The current Galaxy Nexus and several other phones handle both AT&T and T-Mobile's 3G frequencies. You are right, however, in that a lot of phones won't.
Those are pretty much your only options on the GSM front. T-Mob has a 30 USD/month plan for 100 minutes and unlimited text/data, but all of their other plans are more expensive than straighttalk for smartphones (probably featurephones as well).
*raises hand* Degree in CS, loves problem solving, dislikes heavy coding. Why? I burn out quickly via coding. I don't burn out nearly as fast doing other things (Sysadmin work, help desk stuff, even QA).
Not everyone likes to code day-in-day-out, especially with how most of the industry is ran. Has nothing to do with the instructors I had in school and everything to do with my brain being bored. For some people, coding is interesting. It is very interesting to me as long as I keep it to brief snippets or the small full project here and there. If I start working on something large and long-term, I start to burn out. Thus, I got out of code monkeying and started working in other areas of IT.
The linked salary guide in the blurb goes to a subscription.
There is a small salary guide in the article, I think that should have been linked to instead.
http://www.foobar2000.org/ for the win. While I do use Amarok on my Linux boxes, I'd REALLY prefer running foobar2000, and even investigated how well it ran with Wine.
Both that and the opposite (similar situation except instead of certs, multiple degrees - still having everyone in person that interviews you like you but HR throwing away your resume because of no certs) piss me off to no end. Although in my case, most times I don't even get a chance to get an interview and I'm stuck in a rather crappy job.
No they didn't. I bought one of those (for the machine I'm building, so I haven't had a chance to play with it yet), and I made my order during the work day.
No such equivilence in the US. Just watch how they react to news stories on the air - you'll see it after awhile as long as you pay attention. Just like MSNBC and Fox News (although to different points of view).
Major television news outlets in the US are worthless, and this comes from a US citizen.
Even if you do so, when you have it up there, it'll drop sea levels every 20 turns perpetually, so you get the balancing out between increasing and decreasing the shade every 20 turns.
Much easier to just make everyone save one person submit to you first.
Why? Wouldn't that just be entering information into a notebook by your same example? What is the difference retention-wise between taking notes by moving your fingers in one method over another?
See, I have the exact opposite experience. I sit up near the front of a class and take notes on my laptop. I don't surf the web (no internet access in class), I don't play games (Linux laptop), and since I type far faster than I handwrite (approaching 140 wpm), I type my notes far faster and then....... pay attention to class.
I wouldn't have a problem with this prof mentioned if the prof banned all note taking - that's a great idea in my mind and I'd have no problems with that. I get stared at by professors asking me if I'm just daydreaming if I don't take notes, which bothers me. My goal as a student is to learn, and my primary means of learning is paying attention and asking questions - not just writing down crap just because the professor wants me to. So, I type it up instead. I drop my brightness on my laptop to minimum levels (for battery life reasons, mainly). My keyboard is far quieter than my pencil. My laptop underclocks itself and only runs a fan when it starts to overheat, which means that for all intents it is completely silent.
Diagramming I either pull out a blank unlined sheet of paper or draw it on my laptop. Honestly, I'm better at drawing with a mouse/trackpad than I am with a pencil anyway, so that isn't a problem.
Prior to my laptop, I had my PDA + Keyboard. I did the exact same thing there, and only ever had one prof say anything about it. To which the students afterwards wondered why the prof bothered to say anything since my keyboard made less noise than their pens.
I've now even had a professor that told me to type up my in-class exam instead of writing it. Why? My handwriting is very hard for anyone with vision problems to read, I handwrite slowly, and eventually my hand starts cramping up (that's another story). Imagine that, a prof trusting a student enough to type up an exam with a laptop (that might have notes on it) and then leaving the room to print it out in a nearby lab. Oh wait, my professors trust me. Why? Because I pay attention in class and actually ask questions - they already know I know the material just from talking to me.
