It won't. It's a waste of money that's not going to do anything to further education at that school and will likely do some harm.
What disappoints me is that these are consumption-only devices -- No User-Serviceable Parts Inside. This won't help students learn how computers work or how to write software.
Here is the deal: if the student is not studying computers, the points are moot.
If you are interested in computers enough, you will find your way to open that device
If you are a programmer, and the institution provides you with the iPad, they can do the right thing and also provide you with the developer profile so you can write software. Else you can pay for the developer suite, just develop in the emulator (mac only, unfortunately, but institutions will likely have a machine for this) or jailbreak the device and do things without Apple's blessings.
If all you want to do is learn, you can check out iTunes U. They have many lectures recorded in both, video and audio only forms for many topics, from Business, Engineering, and Science to Literature and Fine Arts. You wont be able to walk into an institution and take a test that will qualify for a degree that employers will ask for, but it will get you as much as most lectures would do had you tossed out the big bucks to test your attention span on a clock. If you are sitting in your computer, or any internet connected device, you can pause at any time and look up any terms or concepts you want in google.
I am not sure why iTunes U does not get more spotlight.
I disagree with this, though this is the internet... and so therefore, all statements of opinion are meant to be 100% fact that apply to all.
The vast majority of my learning has been through participation in discussion. I found books too dry for learning, nor did I retain much from them. I also didn't handle lecture well, because things go in one ear and out the other.
I don't think you actually disagree with me. You note you didn't handle lecture well, and thats what I criticized (a guy talking and you just taking notes.) I agree with discussion being a powerful learning tool. It's one of the most powerful tools for learning, but one thats hard to afford (you need extremely small student group for each teacher to implement effectively in the classroom, or have direct conversations with a mentor.) It's also the reason why study groups are effective.
Oral communication does carry a message louder than plain text, but you must be able to control the flow for it to actually be effective. When you must be there at a time, and the lecture must last exactly X minutes, well, you start loosing that effectiveness and you may as well just download the lecture from a website, if available.
I won't make a blanket statement to say that this is the best way of learning. Over the years, I've found this to be a foolish ambition.
I think I picked my words carefully enough as to not make it sound as the text book option was the best. I just openly criticized the lecture as a terrible one. I think downplaying one and painting another one as "much better [than the lecture]" does not make the other the best of the numerous options.
Then again, I wonder if this is just a well-played troll. Everyone knows that anecdotal evidence is laughable, and that is almost the sole contribution you're making to the discussion.
If trolling was my goal, I done a horrible job at it as I have not amassed dozens of posts and pit half the posters against each-other to an absurd flame war. That is, after all, the goal of the troll, from what I understand.
My goal is not to troll, just downplaying the "sit on lecture, take your notes and shut up" mentality. Heck, I didn't even entirely dismiss the approach, just suggested earlier in the thread you may as well just record the entire lecture. Once recorded you can re-listen to audio-bookmarked segments or the whole thing and maybe even google up terms or topics, perhaps listen with a more clear mind or in a better mood where you can absorb things better. Lectures are too rigid. A headache, a car accident, an argument, plain bad mood, lack of sleep, all these can entirely kill a lecture and you get no second chances. In those terms, I find a book is way superior. A recorded lecture, though, may be just as good, perhaps better for many. And that was where my original point came: you can record the entire lecture with your tablet, with the right app, you can just tap the screen to place an audio-bookmark instead of taking notes, and digest it at your own pace. Still forced to be there at a specific time to hit that record button, though.
Smaller groups like that do have a lot of benefits. It is indeed a shame that not many have access to that type of education, and even if they have the access they don't want it, they want to be in the big name institutions, the same type that just fills auditoriums with students.
Small classes like that not only allow for more teacher/student dynamic interaction, but also allows for more bonding with fellow students. As they say, less is more. You can develop a small social group in such classes and work together to figure things out even when professors are not available. I did "my time" when the internet was taking over, so when I had no access to the computers in the library being part of such groups was extremely helpful.
My issue is with the lecture system, and that was what I meant when I described "listening to a guy and taking notes."
