In talking with my professors in various universities I came to the understanding that the students who had the highest grades were the ones with the best attendance records (not that they kept track, but you could generally tell who was and wasn't in class - since most classes were small).
A couple of decades ago, Harry Chapin said something like "In a country where we produce enough food to feed the entire planet 6 times over, it's unthinkable that anybody shouldn't have enough to eat". Not much has changed in the interim.
Yeah its shocking that people go hungry in this country:(. Even worse are regimes who actively stop the import of food so their citizens starve:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7949785.stm - North Korea is a country where most of their arable land was destroyed by mismanaged dams. Then they destroyed what was left after that by picking the hillsides clean of vegetation to eat, and to farm on (which caused even more flooding). They are in the situation where they need to actively import food to survive, but they don't because of ideology mainly.
This is true - there isn't much grind in WoW, but it still exists. You have to do daily quests for instance to raise reputation or earn tokens to purchase items (like the argent tournament or dungeons/raid badges). The only difference is - games like Lineage 2 where it could actually take years to hit max level playing 24x7 - WoW it only takes weeks or months, but its still grind.
I was told by a NVidia scientist that the memory that these video cards comes with actually is more a result of the kinds of parts available at the speeds needed for the amount of address lines they need to connect rather than a requirement for an application.
In the home town I grew up on - the local comic book shop had a guy just like the one from the Simpsons (was very sarcastic, and always projected a feeling of "why are you even in my store"). I suspect Matt Groening's inspiration for him wasn't necessarily based on a stereotype.
Interestingly enough the shop was gone last time I was around there.
I recall reading somewhere it was Mao who told Kim Jong Il that he was a bad communist for leading such a lavish lifestyle and they in turn kicked all the Chinese out of the country.
I've never worked at a place in the US doing tech support or customer service where we couldn't make simple exception (not even needing manager approval). Turn the guys phone on for a day and put a note in there that officer so and so from the police department needed help finding him because he was suicidal - no-one should get fired for that.
That's actually the big problem with handing off all our support and customer service to India - having trained them, working with them etc (and even training my replacement) - if its not on the flow chart card they have no way of helping you.
I don't know what you're talking about. At all. Unless you're looking at geocities or angelfire.
Any font thats greater than 18 points and in italic gets chopped off.
I've actually had font issues on Slashdot.
I think the problem with linux advocates (which I actually consider myself one of them) is they often sit back and say things like:
What problem? Its working for me!
and
RTFA STFU noob get a distro that works (which you said in a nice way in your first statement).
Rather than figuring out why the user is running into the problem in the first place - which is what Microsoft spends a huge amount of time doing in usability tests. They don't always get the right answer, but yes Vista installs actual NVidia out of the box and always installs the same base fonts out of the box.
Come on! proprietary driver issues are the fault of the hardware maker. Nvidia is the 5uXX0r when it comes to Linux support. Anyhow, since last year, Ubuntu auto installs proprietary drivers.
What would we say if Microsoft or Apple took that attitude?
I know for a fact both companies have people who's job it is to work with specific hardware vendors all day long resolving issues and making sure everything works perfectly.
ubuntu-restricted-extras is rather easy to install.
Why isn't this installed by default? Seriously - disk space and memory is not a premium anymore.
Ubuntu offered to install those for me after starting up the system, I clicked a checkbox and it was installed - no issue.
Why isn't this installed by default? If it detects an NVidia video card - install them!
I'll side with the original author - this was my beef with commercial unix for years: lack of polish. It never ever ever ever worked 100% out of the box (and I spent years admining Solaris and Tru-64 machines).
Linux is 100x better for sure, but its problems point out a severe lack of user testing and quality assurance.
My only problem with Unbuntu on my IBM T-42 laptop was after coming out of sleep tray icons would randomly disappear - like the battery status (kinda essential on a laptop). Otherwise it was ok (websites looked like ass, but I chalked that up to a polish issue than a missing package actually), but I never did anything 3D or did multi-monitors.
Uh huh. Yet people happily figure out how to use Macs. Ok, well, maybe not happily. Why do they do it?
I have a Mac, but I really don't use it for anything. It would be fine if I was just attending school, or working in an office, or just playing World of Warcraft or using Photoshop (even there there's at least one reason to use that on Windows - x64 support).
The reason why is the same problem as Linux - it really doesn't have the app/hardware support Windows (and even to a lesser extent Linux) has.
