Thing is they won't because they're making a loss on the WMP (and everything except the OS and Office) so that no-one else can gain a foothold in the market.
Thing is they won't, because Realplayer offers a FREE player as do many other places. Realplayer comes bundled on so many computers nowadays its no better than MS media player anyway
People go to community college to transfer into a good university and get cheap credits, not get an education.
Horseshit. Why don't you tell that to the hundreds of people who graduated with degrees and certificates from the community college I attend? Some things do not require a university education. Would-be mechanics, electricians, welders, truckers and nurses can all get their credentials at a good community college for a FRACTION of what a university costs and have them be just as good.
Examples which come to mind are the SNES game 'Chrono Trigger'...
Don't forget the Final Fantasy series for SNES. Those are nearly impossible to find now, as no one in their right mind wants to sell their copy (much like Crono Trigger)
Re-releasing any of those games (or bundling it with a re-release SNES) would likely make Nintendo and Squaresoft a fair hunk of money for what the technology costs nowadays
AWACS planes (essentialy flying radar stations) are capable of keeping track of an area of sky and feeding the radar contacts to the F/A-22 even if the F-22's sensors are off (point of this being, the F22 would be virtually undetectable if its radar was not powered on)
IIRC they can also feed data from the AWACs plane straight into their missles and fire without having to power their radar up AT ALL. That's what the article means when it says "as well as those of other aircraft"
You'd really think they'd notice the overwhelming response to the DNC registry and think "hey wait, maybe people really dont want to hear from us"...no such luck
I told her that I was certainly not interested in any company that was more concerned about my wardrobe than what I could do for them
That's great, if you have the option of refusing a job. Some of us don't, or won't--I have a ponytail myself and fully expect to be asked to cut it after school when i'm looking for work--and i won't have the luxury of refusing and finding some other place
Finally the spam i get got too much for me, and i switched over to Tbird due to its filtering system. Love it. Never went back to Outlook, 'cept to export my mail and address book.
Only ONE complaint about Tbird, aside from some minor cosmetic work--at this point in time it requires a third party app to check any sort of webmail--yahoo, netscape, Hotmail/MSN, etc. This IMHO is a BIG setback, as programs like hotmailpopper et. al. don't cut the mustard (seemingly incapable even of marking messages read once TB gets them, deleting msg's as they're deleted from TB's inbox, etc) Make Thunderbird work with hotmail and it will look alot more appealing to alot of people
Um, there's an entire other button between the minimize and close buttons. If you're missing that badly perhaps you have other issues you need to work on
Personally I think the way spelling and grammar goes down the tubes online is due to lack of profeciency at typing. Hunt-and-peck typists are more likely to abbreviate for the sake of quick response than someone who can type at a reasonable rate. To back this up, i stopped using "how r u 2day" grammar as soon as i found i could type "how are you doing" in the same amount of time. Also i observe that my friends who are most skilled at computers type the best, while the ones who use it only casually (and thus probably are not good typists) tend towards horrible spelling and grammar
I never paid to get into a library. Nor do i have the illusion that I own anything inside of one. Being able to borrow books to read is different than everyone being entitled to a free copy. Namely, in that in a library there is STILL only X number of books, so *everyone* still can't have one
Interestingly, I don't think the mass of the slug makes all that much difference to the eventual damage - force = mass * acceleration
This does not quite translate into how a round will effect a target. Particularly a soft one. A light projectile travelling extremely fast will penetrate a human (for example, lets take the NATO 5.56x45mm round) and do significant damage, but won't always be lethal, because the high velocity causes it to penetrate and keep going, rather than transfer all its energy to the target. Compare to a 7.62mm round, which is traveling slower, heavier than a 5.56, but it does LOTs more damage
The fact of the matter is that high school students aren't going to be doing research at such a deep level that they have to worry about limitations of their public library system.
Some of us live in districts in which mantaining a well stocked library is not a primary concern of the town council. If a reasearch topic is something relatively new, there may not be any books on it. Then what?
