Vista Ultimate (OEM) is $176 at newegg. If you're building a new PC or upgrading an old one you're almost guaranteed to be able to get a combo with your motherboard, CPU or Hard Drive with at least $50 off, and possibly up to $70, which generally makes it cheaper than every version of Vista except Home Basic. They don't generally have any combos on the other versions of Vista either.
If you're worried about the (OEM) issue, read the disclaimer:
Use of this OEM System Builder Channel software is subject to the terms of the Microsoft OEM System Builder License. This software is intended for pre-installation on a new personal computer for resale. This OEM System Builder Channel software requires the assembler to provide end user support for the Windows software and cannot be transferred to another computer once it is installed. To acquire Windows software with support provided by Microsoft please see our full package "Retail" product offerings.
What you call "grinding" some people may still find to be some fun. It may not be their favorite part of the game, but they get enough enjoyment out of it to not mind it that much. They'll eventually get enough gold or xp or whatever to go do something else, but they aren't in a hurry and they get at least some enjoyment out of "the grind". Frankly, they probably aren't even aware that they are "grinding".
IANAL but I believe there is a significant legal difference between a license (the GPL) and a contract. If someone "breaks" the GPL you would sue them for copyright infringement, not breach of contract. Those are two very different sets of laws.
But what surprised Dr Marti was the fact that the most common variable among the casualties wasn't training surface, running speed, weekly mileage or 'competitive training motivation'.
It wasn't even body weight or a history of previous injury. It was the price of the shoe. Runners in shoes that cost more than $95 were more than twice as likely to get hurt as runners in shoes that cost less than $40.
I don't know what hardware you are dealing with, but I expect most of my computer hardware to work for several years without any degradation at all. I'll allow that hard drives or fans might fail, and hard drives might develop bad sectors. But the CPU, motherboard, RAM and pretty much everything else shouldn't degrade at all in a 5 year period, especially if you clean out the dust now and then. Laptops certainly might have problems due to the abuse they experience, but they should not just "degrade". The only reason any computer on any OS should get any slower is from too much crap getting installed (or subconsciously comparing it to a newer computer) and should be fixed by a clean install. At the most you might need a new hard drive if the hard drive is going bad.
those will not work anywhere else outside of a FLOSS OS/Device.
There are ext2/ext3 filesystem drivers available for windows, so it's quite possible. If you want to get really crazy you could even partition the drive and put the ext2 drivers in a FAT32 partition to access the ext2 partition when needed. You have to do some tweaking of the drive to allow Windows to recognize multiple partitions on it though.
Unfortunately, no Congress does not really get to determine what the Constitution or anything else the Legislative branch writes means. The Judicial and Executive branches of the government get to determine what the Legislative branch meant. If the Legislative branch disagrees than it can attempt to craft new legislation or amend the old.
What disturbs me is that there must be a behind-the-scenes flag on stories to tell real stories from April 1 stories, unless they just give it for any April 1 post, but that would be deceptive advertising of acheivements.
It's certainly possible to move the whole Documents and Settings folder to a new drive even after the install. I've done it several times and it isn't all that horrible. It is a lot of manually searching and replacing in the registry though.
But the device has an internal battery that will last approximately 4 hours, so it should be able to handle that, assuming the battery is capable of driving the CF backup and isn't limited to only maintaining the DDR.
I agree, but's it's not so much about webservers or infrastructure servers, which can be chosen directly by the company. It's more about the servers that runs whatever software the core business runs on, which can be dozens or hundreds of different applications, usually each with their own server(s). The platform for those applications is whatever the vendor chooses to develop on, and most companies don't really care what platform the vendor uses, so long as it interfaces cleanly with whatever they already use.
I work in healthcare and we use more applications than most industries, and it seems that the trend in this area is very slowly going to *nix systems, but I've seen *nix systems replaced by Windows systems as well. The real *nix weakness here is that Microsoft really targets these vendors in a way that *nix just isn't cohesive enough to do.
To really make an impact and help educate this teacher might I suggest seeing if your network admin or a computer science professor would write this woman a letter as well. I think having someone from her field write her a letter might have a bit more impact on her. I'd try to get them to include a live CD while they were at it.
I consider the MS Trackball Explorer to be the best pointing device ever built. Of course, since it was such an excellent product, they quit manufacturing it. It's legendary among trackball fans. If mine ever dies I will probably seriously spend the several hundred dollars it costs to get one now via E-bay or other channels. I'd much prefer for MS to start making them again or for Logitech to make a similar design.
The programming skills required to make a no-cd patch and the skills required to make a good game are very different. The first thing required to make a good game is a good game designer, who doesn't necessarily even need to know how to program (although it probably helps) - then somebody needs to code it.
Actually, if you RTFA you'll find that YouTube/Google staff are not part of this agreement and their full data will be included. So they are not protecting themselves at all with this one.
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Vista Ultimate (OEM) is $176 at newegg. If you're building a new PC or upgrading an old one you're almost guaranteed to be able to get a combo with your motherboard, CPU or Hard Drive with at least $50 off, and possibly up to $70, which generally makes it cheaper than every version of Vista except Home Basic. They don't generally have any combos on the other versions of Vista either.
