I just don't understand who the core audience for windows is any more. Who are they trying to sell to?
Office workers? Great, Windows is a pretty good system for that usage since office workers have admins that can unf*ck their system when they pick up a virus off browser exploits.
What about the 90% of home users who aren't computer professionals? Are they better off with a Windows operating system that comes preloaded with so much bloatware it can make in Intel i7 chip work hard just to boot? What about when good old Mom or Dad accidentally downloads that trojan horse "anti-virus" that takes over her system to the point where it is unusable? Is Windows still a good value for them then? Wouldn't they have been better off buying a mac with it's easier to use interface, bloatware free on day 1, and far fewer viruses circulating?
Gamers of course are stuck with windows since so many games use Direct X instead of OpenGL.
What about programmers? Windows is SH!T for programming (unless of course you are developing windows applications.) Mac OSX and Linux are both far superior for programming. (OSX after all is a posix compliant Unix Operating System under the hood.) Considering how limited DOS was (and, apparently no longer even present in the current windows) programming from the command line in a Unix/Linux machine is a far far superior option.
So if you're an office drone, or a gamer you're really the only two people who still have a reason to have Windows.
If the company wants the programmer to be more productive they'll give them two monitors. That way they can run the application on one screen, or documentation, and have the IDE open on another. Having to toggle between windows while cutting and pasting, or looking for fine detail differences between output, and code is a real real real suck ass aspect of coding.
This could of course be fixed by giving them a larger monitor and fixing the way maximize works in the OS.
When I was a kid KTTV in LA broadcast the 1989 Rose Parade on New Years Day in 3D. All you needed was a cheap pair of glasses from 7-11 with one shaded lens (not colored.) They weren't electronic, they didn't have shutters, but the 3D worked. Whatever happened with that technology?
In fact I found it on youtube. Wish I still had the cheapo glasses haha.
Anyway, point is, it seems to me that if the affect can be produced using input rather than special TV/Players that studios interested in 3-D releases should just use that simplified distribution model. (ie, it is embedded into the movie, and the disc comes with a couple payers of cheap glasses.)
3dcompany.com had some info about the rose parade broadcast.
The UID identifies the iPhone within XCode. It enables things like authentication without passwords for (trivial) applications. For example if I have an app with profiles, and that app is only usable on the iPhone, there is no need for a password or login, I can just use the UID.
I totally agree that our "one size fits all" education system could use some diversity in methodology. Unfortunately diversity means larger infrastructure and more money that we aren't really willing to pay via taxes.
Most students do not ever need beyond an 8th grade level of english, or math education. So, as you said, why not give them technical or vocational training if that is the route they want.
You my friend have no idea of the hellish world we would be living in if young men between 12-18 were not compelled to be in a controlled environment everyday while their parents were at work and unable to supervise them.
Whatever the case, you do not want people that age having that much free time on their hands unless you want crime to sky rocket.
Golly gosh it is so awful when the owners of a corporation have to actually keep their contractual promises to their employees. Boodeehoodeehooo. I'm crying so many tears for those owners that ran the company into the ground.
There are so many reasons why these scores could be the way they are, teacher performance being one of them.
Do you remember in High School how there were certain kids who were just assholes? They usually ended up in remedial classes of some sort? And that that remedial class was taught by a teacher who was probably a disciplinarian first, and teacher second? Should that teacher's scores by considered a valid representation of their job performance? He is probably the football/wrestling coach, and is literally baby sitting unruly, rude, disruptive teens, in the hopes that by keeping them out of other classrooms the other students might have a chance at not having a lesson disrupted.
Did you know many schools in LAUSD don't have air conditioning despite the temp getting into the hundreds in August/Sept and June? If a teacher has a southern facing classroom with all day sun exposure, well, how well do you think those students are going to be learning for 2-3 months of the year?
I think the union is acting ridiculous and in a very tone deaf manner on this. I don't think that is a reason to abolish the union though. You want tougher rules for teachers? Vote in a mayor and city council that will support tougher negotiating positions and risk a teacher's strike. Don't want to deal with a strike? Then you're a coward or lazy, and blaming them for wanting the best deal they can get is just another thing you're being lazy about.
Unions aren't necessary? Glad you've been listening to right wing talk radio. The rest of us though have been the victims of corporate greed enough times now to know better.
Your evidence is anecdotal, and speaks more to how you didn't take your language course seriously than how many people actually learned a foreign language.
