I've got 2K Pro on a PPro 200. It runs fine. Startup isn't too bad, navigating and basic OS stuff is fine. Apps load a bit slow, as expected, but it's really not bad.
I must agree with Prior. How the "I don't get it" post got modded to 5 Insightful is beyond me. Internally inconsistent, missed the point of the parent (OFFICIAL support; see the OFFICIAL there?), obviously has no experience working in a large corporation (or any environment outside of their 2 computers at home), and thus has no credibility.
But, it does reflect the knee-jerk reaction of somebody who's figured things out for themselves at home and thinks that that's as hard as it gets.
Coupl-a points: Managers CAN point the finger at vendors. 1st, they get support contracts so that when things don't work a vender rep comes out (not quite the same as hoping Fred from down the block isn't on vacation, or the local LUG has somebody with the right experience and can come out tomorrow and has some sort of liability insurance in case of disaster). 2nd, vendors hype their products, and often the managers picking them don't know any better. They can say that the vendor told them they could do X; it's not the managers fault if they lied. And, all vendors know that, first you get the job, then you see how you're going to do it. 3rd, you don't spend 10K hiring a manager and pay him 100K a year just to fire them if the software they picked in one instance has some bugs. Also, the amount of shit software that gets run in corporate environments is staggering. The expectation is that there will be problems.
Same issue with "cracking the whip". You CAN actually get a response from some SW vendors. Managers are more comfortable knowing that there is a company that cares about its profits supplying them software; one that can at least be threatened with looking for another vendor. Somebody writing SW in their spare time could care less which companies run it. There's no financial incentive for them to fix a bug, and that's all corporations/managers understand. Well, that and CYA. And you don't CYA by saying that your software is supported by one guy in Wyoming... well, maybe somebody at the local LUG might know about it and be available 24/7, I hope, yeah. You either have an OFFICIAL service contract or you don't. Think Yoda. Do or Don't. Mumbling shit about, well I tried, yeah, kinda, there should be somebody, let me post an email to a list and see if somebody responds. That don't cut it. YES or NO? If you say NO, *then* your dumb ass is fired. But, if you can say you did all you could picking a vendor and support contract, then it's *their* fault if it doesn't work, not yours.
What kind of "support" did I need? Zero. How many support calls did I have make? None because I quickly learned that Google + LUG is a much faster way to get answers.
Hmm, so you made NO support calls, but know that Google is FASTER than support calls. Sure did learn it quick. As in, before you even tried it.
Why I'm wasting time writing this... Hmm, just saw an Anon post about twitter being a known troll. Yep, got me good. 'Cause it's either that or fucking know-it-all pimple-faced speak-out-my-ass fucktard.
So, I don't understand your point? What experience have you really had?
I must agree with Prior. How the "I don't get it" post got modded to 5 Insightful is beyond me. Internally inconsistent, missed the point of the parent (OFFICIAL support; see the OFFICIAL there?), obviously has no experience working in a large corporation (or any environment outside of their 2 computers at home), and thus has no credibility.
But, it does reflect the knee-jerk reaction of somebody who's figured things out for themselves at home and thinks that that's as hard as it gets.
Coupl-a points: Managers CAN point the finger at vendors. 1st, they get support contracts so that when things don't work a vender rep comes out (not quite the same as hoping Fred from down the block isn't on vacation, or the local LUG has somebody with the right experience and can come out tomorrow and has some sort of liability insurance in case of disaster). 2nd, vendors hype their products, and often the managers picking them don't know any better. They can say that the vendor told them they could do X; it's not the managers fault if they lied. And, all vendors know that, first you get the job, then you see how you're going to do it. 3rd, you don't spend 10K hiring a manager and pay him 100K a year just to fire them if the software they picked in one instance has some bugs. Also, the amount of shit software that gets run in corporate environments is staggering. The expectation is that there will be problems.
Same issue with "cracking the whip". You CAN actually get a response from some SW vendors. Managers are more comfortable knowing that there is a company that cares about its profits supplying them software; one that can at least be threatened with looking for another vendor. Somebody writing SW in their spare time could care less which companies run it. There's no financial incentive for them to fix a bug, and that's all corporations/managers understand. Well, that and CYA. And you don't CYA by saying that your software is supported by one guy in Wyoming... well, maybe somebody at the local LUG might know about it and be available 24/7, I hope, yeah. You either have an OFFICIAL service contract or you don't. Think Yoda. Do or Don't. Mumbling shit about, well I tried, yeah, kinda, there should be somebody, let me post an email to a list and see if somebody responds. That don't cut it. YES or NO? If you say NO, *then* your dumb ass is fired. But, if you can say you did all you could picking a vendor and support contract, then it's *their* fault if it doesn't work, not yours.
What kind of "support" did I need? Zero. How many support calls did I have make? None because I quickly learned that Google + LUG is a much faster way to get answers.
Hmm, so you made NO support calls, but know that Google is FASTER than support calls. Sure did learn it quick. As in, before you even tried it.
