The kids are using APPS, not eBooks.
The quote is from someone going to college that says the iPad eBooks are cheaper.
Being an iPad-using college student myself, I can tell you that when there is an actual eBook available (ePub or PDF), it is about 1/2 the list price of the hardcover "textbook".
However, the secondary market is eliminated as it is not easy to sell a DRM'ed eBook, so the cost savings are upfront only. You end up paying the same price over the life of the course compared to students who buy the books at list price and then sell them later for 1/2 price.
agreed, every USB stick I have used has been formatted FAT32 so it could be used on either Mac or Windows.
Students I know tend to carry around their data on these things so they can use whatever computer is available wherever they are.
I've found about six USB drives in various places off campus and they have all been filled with student homework.
... TL;DR I never would've checked out the HP Touchpad except for the price. But now that I have, it has already displaced my iPad as a better product for my needs.
So now that you have used both, if you could go back in time, would you pay $499 (original list price I believe) for the Touchpad?
This only applies to apps that are used to communicate with an external device of some sort.
It isn't planning to oversee all health apps - just those medical apps that could present a risk to patients if the apps don’t work as intended.
It specifies the following two categories of mobile medical apps:
a: those used as an accessory to medical device already regulated by the FDA. (For example, an application that allows a health care professional to make a specific diagnosis by viewing a medical image from a picture archiving and communication system (PACS) on a smartphone or a mobile tablet)
b: transform a mobile communications device into a regulated medical device by using attachments, sensors or other devices. (For example, an application that turns a smartphone into an ECG machine to detect abnormal heart rhythms or determine if a patient is experiencing a heart attack).
The FDA wants interested parties including software creators to comment on its proposals during the next 90-days.
but not 100% yet.
Apparently Florida voted to require 50% of their textbook budgets on digital materials by 2015: LINK
I personally don't think that "digital textbooks" have to look and feel like "printed textbooks." Why does it have to be a replication of a printed book?
One of the reasons that new textbooks cost so much is that there is a huge secondary market (used textbooks) that removes the original publisher from the revenue stream.
Every one of my classes requires a textbook, but the instructor will accept the use of previous versions.
Out of 24 students in one science class, I would say 8 of them have brand new books, another 8 have used books, the rest have used previous versions of the book and there are always a couple of people that borrowed a copy and used a photocopier someplace to copy all 1000 pages....
Students don't even have a textbook because the instructor will say that all the tests are based on lecture notes and PPT that are provided. When needed, they go to the library for the book.
So the publisher is only getting money from 8 of those students.
What they are trying to figure out is how to get revenue from ALL of them without giving them something they can copy and pass around.
it is already being done.
I'm in college right now and looked up what my options were for digital versions of my textbooks.
A Microbiology textbook that cost $180 in hardcover was $84 "digital" but it was not a PDF. It was originally a PDF but converted to FLASH and only readable on a computer AND while connected to the internet.
The license was only good for 180 days as well.
There was an "option" to download a few chapters at a time to read offline, but the license to read those files expired after a week or so.
Publishers already include a myriad of other digital options with the purchase of a new hardcover book. All the digital options have expiration dates and limit you to using them while connected to the internet.
Btw I wonder if it all goes through iCloud or if, for example, I have my Mac and iPhone on the same network it syncs locally.
I don't believe it syncs locally, unless you can make it work through your Time Capsule device somehow.
iCloud will use iTunes Match to sample your library. Any "matches" to music files that you did NOT purchase through iTunes that Apple has a license to use will be available to you without uploading for $24.99 a year.
Of course you could elect not to use iCloud or the iTunes Match service at all, or maybe just for some items.
A quick look at the article and it appears people are basically complaining about a recent spate of malware-laden ads that targeted Mac users.
If you rolled over the "Mac Defender" ad recently (it was everywhere) or maybe even just landed on a page where it existed, the ad would hijack the browser to some other site that "appeared" to be your Mac Desktop and it was "actively" scanning for infections.
It prompted you to download and install something.
It also threw up a pile of popups
The only way to get away from it was to close the browser window(s) or quit the browser.
I have to admit that I was a bit stunned at how effective it was. It was quite clever. I thought I was pretty immune to the social engineering side of this stuff, but if this had me thinking twice, I can't imagine how your average Mac user would react. Still not sure how AV software would prevent any of this.
Was that the Apple Powerbook 540c (2.3" thick, 7.3 lbs, not counting the power supply)?
oh yeah, that was what I WANTED but I could only afford the 520c.
I think I then spent $400 on a Sonnet upgrade or something to get it close to the 540c but the 540c still had a better screen.
I still have that chunky thing. It was beautiful.
That would be me, my wife, her son and daughter in law and their 3 teenage boys (the grandkids)
I think we had the entire spectrum of possible viewers there that night.
I saw the film when it came out in 1982 and remember how great it was in the context of the day.
