"sell it for $100+" I see you haven't been in college in awhile. $100 is fucking cheap. Book now are at LEAST $175. Books that might actually be useful after college (some are great for reference) are $225 and up. I'm not exaggerating in the slightest here. That's literally what they cost.
Every new addition has slightly different problem sets and the chapters are rearranged quite a lot. If you've ever taken a look at a book in its 10th or high edition you'll notice that the professor's syllabus for the book is "chapters: 5,4,8,9,1,15" IN THAT ORDER. This is because the first few editions of the book were laid out logically and the updates had significant content. After a few revisions, there isn't much to change and therefore no reason to buy the book. They go ahead and rearrange chapters so that attempting to use an old book will result in lots of confusion when trying to find the homework chapters/reading/problems.
Profs. hate this just as much as the students do because they have to constantly rework their syllabus to fit the new chapters. This results in the profs wanting to use the same edition book for years and years. The book publishers figured out that this is impossible if they stop publishing their old editions. Thus, profs can't require the old book because there's nowhere to buy it.
Textbook publishers are swimming in so much cash that it's fucking absurd. It should actually be criminal. Seriously, criminal. I would support a law that required educational textbooks to be placed in the public domain after the original author stops publishing them (and of course define a minimum publishing quantity). There would be plenty of people that would publish and sell these "old" books just above cost. This would solve everything actually. Textbook publishers would have to add content to their books for people to want to buy the newest editions... what a shocking concept.
Oh, and I almost forgot to mention the shitty "online content" that comes bundles with a lot of these books. It's either a CD that has some animations (software is windows only, of course) or, more recently, an "online access code" that gives you the ability to access a few animations/problems online. The CD isn't going to work in a few years because it won't support the new OS, the internet code is only good for a semester. In either case, it's just a scam to add another $20-40 to the overall price of the book.
Bullshit. There have been maybe 10 people that have ever run for congress that have anything resembling common sense. Doesn't matter who you vote for, they're going to be idiots. It's just a question of what kind of idiocy you prefer.
Thank god someone got it right. Enough with these flawed analogies. People, THINK for ten seconds before you make one. Not everything can be related to what APPEARS to be a similar concept.
THe people likely to be volunteering their data are probably people informed about what's going on. Which are the people not likely to be infected, because they don't click on every "FREE PORN" ad they see.
No, it is PROVEN that not watching porn causes relationship issues. See? I can make shit up too! In fact, here's a study that shows porn is good for you: http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2004/s1178524.htm Now, that study wasn't done very well, but it's more than you've presented.
Why is this modded flamebait? The assertion that "intellectual property has no meaning" is clearly false in every sense of the word. Suggesting that IP has no meaning is just another way of saying "I don't know what I'm talking about but I'm going to make this odd and big assertion to look like I have a clearly detailed opinion".
You were raised well without these fancy GPS tracking devices and it worked out just fine therefore children now should all wear them? I'm sorry, I don't follow your post.
"either hold her hand all the time" Oh god, how horrible. God forbid you hold your child's hand, that must be absolutely terrible for you. I mean, you had a child it's just rude for people to expect for you to hold their hand.
You're basing your entire tree of logic here on the assumption that you won't get sued when you do something that a multi national company doesn't like. You WILL get sued regardless of validity and that'l be an amazingly expensive lawyer you're going to have to hire to get you out of it.
The problem is that you're assuming that a vehicle sold in Massachusetts stays and Massachusetts and that no other vehicles are brought in. A vehicle sold in Colorado would have to be serviceable by mechanics in Massachusetts, thus the code would have to work on all vehicles. If the code works everywhere, it WILL get leaked and people everywhere will be able to repair their own vehicles.
"Using an actual monitor is a considerable improvement."
Why is it an improvement? Can you not multiply anymore? Do watches not work? Do they tick at a different speed than 20 years ago? Do you even have anything resembling a valid reason for knowing your heart rate more than once ever minute?
Seriously, that HRM might update at 1 Hz, but are you staring at the thing constantly or are you glancing at it every so often (i.e. once every few minutes)?
"Gym class isn't what it used to be. It's more like working with a personal trainer these days"
What the fuck are you smoking and where can I get some? I don't know how you manage to connect "personal trainer" to "class of 35 with some techno-junk HRMs", but those two things are BY DEFINITION not even close to equal.
Proper exercise techniques and written tests should be covered in health class (you know, where they used to teach sex-ed), not gym.
