In Florida there is a "full tutition" program for pretty much all in state students who want it. For those that don't qualify for that the state pays for 3/4 of the educational cost for in state students. However, this money doesn't cover living expenses, books, and booze.
The major problem with this situation is that creditors spend the next four years trying to get you to rack up debt via credit cards and student loans. I have a couple of friends with $30k+ debt and one with $70k+ debt.
On the flip side, my wife and I went to an "expensive" private school (with need-blind) admission and finished up with less than $10k of debt between us. I think the major difference was that the school we went to was "residential" (all students lived on campus). This had two big effects. First, there wasn't any pressure to spend a bunch of money to get a fancy appartment or goto fancy restraunts. Second, since housing was required, it could be included in finacial aid. Dartmouth (and some others now) have done a similar trick with computers. By requiring everyone to have them, computers for Dartmouth students are covered by their financial aid.
Right now, for Open Source Software, I can pay $0 and get developer status and pre-release versions of multiple OS's (including server) and a plethora of programs, and buying non-apple hardware gets me more than a 15% discount.
Don't forget that you used to have to register all applications with apple in order to get a unique program identification number. When they were doing this there were particularly bad about extorting money from their developers and kept very close reigns on all technical information about their API. I beleive the artificially constructed hurtles agains program development were what actually killed their development community, not the dominance of Windows (home/desktop) or *NIX (server/workstation).
Basically, IMO Apple is and always has been just as anti-competative as Microsoft, but they have not been in a monopoly position and therefore have not been subject to the same rules, and I won't buy one for the same reason I won't buy a copy of windows (or run windows for that matter). With the exception of video games all of my computing needs can be done for less money, and more efficiently, using truely free software.
I have to agree with this. With the possible exception of some children's stuff DVDs now cost substantially less than VHS tapes with the same programming (anime in particular). On top of that they have better archival properties, are easier to store, contain additional material, and offer the same benefits over VHS tapes as CDs did to audio tapes (instant FF and RW).
There are also additional things that DVDs can do that VHS tapes simply cannot. Unfortunately, these are primarially used in instructional/exercise programs. For example, my wife and I use some yoga DVDs which allow you to sellect different workouts, and then string together a bunch of different segments to produce our workout. VHS tapes simply cannot do this.
However, For the subject at hand. It is difficult to imagine what additional content/bonuses the next audio medium will have to include to get people to switch. With MP3/OGG technology we can already pack nearly infinite amounts of music into small devices, have instant FF and RW, and can syncronize multiple devices (home stereo, portable player, work computer...) without loss of quality. However, there are protections which will be nessasary for the music industry to continue as is (which I don't really want to see happen). Ergo, whatever the new technology is will contain DRM, possibly through a proprietary jack/plug, to prevent people from extracting the musics' data file directly. This is likely the easiest solution for the music industry since they could persecute anyone selling/manufacturing these plugs in unapproved devices (via patent law). However, at best this will result in one analogue copy followed by an infinite number of digital copies. Maybe not even that (thanks to vsound).
I think that this is actually the point of the IBM supenas (spelling?). They are trying to determine if they can sue anyone beyond just SCO for damages caused by the lawsuit. If I were an institutional investor and heard that IBM was going about this I would stay far, far away from SCO stock. Otherwise, I might be the "deep pocket" IBM, redhat, Novell/SUSE,... gets money from.
Actually a nicotene laced tomato plant may not be such a bad thing. The original use for tabaco/nicotene was actually as a pestacide. Perhaps the tomaco would be naturally insect resistant (and since it isn't a GMO would be acceptable for export to the EU, according to the article it was the result of a tomato plant spliced onto tabaco roots).
I'm not sure exactly which model of DVD burner it was, but my boss was an early adaptor of the DVD-R technology and had a x2 drive fairly early on. When x4 drives started coming out he discovered that if you put a x4 disk in his x2 drive it fried the drive. That's right, a blank disk.
BTW, he isn't a luddite, he has been writing computer programs/designing electronics for longer than most of the/. community has been alive.
