Would make an interesting combination for people who used to have old computers hooked up to TV sets for monitors like I did back in the day. Even though Raspberry Pi is using a few flavors of Linux, having a DOS option like that would be awesome in a retro kind of way.
Before my university instituted a software lock down kit and group policies on their Windows machines we had a major problem keeping computers running software wise because students would stick all kinds of junk on lab PCs. Once our plan was put in to effect the devices were used more for what they were intended. The lesson is no different for devices like the iPad if it's school property. Lock it down or deal with the consequences.
Lock them down, you need to assert control over school electronic property. This should go beyond what walled gardens like Apple does and if Apple can't provide that kind of control to individual institutions then you need to look to other tools instead of iPads and such. Just because a student can take it home doesn't mean the student should have complete control of the device since it's still school property.
That sounds like something from my parents generation where you could get a job and feel like it was stable. Business these days has proven over and over again that a job is not stable like it used to be. The norm is to move on more then it was back then and people have changed. If you want people to stick around longer then the norm needs to swing back to long term with good pay and benefits. Otherwise enjoy the turn over rates staying high as the people you try to employee look out for their own bottom lines since their job isn't helping in that area like it once was.
I will say this, I'm thankful I found a job where I can do the 5, 10, 15 year thing. Maybe I'll get lucky and do it as long as my father did in his 42 years of service at one company. Who knows though in this day and age?
Textbooks yanked from students iPads during a semester because of DRM glitch. Thousands of kids are unable to do their book work as teachers scramble to come up with alternatives while the issue gets resolved between the publisher, Apple, and anyone else.
*Whump* It may be old, it may be so yesteryear but a book works fine. Not to mention as a learning tool it also makes a great:
* Blunt object to smack the bully who's harassing you with if he tries to take it from you.
* Something to stand on to reach that higher shelf
* Foot rest when doing something other then Calculus or Physics. God those books weighed a ton!
* Something your kid could poke around in when your older and not have to deal with DRM restrictions that lock the title to you alone. Seriously I found my parents old math books in the attic one day and I was amazed going through them when I was younger.
* It works great when the batteries are dead and you have a candle to read by.
Now that I've ranted I'll get off the lawn before the guy with the stone tablets comes out and yells at me. Don't ask him how he parted the waters in his birdbath. You'll get your ear talked off.
As an American I feel we need to eat our own dog food before pushing it on to others. It's not about being popular, it's about holding people accountable for practicing what they preach to others.
Laundry list of past attempts -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_the_United_States (CDA, COPA, DMCA, COPPA, CIPA, COICA, and my favorite named DOPA.)
Seti just listens and doesn't really poke things. I don't think we have the ability to actively poke something 600 light years away. How can anything really know we're watching if we're only using passive means to observe it? The time to start worrying maybe is when our radio and TV signals finally reach that planet.
This is really just writing on the wall that the world is screwed because people won't change especially if it impacts their wallets. By the time they realize they should have it will be too late. Hell when you got countries like China threatening to throw more garbage in the air if they don't get their way you know there isn't much you can do.
Now if something happens and shatters the glass, not only do you have to clean up broken glass but deal with an angry swarm of bees in your apartment. Bet these things would be a hoot in earthquake prone areas.
1> Don't change what isn't broken. My mother took forever to figure out XP and now she's stumbled through Windows 7. I really don't want to think what will happen with Windows 8. Don't say you can still get to the Windows 7 interface. It's not the same as running vanilla Windows 7 for a USER. (Key being the four letter word at the end.)
2> As I get older I find myself in the category of a USER more and more and I like keeping things consistent so I can focus on newer things myself. I don't like disruptions that have me relearning the way I do things just because somebody else thinks they can give me a better way. If I want an improvement I'll ask for it. I haven't needed anything major since the transition from Windows 3.1 to 95/98/XP/etc. This is why I won't be buying Windows 8, I don't like the direction they're heading with the interface. I do like their modularity idea I just wish they'd leave the desktop to the desktop and the phone interface to tablets and phones.
"This is the first time that the exact location and nature of the flaw has been made public."
They want to push Metro out as the replacement. Anything that knocks down older technologies that even they sold at one time helps. Great way to push people off another possible Internet Explorer 6 so to speak for Windows 8.
That phone screen looks like something from the CGA display days. My first thought was, "Deskmate? Is that you? How did you get off my old Tandy?" Seriously I can't believe they're pushing that interface to Windows 8 for the desktop.
I'll stick with Minecraft and Champions Online. I'm tired of the WoW treadmill after 6 years. Best of all Champions is cheaper then WoW if you stay silver.
I've been using Ubuntu for a while now on my laptop and on my Desktop. They currently run the 10.4 LTS version which is Gnome 2.x so I have a third system (netbook) which I play around with the new Unity releases on since Unity is geared for that stuff. I have to say that I enjoyed the flexibility of the original Netbook Edition then the spawn which is Unity it fostered. That offered more control over how things looked then the current Unity does. I installed KDE and XFCE from the package manager today on my systems, I'm now trying to determine which flavor I want to jump to from the main Ubuntu branch since Unity is going to be the new way of things.
