One interesting item of note is that at many sites with Microsoft Volume Licensing Agreements, such as our own, Windows XP Pro and Windows Vista Enterprise are available essentially for free (just the cost of the media) for all departmentally-owned computers - including usage in virtualization, and including usage on Intel-based Macs.
As the guy who fills out the yearly paperwork to obtain a Volume License Agreement, I'll tell you it's not "virtually free". There is a contract, and at least for higher education it's based on several factors including FTE. Once that contract has been paid, then yes, it appears to our faculty/staff that we are just giving it away for the price of a CD/DVD. IIRC, one of the stipulations of the contract is that all the PC's already have a windows license, and the agreement allows us to upgrade it to the lastest version. This could be a legal copy of Win 3.x up. When we purchase a PC from an OEM, they have this. I don't believe Mac's do, and as a result it probably isn't legal to use the Volume License Media to install Windows on the Macs. Maybe Microsoft has different stipulations for VLA's for Business, but that's how it works for Higher Ed.
A lot of the comments here have told the submitter to purchase a Dell with FreeDOS and then load Ubuntu. I think that's completely out of the scope of the submitters goal.
The submission does not say that the boss asked for a new computer with Ubuntu on it, s/he just asked for just a computer. The submitters "business" goal was to purchase a computer, and apparently which OS wasn't important. This allowed the submitter room to append a personal agenda to the task assigned. The submitter wanted to support Dell's decision to sell systems with Ubuntu. While FreeDOS is not Windows, purchasing a system with it preloaded does not accomplish the "personal" goal of rewarding Dell for supporting/distributing Linux.
The point is that Dell will only allow people through the home division to purchase systems with Ubuntu. I work at a college and my institutional purchases are a completely separate division of Dell from my Student/Faculty/Staff purchases. Sometimes they don't even have access to the same inventory. See Sunday's story about How to buy a Dell.
The Henry Doorly Zoo and the San Diego Zoo are always in the process of trying to one-up the other. They are regularly trading the title of "Best Zoo in the USA" back and forth almost on an annual basis. Definately go visit, it's well worth it.
Most people don't pay for OS upgrades, they pay for new PC's that come with the latest OS. So it really depends on whether people are happy with their current PC running WindowsXP, or are upgrading to get Vista. It certainly could hurt them if people stick with the old PC. Microsoft's measure of the OS's success could be effected if this trend turns out to be significant. It could be said that if Vista becomes a failure measured by Microsoft being unable to recover the development and marketing costs that it hurt them financially. I'd be interested to see the numbers on WinME to see if Microsoft lost money on that product.
It's no more essential then wire, fiber, RAM, or Harddrives. They let someone else take care of producing these things for them. I'm sure there are some smart people in a think tank there at Google that could help with energy problems, but it's not what they do. Google has to be careful not to spread themselves too thin.
Vista: A USB device has been detected, would you like to start the USB service? Allow/Deny PC: Allow
Vista: The USB Device is actually a Camera and a Microphone, Windows would like to enable both devices? Allow/Deny PC: Allow
Mac: Hey PC, What are you up to? Vista: Mac would like to talk to you. Allow/Deny PC-to-Vista: Allow PC-to-Mac: Installing a camera but Vista is pissing me off..
Marriage does not have to be a religious construct, although it commonly also is. In the USA, a Judge can marry you. In Las Vegas, Elvis can marry you. I doubt most churches recognize such marriages as legitimate, but they are legal. That leaves a seperation in the defination of marriage between what is legally recognized as a marriage, and what is religiously accepted. The government is reversing this, by not recognizing marriages that they do not deem to be legal, but that doesn't forbid a religious organization from recognizing it. I'm not saying it's right, but that is the way it is in the USA.
Xserve RAID isn't the server, it is a 2 Gb fibre channel attached storage device. It can be attached to MacOS X, Linux, Netware, and Windows Servers. http://www.apple.com/xserve/raid/
Xserve is Apple's Server line, and that's just not what they are talking about. These servers were Dual Opteron systems with 2 1 Gb cards. It doesn't say what OS they are running.
"if this kills Red Hat, well, Oracle could either buy the company for peanuts or move on and suck the blood out of another vendor such as Novell or Debian."
Oh no! I sure hope Debian's stock price doesn't drop!
I absolutely believe this. I've known more then enough Grad Assistants teaching courses who do exactly this. My experience with Grad Assistants as instructors vs professors who don't bring anything additional into the course was pretty much the same. The only difference was I don't expect as much from the Grad Assistant, but those professors disappoint me.
> For fuck's sake, are teachers really starting to call their lessons "intellectual property"?
