I've pointed out that I think the real breakthrough opportunity is in figuring out ways to get "students" to teach the subject matter themselves
2 million homeschoolers in the US have already figured this out. Make sure kids have the core skills they need to learn, reading, writing, and math up through about Algebra I and Geometry. Then get the hell out of their way and let them follow their interests. Both of my kids had advanced college level knowledge of the stuff that interested them while they were high school age, in subjects I know little about.
I would expect anybody running for President to back off any promises related to civil liberty once elected. Once they get into office and see what they can do, why would they ever give that power up? The President would have to be completely selfless, and selfless people don't get elected President.
Stripping the DRM from Kindle files is a trivial exercise. I buy Kindle books, clean the DRM, then load it onto my Kindle, and store a backup off site.
If I'm paying $14.99 for the movie (or $9.99 for an album) it has to either be delivered as a shiny disc, or end up existing on my hard drive, free of any DRM. If those two conditions are not met, I don't buy. It's as simple as that.
I bet she is lying. Her online accounts would have to be priority one targets for everybody from China to Anonymous. Claiming to have none is probably part of the security plan for her.
Not really, but telnet into a Unix shell account was my first email account. Of course, back then I barely knew anybody else with an email account, so it was sort of pointless.
This is pretty much standard operating procedure for any commercial contract. Require a venue convenient for business providing the contract to make it inconvenient for the other party to sue.
I haven't touched my Kindle in a couple of months, and I don't expect to use again anytime soon. I've gotten into reading the Travis McGee novels from the 60s and 70s. They aren't available on the Kindle, and even if they were, I'm sure they would be $9.99 each. I'm quite happy to give my money to a used book store via Abebooks.com and pay about $3 each after shipping for used copies of the books.
I might pay a little more for the convenience of an immediate digital download for the Kindle, but there is no way I'm paying 300% more over the cost of a used paperback.
My son starts college in 2 days, (holy crap!) I'm fairly certain some of the schools recruiting him were just doing it to get him to apply so they could bump up their numbers. Percentage accepted is one of the things US News & World Report looks at, so schools do massive direct mail campaigns trying to jack up the application numbers so they can reject more kids and look good in the rankings.
I just finished the Steve Jobs biography. I checked it out from the library. I would have happily paid $14.99 for the Kindle version had it been DRM free and had it been loanable. It was neither, so I went on the library waiting list.
I did buy John Scalzi's new book RedShirts for the Kindle. Guess what it doesn't have?
Owning that rifle in DC is almost certainly illegal. Owning anything more lethal than a cap gun is illegal in DC. He is probably lucky he wasn't arrested when he called it in.
When I went that route with DISH they came up with a $14.99 a month plan that includes local channels, Comedy Central, History, Discover, HGTV and The Food Network (for my wife, really!) CNN, and a few others. Given that I live 50 miles from the TV transmitters and was going to have to invest $400 for a suitable roof top antenna with amplifiers and all that, sticking with the service at that price wasn't such a bad deal.
Speaking of Google, I got a 60 cent settlement check in an Adwords related class action suit several weeks ago. I just happened to have a couple of other checks to deposit so I went ahead and cashed the stupid 60 cent check.
For $10 you can have a VPN connection to London and be watching the events live via the BBC. I watched fencing live both Saturday and Sunday morning, with no sign of Bob Costas or Matt Lauer anywhere.
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2 million homeschoolers in the US have already figured this out. Make sure kids have the core skills they need to learn, reading, writing, and math up through about Algebra I and Geometry. Then get the hell out of their way and let them follow their interests. Both of my kids had advanced college level knowledge of the stuff that interested them while they were high school age, in subjects I know little about.
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I might pay a little more for the convenience of an immediate digital download for the Kindle, but there is no way I'm paying 300% more over the cost of a used paperback.
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I did buy John Scalzi's new book RedShirts for the Kindle. Guess what it doesn't have?
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Re: They never get it
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