Actually, Maine *has* been cutting sports programs at some high schools; I think it was a year or two ago that a school board in Western Maine actually cut the varsity sports program altogether because voters didn't want to pass a tax increase. So the pressure doesn't just hit the more traditional academic programs.
Also, sports programs do *need* new helmets and often need new buses, as, well; using old helmets for too long is both a safety issue and a liability issue.
As far as the impact of sports on education (i.e. the positive impact, the impact on the growth of people who play them), I think that it is huge. I was lucky enough to go to a prep school where I had to play competitive sports at least two seasons a year, and the effects of being (or pretending to be) an athlete were tremendously positive.
I'm not saying that we *should* cut the traditional targets (music, art, libraries, etc) first, I'm just trying to suggest that (from what I've seen and what I've read in the papers) the financial support from districts to sports isn't as far out as you suggest. Of course, I'm sure it does vary with geography, and it's tough to tell how much a middle school sports program might provide a highschool sports program with more success and therefore more alumni donations (and alumni tend to support sports teams more than other endeavours), so YMMV all around.
When I get spam about something I'm actually interested in--such as RAM or air tools or something like that--I tend to read it and will usually considering buying products, because unless it's been sent to me five million times, I'm not sure if I might have accidentally given my address to the company with consent to send me stuff (and/or to someone who was sold to the company sending the mail). So, basically, I don't have the time to figure out if it is spam some of the time...
On the other hand, if I get five emails about the same stuff with subject lines ending in a pseudorandom combination of letters and numbers, then I definitely wouldn't buy it.
I've almost got a voice command interface for Zork working. Changing it from MS Agent to SAPI for the telephone shouldn't be a biggy.
Hi, I'd like to sell you a camera...
You are in an open field west of a big white house with a boarded front door.
There is a small mailbox here.
Although the word recognition sucks for a program like Eliza, the results could still be gratifying. "Would it make you happy if you could sell me a digital kangaroo?"
So what if your AI system actually does order something, like phone service, where they just "confirm" your info and don't actually request it? Is the agent acting as an authorized agent for you and therefore you've bought something?
(I'm actually really curious as to what the IANALs or even IAALs if any care to comment...it seems like a piece of technology accidentally ordering something, such as a buggy version of IE accidentally buying an extra copy of Office from bestbuy.com, would be a non-contract/non-purchase if you pursued a reversal, but that technology you set up specifically to deal with people selling stuff might be a different case, if you set it up knowing that it might say something to the effect of "Yes, would I like to buy that?" that could be reasonably interpreted as an agreement).
(As just one example, I recently found a site that calculated your speedometer error based upon changing your car's tires out with different sizes. If this had to be presented as pure HTML, I suppose we'd be reduced to looking through a huge list or table of every combination, to find relevant data for our particular car and situation. How is that a *better* way to build the site?)
Sigh. Another Javascript weenie. Why couldn't you just enter the information in a form?
Although I'm generally opposed to using Javascript when form submission/manipulation would work just fine, there are two good reasons to do the above via Javascript. The first is server load; the server may be relatively busy, whereas it's a fair bet that the client can handle the extra cycles to calculate the tire size without blinking; this is even more true with more complex calculations. Second, the site in question might be sitting at Geocities or somewhere of the like, where having real forms is either a major PITA or just not allowed.
(Now, as to sites like ussa.org that require Javascript to be enabled so that I can type in a value to look up data in their [server-side] database, that's a wholly different animal and borderline on just plain stupid)
Um, doesn't the CD Audio spec already call for a copyright bit?
I think that metadata is already there...I remember when I first got into ripping CDs (on my dad's P166 that was slow-as-molasses and jittered so badly I couldn't ever get a completely clean track) and I had to pass an additional command-line parameter to cover the butt of the person creating the utility (parameter said basically, "Yes, I know the copyright bit is set, ignore it.").
1) To see if driving over the speed limit is a good idea, you should test it out. If you get into a dangerous situation, and you don't die, then the speed limit is too slow, and it is fine to drive that fast all the time.
I'd summarize that point more as: if you are confident that you are in control of your car despite driving over the posted speed limit, then handling into a situation where the solid waste hits the ventilation device without hitting anything or anyone proves that you were indeed in control of your car.
There are some places where the speedlimit is too fast. The speedlimit should be lowered in these places if they "really want to be safe". I will continue going my usual speed, because if I were to go slower I wouldn't get places fast enough.