Yes they are. The scary thing was, most of the time the lecture was directly from the content of the textbook. If I read the chapter(s) the previous night, I probably could have given the same lectures. This wasn't true for some of the better courses I took. My professors never allowed a tape recorder in class.
At the college I work at now, we have trouble just trying to get some professors to put a syllabus online. The excuse? Intellectural Property. It's an outline and a schedule! (if you are lucky, most I received were useless). If another professor used that, it may have the same structure, but you'd still have to fill in the lecture content. The kicker to this whole thing... I work at a small state college, not a research university. Professors doing research might actually have I.P.
I work at a small college, and have been charged by the CIO here to setup a standard process, and provide instruction to faculty on podcasting. Recording lectures are nothing new, and many Professors forbid. Those professors do not give a student permission to record them in class, and as a result they are venomently against podcasting.
Many others refuse it totally babbling on something about their intellectual property being on the internet. These same people refuse to publish a syllabus online.
Others like the idea of podcasting, but don't understand what it is. Many think that they just record the lectures and put a link to the audio file on their homepage. They don't understand the "episode/subscription" concept. As a result they don't know how to apply it to the classroom. Recording an entire class period, including the ruffling of papers as students take a quiz, or homework being returned to them doesn't exactly make for great listening material.
Unfortunately podcasting has become a buzzword in the education circles and while it has a lot of potential positives for the students, and administrations want to adopt it, many of those responsible for creating the content in large part just don't know what to do with it, or refuse it completely.
So the screen knows that my eyes are focused on it? This technology is very bad for me. Soon there will be a device for women, and paranoid/. geeks that will let them know when people look at them. All the women I secretly admire from afar will soon know that my eyes are focused upon them.
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These days it's called an "Enter" key. I haven't had a Return Key since my C64 days.
One interesting item of note is that at many sites with Microsoft Volume Licensing Agreements, such as our own, Windows XP Pro and Windows Vista Enterprise are available essentially for free (just the cost of the media) for all departmentally-owned computers - including usage in virtualization, and including usage on Intel-based Macs.
As the guy who fills out the yearly paperwork to obtain a Volume License Agreement, I'll tell you it's not "virtually free". There is a contract, and at least for higher education it's based on several factors including FTE. Once that contract has been paid, then yes, it appears to our faculty/staff that we are just giving it away for the price of a CD/DVD. IIRC, one of the stipulations of the contract is that all the PC's already have a windows license, and the agreement allows us to upgrade it to the lastest version. This could be a legal copy of Win 3.x up. When we purchase a PC from an OEM, they have this. I don't believe Mac's do, and as a result it probably isn't legal to use the Volume License Media to install Windows on the Macs. Maybe Microsoft has different stipulations for VLA's for Business, but that's how it works for Higher Ed.
A lot of the comments here have told the submitter to purchase a Dell with FreeDOS and then load Ubuntu. I think that's completely out of the scope of the submitters goal.
The submission does not say that the boss asked for a new computer with Ubuntu on it, s/he just asked for just a computer. The submitters "business" goal was to purchase a computer, and apparently which OS wasn't important. This allowed the submitter room to append a personal agenda to the task assigned. The submitter wanted to support Dell's decision to sell systems with Ubuntu. While FreeDOS is not Windows, purchasing a system with it preloaded does not accomplish the "personal" goal of rewarding Dell for supporting/distributing Linux.
The point is that Dell will only allow people through the home division to purchase systems with Ubuntu. I work at a college and my institutional purchases are a completely separate division of Dell from my Student/Faculty/Staff purchases. Sometimes they don't even have access to the same inventory. See Sunday's story about How to buy a Dell.
The Henry Doorly Zoo and the San Diego Zoo are always in the process of trying to one-up the other. They are regularly trading the title of "Best Zoo in the USA" back and forth almost on an annual basis. Definately go visit, it's well worth it.
His beard didn't burn? Lucky guy!
I think bullets rusting is one thing we can safely say isn't happening with Bush in Office.
Wow - When I was in High School we had 2 lists.. "Summertime Sluts" and "Holiday Whores". I guess we "made love not war".
Most people don't pay for OS upgrades, they pay for new PC's that come with the latest OS. So it really depends on whether people are happy with their current PC running WindowsXP, or are upgrading to get Vista. It certainly could hurt them if people stick with the old PC. Microsoft's measure of the OS's success could be effected if this trend turns out to be significant. It could be said that if Vista becomes a failure measured by Microsoft being unable to recover the development and marketing costs that it hurt them financially. I'd be interested to see the numbers on WinME to see if Microsoft lost money on that product.
