Posted about this in another thread, but I can attest to this as well.
Had a Viper with the missles. (and now that you mention it, they were pretty powerful. very cool.) After some idiot shot his eye out or let his 2 year old brother eat the missles, they launched the recall. Mattel would send you a HotWheels in exchange for the missles, which my mom thought was a great idea. So I get a cheesy 70s swinger van and Mattel gets my missles. grrr.
I totally forgot about that little last-minute switcheroo till I read the article. I remember -- wow, a missle that shoots... I can't wait! I was sooo pissed at the time. I also remember later getting Bossk and being like, who the hell is this loser, and why are his arms 2x the length of his torso?
On the upside, I did write to Kenner once regarding the fragility and easily-lost nature of the weapons. (I was a really anal kid, and never lost anything, so was freaked out for a week when my friend lost the gun for the death star officer guy). They actually sent me an envelope of miscellaneous blasters, sandperson gaffi-sticks, etc..
They had the same recall for the Vipers as well...
My mom thought it was a great idea -- "look, they'll send you a free HotWheels in exchange for the missles..."
So, I got a cheesy circa-1979 customized Chevy Van, and a Viper with no friggin missles... the least Mattel could have done is send you a Hotwheels with a similar warmongering bent. Instead I get the 70s swinger van.
Complete irrelevent to this story, but how is the hot air from a gas dryer any different? AFAIK, gas dryers do not generate CO or other waste gases as larger gas appliances (water heaters, furnaces) do. The hot air vent on a gas dryer is identical to that on an electric. It doesn't do double-duty as combustion chamber exhaust pipe... (if so, you'd need to connect every gas dryer to a chimney, not just a hole in the wall).
no.. I'm pretty sure it was the first heechee. the main character has a crappy job working in the chicken factory. then he wins the lottery or something and buys his way to the space station, takes a high-risk mission with a heechee scout ship...
if I recall "space merchants" correctly, the lead character was already relatively well off and had some white collar job.
I'm not familiar with the Heinlein story in question but there was a Pohl story I think -- the first in the Heechee series? -- where there was a giant self-sustaining chicken heart in a warehouse that they'd just carve giant slabs of meat from. Being heart muscle, it would just grow back -- something to that effect.
As an atheist myself, I was a bit concerned how to handle that, but interestingly, 'God' or any other deity never came up in our affirmation as jurors, or that of the witnesses. It something to the effect of 'Do you swear or affirm to.....'
But I imagine the 'god clause' varies by region/jurisdiction, etc..
Based on my experience, the defendant, or the prosecutor, for that matter, don't get to 'pick' anyone. They can reject a set number of jurors, but the ones that replace them come from the juror pool.
Don't like Juror 901? Fine, but you have to replace him with the next available one in line -- Juror 1012. Maybe 1012 looks pretty soft -- great. But, the prosecutor might replace her with Juror 1013. etc...
The questions I had were never that personal -- just a list of questions to establish how familiar you might be with the particulars of the case (neighborhood, defendant, witnesses, nature of the crime, etc ). After I 'passed,' I was asked what I did for a job (web dev.) but it had no impact. I was Juror #1 for 5 days.
Most of the trial was, however, a large waste of time. Had we started at 9am every day, shrunk the 2 hour lunches to 1 hour, cut down on pointless evidence and circular questioning by the attorneys, it would have taken 3 days instead of 5. Had the defendant pled out as he should have based on the evidence at hand, there would have been no trial at all.
Thankfully I still get paid for jury duty, so no big loss, though I did miss out on some training that week. It was interesting nonetheless, but could have been handled more efficiently at times.
Same here. I got laid off, then the next day we had to schlep to the company holiday party at the most expensive hotel in DC. We then witnessed the owner corner our other co-worker alone at a table and proceed to drop the axe on him in front of everyone. charming.
It's probably a bit dated by now, but you might also check out Great Teaching in the One Computer Classroom by David Dockterman. From what I can recall (read it wayyy back in grad school), it had a few decent basic, practical applications. I think he might also have another newer book available at Tom Snyder. (nice Co., btw, if you're looking for other decent educational software & resources.)
Anyway, ran some of these issues past her(she's a trademark attorney, so knows a bit about copyright issues..):
1. The Co. in question is buying and editing legal copies, not selling pirated versions, etc.. 2. Consumer's right to modify media they own
Here's what she said:
---- defense founded on the first sale doctrine (this doctrine says that a copyright holder's right to distribute its copyrighted work is limited to the first sale - this is why it is legitimate for there to be used book/cd stores, etc.).
But, I don't think the first-sale doctrine would give them a free ride here because they are impacting two rights of a copyright holder (the right to distribute and the right to create derivative works). Because of this, I think the court would interpret the first-sale doctrine as covering only the re-sale of unaltered works/copies and would not extend it to the situation at hand.
