Perhaps the answer to this question is the combination of communication and operating system technologies. Certainly operating systems are necessary, but if I'm looking for a file, I'm as likely to use Google as a local search function. If I'm writing a letter, very often it's an email rather than a document. Isn't the protocol now more necessary than the tool which accesses it. I could be using a tack hammer or a sledge hammer, but what is most important is whether I'm hanging a picture or smashing a Windows machine to rid it of spyware.
Just try and find a capable tech person! It's not just users who are incapable of running their systems, it's the techs you find when attempting to fix the damage. My ex girlfriend called a tech as I had zero time to fix her Windows installation. Not only was the system just as messed up afterwards, there were different problems as a result. The tech didn't charge the $200.00, but the point is where is your avergae consumer going to turn when there are problems?
When I was asked to fix her mother's Windows 98 system, I took her to get a new computer! She needed to run Platinum however, so it was called for. But, hell if I'm going to sit around all weekend trying to fix a w98 installation! God, buy a friggin Mac already!
You must serve 8 of 10 years in the federal system (or thereabouts as ithe law is stated in months). There is essentially no way out of serving most of your sentence(.) You're confusing this with states strapped for cash releasing prisoners, while the federal system is not strapped for cash. They print more.
If they get the time, they serve it! Unless you get a presidential pardon...
"The problem is the textbook publishers don't want to do it. For the most part they make money because textbooks wear out, not because the information in them needs changing/updating."
I design textbooks at the primary level. They suck! they are not updated so much as completely rewritten. Most people really have no clue as to what goes into these things, and the combination of methods, teacher resources, and state specific requirements makes an old text book essentially useless. It is data more than you might suspect. When was the last time you bought a printed encyclopedia?
Perhaps we can replace a few words in your statement...
Yeah, but mindlessly pissing money down a hole has been touted as the way to fix medicine for so long, hardly anyone knows how to do anything else, even though it has never worked.
Hire good doctors. This requires paying a decent salary. Dismantle the doctors' unions, which serve only themselves and are largely responsible for the horrible mess our healthcare system is in, by locking in bad doctors and bad ideas. Hold hospitals accountable by allowing vouchers, which will force competition.
Based on my experience as a volunteer brain surgeon and feedback from kids, parents and mal-practice attorneys, I'm pretty good at it. Kids like me and I like them (and I've got 4 of my own). We communicate well and the kids seem to both learn and have fun. I would love to practice medicine professionally, but I can't afford the huge pay cut and I will never take a job that requires me to join a union.
Teaching is a profession, which requires continual training to maintain appropriate "practice." Mal-practice is the term for not following medical "practice." Why are teachers allowed to simply teach. The book reference in the title is something many should read.
My grandfather was at the Colorado School of Mines in the 20's. A shop teacher made him cube a block of steel with a file, which is a little strange. Later, during the Depression, he was the foreman in a machine shop, and the teacher walks in for a job. He asks the former teacher to cube a block of steel. Said teacher leaves, understanding the futility.
It sounds as though people who might have an axe to grind, or who are not quite up to snuff, are interviewing somebody out of their league.
perhaps, it will impact you like this! how dare you want something that we refuse to re-release! or, release in limited numbers for the sake of price! how dare you impact the sales of an important business like Microsoft!
and wasn't the point of p2p to create diversity past the 500,000 songs on the "networks?" isn't the idea that a sigle point of access couldn't handle the download requests? is this really the case?
"or worse, simply posting a bunch of links to some other "real" news site, is not doing anybody much good at all."
IMHO this very wrong. Ever try to find something essoteric? Something not quite easy to find on a site for a variety of reasons? As I've been blogging for about a year on design, I get quite a number of hits from people looking for a link. Not everything is easily Google-able. Bloggers are, again in my opinion, adding to the the information base of the web by categorizing things. Not everybody creates content, but Yahoo didn't begin by creating information, but linking to it.
