Through modern medicine a great number of people who should have died are living and having children. Their "bad" genes pollute the gene pool in an anti-Darwinism fashion. In addition, with birth control and other advancements and societal influences, the majority of the children are coming from the poor and the stupid, which seems anti-Darwin as well. If this de-evolution continues it will doom the human race. Not in 100 years though.
I don't have the perception that Lenovo's laptops are junk now, but I can't see how they are superior to laptops from other companies that cost hundreds less. You knew you could trust an IBM Thinkpad...without that they just can't justify the price markup. If their pricing was more competitive I bet you would see a lot more sales.
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (where I attended, also in Terre Haute) has required all students purchase the school sanctioned laptop for that year since 1995 or 1996. Spending $4,000 on the laptop plus $225 per year for maintenance fee was pretty insane. I did end up going through 2 motherboards and 3 CD-ROM drives, which were replaced for free, but not going with Acer would have solved most of that problem. The Thinkpad should be much more resilient, great choice by ISU.
The merits of laptops in the classroom were dubious. There were a few classes where they were VERY useful or even necessary, but they were few enough that having them in a "computer lab" would have probably sufficed. I think it makes sense to go to requiring that students have a computer, but making them buy a (presumably) overpriced laptop is not necessary.
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Thanks a million, can't watch video at work. This really should be shocking stuff and the fact that it isn't is even worse.
Through modern medicine a great number of people who should have died are living and having children. Their "bad" genes pollute the gene pool in an anti-Darwinism fashion. In addition, with birth control and other advancements and societal influences, the majority of the children are coming from the poor and the stupid, which seems anti-Darwin as well. If this de-evolution continues it will doom the human race. Not in 100 years though.
I don't have the perception that Lenovo's laptops are junk now, but I can't see how they are superior to laptops from other companies that cost hundreds less. You knew you could trust an IBM Thinkpad...without that they just can't justify the price markup. If their pricing was more competitive I bet you would see a lot more sales.
Video can be faked pretty handily and it still seems to be a gold standard of proof. I've been concerned about THAT one for years now.
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (where I attended, also in Terre Haute) has required all students purchase the school sanctioned laptop for that year since 1995 or 1996. Spending $4,000 on the laptop plus $225 per year for maintenance fee was pretty insane. I did end up going through 2 motherboards and 3 CD-ROM drives, which were replaced for free, but not going with Acer would have solved most of that problem. The Thinkpad should be much more resilient, great choice by ISU.
The merits of laptops in the classroom were dubious. There were a few classes where they were VERY useful or even necessary, but they were few enough that having them in a "computer lab" would have probably sufficed. I think it makes sense to go to requiring that students have a computer, but making them buy a (presumably) overpriced laptop is not necessary.
It wasn't really hind sight. There were thousands of people trying to tell the record companies that at the time. I was and I'm not even that smart!