While not acknowledged in the posting, supposedly the name of the console will be Xbox 360. Is it just me, or is this a huge give-away that the console will be circular in shape? Why else have such a ridiculous name.
"Look at what other respected professors use (at other universities) and evaluate those options. They have massive resources at their disposal, so they should have made a good choice. You can then choose what best suits your particular teaching style."
I'd be careful about this, while sometimes this is the case, other times the selection of a textbook for a course is more of a political matter. Textbooks are big business at the university level.
I've been using OWL for many projects, works great, although "clients" do have the ability to upload (something you didn't want to bother them with), but this could probably be easily changed.
Do a search for OWL on sourceforge.net
While I don't like to toot my own horn, I manage to stay at the top of all my classes and consider myself a fairly intelligent fellow. However, put me on the spot in a social situation (tests don't bother me), and you'd think I'm dumb as bricks. If I'm in a social setting and I run into a friend I've known for years that my girlfriend hasn't met, I'll blank out and have no idea what their name is. Same thing with driving, I can have taken a route a thousand times, but if there's a driver honking behind me, it's like I'm a chicken with my head cut off. Yet at the same time, I'll pull off a straight 4.0 average for my fourth year of University. Go figure!
It has to do with the licensing agreements carried out with the Canadian divisions of record labels vs the US divisions. Plus, us Canadians were unable to purchase music from the US store, as you needed a credit card with a US address.
Thats the same argument "the man" uses to persuade people not to take ecstacy or other pills. "The chemist *could* have put rat poison in it!" That kind of thinking doesn't make sense, as most ecstacy tablets are pressed with a symbol, so if they're good people will ask around for "nintendos" or "zorros". Poisoning people (or their computers) is just bad business.
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Read The Pragmatic Programmer. If I ever start a company, this is going to be required reading for every employee.
While not acknowledged in the posting, supposedly the name of the console will be Xbox 360. Is it just me, or is this a huge give-away that the console will be circular in shape? Why else have such a ridiculous name.
"Look at what other respected professors use (at other universities) and evaluate those options. They have massive resources at their disposal, so they should have made a good choice. You can then choose what best suits your particular teaching style." I'd be careful about this, while sometimes this is the case, other times the selection of a textbook for a course is more of a political matter. Textbooks are big business at the university level.
I've been using OWL for many projects, works great, although "clients" do have the ability to upload (something you didn't want to bother them with), but this could probably be easily changed. Do a search for OWL on sourceforge.net
While I don't like to toot my own horn, I manage to stay at the top of all my classes and consider myself a fairly intelligent fellow. However, put me on the spot in a social situation (tests don't bother me), and you'd think I'm dumb as bricks. If I'm in a social setting and I run into a friend I've known for years that my girlfriend hasn't met, I'll blank out and have no idea what their name is. Same thing with driving, I can have taken a route a thousand times, but if there's a driver honking behind me, it's like I'm a chicken with my head cut off. Yet at the same time, I'll pull off a straight 4.0 average for my fourth year of University. Go figure!
Suck it up, this is a big deal for us Canadians who haven't been able to get a 99 cent per click fix!
No, for the same reason why us Canadians were unable to purchase songs from the US store; you need a credit card with an address in the country.
It has to do with the licensing agreements carried out with the Canadian divisions of record labels vs the US divisions. Plus, us Canadians were unable to purchase music from the US store, as you needed a credit card with a US address.
Thats the same argument "the man" uses to persuade people not to take ecstacy or other pills. "The chemist *could* have put rat poison in it!" That kind of thinking doesn't make sense, as most ecstacy tablets are pressed with a symbol, so if they're good people will ask around for "nintendos" or "zorros". Poisoning people (or their computers) is just bad business.