The concept and imaging are fantastic, but I hope the technology improves as the table didn't appear very responsive. I was annoyed just watching the users struggling to navigate it.
Obama's not playing by the rules. And while the gifts and all that aren't really a big deal, he's committing a diplomatic faux pas--toward his country's closest ally, no less.
Maybe you should RTFA. The prof at no point made complaints on noise, on the laptops disturbing her, or the laptops disturbing other students. There are QuietKeys laptops FYI, and the distractions that come to mind from my classes certainly weren't laptops.
The problem is that she's dictating learning style at the individual level, assuming she knows how everyone in all her classes learns best, without giving the students an option. It would be the same as saying she refuses to let people take notes in red ink, because in her opinion it inhibits learning. That's abuse of power, plain and simple.
Proper respect for professors? Grow up? This is university, not preschool.
She's overstepping her bounds, and even if she wasn't her reasoning is flawed. Who's to say students aren't using shorthand and trying to write every word? Who's to say they aren't 'making eye contact' yet daydreaming? If students are typing every word she says, that's up to them, they are paying for it for the right to be there and learn in the way that suits them best.
If she wants to help, how about providing a full and detailed copy of her notes for the class at the beginning of the semester? Then students already have most of what she is going to say, can review it before hand, and can use the class time to ask questions they may have and spawn intelligent discussion. It would be a step forward if that idea were mandated.
She should be attacking the problem. She's attacking the computer, and the computer is just a tool.
I'm pro open source, don't get me wrong. I've used it to learn a great deal about writing my own code. However, I'm not in favor of everything being open source. What if Google open sourced everything they were doing throughout their growth? Companies with money (ex1: Microsoft) would have replicated everything overnight and used their marketing power to considerably damage Google's long term growth. It is still in Google's best interest to hold much of their IP privately until they choose to do otherwise.
I'll go as far as saying my stance is pro-open source for everything just under highly innovative and original ideas, and once a group goes mainstream (i.e.: secures their place in the industry) open source their IP if they choose for the betterment of mankind. But if the government interferes to force open source prematurely, or make closed source projects unfavorable, innovation will decline.
There is a place for both open and closed source and people should stop picking sides.
Cancer, HIV, science, medicine, fusion, fuel cells, efficiency issues - you name it - we got problems that can be solved. I don't see how marking Copernicus' grave is going to help one whit.
It's not like the people who found him are virus experts who optimize fuel cell efficiency on the weekends. There are billions of people on the planet last I checked and people have a tendancy to do what they are good at, in this case archeology. If we all thought like you, I could accuse you of wasting time posting to/. instead of curing HIV.
In your case restrictions aren't the solution. It's obvious you are viewing pages that aren't intended for mobile devices, and that won't ever be governed by the standards proposed in TFA.
You'll get what you want when sites you frequent, such as slashdot, see the mobile community as a worthy audience.
It depends on how far they go. All TLDs currently have rules, even if not enforced. For example they must conform to some level of the HTML standards. This isn't 'policed' as much as your site can't generally be read if you don't have an open body tag.
With that said, it may make more sense to let.mobi viewing devices govern what they will and will not view. This will become especially important as devices' screens grow in size, and the 'standards' need to grow to match. If mTLD poke their nose in this area, they better be very lax on their choice of restrictions.
Then there's spyware. I won't complain at all if restrictions prevent spyware from making it's way to mobile devices. Again, however, maybe this is best left to the device.
Umm.. how much does that thing weigh? Is a 100-lb tower of metal with a history of knocking itself over really a safe thing to put in a room with a dozen toddlers?
There are other considerations. What will the turnaround be on creating and approving spyware fixes? Even once they are available will ff be able to complete with ie/windows update for pushing fixes? Or worse again will there be a dependence on users to install updates? Don't expect such diligence on the part of My Parents(tm). And how much damage will be done in the meantime?
There's the argument that ff hasn't seen the spyware pain that ie has, and may not be equipped to deal with the issues. M$ has the experience, and subsequent versions of ie are getting smarter at dealing with these problems, not to mention their new anti-spyware tool.
Don't expect the 'open source' tag to make everything happy day. FF's popularity will bring it a nice slice of problems, and I fully expect to see the ff community following ie's lead on solving those problems.
Until there's a bittorrent browser plugin, that isn't going to happen. The general public doesn't understand the technology. If they did, spyware wouldn't be the problem that it is.
Call quality is much better than cell phones and may even be better than land line phones you're used to
Our company has its headquarters in North Carolina and the development office is based out of Newfoundland, Canada. To lower costs, we have incorporated IP phones. My desk has an Axxess IP phone.
I'm not fond of these phones at all. They have a monstrous number of features, which is great, but general phone use is left wanting. The caller always sounds distant, and the lag makes phone conversations more difficult, especially with conference calls. Calling someone across the room for example will reveal a disconcerting 1/2 second or so lag between what you hear across the room and what you hear on the phone.
I'm not ready to hail the praises of IP phones just yet.
You couldn't have read it that closely. The article has quite a bit of text talking about Geoff Sheerin, leader of the Canadian Arrow team in London, Ontario.
Across the world, how many people ride motorcross bikes? Jump out of planes? Go rock-climbing?
But those personality types generally require to be in some control of the situation. That's where the high comes from, pitting your skill and wits against extreme circumstances.
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The concept and imaging are fantastic, but I hope the technology improves as the table didn't appear very responsive. I was annoyed just watching the users struggling to navigate it.
Obama's not playing by the rules. And while the gifts and all that aren't really a big deal, he's committing a diplomatic faux pas--toward his country's closest ally, no less.
I thought his closest ally was Canada.
