I don't understand this hype. I can/almost/ see how you'd want this in a few situations over CFL, but how can it possibly compete with the competing bulbs from LG and GE that are in the $10~20 range with pretty equivalent specs?
I was considering that possibility, but I'm reasonably confident I had pretty decent adding and subtracting capability even as a six year old. Regardless, the way to handle the situation was certainly not "Let's check the answer key!", but rather "Hmm... why don't we count out ten marbles on the desk here, now if we take away seven of them, how many are left?" -- You know, actually teach.
This sort of thing was the start of my disaffection with school in about the first grade. Up to this point I was really excited to come and learn, and then we got a math workbook that had a tremendous error rate in the answer key. I pointed some of these out to my teacher and she actually went back to check the answer key again to tell me I was wrong.
I don't think it would have been possible to design a better way to show me that:
The teacher didn't care.
The system (IE the textbook writers) didn't care.
The teacher was so caught up in the system that she depended on an answer key for checking rather than performing the simple addition herself and seeing what was obvious.
School was irrelevant. Even in elementary the teachers were dumber than the students, and grades didn't necessarily correlate with anything important in reality.
I bought a Nook Color last Christmas and have been pretty disappointed. The eBook prices are ridiculously high. They are often higher than the physical book in the store or Amazon. They also seem to be consistently higher than Amazon's prices for the same eBook (which are also too high).
The reader's behavior doesn't really seem to match up to the specs. It feels pretty slow, and the screen response is extremely poor. Many of the applications that come with (such as crosswords) are not functional because the touchscreen response is inaccurate. Battery life is pretty good when you're using it, but if it's set aside for a couple of weeks and not used, the battery will drain in the meantime.
Really? This one seemed a little worse to me. It's pretty obvious at this point that he doesn't intend to meaningfully respond to any petition that isn't an automatic home run for him.
That's not contradictory at all. He says that not only do we not have a shortage, but that many good engineers have had to take up other careers. Why is that difficult to understand?
Massive amounts of caffeine are often effective for me. I take Excedrin Migraine (mostly caffeine) and then chew coffee beans or drink several cans of soda. If I can do this immediately when the aura starts, pretty often I'll avoid the headache. Still end up just a bit "off" for days though.
From his comments I don't think Obama would have a problem signing this. My impression of his opinion is "Yeah. It shouldn't be illegal, but it's not worth spending political capital to make that happen." If it didn't cost him anything, he'd approve.
He's very frequently been right, even when analyzing extraordinary things... That's why he's a good bit of the reason why he's an incredibly successful author.
This is a better objection. But as a rough plan, I'd put on a manual focus lens, and connect the circuitry to an auto-focus lens laid next to it. Tell the camera to focus into the distance, but focus your inline manual lens as you need to.
And... at this point it's easier probably to use the software crack. The point, though, is that next week there will be a new and "truly unbreakable" version of the software that closes whatever hole was found, but it sure seems like access to the hardware lets you defeat any possible system that could be designed.
I think you could do a pretty good job with a semi-pro ten color inkjet. The gamut will be near sRGB. You can upscale the image and blur a bit to kill moire. Reducing the camera capture resolution and compression quality a touch would further hide any defects.
Most importantly, if you tell a courtroom "Look, the picture looks good and Nikon cameras make magic pictures that can't lie." They are going to say "OK!" not "Why don't we analyze the image gamut and maybe look for double vignetting or warping that isn't quite consistent with a standard Nikon lens.
Not only is this possible, it's how everything was actually done not too many years ago. The technique of "Cut up some printed images or film and lay them out to be photographed again" was the way that books, newspapers and magazines were created for many, many years. Do you think pre-1990s National Geographic pictures are too ugly and unbelievable to pass muster in a courtroom?
read passed the title of my post, then you owe me five bucks for the benefit of my wisdom.
I'm just going to presume that everyone who posts after has read my post... I'll be in touch.
30,000 is nothing. Maybe, maybe you need to replace the drum. Of course if it's not made anymore...
Any laser printer should last just shy of forever. These are simple, simple machines. You're not printing enough to really worry about incremental costs. Just buy a cheap, popular laser.
It's a bit worse than that I think. Stated costs do not include:
Cost of floor space.
Time-value of money tied to supplies.
Reprints of defective titles.
Cost of multiple skilled employees dedicated to running.
Maintenance.
Insurance
Also, for an "I want it now!" service it's really, really slow. As the service get's popular, the line gets longer and it becomes less useful.
The skill-sets and equipment necessary to sell books are completely unrelated to what's needed to manufacture them. The idea of books being printed in the bookstore is completely awesome and completely impractical.
What would be good is POD manufacture then ship next day. Practical, cheaper, reliable, better quality. I'd buy it.
I just put up a website (www.openyourtextbook.com) to sell printed copies of CC / open textbooks last night. Did this largely because of the CK12 books.
I don't have very much content there yet, but you/can/ buy the CK12 textbooks, and I'm starting go through some of the other open textbook organizations looking for good content. The website needs a lot of work to be scalable, but before I do that work, I want to make sure it needs to be scalable.
If you have a good, free textbook, I'd love to make it available. I can produce them for much less than the options discussed above. The books will be soft cover with B&W interiors.
