Er, except I don't see how Dell's M2010 would fit in my backpack. It's HUGE. (I wonder how much it weighs--I can't find that info.) And when I go to Design->Overview, it starts talking about staying connected with OPTIONAL a/b/g WiFi. Optional? On a $3,500 machine? What?
You may call it a notebook, but I call it a portable desktop replacement. It's kinda nifty looking, certainly, and has some really interesting design features, but I really think it's meant to fill an entirely different niche than Apple's notebooks, and so it makes sense that the design was formed under entirely different constraints.
Those authors you listed don't need royalties anymore. Because they're, y'know, DEAD. Not only are they dead, but their works are out of copyright (Right now copyright does extend a tad too long after the author's death, but that's neither here nor there for new books.)
I'm sure that the publishers mark up some beyond what royalties and distribution costs plus the old-book profit margin, but they're also producing books with an uncertain market. Whereas the classics you listed are probably safe bets to publish; little risk involved. Not many new books published earn out their advances. (And you could say that's because they're publishing trash, but that's neither here nor there, either.)
if i get in the car with a drunk driver, i am stupid. but do i deserve to get paralyzed for life in the accident that happens for my mistake? no.
So you're saying that, if you got into the car with a drunk driver, WHO YOU COULD HAVE TRIED TO PREVENT FROM DRIVING AT ALL, and subsequently get in an accident that paralyzes you for life because YOU DID NOTHING TO PREVENT THAT DRIVER FROM DOING SOMETHING THAT ROUTINELY PARALYZES OR KILLS INNOCENT PARTIES, you don't deserve the consequences?
I call bullshit. The negative consequence in that instance is not disproportionate to the error in any way, shape, or form, as opposed to sophisticated phishing attacks. It is more than just "stupid" to do such a thing, it is grossly negligent.
You don't sound like you've heard of Tardigrades or waterbears. To quote Wikipedia:
Several species regularly survive in a dehydrated state for nearly 10 years. Depending on the environment they may enter this state via anhydrobiosis, cryobiosis, osmobiosis or anoxybiosis. While in this state their metabolism lowers to less than 0.01% of what is normal and their water content can drop to 1% of normal. Their ability to remain desiccated for such a long period is largely dependent on the high levels of the non-reducing sugar trehalose, which protects their membranes.
Tardigrades have been known to withstand the following extremes whilst in this state:
Temperature--Tardigrades can survive being heated for a few minutes to 151 C or being chilled for days at -272.8 C (almost absolute zero).
Radiation-- Shown by Raul M. May from the University of Paris, Tardigrades can withstand 5700 grays or 570,000 rads of x-ray radiation. (Five grays or 500 rads would be fatal to a human).
Pressure--They can withstand the extremely low pressure of a vacuum and also very high pressures, many times greater than atmospheric pressure. In theory, they could even survive the vacuum of space.
So you don't think advertisers won't want to try to instill brand recognition in college students with better than average earning potential once they get out of college? Heck, even in college they have credit cards they don't seem to know how to manage.
A poor college student will not always be a poor college student. Worming into their brain at this stage is an investment.
Of course, once the market will bear ad-based e-text books, they'll probably start charging for them AND putting the ads in, kind of like cable television.
In 2005, AOL saw a $333 million increase in ad revenues, with a $722 million decrease in subscription revenues. In the first half of 2006, that trend continued, with a $210 million gain in ad revenues and a $383 million decline in U.S. subscription revenue. Subscriptions still brought in more than $7 billion of AOL's $8.3 billion last year, dwarfing its $1 billion in advertising revenue.
I'm not experienced like the grand poster in investing, but last year I opened up an account with ING for savings. I figured that as a college student, I needed to start saving enough money to make sure I'd be mobile when I graduated, without going into debt.
The current Annual Percentage Yield is 4.35%. Right now I have about $3,000 in my account, and my monthly interest earned so far is $9.01. Putting money in or pulling it out of your bank account is very easy; it takes a couple of days for the transaction to go through, and there's no low limit you need to be concerned about. They also have a very handy feature that will deposit an amount from my bank account on a cycling time period, so right now I have it automatically set to take a certain percentage off the top of my paycheck (which comes biweekly), so I won't be as tempted to spend it.
I think they also have a pretty rewarding referral program, but I'm bad with those. I just feel awkward trying to advertise things to people.
Except in some govermental situations, a lower rate of increase really is more of a cut. Take the situation of education in a fast-growing district, for instance--the school district gets a lot more students in a year, but not as much funding per student, even though the total amount of funding went up.
