I imagine the boardroom discussion went something along the line of, "Hey, Vinnie! Dees m*th3rf@&!3r& at Amazon is selling da same as our audio books at book prices 'n cutting into our pie. Send the sharks on 'em!" All about "added value" one would think.
Amazon? I imagine they figure the blind have a national association that can make a big stink about this without Amazon wasting their own lawyer time.
I'm really not that happy in agreeing and not trying to be a troll but it's simply true. The biggest impediment will be the school administration's horror of trying something even remotely new, different and "against the norm" even if it saves money. The solid quantitative fact that has to be acknowledged is that public education grads as a group aren't at the high end of the grad spectrum in things like I.Q. and GRE scores.
So treat high school teachers and administrations like your grandmother. I would try something like ZDnet Australia did the other week going out on the street and getting a ton of positive feedback about KDE 4 when they told people it was Windows 7. Don't even think of beginning by telling school administrators and teachers that linux or OO.o are something "different". Just tell them it is the next, better desktop after Vista or a more affordable "Office" and let them make their own conclusions from a hands-on demo. Everybody will be less frightened in that environment and the outcome will be better.
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and only secondarily the graphical nature.
I had already been online for ten years by '96 but with proprietary environments like CompuServe and GEnie. It was probably more amazing that there were no longer any user boundaries as much as the graphical presentation of Mosaic. And my first "internet" access was a Delphi command-line portal in '94 so that emphasized the importance of the resources it opened up over the new presentation. And it could be said that there was some natural progression toward the browser in GUI versions the other internet resources like news, gopher and FTP.
There's too little ridicule in civil discourse. ISPs should suggest that the government _help_ them by first passing a law required severe penalties for all child pornographers who do not digitally sign their work as child pornography. _Then_ ISPs would be able to filter it automatically. Such a framing might jolt people out of the mindset that ISP management do nothing all day but sit in their chairs and watch each transmission from their users come and go.
According to the spreadsheet that was compiled it looks like most or all their stations said "screw it" and converted en masse. Where I am, only a couple rerun stations went for it.
All very creative and everything, but until people learn how to fly on their own where do skyscrapers fit into the post-oil world? Seems to me we should say, "Food hell, will a skyscraper create enough energy to heat and cool itself and move the people up and down?"
You could say, "It's better than a suburb!" But are suburbs _or_ skyscrapers a good idea?
Well, you know, just joking. But that CEO is living in cloud cuckoo-land if he thinks the American working and non-working non-rich can support that PR stunt. America done got broken.
Just look at how well that went with the Big Dig compared to, oh -let's pick something that cost about the same, the Chunnel.
As a Midwesterner, I loath traditional toll roads for the high level of moronicity stopping and going entails. True, these automated systems modify the equation some but I still think our roads are part of the commons. Part of the "change" I would look forward to is a return to _less_ contractor influence and a little more sanity that we all have to pay for the various infrastructure we individually use now and then. Which is to say I oppose anything that makes toll roads seem less annoying at _first_ glance.
Been there. Spent some time in the store. Tried to be impressed. Wasn't.
But then I hark from Mall of America land so I wasn't blown over by Metreon either. Enjoyed the PR halo that "everything in S.F. is the very best by definition".
Does it matter? A free and open broadcast medium isn't something most governments will embrace gleefully, so you can pretty well figure business will get whatever it wants.
I think you are right. If I remember, the IBM "Internet Connection Kit" included TCP/IP with their version of Mosaic, FTP, Gopher and the like. Ah, GUI internet with 16 meg of RAM.
Thankfully not in my experience. Got my first freeze mucking around with free Second Life access last night and watched some punk chick avatar with a spike ball punch my avatar's crotch repeatedly while I researched the problem.
Instead of the classic vulgar misreading of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions in which this and that scientific principle is "just a theory" ("So why can't I call creationism _my_ theory?"), this is what he was writing about -- periodically changing the paradigm of thought to one that melds better with the sum of current observations. In short, a good idea that is more about the culture of science surrounding evolution.
When oil will start to become as common as it was in 1709 and we'll have more homeless?
-15 C? Give me a break. I live in Minnesota. -15 C is a _good_ night in January. I've seen more than -30F (-34C if I Qalculate! correctly) and over -100F (-73C) wind chill by the old calculations. I had to start the car once at -24F this year -- and that was what it got _up_ to by a sunny holiday 11 am.
Dang. Never seen a tree explode though. That sounds exciting.
Sold the box in its box with my nine-year-old basic 19" for $20.
I got rid of my old analog without driving to recycling and somebody paid me $13 for it. Assuming he doesn't care about HD quality, he got a TV that still has the picture tube brightness set well below 50% because we seldom used it.
