1) Teachers are already eligible for discounted hardware (just like almost any major computer company, Apple has educational discounts).
2) Most of this is going to be for the teachers that have an original iMac sitting in their classroom (or their house) that is still running MacOS 9.1 (or even 8.6) on it. No, this will not bring in new users directly, but an argument could be made "Well, if we buy new Macs, Apple might keep us with up-to-date operating system upgrades for free in the future."
Do I qualify? To qualify for the "X for Teachers" program you must be a K-12 teacher at a recognized school (Public, Private, Catholic, Bureau of Indian Affairs) and you must agree to have software delivered to your school address.
I always love these descriptions. Define "teacher." I work at a residential high school as a resident counselor. True, the name "teacher" is not in my title. However, my job description (as written by the state of Illinois) involves teaching students.
Border's refuses to give me a discount on books (even when purchased for programs with students) because they claim (at least my local Border's) that the discount only applies to people that work in a classroom.
I work with very technology-aware students (I work at a the Illinois Math and Science Academy) and, as a big geek, I am often discussing tech issues and comparing computers with students.
(An upcoming program I am putting together will discuss recent copyright debates that are ongoing, for example).
I think that Apple would want nothing more than for me to have a copy of Jaguar to show off to the students.
And Apple might very well send me a copy of Jaguar, who knows...
Of course, being the good little geek, I pre-purchased an educational-discounted copy and got it before it was available retail. That was $75 out of my pocket that I am guessing Apple is not going to reimburse.
I have to wonder how many teachers have already purchased Jaguar.
I might take them up on the offer and give one of the copies to a student.
Several years ago, I remember reading an article about news sources and digital prints. The concern was not about digital vs. film (I imagine digital is easier for them to work with for easy transmission and printing), but about Photoshopping news pictures.
The article mentioned that new services were already Photoshopping out things like clouds and other things that might distract from the actual news in the picture. However, there is oviously a fine line to be drawn - where does modifying the image begin to distort what the picture is? How should news services let the public know that the picture has been modified?
As we move from film to digital prints, this is a ethical question that needs to be addressed.
Sure, it is more than possible with film prints, but the ease with digital prints means that it will be happening more and more often.
I was glad about a year ago when Slashdot added the LINK tag to help with navigation.
For web authors out there - imagine an easy place to define where your home page is, and some basic navigation links, including a copyright page and an author link.
For browsers that support it, iCab on the Mac being one, it is a nice addition to a site when I find them.
Sure enough, you seem to be correct. Searching all of my mailboxes for "slashdot" shows me where I might have originally heard of Slashdot.
1) A friend of mine wanted a hard to pronounce website and was disasppointed that "slashdot.org" was taken. This was March of 1998.
2) I was also on the BeInfo mailing list (a mailing list for the actual company, not a fan email list) that talks about a discussion on slashdot about Be. This was August of 1998.
Later I reference an article in an email I wrote in August of 1998, so I had to have been reading it before September 1998.
My best guess is that I started in August of 1998, but I am not sure.
I just realized that I joined the BeInfo mailing list on issue #10, in February of 1996. The last one, about 160 mailings later, was in June of 1999.
I joined the SmallDog mailing list in January of 1998.
Does anyone else remember the Yoyodyne mailing list? I was on that list for issue #5 in July, 1995. That list is no more, as well (I think they got bought out by yahoo games or someone)
I joined distributed.net in July, 1998.
I was on a Power Computing mailing list, apparently, and have the announcement of their very first computers in April of 1995.
I joined a Wired mailing list in April of 1995.
My oldest saved email message (not archived on 3.5" disk somewhere) is an outgoing message from November of 1993. it is actually in response to an email I received, apparently.
I had been online since 1991, but I only started saving emails around that November of 1993.
Apparently I first started reading Slashdot in September of 1998. Of course, my UID is significantly lower than yours (when Slashdot seems to have UIDs pushing 600,000 it is all relative, though). I created my account on 3 September 1998 (based on the "your password is" email). I had been reading for several weeks prior to that, though.
I have absolutely no idea how I first heard about Slashdot. I think it was either a link from a web site or a mention in Usenet. I seem to think it was a link from a web site, something like www.macintouch.com or something.
My big question is how many of us "old timers" (UID less than 5000 or so) there are still active.
Pe-moderation, pre-Hot grits, pre-First post, and so on.
[Sorry, Waldo, you just did not sign up soon enough to qualify as an "old timer" to me... grin...]