Here's their site. I haven't had the chance to try it out yet, because it's Windows only, and right now I'm on a Mac laptop only. Them's the breaks. I know the University doesn't have any responsibility to support less common OSes, but their bookstore is an Apple dealer and the certified repair shop for Apples in town. They showcase Apple machines--all of the laptops, iMacs, and the PowerMac--and just one Windows machine. Because of this, there's a decent amount of Mac laptops on campus. I see them around.
Other students don't like it because they can't put any music onto their MP3 players where they listen to most of their music, unless they pay, and it won't work on the ever popular iPod period. (I don't have one, but that's the majority MP3 player at my school, and the bookstore has a copious display case dedicated to them, too.) That's not surprising, of course, since Apple doesn't license their DRM out. The only MP3 players that work with Ruckus are ones with Microsoft's Playsforsure with subscription services. Evidently, having Playsforsure isn't quite enough to be sure it will work. Ruckus also serves as a movie serving network, but our campus hasn't had that running yet. The student organization is currently investing in the expensive on-campus download servers required to operate that service.
This article on BusinessWeek says that Ruckus can net anywhere from $10 to $100 dollars a student. I'm really just hoping my university is closer to the $10 side of the spectrum.
That's why you NEVER try to browse MySpace without at bare minimum FlashBlock. I use FireFox for everyday browsing, but when it comes to MySpace I bring in the big guns: I use Opera with all kinds of accessibility and user browsing modes turned on.
MySpace can't crash a browser that's not trying to run all of the crap.
"You agree that LiveJournal shall not be responsible or liable for any loss or damage of any sort incurred as the result of any such dealings or as the result of the presence of such advertisers on the Service."
Last time I checked, no one was buying a game called Fascism Tycoon.
All of the sudden I have an intense desire to acquire such a game.
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One of the books I had as a kid was Dougal Dixon's illustrated book Man After Man. It focused around an ecosystem composed entirely of genetically engineered humans who evolved in response to environmental pressures. Unfortunately, it's not in print anymore.
My statement was in reference and in the context of "plain old free accounts". I have a paid account. (...but I'm still against the development in its current form.)
That's somewhat misleading, because free level users will see the ads on journals of the Sponsored+ level members, including user information pages, entry and comment pages, and their journals. Those users aren't agreeing to see ads to get more features; instead they end up helping Sponsored+ users to have those features.
You're correct in that it applies only to members, but I guess I'm sort of speaking as a member, in that case. People who are purely readers don't agree, to my knowledge, to the TOS anyway--or am I mistaken on that one? Which is why I didn't clarify, I guess; I didn't think the TOS applies to people who are only readers at all. I'm definitely not a lawyer, so my knowledge is skiffy there, and I'm free to be corrected!
Your name sounds familiar. I'm guessing Penny Arcade.
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Er, except I don't see how Dell's M2010 would fit in my backpack. It's HUGE. (I wonder how much it weighs--I can't find that info.) And when I go to Design->Overview, it starts talking about staying connected with OPTIONAL a/b/g WiFi. Optional? On a $3,500 machine? What?
You may call it a notebook, but I call it a portable desktop replacement. It's kinda nifty looking, certainly, and has some really interesting design features, but I really think it's meant to fill an entirely different niche than Apple's notebooks, and so it makes sense that the design was formed under entirely different constraints.
Those authors you listed don't need royalties anymore. Because they're, y'know, DEAD. Not only are they dead, but their works are out of copyright (Right now copyright does extend a tad too long after the author's death, but that's neither here nor there for new books.)
I'm sure that the publishers mark up some beyond what royalties and distribution costs plus the old-book profit margin, but they're also producing books with an uncertain market. Whereas the classics you listed are probably safe bets to publish; little risk involved. Not many new books published earn out their advances. (And you could say that's because they're publishing trash, but that's neither here nor there, either.)
if i get in the car with a drunk driver, i am stupid. but do i deserve to get paralyzed for life in the accident that happens for my mistake? no.
So you're saying that, if you got into the car with a drunk driver, WHO YOU COULD HAVE TRIED TO PREVENT FROM DRIVING AT ALL, and subsequently get in an accident that paralyzes you for life because YOU DID NOTHING TO PREVENT THAT DRIVER FROM DOING SOMETHING THAT ROUTINELY PARALYZES OR KILLS INNOCENT PARTIES, you don't deserve the consequences?
I call bullshit. The negative consequence in that instance is not disproportionate to the error in any way, shape, or form, as opposed to sophisticated phishing attacks. It is more than just "stupid" to do such a thing, it is grossly negligent.
I dunno, because ads is always how things seem to end up? LiveJournal has ads, now, too.
You don't sound like you've heard of Tardigrades or waterbears. To quote Wikipedia:
Pretty darn impressive!So you don't think advertisers won't want to try to instill brand recognition in college students with better than average earning potential once they get out of college? Heck, even in college they have credit cards they don't seem to know how to manage.
