I have been going to the University of Phoenix for about six months now. I am not enrolled in their online program, but they do have one.
The school was designed for working adults rather than traditional students. All the classes are in the evening, and you only go one night a week. You might want to look at attending classes at one of the campuses rather than online. I have heard the online program is harder.
It it pricey, but for me has been worth the money. Everybody I have worked with really does realize that you have a job and a life and are willing to work around that.
Oh yeah, one more thing. It's not just in Phoenix. There are 85 campuses aroung the country. (I don't want to tell you how many people have said "Oh, when are you moving?" when I tell them I go to the University of Phoenix:P)
According to their web page, their internet appliances will have modems and ethernet ports. They say their wireless WebTablet will come out Q4. (I've heard THAT before:P )
Although I agree completely with your first paragraph, there are a few quotes from the story I would like to point out.
He (Maurer) also said the organization has complained to the company, but received little response.
So they did have at least some communication with AOL before suing.
In bringing the suit, the group hopes to spur increased accessibility for Web sites and other online offerings as information, commerce, education and other vital services move into cyberspace, said Marc Maurer, president of the National Federation of the Blind, in a telephone interview Wednesday.
This broadens the debate to include web sites, but I do agree that many/.ers seem to have missed the point that the suit is about the client software, not the web page.
This doesn't cast doubts of the viability of Tribes 2, or any other game, for the Macintosh.
The original developers of a game very often are not the same ones who do a port. I don't know what the case was with this project, but the original developers usually go on to bigger and better things, while the port is either done by less experienced programmers or is farmed out. Some of these developers can produce quality projects, and some can't.
I think it speaks volumes of Valves' commitment to gamers that they chose to cut their losses and hold back on what they know is an inferior product rather than push it out the door to make a quick buck. We know there are plenty of companies that wouldn't!
WhatsHappenin.com said the sites are offering similar Web services and that the names could be confused by consumers. Quepasa.com offers weather, entertainment guides, search services, and horoscopes. WhatsHappenin.com said this is too similar to its own Web service.
After a quick look at the two sites (I knew speaking Spanish would come in handy some day) I don't see how anyone could construe that the content of quepasa.com is a spanish equivilant of WhatsHappenin.com. Other than the same names the two sites are completely different.
WhatsHappenin.com is a listing of bars and live music events, and quepasa.com is a news page. I couldn't find any weather listings on WhatsHappenin.com. The entertainment section on quepasa.com had short news stories and links to other pages that might have information on events.
The only things they had in common were horoscopes and links to search engines. Neither of these are the main services for either page, and there must be thousands of other pages that also have these.
The main argument WhatsHappenin.com's suit is that people will confuse the two sites because the names are too similar. But laws right now allow two businesses to have the same name, if their products or services are different enough that people will not confuse them (IANAL). AMC (which makes Jeep trucks) sued a restaurant called Jeep's and lost because one sold trucks and the other sold cheese burgers. These two websites, in my opinion, are dissimilar enough that there should be no confusion between the two and this lawsuit is totally baseless.
But their "Join A Class Action" web application form has to be seen to be believed. They really do have a page with I am interested in participating in an action against the following company:, and a long selection box.
Cool! I'm signing up for all of them! I might get lucky with 1 or 2:)
I'm thinking about saving this article as an example of how the media squirm around facts with emotional, one-sided reporting. Before panicking because the sky is falling, let's look at some facts:
1. Anybody can sue anybody else. No matter how stupid the suit is and no matter how shaky the legal foundation. I could sue each and every reader of slashdot for conspiring to kill me through Linux advocacy, and nobody could stop me from filing the suit. (Winning, or even not getting it thrown out of court, is another matter.)
2. This isn't the first time these lawyers have sued trading card companies. They have already lost 8 similar suits against companies like Topps, Upper Deck, MLB, NFL, etc. (They should read some of those cards to find out what it means to be batting.000)
3. The Post article mentioned cards being banned in schools because of fighting and cheating. The lawsuit is over gambling. Do I miss some kind of connection. (Maybe all avarice is due to cards.)
4. The original lead attorney, Melvin I. Weiss, had to resign from the case because his firm was also representing the defendants.
5. After withdrawing from the case, Mr. Weiss said "We have been prosecuting these alleged gambling activities for the last several years." (Of course, lawyers only represent their clients. They never have vendettas)
There are tons of frivolous lawsuits filed every year. I don't know if this is one of them (IANAL), but I'm not worried about losing the right to buy a piece of cardboard with Pikachu on it any time soon.
