Of course they're running old and outdated hardware. When thing work, particularly in a mission critical situation, you don't touch them! Even if the IT admins knew that computer was old and on the brink of dying, how are they supposed to convince the suits and beancounters of that? Non-technical people take the approach that since computers are inherently binary (work or no-work) that if the machine is up and running _right now_ then there is no problem and no sense on spending money to replace it.
If the IT folks were clueless about this machine's age or condition, then the blame lies solely with them for not knowing what the hell they were doing. However, if it was the other folks who shot the IT folks down about upgrading then "welcome to the current state of business", unfortunately.
and how exactly do you suggest that these recent grads pay the bills, afford food, etc. while they're "making their own experience?" they're certainly not going to get hired at Wal-Mart or Target as a make-ends-meet job because now that they've got a college degree, they're going to get passed over as over-qualified and down the road, the programming company they really want to work for is going to wonder what the hell they were doing working at Wal-Mart with a CS degree.
meaning that Windows x64 users are left totally in the dark. If they're going to claim Windows support and x64 support in the same sentence, then they ought to be providing a 64-bit enabled binary.
As an alum of Mississippi State, I think that a Google Data Center would fit in perfectly as MSU's ERC: http://www.hpc.msstate.edu/
Plus, Mississippi _loves_ to attract new business by giving them gargantuan incentives. For example, when Mississippi brought Nissan to Mississippi (the only plant that manufactures the Armada and the Titan), they _gave_ Nissan the land, gave them the water, power, and road infrastructure, and deferred their property taxes for five years. My mom is an economic developer for Mississippi and she said that it's likely they just gave Toyota the same deal to develop in North Mississippi. I'm sure that a big-name company like Google could likely score some similar perks. However, being on TVA power at MSU's campus would not be such a good thing.
yes, actually. so far it's looking like DX10 will be Vista-only (there's been talk of an XP backport, but nothing solid yet). Also, MS has said that Halo 2 for the PC will be Vista-only a la AoE III on XP.
I feel the exact same way about Satellite Radio. Thanks to Sirius, I have gained exposure to artists that I never would've had the opportunity to hear before. Hence, I've made a lot more music purchases that are *explicitly targetted* at the kind of music I like.
yeah, I liked that. PLUS, it was 19.99 when I bought it at Wal-Mart (shortly after its release on the PC). However, I did always have trouble getting the PC ports of MK I and MK II to run properly. IIRC, they required more free low memory than Falcon 3.0 (damn those were the fun old days).
actually, at my alma mater (Mississippi State), it clearly states in the student manual as well as in the syllabi of many courses that any material (including source code, schematics, and design for us Computer Engineers) submitted in fulfillment of a course becomes the IP of the university once it is turned it.
in trucker parlance (a few relatives of mine are truckers), flat front trucks are referred to as pug-nose trucks. and, yes, OP has ALWAYS been a pug nose truck. Hell, even the teaser truck they had at E3 was a pug nose truck in the proper color scheme. where the hell did these flames and crap come from. my bet is that that is either a DIFFERENT character than OP or the pic is fake.
I'm a Sirius customer. If the RIAA is "so up in arms" about potential copyright infringment from XM's device, why aren't they suing over the Sirius S50? The S50 also allows you to tote MP3s and record Sirius broadcasts. This seems to me like XM pissed of the RIAA somehow and the RIAA is just trying to extract a pound of flesh as "punishment."
it's called a facebook because in some parts of the country, that's what they call an "annual" or a "yearbook." Personally, I had never heard the word facebook until my wife joined the site. But, she (who went to prep school in New Jersey) said that it's a common term in New England.
funny as that is, Microsoft doesn't classify it as a security update. They classify it as an 'extra' download because it's a standalone app instead of being some kind of patch inside Windows proper.
It's a literal gold mine? You're saying that they mine gold there. The employees are digging into the ground with picks and shovels in an attempt to retrieve gold. Is that correct?
Way to go! You totally took his statement out of context and used it to make what you thought was a funny. Maybe you ought to pursue politics as a career choice. In reality, he said:
a literal gold mine of personal information
you cannot just omit the phrase 'of personal information' simply because you don't want to. if you're going to point out flaws in someone's argument, make sure you're on good logical footing.
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well, I've been running Ubuntu 5.10 on my ThinkPad T21 for a while now. My wireless card is PCMCIA 3Com 3CRWE6029B card. Under Ubuntu 5.10, it works flawlessly out of the box. However, under 6.06 I can't get cardctl to work with it at all. I can "see" the card, and I can even get it assigned to eth1, but all attempts at getting it to become live have met with no success.
