Except the iOpener was $100 (plus monthly subscription) and a "cheap" Dell at the time was still over $1000... and the iOpener was extremely useful, esp. once the hardware hacks were documented.
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The customers of K-Mart Sears are no longer the people buying products in stores and use the Sears website; the new customer is the stockholder.
This is true of any publicly traded company. How or what that company does to produce max profits for its shareholders is a different matter...
Strange, as an adjunct and the only instructor for the class (intro to linux) I decided the book sucked (FC2 specific...), hit the Orieley website, picked a couple of books, and had free desk copies in a few days, and a order form for our bookstore filled out shortly thereafter....
Yup, just like the hardware compatability checker that came with NT4. Make a few floppies, boot, run the tool, take the report, and maybe go shopping for new hardware wtih the HWCL from MS.
And of course, if OS X ran on (some) commodity hardware, people wouldn't complain about having to use a supported hardware shopping list...
They are, its called NCIC, and no, you can't access it - LEO only, etc. However, the database in question is publicly available, but is not a complete listing of all persons convicted of a crime.
Strange, all the non-md folks I knew 20 years ago and know now that have a copy of the PDR all use it to research just what exactly their "buddy" has for $4 each or $3 each in bulk...
Of course, replace phone booths wiht a nice soundproof booth that has a quick charger, and maybe a reception booster of some sort, etc. and a seat. Still pay for booth time, but you get a quick charge of your cell battery and better reception, as well as some privacy and the ability to hear your conversation....
For your #3, if you are speaking about the 2nd Amendment, remember that it is not there for self defense, hunting, etc. It is there so that the People can over throw a tyrranical government.
It would be interesting to see a "green" angle on this... think of all the PCs that get thrown away (legal or not!) because they can no longer run the latest version of Windows. (Of course, these PCs would still have years to go running linux for firewalls, servers, etc).
Or because they are so full of malware/spyware/adware/etc. that they are "too slow" and it is cheaper to spend $300 on a new computer than "fix" the "old" one.
I keep a few friends and one local business (again, owned by a long time friend) in year old PCs by just grabbing relatively new Dells from the dump... wipe the drive (typically full of spyware/viruses/etc) and put on Ubuntu and htey are happy...
(for those wondering, local county dump stacks computers and monitors under the shed where the used oil containers, half empty paint cans, and flourescent bulbs are kept until they are picked up for "processing". takes about 2 minutes for me to drop off my trash, park, get out, grab a box or two, and hop back in the van. occasionally i get a bad one, but when that happens it just goes back to the stack I got it from)
A linux box that boots to X and simply starts a VMWare "machine" would do in this case, and you don't have to worry about unsupported hardware, finding drivers, etc.
In fact, one of my students set up something similar for training in a hospital - the software for docs and nurses were incompatable with eachother, and the software for pharmacy was incompatable with *everything*, so their project took a basic Linux install + X + VMWare - boot, pick a training program, and the appropriate windows "machine" booted to use....
Right. But at the same time, the rights of the customer have to be considered.
Should I be allowed to make a backup copy of the latest Disney Princess movie so my daughter can put it in the DVD player herself, and I don't have to worry about replacing the original copy after it gets scratched/broken beyond the point of being able to be viewed? Should I be allowed to watch that same movie on my Linux laptop while traveling with her in a plane?
I don't mind not being able to make a copy of the movie - as long as Disney (or distributor/vendor/whoever) was legally obligated to give me replacement media for a minimal cost ($5 or so should cover making a DVD and mailing it...)...
Fl. Lottery used to print which machine would be used for a particular drawing, and old drawing numbers - with machine that was used - in a nice column format (probably real easy to rip out of a web page, etc).
Now I'm not a math guy, but I *know* that all 50whatever balls aren't identical. Should there be some (very) slight preference for a particular ball, or set of balls, over a series of draws over time? I seem to remember an article in a Dragon magazine about dice and using math to find out if yours had a preference for a particular number...
Shame about that. I mean, I've got 4 computers that I use at home for various things, and if I could buy a legal working copy of OS X to run on 'em, I would in a heartbeat. Even at say $200/copy, with the same support I'd get from Microsoft if I were running Windows (read that as "none")....
The "right way" would be to actually teach basic concepts and skills, and it shouldn't matter what software you use. Under File you always have save, open, new, quit, print, under Edit you always have cut copy paste, etc. Need to make it bold? Look for a formatting menu, etc.
However, based on my experience working at a community college, the cry is " employers can only buy office 2007 now, so thats what they want our grads to know"...
MS gives you cheap licenses for Campus licensing, *and* they sell their stuff to your students in IT programs at very low cost - copy of XP and Visual Studio for $10 or so, etc.
"Teach nothign but MS, and your graduates will know nothing but MS, which means that when they get real jobs they will work only with MS stuff..."
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Only if the user can afford to...
Cheap Dell laptop ($600) + Ubuntu
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Cheapest Mac laptop - $1100...
The sharks, ceolocanths, and 'gaters may beg to differ with ya...
Except the iOpener was $100 (plus monthly subscription) and a "cheap" Dell at the time was still over $1000... and the iOpener was extremely useful, esp. once the hardware hacks were documented.
The customers of K-Mart Sears are no longer the people buying products in stores and use the Sears website; the new customer is the stockholder.
This is true of any publicly traded company. How or what that company does to produce max profits for its shareholders is a different matter...
