You compare the books to the lectures.
The University of Pittsburgh has three main types of courses. 3 day a week, 2 day a week, and 1 day a week. They are all for 15 weeks I believe.
$37.50 for all the lectures for the one day class, which is cheaper than most textbooks.
$75 is about on par for a normal textbook.
$112 is a bit expensive.
It compares to a textbook in price then. Though the professor has a much higher profit margin.
All in all, I'd prefer the textbook.
The other thing I could think of would be to have podcasts to listen to during commutes if you are a commuter student. That would be really handy.
Make the powersellers be the ones who have to do it. Offer a discount on the percentage ebay skims off their auctions if they check x number of auctions that were reported as scams.
I remember a Microsoft Antivirus already having existed at one point in time.
It would have had to have been over 10 years ago though in the early Windows 95 era.
Did Microsoft have an Antivirus program in the past?
I can't wait. I imagine it will destroy the religious right when every single politician on their side is discovered to have been a stereotypical frat/sorority type.
I just wish the current crop had myspace and facebook as a youth.
I agree, however if these occultists manage to fund the development of bloodless surgery, I think it would would be a good thing.
Much like if PETA managed to get us to develop ways to test drugs without using animals or create meat without killing animals.
I am graduating in a week.
The hard workers I know all have jobs. The slackers and incompetent people all do not have a job.
If you aren't going to go into IT, what are you going to go into? In terms of people having jobs out of college, engineering and then business degrees are the only other ones I see. So you could go into engineering or if you want to be someones bitch, go into business.
I feel bad for liberal arts majors.
I'm not a school admin, but I know some friends who are interns at some public schools.
They claim it is the worst job ever. Besides being underfunded, they have to put up with all sorts of bullshit.
Employees can get fired, students can't. Teachers typically don't watch the computers, so the vandals always get away with it.
Filtering content is extremely important. They have to make sure nothing bad is on the network and the kids can't get to any questionable sites.
The teachers act like students. When the teachers are being taught how to use programs, they act like students. They won't pay attention, talk to eachother, take cellphone calls, etc.
The budgets are typically terrible. Though that is usually evident in the hardware.
There isn't much to administer anyway. It doesn't matter if servers go down, etc. The computers will only have microsoft office on them in most situations. Usually you'll have a firewall, a mail server for the faculty, and then a file server.
I agree. All this speaking to the CEO.
The company I work for has security personal guarding the executives. Hell, the executive floor has security personal everywhere.
I'm almost positive all email is probably screened as well. And then they don't appear in any of the phone directories also.
I'd have to agree. The bind on drop was a genius idea. I'm pretty sure it will always keep the economy rather stable.
I'm thinking a monthly tax on guilds based on size would also be a nice gold sink also. No real reason than to limit the amount of gold floating around.
I'm going to have to disagree with any kind of monitoring or restrictions on time use.
I did nothing but game at first, then moved on to learning how the computer worked while trying to fix my games and modify them(mods, extra levels, etc).
If I only had a half hour a day, I'd probably never have done that. I'd only have enough time to get a little deathmatch in and then that would be it.
And then chat isn't all bad. Slashdot has taught me a lot.
I don't understand time restrictions on the computer. I could have either been playing Asheron's Call all night on the weekends, or hanging out at the mall or going to parties experimenting like all the other teens in middle school and highschool.
What if a business could set up something to scan for cellphones? For instance, low range towers that they license from the cell phone companies that spam cell phones with messages.
You are in the mall for instance and walking near a Starbucks, suddenly you get messaged to come in now for x discount. If you could control the length before it died, it could be a coupon. I could see a lot of potential.
What does that have to do with people being 14? It isn't like they are calling them 13g05 or something.
It seems more akin to local slang than anything else.
Exactly.
Linux zealots for the most part can't understand that.
If Linux was number 1, it would have just as many problems as windows.
The issue isn't the OS overall, it is the user. Good windows users don't get infected with crap, it is the lazy/ignorant people.
After having to log out and then back in as root a couple times, the typical user is just going to say screw it and always log in as root. Then we will be back where we started. And then what home user is going to willingly lock themselves down anyway? They will want full control, they own the machine.
You've never heard of anyone being robbed, murdered, raped, mugged, invited to buy drugs, or otherwise annoying in your suburb? Where do you live?
Being invited to buy drugs isn't common in suburbs, but there are still drugs. There may be less muggings, but there are plenty of robberies.
Murder is everywhere. Rape is everywhere.
It would still be good for slow moving buggies and carts.
Golf Carts.
Industrial Buggies.
I'm thinking it could have applications anywhere you need a vehicle that has to go at a lower speed.
I just wonder if it is more friendly on the environment that a purely electric powered vehicle.
So what they are basically doing is offering $1000 to a contract worker to develope their project, but making it out as a competition and the pay is a prize.
Genius.
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You compare the books to the lectures. The University of Pittsburgh has three main types of courses. 3 day a week, 2 day a week, and 1 day a week. They are all for 15 weeks I believe. $37.50 for all the lectures for the one day class, which is cheaper than most textbooks. $75 is about on par for a normal textbook. $112 is a bit expensive. It compares to a textbook in price then. Though the professor has a much higher profit margin. All in all, I'd prefer the textbook. The other thing I could think of would be to have podcasts to listen to during commutes if you are a commuter student. That would be really handy.
