If they want them to be tamper-proof, I think they had better change the design a bit. Get rid of that pesky data port for loading on programs. And encase the circuitry in black epoxy. If you are just going to wipe the calculator before the exam, you don't need a data port to program it. Maybe if the school is really that worried about it, they could have their own set of certified calculators that they hand out at the beginning of exams. Always make sure to have a few extra in case they break (not that I've ever seen a calculator break, but you don't want students using that as an excuse). They would probably last quite a few years, given that they'd only be used for exams. This is probably the only way to prevent people from having hacked calculators. I mean, if someone was really determined, they could replace the entire innards with their own custom hardware, and probably fool just about anybody who came around to clear the calculator contents.
There's really only 3 solutions here.
Solution 1, No calculators period.
Solution 2 No calculators above TI-30 allowed, this is what most classes in my university did. actually they specified about 3 models of TI-30s that were allowed. Most people got the one with the 2 line display, but that's about as complicated as they got.
Solution 3. Allow TI-86 or whatever the student wants to bring, and assume that the exam is basically open book at that point. Design your exam accordingly.
Easier said than done, as is the case with a lot of these things. It's easy enough to figure out what the basic requirements are, however, writing all that code is a whole other thing. There's aren't a lot of people out there with the capabilities to write really good software. And the ones who do have the capabilities usually have quite a bit of work on their hands already. Unless you can find a corporate/philanthropist sponsor to dedicate expertise and money to your project, it will be really hard to build a quality system that Joe user will want to use.
The point is, is that the only disk they produce is also a LiveCD. This means it has a to include everything that you'd want to run a whole desktop, or at least enough to get you familiar with what it has to want to do a full install. They really should offer a couple different images. One small one for basic net installs. A DVD with everything and the kitchen sink. Other distros do it, I don't know why Ubuntu is so insistant on only having 1 choice, and requiring that choice to be a LiveCD
It's 2011. There's no reason they shouldn't switch to a DVD release. TFA said they might have to drop LibreOffice, or go with 2 CDs, or a DVD. I say stick with a single DVD image. That doesn't mean they have to fill up the full 4 GB, but it gives them quite a bit more room to play with. 2 CDs would be inconvenient. Also, who doesn't have a DVD burner these days.
What Netflix should do is set up content servers directly on your ISPs networks. So if a new movie comes out the ISP could have a copy in every major city and not have to stream it across the country. Netflix already runs on Amazon EC2. It would be a little work, but the ISP and Netflix could do some cooperation to set up a little mini cloud at the local access point so that all the popular movies are accessed from within the same city, and don't even have to travel across the internet more than once. Since it's all running on a cloud service , this should be easy to set up. And, in the event that the local mini cloud goes down, or just doesn't have the movie cached, it could default back to the main Amazon distribution center.
I want facebook and facebook alone to know that I'm using facebook, if I'm logged into facebook, I don't want bing or any other site to be aware of that.
Nothing has changed in that respect. Sites have always been able to tell if you were on facebook before.
I know that in Canada, high school football is quite rare. Mostly stick to basketball, volleyball, and track. Some wrestling. Football and hockey are quite dangerous in terms of head injuries, and schools tend to shy away from these sports. You can still play these sports outside of school settings, but very few schools that I know of have teams. I had a gym teacher in highschool who told us they used to have football but dropped it because of insurance costs. I can't believe high schools in the US have football. I guess they only thing they love more than litigation is football.
But DRM is encryption where the person you are trying to protect the content from is also the person who is supposed to be able access the content. The attacker is the person who has already has the key. This is why DRM is always cracked. Because you have to give the people who purchase the media a method of reading the data. Once they have that, DRM being cracked is only a matter of time. The only thing that might work (and could work well for ebook readers) would be to encase the curboard in black epoxy, and have no care slots or method for attaching the device to a computer. You buy the book right on the device, it never leaves the device, there is no way to get information off the device. If all purchases were stored in the cloud, and you could download again for free if the device was lost/broken, or if you upgradeded devices. Throw in enough internal memory that you would never need to upgrade (16 or 32 GB should be enough for books, at least until you need to upgrade devices when memory is cheaper). Most people would need this. I'm still awaiting the day when game consoles go this way, maybe Nintendos next gen one will be the first. Although I think Sony is the most likely one to do it.
Maybe they could just use the title attribute so that we could get tooltips about what something means without having to load an entire wikipedia article.
The whole $500 tablet thing says it all. A tablet really can't fulfill all your needs. Most people who have a tablet also have a cell phone and another PC, most likely a desktop AND a laptop. Sure there are plenty of people without money, but there are spectacular number of people with quite a bit of money. People always complain that they don't have money, and then they have to pay for their cable, internet, cell phone, air conditioner, two cars, and many other things that didn't even exist, or nobody had 50 years ago.