As to the point that the copyright owner isn't losing money if people would only buy the edited copy, our professor drilled into us the point that it doesn't matter if the copyright owner doesn't have an edited copy of their own out there for sale (and perhaps never will) because he/she has the right to license to someone else the right to create the edited version. So, someone doing the editing without authorization (and for profit), is impacting the copyright owner's secondary market rights and potential profits if the copyright holder enters that secondary market. The courts do protect this, even if it seems that the copyright owner will not enter the market in the near future, etc.
The other argument - that editing requires skill is more interesting - perhaps if their entire business was structured so that consumers would mail in their copies with requested edits and then this company would perform the service.
To me this would be less clearly infringing, because the customer would have the right to do what they want with their purchased copy. But, where they are selling the finished, edited product to the customers directly, that smacks more of copyright infringement because they are producing a derivative work and then distributing it. ----
anyway, this thread's a day old and 800+ comments long -- nobody's going to read this now...
Had the same problem with the 6L, as I assume everyone who ever owned one has, but was actually pleasantly surprised by the free/no-questions-asked cardboard fix. It worked & it was free -- problem solved.
Anyway, half-assed solutions aside, I actually got a message some time back about a Class-Action suit regarding this defect:
Good old Slashdot -- the peanut gallery always outweighs the actual advice (OK, one or two exceptions: somebody mentioned GMU, which does at first glance appear to have a semi-decent program.)
Anyway, I can tell you from first hand experience that yes, what you have noticed is generally true. I went to the Harvard Grad. School of Ed. for the same kind of program. YMMV, but there was not much thought to newer technologies, and it was still very much mired in bulletin boards and such.
However, it focused more on core educational concepts, so you were generally free to apply those to whatever technologies you deemed fit. It was pretty free-form, so if you wanted to design your own independent research on the technology of your choice, go for it. Just don't expect anyone there to know squat about the tech. you choose.
You've really got to decide what you want to get out of the program: a foundation in educational theory with some intro on how to apply it to technology; an introduction to yesterday's educational technologies (perhaps formerly known as intructional technology); using technology in the classroom; etc.. All of these are available somewhere, but probably no single program offers everything.
Start with the bigger Graduate Schools in Education (Columbia, Michigan, Wisconsin, Harvard, come to mind), look at the faculty, the courses, and their research, and then broaden or narrow your search accordingly, but also look at related disciplines (media & communications, psych., etc..)-- the MIT Media Lab does some crazy stuff, for example. (and you can sometimes cross register from HGSE)
Talk to current students & alumni -- see what they're doing in school as well as where their careers went afterwards. Do these paths mirror where you see yourself?
Also, using the current web sites as a divining rod is not always the best practice. Seems like a good idea at first, but these sites often get left to the students to fix up, and who wants to bother with that when they're neck-deep in course work?
IANAL, but my basic understanding of trademark law (related to, but still different from patent law) is that failure to defend a trademark in previous infrigements often invalidates any future lawsuits.
FYI, there are 2 Olin Foundations out there which some slashdotters may be familar with -- The FW Olin Foundation, which appears primarily concerned with furthering higher education in science, engineering, and business, and the more conservative John M Olin Foundation, which seems to specialize in throwing money at various right wing pundits.
FW Olin Foundation blurb: (scroll down to #8) http://www.capitalresearch.org/publications/a ltern atives/1998/june.htm
John M Olin Foundation: http://www.mediatransparency.org/fund ers/john_m_ol in_foundation.htm
I think Rehoboth Beach is actually in Delaware, (unless there's one in VA as well, which I haven't heard of)...
but yes, there are at least 2-3 arcades along the boardwalk, and at least one has half-a-dozen pinball machines.
If a few pinball machines aren't a good enough reason for making the trek to Rehoboth, also be sure to check out the Dogfishhead Brewery/Distillery. Otherwise, aside from the beach (which I personally have no use for, but YMMV), there is no reason to put up with the traffic or the state of Delaware (the Mid-Atlantic's answer to New Hampshire).
Slashdot Mirror
Posted about this in another thread, but I can attest to this as well.
Had a Viper with the missles. (and now that you mention it, they were pretty powerful. very cool.) After some idiot shot his eye out or let his 2 year old brother eat the missles, they launched the recall. Mattel would send you a HotWheels in exchange for the missles, which my mom thought was a great idea. So I get a cheesy 70s swinger van and Mattel gets my missles. grrr.
I totally forgot about that little last-minute switcheroo till I read the article. I remember -- wow, a missle that shoots... I can't wait! I was sooo pissed at the time. I also remember later getting Bossk and being like, who the hell is this loser, and why are his arms 2x the length of his torso?
