As a fairly recent graduate (2007) of a public school system, when we were told "at all times" by the school it universally meant "while on school property" because they simply cannot (and should not) enforce anything outside of those boundaries. Where I live, the school system seems to be pretty good about that and will only investigate cyber-bullying and other off-campus issues if they bleed onto the campus in the form of dramatically decreased performance or increased violence.
I read the article under the (I would consider reasonable) assumption that this school system operates similarly. I also do not generally trust the website that it came from so I take what they say with a grain of salt to account for extreme conservative spin.
It may well violate her religious beliefs for which she should be exempt and it has long been the case that students' 4th Amendment rights are suspended while on campus at a public school. Since the ID only applies during school hours, is not implanted and is not actively transmitting her location, I fail to see this problem. It isn't dehumanizing to keep track of students on campus, it is responsible. It isn't a violation of her privacy as on school grounds you have relatively little. It isn't eavesdropping on her personal conversations. It's to keep students from cutting class! Nothing more. Can someone please explain why this is a problem?
Personally, I use mine in class for note taking and various other on-topic tasks. I find that I can keep up with the professor when I type than when I write by hand. It is also useful for when the teacher has an example of something posted to the college's course management site; on my laptop I can look at it closely rather than look at an image projected on a screen.
What bothers me are the people who used them for something other than school-related tasks while in their classroom. Same with texting and the like. Laptops, used properly can enhance the classroom experience and discussion.
Yeah, text as 24x80 is readable, but even them, you don't want to be subjected to it, if you have a choice.
The point of this device is that the people using them don't have a choice. If I read the site correctly, the main idea is for underpriviledged people and people in semi-developed nations would be using this to access information in a way that they otherwise would not be able to.
Why indeed. It seems to me that the most profitable and smart solution is to have "trim levels" for the PS3 (or any game console for that matter) separate from the hard drive size. At launch, if I recall, the PS3 was about $800 US. It could replace the following hardware: Blu-ray player, DVD player, CD player, PS1, PS2, PC (taking advantage of the Linux option), Anything that has a PPC emulator for Linux (NES, Sega, etc.), DVR (so I've heard), and possibly others in one box.
It was the ideal machine for people in cramped living quarters (like are common in Japan). Replacing all of those things with an $800 device seems perfectly reasonable to me and is exactly why I wanted a PS3. However, not every person wants to drop $800 on a gaming console with all those bells and whistles which is fine.
Because people weren't spending the money, those devices were removed from regular production and features began to be dropped. This is where Sony went wrong and why it took this long to be profitable. Instead, a base model and one with slight upgrades from the base, should have been the ones available in stores making the bulk of the money. Then, online, higher grades should have been available on special order that could do all of these things for the people who wanted (or needed) it.
At the risk of sounding ignorant, how does the ability to install an OS on the hard drive allow you to cheat in a PS3 game? How can that even remotely be a possibility?!
I'm not asking for a how-to here just a vague idea to make me believe it's even possible. It smells like a load of crap to me, but might be a defensible reason if it can be backed up with some evidence.
So far Sony has taken away both of the reasons for me to want a PS3: first the backward compatibility, now the OS installation. So looks like it'll be me and my PS2 for a while to come.
I disagree wholeheartedly. I am a Linux user (various distros including Ubuntu, Arch, Debian, Puppy and DSL). It is not important to standardize Linux. It is indeed about choice, but the choice doesn't have to be confining. Several Linux toolkits (WxWidgits, GTK and Qt to my knowledge) all work on Windows and possibly Mac OS as well. They don't have to be unified, the applications don't have to be consistent.
In the sound department however, I have to say that I agree, but ALSA seems to be the de facto standard in that every distro I have ever used has ALSA as an option, usually the default one. I am not, however, a Linux programmer so these differences have never deterred me. These applications need to just tell the user at download time what toolkit they use so that the user can just install it, which is simple enough in most distros.
Linux on the desktop is not only used by enthusiasts, I have set several friends and family members (of an extremely wide variety of skill-levels) up with Linux [Ubuntu and its brethren] on their machines because it simply does what they need and they were becoming frustrated with Windows. They enjoy it very much in the simplicity it provides.
The toolkits and APIs are numerous enough and enough work across different platforms well enough if the number of cross-platform programs is any measurement. If they don't like it, they should create a new, standardized, open toolkit for cross-platform applications.
I actually don't mind the PSP. What I do mind is that unlike any other computerised platform they won't let me write code for it myself or use code that other people release legally (GPL, regular copyright, whatever). The PSP shouldn't have been marketed as so full-featured if they didn't want people taking advantage of it. It's a wonderful little device, I use mine, unhacked, for just about everything from playing games to listening to music. If they were to stop spewing this crap "oh piracy is killing us" and open up the platform, developers would flock. Of course it could be too little too late.
Exactly. In fact, to spite my college, I tend to release all papers to the public domain or a permissive license and then upload them to Archive.org or some such. I know for a fact that at my college (St. Petersburg College) all liberal arts students get to keep IP of their work.
As a music major, this is very important to me. I feel that what you create at school is yours unless your college states explicitly otherwise in writing. It's not right to exploit students. Period.
To be quite honest, it sounds like Nazi Germany to me. I live in Florida (which is COMPLETELY covered by the "Constitution free zone") and now, I am ANGRY. People need to get off their butts and get involved in politics so that the values of openness, honesty, liberty, freedom instead of this gestapo crap.
In my opinion, if we're thinking like this, the terrorists have already won.
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I generally agree with you but currently the law differs and I was saying it within that context.
