Its basically a Netbook without a keyboard and track-pad attached. And unless there are optimizations to the OS (reduced complexity) then when in tablet mode you're going to be all over that screen - pointing - clicking - dragging - etc.
I'm just saying that tossing a standard desktop OS on a tablets been done many times in the recent past (last decade) and they went nowhere. Cheap HW is great but you've got to have touch optimized OS and apps at a minimum or just go home. A recent lesson is HP dumping Win 7 for their Tablet PC in favor of Web OS by Palm.
Our school is demo'ing some iPads this Summer and I've had one for a few weeks. I have to say that iOS 4.0 is very easy to use and the device makes a helluva reader. Along with my other eval work I'm reading my second 300 page sci-fi novel via iTunes iBook app --- very easy and natural to read and use. Now for sure there are some huge issues with how Apple has handled DRM on the iPad (via the iTunes control / tether) - and totally hiding any trace of the file system - folders - etc. But Apple got a lot right in a fully touch driven device.
So back in the '40s Asimov had this idea of little satellites in Earth orbit and then put them in his sci-fi. Does that mean he could have litigated against NASA ?
Your observation pretty much spot on. All through the '80s and into the '90s there was a lot of changes and options in both HW and OS (primitive OS's) development. In the early '90s Intel saw that it needed more control over the HW and started doing chipsets and open specs like PCI and memory specs. Since Apple was tied to Motorola a natural partner for Intel was Microsoft on the OS side. Together they worked to standardize the PC platform. And MS now dominates --- and stagnates the PC desktop. While MS did a lot of good work getting to XP.... they've pretty much screwed the pooch on any kind of OS innovation or excitement since say 2003 - 2004 (when LongHorn was supposed to come out).
Little known fact - and interesting fork could have occurred around 1995 as the first "Pentium type" (meaning post x486) processors were in final testing.... our Intel lab was alerted that Apple was considering coming in on the weekend to test their current OS on the new CPU and chipset. We never got the call to go in....
A typical example of delusion and denial in the upper food chain of a corporation. Rather than look at the real conditions in the factories - and the human condition of the workers. And then start to implement some real changes --- this would entail both real work AND admitting those who committed suicide had reason(s).
No - FoxConn is essentially saying those workers who committed suicide are "corporate terrorists" targeting the corporation, its image, and its bank roll. What a totally insane conclusion to come to. No doubt as as someones life descends into a perfect hell and they are trapped or cannot see a way out --- they may think if I die this will end AND my family will get some good out of it. BUT - they did not engage into a contract with Foxconn with that idea in their head. They were pushed to get to that point of desperation.
Our district is much like yours in the restraints that district IT puts on new purchases / expansion. Our district has about 12,000 machines (80% mac - 20% PC) and about 18 core IT folks at the central office. And IT will support either XP-Pro or OSX 10.5 or 10.6.
Going Linux etc is possible but any and all support would be by your local school tech which would be daunting. My take would be to go with Macs in your second lab and look for open source application solutions for both the PC side and mac side. Both machines have their strengths (and I'm an ex-PC designer) and students should be exposed to multiple environments if possible.
Well for K12 this seems a lot like our district - we are about twice the size at 12,000 machines about 80% Mac 20% PC (XP). Core IT staff is about 18 people. The large high schools have a dedicated on site tech like me. The core IT folks support the OS image creation and large scale re-imaging - WAN - application packaging - repair - help desk and 3rd level support for the whole district. I directly support about 475 machines - 90 staff members - 2000 students. The job is a lot of fun and very fulfilling -- the pay is maybe 2/3 of private sector
-Blue Screen of Death will have a new terrifying meaning
-At my age I may be among the first generation to have substantial elder care provided by robots (about 15yrs out). I was hoping for cool and useful robots... now it will be the same old crap. I'll be 75 and will then be asked... "my robot has this problem..."
- Don't have the training to survive multiple 2-4hr meetings every week - Have not been forced to work with coding morons - No skills in creating weasel-word specifications or slide sets
- And the biggest of all - Will not be able to hang by the water cooler and compare the college you went to with the other geeks
Actually, getting your dream job does happen. Working your ass off doing something you enjoy puts you into position - but does not get or guarantee that you get the job. But it does get you in the game. Knowledge - drive - vision plus a bit of luck (right place right time) may get you the job.
I had my dream job for 15yrs - I and those I worked with impacted the the PC industry. Ultimately I flew too close to the Sun and my wings melted. But the dream jobs are out their - but you have to pay your dues to get a chance at the brass ring.
Of course being able to be "reality based" and knowing that you graduated during a major economic upheaval is a different skill from going to class and taking a test. This young lady has no clue.
I work at a large high school (2000 students) and this is not an issue. In the student agreement it is spelled out that you use your phone during class - you loose it until school is out that day. Period.
