Was this a techie discovery or did the people watching "Cyborg" "Rocky V" and "Hot Dog" just feel there was something missing?
I never noticed - and I've got Bull Durham, Spinal Tap, Wanda, Princess Bride, UHF, & Hollywood Shuffle (we almost busted a gut in Savannah last summer when we were served "Hoe Cakes" at Paula Deen's - never knew they were for real - not to mention the Cracker Pudding in Amish country...)
I'll get the replacements if they're fixed, if not - eh.
I didn't apply to Harvard. The point still stands.
According to state law as reported here and elsewhere, since California has adoted the UTSA, Apple has cause to pursue this. Yes it is a tort, not a criminal case. I followed original suggestions that the criminal code was involved. My bad.
There are limits to protected speech. I never said only Woodward et. al were protected, but the first amendment isn't intended to shield from litigation people who simply decide they want to be party to a breach of contract for their own entertainment.
No one is saying he can't say it - they did say that to the poor sap at Apple, though. They're saying if he does say it they'll use the UTSA to sue him.
Kidding aside, this is powerful stuff. I prefer the sort of biographies James Burke does in ecxplaining history - you realize things aren't as cut and dried and holy as they seem.
I constantly tell my students and teachers that if they don't pay attention, when they get to college they'll realize what a piece of cake HS was, in grad school they'll realize how much easier undergrad was, when they get a job they'll long for the days of grad school, etc... but if they push and act like a demanding comsumer, each experience can be the best prep they can get for the next.
Demand. One of my former students who's now at CMU Robotics came back to present to current students - he showed off some of his work but then got to the heart of it - never let your teachers off the hook. If they give you a textbook answer, press them. If they say they don't know, the next thing out of their or your mouth should be 'let's find out how to find out'... Never take no for an answer from someone in charge of your future. The late Paul Brandwein used to talk about how ENcouraging students literally means increasing their courage, and DIScouraging students only serves to literally decrease their courage. You want courageous students (OK - hopefully just short of trying out for "Jackass" - but it's their skeletal system...) who truly believe they can make a difference.
I sat thru so many college courses taight by people who were a chapter ahead of us and considered themselves the World's Foremost Authority... During the 80s I could tell my computer students that the mass market software they were seeing was being done by people who had 6 months lead time and a stack of books that you too could buy. I referred them to ads asking for people with 5 years experience on technologies that were 5 years old.
The ones who saw thru the hype and had the courage and believed have done amazing things at all levels - from raising amazing kids to inventing things to changing a small corner of the world.
it's as simple as you like and as powerful as you'll need.
yeah, i know it's not completely invulnerable forever, but using mail.app spam is swept away regardless of isp, and using safari.app spyware has yet to rear its ugly head while my colleagues run a daily or weekly spate of apps to keep ahead of the mess.
He was on PBS for a while - dressed like a John Belushi Samurai for impulse / momentum... Jumped into a vat of non-newtonian cornstarch solution (and then stumbled and watched slow flow engulf the front rows of the audience).
1. Pre-beta. Isn't that 'alpha'? But of course seeing the sleep-inducing buzzword-happy faux-cheerleading lead-balloon Office demo at MacWorld last year, what else could you expect with MS trying to make things 'simpler'.
2. "First, the company wants to make sure that first time PC users in new markets have the right product at the right price, on the right hardware, and with the right features. " So resell Mini Macs. ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H OK - that does not mean ANOTHER OS for newbies - it means you should have thought of this Day 1 and implemented it in all consumer editions. This is simpler?
3. 3? How did they decide this? He later states that most people want to do 4 things (including 'help with homework' - which isn't 1 thing...) Ya think maybe giving the same standing in the task bar for any open window as an open app is the real problem here? What happens when rogue apps eat up your three slots - you get a three step modal error message! Do they mean real apps or processes? Does systray count?
4. Great. They'll spoon-feed this to tech minstries in developing contries, where the anti-trust laws are weaker than US. All so people who spend 20 hours a week getting food and decent water so they can repel real virii can now spend untold hours fighting the electronic kind too.