It is impossible to drive with complete safety while maintaining any benefit from driving. Therefore, we should try to find the best trade off between practicality and utility (not to mention a little fun), recognizing that we give up some safety by making a habit of lumbering around in 2000 lb+ vehicles at speeds of 35 MPH and above.
Most of the time, bad things don't happen. If we all drive faster, the sole benefit will be that we all get places 2 minutes sooner. The downside is that more people will get hurt, and more cars will get banged up. I am OK with that. I forgot to mention that more people will get killed as well... but I am also OK with that, if it means I can get someplace 2 minutes faster.
That's not the sole benefit, and it's not just 2 minutes. It makes driving more interesting (and if driving is interesting, hopefully fewer people will find themselves bored by it and looking for distractions like cell phones, in-car DVD players, and naps). If I'm in Maine at my parent's house, driving to the nearest convenience store/gas station takes about 5 minutes, mostly at 55 MPH (less startup and one stop sign); driving to a full-service grocery store takes at least half an hour. Very large parts of the US are at least as rural as Western Maine; in those parts of the country, it is not practical to drive 25 MPH all of the time (and any faster than that would definitely result in some accidents). Maybe the suburban and rural pattern of population density in the U.S. is simply a Bad Thing, but it is the way we live. I'm willing to make some concessions to Good Ideas (like driving a vehicle that gets 31 MPG highway instead of the uber-popular F-series pickup), but I'm not willing to entirely give up the way of life.
Maimed? It takes a lot to do that in a modern car. It is very possible, but I've totalled three cars (two due to a condition that has been partially diagnosed and I can now avoid, one at about 8 MPH due to weather conditions) and hit a deer. I had to get a couple of stitches after one of those accidents; otherwise, I've walked away from all of them. Heck, I drove away from the deer hit. One of my friends has rolled a 4 Runner (his first car), hit a deer with his second car, and rolled a Tacoma. He was seriously injured in the third, but otherwise was fine. One of the guys I was in Driver's Ed with rolled a Scooby-Do wagon swerving to avoid a deer and walked away. Another rolled a jeep and walked away. Yet another rolled a Dodge Ram 4x4 and walked away; his passenger had one broken bone, which is not a huge injury. If you haven't noticed the pattern yet, it's not uncommon at all to walk away from an accident in a modern car. Yes, some people get maimed and killed; I suppose the first friend I mentioned counts as getting maimed, because he got seriously cut and bruised and needed a lot of patching up.
I also used to ski race, and now I sometimes coach. Guess what? I've seen more skiing injuries than serious injuries from car accidents and known one guy who died as a result of a skier/tree incident. Does that mean we should stop skiing? I don't think so. I think we need to accept that living is inherently dangerous and not let that deter us from doing the things that are fun, interesting, and/or useful. It also means that safety features like seatbelts and roll cages are a good idea, because sometimes the solid waste does hit the ventilation device.
If you had enough time to stop in what is damn near a worst-case scenario--unexpected obstacle over a blind rise--then you weren't driving too fast. Did it put you in a less-than-optimal situation to be driving hard? Yes. Did that, combined with someone else driving too hard, result in an accident? Yes. Is that risk worth taking?
I sure as hell think so.
There are places where one can drive with a high degree of safety--long stretches of relatively straight interstate, for example. Around here, though--and I imagine this is true in other places as well--there are a lot of roads with enough curves, blind rises, and whatnot that a high degree of safety would mean driving 15 MPH more than half the time. I don't know about your commute, but that would make mine pretty danged long.
The flipside is that if we assume that most things are going to be okay most of the time--that a balljoint won't shatter on the highway, and that around the corner in front of you on a two-lange state highway signed at 50 MPH there is not a touron-driven SUV that has managed to wedge itself sideways across your lane and the shoulder--we get places a lot faster, a few more people get hurt, and a lot more cars get damaged. I'm willing to take that risk, but I also believe in God and that my time will come when it comes, as will yours, and it's not up to us...so take that for what it's worth.
I do, however, always use my seatbelt; not using your seatbelt in your own car is just plain stupid. If it's extremely uncomfortable, then it probably doesn't fit right anyhow and you should get it fixed so that it doesn't bother you as much (and fits correctly).
First, they mention owning the patent for all fields of use except satellite broadcast...does that mean that if I'm going to prepare a digital photo for satellite Internet trasmission, their patent doesn't cover it?
