When I was in keyboarding class about eight years ago, they actually made us cover up the keyboard with a piece of paper over our hands, and told us that we had to learn how to touch type from the beginning. Understandably, many of us grumbled for the first couple of weeks, but once we learned how to type without looking at the keyboard, it became a lot easier to get faster and more accurate. I probably wouldn't be anywhere near as fast as I am today if I hadn't had this method of teaching.
One thing that's easy to forget is that a computer is useless without a monitor. So, better add another $30 on top of that total (cheapest price on Pricewatch).
Type "about:config" (no quotes) into your address bar, then scroll down to the browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewers setting, double-click on it, then change the number to 0 and hit OK. Any sort of Firefox setting like this is found in about:config.
To clarify even more, Jack Thompson has been practicing as a private lawyer for longer than Richard Thompson has been retired. I doubt that many current prosecutors are also practicing private lawyers at the same time, if they're even allowed to do so at all.
Not to mention that buying 49% of most large companies would be close to impossible. This would require that 49% of the shares even be available for purchase at any one time. When you exclude insiders, institutional investors, and pension plans from the mix (all of whom are less likely to sell their shares), 49% would be one extremely hard proposition.
I note that Jack Thompson is also known as Richard Thompson in some documents and his domain registration. Could it be that this is the same lawyer thompson?
Not at all. Richard Thompson is a former prosecutor, whereas Jack Thompson is a private lawyer. The name being used by two people who somehow are tangentially linked through Slashdot stories is pure coincidence.
I definitely remember those magazines. I started out on a Commodore 128, and I can remember learning to program just by looking at the example source code and figuring out how things worked. I used to love playing all of those games, and we had more than enough (Airborne Ranger and Red Storm Rising being two of my favorites). It's quite sad that a fire at my parents' house destroyed both the Commodore and all of the magazines.
There's a small but vocal group of people (called NIMBYs or "Not In My Back Yards") who claim that having a cell phone tower in the vicinity of their house/school/whatever will dramatically increase their chance of getting cancer from the radio waves coming off of the tower. Surprisingly, they also usually win since your average small-town politician is going to be more sympathetic to the screaming group of citizens who vote than to the cell-phone company from out of town.
Actually, the creators of the GIF format have repeatedly stated that the correct pronunciation is, in fact, "jif" with a soft "g". See here: http://www.olsenhome.com/gif/
The thing is, Microsoft's ad campaigns related to game releases have often been games within themselves. Before the release of the movie AI: Artificial Intelligence, Microsoft designed and ran a multi-month interactive game taking place in the AI world and involving phone and real-life contact with characters from the game. They did the same thing with the Halo 2 release, with the famous "I Love Bees" game that was extremely well received by many. Say what you want about Microsoft's business practices (hey, I'm usually not a fan), but one thing's for sure: they do know how to hire people who are good at designing immersive games. That's why cryptic games like these from Microsoft tend to receive a good deal of press, because of what they may turn out to be.
RIT's just now getting them in certain classes? We here at the University at Buffalo have had them for two years now, in virtually all psych and science courses. My abnormal psych teacher generally uses them for opinion-type questions, in order to stimulate conversation. She puts a question on the screen and sees how many people have a misconception about a certain disorder, and then uses the results to ask people why they think that way. It's really a neat thing, and best of all, the university purchased the clickers for us free, and the software they use seems to be fairly stable.
Well, sure, Wordperfect is technically still being sold, but how many people really use it? Today it's generally either Microsoft Office or OOo for word processing tasks, with a couple minor players around them. Wordperfect itself has been virtually replaced by other packages by now.
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While Intel doesn't specifically say to companies, "Use only our chips and we'll give you a discount," they seem to hide it poorly. AMD even has lawsuit out for anticompetitive practices against Intel, saying that Intel repeatedly interfered with AMD's ability to compete.
