I know that many of you are Republican supporters and fundamentally oppose many of the things that Obama and the Democratic party represents but one thing I believe this election has done is to make US citizens more involved in the electoral process. Obama will not be able to get away with some things that Bush was able to.
Regardless of how you feel you are at a point in history. Many persons in the south objected to the civil rights movement and felt that giving African Americans basic rights would lead to the death of America as they knew it. That did not happen.
Let history judge Obama, but you have your role to play, you have the power to take your nation to higher heights.
I totally agree with you, right now it is all about telling your point in the simplest way possible and making that emotional connection (hence the heavy prevalence and inclusion of Science and Math two subjects that America ranks about 23rd worldwide at 7th and 8th grade level).
At my office I am in IT lockdown so to get around it I use portable firefox 3.1 on XP SP3, I get occasional crashes when I use our webmail, it uses Java. I have reported it to mozilla and await their prompt response.
The fact is for some people FF3 crashes a lot for them, it is not hating it is just a fact. It does not bother me much as I just shrug and start again and choose to continue my session when the dialog box comes up.
Notice I said teething problems, as occurs with any new operating system. I acknowledged that Vista issues was much worse, which also is as a result of the number of vendors it services so there would be conflicts with software. I know of a few people who downgraded to Tiger after their macs froze one too many times and there were issues with time machine. and there are some criticisms
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopard_os#Criticisms
The only point I was trying to make(at 3:00 in the morning so I wasn't too coherent) was that Macs issues will be downplayed and thanks for confirming that by your staunch defense.
I hate these kind of comparison articles because they make the assumption that all things remain equal. I have Vista, no major problems for me, but in the spirit in being objective... don't people buy more computers today than they did when xp came out meaning that of course even with the horrible marketing and bad decisions regarding Vista more copies would still be sold. However, it also points to how much Vista is struggling because I am sure if we do a more comparative analysis we would find that actually less copies were sold.
I also expect Apple to release figures next week of fantastic sales of what is definitely a better OS with its own teething problems (though not nearly as bad as Vista and we can always forgive Steve) without taking into consideration that macs are becoming much more mainstream and garnering bigger sales than when Tiger was released.
I think we need to cut Bill some slack as he rides off into the sunset. No one can dispute the impact that Microsoft and Gates has had on the world of computers and technology in general. I get it, for many of you "Microsoft is Evil" but let us use this opportunity to acknowledge what Bill has done for Tech, especially now that he is going to be focusing more on his humanitarian work.
So from me, Thanks Bill and good luck.
Can't they come up with a business model that achieve both ends. I like the idea of selling them at a slightly higher price to industralized nations (my son asked for one when the buy one give one promotion started and it is only because I am outside of the US that I did not access it).
Many non-profits bring down their costs by offering commercial services. I know of one non-profit that maintains a parking lot and makes a tidy sum from it as well as offer medical services to companies to be able to provide it to persons who can't afford it.
With all the reports we have heard about OLPC in Africa,good and bad, it would be sad if this project crumbles.
I too have been using Vista for over 6 months and initially had serious problems with incompatibility of drivers and even worse the machine would occasionally freeze, but I don't hate it. For home use it works for me. For work I like tiger(will upgrade to leopard in a couple of months) and Ubuntu. But I guarantee home use of Vista will improve especially after SP1. Vista is suffering from not fulfilling the lofty expectations that Microsoft set for it, the same could be said of Leopard slightly but Apple has better PR and fans who are not crucified in public for defending their products. The fact is XP will remain king in the corporate world because people have become accustomed to it and are slow to change(I know business places that still use 98).
I'm not saying we have to love Vista but lets be a little more creative in our hatemongering.
As someone who read the book Made to Stick maybe a little clarification of the contex of the 52 buttons is in order. The curse of knowledge simply put is that when we know something, we find it hard to imagine what was like not to know it. Our knowledge has cursed us. And it becomes difficult for us to share knowledge with others, thus the situation occurs where we either give too much information (the 52 buttons) or too little (a windows vista error message.. just kidding...sort of). So bringing in a non-expert can address the principles that the brothers describe in the book, the first being simplicity to quote - "a designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add but when there is nothing left to take away". As designer's we should know that a million buttons does not mean innovation and sometimes it takes a n00b to show us the way.
