I've taught a number of community college classes out of Michael Sullivan's "Algebra & Trigonometry" and overall I'm pretty pleased with it. Currently on edition 7+ (so well edited & typo-free), contains all the basic stuff you mention (algebra, trigonometry, analytic geometry), pretty comprehensive.
A single person choosing another ISP does nothing to check business practices. Speaking out and publicly persuading large numbers of people to do so may be somewhat effective in some cases. Politically mobilizing and passing legislation and enforcement to protect everyone from undesirable business practices is the real check in a democracy.
"Why can't they get it through your collective heads that you NEED to BUY and BUY and BUY! Stop thinking! Stop budgeting! BUY BUY BUY!!! Who cares if they don't come out with anything new! BUY!!!"
So I'm watching Justice League or something this past Saturday morning, and an ad comes on for the new Barbie playset, called "Boutique Shopping" or something. This includes several doll garments, a real-sized credit card, and a credit card swiper.
So the play involves picking a garment, swiping the card, and seeing how much it costs. Here's the theme song to the ad: "La la lala la... $200? BUY IT!.... La la lala la... $250? BUY IT!... La la lala la... $150? BUY IT!... And you never run out of money!!"
So for the love of God, don't give them any more ideas.
As a moderately young college math/computer teacher, I've never had a slide rule, but wish I had. I've looked for, and failed to find any way to get one. Where can you get one these days?
Is there an option to mod "-1 big freaking gasbag"?
I've seen my girlfriend create a web design and hosting business from scratch alone in the last year using nothing but an ancient Windows 98 machine and basic, fast, reliable HTML websites. You can say "no one in their right mind would do" so, but within a year she's paying her rent and the demand for her business is exploding. Feel free to keep looking down your nose at an entire segment of your industry if it makes you feel better about your hardware buying sprees.
"Coal power costs just 2-3 cents per kWh but that will likely rise if regulation eventually factors in the environmental costs of the carbon coal produces."
Analysts say it will also likely rise if monkeys fly out of my butt.
Actually, Wikipedia asserts that they do eat small animals (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassowary):
"They are frugivorous; fallen fruit and fruit on low branches is the mainstay of their diet. They also eat fungi, snails, insects, frogs, snakes and other small animals."
"You overlook the loop hole of the Geneva Convention. It is really only enforceable by another nation that agrees to the Geneva Convention. If you aren't a combatant of a particular nation, it's going to be rather hard for you to get support for your POW status at the international level."
Blah blah blah Might Makes Right.
The U.S. signed and ratified the Fourth Geneva Conventions. (http://www.icrc.org/ihl.nsf/WebSign?ReadForm&id=375&ps=P) We promised to uphold those principles. If we don't, then we're a bunch of immoral liars.
I also teach at a community college. Here's some info to ruminate on:
(1) At my current school, I'm not allowed to pick my own books. They're picked by a department committee and I have no say about it.
(2) For several classes, the department does in fact use math books recently written in-house by one of the professors. They're a whole heck of a lot worse quality (no color, poor binding, few exercises, bad editing, no supplements) and actually *more* expensive than what they replaced.
(3) In order to cut costs, colleges have rapidly increased use of adjunct/part-time instructors (i.e., no tenure, no long-term contract, no negotiating power). Currently somewhere between 55%-65% of community college instruction is done by adjuncts (http://www.oah.org/pubs/commcoll/berry.html). And what that means is that you're completely at the mercy of the college to re-hire you semester to semester, there is no guarantee that you'll teach the same course a second time, and there's no way to gamble that the effort you put into course materials will be used again at any point in the future.
In summary: For many instructors, writing your own books would not be allowed, not reduce costs, and/or not ever be used more than one time.
"If I use too much, I'd gladly buy a second account. If I'm willing to pay for two spots on the node, why not give them to me?! I thought they were a corporation that was all about the capitalist ideal and not the one-size-fits-all socialism style solution? What's appropriate for the elderly couple down the street may not be appropriate for my needs. That doesn't make me a bad person or a bad customer. It makes me someone looking for a service."
