After dealing with Samsungs late or non existent updates for four seperate devices including Bluray players, phones, and tablets. I'll never buy Samsung again.
Months later than anyone else on Froyo updates. Months late on updating decryption keys on bluray players keeping some movies unwatchable, refusing to to release an OS upgrade for phones that are perfectly capable of supporting it....Hell. they just release Gingerbread for some of their phones.
How about all those poor suckers that bought the Samsung Droid Charge less than 6 months ago that aren't getting ICS on their device? It was $300.00 with a contract, the first 4G phone Verizon had. What marvelous Samsung support.
All those top developers are really helping out there aren't they?
There's a lot of value in going to the library, finding the books you need, and using them to take the notes you need for the research you're doing. On it's own there's a lot of value in the simple process of taking notes down on paper itself:
A physicist doesn't need to know calculus? How does that physicist make it through basic college physics classes without understanding some of the math behind their chosen field? And CAD is still drawing out a blueprint, it's just a different medium. I guarantee you though, if you talked to any architect these days they'd tell you that their ideas all begin as rough sketches on paper. There are still architectural schools that require taking classes with a drafting board and a parallel rule.
These people that use Wolfram Alpha, or CAD for everything are your low level monkeys in their field. They're no different from a help desk tech that uses google to solve every problem.
Part of the learning process as you grow is simply learning that some things that may seam dull and dreary can lead to a skill that make learning other things easier. Math tables, spelling, and cursive all fall in this category. Besides, typing is easily learned simply by learning the basics of hand position and then typing a lot. I'll also go out on a limb and say that the prevalence of home computers gives kids ample time outside of school to hone their typing skills.
There are many types and causes of scoliosis, including:
Congenital scoliosis. Due to a bone abnormality present at birth.
Neuromuscular scoliosis. A result of abnormal muscles or nerves. Frequently seen in people with spina bifida or cerebral palsy or in those with various conditions that are accompanied by, or result in, paralysis. Degenerative scoliosis. This may result from traumatic (from an injury or illness) bone collapse, previous major back surgery, or osteoporosis (thining of the bones). Idiopathic scoliosis. The most common type of scoliosis, idiopathic scoliosis, has no specific identifiable cause. There are many theories, but none have been found to be conclusive. There is, however, strong evidence that idiopathic scoliosis is inherited.
Cursive may be harder to learn, but once learned it much more efficient than block writing is. Most efficient is a combination of the two styles, but without learning cursive first students will never get there.
The internet IS a very useful source of information, but what you're describing isn't any different than learning to find the resources you need at your local library.
Could you be more specific about:
Which skills are being replaced?
How the internet replaces a quality library and teacher?
It's a damn shame that Apple support doesn't scale, because support from the PC side of the spectrum is absolute shit these days.
I use MBP pro in my job as a sysadmin. I bought it for a few reasons, but one WAS the support. I've used the Genius Bar once in the three years I had my laptop. I called to setup an appointment, showed up at that time, and was out the door with a fixed laptop in about 30 minutes. OTOH, we've had repair incidents with the Dell and Lenovo laptops that most of our users use that have taken weeks. The most recently was an LCD on a Thinkpad that had died. We pay for NBD support on all our laptops. The tech WAS there the next day, but it took three weeks to get the part in and the laptop repaired.
As far as docking stations goes, there's a nice one from Bookendz:
Learning to Teach Mathematics for Social Justice: Negotiating Social Justice and Mathematical Goals
Tonya Gau Bartell
June 2010, Volume 41, Issue 0, Page 5
Abstract:This article describes teachersâ(TM) collective work aimed at learning to teach mathematics for social justice. Teacher interviews, discussions, lessons, and written reflections were analyzed using grounded theory methodology, and teachersâ(TM) conversations were examined concerning the relationship between mathematical goals and social justice goals. Analysis revealed that early tensions arose around balancing these goals, that teachers focused more attention on the social justice component, and that the instantiation of these goals in practice proved difficult.
