In fact, ultimately his most important decision was to sign the Helsinki accords against the opinion of his party and frankly many in the US at that time. People thought it was a copout to codify the post WWII boundaries but he recognized that the human rights provisions would be a timebomb ticking inside of the USSR. It was not long after that dissent began to appear in the combloc, specifically Poland. These were the first cracks in the soviet empire.
so.. what about a public library with a photocopier? They provide the card catalog and the source material as well as the means to infringe copyright. Hence they should be shutdown, fined and sent to jail as there is no telling how many pages of books or periodicals people might copy illegally after looking the item up in the catalog index.
it is not required that you buy a dvd of a movie when buying a new dvd player. Certainly the new dvd player is useless and performs no function until such a time as you load a dvd of some content. One can view the pc in a similar manner - it plays content, be that the windows os, linux, bsd or your own home grown asm os.
Exactly. But it was a poor choice of example. Of greater concern would be data centers handling ecommerce or other kinds of transactional data - though anyone with that much business probably has considered this when setting up a backup datacenter.
As much of this is regulated at that level. In my state (in the north east), insurance companies are required to provide single payer hmo/ppo type policies at rates which are "approved" by the state. Lest you think that keeps the costs down, you are wrong - these state agencies are basically a rubber stamp when it comes to rate increases. My premium for a basic HMO with a well known company increased a very consistent 15-17% per year every year after my COBRA ran out. This past year, after my renewal premium hit $590/month I found (through the chamber of commerce) an association which basically amounts to a front to provide lower cost insurance. In fact, you become a union member and as such pay union dues as part of your monthly premium (in fact, in my case I'm in a sub of a Teamsters union so dont *uck with me!). I now have coverage from a different name brand provider at about $100 a month less. My one disappointment has been the drug benefit which is not as good and results in slightly more out of pocket. I figure by the time its all said and done I'll likely save about $700 bucks. Not a ton, but heck its money.
its not that I don't ever want to read something political on here but clearly/. does tech the best. I hope you would agree repeating a headline that they already say is redundant is..well redundant as is running stories which came out 24-48 hours before on every wire service. But even this is getting off topic:)
Every news publication on earth is saying mostly the same thing. The Democrats have taken the house picking up a sizable number of seats. But the Senate remains a tossup with a few undecided seats holding the balance.
So../. somehow felt the need to be more redundant? Its been a disturbing trend the past two years.. reporting MSM stories which are either already saturated or two days old. Stick with the tech stuff please.
how about.. unequivocally no. Please tell me where it ends? Am I next going to be required to make my home wheel chair accessable with braile under the doorbell (which flashes so the deaf will know it rings)? How much are we to pay in taxes and companies in profit to accomodate 1% of the population? And how many of that 1% will ever even make use of these things? As someone else said - let the market sort this out. And charities as well. But we are well past the point of a 'well meaning' in the use of these disability laws.
they do themself more damage than good but are too clueless to realize it. I twice called the RNC in DC to complain about the spam email lists they have bought to no avail. They were not targeted lists and contained addresses out of use for over 10 years (the only reason they don't bounce is I still have emails to that domain forwarded). So to hear they are pissing people off with autodialers on purpose, somehow believing it will hurt the Democrat candidate.. well I'm not shocked. Its time for a good house cleaning in the RNC and hopefully it will begin tomorrow.
you sir, are on crack. Perhaps no one alerted you, the wall fell in 1989. Why stop at software?
why not hardware too? Why should Intel and AMD be able to patent and copyright their work and *gasp* make money off of it? I mean if it was all out there in the open for the taking we could just fiddle with it a bit and send it off to a 3rd party fab to get our chips made for real cheap. But then again, why stop there? Why should those guys make any money for running some dopey electronic equipment to make the chips?
I suppose you also think authors should give their works away for free as well? Afterall, I'm sure you can edit their book a bit better than the publisher and certainly you could add a few paragraphs here and there. I'm also sure that professor will take the time to write and rewrite a 600 page text book just to give it away because he wants to help.
