Kind of surprising really. If the folks at Apple ever read their spam, they'd know that 3" is the ideal increment if you want anything to be available in a larger size.
Well, you mean two cables, right? One for power and one for data. And you're still going to have a computer between the camera and the storage drive* to negotiate the connection, unless you have a proprietary match. Now, I'm not saying the current standard is ideal, but I've got power, signal, and USB going to my monitor. My monitor has a cardreader and half a dozen usb ports on it, plus audio out (which I don't use - I have 6 speakers). It's not all that pretty (the cables coming off the monitor - the ones going to it are in a compact sleeve), but it's about as good as the proposed, save the one USB cable from the computer to the monitor.
This is nice - don't get me wrong - but it's a small set forward, imho, with a cost of a bunch of adapters thrown in.
*Why on earth would you have a local storage drive on your desk if you're fussy about cables? That's what NAS boxes, sitting in a closet somewhere, are for. Sure, you'll be throttled by that Gbps ethernet connection, but that's still faster than just about anything else today save eSata.
Yeah, I thought the same thing. And, of course, the carrier has to know your location to provide you services (within a cell-tower range, at least). Actually, my first though was to correct the OP:
The carrier probably doesn't need your consent to track your location, they don't monetize that information yet.
Depends - would you like to start paying for searching and mapping services? How likely are you to make a profit if you start getting charged $100/yr for map access (retail cost for maps through garmin) plus $0.01/MB of data transfer? What about regular search? Voice searches at $1/each like the phone company information line?
$25 Million? Try Hundreds of Billions, if not Trillions. The helicopter they lost (supposedly) cost more than $25M to replace. If the money spent on the augmented military and intelligence required to get to this point came to only $25 million, I'd give these guys a second medal.
Well, aside from allowing his followers to actually see an touch his dead body, there is no proof. Look at all the people in the US who STILL don't think Pres. Obama was born in the US.
The challenge is going to be for Pakistan now. They're going to have to come up with an exceptional story about how they "didn't know" he was where he was, because their outrage about US strikes in sovereign Pakistani soil against "terrorist militants" was always deflected by claiming that they were in control and that they were not harboring terrorists. IMHO, they've been caught with their pants down, and are going to have a much harder time arguing against strikes. I'm not making a judgment either way on those strikes, but being caught with the #1 terrorist in your own kitchen...during dinner...with a place set for him...makes your claims of not having legitimate terrorist/military targets on your soil very, very weak.
It's a 6 letter domain that only exists in the regulated space that is the internet. It's like buying a phone number. I wish I could get that kind of money for my domains - but apparently I bought land in the Arizona desert of domain space.
Never has, never will based on the replies from CS/Tech Support. Seems that it will work okay with a simple setup and small data set, but get one thing off or try to use what you paid for (in my case, about 100GB of corporate data), and you can just give up. I spend two months, five re-installs, and countless hours trying to get things to work - we finally just gave up and went with an inferior service that we could make work acceptably.
FWIW - SO's backup service was flawless. I never found a missing file or had a problem with it keeping the backup data working.
Google is doing the same thing with EVERY service they offer. Did you know they can read all of your emails, including where and when you sent them?
There is a price for convenience. Most of the time it is trivial. If the price is too high, people simply need to opt out. Turn of location services if you're paranoid, and opt for encrypted backups in iTunes. Just don't complain that your convenience is hampered as a result.
Really? So if you turn off location services - which Apple says will prevent logging of location data - it still logs your data? That would, indeed by interesting news.
are too few grants (money) that are provided by our tax moneys
Wait - you think your work should be funded by the taxpayer 'cause you're smart and you find your field interesting? Go use your own goddamned money to play in your lab.
I'm curious: If I sing a note, can you sing a perfect fifth in just tuning to it, and create an overtone? I didn't think so. It's actually very, very easy to do, and I can teach nearly anybody who can sing along in church or with the radio in about half an hour. It's all about perspective. I'm not even a professional musician - in fact, not even close.
So, in other words, this is exactly what people who use cloud services for mission critical data needed. It's exceptionally hard to learn good lessons from success, but failures are almost guaranteed to teach something. In this case, the community will understand the potential cost of a four-to-six-nines system without a backup. There is always a finite chance of failure.
