Many years ago, my intro to programming course had a very simple solution. You not only had to do the assignments, but you also had to explain what you did, face-to-face, with one of the TAs. It was extremely labor intensive, but there is no way you could cheat your way through it without knowing the task well enough to have done it anyway.
You make a wild at guess at the time it will take. Then you double that. Then you add a week for bugfixing.
Then, during the schedule, if you start to get ahead, spend more time browsing the web. If you start to get behind, work extra and/or cut things like "unit testing" or "error checking". Do this as needed to deliver one day ahead of schedule. Then bask your reputation as an awesome scheduler.
If the professor is just reading his slides, he's a shit professor and is wasting everyone's time. You'd be better off just buying and reading the class notes.
If the professor is good, he's going to be adding a hell of a lot verbally to what he writes and projects.
Sorry, but that's bullshit. I've had activated computers die more than once. You load up iTunes (on any working machine), go into "account settings" and click "deauthorize all". You can then freely authorize any five computers.
I've done this multiple times. I've had three different machines die when "authorized", done this each time, yet right this moment I have five different machines authorized to play with the same account.
I wrote three technical books in college. Please explain to me how I could possibly use writing a book in 1986 (which wouldn't be published until 1987) to help support myself in college without an advance from the publisher. Please explain to me how I could have possibly afforded to hire an editor when my yearly income was $10,000.
Also please explain to me why having a publisher give me an advance before I started writing is worse for me than going through a process that requires me to put thousands of dollars on the line with no hope of any returns until a year into the process.
Publishers provide many services to the author. Two big ones are early advances and taking on risk. It's the difference between "I'll give you $5,000 in three payments to write a book, with the potential for future royalties" and "please pay $10,000 of your own money and in two years you might get (slightly higher) royalties."
Keep in mind that what was being argued about was *not* the price of *old* ebooks. What was being argued about was how much Amazon would charge for ebooks on the day the hard cover was first released.
Given that a major publisher is willing to see all their books delisted in the bookstore with the largest marketshare to avoid having ebooks priced to undercut their hard covers, one suspects that a hell of a lot of people are buying hardcovers.
It is also very important to note that the question is about what ebooks sell for before the paperback is available.
I had a few issues in junior high, but learned pretty quickly that the way to deal with bullies was to simply to refuse to be cowed. I remember the very last time someone tried...it was in the 9th grade. Some kid walked up to me as I sat and read a book and said "get up. I'm sitting there." I looked up, snorted, then went back to my book. His friends laughed and he walked away never to bother me again.
It's really not so much fighting back as it is refusing to show fear. Bullies are usually cowards who flee from actual confrontation.
Yeah...it's not like a day actually seems longer. It's just that your memory of the last year seems shorter. I remember half way through my first year of college that semester seemed so long. It was that it was actually longer, it's just that with the new relationships, new intellectual experiences, net friends, new...er...substances, there was just so much that happened in those few months.
Now I look back over the last few months and the bulk of it is been there done that stuff I've been doing for decades.
I do. There's no excuse for stupid abbreviations in an IM unless you are a complete crap typist. (Text messages are another manner...with phone keyboards, every keystroke is dear.)
See, the thing is that everyone compares all the people around them with the books they read from fifty years ago. But what do those books written fifty years ago have in common with each other? They were published by people who thought the authors were good with language and were then put through the wringer of an editor.
I suspect that if you looked at the personal letters of the average person of fifty years ago, you'd find equally abysmal grammar and spelling.
The other thing the modern world *has* done is allowed anyone to spread their words far and wide. It isn't that people in general are any worse. It's that people used to only see the very best.
Note that people used commas far more freely in the 19th century than now and that comma usage of today differs slightly between American and British English.
A lack of consistent comma rules is, of course bad, but it is wrong to assume that what those rules actually are won't change.
Movies are even better. When you are a novice, subtitles help you know what to listen for, and for everyone the action on the screen can act as a cue to what is being said.
It is likely cheaper to create the technology to create perfect synthetic diamonds than to create the technology needed to fish them out of a gas giant ocean pressurized to 40 million pounds per square inch.
You may remember there were a couple of articles on Slashdot about how a little company named "SCO" tried to prove in court that Linux was based on Unix and was eventually disabused of that notion.
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Many years ago, my intro to programming course had a very simple solution. You not only had to do the assignments, but you also had to explain what you did, face-to-face, with one of the TAs. It was extremely labor intensive, but there is no way you could cheat your way through it without knowing the task well enough to have done it anyway.
The question is: can you understand QuickSort if you can't write it from scratch, on your own?
As a manager, there are two sorts people I'd see as idiots (in the context of CS):
1) People who write QuickSort from scratch
2) People who can't write QuickSort from scratch
Neither is worth hiring.
