Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] The death of individuality

[Jack Smith <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 21:49 -0700, Scott Hussey wrote:

> I'm not sure, it isn't familiar to me, but I skipped a lot of classes
> at Mizzou. A friend's son recently enrolled in the J school and I know
> they _strongly_ encourage every student to own a Mac. I'm guessing
> that hasn't spread much past the J school. Yet.

The biology department at MU uses all Macintoshes, although they do not
have any specific suggestion for biology students to buy one...yet. As a
result, there are a few Macintoshes carried around by biology students,
but not really any more than in other classes and probably not more than
5% in total. As far as Linux goes, I have seen two other people who are
not prefessors use it. One was a person in my genetics class that ran
Ubuntu (he was a bio major) and one was an engineering student, but not
CS. I suppose the CS guys use it more heavily than most but I wasn't CS
and didn't know very many of them.

It's been my experience that somewhere between 3% and a third of
non-journalism students ran Macintoshes at MU. The proportion is at the
lower end in science and math classes (where you might find one
Macintosh in a class of 30) and higher in the liberal arts. Roughly a
sixth of my medical school class carries around Macintoshes. Techically
the recommendation was to get a Windows XP machine, but was more of a
"don't get Vista yet" rather than a "you actually have to use Windows
XP." Probably one in five laptops actually runs Windows XP, most run
Vista and there are the Macintoshes as well. I run Ubuntu and as far as
I know I am the only one that runs something other than Windows or MacOS
and I get along just fine. All that's really needed is a laptop that can
get on TigerNet, open Blackboard, and handle .ppt and .doc files and
that's pretty universal acrosss any OS today.

--Jack


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