Side note, I sure as hell am not going back to Windows full time especially after I saw that Microsoft was pulling a Unity with Windows 8 by slapping the Windows Phone 7 interface on it and calling it the future. Seriously developers, if you want do build something for tablets and phones then STICK with tablets and phones and stay off my desktop OS's. I'm not forking over an arm and a leg for touch screens to get crudded up as badly as my cheap keyboards and mice do.
It's just some company donating to his campaign trying to get a win on the Government slot machine for spending by using a politically corrupt politician to push their snake oil as a miracle cure for something. People aren't thinking of the children by any stretch of the imagination. They are either only thinking of their campaign donations or investors depending on what part of this you look at. The general public be damned since they'll be footing the bill for this if it were to go through.
Can you imagine humans living longer and the birth rate of longer lived humans? What kind of impact would our planet experience from this?
As extreme as this is, Google -> Star Trek's Mark of Gideon
Those people held the views similar to the anti-abortion crowd and look where it got them ultimately. I'm not trying to start a flame war about things but it's a serious issue with longer lived humans who can't even get off their own world to spread themselves out more.
Which is about how I feel it will be since I can't customize Unity the way I want. I want everything on a top bar or bottom bar. That side bar drives me nuts.
I'd join the protest if I wasn't taking care of my Mother after my Father died. I think it's a crock how things are but I also feel the top 1% aren't fully to blame. The 99% needs to learn to not be asleep at the wheel half the time and learn to say no together in order to get things done like boycotting things and not just go for "I got mine, too bad about yours" deals.
I've heard plenty of stories of people taking up better jobs only to be unemployed a few months later because of lousy bosses, company going under, etc. Everyone says screw it and take the offer but make sure it'll be around for you and the new people are people you can deal with.
Get as many of them as you can if they exist and run around to people setting them off. Be sure to type "Ssssssssssssssss...." in chat before it goes off and make sure you are wearing as much green as possible.
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Thanks for the smiles. I wish I had mod points.
Would make an interesting combination for people who used to have old computers hooked up to TV sets for monitors like I did back in the day. Even though Raspberry Pi is using a few flavors of Linux, having a DOS option like that would be awesome in a retro kind of way.
Before my university instituted a software lock down kit and group policies on their Windows machines we had a major problem keeping computers running software wise because students would stick all kinds of junk on lab PCs. Once our plan was put in to effect the devices were used more for what they were intended. The lesson is no different for devices like the iPad if it's school property. Lock it down or deal with the consequences.
Lock them down, you need to assert control over school electronic property. This should go beyond what walled gardens like Apple does and if Apple can't provide that kind of control to individual institutions then you need to look to other tools instead of iPads and such. Just because a student can take it home doesn't mean the student should have complete control of the device since it's still school property.
That sounds like something from my parents generation where you could get a job and feel like it was stable. Business these days has proven over and over again that a job is not stable like it used to be. The norm is to move on more then it was back then and people have changed. If you want people to stick around longer then the norm needs to swing back to long term with good pay and benefits. Otherwise enjoy the turn over rates staying high as the people you try to employee look out for their own bottom lines since their job isn't helping in that area like it once was.
I will say this, I'm thankful I found a job where I can do the 5, 10, 15 year thing. Maybe I'll get lucky and do it as long as my father did in his 42 years of service at one company. Who knows though in this day and age?
You mean like how they handled Operation Fast and Furious?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Fast_and_Furious
Textbooks yanked from students iPads during a semester because of DRM glitch. Thousands of kids are unable to do their book work as teachers scramble to come up with alternatives while the issue gets resolved between the publisher, Apple, and anyone else.
*Whump* It may be old, it may be so yesteryear but a book works fine. Not to mention as a learning tool it also makes a great:
* Blunt object to smack the bully who's harassing you with if he tries to take it from you.
* Something to stand on to reach that higher shelf
* Foot rest when doing something other then Calculus or Physics. God those books weighed a ton!
* Something your kid could poke around in when your older and not have to deal with DRM restrictions that lock the title to you alone. Seriously I found my parents old math books in the attic one day and I was amazed going through them when I was younger.
* It works great when the batteries are dead and you have a candle to read by.
Now that I've ranted I'll get off the lawn before the guy with the stone tablets comes out and yells at me. Don't ask him how he parted the waters in his birdbath. You'll get your ear talked off.
As an American I feel we need to eat our own dog food before pushing it on to others. It's not about being popular, it's about holding people accountable for practicing what they preach to others.
SOPA -> http://articles.nydailynews.com/2011-11-17/news/30412322_1_ip-act-rogue-websites-sopa
Laundry list of past attempts -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_the_United_States
(CDA, COPA, DMCA, COPPA, CIPA, COICA, and my favorite named DOPA.)
