Yes, they plan on selling/presently do sell the print-on-demand versions, very cheaply. I haven't had to pay to view any text on Google Books over the internet, though, so I imagine that should remain free indefinitely.
I'm fairly certain he's right, though. Politicians didn't know that it was ridiculous to talk about launching nukes from the moon with 60's technology, but they knew that the ability to launch nukes from the moon would be a fairly substantial gain in the cold war. I believe I read that it was actually a major selling point, although I can't recall where I came across it.
Unless they ever need to read a word they've never seen before, which is really freaking common when you don't know how to read. Are you for real with this?
I find that people with even basic programming skills tend to have better general problem solving capacity. As a child, learning to program develops your mind in ways that the wrote memorization that teach in schools simply can't (In Kentucky, they actually teach kids to memorize words rather than teaching them how to sound them out, which is absurd).
I can say with absolutely certainty that I would not be as capable of a problem solver as I am today if I hadn't been fortunate enough to be introduced to BASIC at the age of 6.
That's it! We just have to convince Warren Buffett to spend his vast wealth to finance a Mars mission so that he can become the first person to set foot there! It's like one really expensive space tourism trip.
Are you honestly concerned with "stealing" from Microsoft? It seems that the extra effort you expend ensuring your copy of Windows is legitimate could be put to better use in society.
Apple's focus has always been on controlling the entire user experience, which does lead to some very nice perks as well as the ability to dictate advances in technology.
Well, it is true that Mussolini did get the trains to run on time. Fair enough.
The difference between C# and C is like the difference between hiragana and kanji. You can write the same stuff with hiragana a lot easier, but you look like an idiot.
Disclaimer: I only know a very small amount of hiragana, and my only data point is a Japanese friend who laughs at my illiteracy.
Ya, because it's "nice to have" a computer that won't play any of my games, or that I can't put a new HD into, or a new video card. It'd be wonderful having a computer that does half the things my present system does for four or five times the cost.
They had rendering issues with Opera's implementation of one of the functions they were using. One of the Opera developers is actively helping them fix it, which is pretty impressive on Opera's side.
What it comes down to here is whether or not you support my freedom to practice my religion the way I see fit. Saying that I can believe whatever I want but that I must live the way you say is as contradiction.
Personally, I fully support the right of any free thinking adult to dictate the course of their own life.
I do not support their right to force their ideology onto their children, who are not capable of making those choices for themselves.
I also admit there is no solution which protects children from any kind of indoctrination, and it would be foolish to argue that one method is better than the other, as there can be no real metric.
They are taught that their value as a person is dependent on their academic performance, and they are held to a standard that most cannot meet. As a result, many children are told that they are worthless, simply because they are not proficient at math or reading or some other thing.
Um, that situation is thousands of times better than the school I attended, where academic performance was practically frowned upon, as simply stating you got a good grade on an exam could be interpreted as an insult to your peers. I'm in college now and I live in constant fear of alienating all of my classmates when they ask my GPA and I have to tell them 4.00.
The only metric that was considered valuable was athletic performance, and those who did not perform were deemed "worthless." I would rather have intelligent kids receive positive reenforcement for their scholastic success than idiots receive positive reenforcement in spite of their scholastic failures.
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Ya, I saw the title and I thought "Really? That seems a bit long..."
No no no, you misread it. They're lowering the price of the students. Kids like this used to be a dime a dozen, now they're thirty per cent.
Yes, they plan on selling/presently do sell the print-on-demand versions, very cheaply. I haven't had to pay to view any text on Google Books over the internet, though, so I imagine that should remain free indefinitely.
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I think they're the other kind of Indian. You know, from India.
I'm fairly certain he's right, though. Politicians didn't know that it was ridiculous to talk about launching nukes from the moon with 60's technology, but they knew that the ability to launch nukes from the moon would be a fairly substantial gain in the cold war. I believe I read that it was actually a major selling point, although I can't recall where I came across it.
It would certainly help with the werewolf problem as well.
Unless they ever need to read a word they've never seen before, which is really freaking common when you don't know how to read. Are you for real with this?
You must be new here.
I find that people with even basic programming skills tend to have better general problem solving capacity. As a child, learning to program develops your mind in ways that the wrote memorization that teach in schools simply can't (In Kentucky, they actually teach kids to memorize words rather than teaching them how to sound them out, which is absurd).
I can say with absolutely certainty that I would not be as capable of a problem solver as I am today if I hadn't been fortunate enough to be introduced to BASIC at the age of 6.
Servers are for lazy developers. I develop my webapps in my head and I even deliver the pages manually to improve performance.
C is for lazy developers. I develop my webapps in JWASM and I even wrote my own httpd to improve performance.
I have been training for this mission my entire life!
That's it! We just have to convince Warren Buffett to spend his vast wealth to finance a Mars mission so that he can become the first person to set foot there! It's like one really expensive space tourism trip.
And mining a moon seems fraught with peril, an generally a bad idea.
Well, you know, compared with normal mining, which is, like, historically one of the safest career choices ever.
Are you honestly concerned with "stealing" from Microsoft? It seems that the extra effort you expend ensuring your copy of Windows is legitimate could be put to better use in society.
Apple's focus has always been on controlling the entire user experience, which does lead to some very nice perks as well as the ability to dictate advances in technology.
Well, it is true that Mussolini did get the trains to run on time. Fair enough.
The Virginia Supreme Court found attempted suicide to be a common law crime in Wackwitz v. Roy in 1992.
Actually it had a PRV V6 at about 200 HP.
The difference between C# and C is like the difference between hiragana and kanji. You can write the same stuff with hiragana a lot easier, but you look like an idiot.
Disclaimer: I only know a very small amount of hiragana, and my only data point is a Japanese friend who laughs at my illiteracy.
90% of them would have Macs instead of PCs
Ya, because it's "nice to have" a computer that won't play any of my games, or that I can't put a new HD into, or a new video card. It'd be wonderful having a computer that does half the things my present system does for four or five times the cost.
Are you for real?
They had rendering issues with Opera's implementation of one of the functions they were using. One of the Opera developers is actively helping them fix it, which is pretty impressive on Opera's side.
Well, seeing as Freeciv runs at 7 or 8 fps on Chrome for them, I imagine Quake will run pretty phenomenally.
while others preoccupied themselves with sleeping with as many people as possible or skateboarding, many of us watched the Discovery Channel.
And then there were those of us who played both roles, and did it like they did on the Discovery Channel.
Sorry. I had to say it.
What it comes down to here is whether or not you support my freedom to practice my religion the way I see fit. Saying that I can believe whatever I want but that I must live the way you say is as contradiction.
Personally, I fully support the right of any free thinking adult to dictate the course of their own life.
I do not support their right to force their ideology onto their children, who are not capable of making those choices for themselves.
I also admit there is no solution which protects children from any kind of indoctrination, and it would be foolish to argue that one method is better than the other, as there can be no real metric.
They are taught that their value as a person is dependent on their academic performance, and they are held to a standard that most cannot meet. As a result, many children are told that they are worthless, simply because they are not proficient at math or reading or some other thing.
Um, that situation is thousands of times better than the school I attended, where academic performance was practically frowned upon, as simply stating you got a good grade on an exam could be interpreted as an insult to your peers. I'm in college now and I live in constant fear of alienating all of my classmates when they ask my GPA and I have to tell them 4.00.
The only metric that was considered valuable was athletic performance, and those who did not perform were deemed "worthless." I would rather have intelligent kids receive positive reenforcement for their scholastic success than idiots receive positive reenforcement in spite of their scholastic failures.