I think the actual problem is too much opinion. Who really cares about what everybody thinks. I want respected opinions. The web opens up the possibility of this by creating a publishing platform, but it doesn't make the material valuable. The value is in those links...
show me a fanatic, and i'll show you an inherent desire for power. all of us little apple obsessed trolls have simply been waiting for this, so that we can run through the computing wolrd raping an pillaging...
shiny little apple! just gaze at it a little longer.
Excuse me but wouldn't the music lables have to do this for every service then? It would be like preferring a vendor, which if I am correct is not legal. I would love a precedent like this however, you can switch services, and retain your music rights. Like I need to buy another copy of "Dark Side of the Moon!"
When the CEO states that users should simply switch to Windows to update to the latest version, you know that things are way bad! That comment actually made a switcher... to InDesign. I still have a copy (4.1) which resides in classic for opening old files, but I will never upgrade the four licenses that I own.
InDesign actually takes longer to produce designs, but has better controls. It also works well with PDF, which in publishing is taking over in the workflow to press.
Isn't the difference between Darwin and OS X the interface layer? And, if it is now going to be specifically an x86 product, meaning that the Altivec layers are unnecessary, wouldn't it be easier to create a free interface layer? So long as all of the interface elements are included, an application should run on Darwin as well as on OS X.
I'm not quite sure how Apple plans on balancing this. Hell, OpenStep still exists. It seems that Apple could provide a lite version of OS X for installation on commodity hardware pretty easily. This would give Microsoft quite the scare if it was possible to install this with Windows or as a partition allowing Windows to run within it. Things are about to get very starnge!
People will actually pay for their stuff without the threat of litigation or jail! People will figure out what "they" like, not what they're told to like...
Didn't Steve just promise that no changes would be made to the core over the next couple of years? This was at the release of Tiger. It would be sorta strange to have not known about this...
I'm with you on the XScale. A small useful tablet or rhin desktop would be ideal for eductaion, and most users needs.
What can you compare this to? The Palm devices? It seems to have a good screen 800 x 600, Wi-Fi... I can imagine teachers carrying something like this around to hold teacher edition texts, and accessing the school network. IMHO, this is very cool, and could open up a lot of opportuniity in web applications for verticle markets.
I wish it had a sim card, and I hope that they offer a keyboard tray of some sort.
It is frankly amazing that with all of the friggin companies in the world trying to make gadgets, that nobody has matched the Newton/eMate. The Psions are very cool! But why can we not get a device in this profile with a good screen for a reasonable price. This should be given to evry student in the country, as opposed to them carrying around $300 in textbooks a year!
I develop education materials. Paper is great! But, we expect to educate children to function in a world were the only people who are not using computers and continuously online are flipping burgers!
I have to agree also! Javascript can seem so damn cludgy when implemented for worthless stuff, yet so useful at the same time. The quote from the "World's Most Misunderstood Programming Language" says it all, "Most of the people writing in JavaScript are not programmers."
But, the problems are in developing applications based upon this scheme. Perhaps google should expend some effort in conjunction with Mozilla, to standardize some of this stuff. The mention of JackBe had intrigued me, with the possibilities of toolsets for developing across disparate platforms.
Isn't much of the web creating new forms of authority? Do you now trust newspapers and journalists tot the same extent that you did in the past? Isn't a more open discussion of the review process a benefit? If I obtain an article from the web, which corresponds to an article in print, what exactly is the difference? Isn't it the "pulling" (Research) part that makes it authoritative?
I believe that one of the great things about the web will be it's ability to measure value, where it is created. part of the problem is that most people aren't really worth what they're payed, but averages work for an employer. the article is facinating from the perspective of a parent of a kid in college--who is interested in mathematics. As an entreprenuer, I have been pushing him to start a business at 18, just to see how it goes. One can only hope that he is better than average, because average is gonna suck real soon!