Should an architect give you blueprints for a new house for free? Its just like OSS. You and one of your buds can take that plan and then pencil in a window here or there, maybe add another room. Then you can put it out on the net and everyone can use it to build their new house.
thank you for sourcing his comments. Yet it remains a fact that the Senator from VT did not (apparently) himself seek out the media. The NY Times? MSNBC? CBS? There are any number of media outlets he could have pressed this debate on and frankly I would have liked ot have heard about it in more detail as I'm opposed to it, at least the way it is now written. I'm also (as must be apparent) equally sick of Dems tossing around evil consipiracy theories for every thing either Bush does or worse, laws that he signs that come out of Congress. Sadly what is needed now is 535 new elected representatives/senators.
So in essense you have said the Democratic party is spineless. If they will not stand on principle to gain power, why should we then expect them to stand on principle while in power? Will they not be just the same, doing what ever they preceive is required to get their base 100% behind them to stay in power?
Oh so shocking that the Senator from VT would cry about the bill after it is passed. Where were the Dems when it was voted on? Where was the fillibuster? And all you Katrina 'why didn't the feds do more' whiners are now getting exactly what you deserve.
one needs a beam of sufficient luminosity / small emmitance to be useful on its own wthough I suppose this could start off as an injector to a more traditional accelerator.
I think the bigger issue, for me at least, is that this is not quite up to the standards for a Nobel prize. Yes, it was hard and challenging experimental work - but for all intents it confirmed what was already known or believed true with near certainty. Important? Yes. Groundbreaking? No.
Or probably more correctly, most BSD like of the various linux distros. There is very little guessing as to whats where and in general its hard to break. But no its probably not for people who enjoy tracking down why the latest greatest of XYZ has broken or worse, caused other things to screw up. Slack is kinda the Ronco of linux - set it and forget it!
the tech industry is responsible for some nasty nasty pollution in CA; perhaps they should clean up their own house first before moving on to more 'noble' causes?
ok yes, but what about using your ipod (or equiv) or phone for that? And even if one were reading lecture notes at same time I would venture that is a small market - students who have profs who put everything online AND actually need to use it because they skip class or take poor notes.
From a mass market appeal standpoint I think bigger screen less extras the way to go until you can do both at same or lower price point. I'd also try to minimize space used by all buttons.
based on the specs of 6" diagonal and 800/600 format, that gives 4.8Hx3.6W. The width is almost, but not quite sufficient - a typical paperback is 4" wide including the margin. However, the 4.8H is poor as the generic paperback is around abouts 6 3/4". As most people won't want text sizes smaller than existing paperback formats this means significantly more page turning - a 500 page paperback would require ~ 780 pages on this device.
I tend to agree with an earlier poster that while music capability is nice, it seems to add too much to cost and size away from screen. Sony would have done better to start with just the reading capability in a screen size identical to mass market paperback w/ 3 buttons (up,down and a toggle for menus). So almost, but not quite.
ok but riddle me this - in nyc NBC will carry it at.. 3:35am in a timeslot to 430am. The original episodes ran 50 minutes and a few seconds. So how much are they gonna cut out? 15 mins? 20 mins? Kinda lame if you ask me
DoofusofDeath makes a few good points, though somewhat skirting the issue of the need for the instructor to have feedback not so much to determine who is or isn't learning, but to have a better feel for what lectures went well and which didn't so that he can attempt to modify his approach to avoid the 'bad' lectures.
But more important is that in anything short of a massive lecture like ECO 101, student interaction - either via professor questions, student questions or class discussion is a valuable part of the learning process, many times more so than the "lecture" itself. By not attending the class you are in effect cheating the rest of the class of potentially valuable input - even if it is just a totally glazed over stare into space.
Now while it may be true that the loss of any one person in a class on any given day is not a big issue, the problem is availability of video such as proposed could encourage a mass exodus, especially for those 8am lectures:) That would not be a good thing.
My recommendation would be professor controlled access via class list, ie a checkbox grid of lectures by student names. Anyone missing lecture could go to the professor later and request on-line access. This would give the professor an idea of who is missing classes and also require some degree of motivation (and sense of guilt) on part of the student. Additionally an option can be available for the professor to release all lectures the week before mid-term/final exam.