If you like using the latest greatest apps, technologies and games Windows (for the most part - as I'm sure people will find tons of exceptions) is still it.
So I use my Mac on the road (its durable I'll give it that!) and reading my email/web around the house, but its definitely not my main machine.
This is not a bad idea. I had a telemarketing job for a week (yes that's how long I lasted) - I was told they had special rates with the telephone company where the call started out cheap, but cost more and more as time goes on (the reverse of most customer telephones).
Anything you can do to make the call go over a minute costs them huge.
First, "licensing records" for the amateur radio service won't help you glean that information because individual amateurs are NOT assigned to a particular channel/frequency the way most other users of the spectrum are. Every ham who is, by dint of their license, allowed access to the various ham bands, does so on a *shared* basis with NO claim to the rights to a particular frequency.
Well ham radio no (with the voluntary exception of repeaters and space stations, but this isn't controlled by the fcc), but many commercial radio services are licensed to a set or fixed set of frequencies.
I'm sure I could scrounge enough parts up to do it again surely. It was only like 20 components on a single pc board.
I could easily claim to perform this act after society collapsed than you could claim to build a computer and comment on your favorite chat board - lets put it that way - because more than likely I'll still have my radio equipment, and while you'll still have your computer - good luck connecting it to anything (and even better luck powering it) - and that is my major point.
Last I checked the us military has primary rights to pretty much every bit of spectrum in this country - I think they'd be hard pressed to actually claim they use it all or that they ever would.
300 mhz thought is where a lot of their geo stationary com sats live though - including the ones the Brazilians have been pirating.
Exactly. Radios were cool in their time. But what does it give you in the internet age that a chat room or forum doesn't?
One of the very first hf contacts I ever made was to an electrical engineer in Queensland Australia on 10 meters. It was a fun conversation made with a kit radio using the most fundamental mode of radio - cw.
The thing that impressed me the most about what I did was the fact that I did it on my own without relying on a 3rd party company to wire and maintain the network, a software company to maintain the software or anything like that. It was in fact the most fundamental mode of modern day communication - if society reset itself to zero tomorrow - I could still pull off this feat, whereas if you don't pay your isp bill or they go out of business you're out of luck.
How many things about your modern life can you say this about?
Disclaimer: I'm a ham radio operator - got my extra class license back when you had to pass a morse code test, and I'm 32.
Anyhow above 300 mhz most bands are technically tertiary use to hams if you do some investigation. Also most are somewhat small - I think 900 mhz being the exception where last I checked there was 28 mhz allocated to hams (going off memory here). There again there is way more bandwidth available the higher you go.
I think the part that is near impossible to determine is "is this bandwidth being used". In certain parts of the country (rural especially) you could listen to a frequency where you know there is a 911 paging service in place (specifically used to dispatch medics, alert doctors etc) and not hear a single thing for days, but that could easily be argued as an essential service.
I think what its aimed at is the military really - who technically has primary rights to all that bandwidth, and one could easily argue they don't use it all.
If google is reading this - please don't touch amateur radio - it is after all where a good amount of the innovators in modern communication come from, and if they can't experiment it will stifle your and our countries ability to innovate.
I haven't used my Commodore Amiga in ages (I have an A4000 and an A1200 sitting in the closet - to nostalgic to get rid of either...), but I loved every minute of it. I have a ton of accessories for the 4000 including the infamous phase 5 060/ppc cpu card and it has something like 148 megs of ram (which is a lot for an Amiga:))
Anyhow I guess you know you are still a true believer when that video brings a tear to the eye - thanks for sharing:).
Not from IBM, but I noticed Sun hardware on ebay goes for really cheap. Looked up an enterprise 4500 - which we had racks of running oracle on ebay - there's one going for 50$ - back in the day I believe they cost over 25k each.
Even a newer machine - which I had on my desk at my last job - Blade 1500 you can get for 100$ - that was an 8000$ machine 2 years ago.
I think honestly anyone running sun hardware that doesn't need to (there are a lot of proprietary apps I supported that only ran on Sun hardware...) should take up ibm on this offer.
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But its not for most classes taught in a university (actually its up to the teacher - I've had some professors where it was, others where it wasn't).
In talking with my professors in various universities I came to the understanding that the students who had the highest grades were the ones with the best attendance records (not that they kept track, but you could generally tell who was and wasn't in class - since most classes were small).
