I won't touch the debate on students' rights or cell phone policies, but it seems odd that teachers would be allowed to delete items. It puts them in a very precarious position, in a couple of ways.
Basically, if something is offensive enough to be deleted, it should be instead preserved as evidence for disciplinary action. Once the evidence is deleted it's going to be very difficult to sanction the child at all and I can just imagine parents' exasperation when informed. How can they yell at their kid about something when the only "proof" was supposedly deleted?
And if a picture or text message wasn't merely offensive but was evidence of an illegal act, the teacher will have committed destruction of evidence. And what if the teacher finds pictures of 12 year old students not fully clothed? Viewing stuff like that in class is likely to be a termination offence. Displaying it to other children could conceivably lead to a criminal conviction.
Also, it seems naive to pretend that students won't adapt by just syncing/backing up their phones more often or downloading the offensive content again. And what if the offensive content was a web page? They can just bring it up again any time they want.
the bit depth is interesting, but the largest improvement would come from simply not using lossy compression. one hopes that TFA glossed over this and that nobody is seriously considering 24-bit MP3's.
Is there some epidemic of compulsive gaming going on? Honestly, there's nothing wrong with playing some games at home on a PC or console, then stopping that and doing something else for a while.
Go for a walk, hang out with friends, get something to eat, heck, even do homework or (gasp!) talk to your parents about life. It's okay, and possibly even healthy, to do non-twitch, non-adrenaline things while out and about each day.
At this point, anything that has no recurring subscription costs sounds like a good deal to me. The wifi-only iPad is $500, which seems like a lot compared to a $149 smart phone, but the phone may have a 2-year contract that brings it closer to $2000.
it seems like this would only benefit protocols that load evenly between send and receive. maybe skype?
but if you're watching a movie on netflix or surfing the web or probably a lot of other things, you'll be doing so much more receiving than sending that it's not really worth it to have another antenna.
please get rid of those damn game center nag messages. i don't need to be reminded every time i start every game that i have chosen not to participate in some mid-level manager's "social high score networking" pop-up dialog box wet dream. it's asinine and insulting. stop it.
well, i don't think what you want exists in exactly the form you specified. you'll have to make do with some other device or live without. not a big deal.
now, if you're speaking as a manager who wants to give 500 employees a portable letter-size PDF viewer so they can look at legal documents, you might be able to find someone in taiwan or china to do a production run just for you, at a price not far from the iPad.
it's sounds like you just want an e-book. go buy a kindle, it's way cheaper and the battery lasts a lot longer.
(my wife bought a kindle about two years ago...she loved it and used it every day. she said it was awesome. one day she bought an iPad, but after that she still used the kindle most of the time. one day I pointed out that there's a kindle app for the iPad. she never used her kindle again. Oops!)
Pretty sure the protests continued even after Egypt hit their internet kill switch.
The main message that use of an internet kill switch sends is that the government is in a state of utter panic and is resorting to desperate measures. That kind of message is very informative, but not in the way they might have wished. If anything, it probably emboldened the protesters in Egypt.
In a way, you're just supporting alispguru's original point. Legacy device support, while I wouldn't use the word mediocre as he did, is at least by definition not cutting edge. It's also a barrier to entry because of the nearly abritrary complexity of some of these devices.
Android (and iOS, etc) don't support these old devices because it simply doesn't make sense to connect your tablet device to an IDE cable. It does make sense to connect to a bluetooth keyboard, an onboard 3G chip, your in-dash multimedia thing, etc. If in 10 years, there is legacy support for connecting to a 2011 ford focus as part of android, then you'll know that google is paying attention to their customers' legacy needs.
And if you'll recall, windows 1.0 didn't exactly support a lot of legacy stuff either. Even 3.0 couldn't use an ethernet card without a heck of lot of work.
Remember what has happened in the past, imagine how things will play out in the future...do not simply focus on the state in which things are today.
i tried to navigate with my iPad the other day. i entered an address very quickly and easily using the virtual keyboard. it pulled up a beautiful map on the big responsive touchscreen, computed my route faster than a garmin could and told me to start off by turning right at the end of my driveway. perfect, off i went! i knew it was not going to work, but i wanted to see the failure mode anyway. once i got going it kept saying something along the lines of insufficient GPS signal. i though that was funny because it's a wifi-only model that doesn't even have a GPS chip in it.
is there a name for the theory where the extent of the full universe is just so much bigger than our observable universe that there is plenty of room for other locally observable universes (presumably created by other big bangs), but they're just too far away for us to see?