It's possible they have some kind of bug reporting tool that's written for Windows. I can see why they wouldn't want to take their developers off something useful to rewrite a program they already have.
I can see why a lot of potential beta testers would be more inclined to use Linux, but I'm sure there are people that use both Windows and Linux.
I tested a racing game that did this (at least the developers said it did.) When you started the game, you chose a player profile so the AI could keep track of who you were. Supposedly, the more you played the more it adapted to your playing style so the game was always challenging.
The bigger issue is this - what exactly does a company achieve by resorting to petty monitoring, other than ruining its own culture and terrifying its employees?
The company's goal is to reduce the risk of lawsuits, plain and simple. We've all laughed at the stories of ridiculous sexual harrasment lawsuits, but for a large company it is a real threat that is always expensive, whether the allegations are justified or not.
If a company were worried about bandwidth, it would institute a limit on attachment size or something similar. That they are concentrating on porn shows they are more concerned with harrasment suits. It is easy to say "But I'm the only one seeing this," but what if a co-worker walks up behind you without you knowing? He or she could allege harrasment, which would cost at least in the tens of thousands of dollars just to defend if it went to court. The problem with the current harrasment laws is that the victim defines what is harrasment. Whatever I say is offensive in my own mind is harrasment.
It is against these kinds of lawsuits that the poster's company wants to defend itself. I've never met a manager that wanted to find employee's porn just for fun. They're just trying to protect the company from lawsuits. (BTW, Playboys in your drawer or dot-matrix printouts can be harrasment if someone that happens to see them is offended. I worked for a publishing company where the boss found, and immediately destroyed, an employees stash of mags.) What we don't know, and HR would never tell, is what the events are that precipitated this move. Maybe it's just technophobia, or maybe there have been incidents the poster is not aware of. Given the number of confessions in this forum, I wouldn't be surprised if it were the latter.
According to the article: "only information about purchases from large organizations or corporations with at least 'many hundreds of users' will be listed on Amazon.com."
Of course, it also talks about an organizition of six people that got listed by mistake.:P
Actually, the OS is stored on the CD and loads when the machine boots. There is a version of WinCE game companies can use, but as someone else has pointed out, Sega has it's own OS that can be used and developers could really use whatever OS somebody makes a port of.
There is a sticker on the Dreamcast that says "Powered by WindowsCE," or some other kind of marketing drivel, but it's really up to the game developer what he wants to use.
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Or Falafel's on San Carlos a couple blocks east of 880.
Oh yeah, one more thing. It's not just in Phoenix. There are 85 campuses aroung the country. (I don't want to tell you how many people have said "Oh, when are you moving?" when I tell them I go to the University of Phoenix :P)
According to their web page, their internet appliances will have modems and ethernet ports. They say their wireless WebTablet will come out Q4. (I've heard THAT before :P )
Although I agree completely with your first paragraph, there are a few quotes from the story I would like to point out.
/.ers seem to have missed the point that the suit is about the client software, not the web page.
He (Maurer) also said the organization has complained to the company, but received little response.
So they did have at least some communication with AOL before suing.
In bringing the suit, the group hopes to spur increased accessibility for Web sites and other online offerings as information, commerce, education and other vital services move into cyberspace, said Marc Maurer, president of the National Federation of the Blind, in a telephone interview Wednesday.
This broadens the debate to include web sites, but I do agree that many
This doesn't cast doubts of the viability of Tribes 2, or any other game, for the Macintosh.
The original developers of a game very often are not the same ones who do a port. I don't know what the case was with this project, but the original developers usually go on to bigger and better things, while the port is either done by less experienced programmers or is farmed out. Some of these developers can produce quality projects, and some can't.
I think it speaks volumes of Valves' commitment to gamers that they chose to cut their losses and hold back on what they know is an inferior product rather than push it out the door to make a quick buck. We know there are plenty of companies that wouldn't!
After a quick look at the two sites (I knew speaking Spanish would come in handy some day) I don't see how anyone could construe that the content of quepasa.com is a spanish equivilant of WhatsHappenin.com. Other than the same names the two sites are completely different.
WhatsHappenin.com is a listing of bars and live music events, and quepasa.com is a news page. I couldn't find any weather listings on WhatsHappenin.com. The entertainment section on quepasa.com had short news stories and links to other pages that might have information on events.
The only things they had in common were horoscopes and links to search engines. Neither of these are the main services for either page, and there must be thousands of other pages that also have these.