Why I'm wasting time writing this... Hmm, just saw an Anon post about twitter being a known troll. Yep, got me good. 'Cause it's either that or fucking know-it-all pimple-faced speak-out-my-ass fucktard.
What if you want a top of the line computer (rather than the mediocre stuff that Dell sells), but don't know how (not just putting the pieces together, but researching *which* pieces are best and compatible)?
If somebody asked me, I'd point them to Alienware.
(I'd probably decline building a friend a top of the line system for liability reasons. If I screw something up that I can't return, I may have to eat the cost of a $600 video card. That would definitely erase any profit. Sure, it's a small chance, but there's more liability there than profit potential for me.)
If you aren't paying $80 or more for a PSU alone you aren't spending enough.
BULL SHIT. You can buy Sparkle and Enlight 300W P4 ready power supplies for $30 (check newegg). There's a Zalman noise-free for $55. If you're paying $80 or more for a PSU, you're either running one hell of a top-of-the-line system with power hungry CPU, GPU, and lots of hard drives, or you're getting fleeced.
Think "lizard". Look in dark, damp areas, such as the basements of middle-aged couples.
They also congregate in large groups searching for mating partners, often called "Con"s. Unfortunately for the males, only 1 female shows up for every 100 - 1000 males. The species only survives because of mutations in the offspring of otherwise "normal" breeding pairs.
I'm using a GForce 2MX on a Thunderbird 800 oc'd to 1GHz. Runs just fine. Don't know the frame rate, but I'm usually in the top quarter of kills. Top half if there are a number of good people playing.
I do get *some* frame rate problems and associated deaths, but not so much that I can't enjoy the game.
I've already posted about this like 3 times. But, in short:
The recommendations are so high because they don't want the students and parents complaining in 3-4 years that they have to buy a new computer for their last year of college because their current one can't do what they need it to.
In '93, when the recommendation was a 66MHz 486/16MB/340MB and 5 years later it was a 200MHz PII/64-128MB/2GB or something, it was a bigger deal than now.
But, think of 4 years ago, 2000, when some people still in school bought their computers. Do you still run that some configuration for your day-to-day computer uses? CPU, RAM, HD space? I have friends that can tell you exactly what was available, but I'm thinking PIII 500/128-256/5GB or so.
Of course, it's probably cheaper to buy 2-3 older systems during the course of 4-6 years (assuming you only buy one monitor) than to buy one top-of-the-line system. But good luck explaining that to parents and anybody not very familiar with computers.
Also, the Dell and Apple links are to get student prices on the machines. If there's any kickback, it's on a price that you can't get unless you're a student [and yes, the price is lower;) ]
In '93, my $3000 486 66MHz DX/2, 16MB RAM, 340MB hard drive was top of the line. A friend of mine thought I confused my amount of RAM with my HD size when I told him how much RAM I had. When I graduated, PIIs with 128MB RAM and 2GB HD were commonplace.
It's not quite so extreme now, of course. An older 1GHz/512MB/10GB will run anything will run school applications well enough (and is basically what I have at home and play good games on), but the idea is still true. Also, those are only the recommended systems. They do let students bring in older systems.
The flat panel is recommended because of built-in desk space. The design used in the dorms isn't very condusive to monitors; 19" CRT monitors have to be put in a corner (due to the depth of the desk and the wall behind it), making the keyboard and mouse awkward to use, and 21" CRTs won't fit at all (due to the height of a built-in shelf above the desk). They've already broken ground for new dorms that will be more computer friendly, as opposed to the 1960's design the students are stuck with for now.
I also had problems with professors promising things they didn't have the authority to (like saying I could in the class after drop/add was done, and transfer out of the advanced course at any time). Luckily, I talked to the Dean (Robinson, I think), and got things worked out. It took a few visits and me repeatedly saying that, yes, I now know it's against the policy, but at the time my Prof told me it was OK, so why should I think I needed to check with anybody else?
The only professor I've heard of that openly berates students is Liteman (probably spelled wrong). He's a Jewish (only mentioned to narrow down any confusion as to who I might be talking about, since he wears his yarmukle all the time) math professor. To sum him up, and for the record, he eats babies. (I only had him for one day when he subbed in one of my math classes. He knew what we were covering, deliberately went way beoynd it, asked students questions on theory that he'd just mentioned and not explained, and then called the whole class stupid. All I can figure is that he learned the whole of mathematics straight through in a week by reading a few books and never having to study or do exampls, and considers anyone who can't do that to be an idiot. That, or he's devil spawn.)
Yes, you DO need to get everything in writing. Then, you have a CHANCE of getting things straight. Their problem is that one person, who doesn't actually have the final authority or even necessarily know the University's rules, will tell you one thing. Then, you go somewhere else, just to finalize some paperwork or something, and get told that you're SOL. Even different levels of administration within a department (say, housing) will tell you different things.