Strange, as an adjunct and the only instructor for the class (intro to linux) I decided the book sucked (FC2 specific...), hit the Orieley website, picked a couple of books, and had free desk copies in a few days, and a order form for our bookstore filled out shortly thereafter....
Yup, just like the hardware compatability checker that came with NT4. Make a few floppies, boot, run the tool, take the report, and maybe go shopping for new hardware wtih the HWCL from MS.
And of course, if OS X ran on (some) commodity hardware, people wouldn't complain about having to use a supported hardware shopping list...
Did the same in Quake2 - the female models were just a tad smaller *looking* so they were harder to see...
They are, its called NCIC, and no, you can't access it - LEO only, etc. However, the database in question is publicly available, but is not a complete listing of all persons convicted of a crime.
Of course if MS really cared about the edu software, etc. to run on it, they could just help out the Wine project a little...
Strange, all the non-md folks I knew 20 years ago and know now that have a copy of the PDR all use it to research just what exactly their "buddy" has for $4 each or $3 each in bulk...
Of course, replace phone booths wiht a nice soundproof booth that has a quick charger, and maybe a reception booster of some sort, etc. and a seat. Still pay for booth time, but you get a quick charge of your cell battery and better reception, as well as some privacy and the ability to hear your conversation....
I've got both my original opened CP/M setup for a C64 and an unopened one here on the shelf in my office... shall I put them on ebay for you?
For your #3, if you are speaking about the 2nd Amendment, remember that it is not there for self defense, hunting, etc. It is there so that the People can over throw a tyrranical government.
OK, but when has that happened? As recently at 1946 in Tennessee... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Athens
How did you get your bosses to agree to replacing *users* ?
Newsletter please, kthanks..
Its not Free or Open, and far from free, but Steltor/Oracle's Corporate Time is at least available on Mac, Linux, and Windows and works well....
It would be interesting to see a "green" angle on this ... think of all the PCs that get thrown away (legal or not!) because they can no longer run the latest version of Windows. (Of course, these PCs would still have years to go running linux for firewalls, servers, etc).
Or because they are so full of malware/spyware/adware/etc. that they are "too slow" and it is cheaper to spend $300 on a new computer than "fix" the "old" one.
I keep a few friends and one local business (again, owned by a long time friend) in year old PCs by just grabbing relatively new Dells from the dump... wipe the drive (typically full of spyware/viruses/etc) and put on Ubuntu and htey are happy...
(for those wondering, local county dump stacks computers and monitors under the shed where the used oil containers, half empty paint cans, and flourescent bulbs are kept until they are picked up for "processing". takes about 2 minutes for me to drop off my trash, park, get out, grab a box or two, and hop back in the van. occasionally i get a bad one, but when that happens it just goes back to the stack I got it from)
And *never* get involved in a land war in Asia....
Already done - http://richard.jones.name/google-hacks/gmail-filesystem/gmail-filesystem.html
A linux box that boots to X and simply starts a VMWare "machine" would do in this case, and you don't have to worry about unsupported hardware, finding drivers, etc.
In fact, one of my students set up something similar for training in a hospital - the software for docs and nurses were incompatable with eachother, and the software for pharmacy was incompatable with *everything*, so their project took a basic Linux install + X + VMWare - boot, pick a training program, and the appropriate windows "machine" booted to use....
I'm more worried about an accident... I mean, as many of us learned to program, who hasn't accidentally created a unending loop, etc?
Right. But at the same time, the rights of the customer have to be considered.
Should I be allowed to make a backup copy of the latest Disney Princess movie so my daughter can put it in the DVD player herself, and I don't have to worry about replacing the original copy after it gets scratched/broken beyond the point of being able to be viewed? Should I be allowed to watch that same movie on my Linux laptop while traveling with her in a plane?
I don't mind not being able to make a copy of the movie - as long as Disney (or distributor/vendor/whoever) was legally obligated to give me replacement media for a minimal cost ($5 or so should cover making a DVD and mailing it...)...
Fl. Lottery used to print which machine would be used for a particular drawing, and old drawing numbers - with machine that was used - in a nice column format (probably real easy to rip out of a web page, etc).
Now I'm not a math guy, but I *know* that all 50whatever balls aren't identical. Should there be some (very) slight preference for a particular ball, or set of balls, over a series of draws over time? I seem to remember an article in a Dragon magazine about dice and using math to find out if yours had a preference for a particular number...
Shame about that. I mean, I've got 4 computers that I use at home for various things, and if I could buy a legal working copy of OS X to run on 'em, I would in a heartbeat. Even at say $200/copy, with the same support I'd get from Microsoft if I were running Windows (read that as "none")....
The "right way" would be to actually teach basic concepts and skills, and it shouldn't matter what software you use. Under File you always have save, open, new, quit, print, under Edit you always have cut copy paste, etc. Need to make it bold? Look for a formatting menu, etc.
However, based on my experience working at a community college, the cry is " employers can only buy office 2007 now, so thats what they want our grads to know"...
You left out the Academic Alliance license/setup.
MS gives you cheap licenses for Campus licensing, *and* they sell their stuff to your students in IT programs at very low cost - copy of XP and Visual Studio for $10 or so, etc.
"Teach nothign but MS, and your graduates will know nothing but MS, which means that when they get real jobs they will work only with MS stuff..."