Yup, and Tucson Unified School District has been notorious for its top heavy bureaucracy, disjointed management, questionable ethics and imbalanced priorities for a number of years now. It's no surprise that many of their schools are among the worst in the nation. I believe two were shut down in the last year. I'm glad that Daily Show is bringing some national attention to their idiocy. It's downright embarrassing.
TUSD's recent decisions certainly fall outside of federal/Brewer involvement, but still as embarrassing as everything else she scrawls with her signature.
"Steve Jobs didn't invent things, he merely knew how to make products that people really wanted to buy!"
And if people didn't initially want to buy those products, his charisma on stage made them more compelling. I've only ever owned one Apple product (iPod) but I always watched his keynotes to see his energetic, funny and always interesting demonstrations Apple's newest gizmos; something he did very well.
The App Store offers many apps for free, and charges for others. Cydia offers many apps for free, and charges for others.
It's not the free software that makes jailbreaking attractive, but rather the ability to customize otherwise locked-down aspects of iOS and to evade Apple's regulations.
Sony really isn't obligated to make their successive systems backwards compatible with earlier ones. It has been nice that we have seen many modern consoles playing older games (barring the arguably artificial "inability" for slim PS3's to play PS2 games), but in order for technology to evolve, some things have to be left behind.
I say good riddance to that noisy, slow, battery-draining optical drive. I say goodbye to those bulky, cumbersome, fragile UMD's. I happily welcome new and improved, portable technology.
Think of it this way: The SNES can't play NES cartridges. The N64 can't play SNES cartridges. The GCN and Wii can't play N64 cartridges. If you want to play your old games, using their original media, you'll either need to hold onto your old systems, or embrace their digital redistributions.
I've been IT my whole life and I've always found strange the concept of "proper" anything. If it works, it's proper.
That is a very bad philosophy to have if you work in IT. With that mindset, that is how we end up with undocumented spaghetti code, relational databases that aren't actually relational (redundant columns, occupying 4x more disk space should be needed, performing in like O(n!) time) and employment of otherwise kludgey, insecure, breakable, non-scalable IT solutions. They might work, but not as well as they should.
I know your quoted statement wasn't trying to say that and is likely a little more focused around the Excel vs proper database argument. Figured I'd just try the pissed-off-nerd-scold thing. This is Slashdot, after all. =)
And even still, there is a right and a wrong use for Excel. Storing tabular data for the purpose of charting and computation is its purpose, and attempting to store large volumes of other forms of data while keeping nebulously-defined tables linked and "relational" (used loosely) are really not its intended purpose. Doable, but improper. There is just way too much that can break. You need a 'proper' database to do those things without shooting yourself in the foot. The overhead of a typical database is not complicated and not costly, and should certainly not sway an IT administrator's decision.
Apps that are updated to take advantage of the higher resolution will be fine, and those that don't will be cleanly upscaled (each pixel becomes 2x2). The exact same thing is seen with the iPhone 4, which will upscale older apps in such a way that they look identical on either an iPhone 3 or 4.
I am *so* glad I'm not the only one who thinks this. The first couple of books were great, but then they really started to drag on and on with all kinds of meaningless details on what people were wearing or what they were thinking which did exactly nothing to advance the story or make the characters interesting.
This was my experience with the very first book. I never even got halfway through before shelving it.
Agreed. The app store is basically just like a package manager, albeit one with its fingers in your wallet. Consistency and centralized package updates (plus automated dependency handling) have always been things I enjoyed about package managers, so at least in that regard the app store has its benefits.
I also agree about the visual aesthetics of their iOS-matching applications. The literal pen-and-paper look of the notepad or sewn leather look of the to-do list just seem uncharacteristically tacky for Apple. Software that tries to resemble its real-world counterpart like it's still a novelty... what is this, 1995? I'd feel pretty stupid having to rely on that.
When Windows 7 first came out, Microsoft was directly selling the Professional edition for $30 as an academic discount. Now they are offering the upgrade for $60 as an academic discount.
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I think it is more a result of the fact that Canonical disowned Kubuntu a couple of months ago, and the Kubuntu team needed a new host.
Given KDE's (and especially Kubuntu's) affinity for the color blue, this seems appropriate.
Yup, and Tucson Unified School District has been notorious for its top heavy bureaucracy, disjointed management, questionable ethics and imbalanced priorities for a number of years now. It's no surprise that many of their schools are among the worst in the nation. I believe two were shut down in the last year. I'm glad that Daily Show is bringing some national attention to their idiocy. It's downright embarrassing.
TUSD's recent decisions certainly fall outside of federal/Brewer involvement, but still as embarrassing as everything else she scrawls with her signature.
