I'm always surprised how often this is described as a 'new' problem. I have a home network in a very highly populated area, I can see over fifty networks from my apartment, and I switched to a dual-band router as soon as they came on the market. I would have thought that planning a university network to work on both bands would have been on the radar for a number of years.
The speed test numbers in the article are worthless. I tried the first test (ba.net) on my iphone GS from home where I'm on a pretty middle-of-the road DSL line, and got about twice the download speed reported in the article. Using the speed test app on the same phone, the results I generally see represent the limit of my DSL line. The point isn't to defend the iphone, I'm sure there are faster/better phones out there. The point is that the testing methodology is poor and the results in the article are poo.
(You can also see that the wifi tests are limited by the tester's network connection: the upload/download rates are different. That is a characteristic of a DSL line, not wifi itself which should show similar speeds in both directions.)
I think it is caused by an analog 2.4 ghz phone, and someone chats during that time period. I had one of those phones and found that when I used it it hosed most of the available channels. Replacing the phone solved the problem and doubtless made my neighbors' lives easier. After a move, the same pattern showed up. The solution was a dual-band router.
I saw that, and I thought that that Bezos should have made the obvious comparison to the iPod. The only reason to buy a Kindle is because it gives you access to material in a way that you would not have had otherwise, and that's exactly what an mp3 player does by giving you access to your music library anywhere. A Kindle could potentially have the same kind of advantage.
For myself, I still listen to CDs and still read the newspaper, so what do I know?
Not at all, since it isn't analogous to a service pack but is instead a feature upgrade. I, for example, won't buy it unless there is some compelling feature that justifies the cost. I'd still be using 10.3 if I hadn't bought new hardware as the most compelling feature of 10.4 for me (spotlight) was and is better handled by a software package I've been using for years (DEVONthink).
Exactly, they're copying Apple's business model, which is to sell the music relatively cheaply as an incentive to keep hardware customers, and the money is made on the once every three year hardware purchase of a new ipod. The mac business model works the same: the OS is an incentive to buy the hardware. I doubt this approach will work for MS though. To make it work the hardware would have to be extremely desirable and although the Zune looks pretty nice it doesn't look that nice.
I would think that would give SCO an action against Novell for violating the contract by not protecting the IP rights that SCO had contracted for, but it wouldn't give SCO any action against a third party since the relationship is purely contractual and therefor only with Novell.
True, but if this is to be a watchdog post then someone representing consumer or citizen interest is a more appropriate choice to head it. This doesn't mean that industry people shouldn't be represented, just not in the watchdog role.
Your point is well taken, and she may well have been effective at improving Doubleclick's behaviour. However that doesn't change the fact that she comes from an industry that uses private information for their own profit. No matter how personally beyond reproach she may be, she's still a wolf amoung sheep.
Which gives you the magic 2(72ppi) meaning that bitmapped graphics can be scaled up easily and type can take advantage of the higher resolution, assuming the OS can do this.
I'm not a huge fan of dell laptops and I like my powerbook, but it seems to me that displays like this are going to make a huge difference in the readability of text, and that's what I care about.
One of his complaints was the lack of cleartype under max ox x. If I recall correctly, cleatype is subpixel rendering, and that has been supported since Jaguar was released. In fact, it's the primary reason I upgraded from 10.1.5.
... Grocery Gateway has been around for a couple of years. I've had good luck with them though it is a bit pricey. Still, when the weather is bad I've found the service quite convenient.
Very interesting. So, now the question is how much legal exposure they might have to Amazon. In one sense not too much since Amazon has no direct losses since items were still bought from them. On the other hand the loss of public and affiliate goodwill could represent a significant loss, arguably millions depending on how much revenue the affiliate program generates in the first place.
I'm not sure whether there is a cause of action against Kazaa directly by affiliates but you might have one against Amazon if they allowed this sort of bahavior to continue. Of course Kazaa is probably essentially broke. There's no better way to be judgement proof!
I'd imagine that Amazon et al will be chaning their contractual terms specifically preventing this sort of behavior. The whole 'affiliate' program is dependant upon the warm and fuzzy feeling one gets by helping out a site you use, giving additional sales to Amazon. If users begin to question who will get the commission, then it fails as a marketing scheme for Amazon (and the others, presumably). I don't think this will be around for long.
We only really know how bad the Florida system was because the election was a statistical tie, leading to the recounts and a very close look at the process. I'd suspect that many states have very similar problems, for example Maryland in the current primary, and we simply aren't as aware of them.
You raise a problem that I've found in my teaching: many university students, even in second and third year, don't understand how to properly attribute. I usually state that proper attribution is an explicit marking criterion at the beginning of the year which gives me the option of penalizing without the need to formally accuse a student of plagiarism.
These automated systems do solve a significant problem though, as intentional plagiarism can be almost impossible to prove without an admission. I'm not sure the trade-off is worth it though. As someone mentioned earlier on there could be a very significant false-positive problem (as suggested by someone earlier) especially among students of the same class where essays can (unfortunately) be very similar, especially when they echo lecture material. I've often seen very similar essays from two students who studied together (a good thing) and chose to take very similar approaches to the question asked, sometimes to the extent of using similar phrasing (a bad thing). Drawing the line in this sort of case is hard.
My last worry has to do with using these sort of systems to reverse the onus of proving plagiarism in a borderline case. How on earth could a student prove that they didn't swipe a sentence or two turned up by whatever computerized system?
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I'm always surprised how often this is described as a 'new' problem. I have a home network in a very highly populated area, I can see over fifty networks from my apartment, and I switched to a dual-band router as soon as they came on the market. I would have thought that planning a university network to work on both bands would have been on the radar for a number of years.
