Haddad writes about Macs in K-12 education, but he seems to be a little too anxious to make his point.
Haddad said: "Hear what Art Rainwater, superintendent of the Madison (Wis) school district, told the local Capital Times. He conceded that Macs outperform PCs, but he didn't care. "We want a single platform," he said. "We're trying to get there using the carrot, or blackmail, or rewards, or whatever you call it."
Not quite. Here's what the Capital Times printed:
Superintendent Art Rainwater acknowledged that in some cases, Macintosh computers outperform their competitors.
Slight difference there?
Haddad continued his imaginitive use of quotes further on: "Drama teacher Rebecca Jallings at Madison West High School, for one, is fighting Rainwater's effort to strip her classroom of Macs. She told the Capital Times that she finds them the best machines by far for editing video, an important tool in her acting class."
Jallings may have told the Capital Times that, but it never published it, at least in the version that appears on the Capital Times web archives.
As an aside, Jallings records the students on video and then puts it on the Mac. The Capital Times reports "Rebecca Jallings, a theater teacher at Madison West High School, shoots video of her students as they learn to act.
If they're "doing that swaying thing again" during their monologue, she said, she rolls the footage on her Macintosh computer and can prove it to the student immediately."
Quite how that's superior to using a video camera alone is beyond me.
No, it all makes sense, just look at the pictures.
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It all makes sense when you look at the pictures of the desk "in action".
Notice the woman in the picture is lounging around, in hip poses, looking stylish and "chic", but not actually getting any work done.
They certainly have their target market nailed pretty well.
There are other reasons that Macs are being used in most businesses besides IT looking out for their own jobs. And most seem to be outlined here by/. users (preceived costs, lack of apps, unfamilarity, high cost of experiment, vendor lock,...).
Well, as an ex-patriate New Yorker, I am sick of the middle America bias we see in the media's coverage of culture. This is news and, whining aside, it's bigger news because it happened in NYC.
Well, as a Californian, I say suck it, East Coast!
I just came back from a vacation, and I thought I was smart enough to bring a DVD player along (well, my XBOX, since I could watch movies and play games on that one machine), since I knew the hotel's TV would have at least a composite video jack in.
Plug it in, sit down, and......MACROVISION.
Yet another instance where I am attempting to play a legit product, and am stopped by "copy protection." I decided to fark the movie (and possibly return it out of spite) and just play KOTOR instead.:D
Even better: xbox+modchip = no macrovision, no region protection, and you can even rip games and dvds to the hard drive for faster load times and instant access (no hunting down that disc that's under the pile of clothes in your game room)
And when you upgrade the xbox hd to 120 gigs, you have the perfect media jukebox on the go. (for your situation, at least)
Why would the president veto this? It's in the best interest of the citizenry. I propose a new law:
Any politician that takes more than a certain amount of campaign contributions (say, both an absolute threshhold of $10K and a certain percentage of their total fundraising) from a corporation (including individiuals that work for that corporation) or organization has to wear a sticker, clearly visible both from the front and the back, with the logo of the company or organization on it whenever they are in public in an official capacity. Think of those stickers pasted all over racing cars.
This is such a load. Why has everybody that's reporting on this story giving out so much misinformation?
Seriously. Especially the website where they "sell" the music. Check their legal disclaimer:
"All downloaded Content is sublicensed to End Users and not sold, notwithstanding use of the terms "sell," "purchase," "order," or "buy" on the Site or this Agreement."
Apparently "licensing" is the business model of the new millennium. Soon, nobody will be able to actually own _anything_ anymore. You'll just get a per-person license.
One cannot *steal* software,movies or music.
They are an infinitely reproducable thing. Otherwise, something like Kazaa would not really work.
Seriously. No one calls "patent infringment" "patent, stealing", no one calls "trademark infringement" "trademark stealing".
Copyright infringement isn't stealing either, though they can both be independently illegal. The difference here is that the copyright holder doesn't lose his rights. His exclusivity is infringed upon, but nothing is taken.
If people are going to insist on analogizing it to something else, I would suggest TRESPASSING. If I put my foot in your yard, I've trespassed. But you still have your yard; you just aren't enjoying it exclusively.
Anyone who calls copyright infringement "stealing" has an agenda, and shouldn't be trusted.
War on drugs ---> Bush Sr., Nancy was "Just say No to drugs." Not to mention drug use DID decline through the end of the 80's and early 90's. The war is 'lost' because we (people and government) lost focus not because it could not be won.
