i'll stick with my iphone - the HTC is not good and well I already have free data and all the google apps and much more. £45 a month is nothing to me and i understand those who are cost concious - I can't see many really *wanting* this except apple haters.
Or get a phone like the HTC Touch HD or Diamond or Pro, depending on your specific need, and have hardware that's superior to the iPhone's and the ability to use the tens of thousands of free WinMo programs and to load other operating systems (like Android, for instance). I can't see many really *wanting* the iPhone except apple advertising victims.
.. because once you've downloaded your music, you can't get it again unless you badger Apple. Couple that with the fact that iTunes doesn't officially support taking music off your iPod back onto iTunes and you've got a system that's a real pain in the arse.
Amazon allows unlimited downloads of purchased music.
I totally agree that a suspension is an easy break for the kid, but...
Look at the precedence. If this ruling goes unchallenged, what's to prevent a school from suspending any student they like for posting something on their my-space page? A student could post a valid, non-libel complaint about one of their instructors, and get suspended for it even though the comment was made off school grounds/times and was not in violation of the law. And what if it gets into even more heated topics. A white girl in a southern Georgia town post pictures of her date with her new black boyfriend to a social networking site and gets a 3 day suspension from School, why? Because the principal is a racist. Take it to court, and he'll site this case as precedence. Given power and time someone will abuse it.
This is a pretty significant power grab being made by the school that dramatically shifts the existing boundaries of power. As a quasi-conservative, I can't fathom why anyone would want to have such a result. I mean, I entrust the school system with my son during the day. I expect that they will keep an eye on him and make sure he performs well and integrates with society. When he leaves school, he is my responsibility, not theirs. And if he posts some crap like this on the internet, it is MY job to discipline him, not the school's. If the Principal wants to be responsible for disciplining my son for things that happen out side of the school environment, he can talk to me, or he can talk to a lawyer.
-Rick
Schools already can and do suspend any kid for any reason at any time. They have the power to suspend at will. This very very occasionally results in a law suit, but it's exceedingly rare and the school usually wins (in my home town, at least). So why aren't all kids always suspended? Because the people who run the schools are focused on educating children, not arbitrary punishment. This administrative self-control works, and usually (like this time), suspension is a matter that should never have gone to court. A kid did something stupid and vastly unfair to the principal. Legally, maybe the principal could have sued on account of libel. Instead of trying to mire the student and his/her family in our ponderous and soul-sucking legal system, the school decided to hand out a mild punishment that might teach the child a lesson without causing the child any harm. Instead, the kid's parents decided to teach their child a lesson about entitlement by showing that one must never take responsibility for ones actions. I think the villains in this story are the parents.
It doesn't matter, but it does. Sure, you can easily get an education of equal/better quality at a state school than some ivy league cesspool like Harvard, but the education itself isn't what matters. What matters is the brand name degree, the myth that ivies are superior, and the connections you can make by rubbing shoulders with important people.
I've taught at Harvard, gone to another Ivy, gone to a good state school, and I think I have a fair perspective on the differences between them. In grad school Ivies certainly get no automatic win, but looking at kids who got a B.S. in Harvard vs. at the state school shows a rather consistent trend. The kid from Harvard will be roughly equivalent to the kid from University of, say, University of [Insert State Here] when it comes to his field, assuming he's smart (remember that Harvard has the advantage of admitting kids who've already shown themselves to be quite smart). However, if you want to go talk about literature or film, the kid from Harvard will probably have more interesting things to say, and more interest in responding.
This difference is most likely more closely related to Harvard admitting kids with these interests than it is to Harvard's teaching of these subjects, though.
Google groups started to suck when they changed the interface from DejaNews to the one from Google. From then on it went down to so much that I never use it anymore. Not even to search for solutions.
Also, please no forums and NNTP mix up. NNTP is not a web forum and a webforum is not NNTP. Each and every webforum that has an NNTP interface sucks for either one or the other.
There are plenty of free usenet servers for text groups (and free IPv6 for binaries) that there is no need to use a webinterface. And if you boss does not want you to use Usenet, then do without it. His loss, not yours if he doesn't give you the tools to work with.
