Give a kid a Windows PC and they learn how to use Windows.
Give a kid a ChromeBook and they learn how to use the Internet.
At least the Windows kid will have learned something they can use later in life.
You're both wrong. Give a kid a Windows PC and they learn how to use Windows to launch an application, and use that application.
Give a kid a Chromebook and they learn how to use ChromeOS to launch an application, and use that application.
Give a kid an iPad and they learn how to use iOS to launch an application, and use that application.
Either way the OS is such a minimal part of the lesson, it's the application itself that provides the meaningful skill. It makes very little difference to the learning whether that application is written in VB.Net and presented directly from the OS, or written in JavaScript and presented through a web browser.
See: Microsoft Word vs Word Online, Photoshop vs Pixlr, etc. Sure in some cases native applications are more powerful, but like it was mentioned above, the overwhelming majority (especially at lower grades) don't need that kind of power.
Also, regardless of the device, that "they learn how to use the internet" is one of the absolute most important things they do. Sure it might not go on a resume, but being able to find and verify information on the internet is one of the most important life skills out there.
Thereâ(TM)s a company called neverware that releases a free-for-personal-use distro of chromium OS customized to install/run on x86 called CloudReady. Iâ(TM)m not affiliated in any way, just evaluated it for use at work. Seemed to work decently, we ony decided against it because lf the cost of using it commercially.
I'll give you that, the iOS home screen is my worst pet peeve. I ended up putting my dozen or so apps into folders by subject so I can find stuff pretty much instantly but nobody else using my phone would stand a chance.
but I'll still take it over the android way, my inlaws get a new Samsung note every other year and every time it's a totally new learning curve trying to find where all the settings got moved to this time.
I know you can install your own launcher on android and get mostly the same experience, (used to use Nova Launcher and highly reckoned it) but like I said all the settings pages, where the buttons are and what they do etc, there's no good reason to mess with that and yet everyone but ios always seems to. (Even Mac OS is guilty of it so I'm not totally defending apple either)
That's a good way to set up a protection racket. "That's a nice movie you've got there. Shame if someone were to distribute it for free..." ( which for the record the riaa/mpaa deserve at least that, but it could be damaging to smaller, honest publishers if there are any left)
The correct solution is to treat services like that as common carriers. If there is bad stuff happening on the service, use existing legal processes to subpoena logs or whatever and go after the actual "bad" guys.
10 years without a UI update is EXACTLY what I would want in an OS. The whole point of an OS is to allow me to run software and stay the hell out of my way. Changing a usable UI just for the sake of changing it is just a learning curve nobody needs.
I run a small-town cell repair operation on the side, and I have to say although I think the actual Error 53 BS is absolute BS (It should just disable Touch ID, there's no reason to disable the whole phone) the rest of the complaints are pretty weak.
they were not entitled to free replacements or repair if they had taken their devices to an unauthorized third-party repairer
Well, yeah. "Warranty void if opened" is pretty much standard on any electronics I've ever known except for actual computers. If someone brings their phone to some bozo like me and I screw it up, why should Apple have to clean up after me for free? ( Suppose it's not exactly clear from that sentence if they're unwilling to repair it for free, or unwilling to repair it at all. If they won't even touch it at all it's a different story.)
They told Apple staff their iPhone speakers had stopped working after screens were replaced by a third party.
Similar to above, if I took my own phone somewhere to get fixed and when it came back something else was broken, I would take it back to the dummy who broke it! Again, why should Apple have to pay to fix someone else's screw up?
I fail to see how this is a free speech issue. They're not saying you're not allowed to post content like that. They're saying that Google is not going to pay you To post it.
Say whatever you want, just don't expect Google to help you make a living saying it.
Your favourites folder is no longer able to be redirected, (They're stored in some awful location like %appdata%/localLow/Microsoft/{00423025-2252342fj90fcj2903} in some awful proprietary blob database, so if you're in an environment that you might use multiple computers there's no way to sync your favourites unless you log into the computer with a microsoft account (Or Azure AD account)
And the GPO's available at the moment to configure it are pretty much non-existant. You can set the home page and a couple other things but other than that it's pathetic.
Am I mistaken, or if you switch off the ability for them to be female, after a single generation, they'll be extinct anyway. So why not just kill them all and be done with it?
With the three months off being all in one chunk over the summer, many teachers I know end up getting a summer job, waiting tables or cleaning houseboats or whatever. If you were to split that time up into a couple week chunks throughout the year it would pretty much take away that option.
