I would pay the 5 cents per song, but I would not pay a 1 percent tax on internet services or computers. Although drastically reducing the price of a product usually does not make sense, it does in this case. I'm sure the music industry would make a lot more money than they are now... then they can sue people for $150,000 because they illegally downloaded $50 in music.
Although computers are used to illegaly download music doesn't mean that we need to tax them to help offset the loss to the music industry. By this reasoning, we should be charging a sales tax on vehicles because they may be used in robberies as a getaway car and send all the proceeds to banks. We should also tax copiers because they may be used to duplicate books.
We really do not need any taxes like this. The music industry does not need an automatic subsidy. What they need is a additude adjustment.
I go to school here at Texas A&M University. The majority of our open access lab computers are Gateways with internal zip drives. These drives are used on a regular basis and I personally have never had a problem with them. Having just talked to someone who works in a OAL... he says that they have only had two failures (NOT click of death) this semester. Not bad considering that our biggest lab has 520 Gateways.
I believe the Zip drive is more reliable than floppy disks. They are still not perfect and something like CF might be a better alternative. The reason why we have zip drives is because most students have one at home.
This is still not a replacement for storage on a file server that is backed up on a regular basis. I have also seen that some universities have teamed up with one of those "free" web storage providers. That might be an alternative to having a floppy... that way they can save their stuff to the web storage and be able to access it from home.
Since when are they a Internet access software and services firm?? Am I missing something here? I picture them as a development tool provider. I don't think I've ever purchased internet access software from them or even services (except for tech support, but that doesn't count).
Russia spent so much money on it because they wanted to beat the Americans. It provided a great boost of morale for it's people when they succeeded.
The U.S. spent so much money on the space program for a number of reasons, including not wanting to be beat by the Russians. Once Russia launched Sputnik, the U.S. was afraid that if they could send a 157 pound satelite up, they could send a war head up and over to Washington D.C., therefore it was imperative that the U.S. also had the ICBM capability. The US's first satelite was 31 pounds while at the same time Russia was sending up 1100+ pound payloads.
Up until Sputnik, the U.S. space program really didn't exist. The army and the air force were fighting over who should be conducting space studies and where the money should come from. It wasn't until later that it was determined the need for a space program and the fact that it should be a civilian organization so as to seem less aggressive than if it were military.
It's just like with Mir now, Russia does not want to "get rid of" Mir because it was the first country to go into space, first to have a space station. They think that it would bring great humility if they ditched Mir (with all of its problems) and put their resources into the American built ISS (international space program). Although there are alot of countries that are part of the ISS, it is primarily built by the U.S. The U.S. on the other hand wants Russia to get rid of Mir and dedicate the resources that they agreed upon earlier to the ISS.
This is just an overview. We are learning more everyday as new papers are released about the 40's, 50's and 60's.
I've noticed that some Universities are getting rid of *SOME* Sun workstations. Here at Texas A&M University, the math department computer labs are almost all Intel based PII/PIIIs (depending on when the lab was installed) running Linux with KDE. They are used mostly for Maple although I believe Matlab is installed. What used to be Sun workstations are being replaced with cheaper Intel alternatives.
There are some areas where the high priced workstations are needed, such as complex visualizations and number crunching, but for the most part Intel/Athlon/Alpha powered machines will due quite nicely.
We do have Sun and SGI servers. Two 6-way Ultra Enterprise 5000s (one with 167MHz CPUs and one with 250s) with 1gb memory support the students that use UNIX. Home directories are stored on a 4-way Enterprise 3000. Two AlphaServer 2100 4/275 support OpenVMS users. And there are a ton of support servers (web servers, mail, dialin, storage). I do not see these being replaced with cheaper alternatives any time soon.
There is a place for Linux in lower end applications, but there is no way that a Linux server could handle the tasks that the above servers have to deal with from 43,000 students + faculty and staff every single day of the year.
