As the son of a university professor I know my dad and his professor friends have gotten tons of books from publishers free.
They simply see a book they like, call up the publisher and identify who they are who they work for and they have a class of 300+ stupid first year students next semester/year and the reading material is not set for this course yet.
They then drop the names of a book from a competitor and say they have recently read that. By noon the next day there is a fed ex. package with a letter listing all the benefits of this book over the competitors plus illustrating the "deal" they have with the university and what the price for the students would be and how their price would be much lower than the competitor.
Often there are additional books related to the topic "they feel would make excellent supplementary material". I have most of these books cause they get shuffled around.
And if they know a professor is using the 2nd edition of a text and the third is coming out. A copy of the third will arrive free for "review", again with a list of advantages over the old edition.
Somewhere they must have a list of professors and what they teach. They also know who teaches first-year classes cause they get the best review books.
It makes sense, one free book to convince a professor to force 300-700 students who have to buy your book. That's a good return on investment. Unethical, no not really, and lucrative in all the cool free books that they send out.
I know a place in Hamilton $19.95/100. They have a chain of stores (5 in different markets across Ontario) always near the university and don't appear too shady. They do a lot of business with mid sized corporations.
I have to say I agree with him. I have used Win2kPro for ages, and recently, the last 2ish weeks I have been getting blue screens ever few hours, actual core dumps not just STOP errors. As a dual boot machine I know the hardware is good as the other OS works fine. But Windows doesn't like me. Fixed things, repaired this, reinstalled.dll's every trick I know.
Now I want to upgrade/reinstall and it is going to take me a weeks of time afterwork to get everything set up so I don't lose what I want.
It is sad that to get a 'clean' install of windows you basically need to go down and reformat the drives.
Everytime I look at a G5 I wish I had that kind of money. Cause I know my next machine is not going to have Windows on it.
Many municipal wastewater plants use anaerobic digestion, and methane is the natural byproduct. The research now is trying to increase the amount of hydrogen production as it is more energy efficient and less wasteful.
As for diluting the biomatter anything organic will work and you will get methane. Ask any environmental engineer and we can go on for hours on this wonderful subject.
Many SAMs from the late 50's (ie. the Bomarc) used nuclear warheads. They were desinged to airburst over soviet bomber formations because the targeting wasn't good enough to ensure a hit.
A nuclear warhead doesn't indicate something is an ICBM. It is the maximum range that determines it.
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Posession of any colour tinfoil hat above your clearance is treason, but so is knowing that. AUGHHH. (Goes off to the confession booth with a laser pistol as I am a good citizen)
I have to agree 110% with the above. I am now a 4th year Environmental Engineer (Wastewater) and assignments are done on paper. Or modeled on a computer in the lab with more power than anything you could possibly buy. Many of the fluid dynamics programs you also won't be able to pirate either. They just aren't out there.
I did a lot of gaming 1st year. I had a god box and man did I regret it. Four 50's are not good for your cumulitive average.
People with Laptops dropped them as they can't type fast enough and the equations are impossible to enter, especially if you want to understand them later.
Get something that is comfortable with a good keyboard and a nice trackball so you can work on it late at night and don't hurt yourself.
BUY A GOOD CHAIR...I spent $350 on a nice office chair. It has lasted me these last almostt 4 years and only now am I only thinking of having to have the piston refilled. If you can save your back and arms you should have no real troubles. Unfortunatly you will hate going to the labs with their brutal back breaking excuses for seats.
Just don't buy a laptop, chances are you won't need it. And if you do get it after you arrive, not before. Then you will have a much better idea of what is required.
Report that discomfort to your Health & Safety commitee in writing. There is almost always a pool of money reserved for fixing health and safety problems (by law in Canada if it is reported, they HAVE to fix it). Where I work we are very streched for cash and money must come from the proper departmeal pool. But H&S has the last laugh. 3 days and I had a new mouse, new keyboard and a person to set it up properly.
If they have it in writing and they are audited for H&S then they are in big trouble if they haven't addresses a problem.
Since they were in dishes most likly nutrient agar or another form of nutrient broth. These are really little creatures and most likly don't require alot of nutrients.
Well in Canada most of those people trying to call themselves that would be facing a $50,000 fine.
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There was a similar problem here in Ontario (Canada) to use the term "Engineer" you have to be lisenced. It is illegal to try and pass your self off as one if you are not lisenced. M$ had to drop the term engineer from their certification process. Check out Professional Engineers Ontario under Software Engineer for more details.
It all boils down to liability. If I certify a water treatment process safe and its not. Than I am in DEEP trouble. No more lisence, fines and basically the carrear is down the tube. In Canada and I think most of the commonwealth this is true.
Now I know a bunch of computer engineers, most of those guys are hardware, not software, but these guys wouldn't want to be engineers under Canadian law if they were doing programming. The computer software industry is still too immature to fall under these types of guidelines. Too many programs are not stable yet are shipped out because marketing wants them to.
I think I all boils down to currently the public is willing to let flawed software exist. And until someone dies nothing will change.
