They really thought we were fools they could make money off with them pricing leased digital editions the same price or more as physical textbooks. Well everyone I know who has ebook textbooks has stolen all of them.
It is really a shame that more people have not read The Theory of the Leisure class, it rails against plutocrats, football players and kept women. It intelligently argues for the role of design and creativity for human progress over the barbarity of endless profit making and risk taking. Sadly Veblen died as a recluse in the hills of Palo Alto drinking heavily and writing rambling editorials ever so often in the local newspaper, he had devolved into a troll. 2 months later the stock market crash of 29' happened, I think that deserves a " Ha Ha".
The hero of the book is 'The Engineer' and 'The New Woman' and they totally get it on. Come on go download and read it.
The Economist has a lot of New Media blood in their ranks, the WSJ talent ran away when Murdoch took over or are too chicken-livered to speak up when a rich Australian who smells like burnt leather and cheap aftershave says something batshit insane.
I've visited throughout the south on trips out to see family over the years and have actually been through this town. I believe there are some hippies in that town and even a commune nearby. Arkansas is really not that bad, it is not like South Carolina or Mississippi at least when it comes to education.
I am eagerly awaiting the matchups between people that listen to celebrity gossip and kids who play video games. Literature professors and Philosophy of Science majors should be fun too. Seriously, there are so many different fields with famous figures, creative works with dozens of 100's of characters and even worse think of Pokemon. I am not fucking accepting a Pokemon character as a valid word, no way.
Most 20-30 year old hobby programmers I know do things like making Android and Iphone applications, hardly any of them open source. I would not say the hobby open source ethic is dead but it is skewing towards older folk.
The only way I can read on an LCD is my 120hz 40" Sony at home, which I do on the weekends. Everything else including LCD tablets kills my eyes after a few days of use, I have 3 different eink displays that I carry around with me, a 1st gen Kindle for novels, a Sony PRS-600 as a RSS aggregator and an entourage edge which I have been using for less than a week but use the most often now. Sold my 2nd gen Kindle to my sister for 200 bucks and I don't miss it one bit.
Big difference between reading websites and reading 100-200 pages of technical PDFs. Yeah, I agree, you don't really need the Kindle or any E-ink display for reading unless you are consuming massive amounts of text information per day. You may think you are reading a lot browsing the web and the like but if you add it up I would doubt you would even begin to approach 100 pages typed, even after 8-10 hours.
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Neither a washing machine nor a sink disposal is a software distribution platform on which 10's of thousands of companies makes 100's of millions of dollars on. To think that Apple or any manufacturer will be allowed to be lord and commander when it comes to what is allowed on their device forever and ever, is absurd. They are already facing some serious time in court over the hoopla with VOIP and it is only going to get more ugly before the Feds step in and regulate them.
My friend down in California knows a cop who got sued in the 1990's for releasing the information a man with a restraining order needed to find his ex-wife and beat the crap out of her to the point she has brain injuries. The police department, the county and he himself got sued and her family won against them all, they refused to take a settlement for fear it would happen to someone else. The county paid out, the police department did too, but he himself can never afford to buy a house, a car or even groceries some months because he still has 100's of thousands of dollars more to pay. That to me is justice and a similar judgement would be proper in this case.
Got the Kindle as a gift. I use it mostly for recipes in the Kitchen and checking Wikipedia for randomness from the couch, my PRS-600 has a built in light which makes it easier to use in bed so the Kindle is not even used for what it was designed for.
Exactly. When CD prices went from 10-12 bucks to 18-20 bucks suddenly during the mid 90's I stopped buying CDs and I never have bought one since. I go to 20-30 shows a year though and usually buy tour shirts at the show.
I own a Sony PRS-600, a 1st gen Kindle and an Edge and I have never bought a single e-book because they are worth to me about 3-5 bucks a piece, not 10 bucks. Maybe if you read a book a month that is worth it but I read 2-3 books a week and I'm not about to spend 100+ a month on books when for my entire life buying new and used paper books I have never even come close to that. Can't even sell the damn things. Powell's a book store in PDX where I live I used to be able to recoup 50-60% of the price I paid for the books by trading for store credit, with Amazon, Apple and Sony you get a 10 dollar book sitting in your Library that you will likely never read again.
Electronic Warfare has been around since at least WWII but the idea that airplanes are going to be hacking anything more sophisticated than a WiFi network at Mach 2 is dubious. Sure, they have been able to own spectrum, but owning devices is a whole other story. With the advent of cheap system on chip solutions that include robust cryptographic silicon it will not be long before China and Russia are integrating that or better in their domestic and for export weapon systems.
Yes, if you release the BOFH from his unnatural surroundings he will grow a beard and long hair, buy a mid 20th century Volkswagen and follow freak folk bands around the country. We mustn't allow such a tragedy to occur to our fellow admins.