I've found that my optical link between my computer and my MD recorder works just fine. The card was cheap ($79) and allows me to record any audio from my computer on my MD recorder.
Is this what this what the hardware that is bundled with the "Internet MiniDisc" player is, or does it use the analog 1/8" jack?
I bet you this is the way the cell phone companies plan on continuing to rake the money in from their analog networks that are being replaced by digital ones. So instead of abandoning them, they offer cheap phones/airtime and with outgoing only, they can use their phone numbers for their digital networks. So basically it's an End of Life strategy.
I'm sure that they would try to recycle them kinda like bottle redemption... you buy a phone for $25, when you are done you buy another for $25 but you get $5 off for returning the other phone.
This is more of a curiosity to most people here. It has little effect on anything. Technically, I believe that Texas is the only state that could secede and have a legal leg to stand on. I could be wrong. There's probably a lot of legal issues that would be unworkable if this was attempted which is why I believe that it matters very little these days. Actually, Texas cannot secede because of the Constitution which they agreed to upon entering the Union. All states are considered equal and on fair footing. Texas has only the rights that other states have and it has been shown from the civil war that no state has the right to secede. This is a major misconception that the football coaches teach in their civics classes here.
Texans aren't different from everybody else except for the fact that they think:
- Texas is it's own country - Texas, My Texas is the national anthem - They have to have a bigger truck than everyone else - Executing people should be a sporting event - BBQ is the food of gods
Don't get me wrong... I'll be living in Texas for at least the next five years, but people here are crazy... maybe it's just because I'm from Massachusetts.
School administrators make a big deal out of trivial things. What they need to realize is that shit happens. Just like airplane pilots accept the fact that they could crash, school administrators need to realize that people are different and that they cannot punish those who stray from the norm.
When a student says or writes that he is going to kill everybody in the school then it would be appropriate for the school administrators to consider that student dangerous and it is their duty to call in the authorities so that the student can be given the help that he needs. However, when a student is asked to write a scary story and he turns in one about how he is going to kill his classmates and the teacher, the school should not call in police because the student was provoked. Why punish the kid for having an imagination? It is no different than a kid saying that he wants to be the President of the United States. Some will say that they are different, but they are just figments of a child's imagination on opposite ends of the good/evil spectrum. If the student was asked to write a fairy tale and turned in a story about school violence, then the school should have been worried.
I do not think that it was the teacher that blew the whistle on the kid, it was the parents of the other students in the class. The teacher, who most likely knew the kid, decided that the story was just fiction. However, the other kids probably went home and told their parents what they heard in class. I can picture a bunch of angry mothers calling the school's principal and complaining about something they do not know the facts about. How many of them do you think knew that the assignment the story was written for called for it to be scary? In turn the school administrators were worried about public relations and more importantly: their jobs. They did not want to have to answer the parent's questions, so they throw the kid in jail. Did any of them ever talk to the kid or the teacher? Probably not.
Did any of the school administrators ever think that the reason why he wrote the story is that he too is scared about the possibility of this happening in his school? Sometimes when a young child is scared, they often draw pictures about what is bothering them. In older students, they might be more inclined to write about their fears rather than talk about them, especially if they are loners.
Just a few years ago I remember saying, "I'll kill you," to another student because they did something rather mean to me. This kind of speech was common and it could be heard throughout the school on any given day. Did I get punished for this? No, because everyone knew that it was a figure of speech and another way of saying, "I'll get you back." I did not really intend of killing him. Because a few bad apples decide to turn classmates into Swiss cheese, the rest of the students in the US have to watch everything they say because it can and will be used against them, even if it was a figure of speech. Did my school have a problem with violence? No.
