> Maybe a 3% savings on your total school bill? Who cares.
Creating value equal to 3% of the general education outlay, scaled to the English speaking world, would be kind of a big deal. Particularly when it also creates open courseware that can be freely used by non-enrolled students as a happy externality.
It helps the people who currently have to pay $150 for an Algebra book. How is this even in question?
Let's look at this for a moment: Say there's 100 people in an Intro Algebra class. That's $15,000. Knock off $1000 for paper and ink. That's enough money to write a decent first draft. Let's say the book is used twice. That's enough to edit it. Everything after that is waste.
The secure alternative to WordPress is a current version of WordPress.
It's a widely used tool for non-experts to manage their own servers. Standards vary. Good news is WordPress updates automagicly with one click. Bad news is there's a huge plugin market and theme aftermarket, and some of it is insecure. The only way to fix this is a) make it less open or b) kick out the newbies. Both medicines are worse than the disease.
A very simple rider to put on an NDA: within 7 days of the meeting, the pitching party will send an email detailing the information disclosed which you want to be covered under the NDA.
Serious people will usually send the email before the meeting starts, or hand write it on the back of the NDA -- "all information relating to our new goatse-by-mail API is confidential" -- where Idea Guys will not send the email at all. If someone is serious about protecting information, as opposed to going through the motions, they will be able to explain exactly what's confidential. If they can't or won't, you can buy your own lunch.
I bought 8 of a similar LED to replace the overhead incandescent 60W floods. Cost $40 at Home Depot.
I did the math and compared to the power hogging incandescents which we were using, we're in the black after 2 years. I forget the exact numbers, but I own a Chicago garden apartment and we work from home, so these lights are on ~5 hours a day, more in the winter. In locations where we use it half that much, the payback time is twice as long, etc.
The thing about the overhead bulbs is that they are GOOD. Unlike CLF floods, which I tried several and none were acceptably good. These put out wide spectrum light, tinted towards yellow, and dim nicely down to about 10% total output. Silent. Also, they should be the last light bulbs I buy for a long time, which seems pretty reasonable to me. I suspect most people won't be willing to take a $300 hit at the register, so maybe these will find their first use in new construction.
If you want to turn the screws on the publishers and say international trade laws are all bullshit and the books worth what it's worth and you're only paying $9 for the Indian version, I assure you they'll just sell it at $90 everywhere in the world and try to deal with the bootlegging in a much less understanding way than they are right now.
That sounds like a good thing for Indian textbook authors. They gots PhDs and everything.
It's a feature/bug of globalization as we understand it that capital holders can move property across borders when it suits them, but if consumers or labor tries to cross a border, then bring out the lawyers and start building fences. Free Trade is a nice idea, but not what we're actually dealing with when the powerful dictate what is or is not free to transit.
Or, we stop loading scripts. You're assuming a whitelist wouldn't be built in. I use Ghostery, and it sometimes requires intervention, but for the most part silently nukes ad scrapers. This would create something similar, but standard in the browser. Third party script? No thanks.
Oh, and Click-for-Flash (via an add on) has been my preferred UI for years. Works fine.
In my experience with a floormat pinning the gas, I didn't think to turn off the car until I had pulled over with the car in neutral. The experience was less "How do I deal with a car with a stuck pedal?" than "What the hell is going on here?" and "Damn, I didn't know it could rev that high!" and some more "What the hell is going on here?"
I had an accelerator get stuck under a floor mat. It was a stick shift and I put it in neutral (while the tach pinged against the rev limiter) and coasted to the side of the road and shut off the truck. No harm done.
On an automatic, that would have been somewhat more difficult -- there's no muscle memory to pop an automatic into neutral, and if we'd been in traffic, it could have easily been a fatal screwup from a big piece of carpet. Given how most cars are drive by wire already, this seems like a good idea.
Subjugated, oppressed and stuck in basement? Sounds like a true geek to me!
I jest, but I think this is actually partly true.
I know an insanely talented female programmer who grew up in the states but was moved to Saudi Arabia around age 13. What did she do all day? Sit on her computer. A couple thousand hours of C+ later and she's back in the US getting a CS degree, on her way to a prime spot at MIT Media Lab. Key point: locked in basement for long periods of time = good at programming. Refused offline political and commercial freedoms = good at Internets.