5. The fact that your market penetration is 2% does not mean this is a pressing need in that population. How about The Gates Foundation puts a worldband radio in each home? That will do more to educate and connect people than a PC will ever do in places with lousy land lines. Suppose the Indian Ocean countries do get thast tsunami warning system they should have - what would you bet on - needing to check your email to see if a wall of death is coming later today, or a worldband radio with weather alert? Or see NPR's story yesterday on how clueless the Iraqis are about the more than 100 names and/or parties on their national ballot.
6. Choices, choices, choices. UI is supposed to be permissive & forgiving. Go back and read that sentence again. Now - "in Thailand, users complained that they didn't like the female voice in the help videos, because it sounded too much like a cranky, older teacher. They asked for a younger, friendlier-sounding voice that was less intimidating. So Microsoft changed the voice." Apple, with 1/10 the R&D of MS can somehow provide a dozen voices for use in narration - MS supplies one, then has to go back to the lab to rip one out and jam in another one?
7. Is there a Great Wall of Redmond? "One of the things our research has found is that some people like to learn by reading, while others like to be shown what to do," Any certified teacher - hell - any first year education major could have told you this for free. You hired researchers to figure this out?
8. "Thurrot" is apparently French for "Dvorak". "It's just too bad that the ivory tower critics can't see beyond their own insular worlds" - welcome to the Mac users' problem with this guy - condescending, throws out insulting lines like that often, and assumes that {{insert favorite MS product here}} product is superior and sees nothing but sunny days ahead, the rest of the world be damned. Let's see what happens in the trenches, and let's not forget Microsoft BOB, Windows ME, and Microsoft Works - all attempts at making things easier that were all things that hobbled good ideas instead of simplifying needed tasks and are now in the dustbin.
There's this bar - and there's a Chinese guy and a Jewish guy who find themselves seated next to each other a couple of nights. Things are going pretty good until one night after a few too many, the Jewish guy hauls off and decks the Chinese guy. The Chinese guy picks himself up and says "What the hell was that for?!" The Jewish guy snaps "That was for bombing Pearl Harbor." "Pearl Harbor? Pearl harbor was bombed by the Japanese!" The Jewish guy shrugs "Chinese, Japanese, what's the difference?!" The next night they find themselves at the bar again, and after a snootful, the Chinese guy hauls off and decks the Jewish guy. He picks himself up and shouts "What the hell was THAT for?" The Chinese guy says "THAT was for sinking the Titanic!" "Are you nuts? The Titanic was sunk by an iceberg?!" "Yeah, well - iceberg, Goldberg - what's the difference?!"
Alas, someone in our neighborhood has a pirate station, and he's belting it out so high that we get interference on Ch 6 both off the air and on cable. Outside of driving around looking for a melting antenna, any idea how to sniff these idiots out?
...The only shows he watches are those he buys on DVD. He particularly loved the first season of Paris Hilton's The Simple Life. "You can watch that show for six hours," Cohen says, "and your brain is still empty."
(and we travel to campground for about 90% of our three-season travel here in the NE)
is that in the well-equipped private CGs you have a post or a tree that feeds you water, main power, phone and cable TV. Granted the phone is hardly used anymore with cell service being what it is, but they need to accommodate the campers, and with many of them being pop-ups and smaller vans, the line is blurred between a tent and vehicle site.
The state CGs are somewhere in the middle, and the feds are a patch of land, a painted number on a stone or post and a fire ring. They often do not have even showers (Acadia for instance has none - there are several well known shower services on your way back to camp).
There are times when I want to be at Seawall, lock the car for the week, and go without the bare minimum. Ride, splash, walk, eat, sleep. Then there's times when we'll bring everything including the laptop, digital camera, iPod, hole up in a private CG with free hot showers, power at the site and now I can't wait to use the new peltier fridge and not have to toss a coin about the safety of the food after five days.