I was considered a geek even when I was in the first grade. I was sort of a loner during high school. Why was I by myself? Because almost all of my friends left for private school and I did not have time to make really good friends since I was taking college classes so I could graduate early. I had a few friends, but I was not going to make any more since I had known everyone in the school since kindergarten. Just because my friends and I ate lunch together, talked about computer all the time, and did not try to be popular does not mean that we had anything up our sleeves. We were just being ourselves. I was lucky that I was considered a good student by all of my teachers. I could be walking down the hall and pass the Principal. He would say hello and keep going. If there was someone else behind me that was not part of the 10% of the student body that were considered angels, he would give them a hard time about their hall pass.
My high school had a student population of about 350 and was 99.1% white. When teachers talked, if they mentioned a name of any student in the school, most likely the other teachers would know whom they are referring to unless they were new to the system. It was a school where every teacher knew every student and every student knew all their other peers. It would be hard to go unknown in this environment. This helped since names in my school carried a title with them. If you were talked about as being good, then you had no problems. Even if you gave a few teachers problems, it would not hurt you. However, the major troublemakers were dreaded and dealt with severely because they disrupted class too often.
What if I had gone to a much bigger school where the administrators did not know my name or any of my siblings? Most likely I would have been considered someone that the school administrators had to watch at every moment in the school day just because I kept mostly to myself and a close circle of friends. In a big setting like this, teachers and administrators cannot know every single person. When they see a loner and do not know anything about them... that is when they blow the whistle. Instead they should try to find out more about the student before jumping to conclusions.
I am currently working on my B.S. and will be certified to teach history and journalism in the State of Texas in grades 7 through 12. When I start teaching I will not be watching my back like a crazed hyperactive lunatic that is worried about the world ending because I know one important fact: shit happens. If you look at the number of students that were killed or even affected by a school shooting, the numbers are very, very small. Just like when people hear about a plane crash they go all crazy without realizing that it is one of the safest modes of transportation... even safer than your car. Working in a school is no different. There will be some students that have the need to kill their classmates, and if they feel the urge there is not much that can be done to find and stop them before the fact. They won't be caught before their act of violence because nobody caught the signs or they did not show any. But with thousands upon thousands of schools in the United States, the chances of this happening in school I'm in is very small. I probably have a better chance of winning the lottery than getting killed in a school massacre.
I really hope that the school administrators, teachers, and parents realize that some students will be different and that they should not be feared because of this. They should fear the ones who show violence. I think that you cannot use the fact that someone is different in order to determine that they are violent. It would be like saying you are a child abuser because you are a drunk. Some child abusers are drunk, but not all drunks are child abusers. Misconceptions can only hurt... they never help. If you single out someone you fear because they are a loner and that is the only reason, you most likely will cause them to seclude themselves even more, but they probably will not cause anyone but themselves any harm. However, if you single out someone who is different and it turns out they would actually use violence because "normal" people are after them, they will just have more evidence to prove to themselves that violence is the answer because people are after them.
I hope that nobody else is killed in school violence, but the fact is that this will never happen. It would be like hoping that nobody would die from cancer. It will never happen, but we can still hope.
** This is my opinion... nothing else... ***
Peter Gogas
P.S. Sorry about being long winded, but it is a subject that has been bothering me.
I remember seeing an article in Smithsonian Air&Space a few years ago about someone who did this to either a DC10 or an L1011 (can't remember which one).
I remember that he made the tail mounted engine into a lookout/patio.
As for the cockpit, it would make a great computer workcenter. You could have a bunch of monitors withing easy viewing with a swivel chair.
As for the the bathroom... I would be inclined to use a more traditional toilet (in a much bigger room, of course) I wouldn't use the same water system... I'd rather put in a standard copper system.
And the cargo areas are great for storage, water heater/pump, and air circulation... not to mention it gives easy access to the underside of the floor for routing that ethernet cable:-)
I wouldn't worry about the cost of the plane, but the cost of moving it. You can probably get a stripped 747-100/200 pretty cheap. A 747 would make a great house considering that it has about 6500 sq.f of usable space. I personally wouldn't mind a dc-10 or a L1011 besides a 747.