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In fact, ultimately his most important decision was to sign the Helsinki accords against the opinion of his party and frankly many in the US at that time. People thought it was a copout to codify the post WWII boundaries but he recognized that the human rights provisions would be a timebomb ticking inside of the USSR. It was not long after that dissent began to appear in the combloc, specifically Poland. These were the first cracks in the soviet empire.
so.. what about a public library with a photocopier? They provide the card
catalog and the source material as well as the means to infringe copyright. Hence
they should be shutdown, fined and sent to jail as there is no telling how many
pages of books or periodicals people might copy illegally after looking the item up
in the catalog index.
better analogy:
it is not required that you buy a dvd of a movie when buying a new dvd player. Certainly
the new dvd player is useless and performs no function until such a time as you load a
dvd of some content. One can view the pc in a similar manner - it plays content, be
that the windows os, linux, bsd or your own home grown asm os.
Exactly. But it was a poor choice of example. Of greater concern would be data centers handling ecommerce or other kinds of transactional data - though anyone with that much business probably has considered this when setting up a backup datacenter.
As much of this is regulated at that level. In my state (in the north east), insurance companies are required to provide single payer hmo/ppo type policies at rates which are "approved" by the state. Lest you think that keeps the costs down, you are wrong - these state agencies are basically a rubber stamp when it comes to rate increases. My premium for a basic HMO with a well known company increased a very consistent 15-17% per year every year after my COBRA ran out. This past year, after my renewal premium hit $590/month I found (through the chamber of commerce) an association which basically amounts to a front to provide lower cost insurance. In fact, you become a union member and as such pay union dues as part of your monthly premium (in fact, in my case I'm in a sub of a Teamsters union so dont *uck with me!). I now have coverage from a different name brand provider at about $100 a month less. My one disappointment has been the drug benefit which is not as good and results in slightly more out of pocket. I figure by the time its all said and done I'll likely save about $700 bucks. Not a ton, but heck its money.
its not that I don't ever want to read something political on here but clearly /. does tech the best. I hope you would agree repeating a headline that they already say is redundant is..well redundant as is running stories which came out 24-48 hours before on every wire service. But even this is getting off topic :)
how about.. unequivocally no. Please tell me where it ends? Am I next going to be required to make my home wheel chair accessable with braile under the doorbell (which flashes so the deaf will know it rings)? How much are we to pay in taxes and companies in profit to accomodate 1% of the population? And how many of that 1% will ever even make use of these things? As someone else said - let the market sort this out. And charities as well. But we are well past the point of a 'well meaning' in the use of these disability laws.
they do themself more damage than good but are too clueless to realize it. I twice called the RNC in DC to complain about the spam email lists they have bought to no avail. They were not targeted lists and contained addresses out of use for over 10 years (the only reason they don't bounce is I still have emails to that domain forwarded). So to hear they are pissing people off with autodialers on purpose, somehow believing it will hurt the Democrat candidate.. well I'm not shocked. Its time for a good house cleaning in the RNC and hopefully it will begin tomorrow.
you sir, are on crack. Perhaps no one alerted you, the wall fell in 1989. Why stop at software? why not hardware too? Why should Intel and AMD be able to patent and copyright their work and *gasp* make money off of it? I mean if it was all out there in the open for the taking we could just fiddle with it a bit and send it off to a 3rd party fab to get our chips made for real cheap. But then again, why stop there? Why should those guys make any money for running some dopey electronic equipment to make the chips?
I suppose you also think authors should give their works away for free as well? Afterall, I'm sure you can edit their book a bit better than the publisher and certainly you could add a few paragraphs here and there. I'm also sure that professor will take the time to write and rewrite a 600 page text book just to give it away because he wants to help.
Should an architect give you blueprints for a new house for free? Its just like OSS. You and one of your buds can take that plan and then pencil in a window here or there, maybe add another room. Then you can put it out on the net and everyone can use it to build their new house.
thank you for sourcing his comments. Yet it remains a fact that the Senator from VT did not (apparently) himself seek out the media. The NY Times? MSNBC? CBS? There are any number of media outlets he could have pressed this debate on and frankly I would have liked ot have heard about it in more detail as I'm opposed to it, at least the way it is now written. I'm also (as must be apparent) equally sick of Dems tossing around evil consipiracy theories for every thing either Bush does or worse, laws that he signs that come out of Congress. Sadly what is needed now is 535 new elected representatives/senators.