A couple of decades ago, Harry Chapin said something like "In a country where we produce enough food to feed the entire planet 6 times over, it's unthinkable that anybody shouldn't have enough to eat". Not much has changed in the interim.
Yeah its shocking that people go hungry in this country :(. Even worse are regimes who actively stop the import of food so their citizens starve:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7949785.stm - North Korea is a country where most of their arable land was destroyed by mismanaged dams. Then they destroyed what was left after that by picking the hillsides clean of vegetation to eat, and to farm on (which caused even more flooding). They are in the situation where they need to actively import food to survive, but they don't because of ideology mainly.
This is true - there isn't much grind in WoW, but it still exists. You have to do daily quests for instance to raise reputation or earn tokens to purchase items (like the argent tournament or dungeons/raid badges). The only difference is - games like Lineage 2 where it could actually take years to hit max level playing 24x7 - WoW it only takes weeks or months, but its still grind.
I was told by a NVidia scientist that the memory that these video cards comes with actually is more a result of the kinds of parts available at the speeds needed for the amount of address lines they need to connect rather than a requirement for an application.
In the home town I grew up on - the local comic book shop had a guy just like the one from the Simpsons (was very sarcastic, and always projected a feeling of "why are you even in my store"). I suspect Matt Groening's inspiration for him wasn't necessarily based on a stereotype.
Interestingly enough the shop was gone last time I was around there.
Its called AOL.
Some (like Bruce at the Heritage Foundation) think that China's influence is rather limited anyhow.
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2009/05/113_44916.html
I recall reading somewhere it was Mao who told Kim Jong Il that he was a bad communist for leading such a lavish lifestyle and they in turn kicked all the Chinese out of the country.
The locals don't call the DMZ the end of the world for nothing...
Well another one yet - both countries are still technically at war still.
I've never worked at a place in the US doing tech support or customer service where we couldn't make simple exception (not even needing manager approval). Turn the guys phone on for a day and put a note in there that officer so and so from the police department needed help finding him because he was suicidal - no-one should get fired for that.
That's actually the big problem with handing off all our support and customer service to India - having trained them, working with them etc (and even training my replacement) - if its not on the flow chart card they have no way of helping you.
I don't know what you're talking about. At all. Unless you're looking at geocities or angelfire.
Any font thats greater than 18 points and in italic gets chopped off.
I've actually had font issues on Slashdot.
I think the problem with linux advocates (which I actually consider myself one of them) is they often sit back and say things like:
What problem? Its working for me!
and
RTFA STFU noob get a distro that works (which you said in a nice way in your first statement).
Rather than figuring out why the user is running into the problem in the first place - which is what Microsoft spends a huge amount of time doing in usability tests. They don't always get the right answer, but yes Vista installs actual NVidia out of the box and always installs the same base fonts out of the box.
Come on! proprietary driver issues are the fault of the hardware maker. Nvidia is the 5uXX0r when it comes to Linux support. Anyhow, since last year, Ubuntu auto installs proprietary drivers.
What would we say if Microsoft or Apple took that attitude?
I know for a fact both companies have people who's job it is to work with specific hardware vendors all day long resolving issues and making sure everything works perfectly.
Since when did Microsoft start shipping NVIDIA drivers with their Windows releases, anyways?
Since Vista actually - which worked with my GTX-280 out of the box.
Windows Update even updates the driver automatically.
ubuntu-restricted-extras is rather easy to install.
Why isn't this installed by default? Seriously - disk space and memory is not a premium anymore.
Ubuntu offered to install those for me after starting up the system, I clicked a checkbox and it was installed - no issue.
Why isn't this installed by default? If it detects an NVidia video card - install them!
I'll side with the original author - this was my beef with commercial unix for years: lack of polish. It never ever ever ever worked 100% out of the box (and I spent years admining Solaris and Tru-64 machines).
Linux is 100x better for sure, but its problems point out a severe lack of user testing and quality assurance.
My only problem with Unbuntu on my IBM T-42 laptop was after coming out of sleep tray icons would randomly disappear - like the battery status (kinda essential on a laptop). Otherwise it was ok (websites looked like ass, but I chalked that up to a polish issue than a missing package actually), but I never did anything 3D or did multi-monitors.
Uh huh. Yet people happily figure out how to use Macs. Ok, well, maybe not happily. Why do they do it?
I have a Mac, but I really don't use it for anything. It would be fine if I was just attending school, or working in an office, or just playing World of Warcraft or using Photoshop (even there there's at least one reason to use that on Windows - x64 support).
