There's also another movement that is growing and might work for some classes. People are finding that the class 'constructing' a book for themselves and for future generations of students who will tweak it is working out really well.
Does that make me unable to write? I also don't walk everywhere either (in general), I instead drive, does that make me unable to get around?
History is littered with technologies that subvert older technology and causes our brain's work to be used for other things.
There are better ways to prevent distractions. NetOP makes a product that we've been using in computer classrooms for a while that can restrict students Internet access. In a laptop environment, well, as someone said before, if you're surfing you deserve to fail. There will be a lot of times in life where distractions might get in the way of people's ability to concentrate and they need to manage those...crap, now I fell guilty...back to work.
We're in a world where Open Source has created compatability and the goal is brining everyone in under the same roof. Leopard, Ubuntu, SUSE and their ilk have created experiences that are comparable to Windows and, in some cases, even better. The onus is now on MS to keep up. If we're waiting on SP1 for this OS to be stable (which we are) I would have rather they waited a year and released a better product.
There was a ars technica article where they interviewed the manager for Vista some time ago and everyone at MS was praising him because he was marshalling people and ditching features in Vista in order to get it out the door. I'm horribly dissapointed in what came out. There were features that I, for one, was looking forward to and would have given Vista's poor security implementation a whole lot more grace in my eyes had they included them.
--pete
But what does airplay accomplish when, let's just say conservatively that 10% of those 1.2 million downloads were new people that never heard radiohead before. For absolutly no cost, they were able to get their disc out to 120,000 new people and still made money. I'd say that's worth it.
One thing this didn't account for was advertising. A band that big probably had a huge advertising budget in their past that they no longer had to worry about because being the first ones out of the block, they caught a bit more press on the Internet. There were probably a number of new radiohead fans that were made because of this that will come back and buy future CDs. They might have taken a hit financially, but I think the payoff is going to be bigger in the long run.
Great article. I saw one earlier this summer and it was the coolest thing I think I've seen in the sky. It's akin to something from ID4 (that crappy movie back in '96 with will Smith and aliens) and it's really imposing. Very cool stuff.
Here's the thing. I put 0 for the price because I didn't know radiohead and, to be honest, I'm going to back into their back ctaalog and get other stuff. The disc is really good.
What makes facebook hot right now and the whole social networking scene on is that it allows people simple access to information they want. What makes SL hot is that it's entertaining. People aren't looking, necessairly, for information as much as they are for entertainment. Combinbing those two concepts and you get a world that is too public to be private in (who would want to escape in SL if they knew you were a 35 year old father of two?) and a social network that is too complex to just get information from. End Result? nominal flop.
I really had to ask myself why I was just so giddy about hearing about this. After all, this is the James Carvel of the Republican party right? The only difference for me is that with Carvel, he came off as a good ol' boy that had some entertainment value to hear him speak and Rove, from what I've heard, puts himself across as the Palpatine to Bush's Vader.
According to Christian theology, sin nature comes in through the man which was why Jesus was perfect and sinless.
I'd be interested to see if a human could come from this sort of procedure and what they would be like; theologically they'd have no sin nature.
Wow, there's something to wrap your head around.
People get giddy with their money and spend it foolishly, yes; however, this time around I think it's a bit different. People within the top tier of sites are actually making money, creating business plans, etc. Services that are offered are actually useful and when they aren't, they get eaten.
Great, all I need is to give some little green man my name so he will try and order things on ebay under my name...or maybe geat a visa...not this time!
I'm partly responsible for an image that goes on around 5-600 machines at a Midwestern University College lab. We tried RIS when it was out, but althought it was cool, it was simply not practical. The savings of having 'one' image really didn't outweigh the impracticality of it taking 2-3 hours per workstation per lab.
This is no different; currently it doesn't support multicasting and so although it's 'revolutionary' (read: RIS) it still doesn't beat the ability to push down and image to a workstation is less than 20 minutes...oops, did I say a workstation, I meant a lab.
With such a gap between the cancellation of the first run of futurama shows and the current filming, how do you 'remember' the various voices that you do (Do you review tapes, record yourself and tweak, etc.)?
I'm not an apologist by any stretch of the imagination but this smacks of an RIAA PR firm. Stories like this don't make it into the press by accident especially since the iPod has been around for what, like 5 yearS?
The truth lies somewhere in there, I'd be curious to know the actual conditions and where these things are actually made...
IIS may be up but the question of scaliblity just is hard to beat for them. My experience and those of friends who are responsible for larger installations is that IIS just can't handle the performance that apache can. It's a fine server (except for 5.0 *cough* *cough*) but when you're ready to play in the big leagues apache is the only way to go...
My thought is that brand loyalty is a sure ticket to being useless.
We get into this war where I work from time to time and it always makes me laugh. Simply put, you evaluate everything and choose *the best product*.
For instance, we just bought some fibre channel storage and ended up going with apple for the choice because they were way cheaper than EMC/Dell and it simply did what I needed it to do...well.
I think Ipods are great and they're really useful, but you look at apple's desktop line and you just shoot yourself in the foot. Why get an apple when you can grab 2 PCs for the same money? Don't like Windows, use a distro. It's really not difficult.
Choice is good, but don't shy away from the a choice because of an aparent monopoly...that's just silly.
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There's also another movement that is growing and might work for some classes. People are finding that the class 'constructing' a book for themselves and for future generations of students who will tweak it is working out really well.
Does that make me unable to write? I also don't walk everywhere either (in general), I instead drive, does that make me unable to get around? History is littered with technologies that subvert older technology and causes our brain's work to be used for other things.