Kind of makes me sad that HD is only 1080p. I just saw a 70 inch TV go on sale at my local electronics superstore. 1080p at that size isn't such good resolution. Especially compared to the 10 inch retina display that is 1600 vertical lines. I would like to see the result of this technology 10 years. Will everybody be buying 4K resolution TVs? Will we have cables with enough bandwidth to carry the signal? What medium will we get the video on?
Not to mention the daylight savings time bugs that seem to come up every 6 months. Have they fixed that one yet? Seriously, people claim that iPhones just work, and then the alarms don't even ring with DST rolls over.
2.7 inches? that's crazy small. Most kitchen knives are easily that big? What about hunting knives? Seriously, a knife is a tool. Has many other users than killing things. Guns, I can see the need for a licence, because improper user can cause death, but knives, you have to actually try to kill someone, or have a freak accident. Even if you cut off your finger, you aren't going to kill yourself.
Have one included with my hosting package for $10 a month. Everybody complains that their data is all hosted on other peoples servers and that they don't own their own data. Yet most people could easily afford $10 a month for a good shared host (they can get as cheap as $4), and then we could all host our own apps and not worry about who owns our data.In my shared hosting, I can easily have a blog, webmail, news article sharing, photo sharing, and many other things. I think the only things that's missing is a social network app that will tie my shared host to my friends in a way that lets me control who I want to share the data with. Seems like something that needs to be done. Then we can all pay for standard servers that offer terms we are comfortable with, or even host our own servers on our own connection, and not have to worry about what all these third party services are doing with all our data.
So what if some user of TwitPic posts some GettyImages file to twitpic, and then TwitPic tries to selll that to someone else, and they reuse it. Not every image on TwitPic is created by the person who uploads it. How is twitpic going to guarantee they don't get in a load of trouble for selling pics that they don't have the rights to sell?
I got a feature. Multiple Desktops. Unix/Linux has had this feature for longer than I can recall. I wish Windows would support this natively. No, none of the current hacks that provide similar functionality work as well as the same features on Linux.
I get the same results on Rogers In ottawa Canada. As soon as it gets to thepiratebay.piratpartiet.se [194.14.56.29] it starts timing out. And yet I have no problem reaching TPB and downloading torrents. Tracert is largely useless as many routers just don't respond. Hasn't worked for years.
What information did Sony have on file that allows them to get a new credit card in your name? If having an existing credit card number and name enough to get another credit card issued to a new address? Also, on point 2, why would Sony have your debit card info? I wouldn't give anybody especially a service like Sony PSN the ability to pull money directly from my account. And my debit card has been duped (twice) before, and the bank has refunded the money both times. And anybody I know who has had their card duped has got the money back without any hassle. Maybe you need a new bank.
the majority of piracy happens in developing nations
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Is that per capita or overall? Citation Needed Maybe? While I have no doubt that software piracy is rampant in developing nations, I have seen plenty of software piracy in the western world as well, with plenty of people who have more than enough money still not paying for the software they use on a daily basis. The BSA doesn't go around talking to developing nations. As far as I'm aware, they only harass businesses that are using unlicensed software. So this whole personal use or third argument that people keep on bringing up is outside the scope of conversation anyway.
And yet you can be charged for polluting that air. There are laws about maximum emissions that can come from your car. You are free to breath the air, but you are not free to deny others their right to the same clean air.
But in that case, as a home user, you should really buy Photoshop Elements, because it's in the price range and capabilities of a home user. If you fell you need all the feautres of the full CS version, maybe you should cough up the money. If you feel that Elements still isn't worth the price, you should just use a different software package that offers a better price (or is free). There is so much free software out there that I almost wonder why people risk all the viruses and other problems that come along with pirated software (yes not all sources do, but you still have to be quite careful) that I wonder why anybody bothers.
Up here in Canada most rental unit parking spots have electricity for the purpose of plugging in the block heater. I'm sure most parking garages could be easily retrofitted to have charging cables put in. And I'm sure the person who owned the building would happily tack an extra fee onto your rent for the convenience of charging your car. They probably charge for the parking spot anyway.
How big exactly is an enormous powerpoint presentation? How big are these spreadsheets. Excel only handles 65,000 rows, the data can't possibly be that big. Maybe if you stick some movies in that powerpoint it can get pretty big. I'd be surprised to see a spreadsheet that took up more than 50 MB. Netflix, while having large files, doesn't actually require that much bandwidth, as you have the entire time the movie is being watched to download it. For this kind of stuff wireless is fine. But one you start talking big data, where you need to transfer gigabytes of data around in minutes, you really need to move to a wired connection.
In the days of blackberries, most senior managers at fortune 500 probably get calls at 3 am quite often. They most likely work 12 hour days too. I can vary depending on where you work, but these days, everyone is overworked.