I've heard a story about somebody who got sick and / or depressed and took a semester off and had trouble getting re-imbursed (or never did). The problem was that the family hadn't told the university in a timely manner and hadn't cleared out the room, so most of the semester was already over. But, even if you did things right, I could see having problems, especially with one person saying it was OK and then being told by somebody else that it wasn't.
2) Students can get a routable IP address, but only if they request one.
So, most of the clueless MS-using no-patch installing idiots aren't directly reachable. Of course, this doesn't completely stop the worms from getting in, and once they're in they still mess things up.
Are you saying the Dell and/or Apple posted this to get recognition? And, to do so, they put their product as basically and end note about the fiber network, rather than say "the all new Apple/Dell XXX machine is the only one good enough for Case!"? Gimme a break. There's not a single damn person that would buy a Dell or Mac based on this post, and no logical thinking person should think so. [And, once more, I hate the fucking moderators here.]
However, I'll tell you what this post most likely is: it's an incoming freshman trying to tell everybody how huge his pipe (i.e., dick) is. The link to the recommended systems is the same thing.
Also, they *have* to recommend a computer. They test their network and school-supplied software (anti-virus, MS Office, Mathematica, lots more stuff) with something. They used to say "any computer with a 66MHz 486 processor, 16MB RAM, and 340MB hard drive, will do". But parents and non-computer people who get all confused about what is RAM, HD, MHz, etc, simply need pointed to an example system. People are told, if they ask, that they can bring any brand and / or home built, and they do. Also, some people want to know that their multi-thousand dollar computer for college will be guaranteed to work. My parents forced me to buy the recommended computer rather than a cheaper one I found with the same specs for that reason (of course, I only agreed because Dad said "You have to buy that one; after all I'm the one paying for it", and I thought "OK, it's your money to waste", and then I got stuck paying for everything myself, but that's another story).
Like I've mentioned in a post above, the fiber was installed in the early 90s at the latest (it was there when I started in '93). So, yes, they were looking ahead. They've changed laser and frame types at least twice (10Mbps ethernet in '93 to 155Mbps ATM in '97 to 1Gbps ethernet in '00, where it will likely stay for a good while).
And yes, I think a good part of the decision was to help stand out. Case wants to be known as an MIT / Carnege Mellon class school. People ridiculed the decision to go with fiber saying that 100Mbps (and then, as the years went by, Gbps) ethernet over copper was coming soon. Well, if they would have went with the 2-pair option for 10/100 Mbps ethernet per drop, they wouldn't have been able to upgrade to Gbps without pulling new cable. Also, there is the repeater problem that was brought up. Case Western used to be two seperate schools, and is quite spread out in a doglegged oval shape (takes 1/2 hour to walk from one end to the other). Fiber for at least the backbone was pretty much necessary anyway.
1) They had fiber laid since at least the early 90s. From what I understand, they went straight from Thinnet (coax cable) to fiber. So, it was kind of a 'Look at us' thing, like a lot of universities try to do in different areas to get funding and attract students, but it wasn't recent and solely for Gbps Ethernet. [We had 10Mbps optical cards when I was there in 93-98, then they moved up to 155Mbps ATM for awhile, 97-01 or so] So, copper is great, but they'd have to re-wire the whole university for it:)
2) They used to provide the network card (~450 at the time, I think), which you had to return when you graduated. Now, like other businesses, they're doing a lot to cut costs. One of the ways is to charge a Network Fee for the upgrades they've made recently (Gbps ethernet routers replacing ATM equipment, wireless). It was supposed to be a one-time fee. Now it's every year (maybe even per semester). And, you now have to buy your own Gb Ethernet card. No, it doesn't have to be the one from the book store (but, last I knew, there were very few options in optical Gbps cards). One of the reasons they have the students buy them is because they don't cost $400 now, "only" $220. It pisses off a lot of people and parents. They should just add it to the cost of tuition and supply the students with one, and give them a refund if they already have one.
Also, most people do use the bandwidth (for sharing large files. 4GB movies are commonplace transfers, and can take as little as a few minutes to transfer; 4000MB / 50MBps HD speed = 80 seconds, with real-world speed being about 2-4 times that on a good transfer). Of course, that use is hardly attributable to school, but at least the fiber isn't dark;)
Want to watch a movie? Load up one of the P2P apps, download a 2GB movie as fast as your hard drive can take it, and watch away! Much better than going to the video store;)
Ahh, I see. I was assuming you were not a native English speaker, and that that was why you had the.sig you did. So, I thought that you were confused on the definition of "hear"/"ear", and I thought I might help.
Hmm, you situation makes me wonder if / why there isn't a helper program for distinguishing between homophones(i.e., hear vs. here).
What happens if you do something that upsets your wife? No intercourse for you that night. Really piss her off? None for a week.
If she's mad at you and doesn't really want to be around you, why would you expect her to have sex with you?
If she's "punishing" you by saying "you made me mad, and you don't get sex for a week, even if I'm not mad at you tomorrow", then she's treating you like a child. THAT sort of bullshit needs nipped in the bud one way or another.
