Kushner and his ilk are probably more upset that, the more that students choose engineering and business, the less they will choose humanities and social science majors that are nothing more than indoctrinations in leftist ideology and political correctness.
Yea, right. NOT! It's engineering and business majors that having to pay more not humanities. Raising prices here is exactly how to drive more students to major in humanities or social sciences, which should make him happy according to you, not upset like he really is.
Have we ever sent people to college without the expectation that the cost would be recouped by higher earning potential for the rest of the person's career?
There's two problems with this, first by raising the cost of an education in some fields such as Engineering and Science, you're pricing low income students out of getting such an education. Secondly, I don't know where you are and how it is there, but in US the average person changes their career three tymes before they retire, so using what their major is as an indicator of how much they will earn yields false results. One of my favorite professors got his double doctorate, in mathematics and physics from Purdue. After finishing he joined the Peace Corp and was sent to Guyana to teach. When he came back he was offered some really good paying jobs, both in industry and and universities. However because he wanted to teach and not do research he took a job as a prof at the community college I went to. He didn't get paid as much though, which he was willing to forgo higher earnings in order to teach.
And I know of a few business schools that package hardware/software into their tuition fees now as well.
In the US more and more colleges and universities are requiring freshmen students to have a laptop, so give students one and include the price in the tuition.
We managed to replace a lot of outdated scopes and other equipment, and I'm sure the fees were at least partially to thank for that. I can see how an Engineering degree could cost more compared to, for example, a liberal arts degree. Liberal arts majors don't require access to tens of thousands of dollars worth of electronics to get their education.
That's easy enough to deal with, instead of raising tuition raise the lab fee, if there is no fee for classes requiring lab then institute one. That way only those students taking a lab class has to pay for the lab equipment.
This is normal in the rest of the world. The law of supply and demand you know - let the free market decide the pricing...
No, the US isn't a capitalist country, it hasn't been one since the 1800s. The USA is nothing like what Alexis de Tocqueville saw when he tured the USA in the 1820s/30s, which inspired him the right the book "Democracy in America". Today the US is a corporate socialist nation.
Well, like it or not, a humanities degree is cheap compared to engineering or science. All that lab equipment (and space) costs money, not to mention the people who set it up and keep it running. I'm not saying I agree with differential pricing, I'm just pointing out the costs.
While it's true all that lab equipment costs more, every class I've taken with a lab component had a lab fee as well as tuition students paid. If the lab fee isn't able to cover the costs of the equipment then raise the fees. That way students won't have to pay more for classes that don't have a lab.
The point I was trying to make, my friend, is that although an external HDD could hold more pictures, using an iPod allows one to view the pictures as well, and that would be the storage capacity tradeoff.
Though it might be alright for some, I don't like the trade off of being able to view photos on an external device over the storage capacity of an external hdd. Maybe I didn't make it clear earlier but the reason I want an external hdd is for backup. I can use one to make a backup then store it offsite. I could also take one with me when I go out into the field and take photos when I don't bring my laptop. And I can burn through a lot of film, I've gone through 3 or 4 rolls of 36 exposure film in a day. Shooting digital I'd shoot a lot more as I wouldn't need to think of running out and getting more film, and it's easy enough to delete photos that aren't good, which I don't like doing. Shooting medium format, like a 645 which I hope to get rsn, requires a lot more digital storage.
Funny, I tried clicking on the "Buy Now" button, and got this message:
"Sorry
The item you have selected is currently not available from the Apple Store."
Ah, you caught me, I didn't click on the link. Perhaps I made a fool of myself but if Apple shows an accessory for an iPod on the iPod homepage I'd think they sold it, or had a link to where it could be bought. If they are no longer selling it they need to change the page.
When a thief plugs the protected ipod into an unauthorized computer, the ipod asks if he wants to authorize that computer. He/she can't because they cannot log into your iTms account. That computer also sends its IP address and your ipod serial number to Apple
The computer can't send it's IP addie if it's not connected to the net or if a firewall is being used. And it won't be long before someone breaks the code, so while it may make it harder for a causal thief to use an iPod it won't deter a determined crook, look cellphone have all these things yet they get stolen all the tyme.
Secondarily, there is an advantage to the multiplication factor, as if you use, say, the 70-200/f2.8 IS on a APS-framed camera you're now shooting with a 320mm f2.8 STABILIZED zoom lens that's, what, five pounds lighter and eight inches shorter than the 300mm f2.8 IS FF version. Not to mention about $2,000 cheaper.
