How 'bout this. Starting with 5th grade give $1000 cash per year to each student in the top 5%. Then, the best might have $8000 ready for college and stand a fighting chance of actually being able to pay for it.
They actually did that for me in high school in California. I received $1000 each year from the state for 2000 to 2002 (which was the last year of the program). It was incentive enough to care about the tests.
i searched for own band and was suprised it was able to pull up a lot of information. however it says one of my songs appears on a compilation when it does not (none of the song titles are the same either, so it's unlikely they stole my music).
I am in an independent band. When I had my CDs printed I received a free membership to CDBaby (normally $20). This included having the songs on iTunes. I dont know how much of the $20 went to Apple, but Apple's take per track sold by independents is only 25 cents.
In my defense, I was unsure of the spelling so I googled "unproffesional" and got over 5 pages of results so I figured the spelling was correct. This teaches me to check dictionary.com or an actual dictionary instead of just googling a word to see if it's spelled correctly.
The problem is that spelling is often uncorrected. While this is fine for a casual conversation, spelling errors are unproffesional.
Of course this doesn't mean that some people will not put in the effort to spell correctly when it matters.
for those who don't know, the grey album is a remix record using beats from the beatle's white album with vocals from jay-z's black album it's available at http://www.bannedmusic.org/ and is hosted by http://www.downhillbattle.org/. DJ Dangermouse was the DJ who made this mix.
The auction in the article is a 10-day auction and has already been running fo 7 days. This post refers to an auction that started 10 hours ago (as of this post) and because it is only a three day auction will finish first by a half-day or so. It is almost certainly a copycat.
For another game like this see
9-11 Survivor
This project was intented as a "recreation" of a historical evernt, as was never designed as a commercial project. In this game you are an office worker tring to escape from the Towers.
Well they have a Congressional Science Fellow listed on there if you RTFA (or RTF Magazine). In both jobs most of your efforts will go to waste, but I'm sure if you were the President's Advisor, I'm sure you'd at least be paid better.
If you look in the very lower part of the picture, on the sidewalk, i shows some of a person with an orange shirt covering up the head of a bicyclist. I'm actually surprised there wasn't more inconsistancies as the photo shows two different streets.
there's nothing preventing them from changing their name and just plastering all over the site that they're UCSD students, the site is about UCSD
Actually the UC system is trying to control that. Within sduncensored.com the title of the main thread is called "UCSD Uncensored." UCSD has mentioned that they are considering action for having the letters "UCSD" so prominent within the site.
Google is also putting full-page ads in my school's newspaper (UCSD). They also have the Google Labs Aptitude Test. http://cruftbox.com/blog/archives/001031.html
Turnover will hurt any company, but I think Google is stable enough to handle it.
http://www.downhillbattle.org/itunes/
It's a good article on artist's takes from online stores. Apple says iTunes is "better than free" because it's "fair to the artists and record labels." That's simply not true. First of all, Apple gets 3 times as much money as musicians from each sale. Apple takes a 35% cut from every song and every album sold, a huge amount considering how little they have to do. Record labels receive the other 65% of each sale. Of this, major label artists will end up with only 8 to 14 cents per song, depending on their contract...
What about all those legitimate businesses that are dependent solely on Ireland for their existance? Seriously though, If more countries were like this, it would probably force the governments to crack down on scammers (or at least try to).
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How 'bout this. Starting with 5th grade give $1000 cash per year to each student in the top 5%. Then, the best might have $8000 ready for college and stand a fighting chance of actually being able to pay for it.
They actually did that for me in high school in California. I received $1000 each year from the state for 2000 to 2002 (which was the last year of the program). It was incentive enough to care about the tests.
i searched for own band and was suprised it was able to pull up a lot of information. however it says one of my songs appears on a compilation when it does not (none of the song titles are the same either, so it's unlikely they stole my music).
mod parent up. that's the correct title for the movie.
they had med students in the list for 2003
According to Popular Science the scientists who discovered the beetles are conservative.
I am in an independent band. When I had my CDs printed I received a free membership to CDBaby (normally $20). This included having the songs on iTunes. I dont know how much of the $20 went to Apple, but Apple's take per track sold by independents is only 25 cents.
The article has the name correct. It's i2hub as in Internet2.
In my defense, I was unsure of the spelling so I googled "unproffesional" and got over 5 pages of results so I figured the spelling was correct. This teaches me to check dictionary.com or an actual dictionary instead of just googling a word to see if it's spelled correctly.
The problem is that spelling is often uncorrected. While this is fine for a casual conversation, spelling errors are unproffesional.
Of course this doesn't mean that some people will not put in the effort to spell correctly when it matters.
for those who don't know, the grey album is a remix record using beats from the beatle's white album with vocals from jay-z's black album it's available at http://www.bannedmusic.org/ and is hosted by http://www.downhillbattle.org/. DJ Dangermouse was the DJ who made this mix.
Why do you need a link to the front page of /. on this website? ;-)
but it looks like he won't be the first
The auction in the article is a 10-day auction and has already been running fo 7 days. This post refers to an auction that started 10 hours ago (as of this post) and because it is only a three day auction will finish first by a half-day or so. It is almost certainly a copycat.
In Korea only old people are 1000 years old.
Is this or will this become part of lie detector technology?
For another game like this see 9-11 Survivor
This project was intented as a "recreation" of a historical evernt, as was never designed as a commercial project. In this game you are an office worker tring to escape from the Towers.
Well they have a Congressional Science Fellow listed on there if you RTFA (or RTF Magazine). In both jobs most of your efforts will go to waste, but I'm sure if you were the President's Advisor, I'm sure you'd at least be paid better.
If you look in the very lower part of the picture, on the sidewalk, i shows some of a person with an orange shirt covering up the head of a bicyclist. I'm actually surprised there wasn't more inconsistancies as the photo shows two different streets.
"could be considered a minimalistic graphical adventure"
that's a nice way of saying the graphics suck.
doesn't have the letters "UCSD" in the actual URL so it probably will be ok. (well i know UC won't care about xangas anyway).
there's nothing preventing them from changing their name and just plastering all over the site that they're UCSD students, the site is about UCSD
Actually the UC system is trying to control that. Within sduncensored.com the title of the main thread is called "UCSD Uncensored." UCSD has mentioned that they are considering action for having the letters "UCSD" so prominent within the site.
Google is also putting full-page ads in my school's newspaper (UCSD). They also have the Google Labs Aptitude Test. http://cruftbox.com/blog/archives/001031.html
Turnover will hurt any company, but I think Google is stable enough to handle it.
text adventures?
http://www.downhillbattle.org/itunes/
It's a good article on artist's takes from online stores.
Apple says iTunes is "better than free" because it's "fair to the artists and record labels." That's simply not true. First of all, Apple gets 3 times as much money as musicians from each sale. Apple takes a 35% cut from every song and every album sold, a huge amount considering how little they have to do. Record labels receive the other 65% of each sale. Of this, major label artists will end up with only 8 to 14 cents per song, depending on their contract...
What about all those legitimate businesses that are dependent solely on Ireland for their existance? Seriously though, If more countries were like this, it would probably force the governments to crack down on scammers (or at least try to).
Great. Now everyone at my university (from /. and my university website) knows how to break into my bike lock and there's little I can do.