Hey McFly, it's not only Apple's game to jack the price of RAM and other 'add-ons' at the time of sale. Dell does it, HP does it, IBM does it. Your best be is to go to Crucial or some other vendor with a good reputation and purchase your upgrade.
I remember walking around MW Boston 1997 (the last one??) and speaking with a group of developers who were creating a space shooter game called ARES. I don't know if it ever made it to market.
I cannot believe the timing of this article! I was just in DC with my brother (HCAULFIELD) and pining for the days of Marathon and Crystal Quest (arguably the most addictively annoying game EVAR!). He calls me the other day to tell me he found his (well, my) Marathon Box Set (which is actually mine) and was jonesing to play--to bad he installed FreeBSD on his PowerTower Pro and now cannot locate his MacOS 8.0 CD (which I have in Boston--ha ha ha.)
Crystal Quest: Two of my fraternity brothers sat in front of my SE for 13 straight hours playing this game while I was in my bunk-bed nursing a skull-splitting hangover. I could not muster the strength to even yell at them.
Please note that in Germany, when you hear someone refer to HP Unix, it will sound like Happy Unix to the American ear. I can speak German about as well as an autistic 4-year old Dane, so it too me a little while to understand what the German guy I was speaking with was referring to.
"H" sounds like "Hah" and "P" sounds like "Pay" so you get "Hah-Pay UNIX."
A lot of people out there believe that people who purchase Apple products are prone to 'skipping' themselves. It comes from the belief that creative people are gay (homosexual) and gay people like to skip. However, skipping is also for men and women named "Nancy" as well. Aren't we at a point in our society where skipping and being gay or named Nancy is OK? I don't see how there should be a problem with the iPod skipping as well. Can't we all just get along?
Excuse me, you forgot the number one reason why the iPod failed...no Ogg Vorbis. What rock have you been living under?
Now for a serious question: I know I can boot my Mac from my iPod into OS X(I do it so I can run DiskUtility on it), does anyone have a link to a Linux ISO that is pre-configured and easy to install onto the iPod so I can boot my G5 into Linux from my iPod?
I realized the Armonk/Atlanta thing after the post button was hit. Didn't IBM move a lot of their administrative stuff to NC recently and left the big-wigs and some skunk-works in NY?
It's all about the profit margins. If your division has a profit of $100,000,000 and your outlays for that division were 10,000,000, your're doing quite well.
However, if the PC division made a $100,000,000 profit by spending $10,000,000,000, then that ain't good. Those $10B could be better speant elsewhere in the company for greater returns.
My company switched to IBM desktops ~18 months ago. While we have had our share of problems with the desktops (S42 and S50 in particular), the laptops have been awesome. We've used the T30, X30, T41, T42, and the X40. The only complaint I have, and it is more to do with our sourcing model, is the @#$%&^# 1024x768 screen on the T42 that I have.
We evaluated Compaq (HP) and Dell as well. I liked the Compaqs of the time (N610c) but HATED the Dells. They felt like hollow boxes of plastic.
I just keeping thinking about the scene from "Back to School" where Rodney Dangerfield hires Kurt Vonnegut to write a paper about the works of Kurt Vonnegut and got an F and the quote, "Whoever wrote this paper on Kurt Vonnegut knows nothing about Kurt Vonnegut!"
Do you really think Ms. Morrison can be as critical and objective about her own works as she can about Judy Blume's?
The University of Virginia Virginia Tech The College of William and Mary UC Berkley
Don't knock state schools. Some states (Virginia and California) have very good systems. Out-of-state tuition is also a lot cheaper than most private colleges.
Good for you, seriously. I don't know much about CS and CS hiring practices, so I cannot really speak definitively. However, I am taking the stance that, in General, it does matter where you go (and what you do there) especially when you're looking for your first job. Once you are in your career and gaining experience, where you went to school doesn't matter as much UNTIL you advance into the management realm. Once there, the company can make bs arbitrary decisions based on your background to look better. See my post above regarding the CFO at the biotech startup.
At no point will I ever fault someone for taking the initiative to go to college. It is a HUGE financial undertaking even with financial aid. I tell people in college to look at it as an investment in their futures. Get out of it what you can, learn both material and how to think and then apply it.
One of my co-workers is very bright and a very hard worker. However, due to reasons beyond his control, he was unable to attend college. He knows he is now at a disadvantage in the industry we're in.
I once worked for a small startup in the Biotech field. They had their startup staff in place (CEO, CIO, CTO, COO, and CFO) and it was a very cohesive team. However, the VCs came in and forced the CEO to replace his CFO (who was very experienced and very talented) with an IVY LEAGUE CFO because the existing CFO did not have a marquee education.
You never know when you decisions/opportunities will come back and haunt you.
