actually I am about to graduate so I know exactly how college works. No, I didn't attend MIT or anything but it most certainly was not a community college.
#1 -- you don't want students using the net in class - don't provide PCs in the lecture room.
#2 -- don't require attendence to class. The student is paying for class he wants to surf let him at home. Don't force him to goto class.
#3 -- Don't have enough room to not allow PCs in this classroom? Drop net access from that room for that class. Nothing more than a flip of a switch.
#4 -- Most of the time you are in class only b/c you have to be. Honestly 60% of the time spent in class is down time. Not learning time. Who cares what they are doing.
I don't particularly agree w/people using the Internet during class but I also do not agree w/the school providing PCs for the students in a lecture class.
If you don't want them to use it, shut off the machines. Nuff said.
As far as them invading your privacy by showing the IMs, go ahead, does the rest of the class really care if I am talking to FuckYou69 about getting drunk on Thursday night? I highly doubt it.
as a previous poster has already mentioned the most expensive AMD chip is $100, Intel = $500.
How the fuck can you say that Intel was the wiser choice in a market where price makes sense? $899 for the newest Dell machines (just saw an ad on TV). Gateway is a competitor. Why would they want to jack up the price to compete?
Thus my point is valid. Intel had to do something here to get Gateway to drop them.
Just b/c AMD holds 20% market share does not mean that Intel doesn't have a monopoly. Pushing out other competition like this is monopolistic practices.
Intel is still not less expensive. It is absolute bullshit to think that AMD wouldn't be a better choice for Gateway to sell.
The problem here is a lot similar (at least in my eyes) to the Pepsi/Coke college thing. Pepsi came on campus here at BGSU and gave them $8 million dollars to take PepsiCo as the main supplier of soft drinks (rather than having both like they did before).
Intel is pulling the same bullshit. They want to squeeze out the competition so they best way to do that is to force large outlets of computers to stick w/one chip vendor.
I consider this very unethical.
I don't know if this is exactly what happened in this case (but I can only assume that it is)
I can't see why people would want to spend more money for less output on an Intel machine when the AMD is tons cheaper and faster.
Yes, yes, we know the public is misinformed and really believes that clock-size is important but price is what gets most people.
so after weeks of everyone telling you to shutdown IIS b/c it is vunerable to such-and-such you are only going to listen to the Group? Blah.
They have been told over and over to keep their software updated and patched yet they don't. What is going to start them doing it now?
I highly doubt that this is going to change anything. MS wrote a piece of shit software (go figure) and now the customers are paying the price (if they paid anything in the first place;))
I am sick and tired of seeing my logs flooded w/that crap. Fuck stupid admins. Anyone w/a brain can fix the problem. Give me the god damn job. I will make sure it ain't broken.
It is obvious (at least to me) that you do not support adding backdoors to encryption software.
My question is: is this a true statement (in light of recent events) and do you personally believe that the current maintainers of the PGP software will be against such actions (even though they will have to comply)?
Also: how "clean" do you believe the software is (after you left)?
I am sorry to see that you were misquoted, they seem to like to do that to make their stories seem more interesting. Reminds me of Good Morning Vietnam.
honestly is some dork told me, "I have my business card on the moon." I would be ROFL hardcore.
$2500 to put a piece of paper up there. Hmmm. No thanks. I have no desire to even put myself in space. I have always believed that after the 0-gravity novelty wears off you would be quite bored.
It's free to send it to a black-hole (shredder) I think that is a lot more novel than having it clutter the god damn moon.
But this sort of shit just pisses me off. Just ignore what I have to say I guess.
at this point MS knows that they can attempt to kill off most of the pirating (yes, there are some copies that do not have to be registered). They have allowed it to go on long enough and have gotten a pretty nice niche (don't you think?)
They know that people are going to want to run Windows software and they know that most of their previous products have pretty much sucked. Win2k and XP are actually decent (from what I have heard).
I can't see people running XP over Win2k when they are both pretty stable.
I am weary of any keyboard that completely changes the layout that most are accustomed to..
I have tried many keyboards but I have found that any keyboard that is supposedly better for your wrists actually causes me immense pain for several days (long enough to have me cease its use).