My best friend has a story: whenever his grandfather goes into a store and the clerks are bored or disinterested or unresponsive, he goes, "I want to give you my money. Don't you want my money!?" -- all incredulous-like.
My uptake on this is: No, they don't want your money. Phone agent #123 doesn't get any benefit out of your particular account being active or not for Comcast. Any individual case is completely, utterly negligible to the company's bottom line. If you're looking for responsiveness from individual purchasing decisions, that will never happen.
They don't give a damn about your particular individual money.
Year 0: Patent A, a method to show ads. Year 5: Patent B, a method to defeat A and block ads. Year 10: Patent C, a method to defeat B and show ads. Year 15: Patent D, a method to defeat C and block ads. Year 20: Patent E, a method to defeat D and show ads. Etc.
(Much like the phone company selling: caller ID - blocker - interceptor - blocker - interceptors). This way in any year you've got at least two pairs of ad showers/blockers available and protected under patents.
Also, patent this overall idea as a business method.
I'm running Win2K for the same reasons and I don't see any sign of any update. My "wuapi.dll" file has a datestamp of 4/17/2007, so I don't think that's been updated. I do have Update not turned on, and I also run in user mode (not administrator), if that makes any difference.
Not that I'm the best diagnostician, but I might suggest that what you're seeing is in fact a continuation of your prior symptoms.
You can certainly bet that we'll use this report as a counter every time the RIAA makes up ridiculous numbers in the future. In fact, rhetorically and politically, you absolutely must do that. And if they inflate their figures upward, we should definitely be willing to up these figures to some trillion number of dollars. Do you want to win, or do you want to lose, fair use rights?
You're making a civics error at least as bad as the grandparent. "Freedom of the press" is not a U.S.-only principle, nor is it necessarily about governments and not corporations. If you had said that "the 1st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution" was only a restriction on the U.S. Federal government (specifically laws passed by Congress), then you would be correct. But frankly that's splitting hairs beside the larger issue of whether a truly free press is necessary to keep a functioning democracy.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights indicates: "Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive, and impart information and ideas through any media regardless of frontiers".
"In fact any intelligent machine would realize it's again all about the careful ballance, and would cooperate with humanity and explore and learn from nature's development versus try to destroy it.."
Question (hopefully without Godwinizing the thread): Was Stalin intelligent? Was Mao Zedong intelligent? Are you sure you want to maintain that "any intelligent" entity would realize it's all about careful balance?
Personally, I wouldn't think so. There are demonstrably sociopaths, intelligent evil people, in the world.
What a fucking idiotic fruitcake. The G.I. Joe toyline was only U.S. military-specific for an extremely brief time in the 1960's.
By 1970, when I had my own G.I. Joe, they'd translated him to -- get this -- an international "adventure team" of explorers. Anyone who's ever mentioned "Kung Fu Grip" is talking about this line of G.I. Joe's. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.I._Joe_Adventure_Te am ).
This editorial is almost 40 full years out of date! Excellent case study on the fact-challenged neanderthal-ism of the right wing psychos who've stolen our country. And thanks for the sidebar offer to sign up for super-cunty Anne Coulter's email newsletter, I'll pass, thanks.
So no, it does always increase. We have to be vigilant and smart as a society to make sure we maintain or increase prosperity. Magical faith will not suffice.
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I've taught a number of community college classes out of Michael Sullivan's "Algebra & Trigonometry" and overall I'm pretty pleased with it. Currently on edition 7+ (so well edited & typo-free), contains all the basic stuff you mention (algebra, trigonometry, analytic geometry), pretty comprehensive.
A single person choosing another ISP does nothing to check business practices. Speaking out and publicly persuading large numbers of people to do so may be somewhat effective in some cases. Politically mobilizing and passing legislation and enforcement to protect everyone from undesirable business practices is the real check in a democracy.
