While I sympathize with your plight, I'm even more concerned with the number and size of books that are being foisted on our younger students. It's worse than it was when I was in school - and a large number of children are starting to develop back and shoulder problems at a very young age because of the weight of the books they are expected to carry.
Problem is, textbook companies don't *want* to put things on CD for us - there's no financial incentive to do so. One student could buy the textbook and share it with the whole class - or even world+dog. So they have no reason to put things in a digital format, as much easier as that would be.
Anybody have any ideas about how we might get around this?
My Archos JB20 Recorder works very well for this, especially with The Rockbox software. (Disclaimer: I'm on the Rockbox team.)
It is a little pricey ($175-$220US on eBay), but with everything else it does - MP3 recording and playback, text file viewing, bookmarking, and a host of others, it's well worth it. You can also get 10GB models for a little less.
The filesystem is FAT32 and it connects seamlessly to most OSs which have USB support. Most of the Rockbox team develops on Linux.
So while it may be a little more than you wanted to spend, it's a worthwhile investment!
...the U.S. has had marinas doing this for boats for many years. I'm curious, though, about what happens when the power goes out, like it did in the mid-atlantic states this past week?
but brains are poisonous and evil meat, so instead of I must politely ask for whatever leftover celery or tomatoes you have sitting in your fridge. Preferably evil celery and tomatoes, Tomatoes Of The Dead you might say, but I'll take what I can get.
Oh, I was thinking it was the mouse that was nicked from Xerox PARC and placed next to a fruit for a few years, but was lifted from there and now resides in a little town in Washington.
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I'm glad we have mice without balls now, so I don't keep waiting for them to reproduce!
Yes, let's throw the baby out with the bathwater. I mean, I figure it's our fault they can't sell enough games, right? I know Electronics Boutique has been losing money for many years - it's a wonder they even stay open! And don't even get me started on Epic Games - when was the last time anybody there bought a Ferrari or a Porsche? I can't imagine what I was thinking, expecting decent customer service when there are all those nasty pirates out there!
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If copyrights are so important, how do people make so much money on the best-selling book in the world, which was never copyrighted?
Since when is a tax "long overdue"??!? Isn't paying 1/2 - 1/3 of your salary enough? One of the reasons Internet sales have been so phenomenal is that there aren't the same burdens - financial (for consumers) and administrative (for businesses) that exist elsewhere.
Also, there has been a ban on interstate sales tax in many jurisdictions for many, many years. If you order something by mail from Oregon and you live in New Jersey, you don't pay sales tax. So what makes you think an Internet sales tax is justified? What about the New York vendors who have to compete with the Deleware vendors with the same product? The consumer is going to go to a place with a lower sales tax rate - they will avoid the ~8% premium they would have to pay buying from a New York vendor.
Incidentally, any place that still had a ban on interstate sales taxes would not be able to charge sales tax on Internet purchases, because it would violate the "unique" part of this bill. So they would only be able to collect on sales within their own state, which means that consumers will go out of state when possible to get their goods.
Well, basically, they take another nut and shoot it at high velocity at a group of nuts. (This group must be large enough to have a "critical mass".) When the accelerated nut hits the group of nuts, it breaks, sending portions of its innards (the meat, in technical terms) into the other nuts, which break open other nuts, which cause them to release their meat, with each nut releasing its potential energy in an ever-increasing "chain reaction".
But they need to control this highly dangerous process, so they use a fluid which surrounds the nuts to slow the reaction at the edges of the mass. They looked for a long time before they chose just the right formula, but they've settled on a standard, something physicists call "dark chocolate".
The major byproduct is a nutmeat-filled candy bar called "Hershey's", named after the scientist/confectioner who invented the process. While highly dangerous to a small portion of the population, most people are only subject to a small subset of detrimental effects.
In related news, recently the doorways in the plant had to be widened considerably to accomodate the plant's regular staff, who seem to have taken to eating the power plant's byproduct.
1) (I wish the article had the details on how much it actually brightened.)
From the article: The star was seen to brighten to more than 600,000 times our Sun's luminosity.
Well, it's not a hard number, but it's something.
2) the planets-contaminate-stars model for the heavy element enrichment probably doesn't explain the observed enrichment.
Well, since we have a fairly good idea that the fusion process ends rather abruptly when the number of protons in the newly-created element reaches Iron (Fe), even in massive stars, this is one of the only possibilities. (The other main theory is the seeding of stars by supernovae as they create superheavy elements when exploding.)
