Lets put this into perspective: Say North and South Korea get back into a war. The US then goes to Source Korea and arranges a cease fire. All well and good, but it never brought a major party to the table.
If BK behaves in the way they do, then I'm happy that this is brought out now and solved. The primary reason Linus was using them is he was convinced they were not evil, but when they throw a tempertantrum like they did...
There is evidence that Microsoft doesn't know how their networking protocol works anymore. When they need to change something they have to read the Samba docs and their source code to understand how it works.
So you make a deal with the devil on behalf of all mankind that will result in everyone going to hell, and then get mad when I refuse to be bound by your agreement and do something that will result in me going to heaven? I can understand why Satan would be mad about that, and I can accept that you are mad. I however have no agreement with Satan, and I refuse to be bound by one even if it gives you trouble.
The joke started about a week before April 1 when the admins were comfortable doing the switch to subversion and just needed a date and 12 hours to do it. The first proposal when they announced this to kde-devel was do to the conversion on March 31, so that everyone would wake up to an announcement that KDE has switched to subversion, and then have to figure out if it was a joke or not.
The switch didn't happen then, but it is close if it hasn't happened already.
I am NOT equipped to deal with life in a "temperate" area, I'm equipped to deal with life in an area where I need technology (clothing) to keep my warm. When the temperature gets too hot I sun burn due to lack of clothing. (Even the summer I worked construction I was still burning in Augest, though not as much as other years) I also get heat stroke easily.
My body contains many adaptations to deal with living in a cold climate. Those adaptations include a brain that can figure out how to put on clothing when it is cold. (Though my body doesn't need as much as someone more equipped for a more temperate region)
Mind some of those adaptations are things I get accustomed do. Fall temperatures that cause me to reach for a coat is short sleeve temperatures in spring.
The tarifs had something to do with it, but there are other important factors for why the car was made in the US not Japan.
Japan is a tiny country with a lot of people. Auto plants are large, and don't scale too well by going up. Japan doesn't have a lot of land, while the US does have a lot.
The US is a long distance from Japan. Cars are big, so it is fairly expensive to put them on a ship and send them to the US. Japan lacks natural resources, so they have to pay those shipping charges both ways, to get the raw materials in, and again to get them out. The US has raw materials (though argument this fails, it is currently cheaper to ship third world iron to the US than to mine it, even though the ore from US mines is better) When building cars for the US in the US you don't have to do all that shipping.
Related to both the above, there is a lot of land in the US: the US is the largest market for cars in the world. Public transportation works well in Japan because there is not a lot of land to cover. More people in Japan can get by without a car. Europe likewise. (Though I don't know how Europe as a whole compares to North America - I suspect North America is bigger but I'm not sure.)
In Kentucky energy is cheap. The US government built dams on all the rivers in the 30s, so plants in those areas get power for transport and maintenance costs. (see above, Japan doesn't have natural resources) Combine this with all the automation Japan uses, and the low wages in Kentucky, and plants in the US are cheaper than Japan, so long as you maintain your quality.
I have not covered all the issues. I don't even know them all. However tarifs are not the only important consideration, though they may have been the straw that broke the camel's back.
10 years ago (when I worked there) McDonald's was testing a robot fry cook. At the time it was too expensive. However they took one part of the cook and installed that everywhere: a robot to fill the fry baskets.
Fast Food kitchens are a good place for robots. People should not work near hot grease, because of the danger of burns. (One guy I worked with was hospitalized due to burns from cleaning the vats. After that everyone started using the provided gloves)
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You are a minority. Most people don't bother finding the better unadvertised deal, unless it has a good presence at WalMart. (Last I heard WalMart is one of the few stores that doesn't accept pay to get the better shelf positions, though I wouldn't be surprised if this has since changed) Most people don't boycott advertisers. I know many Christians who complain about all the evil programing, but it never occurs to them to not watch it. They likewise complain about evil commercials, and then buy the product anyway.
Sure there are a few like you. Not many though, most people are influenced. (Actually I suspect your are influenced in some way... you bought an air bed which even at 1/2 Select Comfort's price is still overpriced for what you get)
P.S. Select Comfort is evil. I have one. The bed itself is just fine, I would recommend an air bed to anyone, but don't buy Select Comfort. I still get their junk mail year latter.
