Sun gives light and Apple gives....what?
The keys to the education market are inertia, low cost and inertia. Oh, and supporting those 10 year old Performas in the back room running Mac OS 7.
The lab at my kid's school has a slew of new PowerBooks and iMacs, all running OS 9, for the foreseeable future. To get them off of OS 9, (or Apple in general) and onto Linux would take a monumental training effort for the teachers, lab techs, and students. Not to mention a budgetary hit in bad budgetary times. My guess is that OS X will never grace the screens of their current crop of computers.
The only way Micros**t has wedged their way into some schools is by giving away HW, SW and most importantly, SERVICES and TRAINING to the schools who have vested interest(inertia) in Apple.
I doubt Sun really wants into this low margin market. You might say it is good to get kids hooked on your logo, but in the long run it hasn't done all that much for Apple.
This came out about the same time as the Halo 2 Trailer. It requires Windows Media Player 9 beta, showing that M$ doesn't care. Then again, Linux software is just fine, and lots of it is beta. The "beta" M$ software is the same as the "full" stuff anyway!
However, with your photo system, couldn't someone old-fashoned disguise themselves, steal a card, charge tons of money, take the disguise off, and disappear?
The Instutute claims to convert salt water into the super-antibacteria. However, I have doubts for the reason that so far as I know, nobody outside this place has seen the super-antistuff work. Plus, I really dont like drinking salt water, and is it really human-consumable? Also, I wonder if it is rendered useless by digestion or if it could reach the blood? If so, this could be the miracle medicine!
I saw one at CompUSA a while ago...It was a wireless USB webcam operating in the 2.4Ghz band(possible interference?). It had a range of about 500 feet.
I know there are reasons behind this, but it is very funny to me that DoubleClick's "Cookie Opt-Out" installs a cookie. Rejecting it gives you a error page.
I was a TA for a crushing COBOL(!) course at the university I attended in the late 70's. The course was used to weed out prospective CSci students early in the program so they didn't waste their, or other people's time. This was when I had a big 'Ah Ha' experience. The light came on when I noticed that the same people were standing in line for help in the lab over and over. The revelation was: people are different! That's right. I thought all along that ANYONE could be a programmer. It just takes a little hard work. This is wrong. There is a certain percentage of people who are NEVER EVER going to programmers no matter how much they want it, or how hard they try. Their brains are just not wired the right way.
I have two kids, ages 9 and 11. My son (11) writes code in Java, C, perl, VB and hacks Linux to death (and life). He runs our 'computer lab', handling all the networking, OS installs, ect. If I have a tough Linux or coding problem at work, I ask him for help. My daughter, who gets the same encouragement and computer access, just wants to play Zoo Tycoon and mess with GIMP all day.
The best thing you can do for these people who are trying to be programmers, but whom do not have the requisite DNA,is to ask them to honestly reevaluate their futures.
BTW, it is my honest hope that my son will burn out on computer crap before he gets to college, and will select a career in a field that utimately more rewarding and less cutthroat.
Our major communication may be invisible, but TV and radio will continue to bounce into space for a while. Also, a radio telescope would release tons of radiation on a somewhat small area. Wouldn't this be easily found by any non-earthly people? And also, if this theory is true for other alien civilations, we may never find them!
It appears that this Russian scientist has bec ame quite reclusive after he released his research. It is possible that he found that his theory is incorrect, or maybe he never really existed and this is a hoax. So far as I can see , this has only been disproved rather than proved. Why is there so much hype?
According to Merriam-Webster, here is the defination of hacker:
Main Entry: hacker
Pronunciation: 'ha-k&r
Function: noun
Date: 14th century
1 : one that hacks
2 : a person who is inexperienced or unskilled at a particular activity
3 : an expert at programming and solving problems with a computer
4 : a person who illegally gains access to and sometimes tampers with information in a computer system
So, the Slashdot title could aslo mean a law on programming, being unskilled, or coughing!
it's not very easy to access the php-nuke site when it' s down: [Mozilla]: The connection was refused when attempting to contact phpnuke.org. Or maybe it's MoThugz's link?
Very true. Not just the emergency exit was locked either! All of the doors were locked to repel investigators. Windows were also barred. If this cafe hadn't have been illegal, the door wouldn't have been locked, the cafe would not have burned down, and the cafes would not have been shut down. If it have not been a cafe, cafes would not be shut down and this would not be a story(unless they shut down all factories etc. that were not legal if it had been a factory.)
