Things would be a lot less expensive if they stopped paying the lawyers on their staff. For about three reasons: expensive to pay, expensive to litigate, drives up costs causing normal folk to pirate anyway.
Maybe it's because they just finished Dragon Age and are as such underwhelmed with the story and characters of Mass Effect 2. They also complain about the gameplay and think that Bioware should stick to RPGs and not try to insert shooter-style gaming into their products. They're pretty confused about the good reviews the game is getting.
There is a threat to our knowledge, our words, our very sense of self. It permeates the ether, watching, waiting for us to lower our guard. Although we sit on the brink of moral decay, staring back from the abyss towards an enemy unseen, we shall not falter in our duty. We must stand firm against these intruders. Our very credit scores are at stake. And I tell you this: wherever they are, they will be met with strength. We shall fight them on the wireless. We shall fight them at the backbone. We shall never surrender. And though these days may be marked as the darkest days in the history of the MacOS, it is history that will one day show that we did not give ground where it was not taken. G-Force!
OS X, based on Darwin, isn't what I would call locked down. At least not any more than Windows. We've converted random homemade apps to work on Mac (by a professor's request, not because is was cost effective in any way). The iPhone without jailbreak is pretty much how you said: very good at doing what Apple wants it to do. But Apple hasn't clamped down on Jailbreak either.
The iPad is very niche. It'll probably also be jailbroken (likely with the same hack that jb's iPhones) but before that I wouldn't think of it as a computer. It's pretty much meant as a distribution device, not as a production device (you read from it, you don't write). If you accept that it's not a gaming/Cray/design machine, only something you use for leisure on the couch, then it'll be easier for you to ignore.
I'm not certain how the bureaucracy is going to work, but there are tools being developed right now for education that are really kind of neat. If you ask almost any teacher, they'll tell you the biggest problem with teaching kids is simply keeping them awake in class. Tools that are designed to allow more interaction are important. Not all teachers can be Mr. Smith from Junior High who would dance on his desk while reading a chapter Dante's Inferno to the class or Mrs. Peabody who speaks in Olde English phrases for the entire two months of Shakespeare. So if someone can piece together technology to make your boring teachers fun again, I'm all for it.
There's a tool developed by...I can never remember...I want to say somewhere in Washington State. Basically the teacher gives two students (volunteers) tablet PCs and she has her own. She projects her laptop, and the other two tablets can be viewed (along with her own) through a program on the rest of the students' laptops, phones, etc. She goes about teaching her course. The tablet students take notes through a piece of software, make adjustments to a copy of her slides, etc. The other students use the same software to view all this, including able to do cool things like highlight words and get quick definitions. It's sort of collaborative note-taking. And all of the teacher's original slides as well as all the notes from the tablet users are stored online for later viewing.
How does this help? Because the tablet students may take notes you're not thinking of, right or wrong, and it opens your mind right there and then to alternative thoughts. You're not stuck re-writing what the teacher is doing and trying to think on it later. You're more engaged this way. But most importantly, you're paying attention, either to the teacher or the tablet users' writing. The teacher even said she doesn't really ever look back on the tablet users' notes. She'll occasionally hear giggles from the class but to her, that just means they aren't asleep.
Teaching history the way most primary schools today do it - Very Very bad.
Being almost 40 years old, I can say that history is malleable, even over the long term. I grew up thinking injuns were bad and cowboys were good. Now I'm pretty sure that it has nothing to do with bad or good, more about survival and quality of living, and complete lack of understanding of those who don't share your values, should you have any.
So yes...definitely debate history. If you weren't there, it probably didn't happen the way the books say.
This is fine for education at higher levels but in order to walk around chatting about Important Matters, you're going to need to explain, in detail, what composes those Important Matters. I can't discuss the absurdity of Special Relativity without my students knowing some mathematics, geometry, and the basics of space-time theory. And while I'm sure anything's possible, I'm thinking a rambling discussion group substituted for a chalkboard of equations isn't going to cut it.
I completely agree that high school should be less classroom and more outreach, however.
When you think of Apple, you think innovation, design, creativity, simplicity, shininess.
When you think of Microsoft, you think business, viruses, blue screen of death, gaming.
You might think otherwise, but then you probably don't own a Mac. (Neither do I, but I watch enough TV and know enough Mac and Windows users that the above are essential truths.)
So latency is always going to be an issue for twitch-based games. But I tell you, sitting at work right now, I'd rather be doing nothing for my lunch break other than playing Dragon Age: Origins. But I can't very well install it on my work computer, but with a service like OnLive, I could log on and play.
If mainstream online newspapers would actually provide quality, researched articles instead of the usual nonsense, I'd be willing to pay. Instead we get, and I paraphrase:
"A young woman and her child narrowly survived plummeting 20 feet from an embankment while driving to the young child's grandmother's house, says an officer who has asked to remain anonymous because he has not been given leave to talk by his supervisors.
The officer said the woman lost control of the car which slid off the road and over an embankment where it came to a rest in a gulley some 20 feet down.
