The schools don't even have to create a new entity. I am sure that local and regional ISP's would just love to sign a deal to offer special educational pricing for broadband connections. The schools could offer POP3 email and some web based document sharing services and let students worry about buying their own connection at the negotiated discount rates.
They just started doing it in Pittsburgh as well. The first time I noticed it was about a week ago, but I have been travelling a lot so it could have changed a few weeks ago.
It has nothing to do with the tracking technology. Those are the main 'office hours' of the Taliban and Al-Qaeda. Most of their operations take place at night. During the day they tend to do their planning and otherwise blend into the rest of the population (or stay holed up in their caves).
Eh, you obviously haven't used JavaME at all, or maybe just not recently. It's not perfect but it works quite well and it makes it fairly easy to target code to multiple mobile platforms.
Yes, but how many people *already* had Windows based Smartphones? I'd say just about everyone who wanted one had already bought one. Symbian is still leading the pack with regards to mobile OS market share, followed by Windows Mobile then the iPhone version of OS X.
The iPhone is also targeted to an entirely different market segment. Windows Mobile devices are generally used by business people. The iPhone isn't; it's main market are early adopters, Apple fans, and people who like to be seen with a status symbol.
I'll personally never buy a touchscreen only phone from *anyone*, regardless of it's OS or other features. I like being able to use my phone with one hand and to actually feel the keys I'm pressing. I've gotten to where I can type on my Smartphone without even looking at it. So, I don't care if it's Garmin, Apple, Nokia, or whomever; a touch screen only interface is a non starter for a LOT of people.
Keep in mind that the true definition of MIP is 'Meaningless Indicator of Performance'. You will NOT get anywhere near the performance of one of these beasts from a quad core x86 processor.
You don't get out much do you? Mainframes are going strong in data centers that need high availability, fault tolerant, error correcting, massively parallel systems. There is also a LOT of old code that is still going strong on them. Their inherent ability to run multiple virtualized OSes is another strong suit.
Your math is also way off if you think 4 x86 cores outperform this. I'll leave you to do the proper calculations as your homework.
Ah, good point. I think he was speaking of a single account but they would indeed need two. The other HUGE drawback is not being able to use a LAN at home for printing, etc.
All in all I can't see why anyone would switch from broadband to mobile wireless.
There needs to be more balance between Marketing and Development. Both are important in a commercial software company. IBM's OS/2 was died due to the opposite problem. It was a very solid OS with a feature set that was ahead of it's time for a PC OS in many ways, yet it died because MS outmarketed IBM with Windows. A big part of that of course was selling it cheap to OEMs and encouraging them to preload it, but in all other respects MS outmarketed IBM as well.
Cable broadband costs $40/month or so in most places, higher if you get more than their base speed packages. I'm not sure why you'd think that's him getting ripped off when for $10 more (as the poster states) he can get an unlimited plan.
Other than that you're correct. It's not a good idea for a home based connection unless one has no other choice.
I don't know about you, but living where I do in the suburbs I can drive to any number of places without passing a single video camera. I could easily 'lose myself' for awhile (and I do) or meet someone for a 'private' conversation that matches your apparant criteria.
I think the theme of this article is online privacy though, not the fact that many urban areas are covered with various public and private surveilance systems.
There have been numerous studies that shows it is far more distracting to talk to someone on the phone than if they are in the seat next to you. The person next to you knows when to shut up, and there is in general better feedback. When you talk on the phone, even on a handsfree, you dedicate a lot more attention to it than you do to speaking to someone who is physically there. I'm not sure what that is, but it is what it is.
It is FAR more dangerous to talk on the phone while driving than to talk to another person in the car.
There is no 'blast'. The missle they are using has no explosives. It uses the kinetic energy of impact to shatter the target into little pieces. Those pieces will reenter.
For the record, *all* of the big media outlets have biases. It's just more popular to attack Fox than it is CNN or MSNBC here because of the general political bent of the majority of Slashdotters.
And I don't know why you think it's discontented. I quite enjoy red barroning my way around the cerebellar skies.
If you are going to be pedantic, at least do it properly. The word you were probably looking for was 'cerebral', unless you do all of your thinking in your cerebellum as opposed to your cortex.
I'm sure most people read that and said 'wow he sounds so smart', though. That was your intent after all.
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Get off my lawn. If you need to pay for an online component in order to fully utilize the game, it is no longer a pen and paper game.
Get off my lawn I say!
Nah, send him to Thermopylae instead. You know the time/spot.
The schools don't even have to create a new entity. I am sure that local and regional ISP's would just love to sign a deal to offer special educational pricing for broadband connections. The schools could offer POP3 email and some web based document sharing services and let students worry about buying their own connection at the negotiated discount rates.