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Sun gives light and Apple gives....what? The keys to the education market are inertia, low cost and inertia. Oh, and supporting those 10 year old Performas in the back room running Mac OS 7. The lab at my kid's school has a slew of new PowerBooks and iMacs, all running OS 9, for the foreseeable future. To get them off of OS 9, (or Apple in general) and onto Linux would take a monumental training effort for the teachers, lab techs, and students. Not to mention a budgetary hit in bad budgetary times. My guess is that OS X will never grace the screens of their current crop of computers. The only way Micros**t has wedged their way into some schools is by giving away HW, SW and most importantly, SERVICES and TRAINING to the schools who have vested interest(inertia) in Apple. I doubt Sun really wants into this low margin market. You might say it is good to get kids hooked on your logo, but in the long run it hasn't done all that much for Apple.
This came out about the same time as the Halo 2 Trailer. It requires Windows Media Player 9 beta, showing that M$ doesn't care. Then again, Linux software is just fine, and lots of it is beta. The "beta" M$ software is the same as the "full" stuff anyway!
However, with your photo system, couldn't someone old-fashoned disguise themselves, steal a card, charge tons of money, take the disguise off, and disappear?
The Instutute claims to convert salt water into the super-antibacteria. However, I have doubts for the reason that so far as I know, nobody outside this place has seen the super-antistuff work. Plus, I really dont like drinking salt water, and is it really human-consumable? Also, I wonder if it is rendered useless by digestion or if it could reach the blood? If so, this could be the miracle medicine!
I saw one at CompUSA a while ago...It was a wireless USB webcam operating in the 2.4Ghz band(possible interference?). It had a range of about 500 feet.
I know there are reasons behind this, but it is very funny to me that DoubleClick's "Cookie Opt-Out" installs a cookie. Rejecting it gives you a error page.
I was a TA for a crushing COBOL(!) course at the university I attended in the late 70's. The course was used to weed out prospective CSci students early in the program so they didn't waste their, or other people's time. This was when I had a big 'Ah Ha' experience. The light came on when I noticed that the same people were standing in line for help in the lab over and over. The revelation was: people are different! That's right. I thought all along that ANYONE could be a programmer. It just takes a little hard work. This is wrong. There is a certain percentage of people who are NEVER EVER going to programmers no matter how much they want it, or how hard they try. Their brains are just not wired the right way. I have two kids, ages 9 and 11. My son (11) writes code in Java, C, perl, VB and hacks Linux to death (and life). He runs our 'computer lab', handling all the networking, OS installs, ect. If I have a tough Linux or coding problem at work, I ask him for help. My daughter, who gets the same encouragement and computer access, just wants to play Zoo Tycoon and mess with GIMP all day. The best thing you can do for these people who are trying to be programmers, but whom do not have the requisite DNA,is to ask them to honestly reevaluate their futures. BTW, it is my honest hope that my son will burn out on computer crap before he gets to college, and will select a career in a field that utimately more rewarding and less cutthroat.
Our major communication may be invisible, but TV and radio will continue to bounce into space for a while. Also, a radio telescope would release tons of radiation on a somewhat small area. Wouldn't this be easily found by any non-earthly people? And also, if this theory is true for other alien civilations, we may never find them!
It appears that this Russian scientist has bec ame quite reclusive after he released his research. It is possible that he found that his theory is incorrect, or maybe he never really existed and this is a hoax. So far as I can see , this has only been disproved rather than proved. Why is there so much hype?
According to Merriam-Webster, here is the defination of hacker: Main Entry: hacker Pronunciation: 'ha-k&r Function: noun Date: 14th century 1 : one that hacks 2 : a person who is inexperienced or unskilled at a particular activity 3 : an expert at programming and solving problems with a computer 4 : a person who illegally gains access to and sometimes tampers with information in a computer system So, the Slashdot title could aslo mean a law on programming, being unskilled, or coughing!
Hurry over and get it /. the FreeCiv site 'til you can't.
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it's not very easy to access the php-nuke site when it' s down: [Mozilla]: The connection was refused when attempting to contact phpnuke.org. Or maybe it's MoThugz's link?
Very true. Not just the emergency exit was locked either! All of the doors were locked to repel investigators. Windows were also barred. If this cafe hadn't have been illegal, the door wouldn't have been locked, the cafe would not have burned down, and the cafes would not have been shut down. If it have not been a cafe, cafes would not be shut down and this would not be a story(unless they shut down all factories etc. that were not legal if it had been a factory.)
Says who Blizzard does not make software that runs on Linux? They may not know it, but Starcraft runs fine on Wine!:-)