Step 1: grow up on a drop zone your family owns

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Since when is something said in an email legally binding, especially in the corporate world?

"largest 150 companies based on revenue in the US"

Self-updating applications do not work well, in practice. They either are not in use constantly and will thus miss patches for a while, and then delay their use when you do want to use them so they can update, or they take the windows approach and have a service running constantly, which, when there are many applications installed, leads to performance loss.

I like the repository approach that *nix uses, as it is reliable and light on resources, though the rss/signature concept does sound as if it could be viable. The whole application installation/config/registry structure in windows may have to be changed a bit to make this work without breaking everything when an update is performed.

On another note, npackd is a windows based package management system, though it has some compatibility problems with the windows add/remove functionality already built in (cannot uninstall/update application installed regularly from npackd, and vice versa).

I can see this MAYBE in a private school, but NEVER in public schools. Having graduated from HS 2 years ago, I am able to say it is ridiculous how stupid kids are, and how little they understand concepts, such as money.

The chairs would be destroyed within a month. A chair isn't really going to motivate someone to do better in school; students will either do well or they wont, it is up to them to not fuck around and be little show-off pricks for their friends all the time.

Though, as I am sitting in my Aeron right now, I can say I would have loved to have them in HS.

Phase change cooling is not really that extreme of a cooling system for benchmarking... go to Quakecon you will see quite a few people with it.
LN2 (or even better liquid He) on the other hand could be considered an unfair advantage.

Why is this any kind of news? I saw and used this years ago demoed by NVIDIA at Quakecon.

Now the tables have turned:

I am an American prince and I need your help to access my millions of dollars being held in a bank, and in return I will let you keep 10%.

All you have to do to get you share of the money is to wire me $3000 for the unlocking fee at the bank.

Just wait until the first time they accidentally brick some systems.

But why, oh why, would you want to give the most intelligent beings on Earth (mice) cancer?

"A free demo is a luxury we have in the game industry that we don't have in other industries such as film" what are trailers? they provide about the same relative amount of the product before paying for it

never realized keanu reeves was into programming

This will still leave you vulnerable to DNS/ARP spoofing, for example if someone is on your wireless.