If a company made any effort to use AMD's products, some companies have reported that Intel would "suddenly" run out of important server-class chips to ship out to them, and marketing incentive payments would dry up and not be paid. Intel allegedly even did direct payments to certain companies (including, allegedly, Dell) in order to shelf AMD-based products that were under development. So, as you can see, there are some serious questions about Intel's conduct in dealing with other companies.
Fox is just locked into the Simpsons because of the money it generates. Matt Groening has repeatedly done bluffs about moving the Simpsons to another network, and everytime Fox jumps back into the ring with another lucrative deal for Groening. The same thing with American Dad. They're just riding the coattails of Family Guy, and probably willingly gave in when the creators wanted to make a new series. They're not stupid, and I'm sure they realize that both of those people make them huge amounts of money.
Contrary to popular belief, the issue of whether abortion should be legal or not is not a religious issue. It happens to be an issue that is seized upon by many religious groups, but there are plenty of religious and non-religious arguments for and against abortion. All that that clause says is that you can't, say, be asked whether you're Methodist and then have your nomination to the office become contingent on that one thing. Asking about abortion issues, which is a perfectly secular topic in many contexts, has no such prohibition.
Except for the fact that the story text is wildly misleading. The court didn't address the topic of whether individual users were able to refill their own cartridges. The agreement with the ink cartridge was, Lexmark would sell a normal-priced cartridge that could be refilled by anyone, and they would also sell a different cartridge that was $30 less and could only be returned to Lexmark for refilling, not a third-party refiller.
Therefore, the consumer was able to buy a cartridge for a significant discount, as long as they agreed to return it only to Lexmark for refilling; they were given a choice of paying full-price for a cartridge if they wanted to refill it through any company. The consumer can manually refill it themselves if they so wish, they just can't send it to a non-Lexmark refiller, in exchange for the $30 discount from the beginning.
Therefore, the court ruled that, since the consumer was offered both versions, and willingly chose the cheaper version, the agreement to return the cartridge only to Lexmark in lieu of third-party refillers was valid. Whether the consumer read the notice about the agreement or not is beside the point. The agreement was available to them, and it was their responsibility to understand what they were getting into when they bought the product. You can't invalidate a contract because one party claims they didn't fully read it before agreeing to it, when given the opportunity to do so.
So, in summary, it has not been made illegal to refill Lexmark cartridges, it's simply that Lexmark and the consumer agreed on a lower price for a certain cartridge in return for agreeing to send the cartridge for refilling only by the original manufacturer. The court found nothing wrong or deceptive about this, and therefore decided that Lexmark could continue its "prebate" program without interference.
Just as an aside, the Texas sodomy laws were invalidated just over two years ago in the case of Lawrence v. Texas. Continue debating away from this point on.
The question also depends on what you're using the machine for. Sure, for Grandma and Grandpa, the $299 Dell might be an excellent choice for getting them on the intarweb, and I'm not going to knock it. In fact, it's probably a good idea for the kids, or a computer that's going to see only minimal use and probably won't be used for more than typing up some things in Word and checking email. All perfect uses for the Dell.
However, then you get into the slightly higher up arena. What if you have a camcorder and want to do small edits to the video? There, you've got iMovie. DVD recording with menus is easily done with iDVD. Once you start adding in these extras that would cost extra with the Dell, you find a number of market segments that would be better served by the Mac Mini. Certainly it's not as well-priced for a number of these segments, there are still a good number of them that have a good price-performance ratio over the cheapest Dell.
And, to focus briefly on something else, it wasn't very much the price-performance thing that caused Apple to go Intel, it was pretty much one thing: IBM. IBM just simply wasn't putting out anywhere near enough PowerPC chips, and Motorola had already been dropped in the last couple of years for having the exact same problem. There was no where else to go, since those were the only two companies with viable licenses for making the chips. I remember having to wait months for my dual G5 simply because IBM wasn't pushing enough of the chips out the door fast enough. This was only made worse by the fact that IBM was getting contracts for the new Power chips in video game consoles, and giving even less attention to Apple's orders. As a result, Macs were being delayed all over the place, and Apple finally got sick and tired of it. Since there was nowhere else to go for PowerPC chips, they clearly found some incentive in Intel's offering, and the rest is history.