That means I have been reading Slashdot for over four years now... Wow. Feels even longer than that.
I work with high school kids, and they are always amazed that this "old timer" not only has such a low UID, but also has a Copyleft Slashdot shirt from back when the profits went to the Slash crew (pre-Andover).
Yeah, I can hang with the best of them...
In other news, I am wondering when Taco will fix the one big problem I have always had - the inability to back through your old comments on your user.pl page. It shows the 24 most recent, but searching for ones older than that seems almost impossible.
As a CEO, I am sure he will sue for lost time to clean up the virus. In addition, it sounds like the CEO (mistakenly) believes that the poster is targetting the corporation, which would mean anything from a few computers up to several thousands (all of the the associated tech support fees for getting rid of the virus).
So the CEO has lost documents, lost time, and has to pay a computer guy to clean his computer.
Already the CEO is able to blow this out of proportion to well over $3,000.
I am not a lawyer, but I am the son of one. My advice? Send a nice note through snail mail. Certify the letter, and keep a copy yourself.
In the letter, explain the virus and why you are not at fault. Do some research, and include quotes and backing evidence that support your claim. That should not be too hard to do, a simple search of Symantec and Macafee should give you quite a bit right there.
Start the explanation "I did some research into what seems to have happened, and I see how you mistakenly believe I sent you the email. However..."
End the letter with something like "Before you decide to follow through on any legal action, I am sure you too will research the computer virus (Klez) you recieved and will come to the same conclusion I did - that I am in no way responsible for the harm that has come to your computer and your corporation."
For less than an hour of work and about a dollar to send the letter, you can cut off most chances of legal action. In addition, if the CEO decides to go after you, it will never get to the courts. Lawyers on both sides will quickly figure out that there is no case and never let it get that far. You playing nice and courteous goes a long way to show that you are not only innocent, but deserve some slack for your composure under wrongful attack.
I left high school a year early. In the end, I ended up taking more time than I could have getting my Bachelor's degree. This was mainly because I really was not ready to get started in an undergraduate program.
The big thing is that I am pretty positive the same thing would have happened had I stayed all four years of high school.
During my college experience, I took a year off and worked. I sold shoes and did some substitute teaching at some high schools. I travelled a little, and enjoyed life.
Now I tutor kids in math on the side, and I generally tell them to take a year between high school and college (granted, most of these kids are at the lower end of the educational spectrum). Take a year (or more, sometimes) to figure out what you want to do, and why you should be in school.
A year in college when you are not ready is largely a waste of time for you, the college, and the money spent on it.
My advice: If you are doubting going to college next year, chances are there is some reason. As others have stated, if there is a good enough reason, sit out. You are only going to be more ready and more prepared when you enter college.
Provided you can say what you did during that year, future employers are only going to respect your decision. They will see it as a sign of maturity - you were able to assess yourself and see what your needs were that year.
When I was hired on at my current position, I was respected because I was able to give firm reasoning behind my career choice - I had taken time during college, during my year off, to figure out what I wanted. My future employers know that I am not going to decide six months into the job that education is not the field I want to work in.
One thing to definitely look into - you might be able to apply to colleges this year and then defer the admissions for a year. There is definitely information concerning this online.
The ReadMe clearly says that it is for Palm devices from Palm or Handpsring. My Clie may be supported, but until I know I will continue to use Palm Desktop with the MissingSync. I have no desire to try to move over to iCal until I know that I can synch it with my Sony.
It amazes me that people are able to write support for these devices without too much trouble and yet the companies are not able to support Macs.
Getting my old Handspring to work with Palm Desktop 4.0 (so that I did not have to use Classic) was a very minor thing on my part, but Handspring took forever to get it working. They just released the Desktop 4.0 software for Visors last week!
The fact that an indivdual can write support into Palm Desktop to support Clies is amazing as well, given that Sony will not support it.
One thing that people never think about (they always blame Taco and others) is that someone had to submit the duplicate story.
Some Slashdot reader sees an interesting article, did not see it earlier that week/month/year on Slashdot, thinks "Wow, Slashdot readers would like this", does not take two minutes to search the search-able Slashdot archives, and posts it.
I have submitted about three or four stories since first reading Slashdot. Everytime I do so, I search and make sure they story has not been submitted already.
Can we not move some of the responsibilities to the people submitting?
Chimera also is an 8 meg download that expands to a 25+ meg executable.
iCab, another lean browser for the Mac, weighs in at about a 2.3 meg download that expands to about five megs (not exactly sure on those figures, I am not at my OS X box).
