.... or in time for tax refunds... when some people buy a present to themselves, whatever they didn't get for Christmas.
Apple did say late summer that they weren't releasing any more new products for the year, so they knew the schedule of this product well ahead of time. So I figured that they are just releasing it when it's ready, instead of pushing a product out the door before it's truly ready just to get some extra sales. If the product is indeed a hit and it picks up speed as opposed to fizzling out after all the fanboys go OMG, then you have the gadget to beat for Christmas '10.
I'm also afraid about the battery life, which is the reason why I'll wait for user reviews before I consider it. I find it interesting that, as far as I know, Apple has not officially released any battery life numbers.
I'm not a fan of those guys (I don't think they are funny) and I still have my XM subscription. But I gotta defend them here. As far as I know, they never said that they would rape Rice or (Laura Bush or the Queen of England, both of them also mentioned.) A homeless person went on the show and said that he would "love to fuck that bitch."
That's it. You can start making deductions and say that Opie and Anthony wanted to rape Rice. But that's not what was said.
Hijack: Oh boy! Another app for reading and posting to forums!
Another one? Please tell me where I can find one that allows me to find my most favorite forums and read them and post to them. I'm not talking newsgroups, but website forums of which there are thousands out there.
I was at Epcot when the shuttle launched. I had just gotten out of Mission Space and noticed that everyone was looking to the sky. Then I remembered that the shuttle was about to launch.
And sure enough, about 30 seconds later, it came into view. You could see the shuttle, the fire from the rockets and the thick column of smoke, right over the Mission Space building. The entire theme park was at a stand still looking at the spectacle. Some people cried, most clapped. It was a great moment.
A lot of it was incompetence by the instructors in China. It took us forever to get them to activate the "randomize" option in the tests. Others just didn't want to have to write more questions so that each student would get a test largely different from the people next to him or her.
I also suggested software that locks down the computer and just gives you a very stripped down browser (SecureExam, Lock Down Browser, etc, etc) and this was always dismissed as "too expensive."
I got out of there. Dealing with China and all of their problems and issues became a huge headache when you have to make 2 different cultures happy, the American employer and the demanding, and largely incompetent and non-caring, Chinese client.
My previous employer taught American courses in China through Chinese universities. Cheating was a huge problem.
Tests were done online. Students used all sorts of IM software to message each other. They used cell phones to text friends outside of the room with the books. IMs were blocked. Cell phones confiscated on the way into the rooms. They still found ways to cheat.
Some instructors stopped testing online and moved to paper tests. Students would pay the university's copy center to get copies of the exam.
For Internet tests, some instructors now only ask questions that do not require the use of the keyboard. The keyboards are placed on top of the monitors before the tests begin so that students cannot send any messages to anyone.
Plagarism? Standard everyday occurance.
Then students get caught and told that they are going to fail the course. Then they cry and ask for another chance because they don't want to go back home and not have a future. When given that chance, they are often caught again in the future.
I decided to pay Epcot a visit last night to kill some time and I went into Ellen's Universe of Energy where they talk about the Big Bang, the creation of the Universe, dinosaurs, petroleum, etc.
On the way out, a lady behind me was talking to her husband and said "what about Intelligent Design? They didn't cover that! You should email them!" and the husband replied "I think I will!"
My previous employer was a University that was about to go "mobile" by requiring every student to have a laptop.
After a few tests and faculty round-tables, it was decided that the models that will be provided at steep discounts to students will be tablets just because of the "picket fence" effect that is mentioned in the article.
Furthermore, tablets encourage the use of a stylus which means that (many?) students will still be taking notes by writing and analysing instead of typing.
My only complaint about Apple's DRM is that I can't burn a TV show to DVD to watch it in my living room. I buy occasional shows that I may have missed or heard good things about, but I dislike sitting at my computer to watch them.
Sure, you can hook up your computer to the TV through some video out port, which I've doen in the past, but it's very inconvenient and Joe Sixpack would never do.
Maybe this has changed, but when I tried out Flip4Mac just a couple of weeks ago, it would only play files that are already stored in some server. In other words, it would not play live streaming media. This made it unusable for my main use, which was CNN's Pipeline service. And before you say that Pipeline is Mac-compatible, let me say that I know it is, but I haven't been able to get Media Player to work on my Powerbook for a few months now. I was waiting for an update, but now I see that it is not coming.
