the only thing that is stopping via from being HUGE is their gpu. if they had a faster, more reliable solution we'd all be using via netbooks right now.
The only way a teacher can do it is if you sign a classroom agreement at the beginning of the year. I had one teacher slip that clause into the classroom agreement to confiscate and burn our notes at the end of the year, mainly because the final project (which lasted 2 months) used everything from our notebooks. If you had someone else's notebook, you could easily sail through the class with an A, but if you didn't you could just as easily fail.
fyi we had 2 5" binders completely full of papers and notes for a 5 day, 1 hr class. The final project called for its own 4" binder. He had about 500 students doing this class. Musta been a huge ass fire.
Go move to Europe then. Seriously, do you expect that to ever happen in the US? And if you're a home user and wanting it that badly, just vLite it up and uninstall it all.
They said they'd pick and choose what standards to follow, and as of last month, I believe a Developer commented that IE8 would probably never get a higher ranking on the Acid3 test.
If you've used IE8 in W7, you'd see plain as day how BUGGY IE8 is. Its pretty bad. Try highlighting anything in gmail lately? Hell, try replying to someone in gmail without the reply textbox randomly resizing from 1800 to 200?
I installed the latest nightly of firefox after a week of trying to put up with it. Having to run alot of sites in compatibility mode isn't my idea of a useable browser.
Vista is related to W7 in the same way that 2k is related to XP. Similar overall look. Alot of the same features. Taskbar improvement. Updated Control Panel components. Better looking on newer monitors. Incorporates a bunch of advanced features that were prototyped in older OSes. Fixes overall security. Majority of programs are still fairly compatible. Moar tacos.
I'd expect: 1. You can still goto the store and pay for Office for full price. 2. You'll be able to buy a college version, which will be discounted heavily and only last for 4 years. 3. You'll be able to pay per usage or page.
So, in the end, they're just giving you more options to get a legit version of Office instead. And, in all honesty, I use word 10 times, excel 5 times, and powerpoint 2 times a year at school. So maybe a pay-per-usage fee would be ok for me. 1$ per use = 17$ a year, versus 300$? Hell, Office won't last 18 years....
The only downside i see to this is that they can't pull it off with Outlook....everyone will just switch to thunderbird. Or hell, if OpenOffice made a superbowl commercial, Microsoft would die right then and there.
Thank god you said this...I scrolled all the way down and I think you're the first person that pointed it out.
One thing people have to understand is that VISTA IS NOW DEAD TO MICROSOFT, so it's useless to try and say "Oh well W7 is just prettier". If you think that, go ahead and keep vista while the rest of the world upgrades.
I've been using 7 since the first day 6801 was leaked. I've got a single core AMD Athlon at 2.2 with 1GB of ram and a 8600GTS. (My gaming rating is a 4.4). Windows 7 definitely runs MUCH better than vista on a machine like mine (and no matter how cheap ram is, the common user won't be adding on more). And no, I didn't use vista for 5 minutes....I have vista and XP installed and I choose between the two of them and try to use them equally. And now W7 is on that disk too.
W7 fixes ALOT. The slashdot summarizer uses an unbiased title to lure people into the biased summary and its not helping because the sheeple will just agree without trying it.
Realize that Vista is dead to them, and get over it. Compare XP to 7, and you'll see the maturity of the new features and the overall stability makes it a worthy upgrade to buy. Microsoft wants their Vista users to upgrade too, which is why they'll probably release a message via windows update asking if they want to upgrade to windows 7 for 50$.
I would have, but I was more scared that he was some Cold War relic who was about to pull a knife on me. For his age, he's still built well too...like hits the gym everyday.
I had a weightlifting class and I would see him there too.
Ex-programming teacher who liked technology but refuses to use Macs (aka he's a windows-lover), so yea....he probably never even knew linux existed. He pretty much taught straight from the book and powerpoints, and has beeing going through the motions for the past 4 years or so since this class was given to him.
He's on his way out though, and so am I, so I could give two shits. I'll show the elder some respect, even if he's wrong, cause it would suck to get fired over it at this point if I were in his position.
And I only think he knew what photoshop was because a teacher pulled it up on a few of the computers at school to give him a demonstration. We have it on 5 of the lab computers.
Indeed. Maybe get a superbowl commercial talking about how linux/open source/open office/etc break you free from microsoft yet are still backwards compatible with them.
And then someone make Ubuntu idiot-proof edition, where, over time, Ubuntu slowly weans you day-by-day into how to do common linux operations. Over like 90 days, changing from an XP Desktop clone into a normal install of ubuntu.
Its a local community college near pittsburgh, and honestly this teacher is on his way out, and this is my last semester, so I could care less at this point. Gimme my diploma and let me go to Pitt lol.
And btw, THANK YOU for being the only person who didn't assume that I was talking about high school. Who in the hell has Networking in high school anyways? haha
The school is a good school, and at 3000$ a year there are MANY people taking their online courses.
"The students are minors, a.k.a they have no rights at all." -I'm 22
"You surely wouldn't argue against a parent's right to not confiscate their children's possessions." -Well that's a failboat of an argument there if I EVER saw one.