I took Japanese in High School. I really wish I'd been more diligent in learning.
A well educated student makes all of society richer through their contributions.
You can't entirely blame the unions for the problems of the public education system, part of it is the students themselves who are not taking their educations seriously.
The unions are there to protect the teachers, sometimes unreasonably so as in the case of this article. Most of the time though they are protecting teachers from over zealous administrators, nightmare parents, and a politically pressured board of education. You would not believe the things that some parents do to teachers. There are literally nightmare parents, and you can bet every school has at least 10-20 of them. If there were clear boundaries of for administrator power (which currently is nearly limitless), handling of nightmare parent interactions with faculty, and clear guidelines on what the board of educations limitations of power are there would be no need for a union.
It is a government Union. I'm beginning to think government employees should not be allowed to organize. Private corporate employees should always have that right, and it should be as easy as possible for them to do so.
$2000? Looks like $11,899 for Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate
http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/products/2010-editions/ultimate
Insane.
What M$ needs to realize is that hip and cool developers are much like real world hip and cool artists. They are young and poor. They are not affiliated with a mega corporation, and they certainly aren't working on any M$ based product. They're doing web, or mobile, or free software. At worst they are developing for the iPhone and have paid out a whopping $100 annual fee to Apple in order to provision their iPhone with the app they're working on, and submit it to the Apple's app store.
Microsoft has priced itself out of cool. And no army of lawyers, marketing morons, or MBA's at M$ is going to be able to lure them in without making Visual Studio 2010's availability as simple as "You can use it for free if you download it. There is no catch."
Frankly, if you dont have $2K for an Enterprise MSDN licensing, you really have no business doing a start up, do you?
Nah. I'd rather not spend $2k on my self-made start up. I'm doing this on my own, for fun. If it gets big cool, if not, I'm not out $2k on Microsoft stuff.
I suppose I should be counting Mediterranean and eastern European nations as part of Europe. But really I was thinking more of the northern countries like Sweden, Denmark, Holland, Germany, France, and the UK.
We're talking about teenagers. Who, on average, watch 3-4 hours of television per day according to google. And that is the point in life where people make the decision to go to college or not.
You really nailed it on the head. We've over valued office work in our society to the point where we've denigrated anybody who works with their hands.
Of course, this has been going on for centuries. Look at the aristocracy in Europe prior to the 1970's and their disdain for tanning, or calloused hands.
The difference is that now we have a media that is telling everybody they can be wealthy. This really started in the 90s and went full throttle in the 2000's. Look at what teenagers making life decisions are being told about life via these shows: My Super Sweet 16, The Hills, Laguna Beach, Cribs, The City. These shows give the impression that every teenager just needs to get a college degree in order to live a life of super wealth. When was the last time a TV series showed middle and working class life in a positive light? I can't think of any shows that show the working class as anything other than stupid (My Name Is Earl is a prime example, King of the Hill another example, The Simpsons portrayal of working class Homer, or Cletus for example.)
Anyway, I do enjoy some of these shows. I just think that our society is being influenced by a media that weaves itself into the thoughts and philosophies of our national psyche. Is it any wonder why nobody wants to be Earl, Homer, or Hank, when they've been told a life of luxury and easy money is waiting for them if they just go to college and act a certain way.
Actually, telling Americans to do something because Europe's been doing it is much more like saying "Good morning special needs student Butch, see the straight A students on the otherside of the room over there? Don't you want to be like them with a prosperous future? No? You don't? What's that?...You think being stupid and short sighted is cool. Alright then Butch."
The thing is Apple in the past has been able to charge more for their goods because their customers perceive it is a having high quality or luxury that they are wiling to pay more.
The problem of course is that while Apple does produce quality goods, a lot of what enables their ability to charge as much as they do is consumer perception. If the perception starts to change, as I believe it has this month, their ability to charge higher prices to as many consumers will begin to diminish.
I think the tide is about to change for Apple unless somebody there has the courage to bitch slap Steve Jobs and tell him he's crossed a few too many lines recently.
I would argue that this week is going to go down in Apple history as the week that "Apple lost it's shine."
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You can use WINE to play DirectX games on a Linux or Mac, however it is a subpar experience.
I just don't understand who the core audience for windows is any more. Who are they trying to sell to?
Office workers? Great, Windows is a pretty good system for that usage since office workers have admins that can unf*ck their system when they pick up a virus off browser exploits.
