Good advice. At BGSU, where I go, the dorm desks are so small that a standard CRT monitor and keyboard take up over half the space. Also, there is a shelf above the desks, so any monitor larger than 17" won't fit. Halfway through my freshman year, I gave up on trying to use the remaining desk space to write and brought in a second computer and monitor to fill it up. I now use the front drawer of the desk to write on.
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b. This mixture with varying amounts of moisture and particulate matter, enveloping the earth; the atmosphere.
a. The sky; the firmament.
b. A giant void; nothingness: The money vanished into thin air.
An atmospheric movement; a breeze or wind.
Aircraft: send troops to Europe by air.
a. Public utterance; vent: gave air to their grievances.
b. The electronic broadcast media: "often ridiculed... extremist groups on air" (Christian Science Monitor).
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b. A solo with or without accompaniment.
I'm at BGSU now; I'll be starting my third year this fall. I just finished CS 217 and I agree that the made-up assembly language (and the fictional hardware it worked on) was ridiculous. We all have access to x86-based computers, so why not teach something we can actually use? And while I'm dreaming, how about scrapping VB for CS 324? (Or scrapping CS 324!)
I suspect that many of the remaining Apple ][ enthusiasts are re-living to some extent their first computer experience. A lot of people in adult life try to recapture some of childhood's sense of wonder through collecting toys or pursuing interests that were first sparked when they were young.
My (family's) first computer was a Dell Pentium 3 system, and I've always felt like I've missed out on the entire history of computing. I wish I could have been born a few decades earlier. What kinds of memories will computer geeks of my generation have? Quake 3 just doesn't seem to have the nostalgic qualities of the original Oregon Trail. Or BBS's, assembly language, punchcards, teletype machines, anything involving a soldering iron, etc.
I try to remember to type GNU/Linux, but when I'm just talking to people (especially non-geeks who don't know memory from a hard drive and certainly never heard of a kernel) I just say Linux. "It's like Windows, only better...you know, Windows, the program you see when you turn on your computer..." *sigh*
Mozilla trying to catch up with IE? Maybe it came out much later, but from what I've seen of it, Mozilla is years ahead of IE in terms of stability, standards compliance, speed, and even features (tabbed browsing, ad blocking, etc.)
If you put Office on a PC, it can be one-third of the material cost of the system. Is that sustainable? Hard drives are going down in price and processors are going down in price.
I think that is a bad way to look at it. I don't think the price of software and the price of hardware have some inextricable link. I think what we need to make sure of is customer perception of value versus competitive offerings. I think we've got the right mix of capability, functionality, simplicity, price, etc. I don't think looking at it relative to hardware prices takes you any place.
I'm guessing he's never had to shell out $500+ for Office.
Reminds me of this book I read years ago in school about Bunnicula, a vampire rabbit who sucks the juice out of vegetables during the night. Pretty scary stuff when you're nine years old and already grossed out by vegetables.
Agreed. I've seen Word 97 run on a relative's 500 MHz Celeron with 64 MB of RAM and Windows 98 - should be more than enough power, right? It was a painful experience, made worse when I tried to switch between two long documents. Yeah, it was only a Celeron, but I was only using a 6-year-old word processor. I shudder to think what office xp would do to the poor machine.
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Has NetBSD been ported to it yet?
What a boring world that would be. Nothing to talk about on Slashdot!
Good advice. At BGSU, where I go, the dorm desks are so small that a standard CRT monitor and keyboard take up over half the space. Also, there is a shelf above the desks, so any monitor larger than 17" won't fit. Halfway through my freshman year, I gave up on trying to use the remaining desk space to write and brought in a second computer and monitor to fill it up. I now use the front drawer of the desk to write on.
SCO: Hey, we have a patent on cheating, pay us money!
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No segment is hiring right now. None.
Fast Food is hiring. Just hired me last week.
I'm at BGSU now; I'll be starting my third year this fall. I just finished CS 217 and I agree that the made-up assembly language (and the fictional hardware it worked on) was ridiculous. We all have access to x86-based computers, so why not teach something we can actually use? And while I'm dreaming, how about scrapping VB for CS 324? (Or scrapping CS 324!)
They have computers in Parma Heights?
Sorry...I'm from Parma...had to say it
How about merging NASA with the Department of Homeland Security to defend against killer asteroids and space aliens?
I'm so sick of this - it's differentLY! DifferentLY! -LY -LY -LY -LY -LY -LY -LY -LY -LY -LY -LY -LY -LY -LY -LY -LY -LY -LY
(Whew - just got that one past the lameness filter!)
I suspect that many of the remaining Apple ][ enthusiasts are re-living to some extent their first computer experience. A lot of people in adult life try to recapture some of childhood's sense of wonder through collecting toys or pursuing interests that were first sparked when they were young.
My (family's) first computer was a Dell Pentium 3 system, and I've always felt like I've missed out on the entire history of computing. I wish I could have been born a few decades earlier. What kinds of memories will computer geeks of my generation have? Quake 3 just doesn't seem to have the nostalgic qualities of the original Oregon Trail. Or BBS's, assembly language, punchcards, teletype machines, anything involving a soldering iron, etc.
Or something like this website. My college newspaper had an article on the guy who started this. Pronounce the domain name to see the joke.
This isn't informative! This is someone who complains too much!
If it was one of their songs, CNN would probably get sued by the RIAA for posting the lyrics.
And Tux Racer! Don't forget Tux Racer!
I try to remember to type GNU/Linux, but when I'm just talking to people (especially non-geeks who don't know memory from a hard drive and certainly never heard of a kernel) I just say Linux. "It's like Windows, only better...you know, Windows, the program you see when you turn on your computer..." *sigh*
It's not a bug. It's a feature.
Mozilla trying to catch up with IE? Maybe it came out much later, but from what I've seen of it, Mozilla is years ahead of IE in terms of stability, standards compliance, speed, and even features (tabbed browsing, ad blocking, etc.)
If you put Office on a PC, it can be one-third of the material cost of the system. Is that sustainable? Hard drives are going down in price and processors are going down in price.
I think that is a bad way to look at it. I don't think the price of software and the price of hardware have some inextricable link. I think what we need to make sure of is customer perception of value versus competitive offerings. I think we've got the right mix of capability, functionality, simplicity, price, etc. I don't think looking at it relative to hardware prices takes you any place.
I'm guessing he's never had to shell out $500+ for Office.
The logo screen was waaaay cooler. I can't wait to see what they've done with Windows Server 2003.
Reminds me of this book I read years ago in school about Bunnicula, a vampire rabbit who sucks the juice out of vegetables during the night. Pretty scary stuff when you're nine years old and already grossed out by vegetables.
a device that alerts me to duplicate posts by crashing the browser and rebooting the computer - oh wait, Windows already does that.
Agreed. I've seen Word 97 run on a relative's 500 MHz Celeron with 64 MB of RAM and Windows 98 - should be more than enough power, right? It was a painful experience, made worse when I tried to switch between two long documents. Yeah, it was only a Celeron, but I was only using a 6-year-old word processor. I shudder to think what office xp would do to the poor machine.
So, how much will it cost? I need to start saving now. And learning Russian.
EverQuest - Not Just For Geeks?
Yeah, like Linux - and this is coming from a geek website.