The intent of this device is to get you to buy and use Amazon products and services. So unless Amazon buys Netflix, I'd be stunned to see them allow the installation of the Netflix application on their devices.
Film is analog, it's doesn't have pixels. Film is scanned to digital formats so...
Depending on the camera, lens, and how the film was shot, 35mm film scans can have anywhere from 3 to 12 million pixels. 1080 HD sources have just over 2 million. Even the worst 35mm source can be scanned at a resolution higher than what BR-D has, and especially what the shitty lens in your cell phone can do.
With Lion and VMWare ESX 5.0 you'll be able to do this. The license terms were changed in Lion to allow you to run in a VM, and ESX 5.0 will come with UEFI as a boot option.
The HD you get on Netflix is HD in resolution only. It's pretty heavily compressed, you're looking at best a 3.6mbit/sec VC-1 stream vs 25+mbit/sec VC-1 for a bluray.
Bright scenes look pretty good compared to bluray, but darker scenes and blacks can show some pretty heavy banding at time. You also won't notice it nearly as much on a smaller screen, but on the 60" screen we have in our family room it's enough of a difference that we get the movies we care about on bluray, and watch the rest via streaming if we can.
If they know so much, why has the quality of our education been on the decline since the late 1960's? You know, around the time that those leftist teachers unions started getting the entrenched power they have now.
You have it backwards, progressive, not a traditional style of education really started taking hold in the late 60's. With that, independent study was slowly replaced with more group and project oriented study.
E.D. Hirsch, author of The Schools We Need and Why We Don't Have Them and registered democrat, has a short piece here that you should read, it's very interesting as are his books:
Gramsci was not the only observer to
predict the inegalitarian consequences
of the educational methods variously
described as âoenaturalistic,â âoeproject-oriented,â
âoecritical-thinking,â and âoedemocratic.â
I focus on Gramsci as a revered theorist of
the Left in order to make a strategic point.
Ideological polarizations on educational
issues tend to be facile and premature. Not
only is there a practical separation between
educational conservatism and political conservatism,
but there is an inverse relation
between educational liberalism and social
liberalism. Educational liberalism is a sure
means for preserving the social status quo,
whereas the best practices of educational
conservatism are the only means whereby
children from disadvantaged homes can
secure the knowledge and skills that will
enable them to improve their condition.
Hirsch dedicted the book I mentioned to Gramsci, who was a Marxist himself.
Interesting that Hirsch would single out the years 1942-1966:
Among other results, hostility to traditional
schooling methods and subjects has
fostered inequality. The record is clear. In
the period from 1942 to 1966â"before progressive
theories had spread throughout our
schoolsâ"public education had begun to
close the economic gap between races and
social classes. But after 1966, as SAT scores
went into steep decline, the black-white
wage gap abruptly stopped shrinking.
Nice deflection there. Let's just ignore that your original post is factually incorrect, but does a great job of pointing out your biases and the "truth" you want people to hear.
Hartzler was talking about Thomas Warziniak, a drug addict that started the whole thing by repeatedly lying about his identity, including saying he was born in Russia. Kind of hard to retrieve a birth certificate when your suspect is handing out false names and claims he doesn't know english numbers when you ask for his SSN.
Speaks good English
Warziniak used heroin for more than two decades.
Arrested several times under several names, including Thomas Warz, Warziniak was busted by Grand Junction police Sept. 26, 2006, after shooting methamphetamine into his arm at a Grand Junction hotel.
The lies started when officers tried to figure out who he was.
I asked Mickaa (Warziniak gave an officer the false name of Joey Mickaa) for his social security number, and he told me he was an illegal from Russia and that he did not know for sure how to say the numbers (in English), an arrest affidavit reads.
The skeptical officer noted his English was just fine moments earlier.
Warziniak was jailed.
In a deal with prosecutors resolving two cases, he pleaded guilty on Jan. 2, 2007, to a minor criminal impersonation charge related to another arrest. Warziniak was sentenced to 18 months in prison.
