The only proprietary connector used on a Mac in the last 15 years is the Magsafe connector. Every other port was a standard: USB-A, Ethernet, Firewire 400, Firewire 800, mini-VGA, mini-DVI, mini-displayport, Thunderbolt, USB-C.
So in short, the product is not immediately available (it's sold out in the Swag shop also) and when it is, it won't be $5 unless you order it direct. And then, if you don't live in the UK, you'll have to pay an assload of shipping.
Where can I buy R-Pi in a B&M store in the USA, so that I can actually get it for $5? And when will it actually be available?
I walked into Micro Center on Black Friday and picked one up for $5. While I was there, I looked around and was quite surprised how competitive Micro Center has become with pricing.
If you don't want an app to use cellular, go and turn it off. My 11 year old daughter knows how to do this since her pre-paid phone gives her about 300MB a month. For those that are on limited cell plans, you should have already been doing this before wifi assist existed.
I think wifi assist is a pretty awesome feature, no more Slack not working when I leave buildings (I travel between school buildings a lot during the day).
I don't see how they controlled for equipment getting faster. A computer in 2004 was probably a ~3Ghz Pentium 4 with a 800MHz bus and 1Gb of RAM. Now you have an i5 or i7 with an SSD that's probably 10 times faster. People just don't wait that long for their computer anymore.
(I miss the good old days when a print job got you a 15-20 minute break.)
Who says a channel has to charge? TBS costs cable companies $.63 a month per subscriber, bringing in $731 million a year for 96,700 homes. ESPN is $5.75 a month per subscriber in 94,000 homes.
I'd pay $1 a month for TBS. Some channels wouldn't have to charge. QVC? That's just a big infomercial. Golf? Offer it for free.
As someone who is doing Linux in schools, let me correct a few things.
- Imaging isn't done anymore, except for a base image with nothing installed. The tools to manage machines can take care of anything that needs to be set.
- To set up our 1:1 Linux desktops we boot from the network, enter the machine name and user name, and walk away. Ubuntu installs with minimal software and Puppet. Everything else is configured through Puppet. Configuration includes software to be installed and creating the username and password of the student that is assigned to the laptop.
We haven't hopped on the Chromebook bandwagon. Linux can do everything Chromebooks can do but so much more.
The Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow (ECOT) is the largest charter school in the state of Ohio. The online school is larger than the vast majority of Ohioâ(TM)s traditional school districts and received over $88 million in state funding last school year. This year that amount is expected to jump to over $92 million.
On the latest report cards released by the Ohio Department of Education, ECOT continues to rank below all of the 8 large urban schools that are often-criticized by legislators and in the media for their "sub-par" performance.
Last year I had a student who never showed up to class, never turned work in, skimmed by on gaming the system with a phone call every few weeks, just enough to keep from being dropped from the rosters. She called me three days after my final grades were submitted in June, desperate to find a way to graduate. I apologized, said my grades had been submitted, and offered information for the summer school we were holding. A week or so later, when I arrived for graduation an administrator pulled me aside to tell me that this student had passed "by the proficiency method" and would be graduating. Our graduation rate was so low that this was not a surprise to me, not after the year I had spent working in this system.
I think most of the comments about A players are defining them incorrectly. An A player is one that:
- is competent in their skills and is continually upgrading their skillset - works well with others, viewing criticism not personally. The A player uses criticism to get better - will go the extra mile(s) so their projects and the company will be a success. No task is too menial. When they walk down the hall they will pick up any trash they find to throw away. - is humble - is not afraid of failure
In education, you see A players all the time. These are the ones you want to work with and work for. They make you better.
Puppet can also run with out a server. You can clone your puppet repo and simply run "puppet apply main manifest.pp"
The server gives you more control over what the machine receives, so each machine wouldn't have access to items such as ssh keys or user info that doesn't pertain to the machine.
This is a simple question about owning the intellectual property rights on material produced. Frankly the way I think this should be is that I own the copyright but the university has a permanent license to use any material I generate for education of its own students.
