I could believe it with all the spoiled rich kids around here.
I presume, though, that "campus" means "property", though given that it's a college it could be that he's dealing..... herbs.
I have VMware Fusion on my MBP, paid a whopping $29 for it. It runs an M$WXP virtual machine perfectly when I'm compelled to use it (mainly ILOM's console redirection for firmware updates) and shared files live on the host filesystem. I don't see any appeal to a dual-boot scenario that's precarious to setup and maintain. I've read lots of stories over the years of one OS's setup trashing the other's, and it's a pain to have to partition the disk and only have one running at a time.
If I live in a state that goes 49% for party X, and 51% for party Y, you can't even argue that giving 100% of our states votes to party Y makes the least bit of sense.
That's a compelling argument against the EC.
The electoral college was put in place so that there would be a check on the power of the uneducated masses
You don't think the fact that we lacked pervasive national communications and transportation infrastructures had something to do with it?
You've never been assaulted by a violent spouse, have you? I have. It sucks, and the last thing I needed was the government pressuring me to stay and take it.
The other things you suggest, yeah maybe.
One way to improve education would be to simply fire all the administrators. They don't do anything productive, and receive truly ludicrous salaries when the teachers themselves are struggling to make ends meet.
I used to live in a rural area. Verizon refused to provision DSL into the local site. Comcast stopped about 2 miles away and refused to even talk about extending. Several WISPs in the area, but yep they needed Line Of Sight. Guess what? Outside of the Great Plains, rural areas tend to have TREES, therefore no LOS short of a 150' mast, which is hardly feasible. I started with ISDN and ended up with a DS1. Until WISPs get spectrum that doesn't require LOS their appeal will be quite limited.
While I have to say that the food in NZ was miserable, as expected given the English legacy, we found the people exceedingly friendly. Eg. we took a wrong turn on the Auckland waterfront after ariving by ferry and found ourselves across 50 feet of water from where we needed to be. A middle-aged couple saw us with our load of luggage and came up and offered to give us a lift. Super nice folks, and real lifesavers. We would have missed our rental but for them.
Have you read any articles about how electronics actually get recycled? Kids sqatting over fires boiling PC boards in acid, etc. Safe recycling would mean doing it domestically, with far greater costs, and the US consumer has made it clear time and again that saving a few cents is all-important, hence the continued existence of Mal-Wart.
I'm not convinced that RoHS solder has an effect on e-waste -- many people toss their electronics long before they fail in order to keep up with the Joneses. The contraction of product lifecycles over time doesn't help matters. Many products are superseded by the time a review article can even see print.
Anyone remember the "stiction" problems with the Quantum Q105S? The drives would be okay while spinning, but if they lost power there was a fair chance the platter would stick to the spindle and not spin back up. We were advised to spin the drive around its axis in such a situation to get it going again.
What's really a bitch is affording a home in a community-property state, in a county where 68,000 Microcult millionaires have escalated prices outrageously.
The concepts of PIO and DMA transfers are much older than PATA disks, eg. they were issues back in the Unibus PDP-11 days. IIRC the DZ11 did PIO and the DH11 did DMA.
Agreed. The things have USB and video ports for a reason. I have a co-worker who uses his MBP all the time with the lid closed hooked up to external KVM.
Back when I was stuck with corporate-issue Dells (Latitude CPi A and now a C640 that IT won't even take back) I messed with port replicators and docks. The connectors were rather touchy and M$W98/NT didn't handle insertion/removal particularly well. Plugging in a keyboard, mouse (if yer one of those bizarre trackpad haters like my wife), video, power seperately takes maybe 6 extra seconds. Big whoop.
As to the "wear and tear" in the response below -- wouldn't the massive dock connector itself be subject to the same?
AFAIK the selling point of the magsafe power connector was the *safe* angle, disconnecting when yanked or tripped over instead of dragging an expensive computer violently to the floor.
Plus of course it's pretty damned cool:D
With all the same core leaks? Same crap, different color:-/
There's no excuse for a frickin' web browser to have a 3GB process size. If it's the @#$# flash plugin, then for the love of dog someone please write a better one. Or do some garbage collection or something to sandbox it.