Usenet does not need you to answer in 2 minutes. So if you only have a connection during the weekend, that is OK.
I agree. Google's pretty good at acquiring technologies from other companies (Google Maps, Earth, etc) and making the interface better or at least not hurting it, but the moment they made changes to Dejanews they began removing functionality and usability. Dejanews was the great free web-based nntp reader, and making available all the messages since usenet's inception didn't make up for making searches or browsing within a group much less effective.
It's about the art direction overall. Diablo was gritty and realistic. They could make the whole game black and white, but you've still got characters running around in cutscenes and combat that look like they came from Warcraft.
I know I personally also wanted contrast to Blizzards other work, because that existed before now. Blizzard has amazing artists and they're going to make an amazing looking game, but when all your franchises start looking the same, they become kind of redundant from one another. I think most Diablo fans wanted something hellish, and dark, and corrupt. Gritty and realistic. While the game will look, and most likely play, just fine, the atmosphere is what will be different due to the changes in the look. I dunno... Something like this http://www.worldart.com.au/images/kris-kuksi-sculpture-surreal-deadly-sins1.jpg
Right now the game looks like it was Disney's take on Diablo, rather than Geiger's.
No one who played Diablo 2 was surprised by the D3 screenshots, since only part one of the series looked as you describe. I think that the flashy graphics in 2 and 3 make sense, since Diablo is essentially the marriage of Pacman or Super Mario and an RPG. What's gritty and realistic about point and click lolfests?
Shocked, shocked I am! Evil in the telecoms industry? Never! Well, hardly ever.
Perhaps Google could develop a not evil telecoms company. (Or, as they did with the spectrum auction, play the evils off against each other and not actually spend ridiculous sums of their own money.)
I think we need a Microsoft telecoms company. Their evil has been slipping lately. It's not good enough, Mr Ballmer!
(I'm picturing Steve Ballmer with his high-pressure used car salesman shout: "EVIL! EVIL! EVIL! EVIL!" Bouncing around the stage.)
Shocked, shocked I am! Evil in the telecoms industry? Never! Well, hardly ever.
Perhaps Google could develop a not evil telecoms company. (Or, as they did with the spectrum auction, play the evils off against each other and not actually spend ridiculous sums of their own money.)
I think we need a Microsoft telecoms company. Their evil has been slipping lately. It's not good enough, Mr Ballmer!
(I'm picturing Steve Ballmer with his high-pressure used car salesman shout: "EVIL! EVIL! EVIL! EVIL!" Bouncing around the stage.)
The only thing that would be different in a Google ISP is that they'd tie every website you visited to your permanent record.
I don't speed (or if I do, it is not deliberate and I slow back down to the limit) and I am passed left and right (and passing on the right is not legal) and I've seen people scream on discussion forums at anyone who dares to obey the law, as if obeying the law is something to sneer at (it's not; the rules exist for a damn good reason and no one is above it).
I don't know where you live, but in California the law says you must move over to the right to allow faster traffic to pass you on the left. It is not your job, nor do you have the authority, to enforce the speed limit by clogging up the fast lane.
do try not to break your leg climbing down off your high horse.
Not if the faster traffic is traveling over the speed limit. My aunt is a police officer, and a speeder, and she would translate frustration with slow people in the fast lane into pulling them over and ticketing. That is, until one guy fought it in court and it turned out that she (like most of the police) didn't have nearly as good of an understanding of the vehicle code as she thought she did.
That's why they're paid 20 bucks an hour! Slashdotters - give 'em hell. Here are a few questions to ask:
"Where can I get that Linux thing that everybody's talking about?"
"What's the point of those stupid commercials we keep seeing? It's like Bill Gates has money and likes to mock us."
"Do windows PCs suck as much as the Mac ads say they do? I want to be cool, not old and dumb."
"Why did Windows Vista fuck my wife? I heard it also eats babies and starts wars with defenseless countries."
Try going into an Apple store and asking for the identity of all of the processes run by iTunes for Windows. I do it or a variation every time I go to the mall and have time to spare. It's genuinely fun - but please be polite, accept the amusement brought about by the answer, thank the Genius and walk away.