This has already come up under teacherspayteachers.com. Any work you do for your job would most likely fall under "work-for-hire" and your employer, the univiersity, owns the copyright. This whole article is written by someone who doesn't realize that professors don't own the copyright on materials produced by the professors for their job.
Public school districts own the copyright on the lesson plans and supporting materials created by teachers, this is now different at the higher ed level.
If you are going to do this, then why even let the user choose their password? Use an algorithm to create user's passwords (for example, randomly select a length, then randomly generate a password). Guaranteed strong passwords.
Yes, users will write it down. Is this worse or better than what is happening now?
(For the most part, I prefer OAUTH. I let Google handle the two factor authentication.)
As the IT director for a school district, are are looking at the ASUS X201E running Ubuntu for a 1:1 program. Say what you want about Chrome books, they have opened eyes in our district. It would have been a really hard sell before. Now its easy. The Ubuntu laptops can do everything a Chromebook plus more.
It's bad enough having to find room on my already cluttered desk (3 desktops + monitors + 1 laptop + 4 mice + handover/ events diary + this shift's operations paperwork) in 1.3sq.m of desk space, but having to find space for each mouse when I need to move to each system
Check out Synergy. Use one mouse/keyboard with all four machines.
About archiving photos, videos, and the like to a hard drive, you make a good point. I'd like to see what certain staunch iOS advocates on Slashdot would say about that.
iOS users use the free 5GB of iCloud storage for backup, and when that is filled, they pay Apple for more storage. All automatic and no maintenance. Device dies/is replaced? Start it up and tell it to restore from iCloud. Everything is right back where it was. This even works going between the different iOS devices (have an iPhone and get an iPad? Restore your iPhone backup onto your iPad).
Pretty slick, and doesn't require the user to do anything but plug in their device at night (assuming they have wifi, if not, then no, it's not slick).
I just put the final touches on taking older machines and making them into Chrome only browser boxes, the GozBrowserBox.
You can run it stand alone (I have it on some old 512MB Thinkpads) or in a client/server configuration (I have iBooks and eMacs using this running Chrome with Flash and sound). All it does is boot into a full screen Chrome session, so it depends on what you want to do on how useful it is.
In our public school system this has allowed us to repurpose any machine that comes our way. The limiting factor now is space.
(BTW, there are several security issues with it since the private key for the user browser is publically available in the Github project. It also downloads the configuration from Github everytime the machine is started, which means you have to trust me... Or fork the project and trust yourself!)
So I went to see if I could get faster uploads on TWC, and on their wideband Internet tier they offer a 100mbps level... But only if you're in Kansas City. What does that mean?
There aren't "duplicating files with the same name" in Google Drive, or at least I've never seen it. What confuses people is when they can't let go of the "document can be in only one folder" paradigm. Under Google Drive, the same document can exists in multiple places. Confusing? Maybe, but a lot more powerful than the old way.
All usernames are surname.number, where the number is how many of that surname have attended the university. tressel.3@osu.edu meant that Jim Tressel was the 3rd Tressel to attend OSU.
This username stays with you even if you leave and return years later.
What the submitter missed was the fact that the Amazon MP3 store for the mobile web is used for purchasing songs and to then play them using the Amazon Cloud Player. In fact, you can't even listen to mp3s through the website.
Basically, Amazon optimized the website to make it easier to purchase MP3s. You could do it before with their website, it just wasn't as nice. Nothing to see here, move along.
I have a local 3 screen theater that shows first run movies for $5 (matinee is $4) and another small theater 15 miles away with one screen that is pretty cheap (can't remember ticket price off the top of my head though).
I couldn't imagine these theaters combined have gross receipts for a year coming close to $60,000, let alone having those costs per month.
The other theater is transitioning to digital soon, too.
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The only proprietary connector used on a Mac in the last 15 years is the Magsafe connector. Every other port was a standard: USB-A, Ethernet, Firewire 400, Firewire 800, mini-VGA, mini-DVI, mini-displayport, Thunderbolt, USB-C.
