It takes a less-powerful graphics card (hey, laptop!) to drive a lower-resolution screen. A higher resolution screen is more useful if you're doing actual work (not gaming).
RAPTOR is a flowchart-based programming environment, designed specifically to help students visualize their algorithms and avoid syntactic baggage. RAPTOR programs are created visually and executed visually by tracing the execution through the flowchart. Required syntax is kept to a minimum. Students prefer using flowcharts to express their algorithms, and are more successful creating algorithms using RAPTOR than using a traditional language or writing flowcharts without RAPTOR.
If it turns out to be the same price in the end, you're better off buying. You end up with extra licenses (older versions) that you can use on additional computers. Don't need them? Gift/sell/donate them.
Wasn't Windows NT spawned from IBM's OS/2? I assume that contractual obligations between IBM and Microsoft may be involved. Would this be one of the legal issues of which they speak?
I agree that sometimes people just don't get it, but part of good system design includes semantics. A boot in the U.S. is something you wear on your feet, but in the U.K. it's the trunk of a car. One could detect the user's region and adjust the language accordingly. An easier solution is to implement is to just use another word, or add an adjective to preempt any language barrier issues (e.g. "Book Titles" rather than just "Titles").
It's easy if you can remember: Affect == Action. Both start with A.:)
I'm not sure how you'd remember Effect though...other than memorization or deductive reasoning.
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emClient is pretty nice. http://www.emclient.com/
It takes a less-powerful graphics card (hey, laptop!) to drive a lower-resolution screen. A higher resolution screen is more useful if you're doing actual work (not gaming).
RAPTOR Flowchart Interpreter
Web Site: http://www.usafa.af.mil/df/dfcs/bios/mcc_html/raptor.cfm
Web Site: http://raptor.martincarlisle.com/
Screenshot: http://www.usafa.af.mil/df/dfcs/bios/mcc_html/raptor_picture.cfm
RAPTOR is a flowchart-based programming environment, designed specifically to help students visualize their algorithms and avoid syntactic baggage. RAPTOR programs are created visually and executed visually by tracing the execution through the flowchart. Required syntax is kept to a minimum. Students prefer using flowcharts to express their algorithms, and are more successful creating algorithms using RAPTOR than using a traditional language or writing flowcharts without RAPTOR.
I actually like it better this way, honestly.
If it turns out to be the same price in the end, you're better off buying. You end up with extra licenses (older versions) that you can use on additional computers. Don't need them? Gift/sell/donate them.
Wasn't Windows NT spawned from IBM's OS/2? I assume that contractual obligations between IBM and Microsoft may be involved. Would this be one of the legal issues of which they speak?
Am I wrong in this thought?
Two suggestions: Don't get hit by lightning, and pray that your power supply doesn't fry your hard disks.
To eliminate these two risks, you'll want to rsync that RAID-1 box with another RAID-1 box at a second location.
Health insurance, not life insurance! :)
I can't believe some people. I'd rank printer toner in the same danger zone as chalk dust and pencil graphite.
I agree that sometimes people just don't get it, but part of good system design includes semantics. A boot in the U.S. is something you wear on your feet, but in the U.K. it's the trunk of a car. One could detect the user's region and adjust the language accordingly. An easier solution is to implement is to just use another word, or add an adjective to preempt any language barrier issues (e.g. "Book Titles" rather than just "Titles").
It's easy if you can remember: Affect == Action. Both start with A. :)
I'm not sure how you'd remember Effect though...other than memorization or deductive reasoning.