Bull. The Bio you're talking about (like many jobs where you get to do something cool and/or that matters) is just too advanced these days for just an undergrad degree. All an undergrad degree qualifies you for, really, is monotonous work they could hire somebody with a high school education to do.
PhDs in Bio certainly make some nice dough -- even if it takes a while to get there. But so do MBAs, Drs, Lawyers, and a whole slew of other professions that require lots of schooling.
What can someone who is pre-med, business, pre-law, etc., make out of undergrad? Same as a bio student. It's not about what you make after undergrad, it's where your ultimate career trajectory takes you.
The fact of the matter is anybody who graduates undergrad and expects to be making $50k out of the gate is dreaming (unless they belong to a select few who went to a really prestigious university, choose the right profession (nurses in urban areas can make more out of the gate), or just get really lucky
The point is not that a fresh install of ME is better than a fresh install of BSD.
The point is the instability is caused in large part by the user.
Granted the OS should restrict how unstable a system should be. But if the author is comparing an OS he made crash with one supported by his local IT department (and crash free because they don't allow him to do something stupid), is it really a fair comparison?
Got a fresh install of Windows ME that you only use to play spider solitaire, and that isn't connected to the internet?
Crash free.
Got a not so fresh install of Linux / BSD / Solaris where root has done something really stupid?
Crash prone (and possibly unrecoverable if it's REALLY stupid).
Anything in between is going to be based on what you're doing.
Install the wrong drivers / kernel modules / other software that accesses hardware and you'll make any operating system crash prone.
And since you have many Linux boxen and an crash-free windows box, it's safe to assume you're a power user.
So, you don't count!
You probably know what you're doing, and don't do anything stupid.
The real test is how often does an inexperienced user's computer crash? And, if we gave the author of this article a PC with Windows on it, would it eventually crash more or less? And, since other people don't seem to have this problem, what is causing the crashes (he might be blaming Apple for the work of a bad board for example).
Out of curiosity, why couldn't the college ditch comcast and purchase bandwidth via a couple T3s and buy a couple switches? Was that ever an option? It seems really weird that a college would power their net with a Beowulf cluster of cable modems...
I had the same problem as you. Then I wrote a perl script that would execute the shell command find, and run a command to decode the MP3, and recode as ogg. Let it run all night. Problem solved!
If Apple decided tomorrow to take on Microsoft, could they:
Ramp up production 1,000% to build enough computers to meet demand?
Have that ramped up production hold up to the same standards of quality, or higher?
Release enough content to make people happy? (Remember, if you're a gamer, Halo 2 hasn't come out for Mac yet -- Joe Gamer might not like that)
Design new products to meet new market segments without compromising product integrity?
Pay for all of the above
Slow growth is probably the best way to go about it here. Apple certainly isn't losing market share. Some of the people who enter their stores for an iPod, will end up being converted to mac users. And the slow, controlled growth in market share will continue
In three years, are people really going to appreciate the fact that Microsoft decides what content can and cannot play? Probably not. Apple has a distinct advantage -- but growth is not going to happen overnight.
The prices you're quoting are ridiculously expensive though. When 250 GB hard disks are selling for $70 nobody is going to pay $200 per 16GB compact flash card, or $1,250 for a 100GB hard drive. When you start talking about laptops, where CF hard disks would be a big plus, it's still under $100 to get a hard disk that is much bigger than CF available for the price. The only reason you might choose CF over a regular hard disk for a notebook would be in order to lower your power consumption -- but if you were doing an application serious enough for that why wouldn't you just use an embedded system designed for really low consumption? People who just want to be able to work on their powerpoints for more time would be better off just using the extra money to buy a battery.
Bottom line: It's not that you can't use CF for storage, it's just too expensive per GB to do so.
This is true, but what happens if you're the first one out?
You end up waiting for your baggage to come out of the carousel. In the twenty minutes it takes for your bag to come out, everyone's already off the plane.
>> get a windows box from Dell, nuke the Windows partition (and thus lose even hardware support) and install Linux
When you get your computer serviced under Dell hardware support, you get to keep the battery and the hard disk.
They never have a chance to know what's on your hard disk unless you tell them.
But any software students use will teach them about using software, and give them basic computer skills.
Who cares if the functions in OpenOffice use a ; instead of a,, the students will learn how to use a spreadsheet.
And, at least with open software, there's the chance they may be able to learn something about how to put together software.
When I was in school, I took a computer course in Pascal. I was so excited, I wanted a copy for myself to program in on my spare time -- but it Borland Pascal cost something like $100!
I can only imagine what I would have been capable of when I graduated if I had access to gcc, or a similar high quality compiler -- for free!
Yes, small claims courts are meant for people to sue other people without lawyers.
However, corporations are only "sort of" people
They have many of the rights of people (e.g. the ability to enter into contracts, sue, and be sued), but someone has to represent them, because even though in the eyes of the law they are considered persons, they aren't really people.
That someone would be a lawyer, regardless of what state you sue them in.
