Do you want to students to create content or consume content? That's the bottom line, tablets are great for consuming content but suck in a not good way for creating anything more than a brief email. Personally I'd rather have students that can create things than consume things.
Your pretty dead on with your assessment actually. The fact that they are making/any/ kind of change at all is the progress that I am talking about. Think of it as being a bit like Microsoft with Linux. For years and years Microsoft literally refused to acknowledge that Linux refused to even exist. When they finally acknowledged Linux actually existed that made the news in the tech trade too.
The 30% represents the service. In this case the service is the Operating System. I think in effect we are saying the same thing. Since much of the hardware is commodity hardware, you could look at the cost differential as the cost of the Mac OS.
Really, is anyone seriously surprised by this? People who value convenience and having someone provide a service for them instead of doing something themselves might hold those same values for other things like paying for hotels. In other words people who are willing to pay 30% more for hardware might be willing to pay 30% more for other things too!!!
Marketers have figured this out. Next big surprise, organic shopping markets are full of Lexus and Mercedes cars? I think this really advanced concept might have been taught in the second week of marketing 101, maybe?
I consider this to significant progress on the part of Apple and they deserve to get credit. Much as Microsoft has their head buried in the sand for years before they started making changes, we should applaud Apple for taking the first step. I welcome Apple to world of reality, a world in which operating system have security flaws, require patches and get viruses.
Now that Apple is in at least some small way acknowledging the real world, let's see if they can clean up their act the way Microsoft did years ago. Admitting you have a problem is always the first step, now we can always hope that they will start to embrace industry standards for dealing with security issues. Perhaps someday their users will no longer also have their heads in the clouds about security issues?
Kind of funny thinking about it, a decade ago I never would have imagined citing Microsoft as a company that can be cited as cleaning up their act for security./responsible for securing an environment that is %50 mac, so I'm not trolling.....
What complete and utter tripe! The Chinese, Russians and any number of other countries crossed the proverbial Rubicon many, many years ago. If the submitter is so naive as to think that this was the first example of state sponsored computer hacking against another state than the submitter needs to go to Defcon or any other security convention. Get real, get a clue.
Why aren't their riots in the streets over this? For years I have heard about Europe being very pro-privacy. I have even worked with their privacy standards from a professional standpoint.
What went wrong? Seriously, how on earth did this ever happen? Your cars and your online activities are all being monitored by your government with your blessing! The communists never had it that good, all they got were phone calls and letters. You gave your own government a blessing to invade your privacy at a level the East German's could have only dreamed of. Something is very, very wrong in UK today. What the hell happened?
Are we talking about IT professionals or managers? Since outsourcing became a dirty word with a proven track record of job losses in exchange for questionable gains it was re-badged as the "cloud".
IT professionals by and large recognize in function that the cloud is just today's shiny version of a main frame and dumb terminals. IT Managers see the "Cloud" as a way to outsource services and reduce costs. We saw the same thing when everyone thought you could outsource all the IT jobs to India.
I'm at a place now where we have a brand new CIO. Our brand new CIO has heard about the BYOD trend. BYOD means that users buy their own computer and take purchase their own software. We will will even give the user an advance to pay for this. In and of itself this is not bad, but somehow the new CIO somehow thinks that this extends to our users also managing their own devices. In effect he thinks BYOD means that we can outsource computer management (back end stuff like patching, asset, inventory, licensing etc) to our user-base.
Outsourcing is outsourcing, whether it's to India, a contract house, the cloud or your own user base. Any time you hand over control to outsiders you are going to necessarily have problems, how does changing the label change the principals?
You happen to be right, and without question his book led to the incredible benefit that you describe. It is a similar case with Fahrenheit 451, wherein a book that really wasn't about censorship made it reprehensible in the eye of the public to burn books for censorship purposes. Book burning for censorship purposes used to be much more popular than it is today.
Consider these unforeseen consequences that likely never could have happened other than by accident. Sometimes history has luck work in favor of the public after all.
Given the choice between the author of the book and the masses I'm inclined to take the side of the author. That being said, your point that he sucked about getting his point across is one that I have to freely concede.
Fahrenheit 451 wasn't about censorship. I know 100 people who know nothing else about the book except cliff notes or what they got off wikipedia are about to make that comment. So I'll save you the trouble. It was about TV and the mental wasteland that he thought it represented.
If you make X more desirable, you will likewise make X more valuable. It doesn't much matter what X is as long as X is a finite resource. Whether it's a boom town in North Dakota with rents in the thousands of dollars per month or San Francisco is completely moot. Demand increases value, value increases cost, cost decreases affordability.