Warziniak continued with tall tales about his past. According to a McClatchy-Tribune news service report on Warziniakâ(TM)s story, probation officials concluded in a report before his sentencing hearing that he was probably mentally ill.
24fps has nothing to do with being pleasing to the eye. 16fps was common before this, Edison was pushing for 48fps. 24fps was a compromise that was chosen simply because it was the slowest, meaning cheapest, speed that allowed for good sound quality.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film#Technology
We now have Amazon Kindle Store, B&N Nook Store, etc because everyone wants to try to lock their customer into their devices. Want to switch to Kindle? Ok, but you can't take all the Nook books you bought with you (without cracking the DRM, being accused of "piracy", etc etc).
I agree with you on the DRM portion of this, but at least with my Nook I can purchase books that use epub w/DRM outside of the B&N store and read them on my Nook. I can also check out books from my local library via Overdrive and Adobe Digital Reader and read them on my Nook. The only ebooks that I need the Nook for are the ones that I bought from B&N.
Unlike Amazon, B&N isn't completely locking you in. If you go the Library route you never have to buy anything from B&N.
A Bluray Drive in my HTPC + MakeMKV works very well for this exact purpose. I rip the main movie from the BR-D's we buy in about 35-45 minutes, then the BR-D goes on the shelf. Use XBMC or 7MV as your interface and you have a VERY nice media center.
Slashdot Mirror
After dealing with Samsungs late or non existent updates for four seperate devices including Bluray players, phones, and tablets. I'll never buy Samsung again.
Months later than anyone else on Froyo updates. Months late on updating decryption keys on bluray players keeping some movies unwatchable, refusing to to release an OS upgrade for phones that are perfectly capable of supporting it....Hell. they just release Gingerbread for some of their phones.
How about all those poor suckers that bought the Samsung Droid Charge less than 6 months ago that aren't getting ICS on their device? It was $300.00 with a contract, the first 4G phone Verizon had. What marvelous Samsung support.
All those top developers are really helping out there aren't they?
But you're right...Samsung sure has it right...
GGruman is that you???
http://www.ariedegeus.com/publications/thelivingcompany/
Enjoy. I hope you learn something about what it takes to truly be successful in both your personal and professional life.
DBAN + PXE could do this for you:
http://users.telenet.be/mydotcom/howto/linux/dbanbootserver.htm
Or did anyone else glance at this and see FAP LAB? I'm thinking the Fayetteville Library should change the name...
There's a lot of value in going to the library, finding the books you need, and using them to take the notes you need for the research you're doing. On it's own there's a lot of value in the simple process of taking notes down on paper itself:
http://www.slideshare.net/luscher/optimising-the-use-of-notetaking-as-an-external-cognitive-aid-for-increasing-learning
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1636926/
A physicist doesn't need to know calculus? How does that physicist make it through basic college physics classes without understanding some of the math behind their chosen field? And CAD is still drawing out a blueprint, it's just a different medium. I guarantee you though, if you talked to any architect these days they'd tell you that their ideas all begin as rough sketches on paper. There are still architectural schools that require taking classes with a drafting board and a parallel rule.
These people that use Wolfram Alpha, or CAD for everything are your low level monkeys in their field. They're no different from a help desk tech that uses google to solve every problem.
Part of the learning process as you grow is simply learning that some things that may seam dull and dreary can lead to a skill that make learning other things easier. Math tables, spelling, and cursive all fall in this category. Besides, typing is easily learned simply by learning the basics of hand position and then typing a lot. I'll also go out on a limb and say that the prevalence of home computers gives kids ample time outside of school to hone their typing skills.
http://www.webmd.com/osteoarthritis/guide/arthritis-scoliosis
There are many types and causes of scoliosis, including:
Congenital scoliosis. Due to a bone abnormality present at birth. Neuromuscular scoliosis. A result of abnormal muscles or nerves. Frequently seen in people with spina bifida or cerebral palsy or in those with various conditions that are accompanied by, or result in, paralysis.