Agreed. When I worked for AMD, during the long-running legal battle with Intel and the K5 simulations, the company was *very* careful about exposure to Intel IP.
I once read that on average an in-office worker actually does about 4 hours of work in an 8 hour day due to chatting, bathroom breaks, unrelated tasks, paying bills, etc., so that perhaps factors in.
I've been telecommuting for about eight years now.
In any work location, it's the manager's job to assess performance, and it's not clear to me that this is any easier or harder for telecommuters. As has been stated, someone in an office typing away isn't necessarily working. Twenty five years ago I remember an early MS-DOS game having a "work key", which when hit in a panic would display a canned bar graph so that passers-by would ostensibly think the player was working.
I find that IMing neatly duplicates the drop-by chat experience, and setting one's status to Away is like closing one's office door (for those whose employers are smart enough to eschew cubicles).
I find it easier to concentrate at home. Our new place has a damnable amount of noise from outside, but mostly it isn't in the form of voices so it's easier to tune out. In an office setting I frequently found myself automatically attending to what others were saying around me, and being visually distracted by people walking by.
On the other hand, at home the refrigerator is all too handy, and one reason I don't have sat/cable TV service is that it'd be too tempting to take a break and watch for a couple of hours.
I worked for AMD for a year. My understanding was that back in the mists of time AMD licensed Intel tech, 8086 maybe, and that there had been ongoing fierce legal battles wrt whether or not that contract allowed them to use microcode on newer processors. At the time the K5 development team was carefully sequestered so that nobody working on it had ever had access to Intell IP.
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I could believe it with all the spoiled rich kids around here. I presume, though, that "campus" means "property", though given that it's a college it could be that he's dealing ..... herbs.
I have VMware Fusion on my MBP, paid a whopping $29 for it. It runs an M$WXP virtual machine perfectly when I'm compelled to use it (mainly ILOM's console redirection for firmware updates) and shared files live on the host filesystem. I don't see any appeal to a dual-boot scenario that's precarious to setup and maintain. I've read lots of stories over the years of one OS's setup trashing the other's, and it's a pain to have to partition the disk and only have one running at a time.
If I live in a state that goes 49% for party X, and 51% for party Y, you can't even argue that giving 100% of our states votes to party Y makes the least bit of sense. That's a compelling argument against the EC. The electoral college was put in place so that there would be a check on the power of the uneducated masses You don't think the fact that we lacked pervasive national communications and transportation infrastructures had something to do with it?
You've never been assaulted by a violent spouse, have you? I have. It sucks, and the last thing I needed was the government pressuring me to stay and take it. The other things you suggest, yeah maybe. One way to improve education would be to simply fire all the administrators. They don't do anything productive, and receive truly ludicrous salaries when the teachers themselves are struggling to make ends meet.
I used to live in a rural area. Verizon refused to provision DSL into the local site. Comcast stopped about 2 miles away and refused to even talk about extending. Several WISPs in the area, but yep they needed Line Of Sight. Guess what? Outside of the Great Plains, rural areas tend to have TREES, therefore no LOS short of a 150' mast, which is hardly feasible. I started with ISDN and ended up with a DS1. Until WISPs get spectrum that doesn't require LOS their appeal will be quite limited.
Think of this as a modern-day Sudatenland. Look how well the last one worked out.
While I have to say that the food in NZ was miserable, as expected given the English legacy, we found the people exceedingly friendly. Eg. we took a wrong turn on the Auckland waterfront after ariving by ferry and found ourselves across 50 feet of water from where we needed to be. A middle-aged couple saw us with our load of luggage and came up and offered to give us a lift. Super nice folks, and real lifesavers. We would have missed our rental but for them.
The funny thing is that they *released* a Release *Candidate*. Something of a contradiction, no?
Moreover, why would a woman marry a guy who's still a renter?