Seti just listens and doesn't really poke things. I don't think we have the ability to actively poke something 600 light years away. How can anything really know we're watching if we're only using passive means to observe it? The time to start worrying maybe is when our radio and TV signals finally reach that planet.
This is really just writing on the wall that the world is screwed because people won't change especially if it impacts their wallets. By the time they realize they should have it will be too late. Hell when you got countries like China threatening to throw more garbage in the air if they don't get their way you know there isn't much you can do.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/china-threatens-massive-venting-of-super-greenhouse-gases-in-attempt-to-extort-billions-as-unfccc-meeting-approaches-2011-11-08
Now if something happens and shatters the glass, not only do you have to clean up broken glass but deal with an angry swarm of bees in your apartment. Bet these things would be a hoot in earthquake prone areas.
I have two main reasons..
1> Don't change what isn't broken. My mother took forever to figure out XP and now she's stumbled through Windows 7. I really don't want to think what will happen with Windows 8. Don't say you can still get to the Windows 7 interface. It's not the same as running vanilla Windows 7 for a USER. (Key being the four letter word at the end.)
2> As I get older I find myself in the category of a USER more and more and I like keeping things consistent so I can focus on newer things myself. I don't like disruptions that have me relearning the way I do things just because somebody else thinks they can give me a better way. If I want an improvement I'll ask for it. I haven't needed anything major since the transition from Windows 3.1 to 95/98/XP/etc. This is why I won't be buying Windows 8, I don't like the direction they're heading with the interface. I do like their modularity idea I just wish they'd leave the desktop to the desktop and the phone interface to tablets and phones.
"This is the first time that the exact location and nature of the flaw has been made public."
They want to push Metro out as the replacement. Anything that knocks down older technologies that even they sold at one time helps. Great way to push people off another possible Internet Explorer 6 so to speak for Windows 8.
And you thought they'd only build it as a box?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z86V_ICUCD4
That phone screen looks like something from the CGA display days. My first thought was, "Deskmate? Is that you? How did you get off my old Tandy?" Seriously I can't believe they're pushing that interface to Windows 8 for the desktop.
I'll stick with Minecraft and Champions Online. I'm tired of the WoW treadmill after 6 years. Best of all Champions is cheaper then WoW if you stay silver.
I've been using Ubuntu for a while now on my laptop and on my Desktop. They currently run the 10.4 LTS version which is Gnome 2.x so I have a third system (netbook) which I play around with the new Unity releases on since Unity is geared for that stuff. I have to say that I enjoyed the flexibility of the original Netbook Edition then the spawn which is Unity it fostered. That offered more control over how things looked then the current Unity does. I installed KDE and XFCE from the package manager today on my systems, I'm now trying to determine which flavor I want to jump to from the main Ubuntu branch since Unity is going to be the new way of things.
Side note, I sure as hell am not going back to Windows full time especially after I saw that Microsoft was pulling a Unity with Windows 8 by slapping the Windows Phone 7 interface on it and calling it the future. Seriously developers, if you want do build something for tablets and phones then STICK with tablets and phones and stay off my desktop OS's. I'm not forking over an arm and a leg for touch screens to get crudded up as badly as my cheap keyboards and mice do.
It's just some company donating to his campaign trying to get a win on the Government slot machine for spending by using a politically corrupt politician to push their snake oil as a miracle cure for something. People aren't thinking of the children by any stretch of the imagination. They are either only thinking of their campaign donations or investors depending on what part of this you look at. The general public be damned since they'll be footing the bill for this if it were to go through.
I'm not happy with 3.x and I made sure to point out that I found the 2.x Gnome to be my favored environment.
Can you imagine humans living longer and the birth rate of longer lived humans? What kind of impact would our planet experience from this?
As extreme as this is, Google -> Star Trek's Mark of Gideon
Those people held the views similar to the anti-abortion crowd and look where it got them ultimately. I'm not trying to start a flame war about things but it's a serious issue with longer lived humans who can't even get off their own world to spread themselves out more.
Pungent Polecat
Which is about how I feel it will be since I can't customize Unity the way I want. I want everything on a top bar or bottom bar. That side bar drives me nuts.
I'd join the protest if I wasn't taking care of my Mother after my Father died. I think it's a crock how things are but I also feel the top 1% aren't fully to blame. The 99% needs to learn to not be asleep at the wheel half the time and learn to say no together in order to get things done like boycotting things and not just go for "I got mine, too bad about yours" deals.
I've heard plenty of stories of people taking up better jobs only to be unemployed a few months later because of lousy bosses, company going under, etc. Everyone says screw it and take the offer but make sure it'll be around for you and the new people are people you can deal with.
Get as many of them as you can if they exist and run around to people setting them off. Be sure to type "Ssssssssssssssss...." in chat before it goes off and make sure you are wearing as much green as possible.