Ummm. No. Because not near as many teachers know about Macs, not as many kids have Macs as home as Windows, tech support doesn't know much about Macs, etc.
I can see plenty of problems with implementing Linux in schools, especially when I think about how it would go in my local district.
1. All the teachers know Windows. My bet is that even many of the computer teachers do not know Linux well enough to run it in their labs. They can't teach it if they don't know it and teacher training could be expensive and take a lot of what's probably considered unnecessary time.
2. They would have a lot harder teaching a completely new OS AND classes on how to use the programs than to just teach the programs. You'd probably have to have a intro to Linux class before you could ever teach whichever programs you choose to use - and that's another issue in itself.
3. Students probably have Windows at home. Would they have problems with converting documents between systems? Say you create your report in Word at home, could your bring it school and use it there?
4. The local tech support and computer stores would not be able to help them if something went wrong. 99% of the techs around here don't know anything about anything other than Windows. Who would know enough about Linux to help them??
5. The students would learn programs and OSes that would different with what they would have when they go to college, go to work, etc. Since there are very few offices and colleges using entirely Linux, they would be at a disadvantage right away.
Of course there are a lot of plusses too, but these negatives sprang to mind right away. Of course they are all refutable. I think that the schools would choose easy and expensive over difficult and cheap any day. If they didn't have a choice and were nearly out of money, my guess is they would let the computers sit/
If I were you I'd think again. No way Sony is going to come up with a portable system to beat out the GBA. At least not anytime soon.
For one, Nintendo has several years worth of games, the largest amount for any system available. You can even play regular GB games on it.
They've also had the market to themselves for quite some time. So they've got brand recognition. Plus a lot of people already own their stuff and their equipment, thus will be more likely to buy more than they will switch systems.
Add to that the fact that they already have contracts with tons of game producers to make games for the GBA.
Consider that the economy is bad and thus not the time to start a new venture.
Then finally, consider that Sony is really working on the the PS stuff so much that they probably wouldn't have the time, nor the staff (economy again) to devote only to handheld games and an entirely new system.
If they really want to get a piece of the handheld/portable market, SONY SHOULD MAKE GAMES FOR THE GBA.
Its just the opposite at our local discount store. Of course since the XBox has been broken 2 out of the last 3 times we were there, that might explain something. Perhaps it also has to do with which games are being demoed.
How does this source actually manage to know the exact number of boxes sold? They get their figures from CSFB estimates. Whose to say those are more reliable than those from the companies themselves? They say that "In the last few weeks, each company at separate times claimed to have the best console launch ever, using their own sales figures." and that when they spoke to company reps they got different numbers than the ones they had. So whose numbers do we believe?
And of course the PlayStation 2 is doing a better job meeting demand! They've had a year worth of making the damn things under their belt. Of course they'd sell more, they have many times the games of the xbox and cube. I think the latter two are doing remarkedly well considering.
Warren G - Return of the Regulators
Numbers on Disk - 4400161212
Came out a couple of weeks ago on Universal
My husband was so excited to get it. Get out to the car. Put it in the player (Sony 7 years old), player makes all sorts of odd noises. It still plays, but the cd player makes incredible noise getting it to do so. Doesn't do this normally, just with this disk.
Take it in house at home. Won't play on home stereo system, top of the line Sony CD player that's about 6 or 7 years old. Well, actually plays but sounds completely is screwed up and distorted.
Try to burn a copy using Adaptec Easy CD Creator 4. Result is so unlistenable its hard to believe. Pops, clicks, everything you can think of.
Posted the information to fatchucks.com. Receive a nice letter in response.
Husband sent letter to Warren G and Universal, saying that while we attempted to buy the cd in good faith, now we have to illegally download copies if we want ones of good quality.
Not sure what to do next. We'll probably return it to the store so the 60-year-old lady at the service counter can fail to understand and tell us all we can do is exchange it.