Paramedics were on scene however the woman refused treatment for both herself and the child. It is unclear why the woman lost control. The road in that area is fairly straight."
1) It's not really news...people have minor accidents all the time. 2) You can't plummet 20 feet, especially when you're not falling, but merely driving down an embankment. 3) No valid, cited sources of information. 4) No information for public service about the cause of the accident.
There's just nothing worth reporting. Take a couple hours until someone real wants to talk to you, then print.
This is critical to a really great business. If your business's IT group is developing applications to enhance productivity or to implement new paths for doing business, they really need to know how you're working. Boilerplate applications may not be customized enough to truly enhance things. It might work, but it might not work well enough to make things more efficient, draw in new business, etc. Having your IT staff sit down with employees and learn what they do makes a huge difference in the usefulness of the application.
The fact that you are asking on slashdot shows that you are not qualified, and what you're going to get back is a bunch of others, who aren't qualified, suggesting all sorts of half assed hacks to do it which will just result in a utterly shitty service overall.
I disagree. The Open Source community has a thousand hidden gems that a person might not have heard about. Proxmox VE for one: virtualization, with a GUI, with live migration, and if 2.0 turns out, with heartbeat and failover (high availability). Most people have never heard of this where I work even though half the place is virtualized with KVM, VMWare, Hyper-V, etc. I would think the Slashdot, with its plethora of experiences, might come up with a little-known or workable solution in an already developed product that you haven't heard of yet.
Same here with my wife's laptop. Another data point. I think if you draw a reasonable line through our graph, you'll find that the GP's data has too large a margin of error to be included in the results.
I believe Josh Whedon said that the movie Serenity was the proposed finale of the show from the very beginning. He had always had a planet encircled by reaver-space in his over arching plot line. The annihilation of the human populace and the ability for the Alliance to cover it up was part of the Alliance's aura of evil.
Creep is generally a term reserved for men. I believe only women TSAs can pat down females. Please correct me if I'm wrong as I've never had the opportunity to be patted down in security.
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Things would be a lot less expensive if they stopped paying the lawyers on their staff. For about three reasons: expensive to pay, expensive to litigate, drives up costs causing normal folk to pirate anyway.
Maybe it's because they just finished Dragon Age and are as such underwhelmed with the story and characters of Mass Effect 2. They also complain about the gameplay and think that Bioware should stick to RPGs and not try to insert shooter-style gaming into their products. They're pretty confused about the good reviews the game is getting.
There is a threat to our knowledge, our words, our very sense of self. It permeates the ether, watching, waiting for us to lower our guard. Although we sit on the brink of moral decay, staring back from the abyss towards an enemy unseen, we shall not falter in our duty. We must stand firm against these intruders. Our very credit scores are at stake. And I tell you this: wherever they are, they will be met with strength. We shall fight them on the wireless. We shall fight them at the backbone. We shall never surrender. And though these days may be marked as the darkest days in the history of the MacOS, it is history that will one day show that we did not give ground where it was not taken. G-Force!
OS X, based on Darwin, isn't what I would call locked down. At least not any more than Windows. We've converted random homemade apps to work on Mac (by a professor's request, not because is was cost effective in any way). The iPhone without jailbreak is pretty much how you said: very good at doing what Apple wants it to do. But Apple hasn't clamped down on Jailbreak either.
The iPad is very niche. It'll probably also be jailbroken (likely with the same hack that jb's iPhones) but before that I wouldn't think of it as a computer. It's pretty much meant as a distribution device, not as a production device (you read from it, you don't write). If you accept that it's not a gaming/Cray/design machine, only something you use for leisure on the couch, then it'll be easier for you to ignore.
I'm not certain how the bureaucracy is going to work, but there are tools being developed right now for education that are really kind of neat. If you ask almost any teacher, they'll tell you the biggest problem with teaching kids is simply keeping them awake in class. Tools that are designed to allow more interaction are important. Not all teachers can be Mr. Smith from Junior High who would dance on his desk while reading a chapter Dante's Inferno to the class or Mrs. Peabody who speaks in Olde English phrases for the entire two months of Shakespeare. So if someone can piece together technology to make your boring teachers fun again, I'm all for it.
There's a tool developed by...I can never remember...I want to say somewhere in Washington State. Basically the teacher gives two students (volunteers) tablet PCs and she has her own. She projects her laptop, and the other two tablets can be viewed (along with her own) through a program on the rest of the students' laptops, phones, etc. She goes about teaching her course. The tablet students take notes through a piece of software, make adjustments to a copy of her slides, etc. The other students use the same software to view all this, including able to do cool things like highlight words and get quick definitions. It's sort of collaborative note-taking. And all of the teacher's original slides as well as all the notes from the tablet users are stored online for later viewing.
How does this help? Because the tablet students may take notes you're not thinking of, right or wrong, and it opens your mind right there and then to alternative thoughts. You're not stuck re-writing what the teacher is doing and trying to think on it later. You're more engaged this way. But most importantly, you're paying attention, either to the teacher or the tablet users' writing. The teacher even said she doesn't really ever look back on the tablet users' notes. She'll occasionally hear giggles from the class but to her, that just means they aren't asleep.