I honestly thought NT 4.0 was a great OS; it was the paradigm shifter that brought down OS/2 and really lasted for a while.
There are better ways to prevent distractions. NetOP makes a product that we've been using in computer classrooms for a while that can restrict students Internet access. In a laptop environment, well, as someone said before, if you're surfing you deserve to fail. There will be a lot of times in life where distractions might get in the way of people's ability to concentrate and they need to manage those...crap, now I fell guilty...back to work.
We're in a world where Open Source has created compatability and the goal is brining everyone in under the same roof. Leopard, Ubuntu, SUSE and their ilk have created experiences that are comparable to Windows and, in some cases, even better. The onus is now on MS to keep up. If we're waiting on SP1 for this OS to be stable (which we are) I would have rather they waited a year and released a better product. There was a ars technica article where they interviewed the manager for Vista some time ago and everyone at MS was praising him because he was marshalling people and ditching features in Vista in order to get it out the door. I'm horribly dissapointed in what came out. There were features that I, for one, was looking forward to and would have given Vista's poor security implementation a whole lot more grace in my eyes had they included them. --pete
But what does airplay accomplish when, let's just say conservatively that 10% of those 1.2 million downloads were new people that never heard radiohead before. For absolutly no cost, they were able to get their disc out to 120,000 new people and still made money. I'd say that's worth it.
One thing this didn't account for was advertising. A band that big probably had a huge advertising budget in their past that they no longer had to worry about because being the first ones out of the block, they caught a bit more press on the Internet. There were probably a number of new radiohead fans that were made because of this that will come back and buy future CDs. They might have taken a hit financially, but I think the payoff is going to be bigger in the long run.
Great article. I saw one earlier this summer and it was the coolest thing I think I've seen in the sky. It's akin to something from ID4 (that crappy movie back in '96 with will Smith and aliens) and it's really imposing. Very cool stuff.
Here's the thing. I put 0 for the price because I didn't know radiohead and, to be honest, I'm going to back into their back ctaalog and get other stuff. The disc is really good.
Don't make me install Vista Bro!
What makes facebook hot right now and the whole social networking scene on is that it allows people simple access to information they want. What makes SL hot is that it's entertaining. People aren't looking, necessairly, for information as much as they are for entertainment. Combinbing those two concepts and you get a world that is too public to be private in (who would want to escape in SL if they knew you were a 35 year old father of two?) and a social network that is too complex to just get information from. End Result? nominal flop.
I really had to ask myself why I was just so giddy about hearing about this. After all, this is the James Carvel of the Republican party right? The only difference for me is that with Carvel, he came off as a good ol' boy that had some entertainment value to hear him speak and Rove, from what I've heard, puts himself across as the Palpatine to Bush's Vader.
Right, he was God made flesh, yes, and by definition perfect already. But he avoided the curse and subsequent sin nature by the way he was born.
According to Christian theology, sin nature comes in through the man which was why Jesus was perfect and sinless. I'd be interested to see if a human could come from this sort of procedure and what they would be like; theologically they'd have no sin nature. Wow, there's something to wrap your head around.
People get giddy with their money and spend it foolishly, yes; however, this time around I think it's a bit different. People within the top tier of sites are actually making money, creating business plans, etc. Services that are offered are actually useful and when they aren't, they get eaten.
Purchase rights for students under our contract state that they can buy office for $75. Frontpage is a separate $75.
Great, all I need is to give some little green man my name so he will try and order things on ebay under my name...or maybe geat a visa...not this time!
I'm partly responsible for an image that goes on around 5-600 machines at a Midwestern University College lab. We tried RIS when it was out, but althought it was cool, it was simply not practical. The savings of having 'one' image really didn't outweigh the impracticality of it taking 2-3 hours per workstation per lab.
This is no different; currently it doesn't support multicasting and so although it's 'revolutionary' (read: RIS) it still doesn't beat the ability to push down and image to a workstation is less than 20 minutes...oops, did I say a workstation, I meant a lab.
It still won't beat Ghost any time soon, IMO.
With such a gap between the cancellation of the first run of futurama shows and the current filming, how do you 'remember' the various voices that you do (Do you review tapes, record yourself and tweak, etc.)?
--pete
I'm not an apologist by any stretch of the imagination but this smacks of an RIAA PR firm. Stories like this don't make it into the press by accident especially since the iPod has been around for what, like 5 yearS?
The truth lies somewhere in there, I'd be curious to know the actual conditions and where these things are actually made...
IIS may be up but the question of scaliblity just is hard to beat for them. My experience and those of friends who are responsible for larger installations is that IIS just can't handle the performance that apache can. It's a fine server (except for 5.0 *cough* *cough*) but when you're ready to play in the big leagues apache is the only way to go...
but then again I'm preaching to the choir
should be '99 Problems' by Jay-Z.
.99 at the old' ITMS.
Still
--pete
ha ha
No matter how hard you try. No matter how much I stare at pink, you can't break me.
Who saw the picture of the lizard and thought of SUSE...
--pete
My thought is that brand loyalty is a sure ticket to being useless.
We get into this war where I work from time to time and it always makes me laugh. Simply put, you evaluate everything and choose *the best product*.
For instance, we just bought some fibre channel storage and ended up going with apple for the choice because they were way cheaper than EMC/Dell and it simply did what I needed it to do...well.
I think Ipods are great and they're really useful, but you look at apple's desktop line and you just shoot yourself in the foot. Why get an apple when you can grab 2 PCs for the same money? Don't like Windows, use a distro. It's really not difficult.
Choice is good, but don't shy away from the a choice because of an aparent monopoly...that's just silly.
--pete