Our daughter's school has (though a grant to the school), 'leant' an iPad to every student. All of them are using it for word processing, assignment, presentations etc. They have all adapted to typing on the one surface quickly, and getting eBooks where practical to replace their text books. Our daughter (and most of the kids) now have smaller bags to take to school, and all their work is accessible and never left in their locker. Their assignment and work are on iCloud (so I can just proof read anything she wants proof read), and look at the due dates for assignments.
All the kids are using Pages, Keynote and Calc to do all of their work - and the thing that is quite clear is that these are quite cut down applications - but they have exactly what you need. The danger for Microsoft is, that if they don't jump on this, the students will be graduating from school not knowing office applications - and will carry that forward into the workplace.
Maybe MS and Google should team up - to put it onto Android and Windows 8 before it is too late.
The one thing that always gets my goat - as an ex lecturer - is that hardly any employees looks as your college marks after the first job. It is all about "who you worked for" - which says pretty much nothing (because it would be "who you got to give you a job", not about how good you are).
Just because someone has got a drivers licence doesn't mean they can drive an F1 or Champ car - why does anyone think that someone who who has a college degree is going to be at home with cutting code in a distributed HA environment.
I can tell you, without exception, everybody that came out of our university course with marks of 80/100 or above was smokin hot. If you looked at those marks even 10 years into their career you would see they are still a reflection of how good they are. Google's grabbing of PhD's is similar to looking at the marks and picking the top students. If you pick someone who has scraped though, you're probably going to get a lemon, but if you take the pick of the litter - you get stars without having to groom them yourself.
It takes 10000 hours to be an expert at anything. Your contact hours in college may be as little as 2500... If you just give people on the job training - it costs your business lost productivity while the mentor helps out for, lets say, the first 2500 hours, so 62 weeks of Full Time Equivalent work for a grad... lets say that comes out to $50k to make it easy. Now lets just say we have about 28k of lost productivity from the mentor. That is a $78k undergrad degree that the business has just funded (and the employee can walk away with that). Now you can top that with things like 'health plans', 'insurance', and 'opportunity cost'. Opportunity cost is the big thing, because that $78k might have been a few fully competent employee which could bring the business in more money... hence the existence or tertiary education....
Depending on how much your mentor is paid, you are probably looking at an expense similar to the cost of a college degree (if you add equipment, taxes, opportunity cost, two sets of wages etc). It just that you are getting business to wear the expense - and then the employee walks away with the benefit. Great if you are the employee.... crap if you are the business!
Rupert - stop going on a money grab. You make money from the advertising in newspapers - and the "cost" of the newspapers is the cost of covering raw materials, printing, distribution costs and a small slice for the seller.
You really make your money out of the ads. What you are really bitching about is Google taking some of your advertising share - because you can Google a story and jump off to millions of sites and blogs.
Of course the way to prevent this is to provide quality content. But Newscorp's second line of business is wholesale news provision (al la Reuters). Of course, every blogger, tweeter and facebook poster is working against you.
You are under attack from every side. So all you do is try to protect you empire, rather than recognising the empire is changing.
It is all about social networking now. You own press has been saying this. I am doing it now. Jump on in - you have brilliant people in your IT departments, you have brilliant people in your Business Development units... use them. Build something special. Build the nest generation of news. God knows you have the money to do it - an in doing it you'll help your grandkids grandkids be as wealthy as you are.
I had the pleasure of cycling for about 4 hours with on of the editors from a large Murdoch owned newspaper back in 2000.
He asked me where the internet was heading, and how they could leverage it to provide content, and get the readers involved. I also highlighted problems like the sourcing of press releases as articles and the conflicting information they will find in other sources. Opportunities also would present themselves like geolocated and profiled advertising. To their credit, they have persued much of this. The problem is that Google is their competition. I can find anything I want, for free, quicker, crowdsourced, discussed in forums and critiqued. The only service newspapers now offer is a stream of aggregation - and that puts them in direct competition with search engines.