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Perhaps the answer to this question is the combination of communication and operating system technologies. Certainly operating systems are necessary, but if I'm looking for a file, I'm as likely to use Google as a local search function. If I'm writing a letter, very often it's an email rather than a document. Isn't the protocol now more necessary than the tool which accesses it. I could be using a tack hammer or a sledge hammer, but what is most important is whether I'm hanging a picture or smashing a Windows machine to rid it of spyware.
Just try and find a capable tech person! It's not just users who are incapable of running their systems, it's the techs you find when attempting to fix the damage. My ex girlfriend called a tech as I had zero time to fix her Windows installation. Not only was the system just as messed up afterwards, there were different problems as a result. The tech didn't charge the $200.00, but the point is where is your avergae consumer going to turn when there are problems?
When I was asked to fix her mother's Windows 98 system, I took her to get a new computer! She needed to run Platinum however, so it was called for. But, hell if I'm going to sit around all weekend trying to fix a w98 installation! God, buy a friggin Mac already!
You must serve 8 of 10 years in the federal system (or thereabouts as ithe law is stated in months). There is essentially no way out of serving most of your sentence(.) You're confusing this with states strapped for cash releasing prisoners, while the federal system is not strapped for cash. They print more.
If they get the time, they serve it! Unless you get a presidential pardon...
I just so happen to be reading Gravity's Rainbow...
"The problem is the textbook publishers don't want to do it. For the most part they make money because textbooks wear out, not because the information in them needs changing/updating."
I design textbooks at the primary level. They suck! they are not updated so much as completely rewritten. Most people really have no clue as to what goes into these things, and the combination of methods, teacher resources, and state specific requirements makes an old text book essentially useless. It is data more than you might suspect. When was the last time you bought a printed encyclopedia?
Perhaps we can replace a few words in your statement...
Yeah, but mindlessly pissing money down a hole has been touted as the way to fix medicine for so long, hardly anyone knows how to do anything else, even though it has never worked.
Hire good doctors. This requires paying a decent salary. Dismantle the doctors' unions, which serve only themselves and are largely responsible for the horrible mess our healthcare system is in, by locking in bad doctors and bad ideas. Hold hospitals accountable by allowing vouchers, which will force competition.
Based on my experience as a volunteer brain surgeon and feedback from kids, parents and mal-practice attorneys, I'm pretty good at it. Kids like me and I like them (and I've got 4 of my own). We communicate well and the kids seem to both learn and have fun. I would love to practice medicine professionally, but I can't afford the huge pay cut and I will never take a job that requires me to join a union.
Teaching is a profession, which requires continual training to maintain appropriate "practice." Mal-practice is the term for not following medical "practice." Why are teachers allowed to simply teach. The book reference in the title is something many should read.
Just add grass!
My grandfather was at the Colorado School of Mines in the 20's. A shop teacher made him cube a block of steel with a file, which is a little strange. Later, during the Depression, he was the foreman in a machine shop, and the teacher walks in for a job. He asks the former teacher to cube a block of steel. Said teacher leaves, understanding the futility.
It sounds as though people who might have an axe to grind, or who are not quite up to snuff, are interviewing somebody out of their league.
perhaps, it will impact you like this! how dare you want something that we refuse to re-release! or, release in limited numbers for the sake of price! how dare you impact the sales of an important business like Microsoft!
you dear sir are a troll!
...they change the licensing agreement!
and wasn't the point of p2p to create diversity past the 500,000 songs on the "networks?" isn't the idea that a sigle point of access couldn't handle the download requests? is this really the case?
what a drag!
"or worse, simply posting a bunch of links to some other "real" news site, is not doing anybody much good at all."
IMHO this very wrong. Ever try to find something essoteric? Something not quite easy to find on a site for a variety of reasons? As I've been blogging for about a year on design, I get quite a number of hits from people looking for a link. Not everything is easily Google-able. Bloggers are, again in my opinion, adding to the the information base of the web by categorizing things. Not everybody creates content, but Yahoo didn't begin by creating information, but linking to it.