I see a price of $69 for me. You also get it free with one of your monthly mailings if you're a Student Developer (an excellent choice at only $99 per year if you have any ambition in developing for Macs or even cross-platform work, and you get one developer's hardware discount with your membership too).
It's no different here in the US. Each violation has a certain point value, and if you accumulate so many points over a fixed period of time, you'll get your license taken away for a certain amount of time. Insurance companies sometimes use their own point system to determine how much your insurance premiums should go up, and it doesn't always match the one that your state uses.
I'm pretty sure the introduction went something along the lines of "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
Actually, those lines appear in the Declaration of Independence, not the US Constitution. As such, they have no legal force in anything whatsoever. The Declaration of Independence, while an important document in the history of our country, nonetheless cannot be used in court as a legal basis for anything.
Actually, "Mustang" is a trademarked word (see here). Since you can only trademark a word in one specific business segment, you can have the name "Mustang" for, say, a computer brand, but you're prohibited under trademark law to use that specific name for the name of a car.
The European Union requires that all consumer goods sold within the Union have at least a 2 year warranty on them. The US has much less strict standards (often none at all), and therefore companies can get away with offering short warranties.
Exactly what I've been saying recently. Dvorak didn't necessarily guess anything spectacular. There were pretty good odds something like this would eventually happen. Apple went to IBM because Motorola couldn't turn out G5s fast enough. Then IBM ran into trouble with G5 production. Who else was there to turn to? No one else has a viable chance of making PowerPC chips right now. Just because Dvorak happened to put pieces together, along with some wild speculation, doesn't necessarily qualify him to continue to make wild predictions. It just means he got lucky one time.
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When I was in keyboarding class about eight years ago, they actually made us cover up the keyboard with a piece of paper over our hands, and told us that we had to learn how to touch type from the beginning. Understandably, many of us grumbled for the first couple of weeks, but once we learned how to type without looking at the keyboard, it became a lot easier to get faster and more accurate. I probably wouldn't be anywhere near as fast as I am today if I hadn't had this method of teaching.
One thing that's easy to forget is that a computer is useless without a monitor. So, better add another $30 on top of that total (cheapest price on Pricewatch).
Type "about:config" (no quotes) into your address bar, then scroll down to the browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewers setting, double-click on it, then change the number to 0 and hit OK. Any sort of Firefox setting like this is found in about:config.
To clarify even more, Jack Thompson has been practicing as a private lawyer for longer than Richard Thompson has been retired. I doubt that many current prosecutors are also practicing private lawyers at the same time, if they're even allowed to do so at all.
Not to mention that buying 49% of most large companies would be close to impossible. This would require that 49% of the shares even be available for purchase at any one time. When you exclude insiders, institutional investors, and pension plans from the mix (all of whom are less likely to sell their shares), 49% would be one extremely hard proposition.
I note that Jack Thompson is also known as Richard Thompson in some documents and his domain registration. Could it be that this is the same lawyer thompson?
Not at all. Richard Thompson is a former prosecutor, whereas Jack Thompson is a private lawyer. The name being used by two people who somehow are tangentially linked through Slashdot stories is pure coincidence.
I definitely remember those magazines. I started out on a Commodore 128, and I can remember learning to program just by looking at the example source code and figuring out how things worked. I used to love playing all of those games, and we had more than enough (Airborne Ranger and Red Storm Rising being two of my favorites). It's quite sad that a fire at my parents' house destroyed both the Commodore and all of the magazines.
