Courts have nothing to do with it--a court can only order him out if the landlord has asked the court to do so. What you should wonder at is why the UNIVERSITY took so long in getting him out of there.

Sounds like it's time to transition your support job to the next generation.

That would be a logical choice, and if it works out, then everybody is better off. But just because a kid is young and impressionable does not mean that he is willing to become the family tech guy.

I ended up playing with computers a lot at that age, but then, I was also brutally nearsighted, terrible at sports, and into videogames. My younger brothers have had the benefit of far better computers and so forth than I had at their age, but they also had totally different interests. They don't really care about the computer as the computer, and are perfectly happy to deal with the computer as a mysterious magic box.

Honking geese fly south

Cacophonously, just like

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You're lucky you were dealing with the military. Military types are used to order, discipline, and process. They have to be--that's how they're trained. Ordinary users in less hierarchical environments will be more difficult to manage.

Resolution isn't the whole story here, either--there's also dynamic range. Black and white film emulsions, properly exposed and processed, have extremely wide dynamic ranges. Big negatives show tones better. (If you want to be blown away, have a look at some of Edward Weston's photographic work, done on 8"x10" view cameras). NASA probably went with Hasselblads as a compromise: they needed something reasonably portable that could give useful dynamic range images, too. I

Users are not born with an innate sense of how to use a computer--they are trained. What passes for intuitiveness really means "creating an environment identical to that on which the user was initially trained." That means aping Windows. There's only one flaw with this: if you ape Windows well enough, users will begin to transfer their already-learned behaviors. Thus, no matter how "intuitive" the interface, a Windows user will do Windows things. He will want MS Office. He will want Silverlight. He will want to know why BonziBuddy won't run, or why the game he bought won't install. The only way Linux was going to win the desktop was to reach out and capture untrained, impressionable users-- school-age kids or retirees with no previous computer experience.

I carry my eee 701 in a surplus gasmask bag: http://ouij.livejournal.com/252817.html Way more punk rock than any lame laptop case.

Wait, isn't that where Latveria is located?