My wife saw it but doesn't remember much because she was too busy being a Mom and dealing with her 8 year old SON who she had apparently taken to the theater to see TRON.
She spend most of the movie saying "I don't understand what is going on, which one is Tron? They all look alike, I don't remember any of this".
Her son (now 36) sat silently and did not comment. I'm pretty sure he lapped it up but did not want to admit it to his kids.
And while the movie is on I am trying to explain the context of the original to the 3 boys who see an arcade filled with video games and think WTF is up with that?
They paid attention and just dealt with it.
As soon as it was done, the youngest went outside and made a snowman while the other 2 made a few comments about how dull the story was.
That and a discussion ensued about "Why do movies always make the future look like flat grids and cubes and things?" Which then became a discussion of vector graphics which then bored the hell out of them.
Then my wife and I took the 3 grandkids to Tron: Legacy in 3D yesterday.
I personally thought the story was better and that it was not really necessary to have seen the original, my wife agreed but then she will forget what Tron:Legacy was about in a month or so anyways.
However, she was obsessed with how they got Jeff Bridges to look old and young in the same film.
The 3 teenage boys had a great time with the new film and during the *very* short discussion that followed before they began to wrestle they decided that they liked seeing the original before the new one.
This was a surprise for me.
One of them pointed out to the others "Hey remember how dated the original looked and it was only 27 years old? How do you think this film is going to look to us in 27 years?" This then started a discussion about the future and technology that stopped as soon as they got home and started a snowball fight.
I was a little disappointed by the lead up.
I thought it was going to be about some botnet that used a honeypot to harvest spam emails and auto-filed individual lawsuits by the bazillions or something. It's not.
I am going to send him an email asking if he would license me that contract to use for my own domain.
I wonder if I would get a bill? After all it would be an unsolicited commercial email.
not owning a Kindle I don't understand why there is even a need to have the two "hooks" connected in any way by a piece of conductive material.
They are not powering a lamp, they just keep the Kindle attached to the leather case.
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The kids are using APPS, not eBooks.
The quote is from someone going to college that says the iPad eBooks are cheaper.
Being an iPad-using college student myself, I can tell you that when there is an actual eBook available (ePub or PDF), it is about 1/2 the list price of the hardcover "textbook".
However, the secondary market is eliminated as it is not easy to sell a DRM'ed eBook, so the cost savings are upfront only.
You end up paying the same price over the life of the course compared to students who buy the books at list price and then sell them later for 1/2 price.
agreed, every USB stick I have used has been formatted FAT32 so it could be used on either Mac or Windows. Students I know tend to carry around their data on these things so they can use whatever computer is available wherever they are. I've found about six USB drives in various places off campus and they have all been filled with student homework.
We have those, albeit a bit larger and they are at Walgreens, CVS and SAMS Club...
parent is correct: "HIPPA" does not apply to anyone connected with this incident.
... TL;DR I never would've checked out the HP Touchpad except for the price. But now that I have, it has already displaced my iPad as a better product for my needs.
So now that you have used both, if you could go back in time, would you pay $499 (original list price I believe) for the Touchpad?
Take orders for 1.25 million @ $99
Only have 250K in stock.
profit!
If the devices you refer to are made of rejected parts that may die in 90 days or behave erratically, are you still interested in it at $200?
I had to shut it off after the fifth one though.... incredibly depressing to watch.
It isn't planning to oversee all health apps - just those medical apps that could present a risk to patients if the apps don’t work as intended.
It specifies the following two categories of mobile medical apps:
a: those used as an accessory to medical device already regulated by the FDA.
(For example, an application that allows a health care professional to make a specific diagnosis by viewing a medical image from a picture archiving and communication system (PACS) on a smartphone or a mobile tablet)
b: transform a mobile communications device into a regulated medical device by using attachments, sensors or other devices.
(For example, an application that turns a smartphone into an ECG machine to detect abnormal heart rhythms or determine if a patient is experiencing a heart attack).
The FDA wants interested parties including software creators to comment on its proposals during the next 90-days.
but not 100% yet.
Apparently Florida voted to require 50% of their textbook budgets on digital materials by 2015: LINK
I personally don't think that "digital textbooks" have to look and feel like "printed textbooks."
Why does it have to be a replication of a printed book?
One of the reasons that new textbooks cost so much is that there is a huge secondary market (used textbooks) that removes the original publisher from the revenue stream.
Every one of my classes requires a textbook, but the instructor will accept the use of previous versions.
Out of 24 students in one science class, I would say 8 of them have brand new books, another 8 have used books, the rest have used previous versions of the book and there are always a couple of people that borrowed a copy and used a photocopier someplace to copy all 1000 pages....
Students don't even have a textbook because the instructor will say that all the tests are based on lecture notes and PPT that are provided. When needed, they go to the library for the book.
So the publisher is only getting money from 8 of those students.
What they are trying to figure out is how to get revenue from ALL of them without giving them something they can copy and pass around.
it is already being done.
