This is as opposed to the BBC and Dr. Adrian Owen's study that actually *Tested* people's abilities after using a brain-training game for several weeks and discovered that whilst you might get better at that game, it doesn't grant some sort of mental boost. When I get in the car in the morning and drive to work, I feel sharper when I arrive because I've been concentrating on the drive and it's got my brain up to speed. Does that mean that driving yields cognitive benefits?
It's amusing really... I have a six month old niece.
Shatner really was out saving the galaxy when her Grandfather was in diapers.
Like or Loathe Shatner, the world probably wouldn't be the same today without him and his compatriots. RIP Deforest Kelly, James Doohan, Majel Barret and Gene Roddenberry.
It's amusing. I work at a British research establishment that used to do work for the Royal Navy. We had a little set of toy train tracks set up in the garden to help with our work on missile targeting systems.
I've been using a Logitech wireless trackball for a while and it's just fine for me, but I'd probably still recommend Bluetooth. We had an incident at work recently where a new WiFi network took up a huge proportion of the available 2.4ghz spectrum and killed the mouse we used for seminars stone dead. Bluetooth has more advanced signal processing and we've replaced the old mouse with one of those.
My personal emergency PC is a Sony Vaio C1 Picturebook. The VFK model with bluetooth. 650Mhz, 128mb of RAM (upgradable to 192mb) and a standard, easily replaceable 2.5" ide hard disk.
Not the speediest machine in the world but I gave it a bit of a kick by installing Xubuntu. The only downside I'd say is the size of the screen. At 1024x480 I sometimes have trouble fitting entire dialog boxes onto the sceen. However I think there's a better version... Possibly the C1M, that had an 800Mhz processor, 256Mb of RAM and a 1280x800 resolution screen.
The size of a hardback book, I'd heartily recommend it.
There's a line in the original article about whether the company who profits from the media should pay. However in the context of the BBC, they don't profit. They already have the money for the content before we even think about accessing it. The programs that are being served up using iPlayer have already been made and paid for by the consumer. The consumer has paid for the content and for the net connection to get it to them. The BBC has provided material and is simply offering it to the people who have paid for it as a bonus.
The ISP's are in a poor condition to complain. They make money - quite a bit of it - by offering people the capability to access data on the web. Now people are simply doing that more than they were before, and more of them are doing it. The ISP's simply don't enjoy seeing their business model - built on the assumption that people wouldn't make full use of the net connections they are paying for - take a beating.
ISP's are the ones profiting by the increased appeal of the internet. They make the profits in this case so they should handle the cost (which they will inevitably pass on to us in the end).
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This is as opposed to the BBC and Dr. Adrian Owen's study that actually *Tested* people's abilities after using a brain-training game for several weeks and discovered that whilst you might get better at that game, it doesn't grant some sort of mental boost. When I get in the car in the morning and drive to work, I feel sharper when I arrive because I've been concentrating on the drive and it's got my brain up to speed. Does that mean that driving yields cognitive benefits?
It's amusing really... I have a six month old niece. Shatner really was out saving the galaxy when her Grandfather was in diapers. Like or Loathe Shatner, the world probably wouldn't be the same today without him and his compatriots. RIP Deforest Kelly, James Doohan, Majel Barret and Gene Roddenberry.
Instructables has a very nice key holder/thing made from a bicycle multi-tool. It doesn't have the nice Leatherman pliers but personally I prefer it. http://www.instructables.com/id/Friendly-Folding-Keychain/
It's amusing. I work at a British research establishment that used to do work for the Royal Navy. We had a little set of toy train tracks set up in the garden to help with our work on missile targeting systems.
I've been using a Logitech wireless trackball for a while and it's just fine for me, but I'd probably still recommend Bluetooth. We had an incident at work recently where a new WiFi network took up a huge proportion of the available 2.4ghz spectrum and killed the mouse we used for seminars stone dead. Bluetooth has more advanced signal processing and we've replaced the old mouse with one of those.
My personal emergency PC is a Sony Vaio C1 Picturebook. The VFK model with bluetooth. 650Mhz, 128mb of RAM (upgradable to 192mb) and a standard, easily replaceable 2.5" ide hard disk. Not the speediest machine in the world but I gave it a bit of a kick by installing Xubuntu. The only downside I'd say is the size of the screen. At 1024x480 I sometimes have trouble fitting entire dialog boxes onto the sceen. However I think there's a better version... Possibly the C1M, that had an 800Mhz processor, 256Mb of RAM and a 1280x800 resolution screen. The size of a hardback book, I'd heartily recommend it.
There's a line in the original article about whether the company who profits from the media should pay. However in the context of the BBC, they don't profit. They already have the money for the content before we even think about accessing it. The programs that are being served up using iPlayer have already been made and paid for by the consumer. The consumer has paid for the content and for the net connection to get it to them. The BBC has provided material and is simply offering it to the people who have paid for it as a bonus. The ISP's are in a poor condition to complain. They make money - quite a bit of it - by offering people the capability to access data on the web. Now people are simply doing that more than they were before, and more of them are doing it. The ISP's simply don't enjoy seeing their business model - built on the assumption that people wouldn't make full use of the net connections they are paying for - take a beating. ISP's are the ones profiting by the increased appeal of the internet. They make the profits in this case so they should handle the cost (which they will inevitably pass on to us in the end).