^^ This is a good plan. Transfer credits are a big plus.

FWIW, I think you need to keep looking. Here in Minnesota I'm enrolled in a nights and weekends college program for working adults at Augsburg College (no online though I'm afraid), and it's a real, accredited, 4 year school. Getting my company to pay for it too through tuition reimbursement.

and here I though it meant Kobe Bryant. The jokes not as fun now :-(

No arrow to the knee choice???

Already moderated in this forum... but posting anyway.

That is NOT what the jury said if you read the full statement. Your as bad as fox news with taking a snippet and carrying on with it, totally out of context. The jury said they took the easy questions first, that could be agreed upon with only a small amount of discussion. And saved the ones where people were really far apart and divided and saved those for later discussion. This is the same way you take standardized tests. You knock out the easy questions first. When this person said they skipped prior art... they didn't disregard it or refuse to consider it. They tabled it for the lengthier discussion due to its complexity (skipped it from the initial discussion) and did indeed discuss it in quite a bit of detail. Please quit putting your faux-news tidbit spin on this. That's been discredited several times. Go read up on it.

Indeed... buy it now... $9.99

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Well, I think part of it is that the money he's 'giving' away is used to fund programs that help his investments. For example, from what I've seen in news coverage, the vaccine programs they set up buy drugs from Merck. Sure, the foundation goes in there and sets up a program and buys the first round of vaccines for children. Now the program is up and running. The foreign government keeps it going (or other aid organizations do with monetary contributions) and continue to buy discounted drugs for the program from Merck. This earns the Gates Foundation a return.

Same with crops. They are heavily invested in Monsanto. Particularily GMO crops (a whole 'nother debate on the wisdom of that). They go in and buy seeds and agricultural equipment from Monsanto and give it to foreign farmers. As you may know though, these seeds have to be repurchased every year. It's not like traditional seeds that can be harvested and replanted. So the farmers become dependent on Monsanto, again earning the foundation a return.

I really hope the news reports and blog posts are wrong, and that the foundation really is doing good in the world. All that money could do amazing things. A lot of sites though have demonstrated how the foundation could just be a huge tax shelter for the Gates' wealth. I suppose if they donate it all when they die, it doesn't matter..... but we don't know how serious this 'pledge' is 10 or 20 years down the road.

I would have recommended a Roku or AppleTV with Netflix and Hulu Plus.... but Hulu Plus just started running political ads. Arrrgghh. Amazon Prime is a nice to have, but not needed. I rarely find something there that Netflix doesn't have.... unless you want reality tv stuff or those "dirty job" type shows. Amazon Prime streaming seems to have those in spades.

I did a holiday stint at clothing retailer last year for the discount and to make some holiday cash. Cashier's were required to finagle 11 new emails - that's new, never before collected emails, and 2 approved credit cards per shift. Those that made the goal got to stay on permanently. Those that did not were not offered a permanent position. The store was going to try again with the next batch of temp workers around easter, than again during back to school.

Customer survey scores only mattered if you routinely got negative scores. Bagging well didn't matter. Speed at the register didn't matter, in fact you were encouraged to slow down the line and were trained with all kinds of "countering" sales lines to say to people that declined the credit offer. Going slower gave you more time to work them over. You were supposed to keep trying until the customer firmly said no (basically when they reached the point of being pissed). They even had little charts and tables taped to the cash register so you could quickly estimate they 15/20/25% off so you could tell the customer that even just applying for the store credit card would save them 'x' amount of dollars right now on this purchase. The store talked a lot about advancement opporunity and growth through store provided training, but it was all just sales hype videos.

So don't get mad when they hound you at the register.... their job depends on it. Even if it is exactly the opposite of what you actually want in a retail experience.

I bought it for my new laptop but hate the ribbon. However, the huge student discount was very alluring, and they don't sell Office 2007 anymore and I like to stay legit. Plus, on the Mac, at least you still get the menus in conjunction with the ribbon. Just because someone bought it is not an endorsement of the ribbon.

