Instead of clicking on banner ads 5 times in your life, everyone should click through 5 times every hour and make the advertisers pay for nothing. Same thing as when magazines used to drop a dozen pre-paid postcards when you picked them up. Rack up the $$ with no corresponding payback.
There aren't letter grades the first year anyway. Instead of more labs, they should make some of the 18 year-olds work alongside fifteen year EE veterans who never became managers. Kind of a "scared straight" program modeled after lifers serving jailtime. Half of them will end up staying in academia after Masters and PhD programs... but at least they'll *think* they have seen the real world one in their life.
IvyTech=ITT... don't you know that TECH is a bad word now? DEVRY
is in the process of re-inventing itself in the latest round of their tv ads. Not even a mention of the word 'Institute'.
Add revenue so they can drop their fees? Banks originally got people to use ATMs instead of tellers by saying they cost fifty cents per transaction instead of a buck. Now the banks charge US more for the privilege of helping THEIR bottom line in the first place.
Up until around 1999 I didn't see a whole lot of information on people's machines that they would want to keep more than 8 years. The idea of lossless sound and non-degraded images has probably changed that... and of course, some p0rn is timeless.
Something for the Stu Pickles of the world, and something for hucksters to market --
like naming a distant star after someone for a low price of $79 in the "Star Registry"
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New inventions are hard to come by in Houston, Texas.
No basements, and the garages are stuffed with SUVs.
Every major ISP in my area charges the same for 1B ISDN as 56K since 1999.
First hop times with ISDN are at least 4X faster as is throughput.
Businesses get 2 lines for the price of 1, and Motorola BitSurfr ISDN modems have been under ten bucks on EBAY for years now.
Upload speed on paper is the same as SBC/Yahoo DSL and another 30% faster in reality.
People needing nailed down, 24/7 connections can get 144/144 IDSL for the same price, minus the ISDN telephony abilities.
And you know what -- people never wanted to pay twice as much for four times the speed and reliability... they'd rather complain all day long about their slow dialup.
With the trading day almost over in Japan, Sega shares have dropped significantly according to Reuters story ID2313076.
Reports of 'White Knight' Bill Gates buying them:
"shares were down 5.41 percent at 700 yen after falling as low as 666 yen"... sure enough, Microsoft at work here with that bottom range!
A tax guy using TurboTax from Intuit is like
a sax guy using "Band in a Box" from PG Music
or bakers using "Easy-Bake Ovens" from Kenner
(15 Watt bulb not included)
There won't be anyone left at TurboTax to write OR call in a few years when you are trying to activate or re-activate your product to get to backup data.
Intuit probably already has some limited term, third party, third world, fly-by-night company handling it anyway...
And when the Botox doctor doing your eyelids also cuts out your appendix it only modifies your lower left side. Basically what this means is that for humans, you're safe.
Even if they modify your spleen by accident, it is probably all right as well... with a side benefit of surviving a freefall.
There are more than a few stand-alone 3COM, Cisco
and other wireless Access Points hooked up to
these flagship Linksys units.
Anybody wardriving with a couple of laptops and
SSIDs set to 'tsunami' (or nothing!) will confirm
you can be an "internal user" with Linksys DHCP
before finding your 10th useable signal...
Make it pneumatic like the stress balls at the checkout line for CompUSA... use one of those pump squeezie things from a blood pressure sleeve to recharge every few minutes.
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Yeah it's called a sphygmometer, but my speelchecker choked on 'squeezie'
Your work used to buy stuff from them a lot and they really suck. My work used to sell stuff to them a lot and they really suck. What do you expect from a company carrying the same line as "Home Shopping Network"...
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If the French are going to ban English phrases in public matters, then maybe the U.S. should ban French ticklers in all private matters.
Instead of clicking on banner ads 5 times in your life, everyone should click through 5 times every hour and make the advertisers pay for nothing. Same thing as when magazines used to drop a dozen pre-paid postcards when you picked them up. Rack up the $$ with no corresponding payback.
I don't see what the point is.
My next monitor will be larger so I can see where/what the point is.
church
Separation
State
Even "flame-broiled" is too advanced for Burger King, compared to "fire-grilled".