Yeah, I thought it said "Planet Gobbling Star" too.
I, for one, welcome our new star-gobbling plan...this is like shooting fish in a barrel.
IN SOVIET RUSSIA...man, this is just too easy.
Interesting that the star would actually get noticeably brighter, though! Isn't is strange that it ate three planets in such a short time period?
And incidentally, if they were right about the brightness coming from an infusion (haha) of hydrogen, those planets must have been extremely large - most planets (ours included) don't have a strong enough gravitational field to keep hydrogen within its sphere (haha again) of influence.
I think the Betoota, Queensland, Australia airport will have something to say about it right now! -- The last time we removed religion from politics, Communism began.
I really don't think the 200-year-old subpoena process will be in jeopardy here. This has to do specifically with what may be overbroad capabilities given to companies who want to use FUD to keep the masses "in line". Because of the poorly constructed nature of the DMCA, the system it enables is rife with abuse, and it is finally coming to the attention of the ones who made the mistake in the first place.
Identity theft is only possible because we have this insane notion that all *entities* should have a single *identity*. The slow convergence of our presence in the world to a single, uniform, all-inclusive identity is an invitation to abuse.
Why are we removing the natural sandbags that once limited the spillover damage by tacitly allowing companies and the government to reduce us to a single unique identifier?
There should be a mandatory separation between the identifiers used to authenticate ourselves to different industries and portions thereof. Why is a social security number used for financial transactions? There should be a clear separation between government business and private businesses and subsections within the both. This would automatically limit the damage an identity thief would be able to inflict, because our entire lives would not be based on a single identity! Our folly seems to be the thought that we can somehow achieve absolute identity. The best we can ever hope to get is consistent identity.
I'm not trying to be a troll here, but I seriously think that this whole privacy issue would be a whole lot less of a hot topic if we were to preserve the natural identity separation that has served us so well for so many thousands of years.
And for those of you who remember murf.com...
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F u cn rd ths u cnt spl wrth a drn.
Only part of the answer....
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Understanding a language is only 50% comprehension. The other 50% is being able to predict what will come next based on previous experience. This is especially important in spoken language, because the brain simply does not have the power to parse each word separately in real time.
So while it is possible to understand words that are not spelled correctly, it can still take a while to understand if the nxet few wdors are not qieut waht you epcext. It is aslo mcuh lses pbatldicree wehn you use lgenor wdros.
1/ but there is little that keeps people from posting listings on multiple auction sites either.
Well, except for the fact that you are contractually bound to sell the item only once!
2/ Of course all these companies will swiftly shift to a Napster-like network when the law is passed.
Not so. These networks exist because there was something that Napster was inherently lacking - privacy. And these networks will continue to provide that, because the RIAA/MPAA won't be able to sue to receive personal information if no law is being infringed. So anyone who wants to trade files anonymously will still use these networks.
3/ What does Google do, exactly? They index what is already present, leveraging existing protocols and content. They will leverage what Gnutella/Kazaa/&c. currently present unless there is more money to be made otherwise. While it is possible that they will create their own filesharing system, I consider it doubtful they will.
But of course, only time will tell. And if compulsory licensing (which makes so much sense!) does come through, it will be a huge win for consumers, no matter who provides the medium for distibuting it.
"Let me explain./pause/ No, there is not enough time. Let me sum up."
Give the guy a break. The melting clocks are probably the best known and most recognizable feature of Dali, and this *is*/., where we don't ever read long expl...
And anyway, if you're going to criticize, at least get the quote right!
Yeah. Funny thing is, those female bees have a little prick! Unless they're a queen, in which case they don't have a prick. Go figure! Wow, the insect world is crazy sometimes!
-- And now for the obligatory Monty Python quote...
"Half a bee, philsophically, must ipso facto half not-be. But can a bee be said to be or not to be an entire bee, when half the bee is not a bee, due to some ancient injury?"
...until it happens to you. So next time you drop a multi-million-dollar satellite which is only 5 years from launch, you can take comfort in knowing that you made someone else feel better about their day.;-)
We should be thankful that beheading is no longer allowed in the U.S...
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While I sympathize with your plight, I'm even more concerned with the number and size of books that are being foisted on our younger students. It's worse than it was when I was in school - and a large number of children are starting to develop back and shoulder problems at a very young age because of the weight of the books they are expected to carry.
Problem is, textbook companies don't *want* to put things on CD for us - there's no financial incentive to do so. One student could buy the textbook and share it with the whole class - or even world+dog. So they have no reason to put things in a digital format, as much easier as that would be.
