Can their software differentiate between an actual HP Laserjet 5 PS attached to your computer or network and just a driver for one set to print to file? If it can't, just install a driver for a postscript printer like that so that it prints to a file, then print-away. The PS file can be converted to PDF if you want.
They may have been around in 1996, but they sure as shit weren't around in 1960. So sure, there have been reasons to update the books since Eisenhower administration.
It's been a few years since I took a calculus class, but I really don't recall a need for a calculator. Except for basic arithmetic that is. What I remember was mostly sketching a graph, finding roots, slicing the graph into pieces, determining a formula for the area of the ith slice and then building an integral. It seems we also memorized a lot of identities and integral transformations.
I'm guessing a TI-89 will draw a graph and locate the roots, but isn't that part of what you're supposed to be learning by doing calculus?
Why does the FCC need to enact rules to prevent people from doing DUMB things? If I go over my minutes, I should pay for them. How is it that hard to understand?
Clearly many citizens feel they are being taken advantage of by their cell phone providers. This isn't just a few lazy people as you imply, but a huge number of people writing and calling their government representatives to complain about the treatment they are receiving. It's clearly established in even the threads of this article's messages that the cell carriers thrive on shady practices in their contract-writing and billing and are reluctant to fix problems.
These companies have near monopolies due to licensed spectrum, rights of way, etc. and therefore accept government regulation as part of those monopoly grants. And since our government is a representative democracy, the people are using the power of that government fight back against large organizations that are trying to exploit them. And that is their right.
And it's not all "dumb" things as you say. A few years ago, my girlfriend at the time took a 3-week trip to Peru. She left her phone, turned off, on her dining room table. When she got back, she got a bill from her cell company for over $1000... for calls they claimed she made from China. Now... she may have faked the pictures of her being at Machu Pichu and may very well have actually been in China, but I know her phone was on the table because I handled it a few times while cleaning and putting up flowers. In the end, the best she could do was to "settle" for $500 or they would send it to collections and put a mark on her credit.
Tell me, what did she do that was "dumb"? Clearly she should never have gone into business with such a corrupt company (one of the big 3, starting with A and ending in T) but she didn't know they would screw her like that until after the fact.
These companies have repeatedly demonstrated a lack of regard for their customers. They could have fixed this and behaved better. But they didn't. And now they have the FCC on their back. Sure, they're probably happy people like you are out here blaming "lazy" customers, but really, they only have themselves to blame.
I chose Verizon because it provides the best coverage. But they stick it to you with the plan choices:
You might look into the StraightTalk phones from Walmart http://www.straighttalk.com/. The phones with a model ending in "C" use Verizon's network. With this prepaid service you can get 1000 minutes/month for $30 or unlimited for $45 (1000 texts and unlimited, accordingly).
So far, the phone has worked everywhere I've gone except for remote parts of Wyoming and Montana. And I find it very relaxing to not have to worry any more about how many texts I've used or if I'm in "evening & weekend".
But SOMEHOW my cell phone bills seem to include over 20% in taxes, fees, surcharges...all that I never agreed to, was never informed of, and are not optional.
The sad thing is that all the phone stores I've been to are unable or unwilling to answer this simple question: Assuming I choose your $49.99/month and I don't even turn on my phone on for that month, how much will my bill be?
Sometimes I'd get a response like, "It depends on where you live." "I live right here in the town your store is in." But I usually get something like, "You'll have to wait until you get your first bill." I guess they don't mind signing a contract where they really don't know the terms they are agreeing to.
If they can't tell me how much I'll actually be charged, I won't sign a contract. And I enjoy their anxious and disappointed look as I turn around and walk out of the store.
I've now used prepaids for years and would be hard-pressed to go back to one of the major carriers and a locked-in contract. I look every couple years when my prepaid phone is getting worn out. I'll check the major carriers thinking that maybe they'll have a real deal... much lower rates or some fantastic phone, or a decent option without a long-term contract. But nope. Their rates are higher than ever and they still want 2-year contracts. And they still can't tell me how much the monthly bill will actually be.
And one of my favorite stories is how I was having a party at a house I had just moved into. While getting the house ready, I accidentally stepped on my phone and broke it. I was worried that I'd miss calls from people trying to find my house, so I quickly ran down to Target and bought a new phone (very basic) for $20 and had it activated in the parking lot. I don't know how one of the other carriers would have responded in that situation, but most of my friends with contracts who've lost phones can only get replacements by extending their contracts and paying fees.
