She concedes it's a difficult issue but says that "it's the only tool we have to make them pay."
A music major... was making payments on his $62,000 student debt after graduation while working as an adjunct professor for Temple.
So we have institutions lending $62,000 to majors that have terrible job prospects, then when they can't get jobs they don't know how to get the money back... okay. How about don't lend that much money to someone who you can be pretty sure won't pay the money back? I know higher education should be accessible to all and this and that, but perhaps 62 grand for a degree in music should give us pause to reconsider a) why does a degree in music cost 62 grand and b) why does someone want to spend 62 grand for a degree in music.
I can partiall answer b). I was at a advisory board meeting for my university's CSE department recently, and some undergrads were asked the question: "So what is tuition now?" No one could answer. They don't even KNOW that they are paying $40k+ a year in tuition. This is because they don't even look at their bill. They fill out the fafsa, press a button, sign some papers, and get free money that gives another year of partying. The reality only hits them AFTER they graduate and look back at their full bill. This attitude on the student's side has got to stop
There's also the attitude on the institution side, that they can loan someone $60k for a degree in basket weaving and reasonably expect to get it back. This has to stop as well, but I don't know how to fix it.
Evolution is the process of genetic mutations creating subtle variations in lifeforms. In extremely rare cases a subject has the right mutation to affect his entire species and an evolutionary change occurs.
Okay.... so correct me. Based on my flawed understanding, it seems to me a plant that can better process light+water+co2 would have a competitive advantage over the other plants. Maybe such a plant can grow in the shade where others cannot, since it can make more efficient use of the light it does get. It therefore follows that over a couple million years this component of selection would produce plants that are better and more efficient at converting CO2 to O2. So I'm curious where my incorrect assumption about evolution is.
While optimization does occur, its doesnt do so in the direct manner you suggest.
Thanks for the reply! Reignites my faith in Slashdot's readership. Can't say the same for the thread above. I came here looking for cute jokes about dinosaur farts and instead stumbled into an ideological clusterfuck.
To be honest I hope Obama DOES win re-election. I want the next four years to destroy anything left of his legacy.
This is the problem with Americans today. Instead of desiring a bright, hopeful, prosperous future, we instead want one where the people we dislike bring us into ruin just so we can say "I told you so."
Legitimate question: 65 million years ago, were trees/plants as efficient at converting carbon dioxide to Oxygen? I assume trees have evolved since then to become better at what they do.
You're basically comparing the entire Windows phone market to specific models of Android phones -- and even by doing that, you end up as #7 rather than #1.
All you're saying is that Android wildly outsells Windows Phone, which no one denies. But the claim was that no one wants the Lumia 900, which is obviously false.
And today it's at #4, the best selling AT&T phone on Amazon, selling better than the HTC One X which launched today. BTW, when the Lumia 900 launched on Amazon it was at #1 for a week. Now, a month later, it's still in the top 10, and both versions are in the top 20.
If anything, they should make the DVD version the standard, and let savvy folks downgrade and save the cost if they want.
Why? Research is showing that DVD/Bluray playback is decreasing, and the most popular ways to watch media are Youtube, Netflix, Hulu, etc. According to some projections, digital playback is poised to surpass physical this year. So why should the default be to pay? Besides, most computers these days are sold with dvd playback software on top of what Microsoft provides. For the vast majority of consumers, there will be no difference.
Are you familiar with the concept of royalties? That is, the true marginal cost for including the playback is the cost of including the few extra megabytes + royalties to the patent holders of the media codecs in question. In this case, royalties >>>> cost of a few extra megabytes.
Digital downloads. Every piece of software I've installed in recent memory has either been from the internet or steam. With the Windows 8 App Store, this will be the case for many more people.
Words uttered in 2001. Words which more than anything exhibit Ballmer's (mis)understanding of how GPL and other open source licenses work, and also how cancer in general works.
Like the AC said, even in 2012 MS is still the bogeyman.
