Aero Laptop Exploded

AngelFuree said:
See, that's what I don't get. How can ONE ONE ONE ONE ONE ONE ONE person have the final say on something so stupid as this stupid program?? ...and they say they're not making money out of it. Not making money my ass. Who do they think we are to be buying their BS?

"Angel, if you don't like the laptop program, then just leave."
I can already predict someone saying that.
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Angel, if you don't like the laptop program, then just leave.

Just kidding, I just want to buy my own laptop and pick what software I want on it. As for flitestar, sure it is useful, but how ofter does it acutally get used? I can count on one hand the amount of times I have used it in the past 3 semesters.
 
Speaking of the Craptops, aren't we due for new ones this summer? I wonder which cheap ones UND can get a good deal on. Or maybe they will get rid of it this summer! (In my dreams!)

But seriously if we really wanted to try to get rid of the laptops now would be the time to campaign against it and then try to have them scrap it over the summer before they buy the new computers.

I smell a protest in the parking lot or is that just simplot? :sarcasm:
 
the_dmn8tr said:
Angel, if you don't like the laptop program, then just leave.

Just kidding, I just want to buy my own laptop and pick what software I want on it. As for flitestar, sure it is useful, but how ofter does it acutally get used? I can count on one hand the amount of times I have used it in the past 3 semesters.
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I never EVER used Flightstar. EVER.
 
I have used it in 221 for the cross countries. I still did it by hand but used FliteStar to double check my fuel and times. It's a cool program but no one shows you how to use anything on it. We don't need to pay $800 for it though, everything that is on the UND Laptop can be installed on your own. I don't get why we have to use the UND ones.

The laptop issue was on the survey at end of fall though, maybe they will change it. We can at least hope.
 
Micaoct said:
...everything that is on the UND Laptop can be installed on your own. I don't get why we have to use the UND ones.
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Because Skramstad assumes that every aviation student is just like him - someone who is so new and finally impressed by a computer that allows you to hit backspace instead of using whiteout for a typewriter. He developed the program so that aviation students would be "good and ready" with computers for the real world as if we already didn't know how to use them. The help desk would be readily available for students who didn't know how to save a document or print, or even turn it on. I'm sure it was that way in 1999 (or 2000 was it?) when the laptop program started since ND is about 30 years behind the times, but come on, Billy Luftason from Hatton, ND HAS to have seen and operated a computer by 2005.

I love how UND stated that they forced you to use the UND laptops as to ensure that the programs they required you to use would run smoothly. Like........ MS Word, Notepad, Calculator, Flightstar? Come on! Even the worst Celeron processor with 256MB RAM can run Flightstar.
 
They gave us such high performance laptops so we could run Flight Simulator 2002 on our free time. :sarcasm:
 
Yea I have had enough of the laptop program too. I have paid 1200 dollars towards the laptop so far and I am not going to pay it again. I am going to just return and tell them im leaving UND. Ive tried to return it before and told them I dont need and dont use it but they said if you are enrolled in an aviation course, you have to have it. No point in having a laptop I dont use. The only program that seems to be useful on it seems to be flight star but I have never used it and if I needed to use I would rather buy it. not worth 3600 dollars for 4 years and you dont get to keep it.
 
JaceTheAce said:
I'm sure it was that way in 1999 (or 2000 was it?) when the laptop program started .
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It was 1998. If memory serves, they mailed out announcements for the program over the summer, after we newbs were accepted and enrolled. I think it was late '01 before they even had enough WAP bandwidth to support an entire classroom at once.
 
JaceTheAce said:
Billy Luftason from Hatton, ND HAS to have seen and operated a computer by 2005.
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however his aunt Abbie Jo Olafssenstaad who works in the business offi-...i mean "student account services".... has not yet seen this new invention. apparently computers have something to do with Midcontinent Cable and guys dressed up in giant gumball suits.
 
