If Apple pushes this with a billion dollar ad campaign, saying it's revolutionary and make people feel like losers if they don't have one, it will sell like hot cakes.
I know several families who are struggling to make ends meet, yet mom and dad sport an iphones with data plans, kids have ipods and ipads. It's sad, but true.
I don't think you understand what's happening here, so let me explain:
Nothing.
This dude will live in the same house, drive the same car, shop at the same supermarket, go to the same pub as yesterday. Just some paperwork and probably a short relaxing vacation in Singapore (on his corporate jet).
Oh, actually, he just got around paying $1bn in taxes. So the roads he'll be using to drive the same car he had yesterday, will be built using your tax dollars.
So I don't see why you want more rich dudes doing this.
I see your point. But then why are apps so popular? Why do people install a hundred different apps to access websites (e.g. wsj.com) instead of just using the browser to do the same?
Nah. The real trick will be getting a Raspberry Pi.
But if he could actually get one, by the time the keyboard/monitor/mouse added, fold-out arrangement fabricated, time spent getting it all to work, he could've saved money buying a cheap tablet.
Disclaimer: I'm not trying to argue for or against, just looking for some more understanding.
Why is having to use an e-id an issue? Most people have already given up their identity and all personal information willingly on social/cloud services.
Is it that The Zuck/Sergei/Tim Cook/Bezos/Ballmer/... looks more trustworthy than the government to have all that information? I mean it is feasible that the government could actually use the data for something good like stopping a terrorist attack or pinching some child molester's butt.
Is it that using social media seems like a choice? It could be argued that social services are a must also because of peer pressure/addiction to the feeling of popularity.
Is it that people just don't realize that they give all their information to those corporation, including addresses, credit card numbers, what they like and what they don't, their party/naked photos, images of their families, what they do when?
Or are the objections only from people who oppose and don't use social media either?
However they missed Autodesk Maya with the Lion upgrade. Maya still doesn't run on it, which is one of the most popular 3d packages (if not the most popular 3d package).
So I'm not necessarily buying your argument. It has as much ground as saying that providing a fix would acknowledge that the problem existed in the first place.
* Increases in teacher salaries based on years of experience; * Increases in teacher salaries based on educational credentials and experiences; * Professional development days; * Number of paid sick and personal days; * Class-size limitations; * Use of teachers’ aides; * Generous health and insurance benefits; and * Generous retirement benefits.
The report estimates the total spending on these provisions in public education, examines studies on the provisions’ effects on student achievement, and explores how these “frozen assets” might be put to different use. Our analysis estimates that an average of 19 percent of every school district’s budget is locked up by these eight provisions. That translates to roughly $77 billion in annual public school spending nationally. """
"As we can see, with the exception of Switzerland, the United States spends more than any other country on education, an average of $91,700 per student between the ages of six and fifteen."
How much of this money goes to actually educating the kids after the unions take their cuts, I don't know. But saying that Republicans "demand to have a first-rate educational system while not wanting to pay a [...] dime of taxes to support it", is simply not true.
Throwing more money at the problem won't fix it.
Fix the families. Restore family values. Education and all other aspects of life will follow.
99.9% of people (not a scientific poll, just an guesstimation) listen to music with those crappy earbuds, while driving or on cheapo speakers. Wonder how much of this mp3 vs flac business their ears can pick up.
Attitude like yours is probably why many programmers are deterred from contributing.
I mean nothing like submitting a patch that you worked hard on, tested, documented, just to be completely ignored. Or being told that you are a moron, your patch is not in line with the "semi-pro-football club"'s ways or some other bullshit.
Most kids nowadays are brought up in daycare, by nannies or baby sitters. When parents get home they piss off on facebook or play angry birds. Then they call other parents for baby sitter recommendations, because they really need a couple nights a week out.
No time to play with the kids, help with their homework. It's easier to stick them in front of the tv or, give them angry birds, too.
Fix the family, everything else will fall into place.
The money would be better spent figuring out how stop parents acting like teenagers on the internet, and do what they signed up for when decided to have kids.
Somehow this article suggests that there are legitimate uses for services like rapidshare. What legally owned digital files would anyone want to share on the internet where the best service to use is rapidshare? Help me out here.
I'm really excited about the Raspberry Pi, but I'm not sure it will replace my $200 HTPC.