Network access is just like the other things - but now they can deploy them without running yet another wire that can break to each site. And the states and feds who had few or no wire services to sites can add this without digging trenches to each site.
And here here on the generator issue - this is far down on the scale of annoying things in a campground - its way below generators and way WAY below 2AM returns on Harleys. In many campgrounds the most annoying things tend to be alcohol-fueled, and I don't mean sterno stoves.
A lot of campers believe they can simply replace their house with thin nylon walls and carry on like they were still inside an opaque, soundproof dwelling. How wrong they are. I'd swap laptops for boom boxes any day.
People camp for many reasons. To 'get a way from it all' (you never really do) to be in a more beautiful place (Passaconaway looks a bit better than RT 93 Exit 8) to live more simply but with some smarts. Each camper dials in the amount of those things they need. Good. We already bring a little / lot of our world with us when we camp - the technology in the stoves and GPS and NOAA and EPIRBs and watches we need isn't deemed terrible - they help. If my laptop doesn't disturb anyone else, and it helps me stay in touch and know about weather and going-on, great. There's a big difference between listening to the 90-min frequency NOAA voicecasts and seeing 15-min old color doppler radar. You'd be a fool to go to sea without weatherfax and several kinds of radio capabilities - ditto land nowadays.
I had to chuckle when the article mentioned cracking down on gambling and superstitious activities - at least at Mohegan Sun Casino (gambling = gambling, superstition = believing you're going to win at gambling) they have special staff and services and casino floor areas just for Asian gamblers, several dedicated bus lines that run from BOS and NYC Chinatowns whose scheduled stops are a series of Chinese groceries, restaurants and temples in Boston and NYC...
Also, you can get non-.cn sites if you're surfing inside China, right?
they've always had that option - they can add noise just like before the shut - add enough noise to let people know the old resolution or maybe worse - disable dgps and let mil and law enforcement use it at fine resolution... a shut down would be - um - bad.
Get a FIRST team going. In 25 years of science and tech teaching, I've never seen kids work harder by choice.
There's little goals and big goals, and it's solid. The great teams will knock your socks off. The tiny teams are inspirational. The great middle is great fun and hard work.
FIRST teams are made of nerds, but they look like sports teams enough to table the nerd edge off it.
It's enough of a recipe to be easy to navigate for first-timers, as long as you have the techies to support them and you show them what's possible (get the promo tapes).
The kids who already know they want an engineering ed will be really gung ho, some others will discover they want a tech career, and the rest will just have a whole lot of fun and team building - which is as important as the tech stuff. Not knowing your stuff is the second most common reason for leaving a job in the first year. The first most common reason is not being able to get along with your coworkers.
Make sure in addition to the technical background, you have good leaders who have some experience with HS kids - scouts, coaching, etc. The kids will stay interested as long as you keep them on task. HS kids off task can put you on the front page faster than a cure for cancer.
"too many computers hurt learning" is an irresponsible, oversimplified conclusion, title, banner. etc...
it's how they're used
there's a big difference between
a kid who plants themselves in front of games, game sites, and endless web pages that don't move about cartoons that do with little or no parental supervision
and
kids who have lots of access to computers and use them to research and bolster their learning, create music, art, writing, movies, projects, web sites, etc... with a good guide on the side to make sure they're making progress
Slashdot Mirror
Turns out it was behind the sofa cushions all along.
http://fugly.com/media/AUDIO/funny/blondestar.m
...to the oft heard comment, "Jeezus, where is your call center - on the MOON?!"
Was this a techie discovery or did the people watching "Cyborg" "Rocky V" and "Hot Dog" just feel there was something missing?
I never noticed - and I've got Bull Durham, Spinal Tap, Wanda, Princess Bride, UHF, & Hollywood Shuffle (we almost busted a gut in Savannah last summer when we were served "Hoe Cakes" at Paula Deen's - never knew they were for real - not to mention the Cracker Pudding in Amish country...)
I'll get the replacements if they're fixed, if not - eh.