What if someone stole my iPhone 3G and committed a crime? Will I be tracked and punished?
Its analogous to the red light traffic cameras that take photos of those who jump the red light, irrespective of who's driving the car, the owner is fined!
I had a friend who got fined for driving a car that wasn't his because his face was in a set of those photos. The owner of the car got the notice, but he wrote to explain who had been driving and sent along photos of both of them (they didn't like each other much anymore) and the fine was sent to the driver.
Everyone I know who has seen it has laughed a lot and thought it was a great commercial. Also they find it interesting the lack of mention about MS.
Isn't that contradictory? Great commercial yet people have no clue what the hell is being marketed? Shouldn't a great commercial be entertaining and same time clearly pitch a product or message?
Not mentioning MS doesn't mean people don't know what's being marketed. This morning two of my coworkers were talking outside my office about what they think will be in the next MS commercial with what sounded like a lot of enthusiasm. We don't work in IT.
I think the Mac vs. PC ad campaign is annoying 80% of the time and amusing 20% of the time, and is overall boring as hell. My Mac-happy friend has to change the channel every time one comes on. When the Gates ad comes on, people seem to be turning up the volume and enjoying being baffled. Even if these ads accomplish nothing for MS, they're an interesting ride for the rest of us.
Yeah, and meanwhile the Aryan Nation and the KKK are launching an online blitz to support Palin with some videos even showing ways how people can shoot Obama with a sniper rifle on a rally, and how people should give their own lives if necessary to make Sarah Palin the next president of the USA, and even how Sarah Palin is the "White Hope" and how she is going to destroy ZOG in Washington, and we have to watch this crap, as if someone says anything against godsent Palin he is naturally evil and a terrorist. Good to see how the USA controlling party uses this definition of terrorist only for those who are against them...
Is this true? I can't search for these things at work, but I'd be very curious to know whether or not this online blitz is really happening.
"and I'm so bitter about KDE trashing my machine that I'm about ready to say screw Linux and just format the whole dang thing to Vista, if only I can find the signed drivers."
A nice thing about Linux is that when something barfs, you can boot with your live CD, rescue your home directory, reinstall and update easily. (An external DVD drive allows booting from the main CD/DVD drive and burning to the external if you don't have another machine to copy to.)
A "nuke and pave" is MUCH faster than with Windows.
No matter what OS you use, it is time well spent learning to quick-turn a hosed system back to service.
1. Set up your system of any operating system in a nice configuration with all the core software and features you want installed and tweaked to taste.
2. Use a disk imager to back up the drive to an external hd or a NAS or a usb key.
3. When things go wrong, copy your documents if they're on the boot drive (and next time keep them on a separate drive) and restore from your image.
The Microsoft tax isn't that big a deal, at least not in the Thinkpad price range.
If it was possible to burn the money in a fire instead of giving it to Microsoft, then format the laptop and put Linux on it, then no, it wouldn't be a big deal. But that's not the case here. Microsoft is actually getting stronger off that tax, and I think we'll all agree, that is a big deal...
I know a few really smart, really nice people who work at Microsoft. I don't have a problem with MS making money. I'd much rather have the money go to MS and then get filtered back into the US economy and partially eventually back into my pocket than burned or sent to China where the money doesn't come back this way.
New Belgium, imo the best brewing company in the Unites States
What about Rogue, Dogfish Head, or Red Hook? Lots of great beer in the US.
I know all of those well, and count I actually like Rogue Dead Guy Ale more than any New Belgium beer. Midas Touch Ale from Dogfish still manages to surprise me with its excellent, complex finish every time I try it, and I've had a dozen bottles by now. Still, I pick NB overall for a range of excellent beers that can all be enjoyed ad nauseum (ha). My favorite individual beer from America is currently Pranqster (think Delirium Tremens with more reliability but less potential, and not made by monks) made by either Lost Coast or North Coast. If their names weren't so similar I could tell you which one it is.
America has an outstanding brewing culture, in some ways the best in the world.
