I don't think complaining about book prices is hugely unreasonable, they are pretty pricey, and the publishers do seem to encourage edition churn (but authors are going to want to make additions and fix mistakes, so not all new editions are going to be a sales gambit; sure, calculus doesn't change much, but the presentation of mathematics in earlier grades does, so the calculus may benefit from a presentation that takes that into account).
The overall cost of university means that a large number of the people on the demand side are not particularly price sensitive, making sales shenanigans easier for publishers.
A big difference is that Creative Commons and other similar licenses seem to be enjoying quite a lot of traction (whereas the prohibition you talk about has no opt out alternative (short of moving to a country with more lax regulations, so maybe no 'easy' or 'simple' opt out)).
That doesn't mean that there will be fantastic textbooks available under open licenses tomorrow, but it means that it is something that can be gradually worked towards. I figure there will be a snowball effect, once a book becomes good enough to use, more people will use on it, leading more people to improve on it (and to work on other openly licensed material).
What school do/did you go to? Most public universities accept 40 or 50 transfer credits, which gives you at least a year to work out that your current school sucks, and at the university I attended, 'transferring' credits between programs wasn't an issue (but programs had different requirements, so switching might mean abandoning some credits).
Maybe, but there are plenty of people going to schools where one semester of tuition is $5,000. At that point, the difference between spending $400 and $150 a semester on books may not hold much sway.
Modern science holds that if you know the state of the router, you cannot be certain that you are not transmitting that state to your friend, thus to gain accurate information, you must not know the state of the router (this is what double-blind means, neither the subject nor the experimenter know if the subject is a control or not). In the face of that, insisting that you have accurately measured your friends ability to sense the RF emanating from your wireless router is vague, groundless speculation.
It could even be something as nonsensical as you, on the days you leave the router one, reading the news immediately before your friend comes over and then discussing current events with him, thus giving him a headache.
Calling Ben Goldacre a nutjob is ridiculous. He's a medical doctor. One that actually believes in science.
You believing in your friend is mostly harmless (except you post publicly about it). Other failures to be sufficiently skeptical and realize the benefit of the enlightenment (you are literally willing yourself to live part of your life in the dark ages) lead to fucking evil bullshit like this:
How clean is the floor and how sticky is the food?
Stickier food may be better to eat off of the floor, as the part that touched the floor is somewhat more likely to stick to the floor, rather than some of the floor sticking to the food that you eat.
At least she doesn't start barking when she thinks there may be someone within a quarter mile of your house. I was walking a gravel road yesterday and some damn dog barked itself out of breath, as apparently I was a threat. Stupid owner.
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Or maybe some chincy $50 8GB off brand flash model that works until it doesn't work anymore. By the time it breaks, $50 should by 20 GB. And so on.
One of my parents neighbors walks to the library and reads the paper. I think he even enjoys the exercise.
You could filter your own address and then add another rule for messages with a 'self:' at the beginning of the subject line.
Not ideal, but some middle ground anyway.
I don't think complaining about book prices is hugely unreasonable, they are pretty pricey, and the publishers do seem to encourage edition churn (but authors are going to want to make additions and fix mistakes, so not all new editions are going to be a sales gambit; sure, calculus doesn't change much, but the presentation of mathematics in earlier grades does, so the calculus may benefit from a presentation that takes that into account).
The overall cost of university means that a large number of the people on the demand side are not particularly price sensitive, making sales shenanigans easier for publishers.
Weak. You easily could have worked facebook and sheeple in there. Maybe even global climate change. And global warming.
"letting your girlfriend" is better usage, and even makes for a better pun.
A big difference is that Creative Commons and other similar licenses seem to be enjoying quite a lot of traction (whereas the prohibition you talk about has no opt out alternative (short of moving to a country with more lax regulations, so maybe no 'easy' or 'simple' opt out)).
That doesn't mean that there will be fantastic textbooks available under open licenses tomorrow, but it means that it is something that can be gradually worked towards. I figure there will be a snowball effect, once a book becomes good enough to use, more people will use on it, leading more people to improve on it (and to work on other openly licensed material).
Inertia. Give it 20 or 30 years.
What school do/did you go to? Most public universities accept 40 or 50 transfer credits, which gives you at least a year to work out that your current school sucks, and at the university I attended, 'transferring' credits between programs wasn't an issue (but programs had different requirements, so switching might mean abandoning some credits).
Maybe, but there are plenty of people going to schools where one semester of tuition is $5,000. At that point, the difference between spending $400 and $150 a semester on books may not hold much sway.
I'm raising it as a possibility (to emphasize the difficulty in accurately characterizing the situation), not insisting it is likely.
Largely 3, but also some of 2:
http://www.answers.com/mysticism
Modern science holds that if you know the state of the router, you cannot be certain that you are not transmitting that state to your friend, thus to gain accurate information, you must not know the state of the router (this is what double-blind means, neither the subject nor the experimenter know if the subject is a control or not). In the face of that, insisting that you have accurately measured your friends ability to sense the RF emanating from your wireless router is vague, groundless speculation.
It could even be something as nonsensical as you, on the days you leave the router one, reading the news immediately before your friend comes over and then discussing current events with him, thus giving him a headache.
Because of the path of misery that mysticism has cut through human history.
What about my data? I guess for the ecosystem hardened system storage is a nice improvement, but for users, it only fixes 1/2 of the problem.
Calling Ben Goldacre a nutjob is ridiculous. He's a medical doctor. One that actually believes in science.
You believing in your friend is mostly harmless (except you post publicly about it). Other failures to be sufficiently skeptical and realize the benefit of the enlightenment (you are literally willing yourself to live part of your life in the dark ages) lead to fucking evil bullshit like this:
http://www.badscience.net/2009/04/matthias-rath-steal-this-chapter/
Pure fucking evil. All because people refuse to set aside mysticism.
Aside: when you turn off your router, how often does your friend also turn off his mobile phone?
Unfortunately, that isn't what gp poster is saying.
How clean is the floor and how sticky is the food?
Stickier food may be better to eat off of the floor, as the part that touched the floor is somewhat more likely to stick to the floor, rather than some of the floor sticking to the food that you eat.
For anyone feeling anecdotal, here is a healthy dose of BS calling:
http://www.badscience.net/category/electrosensitivity/
At least she doesn't start barking when she thinks there may be someone within a quarter mile of your house. I was walking a gravel road yesterday and some damn dog barked itself out of breath, as apparently I was a threat. Stupid owner.
Why so angry?
Anyway, I was criticizing your attitude, not your level of intelligence.
Too much asparagus.
Behind what?
Don't let me off too easy, 1976 is prior to my birth.
They don't really call it a laptop, they use 'laptop' to draw a comparison between the somewhat portable teletype and modern portable computers.
Nah, it came across with the proper level of assholish.