The reason why is the same problem as Linux - it really doesn't have the app/hardware support Windows (and even to a lesser extent Linux) has.
If you like using the latest greatest apps, technologies and games Windows (for the most part - as I'm sure people will find tons of exceptions) is still it.
So I use my Mac on the road (its durable I'll give it that!) and reading my email/web around the house, but its definitely not my main machine.
This is not a bad idea. I had a telemarketing job for a week (yes that's how long I lasted) - I was told they had special rates with the telephone company where the call started out cheap, but cost more and more as time goes on (the reverse of most customer telephones).
Anything you can do to make the call go over a minute costs them huge.
First, "licensing records" for the amateur radio service won't help you glean that information because individual amateurs are NOT assigned to a particular channel/frequency the way most other users of the spectrum are. Every ham who is, by dint of their license, allowed access to the various ham bands, does so on a *shared* basis with NO claim to the rights to a particular frequency.
Well ham radio no (with the voluntary exception of repeaters and space stations, but this isn't controlled by the fcc), but many commercial radio services are licensed to a set or fixed set of frequencies.
I'm sure I could scrounge enough parts up to do it again surely. It was only like 20 components on a single pc board.
I could easily claim to perform this act after society collapsed than you could claim to build a computer and comment on your favorite chat board - lets put it that way - because more than likely I'll still have my radio equipment, and while you'll still have your computer - good luck connecting it to anything (and even better luck powering it) - and that is my major point.
Last I checked the us military has primary rights to pretty much every bit of spectrum in this country - I think they'd be hard pressed to actually claim they use it all or that they ever would.
300 mhz thought is where a lot of their geo stationary com sats live though - including the ones the Brazilians have been pirating.
Exactly. Radios were cool in their time. But what does it give you in the internet age that a chat room or forum doesn't?
One of the very first hf contacts I ever made was to an electrical engineer in Queensland Australia on 10 meters. It was a fun conversation made with a kit radio using the most fundamental mode of radio - cw.
The thing that impressed me the most about what I did was the fact that I did it on my own without relying on a 3rd party company to wire and maintain the network, a software company to maintain the software or anything like that. It was in fact the most fundamental mode of modern day communication - if society reset itself to zero tomorrow - I could still pull off this feat, whereas if you don't pay your isp bill or they go out of business you're out of luck.
How many things about your modern life can you say this about?
Disclaimer: I'm a ham radio operator - got my extra class license back when you had to pass a morse code test, and I'm 32.
Anyhow above 300 mhz most bands are technically tertiary use to hams if you do some investigation. Also most are somewhat small - I think 900 mhz being the exception where last I checked there was 28 mhz allocated to hams (going off memory here). There again there is way more bandwidth available the higher you go.
I think the part that is near impossible to determine is "is this bandwidth being used". In certain parts of the country (rural especially) you could listen to a frequency where you know there is a 911 paging service in place (specifically used to dispatch medics, alert doctors etc) and not hear a single thing for days, but that could easily be argued as an essential service.
I think what its aimed at is the military really - who technically has primary rights to all that bandwidth, and one could easily argue they don't use it all.
If google is reading this - please don't touch amateur radio - it is after all where a good amount of the innovators in modern communication come from, and if they can't experiment it will stifle your and our countries ability to innovate.
I haven't used my Commodore Amiga in ages (I have an A4000 and an A1200 sitting in the closet - to nostalgic to get rid of either...), but I loved every minute of it. I have a ton of accessories for the 4000 including the infamous phase 5 060/ppc cpu card and it has something like 148 megs of ram (which is a lot for an Amiga :))
Anyhow I guess you know you are still a true believer when that video brings a tear to the eye - thanks for sharing :).
See Venezuela for an example.
Ok so I did:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela#Economy
Their gdp is going up, unemployment is going down, inflation is going down.
Maybe I'm not drinking the right brand of kool aid?
Not from IBM, but I noticed Sun hardware on ebay goes for really cheap. Looked up an enterprise 4500 - which we had racks of running oracle on ebay - there's one going for 50$ - back in the day I believe they cost over 25k each.
Even a newer machine - which I had on my desk at my last job - Blade 1500 you can get for 100$ - that was an 8000$ machine 2 years ago.
I think honestly anyone running sun hardware that doesn't need to (there are a lot of proprietary apps I supported that only ran on Sun hardware...) should take up ibm on this offer.