Perhaps some do. I have overcome that. I never really had it though because I never had a TV growing up (and still don't as an adult), so I don't have to brag about giving it up.
I do however have to bring it up every few months with everyone I know, because it is the only way to explain why I have no clue what is going on, on the hot program of the day.
In theory there are programs that would be worth watching. Nobody has given me any reason to believe they exist in reality though. If there is ever something worth watching I will get a TV. I don't believe TV will ever compete with what I can get out of a book though, so I doubt this will happen. (Even if TV is better in one case, is it better by enough to make it worth buying a TV?)
That is true, but there are many factors to account for. What you are buying is more expensive. Ads are for cheaper things that they can sell a lot of. (In general)
I reached the point last year where I didn't need more junk. Up until I turned 30 there were always more gadgets I wanted, and when I could afford them I bought them. Last year I suddenly realized my house if full of them. 2 years ago I might buy the pocket fisherman, today I have to throw something else out if I want to buy it.
Also, at 40 you are starting to think a little more about retirement. So you have more money, but you are saving it. Which is why ads that do target you are for things like investments.
Next, you have already learned the hard way about junk. You are unlikely to buy the pocket fisherman without doing a little research because you know there is junk out there. Your kids have not learned the hard way yet.
Last, and most important: your kids may not earn even close to as much as you, but their income is more disposable. You still pay for most of your kid's meals. You pay for their clothes. (unless they want something more expensive than you are willing to spend, which is common) They are getting free rent, while odds are a good portion of your income is going to a house payment. Not to mention insurance, electric, and all the other little things that you kids don't have to worry about
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What are you watching. People's tastes change over time. Perhaps your taste hasn't yet grown up enough. If you are watching shows targeted at kids, you will see kids advertising. If you would switch to shows that someone your age is expected to watch, you would see ads targeted at your age group.
That last one assumes there is such a show. If you are a male (I'm not sure that this applies to all age groups), you are watching less TV than someone your age 10 years ago would have. Advertisers pay attention. They may have decided that there aren't enough people in your age group watching TV at all to be worth targeting on TV.
Last there is advertisements themselves. Advertiser study this. If they determin there is no way to get results from your generation with a type of ad (TV, paper, radio), they will advertise to someone with less money, but who will give results when they advertise. It may not even be true, but it is what advertisers think is true.
All this combines to make kids a better target for advertising . You are better targeted by a different form of marketing.
There is a weight[1] limit on all current rockets, which depends on the destination, how fast you want to get there, other such factors. Thus if the ESA and US consider a mission that needs and entire rocket launch itself, there is no point in coperating because in the end much will need to be duplicated.
Another reason to not coperate is it makes for fault tolerance. Most missions are one offs that will never be run again (sometimes two are three offs). It takes to long to get a mission going and so long between missions that technology has advanced enough between each one that you need to design from scratch each time. When the US and ESA work separately, failures by one are worked around. Thus there are two working rovers on Mars now, even though the ESA's failed. If they had worked together there might be no rover should the one mission have failed. (and never mind the US funded two itself)
That said, NASA and ESA do work together where it makes sense. That Saturn probe (I can't spell the moon's name) was a joint project. A good way to make use of two limited budgets. Which is often a factor.
[1]Yes, weight, not mass. Mass is completely unlimited, you just trade mass for velocity according to newton's law: f=ma, etc. Weight is limited because you need to get the weight out of a gravity well.
You (and most internet advertisers) are missing one important part of advertising: name recognition. McDonald's is well aware that nobody suddenly says "I'm hungry, lets go to McDonald's" when their ads come on. They just need me to remember them when I am hungry latter.
If they thought the ad was a factor in the decision they wouldn't waste their money advertising outside of meal hours. There is no reason to think I will go to McDonald's at 3pm when their ad comes on. They just want to be sure when I'm hungry their name is considered. (And because it is fast food, when I'm hungry I get satisfied then)
You need to target your ads in the same way. It isn't about click thorough, it is about name recognition. So long as you are targeting the right people, and they see/hear your name, you have succeeded even if they don't click your ad.
Well, there is one other reason to advertise: You like and want to support a program. Not a good one, but if you are choosing between two otherwise equal (band for buck) forums, it is a good one.