Anybody have any ideas about how we might get around this?
My Archos JB20 Recorder works very well for this, especially with The Rockbox software. (Disclaimer: I'm on the Rockbox team.)
It is a little pricey ($175-$220US on eBay), but with everything else it does - MP3 recording and playback, text file viewing, bookmarking, and a host of others, it's well worth it. You can also get 10GB models for a little less.
The filesystem is FAT32 and it connects seamlessly to most OSs which have USB support. Most of the Rockbox team develops on Linux.
So while it may be a little more than you wanted to spend, it's a worthwhile investment!
Mattcelt
...or just to grep the replies for the word "Funny".
And boy, I wonder how they handle rush hour with a system like this... What if all 324 people want to get out at the same time?
324 cars
*2.5 mins/car
/2 elevators
=405 minutes or 6.75 hours to get them all!
...the U.S. has had marinas doing this for boats for many years. I'm curious, though, about what happens when the power goes out, like it did in the mid-atlantic states this past week?
but brains are poisonous and evil meat, so instead of I must politely ask for whatever leftover celery or tomatoes you have sitting in your fridge. Preferably evil celery and tomatoes, Tomatoes Of The Dead you might say, but I'll take what I can get.
Wow, you sound like Bunnicula!
Oh, I was thinking it was the mouse that was nicked from Xerox PARC and placed next to a fruit for a few years, but was lifted from there and now resides in a little town in Washington.
--
I'm glad we have mice without balls now, so I don't keep waiting for them to reproduce!
Yes, let's throw the baby out with the bathwater. I mean, I figure it's our fault they can't sell enough games, right? I know Electronics Boutique has been losing money for many years - it's a wonder they even stay open! And don't even get me started on Epic Games - when was the last time anybody there bought a Ferrari or a Porsche? I can't imagine what I was thinking, expecting decent customer service when there are all those nasty pirates out there!
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If copyrights are so important, how do people make so much money on the best-selling book in the world, which was never copyrighted?
Yeah, 'cause we'd never spend tax money on invading another country or anything.
Since when is a tax "long overdue"??!? Isn't paying 1/2 - 1/3 of your salary enough? One of the reasons Internet sales have been so phenomenal is that there aren't the same burdens - financial (for consumers) and administrative (for businesses) that exist elsewhere.
Also, there has been a ban on interstate sales tax in many jurisdictions for many, many years. If you order something by mail from Oregon and you live in New Jersey, you don't pay sales tax. So what makes you think an Internet sales tax is justified? What about the New York vendors who have to compete with the Deleware vendors with the same product? The consumer is going to go to a place with a lower sales tax rate - they will avoid the ~8% premium they would have to pay buying from a New York vendor.
Incidentally, any place that still had a ban on interstate sales taxes would not be able to charge sales tax on Internet purchases, because it would violate the "unique" part of this bill. So they would only be able to collect on sales within their own state, which means that consumers will go out of state when possible to get their goods.
Still think an Internet sales tax is a good idea?
Well, basically, they take another nut and shoot it at high velocity at a group of nuts. (This group must be large enough to have a "critical mass".) When the accelerated nut hits the group of nuts, it breaks, sending portions of its innards (the meat, in technical terms) into the other nuts, which break open other nuts, which cause them to release their meat, with each nut releasing its potential energy in an ever-increasing "chain reaction".
But they need to control this highly dangerous process, so they use a fluid which surrounds the nuts to slow the reaction at the edges of the mass. They looked for a long time before they chose just the right formula, but they've settled on a standard, something physicists call "dark chocolate".
The major byproduct is a nutmeat-filled candy bar called "Hershey's", named after the scientist/confectioner who invented the process. While highly dangerous to a small portion of the population, most people are only subject to a small subset of detrimental effects.
In related news, recently the doorways in the plant had to be widened considerably to accomodate the plant's regular staff, who seem to have taken to eating the power plant's byproduct.
1) (I wish the article had the details on how much it actually brightened.)
From the article: The star was seen to brighten to more than 600,000 times our Sun's luminosity.
Well, it's not a hard number, but it's something.
2) the planets-contaminate-stars model for the heavy element enrichment probably doesn't explain the observed enrichment.
Well, since we have a fairly good idea that the fusion process ends rather abruptly when the number of protons in the newly-created element reaches Iron (Fe), even in massive stars, this is one of the only possibilities. (The other main theory is the seeding of stars by supernovae as they create superheavy elements when exploding.)
