There's an option in the parental controls to disable/password-protect Safari/Youtube etc altogether. With Opera/Atomic/iCab/etc you get a single dialog that you snicker at while tapping "ok," after which there's no restrictions. So in that sense, Apple locks their own apps down tighter than Opera.
No, it doesn't. Nor does Stanza support Kindle books. Easy fix: have two apps.
At any rate, it's decent enough for a first release, but a better way of buying on the fly than Mobile Safari would be nice. I'd also like an interface closer to Stanza's, with touch-to-scroll (instead of swiping), a sans-serif font and a white-on-black display option for night reading. I'd imagine these will probably make it in over time.
ARAPAHOE COUNTY, Colo. -- A man, woman and toddler were shot to death and a teenage girl was wounded outside a home near Bennett Thursday in what an investigator called a "horrific" scene.
Neighbors told The Denver Post that the man was 'Spam King' Edward "Eddie" Davidson and his family.
The Arapahoe County Sheriff's Office said another infant appeared to be unharmed in the shooting.
Actually this isn't quite true for the Air Force, as they were specifically told by Congress this spring to get rid of quite a lot of people--13 to 16 thousand I believe, while they're also trying to get people to move to the Army who does need more folks. Here's a link to what I'm referencing: http://www.military.com/NewsContent/0,13319,usaf2_ 030104.00.html
Even if the volunteers run out there is still the Inactive reserves, which are people who served less than eight years ago. Only then would they bother with the draft (I'm Air Force IRR and am not worried in the least). Trust me, it's not going to happen.
The final alternative is less eloquent: student revolt, in the form of litigation if need be. This year, formal complaints have been issued by several groups to the top University of California and California State University systems allege that textbook prices could be reduced by forty percent, dropping the cost of textbooks over a four year period at a university from five to two thousand (Hubbard). If pleas such as these go unheard, the next step could be Congress, filing allegations of price fixing, or even a class action lawsuit if enough students are able to band together and pool their resources. Again, the Internet can aid greatly, as instant global communication could lead to a nationwide Student Union, which could oversee the interests of all students and be powerful enough to take on the industry itself through whatever means are appropriate.
Feynman, Richard P. Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1985.
Hubbard, Kristen. Group Files Complaint Against Cost of Books. <http://www.ucsdguardian.org/cgi-bin/news?art=2003 _02_10_05>.
Kyobo Bookstore. Introductory Linear Algebra, 7/E <http://www.kyobobook.co.kr/is-bin/INTERSHOP.enfin ity/eCS/Store/en/-/USD/PL_BookInfo-Start?Click=Cc& barcode=6100130182653
National Association of College Stores. Collegiate Retailing Industry: Higher Education Retail Market. <http://www.nacs.org/public/research/higher_ed_ret ail.asp>.
Paulson, Tim. Textbooks Publishers Profiting From Students' Loss. <http://www.corporatemofo.com/stories/020519textbo oks.htm>.
Wilen, John. GW Students Network, Take On College Textbook Industry. Washington Business Journal 16 Dec. 2002, 34-36.
This is a rather long essay I wrote a while back on the subject, so bear with me on this.
Deep within downtown Seoul, on the bottom floor of one of the city's innumerable high-rises, is the Kyobo Bookstore, the largest of its kind in Asia. Along the West wall of this 2.3 million title shopping center is a selection of English books, and a selection of college textbooks larger than that many American campus stores. A visiting American student majoring in for example mathematics would be astounded upon browsing the selection, not because of the wide variety of books available, but because the exact same book which he or she spent over $120 on for the previous semester is available here for $30.
Many of the business practices of the textbook industry are well known, if only subconsciously, to all college students. The nearly oligarchical cartel in the textbook industry drives the price of schoolbooks to unreasonable levels, between three to five times fair market value for equivalent non-scholastic texts in North American school bookstores (even though they can be purchased cheaply overseas), by means of a captive student population who does not have a choice in which textbooks they much purchase and price-control mechanisms such as frequent yet marginal revisions to short-circuit any used book market and "value-added" features such as subscription-based Internet site access, partly so as to satiate an expectation of high profits by textbook authors in an over-saturated industry.
The fact that textbooks are extremely expensive is difficult to debate. A quick browse in Amazon.com's textbook section shows that the average price for the top five books in each of their categories, is currently $89.47. Only one book in their top Mathematics section is sold for less than $99--and that book is only available used (Amazon). Since it is not uncommon for professors to require more than one book for a class, the financial burden on students can easy top five hundred dollars per semester. Furthermore, the cost of textbooks severely outpaces inflation: the United States Department of Labor indicates that the wholesale price of textbooks has increased 65 percent in the past decade, nearly six times the average increase in producer prices on the whole (Hubbard). In contrast, it is quite rare to find a hardcover book online or at a physical bookstore, even technical in nature, that retails for over $45.