McDonald's is a good example. I haven't been to one in a long time, but they are the first thing that comes to mind when I want an example.
Good luck. I have found that regression tests often cost just as much as just paying someone to do the test. The only time they are an advantage is when you run them against the daily builds. The problem is when you do that every day one test will fail because of a new feature, and the test now needs to be changed, not a bug written up. (Of course you will catch bugs too) So you have to have a full time programmer who only job is to keep the regression tests up to date. This can be more expensive than just hiring testers. (Kids are cheap and most of them can operate a computer well enough to do your testing if you keep track of them)
Don't read too much into that downside. The more expensive programmer will in the end catch more bugs with the regression test suite, so your code has less bugs when you ship. However it is expensive.
Automatic regression tests are NOT a substitute for manual regression testing! You still need to plan on some time (though not the 3 weeks you did before) for regression testing, just to make sure the automatic tests didn't miss anything. Much of this will be done as part of your normal tests, but make sure you are watching for regressions when you test.
Obviously you have never seen a real two dollar bill. They are easily the best looking bill the US prints! If you ever get to the US make a side visit to a bank and ask for a two dollar bill (most will have one, which they will trade for $2 in other US currency). Anyone with artistic sense will prefer the two dollar bill because they look so nice. (well for money)
A person can. Only an idiot would actually do so though. Unless you have had police training you are likely to make a mistake and be sued. Even if you have had the latest training, if you are not an officer and make a mistake the courts will look dimly on it.
Don't try it. You can do it, but it isn't worth it. Either the crime is small enough that you let them go, or it is serious enough that you will willingly take life in prison for murdering them, and you shoot. Hopefully you never encounter the latter situation, but if you do at least there is nobody to contradict your testimony so you have a chance of getting a justified defense to work.
If you are English, then you are correct. If you are American, then you are wrong. In best fashion, Americans took the insult and turned it into a compliment.
Think carefully. I have no idea what schools are like in Egypt, and I suspect few others here do either. While US schools sometimes get picked on, we know what they are like, and overall it isn't too bad. Most people think of Egypt as some backwords country where people don't even know what the light bulb is, and few even attend school, much less make it to third grade. So one advantage you will have by doing this is ignorant people will trust the degree. (This same advantage would apply to any distance learning from Europe. American's tend to think the Europe's schools are pretty good, but have no real knowledge)
However there are disadvantages. You loose social time with your peers, which despite the idiots in most high schools, is still useful. (You will have to deal with those idiots for the rest of your life, so you better learn to do it)
Also I would assume that Egyptians would think less of the degree than a local one. (though maybe not, if everyone knows Egyption schools are bad they might think more of it) Which means if you get this you are pretty much forced to move to the US (or at least go to college in the US), which can be difficult to do. The US doesn't let just anyone in anymore, much of Europe would though, and Europe has a good standard of living. (though not 100% the same, Europeans and Americans have different tastes) So consider a European degree which might work better for you.
In general I think less of any distance learning than of the "equivalent" degree earned by attending class. However not everyone is like me, and your friend may not have much a choice. In fact in your friend case, if he gives a good case for Egypt's schools being junk (remember like most people I'm ignorant on the topic so this should be easy), the fact that he went through the effort to get a US degree, even if it is second best, is impressive. The effort of finding and using this program on his own impresses me more than a US high school degree, precisely because he is from Egypt. (but only if he convinces me that Egypt's schools are junk)
Check with the local law. If they refuse to consider this program the equivalent of a local degree it might hamper anything you want to do back home because you cannot claim to have a high school degree, even though you have a "better" US degree.
One last thought. When I was in high school there were some students who were home schooled who came to school for a few hours every day for band and other such classes where a group is required. It would be a good idea to see if the local school will allow you take math and English at home, and then those other classes with locals. Some schools are really against this idea, while some will go for it In fact if you convince the school this program is good you might end up with the local degree and the US degree, which is a good end run around local laws!
For anyone else who is reading slashdot and still in high school, in most states you can do some sort of "post secondary" program. Basically you study at the nearest university, and the school pays for it! This is the best kept secret of high school. Go for it!
This is something you will have to fight for. They have to let you do it, but the school loses money when you do it, so the counselors are told to try and talk you out of it! Don't let them, force the issue. Threaten to drop out if you must (that will scare them because dropouts are the one thing worse for the district than the college students), but take your last two years of high school at college.
