We're talking about part-time work-study jobs for college students - don't you think that biometric timeclocks are a little overkill? There's maybe a dozen employees, all part-time, performing menial clerical jobs, making nearly minimum wage, with 80% of their wages getting subsidized through their financial aid.

The best thing is for the professor to make the slides available online before class so that students don't need to worry about replicating the presented information. Any additional facts can be jotted in the margins of a pre-printed set of notes.

I could see this working in law school; you probably don't have the sorts of complex equations and diagrams that students are likely to see in science, math & engineering.

Most people in the US also have taxes taken out of their paychecks throughout the year. Filing your taxes at the end of the year just handles over/under-payment & accounts from other sources of income and various sorts of deductions. People make a big deal about it but, in all honesty, I've never had to spend more than about an hour on the process (single, one regular job, no significant investments).

In practice unless there is an incentive for sharing there is a good chance they won't be "kept free and open", rather they will remain completely undistributed and locked up.

This is precisely why Wikipedia will never succeed.

Standing on a street corner, going to the maps and asking for my current location results in locations quite a ways away from my location. Maybe I have a defective GPS reciever. All I know is that I would never even try to rely on this GPS to give me directions.

If you think the iPhone is bad, my G1, an actual Android device, is nearly worthless. My friends' iPhones can usually pin you down to within a block or so when outside. My G1 might get you within a quarter mile - It's only slightly more accurate than searching on my current zip-code.

Even better - last time I restarted Firefox it popped up a message saying :

Firefox has determined that the following add-ons are known to cause stability or security problems:

• Microsoft .NET Framework Assistant
• Windows Presentation Foundation

These add-ons have a high risk of causing stability or security problems and have been blocked, but a restart is required to disable them completely

Does that mean that after watching some gambling addict drop their entire SSI check into a video lottery machine and walk away empty handed, I actually do have a better chance of getting a big hit if drop $5 in?

I don't know about CDs but in a previous life I tracked/projected DVD sales for a living. For DVD's, Walmart is over 50% of the market.

The lowest you'd be able to go would be a 386sx - previous x86 machines didn't have a 32-bit protected mode. There's some other unix-like systems that you might be able to get running on older gear but there's going to be limited software availability.

In a nutshell, schizophrenia is, when you stop accepting external factors for cause and effect, but start to make your own inner rules, which are detached from reality (the delusions), and act like this were the reality. They often think they would have some superhuman control over (their) "reality" too.

It's sad to think that people can be so detached from reality. I pray for them.

Domain speculation is closer to racketeering than a legitimate business. They provide no real value & simply exploit a weakness in the system to extort money from people doing useful work.

Wouldn't it be nice if there was a a tool that let you run outdated software, including all of its OS dependencies, in a little walled garden, allowing you to run modern software for all other uses?

It'd be even cooler if we could get major OS vendors to provide this functionality as part of the OS

Distribution of physical media is expensive and, given that nearly every PC worth speaking of will be on the 'net, why bother with shrinkwrap distribution at all? Online distribution channels such as Valve's Steam and Stardock's Impulse allow you to skip over the brick and mortar middleman completely. The systems handle purchasing, online distribution, updating, network game matchmaking & present a far lower barrier to entry for small software houses while providing a mechanism for purchasing games that's as convenient as downloading a pirated copy.