That's why they will buy LP's and CD's instead of these newfangled MP3's and other media from the upstart new media stores like iTunes. eBooks have no real future.
Oh, wait....
Do you really want to push airlines into flying aircraft with broken parts? Having to pay tens of thousands of dollars to a plane load of passengers might just make an airline decide that a particular break isn't bad enough to down the aircraft.
Math is important to scientists, but math is not a science. You can tell this easily enough from the observation that math does not use the scientific method to pursue its goals.
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I think the best approach is to just go along with University's rules and run the software you really want to run inside a VM installed under Windows. That VM should isolate you from most of the problems you're worried about.
The rule on staying alive as a program manager is to give 'em a number or give 'em a date, but never give 'em both at once.