It's "hear". "Ear" is the thing on your head than "hears" sounds.
You do have a good point about "thinking machine" vs "voting machine". I think of "a machine that thinks" and "a machine that helps voting". Context and familiarity with a given phrase have a lot to do with interperating some things.
Yikes. Well, one of us is shovelling down a big load of bullshit being fed to us by the news and saying "yum" with every word.
I hope it's not me.
(btw, I know I'm ignorant of certain things and that I may be misinformed, but I don't think that qualifies for idiot. Uh-oh. Since I think I'm something other than an idiot.....)
But here's a few points:
1) You pointed out that part of al-Qaida split off and joined / formed another group. When I start hearing about them being a threat to ContUS, I'll start worrying about them. If there was any evidence of such, the administration would have had NO problem saying "different name, just the same" and the American people would have gone along even better than they did with vague WMD threats.
2) Every indication I've heard is that Bin Laden hates Saddam as much as he hates the US.
3) A dude had a surgery in a country, and that makes him have close ties to the dictator? Maybe he just had the money to pay? In any case, providing safe harbor to one man does not an al-Qaida supporter make.
and a few more such inconsistancies, but the main point is this: The US NEVER asked Iraq to hand over al-Qaida. It was all about the WMDs. If it was about harboring terrorists, Bush sure as hell would have said so.
Also, phrases like "ties went beyond al-Qaida" are misleading (and typical of much of the logic I see in a certain group's efforts to push their agenda; say X is true, provide opinions as fact, repeat that X is thus true, and say how much worse it is by providing real well-known proof that the principal is connected to another, totally un-related, bad item. somehow, the latter is supposed to add credence to the former).
Funny thing is, though, that the link you provided that "connects" Abu Nidal to Saddam says "The London paper Al-Sharq al-Awsat states that there were multiple gunshots and the death was a homicide carried out by Iraqi intelligence agents." Yeah, he was there. And harbored. And assasinated. So, what were Saddam's true intentions? Hard to tell.
I'm not going to argue that Iraq (i.e., Saddam) had no ties to terrorism, just that terrorism is NOT the reason we invaded. You can even ask the Bush administration. In fact, they already answered the question (when they gave reasons that we should go to war). The answer is that it was all about Iraq not complying with the UN resolutions and building WMDs. They never asked for Iraq to turn over terrorists. They never gave Iraq an option of turning over terrorists or be invaded. They DID give an option of allowing weapons inspectors or be invaded. (REALLY weird how the US didn't want UN inspectors even tagging along though)
On another, unrelated, note: I'm tired of hearing the crap about how they "hate us for our freedoms". The Afghans (i.e., al-Qaida) hate us because they defended the border from Russia for a decade, lost millions of their people to the war (our cold war), and in the end, we left them high and dry. "Thanks and all, but fuck off and die in your desert." I'm sure you know all about how the good 'ole USA trained and funded Bin Laden? That we created him, then abandoned him?
Don't get me wrong. It doesn't excuse what they've done, and that for the good of me, they need to die. (yes, I said, "me"; if they could round up the administrations that fucked them over, kill them and their families, and then agree to leave the US alone, I'd probably not care). If they're actually zealots and not happy to stay in their own corner of the world (which I doubt, with all the holy land being over there and all, but who knows), and want to convert the world (hmm, a lot like Christians did in the past, but, again, getting off topic), then they should be restricted and put down unilaterally. Thing is, I believe than Bin Laden is simply using religion to recruit the fanatics he needs. Only a fanatic would stand up against the military might of the US, and even then, only guerilla warfare and clandestine and terrorist attacks will be able to hurt the US.
the streaks are completely expected as described by regular statistics. check out the great math site mathworld.wolfram.com. This http://mathworld.wolfram.com/GamblersRuin.html is a fun read, but the stuff about Fibonacci numbers, coin flipping, and all kinds of card stats are cool. Look for something called Gamblers Fallacy (I think; it's where you double your bet in a coin flip / blackjack until you win).
Well, I know that a brother and sister both made it to the top 50 of one of the recent tournaments (was on TV). Moneymaker sounds familiar, but I don't know if that's the same family...
Sorry, but that's just wrong. The statistics always hold. It's that other things come into play, as well; not that statistics fail to apply.
With blackjack, you can count cards (to a degree, even with multiple-deck shoes). With poker, you have the psychological element that causes players to fold or raise, making the outcome not always go in favor of the player with the best hand (and making those with not the best hand bet more than they otherwise would). But, none of this makes the probability of the next card being the (an) Ace of Spades change.
not on 98, it doesn't. Ctrl-Esc brings up the Start menu. Hitting a letter after that will either select a program or do nothing (if you don't have a selection that starts with that letter)
Seems backward to me. If there have been a lot of low cards played (and thus, a low total), then that means there are a lot of 10s out there, which is good for the player.
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I've got 2K Pro on a PPro 200. It runs fine. Startup isn't too bad, navigating and basic OS stuff is fine. Apps load a bit slow, as expected, but it's really not bad.
