Well, here at UTD the apartments seem to be sort of a hybrid property, under control of the state but owned by an apartment company. They are on campus, their parking is regulated through campus police, and all trouble is addressed by campus police.
As for not having wireless access points, I can understand UTD's concern, as these apartments have direct access into UTD's network. The school already has wireless access points up all over campus, but they have strict security measures to ensure that only students are getting access.
If someone drops an access point onto the end of this network that is not locked down, wardrivers or hackers can get in and have plenty of fun on the school's dime. Likely the school would be responsible for any criminal activity on this unauthorized network access.
To me it sounds basically the same as IBM not allowing personal wireless access points around the office, for security reasons.
I'm sure if the student could prove their access point has no access to UTD's network and never would, then it probably wouldn't be an issue.
I've got one of the new Apple Powerbook 17" laptops and while on a plane and in airports I was able to watch Kill Bill from start to finish, work on a paper from school, and play a game of Spaceward Ho! on one charge. About 4 hours with no modification of brightness or anything.
Onething that does kill the battery life quick though is Warcraft III, I guess the graphics, the CPU requirements, the heat dissipation needs, etc. drop that four hours to about one and a half.
I wonder if being owned by Motorola will help their chances of success in this?
It's no secret that I was no fan of Metrowerks in the Bad Old Days before Motorola (and they were no fan of me). I still have some serious reservations about using their tools, CodeWarrior Pro 8 is one of the flakiest releases I've ever seen, more so than Codewarrior 3 which was about nine years ago. I remember some sketchy acquisitions back then that really turned into a garbage disposal for money, but who knows, this might work out for them if they work it right.
To me, well documented code means that someone who doesn't know C can read my C source code comments and port that application to their native programming language easily.
They don't have to look at the source itself at all to get a good english undstanding of what each part of code is supposed to do.
This doesn't mean you should write a ten page paper, all within/* and */, but it does mean that every section of code should be well thought out and well described, not in techno-speak, unless absolutely necessary.
These comments would be good to describe what the variables are, and what is happening to them in the code and why that's important.
Too early in the day to continue, but I think I've blathered enough.
I'll be challenging this, claiming prior art. I've got a sea of kids in kindegarten who saw me doing this in the 70s.
Jack-Ass. Next he'll be showing his kid how to bring pointless torts before our already clogged legal system. Little Johnny learns how to sue God over too-warm milk from his mother's teet.
Greg
I can't decide who the bigger jackass is, the NY Times reporter who brought us this retarted crap, or the pathetic moron attempting to board the plane.
This isn't news, it's more in line for the Onion. I'd be less nauseatic if this were a stupid joke.
Greg
I doubt it. As in the new ReplayTV 4000 is the anti-holy grail as far as The Media Interests are concerned. They hate that thing. Ethernet port to send your buddies Simpsons episodes with commercials automatically removed??? Fox and everyone else wants this thing dead.
Also, since SonicBlue owns Rio... one of the largest manufacturers of mp3 players (As well as Empeg!)... We already know The Media Interests views on mp3...
g
MAPS is the best thing since sliced bread. There's currently some big coalition against it, (COMBAT?), and from what I can figure, it's well funded by spam factories. So far what they seem to put out is a lot of excited inflamatory talk, with no real figures and facts.
From the sounds of it, they did a little donation and some palm greasing for the EFF guys too. That's too bad, I used to like them.
RBL has saved me from having to slog through literally tens of thousands of messages. And what doesn't get caught by RBL usually gets nabbed by spambouncer anyway.
Going through the logs, I've never had a message get stopped by RBL that was a valid, non-spam email.
At University of Texas at Dallas many of the classrooms and locations around campus have wireless access points (802.11b). But I think I'm the only person who actually uses them. I don't even see other students in class or elsewhere with laptops!
greg
I do this, mainly to hear NPR, but my God, the do fundraisers OFTEN and LONG. It's painful to listen to them begging for money for a week and a half, when you *could* be listening to Morning Edition.
g
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Well, here at UTD the apartments seem to be sort of a hybrid property, under control of the state but owned by an apartment company. They are on campus, their parking is regulated through campus police, and all trouble is addressed by campus police.
As for not having wireless access points, I can understand UTD's concern, as these apartments have direct access into UTD's network. The school already has wireless access points up all over campus, but they have strict security measures to ensure that only students are getting access.
