Further fact check/clarification: the "property mgmt staff" are referred to (by themselves) as "Property Services workers" - janitors, security officers, housekeeping, maintenance and so on. So you were one third correct.
The schools are paid by the fed (for lunch money, whatever else) based on student-days. If the student isn't there on Thursday, the school doesn't get paid for that student on Thursday. But they still have to spend lunch, class space, etc.
The Desktop PCs that our parents bought from Dell that cost around $300 and are mainly used to check e-mail and surf the web (basically all it can do anyway)...
At that price you get MS Office Starter edition, but Office Professional is offered as an option - meaning that they will also do spreadsheets, word processing, databases, etc. They also meets the minimum specs for MS Visual Studio. With the exception of high end games or graphics, what will they not do?
... are dead.
It just no longer makes sense for the average consumer to own such a large device to do such simple computing.
My step-dad recently told me he uses his Galaxy S3 in place of his desktop...
I agree that a tablet is often a better choice, especially for your parents' use. But this doesn't kill the PC market. If your step-dad was crunching numbers in a spreadsheet or writing code, I suspect he'd be back on that $300 dinosaur.
BTW, I do write code. Currently on a desktop that I built last year, but my backup is an old Dell - which works fine, but is slower.
Now, why is this? Mostly it's battery and cooling - we're kind of at the current known limit of battery tech, so to make a laptop that can perform as well as a PC graphically, you'd have to install two or more batteries to be able to use it away from the desk, and that would increase the cooling necessary to make sure you didn't slag your video card.
Maybe I'm dense, but this just doesn't make sense to me. Additional batteries increase the charge life, but the video card still draws the same amount of power - and it is the power draw that creates heat. That is, adding batteries does not add heat.
Canada is in 'North America', not 'America'. America And that land mass between Canada and Mexico is the "United States of America', often abbreviated to just the last word.
Would you also claim that Brazil is in 'America'? In which case, are Canada and Brazil located in the same continent?
As to the 16-year old and handwriting, there is no rule that he can't co-mingle capitol and lower-case letters, [...]
Actually, there are rules that say you shouldn't intermix upper case (which is easier to spell than "capital") and lower case letters. Whether he should follow them or not is another issue.
Because they weren't talking about teaching English, or even teaching i/bolderal. They just mentioned that they were a teacher.
"They" are an individual, not a plural. But no educational specialty was specified, and I'm willing to cut a bit of slack for an individual who is involved with teaching "special cases." Unless, of course, the individual is an English teacher!
Correction: A.22LR can fully penetrate a small (7" thick) turkey which was bought frozen, but which was thawed out for the test.
(They must have learned something from the canopy tests.)
No, not in a diesel. The fuel is injected after the air is compressed. which prevents it from igniting prematurely. (This also requires that diesel injectors be capable of much higher pressure than those in gas engines). A gasoline engine does compress the fuel/air mixture, but the compression ratio is much lower - in general, the temperature rise is insufficient to cause ignition.
I used to drive a coworker nuts because I kept the optional keyboard 'beep' sound switched on on my terminal (pre-PC days).
I really didn't do it to annoy, it was because I could type more accurately. The keyboard action sucked, and the only way to know the key was pressed enough was to either see it on the screen or to hear the chirp. Much of my work was data entry; my eyes were on the source documents, not the screen - hence, the beep.
Annoying her was simply a bonus.
Also an unabashed M fanboi. I've owned several for about as long as I've been using computers, with one that I would take from job to job.
BTW, you can get spare parts ranging from buttons to a full keyset ($20, no key caps) at Unicomp. Unicomp is a company in Kentucky which now owns the original IBM patent and continue to offer the Model M in a wide variety of key arrangements, including custom, for around $80. I haven't dealt with them yet, but I expect to soon - I've got one board with a bum Ctrl key that I hope to save.
You are more likely to get shot with your own gun by a home invader than successfully use one against a home invader (given FBI numbers defining a "success" as a hit, if you use the gun-nut numbers, there are millions of incidences of people brandishing guns and running off robbers and home invaders, but no numbers supporting that theory since the government is out to get them).
I dunno what the government has to do with it, but Gary Kleck has been studying and documenting such cases for decades now - see Gary_Kleck for more info + cites and criticisms.
BTW, Kleck is a self described liberal Democratic, is not an NRA member, and was a gun control supporter before conducting his studies. Hardly fits the image of a 'gun nut'.