What about the 90% of home users who aren't computer professionals? Are they better off with a Windows operating system that comes preloaded with so much bloatware it can make in Intel i7 chip work hard just to boot? What about when good old Mom or Dad accidentally downloads that trojan horse "anti-virus" that takes over her system to the point where it is unusable? Is Windows still a good value for them then? Wouldn't they have been better off buying a mac with it's easier to use interface, bloatware free on day 1, and far fewer viruses circulating?
Gamers of course are stuck with windows since so many games use Direct X instead of OpenGL.
What about programmers? Windows is SH!T for programming (unless of course you are developing windows applications.) Mac OSX and Linux are both far superior for programming. (OSX after all is a posix compliant Unix Operating System under the hood.) Considering how limited DOS was (and, apparently no longer even present in the current windows) programming from the command line in a Unix/Linux machine is a far far superior option.
So if you're an office drone, or a gamer you're really the only two people who still have a reason to have Windows.
If the company wants the programmer to be more productive they'll give them two monitors. That way they can run the application on one screen, or documentation, and have the IDE open on another. Having to toggle between windows while cutting and pasting, or looking for fine detail differences between output, and code is a real real real suck ass aspect of coding.
This could of course be fixed by giving them a larger monitor and fixing the way maximize works in the OS.
This is the most obvious "discovery" ever.
The next thing you know they'll start shooting people for putting daisy's into the muzzle of a rifle.
When I was a kid KTTV in LA broadcast the 1989 Rose Parade on New Years Day in 3D. All you needed was a cheap pair of glasses from 7-11 with one shaded lens (not colored.) They weren't electronic, they didn't have shutters, but the 3D worked. Whatever happened with that technology?
In fact I found it on youtube. Wish I still had the cheapo glasses haha.
Anyway, point is, it seems to me that if the affect can be produced using input rather than special TV/Players that studios interested in 3-D releases should just use that simplified distribution model. (ie, it is embedded into the movie, and the disc comes with a couple payers of cheap glasses.)
3dcompany.com had some info about the rose parade broadcast.
The UID identifies the iPhone within XCode. It enables things like authentication without passwords for (trivial) applications. For example if I have an app with profiles, and that app is only usable on the iPhone, there is no need for a password or login, I can just use the UID.
Big whoop.
Mind if I ask which nation? I'm curious.
I totally agree that our "one size fits all" education system could use some diversity in methodology. Unfortunately diversity means larger infrastructure and more money that we aren't really willing to pay via taxes.
Most students do not ever need beyond an 8th grade level of english, or math education. So, as you said, why not give them technical or vocational training if that is the route they want.
You my friend have no idea of the hellish world we would be living in if young men between 12-18 were not compelled to be in a controlled environment everyday while their parents were at work and unable to supervise them.
Whatever the case, you do not want people that age having that much free time on their hands unless you want crime to sky rocket.
Golly gosh it is so awful when the owners of a corporation have to actually keep their contractual promises to their employees. Boodeehoodeehooo. I'm crying so many tears for those owners that ran the company into the ground.
There are so many reasons why these scores could be the way they are, teacher performance being one of them.
Do you remember in High School how there were certain kids who were just assholes? They usually ended up in remedial classes of some sort? And that that remedial class was taught by a teacher who was probably a disciplinarian first, and teacher second? Should that teacher's scores by considered a valid representation of their job performance? He is probably the football/wrestling coach, and is literally baby sitting unruly, rude, disruptive teens, in the hopes that by keeping them out of other classrooms the other students might have a chance at not having a lesson disrupted.
Did you know many schools in LAUSD don't have air conditioning despite the temp getting into the hundreds in August/Sept and June? If a teacher has a southern facing classroom with all day sun exposure, well, how well do you think those students are going to be learning for 2-3 months of the year?
I think the union is acting ridiculous and in a very tone deaf manner on this. I don't think that is a reason to abolish the union though. You want tougher rules for teachers? Vote in a mayor and city council that will support tougher negotiating positions and risk a teacher's strike. Don't want to deal with a strike? Then you're a coward or lazy, and blaming them for wanting the best deal they can get is just another thing you're being lazy about.
LOL.
Unions aren't necessary? Glad you've been listening to right wing talk radio. The rest of us though have been the victims of corporate greed enough times now to know better.
Your evidence is anecdotal, and speaks more to how you didn't take your language course seriously than how many people actually learned a foreign language.
