Not necessarily. Laptops have DVD 'slots' which are pretty compact which you can swap for something else (hard drive for instance).
Phones could have a smilar system. With the right connect, a CPU module (likely has more than just a CPU onboard) could be swapped.
We already have swappable SD cards & batteries. Extending this wouldn't suffer that much. Better is you can customize the HW to be what you actually need like replacing the camera with some other component.
Obviously Rumblefish has birds for clients.
They must have noticed you illegally recording their song, and had Rumblefish track you down.
Next time, you'll remember to write and perform your own warbles.
Poor birds, everyone trying to make money off the material they've spent centuries perfecting...
I say this to anyone with comments like yours or the other poster.
Put your money where your mouth is. Go teach for 5 years and come back and tell me that 'many' or 'most' teachers fall into the category you say.
Until then, you're like the plumber who says all programmers are overpaid because every piece of software has bugs, and if they really did their job correctly, there wouldn't be problems without having a clue as to all the factors that affect the real situation.
FYI, some teachers don't get even get to choose their 'methods' but as other poster have said, are forced into a curriculum that they must follow to the letter or be fired. Then later blamed when it doesn't provide the results the salesman promoted.
Lastly, you say that teachers are overpaid, and then bitch about how they're clowns, tyrants, and have no knowledge. If you want better talent, how do expect to attract them? It doesn't work that way in any other business or field, why is education so special.
My wife is an elementary teacher, and just about everything you said is completely and totally wrong, and the actual reason while the school system is all screwed up.
Even if it is a bad curriculum, a professional teacher should be able to meet *some* standard.
Wrong: unless you are making up "some standard" to mean anything which would be contrary to what the word "standard" means.
they get new students every year, if the classroom was interesting last year, it will be interesting this year.
Wrong: if this were the case, then the same system that was used to teach 50 years ago would hold the same interest today. Each class, and each student are a little different and depend on their culture, what other schools they attended, what has changed in society. All these thing affect what will interest the students. In fact my wife is working on her masters to address this exact issue most schools have.
teachers are valuing their own entertainment and egos over actually doing the hard work of teaching.
Wrong: Every teacher I know (since my wife is a teacher, I know a few) values the students interest and ability to get as much out of their class more than anything. From entertainment, to stress levels (due to competing expectations from parents, students, administrative staff), to low pay. The fact that they continue to teach despite all the things you say they bitch about, means they care more about the students than anything else.
grading papers all night that you didn't need to assign in the first place
sounds like you bitter about having to do homework yourself. You know practice is how your brain actually learns and 'papers' are how you do that for most topics.
The best teachers I ever had all had one thing in common: they were lazy.
Best because the class was easy for you, or best because you got the most out of class. My experience was completely opposite from your statement. My best teachers (especially in college) were the ones that gave us the most difficult problem we could solve. My lab groups and I spent many, many hours outside the classroom, and the prof spent a lot of extra hours providing feedback and being available. But I learned so much from that class that I still use today.
5 minutes before the students, left 5 minutes after, and gave their all when it counted: in the classroom, teaching
To think that being their for just the class time is all that is needed goes against what pretty much every person who has studied teaching methods professionally.
If a kid can pass the test, the kid has learned.
Complete Epic fail on this one. passing a test means one thing, the student passed the test. It can (not always) mean they know nothing about the concepts at all except what is on the test. Hell, you can give them the answers, and voila, they can pass the test and know nothing (which has been in recent news for even standard testing).
So, you really don't know anything you're talking about, and sound just like some bitter person who was made to go through some things that you think were irrelevant, and haven't actually understood what you did get out of those exercises. Or maybe you're special some how and know everything already, in that case, how about teaching yourself since you're obviously the only one who 'gets it'.
To the point of laptops. The reason they don't affect test scores is because there is nothing in these test that requires knowledge about computers. A laptop per student won't necessarily bring new methods that help the student learn, but it does mean that those methods can start to be introduced to see if they can have an affect on test scores. The laptops are just the medium. The content is what needs to be studied.