Feature for feature, I would put it with any browser. About the only thing that it does not have is tabbed browsing, but it makes up for that with some of the most complete filtering and security you could imagine. I use Chimera for the few sites that iCab does not work with, and I keep wanting to go back to iCab.
Want to save your Slashdot cookie forever, reject all Doubleclick cookies, save apple.com cookies until the end of the session, and be prompted for all others? You can do that.
Want pop-ups to work on this site, but not on that one? Done.
Want "Open in rear window" as a contextual menu option? Done.
Want BestBuy.com to know you as using a Mozilla client so their stupid DB pages work and everyone else to see iCab, without ever having to manually switch? Done.
Want to never send "Referrer" headers except for the stupid sites that require it, or to just send referred headers within the same domain? Done.
Want to completely turn JavaScript off on this site, but leave it on for all other sites without manually changing it before entering the site? Done.
Want to reject all images from DoubleClick? Done.
Want a browser so HTML compliant it ships with a validator? Done.
A five meg browser can do all of this on MacOS X and Mac OS 8/9.
You obviously do not get as many of these emails as I do.
My mail runs fairly unfiltered on the server, so my mail client gets to download most everything. (Not complaining here, I realize I could change that - I am just stating a fact).
The fact is, I get more Nigerian Scam emails than I do actual spam anymore.
I would say that about 10% of my "junk" email is Klez virus, 40% is regular spam, and about 50% is Nigerian scam emails.
Look at those last two paragraphs - I get more Nigerian scam than I get actual spam anymore. I probably get between 10-12 of the Nigerian emails *a day*.
We might complain about bandwidth being used by spam, but these days Klez takes the cake on my account, followed by Nigerian crap.
That is why I care about cutting down on people using it.
And before you jump on my back about me complaining about my bandwidth, I am talking about between SMTP servers, since ultimately I pay for that one way or the other. An ISP pays per GB transferred, and anytime I get email like that, my ISP (school anything else) pays, and will eventually pass that expense on to me.
As I stated in another follow-up, I challenge you to show me a Palm/phone that does not have a keyboard, other than the now-ancient Samsung SPH-I300.
I am not saying that there should not be Palm/phones out there with keyboards. However, I would want to see *one* without the keyboard.
As far as Grafitti vs. keyboard goes - I have a Visor for about a year with a Kensington keyboard. Two points: A) For quite a bit of things, I was faster with Grafitti. B)It was very nice to have the *option* of bringing along my keyboard or not.
As I also said in my other post, I wrote my post explaining what I want, and gave some logic to show that it is possible I am not alone.
What is this - no one on Slashdot can submit a comment stating their own *personal* preference? Two people attack my post saying this.
So I come back at you - you say you use a keyboard. Should every Palm have one because *you* prefer one?
Yeah, I am a consumer who, while not involved in the tech industry, is technologically minded. I also have disposable income, and have demonstrated the willingness to not only purchase tech "toys", but also pay monthly fees to use them.
Yeah, there are other markets for a combination Palm/phone device.
As far as your quote of "As for keyboards, lots of people want 'em. What's wrong with having them on some of the PDA's out there. No one says you have to buy EVERY pda out there."
I would ask you to show me a decent Palm-based phone that does not have a keyboard. Every Treo does. Now the Palm will.
The Samsung SPH-I300, the first Palm/phone combination does not, but that is a very old phone.
Yeah, I suppose I have dozens of choices to choose from.
No, when I say that I would want a Palm/phone combination without a keyboard, I am saying this because there really are not phones out there like that right now. Maybe I am the only consumer who has that desire. I never pretended to be speaking for the entire market out there. I did give reasonable logic to show that there is a chance I am not alone.
Why do Palm/cell manufacturers insist on putting a keyboard on their combination Palm/cell devices?
If I am going to buy one of these devices, it is to reduce pocket-bloat by one device. That means that my primary motivation in getting one is size. Adding a keyboard only adds size.
I suppose I can see adding a 3x4 number pad for dialing, so if they are going to add anything I would rather see a usable 3x4 pad than an attempt at adding a full keyboard to aid in data input.
Currently I have both a Samsung SCH-3500 phone and a Sony Clie PEG-T665C. I would consider a combination phone/Palm device if one could do things as well as both of those devices. While I am all in favor of reducing pocket bloat, I find that dedicated devices do their job better than any combination device.
