Because what they make these days is even smaller. If you're going to flip the bird to any sense of upgradability, then you might as well make a laptop/netbook, or a box that's small enough to hide in a bookshelf or something.... having a big fat keyboard would be kind of annoying these days.....

now GET OFF MY LAWN!!!!!!

Rogers Bought Fido, and merged their two GSM networks. Telus and Bell, who both used CDMA, are in bed together now, and created their own GSM network, so they could get the iPhone. So now, we actually do have a choice where we get our contracts from. The only problem is that the plans are so similar these days, that they all cost about the same for the same amount of minutes, data, etc... If I didn't know better I'd say they were price fixing.... hopefully the new wireless companies (Wind, hopefully soon to be Shaw), will actually do some radical things to pricing that will bring down the incumbents...

An RS-232 serial cable might be entirely accurate for a "Pre-USB Printer cable". I used to have an old dot-matrix printer that was serial only. It was also an option on several laser printers I used throughout the 90's...

Either "Centronics printer cable" or "Parallel Printer cable" are identifiable and accurate.

From Newegg, eh? Is it real, or is it just an aluminum disc in a cardboard box with a windows logo drawn in crayon?

Harsh policy means nothing if it is not enforced... If you cheat but don't get "caught", then you get away with it. My College had a 3 strikes rule, similar to your 2 strike rule above. But because expelling half your class means lost revenue for the school, and less Prof / TA positions, it is in the best interests of profs to overlook a few cheaters... In other words, When your Prof cheats, you are likely going to get around such harsh policies....

Yeah.... What they really need to do is revoke his citizenship. Take away his rights and freedoms for abusing the Country's legal system....

<quote><p>I believe jack thompson should be slapped across the face with a colecovision.</p></quote>

Yeah, that'll show him Video games don't promote violence!

Yeah, and Windows 7 comes with Powershell - a scriptable shell and command language supposedly more powerful than the command prompt.... If you never needed one, why would they give you 2 different ones?

Apparently people think that their computers' processing power is too valuable for Javascript.... I'M NOT LETTING THAT RUN! NOT ON MY COMPUTER!!!!!

Of course, security should not be left in client-side only, but for trivial tasks such as AJAX or other dynamic rendering schemes, there's no reason to stop using it.

no, you have us Canadians all wrong... They had to send it via unmanned weather balloon. Do you know how hard it is to control one of those things?

An example of correlation does not equal causation would be:

If Happiness catches, so must sadness, anger, and every other emotion. I Always feel pissy when people bitch and complain about stupid things...

In this single example, the correlation made, is that when other people are angry, I get angry. This is not actually the direct cause of my anger though. The reason for my anger is actually the incessant nature of the people complaining, and how silly the things they talk about actually are. Their anger doesn't actually bother me, it's the WAY they argue, and WHAT they argue about. Thus my correlation, albeit related to the cause, is not the cause itself.

Having said that... If someone tracks my behaviors, and statistically, when people get angry at something and start bitching, I actually start getting angry myself and bitch back, every time for different reasons each time, then they have proven their point with me.

If they can statistically prove this for hundreds of people, then they have a good theory.

If they can prove that regardless of what makes people angry initially, angry people make other people angry regardless... they have identified a phenomenon.

If they can prove that anger from one person, can cause someone else's anger inderectly through the people they come in contact with, then they have a significant phenomenon. For example, If they can prove that the anger caused, lets say by people bitching about stupid things on Slashdot, affects people who don't read Slashdot, a significant phenomenon has been tracked.

And if their statistics and theories can back up that significant phenomenon, then you have a significantly reliable theory. You will never be able to prove this theory 100%, but you will have something that is almost as good as 100% proof. A reliable theory (such as the theory of relativity) is useful until someone can prove it wrong... and even then, it gives us a damn good explanation so we can go on to move on to more important things instead of STUPID SHIT like this.

The original article did all these things. Except the slashdot-specific thing of course...

Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to stop talking now, because apparently this study just proved that it's very likely that I'm just pissing off all your friends, neighbors and children. And I don't think they did anything wrong in this argument...

Programming can be learned by book.... It just requires a computer to practice on as well. Hands on experience along side a good book can teach anyone. The fact is, most people CAN start to think in simple, logical and sequential steps already, and once you write out your idea, you can translate it into code. from there, you optimize.

Likewise, you can take code in the book and tinker with it. Reuse concepts until you understand it... In the end, you will be able to read code, Mimic the code, and eventually write your own code. All this can start from a book, then progress into a strong understanding of code.... Having never been taught by a human being. Programming theory is very similar to practical coding... ie: What is a loop? Code that repeats. How do I do it? for (x=0;x < y;x++) { }; Theory and skill taught, now go adapt.

Uhh, with code like that, you'll never get ahead... You at least need a gosub and return for that little plan of yours to work.. Geez, people really don't know their BASIC anymore...

Uhh, yeah, but if you load it on industrial drilling equipment, you're really going to get screwed...