The girl that originally put this question to me was moving from UNIX sysadminning to teaching the Alexander Method. Look it up on Google if you don't know it already.
I asked my Mum, and a few months later she'd sold the school she was running and retired. So she really *has* stopped working for money. Now, I always thought she'd keep working until she keeled over.
The answer to that question, if truthful rather than flippant, can be life changing for the person who's answering. Which is cool. Plus, I wanted to get an article on \.:-)
Yup, I work at a British University who are changing (under duress) from UNIX/WinNT to Win2000. We're currently updating the desktop build that'll be rolled out to 2,000 odd PCs next summer. I've suggested that we should run the Win2000 SP3 EULA past our legal people after reading lots of discussion about it recently.
I was looking for the cost of an external firewire hard drive, and tried www.google.co.uk. Restricting the search to UK sites, I tried a few of the results. All the sponsored links quoted in dollars, but all the normal links quoted in pounds. What's that all about?:-)
I provide PC Support at Brunel's Uxbridge campus. Costas moved to my campus last week. I checked his PC myself to make sure it was mounting the network in his new office. Small world!
I read the article, and immediately thought of http://www.liftshare.com. At that site you can register your journey on a database, and find if anyone near you can give you a lift. Also http://www.friendsreunited.co.uk/, where you can register your schools and workplaces, to find people you met but have lost contact with.
Surely these are examples of "new instruments that will reveal biological and cultural patterns our senses cannot apprehend"?
The University where I work used to run the largest MUD in the UK. Then the MUDders asked the Director of the Computer Centre if they could have their own machine to run it on. Having now been officially notified of the MUDs existence, the Director had to close it down, bringing it in line with our 'no games' policy.
I think that policy is a shame. It's true a lot of students spent hours using public workstations to play games, denying other users access for their coursework. However, IMHO anything you use a computer for teaches you something about using that computer. Now, the games software market is pretty big these days, so that's an area we might place interested graduates.
The issues discussed in "It's all Human Nature" are generally referred to as "The Tragedy of the Commons". Google that phrase and you get lots of similar treatise.
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Another distributed computing project, looking for a cure for cancer by chatacterising therapeutic targets and assessing drug candidates.
I've already clocked up more than 8 1/2 years CPU time on that one :-)
I hope we don't stand for it.
Threatened, yeah. I've certainly seem him sweating profusely on occasion. :-)
I asked my Mum, and a few months later she'd sold the school she was running and retired. So she really *has* stopped working for money. Now, I always thought she'd keep working until she keeled over.
The answer to that question, if truthful rather than flippant, can be life changing for the person who's answering. Which is cool. Plus, I wanted to get an article on \. :-)
Yup, I work at a British University who are changing (under duress) from UNIX/WinNT to Win2000. We're currently updating the desktop build that'll be rolled out to 2,000 odd PCs next summer. I've suggested that we should run the Win2000 SP3 EULA past our legal people after reading lots of discussion about it recently.
Say, that's a nice canopy.
I was looking for the cost of an external firewire hard drive, and tried www.google.co.uk. Restricting the search to UK sites, I tried a few of the results. All the sponsored links quoted in dollars, but all the normal links quoted in pounds. What's that all about? :-)
... but I want a robot to schmooze for me. "Talk to the Robot, cos the face isn't listening."
I provide PC Support at Brunel's Uxbridge campus. Costas moved to my campus last week. I checked his PC myself to make sure it was mounting the network in his new office. Small world!
Me no TV too, for about the last 7 years. I still get my fix of Simpsons, Futurama, South Park, etc via good old broadband internet. Sweeet :-)
Surely these are examples of "new instruments that will reveal biological and cultural patterns our senses cannot apprehend"?
I think that policy is a shame. It's true a lot of students spent hours using public workstations to play games, denying other users access for their coursework. However, IMHO anything you use a computer for teaches you something about using that computer. Now, the games software market is pretty big these days, so that's an area we might place interested graduates.
The issues discussed in "It's all Human Nature" are generally referred to as "The Tragedy of the Commons". Google that phrase and you get lots of similar treatise.
"Jar Jar Binks makes the Ewoks look like fucking Shaft" Tim Bisley, Spaced 2. :-)
Other islands are more streamlined, like Egg fr'instance?
Seen this? http://www.project-insomnia.com/grokster.html