Does anyplace actually still offer a pre-law major? Law schools haven'twanted such thing for generations; it leaves students with to muchthattheythink they know to un-teach.
The best prep for law school is. Math/physics/engineering, much to the surprise of English majors who arrive expecting their "superiorwritingskills" to carry threat (aside do generally not being true anyway, this is trounced by the analytics)
My Mac SE/30 hada tip broken off the tube, so it only displayed on it's huge 19" external monitor. And it had a cooling problem, so it usually had the castoff. And finally,the eject tab on the floppy had to be bent a little more every few months.
Since the cover was off, and the display didn't work anyway, so the socket was off the back of the tube. I needed the disk out, and since the socket was off, I reached in . . . yipped in pain . . . and a second later, people were coming into my office, where I was slumped against a couch ten feet from my desk.
There was no way anyone could have made it into my office in less than several seconds. I was unaware of having lost consciousness, but didn't remember the, uhh, flight.
Yes, I know, and I knew, that the HV is in the coil on a CRT, not the 12 volts or whatever the filament was packing, but for that moment, incompletely slipped my mind.
At least that little 9"display only packed about 8kv . . .
My MacBook wasn't charging, and I found the charger wasn't well-seated.
Hmm, that alignment ring is loose.
Gee, it's bent out of shape, too;maybe I can straighten it with a pair of needle nose.
Wait a minute, it's a *STAPLE*.
It ran fine until the charge ran down.
Fifteen years ago, I would have just unsoldered the fuse from the motherboard and placed it, but I can't find any information on doing that these days:(
Even IBM wasn't "IBM compatible" after just a few years ( and to some extent, even the XT wasn't.
The difference between IBM and the oths at the time were those three letters, which cost you about $500 a piece. Their standard became dominant on that basis, not what they actually did.
>Bought the lady gaga for $1, never got it to download properly, Amazon will not aswer my requests to download it again
What a deal. That's worth *at least* $20!
Can they do the same thing for Taylor Swift and Rascall Flatts? And if so can I protect all of my ma Hines for that. Twenty bucks, or is it per machine?
That may have been *a* reason, but it wasn't even *close* to the main reason.
Computers started shipping with hard drives of staggering capacity, 40 or even 80 megabytes of storage, as standard equipment. *Massive* amounts of blank space.
For a very small royalty, manufacturers could slap MS word & excel on every machine. And they did.
Until that, those products were distant thirds (ok, excel may have been a distant second). Once they shipped with machines, however, going out and buying an adequate product wasn't particularly attractive--while WP was *clearly* better than word, it wasn't $400 better. So people used the second- and third-rate software that was already there.
(Note: at the same time, Word and Excel for the Mac were the best available products, but they shared nothing but their names with the dos/windows versions).
Law professors command higher salaries than even many of the "premium" fields, making law schools more expensive to run than "typical" departments (but probably not as expensive as something like engineering).
Overall, I'd be surprised if there are any law schools running at an operating profit (the for-profit schools excepted).
C'mon, that silly commie system, due to its pathetic and uncreative insistence on base 10, is consistently unable to represent things easily handled by imperial units, such as units related by 1/12 to other units.
This is just an attempt to divert attention from the *true* injustice here, which was the colonial downsizing, making a colonial pint of beer 20% smaller than one back in the land of our former masters.
We got the last laugh, though, as they're now stuck buying beer in liters . . .
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Does anyplace actually still offer a pre-law major? Law schools haven'twanted such thing for generations; it leaves students with to muchthattheythink they know to un-teach.
The best prep for law school is. Math/physics/engineering, much to the surprise of English majors who arrive expecting their "superiorwritingskills" to carry threat (aside do generally not being true anyway, this is trounced by the analytics)
hawk, j.d, ph.d.
This would definitely give new life to the blue screen of death . . .
> I think what's going to happen is that people are going to
>start taking naps when driving across Kansas and eastern
>Colorado.
Start?
They already do this, to prepare for the excitement of drive through Nebraska! :)
hawk
My Mac SE/30 hada tip broken off the tube, so it only displayed on it's huge 19" external monitor. And it had a cooling problem, so it usually had the castoff. And finally,the eject tab on the floppy had to be bent a little more every few months.
Since the cover was off, and the display didn't work anyway, so the socket was off the back of the tube. I needed the disk out, and since the socket was off, I reached in . . . yipped in pain . . . and a second later, people were coming into my office, where I was slumped against a couch ten feet from my desk.
There was no way anyone could have made it into my office in less than several seconds. I was unaware of having lost consciousness, but didn't remember the, uhh, flight.
Yes, I know, and I knew, that the HV is in the coil on a CRT, not the 12 volts or whatever the filament was packing, but for that moment, incompletely slipped my mind.
At least that little 9"display only packed about 8kv . . .
hawk
My MacBook wasn't charging, and I found the charger wasn't well-seated.
