Please try to at least READ what I wrote. Yes, copyright is automatic. NO, you do NOT get statutory damages if you do not register your copyrighted material - only your provable actual damages.
The guy who was doing the PR was not an employee of the guy who designed the controller - two separate businesses, two separate individuals, two separate businesses.
The guy who designed the controller is a teacher who originally made it for his disabled students. The PR guy is just some "I do SEO so I can build up your bid'nezz on teh interwebz" jerk.
Loosing the rights to your creations is part of being employed
Don't bet on it. Everyone assumes that's true, but it's not. If you can document (like the original poster did) that it was done on their own time using their own equipment, they OWN it, not the company.
This is especially true in this case, since their actual job does not involve writing applications.
If youre going to have Christmas on Sunday, make every day a Saturday.
Nobody gets the "lunch-bag letdown" of disappointment Christmas day.
No big post-Christmas debts for stuff that broke within hours.
No going to work - ever - unless you work on Saturdays.
No having to take the garbage out Sunday night for Monday morning... ummm... on second thought, that kind of stinks...
Conclusion?
Don't you DARE! You already screwed it up enough messing with Daylight Savings Time!
... and what happened before computers - nobody learned anything? Judging just by the grammar and spelling mistakes that people still make despite having a spell checker, I'd say that computers have definitely had a major negative impact on the basic skills of the population at large.
Learning does NOT include sitting there like a stooge taking notes. That's the first sign of a terrible teacher and students who are not learning. That it's "expected" so much is a sign of a broken system.
Can you please exercise your google-fu instead of expecting to have everything handed to you on a plate? This isn't school, where the teachers are so bad at teaching that they hand you the answers so that they won't have TOO many students failing. (also note that many of those studies were reported in dead-tree media well before the internet was invented, so good luck with that).
1. Or they could just leave the physical textbooks in school, and have access to copies electronically at home - best of both worlds.
2. Students shouldn't be taking notes during class - if they're taking notes, that's a sign that either the teacher doesn't know how to engage them, is poor at preparation, or is "teaching to the test". You're not learning when you're just sitting there taking notes. Might as well just replace the teacher with powerpoint slides - after all, in both cases, you're just making the student dumber.
3. Most classes won't be working with spreadsheets.
4. Let them play with interactive websites on their own time.
You lied again in another post - you claimed that your diet was "rice-based", as opposed to it being EXCLUSIVELY "rice, milk, and canola oil."
I'm out of here.
You said as much before, and kept on posting (without providing proper citations to reputable organizations, unlike the links I provided to government standards and the World Health Organization)... you lied then too.
Again, you have not provided any citations to contest what the World Health Organization says. Who is anyone going to believe - a nutcase on the Internet with a high user ID, a short posting history, who gets caught out in lies and misdirections almost immediately, or the WHO?
In such a case, who wouldn't believe WHO?
And no, your diet wasn't "based on rice" - it consisted ONLY of "rice, milk, and canola oil."
Red-Black/AVL trees make much more sense when you can watch step by step the manipulation of the data
If you can't visualize it independently of someone showing you pretty pictures and holding your hand every step of the way, you have not yet developed the aptitude to create new stuff - only implement that which you've seen before.
Extending that to all education, it's a poor education that relies so much on such aids that the student cannot "imagine" anything in their head first.
We really need to get back to basics - things like reading a book and using your imagination to "visualize" the abstract words - instead of everything being the same thin gruel. The real problems, of course, are parents who are SO stupid that they can't even beat a kid at the board game "Can you beat a 5th Grader?", and teachers who are SO stupid that they also can't beat their students at the same game, so they "teach to the test."
Checking your homework answers is NOT eLearning. Sheesh, are you THAT desperate to prove a failed idea? Next you'll be trying to say that 2012 is NOT going to be the year that everyone realizes that there never, ever, in a million years be a "year of the linux desktop."