For me, the allure of Elder Scrolls has always been the single player experience and the immersion in a different world this provides. As someone who has played many MMOs, immersion has never really been a word I'd use to describe them. From all the immature annoying players, to the terrible meta game of griding levels and petty guild politics, playing MMOs has always been a chore for me (which is I guess why I don't play them much anymore). Elder Scrolls has always been a beautiful fantasy escape, and while I know there aren't any details released about the game at this point, I can't possibly see how they can replicate that experience in an MMO.
I mean, look at the play style that characterizes TES. Vast open environments where you can do practically anything. Now imagine this as an MMO. Imagine walking into town to find EVERYTHING had been stripped out of every building. Shopkeepers slaughtered in the streets, two or three bandits with their pack of mule characters, shipping everything off to a stash... no it wouldn't work. The only reason these sandbox games work is because you're the only one in the game causing this kind of mayhem. So I don't know what TES Online is going to look like, but I have a strong suspicion it will include almost none of the allure of a typical TES game, and will be severely crippled by its MMO status.
I used to work with avionics systems that were ITAR controlled. To comply with regulations, we had to keep the hardware locked away when we weren't using it. Then all of a sudden, one day the flight logs generated by the hardware fell under ITAR control, so we had to delete all the logs from our servers, and even some of the software we wrote to analyze the flight data. Very frustrating.
Note that the Second Amendment provides no exclusions regarding what arms the citizens are allowed to own and carry
I'm sorry, I'm all for second amendment rights, but I don't think the framers of the constitution could possibly conceive weapons of mass destruction like nukes and biological weapons. I for one don't want you or anyone you know owning such weapons, ICBMs, ballistic missiles, etc.
There are only two sizes of icons, full size (40x40) and quarter size (20x20).
some in colour, some b&w
Not sure what this has to do with anything. There are B&W and color icons in Word 2003/XP, Open Office Writer, Word Perfect, etc. It's not a feature unique to the ribbon.
some with text labels, some without
The only icons without text are the most common ones like bold, justify, bullets, etc. Everything else is labeled at full resolution. Constrast this to OO Writer for example no icons have a text label.
and the different sizes aren't even aligned to a grid of any kind.
There is clearly a grid. Small icons are stacked 3 high and are aligned with eachother. This is the same height alloted for large icon + text label. The only icons I could see you referring to as unaligned are the ones on the home tab. This is no different than two toolbars stacked on top of eachother, and not an inherent problem with the ribbon design.
And the different styles drops-downs (font, style, etc) *DO* show the style in the drop-down. At least in Office 2003.
I haven't used Office 2003 in 5 years, so I don't recall. I'm comparing against Open Office Writer. In both, however, this feature is not prevalent throughout the application. For example, chart styles, object styles, cell styles, etc. This is especially evident in apps like Power Point, where styles are more important. With the Ribbon, there is ample room for an icon indicative of an animation or transition, which is more helpful than just a word and a tiny 16x16 icon.
And, if you use a real word processor like WordPerfect, you can even get live updates of highlighted portions of the document as you hover over the different styles/fonts in the drop-downs (something you can't do with the ribbon).
This is false. In Office 2010, style previews are updated in realtime as you hover over different styles. At any rate, the ribbon has no bearing on the ability to implement this feature.
Microsoft has at least 12 different billion dollar businesses. Take away Windows and Office, and sure, it would kill their revenue. They would probably have to fire a lot of people, but after some restructuring they would still be in a position to make a ton of money.
True to a point. A search for "12.04" on goole yield 9/10 results on the first page related to Ubuntu. The outlier is related to mental disorders. A search for "Precise Pangolin" on google also yields 9/10 results related to Ubuntu on the first page. in this case, the outlier is the wikipedia page for "Pangolin."
Oddly enough, putting the search "Precise Pangolin" in quotes still yields the wikipedia page, even though the phrase is not present there. Is Google ignoring search markup all of a sudden?
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She concedes it's a difficult issue but says that "it's the only tool we have to make them pay."
A music major ... was making payments on his $62,000 student debt after graduation while working as an adjunct professor for Temple.
So we have institutions lending $62,000 to majors that have terrible job prospects, then when they can't get jobs they don't know how to get the money back... okay. How about don't lend that much money to someone who you can be pretty sure won't pay the money back? I know higher education should be accessible to all and this and that, but perhaps 62 grand for a degree in music should give us pause to reconsider a) why does a degree in music cost 62 grand and b) why does someone want to spend 62 grand for a degree in music.
