I wonder why Oracle's own page describing the Ask.com toolbar doesn't describe a single benefit -- that is, unless the end user already thinks that "[searching] the Web using the Ask.com search engine directly from the browser" is a benefit.

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Nope. She is a "visiting assistant professor", which is code for exactly the type of jobs listed in the description. Non-tenured track, low pay, no perks/office, higher teaching workload than the the tenure track/tenured.

The reason we invented www.netclick.me is precisely because Professors won't use a new technology for teaching unless it is extremely easy, doesn't require new preparation, and actually benefits students.

That is to say, the Republicans have a majority in the House. So the only way they could have rendered Tea Party congressmen irrelevant was with the cooperation of non-Tea Party Republicans. But any Republicans who defected from Tea Party positions would be "primaried". So none of the non-Tea Party congressmen (House members) were willing to defect. So, why blame Democrats?

If they were Republicans, then they chose not to out of fear of extremely well funded primary opposition.

me too.

Folks, the Adobe DRM for eBooks is laughably easy to break. Please, guys, keep all this quiet. Adobe DRMed books can be easily turned into non-DRMed ePubs that are reflowable, portable, and in OPEN STANDARDS format.

Please, don't make too much noise that might change my favorite ebook store's (shortcovers) mind about using a DRM format that's easy to break into something nice.

Hey, let's play a game.

If you have x third party pieces of software, how many configurations must you test to find 1 piece of software causing crashes?

If you have x third party pieces of software, how many configurations must you test to find 2 pieces of software causing crashes?

Yeah, WinMo 6.1 is it for me. No more.

Let's all be honest: the only reason people have ever used WinMo at all is a lack of choice.

In fact, right now I'm using a WinMo 6.1 gadget, but instead of syncing my desktop Outlook appointments with it using Activesync, I let Google be the middleman.

After how many years, and Activesync is still unstable requiring weekly reinstalls? Changing timezone still turns whole day appointments into monstrosities that are time sensitive and cross multiple days? Duplicates still randomly pop up?

WinMo is over. The end. Goodbye.

Hi, I'm one of the professors who fails* students for using Wikipedia as a cited source.

The reason I do so is in the second paragraph of your own post. It's not a good primary source (i.e. something that can legitimately appear in a bibliography), but a great place to start from to look for primary sources.

In fact, I encourage my students to use wikipedia -- when starting their papers. But I explain to them that they can't finish their research there.

All that said, I'd love to see universities get involved in some sort of distributed funding mechanism for Wikipedia.

*that is, I fail them on the portion of the assignment where they had to do some research. Asterisks seem very popular on slashdot today.