We lost the war on drugs? I thought we won the war on drugs when Bush gave the Taliban
$43 million dollars, so they would ban opium production in Afghanistan.
This was, of course in May, 2001. Who would have known that 4 months later, that money would be used to crash airplanes into the WTC.
So kids, remember, when you buy drugs, you're supporting terrorism. Oh, and also, when you vote for Bush, you're supporting terrorism.
I don't think Bush should bear the blame for the bust that's happened on his watch.
He may not be to blame, but he's not helped the situation at all, and through his inaction with corporate scandals like Enron, he's made a bad situation worse. Uncertainty, and a low level of investor confidence have a negative effect on the market, and the economy as a whole.
And to top it off, we're spending 4 billion dollars a month to police Iraq, and we're going to be spending that every month, for the next 2-4 years. Wouldn't that money be much better spent as domestic economic stimulus? People are out of work, old people and children have their health care taken away because of "budgetary constraints", but we can spend $45 billion dollars yearly providing services to another country?
Yeah, Bush is doing a great job, if you're an Iraqi. Why doesn't he just go and be president over there? He, Cheney and Rumsfeld can have their police state, and the rest of us can get back to being a prosperous democracy.
What would the founding fathers think?
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When Thomas Jefferson put the idea of intellectual property into the Constitution of the United States, he did so because he realized that information leaks; once people learn something, they can reuse that knowledge. Jefferson believed that if there was no protection to intellectual property, people would not be encouraged to share knowledge with others. Writers would not write, inventors would not invent, artists would not create art. So in the US Constitution, it says:
Congress shall have the power [...] To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;
The reason why this is important is spelled out in Jefferson's own writings:
If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of everyone, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it...He who receives an idea from me, receives instructions himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. That ideas should be spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature... Inventions then cannot, in nature, be a subject of property.
How far are we going to let the copyrighters go? We need to remind people that copyright, like most laws in the US, is a balance between two forces, and the scale should not be tipped too far to one side.
This improper usage really bugs me, too. For everyone who hasn't yet figured it out, (including the Slashdot "editorial" staff)
The proper spelling of Berkeley [berkeley.edu] is B-E-R-K-E-L-E-Y, and the proper usage is "University of California, Berkeley," being that Berkeley is the University of California; the other UC schools (UCLA, UCSC, et al) are merely extensions of UC Berkeley, which was founded in 1868.
So no, it's not spelled "Berkly," "Berkely," "Berkley," or any combination of the three, and it most certainly has no connection to the Berklee College of Music [berklee.edu].
I'm amazed that any self-respecting geek can misspell "Berkeley", given the advances made there. Where the hell do they think Berkelium and Californium were discovered? If it weren't for Berkeley, which runs LANL [lanl.gov] and LBNL [lbl.gov], the DOD would be up shit creek, and GWB wouldn't have any of those "nuke-u-ler" weapons he likes to talk so much about. For the love of god, the guy who won a Nobel prize [princeton.edu] for inventing the frickin LASER [geocities.com] is a professor there.
Finally, without Berkeley, there'd be no BSD; it's the Berkeley Software Distribution. It's in the name of the operating system. At the very least, the person submitting the article (and the Slashdot "editors") should be able to figure out the proper spelling that way.
wonder how many millions Homeland Security is going to spend "preparing" America for this one.
Is it really going to cost that much? I mean, I already got my plastic sheeting and duct tape, so now I'm completely immune to all terrorist + hacker activity.
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Are we still allowed to copy nature? I thought reverse engineering was made illegal under the DMCA.
HE'S GONNA PUMP-- CALIFORNIA UP!
Hear me now and believe me later: Hasta la vista baby, He'll be back.
Build me a PC box with the level of componants in an Apple rig ..
Apparently, your whiz-bang Apple machine doesn't even come with a fucking spell-check program.
That, or it's too hard for you to use, which discounts the popular "Macs, they're so easy to use, no wonder they're #3" myth.
Haddad writes about Macs in K-12 education, but he seems to be a little too anxious to make his point.
Haddad said: "Hear what Art Rainwater, superintendent of the Madison (Wis) school district, told the local Capital Times. He conceded that Macs outperform PCs, but he didn't care. "We want a single platform," he said. "We're trying to get there using the carrot, or blackmail, or rewards, or whatever you call it."
