If textbooks didn't cost 50$ and upwards apiece it wouldn't be so vitally important that I resell some to get a little money back.
The used textbook industry exists because us college kids by and large can't afford to just kiss a couple hundred bucks goodbye each semster on books we may not even keep around for reference (Statistics for Engineers? Differential Eqns? Cha-ching.)
The fact that the industry exists and is so full of activity is solely a result of the price point the publishers are operating at. Make it so that textbooks are so cheap that the hassle of reselling them isn't worth it, and people will buy new.
Second, and this might be a result of a university or department policy here, or something else, but in my experience the "logistical" type support for a textbook is nearly nil.
The most extra goodies I've seen a prof get are powerpoint slides (big reproduction cost there. Not.) and a CD of demo software included with the books themselves. My engineering professors would probably laugh in your face if you even used the word "test bank" in a sentance. Come to think of it I don't believe any of my classes have used anything other than professor made materials of any sort, save for slides that made use of in-book diagrams. Supplements have come with some books, but when you buy them used there's normally a stack of supplement packets there too because they're classed as separate items so you don't have to take both if you don't want them.
After seeing the amount of flatly incorrect answers in my engineering texts, I'm glad they revise every once in a while.
As long as they wait till after i've resold the book.;)
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Good point. I'd be pissed off if I bought an eBook for Network Theory I (the EE kind) and after it expired, found that i needed the same book for the second half of the class.
Was your major one that required a lot of working out of the book (exercises and whatnot)?
It seems like it would be a nightmare to have a set of textbooks in the library for something like a math or science or engineering class in which you'd have a fair bit of long assignments. Hitting the library is great for lecture type stuff, but I can't see it working in any situation where you need to refer to the text often.
As much money as wal marts lose in stolen merchandise it seems idiotic for htem to carry such a small high-dollar item. I wonder how many they actualyl *sell*
If the real reason you kept her around all day (as opposed to having her come in, do the work, and clock out) is so she could answer phones, why's it her fault that she didn't have other tasks to do after the 45 minutes of accounting work?
The way you make it sound is that she literally had no other tasks to perform (if this isn't hte case *please* correct me as it changes your story completely) --so what would you have had her do? start shampooing the carpet or something like that?
Blowing a 9mm hole in the skin of an airplane will cause nothing more dangerous than a draft. The plane will not magically explode, nor will the passengers run out of oxygen before the pilot can descend.
Lucky you. I'm in the middle of the largest city in the state (Charlotte, NC) and here verizon sucks. I'm within rock's throw of a major university and my signal bounces like a rubber ball, calls drop, the phone flat doesnt ring. Totally unacceptable service for a major population center.
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If textbooks didn't cost 50$ and upwards apiece it wouldn't be so vitally important that I resell some to get a little money back.
The used textbook industry exists because us college kids by and large can't afford to just kiss a couple hundred bucks goodbye each semster on books we may not even keep around for reference (Statistics for Engineers? Differential Eqns? Cha-ching.)
The fact that the industry exists and is so full of activity is solely a result of the price point the publishers are operating at. Make it so that textbooks are so cheap that the hassle of reselling them isn't worth it, and people will buy new.
Second, and this might be a result of a university or department policy here, or something else, but in my experience the "logistical" type support for a textbook is nearly nil.
The most extra goodies I've seen a prof get are powerpoint slides (big reproduction cost there. Not.) and a CD of demo software included with the books themselves. My engineering professors would probably laugh in your face if you even used the word "test bank" in a sentance. Come to think of it I don't believe any of my classes have used anything other than professor made materials of any sort, save for slides that made use of in-book diagrams. Supplements have come with some books, but when you buy them used there's normally a stack of supplement packets there too because they're classed as separate items so you don't have to take both if you don't want them.
After seeing the amount of flatly incorrect answers in my engineering texts, I'm glad they revise every once in a while.
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As long as they wait till after i've resold the book.
Good point. I'd be pissed off if I bought an eBook for Network Theory I (the EE kind) and after it expired, found that i needed the same book for the second half of the class.
In that situation I'd put it up on half.com. Odds are some school somewhere is still using it.
Was your major one that required a lot of working out of the book (exercises and whatnot)?
It seems like it would be a nightmare to have a set of textbooks in the library for something like a math or science or engineering class in which you'd have a fair bit of long assignments. Hitting the library is great for lecture type stuff, but I can't see it working in any situation where you need to refer to the text often.
Infastructure maybe? I can't iamgine what nextel might have that sprint doesnt though...
Imagine it really depends on how badly they need to meet their quota for the time period.
As much money as wal marts lose in stolen merchandise it seems idiotic for htem to carry such a small high-dollar item. I wonder how many they actualyl *sell*
Minor nitpick, I"d really dub eMachines the crappiest computers since packard bell. Compaq might be second place.
I enjoyed the last couple yeras, but the last couple months have sucked. Sluggy without Bun Bun is...boring.
*When is the last time that any of you actually held a three-lead transistor in your suspiciously sticky hands?*
:D </computer engineering student>
Couple months ago in lab actually
Since Google isn't party to the contract, why is it any of their concern whether the guy violates it or not?
Plenty of Europeans think that as well...
The idea that a math major isn't qualified to teach mathamatics is one that only a union operation with a government mandated monopoly could think up
I respectfully disagree. Being a major in a field doesn't mean you can educate others about it worth a damn.
If the real reason you kept her around all day (as opposed to having her come in, do the work, and clock out) is so she could answer phones, why's it her fault that she didn't have other tasks to do after the 45 minutes of accounting work?
The way you make it sound is that she literally had no other tasks to perform (if this isn't hte case *please* correct me as it changes your story completely) --so what would you have had her do? start shampooing the carpet or something like that?
Requiring more training could potentially make more "bad" teachers quit and do something they're more suited to.
Blowing a 9mm hole in the skin of an airplane will cause nothing more dangerous than a draft. The plane will not magically explode, nor will the passengers run out of oxygen before the pilot can descend.
let themselves be dragged mindlessly into the craze purely because it's a "cool" thing to do because everyone else does it.
;p
Some of us are drug into it because we work at a bookstore
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Lucky you. I'm in the middle of the largest city in the state (Charlotte, NC) and here verizon sucks. I'm within rock's throw of a major university and my signal bounces like a rubber ball, calls drop, the phone flat doesnt ring. Totally unacceptable service for a major population center.
Picked nit:
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The (SR-71) Blackbird was a recon aircraft. The F-117A Nighthawk is the bomber that gets the S-word associated with it most often
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...I'd rather try to censor DVDA porn with clown midgets than Neon Genesis Evangelion
That comparison made my day. Thank you SO very much.
(I agree btw. Censoring Eva without destroying the story will be impossible)
Which ep was that? I missed it ='(
If they contain those themes, are they kids shows then?
Does that include the "between the ears" reworking of the 5th? That's the one i'm really interested in