Our support is an act of generosity, not of responsibility. If you believe that we have some sort of obligation to provide such support, I will have to ask where such obligations originate.
I said before: "the benefit is measured by the gross value, not what percentage it is of something else." I can expand upon that, to say: " the benefit is measured by the gross value, not by what percentage it is of something else or by what level of guilt it absolves."
I had ignition switch problems with my Spitfire Mark II (Lucas electrics, don't you know) and I used to keep a coiled jumper wire behind the battery. The starter solenoid was not only conveniently located near the brake cylinder, but it also had an extended piston with a rubber boot on the end that you could press to activate the starter. Connect the wire, press the button, and go...
You don't need to put the whole dashboard in your pocket, just the ignition lock. Watch the original 'Gone in 60 Seconds' where they steal a Rolls-Royce by pulling the wiring harness off the back of the ignition lock and then plugging it onto a spare lock/key assembly. (Yeah, this was before steering column interlocks).
Can you give us the numbers in dollars, not percentages? 'Cuz receiving as little as 0.21% of, say, a million is a hell of a lot better than 1.00% of a thousand. And the benefit is measured by the gross value, not what percentage it is of something else.
Flying in the face of the Declaration of Independence is entirely legal, as the Declaration no force of law. The Supreme Court is charged with interpreting the Constitution, not the Declaration. If there is " very little doubt that Citizens United flies directly in the face of [...] the Constitution," why do you suppose it made it to the Supreme Court in the first place? Where, specifically, is it unconstitutional?
No, it's a parking brake. If the intent was emergency braking, they'd be on the front wheels, where around 80% of the braking force takes place. And locking the rear wheels will NOT allow you to still have steering. The front wheels point the car, but the rear wheels direct it. If they are locked, turning the front wheels will do little to affect the car's trajectory - it will follow a fairly straight line, albeit rotating as it goes.
Consider an e-brake turn. The rear wheels are locked, the front wheels are turned, and the car pulls a 180 without veering off to the side.
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Further fact check/clarification: the "property mgmt staff" are referred to (by themselves) as "Property Services workers" - janitors, security officers, housekeeping, maintenance and so on. So you were one third correct.
The schools are paid by the fed (for lunch money, whatever else) based on student-days. If the student isn't there on Thursday, the school doesn't get paid for that student on Thursday. But they still have to spend lunch, class space, etc.
3. Desktop PCs are more powerful than any similar speced laptop and often cheaper
Uh...doesn't 'similarly speced' sorta mean that they are equally powerful? But yes, almost certainly cheaper.
The Desktop PCs that our parents bought from Dell that cost around $300 and are mainly used to check e-mail and surf the web (basically all it can do anyway)...
At that price you get MS Office Starter edition, but Office Professional is offered as an option - meaning that they will also do spreadsheets, word processing, databases, etc. They also meets the minimum specs for MS Visual Studio. With the exception of high end games or graphics, what will they not do?
I agree that a tablet is often a better choice, especially for your parents' use. But this doesn't kill the PC market. If your step-dad was crunching numbers in a spreadsheet or writing code, I suspect he'd be back on that $300 dinosaur.
BTW, I do write code. Currently on a desktop that I built last year, but my backup is an old Dell - which works fine, but is slower.
Now, why is this? Mostly it's battery and cooling - we're kind of at the current known limit of battery tech, so to make a laptop that can perform as well as a PC graphically, you'd have to install two or more batteries to be able to use it away from the desk, and that would increase the cooling necessary to make sure you didn't slag your video card.
Maybe I'm dense, but this just doesn't make sense to me. Additional batteries increase the charge life, but the video card still draws the same amount of power - and it is the power draw that creates heat. That is, adding batteries does not add heat.
Just because you see "penis-severing scissors" for sale at the store, doesn't mean you're required to buy them and use them.
Would this be what you're thinking of? http://tinyurl.com/9mqwnmf
Canada is in 'North America', not 'America'. America And that land mass between Canada and Mexico is the "United States of America', often abbreviated to just the last word. Would you also claim that Brazil is in 'America'? In which case, are Canada and Brazil located in the same continent?
Right you are; he should have used emoticons. :-)
As to the 16-year old and handwriting, there is no rule that he can't co-mingle capitol and lower-case letters, [...]
Actually, there are rules that say you shouldn't intermix upper case (which is easier to spell than "capital") and lower case letters. Whether he should follow them or not is another issue.
Because they weren't talking about teaching English, or even teaching i/bolderal. They just mentioned that they were a teacher.
