I see this as another crack-at-the-seams. Why should students be held to a standard that their "betters" cannot be bothered to follow?
On another tack... so if the books are used over and over, the "education" is used over and over... so why are prices rising high and higher?
Elsewhere on today's Slashdot news:
National "Dragnet" Connecting at State, Local Level
Posted by Soulskill on Friday March 07, @02:11AM from the story-you-are-about-to-hear-is-true dept. Squirtle tips us to a Washington Post story about the progress and expansion of N-DEx - the National Data Exchange. Developed by Raytheon for a mere $85 million, N-DEx is hailed as a unified intelligence sharing system, which will allow agencies to share and analyze data from all levels of law enforcement.
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FBI Admits More Privacy Violations
Posted by Soulskill on Thursday March 06, @06:59PM from the truth-will-out-eventually-if-they-feel-like-it dept. Privacy kwietman writes "The FBI admitted that in 2006, for the fourth straight year, they improperly accessed phone and internet records of U.S. citizens.
The special $300-ish editions are assumed to be on prepaid order - for example no store could "sign for the artist".
However, the bulk "generic CD" is fairly easy - nothing more than a CD burner, and a machine to do the label art. I don't want to order it and wait... I'd rather get it live in store with something like a half-hour max turnaround time. All this does is professionalize what amateurs do.
The benefit is enormous - you get the full strength of the Long Tail. Instead of the product manager guess-hoping what to order, every sale is demand-pulled. The machine doesn't care that it's the ultra-rare remix of Limahl or Britney's newest offering.
Brick and Mortar could absolutely do this if they wanted to.
And it's not just "releasing" the album for random amounts - it's the crucial idea of upsell/scaled value.
You can download 9 track free... NOT the whole 36. But if you just want some tunes,... it's 9 tracks. The guys getting the deluxe set are getting extra materials. This is exactly how I believe modern music marketing should go.
All the brick and mortar guys have to do is implement some custom on-demand tech to deliver the album that's needed at point of sale.
I've been plotting one for some time now for work. I discovered long ago that my workflow *locally* is extremely simple. I have made some remarks a few times about the fallout from Vista as my colleage keeps telling me to order XP if possible.
Instead, I'd like to make a linux machine be my successor to my XP machine. I have all the time in the world, which is vital to avoid deadline-crunches. All I have to do is be "no less of a burden on support than the regular windows users". (Funny contest - I'm starting from scratch, but slightly more clever than the average user, they're only reporting problems as they happen.)
Thanks to a recent conversion, the horribly blobby proprietary killer app is now fed through a server to client stations. I just have to be able to navigate basic workflow without making a total fool of myself. (I still am right now, but better to be a fool on/. than at work! The worst y'all can do is laugh.)
I dunno about popular. But I know of them, because part of their service line is to do Directory Assistance matches which gleefully tells you they are "powered by Tellme".
I think many works have a long lingering value if available through a "long-tail" on-demand system. I can't begin to estimate the lost impulse sales when something ceases to be efficiently available through an old style brick&mortar store. (Forget "It's available on back-order...")
These surges would be driven by someone else's re-promotion of the item. My current vote for the most durable value is books. I nearly created my own anthology of Harlan Ellison's stories back around 1988 because the guy's stories were simply not available. Once someone else beat me to it, his Essential Ellison and White Wolf anthologies sold modestly well or better. All that was done was to refurbish the value to the consumer.
On the nonfiction side, even if the edges of the topic fray over time, a core concept can easily be essential reading for over 50 years. When a random person decides to study X topic, that volume really needs to be available, and not "out of print - too bad."
This has forced me to pre-buy books I know I will need later simply because I am tired of them being pulled off the shelves within a year or two.
I went the other way - I consider the current state of affairs a disease of the oval office - once it gets in full swing, there's no stopping it - just hang on while it runs its course.
