Although it is worth noting that books can be an excellent initial source of information when learning many technologies, particularly the larger technologies.
Books tend to give broader coverage of the area you are interested in.
Once you have gained some generally knowledge and understanding in an area, magazines are great for drilling into specialised areas.
"Independent learning" does not exclude asking others for advice. In fact I would say that Austin has already taken the first important step towards gaining the knowledge they seek.
For every $ that Bill has made, he's done 2, 3, maybe 5 $ worth of damage to the public.
You're basing these figures on what?
And his donations are probably just a way to a) wash his image clean and b) get tax breaks.
a) Perhaps. b) Huh? Does the US tax system give a 150% tax cut on donations or something? Do you honestly believe that people who give away money are somehow doing it to turn a profit?
+1 Informative? How is pulling figures out of you arse, and spouting tired old economic myths considered informative?
We're getting a little off topic here, but I suspect you're getting analogies confused with metaphors. Metaphors and similes are not the same thing. Metaphors and similes can both be used to express an analogy: http://www.answers.com/analogy&r=67#Grammar. An analogy has nothing to do with grammar, nor is it a figure of speech; it's just a similarity or comparison drawn between two things, which is often used for logical inference.
I'm not a drug user by any means (other than tobacco on rare occasions and good quality liquor infrequently), but I also don't shop at stores with an open no-drug policy. Home Depot doesn't get my business anymore, and I openly let them know that I think their policy is ridiculous.
Just a thought: isn't boycotting these stores going to hurt the employees too? Losing a few thousand dollars will put more pressure on jobs than it will on the no-drug policy.
(Disclaimer: I'm not condoning either drug testing or drug use.)
So DRM is bad because it involves encrypted information for which you don't have the key. Having encrypted information for which you do not have the key is bad, because it just is.
Regardless of peoples opinions of DRM, your logic is flawed (unless I just missed the silent <sarcasm> tags), and is exactly the kind of logic your PP was talking about.
You're completely missing the point. So you know a couple of papers from various countries? Wow - me too! But CSM is ultimately just another US news-source, and not a terribly important one outside the US. Just as I don't have as much of an interest the media you read, you are unlikely to have as much interest in the media I read.
I'm not going to chastise you because you have never heard of the Illawarra Mercury, or even Australian ABC (however I'd be suprised by the latter). You simply don't need to pay as much attention to Australia's media as I do.
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Can we make it a requirement that one has to have a modicum of knowledge of the world outside his own town (or village) in order to post on the internet?
Excellent idea! Let's start with "the world" != "the US". Or is it that you actually want to require that everyone know detailed information about your particular town or villiage before posting on the internet? Typical.
it's not like this is a small, unknown paper. Yeah, they distribute 70,000 copies. They're fricking huge! If you had heard of just a handful of non-US papers with similar circulations, I'd be impressed. I've certainly never seen it before, but then again, I've never been to the US.
If you read the link, they ARE linked to the Christian Science movement
But not the creation science movement, which is one of the main groups lobbying to have creation taught in schools. If you take a look at the site for their biggest outlet, you'll find that they have a little more of an agenda than the Christian Scientists. For example, here's an article written by CSMonitor during the Dover incident: http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/1123/p11s02-legn.htm l
The important figure (which are not revealed in this meticulously researched article) is which way did they make more money or which way did they move more units.
But you can't just compare revenue or profit anyway. Song X frequently makes more money than song Y. That doesn't mean that X's marketing strategy is better - it may have just been a better song, or appealed more to the masses.
For people who shuddered when they saw that the paper reporting this had "Christian Science" in the name like I did, it appears that the paper is not linked in any way with the Creation Science movement.
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Don't everyone comment all at once!
There - I just exceeded my own expectations!
Oh - where'd the link go?
1 3/2340222 :-/
Well, I meant to put this link in: http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/03/
Apparently gold has been used to detect other things, too. It's a different procedure, but interesting none the less.
magazines, not books
Although it is worth noting that books can be an excellent initial source of information when learning many technologies, particularly the larger technologies.
Books tend to give broader coverage of the area you are interested in.
Once you have gained some generally knowledge and understanding in an area, magazines are great for drilling into specialised areas.
"Independent learning" does not exclude asking others for advice. In fact I would say that Austin has already taken the first important step towards gaining the knowledge they seek.
