Like what if you never downloaded anythnig, and sent in the stuff anyway? I can't seem to find the document that you have to sign, but it'd be interesting to see what would happen in this case.
"However, I have highlighted passages in books in case I wanted to return to them later... does an ebook let me do that?"
I don't know of any systems that do at the moment, but there's no technical reason it couldn't be done. I also thought of a good idea for eletronic textbooks after I posted; you could have it check answers to questions, and maybe at some point even analyze work and offer suggestions. And randomly generate questions so there wouldn't be a fixed number. The possibilities are endless. (There are systems that do this now, but to a lesser extent than I envision, and it would be possible this way to package it with a book.) Hypertext would also become possible; the main reason I prefer electronic encyclopedias and dictionaries is that whenever there's a "see this-and-that" it's usually clickable so I don't have to manually search for a chain of entries.
"On the other hand, until electronic readers are cheaper than digital watches, lighter than paperbacks, and offer a 1200dpi paperwhite display, I'll take my books in dead tree format, thank you!"
The display is the main drawback of e-texts. I don't like reading for long periods off of my CRT which runs at 1600x1200, so the display would have to be pretty darn good.
OTOH, I wouldn't mind an initial investment, especially if printing and distribution costs would be removed from the price of the books themselves. My focus (as someone else points out) is mainly on textbooks, where this would be even less of an issue. With $400-$500 in books each semester already (this semester I paid $480), say a $500 reader the first semester wouldn't be as unbearable as it first seems.
It depends on the format, but they could be searchable. Ever have a book where you want to find the exact wording of a quote, or want to look up something in a book that has a crummy index? Just search. Also convienience; if I had a good reader (very clear screen) I'd much rather carry that around than a couple 1000-page textbooks.
BTW: the classifications into technical and management reccomendations is my own; in the actual report they are mixed together based on where they are discussed in the text.
"The CAIB's citing of a "culture" problem marks an important step. People are no longer looking just at technology, but at the organization that creates and uses the technology."
The Challenger report* also significantly critized the organization of NASA, though they didn't use the word "culture" per se. Of the report however, only one chapter was on the technical aspects of the accident, while two (one of which was longer than the technical one) examined two different management issues.
The commission gave 9 reccomendations. Here's how they broke down: -Only one was in an area concerned with the accident proper: fix the O-rings -Four more were in other "technical" areas: review criticality 1 and 2 components (those whose loss would likely destroy the shuttle), improve the landing systems (the runways, not parts on the shuttle), "make every effort" to provide an escape system, and increase maintainence. -*Four more* were in management areas: put astronauts in management (presumably they would feel more accountable to the safety of the crew), have an office for safety that oversees the entire program, eliminate "management isolation" (managers not talking to one another), and slow its attempted flight rate (NASA wanted 2/month in the early days to prove the shuttle was worth its cost).
So looking at management is not a new thing here.
*The full title is Report to the President, by the Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident... how's that for a governmental report title?
OK then... that answers the story poster's question about whether Linux is inherantly more secure than Windows: no, because it's security depends on the people running it.
It opens the door for other sources though. Say for instance we *finally* get a working fusion reactor, and they spread. At this point we should have power out the wazoo, so it becomes more expensive to extract hydrogen from natural gas and the decreased efficiency doesn't really matter.
There are many collaborations between US channels and the BBC. TLC's Trading Spaces comes from BBC's Changing Rooms, TLC ran BBC News some of the time following the September 11 terrorism; they aren't tax-funded, but probably PBS and NPR do some collaboration as well.
I can say that, despite the fact that I don't even live in Europe, if I can download the entire Monty Python and Hittchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series, the BBC will get a (small; I'm in college) amount of money in the mail from me.
"'The chance that a HPHTP pipe will burst is 10^-7.' You can't estimate things like that; a probability of one 1 10,000,000 is almost impossible to estimate." -Richard Feynman, _What Do You Care What Other People Think_, p. 183
Incidentally, this "1 billion to one" sounds like it could be similar to the whole discrepancy between what engineers thought the odds of a Space Shuttle disaster was (ranging from 100:1 to 300:1) and what management thought the odds of a Space Shuttle disaster was (100,000:1).
I wonder if the programmers of Diabold are sitting around knowing the probability is 100:1 here and are not saying anything.
It's called investigation... the same way they would find out who murdered someone, or who broke into a house, or who kidnapped some kid. There IS plenty that can be done without running afoul of the search and seizure clause...
Besides, that is void anyway with an appropriate warrant; who's to say they don't have one?
"The ONLY thing wrong with third party accessories is that the Original Equipment Manufacturer doesn't make a buck out of it."
Right, which is why the refilled ink cartriges I used a while ago were as good of quality to the HP ones. The refilled ones didn't have a habit of smearing as they came out, nor did they give a lighter print, nor did the ink in them dry out in the print heads preventing the rest of the ink from being used.
