This is true with some of the professors I've had. Newer editions of a book are not always required and in one case, the professor himself had a website with corrections on it just so that students wouldn't have to pay $150 just for the newest edition. As far as I'm concerned, unless professors specifically refer to the textbook a lot or give assignments out of the textbook, it's not worth buying.
However, the books I have bought I wouldn't think of returning. Why would I want to sell the book back (for a small fraction of the cost) when I can keep it and refer to it later on in the future.
Nintendo isn't Nintendo without Mario, Kirby, Zelda, or any of their other characters. It may be old (to you), but I can't wait to fish with Mario, or do surgery with Kirby...
It seems like every new service Google provides is shortly later also provided by Microsoft. Story after story, Google does something then Microsoft follows. Why do they feel the need to play catchup all the time? Why can't they instead try and be a little innovative? Also, why do they feel the need to follow Google all the time when they're primarily (this is subjective) in the OS business? Stop playing catchup and release Vista on time. Had to get that off my chest.
Ok so one person buys it, and then shares it across a P2P... they're still losing profits. Get what I was trying to say? If an electronic version of the book exists on the Internet which you have some kind of access to (torrent, P2P, etc), why would people buy them?
Nobody above said it, but maybe they're doing bad exactly because of the idea the parent posted. Compare a $35 book to a free one in PDF format WHICH you can search...
I've always thought that if True Fantasy Online was actually finished and released, that the XBox would have done a lot better in Japan and so would have the 360. They don't seem to have any sort of grip there.
I have absolutely no idea what that article was about. Whenever I thought something insightful was about to be said I was disappointed. Can someone actually tell me what that article was about (if anything)? Was it meant to be a joke article? What was the point of it?
Family guy STILL is funny... didn't you watch the milkshake clip? It's floating around the Internet pretty fast. Just ONE week after it was shown, google has 602,000 for "family guy milkshake". And that's just one very recent example.
Just yesterday, I was telling my girlfriend to read Slashdot and she refused saying she hated the current layout (even though SHE LOVES the content). I guess this was just the final touch required. I can already feel the number of females reading this site go up!!
They may be "hating", but it's a great way to show people how they shouldn't completely trust the software they are handed. What sucks even more is that users will have to wait another two weeks (second Tuesday of the month) for an update to be officially released by Microsoft.
I want to say "Firefox wins again", but "again" seems to be everytime nowadays and it's not even worth saying it.
My optometrist (well known in my area) told me that the reason why my left eye is lazy is because I have a cornea in my left eye. I've had this in my left eye since childhood. I asked him clearly what could be done, and he said after childhood, you really can't fix a lazy eye. Before childhood, a lazy eye can be trained and improved, but not so in adulthood. My optometrist told me there was nothing wrong with a lazy eye, especially at my age, and that I should just learn to deal with it (and take care of my good eye as much as possible).
This was the first major game I played on a PC and I got it when it first came out. I found it again around 1997/1998 and bought it again just because it brought back a lot of good memories. The best part about the game was that it had the voice of Patrick Stewart in it. Ak'shel (the magician) was my favorite. None of the other Lands of Lore games have done the original justice (in my opinion).
You just brought back a wealth of memories... what a great game.
Nobody's said it up to now... but this lawsuit may just pull them back to the #1 position on Google and it may be what they're actually looking for out of all of this nonsense. I think any reasonable person knows that this lawsuit is utter nonsense, but if it gets in the news and people visit the site, then it will have all been worth it.
Why does this website think it can sue a company for a service it is providing them for free?
Furthermore, pagerank is explained here and here. Finally, if 70% of their audience and 80% of their revenue SOLELY relies on Google, then they need to change the way they advertise their site and profit from it. Looking at their site, they look just like a plain directory of links; they probably make money from advertising.
If Microsoft had made the error, we'd have to wait until the second Tuesday of the month for the fix. If this bug wasn't caught by tomorrow for me, then I'd have to wait an entire month for a fix. Ubuntu put out the patch as soon as it was discovered. There is no bias here, I use Windows just as much as Linux. However, Microsoft's patching cycles simply suck.