Second, they mention declaring that they have / own / control the patent, but they don't mention who developed the technology. Does anybody know if they just bought the patent from someone? Did they actually come up with the technology? Or did they sign a contract with a patent holder who has given them exclusive licensing rights for certain fields of use?
JPEG does appear to be patent-encumbered, by patents such as this one, but I can't find any references to Forgent or the patent number referenced in its press release.
From some of the other comments, this seems not to be aimed at the gamer audience--the on-board video apparently beats other on-board video but can't touch "real" video cards. For example, there's this comment trying to figure out what niche the chipset belongs in and this comment, quoting Carmack's.plan about the included video support.
Why is that informative? Who is going to build a router/firewall platform on a board with bad-ass graphics?
The last time I checked, the PC I'm writing this from had only one network card and is connected to my local network and the Internet. (wow...routers are so damn amazing....) Are they marketing this to higher end users, or mororns? I'm confused.
Perhaps it's for people who currently have one PC and would like to buy another but keep the old one around for the kids / significant other / dog / garage / whatever and use the new, faster PC as the Internet sharing box? Especially with a two-PC network on Windoze platforms, this makes sense, IMO. It's obviously not as secure as having an actual firewall / router box between the workstations, but it does allow the fast box to have a routable IP (game server, maybe?) as well as allow the slower box to be usable for email and web browsing.
It's also the name of the local high school for MSAD44 (school district including Andover, Maine), the name of a video rental place in Bethel, Maine, and I think there are a couple of other "Telstars" near there.
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Hmm...well, Andover, Maine is a little town with a few farms on the Appalachian Trail, too. So maybe there *is* a connection...
Actually, the results of hitting a deer at 120MPH are probably preferable to the results of hitting a deer at 45 MPH (well, except for the deer). According to my driver's ed instructor, the SCCA rally they run in Maine every year usually results in two or three dead deer and two or three broken headlights--there's something to be said for the physics of carrying momentum with you.
I would like to point out that AG has a "Bandwidth Throttle" option, which was one of the reasons I really liked it--I could set the bandwidth throttle to near-minimal and even when I was at nearly deserted educational institution over the summer, sitting on a barely used T1, it would only use slightly more than modem-rate bandwidth.
The "download and close" option is the one supported by my college's IT department (well, under the "if you must use the app" heading), but I find that to be a horrible solution--if everyone did that, there would be nothing to download because it would never stay online. That defeats the way p2p is supposed to work--you're essentially turning a p2p community into a client/server environment, which doesn't work in a grander scheme.
With larger documents and the importance of formatiting in the publication process, have you had difficulty with publishers and document submission? If so, has your establishment (ie previously published work) allowed you to overcome opposition of the "we-don't-support-that" variety? Or did you find that publishers were open to alternate submission formats? Or were they already using other formats (I know some authors have actually typeset their works themselves, using LaTeX, but I assume they are few and far between).
In short, modern print publishing requires a lot of attention to detail and transmission of large documents electronically--how do you make it work with your chosen set of tools, when publishers probably don't expect authors to be using that paritcular set of tools?
This "take in more money than you spend" concept is a little hard to grasp at first, but the more you think about it, the more sense it makes, at least in a fuddy-duddy, "old economy" kind of way.
As much as I sincerely want to believe that this is attempting to be witty, it's far too close to the *cough*VALinux*cough* truth *cough*Amazon*cough* coming from an OSDN employee.
My high school, where I have also taught summer classes, switched to primarily using Linux for school-owned, student-accessed computers. It's been working pretty well, and it's been a definite success in terms of using older hardware; check out the partial documentation, which includes contact info for the admin. In short, my experience was that new students (who arrived for the summer) found what they expected--email and wordprocessing--and were only stumped by the lack of a way to use floppies (which, in the opinion of myself and the admins, was a Good Thing--the danged things are obsolete and a PITA anyhow). The lab uptime was much better, as well. The returning (regular-year) students complained a bit more, but I saw that more as being unhappy with change and a result of not being able to download and play Windows games anymore.
I've found that Neoseeker's Audio forum (low-traffic) tends to have interesting discussions on similar topics, and GoodSound is an interesting place to read about low-end hifi gear (as is Cheap Home Theater).
That is actually a possibility. In some states (including Montana IIRC), it's entirely legal to have an open container in the vehicle so long as your BAC is in the legal range.
