No, since you're a university, the way to approach this is to let the undergrads explore. Sell it as a learning experience. Why is OSS so popular nowadays? Maybe the University itself, as a place of learning, should offer this? Don't limit it to just OSS, bring up OSX as well, to be fair. Let the students explore.
I suspect that'd be about as effective as convincing a Pepsi campus that selling Coke would be a valuable "learning" experience for the undergrads. Personally I'd start by selling copies of Open Office, GIMP, Ubuntu, etc. (for $1 or however much it cost to put them on a CD) at the bookstore alongside Office, Photoshop, and Windows and then when it comes time to update all your office software again, use whatever sales figures (in terms of copies sold, obviously) were generated from that against how many support calls went to the school helpdesk to determine if you can even make a case to the school or not.
Dead on. Sports is one of the few reasons left for me to watch TV. I get my news, weather, and weekly fixes of 24, Life on Mars, Heroes, etc. online. I get a cable box each fall so I can watch college football, but the minute I find I can stream that at 720p is the minute I rip the cable box out of my entertainment center and turn it back in.
They should run the ads instead of covering them up, that's half the fun in watching the Super Bowl right there! (Although probably not this year, as companies are [or should be] looking for ways to cut back on expenses.)
Something tells me that if I marched into LAX with my Australian passport and shouted "George Washington was a Fag" someone would object.
Somebody would certainly object, but they wouldn't be able to do much more than call you an idiot for making that kind of declaration. Saying you have a bomb strapped to your chest on the other hand, now that'll get you a real objection..
I've heard some pretty bad things about their service in Las Vegas, while the 10 or so years I've been on their service in Omaha has been pretty decent.
It's laughable that/. bashes Windows for it's SP2 is functional development but has little to no criticism for open source software(and especially KDE).
Not to mention the summary including a link for you to "congratulate" the developers on top of that.
The DRM is indeed no surprise, but the fact that they're doing this after having just gotten through pulling the plugs on the authentication servers for a completely different music service is. Apparently it didn't fail bad enough to make them not want to try again.
This is a Hollywood remake of a cartoon, not some work of art that our grandkids are going to be appreciating in film class 50 years from now. No matter who you cast instead of Reeves, they are just going to be doing it for a paycheck, and the person (or people) behind the decision to cast them in the role are doing it knowing that person will put butts in seats at the theater. Not sure why you think this movie is worth challenging somebody's honor over.
Yeah, that's a fundamental problem with the Linux support base. You're likely to get one of three answers to any given question you might have:
- Why are you using x? I use y and it's so much better because blah blah blah...
- Go look it up in the man pages/Google.
- If you don't already know, you shouldn't bother attempting it.
Keep extolling the virtues of Linux (or even Macintosh) over Windows all you want, but be expected to have to show your newly-converted user around once they've made the switch. Throwing BS answers like these around is the wrong way to help them out, and also quite counterproductive.
I question the wisdom of relying on a third party website to generate passwords for you. At least they are using ssl but how do you know they aren't keeping those passwords?
To what end, though? Gibson is probably too busy trying to scare everybody with latest_security_hole_02782 to bother to hack into your wireless router anyway.
There is really only one data plan available for the iPhone. (Well, two, but the second is an "enterprise" which offers the same "unlimited" data as the first.) Also, there are no cell towers in the middle of the ocean.
Given Paul McCartney has left his major label, explicitly calling them out as out-of-touch with the current digital reality, I'd say he's less than terrified by technology.
Especially considering you can buy something like 40 albums with his name on them on iTunes. It's not him, it's the ownership of the music from his previous band.
If you're going by technical specs, then yeah. That wasn't the point, however - the point was a 32-bit system was head and shoulders more popular and more successful than a 64-bit system, and that's about the time people quit caring about that statistic and turned to other metrics I mentioned above.
And don't forget people fretting over "how many bits" the console was. NES was 8-bit, SNES was 16-bit, TurboGrafx 16 had an 8-bit CPU and a 16-bit GPU, and what have you. That carried through the late 90s until the 32-bit Playstation wiped the floor with the Nintendo 64. Now people worry about number of polygons or frames per second. It's always been and probably always will be about graphics and numbers.
Ha... I never had to turn a 1001 vertical, but I did have to turn it upside-down. Otherwise the system would just sit there at the Playstation logo, or go to the system menu instead of go into the game. Haven't since needed to do that with any disk-based consoles, not even later revisions of the PSX. It was the damnedest thing.
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That must have been a short conversation.
Dammit Jim, I just saved a bunch of money by switching to Geico!
... as if tens of nerds suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.
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Fixed. This is Eve Online we're talking about after all, and not World of Warcraft...
Same cost at Nebraska. Maybe Microsoft just likes the Big 12 better?! ;)
Q: Why didn't Intel call the Pentium the 586?
A: Because they added 486 and 100 on the first Pentium and got 585.999983605.