A poor college student will not always be a poor college student. Worming into their brain at this stage is an investment.
Of course, once the market will bear ad-based e-text books, they'll probably start charging for them AND putting the ads in, kind of like cable television.
Er, biology is changing very, very fast right now, to the point where even some of the basic material has probably altered.
They're written by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson.
I'm not experienced like the grand poster in investing, but last year I opened up an account with ING for savings. I figured that as a college student, I needed to start saving enough money to make sure I'd be mobile when I graduated, without going into debt.
The current Annual Percentage Yield is 4.35%. Right now I have about $3,000 in my account, and my monthly interest earned so far is $9.01. Putting money in or pulling it out of your bank account is very easy; it takes a couple of days for the transaction to go through, and there's no low limit you need to be concerned about. They also have a very handy feature that will deposit an amount from my bank account on a cycling time period, so right now I have it automatically set to take a certain percentage off the top of my paycheck (which comes biweekly), so I won't be as tempted to spend it.
I think they also have a pretty rewarding referral program, but I'm bad with those. I just feel awkward trying to advertise things to people.
Yeah, well, the Great LJ Blackout of 2005 was also posted about on Slashdot.
Except in some govermental situations, a lower rate of increase really is more of a cut. Take the situation of education in a fast-growing district, for instance--the school district gets a lot more students in a year, but not as much funding per student, even though the total amount of funding went up.
Here's their site. I haven't had the chance to try it out yet, because it's Windows only, and right now I'm on a Mac laptop only. Them's the breaks. I know the University doesn't have any responsibility to support less common OSes, but their bookstore is an Apple dealer and the certified repair shop for Apples in town. They showcase Apple machines--all of the laptops, iMacs, and the PowerMac--and just one Windows machine. Because of this, there's a decent amount of Mac laptops on campus. I see them around.
Other students don't like it because they can't put any music onto their MP3 players where they listen to most of their music, unless they pay, and it won't work on the ever popular iPod period. (I don't have one, but that's the majority MP3 player at my school, and the bookstore has a copious display case dedicated to them, too.) That's not surprising, of course, since Apple doesn't license their DRM out. The only MP3 players that work with Ruckus are ones with Microsoft's Playsforsure with subscription services. Evidently, having Playsforsure isn't quite enough to be sure it will work. Ruckus also serves as a movie serving network, but our campus hasn't had that running yet. The student organization is currently investing in the expensive on-campus download servers required to operate that service.
This article on BusinessWeek says that Ruckus can net anywhere from $10 to $100 dollars a student. I'm really just hoping my university is closer to the $10 side of the spectrum.
That's why you NEVER try to browse MySpace without at bare minimum FlashBlock. I use FireFox for everyday browsing, but when it comes to MySpace I bring in the big guns: I use Opera with all kinds of accessibility and user browsing modes turned on.
MySpace can't crash a browser that's not trying to run all of the crap.
Worlds = world's! I know it's in a code comment, but eeeeesh. Apostrophes are friends!
under XII. ADVERTISEMENT:
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Hell, I'm a woman and I want a wife, too!
Last time I checked, no one was buying a game called Fascism Tycoon.
All of the sudden I have an intense desire to acquire such a game.
One of the books I had as a kid was Dougal Dixon's illustrated book Man After Man. It focused around an ecosystem composed entirely of genetically engineered humans who evolved in response to environmental pressures. Unfortunately, it's not in print anymore.
My statement was in reference and in the context of "plain old free accounts". I have a paid account. (...but I'm still against the development in its current form.)
Of course! I'd forgotten how absolutely lovely it is. Thank you.
Most of the value in Livejournal comes from the community and networking aspect. Here are a couple of photography communities I find interesting:
http://community.livejournal.com/texture/
http://community.livejournal.com/urban_decay/
There are many others, as well.
That's somewhat misleading, because free level users will see the ads on journals of the Sponsored+ level members, including user information pages, entry and comment pages, and their journals. Those users aren't agreeing to see ads to get more features; instead they end up helping Sponsored+ users to have those features.
You're correct in that it applies only to members, but I guess I'm sort of speaking as a member, in that case. People who are purely readers don't agree, to my knowledge, to the TOS anyway--or am I mistaken on that one? Which is why I didn't clarify, I guess; I didn't think the TOS applies to people who are only readers at all. I'm definitely not a lawyer, so my knowledge is skiffy there, and I'm free to be corrected!
Your name sounds familiar. I'm guessing Penny Arcade.
You'll be seeing ads every time you visit the journal, profile, or entry pages of a Sponsored+ user.