Have you read any articles about how electronics actually get recycled? Kids sqatting over fires boiling PC boards in acid, etc. Safe recycling would mean doing it domestically, with far greater costs, and the US consumer has made it clear time and again that saving a few cents is all-important, hence the continued existence of Mal-Wart. I'm not convinced that RoHS solder has an effect on e-waste -- many people toss their electronics long before they fail in order to keep up with the Joneses. The contraction of product lifecycles over time doesn't help matters. Many products are superseded by the time a review article can even see print.
Yes, though I once fell asleep during ROTAM in concert :o
Anyone remember the "stiction" problems with the Quantum Q105S? The drives would be okay while spinning, but if they lost power there was a fair chance the platter would stick to the spindle and not spin back up. We were advised to spin the drive around its axis in such a situation to get it going again.
Agreed! Both Safari and Firefox suck 35-45% of my G5. Sheesh. I remember when Mosaic ran fine on a 40Mhz SS2.
Start Of Authority to me. DNS zones
What's really a bitch is affording a home in a community-property state, in a county where 68,000 Microcult millionaires have escalated prices outrageously.
The concepts of PIO and DMA transfers are much older than PATA disks, eg. they were issues back in the Unibus PDP-11 days. IIRC the DZ11 did PIO and the DH11 did DMA.
Agreed. The things have USB and video ports for a reason. I have a co-worker who uses his MBP all the time with the lid closed hooked up to external KVM. Back when I was stuck with corporate-issue Dells (Latitude CPi A and now a C640 that IT won't even take back) I messed with port replicators and docks. The connectors were rather touchy and M$W98/NT didn't handle insertion/removal particularly well. Plugging in a keyboard, mouse (if yer one of those bizarre trackpad haters like my wife), video, power seperately takes maybe 6 extra seconds. Big whoop. As to the "wear and tear" in the response below -- wouldn't the massive dock connector itself be subject to the same? AFAIK the selling point of the magsafe power connector was the *safe* angle, disconnecting when yanked or tripped over instead of dragging an expensive computer violently to the floor. Plus of course it's pretty damned cool :D
Have *you* never seen a surgeon's bill? $3000 for an hour of work. Reliability not cost makes more sense.
With all the same core leaks? Same crap, different color :-/
There's no excuse for a frickin' web browser to have a 3GB process size. If it's the @#$# flash plugin, then for the love of dog someone please write a better one. Or do some garbage collection or something to sandbox it.
Agreed. When I worked for AMD, during the long-running legal battle with Intel and the K5 simulations, the company was *very* careful about exposure to Intel IP.
I once read that on average an in-office worker actually does about 4 hours of work in an 8 hour day due to chatting, bathroom breaks, unrelated tasks, paying bills, etc., so that perhaps factors in. I've been telecommuting for about eight years now. In any work location, it's the manager's job to assess performance, and it's not clear to me that this is any easier or harder for telecommuters. As has been stated, someone in an office typing away isn't necessarily working. Twenty five years ago I remember an early MS-DOS game having a "work key", which when hit in a panic would display a canned bar graph so that passers-by would ostensibly think the player was working. I find that IMing neatly duplicates the drop-by chat experience, and setting one's status to Away is like closing one's office door (for those whose employers are smart enough to eschew cubicles). I find it easier to concentrate at home. Our new place has a damnable amount of noise from outside, but mostly it isn't in the form of voices so it's easier to tune out. In an office setting I frequently found myself automatically attending to what others were saying around me, and being visually distracted by people walking by. On the other hand, at home the refrigerator is all too handy, and one reason I don't have sat/cable TV service is that it'd be too tempting to take a break and watch for a couple of hours.
I worked for AMD for a year. My understanding was that back in the mists of time AMD licensed Intel tech, 8086 maybe, and that there had been ongoing fierce legal battles wrt whether or not that contract allowed them to use microcode on newer processors. At the time the K5 development team was carefully sequestered so that nobody working on it had ever had access to Intell IP.
UW *is* Microsoft these days. Try getting into their evening masters CS program without M$ on your resume.
Indeed, the Linux box I set up a few years ago was SOLIDLY pwnd when CERT called me up to get me to clean it off.