Subject pretty much asks it all... I understand that the contract keeps slashdot separate for now, but does it expire ever? What happens in VA wants to take control?
When you're dealing with something like college admissions all you have are statistics. Minorities statistically come from lower income neighborhoods, that means worse schools, that means worse math/vocab, that mean worse SAT scores. People are deluding themselves by ignoring this problem. Legos might be a bit silly, but it can level the playing field, maybe. Of corse, the wealthy are more likely to have legos, so I guess they're still at an advantage.
Anyways, I'd LOVE to see equal oppertunity. I don't like racial quotas for admissions. But on the otherhand, this is just a tool to try to pick the smart people out of those areas where people don't have a whole lot of oppertunity.
Ideally schools would be great everywhere, thats the only real solution. But meanwhile, going a little further to find the smart kids no matter where they are seems like a nice thing to do.
Movies, games, and using my g400's dual monitor stuff are the only reasons I boot into windows. This is one less reason if they actually go through with it. I actually do enjoy the.asf format. Still waiting for quicktime and DVD though. Lets not make this another DVD thread, btw.
I have a bunch of mp3's, about 12gigs worth. Now a good portion is stuff I own on cd, but its just more efficient for me to play them off the computer. Most of the remaining mp3's are things I would NEVER buy on cd. If I hear a song I like, I look for it on mp3. I am not going to pay any amount of money for one song I like and 12 I don't. When I discover a band who has a lot of songs I like (such as orbital) I start buying cd's. Mp3's were the media I first heard them on, so it did pay off for them. I buy cd's cause the quality is better, and I like to support good artists.
I frequent 3 cities. I live in Milwaukee, Go to CMU, and spend a lot of time in Boston with friends. Boston has kick ass public transit, the T will get you where ever you need to go. Milwaukee Busses go everywhere, are plentiful, and reliable. But nothing pisses me off more than trying to catch a bus in Pittsburgh. You wait for 20 minutes, then finally some busses come, all clumped together, and all busting at the seams with people. They don't even stop 3/4's of the time. Pittsburgh needs to build a subway from the airport, to downtown, to oakland, to squirrel hill and shadyside. Tie it in with that one train that services the westside. That would kick serious ass, subways run much better than busses, they don't get stuck in forbes traffic.
No traffic? How long does it take the average person to go along 5th or forbes in oakland? like 20 minutes? There is a ton of traffic. How about those wonderful tunnel bottlenecks, don't hit the freeway system from about 3-6 if you have anything important to do. The downtown is very nice looking, just completely abandoned. I think pittsburgh has a lot of potential. Pennsylvania needs to lower the corporate income tax and get some more big companies to show up.
Well, wasn't the shipping label changed by some clerk at the company? My question is how do you determine whether or not it was an accident? It was shipped to the address that the label indicated, and that label came from the company that shipped it. Seems to me the clerk would be held responsible.
Lets just hope its cold enough for snow and it isn't raining. With that wonderful milwaukee dual storm/sewer system, that could only add to the problem. Although rain would delute it.
Besides, all the sewage we pump into lake michigan just ends up in chicago anyways.:)
yeah, but there is a bit of an alignment problem, because a system like that must either 1)assume your eye posistion, or 2)be able to dynamically determine it and adjust the image accordingly. Otherwise you will be shifting the image you are relyng on to navagate your can with respect to reality. It could get confusing.
No, their own computing code says that anything not marked as public is to be considered private. According to that, they shouldn't even have checked to see if a password dialog box appeared.
Every HDL I've tried other than cadance verilog has pretty much sucked. Granted Cadance's user interface isn't as nice as say, verilogger, but it never crashes. So how is this going to be in terms of stabiliy? Even the HDL that shipps in my professors book "The Verilog Hardware Description Language" sucks.
And I havn't looked yet but did I see 20k? Ugh, why is this stuff so darn expensive?
Hey now... Going to the school(cmu) that had "the largest token ring installiation in the world" I'd like to say it isn't all that bad. We don't have a whole lot of ibm stuff around anymore. The tokenring infrastructure now runs 10/100bt, and the only inconvience is having to buy the $15 strange-tokenring-plug -> rj45 adapters.
These deals come and go all the time.... although microsoft is a bit different from most companies.
Here at CMU all the cluster NT machines have AFS on them. Although why you would want to use one of them as opposed the the linux boxes or sparc's is a mystery to me. The NT boxes suck, and are always screwed up.
I have run both MS stuff and linux. Based on the strong similarity between athena and andrew(our network), its clear that you can use much more of the cool shit running *nix. Duh. This deal makes my stomach turn, but I have a hard time imagining that anyone running a *nix at mit will switch to windows for any reason.
Actually I'm heading out there this weekend to, among other things, set up a friends comptuer at mit... Time for her to make the switch from 98 to debian.:)
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Subject pretty much asks it all... I understand that the contract keeps slashdot separate for now, but does it expire ever? What happens in VA wants to take control?
