What's next? Students sued because they're more popular than the unpopular students? "Sally only won home coming queen because she's a cheerleader and promiscuous! It's UNFAIR!"
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an interesting method of creating a secure paper trail
It's certainly interesting, but completely impractical. If people can't reliably punch a hole in a card, there's no way they can be expected to correctly follow these directions:
To vote FOR a candidate, you must fill in
exactly two of the bubbles on that candidate's row.
You may choose arbitrarily which two bubbles in
that row to fill in. (It doesn't matter, as all three
ballots will be cast.)
To vote AGAINST a candidate (i.e., to not vote
FOR the candidate, or to cast a "null" vote for
that candidate), you must fill in exactly one of the
bubbles on that candidate's row. You may choose
arbitrarily which bubble in that row to fill in. (It
doesn't matter, as all three ballots will be cast.)
You must fill in at least one bubble in each row;
your multi-ballot will not be accepted if a row is
left entirely blank.
You may not fill in all three bubbles in a row; your
multi-ballot will not be accepted if a row has all
three bubbles filled in.
You may vote FOR at most one candidate per
race, unless indicated otherwise (In some races, you
are allowed to vote FOR several candidates, up to
a specified maximum number.) It is OK to vote
AGAINST all candidates.
"... one has to wonder whether these meat machines will become the source of cheap meat for the massive underclass of the future. The rich will dine on corn-fed Iowa beef while the poor masses slave away in the underground factories, lunching on cultured meat tumor-chow laced with obedience-enhancing drugs. It seems almost inevitable.
Surely it doesn't take $120 to make Mitchell's Machine Learning--it's such a tiny book!
Especially now that Print On Demand technology enables the publisher to do single-copy hardback press runs, keep the retail price below fifty bucks and still make a profit. The tech publishers are just screwing you.
Back in 1991 Fiorella Tirenzi created music based on radio astronomy data. I'm betting she's easier to look at than the folks who produced the stock market music.
the fine art of making change without a computer telling what the change is disappeared a long time ago.
Not everywhere. PFYs at McDonalds look at you blankly when you hand them $10.06 for a charge of $8.81, but the Vietnamese or Pakistani folks working convenience store registers don't even blink as they hand you back the $1.25.
I doubt that Steve Jobs would risk his iPod profits in pursuing a lawsuit against the labels.
Keep in mind that this is the guy who got Microsoft to a) invest $150 million in Apple; and b) promise to continue developing Office for the Mac. Granted, MSFT was over a barrel because of the monopoly thing, but the *AA are facing a similar PR debacle. I don't believe they can force Jobs to increase prices, especially since Apple makes the vast bulk of its music profits on iPod hardware sales, not on iTMS revenues. Apple may in fact increase prices, but I doubt it will be because of pressure from the music industry.
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That seriously reads like the spam that's been getting past Gmail's filters in the past couple months.
Yeah, when asshole spammers quote great literature it fools the filters. Once or twice.
What's next? Students sued because they're more popular than the unpopular students? "Sally only won home coming queen because she's a cheerleader and promiscuous! It's UNFAIR!"
[The ballerinas] weren't really very good - no better than anybody else would have been, anyway. They were burdened with sashweights and bags of birdshot, and their faces were masked, so that no one, seeing a free and graceful gesture or a pretty face, would feel like something the cat drug in.
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<shameless-plug>You might benefit from this SAT prep book that I am affiliated with. It covers all aspects of the test, but focuses on the verbal section (which most people find more difficult to improve than the math section).</shameless-plug>an interesting method of creating a secure paper trail
It's certainly interesting, but completely impractical. If people can't reliably punch a hole in a card, there's no way they can be expected to correctly follow these directions:
Tomorrow, I suppose I'm just going to live on a chip.
Maybe not tomorrow, but relatively soon.
What the fuck was Al Gore doing to combat this when he was in power?
Urging the world to adopt the Kyoto Accords, maybe?
Damn Interesting ran an article last year about NASA research into vat-grown meat for long space journeys. It points out that "meat developed in this way is essentially a cultured muscle tumor", and so isn't very appetizing:
play a generic "master, an intruder was detected--preparing countermeasures now. ready in 67 seconds
Still too wimpy. How about "Drop your weapon. You have ten seconds to comply."
Do they cure it by reversing the polarity of Jordie's visor
Pffft. Everybody knows you can fix anything by simply adjusting the Heisenberg compensators.
I don't believe Apple has the cash laying around to just do a hostile takeover.
Apple has over 8 billion dollars in cash. Creative has a market capitalization of 452 million dollars. Apple could buy them with the equivalent of the change they found between the couch cushions.
it's near impossible (I've been unable to find) reviews of quantifiable components such as interconnection cables.
Well, my friend, you just haven't been looking hard enough. Scroll down for cable reviews.
Um, isn't it pronounced "eloel"? I don't have a teenage girl handy to ask.
Too bad The Dialectizer throws up an interstitial page when you provide a dialectized page.
Surely it doesn't take $120 to make Mitchell's Machine Learning--it's such a tiny book!
Especially now that Print On Demand technology enables the publisher to do single-copy hardback press runs, keep the retail price below fifty bucks and still make a profit. The tech publishers are just screwing you.
Back in 1991 Fiorella Tirenzi created music based on radio astronomy data. I'm betting she's easier to look at than the folks who produced the stock market music.
Was anyone else offended/confused that Ars Technica writes an article with Judge James Ware in it yet puts a picture up of Judge Judy?
I took it as an editorial comment on the merits of the case, actually.
Sennheiser HD433 that sounds great and is a bargain. Open back, so ambient noise intrudes with volume down. Around 30 bucks, I think.
this is not something to dive into lightly, as it requires rigid scheduling
Pfft. Just have a kid. I guarantee that at least one parent will automatically do this.
the fine art of making change without a computer telling what the change is disappeared a long time ago.
Not everywhere. PFYs at McDonalds look at you blankly when you hand them $10.06 for a charge of $8.81, but the Vietnamese or Pakistani folks working convenience store registers don't even blink as they hand you back the $1.25.
"Why are you counting my money, just give me what the register says." -Young people
Or, as a student said in one of my BSEET math classes: "You can't divide by zero. The calculator says 'ERROR'."
The internet has proven that pay services don't work if the service was free initially.
Ah, that explains why the iTunes Music Store has failed so miserably.
Monster Cable? Feh. Their power cords are only 100 bucks.
This is the ticket: the US$1500 power cable.
Whoops, old review. The new improved model of that cord goes for US$2200.
Exactly when was it that my country decide to abdicate rationality in favor of wanton superstition, reprehensible pseudoscience, and gross ignorance?
Keep in mind that our country was settled by people too uptight for the Brits to put up with.
I doubt that Steve Jobs would risk his iPod profits in pursuing a lawsuit against the labels.
Keep in mind that this is the guy who got Microsoft to a) invest $150 million in Apple; and b) promise to continue developing Office for the Mac. Granted, MSFT was over a barrel because of the monopoly thing, but the *AA are facing a similar PR debacle. I don't believe they can force Jobs to increase prices, especially since Apple makes the vast bulk of its music profits on iPod hardware sales, not on iTMS revenues. Apple may in fact increase prices, but I doubt it will be because of pressure from the music industry.