Exactly. A PhD is not a vocational degree. It sounds like the OP is doing it to get a specific job. In which case they're doing it wrong.
Not that it's terribly surprising. Schools love PhDs, but if you're looking to get your money back on your investment sometime in the next 20 years then you're doing exactly the wrong thing by getting one.
Yes, but there is really nowhere to conceal anything on an electric bike.
If you're spending $5K on the bike spend another $200 on a very good bike lock and use it. The current crop of electric bikes are hilariously ugly and heavy. No one is going to steal one on a lark, and you're not going to be able to stop a professional thief with a lojack.
And if we did for some reason go back to air combat, why would we do it with pilots in the planes? Take the need to keep a pilot alive out of the equation and everything gets much cheaper. And we can take the maneuverability close to aerodynamic and mechanical limits rather than the limits of the pilot.
If they cost 1/10th (or 1/1000th) as much and don't have a highly trained (and expensive) pilot in them, how much to we care of they get shot down?
Your problem doesn't need complicated (and expensive) things like transponders, infrared identifiers or image recognition cameras. You're dealing with edge cases that a human can deal with in a few seconds if they have the right interface for it.
There are also people who will sell you hackintoshes built to spec.
So, you know, nothing to see here.
I know dozens of people who use Apples professionally for audio, video, photography, development, whatever. None of them are thinking about jumping ship in the near future. The only legitimate complaint is the Final Cut Pro upgrade, but at least Apple even has allowed purchasers to go back to the previous version.
And then you can use that power to selfishly hold on to your job despite the fact that technology has passed you by and made you irrelevant, and the world is a better place without you and your subsidized jobs.
The other day I noticed Microsoft had a patent on creating a table in a word precessing document using "keystrokes on a keyboard".
But thankfully I'm making a text editor and not a word processor, so I can still use a keyboard shortcut to create a table. Yes! The system works! Let me call my intellectual property attorneys!
(I'm to lazy to cite the number, but it was issued in 2010, so it patent number 8 million something if you want to look it up.)
This is exactly why I bought a Kindle. (And I haven't bought a print book since.) I was blessed with a borders two blocks away from my house, it was four floors, each floor was very large, and it was often open until midnight. The only thing better I could ask for is for the damn place to have some books. A few years ago the best science fiction authors got together and made a list of the 100 best SF books. I had read many of them, but many I hadn't. So I made my list of 25 books and went down to Borders and started looking. They didn't have one.
Not a single one of the 25 best SF books in the world. They had a few that I had read, but none that were on my list. Looking further entire legendary authors were unrepresented. Harry Harrison had nothing. From Piers Anthony to Vernor Vinge, nothing. Alfred Bester had nothing, Niven had one book. Ursula Le Guin, one book. The Herbert section was mostly the awful Dune books Frank Herbert's son has vomited out and had copies of half the originals.
And of these four floors, one floor was mostly music. (Who buys that in a store anymore either?) Kids books area was huge but it was 80% toys. The staff was smart and knowledgeable, but they'd often recommend books they didn't have in stock.
And on the other side of it, I've been an author. I know how badly publishers treat them. It makes the music industry look charitable. Glad to see authors getting their due.
Respond back to the letter being factual and honest
No, do not do this. Do not have any contact with them that's not through a lawyer. This is very important if it should ever go to court. And yes, BSA hates going to court. That's exactly why you should do it this way. Document the hell out of everything.
Have a lawyer draft a letter saying you're in compliance, have them send it, registered mail, to the BSA. This should not coast more than $150 or so.
There is a 90% chance that the BSA will back off when you do this. They will see you aren't a pushover. If they ever show up at your door without a subpoena, ask them to leave. Then call the cops.
Another option would be to ask most anyone over about 30 years of age. Funny how people did all sorts of crazy crap before the Internet. They were even smart enough to conceive and construct the Internet.
If you're going to be in the press observation bunker bring a coat. Before the launch they chill that room to something like 55F. Almost immediately after launch the temp jumps into the 90's from the energy released by the rocket.
Back in the '80s they used to put tinted windows on buildings to block the sun to reduce air conditioning bills.
Then they realized that when they did this they spent more on lighting since the sun couldn't get in. So they moved to coatings that reflect heat but let the light through. Air conditioning bills down, lighting bills down, everyone wins.
Now they want to harvest the daylight, so that they can use that electricity to... light the office?
*sigh* I'm all for harvesting waste energy, but these don't harvest waste energy, they harvest something we're actually using!
Agreed. And sine Priority Inbox uses past behavior to track what's a priority and there's no record of what this user did with their email account before, their claims are unsubstantiated.
It doesn't even benefit them. At least beyond the very short term.
(Disclaimer: I have created or complied with ridiculous and convoluted DRM requests for various publishers, only to invariably be asked to reduce or remove it later so that they could actually distribute the applications later. In fact in at least once case I have been paid more to remove DRM from a game than I was paid to add it in the first place.)
Except instead of losing the favor of those in front of the wall, it lose the favor of those behind it. If you actually pay hard earned money for full access you feel like a chump.
To me it simply emphasizes that the content isn't worth paying for.
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How about "citizen astronomer"?
http://citizenscientistsleague.com/
Buses used to be like this in Taipei as well.
They had to stop this behavior because of the absolutely amazing number of people who fell under the wheels.
No, but there was a hole in one!
Exactly. A PhD is not a vocational degree. It sounds like the OP is doing it to get a specific job. In which case they're doing it wrong.
Not that it's terribly surprising. Schools love PhDs, but if you're looking to get your money back on your investment sometime in the next 20 years then you're doing exactly the wrong thing by getting one.
What you're saying is that I don't deserve Internet access because I I don't live the way you want me to.
Get over yourself.