I must agree with Prior. How the "I don't get it" post got modded to 5 Insightful is beyond me. Internally inconsistent, missed the point of the parent (OFFICIAL support; see the OFFICIAL there?), obviously has no experience working in a large corporation (or any environment outside of their 2 computers at home), and thus has no credibility.
But, it does reflect the knee-jerk reaction of somebody who's figured things out for themselves at home and thinks that that's as hard as it gets.
Coupl-a points:
Managers CAN point the finger at vendors. 1st, they get support contracts so that when things don't work a vender rep comes out (not quite the same as hoping Fred from down the block isn't on vacation, or the local LUG has somebody with the right experience and can come out tomorrow and has some sort of liability insurance in case of disaster). 2nd, vendors hype their products, and often the managers picking them don't know any better. They can say that the vendor told them they could do X; it's not the managers fault if they lied. And, all vendors know that, first you get the job, then you see how you're going to do it. 3rd, you don't spend 10K hiring a manager and pay him 100K a year just to fire them if the software they picked in one instance has some bugs. Also, the amount of shit software that gets run in corporate environments is staggering. The expectation is that there will be problems.
Same issue with "cracking the whip". You CAN actually get a response from some SW vendors. Managers are more comfortable knowing that there is a company that cares about its profits supplying them software; one that can at least be threatened with looking for another vendor. Somebody writing SW in their spare time could care less which companies run it. There's no financial incentive for them to fix a bug, and that's all corporations/managers understand. Well, that and CYA. And you don't CYA by saying that your software is supported by one guy in Wyoming... well, maybe somebody at the local LUG might know about it and be available 24/7, I hope, yeah. You either have an OFFICIAL service contract or you don't. Think Yoda. Do or Don't. Mumbling shit about, well I tried, yeah, kinda, there should be somebody, let me post an email to a list and see if somebody responds. That don't cut it. YES or NO? If you say NO, *then* your dumb ass is fired. But, if you can say you did all you could picking a vendor and support contract, then it's *their* fault if it doesn't work, not yours.
What kind of "support" did I need? Zero. How many support calls did I have make? None because I quickly learned that Google + LUG is a much faster way to get answers.
Hmm, so you made NO support calls, but know that Google is FASTER than support calls. Sure did learn it quick. As in, before you even tried it.
Why I'm wasting time writing this... Hmm, just saw an Anon post about twitter being a known troll. Yep, got me good. 'Cause it's either that or fucking know-it-all pimple-faced speak-out-my-ass fucktard.
So, I don't understand your point? What experience have you really had?
I must agree with Prior. How the "I don't get it" post got modded to 5 Insightful is beyond me. Internally inconsistent, missed the point of the parent (OFFICIAL support; see the OFFICIAL there?), obviously has no experience working in a large corporation (or any environment outside of their 2 computers at home), and thus has no credibility.
But, it does reflect the knee-jerk reaction of somebody who's figured things out for themselves at home and thinks that that's as hard as it gets.
Coupl-a points:
Managers CAN point the finger at vendors. 1st, they get support contracts so that when things don't work a vender rep comes out (not quite the same as hoping Fred from down the block isn't on vacation, or the local LUG has somebody with the right experience and can come out tomorrow and has some sort of liability insurance in case of disaster). 2nd, vendors hype their products, and often the managers picking them don't know any better. They can say that the vendor told them they could do X; it's not the managers fault if they lied. And, all vendors know that, first you get the job, then you see how you're going to do it. 3rd, you don't spend 10K hiring a manager and pay him 100K a year just to fire them if the software they picked in one instance has some bugs. Also, the amount of shit software that gets run in corporate environments is staggering. The expectation is that there will be problems.
Same issue with "cracking the whip". You CAN actually get a response from some SW vendors. Managers are more comfortable knowing that there is a company that cares about its profits supplying them software; one that can at least be threatened with looking for another vendor. Somebody writing SW in their spare time could care less which companies run it. There's no financial incentive for them to fix a bug, and that's all corporations/managers understand. Well, that and CYA. And you don't CYA by saying that your software is supported by one guy in Wyoming... well, maybe somebody at the local LUG might know about it and be available 24/7, I hope, yeah. You either have an OFFICIAL service contract or you don't. Think Yoda. Do or Don't. Mumbling shit about, well I tried, yeah, kinda, there should be somebody, let me post an email to a list and see if somebody responds. That don't cut it. YES or NO? If you say NO, *then* your dumb ass is fired. But, if you can say you did all you could picking a vendor and support contract, then it's *their* fault if it doesn't work, not yours.
What kind of "support" did I need? Zero. How many support calls did I have make? None because I quickly learned that Google + LUG is a much faster way to get answers.
Hmm, so you made NO support calls, but know that Google is FASTER than support calls. Sure did learn it quick. As in, before you even tried it.