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You just ruined my weekend with that "Red button" comment.
Japanese workers are extremely hard working and incredibly unproductive. I hope they serve as a warning on the importance of work/life balance.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Radiocarbon_dating_calibration.svg To anyone more knowledgeable than me, shouldn't see some major movement on the c14 calibration graph around 775AD? Looks like a pretty boring period to me.
I don't understand this hype. I can /almost/ see how you'd want this in a few situations over CFL, but how can it possibly compete with the competing bulbs from LG and GE that are in the $10~20 range with pretty equivalent specs?
I was considering that possibility, but I'm reasonably confident I had pretty decent adding and subtracting capability even as a six year old. Regardless, the way to handle the situation was certainly not "Let's check the answer key!", but rather "Hmm... why don't we count out ten marbles on the desk here, now if we take away seven of them, how many are left?" -- You know, actually teach.
I bought a Nook Color last Christmas and have been pretty disappointed. The eBook prices are ridiculously high. They are often higher than the physical book in the store or Amazon. They also seem to be consistently higher than Amazon's prices for the same eBook (which are also too high). The reader's behavior doesn't really seem to match up to the specs. It feels pretty slow, and the screen response is extremely poor. Many of the applications that come with (such as crosswords) are not functional because the touchscreen response is inaccurate. Battery life is pretty good when you're using it, but if it's set aside for a couple of weeks and not used, the battery will drain in the meantime.
Also signed.
Really? This one seemed a little worse to me. It's pretty obvious at this point that he doesn't intend to meaningfully respond to any petition that isn't an automatic home run for him.
That's not contradictory at all. He says that not only do we not have a shortage, but that many good engineers have had to take up other careers. Why is that difficult to understand?
Bombs or bandages? Wave to the plane and find out!
We're all cosmonauts now, comrade.
Not sure what your link had to do with anything, but it /has/ been done before:
http://www.fabathome.org/wiki/index.php?title=Materials:Chocolate
Massive amounts of caffeine are often effective for me. I take Excedrin Migraine (mostly caffeine) and then chew coffee beans or drink several cans of soda. If I can do this immediately when the aura starts, pretty often I'll avoid the headache. Still end up just a bit "off" for days though.
From his comments I don't think Obama would have a problem signing this. My impression of his opinion is "Yeah. It shouldn't be illegal, but it's not worth spending political capital to make that happen." If it didn't cost him anything, he'd approve.
He's very frequently been right, even when analyzing extraordinary things... That's why he's a good bit of the reason why he's an incredibly successful author.
towards completely destroying America in order to make sure that America is safe?
This is a better objection. But as a rough plan, I'd put on a manual focus lens, and connect the circuitry to an auto-focus lens laid next to it. Tell the camera to focus into the distance, but focus your inline manual lens as you need to.
And... at this point it's easier probably to use the software crack. The point, though, is that next week there will be a new and "truly unbreakable" version of the software that closes whatever hole was found, but it sure seems like access to the hardware lets you defeat any possible system that could be designed.
I think you could do a pretty good job with a semi-pro ten color inkjet. The gamut will be near sRGB. You can upscale the image and blur a bit to kill moire. Reducing the camera capture resolution and compression quality a touch would further hide any defects. Most importantly, if you tell a courtroom "Look, the picture looks good and Nikon cameras make magic pictures that can't lie." They are going to say "OK!" not "Why don't we analyze the image gamut and maybe look for double vignetting or warping that isn't quite consistent with a standard Nikon lens. Not only is this possible, it's how everything was actually done not too many years ago. The technique of "Cut up some printed images or film and lay them out to be photographed again" was the way that books, newspapers and magazines were created for many, many years. Do you think pre-1990s National Geographic pictures are too ugly and unbelievable to pass muster in a courtroom?
Just take a picture of the photo-shopped image with your Nikon camera. Bam! That was sure hard to crack.
You're right. The really sad thing is that I had it correct, but believed my grammar check when it suggested "past".
read passed the title of my post, then you owe me five bucks for the benefit of my wisdom. I'm just going to presume that everyone who posts after has read my post... I'll be in touch.
30,000 is nothing. Maybe, maybe you need to replace the drum. Of course if it's not made anymore...
Any laser printer should last just shy of forever. These are simple, simple machines. You're not printing enough to really worry about incremental costs. Just buy a cheap, popular laser.
It's a bit worse than that I think. Stated costs do not include:
Also, for an "I want it now!" service it's really, really slow. As the service get's popular, the line gets longer and it becomes less useful.
The skill-sets and equipment necessary to sell books are completely unrelated to what's needed to manufacture them. The idea of books being printed in the bookstore is completely awesome and completely impractical.
What would be good is POD manufacture then ship next day. Practical, cheaper, reliable, better quality. I'd buy it.
I just put up a website (www.openyourtextbook.com) to sell printed copies of CC / open textbooks last night. Did this largely because of the CK12 books. I don't have very much content there yet, but you /can/ buy the CK12 textbooks, and I'm starting go through some of the other open textbook organizations looking for good content. The website needs a lot of work to be scalable, but before I do that work, I want to make sure it needs to be scalable.
If you have a good, free textbook, I'd love to make it available. I can produce them for much less than the options discussed above. The books will be soft cover with B&W interiors.