It took me 5 years to get my 2 year degree, because I was lazy. It took me only 2 more years for my BS in math. Only 2 years after that for my MS in math.
I used student loans for my last undergraduate year, because I was married, was a father, and my wife and I felt that it was important for her to be home with our child.
My parents never gave me any financial help for college.
My total debt (auto, credit card, student loan), after graduate school, was about what my credit card debt was when I got married (before I got my Associates).
The difference (for me) is that I stopped being lazy. (eg. One summer, I worked 20-30 hours/week while completing 20 semester credits in 12 weeks.)
And, there already are plenty of options other than "rich kids colleges."
I have tried several vendors for replacement ink. The prices have ranged anywhere from $1 to $20 per cartridge. Some haven't worked well, so I've had to try several sources to find ink that I like. I order about 10 cartridges at a time to save on shipping, so it ends up less than $5 per cartridge. I've been using non-Epson ink in this printer since I bought it new (refurbished) in the summer of 2000.
I don't remember what the original ink was like, but I like how things turn out now. If I have to have the a a sample of printing from the original ink in order to notice problems in the replacement ink, then they aren't big enough problems to worry about.
When it comes time to replace my printer, or add one, I will first make sure that there is a cheap supply of decent ink/toner.
This pricing stucture has been around long enough that if I buy an ink jet that needs $40 refills to get decent print quality, it's my own fault for not doing a little more research.
I clicked the Howl's Moving Castle link, and couldn't find anythong on Diana Wynne Jones, the author of the book. I read about 10 or 15 books of hers, and she's good.
I know enough of many religions and religious practitioners to know that "All that matters to religion is the control it has on people." is true in many cases.
I also know enough to know that it is not true in anything like all cases.
Assuming that Christ is who he said he is in the New Testament:
Then Christianity isn't new. In fact Judaism was Christianity until Christ came to Earth. Then the Jews that rejected him were no longer Christians, but a separate faith. Isaiah, Moses, Noah, Adam, etc. would have all been looking forward to the same Messiah, thus were Christians too.
I just read a bunch of the Bill Moyer thing (third link in parent), and he convinced me that his conclusions aren't to be trusted.
Most of what he says may (or may not) be exactly right, but the one area of his essay that I have some (personal, studied, non-internet derived) expertise in, was definitely inaccurate and misleading.
He may be complete honest. It is possible that the inaccuracies are perpetrated unconciously. What matters to me is that the only part of the essay that I'm sure about is wrong, so I can't trust the rest.
I'm surprised that the numbers aren't higher. I've taught college courses, and can't see why people would become more honest when money/prestige is more directly on the line than it was when they were students.
A couple of weeks ago (or so) someone here on/. suggested having electric motors on the back wheels of a car to drive it, and generators on the front wheels to power it, to make the battery last longer.
I was given a computer that made a funny noise. I looked inside and noticed that one of the fins on the CPU fan was bent. It was actually under warranty, as the person that gave it to me had an extended warranty, but why would I spend the postage to send the computer in just for a new CPU fan? I tried to straighten it and it broke off. I didn't want a wobbly fan on my CPU, so I broke off the opposite fin.
It's worked fine for over a year. (Slot Athlon 1GHz)
Are there any cable channels that don't have commercials? Or are there just channels that don't interrupt programs to show commercials? Or perhaps channels that limit commercials to ones that advertise the channel itself?
(I haven't had cable for a years, so I really don't know, but when I stay in hotels it seems that all channels have commercials.)
Books are a communications medium Newspapers too. Television is another medium. Radio is another. Internet is another medium of communication. Google is a company that is very concerned with the medium of the internet, and all of the sub-media that the internet uses (text, pictures, audio, video). So, Google is a media company.
The hard part was (I think) making the little ink squirters (sorry for the overly technical vocab) small enough to fit together to make large area of them.
Weak, and probably inaccurate analogy: If you are trying to fit 5 right hands in a 1x1 foot square, no problem. 5 people stand around and put a hand in the square. If, however, you want to put 400 hands in a 20x20 foot square, will there be enough room for the people to stand, and how will you cover the middle section?
Maybe you're right. Then again, maybe MS will continue raking in the billions that the have for the past couple of decades by using the same marketing they have used for the past couple of decades.
MS products are all so overhyped, I don't think that people really expect them to live up to the hype. It's just this kind of forlorn hope, not real expectation.
Theoretically evolution doesn't need take more than a couple of days. If all non-red-haired people were killed today (and all women who could be pregnant from a non-red-haired person), then overnight the human race would "evolve" into an exclusively red-haired species (since red hair is recessive).
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Shocking.
You must be from someplace very uncultured to use such horrible language so casually.
It took me 5 years to get my 2 year degree, because I was lazy.
It took me only 2 more years for my BS in math.
Only 2 years after that for my MS in math.
I used student loans for my last undergraduate year, because I was married, was a father, and my wife and I felt that it was important for her to be home with our child.
My parents never gave me any financial help for college.
My total debt (auto, credit card, student loan), after graduate school, was about what my credit card debt was when I got married (before I got my Associates).
The difference (for me) is that I stopped being lazy. (eg. One summer, I worked 20-30 hours/week while completing 20 semester credits in 12 weeks.)
