Technically, they should be teaching writing and composition, along with proper formating. It should be done using notepad or an equivalent non-formating, non-helping application (no textpad, for example...and I think SCOTUS has ruled vi as cruel and inhuman). We're definintely on the same page there (so to speak).
You see, to use any full-fledged program causes problems in transition. You expect certain things to be in certain places (Alt-I,P,F will insert an image in Word, btw) and will be very inefficient in a system which places things in other places (say, if there is no way to see the formatting codes - God, I miss Word Perfect).
Schools should get away from fancy formating and work on basic layout and composition. If I could outlaw Powerpoint in schools, I would. I'm putting that next to 10 year copyright limits in my presidential campaign platform, by the way. Hillary, look out.
I was watching Charlotte's Web (the old animated one) with my 4 year old over the weekend - the frist time since I was a kid. After the first message "Some Pig" was spun in a web by Charlotte, the farmer remarked that Wilbur must, indeed, be a "some" (special) pig. The farmers' wife remarked that (Charlotte) must be some spider, to which the farmer quickly corrected her, as the web clearly stated that it was the pig that was special. In Charlotte's own words, humans will believe anything they read. I this case, they'll believe anything they see on TV.
You see, if you create enough buzz around something, that buzz becomes truth. It needn't be strictly true, but only needs some grain of veracity, rumor, innuendo, or stereotype to work off of.
It's a brilliant marketing angle, and with enough staturation will take hold (we're discussing it, right?).
A similar marketing campaign could easily be made for sub-Saharan Africans as the ideal manual laborer, or Indians solving all of your IT needs. Actually, I guess most of what we would use the former for is more likely to be done by "Mexicans" - which is what my in-laws call anyone from South- or Central America who works on a construction site. Excuse me, "illegal Mexicans". Of course, it's total bullshit, but that's marketing in a nutshell.
There's some validity to teaching MS office, since the $8/hr secretary jobs all require it. They don't care that you know OO, they want you to be able to sit down and type a memo without having to send you to a class. That costs money, which is probably not budgeted.
OO should be in all the high-tech schools where the graduates will eventually go on to be mangers looking for $8/hr secretaries.
(mod me down, but those of you that work in the real world know it's true - 80% of the jobs out there are just need a seat that needs to be filled with a skill.)
Yep. After all, those dang bible-thumpin' hillbillies did such an efficient job of banning pornographic books, magazines, phone-sex lines, "adult shops", VHS, DVD's, Cable TV stations, and internet sites, that this cell-phone thingy should be a breeze for them, eh?
Books - been going on forever. SCOTUS limited their efforts, though Magazines - see above, also major retail chains have taken them out of their racks specifically because of such pressure phone-sex - ??? adult shops - you're kidding, right? You won't find a permit issued if the local churches don't want it. VHS/DVDs - see magazines. Also they can fall under the adult shops laws above - in the bible belt they'll stop it Cable TV - already doesn't have real porn; access to internet sites are banned in some jurisdictions (though rarely enforced)
So, yes, they would make sure it never hit cell phones.
Of course not. Remeber that in government, you don't pay for what you consume, you pay for a portion of the general public consumption at a rate determined by your success. An odd stadard, to be sure, but again- a $160,000 bill is too much for most, so everybody chips in. The advantage is a more educated populous. One can argue good or bad, but it's hard to say that even a 20th percentile HS graduate is dumber than a kid that has never gone to school and grows up on the street.
By the way - have you paid over $15,000/year in taxes over the past 15 years? That's probably what it would take for your education costs plus the plus the back interest. If you have, then you've purchased a fairly expensive house, and no matter how you slice it, the system of government has enabled you to make a much more comforatble living than 90% of Americans - and that's pretty darned good.
All true, but in this case, in order to get more pixels, he/she will have to go to a "better" camera - i.e. a DSLR. There aren't many cheap cameras with significantly more than 7 MP (haven't been in the market in the last few months, but most P&S go about 8 max, iirc).