Why, oh why, are people surprised by this? This was old news in the times or the ancient Romans. To put it simply, this economics 101, supply and demand in action. Next big surprise story, Chinese factories have long hours for little wages, yet still turn down 10 applications for every job?
I do understand, this has a slight change on the BoM cost. Unfortunately they will almost certainly find a way to fight used game sales. My point was one of bandwidth and downloading. I never argued that this would help people on 'owning' disks and being able to 'sell' them when they wanted.
Absolutely, Australia is even worse than Canada for bandwidth. My point is that if the market with the plurality of market share can't come close than fair chunks of the rest of the world can't either. Whilst certain countries (South Korea, Sweden etc) have great bandwidth, most countries just can't touch the bandwidth needed to get rid of the optical drive.
You missed the part about a plurality. I'll let you look up the meaning of that word by yourself. Once you've done that you can come back and tell me any other country comes anywhere as close (within an order of magnitude) of having the plurality of market-share of that the United States does. Once you've done that you will have a leg to stand your argument on.
Executives realized that in the real world their desire to axe the optical drive would be outweighed by most people in the US having crappy bandwidth. I never thought our terrible US bandwidth would turn out to have a silver lining.
Yes a US centric post, because while many other places have far better bandwidth, they just don't have the market presence plurality that the US does. For better or worse the US by and large defines the world market on such things...
North Korea, I think you need to shift your focus back on things like feeding your starving masse and leave the heavens for those that are exporting food aide, not importing it.
It is very disappointing to see that political correctness has been allowed to 'tie' with science. How is this any different than things like government quotas for hiring police officers and fire fighters that set different standards for passing the tests based on your race? Science should be blind to things like this, if the best site was in Australia, it should have gone there, if the best site was in South Africa it should have gone there.
I've been on slashdot for over a while now and this has got to be the blatantly sloppiest headline I have ever seen. If there has ever been a headline that has made the case for the need for a professional editor this has got to be it.
Everyone has a 100% of death, coffee drinker or not. For (insert diety's sake) would slashdot please hire at least one professional editor? How about an intern? I understand unemployment among college students is too high right now and interns are cheap!
I'm sure many of a college student would jump at a change to edit for a site like slashdot for an intern's salary. Seriously, an intern could do a better job, I've got them at my work place and they a little motivation goes a long way....
I am in way shape or form a member of the 'Tea Party'. I do not represent their views, I can however represent a bit of history and that is all I did. I stand by my statements about taxes, they are accurate. Representation was only a minor issue in the beginning, taxation was always the biggest issue.
The rate of tax/was/ in the beginning was for most people the only issue. You simply could not be more wrong in your statement.
Benjamin Franklin was originally our representative within the British Government in England. He made such a fuss about the original tax that started the whole bloody thing to begin with that they repealed the tax as he said it could insight a revolution. If you care to disagree about your opinion from mine, feel free and I can respect that. If you want to argue facts I can respect that as well, however your going to have a very hard when it comes to citations.
Your right about the facts, however your wrong in your reasoning about the why. They aren't doing this because they think the sea is going to rise by several meters in the next few years.
It doesn't really matter if climate change is 'real' or 'exaggerated' for their purposes though. All that matters is the popular perception that is value by the masses. If the masses feel that 'climate change' is a reason to pick up pitchforks and rise against the establishment than that is something is of international concern.
Think of it this way, one the largest reasons the Americans rebelled against the British was a tax rate that was perceived as significantly too high. That tax rate by the way the way was a fair bit lower than today's tax rate. (The Boston Tea Party was a/Tax Protest/ not an independence rally). This by the way is the source of the name of our modern 'Tea Party' in politics.
My point is that popular perception is the driving force behind armed rebellions that can cause a change in who governs a nation. After all if that drove the successful revolution in our own country it's own reasonable to look out for the same in other countries.
First thought, you need a redundant provider to dropbox. Get Amazon or another provider to also sync your data. You sound like a road warrior and having been a road warrior your data is your life. Second thought, how are you going to survive a complete loss of your briefcase on the road? What have you done to encrypt your data? What have you done to have your devices home phone so that you can try to have police recover them?
You can replace tools like a phone or laptop, what is your gameplan to do so? Do you have credit capacity to replace everything on the spot? Insurance is a pain and can take weeks in a best case scenario to send a check. How are you going to document tat you secured your belongings in your room? If you can't prove use of a cable or the like and a police report no insurance company will replace your belongings?
Where is your password vault? It should not be in your briefcase?
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Do you want to students to create content or consume content? That's the bottom line, tablets are great for consuming content but suck in a not good way for creating anything more than a brief email. Personally I'd rather have students that can create things than consume things.
