While I can't imagine having to use Windows as an workstation OS going forward, is it really any surprise that MS is pushing back a release date.....again? Of course we will see the usual spiel from the Dvoraks and Cringleys about how Apple has convinced MS to make Vista EFI compatible right from launch....yadda yadda CONSPIRACY...yadda, but I think MS's reorg finally has them looking at more than $$ for once and it is starting to show.
I haven't graduated yet, but I'm attending ITT right now, and I'd have to agree that its a great place. The administration side isn't so well organized, but the instructors are all great, and when they haven't been, they haven't lasted long. Every instructor I've had has gone out of their way to help, and ALL have serious r/w experience.
Once again, American society comes up with a perfect example of media power. We have all these flag waving, bible thumping "reformers" running around telling everyone that movies, TV and those horrible video games are corrupting the minds of our young ones. Well, I can tell you that I for one, and I'm sure most of you, have played violent games for well over a decade in varying degrees. Of course, I haven't climbed a clock tower and used a high-powered rifle to indescriminitely pick off pedestrians either.
When are we gonna realize that as long as we use our TVs as babysitters for our children, without first instilling in them a sense of right and wrong, of fantasy and reality, that shit like this is gonna happen?
The news media has too much power. I don't care how many nukes and stealth fighters a nation has, it is nothing in the face of information. The media are the real power mongers here. These irresponsible bastards sit around sensationalizing and hyping shit like this until it happens again, and again. We're stuck in a downward spiral that's gaining momentum with each passing "special report".
Don't get me wrong, they have a right, and perhaps a duty to report the story. But if we don't stop our insatiable appetite for these events, we're gonna find ourselves living in a world that is so preoccupied with outlandish acts of violence, that morality is but a half-forgotten dream on the edge of our conscience.
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While I can't imagine having to use Windows as an workstation OS going forward, is it really any surprise that MS is pushing back a release date.....again? Of course we will see the usual spiel from the Dvoraks and Cringleys about how Apple has convinced MS to make Vista EFI compatible right from launch....yadda yadda CONSPIRACY...yadda, but I think MS's reorg finally has them looking at more than $$ for once and it is starting to show.
And if anybody asks I never said that.
I haven't graduated yet, but I'm attending ITT right now, and I'd have to agree that its a great place. The administration side isn't so well organized, but the instructors are all great, and when they haven't been, they haven't lasted long. Every instructor I've had has gone out of their way to help, and ALL have serious r/w experience.
Once again, American society comes up with a perfect example of media power. We have all these flag waving, bible thumping "reformers" running around telling everyone that movies, TV and those horrible video games are corrupting the minds of our young ones. Well, I can tell you that I for one, and I'm sure most of you, have played violent games for well over a decade in varying degrees. Of course, I haven't climbed a clock tower and used a high-powered rifle to indescriminitely pick off pedestrians either.
When are we gonna realize that as long as we use our TVs as babysitters for our children, without first instilling in them a sense of right and wrong, of fantasy and reality, that shit like this is gonna happen?
The news media has too much power. I don't care how many nukes and stealth fighters a nation has, it is nothing in the face of information. The media are the real power mongers here. These irresponsible bastards sit around sensationalizing and hyping shit like this until it happens again, and again. We're stuck in a downward spiral that's gaining momentum with each passing "special report".
Don't get me wrong, they have a right, and perhaps a duty to report the story. But if we don't stop our insatiable appetite for these events, we're gonna find ourselves living in a world that is so preoccupied with outlandish acts of violence, that morality is but a half-forgotten dream on the edge of our conscience.