There is a reason why giving someone the right to represent you in something is called a "Power of Attorney"
What if I hated Linux and switched to Windows? What if I hated Windows and decided to do something crazy and roll my own Linux? Or even decided I longed for the days of Dos and used an open source version of Dos?
My point is that Dell only knows the OS running on your computer when they shipped it out. They have no way of verifying the currently running os. And, last I checked, you can upgrade your computer's OS all you want...
I have a Dell laptop, and I'd like to point out that when you send in a broken laptop to be serviced under their complete care plan, you get to keep the hard drive and battery.
That means, they never have any idea what OS you're running.
So, currently, even if the laws of physics do change while running Linux, Dell has no way to know what OS you're currently running.
They don't want to pay royalties to the companies that own the proprietary codecs. Although it's free for a home user to use some of these codecs, you need to pay $$$ to distribute others in software form. So, for instance, for if you want to play MPEG under linux, technically you should be downloading / paying for MPEG TV (http://www.mpegtv.com/download.html). That's also why it's standard for SuSe, Mandrake, Red Hat, etc., not to include proprietary codecs in the default install of the free versions (unless you download from a server (e.g. Penguin Liberation Front) from a country that doesn't have copyright nazis). And in the case of playing DVDs, FAIK the MPAA won't allow it...
I believe even Slackware doesn't include many codecs in it's default install for this reason.
So it's not about just adding a package to the default image they install. It's about them wanting to put Linux out there in the cheapest way possible...
They tried to do this exact thing with AOL. They also tried to make my girlfriend pay to get service pack 2 installed, and pay to get an antivirus and firewall installed.
So she declined. And they told her they were getting her computer out of the back, and had us wait by the geek squad area. Checking her reciept, she's got the "Geek Squad Service Pack 2 & Antivirus Package Install" on it.
So she asked where her computer was. They told her they couldn't interrupt the installation.
So we had to DEMAND to see a manager, and we basically had to tell them they could either get us a new untouched computer out of the back, finish the install for free, or refund her money.
After losing a half hour of our life arguing with the assholes, we finally got our way.
We've had similar experiences trying to get her computer serviced at 3 seperate stores in 3 seperate cities.
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Bull. The Bio you're talking about (like many jobs where you get to do something cool and/or that matters) is just too advanced these days for just an undergrad degree. All an undergrad degree qualifies you for, really, is monotonous work they could hire somebody with a high school education to do.
PhDs in Bio certainly make some nice dough -- even if it takes a while to get there. But so do MBAs, Drs, Lawyers, and a whole slew of other professions that require lots of schooling.
What can someone who is pre-med, business, pre-law, etc., make out of undergrad? Same as a bio student. It's not about what you make after undergrad, it's where your ultimate career trajectory takes you.
The fact of the matter is anybody who graduates undergrad and expects to be making $50k out of the gate is dreaming (unless they belong to a select few who went to a really prestigious university, choose the right profession (nurses in urban areas can make more out of the gate), or just get really lucky
The point is not that a fresh install of ME is better than a fresh install of BSD.
The point is the instability is caused in large part by the user.
Granted the OS should restrict how unstable a system should be. But if the author is comparing an OS he made crash with one supported by his local IT department (and crash free because they don't allow him to do something stupid), is it really a fair comparison?
All operating systems crash.
Let me repeat: ALL OPERATING SYSTEMS CRASH
It all depends on what you're doing.
Got a fresh install of Windows ME that you only use to play spider solitaire, and that isn't connected to the internet?
Crash free.
Got a not so fresh install of Linux / BSD / Solaris where root has done something really stupid?
Crash prone (and possibly unrecoverable if it's REALLY stupid).
Anything in between is going to be based on what you're doing.
Install the wrong drivers / kernel modules / other software that accesses hardware and you'll make any operating system crash prone.
And since you have many Linux boxen and an crash-free windows box, it's safe to assume you're a power user.
So, you don't count!
You probably know what you're doing, and don't do anything stupid.
The real test is how often does an inexperienced user's computer crash? And, if we gave the author of this article a PC with Windows on it, would it eventually crash more or less? And, since other people don't seem to have this problem, what is causing the crashes (he might be blaming Apple for the work of a bad board for example).
Out of curiosity, why couldn't the college ditch comcast and purchase bandwidth via a couple T3s and buy a couple switches? Was that ever an option? It seems really weird that a college would power their net with a Beowulf cluster of cable modems...
I had the same problem as you. Then I wrote a perl script that would execute the shell command find, and run a command to decode the MP3, and recode as ogg. Let it run all night. Problem solved!
No that won't work. Don't you know that these days fair use only applies to the RIAA?
If Apple decided tomorrow to take on Microsoft, could they:
Slow growth is probably the best way to go about it here. Apple certainly isn't losing market share. Some of the people who enter their stores for an iPod, will end up being converted to mac users. And the slow, controlled growth in market share will continue
In three years, are people really going to appreciate the fact that Microsoft decides what content can and cannot play? Probably not. Apple has a distinct advantage -- but growth is not going to happen overnight.
Which brings us back to the question I asked: why, in that case, wouldn't you choose an embedded system over a normal power hungry computer with cf?