(multiverse seems to be about extra dimensions and quantum effects. omniverse includes fictional items. so pls do not reply with those unless you think I have mischaracterized them.)
i also have the slow scrolling (on centos 5.5/ff 3.6.9). i think the proximate cause is the mix of scrollable page with the non-scrollable slashdot header. and on top of that, there is a drop shadow from the header onto the scrollable part.
tried using adblock to kill the background image, but i think it's css not an image. disabling css takes you back to 1995.
also tried all the simple design/low bandwidth options on the preferences page and none of those disabled the slashdot header. there was a slight speed up since there was less crap on the page to composite, but it's still slow compared to other sites of similar visual complexity.
Perhaps you are trolling, but for clarity's sake...
He's referring to the test as to whether the method of censorship will prevent discussions of breast cancer (including images, text and videos on the subject) to pass through a filter without being censored.
It is a valuable test because it makes clear that most methods of censorship operate based on words, phrases, or presence of body parts, not on subject matter. Most laws are actually concerned with subject matter, so the disconnect is a critical legal problem.
I think they're going to tweak the macbook air a bit more and make it into the machine it was destined to be all along. A touchscreen (slightly larger too i hope), maybe add a 2nd usb port. iOS emulator for iApps, existing intel chip for mac apps, and a special vmware/parallels deal for windows and linux apps.
Then drop the price to $1099. Oh, and a 3G connection with a data plan that lets the machine be subsidised down to $899.
This would just be a no-brainer do-everything go-anywhere machine for every college student, executive, techie, journalist, all the "tastemakers" as they like to say in the valley. The media buzz will be simply torrential.
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The institutional homophobia and anti-atheism of some of those organizations is not exactly an ethical or moral high ground.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boy_Scouts_of_America_membership_controversies
I won't touch the debate on students' rights or cell phone policies, but it seems odd that teachers would be allowed to delete items. It puts them in a very precarious position, in a couple of ways.
Basically, if something is offensive enough to be deleted, it should be instead preserved as evidence for disciplinary action. Once the evidence is deleted it's going to be very difficult to sanction the child at all and I can just imagine parents' exasperation when informed. How can they yell at their kid about something when the only "proof" was supposedly deleted?
And if a picture or text message wasn't merely offensive but was evidence of an illegal act, the teacher will have committed destruction of evidence. And what if the teacher finds pictures of 12 year old students not fully clothed? Viewing stuff like that in class is likely to be a termination offence. Displaying it to other children could conceivably lead to a criminal conviction.
Also, it seems naive to pretend that students won't adapt by just syncing/backing up their phones more often or downloading the offensive content again. And what if the offensive content was a web page? They can just bring it up again any time they want.
sounds like you probably have a 40 watt grow light you could press into service.
the bit depth is interesting, but the largest improvement would come from simply not using lossy compression. one hopes that TFA glossed over this and that nobody is seriously considering 24-bit MP3's.
Just speaking to your last point: while it has no gyroscope, you can steer iPad games well enough using the iPad's build-in accelerometer.
Is there some epidemic of compulsive gaming going on? Honestly, there's nothing wrong with playing some games at home on a PC or console, then stopping that and doing something else for a while.
Go for a walk, hang out with friends, get something to eat, heck, even do homework or (gasp!) talk to your parents about life. It's okay, and possibly even healthy, to do non-twitch, non-adrenaline things while out and about each day.
At this point, anything that has no recurring subscription costs sounds like a good deal to me. The wifi-only iPad is $500, which seems like a lot compared to a $149 smart phone, but the phone may have a 2-year contract that brings it closer to $2000.
it seems like this would only benefit protocols that load evenly between send and receive. maybe skype?
but if you're watching a movie on netflix or surfing the web or probably a lot of other things, you'll be doing so much more receiving than sending that it's not really worth it to have another antenna.
please get rid of those damn game center nag messages. i don't need to be reminded every time i start every game that i have chosen not to participate in some mid-level manager's "social high score networking" pop-up dialog box wet dream. it's asinine and insulting. stop it.
well, i don't think what you want exists in exactly the form you specified. you'll have to make do with some other device or live without. not a big deal.
now, if you're speaking as a manager who wants to give 500 employees a portable letter-size PDF viewer so they can look at legal documents, you might be able to find someone in taiwan or china to do a production run just for you, at a price not far from the iPad.
it's sounds like you just want an e-book. go buy a kindle, it's way cheaper and the battery lasts a lot longer.