In the mean time, I will use a data cable to attach the 665C to the Samsung. Although I am really eyeing the new Vision-capable phones from SprintPCS...
Also - I have a Canon S200 camera. Until such time as a camera added to a Palm device can come close to the quality of that camera, do not even think about adding a camera to any device I am going to buy.
That camera is portable enough (and durable enough) to end up in my pocket for times I think I *might* want to take pictures.
it would be really nice to have an option to only recieve messages from phone numbers stored in your phone's phone book.
My Samsung SCH-3500 allows for different rings based on whether the caler has CallerID or not. I would like to be able to change the ring type (OR VOLUME) based on whether it is in the phone book (the phone already looks the number up to see if it has a listing for that number).
In college I used to keep a Zip disk with me that had a mail client that left the mail on the POP server (Eudora) - you could also use IMAP for that. It also had a browser and a regularly updated set of bookmarks.
As others have pointed out, USB pocket drives are also a solution.
If nothing else, a 1.4 meg floppy is pretty universally accepted and can easily store more bookmarks than any normal person has.
These solutions are a little more difficult to work with than simply logging onto a server, but do allow for more security. Netscape, at least, allows you to find a profile on start-up.
The only question is if all version of Netscape will read different profiles (will the Mac version read one written in Windows)
I graduated with a degree in math last year and along the way took several education classes (I hope to one day teach at the high school level).
During this time I came to one possible conclusion for why a lot of kids find math hard, or just outright hate it - a good chunk of the people that go into elementary education hate math, or find it very difficult. Look into your local college, and inquire to see what the math requirements are for a degree in elementary education. I assure you that chances are it is not more difficult than a high school Algebra II class.
I could probably write an entire essay on causes for poor math skills among elementary education teachers, and here I will just list one - poor teacher pay means that most people with math or science ability are not going to look at education as a possible career. Those who do are frequently like myself, wanting to teach middle or high school level students.
Think about the results of having most elementary school teachers disliking math. Subconciously nor not, they are going to pass along the idea that "math is hard" and that "it is alright not to like math." Less time might be spent on math, and other subjects, such as reading and writing, might be taught with more enthusiasm.
Note that I am not saying all elementary education teachers dislike math. Indeed, I met a couple in classes with me that were genuinely interested in mathematics. Even they agreed with me, though, that most of their fellow students strongly disliked math.
I am also not suggesting that the cause of the original poster's problems are caused by his daughter's teacher. I would recommend that any parent concerned about thier child's education to sit in on his or her classes for a day.
I suppose my best suggestion is to igonore the people that are posting saying "Do not push your child in one direction." In elementary school, at least in math, there is a strong possibility that the teacher is subconciously pushing students *away* from math, so something might have to be done to counteract that push.
In elementary school, most kids are not going to resent parents for being active in their education. That is the time to do it, as opposed to during high school or college.
I follow about 30 Usenet groups daily, and see some great help (with a client capable of doing some filtering, the signal to noise ratio is better than almost anywhere else on the net).
As a result, anytime I have a question, the first place I will hit is Google Groups.
With the right search terms and narrowing it down to the correct groups, the help can be fantastic. Chances are that if you are having a problem or question, someone else has had the same problem.
When I seach for Mac problem, for example, hitting comp.sys.mac.* with a search will give me quality results about 99 out of 100 times.
[Yes, so maybe it is part of Google. But I am guessing that a lot of people submitting "Ask Slashdot" questions are not hitting that before they submit.]
As with a lot of browser-based things that show up on Slashdot, I feel the need to chime in with a different perspective, from a browser that does a lot of these things correctly.
iCab, on the Mac, has a setting (and has had it almost since its very first versions) to only allow the Referrer: to be sent only when in the same domain (or even never sent). So Sony.com can trace how I look through their site, but cannot see that I came to Sony's site from a link on slashdot.org
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1) Teachers are already eligible for discounted hardware (just like almost any major computer company, Apple has educational discounts).
2) Most of this is going to be for the teachers that have an original iMac sitting in their classroom (or their house) that is still running MacOS 9.1 (or even 8.6) on it. No, this will not bring in new users directly, but an argument could be made "Well, if we buy new Macs, Apple might keep us with up-to-date operating system upgrades for free in the future."
I always love these descriptions. Define "teacher." I work at a residential high school as a resident counselor. True, the name "teacher" is not in my title. However, my job description (as written by the state of Illinois) involves teaching students.
