So essentially you suggest the school tack the same money on that students pay now for books. You know students get some of that money back right?
How exactly is that different then making students pay for the access to the electronic version. Essentially Isnt that just selling them electronic books for the same price as the paper ones, and then they dont get to sell them back.
Really.. the students arnt great at writing huh. Why dont you ask your partner, how they teach their students, Im willing to bet its by peer editing, they used that alot at my college. So it sounds like those crappy writers could use some practice. Get four of them together, have each one go over the paper, then you take all four of them sit them down and have them compare, merge it into a fifth, send it to the teach for some extra double checking.
You can't just bang out a textbook over summer break.
No shit. I never suggested it could be done in a summer, I suggested it could be done. They already write the books, You really think it would take that long to write an electronic book. Prob take LESS time, you dont have to send it to be printed on paper and then sold back to you... NEXT
Having a professor at every college repeat the same effort that some other professor up the road is making seems like a huge waste of time.
You must have missed the part where I said schools should share with other schools, If there is already a good relevant textbook available, unless you need to publish or perish. Use the one available.
Hmm your soooo right it is sooo much more expensive to have it all done in house, with no actual printing, that tuition will skyrocket.
Lets see how much does someone get paid to publish a book... From TFA..
Simplified, it works something like this: universities or the government subsidize a professor's research. The professor, who is required to publish frequently for professional advancement, gives his research to a scholarly publisher, usually for little or no money.
The professors already don't make much for the book, the grad students.. heh they are slaves anyways. The cost of moving the document onto a server for the students... Heh they already have e-reserves.
I see both the SCHOOLS and the STUDENTS saving money here.
Your absolutly right, we need to get those students to give us more money.. I mean can you believe that some of them graduate with no student loans... ohh lordy lord.
The professors write the book,send it to a publisher for editing and what not, and the book is sold back to the SAME SCHOOL, and others. Thats how it works right now. As far as Im concerned, these professors should forward their books to the lit department, have some undergrads edit, and pretty it up. then post it on the schools server. Then schools could share their librarys with other schools, so every school will have available on its server every fucking book they need. Problem solved.
f you don't make it an ABSOLUTE priority to FIRST protect the people you're supposed to be serving and protecting (the civilians)
You must have me mixed up with a police officer. The police use the "to serve and protect" line. I was not there to serve the local citizens, I was there to serve my country. There is a HUGE difference. I was not there to serve the iraqi people. Those rules outlined when I could make MY OWN determination that lethal force was necessary
then it seems like you're just a guy with a gun shooting people who aren't his mates. And that seems like the definition of 'aggressor' or nastier words.
I never fired my weapon once, I was there to remove roadside bombs. If you want to get into whether or not Americans should have ever gone to Iraq, I wont play that game. (Frankly I have my own doubts.. now) I was there to remove bombs, the same bombs that were being used against the civilians by opposing factions. SO before we try to turn this into a American bashing exercise, why dont you talk to someone in YOUR local military, Im sure they have pretty much the same rules. Trust me, they arnt there to serve and protect either.
1. after further checking your absolutely right it does use wine.
2. the version 3.0 beta is out (It too uses wine)
Its odd, last time I tried to use wine I couldn't get anything to run, but I had Picasa and it ran fine. Perhaps when I installed wine after installing Picasa I screwed something up. Its kinda misleading to say they have a Linux version that requires wine to run. Mea Culpa
I can agree to that. Im not sure how or why the military handled this the way they did, Im sure they had their reasons, maybe good, but probably bad ones.
They should have admited this right away, Ill agree 100%. It seems that alot of people are jumping to the conclusion that it was the soldiers individual fault. Perhaps the situation the soldier was put in to is at fault here. There are so many things that we dont know, its impossible to lay blame.