I am currently using a MS keyboard of some sort that has one of those wrist rests. It works fine. My main problem is that I keep breaking the metal folding chairs that are inexpensive enough for me to afford and I have to keep reverting to a footstool w/a pillow on it for my desk. It is very low and doesn't really make the angle of the wrists very good.
The other keys that must be reached by your thumbs on this pyramid thing would actually be a bigger pain in the ass than they are worth.
I guess I will continue to type the old fashioned way. Hell, I still prefer standard transmissions, regular phones, and non-power anything.
that's the problem. The god damn SSN isn't used properly (my fucking video store demanded I give them my SSN or I could walk out the door w/o a membership -- they are the only store in town w/a decent DVD selection (3/6.00 ain't fucking bad))
We already know that this will be abused and it won't work. Let's not beat around the bush here. It is going to go the way of everything else. HELL.
I don't want to have a single unique identifier. My CC only has my purchases from my grocery store (if they want to know how many fucking bottles of Coke I drink so be it) but if they start tracking how many times I buy beer at the local drive-thru I am going to get pissed off.
That's exactly what is going to happen. That damn ID UPC is going to be on my neck and seen from satellites up above.
I thought that most programs (that are of any use) would compile over on FreeBSD would also compile on Linux and vise versa. Doesn't FreeBSD have the ability to run Linux programs w/the same sort of thing?
What programs would I seriously want to run that are of FreeBSD fame only? None that I know of.
site is slow, movies are only up during certain times, and there are no descriptions. I would rather the time it takes for CJ to give some information and decent speeds.
My roommate runs Windows 2000. He is one of those people that just can't stand the god damn thing.
His video card isn't supported well and the drivers he can use don't support GL and he can't play Quake (big problem).
Before he installed some patches his machine crashed about 10x a day. After patches, at least 2x. He said at least w/Win98 all of his hardware worked and it only crashed every two days or so.
I have suggested he run Linux but he is of the "I know I could learn it, I just don't want to" crew. Which is fine.
What makes me think that Linux is supperior is that his card is supported, it won't crash every 2 days (probably not every 2 months) and it has been getting better overall.
I do NOT believe for a second that Linux is a desktop operating system nor do I think it will be anytime soon. What I do believe is that Win2k is mediocre and needs to have some serious work done to improve it.
Yes/. is biased, yes we all know this, tough shit. It has been like this for years and it probably won't change. All news media is biased in one way or another (usually politically biased) if you don't believe me you are absolutely wrong.
If you don't like the news here there are plenty of other sites you are more than welcome to visit.
While I don't believe that they should be biased I have to live w/the fact that they are. If some site was pro-MS (which most are) I probably wouldn't frequent them as much (and I don't). Go where you are comfortable.
it doesn't really help. People w/a lot of extra IP space are ones w/a decent connection (at least in theory). For me as a two IP DSL user it isn't going to do much for me.
The god damn worm is still hitting my machine every 15s from a new IP and the god damn thing isn't stopping.
Unless someone finds a way to stop the whole thing altogether w/o having to have the person run it manually patch it I am not terribly interested.
They have purple ketchup too. I saw it the other day at Meijer. I was almost disgusted that someone would actually decide that this was a viable product to sell.
Green ketchup is one thing (at least there are fucking green tomatoes), but purple? No.
This is a sad sad day. Designer vegetables/fruits. Scary;)
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actually I am about to graduate so I know exactly how college works. No, I didn't attend MIT or anything but it most certainly was not a community college.
not what I am talking about. Shut the entire set of machines down. Flip the switch behind the desk .
few comments here.
#1 -- you don't want students using the net in class - don't provide PCs in the lecture room.
#2 -- don't require attendence to class. The student is paying for class he wants to surf let him at home. Don't force him to goto class.
#3 -- Don't have enough room to not allow PCs in this classroom? Drop net access from that room for that class. Nothing more than a flip of a switch.
#4 -- Most of the time you are in class only b/c you have to be. Honestly 60% of the time spent in class is down time. Not learning time. Who cares what they are doing.
I don't particularly agree w/people using the Internet during class but I also do not agree w/the school providing PCs for the students in a lecture class.
