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Comment The real failure that you've all missed.... (Score 1) 1343

One of the teachers said this in the interview:

"I get their essays and I go 'You obviously don't know what a sentence fragment is. You think commas are sort of like parmesan cheese that you sprinkle on your words'," said Budra.

If this is what the educator at the University level is using as "English", is it any wonder that the students are failing?

(for anyone that missed it, we do not "go" some particular set of words, we "say" them.

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Linux Kernel 2.6.32 Released 195

diegocg writes "Linus Torvalds has officially released the version 2.6.32 of the Linux kernel. New features include virtualization memory de-duplication, a rewrite of the writeback code faster and more scalable, many important Btrfs improvements and speedups, ATI R600/R700 3D and KMS support and other graphic improvements, a CFQ low latency mode, tracing improvements including a 'perf timechart' tool that tries to be a better bootchart, soft limits in the memory controller, support for the S+Core architecture, support for Intel Moorestown and its new firmware interface, run-time power management support, and many other improvements and new drivers. See the full changelog for more details."

Comment Re:Good idea (Score 2, Insightful) 528

Did you miss the boat? This is called a loss-leader. It's designed to combat Linux by saturating the market with a "cost-free" variant of Windows, which makes the average user go get it. "It's Windows - it must be good. It's been around for years." Then once they have you hooked, they charge you for the rest because it costs you too much intellectually to use something else. The built-in expiry means that as of 2010, you have a few million guaranteed sales of people that have gotten addicted to their Windows 7 environment. This is how Dealers keep their Junkies at their mercy. See post #2. The first one is free. So that you come back and pay for more.

Comment Don't settle, use the Cache Luke. (Score 2, Interesting) 166

Well, IMHO, IANAL, but I would have done the following:

Go into Internet Explorer. Go to tools|internet options|Termporary Internet Files|Settings.
Set the "Amount of disk space to use" to a 10G or so.
Go and open every spam email.
Clone the hard drive.
Send it to the judge.
Voila.

You could have defeated any intent to have the case dismissed by the "expert witness" by doing something very simple.

"Let the Cache flow through you"

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