I'm pretty sure it's a unique school, but there are plenty of toher schools out there which are somewhat similar. I'm under the impression that sports requirements are pretty common amongst prep schools, and there are a lot of those around here.
More, importantly, though, (IMO), is the point that the breadth can be good. Perhaps it is the environment that made me enjoy it so much; I doubt I would have been as happy anywhere else. However, the fact that the general requirements fail in some environments does not mean that those requirements are at fault. Conversely, it doesn't mean that they work, either. I just believe that the argument is flawed...trying a bunch of things before you get into the workforce is a Good Thing.
Of course, I suppose I could be a liberal arts college poster child in some ways...I'm double-majoring in comp sci and English lit, with a minor in math, I'm somewhat involved politically, and I can also do minor maintenance (changes shocks, patch up the exhaust, etc) on my truck. So maybe the breadth just works for me. *shrugs*
Maybe I'm weird, but I actually liked the breadth of my studies in K-12. I'm glad that I had read a couple of classic novels, read a bunch of classic poems, and learned to differentiate before I graduated from high school. I've enjoyed at least some of the readings in every English class I've ever taken, and I also enjoyed being able to prove stuff in Geometry and calc and whatnot. Heck, I can still remember a lot of what I did in highschool.
In some ways, I'd compare the breadth approach to my high school's sports requirement--all freshmen are required to have two seasons of competitive sports, and all other students are required to have one per year. Further, those who are not involved in competitive sports must participate in non-competitive activities (such as drama, woodworking, et al). Due to that sports requirement, I went out and tried playing lacrosse my freshman year. I'd never picked up a lacrosse stick before, and I've never considered myself much of an athlete. However, I am now a passionate lacrosse fan and wish I still were playing. A lot of people do end up trying a sport and deciding they don't like it, but a lot of people also end up trying a sport and deciding they do like it. It's an inconvenience for the former and a great addition to the fulfillment of the latter.
(Now, if he could solve the "accomplishment vs grades" issue, I'd be much indebted.)
But the difference here (or so it appears) is that the job caused the disability. In general, Worker's Comp [in the US] is pretty simple...if something you do on the job prevents you from continuing to work, the company gets to pay you your salary to either not work or to work wherever they can find a place for you (even if that position would not normally have that payrate). So, yes, this is a job that she physically cannot do...but she cannot do it because she has been doing the job. So it is the company's responsibility to take care of her in the same way that the Air Force should take care of a mechanic with 30 years' service who gets carpal tunnel and can't turn a wrench anymore./p.
Actually, I've got a really good Microsoft Press book that I've been working through recently. It's got a copyright notice for 1986 and 1989 (with the 1989 being a reprint with added materail), a title of Programmers At Work, and an ISBN of 1-55615-211-6. It's a series of interviews with "19 Programmers Who Shaped the Computer Industry"; a lot of the interviews talk about approaches to programming for at least a few questions and also tackle the "is computer programming an art or a science" question. Over all, I've been very happy that I grabbed it.
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Actually, Maine *has* been cutting sports programs at some high schools; I think it was a year or two ago that a school board in Western Maine actually cut the varsity sports program altogether because voters didn't want to pass a tax increase. So the pressure doesn't just hit the more traditional academic programs.
Also, sports programs do *need* new helmets and often need new buses, as, well; using old helmets for too long is both a safety issue and a liability issue.
As far as the impact of sports on education (i.e. the positive impact, the impact on the growth of people who play them), I think that it is huge. I was lucky enough to go to a prep school where I had to play competitive sports at least two seasons a year, and the effects of being (or pretending to be) an athlete were tremendously positive.
I'm not saying that we *should* cut the traditional targets (music, art, libraries, etc) first, I'm just trying to suggest that (from what I've seen and what I've read in the papers) the financial support from districts to sports isn't as far out as you suggest. Of course, I'm sure it does vary with geography, and it's tough to tell how much a middle school sports program might provide a highschool sports program with more success and therefore more alumni donations (and alumni tend to support sports teams more than other endeavours), so YMMV all around.
Doesn't Paypal keep the CVV2 on file? (I ask because I know they ask for it but I don't recall ever having to re-enter it on a subsequent card use)
When I get spam about something I'm actually interested in--such as RAM or air tools or something like that--I tend to read it and will usually considering buying products, because unless it's been sent to me five million times, I'm not sure if I might have accidentally given my address to the company with consent to send me stuff (and/or to someone who was sold to the company sending the mail). So, basically, I don't have the time to figure out if it is spam some of the time...