Border's refuses to give me a discount on books (even when purchased for programs with students) because they claim (at least my local Border's) that the discount only applies to people that work in a classroom.
I work with very technology-aware students (I work at a the Illinois Math and Science Academy) and, as a big geek, I am often discussing tech issues and comparing computers with students.
(An upcoming program I am putting together will discuss recent copyright debates that are ongoing, for example).
I think that Apple would want nothing more than for me to have a copy of Jaguar to show off to the students.
And Apple might very well send me a copy of Jaguar, who knows...
Of course, being the good little geek, I pre-purchased an educational-discounted copy and got it before it was available retail. That was $75 out of my pocket that I am guessing Apple is not going to reimburse.
I have to wonder how many teachers have already purchased Jaguar.
I might take them up on the offer and give one of the copies to a student.
You mean something like ChimeraKnight ?
Note: I have not used it, but the reviews on Versiontracker are good.
Several years ago, I remember reading an article about news sources and digital prints. The concern was not about digital vs. film (I imagine digital is easier for them to work with for easy transmission and printing), but about Photoshopping news pictures.
The article mentioned that new services were already Photoshopping out things like clouds and other things that might distract from the actual news in the picture. However, there is oviously a fine line to be drawn - where does modifying the image begin to distort what the picture is? How should news services let the public know that the picture has been modified?
As we move from film to digital prints, this is a ethical question that needs to be addressed.
Sure, it is more than possible with film prints, but the ease with digital prints means that it will be happening more and more often.
I was glad about a year ago when Slashdot added the LINK tag to help with navigation.
For web authors out there - imagine an easy place to define where your home page is, and some basic navigation links, including a copyright page and an author link.
For browsers that support it, iCab on the Mac being one, it is a nice addition to a site when I find them.
Sure enough, you seem to be correct. Searching all of my mailboxes for "slashdot" shows me where I might have originally heard of Slashdot.
1) A friend of mine wanted a hard to pronounce website and was disasppointed that "slashdot.org" was taken. This was March of 1998.
2) I was also on the BeInfo mailing list (a mailing list for the actual company, not a fan email list) that talks about a discussion on slashdot about Be. This was August of 1998.
Later I reference an article in an email I wrote in August of 1998, so I had to have been reading it before September 1998.
My best guess is that I started in August of 1998, but I am not sure.
I just realized that I joined the BeInfo mailing list on issue #10, in February of 1996. The last one, about 160 mailings later, was in June of 1999.
I joined the SmallDog mailing list in January of 1998.
Does anyone else remember the Yoyodyne mailing list? I was on that list for issue #5 in July, 1995. That list is no more, as well (I think they got bought out by yahoo games or someone)
I joined distributed.net in July, 1998.
I was on a Power Computing mailing list, apparently, and have the announcement of their very first computers in April of 1995.
I joined a Wired mailing list in April of 1995.
My oldest saved email message (not archived on 3.5" disk somewhere) is an outgoing message from November of 1993. it is actually in response to an email I received, apparently.
I had been online since 1991, but I only started saving emails around that November of 1993.
Apparently I first started reading Slashdot in September of 1998. Of course, my UID is significantly lower than yours (when Slashdot seems to have UIDs pushing 600,000 it is all relative, though). I created my account on 3 September 1998 (based on the "your password is" email). I had been reading for several weeks prior to that, though.
I have absolutely no idea how I first heard about Slashdot. I think it was either a link from a web site or a mention in Usenet. I seem to think it was a link from a web site, something like www.macintouch.com or something.
My big question is how many of us "old timers" (UID less than 5000 or so) there are still active.
Pe-moderation, pre-Hot grits, pre-First post, and so on.
[Sorry, Waldo, you just did not sign up soon enough to qualify as an "old timer" to me... grin...]
That means I have been reading Slashdot for over four years now... Wow. Feels even longer than that.
I work with high school kids, and they are always amazed that this "old timer" not only has such a low UID, but also has a Copyleft Slashdot shirt from back when the profits went to the Slash crew (pre-Andover).
Yeah, I can hang with the best of them...
In other news, I am wondering when Taco will fix the one big problem I have always had - the inability to back through your old comments on your user.pl page. It shows the 24 most recent, but searching for ones older than that seems almost impossible.
As a CEO, I am sure he will sue for lost time to clean up the virus. In addition, it sounds like the CEO (mistakenly) believes that the poster is targetting the corporation, which would mean anything from a few computers up to several thousands (all of the the associated tech support fees for getting rid of the virus).