It's no more essential then wire, fiber, RAM, or Harddrives. They let someone else take care of producing these things for them. I'm sure there are some smart people in a think tank there at Google that could help with energy problems, but it's not what they do. Google has to be careful not to spread themselves too thin.
Any mod who has modded the parent "insightful" instead of "funny" should be flogged accordingly.
Isn't this like the Mac commercials already?
Vista: A USB device has been detected, would you like to start the USB service? Allow/Deny
PC: Allow
Vista: The USB Device is actually a Camera and a Microphone, Windows would like to enable both devices? Allow/Deny
PC: Allow
Mac: Hey PC, What are you up to?
Vista: Mac would like to talk to you. Allow/Deny
PC-to-Vista: Allow
PC-to-Mac: Installing a camera but Vista is pissing me off..
ha! I apologize for not including the sheet music to accompany the lyrics.
When we hear this news...the state breaks out into the familiar "Go Big Red" chant that the HuskerNation is famous for.
"the problem is that it comes at the cost of observing and protecting our home planet"
I knew boss was a Goa'uld!
Argumentative = "We don't need a new gazillion dollar server"
That's an argument I wouldn't mind losing. Im more in the "No our Pentium Pro server won't handle another 10,000 users" camp.
Marriage does not have to be a religious construct, although it commonly also is. In the USA, a Judge can marry you. In Las Vegas, Elvis can marry you. I doubt most churches recognize such marriages as legitimate, but they are legal. That leaves a seperation in the defination of marriage between what is legally recognized as a marriage, and what is religiously accepted. The government is reversing this, by not recognizing marriages that they do not deem to be legal, but that doesn't forbid a religious organization from recognizing it. I'm not saying it's right, but that is the way it is in the USA.
> if it's going to be 2.00, might as well make it 2.95.
Oil Companies already adopted this.
All Linux PC's sold at walmart need a sticker saying "Linux Genuine Advantage" much like the Intel Inside stickers that used to be required by intel.
They are the same size, but Googles cost more for the solar panels that will save the world?
Xserve RAID isn't the server, it is a 2 Gb fibre channel attached storage device. It can be attached to MacOS X, Linux, Netware, and Windows Servers. http://www.apple.com/xserve/raid/
Xserve is Apple's Server line, and that's just not what they are talking about. These servers were Dual Opteron systems with 2 1 Gb cards. It doesn't say what OS they are running.
"if this kills Red Hat, well, Oracle could either buy the company for peanuts or move on and suck the blood out of another vendor such as Novell or Debian."
Oh no! I sure hope Debian's stock price doesn't drop!
I absolutely believe this. I've known more then enough Grad Assistants teaching courses who do exactly this. My experience with Grad Assistants as instructors vs professors who don't bring anything additional into the course was pretty much the same. The only difference was I don't expect as much from the Grad Assistant, but those professors disappoint me.
> For fuck's sake, are teachers really starting to call their lessons "intellectual property"?
Yes they are. The scary thing was, most of the time the lecture was directly from the content of the textbook. If I read the chapter(s) the previous night, I probably could have given the same lectures. This wasn't true for some of the better courses I took. My professors never allowed a tape recorder in class.
At the college I work at now, we have trouble just trying to get some professors to put a syllabus online. The excuse? Intellectural Property. It's an outline and a schedule! (if you are lucky, most I received were useless). If another professor used that, it may have the same structure, but you'd still have to fill in the lecture content. The kicker to this whole thing... I work at a small state college, not a research university. Professors doing research might actually have I.P.
I work at a small college, and have been charged by the CIO here to setup a standard process, and provide instruction to faculty on podcasting. Recording lectures are nothing new, and many Professors forbid. Those professors do not give a student permission to record them in class, and as a result they are venomently against podcasting.
Many others refuse it totally babbling on something about their intellectual property being on the internet. These same people refuse to publish a syllabus online.
Others like the idea of podcasting, but don't understand what it is. Many think that they just record the lectures and put a link to the audio file on their homepage. They don't understand the "episode/subscription" concept. As a result they don't know how to apply it to the classroom. Recording an entire class period, including the ruffling of papers as students take a quiz, or homework being returned to them doesn't exactly make for great listening material.
Unfortunately podcasting has become a buzzword in the education circles and while it has a lot of potential positives for the students, and administrations want to adopt it, many of those responsible for creating the content in large part just don't know what to do with it, or refuse it completely.
So the screen knows that my eyes are focused on it? This technology is very bad for me. Soon there will be a device for women, and paranoid /. geeks that will let them know when people look at them. All the women I secretly admire from afar will soon know that my eyes are focused upon them.
Female Beach Checklist:
1) Bikini
2) Sunscreen
3) Towel
4) "Who's look at me?" device..