If you don't want them to use it, shut off the machines. Nuff said.
As far as them invading your privacy by showing the IMs, go ahead, does the rest of the class really care if I am talking to FuckYou69 about getting drunk on Thursday night? I highly doubt it.
as a previous poster has already mentioned the most expensive AMD chip is $100, Intel = $500.
How the fuck can you say that Intel was the wiser choice in a market where price makes sense? $899 for the newest Dell machines (just saw an ad on TV). Gateway is a competitor. Why would they want to jack up the price to compete?
Thus my point is valid. Intel had to do something here to get Gateway to drop them.
Just b/c AMD holds 20% market share does not mean that Intel doesn't have a monopoly. Pushing out other competition like this is monopolistic practices.
Fuck that shit.
Intel is still not less expensive. It is absolute bullshit to think that AMD wouldn't be a better choice for Gateway to sell.
The problem here is a lot similar (at least in my eyes) to the Pepsi/Coke college thing. Pepsi came on campus here at BGSU and gave them $8 million dollars to take PepsiCo as the main supplier of soft drinks (rather than having both like they did before).
Intel is pulling the same bullshit. They want to squeeze out the competition so they best way to do that is to force large outlets of computers to stick w/one chip vendor.
I consider this very unethical.
I don't know if this is exactly what happened in this case (but I can only assume that it is)
I can't see why people would want to spend more money for less output on an Intel machine when the AMD is tons cheaper and faster.
Yes, yes, we know the public is misinformed and really believes that clock-size is important but price is what gets most people.
AMD still wins there.
Bad choice Gateway.
so after weeks of everyone telling you to shutdown IIS b/c it is vunerable to such-and-such you are only going to listen to the Group? Blah.
;))
They have been told over and over to keep their software updated and patched yet they don't. What is going to start them doing it now?
I highly doubt that this is going to change anything. MS wrote a piece of shit software (go figure) and now the customers are paying the price (if they paid anything in the first place
I am sick and tired of seeing my logs flooded w/that crap. Fuck stupid admins. Anyone w/a brain can fix the problem. Give me the god damn job. I will make sure it ain't broken.
someone else always has to take the blame.
;)
at least w/the recent bullshit about a national ID I can blame it on that idiot from Oracle and not the government.
It is obvious (at least to me) that you do not support adding backdoors to encryption software.
My question is: is this a true statement (in light of recent events) and do you personally believe that the current maintainers of the PGP software will be against such actions (even though they will have to comply)?
Also: how "clean" do you believe the software is (after you left)?
I am sorry to see that you were misquoted, they seem to like to do that to make their stories seem more interesting. Reminds me of Good Morning Vietnam.
fortunatly for me sex is free on earth. It wouldn't be so free up there ;)
either way does it really fucking matter?
honestly is some dork told me, "I have my business card on the moon." I would be ROFL hardcore.
$2500 to put a piece of paper up there. Hmmm. No thanks. I have no desire to even put myself in space. I have always believed that after the 0-gravity novelty wears off you would be quite bored.
It's free to send it to a black-hole (shredder) I think that is a lot more novel than having it clutter the god damn moon.
But this sort of shit just pisses me off. Just ignore what I have to say I guess.
unfortunatly it won't.
at this point MS knows that they can attempt to kill off most of the pirating (yes, there are some copies that do not have to be registered). They have allowed it to go on long enough and have gotten a pretty nice niche (don't you think?)
They know that people are going to want to run Windows software and they know that most of their previous products have pretty much sucked. Win2k and XP are actually decent (from what I have heard).
I can't see people running XP over Win2k when they are both pretty stable.
What do I know though?
I am weary of any keyboard that completely changes the layout that most are accustomed to..
I have tried many keyboards but I have found that any keyboard that is supposedly better for your wrists actually causes me immense pain for several days (long enough to have me cease its use).
I am currently using a MS keyboard of some sort that has one of those wrist rests. It works fine. My main problem is that I keep breaking the metal folding chairs that are inexpensive enough for me to afford and I have to keep reverting to a footstool w/a pillow on it for my desk. It is very low and doesn't really make the angle of the wrists very good.
The other keys that must be reached by your thumbs on this pyramid thing would actually be a bigger pain in the ass than they are worth.
