Gee, so products that are hard to use, impossible to install, so convoluted you get a headache trying to use them and so rough around the edges nobody would ever want to try them (i.e. virtually every open source program on earth) WONT be popular?
The problem with most open source is that it's by nerds, for nerds. This is perfect if your target audience is nerds, but not if it's grandma. The installs make perfect sence to someone who once ported linux to a camera, but not to the average user. The interface makes perfect sence to someone who is used to command prompts and Solaris menus, but not to the average user. I wont even go into "cool..."
And before you flame me for not being part of the solution, I have tried. I have been ignored, and I'm not quite at the level to jump into coding the UI of a project.
Well, it may not be 5V at the other side of the data center I doubt it would be much less than 4.99V. Besides, it's not like the power supply in the computer is accurate to more than a few percent.
I have often wondered how much electricity would be saved if you removed all those 60%-80% efficient (82% at high load is the best I have ever seen - low load is much worse) power supplies and the two conversions in a UPS and replaced it with one industrial unit. You could even locate the unit outdoors and cut down a huge chunk of your cooling bill. Another poster mentioned some companies do convert their datacenters to DC, but I have never seen it.
And have you ever looked at how many adapters you have around your house? They are still using power even if nothing is hooked up or turned on. It's called a "phantom load." As electronics become more popular along with trendy low-voltage (DC) lighting, it may actually become economical to have a single converter in your house and a DC jack for all your gadgets, phones, lights, computers, LCD monitors, etc.
All that would require is every industry on Earth working together and deciding on one voltage and one standard jack, how hard could that be?
All I get is features that I actually want and I get them 3-5 years before Tivo "innovates" them, I don't get pop-ups, and even commercials are autoskipped. I've really been missing out.
"Schools should be getting computers anyway. What I'm trying to say is that you DO NOT need a full blown IT department to facilitate all that is needed with having a new/existing computer infrastructure."
Well, if you're getting hundreds or thousands of computers, you will need full time staff to maintain them. Heck, patching them alone will be a full time job, nevermind installing software, updating AV, spyware, maintaining hardware, upgrades, etc. I worked at a company with 70 employees who had 3 IT staff. Imagine a school with 20x as many students.
If you're talking about getting just one room of computers (say, for prog class) then you are more agreeing with me than disagreeing. I don't think *all* computers should be banned form school.
Don't get me started on that school that bought every student a laptop...
"..."
I think you are overestimating kid's desire to join a computer club and train teachers, but who knows. Not I.
"As for your reference to the article, these students are going to be using computers anyways. Its likely they want to go into that field, so they're not going to underperform because of computer use, but its going to be the opposite. Their lack of computer use will harm them in their field of study and in real life."
The study says the exact opposite.
Besides, since when is highschool a vocational school for data entry?
I'm serious. Computers are a tool. Yes, in general giving a school more tools is a good thing, but giving the wrong tools will be about as helpful as supplying a bunch of highschool boys with chainsaws -- in the end it will be costly and destructive.
Are computers supposed to teach typing? Do that on the old typewriters in storage.
Are computers supposed to teach writing? I'm no historian but I think people were writing before 1980.
Now, I know of some very good, *targeted* applications. Like for teaching programming, or helping in certain special needs cases. I can see a school having a computer room, or a few in the spec ed room. But I remain unconvinced that throwing into the classrooms piles of $2000 tools that require expensive training and maintenance when schools can't afford colored chalk will help the kids.
Telling somebody they are "wrong" is not a very convincing arguement. Facts and reason are more helpful.
Let's say you do get a computer club to maintain some of the PCs and say the school already had a net admin for the school office computers. You still need to buy all those PCs and train teachers to use them and pay for many rooms to keep them in and pay for security for all those rooms and pay for all that power and cooling etc. etc. etc.
And what do you get in return?
I'm serious, what do you get? AFAIKT all you get is poorer performing students and less money to spend on education.
