The idea of notes is to highlight the vital elements of the lecture, both to emphasize them and as a trigger for remembering the rest. In my first college experience, I tried the recording approach, only to realize I would then have to take notes from the recording -- thus doubling the effective lecture time.
Much better just to copy notes from someone else. I once went to an open-note final, for which I'd let a couple of people copy my notes. I noticed numerous people I didn't know also with copies of my notes...
My guess is not. I have a hard time seeing any organization, even one as presumably benevolent as the BBC, giving money to an OSS project without expecting a certain set of deliverables.
I can see, however, some subset of OGG contributors being willing to contract for Auntie Beeb, especially if that contracting allows them a certain amount of use of their own judgement in what needs to be worked on.
...you agree almost completely with the position John Kerry has expressed. I'm for all the marriage rights, but please, just don't call it marriage and you'll have my vote.
MS has made murmurs before about limiting SP's to only verified serial #s.
Yes, but they weren't planning to do this by restricting the downloads, but by having the installer check for a valid serial # by phoning home or some such. While MS could legally restrict the redistribution, making it freely available on the web essentially validates torrenting, just as you don't need permission to copy it temporarily to the machines in-between theirs and yours.
What I meant was the installation procedure generally refuses to continue without my indicating my consent to the EULA, not that I was legally prohibited from using the software.
Because signatures are not required to have contracts.
Poorly phrased, but true. However, contracts are required to have several things, including a meeting of the minds and an exchange of value. EULAs do not give, they simply take, so the latter is not present. If there is no meeting of the minds, I should be able to continue as I would have otherwise. However, refusing to accept an EULA agreement generally prohibits me from using software I've already purchased, and which a vendor may not agree to let me return once opened. Even if the vendor will take it back, I may have shipping or transportation costs which they will not refund.
No, EULAs are corporations trying to pervert the laws to their own ends, breaking principles of law that have lasted hundreds of years in the process.
Note that if software companies want to add EULA restrictions, they have a perfectly reasonable way to so: sell their software over the web. As long as the EULA provisions are presented prior to purchase, all the general principles of contract are there, and purchasing shows consent. But this lazy BS that they should be able to pervert contract principles in a commercial sale through a third party should die a painful death.
IANAL, but if one could still read for the bar, I might try.
Exactly. I do a fair bit of user switching, and it always boggles me when it takes a while to get firefox displayed again after a user switch even though I was also running firefox with the user I switched from. This is on a half-gig machine that the task manager doesn't think is using more than a half gig of memory.
Abso-friggin'-lutely. I'd bet the CEOs, etc. of other dot-bombs are kicking themselves for not doing the same thing. If it pays off, this could trigger a sea-change in how IPOs are handled, to the dismay of the big financial companies who have been loving those IPO windfalls.
I think the Dutch auction works against the investor, and in favor of Google.
Think about Netscape, VA Linux, Red Hat, and other such IPOs. They initially sold at a low price, and the stock skyrocketed the first day. People who got in at the IPO price and sold shortly thereafter made out like bandits -- heck, overall they probably made more than the companies. With Google's approach, there's no reason to expect much of an opening day vault, as the opening ask price comes from the auction price, and who would suddenly pay much more for the stock (once it's in general trading) than they would have shortly before (during the auction)?
Google has a scheme that allows them to pocket all that opening day enthusiasm themselves. Very smart, but there's little reason for small investors to care about the IPO itself as a result.
Not that I know that much about investing and IPOs, mind you.
One of the core points of good literature is the struggle of human-kind to improve himself. How does this novel meet that goal if the author provides no solution to averting this future?
Sounds like this stupid play I once read. This guy gets told by the ghost of his father about the guy who killed him, so then he makes some pretty speeches and then everyone starts dying: his girlfriend, her father, a couple of flunkies, his mother, his stepfather, the guy himself, and a few others. What was that dren called? "Hamlet" or something goofy like that.
You could consider reencoding your DVDs in a higher compression format. I suspect some of the new codecs can match the quality of MPEG-2 at half the data rate, maybe even less.
You could go with something like having a machine read the results but then you are running into the same problems they had with the chad based ballots.
