Teaching students about online security should be done at a very fundamental level. Unless the student is very interested in that topic, a basic understanding is all that is necessary to prevent malicious attacks. Take a cue from the workplace, and provide an security workshop or online training sessions for the student to take when he or she starts each school year. It is not necessary to mandate coursework in this area; this would take valuable time away from more crucial learning, such as math, science, English, etc.
Better IT policies should be implemented and enforced by school boards. Use of Internet security and privacy protection software should be in place, if it is not already.
I believe TomsHardware, in a review of the GeForceFX, stated that Geforce4/FX drivers had problems w/ Serious Sam 2 Z-Buffers, which the Geforce 3 processed w/o incident. I thought someone said unified drivers were consistent in controlling the Gfx cards and thus were a valuable asset to NVIDIA.
Agreed. Financials are indeed important as indicators of future performance. Look at the NVDA and ATYT stock prices; people are wild. If you could successfully predict firm success 100% of the time, you'd get a Nobel. Unfortunately, EMH has held fairly strong. Anyway, damnit...
NVIDIA won't have consecutive design wins. XBOX gave way to NFORCE, an integrated chipset/pipeline for value PCs. This is the direction of the firm--make its product necessary for the functionality of the PC. Right now, Geforce is a luxury item. Having sound, communications, and graphics on the MOBO (NFORCE) is one step toward becoming as necessary as INTEL INSIDE.
As you say, "there will always be the bleeding-edge enthusiasts who snap up the latest gear..."; those enthusiasts often influence the buying decisions of family, friends, and acquantances. Success of NVIDIA, ATI has not been solely based on the sales from the enthusiasts. Buzz influences OEMs indirectly and they (Dell, Gateway, HPQ, etc.) follow along. Okay, so they buy into the extreme performance hype like the rest of us; that hype fuels the consumer notion that product differentiation exists and encourages consumers to pay extra for a few extra FPS. Enthusiasts are a bigger group than you think, if consider everyone that they influence.
Originally, "it" was life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. "Pursuit of property" came after the ratification of Declaration of Independence and was an element of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (France 1789).
This reminds me of the ICQ v. AIM a few years ago. ICQ dominated IM; AIM shows up and quickly takes over as the predominant IM service in town.
Looks to me as if Google is poised to take the Blogger s/w to new levels of popularity and at some point surpassing Slashdot.org with some iteration of its own. It might even buy OSDN if the conditions for acquisition are optimal.
Slashdot.org and the other affiliated blogs are HQ; the same was true with ICQ, and look who owns that little s/w.
Slashdot Mirror
Teaching students about online security should be done at a very fundamental level. Unless the student is very interested in that topic, a basic understanding is all that is necessary to prevent malicious attacks. Take a cue from the workplace, and provide an security workshop or online training sessions for the student to take when he or she starts each school year. It is not necessary to mandate coursework in this area; this would take valuable time away from more crucial learning, such as math, science, English, etc. Better IT policies should be implemented and enforced by school boards. Use of Internet security and privacy protection software should be in place, if it is not already.
The Google cache is Slashdotted. Uncanny.
So Michael Crighton is a prophet after all.
I believe TomsHardware, in a review of the GeForceFX, stated that Geforce4/FX drivers had problems w/ Serious Sam 2 Z-Buffers, which the Geforce 3 processed w/o incident. I thought someone said unified drivers were consistent in controlling the Gfx cards and thus were a valuable asset to NVIDIA.
Agreed. Financials are indeed important as indicators of future performance. Look at the NVDA and ATYT stock prices; people are wild. If you could successfully predict firm success 100% of the time, you'd get a Nobel. Unfortunately, EMH has held fairly strong. Anyway, damnit...
NVIDIA won't have consecutive design wins. XBOX gave way to NFORCE, an integrated chipset/pipeline for value PCs. This is the direction of the firm--make its product necessary for the functionality of the PC. Right now, Geforce is a luxury item. Having sound, communications, and graphics on the MOBO (NFORCE) is one step toward becoming as necessary as INTEL INSIDE.
As you say, "there will always be the bleeding-edge enthusiasts who snap up the latest gear..."; those enthusiasts often influence the buying decisions of family, friends, and acquantances. Success of NVIDIA, ATI has not been solely based on the sales from the enthusiasts. Buzz influences OEMs indirectly and they (Dell, Gateway, HPQ, etc.) follow along. Okay, so they buy into the extreme performance hype like the rest of us; that hype fuels the consumer notion that product differentiation exists and encourages consumers to pay extra for a few extra FPS. Enthusiasts are a bigger group than you think, if consider everyone that they influence.
Originally, "it" was life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. "Pursuit of property" came after the ratification of Declaration of Independence and was an element of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (France 1789).
This reminds me of the ICQ v. AIM a few years ago. ICQ dominated IM; AIM shows up and quickly takes over as the predominant IM service in town. Looks to me as if Google is poised to take the Blogger s/w to new levels of popularity and at some point surpassing Slashdot.org with some iteration of its own. It might even buy OSDN if the conditions for acquisition are optimal. Slashdot.org and the other affiliated blogs are HQ; the same was true with ICQ, and look who owns that little s/w.
What about Hispanic Broadcasting? They own a few radio stations.