When I was selling financial software (www.thi.com) 10 years ago we were charging about 50% more in Europe than in the US. VAT was on top of that price so to the end user it was even more. So it is more than just a single data point
No, that's because the base station that you're getting your signal from has no bandwidth left.
You could be standing next to the antenna, and have 'full' signal, but if 'all circuits are busy' you're SOL regardless of the signal strength.
Laptops are an essential part of the learning experience for students. The essentials they have learned in my district include
sending e-mail of their classmates in various states of undress.
The administration continues to think that laptops are the greatest things since toast. The
students disagree.
Never mind the high cost -- both direct outlays, additional staff, and training time.
I regularly get Word files (usually containing 3 lines of plain text) that won't open on a number of computers I have, where I didn't feel like spending hundreds of bucks for Office.
I was under the impression that Mickey Rosa was a blend of John Chang and JP Massar.
JP was on TV (with a very slightly obscured image) as 'Mr. Big' in a television show about blackjack a few years back.
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When I was selling financial software (www.thi.com) 10 years ago we were charging about 50% more in Europe than in the US. VAT was on top of that price so to the end user it was even more. So it is more than just a single data point
No, that's because the base station that you're getting your signal from has no bandwidth left. You could be standing next to the antenna, and have 'full' signal, but if 'all circuits are busy' you're SOL regardless of the signal strength.
Install cygwin to get full chmod support, even on XP Home...
while most major universities have dozens of public lecture series...
Laptops are an essential part of the learning experience for students. The essentials they have learned in my district include sending e-mail of their classmates in various states of undress. The administration continues to think that laptops are the greatest things since toast. The students disagree. Never mind the high cost -- both direct outlays, additional staff, and training time.
I regularly get Word files (usually containing 3 lines of plain text) that won't open on a number of computers I have, where I didn't feel like spending hundreds of bucks for Office.
I was under the impression that Mickey Rosa was a blend of John Chang and JP Massar. JP was on TV (with a very slightly obscured image) as 'Mr. Big' in a television show about blackjack a few years back.