Why I'm wasting time writing this... Hmm, just saw an Anon post about twitter being a known troll. Yep, got me good. 'Cause it's either that or fucking know-it-all pimple-faced speak-out-my-ass fucktard.
What if you want a top of the line computer (rather than the mediocre stuff that Dell sells), but don't know how (not just putting the pieces together, but researching *which* pieces are best and compatible)?
If somebody asked me, I'd point them to Alienware.
(I'd probably decline building a friend a top of the line system for liability reasons. If I screw something up that I can't return, I may have to eat the cost of a $600 video card. That would definitely erase any profit. Sure, it's a small chance, but there's more liability there than profit potential for me.)
If you aren't paying $80 or more for a PSU alone you aren't spending enough.
BULL SHIT. You can buy Sparkle and Enlight 300W P4 ready power supplies for $30 (check newegg). There's a Zalman noise-free for $55. If you're paying $80 or more for a PSU, you're either running one hell of a top-of-the-line system with power hungry CPU, GPU, and lots of hard drives, or you're getting fleeced.
Think "lizard". Look in dark, damp areas, such as the basements of middle-aged couples.
They also congregate in large groups searching for mating partners, often called "Con"s. Unfortunately for the males, only 1 female shows up for every 100 - 1000 males. The species only survives because of mutations in the offspring of otherwise "normal" breeding pairs.
I'm using a GForce 2MX on a Thunderbird 800 oc'd to 1GHz. Runs just fine. Don't know the frame rate, but I'm usually in the top quarter of kills. Top half if there are a number of good people playing.
I do get *some* frame rate problems and associated deaths, but not so much that I can't enjoy the game.
I've already posted about this like 3 times. But, in short:
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The recommendations are so high because they don't want the students and parents complaining in 3-4 years that they have to buy a new computer for their last year of college because their current one can't do what they need it to.
In '93, when the recommendation was a 66MHz 486/16MB/340MB and 5 years later it was a 200MHz PII/64-128MB/2GB or something, it was a bigger deal than now.
But, think of 4 years ago, 2000, when some people still in school bought their computers. Do you still run that some configuration for your day-to-day computer uses? CPU, RAM, HD space? I have friends that can tell you exactly what was available, but I'm thinking PIII 500/128-256/5GB or so.
Of course, it's probably cheaper to buy 2-3 older systems during the course of 4-6 years (assuming you only buy one monitor) than to buy one top-of-the-line system. But good luck explaining that to parents and anybody not very familiar with computers.
Also, the Dell and Apple links are to get student prices on the machines. If there's any kickback, it's on a price that you can't get unless you're a student [and yes, the price is lower
In '93, my $3000 486 66MHz DX/2, 16MB RAM, 340MB hard drive was top of the line. A friend of mine thought I confused my amount of RAM with my HD size when I told him how much RAM I had. When I graduated, PIIs with 128MB RAM and 2GB HD were commonplace.
It's not quite so extreme now, of course. An older 1GHz/512MB/10GB will run anything will run school applications well enough (and is basically what I have at home and play good games on), but the idea is still true. Also, those are only the recommended systems. They do let students bring in older systems.
The flat panel is recommended because of built-in desk space. The design used in the dorms isn't very condusive to monitors; 19" CRT monitors have to be put in a corner (due to the depth of the desk and the wall behind it), making the keyboard and mouse awkward to use, and 21" CRTs won't fit at all (due to the height of a built-in shelf above the desk). They've already broken ground for new dorms that will be more computer friendly, as opposed to the 1960's design the students are stuck with for now.
I also had problems with professors promising things they didn't have the authority to (like saying I could in the class after drop/add was done, and transfer out of the advanced course at any time). Luckily, I talked to the Dean (Robinson, I think), and got things worked out. It took a few visits and me repeatedly saying that, yes, I now know it's against the policy, but at the time my Prof told me it was OK, so why should I think I needed to check with anybody else?
The only professor I've heard of that openly berates students is Liteman (probably spelled wrong). He's a Jewish (only mentioned to narrow down any confusion as to who I might be talking about, since he wears his yarmukle all the time) math professor. To sum him up, and for the record, he eats babies.
(I only had him for one day when he subbed in one of my math classes. He knew what we were covering, deliberately went way beoynd it, asked students questions on theory that he'd just mentioned and not explained, and then called the whole class stupid. All I can figure is that he learned the whole of mathematics straight through in a week by reading a few books and never having to study or do exampls, and considers anyone who can't do that to be an idiot. That, or he's devil spawn.)
Yes, you DO need to get everything in writing. Then, you have a CHANCE of getting things straight. Their problem is that one person, who doesn't actually have the final authority or even necessarily know the University's rules, will tell you one thing. Then, you go somewhere else, just to finalize some paperwork or something, and get told that you're SOL. Even different levels of administration within a department (say, housing) will tell you different things.
I've heard a story about somebody who got sick and / or depressed and took a semester off and had trouble getting re-imbursed (or never did). The problem was that the family hadn't told the university in a timely manner and hadn't cleared out the room, so most of the semester was already over. But, even if you did things right, I could see having problems, especially with one person saying it was OK and then being told by somebody else that it wasn't.