Weight lifting isn't really aided by knowing your heart rate. You do work in small-ish bursts. i.e. 10 reps, change weight, 10 reps, change weight again, etc.
The best indicator I've found of measuring performance is... surprisingly... the amount of weight you're lifting and the number of times you lift it. (adjust the last two criteria around based on what you're aiming for in terms of muscle strength/endurance)
Your access to a heart rate monitor wouldn't have changed jack shit. Buy a watch and learn to find a pulse and multiply.
"heart rate information is NOT medical information unless it done under very strict conditions"
Run this through a few lawyers and all of a sudden it's "detailed medical records CLEARLY stating that Mr. Bob Jones must pay more insurance because his heart rate studies show that he is at risk for cardiovascular problems".
"Start looking up child obesity numbers and you'll see that schools need to be doing more, not less."
No, start looking up child obesity numbers and you'll see that PARENTS need to be doing more, not less. I have a very hard time blaming the school when a kid sits in front of the TV for hours eating junk food. That clearly isn't because the school didn't tell the child to "eat less chips" it's because the lazy fuck parents didn't take the chips away, kick the kid out the door and say "go ride your bike".
What the hell was wrong with stainless steel slides? Those things were AWESOME. Never had one at my school but there was one at my local park and I loved it.
And fuck the waivers. What the hell has this country come to when we need people to sign waivers to RUN?
This has nothing to do with whether or not kids should exercise, you fool. This has to do with heart rate monitors during exercise. Last time I checked, two fingers on the neck or wrist while someone with a watch counts to 15 worked just fine. It was a lot less expensive, and kids actually have to think about multiplication for a second.
You listed two studies. I'm going to assume that there's probably a few hundred in the area. How in the fuck does 2 studies represent "every study in the area".
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"sell it for $100+"
I see you haven't been in college in awhile. $100 is fucking cheap. Book now are at LEAST $175. Books that might actually be useful after college (some are great for reference) are $225 and up. I'm not exaggerating in the slightest here. That's literally what they cost.
Every new addition has slightly different problem sets and the chapters are rearranged quite a lot. If you've ever taken a look at a book in its 10th or high edition you'll notice that the professor's syllabus for the book is "chapters: 5,4,8,9,1,15" IN THAT ORDER. This is because the first few editions of the book were laid out logically and the updates had significant content. After a few revisions, there isn't much to change and therefore no reason to buy the book. They go ahead and rearrange chapters so that attempting to use an old book will result in lots of confusion when trying to find the homework chapters/reading/problems.
Profs. hate this just as much as the students do because they have to constantly rework their syllabus to fit the new chapters. This results in the profs wanting to use the same edition book for years and years. The book publishers figured out that this is impossible if they stop publishing their old editions. Thus, profs can't require the old book because there's nowhere to buy it.
Textbook publishers are swimming in so much cash that it's fucking absurd. It should actually be criminal. Seriously, criminal. I would support a law that required educational textbooks to be placed in the public domain after the original author stops publishing them (and of course define a minimum publishing quantity). There would be plenty of people that would publish and sell these "old" books just above cost.
This would solve everything actually. Textbook publishers would have to add content to their books for people to want to buy the newest editions... what a shocking concept.
Oh, and I almost forgot to mention the shitty "online content" that comes bundles with a lot of these books. It's either a CD that has some animations (software is windows only, of course) or, more recently, an "online access code" that gives you the ability to access a few animations/problems online. The CD isn't going to work in a few years because it won't support the new OS, the internet code is only good for a semester. In either case, it's just a scam to add another $20-40 to the overall price of the book.
Bullshit. There have been maybe 10 people that have ever run for congress that have anything resembling common sense. Doesn't matter who you vote for, they're going to be idiots. It's just a question of what kind of idiocy you prefer.
If you put a thousand of these in the back of a VW bug and drove it from California to New York....
Thank god someone got it right. Enough with these flawed analogies. People, THINK for ten seconds before you make one. Not everything can be related to what APPEARS to be a similar concept.
THe people likely to be volunteering their data are probably people informed about what's going on. Which are the people not likely to be infected, because they don't click on every "FREE PORN" ad they see.
"Smoking causes disease, and that's allowed at work" What office building do you work in that permits smoking?
We need to BAN DIHYDROGEN MONOXIDE!!! It causes drownings, urination, and sweating!!!