This has been a perfect storm for Murdoch. He has concernrated media, driving variety out of the the market, and opening doors for players of new technology to enter into a niche and then expand to take his business.
His papers will evaporate. Unfortunately, with it will go the newsagencies, delivery routes and old paper advertising industry that went with it. The biggest danger Rupert faces is Apple Tablet - if you can read on that, and it works well - newpapers are in for a world of pain.
As I understand it, current thinking is that light bends because of gravity, and this is how distant planets and other distant objects are found.
Could it be that it is, instead, is just light being pulled or pushed against something that is being observed, rather than an observation of the gravity that the body has? The next effect is the same I guess.
A friend handed me a trilogy called Red Mars, Blue Mars, Green Mars. Although superficial and complete sci fi, it does raise quite a few social problems involved in getting a group of people onto the red planet.
A far as the one way argument goes, I believe, being a race that >should look after its own - we should do this with the person coming back without question. This is because survival of a human there, and on the way there and back is the whole point of the exercise.
We also got a home game set a little while later with shooting (a white brick) squash (a variant of pong) and two up squash. All selected through a bank of 3 toggles which you combined to get your game (love me binary interfaces).
And the best thing of all, it came with 'paddles'.
Let me see: * I get billions of dollars of free advertising a year. * I don't have to pay for promotions as much. * I have to woo radio stations with free stuff as it is.
Then I get a bright idea... I know, I'll charge them for my free advertising!
So the question is, has the RIAA done the maths on the cost of what it would take radio to discover and market it's own talent. There is a station down in in Aus that every year goes out an unearths new talent and records it (www.triplejunearthed.com). Then compiles a CD or two and sells it. The economies of scale are not that much more for ramping that up.
I sit in an office full of geeks who go home and play on computers after hour.
Me? I go home and rennovate the house (or plan for the next house we are building in the country). I go around and help out friends on projects they are doing on weekends. I'm getting involved in a volunteer program at a ski resort I have been to for years. I have in the past taught swimming, I have worked as a lecturer at university (so there is teaching experiece to draw on).
In IT I've played architect, support person, programmer, trainer, tech doc writer.
Jack of all trades, master of none - maybe true. But Jack was never unemployed, bored or wondering 'where to next'.
Do stuff because you are curious about how it works. Do stuff because you can't understand it and want to. Do stuff for fun and follow up on all those things you think 'I wonder what that is like'. You may just find your next career.
Now, back to finding out what the *&@*@k is happening with those user sessions and that *@&*@&king firewall!
1. You are paying your membership to a lobby group that is fattening the wallets of house memebers. 2. Your problem is getting worse not going away... and no matter how much fattening you do, eventually house members will not take money from your lobby group as it will be seen as detremental to affiliate yourself with them.
Get your butt into gear and make gun control changes necessary before secario 2 comes about - otherwise gun control will happen despite you, not because of you.
Otherwise there will be stickers saying "I shoot and I vote... so blame me".
Oh my god. If I owned shares in Diebold I would be asking for the directors heads on a platter. What they have done is the following.
1. If Diebold wins, no one will do business with them because they have a legal lock in within their contract. 2. If Diebold loses, no one will do business with them for fear of other similar lega tactics.
Surely any director should have seen this coming. Even if the charges are dropped, it will probably kill them unless they hush up the case. You can be sure that their compeditors will fight against that though.
My Lappy is due to arrive tomorrow some time according to dell. The first thing I will do is stick a multimeter between it and the ground. If there is current, phoning Dell tech support will be the second thing I do.
The record industry is interesting. It is so powerful, that it can make change and introduce new products and formats (like CD), yet ultimately it has a product that people can do without.
And they are 'doing without' in droves. People are buying Wiis and DVDs and getting cable TV and video off YouTube. They are loosing market share and blaming piracy. Blaming the unnameable is truly the last bastion of an industry that is dying. It means that, at AGMs, the directors will have an excuse for bad profitability, when inaction is their only excuse. If you hold shares in a large music company, time to ask them what product they plan on releasing when they have become irrelevant due to their inaction.