The prices you're quoting are ridiculously expensive though. When 250 GB hard disks are selling for $70 nobody is going to pay $200 per 16GB compact flash card, or $1,250 for a 100GB hard drive. When you start talking about laptops, where CF hard disks would be a big plus, it's still under $100 to get a hard disk that is much bigger than CF available for the price. The only reason you might choose CF over a regular hard disk for a notebook would be in order to lower your power consumption -- but if you were doing an application serious enough for that why wouldn't you just use an embedded system designed for really low consumption? People who just want to be able to work on their powerpoints for more time would be better off just using the extra money to buy a battery.
Bottom line: It's not that you can't use CF for storage, it's just too expensive per GB to do so.
You must be new here....
Dude this is shit.
I want to shoot off big fucking guns, not go die for something as ethereal as "country" or "honor"
How can I find such a place? And what do I have to sign?
This is true, but what happens if you're the first one out?
You end up waiting for your baggage to come out of the carousel. In the twenty minutes it takes for your bag to come out, everyone's already off the plane.
Dude you're not doing it right... The ??? is google ads... it's not supposed to be so obvious!
>> get a windows box from Dell, nuke the Windows partition (and thus lose even hardware support) and install Linux When you get your computer serviced under Dell hardware support, you get to keep the battery and the hard disk. They never have a chance to know what's on your hard disk unless you tell them.
But any software students use will teach them about using software, and give them basic computer skills.
,, the students will learn how to use a spreadsheet.
Who cares if the functions in OpenOffice use a ; instead of a
And, at least with open software, there's the chance they may be able to learn something about how to put together software.
When I was in school, I took a computer course in Pascal. I was so excited, I wanted a copy for myself to program in on my spare time -- but it Borland Pascal cost something like $100!
I can only imagine what I would have been capable of when I graduated if I had access to gcc, or a similar high quality compiler -- for free!
So where was Mr. Gateway going to fly in from?
Yes, small claims courts are meant for people to sue other people without lawyers.
However, corporations are only "sort of" people
They have many of the rights of people (e.g. the ability to enter into contracts, sue, and be sued), but someone has to represent them, because even though in the eyes of the law they are considered persons, they aren't really people.
That someone would be a lawyer, regardless of what state you sue them in.
There is a reason why giving someone the right to represent you in something is called a "Power of Attorney"
What if I hated Linux and switched to Windows? What if I hated Windows and decided to do something crazy and roll my own Linux? Or even decided I longed for the days of Dos and used an open source version of Dos?
My point is that Dell only knows the OS running on your computer when they shipped it out. They have no way of verifying the currently running os. And, last I checked, you can upgrade your computer's OS all you want...
I have a Dell laptop, and I'd like to point out that when you send in a broken laptop to be serviced under their complete care plan, you get to keep the hard drive and battery.
That means, they never have any idea what OS you're running.
So, currently, even if the laws of physics do change while running Linux, Dell has no way to know what OS you're currently running.
>Which proprietary codecs aren't specifically supported?
They don't want to pay royalties to the companies that own the proprietary codecs. Although it's free for a home user to use some of these codecs, you need to pay $$$ to distribute others in software form. So, for instance, for if you want to play MPEG under linux, technically you should be downloading / paying for MPEG TV (http://www.mpegtv.com/download.html). That's also why it's standard for SuSe, Mandrake, Red Hat, etc., not to include proprietary codecs in the default install of the free versions (unless you download from a server (e.g. Penguin Liberation Front) from a country that doesn't have copyright nazis). And in the case of playing DVDs, FAIK the MPAA won't allow it...
I believe even Slackware doesn't include many codecs in it's default install for this reason.
So it's not about just adding a package to the default image they install. It's about them wanting to put Linux out there in the cheapest way possible...
Unfortunately, unlike a desktop, I lack the skills necessary to assemble one from scratch for her.
They had a *really* good deal. Cheaper than anywhere else we could find. One of those specials to clear old models out of the store.
It seemed like an obvious choice to us given the price -- but we didn't realize what we were in for.
My girlfriend bought her laptop at Best Buy.
They tried to do this exact thing with AOL. They also tried to make my girlfriend pay to get service pack 2 installed, and pay to get an antivirus and firewall installed.
So she declined. And they told her they were getting her computer out of the back, and had us wait by the geek squad area. Checking her reciept, she's got the "Geek Squad Service Pack 2 & Antivirus Package Install" on it.
So she asked where her computer was. They told her they couldn't interrupt the installation.
So we had to DEMAND to see a manager, and we basically had to tell them they could either get us a new untouched computer out of the back, finish the install for free, or refund her money.
After losing a half hour of our life arguing with the assholes, we finally got our way.
We've had similar experiences trying to get her computer serviced at 3 seperate stores in 3 seperate cities.
Avoid Best Buy like the plague.
OK dumb question. What's to stop you from virtualizing the cheapest version of windows vista you can get anyways?
So why don't we fight back and demand Viacom's ISP suspend all MTV websites until they provide proof of ownership?
Dude....
1. Upgrade your computer
2. Call up Microsoft.
3. Sue their sorry asses
4. Profit!!!!!