""The New York Times is reporting on MIT's migration away from large lectures as many colleges and universities have. Attendance at these lectures often falls to 50 percent by the end of the semester. TEAL (Technology Enhanced Active Learning) gives the students a more hands on approach and may signal the death of the massive lecture hall synonymous with achieving a bachelors of science.""
Amen to that! I was tired of the professor being in the front and me being waaay in the back and having to bust out the Hubble to see anything.
"The report, "Breaking Up Is Hard To Do: The Microsoft Word Love Story," by analyst Sheri McLeish, suggests that businesses may still be using Word because it is familiar to users or because they have a legacy investment in the application, not because it is the best option.""
There's two other things as well. How well MS products integrate with each other and all the third-party software written for MS software.
"The effect lasts many hours â" which is what makes the layer a memristor (a resistor with memory). The team says this could be scaled up to make resistive random access memory, or RRAM, at very low cost, from little more than layers of vanadium oxide.""
If this was going into a SSD then it would have to last longer than that.
"For anyone who assumes weekday evenings are the worst time to enter the online scrum, it may be a surprise to learn that the peak internet rush hour, when average web speeds slow to a crawl, is in fact Sunday between 5pm and 6pm. "
Naturally. For most people the weekend is their time away from work. Sunday is also a slower day than Saturday. Plus since Monday's around the corner one has to get in their last bit of relaxation in before the weekly grind.
"I hope we hit another depression. Grandma and Grandpa knew how to live frugally."
The thing they don't tell you in the brochure is what the frugal people turn into in times of plenty. That's right, compulsive pack rats that will not spare a penny to improve their lives one iota when the honey's flowing. And I do mean pennies. They waste more money and time (theirs and others) trying to be penny pinchers than they ever would gain by simply spending the needed money to accomplish their goals.
"When these people have to start cutting their flour with cardboard to make it last longer, call me."
"Not to mention that the library has a limited number of seats and so if everyone did as you suggested there wouldn't be enough seat hours to go around."
I'm not sure if it was CSMonitor or the BBC but libraries already are having a demand problem, partially caused by the diminishing economy. They're already setting up limits and upgrading lines.
Good thing Internet service is available in most areas for 5-10 dollars a month, if not free w/ ads.
Quoted so you all can see it. I've been there, done that, am currently wearing the T-shirt.
$10.00 a month really is cheap for what you get out of it. Some may want to keep that in mind next time life kicks them in the pants and some SOB comes along with their "helpful" advice.
"This report takes a look at how many jobs you get if you invest $10 billion each in three different IT infrastructure projects â" broadband, health IT and the smart grid. It argues that if you are going to be spending billions on a stimulus package, investing in 'digital infrastructure' creates more jobs than physical infrastructure (e.g. roads and bridges) in the short-term, and you get a whole host of other benefits in the long-term."
There's just one problem with that argument. It's the physical infrastructure that's falling apart, not our digital infrastructure. I should also point out that people have lost their lives due to failures in the former and none that I know of in the latter.
There's another factor to consider. Not all ash is equal. There's lighter, smaller-grained ash which will stay up longer and travel farther. Then there's heavier, courser-grained ash that will precipitate out sooner. The ratio will determine in part how far and how long this disaster will be.
"They will happen and when they happen there's a good chance they'll wipe out all human life still on the Earth. Events like these don't have to wipe out mankind. We can choose to not let that happen. Or not."
"I also grew up training in martial arts which, after a while, typically includes some medical training (along the way I've ended up helping to treat everything up to and including a gunshot wound)."
I knew we should be keeping our eyes on Ninjas. Now they're throwing bullets.
"You know what happens when a town or state takes on a company the size of these telecom companies?
The state loses."
Considering the costs to do so. I'm not certain it would have been a win. Regardless of who ends up providing a service. Geography and economics aren't going to disappear from the world as factors that need to dealt with.
For NH a lot of the area would have been better served with wireless (with lessor speeds than fiber naturally).
There's another issue in this economic debate no one's mentioning. The quality (both audio and video) of streaming vs sources like DVD's and analog Cable TV. I've noticed the quality has improved as technology has improved but there still is a quantifiable difference between the two.
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""The New York Times is reporting on MIT's migration away from large lectures as many colleges and universities have. Attendance at these lectures often falls to 50 percent by the end of the semester. TEAL (Technology Enhanced Active Learning) gives the students a more hands on approach and may signal the death of the massive lecture hall synonymous with achieving a bachelors of science.""
Amen to that! I was tired of the professor being in the front and me being waaay in the back and having to bust out the Hubble to see anything.
"The report, "Breaking Up Is Hard To Do: The Microsoft Word Love Story," by analyst Sheri McLeish, suggests that businesses may still be using Word because it is familiar to users or because they have a legacy investment in the application, not because it is the best option.""
There's two other things as well. How well MS products integrate with each other and all the third-party software written for MS software.