Now, obviously you need computers to teach stuff like programming, but other than that I believe they are a HUGE waste of money.
Cash-strapped schools blow hundred of thousands of dollars on computers, then have to hire multiple people to maintain them for hundreds of thousand more, then have to train the teachers probably also for hundreds of thousands more, all for what? So the time spent in creative writing class can be half writing and half finding a PC not infected with Michelangelo? And if the average school is anything like my HS was, you know ever single box has a DVD+/-RW, tape drive and optical ethernet that never get used but was sold to them by a now very happy salesman.
And meanwhile the $35,000 salary for the music teacher is cut, and the art teacher, and there is no money for a can of paint or block of clay or roll of film. My school went from a Flag of Excelence school to a school with no arts/humanities and you had to pay to play sports. But we had COMPUTERS! LOTS OF EM! Burning eletricity 24/7.
It is unbelievable how much my old school district spent on computers that were literally ONLY used to replace a pencil and paper in writing class, and maybe to teach a typing class. That and for games after hours, or during class. Programming was taught on a VAX system. Ok, I'm old. Maybe times have changed since then but I'd put money on it that it hasn't.
1) get source code of whatever worm is making all these zombies 2) modify code to only spread itself for a few hours per machine before killing net connection and berating computer owner for poor security.
Optional result is you get arrested, but that's why I am leaving this up to a non-American to do. However, what if I drove to Mexico before releasing the worm, would that make a difference?
the differences in price and availability of phones in the rest of the world versus the US. Obviously having 1-2 billion potential customers for a GSM phone versus a few million for a PCS or CDMA or whatever phone will motivate manufacturers to come out with new technology faster and to compete more on price.
I bought my iRiver iHP-140 40GB player because it had a tuner and ogg support. The only other one I considered was one with a built-in FM transmitter, but that thing was a brick and seemed to have supply issues. You'd think for the cost of the iPod (twice what mine cost) it would at least have a tuner.
You mean just like ReaplyTV?
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"What if the company went private and became the anti-cable, letting us download, store, organize, and serve media from both cable and -- this is the important part -- the internet."
And they could include networking hardware for free, and networking software for free, and share TV over the Internet, and share it to the PC using free open source software, and then they could change their name to ReplayTV since they have been doing all of that for years?
Yes, sharing and auto-commercial-skipping is disabled in the new ones, but who buys the new ones.
But seriously, if Tivo copied everything my Replay does (and maybe call it "innovating" like they did with Tivo To Go) and let me **store** and play my MP3s from the Tivo, I would covert in a heartbeat. I have yet to see a stereo component that lets me store my MP3s - I either have to use my portable, or spend $300 for a fancy LCD that needs my computer running 24/7.
You're right, it's a giant world-wide conspiracy by scientists to, um, to... well, there must be some goal, some reason to lie that global warming exists. I can't fathom it, so I will just yell brain-dead cliches: LIBERAL AGENDA, LIBERAL ELITIST ACADEMICS, LEFT WING MEDIA, AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!
Whenever you hear a conservative complaining about liberals, it's always about "liberal academia" or "liberal elites" or "liberal media" etc. It's as if anybody who is educated or successful is therefore a liberal and stupid. The only other societies I'm aware of that slam academics are fascist countries.
If you had bothered to look at my link before you criticized it you would have read things like:
"Graph showing roughly 1000 years of temperature in the northern hemisphere. It is based on combined data from ice layers, corals, trees, etc. The 20th Century's one degree Fahrenheit warming stands out dramatically."
and
"Graph showing a 450,000 year record of carbon dioxide (CO2) levels in the earth's atmosphere. This record was compiled from analyzing bubbles of fossilized air trapped in ice cores. The fossilized air shows the levels of carbon dioxide and other gases in the atmosphere throughout this 450,000 period. The last 100-150 years of the 20th Century show a significant rise in CO2."
