Unless, of course, you think that with the same grades and other performance measures, people who are poor should be kept out of college in favor of those who are rich. My own experience, as a kid coming from a poor family but with excellent grades and test scores, getting financial aid was super simple. It's the kids who have good, but not great, grades/scores that have trouble. Top schools compete for top students and will bend over backwards to ensure the top students have the means to attend. There are enough good students out there that the top schools don't have to compete for them.
Of course, a good student at a non-top school can very often be one of the top students at that school and qualify for grants and scholarships that would have been unattainable to them otherwise. Just one of the benefits of being a big fish in a small pond, I suppose.
No, the politicians don't need to get any smarter. Once their advisers realize that there are no other options, the politicians will start to regain interest nuclear power.
As long as politicians employ smart advisers, they, themselves, don't need to get any smarter.
I did not call you a liar. I pointed out that since you are positioned to gain financially from the perception that spam is increasing, you statement, without support, is suspect.
I did not mean to offend. It was my intention to point out to you what was obvious to any critical thinking reader and to encourage critical thinking in others.
I apologize for offending you. I shall try to be more clearly neutral in this regard in future posts.
You realize, of course, that we can't accept your statement at face value since it is to your benefit to have people believing that the spam problem is getting worse.
Please post corroborating links so we can judge for ourselves.
I've seen Wiis sitting on the shelf at various Target stores in the Memphis area for the last couple of months. Either people don't know that Target sells Wiis or demand for the Wii in the Memphis area is being met.
Have you even seen Neo Office? Its probably one of the most horrible pieces of SW ever... The fact that it is useful to some seems to undermine your assertion.
My wife uses NeoOffice whenever she needs to make a presentation. She likes it because she never has compatibility issues loading her presentations on the conference room computer. Her MSOffice-using peers often have troubles because the conference room computer has an old version of MSOffice on it.
The problem, apparently, is that besides pumped hydro, most energy storage techniques don't scale large enough to be used for grid-leveling.
For example, compressed air requires an enormous reservoir such that the reservoir's internal temperature doesn't change significantly during the compression side of the cycle (charging the reservoir). During the expansion side of the cycle (discharging the reservoir), some source of heat is required (like burning natural gas) to counter the drop in temperature as the gas expands. Theoretically, concentrated solar might work for heating, but they would still need a backup in case of bad weather or non-daytime demand.
I actually an optimistic that supercaps might be useful this way one day, but the current cost to manufacture, combined with the energy density, makes them too expensive right now.
I want my window manager to manage my applications and work spaces, but beyond that, I want the WM to stay out of my face. It should never distract me from what I'm working on and it should never prevent me from doing something the way that I want to do it.
For these reasons, FVWM is my choice. It does exactly what I want and it stays the hell out of my way.
There is no physical law that dictates that fingerprints are unique, but there is an enormous amount of statistical evidence to that effect. Of course, this is dependent on the fact that you've got a good print for comparison. Smudged prints, partial prints, etc, all significantly weaken the statistical case for fingerprint evidence.
If this is really a problem, then we could offset this by creating charcoal from some of the plant matter and burying it. That puts carbon back in the ground in a form that won't decompose and end up back in the atmosphere.
Perhaps that would be a way of creating carbon credits?
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Of course, a good student at a non-top school can very often be one of the top students at that school and qualify for grants and scholarships that would have been unattainable to them otherwise. Just one of the benefits of being a big fish in a small pond, I suppose.
Is there any evidence that Vista is actually increasing uptake of Linux and OSX on the desktop?
I've googled around a bit but haven't found anything (my google-fu is weak).
So who said it?
Did you alert the school administrators?
That's exactly the kind of information they need to be able to effectively evaluate the competence of their teachers.
No, the politicians don't need to get any smarter. Once their advisers realize that there are no other options, the politicians will start to regain interest nuclear power.
As long as politicians employ smart advisers, they, themselves, don't need to get any smarter.
And yes, politicians do employ smart advisers.
I did not call you a liar. I pointed out that since you are positioned to gain financially from the perception that spam is increasing, you statement, without support, is suspect.
I did not mean to offend. It was my intention to point out to you what was obvious to any critical thinking reader and to encourage critical thinking in others.
I apologize for offending you. I shall try to be more clearly neutral in this regard in future posts.
You realize, of course, that we can't accept your statement at face value since it is to your benefit to have people believing that the spam problem is getting worse.
Please post corroborating links so we can judge for ourselves.
In that case, expect to see more people using gmail in the future.
I've seen Wiis sitting on the shelf at various Target stores in the Memphis area for the last couple of months. Either people don't know that Target sells Wiis or demand for the Wii in the Memphis area is being met.
Sounds like you should try the software out yourself. If you really need to know, you shouldn't trust slashdot to give you reliable info.
Some people believe that Java is silly and find Python to be a more elegant way of doing the same or similar things.
And with the stock prices of music industry companies collapsing, they might finally be fearing bankruptcy.
Could you please explain how this would work? How can stock price drive bankruptcy?
My wife uses NeoOffice whenever she needs to make a presentation. She likes it because she never has compatibility issues loading her presentations on the conference room computer. Her MSOffice-using peers often have troubles because the conference room computer has an old version of MSOffice on it.
So what would you like to see the kernel team focus on that they're currently neglecting?
The problem, apparently, is that besides pumped hydro, most energy storage techniques don't scale large enough to be used for grid-leveling.
For example, compressed air requires an enormous reservoir such that the reservoir's internal temperature doesn't change significantly during the compression side of the cycle (charging the reservoir). During the expansion side of the cycle (discharging the reservoir), some source of heat is required (like burning natural gas) to counter the drop in temperature as the gas expands. Theoretically, concentrated solar might work for heating, but they would still need a backup in case of bad weather or non-daytime demand.
I actually an optimistic that supercaps might be useful this way one day, but the current cost to manufacture, combined with the energy density, makes them too expensive right now.
And one hundred minions testing for subtle and not so subtle bugs that arise on each of those compilations.
.rpm or .deb.
What are you talking about? It's not like compiling from source is some black art only known to gurus and initiates.
Using an ebuild that's been marked stable in portage is no more risky or unreliable than using an
I want my window manager to manage my applications and work spaces, but beyond that, I want the WM to stay out of my face. It should never distract me from what I'm working on and it should never prevent me from doing something the way that I want to do it.
For these reasons, FVWM is my choice. It does exactly what I want and it stays the hell out of my way.
There is no physical law that dictates that fingerprints are unique, but there is an enormous amount of statistical evidence to that effect. Of course, this is dependent on the fact that you've got a good print for comparison. Smudged prints, partial prints, etc, all significantly weaken the statistical case for fingerprint evidence.
Because after all, what's the point of storing charge in a capacitor's electric field, if you can't get your electrons back when you need them?
It's a common misconception, but capacitors don't store electrons. They store energy. The number of electrons remains constant.
I think that should be "rainbow connection".
Is Microsoft actually making money on the XBox yet? Last I heard, they were still down several billion dollars.
We have yet to learn if Microsoft can turn a profit without being able to charge monopoly rent.
If this is really a problem, then we could offset this by creating charcoal from some of the plant matter and burying it. That puts carbon back in the ground in a form that won't decompose and end up back in the atmosphere.
Perhaps that would be a way of creating carbon credits?
I can see the difference, but I deny that the difference matters at all. I stop noticing the difference about 2 minutes into my movie.
ITYM?
What's that short for?