Just buy DRM free ebooks. There are plenty to choose from. I especially like Baen Books. They specialize in Sci-Fi/Fantasy and have a free library where you can get selected full books from authors for free so you can find out which ones you like the best. Smashwords is also good. Their focus is self publishing authors and they sell every genre.
Percy LeBaron Spencer (9 July, 1894 – 8 September, 1970) was an American engineer and inventor. He became known as the inventor of the microwave oven.
Spencer was born in Howland, Maine. His father died in 1897, and his mother left him a short time later. He lived with his aunt and uncle after that. He never graduated from grammar school, but went to work in a mill as an apprentice at age 12, before joining the U.S. Navy in 1912 to learn wireless telegraphy. He joined the Raytheon Company in the 1920s.
In 1941, magnetrons, which were used to generate the microwave radio signals that are the core mechanism of radar, were being made at the rate of 17 per day at Raytheon. While working there, Spencer developed a more efficient way to manufacture them, by punching out and soldering together magnetron parts, rather than using machined parts. His improvements were among those that increased magnetron production to 2,600 per day. For his work he was awarded the Distinguished Public Service Award by the US Navy.
In 1945, while standing in front of an operating magnetron, a chocolate bar in his pocket melted. He then tested popcorn in front of the magnetron (surely turning up the power and standing out of the beam), and it quickly popped all over the room. Development of the microwave oven grew out of these observations, and by 1947 a commercial oven was being sold by Raytheon. (Note: He received US patent 2,495,429 out of his invention of the microwave oven.)
He became Senior Vice President and a senior member of the Board of Directors at Raytheon. He received 300 patents during his career at Raytheon; a building there is named after him. Spencer was married and had three children, James, John, and George.
How does your clarification imply more freedom? I have nothing against people claiming the software they write is theirs. I do have a complaint against people who write software, say it's theirs and also claim it's freedom while distributing it with a restrictive license. It's the hypocrisy that bothers me, not the license.
Yeah it applies to the FSF license and no, nobody is forcing you to use it just like no one is forcing you to cut off your toes. But that doesn't make either idea good.
I didn't say everything has to turn a profit. I just said you couldn't earn a profit by using GPL software, which is also the main complaint against using GPL software. It's a good license for academics. It's not a good license for earning a living.
There are legitimate complaints against the GPL. The most notable one is you can't make money from modifying or using the software if everyone can copy it for free. It's good for school projects and vendors who sell "support" but for actual software developers who want to make a living writing software it's not the best license to use. Does that make it less free? You make the call.
As an English major, let me talk about practical uses of cheaper degrees. This country needs lots of professionals in lots of areas, and many of those areas don't pay big bucks, yet the degrees cost a bundle. Thus, you wind up with people avoiding such fields. One solution to such a conundrum is to charge less for lesser paying fields. If students don't come out of school with a crushing debt, they will be more tempted to be social workers, physical therapists, teachers, or any number of less-glamorous professions.
As an Economics minor, let me talk about the practical uses of price theory. If jobs aren't paying well that means we already have enough people in those jobs. It's the high paying jobs we need more people doing.
Mediacom high speed Internet in my area is $20 per month. This is much cheaper than their competitor Cox, who charges $50 per month. I don't care about the 404 redirection. It's a damn page not found page, who cares if they put a search engine there. I'm not about to spend $30 per month just so I don't see a search engine when I don't find the page I'm looking for. I'm surprised as many of you care as it seems. How often do you type in the wrong url anyway?
The profit margin on most groceries is very thin. There is profit in alcohol but that is precisely what broke the automation due to laws requiring verification of age by actual people.
Maybe we'd all be better off without the law in the first place. You're 12, you want to spend your income from mowing lawns on beer and cigs, go for it.
We do right, but SC2 was targeted at a mass market (i.e. non-professional gamers). If there was a warning on the box that said "The multi-player in this game is for professional gamers, scrubs won't have fun playing it but they might enjoy the single player" then us normal gamers wouldn't be complaining. And truthfully, most of the complaint is the price. I feel cheated paying $60 for a mediocre single player game and an unfun multi-player game. If it was $20 it would be more like eh, whatever.
If you look at all the games through history, how many multiplayer games can you name that people have played for more than 10 years that weren't competitive and balanced? I can think of 0.
10 years? Are you kidding me? How many multi-player computer games period does anyone play for more than 10 years? That's not a good yardstick. I mean maybe Counterstrike if you include beta through source engine? When did World of Warcraft come out? That will probably make the 10 year mark when it gets there. Everquest has probably passed that mark for those that still play it. I suppose all the "classic" games like hearts and checkers count. But seriously, playing 10+ years is not the best yardstick to use for any game if you call yourself a gamer.
Losing in other games is more fun. For instance, sometimes dieing TF2 makes me smile and if the death is crazy or unexpected enough I laugh out loud. I never got that feeling playing SC2.