Course you can escape the second. Simply have no income.
How much of that $75 Million could be plowed back into making the whole process safer?
"The effect lasts many hours â" which is what makes the layer a memristor (a resistor with memory). The team says this could be scaled up to make resistive random access memory, or RRAM, at very low cost, from little more than layers of vanadium oxide.""
If this was going into a SSD then it would have to last longer than that.
You left out it's also a transformer.
"Its slashdot for God's sake. If you can't laugh at someone's death here where can you?"
I wonder if your mourners would mind if I laugh all the way through your eulogy?
"For anyone who assumes weekday evenings are the worst time to enter the online scrum, it may be a surprise to learn that the peak internet rush hour, when average web speeds slow to a crawl, is in fact Sunday between 5pm and 6pm. "
Naturally. For most people the weekend is their time away from work. Sunday is also a slower day than Saturday. Plus since Monday's around the corner one has to get in their last bit of relaxation in before the weekly grind.
"I hope we hit another depression. Grandma and Grandpa knew how to live frugally."
The thing they don't tell you in the brochure is what the frugal people turn into in times of plenty. That's right, compulsive pack rats that will not spare a penny to improve their lives one iota when the honey's flowing. And I do mean pennies. They waste more money and time (theirs and others) trying to be penny pinchers than they ever would gain by simply spending the needed money to accomplish their goals.
"When these people have to start cutting their flour with cardboard to make it last longer, call me."
You and others exaggerate too much.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0106/p08s01-comv.html
This isn't the depression. Not by a long shot.
"Not to mention that the library has a limited number of seats and so if everyone did as you suggested there wouldn't be enough seat hours to go around."
I'm not sure if it was CSMonitor or the BBC but libraries already are having a demand problem, partially caused by the diminishing economy. They're already setting up limits and upgrading lines.
I couldn't afford the $40/month for internet.
Good thing Internet service is available in most areas for 5-10 dollars a month, if not free w/ ads.
Quoted so you all can see it. I've been there, done that, am currently wearing the T-shirt.
$10.00 a month really is cheap for what you get out of it. Some may want to keep that in mind next time life kicks them in the pants and some SOB comes along with their "helpful" advice.
"This report takes a look at how many jobs you get if you invest $10 billion each in three different IT infrastructure projects â" broadband, health IT and the smart grid. It argues that if you are going to be spending billions on a stimulus package, investing in 'digital infrastructure' creates more jobs than physical infrastructure (e.g. roads and bridges) in the short-term, and you get a whole host of other benefits in the long-term."
There's just one problem with that argument. It's the physical infrastructure that's falling apart, not our digital infrastructure. I should also point out that people have lost their lives due to failures in the former and none that I know of in the latter.
It's not what journalists don't know. It's what they don't report.
And basically people just don't care. Have we decided who to blame for the economy collapse yet?
We're working on it.
"Journalism is not about reporting the truth, it is about contributing to and competing in an advertising and entertainment industry."
Which by your definition bloggers will never be journalists.
Oh I'm sure some OSS will come out to put an anti-spin to their spin using some of the same data mining they're using.
Good thing your post is warrantied for six years.
Q: How many 30GB Zune devices are affected? How many Zune 30GB devices were sold?
All 30GB devices are potentially affected.
Q: Will you update the firmware before the next leap year (2012)?
Yes.
http://zuneinsider.com/archive/2008/12/31/30gb-zune-issues-officialupdate.aspx
The source code that's NOT available.
"So what's wrong with a shout out among consenting adults? "
For those who envision the domination of a gift economy. Now's your chance to make it happen. First software, now ideas.
*Aka "ideas want to be free".
There's another factor to consider. Not all ash is equal. There's lighter, smaller-grained ash which will stay up longer and travel farther. Then there's heavier, courser-grained ash that will precipitate out sooner. The ratio will determine in part how far and how long this disaster will be.
"They will happen and when they happen there's a good chance they'll wipe out all human life still on the Earth. Events like these don't have to wipe out mankind. We can choose to not let that happen. Or not."
That's it! I'm moving to Mars, where it's safer.
"I also grew up training in martial arts which, after a while, typically includes some medical training (along the way I've ended up helping to treat everything up to and including a gunshot wound)."
I knew we should be keeping our eyes on Ninjas. Now they're throwing bullets.
"You know what happens when a town or state takes on a company the size of these telecom companies?
The state loses."
Considering the costs to do so. I'm not certain it would have been a win. Regardless of who ends up providing a service. Geography and economics aren't going to disappear from the world as factors that need to dealt with.
For NH a lot of the area would have been better served with wireless (with lessor speeds than fiber naturally).
There's another issue in this economic debate no one's mentioning. The quality (both audio and video) of streaming vs sources like DVD's and analog Cable TV. I've noticed the quality has improved as technology has improved but there still is a quantifiable difference between the two.
What is this...waiting you keep talking about?