So in short, the product is not immediately available (it's sold out in the Swag shop also) and when it is, it won't be $5 unless you order it direct. And then, if you don't live in the UK, you'll have to pay an assload of shipping.
Where can I buy R-Pi in a B&M store in the USA, so that I can actually get it for $5? And when will it actually be available?
I walked into Micro Center on Black Friday and picked one up for $5. While I was there, I looked around and was quite surprised how competitive Micro Center has become with pricing.
If you don't want an app to use cellular, go and turn it off. My 11 year old daughter knows how to do this since her pre-paid phone gives her about 300MB a month. For those that are on limited cell plans, you should have already been doing this before wifi assist existed.
I think wifi assist is a pretty awesome feature, no more Slack not working when I leave buildings (I travel between school buildings a lot during the day).
Get a Verizon iPad mini and use the prepaid plan on it. You'll get the best coverage, a wifi hotspot, and a tablet. :-)
The tablet plan is cheaper than the Mifi plan for some reason, unless I'm reading their plans wrong.
It is Windows only, but it's open source and web/mobile clients are available. The list of supported cameras is huge. http://www.ispyconnect.com/
I don't see how they controlled for equipment getting faster. A computer in 2004 was probably a ~3Ghz Pentium 4 with a 800MHz bus and 1Gb of RAM. Now you have an i5 or i7 with an SSD that's probably 10 times faster. People just don't wait that long for their computer anymore.
(I miss the good old days when a print job got you a 15-20 minute break.)
Who says a channel has to charge? TBS costs cable companies $.63 a month per subscriber, bringing in $731 million a year for 96,700 homes. ESPN is $5.75 a month per subscriber in 94,000 homes.
I'd pay $1 a month for TBS. Some channels wouldn't have to charge. QVC? That's just a big infomercial. Golf? Offer it for free.
It looks like we may get choices soon: Cable Under Fire: Plunge in Ratings Could Spell Trouble for Top Nets
Now we're seeing the slow death of IRC too at the hands of better but more proprietary user experiences being offered by Skype and Slack.
And it's easy to see why too. The proprietary chat tools out there like Slack are absolutely incredible user experiences.
If IRC and XMPP are ever going to be competitive with the new proprietary guys in town, it needs to get competitive on the usability front.
I think Slack is built on IRC, I use a bouncer and whatever IRC client I have handy to connect to our work Slack.
IRCCloud is putting a pretty face on IRC, if they would offer the Slack integrations they could be a real competitor.
As someone who is doing Linux in schools, let me correct a few things. - Imaging isn't done anymore, except for a base image with nothing installed. The tools to manage machines can take care of anything that needs to be set. - To set up our 1:1 Linux desktops we boot from the network, enter the machine name and user name, and walk away. Ubuntu installs with minimal software and Puppet. Everything else is configured through Puppet. Configuration includes software to be installed and creating the username and password of the student that is assigned to the laptop. We haven't hopped on the Chromebook bandwagon. Linux can do everything Chromebooks can do but so much more.
Ohioâ(TM)s Largest Taxpayer-Funded Charter School, ECOT, Receives Bonus Check
The Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow (ECOT) is the largest charter school in the state of Ohio. The online school is larger than the vast majority of Ohioâ(TM)s traditional school districts and received over $88 million in state funding last school year. This year that amount is expected to jump to over $92 million. On the latest report cards released by the Ohio Department of Education, ECOT continues to rank below all of the 8 large urban schools that are often-criticized by legislators and in the media for their "sub-par" performance.
15 Months in Virtual Charter Hell: A Teacher's Tale - Living in Dialogue - Education Week Teacher
Last year I had a student who never showed up to class, never turned work in, skimmed by on gaming the system with a phone call every few weeks, just enough to keep from being dropped from the rosters. She called me three days after my final grades were submitted in June, desperate to find a way to graduate. I apologized, said my grades had been submitted, and offered information for the summer school we were holding. A week or so later, when I arrived for graduation an administrator pulled me aside to tell me that this student had passed "by the proficiency method" and would be graduating. Our graduation rate was so low that this was not a surprise to me, not after the year I had spent working in this system.