There are a couple additional reasons not to send Word documents to external sources. First, edits made to the documents are saved in the document. This could potentially damage your barganing possition when your potental purchaser/seller notices who else you have sent the same document to, or that you had trouble making up your mind about the final price. Second, not everyone can accept word documents. I have sent e-mails back to businesses that have submitted bids requesting PDF documents when I have received Word documents. I have also had to ask family members to re-send e-mails and slide shows in non-proprietary formats. Finally, Word and other MS Office documents do not appear the same on every computer, even if they are running the same version of Word. For example, if the installed fonts on the two computers differ, the document will either look very different, or be unreadable on the recipients machine. In short, it doesn't make much sense to send documents to your family, or to business partners in MS Office formats, especially Word.
The shell is a program. Besides, Emacs also doesn't use ctrl + c for copy, and copying and pasting can be done between xwindows using the middle mouse button. I don't think that using vi or emacs I've ever needed keystroke based copy selection.
Are you suggesting that programmers should only program for the majority of people, and tell the minority to fsck off?
Perhaps, there should be a cheap product for the majority, with high cost products for the minority? Once the Minority gets too small, perhaps they should have to write the apps themselves? One of the problems with "bloatware", of which both Open Office and MS Office are good examples, is that single large programs that do everything (including rarely used features), constantly get larger, more expensive, and more difficult to maintain.
Perhaps programs like vi or emacs, which also do a lot of stuff (perhaps more than MS Office), would be a good model for future wordprocessing/spreadsheet/checkbook/presentation software. Load a simple interface (it could still be graphical), but only load the other junk as it is needed.
IMO (Nothing humble about it) emacs + Latex is the best combination for making professional looking documents, especially long ones (>50 pages) and ones with non-standard formats (posters, pamphlets, etc.). Adobe's products run a close second.
Don't you mean that Apple was a viable compeditor to Microsoft?
In the early 80's they had a much larger market share, and as far as I can tell it has been shrinking ever since. That said, Apple has recently done some very inovative things and seem to be on the leading edge of the next entertainment "killer app", Itunes + Ipod. Now, if only they would release it for GNU/Linux instead of relying on community based support.
Besides, it is against MS's best interests to completely kill of Apple (that's why the invested, what was it, 150 million dollars in Apple in the late 1990's). For a long time, MS Office was the only office suite avalible to Macintosh users, causing the bizar phenomina that MS made more off the sale of an Macintosh than Apple did. This still may be the case.
Doesn't SCO need to protect it's intellectual property by enforcing it's copyrights? Not being a lawyer, I was always under the assumption that if you do not actively persue all known copyright violators then you defacto wave your copyright.
The G5 is a server/minicomputer class chip. IBM has been using them for high-end machines. The only difference with Apple's version is the packaging.
That said, the important thing to compare is the relative price of the systems. There have been several cases where various Mac-oriented magazines have trumpeted "Mac beats PC", but in the performance tests they have tested the Mac against a PC costing less than half of its value.
That said, this test is actually pretty good. From a quick search, the Alienware digital editing PCs are pretty comperably priced to the dual G5 Macs.
Another important question may be avalibility, which has definitely been an issue for all hardware manufactures in the past.
Hmm...I wonder if foobar get's its name from FUBAR? which stands for F*** Up Beyond All Releif. Not a name I'ld choose for a program (but it is a windows program).
Another issue with buying commercial windows software is the cost. For MS Office + Adobe's graphics suite you are looking at more than $1000. That is easily more than the cost of a desktop computer.
For an "occasional" user of most of this software is price prohibative, and while they may not be to everyone's liking, the free alternatives are adequate. With specific reference to the originatal branch of this discussion, there were price limitations.
Besides, for professional (or just long) documents you should really use either Latex/Tex (open source) or Adobe's Pagemaker. Both offer much more control and reproduce documents much more reliably between machines.
For research in physics the internet is definitely the way to go. Services such as Nuclear Science References and the National Nuclear Data Center make it easy to find references for particular subjects. At the same time major journals such as those published by Physical Reveiw/APS and those published by Elsiver are avalible online. If you have a subscription (or at least your university/lab does), you can frequently find articles which are not avalible in "dead tree" format. For example, Physical Reveiw has nearly (if not all) of its archives online.
