Comment plus.IM also good alternative (Score 1) 121
and connects with the IM+ mobile apps.
Japan To Get 1Gbps Home Fiber Connections 275
ashitaka writes "KDDI has announced that they will be launching a 1Gbps Internet service to single-family home and condo users in October. The service is supposedly synchronous, with 1Gbps in both directions, although the article implies that speeds will vary with location. Cost will be 5,985 yen/month (about US$56.50) for the basic Internet and IP phone service. This is intended to compete with NTT, who currently control over 70% of the Japanese FTTH market."
Submission + - MIT's SAT Math Error
theodp writes: "The Wall Street Journal reports that for years now, MIT wasn't properly calculating the average freshmen SAT scores (reg.) used to determine U.S. News & World Report's influential annual rankings. In response to an inquiry made by The Tech regarding the school's recent drop in the rankings, MIT revealed that in past years it had excluded the test scores of foreign students as well as those who fared better on the ACT than the SAT, both violations of the U.S. News rules. MIT's reported first-quartile SAT verbal and math scores for the 2006 incoming class totaled 1380, a drop of 50 points from 2005."
Comment Re:There's a point to be made (Score 5, Informative) 285
I hope you at least informed her that she can deauthorize all of the computers it was previously set up on. You can then re-authorize the computers she actually wants to use. Details on the 4th bullet down...
http://www.apple.com/support/itunes/musicstore/aut horization/
The Simpson's Movie Confirmed 334
bagsc writes "BBC News reports Twentieth Centruy Fox confirms The Simpsons are going to the movies! Should hit theatres in 2007." From the article: "A 25-second trailer for the film has been shown to US audiences at screenings of Ice Age: The Meltdown, promising to introduce 'the greatest hero in American history'. It then cut to Homer Simpson, wearing only his underwear, who admitted: 'I forgot what I was supposed to say.'"
Comment Student Administration (Score 1) 170
At my current High School, we have a class called Network Navigation. It sounds like a lamers approach to understand PCs but it is really a local ITS department for the school. Unfortunately the head ITS branch doesn't like students in power (we also have around 10 students employed there that would disagree with that). Anyway, without this group of students we we wouldn't have 99% of our workstations functioning and the fully functional Linux and WinNT programming lab.