On the upside, I did write to Kenner once regarding the fragility and easily-lost nature of the weapons. (I was a really anal kid, and never lost anything, so was freaked out for a week when my friend lost the gun for the death star officer guy). They actually sent me an envelope of miscellaneous blasters, sandperson gaffi-sticks, etc..
They had the same recall for the Vipers as well...
My mom thought it was a great idea -- "look, they'll send you a free HotWheels in exchange for the missles..."
So, I got a cheesy circa-1979 customized Chevy Van, and a Viper with no friggin missles... the least Mattel could have done is send you a Hotwheels with a similar warmongering bent. Instead I get the 70s swinger van.
Complete irrelevent to this story, but how is the hot air from a gas dryer any different? AFAIK, gas dryers do not generate CO or other waste gases as larger gas appliances (water heaters, furnaces) do. The hot air vent on a gas dryer is identical to that on an electric. It doesn't do double-duty as combustion chamber exhaust pipe... (if so, you'd need to connect every gas dryer to a chimney, not just a hole in the wall).
no.. I'm pretty sure it was the first heechee. the main character has a crappy job working in the chicken factory. then he wins the lottery or something and buys his way to the space station, takes a high-risk mission with a heechee scout ship...
if I recall "space merchants" correctly, the lead character was already relatively well off and had some white collar job.
I'm not familiar with the Heinlein story in question but there was a Pohl story I think -- the first in the Heechee series? -- where there was a giant self-sustaining chicken heart in a warehouse that they'd just carve giant slabs of meat from. Being heart muscle, it would just grow back -- something to that effect.
I assume you weren't actually picked for the jury?
We were prohibited from discussing/researching/etc. the case with _anyone_ -- especially anyone involved in the trial.
As an atheist myself, I was a bit concerned how to handle that, but interestingly, 'God' or any other deity never came up in our affirmation as jurors, or that of the witnesses. It something to the effect of 'Do you swear or affirm to .....'
But I imagine the 'god clause' varies by region/jurisdiction, etc..
Based on my experience, the defendant, or the prosecutor, for that matter, don't get to 'pick' anyone. They can reject a set number of jurors, but the ones that replace them come from the juror pool.
Don't like Juror 901? Fine, but you have to replace him with the next available one in line -- Juror 1012. Maybe 1012 looks pretty soft -- great. But, the prosecutor might replace her with Juror 1013. etc...
The questions I had were never that personal -- just a list of questions to establish how familiar you might be with the particulars of the case (neighborhood, defendant, witnesses, nature of the crime, etc ). After I 'passed,' I was asked what I did for a job (web dev.) but it had no impact. I was Juror #1 for 5 days.
Most of the trial was, however, a large waste of time. Had we started at 9am every day, shrunk the 2 hour lunches to 1 hour, cut down on pointless evidence and circular questioning by the attorneys, it would have taken 3 days instead of 5. Had the defendant pled out as he should have based on the evidence at hand, there would have been no trial at all.
Thankfully I still get paid for jury duty, so no big loss, though I did miss out on some training that week. It was interesting nonetheless, but could have been handled more efficiently at times.
Why pass it? Why not just roll it down the hall?
Same here. I got laid off, then the next day we had to schlep to the company holiday party at the most expensive hotel in DC. We then witnessed the owner corner our other co-worker alone at a table and proceed to drop the axe on him in front of everyone. charming.
It's probably a bit dated by now, but you might also check out Great Teaching in the One Computer Classroom by David Dockterman. From what I can recall (read it wayyy back in grad school), it had a few decent basic, practical applications. I think he might also have another newer book available at Tom Snyder. (nice Co., btw, if you're looking for other decent educational software & resources.)
Sounds great -- thanks for the info (esp. for the haggling tip -- I always haggle at flea markets, but actual stores aren't always so keen on it..)
At last, an alternative to the wasteland of Buckland hills mall....
Hey -- is this place seriously any good?
My in-laws live in central CT. Always looking for a worthwhile excursion the next time we're visiting.
thanks...
IANALBMSILI (IANAL but my sister-in-law is...)
Anyway, ran some of these issues past her(she's a trademark attorney, so knows a bit about copyright issues..):
1. The Co. in question is buying and editing legal copies, not selling pirated versions, etc..
2. Consumer's right to modify media they own
Here's what she said:
----
defense founded on the first sale doctrine (this doctrine says that a copyright holder's right to distribute its copyrighted work is limited to the
first sale - this is why it is legitimate for there to be used book/cd stores, etc.).
