N. Hopper

A member of the Philip Greenspun's Homepage community since April 29, 2000

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April 29, 2000, on Smyly Autos Case:
What a bunch of pricks these Smyly people are.
May 2, 2000, on Tuition-free MIT:
I wish everyone had the same vision as Philip has. But the reality of things at a state school are, well, everything but reality.

Here at South Dakota State, you can buy all the physical things you want. For instance, as of May 1, the bare minimum computer the state will even purchase is a PIII 600, 128 meg of RAM, 20 gig HD, and a 17" monitor. All you want to do is type in Word and Excel? Well, you now have a decent engineering workstation, whether you need it or not. Cost to taxpayers, $2000+ from Gateway 2000. Forget a old PII 300, like I have, which cost me $500 from a internet retailer, will do just a fine job.

The state bought 100 web cams for the cooperative extension service. Do you think the state needs a webcam in each cooperative office, when the only people who care are 20 somethings with fast internet connections, not SD farmers who spend 14 hours a day...