Years ago, they could have made a cheap, effective, simple service. Instead - everyone copied music, found what they like and bought CDs because they felt like they should support the artist. Record sales went up. Then Napster got a sued, Audiogalaxy got shutdown, and the punters should no longer try before they buy. RIAA continues to sue... people continue not to buy.
It's time to wake up record companies. It's not too difficult. iTunes will save your ass. If you leave it 2 more years - iTunes will own you ass. You will have to bend over and lick Apple's boots. Do you realise that you are 1 freakin step away from having someone like Apple set up a service to post produce 100000 punters Garage Band files and then release them? The only thing you have is radio stations who you collaborate with. The advertising revenues for these are not going too well. Do you feel you owe it to them to ensure they join you in a symbiotic slide into oblivion?
I have bought my last 2 years worth of music though iTunes. I don't need a CD. I don't need all the wasted plastic and paper. I don't need to waste resources to have music. I don't need the stores, the transport, the manufacturers. Sound only needs to be touched and felt in 1 way - through bass pounding in your chest... not through yet another breaking CD container.
Slashdot Mirror
Our daughter's school has (though a grant to the school), 'leant' an iPad to every student. All of them are using it for word processing, assignment, presentations etc. They have all adapted to typing on the one surface quickly, and getting eBooks where practical to replace their text books. Our daughter (and most of the kids) now have smaller bags to take to school, and all their work is accessible and never left in their locker. Their assignment and work are on iCloud (so I can just proof read anything she wants proof read), and look at the due dates for assignments.
All the kids are using Pages, Keynote and Calc to do all of their work - and the thing that is quite clear is that these are quite cut down applications - but they have exactly what you need. The danger for Microsoft is, that if they don't jump on this, the students will be graduating from school not knowing office applications - and will carry that forward into the workplace.
Maybe MS and Google should team up - to put it onto Android and Windows 8 before it is too late.
I reckon we just use genetic manipulation to grow more fingers. Then we can all count in base 12 easily.
Problem solved.
The most profound comment was
"wwwwwwwwooooooo woooooo come on... get uuuuuupppp! wooooooooo!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvsboPUjrGc
The one thing that always gets my goat - as an ex lecturer - is that hardly any employees looks as your college marks after the first job. It is all about "who you worked for" - which says pretty much nothing (because it would be "who you got to give you a job", not about how good you are).
Just because someone has got a drivers licence doesn't mean they can drive an F1 or Champ car - why does anyone think that someone who who has a college degree is going to be at home with cutting code in a distributed HA environment.
I can tell you, without exception, everybody that came out of our university course with marks of 80/100 or above was smokin hot. If you looked at those marks even 10 years into their career you would see they are still a reflection of how good they are. Google's grabbing of PhD's is similar to looking at the marks and picking the top students. If you pick someone who has scraped though, you're probably going to get a lemon, but if you take the pick of the litter - you get stars without having to groom them yourself.
It takes 10000 hours to be an expert at anything. Your contact hours in college may be as little as 2500... If you just give people on the job training - it costs your business lost productivity while the mentor helps out for, lets say, the first 2500 hours, so 62 weeks of Full Time Equivalent work for a grad... lets say that comes out to $50k to make it easy. Now lets just say we have about 28k of lost productivity from the mentor. That is a $78k undergrad degree that the business has just funded (and the employee can walk away with that). Now you can top that with things like 'health plans', 'insurance', and 'opportunity cost'. Opportunity cost is the big thing, because that $78k might have been a few fully competent employee which could bring the business in more money. .. hence the existence or tertiary education....
Depending on how much your mentor is paid, you are probably looking at an expense similar to the cost of a college degree (if you add equipment, taxes, opportunity cost, two sets of wages etc). It just that you are getting business to wear the expense - and then the employee walks away with the benefit. Great if you are the employee.... crap if you are the business!