I install this hosts file also which is a list of sites that the browser shouldn't access because of ads or other similar things. A quote from the site says it best:
The Hosts file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. This file is loaded into memory (cache) at startup, then Windows checks the Hosts file before it queries any DNS servers, which enables it to override addresses in the DNS. This prevents access to the listed sites by redirecting any connection attempts back to the local machine. Another feature of the HOSTS file is its ability to block other applications from connecting to the Internet, providing the entry exists.
I was in the same position as you... just read through online tutorials and you'll pick it up in a few hours. There's no need to sit through an entire book. With the tutorials you'll pick up the basics and then from there you can decide how much MORE you want to learn. I don't think most people want to get up to the google maps API level anyway.
It's really not about the systems anymore... it's more about which company can one-up the other company by strategically releasing gaames at certain launch dates, hiding specs, etc. Their biggest market, kids (I say this loosely) don't even care about these things - they'll play what they can get their hands on first. A lot of people I know who couldn't preorder the 360 just got over it and are now waiting for the other "better" systems to come out. I don't know a single close friend with an 360... and they all have the original XBox.
You say it in a pretty easy-going way but this is something I'm actually considering. Windows doesn't do much for me; it's just an OS that can keep track of my files. The only thing that is Windows-specific for me is a) gaming and b) Microsoft Office. Both of these can however be taken care of with a) Wine and b) Open Office. As for as MSN messenger, there's aMSN. For MP3 playback, there's XMMS. I use Firefox now anyway also. So yes, when Visa does come out, I'll probably opt to go to Linux or some other open source operating system.
The only hard part is finding a distro that best fits my needs. I've thought about doing it from scratch and customizing Linux myself, but that doesn't seem like such a good idea. Anyone recommend any Linux distributions which aren't cluttered and simple to use to add program to?
This at least covers the first little bit of what you stated. I've gotten much comfortable using the PS format instead of PDF. At my university, they use PS more often than PDF.
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This is true with some of the professors I've had. Newer editions of a book are not always required and in one case, the professor himself had a website with corrections on it just so that students wouldn't have to pay $150 just for the newest edition. As far as I'm concerned, unless professors specifically refer to the textbook a lot or give assignments out of the textbook, it's not worth buying.
However, the books I have bought I wouldn't think of returning. Why would I want to sell the book back (for a small fraction of the cost) when I can keep it and refer to it later on in the future.
Nintendo isn't Nintendo without Mario, Kirby, Zelda, or any of their other characters. It may be old (to you), but I can't wait to fish with Mario, or do surgery with Kirby...
It seems like every new service Google provides is shortly later also provided by Microsoft. Story after story, Google does something then Microsoft follows. Why do they feel the need to play catchup all the time? Why can't they instead try and be a little innovative? Also, why do they feel the need to follow Google all the time when they're primarily (this is subjective) in the OS business? Stop playing catchup and release Vista on time. Had to get that off my chest.
Ok so one person buys it, and then shares it across a P2P... they're still losing profits. Get what I was trying to say? If an electronic version of the book exists on the Internet which you have some kind of access to (torrent, P2P, etc), why would people buy them?
Nobody above said it, but maybe they're doing bad exactly because of the idea the parent posted. Compare a $35 book to a free one in PDF format WHICH you can search...
I've always thought that if True Fantasy Online was actually finished and released, that the XBox would have done a lot better in Japan and so would have the 360. They don't seem to have any sort of grip there.
I have absolutely no idea what that article was about. Whenever I thought something insightful was about to be said I was disappointed. Can someone actually tell me what that article was about (if anything)? Was it meant to be a joke article? What was the point of it?
Family guy STILL is funny... didn't you watch the milkshake clip? It's floating around the Internet pretty fast. Just ONE week after it was shown, google has 602,000 for "family guy milkshake". And that's just one very recent example.
Just yesterday, I was telling my girlfriend to read Slashdot and she refused saying she hated the current layout (even though SHE LOVES the content). I guess this was just the final touch required. I can already feel the number of females reading this site go up!!
They may be "hating", but it's a great way to show people how they shouldn't completely trust the software they are handed. What sucks even more is that users will have to wait another two weeks (second Tuesday of the month) for an update to be officially released by Microsoft.