Some truth. I was already highly disappointed in co-sponsor Klobucher. If she isn't helping FISA to get voted on, she's messing with my TV. Don't know who to support next time.
I was surprised to see that one of our "higher channel numbers" (a rerun station that I think is affiliated with FOX) said it was going dark for three days soon to transfer over more than a week early. We'll see how that stands now. I guess that's my greatest hope -- the industry just ignores the new date.
[Pssst. Media Industry -- just think of them as linux users. You're used to ignoring a couple percent of users. They mean nothing. Trust me.]
Yes, the image is slightly better with digital TV. It isn't a night and day improvement.
You aren't running HD though, are you? Perhaps you _are_ using a converter box on your old analog. There's a reason they are called _converter_ boxes. "Digital" and "HD" aren't synonymous.
If you've only browsed TVs at the electronics store, don't assume they were intelligently set up to demonstrate the best of HD to you. Watching broadcast analog at somebody's place almost makes me tear thinking my vision is clouded these days, and, yes, once HD is converted _down_ the difference is, well, worth the price of the converter box. What comes out that converter box isn't really the HD experience. Our one local news that actually runs 1080 is into art -- knee level shots of the scene clearly defining the rain drops hitting a street lamp lit street and the like. Best thing to being there until the Japanese push super-HD and 3D.
Converter boxes are just a stop gap. Something that lets those who don't want or can't afford anything better to still have access while they simultaneously don't hold the rest of us back.
Not to be a troll, but do you live in a valley with a park between you and the farm? I just posted about having _some_ occasional issues with 1080 about 40 miles from the Shoreview farm on the other side of Minneapolis.
On the chance that you are experimenting with an HD card, are you caching adequately? With a quick and dirty temporary rabbit ears setup driving an HD card on a second PC, I'd say my results are similar to yours so the Zenith Silver Sentry yagi on the other machine also really helps.
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That'll be a _really_ secure version of SELinux.
I imagine the boardroom discussion went something along the line of, "Hey, Vinnie! Dees m*th3rf@&!3r& at Amazon is selling da same as our audio books at book prices 'n cutting into our pie. Send the sharks on 'em!" All about "added value" one would think.
Amazon? I imagine they figure the blind have a national association that can make a big stink about this without Amazon wasting their own lawyer time.
I'm really not that happy in agreeing and not trying to be a troll but it's simply true. The biggest impediment will be the school administration's horror of trying something even remotely new, different and "against the norm" even if it saves money. The solid quantitative fact that has to be acknowledged is that public education grads as a group aren't at the high end of the grad spectrum in things like I.Q. and GRE scores.
So treat high school teachers and administrations like your grandmother. I would try something like ZDnet Australia did the other week going out on the street and getting a ton of positive feedback about KDE 4 when they told people it was Windows 7. Don't even think of beginning by telling school administrators and teachers that linux or OO.o are something "different". Just tell them it is the next, better desktop after Vista or a more affordable "Office" and let them make their own conclusions from a hands-on demo. Everybody will be less frightened in that environment and the outcome will be better.
and only secondarily the graphical nature.
I had already been online for ten years by '96 but with proprietary environments like CompuServe and GEnie. It was probably more amazing that there were no longer any user boundaries as much as the graphical presentation of Mosaic. And my first "internet" access was a Delphi command-line portal in '94 so that emphasized the importance of the resources it opened up over the new presentation. And it could be said that there was some natural progression toward the browser in GUI versions the other internet resources like news, gopher and FTP.
There's too little ridicule in civil discourse. ISPs should suggest that the government _help_ them by first passing a law required severe penalties for all child pornographers who do not digitally sign their work as child pornography. _Then_ ISPs would be able to filter it automatically. Such a framing might jolt people out of the mindset that ISP management do nothing all day but sit in their chairs and watch each transmission from their users come and go.
According to the spreadsheet that was compiled it looks like most or all their stations said "screw it" and converted en masse. Where I am, only a couple rerun stations went for it.
All very creative and everything, but until people learn how to fly on their own where do skyscrapers fit into the post-oil world? Seems to me we should say, "Food hell, will a skyscraper create enough energy to heat and cool itself and move the people up and down?"
You could say, "It's better than a suburb!" But are suburbs _or_ skyscrapers a good idea?
Well, you know, just joking. But that CEO is living in cloud cuckoo-land if he thinks the American working and non-working non-rich can support that PR stunt. America done got broken.
I forgot about the flatworms. Came out about the time I started a psych major and I remember it being reported seriously.
but the point is made.
For all the people who say they never watch TV anyway broadcast HD is much like an upgrade to basic cable. More of what they already value little.
It all depends on whether you have DSL from the phone company in the U.S., though, doesn't it? You have cable for your broadband, then you have cable.
