An MBA is the most versatile, especially if you want to go into an industry other than computers (consulting, managing, etc). An MBA from a good school opens more doors than anything else. But an MBA looks a lot better with some work experience beforehand, and you might get into an even better school with good work experience and letters of recommendation.
Even if you want to stick with computer work, it *still* depends. You hit it on the head: computer science is theoretical. Computer science done right is *science*. An IT degree is practically a vocational degree sometimes.
What do you want to do? Do you want to design circuits or program for Apple? Go for science. Do you want to run some company's servers and workstations? Then go IT.
Etc. What looks best on a resume depends on where you are submitting. This is something you have to figure out yourself.
As others have said, you could build a cheap PC with some 500GB drives. For me, that's too much work (admittedly it isn't much), and I don't want to configure it. For $400, go for this:
www.lacie.com/us/products/product.htm?pid=10953
If there's one thing iTunes needs, it's a bigger, clunkier installer with more bundled software. That way, after installing (or even just upgrading) iTunes, not only will you have to spend time hunting for all the settings in QuickTime to get it out of your way, but also Safari. Yes, I think this is a great idea.
Just buy a used car. It's been known for a while that a Prius is a lot worse cost-wise and environment-wise at the manufacturing stage. If it's worse over it's whole lifetime than a different new car depends on the assumptions made. Those in this article seem pretty poor, but better assumptions don't always make the Prius come out ahead. Buying a used car avoids all that, and is by far the best choice for the environment. Which is better: spending $25k to bring yet another Prius into the world, or $5k on a 10-year old Civic that gets 70% the mpg. $20k buys a lot of carbon offsets.
Alright, I'm tired of this stuff. I bought a cheap digicam for $130, and it works fine with Windows XP. I plug it in, it shows me the pictures, I choose where to store them. Done. Obviously, something is not functioning correctly in your set up, and you're blaming windows. Everytime I put a DVD into my Mac it crashes the whole computer, and I have to restart. Apple must make one crappy OS. Putting a DVD into my Windows box results in me watching a movie.
Can we all just agree that computers don't always work perfectly, and that anecdotes about this don't prove anything? Thanks.
I assume that you're talking about the MDGRAPE machine that can do a petaflop. Actually, that machine is specialized for one type of calculation, thus it cannot run then LINPACK benchmark, and doesn't qualify for this list. It is not a general supercomputer. It's the same thing as claiming that a top-shelf GPU is faster than a top-shelf CPU: it's true for only a certain type of calculation.
Oh No! How can we live without the latest plastic crap?!?! If I don't get an iPhone-Core-4-Quad-Duplex-Vista-Premium-Ultimate-C apable-DSLR-Zune I won't be able to live. And it had damn well better run linux.
The biofuels industry made real progress while prices were high.
That's really more because of ridiculous government subsidies. The US dumps *tons* of money on the 7 farmers we have left. It makes otherwise bad options (biofuels) look good, and hurts lots of farmers in poor countries, who actually import US goods because of the heavy subsidy. But man, do those 7 farmers have it pretty.
Didn't you ever wonder why there's high fructose corn syrup in everything?
There's a thread about it at the folding forums:
http://forum.folding-community.org/viewtopic.php?t =14182&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=90
It isn't out yet, but they're working on getting the cores native. Intel native cores are what really matters, even if the client is running in Rosetta, because the client does very little actual work. My guess is that you'll see it in the next 4-6 months. They've probably been especially busy with the GPU stuff and the PS3 client.
That isn't just your PIII. iTunes + Quicktime is a bloated piece of turd. Period. And now iTunes 7 uses even more resources! It takes 20% of my 1.8GHz PM and 100 megs of RAM to play a song. Yes I have cover art off, and every other fancy thing off. I'm playing a song. Yetch.