I'm also pretty sure I do am a human being and not an alien. I am also sure my brain is no superior to the average human being. It may come to a huge shock to you, but there are other people out there that, just like me, can think and learn by simply having the information in front of them to consume in any way it is provided, be it a book, a web site, a recording, or a babbling old man in front of a crowded room. The speed of all but the babbling old man can be adjusted to the needs of the individual student.
I do know there are some people less willing to pursue learning, though, and they will always prefer to have knowledge "pushed" into them by some one else.
Maybe I was lucky (or unlucky), but when I was studying I happened to be in a class full of people "like me", all learning most stuff on their own and playing with their code before topics were covered in class. There were only two guys there that would only learn with the class, and they would constantly ask the professor why where they learning Turbo Pascal instead of C. They were able able to grasp they were learning to program, not the syntax of a language.
So yea, I do believe you there are people out there that can't learn without the babbling mouth, and will never learn outside what they get in a class. My case was never about abolishing the education system and fire all professors, my case was simply about recording lectures as an alternative to taking notes.
Your personal anecdote makes me think you studied in a small institution with very few students per professor. Not saying that it dismisses your point, but a lot of institutions have huge auditoriums full of students with just one guy lecturing in front. There is next to no way such a classroom can produce the dynamic results you describe.
That being told, I still feel textbook + personal experimentation is the best approach for anything but medicine, and that only because you cant legally find a steady supply of living specimens to practice on.
I had a good deal of all types. The arrogant type that get annoyed when you ask questions, the helpful type that would do their best to aid, the one that would just lecture but have no clue to answer, the ones that set as a goal to fail the whole class and hated that I always managed to perfect out their tests in 10 minutes, etc.
Now,not to brag, I am no genius, I horribly failed many subjects (you may already notice English was one of them) but the subjects I was there to learn I was so interested in that I would read the full text book in a month. Text book that was meant to be split for two semesters. When you want to learn, it's always best to just grab a good book and read through it. If you doing this at 1AM, no professor will be available to answer your questions.
It's also a good thing I got used to learn this way, as I was prepared for the real world where technology changes and you must learn new stuff quickly. I seen fellow students that never picked up a book willingly unable to do any job outside of what they canned during their collage lecture listening years.
1. If the opinionated data gathering they did can count as research, then I can count my post as the result of my own research too. Research is done based off other's behaviors and experiences actually working with the device, not the opinion of skeptics that didn't even use the device.
2. I suggest they record the teacher and add audio-bookmarks to the parts they consider note-worthy. Added bonus: the ipad recording audio wont fall asleep or loose attention span.
3.a Learn to use the device you own, and it's shortcomings. You can only sinc with one machine, sync a second and it creates a new profile.
3.b There are cloud syncing tools like Dropbox. Many apps are adopting Dropbox as a storage option.
4.a Repeating myself here but almost anyone that carries an iPad will likely keep it in a case. IF you need a keyboard so badly you can get yourself one of the ones with embedded keyboard. These things add very little weight and you still can ignore the keyboard and flap the cover open as you would with any other keyboard. That's how it makes sense. Not to mention, carrying the tablet (ipad, xoom, whatever) loaded with ebooks will likely justify the tiny bluetooth keyboard added "burden" by eliminating all the dead tree books you have to carry. Heck, eliminate 1 book and you already justify the burden. Eliminate all books and it's likely you justified the price.
I don't think tablets are just a shiny toy scenario as you describe. I can see many ways that tablets can improve learning at any education level. Software development for the devices is not that hard, and institutions can easily standardize in a platform (be it iOS or Android, note that registered developers can do whatever they want in their iOS devices) and distribute applications that help learning. The medical industry is doing this right now, using tablets and specialized software to educate patients and eliminate paperwork while not being anchored to cumbersome deskops.
Listening to a guy talking and taking notes is a terrible way of learning in of itself. It is much more efficient sitting with a book on the subject and practicing. Over the years I also have found most topic forums to be way more helpful than every professor I had through my degree when the point comes where you must have questions answered.
1) "Professors Say" != "Research", specially when you are talking about a handful of professors.
2) The article you link goes on a lot about typing seed and taking speedy notes. The thing has a microphone, who takes notes when you have a microphone?!!! Add some recording app with One-Touch bookmarks and you need no notes, you just tap the screen for highlights.