Not quite. Here's what the Capital Times printed:
Superintendent Art Rainwater acknowledged that in some cases, Macintosh computers outperform their competitors.
Slight difference there?
Haddad continued his imaginitive use of quotes further on: "Drama teacher Rebecca Jallings at Madison West High School, for one, is fighting Rainwater's effort to strip her classroom of Macs. She told the Capital Times that she finds them the best machines by far for editing video, an important tool in her acting class."
Jallings may have told the Capital Times that, but it never published it, at least in the version that appears on the Capital Times web archives.
As an aside, Jallings records the students on video and then puts it on the Mac. The Capital Times reports "Rebecca Jallings, a theater teacher at Madison West High School, shoots video of her students as they learn to act. If they're "doing that swaying thing again" during their monologue, she said, she rolls the footage on her Macintosh computer and can prove it to the student immediately."
Quite how that's superior to using a video camera alone is beyond me.
It all makes sense when you look at the pictures of the desk "in action".
Notice the woman in the picture is lounging around, in hip poses, looking stylish and "chic", but not actually getting any work done.
They certainly have their target market nailed pretty well.
So... can it display a picture of evil Spock, with a moustache and a goatee?
There are other reasons that Macs are being used in most businesses besides IT looking out for their own jobs. And most seem to be outlined here by /. users (preceived costs, lack of apps, unfamilarity, high cost of experiment, vendor lock, ...).
What the fuck is a "preceived cost"?
Isn't there laws that say they need to deliver on their product claims.
You mean OS X doesn't "just work" like it says in the commercials and all over Apple's website?
That's PREPOSTEROUS!
Well, as an ex-patriate New Yorker, I am sick of the middle America bias we see in the media's coverage of culture. This is news and, whining aside, it's bigger news because it happened in NYC.
Well, as a Californian, I say suck it, East Coast!
I have read several os x books
Why? I thought it "just works".
I thought OS X is the most "elegant", "simple", "user friendly" operating system to use.
I thought it "gets out of your way" and lets you get done what you need to get done.
If it's all of those things, why would anyone need a book? Or have all those Mac users been lying for the past few years?
I posted these exact complaints with the buymusic service a week ago. BuyMusic doesn't sell you the music, they screw you in the TOS, et cetera.
I just came back from a vacation, and I thought I was smart enough to bring a DVD player along (well, my XBOX, since I could watch movies and play games on that one machine), since I knew the hotel's TV would have at least a composite video jack in. Plug it in, sit down, and... ...MACROVISION.
Yet another instance where I am attempting to play a legit product, and am stopped by "copy protection." I decided to fark the movie (and possibly return it out of spite) and just play KOTOR instead. :D
Even better: xbox+modchip = no macrovision, no region protection, and you can even rip games and dvds to the hard drive for faster load times and instant access (no hunting down that disc that's under the pile of clothes in your game room)
And when you upgrade the xbox hd to 120 gigs, you have the perfect media jukebox on the go. (for your situation, at least)
Why would the president veto this? It's in the best interest of the citizenry. I propose a new law:
Any politician that takes more than a certain amount of campaign contributions (say, both an absolute threshhold of $10K and a certain percentage of their total fundraising) from a corporation (including individiuals that work for that corporation) or organization has to wear a sticker, clearly visible both from the front and the back, with the logo of the company or organization on it whenever they are in public in an official capacity. Think of those stickers pasted all over racing cars.
I wonder how many stickers Bush would have.
This is such a load. Why has everybody that's reporting on this story giving out so much misinformation?
Seriously. Especially the website where they "sell" the music. Check their legal disclaimer:
"All downloaded Content is sublicensed to End Users and not sold, notwithstanding use of the terms "sell," "purchase," "order," or "buy" on the Site or this Agreement."
Apparently "licensing" is the business model of the new millennium. Soon, nobody will be able to actually own _anything_ anymore. You'll just get a per-person license.
One cannot *steal* software,movies or music. They are an infinitely reproducable thing. Otherwise, something like Kazaa would not really work.
Seriously. No one calls "patent infringment" "patent, stealing", no one calls "trademark infringement" "trademark stealing".
Copyright infringement isn't stealing either, though they can both be independently illegal. The difference here is that the copyright holder doesn't lose his rights. His exclusivity is infringed upon, but nothing is taken.
