Although what we REALLY need a class on is "common sense" how to deal with money. Interest, balancing a 'checkbook'/banking account. Hell I'd settle for 'this is how you count back money.'
Spock doesn't use a tricorder tablet because it has a million features and CPU to spare. He uses it because it is handy and can connect to the Millenium Falcon when it needs to perform more CPU-intensive calculations.
...if ever an name was more apt... ( I assume this is on purpose)
Charles County, MD, USA is pretty much the same, with the exception that we are in a group with neighboring counties to more easily provide access to more books. It actually used to be nicer, when you could get books from the public library loaned to a High school library.
Luckily so far we have not experienced many visible cuts to our libraries.
Most phones can do that. If they could at some point make it behave like e-ink, that would reduce the consumption of power. Granted the battery in question would have to be much smaller. Also, I'm not sure if I'd want a battery that close to my head all the time...
Recharging at night while sleeping wouldn't be that bad. If they rig it with induction-charging it might not be too bad at all. Just set the glasses on the mat at night.
The unions are intended to do just that. However, I have found that they usually just hinder any progress unless it benefits them. Such as, for argument's sake, not being able to train anyone on new software, because we (technology) cannot require them to stay beyond their allotted union-agreed time. However, when they blow up their workstations because they do something wrong, it is my fault that they weren't trained on it.
I'd say, the concept of desktop as it was defined through 80s and 90s is beginning to die.
Agreed.
Smartphones, iPhones, iPods, and iPads are becoming major players. We've got an assortment of ebook readers and netbooks and whatnot that don't really run a traditional "desktop" OS of any kind. Even conventional Windows machines are shipping with stripped-down non-desktop environments loaded on them. My new Dell latitude came with some kind of Linux-based instant-on environment for surfing the web and reading email. Folks buy televisions and set-top boxes that'll stream content from YouTube or Hulu or Google or Netflix or wherever.
Exactly. And for the vast majority of people, the reason why all those examples do well (without Windows) is because there is (for the most part) no real need to configure, finagle, tweak, etc. what it is doing. It Just Works. However, with Linux as a desktop, that, for all intents and purposes, is not the case.
I have no doubt that Windows is going to hang around for a long time. And we're going to have desktop computers running desktop OS'es for a long time. But I think the relevance of the desktop is waning.
This is true. Most people just want to get to teh interwebz, and don't care how, asd long as it is fast and they don't have to do much to get there.
Folks are more interested in the content than how they access it. Folks want to pull up Facebook, they don't really care if they're doing it on an iPhone, or an Android phone, or a Mac, or a Windows box, or what. They just want their Facebook.
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Don't forget the witty retorts by the computer. Oh, and definitely the ejection seats...
touche.
And the Rabbit, let's not forget the Rabbit!
Or we can make it a car analogy - you'll sell more of the same car by naming it the "Mustang" instead of the "Cute Cuddly Kitten."
Well, there was the Pinto, or the Beetle, or just say screw it and go with G8, TT, and other equally stupid number-letter combinations...
Two words: Medical apps
a few more words: Badly coded apps
The first is the worst, because you can't always migrate to something better.
Two more words: educational software
As we like to say - Are you a programmer? can't get a job anywhere else because you aren't very good? Work for an educational software company!
Now add in that you might be working in an EDUCATION environment - where every tenured faculty member is also a brain-dead PHB.
And every student is a wannabe 1337 h4x0r...
Exactly. And at least where I went to school, they made you plan out said meals, and budget it.
Although what we REALLY need a class on is "common sense" how to deal with money. Interest, balancing a 'checkbook'/banking account. Hell I'd settle for 'this is how you count back money.'
That's what Home Economics used to be...
Wouldn't that make a zero-friction liquid, superfluous?
badump-ch!
Shoot to kill!
Spock doesn't use a tricorder tablet because it has a million features and CPU to spare. He uses it because it is handy and can connect to the Millenium Falcon when it needs to perform more CPU-intensive calculations.
...if ever an name was more apt... ( I assume this is on purpose)
Charles County, MD, USA is pretty much the same, with the exception that we are in a group with neighboring counties to more easily provide access to more books. It actually used to be nicer, when you could get books from the public library loaned to a High school library. Luckily so far we have not experienced many visible cuts to our libraries.
Yea, the whole batch of self-sealing stem bolts is probably bad.
Quark!
And we shall call it Radio Snack.
...or maybe Star-bits? (Yes, I know the technical term would be torx)
REAL enterprises use subspace transmissions.
and an ODN...
Most phones can do that. If they could at some point make it behave like e-ink, that would reduce the consumption of power. Granted the battery in question would have to be much smaller. Also, I'm not sure if I'd want a battery that close to my head all the time...
Recharging at night while sleeping wouldn't be that bad. If they rig it with induction-charging it might not be too bad at all. Just set the glasses on the mat at night.
Both sides are as guilty as the other for exploiting loopholes. The inflexibility of both sides causes the problems.
I agree. Not to say that Honeywell is right here with the allegations about their replacements, but both sides have allowed it to come to this.
The unions are intended to do just that. However, I have found that they usually just hinder any progress unless it benefits them. Such as, for argument's sake, not being able to train anyone on new software, because we (technology) cannot require them to stay beyond their allotted union-agreed time. However, when they blow up their workstations because they do something wrong, it is my fault that they weren't trained on it.
...and charge the workers money whether they wish to be in it or not.
Yea, we really need that slavery thing back in order to be able to run things profitably.
If the unions did what they were intended to do, instead of make the process as expensive and cumbersome as possible, I might agree with you.
Except for the standard USB port for connecting accessories...or can you plug in a digicam/SD card/etc through the micro USB connection?
looks like he may be in the running for a Darwin Award...
I'd say, the concept of desktop as it was defined through 80s and 90s is beginning to die.
Agreed.
Smartphones, iPhones, iPods, and iPads are becoming major players. We've got an assortment of ebook readers and netbooks and whatnot that don't really run a traditional "desktop" OS of any kind. Even conventional Windows machines are shipping with stripped-down non-desktop environments loaded on them. My new Dell latitude came with some kind of Linux-based instant-on environment for surfing the web and reading email. Folks buy televisions and set-top boxes that'll stream content from YouTube or Hulu or Google or Netflix or wherever.
Exactly. And for the vast majority of people, the reason why all those examples do well (without Windows) is because there is (for the most part) no real need to configure, finagle, tweak, etc. what it is doing. It Just Works. However, with Linux as a desktop, that, for all intents and purposes, is not the case.
I have no doubt that Windows is going to hang around for a long time. And we're going to have desktop computers running desktop OS'es for a long time. But I think the relevance of the desktop is waning.
This is true. Most people just want to get to teh interwebz, and don't care how, asd long as it is fast and they don't have to do much to get there.
Folks are more interested in the content than how they access it. Folks want to pull up Facebook, they don't really care if they're doing it on an iPhone, or an Android phone, or a Mac, or a Windows box, or what. They just want their Facebook.
See above.