But here we have a case of a product on the market that we're speculating a price change about, not an upcoming product that we don't know for sure what's in it. Selling the iPad 2 for half its current price or less seems like too huge of a loss even if Apple expected to make a profit off the subsequent app store sales. $349-$399 seems a much more reasonable range, and even then maybe too optimistic, if you look at the price point Apple sells its current stock of refurbished iPads (the original).
But then they'll only see what you see. They also want to hear what you hear, touch what you touch, taste what you taste and above all else, know what you think. They're still on the fence about smelling what you smell, because that would be taking it too far.
Ok, that's an example of what is Internet accessible, but not why. In a business or government network, thermostats and other such devices should be limited to local communication only... basic firewall rules should prevent it from communicating with the outside world. Home users might be a little different because they care more about convenience than security.
So censoring should not exist except for when it should? And where do you draw the line on child pornography? In the US and many other western countries, it's around 17 or 18 years old, but what about countries that might consider you an adult at 16? 14? 12? or at the onset of puberty? Do hosting companies have to censor based on the viewer's location? Once you add the "except", it gets a whole lot more complicated with something that crosses so many national and cultural lines.
I can see how compromising a printer could be useful if you sent back documents of everything sent to it. But a thermostat? Unless the thermostat was also bugged, I don't see what good infiltrating a thermostat would do. Or why a thermostat would be Internet accessible.
iTunes isn't being sued and from the sound of it, pays the label the same regardless of whether it counts as a license or a sale in this particular lawsuit. The license vs sale debate only comes up between the label and the artist: how much of what iTunes pays the label should go to the artist? So it doesn't matter what iTunes spends because they're a disinterested third party in this particular lawsuit. The only thing that matters in this case is how the label calculates what percentage to give the artist.
If you don't like it, why are you still here? I may not agree with Slashdot's spin on many stories, but it's still a great aggregation site and the commentary is pretty good if you ignore all of the morons like you. The ability to form your own opinion and present it in a non-troll-like manner still seems to be valued here by a decent majority even if it goes against the prevailing bias.
You mean the music labels aren't there for the protection of the artist!?
It also seems that 75% cut is still a lot for copying an mp3 file and drawing up some paperwork. Even if the label also provided the recording studio, etc, it seems like the artist is still getting the short end of the stick. Why is it that the artist always seems to be the last one to realize the label is screwing him even harder than its screwing the consumer?
They're nice for when you need it NOW. A few times I've had a fan, PSU or video card die and for one reason or another, I couldn't wait for 3 day shipping (2 day and overnight shipping usually costs twice as much as the component is worth) so I headed down to Best Buy or Circuit City and grabbed it.
For a long time, Radio Shack was crap for everything other than RC trucks. RJ-45 jacks were $5 for a 2 pack... I usually buy a 50 pack for $5-$10. Lately I've seen a big increase in individual components at a competitive price - I stocked up on LEDs and switches last time I was there
Most of your points are refuted by my previous post stating that drones could no way replace all patrol cars. The point was that some patrol cars could be replaced with an eye in the sky. It would serve a similar, but far cheaper roll, than police helicopters do. You can't pull over a car with one, but it sure as hell makes it harder for a person to escape by turning onto a backroad when out of sight of the cars pursuing him.
You case with the forged check seems like only the cop that went to the bank and saw the video could have been to one to catch him anyway... so what would it matter if 20 drones or 20 patrol cars had already passed him if none of them knew what he looked like?
Your tollishness aside, obviously it has an upper limit of practicality. Some people just find teaching large groups to come naturally. I had a few professors in college like this - in front of an auditorium-style classroom, he could really give a great lecture and get his points across, but in a smaller environment you could tell he actually felt less comfortable. Perhaps its the diversity of people present they tap into, or maybe they find it easier if they can focus on the group as a whole instead of a collection of individuals. There's 7 billion people on the planet, it should be no surprise that some of them just have a talent for teaching and a subset of that group has a talent for doing it with larger than average groups.
Those "story problems" never covered the advantages of buying a car over leasing a car, renting an apartment vs owning a house, paying more for a higher quality item that will last much longer and give an eventual better return on investment or how to balance paying off loans vs adding to savings. However, it did teach me that some people really like to hoard apples.