The other reason this happens, of course, is that our perceptions of the Middle East are based on a mash of cable news, Pentagon spin and CounterStrike, which are - surprise! - largely false. Pakistan has elected a female president; the US hasn't.
You comment would be more compelling if women were not underrepresented in the field due to sexism. But they are. It's not accidental that the first computer programmers were women -- it's hard work, and why should men do that? -- until business realized how powerful this stuff was, and poof, out go the women. See ya, Ada, we got it from here.
If they were truely black hat, they'd be creating spoof accounts and autoposting from a quiet room where no one can see it. Asking people to, you know, use your product and, maybe, talk about it isn't even that shady.
Asking, sure. Enforcing, that's something else. But I suspect they won't do much. The employer doesn't have all that much leverage there, because it's all happening out in the public. Not hard to blow the whistle on this, and the various marketplaces can nuke a product without recourse, which is something that should keep marketing people awake at night.
Sweden has best-in-class privacy and media protections. For instance, it's illegal to pressure a journalist to reveal sources, which is the inverse of many countries, where it is illegal to conceal a source.
As noted above, running your own, or setting one up for others is an ideal solution, although most of the groups I advise want and deserve a simple pay-and-play solution.
If anyone wants to build a WordPress plugin that turns any WordPress install into a discrete VPN provider, I would super appreciate it. It's been talked about, but I haven't seen anything in the field.
These, of course, won't help you watch Hulu, but I suspect this thread will stick around in Pagerank and serve users with needs other than the original poster.
"Anyone who has read Derb in our pages knows he’s a deeply literate, funny, and incisive writer. I direct anyone who doubts his talents to his delightful first novel, “Seeing Calvin Coolidge in a Dream,” or any one of his “Straggler” columns in the books section of NR. Derb is also maddening, outrageous, cranky, and provocative. His latest provocation, in a webzine, lurches from the politically incorrect to the nasty and indefensible. We never would have published it, but the main reason that people noticed it is that it is by a National Review writer. Derb is effectively using our name to get more oxygen for views with which we’d never associate ourselves otherwise. So there has to be a parting of the ways. Derb has long danced around the line on these issues, but this column is so outlandish it constitutes a kind of letter of resignation. It’s a free country, and Derb can write whatever he wants, wherever he wants. Just not in the pages of NR or NRO, or as someone associated with NR any longer."
The tl;dr seems to be build software that supports much desired "custom" solutions, open source said software while being the people everyone hires to build said custom solutions.
The ability of the GOP primary to generate bile is amazing. If you had told me a year ago that the GOP field would pile abuse on an American made car that is (fairly or not) a poster child for American innovation, and it turns out is also a success competing against imports, I would have told you that was crazy. But there it is. Not exactly the Party of Ideas.
Money quote: "You can get one kind of popcorn with three grams of saturated fat and roughly the same size at another theatre with 38 grams of saturated fat. That's just a phenomenal difference," said Bill Jeffery of the Centre for Science in the Public Interest in Ottawa. "These are things that you can't tell by tasting."
It's been mentioned already, but we're pointed at the wrong tech-for-education problem.
You want transformative technology? How about a $100 e-reader stocked with every textbook used by US schools, in folders for grade level. I would have been plowing through the high school physics at age 10. Need specialized remedial stuff, or ESL or special ed whatever? It's loaded in every device. No friction, no stigma, no lag time.
Obviously, it is the fault of the hot women for being both hot and on the Internet. If you don't want to be packaged as a commodity, you should cease to exist on the Internet. Solved! Where's the outrage at hot women who would like to exist online without being packaged as a consumable? That's not allowed!
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> Maybe a 3% savings on your total school bill? Who cares.
Creating value equal to 3% of the general education outlay, scaled to the English speaking world, would be kind of a big deal. Particularly when it also creates open courseware that can be freely used by non-enrolled students as a happy externality.
It helps the people who currently have to pay $150 for an Algebra book. How is this even in question?
Let's look at this for a moment: Say there's 100 people in an Intro Algebra class. That's $15,000. Knock off $1000 for paper and ink. That's enough money to write a decent first draft. Let's say the book is used twice. That's enough to edit it. Everything after that is waste.
The secure alternative to WordPress is a current version of WordPress.