Now I'm paying $45/month for unlimited voice and texts with a really sturdy and decent phone that piggy-backs on Verizon's network. My only real gripe is that I can't sync/backup my contacts.
I use StraightTalk http://www.straighttalk.com/ and pay $45/month for unlimited voice, text, and internet (in-phone browser, not tethered). Their phones use either Verizon's or AT&T's networks, depending on the phone you get. I've been very pleased with the service so far (had it for a year).
My biggest complaint is that I cannot get any software that can sync/backup the contacts.
I used Virgin Mobile for several years and they worked everywhere that Sprint did. I had no problems with them at all.
Last year I switched to Straight Talk because their unlimited plan ($45/month for unlimited voice, text, and internet - though on a crappy browser) was better and I was in the market for a new phone. Their phones use either Verizon's network or AT&T's and you can tell this by the ending letter of the phone model. The ones ending in "C" use Verizon and the ones ending in "G" use AT&T.
I've been pretty happy with Straight Talk as well. I live in Portland, OR and my coverage is good. I recently drove across the country from Wisconsin to Oregon and coverage was a bit iffy in remote parts of Wyoming and Montana.
I haven't been any places where I was able to tell that I didn't have coverage where someone on the supporting network did.
My biggest complaint with both Virgin Mobile and Straight Talk is that I've never been able to find a way to download my contacts off the phones (or put them back on). You also can't tether for internet access but I've never needed that.
This won't work because if he starts flunking students or kicking them out for cheating, enrollment numbers for the school will go down and he'll get in trouble from all the people trying to get enrollment numbers up.
I've seen teachers with tenure forced to let a student stay in his class after he caught the student cheating for this very reason. I suspect the teachers earnestly want to stop cheaters. The school, however, just wants to have the appearance of doing so.
I would try writing the exam questions so that you have to show your work in solving the problem rather than just plug-n-chug numbers into formulas. My old physics prof made us draw the integral slices and such and derive the equation used to solve the problems. I learned more calculus in that class...
You might be interested to hear of a new feature people are calling "partition resizing". It's all the rage... since about the Millenium.
Yes, you'd have to resize one to get space for whatever else you want to have, but you can only have 4 primary partitions. If your 4 primary partitions are in use, you cannot trivially make one into an extended partition that then contains its original contents as a logical partition. Someone suggested gpartd could do it, but simply resizing one of our 4 primary partitions will not enable you to then add an extended partition, since you'll have already used up your 4 primary partitions.
You might be interested to hear of a new feature people are calling "Extended Partitions".
If your computer comes pre-installed with an OS partition and 3 recovery partitions, then you can't add an extended partition without removing one of those other partitions. The extended partition, which can hold other partitions, must be one of the 4 primary partitions on the disk.
I suppose if you were very careful you could use the linux partition manager and change the type of one of the recovery partitions to an extended one, then re-create the same sectors as a logical partition in that extended partition. But it's not the kind of thing I'd do on a disk where I cared about not losing its contents.
Suppose *one* and only one thing that's impossible today were possible
I'm not sure that's a good criteria. You cite Asimov, but so many of his stories feature both intelligent humaniform robots, faster-than-light travel, and colonization in space. All are impossible today but I don't think you can disqualify his work as science fiction.
Orson Scott Card said once there really is no difference:
"Half joking, I was writing to Ben [Bova] about this very subject, and I said, look, fantasy has trees, and science fiction has rivets," Card said in a 1989 interview. "That's it, that's all the difference there is, the difference of feel, perception."
I'm not a computer scientist but I have fun poking at problems like those. I agree that these would be good for some kids to get their feet wet with CS kinds of problems. Some are easy and can even be solved in an Excel spreadsheet, while others, at least for me, are unsolvable... though I now want to know more about functional languages.
This article, "How to be a Good Graduate Student" by Marie desJardins is considered a pretty good "getting started" reference. Part of it covers tips on finding a good program and advisor.
If you reduce things far enough, egg rolls, burritos, pita sandwiches, pierogi, gyoza, sausage rolls, lumpia, peroshkis, samosas, and Cornish pastries (among many others) are all just "bread wrapped around a filling".