(my wife bought a kindle about two years ago...she loved it and used it every day. she said it was awesome. one day she bought an iPad, but after that she still used the kindle most of the time. one day I pointed out that there's a kindle app for the iPad. she never used her kindle again. Oops!)
Pretty sure the protests continued even after Egypt hit their internet kill switch.
The main message that use of an internet kill switch sends is that the government is in a state of utter panic and is resorting to desperate measures. That kind of message is very informative, but not in the way they might have wished. If anything, it probably emboldened the protesters in Egypt.
In a way, you're just supporting alispguru's original point. Legacy device support, while I wouldn't use the word mediocre as he did, is at least by definition not cutting edge. It's also a barrier to entry because of the nearly abritrary complexity of some of these devices.
Android (and iOS, etc) don't support these old devices because it simply doesn't make sense to connect your tablet device to an IDE cable. It does make sense to connect to a bluetooth keyboard, an onboard 3G chip, your in-dash multimedia thing, etc. If in 10 years, there is legacy support for connecting to a 2011 ford focus as part of android, then you'll know that google is paying attention to their customers' legacy needs.
And if you'll recall, windows 1.0 didn't exactly support a lot of legacy stuff either. Even 3.0 couldn't use an ethernet card without a heck of lot of work.
Remember what has happened in the past, imagine how things will play out in the future...do not simply focus on the state in which things are today.
Your skill at pretending Android doesn't exist is remarkable.
One hopes for an animated GIF of a fat, sweaty, bald, dancing, chair-throwing monkey.
i tried to navigate with my iPad the other day. i entered an address very quickly and easily using the virtual keyboard. it pulled up a beautiful map on the big responsive touchscreen, computed my route faster than a garmin could and told me to start off by turning right at the end of my driveway. perfect, off i went! i knew it was not going to work, but i wanted to see the failure mode anyway. once i got going it kept saying something along the lines of insufficient GPS signal. i though that was funny because it's a wifi-only model that doesn't even have a GPS chip in it.
is there a name for the theory where the extent of the full universe is just so much bigger than our observable universe that there is plenty of room for other locally observable universes (presumably created by other big bangs), but they're just too far away for us to see?
(multiverse seems to be about extra dimensions and quantum effects. omniverse includes fictional items. so pls do not reply with those unless you think I have mischaracterized them.)
looks like they heard me :-)
the slashdot header now scrolls with the rest of the page.
much faster, thanks guys!
i also have the slow scrolling (on centos 5.5/ff 3.6.9). i think the proximate cause is the mix of scrollable page with the non-scrollable slashdot header. and on top of that, there is a drop shadow from the header onto the scrollable part.
tried using adblock to kill the background image, but i think it's css not an image. disabling css takes you back to 1995.
also tried all the simple design/low bandwidth options on the preferences page and none of those disabled the slashdot header. there was a slight speed up since there was less crap on the page to composite, but it's still slow compared to other sites of similar visual complexity.
l like to think of it as The Loser Channel
I mean, the universe is pretty big.
Ya know, there's nothing stopping sony from filing exactly the same complaint in new jersey and then proceeding as planned.
Perhaps you are trolling, but for clarity's sake...
He's referring to the test as to whether the method of censorship will prevent discussions of breast cancer (including images, text and videos on the subject) to pass through a filter without being censored.
It is a valuable test because it makes clear that most methods of censorship operate based on words, phrases, or presence of body parts, not on subject matter. Most laws are actually concerned with subject matter, so the disconnect is a critical legal problem.
you can get some pretty good sound out of an iPod if you use both lossless encoding and a decent pair of headphones.
I think they're going to tweak the macbook air a bit more and make it into the machine it was destined to be all along. A touchscreen (slightly larger too i hope), maybe add a 2nd usb port. iOS emulator for iApps, existing intel chip for mac apps, and a special vmware/parallels deal for windows and linux apps.
Then drop the price to $1099. Oh, and a 3G connection with a data plan that lets the machine be subsidised down to $899.
This would just be a no-brainer do-everything go-anywhere machine for every college student, executive, techie, journalist, all the "tastemakers" as they like to say in the valley. The media buzz will be simply torrential.