We'll know more on March 5, but Obama is doing fairly well on the D. side. I'll have to look into what his positions are on our trampled rights. I'll be a little more involved AFTER the election, because Obama is the kind of "fresh air candidate" who will at least listen to the people.
He's been perfectly clear all along, and for 20 years magazine writers have misunderstood him.
Damn - now we have the right word, the man comes across as focused!
results for: enervate
Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) - Cite This Source - Share This enervate -verb (used with object) 1. to deprive of force or strength; destroy the vigor of; weaken.
Any "geek" woman should be able to find *A* date. I do understand the important qualifier that large swaths of hopeful guys will simply not be your type.
After this thread, you likely have a new batch of leads to work with. Most of us are probably in the wrong state though.
Because you decided to be hired by another company, it gets to use the results of your efforts. You are paid for your time.
If you thought you were good enough to do it all, you'd be the ceo of your own business where you can try to get paid for what you can sell instead of by the week.
Commercial artists also work per week and don't get to enjoy copyrights on their efforts. It's the tradeoff between steady quarters and speculative dollars.
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"About to display Goatse
Even funnier is when the keyboard demonstrates that the user cannot spell.
"... I had a near death experience... the world went Blue with white symbols, before my eyes..."
I see this as another crack-at-the-seams. Why should students be held to a standard that their "betters" cannot be bothered to follow?
... so if the books are used over and over, the "education" is used over and over... so why are prices rising high and higher?
On another tack
Elsewhere on today's Slashdot news:
National "Dragnet" Connecting at State, Local Level
Posted by Soulskill on Friday March 07, @02:11AM
from the story-you-are-about-to-hear-is-true dept.
Squirtle tips us to a Washington Post story about the progress and expansion of N-DEx - the National Data Exchange. Developed by Raytheon for a mere $85 million, N-DEx is hailed as a unified intelligence sharing system, which will allow agencies to share and analyze data from all levels of law enforcement.
- - -
FBI Admits More Privacy Violations
Posted by Soulskill on Thursday March 06, @06:59PM
from the truth-will-out-eventually-if-they-feel-like-it dept.
Privacy
kwietman writes "The FBI admitted that in 2006, for the fourth straight year, they improperly accessed phone and internet records of U.S. citizens.
The special $300-ish editions are assumed to be on prepaid order - for example no store could "sign for the artist".
However, the bulk "generic CD" is fairly easy - nothing more than a CD burner, and a machine to do the label art. I don't want to order it and wait... I'd rather get it live in store with something like a half-hour max turnaround time. All this does is professionalize what amateurs do.
The benefit is enormous - you get the full strength of the Long Tail. Instead of the product manager guess-hoping what to order, every sale is demand-pulled. The machine doesn't care that it's the ultra-rare remix of Limahl or Britney's newest offering.
Brick and Mortar could absolutely do this if they wanted to.
... it's 9 tracks. The guys getting the deluxe set are getting extra materials. This is exactly how I believe modern music marketing should go.
And it's not just "releasing" the album for random amounts - it's the crucial idea of upsell/scaled value.
You can download 9 track free... NOT the whole 36. But if you just want some tunes,
All the brick and mortar guys have to do is implement some custom on-demand tech to deliver the album that's needed at point of sale.
Can I suggest an upsell?
*License* the rope. Patent the knot design.
Get subscribers to sign up for the feature presentation. Then copyright the video.
Sell advertising slots. Tie in action figures complete with movable rope.
Air a documentary on E!. Stir up the talk show networks with a recorded last message.
Write a computerized algorithm for robots to tie knots. Patent that.
Then no one can die this way again without your estate's permission. Sue them posthumously with previously prepared legal documents.
Hehe, that would get me fired since I'm supposed to start at 7:00. But wait ! That would give me more time to sleep... but nothing to eat.
I've been plotting one for some time now for work.
I discovered long ago that my workflow *locally* is extremely simple. I have made some remarks a few times about the fallout from Vista as my colleage keeps telling me to order XP if possible.