Note that you will have to take the B.S. liberal arts classes, and not the interesting engineering classes. Still, those are college credits so they count as generals already taken in a real college anywhere, while the "advanced" high school classes rarely count for much.
More like you have the market on interesting common coins covered. Not cornered, most of the coins you listed are fairly common yet, and so not very valuable. (Though I have never seen a Buffalo Nickel, and some of the others might be slightly uncommon) Mind everything is worth more than face value, but generally not by enough to care unless that is the one coin you need to complete a collection.
Keep that collection though. It may not be very valuable, but a lot of them are the more interesting samples (which is part of why you kept them). Personally I'd rather have that collection than a million dollar penny. (1943 copper pennys are worth a lot, but they look just like 1940 pennys except for the date. Only 3 are known to exist which is why they are worth money. I'll stick with my 1940 penny for my collection)
I don't have a reference, but studies have shown that people tend to learn currency as a kid, and then don't bother learning again. What this means is that if you grew up before the Susan B. (or after it), you never learned to tell the difference. If you were learning your currency when the Susan B. was introduced (which I did, but there were only about 2-3 years where this would be true) you learned the difference between the Susan B and Quarter, and you can automatically tell without problem!
That is one reason countries that introduce new currency tend to replace all the old ones at the same time (IE the Euro replaced a lot of different national currencies), it forces everyone to learn the new system, instead of being lazy and failing to shoe horn one new currency in with what they know.
The US government is well known around the world for NOT changing their currency. Anything minted since the last 1800s is still legal. This is a good thing when your currency is a standard around the world, everyone recognizes it (well everyone where the black market is significant, I suspect western Europe doesn't care cause they have a useful currency). Of course the downside is those old bills are easy to counterfit. Still by not eliminating the old currency they do help the acceptance of the dollar around the world, which is a feature.
There are not many different coins of the same denomination. The 50 cent piece hasn't been made in years, it has been phased out just like your currency, the only difference is we never quit accepting it, we just quit using it. Everything else has only seen minor changes since the late 1800s. (sometimes one face changes. the metal in some of them changed, but overall everything looks similar to what they made 100 years ago
Well no, but on the other hand if I put my own rims on the car (perhaps something I make in my own machine shop out back), nobody will send lawyers after me when I try to sell the original rims on eBay. Try to sell that copy of Windows on eBay and Microsoft will send their lawyers after you.
There is a EULA (which you never have to agree to since you will install Linux on the first boot) that says you can return it for a refund. There are "first sale" laws in most states which may protect your rights to sell this software on eBay. However it is still a hassle. If I can just get a refund for Windows I will do that rather than deal with eBay.
You are wrong. An admin should be smart enough to not run programs like Word as root/administrator, so it won't matter at all that Word cannot run as administrator. When people start feeling pain because MS packages refuse to run as administrator, while other things require it, they will start demanding other packages not require administrator. As the applications change to allow running as a restricted user, Windows will start to see less security issues because users don't have as much power to make mistakes.
So long as MS allows you to do stupid things like run Word while you have administrator rights, people will do stupid things like run Word with administrator rights.
Oh, and if you really do need to run Word while logged in as administrator, there is always run-as. I don't believe you need that ability though. Its just that there is so much badly written software out there that does require administrator that you don't bother trying to run as non-administrator. I understand, just like everyone else I do the same: run Windows as administrator 100% of the time. (I make sure my personal systems are FreeBSD though where I don't have that pain)
About as many times for FreeBSD as for Windows. Only difference is my systems ALL run FreeBSD (I have not had Windows since 3.1), the Windows systems are work machines, that I work with a lot less.
Oh sure, that system was designed for Windows 2000, or so the sticker says. Doesn't mean you can find drivers for it. (at least I know how to pry heat sinks off of chips and google part numbers)
By contrast, FreeBSD tends to work most of the time until I want to do something weird. Try getting something like dmx working in Windows at all. My saterday may have been blown, but I got it working.
Yes I have spent a lot of time getting FreeBSD working. I've spent just as much getting Windows working, despite having less interest in Windows systems.
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Lets put this into perspective: Say North and South Korea get back into a war. The US then goes to Source Korea and arranges a cease fire. All well and good, but it never brought a major party to the table.