Just look at how well that went with the Big Dig compared to, oh -let's pick something that cost about the same, the Chunnel.
As a Midwesterner, I loath traditional toll roads for the high level of moronicity stopping and going entails. True, these automated systems modify the equation some but I still think our roads are part of the commons. Part of the "change" I would look forward to is a return to _less_ contractor influence and a little more sanity that we all have to pay for the various infrastructure we individually use now and then. Which is to say I oppose anything that makes toll roads seem less annoying at _first_ glance.
Been there. Spent some time in the store. Tried to be impressed. Wasn't.
But then I hark from Mall of America land so I wasn't blown over by Metreon either. Enjoyed the PR halo that "everything in S.F. is the very best by definition".
Does it matter? A free and open broadcast medium isn't something most governments will embrace gleefully, so you can pretty well figure business will get whatever it wants.
I think you are right. If I remember, the IBM "Internet Connection Kit" included TCP/IP with their version of Mosaic, FTP, Gopher and the like. Ah, GUI internet with 16 meg of RAM.
Thankfully not in my experience. Got my first freeze mucking around with free Second Life access last night and watched some punk chick avatar with a spike ball punch my avatar's crotch repeatedly while I researched the problem.
Instead of the classic vulgar misreading of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions in which this and that scientific principle is "just a theory" ("So why can't I call creationism _my_ theory?"), this is what he was writing about -- periodically changing the paradigm of thought to one that melds better with the sum of current observations. In short, a good idea that is more about the culture of science surrounding evolution.
When oil will start to become as common as it was in 1709 and we'll have more homeless?
-15 C? Give me a break. I live in Minnesota. -15 C is a _good_ night in January. I've seen more than -30F (-34C if I Qalculate! correctly) and over -100F (-73C) wind chill by the old calculations. I had to start the car once at -24F this year -- and that was what it got _up_ to by a sunny holiday 11 am.
Dang. Never seen a tree explode though. That sounds exciting.
Cutting higher ed and broadband gives the Republicans what they want: Keep the sheep stupid and uncommunicative.
So, will Monday night's speech ditch the theme of "bipartisanship"? Isn't getting him any votes anyway.
Worked for me -- sort of.
Government coupon + $.01 + $6.99 S&H = TigerDirect converter box
Sold the box in its box with my nine-year-old basic 19" for $20.
I got rid of my old analog without driving to recycling and somebody paid me $13 for it. Assuming he doesn't care about HD quality, he got a TV that still has the picture tube brightness set well below 50% because we seldom used it.
Sweden changed the entire country from driving on the left to the right in one day.
Be a little confusing to do odd streets one day/even streets the next, don't you think?
Some truth. I was already highly disappointed in co-sponsor Klobucher. If she isn't helping FISA to get voted on, she's messing with my TV. Don't know who to support next time.
I was surprised to see that one of our "higher channel numbers" (a rerun station that I think is affiliated with FOX) said it was going dark for three days soon to transfer over more than a week early. We'll see how that stands now. I guess that's my greatest hope -- the industry just ignores the new date.
[Pssst. Media Industry -- just think of them as linux users. You're used to ignoring a couple percent of users. They mean nothing. Trust me.]
Sure, it was an Icom -- but they "integrated it into their setup."
College has taught them something.
Which biomass is easier to sniff out: live prey or corpses? Not to mention the catching part.
Yes, the image is slightly better with digital TV. It isn't a night and day improvement.
You aren't running HD though, are you? Perhaps you _are_ using a converter box on your old analog. There's a reason they are called _converter_ boxes. "Digital" and "HD" aren't synonymous.
If you've only browsed TVs at the electronics store, don't assume they were intelligently set up to demonstrate the best of HD to you. Watching broadcast analog at somebody's place almost makes me tear thinking my vision is clouded these days, and, yes, once HD is converted _down_ the difference is, well, worth the price of the converter box. What comes out that converter box isn't really the HD experience. Our one local news that actually runs 1080 is into art -- knee level shots of the scene clearly defining the rain drops hitting a street lamp lit street and the like. Best thing to being there until the Japanese push super-HD and 3D.
Converter boxes are just a stop gap. Something that lets those who don't want or can't afford anything better to still have access while they simultaneously don't hold the rest of us back.
Not to be a troll, but do you live in a valley with a park between you and the farm? I just posted about having _some_ occasional issues with 1080 about 40 miles from the Shoreview farm on the other side of Minneapolis.
On the chance that you are experimenting with an HD card, are you caching adequately? With a quick and dirty temporary rabbit ears setup driving an HD card on a second PC, I'd say my results are similar to yours so the Zenith Silver Sentry yagi on the other machine also really helps.