StarOffice was purely commercial for a long time, until Sun bought them and opened the code. I don't know how much of that has since been replaced, or even how much of a difference this makes, but it isn't unreasonable to consider this.
Especially for engineering. I used to live no more than ten blocks from campus, and I now live 5 minutes from there, so I and my friends from school have spoken to each other about Tulane w.r.t education for the price---and we would know about expensive education, because we went to an expensive private high school. But that's just my unbased (but very biased) opinion---I actually don't know much about the Engineering department, except that Tulane isn't known much for it.
I will mention that several engineering students from Tulane spent this semester up here at Georgia Tech; I don't know who any of them are, but perhaps you can find out if you are so inclined.
* I noticed that you are ROTC (unless that isn't a picture of you on your site), so perhaps they are picking up the tab. Also, if you are studying engineering related to water, Tulane may yet be an appropriate place, as schools in our area tend to have a vested interest in water flow and control structures, as has been all to clearly demonstrated to everyone. But don't quote me on that. Go talk to your advisors.
I will now restate verbatim a comment I wrote on another site.
It sounds like a fsckin' Rube Goldberg machine in comparison to everybody else's solution, which is to not require reboots to update most things in the first place, and to let the admin put all changes in place at his discretion, and to defer the problem of saving state to applications, because the application can best handle the equivalent of a SIGTERM itself. If a program is important enough, it will have its own handler to dump its state to disk.
Sure, it's an inventive solution, but an inventive solution isn't the most robust solution as often as you think and just as often doesn't belong on a production system; much of the time, complexity just makes for bad engineering. As such, I agree with the comment (from the article):
Anthony Risicato, the general manager for search and contextual at 360i LLC in New York, told eWEEK that Restart Manager is a concept that, in a vacuum, seems like a wonderful idea.
"Get the 'latest and greatest' the minute it's available. But I do not like it, because it is trying to solve the effect, and not the cause," he said.
You know it's true. They've had to resort to artificial supercomplexity because they painted themselves into a corner architecturally. Good luck getting this to work with any reliability.
butyric acid (nasty smelling chemical in vomit and rancid dairy products) + ethanol + sulfuric acid (IIRC; I know it's one of the strong acids) -> ethyl butyrate (essence of pineapple)
It just makes no sense to try and provoke intelligent discussion on slashdot.
If it makes no sense to attempt intelligent discussion, why are you still here? Just for the entertainment value of saying that Slashdot sucks on Slashdot? Some would call that trolling. How is your statement, therefore, not a troll? And would you not agree that you statement has backfired, since (at least from my perspective) I am providing an intelligent response (but not an answer) to your question?
And I would like electronic paper for note-taking and scheduling as well. Nothing quite fits the parameters yet. A PDA is too small, a tablet PC is too heavy, a laptop is too unwieldy, and none of them have the required battery life.
I wouldn't call it exclusively or even primarily "geek", but I do agree that it's good. Seven of the eight "independent reading" books required of me in the fourth grade were the Chronicles.
This makes it likely for other those so inclined to understand our point. They even note the paradoxical effect that manditory enforcement of copyright would have on Microsoft and other monopolist companies relying on licensed products.
However, I notice that there is very little variety in the links at the end of the document. Maybe they should point to a few different places---the FFII website might be a good start, as they seem to come out as being friendly to (small- and medium-sized) business IMO, and they're European.
Sure, it could be useful having an extra source of reference, but I can always write down terms and concepts to be looked for later.
Ideally, the device that would most benefit me in class would be electronic paper: a 16 color device, thinner, lighter, and with much better battery life than current Tablet PCs, with both a stylus and a keyboard (I personally would prefer physical and on-screen, but on-screen alone would work too). Its primary use would be to take down and organize notes, but I could imagine it having a syncable scheduler too.
Actually, I can't even do (non-programming) homework with a computer around; it's just too damn tempting to not work.
Perhaps there are many more non-geeks in engineering and the physical sciences than in computer science. Perhaps because this network on which we now communicate became what it is because of those who studied something closer to CS than EE (the engineers built the network physically, but the computer scientists built up the network in software)---this network which now links geeks, pseudo-geeks, and non-geeks of all kinds together.
Ah, but I merely made an implication. If the first operand of an implication is false, the statement is vacuously true; and I certainly made no assertion about the truthfulness of that statement-operand.
Anyway, go look up the concept of the "telomere"; it's one of the many mechanisms on the cellular level that limit the lifespan of a multi-cellular organism.
Slashdot Mirror
Fluxbox all the way.
The real solution is so simple, it may be beyond the grasp of marketers: make advertisements worth watching.
Couldn't agree more.
And don't play it every commercial break.
Sometimes, they play a commercial twice in the same break.
As I see it, the very worst case scenario: it's the second coming of asbestos.
<shudder/>
Really, anybody who decides that more research into the health effects isn't worth it does not get a gold star in risk management.
I never thought I'd find myself saying this, but I just don't think the internet is weird enough.