Winston P. Graves liked consistency in his life. He sat down at the table in his breakfast nook and carefully opened the paper with one hand while pouring cereal into a bowl with the other. He scanned the headlines and noted the "9.0 Earthquake Predicted Today: Mass Devastation!" and calmly looked toward his bowl while he poured the milk. He took comfort in the headline knowing there was no cause for concern. It was the same headline that had been there yesterday. And the day before. And every day before that since the big quake 18 years ago that actually did devastate the city and had killed more than 20,000 people. Following the quake, the attorney general, known for his flair in front of juries, won convictions, and death penalties, for the government geologists who had failed to predict the quake, and for the newspaper editors who had failed to act on the finally accurate prediction of the quake by a local astrologer. Since then, the new government geologists and newspaper editors following the example of that astrologer and published formal predictions of deadly earthquakes every day. Of course there had not been any notable earthquakes since then, but neither had there been executions.
Amazon does some of this pretty well. You can remove things from your browsing history, so when you did searches for "Vampire Lesbians from Mars" to get a gift for a friend, they don't affect your current recommendations. For some things they also have "fix this recommendation" to adjust what causes recommendations.
It's not ideal, but at least they realize that they won't sell me something I'm not interested in.
The key, though, is that when I'm on Amazon, I'm probably looking to buy something, and an ad might be useful. When I'm searching the web to learn about the history of the Japanese Shogunate, and ad for swords or Hello Kitty is a waste of bandwidth. I'm just surprised that anyone actually clicks on web ads and follows through with a sale.
Also will the Police fly these, to hunt down dangerous criminals like they use Helicopters for now, or will they be flown by the same type of people that install Red Light speeding cameras, and just mail you tickets.
Which is more profitable? The answer to that question will answer your question.
Even sadder, in practice, most of the things you see on Facebook are posted by "friends", so this is essentially encouraging you to rat on your friends.
On the other hand, if you really need to be using a "notify the police" button when hanging out with your friends, then maybe you need different friends.
You don't even have to spend that much for a decent home printer. I got a Brother laser printer 4 years ago for about $200 and have run several thousand pages through it with no problems and only one new cartridge. It's fast and does a nice job printing. I'd highly recommend the Brother printer - but as someone else said, the HP Laserjets are the gold standard.
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OTOH, you can print them out (on paper only).
Can their software differentiate between an actual HP Laserjet 5 PS attached to your computer or network and just a driver for one set to print to file? If it can't, just install a driver for a postscript printer like that so that it prints to a file, then print-away. The PS file can be converted to PDF if you want.
They may have been around in 1996, but they sure as shit weren't around in 1960. So sure, there have been reasons to update the books since Eisenhower administration.
It's been a few years since I took a calculus class, but I really don't recall a need for a calculator. Except for basic arithmetic that is. What I remember was mostly sketching a graph, finding roots, slicing the graph into pieces, determining a formula for the area of the ith slice and then building an integral. It seems we also memorized a lot of identities and integral transformations.
I'm guessing a TI-89 will draw a graph and locate the roots, but isn't that part of what you're supposed to be learning by doing calculus?
Why does the FCC need to enact rules to prevent people from doing DUMB things? If I go over my minutes, I should pay for them. How is it that hard to understand?
Clearly many citizens feel they are being taken advantage of by their cell phone providers. This isn't just a few lazy people as you imply, but a huge number of people writing and calling their government representatives to complain about the treatment they are receiving. It's clearly established in even the threads of this article's messages that the cell carriers thrive on shady practices in their contract-writing and billing and are reluctant to fix problems.
These companies have near monopolies due to licensed spectrum, rights of way, etc. and therefore accept government regulation as part of those monopoly grants. And since our government is a representative democracy, the people are using the power of that government fight back against large organizations that are trying to exploit them. And that is their right.
And it's not all "dumb" things as you say. A few years ago, my girlfriend at the time took a 3-week trip to Peru. She left her phone, turned off, on her dining room table. When she got back, she got a bill from her cell company for over $1000... for calls they claimed she made from China. Now... she may have faked the pictures of her being at Machu Pichu and may very well have actually been in China, but I know her phone was on the table because I handled it a few times while cleaning and putting up flowers. In the end, the best she could do was to "settle" for $500 or they would send it to collections and put a mark on her credit.
Tell me, what did she do that was "dumb"? Clearly she should never have gone into business with such a corrupt company (one of the big 3, starting with A and ending in T) but she didn't know they would screw her like that until after the fact.
These companies have repeatedly demonstrated a lack of regard for their customers. They could have fixed this and behaved better. But they didn't. And now they have the FCC on their back. Sure, they're probably happy people like you are out here blaming "lazy" customers, but really, they only have themselves to blame.