Like water in Ontario. People have to die before there is a backlash and things are fixed.
As an Environmental Engineer many WWTPs use this technology. The largest problem with it however is hard water (calcium) or silica in the effluent often deposit on the turbine blades of the generator and greatly reduce life. (A pilot scale test I know of ran for about a week then died). And they are not cheap, we are talking about $12M for a small city, it was a pilot, so full scale would probably be about the same cost.
It never pays for the entire process, but it can help to offset costs.
As an avid player I disagree, the clans made it far more intersting, I am the highest reated player in our region, Hamilton (CANADA) and I play a low tech inner-sphere company. The clans are more of a handycap than an advantage, you can run around and get their big things to chase you, you can win but you have had to have been playing for a long time. It is the newer rules (level 3, not 2) that have created a influx of the power gamer and cheese monkey. A new edition, 4th, could have saved them rather than modifing 1st edition.
They had their time in the sun.
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First don't get me wrong I think battletech is a great game, however like most things (Magic) it has grown too large for its britches. When I started playing BTech it was with first edition in I think the late 80's. I now have a collection of over 800 miniatures. Those who play it found recently, the last year or so, that the game desiners started ignoring all the fluff they put out about the history and such. The bad guys, the head of the Clans (Wolf) deciced to up and join their moral enemies. Akin to Isreal deciding that they should firght with Jordan against the United States. This was too much for us old timers (21yrs old). Modern production was accelerated in the last year, probably in a last attempt to same the company, however the new rules are far too complicated and start to prevent battles with large numbers of mechs (72 per side) from taking under an entire weekend. People complained about 3rd edition Warhammer yet they play it. Those who I know, decided that BTech was dead and called the universe to an end at 3058/3059. The sales at our local hobby shop, who had previously kept all FASA stock on the shelves dried up. FACA whithout BTech is not right, VOR was good but couldn't compete with WH40K. New BTech designs were stupid, unable to compete with a well played older unit and failed to look as good. (A more rounded feel) Old players who have hundreds of miniatures will still play and will not be affected at all. To us Battletech died over a year ago. Still it is sad that we may now have troubles getting new players and the new owners will want the game to take on their feel. A sad day, but we all knew it was comming.
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As the son of a university professor I know my dad and his professor friends have gotten tons of books from publishers free.
They simply see a book they like, call up the publisher and identify who they are who they work for and they have a class of 300+ stupid first year students next semester/year and the reading material is not set for this course yet.
They then drop the names of a book from a competitor and say they have recently read that. By noon the next day there is a fed ex. package with a letter listing all the benefits of this book over the competitors plus illustrating the "deal" they have with the university and what the price for the students would be and how their price would be much lower than the competitor.
Often there are additional books related to the topic "they feel would make excellent supplementary material". I have most of these books cause they get shuffled around.
And if they know a professor is using the 2nd edition of a text and the third is coming out. A copy of the third will arrive free for "review", again with a list of advantages over the old edition.
Somewhere they must have a list of professors and what they teach. They also know who teaches first-year classes cause they get the best review books.
It makes sense, one free book to convince a professor to force 300-700 students who have to buy your book. That's a good return on investment. Unethical, no not really, and lucrative in all the cool free books that they send out.
I know a place in Hamilton $19.95/100. They have a chain of stores (5 in different markets across Ontario) always near the university and don't appear too shady. They do a lot of business with mid sized corporations.
The plan is not to replace the nice number and letters, it is in addition to allow faster more efficient identification.
I have to say I agree with him. I have used Win2kPro for ages, and recently, the last 2ish weeks I have been getting blue screens ever few hours, actual core dumps not just STOP errors. As a dual boot machine I know the hardware is good as the other OS works fine. But Windows doesn't like me. Fixed things, repaired this, reinstalled .dll's every trick I know.
Now I want to upgrade/reinstall and it is going to take me a weeks of time afterwork to get everything set up so I don't lose what I want.
It is sad that to get a 'clean' install of windows you basically need to go down and reformat the drives.
Everytime I look at a G5 I wish I had that kind of money. Cause I know my next machine is not going to have Windows on it.
Many municipal wastewater plants use anaerobic digestion, and methane is the natural byproduct. The research now is trying to increase the amount of hydrogen production as it is more energy efficient and less wasteful.
As for diluting the biomatter anything organic will work and you will get methane. Ask any environmental engineer and we can go on for hours on this wonderful subject.
This is nothing new, only on a smaller scale.
Many SAMs from the late 50's (ie. the Bomarc) used nuclear warheads. They were desinged to airburst over soviet bomber formations because the targeting wasn't good enough to ensure a hit.
A nuclear warhead doesn't indicate something is an ICBM. It is the maximum range that determines it.
Unless of course you want:
-Mechanical (Queens or UoT)
-Civil (UoT)
-Environmental/Chemical (Guelph or McMaster)
-Electrical (UoT, Queens)
Infact if you want computers go to waterloo, otherwise don't.
I mean they had to drop their Environmental Chemical Program a few years back as it didn't manage to get certified by CCPE.
