I think you can turn that backup off, or limit the space it uses. It's been a while since I've looked, and since when I got mine the 500GB HD cost about the same as a 30GB drive, I didn't have to worry about having "too many backups."
Since the examiners are skilled in the art, how can they possibly apply that test? The purpose is to reward actual innovation (dare I say "strokes of genius"), not "what we were working on this week in the lab."
It appears that Apple has released a new operating system, for which Siri is an integral part. They then deactivated that part of the OS for every device except their newest.
You paid for the OS and, essentially, perpetual updgrades when you purchased the device (or Apple has chosen to provide upgrades, including iOS5, at no charge - take your pick). You paid to download Siri as part of the OS over your internet connection. ACTFA, there is a single line of code added, along with file system changes - none of which actually installs any software which is not already on the phone - in order to activate Siri.
The pervasiveness of standardized testing has become a real sore spot. Teachers in Virginia are now "teaching to the test" nearly every year in order to get their schools to remain in compliance. The Standards of Learning (SOLs, how appropriate) are causing fifth graders in my kids ES to freak out, because their teachers are under so much pressure to make the scores higher every year ("adequate yearly progress"). You can't improve test scores continuously like you improve quality on an assembly line, but the state is trying - mostly in order to secure federal funding.
More to the point, people aren't getting smarter in any significant sense. We've got the same gray matter we were using 100 years ago, and yet the minimum requirements for jobs these days require a much higher level of academic understanding. High School no longer turns out productive people no because they are teaching less, but because the minimum bar for "productive" has moved so far in the last 40 years.
Unfortunately, sending these people to college isn't helping - it's just soaking up money. Most of the "extras" that are getting sent to college to learn will either not help them get a job or it simply will not soak in. Half of humans are of below average intelligence. You can't expect to send them to college and end up in the top 20%. Short of "make fewer dumb people," there isn't much of a solution on the academic front. However, by reducing the dependency on constant standardized testing, you could put some life-skill classes back into the secondary school level.
If you get a real reader with editing capabilities you'd find the experience much better. Adobe is not the best our there; Bluebeam is awesome if you need to make notations in PDFs. I wish they had a version for tablets.
I've got to agree, mostly (except for the Acrobat part - I find Bluebeam far more useful, though it's not free). I almost never want to open a PDF in the browser, because most PDFs are stuff I need to download and keep anyway.
"A good tool is versatile, durable and dependable. Apple meets NONE of these requirements."
You are conflating good with things that are not necessarily so. A good tool is one that gets the job done. Sometime versatile is a hindrance. A hammer is not particularly versatile, but is a good tool. The iPhone, for it's flaws, is dependable, durable, and moderately versatile.
You seem to be concerned that the "package" you bought can't be modified, and yet most of the best phones on the market are such, including nearly all land line phones and nearly every non-smart-phone that existed/exists. They are perfectly good appliances. If I wanted to carry around a general purpose computer in my pocket, the iPhone wouldn't make the grade, but as a phone and PDA, it is a reliable (if somewhat limited) tool.
As for learning curve, it is not the same. Us geeks know the difference, and to do really, really low level stuff it's the same (harder in some cases since you have to jailbreak). For 90% of the phone users out there, the iPhone is simple enough that you can use it immediately, and feel like you're leveraging the technology. The droid series is not quite as intuitive though you might blame that on Verizon's GUI skin.
Seems like there should be a way to claim gross negligence and professional misconduct on the part of the partners of Righthaven, and use that as a basis for personal/professional liability against them as well as their corporation/partnership. It works that way for other professionals, I suspect it's possible (depending on state law, of course) with lawyers, too. Of course, they should also have their licenses revoked, but that's a different story.
This is the Apple way, and there is some merit to it. If you let people have whatever they want, you'll find you have a lot of incompatible requirements. If you give them something that works, they will find ways to do what they need to do, and in the end they'll spend less time futzing with the little known features they originally wanted. It will also significantly reduce the cost to support.
I scoffed at this way for many years, but now that my hair is a bit grayer I've learned that often the simple tools are the best. Having one system that does everything is very cool, but often it's not practical to build it or economical to maintain it.
Yeah, but it takes you 6 people to use 5GB in a month. Unless I'm on a boring trip and streaming, stuff, I've never exceeded the 250 (now 200) MB limit on my phone plan. I did it accidentally once with my iPad on a weekend when I was out of wifi range for about 16 hours of travel and decided to pass the time looking up music on line.