Your pretty dead on with your assessment actually. The fact that they are making /any/ kind of change at all is the progress that I am talking about. Think of it as being a bit like Microsoft with Linux. For years and years Microsoft literally refused to acknowledge that Linux refused to even exist. When they finally acknowledged Linux actually existed that made the news in the tech trade too.
The 30% represents the service. In this case the service is the Operating System. I think in effect we are saying the same thing. Since much of the hardware is commodity hardware, you could look at the cost differential as the cost of the Mac OS.
Good point, I should have added Toyota Prius's and Smart cars. Don't see a lot of electric cars around just yet...
Really, is anyone seriously surprised by this? People who value convenience and having someone provide a service for them instead of doing something themselves might hold those same values for other things like paying for hotels. In other words people who are willing to pay 30% more for hardware might be willing to pay 30% more for other things too!!!
Marketers have figured this out. Next big surprise, organic shopping markets are full of Lexus and Mercedes cars? I think this really advanced concept might have been taught in the second week of marketing 101, maybe?
I consider this to significant progress on the part of Apple and they deserve to get credit. Much as Microsoft has their head buried in the sand for years before they started making changes, we should applaud Apple for taking the first step. I welcome Apple to world of reality, a world in which operating system have security flaws, require patches and get viruses.
Now that Apple is in at least some small way acknowledging the real world, let's see if they can clean up their act the way Microsoft did years ago. Admitting you have a problem is always the first step, now we can always hope that they will start to embrace industry standards for dealing with security issues. Perhaps someday their users will no longer also have their heads in the clouds about security issues?
Kind of funny thinking about it, a decade ago I never would have imagined citing Microsoft as a company that can be cited as cleaning up their act for security. /responsible for securing an environment that is %50 mac, so I'm not trolling.....
What complete and utter tripe! The Chinese, Russians and any number of other countries crossed the proverbial Rubicon many, many years ago. If the submitter is so naive as to think that this was the first example of state sponsored computer hacking against another state than the submitter needs to go to Defcon or any other security convention. Get real, get a clue.
Why aren't their riots in the streets over this? For years I have heard about Europe being very pro-privacy. I have even worked with their privacy standards from a professional standpoint.
What went wrong? Seriously, how on earth did this ever happen? Your cars and your online activities are all being monitored by your government with your blessing! The communists never had it that good, all they got were phone calls and letters. You gave your own government a blessing to invade your privacy at a level the East German's could have only dreamed of. Something is very, very wrong in UK today. What the hell happened?
Are we talking about IT professionals or managers? Since outsourcing became a dirty word with a proven track record of job losses in exchange for questionable gains it was re-badged as the "cloud".
IT professionals by and large recognize in function that the cloud is just today's shiny version of a main frame and dumb terminals. IT Managers see the "Cloud" as a way to outsource services and reduce costs. We saw the same thing when everyone thought you could outsource all the IT jobs to India.
I'm at a place now where we have a brand new CIO. Our brand new CIO has heard about the BYOD trend. BYOD means that users buy their own computer and take purchase their own software. We will will even give the user an advance to pay for this. In and of itself this is not bad, but somehow the new CIO somehow thinks that this extends to our users also managing their own devices. In effect he thinks BYOD means that we can outsource computer management (back end stuff like patching, asset, inventory, licensing etc) to our user-base.
Outsourcing is outsourcing, whether it's to India, a contract house, the cloud or your own user base. Any time you hand over control to outsiders you are going to necessarily have problems, how does changing the label change the principals?
Where does India outsource /their/ IT jobs for managing things like this database?
You happen to be right, and without question his book led to the incredible benefit that you describe. It is a similar case with Fahrenheit 451, wherein a book that really wasn't about censorship made it reprehensible in the eye of the public to burn books for censorship purposes. Book burning for censorship purposes used to be much more popular than it is today.
Consider these unforeseen consequences that likely never could have happened other than by accident. Sometimes history has luck work in favor of the public after all.
Given the choice between the author of the book and the masses I'm inclined to take the side of the author. That being said, your point that he sucked about getting his point across is one that I have to freely concede.
Fahrenheit 451 wasn't about censorship. I know 100 people who know nothing else about the book except cliff notes or what they got off wikipedia are about to make that comment. So I'll save you the trouble. It was about TV and the mental wasteland that he thought it represented.
If you make X more desirable, you will likewise make X more valuable. It doesn't much matter what X is as long as X is a finite resource. Whether it's a boom town in North Dakota with rents in the thousands of dollars per month or San Francisco is completely moot. Demand increases value, value increases cost, cost decreases affordability.