Not if you're using macro or other wide angle lenses. Neither is it lighter when you're carrying both camera film and digital bodies as well as the lenses for each, though I want to get a dslr I'll still continue to use my film slr. Though it's been a long tyme since I have I love working in darkrooms and hope to set one up where I live. In other words I want to work with both digital and film photography. Actually besides getting a dslr I first want to get a medium format camera, say a 645, with a film back. Eventually I'd like to get a digital back for it as well. Within the next few weeks I plan on joining a photographers association, IFP Minneasota. In doing so, I'll take some classes they have, such as using a medium format camera and working with digital cameras and Photoshop. I'll also look to see if I can work as an assistant for a pro photographer to get a start in working as a photographer. See, I'm on disability and haven't worked in years, however I think I can work in photography. I first took a class in photography in high school. And the last tyme I was in college I took photography then as well. Because of an accident that resulted in my disability while attending college where I was majoring in Computer Engineering I basically had to start all over again. So when I started college again I was majoring in programming, which I struggled with due to my memory being damaged.
In other words, the thieves can listen to YOUR playlists all they want, recharging with a car or AC adapter. When they plug it into a computer, it will stop charging, and not start again with any charger until factory reset or plugged into the original computer.
BS!!! I should be able to connect, and charge, an iPod to any computer.
...... I don't think Apple should be deciding where I can charge my iPod........
They wouldn't as long as you are the legal owner. Only after a thief plugs it into another computer to sync/charge it, would the ipod be locked.
Apple shouldn't be telling me what computers I can and can't plug an iPod into either. And exactly how would Apple know if it was stolen? If I use an iPod to store files or photos and want to share them with a friend it's none of Apple's business. But if they make it so I can't charge my iPod, if I had one but don't, when I connect to anyone else's computer that's exactly what they are doing. Telling how I can use my legally bought iPod.
I know, however I don't want any multiplication factor and have the photos cropped, I want to capture all of what I see through the lens. The only way I can avoid these issues and still use the lenses I already have to use a camera with a fullframe sensor.
If the device detects that it has been stolen, through any number of means such as plugging in to an unauthorized computer or by geographic location, the device disables its charging circuit so that it can't be charged from any changer.
iPods only work with authorized computers? If so then I definitely don't want one. However a previous poster said s/he uses and collects his or her iPod with a number of computers, even his/her Sun at work. What is this authorized geographic local? Like no one travels, NOT! Another poster said s/he has 5 iPods used to store photos, a lot of photographers travel. I'd like to get a dslr camera and was thinking of getting an external hdd to store the photos I shoot, however now I may check to see if iPods will work instead. However if I can't use one when and how I want I won't get one.
once the new linux smartphone Neo1973 is available (and has python), i thought a nice security feature would be to upload an encrypted gps coordinate every hour or so, therefore if your phone gets lost or stolen
How would the phone know when it's been stolen? Or are you going to have it upload your coordinates all the tyme? Forget that, I don't want anyone tracking me.
I have 5 iPods because they are the best way to store photographs when on a long assignment where stable electrical current is a forlorn hope. A couple of them are old, but an 80GB iPod offers the best combination of battery life, size, weight, and storage space there is.
I really don't know how big they are but I wouldn't think an iPod could hold as many photos as an external hdd. I only shoot film now but I'd like to get a Canon DSLR, preferably the 16.7 MP EOS-1Ds Mark II however it's out of my price range so I've been looking at the 12.8 MP EOS-5D. Whatever I get I want a fullframe sensor as well as to be able to use the lenses I already have for my 35mm.
For the most part both parent only have to work if they want to join the rat race and keep up with the Jones, or because they made bad decisions. You shouldn't have children unless you can financially support them.
I'm not sure myself. I know I am structuring a life so I don't have to make that kind of sacrifice. but I"m not in the same circumstance that most people are in, so I struggle with how much we can expect from average joe and jane blow... maybe they *do* need some help...
I'm all for giving assistance to those who need it, but it should be civil society that gives the aid not government.
Did both of your parents work?
My dad retired from the Airforce and my mom worked part tyme while putting herself through school to be a lab tech in a hospital, then once she finished her training she worked fulltime. However they seperated then divorced while I was still young. Didn't matter much because even when they were married he wasn't around for long. He was constantly stationed overseas, to Tiawan or Japan. I'd like to have gone myself but because he'd only be there a few months or so, so it wouldn't have made sense to move the entire family.
