In British Columbia, Canada, the school board did away with the D grade. Shortly thereafter, they formalized C- (C-minus) as an "official" grade. (The other pluses and minuses were not official). Effectively, they replaced D with C-.
I've seen other schools which mandate that the lowest grade a student can earn in a quarter is 50%... that way, a student who doesn't answer a single test question or do any homework for a whole semester can still salvage his grade with new work in the third and fourth term, and pass. Alternately, once a senior has passes his first semester with a 75% or higher, gotten into his colleges of choice for the following year, there is no way he can fail the course for the year (75+75+50+50)/(4)=62.5, a passing grade.
Full pocket-sized computer running linux (Maemo comes pre-installed, upgradeable to MeeGo... and Android 2,2 runs beauifullly on it, too). It does everything a laptop computer does - I think you can even get the Gimp running on it. Dell Small Business was selling it for $369 last week (no plans, no locks,etc.), so you can bring it to other countries, buy a local SIM card and you're good to go. More info at Engadget.
Unlimited would be great... unfortunately most people forget the most ubiquitous limit: borders. All plans are limited as soon as you cross an international border. There are lots of world travellers who want a low-cost single provider solution. I want something to cover me in New York and Paris and Abu Dhabi.
Dogfish Head is also well known here in Delaware for recreating the mead found in King Midas' tomb, based on studies done by UPenn archaeologists in Turkey. The beverage is called Midas Touch and is frickin' amazing.
With the Google Sharing anonymizing FireFox plugin ( https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/60333 ) enabled, I receive a 404 message. When I disable the plugin, I am able to pull up the page. Hrm. Interesting.
"Who am I to tell Apple what's best for their devices?" How about, "Who is Apple to tell me what is best for my device?"
If the act of shelling out $800 for one does not make it mine, I guess I'll just wait for a good Linux tablet.
French... of course, the reason you see it at Sam's club is not that it is packaged for the European Union, but for North America. Anything marketed federally in Canada needs to comply with the bilingual standards. I'm just waiting for them to mandate Inuktitut
"[AT&T] told the US government to stay out of wireless — meaning don't regulate prices or impose Net neutrality — while also asking the government for more spectrum. You know the contradiction: The government is good when it gives you free or cheap services"
Unfortunately, we're falling victim to the mindtrap that the government "owns" the electromagnetic spectrum in a specific jurisdiction, which is about as laughable as thinking it owns the weather. ATT is consisstent in asking the government to relax control over the spectrum, and relax control over the company. It's not asking the government for a handout.
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In British Columbia, Canada, the school board did away with the D grade. Shortly thereafter, they formalized C- (C-minus) as an "official" grade. (The other pluses and minuses were not official). Effectively, they replaced D with C-. I've seen other schools which mandate that the lowest grade a student can earn in a quarter is 50%... that way, a student who doesn't answer a single test question or do any homework for a whole semester can still salvage his grade with new work in the third and fourth term, and pass. Alternately, once a senior has passes his first semester with a 75% or higher, gotten into his colleges of choice for the following year, there is no way he can fail the course for the year (75+75+50+50)/(4)=62.5, a passing grade.
Full pocket-sized computer running linux (Maemo comes pre-installed, upgradeable to MeeGo... and Android 2,2 runs beauifullly on it, too). It does everything a laptop computer does - I think you can even get the Gimp running on it. Dell Small Business was selling it for $369 last week (no plans, no locks,etc.), so you can bring it to other countries, buy a local SIM card and you're good to go. More info at Engadget.
Unlimited would be great... unfortunately most people forget the most ubiquitous limit: borders. All plans are limited as soon as you cross an international border. There are lots of world travellers who want a low-cost single provider solution. I want something to cover me in New York and Paris and Abu Dhabi.
Dogfish Head is also well known here in Delaware for recreating the mead found in King Midas' tomb, based on studies done by UPenn archaeologists in Turkey. The beverage is called Midas Touch and is frickin' amazing.
With the Google Sharing anonymizing FireFox plugin ( https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/60333 ) enabled, I receive a 404 message. When I disable the plugin, I am able to pull up the page. Hrm. Interesting.
"Who am I to tell Apple what's best for their devices?" How about, "Who is Apple to tell me what is best for my device?" If the act of shelling out $800 for one does not make it mine, I guess I'll just wait for a good Linux tablet.
French... of course, the reason you see it at Sam's club is not that it is packaged for the European Union, but for North America. Anything marketed federally in Canada needs to comply with the bilingual standards. I'm just waiting for them to mandate Inuktitut
Unfortunately, we're falling victim to the mindtrap that the government "owns" the electromagnetic spectrum in a specific jurisdiction, which is about as laughable as thinking it owns the weather. ATT is consisstent in asking the government to relax control over the spectrum, and relax control over the company. It's not asking the government for a handout.