Tell that to the students whose tuition helps subsidize the cost of MIT's "free" course ware.
Sure thing - I know a couple. Truth is, they aren't subsidizing anything: the value is in professor interaction, and free courseware is just an advertisement for the college.
I've had textbooks in the last four years at City College of San Francisco that cost over $100! I don't care what the limited market is for a textbook, that price is simply nuts. It's a BOOK, for Christ's sakes!
Well there is some price gouging, but a lot of what you're seeing is the result of limited runs - something that sells 5000 copies and requires man years of effort to make will cost a lot more than if it sells 50,000 copies.
What I regret from college, with its $500/semester book budget is buying some of the books at all - we never used half of them, and I probably could've shared a book with someone else most of the rest of the time.
So I'm guessing that they trademarked his name, so that even when his art goes out of copyright, you won't be able to sell it under the Escher name, because it will still be trademarked (they don't expire).
Sure you can. 'This is a copy of a work by M C Escher' is a statement of fact.
I'm extremely amused by your Gov't bashing as well. Equating a crackdown on child porn with a coming assault on political speech is idiotic and without foundation
Don't you get it? Child porn is just an excuse. What they really want is access to your records.
Soon the children exploited will be so young that they won't even have been born or conceived yet.
It's worse than that - I have it on good authority that some people get off on having sex with children at the moment of conception! The sick bastards.
That's not actually a secret. However, if you think it is a secret, you think think that this is:
If they had to increase the salaries of their employees, they'd up the price of their goods.
From your post, it looked like you thought the store wouldn't raise salaries and allow a severe labor shortage. Yes, increased labor costs will increase prices, but it isn't 1:1 - you haven't increased manufacturer costs, rent, or utilities, which probably dominate the equation.
In the last 12 months it has gotten harder to hire great talent and there is a definite salary inflation situation going on right now because most great candidates are seeing multiple competing offers.
I know it may be a bit crass, but could you quanitfy that somewhat? If you want to narrow the field, maybe assume a developer with 8 years in C++ and Java on mostly server software and some project management experience.
... I'm guessing English 101 wasn't one of the classes.
Simple language means easy communication. It also means that you can say the same thing to a German (or in German) and be esily understood. Keep complicated phraseology for complicated concepts.
Java and C# are so similar it should no teven matter.
That's because C# started as J# (when Sun demanded they stop calling it java). The majority of the changes are gratuitous, although there are genuine improvements there too.
I hope he doesn't mind the extra 10 minute wait at the check-out at the local Wallmart (where a lone in-numerate hillbilly - the only person other than a desperate immigrant they could find to take the job - staffs the only open checkout and tries to work out if the thing they are trying to scan in is a courgette or cucumber).
I'll let you in on a secret (well, two). One, running a checkout station doesn't require much math skill - mostly the ability to wave stuff over a reader and pack bags properly. Two, if you raise the offered salary, more people will be willing to do the job.
Well, one more thing - running checkout isn't very high paid, but $10-$15/hr for a semi skilled position isn't bad.
This partisan stuff gets old, Kerry had a lower GPA at yale and can't pronounce "idea" instead pronouncing it "idear."
What I can't understand is why Lurch got nominated - is it because he came across as bland and inoffensive? Dean had a much better grasp of the issues and would have been a better president.
Wow, what an amazing stretch! Imagine the temerity of the USA expecting that an aggressor who had invaded a neighbor and been defeated, who obtained a cease fire under the condition of cooperation with the weapons inspectors (among other things), should actually be required to comply with the terms they'd promised!
I can certainly imagine the USA demanding full compliance even though they know it's flatly impossible, even to the point that they will manufacture noncompliance if necessary.
can't it be said that slavery is not wrong at all, and instead a vital institution for the good of the many?
Sure can. You could argue that prison labor is slavery in the old Roman sense - it's for a limited time, it's partially a repayment for wronging someone (though the romans did it for debt and to conquered people), and it's limited to the person in question. This sort of slavery (also known as indentured servitude) isn't always wrong, although it's illegal unless the government is doing it, as it doesn't dehumanize the person in question, and is limited in scope.
