In the US schools are now lying to colleges about what their classes cover. The highest math class my high school offered was Math Analysis which they said was the same thing as Pre-Calc. I got to college and had a very difficult time because I found out Math Analysis was really pre-statistics. On top of that in high school I was allowed to make my own note cards with what ever I wanted on them(formulas, examples, etc) as well as have a calculator. In college I'm not allowed either. Really high schools now are just trying to get the highest grade so they do well on the no child left behind tests so they get more money, it doesn't matter if the student really isn't learning.
A few years ago I had bought an eVGA nVIDIA 5900 Ultra which started to show lines on my monitor, I called eVGA about the problem and said they would do nothing unless I tested under windows even thought NVIDIA supports Linux. I called back the next day and said I had installed windows and had the same problem but then reformatted they took the card back and gave me a new one.
About a year ago I bought a Dell 2405FPW, it had a dent in the LCD so I called Dell to get a new one. They told me that the problem could be with me running Linux(wtf? how does an OS dent LCD screens?) and refused to do anything unless I ran windows. Nothing I could do would change there mind so I ended up e-mailing Dell support who didn't even ask what OS I ran just sent me a new monitor
Moral of the story most companies don't know wtf there talking about
Personally I think that for the vast majority of people OpenOffice is a fine replacement for MS Office, but I do agree that there are some special cases where MS Office is better. Most people are just typing up word docs, small spread sheets, or a small power point not anything big and complex.
I moved into a dorm last September I was bringing my Dell 2405FPW (HD monitor) and I'm living in Philly which has HDTV broad casted I thought I'd look into an HDTV turner. PCHDTV(http://www.pchdtv.com/) looked good but it only supported over the air HDTV not HBO or the other HBO channel I have at home. Cablecard is the solution to that but I couldn't find one card that supported it. I was about to buy it when I noticed that no HDTV card has support for hardware encoding normal TV, which is what I would be watching a lot of the time as well. I ended up saying "screw it" and haven't watched TV since.
Yes I am aware of that and I use that many times but the problem is that the problem is still there. Many times the broken is a dependency of another and thus if you don't get that package in others won't work.
I'm currently doing a work study at my university helping them administrate their Gentoo machines. They to have given up on Gentoo and are planning a switch to Ubuntu. The problem with Gentoo is that you really need it to be someones job to maintain it. The problem my university had was that everyone there had many responsibilities and did not want to waste time making sure that everything was going smoothly on Gentoo. This led them to just ignore it and never update. It worked fine until users asked for new or updated software to be installed, then portage wanted to update many things. Since I have gotten there, and my job is maintaining Gentoo, things have gotten a lot smoother. Compiling takes forever even on a dual dual core machine and if one package fails I have to figure out how to fix it until I can continue compiling. If you have things setup correctly only one machine will need to compile and make a package while the rest will just download from that one server and install. The other problem we're having is that even though we run stable many packages fail to compile or have problems which take weeks to fix. It takes many packages a very long time to get marked stable even if they are, such as KDE 3.5.6 or the NVIDIA 9-series drivers. As for having to reinstall every time a new profile comes out, he just had no idea what he was doing. I've ran my desktop and laptop for over five years going through hardware upgrades and many profile updates and never had to reinstall. All you have to do after you update your profile is emerge -uD world --newuse; revdep-rebuild
What I was saying is that most high schools(at least in my area) teach you to use a calculator to get the answer, you don't really have to understand it. As for me casting out my university's no calculators policy I did because my professor was asked about it and he said that many universities are forbidding calculators now.
That may be but since I'm not allowed to use calculators in class at all, and the only time I am allowed to use them is on homework to check my work I'd rather use Maple since its free through my university. But I do agree with you I was practicing for calc tonight and kept getting a weird answer on one problem I finally tried limit(sin(x), x=inf); and I got -1...1.
But word for the wise heavy use of calculators in high school, even though allowed, will screw you over in college. There strictly banned and they assume you know how to do everything by hand.
Richard Stallman recently spoke at my university about the dangers of software patents. After his lecture I went up to him and asked how he felt if a user wants to put DRM on his or her computer under their own free will(such as iTunes). He said that he felt users should have the right to put whatever they want on their computers as long as they have the option to take it off. While iTunes you can pull off your computer if you buy music from it you can not play it after removing iTunes so I'm not sure what his position would be on that. But is Norway violating users rights by not letting them use DRM?
I'm not sure about your high school but mine required a TI-83+ or TI-84+. Any other was not allowed(most teachers didn't enforce it though). I was also told that I can't use the TI-89 on the SATs although that may have changed. When I got to college I was told I'm not allowed to use a calculator of any sort for anything. When I get to the high level classes I'm allowed to use one but we have Maple which is much more advanced then a normal calculator.