I'm in college right now and looked up what my options were for digital versions of my textbooks.
A Microbiology textbook that cost $180 in hardcover was $84 "digital" but it was not a PDF. It was originally a PDF but converted to FLASH and only readable on a computer AND while connected to the internet.
The license was only good for 180 days as well.
There was an "option" to download a few chapters at a time to read offline, but the license to read those files expired after a week or so.
Publishers already include a myriad of other digital options with the purchase of a new hardcover book. All the digital options have expiration dates and limit you to using them while connected to the internet.
Btw I wonder if it all goes through iCloud or if, for example, I have my Mac and iPhone on the same network it syncs locally.
I don't believe it syncs locally, unless you can make it work through your Time Capsule device somehow.
iCloud will use iTunes Match to sample your library.
Any "matches" to music files that you did NOT purchase through iTunes that Apple has a license to use will be available to you without uploading for $24.99 a year.
Of course you could elect not to use iCloud or the iTunes Match service at all, or maybe just for some items.
A quick look at the article and it appears people are basically complaining about a recent spate of malware-laden ads that targeted Mac users.
If you rolled over the "Mac Defender" ad recently (it was everywhere) or maybe even just landed on a page where it existed, the ad would hijack the browser to some other site that "appeared" to be your Mac Desktop and it was "actively" scanning for infections.
It prompted you to download and install something.
It also threw up a pile of popups
The only way to get away from it was to close the browser window(s) or quit the browser.
I have to admit that I was a bit stunned at how effective it was. It was quite clever.
I thought I was pretty immune to the social engineering side of this stuff, but if this had me thinking twice, I can't imagine how your average Mac user would react.
Still not sure how AV software would prevent any of this.
Paying for the privilege of shopping at a store?
Who would fall for such a thing?
I thought kids just squirted their info these days.
Was that the Apple Powerbook 540c (2.3" thick, 7.3 lbs, not counting the power supply)?
oh yeah, that was what I WANTED but I could only afford the 520c.
I think I then spent $400 on a Sonnet upgrade or something to get it close to the 540c but the 540c still had a better screen.
I still have that chunky thing. It was beautiful.
since when did Sony become the Federal Government?
I see nothing in the linked article(s) about "free speech rights." What did I miss here?
and she gave me a really odd look when I said she could do ballistics calculations while doing Yoga.
wife: "It says WWII, not WII"
It's also likely that the charges wouldn't stick, and he wouldn't be convicted under that Act, because of the reasons you cite.
But while he is waiting for his fair trial his lawyers argue that he may sit in Guantanamo Bay for...oh...ever?
That would be me, my wife, her son and daughter in law and their 3 teenage boys (the grandkids)
I think we had the entire spectrum of possible viewers there that night.
I saw the film when it came out in 1982 and remember how great it was in the context of the day.
My wife saw it but doesn't remember much because she was too busy being a Mom and dealing with her 8 year old SON who she had apparently taken to the theater to see TRON.
She spend most of the movie saying "I don't understand what is going on, which one is Tron? They all look alike, I don't remember any of this".
Her son (now 36) sat silently and did not comment. I'm pretty sure he lapped it up but did not want to admit it to his kids.
And while the movie is on I am trying to explain the context of the original to the 3 boys who see an arcade filled with video games and think WTF is up with that?
They paid attention and just dealt with it.
As soon as it was done, the youngest went outside and made a snowman while the other 2 made a few comments about how dull the story was.
That and a discussion ensued about "Why do movies always make the future look like flat grids and cubes and things?" Which then became a discussion of vector graphics which then bored the hell out of them.
Then my wife and I took the 3 grandkids to Tron: Legacy in 3D yesterday.
I personally thought the story was better and that it was not really necessary to have seen the original, my wife agreed but then she will forget what Tron:Legacy was about in a month or so anyways.
However, she was obsessed with how they got Jeff Bridges to look old and young in the same film.
The 3 teenage boys had a great time with the new film and during the *very* short discussion that followed before they began to wrestle they decided that they liked seeing the original before the new one.
This was a surprise for me.
One of them pointed out to the others "Hey remember how dated the original looked and it was only 27 years old? How do you think this film is going to look to us in 27 years?" This then started a discussion about the future and technology that stopped as soon as they got home and started a snowball fight.
I was a little disappointed by the lead up.
I thought it was going to be about some botnet that used a honeypot to harvest spam emails and auto-filed individual lawsuits by the bazillions or something.
It's not.
I am going to send him an email asking if he would license me that contract to use for my own domain.
I wonder if I would get a bill? After all it would be an unsolicited commercial email.
not owning a Kindle I don't understand why there is even a need to have the two "hooks" connected in any way by a piece of conductive material.
They are not powering a lamp, they just keep the Kindle attached to the leather case.
I did too but changed quantity to "3" so now I will have 2 for spares!