"Why can't they get it through your collective heads that you NEED to BUY and BUY and BUY! Stop thinking! Stop budgeting! BUY BUY BUY!!! Who cares if they don't come out with anything new! BUY!!!"
So I'm watching Justice League or something this past Saturday morning, and an ad comes on for the new Barbie playset, called "Boutique Shopping" or something. This includes several doll garments, a real-sized credit card, and a credit card swiper.
So the play involves picking a garment, swiping the card, and seeing how much it costs. Here's the theme song to the ad: "La la lala la... $200? BUY IT!.... La la lala la... $250? BUY IT!... La la lala la... $150? BUY IT!... And you never run out of money!!"
So for the love of God, don't give them any more ideas.
As a moderately young college math/computer teacher, I've never had a slide rule, but wish I had. I've looked for, and failed to find any way to get one. Where can you get one these days?
Of course, I forgot... if something failed then ipso facto the free market was not involved.
Dammit. Screwed again.
- Eugene Xavier Edwards
Is there an option to mod "-1 big freaking gasbag"?
I've seen my girlfriend create a web design and hosting business from scratch alone in the last year using nothing but an ancient Windows 98 machine and basic, fast, reliable HTML websites. You can say "no one in their right mind would do" so, but within a year she's paying her rent and the demand for her business is exploding. Feel free to keep looking down your nose at an entire segment of your industry if it makes you feel better about your hardware buying sprees.
And here I thought the free market would protect me from that stuff.
"Coal power costs just 2-3 cents per kWh but that will likely rise if regulation eventually factors in the environmental costs of the carbon coal produces."
Analysts say it will also likely rise if monkeys fly out of my butt.
"Once we dispose of existing waste, we can dispose of new waste the same way."
Unless it turns out that the ultimate disposal costs are far more than the power generation is worth.
Actually, Wikipedia asserts that they do eat small animals (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassowary):
"They are frugivorous; fallen fruit and fruit on low branches is the mainstay of their diet. They also eat fungi, snails, insects, frogs, snakes and other small animals."
"You overlook the loop hole of the Geneva Convention. It is really only enforceable by another nation that agrees to the Geneva Convention. If you aren't a combatant of a particular nation, it's going to be rather hard for you to get support for your POW status at the international level."
Blah blah blah Might Makes Right.
The U.S. signed and ratified the Fourth Geneva Conventions. (http://www.icrc.org/ihl.nsf/WebSign?ReadForm&id=375&ps=P) We promised to uphold those principles. If we don't, then we're a bunch of immoral liars.
I also teach at a community college. Here's some info to ruminate on:
(1) At my current school, I'm not allowed to pick my own books. They're picked by a department committee and I have no say about it.
(2) For several classes, the department does in fact use math books recently written in-house by one of the professors. They're a whole heck of a lot worse quality (no color, poor binding, few exercises, bad editing, no supplements) and actually *more* expensive than what they replaced.
(3) In order to cut costs, colleges have rapidly increased use of adjunct/part-time instructors (i.e., no tenure, no long-term contract, no negotiating power). Currently somewhere between 55%-65% of community college instruction is done by adjuncts (http://www.oah.org/pubs/commcoll/berry.html). And what that means is that you're completely at the mercy of the college to re-hire you semester to semester, there is no guarantee that you'll teach the same course a second time, and there's no way to gamble that the effort you put into course materials will be used again at any point in the future.
In summary: For many instructors, writing your own books would not be allowed, not reduce costs, and/or not ever be used more than one time.
"If I use too much, I'd gladly buy a second account. If I'm willing to pay for two spots on the node, why not give them to me?! I thought they were a corporation that was all about the capitalist ideal and not the one-size-fits-all socialism style solution? What's appropriate for the elderly couple down the street may not be appropriate for my needs. That doesn't make me a bad person or a bad customer. It makes me someone looking for a service."
