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MA High School Forces All Students To Buy MacBooks
An anonymous reader sends in this excerpt from the Salem News:
"A new program at Beverly High will equip every student with a new laptop computer to prepare kids for a high-tech future. But there's a catch. The money for the $900 Apple MacBooks will come out of parents' pockets. 'You're kidding me,' parent Jenn Parisella said when she found out she'd have to buy her sophomore daughter, Sky, a new computer. 'She has a laptop. Why would I buy her another laptop?' Sky has a Dell. Come September 2011, every student will need an Apple. They'll bring it to class and use it for homework. Superintendent James Hayes sees the technology as an essential move to prepare kids for the future. The School Committee approved the move last year, and Hayes said he's getting the news out now so families can prepare. 'We have one platform,' Hayes said. 'And that's going to be the Mac.'"
Wrong or troll. The product is IBM Personal System/2. The (PS/2) ports are named after the product.
Ugh, your wrong!
IBM PS/1 which I owned.
IBM PS/2 which did exist.
So there yah go.
The Goal: A long simple life filled with many complex toys.
IBM PS/2.
Ugh, IBM PC/2! PS/2 is the connectors, PC/2 was the overall product, PS/2 does not include a computer, it's just a connector. Or wait, are you saying they are going to stare at a PS/2 connector?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Personal_System/2
The connector got its name from the computer.
No, it wasn't PC/2. It was PS/2, which stood for Personal System/2. The PS/2 mouse/keyboard connectors were introduced on it. What did the PS in PS/2 stand for in your version of reality?
If you are going to be an ass while also being wrong, can you wait for me to haul my PS/2 out and drop it on you? It's only a model 80.
If you are going to be an ass while also being wrong, can you wait for me to haul my PS/2 out and drop it on you? It's only a model 80.
Sure, I always wanted to own one. Especially now that I know its name.
Clicked pie.
You thought they'd sell more than half a personal computer, with half an operating system?
"When you have eliminated the unacceptable, whatever is left, however improbable, must be the truthiness" - Holmes
Personally I called them the "IBM Piece of S-2" as me and a few fellow employees did a "Office Space" on them. Smashing them batting practice on the hard drives into the nearly indestructible monitors, as we were getting rid of them or giving them away to teachers at the school w/ a 300 baud modem?!?!?!?. Yeah.. this was in 1998 too.. Twas a school "Behind the times" in technology.
Maybe that's the official name; but, as someone who owned one (PS/2 mod 30) I can assure you we referred to them simply as IBM PS/2 computers
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The Bible pre-dates Socrates?
Is this some magic time-travelling Bible you're talking about?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socrates
Check the death date. A few hundred years before Jesus was born.
Canada: The US's more awesome sibling.
They call it the Old Testament because it's old. Parts of it predates Socrates by about 500 years, and other parts only a couple hundred years after he died.
“Common sense is not so common.” — Voltaire
you could have googled or binged
Is "binged" the correct term? Are you sure it isn't "bung"?
I think I'm going to quit using brand names as verbs altogether, and just refer to the activity as "searching".
-jcr
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
The past tense form of the verb bing is bunged. The object of bunged is the person attempting to search and the subject is Microsoft.
As an example: I tried to search for an ancient Semitic proverb mis-attributed to Lincoln, but Microsoft bunged me.
Use of the words "good", "bad" or "evil" is almost invariably the result of oversimplification.