Internet via cable has a 250GB limit per month. (Comcast) I don't think it is exactly a "cap" in that it can be exceeded but first time exceeded a warning is issued, second time internet service is cut. I believe there is a six month blackout before you can order internet service again after being cut for exceeding the limit. Different stroke for different folks, but I use nowhere near 250 GB. I don't think I've top 100 GB yet. And before I started using Back Blaze to backup everything offsite, didn't break 20 GB. Internet on phone switches to slower speeds after exceeding 2GB in month. (T-Mobile.) Other than that no cap and no extra fees.

Q: What change has occurred? A: The Board of Directors of the Penn State Geisinger Health System voted on Nov. 18 to restructure the health system. This change has the effect of dissolving the merger and returning control of the clinical operations of The Milton S. Hershey Medical Center to Penn State. Intercom Online "Special Edition for the Milton S. Hershey Medical Center" November 19 1999 Thus back in government's hands.

I may have known the Dewey Decimal system in K-12 school. I remember it being taught. And I know I could go browse the stacks for my areas of interest without looking up anything in a card catalog. But I do not remember if I just knew where stuff was located in the libraries I used or if I had a small set of relevant numbers memorized. (I did not have wide ranging interests.) At university they only used Dewey Decimal for a small part of the Undergraduate Library. The rest of the Undergraduate Library and all the other libraries used Library of Congress numbers. The card catalog was all online. I did find an old style card catalogs still installed, with large signs on them saying they had not been updated from some date a few years earlier. A month later that was gone. After university I stopped going to the library for quite awhile. (Amazon.com appreciated that.) Now with a family I'm back to using the local library. The extent of my knowledge of Dewey Decimal is that related items are close. Generally I'll look up a subject in the catalog to get close, not to find a specific book and then look in that general area of the stacks.

That's the problem with having the voting up front. Didn't get all the info I could have. The choice of laptop screen size really depends on the usage envisioned. If it is going to be used around the house, on tables and desks, as a smallish, portable desktop replacement, then biggest is bestest. Some people find 17 inch laptops too big for lap use, others don't. I fall into the it is too big camp. My father falls into the not too big camp. If I wanted to use while on the couch, I would not get a 17 inch. If taking it places, it depends some on which places and how you are getting there. If it is going to be using in space that are more constrained, that would push towards a smaller size. For example working with a group at a table, where everyone has a laptop, and multiple pieces of printed material needed out at the same time. Or small tables at a coffee shop, writing a book report, nice to have space for both on the small table. Travel by car, bigger will probably not be too big of a burden to lug around. Traveling by bus or airplane, I would lean towards smaller. For example, my father travels by travel trailer. On the road he mostly uses his laptop on the dining table or the campsite picnic table. A large laptop is perfect. He can stow it when on the road. Space in travel trailers is tight compared to a house, but not so tight that a large laptop can not find a home. A compromise, if you want small for travel, but really want a large screen, is a small laptop with an external monitor at home. Another issue is what do you want to use it for? If the larger laptop is available with more memory, faster processors, or faster graphics and the smaller one does not meet your minimum requirements, then larger is better. In OP's case, since the kids have already broken two laptops, a desktop with WiFi, either built in or via a USB adapter, would be my recommendation. For myself, in a totally different situation, I would buy a MacBook Air. Not sure if I'd get the 11 or 13 inch. Nice portability. But it would be in addition to my desktop, not instead of. The MacBook Air tops out at 4GB, not enough to do everything I do.

There are USB Wireless adapters that could be used with a desktop. Got one of those for my wife's laptop to support a higher speed WiFi standard than her laptop supported. Worked well. Later upgraded the laptop. Also, all the Apple Mac desktops include WiFi support standard. I imagine at least some brands selling windows desktops would include standard WiFi capability. Not saying you shouldn't buy a laptop, just that if WiFi is the only reason for purchasing, then there are desktop options.

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Have you been able to find a reference to the how and why of finding distance between two point on a coordinate graph yet? If not: The basic idea is to form a right triangle that has the two points as end points of the hypotenuse and with one leg parallel to the x axis and the y leg parellel to the y axis. Then it is possible to find the distance of one leg by taking the absolute number of the difference the the x coordinates of the points. Length leg parrellel to x is |x_1 - x_2|. And similarly for the leg parallel to y axis. Then break out Pythagorean's formula, a^2 + b^2 = c^2. (Here I can't help with why that is true, I don't know why.) Once all the pieces are put together to come up with the distance formula, it will still work if the line is parellel to one axis or the other, even though no triangle can be formed as above, because the other leg will have a length of zero, so a^2 + b^2 = c^2 implies a^2 + 0 = c^2.

Yes it is, but is binding in its entirety. The rights conferred by the contract to buyer are available to the buyer and are binding on the seller, even if the seller and all the seller's friends thinks exercising them is sneaky and underhanded. We bought last spring in Washington State. One interesting clause in the standard local boilerplate concerned the extent of inspection allowed, with respect to oil tanks. The buyer was allowed to ascertain whether a tank was on the property, and its location, but not actually inspect the tank or surroundings. That did not fly with me. The house was heated by an oil furnace, so there was a tank. I did not want to buy an environmental mess, especially so close to a river. I called up a real estate attorney, and asked if he would be available to look over the purchase and sale agreement. His response was that the boilerplate was pretty balanced between buyers and sellers. The agents were working with buyers and sellers, and just wanted something to facilitate the sale. Not something that gave a whole bunch to one half of their clients and shafted the other half. He didn't see any value, to me, in him looking it over. I told him about the oil tank and the oil tank inspection clause and he said that it would make sense to have someone look it over than. Went up to meet him, and he struck the clause and wrote in some other language, but tried to push the issue too much. His language was going to require the seller to pay for the inspection. Seller did not like that, but we settled on I could pay for and have an inspection made. Had the soil around the tank sampled and tested. That cost about three times what we paid for the home inspection, but worth every penny in terms of peace of mind.

I really screwed up a paper in grad school. The professor said to use Turabian something. I don't remember what the something was, but Turabian covers two different styles for cites and the bibliography. I did not use the wrong style. I had looked the Turabian info up on the web, and in my confusion I mixed the styles, using cites from one and the bibliography from the other. The paper had some other problems also, but not following the style stood out to the prof as proof that I was being extremely careless and not working at grad student level. Luckily I got an incomplete for the class. Wrote a different paper, and the second time, bought the book for Turabain. And very carefully followed the style. That second paper would have been an A if it had been my first. Took a one letter penalty because it was not my first, but a second turned in well after the quarter was over. Which is all to say, I agree that being able to work from a style guide can be an important skill.

"the bank can't take away your only home. Florida supposedly has a similar law" (Note, not a lawyer.) I think it may be confusion between bankruptcy and foreclosure. Roughly during a bankruptcy, the liquidation type, assets are taken and sold, and the proceeds split up among creditors in exchange for wiping out dischargable debts. Say you have a vacation home, free and clear, before the bancruptcy. That can/will be sold to help pay off debts. However, for your primary residence, there is a "homestead exemption." That says a certain amount of equity in the primary residence is protected from creditors. The amount and specifics varies by states. Some states are pretty low. It's $125,000 in Washington State. http://apps.leg.wa.gov/rcw/default.aspx?cite=6.13.030. Virtually unlimited in Florida: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homestead_exemption_in_Florida Homestead exemptions DO NOT protect when the property has been pledged, as in a mortgage.