No matter how you feel toward Apple, those designs show how forward thinking they were. Keep in mind that most of those designs are from 1982. Two years before the Mac's debut, and at a time when we were all beating on our Atari 8-bits, Apple IIs, and Commodore 64s.
I'm especially intrigued with the split screen monitor designs. Dual monitors in 1982? Dual flat screen monitors? Pretty amazing.
And the baby mac resurfaces 14 years later as the iMac.
Both of those professions allow you to retire after 20 years with full pay.
I don't know where that is, in Ohio, starting in 2015 it is 35 years and age 60 before you get full benefits. Full salary is defined as the average of the final 5 years of employment, so it will always be less than what the teacher was making at retirement.
And it isn't free, teachers are paying approximately 10% of their salary.
Someone else brought up a good point, when did it become a bad thing to work and pay for a career? It's not cheap becoming a teacher, if it was so easy and such a gravy train, why aren't more people going into education?
This article is more about a botched implementation than about the inability for the iPad to function in an educational environment. The Apple TV problem is when mirroring an iPad 2 or new iPad. It won't expand it to the full size of the picture. This problem goes away when using apps that support video out.
All of the should have gotten them laptops people need to stop and realize what a school day is like. Laptops are useable when placed on a table or desk. They're awkward to use standing, they're awkward to use when collaborating, they're awkward to use on the floor. A tablet, on the other hand, can be used standing, sitting, lying, can easily be passed around, has no battery issues, etc.
Typing long form on the screen is not painful nor difficult. In fact, when I sit down at my computer, I miss all the autocorrecting. I've heard from teachers first hand on how much more productive their students became when they were issued iPod touches. Students that would not write more than a sentence were now writing paragraphs for their teachers.
When talking about Android vs iOS, it's the apps where Android falls down. I have my Nexus 7 tablet, but where is TweetBot? Garageband? iMovie? Pages? Keynote? There are so many content creation apps for iOS, especially in education, Toontastic, Sock Puppets, StoryRobe, Flixlab, Creative Book Builder, etc.
I have ICS installed on my HP Touchpad, I have my Nexus 7 tablet, I have Gingerbread installed on my Droid. The apps aren't there for me to integrate them into my daily routine. I use my iPad and my iPhone every day. Usually Textastic on my iPad for programming and iSSH. Depending on the situation, I'll use my bluetooth keyboard or just type on the screen.
Just because it won't work for you doesn't mean it won't work for someone else (along the same lines, just because it works for me doesn't me it won't work for someone else).
Apple doesn't want you to own anything, even your own personal data. OS X is the only operating system I've used where there's no way to cancel or abort registration: You have to enter a name, address, and phone number to get to the login. It tries to phone home that information right away, even while lying to you on the interface by saying you don't have to register and leaving an icon on the screen for you to do it later... as if it didn't know it already phoned home.
You've always been able to bypass that page, although on the older versions you had to know to hit command-q. In at least Mountain Lion, the skip button is right on the same page.
I've been testing out Insynch (https://www.insynchq.com/) which uses Google Docs as your data store. $5 will get you 20gb of storage from Google a year. It works pretty much like Dropbox, and can sign into multiple Google accounts at the same time. Linux client is supposed to be released soon, and as soon as it is I'll be recommending Insynch to people over Dropbox.
There is also the rumored Google Drive, which if it ever comes to fruition will eat Dropbox's lunch.
What? Smartphone pioneer? How do they figure that?
I'm pretty sure the Palm Treo 650 was the first smartphone bought by a ton of people (released in 2004, the 600 was released the year before). Touchscreen interface, tons of apps. It was the first smartphone for the masses.
Apparently, the GPL being incompatible with Apple's App store is a murky issue at best. Currently, there are several apps that are licensed with the GPL, such as the iOS Wordpress App and Doom.
So what is the final word on GPL apps in the App Store?
I'm surprised more people don't just type up their ebooks in any text format using Markdown. Easy to write in whatever editor your have (for example, storing the manuscript in Dropbox, allowing one to write on their computer, their phone, their tablet, etc.) and then use Calibre to convert into whatever format you want.
I just tried it with a Lion client bound to an OS X 10.6 server using OpenDirectory, and I couldn't replicate the problem.
So is Lion doing something non-standard when connecting to OpenLDAP servers? I noticed that in the main thread it was mentioned that they weren't using the full Apple LDAP schema.
I was laughing at the look of it driving down the highway, thinking to myself how out of place it looks with the farm houses and silos. If only he was a little farther north he could have passed some Amish buggies.
All due respect to the truecrypt guys and their work (cross-platform encrypted images are awesome), but the only reason Windows and OSX need truecrypt is because they don't have something like Linux's dm-crypt.
With OS X you can use Disk Utility to create encrypted sparse images, which are nicer than Truecrypt volumes for some things. Especially since sparse disk images only take up as much space as what is stored on them. Not cross platform though.:-(
As someone mentioned before, polleverywhere.com has been doing this since it's inception, allowing votes by web or SMS, and now you can even vote by Twitter.
Most of the student response systems that have been sold in the last couple of years allow you to use multiple devices to vote, this really isn't a new idea.