3) "because of concerns that the Apple tablet might not save their material." Back in the day, i saw students refuse to use computers because of concerns that the mouse would electrocute them or the network cables emit radiation and give them cancer.
4) That article bounces back and forth between typing and ebook annotations. Typing, if so important for dinosaurs, can be solved by extremely light and thin bluetooth keyboards. There are some cardboard thin protective cases that even include such bluetooth keyboards. Some eBooks not supporting annotations is an book industry issue, not an issue with the iPad or any other tablet for that matter.
OK since you want to pretend you are reading, yet not even clicking in the link that notes it, the link you post clearly states this:
Princeton University reported the bug to Apple, and worked with Apple to resolve the issue. Apple fixed this bug as of iOS 3.2.1 on the Apple iPad® (first generation). (Note that Apple's fix introduced a new bug, described in iOS 3.2.1 - 4.0.2 Requests a DHCP Lease Too Often.)
If you bother following the link:
Princeton University has reported the bug to Apple, and is working with Apple to resolve the issue.
We have not yet tested iOS 4.3.2 for this bug.
Right now, there is no note if it's still happening in the last build, but even if it is, the writer of that post is the some one that not only did tell apple about it (as you suggested someone should) but also actively worked with Apple to get both bugs fixed. More that can be told about a forgotten bug report in Google's database that wont get addressed unless it starts getting bad press.
Courts should force the sueing party to pay all legal expense in the case the case is lost, they decide to withdraw the lawsuit or a settlement is reached.
. For most people, science is really a matter of trusting the expert who tells it to us and believing what they tell us. Trust and belief. Faith.
That is a stupid jump of conclusions. The statement in question is akin to saying taxes are a matter of religion, because most people don't understand the math behind taxes and must entrust their filing to a tax expert, and since they are entrusting this accountant they may as well just have faith in the accounting and therefore call it a religious act.
Trusting a scientist is not the same as believing him, and believing is not the same as having faith. I can trust some one and not believe them, I can also believe some one I don't trust. Etc Etc.
Science is about trust, yes. But you don't have to blindly trust. If you do not trust a scientist, you can go to another entirely unrelated scientist and get an unbiased examination of the first scientist statements. This is also why before going public, all scientists peer-review each-other. You don't have to blindly trust any one scientist.
They don't need to make one, since the iPad 2 is grat for gaming and supports Bluetooth pairing. As for size and friends, with the HDMI cable they can just plug the thing to a TV. All they need to do is convince apple to let them make a game app store with in app purchases and accept to loose the 30% Apple will be taking of sales.
My feeling is no. Copyright is far too long. The idea of a limited time copyright is to keep people creating new works. You make a work, you get to make money off of it, but only for a little while. After that it belongs to the public and you need to make new works if you wish to keep making money.
Seems fair to me as that is how most professions work. If I fix a computer, I do not continue to receive pay for that computer so long as it is in use or functional. I am paid for doing the job. If I want more pay I need to keep working.
If I build a house, it belongs to me until I sell it. By your logic, my house should become a public shelter and I should go out and build a new one if I want to keep the benefits of having built my home.
Creating something, and servicing something are two very different things. A guy fixing a computer just serviced it. He MAY add new parts, but he actually sells them to me. Creating goods allow you to sell them or duplicates of them.
You should be able to milk your creation for as long as anyone is willing to pay the asking price. The market should decide if you will profit from it 50 years from now or not.
and there is ZERO software for the Mac in this area
He also specifically notes the alternatives to UltraEdit in Mac suck. You have to be practicing political arts of misdirection if you say that knowing UltraEdit is available for the Mac itself.
And his only point was this:
But in my opinion, unless you're developing for iOS or MacOS X, the Mac is a poor platform for LOTS of different kinds of things.
Everything else was him giving examples why it's "a poor platform for LOTS of different kinds of things".
That page lists a lot of software that runs in Linux, Win32 and MacOSX. Much higher than ZERO. I'll give you this: I didn't find any of this software in the App Store, but I didn't expected to.
I was not very sure if that would suffice so I digged more for the term FPGA and found a tool called DirectVHDL http://www.gmvhdl.com/mac-dv.html. There was more, but not going to list the entire Google result page.