It might not be reasonable now (just like CDRs used to cost alot when they were first introduced), but prices will fall to a point where the blanks will be cheaper than buying the DVD. When that happens, the industry will probably come up with a new scheme.
I like a naming system that is fun and functional. I use cartoon characters for my home network, but this type of naming convention does not always work.
If you have a large number of computers in one area, you probably wouldn't want to take the time to come up with a cool name. At Texas A&M University, the largest of our student computer labs has 553 computers spread out on two floors. What if you were told to fix Fuzzy? How would you know what computer that is without having to look at a cheat sheet? It makes sense to use a prefix for the location followed by a computer number. For example SCC1001 could mean Student Computing Center, 1st floor computer 1. This is what the university uses for all of its student computer labs. If you are told to fix BLOC035, you know that it is in the Blocker open access lab and it is computer number 35. Sure, you'll have to look for computer 35, but at least you know what room it is in (plus the computers are in numerical order for the most part, so they are easy to find). On the largest campus land wise in the US, this type of system is needed to keep track of the 1100+ computers for student use.
On the other hand, the supercomputing center uses names with the "big" sound for thier "big" computers. For example, the Origin 2000 is named titan, The Power Challenge XL is named terminator and the Cray is cyclops. Most other departments use "fun" naming schemes since their networks are on a smaller scale.
So in some cases a fun naming shceme can work, but in other cases it can be too confusing and work to a disadvantage.
I think Intel needs devote more money into development rather than creating FUD about how much better their chip is than the K7. If you look at Coppermine's FPU performance, it is way behind the K7's FPU performance. I believe the K6 was a head of the pentium's FPU (and didn't have that FP error found in the early P5)
AMD hasn't spent the money that Intel has on propaganda. They spent it to develop a product that would beat the competitors and they have succeeded in their primary goal. They know Intel will come out with a better chip, but they will be right on their heels. After AMD introduces a better chip, Intel will be quick to release a better one... and so forth.
I have always used Intel processors but I have decided that I will seriously look into a AMD chip when it comes time to replace this motherboard.
However, Amiga can transfer all their IP to Gateway. All Gateway does is send Amiga a check for $1 and Amiga transfers them to Gateway. Unless the court has freezed the assets of Amiga (not likley since it's assets are not in question and they still have to run a business) there ain't much they can do.
I thought that CORE and ICANN both get a cut too somewhere in the range of $29. I may be wrong but I would think that the actual base cost will be TUCOWS' $13 cut PLUS CORE and ICANN charges... for a total of around $42.
I've been thinking about starting an Open Source Radio website as a place where non-commercial, non internet only stations can obtain free shows to broadcast. I have a new 500w stereo exciter sitting in the closet (very easy to add a 1kW+ amp. I am about to try and obtain a 1kW license for a station in the Bryan-College Station area or possibly Houston. It would be non-commercial. The only problem is finding content (hence my idea for Open Source Radio). I'm not sure if there would be enough interest.
If your field it probably wouldn't do you much good. In a field like Aerospace Engineering or any other discipline where safety is critical, then a PE certification is definitely needed.
For example, a PE usually signs off the design of an aircraft in order to show that in his best judgement it will hold up and not fall apart after a few flights. If the PE doesn't sign it or there are no PE's to check the design, then it will be hard to market the plane. Even though a PE certification doesn't mean that they are smarter, it does provide some assurance that the PE would not have signed off if he believed that the design was unsafe.
In a computer related field, this does not really matter since you can obvisouly tell for the most part if a design works by building prototypes. A computer company will not care if the design is singed off, as long as the product works. Before the product is sold, the company will test it and work all the bugs are out. With civil engineering, you usually only get one shot. For example, you want the designs for a bridge done right the first time, because it would cost big $$$ to rebuild it because an engineer didn't do the calculations correctly.