But, I don't think the first-sale doctrine would give them a free ride here because they are impacting two rights of a copyright holder (the right to distribute and the right to create derivative works). Because of this, I think the court would interpret the first-sale doctrine as covering only the re-sale of unaltered works/copies and would not extend it to the situation at hand.
As to the point that the copyright owner isn't losing money if people would only buy the edited copy, our professor drilled into us the point that it doesn't matter if the copyright owner doesn't have an edited copy of their own out there for sale (and perhaps never will) because he/she has the right to license to someone else the right to create the edited version. So, someone doing the editing without authorization (and for profit), is impacting the copyright owner's secondary market rights and potential profits if the copyright holder enters that secondary market. The courts do protect this, even if it seems that the copyright owner will not enter the market in the near future, etc.
The other argument - that editing requires skill is more interesting - perhaps if their entire business was structured so that consumers would mail in their copies with requested edits and then this company would perform the service.
To me this would be less clearly infringing, because the customer would have the right to do what they want with their purchased copy. But, where they are selling the finished, edited product to the customers directly, that smacks more of copyright infringement because they are producing a derivative work and then distributing it.
----
anyway, this thread's a day old and 800+ comments long -- nobody's going to read this now...
Actually, I think that was John Ashcroft.
They're not tracking books.... they're tracking patrons...
FYI, I submitted a story about Flea Markets & Swapfests a while back. All sorts of hamfests, surplus centers and the like were submitted:
Computer/Tech Flea Markets?
This was featured a while back. Someone was creating a similar archive of old BBS's. Surprised nobody else remembers it...
Every BBS That Ever Was
Had the same problem with the 6L, as I assume everyone who ever owned one has, but was actually pleasantly surprised by the free/no-questions-asked cardboard fix. It worked & it was free -- problem solved.
Anyway, half-assed solutions aside, I actually got a message some time back about a Class-Action suit regarding this defect:
http://laserjet.classaction.hp.young-america.com/
Haven't read the fine print, but seems like some customers might get up to $75 refunded...
Good old Slashdot -- the peanut gallery always outweighs the actual advice (OK, one or two exceptions: somebody mentioned GMU, which does at first glance appear to have a semi-decent program.)
Anyway, I can tell you from first hand experience that yes, what you have noticed is generally true. I went to the Harvard Grad. School of Ed. for the same kind of program. YMMV, but there was not much thought to newer technologies, and it was still very much mired in bulletin boards and such.
However, it focused more on core educational concepts, so you were generally free to apply those to whatever technologies you deemed fit. It was pretty free-form, so if you wanted to design your own independent research on the technology of your choice, go for it. Just don't expect anyone there to know squat about the tech. you choose.
You've really got to decide what you want to get out of the program: a foundation in educational theory with some intro on how to apply it to technology; an introduction to yesterday's educational technologies (perhaps formerly known as intructional technology); using technology in the classroom; etc.. All of these are available somewhere, but probably no single program offers everything.
Start with the bigger Graduate Schools in Education (Columbia, Michigan, Wisconsin, Harvard, come to mind), look at the faculty, the courses, and their research, and then broaden or narrow your search accordingly, but also look at related disciplines (media & communications, psych., etc..)-- the MIT Media Lab does some crazy stuff, for example. (and you can sometimes cross register from HGSE)
Talk to current students & alumni -- see what they're doing in school as well as where their careers went afterwards. Do these paths mirror where you see yourself?
Also, using the current web sites as a divining rod is not always the best practice. Seems like a good idea at first, but these sites often get left to the students to fix up, and who wants to bother with that when they're neck-deep in course work?
Good luck -- and watch those apostrophes.
IANAL, but my basic understanding of trademark law (related to, but still different from patent law) is that failure to defend a trademark in previous infrigements often invalidates any future lawsuits.
FYI, there are 2 Olin Foundations out there which some slashdotters may be familar with -- The FW Olin Foundation, which appears primarily concerned with furthering higher education in science, engineering, and business, and the more conservative John M Olin Foundation, which seems to specialize in throwing money at various right wing pundits.
a ltern atives/1998/june.htm
d ers/john_m_ol in_foundation.htm
FW Olin Foundation blurb: (scroll down to #8)
http://www.capitalresearch.org/publications/
John M Olin Foundation:
http://www.mediatransparency.org/fun
I think Rehoboth Beach is actually in Delaware, (unless there's one in VA as well, which I haven't heard of)...
but yes, there are at least 2-3 arcades along the boardwalk, and at least one has half-a-dozen pinball machines.
If a few pinball machines aren't a good enough reason for making the trek to Rehoboth, also be sure to check out the Dogfishhead Brewery/Distillery. Otherwise, aside from the beach (which I personally have no use for, but YMMV), there is no reason to put up with the traffic or the state of Delaware (the Mid-Atlantic's answer to New Hampshire).