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If they want them to be tamper-proof, I think they had better change the design a bit. Get rid of that pesky data port for loading on programs. And encase the circuitry in black epoxy. If you are just going to wipe the calculator before the exam, you don't need a data port to program it. Maybe if the school is really that worried about it, they could have their own set of certified calculators that they hand out at the beginning of exams. Always make sure to have a few extra in case they break (not that I've ever seen a calculator break, but you don't want students using that as an excuse). They would probably last quite a few years, given that they'd only be used for exams. This is probably the only way to prevent people from having hacked calculators. I mean, if someone was really determined, they could replace the entire innards with their own custom hardware, and probably fool just about anybody who came around to clear the calculator contents.
There's really only 3 solutions here.
Solution 1, No calculators period.
Solution 2 No calculators above TI-30 allowed, this is what most classes in my university did. actually they specified about 3 models of TI-30s that were allowed. Most people got the one with the 2 line display, but that's about as complicated as they got.
Solution 3. Allow TI-86 or whatever the student wants to bring, and assume that the exam is basically open book at that point. Design your exam accordingly.
Easier said than done, as is the case with a lot of these things. It's easy enough to figure out what the basic requirements are, however, writing all that code is a whole other thing. There's aren't a lot of people out there with the capabilities to write really good software. And the ones who do have the capabilities usually have quite a bit of work on their hands already. Unless you can find a corporate/philanthropist sponsor to dedicate expertise and money to your project, it will be really hard to build a quality system that Joe user will want to use.
The point is, is that the only disk they produce is also a LiveCD. This means it has a to include everything that you'd want to run a whole desktop, or at least enough to get you familiar with what it has to want to do a full install. They really should offer a couple different images. One small one for basic net installs. A DVD with everything and the kitchen sink. Other distros do it, I don't know why Ubuntu is so insistant on only having 1 choice, and requiring that choice to be a LiveCD
It's 2011. There's no reason they shouldn't switch to a DVD release. TFA said they might have to drop LibreOffice, or go with 2 CDs, or a DVD. I say stick with a single DVD image. That doesn't mean they have to fill up the full 4 GB, but it gives them quite a bit more room to play with. 2 CDs would be inconvenient. Also, who doesn't have a DVD burner these days.
What Netflix should do is set up content servers directly on your ISPs networks. So if a new movie comes out the ISP could have a copy in every major city and not have to stream it across the country. Netflix already runs on Amazon EC2. It would be a little work, but the ISP and Netflix could do some cooperation to set up a little mini cloud at the local access point so that all the popular movies are accessed from within the same city, and don't even have to travel across the internet more than once. Since it's all running on a cloud service , this should be easy to set up. And, in the event that the local mini cloud goes down, or just doesn't have the movie cached, it could default back to the main Amazon distribution center.
Nothing has changed in that respect. Sites have always been able to tell if you were on facebook before.
I know that in Canada, high school football is quite rare. Mostly stick to basketball, volleyball, and track. Some wrestling. Football and hockey are quite dangerous in terms of head injuries, and schools tend to shy away from these sports. You can still play these sports outside of school settings, but very few schools that I know of have teams. I had a gym teacher in highschool who told us they used to have football but dropped it because of insurance costs. I can't believe high schools in the US have football. I guess they only thing they love more than litigation is football.
OMG!!! Somebody just posted a car analogy that actually made sense. It really is a happy birthday for me.
But DRM is encryption where the person you are trying to protect the content from is also the person who is supposed to be able access the content. The attacker is the person who has already has the key. This is why DRM is always cracked. Because you have to give the people who purchase the media a method of reading the data. Once they have that, DRM being cracked is only a matter of time. The only thing that might work (and could work well for ebook readers) would be to encase the curboard in black epoxy, and have no care slots or method for attaching the device to a computer. You buy the book right on the device, it never leaves the device, there is no way to get information off the device. If all purchases were stored in the cloud, and you could download again for free if the device was lost/broken, or if you upgradeded devices. Throw in enough internal memory that you would never need to upgrade (16 or 32 GB should be enough for books, at least until you need to upgrade devices when memory is cheaper). Most people would need this. I'm still awaiting the day when game consoles go this way, maybe Nintendos next gen one will be the first. Although I think Sony is the most likely one to do it.
Maybe they could just use the title attribute so that we could get tooltips about what something means without having to load an entire wikipedia article.
The whole $500 tablet thing says it all. A tablet really can't fulfill all your needs. Most people who have a tablet also have a cell phone and another PC, most likely a desktop AND a laptop. Sure there are plenty of people without money, but there are spectacular number of people with quite a bit of money. People always complain that they don't have money, and then they have to pay for their cable, internet, cell phone, air conditioner, two cars, and many other things that didn't even exist, or nobody had 50 years ago.