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I would pay the 5 cents per song, but I would not pay a 1 percent tax on internet services or computers. Although drastically reducing the price of a product usually does not make sense, it does in this case. I'm sure the music industry would make a lot more money than they are now... then they can sue people for $150,000 because they illegally downloaded $50 in music.
Although computers are used to illegaly download music doesn't mean that we need to tax them to help offset the loss to the music industry. By this reasoning, we should be charging a sales tax on vehicles because they may be used in robberies as a getaway car and send all the proceeds to banks. We should also tax copiers because they may be used to duplicate books.
We really do not need any taxes like this. The music industry does not need an automatic subsidy. What they need is a additude adjustment.
I believe the Zip drive is more reliable than floppy disks. They are still not perfect and something like CF might be a better alternative. The reason why we have zip drives is because most students have one at home.
This is still not a replacement for storage on a file server that is backed up on a regular basis. I have also seen that some universities have teamed up with one of those "free" web storage providers. That might be an alternative to having a floppy... that way they can save their stuff to the web storage and be able to access it from home.
Since when are they a Internet access software and services firm?? Am I missing something here? I picture them as a development tool provider. I don't think I've ever purchased internet access software from them or even services (except for tech support, but that doesn't count).
Russia spent so much money on it because they wanted to beat the Americans. It provided a great boost of morale for it's people when they succeeded.
The U.S. spent so much money on the space program for a number of reasons, including not wanting to be beat by the Russians. Once Russia launched Sputnik, the U.S. was afraid that if they could send a 157 pound satelite up, they could send a war head up and over to Washington D.C., therefore it was imperative that the U.S. also had the ICBM capability. The US's first satelite was 31 pounds while at the same time Russia was sending up 1100+ pound payloads.
Up until Sputnik, the U.S. space program really didn't exist. The army and the air force were fighting over who should be conducting space studies and where the money should come from. It wasn't until later that it was determined the need for a space program and the fact that it should be a civilian organization so as to seem less aggressive than if it were military.
It's just like with Mir now, Russia does not want to "get rid of" Mir because it was the first country to go into space, first to have a space station. They think that it would bring great humility if they ditched Mir (with all of its problems) and put their resources into the American built ISS (international space program). Although there are alot of countries that are part of the ISS, it is primarily built by the U.S. The U.S. on the other hand wants Russia to get rid of Mir and dedicate the resources that they agreed upon earlier to the ISS.
This is just an overview. We are learning more everyday as new papers are released about the 40's, 50's and 60's.
Peter Gogas
I've noticed that some Universities are getting rid of *SOME* Sun workstations. Here at Texas A&M University, the math department computer labs are almost all Intel based PII/PIIIs (depending on when the lab was installed) running Linux with KDE. They are used mostly for Maple although I believe Matlab is installed. What used to be Sun workstations are being replaced with cheaper Intel alternatives.
There are some areas where the high priced workstations are needed, such as complex visualizations and number crunching, but for the most part Intel/Athlon/Alpha powered machines will due quite nicely.
We do have Sun and SGI servers. Two 6-way Ultra Enterprise 5000s (one with 167MHz CPUs and one with 250s) with 1gb memory support the students that use UNIX. Home directories are stored on a 4-way Enterprise 3000. Two AlphaServer 2100 4/275 support OpenVMS users. And there are a ton of support servers (web servers, mail, dialin, storage). I do not see these being replaced with cheaper alternatives any time soon.
There is a place for Linux in lower end applications, but there is no way that a Linux server could handle the tasks that the above servers have to deal with from 43,000 students + faculty and staff every single day of the year.
It was probably lack of oxygen. Lack of oxygen in premature babies is known to cause blindness or retinal detachment later on in life.
It uses the Squishdot System which is desinged to look and act like slashdot. Squishdot is written in Python and uses Zope.
I use the Storm Platinum found at http://www.xitel.com. It is a great sound card with alot of features.
Enjoy!