Work at freeing you from being a slave to taxes for almost half the year.
But what about being a slave to my employer?
Unless you are physically chained to your employer or have a firearm pointed at your head you are free to look for another employer. There is no laws requiring you to work for your employer, unless you're in the military.
What libertarians fail to realize is that economic power and political power are fundamentally equivalent. We need limits on both.
The only way to limit political power is to limit the size of government. A small government doesn't have much power, only that which the poeple grant it. And if economic power is equivilent to political power them there's not much economic power concentrated in corporations or the wealthy either. If you're not willing to stand up for your rights, you only have yourself to blame.
I think what GP is asking, and what I'm wondering as well, is how we'll prevent corporations from putting poisons into the air and water or abusing their workers if the only enforcement is after-the-fact in a courtroom?
This brings up one thing I disagree with at least some other libertarians, I support a strong EPA enforcing environmental laws and regulations. As far as the environment goes I support the precautionary principle.
The only way I can see this working is if corporate personhood was revoked, which I don't see on any of the Libertarian Party's platforms.
From the Libertarian Party website:
"Tightening up the charters, along with elimination of corporate personhood and elimination of limited liability would enable a self regulating structure that would ensure that contractual obligations are met."
"If I am ever in a position to do something about it, I will call for a removal of corporate personhood, becuase I believe that is the basis for these types of problems and the never ending battle of control between government and private enterprise."
"As for corporations and unions. Corporations should be stripped of their ficticious personhood and accordingly stripped of the ability to make political contributions."
Searching the LP website I found 15 pages about this, so there are a number of Libertarians who don't believe corporations shoud be given personhood status.
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Kushner and his ilk are probably more upset that, the more that students choose engineering and business, the less they will choose humanities and social science majors that are nothing more than indoctrinations in leftist ideology and political correctness.
Yea, right. NOT! It's engineering and business majors that having to pay more not humanities. Raising prices here is exactly how to drive more students to major in humanities or social sciences, which should make him happy according to you, not upset like he really is.
FalconHave we ever sent people to college without the expectation that the cost would be recouped by higher earning potential for the rest of the person's career?
There's two problems with this, first by raising the cost of an education in some fields such as Engineering and Science, you're pricing low income students out of getting such an education. Secondly, I don't know where you are and how it is there, but in US the average person changes their career three tymes before they retire, so using what their major is as an indicator of how much they will earn yields false results. One of my favorite professors got his double doctorate, in mathematics and physics from Purdue. After finishing he joined the Peace Corp and was sent to Guyana to teach. When he came back he was offered some really good paying jobs, both in industry and and universities. However because he wanted to teach and not do research he took a job as a prof at the community college I went to. He didn't get paid as much though, which he was willing to forgo higher earnings in order to teach.
FalconAnd I know of a few business schools that package hardware/software into their tuition fees now as well.
In the US more and more colleges and universities are requiring freshmen students to have a laptop, so give students one and include the price in the tuition.
FalconWe managed to replace a lot of outdated scopes and other equipment, and I'm sure the fees were at least partially to thank for that. I can see how an Engineering degree could cost more compared to, for example, a liberal arts degree. Liberal arts majors don't require access to tens of thousands of dollars worth of electronics to get their education.
That's easy enough to deal with, instead of raising tuition raise the lab fee, if there is no fee for classes requiring lab then institute one. That way only those students taking a lab class has to pay for the lab equipment.
FalconThis is normal in the rest of the world. The law of supply and demand you know - let the free market decide the pricing...
No, the US isn't a capitalist country, it hasn't been one since the 1800s. The USA is nothing like what Alexis de Tocqueville saw when he tured the USA in the 1820s/30s, which inspired him the right the book "Democracy in America" . Today the US is a corporate socialist nation.
FalconWell, like it or not, a humanities degree is cheap compared to engineering or science. All that lab equipment (and space) costs money, not to mention the people who set it up and keep it running. I'm not saying I agree with differential pricing, I'm just pointing out the costs.
While it's true all that lab equipment costs more, every class I've taken with a lab component had a lab fee as well as tuition students paid. If the lab fee isn't able to cover the costs of the equipment then raise the fees. That way students won't have to pay more for classes that don't have a lab.
FalconThe point I was trying to make, my friend, is that although an external HDD could hold more pictures, using an iPod allows one to view the pictures as well, and that would be the storage capacity tradeoff.
