Most of them already have their own laptops, but in surveys they insist they want the labs anyway. And, as I mentioned, we do other things with the space. We're confident they're worth it.
It's pretty easy for us to determine that our computer labs are necessary, primarily because the students really like them. We know this from surveying them and from the ultimate metric: hourly head counts. Besides, our labs also get used as classrooms, for training, and for other IT-related events. There's no way we could replace them with a "Here's your laptop!" approach.
The Bill of Rights isn't there to make the policeman's job harder, it's there to ensure the policeman has the correct job description. There's a difference.
I work for a university, and Apple recently sent a guy to talk to our faculty about the future of technology. During question time I referred to the possibility of a Mac tablet so I could try to gauge his immediate expression. No clue from that, all I had to go on was his response that Apple is obviously aware that people are talking about the possibility of a Mac tablet, and they'll come out with one as soon as they can do a good quality one for less than six hundred bucks.
Of course, he also said our computer labs were obsolete, which was bullshit, so who knows what to believe.
You're not the only one, and even though it sounds like a small thing, it's a significant part of why I still use MS Office at home rather than OpenOffice.
And you'll need to pray NATO/UN allies... etc, etc doesn't send additional forces to bolster the state side.
Given how wishy-washy most NATO allies are about staying in Afghanistan, I doubt they'd have the political fortitude to dig in for a long term occupation of the U.S. Consider that there are millions of Americans who have been arming themselves for decades just waiting for their chance to shoot at a blue helmet. It's one of the signature tenets of our homegrown conspiracy theories.
Last year I taught a course in basic web design for students at a Native American tribal college. They needed web space for the course, which the college wasn't in a position to provide. Given the poverty in their community I wasn't going to ask them to use a paid service, even at an amount that bourgeois Slashdotters find trivial.
I don't see it happening. Exploring alternative forms of marriage scares the crap out of a large chunk of the US population, including a whole lot of California. If even the left coast can't handle the idea, I don't see how the Midwest could take it. Not to mention the shots he took at racism. Offend the south, the midwest, and half of the west coast? Sounds like a no-go to me. Don't be so sure. "Big Love" manages to stay on the air. Besides, we got Morgan Freeman as president of the U.S. back when many people thought a President Of Color wouldn't happen within their lifetime. Sometimes life imitates art.
There is no doubt that it's better to take the train from DC to NY city than to fly. It's as fast, factoring the dismal security process and where you end up at the end of the trip.
Agreed. It is usually not better to take a train than to take a bus, especially when you can do it round trip for $35 through one of the Chinatown-to-Chinatown lines. A little cheaper and nicer than Greyhound, and much cheaper than a train.
The problem is not that smart people aren't in charge. Most people who get to the apex of power are very, very smart to have been able to outlast their competition. The problem is that these people, by definition, are self-selected as the ones who have the greatest will to rule over others. In other words, it's not that the wrong people wield political power, it's that that power exists at all.
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The ancient Egyptians revered Sirius much more than Betelgeuse.
How about "pandemonium"?
Maybe so. Dick Morris argues that this is exactly how he's neutralized Hillary Clinton:
http://thehill.com/dick-morris/the-incredible-shrinking-clintons-2009-05-26.html
Most of them already have their own laptops, but in surveys they insist they want the labs anyway. And, as I mentioned, we do other things with the space. We're confident they're worth it.
It's pretty easy for us to determine that our computer labs are necessary, primarily because the students really like them. We know this from surveying them and from the ultimate metric: hourly head counts. Besides, our labs also get used as classrooms, for training, and for other IT-related events. There's no way we could replace them with a "Here's your laptop!" approach.
The Bill of Rights isn't there to make the policeman's job harder, it's there to ensure the policeman has the correct job description. There's a difference.
I work for a university, and Apple recently sent a guy to talk to our faculty about the future of technology. During question time I referred to the possibility of a Mac tablet so I could try to gauge his immediate expression. No clue from that, all I had to go on was his response that Apple is obviously aware that people are talking about the possibility of a Mac tablet, and they'll come out with one as soon as they can do a good quality one for less than six hundred bucks.
Of course, he also said our computer labs were obsolete, which was bullshit, so who knows what to believe.
Agreed. Evidently not all moderators bother to RTFC.
Nichelle Nichols would have been in the movie in a cameo as Uhura's grandmother were it not for the writers' strike.
-=Steve=-
You're not the only one, and even though it sounds like a small thing, it's a significant part of why I still use MS Office at home rather than OpenOffice.
There's another saying, and one that I think better applies here: "Once is an accident, twice is a coincidence, three times is a conspiracy."
And with Microsoft we're way past three times.
You're talking to the wrong guy. I'm vegan. Seriously.
Seems NANOTUBES could do everything the spider silk could do, only better, and possibly in even more applications.
Plus nanotubes aren't incredibly creepy.
It also works for "The Yellow Rose of Texas".
-=Steve=-
And you'll need to pray NATO/UN allies... etc, etc doesn't send additional forces to bolster the state side.
Given how wishy-washy most NATO allies are about staying in Afghanistan, I doubt they'd have the political fortitude to dig in for a long term occupation of the U.S. Consider that there are millions of Americans who have been arming themselves for decades just waiting for their chance to shoot at a blue helmet. It's one of the signature tenets of our homegrown conspiracy theories.
Last year I taught a course in basic web design for students at a Native American tribal college. They needed web space for the course, which the college wasn't in a position to provide. Given the poverty in their community I wasn't going to ask them to use a paid service, even at an amount that bourgeois Slashdotters find trivial.
"X-Raser". Say it out loud. Doesn't it just sound awesome?
Fixed that for me.
"X-Rasor". Say it out loud. Doesn't it just sound awesome?
Only if they use gravity bongs.
I don't see it happening. Exploring alternative forms of marriage scares the crap out of a large chunk of the US population, including a whole lot of California. If even the left coast can't handle the idea, I don't see how the Midwest could take it. Not to mention the shots he took at racism. Offend the south, the midwest, and half of the west coast? Sounds like a no-go to me.
Don't be so sure. "Big Love" manages to stay on the air. Besides, we got Morgan Freeman as president of the U.S. back when many people thought a President Of Color wouldn't happen within their lifetime. Sometimes life imitates art.
There is no doubt that it's better to take the train from DC to NY city than to fly. It's as fast, factoring the dismal security process and where you end up at the end of the trip.
Agreed. It is usually not better to take a train than to take a bus, especially when you can do it round trip for $35 through one of the Chinatown-to-Chinatown lines. A little cheaper and nicer than Greyhound, and much cheaper than a train.
Americans in general are not unwilling to pay for government... they just want less of it.
Unfortunately, I think it's more like Americans in general are not unwilling to have government... they just want someone else to pay for it.
The problem is not that smart people aren't in charge. Most people who get to the apex of power are very, very smart to have been able to outlast their competition. The problem is that these people, by definition, are self-selected as the ones who have the greatest will to rule over others. In other words, it's not that the wrong people wield political power, it's that that power exists at all.
So, what are you going to do with Sebilrazen's kidney?
Since when is anyone in France against strikes?