Today's kids drink red bull to stay up all night and play Xbox live. Real C64 users stayed up all night programming machine language cause we loved it.
I remember first trying out Firefox pre 1.0 and hated it. 1.5 came around and I decided to give it a second chance, haven't looked back since then. This was my first step to becoming more educated about choices other than MS. This coincidently was also around the time I started to take web design seriously. After that the floodgates opened, I started questioning do I really need to use windows, can I survive without it? Haven't made the full switch but the answer is yes.
IE8 will not bring a lot of users back because the public is recognizing that surfing the net is part of a larger experience and MS has proven time and time again they are slow to provide those experiences.
A colleague of mine is Australian and is now living half way around the world from his homeland. His local government elections are coming up(and the article mentioned focused on local government elections not Prime ministerial elections) and he is frustrated by the vote by post process and said he would be willing to vote online.
I know a lot of the the respondents are thinking Bush v Gore but voting online can be a viable option for expatriates. The major issue of course is security but the majority of comments sounded like paranoia rather than genuine concerns.
Just like you wanted to buy the Wii, but down here in the Caribbean that's difficult. In fact one of our malls had one Wii (not even going to mention the price). Like you still having fun with my Xbox and waiting for Halo 3 to upgrade. As it is I can wait till nxt year for the Wii though would love to be playing Zelda now.
Being someone who works with an organization that promotes mass participation physical activities for children I can say that you have touched on a key issue. Physical activity with the pairing of the benefits of a healthy diet should be promoted and not the concept of sport that pits child against child and team against team. Sport is good but encouraging everyone to engage in a general healthy lifestyle which should include moderate to vigorous physical activity is key.
And on a final note before I took up my job at this organization I was a "physical education" teacher (we prefer that over gym teacher, we are teaching a subject not a room) and I wasn't a frustrated former athlete and though there is a percentage of former athletes who become PE teachers, its not as high as you think.
Slashdot Mirror
I know that many of you are Republican supporters and fundamentally oppose many of the things that Obama and the Democratic party represents but one thing I believe this election has done is to make US citizens more involved in the electoral process. Obama will not be able to get away with some things that Bush was able to. Regardless of how you feel you are at a point in history. Many persons in the south objected to the civil rights movement and felt that giving African Americans basic rights would lead to the death of America as they knew it. That did not happen. Let history judge Obama, but you have your role to play, you have the power to take your nation to higher heights.
I totally agree with you, right now it is all about telling your point in the simplest way possible and making that emotional connection (hence the heavy prevalence and inclusion of Science and Math two subjects that America ranks about 23rd worldwide at 7th and 8th grade level).
At my office I am in IT lockdown so to get around it I use portable firefox 3.1 on XP SP3, I get occasional crashes when I use our webmail, it uses Java. I have reported it to mozilla and await their prompt response. The fact is for some people FF3 crashes a lot for them, it is not hating it is just a fact. It does not bother me much as I just shrug and start again and choose to continue my session when the dialog box comes up.
Notice I said teething problems, as occurs with any new operating system. I acknowledged that Vista issues was much worse, which also is as a result of the number of vendors it services so there would be conflicts with software. I know of a few people who downgraded to Tiger after their macs froze one too many times and there were issues with time machine. and there are some criticisms http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopard_os#Criticisms The only point I was trying to make(at 3:00 in the morning so I wasn't too coherent) was that Macs issues will be downplayed and thanks for confirming that by your staunch defense.
I hate these kind of comparison articles because they make the assumption that all things remain equal. I have Vista, no major problems for me, but in the spirit in being objective... don't people buy more computers today than they did when xp came out meaning that of course even with the horrible marketing and bad decisions regarding Vista more copies would still be sold. However, it also points to how much Vista is struggling because I am sure if we do a more comparative analysis we would find that actually less copies were sold. I also expect Apple to release figures next week of fantastic sales of what is definitely a better OS with its own teething problems (though not nearly as bad as Vista and we can always forgive Steve) without taking into consideration that macs are becoming much more mainstream and garnering bigger sales than when Tiger was released.