There's a small but vocal group of people (called NIMBYs or "Not In My Back Yards") who claim that having a cell phone tower in the vicinity of their house/school/whatever will dramatically increase their chance of getting cancer from the radio waves coming off of the tower. Surprisingly, they also usually win since your average small-town politician is going to be more sympathetic to the screaming group of citizens who vote than to the cell-phone company from out of town.
Actually, the creators of the GIF format have repeatedly stated that the correct pronunciation is, in fact, "jif" with a soft "g". See here: http://www.olsenhome.com/gif/
The thing is, Microsoft's ad campaigns related to game releases have often been games within themselves. Before the release of the movie AI: Artificial Intelligence, Microsoft designed and ran a multi-month interactive game taking place in the AI world and involving phone and real-life contact with characters from the game. They did the same thing with the Halo 2 release, with the famous "I Love Bees" game that was extremely well received by many. Say what you want about Microsoft's business practices (hey, I'm usually not a fan), but one thing's for sure: they do know how to hire people who are good at designing immersive games. That's why cryptic games like these from Microsoft tend to receive a good deal of press, because of what they may turn out to be.
RIT's just now getting them in certain classes? We here at the University at Buffalo have had them for two years now, in virtually all psych and science courses. My abnormal psych teacher generally uses them for opinion-type questions, in order to stimulate conversation. She puts a question on the screen and sees how many people have a misconception about a certain disorder, and then uses the results to ask people why they think that way. It's really a neat thing, and best of all, the university purchased the clickers for us free, and the software they use seems to be fairly stable.
Well, sure, Wordperfect is technically still being sold, but how many people really use it? Today it's generally either Microsoft Office or OOo for word processing tasks, with a couple minor players around them. Wordperfect itself has been virtually replaced by other packages by now.
While Intel doesn't specifically say to companies, "Use only our chips and we'll give you a discount," they seem to hide it poorly. AMD even has lawsuit out for anticompetitive practices against Intel, saying that Intel repeatedly interfered with AMD's ability to compete.
If a company made any effort to use AMD's products, some companies have reported that Intel would "suddenly" run out of important server-class chips to ship out to them, and marketing incentive payments would dry up and not be paid. Intel allegedly even did direct payments to certain companies (including, allegedly, Dell) in order to shelf AMD-based products that were under development. So, as you can see, there are some serious questions about Intel's conduct in dealing with other companies.
Fox is just locked into the Simpsons because of the money it generates. Matt Groening has repeatedly done bluffs about moving the Simpsons to another network, and everytime Fox jumps back into the ring with another lucrative deal for Groening. The same thing with American Dad. They're just riding the coattails of Family Guy, and probably willingly gave in when the creators wanted to make a new series. They're not stupid, and I'm sure they realize that both of those people make them huge amounts of money.
Contrary to popular belief, the issue of whether abortion should be legal or not is not a religious issue. It happens to be an issue that is seized upon by many religious groups, but there are plenty of religious and non-religious arguments for and against abortion. All that that clause says is that you can't, say, be asked whether you're Methodist and then have your nomination to the office become contingent on that one thing. Asking about abortion issues, which is a perfectly secular topic in many contexts, has no such prohibition.
Except for the fact that the story text is wildly misleading. The court didn't address the topic of whether individual users were able to refill their own cartridges. The agreement with the ink cartridge was, Lexmark would sell a normal-priced cartridge that could be refilled by anyone, and they would also sell a different cartridge that was $30 less and could only be returned to Lexmark for refilling, not a third-party refiller.
Therefore, the consumer was able to buy a cartridge for a significant discount, as long as they agreed to return it only to Lexmark for refilling; they were given a choice of paying full-price for a cartridge if they wanted to refill it through any company. The consumer can manually refill it themselves if they so wish, they just can't send it to a non-Lexmark refiller, in exchange for the $30 discount from the beginning.
