You can teach how to plow a field without words, but not why the field should be plowed. If the concept of agriculture is unknown it will take months to explain without words because it will have to be observed throughout a full season!
Are these the same guys that operated out of Spain originally? At least some of the MP3s I bought from a Spanish website have www.allofmp3.com in the tags.
I can't remember the name of the website though, and it's long gone now. I just saw www.allofmp3.com in the tags the other day, and it made me wonder.
Britannica offered a free online service. It was very useful, and the articles were 1st rate but then they started to charge for it. That's understandable in some ways, but in a web where most stuff is free, who is going to fork out for something they look at once in a while?
Universities. Libraries. Govt. agencies. Newspapers. TV stations. etc.
That is because US politicians put such a premium on principles that they are unable to be pragmatic even when that would be advantageous to everyone involved.
you had more reasonable taxation...we'd be more willing to pay them
That's just too naive. People always complain about taxes, no matter how small.
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13 years ago I lived with a doctor's family in a small Spanish village. The doctor told me that whenever on of the two village hypochondriacs showed up he would give him or her a thorough checkup and then send him home with a few salt tablets. Then they would stay away for few months before coming back for the same treatment.
It may seem unprofessional, but it also seemed to work. It calmed the fears of these people, and made sure that they didn't put pressure on the doctor as hypochondriacs often do when rejected.
The last 3 version of office have been cross compatible with each other just fine. We're talking 7 years of backwards compatibility.
This is factually incorrect. MS Access changed file formats between 97 and 2000.
And then there are those occasional inexplicable errors when opening Word documents. As for the other Office applications, I don't use them, so I can't really say.
Which is actually Danish and means "I don't think it matters if you smell a little of piss".
I think someone has been having some fun with teaching Bender Unit 22 some bogus Danish phrases. Or he has gotten his hands on a Monty Python dictionary.
I replaced my Palm with my cell phone. Syncing address book and calendar through Bluetooth is effortless, and the phone is half the size and weight of the Palm... and I always bring the phone anyway.
The only advantage the Palm retains for me is that I can't use my phone as a PDA without turning it on - and that is not always appropriate (in class or at meetings etc.)
Well then, the responsibility lies with the reader to look at the information for what it really is: a collection of opinions without full context, rather than a factual, discrete rating of the instructor.
Come one, do you really believe that 18 year old students are mature enough to do that? Then you go to a very different university than I did! Maybe they could do that after a couple of years as students, but certainly not at first.
But you still need to get people of their lazy asses and go vote! That's where Dean's campaign broke down. His cyberspace supporters had little impact in meatspace.
But in this case we're talking about the lifespan of the medium. I also have a large number of old recordings, and I have had to buy a number of them more than once because my copies of the medium (LPs and CD) did not last. So DRMed files are not necessarily any worse than what the records we already buy.
Files without DRM are obviously better, but is this really a much worse offering than what we already get?
But on the other hand, how many records do you play that you bought 20 years ago? 50? 100?
I think we're forgetting how recent most of our music is and how many LPs and CDs we have broken. Let's try to keep thing in perspective and not expect our files to survive 100 years.
When I had to go back from a laptop to a desktop machine at work my CT came back after having felt fine for years. Eventually I managed to get a touchpad for desktop use. It really does make a great difference to not use a mouse!
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You can teach how to plow a field without words, but not why the field should be plowed. If the concept of agriculture is unknown it will take months to explain without words because it will have to be observed throughout a full season!
Are these the same guys that operated out of Spain originally? At least some of the MP3s I bought from a Spanish website have www.allofmp3.com in the tags.
I can't remember the name of the website though, and it's long gone now. I just saw www.allofmp3.com in the tags the other day, and it made me wonder.
Endnote 7 works with OO for Mac and Windows if you save as RTF.
would this be modded "informative"
Current thinking isn't that a nova will destroy the Earth... the Sci-Fi books that have the Sun exploding are just plain wrong
Okay, to say that the Sci-Fi books "are just plain wrong" because they conflict with "current thinking" is a bit too strong, isn't it?
How do you know he hasn't? There are links to reaaltors selling these things in this thread.
Yes it is, but probably not for more than a handful, and only in some of the major languages at that.
Britannica offered a free online service. It was very useful, and the articles were 1st rate but then they started to charge for it. That's understandable in some ways, but in a web where most stuff is free, who is going to fork out for something they look at once in a while?
Universities.
Libraries.
Govt. agencies.
Newspapers.
TV stations.
etc.
Looks like he had a hamster-controlled webserver too!
That is because US politicians put such a premium on principles that they are unable to be pragmatic even when that would be advantageous to everyone involved.
you had more reasonable taxation...we'd be more willing to pay them
That's just too naive. People always complain about taxes, no matter how small.
13 years ago I lived with a doctor's family in a small Spanish village. The doctor told me that whenever on of the two village hypochondriacs showed up he would give him or her a thorough checkup and then send him home with a few salt tablets. Then they would stay away for few months before coming back for the same treatment.
It may seem unprofessional, but it also seemed to work. It calmed the fears of these people, and made sure that they didn't put pressure on the doctor as hypochondriacs often do when rejected.
The last 3 version of office have been cross compatible with each other just fine. We're talking 7 years of backwards compatibility.
This is factually incorrect. MS Access changed file formats between 97 and 2000.
And then there are those occasional inexplicable errors when opening Word documents. As for the other Office applications, I don't use them, so I can't really say.
Ah, but not even Microsoft Office is 100% compatible with Microsoft Office!
Someone please post a BitTorrent. Please?
Which is actually Danish and means "I don't think it matters if you smell a little of piss".
I think someone has been having some fun with teaching Bender Unit 22 some bogus Danish phrases. Or he has gotten his hands on a Monty Python dictionary.
Theat's why a proper academic book has an index! (Though in some countries - Spain - they don't.)
Great idea! Someone should make one that installs SCO UNIX so we could blame them for this too!
I replaced my Palm with my cell phone. Syncing address book and calendar through Bluetooth is effortless, and the phone is half the size and weight of the Palm... and I always bring the phone anyway.
The only advantage the Palm retains for me is that I can't use my phone as a PDA without turning it on - and that is not always appropriate (in class or at meetings etc.)
the professor filled out the forms himself (with very high ratings, of course).
Slaps forehead. Why didn't I think of that! I should take out a patent - see if anyone dares to claim prior art.
Well then, the responsibility lies with the reader to look at the information for what it really is: a collection of opinions without full context, rather than a factual, discrete rating of the instructor.
Come one, do you really believe that 18 year old students are mature enough to do that? Then you go to a very different university than I did! Maybe they could do that after a couple of years as students, but certainly not at first.
But you still need to get people of their lazy asses and go vote! That's where Dean's campaign broke down. His cyberspace supporters had little impact in meatspace.
But in this case we're talking about the lifespan of the medium. I also have a large number of old recordings, and I have had to buy a number of them more than once because my copies of the medium (LPs and CD) did not last. So DRMed files are not necessarily any worse than what the records we already buy.
Files without DRM are obviously better, but is this really a much worse offering than what we already get?
But on the other hand, how many records do you play that you bought 20 years ago? 50? 100?
I think we're forgetting how recent most of our music is and how many LPs and CDs we have broken. Let's try to keep thing in perspective and not expect our files to survive 100 years.
When I had to go back from a laptop to a desktop machine at work my CT came back after having felt fine for years. Eventually I managed to get a touchpad for desktop use. It really does make a great difference to not use a mouse!