No, since you're a university, the way to approach this is to let the undergrads explore. Sell it as a learning experience. Why is OSS so popular nowadays? Maybe the University itself, as a place of learning, should offer this? Don't limit it to just OSS, bring up OSX as well, to be fair. Let the students explore.
I suspect that'd be about as effective as convincing a Pepsi campus that selling Coke would be a valuable "learning" experience for the undergrads. Personally I'd start by selling copies of Open Office, GIMP, Ubuntu, etc. (for $1 or however much it cost to put them on a CD) at the bookstore alongside Office, Photoshop, and Windows and then when it comes time to update all your office software again, use whatever sales figures (in terms of copies sold, obviously) were generated from that against how many support calls went to the school helpdesk to determine if you can even make a case to the school or not.
Dead on. Sports is one of the few reasons left for me to watch TV. I get my news, weather, and weekly fixes of 24, Life on Mars, Heroes, etc. online. I get a cable box each fall so I can watch college football, but the minute I find I can stream that at 720p is the minute I rip the cable box out of my entertainment center and turn it back in.
Yep, I think Dark Age of Camelot's numbers settled around the 200k-250k mark before other games (EQ2, WOW) started eating into that share.
Heh, you said dongle.
They should run the ads instead of covering them up, that's half the fun in watching the Super Bowl right there! (Although probably not this year, as companies are [or should be] looking for ways to cut back on expenses.)
Something tells me that if I marched into LAX with my Australian passport and shouted "George Washington was a Fag" someone would object.
Somebody would certainly object, but they wouldn't be able to do much more than call you an idiot for making that kind of declaration. Saying you have a bomb strapped to your chest on the other hand, now that'll get you a real objection..
I've heard some pretty bad things about their service in Las Vegas, while the 10 or so years I've been on their service in Omaha has been pretty decent.
It's laughable that /. bashes Windows for it's SP2 is functional development but has little to no criticism for open source software(and especially KDE).
Not to mention the summary including a link for you to "congratulate" the developers on top of that.
The DRM is indeed no surprise, but the fact that they're doing this after having just gotten through pulling the plugs on the authentication servers for a completely different music service is. Apparently it didn't fail bad enough to make them not want to try again.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9926476-7.html
This is a Hollywood remake of a cartoon, not some work of art that our grandkids are going to be appreciating in film class 50 years from now. No matter who you cast instead of Reeves, they are just going to be doing it for a paycheck, and the person (or people) behind the decision to cast them in the role are doing it knowing that person will put butts in seats at the theater. Not sure why you think this movie is worth challenging somebody's honor over.
Yeah, that's a fundamental problem with the Linux support base. You're likely to get one of three answers to any given question you might have:
- Why are you using x? I use y and it's so much better because blah blah blah...
- Go look it up in the man pages/Google.
- If you don't already know, you shouldn't bother attempting it.
Keep extolling the virtues of Linux (or even Macintosh) over Windows all you want, but be expected to have to show your newly-converted user around once they've made the switch. Throwing BS answers like these around is the wrong way to help them out, and also quite counterproductive.
I question the wisdom of relying on a third party website to generate passwords for you. At least they are using ssl but how do you know they aren't keeping those passwords?
To what end, though? Gibson is probably too busy trying to scare everybody with latest_security_hole_02782 to bother to hack into your wireless router anyway.
There is really only one data plan available for the iPhone. (Well, two, but the second is an "enterprise" which offers the same "unlimited" data as the first.) Also, there are no cell towers in the middle of the ocean.
Given Paul McCartney has left his major label, explicitly calling them out as out-of-touch with the current digital reality, I'd say he's less than terrified by technology.
Especially considering you can buy something like 40 albums with his name on them on iTunes. It's not him, it's the ownership of the music from his previous band.
If you're going by technical specs, then yeah. That wasn't the point, however - the point was a 32-bit system was head and shoulders more popular and more successful than a 64-bit system, and that's about the time people quit caring about that statistic and turned to other metrics I mentioned above.
And don't forget people fretting over "how many bits" the console was. NES was 8-bit, SNES was 16-bit, TurboGrafx 16 had an 8-bit CPU and a 16-bit GPU, and what have you. That carried through the late 90s until the 32-bit Playstation wiped the floor with the Nintendo 64. Now people worry about number of polygons or frames per second. It's always been and probably always will be about graphics and numbers.
That seems the same as Hasbro's 1980's money making method.
Which would make sense, because most of the folks I know who read PA (myself included) were the target audience for Hasbro, Kenner, etc. in the 1980s.
M.A.S.K. ruled so much.
Ha... I never had to turn a 1001 vertical, but I did have to turn it upside-down. Otherwise the system would just sit there at the Playstation logo, or go to the system menu instead of go into the game. Haven't since needed to do that with any disk-based consoles, not even later revisions of the PSX. It was the damnedest thing.
Why is that obligatory? Spartacus wasn't a Trojan.