Still, it was only down for , what - a day? Remember Loma Prieta? WTC collapses? Things happen, and when they do everybody is down for a while. Compared to real disasters, that's pretty good.
Absolutely. You can hire a teacher for just $2.5M-3M (figuring 40k/year plus benefits for a 30 year career). That's almost three teachers they could have funded!
(I presume your number is for a much larger program, since we're talking about less than half a million for these tablets)
Back in my father's day, you could work a basic summer job and be able to pay tuition for an in-state college for the year. Not to many jobs pay $20,000 for ten weeks of work to an unskilled college student anymore. The rules have changed.
As for your hating socialism, I presume you went to private school, and you send your kids to private school. I know you wouldn't want to be called a socialist for accepting $9-12,000/year per child for their primary and secondary instruction. I also presume that you do not drive, as I know you wouldn't want to be called a socialist for accepting the billions of dollars of roadwork infrastructure the government provides. Not all collective benefits are bad.
And that school district thanks you for the 0.1 cent you contributed to this program. Unless, of course, you paid less than $10,000 in federal taxes last year, in which case you paid less than that tenth of a cent. We'd send you a certificate of thanks, but that would cost nearly 1000 times your contribution, including paper, printing and mailing costs.
Yeah, but the school system can't buy all new parents for these kids. Most parents are - at best - apathetic and some are downright disdainful of the education process. I have a third grader, and we work with her every night on homework and give her extra help when she hits a subject where she has more difficulty. I know a lo of the parents in that class, but I only know one of them who works with their kid every night. Most let the kids float. Some never even look at the binder that goes home every single night. It's pitiful, really.
I just got one (v.1 - I'm cheap), and it is very cool to have all my sheet music on it, along with vocal learning tracks for my music. I would think that a good annotation software (like goodreader) with school issued music and texts would be ideal. Just wipe the files at the end of the year and you can start over with "fresh" copies come September. Don't know how well it would work for concerts, but it might be useful to have self-lit music for a pit band (though not so good for those who like to have two or more pages up at once!).
The key is getting the content providers (textbook makers, music producers) on board. I'm sure I don't have the right license for my music, but as I see it I have been issues (or have bought) one copy, and I'm using one copy.
As a business person, you're conflating a one time purchase with a long term commitment. I understand your idea, and it has certain merit, but as sibling posts point out, a one time $350k would not do much for staff. First, you need facility. You might presume there is an extra classroom to use for the instructor, otherwise you're looking at a 700SF chunk of real estate at about $150-200/SF plus 30% for FFE (yes, I do that stuff for a living) so there goes $140k off the top. If you hire a new teacher, you're likely in for about $40k in direct salary and about the same in benefits and retirement setasides. So you can fund a teacher for 2.5 years. And then what will you do? Fire the teacher? Raise local taxes to keep them on? It's true that these iPads may only last 4-5 years - maybe less - but they don't have a family to support, and you're not going to drop and entire class when they leave.
Also, it looks like they're going to affect nearly 700 kids with this. A teacher might affect 25 (or, if you spread it out over a whole grade, maybe 150 with incrementally smaller class sizes). This iPad thing may not work - it may be a waste of money. Or, it may take a dozen or more kids who are "on the edge" and give them a tool that helps them really excel. Maybe it will allow the existing teachers more one-on-one time with kids who need help because the interactive nature of the software they're using reduces the need for help with some students. Maybe computers, in general, are just a waste of time and are only being used to pirate games (which was what they said about the two they bought for my math class back in 1982). Best thing to do is to let these vanguards try it out and see what works and if it's worth the money. Then the rest of us can decide whether it's something that can add to the educational experience, or just a waste.
Smartphones are like cars. If you don't own one, you can certainly get along just fine, but you don't really know what you're missing. Once you have one, you wonder how you lived without it.
As for the carriers, if you have a phone they're raking you over the coals anyway. My wife and I have smartphones, and they cost about $80/mo combined (effectively $40 each). There are places where the network is slow (there are rural areas around me) to non-existent, but for the most part I get 3G speeds in most of my town, and since I don't stream movies over the internet, I rarely notice it.