I totally agree about the sensor area. It's one reason that my P&S was selected for sensor size/efficiency, but I know that a DSLR at 2 stops faster and the same pixel count will still produce better pictures.
Unfortunately, the OP has fallen into the young-technophile trap, thinking that he can fix a techincal shortcoming and get a better picture. This hasn't changed since before I was born - the quality of the photograph depends more on the person behind the camera than the camera itself. You can produce great pictures with a mediocre camera, but you will never get a consistently great pictures from a mediocre photographer.
Personally, I'm a Nikon guy through-and-through, but given the cash to go get a high end DSLR, I'd get the Canon. They're the only company producing a 24x36mm sensor (i.e. 35mm), and I think this will always give them an edge. It's a shame, too, since I've got a small fortune in Nikon glass. Then again, what good is a fabulous wide angle F mount lens if you end up with a normal FL on that snazzy new DSLR.
You don't pay taxes because the government does all the little things you want it to. You don't pay life insurance to get rich. You don't pay health insurance so you can have a heart attack. You dn't put money into retirement accounts because you just don't need the money now.
You do thses things because at some point, you - or your family - will get a benefit. At some point you're going to need that stuff, and it would suck royally not to have it. If you're against abortion, do you forego health insurance because your carrier covers abortions? It's your money that's paying for abortions, after all. Of course, it's everyone esle's, too.
Taxes pay for public services. Did you got to public school? If so, could you have afforded to roughtly $160,000 it would have taken to send you to private school? What about the "poor" kid who went to school instead of growing up on the street (since his parents didn't have the $160k), and ended up not deciding to join a gang and end up gunning down your wife 'cause he needed the crack money? Things the government provides affect you in many ways, most of which you are apparently unaware. There are a lot of things I don't agree with in the government, and I think it's way too damned big. I've also benefited directly from some government programs (got a roof on my community center a few years ago - pure pork; I still have mixed feelings about it). Thing is, the system works better than having no system at all. Really.
Besides, if you don't want to pay taxes, that's fine - just don't make much money.
You'd be just devastated if you blew a film image up to the level where you could see the grain.
Here are two questions for you:
1) Do you find that you are printing your images at sizes larger than 12x18?
If you are, then you probably ought to have more pixels (i.e., a better camera). I'm okay with digital pictures down to about 150dpi, others swear that you need 300+. Then again, there are people who swear that $3000 unobtainium coated silver strands wrapped in virgin PTFE and assembled when the planets are in alignement make their music sound better.
2) Presuming you are actually printing at at least 200dpi, can you really see the difference without a loupe on the final prints? I'm not worried about your monitor, because I'm going to bet that if you have a consumer-level camera, you're not doing photoediting on a 7.1MP monitor.
You see, if you can't tell, don't worry about it. Let your geek side go and spend more time in the field and less time in the darkroom. Seriously - unless you have significant image problems you can see in your final output, the camera and imaging is good enough. Go take some great pictures, and worry a bit less about having digitally perfect pixels.
Of course, ianal, but this is pretty straight forward. Does the contract between the site owner and GoDaddy allow for GoDaddy to do this. If it does, then the owner has no real recourse, except to move somewhere with a better agreement. If the contract does not allow this, then the owner has the right to sue for breach of contract and any contract-allowed or statutory damages.
There's no censorship or big brother implications. This is a simple business relationship with contractual obligations by both sides. It happens all the time in meatspace, there's no reason for eveyone to get their panties is a wad over is happening on the net.
That was my question. Having all the standard usernames turned off by defult is what I was looking for. Not having a tn server running by defult, and not being able to determine a login easily are the barriers I would expect...but then again I would expect Windows to close all incoming ports by default, too. We all know how often that occurs. I agree that root logins are foolish, but the situation in the windows world has been aggravated by third party developers requiring root access to run all processes. Fix the system and break the software. *shrug* I think MS is like politicians - no backbone to make the hard decisions. Just add to the overhead to bandaid a problem instead of fixing it.
This is a question based on an utter lack of understanding of OS X, but i'm going to ask it anyway:
Is the administrator password on an OS X machine non-trivial by default, and do most people set their passwords to be non-crackable by a short (say, 1-2 hr airport stay) session?