"Steve Jobs didn't invent things, he merely knew how to make products that people really wanted to buy!"
And if people didn't initially want to buy those products, his charisma on stage made them more compelling. I've only ever owned one Apple product (iPod) but I always watched his keynotes to see his energetic, funny and always interesting demonstrations Apple's newest gizmos; something he did very well.
Did fictional depictions of Steve Jobs have an impact on you as a child?
Well, RAIDs of that capacity are certainly not unheard of.
Easy there, bucko.
The App Store offers many apps for free, and charges for others. Cydia offers many apps for free, and charges for others.
It's not the free software that makes jailbreaking attractive, but rather the ability to customize otherwise locked-down aspects of iOS and to evade Apple's regulations.
That is my guess, which would explain how the new iPad was so quickly jailbroken.
that's what a smartphone is for
Or... you know... a camera.
Or am I too old-fashioned?
Likewise, you will be hard pressed to find an iPad at the $200 range.
I don't know yet if I will bother with a PS4, but if I don't, it will be solely because of the Linux thing even though I didn't use it.
For being a matter of principal, you don't seem to be fully adherent to it...
With windows 7 the craptacular user interface is mandatory.
No, the classic Windows UI is just as accessible in Windows 7.
the Taskbar "borrowed" from the Dock
Borrowed from the Dock, and made it into something functional and usable.
Topping it all off, the project switched over to git which would make getting involved in development a bit easier for the casual hacker.
...So git involved!
I would hate to think about all that money going down the crapper.
Sony really isn't obligated to make their successive systems backwards compatible with earlier ones. It has been nice that we have seen many modern consoles playing older games (barring the arguably artificial "inability" for slim PS3's to play PS2 games), but in order for technology to evolve, some things have to be left behind.
I say good riddance to that noisy, slow, battery-draining optical drive. I say goodbye to those bulky, cumbersome, fragile UMD's. I happily welcome new and improved, portable technology.
Think of it this way: The SNES can't play NES cartridges. The N64 can't play SNES cartridges. The GCN and Wii can't play N64 cartridges. If you want to play your old games, using their original media, you'll either need to hold onto your old systems, or embrace their digital redistributions.
I think they were only leading the industry because their conventional, usable competitors hadn't yet been invented.
I've been IT my whole life and I've always found strange the concept of "proper" anything. If it works, it's proper.
That is a very bad philosophy to have if you work in IT. With that mindset, that is how we end up with undocumented spaghetti code, relational databases that aren't actually relational (redundant columns, occupying 4x more disk space should be needed, performing in like O(n!) time) and employment of otherwise kludgey, insecure, breakable, non-scalable IT solutions. They might work, but not as well as they should.
I know your quoted statement wasn't trying to say that and is likely a little more focused around the Excel vs proper database argument. Figured I'd just try the pissed-off-nerd-scold thing. This is Slashdot, after all. =)
And even still, there is a right and a wrong use for Excel. Storing tabular data for the purpose of charting and computation is its purpose, and attempting to store large volumes of other forms of data while keeping nebulously-defined tables linked and "relational" (used loosely) are really not its intended purpose. Doable, but improper. There is just way too much that can break. You need a 'proper' database to do those things without shooting yourself in the foot. The overhead of a typical database is not complicated and not costly, and should certainly not sway an IT administrator's decision.
Apps that are updated to take advantage of the higher resolution will be fine, and those that don't will be cleanly upscaled (each pixel becomes 2x2). The exact same thing is seen with the iPhone 4, which will upscale older apps in such a way that they look identical on either an iPhone 3 or 4.
I am *so* glad I'm not the only one who thinks this. The first couple of books were great, but then they really started to drag on and on with all kinds of meaningless details on what people were wearing or what they were thinking which did exactly nothing to advance the story or make the characters interesting.
This was my experience with the very first book. I never even got halfway through before shelving it.
Yeah, but I'm sure that I'm not exactly in the minority with the non-pedophile AND non-tyrant camp.
Agreed. The app store is basically just like a package manager, albeit one with its fingers in your wallet. Consistency and centralized package updates (plus automated dependency handling) have always been things I enjoyed about package managers, so at least in that regard the app store has its benefits.
I also agree about the visual aesthetics of their iOS-matching applications. The literal pen-and-paper look of the notepad or sewn leather look of the to-do list just seem uncharacteristically tacky for Apple. Software that tries to resemble its real-world counterpart like it's still a novelty... what is this, 1995? I'd feel pretty stupid having to rely on that.
When Windows 7 first came out, Microsoft was directly selling the Professional edition for $30 as an academic discount. Now they are offering the upgrade for $60 as an academic discount.
You do that. I'll not stand with either.