Hope I'm not nitpicking...!
Yeah, I thought it said "Planet Gobbling Star" too.
I, for one, welcome our new star-gobbling plan...this is like shooting fish in a barrel.
IN SOVIET RUSSIA...man, this is just too easy.
Interesting that the star would actually get noticeably brighter, though! Isn't is strange that it ate three planets in such a short time period?
And incidentally, if they were right about the brightness coming from an infusion (haha) of hydrogen, those planets must have been extremely large - most planets (ours included) don't have a strong enough gravitational field to keep hydrogen within its sphere (haha again) of influence.
I think the Betoota, Queensland, Australia airport will have something to say about it right now!
--
The last time we removed religion from politics, Communism began.
I really don't think the 200-year-old subpoena process will be in jeopardy here. This has to do specifically with what may be overbroad capabilities given to companies who want to use FUD to keep the masses "in line". Because of the poorly constructed nature of the DMCA, the system it enables is rife with abuse, and it is finally coming to the attention of the ones who made the mistake in the first place.
Does anyone know who is sponsoring this event?
Identity theft is only possible because we have this insane notion that all *entities* should have a single *identity*. The slow convergence of our presence in the world to a single, uniform, all-inclusive identity is an invitation to abuse.
Why are we removing the natural sandbags that once limited the spillover damage by tacitly allowing companies and the government to reduce us to a single unique identifier?
There should be a mandatory separation between the identifiers used to authenticate ourselves to different industries and portions thereof. Why is a social security number used for financial transactions? There should be a clear separation between government business and private businesses and subsections within the both. This would automatically limit the damage an identity thief would be able to inflict, because our entire lives would not be based on a single identity! Our folly seems to be the thought that we can somehow achieve absolute identity. The best we can ever hope to get is consistent identity.
I'm not trying to be a troll here, but I seriously think that this whole privacy issue would be a whole lot less of a hot topic if we were to preserve the natural identity separation that has served us so well for so many thousands of years.
F u cn rd ths u cnt spl wrth a drn.
Understanding a language is only 50% comprehension. The other 50% is being able to predict what will come next based on previous experience. This is especially important in spoken language, because the brain simply does not have the power to parse each word separately in real time.
So while it is possible to understand words that are not spelled correctly, it can still take a while to understand if the nxet few wdors are not qieut waht you epcext. It is aslo mcuh lses pbatldicree wehn you use lgenor wdros.
I hpoe tihs was an imuilntinag eplamxe!
Mclettat
1/ but there is little that keeps people from posting listings on multiple auction sites either.
Well, except for the fact that you are contractually bound to sell the item only once!
2/ Of course all these companies will swiftly shift to a Napster-like network when the law is passed.
Not so. These networks exist because there was something that Napster was inherently lacking - privacy. And these networks will continue to provide that, because the RIAA/MPAA won't be able to sue to receive personal information if no law is being infringed. So anyone who wants to trade files anonymously will still use these networks.
3/ What does Google do, exactly? They index what is already present, leveraging existing protocols and content. They will leverage what Gnutella/Kazaa/&c. currently present unless there is more money to be made otherwise. While it is possible that they will create their own filesharing system, I consider it doubtful they will.
But of course, only time will tell. And if compulsory licensing (which makes so much sense!) does come through, it will be a huge win for consumers, no matter who provides the medium for distibuting it.
Mattcelt
"Let me explain. /pause/ No, there is not enough time. Let me sum up."
/., where we don't ever read long expl...
Give the guy a break. The melting clocks are probably the best known and most recognizable feature of Dali, and this *is*
And anyway, if you're going to criticize, at least get the quote right!
This just goes to show that beer enhances music.
Just make sure you don't make the mix too beer-heavy, or the music gets vague and indistinct.
alt.binaries.erotica.insects.bees.hairless..?
Can we finally replace goatse.cx now?
Yeah. Funny thing is, those female bees have a little prick! Unless they're a queen, in which case they don't have a prick. Go figure! Wow, the insect world is crazy sometimes!
--
And now for the obligatory Monty Python quote...
"Half a bee, philsophically, must ipso facto half not-be. But can a bee be said to be or not to be an entire bee, when half the bee is not a bee, due to some ancient injury?"
...until it happens to you. So next time you drop a multi-million-dollar satellite which is only 5 years from launch, you can take comfort in knowing that you made someone else feel better about their day. ;-)
We should be thankful that beheading is no longer allowed in the U.S...