Heres how I've managed to avoid buying more than the bare minimum of textbooks over the last three years of tertiary study:
Wait several weeks before even thinking about buying a text, often I've found texts mentioned in introductory lectures as 'mandatory' or 'highly recomended' are actually rarely used throughout the course.
Make friends with a student one year ahead of you and borrow books they used last year for a semester.
Check out the library. At my university it's common practice for a lecturer to ensure that one or two copies of any mandatory text are available for borrowing. More often than not they are in the short loans section so you can't borrow them for long term study but it's perfectly fine for completing an exercise or two or photocopying a chapter (sometimes older editions are available for normal borrowing).
Buy co-operatively. You can share the cost of a text over several students and then sell the book off at the end of the semester. As long as everyone plays nicely and avoids last minute rushes this works accpetably well.
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... or someone that wants firstly a decent phone and secondly a games console. Seriously, have you seen how you've gotta hold the N-Gage to actually talk?
Not exactly. *.com.au is intended to be used by commercial entities, so restricting it in this way makes sense. Non-commercial entities are free to register *.net.au, *.org.au etc etc. In fact *.id.au is also available especially for individuals.
The web pages you are watching are served by a web server running under the Contiki operating system on an an Ethernut embedded Ethernet board, which consists of a 14 MHz AVR Atmega128 microcontroller with 32 kilobytes of RAM and 128 kilobytes of flash ROM, and a RealTek RTL8019AS Ethernet chip.:)
I've actually done this (as I'm sure others have) with plain old methylated spirits in the palm of my hand. Excellent way to entertain yourself around a campfire.
Wouldn't Bluetooth be a better way of achieving this? If they were to make the cars recieve they're control via Bluetooth, any Bluetooth device (including phones) with the appropriate software could control them. This would mean your not tied into buying a particular phone for what is nothing more than a gimmick (albeit an incredibly cool gimmick).
Of course I make this with no real understanding of the latency involved in Bluetooth or the cost of a reciever (although I do remember it was originally supposed to be cheap enough to embed in everything).
Well that's cool, but what if you can't afford doormen, deliveries, handymen, restaurants (most of the time), cabs, etc ?
I reckon the $10000US your likely to spend on a decent car would pretty much cover it.
We actually did pretty much the same thing for a 'Design and Technology' project in high school. The team who got their car to go the furthest won a small cash prize. Of course on our side of the planet there's this thing called aerodynamics so the bottles were mounted horizontally. Beyond that the only secret to getting maximum velocity out of these things is to experiment and find the optimum volume of water, so that you run out of proppellant at the same time as the pressure runs out.
The troll mod was for blatant generalisation (My tax dollars should be supporting my family and friends and countrymen, not some "refugees" who didn't bother applying for visas and can't back up their claims of discrimination in their own country.) not political opinion. Posting as an AC doesn't really help your cause either.
I agree with you completely, however....
Any member of the public also has the right to publicly state that they believe what you are doing is immoral, organise boycotts against the business or apply pressure by any other means that lies within the law.
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I'm sure there's a joke involving Schrodinger in this somewhere...
Not that it really matters, but I seem to remember the Game and Watches being fairly popular.
For the complete cheesey mad scientist effect build a Jacobs Ladder.
By doing that you're still breaking the license agreement so it's really no better than pirating them.
Agreed. Then again, not playing 'Crash and Burn' by Savage Garden is a good idea in pretty much any situation.
(Either that or 'Very Frickin Scary').
If your going to flush with your elbow, wouldn't washing your elbow also be a good idea?
Seems the pornographers are onto this one. A search for 'DSC_' on Kazaa and came up with a bunch of very commercial looking porn with site addresses.
You sir are an idiot.
... or someone that wants firstly a decent phone and secondly a games console. Seriously, have you seen how you've gotta hold the N-Gage to actually talk?
I just don't understand how incredibly boring your life has to be to TROLL WITH SHIT LIKE THIS.
Not exactly. *.com.au is intended to be used by commercial entities, so restricting it in this way makes sense. Non-commercial entities are free to register *.net.au, *.org.au etc etc. In fact *.id.au is also available especially for individuals.
The web pages you are watching are served by a web server running under the Contiki operating system on an an Ethernut embedded Ethernet board, which consists of a 14 MHz AVR Atmega128 microcontroller with 32 kilobytes of RAM and 128 kilobytes of flash ROM, and a RealTek RTL8019AS Ethernet chip. :)
I've actually done this (as I'm sure others have) with plain old methylated spirits in the palm of my hand. Excellent way to entertain yourself around a campfire.
hmmm fair enough (but slightly exagerrated) point.
Although from my experience with micro RC (not IR as this seems to be dealing with) cars the range is never much better than a few meters anyway.
Wouldn't Bluetooth be a better way of achieving this? If they were to make the cars recieve they're control via Bluetooth, any Bluetooth device (including phones) with the appropriate software could control them. This would mean your not tied into buying a particular phone for what is nothing more than a gimmick (albeit an incredibly cool gimmick). Of course I make this with no real understanding of the latency involved in Bluetooth or the cost of a reciever (although I do remember it was originally supposed to be cheap enough to embed in everything).
Well that's cool, but what if you can't afford doormen, deliveries, handymen, restaurants (most of the time), cabs, etc ? I reckon the $10000US your likely to spend on a decent car would pretty much cover it.
GBA SP has a backlit screen. Frontlit actually
We actually did pretty much the same thing for a 'Design and Technology' project in high school. The team who got their car to go the furthest won a small cash prize. Of course on our side of the planet there's this thing called aerodynamics so the bottles were mounted horizontally. Beyond that the only secret to getting maximum velocity out of these things is to experiment and find the optimum volume of water, so that you run out of proppellant at the same time as the pressure runs out.
The troll mod was for blatant generalisation (My tax dollars should be supporting my family and friends and countrymen, not some "refugees" who didn't bother applying for visas and can't back up their claims of discrimination in their own country.) not political opinion. Posting as an AC doesn't really help your cause either.
I agree with you completely, however.... Any member of the public also has the right to publicly state that they believe what you are doing is immoral, organise boycotts against the business or apply pressure by any other means that lies within the law.
Well that'll certainly improve the rate at which I can get dressed of a morninng....
I only read 1984 12 months or so ago, but for some reason that passsage seems a lot closer to home than it did then.
Actually, I would find a player that can do both OGG and WMA much more useful than a player compatible with just OGG.