Though it might be alright for some, I don't like the trade off of being able to view photos on an external device over the storage capacity of an external hdd. Maybe I didn't make it clear earlier but the reason I want an external hdd is for backup. I can use one to make a backup then store it offsite. I could also take one with me when I go out into the field and take photos when I don't bring my laptop. And I can burn through a lot of film, I've gone through 3 or 4 rolls of 36 exposure film in a day. Shooting digital I'd shoot a lot more as I wouldn't need to think of running out and getting more film, and it's easy enough to delete photos that aren't good, which I don't like doing. Shooting medium format, like a 645 which I hope to get rsn, requires a lot more digital storage.
FalconOther people have commented, only read-only. So NTFS is not the solution, I guess.
Thanks for the info. Right now I'm using Linux and Windows however my Windows PC is old and I'm replacing it as my main computer with a Macbook Pro.
Falconsudo apt-get install ntfs-3g
I don't know wether it does or not, but does OSX support ntfs-3g?
FalconFunny, I tried clicking on the "Buy Now" button, and got this message:
"Sorry
The item you have selected is currently not available from the Apple Store."
Ah, you caught me, I didn't click on the link. Perhaps I made a fool of myself but if Apple shows an accessory for an iPod on the iPod homepage I'd think they sold it, or had a link to where it could be bought. If they are no longer selling it they need to change the page.
FalconWhen a thief plugs the protected ipod into an unauthorized computer, the ipod asks if he wants to authorize that computer. He/she can't because they cannot log into your iTms account. That computer also sends its IP address and your ipod serial number to Apple
The computer can't send it's IP addie if it's not connected to the net or if a firewall is being used. And it won't be long before someone breaks the code, so while it may make it harder for a causal thief to use an iPod it won't deter a determined crook, look cellphone have all these things yet they get stolen all the tyme.
Secondarily, there is an advantage to the multiplication factor, as if you use, say, the 70-200/f2.8 IS on a APS-framed camera you're now shooting with a 320mm f2.8 STABILIZED zoom lens that's, what, five pounds lighter and eight inches shorter than the 300mm f2.8 IS FF version. Not to mention about $2,000 cheaper.
Not if you're using macro or other wide angle lenses. Neither is it lighter when you're carrying both camera film and digital bodies as well as the lenses for each, though I want to get a dslr I'll still continue to use my film slr. Though it's been a long tyme since I have I love working in darkrooms and hope to set one up where I live. In other words I want to work with both digital and film photography. Actually besides getting a dslr I first want to get a medium format camera, say a 645, with a film back. Eventually I'd like to get a digital back for it as well. Within the next few weeks I plan on joining a photographers association, IFP Minneasota. In doing so, I'll take some classes they have, such as using a medium format camera and working with digital cameras and Photoshop. I'll also look to see if I can work as an assistant for a pro photographer to get a start in working as a photographer. See, I'm on disability and haven't worked in years, however I think I can work in photography. I first took a class in photography in high school. And the last tyme I was in college I took photography then as well. Because of an accident that resulted in my disability while attending college where I was majoring in Computer Engineering I basically had to start all over again. So when I started college again I was majoring in programming, which I struggled with due to my memory being damaged.
FalconIn other words, the thieves can listen to YOUR playlists all they want, recharging with a car or AC adapter. When they plug it into a computer, it will stop charging, and not start again with any charger until factory reset or plugged into the original computer.
BS!!! I should be able to connect, and charge, an iPod to any computer.
FalconI could see not letting iTunes do anything with it on an unauthorized computer, but charging?
BS! If I want to I should be able to collect any iPod I own to any computer I want, or allow someone else to connect their iPod to a computer I own!
Falcon...... I don't think Apple should be deciding where I can charge my iPod ........
They wouldn't as long as you are the legal owner. Only after a thief plugs it into another computer to sync/charge it, would the ipod be locked.
Apple shouldn't be telling me what computers I can and can't plug an iPod into either. And exactly how would Apple know if it was stolen? If I use an iPod to store files or photos and want to share them with a friend it's none of Apple's business. But if they make it so I can't charge my iPod, if I had one but don't, when I connect to anyone else's computer that's exactly what they are doing. Telling how I can use my legally bought iPod.
Falconyour lenses, right?
I know, however I don't want any multiplication factor and have the photos cropped, I want to capture all of what I see through the lens. The only way I can avoid these issues and still use the lenses I already have to use a camera with a fullframe sensor.
FalconI don't have one.
