Good idea; if you make it to a master's or doctoral degree in a real academic field you can always get a job teaching at universities; someone always needs at very least an adjunct.
Evidently you already have a computer, so next time you get a computer, get a really nice one and quit buying more consoles. Retain the current ones if you want, but buy no more.
First of, IANBBMAW (I am not British, but my ancestors were).
That's right, as I recall. In case of Parliament going nuts or somesuch, or divided beyond being able to form even a coalition government, it is the duty of Her Majesty to get an appointed PM in place until matters can resolve. Example: if in the next British election, noone holds a majority or can form a coalition (or some Fascists turn up out of the blue), the monarchy would most likely exercise constitutional duty and keep Blair on Downing Street.
What you fail to understand is that well-designed, quality Apple hardware is at least half of the reason people buy Macs. I bought an iBook because all the other low-end affordable laptops look like junk in comparison, and frankly, before that day I'd never actually owned a Mac, or used one in a truly heavy manner. I heard that OS X was better than XP, and was a Unix so the command line would more or less feel like the Linux I know and love, but mainly I wanted a nice, small lightweight laptop with a good battery and a price tag fitting of its capabilities. As of today, Gateway doesn't even make 12" laptops (they made a $1600 or somesuch at the time) and neither does Dell or HP/CPQ. When you are moving around a university campus with a bunch of textbooks (that are, shall we say, lightweight in content alone if at all and plenty bulky), you don't want to also carry a 15" computer.
With hardware, you get what you pay for. As aqn example, the eMac may be $800, but it's also the sturdiest all-in-one out there and I'll frankly be disappointed if there aren't any in service in eight years.
I actually happen to have a third-generation iPod. I was addressing multiple points, but yes, if all you use your PDA for is address book you'd probably be better served on long-distance travel to just take an iPod if you have one.
It's called a "troll."
Anyone can tell you that an airplane is the IDEAL environment for iPod use, and encouraging people to leave their PDAs at home is simply foolish; supposing someone foolishly followed such advice, and found need of an address book? Most PDA owners do not probably sit down and copy all addresses to a paper address book every Saturday night and carry that on planes, and you never know when you might forget an important phone number.
Good luck!
p.s., if you have a stock option, you MIGHT be getting bigger dividends, because thousands of Windows machines = tens (if not hundreds) of thousands of dollars in licensing costs, and that's not even including Office.
Most Slashdotters think Microsoft has sort of developed and abused a monopoly, if I recall.
Their worst actions entail forcing free, if sometimes defective products upon people: Internet Explorer, Windows Media Player, Microsoft Java. You are not forced to use any of these three things, though WMA/WMV files force you to use WMP. You can still download Mozilla, Real, and Sun Java.
Walmart, on the other hand, is known for going into a town or city, dropping a superstore, underpricing everyone until most of the competition goes belly up, and then raising prices higher than ever. That's exactly what they're doing with the music sales business right now. They'll first run Buymusic out, because that's who they're most like. Next to fall will be Napster, which isn't doing well because it is a miserable copy of the miserable original; among the classical Napsterite audience they target, most have gone to either other piracy services or to iTunes or similar. Microsoft, and even Apple, may be run out by Walmart. Walmart then can raise the price of a song to $1.25 or higher with impunity, because there is no competition.
Also, it must be kept in mind that whoever emerges from this new industry's birth as victor will no doubt next go after the labels. Do you want people singing on the Wal-Mart label?
Well, actually, he didn't do anything except insert a loopback somewhere up in Quicktime...you could already do about the same thing with any audio capture utility, or for that matter a CD-RW drive.
Until, that is, you realize that you're spending two minutes of an hour-long exam on a long division you COULD do in five seconds if you hit buttons fast. And that the test is calibrated for calculator users, not to mention the fact that the machine is generally infallible at what it is capable of doing.