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Jeannie: MEREDITH!
At least they finally canceled that show. If only they had given Farscape or Battlestar Galactica the same financial resources per quality line of dialogue...
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Cake or death?
Cake please.
Sorry, we're all out of cake. We didn't expect to have such a run on it.
Ok, I'll have the chicken then.
Well... Ok. Good thing we're the Church of England.
Most laptop reviews that evaluate both Linux and Windows behavior for the same system show longer battery life with Windows. The Dell Mini 9 is a good example of this.
Quite seriously - run some optical tube skylights (like this, they come in a wide variety of options) into your working areas. FAR too many companies are wasting energy powering internal lighting when the sun's out. You can always turn on the lights *if* you need them due to a storm.
As an added bonus, you'll start to eliminate health problems - daytime-constant lighting has been proven to mess with your internal cycles and messes up peoples' sleeping patterns, a large part of why sleep disorders are so prevalent in developed countries.
New Belgium, imo the best brewing company in the Unites States, already has those. They also compost their waste and collect the methanol it produces, then burn it to provide 10% of their power needs. The rest of their power comes from wind (i.e. they pay extra for their electricity, at rates that make the local wind power profitable, and that money goes to building more wind generation). What else would expect from a company with a bicycle in its logo?
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i'll stick with my iphone - the HTC is not good and well I already have free data and all the google apps and much more. £45 a month is nothing to me and i understand those who are cost concious - I can't see many really *wanting* this except apple haters.
Or get a phone like the HTC Touch HD or Diamond or Pro, depending on your specific need, and have hardware that's superior to the iPhone's and the ability to use the tens of thousands of free WinMo programs and to load other operating systems (like Android, for instance). I can't see many really *wanting* the iPhone except apple advertising victims.
.. because once you've downloaded your music, you can't get it again unless you badger Apple. Couple that with the fact that iTunes doesn't officially support taking music off your iPod back onto iTunes and you've got a system that's a real pain in the arse.
Amazon allows unlimited downloads of purchased music.
I totally agree that a suspension is an easy break for the kid, but...
Look at the precedence. If this ruling goes unchallenged, what's to prevent a school from suspending any student they like for posting something on their my-space page? A student could post a valid, non-libel complaint about one of their instructors, and get suspended for it even though the comment was made off school grounds/times and was not in violation of the law. And what if it gets into even more heated topics. A white girl in a southern Georgia town post pictures of her date with her new black boyfriend to a social networking site and gets a 3 day suspension from School, why? Because the principal is a racist. Take it to court, and he'll site this case as precedence. Given power and time someone will abuse it.
This is a pretty significant power grab being made by the school that dramatically shifts the existing boundaries of power. As a quasi-conservative, I can't fathom why anyone would want to have such a result. I mean, I entrust the school system with my son during the day. I expect that they will keep an eye on him and make sure he performs well and integrates with society. When he leaves school, he is my responsibility, not theirs. And if he posts some crap like this on the internet, it is MY job to discipline him, not the school's. If the Principal wants to be responsible for disciplining my son for things that happen out side of the school environment, he can talk to me, or he can talk to a lawyer.
-Rick
Schools already can and do suspend any kid for any reason at any time. They have the power to suspend at will. This very very occasionally results in a law suit, but it's exceedingly rare and the school usually wins (in my home town, at least). So why aren't all kids always suspended? Because the people who run the schools are focused on educating children, not arbitrary punishment. This administrative self-control works, and usually (like this time), suspension is a matter that should never have gone to court. A kid did something stupid and vastly unfair to the principal. Legally, maybe the principal could have sued on account of libel. Instead of trying to mire the student and his/her family in our ponderous and soul-sucking legal system, the school decided to hand out a mild punishment that might teach the child a lesson without causing the child any harm. Instead, the kid's parents decided to teach their child a lesson about entitlement by showing that one must never take responsibility for ones actions. I think the villains in this story are the parents.
It doesn't matter, but it does. Sure, you can easily get an education of equal/better quality at a state school than some ivy league cesspool like Harvard, but the education itself isn't what matters. What matters is the brand name degree, the myth that ivies are superior, and the connections you can make by rubbing shoulders with important people.