I know had I decided to go that route, and spent so much money, I would certainly had hunt down for this information.
The Lenovo would likely come with Windows. If his target was Linux, and he wanted to be oh so close to the target, then he would had to instal a flavor of Linux on that laptop anyways. WHY cant he install some form of Linux on the Mac? I guess he is man enough to learn Emacs but not man enough to instal Linux.
The chart in the link you post shows.net c# only being 16% slower than c++, while java is displayed 35% slower. I would call that slower than c++ and faster than java, slightly closer to c++ than java but still near the middle pont. Deffinitevly not comparable to Java, though.
I have seen An Unearthly Child. I have had friends watch it. I had friends start at 2005. I have noticed starting ANYONE that was born in the last 35 years with An Unearthly Child makes it extremely hard to get them interested in the series any further.
I only recommend going back to the classics (STARTING with An Unearthly Child and going on from there) after they are already hooked with the current continuity and high budget series.
I have myself started watching Dr Who recently (in the last 3 years) and also introduced a few friends first hand to the series. As such, I have noticed there is a way that works, and a way that does not work so well, to get started in Dr Who as a virgin.
Start with the 2005 series (available for streaming in Netflix.) It was designed to be a perfect jump-in point for newcomers to the show. Some of my friends I had to force to finish, others also caught up mid way (even myself I had to force to watch the first few episodes.) Even if you don't like it, I strongly recommend you force you through it (I found the first few episodes bleh myself, but started loving it the minute they got to the episode Dalek.)
The beauty of this season is it was designed for newcomers all over. It introduces you slowly to the established myths and lore of the Dr Who universe. Some would say you should skip it, and strongly recommend that, but I think that would be a horrible thing to do to yourself.
Once you are done with Season 1, there is a very short clip called Dr Who Children in Need 2005 special. You really really should see it before going on.
Once you see that, next is a movie/special: "The Christmas Invasion". Watch that.
Now you can keep going with Season 2. You will likely LOVE that season, even if you did not liked the first one that much.
Now again there is a movie/TVSpecial to watch: "The Runaway Bride"
By this point you will had been introduced to the lead character of a spin-off TV Show: Torchwood. I would advice strongly to watch Season 1 of Torchwood at some point before you finish Dr Who Season 3 as the endings of Torchwood tosses you right before the last 3 episodes of Season 3 of Dr Who. If you follow this list and do go through it, just Watch Torchwood S1 before so you finish it before going beyond the episode Blink. This is optional, but I wish I had seen it in that order. Oh and one warning: Torchwood is NOT family friendly. I would say not even safe for work in many episodes. Also requires you to be VERY open minded. If those things bother you then just ignore Torchwood.
Then there is a tiny mini clip again, you can find it in youtube. Called "Time Crash"
It gets followed by a movie called "Voyage of the Damned".
Then as usual watch Season 4
Then comes a series of movies:
"The Next Doctor"
"Planet of the Dead"
"The Waters of Mars"
"The End of Time" (Part 1 and 2)
Then you watch Season 5.
Then you watch a new movie/TV Special: "A Christmas Carol"
Then, you have traveled in time into the future and you get to watch the new TV show that we all are still waiting for.
BTW, at any point you can go back to Torchwood, although there is another Tie-In with Dr Who, it does not get any buildup from within Torchwood. You will very likely love the main character so it's a cool thing to watch once you are done with all things Dr Who if you are still starving for more.
At some point you will catch up with everything that has been done in recent times, at that point I recommend you hunt down a website that has all the classic episodes up for streaming (remember NoScript while on that site, it's messy.) You can watch the very first episode there, and if your Dr Who hunger is still strong, you can keep watching those episodes until new episodes come out.
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It won't. It's a waste of money that's not going to do anything to further education at that school and will likely do some harm.
What disappoints me is that these are consumption-only devices -- No User-Serviceable Parts Inside. This won't help students learn how computers work or how to write software.
Here is the deal: if the student is not studying computers, the points are moot.