What am I going to do when my parents die? The whole point is that they taught me the essentials while I was growing out. Now that I've been on my own for a few years, I'm using what I learned growing up to make intelligent financial decisions and that I would be at a serious loss if I only learned what was taught in a public high school.
I think it also depends on whether the teacher knows how to address groups of different sizes. I had a number of teachers who had to rework their entire curriculum because either the class size was much smaller than previous years due to declining population in the district, or the class size was much larger because the number of teachers for that subject had been reduced. Some teachers can only teach large classes effectively, some are only effective with small classes and some can easily do both.
I would imagine funding also has a lot to do with school types. When I was in high school, I believe it came down to $1-$2,000/year per student on bussing costs alone. It's a fairly rural school located midway between the two main villages it serves. I can only remember two families within walking distance and even then most parents wouldn't let their kids walk down a 55mph road until they were in high school.
This also breaks down with a small sample size. My school had a typical grade size of 50-70 students. Between 4th and 6th grade, it wouldn't be unusual for 4 or 5 kids to leave and an equal or greater number to come in from elsewhere. If the kids leaving were generally underperformers and the ones coming in were generally overperformers, then the test score growth figures would be pretty skewed. In cases of developing or revitalized areas, this would be a likely trend as people of lower socioeconomic status move out and greater socioeconomic status move in.
Not to mention covering the huge gaps public education tends to leave out... personal finance in particular. I graduated high school six years ago and the closest we got to personal finance was a lesson on how to balance a checkbook... nothing about making decisions, weighing options, etc. Fortunately, my parents have been pretty money savvy, so I'm doing much better in overall quality of life than most of the people I graduated with - even those in much higher paying fields.
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But here we have a case of a product on the market that we're speculating a price change about, not an upcoming product that we don't know for sure what's in it. Selling the iPad 2 for half its current price or less seems like too huge of a loss even if Apple expected to make a profit off the subsequent app store sales. $349-$399 seems a much more reasonable range, and even then maybe too optimistic, if you look at the price point Apple sells its current stock of refurbished iPads (the original).
But then they'll only see what you see. They also want to hear what you hear, touch what you touch, taste what you taste and above all else, know what you think. They're still on the fence about smelling what you smell, because that would be taking it too far.
Ok, that's an example of what is Internet accessible, but not why. In a business or government network, thermostats and other such devices should be limited to local communication only... basic firewall rules should prevent it from communicating with the outside world. Home users might be a little different because they care more about convenience than security.
So censoring should not exist except for when it should? And where do you draw the line on child pornography? In the US and many other western countries, it's around 17 or 18 years old, but what about countries that might consider you an adult at 16? 14? 12? or at the onset of puberty? Do hosting companies have to censor based on the viewer's location? Once you add the "except", it gets a whole lot more complicated with something that crosses so many national and cultural lines.
I can see how compromising a printer could be useful if you sent back documents of everything sent to it. But a thermostat? Unless the thermostat was also bugged, I don't see what good infiltrating a thermostat would do. Or why a thermostat would be Internet accessible.
iTunes isn't being sued and from the sound of it, pays the label the same regardless of whether it counts as a license or a sale in this particular lawsuit. The license vs sale debate only comes up between the label and the artist: how much of what iTunes pays the label should go to the artist? So it doesn't matter what iTunes spends because they're a disinterested third party in this particular lawsuit. The only thing that matters in this case is how the label calculates what percentage to give the artist.
I think they mean there's no incremental costs to the label after the master is turned over, not to the retailer.
If you don't like it, why are you still here? I may not agree with Slashdot's spin on many stories, but it's still a great aggregation site and the commentary is pretty good if you ignore all of the morons like you. The ability to form your own opinion and present it in a non-troll-like manner still seems to be valued here by a decent majority even if it goes against the prevailing bias.
Google also measures the numbers of X's and O's in your emails to determine how much you love your mother.
Age of Empires II always made me think a petard was a medieval suicide bomber. Those guys always got blown up with their own bomb.
You mean the music labels aren't there for the protection of the artist!?
