The XFL was yanked after getting a then-record low 1.5. Which means that about 450,000 more people watched the LEAST-watched XFL game than watched the NHL Finals.
And then you have books that don't sell.
What do you do with those?
Store them indefinitely?
You can't give them away, because people don't want to take them, because they have their own storage issues because....wait for it.....people just aren't reading as much.
The solution to "just donate it" assumoing someone will use it is silly. Because someone is in a hospital they will suddenly want to read a book describing the Pan American Congress of 1910? Because someone is in a homeless shelter they want to read a book on Austrian insight into music theory?
Storage costs money, and if you haven't noticed, used bookstores aren't exactly prime profit centers, stuffed to the gills with cash just looking for a place to spend it.
He isn't donating the books because the recipients have no space to hold them. The shelters, hospitals, "old-folks homes" etc are simply as disinterested in storing books - books that people aren't reading regardless of where they are - as the owner is. In the end, someone has to pay to store these books, either directly or indirectly.
This was not listed in the linked article, but the owner of the bookstore is quoted as saying that in other AP versions of this news story.
Horses are generally named for their parents. Especially if one of them is world-famous.
An example would be if you had (to just come up with random names) Seattle Slew and Delta Dawn as the sire and dam, the resulting horse would often be named something like Seattle Sunrise or Gamma Slew or...you get the picture.
It's not 100%, especially if the sire and dam aren't particularly famous. But it's typical.
Well I am a professor. There are two reasons why my lecture notes are not transmitted via WiFi/Bluetooth/etc to students as they enter the room.
One, I don't want to have to type them up into an outline format. I have my own ways of taking notes that make sense to me, which I am sure would no tmake sense to others. I leave it up to them to transfer the material into a method that makes sense to them.
Two, and more importantly, I already have background materials available online, BEFORE the students enter the classroom. Why do we need to have a substantial technology investment in each classroom just to transmit information that is already being transmitted through easier-to-collect methods? Is there something so difficult about clicking a link outside of class that requires we push materials through bluetooth?
That's odd. I don't remember paying my bank a cent to have a savings account.
In fact, they are paying me.
And yet I'm still a customer.
Google is "paying" me for Gmail in the same way. For my presence as an asset in their bank (in Google's case it would be as an ad viewer) I am very much a customer of theirs.
I'm sure 99% or so of the comments on this thread will be about how sports get all the money and the tech classrooms don't get squat blah blah blah.
I propose everyone who is complaining about how crappy things were in their school also post how much money or time (or both!) they've since given to their school to improve conditions.
*cue cricket noises*
In a more positive vein, an earlier poster said to get up, get out there, bang the drum for donations, document everything, and so forth. That's the best comment in the history of slashdot. The only thing I could add to it would be to push it through a business class and use that class time to write up a business plan to create a non-profit to funnel donations to technology-based schools using that very plan of action.
Swiss Army Knives and their evolution into Leatherman-type tools come to mind.
Of course the perfect convergence is the addition of a claw onto a hammer, way back when.
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Yes, nothing is quintessentially 'slashdot' as good spelling.
They aren't suing their customer, they are defending themselves in a suit.
The XFL was yanked after getting a then-record low 1.5. Which means that about 450,000 more people watched the LEAST-watched XFL game than watched the NHL Finals.
After all of that I've wasted 15 minutes of their life? Your equation is backwards.
And then you have books that don't sell. What do you do with those? Store them indefinitely? You can't give them away, because people don't want to take them, because they have their own storage issues because....wait for it.....people just aren't reading as much. The solution to "just donate it" assumoing someone will use it is silly. Because someone is in a hospital they will suddenly want to read a book describing the Pan American Congress of 1910? Because someone is in a homeless shelter they want to read a book on Austrian insight into music theory? Storage costs money, and if you haven't noticed, used bookstores aren't exactly prime profit centers, stuffed to the gills with cash just looking for a place to spend it.
He isn't donating the books because the recipients have no space to hold them. The shelters, hospitals, "old-folks homes" etc are simply as disinterested in storing books - books that people aren't reading regardless of where they are - as the owner is. In the end, someone has to pay to store these books, either directly or indirectly.
This was not listed in the linked article, but the owner of the bookstore is quoted as saying that in other AP versions of this news story.
Horses are generally named for their parents. Especially if one of them is world-famous. An example would be if you had (to just come up with random names) Seattle Slew and Delta Dawn as the sire and dam, the resulting horse would often be named something like Seattle Sunrise or Gamma Slew or...you get the picture. It's not 100%, especially if the sire and dam aren't particularly famous. But it's typical.
So what you're saying is, they just ripped off the naming convention of racehorses.
Well I am a professor. There are two reasons why my lecture notes are not transmitted via WiFi/Bluetooth/etc to students as they enter the room.
One, I don't want to have to type them up into an outline format. I have my own ways of taking notes that make sense to me, which I am sure would no tmake sense to others. I leave it up to them to transfer the material into a method that makes sense to them.
Two, and more importantly, I already have background materials available online, BEFORE the students enter the classroom. Why do we need to have a substantial technology investment in each classroom just to transmit information that is already being transmitted through easier-to-collect methods? Is there something so difficult about clicking a link outside of class that requires we push materials through bluetooth?
I must be old to see this comment as cute and quaint.
That's odd. I don't remember paying my bank a cent to have a savings account. In fact, they are paying me. And yet I'm still a customer. Google is "paying" me for Gmail in the same way. For my presence as an asset in their bank (in Google's case it would be as an ad viewer) I am very much a customer of theirs.
Porn, however, porn begs to be free. And gasoline! Gas wants to be free as well. As does bourbon. FREEDOM!
....except that "forte" is pronounced with one syllable.
I'm sure 99% or so of the comments on this thread will be about how sports get all the money and the tech classrooms don't get squat blah blah blah.
I propose everyone who is complaining about how crappy things were in their school also post how much money or time (or both!) they've since given to their school to improve conditions.
*cue cricket noises*
In a more positive vein, an earlier poster said to get up, get out there, bang the drum for donations, document everything, and so forth. That's the best comment in the history of slashdot. The only thing I could add to it would be to push it through a business class and use that class time to write up a business plan to create a non-profit to funnel donations to technology-based schools using that very plan of action.
And wrong. There are a couple of nude people in one of the beach scenes.
....and now you have a reason to look at the books again.
Swiss Army Knives and their evolution into Leatherman-type tools come to mind. Of course the perfect convergence is the addition of a claw onto a hammer, way back when.