Upgrading from 256MB to 1GB of RAM = upgrading $40 to $120. $120-$40 = $80 $80 + insane tax on the stupid = $475 $80 + huge tax on the stupid = $325 what a bargain!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11111oneone
Upgadeing for 40GB to 80GB = upgrading from $20 to $40 $40-$20= $20 $80 + tax on the stupid = $90 $80 + tax on the stupid and gullible = $50
I just turned it on and the difference is insane, especially in IE with it's microscopic fonts (not that I use IE, just testing). Kind makes bigger fonts look a little fuzzy, but on small fonts it is amazing! Also makes for weird colors when the cursor is over a letter...
Is this available for Win2000 so I can use it at home once my Dell 2005FPW 20" widscreen ($600 after 2-day shipping and Texas tax) shows up? Gotta love 30% "small business" discount coupons...
Only 6 years after it became a huge problem, MS is doing something about the insecurity of their software: they are releasing a copy of other's company's software which cleans up attacks AFTER they happen.
I suspect this innovation will be so great it has to be bundled with the OS. Why actually write secure software when you can monopolize a market created around your own insecurity?
"President Clinton will declare a state of emergency. He will invoke executive power beyond our wildest imagination. He will become our very first dictator. He will seize control over utilities and industry. He will federalize the National Guard. It will ration food, gasoline, etc. Your money will be declared illegal..."
Nothing is more Christian that feeding you greed by scaring the hell out of your flock by lying to them. Now go out there and hate some gays or something, Jesus says so.
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,15759,0 0. html
I have the entire essay saved forever on my home computer.
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Gee, so products that are hard to use, impossible to install, so convoluted you get a headache trying to use them and so rough around the edges nobody would ever want to try them (i.e. virtually every open source program on earth) WONT be popular?
The problem with most open source is that it's by nerds, for nerds. This is perfect if your target audience is nerds, but not if it's grandma. The installs make perfect sence to someone who once ported linux to a camera, but not to the average user. The interface makes perfect sence to someone who is used to command prompts and Solaris menus, but not to the average user. I wont even go into "cool..."
And before you flame me for not being part of the solution, I have tried. I have been ignored, and I'm not quite at the level to jump into coding the UI of a project.
Well, it may not be 5V at the other side of the data center I doubt it would be much less than 4.99V. Besides, it's not like the power supply in the computer is accurate to more than a few percent.
I have often wondered how much electricity would be saved if you removed all those 60%-80% efficient (82% at high load is the best I have ever seen - low load is much worse) power supplies and the two conversions in a UPS and replaced it with one industrial unit. You could even locate the unit outdoors and cut down a huge chunk of your cooling bill. Another poster mentioned some companies do convert their datacenters to DC, but I have never seen it.
And have you ever looked at how many adapters you have around your house? They are still using power even if nothing is hooked up or turned on. It's called a "phantom load." As electronics become more popular along with trendy low-voltage (DC) lighting, it may actually become economical to have a single converter in your house and a DC jack for all your gadgets, phones, lights, computers, LCD monitors, etc.
All that would require is every industry on Earth working together and deciding on one voltage and one standard jack, how hard could that be?
All I get is features that I actually want and I get them 3-5 years before Tivo "innovates" them, I don't get pop-ups, and even commercials are autoskipped. I've really been missing out.
"Schools should be getting computers anyway. What I'm trying to say is that you DO NOT need a full blown IT department to facilitate all that is needed with having a new/existing computer infrastructure."
Well, if you're getting hundreds or thousands of computers, you will need full time staff to maintain them. Heck, patching them alone will be a full time job, nevermind installing software, updating AV, spyware, maintaining hardware, upgrades, etc. I worked at a company with 70 employees who had 3 IT staff. Imagine a school with 20x as many students.
If you're talking about getting just one room of computers (say, for prog class) then you are more agreeing with me than disagreeing. I don't think *all* computers should be banned form school.
Don't get me started on that school that bought every student a laptop...
"..."
I think you are overestimating kid's desire to join a computer club and train teachers, but who knows. Not I.