2 seconds to set up and ten minutes to actually connect to the Exchange server.
(Which admittedly makes it twice as fast as Outlook.)
I guess I better register the "Make ucblockhead the God-Emperor of the United States" society.
You make a wild at guess at the time it will take. Then you double that. Then you add a week for bugfixing.
Then, during the schedule, if you start to get ahead, spend more time browsing the web. If you start to get behind, work extra and/or cut things like "unit testing" or "error checking". Do this as needed to deliver one day ahead of schedule. Then bask your reputation as an awesome scheduler.
If the professor is just reading his slides, he's a shit professor and is wasting everyone's time. You'd be better off just buying and reading the class notes.
If the professor is good, he's going to be adding a hell of a lot verbally to what he writes and projects.
s/Democrats/elected officials/g
Sorry, but that's bullshit. I've had activated computers die more than once. You load up iTunes (on any working machine), go into "account settings" and click "deauthorize all". You can then freely authorize any five computers.
I've done this multiple times. I've had three different machines die when "authorized", done this each time, yet right this moment I have five different machines authorized to play with the same account.
I wrote three technical books in college. Please explain to me how I could possibly use writing a book in 1986 (which wouldn't be published until 1987) to help support myself in college without an advance from the publisher. Please explain to me how I could have possibly afforded to hire an editor when my yearly income was $10,000.
Also please explain to me why having a publisher give me an advance before I started writing is worse for me than going through a process that requires me to put thousands of dollars on the line with no hope of any returns until a year into the process.
Publishers provide many services to the author. Two big ones are early advances and taking on risk. It's the difference between "I'll give you $5,000 in three payments to write a book, with the potential for future royalties" and "please pay $10,000 of your own money and in two years you might get (slightly higher) royalties."
Keep in mind that what was being argued about was *not* the price of *old* ebooks. What was being argued about was how much Amazon would charge for ebooks on the day the hard cover was first released.
Given that a major publisher is willing to see all their books delisted in the bookstore with the largest marketshare to avoid having ebooks priced to undercut their hard covers, one suspects that a hell of a lot of people are buying hardcovers.
It is also very important to note that the question is about what ebooks sell for before the paperback is available.
I had a few issues in junior high, but learned pretty quickly that the way to deal with bullies was to simply to refuse to be cowed. I remember the very last time someone tried...it was in the 9th grade. Some kid walked up to me as I sat and read a book and said "get up. I'm sitting there." I looked up, snorted, then went back to my book. His friends laughed and he walked away never to bother me again.
It's really not so much fighting back as it is refusing to show fear. Bullies are usually cowards who flee from actual confrontation.
Yeah...it's not like a day actually seems longer. It's just that your memory of the last year seems shorter. I remember half way through my first year of college that semester seemed so long. It was that it was actually longer, it's just that with the new relationships, new intellectual experiences, net friends, new...er...substances, there was just so much that happened in those few months.
Now I look back over the last few months and the bulk of it is been there done that stuff I've been doing for decades.
I am old enough to remember people wondering whether someone would ever come up with a game control system that took advantage of the mouse.
Unfortunately, access varies by language tremendously. Netflix will give you all you need if you want Japanese, German or French.
I do. There's no excuse for stupid abbreviations in an IM unless you are a complete crap typist. (Text messages are another manner...with phone keyboards, every keystroke is dear.)
See, the thing is that everyone compares all the people around them with the books they read from fifty years ago. But what do those books written fifty years ago have in common with each other? They were published by people who thought the authors were good with language and were then put through the wringer of an editor.
I suspect that if you looked at the personal letters of the average person of fifty years ago, you'd find equally abysmal grammar and spelling.
The other thing the modern world *has* done is allowed anyone to spread their words far and wide. It isn't that people in general are any worse. It's that people used to only see the very best.
Note that people used commas far more freely in the 19th century than now and that comma usage of today differs slightly between American and British English.
A lack of consistent comma rules is, of course bad, but it is wrong to assume that what those rules actually are won't change.
Movies are even better. When you are a novice, subtitles help you know what to listen for, and for everyone the action on the screen can act as a cue to what is being said.
Given that nearly every Japanese sentence contains both hiragana and kanji, that analogy makes no sense.
Not in the car.
It is likely cheaper to create the technology to create perfect synthetic diamonds than to create the technology needed to fish them out of a gas giant ocean pressurized to 40 million pounds per square inch.
You're right. It was about the silly little certification you said no one cared about.
You may remember there were a couple of articles on Slashdot about how a little company named "SCO" tried to prove in court that Linux was based on Unix and was eventually disabused of that notion.
Dunno. I use iTerm.