Or you could simply use any standard $2 calculator, a pencil, and some graph paper and have the kids plot the function themselves
That's fine for learning how to graph (which is middle-school level math) But after that, esp once you get into advanced classes, it is a pain in the ass and a waste of time to do things by hand when the graphing part isn't even the problem you're trying to solve
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I'm curious if you work at a primary/secondary school or a college. The schools in my area barely have enough money to keep their current computers working and in decent shape. If there somehow were to be a lump of money lying around and it went towards buying USB keychain drives for students and facaulty to promptly lose, rather than doing something useful (e.g., putting more than 10 internet stations in the library, or upgrading their internet connection) i would be furious. Even the community college deals perfectly well with only floppy disks and the odd CDR. Just out of curiousity, how big are the keychain drives? 32 megs? 16? 8? or bigger than that? what happens when kids bring their warez and/or mp3s to school to listen on the computers? or copy software off of them?
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I don't know about you, but I have encountered thousands more CDRs than I have ever seen USB keychain drives in use, *especially* considering that win9x can't support them very well.
CDBurners were very much the end for ZIP drives. By the time they became mainstream most computers around had a CDrom drive, the same cannot be said for USB filesystem support
Regardless, I think this would be an excellent way to send a message.
*that* I don't dispute;) I do think it would be more ah, bold, to do as someone somewhere in this thread suggested and buy a TON of lexmarks, then return them citing recent articles on the DCMA scare tactics against ink refillers
There are several of these uber-cheap ISPs operating in my area. In fact, I have a neighbor who went with one particular one, which I was convinced was a bad idea. As it turns out, the service is reliable, decently quick (56k) and something like 12USD a month. Turns out though, one of the ways they cut costs is--no tech support. Whatsoever. If you need help, you have to call the fellow (it works like a reseller program, one guy resells for a national ISP) who set you up and hope he is clueful
As for cutting off the other things--webspace? It doesnt cost you anything until someone actually puts a website up. Of the thousands of customers we had when i worked at an ISP, only a bare handful of individuals, plus most of the business customers ever bothered to learn how to FTP (or "publish" if you're a frontpage person)
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Thing is they won't because they're making a loss on the WMP (and everything except the OS and Office) so that no-one else can gain a foothold in the market.
Thing is they won't, because Realplayer offers a FREE player as do many other places. Realplayer comes bundled on so many computers nowadays its no better than MS media player anyway
People go to community college to transfer into a good university and get cheap credits, not get an education.
Horseshit. Why don't you tell that to the hundreds of people who graduated with degrees and certificates from the community college I attend? Some things do not require a university education. Would-be mechanics, electricians, welders, truckers and nurses can all get their credentials at a good community college for a FRACTION of what a university costs and have them be just as good.
Precisely. I've tried to play the Crono Trigger re-release and watchd it hang repeatedly at load screens
Examples which come to mind are the SNES game 'Chrono Trigger'...
Don't forget the Final Fantasy series for SNES. Those are nearly impossible to find now, as no one in their right mind wants to sell their copy (much like Crono Trigger)
Re-releasing any of those games (or bundling it with a re-release SNES) would likely make Nintendo and Squaresoft a fair hunk of money for what the technology costs nowadays
AWACS planes (essentialy flying radar stations) are capable of keeping track of an area of sky and feeding the radar contacts to the F/A-22 even if the F-22's sensors are off (point of this being, the F22 would be virtually undetectable if its radar was not powered on)
IIRC they can also feed data from the AWACs plane straight into their missles and fire without having to power their radar up AT ALL.
That's what the article means when it says "as well as those of other aircraft"
Nope. Purchase a 12 dollar Ethernet card or maybe even a 75 dollar medium-end video card. still 199
You'd really think they'd notice the overwhelming response to the DNC registry and think "hey wait, maybe people really dont want to hear from us"...no such luck
I told her that I was certainly not interested in any company that was more concerned about my wardrobe than what I could do for them
That's great, if you have the option of refusing a job. Some of us don't, or won't--I have a ponytail myself and fully expect to be asked to cut it after school when i'm looking for work--and i won't have the luxury of refusing and finding some other place
I'm sure the Bible-belt approves of this idea...
The bible-belt will never hear about this idea...
Finally the spam i get got too much for me, and i switched over to Tbird due to its filtering system. Love it. Never went back to Outlook, 'cept to export my mail and address book.