Hmm, that alignment ring is loose.
Gee, it's bent out of shape, too;maybe I can straighten it with a pair of needle nose.
Wait a minute, it's a *STAPLE*.
It ran fine until the charge ran down.
Fifteen years ago, I would have just unsoldered the fuse from the motherboard and placed it, but I can't find any information on doing that these days :(
hawk
And they don't include dselect anymore, either. Being used to it, synaptic and the other gui tools were a *huge* step down.
I still use aptitude for the most part, but install dselect for the occasional glitch (deselect predates apt, and uses dpkg tools)
Even IBM wasn't "IBM compatible" after just a few years ( and to some extent, even the XT wasn't.
The difference between IBM and the oths at the time were those three letters, which cost you about $500 a piece. Their standard became dominant on that basis, not what they actually did.
>Really? Was there any doubt?
"Was? ". Sure.
However, by the time it *really* ships, this review will be long forgotten.
The reps belong to the union, but that staff at union headquarters is frequently (usually?) non-union. It's fun when they strike :)
Also, those union pickets at the walmarts aren't union members; they're disposable minimum wage workers hired by the unions
>Bought the lady gaga for $1, never got it to download properly, Amazon will not aswer my requests to download it again
What a deal. That's worth *at least* $20!
Can they do the same thing for Taylor Swift and Rascall Flatts? And if so can I protect all of my ma Hines for that. Twenty bucks, or is it per machine?
hawk
I checked whir readi this--it works on my ipad2, right now ( and I've been using that for weeks, anyway)
hawk
Zork? For someone that's never dabbled with ADVENT???
What, you think memory grows on trees? 16k just for one user's process????
Newbie.
First ADVENT, then a bit of rogue. You can skip hack, and move straight to nethack.
Once on to nethack, what's the point of the rest?
Nethack caught my kid's interest at 5. "daddy, play the kitty game.". "get the gold, daddy."
And with such things, the hooks were set . . .
Never mind that, back to Celine Dion . . .
>One wonders if they'll be turned off by Celine Dion music — a new type of shark repellent perhaps?
I live in Vegas. Will running sharks up on the strip work as Celine Dion repellent?
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damn kids.
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That may have been *a* reason, but it wasn't even *close* to the main reason.
Computers started shipping with hard drives of staggering capacity, 40 or even 80 megabytes of storage, as standard equipment. *Massive* amounts of blank space.
For a very small royalty, manufacturers could slap MS word & excel on every machine. And they did.
Until that, those products were distant thirds (ok, excel may have been a distant second). Once they shipped with machines, however, going out and buying an adequate product wasn't particularly attractive--while WP was *clearly* better than word, it wasn't $400 better. So people used the second- and third-rate software that was already there.
(Note: at the same time, Word and Excel for the Mac were the best available products, but they shared nothing but their names with the dos/windows versions).
hawk
I am an attorney, but this is not legal advice. If you need legal advice in this matter, my minimum retainer for antitrust issues is $10,000.
Anyway . . .
It all depends upon the damages.
If the court finds that Wordperfect lost 50% of the word processor market due to anti-competitive behavior, the damages are *staggering*.
Just how much is 50% of that market worth today--and then treble it. And that's before 15 years of lost profits, with interest . . .
hawk, esq.
That's a good *first* step.
Then we move on to ignoring Windows 7, XP, NT . . .
That's possible, but I'd be surprised.
Law professors command higher salaries than even many of the "premium" fields, making law schools more expensive to run than "typical" departments (but probably not as expensive as something like engineering).
Overall, I'd be surprised if there are any law schools running at an operating profit (the for-profit schools excepted).
dochawk
Folks are looking at this from the wrong direction.
Tuition is subsidized by the university at every state and non-profit university out there; none charge students close to the cost.
This is really reducing the subsidy for those most likely to be able to pay with a smaller subsidy; it's not the majors cross-subsidizing one another.
Whether some fields should be subsidized at all is, of course, another question.
>The main thing I think of with rogue-like is mindless
>non-stop hack and slash against randomly generated
>enemies in a big zoo like environment.
Some of them.
In nethack (the only game that *matters*), it is a sure path to death.
>Australia fully converted in a relatively short space of time in the early 70s.
As such, new immigrants are classified with the unit, "decicriminal" :)
>It's 40 miles to my mother-in-law's house. Why would
>I possibly care that it's also 201200 feet?
To make it seem farther? :)
Consistency?
C'mon, that silly commie system, due to its pathetic and uncreative insistence on base 10, is consistently unable to represent things easily handled by imperial units, such as units related by 1/12 to other units.
This is just an attempt to divert attention from the *true* injustice here, which was the colonial downsizing, making a colonial pint of beer 20% smaller than one back in the land of our former masters.
We got the last laugh, though, as they're now stuck buying beer in liters . . .