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RE: Of Interest To Robotics Folks? Perhaps...
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lugnet.robotics
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Thu, 5 Jul 2001 19:52:42 GMT
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Brother Lizardo <brother_lizardo@!ihatespam!mac.com>
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Well, I have to say that the information that is coming out of your
mouth is that most ill-educated krap I have heard in a long time. I
had a hard time just understanding your English. And you are in
charge of computer systems for a school district?
Your knowledge or lack there of is showing. Yes, Apple is dumping the
cube. The cube was a mid range high tech show piece. The iMac is a
low end machine and the G4 tower is the high end. Oh and how many of
your pc machines come with build in gig ethernet? Well all of the
G4's do. And you say they don't network. Have you seen the sales
reported for the G4 Powerbook and the new iBook. They more than make
up for one bad selling product. I for one would like a Cube.
One question. How many techs do you need to have to support x amount
of machines? I work for a Publishing/Comics company and support 100
macs, 20 pc, 2 sun, and 15 printers. It only takes two people to
handle this. We an a daily basis have 400gb of data on our network.
Any cost savings you made in buying "cheap" PC hardware you are
blowing on daily basis having more techs.
On the lego front the robolab software is good because kids can use
it. RIS would be better for the younger ones though. I personally use
NQC because I am good with C. There is an interesting RealBasic
plugin that I found and was able to use with my rcx. I am looking
into it because you can write programs that interface between other
programs on the computer and the rcx. One I have been working one is
a tape loader. Program A says "load tape 4" and the middle man
program says "OK" then tells the rcx what to do.
Sorry if this sounded like a personal attack but I just had to let you know.
Shawn "brother Lizardo"
> Well, I hate to disagree here, but Mac is being phased out of many school
> districts. I work for Orange County, FL schools, and we are doing away with
> MACs across the board, and adding PC's. As one of the largest school
> districts in the country, we find the Mac has a poor network, compared to
> Win, so it was decide to be PC only. This is happening in many of our
> schools in this state, and I am reading about this happening elsewhere in
> the US. Also, Mac is dumping the G4 cube, do to poor sales.
> Very few of us Techs are disappointed in the changeover.
>
> just lettin you know
>
> James Jones
> Technology Specialist
> LMS
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