On the other hand, if I get five emails about the same stuff with subject lines ending in a pseudorandom combination of letters and numbers, then I definitely wouldn't buy it.
(As just one example, I recently found a site that calculated your speedometer error based upon changing your car's tires out with different sizes. If this had to be presented as pure HTML, I suppose we'd be reduced to looking through a huge list or table of every combination, to find relevant data for our particular car and situation. How is that a *better* way to build the site?)
Sigh. Another Javascript weenie. Why couldn't you just enter the information in a form?
Although I'm generally opposed to using Javascript when form submission/manipulation would work just fine, there are two good reasons to do the above via Javascript. The first is server load; the server may be relatively busy, whereas it's a fair bet that the client can handle the extra cycles to calculate the tire size without blinking; this is even more true with more complex calculations. Second, the site in question might be sitting at Geocities or somewhere of the like, where having real forms is either a major PITA or just not allowed.
(Now, as to sites like ussa.org that require Javascript to be enabled so that I can type in a value to look up data in their [server-side] database, that's a wholly different animal and borderline on just plain stupid)
Um, doesn't the CD Audio spec already call for a copyright bit?
I think that metadata is already there...I remember when I first got into ripping CDs (on my dad's P166 that was slow-as-molasses and jittered so badly I couldn't ever get a completely clean track) and I had to pass an additional command-line parameter to cover the butt of the person creating the utility (parameter said basically, "Yes, I know the copyright bit is set, ignore it.").
I'd summarize that point more as: if you are confident that you are in control of your car despite driving over the posted speed limit, then handling into a situation where the solid waste hits the ventilation device without hitting anything or anyone proves that you were indeed in control of your car.
It is impossible to drive with complete safety while maintaining any benefit from driving. Therefore, we should try to find the best trade off between practicality and utility (not to mention a little fun), recognizing that we give up some safety by making a habit of lumbering around in 2000 lb+ vehicles at speeds of 35 MPH and above.
That's not the sole benefit, and it's not just 2 minutes. It makes driving more interesting (and if driving is interesting, hopefully fewer people will find themselves bored by it and looking for distractions like cell phones, in-car DVD players, and naps). If I'm in Maine at my parent's house, driving to the nearest convenience store/gas station takes about 5 minutes, mostly at 55 MPH (less startup and one stop sign); driving to a full-service grocery store takes at least half an hour. Very large parts of the US are at least as rural as Western Maine; in those parts of the country, it is not practical to drive 25 MPH all of the time (and any faster than that would definitely result in some accidents). Maybe the suburban and rural pattern of population density in the U.S. is simply a Bad Thing, but it is the way we live. I'm willing to make some concessions to Good Ideas (like driving a vehicle that gets 31 MPG highway instead of the uber-popular F-series pickup), but I'm not willing to entirely give up the way of life.
Maimed? It takes a lot to do that in a modern car. It is very possible, but I've totalled three cars (two due to a condition that has been partially diagnosed and I can now avoid, one at about 8 MPH due to weather conditions) and hit a deer. I had to get a couple of stitches after one of those accidents; otherwise, I've walked away from all of them. Heck, I drove away from the deer hit. One of my friends has rolled a 4 Runner (his first car), hit a deer with his second car, and rolled a Tacoma. He was seriously injured in the third, but otherwise was fine. One of the guys I was in Driver's Ed with rolled a Scooby-Do wagon swerving to avoid a deer and walked away. Another rolled a jeep and walked away. Yet another rolled a Dodge Ram 4x4 and walked away; his passenger had one broken bone, which is not a huge injury. If you haven't noticed the pattern yet, it's not uncommon at all to walk away from an accident in a modern car. Yes, some people get maimed and killed; I suppose the first friend I mentioned counts as getting maimed, because he got seriously cut and bruised and needed a lot of patching up.
I also used to ski race, and now I sometimes coach. Guess what? I've seen more skiing injuries than serious injuries from car accidents and known one guy who died as a result of a skier/tree incident. Does that mean we should stop skiing? I don't think so. I think we need to accept that living is inherently dangerous and not let that deter us from doing the things that are fun, interesting, and/or useful. It also means that safety features like seatbelts and roll cages are a good idea, because sometimes the solid waste does hit the ventilation device.