If you are interested in computers enough, you will find your way to open that device
If you are a programmer, and the institution provides you with the iPad, they can do the right thing and also provide you with the developer profile so you can write software. Else you can pay for the developer suite, just develop in the emulator (mac only, unfortunately, but institutions will likely have a machine for this) or jailbreak the device and do things without Apple's blessings.
If all you want to do is learn, you can check out iTunes U. They have many lectures recorded in both, video and audio only forms for many topics, from Business, Engineering, and Science to Literature and Fine Arts. You wont be able to walk into an institution and take a test that will qualify for a degree that employers will ask for, but it will get you as much as most lectures would do had you tossed out the big bucks to test your attention span on a clock. If you are sitting in your computer, or any internet connected device, you can pause at any time and look up any terms or concepts you want in google.
I am not sure why iTunes U does not get more spotlight.
I disagree with this, though this is the internet... and so therefore, all statements of opinion are meant to be 100% fact that apply to all.
The vast majority of my learning has been through participation in discussion. I found books too dry for learning, nor did I retain much from them. I also didn't handle lecture well, because things go in one ear and out the other.
I don't think you actually disagree with me. You note you didn't handle lecture well, and thats what I criticized (a guy talking and you just taking notes.) I agree with discussion being a powerful learning tool. It's one of the most powerful tools for learning, but one thats hard to afford (you need extremely small student group for each teacher to implement effectively in the classroom, or have direct conversations with a mentor.) It's also the reason why study groups are effective.
Oral communication does carry a message louder than plain text, but you must be able to control the flow for it to actually be effective. When you must be there at a time, and the lecture must last exactly X minutes, well, you start loosing that effectiveness and you may as well just download the lecture from a website, if available.
I won't make a blanket statement to say that this is the best way of learning. Over the years, I've found this to be a foolish ambition.
I think I picked my words carefully enough as to not make it sound as the text book option was the best. I just openly criticized the lecture as a terrible one. I think downplaying one and painting another one as "much better [than the lecture]" does not make the other the best of the numerous options.
Then again, I wonder if this is just a well-played troll. Everyone knows that anecdotal evidence is laughable, and that is almost the sole contribution you're making to the discussion.
If trolling was my goal, I done a horrible job at it as I have not amassed dozens of posts and pit half the posters against each-other to an absurd flame war. That is, after all, the goal of the troll, from what I understand.
My goal is not to troll, just downplaying the "sit on lecture, take your notes and shut up" mentality. Heck, I didn't even entirely dismiss the approach, just suggested earlier in the thread you may as well just record the entire lecture. Once recorded you can re-listen to audio-bookmarked segments or the whole thing and maybe even google up terms or topics, perhaps listen with a more clear mind or in a better mood where you can absorb things better. Lectures are too rigid. A headache, a car accident, an argument, plain bad mood, lack of sleep, all these can entirely kill a lecture and you get no second chances. In those terms, I find a book is way superior. A recorded lecture, though, may be just as good, perhaps better for many. And that was where my original point came: you can record the entire lecture with your tablet, with the right app, you can just tap the screen to place an audio-bookmark instead of taking notes, and digest it at your own pace. Still forced to be there at a specific time to hit that record button, though.
Smaller groups like that do have a lot of benefits. It is indeed a shame that not many have access to that type of education, and even if they have the access they don't want it, they want to be in the big name institutions, the same type that just fills auditoriums with students.
Small classes like that not only allow for more teacher/student dynamic interaction, but also allows for more bonding with fellow students. As they say, less is more. You can develop a small social group in such classes and work together to figure things out even when professors are not available. I did "my time" when the internet was taking over, so when I had no access to the computers in the library being part of such groups was extremely helpful.
My issue is with the lecture system, and that was what I meant when I described "listening to a guy and taking notes."
I'm also pretty sure I do am a human being and not an alien. I am also sure my brain is no superior to the average human being. It may come to a huge shock to you, but there are other people out there that, just like me, can think and learn by simply having the information in front of them to consume in any way it is provided, be it a book, a web site, a recording, or a babbling old man in front of a crowded room. The speed of all but the babbling old man can be adjusted to the needs of the individual student.
I do know there are some people less willing to pursue learning, though, and they will always prefer to have knowledge "pushed" into them by some one else.
