The iPhone made the smart phones of the time obsolete. Every other smartphone maker (even Blackberry) started aiming for iPhone-like usability. Have you ever used a Windows Mobile or Palm (pre-Pre) phone? The iPhone changed the game in 2007. I don't even own one, but all the sweet Android phones (and WinMo 7) owe quite a bit to the original iPhone. Just look up the pre-iPhone Android phone designs.
That's not what the first sentence said. Maybe you are into Monty Python:
Spectator I: I think it was "Blessed are the cheesemakers". Mrs. Gregory: Aha, what's so special about the cheesemakers? Gregory: Well, obviously it's not meant to be taken literally; it refers to any manufacturers of dairy products.
The only reasons there is no net censorship in Africa are the following
1. The African governments are too stupid to know how to do it. I personally witnessed one case where the govt took over the control of the country's TLD and had no idea how to run it. They gave it back to the Non-profit which had been running it.
2. There aren't enough people connected to make censorship worthwhile, and the few who have access are cronies of the ruling party anyway.
For most technology most (99.99%) people just use what they have or are given and apply what they have known from the past. They lack the imagination or resources to create anything original. Life is just too complex to change what works. Yes, for most people the computer is just a typewriter, and that's what they will teach their children.
If you really want to continue with your quest for the 'Net generation then the place you are most likely to find them is in Africa, or those countries who will have to make a big leap from stone age to internet age. Africa has far more original/innovative uses of cell phones because they were not baggaged with land-lines.
I think my point still stands. Yes there are those tools which require programming ability. But there are two things which also show even in your examples.
The first is that the people using these tools are applying computers to their domain. This is different from a computer science class.
The second is that very few people learn tools like matlab just for the heck of it. Exceptions like me exist but they are rare. Also I cannot see how you can teach a course in matlab in a computer science class.
(in defense of my attitude: I don't have one, but I can borrow yours if you wish)
Computer science was new and wonderful twenty, perhaps thirty years ago. You could learn a large area of the field even in high school. There were things to discover, things to do, things to share.
Then the commodity computer came and software behemoth companies. For almost anything now there are commercial apps which can do whatever you do faster better and at a level of generality you would never imagine. Wanna write a program plot a graph? There's Mathematica which does it in color.
It's very hard to teach anything interesting if the home computer can do it better and faster. The iPhone programming craze did get people interested in programming again, but I guess that's over now.
Computer science has to realize they are now living in reality like other sciences, low attendance, low interest, and students who either get it or don't. I found when I was teaching college math that freshman calc was the worst possible thing to teach. Anybody interested in math would skip it because they got it long ago. So it will be in Computer science.
Without know what frequency range, voltage range, connectivity requirements (is computer connection USB or serial port?) I cannot help you in your selection.
OTOH you can give me the $2000 and I can give you my blessing.
I beg to differ. They do not make a net amount of money.
At the college I went to the stadium and facilities were maintained by the university using student tuition. All the gate takings of the football games were taken by the football organization, a separate entity from the university. The football were making money because they were not footing the bills to run the program.
Ballmer needs to get new balls. MS has not recently issued an new product. It's always me too.
Ballmer doesn't know that MS has some really good hardware labs. He should use them to create something original, not another ipod copycat, iphone copycat, ipad copycat.
The problem is not so much about forgetting. It's about controlling the archives.
I had a very interesting case recently regarding a form for a government beaurocracy. They changed some details in the form and they wiped the old edition off the planet. The only reason I knew of the change is because I had printed it earlier. Pity I never saved a PDF of the original form.
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Funny, I'd have thought it was not one of the first post^W things Obama's administration had promised.
How well do they work with black people? These have been issues in other face recognition systems.
The iPhone made the smart phones of the time obsolete. Every other smartphone maker (even Blackberry) started aiming for iPhone-like usability. Have you ever used a Windows Mobile or Palm (pre-Pre) phone? The iPhone changed the game in 2007. I don't even own one, but all the sweet Android phones (and WinMo 7) owe quite a bit to the original iPhone. Just look up the pre-iPhone Android phone designs.
That's not what the first sentence said. Maybe you are into Monty Python:
Spectator I: I think it was "Blessed are the cheesemakers".
Mrs. Gregory: Aha, what's so special about the cheesemakers?
Gregory: Well, obviously it's not meant to be taken literally; it refers to any manufacturers of dairy products.
Which planet do you live on?
Other smartphone are not obsolete by a long shot.
I stopped reading after the first sentence.