Or why I've heard of replacement batteries causing cell phones to burn up on two separate occasions (and while I didn't read this particular article, another that was on Fark said it's been known to happen before with 3rd party batteries) and with the manufacturer's batteries... uh... never.
3rd party things *can* be just as good as the original, and even incidents like the above shouldn't make manufactuers stop allowing them (like Lexmark...). But face it... very often, the 3rd party stuff just isn't as good as the "real thing." Not all of the price overhead is just scalping; you often get a better product.
I have now. I saw the DVD of Fellowship (not in theaters) like Octoberish, then TTT in the theaters. I decided that I couldn't wait until this December to find out how it ends (ok, so I had a pretty good idea that (SPOILER: Gollum went down with the ring, but not much more) so decided I must read RotK. And of course you can't read the final installment with only the movies as background...
But yeah, if someone else is reading this who hasn't read LotR, I reccommend it. It goes pretty quickly actually; it's not hard reading, so don't let the length scare you away. (I'm lazy and not a reader, so reading a 1000 pg book, even though I kinda wanted to, wasn't too appealing.)
You're right about Star Wars, but the additions to Fellowship were nothing like that. It's been a while since I saw the film and even longer since the theatrical release, so I googled for a list of the added scenes. This was the closest thing I found: http://www.theonering.net/perl/newsview/2/10318586 89
I'd say in general, there's just more background information. Like Bilbo writes at the beginning (and reads what he's writing in the film like a narration) some background information on Hobbits and their habits and stuff, there's some more background on Aragorn and Arwyn, there's scenes of the Lady Galadrial giving gifts to the fellowship. For those who haven't read the books, the background makes many things clearer (though another watching certainly didn't hurt), while for those who have (of which I now have), it provides many scenes that were notably missing (like the gift scenes).
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Pet Peeve #23959: People who whine about gas milage of anything who do not ride infinity mpg feet or bikes instead.
Like what if you never downloaded anythnig, and sent in the stuff anyway? I can't seem to find the document that you have to sign, but it'd be interesting to see what would happen in this case.
"However, I have highlighted passages in books in case I wanted to return to them later... does an ebook let me do that?"
I don't know of any systems that do at the moment, but there's no technical reason it couldn't be done. I also thought of a good idea for eletronic textbooks after I posted; you could have it check answers to questions, and maybe at some point even analyze work and offer suggestions. And randomly generate questions so there wouldn't be a fixed number. The possibilities are endless. (There are systems that do this now, but to a lesser extent than I envision, and it would be possible this way to package it with a book.) Hypertext would also become possible; the main reason I prefer electronic encyclopedias and dictionaries is that whenever there's a "see this-and-that" it's usually clickable so I don't have to manually search for a chain of entries.
"On the other hand, until electronic readers are cheaper than digital watches, lighter than paperbacks, and offer a 1200dpi paperwhite display, I'll take my books in dead tree format, thank you!"
The display is the main drawback of e-texts. I don't like reading for long periods off of my CRT which runs at 1600x1200, so the display would have to be pretty darn good.
OTOH, I wouldn't mind an initial investment, especially if printing and distribution costs would be removed from the price of the books themselves. My focus (as someone else points out) is mainly on textbooks, where this would be even less of an issue. With $400-$500 in books each semester already (this semester I paid $480), say a $500 reader the first semester wouldn't be as unbearable as it first seems.
It depends on the format, but they could be searchable. Ever have a book where you want to find the exact wording of a quote, or want to look up something in a book that has a crummy index? Just search. Also convienience; if I had a good reader (very clear screen) I'd much rather carry that around than a couple 1000-page textbooks.
This is NOT a troll. You may not agree, but it is not a troll.
Almost same here, though they are from '98 instead and I took them out a couple days ago because they corroded...
BTW: the classifications into technical and management reccomendations is my own; in the actual report they are mixed together based on where they are discussed in the text.
"The CAIB's citing of a "culture" problem marks an important step. People are no longer looking just at technology, but at the organization that creates and uses the technology."
The Challenger report* also significantly critized the organization of NASA, though they didn't use the word "culture" per se. Of the report however, only one chapter was on the technical aspects of the accident, while two (one of which was longer than the technical one) examined two different management issues.
The commission gave 9 reccomendations. Here's how they broke down:
-Only one was in an area concerned with the accident proper: fix the O-rings
-Four more were in other "technical" areas: review criticality 1 and 2 components (those whose loss would likely destroy the shuttle), improve the landing systems (the runways, not parts on the shuttle), "make every effort" to provide an escape system, and increase maintainence.
-*Four more* were in management areas: put astronauts in management (presumably they would feel more accountable to the safety of the crew), have an office for safety that oversees the entire program, eliminate "management isolation" (managers not talking to one another), and slow its attempted flight rate (NASA wanted 2/month in the early days to prove the shuttle was worth its cost).