My best friend has a story: whenever his grandfather goes into a store and the clerks are bored or disinterested or unresponsive, he goes, "I want to give you my money. Don't you want my money!?" -- all incredulous-like.
My uptake on this is: No, they don't want your money. Phone agent #123 doesn't get any benefit out of your particular account being active or not for Comcast. Any individual case is completely, utterly negligible to the company's bottom line. If you're looking for responsiveness from individual purchasing decisions, that will never happen.
They don't give a damn about your particular individual money.
Year 0: Patent A, a method to show ads.
Year 5: Patent B, a method to defeat A and block ads.
Year 10: Patent C, a method to defeat B and show ads.
Year 15: Patent D, a method to defeat C and block ads.
Year 20: Patent E, a method to defeat D and show ads.
Etc.
(Much like the phone company selling: caller ID - blocker - interceptor - blocker - interceptors). This way in any year you've got at least two pairs of ad showers/blockers available and protected under patents.
Also, patent this overall idea as a business method.
I'm running Win2K for the same reasons and I don't see any sign of any update. My "wuapi.dll" file has a datestamp of 4/17/2007, so I don't think that's been updated. I do have Update not turned on, and I also run in user mode (not administrator), if that makes any difference.
Not that I'm the best diagnostician, but I might suggest that what you're seeing is in fact a continuation of your prior symptoms.
From the prior thread: "I don't believe a single damned thing these guys say anymore."
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=294029&threshold=-1&commentsort=0&mode=thread&cid=20554673
You can certainly bet that we'll use this report as a counter every time the RIAA makes up ridiculous numbers in the future. In fact, rhetorically and politically, you absolutely must do that. And if they inflate their figures upward, we should definitely be willing to up these figures to some trillion number of dollars. Do you want to win, or do you want to lose, fair use rights?
I don't believe a single damned thing these guys say anymore.
You're making a civics error at least as bad as the grandparent. "Freedom of the press" is not a U.S.-only principle, nor is it necessarily about governments and not corporations. If you had said that "the 1st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution" was only a restriction on the U.S. Federal government (specifically laws passed by Congress), then you would be correct. But frankly that's splitting hairs beside the larger issue of whether a truly free press is necessary to keep a functioning democracy.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights indicates: "Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive, and impart information and ideas through any media regardless of frontiers".
No government-vs-corporation distinction, no U.S.-only limitation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_the_press
"In fact any intelligent machine would realize it's again all about the careful ballance, and would cooperate with humanity and explore and learn from nature's development versus try to destroy it.."
Question (hopefully without Godwinizing the thread): Was Stalin intelligent? Was Mao Zedong intelligent? Are you sure you want to maintain that "any intelligent" entity would realize it's all about careful balance?
Personally, I wouldn't think so. There are demonstrably sociopaths, intelligent evil people, in the world.
What a fucking idiotic fruitcake. The G.I. Joe toyline was only U.S. military-specific for an extremely brief time in the 1960's.
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By 1970, when I had my own G.I. Joe, they'd translated him to -- get this -- an international "adventure team" of explorers. Anyone who's ever mentioned "Kung Fu Grip" is talking about this line of G.I. Joe's. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.I._Joe_Adventure_T
This editorial is almost 40 full years out of date! Excellent case study on the fact-challenged neanderthal-ism of the right wing psychos who've stolen our country. And thanks for the sidebar offer to sign up for super-cunty Anne Coulter's email newsletter, I'll pass, thanks.
The poor will always increase their standard of living? No.
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Consider average personal income in the US in 2005 dollars:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_income_in_t
From 1950-1970 it went up quite a bit.
From 1970-1990 is basically flatlined.
From 1990-2000 it went up a little.
From 2000-2004 it went back down.
So no, it does always increase. We have to be vigilant and smart as a society to make sure we maintain or increase prosperity. Magical faith will not suffice.
Free as in speech, not free as in ice cream.
That's the best idea I've seen all day. I'd mod you up, but you're already maxed out on this. That's an excellent, terrific strategic idea.