Peter
Is this what this what the hardware that is bundled with the "Internet MiniDisc" player is, or does it use the analog 1/8" jack?
I bet you this is the way the cell phone companies plan on continuing to rake the money in from their analog networks that are being replaced by digital ones. So instead of abandoning them, they offer cheap phones/airtime and with outgoing only, they can use their phone numbers for their digital networks. So basically it's an End of Life strategy.
I'm sure that they would try to recycle them kinda like bottle redemption... you buy a phone for $25, when you are done you buy another for $25 but you get $5 off for returning the other phone.
Not a bad idea.
Peter Gogas
This is more of a curiosity to most people here. It has little effect on anything. Technically, I believe that Texas is the only state that could secede and have a legal leg to stand on. I could be wrong. There's probably a lot of legal issues that would be unworkable if this was attempted which is why I believe that it matters very little these days. Actually, Texas cannot secede because of the Constitution which they agreed to upon entering the Union. All states are considered equal and on fair footing. Texas has only the rights that other states have and it has been shown from the civil war that no state has the right to secede. This is a major misconception that the football coaches teach in their civics classes here.
Texans aren't different from everybody else except for the fact that they think:
- Texas is it's own country
- Texas, My Texas is the national anthem
- They have to have a bigger truck than everyone else
- Executing people should be a sporting event
- BBQ is the food of gods
Don't get me wrong... I'll be living in Texas for at least the next five years, but people here are crazy... maybe it's just because I'm from Massachusetts.
School administrators make a big deal out of trivial things. What they need to realize is that shit happens. Just like airplane pilots accept the fact that they could crash, school administrators need to realize that people are different and that they cannot punish those who stray from the norm.
When a student says or writes that he is going to kill everybody in the school then it would be appropriate for the school administrators to consider that student dangerous and it is their duty to call in the authorities so that the student can be given the help that he needs. However, when a student is asked to write a scary story and he turns in one about how he is going to kill his classmates and the teacher, the school should not call in police because the student was provoked. Why punish the kid for having an imagination? It is no different than a kid saying that he wants to be the President of the United States. Some will say that they are different, but they are just figments of a child's imagination on opposite ends of the good/evil spectrum. If the student was asked to write a fairy tale and turned in a story about school violence, then the school should have been worried.
I do not think that it was the teacher that blew the whistle on the kid, it was the parents of the other students in the class. The teacher, who most likely knew the kid, decided that the story was just fiction. However, the other kids probably went home and told their parents what they heard in class. I can picture a bunch of angry mothers calling the school's principal and complaining about something they do not know the facts about. How many of them do you think knew that the assignment the story was written for called for it to be scary? In turn the school administrators were worried about public relations and more importantly: their jobs. They did not want to have to answer the parent's questions, so they throw the kid in jail. Did any of them ever talk to the kid or the teacher? Probably not.
Did any of the school administrators ever think that the reason why he wrote the story is that he too is scared about the possibility of this happening in his school? Sometimes when a young child is scared, they often draw pictures about what is bothering them. In older students, they might be more inclined to write about their fears rather than talk about them, especially if they are loners.
Just a few years ago I remember saying, "I'll kill you," to another student because they did something rather mean to me. This kind of speech was common and it could be heard throughout the school on any given day. Did I get punished for this? No, because everyone knew that it was a figure of speech and another way of saying, "I'll get you back." I did not really intend of killing him. Because a few bad apples decide to turn classmates into Swiss cheese, the rest of the students in the US have to watch everything they say because it can and will be used against them, even if it was a figure of speech. Did my school have a problem with violence? No.
I was considered a geek even when I was in the first grade. I was sort of a loner during high school. Why was I by myself? Because almost all of my friends left for private school and I did not have time to make really good friends since I was taking college classes so I could graduate early. I had a few friends, but I was not going to make any more since I had known everyone in the school since kindergarten. Just because my friends and I ate lunch together, talked about computer all the time, and did not try to be popular does not mean that we had anything up our sleeves. We were just being ourselves. I was lucky that I was considered a good student by all of my teachers. I could be walking down the hall and pass the Principal. He would say hello and keep going. If there was someone else behind me that was not part of the 10% of the student body that were considered angels, he would give them a hard time about their hall pass.