Actually, most college kids probably don't care about these things. Gamers and people that work with video editing will care about the card, but that's a minority. DVD burning isn't really all that useful. DVDs don't make good back ups. Sorry, they don't last a long time, and honestly, 5GB isn't enough when most college kids have 50 GB of music alone. And college kids don't burn DVD movies, they just watch a torrented file, and share that. Bluetooth might be nice for a wireless keyboard and mouse, but it's really not necessary at all.
Digitimes is not a good site for this kind of thing. Historically, they've been very poor with these kinds of predictions. I'm not going to find any examples right now, but searching the archives of macrumors.com or some similar site will turn out many.
1 out of 5? Maybe that was true too years ago. Now it's 5 of 5. 4 out of 5 people have ipods, and the other 1 bought an mp3 player that was so desperate to be an ipod that they made the ear buds white.
This might be nitpicky, but it seems like your problem is software, not hardware. Maybe iTunes is just crap: you wouldn't be the first person to think so. iTunes likes to catalog your whole library, this often means it goes really slowly, and for some reason takes lots of CPU power. iTunes is a CPU- and RAM-hungry beast, there's no question about that.
One hardware problem you may be having is a network issue, rather than a CPU issue. I've had huge problems running iTunes over any kind of network, and I've give up because of it. Now, some people will jump all over this and say that they've had great success, etc, but clearly not everyone shares that. The Intel-based mini has had (wireless) network problems from day one. Couple that with iTunes trying to catalog your library over a network, and you've got a recipe for trouble.
Granted, for a lot of educational uses this doesn't matter, but I still feel obligated to point out that your 2.8GHz P4 puts out twice as much heat and is about half the speed. So the comparison isn't quite fair on specs, though it may be for usage.
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Zune? They still have those?
An MBA is the most versatile, especially if you want to go into an industry other than computers (consulting, managing, etc). An MBA from a good school opens more doors than anything else. But an MBA looks a lot better with some work experience beforehand, and you might get into an even better school with good work experience and letters of recommendation. Even if you want to stick with computer work, it *still* depends. You hit it on the head: computer science is theoretical. Computer science done right is *science*. An IT degree is practically a vocational degree sometimes. What do you want to do? Do you want to design circuits or program for Apple? Go for science. Do you want to run some company's servers and workstations? Then go IT. Etc. What looks best on a resume depends on where you are submitting. This is something you have to figure out yourself.
Another vote for Vimeo. Good quality, decently ease to use/share/restrict.
Actually, Roadrunner uses the Cell chip for the heavy lifting, not the AMD chips:
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080618-game-and-pc-hardware-combo-tops-supercomputer-list.html
POGO = $8,000 iMac + small wheeled cart ~= $1,500 What am I missing?
As others have said, you could build a cheap PC with some 500GB drives. For me, that's too much work (admittedly it isn't much), and I don't want to configure it. For $400, go for this: www.lacie.com/us/products/product.htm?pid=10953
If there's one thing iTunes needs, it's a bigger, clunkier installer with more bundled software. That way, after installing (or even just upgrading) iTunes, not only will you have to spend time hunting for all the settings in QuickTime to get it out of your way, but also Safari. Yes, I think this is a great idea.
... and PC Safari has already crashed. Given how terrible the Windows iTunes is, I don't know why I even tried.
Just buy a used car. It's been known for a while that a Prius is a lot worse cost-wise and environment-wise at the manufacturing stage. If it's worse over it's whole lifetime than a different new car depends on the assumptions made. Those in this article seem pretty poor, but better assumptions don't always make the Prius come out ahead. Buying a used car avoids all that, and is by far the best choice for the environment. Which is better: spending $25k to bring yet another Prius into the world, or $5k on a 10-year old Civic that gets 70% the mpg. $20k buys a lot of carbon offsets.
Just switch to gmail and be done with it.
Alright, I'm tired of this stuff. I bought a cheap digicam for $130, and it works fine with Windows XP. I plug it in, it shows me the pictures, I choose where to store them. Done. Obviously, something is not functioning correctly in your set up, and you're blaming windows. Everytime I put a DVD into my Mac it crashes the whole computer, and I have to restart. Apple must make one crappy OS. Putting a DVD into my Windows box results in me watching a movie.