Presuming that the password is trivial or insecure (play with me here), does the default (or common) setting on OS X allow a telnet session to be established over the wifi link?
Now were getting deep, but hang with me...give the two above, couldn't a common or system module be trojaned and inserted into such a laptop?
Here's why I ask. 80% of my Linux experience is on a TiVo, and most of that with very simple things, but including kernel hacks developed by others. I telnet in, change the kernel, and the magic happens on the next reboot. Of course the tivo system has no password, but some systems are pretty poorly secured (password1, or a common word), and you can get a telnet session pretty quickly. With root access, a remote attacker could simply change the file permissions, insert a trojan - including adding a new program to call at start up if they wanted to be transparent about it - and go on their merry way.
Now, I'll admit that laptops aren't usually good zombie machines, as they aren't likely to be running continuously, but it seems possible to do the above with a non-technical laptop user at the help on a shared wifi link.
I'm okay with dropping one digit in prices. I don't really think we need the second significant figure anyway. Of course, I would also expect the states to play nice and forgo the first nickel of revenue. In orhter words, the first time you pay tax is when you hit $2 in a 5% tax state.
My friends and I actually did that with a dime and some superglue in high school, but without the camera. Lots of fun watching kids try and pry the thing off the tiles. Eventually the janitorial staff managed to pop it free. Two dollars of entertainment for a dime.
Yeah, games seem to be the use, but that's not really necessary during an exam (or work).
I use a 48GX - it took a while to get used to RPN, but I can't live without the stack now. I've caught more entry/operation errors with it than I care to admit. The solver is also invaluable, though I really only use ot for time value of money and concrete reinforcement. Worth the cost in the latter application alone. I really need to put in a couple of others, though, but never seem to have the time nowadays (the concrete was entered about a decade ago when I was doing grad work.)
The amount of light necessary to produce a bright image, especially in larger sets, is actually quite large. Often, a lamp will need to be twice as bright as the output, or 2000 lumens for a 1000 lumen projector. You start getting into the realm of "lighting paper on fire" at that level and above. It's also about color temperature, which typically needs to be high. Remember that your run-of-the-mill $18 overhead lamp, which is far dimmer than a PJ lamp with horrible color temp, usually lasts for only about 80-100 hours.
It's actually pretty well known in architecture circles that to get good coverage / decent speed in an entire building, the wiring can be expected to be about the same (in qty/manhours) cost to the client. Some sparkies joke that it takes more wire to do wireless.
You should have said "better" lcds. Many LCDs, while not as limited at RP screens, are still pretty poor when offaxis by more than 40-50 degrees. That is where Plasma really shines.
As for DLPs, people will have a shit over this because they're used to tube TVs lasting 10-20 years without fail (looks-like-crap does not equal failure for many). They aren't the early adopters who are willing to drop $400-700 on a lamp every thousand hours. After it really becomes common, people will get used to it. And lamp tech will get better, too, resulting in longer service intervals.
On the flip side, maybe there will be a sucker market for "dead" LCD TVs and you and I can pick one up for almost free, then drop in a new $200 lamp and have a nice 60" RP in the play room:-)
I have yet to understand where a graphing calculator is necessary over a non-graphing calculator. I've been an engineer for 20 years, in aerospace, mechanical design, and in architectural/strucutral design. I grew up on computers and such (I am not of the slide rule generation), so I understand the utility in most technical gadgets - but I don't get how graphing is useful.
The only time I have ever seen it used is to show the multple zeros of an equation, but even that was just a curiosity. If you can't get a pretty printout, why bother? Furthermore, you need the exact numbers anyway whenever you want to solve something. If you want to estimate, do it in your head.
Admittedly, I own an HP48, so I use the screen as a visual stack. Again, all of the graphing fuctions are pretty, but not practical unless you happen to be using it for a game, or calendar, or as a help screen in an equation (and if you need a help screen, imo you don't know the equation well enough to be using a calculator).