Yes, but there is really nowhere to conceal anything on an electric bike.
If you're spending $5K on the bike spend another $200 on a very good bike lock and use it. The current crop of electric bikes are hilariously ugly and heavy. No one is going to steal one on a lark, and you're not going to be able to stop a professional thief with a lojack.
"Liquid water possibly found on Jupiter Moon"
When will the editors understand that not all Slashdot readers are carbon-based life forms. The ridiculous bias on this site knows no bounds!
do you really have a hard time being the recipient of information on your up-to-date information technologies?
No. But then neither does anyone who has a radio or TV. So really, what was the point of this test?
And if we did for some reason go back to air combat, why would we do it with pilots in the planes? Take the need to keep a pilot alive out of the equation and everything gets much cheaper. And we can take the maneuverability close to aerodynamic and mechanical limits rather than the limits of the pilot.
If they cost 1/10th (or 1/1000th) as much and don't have a highly trained (and expensive) pilot in them, how much to we care of they get shot down?
A thousand times this.
Your problem doesn't need complicated (and expensive) things like transponders, infrared identifiers or image recognition cameras. You're dealing with edge cases that a human can deal with in a few seconds if they have the right interface for it.
Give them the right interface for it.
There are also people who will sell you hackintoshes built to spec.
So, you know, nothing to see here.
I know dozens of people who use Apples professionally for audio, video, photography, development, whatever. None of them are thinking about jumping ship in the near future. The only legitimate complaint is the Final Cut Pro upgrade, but at least Apple even has allowed purchasers to go back to the previous version.
And then you can use that power to selfishly hold on to your job despite the fact that technology has passed you by and made you irrelevant, and the world is a better place without you and your subsidized jobs.
Sounds great! Sign me up!
Amazon has the resources to go after these guys, to remove them from the gene pool. But will they bother?
(Seeing how tenaciously they hold on to the One-Click patent I somehow doubt it, but it would be nice.)
You've done a great job of pointing out what the law says, but do you haven't shown a single iota that you know what it means.
You can correct my spelling all day but at the end of it you still haven't proven yourself to be a writer of any worth.
The other day I noticed Microsoft had a patent on creating a table in a word precessing document using "keystrokes on a keyboard".
But thankfully I'm making a text editor and not a word processor, so I can still use a keyboard shortcut to create a table. Yes! The system works! Let me call my intellectual property attorneys!
(I'm to lazy to cite the number, but it was issued in 2010, so it patent number 8 million something if you want to look it up.)
This is exactly why I bought a Kindle. (And I haven't bought a print book since.) I was blessed with a borders two blocks away from my house, it was four floors, each floor was very large, and it was often open until midnight. The only thing better I could ask for is for the damn place to have some books. A few years ago the best science fiction authors got together and made a list of the 100 best SF books. I had read many of them, but many I hadn't. So I made my list of 25 books and went down to Borders and started looking. They didn't have one.
Not a single one of the 25 best SF books in the world. They had a few that I had read, but none that were on my list. Looking further entire legendary authors were unrepresented. Harry Harrison had nothing. From Piers Anthony to Vernor Vinge, nothing. Alfred Bester had nothing, Niven had one book. Ursula Le Guin, one book. The Herbert section was mostly the awful Dune books Frank Herbert's son has vomited out and had copies of half the originals.
And of these four floors, one floor was mostly music. (Who buys that in a store anymore either?) Kids books area was huge but it was 80% toys. The staff was smart and knowledgeable, but they'd often recommend books they didn't have in stock.
And on the other side of it, I've been an author. I know how badly publishers treat them. It makes the music industry look charitable. Glad to see authors getting their due.
No, do not do this. Do not have any contact with them that's not through a lawyer. This is very important if it should ever go to court. And yes, BSA hates going to court. That's exactly why you should do it this way. Document the hell out of everything.
Have a lawyer draft a letter saying you're in compliance, have them send it, registered mail, to the BSA. This should not coast more than $150 or so.
There is a 90% chance that the BSA will back off when you do this. They will see you aren't a pushover. If they ever show up at your door without a subpoena, ask them to leave. Then call the cops.
Another option would be to ask most anyone over about 30 years of age. Funny how people did all sorts of crazy crap before the Internet. They were even smart enough to conceive and construct the Internet.
If you're going to be in the press observation bunker bring a coat. Before the launch they chill that room to something like 55F. Almost immediately after launch the temp jumps into the 90's from the energy released by the rocket.
Yes, but more than half a billion dollars of hidden complexity?
Back in the '80s they used to put tinted windows on buildings to block the sun to reduce air conditioning bills.
Then they realized that when they did this they spent more on lighting since the sun couldn't get in. So they moved to coatings that reflect heat but let the light through. Air conditioning bills down, lighting bills down, everyone wins.
Now they want to harvest the daylight, so that they can use that electricity to... light the office?
*sigh* I'm all for harvesting waste energy, but these don't harvest waste energy, they harvest something we're actually using!
Solar concrete. Now that would be something.
Agreed. And sine Priority Inbox uses past behavior to track what's a priority and there's no record of what this user did with their email account before, their claims are unsubstantiated.
It would also be trivial to Photoshop.
$10?
Try $1.00-$1.50 USD. Seriously, you underestimate the economy of scale.
It doesn't even benefit them. At least beyond the very short term.
(Disclaimer: I have created or complied with ridiculous and convoluted DRM requests for various publishers, only to invariably be asked to reduce or remove it later so that they could actually distribute the applications later. In fact in at least once case I have been paid more to remove DRM from a game than I was paid to add it in the first place.)
Except instead of losing the favor of those in front of the wall, it lose the favor of those behind it. If you actually pay hard earned money for full access you feel like a chump.
To me it simply emphasizes that the content isn't worth paying for.