I don't know how this situation would work, I do remember one of the drivers in my platoon taking out a cars side mirror on accident. The owner of the car got paid 200 dollars. I know there is som e sort of compensation for damage injury or death, is it the level that an soldier gets? I doubt it, but I believe they do receive something. (It may only happen in certain situations or whatever, Ive noticed the military isnt always forthcoming, or fair)
You would hide among women and children, with the hopes of using them for cover to kill Americans. You fucking coward. Youd risk the lives of innocent to kill someone.. to get revenge. your a fucking coward.. a piece of shit coward at that.
We had a saying in the army, "I'd rather be tried by 12 then carried by 6." There is no leisurely time to double check, or try to get more info. If you believe that yourself, a fellow soldier, American citizen, allied soldiers, allied citizen, or unallied citizen is in danger (In that order) of loosing life limb or eyesight, then deadly force is allowed. This is war, if you dont pull that trigger they might.
The person who pulled that trigger KNEW (even if he later turned out wrong) that if he didn't pull the trigger, that the enemy might. It is a sorry state of affairs that this could happen, it could have been avoided, by the news crew telling the U.S. military that they were out there. They did NOT tell the U.S. that they would be in the area.
Its dangerous to be pimping a big old camera in iraq anyways, the iraquis love to film ied attacks on Americans. When I was in Iraq, wed get hit by IED's and its prob a good thing the only cameras we ever saw were in our vehicles. It kinda fucks you up when you find videos of YOUR vehicle being attacked and put on propoganda sites. Hint to Newscrews: Tell the exhausted, overworked, and probably not wanting to be there soldiers well tell them your there, it might prevent getting fucking shot.
Ill tell you another thing, the person who pulled the trigger has to live with that, Id bet hes not having an easy time of it. My heart goes out to the innocents who die, but I stand by my fellow soldiers.
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So essentially you suggest the school tack the same money on that students pay now for books. You know students get some of that money back right?
How exactly is that different then making students pay for the access to the electronic version. Essentially Isnt that just selling them electronic books for the same price as the paper ones, and then they dont get to sell them back.
HEY Wait... are you a book publisher?
Offtopic, you dont deserve a serious reply, no matter if I believe your right.
Really.. the students arnt great at writing huh. Why dont you ask your partner, how they teach their students, Im willing to bet its by peer editing, they used that alot at my college. So it sounds like those crappy writers could use some practice. Get four of them together, have each one go over the paper, then you take all four of them sit them down and have them compare, merge it into a fifth, send it to the teach for some extra double checking.
You can't just bang out a textbook over summer break.
No shit. I never suggested it could be done in a summer, I suggested it could be done. They already write the books, You really think it would take that long to write an electronic book. Prob take LESS time, you dont have to send it to be printed on paper and then sold back to you... NEXT
Having a professor at every college repeat the same effort that some other professor up the road is making seems like a huge waste of time.
You must have missed the part where I said schools should share with other schools, If there is already a good relevant textbook available, unless you need to publish or perish. Use the one available.
Its called paragraphs, Im not gonna read that. Repost with some readability edits if you want a serious reply.
Publish or perish. You just e-publish into the server, and you can be peer reviewed by professors at other schools. Problem solved.
If you RTFA Youd noticed it said that they rarely get paid much if at all. I posted relevent snippet up a few.
Simplified, it works something like this: universities or the government subsidize a professor's research. The professor, who is required to publish frequently for professional advancement, gives his research to a scholarly publisher, usually for little or no money.
The professors already don't make much for the book, the grad students.. heh they are slaves anyways. The cost of moving the document onto a server for the students... Heh they already have e-reserves.
I see both the SCHOOLS and the STUDENTS saving money here.
Your absolutly right, we need to get those students to give us more money.. I mean can you believe that some of them graduate with no student loans... ohh lordy lord.
The professors write the book ,send it to a publisher for editing and what not, and the book is sold back to the SAME SCHOOL, and others. Thats how it works right now. As far as Im concerned, these professors should forward their books to the lit department, have some undergrads edit, and pretty it up. then post it on the schools server. Then schools could share their librarys with other schools, so every school will have available on its server every fucking book they need. Problem solved.