Now, if you live in NY or LA or SF with the rest of the lemmings, then you probably have connectivity issues. That sucks, but its still better than if you lived in the countryside 150 miles outside of DC, where there is no service from any carrier at all, and they're still on dialup for internet.
As for contracts, where the f am I going to go? There are two carriers with even remotely decent coverage (ATT & Verizon), and the smaller players who are likely to get bought up by them soon. I can't take my phone even if it was unlocked because few of the carriers use the same system, and those that do use them on different frequencies. Hell, AT&T foots $400-$500 on the cost of a new top-of-the-line phone for me every 18 months, and in return I pay them for $700 for service during that time. They pay so much of the phone that I can resell the damned thing on eBay for more than my share of a new phone. So for $40 a month (which I guarantee for 2 years, or have to pay them back just over half of the subsidy they gave me) I get a new phone every year and a half AND more voice and mobile data service than I use.
In the words of Bre'r Rabbit - don't throw me into that brier patch!
Based on that, it sounds like Apple is simply lazy and doesn't bother to flush the log, or flush entries more than (x) days/hours old. I'm not too surprised that they keep a lot of data. The handoff from wifi to cell and back again seems to operate far more efficiently than my (very old) WinMo phone, and makes for a much better user experience, though with the potential privacy ramifications.
Just like a touchbook from Always Innovating (http://www.alwaysinnovating.com/home/index.htm) but with an actual production capability and an OS that the maker didn't have to write from scratch.
But why would I want to? It's a phone and a computing device with a specific (marginally expandable) use. I can't./configure, make, make install programs on my rice cooker, but it makes fantastic rice and pretty darned good porridge. That doesn't make it less useful.
If you want a little computer, go get a an OQO, or a computer-like device that lets you customize based on android. If you feel left out because you can't have a cool looking iPhone, well I can't help you there. Don't worry, though, I don't find the current crop of iPhones all that aesthetically pleasing - the previous one's were nicer, but all of them still lack basic notification functionality, and no amount of software can fix that.
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Kind of surprising really. If the folks at Apple ever read their spam, they'd know that 3" is the ideal increment if you want anything to be available in a larger size.
Well, you mean two cables, right? One for power and one for data. And you're still going to have a computer between the camera and the storage drive* to negotiate the connection, unless you have a proprietary match. Now, I'm not saying the current standard is ideal, but I've got power, signal, and USB going to my monitor. My monitor has a cardreader and half a dozen usb ports on it, plus audio out (which I don't use - I have 6 speakers). It's not all that pretty (the cables coming off the monitor - the ones going to it are in a compact sleeve), but it's about as good as the proposed, save the one USB cable from the computer to the monitor.
This is nice - don't get me wrong - but it's a small set forward, imho, with a cost of a bunch of adapters thrown in.
*Why on earth would you have a local storage drive on your desk if you're fussy about cables? That's what NAS boxes, sitting in a closet somewhere, are for. Sure, you'll be throttled by that Gbps ethernet connection, but that's still faster than just about anything else today save eSata.
Yeah, I thought the same thing. And, of course, the carrier has to know your location to provide you services (within a cell-tower range, at least). Actually, my first though was to correct the OP:
The carrier probably doesn't need your consent to track your location, they don't monetize that information yet.
Depends - would you like to start paying for searching and mapping services? How likely are you to make a profit if you start getting charged $100/yr for map access (retail cost for maps through garmin) plus $0.01/MB of data transfer? What about regular search? Voice searches at $1/each like the phone company information line?
Be careful what you wish for...
$25 Million? Try Hundreds of Billions, if not Trillions. The helicopter they lost (supposedly) cost more than $25M to replace. If the money spent on the augmented military and intelligence required to get to this point came to only $25 million, I'd give these guys a second medal.
Well, aside from allowing his followers to actually see an touch his dead body, there is no proof. Look at all the people in the US who STILL don't think Pres. Obama was born in the US.
