Making lesson plans a work-for-hire is only going to make them more restricted. As it is now, most teachers are happy to share their work for free, and when they move from school to school or district to district, they are able to bring what works best for them with them. Once you start letting schools (or districts) consider this stuff proprietary/copyrighted information belonging to the school, they'll end up wreaking havoc (or at least trying to) trying to protect their interests whenever a teacher leaves their district, or helps someone at a conference by "giving away" the school's intellectual property.

It seems moot anyway. IANAL, but copyright law leaves a specific exemption for educational purposes. A teacher can copy whatever the hell he or she wishes for use in the classroom, and that seems like it would include lesson plans. I could see making your own plans available online and charging a small convenience/thank you fee for them, but if another teacher gets ahold of your lesson plans through some other means I don't see what recourse you would have anyway.

Apple's hardware is so overpriced, all things being equal, in terms of price/performance it is junk. You pay a huge premium for the great OS. Yet what you get is truly mediocre in hardware.

Oh look another typo! Crucify me now!!!

There is a 500kb limit on the size of Javascript code.
http://code.google.com/closure/compiler/docs/api-ref.html

Wait, 860KB?! O_O

If you do that (have a directly-elected Senate or Commission or Council), then the European Union will end-up looking like our United States, and your local UK or French or German government will merely be a puppet of the centralized power. As is the case when the U.S. forces all 50 states to ban gay marriage, or drop speed limits to 55, or install a three-strike law.

I would advise you to avoid that route. It has not worked well for us.

I would rather have half of the legislative body consist of State governors/leaders, in order to preserve the States' power and independence, and block the power of the central US or EU government to ram through dictatorial laws.

Have you ever done that? Even once?

I'm willing to bet you haven't -- that you've instead downloaded zips, dmgs, or mpkgs, neither of which are executables, and all of which would be perfectly capable of including multiple binaries and a script to select the correct one.

That's why I use a package manager, which eliminates the whole issue -- I just need the name of a package, and it Just Works.

Figuring out what conditions distinguish your positive experience from some of the other very negative ones described here seems to be the real challenge. There aren't very many here in my neck of the woods.

The electrical resistance would make this impossible after the first few dozen miles, and this would be tens of thousands of miles long. Providing excess power generation to counteract the resistance would mean huge cables (into the millions of tonnes of copper cable) which could never possibly be lifted into space (without a space elevator, that is ;)).

It is possible to provide some electricity through the carbon nanotubes themselves, but the conversion rate is not great. Solar power would be nice, but would require huge fins which dramatically increase the weight of the climber. Beamed power solves most issues.

IMO tho, nuclear batteries will make this whole debate obsolete. ;)

the case i'm refering to is from the early 60s, so the notion of hopping on a horse don't apply. It applies specifically to automobiles (government provided buses don't allow for freedom of travel). But here's a link of other similar rulings (ignore the first, its about Canada):

http://www.afasic.com/wiki/The_Right_to_Travel_(Supreme_Court_Decision)

True, but UT did introduce *blam* "HEADSHOT!!" sound effect which seems to be on every FPS server I play on these days.

It's absurd how Orcs and elves (and Moonkin) can affect so many different faraway places."

You mean like Hobbiton?

Stupid Jackson missing the ENTIRE point of the book by changing the Hobbiton ending.

Actually, I had some in depth talks with some friends from China about WoW.

They still only have level 70 because the government STILL hasn't "filtered" every last quest in WotLK for any themes that might contradict the Chinese government policies. I'm dead serious. The "censorship" is that horrific.

Not only that, but there are some really weird censorship issues you wouldn't expect. For example, there are no undead in Chinese WoW because the Chinese government won't allow any human bones to be shown in the game. So anywhere you see a skeleton, it had to be removed by Blizzard.

Google for "coal gassification" or "synthetic natural gas".

Sure, plain oil coal doesn't have the energy density, but natural gas has enough for running cars and trucks, at least. (airliners would need to be fueled using the remaining reserves of oil or using a biodiesel like fuel product. Unfortunately, this would boost ticket prices considerably from current levels since about 1/3 the cost of a ticket today is fuel. That in turn would make high speed electric trains more economically feasible)

let people use their smart phone as the terminal! then they can keep their language prefs etc. configured - it could even give a guided tour as they walk around. for a start i'd look at a Drupal site on the intranet with a local Kaltura install for the video delivery - both free and opensource so anyone can pickup the maintenance when you move on.

That sort of advertising might seem more accurate, but it really isn't.

Since, at some point, the bandwidth is shared, do they advertise the bandwidth at the theoretical worst - ie, everyone is using it at 100%? That number would be incredibly low, and you'd never see it go that low. It would be confusing and inaccurate.

What they do advertise is what they provide to most people under most circumstances, which seems fair and accurate enough for me. They do need to do a better job of disclosing how and why you might be throttled, but doing so in a concise and accurate way that people who don't post on /. would understand seems like a pretty tall order.