I plan on cooking my steak with one of these from now on.
http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/techbeat/archives/2010/03/nokia_revises_m.html Nokia seems to have a THIRD of the worlds market share. I dont care if they dont sell a single phone here in the US.
f you don't make it an ABSOLUTE priority to FIRST protect the people you're supposed to be serving and protecting (the civilians)
You must have me mixed up with a police officer. The police use the "to serve and protect" line. I was not there to serve the local citizens, I was there to serve my country. There is a HUGE difference. I was not there to serve the iraqi people. Those rules outlined when I could make MY OWN determination that lethal force was necessary
then it seems like you're just a guy with a gun shooting people who aren't his mates. And that seems like the definition of 'aggressor' or nastier words.
I never fired my weapon once, I was there to remove roadside bombs. If you want to get into whether or not Americans should have ever gone to Iraq, I wont play that game. (Frankly I have my own doubts.. now) I was there to remove bombs, the same bombs that were being used against the civilians by opposing factions. SO before we try to turn this into a American bashing exercise, why dont you talk to someone in YOUR local military, Im sure they have pretty much the same rules. Trust me, they arnt there to serve and protect either.
Two things,
1. after further checking your absolutely right it does use wine.
2. the version 3.0 beta is out (It too uses wine)
Its odd, last time I tried to use wine I couldn't get anything to run, but I had Picasa and it ran fine. Perhaps when I installed wine after installing Picasa I screwed something up. Its kinda misleading to say they have a Linux version that requires wine to run. Mea Culpa
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Theres a LINUX version of Picasa.. why does everyone use wine?
Why would you use wine to run it? http://picasa.google.com/linux/ --- Linux version
Just the other day while I was eating a cheeseburger, i was thinking, it would taste GREAT with some light sweet crude on it.
The kidnapped guy, Kim Jong-Il was the executive producer I think
Its called SGLI and its a maximum $400,000, depending on what the soldier pays in.
I dont always agree with your point of view, but you shouldnt be modded troll here, your right.
Your right, the chopper wasn't in danger, the nearby supply convoy was the one in danger, the chopper was providing overwatch. Get you facts straight.
They should have admited this right away, Ill agree 100%. It seems that alot of people are jumping to the conclusion that it was the soldiers individual fault. Perhaps the situation the soldier was put in to is at fault here. There are so many things that we dont know, its impossible to lay blame.
I don't know how this situation would work, I do remember one of the drivers in my platoon taking out a cars side mirror on accident. The owner of the car got paid 200 dollars. I know there is som e sort of compensation for damage injury or death, is it the level that an soldier gets? I doubt it, but I believe they do receive something. (It may only happen in certain situations or whatever, Ive noticed the military isnt always forthcoming, or fair)
LMFAO.. Thx
If I were him, the arrangement would be to release a few documents every day i was in custody.
You would hide among women and children, with the hopes of using them for cover to kill Americans. You fucking coward. Youd risk the lives of innocent to kill someone.. to get revenge. your a fucking coward.. a piece of shit coward at that.
The person who pulled that trigger KNEW (even if he later turned out wrong) that if he didn't pull the trigger, that the enemy might. It is a sorry state of affairs that this could happen, it could have been avoided, by the news crew telling the U.S. military that they were out there. They did NOT tell the U.S. that they would be in the area.
Its dangerous to be pimping a big old camera in iraq anyways, the iraquis love to film ied attacks on Americans. When I was in Iraq, wed get hit by IED's and its prob a good thing the only cameras we ever saw were in our vehicles. It kinda fucks you up when you find videos of YOUR vehicle being attacked and put on propoganda sites. Hint to Newscrews: Tell the exhausted, overworked, and probably not wanting to be there soldiers well tell them your there, it might prevent getting fucking shot.
Ill tell you another thing, the person who pulled the trigger has to live with that, Id bet hes not having an easy time of it. My heart goes out to the innocents who die, but I stand by my fellow soldiers.