I want to say "Firefox wins again", but "again" seems to be everytime nowadays and it's not even worth saying it.
I meant to say catarct, my mistake, sorry.
My optometrist (well known in my area) told me that the reason why my left eye is lazy is because I have a cornea in my left eye. I've had this in my left eye since childhood. I asked him clearly what could be done, and he said after childhood, you really can't fix a lazy eye. Before childhood, a lazy eye can be trained and improved, but not so in adulthood. My optometrist told me there was nothing wrong with a lazy eye, especially at my age, and that I should just learn to deal with it (and take care of my good eye as much as possible).
This was the first major game I played on a PC and I got it when it first came out. I found it again around 1997/1998 and bought it again just because it brought back a lot of good memories. The best part about the game was that it had the voice of Patrick Stewart in it. Ak'shel (the magician) was my favorite. None of the other Lands of Lore games have done the original justice (in my opinion).
You just brought back a wealth of memories... what a great game.
Nobody's said it up to now... but this lawsuit may just pull them back to the #1 position on Google and it may be what they're actually looking for out of all of this nonsense. I think any reasonable person knows that this lawsuit is utter nonsense, but if it gets in the news and people visit the site, then it will have all been worth it.
Why does this website think it can sue a company for a service it is providing them for free?
Furthermore, pagerank is explained here and here. Finally, if 70% of their audience and 80% of their revenue SOLELY relies on Google, then they need to change the way they advertise their site and profit from it. Looking at their site, they look just like a plain directory of links; they probably make money from advertising.
Firefox and umm... a lot of open source stuff.
If Microsoft had made the error, we'd have to wait until the second Tuesday of the month for the fix. If this bug wasn't caught by tomorrow for me, then I'd have to wait an entire month for a fix. Ubuntu put out the patch as soon as it was discovered. There is no bias here, I use Windows just as much as Linux. However, Microsoft's patching cycles simply suck.
I install this hosts file also which is a list of sites that the browser shouldn't access because of ads or other similar things. A quote from the site says it best:
The Hosts file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. This file is loaded into memory (cache) at startup, then Windows checks the Hosts file before it queries any DNS servers, which enables it to override addresses in the DNS. This prevents access to the listed sites by redirecting any connection attempts back to the local machine. Another feature of the HOSTS file is its ability to block other applications from connecting to the Internet, providing the entry exists.
But, having the right to do it doesn't mean they SHOULD do it. It's not entirely wrong, but it's also not appropriate.
I was in the same position as you... just read through online tutorials and you'll pick it up in a few hours. There's no need to sit through an entire book. With the tutorials you'll pick up the basics and then from there you can decide how much MORE you want to learn. I don't think most people want to get up to the google maps API level anyway.
It's really not about the systems anymore... it's more about which company can one-up the other company by strategically releasing gaames at certain launch dates, hiding specs, etc. Their biggest market, kids (I say this loosely) don't even care about these things - they'll play what they can get their hands on first. A lot of people I know who couldn't preorder the 360 just got over it and are now waiting for the other "better" systems to come out. I don't know a single close friend with an 360... and they all have the original XBox.
Sorry for ranting.
You say it in a pretty easy-going way but this is something I'm actually considering. Windows doesn't do much for me; it's just an OS that can keep track of my files. The only thing that is Windows-specific for me is a) gaming and b) Microsoft Office. Both of these can however be taken care of with a) Wine and b) Open Office. As for as MSN messenger, there's aMSN. For MP3 playback, there's XMMS. I use Firefox now anyway also. So yes, when Visa does come out, I'll probably opt to go to Linux or some other open source operating system.
The only hard part is finding a distro that best fits my needs. I've thought about doing it from scratch and customizing Linux myself, but that doesn't seem like such a good idea. Anyone recommend any Linux distributions which aren't cluttered and simple to use to add program to?
Your sarcasm was so high that I felt a slight slap to my forehead when I read it... wow!
Your comment is true, but the same can be said about Perl (it just sounded like you were putting down PHP only).
This at least covers the first little bit of what you stated. I've gotten much comfortable using the PS format instead of PDF. At my university, they use PS more often than PDF.