Because after all these years, you STILL can't create a multiple-column Google document. That and the Personal Information Protection Act - http://www.bclaws.ca/Recon/doc...
I'm a keyboard monkey at a three-man retail computer / repair shop.
In the last week, literally every PC that's came in to get cleaned up has had a copy of "Security Tool" installed.
The fix is quite easy - download process explorer, rename it to iexplore.exe, run it, kill 08732030.exe (Or whatever random number it's used this time), then install & Scan with Malwarebytes Anti-Malware, and a couple others. But it's obscure enough that nobody can do it, so we can charge our standard 1 hour to clean it up.
I wish I could meet the guys who wrote this and buy them a drink. They've been paying my cheque for about 6 months now.
Should this sort of thing be prosecutable? Should Acitivision really get any sort of judgment against them for this level of carelessness?
Absolutely not - who as a consumer goes to a store, copies down the patent numbers, goes home to look them up then buys the product solely based on what they find, completely ignoring the much more obvious "CONTROLLER SOLD SEPARATELY" warning?
I know there are programs / firefox extensions to download + convert videos off youtube, but this just makes it too damn easy.
Especially since you're already using Chrome - right click on the video, choose Inspect Element. It opens the page source, and finds the URL of the video for you. Copy to clipboard, paste to address bar, and it downloads a suprisingly high quality.mp4 - no conversion or crappy flash video players neccesary.
Keep up the good work YouTube.
In a new install of Windows XP (IE6) the default page (At least in Canada) is MSN/Sympatico, which has Bing search at the top. The search bar in IE7 and 8 both by default still point to Live search, which automatically redirects to Bing. So that 10% includes anyone using the default search for IE6 or 7 too.
Wouldn't it be trivial to have the benchmark app randomly rename itself every time it runs? It would be far less trivial to optimize for djdusah89efhsl123d.exe...
Corporate IT departments (and their management) that are still using IE6 probably aren't going to be too upset that their users / employees aren't able to access YouTube while at work.
You've never watched Judge Judy, have you?
To be fair, they sign away their rights to a fair trial beforehand, but she still technically is a judge.
The Peoples' Court, Eye for an Eye, etc... Pretty much any daytime Fox programming is the same way.
Even if you choose the Express Settings option, it does tell you that it's going to change the default:
http://www.geeksmack.net/uploads/ie8_screens/wizard_settings.jpg
Notice "Default browser: Internet Explorer" under the list of default options that will be selected.
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You're both wrong. Give a kid a Windows PC and they learn how to use Windows to launch an application, and use that application.
Give a kid a Chromebook and they learn how to use ChromeOS to launch an application, and use that application.
Give a kid an iPad and they learn how to use iOS to launch an application, and use that application.
Either way the OS is such a minimal part of the lesson, it's the application itself that provides the meaningful skill. It makes very little difference to the learning whether that application is written in VB.Net and presented directly from the OS, or written in JavaScript and presented through a web browser.
See: Microsoft Word vs Word Online, Photoshop vs Pixlr, etc. Sure in some cases native applications are more powerful, but like it was mentioned above, the overwhelming majority (especially at lower grades) don't need that kind of power.
Also, regardless of the device, that "they learn how to use the internet" is one of the absolute most important things they do. Sure it might not go on a resume, but being able to find and verify information on the internet is one of the most important life skills out there.
The intern they hired to mount the sensor on the pole skipped the part about "This end up"
Thereâ(TM)s a company called neverware that releases a free-for-personal-use distro of chromium OS customized to install/run on x86 called CloudReady. Iâ(TM)m not affiliated in any way, just evaluated it for use at work. Seemed to work decently, we ony decided against it because lf the cost of using it commercially.
but I'll still take it over the android way, my inlaws get a new Samsung note every other year and every time it's a totally new learning curve trying to find where all the settings got moved to this time.
I know you can install your own launcher on android and get mostly the same experience, (used to use Nova Launcher and highly reckoned it) but like I said all the settings pages, where the buttons are and what they do etc, there's no good reason to mess with that and yet everyone but ios always seems to. (Even Mac OS is guilty of it so I'm not totally defending apple either)
The correct solution is to treat services like that as common carriers. If there is bad stuff happening on the service, use existing legal processes to subpoena logs or whatever and go after the actual "bad" guys.