I can partiall answer b). I was at a advisory board meeting for my university's CSE department recently, and some undergrads were asked the question: "So what is tuition now?" No one could answer. They don't even KNOW that they are paying $40k+ a year in tuition. This is because they don't even look at their bill. They fill out the fafsa, press a button, sign some papers, and get free money that gives another year of partying. The reality only hits them AFTER they graduate and look back at their full bill. This attitude on the student's side has got to stop
There's also the attitude on the institution side, that they can loan someone $60k for a degree in basket weaving and reasonably expect to get it back. This has to stop as well, but I don't know how to fix it.
No... it's just 96% of revenues. Kill off advertising and Google is just another mid-sized software firm.
Evolution is the process of genetic mutations creating subtle variations in lifeforms. In extremely rare cases a subject has the right mutation to affect his entire species and an evolutionary change occurs.
Okay.... so correct me. Based on my flawed understanding, it seems to me a plant that can better process light+water+co2 would have a competitive advantage over the other plants. Maybe such a plant can grow in the shade where others cannot, since it can make more efficient use of the light it does get. It therefore follows that over a couple million years this component of selection would produce plants that are better and more efficient at converting CO2 to O2. So I'm curious where my incorrect assumption about evolution is.
While optimization does occur, its doesnt do so in the direct manner you suggest.
So how does it occur?
Thanks for the reply! Reignites my faith in Slashdot's readership. Can't say the same for the thread above. I came here looking for cute jokes about dinosaur farts and instead stumbled into an ideological clusterfuck.
To be honest I hope Obama DOES win re-election. I want the next four years to destroy anything left of his legacy.
This is the problem with Americans today. Instead of desiring a bright, hopeful, prosperous future, we instead want one where the people we dislike bring us into ruin just so we can say "I told you so."
Legitimate question: 65 million years ago, were trees/plants as efficient at converting carbon dioxide to Oxygen? I assume trees have evolved since then to become better at what they do.
You're basically comparing the entire Windows phone market to specific models of Android phones -- and even by doing that, you end up as #7 rather than #1.
All you're saying is that Android wildly outsells Windows Phone, which no one denies. But the claim was that no one wants the Lumia 900, which is obviously false.
And today it's at #4, the best selling AT&T phone on Amazon, selling better than the HTC One X which launched today. BTW, when the Lumia 900 launched on Amazon it was at #1 for a week. Now, a month later, it's still in the top 10, and both versions are in the top 20.
Old users get the 25gb upgrade permanently, not as a trial. And yes, "years." Skydrive has been 25GB since 2008.
civics fail
1) If you're installing Linux, you're by definition not a novice.
2) Microsoft provides its own Windows USB installation tool. Very easy to use.
If anything, they should make the DVD version the standard, and let savvy folks downgrade and save the cost if they want.
Why? Research is showing that DVD/Bluray playback is decreasing, and the most popular ways to watch media are Youtube, Netflix, Hulu, etc. According to some projections, digital playback is poised to surpass physical this year. So why should the default be to pay? Besides, most computers these days are sold with dvd playback software on top of what Microsoft provides. For the vast majority of consumers, there will be no difference.
Are you familiar with the concept of royalties? That is, the true marginal cost for including the playback is the cost of including the few extra megabytes + royalties to the patent holders of the media codecs in question. In this case, royalties >>>> cost of a few extra megabytes.
But there's no saying you have to pay Microsoft for the extra functionality. You're free to choose from many market alternatives, including free ones.
Digital downloads. Every piece of software I've installed in recent memory has either been from the internet or steam. With the Windows 8 App Store, this will be the case for many more people.
Words uttered in 2001. Words which more than anything exhibit Ballmer's (mis)understanding of how GPL and other open source licenses work, and also how cancer in general works.
Like the AC said, even in 2012 MS is still the bogeyman.
I agree. I would love to explore the land of Tamriel with my friends. I just don't want to do it with 10,000 other people to constantly annoy me.
