Whether or not the Principal was a prick or not doesn't matter, he and his family have been cruelly and visiously attacked by anonymous and gutless cowards, I say sue the pants off them!
I think you are mixing up this incident with bullying, which it is not. It's a fake myspace profile about a principal. It's like passing an insulting note about the teacher around class. Yes it's naughty, yes the offender should be disciplined in some appropriate manner. But when it reaches the point of diverting thousands of dollars in limited educational resources, it starts to smell of personal vendetta. And yes, I do expect more childish behavior from children than pricipals, so don't say it should be the same as if it happened the other way around. I have a defiant child and I know it's frustrating to be defied. But going to the ends of the earth to seek revenge for a minor act just gives the child more power and control. It doesn't sound to me like this principal is on the right path to inspiring excellence in his students.
With enough retries, Microsoft usually gets it about right and succeeds in the end. (Deep pockets are a huge advantage). But my crystal ball says portable music will increasingly just be an expected feature of other devices, mainly cell phones. I think Apple may have milked the standalone music player fad dry by the time Microsoft gets out a good product.
Translation: I (finally) admit that global warming is real, but I'll jump on any superficially relevant scientific statement to claim it "proves" that humans aren't to blame.
Well, personally I do care. I dropped my landline for Vonage a couple years ago, and I'm happy enough. I couldn't speak to their customer service as I've never tried to use it, but the actual phone service seems fine enough to me. Granted, Vonage hasn't been very dynamic about introducing new features to keep people excited (why can't I set up separate voice mail boxes for family members?) but I do think it's saving me money. Mostly I just dread the hassle of finding a new provider and transferring my telephone number, what a pain.
Fundamentally, I don't even see why I'm still stuck paying a phone bill at all. I don't pay an email bill or a filesharing bill.
But it all really comes down to who designs the IVR. A well designed IVR is a pleasure to navigate.
I think the whole point is to eliminate navigation. At least that's what I like about google maps. I can enter "einstein bagels near university of new mexico" and it works. (I just tried that on yahoo maps and it also worked, so I guess they've caught up). I would assume this is what google is bringing to the telephone, not hunting down through a nested menu of listings. IMHO the future is searching a big flat database, not (user-visible) ontologies and labels for everything.
I think having two monitors is totally unnecessary, simply because they make very big single monitors now. Many of my co-workers have gotten the Apple 30" monitor, which has more screen real-estate than two 1600x1200 screens put together, and no big black line down the middle. It's almost too big, you have to turn your head to cover the whole thing.
which would include, for example, the equivalent of sending 256,000 photos a month[1], or sending 13 million e-mails every month (or 18,000 emails every hour, every day, all month).
It is interesting that these are all uploading examples. It's not bandwidth per se that't the problem, but uploading. Clearly Comcast would rather leave content distribution to the big boys (itself), and has built their asymmetrical network to fulfill that (questionable) vision.
Even so, banning people outright is stupid. Why not just dial their bandwidth down to 3 KB/s or so as they approach the limit?
Based on this article, I'm going back and re-doing a presentation I'll be giving soon.
I'm moving most of the text into the "Notes" area of each PowerPoint slide, which I'll print out.
I've seen a presentation program on the Mac that shows notes on the laptop display, and the slides on the external (projector) display.
Now I can really see why that's a good idea.
I agree with you about projector hookup problems. After all these years, it still happens!
Under Linux, I have to start X *after* hooking up the projector, which is stressful because I can't have my presentation all locked and loaded ahead of time.
Power-point presentations can backfire if the information on the screen is the same as that which is verbalized, because the audience's attention will be split between the two.
This is a bit more subtle than "PowerPoint bad"; it says you shouldn't simply verbalize the slides. Interesting to me, because my style is to do exactly that. I find if my slides are too broad, my extemporaneous speech tends to wander, so I try to put the sufficient detail in them, and stick to them. Uh oh!
I doubt the connection will be good enough for VOIP, but I also doubt they can block it. They would have to prevent all secure communications. That would exclude email (yes, at least 99% of business are smart enough to require VPN or at least ssl for email access).
It doesn't take many hours of sitting and twiddling your thumbs to justify a laptop more appropriate for travel, or at least some batteries.
My T40 gets over 5 hours on a 9 cell battery. I went all way to Taiwan without missing a beat on three 9 cell batteries.
Or a fuzzy set, as (virtually) all set in the real world are.
For instance, the set of pictures for which the statement "is this a picture of a chair" is true. There is no objective criteria for this. So imagine you have a bunch of pictures and show each one to a thousand people. Sometimes you might get 0 or 1000 "yes" responses, but often you'll get some number in between (because there are chairs, but barely visible, the picture includes a kids booster seat, or a rock big enough to sit on). This could be interpreted as a probability that somebody will consider a picture to be of a chair.
That's what I was going to say. The basic station wagon design is flawed because so much room is wasted under the hood. Minivans are the best family car available.
I suppose a lot of the aerial view mapping sites aren't real-time satellite images. So why is Congress picking on Google?
Google used to use newer (flooded) images, then went back to older (unflooded) ones. It's not that they're outdated that's strange, it's that they went backwards.