Step 2, Austin: Ignore the naysayers.
For every $ that Bill has made, he's done 2, 3, maybe 5 $ worth of damage to the public.
You're basing these figures on what?
And his donations are probably just a way to a) wash his image clean and b) get tax breaks.
a) Perhaps.
b) Huh? Does the US tax system give a 150% tax cut on donations or something? Do you honestly believe that people who give away money are somehow doing it to turn a profit?
+1 Informative? How is pulling figures out of you arse, and spouting tired old economic myths considered informative?
Should MS be allowed to bundle ftp with windows though?
Yeah, yeah... -1, Troll.
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We're getting a little off topic here, but I suspect you're getting analogies confused with metaphors. Metaphors and similes are not the same thing. Metaphors and similes can both be used to express an analogy: http://www.answers.com/analogy&r=67#Grammar. An analogy has nothing to do with grammar, nor is it a figure of speech; it's just a similarity or comparison drawn between two things, which is often used for logical inference.
All analogies are bad and that was a Really bad analogy.
Yep - Using analogies is like comparing apples and oranges.
I'm not a drug user by any means (other than tobacco on rare occasions and good quality liquor infrequently), but I also don't shop at stores with an open no-drug policy. Home Depot doesn't get my business anymore, and I openly let them know that I think their policy is ridiculous.
Just a thought: isn't boycotting these stores going to hurt the employees too? Losing a few thousand dollars will put more pressure on jobs than it will on the no-drug policy.
(Disclaimer: I'm not condoning either drug testing or drug use.)
So DRM is bad because it involves encrypted information for which you don't have the key. Having encrypted information for which you do not have the key is bad, because it just is.
Regardless of peoples opinions of DRM, your logic is flawed (unless I just missed the silent <sarcasm> tags), and is exactly the kind of logic your PP was talking about.
You're completely missing the point. So you know a couple of papers from various countries? Wow - me too! But CSM is ultimately just another US news-source, and not a terribly important one outside the US. Just as I don't have as much of an interest the media you read, you are unlikely to have as much interest in the media I read.
I'm not going to chastise you because you have never heard of the Illawarra Mercury, or even Australian ABC (however I'd be suprised by the latter). You simply don't need to pay as much attention to Australia's media as I do.
Ahh yes - I misread it :)
It pizzez yo off too, doez it?
Uhh - what's so weird about a 150MB FAT16 partition? I thought FAT16 supported up to 2GB since the late 80s?
You guys have thought about this way too much...
Yep, here's the signed version of the summary:
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Please disregard the remainder of this email.
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Joe,
Are you coming to the pub tonight?
Ben.
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Can we make it a requirement that one has to have a modicum of knowledge of the world outside his own town (or village) in order to post on the internet?
Excellent idea! Let's start with "the world" != "the US". Or is it that you actually want to require that everyone know detailed information about your particular town or villiage before posting on the internet? Typical.
it's not like this is a small, unknown paper.
Yeah, they distribute 70,000 copies. They're fricking huge! If you had heard of just a handful of non-US papers with similar circulations, I'd be impressed. I've certainly never seen it before, but then again, I've never been to the US.
If you read the link, they ARE linked to the Christian Science movement
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But not the creation science movement, which is one of the main groups lobbying to have creation taught in schools. If you take a look at the site for their biggest outlet, you'll find that they have a little more of an agenda than the Christian Scientists. For example, here's an article written by CSMonitor during the Dover incident: http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/1123/p11s02-legn.ht
The important figure (which are not revealed in this meticulously researched article) is which way did they make more money or which way did they move more units.
But you can't just compare revenue or profit anyway. Song X frequently makes more money than song Y. That doesn't mean that X's marketing strategy is better - it may have just been a better song, or appealed more to the masses.
Hmm.. My post is giving a link to another post I wrote that addressed GP's point, which was written at the same time as GP.
Redundant maybe. Informative perhaps. But Offtopic? Quit snorting crack, moderators - It's affecting your work.
(Next thing you know, they'll be modding this comment Insightful!)
Which I address in this post (albeit with bad html), below.
For people who shuddered when they saw that the paper reporting this had "Christian Science" in the name like I did, it appears that the paper is not linked in any way with the Creation Science movement.
According to their site, the paper is largely secular (except for a single religious article each day). The paper just happens to be published by a church.