So looking at management is not a new thing here.
*The full title is Report to the President, by the Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident... how's that for a governmental report title?
OK then... that answers the story poster's question about whether Linux is inherantly more secure than Windows: no, because it's security depends on the people running it.
I've been waiting to use this...
"Not only was this comparison easy to make, but it is apparent from the figure that apples and oranges are very similar."
It opens the door for other sources though. Say for instance we *finally* get a working fusion reactor, and they spread. At this point we should have power out the wazoo, so it becomes more expensive to extract hydrogen from natural gas and the decreased efficiency doesn't really matter.
I believe this paper may have gotten the authors an Ig Nobel prize.
There are many collaborations between US channels and the BBC. TLC's Trading Spaces comes from BBC's Changing Rooms, TLC ran BBC News some of the time following the September 11 terrorism; they aren't tax-funded, but probably PBS and NPR do some collaboration as well.
I can say that, despite the fact that I don't even live in Europe, if I can download the entire Monty Python and Hittchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series, the BBC will get a (small; I'm in college) amount of money in the mail from me.
>>I want my Monty Python...
Don't forget the Hitchhiker's miniseries. "Ford, you're turning into a penguin. Stop it."
Then don't use it... I doubt the original poster is suggesting that BitTorrent would be the *only* method of distribution.
"I just converted to a windowless house."
I've always wanted to have one underground... Does it same you on heating/cooling bills?
(Sorry, but that was too easy to pass up)
"'The chance that a HPHTP pipe will burst is 10^-7.' You can't estimate things like that; a probability of one 1 10,000,000 is almost impossible to estimate."
-Richard Feynman, _What Do You Care What Other People Think_, p. 183
Incidentally, this "1 billion to one" sounds like it could be similar to the whole discrepancy between what engineers thought the odds of a Space Shuttle disaster was (ranging from 100:1 to 300:1) and what management thought the odds of a Space Shuttle disaster was (100,000:1).
I wonder if the programmers of Diabold are sitting around knowing the probability is 100:1 here and are not saying anything.
Which is why you don't actually have a long strip, but you do still print out a paper ballot which you hand into a box just like today.
It's called investigation... the same way they would find out who murdered someone, or who broke into a house, or who kidnapped some kid. There IS plenty that can be done without running afoul of the search and seizure clause...
Besides, that is void anyway with an appropriate warrant; who's to say they don't have one?
"The ONLY thing wrong with third party accessories is that the Original Equipment Manufacturer doesn't make a buck out of it."
Right, which is why the refilled ink cartriges I used a while ago were as good of quality to the HP ones. The refilled ones didn't have a habit of smearing as they came out, nor did they give a lighter print, nor did the ink in them dry out in the print heads preventing the rest of the ink from being used.
Or why I've heard of replacement batteries causing cell phones to burn up on two separate occasions (and while I didn't read this particular article, another that was on Fark said it's been known to happen before with 3rd party batteries) and with the manufacturer's batteries... uh... never.
3rd party things *can* be just as good as the original, and even incidents like the above shouldn't make manufactuers stop allowing them (like Lexmark...). But face it... very often, the 3rd party stuff just isn't as good as the "real thing." Not all of the price overhead is just scalping; you often get a better product.
I have now. I saw the DVD of Fellowship (not in theaters) like Octoberish, then TTT in the theaters. I decided that I couldn't wait until this December to find out how it ends (ok, so I had a pretty good idea that (SPOILER: Gollum went down with the ring, but not much more) so decided I must read RotK. And of course you can't read the final installment with only the movies as background...
But yeah, if someone else is reading this who hasn't read LotR, I reccommend it. It goes pretty quickly actually; it's not hard reading, so don't let the length scare you away. (I'm lazy and not a reader, so reading a 1000 pg book, even though I kinda wanted to, wasn't too appealing.)
>>Thats 3 hours for the movie, an hour or so for you to shovel mcnuggets from the food court
The expanded editions are closer to 4 hr than 3... I think FotR is 3:40 or so.
You're right about Star Wars, but the additions to Fellowship were nothing like that. It's been a while since I saw the film and even longer since the theatrical release, so I googled for a list of the added scenes. This was the closest thing I found: http://www.theonering.net/perl/newsview/2/10318586 89
I'd say in general, there's just more background information. Like Bilbo writes at the beginning (and reads what he's writing in the film like a narration) some background information on Hobbits and their habits and stuff, there's some more background on Aragorn and Arwyn, there's scenes of the Lady Galadrial giving gifts to the fellowship. For those who haven't read the books, the background makes many things clearer (though another watching certainly didn't hurt), while for those who have (of which I now have), it provides many scenes that were notably missing (like the gift scenes).