There's this new drink called Orange Juice that claims to have even more Vitamin C. Scientists call it a break through in food science.
Are you saying orange juice is more healthy that diet soda? I disagree. Juice is extremely sugary. It does have vitamins, which is nice if you happen to be deficient which most people aren't. Fat and sugar are our biggest problems now.
Obviously google is going to say this is because of some little technical reason, and there's no real meaning to it. Is that true? Probably, but maybe not. We'll never know.
Sure the astronauts have to do SOMETHING to kill time on the ISS, but I hope Nasa doesn't launch into some sappy ploy about how this is advancing science - unless it is actually true.
Jokes about taxpayer-funded oxygen aside, the US is paying about $4BN per year for the ISS (including its share of the Shuttle). Assume (generously) that of the 3 people aboard, 2 are Americans. That works out to $3,800 per person per minute, or just slightly under $1 million to run a 4 hour marathon. So you tell me, what will we get for our million dollars?
Microsoft - Should get out of the operating systems business and start a chain of chicken finger restaurants.
Oracle - Relational databases are just a fad, they should diversify into concrete.
Except most of your "crazy" examples are about companies trying to jump into new, different businesses - which is exactly what Apple is trying to do with the iPhone!
Apple has done a great job making everybody assume the iPhone will be a huge hit and a "must have" just because the iPod was/is. Personally, I don't see any guarantee of success for the iPhone. I think phone itself is far less important than the network it connects to (which in the US are not independent) and the service plans available. Apple really cannot provide cell service in the way they can provide the iTunes store. Will the iPhone follow the iPod or the Newton? Only time will tell.
The problem is that people paranoid about nuclear proliferation have successfully made it very politically difficult
Yes, that's the problem. Unfortunately I don't see a way to solve it, do you? Plutonium is pretty awesome stuff, and I don't think manufacturing it at 500 places around the world is such a great idea. Nuclear proliferation isn't a technical problem, but it is a problem.
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That's the problem with top level domains in general - they're useless.
With enough retries, Microsoft usually gets it about right and succeeds in the end. (Deep pockets are a huge advantage). But my crystal ball says portable music will increasingly just be an expected feature of other devices, mainly cell phones. I think Apple may have milked the standalone music player fad dry by the time Microsoft gets out a good product.
Fundamentally, I don't even see why I'm still stuck paying a phone bill at all. I don't pay an email bill or a filesharing bill.
I think having two monitors is totally unnecessary, simply because they make very big single monitors now. Many of my co-workers have gotten the Apple 30" monitor, which has more screen real-estate than two 1600x1200 screens put together, and no big black line down the middle. It's almost too big, you have to turn your head to cover the whole thing.
Even so, banning people outright is stupid. Why not just dial their bandwidth down to 3 KB/s or so as they approach the limit?
I agree with you about projector hookup problems. After all these years, it still happens! Under Linux, I have to start X *after* hooking up the projector, which is stressful because I can't have my presentation all locked and loaded ahead of time.
I doubt the connection will be good enough for VOIP, but I also doubt they can block it. They would have to prevent all secure communications. That would exclude email (yes, at least 99% of business are smart enough to require VPN or at least ssl for email access).
It doesn't take many hours of sitting and twiddling your thumbs to justify a laptop more appropriate for travel, or at least some batteries. My T40 gets over 5 hours on a 9 cell battery. I went all way to Taiwan without missing a beat on three 9 cell batteries.
For instance, the set of pictures for which the statement "is this a picture of a chair" is true. There is no objective criteria for this. So imagine you have a bunch of pictures and show each one to a thousand people. Sometimes you might get 0 or 1000 "yes" responses, but often you'll get some number in between (because there are chairs, but barely visible, the picture includes a kids booster seat, or a rock big enough to sit on). This could be interpreted as a probability that somebody will consider a picture to be of a chair.
That's what I was going to say. The basic station wagon design is flawed because so much room is wasted under the hood. Minivans are the best family car available.
So what are the "big ideas" x86 is holding back? Intel took its shot with Itanium (to the tune of billions of dollars) and failed.
I doubt insulun response has any link to taste buds.
Windows is far, far more complex than a magnet, or any other physical thing ever built.
Obviously google is going to say this is because of some little technical reason, and there's no real meaning to it. Is that true? Probably, but maybe not. We'll never know.
My cost estimate assumed the astronauts work 24 hours per day, so it's about 30% conservative anyways.
Jokes about taxpayer-funded oxygen aside, the US is paying about $4BN per year for the ISS (including its share of the Shuttle). Assume (generously) that of the 3 people aboard, 2 are Americans. That works out to $3,800 per person per minute, or just slightly under $1 million to run a 4 hour marathon. So you tell me, what will we get for our million dollars?
Apple has done a great job making everybody assume the iPhone will be a huge hit and a "must have" just because the iPod was/is. Personally, I don't see any guarantee of success for the iPhone. I think phone itself is far less important than the network it connects to (which in the US are not independent) and the service plans available. Apple really cannot provide cell service in the way they can provide the iTunes store. Will the iPhone follow the iPod or the Newton? Only time will tell.