Maybe I was lucky (or unlucky), but when I was studying I happened to be in a class full of people "like me", all learning most stuff on their own and playing with their code before topics were covered in class. There were only two guys there that would only learn with the class, and they would constantly ask the professor why where they learning Turbo Pascal instead of C. They were able able to grasp they were learning to program, not the syntax of a language.
So yea, I do believe you there are people out there that can't learn without the babbling mouth, and will never learn outside what they get in a class. My case was never about abolishing the education system and fire all professors, my case was simply about recording lectures as an alternative to taking notes.
Your personal anecdote makes me think you studied in a small institution with very few students per professor. Not saying that it dismisses your point, but a lot of institutions have huge auditoriums full of students with just one guy lecturing in front. There is next to no way such a classroom can produce the dynamic results you describe.
That being told, I still feel textbook + personal experimentation is the best approach for anything but medicine, and that only because you cant legally find a steady supply of living specimens to practice on.
I had a good deal of all types. The arrogant type that get annoyed when you ask questions, the helpful type that would do their best to aid, the one that would just lecture but have no clue to answer, the ones that set as a goal to fail the whole class and hated that I always managed to perfect out their tests in 10 minutes, etc.
Now,not to brag, I am no genius, I horribly failed many subjects (you may already notice English was one of them) but the subjects I was there to learn I was so interested in that I would read the full text book in a month. Text book that was meant to be split for two semesters. When you want to learn, it's always best to just grab a good book and read through it. If you doing this at 1AM, no professor will be available to answer your questions.
It's also a good thing I got used to learn this way, as I was prepared for the real world where technology changes and you must learn new stuff quickly. I seen fellow students that never picked up a book willingly unable to do any job outside of what they canned during their collage lecture listening years.
1. If the opinionated data gathering they did can count as research, then I can count my post as the result of my own research too. Research is done based off other's behaviors and experiences actually working with the device, not the opinion of skeptics that didn't even use the device.
2. I suggest they record the teacher and add audio-bookmarks to the parts they consider note-worthy. Added bonus: the ipad recording audio wont fall asleep or loose attention span.
3.a Learn to use the device you own, and it's shortcomings. You can only sinc with one machine, sync a second and it creates a new profile.
3.b There are cloud syncing tools like Dropbox. Many apps are adopting Dropbox as a storage option.
4.a Repeating myself here but almost anyone that carries an iPad will likely keep it in a case. IF you need a keyboard so badly you can get yourself one of the ones with embedded keyboard. These things add very little weight and you still can ignore the keyboard and flap the cover open as you would with any other keyboard. That's how it makes sense. Not to mention, carrying the tablet (ipad, xoom, whatever) loaded with ebooks will likely justify the tiny bluetooth keyboard added "burden" by eliminating all the dead tree books you have to carry. Heck, eliminate 1 book and you already justify the burden. Eliminate all books and it's likely you justified the price.
I don't think tablets are just a shiny toy scenario as you describe. I can see many ways that tablets can improve learning at any education level. Software development for the devices is not that hard, and institutions can easily standardize in a platform (be it iOS or Android, note that registered developers can do whatever they want in their iOS devices) and distribute applications that help learning. The medical industry is doing this right now, using tablets and specialized software to educate patients and eliminate paperwork while not being anchored to cumbersome deskops.
Listening to a guy talking and taking notes is a terrible way of learning in of itself. It is much more efficient sitting with a book on the subject and practicing. Over the years I also have found most topic forums to be way more helpful than every professor I had through my degree when the point comes where you must have questions answered.
1) "Professors Say" != "Research", specially when you are talking about a handful of professors.
2) The article you link goes on a lot about typing seed and taking speedy notes. The thing has a microphone, who takes notes when you have a microphone?!!! Add some recording app with One-Touch bookmarks and you need no notes, you just tap the screen for highlights.
3) "because of concerns that the Apple tablet might not save their material." Back in the day, i saw students refuse to use computers because of concerns that the mouse would electrocute them or the network cables emit radiation and give them cancer.
4) That article bounces back and forth between typing and ebook annotations. Typing, if so important for dinosaurs, can be solved by extremely light and thin bluetooth keyboards. There are some cardboard thin protective cases that even include such bluetooth keyboards. Some eBooks not supporting annotations is an book industry issue, not an issue with the iPad or any other tablet for that matter.