Please tell me I did not just read that.
You've got to be kidding me.
StarOffice was purely commercial for a long time, until Sun bought them and opened the code. I don't know how much of that has since been replaced, or even how much of a difference this makes, but it isn't unreasonable to consider this.
Especially for engineering. I used to live no more than ten blocks from campus, and I now live 5 minutes from there, so I and my friends from school have spoken to each other about Tulane w.r.t education for the price---and we would know about expensive education, because we went to an expensive private high school. But that's just my unbased (but very biased) opinion---I actually don't know much about the Engineering department, except that Tulane isn't known much for it.
I will mention that several engineering students from Tulane spent this semester up here at Georgia Tech; I don't know who any of them are, but perhaps you can find out if you are so inclined.
* I noticed that you are ROTC (unless that isn't a picture of you on your site), so perhaps they are picking up the tab. Also, if you are studying engineering related to water, Tulane may yet be an appropriate place, as schools in our area tend to have a vested interest in water flow and control structures, as has been all to clearly demonstrated to everyone. But don't quote me on that. Go talk to your advisors.
How much do ink refills cost? (DRTFA)
It sounds like a fsckin' Rube Goldberg machine in comparison to everybody else's solution, which is to not require reboots to update most things in the first place, and to let the admin put all changes in place at his discretion, and to defer the problem of saving state to applications, because the application can best handle the equivalent of a SIGTERM itself. If a program is important enough, it will have its own handler to dump its state to disk.
Sure, it's an inventive solution, but an inventive solution isn't the most robust solution as often as you think and just as often doesn't belong on a production system; much of the time, complexity just makes for bad engineering. As such, I agree with the comment (from the article): You know it's true. They've had to resort to artificial supercomplexity because they painted themselves into a corner architecturally. Good luck getting this to work with any reliability.
42, 42, 42, 42, 42, and 42
Thanks to a loophole in German tax laws, he and his investors actually make *more* money the more a movie tanks at the box office.
That plot's clearly been done before.
The people on the Internet aren't ready for XHTML 1.0 Strict.
-1, Sporkless
Are the standardized extensions allowed to be patented into oblivion? I mean, think about who we're talking about.
Water, I think. This was four years ago that I had the reaction demonstrated, so I may have forgotten some details.
butyric acid (nasty smelling chemical in vomit and rancid dairy products) + ethanol + sulfuric acid (IIRC; I know it's one of the strong acids) -> ethyl butyrate (essence of pineapple)
http://ghostbusters360.ytmnd.com/
It just makes no sense to try and provoke intelligent discussion on slashdot.
If it makes no sense to attempt intelligent discussion, why are you still here? Just for the entertainment value of saying that Slashdot sucks on Slashdot? Some would call that trolling. How is your statement, therefore, not a troll? And would you not agree that you statement has backfired, since (at least from my perspective) I am providing an intelligent response (but not an answer) to your question?
And I would like electronic paper for note-taking and scheduling as well. Nothing quite fits the parameters yet. A PDA is too small, a tablet PC is too heavy, a laptop is too unwieldy, and none of them have the required battery life.
I wouldn't call it exclusively or even primarily "geek", but I do agree that it's good. Seven of the eight "independent reading" books required of me in the fourth grade were the Chronicles.
False. It's so much more satisfying to read something on paper. Easier on the eyes, too.
Machine-readable is better for searching and light reading. Paper is better for heavy reading. The two formats complement each other.
This makes it likely for other those so inclined to understand our point. They even note the paradoxical effect that manditory enforcement of copyright would have on Microsoft and other monopolist companies relying on licensed products.
However, I notice that there is very little variety in the links at the end of the document. Maybe they should point to a few different places---the FFII website might be a good start, as they seem to come out as being friendly to (small- and medium-sized) business IMO, and they're European.
Sure, it could be useful having an extra source of reference, but I can always write down terms and concepts to be looked for later.
Ideally, the device that would most benefit me in class would be electronic paper: a 16 color device, thinner, lighter, and with much better battery life than current Tablet PCs, with both a stylus and a keyboard (I personally would prefer physical and on-screen, but on-screen alone would work too). Its primary use would be to take down and organize notes, but I could imagine it having a syncable scheduler too.
Actually, I can't even do (non-programming) homework with a computer around; it's just too damn tempting to not work.
Perhaps there are many more non-geeks in engineering and the physical sciences than in computer science. Perhaps because this network on which we now communicate became what it is because of those who studied something closer to CS than EE (the engineers built the network physically, but the computer scientists built up the network in software)---this network which now links geeks, pseudo-geeks, and non-geeks of all kinds together.
Ah, but I merely made an implication. If the first operand of an implication is false, the statement is vacuously true; and I certainly made no assertion about the truthfulness of that statement-operand.
Anyway, go look up the concept of the "telomere"; it's one of the many mechanisms on the cellular level that limit the lifespan of a multi-cellular organism.
Even if aging is somehow conquered, this doesn't prevent trauma from being a cause of death.