I have a BS in Chemistry from William and Mary. At the time I graduated, W&M had more Chemistry majors than almost every other college in the US. We were taught by Professors, even in labs they were there. With the exception of the first four classes (Chem I, Orgo I, Orgo II, and Chem II where there are a lot of students fulfilling science requirements and requirements for Biology and Physics), none of the classes had more than 20 students and never were we taught by grad students. The head of the department taught Chem I.
We have a winner. Where you go to school matters! The better the school you go to the better chance you have of getting a good entry-level job in your field which, in turn, jump-starts your career IF, and ONLY IF, you take advantage of this opportunity. Where you go to school is NOT a permit to rest on your laurels for the rest of your life. (Unless, of course, you dropped out of Harvard and started a small software company in Redmond, WA...or whereeverthehellmicrosoft was founded.)
Also, college is not a vocational school. College is an evironment where people hone their skills at critical thinking and reasoning (and socializing, but that's a different discussion.) You choose your vehicle to do this by picking a major that INTERESTS you. I know quite a few English and History majors that were pulling in $100,000+ per year two years out of college as analysts for Wall Street firms.
Where did I go? The College of William and Mary.
What did I major in? Chemistry.
What do I do now? Not Chemistry. I'm in IT and do project management for large, global infrastructure projects.
While where you went to school won't necessarily get you the job, it will improve your chances of getting your resume looked at.
Granted, I never really leveraged where I went to school, even for my first job.
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Hey McFly, it's not only Apple's game to jack the price of RAM and other 'add-ons' at the time of sale. Dell does it, HP does it, IBM does it. Your best be is to go to Crucial or some other vendor with a good reputation and purchase your upgrade.
--Mike
http://www.ambrosiasw.com/games/ares/
I don't know if it is the same game, though...
I remember walking around MW Boston 1997 (the last one??) and speaking with a group of developers who were creating a space shooter game called ARES. I don't know if it ever made it to market.
--Mike
While I do like the concept of save stations, some games place them WAY TOO FAR APART to the point of being annoying (Metroid Prime?????) sometimes.
--Mike
I cannot believe the timing of this article! I was just in DC with my brother (HCAULFIELD) and pining for the days of Marathon and Crystal Quest (arguably the most addictively annoying game EVAR!). He calls me the other day to tell me he found his (well, my) Marathon Box Set (which is actually mine) and was jonesing to play--to bad he installed FreeBSD on his PowerTower Pro and now cannot locate his MacOS 8.0 CD (which I have in Boston--ha ha ha.)
Crystal Quest: Two of my fraternity brothers sat in front of my SE for 13 straight hours playing this game while I was in my bunk-bed nursing a skull-splitting hangover. I could not muster the strength to even yell at them.
Please note that in Germany, when you hear someone refer to HP Unix, it will sound like Happy Unix to the American ear. I can speak German about as well as an autistic 4-year old Dane, so it too me a little while to understand what the German guy I was speaking with was referring to.
"H" sounds like "Hah" and "P" sounds like "Pay" so you get "Hah-Pay UNIX."
--Mike
Yeah, it'll grow on you... Like Jock-itch.
The box looks like a portable geiger-counter or 'nifty-virus identifying device from the future."
Not fugly, but not in the same class as Apple.
--Mike
A lot of people out there believe that people who purchase Apple products are prone to 'skipping' themselves. It comes from the belief that creative people are gay (homosexual) and gay people like to skip. However, skipping is also for men and women named "Nancy" as well. Aren't we at a point in our society where skipping and being gay or named Nancy is OK? I don't see how there should be a problem with the iPod skipping as well. Can't we all just get along?
--Mike
Excuse me, you forgot the number one reason why the iPod failed...no Ogg Vorbis. What rock have you been living under?
Now for a serious question: I know I can boot my Mac from my iPod into OS X(I do it so I can run DiskUtility on it), does anyone have a link to a Linux ISO that is pre-configured and easy to install onto the iPod so I can boot my G5 into Linux from my iPod?
--Mike
Two years ago when the dollar was stronger the Europeans would be paying less per song. Damn weak dollar.
I need a point? This is Slashdot afterall.
I realized the Armonk/Atlanta thing after the post button was hit. Didn't IBM move a lot of their administrative stuff to NC recently and left the big-wigs and some skunk-works in NY?
This would look more like Daimler-Chrysler than anything you would want. There are too many cultural differences between the two companies.
IBM: Shirt and Tie
Apple: Black turtlenecks and Levi's (don't forget the Birkenstocks)
IBM: Limos
Apple: Fast cars
IBM: Atlanta (ewww)
Apple: Cupertino (ewww)
IBM: Big and stubborn
Apple: Little and stubborn
--Mike
Actually, the movie was intending to be "funny" as the average viewer of the movie wouldn't know "irony" if it hit them in the face with an iron.