That not at all true. Syncing to iTunes had/has a well documented and FREE approach. You just need to read the itunes xml file and develop your own sync software. Palm didn't follow the spec. They chose they lazy route of having Apple do all the heavily lifting by spoofing the device id of the Palm device to pretend it was an iPod. This was in violation of the USB spec and the USB industry association came down hard on them for botching the protcol. jellomizer is right. Palm didn't want to be professional and code this the right way. They wanted a quick and dirty hack with as little effort as possible. They *intentionally* took a route that caused their customers a bunch of hassle and caused an advertised feature to be non-existent.

OoooOOoo... can I play too? My brother's on his third xbox 360. The best part was, he worked at UPS and shipped the units back and forth all day long. He said the volume was staggering. The reason he knew is that people getting their Xbox back would usually be at school during the day so they'd get a UPS "We were here, you were not" sticky on their door. Rather than waiting for the next day delivery, the kids/teens would make their parents go to the local distribution center to pick it up in the evening that same day, after 6pm when all the trucks were back. He worked in the area that had to pull all the "hold" packages off trucks and bring them up front. He said 70% of all those pulls were xboxen.

I was actually just on a jury a few weeks ago for a DUI case.

There were three things we were asked to determine as part of the charges:

1) Was the defendant "under the influence" of alcohol, and we were instructed that BAC has nothing to do with whether or not alcohol has influenced you. A person with a high tolerance might not be influenced, which a person with no experience drinking and a small stature may be under the influence of alcohol. There was a long description of things that a reasonable person might consider to be under the inlfuence. This was count one of the charges.

2) We were also asked to determine if the prosecution proved that the defendant had a BAC of 0.08 or more (a separate statute, wherein operating a motor vehicle with a BAC of 0.08+ is a crime). This was count 2 of the charges.

3) We were also asked to determine if the prosecution proved the defendant had a BAC of 0.20 or more, in which case this would become an aggravated crime. for the second charge.

So at least in my state, you can get a DUI without blowing over the limit if the prosecution can convince a jury your driving was impaired, caused by the influence of alcohol. The 0.08 limit is just an automatic threshold in which you have committed a crime.

Xerox was granted options on $1 million in pre-IPO Apple stock in exchange for granting a team of Apple's engineers 3 days access to PARC, it's engineers, and it's technology. Xerox was explicitly aware that Apple intended to use this time to gain knowledge on GUIs and human interface design and they were cool with it. This was all covered quite well in that old 90's PBS special "Triumph of the Nerds". The woman that managed the PARC was seriously upset and got a letter from the higher ups resolving her of any responsibility. She knew they were giving away the crown jewels to Apple.

Microsoft on the other hand, did not have a technology license from Xerox. John Sculley of Apple was upset that Microsoft copied the Lisa (Mac) interface in a product called Interface Manager after Apple gave them Lisa/Mac source code to help them optimize their products. Bill Gates told Sculley that he was happy to cancel all Mac software development (Microsoft was the main Apple software developer at the time) if Apple sued MS over Interface Manager. Sculley blinked and signed a contract allowing Microsoft to sell Interface Manager (later renamed to Windows 1.0) in exchange for a commitment to continue to develop Mac software and a 2 year exclusive on Excel (Microsoft's then-new version of it's successful Multiplan spreadsheet package).

So whenever this argument comes up, I just roll my eyes. Everyone is pretty much in the clear here. MS fanboys claiming Apple stole Xerox's stuff are wrong, and Apple fanboys claiming MS stole from Apple are wrong too (I suppose you can say they started copying it initially, but Apple sure caved fast). People need to simmer down.

My friend here's trying to convince me that any independent contractors who were working on the uncompleted Death Star were innocent victims when it was destroyed by the Rebels. But I know a contractor listens to his heart when taking on a job :-)

Will this work to save the attachments somewhere? I have a similar question to the OP but in reverse. I'm tired of searching my email for attachments that have been sent to me over the years (going back to '97) and would like to take my mbox, run it thru a program, and have all the attachments end up in a directory of my choosing. I can then delete or file them, having them now in a more sane place than using email as a file system