New Impala: GM's answer to the Taurus, finally. They were trying to capture the same market, and made a car that looks very similar to the Taurus. I still wish they made the old full size (c. 1995) Impala SS's though.
Prius: It's a hybrid. Nuff said.
Pontiac Vibe: Same as the Toyota Matrix. Same quality as the Corolla/Prism, but more useful.
When they first came out, I thought the Ford Taurus / Mercury Sable was the ugliest car I had ever seen (especially the wagon). Now how many of those has ford sold.
(And it's not like they're great mechanically either. I should know, my wife has a 1995 Sable)
Sony, Microsoft, MPAA, RIAA paid good money for the DMCA. If you want it repealed, you need to start contributing to some congressmen. Re-election campaigns don't come cheap, you know.
Remember: If all else fails, graft works. Pay the right people in power the right amount of money and you will get what you want.
Very true. I had never written a computer program before sophomore year in college. Loved it so much I changed my major to CS. I still graduated on time, with a very high GPA in major.
I'm not saying this to brag, but to say that programming requires certain innate abilities that cannot be taught.
"Nobody is going to go for a CS degree in college if they've never done it before in their lives."
Oh really? I wrote my first computer program sophomore year of college. I didn't even own a computer until senior year of high school (1997)Not only did I graduate with a degree in CS, but I graduated on time.
Programming is an art as well as a science. Some people get it right off, others never will.
The computer itself is incapable of sexism, racism, or any other form of discrimination.
So why are there fewer girls in CS?
At my school, the percentage of freshman CS/CIS/CS(BA) majors was fairly high. However, many dropped out of the program before junior year. (So did many men, but a lower percentage)
I think there are two reasons for this. First, many women simply don't like programming. I don't know why, they just don't. They have good grades, but they leave CS anyway. Another reason is that I have noticed that the guys are more likely to stick with their major than girls. If guys do poorly in a major course, they will often retake it. If girls do poorly, they will often look for a new major.
Right idea, wrong group that bought the Government.
GM tried to make diesel engines for passenger cars in the late 1970's - early 1980's. They were a complete disaster.
Diesel fuel is cheaper to make and more efficient than gasoline. Even the low sulfur stuff However, you pay more for diesel because of taxes. Diesel is taxed higher because American auto makers couldn't figure out how to make a good diesel engine. They raised the taxes to take most of the advantages out of diesel.
Final Frontier was stupid and poorly acted. I can see why it makes most trekkies cringe. But if you don't try to take it too seriously, it was entertaining in an MST3K kind of way.
ST:TMP was just long and boring. Little to no entertainment value.
Star Trek V wasn't really the worst. Stupidest, yes, but not the worst. It had a good MST3K quality to it. The phrase "hokey cool" comes to mind.
The worst of the series award has to go to the original. I think I fell asleep by the end of 1. It was painfully long with poor editing and a poor storyline.
As for most horrible memory, Christopher Lloyd as a Klingon still beats even the God with a Starship line.
The original Ariane V was one of the great failures in software engineering, much like the Kansas City hotel and Tacoma Narrows Bridge were some of the great failures in civil engineering. All entry level engineering/cs textbooks have these so that they will never happen again.
I wonder what went wrong this time and whether or not it will make the sophomore engineering textbook hall of shame.
Well, my cable company doesn't offer any of this. Not even broadband internet access. This combined with the limited range of DSL means that most people in my mostly rural area have NO broad band whatsoever.
Northland Cable SUCKS. Crap selection, crap technology, crap innovation, and still $50 per month!
I'm happy with a P-III/500, 384MB RAM, Windows 98 SE for my desktop. Only thing that really needed upgrading besides the RAM was the video card, and now I've only got a Voodoo 4 4500.
Laptop is a P-II/266, 320MB, Windows 98 SE. My wife loves it. It's got a 14" screen and it can do just about anything that doesn't involve 3D graphics.
The only thing that really pushes computer upgrades (for most people) is gaming. However, as better and better console systems are coming out, people aren't spending the money on the hardware. Why spend so much on a PC or PC upgrades when a PS2 is only $199? Unless Microsoft makes us upgrade, most people won't.
Education majors do work hard. Trust me, I know several of them. But all they do is busy work. Which is why they all they assign is busy work when they graduate. Which bores more students, and makes sure they don't learn anything.
My mother, who is a principal, said that her best teachers don't have education degrees. In my personal experience, this is quite true. Their degrees are in a field related to what they are teaching.
I don't think anti-abortion content was why www.jesus-is-lord.com was banned. It has very little anti-abortion content. On the other hand, it is virulently anti-Catholic, which is probably why it was banned.