"As for your reference to the article, these students are going to be using computers anyways. Its likely they want to go into that field, so they're not going to underperform because of computer use, but its going to be the opposite. Their lack of computer use will harm them in their field of study and in real life."
The study says the exact opposite.
Besides, since when is highschool a vocational school for data entry?
I'm serious. Computers are a tool. Yes, in general giving a school more tools is a good thing, but giving the wrong tools will be about as helpful as supplying a bunch of highschool boys with chainsaws -- in the end it will be costly and destructive.
Are computers supposed to teach typing? Do that on the old typewriters in storage.
Are computers supposed to teach writing? I'm no historian but I think people were writing before 1980.
Now, I know of some very good, *targeted* applications. Like for teaching programming, or helping in certain special needs cases. I can see a school having a computer room, or a few in the spec ed room. But I remain unconvinced that throwing into the classrooms piles of $2000 tools that require expensive training and maintenance when schools can't afford colored chalk will help the kids.
Telling somebody they are "wrong" is not a very convincing arguement. Facts and reason are more helpful.
Let's say you do get a computer club to maintain some of the PCs and say the school already had a net admin for the school office computers. You still need to buy all those PCs and train teachers to use them and pay for many rooms to keep them in and pay for security for all those rooms and pay for all that power and cooling etc. etc. etc.
And what do you get in return?
I'm serious, what do you get? AFAIKT all you get is poorer performing students and less money to spend on education.
Now, obviously you need computers to teach stuff like programming, but other than that I believe they are a HUGE waste of money.
Cash-strapped schools blow hundred of thousands of dollars on computers, then have to hire multiple people to maintain them for hundreds of thousand more, then have to train the teachers probably also for hundreds of thousands more, all for what? So the time spent in creative writing class can be half writing and half finding a PC not infected with Michelangelo? And if the average school is anything like my HS was, you know ever single box has a DVD+/-RW, tape drive and optical ethernet that never get used but was sold to them by a now very happy salesman.
And meanwhile the $35,000 salary for the music teacher is cut, and the art teacher, and there is no money for a can of paint or block of clay or roll of film. My school went from a Flag of Excelence school to a school with no arts/humanities and you had to pay to play sports. But we had COMPUTERS! LOTS OF EM! Burning eletricity 24/7.
It is unbelievable how much my old school district spent on computers that were literally ONLY used to replace a pencil and paper in writing class, and maybe to teach a typing class. That and for games after hours, or during class. Programming was taught on a VAX system. Ok, I'm old. Maybe times have changed since then but I'd put money on it that it hasn't.
1) get source code of whatever worm is making all these zombies
2) modify code to only spread itself for a few hours per machine before killing net connection and berating computer owner for poor security.
Result: bot nets destroyed, computer owners informed.
Optional result is you get arrested, but that's why I am leaving this up to a non-American to do. However, what if I drove to Mexico before releasing the worm, would that make a difference?
the differences in price and availability of phones in the rest of the world versus the US. Obviously having 1-2 billion potential customers for a GSM phone versus a few million for a PCS or CDMA or whatever phone will motivate manufacturers to come out with new technology faster and to compete more on price.
Did I say I bought it yesterday?
Because I wanted to listen to my music AND the radio, but didn't want to carry around two devices.
Actually I lied in my first post - first I had an Arcos player, but upgraded to my iRiver.
I also considered an iRiver MP3/CD/FM device, but wanted something smaller.
If I made a top ten reason why I wanted my player it would be ...
1) use at the gym
2) use at the gym
3) use at the gym
There are a bunch of TVs there, each tuned to a different channel and broadcasting their sound on FM.
Anyway, I don't go to that or any gym anymore, but I still use the tuner at work.
I bought my iRiver iHP-140 40GB player because it had a tuner and ogg support. The only other one I considered was one with a built-in FM transmitter, but that thing was a brick and seemed to have supply issues. You'd think for the cost of the iPod (twice what mine cost) it would at least have a tuner.