Its the same reason why most people support the police even if they are blatantly sadistic; because, " If someone is being beaten up by cops they must of done something stupid/wrong/criminal " . We have had police here in PDX kill 6 people with mental illness this year. One of them was shot 10 times in the back with an assault rifle, no charges but the grand jury admonished him and the department anyways.
It is 2 years in most of the Midwest. My cousin still has statutory rape charges for sleeping with a 14 year old when he was 17. He has to report as a sex offender everywhere he goes even though he eventually married the girl, had two children with her and divorced her after she was sick of him not being able to find any job because of the charges.
You think that is sad, you should see University libraries. It is has the distinction of being one of the places that shows the still large financial disparities between students on campus. Larger educational institutions will have 'study areas' spread throughout the campus as well as one main library and one or two research libraries; however, if you go into the main library on any given day 90% of the use are lower income students working on their homework and surfing the web. The research libraries are not falling as quickly mostly because most state-run universities can't afford all the best electronic catalogs of current research journals, but that is changing pretty rapidly too. I know the Ebscohost database has actually been increasing the amount of journals in its middle and upper tier packages for some time.
Token members are in the Knesset but Israel by over half admitted they want to deny rights to Israeli Arabs including the right to vote. This coming generation in Israel is leaning ever harder to the right and I would not be surprised if they start instituting Jim Crow laws.
The average age of a Jew in Israel is over 40 and 10,000 under the age of 55 leave Israel every year. The average age of an Arab is under 20 and they have almost twice amount of children. There is simply no way for Israel to stay Jewish unless they have significant uptick in immigration because most of the Jewish population is past child-bearing age.
Why should another state "want" the Palestinians, they deserve their own state and they will have both the Palestinian territories and Israel itself just by outbreeding the Jewish population within 30-40 years. That is of course as long as the Jewish population does not continue in their bid to delegitimize the claims of the Arabs to a full and open democratic system. In our lifetime there will be an Arab prime minister of Israel, let that sink in.
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How about using scientific notation like a sane person who has a B.S. Prefixes are for manufacturing and consumers not r and d.
They really thought we were fools they could make money off with them pricing leased digital editions the same price or more as physical textbooks. Well everyone I know who has ebook textbooks has stolen all of them.
Islam, Mormonism and the Probation Department say no drinking.
It is really a shame that more people have not read The Theory of the Leisure class, it rails against plutocrats, football players and kept women. It intelligently argues for the role of design and creativity for human progress over the barbarity of endless profit making and risk taking. Sadly Veblen died as a recluse in the hills of Palo Alto drinking heavily and writing rambling editorials ever so often in the local newspaper, he had devolved into a troll. 2 months later the stock market crash of 29' happened, I think that deserves a " Ha Ha".
The hero of the book is 'The Engineer' and 'The New Woman' and they totally get it on. Come on go download and read it.
The Economist has a lot of New Media blood in their ranks, the WSJ talent ran away when Murdoch took over or are too chicken-livered to speak up when a rich Australian who smells like burnt leather and cheap aftershave says something batshit insane.
Are you attempting to communicate to us through the use of cartoon vignettes?
Comic Book Guy: "Yes, this should provide adequate sustainance for the Dr. Who marathon."
Killer Whale guts are made for Japanese, story at 11.
I've visited throughout the south on trips out to see family over the years and have actually been through this town. I believe there are some hippies in that town and even a commune nearby. Arkansas is really not that bad, it is not like South Carolina or Mississippi at least when it comes to education.
Movie night must be fun at your place. Should I bring over some Soviet WWII films for next week?
I am eagerly awaiting the matchups between people that listen to celebrity gossip and kids who play video games. Literature professors and Philosophy of Science majors should be fun too. Seriously, there are so many different fields with famous figures, creative works with dozens of 100's of characters and even worse think of Pokemon. I am not fucking accepting a Pokemon character as a valid word, no way.
Most 20-30 year old hobby programmers I know do things like making Android and Iphone applications, hardly any of them open source. I would not say the hobby open source ethic is dead but it is skewing towards older folk.
The only way I can read on an LCD is my 120hz 40" Sony at home, which I do on the weekends. Everything else including LCD tablets kills my eyes after a few days of use, I have 3 different eink displays that I carry around with me, a 1st gen Kindle for novels, a Sony PRS-600 as a RSS aggregator and an entourage edge which I have been using for less than a week but use the most often now. Sold my 2nd gen Kindle to my sister for 200 bucks and I don't miss it one bit.