The traditional method for students to offset these costs is the used book market, usually also facilitated by the campus bookstore. However, the industry has several methods of short-circuting this market. Most obvious is the frequent revisioning of textbooks, with as little as six months between versions, make previous versions economically worthless because even if the changes are as mundane as rearranged exercises (not uncommon in math and physics texts), publishers will stop printing the older edition, forcing professors to switch to ordering the new editions or risk alienating students who cannot find used copies of previous editions. or adding in "value-added" items such as CD-ROMs, magazines, or Internet Web Site access which are rarely used by instructors but serve to prevent used book sales.
In an effort to get instructors, departments and school boards to adopt a text, publishers go to great lengths to entice faculty. Perhaps one of the most ridiculous instances of textbook publishers trying to win instructor favor was an attempt to woo Richard Feynman, one of the most prominent physicists of the 20th century and a professor at the California Institute of Technology. Mr. Feynman was offered some 300 pounds of textbooks to review and recommend, and the promise that "We'll get someone to help you read them." One book he was asked to review was blank ("We just need a recommendation"), and when he delayed for several days (allowing a bidding war which cost the publisher two million dollars), Feynman was offered gifts ranging from fruit baskets to an all-expense-paid tou
You know, when Apple spots a vulnerability in OSX and updates fairly promptly (and this isn't exactly a rare occurance), they're commended on their quick turnaround time for a patch. When Microsoft does the same thing, they're demonized as fixing Yet Another Bug(tm). Is it really impossible to give them credit where credit's due?
Slashdot Mirror
I've heard of chocolate adding on pounds before but this is ridiculous *chomps cigar*
well dont leave us hanging, did you find yourself a rich man
Eh, seeing how Newton was involved in one of the most famous IP-theft disputes in history this is more than a bit ironic.
Now the PlayBook will have a native email client :(
... of Pokemon Snap I was thinking of.
It's not small, no no
There's an option in the parental controls to disable/password-protect Safari/Youtube etc altogether. With Opera/Atomic/iCab/etc you get a single dialog that you snicker at while tapping "ok," after which there's no restrictions. So in that sense, Apple locks their own apps down tighter than Opera.
This is a pretty silly story.
GET OUT OF HERE STALKER
As many of us know there is a movement to make "hella-" the SI unit for 10^27.
Following convention, 10^-27 should therefore be "hello-"
Which works perfectly, since that makes 10^-27 kitties...
No, green glow = landmines. A blue glow means your backyard is infested with orcs.
Just sayin'
I mean, Robert E. Lee has been dead for *decades*.
Are you nuts? Less than a minute googling 'history of the moon' will give you hundreds of references to it pre 1950.
uh the internet wasnt around in 1950 genius
Bionic Eye Gives Blind Man Sight.
No, it doesn't. Nor does Stanza support Kindle books. Easy fix: have two apps.
At any rate, it's decent enough for a first release, but a better way of buying on the fly than Mobile Safari would be nice. I'd also like an interface closer to Stanza's, with touch-to-scroll (instead of swiping), a sans-serif font and a white-on-black display option for night reading. I'd imagine these will probably make it in over time.
On top of this, state workers are slated to get their back pay at the end of it all, in full. That may not be an entirely trivial change.
The Governor refuses his salary, so that won't work.
I suspect the legislators are wealthy enough that their per diem cut wouldn't be too much hurt.
Now what *would* work...you know how they choose a pope?
Well from my take on the posting it's not the fact that we found water on Mars, it's the fact that we found a horse.
ARAPAHOE COUNTY, Colo. -- A man, woman and toddler were shot to death and a teenage girl was wounded outside a home near Bennett Thursday in what an investigator called a "horrific" scene. Neighbors told The Denver Post that the man was 'Spam King' Edward "Eddie" Davidson and his family. The Arapahoe County Sheriff's Office said another infant appeared to be unharmed in the shooting.
Zimbra.
It took me a while to not read that as "Yahoo buys Zambia for $350M."
Sure enough the high price was what tipped me off to my mistake.
Actually this isn't quite true for the Air Force, as they were specifically told by Congress this spring to get rid of quite a lot of people--13 to 16 thousand I believe, while they're also trying to get people to move to the Army who does need more folks. Here's a link to what I'm referencing: http://www.military.com/NewsContent/0,13319,usaf2_ 030104.00.html
Even if the volunteers run out there is still the Inactive reserves, which are people who served less than eight years ago. Only then would they bother with the draft (I'm Air Force IRR and am not worried in the least). Trust me, it's not going to happen.
Whoa what the hell, here's the rest of that.