The challenge is going to be for Pakistan now. They're going to have to come up with an exceptional story about how they "didn't know" he was where he was, because their outrage about US strikes in sovereign Pakistani soil against "terrorist militants" was always deflected by claiming that they were in control and that they were not harboring terrorists. IMHO, they've been caught with their pants down, and are going to have a much harder time arguing against strikes. I'm not making a judgment either way on those strikes, but being caught with the #1 terrorist in your own kitchen...during dinner...with a place set for him...makes your claims of not having legitimate terrorist/military targets on your soil very, very weak.
It's a 6 letter domain that only exists in the regulated space that is the internet. It's like buying a phone number. I wish I could get that kind of money for my domains - but apparently I bought land in the Arizona desert of domain space.
Never has, never will based on the replies from CS/Tech Support. Seems that it will work okay with a simple setup and small data set, but get one thing off or try to use what you paid for (in my case, about 100GB of corporate data), and you can just give up. I spend two months, five re-installs, and countless hours trying to get things to work - we finally just gave up and went with an inferior service that we could make work acceptably.
FWIW - SO's backup service was flawless. I never found a missing file or had a problem with it keeping the backup data working.
Google is doing the same thing with EVERY service they offer. Did you know they can read all of your emails, including where and when you sent them?
There is a price for convenience. Most of the time it is trivial. If the price is too high, people simply need to opt out. Turn of location services if you're paranoid, and opt for encrypted backups in iTunes. Just don't complain that your convenience is hampered as a result.
Really? So if you turn off location services - which Apple says will prevent logging of location data - it still logs your data? That would, indeed by interesting news.
are too few grants (money) that are provided by our tax moneys
Wait - you think your work should be funded by the taxpayer 'cause you're smart and you find your field interesting? Go use your own goddamned money to play in your lab.
I'm curious: If I sing a note, can you sing a perfect fifth in just tuning to it, and create an overtone? I didn't think so. It's actually very, very easy to do, and I can teach nearly anybody who can sing along in church or with the radio in about half an hour. It's all about perspective. I'm not even a professional musician - in fact, not even close.
So, in other words, this is exactly what people who use cloud services for mission critical data needed. It's exceptionally hard to learn good lessons from success, but failures are almost guaranteed to teach something. In this case, the community will understand the potential cost of a four-to-six-nines system without a backup. There is always a finite chance of failure.
Still, it was only down for , what - a day? Remember Loma Prieta? WTC collapses? Things happen, and when they do everybody is down for a while. Compared to real disasters, that's pretty good.
Absolutely. You can hire a teacher for just $2.5M-3M (figuring 40k/year plus benefits for a 30 year career). That's almost three teachers they could have funded!
(I presume your number is for a much larger program, since we're talking about less than half a million for these tablets)
Back in my father's day, you could work a basic summer job and be able to pay tuition for an in-state college for the year. Not to many jobs pay $20,000 for ten weeks of work to an unskilled college student anymore. The rules have changed.
As for your hating socialism, I presume you went to private school, and you send your kids to private school. I know you wouldn't want to be called a socialist for accepting $9-12,000/year per child for their primary and secondary instruction. I also presume that you do not drive, as I know you wouldn't want to be called a socialist for accepting the billions of dollars of roadwork infrastructure the government provides. Not all collective benefits are bad.
And that school district thanks you for the 0.1 cent you contributed to this program. Unless, of course, you paid less than $10,000 in federal taxes last year, in which case you paid less than that tenth of a cent. We'd send you a certificate of thanks, but that would cost nearly 1000 times your contribution, including paper, printing and mailing costs.
Yeah, but the school system can't buy all new parents for these kids. Most parents are - at best - apathetic and some are downright disdainful of the education process. I have a third grader, and we work with her every night on homework and give her extra help when she hits a subject where she has more difficulty. I know a lo of the parents in that class, but I only know one of them who works with their kid every night. Most let the kids float. Some never even look at the binder that goes home every single night. It's pitiful, really.
I just got one (v.1 - I'm cheap), and it is very cool to have all my sheet music on it, along with vocal learning tracks for my music. I would think that a good annotation software (like goodreader) with school issued music and texts would be ideal. Just wipe the files at the end of the year and you can start over with "fresh" copies come September. Don't know how well it would work for concerts, but it might be useful to have self-lit music for a pit band (though not so good for those who like to have two or more pages up at once!).
