The Mac is so stable and easy to use that one does not have to know a lot about computers.
Frankly, there is a whole world out there of more interesting things to know. As a system administrator you have probably wasted so much time tending to Mac people's computer needs whilst they are off on vacation in the Caribbean that it has made you bitter. Darn clueless Mac fanboiZ.
I know a lot of rocket-science dudes and girls who have macs but don't know the first thing about 'computers'.
I used to be a unix system admin and felt about the windows users in the maths and art lab just as you do. Wish I had come to my senses years earlier.
I was 5 years old and went to play with the black worker's kids while I was at a dormitory at a public boarding school. I was told in no uncertain terms that I should not be friends with them and was forbidden to go there. I'm ashamed that I was part of that. That went a long way to shape my view of the apartheid South Africa as oppressive and evil. Fortunately I got to learn of better in spite of media controls.
No wonder the US is doing so badly when it comes to qualified university graduates.
I say let them use computers, play games and even fail if they so wish. One thing I would agree on is that it does tend to distract other students and hampers interactivity.
I took notes at university not because I EVER looked at it again, but more that I would interact better with the material at the time. It made me think and understand it better.
What about note-taking on a handwriting-recognition type tablet computer?
I would not have minded to have a lighter backpack at university...
So what if other people use homeopathic medicines, it's their choice. So what if it's a placebo? Placebos are actually more effective than certain chemical medications which has been funded.
Ok, so you need to believe it to work before the placebo effect takes place, and just because you don't believe does not mean others don't and they actually benefit from it.
What non-believers believe is irrelevant; truth is irrelevant. What is relevant is that this improves people's wellbeing. It gets the job done... ignorance *is* bliss.
Sheesh... this is the same as having public and private encryption keys. The private one is for you, the public one is... you guessed it, public, and cannot be used to reproduce or fake the private one. They only store enough data to verify your fingerprint again. VERIFICATION and IDENTIFICATION are two very different things. No privacy issue.
The fact that a multi-tap entry system was used in that contest, instead of predictive text system as used in most phones for the longest time, renders that comparison flawed.
I beat the morse-code guy at the time using a predictive text entry system (non-qwerty); and I was by no means particularly fast.
Interesting enough I knew Emacs (in the form of Micro Emacs) way back in 1987 on my Amiga, but after I understood what vi(vim) was about I've used that instead and never looked back.
So much faster to run and edit, and installed everywhere.
It does however suck at integrating a full development environment. Something Visual Studio and eclipse shines at (and even Emacs is know to handle better). Still when I have a lot of typing/editing to do and less debugging I'll use vim.
I remember the addition of the inter-mud libs that players could to inter-mud tells and inter-mud mail to one another. Never really got used much tho as far as I recall.
Once a Windows PC User also has a Mac, he is either considered a Mac user (think: one drop blood rule), or he just becomes a Mac user (with a Windows PC) because Macs are just too cool.
Hmm.. either way I still think the Slashdot article title is flawed.
Same here. Was quite a process... had to drive around a lot and meet weird people. After that it was denied by the same government that had an official policy to accept it. And my bank preferred even a plain e-mail over it.
No one had a clue what to do with it.
The only thing I used it for was for secure e-mail... pah... could just as well stooped to PGP then.
I disagree. Google cannot do this unless they change the way gmail works. I will not let them touch my private key lest I end up not trusting my own private key. You can say they can then kinda leave it on your PC and access it with client side JS, but then you sit again with the problem that it becomes hard to manage and understand by the masses.
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This is obviously a new meaning of 'simple' we were not previously aware of.
No... Google Docs is "simple". MediaWiki is "simple". Plone (and Zope) is a forklift swinging a sledgehammer.
Are you perhaps not confusing cause and effect?
The Mac is so stable and easy to use that one does not have to know a lot about computers.
Frankly, there is a whole world out there of more interesting things to know. As a system administrator you have probably wasted so much time tending to Mac people's computer needs whilst they are off on vacation in the Caribbean that it has made you bitter. Darn clueless Mac fanboiZ.
I know a lot of rocket-science dudes and girls who have macs but don't know the first thing about 'computers'.
I used to be a unix system admin and felt about the windows users in the maths and art lab just as you do. Wish I had come to my senses years earlier.
I was 5 years old and went to play with the black worker's kids while I was at a dormitory at a public boarding school. I was told in no uncertain terms that I should not be friends with them and was forbidden to go there. I'm ashamed that I was part of that. That went a long way to shape my view of the apartheid South Africa as oppressive and evil. Fortunately I got to learn of better in spite of media controls.