I tried to install 5.10 and then upgrade to 6.06 to see if that helps since the properly configured conf files would already be there, but no dice. As soon as the upgrade to 6.06 finished, the card went kaput.
I think they need to make sure that they're maintaining their level of performance without breaking things before rolling new versions out.
actually, my wife and I can do this VERY same thing on our Sirius units. She's got a Starmate Replay that has a 45 minute cache so that she can timeshift her music in her car. I've got an S50 where I can store several hours worth of music streams (though I usually use it for NPR broadcasts).
There's nothing 'new' going on here, really. Sirius and XM units have been able to timeshift since the beginning. I agree with the XM rep in saying that this is just a temper tantrum on the part of the RIAA to make their renegotiation process slant a little more in their (the RIAA) favor.
I've been using a Trustix box since the 1.1 release, so I guess that's about 4 years now. I recommend it to people all the time, but no one ever goes for for the same reasons as this parent poster makes their ignorant statement: brand recognition. Trustix, out of the box, is oodles more secure and "safe" than a Fedora or SuSE or BSD box. But, because people haven't really heard of it, they pass it by. Their loss, I suppose -- makes downloading the new ISO easier for me since few folks are grabbing them.
I'm a Senior at Mississippi State and MSU has been requiring laptops for incoming freshmen since the Fall semester of 2000. MSU has always had three outlined specs that students could choose from. One line has been a Dell, one has been a local (Mississippi) company calld Howard Computers, and the third has always been a Mac. MSU outlines the requirements for each computer type (the PCs or Macs) and then it is up to the student to make sure they get one. If you have to go to ITS for support and you *don't* have one of these machines, they won't help you -- period.
Personally, I have a Thinkpad, but I don't ever need ITS's support.
So far as requiring a PC for incoming students, they're definitely not first. However, first for advocating the One True PC To Rule Them All? -- maybe.
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Of course they're running old and outdated hardware. When thing work, particularly in a mission critical situation, you don't touch them! Even if the IT admins knew that computer was old and on the brink of dying, how are they supposed to convince the suits and beancounters of that? Non-technical people take the approach that since computers are inherently binary (work or no-work) that if the machine is up and running _right now_ then there is no problem and no sense on spending money to replace it.
If the IT folks were clueless about this machine's age or condition, then the blame lies solely with them for not knowing what the hell they were doing. However, if it was the other folks who shot the IT folks down about upgrading then "welcome to the current state of business", unfortunately.
and how exactly do you suggest that these recent grads pay the bills, afford food, etc. while they're "making their own experience?" they're certainly not going to get hired at Wal-Mart or Target as a make-ends-meet job because now that they've got a college degree, they're going to get passed over as over-qualified and down the road, the programming company they really want to work for is going to wonder what the hell they were doing working at Wal-Mart with a CS degree.
would Stallman's head exploding REALLY be a bad thing?
that's not the problem of end users. end users don't care about the details, they just want the product.
meaning that Windows x64 users are left totally in the dark. If they're going to claim Windows support and x64 support in the same sentence, then they ought to be providing a 64-bit enabled binary.
As an alum of Mississippi State, I think that a Google Data Center would fit in perfectly as MSU's ERC: http://www.hpc.msstate.edu/
Plus, Mississippi _loves_ to attract new business by giving them gargantuan incentives. For example, when Mississippi brought Nissan to Mississippi (the only plant that manufactures the Armada and the Titan), they _gave_ Nissan the land, gave them the water, power, and road infrastructure, and deferred their property taxes for five years. My mom is an economic developer for Mississippi and she said that it's likely they just gave Toyota the same deal to develop in North Mississippi. I'm sure that a big-name company like Google could likely score some similar perks. However, being on TVA power at MSU's campus would not be such a good thing.
just thought that I'd point out the English also borrows the word "sauna" from Swedish.
man, that would've been a good name for the Lewinsky scandal...
yes, actually. so far it's looking like DX10 will be Vista-only (there's been talk of an XP backport, but nothing solid yet). Also, MS has said that Halo 2 for the PC will be Vista-only a la AoE III on XP.
and that's part of the problem over there...