Note: I don't stream anything over cell internet, but I do have all my regular data services and regularly look stuff up on the internet, and rarely exceed 60MB of monthly data. Streaming is the big game changer.
Part time is not necessarily true, unless your daddy could get you a good job. There were lots of folks in my Father's era (1960s) who would work all summer to pay tuition for the next year. I did a quick search for my state, and the most expensive state school is UVa.
In 1970, UVa was $330/semester plus $154 in required fees, or $968/yr.
Minimum wage in 1970 was $1.60/hr. So it would take just under 700 hours of a minimum wage, or a bit over 4 months, to make tuition (after taxes). Since school was only 7 months long, that meant you would have to work over semester break to pay tuition.
If you could get a job with any reasonable skill, about 50% over minimum wage, ($11/hr relative to today's min wage, which you can get as a day laborer or in retail) you would need to work less than 450 hours, or a full-time "summer" job, with a few days after class ended and again before classes started to pay tuition and fees.
It was a regular possibility to work a full time summer job and pay tuition and fees for the year. At less costly schools, you could work summer and breaks and come very close to tuition, fees, and room/board. It wasn't easy, but you could do it. There are no jobs you can (legally) get today as a college student that will cover the $16,000 ($27,000 with room and board) working 500-600 hours over summer break. You would have to make the equivalent of $70,000/yr before taxes - more than the average college graduate - to cover fees, and $120,000/yr equivalent to cover all basic expenses.
That's a far cry from being what it was in 1970, much less 1950.
No, but it's likely that money from the football and basketball team's revenue sharing within the conference did. Sports is an easy target, and they are unbelievably free of most morality, but they (in general) do not suck of the university teat. Do I like it? No. But in all honesty it's not the place to find tuition money being flushed.
Because they (Apple) never go after anyone with questionable patent claims or because Apple has already paid for/cross-licensed everything they need with the companies you don't like?
'Cause if you do, you need two things: wicked smarts and mad social skills. Unless you are one-in-a-billion smart and have your PhD by age 15 (which you clearly haven't), you need to be focused on making this your life, and by learning who everyone is in your field. The best way - and I mean this sincerely - to get into an existing is to know someone on the inside who wants you there. The best way to get into a startup is to know, or be one of, the founders.
That sounds like political bullshit, but it's true. You know how I got into NASA? My mother was the dental hygienist for a scientist there, and they chatted at appointments over the years about what her son did (aero engr). One time, he asked if I might be interested in lasers. Next thing you know I'm meeting the teem and chatting with the techs - and I understood the science and asked meaningful questions. I knew some CAD - back when almost nobody did. I talked with the math guy, and it turns out they are so sensitive to performance that they program some of their routines for laser time-of-flight in assembly/ machine code, so we talked about that since I learned to code on the 6502 in the summer of my 7th grade year (I was too poor to buy a compiler, so I hand compiled assembly into machine code). And boom - some medium smart kid with a year of undergrad engineering, a middling 3.6 gpa, got a co-op position with NASA. My story isn't unusual - the stack of resumes that come in for the truly "open" positions in these firms are filled with 4.0+ gpas, high profile school names, and activities that make Mother Theresa look like Hitler.
If you really, truly, want to make a go of it in a very selective field, you need to go where the contacts are. Visit colleges that (ideally) already have connections with companies. Make sure the professors are rubbing shoulders with the SpaceX guys regularly - actively collaborating if possible - and find out how you can get on whatever research project they're working on.
Being smart and getting a good degree won't cut it unless you plan on starting your own company (which isn't a bad idea, but does involve risk and money). Don't get me wrong - that IS a prerequisite. But just that will only put you in with the thousands of other smart kids who like rocketry. You need to get contact with people. Until the SpaceX guys know who you are, you're just another faceless piece of paper.
I'm not involved in aerospace anymore - the math is hard, the jobs are few, and I have too many other interests to be all consumed in my work - so I don't know where to tell you to go. Ideally, it will be a place with an active private-ish space department, and a place to "play" (launch things). I recommend taking an alternate approach - pretend you're looking for a PhD or Post-Doc program, not an undergrad. The shift in focus will put yo on the right track to find the PEOPLE you need to work with to get into the industry. Once you're in and people know you, you'll do well from there.