Why? Is there some kid who DOESN'T know how to use a computer by the time they get to grade 3? Really... we do NOT need to teach kids how to use computers any more than we need to teach them how to use a TV remote control... sheesh!
Sure - cite ONE study that was not funded by the people supplying the equipment. Just one. When I went to teach computers in an elementary school, the FIRST thing I did was unplug the computers. They got in the way of real learning, and the kids had a lot more fun (and learned more) by actual human interaction than sitting in front of a screen.
And how iis that any different from what was done in the Australian outback decades ago, over ham radios? They both need three things that the VAST majority lack today - parents who will actually pay attention to their kids' needs, teachers who can teach, and students who are motivated.
No, the studies in the '80s also came to the same conclusion. Not a single case where there was a long-term benefit, and MANY cases where it resulted in less less learning.
Computers are not a "magic bullet" to fix the problem of teachers who can't teach and parents who don't give a ****.
As far as "getting kids interested in technology" - for what? So that by 35 they're "too old" and have to find another career, or their jobs have been outsourced (If it's in an O'Reily book, it's going to be outsourced).
This question has been answered MANY times. NO study has shown that students benefit - and many have shown that the diversion of resources hurts them. It's a dead horse. Stop flogging it and move on.
I provided a citation earlier, but your "pretend ostrich" tactic makes you unable to acknowledge it. Btw, there ain't no such thing as "deficient in vegetables". You're looking ever-more ignorant.
You're such a liar. BTW - it's not just me saying it - The World Health Organization says you a liar.
Fruit and vegetables are an important component of a healthy diet and,
if consumed daily in sufficient amounts, could help prevent major
diseases such as CVDs and certain cancers. According to The World
Health Report 2002, low fruit and vegetable intake is estimated to
cause about 31% of ischaemic heart disease and 11% of stroke
worldwide.1 Overall it is estimated that up to 2.7 million lives could
potentially be saved each year if fruit and vegetable consumption was
sufficiently increased.
You're such a liar... No integrity, no shame, and from the look of things, maybe I can count this as a confirmed zombie sighting, because you obviously lack any brains.
Just keep on lying... the only one who looks stupid in this mess is you, just like your original lie - that a diet consisting of only rice, milk, and canola oil was a complete and healthy diet.
But keep it up - you just look stupider with every post you make.
This cable is NOT used for "professional work" - unless you're thinking of a variant of the worlds' oldest profession - because anyone actually buying one of these is being royally screwed.
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Please try to at least READ what I wrote. Yes, copyright is automatic. NO, you do NOT get statutory damages if you do not register your copyrighted material - only your provable actual damages.
To benefit from statutory (as opposed to actual) damages, you have to register your copyrights.
Most open source software, while copyrighted under the Berne Convention, doesn't have a copyright registration certificate emitted by the government, so it's just actual damages.
That's why the RIAA registers their copyrights - instead of actual damages, they can claim statutory damages of $150,000 per copy.
CTL+A is your friend. Or just remove the text-shadow:0 0 6px black; using firebug. Because it really IS that ugly!
Quick - someone tell the writers of CSI so they can now ""whip up a GOOEY in Gambas so they can track the killers' IP address" ... or something equally zombified.
tamoxifen is also used to mask steroid use in drug tests.
The guy who designed the controller is a teacher who originally made it for his disabled students. The PR guy is just some "I do SEO so I can build up your bid'nezz on teh interwebz" jerk.
Don't bet on it. Everyone assumes that's true, but it's not. If you can document (like the original poster did) that it was done on their own time using their own equipment, they OWN it, not the company.
This is especially true in this case, since their actual job does not involve writing applications.
If youre going to have Christmas on Sunday, make every day a Saturday. ... ummm ... on second thought, that kind of stinks ...
Nobody gets the "lunch-bag letdown" of disappointment Christmas day.
No big post-Christmas debts for stuff that broke within hours.
No going to work - ever - unless you work on Saturdays.