I chose Verizon because it provides the best coverage. But they stick it to you with the plan choices:
You might look into the StraightTalk phones from Walmart http://www.straighttalk.com/. The phones with a model ending in "C" use Verizon's network. With this prepaid service you can get 1000 minutes/month for $30 or unlimited for $45 (1000 texts and unlimited, accordingly).
So far, the phone has worked everywhere I've gone except for remote parts of Wyoming and Montana. And I find it very relaxing to not have to worry any more about how many texts I've used or if I'm in "evening & weekend".
But SOMEHOW my cell phone bills seem to include over 20% in taxes, fees, surcharges...all that I never agreed to, was never informed of, and are not optional.
The sad thing is that all the phone stores I've been to are unable or unwilling to answer this simple question: Assuming I choose your $49.99/month and I don't even turn on my phone on for that month, how much will my bill be?
Sometimes I'd get a response like, "It depends on where you live." "I live right here in the town your store is in." But I usually get something like, "You'll have to wait until you get your first bill." I guess they don't mind signing a contract where they really don't know the terms they are agreeing to.
If they can't tell me how much I'll actually be charged, I won't sign a contract. And I enjoy their anxious and disappointed look as I turn around and walk out of the store.
I've now used prepaids for years and would be hard-pressed to go back to one of the major carriers and a locked-in contract. I look every couple years when my prepaid phone is getting worn out. I'll check the major carriers thinking that maybe they'll have a real deal... much lower rates or some fantastic phone, or a decent option without a long-term contract. But nope. Their rates are higher than ever and they still want 2-year contracts. And they still can't tell me how much the monthly bill will actually be.
And one of my favorite stories is how I was having a party at a house I had just moved into. While getting the house ready, I accidentally stepped on my phone and broke it. I was worried that I'd miss calls from people trying to find my house, so I quickly ran down to Target and bought a new phone (very basic) for $20 and had it activated in the parking lot. I don't know how one of the other carriers would have responded in that situation, but most of my friends with contracts who've lost phones can only get replacements by extending their contracts and paying fees.
Now I'm paying $45/month for unlimited voice and texts with a really sturdy and decent phone that piggy-backs on Verizon's network. My only real gripe is that I can't sync/backup my contacts.
I use StraightTalk http://www.straighttalk.com/ and pay $45/month for unlimited voice, text, and internet (in-phone browser, not tethered). Their phones use either Verizon's or AT&T's networks, depending on the phone you get. I've been very pleased with the service so far (had it for a year).
My biggest complaint is that I cannot get any software that can sync/backup the contacts.
I used Virgin Mobile for several years and they worked everywhere that Sprint did. I had no problems with them at all.
Last year I switched to Straight Talk because their unlimited plan ($45/month for unlimited voice, text, and internet - though on a crappy browser) was better and I was in the market for a new phone. Their phones use either Verizon's network or AT&T's and you can tell this by the ending letter of the phone model. The ones ending in "C" use Verizon and the ones ending in "G" use AT&T.
I've been pretty happy with Straight Talk as well. I live in Portland, OR and my coverage is good. I recently drove across the country from Wisconsin to Oregon and coverage was a bit iffy in remote parts of Wyoming and Montana.
I haven't been any places where I was able to tell that I didn't have coverage where someone on the supporting network did.
My biggest complaint with both Virgin Mobile and Straight Talk is that I've never been able to find a way to download my contacts off the phones (or put them back on). You also can't tether for internet access but I've never needed that.
This won't work because if he starts flunking students or kicking them out for cheating, enrollment numbers for the school will go down and he'll get in trouble from all the people trying to get enrollment numbers up.
I've seen teachers with tenure forced to let a student stay in his class after he caught the student cheating for this very reason. I suspect the teachers earnestly want to stop cheaters. The school, however, just wants to have the appearance of doing so.
I would try writing the exam questions so that you have to show your work in solving the problem rather than just plug-n-chug numbers into formulas. My old physics prof made us draw the integral slices and such and derive the equation used to solve the problems. I learned more calculus in that class...
I wager my rear end could be made to fluoresce certain shades of red found in other parts of the galaxy given the right form of bombardment.
Well now at least we have an explanation for Rudolf and his red nose.
You might be interested to hear of a new feature people are calling "partition resizing". It's all the rage... since about the Millenium.
Yes, you'd have to resize one to get space for whatever else you want to have, but you can only have 4 primary partitions. If your 4 primary partitions are in use, you cannot trivially make one into an extended partition that then contains its original contents as a logical partition. Someone suggested gpartd could do it, but simply resizing one of our 4 primary partitions will not enable you to then add an extended partition, since you'll have already used up your 4 primary partitions.