And, there already are plenty of options other than "rich kids colleges."
I have tried several vendors for replacement ink. The prices have ranged anywhere from $1 to $20 per cartridge. Some haven't worked well, so I've had to try several sources to find ink that I like. I order about 10 cartridges at a time to save on shipping, so it ends up less than $5 per cartridge. I've been using non-Epson ink in this printer since I bought it new (refurbished) in the summer of 2000.
I don't remember what the original ink was like, but I like how things turn out now. If I have to have the a a sample of printing from the original ink in order to notice problems in the replacement ink, then they aren't big enough problems to worry about.
When it comes time to replace my printer, or add one, I will first make sure that there is a cheap supply of decent ink/toner.
This pricing stucture has been around long enough that if I buy an ink jet that needs $40 refills to get decent print quality, it's my own fault for not doing a little more research.
Too bad it's not child compatible.
(Unless my downstairs neighbors were hoping for rain in their kitchen.
I remember when my parents bought an Atari 800 for about $300, but the floppy drive was an additional $300.
I clicked the Howl's Moving Castle link, and couldn't find anythong on Diana Wynne Jones, the author of the book.
I read about 10 or 15 books of hers, and she's good.
I know enough of many religions and religious practitioners to know that "All that matters to religion is the control it has on people." is true in many cases.
I also know enough to know that it is not true in anything like all cases.
Assuming that Christ is who he said he is in the New Testament:
Then Christianity isn't new.
In fact Judaism was Christianity until Christ came to Earth. Then the Jews that rejected him were no longer Christians, but a separate faith.
Isaiah, Moses, Noah, Adam, etc. would have all been looking forward to the same Messiah, thus were Christians too.
I just read a bunch of the Bill Moyer thing (third link in parent), and he convinced me that his conclusions aren't to be trusted.
Most of what he says may (or may not) be exactly right, but the one area of his essay that I have some (personal, studied, non-internet derived) expertise in, was definitely inaccurate and misleading.
He may be complete honest. It is possible that the inaccuracies are perpetrated unconciously. What matters to me is that the only part of the essay that I'm sure about is wrong, so I can't trust the rest.
From the summary: "A surprising number"
I'm surprised that the numbers aren't higher.
I've taught college courses, and can't see why people would become more honest when money/prestige is more directly on the line than it was when they were students.
A couple of weeks ago (or so) someone here on /. suggested having electric motors on the back wheels of a car to drive it, and generators on the front wheels to power it, to make the battery last longer.
Better would be to build the case onto the output of the window A/C unit.
If done correctly you'd have cold, dry, filtered air blown into the case in a volume sufficient that the positive pressure would keep dust out.
(At least it seems to me that it would work that way.)
I was given a computer that made a funny noise.
I looked inside and noticed that one of the fins on the CPU fan was bent.
It was actually under warranty, as the person that gave it to me had an extended warranty, but why would I spend the postage to send the computer in just for a new CPU fan?
I tried to straighten it and it broke off.
I didn't want a wobbly fan on my CPU, so I broke off the opposite fin.
It's worked fine for over a year.
(Slot Athlon 1GHz)
I'm just glad that I'm fast enough to keep up.
Wasn't there a way cool Red Dwarf episode about living in virtual reality?
(Aren't all Red Dwarf episodes way cool?)
Are there any cable channels that don't have commercials?
Or are there just channels that don't interrupt programs to show commercials?
Or perhaps channels that limit commercials to ones that advertise the channel itself?
(I haven't had cable for a years, so I really don't know, but when I stay in hotels it seems that all channels have commercials.)
I see two possibilities for sattelite radio:
1 - It slowly subsides back into the swamp where fad electronics emerge now and then.
2 - It becomes like cable TV. You know, that TV that doesn't have commercials because you pay a subscription instead.
Books are a communications medium
Newspapers too.
Television is another medium.
Radio is another.
Internet is another medium of communication.
Google is a company that is very concerned with the medium of the internet, and all of the sub-media that the internet uses (text, pictures, audio, video).
So, Google is a media company.
Get it?
The hard part was (I think) making the little ink squirters (sorry for the overly technical vocab) small enough to fit together to make large area of them.
Weak, and probably inaccurate analogy:
If you are trying to fit 5 right hands in a 1x1 foot square, no problem. 5 people stand around and put a hand in the square.
If, however, you want to put 400 hands in a 20x20 foot square, will there be enough room for the people to stand, and how will you cover the middle section?
Paper is easy to get rid of. Paper recycling bins are all over.
Old computer parts, on the other hand, are hard to get rid of.
Marketing. MS is VERY VERY good at marketing.
Maybe you're right.
Then again, maybe MS will continue raking in the billions that the have for the past couple of decades by using the same marketing they have used for the past couple of decades.
MS products are all so overhyped, I don't think that people really expect them to live up to the hype. It's just this kind of forlorn hope, not real expectation.
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Sometimes it hurts if you forget to miss.
Theoretically evolution doesn't need take more than a couple of days. If all non-red-haired people were killed today (and all women who could be pregnant from a non-red-haired person), then overnight the human race would "evolve" into an exclusively red-haired species (since red hair is recessive).