Perhaps everyone SHOULD get a life recorder that uploads to a secure archive that can only be accessed after 50 years.
Essential truths?
Err...yah. I was sort of making fun of the people who don't get beyond the marketing hype. Maybe HTML6 will have sarcasm tags?
Teaching history the way most primary schools today do it - Very Very bad.
Being almost 40 years old, I can say that history is malleable, even over the long term. I grew up thinking injuns were bad and cowboys were good. Now I'm pretty sure that it has nothing to do with bad or good, more about survival and quality of living, and complete lack of understanding of those who don't share your values, should you have any.
So yes...definitely debate history. If you weren't there, it probably didn't happen the way the books say.
This is fine for education at higher levels but in order to walk around chatting about Important Matters, you're going to need to explain, in detail, what composes those Important Matters. I can't discuss the absurdity of Special Relativity without my students knowing some mathematics, geometry, and the basics of space-time theory. And while I'm sure anything's possible, I'm thinking a rambling discussion group substituted for a chalkboard of equations isn't going to cut it.
I completely agree that high school should be less classroom and more outreach, however.
Better Marketing.
When you think of Apple, you think innovation, design, creativity, simplicity, shininess.
When you think of Microsoft, you think business, viruses, blue screen of death, gaming.
You might think otherwise, but then you probably don't own a Mac. (Neither do I, but I watch enough TV and know enough Mac and Windows users that the above are essential truths.)
So latency is always going to be an issue for twitch-based games. But I tell you, sitting at work right now, I'd rather be doing nothing for my lunch break other than playing Dragon Age: Origins. But I can't very well install it on my work computer, but with a service like OnLive, I could log on and play.
If mainstream online newspapers would actually provide quality, researched articles instead of the usual nonsense, I'd be willing to pay. Instead we get, and I paraphrase:
"A young woman and her child narrowly survived plummeting 20 feet from an embankment while driving to the young child's grandmother's house, says an officer who has asked to remain anonymous because he has not been given leave to talk by his supervisors.
The officer said the woman lost control of the car which slid off the road and over an embankment where it came to a rest in a gulley some 20 feet down.
Paramedics were on scene however the woman refused treatment for both herself and the child. It is unclear why the woman lost control. The road in that area is fairly straight."
1) It's not really news...people have minor accidents all the time.
2) You can't plummet 20 feet, especially when you're not falling, but merely driving down an embankment.
3) No valid, cited sources of information.
4) No information for public service about the cause of the accident.
There's just nothing worth reporting. Take a couple hours until someone real wants to talk to you, then print.
You can't video tape a 3D movie from your seat.
Of course you can. Don't be ridiculous. The watching from the video tape is the problem.
This is critical to a really great business. If your business's IT group is developing applications to enhance productivity or to implement new paths for doing business, they really need to know how you're working. Boilerplate applications may not be customized enough to truly enhance things. It might work, but it might not work well enough to make things more efficient, draw in new business, etc. Having your IT staff sit down with employees and learn what they do makes a huge difference in the usefulness of the application.
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Meh. That applies to all software: Microsoft, open source, games, etc. Proxmox has drdb planned for integration in 2.0. That's about it.
If Google is actually still using ext2 rather than ext3, ext4 will be significantly *more* reliable.
It ain't the destination, it's the journey that worries me.
The fact that you are asking on slashdot shows that you are not qualified, and what you're going to get back is a bunch of others, who aren't qualified, suggesting all sorts of half assed hacks to do it which will just result in a utterly shitty service overall.
I disagree. The Open Source community has a thousand hidden gems that a person might not have heard about. Proxmox VE for one: virtualization, with a GUI, with live migration, and if 2.0 turns out, with heartbeat and failover (high availability). Most people have never heard of this where I work even though half the place is virtualized with KVM, VMWare, Hyper-V, etc. I would think the Slashdot, with its plethora of experiences, might come up with a little-known or workable solution in an already developed product that you haven't heard of yet.
Think holodeck. Or at least 2D lightsaber battles with friends online.
6 seconds? I got it down to under 3...
Same here with my wife's laptop. Another data point. I think if you draw a reasonable line through our graph, you'll find that the GP's data has too large a margin of error to be included in the results.
Well, while your opinion is appreciated, the article is talking about reboots. As far as "new" what about Fringe or Sanctuary?
I believe Josh Whedon said that the movie Serenity was the proposed finale of the show from the very beginning. He had always had a planet encircled by reaver-space in his over arching plot line. The annihilation of the human populace and the ability for the Alliance to cover it up was part of the Alliance's aura of evil.
Lead would block the x-rays and show a big white blob where my body was and then I'd get an immediate pat down to figure out what was behind the blob.
I want something that keeps the x-rays traveling forward and into the far sensor so it looks like I'm not standing there at all.
Creep is generally a term reserved for men. I believe only women TSAs can pat down females. Please correct me if I'm wrong as I've never had the opportunity to be patted down in security.
Excuse me while I find some wood to knock on.