1) Incoming connections are blocked.
2) Students can get a routable IP address, but only if they request one.
So, most of the clueless MS-using no-patch installing idiots aren't directly reachable. Of course, this doesn't completely stop the worms from getting in, and once they're in they still mess things up.
Are you saying the Dell and/or Apple posted this to get recognition? And, to do so, they put their product as basically and end note about the fiber network, rather than say "the all new Apple/Dell XXX machine is the only one good enough for Case!"? Gimme a break. There's not a single damn person that would buy a Dell or Mac based on this post, and no logical thinking person should think so. [And, once more, I hate the fucking moderators here.]
However, I'll tell you what this post most likely is: it's an incoming freshman trying to tell everybody how huge his pipe (i.e., dick) is. The link to the recommended systems is the same thing.
Also, they *have* to recommend a computer. They test their network and school-supplied software (anti-virus, MS Office, Mathematica, lots more stuff) with something. They used to say "any computer with a 66MHz 486 processor, 16MB RAM, and 340MB hard drive, will do". But parents and non-computer people who get all confused about what is RAM, HD, MHz, etc, simply need pointed to an example system. People are told, if they ask, that they can bring any brand and / or home built, and they do. Also, some people want to know that their multi-thousand dollar computer for college will be guaranteed to work. My parents forced me to buy the recommended computer rather than a cheaper one I found with the same specs for that reason (of course, I only agreed because Dad said "You have to buy that one; after all I'm the one paying for it", and I thought "OK, it's your money to waste", and then I got stuck paying for everything myself, but that's another story).
Like I've mentioned in a post above, the fiber was installed in the early 90s at the latest (it was there when I started in '93). So, yes, they were looking ahead. They've changed laser and frame types at least twice (10Mbps ethernet in '93 to 155Mbps ATM in '97 to 1Gbps ethernet in '00, where it will likely stay for a good while).
And yes, I think a good part of the decision was to help stand out. Case wants to be known as an MIT / Carnege Mellon class school. People ridiculed the decision to go with fiber saying that 100Mbps (and then, as the years went by, Gbps) ethernet over copper was coming soon. Well, if they would have went with the 2-pair option for 10/100 Mbps ethernet per drop, they wouldn't have been able to upgrade to Gbps without pulling new cable. Also, there is the repeater problem that was brought up. Case Western used to be two seperate schools, and is quite spread out in a doglegged oval shape (takes 1/2 hour to walk from one end to the other). Fiber for at least the backbone was pretty much necessary anyway.
1) They had fiber laid since at least the early 90s. From what I understand, they went straight from Thinnet (coax cable) to fiber. So, it was kind of a 'Look at us' thing, like a lot of universities try to do in different areas to get funding and attract students, but it wasn't recent and solely for Gbps Ethernet. [We had 10Mbps optical cards when I was there in 93-98, then they moved up to 155Mbps ATM for awhile, 97-01 or so] So, copper is great, but they'd have to re-wire the whole university for it :)
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2) They used to provide the network card (~450 at the time, I think), which you had to return when you graduated. Now, like other businesses, they're doing a lot to cut costs. One of the ways is to charge a Network Fee for the upgrades they've made recently (Gbps ethernet routers replacing ATM equipment, wireless). It was supposed to be a one-time fee. Now it's every year (maybe even per semester). And, you now have to buy your own Gb Ethernet card. No, it doesn't have to be the one from the book store (but, last I knew, there were very few options in optical Gbps cards). One of the reasons they have the students buy them is because they don't cost $400 now, "only" $220. It pisses off a lot of people and parents. They should just add it to the cost of tuition and supply the students with one, and give them a refund if they already have one.
Also, most people do use the bandwidth (for sharing large files. 4GB movies are commonplace transfers, and can take as little as a few minutes to transfer; 4000MB / 50MBps HD speed = 80 seconds, with real-world speed being about 2-4 times that on a good transfer). Of course, that use is hardly attributable to school, but at least the fiber isn't dark
Oh, you'll utilize the bandwidth.
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Want to watch a movie? Load up one of the P2P apps, download a 2GB movie as fast as your hard drive can take it, and watch away! Much better than going to the video store
Ahh, I see. I was assuming you were not a native English speaker, and that that was why you had the .sig you did. So, I thought that you were confused on the definition of "hear"/"ear", and I thought I might help.
Hmm, you situation makes me wonder if / why there isn't a helper program for distinguishing between homophones(i.e., hear vs. here).
What happens if you do something that upsets your wife? No intercourse for you that night. Really piss her off? None for a week.
If she's mad at you and doesn't really want to be around you, why would you expect her to have sex with you?
If she's "punishing" you by saying "you made me mad, and you don't get sex for a week, even if I'm not mad at you tomorrow", then she's treating you like a child. THAT sort of bullshit needs nipped in the bud one way or another.
