Re:What school do you go to?
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To answer the first questin: The University of Rochester. The school as a whole offers plenty of Macs and PCs running Win98 or 2k, and the CS department has undergraduate and graduate labs with Linux and Irix machines. My point wasn't that it wasn't available or used, but that plenty of people, in this case college students seriousely considering a career in some area of computing, might not know what linux is, or even what an "operating system" is outside of Windows. Everyone I've met in this situation has been more than interested to learn, they just hadn't had exposure to it before.
Oh, and in case you're wondering, I dual boot 2k and RedHat:)
It's unfortunately true, plenty of people just don't know what linux is. Sure, they've "heard of it," but that doesn't mean they know what it is. Even as a current CS major, I've found that many of my classmates don't know what linux is, and give me blank stares when I say "It's an operating system."
There are organ donation laws already in place which allow people to choose whether or not to donate their organs to science when they die. Perhaps we need similar laws for embryo donation?
I agree. I've always wondered about the arguement that harvesting stem cells from embryos destroys the potential life that the embryo represents. It seems to me that, if the alternative is to simply destroy the embryo or leave it sitting in a freezer for who knows how long, we almost have a duty to not waste let it go to waste. The arguement that we should not destroy the embryo and its potential life ignores the fact that in almost all cases that embryo will never be used to create a life. In addition, many of the people who oppose the destruction of these embryos for stem cell research are also opposed to using those embryos to allow infertile couples to become surrogate parents.
Why would anyone convert their own music (from CD, mp3 or other) to.nap, just so Napster can charge someone else for their time, storage space, and bandwidth? Also, why would you want to store your music in files you can no longer move or share? Something tells me this.nap format isn't going anywhere, and it's on it's way full tilt.
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To answer the first questin: The University of Rochester. The school as a whole offers plenty of Macs and PCs running Win98 or 2k, and the CS department has undergraduate and graduate labs with Linux and Irix machines. My point wasn't that it wasn't available or used, but that plenty of people, in this case college students seriousely considering a career in some area of computing, might not know what linux is, or even what an "operating system" is outside of Windows. Everyone I've met in this situation has been more than interested to learn, they just hadn't had exposure to it before.
:)
Oh, and in case you're wondering, I dual boot 2k and RedHat
It's unfortunately true, plenty of people just don't know what linux is. Sure, they've "heard of it," but that doesn't mean they know what it is. Even as a current CS major, I've found that many of my classmates don't know what linux is, and give me blank stares when I say "It's an operating system."
There are organ donation laws already in place which allow people to choose whether or not to donate their organs to science when they die. Perhaps we need similar laws for embryo donation?
I agree. I've always wondered about the arguement that harvesting stem cells from embryos destroys the potential life that the embryo represents. It seems to me that, if the alternative is to simply destroy the embryo or leave it sitting in a freezer for who knows how long, we almost have a duty to not waste let it go to waste. The arguement that we should not destroy the embryo and its potential life ignores the fact that in almost all cases that embryo will never be used to create a life. In addition, many of the people who oppose the destruction of these embryos for stem cell research are also opposed to using those embryos to allow infertile couples to become surrogate parents.
Why would anyone convert their own music (from CD, mp3 or other) to .nap, just so Napster can charge someone else for their time, storage space, and bandwidth? Also, why would you want to store your music in files you can no longer move or share? Something tells me this .nap format isn't going anywhere, and it's on it's way full tilt.
-Fin