AFAIK, Germany and France do not have restrictions on anti-abortion speech. Thats only the United States.
Sure satellite radio seems nice, but everything's too expensive to be worth the trouble. $299+ for the receiver, then another $10/mo for the service. Not a good business model when your competiton is free.
Reminds me of what my freshman Chemistry professor did. When he threw the Sodium in water, it had a nasty habit of flying out of the bowl and landing on the lab table and burning. Well, to prevent this, the professor decided to put a watch glass over the beaker of water right after he dropped the sodium in. Unfortunately, the professor forgot what happens when hydrogen gas ignites in a closed space. Big explosion, glass flying everywhere. Fortunately, no one was hurt. But I never sat in the front row again.
WordPerfect is just plain better than Word. You type it, and it does what you want it to. No crazy formatting problems like with Word.
I use WordPerfect 8 on Linux and Windows and WordPerfect 3.5e on the Mac.
By the way, what ever happened to WP for the Mac? WP 3.5e is from about 1997 and it is the last version on the Mac. I can't even find a Word 97 filter for it. Bring it back on OS X!
How dare they teach computer science with a M$ language like C#! Waterloo sold out to M$! They should use Java like everybody else. That's not corporate.
Is ALS called "Stephen Hawking's Ailment" instead of "Lou Gehrig's Disease".
Maybe you've heard of him...
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That third is unlikely to vote for any GOP canidate no matter what his stance is.
Not always true. Strom Thurmond has actually done pretty well with black voters. Unfortunately, most members of the SC GOP are too obsessed with keeping the damn rebel flag on the state house (that Gov. Hollings put up BTW) to make much of an outreach to the black community.
The big problem is the "God Squad" dominates the GOP nomination process
Especially true in S.C. This is the state that brought you Bob Jones University and Jim & Tammy Faye Bakker. This is also a state GOP that considered John McCain a bleeding heart and where the Chamber of Commerce (you know, those pro-business, anti-union folks in each town) is considered liberal.
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Amen, brother. I think I have bought only 3 new major label CD's in the past few years, all from bands I already knew and liked.
I have, however bought plenty of local and indy stuff.
Style isn't everything
Avalanche: don't know about this one.
New Impala: GM's answer to the Taurus, finally. They were trying to capture the same market, and made a car that looks very similar to the Taurus. I still wish they made the old full size (c. 1995) Impala SS's though.
Prius: It's a hybrid. Nuff said.
Pontiac Vibe: Same as the Toyota Matrix. Same quality as the Corolla/Prism, but more useful.
When they first came out, I thought the Ford Taurus / Mercury Sable was the ugliest car I had ever seen (especially the wagon). Now how many of those has ford sold.
(And it's not like they're great mechanically either. I should know, my wife has a 1995 Sable)
That's why I prefer ethanol. :-)
I have linux running on computers that cost less than $96.
One of the main reasons I use linux is the free beer aspect.
Some people...
Sony, Microsoft, MPAA, RIAA paid good money for the DMCA. If you want it repealed, you need to start contributing to some congressmen. Re-election campaigns don't come cheap, you know.
Remember: If all else fails, graft works. Pay the right people in power the right amount of money and you will get what you want.
Very true. I had never written a computer program before sophomore year in college. Loved it so much I changed my major to CS. I still graduated on time, with a very high GPA in major.
I'm not saying this to brag, but to say that programming requires certain innate abilities that cannot be taught.
"Nobody is going to go for a CS degree in college if they've never done it before in their lives."
Oh really? I wrote my first computer program sophomore year of college. I didn't even own a computer until senior year of high school (1997)Not only did I graduate with a degree in CS, but I graduated on time.
Programming is an art as well as a science. Some people get it right off, others never will.
The computer itself is incapable of sexism, racism, or any other form of discrimination.
So why are there fewer girls in CS?
At my school, the percentage of freshman CS/CIS/CS(BA) majors was fairly high. However, many dropped out of the program before junior year. (So did many men, but a lower percentage)
I think there are two reasons for this. First, many women simply don't like programming. I don't know why, they just don't. They have good grades, but they leave CS anyway. Another reason is that I have noticed that the guys are more likely to stick with their major than girls. If guys do poorly in a major course, they will often retake it. If girls do poorly, they will often look for a new major.
Right idea, wrong group that bought the Government.
GM tried to make diesel engines for passenger cars in the late 1970's - early 1980's. They were a complete disaster.