Nobody's saying that Saddam wasn't a bastard; he certainly was. What they're saying is that he was better than his neighbors and Iraq was quite a bit freer than the other countries in the region. The main reason we attacked them was oil. Everything else has been trumped up - the implied 9/11 link (even though he sent his condolences in the wake of the attacks, a lot of people thiink he had something to do with it), the WMD thing (remember when WMD meant nukes?), his being evil (lots of nasty guys out there, and a good number work for us). We wanted control of Iraq. Bush probably also wanted to distract from his poor handling of the domestic side of things - it's common to use a war to distract from homefront issues.
This is Slashdot. It is de rigeur that we criticize GWB early, often and continuously, even when it's patently obvious to anyone with more than a pea-brain that GWB was making a joke.
Oh come on - if the press can crucify Gore for claiming to have helped the internet get where it is, then we can flame GHB for making a stupid crack about iPods.
This would be a non-issue if they would market it as a "200GB/186GiB" drive.
They're dishonest, not stupid. If they marketed a drive as 186 GiB, they only people who'd buy it would be Quake junkies. Everybody else would stand around saying 'whut the hell is a Gib?' and rightly so. GiB is an entirely artificial unit that has no industry acceptance, except on slashdot.
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Can you actually name a situation where that happened??
Look up medieval guilds.
Tell that to the students whose tuition helps subsidize the cost of MIT's "free" course ware.
Sure thing - I know a couple. Truth is, they aren't subsidizing anything: the value is in professor interaction, and free courseware is just an advertisement for the college.
I've had textbooks in the last four years at City College of San Francisco that cost over $100! I don't care what the limited market is for a textbook, that price is simply nuts. It's a BOOK, for Christ's sakes!
Well there is some price gouging, but a lot of what you're seeing is the result of limited runs - something that sells 5000 copies and requires man years of effort to make will cost a lot more than if it sells 50,000 copies.
What I regret from college, with its $500/semester book budget is buying some of the books at all - we never used half of them, and I probably could've shared a book with someone else most of the rest of the time.
Is it just me or does it seem a bit bad idea in most cases where the data amount is small but traffic is high?
Yeah, you may as well partition your DB and be done with coordination.
So I'm guessing that they trademarked his name, so that even when his art goes out of copyright, you won't be able to sell it under the Escher name, because it will still be trademarked (they don't expire).
Sure you can. 'This is a copy of a work by M C Escher' is a statement of fact.
Nobody's forcing you to look at a website in high DPI, they're just enabling you to do so.
I get the feeling it's just another way to screw up a webpage.
I'm extremely amused by your Gov't bashing as well. Equating a crackdown on child porn with a coming assault on political speech is idiotic and without foundation
Don't you get it? Child porn is just an excuse. What they really want is access to your records.
Soon the children exploited will be so young that they won't even have been born or conceived yet.
It's worse than that - I have it on good authority that some people get off on having sex with children at the moment of conception! The sick bastards.
That's not actually a secret. However, if you think it is a secret, you think think that this is:
If they had to increase the salaries of their employees, they'd up the price of their goods.
From your post, it looked like you thought the store wouldn't raise salaries and allow a severe labor shortage. Yes, increased labor costs will increase prices, but it isn't 1:1 - you haven't increased manufacturer costs, rent, or utilities, which probably dominate the equation.
In the last 12 months it has gotten harder to hire great talent and there is a definite salary inflation situation going on right now because most great candidates are seeing multiple competing offers.
I know it may be a bit crass, but could you quanitfy that somewhat? If you want to narrow the field, maybe assume a developer with 8 years in C++ and Java on mostly server software and some project management experience.
:-)
Simple language means easy communication. It also means that you can say the same thing to a German (or in German) and be esily understood. Keep complicated phraseology for complicated concepts.