IANMTU (I Am Not Making This Up):
http://internetnews.com/IAR/article.php/2205671
OG like fire. Fire hot. Burns hand.
There aren't letter grades the first year anyway. Instead of more labs, they should make some of the 18 year-olds work alongside fifteen year EE veterans who never became managers. Kind of a "scared straight" program modeled after lifers serving jailtime. Half of them will end up staying in academia after Masters and PhD programs ... but at least they'll *think* they have seen the real world one in their life.
DEVRY is in the process of re-inventing itself in the latest round of their tv ads.
Not even a mention of the word 'Institute'.
Add revenue so they can drop their fees? Banks originally got people to use ATMs instead of tellers by saying they cost fifty cents per transaction instead of a buck. Now the banks charge US more for the privilege of helping THEIR bottom line in the first place.
Up until around 1999 I didn't see a whole lot of information on people's machines that they would want to keep more than 8 years. The idea of lossless sound and non-degraded images has probably changed that ... and of course, some p0rn is timeless.
Maybe the PTO should invent a new category.
Something for the Stu Pickles of the world, and something for hucksters to market --
like naming a distant star after someone for a low price of $79 in the "Star Registry"
--
New inventions are hard to come by in Houston, Texas.
No basements, and the garages are stuffed with SUVs.
1) Patents protect the inventor
2) Trademarks protect the public (from confusion)
There are two parts to PTO employees:
1) They are engineers first
2) They must become lawyers shortly thereafter
Every "real" engineer I went to school with had no desire to later be an attorney. So at the PTO, it is about law and not science.
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And bake some cookies for the next PTO meeting
America hasn't been so safe since J Edgar
protected us from Hollywood in the 50s...
since foxes stopped guarding henhouses...
and Donald Rumsfeld stood guard on Sept 10th 2001
PRESS "POST ANONYMOUSLY" TO CONTINUE . . .
Every major ISP in my area charges the same for 1B ISDN as 56K since 1999.
First hop times with ISDN are at least 4X faster as is throughput.
Businesses get 2 lines for the price of 1, and Motorola BitSurfr ISDN modems have been under ten bucks on EBAY for years now.
Upload speed on paper is the same as SBC/Yahoo DSL and another 30% faster in reality.
People needing nailed down, 24/7 connections can get 144/144 IDSL for the same price, minus the ISDN telephony abilities.
And you know what -- people never wanted to pay twice as much for four times the speed and reliability ... they'd rather complain all day long about their slow dialup.
My girlfriend already has a couple of perfectly round 2.2lbs of silicone; and don't ask for photographic proof.
With the trading day almost over in Japan, Sega shares have dropped significantly according to Reuters story ID2313076. Reports of 'White Knight' Bill Gates buying them: "shares were down 5.41 percent at 700 yen after falling as low as 666 yen" ... sure enough, Microsoft at work here with that bottom range!
A tax guy using TurboTax from Intuit is like
a sax guy using "Band in a Box" from PG Music
or bakers using "Easy-Bake Ovens" from Kenner
(15 Watt bulb not included)
Intuit probably already has some limited term, third party, third world, fly-by-night company handling it anyway...
Even if they modify your spleen by accident, it is probably all right as well ... with a side benefit of surviving a freefall.
There are more than a few stand-alone 3COM, Cisco and other wireless Access Points hooked up to these flagship Linksys units. Anybody wardriving with a couple of laptops and SSIDs set to 'tsunami' (or nothing!) will confirm you can be an "internal user" with Linksys DHCP before finding your 10th useable signal...
It just needs a couple of spinning tape reels, randomly changing directions.
With optical mice, you don't need a trackball
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I haven't seen people this excited since the public beta of mechanical hamsters with retractable leashes (PAT PEND)
Make it pneumatic like the stress balls at the checkout line for CompUSA
-- Yeah it's called a sphygmometer, but my speelchecker choked on 'squeezie'
It's better than the Energizer bunny -- a windup mouse with no balls or tail.
Your work used to buy stuff from them a lot and they really suck. My work used to sell stuff to them a lot and they really suck. What do you expect from a company carrying the same line as "Home Shopping Network" ...
Same mantra -- Patch and reboot?
Time to go back to measuring uptime in hours instead of days...