I think the Billy the Borg icon needs a replacement.
I think it would be better to have an animated gif of Ballmer going buck wild on stage
WOOOOOOOOO! YEEEEEAHHHH!!!
The world is whiteanting away his empire.
Rupert - stop going on a money grab. You make money from the advertising in newspapers - and the "cost" of the newspapers is the cost of covering raw materials, printing, distribution costs and a small slice for the seller.
You really make your money out of the ads. What you are really bitching about is Google taking some of your advertising share - because you can Google a story and jump off to millions of sites and blogs.
Of course the way to prevent this is to provide quality content. But Newscorp's second line of business is wholesale news provision (al la Reuters). Of course, every blogger, tweeter and facebook poster is working against you.
You are under attack from every side. So all you do is try to protect you empire, rather than recognising the empire is changing.
It is all about social networking now. You own press has been saying this. I am doing it now. Jump on in - you have brilliant people in your IT departments, you have brilliant people in your Business Development units... use them. Build something special. Build the nest generation of news. God knows you have the money to do it - an in doing it you'll help your grandkids grandkids be as wealthy as you are.
I had the pleasure of cycling for about 4 hours with on of the editors from a large Murdoch owned newspaper back in 2000.
He asked me where the internet was heading, and how they could leverage it to provide content, and get the readers involved. I also highlighted problems like the sourcing of press releases as articles and the conflicting information they will find in other sources. Opportunities also would present themselves like geolocated and profiled advertising. To their credit, they have persued much of this. The problem is that Google is their competition. I can find anything I want, for free, quicker, crowdsourced, discussed in forums and critiqued. The only service newspapers now offer is a stream of aggregation - and that puts them in direct competition with search engines.
This has been a perfect storm for Murdoch. He has concernrated media, driving variety out of the the market, and opening doors for players of new technology to enter into a niche and then expand to take his business.
His papers will evaporate. Unfortunately, with it will go the newsagencies, delivery routes and old paper advertising industry that went with it. The biggest danger Rupert faces is Apple Tablet - if you can read on that, and it works well - newpapers are in for a world of pain.
Okay then... it's a lime. Now go take a running jump.
As I understand it, current thinking is that light bends because of gravity, and this is how distant planets and other distant objects are found.
Could it be that it is, instead, is just light being pulled or pushed against something that is being observed, rather than an observation of the gravity that the body has?
The next effect is the same I guess.
Yep, but here's the size of the hole you make to fuel it.
http://www.stockinterview.com/News/03092007/Ranger-1.gif
(Ranger uranium mine in Australia, one of many holes we have this size).
A friend handed me a trilogy called Red Mars, Blue Mars, Green Mars. Although superficial and complete sci fi, it does raise quite a few social problems involved in getting a group of people onto the red planet.
A far as the one way argument goes, I believe, being a race that >should look after its own - we should do this with the person coming back without question. This is because survival of a human there, and on the way there and back is the whole point of the exercise.
Pong rules!
We also got a home game set a little while later with shooting (a white brick) squash (a variant of pong) and two up squash. All selected through a bank of 3 toggles which you combined to get your game (love me binary interfaces).
And the best thing of all, it came with 'paddles'.
Beeep Beeep Beeep
:p
The sound the RIAA money truck makes when it is reversing into WD's office to deliver the payola
Let me see:
* I get billions of dollars of free advertising a year.
* I don't have to pay for promotions as much.
* I have to woo radio stations with free stuff as it is.
Then I get a bright idea... I know, I'll charge them for my free advertising!
So the question is, has the RIAA done the maths on the cost of what it would take
radio to discover and market it's own talent. There is a station down in in Aus that
every year goes out an unearths new talent and records it (www.triplejunearthed.com).
Then compiles a CD or two and sells it. The economies of scale are not that much more
for ramping that up.
Damn... longer than the life of a hard drive eh? Guess we'll just have to make an array of SSD's then.8
http://www.sandisk.com/Oem/Default.aspx?CatID=147
I sit in an office full of geeks who go home and play on computers after hour.
