Several years ago I had a similar experience (though not on nearly so large a scale) where I had sold an item online and had a couple hundred in my Paypal account as a result. I could not transfer the money out without becoming a verified account, and for some reason Paypal would not let me verify it. After frequent calls to their tech support and trying everything I could think of, the simplest solution was just to close my account because then they just send a check for the balance and I haven't been back since.
The interface is about as intuitive as you can get, and there are child-friendly apps available. My 21mo daughter loves to play with the touch screen, and can figure out that she needs to touch the icons to get it to do stuff. A friend's slightly older daughter does about the same with their iPad. Both are also synced with a computer, so it's difficult for them to do irreparable damage. Purchasing music/video from the device requires you to enter your iTunes password, so it's not likely they'll be able to buy stuff either.
The downside is that they're fairly expensive, so if your kid is big on jelly-fingers or throwing things, it might require keeping a very close on them.
the roster of formerly cool stars embarrassing themselves by remaining in the public eye long past their sell-by date. Doing this kind of lame public (dis)service crap is like wearing a neon sign saying "IRRELEVANT" in glowing foot-high letters.
I'd recommend an Adamantium-Kryptonite alloy substrate. That way you can ensure that the only being strong enough to damage the material would also be rendered impotent by it.
I already do buy some TV shows on iTunes at the $1.99 price. The $0.99 price will probably get me to watch more shows than I do now. But neither is exactly a cheap price so I tend to only buy shows that I know I like enough to watch multiple times and aren't available through Netflix or streaming online.
A subscription model would often be a lot more appropriate, especially for shows like The Daily Show and The Colbert Report. Currently I watch both of those on my computer for free on Comedy Central's site, even though it'd be a lot more comfy on my couch. But even at $0.99 an episode, I'd be looking at roughly $32 per month to watch both of those. I could get basic cable at that price. If I could subscribe to those two shows for somewhere between $5 and $10/mo I'd jump all over that.
An author writes a book, and plagiarizes most, if not all of it from another copyrighted work. Editor doesn't catch the plagiarism, and passes it on to the publisher for printing. Publisher prints the book and ships to bookstores. Original copyright holder finds this book and is now getting ready to sue.
Who does the original author go after?
The plagiarizing author? The editor? The publisher?
I'm assuming the publisher would have to pull the books from shelves when the plagiarism was shown, but are they legally liable beyond that? I'd expect the suit would have to be directed at the plagiarizing author since they're the one that actually stole the content, and perhaps some liability for the editor since you could reasonable expect them to be familiar with similar works in the field. This seems reasonable to me, but I honestly don't know if that's how it works.
In the Youtube version, Youtube is the publisher and the poster is the author/editor.
It's a cross-disciplinary course required regardless of major. If it wasn't easy, there would be riots.
From the article:
Enduring Questions is a required freshman seminar offered during the spring semester. It is devoted to engaging students with fundamental questions of humanity from multiple perspectives and fostering a sense of community. Each section of the course includes a small group (approximately 15) of students who consider together classic and contemporary works from multiple disciplines. In so doing, students confront what it means to be human and how we understand ourselves, our relationships, and our world.
The daily activity of the course most often involves discussion, and students complete multiple writing assignments for the course. As such, assessment of student performance emphasizes written and oral expression of ideas.
Students may not withdraw from the course. All students must pass the course to graduate from Wabash.
It's essentially a light-weight philosophy course, likely aimed at incoming freshmen. Everybody passes a course like this, if they participate at least a little bit.
That's what I got out of the NPR interview. He wants to grow his department to get through the backlog of patent applications and trying to sell this growth to Congress and the public as job creation. It will create jobs for the new patent examiners he'll need to hire, but I'm not convinced it would do much beyond that. As I understand it, date of filing gives you the protection you need if you're confident your idea won't be rejected. No small business owner is going to submit a patent, then wait around three years before trying to bring it to market.
It's more like paying to watch other people eating.
You realize this is incredibly popular. Cooking shows have been popular for a long time. Food Network is very successful. A show like Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives is not much more than watching a guy eat tons of food and talk about how wonderful it is. If that doesn't fit the analogy perfectly, I don't know what does.