No, it is PROVEN that not watching porn causes relationship issues. See? I can make shit up too!
In fact, here's a study that shows porn is good for you: http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2004/s1178524.htm
Now, that study wasn't done very well, but it's more than you've presented.
Why is this modded flamebait? The assertion that "intellectual property has no meaning" is clearly false in every sense of the word. Suggesting that IP has no meaning is just another way of saying "I don't know what I'm talking about but I'm going to make this odd and big assertion to look like I have a clearly detailed opinion".
You were raised well without these fancy GPS tracking devices and it worked out just fine therefore children now should all wear them? I'm sorry, I don't follow your post.
"either hold her hand all the time"
Oh god, how horrible. God forbid you hold your child's hand, that must be absolutely terrible for you. I mean, you had a child it's just rude for people to expect for you to hold their hand.
Because they're a PEDOPHILE. That's kind of like asking "why would a murderer want to kill"
You don't need a ground. Go to the wikipedia article for "Faraday Cage" it has a great animation of how this works.
You're confusing karate training with "The Bourne Identity", don't worry, it's a common mistake.
You're basing your entire tree of logic here on the assumption that you won't get sued when you do something that a multi national company doesn't like. You WILL get sued regardless of validity and that'l be an amazingly expensive lawyer you're going to have to hire to get you out of it.
The problem is that you're assuming that a vehicle sold in Massachusetts stays and Massachusetts and that no other vehicles are brought in. A vehicle sold in Colorado would have to be serviceable by mechanics in Massachusetts, thus the code would have to work on all vehicles. If the code works everywhere, it WILL get leaked and people everywhere will be able to repair their own vehicles.
"Using an actual monitor is a considerable improvement."
Why is it an improvement? Can you not multiply anymore? Do watches not work? Do they tick at a different speed than 20 years ago? Do you even have anything resembling a valid reason for knowing your heart rate more than once ever minute?
Seriously, that HRM might update at 1 Hz, but are you staring at the thing constantly or are you glancing at it every so often (i.e. once every few minutes)?
"Gym class isn't what it used to be. It's more like working with a personal trainer these days"
What the fuck are you smoking and where can I get some? I don't know how you manage to connect "personal trainer" to "class of 35 with some techno-junk HRMs", but those two things are BY DEFINITION not even close to equal.
Proper exercise techniques and written tests should be covered in health class (you know, where they used to teach sex-ed), not gym.
Weight lifting isn't really aided by knowing your heart rate. You do work in small-ish bursts. i.e. 10 reps, change weight, 10 reps, change weight again, etc.
The best indicator I've found of measuring performance is... surprisingly... the amount of weight you're lifting and the number of times you lift it. (adjust the last two criteria around based on what you're aiming for in terms of muscle strength/endurance)
Your access to a heart rate monitor wouldn't have changed jack shit. Buy a watch and learn to find a pulse and multiply.
"heart rate information is NOT medical information unless it done under very strict conditions"
Run this through a few lawyers and all of a sudden it's "detailed medical records CLEARLY stating that Mr. Bob Jones must pay more insurance because his heart rate studies show that he is at risk for cardiovascular problems".
"Start looking up child obesity numbers and you'll see that schools need to be doing more, not less."
No, start looking up child obesity numbers and you'll see that PARENTS need to be doing more, not less. I have a very hard time blaming the school when a kid sits in front of the TV for hours eating junk food. That clearly isn't because the school didn't tell the child to "eat less chips" it's because the lazy fuck parents didn't take the chips away, kick the kid out the door and say "go ride your bike".
What the hell was wrong with stainless steel slides? Those things were AWESOME. Never had one at my school but there was one at my local park and I loved it.
And fuck the waivers. What the hell has this country come to when we need people to sign waivers to RUN?
This has nothing to do with whether or not kids should exercise, you fool. This has to do with heart rate monitors during exercise. Last time I checked, two fingers on the neck or wrist while someone with a watch counts to 15 worked just fine. It was a lot less expensive, and kids actually have to think about multiplication for a second.
"1) McAfee sucks. We supply a copy of the Enterprise version to students, and a patched installation is required for internet access."
It sucks and yet you require it on every student machine. Sounds to me like this isn't a student problem.
You listed two studies. I'm going to assume that there's probably a few hundred in the area. How in the fuck does 2 studies represent "every study in the area".
.5% sample AT BEST.
You've given me a 2/200 =