FalconIf the device detects that it has been stolen, through any number of means such as plugging in to an unauthorized computer or by geographic location, the device disables its charging circuit so that it can't be charged from any changer.
iPods only work with authorized computers? If so then I definitely don't want one. However a previous poster said s/he uses and collects his or her iPod with a number of computers, even his/her Sun at work. What is this authorized geographic local? Like no one travels, NOT! Another poster said s/he has 5 iPods used to store photos, a lot of photographers travel. I'd like to get a dslr camera and was thinking of getting an external hdd to store the photos I shoot, however now I may check to see if iPods will work instead. However if I can't use one when and how I want I won't get one.
Falcononce the new linux smartphone Neo1973 is available (and has python), i thought a nice security feature would be to upload an encrypted gps coordinate every hour or so, therefore if your phone gets lost or stolen
How would the phone know when it's been stolen? Or are you going to have it upload your coordinates all the tyme? Forget that, I don't want anyone tracking me.
FalconI have 5 iPods because they are the best way to store photographs when on a long assignment where stable electrical current is a forlorn hope. A couple of them are old, but an 80GB iPod offers the best combination of battery life, size, weight, and storage space there is.
I really don't know how big they are but I wouldn't think an iPod could hold as many photos as an external hdd. I only shoot film now but I'd like to get a Canon DSLR, preferably the 16.7 MP EOS-1Ds Mark II however it's out of my price range so I've been looking at the 12.8 MP EOS-5D. Whatever I get I want a fullframe sensor as well as to be able to use the lenses I already have for my 35mm.
FalconBut they no longer ship the wall charger that they once did with iPods
Apple does sale a USB Power Adapter to charge an iPod when it's not connected to a computer though as an accessory. Directly from the Apple website:
"Charge your iPod when it's not connected to a computer with this USB adapter and the included Dock Connector to USB cable."
FalconI can imagine this will raise a lot of false positives. It reminds me of Windows Genuine Advantage, only nastier...
This is like a question I had. TFA says it works with software installed on a computer, but what if you use an external charger?
FalconFor the most part both parent only have to work if they want to join the rat race and keep up with the Jones, or because they made bad decisions. You shouldn't have children unless you can financially support them.
I'm not sure myself. I know I am structuring a life so I don't have to make that kind of sacrifice. but I"m not in the same circumstance that most people are in, so I struggle with how much we can expect from average joe and jane blow... maybe they *do* need some help...
I'm all for giving assistance to those who need it, but it should be civil society that gives the aid not government.
Did both of your parents work?
My dad retired from the Airforce and my mom worked part tyme while putting herself through school to be a lab tech in a hospital, then once she finished her training she worked fulltime. However they seperated then divorced while I was still young. Didn't matter much because even when they were married he wasn't around for long. He was constantly stationed overseas, to Tiawan or Japan. I'd like to have gone myself but because he'd only be there a few months or so, so it wouldn't have made sense to move the entire family.
FalconWork at freeing you from being a slave to taxes for almost half the year.
But what about being a slave to my employer?
Unless you are physically chained to your employer or have a firearm pointed at your head you are free to look for another employer. There is no laws requiring you to work for your employer, unless you're in the military.
What libertarians fail to realize is that economic power and political power are fundamentally equivalent. We need limits on both.
The only way to limit political power is to limit the size of government. A small government doesn't have much power, only that which the poeple grant it. And if economic power is equivilent to political power them there's not much economic power concentrated in corporations or the wealthy either. If you're not willing to stand up for your rights, you only have yourself to blame.
FalconI think what GP is asking, and what I'm wondering as well, is how we'll prevent corporations from putting poisons into the air and water or abusing their workers if the only enforcement is after-the-fact in a courtroom?
This brings up one thing I disagree with at least some other libertarians, I support a strong EPA enforcing environmental laws and regulations. As far as the environment goes I support the precautionary principle.
The only way I can see this working is if corporate personhood was revoked, which I don't see on any of the Libertarian Party's platforms.
From the Libertarian Party website:
"Tightening up the charters, along with elimination of corporate personhood and elimination of limited liability would enable a self regulating structure that would ensure that contractual obligations are met."
"If I am ever in a position to do something about it, I will call for a removal of corporate personhood, becuase I believe that is the basis for these types of problems and the never ending battle of control between government and private enterprise."
"As for corporations and unions. Corporations should be stripped of their ficticious personhood and accordingly stripped of the ability to make political contributions."
Searching the LP website I found 15 pages about this, so there are a number of Libertarians who don't believe corporations shoud be given personhood status.
Falcon