He should be careful not being deported then...
No wonder the US is doing so badly when it comes to qualified university graduates.
I say let them use computers, play games and even fail if they so wish. One thing I would agree on is that it does tend to distract other students and hampers interactivity.
I took notes at university not because I EVER looked at it again, but more that I would interact better with the material at the time. It made me think and understand it better.
What about note-taking on a handwriting-recognition type tablet computer?
I would not have minded to have a lighter backpack at university...
So what if other people use homeopathic medicines, it's their choice. So what if it's a placebo? Placebos are actually more effective than certain chemical medications which has been funded.
Ok, so you need to believe it to work before the placebo effect takes place, and just because you don't believe does not mean others don't and they actually benefit from it.
What non-believers believe is irrelevant; truth is irrelevant. What is relevant is that this improves people's wellbeing. It gets the job done... ignorance *is* bliss.
Wrong, don't confuse homeopathy with herbalism.
Which is essentially the same problem Windows compared to OS X... oh, wait, Windows is actually leading here.
Perhaps Linux (and specifically Android) just lag behind because of other reasons?
Sheesh... this is the same as having public and private encryption keys. The private one is for you, the public one is... you guessed it, public, and cannot be used to reproduce or fake the private one. They only store enough data to verify your fingerprint again. VERIFICATION and IDENTIFICATION are two very different things. No privacy issue.
Move along, nothing to see here...
After all, isn't voting a form of anonymous political free speech?
I think you hit the nail on the head. I'm flabbergasted by people in the US's views one subjects like sex and alcohol.
Hence all the teen drinking movies... just weird.
... with the companying wearable 3D glasses.
But then again... why have a watch at all? Or would the weight of the glasses be prohibitive?
Yes, really.
Just because a single iteration of new technology is implemented badly, does not mean there is no progress in the field over older tech.
The episode made Jay Leno look like a Luddite.
The fact that a multi-tap entry system was used in that contest, instead of predictive text system as used in most phones for the longest time, renders that comparison flawed.
I beat the morse-code guy at the time using a predictive text entry system (non-qwerty); and I was by no means particularly fast.
Interesting enough I knew Emacs (in the form of Micro Emacs) way back in 1987 on my Amiga, but after I understood what vi(vim) was about I've used that instead and never looked back.
So much faster to run and edit, and installed everywhere.
It does however suck at integrating a full development environment. Something Visual Studio and eclipse shines at (and even Emacs is know to handle better). Still when I have a lot of typing/editing to do and less debugging I'll use vim.
As far as I was aware the democrats/Obama administration were more against visa holders than the republican opposition.
Is what the article should have been called.
Anyone worth their salt in numerical analysis and scientific computation would not make this error.
Microsoft Graph or Equation Editor works well once you get over the fact that's it's MS.
Or what about Apple's Grapher?
They all make typing in equations easy.
News for Nerds, Stuff that matters?
*cough*
Your assumed power consumption of the mini sounds a bit like a maximum to me... it's more around 30W.
As for the price... I'm willing to sell my old single core for around $300 one day when I get the server model. :)
7) The free iPhone public/private key dongle app is cool too.
I run my D2, WoW and SC games off Battle.net. Works well... the authentication server has also less downtime than the vanilla WoW one...touch wood.
I remember the addition of the inter-mud libs that players could to inter-mud tells and inter-mud mail to one another. Never really got used much tho as far as I recall.
Seems more like their ... space...
Erm, bad jokes aside, who still uses the "MySpace of the web" (meaning MySpace) anyway?
Once a Windows PC User also has a Mac, he is either considered a Mac user (think: one drop blood rule), or he just becomes a Mac user (with a Windows PC) because Macs are just too cool.
Hmm.. either way I still think the Slashdot article title is flawed.
Same here. Was quite a process... had to drive around a lot and meet weird people. After that it was denied by the same government that had an official policy to accept it. And my bank preferred even a plain e-mail over it.
No one had a clue what to do with it.
The only thing I used it for was for secure e-mail... pah... could just as well stooped to PGP then.
Me.
I disagree. Google cannot do this unless they change the way gmail works. I will not let them touch my private key lest I end up not trusting my own private key. You can say they can then kinda leave it on your PC and access it with client side JS, but then you sit again with the problem that it becomes hard to manage and understand by the masses.