Sprint is writing a book: how to kill your business. You have an underutilized network, and are shedding customers so what do you do -- you don't allow yourself to have a huge competitive advantage.
Here's an idea: allow tethering. Limit it to 50 megs a day. Charge a $1 more is you want to get unlimited tethering that day. Simple. Your casual user isn't going to get a card. Your business user isn't going to tether all the time when corp headquarters can get a laptop wwan built in. Plus aren't you supposed to be pushing XOHM wimax sometime soon?
What happens when the kids performance becomes an important contribution to family income? Then the kid actually can't score well on a subject and ?
What happens when a kid hits the news for being beaten by a parent for not scoring well?
What happens when kids cheat to score higher? What happens when its easier to mug the kid who did well then to be the kid that did well?
Its a piss poor solution to complex problem.
1) Use math. Store only X number of connections. Distribute enough copies that statistically speaking all parts (with parity data) are always available. Distribute it on Adeona installs, where the storage requirements would be # of copies * size of entries * redunancy. If you only keep say the last 30 entries, that shouldn't be much of a table. The data should just be encrypted to a pgp key. users can either keep a copy of the key or pay to have adeona create a key pair and store it for them.
2) Use the cloud, or a personal server. Dump into an amazon s3 account or a user specified server. The user pays for any s3 storage (pennies), if it goes to s3, nothing for their own.
So in a nutshell, its like raid-1 (mirroring) for your box? Interesting. Anyone know if an operation crashes the system, will it bsod both systems? or is it only physical/network faults that are tolerated?
So instead of all going to one place (ala red light district / hamsterdam) its going to go all over and create a hassle for regular users. That sounds like a brilliant solution!
I don't have a problem with TFA other than its sensationalist title. Really? Do desktop users want to run AD & LDAP on their machines? I didn't know grandma would be compiling from source with different compiler flags. I know grandpa wants nothing less than to be able to set his mixer settings for digital line in. Most users don't need these features, nor will they encounter the issues. It's not a bad "To Fix" list and I agree with most of the list -- but its a far cry from its title.
Moral of the story: to get your post on slashdot, make sure your title fans the fanboy flamewars.
I agree. Thats a real credibility buster for second mention. Ubuntu a disappointment because it hasn't unseated Windows in a few years -- C'mon!
Anyone using Ubuntu would not call it a dissappointment. Its a great product. The main reason more people don't use it is because (1) it hasn't reached critical mass (yes I know thats a bit "chicken and egg") (2) Geeks who support relatives/companies/schools with bootlegs. If people stop reinstalling windows for people who can't find the cds, the lost product stickers, or don't have licenses to productivity and other software, I think many people would be using ubuntu and other linux distros.
I used to use Joomla 1.5 for my company site. Then tried doing it over in Drupal and Wordpress. If you have a single maintainer, Wordpress wins hands down on both the easy and extensible ends. If you know any php you can do a lot with Wordpress and the functions are well documented. Its was much easier to customize templates in WP than an Joomla or Drupal. If you just want a site or blog out the box, and cant code to save your life, templates and plugins are easy to use.
You could choose not to accept government funded healthcare. How is that gov't control? Many doctors don't take any insurance. Insurance companies reject procedures and medicine all the time, but based on budgets not on science and stats.
Uh? I've been using boxee for about 6 months. Not vaporware. Didn't even get a private invite. Signed up at the site, a week later got the invite. Oh wait -- are you a windows user? That must be the issue. Linux and mac have had boxee for a long time.
P-e-d-a-g-o-g-y look it up. Its not as simple as saying X amount of people use it. I've seen plenty of people use them. How does one know they are effective without actual pedagogy & studies? How do you know that the teachers who use whiteboard effectively wouldn't be just as effective without them? How do you know if those same teachers aren't more effective without them? Its not that simple. Teaching is a science. Show me the pedagogy. Show me the studies not sponsored by interactive whiteboard companies.
I'm not saying don't use media, I'm saying don't spend $ on proprietary whiteboards that are unproven in pedagogy. Even in the example you pointed out, the majority the benefit is from the careful use of media. Your lesson example had nothing to do with an interactive whiteboard and would have completely worked with a projector as I had suggested. Creating and using Media is well understood, and widely understood to be beneficial in the pedagogy.
As for the formats, don't be an idiot. Because someone releases a reader for their files doesn't make it an open and interoperable format. If you can't modify the file to use it for your lesson then you can't teach. Just ask the folks in the UK trying to put forward a standard whiteboard format, so that publishers, schools, teachers can share user created content that are device independent.
