I mostly agree. I probably would have dropped out of high school, but my high school had a program that allowed me to get credits toward my diploma while taking all my classes at a local community college. I did this, but it wasn't because I thought I would find it more stimulating (although I did, a bit), but mostly because it would allow me to be in school less and do more learning on my own.
What? I don't know what the situation is where you are, but generally private schools pay their teachers more than public schools. This would be the easy explanation for those schools not having teacher shortages despite being non-unionized. Perhaps the better environment plays some role, but I suspect the better pay plays a much larger one.
If you got caught for speeding, you should ask to see the radar or laser gun they were using. In a lot of states cops are required to be able to show you the last reading on the gun (the one they pulled you over for) and sometimes also show you the documentation for the gun that shows when it was last calibrated. If your state requires that and they can't show you it, it's usually trivial to get out of the ticket.
This actually doesn't seem like a terrible idea, I mean, a lot of police cars have cameras mounted to the front of them and this is just the logical extension of that. Also, unlike a lot of technologies used in policing, it might help protect citizens from overzealous cops. If a cop's got one of these on and he does something out of line, you can just look at the tape, whereas otherwise it might just be your word against his. This of course, is assuming the tapes are available to you as evidence.
Honestly I find the prevalence of cameras mounted to buildings for policing (such as those found across London) to be more disturbing. It seems more okay when you're using cameras to document the course of a police officer's work.
"Plans to fast-track the introduction of non-English characters in website domain names could 'break the whole internet', warns ICANN chief executive Paul Twomey
Now that's not the right attitude, he needs to stop being so pessimistic -- he works for ICANN, not ICANN't, right?
I think the preference comes from two things, durability and a preference for a loud click, to some people it just seems more substantial. Ego may play a part as well. Keyboard durability is somewhat of a concern though, I've broken probably half a dozen keyboards in the past 5 or so years, and of all varieties, not just soft-touch membrane keyboards, but a couple of regular switch keyboards (one IBM style, one not).
As a license-holding Massachusetts resident who lives right near Holyoke and Northampton (Amherst) it's nice to know I can look forward to being a criminal suspect in the near future.
That reminds me of The Wrath featuring a young Charlie Sheen.
A small desert town has been harassed for months by a gang of drag racers, but so far no one has done anything to stop them. One day, a ghostly black car shows up, challenging members of the group to race, then killing them one by one. Neither the gang nor the police can catch the car or its driver, but some investigating into the gang's past may reveal just who's behind all this.
Way to miss the joke. Also, I doubt MS bought a license to the BSD TCP/IP stack considering it's under the BSD license and thus freely usable and modifiable for anyone, even commercial software that doesn't release source code.
The two problems with that are that (1) lawsuits are expensive, somebody needs to finance a libel suit and, more importantly (2) in a libel suit you need to be able to prove that the person knew that their statements were false. It's difficult to prove whether Ballmer definitely knew that his statement was false (assuming it is false) -- easy to speculate on and make the assumption that he did, but very difficult to actually prove.
You're right, but a physical shock can change magnetic polarities. I don't know how effective this would be in regards to a hard drive, but I'd imagine anything you're hitting it with that's hard enough to break it into thousands of pieces is likely enough to render at least some of the data in the shards useless.
Honestly, it doesn't add that much to their arguement because it's already been known that the brains in most white people are larger than those in most black people. I thnk it's a bit rash to look down at research like this, they're just stating the facts, not looking for fodder for racists -- the fact that some people might misinterpret the results (brain size has little to do with intelligence) doesn't mean that it isn't good research.
I don't think you can do VoIP because it doesn't have WiFi
If it has support for GPRS/EDGE, you could connect to the internet with it. Sure, it's not going to save you any money since you're going to have to have a dataplan, but there's still some fun VoIP stuff you can do that might make sense.
Actually, there isn't really any problems with that, some wireless cards don't have open firmware because they're capable of producing interfering/illegal frequencies, the case is not the same for cell phones. Cellphones generally use separate modules which are controlled by AT modem style commands -- there's no risk of people tampering with them and broadcasting illegally.
Yes, when Google came out with adwords/adsense I remember being very surprised that they were paying per click rather than per sale or other action. At the time, I thought the world of web advertising was mostly moving away from that.
Houses in Saskatchewan are only worth one paperclip? I'm going down to Office Depot to get a case of red paperclips and then I'm buying the whole province.
In the US there's nothing like that, due to the preponderance of automatics. Even people who do know how to drive a stick (the minority) aren't necessarily going to be good at starting on hills, so it' a good idea to leave room. The thing is, because of the overwhelmning popularity of automatic transmissions, there are a good portion of people (mostly younger drivers) who aren't even aware that a person driving a manual might drop back on a hill. I remember one of the first times I started on a hill when I learned to drive a manual I stalled (because I was worried about dropping back) and upon seeing this, the car behind me got impatient and pulled up so that they were right on my bumper!