As a fairly recent graduate (2007) of a public school system, when we were told "at all times" by the school it universally meant "while on school property" because they simply cannot (and should not) enforce anything outside of those boundaries. Where I live, the school system seems to be pretty good about that and will only investigate cyber-bullying and other off-campus issues if they bleed onto the campus in the form of dramatically decreased performance or increased violence. I read the article under the (I would consider reasonable) assumption that this school system operates similarly. I also do not generally trust the website that it came from so I take what they say with a grain of salt to account for extreme conservative spin.
It may well violate her religious beliefs for which she should be exempt and it has long been the case that students' 4th Amendment rights are suspended while on campus at a public school. Since the ID only applies during school hours, is not implanted and is not actively transmitting her location, I fail to see this problem. It isn't dehumanizing to keep track of students on campus, it is responsible. It isn't a violation of her privacy as on school grounds you have relatively little. It isn't eavesdropping on her personal conversations. It's to keep students from cutting class! Nothing more. Can someone please explain why this is a problem?
Teen bomber online? We really do need better names for things.
Yes. TBO.com as in Tampa Bay Online the website of WFLA (the local NBC affiliate) and the Tampa Tribune. Nothing fake about the site.
Personally, I use mine in class for note taking and various other on-topic tasks. I find that I can keep up with the professor when I type than when I write by hand. It is also useful for when the teacher has an example of something posted to the college's course management site; on my laptop I can look at it closely rather than look at an image projected on a screen. What bothers me are the people who used them for something other than school-related tasks while in their classroom. Same with texting and the like. Laptops, used properly can enhance the classroom experience and discussion.
The point of this device is that the people using them don't have a choice. If I read the site correctly, the main idea is for underpriviledged people and people in semi-developed nations would be using this to access information in a way that they otherwise would not be able to.
Why indeed. It seems to me that the most profitable and smart solution is to have "trim levels" for the PS3 (or any game console for that matter) separate from the hard drive size. At launch, if I recall, the PS3 was about $800 US. It could replace the following hardware: Blu-ray player, DVD player, CD player, PS1, PS2, PC (taking advantage of the Linux option), Anything that has a PPC emulator for Linux (NES, Sega, etc.), DVR (so I've heard), and possibly others in one box.
It was the ideal machine for people in cramped living quarters (like are common in Japan). Replacing all of those things with an $800 device seems perfectly reasonable to me and is exactly why I wanted a PS3. However, not every person wants to drop $800 on a gaming console with all those bells and whistles which is fine.
Because people weren't spending the money, those devices were removed from regular production and features began to be dropped. This is where Sony went wrong and why it took this long to be profitable. Instead, a base model and one with slight upgrades from the base, should have been the ones available in stores making the bulk of the money. Then, online, higher grades should have been available on special order that could do all of these things for the people who wanted (or needed) it.
At the risk of sounding ignorant, how does the ability to install an OS on the hard drive allow you to cheat in a PS3 game? How can that even remotely be a possibility?! I'm not asking for a how-to here just a vague idea to make me believe it's even possible. It smells like a load of crap to me, but might be a defensible reason if it can be backed up with some evidence. So far Sony has taken away both of the reasons for me to want a PS3: first the backward compatibility, now the OS installation. So looks like it'll be me and my PS2 for a while to come.
On my Dell laptop, the SysRq key, while not labeled, is still the same as the Print Screen key, like on most keyboards.
I disagree wholeheartedly. I am a Linux user (various distros including Ubuntu, Arch, Debian, Puppy and DSL). It is not important to standardize Linux. It is indeed about choice, but the choice doesn't have to be confining. Several Linux toolkits (WxWidgits, GTK and Qt to my knowledge) all work on Windows and possibly Mac OS as well. They don't have to be unified, the applications don't have to be consistent. In the sound department however, I have to say that I agree, but ALSA seems to be the de facto standard in that every distro I have ever used has ALSA as an option, usually the default one. I am not, however, a Linux programmer so these differences have never deterred me. These applications need to just tell the user at download time what toolkit they use so that the user can just install it, which is simple enough in most distros. Linux on the desktop is not only used by enthusiasts, I have set several friends and family members (of an extremely wide variety of skill-levels) up with Linux [Ubuntu and its brethren] on their machines because it simply does what they need and they were becoming frustrated with Windows. They enjoy it very much in the simplicity it provides. The toolkits and APIs are numerous enough and enough work across different platforms well enough if the number of cross-platform programs is any measurement. If they don't like it, they should create a new, standardized, open toolkit for cross-platform applications.
I actually don't mind the PSP. What I do mind is that unlike any other computerised platform they won't let me write code for it myself or use code that other people release legally (GPL, regular copyright, whatever). The PSP shouldn't have been marketed as so full-featured if they didn't want people taking advantage of it. It's a wonderful little device, I use mine, unhacked, for just about everything from playing games to listening to music. If they were to stop spewing this crap "oh piracy is killing us" and open up the platform, developers would flock. Of course it could be too little too late.
Exactly. In fact, to spite my college, I tend to release all papers to the public domain or a permissive license and then upload them to Archive.org or some such. I know for a fact that at my college (St. Petersburg College) all liberal arts students get to keep IP of their work. As a music major, this is very important to me. I feel that what you create at school is yours unless your college states explicitly otherwise in writing. It's not right to exploit students. Period.
....That's not the America I grew up in.
To be quite honest, it sounds like Nazi Germany to me. I live in Florida (which is COMPLETELY covered by the "Constitution free zone") and now, I am ANGRY. People need to get off their butts and get involved in politics so that the values of openness, honesty, liberty, freedom instead of this gestapo crap. In my opinion, if we're thinking like this, the terrorists have already won.