It's mentioned up above, but this point needs to be repeated. I work in a school system, and the iPod Touch is more prevalent than any of the other game systems. It's a no brainer for parents. $230, and then games are $3 or less. Versus $170 for a PSP or $150 for a DSi, plus $20-$30 a game. And then you have to worry about losing the carts. It's only 4 or 5 games until the iPod Touch is cheaper.
Numbers don't lie, there are more games produced for iOS than every game system released since 1986 COMBINED (quantity is not indicative of quality, I know). There are now more than120 million iOS devices, more than the DS and PSP combined.
I don't know what Nintendo has up their sleeves for portable gaming, but the 3DS isn't going to be competitive against the iPod Touch (especially if they're the same price).
My poor DS only gets played with Activision Anthology...:-(
You're confusing Apple with Amazon. Even if Apple yanks an application from the App store they do not remove it from your computer or iPhone/iPod Touch.
Research seems to support such a claim. For example, a trial where 75 out of 256 workers at a large retail company were issued with personal stereos to wear at work for four weeks showed a 10% increase in productivity for the headphone wearers. Other similar research conducted by researchers at the University of Illinois found a 6.3% increase when compared with the no music control group.
There was a significant improvement in the behaviour of the EBD children when background music was playing. Observers also noted improved co-operation and a reduction in aggression in the lessons immediately following the intervention. Significant improvement in mathematics performance was found for all the children.
Find yourself a copy of OS/2 Warp and a bunch of floppies. You can do a floppy disk install and it will give you the best graphical experience on that hardware. Of course you'll probably be stuck with Lynx to browse most sites,
Everyone forgets that it was originally Cingular that agreed to Apple's terms for the iPhone, none of the other carriers did. Unfortunately for AT&T (or fortunately?), they were in the process of buying Cingular at the time, and the impending introduction of the iPhone made them accelerate the timeline for the Cingular acquisition.
I wonder what would've happened if AT&T hadn't bought Cingular?
I just tried this on an Intel Macbook running 10.5.3 and a PPC iMac with 10.4.11.
Login in to Macbook as a user with administrator access, ran it from a terminal:
root
ssh'd into Macbook as standard user, administrator user logged into Aqua:
23:47: execution error: ARDAgent got an error: AppleEvent timed out. (-1712)
ssh'd into the iMac as an administrator user, a standard user is logged into Aqua:
kCGErrorRangeCheck : Window Server communications from outside of session allowed for root and console user only
INIT_Processeses(), could not establish the default connection to the WindowServer.Abort trap
ssh'd into the iMac as a standard user, standard use is logged into Aqua:
23:47: execution error: ARDAgent got an error: AppleEvent timed out. (-1712)
So apparently this only works when an administrator user is logged into the machine, so the effects should be minimal. At the very least, if you leave your machine open, anyone can open a terminal and get root without knowing your password.
I also wasn't able to get it to open any application as root, such as:
osascript -e 'tell app "ARDAgent" to do shell script "open -a \"System Preferences.app\""';
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No matter how you feel toward Apple, those designs show how forward thinking they were. Keep in mind that most of those designs are from 1982. Two years before the Mac's debut, and at a time when we were all beating on our Atari 8-bits, Apple IIs, and Commodore 64s.
I'm especially intrigued with the split screen monitor designs. Dual monitors in 1982? Dual flat screen monitors? Pretty amazing.
And the baby mac resurfaces 14 years later as the iMac.
I don't know where that is, in Ohio, starting in 2015 it is 35 years and age 60 before you get full benefits. Full salary is defined as the average of the final 5 years of employment, so it will always be less than what the teacher was making at retirement.
And it isn't free, teachers are paying approximately 10% of their salary.
Someone else brought up a good point, when did it become a bad thing to work and pay for a career? It's not cheap becoming a teacher, if it was so easy and such a gravy train, why aren't more people going into education?
This article is more about a botched implementation than about the inability for the iPad to function in an educational environment. The Apple TV problem is when mirroring an iPad 2 or new iPad. It won't expand it to the full size of the picture. This problem goes away when using apps that support video out.
All of the should have gotten them laptops people need to stop and realize what a school day is like. Laptops are useable when placed on a table or desk. They're awkward to use standing, they're awkward to use when collaborating, they're awkward to use on the floor. A tablet, on the other hand, can be used standing, sitting, lying, can easily be passed around, has no battery issues, etc.
Typing long form on the screen is not painful nor difficult. In fact, when I sit down at my computer, I miss all the autocorrecting. I've heard from teachers first hand on how much more productive their students became when they were issued iPod touches. Students that would not write more than a sentence were now writing paragraphs for their teachers.
When talking about Android vs iOS, it's the apps where Android falls down. I have my Nexus 7 tablet, but where is TweetBot? Garageband? iMovie? Pages? Keynote? There are so many content creation apps for iOS, especially in education, Toontastic, Sock Puppets, StoryRobe, Flixlab, Creative Book Builder, etc.