Even if he didn't open the welcome message, it might have marked it as important because it found another 'important' email with some similar contents such as being from Google.
When the receiver downloads the attachment, the electrical current and molecular structure of the central processing unit is altered, causing it to blast apart like a large hand grenade
Would the machine be able to tell either? It could be that the brain changes over time (as a person relives the trauma) that makes the symptoms visible.
This is starting to sound much like any entrepreneurial idea.
In the business/tech world you can either grow organically, or accept venture capital to grow bigger, faster to try and take advantage of market opportunities.
To do so means you give up some rights, have to have some IP protection or something to help guarantee that the VC investment has a chance to pay off.
Most reasonable people don't expect everything to be free, but I think most are tired of the VC/Labels emptying your pocket for products that suddenly don't seem worth it which is why opensource is starting to take off, but also why some started pirating media. If the media cost and convenient access were inline with more inline with a majority of the population's thoughts, I think most would choose to buy the media rather then download illegally.
Instead of looking at 'pirates' as people stealing their product, they really should consider that a sale lost due to price/convenience offering. This is better then the business/tech world which can only guess at what their sales might be if they changed their price/convenience offers. True some will never pay, but then there is nothing you'll ever get from them.
Sure looks like at least some of the patents they're filing seem to be new and or useful. http://www.google.com/patents?scoring=1&q=%22Eastman+Kodak+Company%22&btnG=Search+Patents
Just because you don't see a fancy new product from Kodak showcasing some new patent technology doesn't mean they don't make anything.
Some companies do spend money on R&D to license that tech to companies who don't want to spend the R&D money.
Actually sometimes it just takes someone to be first to quit, just like it takes someone to be first to jump in.
The business is not worth the requirements, other industries may take a second look.
For instance
Toy manufacturers burned by recalls of leaded toys.
pet food makers burned by customer's pets dying from poisoned pet food.
Software, music, and movie producers having product pirated (on the mass production scale).
Electronics makers having products copied and sold or even counterfeited.
It doesn't mean companies will stop getting stuff made cheaply. Just not cheaply in China
There are a number of other places cheaper then the US or Eastern Europe to outsource to without the number of problems that come up with China.
The fact that Google has the balls to stand up, lay out some demands (not going to censor), and be the first to potentially pull out sure does seem like challenging a superpower
After watching Food, Inc. I've started looking for grass fed beef, and free range chicken meat.
Its a little tougher to find (not at the supermarket) and a can be quite bit more expensive.
Also this same issue can come up in products other then corn. Round up ready is also in Soy.
I couldn't find much on other Round up Ready products, but a short google search showed Round up ready lettuce is on the way.
No, because I only plan on sleeping there for a short time. If I planned on doing something else, I definitely would. I might even want to know that before reserving space.
Which for the film industry would be fine as long as the cost is appropriate.
I really have no objection to the DRM on something I've paid a rental price for, which these days is moviesPerMonth/$9 which is my Netflix rental fee.
I've bought ~2 movies in the last 3 years with gift cards, and recieved 2 movies as gifts during the same time period.
I watch about that number of movies per month now with Netflix either by DVD or streaming.
If their methods increase what I can watch at the cost point (or near that cost point), I'd be fine. If they think I'd pay $19.95 for something with those restrictions, they're further along the crazy path then I thought.
The hotel staff who told the vendors who did not have floor space, that here were no restrictions probably did not know the hotels had a contractual agreement with CES, specifically not to allow suites to be used by vendors who did not have floor space.
this should have been in any terms agreed to for renting the room, and would need to be done ahead of time. What if someone was showing product in their room that had nothing to do with CES? Also CES should have described this as a condition for attending the show (likely the vendors at least had tickets to go in so they could corral people back to their room).
This is more akin to pirating someones' signal and replacing their content with your own.
Not really, the 'other signal' was still there, its just the 'listener' now has more choice. I would liken it more to passing out CD's to people at a concert and/or near a concert for similar (but original) music.
