[...] our vision of small schools was closely connected with issues of social justice, equity, and community.
That's a terrible foundation for any school curriculum. How about leaving politics out of education and teaching kids what they need to know to compete on a global scale.
I have a coworker who just bought his first Mac and was begging me to come setup his wireless router and cable modem. He wouldn't even try, because he was certain he would screw something up because he's been conditioned by Microsoft OSes. I told him to give it a shot on his own without even reading the help files, and sure enough, he had it running in less than 10 minutes.
I believe it will require an OS with strong client OS and application virtualization, or some of the promise of a tightly integrated Live Mesh and Windows Azure services to significantly differentiate Windows 7 from the same old desktop OS it presents itself as today.
I assure you the majority of computer users have NO idea what any of that means. People who do understand what he wrote are likely to be set in their computing ways and not likely to switch.
I seriously doubt Apple is running away from "niche" markets by offering a consumer level computer for average home users. And pray tell, how are the new Macbooks less functional than the old (I'll grant you the lack of firewire)? I have both the original single core Macbook and the latest aluminum Macbook. While the 1st generation Macbook has been a great little machine that burns your legs, it is far outclassed in form factor and performance by my new aluminum Macbook. I don't miss a single thing with my new (glossy) Macbook--not even firewire.
Turn on the audio cue for the scroll wheel. It's much easier to get one click with the audible feedback. As far as volume goes from any context, my primary iPod is my iPhone now, but I think you just push the center button then spin the dial for volume. Whatever the "trick" is to it, I simply don't remember because I haven't used my iPod in over a year. I also don't remember it ever being an issue either. Sorry to call you a douchebag when you were honestly asking, but you should leave out the editorial snark if you want us to take you seriously next time.
I hate falling for troll posts, but come on. How disingenuous can you get?
Who makes an audio player without volume controls?
Please enlighten us by naming one iPod model that doesn't have volume controls.
And the scroll wheel is great for long menus or scanning through many songs, but what if I want to go to the next menu item or move 1 song down the list? It's not so good for that.
You click the center button to go over one menu item, you scroll the wheel one click to move one song down. It's really pretty simple, and why most people rave about the interface. You already knew this, but you wanted to grace us with your douchbaggery because you've got issues with what you THINK about iPod users.
So I don't get your post. You say put a matte and a shiny in the same room and the shiny screen looks nicer, then you go on to rip into shiny displays. Seems to me if something that is made to display images "looks nicer" than the next one, that it should be considered "better". How does the screen stop looking nicer when you use it? Are you inferring that somebody would buy a laptop based on how nice the screen looks when it is OFF??!!? From what I can tell, the only noticeable difference is the shiny screen shows fingerprints more easily when off. For the record, I have a Macbook with shiny, and I like it much better than my iMac with matte...might be apples to oranges though, considering one is 15" and the other is 20"
No graphic artist in their right mind who uses a screen all day long would get a glossy one voluntarily...On the other hand, I love it. Once the concessions are made and it's set up in the right environment, it's the sharpest, brightest laptop screen I've ever used.
Well, which is it? Are you saying you are out of your mind, or that maybe the glossy screen didn't turn out to be as bad as you thought it would?
I read this article with great interest in reading a potentially damning review of the MBP. The article doesn't come across nearly as harsh as I think the slashdot editor tries to make it, because other than a minor complaint about the glossy screen, it was a pretty glowing review of the computer. As another article put it, the matte-vs-glossy debate is mostly an emotional one, and although I do understand the emotion as a photographer, I have no idea why other users really care one way or the other.
You said it for me...marketing uses conditioning because conditioning works. For this example, marketing = conditioning. Besides, as someone with an advanced degree in cognition, I didn't really want to bore everyone with mundane discussions of my career field;-)
Rush Limbaugh hocks this crap on his radio show incessantly (not that I'm a listener, but my office mate is). Would you honestly take any tech advice from somebody who has such an obvious poor track record when it comes to judgment? As somebody wiser than me once said, judge a man by the associations he makes.
Oddly enough, it is nearly impossible for a qualified German or Brit to get a job in the US compared to somebody from the Indian sub-continent. I've never understood that one at all. I've got lots of German friends that would LOVE to work in the US, but the closest they can get is working for US companies in Germany.