TXaviator said:
however his aunt Abbie Jo Olafssenstaad who works in the business offi-...i mean "student account services".... has not yet seen this new invention. apparently computers have something to do with Midcontinent Cable and guys dressed up in giant gumball suits.
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Oh gaud, I am so glad I don't have to hear the stupid Midco commercials forced into my ears on every commercial break of every channel... including the annoying Zimmerman's Furniture guy advertising the UGLIEST midwestern-style furniture ever ($900 faux fireplace, ugly country farm oak dining room set and floral pattern couches with oak wood accents...you know...what Hilga Olgessen from Park River, ND likes in her home). "Oh jees dear, oh fer pretty, look at theeeat fine furniture siet, we should gooooh over tuwah Fargoooooh tuwah tayyyyke a look at it, donchya knooow."
 
JaceTheAce said:
Oh gaud, I am so glad I don't have to hear the stupid Midco commercials forced into my ears on every commercial break of every channel... including the annoying Zimmerman's Furniture guy advertising the UGLIEST midwestern-style furniture ever ($900 faux fireplace, ugly country farm oak dining room set and floral pattern couches with oak wood accents...you know...what Hilga Olgessen from Park River, ND likes in her home). "Oh jees dear, oh fer pretty, look at theeeat fine furniture siet, we should gooooh over tuwah Fargoooooh tuwah tayyyyke a look at it, donchya knooow."
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You are my favorite person.
 
JaceTheAce said:
Oh gaud, I am so glad I don't have to hear the stupid Midco commercials forced into my ears on every commercial break of every channel... including the annoying Zimmerman's Furniture guy advertising the UGLIEST midwestern-style furniture ever ($900 faux fireplace, ugly country farm oak dining room set and floral pattern couches with oak wood accents...you know...what Hilga Olgessen from Park River, ND likes in her home). "Oh jees dear, oh fer pretty, look at theeeat fine furniture siet, we should gooooh over tuwah Fargoooooh tuwah tayyyyke a look at it, donchya knooow."
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except for the fact no one here is that bad
 
I've only seen about 5 minutes or so of Fargo, thought it was stupid and switched channels. I like Steve Buscemi, so I was a little disappointed.
 
Stinger said:
I've only seen about 5 minutes or so of Fargo, thought it was stupid and switched channels. I like Steve Buscemi, so I was a little disappointed.
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It's one of my favorite movies... I still get a kick out of the exact cultural representations of the Minnesotan/North Dakotan people in that movie.
















































half-:sarcasm:
 
JaceTheAce said:
I found that 80% of the North Dakotans were straight out of the movie Fargo.
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maybe the rural north dakotans. i realize Fargo and Bismark aren't the biggest cities in the world but for the most part the people are the same as you will find elsewhere.

it is all about expectations; if you saw the movie Fargo before coming here, which i am assuming you did, that is probably what you are basing your judgments off for the people. i could say a similar thing about southern CA, i have spent 2 days there, and i noticed that roughly 60-70% of the people there are stuck up a-holes. does that mean that is what i think about all people there? no that was a random sampling in only 2 cities (pamona and whereever Six Flags is). Did i meet some really nice down to earth people, you bet! therefore my expectation when i go back is that not all people are a-holes, just a select few, like you will find anywhere.
 
BuickCFI said:
maybe the rural north dakotans. i realize Fargo and Bismark aren't the biggest cities in the world but for the most part the people are the same as you will find elsewhere.

it is all about expectations; if you saw the movie Fargo before coming here, which i am assuming you did, that is probably what you are basing your judgments off for the people. i could say a similar thing about southern CA, i have spent 2 days there, and i noticed that roughly 60-70% of the people there are stuck up a-holes. does that mean that is what i think about all people there? no that was a random sampling in only 2 cities (pamona and whereever Six Flags is). Did i meet some really nice down to earth people, you bet! therefore my expectation when i go back is that not all people are a-holes, just a select few, like you will find anywhere.
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Hey, if you come to New York and think everyone is a stuck up #######, you are right :D! Generalizations are not fair in the sense that although it represents a fair size of the population, they are others who are different. Generalizations however just don't appear overnight, like the case of the midwestern generalization. We tend to remember something that is foreign. For most hearing a North Dakotan accent will stand out for people not from this region versus the countless that don't speak like that. So, when Martha Fisher goes back to New York, she will comment with her friends on the midwestern accent she heard.

Martha "I was at the local deli, and I was greeted with an enthusiastic "Hiii Theeeere, how is it goooing, oh feer cute sweater you have there."

Cindy "Wow, they really speak like that"


 
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