It works really well. You'll have to keep an eye on it the first few times you run it to see where the problem areas and "traps" are at. This includes properly laying some of yours cables so that they are along the edge of the wall, etc.
But once you get things set, it's really a great gadget. I've had mine for a couple of years and I love it. I turn it on on my way to work, and I come back to a vacuumed house (even under the bed, an area I couldn't reach if I was using a regular vacuum.)
Thank you! I'm in my early 30s and I miss the good old fun games that I grew up with. I'm really growing tired of first person shooters and RPGs. Surely there has to be something else out there for people like me, but I sure can't find it.
BB's tech support went through a lot of changes. It went from decent, to poor to pretty good. Your school is assigned a support manager. You build a relationship with that person over time. This person is not simply a problem taker, but it is actually a knowledgeable technical troubleshooter who will do his or her best to get your issue fixed asap. Our rep is a freaking unix wiz and when he is in our system troubleshooting some people and he finds something totally unrelated that could be enhanced, he asks for permission and goes for it.
Not everything is perfect of course, we have had a trouble ticket open for over a year and they have yet to figure out the cause of the bug (although they are pretty close to fixing it now). They also get swamped at the beginning of every semester so responses that normally take less than 24 hours can take up to 3 days.
But overall we are pretty happy with their current support structure.
As for enhancement requests, they seem to be fairly receptive. I've even received emails from some of their developers asking for more information because they liked the idea.
That's not a problem with the tool, but with poor instructional design. Just because a person knows how to teach face to face, it does not mean that they can create a good online course.
Thank you! That's what I had been thinking the whole time while reading this thread. There has to be more to this announcement than a larger hard drive. Jobs usually uses "one more thing" at the end of his keynotes to present something that no one expected. So it may not be a video iPod, but hopefully we will be surprised with something cool.
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This guy did it: http://www.zug.com/live/87118/The-Viagra-TSA-Experiment.html
.... or in time for tax refunds... when some people buy a present to themselves, whatever they didn't get for Christmas.
Apple did say late summer that they weren't releasing any more new products for the year, so they knew the schedule of this product well ahead of time. So I figured that they are just releasing it when it's ready, instead of pushing a product out the door before it's truly ready just to get some extra sales. If the product is indeed a hit and it picks up speed as opposed to fizzling out after all the fanboys go OMG, then you have the gadget to beat for Christmas '10.
Wouldn't a scrollwheel be better than a joystick for the purpose of this reader?
I had been considering purchasing one, now I wonder if I should hurry up and buy v1 before the new one comes out.
Yeah, I saw a group of 30 or so folks near downtown Orlando, across the street from the local Scientology location this past Sunday around 2 pm.
The lowest plan has 5000 nights and weekends. The other 2 plans have unlimited nights and weekends.
I'm also afraid about the battery life, which is the reason why I'll wait for user reviews before I consider it. I find it interesting that, as far as I know, Apple has not officially released any battery life numbers.
I'm not a fan of those guys (I don't think they are funny) and I still have my XM subscription. But I gotta defend them here. As far as I know, they never said that they would rape Rice or (Laura Bush or the Queen of England, both of them also mentioned.) A homeless person went on the show and said that he would "love to fuck that bitch." That's it. You can start making deductions and say that Opie and Anthony wanted to rape Rice. But that's not what was said.
Of course their FAQs are not posted in that format.
Another one? Please tell me where I can find one that allows me to find my most favorite forums and read them and post to them. I'm not talking newsgroups, but website forums of which there are thousands out there.
I'm serious. I'd love such an app.
I was at Epcot when the shuttle launched. I had just gotten out of Mission Space and noticed that everyone was looking to the sky. Then I remembered that the shuttle was about to launch.
And sure enough, about 30 seconds later, it came into view. You could see the shuttle, the fire from the rockets and the thick column of smoke, right over the Mission Space building. The entire theme park was at a stand still looking at the spectacle. Some people cried, most clapped. It was a great moment.
A lot of it was incompetence by the instructors in China. It took us forever to get them to activate the "randomize" option in the tests. Others just didn't want to have to write more questions so that each student would get a test largely different from the people next to him or her.
I also suggested software that locks down the computer and just gives you a very stripped down browser (SecureExam, Lock Down Browser, etc, etc) and this was always dismissed as "too expensive."
I got out of there. Dealing with China and all of their problems and issues became a huge headache when you have to make 2 different cultures happy, the American employer and the demanding, and largely incompetent and non-caring, Chinese client.