Infared
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Orange
Green
Blue
Indigo
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Ultaviolet
Posession of any colour tinfoil hat above your clearance is treason, but so is knowing that. AUGHHH. (Goes off to the confession booth with a laser pistol as I am a good citizen)
I have to agree 110% with the above. I am now a 4th year Environmental Engineer (Wastewater) and assignments are done on paper. Or modeled on a computer in the lab with more power than anything you could possibly buy. Many of the fluid dynamics programs you also won't be able to pirate either. They just aren't out there.
I did a lot of gaming 1st year. I had a god box and man did I regret it. Four 50's are not good for your cumulitive average.
People with Laptops dropped them as they can't type fast enough and the equations are impossible to enter, especially if you want to understand them later.
Get something that is comfortable with a good keyboard and a nice trackball so you can work on it late at night and don't hurt yourself.
BUY A GOOD CHAIR...I spent $350 on a nice office chair. It has lasted me these last almostt 4 years and only now am I only thinking of having to have the piston refilled. If you can save your back and arms you should have no real troubles. Unfortunatly you will hate going to the labs with their brutal back breaking excuses for seats.
Just don't buy a laptop, chances are you won't need it. And if you do get it after you arrive, not before. Then you will have a much better idea of what is required.
Report that discomfort to your Health & Safety commitee in writing. There is almost always a pool of money reserved for fixing health and safety problems (by law in Canada if it is reported, they HAVE to fix it). Where I work we are very streched for cash and money must come from the proper departmeal pool. But H&S has the last laugh. 3 days and I had a new mouse, new keyboard and a person to set it up properly.
If they have it in writing and they are audited for H&S then they are in big trouble if they haven't addresses a problem.
I shoudn't bite but...SOUTH Korea not the DPRK. Even Bush isn't that dumb.
(And this coming from a Canadian, Eugh).
Since they were in dishes most likly nutrient agar or another form of nutrient broth. These are really little creatures and most likly don't require alot of nutrients.
Well in Canada most of those people trying to call themselves that would be facing a $50,000 fine.
There was a similar problem here in Ontario (Canada) to use the term "Engineer" you have to be lisenced. It is illegal to try and pass your self off as one if you are not lisenced. M$ had to drop the term engineer from their certification process. Check out Professional Engineers Ontario under Software Engineer for more details.
It all boils down to liability. If I certify a water treatment process safe and its not. Than I am in DEEP trouble. No more lisence, fines and basically the carrear is down the tube. In Canada and I think most of the commonwealth this is true.
Now I know a bunch of computer engineers, most of those guys are hardware, not software, but these guys wouldn't want to be engineers under Canadian law if they were doing programming. The computer software industry is still too immature to fall under these types of guidelines. Too many programs are not stable yet are shipped out because marketing wants them to.
I think I all boils down to currently the public is willing to let flawed software exist. And until someone dies nothing will change.
Like water in Ontario. People have to die before there is a backlash and things are fixed.
As an Environmental Engineer many WWTPs use this technology. The largest problem with it however is hard water (calcium) or silica in the effluent often deposit on the turbine blades of the generator and greatly reduce life. (A pilot scale test I know of ran for about a week then died). And they are not cheap, we are talking about $12M for a small city, it was a pilot, so full scale would probably be about the same cost.
It never pays for the entire process, but it can help to offset costs.
As an avid player I disagree, the clans made it far more intersting, I am the highest reated player in our region, Hamilton (CANADA) and I play a low tech inner-sphere company. The clans are more of a handycap than an advantage, you can run around and get their big things to chase you, you can win but you have had to have been playing for a long time. It is the newer rules (level 3, not 2) that have created a influx of the power gamer and cheese monkey. A new edition, 4th, could have saved them rather than modifing 1st edition.
First don't get me wrong I think battletech is a great game, however like most things (Magic) it has grown too large for its britches. When I started playing BTech it was with first edition in I think the late 80's. I now have a collection of over 800 miniatures. Those who play it found recently, the last year or so, that the game desiners started ignoring all the fluff they put out about the history and such. The bad guys, the head of the Clans (Wolf) deciced to up and join their moral enemies. Akin to Isreal deciding that they should firght with Jordan against the United States. This was too much for us old timers (21yrs old). Modern production was accelerated in the last year, probably in a last attempt to same the company, however the new rules are far too complicated and start to prevent battles with large numbers of mechs (72 per side) from taking under an entire weekend. People complained about 3rd edition Warhammer yet they play it. Those who I know, decided that BTech was dead and called the universe to an end at 3058/3059. The sales at our local hobby shop, who had previously kept all FASA stock on the shelves dried up. FACA whithout BTech is not right, VOR was good but couldn't compete with WH40K. New BTech designs were stupid, unable to compete with a well played older unit and failed to look as good. (A more rounded feel) Old players who have hundreds of miniatures will still play and will not be affected at all. To us Battletech died over a year ago. Still it is sad that we may now have troubles getting new players and the new owners will want the game to take on their feel. A sad day, but we all knew it was comming.