There are many issues regarding why no new plants were built, but that'd be way too off-topic.
That also shows that I don't know how to properly close anchors. =)
I think this and/or this shows that Blizzard may be dealing with the problem. Let's see where this goes...
I saw this story first at the U.K.'s voice, The Register . It seems like it's blatant that that's just what Sony is doing.
What media did the 3DO system use?
Just distribute DeCSS on DVD media?
Oh, wait a minute....
J
I haven't had time to research this more, so I may be incorrect, but what part do the companies proposing these TLDs have if their TLDs are selected? Do they get to be the root servers for those particular TLDs, or do they just get credit for coming up with the name?
If they do happen to get to be root servers for their TLDs, do they get control over what's registered under their TLDs? If so, wouldn't they be regulating it?
I realize there are a lot more questions than comments in this post, so please feel free to fill me in on what i don't know (which is a lot)!
Don't forget about the incredibly wide usage of "it's" instead of "its" for the possessive form of "it"!
Maybe on a gift list for geeks should be a grade school grammar book!
I'm don't buy that theory though, although i'm not dismissing it either. There is some sort of an electronics parts shortage, so that could very well affect Sony's production. I'm not a manufacturing engineer-type person, but i would've thought that Sony would have secured the amount of parts they needed to meet their desired output.
In any case, I'm guessing this will peak the demand for them - pre-orders will be flying out of the door. I, being a poor college student, will hold out until the price lowers. Justin
It'd be nice if we didn't have to check the links before clicking on them (not that it's very harmful anyway, although i would rather not click on "bad" links). =)
This takes you straight to the answer to my question!