Diesel fuel is cheaper to make and more efficient than gasoline. Even the low sulfur stuff However, you pay more for diesel because of taxes. Diesel is taxed higher because American auto makers couldn't figure out how to make a good diesel engine. They raised the taxes to take most of the advantages out of diesel.
Final Frontier was stupid and poorly acted. I can see why it makes most trekkies cringe. But if you don't try to take it too seriously, it was entertaining in an MST3K kind of way.
ST:TMP was just long and boring. Little to no entertainment value.
Star Trek V wasn't really the worst. Stupidest, yes, but not the worst. It had a good MST3K quality to it. The phrase "hokey cool" comes to mind.
The worst of the series award has to go to the original. I think I fell asleep by the end of 1. It was painfully long with poor editing and a poor storyline.
As for most horrible memory, Christopher Lloyd as a Klingon still beats even the God with a Starship line.
The original Ariane V was one of the great failures in software engineering, much like the Kansas City hotel and Tacoma Narrows Bridge were some of the great failures in civil engineering. All entry level engineering/cs textbooks have these so that they will never happen again.
I wonder what went wrong this time and whether or not it will make the sophomore engineering textbook hall of shame.
Well, my cable company doesn't offer any of this. Not even broadband internet access. This combined with the limited range of DSL means that most people in my mostly rural area have NO broad band whatsoever.
Northland Cable SUCKS. Crap selection, crap technology, crap innovation, and still $50 per month!
I'm I the only one that noticed the announcement was from MSNBC, which is run by a major competitor to AOL Time Warner?
I'm happy with a P-III/500, 384MB RAM, Windows 98 SE for my desktop. Only thing that really needed upgrading besides the RAM was the video card, and now I've only got a Voodoo 4 4500.
Laptop is a P-II/266, 320MB, Windows 98 SE. My wife loves it. It's got a 14" screen and it can do just about anything that doesn't involve 3D graphics.
The only thing that really pushes computer upgrades (for most people) is gaming. However, as better and better console systems are coming out, people aren't spending the money on the hardware. Why spend so much on a PC or PC upgrades when a PS2 is only $199? Unless Microsoft makes us upgrade, most people won't.
That's the truth.
Education majors do work hard. Trust me, I know several of them. But all they do is busy work. Which is why they all they assign is busy work when they graduate. Which bores more students, and makes sure they don't learn anything.
My mother, who is a principal, said that her best teachers don't have education degrees. In my personal experience, this is quite true. Their degrees are in a field related to what they are teaching.
AFAIK, Germany and France do not have restrictions on anti-abortion speech. Thats only the United States.
Sure satellite radio seems nice, but everything's too expensive to be worth the trouble. $299+ for the receiver, then another $10/mo for the service. Not a good business model when your competiton is free.
I heard it's Millennials (sp?).
BTW, Exactly what generation am I in? I was born in 1980. I've heard that's gen X. I've also heard that 1980 is the one after gen X.
Reminds me of what my freshman Chemistry professor did. When he threw the Sodium in water, it had a nasty habit of flying out of the bowl and landing on the lab table and burning. Well, to prevent this, the professor decided to put a watch glass over the beaker of water right after he dropped the sodium in. Unfortunately, the professor forgot what happens when hydrogen gas ignites in a closed space. Big explosion, glass flying everywhere. Fortunately, no one was hurt. But I never sat in the front row again.
WordPerfect is just plain better than Word. You type it, and it does what you want it to. No crazy formatting problems like with Word.
I use WordPerfect 8 on Linux and Windows and WordPerfect 3.5e on the Mac.
By the way, what ever happened to WP for the Mac? WP 3.5e is from about 1997 and it is the last version on the Mac. I can't even find a Word 97 filter for it. Bring it back on OS X!
How dare they teach computer science with a M$ language like C#! Waterloo sold out to M$! They should use Java like everybody else. That's not corporate.
oh wait... nevermind.
Is ALS called "Stephen Hawking's Ailment" instead of "Lou Gehrig's Disease".
Maybe you've heard of him...
That third is unlikely to vote for any GOP canidate no matter what his stance is.
Not always true. Strom Thurmond has actually done pretty well with black voters. Unfortunately, most members of the SC GOP are too obsessed with keeping the damn rebel flag on the state house (that Gov. Hollings put up BTW) to make much of an outreach to the black community.
The big problem is the "God Squad" dominates the GOP nomination process
Especially true in S.C. This is the state that brought you Bob Jones University and Jim & Tammy Faye Bakker. This is also a state GOP that considered John McCain a bleeding heart and where the Chamber of Commerce (you know, those pro-business, anti-union folks in each town) is considered liberal.