I've taught at Harvard, gone to another Ivy, gone to a good state school, and I think I have a fair perspective on the differences between them. In grad school Ivies certainly get no automatic win, but looking at kids who got a B.S. in Harvard vs. at the state school shows a rather consistent trend. The kid from Harvard will be roughly equivalent to the kid from University of, say, University of [Insert State Here] when it comes to his field, assuming he's smart (remember that Harvard has the advantage of admitting kids who've already shown themselves to be quite smart). However, if you want to go talk about literature or film, the kid from Harvard will probably have more interesting things to say, and more interest in responding.
This difference is most likely more closely related to Harvard admitting kids with these interests than it is to Harvard's teaching of these subjects, though.
Google groups started to suck when they changed the interface from DejaNews to the one from Google. From then on it went down to so much that I never use it anymore. Not even to search for solutions.
Also, please no forums and NNTP mix up. NNTP is not a web forum and a webforum is not NNTP.
Each and every webforum that has an NNTP interface sucks for either one or the other.
There are plenty of free usenet servers for text groups (and free IPv6 for binaries) that there is no need to use a webinterface. And if you boss does not want you to use Usenet, then do without it. His loss, not yours if he doesn't give you the tools to work with.
Usenet does not need you to answer in 2 minutes. So if you only have a connection during the weekend, that is OK.
I agree. Google's pretty good at acquiring technologies from other companies (Google Maps, Earth, etc) and making the interface better or at least not hurting it, but the moment they made changes to Dejanews they began removing functionality and usability. Dejanews was the great free web-based nntp reader, and making available all the messages since usenet's inception didn't make up for making searches or browsing within a group much less effective.
It's about the art direction overall. Diablo was gritty and realistic. They could make the whole game black and white, but you've still got characters running around in cutscenes and combat that look like they came from Warcraft.
This http://www.diii.net/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=871&size=big&cat=563 and this http://www.diii.net/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=703&cat=565 are much more in the style of Warcraft, which aside from the bright and happy palette is the primary reason a lot of folks were surprised when D3 was unveiled.
I know I personally also wanted contrast to Blizzards other work, because that existed before now. Blizzard has amazing artists and they're going to make an amazing looking game, but when all your franchises start looking the same, they become kind of redundant from one another. I think most Diablo fans wanted something hellish, and dark, and corrupt. Gritty and realistic. While the game will look, and most likely play, just fine, the atmosphere is what will be different due to the changes in the look.
I dunno... Something like this http://www.worldart.com.au/images/kris-kuksi-sculpture-surreal-deadly-sins1.jpg
Right now the game looks like it was Disney's take on Diablo, rather than Geiger's.
No one who played Diablo 2 was surprised by the D3 screenshots, since only part one of the series looked as you describe. I think that the flashy graphics in 2 and 3 make sense, since Diablo is essentially the marriage of Pacman or Super Mario and an RPG. What's gritty and realistic about point and click lolfests?
Shocked, shocked I am! Evil in the telecoms industry? Never! Well, hardly ever.
Perhaps Google could develop a not evil telecoms company. (Or, as they did with the spectrum auction, play the evils off against each other and not actually spend ridiculous sums of their own money.)
I think we need a Microsoft telecoms company. Their evil has been slipping lately. It's not good enough, Mr Ballmer!
(I'm picturing Steve Ballmer with his high-pressure used car salesman shout: "EVIL! EVIL! EVIL! EVIL!" Bouncing around the stage.)
Shocked, shocked I am! Evil in the telecoms industry? Never! Well, hardly ever.
Perhaps Google could develop a not evil telecoms company. (Or, as they did with the spectrum auction, play the evils off against each other and not actually spend ridiculous sums of their own money.)
I think we need a Microsoft telecoms company. Their evil has been slipping lately. It's not good enough, Mr Ballmer!
(I'm picturing Steve Ballmer with his high-pressure used car salesman shout: "EVIL! EVIL! EVIL! EVIL!" Bouncing around the stage.)