If BK behaves in the way they do, then I'm happy that this is brought out now and solved. The primary reason Linus was using them is he was convinced they were not evil, but when they throw a tempertantrum like they did...
There is evidence that Microsoft doesn't know how their networking protocol works anymore. When they need to change something they have to read the Samba docs and their source code to understand how it works.
The computer I'm writing this on is a genuine IBM, but the BIOS is from Phoenix, not IBM. In short, the BIOS is reverse engineered.
I don't think IBM has made/used their own BIOS in years. Easier to buy one off the shelf.
So you make a deal with the devil on behalf of all mankind that will result in everyone going to hell, and then get mad when I refuse to be bound by your agreement and do something that will result in me going to heaven? I can understand why Satan would be mad about that, and I can accept that you are mad. I however have no agreement with Satan, and I refuse to be bound by one even if it gives you trouble.
The joke started about a week before April 1 when the admins were comfortable doing the switch to subversion and just needed a date and 12 hours to do it. The first proposal when they announced this to kde-devel was do to the conversion on March 31, so that everyone would wake up to an announcement that KDE has switched to subversion, and then have to figure out if it was a joke or not.
The switch didn't happen then, but it is close if it hasn't happened already.
I am NOT equipped to deal with life in a "temperate" area, I'm equipped to deal with life in an area where I need technology (clothing) to keep my warm. When the temperature gets too hot I sun burn due to lack of clothing. (Even the summer I worked construction I was still burning in Augest, though not as much as other years) I also get heat stroke easily.
My body contains many adaptations to deal with living in a cold climate. Those adaptations include a brain that can figure out how to put on clothing when it is cold. (Though my body doesn't need as much as someone more equipped for a more temperate region)
Mind some of those adaptations are things I get accustomed do. Fall temperatures that cause me to reach for a coat is short sleeve temperatures in spring.
The tarifs had something to do with it, but there are other important factors for why the car was made in the US not Japan.
Japan is a tiny country with a lot of people. Auto plants are large, and don't scale too well by going up. Japan doesn't have a lot of land, while the US does have a lot.
The US is a long distance from Japan. Cars are big, so it is fairly expensive to put them on a ship and send them to the US. Japan lacks natural resources, so they have to pay those shipping charges both ways, to get the raw materials in, and again to get them out. The US has raw materials (though argument this fails, it is currently cheaper to ship third world iron to the US than to mine it, even though the ore from US mines is better) When building cars for the US in the US you don't have to do all that shipping.
Related to both the above, there is a lot of land in the US: the US is the largest market for cars in the world. Public transportation works well in Japan because there is not a lot of land to cover. More people in Japan can get by without a car. Europe likewise. (Though I don't know how Europe as a whole compares to North America - I suspect North America is bigger but I'm not sure.)
In Kentucky energy is cheap. The US government built dams on all the rivers in the 30s, so plants in those areas get power for transport and maintenance costs. (see above, Japan doesn't have natural resources) Combine this with all the automation Japan uses, and the low wages in Kentucky, and plants in the US are cheaper than Japan, so long as you maintain your quality.
I have not covered all the issues. I don't even know them all. However tarifs are not the only important consideration, though they may have been the straw that broke the camel's back.
10 years ago (when I worked there) McDonald's was testing a robot fry cook. At the time it was too expensive. However they took one part of the cook and installed that everywhere: a robot to fill the fry baskets.
Fast Food kitchens are a good place for robots. People should not work near hot grease, because of the danger of burns. (One guy I worked with was hospitalized due to burns from cleaning the vats. After that everyone started using the provided gloves)
You are a minority. Most people don't bother finding the better unadvertised deal, unless it has a good presence at WalMart. (Last I heard WalMart is one of the few stores that doesn't accept pay to get the better shelf positions, though I wouldn't be surprised if this has since changed) Most people don't boycott advertisers. I know many Christians who complain about all the evil programing, but it never occurs to them to not watch it. They likewise complain about evil commercials, and then buy the product anyway.
Sure there are a few like you. Not many though, most people are influenced. (Actually I suspect your are influenced in some way... you bought an air bed which even at 1/2 Select Comfort's price is still overpriced for what you get)
P.S. Select Comfort is evil. I have one. The bed itself is just fine, I would recommend an air bed to anyone, but don't buy Select Comfort. I still get their junk mail year latter.