Maybe you should RTFA. The prof at no point made complaints on noise, on the laptops disturbing her, or the laptops disturbing other students. There are QuietKeys laptops FYI, and the distractions that come to mind from my classes certainly weren't laptops. The problem is that she's dictating learning style at the individual level, assuming she knows how everyone in all her classes learns best, without giving the students an option. It would be the same as saying she refuses to let people take notes in red ink, because in her opinion it inhibits learning. That's abuse of power, plain and simple.
Proper respect for professors? Grow up? This is university, not preschool.
She's overstepping her bounds, and even if she wasn't her reasoning is flawed. Who's to say students aren't using shorthand and trying to write every word? Who's to say they aren't 'making eye contact' yet daydreaming? If students are typing every word she says, that's up to them, they are paying for it for the right to be there and learn in the way that suits them best.
If she wants to help, how about providing a full and detailed copy of her notes for the class at the beginning of the semester? Then students already have most of what she is going to say, can review it before hand, and can use the class time to ask questions they may have and spawn intelligent discussion. It would be a step forward if that idea were mandated.
She should be attacking the problem. She's attacking the computer, and the computer is just a tool.
Nightly updates? Don't you think the cure is a little worse than the disease? Unless you are obsessive compulsive ... in which case, carry on.
Call me a pedantic bastard, but I believe that's called the status bar.
Agreed. Here's a ruleset: http://tpcmurray.blogspot.com/2005/07/rant-camera- template-chat-laughing.html
I was generalizing to IP in general, but my mistake. Touché in triplicate.
I'm pro open source, don't get me wrong. I've used it to learn a great deal about writing my own code. However, I'm not in favor of everything being open source. What if Google open sourced everything they were doing throughout their growth? Companies with money (ex1: Microsoft) would have replicated everything overnight and used their marketing power to considerably damage Google's long term growth. It is still in Google's best interest to hold much of their IP privately until they choose to do otherwise.
I'll go as far as saying my stance is pro-open source for everything just under highly innovative and original ideas, and once a group goes mainstream (i.e.: secures their place in the industry) open source their IP if they choose for the betterment of mankind. But if the government interferes to force open source prematurely, or make closed source projects unfavorable, innovation will decline.
There is a place for both open and closed source and people should stop picking sides.
In your case restrictions aren't the solution. It's obvious you are viewing pages that aren't intended for mobile devices, and that won't ever be governed by the standards proposed in TFA.
You'll get what you want when sites you frequent, such as slashdot, see the mobile community as a worthy audience.
It depends on how far they go. All TLDs currently have rules, even if not enforced. For example they must conform to some level of the HTML standards. This isn't 'policed' as much as your site can't generally be read if you don't have an open body tag.
.mobi viewing devices govern what they will and will not view. This will become especially important as devices' screens grow in size, and the 'standards' need to grow to match. If mTLD poke their nose in this area, they better be very lax on their choice of restrictions.
With that said, it may make more sense to let
Then there's spyware. I won't complain at all if restrictions prevent spyware from making it's way to mobile devices. Again, however, maybe this is best left to the device.
That's a MySQL limitation/error, not Microsoft.
I saw a 'dating analogy' from a /.er and was a bit freaked out. Then I read 'breed' and 'offspring' and the world was right again.
"... and help it get up when it falls."
.. how much does that thing weigh? Is a 100-lb tower of metal with a history of knocking itself over really a safe thing to put in a room with a dozen toddlers?
Umm
There are other considerations. What will the turnaround be on creating and approving spyware fixes? Even once they are available will ff be able to complete with ie/windows update for pushing fixes? Or worse again will there be a dependence on users to install updates? Don't expect such diligence on the part of My Parents(tm). And how much damage will be done in the meantime?
There's the argument that ff hasn't seen the spyware pain that ie has, and may not be equipped to deal with the issues. M$ has the experience, and subsequent versions of ie are getting smarter at dealing with these problems, not to mention their new anti-spyware tool.
Don't expect the 'open source' tag to make everything happy day. FF's popularity will bring it a nice slice of problems, and I fully expect to see the ff community following ie's lead on solving those problems.
Good idea. I'll start up a web site to gather signatures and we'll petition for one.
Until there's a bittorrent browser plugin, that isn't going to happen. The general public doesn't understand the technology. If they did, spyware wouldn't be the problem that it is.
Privatize it, and let the citizens start deciding.
So an American company is selling a computer to a Japanese organization that is ideal for simulating nuclear explosions. Interesting.
Some of us are sick of work already and looking for a good distraction -- it's 9:30 AM here in NL, Canada (GMT -3.5).
What happened to all the Dare Devil posts? I thought this was a geek page, come on guys.
Call quality is much better than cell phones and may even be better than land line phones you're used to
Our company has its headquarters in North Carolina and the development office is based out of Newfoundland, Canada. To lower costs, we have incorporated IP phones. My desk has an Axxess IP phone.
I'm not fond of these phones at all. They have a monstrous number of features, which is great, but general phone use is left wanting. The caller always sounds distant, and the lag makes phone conversations more difficult, especially with conference calls. Calling someone across the room for example will reveal a disconcerting 1/2 second or so lag between what you hear across the room and what you hear on the phone.
I'm not ready to hail the praises of IP phones just yet.
You couldn't have read it that closely. The article has quite a bit of text talking about Geoff Sheerin, leader of the Canadian Arrow team in London, Ontario.
Across the world, how many people ride motorcross bikes? Jump out of planes? Go rock-climbing?
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But those personality types generally require to be in some control of the situation. That's where the high comes from, pitting your skill and wits against extreme circumstances.
Maybe if they were allowed to drive the rocket