My high school had a student population of about 350 and was 99.1% white. When teachers talked, if they mentioned a name of any student in the school, most likely the other teachers would know whom they are referring to unless they were new to the system. It was a school where every teacher knew every student and every student knew all their other peers. It would be hard to go unknown in this environment. This helped since names in my school carried a title with them. If you were talked about as being good, then you had no problems. Even if you gave a few teachers problems, it would not hurt you. However, the major troublemakers were dreaded and dealt with severely because they disrupted class too often.
What if I had gone to a much bigger school where the administrators did not know my name or any of my siblings? Most likely I would have been considered someone that the school administrators had to watch at every moment in the school day just because I kept mostly to myself and a close circle of friends. In a big setting like this, teachers and administrators cannot know every single person. When they see a loner and do not know anything about them... that is when they blow the whistle. Instead they should try to find out more about the student before jumping to conclusions.
I am currently working on my B.S. and will be certified to teach history and journalism in the State of Texas in grades 7 through 12. When I start teaching I will not be watching my back like a crazed hyperactive lunatic that is worried about the world ending because I know one important fact: shit happens. If you look at the number of students that were killed or even affected by a school shooting, the numbers are very, very small. Just like when people hear about a plane crash they go all crazy without realizing that it is one of the safest modes of transportation... even safer than your car. Working in a school is no different. There will be some students that have the need to kill their classmates, and if they feel the urge there is not much that can be done to find and stop them before the fact. They won't be caught before their act of violence because nobody caught the signs or they did not show any. But with thousands upon thousands of schools in the United States, the chances of this happening in school I'm in is very small. I probably have a better chance of winning the lottery than getting killed in a school massacre.
I really hope that the school administrators, teachers, and parents realize that some students will be different and that they should not be feared because of this. They should fear the ones who show violence. I think that you cannot use the fact that someone is different in order to determine that they are violent. It would be like saying you are a child abuser because you are a drunk. Some child abusers are drunk, but not all drunks are child abusers. Misconceptions can only hurt... they never help. If you single out someone you fear because they are a loner and that is the only reason, you most likely will cause them to seclude themselves even more, but they probably will not cause anyone but themselves any harm. However, if you single out someone who is different and it turns out they would actually use violence because "normal" people are after them, they will just have more evidence to prove to themselves that violence is the answer because people are after them.
I hope that nobody else is killed in school violence, but the fact is that this will never happen. It would be like hoping that nobody would die from cancer. It will never happen, but we can still hope.
** This is my opinion... nothing else... ***
Peter Gogas
P.S. Sorry about being long winded, but it is a subject that has been bothering me.
Does it qualify for a trailer park? :-)
I remember seeing an article in Smithsonian Air&Space a few years ago about someone who did this to either a DC10 or an L1011 (can't remember which one).
:-)
I remember that he made the tail mounted engine into a lookout/patio.
As for the cockpit, it would make a great computer workcenter. You could have a bunch of monitors withing easy viewing with a swivel chair.
As for the the bathroom... I would be inclined to use a more traditional toilet (in a much bigger room, of course) I wouldn't use the same water system... I'd rather put in a standard copper system.
And the cargo areas are great for storage, water heater/pump, and air circulation... not to mention it gives easy access to the underside of the floor for routing that ethernet cable
I wouldn't worry about the cost of the plane, but the cost of moving it. You can probably get a stripped 747-100/200 pretty cheap. A 747 would make a great house considering that it has about 6500 sq.f of usable space. I personally wouldn't mind a dc-10 or a L1011 besides a 747.