Perhaps some do. I have overcome that. I never really had it though because I never had a TV growing up (and still don't as an adult), so I don't have to brag about giving it up.
I do however have to bring it up every few months with everyone I know, because it is the only way to explain why I have no clue what is going on, on the hot program of the day.
In theory there are programs that would be worth watching. Nobody has given me any reason to believe they exist in reality though. If there is ever something worth watching I will get a TV. I don't believe TV will ever compete with what I can get out of a book though, so I doubt this will happen. (Even if TV is better in one case, is it better by enough to make it worth buying a TV?)
That is true, but there are many factors to account for. What you are buying is more expensive. Ads are for cheaper things that they can sell a lot of. (In general)
I reached the point last year where I didn't need more junk. Up until I turned 30 there were always more gadgets I wanted, and when I could afford them I bought them. Last year I suddenly realized my house if full of them. 2 years ago I might buy the pocket fisherman, today I have to throw something else out if I want to buy it.
Also, at 40 you are starting to think a little more about retirement. So you have more money, but you are saving it. Which is why ads that do target you are for things like investments.
Next, you have already learned the hard way about junk. You are unlikely to buy the pocket fisherman without doing a little research because you know there is junk out there. Your kids have not learned the hard way yet.
Last, and most important: your kids may not earn even close to as much as you, but their income is more disposable. You still pay for most of your kid's meals. You pay for their clothes. (unless they want something more expensive than you are willing to spend, which is common) They are getting free rent, while odds are a good portion of your income is going to a house payment. Not to mention insurance, electric, and all the other little things that you kids don't have to worry about (yet).
What are you watching. People's tastes change over time. Perhaps your taste hasn't yet grown up enough. If you are watching shows targeted at kids, you will see kids advertising. If you would switch to shows that someone your age is expected to watch, you would see ads targeted at your age group.
That last one assumes there is such a show. If you are a male (I'm not sure that this applies to all age groups), you are watching less TV than someone your age 10 years ago would have. Advertisers pay attention. They may have decided that there aren't enough people in your age group watching TV at all to be worth targeting on TV.
Last there is advertisements themselves. Advertiser study this. If they determin there is no way to get results from your generation with a type of ad (TV, paper, radio), they will advertise to someone with less money, but who will give results when they advertise. It may not even be true, but it is what advertisers think is true.
All this combines to make kids a better target for advertising . You are better targeted by a different form of marketing.
There is a weight[1] limit on all current rockets, which depends on the destination, how fast you want to get there, other such factors. Thus if the ESA and US consider a mission that needs and entire rocket launch itself, there is no point in coperating because in the end much will need to be duplicated.
Another reason to not coperate is it makes for fault tolerance. Most missions are one offs that will never be run again (sometimes two are three offs). It takes to long to get a mission going and so long between missions that technology has advanced enough between each one that you need to design from scratch each time. When the US and ESA work separately, failures by one are worked around. Thus there are two working rovers on Mars now, even though the ESA's failed. If they had worked together there might be no rover should the one mission have failed. (and never mind the US funded two itself)
That said, NASA and ESA do work together where it makes sense. That Saturn probe (I can't spell the moon's name) was a joint project. A good way to make use of two limited budgets. Which is often a factor.
[1]Yes, weight, not mass. Mass is completely unlimited, you just trade mass for velocity according to newton's law: f=ma, etc. Weight is limited because you need to get the weight out of a gravity well.
You (and most internet advertisers) are missing one important part of advertising: name recognition. McDonald's is well aware that nobody suddenly says "I'm hungry, lets go to McDonald's" when their ads come on. They just need me to remember them when I am hungry latter.
If they thought the ad was a factor in the decision they wouldn't waste their money advertising outside of meal hours. There is no reason to think I will go to McDonald's at 3pm when their ad comes on. They just want to be sure when I'm hungry their name is considered. (And because it is fast food, when I'm hungry I get satisfied then)
You need to target your ads in the same way. It isn't about click thorough, it is about name recognition. So long as you are targeting the right people, and they see/hear your name, you have succeeded even if they don't click your ad.