It's "hear". "Ear" is the thing on your head than "hears" sounds.
You do have a good point about "thinking machine" vs "voting machine". I think of "a machine that thinks" and "a machine that helps voting". Context and familiarity with a given phrase have a lot to do with interperating some things.
OK, I agree.
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When I see absolutes (like NEVER, especially in caps) I tend to get worked up
Yikes. Well, one of us is shovelling down a big load of bullshit being fed to us by the news and saying "yum" with every word.
I hope it's not me.
(btw, I know I'm ignorant of certain things and that I may be misinformed, but I don't think that qualifies for idiot. Uh-oh. Since I think I'm something other than an idiot.....)
But here's a few points:
1) You pointed out that part of al-Qaida split off and joined / formed another group. When I start hearing about them being a threat to ContUS, I'll start worrying about them. If there was any evidence of such, the administration would have had NO problem saying "different name, just the same" and the American people would have gone along even better than they did with vague WMD threats.
2) Every indication I've heard is that Bin Laden hates Saddam as much as he hates the US.
3) A dude had a surgery in a country, and that makes him have close ties to the dictator? Maybe he just had the money to pay? In any case, providing safe harbor to one man does not an al-Qaida supporter make.
and a few more such inconsistancies, but the main point is this:
The US NEVER asked Iraq to hand over al-Qaida. It was all about the WMDs. If it was about harboring terrorists, Bush sure as hell would have said so.
Also, phrases like "ties went beyond al-Qaida" are misleading (and typical of much of the logic I see in a certain group's efforts to push their agenda; say X is true, provide opinions as fact, repeat that X is thus true, and say how much worse it is by providing real well-known proof that the principal is connected to another, totally un-related, bad item. somehow, the latter is supposed to add credence to the former).
Funny thing is, though, that the link you provided that "connects" Abu Nidal to Saddam says "The London paper Al-Sharq al-Awsat states that there were multiple gunshots and the death was a homicide carried out by Iraqi intelligence agents." Yeah, he was there. And harbored. And assasinated. So, what were Saddam's true intentions? Hard to tell.
I'm not going to argue that Iraq (i.e., Saddam) had no ties to terrorism, just that terrorism is NOT the reason we invaded. You can even ask the Bush administration. In fact, they already answered the question (when they gave reasons that we should go to war). The answer is that it was all about Iraq not complying with the UN resolutions and building WMDs. They never asked for Iraq to turn over terrorists. They never gave Iraq an option of turning over terrorists or be invaded. They DID give an option of allowing weapons inspectors or be invaded. (REALLY weird how the US didn't want UN inspectors even tagging along though)
On another, unrelated, note: I'm tired of hearing the crap about how they "hate us for our freedoms". The Afghans (i.e., al-Qaida) hate us because they defended the border from Russia for a decade, lost millions of their people to the war (our cold war), and in the end, we left them high and dry. "Thanks and all, but fuck off and die in your desert." I'm sure you know all about how the good 'ole USA trained and funded Bin Laden? That we created him, then abandoned him?
Don't get me wrong. It doesn't excuse what they've done, and that for the good of me, they need to die. (yes, I said, "me"; if they could round up the administrations that fucked them over, kill them and their families, and then agree to leave the US alone, I'd probably not care). If they're actually zealots and not happy to stay in their own corner of the world (which I doubt, with all the holy land being over there and all, but who knows), and want to convert the world (hmm, a lot like Christians did in the past, but, again, getting off topic), then they should be restricted and put down unilaterally. Thing is, I believe than Bin Laden is simply using religion to recruit the fanatics he needs. Only a fanatic would stand up against the military might of the US, and even then, only guerilla warfare and clandestine and terrorist attacks will be able to hurt the US.
the streaks are completely expected as described by regular statistics. check out the great math site mathworld.wolfram.com. This http://mathworld.wolfram.com/GamblersRuin.html is a fun read, but the stuff about Fibonacci numbers, coin flipping, and all kinds of card stats are cool. Look for something called Gamblers Fallacy (I think; it's where you double your bet in a coin flip / blackjack until you win).
Well, I know that a brother and sister both made it to the top 50 of one of the recent tournaments (was on TV). Moneymaker sounds familiar, but I don't know if that's the same family...
but nothing forces the stats to hold consistently
Sorry, but that's just wrong. The statistics always hold. It's that other things come into play, as well; not that statistics fail to apply.
With blackjack, you can count cards (to a degree, even with multiple-deck shoes). With poker, you have the psychological element that causes players to fold or raise, making the outcome not always go in favor of the player with the best hand (and making those with not the best hand bet more than they otherwise would). But, none of this makes the probability of the next card being the (an) Ace of Spades change.
not on 98, it doesn't. Ctrl-Esc brings up the Start menu. Hitting a letter after that will either select a program or do nothing (if you don't have a selection that starts with that letter)
Seems backward to me. If there have been a lot of low cards played (and thus, a low total), then that means there are a lot of 10s out there, which is good for the player.