Java and C# are so similar it should no teven matter.
That's because C# started as J# (when Sun demanded they stop calling it java). The majority of the changes are gratuitous, although there are genuine improvements there too.
I hope he doesn't mind the extra 10 minute wait at the check-out at the local Wallmart (where a lone in-numerate hillbilly - the only person other than a desperate immigrant they could find to take the job - staffs the only open checkout and tries to work out if the thing they are trying to scan in is a courgette or cucumber).
I'll let you in on a secret (well, two). One, running a checkout station doesn't require much math skill - mostly the ability to wave stuff over a reader and pack bags properly. Two, if you raise the offered salary, more people will be willing to do the job.
Well, one more thing - running checkout isn't very high paid, but $10-$15/hr for a semi skilled position isn't bad.
If the French, West Germans and the Soviets jumped off a bridge, would you do it too?
Probably. If the french, the West Germans, and the Soviets can agree on something, it's probably the right thing to do.
Just wait until the server goes back up, apparently it's been heavily accessed.
That's a diplomatic way of saying fucked into a coma.
This partisan stuff gets old, Kerry had a lower GPA at yale and can't pronounce "idea" instead pronouncing it "idear."
What I can't understand is why Lurch got nominated - is it because he came across as bland and inoffensive? Dean had a much better grasp of the issues and would have been a better president.
Wow, what an amazing stretch! Imagine the temerity of the USA expecting that an aggressor who had invaded a neighbor and been defeated, who obtained a cease fire under the condition of cooperation with the weapons inspectors (among other things), should actually be required to comply with the terms they'd promised!
I can certainly imagine the USA demanding full compliance even though they know it's flatly impossible, even to the point that they will manufacture noncompliance if necessary.
can't it be said that slavery is not wrong at all, and instead a vital institution for the good of the many?
Sure can. You could argue that prison labor is slavery in the old Roman sense - it's for a limited time, it's partially a repayment for wronging someone (though the romans did it for debt and to conquered people), and it's limited to the person in question. This sort of slavery (also known as indentured servitude) isn't always wrong, although it's illegal unless the government is doing it, as it doesn't dehumanize the person in question, and is limited in scope.
So... who pushed to get the money appropriated for it?
Thank you for elaborating my point.
Nobody's saying that Saddam wasn't a bastard; he certainly was. What they're saying is that he was better than his neighbors and Iraq was quite a bit freer than the other countries in the region. The main reason we attacked them was oil. Everything else has been trumped up - the implied 9/11 link (even though he sent his condolences in the wake of the attacks, a lot of people thiink he had something to do with it), the WMD thing (remember when WMD meant nukes?), his being evil (lots of nasty guys out there, and a good number work for us). We wanted control of Iraq. Bush probably also wanted to distract from his poor handling of the domestic side of things - it's common to use a war to distract from homefront issues.
"George Bush invented the iPod!" Cheney invented the quad bypass!
This is Slashdot. It is de rigeur that we criticize GWB early, often and continuously, even when it's patently obvious to anyone with more than a pea-brain that GWB was making a joke.
Oh come on - if the press can crucify Gore for claiming to have helped the internet get where it is, then we can flame GHB for making a stupid crack about iPods.
This would be a non-issue if they would market it as a "200GB/186GiB" drive.
They're dishonest, not stupid. If they marketed a drive as 186 GiB, they only people who'd buy it would be Quake junkies. Everybody else would stand around saying 'whut the hell is a Gib?' and rightly so. GiB is an entirely artificial unit that has no industry acceptance, except on slashdot.
in 20 years time, everyone will use them, and you'll just have to adapt :)
Nah, you'll just have to deal. Kilobyte = 1024 bytes.
But setting that aside, I'll have you know that "Running to Stand Still" uses a whopping FOUR chords.
Too bad I have a tin ear and can't tell. I still like 'the Joshua Tree' and also quite a bit of what Roger Waters did solo.