You were/are/will be correct. I was/am/am going to be careless in calling you out like I did/will.
Meet me last week for a beer, on me.
John, yet ANOTHER Slashdot ID??? We told you to stop trolling here!
They just started doing it in Pittsburgh as well. The first time I noticed it was about a week ago, but I have been travelling a lot so it could have changed a few weeks ago.
It has nothing to do with the tracking technology. Those are the main 'office hours' of the Taliban and Al-Qaeda. Most of their operations take place at night. During the day they tend to do their planning and otherwise blend into the rest of the population (or stay holed up in their caves).
Eh, you obviously haven't used JavaME at all, or maybe just not recently. It's not perfect but it works quite well and it makes it fairly easy to target code to multiple mobile platforms.
Yes, but how many people *already* had Windows based Smartphones? I'd say just about everyone who wanted one had already bought one. Symbian is still leading the pack with regards to mobile OS market share, followed by Windows Mobile then the iPhone version of OS X.
The iPhone is also targeted to an entirely different market segment. Windows Mobile devices are generally used by business people. The iPhone isn't; it's main market are early adopters, Apple fans, and people who like to be seen with a status symbol.
I'll personally never buy a touchscreen only phone from *anyone*, regardless of it's OS or other features. I like being able to use my phone with one hand and to actually feel the keys I'm pressing. I've gotten to where I can type on my Smartphone without even looking at it. So, I don't care if it's Garmin, Apple, Nokia, or whomever; a touch screen only interface is a non starter for a LOT of people.
What, is it an android from Blade Runner? It's going to die in four years? Slashdot summaries are the Suxx0rs!
Keep in mind that the true definition of MIP is 'Meaningless Indicator of Performance'. You will NOT get anywhere near the performance of one of these beasts from a quad core x86 processor.
You don't get out much do you? Mainframes are going strong in data centers that need high availability, fault tolerant, error correcting, massively parallel systems. There is also a LOT of old code that is still going strong on them. Their inherent ability to run multiple virtualized OSes is another strong suit.
Your math is also way off if you think 4 x86 cores outperform this. I'll leave you to do the proper calculations as your homework.
Ah, good point. I think he was speaking of a single account but they would indeed need two. The other HUGE drawback is not being able to use a LAN at home for printing, etc.
All in all I can't see why anyone would switch from broadband to mobile wireless.
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There needs to be more balance between Marketing and Development. Both are important in a commercial software company. IBM's OS/2 was died due to the opposite problem. It was a very solid OS with a feature set that was ahead of it's time for a PC OS in many ways, yet it died because MS outmarketed IBM with Windows. A big part of that of course was selling it cheap to OEMs and encouraging them to preload it, but in all other respects MS outmarketed IBM as well.
Cable broadband costs $40/month or so in most places, higher if you get more than their base speed packages. I'm not sure why you'd think that's him getting ripped off when for $10 more (as the poster states) he can get an unlimited plan.
Other than that you're correct. It's not a good idea for a home based connection unless one has no other choice.
I don't know about you, but living where I do in the suburbs I can drive to any number of places without passing a single video camera. I could easily 'lose myself' for awhile (and I do) or meet someone for a 'private' conversation that matches your apparant criteria.
I think the theme of this article is online privacy though, not the fact that many urban areas are covered with various public and private surveilance systems.
This almost reads more like a political agenda than a scientific study. "We must return to nature or we are doomed," to grossly paraphrase.
There still could be. It's just looking a bit less likely, both the 'is' and the 'was'.
I don't think it's a question of 'is' there life on Mars. It's more like 'was' there life at any point in it's history.
There have been numerous studies that shows it is far more distracting to talk to someone on the phone than if they are in the seat next to you. The person next to you knows when to shut up, and there is in general better feedback. When you talk on the phone, even on a handsfree, you dedicate a lot more attention to it than you do to speaking to someone who is physically there. I'm not sure what that is, but it is what it is.
It is FAR more dangerous to talk on the phone while driving than to talk to another person in the car.
There is no 'blast'. The missle they are using has no explosives. It uses the kinetic energy of impact to shatter the target into little pieces. Those pieces will reenter.
You must be new here.
You must be new here.
For the record, *all* of the big media outlets have biases. It's just more popular to attack Fox than it is CNN or MSNBC here because of the general political bent of the majority of Slashdotters.
And I don't know why you think it's discontented. I quite enjoy red barroning my way around the cerebellar skies.
If you are going to be pedantic, at least do it properly. The word you were probably looking for was 'cerebral', unless you do all of your thinking in your cerebellum as opposed to your cortex.
I'm sure most people read that and said 'wow he sounds so smart', though. That was your intent after all.