Instead, I'd like to make a linux machine be my successor to my XP machine. I have all the time in the world, which is vital to avoid deadline-crunches. All I have to do is be "no less of a burden on support than the regular windows users". (Funny contest - I'm starting from scratch, but slightly more clever than the average user, they're only reporting problems as they happen.)
Thanks to a recent conversion, the horribly blobby proprietary killer app is now fed through a server to client stations. I just have to be able to navigate basic workflow without making a total fool of myself. (I still am right now, but better to be a fool on
What if he (or his successor?) goes from deluded FUD to INFORMED FUD?
Knowing just enough of the truth to make his spin that much more vicious could be dangerous.
Then make sure that apps create a shortcut on the desktop. Windows users need Clickable Things.
I dunno about popular.
But I know of them, because part of their service line is to do Directory Assistance matches which gleefully tells you they are "powered by Tellme".
So how much before the matted & framed copy of the OS is worth more on the antique market than it was at retail?
I think many works have a long lingering value if available through a "long-tail" on-demand system. I can't begin to estimate the lost impulse sales when something ceases to be efficiently available through an old style brick&mortar store. (Forget "It's available on back-order...")
These surges would be driven by someone else's re-promotion of the item. My current vote for the most durable value is books. I nearly created my own anthology of Harlan Ellison's stories back around 1988 because the guy's stories were simply not available. Once someone else beat me to it, his Essential Ellison and White Wolf anthologies sold modestly well or better. All that was done was to refurbish the value to the consumer.
On the nonfiction side, even if the edges of the topic fray over time, a core concept can easily be essential reading for over 50 years. When a random person decides to study X topic, that volume really needs to be available, and not "out of print - too bad."
This has forced me to pre-buy books I know I will need later simply because I am tired of them being pulled off the shelves within a year or two.
I went the other way -
I consider the current state of affairs a disease of the oval office - once it gets in full swing, there's no stopping it - just hang on while it runs its course.
We'll know more on March 5, but Obama is doing fairly well on the D. side. I'll have to look into what his positions are on our trampled rights. I'll be a little more involved AFTER the election, because Obama is the kind of "fresh air candidate" who will at least listen to the people.
No $hit!
Isn't the answer to define block on a data particle level?
"Did X action related to this policy block one or more bits of data? Yes or No."
Take it out of the adjective "State of zero data throughput".
Bingo!
He's been perfectly clear all along, and for 20 years magazine writers have misunderstood him.
Damn - now we have the right word, the man comes across as focused!
results for: enervate
Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) - Cite This Source - Share This
enervate
-verb (used with object)
1. to deprive of force or strength; destroy the vigor of; weaken.
--Synonyms 1. enfeeble, debilitate, sap, exhaust.
Not quite.
Only someone with a moderately above-normal IQ would even make a statement like that; but the 133 IQ comes with a Pizza-addict physique.
Yes it has.
It has been superseded by this "SFW" historical article.
http://www.goatse.cz/goatse.htm
Any "geek" woman should be able to find *A* date. I do understand the important qualifier that large swaths of hopeful guys will simply not be your type.
After this thread, you likely have a new batch of leads to work with. Most of us are probably in the wrong state though.
"Weight = IQ * 1.5".
Indicates proportions are reasonable, and the IQ part is hinted at.
I am not a billion dollar corporation with lots of powerful lobbyists in Washington
IANABDCWLOPLIW?
Music has always required some marketing. That's what the RIAA was for.
Now, people are deciding to change marketing strategies. The marketing organization is upset.
Because you decided to be hired by another company, it gets to use the results of your efforts. You are paid for your time.
If you thought you were good enough to do it all, you'd be the ceo of your own business where you can try to get paid for what you can sell instead of by the week.
Commercial artists also work per week and don't get to enjoy copyrights on their efforts. It's the tradeoff between steady quarters and speculative dollars.