Degenerative scoliosis. This may result from traumatic (from an injury or illness) bone collapse, previous major back surgery, or osteoporosis (thining of the bones).
Idiopathic scoliosis. The most common type of scoliosis, idiopathic scoliosis, has no specific identifiable cause. There are many theories, but none have been found to be conclusive. There is, however, strong evidence that idiopathic scoliosis is inherited.
Cursive may be harder to learn, but once learned it much more efficient than block writing is. Most efficient is a combination of the two styles, but without learning cursive first students will never get there.
The internet IS a very useful source of information, but what you're describing isn't any different than learning to find the resources you need at your local library.
Could you be more specific about:
Which skills are being replaced? How the internet replaces a quality library and teacher?
It's a damn shame that Apple support doesn't scale, because support from the PC side of the spectrum is absolute shit these days.
I use MBP pro in my job as a sysadmin. I bought it for a few reasons, but one WAS the support. I've used the Genius Bar once in the three years I had my laptop. I called to setup an appointment, showed up at that time, and was out the door with a fixed laptop in about 30 minutes. OTOH, we've had repair incidents with the Dell and Lenovo laptops that most of our users use that have taken weeks. The most recently was an LCD on a Thinkpad that had died. We pay for NBD support on all our laptops. The tech WAS there the next day, but it took three weeks to get the part in and the laptop repaired.
As far as docking stations goes, there's a nice one from Bookendz:
http://www.bookendzdocks.com/
Learning to Teach Mathematics for Social Justice: Negotiating Social Justice and Mathematical Goals
http://www.nctm.org/publications/article.aspx?id=31244
Learning to Teach Mathematics for Social Justice: Negotiating Social Justice and Mathematical Goals
Tonya Gau Bartell
June 2010, Volume 41, Issue 0, Page 5
Abstract: This article describes teachersâ(TM) collective work aimed at learning to teach mathematics for social justice. Teacher interviews, discussions, lessons, and written reflections were analyzed using grounded theory methodology, and teachersâ(TM) conversations were examined concerning the relationship between mathematical goals and social justice goals. Analysis revealed that early tensions arose around balancing these goals, that teachers focused more attention on the social justice component, and that the instantiation of these goals in practice proved difficult.
Says the person that must have never used IBM's mail solution....
If you're using IBM's Lotus Notes, unless you specify the "All Documents" view, Lotus only searches in your currently selected folder.
The intent of this device is to get you to buy and use Amazon products and services. So unless Amazon buys Netflix, I'd be stunned to see them allow the installation of the Netflix application on their devices.
Film is analog, it's doesn't have pixels. Film is scanned to digital formats so...
Depending on the camera, lens, and how the film was shot, 35mm film scans can have anywhere from 3 to 12 million pixels. 1080 HD sources have just over 2 million. Even the worst 35mm source can be scanned at a resolution higher than what BR-D has, and especially what the shitty lens in your cell phone can do.
Shush!!! You'll ruin it for us!
http://www.ntpro.nl/blog/archives/1786-vSphere-5-Video-EFI-the-Extensible-Firmware-Interface.html
The HD you get on Netflix is HD in resolution only. It's pretty heavily compressed, you're looking at best a 3.6mbit/sec VC-1 stream vs 25+mbit/sec VC-1 for a bluray. Bright scenes look pretty good compared to bluray, but darker scenes and blacks can show some pretty heavy banding at time. You also won't notice it nearly as much on a smaller screen, but on the 60" screen we have in our family room it's enough of a difference that we get the movies we care about on bluray, and watch the rest via streaming if we can.
If they know so much, why has the quality of our education been on the decline since the late 1960's? You know, around the time that those leftist teachers unions started getting the entrenched power they have now.