But what if you're someone who DOES just want email and web browsing? Some people do you know. And the TV type option, with a remote, seems a lot more comfortable for the technologically impaired.
And even more amazing that what you find off google and post in about 23 seconds (had to wait before hitting enter you know) gets modded up as informative.
CowboyNeal and I both have our copies of FFX on reserve and are planning on some time
off to watch LotR and play FFX this week.
Looks like somebody's got a little too much vacation time on their hands... Or else no better reason to use it! Wish I was so lucky. Anybody else taken off time recently for video games or movies??
Is it coincidence then that a lot of the people here on/. today have said that they have or their kids have these same disorders and traits? It would seem to reinforce the message of the article.
Do we really want to perpetuate the use of Windows software on a linux platform?
So you don't want me to run my Windows software on Linux? You WANT me to use Windows instead??? I don't get it. If you want to increase the Linux user base, you gotta allow for new people coming over, and for those new people to want to be able to use some of their favorite aps. So what if its on Lindows? I'd think that anything != Microsoft == Good or at least better. And besides, not all Windows software is Microsoft software. Think of the dozens of games made for Windows that have yet to be ported over to Linux. And what about wine? Doesn't it encourage the same thing??
I don't agree with censorship, or banning of games, books or anything else in this fashion. I believe its every person's right to play whatever the hell game they want, own what they want, read what they want, etc. without the government interfering. But... If there was one game that I would say deserved it, it would be this one. Good game-yes, fun-yeah, but it could have been just as good without a few of the overly raunchy features such as the hookers. I wish more people hated these nasty features of the game and something would be done about it naturally through the free market system. But that's not the case. Unfortunately too many of the people buying it seem really to enjoy killing old ladies and the like. Banning the game is not going to help. I hope the AU government figures out it's not their place to impose morality.
#1 on the list is NOT Metal Gear Solid 2, it is an ACTION FIGURE from Metal Gear Solid 2. Don't fear for your safety - the game MGS2 will not cause you bodily harm. Well, not most people anyway.
I totally agree. The/. title is misleading. They say right at the top of the Dirty Dozen article that these toys are things to avoid, not that they are dangerous. Some of the toys might be both (anything with spinning blades probably isn't great for kids).
At $15.99 a disk, the cost they mention in this CNet article http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-200-6909288.html from August 19, I don't think its all that affordable. With the drive costing $600, the total costs would just be too high. Sure you can record repeatedly for each $16, but you're going to want to have more than one thing on disk at any one time, requiring additional disks. I realize that's cheaper than competing DVD rewritables so far, but still too much.
ANY web design company should know how to use alt tags for their images. Gees.
And NO they are not out of business as far as I know. Their web site has a press release from Nov. 27, 2001 announcing a new client. That leads me to believe they are still operational.
If you can't afford the $300 Bose headphones, invest in some of the nicer Sony ones. I got mine for about $50 and I must say they work really well for cancelling out all the noise of the students tramping by my door all day long. They also make noise cancelling ones for $150 and wireless ones for the same price.
BTW, for all of you who are able to work at home, I hope you know how lucky you really are!!
Why is there a gaping hole in the timeline of this article, from 1979 to 1993 with Duke Nukem? It can't be because their weren't any interesting technological improvements during those years, because there were.
Interesting nonetheless, but it seemed like he was missing a few things.
that "These lasers also have a drawback--their energy comes from large tanks of industrial chemicals, which have to be mixed until they glow, like an outsize high-school science project. And they are so bulky that one weapon fills a large aircraft, or a small building. "
Slashdot Mirror
Can anyone really move to Sealand??? OH, you just meant the service. :) Believe it or not, they house all their servers in those huge concrete tubes.
Ummm. No. Because not near as many teachers know about Macs, not as many kids have Macs as home as Windows, tech support doesn't know much about Macs, etc.
