If it's the latest edition still (and texts screw you by coming out with new ones always), you can get 80%+ back by selling used online. I always did at least. And if you buy used online early enough, sometimes you get 100% or more back, depending on when you sell it, because there is more demand for used copies around the beginning of the semester. Stop selling them back to your campus book store.
Given that I consistently received 80% of my money back on books, and that I get headaches reading texts on tablets for more than a few minutes, I would not be happy being given an iPad mini with a small screen to study academic texts on.
After buying the iPad mini for $475, are all the ebooks now free?
This is exactly what will happen. And it probably won't even take more than a few years after they are issued. It's already happened in other countries. South Korean websites all require you to entire your KSSN to register. Even simple web forums or signing up for an online video game requires you to provide your KSSN to the database. And the Estonian ID , which has built-in cryptography, is used for everything including email, web forums, voting, and public transportation.
It's sad that the U.S. public needs to pay for things they've already paid for with tax money: public.resource.org, Recap Firefox Extension, and scientific journal subscriptions (recent Elsevier boycott).
I think it is in our best interests to regulate and police the airlines. We aren't doing the best job of it, but I'd rather not leave it up to profiteering individuals to self-regulate.
The public pays some of the expensive because we as a society want our airlines secure for the general public. We also want to be able to use the aircrafts during possible emergency situations, so we have the CRAF as well.
SOE previously shut down Lord of the Rings Online TCG and Stargate Online TCG, so this is not their first time pressing the big delete key on everyone's purchases.
Why are you talking about Microsoft like it's alive?
As a corporation, under the law Microsoft is considered a legal entity similar to a person. As a legal entity, corporations have rights and can exercise them, and can be convicted of things like fraud and manslaughter.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporation
For the public computers I service, I merely loaded a little program that checks for certain window titles I specify. If it finds them, it closes the application. Some might say that it might find legitimate windows and think them bad, which is true, but for the most part people shouldn't be going REMOTELY near any of the unwanted sites/software (In my case, P2P, porn, and games). Any computer programmer could EASILY shut down this program, but again, for the most part it works great. Simply dropped the program in startup folder for all users, and each time someone tries to install LimeWire or visit Pogo.com it closes their browser and they get a warning message. The warning message alone is often enough to completely turn people off from ever trying the sites again.
Link to source code template: http://pastebin.ca/220437
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If it's the latest edition still (and texts screw you by coming out with new ones always), you can get 80%+ back by selling used online. I always did at least. And if you buy used online early enough, sometimes you get 100% or more back, depending on when you sell it, because there is more demand for used copies around the beginning of the semester. Stop selling them back to your campus book store.
Given that I consistently received 80% of my money back on books, and that I get headaches reading texts on tablets for more than a few minutes, I would not be happy being given an iPad mini with a small screen to study academic texts on.
After buying the iPad mini for $475, are all the ebooks now free?
This is exactly what will happen. And it probably won't even take more than a few years after they are issued. It's already happened in other countries. South Korean websites all require you to entire your KSSN to register. Even simple web forums or signing up for an online video game requires you to provide your KSSN to the database. And the Estonian ID , which has built-in cryptography, is used for everything including email, web forums, voting, and public transportation.
For live sports, you can get something like the NBA League Pass which offers streaming games for about $2 a month.
It's sad that the U.S. public needs to pay for things they've already paid for with tax money: public.resource.org, Recap Firefox Extension, and scientific journal subscriptions (recent Elsevier boycott).
I think it is in our best interests to regulate and police the airlines. We aren't doing the best job of it, but I'd rather not leave it up to profiteering individuals to self-regulate.
The public pays some of the expensive because we as a society want our airlines secure for the general public. We also want to be able to use the aircrafts during possible emergency situations, so we have the CRAF as well.
SOE previously shut down Lord of the Rings Online TCG and Stargate Online TCG, so this is not their first time pressing the big delete key on everyone's purchases.
Why are you talking about Microsoft like it's alive?
As a corporation, under the law Microsoft is considered a legal entity similar to a person. As a legal entity, corporations have rights and can exercise them, and can be convicted of things like fraud and manslaughter. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporation
For the public computers I service, I merely loaded a little program that checks for certain window titles I specify. If it finds them, it closes the application. Some might say that it might find legitimate windows and think them bad, which is true, but for the most part people shouldn't be going REMOTELY near any of the unwanted sites/software (In my case, P2P, porn, and games). Any computer programmer could EASILY shut down this program, but again, for the most part it works great. Simply dropped the program in startup folder for all users, and each time someone tries to install LimeWire or visit Pogo.com it closes their browser and they get a warning message. The warning message alone is often enough to completely turn people off from ever trying the sites again. Link to source code template: http://pastebin.ca/220437