1. Don’t give a prorated refund on your $545 dollar parking pass (2 months left — that’s 17% of my cash wasted — great job GT parking)
2. Try to charge an extra month of rent and a “late fee” for supposedly not paying rent (it’s a good thing we file all of our paperwork, huh?)
3. Get random CEO to beg for money at graduation (although he was amusing, I’ll admit)
4. Put your undergrads in disgusting 4-person apartments that look like they were dumpsters, at some point
5. Use the cheapest possible cabinets and waste space in small apartments at the family apartments (so cheap, the damned drawers literally fall apart)
6. Have the god forsaken fire alarm go off 8 times over a 36 hour period and dozens of over times over a 2 year period
7. Do nothing to the disgusting fools on my hall who liked to smoke in their room and make the hall smell like burnt garbage
8. Charge me for scuffs on the floor when I move out even though the crappy liminate floor is practically made of plastic grocery [don't know how the i got into "grociery" but that's alright -- I'll proof read from here on out] store bags and the scuffs were normal wear and tear from a fricken chair
9. Ignore THREE maintenance requests in a row
10. See #9
GT needs to make some changes to its housing and parking departments.
Well, I bought a black macbook and man is it slick. You talk about a quality piece of hardware. I don’t mind the operating system so much either — it has its quirks and little things I’m not used to (why mix the launch of applications with the list of running tasks? It’s counter intuitive to me, but I suppose it does save screen realestate). I am going to put a Windows VM on it for IE7 testing, but the majority of my work will be in OS X.
I’ll still be using XP/Vista full-time on my PC, however, as I need to be able to game, etc., given that I run a CS:S team (not that I get to play as much any more, but that’s fine). I wasn’t so thrilled at the idea of plopping down so much cash, but I need the machine and I’m sure it’ll be nice to have on trips and such. I bought 2GB of ram from newegg and am waiting on that to get here; until then, it’ll be running a bit slower than I’d like. I would have bought the ram locally, but the cheapest price was through Apple themselves at $175, 2.2 times as much as I paid through newegg. Many of the places wanted 4x what I paid through newegg. Oh well, I’ll just have to wait for it to come in.
You know what I want to see from Microsoft? Innovation. Microsoft has the resources to do a lot of neat things and while I’m regularly made fun of, by friends, for being a Microsoft fan boy, they’ve really disappointed me this go around.
They should be hammering companies like nVidia to have stable, feature-complete drivers ready for their $600 flag-ship video cards upon release.
They should be the first to release features like desktop composition, 3D accelerated GUIs, etc. They shouldn’t have to play catch-up with Apple or Linux or anyone else. It’s sad, really. The best-funded company in the world has stopped innovating and brining new things to the table before anyone else. Now, they just follow.
Of course, there are exceptions — the xbox brand, anyone? They’ve done an amazing job with it, even if they’re not yet profitable. There’s a lot of “neato” behind it, brand and content integration, etc.
My challenge to MS is to use all of the talent and resources they have — stop following and start leading. Start innovating in the finest sense. I suppose we’ll see what happens in the coming years, I suppose, as the Google-Microsoft-Yahoo hate-love-triangle heats up.
I received an email from the president and founder of Infrant Technologies today announcing that Infrant would be “merging” with Netgear. I want to know how this will impact my ReadyNAS NV+ and its future support — Netgear isn’t exactly open with their products so important features like SSH (promised by Infrant for some time now on the NV series) may never make it to market. Hopefully they open up the NV+ a bit and give us that 2.6 kernel-based firmware for it.
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