I am able to play every type of media on my system using open source codecs including WMV3, MPEG4, and everything else via ffmpeg. They might of had a shot a few years ago but who would want this now?
This would have nothing to do with NVIDIA unless there is a hardware bug with NVIDIA hardware that won't let you use more then 2gig of RAM, which is very unlikely. Apple develops the video drivers on their own, NVIDIA and ATI just give them the specs to their hardware.
I remember reading awhile back that the reason that Intel had to have closed source firmware for their wireless drivers was because they said the FCC mandated that there was no way anyone could get the power output of their wireless cards. Does anyone know if this is true? If it does shouldn't we be pestering the FCC and not the companies since all they are dong is following the FCC's rules?
While their page shows some MS Office Docs that OpenOffice 2.1 can not read(I tried) I've never run into this problem myself. Personally I think OpenOffice is fine for most people since most never use the advanced features of MS that screw up in OpenOffice. Anyway the two big things that are missing are Access and PowerPoint. Most people want PowerPoint(especially parents with kids in school, teachers love power point) but hate the idea of paying for MS Office. Access is the other thing, there is no program on Linux that can read and write Access files, it would be great to have this feature sometimes. Last term I had to install it via crossover to be able to do some stuff.
Centrino means the laptop has an Intel Pentium-M, Intel Core Duo, or an Intel Core 2 Duo and an Intel wireless card such as the IPW2100(802.11b), IPW2200(802.11b/g), or the IPW2915(802.11a/b/g).
Personally I think wikipedia should be treated as any other source, you should have at least one other, independent, source that backs up the first. I've found mistakes in the college text books that I pay hundreds of dollars for, so if your only going by one source your bound to get screwed. What I really like about wikipedia is that it gives you great sources that you can use, check up on those sources as well.
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In the US schools are now lying to colleges about what their classes cover. The highest math class my high school offered was Math Analysis which they said was the same thing as Pre-Calc. I got to college and had a very difficult time because I found out Math Analysis was really pre-statistics. On top of that in high school I was allowed to make my own note cards with what ever I wanted on them(formulas, examples, etc) as well as have a calculator. In college I'm not allowed either. Really high schools now are just trying to get the highest grade so they do well on the no child left behind tests so they get more money, it doesn't matter if the student really isn't learning.
A few years ago I had bought an eVGA nVIDIA 5900 Ultra which started to show lines on my monitor, I called eVGA about the problem and said they would do nothing unless I tested under windows even thought NVIDIA supports Linux. I called back the next day and said I had installed windows and had the same problem but then reformatted they took the card back and gave me a new one. About a year ago I bought a Dell 2405FPW, it had a dent in the LCD so I called Dell to get a new one. They told me that the problem could be with me running Linux(wtf? how does an OS dent LCD screens?) and refused to do anything unless I ran windows. Nothing I could do would change there mind so I ended up e-mailing Dell support who didn't even ask what OS I ran just sent me a new monitor Moral of the story most companies don't know wtf there talking about
Personally I think that for the vast majority of people OpenOffice is a fine replacement for MS Office, but I do agree that there are some special cases where MS Office is better. Most people are just typing up word docs, small spread sheets, or a small power point not anything big and complex.
I moved into a dorm last September I was bringing my Dell 2405FPW (HD monitor) and I'm living in Philly which has HDTV broad casted I thought I'd look into an HDTV turner. PCHDTV(http://www.pchdtv.com/) looked good but it only supported over the air HDTV not HBO or the other HBO channel I have at home. Cablecard is the solution to that but I couldn't find one card that supported it. I was about to buy it when I noticed that no HDTV card has support for hardware encoding normal TV, which is what I would be watching a lot of the time as well. I ended up saying "screw it" and haven't watched TV since.
I switch between virtual consoles all the time and it works fine.
NVIDIA Linux drivers work great. I guess its true that Linux now has more drivers available then Vista.
Yes I am aware of that and I use that many times but the problem is that the problem is still there. Many times the broken is a dependency of another and thus if you don't get that package in others won't work.
