Yea, cause we all have nothing better to do than boxing up grits, sending them across the country (is there a grit rate, or do you have to go UPS?), and imagining how funny it was when someone opened it...
Yea, I agree. What about the ICQ logs? There are way too many and they are way too long to fake, and they all contain spammerish type conversations. Think it's real.
I worked at the University of Oklahoma for 3 years for the organization in charge of maintaining the wireless network for the laptop program we have there. Basically, all incoming students to the college of engineering must buy a laptop to meet that year's standards. Personally, I have a problem with the program...
Many students end up dropping out of the COE and are stuck with a $4000.00 laptop they won't use. Also, many of the professors are having trouble trying to figure out what to do with the laptops in a classroom enviroment. They have to lecture so the students will learn the concepts, so why do they need to bring their computers? Most of them end up typing email and surfing the net durring class. And it also presents a support nightmare... Students came in all the time after trying to install Linux or Solaris onto their laptops... Some spilt pop on them, some got viruses, etc... You can hardly blame them for the first one, it's their computer. But it becomes very hard to keep a standard, and it becomes even harder to support all the variations of problems that come up.
I think it's a good idea who's time hasn't come yet. Bring the books to class, and leave the computer at home!
Amen brother- Pay the 15 bucks if you like the dern movie and stop your whining ya big baby! -capt.
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Yea... I thought it was a pretty good movie, but not nearly as good as I had hoped. Too many holes. I entertained the thought that perhaps the witch was screwing up their direction so they would stay lost, but they didn't even try to follow the stream! Remember them talking about trying east since south didn't work? What a bunch of idiots. They should have just left the stream out of the movie if they were going to do that. Also, did anyone notice the electric wire and Light switch in the part of the wall that was knocked out? How old is this house supposed to be? It was a typical light switch, not even one of those old time push button ones! Hmmm, does the blair witch have solar power? -capt.
Does anyone else recognize the similarity between curing AIDS and Windows? Why does he want to spend so much money to fix something that can be prevented? Aside from those who got it via blood transfusions etc. (I imagine a small number these days) AIDS proliferates because of stupidity in the form of unsafe sex and drug abuse yada yada yada... So It is just like building a workaround in your code rather than fixing the cause. I mean, this is probobly the meat and bones on W2K afterall.
So why not spend valuable research time and money on something that kills so many more people a year (no... not Windows) like Cancer. You don't have to be stupid to get it, you just get it.
Ok, assuming that these little suckers come out in 10 years. What would it be good for besides whatever movie formats the future holds (3D/Holographic/etc). Even at the rate M$ is going, I doubt even they will be able to produce bloated software that would not waste any space on these things. Maybe it'd be useful if we could write to them but how long till that's possible (20 years?!??!).
It'd be a waste of money to make them the size of a CD/DVD because almost no one would be able fill even a penny sized one. What do yuo think?
***But could you imagine all episodes of every Star-Trek ever made on 1 disk?
Congratulations, but while there may be a rare exception (apparently you out of your entire high school) most people who leave college do not have the drive to teach themselves. That's why they dropped out. I know I hardly learned a thing from listening to professors all day, most of what I know came from books and experimentation. So I wouldn't really call that spoon feeding. So congratulations on your ability and your successes but I don't think that fortune is shared by most people who leave college.
I agree. I am 22 and just entering the "real world." Working at IBM for the summer I realize that the "older" programmers know a LOT more than the young coders. I look to them as role models. Those "drop outs" mentioned some posts previous to this one think they know a lot more than they do I'm afraid. If I were management, I wouldn't hire someone without a degree (except for internships etc.)
In regard to the comment about Universities joining the crusade to stop Mp3 usage by students...
My school (University of Oklahoma) apparently joined. Everyone got an email which basically said (in about 500 words or so) don't download Mp3s using school property.. That was the last anyone ever heard about it.
It hasn't made much of a dent though, about a month ago I found the Phantom Menace soundtrack and about 12 gigs of other serving off a university machine! Not to mention the movie itself. Makes you really hate your modem.
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Yea, I was expecting him to say, "I cannot tell you what Linux is, but it is all around us..."
-capt.
Yea, cause we all have nothing better to do than boxing up grits, sending them across the country (is there a grit rate, or do you have to go UPS?), and imagining how funny it was when someone opened it...