In short, the technological solution works great for me. I'm not everyone, and I'd expect others to abuse the privledge - it is one of the reasons why I don't want to see a wireless network inside of classrooms (or at the very least a stop button that the profs can hit to kill the network). Just stop screwing over people that like using technology to make themselves better students.
But doesn't that kinda defeat the purpose of inheriting machines? I don't know of too many people giving away such systems, so you need to buy them, which costs the initial investment in money...
If your small town has two employees beyond police/fire, why do you need this swapover? We're talking about small towns roughly the size of this small city. Even the small town I live in has enough employees to need some form of IT manager (although I doubt that is the position name). Then again, we're a county seat.
Small towns don't have IT Managers.
Like hell they don't.
Hell, most home users never touch the control panel, why would you think they would in a business?
Not to mention that a lot of the things you mentioned were extra features, not required use. Who says they have to use them?
Like what? I can arrange pretty much anything on an XP machine to be identical to a 2K machine if given enough effort save the itty bitty things (like the picture on the start button). Doesn't take much effort either.
Host a job fair at a university that is close to your company's main location. Not only would you provide experience to a host of university nearly-grads, but you'll be able to scope out the creme of a specific university's crop. Finally, you can also provide benefits and generally increase the educational level of that university through other means, which will net you higher quality employees already localized to the area.
Ah, except for commodity products like, using the example, orange juice. Yes, the juice can come from a lot of different types of oranges, and can have pulp or no pulp, or can have additives and such... but if you squeeze a Valencia orange, you get orange juice with pulp - regardless of who does it. As no one would want to be seen as sabotaging the standard no-brand juice, they just dress up the higher priced ones, adding in things that don't really matter, changing the color slightly to look better, having a fancy bottle and label, et cetra - all things that don't really make a bit of difference. You still have orange juice.
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The current Galaxy Nexus and several other phones handle both AT&T and T-Mobile's 3G frequencies. You are right, however, in that a lot of phones won't.
Those are pretty much your only options on the GSM front. T-Mob has a 30 USD/month plan for 100 minutes and unlimited text/data, but all of their other plans are more expensive than straighttalk for smartphones (probably featurephones as well).
*raises hand*
Degree in CS, loves problem solving, dislikes heavy coding.
Why? I burn out quickly via coding. I don't burn out nearly as fast doing other things (Sysadmin work, help desk stuff, even QA).
Not everyone likes to code day-in-day-out, especially with how most of the industry is ran. Has nothing to do with the instructors I had in school and everything to do with my brain being bored. For some people, coding is interesting. It is very interesting to me as long as I keep it to brief snippets or the small full project here and there. If I start working on something large and long-term, I start to burn out.
Thus, I got out of code monkeying and started working in other areas of IT.
The linked salary guide in the blurb goes to a subscription.
There is a small salary guide in the article, I think that should have been linked to instead.
There is a salary guide in the article.
http://www.foobar2000.org/ for the win.
While I do use Amarok on my Linux boxes, I'd REALLY prefer running foobar2000, and even investigated how well it ran with Wine.
Both that and the opposite (similar situation except instead of certs, multiple degrees - still having everyone in person that interviews you like you but HR throwing away your resume because of no certs) piss me off to no end.
Although in my case, most times I don't even get a chance to get an interview and I'm stuck in a rather crappy job.
Halo was originally a RTS, actually.
No they didn't. I bought one of those (for the machine I'm building, so I haven't had a chance to play with it yet), and I made my order during the work day.
*hides my chainsaw of moderation and runs*
Actually, I still used VIRC for awhile until I swapped my IRC machine to Linux relatively recently. :P
None that I've seen at least, sadly.
Although I've glanced at OpenRPG before, personally I just use an old fashioned IRC chat room and a dice bot.
Well, these are popping up because the RIAA is suing university students and muscling the universities themselves.
No such equivilence in the US.
Just watch how they react to news stories on the air - you'll see it after awhile as long as you pay attention. Just like MSNBC and Fox News (although to different points of view).
Major television news outlets in the US are worthless, and this comes from a US citizen.