10 years without a UI update is EXACTLY what I would want in an OS. The whole point of an OS is to allow me to run software and stay the hell out of my way. Changing a usable UI just for the sake of changing it is just a learning curve nobody needs.
they were not entitled to free replacements or repair if they had taken their devices to an unauthorized third-party repairer
Well, yeah. "Warranty void if opened" is pretty much standard on any electronics I've ever known except for actual computers. If someone brings their phone to some bozo like me and I screw it up, why should Apple have to clean up after me for free? ( Suppose it's not exactly clear from that sentence if they're unwilling to repair it for free, or unwilling to repair it at all. If they won't even touch it at all it's a different story.)
They told Apple staff their iPhone speakers had stopped working after screens were replaced by a third party.
Similar to above, if I took my own phone somewhere to get fixed and when it came back something else was broken, I would take it back to the dummy who broke it! Again, why should Apple have to pay to fix someone else's screw up?
Say whatever you want, just don't expect Google to help you make a living saying it.
Unless of course TFA says more than TFS.
What's wrong with Edge?
Your favourites folder is no longer able to be redirected, (They're stored in some awful location like %appdata%/localLow/Microsoft /{00423025-2252342fj90fcj2903} in some awful proprietary blob database, so if you're in an environment that you might use multiple computers there's no way to sync your favourites unless you log into the computer with a microsoft account (Or Azure AD account)
And the GPO's available at the moment to configure it are pretty much non-existant. You can set the home page and a couple other things but other than that it's pathetic.
Am I mistaken, or if you switch off the ability for them to be female, after a single generation, they'll be extinct anyway. So why not just kill them all and be done with it?
With the three months off being all in one chunk over the summer, many teachers I know end up getting a summer job, waiting tables or cleaning houseboats or whatever. If you were to split that time up into a couple week chunks throughout the year it would pretty much take away that option.
Because after all these years, you STILL can't create a multiple-column Google document. That and the Personal Information Protection Act - http://www.bclaws.ca/Recon/doc...
I'm a keyboard monkey at a three-man retail computer / repair shop. In the last week, literally every PC that's came in to get cleaned up has had a copy of "Security Tool" installed. The fix is quite easy - download process explorer, rename it to iexplore.exe, run it, kill 08732030.exe (Or whatever random number it's used this time), then install & Scan with Malwarebytes Anti-Malware, and a couple others. But it's obscure enough that nobody can do it, so we can charge our standard 1 hour to clean it up. I wish I could meet the guys who wrote this and buy them a drink. They've been paying my cheque for about 6 months now.
I just bought one last week, and my wife's will be getting here either today or tomorrow, you insensitive clod!
Should this sort of thing be prosecutable? Should Acitivision really get any sort of judgment against them for this level of carelessness?
Absolutely not - who as a consumer goes to a store, copies down the patent numbers, goes home to look them up then buys the product solely based on what they find, completely ignoring the much more obvious "CONTROLLER SOLD SEPARATELY" warning?
I know there are programs / firefox extensions to download + convert videos off youtube, but this just makes it too damn easy. Especially since you're already using Chrome - right click on the video, choose Inspect Element. It opens the page source, and finds the URL of the video for you. Copy to clipboard, paste to address bar, and it downloads a suprisingly high quality .mp4 - no conversion or crappy flash video players neccesary.
Keep up the good work YouTube.
In a new install of Windows XP (IE6) the default page (At least in Canada) is MSN/Sympatico, which has Bing search at the top. The search bar in IE7 and 8 both by default still point to Live search, which automatically redirects to Bing. So that 10% includes anyone using the default search for IE6 or 7 too.
To which Oak Ridge National Laboratory replied "Fuck everything, we're doing 500 million cores."
Wouldn't it be trivial to have the benchmark app randomly rename itself every time it runs? It would be far less trivial to optimize for djdusah89efhsl123d.exe...
Corporate IT departments (and their management) that are still using IE6 probably aren't going to be too upset that their users / employees aren't able to access YouTube while at work.
You've never watched Judge Judy, have you? To be fair, they sign away their rights to a fair trial beforehand, but she still technically is a judge. The Peoples' Court, Eye for an Eye, etc... Pretty much any daytime Fox programming is the same way.
Where they spike the air to cure aggression in people? It doesn't end well.
Even if you choose the Express Settings option, it does tell you that it's going to change the default: http://www.geeksmack.net/uploads/ie8_screens/wizard_settings.jpg Notice "Default browser: Internet Explorer" under the list of default options that will be selected.