1) It doesn't solve the problem of peak uranium. Just like oil, the scale of the a uranium powered age is 1-2 lifetimes. Not good enough to be a "solution".
2) Has anyone demonstrated and had repeated a fusion reactor that is net energy positive?
3) 99% reduction of waste still leaves the 1% of waste that lasts 10k to 1m years. You minimize the problem, but still don't reduce it to a human scale.
4) Transport. How do you get the waste from 10-15 LWR to one of these? Oh thats right you have to transport it by train and truck. Just dandy! That's not an accident waiting to happen at all!
5) How is this better than Thorium cycle based reactors? Liquid Thorium reactors apparently don't require mixing fission and fusion (KISS), produce waste that last 300 years not 1m, burn thorium for which we have supplies for ages and even mine from other planets, and can be started and stopped safely reacting to peak demand, and were safely demonstrated in the 60s.
Interactive whiteboards are crap. There is little teaching theory behind there effective use. They can't be used as regular whiteboards when computers or networks are down or bulbs burn out, and they lock you into proprietary formats that will burn you if you ever want or need to switch.
If I had to do the same, and someday I may, I'd load up a customized linux distro on netbooks and have them available on carts. Save your money for the good classroom projectors, splurge on the network -- buy good routers, get good coverage, get good bandwidth -- and reserve a repair and replacement budget. Few people remember to budget for good printers, digital cameras, a few webcams, digital mics, a few digital camcorders. The idea would be to give kids access and permission to create media. Good projectors are worth it because the teachers don't have to turn off the lights to use them.
Above all else: Budget for things to break and get stolen! Don't scare teachers and kids into not using the equipment!
MKV is an excellent container format. It supports multiple subtitles, chapters, menus, multiple audio/video streams. Its just now gaining popularity, so people are right to want to convert it to play portably. The whole idea is that if divx has accepted it for divx 7 then, it will be compatible with the next generation.
I'd understand if MP4, M4V, MPG, or AVI were actually as GOOD and as OPEN as MKV, and MKV were closed or limited in licensing in any way, but none of this is the case. If people never pushed for new standards we'd all still be using animated gifs.
Face it: MKV is a great container format for doing everything a DVD can in less space, in a single file.
You are absolutely right. NYC should join Long Island and Westchester and become its own state. That way the NYC "hole" won't have to continue subsidizing all of upstate NYC.
The OP asked how to introduce to programming, not what language to use.
Making a basic robot do neat things is a great reason to learn programming. The Lego kits can work with a wide variety of languages from C to Logo.
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Here's an idea: allow tethering. Limit it to 50 megs a day. Charge a $1 more is you want to get unlimited tethering that day. Simple. Your casual user isn't going to get a card. Your business user isn't going to tether all the time when corp headquarters can get a laptop wwan built in. Plus aren't you supposed to be pushing XOHM wimax sometime soon?
It is. Man I need to borrow their marketing speak.
What happens when the kids performance becomes an important contribution to family income? Then the kid actually can't score well on a subject and ? What happens when a kid hits the news for being beaten by a parent for not scoring well? What happens when kids cheat to score higher? What happens when its easier to mug the kid who did well then to be the kid that did well? Its a piss poor solution to complex problem.
They probably just ran out of baguettes & wine.
2) Use the cloud, or a personal server. Dump into an amazon s3 account or a user specified server. The user pays for any s3 storage (pennies), if it goes to s3, nothing for their own.
So in a nutshell, its like raid-1 (mirroring) for your box? Interesting. Anyone know if an operation crashes the system, will it bsod both systems? or is it only physical/network faults that are tolerated?
it's unaffiliated with a company that makes money through advertising
You do know Google is the biggest sponsor of the Mozilla foundation?
So instead of all going to one place (ala red light district / hamsterdam) its going to go all over and create a hassle for regular users. That sounds like a brilliant solution!
Moral of the story: to get your post on slashdot, make sure your title fans the fanboy flamewars.
I agree. Thats a real credibility buster for second mention. Ubuntu a disappointment because it hasn't unseated Windows in a few years -- C'mon! Anyone using Ubuntu would not call it a dissappointment. Its a great product. The main reason more people don't use it is because (1) it hasn't reached critical mass (yes I know thats a bit "chicken and egg") (2) Geeks who support relatives/companies/schools with bootlegs. If people stop reinstalling windows for people who can't find the cds, the lost product stickers, or don't have licenses to productivity and other software, I think many people would be using ubuntu and other linux distros.
Don't men pee sitting down in Germany? Not sure if a society where fellow men don't pee standing up can be considered cool.
Since when does quantum physics make something impossible? Probably never.