Only ONE complaint about Tbird, aside from some minor cosmetic work--at this point in time it requires a third party app to check any sort of webmail--yahoo, netscape, Hotmail/MSN, etc. This IMHO is a BIG setback, as programs like hotmailpopper et. al. don't cut the mustard (seemingly incapable even of marking messages read once TB gets them, deleting msg's as they're deleted from TB's inbox, etc)
Make Thunderbird work with hotmail and it will look alot more appealing to alot of people
Um, there's an entire other button between the minimize and close buttons. If you're missing that badly perhaps you have other issues you need to work on
I for one would not want to know. The amount of people who would still buy those peas would be saddening
Personally I think the way spelling and grammar goes down the tubes online is due to lack of profeciency at typing. Hunt-and-peck typists are more likely to abbreviate for the sake of quick response than someone who can type at a reasonable rate. To back this up, i stopped using "how r u 2day" grammar as soon as i found i could type "how are you doing" in the same amount of time. Also i observe that my friends who are most skilled at computers type the best, while the ones who use it only casually (and thus probably are not good typists) tend towards horrible spelling and grammar
all the libraries i have experience with dont have a nominal fee.
I never paid to get into a library. Nor do i have the illusion that I own anything inside of one. Being able to borrow books to read is different than everyone being entitled to a free copy. Namely, in that in a library there is STILL only X number of books, so *everyone* still can't have one
Alright slashdotters, who's the good guy? The one being bagged on in the software patent arena, or the one standing up to the 800lb gorilla?
Interestingly, I don't think the mass of the slug makes all that much difference to the eventual damage - force = mass * acceleration
This does not quite translate into how a round will effect a target. Particularly a soft one. A light projectile travelling extremely fast will penetrate a human (for example, lets take the NATO 5.56x45mm round) and do significant damage, but won't always be lethal, because the high velocity causes it to penetrate and keep going, rather than transfer all its energy to the target. Compare to a 7.62mm round, which is traveling slower, heavier than a 5.56, but it does LOTs more damage
Cute, but the round still has to be subsonic to be silent, which limits the velocity and thus the range.
Also consider the power modern military sniper rifles impart to a projectile weighing 168 grains or so.
The fact of the matter is that high school students aren't going to be doing research at such a deep level that they have to worry about limitations of their public library system.
Some of us live in districts in which mantaining a well stocked library is not a primary concern of the town council. If a reasearch topic is something relatively new, there may not be any books on it. Then what?
Or you could simply use any standard $2 calculator, a pencil, and some graph paper and have the kids plot the function themselves
That's fine for learning how to graph (which is middle-school level math) But after that, esp once you get into advanced classes, it is a pain in the ass and a waste of time to do things by hand when the graphing part isn't even the problem you're trying to solve
I'm curious if you work at a primary/secondary school or a college. The schools in my area barely have enough money to keep their current computers working and in decent shape. If there somehow were to be a lump of money lying around and it went towards buying USB keychain drives for students and facaulty to promptly lose, rather than doing something useful (e.g., putting more than 10 internet stations in the library, or upgrading their internet connection) i would be furious. Even the community college deals perfectly well with only floppy disks and the odd CDR.
Just out of curiousity, how big are the keychain drives? 32 megs? 16? 8? or bigger than that? what happens when kids bring their warez and/or mp3s to school to listen on the computers? or copy software off of them?
I don't know about you, but I have encountered thousands more CDRs than I have ever seen USB keychain drives in use, *especially* considering that win9x can't support them very well.
CDBurners were very much the end for ZIP drives. By the time they became mainstream most computers around had a CDrom drive, the same cannot be said for USB filesystem support
kiddie porn is not speech, it is exploitation.
Regardless, I think this would be an excellent way to send a message.
;) I do think it would be more ah, bold, to do as someone somewhere in this thread suggested and buy a TON of lexmarks, then return them citing recent articles on the DCMA scare tactics against ink refillers
*that* I don't dispute
There are several of these uber-cheap ISPs operating in my area. In fact, I have a neighbor who went with one particular one, which I was convinced was a bad idea. As it turns out, the service is reliable, decently quick (56k) and something like 12USD a month. Turns out though, one of the ways they cut costs is--no tech support. Whatsoever. If you need help, you have to call the fellow (it works like a reseller program, one guy resells for a national ISP) who set you up and hope he is clueful
As for cutting off the other things--webspace? It doesnt cost you anything until someone actually puts a website up. Of the thousands of customers we had when i worked at an ISP, only a bare handful of individuals, plus most of the business customers ever bothered to learn how to FTP (or "publish" if you're a frontpage person)