Yes and LEGO has incredible quality control. But I suspect many of their potential customers shop at Walmart discount stores and are more concerned with cost than with quality especially since there is a great potential the blocks will be lost. The age when children can be trusted with a 200 USD kit there is fierce competition with video games and other toys and children's interest with blocks will start to drop off shortly after the 10 - 12 year mark.

No crap they sold out. Branding is now all they have left after losing their cases preventing competition http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lego_Group#Trademark_and_patents The only way they can continue to compete with companies like MegaBlocks is to have exclusive rights to Star Wars or Harry Potter etc etc. Honestly how much justification can you have for $50 USD plastic blocks unless you are the only game in town with whats "cool".

Locking down the computer is a definite no matter the OS. Also you should only see the AP and no one else on the network. For BYOD you should be using a level playing field anyway like Google Docs so everyone sees the same stuff rather than "I can't open this .pages file!" This also allows for easier sharing because everything is going out the gateway rather than around the LAN. Cloud usage in this case should remove the need for an AD and home shares.

I can't I'm verklempt

Agreed. I am more interested if it means I don't need insurance. I figure the car company can cover all of it to ensure they make the safest product.

You dont have to eat meat and if it became a smaller portion of peoples diets all the better. The grass lands that these animals use are enourmous for your return in meat. I would say chickens and goats are a better option for people than cows. If sanitation was a top priority for towns they could focus on making sure families all were feed from a small local farm with no polution into the water or soil like the estrogen issues of large farm runoffs were have today.

http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/10/ocuspec-raises-1-3m-from-andreessen-and-others-to-build-an-affordable-kinect/
that was posted like a year ago, i searched through slashdot for OcuSpec but got nothing. maybe there was an article a while ago but it appears to have gone unnoticed for a year here.
from the website:
How do I pre-order a LEAP?
We have a limited number available for our first shipment this winter. Early birds catch the worm – so click here to order. We won’t charge you until the product is ready to ship.
What are the tech specifications for the LEAP?
TBD.

Huh? how are specs to be determined if you have them?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_v._Intel
When you get all the sales you get to build facilities that can make you even better toys.

Anonymous is correct, schools are not eligible for Microsoft licensing along with almost every other vendor on Techsoup which really makes it useless for only the smallest of qualifying 501 c 3s. http://www.techsoup.org/stock/restrictions.asp#ms

Organizations that are not eligible: Not all 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations are eligible for participation in the Microsoft Donation Program. Those that are not eligible should visit Microsoft Volume Licensing for Industries for more information about charity licensing; they may still be eligible for discounted software from Microsoft. The following types of organizations are ineligible for Microsoft software donations:
Governmental organizations or agencies.
Educational institutions, including K-12 schools, colleges, universities, and trade schools. ...

I would suggest looking for a place that sells off lease PCs that come with Win7 Pro COAs you can find PCs with 3Gig of memory for $200 USD. There are a bunch of places that specialize in selling off leases to schools only and some have lifetime warranties - lifetime meaning for as long as you own it. They just keep gutting PCs and new ones are always coming in for them.

Absolutely your response is the only possibly reason why someone would brake hard. After training all the deer in my town not to run out of the woods full speed without looking on 55 mph roads that is. And when you are the only person on the road how will they be able to corroborate your side of the story? Interview the deer of course, that's what we train the for! +5 Insightful on your comment shows how many cattle roam through ./ Moo

Who pays for that year? If it isn't their money why the fuck would they care.

totally its so hard to find a trustworthy place to download nmap http://nmap.org/dist/nmap-5.51-setup.exe
how about sourceforge?

While I agree it is likely and annoying I also think it is a good thing in many ways. I know so many people that run VLC or some other OSS because the awesome stuff like WMP wants me to install a codec "How come I can hear it but can't see my movie!" They have no clue what OSS is just that they can google VLC anytime they get a PC and watch their kids baby movies without a second thought on tweaking software or downloading codecs. These kind of artificial walls have made the community stronger by providing a goal to strive for. Be better than that shit.

Thats pretty dark. Now you don't have to live in the basement