So the CEO has lost documents, lost time, and has to pay a computer guy to clean his computer.
Already the CEO is able to blow this out of proportion to well over $3,000.
I am not a lawyer, but I am the son of one. My advice? Send a nice note through snail mail. Certify the letter, and keep a copy yourself.
In the letter, explain the virus and why you are not at fault. Do some research, and include quotes and backing evidence that support your claim. That should not be too hard to do, a simple search of Symantec and Macafee should give you quite a bit right there.
Start the explanation "I did some research into what seems to have happened, and I see how you mistakenly believe I sent you the email. However..."
End the letter with something like "Before you decide to follow through on any legal action, I am sure you too will research the computer virus (Klez) you recieved and will come to the same conclusion I did - that I am in no way responsible for the harm that has come to your computer and your corporation."
For less than an hour of work and about a dollar to send the letter, you can cut off most chances of legal action. In addition, if the CEO decides to go after you, it will never get to the courts. Lawyers on both sides will quickly figure out that there is no case and never let it get that far. You playing nice and courteous goes a long way to show that you are not only innocent, but deserve some slack for your composure under wrongful attack.
I left high school a year early. In the end, I ended up taking more time than I could have getting my Bachelor's degree. This was mainly because I really was not ready to get started in an undergraduate program.
The big thing is that I am pretty positive the same thing would have happened had I stayed all four years of high school.
During my college experience, I took a year off and worked. I sold shoes and did some substitute teaching at some high schools. I travelled a little, and enjoyed life.
Now I tutor kids in math on the side, and I generally tell them to take a year between high school and college (granted, most of these kids are at the lower end of the educational spectrum). Take a year (or more, sometimes) to figure out what you want to do, and why you should be in school.
A year in college when you are not ready is largely a waste of time for you, the college, and the money spent on it.
My advice: If you are doubting going to college next year, chances are there is some reason. As others have stated, if there is a good enough reason, sit out. You are only going to be more ready and more prepared when you enter college.
Provided you can say what you did during that year, future employers are only going to respect your decision. They will see it as a sign of maturity - you were able to assess yourself and see what your needs were that year.
When I was hired on at my current position, I was respected because I was able to give firm reasoning behind my career choice - I had taken time during college, during my year off, to figure out what I wanted. My future employers know that I am not going to decide six months into the job that education is not the field I want to work in.
One thing to definitely look into - you might be able to apply to colleges this year and then defer the admissions for a year. There is definitely information concerning this online.
The ReadMe clearly says that it is for Palm devices from Palm or Handpsring. My Clie may be supported, but until I know I will continue to use Palm Desktop with the MissingSync. I have no desire to try to move over to iCal until I know that I can synch it with my Sony.
It amazes me that people are able to write support for these devices without too much trouble and yet the companies are not able to support Macs.
Getting my old Handspring to work with Palm Desktop 4.0 (so that I did not have to use Classic) was a very minor thing on my part, but Handspring took forever to get it working. They just released the Desktop 4.0 software for Visors last week!
The fact that an indivdual can write support into Palm Desktop to support Clies is amazing as well, given that Sony will not support it.
Now Apple will not support Clies, as well.
I can only hope that support is added later.
Strapping a camera for a shuttle launch is not going to cost NASA too much in the grand scheme of things.
For an agency that is in desperate need of government funding, however, I think it is a wonderful idea.
Little things like the camera will only get people interested in space and science and bring public support for NASA.
I cannot wait to see the video. The animation was great as it was.
Now I just need to find a friend with a true satellite dish. A web-cast days later will not be the same.
One thing that people never think about (they always blame Taco and others) is that someone had to submit the duplicate story.
Some Slashdot reader sees an interesting article, did not see it earlier that week/month/year on Slashdot, thinks "Wow, Slashdot readers would like this", does not take two minutes to search the search-able Slashdot archives, and posts it.
I have submitted about three or four stories since first reading Slashdot. Everytime I do so, I search and make sure they story has not been submitted already.
Can we not move some of the responsibilities to the people submitting?
Chimera also is an 8 meg download that expands to a 25+ meg executable.
iCab, another lean browser for the Mac, weighs in at about a 2.3 meg download that expands to about five megs (not exactly sure on those figures, I am not at my OS X box).
Feature for feature, I would put it with any browser. About the only thing that it does not have is tabbed browsing, but it makes up for that with some of the most complete filtering and security you could imagine. I use Chimera for the few sites that iCab does not work with, and I keep wanting to go back to iCab.