To use the Raspberry Pi as an HTPC, you'll have to add storage, power supply and probably some sort of an enclosure. That will put the price over $100 for a setup (as I understand) can only play H264 video at 1080p.
I think the Raspberry Pi is an awesome project, but I'm not sure using it as an HTPC is its best application. Although I could be wrong.
It has to be *in* the TVs because this way you'll buy a new one every year when something shinier comes out. Same as with cell phones.
Every year they'll add some small new feature, then carefully design an ad campaign that will make you feel like a loser because you don't have the latest-greatest. You'll be glad to open your wallet just to feel popular again.
The best solution would be community edited books and curriculum, similar to how wikipedia works.
All teachers and professors could contribute and the material would be accessible to everyone over the internet. The content would be always up to date and unbiased with an editor structure similar to wikipedia's.
The material would also be of the highest quality, because most of the contributions will come from teachers who actually care about teaching.
Most users won't care. That fake feeling of fame and popularity social services offer, outweigh any sort of censorship and privacy concerns.
I'd go a couple steps further and speculate that most users wouldn't even care if Facebook, Twitter etc would install webcams in every room of their users' house, or implant chips in their heads to transmit all information (including their thoughts) about them.
Slashdot Mirror
Cost doesn't matter. Size doesn't matter.
If Apple pushes this with a billion dollar ad campaign, saying it's revolutionary and make people feel like losers if they don't have one, it will sell like hot cakes.
I know several families who are struggling to make ends meet, yet mom and dad sport an iphones with data plans, kids have ipods and ipads. It's sad, but true.
I thought the whole point of this experiment was for facebook to *make* money, not to lose money. Or were you just joking?
Seems to me you're typing.
Just make sure you're holding it right. No gym's gonna help with the ipaditis, you'll have to see a doctor with that.
I call BS on "Tablet: read ebooks comfortably".
A tablet is way to heavy to hold. The backlit, glossy screen is terrible to read on, especially outside.
There's nothing comfortable about reading on a tablet. E-ink devices are a different story.
If you said the tablet was to look cool and pick up chicks at starbucks, or play angry birds, sure. I would've believed that.
Nah, that's already in progress.
And looking at your signature, with your support. Maybe that's why your post was modded funny.
Did you mean:
How horrible is the Singapore military for the son of a billionaire?
I don't think you understand what's happening here, so let me explain:
Nothing.
This dude will live in the same house, drive the same car, shop at the same supermarket, go to the same pub as yesterday. Just some paperwork and probably a short relaxing vacation in Singapore (on his corporate jet).
Oh, actually, he just got around paying $1bn in taxes. So the roads he'll be using to drive the same car he had yesterday, will be built using your tax dollars.
So I don't see why you want more rich dudes doing this.
I see your point. But then why are apps so popular? Why do people install a hundred different apps to access websites (e.g. wsj.com) instead of just using the browser to do the same?
Nah. The real trick will be getting a Raspberry Pi.
But if he could actually get one, by the time the keyboard/monitor/mouse added, fold-out arrangement fabricated, time spent getting it all to work, he could've saved money buying a cheap tablet.
And you don't think that The Zuck would give up the data if the government asked for it? Or that Sergei's not taking on government contracts?
It seems to me that the sole purpose of data collection is to sell that data. Or am I missing something?
Disclaimer: I'm not trying to argue for or against, just looking for some more understanding.
Why is having to use an e-id an issue? Most people have already given up their identity and all personal information willingly on social/cloud services.
Is it that The Zuck/Sergei/Tim Cook/Bezos/Ballmer/... looks more trustworthy than the government to have all that information? I mean it is feasible that the government could actually use the data for something good like stopping a terrorist attack or pinching some child molester's butt.
Is it that using social media seems like a choice? It could be argued that social services are a must also because of peer pressure/addiction to the feeling of popularity.
Is it that people just don't realize that they give all their information to those corporation, including addresses, credit card numbers, what they like and what they don't, their party/naked photos, images of their families, what they do when?
Or are the objections only from people who oppose and don't use social media either?
If one's not ok, why is the other one?
# /etc/hosts
#
#
127.0.0.1 localhost twitter.com fb.com facebook.com ... ...