Not really, since even seniors could read or hear "You voted for Pat Buchanan" -- perhaps with an accompanying picture provided by the candidate -- more easily than they could read the butterfly ballot. Likewise, multi-punched, partial-punched, etc. ballots would be identified at the time, perhaps with the machine making its own mark on the ballot to indicate its interpretation (as an optical reader might get different results from scanning a border case when run a second time.)
This really is the way to go, and it's how Howard County, MD's machines were the last time, except it gave no feedback on who my votes were for.
Sitting anywhere for extended periods of time increases your risk of hemorrhoids.
The toilet, however, which lacks support in the middle, is a little worse than your standard office chair. Also, if you've already had a movement, standing up and walking will serve to return your organs to a more normal state. So do focus esp. on minimizing toilet time.
Take it from one who knows more than he'd like about this...
While you're right to start with, you fail later on.
It says, if you RFTA, that this macaque is not unusual because it walks bipedally, but because it walks bipedally exclusively. So bipedalism isn't a complete change of behavior.
Temporary bipedalism has advantages and disadvantages. What would be needed, then, for evolution to bring pure bipeds, is an environment where more consistent bipedalism is such an advantage that it becomes a selection advantage. Bipedal creatures can see farther than quadrupeds, and they can carry tools more easily; it's not a great stretch to think that there could have been an environment in which these were significant factors.
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The idea of notes is to highlight the vital elements of the lecture, both to emphasize them and as a trigger for remembering the rest. In my first college experience, I tried the recording approach, only to realize I would then have to take notes from the recording -- thus doubling the effective lecture time.
Much better just to copy notes from someone else. I once went to an open-note final, for which I'd let a couple of people copy my notes. I noticed numerous people I didn't know also with copies of my notes...
Huh? Clearly those of us with low slashdot UIDs spend too much time reading /. to get promoted...
My guess is not. I have a hard time seeing any organization, even one as presumably benevolent as the BBC, giving money to an OSS project without expecting a certain set of deliverables.
I can see, however, some subset of OGG contributors being willing to contract for Auntie Beeb, especially if that contracting allows them a certain amount of use of their own judgement in what needs to be worked on.
As a Republican [..]
...you agree almost completely with the position John Kerry has expressed.
I'm for all the marriage rights, but please, just don't call it marriage and you'll have my vote.
So Kerry has your vote then?
MS has made murmurs before about limiting SP's to only verified serial #s.
Yes, but they weren't planning to do this by restricting the downloads, but by having the installer check for a valid serial # by phoning home or some such. While MS could legally restrict the redistribution, making it freely available on the web essentially validates torrenting, just as you don't need permission to copy it temporarily to the machines in-between theirs and yours.
What I meant was the installation procedure generally refuses to continue without my indicating my consent to the EULA, not that I was legally prohibited from using the software.
Because signatures are not required to have contracts.
Poorly phrased, but true. However, contracts are required to have several things, including a meeting of the minds and an exchange of value. EULAs do not give, they simply take, so the latter is not present. If there is no meeting of the minds, I should be able to continue as I would have otherwise. However, refusing to accept an EULA agreement generally prohibits me from using software I've already purchased, and which a vendor may not agree to let me return once opened. Even if the vendor will take it back, I may have shipping or transportation costs which they will not refund.
No, EULAs are corporations trying to pervert the laws to their own ends, breaking principles of law that have lasted hundreds of years in the process.
Note that if software companies want to add EULA restrictions, they have a perfectly reasonable way to so: sell their software over the web. As long as the EULA provisions are presented prior to purchase, all the general principles of contract are there, and purchasing shows consent. But this lazy BS that they should be able to pervert contract principles in a commercial sale through a third party should die a painful death.
IANAL, but if one could still read for the bar, I might try.
I, being a Canadian, would be interested in buying 1 stock.
On the day of the IPO, buy one share. Because of the dutch auction, it shouldn't skyrocket immediately.
Interestingly, though, you do point out a possible cause for an opening day rise; international purchasers.