Why, oh why, are people surprised by this? This was old news in the times or the ancient Romans. To put it simply, this economics 101, supply and demand in action. Next big surprise story, Chinese factories have long hours for little wages, yet still turn down 10 applications for every job?
I do understand, this has a slight change on the BoM cost. Unfortunately they will almost certainly find a way to fight used game sales. My point was one of bandwidth and downloading. I never argued that this would help people on 'owning' disks and being able to 'sell' them when they wanted.
Absolutely, Australia is even worse than Canada for bandwidth. My point is that if the market with the plurality of market share can't come close than fair chunks of the rest of the world can't either. Whilst certain countries (South Korea, Sweden etc) have great bandwidth, most countries just can't touch the bandwidth needed to get rid of the optical drive.
You missed the part about a plurality. I'll let you look up the meaning of that word by yourself. Once you've done that you can come back and tell me any other country comes anywhere as close (within an order of magnitude) of having the plurality of market-share of that the United States does. Once you've done that you will have a leg to stand your argument on.
Executives realized that in the real world their desire to axe the optical drive would be outweighed by most people in the US having crappy bandwidth. I never thought our terrible US bandwidth would turn out to have a silver lining.
Yes a US centric post, because while many other places have far better bandwidth, they just don't have the market presence plurality that the US does. For better or worse the US by and large defines the world market on such things...
Nation of North Korea - 0
Company in America - 1
North Korea, I think you need to shift your focus back on things like feeding your starving masse and leave the heavens for those that are exporting food aide, not importing it.
It is very disappointing to see that political correctness has been allowed to 'tie' with science. How is this any different than things like government quotas for hiring police officers and fire fighters that set different standards for passing the tests based on your race? Science should be blind to things like this, if the best site was in Australia, it should have gone there, if the best site was in South Africa it should have gone there.
I've been on slashdot for over a while now and this has got to be the blatantly sloppiest headline I have ever seen. If there has ever been a headline that has made the case for the need for a professional editor this has got to be it.
Everyone has a 100% of death, coffee drinker or not. For (insert diety's sake) would slashdot please hire at least one professional editor? How about an intern? I understand unemployment among college students is too high right now and interns are cheap!
I'm sure many of a college student would jump at a change to edit for a site like slashdot for an intern's salary. Seriously, an intern could do a better job, I've got them at my work place and they a little motivation goes a long way....
I am in way shape or form a member of the 'Tea Party'. I do not represent their views, I can however represent a bit of history and that is all I did. I stand by my statements about taxes, they are accurate. Representation was only a minor issue in the beginning, taxation was always the biggest issue.
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The rate of tax /was/ in the beginning was for most people the only issue. You simply could not be more wrong in your statement.
Benjamin Franklin was originally our representative within the British Government in England. He made such a fuss about the original tax that started the whole bloody thing to begin with that they repealed the tax as he said it could insight a revolution. If you care to disagree about your opinion from mine, feel free and I can respect that. If you want to argue facts I can respect that as well, however your going to have a very hard when it comes to citations.
Your right about the facts, however your wrong in your reasoning about the why. They aren't doing this because they think the sea is going to rise by several meters in the next few years.
It doesn't really matter if climate change is 'real' or 'exaggerated' for their purposes though. All that matters is the popular perception that is value by the masses. If the masses feel that 'climate change' is a reason to pick up pitchforks and rise against the establishment than that is something is of international concern.
Think of it this way, one the largest reasons the Americans rebelled against the British was a tax rate that was perceived as significantly too high. That tax rate by the way the way was a fair bit lower than today's tax rate. (The Boston Tea Party was a /Tax Protest/ not an independence rally). This by the way is the source of the name of our modern 'Tea Party' in politics.
My point is that popular perception is the driving force behind armed rebellions that can cause a change in who governs a nation. After all if that drove the successful revolution in our own country it's own reasonable to look out for the same in other countries.
First thought, you need a redundant provider to dropbox. Get Amazon or another provider to also sync your data. You sound like a road warrior and having been a road warrior your data is your life. Second thought, how are you going to survive a complete loss of your briefcase on the road? What have you done to encrypt your data? What have you done to have your devices home phone so that you can try to have police recover them?
You can replace tools like a phone or laptop, what is your gameplan to do so? Do you have credit capacity to replace everything on the spot? Insurance is a pain and can take weeks in a best case scenario to send a check. How are you going to document tat you secured your belongings in your room? If you can't prove use of a cable or the like and a police report no insurance company will replace your belongings?
Where is your password vault? It should not be in your briefcase?
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