If someone drops an access point onto the end of this network that is not locked down, wardrivers or hackers can get in and have plenty of fun on the school's dime. Likely the school would be responsible for any criminal activity on this unauthorized network access.
To me it sounds basically the same as IBM not allowing personal wireless access points around the office, for security reasons.
I'm sure if the student could prove their access point has no access to UTD's network and never would, then it probably wouldn't be an issue.
Greg
I've got one of the new Apple Powerbook 17" laptops and while on a plane and in airports I was able to watch Kill Bill from start to finish, work on a paper from school, and play a game of Spaceward Ho! on one charge. About 4 hours with no modification of brightness or anything.
Onething that does kill the battery life quick though is Warcraft III, I guess the graphics, the CPU requirements, the heat dissipation needs, etc. drop that four hours to about one and a half.
Greg
These are the same tunnels that law enforcement "officials" used to enter the UT Tower on August 1, 1966 to get at Charles Whitman, the sniper.
Had it not been for this covert entry, he'd probably still be up there. Well..., I guess he would have ordered out for pizza at some point.
g
Looking at their demos, I can see where what we now think as realistic console sports games could be greatly improved by the use of this software.
They've got a couple of clips involving catching a football, getting hit with something, etc. It's so lifelike it's scary.
I'm very curious what the CPU requirements would be of having 22 of these creatures playing within the rules of football at once.
Who knows, NCAA Football 2006 on the PS3 may be a "real" reality.
I wonder if being owned by Motorola will help their chances of success in this?
It's no secret that I was no fan of Metrowerks in the Bad Old Days before Motorola (and they were no fan of me). I still have some serious reservations about using their tools, CodeWarrior Pro 8 is one of the flakiest releases I've ever seen, more so than Codewarrior 3 which was about nine years ago. I remember some sketchy acquisitions back then that really turned into a garbage disposal for money, but who knows, this might work out for them if they work it right.
Greg
Henry Rollins would make a bad-ass Superman, even Beavis and Butthead agree.
... now you've got some shit!
Maybe Glen Danzig could be Batman
g
What if it's not the games that cause this activity, but rather this brain activity that draws a person to playing games more. Greg
To me, well documented code means that someone who doesn't know C can read my C source code comments and port that application to their native programming language easily.
/* and */, but it does mean that every section of code should be well thought out and well described, not in techno-speak, unless absolutely necessary.
They don't have to look at the source itself at all to get a good english undstanding of what each part of code is supposed to do.
This doesn't mean you should write a ten page paper, all within
These comments would be good to describe what the variables are, and what is happening to them in the code and why that's important.
Too early in the day to continue, but I think I've blathered enough.
Greg
See http://www.poetictech.com ... this workspace is ideal for all kinds of geeks.
Greg
I'll be challenging this, claiming prior art. I've got a sea of kids in kindegarten who saw me doing this in the 70s. Jack-Ass. Next he'll be showing his kid how to bring pointless torts before our already clogged legal system. Little Johnny learns how to sue God over too-warm milk from his mother's teet. Greg
I can't decide who the bigger jackass is, the NY Times reporter who brought us this retarted crap, or the pathetic moron attempting to board the plane. This isn't news, it's more in line for the Onion. I'd be less nauseatic if this were a stupid joke. Greg
I doubt it. As in the new ReplayTV 4000 is the anti-holy grail as far as The Media Interests are concerned. They hate that thing. Ethernet port to send your buddies Simpsons episodes with commercials automatically removed??? Fox and everyone else wants this thing dead. Also, since SonicBlue owns Rio ... one of the largest manufacturers of mp3 players (As well as Empeg!)... We already know The Media Interests views on mp3 ...
g
From the sounds of it, they did a little donation and some palm greasing for the EFF guys too. That's too bad, I used to like them.
RBL has saved me from having to slog through literally tens of thousands of messages. And what doesn't get caught by RBL usually gets nabbed by spambouncer anyway.
Going through the logs, I've never had a message get stopped by RBL that was a valid, non-spam email.
Greg
At University of Texas at Dallas many of the classrooms and locations around campus have wireless access points (802.11b). But I think I'm the only person who actually uses them. I don't even see other students in class or elsewhere with laptops! greg
I do this, mainly to hear NPR, but my God, the do fundraisers OFTEN and LONG. It's painful to listen to them begging for money for a week and a half, when you *could* be listening to Morning Edition. g