In these cases, nothing the vendors did was illegal (nor CEA), the hotels had to breach their contracts (CEA contract and contract to rent the room to the vendor) and choose to breach the one that had less money at stake.
next year the vendors should hang the Do Not Disturb sign. Not that I'd want anyone I wasn't watching in the room with prototypes and potential business secrets in their anyways.
This is exactly what I've been thinking about.
The best use case for twitter to me really sounded like machine updates. Mostly because its the only application that seemed sustainable. A person twittering sounds great and all, until that person suddenly is too busy to update and then its worthless to any followers.
Following a machine, or maybe an organization seemed much more on target.
You forgot to mention the one other big reason to buy digitally.
You buy the piece you want. Sure buying all the songs at once (possibly on a CD even) is cheaper then buying one at a time.
iTunes, Amazon, Lala, all let you do this just like the store does.
The real value add for digitial distribution is in not paying $10 for an album of which you only want 2 songs. Instead you can pay $2 for the exact ones you want. You don't have that option with CDs in a store, at least not economically. Last I checked 'singles' (if they still make them) were about half the cost of the full album.
First, this was one incident. Columbine and Virginia Tech had multiple incidents of expression.
Also, there are more choices then 'blow it off' and 'frisk and ban student'.
There's a whole bunch from sending a counselor to asking friends to cheer her up. If anyone had expressed any genuine concern to the students in the cases you mentioned, they might have found a method to vent with a smaller body count.
Your expression of delightful and joyful items is making those in the Northwest, British Isles, and recently kitten-less population unhappy. Please refrain from any further emotions or we will be forced to take action against you.
From the perspective a 60-80 year old probably finds 29 'almost' teenage. Just the way a 29 year probably considers 50 old like 60 even though there's a decade of difference.
Slashdot Mirror
Not necessarily. Laptops have DVD 'slots' which are pretty compact which you can swap for something else (hard drive for instance). Phones could have a smilar system. With the right connect, a CPU module (likely has more than just a CPU onboard) could be swapped. We already have swappable SD cards & batteries. Extending this wouldn't suffer that much. Better is you can customize the HW to be what you actually need like replacing the camera with some other component.
Obviously Rumblefish has birds for clients. They must have noticed you illegally recording their song, and had Rumblefish track you down. Next time, you'll remember to write and perform your own warbles. Poor birds, everyone trying to make money off the material they've spent centuries perfecting...
I say this to anyone with comments like yours or the other poster. Put your money where your mouth is. Go teach for 5 years and come back and tell me that 'many' or 'most' teachers fall into the category you say. Until then, you're like the plumber who says all programmers are overpaid because every piece of software has bugs, and if they really did their job correctly, there wouldn't be problems without having a clue as to all the factors that affect the real situation. FYI, some teachers don't get even get to choose their 'methods' but as other poster have said, are forced into a curriculum that they must follow to the letter or be fired. Then later blamed when it doesn't provide the results the salesman promoted. Lastly, you say that teachers are overpaid, and then bitch about how they're clowns, tyrants, and have no knowledge. If you want better talent, how do expect to attract them? It doesn't work that way in any other business or field, why is education so special.
Even if it is a bad curriculum, a professional teacher should be able to meet *some* standard.
Wrong: unless you are making up "some standard" to mean anything which would be contrary to what the word "standard" means.
they get new students every year, if the classroom was interesting last year, it will be interesting this year.
Wrong: if this were the case, then the same system that was used to teach 50 years ago would hold the same interest today. Each class, and each student are a little different and depend on their culture, what other schools they attended, what has changed in society. All these thing affect what will interest the students. In fact my wife is working on her masters to address this exact issue most schools have.
teachers are valuing their own entertainment and egos over actually doing the hard work of teaching.
Wrong: Every teacher I know (since my wife is a teacher, I know a few) values the students interest and ability to get as much out of their class more than anything. From entertainment, to stress levels (due to competing expectations from parents, students, administrative staff), to low pay. The fact that they continue to teach despite all the things you say they bitch about, means they care more about the students than anything else.
grading papers all night that you didn't need to assign in the first place
sounds like you bitter about having to do homework yourself. You know practice is how your brain actually learns and 'papers' are how you do that for most topics.
