Who predicted, when the RIAA began their lawsuit strategy, predicted that it would backfire in the long run? Please reference your previous slashdot posts as evidence.
It works great for train engines. But it either doesn't scale down to car size for technical reasons, or it doesn't scale down to car size for business reasons. Why?
...and you get just a tiny bit closer in relative complexity. But really, whoever publishes something that thinks comparing a TV to a computer has any validity whatsoever, should really just stick to watching the TV.
Once you get to the size of school district that you need a PhD to be a leader or decision maker, all you get are a bunch of incestuous ninnies that have no guts to buck the latest fad. I've been there, I've worked with these boneheads.
Add to that all the No Child Allowed To Get Ahead crap... the NCLB is just the latest trend in class warfare. It backs public schools into a corner with impossible to meet requirements. It's like expecting pole vaulters to keep clearing the bar no matter how high up you move it. But the invevitable "failures" will lead to School Vouchers.
I hope everyone realizes that School Vouchers won't allow anyone to attend better schools, it will just allow the already wealthy enough class to get subsidies for the private schools they already attend. Then the middle and lower classes will see their education system really go to shit. The corporations will come in licking their chops, and pretty soon all the poor people will learn is to drink Coke and eat at McDonalds.
You think education is expensive? Try ignorance...
Holy fuck, I need 2-3 screens for each one of my computers, not the other way around. Giving intelligent people more screen real estate, not less, is good for productivity. I guess this idea is for the hoardes of idiots out there that just can't cope with more than 640x480's worth of a single application at a time. Unfortunately, I know they are out there - I've had to "support" them before.
Poor kid's family has probably got lawyers crawling all over them to file defamation and other lawsuits. Then again, they might not be so poor after awhile if they do file a lawsuit.
What, it only takes 40 years for the DoD to pick up on cheesy B-grade sci fi movies?
I always really liked the skit about the "Snit" - scientists supposedly create an organism that is comprised of the perfect form of protein.
Interviewer: "What does it look like?" Scientist: "Kind of like guacamole, with eyes."
and a bit later on...
Scientist: "The only problem is we haven't figured out how to kill it." Interviewer: "Have you tried grinding it up?" Scientist: "Yes, we just get more snits.
and at the end...
Scientist: "And then there's the problem with the guards..." Interviewer: "What problem?" Scientist: "Last night, we had 2 150-pound guards. This morning, we had one 300-pound snit."
I heard about this over a year ago, and the explosion of DNA testing has led scientists and researchers to realize this is far more common that once thought. Hermaphrodites are probably the most common noticeable result of this; spontaneous abortions are by far the most common (but not commonly linked to this cause) result, but many apparently 'normal' people also have more than one set of DNA that can be traced back to this. When a sperm penetrates an egg, the chemistry that blocks out other sperms is *almost* immediate, but not quite. There is a window of opportunity for this to happen. Go sperms go!
There are fairly strict laws about who is allowed to be an 'exempt' employee (exempt from hourly labor laws). Most of Google's administrative staff aren't going to qualify. They have to be put on the clock, and paid overtime if they work more than 40 a week. There are benefits to being an hourly worker.
It really won't. Lobbyists and a propaganda machine for a couple years, or a popular tiny fraction of protected works, or whatever. It might make a few waves in the pond, but it's not going to change the water or the cretins lurking therin. You're gonna have to get closer to a billion to blow the current mess out of the water. Really.
There are an awful lot of ways for this to go wrong. But no matter how else Vista or XP sucks, the computers treat everyone - black, white, rich, poor, male, female, short, tall, skinny, fat - the same. Hey, even rich white male CEO's get BSOD's! But despite the fact that the technology will treat these kids with the same respect that it treats everyone else, I didn't see anyting in the article that indicates this school will do any better at teaching kids personal responsibility than a regular high school. In fact the value of the technology in the building could turn out to be an "attractive nuisance".
My wife (uses a powerbook running OSX) HATES every software update I run on the computer. It always makes some change to some app, like iPhoto, that moves, hides, or changes some function she had previously figured out. And she bitches at me about it. The last time I attended a meeting where a Microsoft Rep did a presentation for the new Office UI, the Rep literally said, "Everyone has gotten so used to this old toolbar, and have learned how to do the few things they need to with it. So we're going to change it, to make it easier for users to learn how to do more with it." Brilliant. NO, they are just going to have to re-learn how to do the few things they already know how to do. And they are going to complain. And anyone that does end-user computer support is going to take the heat.
I have to agree that the ribbon is "better" in that it does make it easier to find functins and settings that you don't already know. And I use Word infrequently enough (lucky me!) that the ribbon is a real improvement. But, the wife would bitch about it for weeks, just because it's a change.
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...that have software subscriptions anyway. At first.
I'm as big an Apple Fanboy as any, but the daily iPhone woodies from the editors is even making ME puke. Please guys, lay off the Kool-Aide!
Who predicted, when the RIAA began their lawsuit strategy, predicted that it would backfire in the long run? Please reference your previous slashdot posts as evidence.
It works great for train engines. But it either doesn't scale down to car size for technical reasons, or it doesn't scale down to car size for business reasons. Why?
