Or, you buy ones that are a year or so out of fashion at a massive discount. My Seiko was $150, IIRC, and that was a huge discount off the price when that model was current. Plus, since they tend to last forever, nobody realizes that I got a really good deal on it.

That's only guaranteed if the messages don't need to move between servers. If they do, then there's the theoretical 5 days or so that the servers are supposed to keep trying to find a route before giving up. One of the downsides to the decentralized nature of the net is that sometimes things just get lost.

Doing it wrong? You can't grade papers when you're giving classes. And they typically don't give you more than an hour of prep time a day. Which means that you're working outside of school time to keep up with the demands of the job.

I'm very curious as to how one avoids doing any of the prep work or grading that's associated with giving out home work. Yes, the ratio is a bit better if you're giving more homework, but students don't have unlimited time to do homework and if each teacher assigns 15 minutes of homework, that adds up to an hour and a half a night. On top of which you've then got to grade probably 5 classes worth of homework.

If there were an easier way without completely abandoning the students, I think teachers would be doing that.

I'm not sure about the Nexus 10, but remember the MS Kin? I suspect they destroyed more of them than they sold as they only sold a total of just over 500. And it's difficult to produce things in runs of under 10 grand without having them be extremely expensive.

And you probably aren't expected to spend your free time grading papers, writing exams and planning classes.

Seriously, if I assign a class 5 minutes of home work to do, that's a minimum of 20 minutes per class that I have to spend grading. And that's just for a very quick look and check mark to grade. There's easily another half hour planning the assignment so that I get what I'm asking for rather than something that's technically in compliance with the instructions.

Teachers spend a lot more time working than what is represented in the class schedule and thanks to budget cuts, end up spending a lot of time doing things like copying and research which really ought to be done by support staff so we can focus on the students.

I like how the barely literate whine about minor typos rather than contributing something to society. Keeps them from fucking up things for the rest of us.

OTOH, perhaps getting medication for that obsession would be a good idea, I'd hate to think that I'd run into one of these grammar nutjobs someday.

Freedom to drive without seat belts is unlikely to be something that was considered when the state was choosing a motto. Also, seat belt laws are typically a state law rather than a federal one.

Well, didn't MS pretty much invent documents as an attack vector. Perhaps my memory isn't so good, but the first cases I remember of that were for Word.

It's a moot point because MS decided to hide the file extension from the user and let the file contain the icon for the file.

And, this is why Adobe should have removed the ability of Flash to expand randomly to trick the user into clicking on something they clearly didn't want to click on in the first place.

Well, not Adobe, that's why Macromedia should have done it and why webmasters shouldn't be doing it.

Yeah, well, so was the place I ordered them from. And yes, I know you're joking.

I used to have vitamins shipped to me every couple months on a subscription basis. I'd be very curious as to what about this patent is novel in any way.

Which works great if you don't spend a lot of time traveling. Or have a huge house.

Personally, I use the library and only buy books that I'm going to want for years to come.

And that works out fine as long as you don't need the ones that aren't and aren't worried about what gets lost in translation.

And as long as you don't care about being limited to mostly just French speaking programmers.

Because the delivery people don't typically have time to wait around for you to unbox the item you've bought and verify that it wasn't broken in transit. Often times they don't even wait around to see if anybody responds to the knock at the door.