So in essense you have said the Democratic party is spineless. If they will not stand on principle to gain power, why should we then expect them to stand on principle while in power? Will they not be just the same, doing what ever they preceive is required to get their base 100% behind them to stay in power?
Oh so shocking that the Senator from VT would cry about the bill after it is passed. Where were the Dems when it was voted on? Where was the fillibuster? And all you Katrina 'why didn't the feds do more' whiners are now getting exactly what you deserve.
one needs a beam of sufficient luminosity / small emmitance to be useful on its own wthough I suppose this could start off as an injector to a more traditional accelerator.
I think the bigger issue, for me at least, is that this is not quite up to the standards for a Nobel prize. Yes, it was hard and challenging experimental work - but for all intents it confirmed what was already known or believed true with near certainty. Important? Yes. Groundbreaking? No.
hmmmm.. perhaps if we build it on the surface they will come...
Or probably more correctly, most BSD like of the various linux distros. There is very little guessing as to whats where and in general its hard to break. But no its probably not for people who enjoy tracking down why the latest greatest of XYZ has broken or worse, caused other things to screw up. Slack is kinda the Ronco of linux - set it and forget it!
the tech industry is responsible for some nasty nasty pollution in CA; perhaps they should clean up their own house first before moving on to more 'noble' causes?
ok yes, but what about using your ipod (or equiv) or phone for
that? And even if one were reading lecture notes at same time I
would venture that is a small market - students who have profs who
put everything online AND actually need to use it because they skip
class or take poor notes.
From a mass market appeal standpoint I think bigger screen less
extras the way to go until you can do both at same or lower price
point. I'd also try to minimize space used by all buttons.
based on the specs of 6" diagonal and 800/600 format, that gives 4.8Hx3.6W. The width is almost, but not quite sufficient - a typical paperback is 4" wide including the margin. However, the 4.8H is poor as the generic paperback is around abouts 6 3/4". As most people won't want text sizes smaller than existing paperback formats this means significantly more page turning - a 500 page paperback would require ~ 780 pages on this device.
I tend to agree with an earlier poster that while music capability is nice, it seems to add too much to cost and size away from screen. Sony would have done better to start with just the reading capability in a screen size identical to mass market paperback w/ 3 buttons (up,down and a toggle for menus). So almost, but not quite.
and there are quite a few letters they can add after the ticker,
probably starting with 'E'... DELLE
36 credits in last semester? Hello? What school allows this kind of crap? And how the heck
was he even able to schedule 12 classes?
ok but riddle me this - in nyc NBC will carry it at .. 3:35am in a timeslot to 430am. The
original episodes ran 50 minutes and a few seconds. So how much are they gonna cut out? 15 mins?
20 mins? Kinda lame if you ask me
DoofusofDeath makes a few good points, though somewhat skirting the issue of the need for the instructor to have feedback not so much to determine who is or isn't learning, but to have a better feel for what lectures went well and which didn't so that he can attempt to modify his approach to avoid the 'bad' lectures.
:) That would not be a good thing.
But more important is that in anything short of a massive lecture like ECO 101, student interaction - either via professor questions, student questions or class discussion is a valuable part of the learning process, many times more so than the "lecture" itself. By not attending the class you are in effect cheating the rest of the class of potentially valuable input - even if it is just a totally glazed over stare into space.
Now while it may be true that the loss of any one person in a class on any given day is not a big issue, the problem is availability of video such as proposed could encourage a mass exodus, especially for those 8am lectures
My recommendation would be professor controlled access via class list, ie a checkbox grid of lectures by student names. Anyone missing lecture could go to the professor later and request on-line access. This would give the professor an idea of who is missing classes and also require some degree of motivation (and sense of guilt) on part of the student. Additionally an option can be available for the professor to release all lectures the week before mid-term/final exam.