Want to save your Slashdot cookie forever, reject all Doubleclick cookies, save apple.com cookies until the end of the session, and be prompted for all others? You can do that.
Want pop-ups to work on this site, but not on that one? Done.
Want "Open in rear window" as a contextual menu option? Done.
Want BestBuy.com to know you as using a Mozilla client so their stupid DB pages work and everyone else to see iCab, without ever having to manually switch? Done.
Want to never send "Referrer" headers except for the stupid sites that require it, or to just send referred headers within the same domain? Done.
Want to completely turn JavaScript off on this site, but leave it on for all other sites without manually changing it before entering the site? Done.
Want to reject all images from DoubleClick? Done.
Want a browser so HTML compliant it ships with a validator? Done.
A five meg browser can do all of this on MacOS X and Mac OS 8/9.
This is the type of browser I want to see.
Not really. You could (albiet not easily) lay down your own, private, serious fiber out in the ocean.
You could hire someone to drive it every night.
You could hire someone to fly it every night.
Fed-Ex could definitely be the most cost-effective way of doing it, though.
I probably missed the sarcasm in your comment, but I think that a lot of companies could actually learn from that.
You obviously do not get as many of these emails as I do.
My mail runs fairly unfiltered on the server, so my mail client gets to download most everything. (Not complaining here, I realize I could change that - I am just stating a fact).
The fact is, I get more Nigerian Scam emails than I do actual spam anymore.
I would say that about 10% of my "junk" email is Klez virus, 40% is regular spam, and about 50% is Nigerian scam emails.
Look at those last two paragraphs - I get more Nigerian scam than I get actual spam anymore. I probably get between 10-12 of the Nigerian emails *a day*.
We might complain about bandwidth being used by spam, but these days Klez takes the cake on my account, followed by Nigerian crap.
That is why I care about cutting down on people using it.
And before you jump on my back about me complaining about my bandwidth, I am talking about between SMTP servers, since ultimately I pay for that one way or the other. An ISP pays per GB transferred, and anytime I get email like that, my ISP (school anything else) pays, and will eventually pass that expense on to me.
That is why I care.
As I stated in another follow-up, I challenge you to show me a Palm/phone that does not have a keyboard, other than the now-ancient Samsung SPH-I300.
I am not saying that there should not be Palm/phones out there with keyboards. However, I would want to see *one* without the keyboard.
As far as Grafitti vs. keyboard goes - I have a Visor for about a year with a Kensington keyboard. Two points: A) For quite a bit of things, I was faster with Grafitti. B)It was very nice to have the *option* of bringing along my keyboard or not.
As I also said in my other post, I wrote my post explaining what I want, and gave some logic to show that it is possible I am not alone.
What is this - no one on Slashdot can submit a comment stating their own *personal* preference? Two people attack my post saying this.
So I come back at you - you say you use a keyboard. Should every Palm have one because *you* prefer one?
Yeah, I am a consumer who, while not involved in the tech industry, is technologically minded. I also have disposable income, and have demonstrated the willingness to not only purchase tech "toys", but also pay monthly fees to use them.
Yeah, there are other markets for a combination Palm/phone device.
As far as your quote of "As for keyboards, lots of people want 'em. What's wrong with having them on some of the PDA's out there. No one says you have to buy EVERY pda out there."
I would ask you to show me a decent Palm-based phone that does not have a keyboard. Every Treo does. Now the Palm will.
The Samsung SPH-I300, the first Palm/phone combination does not, but that is a very old phone.
Yeah, I suppose I have dozens of choices to choose from.
No, when I say that I would want a Palm/phone combination without a keyboard, I am saying this because there really are not phones out there like that right now.
Maybe I am the only consumer who has that desire. I never pretended to be speaking for the entire market out there. I did give reasonable logic to show that there is a chance I am not alone.
Why do Palm/cell manufacturers insist on putting a keyboard on their combination Palm/cell devices?
If I am going to buy one of these devices, it is to reduce pocket-bloat by one device. That means that my primary motivation in getting one is size. Adding a keyboard only adds size.
I suppose I can see adding a 3x4 number pad for dialing, so if they are going to add anything I would rather see a usable 3x4 pad than an attempt at adding a full keyboard to aid in data input.
Currently I have both a Samsung SCH-3500 phone and a Sony Clie PEG-T665C. I would consider a combination phone/Palm device if one could do things as well as both of those devices. While I am all in favor of reducing pocket bloat, I find that dedicated devices do their job better than any combination device.