The only thing that would be different in a Google ISP is that they'd tie every website you visited to your permanent record.
I don't speed (or if I do, it is not deliberate and I slow back down to the limit) and I am passed left and right (and passing on the right is not legal) and I've seen people scream on discussion forums at anyone who dares to obey the law, as if obeying the law is something to sneer at (it's not; the rules exist for a damn good reason and no one is above it).
I don't know where you live, but in California the law says you must move over to the right to allow faster traffic to pass you on the left. It is not your job, nor do you have the authority, to enforce the speed limit by clogging up the fast lane.
do try not to break your leg climbing down off your high horse.
Not if the faster traffic is traveling over the speed limit. My aunt is a police officer, and a speeder, and she would translate frustration with slow people in the fast lane into pulling them over and ticketing. That is, until one guy fought it in court and it turned out that she (like most of the police) didn't have nearly as good of an understanding of the vehicle code as she thought she did.
From TFA:
Therefore, forensics experts have used this security flaw to successfully
nab criminals who have been accused of rape, murder or drug deals, Zdziarski said.
iPhone: the tool of choice for rapists, murders, and drug dealers!
Joking aside, the article is puzzling and it reeks of FUD: if the iCrooks were bad enough to
get the authorities to actively track and sieze their data then they deserve to be caught
for being too stoopid to buy disposable phones in cash from 7-11. Even Johnny dormroom pot-
dealer knows that!
FUD doesn't mean what you think it means.
That's why they're paid 20 bucks an hour!
Slashdotters - give 'em hell. Here are a few questions to ask:
"Where can I get that Linux thing that everybody's talking about?"
"What's the point of those stupid commercials we keep seeing? It's like Bill Gates has money and likes to mock us."
"Do windows PCs suck as much as the Mac ads say they do? I want to be cool, not old and dumb."
"Why did Windows Vista fuck my wife? I heard it also eats babies and starts wars with defenseless countries."
Try going into an Apple store and asking for the identity of all of the processes run by iTunes for Windows. I do it or a variation every time I go to the mall and have time to spare. It's genuinely fun - but please be polite, accept the amusement brought about by the answer, thank the Genius and walk away.
What if someone stole my iPhone 3G and committed a crime? Will I be tracked and punished?
Its analogous to the red light traffic cameras that take photos of those who jump the red light, irrespective of who's driving the car, the owner is fined!
I had a friend who got fined for driving a car that wasn't his because his face was in a set of those photos. The owner of the car got the notice, but he wrote to explain who had been driving and sent along photos of both of them (they didn't like each other much anymore) and the fine was sent to the driver.
Everyone I know who has seen it has laughed a lot and thought it was a great commercial. Also they find it interesting the lack of mention about MS.
Isn't that contradictory? Great commercial yet people have no clue what the hell is being marketed? Shouldn't a great commercial be entertaining and same time clearly pitch a product or message?
Not mentioning MS doesn't mean people don't know what's being marketed. This morning two of my coworkers were talking outside my office about what they think will be in the next MS commercial with what sounded like a lot of enthusiasm. We don't work in IT.
I think the Mac vs. PC ad campaign is annoying 80% of the time and amusing 20% of the time, and is overall boring as hell. My Mac-happy friend has to change the channel every time one comes on. When the Gates ad comes on, people seem to be turning up the volume and enjoying being baffled. Even if these ads accomplish nothing for MS, they're an interesting ride for the rest of us.
Yeah, and meanwhile the Aryan Nation and the KKK are launching an online blitz to support Palin with some videos even showing ways how people can shoot Obama with a sniper rifle on a rally, and how people should give their own lives if necessary to make Sarah Palin the next president of the USA, and even how Sarah Palin is the "White Hope" and how she is going to destroy ZOG in Washington, and we have to watch this crap, as if someone says anything against godsent Palin he is naturally evil and a terrorist.
Good to see how the USA controlling party uses this definition of terrorist only for those who are against them...
Is this true? I can't search for these things at work, but I'd be very curious to know whether or not this online blitz is really happening.
Check the link again...a PC version IS planned.