Me? I go home and rennovate the house (or plan for the next house we are building in the country).
I go around and help out friends on projects they are doing on weekends. I'm getting involved in a
volunteer program at a ski resort I have been to for years. I have in the past taught swimming, I have
worked as a lecturer at university (so there is teaching experiece to draw on).
In IT I've played architect, support person, programmer, trainer, tech doc writer.
Jack of all trades, master of none - maybe true. But Jack was never unemployed, bored or
wondering 'where to next'.
Do stuff because you are curious about how it works. Do stuff because you can't understand it and
want to. Do stuff for fun and follow up on all those things you think 'I wonder what that is like'.
You may just find your next career.
Now, back to finding out what the *&@*@k is happening with those user sessions and that *@&*@&king firewall!
All it's gonna take is for one of to look at Quantum Mechanics again and >poof it's 'reality' again :-p
YOU have two problems.
1. You are paying your membership to a lobby group that is fattening the wallets of house memebers.
2. Your problem is getting worse not going away... and no matter how much fattening you do, eventually house members will not take money from your lobby group as it will be seen as detremental to affiliate yourself with them.
Get your butt into gear and make gun control changes necessary before secario 2 comes about - otherwise gun control will happen despite you, not because of you.
Otherwise there will be stickers saying "I shoot and I vote... so blame me".
Oh my god. If I owned shares in Diebold I would be asking for the directors heads on a platter. What they have done is the following.
1. If Diebold wins, no one will do business with them because they have a legal lock in within their contract.
2. If Diebold loses, no one will do business with them for fear of other similar lega tactics.
Surely any director should have seen this coming. Even if the charges are dropped, it will probably kill them unless they hush up the case. You can be sure that their compeditors will fight against that though.
Who said anything about CFL's.... we're going back to rubbings sticks together to
make fire.
My Lappy is due to arrive tomorrow some time according to dell. The first thing I will do is stick a multimeter between it and the ground. If there is current, phoning Dell tech support will be the second thing I do.
The record industry is interesting. It is so powerful, that it can make change and introduce new products and formats (like CD), yet ultimately it has a product that people can do without.
And they are 'doing without' in droves. People are buying Wiis and DVDs and getting cable TV and video off YouTube. They are loosing market share and blaming piracy. Blaming the unnameable is truly the last bastion of an industry that is dying. It means that, at AGMs, the directors will have an excuse for bad
profitability, when inaction is their only excuse. If you hold shares in a large music company, time to ask them what product they plan on releasing when they have become irrelevant due to their inaction.
Years ago, they could have made a cheap, effective, simple service. Instead - everyone copied music, found what they like and bought CDs because they felt like they should support the artist. Record sales went up. Then Napster got a sued, Audiogalaxy got shutdown, and the punters should no longer try before they buy.
RIAA continues to sue... people continue not to buy.
It's time to wake up record companies. It's not too difficult. iTunes will save your ass. If you leave it 2 more years - iTunes will own you ass. You will have to bend over and lick Apple's boots. Do you realise that you are 1 freakin step away from having someone like Apple set up a service to post produce 100000 punters Garage Band files and then release them? The only thing you have is radio stations who you collaborate with. The advertising revenues for these are not going too well. Do you feel you owe it to them to ensure they join you in a symbiotic slide into oblivion?
I have bought my last 2 years worth of music though iTunes. I don't need a CD. I don't need all
the wasted plastic and paper. I don't need to waste resources to have music. I don't need the stores,
the transport, the manufacturers. Sound only needs to be touched and felt in 1 way - through bass
pounding in your chest... not through yet another breaking CD container.
They'd have a difficult time proving it... no one gets the words right.
"People of the jury, the national Anthem says 'girt by sea' where my client can
clearly be heard singing 'dirt by sea'".
Now, to create the world's fastest surfboard :-)
Iran, aka West Korea :-p