Well, there is one other reason to advertise: You like and want to support a program. Not a good one, but if you are choosing between two otherwise equal (band for buck) forums, it is a good one.
McDonald's is a good example. I haven't been to one in a long time, but they are the first thing that comes to mind when I want an example.
Good luck. I have found that regression tests often cost just as much as just paying someone to do the test. The only time they are an advantage is when you run them against the daily builds. The problem is when you do that every day one test will fail because of a new feature, and the test now needs to be changed, not a bug written up. (Of course you will catch bugs too) So you have to have a full time programmer who only job is to keep the regression tests up to date. This can be more expensive than just hiring testers. (Kids are cheap and most of them can operate a computer well enough to do your testing if you keep track of them)
Don't read too much into that downside. The more expensive programmer will in the end catch more bugs with the regression test suite, so your code has less bugs when you ship. However it is expensive.
Automatic regression tests are NOT a substitute for manual regression testing! You still need to plan on some time (though not the 3 weeks you did before) for regression testing, just to make sure the automatic tests didn't miss anything. Much of this will be done as part of your normal tests, but make sure you are watching for regressions when you test.
Obviously you have never seen a real two dollar bill. They are easily the best looking bill the US prints! If you ever get to the US make a side visit to a bank and ask for a two dollar bill (most will have one, which they will trade for $2 in other US currency). Anyone with artistic sense will prefer the two dollar bill because they look so nice. (well for money)
A person can. Only an idiot would actually do so though. Unless you have had police training you are likely to make a mistake and be sued. Even if you have had the latest training, if you are not an officer and make a mistake the courts will look dimly on it.
Don't try it. You can do it, but it isn't worth it. Either the crime is small enough that you let them go, or it is serious enough that you will willingly take life in prison for murdering them, and you shoot. Hopefully you never encounter the latter situation, but if you do at least there is nobody to contradict your testimony so you have a chance of getting a justified defense to work.
If you are English, then you are correct. If you are American, then you are wrong. In best fashion, Americans took the insult and turned it into a compliment.
Think carefully. I have no idea what schools are like in Egypt, and I suspect few others here do either. While US schools sometimes get picked on, we know what they are like, and overall it isn't too bad. Most people think of Egypt as some backwords country where people don't even know what the light bulb is, and few even attend school, much less make it to third grade. So one advantage you will have by doing this is ignorant people will trust the degree. (This same advantage would apply to any distance learning from Europe. American's tend to think the Europe's schools are pretty good, but have no real knowledge)
However there are disadvantages. You loose social time with your peers, which despite the idiots in most high schools, is still useful. (You will have to deal with those idiots for the rest of your life, so you better learn to do it)
Also I would assume that Egyptians would think less of the degree than a local one. (though maybe not, if everyone knows Egyption schools are bad they might think more of it) Which means if you get this you are pretty much forced to move to the US (or at least go to college in the US), which can be difficult to do. The US doesn't let just anyone in anymore, much of Europe would though, and Europe has a good standard of living. (though not 100% the same, Europeans and Americans have different tastes) So consider a European degree which might work better for you.
In general I think less of any distance learning than of the "equivalent" degree earned by attending class. However not everyone is like me, and your friend may not have much a choice. In fact in your friend case, if he gives a good case for Egypt's schools being junk (remember like most people I'm ignorant on the topic so this should be easy), the fact that he went through the effort to get a US degree, even if it is second best, is impressive. The effort of finding and using this program on his own impresses me more than a US high school degree, precisely because he is from Egypt. (but only if he convinces me that Egypt's schools are junk)
Check with the local law. If they refuse to consider this program the equivalent of a local degree it might hamper anything you want to do back home because you cannot claim to have a high school degree, even though you have a "better" US degree.
One last thought. When I was in high school there were some students who were home schooled who came to school for a few hours every day for band and other such classes where a group is required. It would be a good idea to see if the local school will allow you take math and English at home, and then those other classes with locals. Some schools are really against this idea, while some will go for it In fact if you convince the school this program is good you might end up with the local degree and the US degree, which is a good end run around local laws!
For anyone else who is reading slashdot and still in high school, in most states you can do some sort of "post secondary" program. Basically you study at the nearest university, and the school pays for it! This is the best kept secret of high school. Go for it!