Mod AC up. I saw this from another source this week, too. It's coming to PC.
Nevermind, LucasArts saw that and said it was a misunderstanding.
Check the link again...a PC version IS planned.
Mod AC up. I saw this from another source this week, too. It's coming to PC.
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People with user numbers like that always make me think of early generation vampires or very old wine.
"and I'm so bitter about KDE trashing my machine that I'm about ready to say screw Linux and just format the whole dang thing to Vista, if only I can find the signed drivers."
A nice thing about Linux is that when something barfs, you can boot with your live CD, rescue your home directory, reinstall and update easily. (An external DVD drive allows booting from the main CD/DVD drive and burning to the external if you don't have another machine to copy to.)
A "nuke and pave" is MUCH faster than with Windows.
No matter what OS you use, it is time well spent learning to quick-turn a hosed system back to service.
1. Set up your system of any operating system in a nice configuration with all the core software and features you want installed and tweaked to taste.
2. Use a disk imager to back up the drive to an external hd or a NAS or a usb key.
3. When things go wrong, copy your documents if they're on the boot drive (and next time keep them on a separate drive) and restore from your image.
The Microsoft tax isn't that big a deal, at least not in the Thinkpad price range.
If it was possible to burn the money in a fire instead of giving it to Microsoft, then format the laptop and put Linux on it, then no, it wouldn't be a big deal. But that's not the case here. Microsoft is actually getting stronger off that tax, and I think we'll all agree, that is a big deal...
I know a few really smart, really nice people who work at Microsoft. I don't have a problem with MS making money. I'd much rather have the money go to MS and then get filtered back into the US economy and partially eventually back into my pocket than burned or sent to China where the money doesn't come back this way.
New Belgium, imo the best brewing company in the Unites States
What about Rogue, Dogfish Head, or Red Hook? Lots of great beer in the US.
I know all of those well, and count I actually like Rogue Dead Guy Ale more than any New Belgium beer. Midas Touch Ale from Dogfish still manages to surprise me with its excellent, complex finish every time I try it, and I've had a dozen bottles by now. Still, I pick NB overall for a range of excellent beers that can all be enjoyed ad nauseum (ha). My favorite individual beer from America is currently Pranqster (think Delirium Tremens with more reliability but less potential, and not made by monks) made by either Lost Coast or North Coast. If their names weren't so similar I could tell you which one it is.
America has an outstanding brewing culture, in some ways the best in the world.
Jeannie: MEREDITH!
At least they finally canceled that show. If only they had given Farscape or Battlestar Galactica the same financial resources per quality line of dialogue...
Cake or death?
Cake please.
Sorry, we're all out of cake. We didn't expect to have such a run on it.
Ok, I'll have the chicken then.
Well... Ok. Good thing we're the Church of England.
Death, please...no no no, I mean cake!
No takesies backsies!
With Windows software?
Most laptop reviews that evaluate both Linux and Windows behavior for the same system show longer battery life with Windows. The Dell Mini 9 is a good example of this.
24 hours of web surfing with Chrome, 6 hours with Firefox, or 1 hour with M$IE.
Chrome's as resource heavy as any other browser.
I'm not sure critical thinking courses would help a whole lot.
why wouldn't they.
Even the worst of students still absorb about 50% of the course material.
I see you never noticed how little your peers learned.
Quite seriously - run some optical tube skylights (like this, they come in a wide variety of options) into your working areas. FAR too many companies are wasting energy powering internal lighting when the sun's out. You can always turn on the lights *if* you need them due to a storm.
As an added bonus, you'll start to eliminate health problems - daytime-constant lighting has been proven to mess with your internal cycles and messes up peoples' sleeping patterns, a large part of why sleep disorders are so prevalent in developed countries.
New Belgium, imo the best brewing company in the Unites States, already has those. They also compost their waste and collect the methanol it produces, then burn it to provide 10% of their power needs. The rest of their power comes from wind (i.e. they pay extra for their electricity, at rates that make the local wind power profitable, and that money goes to building more wind generation). What else would expect from a company with a bicycle in its logo?