Can we all just agree that computers don't always work perfectly, and that anecdotes about this don't prove anything? Thanks.
I assume that you're talking about the MDGRAPE machine that can do a petaflop. Actually, that machine is specialized for one type of calculation, thus it cannot run then LINPACK benchmark, and doesn't qualify for this list. It is not a general supercomputer. It's the same thing as claiming that a top-shelf GPU is faster than a top-shelf CPU: it's true for only a certain type of calculation.
Oh No! How can we live without the latest plastic crap?!?! If I don't get an iPhone-Core-4-Quad-Duplex-Vista-Premium-Ultimate-C apable-DSLR-Zune I won't be able to live. And it had damn well better run linux.
So SGI has been reborn as a patent troll? Welcome to the party.
The biofuels industry made real progress while prices were high.
That's really more because of ridiculous government subsidies. The US dumps *tons* of money on the 7 farmers we have left. It makes otherwise bad options (biofuels) look good, and hurts lots of farmers in poor countries, who actually import US goods because of the heavy subsidy. But man, do those 7 farmers have it pretty. Didn't you ever wonder why there's high fructose corn syrup in everything?
There's a thread about it at the folding forums: http://forum.folding-community.org/viewtopic.php?t =14182&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=90
It isn't out yet, but they're working on getting the cores native. Intel native cores are what really matters, even if the client is running in Rosetta, because the client does very little actual work. My guess is that you'll see it in the next 4-6 months. They've probably been especially busy with the GPU stuff and the PS3 client.
In a world where half of corporate America uses Windows 2000? Sorry, please try again.
I think the poster confused "interesting" with "boring".
That isn't just your PIII. iTunes + Quicktime is a bloated piece of turd. Period. And now iTunes 7 uses even more resources! It takes 20% of my 1.8GHz PM and 100 megs of RAM to play a song. Yes I have cover art off, and every other fancy thing off. I'm playing a song. Yetch.
Actually, most college kids probably don't care about these things. Gamers and people that work with video editing will care about the card, but that's a minority. DVD burning isn't really all that useful. DVDs don't make good back ups. Sorry, they don't last a long time, and honestly, 5GB isn't enough when most college kids have 50 GB of music alone. And college kids don't burn DVD movies, they just watch a torrented file, and share that. Bluetooth might be nice for a wireless keyboard and mouse, but it's really not necessary at all.
(oh - and anyone else having the quicktime plugin for ff crash ff when trying to play these?)
Your first mistake there was installing the quicktime plugin, it's almost as bad as the Acrobat Reader plugin.
Digitimes is not a good site for this kind of thing. Historically, they've been very poor with these kinds of predictions. I'm not going to find any examples right now, but searching the archives of macrumors.com or some similar site will turn out many.
1 out of 5? Maybe that was true too years ago. Now it's 5 of 5. 4 out of 5 people have ipods, and the other 1 bought an mp3 player that was so desperate to be an ipod that they made the ear buds white.
This might be nitpicky, but it seems like your problem is software, not hardware. Maybe iTunes is just crap: you wouldn't be the first person to think so. iTunes likes to catalog your whole library, this often means it goes really slowly, and for some reason takes lots of CPU power. iTunes is a CPU- and RAM-hungry beast, there's no question about that. One hardware problem you may be having is a network issue, rather than a CPU issue. I've had huge problems running iTunes over any kind of network, and I've give up because of it. Now, some people will jump all over this and say that they've had great success, etc, but clearly not everyone shares that. The Intel-based mini has had (wireless) network problems from day one. Couple that with iTunes trying to catalog your library over a network, and you've got a recipe for trouble.
Granted, for a lot of educational uses this doesn't matter, but I still feel obligated to point out that your 2.8GHz P4 puts out twice as much heat and is about half the speed. So the comparison isn't quite fair on specs, though it may be for usage.