I wonder what Guinness would do if someone registered a slew of "www.guinnessrules.com" "www.guinnesstastesgreat.com" "www.guinness-beer-of-champions.com"
websites with no intention of making them actual sites that go aywhere or do anything. Anyone have any comments on how corps react to websites that put their company in a POSITIVE light?
Well, how about this: people used to buy insurance because they "don't know what the unknown, black, scarry future has in store! Oh no!!" But now, if Insurance companies use genetic data to deny you coverage because you're at a high risk of prostate cancer, then DON'T BUY INSURANCE.
I want to see a new kind of company that sees your genetic data(by permission of course) and sits you down with a doctor and says "Looks you're at high risk of Prostate Cancer. Let's look at the numbers and see how you can start preparing to meet this potential need in the future. Dr. Soandso recomends these adjustments to your eating habits to help reduce your risk.." I mean, if you know that on January 21st, 2003 that you're going to suffer from [insert illness], wouldn't you be preparing?
Let's start seeing more companies that provide SOLUTIONS to health problems, instead of just throwing around money.
Computers are tools in education. And like any tool, they're only as good as the craftsman behind them. Picture an ice sculptor with a chainsaw and ice pick. Picture a lumberjack with a chainsaw and an icepick... The first step in making computers effective in the classroom (besides just getting them there) is to educate the teachers we have now and the ones we WILL have, in how to use the computer(laptop, desktop, palmtop) more effectively in their curriculum. Simply placing computers in the classroom and expecting a higher degree of education or understanding of academic materials is ridiculous. Put kids in a classroom with Encyclopedias, white boards, dictonary, Learning Posters, calculators and expect them to be better educated simply because of the presance of these things is equally ridiculous. If Teachers were given the proper training and education, then they themselves could go out there and find solutions to their lack or teaching tools. Who here reading this knows how powerful a 486DX66 running Linux on a T1 w/ Internet access can be for researching needs? I doubt that many teachers think anything less than a PII500 in Win98 w/ Interent Access can be as effective. If Teachers simply had the know-how and skills to put computers, even old donated ones, into good use-- then perhaps we would see the effectiveness of computers in the classroom. Then perhaps we would see our $200 "Web Pad" that takes over the task of the old Packard Bell 486 sitting in the back of the classroom.
I think that all Operating Systems need to take a more scaled-down approach to their interfaces. Even Windows is too much for some people. Perhaps to keep the Web-appliance company: the work-appliance? Look at what HP is doing.(really go look-> http://www.hp.com) How much more does an average office-worker need besides a word processor, database, a browser, a file manager, an email client and a cup of coffee? Because face it: most users don't use but 25% of their workstation's total potential. And most are so un-computer-skilled, they tell me things like, "Well, if the shotcut is not on the desktop, then it's not installed, right?" Inexpensive computers whose full potential users utilize every day. Basic and user-friendly(which used to mean "makes the sysadmin think he's running a day-care, not a network) operating systems. Maybe it's time for an OS that doesn't display so many error messages, but conencts the user to the help desk for training on what they did wrong. Okay I think I rambling now... ****45*****
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I wonder what Guinness would do if someone registered a slew of
"www.guinnessrules.com"
"www.guinnesstastesgreat.com"
"www.guinness-beer-of-champions.com"
websites with no intention of making them actual sites that go aywhere or do anything. Anyone have any comments on how corps react to websites that put their company in a POSITIVE light?
Well, how about this: people used to buy insurance because they "don't know what the unknown, black, scarry future has in store! Oh no!!" But now, if Insurance companies use genetic data to deny you coverage because you're at a high risk of prostate cancer, then DON'T BUY INSURANCE. I want to see a new kind of company that sees your genetic data(by permission of course) and sits you down with a doctor and says "Looks you're at high risk of Prostate Cancer. Let's look at the numbers and see how you can start preparing to meet this potential need in the future. Dr. Soandso recomends these adjustments to your eating habits to help reduce your risk.." I mean, if you know that on January 21st, 2003 that you're going to suffer from [insert illness], wouldn't you be preparing? Let's start seeing more companies that provide SOLUTIONS to health problems, instead of just throwing around money.
Computers are tools in education. And like any tool, they're only as good as the craftsman behind them. Picture an ice sculptor with a chainsaw and ice pick. Picture a lumberjack with a chainsaw and an icepick...
The first step in making computers effective in the classroom (besides just getting them there) is to educate the teachers we have now and the ones we WILL have, in how to use the computer(laptop, desktop, palmtop) more effectively in their curriculum.
Simply placing computers in the classroom and expecting a higher degree of education or understanding of academic materials is ridiculous. Put kids in a classroom with Encyclopedias, white boards, dictonary, Learning Posters, calculators and expect them to be better educated simply because of the presance of these things is equally ridiculous.
If Teachers were given the proper training and education, then they themselves could go out there and find solutions to their lack or teaching tools. Who here reading this knows how powerful a 486DX66 running Linux on a T1 w/ Internet access can be for researching needs? I doubt that many teachers think anything less than a PII500 in Win98 w/ Interent Access can be as effective. If Teachers simply had the know-how and skills to put computers, even old donated ones, into good use-- then perhaps we would see the effectiveness of computers in the classroom. Then perhaps we would see our $200 "Web Pad" that takes over the task of the old Packard Bell 486 sitting in the back of the classroom.
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I think that all Operating Systems need to take a more scaled-down approach to their interfaces. Even Windows is too much for some people. Perhaps to keep the Web-appliance company: the work-appliance? Look at what HP is doing.(really go look-> http://www.hp.com) How much more does an average office-worker need besides a word processor, database, a browser, a file manager, an email client and a cup of coffee? Because face it: most users don't use but 25% of their workstation's total potential. And most are so un-computer-skilled, they tell me things like, "Well, if the shotcut is not on the desktop, then it's not installed, right?" Inexpensive computers whose full potential users utilize every day. Basic and user-friendly(which used to mean "makes the sysadmin think he's running a day-care, not a network) operating systems. Maybe it's time for an OS that doesn't display so many error messages, but conencts the user to the help desk for training on what they did wrong. Okay I think I rambling now... ****45*****