In some parts of minnesota and wisconsin I've seen it tweak -40'F to 110'F in one year...

This actually was occured near my house as I live in Chippewa Falls :)

The two roads HW53 and HW29 buckled about 3 times each. Not something fun to drive on.

Office bar for "office xp" or whatever did it right. They let you put folders that'd pop out so you could group Office programs into a quick little menu on your quick launch bar that popped up with the others. It worked great. I wished they'd just throw all the UI designers into one room and kick their ass if one decided that they'd change something drastically for one generation of microsoft products.

Windows 7 + Office 2007 + Exchange 2007 all have way different interfaces. lets not get into IE8 or things like sql studio or visual studio. some do some things wonderfully right, while others painfully do it wrong.

But when we put the newest beta on a bunch of tablets we got for testing here, no one could figure out how to open the "Start Screen" without using a stylus. We googled and figured out how to "alt+tab" with a swipe but who is going to be able to figure out how to use Win8 without reading a book first?

FYI I work in IT and we used Win8 on the desktop a while. The start button would make this a no-brainer. I think their target group must be on bath salts or something.

That problem went away in the 5000 series, since they made it all one unit. Sure, some cards are faster at one thing than others, but basically anything after the 5000 level of cards is wicked at both along with open cl

Mod parent up to infinity. It still feels slow, still asks 99 questions to launch the first time, x64 / x86 versions on 64-bit windows are fubar and have plugin compatability problems or issues opening any pages at all, and its ugly. I think microsoft gave up around IE5, to be honest. It was the last time I liked IE.

Oh, I get it. This is to stop used text book sales!

The only hope is that this ends up like a professor at the U of M --

He wrote his own book and students had to either print it off themselves at home or take it somewhere to have it printed for $6.

It was 100% relivant to the class so no wasted book or money. Beats paying $150 for a book 80% of classes dont use.

That's not a hacker, but instead a "hack" who is good at bitch work.

I was just following tradition and not RTFA

The bar sucked, and I think most people used it for the chat. However I think they gave up on trying to support it as it kept getting worse until it stopped being improved. It had some glitches, facebook chat didnt work anymore, and my biggest gripe - the app for android blew because it didnt let you log in with the same account, total fail.

One cannot fix what they do not know how to break, or how it breaks.

Hands on, meaningful critical thinking and hands on learning (applied science vs book learning) will teach kids and grab their attention far more than 500 math problems that have no relation to their lives.

I can remember many times peers asking "what does this have to do with my life" -- well, if we can build a catapult and show physics and geometry and other sciences applied, people may start to get their gears turning and think of how can I use this /somewhere else/ instead of "i dont get why i need to learn this"

I came here to say this. About half of the questions can only be answered by the people or committee you're supposedly on as it depends on a lot of things. Wired or wireless? Depends on how much you want to spend putting cable into everyones space or just in the common areas. Or depends on what people want. Maybe they want both.

As for what providers they are and how much they cost, we cant help unless you give us an address as this varies per neighborhood. Try using google.

Looks like its a $99 fee that goes to getting a signature to prove that its legit software. This should keep people like those at adobe from writing to the boot sector and crapping up enterprise windows computers, something we cannot get away from until something else like reactos or linux steps its game up and becomes serious enough to live under a budget of time and money for a 1 man IT shop...

Weird, I have 100Mbps Charter at my home and get an average of 85Mbps to the fastest place I can test.

What that means in reality is downloading at 5-10MB/sec