Big difference between reading websites and reading 100-200 pages of technical PDFs. Yeah, I agree, you don't really need the Kindle or any E-ink display for reading unless you are consuming massive amounts of text information per day. You may think you are reading a lot browsing the web and the like but if you add it up I would doubt you would even begin to approach 100 pages typed, even after 8-10 hours.
Neither a washing machine nor a sink disposal is a software distribution platform on which 10's of thousands of companies makes 100's of millions of dollars on. To think that Apple or any manufacturer will be allowed to be lord and commander when it comes to what is allowed on their device forever and ever, is absurd. They are already facing some serious time in court over the hoopla with VOIP and it is only going to get more ugly before the Feds step in and regulate them.
My friend down in California knows a cop who got sued in the 1990's for releasing the information a man with a restraining order needed to find his ex-wife and beat the crap out of her to the point she has brain injuries. The police department, the county and he himself got sued and her family won against them all, they refused to take a settlement for fear it would happen to someone else. The county paid out, the police department did too, but he himself can never afford to buy a house, a car or even groceries some months because he still has 100's of thousands of dollars more to pay. That to me is justice and a similar judgement would be proper in this case.
Piratebay has an ebook store without the infection, I guess I will shop there.
Got the Kindle as a gift. I use it mostly for recipes in the Kitchen and checking Wikipedia for randomness from the couch, my PRS-600 has a built in light which makes it easier to use in bed so the Kindle is not even used for what it was designed for.
Exactly. When CD prices went from 10-12 bucks to 18-20 bucks suddenly during the mid 90's I stopped buying CDs and I never have bought one since. I go to 20-30 shows a year though and usually buy tour shirts at the show.
I own a Sony PRS-600, a 1st gen Kindle and an Edge and I have never bought a single e-book because they are worth to me about 3-5 bucks a piece, not 10 bucks. Maybe if you read a book a month that is worth it but I read 2-3 books a week and I'm not about to spend 100+ a month on books when for my entire life buying new and used paper books I have never even come close to that. Can't even sell the damn things. Powell's a book store in PDX where I live I used to be able to recoup 50-60% of the price I paid for the books by trading for store credit, with Amazon, Apple and Sony you get a 10 dollar book sitting in your Library that you will likely never read again.
Electronic Warfare has been around since at least WWII but the idea that airplanes are going to be hacking anything more sophisticated than a WiFi network at Mach 2 is dubious. Sure, they have been able to own spectrum, but owning devices is a whole other story. With the advent of cheap system on chip solutions that include robust cryptographic silicon it will not be long before China and Russia are integrating that or better in their domestic and for export weapon systems.
Yes, if you release the BOFH from his unnatural surroundings he will grow a beard and long hair, buy a mid 20th century Volkswagen and follow freak folk bands around the country. We mustn't allow such a tragedy to occur to our fellow admins.
Its the same reason why most people support the police even if they are blatantly sadistic; because, " If someone is being beaten up by cops they must of done something stupid/wrong/criminal " . We have had police here in PDX kill 6 people with mental illness this year. One of them was shot 10 times in the back with an assault rifle, no charges but the grand jury admonished him and the department anyways.
It is 2 years in most of the Midwest. My cousin still has statutory rape charges for sleeping with a 14 year old when he was 17. He has to report as a sex offender everywhere he goes even though he eventually married the girl, had two children with her and divorced her after she was sick of him not being able to find any job because of the charges.
Well hopefully it is not aerial or she will be riding the old joy toy like a broomstick around the neighborhood.
You think that is sad, you should see University libraries. It is has the distinction of being one of the places that shows the still large financial disparities between students on campus. Larger educational institutions will have 'study areas' spread throughout the campus as well as one main library and one or two research libraries; however, if you go into the main library on any given day 90% of the use are lower income students working on their homework and surfing the web. The research libraries are not falling as quickly mostly because most state-run universities can't afford all the best electronic catalogs of current research journals, but that is changing pretty rapidly too. I know the Ebscohost database has actually been increasing the amount of journals in its middle and upper tier packages for some time.
Token members are in the Knesset but Israel by over half admitted they want to deny rights to Israeli Arabs including the right to vote. This coming generation in Israel is leaning ever harder to the right and I would not be surprised if they start instituting Jim Crow laws.
The average age of a Jew in Israel is over 40 and 10,000 under the age of 55 leave Israel every year. The average age of an Arab is under 20 and they have almost twice amount of children. There is simply no way for Israel to stay Jewish unless they have significant uptick in immigration because most of the Jewish population is past child-bearing age.
Why should another state "want" the Palestinians, they deserve their own state and they will have both the Palestinian territories and Israel itself just by outbreeding the Jewish population within 30-40 years. That is of course as long as the Jewish population does not continue in their bid to delegitimize the claims of the Arabs to a full and open democratic system. In our lifetime there will be an Arab prime minister of Israel, let that sink in.