... that audio animatronic they've installed over on penn ave.?
http://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc419.html
I didn't apply to Harvard. The point still stands.
According to state law as reported here and elsewhere, since California has adoted the UTSA, Apple has cause to pursue this. Yes it is a tort, not a criminal case. I followed original suggestions that the criminal code was involved. My bad.
There are limits to protected speech. I never said only Woodward et. al were protected, but the first amendment isn't intended to shield from litigation people who simply decide they want to be party to a breach of contract for their own entertainment.
No one is saying he can't say it - they did say that to the poor sap at Apple, though. They're saying if he does say it they'll use the UTSA to sue him.
.. I wish I was as smart as him.
Oh, wait...
Kidding aside, this is powerful stuff. I prefer the sort of biographies James Burke does in ecxplaining history - you realize things aren't as cut and dried and holy as they seem.
I constantly tell my students and teachers that if they don't pay attention, when they get to college they'll realize what a piece of cake HS was, in grad school they'll realize how much easier undergrad was, when they get a job they'll long for the days of grad school, etc... but if they push and act like a demanding comsumer, each experience can be the best prep they can get for the next.
Demand. One of my former students who's now at CMU Robotics came back to present to current students - he showed off some of his work but then got to the heart of it - never let your teachers off the hook. If they give you a textbook answer, press them. If they say they don't know, the next thing out of their or your mouth should be 'let's find out how to find out'... Never take no for an answer from someone in charge of your future. The late Paul Brandwein used to talk about how ENcouraging students literally means increasing their courage, and DIScouraging students only serves to literally decrease their courage. You want courageous students (OK - hopefully just short of trying out for "Jackass" - but it's their skeletal system...) who truly believe they can make a difference.
I sat thru so many college courses taight by people who were a chapter ahead of us and considered themselves the World's Foremost Authority... During the 80s I could tell my computer students that the mass market software they were seeing was being done by people who had 6 months lead time and a stack of books that you too could buy. I referred them to ads asking for people with 5 years experience on technologies that were 5 years old.
The ones who saw thru the hype and had the courage and believed have done amazing things at all levels - from raising amazing kids to inventing things to changing a small corner of the world.
And this is the government hiding info from us.
Not all speech is protected.
He openly solicits what odds are are insider info, and odds are those are covered by NDAs, and tells the world, and in California that's a crime.
His site suggests he knows exactly what he's doing, or else he's truly naive.
If he's this naive, I want to know who let him into Harvard.
Apache/1.3.9 (Unix) Debian/GNU PHP/4.0.3pl1 mod_ssl/2.4.10 OpenSSL/0.9.4
thru Catchcom
is better than
Apache/1.3.33 (Debian GNU/Linux) mod_python/2.7.10 Python/2.3.4 PHP/4.3.10-2 mod_ssl/2.8.22 OpenSSL/0.9.7d
thru Charter Communications
he replied "get a mac."
it's as simple as you like and as powerful as you'll need.
yeah, i know it's not completely invulnerable forever, but using mail.app spam is swept away regardless of isp, and using safari.app spyware has yet to rear its ugly head while my colleagues run a daily or weekly spate of apps to keep ahead of the mess.
Flying Circus of Physics
He was on PBS for a while - dressed like a John Belushi Samurai for impulse / momentum... Jumped into a vat of non-newtonian cornstarch solution (and then stumbled and watched slow flow engulf the front rows of the audience).
1. Pre-beta. Isn't that 'alpha'? But of course seeing the sleep-inducing buzzword-happy faux-cheerleading lead-balloon Office demo at MacWorld last year, what else could you expect with MS trying to make things 'simpler'.
2. "First, the company wants to make sure that first time PC users in new markets have the right product at the right price, on the right hardware, and with the right features. " So resell Mini Macs. ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H OK - that does not mean ANOTHER OS for newbies - it means you should have thought of this Day 1 and implemented it in all consumer editions. This is simpler?