Sounds like exaggerationist shock reporting to me. One vulnerability (as some have pointed out, disabled by default) is nothing compared to a history of worms. Anything can be cracked, given time, but Unixoid systems seem more secure than Windows-based ones, especially in terms of worms and whatnot. If a Linux worm (as an example) were as easily possible as a Windows one, we'd have Linux worms going around knocking out servers left and right. And as for OS X, like I said, one vulnerability does not render the system "insecure." It is moreover a downright lie to say that Windows is more secure; perhaps Windows XP Pro comes close, but it is overpriced relative to XP Home and, yes, OS X. I bought a $2000 or so computer last time, with LCD but not including the rebate, and sure didn't spring the extra $80 for XP Pro and its evident security enhancements. It didn't seem worth it. Besides, it's not really very easy to do almost anything under Windows with internal security features turned on; it doesn't just prompt you for a root/admin password. As I recall, you have to log out and switch accounts.
Because Bioware were the actual makers of Baldur's Gate II; ergo, I imagine a lot of the money went to them and was thusly used to fund the creation of Neverwinter Nights.
...the GPLing of the Infinity Engine.
It's largely obsolete for anything commercial, but I'd love to see a native port and various open source engine improvements of Baldur's Gate ala Doom etc.
I never said it wasn't...and by no means am I a zealot in the sense you intend.
What I said is that the admin accounts in OS X are not the root account; the actual root requires a sudo or a root exploit. I was talking of internal, not external, security.
Crazy Taxi came out in 2000, it seems.
Midtown Madness was out before that, as I recall; I know MTM2 had a lot of taxi stuff, but I think the original had taxi missions as well.
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Good idea; if you make it to a master's or doctoral degree in a real academic field you can always get a job teaching at universities; someone always needs at very least an adjunct.
Evidently you already have a computer, so next time you get a computer, get a really nice one and quit buying more consoles. Retain the current ones if you want, but buy no more.
The "huge deal" is the prohibition on passenger-side front-seat usage of such devices.
Never said that the little guys and gals at SCO deserved it, did I? But I sure as hell predict they're gonna get it.
You, dear sir or madam, are the proud owner of a portable hard drive / Firewire-loaded shelf system.
First of, IANBBMAW (I am not British, but my ancestors were).
That's right, as I recall. In case of Parliament going nuts or somesuch, or divided beyond being able to form even a coalition government, it is the duty of Her Majesty to get an appointed PM in place until matters can resolve. Example: if in the next British election, noone holds a majority or can form a coalition (or some Fascists turn up out of the blue), the monarchy would most likely exercise constitutional duty and keep Blair on Downing Street.
Or, y'know, if your potential employers have been reading the Times overmuch and think SCO litigous.
What you fail to understand is that well-designed, quality Apple hardware is at least half of the reason people buy Macs. I bought an iBook because all the other low-end affordable laptops look like junk in comparison, and frankly, before that day I'd never actually owned a Mac, or used one in a truly heavy manner. I heard that OS X was better than XP, and was a Unix so the command line would more or less feel like the Linux I know and love, but mainly I wanted a nice, small lightweight laptop with a good battery and a price tag fitting of its capabilities. As of today, Gateway doesn't even make 12" laptops (they made a $1600 or somesuch at the time) and neither does Dell or HP/CPQ. When you are moving around a university campus with a bunch of textbooks (that are, shall we say, lightweight in content alone if at all and plenty bulky), you don't want to also carry a 15" computer.
With hardware, you get what you pay for. As aqn example, the eMac may be $800, but it's also the sturdiest all-in-one out there and I'll frankly be disappointed if there aren't any in service in eight years.
I actually happen to have a third-generation iPod. I was addressing multiple points, but yes, if all you use your PDA for is address book you'd probably be better served on long-distance travel to just take an iPod if you have one.