If people are going to insist on analogizing it to something else, I would suggest TRESPASSING. If I put my foot in your yard, I've trespassed. But you still have your yard; you just aren't enjoying it exclusively.
Anyone who calls copyright infringement "stealing" has an agenda, and shouldn't be trusted.
Any disrespect to the original is balanced out by the fact that Starbuck is played by Katee Sackhoff.
Are you sure? She must weigh at least 300 pounds.
But then, if you're a chubby chaser, by all means, have at it.
I prefer Keira Knightley, personally.
I know. I mean, if Congress didn't extend copyrights, then we'd end up with comics like Stalin vs. Hitler. Oh, wait. That already happened.
War on drugs ---> Bush Sr., Nancy was "Just say No to drugs." Not to mention drug use DID decline through the end of the 80's and early 90's. The war is 'lost' because we (people and government) lost focus not because it could not be won.
We lost the war on drugs? I thought we won the war on drugs when Bush gave the Taliban $43 million dollars, so they would ban opium production in Afghanistan.
This was, of course in May, 2001. Who would have known that 4 months later, that money would be used to crash airplanes into the WTC.
So kids, remember, when you buy drugs, you're supporting terrorism. Oh, and also, when you vote for Bush, you're supporting terrorism.
I don't think Bush should bear the blame for the bust that's happened on his watch.
He may not be to blame, but he's not helped the situation at all, and through his inaction with corporate scandals like Enron, he's made a bad situation worse. Uncertainty, and a low level of investor confidence have a negative effect on the market, and the economy as a whole.
And to top it off, we're spending 4 billion dollars a month to police Iraq, and we're going to be spending that every month, for the next 2-4 years. Wouldn't that money be much better spent as domestic economic stimulus? People are out of work, old people and children have their health care taken away because of "budgetary constraints", but we can spend $45 billion dollars yearly providing services to another country?
Yeah, Bush is doing a great job, if you're an Iraqi. Why doesn't he just go and be president over there? He, Cheney and Rumsfeld can have their police state, and the rest of us can get back to being a prosperous democracy.
One and a half ounces
of sweetness
of frozen syrupy sweetness
slipping between my lips.
Cool this warm night;
numb my tongue
and turn it blue
or red
or green.
I cannot stop at one;
I have another
and soon
brain freeze
forehead throbbing
yet I cannot stop.
Pleasure and pain
frosty and sugary
the freezer is empty
I'll have to buy more
Pop Ice.
But then slashdot went bleep-bleep-bleep-bleep and it didn't get posted. It was a good review too.
This improper usage really bugs me, too. For everyone who hasn't yet figured it out, (including the Slashdot "editorial" staff)
The proper spelling of Berkeley [berkeley.edu] is B-E-R-K-E-L-E-Y, and the proper usage is "University of California, Berkeley," being that Berkeley is the University of California; the other UC schools (UCLA, UCSC, et al) are merely extensions of UC Berkeley, which was founded in 1868.
So no, it's not spelled "Berkly," "Berkely," "Berkley," or any combination of the three, and it most certainly has no connection to the Berklee College of Music [berklee.edu].
I'm amazed that any self-respecting geek can misspell "Berkeley", given the advances made there. Where the hell do they think Berkelium and Californium were discovered? If it weren't for Berkeley, which runs LANL [lanl.gov] and LBNL [lbl.gov], the DOD would be up shit creek, and GWB wouldn't have any of those "nuke-u-ler" weapons he likes to talk so much about. For the love of god, the guy who won a Nobel prize [princeton.edu] for inventing the frickin LASER [geocities.com] is a professor there.
Finally, without Berkeley, there'd be no BSD; it's the Berkeley Software Distribution. It's in the name of the operating system. At the very least, the person submitting the article (and the Slashdot "editors") should be able to figure out the proper spelling that way.
wonder how many millions Homeland Security is going to spend "preparing" America for this one.
Is it really going to cost that much? I mean, I already got my plastic sheeting and duct tape, so now I'm completely immune to all terrorist + hacker activity.
right?
RIGHT????
Do your part for Internet Free Speech. Boycott Toms Hardware Guide.
Boycott tom's hardware? Dude, have you seen the fascist bullshit going on at HardOCP regarding their doctored benchmarks?
Kyle Bennett mass bans longtime users of his own forum for criticizing his faked benchmarks-- How can you believe a word out of his mouth?