So what do you do? Buy everything in cash? How do you do anything online? Do you only buy extremely cheap cars?
Modding is legal, modding using someone elses copyrighted art isn't.
Make the powersellers be the ones who have to do it. Offer a discount on the percentage ebay skims off their auctions if they check x number of auctions that were reported as scams.
I remember a Microsoft Antivirus already having existed at one point in time. It would have had to have been over 10 years ago though in the early Windows 95 era. Did Microsoft have an Antivirus program in the past?
Much like a comparison of windows and linux by linux distros?
Hopefully the programmers are better than the current OS programmers. I know I wouldn't let Linux or Windows control me.
I can't wait. I imagine it will destroy the religious right when every single politician on their side is discovered to have been a stereotypical frat/sorority type. I just wish the current crop had myspace and facebook as a youth.
I agree, however if these occultists manage to fund the development of bloodless surgery, I think it would would be a good thing. Much like if PETA managed to get us to develop ways to test drugs without using animals or create meat without killing animals.
I am graduating in a week. The hard workers I know all have jobs. The slackers and incompetent people all do not have a job. If you aren't going to go into IT, what are you going to go into? In terms of people having jobs out of college, engineering and then business degrees are the only other ones I see. So you could go into engineering or if you want to be someones bitch, go into business. I feel bad for liberal arts majors.
I didn't even think of that. Then of course, when some third party builds a device to open them, the DMCA is brought out.
I'm not a school admin, but I know some friends who are interns at some public schools. They claim it is the worst job ever. Besides being underfunded, they have to put up with all sorts of bullshit. Employees can get fired, students can't. Teachers typically don't watch the computers, so the vandals always get away with it. Filtering content is extremely important. They have to make sure nothing bad is on the network and the kids can't get to any questionable sites. The teachers act like students. When the teachers are being taught how to use programs, they act like students. They won't pay attention, talk to eachother, take cellphone calls, etc. The budgets are typically terrible. Though that is usually evident in the hardware. There isn't much to administer anyway. It doesn't matter if servers go down, etc. The computers will only have microsoft office on them in most situations. Usually you'll have a firewall, a mail server for the faculty, and then a file server.
I agree. All this speaking to the CEO. The company I work for has security personal guarding the executives. Hell, the executive floor has security personal everywhere. I'm almost positive all email is probably screened as well. And then they don't appear in any of the phone directories also.
I'd have to agree. The bind on drop was a genius idea. I'm pretty sure it will always keep the economy rather stable. I'm thinking a monthly tax on guilds based on size would also be a nice gold sink also. No real reason than to limit the amount of gold floating around.
I'm going to have to disagree with any kind of monitoring or restrictions on time use. I did nothing but game at first, then moved on to learning how the computer worked while trying to fix my games and modify them(mods, extra levels, etc). If I only had a half hour a day, I'd probably never have done that. I'd only have enough time to get a little deathmatch in and then that would be it. And then chat isn't all bad. Slashdot has taught me a lot. I don't understand time restrictions on the computer. I could have either been playing Asheron's Call all night on the weekends, or hanging out at the mall or going to parties experimenting like all the other teens in middle school and highschool.
What if a business could set up something to scan for cellphones? For instance, low range towers that they license from the cell phone companies that spam cell phones with messages. You are in the mall for instance and walking near a Starbucks, suddenly you get messaged to come in now for x discount. If you could control the length before it died, it could be a coupon. I could see a lot of potential.
What does that have to do with people being 14? It isn't like they are calling them 13g05 or something. It seems more akin to local slang than anything else.
Where is 2000 and NT? Ya missed those, otherwise dead on.
Exactly. Linux zealots for the most part can't understand that. If Linux was number 1, it would have just as many problems as windows. The issue isn't the OS overall, it is the user. Good windows users don't get infected with crap, it is the lazy/ignorant people. After having to log out and then back in as root a couple times, the typical user is just going to say screw it and always log in as root. Then we will be back where we started. And then what home user is going to willingly lock themselves down anyway? They will want full control, they own the machine.
Yeah, that is true. However, it increases the price of the product.
You've never heard of anyone being robbed, murdered, raped, mugged, invited to buy drugs, or otherwise annoying in your suburb? Where do you live? Being invited to buy drugs isn't common in suburbs, but there are still drugs. There may be less muggings, but there are plenty of robberies. Murder is everywhere. Rape is everywhere.
hmm, we are working on the reptillian brain? Then what, the bird brain, and then the mammal brain? That seems awfully similar to evolution.
It would still be good for slow moving buggies and carts. Golf Carts. Industrial Buggies. I'm thinking it could have applications anywhere you need a vehicle that has to go at a lower speed. I just wonder if it is more friendly on the environment that a purely electric powered vehicle.
So what they are basically doing is offering $1000 to a contract worker to develope their project, but making it out as a competition and the pay is a prize. Genius.