I have ICS installed on my HP Touchpad, I have my Nexus 7 tablet, I have Gingerbread installed on my Droid. The apps aren't there for me to integrate them into my daily routine. I use my iPad and my iPhone every day. Usually Textastic on my iPad for programming and iSSH. Depending on the situation, I'll use my bluetooth keyboard or just type on the screen.
Just because it won't work for you doesn't mean it won't work for someone else (along the same lines, just because it works for me doesn't me it won't work for someone else).
You've always been able to bypass that page, although on the older versions you had to know to hit command-q. In at least Mountain Lion, the skip button is right on the same page.
I think the default is to only run signed apps, no matter where they come from.
IMO doesn't require you to create an account. You just click on the service you want to use and log in.
I've been testing out Insynch (https://www.insynchq.com/) which uses Google Docs as your data store. $5 will get you 20gb of storage from Google a year. It works pretty much like Dropbox, and can sign into multiple Google accounts at the same time. Linux client is supposed to be released soon, and as soon as it is I'll be recommending Insynch to people over Dropbox. There is also the rumored Google Drive, which if it ever comes to fruition will eat Dropbox's lunch.
I'm pretty sure the Palm Treo 650 was the first smartphone bought by a ton of people (released in 2004, the 600 was released the year before). Touchscreen interface, tons of apps. It was the first smartphone for the masses.
Apparently, the GPL being incompatible with Apple's App store is a murky issue at best. Currently, there are several apps that are licensed with the GPL, such as the iOS Wordpress App and Doom. So what is the final word on GPL apps in the App Store?
I'm surprised more people don't just type up their ebooks in any text format using Markdown. Easy to write in whatever editor your have (for example, storing the manuscript in Dropbox, allowing one to write on their computer, their phone, their tablet, etc.) and then use Calibre to convert into whatever format you want.
I just tried it with a Lion client bound to an OS X 10.6 server using OpenDirectory, and I couldn't replicate the problem.
So is Lion doing something non-standard when connecting to OpenLDAP servers? I noticed that in the main thread it was mentioned that they weren't using the full Apple LDAP schema.
I was laughing at the look of it driving down the highway, thinking to myself how out of place it looks with the farm houses and silos. If only he was a little farther north he could have passed some Amish buggies.
With OS X you can use Disk Utility to create encrypted sparse images, which are nicer than Truecrypt volumes for some things. Especially since sparse disk images only take up as much space as what is stored on them. Not cross platform though. :-(
As someone mentioned before, polleverywhere.com has been doing this since it's inception, allowing votes by web or SMS, and now you can even vote by Twitter.
Most of the student response systems that have been sold in the last couple of years allow you to use multiple devices to vote, this really isn't a new idea.
It's mentioned up above, but this point needs to be repeated. I work in a school system, and the iPod Touch is more prevalent than any of the other game systems. It's a no brainer for parents. $230, and then games are $3 or less. Versus $170 for a PSP or $150 for a DSi, plus $20-$30 a game. And then you have to worry about losing the carts. It's only 4 or 5 games until the iPod Touch is cheaper.
Numbers don't lie, there are more games produced for iOS than every game system released since 1986 COMBINED (quantity is not indicative of quality, I know). There are now more than120 million iOS devices, more than the DS and PSP combined.
I don't know what Nintendo has up their sleeves for portable gaming, but the 3DS isn't going to be competitive against the iPod Touch (especially if they're the same price).
My poor DS only gets played with Activision Anthology... :-(
I wonder how well that does against https://panopticlick.eff.org/ ...
Apparently he liked Mark Twain also:
Apple hardware hasn't included TPM since 2006. (Trusted Computing for Mac OS X)
I just remember the home version with it's $200 cartridges and the arcade standup which usually had 4 games you could play.
I'm pretty sure that Pitfall is the first platformer.
You're confusing Apple with Amazon. Even if Apple yanks an application from the App store they do not remove it from your computer or iPhone/iPod Touch.
And it also works for students, Can listening to background music improve children's behaviour and performance in mathematics?
Find yourself a copy of OS/2 Warp and a bunch of floppies. You can do a floppy disk install and it will give you the best graphical experience on that hardware. Of course you'll probably be stuck with Lynx to browse most sites,
Everyone forgets that it was originally Cingular that agreed to Apple's terms for the iPhone, none of the other carriers did. Unfortunately for AT&T (or fortunately?), they were in the process of buying Cingular at the time, and the impending introduction of the iPhone made them accelerate the timeline for the Cingular acquisition.
I wonder what would've happened if AT&T hadn't bought Cingular?
root
23:47: execution error: ARDAgent got an error: AppleEvent timed out. (-1712)
kCGErrorRangeCheck : Window Server communications from outside of session allowed for root and console user only INIT_Processeses(), could not establish the default connection to the WindowServer.Abort trap
23:47: execution error: ARDAgent got an error: AppleEvent timed out. (-1712)
So apparently this only works when an administrator user is logged into the machine, so the effects should be minimal. At the very least, if you leave your machine open, anyone can open a terminal and get root without knowing your password.
I also wasn't able to get it to open any application as root, such as: osascript -e 'tell app "ARDAgent" to do shell script "open -a \"System Preferences.app\""';