"They" are an individual, not a plural. But no educational specialty was specified, and I'm willing to cut a bit of slack for an individual who is involved with teaching "special cases." Unless, of course, the individual is an English teacher!
Correction: A .22LR can fully penetrate a small (7" thick) turkey which was bought frozen, but which was thawed out for the test.
(They must have learned something from the canopy tests.)
Ford powered the Cobra, but the car itself was a modified AC Ace, built by AC Cars in Surrey, England.
No, not in a diesel. The fuel is injected after the air is compressed. which prevents it from igniting prematurely. (This also requires that diesel injectors be capable of much higher pressure than those in gas engines). A gasoline engine does compress the fuel/air mixture, but the compression ratio is much lower - in general, the temperature rise is insufficient to cause ignition.
I used to drive a coworker nuts because I kept the optional keyboard 'beep' sound switched on on my terminal (pre-PC days). I really didn't do it to annoy, it was because I could type more accurately. The keyboard action sucked, and the only way to know the key was pressed enough was to either see it on the screen or to hear the chirp. Much of my work was data entry; my eyes were on the source documents, not the screen - hence, the beep. Annoying her was simply a bonus.
Also an unabashed M fanboi. I've owned several for about as long as I've been using computers, with one that I would take from job to job. BTW, you can get spare parts ranging from buttons to a full keyset ($20, no key caps) at Unicomp. Unicomp is a company in Kentucky which now owns the original IBM patent and continue to offer the Model M in a wide variety of key arrangements, including custom, for around $80. I haven't dealt with them yet, but I expect to soon - I've got one board with a bum Ctrl key that I hope to save.
Wish I had mod points, 'cuz you said a lot in not many words.
You are more likely to get shot with your own gun by a home invader than successfully use one against a home invader (given FBI numbers defining a "success" as a hit, if you use the gun-nut numbers, there are millions of incidences of people brandishing guns and running off robbers and home invaders, but no numbers supporting that theory since the government is out to get them).
I dunno what the government has to do with it, but Gary Kleck has been studying and documenting such cases for decades now - see Gary_Kleck for more info + cites and criticisms. BTW, Kleck is a self described liberal Democratic, is not an NRA member, and was a gun control supporter before conducting his studies. Hardly fits the image of a 'gun nut'.
Our support is an act of generosity, not of responsibility. If you believe that we have some sort of obligation to provide such support, I will have to ask where such obligations originate.
I said before: "the benefit is measured by the gross value, not what percentage it is of something else." I can expand upon that, to say: " the benefit is measured by the gross value, not by what percentage it is of something else or by what level of guilt it absolves."
I had ignition switch problems with my Spitfire Mark II (Lucas electrics, don't you know) and I used to keep a coiled jumper wire behind the battery. The starter solenoid was not only conveniently located near the brake cylinder, but it also had an extended piston with a rubber boot on the end that you could press to activate the starter. Connect the wire, press the button, and go...
You don't need to put the whole dashboard in your pocket, just the ignition lock. Watch the original 'Gone in 60 Seconds' where they steal a Rolls-Royce by pulling the wiring harness off the back of the ignition lock and then plugging it onto a spare lock/key assembly. (Yeah, this was before steering column interlocks).
Current headlights only illuminate. This is called a headlight 'system' because it is more than a a headlight, it is a detector as well.
Good choice of words - or how would you put it instead?
Can you give us the numbers in dollars, not percentages? 'Cuz receiving as little as 0.21% of, say, a million is a hell of a lot better than 1.00% of a thousand. And the benefit is measured by the gross value, not what percentage it is of something else.
Flying in the face of the Declaration of Independence is entirely legal, as the Declaration no force of law. The Supreme Court is charged with interpreting the Constitution, not the Declaration. If there is " very little doubt that Citizens United flies directly in the face of [...] the Constitution," why do you suppose it made it to the Supreme Court in the first place? Where, specifically, is it unconstitutional?
No, it's a parking brake. If the intent was emergency braking, they'd be on the front wheels, where around 80% of the braking force takes place. And locking the rear wheels will NOT allow you to still have steering. The front wheels point the car, but the rear wheels direct it. If they are locked, turning the front wheels will do little to affect the car's trajectory - it will follow a fairly straight line, albeit rotating as it goes.
Consider an e-brake turn. The rear wheels are locked, the front wheels are turned, and the car pulls a 180 without veering off to the side.