It's been a thing for many years. Community college courses are mostly space filler outside core material so they love this model. They also love selling the expensive books at the school book store.
Textbooks cost far too much for something the student will use briefly. Their prices are a burden to many students. Their weight and bulk are a burden to carry between classes.
I'm old and should be nostalgic for dead tree media. To hell with that. I can can download, convert and share ebooks for much less money. I can back them up effortlessly.
Tell me why I should prefer to make publishers rich for an inferior experience. Gates is right on this one.
Amazon is so large they'd be surrounded by other smart people anyway. Techies tolerate living in campers to get jobs. They tolerate long commutes in horrific traffic to get jobs. They tolerate never being able to afford a home to get jobs. They tolerate having low disposable incomes to get jobs.
If you are rich enough to be picky by all means do so, but never confuse yourself with anyone else.
You'll use more and more of those services as you age and eventually become an invalid. What anti-social services folks forget is you won't be healthy or strong or have peak cognition all your life.
Choosing 2" burial is obviously stupid to anyone but the utterly clueless. I wouldn't bury cable in my yard that close to the surface. It's lawnmower bait.
May? Why would China care since they can use the research internally. to their own advantage?
The idea a country without ethics would be impressed by the exposure same is absurd. They don't do research to help the world, just a few billion of their own people.
When they became the enemy depended on your social status, ethnicity, skin color and sometimes if you failed to pay the vig. Police corruption is not rare or new. It's a bit more visible now we don't rely on dead tree media.
You don't need road service because you've changed tires since flats were much more common. You even go back to when bias ply tires were common (as do I). Things are different today:
Only one (1) CNC machining center is required to produce such a relatively small volume of parts.
American made Haas are located in California and will happily supply competitively priced CNC machining centers capable of far more complex work. Haas are the largest machine tool builder in the western world.
Apple either didn't do due diligence or the machine shop promised what it could not deliver.
Professional mechanics often spend that much on a tool box. Not the contents, the box. When you need what they do, you buy Lista instead of Harbor Freight. $30K for quality tools is not high end at all.
Time is money and efficiency reduces wasted time. The delta between a Walmart shitbox and a mobile workstation is a trifle if you need what that workstation offers.
and excellent Linux support. Their HMMs (Hardware Maintenance Manuals) are very well done. They are designed for ease of service. Gobs of off-lease 'Pads are available cheap. Parts new and used are plentiful via Ebay.
The "wall" is part of a border control system. Physical barriers must be surveilled and have human pickets available. The successful "walls" (built by Israel, Saudi, and Hungary) are monitored and patrolled. They don't just sit there awaiting circumvention or breaching.
Unfortunately the American public can't understand words longer than four letters so "wall" has taken over the discussion.
If "walls" don't work I must have hallucinated the Berlin Wall when I was stationed in West Germany. Those who want open borders should advocate suitable legislation.
"The only reason apple wants this is because it will allow them to eliminate the last port on their phone and will give users no choice but to use things like air pods."
Plugging the analog hole is a logical motive. Vendor lock is love.
If she's used to Windows it's stupid to retrain to a Chromebook when she could be making MONEY for both of you.
Buy a business class notebook with onsite warranty. Only ask people who personally maintain fleets of such machines because individual anecdotes are shit. Visit established notebook forums. Slashdot hasn't been News for Nerds since it became Dicedot.
"I don't see any reason to be so personal or vengeful on the attacks."
You appear not to understand White Trash. (I'm white and have no problem with that frequently accurate term.) They are primitive vicious human garbage on a good day. The term isn't an accident.
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It's been a thing for many years. Community college courses are mostly space filler outside core material so they love this model.
They also love selling the expensive books at the school book store.
"They would rather you put your copy of 1984 on your kindle than carry it around on paperback"
I have plenty of (converted) ebooks and no Kindle. They can't phone home. Technology routes around damage.
There's considerable profit in selling textbooks, including those integrated with computer learning. Follow the money and you'll have your answer.
The education business is not altruistic.
https://calibre-ebook.com/
How can you be on Slashdot (supposedly News For Nerds) and not instantly know the solution to that problem?
Textbooks cost far too much for something the student will use briefly. Their prices are a burden to many students. Their weight and bulk are a burden to carry between classes.
I'm old and should be nostalgic for dead tree media. To hell with that. I can can download, convert and share ebooks for much less money. I can back them up effortlessly.