Since the article is virtually useless as far as explaining what the security problem really is, here is the complete explanation from eEye0 11220.html
http://www.eeye.com/html/Research/Advisories/AD20
I can see plenty of problems with implementing Linux in schools, especially when I think about how it would go in my local district.
1. All the teachers know Windows. My bet is that even many of the computer teachers do not know Linux well enough to run it in their labs. They can't teach it if they don't know it and teacher training could be expensive and take a lot of what's probably considered unnecessary time.
2. They would have a lot harder teaching a completely new OS AND classes on how to use the programs than to just teach the programs. You'd probably have to have a intro to Linux class before you could ever teach whichever programs you choose to use - and that's another issue in itself.
3. Students probably have Windows at home. Would they have problems with converting documents between systems? Say you create your report in Word at home, could your bring it school and use it there?
4. The local tech support and computer stores would not be able to help them if something went wrong. 99% of the techs around here don't know anything about anything other than Windows. Who would know enough about Linux to help them??
5. The students would learn programs and OSes that would different with what they would have when they go to college, go to work, etc. Since there are very few offices and colleges using entirely Linux, they would be at a disadvantage right away.
Of course there are a lot of plusses too, but these negatives sprang to mind right away. Of course they are all refutable. I think that the schools would choose easy and expensive over difficult and cheap any day. If they didn't have a choice and were nearly out of money, my guess is they would let the computers sit/
If I were you I'd think again. No way Sony is going to come up with a portable system to beat out the GBA. At least not anytime soon.
For one, Nintendo has several years worth of games, the largest amount for any system available. You can even play regular GB games on it.
They've also had the market to themselves for quite some time. So they've got brand recognition. Plus a lot of people already own their stuff and their equipment, thus will be more likely to buy more than they will switch systems.
Add to that the fact that they already have contracts with tons of game producers to make games for the GBA.
Consider that the economy is bad and thus not the time to start a new venture.
Then finally, consider that Sony is really working on the the PS stuff so much that they probably wouldn't have the time, nor the staff (economy again) to devote only to handheld games and an entirely new system.
If they really want to get a piece of the handheld/portable market, SONY SHOULD MAKE GAMES FOR THE GBA.
Its just the opposite at our local discount store. Of course since the XBox has been broken 2 out of the last 3 times we were there, that might explain something. Perhaps it also has to do with which games are being demoed.
How does this source actually manage to know the exact number of boxes sold? They get their figures from CSFB estimates. Whose to say those are more reliable than those from the companies themselves? They say that "In the last few weeks, each company at separate times claimed to have the best console launch ever, using their own sales figures." and that when they spoke to company reps they got different numbers than the ones they had. So whose numbers do we believe?
And of course the PlayStation 2 is doing a better job meeting demand! They've had a year worth of making the damn things under their belt. Of course they'd sell more, they have many times the games of the xbox and cube. I think the latter two are doing remarkedly well considering.
Warren G - Return of the Regulators
Numbers on Disk - 4400161212
Came out a couple of weeks ago on Universal
My husband was so excited to get it. Get out to the car. Put it in the player (Sony 7 years old), player makes all sorts of odd noises. It still plays, but the cd player makes incredible noise getting it to do so. Doesn't do this normally, just with this disk.
Take it in house at home. Won't play on home stereo system, top of the line Sony CD player that's about 6 or 7 years old. Well, actually plays but sounds completely is screwed up and distorted.
Try to burn a copy using Adaptec Easy CD Creator 4. Result is so unlistenable its hard to believe. Pops, clicks, everything you can think of.
Posted the information to fatchucks.com. Receive a nice letter in response.
Husband sent letter to Warren G and Universal, saying that while we attempted to buy the cd in good faith, now we have to illegally download copies if we want ones of good quality.
Not sure what to do next. We'll probably return it to the store so the 60-year-old lady at the service counter can fail to understand and tell us all we can do is exchange it.
But what if you're someone who DOES just want email and web browsing? Some people do you know. And the TV type option, with a remote, seems a lot more comfortable for the technologically impaired.