Right, what's with people today, running programs other people have written? How can you be in control of your system if you didn't even write your own Operating System!!
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I mostly agree. I probably would have dropped out of high school, but my high school had a program that allowed me to get credits toward my diploma while taking all my classes at a local community college. I did this, but it wasn't because I thought I would find it more stimulating (although I did, a bit), but mostly because it would allow me to be in school less and do more learning on my own.
What? I don't know what the situation is where you are, but generally private schools pay their teachers more than public schools. This would be the easy explanation for those schools not having teacher shortages despite being non-unionized. Perhaps the better environment plays some role, but I suspect the better pay plays a much larger one.
If you got caught for speeding, you should ask to see the radar or laser gun they were using. In a lot of states cops are required to be able to show you the last reading on the gun (the one they pulled you over for) and sometimes also show you the documentation for the gun that shows when it was last calibrated. If your state requires that and they can't show you it, it's usually trivial to get out of the ticket.
This actually doesn't seem like a terrible idea, I mean, a lot of police cars have cameras mounted to the front of them and this is just the logical extension of that. Also, unlike a lot of technologies used in policing, it might help protect citizens from overzealous cops. If a cop's got one of these on and he does something out of line, you can just look at the tape, whereas otherwise it might just be your word against his. This of course, is assuming the tapes are available to you as evidence.
Honestly I find the prevalence of cameras mounted to buildings for policing (such as those found across London) to be more disturbing. It seems more okay when you're using cameras to document the course of a police officer's work.
While Bill O'Reilly may not be divorced from reality himself, the relationship is definitely strained -- they're doing a trial separation right now.
Reality and I tried to make things work, but I guess we just weren't meant to be. It's a good thing we didn't have kids.
Why do you assume everybody in Massachusetts votes and thinks the same way? I'm a libertarian.
I think the preference comes from two things, durability and a preference for a loud click, to some people it just seems more substantial. Ego may play a part as well. Keyboard durability is somewhat of a concern though, I've broken probably half a dozen keyboards in the past 5 or so years, and of all varieties, not just soft-touch membrane keyboards, but a couple of regular switch keyboards (one IBM style, one not).
As a license-holding Massachusetts resident who lives right near Holyoke and Northampton (Amherst) it's nice to know I can look forward to being a criminal suspect in the near future.
Way to miss the joke. Also, I doubt MS bought a license to the BSD TCP/IP stack considering it's under the BSD license and thus freely usable and modifiable for anyone, even commercial software that doesn't release source code.
The two problems with that are that (1) lawsuits are expensive, somebody needs to finance a libel suit and, more importantly (2) in a libel suit you need to be able to prove that the person knew that their statements were false. It's difficult to prove whether Ballmer definitely knew that his statement was false (assuming it is false) -- easy to speculate on and make the assumption that he did, but very difficult to actually prove.
Honestly, it doesn't add that much to their arguement because it's already been known that the brains in most white people are larger than those in most black people. I thnk it's a bit rash to look down at research like this, they're just stating the facts, not looking for fodder for racists -- the fact that some people might misinterpret the results (brain size has little to do with intelligence) doesn't mean that it isn't good research.
Actually, there isn't really any problems with that, some wireless cards don't have open firmware because they're capable of producing interfering/illegal frequencies, the case is not the same for cell phones. Cellphones generally use separate modules which are controlled by AT modem style commands -- there's no risk of people tampering with them and broadcasting illegally.
Your both wrong, the first and second rules of scalable, reliable websites is "Do not talk about scalable, reliable websites".
Yes, when Google came out with adwords/adsense I remember being very surprised that they were paying per click rather than per sale or other action. At the time, I thought the world of web advertising was mostly moving away from that.
Houses in Saskatchewan are only worth one paperclip? I'm going down to Office Depot to get a case of red paperclips and then I'm buying the whole province.
In the US there's nothing like that, due to the preponderance of automatics. Even people who do know how to drive a stick (the minority) aren't necessarily going to be good at starting on hills, so it' a good idea to leave room. The thing is, because of the overwhelmning popularity of automatic transmissions, there are a good portion of people (mostly younger drivers) who aren't even aware that a person driving a manual might drop back on a hill. I remember one of the first times I started on a hill when I learned to drive a manual I stalled (because I was worried about dropping back) and upon seeing this, the car behind me got impatient and pulled up so that they were right on my bumper!
Right, what's with people today, running programs other people have written? How can you be in control of your system if you didn't even write your own Operating System!!