Since phones and texting is a major social thing for kids - most kids follow the rules. Others loose their phones.
In fact we are looking at a new service that allows a teacher to easily create a number of polls or quizzes that students can access via their cell phones (during class). The deal here is the responses are anonymous which reduces the stigma of being wrong or allows kids who a shy to participate. For the teacher its a quick way to see how many kids picked up a new concept and how many are still confused.
We need to encourage - but control - the use of technology in learning.
Ha ! My first ever Troll rating... I spit on your ratings (except those of Funny). Pwah! Pwah! Like that I spit on them. For MS - OS does stand for Oh Shit.
Viva-la OS X Viva-la Linux
Currently I spit on Google Chrome OS - but hey you never know.
I no longer play games - all too predictable - levels - bosses to defeat - rigid story lines. What I would pay a fee for is a game where the the objects and characters evolve - live or die based on not one but a myriad of my actions. They are replaced by new objects or characters -- these are of course low level adaptive programming. The next level up controls the story line and environment -- always fresh - surprising - never the same. I would even settle for an area of the game to be unreachable for a while if my choices or actions required a complete rebuild of that section and resulting story line. The never ending story...
No I don't think so... a lot of slash-dot readers have been around a while and seen M$ repeatedly deliver totally dicked-up solutions - Or something like Vista which is total marketing candy and a technical clap-trap.
When M$ can go 5-8yrs delivering real robust and innovative solutions then thats fine. Frankly I don't see that happening soon
What a crock of shit. Some people are just negative in their world view - often for some very petty and silly reasons.
I have a sister-in-law who is a total downer and a petty person. She cannot let go of anything - shes still carrying baggage from when she was 7yrs old and her brother was picking on her.
I believe in the statement attributed to Abe Lincoln: Most people are as happy as they decide to be.
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I'm glad someone besides humans are watching the store. I welcome our alien masters
Its basically a Netbook without a keyboard and track-pad attached. And unless there are optimizations to the OS (reduced complexity) then when in tablet mode you're going to be all over that screen - pointing - clicking - dragging - etc.
I'm just saying that tossing a standard desktop OS on a tablets been done many times in the recent past (last decade) and they went nowhere. Cheap HW is great but you've got to have touch optimized OS and apps at a minimum or just go home. A recent lesson is HP dumping Win 7 for their Tablet PC in favor of Web OS by Palm.
Our school is demo'ing some iPads this Summer and I've had one for a few weeks. I have to say that iOS 4.0 is very easy to use and the device makes a helluva reader. Along with my other eval work I'm reading my second 300 page sci-fi novel via iTunes iBook app --- very easy and natural to read and use. Now for sure there are some huge issues with how Apple has handled DRM on the iPad (via the iTunes control / tether) - and totally hiding any trace of the file system - folders - etc. But Apple got a lot right in a fully touch driven device.
So back in the '40s Asimov had this idea of little satellites in Earth orbit and then put them in his sci-fi. Does that mean he could have litigated against NASA ?
Sounds loony tunes to me.
Your observation pretty much spot on. All through the '80s and into the '90s there was a lot of changes and options in both HW and OS (primitive OS's) development. In the early '90s Intel saw that it needed more control over the HW and started doing chipsets and open specs like PCI and memory specs. Since Apple was tied to Motorola a natural partner for Intel was Microsoft on the OS side. Together they worked to standardize the PC platform. And MS now dominates --- and stagnates the PC desktop. While MS did a lot of good work getting to XP .... they've pretty much screwed the pooch on any kind of OS innovation or excitement since say 2003 - 2004 (when LongHorn was supposed to come out).
Little known fact - and interesting fork could have occurred around 1995 as the first "Pentium type" (meaning post x486) processors were in final testing .... our Intel lab was alerted that Apple was considering coming in on the weekend to test their current OS on the new CPU and chipset. We never got the call to go in ....
A typical example of delusion and denial in the upper food chain of a corporation. Rather than look at the real conditions in the factories - and the human condition of the workers. And then start to implement some real changes --- this would entail both real work AND admitting those who committed suicide had reason(s).
No - FoxConn is essentially saying those workers who committed suicide are "corporate terrorists" targeting the corporation, its image, and its bank roll. What a totally insane conclusion to come to. No doubt as as someones life descends
into a perfect hell and they are trapped or cannot see a way out --- they may think if I die this will end AND my family will get some good out of it.
BUT - they did not engage into a contract with Foxconn with that idea in their head. They were pushed to get to that point of desperation.
Another Epic Fail for FoxConn executives
Our district is much like yours in the restraints that district IT puts on new purchases / expansion. Our district has about 12,000 machines (80% mac - 20% PC) and about 18 core IT folks at the central office. And IT will support either XP-Pro or OSX 10.5 or 10.6.