(score -1: really, really f'ing lame)
"Engineers don't think the intense heat could burn through the graphite structure underneath it and jeopardize the spacecraft.
...near the end of the article. WTF?
But it could damage the shuttle, requiring repairs after landing..."
...the sound of someone laughing - all the way to the bank.
...and you get just a tiny bit closer in relative complexity. But really, whoever publishes something that thinks comparing a TV to a computer has any validity whatsoever, should really just stick to watching the TV.
...it would go great on a ham sandwich!
Once you get to the size of school district that you need a PhD to be a leader or decision maker, all you get are a bunch of incestuous ninnies that have no guts to buck the latest fad. I've been there, I've worked with these boneheads.
Add to that all the No Child Allowed To Get Ahead crap... the NCLB is just the latest trend in class warfare. It backs public schools into a corner with impossible to meet requirements. It's like expecting pole vaulters to keep clearing the bar no matter how high up you move it. But the invevitable "failures" will lead to School Vouchers.
I hope everyone realizes that School Vouchers won't allow anyone to attend better schools, it will just allow the already wealthy enough class to get subsidies for the private schools they already attend. Then the middle and lower classes will see their education system really go to shit. The corporations will come in licking their chops, and pretty soon all the poor people will learn is to drink Coke and eat at McDonalds.
You think education is expensive? Try ignorance...
Holy fuck, I need 2-3 screens for each one of my computers, not the other way around. Giving intelligent people more screen real estate, not less, is good for productivity. I guess this idea is for the hoardes of idiots out there that just can't cope with more than 640x480's worth of a single application at a time. Unfortunately, I know they are out there - I've had to "support" them before.
Poor kid's family has probably got lawyers crawling all over them to file defamation and other lawsuits. Then again, they might not be so poor after awhile if they do file a lawsuit.
They need that much horsepower to encode and decode 1080p H.264.
What, it only takes 40 years for the DoD to pick up on cheesy B-grade sci fi movies?
I always really liked the skit about the "Snit" - scientists supposedly create an organism that is comprised of the perfect form of protein.
Interviewer: "What does it look like?"
Scientist: "Kind of like guacamole, with eyes."
and a bit later on...
Scientist: "The only problem is we haven't figured out how to kill it."
Interviewer: "Have you tried grinding it up?"
Scientist: "Yes, we just get more snits.
and at the end...
Scientist: "And then there's the problem with the guards..."
Interviewer: "What problem?"
Scientist: "Last night, we had 2 150-pound guards. This morning, we had one 300-pound snit."
Was this a Monty Python skit?
I think this guy's brain has been baked, fried, and scrambled!
I heard about this over a year ago, and the explosion of DNA testing has led scientists and researchers to realize this is far more common that once thought. Hermaphrodites are probably the most common noticeable result of this; spontaneous abortions are by far the most common (but not commonly linked to this cause) result, but many apparently 'normal' people also have more than one set of DNA that can be traced back to this. When a sperm penetrates an egg, the chemistry that blocks out other sperms is *almost* immediate, but not quite. There is a window of opportunity for this to happen. Go sperms go!
There are fairly strict laws about who is allowed to be an 'exempt' employee (exempt from hourly labor laws). Most of Google's administrative staff aren't going to qualify. They have to be put on the clock, and paid overtime if they work more than 40 a week. There are benefits to being an hourly worker.
ck Microsoft? With the help of Google? Who would have thought? That's why Gates is getting a little jumpy...
It really won't. Lobbyists and a propaganda machine for a couple years, or a popular tiny fraction of protected works, or whatever. It might make a few waves in the pond, but it's not going to change the water or the cretins lurking therin. You're gonna have to get closer to a billion to blow the current mess out of the water. Really.
So fucking what?
We should be able to get some very definitive pictures of the lost European rover with this thing. When are we going to get those?
There are an awful lot of ways for this to go wrong. But no matter how else Vista or XP sucks, the computers treat everyone - black, white, rich, poor, male, female, short, tall, skinny, fat - the same. Hey, even rich white male CEO's get BSOD's! But despite the fact that the technology will treat these kids with the same respect that it treats everyone else, I didn't see anyting in the article that indicates this school will do any better at teaching kids personal responsibility than a regular high school. In fact the value of the technology in the building could turn out to be an "attractive nuisance".
...one entity gathers what another entity spills...
My wife (uses a powerbook running OSX) HATES every software update I run on the computer. It always makes some change to some app, like iPhoto, that moves, hides, or changes some function she had previously figured out. And she bitches at me about it. The last time I attended a meeting where a Microsoft Rep did a presentation for the new Office UI, the Rep literally said, "Everyone has gotten so used to this old toolbar, and have learned how to do the few things they need to with it. So we're going to change it, to make it easier for users to learn how to do more with it." Brilliant. NO, they are just going to have to re-learn how to do the few things they already know how to do. And they are going to complain. And anyone that does end-user computer support is going to take the heat.
I have to agree that the ribbon is "better" in that it does make it easier to find functins and settings that you don't already know. And I use Word infrequently enough (lucky me!) that the ribbon is a real improvement. But, the wife would bitch about it for weeks, just because it's a change.
..and it seems like the smallest minds are the lightest, so they tend to float to the top.