It's a widely used tool for non-experts to manage their own servers. Standards vary. Good news is WordPress updates automagicly with one click. Bad news is there's a huge plugin market and theme aftermarket, and some of it is insecure. The only way to fix this is a) make it less open or b) kick out the newbies. Both medicines are worse than the disease.
You don't have permission to access /applications/how-libreoffice-writer-tops-ms-word-12-features-1.html on this server.
A very simple rider to put on an NDA: within 7 days of the meeting, the pitching party will send an email detailing the information disclosed which you want to be covered under the NDA.
Serious people will usually send the email before the meeting starts, or hand write it on the back of the NDA -- "all information relating to our new goatse-by-mail API is confidential" -- where Idea Guys will not send the email at all. If someone is serious about protecting information, as opposed to going through the motions, they will be able to explain exactly what's confidential. If they can't or won't, you can buy your own lunch.
I bought 8 of a similar LED to replace the overhead incandescent 60W floods. Cost $40 at Home Depot.
I did the math and compared to the power hogging incandescents which we were using, we're in the black after 2 years. I forget the exact numbers, but I own a Chicago garden apartment and we work from home, so these lights are on ~5 hours a day, more in the winter. In locations where we use it half that much, the payback time is twice as long, etc.
The thing about the overhead bulbs is that they are GOOD. Unlike CLF floods, which I tried several and none were acceptably good. These put out wide spectrum light, tinted towards yellow, and dim nicely down to about 10% total output. Silent. Also, they should be the last light bulbs I buy for a long time, which seems pretty reasonable to me. I suspect most people won't be willing to take a $300 hit at the register, so maybe these will find their first use in new construction.
I've been rubbing my Macbook on my wrists for years trying to get that sweet, warm scent of smug that the ladies love.
If you want to turn the screws on the publishers and say international trade laws are all bullshit and the books worth what it's worth and you're only paying $9 for the Indian version, I assure you they'll just sell it at $90 everywhere in the world and try to deal with the bootlegging in a much less understanding way than they are right now.
That sounds like a good thing for Indian textbook authors. They gots PhDs and everything.
It's a feature/bug of globalization as we understand it that capital holders can move property across borders when it suits them, but if consumers or labor tries to cross a border, then bring out the lawyers and start building fences. Free Trade is a nice idea, but not what we're actually dealing with when the powerful dictate what is or is not free to transit.
Or, we stop loading scripts. You're assuming a whitelist wouldn't be built in. I use Ghostery, and it sometimes requires intervention, but for the most part silently nukes ad scrapers. This would create something similar, but standard in the browser. Third party script? No thanks.
Oh, and Click-for-Flash (via an add on) has been my preferred UI for years. Works fine.
In my experience with a floormat pinning the gas, I didn't think to turn off the car until I had pulled over with the car in neutral. The experience was less "How do I deal with a car with a stuck pedal?" than "What the hell is going on here?" and "Damn, I didn't know it could rev that high!" and some more "What the hell is going on here?"
Live sports.
I had an accelerator get stuck under a floor mat. It was a stick shift and I put it in neutral (while the tach pinged against the rev limiter) and coasted to the side of the road and shut off the truck. No harm done.
On an automatic, that would have been somewhat more difficult -- there's no muscle memory to pop an automatic into neutral, and if we'd been in traffic, it could have easily been a fatal screwup from a big piece of carpet. Given how most cars are drive by wire already, this seems like a good idea.
> a 64GB iPhone could be €32 more expensive. From the article: 'The proposal would have consumers paying an extra €0.2 per gigabyte in tax,
Am I nuts or is the summary's math wrong? Either the tax rate is €0.5 or the additional tax on a 64GB device would be €12.80.
Subjugated, oppressed and stuck in basement? Sounds like a true geek to me!
I jest, but I think this is actually partly true.
I know an insanely talented female programmer who grew up in the states but was moved to Saudi Arabia around age 13. What did she do all day? Sit on her computer. A couple thousand hours of C+ later and she's back in the US getting a CS degree, on her way to a prime spot at MIT Media Lab. Key point: locked in basement for long periods of time = good at programming. Refused offline political and commercial freedoms = good at Internets.
