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my uni wouldn't let professors require a book that they authored, which kinda hurt some who were learning from some of the best minds in that field
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rotor posted:communism works  drat right look at them nordic countries
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Hed posted:my uni wouldn't let professors require a book that they authored, which kinda hurt some who were learning from some of the best minds in that field also a great way to make sure you don't retain talent
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gently caress the professors, putting out a new edition every year so that used books are worthless. copy all of the books.
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ooh i just remembered also i had to take an intro to psychology class, and the professor in that class had written the textbook and included with it a piece of software called ACE-IT. it was literally just 500 or so study questions in a cheap Director wrapper...but every single question this professor put on an exam would be taken from the ACE-IT cd. so if you had the cd and knew all the answers on there you would be guaranteed 100% on the exam. e: or maybe it was 90% of the questions, something like that. anyway if you knew all those questions you would have no trouble getting an A. obviously the thing everyone wanted was ACE-IT but it only came with the $110 book. it had some kind of poo poo-tacular copy protection where the software was on a CD, but there was a floppy included as well, and you had to have the floppy in the drive to install and run the program. when you installed it, it would write some kind of encrypted computer key to some other encrypted file stored on the floppy, making it into a dongle essentially. it only allowed a single install. if you had no floppy drive (this was in early iMac and iBook days so even though Director ran fine on early OS X, anyone with a mac was hosed) oh yeah and the software was written by the professor's son. so i theorized about how it was working and i imaged the floppy before installation, with the clean file on it, then stuck that image up on the residence DC++ network. i got like 900 downloads of that file in the first week i made it available. boo fuckin yea eat poo poo dr. mcclintock ya loving racketeer taking advantage of the young and poor Sagebrush fucked around with this message at 00:32 on Dec 25, 2014 |
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rotor posted:when I was in college I would just xerox my books and return em, saved ~$150 in a nights work on someone else's xerox machine lol
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rotor posted:I wonder if kids in college just photograph their textbooks then return them i just wouldnt buy books at all, and it actually worked out great once i was at the stage where it was just senior level cs and math electives
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Dec 25, 2014 00:41
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rotor posted:I wonder if kids in college just photograph their textbooks then return them these days if you don't buy the books you can't get a good mark for some classes a lot of classes have books with online assignments and worksheets that count towards your final grade, so you have to pay money to get a unique login for some bullshit thirdparty website
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rotor posted:when I was in college I would just xerox my books and return em, saved ~$150 in a nights work on someone else's xerox machine when had kinkos collegejob i scanned in so many textbooks and even made my own notebooks outta archival quality paper also printed out a shitload of  d&d books and did character sheets on "antique" resume paperif you came into my shop with roleplaying stuff you did not pay
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Good poo poo write a Steve x marissa slash fiction next
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MALE SHOEGAZE posted:Good poo poo write a Steve x marissa slash fiction next
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MALE SHOEGAZE posted:Good poo poo write a Steve x marissa slash fiction next not feelin it ... unless u mean ballmer!! 
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prefect posted:yahoo tv is giving me another season of community, so that's a-okay with me waitwhat
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Not Al-Qaeda posted:waitwhat :jazzhands: 
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Sagebrush posted:ooh i just remembered also i had to take an intro to psychology class, and the professor in that class had written the textbook and included with it a piece of software called ACE-IT. it was literally just 500 or so study questions in a cheap Director wrapper...but every single question this professor put on an exam would be taken from the ACE-IT cd. so if you had the cd and knew all the answers on there you would be guaranteed 100% on the exam. e: or maybe it was 90% of the questions, something like that. anyway if you knew all those questions you would have no trouble getting an A. when I was in university one of the into to chemistry profs would always announce on the first day of class that you could by "official course notes" which were basically all his lecture notes and stuff and if you studied from those you'd get an A and wouldn't need to come to class. He sold them for $150. I bought them and photocopied and bound them (I worked at Sears part time so I'd come in early and just use the photocopier and binding machine) and sold them for $20.
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some places security shrink wrap them if you return them opened, they pay you 10% of the face value, around 25$
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post the best nyt articles of the year
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Not Al-Qaeda posted:post the best nyt articles of the year http://www.nytimes.com/most-popular
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that's not for all year I don't think
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Not Al-Qaeda posted:post the best nyt articles of the year
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Waroduce posted:The yahoo book looks p good I ordered it Infinite Loop is good on early apple and probably the most thorough book on 1976-1996 the macintosh way if you like or otherwise want to experience some evangelism all of the steve-specific books are obsolete now that the biography is out AppleDesign is good for the ID aspects from 84 to late 90s including the start of Ive, but it can be hard to find and/or expensive so check your library
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my uni didn't require any books at all, every professor just handed out notes which were/are available online, as are past exams. owned owned owned kinda bad now because I can go look at the exams I did and realize that I now know nothing
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TMZ posted:my uni didn't require any books at all, every professor just handed out notes which were/are available online, as are past exams. owned owned owned nobody knows anything
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TMZ posted:my uni didn't require any books at all, every professor just handed out notes which were/are available online, as are past exams. owned owned owned lol the only book I returned that wasn't from a gen Ed class (even though I kept some of those) was my statistics book and I kinda wish I had that particular one a couple times a year
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