My previous employer taught American courses in China through Chinese universities. Cheating was a huge problem.
Tests were done online. Students used all sorts of IM software to message each other. They used cell phones to text friends outside of the room with the books. IMs were blocked. Cell phones confiscated on the way into the rooms. They still found ways to cheat.
Some instructors stopped testing online and moved to paper tests. Students would pay the university's copy center to get copies of the exam.
For Internet tests, some instructors now only ask questions that do not require the use of the keyboard. The keyboards are placed on top of the monitors before the tests begin so that students cannot send any messages to anyone.
Plagarism? Standard everyday occurance.
Then students get caught and told that they are going to fail the course. Then they cry and ask for another chance because they don't want to go back home and not have a future. When given that chance, they are often caught again in the future.
I decided to pay Epcot a visit last night to kill some time and I went into Ellen's Universe of Energy where they talk about the Big Bang, the creation of the Universe, dinosaurs, petroleum, etc.
On the way out, a lady behind me was talking to her husband and said "what about Intelligent Design? They didn't cover that! You should email them!" and the husband replied "I think I will!"
My previous employer was a University that was about to go "mobile" by requiring every student to have a laptop.
After a few tests and faculty round-tables, it was decided that the models that will be provided at steep discounts to students will be tablets just because of the "picket fence" effect that is mentioned in the article.
Furthermore, tablets encourage the use of a stylus which means that (many?) students will still be taking notes by writing and analysing instead of typing.
My only complaint about Apple's DRM is that I can't burn a TV show to DVD to watch it in my living room. I buy occasional shows that I may have missed or heard good things about, but I dislike sitting at my computer to watch them.
Sure, you can hook up your computer to the TV through some video out port, which I've doen in the past, but it's very inconvenient and Joe Sixpack would never do.
Maybe this has changed, but when I tried out Flip4Mac just a couple of weeks ago, it would only play files that are already stored in some server. In other words, it would not play live streaming media. This made it unusable for my main use, which was CNN's Pipeline service. And before you say that Pipeline is Mac-compatible, let me say that I know it is, but I haven't been able to get Media Player to work on my Powerbook for a few months now. I was waiting for an update, but now I see that it is not coming.
Excuse my ignorance when it comes to law, but, could the people in Kansas now sue the state's school board using this case as precedence?
Pixelated man nipples: The Joe Schmo Show, Season 1. (A hilarious show by the way)
It works really well. You'll have to keep an eye on it the first few times you run it to see where the problem areas and "traps" are at. This includes properly laying some of yours cables so that they are along the edge of the wall, etc.
But once you get things set, it's really a great gadget. I've had mine for a couple of years and I love it. I turn it on on my way to work, and I come back to a vacuumed house (even under the bed, an area I couldn't reach if I was using a regular vacuum.)
Plus it terrifies my cats.
Now my Roomba will be able to find Sarah O'Connor
Thank you! I'm in my early 30s and I miss the good old fun games that I grew up with. I'm really growing tired of first person shooters and RPGs. Surely there has to be something else out there for people like me, but I sure can't find it.
BB's tech support went through a lot of changes. It went from decent, to poor to pretty good. Your school is assigned a support manager. You build a relationship with that person over time. This person is not simply a problem taker, but it is actually a knowledgeable technical troubleshooter who will do his or her best to get your issue fixed asap. Our rep is a freaking unix wiz and when he is in our system troubleshooting some people and he finds something totally unrelated that could be enhanced, he asks for permission and goes for it.
Not everything is perfect of course, we have had a trouble ticket open for over a year and they have yet to figure out the cause of the bug (although they are pretty close to fixing it now). They also get swamped at the beginning of every semester so responses that normally take less than 24 hours can take up to 3 days.
But overall we are pretty happy with their current support structure.
As for enhancement requests, they seem to be fairly receptive. I've even received emails from some of their developers asking for more information because they liked the idea.
That's not a problem with the tool, but with poor instructional design. Just because a person knows how to teach face to face, it does not mean that they can create a good online course.
Thank you! That's what I had been thinking the whole time while reading this thread. There has to be more to this announcement than a larger hard drive. Jobs usually uses "one more thing" at the end of his keynotes to present something that no one expected. So it may not be a video iPod, but hopefully we will be surprised with something cool.
Most of the computers we came across in China were indeed using Baidu as their start up page.
Just saying...