Therefore, the court ruled that, since the consumer was offered both versions, and willingly chose the cheaper version, the agreement to return the cartridge only to Lexmark in lieu of third-party refillers was valid. Whether the consumer read the notice about the agreement or not is beside the point. The agreement was available to them, and it was their responsibility to understand what they were getting into when they bought the product. You can't invalidate a contract because one party claims they didn't fully read it before agreeing to it, when given the opportunity to do so.
So, in summary, it has not been made illegal to refill Lexmark cartridges, it's simply that Lexmark and the consumer agreed on a lower price for a certain cartridge in return for agreeing to send the cartridge for refilling only by the original manufacturer. The court found nothing wrong or deceptive about this, and therefore decided that Lexmark could continue its "prebate" program without interference.
Just as an aside, the Texas sodomy laws were invalidated just over two years ago in the case of Lawrence v. Texas. Continue debating away from this point on.
March is the third month of the year (for Pi Day), not April ;)
The question also depends on what you're using the machine for. Sure, for Grandma and Grandpa, the $299 Dell might be an excellent choice for getting them on the intarweb, and I'm not going to knock it. In fact, it's probably a good idea for the kids, or a computer that's going to see only minimal use and probably won't be used for more than typing up some things in Word and checking email. All perfect uses for the Dell.
However, then you get into the slightly higher up arena. What if you have a camcorder and want to do small edits to the video? There, you've got iMovie. DVD recording with menus is easily done with iDVD. Once you start adding in these extras that would cost extra with the Dell, you find a number of market segments that would be better served by the Mac Mini. Certainly it's not as well-priced for a number of these segments, there are still a good number of them that have a good price-performance ratio over the cheapest Dell.
And, to focus briefly on something else, it wasn't very much the price-performance thing that caused Apple to go Intel, it was pretty much one thing: IBM. IBM just simply wasn't putting out anywhere near enough PowerPC chips, and Motorola had already been dropped in the last couple of years for having the exact same problem. There was no where else to go, since those were the only two companies with viable licenses for making the chips. I remember having to wait months for my dual G5 simply because IBM wasn't pushing enough of the chips out the door fast enough. This was only made worse by the fact that IBM was getting contracts for the new Power chips in video game consoles, and giving even less attention to Apple's orders. As a result, Macs were being delayed all over the place, and Apple finally got sick and tired of it. Since there was nowhere else to go for PowerPC chips, they clearly found some incentive in Intel's offering, and the rest is history.
I see a price of $69 for me. You also get it free with one of your monthly mailings if you're a Student Developer (an excellent choice at only $99 per year if you have any ambition in developing for Macs or even cross-platform work, and you get one developer's hardware discount with your membership too).
It's no different here in the US. Each violation has a certain point value, and if you accumulate so many points over a fixed period of time, you'll get your license taken away for a certain amount of time. Insurance companies sometimes use their own point system to determine how much your insurance premiums should go up, and it doesn't always match the one that your state uses.
I'm pretty sure the introduction went something along the lines of "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
Actually, those lines appear in the Declaration of Independence, not the US Constitution. As such, they have no legal force in anything whatsoever. The Declaration of Independence, while an important document in the history of our country, nonetheless cannot be used in court as a legal basis for anything.
Actually, "Mustang" is a trademarked word (see here). Since you can only trademark a word in one specific business segment, you can have the name "Mustang" for, say, a computer brand, but you're prohibited under trademark law to use that specific name for the name of a car.
The European Union requires that all consumer goods sold within the Union have at least a 2 year warranty on them. The US has much less strict standards (often none at all), and therefore companies can get away with offering short warranties.
Exactly what I've been saying recently. Dvorak didn't necessarily guess anything spectacular. There were pretty good odds something like this would eventually happen. Apple went to IBM because Motorola couldn't turn out G5s fast enough. Then IBM ran into trouble with G5 production. Who else was there to turn to? No one else has a viable chance of making PowerPC chips right now. Just because Dvorak happened to put pieces together, along with some wild speculation, doesn't necessarily qualify him to continue to make wild predictions. It just means he got lucky one time.