You might be interested to hear of a new feature people are calling "Extended Partitions".
If your computer comes pre-installed with an OS partition and 3 recovery partitions, then you can't add an extended partition without removing one of those other partitions. The extended partition, which can hold other partitions, must be one of the 4 primary partitions on the disk.
I suppose if you were very careful you could use the linux partition manager and change the type of one of the recovery partitions to an extended one, then re-create the same sectors as a logical partition in that extended partition. But it's not the kind of thing I'd do on a disk where I cared about not losing its contents.
I'm curious to know how it will get around in urban warfare setting with narrow streets with that wing-span.
Suppose *one* and only one thing that's impossible today were possible
I'm not sure that's a good criteria. You cite Asimov, but so many of his stories feature both intelligent humaniform robots, faster-than-light travel, and colonization in space. All are impossible today but I don't think you can disqualify his work as science fiction.
Orson Scott Card said once there really is no difference:
"Half joking, I was writing to Ben [Bova] about this very subject, and I said, look, fantasy has trees, and science fiction has rivets," Card said in a 1989 interview. "That's it, that's all the difference there is, the difference of feel, perception."
I was hoping someone would mention Project Euler.
I'm not a computer scientist but I have fun poking at problems like those. I agree that these would be good for some kids to get their feet wet with CS kinds of problems. Some are easy and can even be solved in an Excel spreadsheet, while others, at least for me, are unsolvable... though I now want to know more about functional languages.
How many people in New Orleans were shot by Blackwater employees during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina?
This article, "How to be a Good Graduate Student" by Marie desJardins is considered a pretty good "getting started" reference. Part of it covers tips on finding a good program and advisor.
http://rcir.sjtu.edu.cn/en/resources/HowtoBeaGoodStudent.pdf
Wouldn't it be better to actually _correct_ the problem, rather than just diagnose it with an app?
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=99838367
If you reduce things far enough, egg rolls, burritos, pita sandwiches, pierogi, gyoza, sausage rolls, lumpia, peroshkis, samosas, and Cornish pastries (among many others) are all just "bread wrapped around a filling".
Winston P. Graves liked consistency in his life. He sat down at the table in his breakfast nook and carefully opened the paper with one hand while pouring cereal into a bowl with the other. He scanned the headlines and noted the "9.0 Earthquake Predicted Today: Mass Devastation!" and calmly looked toward his bowl while he poured the milk. He took comfort in the headline knowing there was no cause for concern. It was the same headline that had been there yesterday. And the day before. And every day before that since the big quake 18 years ago that actually did devastate the city and had killed more than 20,000 people. Following the quake, the attorney general, known for his flair in front of juries, won convictions, and death penalties, for the government geologists who had failed to predict the quake, and for the newspaper editors who had failed to act on the finally accurate prediction of the quake by a local astrologer. Since then, the new government geologists and newspaper editors following the example of that astrologer and published formal predictions of deadly earthquakes every day. Of course there had not been any notable earthquakes since then, but neither had there been executions.
Amazon does some of this pretty well. You can remove things from your browsing history, so when you did searches for "Vampire Lesbians from Mars" to get a gift for a friend, they don't affect your current recommendations. For some things they also have "fix this recommendation" to adjust what causes recommendations.
It's not ideal, but at least they realize that they won't sell me something I'm not interested in.
The key, though, is that when I'm on Amazon, I'm probably looking to buy something, and an ad might be useful. When I'm searching the web to learn about the history of the Japanese Shogunate, and ad for swords or Hello Kitty is a waste of bandwidth. I'm just surprised that anyone actually clicks on web ads and follows through with a sale.
Also will the Police fly these, to hunt down dangerous criminals like they use Helicopters for now, or will they be flown by the same type of people that install Red Light speeding cameras, and just mail you tickets.
Which is more profitable? The answer to that question will answer your question.
Even sadder, in practice, most of the things you see on Facebook are posted by "friends", so this is essentially encouraging you to rat on your friends.
On the other hand, if you really need to be using a "notify the police" button when hanging out with your friends, then maybe you need different friends.
You don't even have to spend that much for a decent home printer. I got a Brother laser printer 4 years ago for about $200 and have run several thousand pages through it with no problems and only one new cartridge. It's fast and does a nice job printing. I'd highly recommend the Brother printer - but as someone else said, the HP Laserjets are the gold standard.
Isn't =/= just an ASCII way of representing how you would write it on a piece of paper?