3. 3? How did they decide this? He later states that most people want to do 4 things (including 'help with homework' - which isn't 1 thing...) Ya think maybe giving the same standing in the task bar for any open window as an open app is the real problem here? What happens when rogue apps eat up your three slots - you get a three step modal error message! Do they mean real apps or processes? Does systray count?
4. Great. They'll spoon-feed this to tech minstries in developing contries, where the anti-trust laws are weaker than US. All so people who spend 20 hours a week getting food and decent water so they can repel real virii can now spend untold hours fighting the electronic kind too.
5. The fact that your market penetration is 2% does not mean this is a pressing need in that population. How about The Gates Foundation puts a worldband radio in each home? That will do more to educate and connect people than a PC will ever do in places with lousy land lines. Suppose the Indian Ocean countries do get thast tsunami warning system they should have - what would you bet on - needing to check your email to see if a wall of death is coming later today, or a worldband radio with weather alert? Or see NPR's story yesterday on how clueless the Iraqis are about the more than 100 names and/or parties on their national ballot.
6. Choices, choices, choices. UI is supposed to be permissive & forgiving. Go back and read that sentence again. Now - "in Thailand, users complained that they didn't like the female voice in the help videos, because it sounded too much like a cranky, older teacher. They asked for a younger, friendlier-sounding voice that was less intimidating. So Microsoft changed the voice." Apple, with 1/10 the R&D of MS can somehow provide a dozen voices for use in narration - MS supplies one, then has to go back to the lab to rip one out and jam in another one?
7. Is there a Great Wall of Redmond? "One of the things our research has found is that some people like to learn by reading, while others like to be shown what to do," Any certified teacher - hell - any first year education major could have told you this for free. You hired researchers to figure this out?
8. "Thurrot" is apparently French for "Dvorak". "It's just too bad that the ivory tower critics can't see beyond their own insular worlds" - welcome to the Mac users' problem with this guy - condescending, throws out insulting lines like that often, and assumes that {{insert favorite MS product here}} product is superior and sees nothing but sunny days ahead, the rest of the world be damned. Let's see what happens in the trenches, and let's not forget Microsoft BOB, Windows ME, and Microsoft Works - all attempts at making things easier that were all things that hobbled good ideas instead of simplifying needed tasks and are now in the dustbin.
There's this bar - and there's a Chinese guy and a Jewish guy who find themselves seated next to each other a couple of nights. Things are going pretty good until one night after a few too many, the Jewish guy hauls off and decks the Chinese guy.
The Chinese guy picks himself up and says "What the hell was that for?!"
The Jewish guy snaps "That was for bombing Pearl Harbor."
"Pearl Harbor? Pearl harbor was bombed by the Japanese!"
The Jewish guy shrugs "Chinese, Japanese, what's the difference?!"
The next night they find themselves at the bar again, and after a snootful, the Chinese guy hauls off and decks the Jewish guy.
He picks himself up and shouts "What the hell was THAT for?"
The Chinese guy says "THAT was for sinking the Titanic!"
"Are you nuts? The Titanic was sunk by an iceberg?!"
"Yeah, well - iceberg, Goldberg - what's the difference?!"
Alas, someone in our neighborhood has a pirate station, and he's belting it out so high that we get interference on Ch 6 both off the air and on cable. Outside of driving around looking for a melting antenna, any idea how to sniff these idiots out?
...The only shows he watches are those he buys on DVD. He particularly loved the first season of Paris Hilton's The Simple Life. "You can watch that show for six hours," Cohen says, "and your brain is still empty."
...did what I just did - race over to the jpeg of a photo of a better display than my iBook to see just how much more wonderful it was.
;-)
Looks great!
Aerosol cheese is passed over. Once again there is no justice.
(and we travel to campground for about 90% of our three-season travel here in the NE)
;-)
is that in the well-equipped private CGs you have a post or a tree that feeds you water, main power, phone and cable TV. Granted the phone is hardly used anymore with cell service being what it is, but they need to accommodate the campers, and with many of them being pop-ups and smaller vans, the line is blurred between a tent and vehicle site.