No having to take the garbage out Sunday night for Monday morning
Conclusion?
Don't you DARE! You already screwed it up enough messing with Daylight Savings Time!
... and what happened before computers - nobody learned anything? Judging just by the grammar and spelling mistakes that people still make despite having a spell checker, I'd say that computers have definitely had a major negative impact on the basic skills of the population at large.
Sure, you can replace THOSE teachers with a powerpoint presentation - after all, powerpoint makes you just as dumb.
If you want to fix the system, you don't do it with iPads - you can start by testing the teachers and firing those who fail.
Can you please exercise your google-fu instead of expecting to have everything handed to you on a plate? This isn't school, where the teachers are so bad at teaching that they hand you the answers so that they won't have TOO many students failing. (also note that many of those studies were reported in dead-tree media well before the internet was invented, so good luck with that).
1. Or they could just leave the physical textbooks in school, and have access to copies electronically at home - best of both worlds.
2. Students shouldn't be taking notes during class - if they're taking notes, that's a sign that either the teacher doesn't know how to engage them, is poor at preparation, or is "teaching to the test". You're not learning when you're just sitting there taking notes. Might as well just replace the teacher with powerpoint slides - after all, in both cases, you're just making the student dumber.
3. Most classes won't be working with spreadsheets.
4. Let them play with interactive websites on their own time.
You said as much before, and kept on posting (without providing proper citations to reputable organizations, unlike the links I provided to government standards and the World Health Organization) ... you lied then too.
In such a case, who wouldn't believe WHO?
And no, your diet wasn't "based on rice" - it consisted ONLY of "rice, milk, and canola oil."
Kepp lying. After all, it's Troll Tuesday again.
If you can't visualize it independently of someone showing you pretty pictures and holding your hand every step of the way, you have not yet developed the aptitude to create new stuff - only implement that which you've seen before.
Extending that to all education, it's a poor education that relies so much on such aids that the student cannot "imagine" anything in their head first.
We really need to get back to basics - things like reading a book and using your imagination to "visualize" the abstract words - instead of everything being the same thin gruel. The real problems, of course, are parents who are SO stupid that they can't even beat a kid at the board game "Can you beat a 5th Grader?", and teachers who are SO stupid that they also can't beat their students at the same game, so they "teach to the test."
Checking your homework answers is NOT eLearning. Sheesh, are you THAT desperate to prove a failed idea? Next you'll be trying to say that 2012 is NOT going to be the year that everyone realizes that there never, ever, in a million years be a "year of the linux desktop."
Why? Is there some kid who DOESN'T know how to use a computer by the time they get to grade 3? Really ... we do NOT need to teach kids how to use computers any more than we need to teach them how to use a TV remote control ... sheesh!
Sure - cite ONE study that was not funded by the people supplying the equipment. Just one. When I went to teach computers in an elementary school, the FIRST thing I did was unplug the computers. They got in the way of real learning, and the kids had a lot more fun (and learned more) by actual human interaction than sitting in front of a screen.
elearning does nothing to fix this problem.
Computers are not a "magic bullet" to fix the problem of teachers who can't teach and parents who don't give a ****.
As far as "getting kids interested in technology" - for what? So that by 35 they're "too old" and have to find another career, or their jobs have been outsourced (If it's in an O'Reily book, it's going to be outsourced).
That's not "e-learning".
This question has been answered MANY times. NO study has shown that students benefit - and many have shown that the diversion of resources hurts them. It's a dead horse. Stop flogging it and move on.
You're such a liar. BTW - it's not just me saying it - The World Health Organization says you a liar.
You're such a liar ... No integrity, no shame, and from the look of things, maybe I can count this as a confirmed zombie sighting, because you obviously lack any brains.
But keep it up - you just look stupider with every post you make.
This cable is NOT used for "professional work" - unless you're thinking of a variant of the worlds' oldest profession - because anyone actually buying one of these is being royally screwed.