The best teachers I ever had all had one thing in common: they were lazy.
Best because the class was easy for you, or best because you got the most out of class. My experience was completely opposite from your statement. My best teachers (especially in college) were the ones that gave us the most difficult problem we could solve. My lab groups and I spent many, many hours outside the classroom, and the prof spent a lot of extra hours providing feedback and being available. But I learned so much from that class that I still use today.
5 minutes before the students, left 5 minutes after, and gave their all when it counted: in the classroom, teaching
To think that being their for just the class time is all that is needed goes against what pretty much every person who has studied teaching methods professionally.
If a kid can pass the test, the kid has learned.
Complete Epic fail on this one. passing a test means one thing, the student passed the test. It can (not always) mean they know nothing about the concepts at all except what is on the test. Hell, you can give them the answers, and voila, they can pass the test and know nothing (which has been in recent news for even standard testing). So, you really don't know anything you're talking about, and sound just like some bitter person who was made to go through some things that you think were irrelevant, and haven't actually understood what you did get out of those exercises. Or maybe you're special some how and know everything already, in that case, how about teaching yourself since you're obviously the only one who 'gets it'. To the point of laptops. The reason they don't affect test scores is because there is nothing in these test that requires knowledge about computers. A laptop per student won't necessarily bring new methods that help the student learn, but it does mean that those methods can start to be introduced to see if they can have an affect on test scores. The laptops are just the medium. The content is what needs to be studied.
Even if he didn't open the welcome message, it might have marked it as important because it found another 'important' email with some similar contents such as being from Google.
WOW, I have never, ever, ever had to do that at the one by me. Of course, if I did, there's about 8 within 1/2 mile of the one by my house.
When the receiver downloads the attachment, the electrical current and molecular structure of the central processing unit is altered, causing it to blast apart like a large hand grenade
Postulate: no greater crimes
Such as growing clones of yourself for the purpose of transfusing their blood to prolong your own life.
symptoms can take years to show up
Would the machine be able to tell either? It could be that the brain changes over time (as a person relives the trauma) that makes the symptoms visible.
This is starting to sound much like any entrepreneurial idea.
In the business/tech world you can either grow organically, or accept venture capital to grow bigger, faster to try and take advantage of market opportunities.
To do so means you give up some rights, have to have some IP protection or something to help guarantee that the VC investment has a chance to pay off.
Most reasonable people don't expect everything to be free, but I think most are tired of the VC/Labels emptying your pocket for products that suddenly don't seem worth it which is why opensource is starting to take off, but also why some started pirating media. If the media cost and convenient access were inline with more inline with a majority of the population's thoughts, I think most would choose to buy the media rather then download illegally.
Instead of looking at 'pirates' as people stealing their product, they really should consider that a sale lost due to price/convenience offering. This is better then the business/tech world which can only guess at what their sales might be if they changed their price/convenience offers.
True some will never pay, but then there is nothing you'll ever get from them.
Sure looks like at least some of the patents they're filing seem to be new and or useful.
http://www.google.com/patents?scoring=1&q=%22Eastman+Kodak+Company%22&btnG=Search+Patents
Just because you don't see a fancy new product from Kodak showcasing some new patent technology doesn't mean they don't make anything.
Some companies do spend money on R&D to license that tech to companies who don't want to spend the R&D money.
Actually sometimes it just takes someone to be first to quit, just like it takes someone to be first to jump in.
The business is not worth the requirements, other industries may take a second look.
For instance
Toy manufacturers burned by recalls of leaded toys.
pet food makers burned by customer's pets dying from poisoned pet food.
Software, music, and movie producers having product pirated (on the mass production scale).
Electronics makers having products copied and sold or even counterfeited.
It doesn't mean companies will stop getting stuff made cheaply. Just not cheaply in China There are a number of other places cheaper then the US or Eastern Europe to outsource to without the number of problems that come up with China.