I took Japanese in High School. I really wish I'd been more diligent in learning.
A well educated student makes all of society richer through their contributions.
You can't entirely blame the unions for the problems of the public education system, part of it is the students themselves who are not taking their educations seriously.
The unions are there to protect the teachers, sometimes unreasonably so as in the case of this article. Most of the time though they are protecting teachers from over zealous administrators, nightmare parents, and a politically pressured board of education. You would not believe the things that some parents do to teachers. There are literally nightmare parents, and you can bet every school has at least 10-20 of them. If there were clear boundaries of for administrator power (which currently is nearly limitless), handling of nightmare parent interactions with faculty, and clear guidelines on what the board of educations limitations of power are there would be no need for a union.
It is a government Union. I'm beginning to think government employees should not be allowed to organize. Private corporate employees should always have that right, and it should be as easy as possible for them to do so.
Does this mean that it was somebody's JOB at Google to figure this out?
Error messaging is always arcane. Experience and time is what gets you to the point of being proficient in reading them.
$2000? Looks like $11,899 for Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate
http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/products/2010-editions/ultimate
Insane.
What M$ needs to realize is that hip and cool developers are much like real world hip and cool artists. They are young and poor. They are not affiliated with a mega corporation, and they certainly aren't working on any M$ based product. They're doing web, or mobile, or free software. At worst they are developing for the iPhone and have paid out a whopping $100 annual fee to Apple in order to provision their iPhone with the app they're working on, and submit it to the Apple's app store.
Microsoft has priced itself out of cool. And no army of lawyers, marketing morons, or MBA's at M$ is going to be able to lure them in without making Visual Studio 2010's availability as simple as "You can use it for free if you download it. There is no catch."
Frankly, if you dont have $2K for an Enterprise MSDN licensing, you really have no business doing a start up, do you?
Nah. I'd rather not spend $2k on my self-made start up. I'm doing this on my own, for fun. If it gets big cool, if not, I'm not out $2k on Microsoft stuff.
I suppose I should be counting Mediterranean and eastern European nations as part of Europe. But really I was thinking more of the northern countries like Sweden, Denmark, Holland, Germany, France, and the UK.
We're talking about teenagers. Who, on average, watch 3-4 hours of television per day according to google. And that is the point in life where people make the decision to go to college or not.
You really nailed it on the head. We've over valued office work in our society to the point where we've denigrated anybody who works with their hands.
Of course, this has been going on for centuries. Look at the aristocracy in Europe prior to the 1970's and their disdain for tanning, or calloused hands.
The difference is that now we have a media that is telling everybody they can be wealthy. This really started in the 90s and went full throttle in the 2000's. Look at what teenagers making life decisions are being told about life via these shows: My Super Sweet 16, The Hills, Laguna Beach, Cribs, The City. These shows give the impression that every teenager just needs to get a college degree in order to live a life of super wealth. When was the last time a TV series showed middle and working class life in a positive light? I can't think of any shows that show the working class as anything other than stupid (My Name Is Earl is a prime example, King of the Hill another example, The Simpsons portrayal of working class Homer, or Cletus for example.)
Anyway, I do enjoy some of these shows. I just think that our society is being influenced by a media that weaves itself into the thoughts and philosophies of our national psyche. Is it any wonder why nobody wants to be Earl, Homer, or Hank, when they've been told a life of luxury and easy money is waiting for them if they just go to college and act a certain way.
Actually, telling Americans to do something because Europe's been doing it is much more like saying "Good morning special needs student Butch, see the straight A students on the otherside of the room over there? Don't you want to be like them with a prosperous future? No? You don't? What's that? ...You think being stupid and short sighted is cool. Alright then Butch."
The thing is Apple in the past has been able to charge more for their goods because their customers perceive it is a having high quality or luxury that they are wiling to pay more.
The problem of course is that while Apple does produce quality goods, a lot of what enables their ability to charge as much as they do is consumer perception. If the perception starts to change, as I believe it has this month, their ability to charge higher prices to as many consumers will begin to diminish.
I think the tide is about to change for Apple unless somebody there has the courage to bitch slap Steve Jobs and tell him he's crossed a few too many lines recently.
I would argue that this week is going to go down in Apple history as the week that "Apple lost it's shine."
I was reading this article and apparently there is a real sea change in perception of Apple. This is very bad news for a company that has worked so hard to build a reputation, and to keep the press on it's side.