It's not just you AC. The biggest regret of the thousands of dollars I've spent on gaming is the $60 I spent on SC2. Multi-player is just not fun. I think the problem is it's too complex and fast. For regular gamers, a game can be complex and slow (Master of Orion 2) or simple and fast (Team Fortress 2) but if it's both complex and fast paced it's more "work" than it is "game".
I don't see why anyone needs cable. It's just entertainment. There are plenty of alternatives for entertainment including streaming Netlfix or playing video games. If you get an over the air TV signal you're sacrificing even less.
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Just buy DRM free ebooks. There are plenty to choose from. I especially like Baen Books. They specialize in Sci-Fi/Fantasy and have a free library where you can get selected full books from authors for free so you can find out which ones you like the best. Smashwords is also good. Their focus is self publishing authors and they sell every genre.
School does not equal education.
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The boot process used to go a lot faster. There are many background programs launched at start up now and they each take a while to get warmed up.
And shutdown used to mean flipping a switch. That was nice.
Make original shows and sell them to Netflix, Hulu and DVD customers. Cable Television is yesterday's technology.
How does your clarification imply more freedom? I have nothing against people claiming the software they write is theirs. I do have a complaint against people who write software, say it's theirs and also claim it's freedom while distributing it with a restrictive license. It's the hypocrisy that bothers me, not the license.
The only complaint is some people call GPL free. Other than that there's nothing to complain about.
Yeah it applies to the FSF license and no, nobody is forcing you to use it just like no one is forcing you to cut off your toes. But that doesn't make either idea good.
I didn't say everything has to turn a profit. I just said you couldn't earn a profit by using GPL software, which is also the main complaint against using GPL software. It's a good license for academics. It's not a good license for earning a living.
There are legitimate complaints against the GPL. The most notable one is you can't make money from modifying or using the software if everyone can copy it for free. It's good for school projects and vendors who sell "support" but for actual software developers who want to make a living writing software it's not the best license to use. Does that make it less free? You make the call.
As an Economics minor, let me talk about the practical uses of price theory. If jobs aren't paying well that means we already have enough people in those jobs. It's the high paying jobs we need more people doing.
As opposed to making the big bucks at McDonald's?
Engineering is still better than Liberal Arts for finding good jobs so this isn't really a horrible idea. You get what you pay for.
Fine just change ISPs then. If 404 means so much to you lease a T1.
You always have the option of using a different DNS server, or changing your client software to interpret the search engine page as a not found page.
Mediacom high speed Internet in my area is $20 per month. This is much cheaper than their competitor Cox, who charges $50 per month. I don't care about the 404 redirection. It's a damn page not found page, who cares if they put a search engine there. I'm not about to spend $30 per month just so I don't see a search engine when I don't find the page I'm looking for. I'm surprised as many of you care as it seems. How often do you type in the wrong url anyway?
According to TFA, he didn't claim insurance nor threaten to sue anyone.
The profit margin on most groceries is very thin. There is profit in alcohol but that is precisely what broke the automation due to laws requiring verification of age by actual people.
Maybe we'd all be better off without the law in the first place. You're 12, you want to spend your income from mowing lawns on beer and cigs, go for it.
Or you could just come back Monday and pay with real money.
We do right, but SC2 was targeted at a mass market (i.e. non-professional gamers). If there was a warning on the box that said "The multi-player in this game is for professional gamers, scrubs won't have fun playing it but they might enjoy the single player" then us normal gamers wouldn't be complaining. And truthfully, most of the complaint is the price. I feel cheated paying $60 for a mediocre single player game and an unfun multi-player game. If it was $20 it would be more like eh, whatever.
10 years? Are you kidding me? How many multi-player computer games period does anyone play for more than 10 years? That's not a good yardstick. I mean maybe Counterstrike if you include beta through source engine? When did World of Warcraft come out? That will probably make the 10 year mark when it gets there. Everquest has probably passed that mark for those that still play it. I suppose all the "classic" games like hearts and checkers count. But seriously, playing 10+ years is not the best yardstick to use for any game if you call yourself a gamer.
Losing in other games is more fun. For instance, sometimes dieing TF2 makes me smile and if the death is crazy or unexpected enough I laugh out loud. I never got that feeling playing SC2.
This says more about people who tried Starcraft 2 and left it than it does about those who bought Starcraft 2 mainly for competitive play.
It's not just you AC. The biggest regret of the thousands of dollars I've spent on gaming is the $60 I spent on SC2. Multi-player is just not fun. I think the problem is it's too complex and fast. For regular gamers, a game can be complex and slow (Master of Orion 2) or simple and fast (Team Fortress 2) but if it's both complex and fast paced it's more "work" than it is "game".
I don't see why anyone needs cable. It's just entertainment. There are plenty of alternatives for entertainment including streaming Netlfix or playing video games. If you get an over the air TV signal you're sacrificing even less.