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... is basically doing the same thing ( http://www.oc.edu/apple/ ). They are also offering the choice of a Dell, MacBook, or MacBook Pro. Many of the students here chose the iTouch (including me) simply because they didn't want to pay the expensive monthly fees for the iPhone. My service charge would be $90 per month. I just can't afford that price being a student having other debts to pay off (like college tuition). OC released an enterprise app for our iTouch/iPhone that lets us track things such as events going on, which laundry machines are open (through LaundryView), etc. I think it's pretty neat, but I'm not sure if it's worth the price tag.

Check out Curt Niccum's blog. He's a big Greek nerd that knows a ton about Bible translations. He has even worked on translating parts of the Dead Sea scrolls. Incredible guy.

All the proofs you ever need are here.

Seriously though, some Calculus results aren't that difficult (although others are, but we can ignore them, ey?). For example, the rule that says "If you have two functions of x added together, then you can differentiate them separately and add them together"
(That is if f(x) = g(x) + h(x) then f`(x) = g`(x) + h`(x) ):

Let u and v be functions of x, and y be their sum:
y = u + v

If you increase x by an amount, call it Dx (normally written "Delta-X", but I don't want to cause display problems, so I'm just using a capital D), then u and v and y will also increase by some amount (since they are all functions of x):
u = u + Du
v = v + Dv
y = y + Dy

So:

y + Dy = u + Du + v + Dv

and subtracting the original y=u+v from this, leaves:

Dy = Du + Dv

Dividing by Dx, leaves you:

Dy / Dx = Du / Dx + Dv / Dx

This is pretty much it (You can take it through to the end, too, using limits, but it all gets a bit difficult to type here on Slashdot. And it's not like anyone is going to read this post, anyway)

I apologise if you actually do have a background in mathematics and this is patronising you. I apologise if you actually do not have a background in mathematics, since in that case you probably don't care!

As for Fermat's Last Theorem, read this book. I can't tell you how good it is though, since it is outside of my price range, and my local library doesn't have it (and refuses to believe it exists, on the grounds that I must mean that stupid Simon Singh book.)

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I've always wanted to see if my school's MS only infrastructure could stand up to a good pounding...

-theGreater Slacker.

PS: They say to scan your license in so that it's between 1500 and 2500 pixels long, or between 1 and 2 MB in size. I don't have a scanner, though. Or a job.

There was nothing wrong with my facts, but thank you for your civil reply, seriously.

We come from different points of view, obviously. I don't see corporations as inherently evil or monolithic forces of pure evil. There's a lot more to corporations than you might think. With all due respect, I think it's simplistic to blame the corporations for everything, which is what the anti-global, anti-captalist, anti-war crowd typically do. They blame the corporations and blame America first.

So while your point of view deserves more exposure in the mainstream, I think it's a tad simplistic to say that NBC beats the drums because it is owned by GE, a huge conglomerate.

These corps are made of people and their news divisions are fiercly independent. They have to make a profit, but they aren't responsible for other divisions. Control across those divisions isn't absolute. (for example, look at AOL-Time-Warner)

I just don't believe that the newswriters and NBC/MSNBC are sitting around thinking about the jet aircraft division when they're writing the news. And I don't think corporations are to blame for the evils of this world.

Finally, rather than pegging NBC specifically with guilt by association, you'd do better to analyze its coverage. NBC's Nightly News undoubtedly leans left. And left doesn't necessarily mean "anti-war." But coverage in general leans left.
I wrote this about the Today Show's coverage of the mood in Europe. The Today Show is definitely slanted to the left/anti-war.

Anyway - thanks for your challenging reply. Your final statement "Too many times the profit interests take precendence over unbiased reporting" is undoubtedly true. I think that usually manifests itself in poor reporting rather than biased reporting.

There are two types of credit checks. The first type doesn't affect your credit. Credit Card companies use these for pre-approval offers. They will make an inquiry and it will appear on your credit report.

A credit check for the purpose of borrowing does affect your credit. Lawrence Lindsey, the President's former chief economic advisor got into a huge public brouhaha with Toys 'R Us over its credit rating practices. He was a Governer of the Federal Reserve Board at the time he was denied a Toys 'R Us credit card because he was shopping for a home loan at the time - he had too many checks on his credit report.

Now, I don't know which kind an employer does. I suspect the first (non-harmful) one because it doesn't involve an actual credit app.

Our credit reporting system is crap. Creditors have too much power. They can make you pay things you don't owe simply because it's cheaper than fighting them. My wife and I are this close (holding finger and thumb close together) to countersuing a doctor that has mistreated us, doesn't return calls, and won't even prosecute the lawsuit he filed against us. The $8,000 bill he says we owe was taken off of our report, but he can put it back on whenever he wants. Ack.

End Rant.

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At my university, we use Blackboard.

My sister is attending a university that makes a laptop part of the tuition so kids can include it in their educational loans and everyone has wireless access anywhere on campus. It is supposed to be a really nice set-up.