For me, the allure of Elder Scrolls has always been the single player experience and the immersion in a different world this provides. As someone who has played many MMOs, immersion has never really been a word I'd use to describe them. From all the immature annoying players, to the terrible meta game of griding levels and petty guild politics, playing MMOs has always been a chore for me (which is I guess why I don't play them much anymore). Elder Scrolls has always been a beautiful fantasy escape, and while I know there aren't any details released about the game at this point, I can't possibly see how they can replicate that experience in an MMO.
I mean, look at the play style that characterizes TES. Vast open environments where you can do practically anything. Now imagine this as an MMO. Imagine walking into town to find EVERYTHING had been stripped out of every building. Shopkeepers slaughtered in the streets, two or three bandits with their pack of mule characters, shipping everything off to a stash... no it wouldn't work. The only reason these sandbox games work is because you're the only one in the game causing this kind of mayhem. So I don't know what TES Online is going to look like, but I have a strong suspicion it will include almost none of the allure of a typical TES game, and will be severely crippled by its MMO status.
I used to work with avionics systems that were ITAR controlled. To comply with regulations, we had to keep the hardware locked away when we weren't using it. Then all of a sudden, one day the flight logs generated by the hardware fell under ITAR control, so we had to delete all the logs from our servers, and even some of the software we wrote to analyze the flight data. Very frustrating.
Note that the Second Amendment provides no exclusions regarding what arms the citizens are allowed to own and carry
I'm sorry, I'm all for second amendment rights, but I don't think the framers of the constitution could possibly conceive weapons of mass destruction like nukes and biological weapons. I for one don't want you or anyone you know owning such weapons, ICBMs, ballistic missiles, etc.
Here's one.
He's an 18 year old adult. He should start acting like one.
So, then, you're saying his opinion is related to usability instead of aesthetics?
I think you mean utility. Engineers know next to nothing about usability and intuitive interfaces.
it's a mishmash of 4 different sizes of icons
There are only two sizes of icons, full size (40x40) and quarter size (20x20).
some in colour, some b&w
Not sure what this has to do with anything. There are B&W and color icons in Word 2003/XP, Open Office Writer, Word Perfect, etc. It's not a feature unique to the ribbon.
some with text labels, some without
The only icons without text are the most common ones like bold, justify, bullets, etc. Everything else is labeled at full resolution. Constrast this to OO Writer for example no icons have a text label.
and the different sizes aren't even aligned to a grid of any kind.
There is clearly a grid. Small icons are stacked 3 high and are aligned with eachother. This is the same height alloted for large icon + text label. The only icons I could see you referring to as unaligned are the ones on the home tab. This is no different than two toolbars stacked on top of eachother, and not an inherent problem with the ribbon design.
And the different styles drops-downs (font, style, etc) *DO* show the style in the drop-down. At least in Office 2003.
I haven't used Office 2003 in 5 years, so I don't recall. I'm comparing against Open Office Writer. In both, however, this feature is not prevalent throughout the application. For example, chart styles, object styles, cell styles, etc. This is especially evident in apps like Power Point, where styles are more important. With the Ribbon, there is ample room for an icon indicative of an animation or transition, which is more helpful than just a word and a tiny 16x16 icon.
And, if you use a real word processor like WordPerfect, you can even get live updates of highlighted portions of the document as you hover over the different styles/fonts in the drop-downs (something you can't do with the ribbon).
This is false. In Office 2010, style previews are updated in realtime as you hover over different styles. At any rate, the ribbon has no bearing on the ability to implement this feature.
Microsoft has at least 12 different billion dollar businesses. Take away Windows and Office, and sure, it would kill their revenue. They would probably have to fire a lot of people, but after some restructuring they would still be in a position to make a ton of money.
True to a point. A search for "12.04" on goole yield 9/10 results on the first page related to Ubuntu. The outlier is related to mental disorders. A search for "Precise Pangolin" on google also yields 9/10 results related to Ubuntu on the first page. in this case, the outlier is the wikipedia page for "Pangolin."
Oddly enough, putting the search "Precise Pangolin" in quotes still yields the wikipedia page, even though the phrase is not present there. Is Google ignoring search markup all of a sudden?