So, are there really useful or computationally practical reasons for a graphing calulator, or does everyone just want them because they are "cool"?
The only problem with the all-caps, is that some specialty abbreviations are more readable in mixed form.
Hadn't thought about it, but my 4yo also uses caps lock to type stuff. I get her into notepad, set the fontsize to about 40, and let her go to town typing stuff (her name, the alphabet, simple words). Not really a big deal anymore, as I've recently "retired" my wife's laptop and have installed edubuntu on it for my daughter. She (the 4yo) isn't caught in the MS business machine world yet, so Linux works as well - or better - then windows. As soon as a find a driver for the wireless card (and figure out how to actually install it) she'll probably not see a win OS 'til she hits the elem school lab.
This is exactly the proper response. As a side benefit, you will find out (a) how badly they really want/need you and (b) find out how much pull your supervisor has with top management. Both are critical to how well you will be treated once you come on board. For a throw-away position, they can re-interview without much of a big deal (though if there's relocation in the offing, it means they're having problems filling it locally, or at all). Knowing how much your future supervisor can do for you will let you know how much power they have to truly negotiate your future performance increases and bonuses. It will also show how much he or she can shield you from upper management politics.
It's hard to go without a job (presuming you've already resigned) but if your skills are good take the time off and get a headhunter to help get you placed. Given the circumstances, your unemployed state may not be much of a negative, and may be significantly offset by your ability to start work immediately. That's usually a big relief to companies who often need new talent asap (that would be all companies, by the way).
And eliminate the programs application to most Architectural shops. Oddly enough, practically all architectural drawings (save residential plans from hacks) are done in all caps.
I missed the part where corporations were defined as "a person".
Unless these maps are deemed "trade secrets", I would expect that the info is fair game.
Detailed coverage and speed maps may be useful to the competition, but I dont think information which can otherwise be obtained through legal pretexting methods is considered "trade secrets".
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Technically, they should be teaching writing and composition, along with proper formating. It should be done using notepad or an equivalent non-formating, non-helping application (no textpad, for example...and I think SCOTUS has ruled vi as cruel and inhuman). We're definintely on the same page there (so to speak).
You see, to use any full-fledged program causes problems in transition. You expect certain things to be in certain places (Alt-I,P,F will insert an image in Word, btw) and will be very inefficient in a system which places things in other places (say, if there is no way to see the formatting codes - God, I miss Word Perfect).
Schools should get away from fancy formating and work on basic layout and composition. If I could outlaw Powerpoint in schools, I would. I'm putting that next to 10 year copyright limits in my presidential campaign platform, by the way. Hillary, look out.
I was watching Charlotte's Web (the old animated one) with my 4 year old over the weekend - the frist time since I was a kid. After the first message "Some Pig" was spun in a web by Charlotte, the farmer remarked that Wilbur must, indeed, be a "some" (special) pig. The farmers' wife remarked that (Charlotte) must be some spider, to which the farmer quickly corrected her, as the web clearly stated that it was the pig that was special. In Charlotte's own words, humans will believe anything they read. I this case, they'll believe anything they see on TV.
You see, if you create enough buzz around something, that buzz becomes truth. It needn't be strictly true, but only needs some grain of veracity, rumor, innuendo, or stereotype to work off of.
It's a brilliant marketing angle, and with enough staturation will take hold (we're discussing it, right?).
A similar marketing campaign could easily be made for sub-Saharan Africans as the ideal manual laborer, or Indians solving all of your IT needs. Actually, I guess most of what we would use the former for is more likely to be done by "Mexicans" - which is what my in-laws call anyone from South- or Central America who works on a construction site. Excuse me, "illegal Mexicans". Of course, it's total bullshit, but that's marketing in a nutshell.
"The world needs ditch diggers, too."
There's some validity to teaching MS office, since the $8/hr secretary jobs all require it. They don't care that you know OO, they want you to be able to sit down and type a memo without having to send you to a class. That costs money, which is probably not budgeted.
