BOSS allows students to submit assignments online securely, and
contains a selection of tools to allow staff to mark assignments online and
to manage their modules efficiently.
I've got an Ikea Amon/Curry desk. Nice size, looks good, was cheap etc. Only problem is, after 2.5 years of supporting a 19" monitor off centre, its got a curve to it, so my keyboard rocks. Damn annoying! Be alert!
'Scientists warn today that the world's favourite fruit could be extinct within 10 years because it is unable to fight off a rampaging plague of pests and disease'
Having spent my first two years at university sat infront of a computer far too much and doing way too little exercise (glandular fever, laziness etc etc), I found myself getting serious pains in my wrists and forearm tension whenever using a computer. Numerous sessions with a physio had no effect. I've since started going swimming / to the gym 3-5 times a week and feel MUCH better. General fitness is up so I feel better at work, the exercise seem to loosen my wrists up, and desk posture is much improved.
Moral of the story, exercise is good, both physically and mentally, so get to it! Good luck.
So, correct me if I'm wrong, but if they're the same price, all Dell are doing is denying me the satisfaction of formatting a Windows partition and putting a windows CD to some sort of distructive use?
From 'Ask Tim', March 2002 (in response to a question about putting the actual book on CD).
Now, to your first question. Wouldn't it be nice if there were a searchable text version of each book available on CD-ROM in the back of the book? Yes, it would be nice. Unfortunately, it's not economically all that viable. The cost of printing and binding in a CD-ROM increases the manufacturing cost of a book by about 50%, believe it or not. And remember that the publisher receives less than 50% of the cover price of the book, with the rest going to retailers and other middlemen. As a result, most books containing CDs end up being priced at $5-$10 more than books without CDs. (Simply to recover manufacturing costs, a book with a CD needs to be priced about $3 higher; usually, the publisher tries to make a little profit as well, especially if the CD assembles some real added-value information.) But how many of those CDs would go unused? For every reader who would love the CD in the back of the book, you're taxing others who might not. This is why David Pogue's Missing Manual series waggishly includes a picture of a CD on the inside back cover of each book, with the title "The Missing CD" and a reminder that you just saved $5, and can go to www.missingmanuals.com for the utilities and other goodies that might otherwise be on a CD in the back of the book.
No mention of biodegradable, water is the dispersing agent, so it's not going to wash off.. How do they plan to clear all this gunk up having sprayed it over every horizontal and vertical surface in sight?!
Can't argue with facts 1&2:)
Think by surf for email they essentially mean use the phone.
With regard to the phones, I was in Tokyo a few months ago, yes, your phones are amazing, smaller, all colour etc. Phones here are just getting to colour (Ericsson T68), most are now coming out with WAP 1.2.1 and GPRS support. No Java support yet (except on the communicator devices) When I say nearly, give it a year and I'd say most new phones will be WAP 2.0, GPRS and colour. So still not quite i-mode level admittedly, but significant improvement on recent devices.
Networks are now implementing GPRS always on in UK, most of the networks have it available.
Re UI etc, see my other post about Mari Matsunaga, excellent choice of mobile phone hating editor in chief!
My point was basically that i-mode, whilst technically better strikes me as something of a betamax / vhs affair. It's arriving too late.
As an aside, a major reason the content to i-mode and the business model is so good is that the editor in chief, Mari Matsunaga, was specifically chosen for having never used the internet and hating mobile phones! She previously worked editing classified ads mags, so good at lots of info in a small space.
Various analysts have all predicted i-mode is doomed to fail in europe. The business model as it stands in Japan just doesn't work. One of the main reasons for i-mode's success in Japan was the lack of text messaging. Europe has had this for some time, phone's and networks are nearly at the i-mode level and given 3G investment from other networks, seems unlikely to succeed.
Jon (Doing WAP development!)
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The BOSS Online Submission System is a course management tool, developed by the Department of Computer Science at the University of Warwick.
BOSS allows students to submit assignments online securely, and contains a selection of tools to allow staff to mark assignments online and to manage their modules efficiently.
seek and ye shall find....
