I find it ironic that Apple with its UNIX derived OS adopted UEFI wholesale before Microsoft's platform widely did (EFI didn't become mainstream on PC motherboards until the past 2 years or so).
I took online courses at a university that has been doing them since the late 90s. It was basically the same recorded lectures back then. The big difference was the university I went to required a minimum GPA in order to allow people to take online courses which kept the attrition levels low (most courses I noticed about 10% tops). They also required students that lived near the campus to take a fully proctored midterm and a final (they were on Saturdays), which was the majority. I mostly took online courses for the stuff I knew already but were required classes. Given what I experienced, I would never take one on an entirely new subject that I wasn't familiar with.
You should be able to manually install the certificate for Windows 8 OEM copies. Windows 8 brought out a very complicated OEM pre-activation system since the system used for Vista/7 was easily reverse engineered and used to avoid product activation.
Walk over to the company's business line website. Plenty of new machines there with Windows 7 preloaded. Windows 8 Pro also has downgrade rights, just don't expect driver support from the vendor. Not a big deal as almost all the hardware in today's machines still had Windows 7 support, although I wonder if those fancy touch screens will work.
Yes it can do QR Codes, the Samsung Omnia came with an app that supported them. The bigger problem I had with that phone was digitizer "drift". Any touch screen input was registered as happening a few mm to the right of where I touched. This made it impossible to use the on-screen keyboard and no amount of calibration would fix it. The only solution was to replace the digitizer.... I replaced the phone instead.
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I currently have a Xeon E3110 in my main desktop. It is nothing more then a re-branded Core2Duo E8400 and does not have ECC.
Most universities will let anyone teach as an adjunct as long as they have a master's degree in the subject. Its bad enough most courses are being taught by TAs who are doing it just to get said master's.
I didn't even know you could embed Flash content in a Word document. I'm guessing they are using ActiveX, which means you are safe if you don't happen to have the ActiveX version of Flash installed. Whats very annoying is that Adobe's update notifier doesn't update both the ActiveX and Netscape plug-in versions of Flash, just one or the other. Always check the Flash control panel and make sure you have the latest version for both!
Its actually pretty tough to find a laptop with a nice high res screen thanks to HDTV panel production. Its either 1366x768 or 1920x1080. My 6+ year old Dell laptop has a nice 14" 1440x900 display and had the option of higher resolutions, something that is scarce in the market today outside of Apple's offerings.
Yes, I remember those days fondly. My experience with them has been on the consumer side of things for many years as a tech. Many customers brought in machines to a computer store I worked at, which usually landed up with one of the techs having to call Dell and get a part replaced under warranty. It used to be a simple process, which it likely still is on the enterprise/business support side, but it was nothing but frustration on the home/consumer side as the years went on. My only experience with their enterprise side was at my current job when the IT dept had to replace a bunch of those infamous Optiplex GX270s with the bad caps.
I remember being able to order things like replacement laptop keyboards from them without a problem. I used to call them up, get someone in Texas on the phone, state that the keyboard was broken (long out of warranty) and needed a replacement. All they used to ask for was the express service code to confirm that the right part was ordered and a credit card for payment. Just try doing that today.
You still sound like a shill. Last time I had to call them, it took an hour on the phone with someone in India to convince them to send the onsite tech to replace the logic board on a laptop. There was an issue with the SATA controller not working properly (I ruled out a bad HD already), so it wasn't something that would fail on a diagnostic or hardware test. No problems when the tech showed up to replace the board, and the laptop is actually working properly now. Before, HD I/O would randomly freeze for 30 seconds and then resume like nothing happened.
VHS has been dead as a consumer format for more than a decade, but there are STILL companies selling new VCRs. What vanished were the cheap consumer models. What remains are heavy-duty pro models designed mainly for recovery and restoration work... and it's a market that's slowly growing as desperate consumers realize they no longer have the players for their old high school band/cheerleading/football tapes their parents made years ago, and they go looking for solutions (or people who can do it for them). Best of all, the patents have all basically expired, so now a smaller company with the ability to machine metal & plastic parts actually CAN step in to take over a market that companies like Sony & Matsushita lost interest in years ago.
Umm, there is no such market. Any new VHS VCR you can buy is found in a DVD combo deck and is utter garbage. All the best SVHS and DVHS decks (made by JVC and Panasonic) for digital transfer work have long since been discontinued. JVC also managed to keep the VHS patents fresh when things like SVHS ET (SVHS recording on standard VHS tapes) and later the Digital VHS format.
If you want to get people worked up, selectively turn people's power back on, turning them against each other. See The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street
You clearly weren't in the NYC metro area after Superstorm Sandy hit.
I wrote a.NET application back in 2004 that used ADO.NET to interface with a MySQL database. It was quite painful to code compared to just using MS SQL. Once I got the connector working (it wasn't a mature product at the time), the final application worked pretty well.
You do realize that all that is now worth quite a bit of cash? That being said, Lisas haven't aged very well. Many of them need extensive repair and restoration. The worst problem is battery leaking acid all over the boards.
Electrical service is much more reliable in the US compared to China/India. There is also an advantage of having your product manufacturing close to your marketplace... namely lower shipping costs.
Pretty much. There is a glimmer of hope that someone buys the company assists, but they usually don't take the warranty liabilities as it isn't profitable.
My college Calculus and Pre-Calculus courses prohibited calculators of any form. You really didn't need them as the courses were geared towards problem solving and not pure arithmetic.
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El Al Airlines is notable for telling the TSA to shove it and retained their enhanced airport security screenings in the USA. http://www.haaretz.com/news/el-al-wants-to-do-its-own-bag-screening-at-newark-airport-1.187412
I find it ironic that Apple with its UNIX derived OS adopted UEFI wholesale before Microsoft's platform widely did (EFI didn't become mainstream on PC motherboards until the past 2 years or so).