One of my business flights had a group of Australian business men wearing nice suits. I guess they were all flying a 3 legged or one way trip, because all six of them (on a c. 30 passenger flight) were selected for extra scrutany. No one else was.
This was the only flight that one of my other co-workers wasn't selected for special scrutany (he had been scanned the previous 5 times).
Here is a more important legal question. Can non-emancipated minors assume debt? I don't think so, this is why banks won't issue credit cards or loans to minors without an additional signature from an adult. Even if RIA successfully sues this girl, she won't have to and cannot be made to pay. The lawsuit against her is completely stupid.
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The major problem with this situation is that creditors spend the next four years trying to get you to rack up debt via credit cards and student loans. I have a couple of friends with $30k+ debt and one with $70k+ debt.
On the flip side, my wife and I went to an "expensive" private school (with need-blind) admission and finished up with less than $10k of debt between us. I think the major difference was that the school we went to was "residential" (all students lived on campus). This had two big effects. First, there wasn't any pressure to spend a bunch of money to get a fancy appartment or goto fancy restraunts. Second, since housing was required, it could be included in finacial aid. Dartmouth (and some others now) have done a similar trick with computers. By requiring everyone to have them, computers for Dartmouth students are covered by their financial aid.
Maybe someone just posted a link to their website on slasdot?
Right now, for Open Source Software, I can pay $0 and get developer status and pre-release versions of multiple OS's (including server) and a plethora of programs, and buying non-apple hardware gets me more than a 15% discount.
Ummm...And you don't think IBM has more Lawyers than SCO has employees?
Don't know about that, but my wife has to use it on a 500Mhz PIII at her office. That isn't much faster than a PII.
However, various flavors of *NIX will run on much older hardware, and since Apple is supposedly reaping the benefits of OSS...
Basically, IMO Apple is and always has been just as anti-competative as Microsoft, but they have not been in a monopoly position and therefore have not been subject to the same rules, and I won't buy one for the same reason I won't buy a copy of windows (or run windows for that matter). With the exception of video games all of my computing needs can be done for less money, and more efficiently, using truely free software.
There are also additional things that DVDs can do that VHS tapes simply cannot. Unfortunately, these are primarially used in instructional/exercise programs. For example, my wife and I use some yoga DVDs which allow you to sellect different workouts, and then string together a bunch of different segments to produce our workout. VHS tapes simply cannot do this.
However, For the subject at hand. It is difficult to imagine what additional content/bonuses the next audio medium will have to include to get people to switch. With MP3/OGG technology we can already pack nearly infinite amounts of music into small devices, have instant FF and RW, and can syncronize multiple devices (home stereo, portable player, work computer...) without loss of quality. However, there are protections which will be nessasary for the music industry to continue as is (which I don't really want to see happen). Ergo, whatever the new technology is will contain DRM, possibly through a proprietary jack/plug, to prevent people from extracting the musics' data file directly. This is likely the easiest solution for the music industry since they could persecute anyone selling/manufacturing these plugs in unapproved devices (via patent law). However, at best this will result in one analogue copy followed by an infinite number of digital copies. Maybe not even that (thanks to vsound).
I think that this is actually the point of the IBM supenas (spelling?). They are trying to determine if they can sue anyone beyond just SCO for damages caused by the lawsuit. If I were an institutional investor and heard that IBM was going about this I would stay far, far away from SCO stock. Otherwise, I might be the "deep pocket" IBM, redhat, Novell/SUSE,... gets money from.
Actually a nicotene laced tomato plant may not be such a bad thing. The original use for tabaco/nicotene was actually as a pestacide. Perhaps the tomaco would be naturally insect resistant (and since it isn't a GMO would be acceptable for export to the EU, according to the article it was the result of a tomato plant spliced onto tabaco roots).
BTW, he isn't a luddite, he has been writing computer programs/designing electronics for longer than most of the /. community has been alive.
