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Unlearning a behavior is tougher than anything. Not swinging a bat for a couple months was probably a good thing. Maybe he ungrooved the problems. He wasn't sitting around the house getting fat. I prefer to dislike him for what he does not do while wearing a Sox uniform. I'm not going to add his off season stuff.

http://www.webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/franklin.html

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Feb 28, 2012 -> 08:26 PM) It doesn't explain why Obama is flying them first class. Seems kinda expensive IMO. That's part of the punishment, they have to sit next to Republicans

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Money should be why digital "app books" take over. It is so much easier to buy textbooks peer to peer via eBay, Amazon, and other sites. The traditional earners of that money are cut out. Linking an "app book" to one or two devices will get the publisher and University back in the game. I'm thinking the formula could look like this Traditional Cost of write + cost to priint + profit = cost of comsumer App Books Cost to write + profit = cost to consumer. It should save the consumer money while keeping profits about the same. It will be the publishing factories that lose.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Feb 28, 2012 -> 12:53 AM) In waters that large & open, it's not that easy when they are in tiny motorboats. And you can't attack their homebase, as dangerous as it is. They have graduated from tiny motorboats. Now they have large "mother" ships that can create a base for the smaller motorboats. They also have rocket grenades and bigger weapons.

With so many people watching out of market, they aren't just home announcers anymore. Watching the game with the away homer announcers is brutal.

One of the best companies I've ever been associated with was Samtec in Indiana. Every department was titled Customer Service (XXX Done Here) It didn't matter if it was Engineering, Sales, Accounting, Logistics, Purchasing, they all were customer service. They also had a bunch of fun promotions and great spirit. The company culture thrived on who could go the furthest to help out a customer. The CEO was in the lead for answering the phone on a Sunday, finding the parts and driving 300 miles to deliver the order.

QUOTE (knightni @ Feb 27, 2012 -> 06:42 PM) Not to Filibuster this thread but, Obama took out Bin Laden. My bad. (my next comment would have filibustered this thread)

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Feb 27, 2012 -> 05:57 PM) Forgive my ignorance, but why the f*** are Somali pirates such a problem? Why aren't we just having the Navy sink them left and right? Some of the problems are there is no legitimate government in Somalia, so they pirates have free reign. Further, it is Somalia's greatest source of cash money, so even if there was a legitimate government. there may not be a burning desire to shut them down too soon unless a lot of foreign aid could replace it. For the US Navy to get involved at that level would probably require some declaration from the President. With an election coming up, spending money and lives to protect foreign flagged ships may not be politically wise. On to the logistic side if someone really wants to fight these pirates. You have to find them on land, they are good at hiding and operating inside Somalia without their consent opens up some problems, but Bush took out Bin Laden in a foreign country, so that may not be such a problem. The pirates went from small boats, attacking private yachts, to buying better weapons and bigger boats with longer range. Before they were to small and nimble to find on the open water, now they are too heavily armed. And a boat floating in International waters isn't doing anything wrong until they do something wrong.

I re read what I wrote, I should have written textbook "apps". Each textbook would be it's own app. Perhaps there would be some standard format. But I'm thinking it would be as easy as going to the Android Market and downloading the "Pearson's History 1401" app.

QUOTE (SnB @ Feb 27, 2012 -> 03:20 PM) I'm in grad school now and most of my classes do have an e-book option for the textbook. NO ONE uses it. I love my kindle for casual reading, but would find it obnoxious when you're just trying to flip through the pages to find one section to reference. I agree. What needs to happen is for the publishers to develop more of a textbook "app" than just the textbook as a book. Then you have a very compelling reason to switch.

I'll have a go at it again.

I believe the business model will keep the students from ever "owning" the book. Some fee will be added to each student and the schools and the publisher will make money. Most on-campus bookstores have seen a dramatic reduction in their profits and by extension, so too have the universities. For high school and below, the wear and tear on school district owned books is costly. Because those books are provided by the school, they will welcome the switch once they have bought enough e-Reading platforms. And finally, publishers could increase their profits by selling updates, multimedia upgrades, advertising onlinked sites, and probably a dozen more ways we haven't even thought about.

I always find it ammusing that the "seat" for your car, outside on broken glass, is often more expensive than the seat the fan is sitting in.

QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ Feb 27, 2012 -> 08:22 AM) E-books are great, especially for travel. But they are no match to sitting on the couch and holding an actual book in your hand and reading for an hour. I believe you are correct for those people who grew up with actual books. But for this generation, who will grow up with eReaders and perhaps without newspapers, reading bits and bytes from a computer screen will offer that same experience. I still like a book in my hand. The turning of the pages, etc.

But Dunn, it ain't a contract year?

BTW, I finally took public trans to a game this past summer. The only unpleasant part was we parked all the way up in Skokie and late at night, that is a spooky parking garage. It reeked of urine, there were a few people hanging around, and it was just my girlfriend and I. Not comfortable at all. It was nice however to walk onto the train and start heading north without any hassles.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Feb 25, 2012 -> 10:43 AM) Oh nostalgia... Athletes have been cheating at sports since sports began...you just didn't read/hear about it 24/7 like you do now...and the agenda of the media is also clearly different than it was 50 years ago. Steroids jumped to cheating where the umpires and officials had zero chance of catching them. Huge difference IMHO

I always forget how short his ownership stints were. I always loved his attitude.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Feb 26, 2012 -> 08:02 AM) Public transport all the way. They are going to be trying to give away those tuesday night Sox/Royals-Indians-Twins games, yet theyw ant to charge $25 to park in the lot. That fee is beyond ridiculous. $25 to park a car when they have more than ample parking. How else is the team going to pay for Buehrle Johnson?

QUOTE (Reddy @ Feb 25, 2012 -> 11:43 AM) no, but we'd do just enough to get by. and that's not what you're looking for out of a restaurant server So servers do not have any pride or motivation in doing a good job? They are somehow motivated differently than the millions of other workers in a service industry? That is sad. I guess then if you were hiring people for a non commissioned or tip based job you would not hire a restaurant server because they would not be motivated to do a good job? Do you carry that same attitude to work as an actor?

QUOTE (Reddy @ Feb 25, 2012 -> 11:25 AM) cha-ching. i'm a good server. i pride myself on that. but if i weren't getting tipped, i wouldn't give a f***. Really? So if you worked as an accountant you wouldn't feel compelled to do a good job? I pray you never become a doctor

Textbooks will be on ereaders in the next ten years. How long it will take to convert all of them, that may take longer.

You walk into a store and buy something you have paid for their employees and yes they feel entitled to that pay. You don't have a choice. If you buy there, you have paid for the service. Go to a fast food place where there is no tipping, if you eat there and the service sucks, guess what? you paid for the s***ty service.