It might not be reasonable now (just like CDRs used to cost alot when they were first introduced), but prices will fall to a point where the blanks will be cheaper than buying the DVD. When that happens, the industry will probably come up with a new scheme.
I like a naming system that is fun and functional. I use cartoon characters for my home network, but this type of naming convention does not always work.
If you have a large number of computers in one area, you probably wouldn't want to take the time to come up with a cool name. At Texas A&M University, the largest of our student computer labs has 553 computers spread out on two floors. What if you were told to fix Fuzzy? How would you know what computer that is without having to look at a cheat sheet? It makes sense to use a prefix for the location followed by a computer number. For example SCC1001 could mean Student Computing Center, 1st floor computer 1. This is what the university uses for all of its student computer labs. If you are told to fix BLOC035, you know that it is in the Blocker open access lab and it is computer number 35. Sure, you'll have to look for computer 35, but at least you know what room it is in (plus the computers are in numerical order for the most part, so they are easy to find). On the largest campus land wise in the US, this type of system is needed to keep track of the 1100+ computers for student use.
On the other hand, the supercomputing center uses names with the "big" sound for thier "big" computers. For example, the Origin 2000 is named titan, The Power Challenge XL is named terminator and the Cray is cyclops. Most other departments use "fun" naming schemes since their networks are on a smaller scale.
So in some cases a fun naming shceme can work, but in other cases it can be too confusing and work to a disadvantage.
Peter Gogas
I think Intel needs devote more money into development rather than creating FUD about how much better their chip is than the K7. If you look at Coppermine's FPU performance, it is way behind the K7's FPU performance. I believe the K6 was a head of the pentium's FPU (and didn't have that FP error found in the early P5)
AMD hasn't spent the money that Intel has on propaganda. They spent it to develop a product that would beat the competitors and they have succeeded in their primary goal. They know Intel will come out with a better chip, but they will be right on their heels. After AMD introduces a better chip, Intel will be quick to release a better one... and so forth.
I have always used Intel processors but I have decided that I will seriously look into a AMD chip when it comes time to replace this motherboard.
However, Amiga can transfer all their IP to Gateway. All Gateway does is send Amiga a check for $1 and Amiga transfers them to Gateway. Unless the court has freezed the assets of Amiga (not likley since it's assets are not in question and they still have to run a business) there ain't much they can do.
I thought that CORE and ICANN both get a cut too somewhere in the range of $29. I may be wrong but I would think that the actual base cost will be TUCOWS' $13 cut PLUS CORE and ICANN charges... for a total of around $42.
Anyone have anymore info on these other costs?
Peter Gogas
ddpg@tekindex.net
I meant 50w... one to many zeros.
I've been thinking about starting an Open Source Radio website as a place where non-commercial, non internet only stations can obtain free shows to broadcast. I have a new 500w stereo exciter sitting in the closet (very easy to add a 1kW+ amp. I am about to try and obtain a 1kW license for a station in the Bryan-College Station area or possibly Houston. It would be non-commercial. The only problem is finding content (hence my idea for Open Source Radio). I'm not sure if there would be enough interest.
I use a 2000 for NewTek VideoToaster... cheap, runs well, and is reliable.
For example, a PE usually signs off the design of an aircraft in order to show that in his best judgement it will hold up and not fall apart after a few flights. If the PE doesn't sign it or there are no PE's to check the design, then it will be hard to market the plane. Even though a PE certification doesn't mean that they are smarter, it does provide some assurance that the PE would not have signed off if he believed that the design was unsafe.
In a computer related field, this does not really matter since you can obvisouly tell for the most part if a design works by building prototypes. A computer company will not care if the design is singed off, as long as the product works. Before the product is sold, the company will test it and work all the bugs are out. With civil engineering, you usually only get one shot. For example, you want the designs for a bridge done right the first time, because it would cost big $$$ to rebuild it because an engineer didn't do the calculations correctly.
That's my
Peter Gogas