I'm currently doing a work study at my university helping them administrate their Gentoo machines. They to have given up on Gentoo and are planning a switch to Ubuntu. The problem with Gentoo is that you really need it to be someones job to maintain it. The problem my university had was that everyone there had many responsibilities and did not want to waste time making sure that everything was going smoothly on Gentoo. This led them to just ignore it and never update. It worked fine until users asked for new or updated software to be installed, then portage wanted to update many things. Since I have gotten there, and my job is maintaining Gentoo, things have gotten a lot smoother. Compiling takes forever even on a dual dual core machine and if one package fails I have to figure out how to fix it until I can continue compiling. If you have things setup correctly only one machine will need to compile and make a package while the rest will just download from that one server and install. The other problem we're having is that even though we run stable many packages fail to compile or have problems which take weeks to fix. It takes many packages a very long time to get marked stable even if they are, such as KDE 3.5.6 or the NVIDIA 9-series drivers. As for having to reinstall every time a new profile comes out, he just had no idea what he was doing. I've ran my desktop and laptop for over five years going through hardware upgrades and many profile updates and never had to reinstall. All you have to do after you update your profile is emerge -uD world --newuse; revdep-rebuild
What I was saying is that most high schools(at least in my area) teach you to use a calculator to get the answer, you don't really have to understand it. As for me casting out my university's no calculators policy I did because my professor was asked about it and he said that many universities are forbidding calculators now.
That may be but since I'm not allowed to use calculators in class at all, and the only time I am allowed to use them is on homework to check my work I'd rather use Maple since its free through my university. But I do agree with you I was practicing for calc tonight and kept getting a weird answer on one problem I finally tried limit(sin(x), x=inf); and I got -1...1. But word for the wise heavy use of calculators in high school, even though allowed, will screw you over in college. There strictly banned and they assume you know how to do everything by hand.
Richard Stallman recently spoke at my university about the dangers of software patents. After his lecture I went up to him and asked how he felt if a user wants to put DRM on his or her computer under their own free will(such as iTunes). He said that he felt users should have the right to put whatever they want on their computers as long as they have the option to take it off. While iTunes you can pull off your computer if you buy music from it you can not play it after removing iTunes so I'm not sure what his position would be on that. But is Norway violating users rights by not letting them use DRM?
I'm not sure about your high school but mine required a TI-83+ or TI-84+. Any other was not allowed(most teachers didn't enforce it though). I was also told that I can't use the TI-89 on the SATs although that may have changed. When I got to college I was told I'm not allowed to use a calculator of any sort for anything. When I get to the high level classes I'm allowed to use one but we have Maple which is much more advanced then a normal calculator.
I am able to play every type of media on my system using open source codecs including WMV3, MPEG4, and everything else via ffmpeg. They might of had a shot a few years ago but who would want this now?
I think hes thinking of Redhat 6.2
Netcraft confirms it BSD is... o wait...
Take a look here http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=1 4199&highlight=%22nvidia+apple+drivers%22
Take a look here, http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=1 4199&highlight=%22nvidia+apple+drivers%22
This would have nothing to do with NVIDIA unless there is a hardware bug with NVIDIA hardware that won't let you use more then 2gig of RAM, which is very unlikely. Apple develops the video drivers on their own, NVIDIA and ATI just give them the specs to their hardware.
I remember reading awhile back that the reason that Intel had to have closed source firmware for their wireless drivers was because they said the FCC mandated that there was no way anyone could get the power output of their wireless cards. Does anyone know if this is true? If it does shouldn't we be pestering the FCC and not the companies since all they are dong is following the FCC's rules?
While their page shows some MS Office Docs that OpenOffice 2.1 can not read(I tried) I've never run into this problem myself. Personally I think OpenOffice is fine for most people since most never use the advanced features of MS that screw up in OpenOffice. Anyway the two big things that are missing are Access and PowerPoint. Most people want PowerPoint(especially parents with kids in school, teachers love power point) but hate the idea of paying for MS Office. Access is the other thing, there is no program on Linux that can read and write Access files, it would be great to have this feature sometimes. Last term I had to install it via crossover to be able to do some stuff.
Centrino means the laptop has an Intel Pentium-M, Intel Core Duo, or an Intel Core 2 Duo and an Intel wireless card such as the IPW2100(802.11b), IPW2200(802.11b/g), or the IPW2915(802.11a/b/g).
My thought exactly. I really dont have a problem with cell phone jammers for consumers that only jam a small radius(10-20 feet).
Thats why I said at least one other source. I agree you should have more, especially for long papers. But short 2-3 page papers two is usually fine.
Personally I think wikipedia should be treated as any other source, you should have at least one other, independent, source that backs up the first. I've found mistakes in the college text books that I pay hundreds of dollars for, so if your only going by one source your bound to get screwed. What I really like about wikipedia is that it gives you great sources that you can use, check up on those sources as well.
Didn't USB start out with only 2 ports on a computer and then grew, hell my desktop has 10. It will probably be the same thing.