"What if the company went private and became the anti-cable, letting us download, store, organize, and serve media from both cable and -- this is the important part -- the internet."
And they could include networking hardware for free, and networking software for free, and share TV over the Internet, and share it to the PC using free open source software, and then they could change their name to ReplayTV since they have been doing all of that for years?
Yes, sharing and auto-commercial-skipping is disabled in the new ones, but who buys the new ones.
But seriously, if Tivo copied everything my Replay does (and maybe call it "innovating" like they did with Tivo To Go) and let me **store** and play my MP3s from the Tivo, I would covert in a heartbeat. I have yet to see a stereo component that lets me store my MP3s - I either have to use my portable, or spend $300 for a fancy LCD that needs my computer running 24/7.
You're right, it's a giant world-wide conspiracy by scientists to, um, to... well, there must be some goal, some reason to lie that global warming exists. I can't fathom it, so I will just yell brain-dead cliches: LIBERAL AGENDA, LIBERAL ELITIST ACADEMICS, LEFT WING MEDIA, AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!
Some systems are easy to predict long-term and impossible short-term, others are the opposite.
Nobody can predict the exact fluctuations of the stock market, but it doesn't take a genius to figure out long term trends.
Whenever you hear a conservative complaining about liberals, it's always about "liberal academia" or "liberal elites" or "liberal media" etc. It's as if anybody who is educated or successful is therefore a liberal and stupid. The only other societies I'm aware of that slam academics are fascist countries.
Wow, you were voted as insightful for THAT?
If you had bothered to look at my link before you criticized it you would have read things like:
"Graph showing roughly 1000 years of temperature in the northern hemisphere. It is based on combined data from ice layers, corals, trees, etc. The 20th Century's one degree Fahrenheit warming stands out dramatically."
and
"Graph showing a 450,000 year record of carbon dioxide (CO2) levels in the earth's atmosphere. This record was compiled from analyzing bubbles of fossilized air trapped in ice cores. The fossilized air shows the levels of carbon dioxide and other gases in the atmosphere throughout this 450,000 period. The last 100-150 years of the 20th Century show a significant rise in CO2."
Not that facts often change politics-based opinions.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/warming/etc/graphs.html
Upgrading from 256MB to 1GB of RAM =
upgrading $40 to $120.
$120-$40 = $80
$80 + insane tax on the stupid = $475
$80 + huge tax on the stupid = $325
what a bargain!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11111oneone
Upgadeing for 40GB to 80GB =
upgrading from $20 to $40
$40-$20= $20
$80 + tax on the stupid = $90
$80 + tax on the stupid and gullible = $50
I just turned it on and the difference is insane, especially in IE with it's microscopic fonts (not that I use IE, just testing). Kind makes bigger fonts look a little fuzzy, but on small fonts it is amazing! Also makes for weird colors when the cursor is over a letter...
Is this available for Win2000 so I can use it at home once my Dell 2005FPW 20" widscreen ($600 after 2-day shipping and Texas tax) shows up? Gotta love 30% "small business" discount coupons...
But I suppose men can count to 11 using their, um, appendages while women can only count to 10.
that was half Tuberculosis?
Only 6 years after it became a huge problem, MS is doing something about the insecurity of their software: they are releasing a copy of other's company's software which cleans up attacks AFTER they happen.
I suspect this innovation will be so great it has to be bundled with the OS. Why actually write secure software when you can monopolize a market created around your own insecurity?
"President Clinton will declare a state of emergency. He will invoke executive power beyond our wildest imagination. He will become our very first dictator. He will seize control over utilities and industry. He will federalize the National Guard. It will ration food, gasoline, etc. Your money will be declared illegal..."
0 0. html
Nothing is more Christian that feeding you greed by scaring the hell out of your flock by lying to them. Now go out there and hate some gays or something, Jesus says so.
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,15759,
I have the entire essay saved forever on my home computer.