The main argument WhatsHappenin.com's suit is that people will confuse the two sites because the names are too similar. But laws right now allow two businesses to have the same name, if their products or services are different enough that people will not confuse them (IANAL). AMC (which makes Jeep trucks) sued a restaurant called Jeep's and lost because one sold trucks and the other sold cheese burgers. These two websites, in my opinion, are dissimilar enough that there should be no confusion between the two and this lawsuit is totally baseless.
Cool! I'm signing up for all of them! I might get lucky with 1 or 2
I'm thinking about saving this article as an example of how the media squirm around facts with emotional, one-sided reporting. Before panicking because the sky is falling, let's look at some facts:
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1. Anybody can sue anybody else. No matter how stupid the suit is and no matter how shaky the legal foundation. I could sue each and every reader of slashdot for conspiring to kill me through Linux advocacy, and nobody could stop me from filing the suit. (Winning, or even not getting it thrown out of court, is another matter.)
2. This isn't the first time these lawyers have sued trading card companies. They have already lost 8 similar suits against companies like Topps, Upper Deck, MLB, NFL, etc. (They should read some of those cards to find out what it means to be batting
3. The Post article mentioned cards being banned in schools because of fighting and cheating. The lawsuit is over gambling. Do I miss some kind of connection. (Maybe all avarice is due to cards.)
4. The original lead attorney, Melvin I. Weiss, had to resign from the case because his firm was also representing the defendants.
5. After withdrawing from the case, Mr. Weiss said "We have been prosecuting these alleged gambling activities for the last several years." (Of course, lawyers only represent their clients. They never have vendettas)
There are tons of frivolous lawsuits filed every year. I don't know if this is one of them (IANAL), but I'm not worried about losing the right to buy a piece of cardboard with Pikachu on it any time soon.
The kind like Washington, or the kind like all the $10 fees they'll be getting?
Seriosly, in my state the money from these specialty plates goes to groups associated with the plate. Who will be getting the cash from these?
It's possible they have some kind of bug reporting tool that's written for Windows. I can see why they wouldn't want to take their developers off something useful to rewrite a program they already have.
I can see why a lot of potential beta testers would be more inclined to use Linux, but I'm sure there are people that use both Windows and Linux.
Then again, I could be wrong.
I tested a racing game that did this (at least the developers said it did.) When you started the game, you chose a player profile so the AI could keep track of who you were. Supposedly, the more you played the more it adapted to your playing style so the game was always challenging.
Although most people wouldn't want to use this for long periods of time, it would be great for any bed-ridden geeks.
One of my greatest fears is having to endure a long hospital stay with no net connection.
The bigger issue is this - what exactly does a company achieve by resorting to petty monitoring, other than ruining its own culture and terrifying its employees?
The company's goal is to reduce the risk of lawsuits, plain and simple. We've all laughed at the stories of ridiculous sexual harrasment lawsuits, but for a large company it is a real threat that is always expensive, whether the allegations are justified or not.
If a company were worried about bandwidth, it would institute a limit on attachment size or something similar. That they are concentrating on porn shows they are more concerned with harrasment suits. It is easy to say "But I'm the only one seeing this," but what if a co-worker walks up behind you without you knowing? He or she could allege harrasment, which would cost at least in the tens of thousands of dollars just to defend if it went to court. The problem with the current harrasment laws is that the victim defines what is harrasment. Whatever I say is offensive in my own mind is harrasment.
It is against these kinds of lawsuits that the poster's company wants to defend itself. I've never met a manager that wanted to find employee's porn just for fun. They're just trying to protect the company from lawsuits. (BTW, Playboys in your drawer or dot-matrix printouts can be harrasment if someone that happens to see them is offended. I worked for a publishing company where the boss found, and immediately destroyed, an employees stash of mags.) What we don't know, and HR would never tell, is what the events are that precipitated this move. Maybe it's just technophobia, or maybe there have been incidents the poster is not aware of. Given the number of confessions in this forum, I wouldn't be surprised if it were the latter.
According to the article:
:P
"only information about purchases from large organizations or corporations with at least 'many hundreds of users' will be listed on Amazon.com."
Of course, it also talks about an organizition of six people that got listed by mistake.
Actually, the OS is stored on the CD and loads when the machine boots. There is a version of WinCE game companies can use, but as someone else has pointed out, Sega has it's own OS that can be used and developers could really use whatever OS somebody makes a port of.
There is a sticker on the Dreamcast that says "Powered by WindowsCE," or some other kind of marketing drivel, but it's really up to the game developer what he wants to use.
When I was six I reprogrammed our TV so that whatever channel you turned it to you saw Nickelodeon. (I wanted to make sure I saw my cartoons.)