E.D. Hirsch, author of The Schools We Need and Why We Don't Have Them and registered democrat, has a short piece here that you should read, it's very interesting as are his books:
http://www.aei.org/docLib/20030228_traditionaledMA97.pdf
Gramsci was not the only observer to predict the inegalitarian consequences of the educational methods variously described as âoenaturalistic,â âoeproject-oriented,â âoecritical-thinking,â and âoedemocratic.â I focus on Gramsci as a revered theorist of the Left in order to make a strategic point. Ideological polarizations on educational issues tend to be facile and premature. Not only is there a practical separation between educational conservatism and political conservatism, but there is an inverse relation between educational liberalism and social liberalism. Educational liberalism is a sure means for preserving the social status quo, whereas the best practices of educational conservatism are the only means whereby children from disadvantaged homes can secure the knowledge and skills that will enable them to improve their condition.
Hirsch dedicted the book I mentioned to Gramsci, who was a Marxist himself.
Interesting that Hirsch would single out the years 1942-1966:
Among other results, hostility to traditional schooling methods and subjects has fostered inequality. The record is clear. In the period from 1942 to 1966â"before progressive theories had spread throughout our schoolsâ"public education had begun to close the economic gap between races and social classes. But after 1966, as SAT scores went into steep decline, the black-white wage gap abruptly stopped shrinking.
Nice deflection there. Let's just ignore that your original post is factually incorrect, but does a great job of pointing out your biases and the "truth" you want people to hear.
http://www.vaildaily.com/article/20080202/NEWS/309668797
Speaks good English Warziniak used heroin for more than two decades.
Arrested several times under several names, including Thomas Warz, Warziniak was busted by Grand Junction police Sept. 26, 2006, after shooting methamphetamine into his arm at a Grand Junction hotel.
The lies started when officers tried to figure out who he was.
I asked Mickaa (Warziniak gave an officer the false name of Joey Mickaa) for his social security number, and he told me he was an illegal from Russia and that he did not know for sure how to say the numbers (in English), an arrest affidavit reads.
The skeptical officer noted his English was just fine moments earlier.
Warziniak was jailed.
In a deal with prosecutors resolving two cases, he pleaded guilty on Jan. 2, 2007, to a minor criminal impersonation charge related to another arrest. Warziniak was sentenced to 18 months in prison.
Warziniak continued with tall tales about his past. According to a McClatchy-Tribune news service report on Warziniakâ(TM)s story, probation officials concluded in a report before his sentencing hearing that he was probably mentally ill.
Don't let the rest of the story get in your way.
Barnes and Noble has a publishing program and a Color Reader that would be perfect for your kids book.
24fps has nothing to do with being pleasing to the eye. 16fps was common before this, Edison was pushing for 48fps. 24fps was a compromise that was chosen simply because it was the slowest, meaning cheapest, speed that allowed for good sound quality. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film#Technology
We now have Amazon Kindle Store, B&N Nook Store, etc because everyone wants to try to lock their customer into their devices. Want to switch to Kindle? Ok, but you can't take all the Nook books you bought with you (without cracking the DRM, being accused of "piracy", etc etc).
I agree with you on the DRM portion of this, but at least with my Nook I can purchase books that use epub w/DRM outside of the B&N store and read them on my Nook. I can also check out books from my local library via Overdrive and Adobe Digital Reader and read them on my Nook. The only ebooks that I need the Nook for are the ones that I bought from B&N. Unlike Amazon, B&N isn't completely locking you in. If you go the Library route you never have to buy anything from B&N.
A Bluray Drive in my HTPC + MakeMKV works very well for this exact purpose. I rip the main movie from the BR-D's we buy in about 35-45 minutes, then the BR-D goes on the shelf. Use XBMC or 7MV as your interface and you have a VERY nice media center.
I believe you 100%, but can you provide a link, so that I can twap other people around the head with it ??
Here you go:
http://kotaku.com/5593259/rumor-microsoft-killed-plans-for-pc-vs-xbox-360-online-play