Note: this is all stuff I wish I understood when I was in high school. I just didn't have the discipline back then. FWIW, today I run my own engineering firm, and play with rockets on the side. Still, it'd be nice to play with somebody else's money for my hobby;-)
I'm not aware of any confirmed instances of a detained bomber at airport security. All the stories come from the ones that have slipped past. Luckily, there were post-9/11 Americans on board are aren't willing to put up with this shit anymore, and every attempt at terrorism in the sky has been thwarted by the passengers.
And there are lots of US citizens who have property and part time residences there.
And it makes us a good neighbor. Just because you're nice to somebody doesn't make you a tree-hugging, money-spending, tax-and-spend liberal. Just as home schooling your kids doesn't make you a evangelist-christian, gun-totin', xeno-and-homophobic conservative.
Yes, they pay for it. But they do not pay for all of it, as they would. The whole reason the US level things exist is so that those areas with disproportionate resource needs which are shared by the collective population are not the sole financial responsibility of the local residents.
We may disagree which programs rise to that level, but nearly everyone benefits from a federal program they would not like to pay for in full, our of their own pocket.
I'm not sure whether to be excited that VT had made it so mainstream in the last 25 years, or saddened that it took football to raise the profile of a primarily academic/technical institution. Actually, now that I come to think of it, I don't give a shit - I'm just happy to see us on TV.:-)
It's the smell of money, being counted and placed into neat little stacks, ready to purchase new legislation explicitly allowing exclusive distribution rights for copyrighted material.
And things are different now. It's mostly corporations who are tracking you, often in bulk, to sell you things. In other cases it's simply data that gets stored and sifted without human interaction.
In the past, if you lived in a small town (hell, if you do today), you had very little privacy. Everybody knows what everybody is doing. We've gotten used to the illusion that anything we do in our homes is private. While the internet and communication have allowed us to do more stuff at home, they've also brought the lack of privacy that comes with public interaction inside as well.
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I think you can turn that backup off, or limit the space it uses. It's been a while since I've looked, and since when I got mine the 500GB HD cost about the same as a 30GB drive, I didn't have to worry about having "too many backups."
Just put some stickers over the holes that say "warranty void if removed. " Done.
You don't have to. That's what XDAdevelopers is for - they started (iirc) on HTC phones and made them do wondrous things for the time.
Since the examiners are skilled in the art, how can they possibly apply that test? The purpose is to reward actual innovation (dare I say "strokes of genius"), not "what we were working on this week in the lab."
Maybe the problem ins't the federal pay scale, but rather that the federal government shouldn't be paying contractors $300k a year?
If it costs that much, maybe we don't need it that badly?
It appears that Apple has released a new operating system, for which Siri is an integral part. They then deactivated that part of the OS for every device except their newest.
You paid for the OS and, essentially, perpetual updgrades when you purchased the device (or Apple has chosen to provide upgrades, including iOS5, at no charge - take your pick). You paid to download Siri as part of the OS over your internet connection. ACTFA, there is a single line of code added, along with file system changes - none of which actually installs any software which is not already on the phone - in order to activate Siri.
The pervasiveness of standardized testing has become a real sore spot. Teachers in Virginia are now "teaching to the test" nearly every year in order to get their schools to remain in compliance. The Standards of Learning (SOLs, how appropriate) are causing fifth graders in my kids ES to freak out, because their teachers are under so much pressure to make the scores higher every year ("adequate yearly progress"). You can't improve test scores continuously like you improve quality on an assembly line, but the state is trying - mostly in order to secure federal funding.
More to the point, people aren't getting smarter in any significant sense. We've got the same gray matter we were using 100 years ago, and yet the minimum requirements for jobs these days require a much higher level of academic understanding. High School no longer turns out productive people no because they are teaching less, but because the minimum bar for "productive" has moved so far in the last 40 years.
Unfortunately, sending these people to college isn't helping - it's just soaking up money. Most of the "extras" that are getting sent to college to learn will either not help them get a job or it simply will not soak in. Half of humans are of below average intelligence. You can't expect to send them to college and end up in the top 20%. Short of "make fewer dumb people," there isn't much of a solution on the academic front. However, by reducing the dependency on constant standardized testing, you could put some life-skill classes back into the secondary school level.
If you get a real reader with editing capabilities you'd find the experience much better. Adobe is not the best our there; Bluebeam is awesome if you need to make notations in PDFs. I wish they had a version for tablets.
