'She explained that the college bookstores (though I'm sure the publishers love this as well) don't profit as well of used book sales, so they want books to have a short lifespan. It's easier when the book is falling apart for them to refuse buyback.'
College bookstores makes immense amounts of money from used books. Publishers, however, do not. As explained to me a by a colleague who used to work for Prentice Hall, the publishers only profit from the first sale - out of that first sale, they need to pay the author, and cover the costs of the printing.
Publishers recieve no royalites or income from the sale of a used book - the bookstore keeps all that money. Thus, the price of new books keeps going up, driving flosks to used books, thus drivnig th sale of used books - a downward spiral.
The profits are immense - barnes & Nobles college division pays for the superstores, for example. Bookstores don't make that much money from the sale of a new book, but used book sales are all profit.
When I was a grad student applying for an assistantship in IT, I was told I wouldn't get it because I was white - the guy running the program was Chinese, and only hired other Chinese.
I got the spot, and was the first non-Chinese in the group. I had that spot for three years.
So, who was the racist? The guy who had heretofore only hired other Chinese, or the folks who thought he only hired Chinese? If I were hired because I was white in an attempt to disprove racism, was that racist as well?
Perhaps it mattered more that I was good friends with this guy's boss - maybe that got me hired for the first semester. However, it was my performance that kept me hired for three more years, and summers as well.
At a Univeristy with "diversity" requirements, does factoring in race when hiring make one racist?
I remember one like this from the mid 90s, called 'One-Half'; it decrypted as it read, and encrypted as it write, and when the disk was half full, it deleted itself.
Whenever we found it, we'd back up the drive via a parallel port tape backup, and since reading the files decrypted them, clean data went onto the tape.
Then the drive would be wiped, and we'd reinstall and restore.
Heading east, into western Mass, is exactly as you describe. Heading north, towards Saratoga, is much, much nicer. From Albany to Saratoga is a thriving, vibrant area.
"And for what? 50 mhz? maybe 75?"
I'm running a P111 550 EB @ 825 mhz - and have been for about a year. That's a 275 mhz increase - definitely worth it.
I have another machine, same chip, running @ 733; not quite the same gain (183), but still worth it.
Both have Abit mobos running 133 FSB and PC133 RAM. No special cooling - oem heatsinks, and an extra case fan. And both are solid as a rock, at their respective speeds.
I bought these right around the time when Intel released the 733 chips. I have the feeling that these might have been borderline 733s... but failed a few tests. However, if I hadn't overclocked them (by raising the FSB and RAM speeds) I'd NEVER HAVE KNOWN.
And that's the real point: just what level of performance is your chip capable of? Hell, maybe these *are* 733s that were mislabelled! The bottom line is that if I see a significant performance gain, and zero stability loss, I'd be a fool not to take it.
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That's the first thing that came to mind for me as well....
Not to get picky.... but this drives my brother and me mad. It's "this drives my brother and me mad", not "the drives my brother and I" in this case.
You wouldn't say "this drives I mad", now would you?
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'She explained that the college bookstores (though I'm sure the publishers love this as well) don't profit as well of used book sales, so they want books to have a short lifespan. It's easier when the book is falling apart for them to refuse buyback.'
College bookstores makes immense amounts of money from used books. Publishers, however, do not. As explained to me a by a colleague who used to work for Prentice Hall, the publishers only profit from the first sale - out of that first sale, they need to pay the author, and cover the costs of the printing.
Publishers recieve no royalites or income from the sale of a used book - the bookstore keeps all that money. Thus, the price of new books keeps going up, driving flosks to used books, thus drivnig th sale of used books - a downward spiral.
The profits are immense - barnes & Nobles college division pays for the superstores, for example. Bookstores don't make that much money from the sale of a new book, but used book sales are all profit.
When I was a grad student applying for an assistantship in IT, I was told I wouldn't get it because I was white - the guy running the program was Chinese, and only hired other Chinese.
I got the spot, and was the first non-Chinese in the group. I had that spot for three years.
So, who was the racist? The guy who had heretofore only hired other Chinese, or the folks who thought he only hired Chinese? If I were hired because I was white in an attempt to disprove racism, was that racist as well?
Perhaps it mattered more that I was good friends with this guy's boss - maybe that got me hired for the first semester. However, it was my performance that kept me hired for three more years, and summers as well.
At a Univeristy with "diversity" requirements, does factoring in race when hiring make one racist?
I remember one like this from the mid 90s, called 'One-Half'; it decrypted as it read, and encrypted as it write, and when the disk was half full, it deleted itself.
Whenever we found it, we'd back up the drive via a parallel port tape backup, and since reading the files decrypted them, clean data went onto the tape.
Then the drive would be wiped, and we'd reinstall and restore.
Heading east, into western Mass, is exactly as you describe. Heading north, towards Saratoga, is much, much nicer. From Albany to Saratoga is a thriving, vibrant area.
"And for what? 50 mhz? maybe 75?" I'm running a P111 550 EB @ 825 mhz - and have been for about a year. That's a 275 mhz increase - definitely worth it. I have another machine, same chip, running @ 733; not quite the same gain (183), but still worth it. Both have Abit mobos running 133 FSB and PC133 RAM. No special cooling - oem heatsinks, and an extra case fan. And both are solid as a rock, at their respective speeds. I bought these right around the time when Intel released the 733 chips. I have the feeling that these might have been borderline 733s... but failed a few tests. However, if I hadn't overclocked them (by raising the FSB and RAM speeds) I'd NEVER HAVE KNOWN. And that's the real point: just what level of performance is your chip capable of? Hell, maybe these *are* 733s that were mislabelled! The bottom line is that if I see a significant performance gain, and zero stability loss, I'd be a fool not to take it.
If X runs on Aqua, and MS Office runs on Aqua, doesn't that imply MS Office on X?
Start here: http://acomp.stanford.edu/siliconhistory/Levy/Hack ers.1984.book/Chapter1.html ...and keep on reading