OO should be in all the high-tech schools where the graduates will eventually go on to be mangers looking for $8/hr secretaries.
(mod me down, but those of you that work in the real world know it's true - 80% of the jobs out there are just need a seat that needs to be filled with a skill.)
Yep. After all, those dang bible-thumpin' hillbillies did such an efficient job of banning pornographic books, magazines, phone-sex lines, "adult shops", VHS, DVD's, Cable TV stations, and internet sites, that this cell-phone thingy should be a breeze for them, eh?
Books - been going on forever. SCOTUS limited their efforts, though
Magazines - see above, also major retail chains have taken them out of their racks specifically because of such pressure
phone-sex - ???
adult shops - you're kidding, right? You won't find a permit issued if the local churches don't want it.
VHS/DVDs - see magazines. Also they can fall under the adult shops laws above - in the bible belt they'll stop it
Cable TV - already doesn't have real porn; access to internet sites are banned in some jurisdictions (though rarely enforced)
So, yes, they would make sure it never hit cell phones.
Of course not. Remeber that in government, you don't pay for what you consume, you pay for a portion of the general public consumption at a rate determined by your success. An odd stadard, to be sure, but again- a $160,000 bill is too much for most, so everybody chips in. The advantage is a more educated populous. One can argue good or bad, but it's hard to say that even a 20th percentile HS graduate is dumber than a kid that has never gone to school and grows up on the street.
By the way - have you paid over $15,000/year in taxes over the past 15 years? That's probably what it would take for your education costs plus the plus the back interest. If you have, then you've purchased a fairly expensive house, and no matter how you slice it, the system of government has enabled you to make a much more comforatble living than 90% of Americans - and that's pretty darned good.
All true, but in this case, in order to get more pixels, he/she will have to go to a "better" camera - i.e. a DSLR. There aren't many cheap cameras with significantly more than 7 MP (haven't been in the market in the last few months, but most P&S go about 8 max, iirc).
I totally agree about the sensor area. It's one reason that my P&S was selected for sensor size/efficiency, but I know that a DSLR at 2 stops faster and the same pixel count will still produce better pictures.
Unfortunately, the OP has fallen into the young-technophile trap, thinking that he can fix a techincal shortcoming and get a better picture. This hasn't changed since before I was born - the quality of the photograph depends more on the person behind the camera than the camera itself. You can produce great pictures with a mediocre camera, but you will never get a consistently great pictures from a mediocre photographer.
Personally, I'm a Nikon guy through-and-through, but given the cash to go get a high end DSLR, I'd get the Canon. They're the only company producing a 24x36mm sensor (i.e. 35mm), and I think this will always give them an edge. It's a shame, too, since I've got a small fortune in Nikon glass. Then again, what good is a fabulous wide angle F mount lens if you end up with a normal FL on that snazzy new DSLR.
You don't pay taxes because the government does all the little things you want it to. You don't pay life insurance to get rich. You don't pay health insurance so you can have a heart attack. You dn't put money into retirement accounts because you just don't need the money now.
You do thses things because at some point, you - or your family - will get a benefit. At some point you're going to need that stuff, and it would suck royally not to have it. If you're against abortion, do you forego health insurance because your carrier covers abortions? It's your money that's paying for abortions, after all. Of course, it's everyone esle's, too.
Taxes pay for public services. Did you got to public school? If so, could you have afforded to roughtly $160,000 it would have taken to send you to private school? What about the "poor" kid who went to school instead of growing up on the street (since his parents didn't have the $160k), and ended up not deciding to join a gang and end up gunning down your wife 'cause he needed the crack money? Things the government provides affect you in many ways, most of which you are apparently unaware. There are a lot of things I don't agree with in the government, and I think it's way too damned big. I've also benefited directly from some government programs (got a roof on my community center a few years ago - pure pork; I still have mixed feelings about it). Thing is, the system works better than having no system at all. Really.
Besides, if you don't want to pay taxes, that's fine - just don't make much money.
You'd be just devastated if you blew a film image up to the level where you could see the grain.
Here are two questions for you:
1) Do you find that you are printing your images at sizes larger than 12x18?