Kind of makes me sad that HD is only 1080p. I just saw a 70 inch TV go on sale at my local electronics superstore. 1080p at that size isn't such good resolution. Especially compared to the 10 inch retina display that is 1600 vertical lines. I would like to see the result of this technology 10 years. Will everybody be buying 4K resolution TVs? Will we have cables with enough bandwidth to carry the signal? What medium will we get the video on?
Not to mention the daylight savings time bugs that seem to come up every 6 months. Have they fixed that one yet? Seriously, people claim that iPhones just work, and then the alarms don't even ring with DST rolls over.
2.7 inches? that's crazy small. Most kitchen knives are easily that big? What about hunting knives? Seriously, a knife is a tool. Has many other users than killing things. Guns, I can see the need for a licence, because improper user can cause death, but knives, you have to actually try to kill someone, or have a freak accident. Even if you cut off your finger, you aren't going to kill yourself.
Have one included with my hosting package for $10 a month. Everybody complains that their data is all hosted on other peoples servers and that they don't own their own data. Yet most people could easily afford $10 a month for a good shared host (they can get as cheap as $4), and then we could all host our own apps and not worry about who owns our data.In my shared hosting, I can easily have a blog, webmail, news article sharing, photo sharing, and many other things. I think the only things that's missing is a social network app that will tie my shared host to my friends in a way that lets me control who I want to share the data with. Seems like something that needs to be done. Then we can all pay for standard servers that offer terms we are comfortable with, or even host our own servers on our own connection, and not have to worry about what all these third party services are doing with all our data.
So what if some user of TwitPic posts some GettyImages file to twitpic, and then TwitPic tries to selll that to someone else, and they reuse it. Not every image on TwitPic is created by the person who uploads it. How is twitpic going to guarantee they don't get in a load of trouble for selling pics that they don't have the rights to sell?
I got a feature. Multiple Desktops. Unix/Linux has had this feature for longer than I can recall. I wish Windows would support this natively. No, none of the current hacks that provide similar functionality work as well as the same features on Linux.
I get the same results on Rogers In ottawa Canada. As soon as it gets to thepiratebay.piratpartiet.se [194.14.56.29] it starts timing out. And yet I have no problem reaching TPB and downloading torrents. Tracert is largely useless as many routers just don't respond. Hasn't worked for years.
What information did Sony have on file that allows them to get a new credit card in your name? If having an existing credit card number and name enough to get another credit card issued to a new address? Also, on point 2, why would Sony have your debit card info? I wouldn't give anybody especially a service like Sony PSN the ability to pull money directly from my account. And my debit card has been duped (twice) before, and the bank has refunded the money both times. And anybody I know who has had their card duped has got the money back without any hassle. Maybe you need a new bank.
. Is that per capita or overall? Citation Needed Maybe? While I have no doubt that software piracy is rampant in developing nations, I have seen plenty of software piracy in the western world as well, with plenty of people who have more than enough money still not paying for the software they use on a daily basis. The BSA doesn't go around talking to developing nations. As far as I'm aware, they only harass businesses that are using unlicensed software. So this whole personal use or third argument that people keep on bringing up is outside the scope of conversation anyway.
And yet you can be charged for polluting that air. There are laws about maximum emissions that can come from your car. You are free to breath the air, but you are not free to deny others their right to the same clean air.
But in that case, as a home user, you should really buy Photoshop Elements, because it's in the price range and capabilities of a home user. If you fell you need all the feautres of the full CS version, maybe you should cough up the money. If you feel that Elements still isn't worth the price, you should just use a different software package that offers a better price (or is free). There is so much free software out there that I almost wonder why people risk all the viruses and other problems that come along with pirated software (yes not all sources do, but you still have to be quite careful) that I wonder why anybody bothers.
Up here in Canada most rental unit parking spots have electricity for the purpose of plugging in the block heater. I'm sure most parking garages could be easily retrofitted to have charging cables put in. And I'm sure the person who owned the building would happily tack an extra fee onto your rent for the convenience of charging your car. They probably charge for the parking spot anyway.
How big exactly is an enormous powerpoint presentation? How big are these spreadsheets. Excel only handles 65,000 rows, the data can't possibly be that big. Maybe if you stick some movies in that powerpoint it can get pretty big. I'd be surprised to see a spreadsheet that took up more than 50 MB. Netflix, while having large files, doesn't actually require that much bandwidth, as you have the entire time the movie is being watched to download it. For this kind of stuff wireless is fine. But one you start talking big data, where you need to transfer gigabytes of data around in minutes, you really need to move to a wired connection.
In the days of blackberries, most senior managers at fortune 500 probably get calls at 3 am quite often. They most likely work 12 hour days too. I can vary depending on where you work, but these days, everyone is overworked.