When you're dealing with something like college admissions all you have are statistics. Minorities statistically come from lower income neighborhoods, that means worse schools, that means worse math/vocab, that mean worse SAT scores. People are deluding themselves by ignoring this problem. Legos might be a bit silly, but it can level the playing field, maybe. Of corse, the wealthy are more likely to have legos, so I guess they're still at an advantage.
Anyways, I'd LOVE to see equal oppertunity. I don't like racial quotas for admissions. But on the otherhand, this is just a tool to try to pick the smart people out of those areas where people don't have a whole lot of oppertunity.
Ideally schools would be great everywhere, thats the only real solution. But meanwhile, going a little further to find the smart kids no matter where they are seems like a nice thing to do.
Movies, games, and using my g400's dual monitor stuff are the only reasons I boot into windows. This is one less reason if they actually go through with it. I actually do enjoy the .asf format. Still waiting for quicktime and DVD though. Lets not make this another DVD thread, btw.
I have a bunch of mp3's, about 12gigs worth. Now a good portion is stuff I own on cd, but its just more efficient for me to play them off the computer. Most of the remaining mp3's are things I would NEVER buy on cd. If I hear a song I like, I look for it on mp3. I am not going to pay any amount of money for one song I like and 12 I don't. When I discover a band who has a lot of songs I like (such as orbital) I start buying cd's. Mp3's were the media I first heard them on, so it did pay off for them. I buy cd's cause the quality is better, and I like to support good artists.
I frequent 3 cities. I live in Milwaukee, Go to CMU, and spend a lot of time in Boston with friends. Boston has kick ass public transit, the T will get you where ever you need to go. Milwaukee Busses go everywhere, are plentiful, and reliable. But nothing pisses me off more than trying to catch a bus in Pittsburgh. You wait for 20 minutes, then finally some busses come, all clumped together, and all busting at the seams with people. They don't even stop 3/4's of the time. Pittsburgh needs to build a subway from the airport, to downtown, to oakland, to squirrel hill and shadyside. Tie it in with that one train that services the westside. That would kick serious ass, subways run much better than busses, they don't get stuck in forbes traffic.
No traffic? How long does it take the average person to go along 5th or forbes in oakland? like 20 minutes? There is a ton of traffic. How about those wonderful tunnel bottlenecks, don't hit the freeway system from about 3-6 if you have anything important to do. The downtown is very nice looking, just completely abandoned. I think pittsburgh has a lot of potential. Pennsylvania needs to lower the corporate income tax and get some more big companies to show up.
Well, wasn't the shipping label changed by some clerk at the company? My question is how do you determine whether or not it was an accident? It was shipped to the address that the label indicated, and that label came from the company that shipped it. Seems to me the clerk would be held responsible.
Lets just hope its cold enough for snow and it isn't raining. With that wonderful milwaukee dual storm/sewer system, that could only add to the problem. Although rain would delute it.
:)
Besides, all the sewage we pump into lake michigan just ends up in chicago anyways.
yeah, but there is a bit of an alignment problem, because a system like that must either 1)assume your eye posistion, or 2)be able to dynamically determine it and adjust the image accordingly. Otherwise you will be shifting the image you are relyng on to navagate your can with respect to reality. It could get confusing.
No, their own computing code says that anything not marked as public is to be considered private. According to that, they shouldn't even have checked to see if a password dialog box appeared.
Every HDL I've tried other than cadance verilog has pretty much sucked. Granted Cadance's user interface isn't as nice as say, verilogger, but it never crashes. So how is this going to be in terms of stabiliy? Even the HDL that shipps in my professors book "The Verilog Hardware Description Language" sucks.
And I havn't looked yet but did I see 20k? Ugh, why is this stuff so darn expensive?
Hey now... Going to the school(cmu) that had "the largest token ring installiation in the world" I'd like to say it isn't all that bad. We don't have a whole lot of ibm stuff around anymore. The tokenring infrastructure now runs 10/100bt, and the only inconvience is having to buy the $15 strange-tokenring-plug -> rj45 adapters.
These deals come and go all the time.... although microsoft is a bit different from most companies.
Here at CMU all the cluster NT machines have AFS on them. Although why you would want to use one of them as opposed the the linux boxes or sparc's is a mystery to me. The NT boxes suck, and are always screwed up.
:)
I have run both MS stuff and linux. Based on the strong similarity between athena and andrew(our network), its clear that you can use much more of the cool shit running *nix. Duh. This deal makes my stomach turn, but I have a hard time imagining that anyone running a *nix at mit will switch to windows for any reason.
Actually I'm heading out there this weekend to, among other things, set up a friends comptuer at mit... Time for her to make the switch from 98 to debian.