If you are, then you probably ought to have more pixels (i.e., a better camera). I'm okay with digital pictures down to about 150dpi, others swear that you need 300+. Then again, there are people who swear that $3000 unobtainium coated silver strands wrapped in virgin PTFE and assembled when the planets are in alignement make their music sound better.
2) Presuming you are actually printing at at least 200dpi, can you really see the difference without a loupe on the final prints? I'm not worried about your monitor, because I'm going to bet that if you have a consumer-level camera, you're not doing photoediting on a 7.1MP monitor.
You see, if you can't tell, don't worry about it. Let your geek side go and spend more time in the field and less time in the darkroom. Seriously - unless you have significant image problems you can see in your final output, the camera and imaging is good enough. Go take some great pictures, and worry a bit less about having digitally perfect pixels.
Of course, ianal, but this is pretty straight forward. Does the contract between the site owner and GoDaddy allow for GoDaddy to do this. If it does, then the owner has no real recourse, except to move somewhere with a better agreement. If the contract does not allow this, then the owner has the right to sue for breach of contract and any contract-allowed or statutory damages.
There's no censorship or big brother implications. This is a simple business relationship with contractual obligations by both sides. It happens all the time in meatspace, there's no reason for eveyone to get their panties is a wad over is happening on the net.
That was my question. Having all the standard usernames turned off by defult is what I was looking for. Not having a tn server running by defult, and not being able to determine a login easily are the barriers I would expect...but then again I would expect Windows to close all incoming ports by default, too. We all know how often that occurs. I agree that root logins are foolish, but the situation in the windows world has been aggravated by third party developers requiring root access to run all processes. Fix the system and break the software. *shrug* I think MS is like politicians - no backbone to make the hard decisions. Just add to the overhead to bandaid a problem instead of fixing it.
This is a question based on an utter lack of understanding of OS X, but i'm going to ask it anyway:
Is the administrator password on an OS X machine non-trivial by default, and do most people set their passwords to be non-crackable by a short (say, 1-2 hr airport stay) session?
Presuming that the password is trivial or insecure (play with me here), does the default (or common) setting on OS X allow a telnet session to be established over the wifi link?
Now were getting deep, but hang with me...give the two above, couldn't a common or system module be trojaned and inserted into such a laptop?
Here's why I ask. 80% of my Linux experience is on a TiVo, and most of that with very simple things, but including kernel hacks developed by others. I telnet in, change the kernel, and the magic happens on the next reboot. Of course the tivo system has no password, but some systems are pretty poorly secured (password1, or a common word), and you can get a telnet session pretty quickly. With root access, a remote attacker could simply change the file permissions, insert a trojan - including adding a new program to call at start up if they wanted to be transparent about it - and go on their merry way.
Now, I'll admit that laptops aren't usually good zombie machines, as they aren't likely to be running continuously, but it seems possible to do the above with a non-technical laptop user at the help on a shared wifi link.
I'm okay with dropping one digit in prices. I don't really think we need the second significant figure anyway. Of course, I would also expect the states to play nice and forgo the first nickel of revenue. In orhter words, the first time you pay tax is when you hit $2 in a 5% tax state.
My friends and I actually did that with a dime and some superglue in high school, but without the camera. Lots of fun watching kids try and pry the thing off the tiles. Eventually the janitorial staff managed to pop it free. Two dollars of entertainment for a dime.
Yeah, games seem to be the use, but that's not really necessary during an exam (or work).
I use a 48GX - it took a while to get used to RPN, but I can't live without the stack now. I've caught more entry/operation errors with it than I care to admit. The solver is also invaluable, though I really only use ot for time value of money and concrete reinforcement. Worth the cost in the latter application alone. I really need to put in a couple of others, though, but never seem to have the time nowadays (the concrete was entered about a decade ago when I was doing grad work.)