Taxing large wealth doesn't happen at death. During their lives the wealthy make sure that:
1. they pay as little taxes as possible while alive
2. very little of the accrued wealth goes to the government when they die.
Just like the Nevada "corporate office" trick, there are may ways to make sure that your kids won't pay any taxes on their inheritance.
However they missed Autodesk Maya with the Lion upgrade. Maya still doesn't run on it, which is one of the most popular 3d packages (if not the most popular 3d package).
So I'm not necessarily buying your argument. It has as much ground as saying that providing a fix would acknowledge that the problem existed in the first place.
Sounds awesome. I want it.
http://www.educationsector.org/usr_doc/ESReview07.pdf
"""
This report examines eight such provisions:
* Increases in teacher salaries based on years of experience;
* Increases in teacher salaries based on educational credentials and experiences;
* Professional development days;
* Number of paid sick and personal days;
* Class-size limitations;
* Use of teachers’ aides;
* Generous health and insurance benefits; and
* Generous retirement benefits.
The report estimates the total spending on these provisions in public education, examines studies on the provisions’ effects on student achievement, and explores how these “frozen assets” might be put to different use. Our analysis estimates that an average of 19 percent of every school district’s budget is locked up by these eight provisions. That translates to roughly $77 billion in annual public school spending nationally.
"""
Next time, before spewing all that venom on how the US is not spending any money on education, please check your facts:
http://mercatus.org/publication/k-12-spending-student-oecd
"As we can see, with the exception of Switzerland, the United States spends more than any other country on education, an average of $91,700 per student between the ages of six and fifteen."
How much of this money goes to actually educating the kids after the unions take their cuts, I don't know. But saying that Republicans "demand to have a first-rate educational system while not wanting to pay a [...] dime of taxes to support it", is simply not true.
Throwing more money at the problem won't fix it.
Fix the families. Restore family values. Education and all other aspects of life will follow.
99.9% of people (not a scientific poll, just an guesstimation) listen to music with those crappy earbuds, while driving or on cheapo speakers.
Wonder how much of this mp3 vs flac business their ears can pick up.
Attitude like yours is probably why many programmers are deterred from contributing.
I mean nothing like submitting a patch that you worked hard on, tested, documented, just to be completely ignored. Or being told that you are a moron, your patch is not in line with the "semi-pro-football club"'s ways or some other bullshit.
+1 Agreed.
Most kids nowadays are brought up in daycare, by nannies or baby sitters. When parents get home they piss off on facebook or play angry birds. Then they call other parents for baby sitter recommendations, because they really need a couple nights a week out.
No time to play with the kids, help with their homework. It's easier to stick them in front of the tv or, give them angry birds, too.
Fix the family, everything else will fall into place.
The money would be better spent figuring out how stop parents acting like teenagers on the internet, and do what they signed up for when decided to have kids.
Somehow this article suggests that there are legitimate uses for services like rapidshare. What legally owned digital files would anyone want to share on the internet where the best service to use is rapidshare? Help me out here.
I'm really excited about the Raspberry Pi, but I'm not sure it will replace my $200 HTPC.
To use the Raspberry Pi as an HTPC, you'll have to add storage, power supply and probably some sort of an enclosure. That will put the price over $100 for a setup (as I understand) can only play H264 video at 1080p.
I think the Raspberry Pi is an awesome project, but I'm not sure using it as an HTPC is its best application. Although I could be wrong.
It has to be *in* the TVs because this way you'll buy a new one every year when something shinier comes out. Same as with cell phones.
Every year they'll add some small new feature, then carefully design an ad campaign that will make you feel like a loser because you don't have the latest-greatest. You'll be glad to open your wallet just to feel popular again.
The best solution would be community edited books and curriculum, similar to how wikipedia works.
All teachers and professors could contribute and the material would be accessible to everyone over the internet. The content would be always up to date and unbiased with an editor structure similar to wikipedia's.
The material would also be of the highest quality, because most of the contributions will come from teachers who actually care about teaching.
Most users won't care. That fake feeling of fame and popularity social services offer, outweigh any sort of censorship and privacy concerns.
I'd go a couple steps further and speculate that most users wouldn't even care if Facebook, Twitter etc would install webcams in every room of their users' house, or implant chips in their heads to transmit all information (including their thoughts) about them.