Seriously! Thats all he needs! Why the big hubub? Mostly he'll need ram!
I used to use Joomla 1.5 for my company site. Then tried doing it over in Drupal and Wordpress. If you have a single maintainer, Wordpress wins hands down on both the easy and extensible ends. If you know any php you can do a lot with Wordpress and the functions are well documented. Its was much easier to customize templates in WP than an Joomla or Drupal. If you just want a site or blog out the box, and cant code to save your life, templates and plugins are easy to use.
You could choose not to accept government funded healthcare. How is that gov't control? Many doctors don't take any insurance. Insurance companies reject procedures and medicine all the time, but based on budgets not on science and stats.
Or the Secret Service planted fake plans to mislead an adversary. We'll probably never know.
They may get linux to run on it, but then it won't be able to communicate with any peripherals. WTF is the point???
I'm pretty sure that linux can run linux.
Uh? I've been using boxee for about 6 months. Not vaporware. Didn't even get a private invite. Signed up at the site, a week later got the invite. Oh wait -- are you a windows user? That must be the issue. Linux and mac have had boxee for a long time.
P-e-d-a-g-o-g-y look it up. Its not as simple as saying X amount of people use it. I've seen plenty of people use them. How does one know they are effective without actual pedagogy & studies? How do you know that the teachers who use whiteboard effectively wouldn't be just as effective without them? How do you know if those same teachers aren't more effective without them? Its not that simple. Teaching is a science. Show me the pedagogy. Show me the studies not sponsored by interactive whiteboard companies.
I'm not saying don't use media, I'm saying don't spend $ on proprietary whiteboards that are unproven in pedagogy. Even in the example you pointed out, the majority the benefit is from the careful use of media. Your lesson example had nothing to do with an interactive whiteboard and would have completely worked with a projector as I had suggested. Creating and using Media is well understood, and widely understood to be beneficial in the pedagogy.
As for the formats, don't be an idiot. Because someone releases a reader for their files doesn't make it an open and interoperable format. If you can't modify the file to use it for your lesson then you can't teach. Just ask the folks in the UK trying to put forward a standard whiteboard format, so that publishers, schools, teachers can share user created content that are device independent.
2) Has anyone demonstrated and had repeated a fusion reactor that is net energy positive?
3) 99% reduction of waste still leaves the 1% of waste that lasts 10k to 1m years. You minimize the problem, but still don't reduce it to a human scale.
4) Transport. How do you get the waste from 10-15 LWR to one of these? Oh thats right you have to transport it by train and truck. Just dandy! That's not an accident waiting to happen at all!
5) How is this better than Thorium cycle based reactors? Liquid Thorium reactors apparently don't require mixing fission and fusion (KISS), produce waste that last 300 years not 1m, burn thorium for which we have supplies for ages and even mine from other planets, and can be started and stopped safely reacting to peak demand, and were safely demonstrated in the 60s.
I'll take a flyer, but I'm not going to tho
Interactive whiteboards are crap. There is little teaching theory behind there effective use. They can't be used as regular whiteboards when computers or networks are down or bulbs burn out, and they lock you into proprietary formats that will burn you if you ever want or need to switch.
If I had to do the same, and someday I may, I'd load up a customized linux distro on netbooks and have them available on carts. Save your money for the good classroom projectors, splurge on the network -- buy good routers, get good coverage, get good bandwidth -- and reserve a repair and replacement budget. Few people remember to budget for good printers, digital cameras, a few webcams, digital mics, a few digital camcorders. The idea would be to give kids access and permission to create media. Good projectors are worth it because the teachers don't have to turn off the lights to use them.
Above all else: Budget for things to break and get stolen! Don't scare teachers and kids into not using the equipment!
MKV is an excellent container format. It supports multiple subtitles, chapters, menus, multiple audio/video streams. Its just now gaining popularity, so people are right to want to convert it to play portably. The whole idea is that if divx has accepted it for divx 7 then, it will be compatible with the next generation.
I'd understand if MP4, M4V, MPG, or AVI were actually as GOOD and as OPEN as MKV, and MKV were closed or limited in licensing in any way, but none of this is the case. If people never pushed for new standards we'd all still be using animated gifs.
Face it: MKV is a great container format for doing everything a DVD can in less space, in a single file.
You are absolutely right. NYC should join Long Island and Westchester and become its own state. That way the NYC "hole" won't have to continue subsidizing all of upstate NYC.
The OP asked how to introduce to programming, not what language to use. Making a basic robot do neat things is a great reason to learn programming. The Lego kits can work with a wide variety of languages from C to Logo.
Out of Print != Unavailable. Logic fail.