But what a stupid idea. Why have millions of copies of everything when theoretically networks will allow there to be a few replicated copies? Seems a pointless waste of disk space to me.Your idea sounds like a stupid waste of bandwidth to me. If an iPod can store every video ever, they can just image the thing at the factory to hold all videos and all songs. We are talking about a device specifically for playing videos and music, so using the hard disk for anything else would not be beneficial.
In software new things mostly happen because of hardware getting cheaper. Cheaper hardware allows us to throw more resources (storage, memory, processor) at a problem that previously couldn't be solved with software due to cost.
Big companies have little incentive to use patents in any other way except that benefits their bottom line.I suppose small companies have an incentive to use patents to create rainbows and help fluffy bunnies.
Obviously if you found a bug, they should fix it. However, I'd hardly call The Missing Sync a mainstream Mac product. It is a piece of shareware used by some Palm/Mac users.
They paid that to get Apple to drop the lawsuits they had going for Microsoft stealing the source code for QuickTime and putting it into Video for Windows, plus a license on all of Apple's patents.
As part of that talk, Microsoft told them that they were using CP/M as their OS and sent IBM to Kildall. Kildall almost screwed Microsoft here. IBM and Microsoft had a deal, which almost failed because of Kildall's failure to nail down a deal.
This is not true. Both DR and Microsoft wanted to supply the OS and were in a competitive bidding situation. Unfortunately for Digital Research, Mary Gates was on the selection committee.
When you can buy mp3 players for $40 or so that you can use and load just like a USB drive, why do you need iTunes to manage loading your mp3s? Just drag the folders across and go.
There are plenty of players other than the iPod that support this made just for you.
Odds on you're a Windows user. Not flaming but that is a big deal to the average user.The average user is a Windows user. Mac users won't tolerate software that doesn't install and Andy is a long time Mac columnist.
ou CAN'T summarily dismiss a teacher, to fire them you must go through an involved process negotiated with the union, where the union represents the teacher regardless of the merits of his individual case.
Try to fire a physician for incompetence and see what happens (i.e. the same thing.)
First of all, I think you took my post to mean that school SHOULD be like "real life" (which I think the GPP meant "work"). I don't mean that at all - I mean that school IS NOT like real life. Unfortunately it can't be. I don't expect students to be paid. I don't expect them to only work in a single subject they happen to like.
However, I do think the world would be a better place if fools stopped defending the worst aspects of public schools by saying that these things are "like real life".
So, no, I don't sue everyone who is "mean" to me. On the other hand, I do press charges against anyone who physically assaults me. (Kids who are punched on the playground can't do this.) And there are often lawsuits in the workplace for things like sexual harassment and hostile work environment over stuff that is easily tolerated in public schools.
And, no, basic respect should not have to be earned. Some jerk on a power trip who gets a job at a school so they can bully kids doesn't have the right to be rude for no reason to anyone even if that anyone is ten years old. For example, I remember being accused of having a library book out that I had never checked out from my school library and being punished merely because I denied having checked it out on the basis that I wasn't showing proper respect for the imbecile who was running the library. And what did I learn from this? I always used the public library and never set foot in the one at my school before or after that incident. All I learned was that the librarian was an unpleasant person.
No, I am blaming it on the fact that the public schools have to take all students including those who are not ready, willing, or able to learn. This may include some special education students, but mostly refers to students like in some of the above posts who for example are merely at school to sell drugs, cause problems, etc. Those type of students have no business in school ruining things for the rest of the students and wasting our tax dollars.
As an adult, I get to negotiate where I work, when I work, how much I get paid, and many other aspects of my job. Plus, I typically work on things that actually matter and work on them until they are completed. These things mostly use skills I already have and are in my chosen area of interest.
As a child, you get to do none of this. You don't get paid, you get basically no respect from teachers and other adults. Often children are treated very bad by other children. If this kind of thing happened to me at work, there would be a lawsuit.
All of this is caused by one thing. Private school students come from families who have committed to paying the tuition. They value the child's education. Public schools have to take everyone. A noted educator in the inner city once said that if he could expell just 50 students from his high school of thousands, he could have changed the entire dynamic of the school. Private schools get to do this - and they also don't have to because the students he was talking about don't ever come to private school. Plus, they don't have to take retards.
The NEA isn't really a union. It is more like a professional organization. Teachers are professionals, not blue color workers (at least they are supposed to be.) Teachers have to go through LOTS of school and constantly maintain professional certifications.
If the republicans had been running Detroit for the past 30 years, things would be exactly the same except that the city would have a huge budget deficit.
The business guys all yell "free market" until things don't go their way. Then they want the government to step in and either bail them out, or import a bunch of foreigners so they won't have to compete for workers in a free market.
Why don't we just fund the damn schools with all the money they are raking in off of the feetball game tickets? In fact, do away with the sham that there is any "education" and just spend all the time on feetball.
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This is a superb idea! This is one of the best ideas I have ever read.
But what a stupid idea. Why have millions of copies of everything when theoretically networks will allow there to be a few replicated copies? Seems a pointless waste of disk space to me.Your idea sounds like a stupid waste of bandwidth to me. If an iPod can store every video ever, they can just image the thing at the factory to hold all videos and all songs. We are talking about a device specifically for playing videos and music, so using the hard disk for anything else would not be beneficial.