I've got to agree, mostly (except for the Acrobat part - I find Bluebeam far more useful, though it's not free). I almost never want to open a PDF in the browser, because most PDFs are stuff I need to download and keep anyway.
"A good tool is versatile, durable and dependable. Apple meets NONE of these requirements."
You are conflating good with things that are not necessarily so. A good tool is one that gets the job done. Sometime versatile is a hindrance. A hammer is not particularly versatile, but is a good tool. The iPhone, for it's flaws, is dependable, durable, and moderately versatile.
You seem to be concerned that the "package" you bought can't be modified, and yet most of the best phones on the market are such, including nearly all land line phones and nearly every non-smart-phone that existed/exists. They are perfectly good appliances. If I wanted to carry around a general purpose computer in my pocket, the iPhone wouldn't make the grade, but as a phone and PDA, it is a reliable (if somewhat limited) tool.
As for learning curve, it is not the same. Us geeks know the difference, and to do really, really low level stuff it's the same (harder in some cases since you have to jailbreak). For 90% of the phone users out there, the iPhone is simple enough that you can use it immediately, and feel like you're leveraging the technology. The droid series is not quite as intuitive though you might blame that on Verizon's GUI skin.
Seems like there should be a way to claim gross negligence and professional misconduct on the part of the partners of Righthaven, and use that as a basis for personal/professional liability against them as well as their corporation/partnership. It works that way for other professionals, I suspect it's possible (depending on state law, of course) with lawyers, too. Of course, they should also have their licenses revoked, but that's a different story.
This is the Apple way, and there is some merit to it. If you let people have whatever they want, you'll find you have a lot of incompatible requirements. If you give them something that works, they will find ways to do what they need to do, and in the end they'll spend less time futzing with the little known features they originally wanted. It will also significantly reduce the cost to support.
I scoffed at this way for many years, but now that my hair is a bit grayer I've learned that often the simple tools are the best. Having one system that does everything is very cool, but often it's not practical to build it or economical to maintain it.
Yeah, but it takes you 6 people to use 5GB in a month. Unless I'm on a boring trip and streaming, stuff, I've never exceeded the 250 (now 200) MB limit on my phone plan. I did it accidentally once with my iPad on a weekend when I was out of wifi range for about 16 hours of travel and decided to pass the time looking up music on line.
Note: I don't stream anything over cell internet, but I do have all my regular data services and regularly look stuff up on the internet, and rarely exceed 60MB of monthly data. Streaming is the big game changer.
Part time is not necessarily true, unless your daddy could get you a good job. There were lots of folks in my Father's era (1960s) who would work all summer to pay tuition for the next year. I did a quick search for my state, and the most expensive state school is UVa.
In 1970, UVa was $330/semester plus $154 in required fees, or $968/yr.
Minimum wage in 1970 was $1.60/hr. So it would take just under 700 hours of a minimum wage, or a bit over 4 months, to make tuition (after taxes). Since school was only 7 months long, that meant you would have to work over semester break to pay tuition.
If you could get a job with any reasonable skill, about 50% over minimum wage, ($11/hr relative to today's min wage, which you can get as a day laborer or in retail) you would need to work less than 450 hours, or a full-time "summer" job, with a few days after class ended and again before classes started to pay tuition and fees.
It was a regular possibility to work a full time summer job and pay tuition and fees for the year. At less costly schools, you could work summer and breaks and come very close to tuition, fees, and room/board. It wasn't easy, but you could do it. There are no jobs you can (legally) get today as a college student that will cover the $16,000 ($27,000 with room and board) working 500-600 hours over summer break. You would have to make the equivalent of $70,000/yr before taxes - more than the average college graduate - to cover fees, and $120,000/yr equivalent to cover all basic expenses.
That's a far cry from being what it was in 1970, much less 1950.
No, but it's likely that money from the football and basketball team's revenue sharing within the conference did. Sports is an easy target, and they are unbelievably free of most morality, but they (in general) do not suck of the university teat. Do I like it? No. But in all honesty it's not the place to find tuition money being flushed.
Because they (Apple) never go after anyone with questionable patent claims or because Apple has already paid for/cross-licensed everything they need with the companies you don't like?
'Cause if you do, you need two things: wicked smarts and mad social skills. Unless you are one-in-a-billion smart and have your PhD by age 15 (which you clearly haven't), you need to be focused on making this your life, and by learning who everyone is in your field. The best way - and I mean this sincerely - to get into an existing is to know someone on the inside who wants you there. The best way to get into a startup is to know, or be one of, the founders.