There are plenty of American kids who go into science and engineering. But when you compare the population of the US (300 million) to that of India ( just for example--1.2 billion), it's easy to see why there are so many "qualified" Indians compared to Americans.
The problem isn't necessarily a lack of technically qualified Americans--just a lack of technically qualified Americans who will sacrifice things such as quality of life (living anywhere just for a job) or for lower pay. The real problem is Microsoft moving jobs overseas to save a buck--not because they can't get enough qualified Americans to live and work in Redmond.
As far as moving goes--I've lived in plenty of crappy US towns (and UK and German ones too!). I'm very happy where I am now, and it is my #1 priority in life. Good schools, good communities, nice weather, diverse culture...all these things are far more important than a few dollars an hour difference I'd get by shopping around. To be blunt, there are plenty of places in the US you couldn't pay me enough to live in.
That guy using Front Page to make web pages should have never been called a Web Designer in the first place--hence the bubble burst. I've lived through several bubbles, and every one of them have the same traits...Johnny-come-lately gets his hands on a cheap PC and some shitty software and is suddenly a (self-proclaimed) designer/programmer/architect, etc. etc. If we quit chasing dollars in unsustainable (temporary fads) and invest in real skills, these busts would go away. But hey, if you wanna make 100,000 for a couple of years then make NO money from then on out, that's your choice.
A man who will work for less then the current market rate is a fool and being take advantage of.
Maybe the guy just doesn't care? WoW analogy time; I consistently drop decent gear in the auction house for 1 gold when I could easily get 5-10 gold. The effort to research current market value isn't worth it to me. I'm not stupid and I'm not being taken advantage of--it just doesn't matter to me.
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That's a terrible foundation for any school curriculum. How about leaving politics out of education and teaching kids what they need to know to compete on a global scale.
The process you are seeking is making parents accountable and making sure their children actually go to school.
I have a coworker who just bought his first Mac and was begging me to come setup his wireless router and cable modem. He wouldn't even try, because he was certain he would screw something up because he's been conditioned by Microsoft OSes. I told him to give it a shot on his own without even reading the help files, and sure enough, he had it running in less than 10 minutes.
I believe it will require an OS with strong client OS and application virtualization, or some of the promise of a tightly integrated Live Mesh and Windows Azure services to significantly differentiate Windows 7 from the same old desktop OS it presents itself as today.
I assure you the majority of computer users have NO idea what any of that means. People who do understand what he wrote are likely to be set in their computing ways and not likely to switch.
I seriously doubt Apple is running away from "niche" markets by offering a consumer level computer for average home users. And pray tell, how are the new Macbooks less functional than the old (I'll grant you the lack of firewire)? I have both the original single core Macbook and the latest aluminum Macbook. While the 1st generation Macbook has been a great little machine that burns your legs, it is far outclassed in form factor and performance by my new aluminum Macbook. I don't miss a single thing with my new (glossy) Macbook--not even firewire.
Turn on the audio cue for the scroll wheel. It's much easier to get one click with the audible feedback. As far as volume goes from any context, my primary iPod is my iPhone now, but I think you just push the center button then spin the dial for volume. Whatever the "trick" is to it, I simply don't remember because I haven't used my iPod in over a year. I also don't remember it ever being an issue either. Sorry to call you a douchebag when you were honestly asking, but you should leave out the editorial snark if you want us to take you seriously next time.
I hate falling for troll posts, but come on. How disingenuous can you get?
Who makes an audio player without volume controls?
Please enlighten us by naming one iPod model that doesn't have volume controls.
And the scroll wheel is great for long menus or scanning through many songs, but what if I want to go to the next menu item or move 1 song down the list? It's not so good for that.
You click the center button to go over one menu item, you scroll the wheel one click to move one song down. It's really pretty simple, and why most people rave about the interface. You already knew this, but you wanted to grace us with your douchbaggery because you've got issues with what you THINK about iPod users.
