Right... Only every single car in the lot has it's MPG rating on the side.
Its much more like buying an expensive gasoline/electric hybrid with a promise of 45 city, 50 highway, and then in a year getting SUV style gas consumption, and having the company say; yeah, they do that, you could always buy another one.
Of course all these analogies are just silly...
You know, everything after, say, the first one million in an OBSCENE payout like that should be going to some central account to be redistributed back to the citizens at large.
Say some central account like the IRS? Cause if you hit the 3 million dollar tax bracket I dont think we have to be concerned about the public getting their cut.
There is a big difference between the din of conversation and someone who brought his office to a coffee shop.
Who wants to sit near the lone guy sitting at a table with four seats, shouting into his constantly ringing cell phone about TPS reports; who really should have just ordered coffee to go and stayed at the office.
I find these guys are also the ones who stay for 2 hours minimum, and order a solitary cup of coffee; while trying to get as many free refills as possible.
Usualy movies are prescreened at our local theater at midnight; but when they have a midnight showing, basicly they have just opened up their doors for the prescreening, and charged for it.
Drug companies perhaps; But if you really feel that is your doctor's primary concern you should probably start looking for a new one. (or see if he has some pills to remove that tinfoil hat.)
Family doctors are in the business of being good doctors; and tending to the same patients throughout their lives, which is assured by the fact that they tend to care about their patients. if doctors are anything its certainly not hard up for more business.
Firefox isnt at its best out of the box, it just has the potential to be; Its all of the many plugins that makes it the best, so each user can pick and choose what they want to see in their "best" web browser.
Last I tried IE for Mac It was hopelessly broken, rendered pages as strung out messes, and crashed frequently. It looked like a truly halfhearted (assed?) attempt at a Mac port. Also, it has been discontinued by Microsoft
To throw that into the ring with real browsers would just be a pointless exercise in Microsoft bashing.
"For example, shares of Maxco Inc., a metal heat-treating company that normally trades between $3 and $4 per share, was briefly quoted at $951.47 Friday morning. It later traded at $4.10 per share."
While not unheard of on the Nasdaq, I'm pretty sure 950 dollars is unheard of from this company.
Most students will know how to write their document, do some pretty basic formatting, spellcheck etc, quite a few might not have a computer at home, most will save to the default save format (just by clicking the floppy icon) and probably dont even know what a format is or what it does. So long as it works they are happy. "this late in the game" a lot of students probably dont intend (erroniously or not) to have any further or deeper interaction with computers than they have in highschool. If this were a tech school it would be perfectly acceptable to assume people will know (what we concider basic) computer knowlege.
Have you been to a public highschool lately? Have you seen the lowest common denominator recently?
When I worked at a highschool we had a hard enough time keeping the CD trays from getting ripped out and the speaker's grills pryed off and then poked with pencils. Try educating this lot the finer points of rich text files.
And you cant count on the teachers to be able to help students because most of their computer knowlege is even more remedial. (wWhen you see their personal Macintosh II for their classroom computer.)
Which is another possible drawback; you have to consider kids bringing files home to their MS system and not being able to finish their report.
A different solution, why not install both; What harm could come from making OO and MS part of the image you install on all the machines; Then for this upgrade cycle you can introduce them to both systems, in case of any incompatibilities or whatnot you can fall back on MS; then down the road, for the next update in a decade (if your anything like the school I worked at) pull MS.
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Right... Only every single car in the lot has it's MPG rating on the side. Its much more like buying an expensive gasoline/electric hybrid with a promise of 45 city, 50 highway, and then in a year getting SUV style gas consumption, and having the company say; yeah, they do that, you could always buy another one. Of course all these analogies are just silly...
if the city administered these programs, they would be free. let me repeat that, they would be free.
Yeah, free, free as in ambiguous tax surcharges and property tax riders with funny sounding acronyms.
You know, everything after, say, the first one million in an OBSCENE payout like that should be going to some central account to be redistributed back to the citizens at large.
Say some central account like the IRS? Cause if you hit the 3 million dollar tax bracket I dont think we have to be concerned about the public getting their cut.
There is a big difference between the din of conversation and someone who brought his office to a coffee shop. Who wants to sit near the lone guy sitting at a table with four seats, shouting into his constantly ringing cell phone about TPS reports; who really should have just ordered coffee to go and stayed at the office. I find these guys are also the ones who stay for 2 hours minimum, and order a solitary cup of coffee; while trying to get as many free refills as possible.
... because you won't be surrounded by people dressed as Amidala. Duh.
Yeah I saw that guy, Uhg!
Usualy movies are prescreened at our local theater at midnight; but when they have a midnight showing, basicly they have just opened up their doors for the prescreening, and charged for it.
Drug companies perhaps; But if you really feel that is your doctor's primary concern you should probably start looking for a new one. (or see if he has some pills to remove that tinfoil hat.) Family doctors are in the business of being good doctors; and tending to the same patients throughout their lives, which is assured by the fact that they tend to care about their patients. if doctors are anything its certainly not hard up for more business.
Firefox isnt at its best out of the box, it just has the potential to be; Its all of the many plugins that makes it the best, so each user can pick and choose what they want to see in their "best" web browser.
Last I tried IE for Mac It was hopelessly broken, rendered pages as strung out messes, and crashed frequently. It looked like a truly halfhearted (assed?) attempt at a Mac port. Also, it has been discontinued by Microsoft
To throw that into the ring with real browsers would just be a pointless exercise in Microsoft bashing.
From the article...
"For example, shares of Maxco Inc., a metal heat-treating company that normally trades between $3 and $4 per share, was briefly quoted at $951.47 Friday morning. It later traded at $4.10 per share."
While not unheard of on the Nasdaq, I'm pretty sure 950 dollars is unheard of from this company.
Most students will know how to write their document, do some pretty basic formatting, spellcheck etc, quite a few might not have a computer at home, most will save to the default save format (just by clicking the floppy icon) and probably dont even know what a format is or what it does. So long as it works they are happy. "this late in the game" a lot of students probably dont intend (erroniously or not) to have any further or deeper interaction with computers than they have in highschool. If this were a tech school it would be perfectly acceptable to assume people will know (what we concider basic) computer knowlege. Have you been to a public highschool lately? Have you seen the lowest common denominator recently? When I worked at a highschool we had a hard enough time keeping the CD trays from getting ripped out and the speaker's grills pryed off and then poked with pencils. Try educating this lot the finer points of rich text files. And you cant count on the teachers to be able to help students because most of their computer knowlege is even more remedial. (wWhen you see their personal Macintosh II for their classroom computer.)
Which is another possible drawback; you have to consider kids bringing files home to their MS system and not being able to finish their report.
A different solution, why not install both; What harm could come from making OO and MS part of the image you install on all the machines; Then for this upgrade cycle you can introduce them to both systems, in case of any incompatibilities or whatnot you can fall back on MS; then down the road, for the next update in a decade (if your anything like the school I worked at) pull MS.