That sounds like political bullshit, but it's true. You know how I got into NASA? My mother was the dental hygienist for a scientist there, and they chatted at appointments over the years about what her son did (aero engr). One time, he asked if I might be interested in lasers. Next thing you know I'm meeting the teem and chatting with the techs - and I understood the science and asked meaningful questions. I knew some CAD - back when almost nobody did. I talked with the math guy, and it turns out they are so sensitive to performance that they program some of their routines for laser time-of-flight in assembly/ machine code, so we talked about that since I learned to code on the 6502 in the summer of my 7th grade year (I was too poor to buy a compiler, so I hand compiled assembly into machine code). And boom - some medium smart kid with a year of undergrad engineering, a middling 3.6 gpa, got a co-op position with NASA. My story isn't unusual - the stack of resumes that come in for the truly "open" positions in these firms are filled with 4.0+ gpas, high profile school names, and activities that make Mother Theresa look like Hitler.
If you really, truly, want to make a go of it in a very selective field, you need to go where the contacts are. Visit colleges that (ideally) already have connections with companies. Make sure the professors are rubbing shoulders with the SpaceX guys regularly - actively collaborating if possible - and find out how you can get on whatever research project they're working on.
Being smart and getting a good degree won't cut it unless you plan on starting your own company (which isn't a bad idea, but does involve risk and money). Don't get me wrong - that IS a prerequisite. But just that will only put you in with the thousands of other smart kids who like rocketry. You need to get contact with people. Until the SpaceX guys know who you are, you're just another faceless piece of paper.
I'm not involved in aerospace anymore - the math is hard, the jobs are few, and I have too many other interests to be all consumed in my work - so I don't know where to tell you to go. Ideally, it will be a place with an active private-ish space department, and a place to "play" (launch things). I recommend taking an alternate approach - pretend you're looking for a PhD or Post-Doc program, not an undergrad. The shift in focus will put yo on the right track to find the PEOPLE you need to work with to get into the industry. Once you're in and people know you, you'll do well from there.
Note: this is all stuff I wish I understood when I was in high school. I just didn't have the discipline back then. FWIW, today I run my own engineering firm, and play with rockets on the side. Still, it'd be nice to play with somebody else's money for my hobby ;-)
I'm not aware of any confirmed instances of a detained bomber at airport security. All the stories come from the ones that have slipped past. Luckily, there were post-9/11 Americans on board are aren't willing to put up with this shit anymore, and every attempt at terrorism in the sky has been thwarted by the passengers.
That sounds like a solution, rather than a problem!
And there are lots of US citizens who have property and part time residences there.
And it makes us a good neighbor. Just because you're nice to somebody doesn't make you a tree-hugging, money-spending, tax-and-spend liberal. Just as home schooling your kids doesn't make you a evangelist-christian, gun-totin', xeno-and-homophobic conservative.
Yes, they pay for it. But they do not pay for all of it, as they would. The whole reason the US level things exist is so that those areas with disproportionate resource needs which are shared by the collective population are not the sole financial responsibility of the local residents.
We may disagree which programs rise to that level, but nearly everyone benefits from a federal program they would not like to pay for in full, our of their own pocket.
I was going to go with Avatar.
http://www.inventinginteractive.com/2010/01/15/movie-avatar/
Don't bother watching this, unless you happened to click through from the main page because it had Virginia Tech in the headline.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4LssHXZjIA
I'm not sure whether to be excited that VT had made it so mainstream in the last 25 years, or saddened that it took football to raise the profile of a primarily academic/technical institution. Actually, now that I come to think of it, I don't give a shit - I'm just happy to see us on TV. :-)
It's the smell of money, being counted and placed into neat little stacks, ready to purchase new legislation explicitly allowing exclusive distribution rights for copyrighted material.
And things are different now. It's mostly corporations who are tracking you, often in bulk, to sell you things. In other cases it's simply data that gets stored and sifted without human interaction.
In the past, if you lived in a small town (hell, if you do today), you had very little privacy. Everybody knows what everybody is doing. We've gotten used to the illusion that anything we do in our homes is private. While the internet and communication have allowed us to do more stuff at home, they've also brought the lack of privacy that comes with public interaction inside as well.