If you had enough time to stop in what is damn near a worst-case scenario--unexpected obstacle over a blind rise--then you weren't driving too fast. Did it put you in a less-than-optimal situation to be driving hard? Yes. Did that, combined with someone else driving too hard, result in an accident? Yes. Is that risk worth taking?
I sure as hell think so.
There are places where one can drive with a high degree of safety--long stretches of relatively straight interstate, for example. Around here, though--and I imagine this is true in other places as well--there are a lot of roads with enough curves, blind rises, and whatnot that a high degree of safety would mean driving 15 MPH more than half the time. I don't know about your commute, but that would make mine pretty danged long.
The flipside is that if we assume that most things are going to be okay most of the time--that a balljoint won't shatter on the highway, and that around the corner in front of you on a two-lange state highway signed at 50 MPH there is not a touron-driven SUV that has managed to wedge itself sideways across your lane and the shoulder--we get places a lot faster, a few more people get hurt, and a lot more cars get damaged. I'm willing to take that risk, but I also believe in God and that my time will come when it comes, as will yours, and it's not up to us...so take that for what it's worth.
I do, however, always use my seatbelt; not using your seatbelt in your own car is just plain stupid. If it's extremely uncomfortable, then it probably doesn't fit right anyhow and you should get it fixed so that it doesn't bother you as much (and fits correctly).
First, they mention owning the patent for all fields of use except satellite broadcast...does that mean that if I'm going to prepare a digital photo for satellite Internet trasmission, their patent doesn't cover it?
Second, they mention declaring that they have / own / control the patent, but they don't mention who developed the technology. Does anybody know if they just bought the patent from someone? Did they actually come up with the technology? Or did they sign a contract with a patent holder who has given them exclusive licensing rights for certain fields of use?
JPEG does appear to be patent-encumbered, by patents such as this one, but I can't find any references to Forgent or the patent number referenced in its press release.
From some of the other comments, this seems not to be aimed at the gamer audience--the on-board video apparently beats other on-board video but can't touch "real" video cards. For example, there's this comment trying to figure out what niche the chipset belongs in and this comment, quoting Carmack's .plan about the included video support.
Perhaps it's for people who currently have one PC and would like to buy another but keep the old one around for the kids / significant other / dog / garage / whatever and use the new, faster PC as the Internet sharing box? Especially with a two-PC network on Windoze platforms, this makes sense, IMO. It's obviously not as secure as having an actual firewall / router box between the workstations, but it does allow the fast box to have a routable IP (game server, maybe?) as well as allow the slower box to be usable for email and web browsing.
And for those of you interseted in the local pseudo-news coverage, the Lewiston Sun-Journal has it here.
It's also the name of the local high school for MSAD44 (school district including Andover, Maine), the name of a video rental place in Bethel, Maine, and I think there are a couple of other "Telstars" near there.
Hmm...well, Andover, Maine is a little town with a few farms on the Appalachian Trail, too. So maybe there *is* a connection...
Actually, the results of hitting a deer at 120MPH are probably preferable to the results of hitting a deer at 45 MPH (well, except for the deer). According to my driver's ed instructor, the SCCA rally they run in Maine every year usually results in two or three dead deer and two or three broken headlights--there's something to be said for the physics of carrying momentum with you.
I would like to point out that AG has a "Bandwidth Throttle" option, which was one of the reasons I really liked it--I could set the bandwidth throttle to near-minimal and even when I was at nearly deserted educational institution over the summer, sitting on a barely used T1, it would only use slightly more than modem-rate bandwidth.
The "download and close" option is the one supported by my college's IT department (well, under the "if you must use the app" heading), but I find that to be a horrible solution--if everyone did that, there would be nothing to download because it would never stay online. That defeats the way p2p is supposed to work--you're essentially turning a p2p community into a client/server environment, which doesn't work in a grander scheme.
With larger documents and the importance of formatiting in the publication process, have you had difficulty with publishers and document submission? If so, has your establishment (ie previously published work) allowed you to overcome opposition of the "we-don't-support-that" variety? Or did you find that publishers were open to alternate submission formats? Or were they already using other formats (I know some authors have actually typeset their works themselves, using LaTeX, but I assume they are few and far between).
In short, modern print publishing requires a lot of attention to detail and transmission of large documents electronically--how do you make it work with your chosen set of tools, when publishers probably don't expect authors to be using that paritcular set of tools?