--Mike
It's all about the profit margins. If your division has a profit of $100,000,000 and your outlays for that division were 10,000,000, your're doing quite well.
However, if the PC division made a $100,000,000 profit by spending $10,000,000,000, then that ain't good. Those $10B could be better speant elsewhere in the company for greater returns.
--Paci
My company switched to IBM desktops ~18 months ago. While we have had our share of problems with the desktops (S42 and S50 in particular), the laptops have been awesome. We've used the T30, X30, T41, T42, and the X40. The only complaint I have, and it is more to do with our sourcing model, is the @#$%&^# 1024x768 screen on the T42 that I have.
We evaluated Compaq (HP) and Dell as well. I liked the Compaqs of the time (N610c) but HATED the Dells. They felt like hollow boxes of plastic.
IBM ThinkPads are incredible pieces of hardware.
--Mike
Canadian Snipers = teh bomb. In international competitions of Sniper teams, the Canadian's nearly always place higher than the US.
_ 2430Metres.asp
: www.stormpages.com/swellal/sof.html+canadian+snipe r+afghanistan&hl=en
http://www.snipercountry.com/Articles/KillingShot
http://216.239.39.104/search?q=cache:MQ8qdygzuvYJ
I just keeping thinking about the scene from "Back to School" where Rodney Dangerfield hires Kurt Vonnegut to write a paper about the works of Kurt Vonnegut and got an F and the quote, "Whoever wrote this paper on Kurt Vonnegut knows nothing about Kurt Vonnegut!"
Do you really think Ms. Morrison can be as critical and objective about her own works as she can about Judy Blume's?
--Mike
Hey, you had your chance to join the Ivy League and you said NO! (You = Rutgers)
Canon? Do tell.
Some state Universities that aren't prestigious:
The University of Virginia
Virginia Tech
The College of William and Mary
UC Berkley
Don't knock state schools. Some states (Virginia and California) have very good systems. Out-of-state tuition is also a lot cheaper than most private colleges.
--Mike
Good for you, seriously. I don't know much about CS and CS hiring practices, so I cannot really speak definitively. However, I am taking the stance that, in General, it does matter where you go (and what you do there) especially when you're looking for your first job. Once you are in your career and gaining experience, where you went to school doesn't matter as much UNTIL you advance into the management realm. Once there, the company can make bs arbitrary decisions based on your background to look better. See my post above regarding the CFO at the biotech startup.
At no point will I ever fault someone for taking the initiative to go to college. It is a HUGE financial undertaking even with financial aid. I tell people in college to look at it as an investment in their futures. Get out of it what you can, learn both material and how to think and then apply it.
One of my co-workers is very bright and a very hard worker. However, due to reasons beyond his control, he was unable to attend college. He knows he is now at a disadvantage in the industry we're in.
--Mike
I once worked for a small startup in the Biotech field. They had their startup staff in place (CEO, CIO, CTO, COO, and CFO) and it was a very cohesive team. However, the VCs came in and forced the CEO to replace his CFO (who was very experienced and very talented) with an IVY LEAGUE CFO because the existing CFO did not have a marquee education.
You never know when you decisions/opportunities will come back and haunt you.
--Mike
I have a BS in Chemistry from William and Mary. At the time I graduated, W&M had more Chemistry majors than almost every other college in the US. We were taught by Professors, even in labs they were there. With the exception of the first four classes (Chem I, Orgo I, Orgo II, and Chem II where there are a lot of students fulfilling science requirements and requirements for Biology and Physics), none of the classes had more than 20 students and never were we taught by grad students. The head of the department taught Chem I.
We have a winner. Where you go to school matters! The better the school you go to the better chance you have of getting a good entry-level job in your field which, in turn, jump-starts your career IF, and ONLY IF, you take advantage of this opportunity. Where you go to school is NOT a permit to rest on your laurels for the rest of your life. (Unless, of course, you dropped out of Harvard and started a small software company in Redmond, WA...or whereeverthehellmicrosoft was founded.)
Also, college is not a vocational school. College is an evironment where people hone their skills at critical thinking and reasoning (and socializing, but that's a different discussion.) You choose your vehicle to do this by picking a major that INTERESTS you. I know quite a few English and History majors that were pulling in $100,000+ per year two years out of college as analysts for Wall Street firms.
Where did I go? The College of William and Mary.
What did I major in? Chemistry.
What do I do now? Not Chemistry. I'm in IT and do project management for large, global infrastructure projects.
While where you went to school won't necessarily get you the job, it will improve your chances of getting your resume looked at.
Granted, I never really leveraged where I went to school, even for my first job.
--Mike
You're supposed to watch the hands for clues.
nslookup newyorktimes.com
NAME: newyorktimes.com
ADDRESS: 199.239.137.217
go to http://newyorktimes.com and it redirects you to nytimes.com...
I am being pulled in by a troll, aren't I?