The key is getting the content providers (textbook makers, music producers) on board. I'm sure I don't have the right license for my music, but as I see it I have been issues (or have bought) one copy, and I'm using one copy.
As a business person, you're conflating a one time purchase with a long term commitment. I understand your idea, and it has certain merit, but as sibling posts point out, a one time $350k would not do much for staff. First, you need facility. You might presume there is an extra classroom to use for the instructor, otherwise you're looking at a 700SF chunk of real estate at about $150-200/SF plus 30% for FFE (yes, I do that stuff for a living) so there goes $140k off the top. If you hire a new teacher, you're likely in for about $40k in direct salary and about the same in benefits and retirement setasides. So you can fund a teacher for 2.5 years. And then what will you do? Fire the teacher? Raise local taxes to keep them on? It's true that these iPads may only last 4-5 years - maybe less - but they don't have a family to support, and you're not going to drop and entire class when they leave.
Also, it looks like they're going to affect nearly 700 kids with this. A teacher might affect 25 (or, if you spread it out over a whole grade, maybe 150 with incrementally smaller class sizes). This iPad thing may not work - it may be a waste of money. Or, it may take a dozen or more kids who are "on the edge" and give them a tool that helps them really excel. Maybe it will allow the existing teachers more one-on-one time with kids who need help because the interactive nature of the software they're using reduces the need for help with some students. Maybe computers, in general, are just a waste of time and are only being used to pirate games (which was what they said about the two they bought for my math class back in 1982). Best thing to do is to let these vanguards try it out and see what works and if it's worth the money. Then the rest of us can decide whether it's something that can add to the educational experience, or just a waste.
Smartphones are like cars. If you don't own one, you can certainly get along just fine, but you don't really know what you're missing. Once you have one, you wonder how you lived without it.
As for the carriers, if you have a phone they're raking you over the coals anyway. My wife and I have smartphones, and they cost about $80/mo combined (effectively $40 each). There are places where the network is slow (there are rural areas around me) to non-existent, but for the most part I get 3G speeds in most of my town, and since I don't stream movies over the internet, I rarely notice it.
Now, if you live in NY or LA or SF with the rest of the lemmings, then you probably have connectivity issues. That sucks, but its still better than if you lived in the countryside 150 miles outside of DC, where there is no service from any carrier at all, and they're still on dialup for internet.
As for contracts, where the f am I going to go? There are two carriers with even remotely decent coverage (ATT & Verizon), and the smaller players who are likely to get bought up by them soon. I can't take my phone even if it was unlocked because few of the carriers use the same system, and those that do use them on different frequencies. Hell, AT&T foots $400-$500 on the cost of a new top-of-the-line phone for me every 18 months, and in return I pay them for $700 for service during that time. They pay so much of the phone that I can resell the damned thing on eBay for more than my share of a new phone. So for $40 a month (which I guarantee for 2 years, or have to pay them back just over half of the subsidy they gave me) I get a new phone every year and a half AND more voice and mobile data service than I use.
In the words of Bre'r Rabbit - don't throw me into that brier patch!
Based on that, it sounds like Apple is simply lazy and doesn't bother to flush the log, or flush entries more than (x) days/hours old. I'm not too surprised that they keep a lot of data. The handoff from wifi to cell and back again seems to operate far more efficiently than my (very old) WinMo phone, and makes for a much better user experience, though with the potential privacy ramifications.
Just like a touchbook from Always Innovating (http://www.alwaysinnovating.com/home/index.htm) but with an actual production capability and an OS that the maker didn't have to write from scratch.
Well, that just about sums up the attitude of Northern Virginia towards the rest of the state.
*golf clap*
But why would I want to? It's a phone and a computing device with a specific (marginally expandable) use. I can't ./configure, make, make install programs on my rice cooker, but it makes fantastic rice and pretty darned good porridge. That doesn't make it less useful.
If you want a little computer, go get a an OQO, or a computer-like device that lets you customize based on android. If you feel left out because you can't have a cool looking iPhone, well I can't help you there. Don't worry, though, I don't find the current crop of iPhones all that aesthetically pleasing - the previous one's were nicer, but all of them still lack basic notification functionality, and no amount of software can fix that.