This "take in more money than you spend" concept is a little hard to grasp at first, but the more you think about it, the more sense it makes, at least in a fuddy-duddy, "old economy" kind of way.
As much as I sincerely want to believe that this is attempting to be witty, it's far too close to the *cough*VALinux*cough* truth *cough*Amazon*cough* coming from an OSDN employee.
My high school, where I have also taught summer classes, switched to primarily using Linux for school-owned, student-accessed computers. It's been working pretty well, and it's been a definite success in terms of using older hardware; check out the partial documentation, which includes contact info for the admin. In short, my experience was that new students (who arrived for the summer) found what they expected--email and wordprocessing--and were only stumped by the lack of a way to use floppies (which, in the opinion of myself and the admins, was a Good Thing--the danged things are obsolete and a PITA anyhow). The lab uptime was much better, as well. The returning (regular-year) students complained a bit more, but I saw that more as being unhappy with change and a result of not being able to download and play Windows games anymore.
I've found that Neoseeker's Audio forum (low-traffic) tends to have interesting discussions on similar topics, and GoodSound is an interesting place to read about low-end hifi gear (as is Cheap Home Theater).
That is actually a possibility. In some states (including Montana IIRC), it's entirely legal to have an open container in the vehicle so long as your BAC is in the legal range.
I'm pretty sure it's a unique school, but there are plenty of toher schools out there which are somewhat similar. I'm under the impression that sports requirements are pretty common amongst prep schools, and there are a lot of those around here.
More, importantly, though, (IMO), is the point that the breadth can be good. Perhaps it is the environment that made me enjoy it so much; I doubt I would have been as happy anywhere else. However, the fact that the general requirements fail in some environments does not mean that those requirements are at fault. Conversely, it doesn't mean that they work, either. I just believe that the argument is flawed...trying a bunch of things before you get into the workforce is a Good Thing.
Of course, I suppose I could be a liberal arts college poster child in some ways...I'm double-majoring in comp sci and English lit, with a minor in math, I'm somewhat involved politically, and I can also do minor maintenance (changes shocks, patch up the exhaust, etc) on my truck. So maybe the breadth just works for me. *shrugs*
Maybe I'm weird, but I actually liked the breadth of my studies in K-12. I'm glad that I had read a couple of classic novels, read a bunch of classic poems, and learned to differentiate before I graduated from high school. I've enjoyed at least some of the readings in every English class I've ever taken, and I also enjoyed being able to prove stuff in Geometry and calc and whatnot. Heck, I can still remember a lot of what I did in highschool.
In some ways, I'd compare the breadth approach to my high school's sports requirement--all freshmen are required to have two seasons of competitive sports, and all other students are required to have one per year. Further, those who are not involved in competitive sports must participate in non-competitive activities (such as drama, woodworking, et al). Due to that sports requirement, I went out and tried playing lacrosse my freshman year. I'd never picked up a lacrosse stick before, and I've never considered myself much of an athlete. However, I am now a passionate lacrosse fan and wish I still were playing. A lot of people do end up trying a sport and deciding they don't like it, but a lot of people also end up trying a sport and deciding they do like it. It's an inconvenience for the former and a great addition to the fulfillment of the latter.
(Now, if he could solve the "accomplishment vs grades" issue, I'd be much indebted.)
But the difference here (or so it appears) is that the job caused the disability. In general, Worker's Comp [in the US] is pretty simple...if something you do on the job prevents you from continuing to work, the company gets to pay you your salary to either not work or to work wherever they can find a place for you (even if that position would not normally have that payrate). So, yes, this is a job that she physically cannot do...but she cannot do it because she has been doing the job. So it is the company's responsibility to take care of her in the same way that the Air Force should take care of a mechanic with 30 years' service who gets carpal tunnel and can't turn a wrench anymore./p.
Actually, I've got a really good Microsoft Press book that I've been working through recently. It's got a copyright notice for 1986 and 1989 (with the 1989 being a reprint with added materail), a title of Programmers At Work, and an ISBN of 1-55615-211-6. It's a series of interviews with "19 Programmers Who Shaped the Computer Industry"; a lot of the interviews talk about approaches to programming for at least a few questions and also tackle the "is computer programming an art or a science" question. Over all, I've been very happy that I grabbed it.
So I guess there are exceptions to every rule.