Privacy and Human Rights 2002
You'll be wanting part 3, link right at the bottom.
I've got an Ikea Amon/Curry desk. Nice size, looks good, was cheap etc. Only problem is, after 2.5 years of supporting a 19" monitor off centre, its got a curve to it, so my keyboard rocks. Damn annoying! Be alert!
We won't have any bananas in 10 years!
'Scientists warn today that the world's favourite fruit could be extinct within 10 years because it is unable to fight off a rampaging plague of pests and disease'
Defenceless banana will be extinct in 10 years
Having spent my first two years at university sat infront of a computer far too much and doing way too little exercise (glandular fever, laziness etc etc), I found myself getting serious pains in my wrists and forearm tension whenever using a computer. Numerous sessions with a physio had no effect. I've since started going swimming / to the gym 3-5 times a week and feel MUCH better. General fitness is up so I feel better at work, the exercise seem to loosen my wrists up, and desk posture is much improved.
Moral of the story, exercise is good, both physically and mentally, so get to it! Good luck.
So, correct me if I'm wrong, but if they're the same price, all Dell are doing is denying me the satisfaction of formatting a Windows partition and putting a windows CD to some sort of distructive use?
What distributed project do you run?
.... none and some crap about cowboy neal :)
Dnet, Seti,
From 'Ask Tim', March 2002 (in response to a question about putting the actual book on CD).
Now, to your first question. Wouldn't it be nice if there were a searchable text version of each book available on CD-ROM in the back of the book? Yes, it would be nice. Unfortunately, it's not economically all that viable. The cost of printing and binding in a CD-ROM increases the manufacturing cost of a book by about 50%, believe it or not. And remember that the publisher receives less than 50% of the cover price of the book, with the rest going to retailers and other middlemen. As a result, most books containing CDs end up being priced at $5-$10 more than books without CDs. (Simply to recover manufacturing costs, a book with a CD needs to be priced about $3 higher; usually, the publisher tries to make a little profit as well, especially if the CD assembles some real added-value information.) But how many of those CDs would go unused? For every reader who would love the CD in the back of the book, you're taxing others who might not. This is why David Pogue's Missing Manual series waggishly includes a picture of a CD on the inside back cover of each book, with the title "The Missing CD" and a reminder that you just saved $5, and can go to www.missingmanuals.com for the utilities and other goodies that might otherwise be on a CD in the back of the book.
No mention of biodegradable, water is the dispersing agent, so it's not going to wash off.. How do they plan to clear all this gunk up having sprayed it over every horizontal and vertical surface in sight?!
Can't argue with facts 1&2 :)
Think by surf for email they essentially mean use the phone.
With regard to the phones, I was in Tokyo a few months ago, yes, your phones are amazing, smaller, all colour etc. Phones here are just getting to colour (Ericsson T68), most are now coming out with WAP 1.2.1 and GPRS support. No Java support yet (except on the communicator devices) When I say nearly, give it a year and I'd say most new phones will be WAP 2.0, GPRS and colour. So still not quite i-mode level admittedly, but significant improvement on recent devices.
Networks are now implementing GPRS always on in UK, most of the networks have it available.
Re UI etc, see my other post about Mari Matsunaga, excellent choice of mobile phone hating editor in chief!
My point was basically that i-mode, whilst technically better strikes me as something of a betamax / vhs affair. It's arriving too late.
As an aside, a major reason the content to i-mode and the business model is so good is that the editor in chief, Mari Matsunaga, was specifically chosen for having never used the internet and hating mobile phones! She previously worked editing classified ads mags, so good at lots of info in a small space.
Various analysts have all predicted i-mode is doomed to fail in europe. The business model as it stands in Japan just doesn't work. One of the main reasons for i-mode's success in Japan was the lack of text messaging. Europe has had this for some time, phone's and networks are nearly at the i-mode level and given 3G investment from other networks, seems unlikely to succeed. Jon (Doing WAP development!)
Not to be a pedant, but the actual quote is "The impact of the fly is difficult to exaggerate". 'of', not 'on'. Slightly different emphasis!
Jon