We are hard-wired to love the Four Fs. Feeding, fleeing, fighting, and fucking. And we are more than happy to watch video of all of them.
Cro Magnon was basically correct. The AC was making a comment about not having access to FF+ the pw extension. If it's a computer you have control over, say a new laptop, you can easily install the tools you need.
If you CAN'T install these tools, it's not your computer. It belongs to somebody else, like the list in my original post. If you're actually concerned with security, you should treat that computer as compromised and not enter in any secure data, like passwords.
The Tinfoil Hat Land comment, was meant to indicate I don't think most people need to be concerned to quite that level all the time. I.e., I trust that my work computer is about as secure as my home computer so I'm comfortable logging into various sites and services (say, Slashdot) from there.
On the other hand, you couldn't pay me enough to log into my banking site on a public terminal at a local coffee shop. Those things are the village bicycle.
In Tinfoil Hat Land, if you don't have FF installed, then it's likely not a computer you control*, and if it's a computer you don't control, then should you really be entering your password**?
* It must be a machine at work, friend or family member's house, public terminal like a coffee shop, public library, etc. ** If it's not your computer, you don't know who that computer has "been with". There could be key-loggers, cookie-trackers, syphilis. Who knows!?
Focus on activities you can do together as a family. I'm not sure how active her health allows her to be, but simple things like trips to the park or the zoo can be a wonderful experience and an event you and your children will remember the rest of your lives. If it's hard for her to get around, sitting with her and reading a book or telling stories from your past can be nice as well. These memories may become distorted, but in a positive way. They'll be little pockets of joy in what are otherwise very hard times.
Slashdot Mirror
Yo Mama's so fat she assimilated the Borg.
Several years ago I had a similar experience (though not on nearly so large a scale) where I had sold an item online and had a couple hundred in my Paypal account as a result. I could not transfer the money out without becoming a verified account, and for some reason Paypal would not let me verify it. After frequent calls to their tech support and trying everything I could think of, the simplest solution was just to close my account because then they just send a check for the balance and I haven't been back since.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuff_White_People_Like
Relevant quote:
I'm pretty sure this should be categorized under "The Wrong Kind of White People".
499 Odd City names: http://www.keepersoflists.org/index.php?lid=3864
Now I've just rendered every post after mine redundant. Have at it, mods.
An iPod touch or an iPad aren't bad options.
The interface is about as intuitive as you can get, and there are child-friendly apps available. My 21mo daughter loves to play with the touch screen, and can figure out that she needs to touch the icons to get it to do stuff. A friend's slightly older daughter does about the same with their iPad. Both are also synced with a computer, so it's difficult for them to do irreparable damage. Purchasing music/video from the device requires you to enter your iTunes password, so it's not likely they'll be able to buy stuff either.
The downside is that they're fairly expensive, so if your kid is big on jelly-fingers or throwing things, it might require keeping a very close on them.
He's the Apple of political discourse! Quick, somebody get him a turtle neck!
That's part of the whole "I'm a scientist"!
You'd think so, but I'm in it for the chicks.
the roster of formerly cool stars embarrassing themselves by remaining in the public eye long past their sell-by date. Doing this kind of lame public (dis)service crap is like wearing a neon sign saying "IRRELEVANT" in glowing foot-high letters.
Cut it out. You're going to make Ice Cube cry.
New turn by turn directions:
Destination close.
You're getting warmer...
warmer...
super-hot!
You're on fire!
Agreed. The content may have been inane, but that's not PowerPoint's fault.
I'd recommend an Adamantium-Kryptonite alloy substrate. That way you can ensure that the only being strong enough to damage the material would also be rendered impotent by it.
I already do buy some TV shows on iTunes at the $1.99 price. The $0.99 price will probably get me to watch more shows than I do now. But neither is exactly a cheap price so I tend to only buy shows that I know I like enough to watch multiple times and aren't available through Netflix or streaming online.