It's called a "troll." Anyone can tell you that an airplane is the IDEAL environment for iPod use, and encouraging people to leave their PDAs at home is simply foolish; supposing someone foolishly followed such advice, and found need of an address book? Most PDA owners do not probably sit down and copy all addresses to a paper address book every Saturday night and carry that on planes, and you never know when you might forget an important phone number.
Well, there are Fedora and Mandrake, which involve putting a CD in and navigating with a mouse.
Baldur's Gate II? That's been out since...lessee...2000.
Good luck! p.s., if you have a stock option, you MIGHT be getting bigger dividends, because thousands of Windows machines = tens (if not hundreds) of thousands of dollars in licensing costs, and that's not even including Office.
It's iPod, not Ipod. Anything else is trademark degradation, and we all know there's enough of that these days.
Most Slashdotters think Microsoft has sort of developed and abused a monopoly, if I recall.
Their worst actions entail forcing free, if sometimes defective products upon people: Internet Explorer, Windows Media Player, Microsoft Java. You are not forced to use any of these three things, though WMA/WMV files force you to use WMP. You can still download Mozilla, Real, and Sun Java.
Walmart, on the other hand, is known for going into a town or city, dropping a superstore, underpricing everyone until most of the competition goes belly up, and then raising prices higher than ever. That's exactly what they're doing with the music sales business right now. They'll first run Buymusic out, because that's who they're most like. Next to fall will be Napster, which isn't doing well because it is a miserable copy of the miserable original; among the classical Napsterite audience they target, most have gone to either other piracy services or to iTunes or similar. Microsoft, and even Apple, may be run out by Walmart. Walmart then can raise the price of a song to $1.25 or higher with impunity, because there is no competition.
Also, it must be kept in mind that whoever emerges from this new industry's birth as victor will no doubt next go after the labels. Do you want people singing on the Wal-Mart label?Well, actually, he didn't do anything except insert a loopback somewhere up in Quicktime...you could already do about the same thing with any audio capture utility, or for that matter a CD-RW drive.
Until, that is, you realize that you're spending two minutes of an hour-long exam on a long division you COULD do in five seconds if you hit buttons fast. And that the test is calibrated for calculator users, not to mention the fact that the machine is generally infallible at what it is capable of doing.
Netsex (exempli gratis, network-based interpersonal interactive pornagraphy) for goods or services, I presume.
Sounds like exaggerationist shock reporting to me. One vulnerability (as some have pointed out, disabled by default) is nothing compared to a history of worms. Anything can be cracked, given time, but Unixoid systems seem more secure than Windows-based ones, especially in terms of worms and whatnot. If a Linux worm (as an example) were as easily possible as a Windows one, we'd have Linux worms going around knocking out servers left and right. And as for OS X, like I said, one vulnerability does not render the system "insecure." It is moreover a downright lie to say that Windows is more secure; perhaps Windows XP Pro comes close, but it is overpriced relative to XP Home and, yes, OS X. I bought a $2000 or so computer last time, with LCD but not including the rebate, and sure didn't spring the extra $80 for XP Pro and its evident security enhancements. It didn't seem worth it. Besides, it's not really very easy to do almost anything under Windows with internal security features turned on; it doesn't just prompt you for a root/admin password. As I recall, you have to log out and switch accounts.
Because Bioware were the actual makers of Baldur's Gate II; ergo, I imagine a lot of the money went to them and was thusly used to fund the creation of Neverwinter Nights.
...the GPLing of the Infinity Engine. It's largely obsolete for anything commercial, but I'd love to see a native port and various open source engine improvements of Baldur's Gate ala Doom etc.
I never said it wasn't...and by no means am I a zealot in the sense you intend. What I said is that the admin accounts in OS X are not the root account; the actual root requires a sudo or a root exploit. I was talking of internal, not external, security.
Much agreed. For this purpose a Linux server would probably be best for all involved.
Crazy Taxi came out in 2000, it seems. Midtown Madness was out before that, as I recall; I know MTM2 had a lot of taxi stuff, but I think the original had taxi missions as well.