If you're open to considering locations in Canada, then Shad Valley is a great program that a lot of my friends have gone to. It's hosted by a university in Canada and is well suited for someone interested in tech. I'd recommend the University of Waterloo location as it probably provides the best exposure to the tech companies in Canada.
The non-technical user is a creature of habbit. I've seen them in a confused panic
I will admit, I still haven't figured out the ribbon thing. I've used the hell out of Office 2003 and before. But, every time I sit down to a machine with 2007 or later I get frustrated and either go back to a machine with an earlier version I get frustrated and just install OpenOffice.
I am a "quick key" user (or keyboard short cuts) and none of them work the way I was used to in earlier versions of Word, so I have to "Icon Hunt" which is such an unproductive feeling.
Anyway, my point is even technical users are creatures of habit and can feel this frustration. In the case of the above posting, I think the real problem won't be non-techies (who are simply directed to the icon and application they need), it'll be the techies who want root access (and won't be granted it) and want to install every social networking and widget app known to man. They're so used to all the little windows hacks (that they never needed in the first place) and will get so frustrated they can't hack their system they'll stand around at the printer and bitch and moan about how "they can't do anything they used to."
Tamran
All the versions of Microsoft Office that I've used with a ribbon (2007 & 2010) automatically recognize shortcuts and treat them like Office 2003. For example in Excel 2007, if you enter Alt+E, S that brings up the Paste Special dialog just like in Excel 2003. It's not obvious at first that the shortcuts will work, but give them a shot and it should function in the same way.
I use a program called Sandboxie that works quite well in doing sandboxed IPC (along with file and registry operations) in any app, so it's definitely possible with third party apps, but it's nice to see that sandboxing is finally natively built into the browsers themselves.
While $12,000 is quite a bit of money, it's certainly much lower than the July 2001 cost of $100,000,000. Also, my understanding is that most uses don't require sequencing the entire genome, but rather just a small subset of it. The cost per megabase has dropped from nearly $10,000 to less than $0.20, which does seem quite cheap.
On the other hand, Mr. Corporate IT, MCSE, is going to be very, very unhappy if he learns that some skeezy android application is siphoning off the internal company directory to some offshore FTP site because RIM has provided the android environment with a link to the Blackberry side.
What prevents a blackberry app from doing this right now? I don't see this as a new problem introduced by android support so much as an issue with any malicious app whether for blackberry or android.
This is otherwise known as the Sam Vimes "Boots" Theory of Economic Injustice.
I'm pretty sure there's almost nothing Terry Pratchett hasn't written about at one point or another.
This just seems like an argument for why credit is important to have if used appropriately.
On my spaceship, I'd like artificial gravity
To exist
Seriously, "artificial gravity" is a bigger hand-wave than "Heinsenberg compensators".
Artifical gravity is very easy to create using the centripetal force. Just make it a round shape that rotates at the right velocity to make the centripetal force of the ship equal to whatever level of gravity you'd like.
Hold on... What does this mean:
thinking that the monitor cable from a CRT can go to an LCD
My monitors (LCD and CRT) both have a standard, interchangeable power cable (three-prong, no power brick) and SVGA video cable. I could switch out either one (or both) between monitors no problem. Are yours different?
Not trolling--I'm honestly curious
For most monitors the circuitry for the actual ac to dc conversion is within the monitor itself that's why it appears as though they use the same cable. However some of the smaller monitors do have a separate power brick, so that that the power adapter is separate from the monitor itself.
"God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh." - Voltaire