And even more amazing that what you find off google and post in about 23 seconds (had to wait before hitting enter you know) gets modded up as informative.
CowboyNeal and I both have our copies of FFX on reserve and are planning on some time
off to watch LotR and play FFX this week.
Looks like somebody's got a little too much vacation time on their hands... Or else no better reason to use it! Wish I was so lucky. Anybody else taken off time recently for video games or movies??
Is it coincidence then that a lot of the people here on /. today have said that they have or their kids have these same disorders and traits? It would seem to reinforce the message of the article.
Do we really want to perpetuate the use of Windows software on a linux platform?
So you don't want me to run my Windows software on Linux? You WANT me to use Windows instead??? I don't get it. If you want to increase the Linux user base, you gotta allow for new people coming over, and for those new people to want to be able to use some of their favorite aps. So what if its on Lindows? I'd think that anything != Microsoft == Good or at least better. And besides, not all Windows software is Microsoft software. Think of the dozens of games made for Windows that have yet to be ported over to Linux. And what about wine? Doesn't it encourage the same thing??
So why don't they have news about this on the offical 2001 Mars Odyssey page?
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/odyssey/
I don't agree with censorship, or banning of games, books or anything else in this fashion. I believe its every person's right to play whatever the hell game they want, own what they want, read what they want, etc. without the government interfering. But... If there was one game that I would say deserved it, it would be this one. Good game-yes, fun-yeah, but it could have been just as good without a few of the overly raunchy features such as the hookers. I wish more people hated these nasty features of the game and something would be done about it naturally through the free market system. But that's not the case. Unfortunately too many of the people buying it seem really to enjoy killing old ladies and the like. Banning the game is not going to help. I hope the AU government figures out it's not their place to impose morality.
#1 on the list is NOT Metal Gear Solid 2, it is an ACTION FIGURE from Metal Gear Solid 2. Don't fear for your safety - the game MGS2 will not cause you bodily harm. Well, not most people anyway.
I totally agree. The /. title is misleading. They say right at the top of the Dirty Dozen article that these toys are things to avoid, not that they are dangerous. Some of the toys might be both (anything with spinning blades probably isn't great for kids).
http://www.thetechnozone.com/pcbuyersguide/hardwar e/storage/HP-dvd100i.html
At $15.99 a disk, the cost they mention in this CNet article http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-200-6909288.html from August 19, I don't think its all that affordable. With the drive costing $600, the total costs would just be too high. Sure you can record repeatedly for each $16, but you're going to want to have more than one thing on disk at any one time, requiring additional disks. I realize that's cheaper than competing DVD rewritables so far, but still too much.
ANY web design company should know how to use alt tags for their images. Gees.
And NO they are not out of business as far as I know. Their web site has a press release from Nov. 27, 2001 announcing a new client. That leads me to believe they are still operational.
Well their page is definitely not usable with images turned off. You'd think Razorfish people would know to at least use alt tags.
If you can't afford the $300 Bose headphones, invest in some of the nicer Sony ones. I got mine for about $50 and I must say they work really well for cancelling out all the noise of the students tramping by my door all day long. They also make noise cancelling ones for $150 and wireless ones for the same price.
BTW, for all of you who are able to work at home, I hope you know how lucky you really are!!
Why is there a gaping hole in the timeline of this article, from 1979 to 1993 with Duke Nukem? It can't be because their weren't any interesting technological improvements during those years, because there were.
Interesting nonetheless, but it seemed like he was missing a few things.
http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0401/042301nj.htm
that "These lasers also have a drawback--their energy comes from large tanks of industrial chemicals, which have to be mixed until they glow, like an outsize high-school science project. And they are so bulky that one weapon fills a large aircraft, or a small building. "
Does this jive with the fox news article?
Military Lasers High and Low
Battle lasers are rapidly moving from the realm of theory into operational reality
The Airforce Association
http://www.afa.org/magazine/0999lasers.html