"Teaching is hard enough, after all kids just want to have fun, and for most, fun isn't learning." -I can't recall a computer class that was not fun. Even java lol.
"It is important for the power dynamic in a classroom that the teacher is largely unquestioned. We have no right to question a teacher's actions to maintain order in her own classroom." -So you're the fucktard that agreed with the 90yr old history teacher when he said 'the earth is flat'! Hi Steve!
I had a Networking teacher confiscate my laptop, which was running ubuntu, cause he thought I was running some hacked version of XP. A friggin computer teacher. Had to explain to the dean of students what linux was, provided several wiki pages, and pleaded my case before two department heads. Two weeks later, I get my laptop back and the teacher still thinks I'm doing illegal stuff on there. Classic quote from my interrogation.... "What is this Gimp? Is it some hacked Photoshop?"
So yes, they do exist. And they're growing more stupid by the moment.
Gundam 00's solution (orbital ring of solar collectors that powers 3 orbital elevators) seems slightly more feasible, but eh....that's probably just my anime-infested mind telling me that.
I mean, solar energy will always be there. And creating a planet-sized ring of solar collectors could probably power an elevator if you use the 2 cable idea (one for guidance, another for energy)...
VLC is fine if you don't care about preserving the quality of the format, or if you're too braindead to install proper codecs. Or if you want your integrated subtitles to look like shit, unless you run a nightly build with a few tweaks.
Honestly, I've found that Zoom Player's codec downloader and auto-configured silent install work the best for everyone, from the common person to the hardcore encoder to the obscure format enthusiast. Its a nice little stand-alone exe that, when run, will actually update your codecs too if you don't have the newest version. http://www.mediafire.com/?emxigti2dwh
The hard-working people of the REAL open source codec scene (ie none of the ones you mentioned) are who I want to look at this.
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thank god, someone gets it!!!!
the only thing that is stopping via from being HUGE is their gpu. if they had a faster, more reliable solution we'd all be using via netbooks right now.
No he meant this one. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17zNW-wz35E
oh and btw, in the spanish version they say over 8000.
It was around 800 pages and half of it was graphs and spreadsheets of our data. For ~500 students yearly. For the past 18 years.
He isn't gonna keep electronic copies of that much data.
The only way a teacher can do it is if you sign a classroom agreement at the beginning of the year. I had one teacher slip that clause into the classroom agreement to confiscate and burn our notes at the end of the year, mainly because the final project (which lasted 2 months) used everything from our notebooks. If you had someone else's notebook, you could easily sail through the class with an A, but if you didn't you could just as easily fail.
fyi we had 2 5" binders completely full of papers and notes for a 5 day, 1 hr class. The final project called for its own 4" binder. He had about 500 students doing this class. Musta been a huge ass fire.
He's making it possible for those 4 kids to grow up with a future that isn't dominated by racist bastards such as yourself. GTFO my slashdots.
If there's no wind.....hmm good point...
What should a submarine do if there's no wind?
Go move to Europe then. Seriously, do you expect that to ever happen in the US? And if you're a home user and wanting it that badly, just vLite it up and uninstall it all.
They said they'd pick and choose what standards to follow, and as of last month, I believe a Developer commented that IE8 would probably never get a higher ranking on the Acid3 test.
If you've used IE8 in W7, you'd see plain as day how BUGGY IE8 is. Its pretty bad. Try highlighting anything in gmail lately? Hell, try replying to someone in gmail without the reply textbox randomly resizing from 1800 to 200?
I installed the latest nightly of firefox after a week of trying to put up with it. Having to run alot of sites in compatibility mode isn't my idea of a useable browser.
Vista is related to W7 in the same way that 2k is related to XP.
Similar overall look.
Alot of the same features.
Taskbar improvement.
Updated Control Panel components.
Better looking on newer monitors.
Incorporates a bunch of advanced features that were prototyped in older OSes.
Fixes overall security.
Majority of programs are still fairly compatible.
Moar tacos.
As you can see, the cake is a lie.
More than likely, charges would not be monthly.
I'd expect:
1. You can still goto the store and pay for Office for full price.
2. You'll be able to buy a college version, which will be discounted heavily and only last for 4 years.
3. You'll be able to pay per usage or page.
So, in the end, they're just giving you more options to get a legit version of Office instead. And, in all honesty, I use word 10 times, excel 5 times, and powerpoint 2 times a year at school. So maybe a pay-per-usage fee would be ok for me. 1$ per use = 17$ a year, versus 300$? Hell, Office won't last 18 years....
The only downside i see to this is that they can't pull it off with Outlook....everyone will just switch to thunderbird. Or hell, if OpenOffice made a superbowl commercial, Microsoft would die right then and there.
Thank god you said this...I scrolled all the way down and I think you're the first person that pointed it out.
One thing people have to understand is that VISTA IS NOW DEAD TO MICROSOFT, so it's useless to try and say "Oh well W7 is just prettier". If you think that, go ahead and keep vista while the rest of the world upgrades.