It also seems that 75% cut is still a lot for copying an mp3 file and drawing up some paperwork. Even if the label also provided the recording studio, etc, it seems like the artist is still getting the short end of the stick. Why is it that the artist always seems to be the last one to realize the label is screwing him even harder than its screwing the consumer?
They're nice for when you need it NOW. A few times I've had a fan, PSU or video card die and for one reason or another, I couldn't wait for 3 day shipping (2 day and overnight shipping usually costs twice as much as the component is worth) so I headed down to Best Buy or Circuit City and grabbed it.
For a long time, Radio Shack was crap for everything other than RC trucks. RJ-45 jacks were $5 for a 2 pack... I usually buy a 50 pack for $5-$10. Lately I've seen a big increase in individual components at a competitive price - I stocked up on LEDs and switches last time I was there
Not even a lightsaber will protect you from a determined thief
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/02/08/232258/jedi-masters-hand-made-lightsaber-stolen
But will it blend?
I know that when my father was teaching me how to add a new electric receptacle, I sure learned my lesson quickly about grabbing a live wire.
I've found that cheaper cables taste better, especially with a little ketchup.
Most of your points are refuted by my previous post stating that drones could no way replace all patrol cars. The point was that some patrol cars could be replaced with an eye in the sky. It would serve a similar, but far cheaper roll, than police helicopters do. You can't pull over a car with one, but it sure as hell makes it harder for a person to escape by turning onto a backroad when out of sight of the cars pursuing him.
You case with the forged check seems like only the cop that went to the bank and saw the video could have been to one to catch him anyway... so what would it matter if 20 drones or 20 patrol cars had already passed him if none of them knew what he looked like?
Your tollishness aside, obviously it has an upper limit of practicality. Some people just find teaching large groups to come naturally. I had a few professors in college like this - in front of an auditorium-style classroom, he could really give a great lecture and get his points across, but in a smaller environment you could tell he actually felt less comfortable. Perhaps its the diversity of people present they tap into, or maybe they find it easier if they can focus on the group as a whole instead of a collection of individuals. There's 7 billion people on the planet, it should be no surprise that some of them just have a talent for teaching and a subset of that group has a talent for doing it with larger than average groups.
That was my first thought after reading the summary. Maybe it's novel because they're using currency other than the dollar?
Those "story problems" never covered the advantages of buying a car over leasing a car, renting an apartment vs owning a house, paying more for a higher quality item that will last much longer and give an eventual better return on investment or how to balance paying off loans vs adding to savings. However, it did teach me that some people really like to hoard apples.
What am I going to do when my parents die? The whole point is that they taught me the essentials while I was growing out. Now that I've been on my own for a few years, I'm using what I learned growing up to make intelligent financial decisions and that I would be at a serious loss if I only learned what was taught in a public high school.
I think it also depends on whether the teacher knows how to address groups of different sizes. I had a number of teachers who had to rework their entire curriculum because either the class size was much smaller than previous years due to declining population in the district, or the class size was much larger because the number of teachers for that subject had been reduced. Some teachers can only teach large classes effectively, some are only effective with small classes and some can easily do both.
I would imagine funding also has a lot to do with school types. When I was in high school, I believe it came down to $1-$2,000/year per student on bussing costs alone. It's a fairly rural school located midway between the two main villages it serves. I can only remember two families within walking distance and even then most parents wouldn't let their kids walk down a 55mph road until they were in high school.
This also breaks down with a small sample size. My school had a typical grade size of 50-70 students. Between 4th and 6th grade, it wouldn't be unusual for 4 or 5 kids to leave and an equal or greater number to come in from elsewhere. If the kids leaving were generally underperformers and the ones coming in were generally overperformers, then the test score growth figures would be pretty skewed. In cases of developing or revitalized areas, this would be a likely trend as people of lower socioeconomic status move out and greater socioeconomic status move in.
Not to mention covering the huge gaps public education tends to leave out... personal finance in particular. I graduated high school six years ago and the closest we got to personal finance was a lesson on how to balance a checkbook... nothing about making decisions, weighing options, etc. Fortunately, my parents have been pretty money savvy, so I'm doing much better in overall quality of life than most of the people I graduated with - even those in much higher paying fields.