This is something you will have to fight for. They have to let you do it, but the school loses money when you do it, so the counselors are told to try and talk you out of it! Don't let them, force the issue. Threaten to drop out if you must (that will scare them because dropouts are the one thing worse for the district than the college students), but take your last two years of high school at college.
Note that you will have to take the B.S. liberal arts classes, and not the interesting engineering classes. Still, those are college credits so they count as generals already taken in a real college anywhere, while the "advanced" high school classes rarely count for much.
More like you have the market on interesting common coins covered. Not cornered, most of the coins you listed are fairly common yet, and so not very valuable. (Though I have never seen a Buffalo Nickel, and some of the others might be slightly uncommon) Mind everything is worth more than face value, but generally not by enough to care unless that is the one coin you need to complete a collection.
Keep that collection though. It may not be very valuable, but a lot of them are the more interesting samples (which is part of why you kept them). Personally I'd rather have that collection than a million dollar penny. (1943 copper pennys are worth a lot, but they look just like 1940 pennys except for the date. Only 3 are known to exist which is why they are worth money. I'll stick with my 1940 penny for my collection)
I don't have a reference, but studies have shown that people tend to learn currency as a kid, and then don't bother learning again. What this means is that if you grew up before the Susan B. (or after it), you never learned to tell the difference. If you were learning your currency when the Susan B. was introduced (which I did, but there were only about 2-3 years where this would be true) you learned the difference between the Susan B and Quarter, and you can automatically tell without problem!
That is one reason countries that introduce new currency tend to replace all the old ones at the same time (IE the Euro replaced a lot of different national currencies), it forces everyone to learn the new system, instead of being lazy and failing to shoe horn one new currency in with what they know.
The US government is well known around the world for NOT changing their currency. Anything minted since the last 1800s is still legal. This is a good thing when your currency is a standard around the world, everyone recognizes it (well everyone where the black market is significant, I suspect western Europe doesn't care cause they have a useful currency). Of course the downside is those old bills are easy to counterfit. Still by not eliminating the old currency they do help the acceptance of the dollar around the world, which is a feature.
There are not many different coins of the same denomination. The 50 cent piece hasn't been made in years, it has been phased out just like your currency, the only difference is we never quit accepting it, we just quit using it. Everything else has only seen minor changes since the late 1800s. (sometimes one face changes. the metal in some of them changed, but overall everything looks similar to what they made 100 years ago
Well no, but on the other hand if I put my own rims on the car (perhaps something I make in my own machine shop out back), nobody will send lawyers after me when I try to sell the original rims on eBay. Try to sell that copy of Windows on eBay and Microsoft will send their lawyers after you.
There is a EULA (which you never have to agree to since you will install Linux on the first boot) that says you can return it for a refund. There are "first sale" laws in most states which may protect your rights to sell this software on eBay. However it is still a hassle. If I can just get a refund for Windows I will do that rather than deal with eBay.
You are wrong. An admin should be smart enough to not run programs like Word as root/administrator, so it won't matter at all that Word cannot run as administrator. When people start feeling pain because MS packages refuse to run as administrator, while other things require it, they will start demanding other packages not require administrator. As the applications change to allow running as a restricted user, Windows will start to see less security issues because users don't have as much power to make mistakes.
So long as MS allows you to do stupid things like run Word while you have administrator rights, people will do stupid things like run Word with administrator rights.
Oh, and if you really do need to run Word while logged in as administrator, there is always run-as. I don't believe you need that ability though. Its just that there is so much badly written software out there that does require administrator that you don't bother trying to run as non-administrator. I understand, just like everyone else I do the same: run Windows as administrator 100% of the time. (I make sure my personal systems are FreeBSD though where I don't have that pain)
About as many times for FreeBSD as for Windows. Only difference is my systems ALL run FreeBSD (I have not had Windows since 3.1), the Windows systems are work machines, that I work with a lot less.
Oh sure, that system was designed for Windows 2000, or so the sticker says. Doesn't mean you can find drivers for it. (at least I know how to pry heat sinks off of chips and google part numbers)
By contrast, FreeBSD tends to work most of the time until I want to do something weird. Try getting something like dmx working in Windows at all. My saterday may have been blown, but I got it working.
Yes I have spent a lot of time getting FreeBSD working. I've spent just as much getting Windows working, despite having less interest in Windows systems.