I took online courses at a university that has been doing them since the late 90s. It was basically the same recorded lectures back then. The big difference was the university I went to required a minimum GPA in order to allow people to take online courses which kept the attrition levels low (most courses I noticed about 10% tops). They also required students that lived near the campus to take a fully proctored midterm and a final (they were on Saturdays), which was the majority. I mostly took online courses for the stuff I knew already but were required classes. Given what I experienced, I would never take one on an entirely new subject that I wasn't familiar with.
You should be able to manually install the certificate for Windows 8 OEM copies. Windows 8 brought out a very complicated OEM pre-activation system since the system used for Vista/7 was easily reverse engineered and used to avoid product activation.
The volume licensing agreement requires that OEM license to be on a machine.
Walk over to the company's business line website. Plenty of new machines there with Windows 7 preloaded. Windows 8 Pro also has downgrade rights, just don't expect driver support from the vendor. Not a big deal as almost all the hardware in today's machines still had Windows 7 support, although I wonder if those fancy touch screens will work.
Yes it can do QR Codes, the Samsung Omnia came with an app that supported them. The bigger problem I had with that phone was digitizer "drift". Any touch screen input was registered as happening a few mm to the right of where I touched. This made it impossible to use the on-screen keyboard and no amount of calibration would fix it. The only solution was to replace the digitizer.... I replaced the phone instead.
I currently have a Xeon E3110 in my main desktop. It is nothing more then a re-branded Core2Duo E8400 and does not have ECC.
Most universities will let anyone teach as an adjunct as long as they have a master's degree in the subject. Its bad enough most courses are being taught by TAs who are doing it just to get said master's.
I didn't even know you could embed Flash content in a Word document. I'm guessing they are using ActiveX, which means you are safe if you don't happen to have the ActiveX version of Flash installed. Whats very annoying is that Adobe's update notifier doesn't update both the ActiveX and Netscape plug-in versions of Flash, just one or the other. Always check the Flash control panel and make sure you have the latest version for both!
Its actually pretty tough to find a laptop with a nice high res screen thanks to HDTV panel production. Its either 1366x768 or 1920x1080. My 6+ year old Dell laptop has a nice 14" 1440x900 display and had the option of higher resolutions, something that is scarce in the market today outside of Apple's offerings.
Yes, I remember those days fondly. My experience with them has been on the consumer side of things for many years as a tech. Many customers brought in machines to a computer store I worked at, which usually landed up with one of the techs having to call Dell and get a part replaced under warranty. It used to be a simple process, which it likely still is on the enterprise/business support side, but it was nothing but frustration on the home/consumer side as the years went on. My only experience with their enterprise side was at my current job when the IT dept had to replace a bunch of those infamous Optiplex GX270s with the bad caps.
I remember being able to order things like replacement laptop keyboards from them without a problem. I used to call them up, get someone in Texas on the phone, state that the keyboard was broken (long out of warranty) and needed a replacement. All they used to ask for was the express service code to confirm that the right part was ordered and a credit card for payment. Just try doing that today.
You still sound like a shill. Last time I had to call them, it took an hour on the phone with someone in India to convince them to send the onsite tech to replace the logic board on a laptop. There was an issue with the SATA controller not working properly (I ruled out a bad HD already), so it wasn't something that would fail on a diagnostic or hardware test. No problems when the tech showed up to replace the board, and the laptop is actually working properly now. Before, HD I/O would randomly freeze for 30 seconds and then resume like nothing happened.
VHS has been dead as a consumer format for more than a decade, but there are STILL companies selling new VCRs. What vanished were the cheap consumer models. What remains are heavy-duty pro models designed mainly for recovery and restoration work... and it's a market that's slowly growing as desperate consumers realize they no longer have the players for their old high school band/cheerleading/football tapes their parents made years ago, and they go looking for solutions (or people who can do it for them). Best of all, the patents have all basically expired, so now a smaller company with the ability to machine metal & plastic parts actually CAN step in to take over a market that companies like Sony & Matsushita lost interest in years ago.
Umm, there is no such market. Any new VHS VCR you can buy is found in a DVD combo deck and is utter garbage. All the best SVHS and DVHS decks (made by JVC and Panasonic) for digital transfer work have long since been discontinued. JVC also managed to keep the VHS patents fresh when things like SVHS ET (SVHS recording on standard VHS tapes) and later the Digital VHS format.
I'm willing to bet that country has cheap and fast internet connections too.
If you want to get people worked up, selectively turn people's power back on, turning them against each other. See The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street
You clearly weren't in the NYC metro area after Superstorm Sandy hit.
What about the Star Wars Holiday Special?
I wrote a .NET application back in 2004 that used ADO.NET to interface with a MySQL database. It was quite painful to code compared to just using MS SQL. Once I got the connector working (it wasn't a mature product at the time), the final application worked pretty well.
You do realize that all that is now worth quite a bit of cash? That being said, Lisas haven't aged very well. Many of them need extensive repair and restoration. The worst problem is battery leaking acid all over the boards.
Electrical service is much more reliable in the US compared to China/India. There is also an advantage of having your product manufacturing close to your marketplace... namely lower shipping costs.
Pretty much. There is a glimmer of hope that someone buys the company assists, but they usually don't take the warranty liabilities as it isn't profitable.
Not just any phone company, but THE phone company. The irony of not giving workers their primary product: priceless.
My college Calculus and Pre-Calculus courses prohibited calculators of any form. You really didn't need them as the courses were geared towards problem solving and not pure arithmetic.
Didn't that line originate from the TV show "2 Broke Girls"?
If you've ever wondered why Microsoft keys use groups of five, now you know).
That would explain why the coded message seems to work as a Windows XP key!