I have digital cable from TWC and agree, the quality is terrible. It's worse on some channels than other, particularly the movie channels. The picture has a pixellated moire pattern like a badly-compressed AVI (OK, so that's redundant...). This is especially evident in scenes with smoke, fog, or dust. Needless to say, I couldn't enjoy Dune on the SciFi channel because of the poor picture quality.
We have complained to TWC and they do not understand the problem. They even sent someone out to fix the box. I showed him a pixellated channel and he just stared blankly at the screen, unable to see what was wrong.
My coworkers think the problem is either caused by encryption or bandwidth issues. I think that TWC should have waited to introduce digital cable until they could get the dang thing to work properly.
Good question. Especially since Apple has their own office suite, AppleWorks, which I myself use because it does the basic stuff I need and only costs $79 (compared to $429.95 for MS Office 2001). And AppleWorks has already been ported to OSX.
I agree with you wholeheartedly! Does anyone still charge for online ads based on "pageviews" or "eyeballs"? People lamented the inaccuracy of those statistics, but I think they're at least as good as TV's Nielsen ratings.
Another reason I'm guessing people don't click on banner ads, though, is because 50% of them are for credit cards. One can only go so far into debt before the spectre of bankruptcy looms. The other 50% are for expensive computer hardware and software I don't need (think I'm going to use Oracle 8i to run my personal web site?).
There are alot of pit-traps to fall into, in for instance online gaming and chatting. These can be time-consuming activities that ruin the social life, spelling and even "the whole education" of the kid.
Too true. I've seen it in action already. My husband taught college physics labs last year. When the students handed in their first lab reports of the semester, one had written their entire lab report in chatroom slang. "When U see da pendulums R swingin..." It blows my mind that this student never questioned whether or not this was acceptable!
All we'd need is for someone to build a widget like the ones that track prices on auction sites or stock prices. You tell it to notify you via email when the price of the system you want drops below $2000, for example, and then just wait to buy your computer until you get the price you want.
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If you would like to "speak with many voices" in the political arena, the US Internet Industry Association is a trade association which advocates (i.e. lobbies for) Internet-friendly legislation. And yes, you can join as an individual member, so it's not just a bunch of large corporations participating.
So "making web sites" is easy, but what about maintaining them? Even the most basic sites require occasional updates if you want them to stay relevant and interesting.
I think at this point in history we're still dealing with the repercussions of a skewed educational system and societal expectations. I'm guessing that 5-10 years from now, the IT gender gap will have shrunk significantly.
I'm a female who was fortunate enough to have parents who bought me a computer in the mid-80s. I got to play around with it and discover how much fun writing games in BASIC was. I never stopped playing with computers, even though I never followed a traditional Computer Science course of study. And so I'm now figuring out how to make computers do stuff for a living (not in BASIC anymore, though). But very few of my friends had the same opportunities and inclinations, so now they're doctors, teachers, and lawyers instead.
I read this paper titled Contextual Animation of Gestural Commands a while back, found it fascinating and wondered when we were going to see some practical applications. I'm glad to see Opera et. al. trying the gesture nav approach.
Thank you! I knew that name sounded terribly familiar, but couldn't remember where I had seen it before. The book burner turned anti-book burner... how appropos.
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I have digital cable from TWC and agree, the quality is terrible. It's worse on some channels than other, particularly the movie channels. The picture has a pixellated moire pattern like a badly-compressed AVI (OK, so that's redundant...). This is especially evident in scenes with smoke, fog, or dust. Needless to say, I couldn't enjoy Dune on the SciFi channel because of the poor picture quality. We have complained to TWC and they do not understand the problem. They even sent someone out to fix the box. I showed him a pixellated channel and he just stared blankly at the screen, unable to see what was wrong. My coworkers think the problem is either caused by encryption or bandwidth issues. I think that TWC should have waited to introduce digital cable until they could get the dang thing to work properly.
"I see you've installed Adobe."
Good question. Especially since Apple has their own office suite, AppleWorks, which I myself use because it does the basic stuff I need and only costs $79 (compared to $429.95 for MS Office 2001). And AppleWorks has already been ported to OSX.
I agree with you wholeheartedly! Does anyone still charge for online ads based on "pageviews" or "eyeballs"? People lamented the inaccuracy of those statistics, but I think they're at least as good as TV's Nielsen ratings.
Another reason I'm guessing people don't click on banner ads, though, is because 50% of them are for credit cards. One can only go so far into debt before the spectre of bankruptcy looms. The other 50% are for expensive computer hardware and software I don't need (think I'm going to use Oracle 8i to run my personal web site?).
Too true. I've seen it in action already. My husband taught college physics labs last year. When the students handed in their first lab reports of the semester, one had written their entire lab report in chatroom slang. "When U see da pendulums R swingin..." It blows my mind that this student never questioned whether or not this was acceptable!
All we'd need is for someone to build a widget like the ones that track prices on auction sites or stock prices. You tell it to notify you via email when the price of the system you want drops below $2000, for example, and then just wait to buy your computer until you get the price you want.
If you would like to "speak with many voices" in the political arena, the US Internet Industry Association is a trade association which advocates (i.e. lobbies for) Internet-friendly legislation. And yes, you can join as an individual member, so it's not just a bunch of large corporations participating.
So "making web sites" is easy, but what about maintaining them? Even the most basic sites require occasional updates if you want them to stay relevant and interesting.
I think at this point in history we're still dealing with the repercussions of a skewed educational system and societal expectations. I'm guessing that 5-10 years from now, the IT gender gap will have shrunk significantly. I'm a female who was fortunate enough to have parents who bought me a computer in the mid-80s. I got to play around with it and discover how much fun writing games in BASIC was. I never stopped playing with computers, even though I never followed a traditional Computer Science course of study. And so I'm now figuring out how to make computers do stuff for a living (not in BASIC anymore, though). But very few of my friends had the same opportunities and inclinations, so now they're doctors, teachers, and lawyers instead.
I read this paper titled Contextual Animation of Gestural Commands a while back, found it fascinating and wondered when we were going to see some practical applications. I'm glad to see Opera et. al. trying the gesture nav approach.
Thank you! I knew that name sounded terribly familiar, but couldn't remember where I had seen it before. The book burner turned anti-book burner... how appropos.