OK since you want to pretend you are reading, yet not even clicking in the link that notes it, the link you post clearly states this:
Princeton University reported the bug to Apple, and worked with Apple to resolve the issue. Apple fixed this bug as of iOS 3.2.1 on the Apple iPad® (first generation). (Note that Apple's fix introduced a new bug, described in iOS 3.2.1 - 4.0.2 Requests a DHCP Lease Too Often.)
If you bother following the link:
Princeton University has reported the bug to Apple, and is working with Apple to resolve the issue.
We have not yet tested iOS 4.3.2 for this bug.
Right now, there is no note if it's still happening in the last build, but even if it is, the writer of that post is the some one that not only did tell apple about it (as you suggested someone should) but also actively worked with Apple to get both bugs fixed. More that can be told about a forgotten bug report in Google's database that wont get addressed unless it starts getting bad press.
Someone needs to read the links they post. Your linked article clearly states it was promptly fixed.
Courts should force the sueing party to pay all legal expense in the case the case is lost, they decide to withdraw the lawsuit or a settlement is reached.
. For most people, science is really a matter of trusting the expert who tells it to us and believing what they tell us. Trust and belief. Faith.
That is a stupid jump of conclusions. The statement in question is akin to saying taxes are a matter of religion, because most people don't understand the math behind taxes and must entrust their filing to a tax expert, and since they are entrusting this accountant they may as well just have faith in the accounting and therefore call it a religious act.
Trusting a scientist is not the same as believing him, and believing is not the same as having faith. I can trust some one and not believe them, I can also believe some one I don't trust. Etc Etc.
Science is about trust, yes. But you don't have to blindly trust. If you do not trust a scientist, you can go to another entirely unrelated scientist and get an unbiased examination of the first scientist statements. This is also why before going public, all scientists peer-review each-other. You don't have to blindly trust any one scientist.
They don't need to make one, since the iPad 2 is grat for gaming and supports Bluetooth pairing. As for size and friends, with the HDMI cable they can just plug the thing to a TV. All they need to do is convince apple to let them make a game app store with in app purchases and accept to loose the 30% Apple will be taking of sales.
I assure you, make it free and it still will be pirated by those that believe the app should be DRM free and downloaded via FTP.
My feeling is no. Copyright is far too long. The idea of a limited time copyright is to keep people creating new works. You make a work, you get to make money off of it, but only for a little while. After that it belongs to the public and you need to make new works if you wish to keep making money.
Seems fair to me as that is how most professions work. If I fix a computer, I do not continue to receive pay for that computer so long as it is in use or functional. I am paid for doing the job. If I want more pay I need to keep working.
If I build a house, it belongs to me until I sell it. By your logic, my house should become a public shelter and I should go out and build a new one if I want to keep the benefits of having built my home.
Creating something, and servicing something are two very different things. A guy fixing a computer just serviced it. He MAY add new parts, but he actually sells them to me. Creating goods allow you to sell them or duplicates of them.
You should be able to milk your creation for as long as anyone is willing to pay the asking price. The market should decide if you will profit from it 50 years from now or not.
Read his post again, specially this bit:
and there is ZERO software for the Mac in this area
He also specifically notes the alternatives to UltraEdit in Mac suck. You have to be practicing political arts of misdirection if you say that knowing UltraEdit is available for the Mac itself.
And his only point was this:
But in my opinion, unless you're developing for iOS or MacOS X, the Mac is a poor platform for LOTS of different kinds of things.
Everything else was him giving examples why it's "a poor platform for LOTS of different kinds of things".
Why did you plunk down that much money before confirming that the software you needed runs on OS X?
Either something's not adding up, or you're just pointing out how rashly you spend $3200.
Worse is at least UltraEdit is available natively on the mac, and as has been noted by others, you can use macPorts to run nEdit on the mac.
I even did a quick search for "chip design", see if i was able to find anything, and this came up: http://opencircuits.com/Software_tool
That page lists a lot of software that runs in Linux, Win32 and MacOSX. Much higher than ZERO. I'll give you this: I didn't find any of this software in the App Store, but I didn't expected to.