The amount of light necessary to produce a bright image, especially in larger sets, is actually quite large. Often, a lamp will need to be twice as bright as the output, or 2000 lumens for a 1000 lumen projector. You start getting into the realm of "lighting paper on fire" at that level and above. It's also about color temperature, which typically needs to be high. Remember that your run-of-the-mill $18 overhead lamp, which is far dimmer than a PJ lamp with horrible color temp, usually lasts for only about 80-100 hours.
It's actually pretty well known in architecture circles that to get good coverage / decent speed in an entire building, the wiring can be expected to be about the same (in qty/manhours) cost to the client. Some sparkies joke that it takes more wire to do wireless.
You should have said "better" lcds. Many LCDs, while not as limited at RP screens, are still pretty poor when offaxis by more than 40-50 degrees. That is where Plasma really shines.
:-)
As for DLPs, people will have a shit over this because they're used to tube TVs lasting 10-20 years without fail (looks-like-crap does not equal failure for many). They aren't the early adopters who are willing to drop $400-700 on a lamp every thousand hours. After it really becomes common, people will get used to it. And lamp tech will get better, too, resulting in longer service intervals.
On the flip side, maybe there will be a sucker market for "dead" LCD TVs and you and I can pick one up for almost free, then drop in a new $200 lamp and have a nice 60" RP in the play room
I have yet to understand where a graphing calculator is necessary over a non-graphing calculator. I've been an engineer for 20 years, in aerospace, mechanical design, and in architectural/strucutral design. I grew up on computers and such (I am not of the slide rule generation), so I understand the utility in most technical gadgets - but I don't get how graphing is useful.
The only time I have ever seen it used is to show the multple zeros of an equation, but even that was just a curiosity. If you can't get a pretty printout, why bother? Furthermore, you need the exact numbers anyway whenever you want to solve something. If you want to estimate, do it in your head.
Admittedly, I own an HP48, so I use the screen as a visual stack. Again, all of the graphing fuctions are pretty, but not practical unless you happen to be using it for a game, or calendar, or as a help screen in an equation (and if you need a help screen, imo you don't know the equation well enough to be using a calculator).
So, are there really useful or computationally practical reasons for a graphing calulator, or does everyone just want them because they are "cool"?
The first rule of usenet is that you don't talk about usenet.
Oh, shit.
The only problem with the all-caps, is that some specialty abbreviations are more readable in mixed form.
Hadn't thought about it, but my 4yo also uses caps lock to type stuff. I get her into notepad, set the fontsize to about 40, and let her go to town typing stuff (her name, the alphabet, simple words). Not really a big deal anymore, as I've recently "retired" my wife's laptop and have installed edubuntu on it for my daughter. She (the 4yo) isn't caught in the MS business machine world yet, so Linux works as well - or better - then windows. As soon as a find a driver for the wireless card (and figure out how to actually install it) she'll probably not see a win OS 'til she hits the elem school lab.
what, no slashing in two with a bread knife and dancing about on their graves?
This is exactly the proper response. As a side benefit, you will find out (a) how badly they really want/need you and (b) find out how much pull your supervisor has with top management. Both are critical to how well you will be treated once you come on board. For a throw-away position, they can re-interview without much of a big deal (though if there's relocation in the offing, it means they're having problems filling it locally, or at all). Knowing how much your future supervisor can do for you will let you know how much power they have to truly negotiate your future performance increases and bonuses. It will also show how much he or she can shield you from upper management politics.
It's hard to go without a job (presuming you've already resigned) but if your skills are good take the time off and get a headhunter to help get you placed. Given the circumstances, your unemployed state may not be much of a negative, and may be significantly offset by your ability to start work immediately. That's usually a big relief to companies who often need new talent asap (that would be all companies, by the way).
And eliminate the programs application to most Architectural shops. Oddly enough, practically all architectural drawings (save residential plans from hacks) are done in all caps.
Doesn't the screen need to be grounded to work?
I missed the part where corporations were defined as "a person".
Unless these maps are deemed "trade secrets", I would expect that the info is fair game.
Detailed coverage and speed maps may be useful to the competition, but I dont think information which can otherwise be obtained through legal pretexting methods is considered "trade secrets".