In the mean time, I will use a data cable to attach the 665C to the Samsung. Although I am really eyeing the new Vision-capable phones from SprintPCS...
Also - I have a Canon S200 camera. Until such time as a camera added to a Palm device can come close to the quality of that camera, do not even think about adding a camera to any device I am going to buy.
That camera is portable enough (and durable enough) to end up in my pocket for times I think I *might* want to take pictures.
it would be really nice to have an option to only recieve messages from phone numbers stored in your phone's phone book.
My Samsung SCH-3500 allows for different rings based on whether the caler has CallerID or not. I would like to be able to change the ring type (OR VOLUME) based on whether it is in the phone book (the phone already looks the number up to see if it has a listing for that number).
Seems trivial to implement.
In college I used to keep a Zip disk with me that had a mail client that left the mail on the POP server (Eudora) - you could also use IMAP for that. It also had a browser and a regularly updated set of bookmarks.
As others have pointed out, USB pocket drives are also a solution.
If nothing else, a 1.4 meg floppy is pretty universally accepted and can easily store more bookmarks than any normal person has.
These solutions are a little more difficult to work with than simply logging onto a server, but do allow for more security. Netscape, at least, allows you to find a profile on start-up.
The only question is if all version of Netscape will read different profiles (will the Mac version read one written in Windows)
I graduated with a degree in math last year and along the way took several education classes (I hope to one day teach at the high school level).
During this time I came to one possible conclusion for why a lot of kids find math hard, or just outright hate it - a good chunk of the people that go into elementary education hate math, or find it very difficult. Look into your local college, and inquire to see what the math requirements are for a degree in elementary education. I assure you that chances are it is not more difficult than a high school Algebra II class.
I could probably write an entire essay on causes for poor math skills among elementary education teachers, and here I will just list one - poor teacher pay means that most people with math or science ability are not going to look at education as a possible career. Those who do are frequently like myself, wanting to teach middle or high school level students.
Think about the results of having most elementary school teachers disliking math. Subconciously nor not, they are going to pass along the idea that "math is hard" and that "it is alright not to like math." Less time might be spent on math, and other subjects, such as reading and writing, might be taught with more enthusiasm.
Note that I am not saying all elementary education teachers dislike math. Indeed, I met a couple in classes with me that were genuinely interested in mathematics. Even they agreed with me, though, that most of their fellow students strongly disliked math.
I am also not suggesting that the cause of the original poster's problems are caused by his daughter's teacher. I would recommend that any parent concerned about thier child's education to sit in on his or her classes for a day.
I suppose my best suggestion is to igonore the people that are posting saying "Do not push your child in one direction." In elementary school, at least in math, there is a strong possibility that the teacher is subconciously pushing students *away* from math, so something might have to be done to counteract that push.
In elementary school, most kids are not going to resent parents for being active in their education. That is the time to do it, as opposed to during high school or college.
Whoops, make that 2x for 3.2 gigs in 18 minutes.
I have an Apple Superdrive (relabelled Pioneer DVD-R).
I have burned 3.2 gig at 1x in about 35 minutes. Burning 2x for the same size is about 38 minutes.
That falls in line with what everyone else is saying on this thread.
(I have not had need to burn a full 4.7 gigs yet).
I follow about 30 Usenet groups daily, and see some great help (with a client capable of doing some filtering, the signal to noise ratio is better than almost anywhere else on the net).
As a result, anytime I have a question, the first place I will hit is Google Groups.
With the right search terms and narrowing it down to the correct groups, the help can be fantastic. Chances are that if you are having a problem or question, someone else has had the same problem.
When I seach for Mac problem, for example, hitting comp.sys.mac.* with a search will give me quality results about 99 out of 100 times.
The other nice thing is that there are questions and answers for almost any subject you can imagine, from networking a four-in-one device to turning left on red.
[Yes, so maybe it is part of Google. But I am guessing that a lot of people submitting "Ask Slashdot" questions are not hitting that before they submit.]
As with a lot of browser-based things that show up on Slashdot, I feel the need to chime in with a different perspective, from a browser that does a lot of these things correctly.
iCab, on the Mac, has a setting (and has had it almost since its very first versions) to only allow the Referrer: to be sent only when in the same domain (or even never sent). So Sony.com can trace how I look through their site, but cannot see that I came to Sony's site from a link on slashdot.org
I could even set it to never send it, as well.