Building your own machine doesn't necessarily mean you want to build HAL, and it definitely does not exclude newbies from building what they need. Face it, you do not consider what other people do with their time and effort to be on par with your endeavors, and that makes your perspective myopic (well, that's nicer than saying you're wrong, right?)
If you *really* wanted a sooper dooper CPU, you'd be after a Digital 21164...y'know, what they build Cray's out of?
From my own experience, upgrading a PC is often more expensive than buying a new one, and you don't get the satisfaction you'd derive from, say, rebuilding a '65 GTO. More like rebuilding a Playdoh jackhammer...
I think students should have to pay for any service that is not essential to their education.
Tuition should only fund educational resources, and there's nothing relevant to classwork in any field (except dissertations on thievery and copyright infringement) on a peer to peer network.
It's much more realistic to make them pay for their extracurricular activities, since they'll have to do it when they leave the school environment. They already must pay for food, telephone, books and clothing. Why should something so luxurious as bandwidth be free?
As for the alleged misuse of authority, well, those with the bucks call the shots. If you are so much against authority, why go to college in the first place? An education only prepares you to exert authority over others in the long run. You certainly don't need education to support a family; you can always steal from the authorities to do that...
Besides, think about the other side of that argument. If you don't respect the authority of the owner of a resource and the rules they provide for your use of it, why should that owner grant you the privilege of using it? Would you continue to let someone use your phone if they insisted on making two hour long distance calls and never compensating you for them?
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Trying to fix Windows is like trying to graft arms and legs onto hamburger...
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Could it be that Apple is better at fixing Unix than Bell Labs and every one and corporation that's ever tried to twiddle with it?
Could it be that their way can work with any blend of Unix, not just the BSD family?
Could it be that the solution to Linux's problems is a Darwin port away?
Noooo...?
Building your own machine doesn't necessarily mean you want to build HAL, and it definitely does not exclude newbies from building what they need. Face it, you do not consider what other people do with their time and effort to be on par with your endeavors, and that makes your perspective myopic (well, that's nicer than saying you're wrong, right?)
If you *really* wanted a sooper dooper CPU, you'd be after a Digital 21164...y'know, what they build Cray's out of?
From my own experience, upgrading a PC is often more expensive than buying a new one, and you don't get the satisfaction you'd derive from, say, rebuilding a '65 GTO. More like rebuilding a Playdoh jackhammer...
I think students should have to pay for any service that is not essential to their education.
Tuition should only fund educational resources, and there's nothing relevant to classwork in any field (except dissertations on thievery and copyright infringement) on a peer to peer network.
It's much more realistic to make them pay for their extracurricular activities, since they'll have to do it when they leave the school environment. They already must pay for food, telephone, books and clothing. Why should something so luxurious as bandwidth be free?
As for the alleged misuse of authority, well, those with the bucks call the shots. If you are so much against authority, why go to college in the first place? An education only prepares you to exert authority over others in the long run. You certainly don't need education to support a family; you can always steal from the authorities to do that...
Besides, think about the other side of that argument. If you don't respect the authority of the owner of a resource and the rules they provide for your use of it, why should that owner grant you the privilege of using it? Would you continue to let someone use your phone if they insisted on making two hour long distance calls and never compensating you for them?
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Trying to fix Windows is like trying to graft arms and legs onto hamburger...