I feel the exact same way about Satellite Radio. Thanks to Sirius, I have gained exposure to artists that I never would've had the opportunity to hear before. Hence, I've made a lot more music purchases that are *explicitly targetted* at the kind of music I like.
yeah, I liked that. PLUS, it was 19.99 when I bought it at Wal-Mart (shortly after its release on the PC). However, I did always have trouble getting the PC ports of MK I and MK II to run properly. IIRC, they required more free low memory than Falcon 3.0 (damn those were the fun old days).
yeah, I had an SNES too. That's why I went to the arcade ;-P
actually, at my alma mater (Mississippi State), it clearly states in the student manual as well as in the syllabi of many courses that any material (including source code, schematics, and design for us Computer Engineers) submitted in fulfillment of a course becomes the IP of the university once it is turned it.
so, you're saying that you want to take a look at their source? my wager would be on a Mom and Dad, just like everyone else.
in trucker parlance (a few relatives of mine are truckers), flat front trucks are referred to as pug-nose trucks. and, yes, OP has ALWAYS been a pug nose truck. Hell, even the teaser truck they had at E3 was a pug nose truck in the proper color scheme. where the hell did these flames and crap come from. my bet is that that is either a DIFFERENT character than OP or the pic is fake.
I'm a Sirius customer. If the RIAA is "so up in arms" about potential copyright infringment from XM's device, why aren't they suing over the Sirius S50? The S50 also allows you to tote MP3s and record Sirius broadcasts. This seems to me like XM pissed of the RIAA somehow and the RIAA is just trying to extract a pound of flesh as "punishment."
it's called a facebook because in some parts of the country, that's what they call an "annual" or a "yearbook." Personally, I had never heard the word facebook until my wife joined the site. But, she (who went to prep school in New Jersey) said that it's a common term in New England.
you are aware that Google uses frames when you're viewing a Google Translate page or a Google Cache page, right?
funny as that is, Microsoft doesn't classify it as a security update. They classify it as an 'extra' download because it's a standalone app instead of being some kind of patch inside Windows proper.
It's a literal gold mine? You're saying that they mine gold there. The employees are digging into the ground with picks and shovels in an attempt to retrieve gold. Is that correct?
Way to go! You totally took his statement out of context and used it to make what you thought was a funny. Maybe you ought to pursue politics as a career choice. In reality, he said:
a literal gold mine of personal information
you cannot just omit the phrase 'of personal information' simply because you don't want to. if you're going to point out flaws in someone's argument, make sure you're on good logical footing.
well, I've been running Ubuntu 5.10 on my ThinkPad T21 for a while now. My wireless card is PCMCIA 3Com 3CRWE6029B card. Under Ubuntu 5.10, it works flawlessly out of the box. However, under 6.06 I can't get cardctl to work with it at all. I can "see" the card, and I can even get it assigned to eth1, but all attempts at getting it to become live have met with no success.
I tried to install 5.10 and then upgrade to 6.06 to see if that helps since the properly configured conf files would already be there, but no dice. As soon as the upgrade to 6.06 finished, the card went kaput.
I think they need to make sure that they're maintaining their level of performance without breaking things before rolling new versions out.
actually, my wife and I can do this VERY same thing on our Sirius units. She's got a Starmate Replay that has a 45 minute cache so that she can timeshift her music in her car. I've got an S50 where I can store several hours worth of music streams (though I usually use it for NPR broadcasts).
There's nothing 'new' going on here, really. Sirius and XM units have been able to timeshift since the beginning. I agree with the XM rep in saying that this is just a temper tantrum on the part of the RIAA to make their renegotiation process slant a little more in their (the RIAA) favor.
I've been using a Trustix box since the 1.1 release, so I guess that's about 4 years now. I recommend it to people all the time, but no one ever goes for for the same reasons as this parent poster makes their ignorant statement: brand recognition. Trustix, out of the box, is oodles more secure and "safe" than a Fedora or SuSE or BSD box. But, because people haven't really heard of it, they pass it by. Their loss, I suppose -- makes downloading the new ISO easier for me since few folks are grabbing them.
I'm a Senior at Mississippi State and MSU has been requiring laptops for incoming freshmen since the Fall semester of 2000. MSU has always had three outlined specs that students could choose from. One line has been a Dell, one has been a local (Mississippi) company calld Howard Computers, and the third has always been a Mac. MSU outlines the requirements for each computer type (the PCs or Macs) and then it is up to the student to make sure they get one. If you have to go to ITS for support and you *don't* have one of these machines, they won't help you -- period.
Personally, I have a Thinkpad, but I don't ever need ITS's support.
So far as requiring a PC for incoming students, they're definitely not first. However, first for advocating the One True PC To Rule Them All? -- maybe.