Yeah, but late game fungus is better than a monolith anyway in Alien Crossfire.
Even if you do so, when you have it up there, it'll drop sea levels every 20 turns perpetually, so you get the balancing out between increasing and decreasing the shade every 20 turns.
Much easier to just make everyone save one person submit to you first.
Why? Wouldn't that just be entering information into a notebook by your same example?
What is the difference retention-wise between taking notes by moving your fingers in one method over another?
See, I have the exact opposite experience. ... pay attention to class.
I sit up near the front of a class and take notes on my laptop. I don't surf the web (no internet access in class), I don't play games (Linux laptop), and since I type far faster than I handwrite (approaching 140 wpm), I type my notes far faster and then....
I wouldn't have a problem with this prof mentioned if the prof banned all note taking - that's a great idea in my mind and I'd have no problems with that. I get stared at by professors asking me if I'm just daydreaming if I don't take notes, which bothers me. My goal as a student is to learn, and my primary means of learning is paying attention and asking questions - not just writing down crap just because the professor wants me to. So, I type it up instead.
I drop my brightness on my laptop to minimum levels (for battery life reasons, mainly).
My keyboard is far quieter than my pencil.
My laptop underclocks itself and only runs a fan when it starts to overheat, which means that for all intents it is completely silent.
Diagramming I either pull out a blank unlined sheet of paper or draw it on my laptop. Honestly, I'm better at drawing with a mouse/trackpad than I am with a pencil anyway, so that isn't a problem.
Prior to my laptop, I had my PDA + Keyboard. I did the exact same thing there, and only ever had one prof say anything about it. To which the students afterwards wondered why the prof bothered to say anything since my keyboard made less noise than their pens.
I've now even had a professor that told me to type up my in-class exam instead of writing it. Why? My handwriting is very hard for anyone with vision problems to read, I handwrite slowly, and eventually my hand starts cramping up (that's another story). Imagine that, a prof trusting a student enough to type up an exam with a laptop (that might have notes on it) and then leaving the room to print it out in a nearby lab. Oh wait, my professors trust me. Why? Because I pay attention in class and actually ask questions - they already know I know the material just from talking to me.
In short, the technological solution works great for me. I'm not everyone, and I'd expect others to abuse the privledge - it is one of the reasons why I don't want to see a wireless network inside of classrooms (or at the very least a stop button that the profs can hit to kill the network). Just stop screwing over people that like using technology to make themselves better students.
... why not use jEdit under Windows then?
But doesn't that kinda defeat the purpose of inheriting machines? I don't know of too many people giving away such systems, so you need to buy them, which costs the initial investment in money...
(I have a similar situation as the grandparent)
If your small town has two employees beyond police/fire, why do you need this swapover?
We're talking about small towns roughly the size of this small city. Even the small town I live in has enough employees to need some form of IT manager (although I doubt that is the position name). Then again, we're a county seat.
Small towns don't have IT Managers.
Like hell they don't.
Hell, most home users never touch the control panel, why would you think they would in a business?
Not to mention that a lot of the things you mentioned were extra features, not required use. Who says they have to use them?
Like what?
I can arrange pretty much anything on an XP machine to be identical to a 2K machine if given enough effort save the itty bitty things (like the picture on the start button). Doesn't take much effort either.
Host a job fair at a university that is close to your company's main location. Not only would you provide experience to a host of university nearly-grads, but you'll be able to scope out the creme of a specific university's crop. Finally, you can also provide benefits and generally increase the educational level of that university through other means, which will net you higher quality employees already localized to the area.
Ah, except for commodity products like, using the example, orange juice. Yes, the juice can come from a lot of different types of oranges, and can have pulp or no pulp, or can have additives and such... but if you squeeze a Valencia orange, you get orange juice with pulp - regardless of who does it.
As no one would want to be seen as sabotaging the standard no-brand juice, they just dress up the higher priced ones, adding in things that don't really matter, changing the color slightly to look better, having a fancy bottle and label, et cetra - all things that don't really make a bit of difference. You still have orange juice.