Didn't the USA invent the internet? Didn't it grow out of Arpanet and a few universities looking for quick ways to share data? Those other countries should feel lucky that we let them come over and play with our toys. My parents taxes paid for the basic research that started the internet. It belongs to America. They'll take the internet away from me when they pry it out of my cold dead hands.
I was definately bouncing signal off the ionosphere. 300 miles out to sea pretty much means that I'd have to have a mast over 1000 feet tall to achieve a line of sight radio signal.
I'm from Massachusetts and don't mind a 2 year contract but dead zones are a big problem around here. For the kind of population density that Metro Boston and surrounding suburbs offer there should be nothing less then 4 full bars of signal anywhere. Sadly this is far from the case. In fact I found a new dead zone just the other day. It's kind of like my new hobby. Luckily my home is in 4 bars of service but just a few blocks away is a dead zone. Raymond St in Salem is a dead zone. North Beverly is a huge dead zone. Manchester-by-the-Sea barely hits one bar. Ironically, 5 miles out to sea is a great place for signal. I've even got signal 300 miles out but that was at night with a 3watt handset phone. I think if you can show that your home or office, anywhere you spend most of the day, is a dead zone you should be let out of the contract no matter how long it is or how much is left before expiration.
Yes but the Linux brand doesn't gaurantee operability with those boxes the way Microsoft does. There will be boxes out there that can not run your choice of Linux, NetBSD or FreeBSD. Maybe the box will run one or two but not all three. Maybe another configuration will run run all three but then it's not the same box.
Anyway, this is a moot point as we're discussing consumer electronics meant for people who don't want to do the maintanence that goes into getting any of the linuxces to work.
I think the fact that both the hardware and OS come from one vendor makes the Mac far more stable hence secure. Microsoft has to get windows to work with Intel and AMD chipsets that are jammed into boxes made by hundreds of different manufacturers. Add into the mix a backwards compatability problem where software written in the 1970's is expected to still work and you've got a recipe for buffer overruns and all the demons they bring forth.
That doesn't mean the Mac is more secure it just means that there are less windows for worms and virii to crawl through. Oh wait, I guess that does make it more secure.
What do you think the clickers are really for? The only reason attendence hasn't been taken in the past is there wasn't a good way to do it. Enter the clicker age and now computers can track the whole students day.
Gen Chem at Penn State tried these things a short while ago. They didn't work worth a damn and the students were bitter about having to shell out ten bucks each for a system that didn't work. (That's on top of the thousands the college shelled out on their end of the system.) I'm thinking hardwired with a mag stripe reader would have worked much better. Swipe of the student ID and attendence is taken (remember multiple clickers could be carried around by one student but students aren't quick to give up their key to their dorm room.) No trying to aim for the reciever you don't think everyone else is trying to aim at. Wireless is a neat toy but hard wired is really the way things should have gone.
Yeah I want to hear more about the naughty sorority talk. In fact I think it should be a basic cable channel. All sorostitutes all the time! Talking filth.
I'm sure that when he's old enough to sign a contract he'll have job offers. Maybe not from Microsoft but from some small company who wants to become the next Microsoft.
That was the basic idea behind that crappy movie with Robin Williams where he edits peoples memories. I forget the name of the movie. I certainly don't want to relive that one.
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Didn't the USA invent the internet? Didn't it grow out of Arpanet and a few universities looking for quick ways to share data? Those other countries should feel lucky that we let them come over and play with our toys. My parents taxes paid for the basic research that started the internet. It belongs to America. They'll take the internet away from me when they pry it out of my cold dead hands.
I was definately bouncing signal off the ionosphere. 300 miles out to sea pretty much means that I'd have to have a mast over 1000 feet tall to achieve a line of sight radio signal.
I'm from Massachusetts and don't mind a 2 year contract but dead zones are a big problem around here. For the kind of population density that Metro Boston and surrounding suburbs offer there should be nothing less then 4 full bars of signal anywhere. Sadly this is far from the case. In fact I found a new dead zone just the other day. It's kind of like my new hobby. Luckily my home is in 4 bars of service but just a few blocks away is a dead zone. Raymond St in Salem is a dead zone. North Beverly is a huge dead zone. Manchester-by-the-Sea barely hits one bar. Ironically, 5 miles out to sea is a great place for signal. I've even got signal 300 miles out but that was at night with a 3watt handset phone. I think if you can show that your home or office, anywhere you spend most of the day, is a dead zone you should be let out of the contract no matter how long it is or how much is left before expiration.
No I work for a paper company in Scranton.
Anyway, this is a moot point as we're discussing consumer electronics meant for people who don't want to do the maintanence that goes into getting any of the linuxces to work.
That doesn't mean the Mac is more secure it just means that there are less windows for worms and virii to crawl through. Oh wait, I guess that does make it more secure.
And the parents aren't facing a possible $150,000.00 per stolen item civil penalty which amounts to the threat behind the threat of extortion.
What do you think the clickers are really for? The only reason attendence hasn't been taken in the past is there wasn't a good way to do it. Enter the clicker age and now computers can track the whole students day.
Gen Chem at Penn State tried these things a short while ago. They didn't work worth a damn and the students were bitter about having to shell out ten bucks each for a system that didn't work. (That's on top of the thousands the college shelled out on their end of the system.) I'm thinking hardwired with a mag stripe reader would have worked much better. Swipe of the student ID and attendence is taken (remember multiple clickers could be carried around by one student but students aren't quick to give up their key to their dorm room.) No trying to aim for the reciever you don't think everyone else is trying to aim at. Wireless is a neat toy but hard wired is really the way things should have gone.
yep. That's the America I want to live in!
I know I'm going to get -2 Modappeal for this.
I liked what Dennis Miller said about Axl Rose. "He still has a great singing voice. I hear him every wednesday skimming out my pool."
I've always wanted to eat a big handful of acid and play the rainbow level of Super Mario Kart.
I'm waiting for a hover conversion.
I don't think you got my joke.
No I'm kidding. Or maybe not?
I like your ideas. I would like to subscribe to your news letter.
I only own a hammer so I make sure every problem is a nail.
I had it in my head he was still 16. I guess that was a few years ago.
I'm sure that when he's old enough to sign a contract he'll have job offers. Maybe not from Microsoft but from some small company who wants to become the next Microsoft.
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That was the basic idea behind that crappy movie with Robin Williams where he edits peoples memories. I forget the name of the movie. I certainly don't want to relive that one.
That makes absolutely no sense.