Going Linux etc is possible but any and all support would be by your local school tech which would be daunting. My take would be to go with Macs in your second lab and look for open source application solutions for both the PC side and mac side. Both machines have their strengths (and I'm an ex-PC designer) and students should be exposed to multiple environments if possible.
Well for K12 this seems a lot like our district - we are about twice the size at 12,000 machines about 80% Mac 20% PC (XP). Core IT staff is about 18 people. The large high schools have a dedicated on site tech like me. The core IT folks support the OS image creation and large scale re-imaging - WAN - application packaging - repair - help desk and 3rd level support for the whole district. I directly support about 475 machines - 90 staff members - 2000 students. The job is a lot of fun and very fulfilling -- the pay is maybe 2/3 of private sector
Two thoughts on this and neither are good:
-Blue Screen of Death will have a new terrifying meaning
-At my age I may be among the first generation to have substantial elder care provided by robots (about 15yrs out). I was hoping for cool and useful robots ... now it will be the same old crap. I'll be 75 and will then be asked ... "my robot has this problem ..."
Our own cellular functions - synaptic functions all use quantum interactions / entanglement.
Just thought I'd put that out there.
they are already totally messed up !
Aren't these changes going to create state run madrasses for Christianity ?
- Don't have the training to survive multiple 2-4hr meetings every week
- Have not been forced to work with coding morons
- No skills in creating weasel-word specifications or slide sets
- And the biggest of all - Will not be able to hang by the water cooler and compare the college you went to with the other geeks
By novice user I assume they mean the average user - I'll take 4 for my family ...
Greed - corruption - abuse of power - poor management - and wankin' off share holders. You might have a useful simulation.
Good luck with that
I mean really - rodents of unusual size -- clearly a tag of Fire Swamp is required
A wise manager I once worked for said "why do we so rarely do the right thing ? Because its the choice that typically requires a bit more work."
Can we get a weather report from Hell ?
Actually, getting your dream job does happen. Working your ass off doing something you enjoy puts you into position - but does not get or guarantee that you get the job. But it does get you in the game. Knowledge - drive - vision plus a bit of luck (right place right time) may get you the job.
I had my dream job for 15yrs - I and those I worked with impacted the the PC industry. Ultimately I flew too close to the Sun and my wings melted. But the dream jobs are out their - but you have to pay your dues to get a chance at the brass ring.
Of course being able to be "reality based" and knowing that you graduated during a major economic upheaval is a different skill from going to class and taking a test. This young lady has no clue.
I work at a large high school (2000 students) and this is not an issue. In the student agreement it is spelled out that you use your phone during class - you loose it until school is out that day. Period.
Since phones and texting is a major social thing for kids - most kids follow the rules. Others loose their phones.
In fact we are looking at a new service that allows a teacher to easily create a number of polls or quizzes that students can access via their cell phones (during class). The deal here is the responses are anonymous which reduces the stigma of being wrong or allows kids who a shy to participate. For the teacher its a quick way to see how many kids picked up a new concept and how many are still confused.
We need to encourage - but control - the use of technology in learning.
Ha ! My first ever Troll rating ... I spit on your ratings (except those of Funny). Pwah! Pwah! Like that I spit on them. For MS - OS does stand for Oh Shit.
Viva-la OS X
Viva-la Linux
Currently I spit on Google Chrome OS - but hey you never know.
then OS stands for "Oh Shit"
I no longer play games - all too predictable - levels - bosses to defeat - rigid story lines. What I would pay a fee for is a game where the the objects and characters evolve - live or die based on not one but a myriad of my actions. They are replaced by new objects or characters -- these are of course low level adaptive programming. The next level up controls the story line and environment -- always fresh - surprising - never the same. I would even settle for an area of the game to be unreachable for a while if my choices or actions required a complete rebuild of that section and resulting story line. The never ending story ...
I could probably pull that off - 19" is fucking insane.
They call it hardware because its fucking hard to do. You can't just recompile a motherboard or a thermal solution if you screw it up.
No I don't think so ... a lot of slash-dot readers have been around a while and seen M$ repeatedly deliver totally dicked-up solutions - Or something like Vista which is total marketing candy and a technical clap-trap.
When M$ can go 5-8yrs delivering real robust and innovative solutions then thats fine. Frankly I don't see that happening soon
What a crock of shit. Some people are just negative in their world view - often for some very petty and silly reasons.
I have a sister-in-law who is a total downer and a petty person. She cannot let go of anything - shes still carrying baggage from when she was 7yrs old and her brother was picking on her.
I believe in the statement attributed to Abe Lincoln: Most people are as happy as they decide to be.
no one can hear you scream "AAARRRGGGHHHHHHHHHH" !