I think most of the comments about A players are defining them incorrectly. An A player is one that:
- is competent in their skills and is continually upgrading their skillset
- works well with others, viewing criticism not personally. The A player uses criticism to get better
- will go the extra mile(s) so their projects and the company will be a success. No task is too menial. When they walk down the hall they will pick up any trash they find to throw away.
- is humble
- is not afraid of failure
In education, you see A players all the time. These are the ones you want to work with and work for. They make you better.
Puppet can also run with out a server. You can clone your puppet repo and simply run "puppet apply main manifest.pp" The server gives you more control over what the machine receives, so each machine wouldn't have access to items such as ssh keys or user info that doesn't pertain to the machine.
In another great move Nintendo limited the console to only being able to connect to one tablet at a time.
This has already come up under teacherspayteachers.com. Any work you do for your job would most likely fall under "work-for-hire" and your employer, the univiersity, owns the copyright. This whole article is written by someone who doesn't realize that professors don't own the copyright on materials produced by the professors for their job.
Public school districts own the copyright on the lesson plans and supporting materials created by teachers, this is now different at the higher ed level.
If you are going to do this, then why even let the user choose their password? Use an algorithm to create user's passwords (for example, randomly select a length, then randomly generate a password). Guaranteed strong passwords.
Yes, users will write it down. Is this worse or better than what is happening now?
(For the most part, I prefer OAUTH. I let Google handle the two factor authentication.)
As the IT director for a school district, are are looking at the ASUS X201E running Ubuntu for a 1:1 program. Say what you want about Chrome books, they have opened eyes in our district. It would have been a really hard sell before. Now its easy. The Ubuntu laptops can do everything a Chromebook plus more.
Check out Synergy. Use one mouse/keyboard with all four machines.
iOS users use the free 5GB of iCloud storage for backup, and when that is filled, they pay Apple for more storage. All automatic and no maintenance. Device dies/is replaced? Start it up and tell it to restore from iCloud. Everything is right back where it was. This even works going between the different iOS devices (have an iPhone and get an iPad? Restore your iPhone backup onto your iPad).
Pretty slick, and doesn't require the user to do anything but plug in their device at night (assuming they have wifi, if not, then no, it's not slick).
You can run it stand alone (I have it on some old 512MB Thinkpads) or in a client/server configuration (I have iBooks and eMacs using this running Chrome with Flash and sound). All it does is boot into a full screen Chrome session, so it depends on what you want to do on how useful it is.
In our public school system this has allowed us to repurpose any machine that comes our way. The limiting factor now is space.
(BTW, there are several security issues with it since the private key for the user browser is publically available in the Github project. It also downloads the configuration from Github everytime the machine is started, which means you have to trust me... Or fork the project and trust yourself!)
So I went to see if I could get faster uploads on TWC, and on their wideband Internet tier they offer a 100mbps level... But only if you're in Kansas City. What does that mean?
There aren't "duplicating files with the same name" in Google Drive, or at least I've never seen it. What confuses people is when they can't let go of the "document can be in only one folder" paradigm. Under Google Drive, the same document can exists in multiple places. Confusing? Maybe, but a lot more powerful than the old way.
All usernames are surname.number, where the number is how many of that surname have attended the university. tressel.3@osu.edu meant that Jim Tressel was the 3rd Tressel to attend OSU.
This username stays with you even if you leave and return years later.
I can't believe this wasn't the first post!
What the submitter missed was the fact that the Amazon MP3 store for the mobile web is used for purchasing songs and to then play them using the Amazon Cloud Player. In fact, you can't even listen to mp3s through the website.
Basically, Amazon optimized the website to make it easier to purchase MP3s. You could do it before with their website, it just wasn't as nice. Nothing to see here, move along.
I have a local 3 screen theater that shows first run movies for $5 (matinee is $4) and another small theater 15 miles away with one screen that is pretty cheap (can't remember ticket price off the top of my head though).
I couldn't imagine these theaters combined have gross receipts for a year coming close to $60,000, let alone having those costs per month.
The other theater is transitioning to digital soon, too.