Tell me why I should prefer to make publishers rich for an inferior experience. Gates is right on this one.
msmash space filler posts are getting ridiculous.
Not news for nerds, doesn't matter except to jock sniffers, send this shit to sports blogs instead of polluting Slashdot.
Amazon is so large they'd be surrounded by other smart people anyway. Techies tolerate living in campers to get jobs. They tolerate long commutes in horrific traffic to get jobs. They tolerate never being able to afford a home to get jobs. They tolerate having low disposable incomes to get jobs.
If you are rich enough to be picky by all means do so, but never confuse yourself with anyone else.
You'll use more and more of those services as you age and eventually become an invalid. What anti-social services folks forget is you won't be healthy or strong or have peak cognition all your life.
If you want people to work low-end jobs, subsidize wages so employers can take useful advantage of that labor pool.
Everyone wins.
Choosing 2" burial is obviously stupid to anyone but the utterly clueless. I wouldn't bury cable in my yard that close to the surface. It's lawnmower bait.
May? Why would China care since they can use the research internally. to their own advantage?
The idea a country without ethics would be impressed by the exposure same is absurd. They don't do research to help the world, just a few billion of their own people.
When they became the enemy depended on your social status, ethnicity, skin color and sometimes if you failed to pay the vig. Police corruption is not rare or new. It's a bit more visible now we don't rely on dead tree media.
Sam Walton is quite the counter-example.
Do stupid shit, die of stupid shit. None of those drugs were useful to sustain anything worth sustaining.
You don't need road service because you've changed tires since flats were much more common. You even go back to when bias ply tires were common (as do I). Things are different today:
https://www.usatoday.com/story...
Only one (1) CNC machining center is required to produce such a relatively small volume of parts.
American made Haas are located in California and will happily supply competitively priced CNC machining centers capable of far more complex work. Haas are the largest machine tool builder in the western world.
Apple either didn't do due diligence or the machine shop promised what it could not deliver.
https://www.haascnc.com/index....
Professional mechanics often spend that much on a tool box. Not the contents, the box. When you need what they do, you buy Lista instead of Harbor Freight. $30K for quality tools is not high end at all.
Time is money and efficiency reduces wasted time. The delta between a Walmart shitbox and a mobile workstation is a trifle if you need what that workstation offers.
Unless he images that software to durable media like archival DVDs it can be lost as the floppies deteriorate. Lose one of a set and you're screwed.
Back in the proverbial day we used Winimage which is (amazingly) still available. https://www.winimage.com/
Of course Linux users have other options like dd.
If you collect old software do yourself a favor and image it immediately so you'll have more than the packaging and a useless floppy in the future.
It permits further development without disclosure which might enable competitors to beat you to the punch.
If he's smart enough to win a Nobel he might be smart enough to do a risk/benefit analysis.
https://www.heerlaw.com/benefi...
Thinkpads have a large and helpful user community
https://forum.thinkpads.com/
and excellent Linux support. Their HMMs (Hardware Maintenance Manuals) are very well done. They are designed for ease of service. Gobs of off-lease 'Pads are available cheap. Parts new and used are plentiful via Ebay.
The "wall" is part of a border control system. Physical barriers must be surveilled and have human pickets available. The successful "walls" (built by Israel, Saudi, and Hungary) are monitored and patrolled. They don't just sit there awaiting circumvention or breaching.
Unfortunately the American public can't understand words longer than four letters so "wall" has taken over the discussion.
If "walls" don't work I must have hallucinated the Berlin Wall when I was stationed in West Germany. Those who want open borders should advocate suitable legislation.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/w...
How dare you sully a Slashdot thread with facts?
Asking for a friend.
"The only reason apple wants this is because it will allow them to eliminate the last port on their phone and will give users no choice but to use things like air pods."
Plugging the analog hole is a logical motive. Vendor lock is love.
If she's used to Windows it's stupid to retrain to a Chromebook when she could be making MONEY for both of you.
Buy a business class notebook with onsite warranty. Only ask people who personally maintain fleets of such machines because individual anecdotes are shit. Visit established notebook forums. Slashdot hasn't been News for Nerds since it became Dicedot.
"I don't see any reason to be so personal or vengeful on the attacks."
You appear not to understand White Trash. (I'm white and have no problem with that frequently accurate term.) They are primitive vicious human garbage on a good day. The term isn't an accident.