Here is an interesting thread from HardForum:
http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?s=ad39475190e27b7270fad7c8f5202588&t=1539921
It has an image of the letter, gives a plausible reason why BFG is going down (Best Buy wouldn't carry some of their products).
It could be some pump-and-dump scheme. Yes I know it's not listed but it's possible it has shares trading privately.
Or some competitor trying to undermine BFG.
I would rather like to see a note it's website, like http://openlabs.com/ has on its front page.
My lifetime?
The product (estimated) lifetime?
The company lifetime?
The receipt lifetime?
Always check which lifetime they mean. Words are wonderful: there are so many definitions to choose from.
Perhaps he just needs to earn a living like the rest of us?
It can't possibly be 35 years! Google is not that old.
Stop regurgitating meaningless numbers. Even the article itself can't seem to explain the 35 (cpu) years. What kind of CPU?
The only reasons there is no net censorship in Africa are the following
1. The African governments are too stupid to know how to do it. I personally witnessed one case where the govt took over the control of the country's TLD and had no idea how to run it. They gave it back to the Non-profit which had been running it.
2. There aren't enough people connected to make censorship worthwhile, and the few who have access are cronies of the ruling party anyway.
I put forward a controversial/unpopular position.
For most technology most (99.99%) people just use what they have or are given and apply what they have known from the past. They lack the imagination or resources to create anything original. Life is just too complex to change what works. Yes, for most people the computer is just a typewriter, and that's what they will teach their children.
If you really want to continue with your quest for the 'Net generation then the place you are most likely to find them is in Africa, or those countries who will have to make a big leap from stone age to internet age. Africa has far more original/innovative uses of cell phones because they were not baggaged with land-lines.
The publicity stunt of trying to equate their antenna problem with another (common) unrelated problem is clearly not working. And they know it.
The RDF signal losing strength? Something about grip of death and stars pehaps?
That's stupid. What if your computer gets stolen. Backup goes too?
I guess if the Pentagon had guns or something perhaps they could have leverage.
But just having 5 sides and 5 angles? What do they expect to to the wikileaks? Poke it to death?
I think my point still stands. Yes there are those tools which require programming ability. But there are two things which also show even in your examples.
The first is that the people using these tools are applying computers to their domain. This is different from a computer science class.
The second is that very few people learn tools like matlab just for the heck of it. Exceptions like me exist but they are rare. Also I cannot see how you can teach a course in matlab in a computer science class.
(in defense of my attitude: I don't have one, but I can borrow yours if you wish)
Computer science was new and wonderful twenty, perhaps thirty years ago. You could learn a large area of the field even in high school. There were things to discover, things to do, things to share.
Then the commodity computer came and software behemoth companies. For almost anything now there are commercial apps which can do whatever you do faster better and at a level of generality you would never imagine. Wanna write a program plot a graph? There's Mathematica which does it in color.
It's very hard to teach anything interesting if the home computer can do it better and faster. The iPhone programming craze did get people interested in programming again, but I guess that's over now.
Computer science has to realize they are now living in reality like other sciences, low attendance, low interest, and students who either get it or don't. I found when I was teaching college math that freshman calc was the worst possible thing to teach. Anybody interested in math would skip it because they got it long ago. So it will be in Computer science.
But is it available on amazon.com?
Without know what frequency range, voltage range, connectivity requirements (is computer connection USB or serial port?) I cannot help you in your selection.
OTOH you can give me the $2000 and I can give you my blessing.
To have the "cutting edge" people test out new features.
Why is everything legitimized by putting the word terrorist in it? What does this have to do with terrorism?
As someone said here on /., terrorism is one of the magic keys, the other being child porn.
I beg to differ. They do not make a net amount of money.
At the college I went to the stadium and facilities were maintained by the university using student tuition. All the gate takings of the football games were taken by the football organization, a separate entity from the university. The football were making money because they were not footing the bills to run the program.
Ballmer needs to get new balls. MS has not recently issued an new product. It's always me too.
Ballmer doesn't know that MS has some really good hardware labs. He should use them to create something original, not another ipod copycat, iphone copycat, ipad copycat.
(perhaps not a hardware version of clippy though)
The problem is not so much about forgetting. It's about controlling the archives.
I had a very interesting case recently regarding a form for a government beaurocracy. They changed some details in the form and they wiped the old edition off the planet. The only reason I knew of the change is because I had printed it earlier. Pity I never saved a PDF of the original form.
Which came first, the egg or the eggshell.
Thank me when this becomes a major philosophical debating point.
will never work.
Humans are ingenious.