There is no way I would buy a car with the hood welded shut. Even with non open source software, you can modify things a little bit - every program has preferences to change. For example, in Word I like the blue background with white text. In my car, I want to know I can change the oil, fill my windshield wiper fluid and change my coolant whenever I want to.
Dance Dance Revolution for PS2 is a great game. We take it over to my cousins for holidays all the time. Eveyone like to play, from my 7 yr old brother to my 60 yr old aunts. Not only is it fun, but when you are done and tired, there is more room for food - and you don't feel so bad cause you just burned off a weeks worth of Calories.
It's great that companies are getting out new things, but how likely is it that they will be used? Many people still have dial-up, and streaming video and dialup don't play well together. As much as I like this, wouldn't it be better to develop better codecs to promote this or work on the last mile issue?
I think this will create way too much hassle. There are some people who wouldn't mind, but others (such as grandma) who have to be told three times where the power switch is won't really know what is going on. At least now when I don't reply I'll have a decent excuse... "but grandma, you forget to send it twice, so i didn't get it"
I just graduated from high school, and was on a club which I think is very similar to what you are trying to start. I was lucky to have a school which was very technology orientated, for example, we were a regional Cisco Academy, which was great for only having 400 students in the high school. It was a 1337 club, or as close as one can get at a high school. We had interviews to get in, where we had to demonstrate profieciency.
As freshman, we began by fixing teachers computers, terminating cat-5, creating user accounts.... As were got older and better, we moved onto video editing, designing and supporting the district website, terminating fiber... In the 6th year of the Tech Team, the school started offering it as a class, because they saw the amount of work we were giving them free. They let us have one class period, we would fix computers and all the other stuff, and we would get credit, based on initiative, success, and amount of time spent working outside the class.
The biggest project I got to do by myself was create a website for on-line tests, homework, and a place where students and parents could communicate with teachers. Also, I had to provide a mail and DNS server. I was allowed to spend $8,000 of the school's money myself, which shows the trust they placed in us. It was great experience for college, the work force etc. The largest project I worked on with people was rewiring the school for Cat-5, terminating the fiber, and installing new switches, routers, and a PIX box. We did this free of charge, which helped the school out immensely.
Basically, we had our school's network guru in charge of us, then the seniors (or whomever was the best) take their orders from them, and dissipate the info downwards. We had one main room for everyone, but upper classmen got desks and "their own" computers (still the schools, but we were the only ones to use them) (these computers also happened to be the best in teh school, but we WERE working for free). We also did Adopt-a-Road as a comm.service project, and set up a network at our local police station for free.
Feel free to use this as a model for a proposition for your school board, just let them know that they potentially have a lot of free labor, just so you guys get to play with the equipment.
As a side note, we did get several benefits. Tech period was one of the most fun (no lectures or notes BS), we could get out of class to fix stuff ("umm, i think they need me in the tech room, otherwise your e-mail won't work" -- "sure, go ahead"). And every year at least one of us got keys to the school so we could go after whatever sport we were in practice.
i am currently enrolled in a Sword and Sorcery class at college. we read mostly fantasy, but some of our stuff touches on science fiction. you can check out the course at wabash.edu there was a write up of the course in the indy star, you might be able to find out about it on the web.
mostly we read the books, and find the major themes, how the author develops them via different linguistic techniques with the ultimate goal of writing our own fantasy story at the end of the semester
I would like it if Apple produced something like this. All the software they produce is easy to use and works very good. I wouldn't mind an alternative to IE. I don't mind IE, but alternatives and competition are always good....right?
raising the price of the iMac sounds like a fair deal to me... any other computer manufacturer would raise the price of their stuff if supply was low... just simple economics. i think this is a good move to apple, although it might make some people mad (minus those with pre-orders)
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There is no way I would buy a car with the hood welded shut. Even with non open source software, you can modify things a little bit - every program has preferences to change. For example, in Word I like the blue background with white text. In my car, I want to know I can change the oil, fill my windshield wiper fluid and change my coolant whenever I want to.
Dance Dance Revolution for PS2 is a great game. We take it over to my cousins for holidays all the time. Eveyone like to play, from my 7 yr old brother to my 60 yr old aunts. Not only is it fun, but when you are done and tired, there is more room for food - and you don't feel so bad cause you just burned off a weeks worth of Calories.
It's great that companies are getting out new things, but how likely is it that they will be used? Many people still have dial-up, and streaming video and dialup don't play well together. As much as I like this, wouldn't it be better to develop better codecs to promote this or work on the last mile issue?
I think this will create way too much hassle. There are some people who wouldn't mind, but others (such as grandma) who have to be told three times where the power switch is won't really know what is going on. At least now when I don't reply I'll have a decent excuse... "but grandma, you forget to send it twice, so i didn't get it"
I just graduated from high school, and was on a club which I think is very similar to what you are trying to start. I was lucky to have a school which was very technology orientated, for example, we were a regional Cisco Academy, which was great for only having 400 students in the high school. It was a 1337 club, or as close as one can get at a high school. We had interviews to get in, where we had to demonstrate profieciency.
As freshman, we began by fixing teachers computers, terminating cat-5, creating user accounts.... As were got older and better, we moved onto video editing, designing and supporting the district website, terminating fiber... In the 6th year of the Tech Team, the school started offering it as a class, because they saw the amount of work we were giving them free. They let us have one class period, we would fix computers and all the other stuff, and we would get credit, based on initiative, success, and amount of time spent working outside the class.
The biggest project I got to do by myself was create a website for on-line tests, homework, and a place where students and parents could communicate with teachers. Also, I had to provide a mail and DNS server. I was allowed to spend $8,000 of the school's money myself, which shows the trust they placed in us. It was great experience for college, the work force etc. The largest project I worked on with people was rewiring the school for Cat-5, terminating the fiber, and installing new switches, routers, and a PIX box. We did this free of charge, which helped the school out immensely.
Basically, we had our school's network guru in charge of us, then the seniors (or whomever was the best) take their orders from them, and dissipate the info downwards. We had one main room for everyone, but upper classmen got desks and "their own" computers (still the schools, but we were the only ones to use them) (these computers also happened to be the best in teh school, but we WERE working for free). We also did Adopt-a-Road as a comm.service project, and set up a network at our local police station for free.
Feel free to use this as a model for a proposition for your school board, just let them know that they potentially have a lot of free labor, just so you guys get to play with the equipment.
As a side note, we did get several benefits. Tech period was one of the most fun (no lectures or notes BS), we could get out of class to fix stuff ("umm, i think they need me in the tech room, otherwise your e-mail won't work" -- "sure, go ahead"). And every year at least one of us got keys to the school so we could go after whatever sport we were in practice.
i am currently enrolled in a Sword and Sorcery class at college. we read mostly fantasy, but some of our stuff touches on science fiction. you can check out the course at wabash.edu there was a write up of the course in the indy star, you might be able to find out about it on the web.
mostly we read the books, and find the major themes, how the author develops them via different linguistic techniques with the ultimate goal of writing our own fantasy story at the end of the semester
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I would like it if Apple produced something like this. All the software they produce is easy to use and works very good. I wouldn't mind an alternative to IE. I don't mind IE, but alternatives and competition are always good....right?
raising the price of the iMac sounds like a fair deal to me... any other computer manufacturer would raise the price of their stuff if supply was low... just simple economics. i think this is a good move to apple, although it might make some people mad (minus those with pre-orders)