I think the actual problem is too much opinion. Who really cares about what everybody thinks. I want respected opinions. The web opens up the possibility of this by creating a publishing platform, but it doesn't make the material valuable. The value is in those links...
show me a fanatic, and i'll show you an inherent desire for power. all of us little apple obsessed trolls have simply been waiting for this, so that we can run through the computing wolrd raping an pillaging...
shiny little apple! just gaze at it a little longer.
Excuse me but wouldn't the music lables have to do this for every service then? It would be like preferring a vendor, which if I am correct is not legal. I would love a precedent like this however, you can switch services, and retain your music rights. Like I need to buy another copy of "Dark Side of the Moon!"
When the CEO states that users should simply switch to Windows to update to the latest version, you know that things are way bad! That comment actually made a switcher... to InDesign. I still have a copy (4.1) which resides in classic for opening old files, but I will never upgrade the four licenses that I own.
InDesign actually takes longer to produce designs, but has better controls. It also works well with PDF, which in publishing is taking over in the workflow to press.
Isn't the difference between Darwin and OS X the interface layer? And, if it is now going to be specifically an x86 product, meaning that the Altivec layers are unnecessary, wouldn't it be easier to create a free interface layer? So long as all of the interface elements are included, an application should run on Darwin as well as on OS X.
I'm not quite sure how Apple plans on balancing this. Hell, OpenStep still exists. It seems that Apple could provide a lite version of OS X for installation on commodity hardware pretty easily. This would give Microsoft quite the scare if it was possible to install this with Windows or as a partition allowing Windows to run within it. Things are about to get very starnge!
People will actually pay for their stuff without the threat of litigation or jail! People will figure out what "they" like, not what they're told to like...
I might just become a humanist!
Didn't Steve just promise that no changes would be made to the core over the next couple of years? This was at the release of Tiger. It would be sorta strange to have not known about this...
I'm with you on the XScale. A small useful tablet or rhin desktop would be ideal for eductaion, and most users needs.
What can you compare this to? The Palm devices? It seems to have a good screen 800 x 600, Wi-Fi... I can imagine teachers carrying something like this around to hold teacher edition texts, and accessing the school network. IMHO, this is very cool, and could open up a lot of opportuniity in web applications for verticle markets.
I wish it had a sim card, and I hope that they offer a keyboard tray of some sort.
It is frankly amazing that with all of the friggin companies in the world trying to make gadgets, that nobody has matched the Newton/eMate. The Psions are very cool! But why can we not get a device in this profile with a good screen for a reasonable price. This should be given to evry student in the country, as opposed to them carrying around $300 in textbooks a year!
I develop education materials. Paper is great! But, we expect to educate children to function in a world were the only people who are not using computers and continuously online are flipping burgers!
I have to agree also! Javascript can seem so damn cludgy when implemented for worthless stuff, yet so useful at the same time. The quote from the "World's Most Misunderstood Programming Language" says it all, "Most of the people writing in JavaScript are not programmers."
But, the problems are in developing applications based upon this scheme. Perhaps google should expend some effort in conjunction with Mozilla, to standardize some of this stuff. The mention of JackBe had intrigued me, with the possibilities of toolsets for developing across disparate platforms.
Good post.
i once used it as a id on slashdot!
Don't worry! They'll be back after we improve the Social Security system.
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How does a microkernal affect the updating of the system? in a consumer os that gets updated regularly, does this save on data costs?
Isn't much of the web creating new forms of authority? Do you now trust newspapers and journalists tot the same extent that you did in the past? Isn't a more open discussion of the review process a benefit? If I obtain an article from the web, which corresponds to an article in print, what exactly is the difference? Isn't it the "pulling" (Research) part that makes it authoritative?
I believe that one of the great things about the web will be it's ability to measure value, where it is created. part of the problem is that most people aren't really worth what they're payed, but averages work for an employer. the article is facinating from the perspective of a parent of a kid in college--who is interested in mathematics. As an entreprenuer, I have been pushing him to start a business at 18, just to see how it goes. One can only hope that he is better than average, because average is gonna suck real soon!