So I don't get your post. You say put a matte and a shiny in the same room and the shiny screen looks nicer, then you go on to rip into shiny displays. Seems to me if something that is made to display images "looks nicer" than the next one, that it should be considered "better". How does the screen stop looking nicer when you use it? Are you inferring that somebody would buy a laptop based on how nice the screen looks when it is OFF??!!? From what I can tell, the only noticeable difference is the shiny screen shows fingerprints more easily when off. For the record, I have a Macbook with shiny, and I like it much better than my iMac with matte...might be apples to oranges though, considering one is 15" and the other is 20"
No graphic artist in their right mind who uses a screen all day long would get a glossy one voluntarily...On the other hand, I love it. Once the concessions are made and it's set up in the right environment, it's the sharpest, brightest laptop screen I've ever used.
Well, which is it? Are you saying you are out of your mind, or that maybe the glossy screen didn't turn out to be as bad as you thought it would?
I read this article with great interest in reading a potentially damning review of the MBP. The article doesn't come across nearly as harsh as I think the slashdot editor tries to make it, because other than a minor complaint about the glossy screen, it was a pretty glowing review of the computer. As another article put it, the matte-vs-glossy debate is mostly an emotional one, and although I do understand the emotion as a photographer, I have no idea why other users really care one way or the other.
Well until you've read, understood, and signed an NSA nondisclosure agreement, you really don't know what you are talking about.
NSA non-disclosure agreements don't expire for 99 years, so how does this guy get away running his mouth?
You said it for me...marketing uses conditioning because conditioning works. For this example, marketing = conditioning. Besides, as someone with an advanced degree in cognition, I didn't really want to bore everyone with mundane discussions of my career field ;-)
I'm all for technologies in this space but this is money grubbing based on parental fears.
...which I find to be one of the most reprehensible acts possible. Think twice before you quickly give into induction, while we're on the topic.
Three words: Freedom of Speech.
And here are two more words for you: caveat emptor.
Two more for you...false advertising.
Rush Limbaugh hocks this crap on his radio show incessantly (not that I'm a listener, but my office mate is). Would you honestly take any tech advice from somebody who has such an obvious poor track record when it comes to judgment? As somebody wiser than me once said, judge a man by the associations he makes.
This has nothing to do with "lessons learned from video games" and says everything about the power of marketing.
I think that we all should have a healthy wage at the expense of the shareholders.
So do I. Workers actually do stuff. Shareholders just stare at numbers and knee-jerk react to stupid things like the health of CEOs.
Oddly enough, it is nearly impossible for a qualified German or Brit to get a job in the US compared to somebody from the Indian sub-continent. I've never understood that one at all. I've got lots of German friends that would LOVE to work in the US, but the closest they can get is working for US companies in Germany.
There are plenty of American kids who go into science and engineering. But when you compare the population of the US (300 million) to that of India ( just for example--1.2 billion), it's easy to see why there are so many "qualified" Indians compared to Americans.
The problem isn't necessarily a lack of technically qualified Americans--just a lack of technically qualified Americans who will sacrifice things such as quality of life (living anywhere just for a job) or for lower pay. The real problem is Microsoft moving jobs overseas to save a buck--not because they can't get enough qualified Americans to live and work in Redmond.
My immigration lawyer wife
IANASOAIL -- I am not a spouse of an immigration laywer
As far as moving goes--I've lived in plenty of crappy US towns (and UK and German ones too!). I'm very happy where I am now, and it is my #1 priority in life. Good schools, good communities, nice weather, diverse culture...all these things are far more important than a few dollars an hour difference I'd get by shopping around. To be blunt, there are plenty of places in the US you couldn't pay me enough to live in.
That guy using Front Page to make web pages should have never been called a Web Designer in the first place--hence the bubble burst. I've lived through several bubbles, and every one of them have the same traits...Johnny-come-lately gets his hands on a cheap PC and some shitty software and is suddenly a (self-proclaimed) designer/programmer/architect, etc. etc. If we quit chasing dollars in unsustainable (temporary fads) and invest in real skills, these busts would go away. But hey, if you wanna make 100,000 for a couple of years then make NO money from then on out, that's your choice.
A man who will work for less then the current market rate is a fool and being take advantage of.
Maybe the guy just doesn't care? WoW analogy time; I consistently drop decent gear in the auction house for 1 gold when I could easily get 5-10 gold. The effort to research current market value isn't worth it to me. I'm not stupid and I'm not being taken advantage of--it just doesn't matter to me.
Shopping around the world for labor and materials ultimately lowers the price of goods.
I'd rather pay more knowing my money went to somebody in my own community.