Exactly. I do a fair bit of user switching, and it always boggles me when it takes a while to get firefox displayed again after a user switch even though I was also running firefox with the user I switched from. This is on a half-gig machine that the task manager doesn't think is using more than a half gig of memory.
Actually, the Dutch auction works in favor of the small investor AND Google.
Agreed, I meant IPO speculators when I wrote investors. You and another have clarified this distinction nicely.
Abso-friggin'-lutely. I'd bet the CEOs, etc. of other dot-bombs are kicking themselves for not doing the same thing. If it pays off, this could trigger a sea-change in how IPOs are handled, to the dismay of the big financial companies who have been loving those IPO windfalls.
even *with* the Dutch Auction.
I think the Dutch auction works against the investor, and in favor of Google.
Think about Netscape, VA Linux, Red Hat, and other such IPOs. They initially sold at a low price, and the stock skyrocketed the first day. People who got in at the IPO price and sold shortly thereafter made out like bandits -- heck, overall they probably made more than the companies. With Google's approach, there's no reason to expect much of an opening day vault, as the opening ask price comes from the auction price, and who would suddenly pay much more for the stock (once it's in general trading) than they would have shortly before (during the auction)?
Google has a scheme that allows them to pocket all that opening day enthusiasm themselves. Very smart, but there's little reason for small investors to care about the IPO itself as a result.
Not that I know that much about investing and IPOs, mind you.
We'll have a fair trial, and a first class hangin'!
You don't mess with a man's slashdot access, son...
whatever municipality is getting a**-r****d
a** I can figure, but r****d? Did you mean r***d, or could you give me another hint?
"I'd like to buy a vowel..."
One of the core points of good literature is the struggle of human-kind to improve himself. How does this novel meet that goal if the author provides no solution to averting this future?
Sounds like this stupid play I once read. This guy gets told by the ghost of his father about the guy who killed him, so then he makes some pretty speeches and then everyone starts dying: his girlfriend, her father, a couple of flunkies, his mother, his stepfather, the guy himself, and a few others. What was that dren called? "Hamlet" or something goofy like that.
When will the rip offs of George W.Bush end?!!
John Kerry is hoping it'll be January, 2005...
You could consider reencoding your DVDs in a higher compression format. I suspect some of the new codecs can match the quality of MPEG-2 at half the data rate, maybe even less.
And just the other day I was wondering if it were possible for Segway users to look even more r[i]diculous...
You know bicycle pants? Just wait until you see the new Segway clothing...
For those of us that are not athletes
...this allows you to continue that state.
You could go with something like having a machine read the results but then you are running into the same problems they had with the chad based ballots.
Not really, since even seniors could read or hear "You voted for Pat Buchanan" -- perhaps with an accompanying picture provided by the candidate -- more easily than they could read the butterfly ballot. Likewise, multi-punched, partial-punched, etc. ballots would be identified at the time, perhaps with the machine making its own mark on the ballot to indicate its interpretation (as an optical reader might get different results from scanning a border case when run a second time.)
This really is the way to go, and it's how Howard County, MD's machines were the last time, except it gave no feedback on who my votes were for.
In doing so you've added at least a full inch to the length of the device, and the big attraction of the device is it's size.
Must...resist...obvious..jokes...
Sitting anywhere for extended periods of time increases your risk of hemorrhoids.
The toilet, however, which lacks support in the middle, is a little worse than your standard office chair. Also, if you've already had a movement, standing up and walking will serve to return your organs to a more normal state. So do focus esp. on minimizing toilet time.
Take it from one who knows more than he'd like about this...
pfff, my gf doesnt call me Achilles for nothing!
How much do you pay her?
Unfortunately they cost $699.
While you're right to start with, you fail later on.
It says, if you RFTA, that this macaque is not unusual because it walks bipedally, but because it walks bipedally exclusively. So bipedalism isn't a complete change of behavior.
Temporary bipedalism has advantages and disadvantages. What would be needed, then, for evolution to bring pure bipeds, is an environment where more consistent bipedalism is such an advantage that it becomes a selection advantage. Bipedal creatures can see farther than quadrupeds, and they can carry tools more easily; it's not a great stretch to think that there could have been an environment in which these were significant factors.