In software new things mostly happen because of hardware getting cheaper. Cheaper hardware allows us to throw more resources (storage, memory, processor) at a problem that previously couldn't be solved with software due to cost.
Big companies have little incentive to use patents in any other way except that benefits their bottom line.I suppose small companies have an incentive to use patents to create rainbows and help fluffy bunnies.
Obviously if you found a bug, they should fix it. However, I'd hardly call The Missing Sync a mainstream Mac product. It is a piece of shareware used by some Palm/Mac users.
They paid that to get Apple to drop the lawsuits they had going for Microsoft stealing the source code for QuickTime and putting it into Video for Windows, plus a license on all of Apple's patents.
As part of that talk, Microsoft told them that they were using CP/M as their OS and sent IBM to Kildall. Kildall almost screwed Microsoft here. IBM and Microsoft had a deal, which almost failed because of Kildall's failure to nail down a deal.
This is not true. Both DR and Microsoft wanted to supply the OS and were in a competitive bidding situation. Unfortunately for Digital Research, Mary Gates was on the selection committee.
Microsoft is currently busy Zuning themselves to death because of iPod envy.
Clearly, Microsoft needs to get back to its roots. They need to call IBM and see if they need another operating system.
Not the Finder -- but same concept.
Windows File Manager? Same thing - worse name.
When you can buy mp3 players for $40 or so that you can use and load just like a USB drive, why do you need iTunes to manage loading your mp3s? Just drag the folders across and go.
There are plenty of players other than the iPod that support this made just for you.
Tell that to Mark/Space customers. Mac users tolerate a lot. They also pretend problems don't exist.
I own a copy of The Missing Sync and it works fine. I don't know what you are bitching about. But it certainly does install.
One of the stores had more space for Sandisk players than the Zune.
In their defense, Sandisk is the #2 player and they probably can actually sell some Sandisk players.
The software didn't install? Big deal!
Odds on you're a Windows user. Not flaming but that is a big deal to the average user.The average user is a Windows user. Mac users won't tolerate software that doesn't install and Andy is a long time Mac columnist.
No, he is complaining that he can't load music onto an iPod by dragging it onto the iPod's disk image in the Finder.
He also wrote a column for MacUser. He isn't a very good writer.
That's right. Christianity is no more dangerous than cyanide. By itself they are fine - it is only when you take them into you that you get a problem.
ou CAN'T summarily dismiss a teacher, to fire them you must go through an involved process negotiated with the union, where the union represents the teacher regardless of the merits of his individual case.
Try to fire a physician for incompetence and see what happens (i.e. the same thing.)
First of all, I think you took my post to mean that school SHOULD be like "real life" (which I think the GPP meant "work"). I don't mean that at all - I mean that school IS NOT like real life. Unfortunately it can't be. I don't expect students to be paid. I don't expect them to only work in a single subject they happen to like.
However, I do think the world would be a better place if fools stopped defending the worst aspects of public schools by saying that these things are "like real life".
So, no, I don't sue everyone who is "mean" to me. On the other hand, I do press charges against anyone who physically assaults me. (Kids who are punched on the playground can't do this.) And there are often lawsuits in the workplace for things like sexual harassment and hostile work environment over stuff that is easily tolerated in public schools.
And, no, basic respect should not have to be earned. Some jerk on a power trip who gets a job at a school so they can bully kids doesn't have the right to be rude for no reason to anyone even if that anyone is ten years old. For example, I remember being accused of having a library book out that I had never checked out from my school library and being punished merely because I denied having checked it out on the basis that I wasn't showing proper respect for the imbecile who was running the library. And what did I learn from this? I always used the public library and never set foot in the one at my school before or after that incident. All I learned was that the librarian was an unpleasant person.
No, I am blaming it on the fact that the public schools have to take all students including those who are not ready, willing, or able to learn. This may include some special education students, but mostly refers to students like in some of the above posts who for example are merely at school to sell drugs, cause problems, etc. Those type of students have no business in school ruining things for the rest of the students and wasting our tax dollars.
As an adult, I get to negotiate where I work, when I work, how much I get paid, and many other aspects of my job. Plus, I typically work on things that actually matter and work on them until they are completed. These things mostly use skills I already have and are in my chosen area of interest.
As a child, you get to do none of this. You don't get paid, you get basically no respect from teachers and other adults. Often children are treated very bad by other children. If this kind of thing happened to me at work, there would be a lawsuit.
School isn't like real life at all.
All of this is caused by one thing. Private school students come from families who have committed to paying the tuition. They value the child's education. Public schools have to take everyone. A noted educator in the inner city once said that if he could expell just 50 students from his high school of thousands, he could have changed the entire dynamic of the school. Private schools get to do this - and they also don't have to because the students he was talking about don't ever come to private school. Plus, they don't have to take retards.
The NEA isn't really a union. It is more like a professional organization. Teachers are professionals, not blue color workers (at least they are supposed to be.) Teachers have to go through LOTS of school and constantly maintain professional certifications.
If the republicans had been running Detroit for the past 30 years, things would be exactly the same except that the city would have a huge budget deficit.
The business guys all yell "free market" until things don't go their way. Then they want the government to step in and either bail them out, or import a bunch of foreigners so they won't have to compete for workers in a free market.
Why don't we just fund the damn schools with all the money they are raking in off of the feetball game tickets? In fact, do away with the sham that there is any "education" and just spend all the time on feetball.