I was not very sure if that would suffice so I digged more for the term FPGA and found a tool called DirectVHDL http://www.gmvhdl.com/mac-dv.html. There was more, but not going to list the entire Google result page.
I know had I decided to go that route, and spent so much money, I would certainly had hunt down for this information.
The Lenovo would likely come with Windows. If his target was Linux, and he wanted to be oh so close to the target, then he would had to instal a flavor of Linux on that laptop anyways. WHY cant he install some form of Linux on the Mac? I guess he is man enough to learn Emacs but not man enough to instal Linux.
Not hiring people that are smarter than you may be the psychological self-defense mechanism. You know, job security and all that.
The chart in the link you post shows .net c# only being 16% slower than c++, while java is displayed 35% slower. I would call that slower than c++ and faster than java, slightly closer to c++ than java but still near the middle pont. Deffinitevly not comparable to Java, though.
It's just as well. Anyone who thinks .NET itself is a *language* isn't someone I want to work for.
This. The guy has shown he is entirely oblivious about what he is talking about.
I have seen An Unearthly Child. I have had friends watch it. I had friends start at 2005. I have noticed starting ANYONE that was born in the last 35 years with An Unearthly Child makes it extremely hard to get them interested in the series any further.
I only recommend going back to the classics (STARTING with An Unearthly Child and going on from there) after they are already hooked with the current continuity and high budget series.
I have myself started watching Dr Who recently (in the last 3 years) and also introduced a few friends first hand to the series. As such, I have noticed there is a way that works, and a way that does not work so well, to get started in Dr Who as a virgin.
Start with the 2005 series (available for streaming in Netflix.) It was designed to be a perfect jump-in point for newcomers to the show. Some of my friends I had to force to finish, others also caught up mid way (even myself I had to force to watch the first few episodes.) Even if you don't like it, I strongly recommend you force you through it (I found the first few episodes bleh myself, but started loving it the minute they got to the episode Dalek.)
The beauty of this season is it was designed for newcomers all over. It introduces you slowly to the established myths and lore of the Dr Who universe. Some would say you should skip it, and strongly recommend that, but I think that would be a horrible thing to do to yourself.
Once you are done with Season 1, there is a very short clip called Dr Who Children in Need 2005 special. You really really should see it before going on.
Once you see that, next is a movie/special: "The Christmas Invasion". Watch that.
Now you can keep going with Season 2. You will likely LOVE that season, even if you did not liked the first one that much.
Now again there is a movie/TVSpecial to watch: "The Runaway Bride"
By this point you will had been introduced to the lead character of a spin-off TV Show: Torchwood. I would advice strongly to watch Season 1 of Torchwood at some point before you finish Dr Who Season 3 as the endings of Torchwood tosses you right before the last 3 episodes of Season 3 of Dr Who. If you follow this list and do go through it, just Watch Torchwood S1 before so you finish it before going beyond the episode Blink. This is optional, but I wish I had seen it in that order. Oh and one warning: Torchwood is NOT family friendly. I would say not even safe for work in many episodes. Also requires you to be VERY open minded. If those things bother you then just ignore Torchwood.
Then there is a tiny mini clip again, you can find it in youtube. Called "Time Crash"
It gets followed by a movie called "Voyage of the Damned".
Then as usual watch Season 4
Then comes a series of movies:
"The Next Doctor"
"Planet of the Dead"
"The Waters of Mars"
"The End of Time" (Part 1 and 2)
Then you watch Season 5.
Then you watch a new movie/TV Special: "A Christmas Carol"
Then, you have traveled in time into the future and you get to watch the new TV show that we all are still waiting for.
BTW, at any point you can go back to Torchwood, although there is another Tie-In with Dr Who, it does not get any buildup from within Torchwood. You will very likely love the main character so it's a cool thing to watch once you are done with all things Dr Who if you are still starving for more.
At some point you will catch up with everything that has been done in recent times, at that point I recommend you hunt down a website that has all the classic episodes up for streaming (remember NoScript while on that site, it's messy.) You can watch the very first episode there, and if your Dr Who hunger is still strong, you can keep watching those episodes until new episodes come out.