I think we need to cut Bill some slack as he rides off into the sunset. No one can dispute the impact that Microsoft and Gates has had on the world of computers and technology in general. I get it, for many of you "Microsoft is Evil" but let us use this opportunity to acknowledge what Bill has done for Tech, especially now that he is going to be focusing more on his humanitarian work. So from me, Thanks Bill and good luck.
Can't they come up with a business model that achieve both ends. I like the idea of selling them at a slightly higher price to industralized nations (my son asked for one when the buy one give one promotion started and it is only because I am outside of the US that I did not access it). Many non-profits bring down their costs by offering commercial services. I know of one non-profit that maintains a parking lot and makes a tidy sum from it as well as offer medical services to companies to be able to provide it to persons who can't afford it. With all the reports we have heard about OLPC in Africa,good and bad, it would be sad if this project crumbles.
I too have been using Vista for over 6 months and initially had serious problems with incompatibility of drivers and even worse the machine would occasionally freeze, but I don't hate it. For home use it works for me. For work I like tiger(will upgrade to leopard in a couple of months) and Ubuntu. But I guarantee home use of Vista will improve especially after SP1. Vista is suffering from not fulfilling the lofty expectations that Microsoft set for it, the same could be said of Leopard slightly but Apple has better PR and fans who are not crucified in public for defending their products. The fact is XP will remain king in the corporate world because people have become accustomed to it and are slow to change(I know business places that still use 98). I'm not saying we have to love Vista but lets be a little more creative in our hatemongering.
As someone who read the book Made to Stick maybe a little clarification of the contex of the 52 buttons is in order. The curse of knowledge simply put is that when we know something, we find it hard to imagine what was like not to know it. Our knowledge has cursed us. And it becomes difficult for us to share knowledge with others, thus the situation occurs where we either give too much information (the 52 buttons) or too little (a windows vista error message.. just kidding...sort of). So bringing in a non-expert can address the principles that the brothers describe in the book, the first being simplicity to quote - "a designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add but when there is nothing left to take away". As designer's we should know that a million buttons does not mean innovation and sometimes it takes a n00b to show us the way.
Today's kids drink red bull to stay up all night and play Xbox live. Real C64 users stayed up all night programming machine language cause we loved it.
I remember first trying out Firefox pre 1.0 and hated it. 1.5 came around and I decided to give it a second chance, haven't looked back since then. This was my first step to becoming more educated about choices other than MS. This coincidently was also around the time I started to take web design seriously. After that the floodgates opened, I started questioning do I really need to use windows, can I survive without it? Haven't made the full switch but the answer is yes. IE8 will not bring a lot of users back because the public is recognizing that surfing the net is part of a larger experience and MS has proven time and time again they are slow to provide those experiences.
Since the parent company, Time named "you" the person of the year they were simply following "you" and not doing regular backups
A colleague of mine is Australian and is now living half way around the world from his homeland. His local government elections are coming up(and the article mentioned focused on local government elections not Prime ministerial elections) and he is frustrated by the vote by post process and said he would be willing to vote online. I know a lot of the the respondents are thinking Bush v Gore but voting online can be a viable option for expatriates. The major issue of course is security but the majority of comments sounded like paranoia rather than genuine concerns.
Just like you wanted to buy the Wii, but down here in the Caribbean that's difficult. In fact one of our malls had one Wii (not even going to mention the price). Like you still having fun with my Xbox and waiting for Halo 3 to upgrade. As it is I can wait till nxt year for the Wii though would love to be playing Zelda now.
Being someone who works with an organization that promotes mass participation physical activities for children I can say that you have touched on a key issue. Physical activity with the pairing of the benefits of a healthy diet should be promoted and not the concept of sport that pits child against child and team against team. Sport is good but encouraging everyone to engage in a general healthy lifestyle which should include moderate to vigorous physical activity is key. And on a final note before I took up my job at this organization I was a "physical education" teacher (we prefer that over gym teacher, we are teaching a subject not a room) and I wasn't a frustrated former athlete and though there is a percentage of former athletes who become PE teachers, its not as high as you think.