If you're worried about the (OEM) issue, read the disclaimer:
Oh no! We lose MS support! How horrible! You can even check the full Microsoft OEM System Builder License yourself at http://oem.microsoft.com/public/sblicense/2008_sb_licenses/fy08_sb_license_english.pdf
IANAL, but it appears that as long as I "assemble" the system and support it myself everything is legal.
Snopes says undetermined on that one... http://www.snopes.com/music/media/cdlength.asp
So your sister still hasn't recovered from that moose bite?
What you call "grinding" some people may still find to be some fun. It may not be their favorite part of the game, but they get enough enjoyment out of it to not mind it that much. They'll eventually get enough gold or xp or whatever to go do something else, but they aren't in a hurry and they get at least some enjoyment out of "the grind". Frankly, they probably aren't even aware that they are "grinding".
IANAL but I believe there is a significant legal difference between a license (the GPL) and a contract. If someone "breaks" the GPL you would sue them for copyright infringement, not breach of contract. Those are two very different sets of laws.
Nope, they checked that too. From TFA:
I don't know what hardware you are dealing with, but I expect most of my computer hardware to work for several years without any degradation at all. I'll allow that hard drives or fans might fail, and hard drives might develop bad sectors. But the CPU, motherboard, RAM and pretty much everything else shouldn't degrade at all in a 5 year period, especially if you clean out the dust now and then. Laptops certainly might have problems due to the abuse they experience, but they should not just "degrade". The only reason any computer on any OS should get any slower is from too much crap getting installed (or subconsciously comparing it to a newer computer) and should be fixed by a clean install. At the most you might need a new hard drive if the hard drive is going bad.
those will not work anywhere else outside of a FLOSS OS/Device.
There are ext2/ext3 filesystem drivers available for windows, so it's quite possible. If you want to get really crazy you could even partition the drive and put the ext2 drivers in a FAT32 partition to access the ext2 partition when needed. You have to do some tweaking of the drive to allow Windows to recognize multiple partitions on it though.
Unfortunately, no Congress does not really get to determine what the Constitution or anything else the Legislative branch writes means. The Judicial and Executive branches of the government get to determine what the Legislative branch meant. If the Legislative branch disagrees than it can attempt to craft new legislation or amend the old.
(the total varies between 4 and some large number every month)
My head just asploded as I tried to comprehend that being the literal truth. It was kinda fun though.
What disturbs me is that there must be a behind-the-scenes flag on stories to tell real stories from April 1 stories, unless they just give it for any April 1 post, but that would be deceptive advertising of acheivements.
I think a more general "-1 Whooosshh" option for all missed jokes would be better.
It's not as customizable as a desktop, but DIY laptops are possible... http://www.tomsguide.com/us/diy-laptop-whitebook,review-1286.html
It's certainly possible to move the whole Documents and Settings folder to a new drive even after the install. I've done it several times and it isn't all that horrible. It is a lot of manually searching and replacing in the registry though.
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=236621
Yes...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatal_hilarity
But the device has an internal battery that will last approximately 4 hours, so it should be able to handle that, assuming the battery is capable of driving the CF backup and isn't limited to only maintaining the DDR.
Wow, you must really like that assistant!
Actually the injunction preventing Buffalo from selling wireless routers was lifted last month, so they should be available again soon...
http://www.buffalotech.com/press/releases/buffalos-wireless-injunction-stayed/
And the slashdot article from September: http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/07/1937230
I agree, but's it's not so much about webservers or infrastructure servers, which can be chosen directly by the company. It's more about the servers that runs whatever software the core business runs on, which can be dozens or hundreds of different applications, usually each with their own server(s). The platform for those applications is whatever the vendor chooses to develop on, and most companies don't really care what platform the vendor uses, so long as it interfaces cleanly with whatever they already use.
I work in healthcare and we use more applications than most industries, and it seems that the trend in this area is very slowly going to *nix systems, but I've seen *nix systems replaced by Windows systems as well. The real *nix weakness here is that Microsoft really targets these vendors in a way that *nix just isn't cohesive enough to do.
To really make an impact and help educate this teacher might I suggest seeing if your network admin or a computer science professor would write this woman a letter as well. I think having someone from her field write her a letter might have a bit more impact on her. I'd try to get them to include a live CD while they were at it.
I consider the MS Trackball Explorer to be the best pointing device ever built. Of course, since it was such an excellent product, they quit manufacturing it. It's legendary among trackball fans. If mine ever dies I will probably seriously spend the several hundred dollars it costs to get one now via E-bay or other channels. I'd much prefer for MS to start making them again or for Logitech to make a similar design.
But a short time spent with google will help you find out how to embed the high-quality version.
Because regular Vista doesn't suck enough!
The programming skills required to make a no-cd patch and the skills required to make a good game are very different. The first thing required to make a good game is a good game designer, who doesn't necessarily even need to know how to program (although it probably helps) - then somebody needs to code it.
Actually, if you RTFA you'll find that YouTube/Google staff are not part of this agreement and their full data will be included. So they are not protecting themselves at all with this one.