I signed up for my highschool's laptop program (completely voluntary) back in 2000. All students were required to provide their own laptops, and since the school was "PC-only", that's what students were told to buy. I ended up being probably one of maybe two students in the program who did have a Mac. Never had any trouble completing any assignments, and actually had it a little easier since some of the "security" measures they tried to implement were only Windows compatible, so I wasn't bothered by it.

While I find it cool that a school has decided to be pro-Mac, I think it's unreasonable for the school to dictate exactly which computer students need to buy. I could understand if the school said "we only support Macintosh" and PC-laptopers had to troubleshoot their own problems. But there's no reason students shouldn't be able to use PC laptops at their own risk.

Point taken. When I'd initially read that quote, I had (falsely) assumed that the music they had been creating was something VERY simple, like just a combination of single-frequency sine waves. However after finally being able to connect to the site, and listening to the samples, they appear to have created... well, sound. Like you said.

It depends to what level of detail you want to look at, but there are some other waveforms that at least have their own names. I mean, to some extent these can still technically be represented by sine waves, but generally seem to have their own characteristics.

Guild wars has been mentioned a little above, but I feel like the character classes definitely offer some of this cross-class, cross-trinity action. While the warrior would seem like the obvious choice for a tank, there are build for the other classes (especially the monk) that make them viable tanks. Likewise, most of the classes have a few options available for different types of damage (direct, AoE, etc).

Part of what might be contributing to this though, is the dual-class nature of the game. Each character has a primary class, and a secondary class, and can pull from most of the skills from both classes.

Agreed. I think it was more sound than music. There's a certain musical quality to it, sure. Just like there's music in the breeze and the ocean. But in this case it's just a lot more annoying.

Why are they rolling my solar shingles? And who is this "our" that I'm apparently sharing my solar shingles with? Won't they be more effective if they're flat? Maybe I need to go read the article to learn more...

Thank you, I was trying to find what kind of temperatures we were talking about. I think 446C is unlikely, as you say, to be encountered without causing some other serious issues.

Does anyone know how hot we're actually talking to phase-change the material? I understand that the whole unit would probably get fairly warm during use, but on the scale of each bit, how much heat does it really take?

I worked at a school district for some time with a significant Mac deployment. We used Mike Bombich's software extensively, and especially for deployment, his NetBoot utility.

It does take a little bit of configuration on the server-side to start, but it looks like some other posters have already linked to tutorials for setting that up. MB has a utility to create a net-bootable-image that can used to image that machine with your choice of disk images (we had different images for different architectures, and different software packages), or can be automated to pick an image automatically.

His NetBoot software also has the ability to run a shell script to complete configuration settings that may need to be done on a per-machine basis (setting the computer network name for example).

For running updates, and modifying settings after the initial imaging, Apple's remote desktop is actually very useful. Although the feature set is limited, it DOES allow for the execution of shell commands from the Remote Desktop interface, which makes upgrading or changing settings on a large number of machines fairly easy.

So angry that pronouns start to go missing! (Or ZekoMal is right)

Ah good, I was hoping someone would make the Silly Putty link.

This is especially relevant as I live in an area where cities are very concerned about looking nice, which means for some reason they don't like building very many ugly cell towers. Sure, I guess the city looks great, but it makes for awful cell reception!

I keep mine for the exact same reason. If I ever need to make an important call (business related, or for bills, tech support, etc) where just calling back isn't an option, I trust my landline to not disconnect me or lose signal.

Take a look at True#. Granted, it would be nice to have all this functionality as part of the same engine we use to search the web, but at least someone's doing it.

Why the fear of x.2?