The final alternative is less eloquent: student revolt, in the form of litigation if need be. This year, formal complaints have been issued by several groups to the top University of California and California State University systems allege that textbook prices could be reduced by forty percent, dropping the cost of textbooks over a four year period at a university from five to two thousand (Hubbard). If pleas such as these go unheard, the next step could be Congress, filing allegations of price fixing, or even a class action lawsuit if enough students are able to band together and pool their resources. Again, the Internet can aid greatly, as instant global communication could lead to a nationwide Student Union, which could oversee the interests of all students and be powerful enough to take on the industry itself through whatever means are appropriate.
Amazon.com. Introductory Linear Algebra with Applications (7th Edition). 3 0182656/>
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Canterbery, Ray. CW Resource. <http://myphlip.pearsoncmg.com/cw/mpviewce.cfm?vc
Feynman, Richard P. Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1985.
Hubbard, Kristen. Group Files Complaint Against Cost of Books. <http://www.ucsdguardian.org/cgi-bin/news?art=200
Kyobo Bookstore. Introductory Linear Algebra, 7/E <http://www.kyobobook.co.kr/is-bin/INTERSHOP.enfi
National Association of College Stores. Collegiate Retailing Industry: Higher Education Retail Market. <http://www.nacs.org/public/research/higher_ed_re
Paulson, Tim. Textbooks Publishers Profiting From Students' Loss. <http://www.corporatemofo.com/stories/020519textb
Wilen, John. GW Students Network, Take On College Textbook Industry. Washington Business Journal 16 Dec. 2002, 34-36.
This is a rather long essay I wrote a while back on the subject, so bear with me on this.
Deep within downtown Seoul, on the bottom floor of one of the city's innumerable high-rises, is the Kyobo Bookstore, the largest of its kind in Asia. Along the West wall of this 2.3 million title shopping center is a selection of English books, and a selection of college textbooks larger than that many American campus stores. A visiting American student majoring in for example mathematics would be astounded upon browsing the selection, not because of the wide variety of books available, but because the exact same book which he or she spent over $120 on for the previous semester is available here for $30.
Many of the business practices of the textbook industry are well known, if only subconsciously, to all college students. The nearly oligarchical cartel in the textbook industry drives the price of schoolbooks to unreasonable levels, between three to five times fair market value for equivalent non-scholastic texts in North American school bookstores (even though they can be purchased cheaply overseas), by means of a captive student population who does not have a choice in which textbooks they much purchase and price-control mechanisms such as frequent yet marginal revisions to short-circuit any used book market and "value-added" features such as subscription-based Internet site access, partly so as to satiate an expectation of high profits by textbook authors in an over-saturated industry.
The fact that textbooks are extremely expensive is difficult to debate. A quick browse in Amazon.com's textbook section shows that the average price for the top five books in each of their categories, is currently $89.47. Only one book in their top Mathematics section is sold for less than $99--and that book is only available used (Amazon). Since it is not uncommon for professors to require more than one book for a class, the financial burden on students can easy top five hundred dollars per semester. Furthermore, the cost of textbooks severely outpaces inflation: the United States Department of Labor indicates that the wholesale price of textbooks has increased 65 percent in the past decade, nearly six times the average increase in producer prices on the whole (Hubbard). In contrast, it is quite rare to find a hardcover book online or at a physical bookstore, even technical in nature, that retails for over $45.
The traditional method for students to offset these costs is the used book market, usually also facilitated by the campus bookstore. However, the industry has several methods of short-circuting this market. Most obvious is the frequent revisioning of textbooks, with as little as six months between versions, make previous versions economically worthless because even if the changes are as mundane as rearranged exercises (not uncommon in math and physics texts), publishers will stop printing the older edition, forcing professors to switch to ordering the new editions or risk alienating students who cannot find used copies of previous editions. or adding in "value-added" items such as CD-ROMs, magazines, or Internet Web Site access which are rarely used by instructors but serve to prevent used book sales.
In an effort to get instructors, departments and school boards to adopt a text, publishers go to great lengths to entice faculty. Perhaps one of the most ridiculous instances of textbook publishers trying to win instructor favor was an attempt to woo Richard Feynman, one of the most prominent physicists of the 20th century and a professor at the California Institute of Technology. Mr. Feynman was offered some 300 pounds of textbooks to review and recommend, and the promise that "We'll get someone to help you read them." One book he was asked to review was blank ("We just need a recommendation"), and when he delayed for several days (allowing a bidding war which cost the publisher two million dollars), Feynman was offered gifts ranging from fruit baskets to an all-expense-paid tou
You know, when Apple spots a vulnerability in OSX and updates fairly promptly (and this isn't exactly a rare occurance), they're commended on their quick turnaround time for a patch. When Microsoft does the same thing, they're demonized as fixing Yet Another Bug(tm). Is it really impossible to give them credit where credit's due?