The fact that Google has the balls to stand up, lay out some demands (not going to censor), and be the first to potentially pull out sure does seem like challenging a superpower
my meat does not have it
Are you sure? What did you 'meat' eat?
After watching Food, Inc. I've started looking for grass fed beef, and free range chicken meat.
Its a little tougher to find (not at the supermarket) and a can be quite bit more expensive.
Also this same issue can come up in products other then corn. Round up ready is also in Soy. I couldn't find much on other Round up Ready products, but a short google search showed Round up ready lettuce is on the way.
No, because I only plan on sleeping there for a short time. If I planned on doing something else, I definitely would. I might even want to know that before reserving space.
they will either dismiss you outright
So, how would that change GP's process?
get a court to sign a gag order
Then share it with one (or a couple) trusted friends who can release it if you are unable to.
DRM == RENT
Which for the film industry would be fine as long as the cost is appropriate.
I really have no objection to the DRM on something I've paid a rental price for, which these days is moviesPerMonth/$9 which is my Netflix rental fee.
I've bought ~2 movies in the last 3 years with gift cards, and recieved 2 movies as gifts during the same time period.
I watch about that number of movies per month now with Netflix either by DVD or streaming.
If their methods increase what I can watch at the cost point (or near that cost point), I'd be fine.
If they think I'd pay $19.95 for something with those restrictions, they're further along the crazy path then I thought.
The hotel staff who told the vendors who did not have floor space, that here were no restrictions probably did not know the hotels had a contractual agreement with CES, specifically not to allow suites to be used by vendors who did not have floor space.
this should have been in any terms agreed to for renting the room, and would need to be done ahead of time. What if someone was showing product in their room that had nothing to do with CES? Also CES should have described this as a condition for attending the show (likely the vendors at least had tickets to go in so they could corral people back to their room).
This is more akin to pirating someones' signal and replacing their content with your own.
Not really, the 'other signal' was still there, its just the 'listener' now has more choice. I would liken it more to passing out CD's to people at a concert and/or near a concert for similar (but original) music.
In these cases, nothing the vendors did was illegal (nor CEA), the hotels had to breach their contracts (CEA contract and contract to rent the room to the vendor) and choose to breach the one that had less money at stake.
next year the vendors should hang the Do Not Disturb sign. Not that I'd want anyone I wasn't watching in the room with prototypes and potential business secrets in their anyways.
This is exactly what I've been thinking about.
The best use case for twitter to me really sounded like machine updates. Mostly because its the only application that seemed sustainable.
A person twittering sounds great and all, until that person suddenly is too busy to update and then its worthless to any followers.
Following a machine, or maybe an organization seemed much more on target.
You forgot to mention the one other big reason to buy digitally.
You buy the piece you want. Sure buying all the songs at once (possibly on a CD even) is cheaper then buying one at a time.
iTunes, Amazon, Lala, all let you do this just like the store does.
The real value add for digitial distribution is in not paying $10 for an album of which you only want 2 songs. Instead you can pay $2 for the exact ones you want. You don't have that option with CDs in a store, at least not economically. Last I checked 'singles' (if they still make them) were about half the cost of the full album.
dark ages
I agree, 2000 to 2008 definitely seemed a dark age where less smart masses overrode many intelligent ideas and thoughts.
Which if you were firing that gun from say, 100 miles away, might be pretty good!
First, this was one incident. Columbine and Virginia Tech had multiple incidents of expression.
Also, there are more choices then 'blow it off' and 'frisk and ban student'.
There's a whole bunch from sending a counselor to asking friends to cheer her up. If anyone had expressed any genuine concern to the students in the cases you mentioned, they might have found a method to vent with a smaller body count.
But it would be OK if a football student said they were looking forward to cracking heads in Monday's practice.
anything but sunshine and kittens
Your expression of delightful and joyful items is making those in the Northwest, British Isles, and recently kitten-less population unhappy. Please refrain from any further emotions or we will be forced to take action against you.
From the perspective a 60-80 year old probably finds 29 'almost' teenage. Just the way a 29 year probably considers 50 old like 60 even though there's a decade of difference.