There are a couple additional reasons not to send Word documents to external sources. First, edits made to the documents are saved in the document. This could potentially damage your barganing possition when your potental purchaser/seller notices who else you have sent the same document to, or that you had trouble making up your mind about the final price. Second, not everyone can accept word documents. I have sent e-mails back to businesses that have submitted bids requesting PDF documents when I have received Word documents. I have also had to ask family members to re-send e-mails and slide shows in non-proprietary formats. Finally, Word and other MS Office documents do not appear the same on every computer, even if they are running the same version of Word. For example, if the installed fonts on the two computers differ, the document will either look very different, or be unreadable on the recipients machine. In short, it doesn't make much sense to send documents to your family, or to business partners in MS Office formats, especially Word.
Ummm...It doesn't run on GNU/Linux or any of the other *NIX variants?
The shell is a program. Besides, Emacs also doesn't use ctrl + c for copy, and copying and pasting can be done between xwindows using the middle mouse button. I don't think that using vi or emacs I've ever needed keystroke based copy selection.
Perhaps, there should be a cheap product for the majority, with high cost products for the minority? Once the Minority gets too small, perhaps they should have to write the apps themselves? One of the problems with "bloatware", of which both Open Office and MS Office are good examples, is that single large programs that do everything (including rarely used features), constantly get larger, more expensive, and more difficult to maintain.
Perhaps programs like vi or emacs, which also do a lot of stuff (perhaps more than MS Office), would be a good model for future wordprocessing/spreadsheet/checkbook/presentation software. Load a simple interface (it could still be graphical), but only load the other junk as it is needed.
IMO (Nothing humble about it) emacs + Latex is the best combination for making professional looking documents, especially long ones (>50 pages) and ones with non-standard formats (posters, pamphlets, etc.). Adobe's products run a close second.
In the early 80's they had a much larger market share, and as far as I can tell it has been shrinking ever since. That said, Apple has recently done some very inovative things and seem to be on the leading edge of the next entertainment "killer app", Itunes + Ipod. Now, if only they would release it for GNU/Linux instead of relying on community based support.
Besides, it is against MS's best interests to completely kill of Apple (that's why the invested, what was it, 150 million dollars in Apple in the late 1990's). For a long time, MS Office was the only office suite avalible to Macintosh users, causing the bizar phenomina that MS made more off the sale of an Macintosh than Apple did. This still may be the case.
Anyone want to bet that SCO doesn't have the technical knowhow to track licenses for the entire GNU/Linux community?
Doesn't SCO need to protect it's intellectual property by enforcing it's copyrights? Not being a lawyer, I was always under the assumption that if you do not actively persue all known copyright violators then you defacto wave your copyright.
That said, the important thing to compare is the relative price of the systems. There have been several cases where various Mac-oriented magazines have trumpeted "Mac beats PC", but in the performance tests they have tested the Mac against a PC costing less than half of its value. That said, this test is actually pretty good. From a quick search, the Alienware digital editing PCs are pretty comperably priced to the dual G5 Macs.
Another important question may be avalibility, which has definitely been an issue for all hardware manufactures in the past.
Hmm...I wonder if foobar get's its name from FUBAR? which stands for F*** Up Beyond All Releif. Not a name I'ld choose for a program (but it is a windows program).
For an "occasional" user of most of this software is price prohibative, and while they may not be to everyone's liking, the free alternatives are adequate. With specific reference to the originatal branch of this discussion, there were price limitations.
Besides, for professional (or just long) documents you should really use either Latex/Tex (open source) or Adobe's Pagemaker. Both offer much more control and reproduce documents much more reliably between machines.
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For research in physics the internet is definitely the way to go. Services such as Nuclear Science References and the National Nuclear Data Center make it easy to find references for particular subjects. At the same time major journals such as those published by Physical Reveiw/APS and those published by Elsiver are avalible online. If you have a subscription (or at least your university/lab does), you can frequently find articles which are not avalible in "dead tree" format. For example, Physical Reveiw has nearly (if not all) of its archives online.
This was the only flight that one of my other co-workers wasn't selected for special scrutany (he had been scanned the previous 5 times).
Here is a more important legal question. Can non-emancipated minors assume debt? I don't think so, this is why banks won't issue credit cards or loans to minors without an additional signature from an adult. Even if RIA successfully sues this girl, she won't have to and cannot be made to pay. The lawsuit against her is completely stupid.
As is Gnome.org. However, there are links to its mirrors.