The speed test numbers in the article are worthless. I tried the first test (ba.net) on my iphone GS from home where I'm on a pretty middle-of-the road DSL line, and got about twice the download speed reported in the article. Using the speed test app on the same phone, the results I generally see represent the limit of my DSL line. The point isn't to defend the iphone, I'm sure there are faster/better phones out there. The point is that the testing methodology is poor and the results in the article are poo. (You can also see that the wifi tests are limited by the tester's network connection: the upload/download rates are different. That is a characteristic of a DSL line, not wifi itself which should show similar speeds in both directions.)
Exactly. All the disadvantages of a laptop and a tablet rolled into one.
I think it is caused by an analog 2.4 ghz phone, and someone chats during that time period. I had one of those phones and found that when I used it it hosed most of the available channels. Replacing the phone solved the problem and doubtless made my neighbors' lives easier. After a move, the same pattern showed up. The solution was a dual-band router.
I saw that, and I thought that that Bezos should have made the obvious comparison to the iPod. The only reason to buy a Kindle is because it gives you access to material in a way that you would not have had otherwise, and that's exactly what an mp3 player does by giving you access to your music library anywhere. A Kindle could potentially have the same kind of advantage. For myself, I still listen to CDs and still read the newspaper, so what do I know?
It's not even a nervous person detector, it's a sweat detector.
Only if you are recently deceased and forgot to feed the cats!
Not at all, since it isn't analogous to a service pack but is instead a feature upgrade. I, for example, won't buy it unless there is some compelling feature that justifies the cost. I'd still be using 10.3 if I hadn't bought new hardware as the most compelling feature of 10.4 for me (spotlight) was and is better handled by a software package I've been using for years (DEVONthink).
Exactly, they're copying Apple's business model, which is to sell the music relatively cheaply as an incentive to keep hardware customers, and the money is made on the once every three year hardware purchase of a new ipod. The mac business model works the same: the OS is an incentive to buy the hardware. I doubt this approach will work for MS though. To make it work the hardware would have to be extremely desirable and although the Zune looks pretty nice it doesn't look that nice.
Just a small point, but polygraph evidence is still not admissible just about everywhere, and very fortunately so.
I would think that would give SCO an action against Novell for violating the contract by not protecting the IP rights that SCO had contracted for, but it wouldn't give SCO any action against a third party since the relationship is purely contractual and therefor only with Novell.
True, but if this is to be a watchdog post then someone representing consumer or citizen interest is a more appropriate choice to head it. This doesn't mean that industry people shouldn't be represented, just not in the watchdog role.
Your point is well taken, and she may well have been effective at improving Doubleclick's behaviour. However that doesn't change the fact that she comes from an industry that uses private information for their own profit. No matter how personally beyond reproach she may be, she's still a wolf amoung sheep.
Which gives you the magic 2(72ppi) meaning that bitmapped graphics can be scaled up easily and type can take advantage of the higher resolution, assuming the OS can do this. I'm not a huge fan of dell laptops and I like my powerbook, but it seems to me that displays like this are going to make a huge difference in the readability of text, and that's what I care about.
One of his complaints was the lack of cleartype under max ox x. If I recall correctly, cleatype is subpixel rendering, and that has been supported since Jaguar was released. In fact, it's the primary reason I upgraded from 10.1.5.
... Grocery Gateway has been around for a couple of years. I've had good luck with them though it is a bit pricey. Still, when the weather is bad I've found the service quite convenient.
Very interesting. So, now the question is how much legal exposure they might have to Amazon. In one sense not too much since Amazon has no direct losses since items were still bought from them. On the other hand the loss of public and affiliate goodwill could represent a significant loss, arguably millions depending on how much revenue the affiliate program generates in the first place.
I'm not sure whether there is a cause of action against Kazaa directly by affiliates but you might have one against Amazon if they allowed this sort of bahavior to continue. Of course Kazaa is probably essentially broke. There's no better way to be judgement proof!
I'd imagine that Amazon et al will be chaning their contractual terms specifically preventing this sort of behavior. The whole 'affiliate' program is dependant upon the warm and fuzzy feeling one gets by helping out a site you use, giving additional sales to Amazon. If users begin to question who will get the commission, then it fails as a marketing scheme for Amazon (and the others, presumably). I don't think this will be around for long.
We only really know how bad the Florida system was because the election was a statistical tie, leading to the recounts and a very close look at the process. I'd suspect that many states have very similar problems, for example Maryland in the current primary, and we simply aren't as aware of them.
You raise a problem that I've found in my teaching: many university students, even in second and third year, don't understand how to properly attribute. I usually state that proper attribution is an explicit marking criterion at the beginning of the year which gives me the option of penalizing without the need to formally accuse a student of plagiarism. These automated systems do solve a significant problem though, as intentional plagiarism can be almost impossible to prove without an admission. I'm not sure the trade-off is worth it though. As someone mentioned earlier on there could be a very significant false-positive problem (as suggested by someone earlier) especially among students of the same class where essays can (unfortunately) be very similar, especially when they echo lecture material. I've often seen very similar essays from two students who studied together (a good thing) and chose to take very similar approaches to the question asked, sometimes to the extent of using similar phrasing (a bad thing). Drawing the line in this sort of case is hard. My last worry has to do with using these sort of systems to reverse the onus of proving plagiarism in a borderline case. How on earth could a student prove that they didn't swipe a sentence or two turned up by whatever computerized system?