When I was in grad school at a US university, there was a lawyer available for free consultations with students. His campus visits were funded through the "student activities fee" we all had to pay each semester. I used the service once to get advice about a dispute I was having with my landlord.
I don't know if this is a common arrangement, but it's worth checking out.
Why would Microsoft bother spending time and money to adapt an OS they're about to ditch? They have already promised to stop selling XP next year, and there is no way the XO laptop, or the next version to come after it, will have the horsepower to run the superbloat of Vista.
Unless they are conceding that XP will be around longer than they would like...
In my neighborhood, Verizon replaced all of the copper wires in my "last mile", on the utility poles and to every house, about two years ago.
Then, six months later, they brought fiber to the poles and started selling FiOS internet and phone service (with TV soon to follow).
I talked to the guys doing the copper install, and they were the ones to tell me fiber was coming soon. Why was Verizon spending all that extra money to renew the old lines they were about to replace? Of course, they didn't know, they were just stringing the lines like they were told.
But anyway, my point is that my neighborhood's copper infrastructure is quite new, thanks, and redundant besides.
While the Taulbee Survey has very reliable information, it polls only CS departments which grant PhD degrees. CS faculty who teach at four-year colleges and universities, who spend more time teaching and less time bringing in their body weight in gold grant monies, earn substantially less than Taulbee numbers.
What went wrong is they charge $200 for a toy. That's the only reason I don't have one.
Yeah, you can find some on ebay for less, but who's counting those 718 parts?
Over at legoeducation.com you can find school-oriented Mindstorms kits, and you can also buy each of the most expensive parts (RCX, sensors, motors) individually.
Publishing someones phone number and address, and even their mother's address, goes way beyond being controversial. It's a privacy violation.
Indeed... Dvorak didn't happen to publish his own family's address and photos in his column, and I bet he wouldn't be so neutral about O'Gara's actions if she (or someone else) did that to him.
Thinking about it, in the context of those "virtual credit card numbers", imagine a special PIN that is good for one transaction.
The CitiBank virtual credit card account number feature actually doesn't work like you'd expect -- instead of being a "one-time" number, it's actually a "30-day" number. They set the expiration date to the end of the upcoming month to limit the time it's valid. I'm disappointed in the way it works, but the positives still outweigh the negatives so I still plan on using it until something better comes along.
The Citibank virtual account numbers have options to let you do what you want. When you generate a new number, it can be used with only one merchant. You can set a charge limit amount, the expiration date, or both.
Next time you try it, click on the "Advanced Options" link instead of the shiny button labeled "Next". Set the limit to the amount you intend to spend. Presto, it's good for exactly one transaction.
There is one problem with projectors that other display technologies don't have: its light source isn't designed to last forever. How many hours will that $299 projector bulb last before you have to replace it?
Along the same lines, I also think the government should send you an income tax bill once a month, and everyone should be writing a big check equivalent to 3-4 months salary to pay it.
Wow. You must be one of those poor rich guys that Dubya and friends send their annual tax cuts to. I had no idea the upper tax bracket rate was 300 or 400%! No wonder you're so mad.
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When I was in grad school at a US university, there was a lawyer available for free consultations with students. His campus visits were funded through the "student activities fee" we all had to pay each semester. I used the service once to get advice about a dispute I was having with my landlord.
I don't know if this is a common arrangement, but it's worth checking out.
Why would Microsoft bother spending time and money to adapt an OS they're about to ditch? They have already promised to stop selling XP next year, and there is no way the XO laptop, or the next version to come after it, will have the horsepower to run the superbloat of Vista.
Unless they are conceding that XP will be around longer than they would like...
In my neighborhood, Verizon replaced all of the copper wires in my "last mile", on the utility poles and to every house, about two years ago.
Then, six months later, they brought fiber to the poles and started selling FiOS internet and phone service (with TV soon to follow).
I talked to the guys doing the copper install, and they were the ones to tell me fiber was coming soon. Why was Verizon spending all that extra money to renew the old lines they were about to replace? Of course, they didn't know, they were just stringing the lines like they were told.
But anyway, my point is that my neighborhood's copper infrastructure is quite new, thanks, and redundant besides.
While the Taulbee Survey has very reliable information, it polls only CS departments which grant PhD degrees. CS faculty who teach at four-year colleges and universities, who spend more time teaching and less time bringing in their body weight in gold grant monies, earn substantially less than Taulbee numbers.
This might have been news, sort of, back on June 30... http://news.com.com/OfficeMax+bids+farewell+to+mai l-in+rebates/2100-1047_3-6090290.html
Actually, they already did, four years ago at Ye Olde MIT Media Lab. Check out the videos.
What went wrong is they charge $200 for a toy. That's the only reason I don't have one.
Yeah, you can find some on ebay for less, but who's counting those 718 parts?
Over at legoeducation.com you can find school-oriented Mindstorms kits, and you can also buy each of the most expensive parts (RCX, sensors, motors) individually.
Publishing someones phone number and address, and even their mother's address, goes way beyond being controversial. It's a privacy violation.
Indeed... Dvorak didn't happen to publish his own family's address and photos in his column, and I bet he wouldn't be so neutral about O'Gara's actions if she (or someone else) did that to him.
Not only that, but the instructions don't specify how to log in as root, either...
The CitiBank virtual credit card account number feature actually doesn't work like you'd expect -- instead of being a "one-time" number, it's actually a "30-day" number. They set the expiration date to the end of the upcoming month to limit the time it's valid. I'm disappointed in the way it works, but the positives still outweigh the negatives so I still plan on using it until something better comes along.
The Citibank virtual account numbers have options to let you do what you want. When you generate a new number, it can be used with only one merchant. You can set a charge limit amount, the expiration date, or both.
Next time you try it, click on the "Advanced Options" link instead of the shiny button labeled "Next". Set the limit to the amount you intend to spend. Presto, it's good for exactly one transaction.
There is one problem with projectors that other display technologies don't have: its light source isn't designed to last forever. How many hours will that $299 projector bulb last before you have to replace it?
Wow. You must be one of those poor rich guys that Dubya and friends send their annual tax cuts to. I had no idea the upper tax bracket rate was 300 or 400%! No wonder you're so mad.
This concern has been expressed more eloquently by a young but wise voice:
"Verbing weirds language." -- Calvin, to Hobbes
They had to change the name, for fear of a Microsoft lawsuit claiming Redmond as their IP!
Indeed. Would that include spell-checking of random comments from users who type "guarantee" and "dont"?