-capt.
Yea, I agree. What about the ICQ logs? There are way too many and they are way too long to fake, and they all contain spammerish type conversations. Think it's real.
-capt.
I worked at the University of Oklahoma for 3 years for the organization in charge of maintaining the wireless network for the laptop program we have there. Basically, all incoming students to the college of engineering must buy a laptop to meet that year's standards. Personally, I have a problem with the program...
Many students end up dropping out of the COE and are stuck with a $4000.00 laptop they won't use. Also, many of the professors are having trouble trying to figure out what to do with the laptops in a classroom enviroment. They have to lecture so the students will learn the concepts, so why do they need to bring their computers? Most of them end up typing email and surfing the net durring class. And it also presents a support nightmare... Students came in all the time after trying to install Linux or Solaris onto their laptops... Some spilt pop on them, some got viruses, etc... You can hardly blame them for the first one, it's their computer. But it becomes very hard to keep a standard, and it becomes even harder to support all the variations of problems that come up.
I think it's a good idea who's time hasn't come yet. Bring the books to class, and leave the computer at home!
-capt.
Amen brother- Pay the 15 bucks if you like the dern movie and stop your whining ya big baby! -capt.
Yea... I thought it was a pretty good movie, but not nearly as good as I had hoped. Too many holes. I entertained the thought that perhaps the witch was screwing up their direction so they would stay lost, but they didn't even try to follow the stream! Remember them talking about trying east since south didn't work? What a bunch of idiots. They should have just left the stream out of the movie if they were going to do that. Also, did anyone notice the electric wire and Light switch in the part of the wall that was knocked out? How old is this house supposed to be? It was a typical light switch, not even one of those old time push button ones! Hmmm, does the blair witch have solar power? -capt.
Aren't there a lot of conspiracy theorists in here today?
-capt.
Does anyone else recognize the similarity between curing AIDS and Windows? Why does he want to spend so much money to fix something that can be prevented? Aside from those who got it via blood transfusions etc. (I imagine a small number these days) AIDS proliferates because of stupidity in the form of unsafe sex and drug abuse yada yada yada... So It is just like building a workaround in your code rather than fixing the cause. I mean, this is probobly the meat and bones on W2K afterall.
So why not spend valuable research time and money on something that kills so many more people a year (no... not Windows) like Cancer. You don't have to be stupid to get it, you just get it.
What do you think?
-capt.
Ok, assuming that these little suckers come out in 10 years. What would it be good for besides whatever movie formats the future holds (3D/Holographic/etc). Even at the rate M$ is going, I doubt even they will be able to produce bloated software that would not waste any space on these things. Maybe it'd be useful if we could write to them but how long till that's possible (20 years?!??!).
It'd be a waste of money to make them the size of a CD/DVD because almost no one would be able fill even a penny sized one. What do yuo think?
***But could you imagine all episodes of every Star-Trek ever made on 1 disk?
-capt.
Congratulations, but while there may be a rare exception (apparently you out of your entire high school) most people who leave college do not have the drive to teach themselves. That's why they dropped out. I know I hardly learned a thing from listening to professors all day, most of what I know came from books and experimentation. So I wouldn't really call that spoon feeding. So congratulations on your ability and your successes but I don't think that fortune is shared by most people who leave college.
-capt.
Here's one more from IBM itself. This ones a lot more detailed.
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http://www.storage.ibm.com/press/disk/990726.ht
-capt.
Here's an article with a little more information:
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http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153
-capt.
I agree. I am 22 and just entering the "real world." Working at IBM for the summer I realize that the "older" programmers know a LOT more than the young coders. I look to them as role models. Those "drop outs" mentioned some posts previous to this one think they know a lot more than they do I'm afraid. If I were management, I wouldn't hire someone without a degree (except for internships etc.)
capt.
In regard to the comment about Universities joining the crusade to stop Mp3 usage by students...
My school (University of Oklahoma) apparently joined. Everyone got an email which basically said (in about 500 words or so) don't download Mp3s using school property.. That was the last anyone ever heard about it.
It hasn't made much of a dent though, about a month ago I found the Phantom Menace soundtrack and about 12 gigs of other serving off a university machine! Not to mention the movie itself. Makes you really hate your modem.
capt.