I've been using 7 since the first day 6801 was leaked. I've got a single core AMD Athlon at 2.2 with 1GB of ram and a 8600GTS. (My gaming rating is a 4.4). Windows 7 definitely runs MUCH better than vista on a machine like mine (and no matter how cheap ram is, the common user won't be adding on more). And no, I didn't use vista for 5 minutes....I have vista and XP installed and I choose between the two of them and try to use them equally. And now W7 is on that disk too.
W7 fixes ALOT. The slashdot summarizer uses an unbiased title to lure people into the biased summary and its not helping because the sheeple will just agree without trying it.
Realize that Vista is dead to them, and get over it. Compare XP to 7, and you'll see the maturity of the new features and the overall stability makes it a worthy upgrade to buy. Microsoft wants their Vista users to upgrade too, which is why they'll probably release a message via windows update asking if they want to upgrade to windows 7 for 50$.
Then use something like Unlocker to delete them, and then kill the registry keys after a reboot.
Thats how I fixed it.
"22-year old student beats shit out of 65yr old ex-marine teacher"
yep. great headline for tomorrow's paper. thanks but no thanks....I showed a little respect for the man, even if he was wrong.
I would have, but I was more scared that he was some Cold War relic who was about to pull a knife on me. For his age, he's still built well too...like hits the gym everyday.
I had a weightlifting class and I would see him there too.
Ex-programming teacher who liked technology but refuses to use Macs (aka he's a windows-lover), so yea....he probably never even knew linux existed. He pretty much taught straight from the book and powerpoints, and has beeing going through the motions for the past 4 years or so since this class was given to him.
He's on his way out though, and so am I, so I could give two shits. I'll show the elder some respect, even if he's wrong, cause it would suck to get fired over it at this point if I were in his position.
And I only think he knew what photoshop was because a teacher pulled it up on a few of the computers at school to give him a demonstration. We have it on 5 of the lab computers.
Indeed. Maybe get a superbowl commercial talking about how linux/open source/open office/etc break you free from microsoft yet are still backwards compatible with them.
And then someone make Ubuntu idiot-proof edition, where, over time, Ubuntu slowly weans you day-by-day into how to do common linux operations. Over like 90 days, changing from an XP Desktop clone into a normal install of ubuntu.
Or we could go get chips and dip :)
Its a local community college near pittsburgh, and honestly this teacher is on his way out, and this is my last semester, so I could care less at this point. Gimme my diploma and let me go to Pitt lol.
And btw, THANK YOU for being the only person who didn't assume that I was talking about high school. Who in the hell has Networking in high school anyways? haha
The school is a good school, and at 3000$ a year there are MANY people taking their online courses.
You fail so much.
"The students are minors, a.k.a they have no rights at all."
-I'm 22
"You surely wouldn't argue against a parent's right to not confiscate their children's possessions."
-Well that's a failboat of an argument there if I EVER saw one.
"Teaching is hard enough, after all kids just want to have fun, and for most, fun isn't learning."
-I can't recall a computer class that was not fun. Even java lol.
"It is important for the power dynamic in a classroom that the teacher is largely unquestioned. We have no right to question a teacher's actions to maintain order in her own classroom."
-So you're the fucktard that agreed with the 90yr old history teacher when he said 'the earth is flat'! Hi Steve!
By the way, it was just an eee 901. O_O
Classic quote #2...."Theres no way a computer could be that small, unless you're some sort of hacker or spy".
The teacher's age is somewhere between 60-70...He's an old dude.
Even better:
I had a Networking teacher confiscate my laptop, which was running ubuntu, cause he thought I was running some hacked version of XP. A friggin computer teacher. Had to explain to the dean of students what linux was, provided several wiki pages, and pleaded my case before two department heads. Two weeks later, I get my laptop back and the teacher still thinks I'm doing illegal stuff on there. Classic quote from my interrogation.... "What is this Gimp? Is it some hacked Photoshop?"
So yes, they do exist. And they're growing more stupid by the moment.
Gundam 00's solution (orbital ring of solar collectors that powers 3 orbital elevators) seems slightly more feasible, but eh....that's probably just my anime-infested mind telling me that.
I mean, solar energy will always be there. And creating a planet-sized ring of solar collectors could probably power an elevator if you use the 2 cable idea (one for guidance, another for energy)...
Now if we could only harness trapars....
yep. deft was being daft. not deft-like at all.
VLC is fine if you don't care about preserving the quality of the format, or if you're too braindead to install proper codecs. Or if you want your integrated subtitles to look like shit, unless you run a nightly build with a few tweaks.
Honestly, I've found that Zoom Player's codec downloader and auto-configured silent install work the best for everyone, from the common person to the hardcore encoder to the obscure format enthusiast. Its a nice little stand-alone exe that, when run, will actually update your codecs too if you don't have the newest version.
http://www.mediafire.com/?emxigti2dwh
The hard-working people of the REAL open source codec scene (ie none of the ones you mentioned) are who I want to look at this.
The best part is that this is a real page...
What does it say on it..."Courtesy Page"?
You just tell /. about it.
btw, why isn't there a backslashdot.com? :(