The other reason this happens, of course, is that our perceptions of the Middle East are based on a mash of cable news, Pentagon spin and CounterStrike, which are - surprise! - largely false. Pakistan has elected a female president; the US hasn't.
You comment would be more compelling if women were not underrepresented in the field due to sexism. But they are. It's not accidental that the first computer programmers were women -- it's hard work, and why should men do that? -- until business realized how powerful this stuff was, and poof, out go the women. See ya, Ada, we got it from here.
If they were truely black hat, they'd be creating spoof accounts and autoposting from a quiet room where no one can see it. Asking people to, you know, use your product and, maybe, talk about it isn't even that shady.
Asking, sure. Enforcing, that's something else. But I suspect they won't do much. The employer doesn't have all that much leverage there, because it's all happening out in the public. Not hard to blow the whistle on this, and the various marketplaces can nuke a product without recourse, which is something that should keep marketing people awake at night.
Two VPNs based in Sweden with strong reputations for defending users and not logging:
https://www.anonine.com/en
https://www.vpntunnel.se/en/
Sweden has best-in-class privacy and media protections. For instance, it's illegal to pressure a journalist to reveal sources, which is the inverse of many countries, where it is illegal to conceal a source.
As noted above, running your own, or setting one up for others is an ideal solution, although most of the groups I advise want and deserve a simple pay-and-play solution.
If anyone wants to build a WordPress plugin that turns any WordPress install into a discrete VPN provider, I would super appreciate it. It's been talked about, but I haven't seen anything in the field.
These, of course, won't help you watch Hulu, but I suspect this thread will stick around in Pagerank and serve users with needs other than the original poster.
As reported in National Review
"Anyone who has read Derb in our pages knows he’s a deeply literate, funny, and incisive writer. I direct anyone who doubts his talents to his delightful first novel, “Seeing Calvin Coolidge in a Dream,” or any one of his “Straggler” columns in the books section of NR. Derb is also maddening, outrageous, cranky, and provocative. His latest provocation, in a webzine, lurches from the politically incorrect to the nasty and indefensible. We never would have published it, but the main reason that people noticed it is that it is by a National Review writer. Derb is effectively using our name to get more oxygen for views with which we’d never associate ourselves otherwise. So there has to be a parting of the ways. Derb has long danced around the line on these issues, but this column is so outlandish it constitutes a kind of letter of resignation. It’s a free country, and Derb can write whatever he wants, wherever he wants. Just not in the pages of NR or NRO, or as someone associated with NR any longer."
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/295514/parting-ways-rich-lowry
Look at folks who have done it recently. http://developmentseed.org/
The tl;dr seems to be build software that supports much desired "custom" solutions, open source said software while being the people everyone hires to build said custom solutions.
The ability of the GOP primary to generate bile is amazing. If you had told me a year ago that the GOP field would pile abuse on an American made car that is (fairly or not) a poster child for American innovation, and it turns out is also a success competing against imports, I would have told you that was crazy. But there it is. Not exactly the Party of Ideas.
NBC screwed up, had an internal investigation, were unhappy with what they found, and are now making amends in public. It's just so... old fashioned.
The comparisons to Fox News are cute.
You still can't shoot people.
That's Hulu's plan at the moment.
> BTW what's wrong with movie popcorn that it needs a label?
Because some theaters use really bad oils to save money.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/story/2009/11/19/popcorn-movie-theatre-salt-fat.html
Money quote: "You can get one kind of popcorn with three grams of saturated fat and roughly the same size at another theatre with 38 grams of saturated fat. That's just a phenomenal difference," said Bill Jeffery of the Centre for Science in the Public Interest in Ottawa. "These are things that you can't tell by tasting."
It's been mentioned already, but we're pointed at the wrong tech-for-education problem.
You want transformative technology? How about a $100 e-reader stocked with every textbook used by US schools, in folders for grade level. I would have been plowing through the high school physics at age 10. Need specialized remedial stuff, or ESL or special ed whatever? It's loaded in every device. No friction, no stigma, no lag time.
Stop paying licenses. Start paying writers.
Obviously, it is the fault of the hot women for being both hot and on the Internet. If you don't want to be packaged as a commodity, you should cease to exist on the Internet. Solved! Where's the outrage at hot women who would like to exist online without being packaged as a consumable? That's not allowed!