The state CGs are somewhere in the middle, and the feds are a patch of land, a painted number on a stone or post and a fire ring. They often do not have even showers (Acadia for instance has none - there are several well known shower services on your way back to camp).
There are times when I want to be at Seawall, lock the car for the week, and go without the bare minimum. Ride, splash, walk, eat, sleep. Then there's times when we'll bring everything including the laptop, digital camera, iPod, hole up in a private CG with free hot showers, power at the site and now I can't wait to use the new peltier fridge and not have to toss a coin about the safety of the food after five days.
Network access is just like the other things - but now they can deploy them without running yet another wire that can break to each site. And the states and feds who had few or no wire services to sites can add this without digging trenches to each site.
And here here on the generator issue - this is far down on the scale of annoying things in a campground - its way below generators and way WAY below 2AM returns on Harleys. In many campgrounds the most annoying things tend to be alcohol-fueled, and I don't mean sterno stoves.
A lot of campers believe they can simply replace their house with thin nylon walls and carry on like they were still inside an opaque, soundproof dwelling. How wrong they are. I'd swap laptops for boom boxes any day.
People camp for many reasons. To 'get a way from it all' (you never really do) to be in a more beautiful place (Passaconaway looks a bit better than RT 93 Exit 8) to live more simply but with some smarts. Each camper dials in the amount of those things they need. Good. We already bring a little / lot of our world with us when we camp - the technology in the stoves and GPS and NOAA and EPIRBs and watches we need isn't deemed terrible - they help. If my laptop doesn't disturb anyone else, and it helps me stay in touch and know about weather and going-on, great. There's a big difference between listening to the 90-min frequency NOAA voicecasts and seeing 15-min old color doppler radar. You'd be a fool to go to sea without weatherfax and several kinds of radio capabilities - ditto land nowadays.
Just don't pee on the wired tree.
Looking for T&A, thugz and toons.
And we thought television was the vast wasteland.
I had to chuckle when the article mentioned cracking down on gambling and superstitious activities - at least at Mohegan Sun Casino (gambling = gambling, superstition = believing you're going to win at gambling) they have special staff and services and casino floor areas just for Asian gamblers, several dedicated bus lines that run from BOS and NYC Chinatowns whose scheduled stops are a series of Chinese groceries, restaurants and temples in Boston and NYC...
Also, you can get non-.cn sites if you're surfing inside China, right?
they've always had that option - they can add noise just like before the shut - add enough noise to let people know the old resolution or maybe worse - disable dgps and let mil and law enforcement use it at fine resolution... a shut down would be - um - bad.
Get a FIRST team going.
In 25 years of science and tech teaching, I've never seen kids work harder by choice.
There's little goals and big goals, and it's solid. The great teams will knock your socks off. The tiny teams are inspirational. The great middle is great fun and hard work.
FIRST teams are made of nerds, but they look like sports teams enough to table the nerd edge off it.
It's enough of a recipe to be easy to navigate for first-timers, as long as you have the techies to support them and you show them what's possible (get the promo tapes).
The kids who already know they want an engineering ed will be really gung ho, some others will discover they want a tech career, and the rest will just have a whole lot of fun and team building - which is as important as the tech stuff. Not knowing your stuff is the second most common reason for leaving a job in the first year. The first most common reason is not being able to get along with your coworkers.
Make sure in addition to the technical background, you have good leaders who have some experience with HS kids - scouts, coaching, etc. The kids will stay interested as long as you keep them on task.
HS kids off task can put you on the front page faster than a cure for cancer.
...POS is known as "Huffy Bicycle". Funny thing, these languages.
"too many computers hurt learning" is an irresponsible, oversimplified conclusion, title, banner. etc...
it's how they're used
there's a big difference between
a kid who plants themselves in front of games, game sites, and endless web pages that don't move about cartoons that do with little or no parental supervision
and
kids who have lots of access to computers and use them to research and bolster their learning, create music, art, writing, movies, projects, web sites, etc... with a good guide on the side to make sure they're making progress