I guess I will continue to type the old fashioned way. Hell, I still prefer standard transmissions, regular phones, and non-power anything.
*IF*
that's the problem. The god damn SSN isn't used properly (my fucking video store demanded I give them my SSN or I could walk out the door w/o a membership -- they are the only store in town w/a decent DVD selection (3/6.00 ain't fucking bad))
We already know that this will be abused and it won't work. Let's not beat around the bush here. It is going to go the way of everything else. HELL.
I don't want to have a single unique identifier. My CC only has my purchases from my grocery store (if they want to know how many fucking bottles of Coke I drink so be it) but if they start tracking how many times I buy beer at the local drive-thru I am going to get pissed off.
That's exactly what is going to happen. That damn ID UPC is going to be on my neck and seen from satellites up above.
No thanks.
no thank you.
exactly what I say when the grocery stores ask if I want their little tracking device.
we don't need it, we don't want it. no.
They really need to start sending out the Pamela/Tommy video over HDTV so that I can immerse myself in that ;-)
I am sick and tired of the GNU/Linux / Linux arguement.
;-)
Call it whatever you want, just don't call it Microsoft/Linux.
I have Debian.
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
no wasted time compiling, knows the dependencies I need, and it does everything for me.
that's just my opinion though.
ahhh, even when I ran RH I rarely used RPM unless I was just so lazy I didn't feel like compiling (usually for large libraries, etc)
I just don't see the point to this. 20mb seems like a lot of space to waste to run applications that should be ported to both OSs anyway.
I thought that most programs (that are of any use) would compile over on FreeBSD would also compile on Linux and vise versa. Doesn't FreeBSD have the ability to run Linux programs w/the same sort of thing?
What programs would I seriously want to run that are of FreeBSD fame only? None that I know of.
What do I know though?
site is slow, movies are only up during certain times, and there are no descriptions. I would rather the time it takes for CJ to give some information and decent speeds.
blah. Consumption Junction is the only place for serious weirdness in images on the net.
:)
The reason that Google.com is so heavy on traffic is b/c it is the only decent search engine on the net (and the fact that they power Yahoo, etc).
I love Google but it definitly isn't the place for weird images
none of the above.
no overclocking, no hardware problems, and a TNT 16mb card (I believe).
It should NOT have shitty drivers. Remember, everyone supports Windows right?
Blah.
My roommate runs Windows 2000. He is one of those people that just can't stand the god damn thing.
/. is biased, yes we all know this, tough shit. It has been like this for years and it probably won't change. All news media is biased in one way or another (usually politically biased) if you don't believe me you are absolutely wrong.
His video card isn't supported well and the drivers he can use don't support GL and he can't play Quake (big problem).
Before he installed some patches his machine crashed about 10x a day. After patches, at least 2x. He said at least w/Win98 all of his hardware worked and it only crashed every two days or so.
I have suggested he run Linux but he is of the "I know I could learn it, I just don't want to" crew. Which is fine.
What makes me think that Linux is supperior is that his card is supported, it won't crash every 2 days (probably not every 2 months) and it has been getting better overall.
I do NOT believe for a second that Linux is a desktop operating system nor do I think it will be anytime soon. What I do believe is that Win2k is mediocre and needs to have some serious work done to improve it.
Yes
If you don't like the news here there are plenty of other sites you are more than welcome to visit.
While I don't believe that they should be biased I have to live w/the fact that they are. If some site was pro-MS (which most are) I probably wouldn't frequent them as much (and I don't). Go where you are comfortable.
it doesn't really help. People w/a lot of extra IP space are ones w/a decent connection (at least in theory). For me as a two IP DSL user it isn't going to do much for me.
The god damn worm is still hitting my machine every 15s from a new IP and the god damn thing isn't stopping.
Unless someone finds a way to stop the whole thing altogether w/o having to have the person run it manually patch it I am not terribly interested.
They have purple ketchup too. I saw it the other day at Meijer. I was almost disgusted that someone would actually decide that this was a viable product to sell.
;)
Green ketchup is one thing (at least there are fucking green tomatoes), but purple? No.
This is a sad sad day. Designer vegetables/fruits. Scary