A subscription model would often be a lot more appropriate, especially for shows like The Daily Show and The Colbert Report. Currently I watch both of those on my computer for free on Comedy Central's site, even though it'd be a lot more comfy on my couch. But even at $0.99 an episode, I'd be looking at roughly $32 per month to watch both of those. I could get basic cable at that price. If I could subscribe to those two shows for somewhere between $5 and $10/mo I'd jump all over that.
Mine's always alternating...
Thanks for the post. That was actually very helpful. Not used to that around here :)
Perhaps a slightly better analogy:
An author writes a book, and plagiarizes most, if not all of it from another copyrighted work.
Editor doesn't catch the plagiarism, and passes it on to the publisher for printing.
Publisher prints the book and ships to bookstores.
Original copyright holder finds this book and is now getting ready to sue.
Who does the original author go after?
The plagiarizing author?
The editor?
The publisher?
I'm assuming the publisher would have to pull the books from shelves when the plagiarism was shown, but are they legally liable beyond that?
I'd expect the suit would have to be directed at the plagiarizing author since they're the one that actually stole the content, and perhaps some liability for the editor since you could reasonable expect them to be familiar with similar works in the field.
This seems reasonable to me, but I honestly don't know if that's how it works.
In the Youtube version, Youtube is the publisher and the poster is the author/editor.
It's a cross-disciplinary course required regardless of major. If it wasn't easy, there would be riots.
From the article:
It's essentially a light-weight philosophy course, likely aimed at incoming freshmen. Everybody passes a course like this, if they participate at least a little bit.
That's what I got out of the NPR interview. He wants to grow his department to get through the backlog of patent applications and trying to sell this growth to Congress and the public as job creation.
It will create jobs for the new patent examiners he'll need to hire, but I'm not convinced it would do much beyond that.
As I understand it, date of filing gives you the protection you need if you're confident your idea won't be rejected. No small business owner is going to submit a patent, then wait around three years before trying to bring it to market.
Great. Now we're going to have a chain of comments competing for +5, Insightfuls.
Mod points are a restricted resource, people! Let's not fritter them away like a "digg" or a "like"!
It's why I play as Zerg.
I have been to a church that said that. The day they said that was the last time I set foot in a church--about 12 years ago.
It's more like paying to watch other people eating.
You realize this is incredibly popular. Cooking shows have been popular for a long time. Food Network is very successful. A show like Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives is not much more than watching a guy eat tons of food and talk about how wonderful it is. If that doesn't fit the analogy perfectly, I don't know what does.
We are hard-wired to love the Four Fs. Feeding, fleeing, fighting, and fucking. And we are more than happy to watch video of all of them.
Cro Magnon was basically correct. The AC was making a comment about not having access to FF+ the pw extension. If it's a computer you have control over, say a new laptop, you can easily install the tools you need.
If you CAN'T install these tools, it's not your computer. It belongs to somebody else, like the list in my original post. If you're actually concerned with security, you should treat that computer as compromised and not enter in any secure data, like passwords.
The Tinfoil Hat Land comment, was meant to indicate I don't think most people need to be concerned to quite that level all the time. I.e., I trust that my work computer is about as secure as my home computer so I'm comfortable logging into various sites and services (say, Slashdot) from there.
On the other hand, you couldn't pay me enough to log into my banking site on a public terminal at a local coffee shop. Those things are the village bicycle.
In Tinfoil Hat Land, if you don't have FF installed, then it's likely not a computer you control*, and if it's a computer you don't control, then should you really be entering your password**?
* It must be a machine at work, friend or family member's house, public terminal like a coffee shop, public library, etc.
** If it's not your computer, you don't know who that computer has "been with". There could be key-loggers, cookie-trackers, syphilis. Who knows!?
Focus on activities you can do together as a family. I'm not sure how active her health allows her to be, but simple things like trips to the park or the zoo can be a wonderful experience and an event you and your children will remember the rest of your lives. If it's hard for her to get around, sitting with her and reading a book or telling stories from your past can be nice as well. These memories may become distorted, but in a positive way. They'll be little pockets of joy in what are otherwise very hard times.