For those who already have to wear glasses, there are always bifocals -- I got Varilux progressives when I was 20, and have had far less headaches since.
Eppley in Omaha (world's cleanest airport, or so says the urinal, and I've not seen a cleaner airport yet) always has free WiFi. I see that Microsoft has sponsored MDW and DEN, which would be of use to me had I not already taken care of all my immediate business there.
I'm dysgraphic, and I've used LyX for more complicated math stuff before. For simple stuff, just typing out descriptions in Word (TI83 or C++ style syntax for math works) is fairly efficient.
Otherwise, some iteration of the Wacom Bamboo would allow you to use OneNote, Word for Mac, or other software to do notes with combined pen and keyboard input.
My issue is principally with the comparative importance of some sort of social intervention and collaboration lesson versus the skills advertised in the course catalog, which might be better handled in an individual format. This is particularly the case in an intro class where most of the students may well not be CS or software engineering people and are likely to code individually if at all beyond the final exam.
That's cute, but these are university students who have already sat through 13 years of that in K-12. They signed up and are paying for a class on computer programming and should get what they pay for, not an occasion to "force socialization" -- that's for down at the bar after the assignment deadline.
There's one problem. The baby boomers, with their rock concert habits, are middle-aged now and many are starting to have some serious problems with presbyacusis. I am not an audiologist and don't know if this would alter the feedback this method is using, but I do know that once you get past 25-30 dB loss in material parts of the spectrum you often need a hearing aid for day-to-day life, which generally occludes the ear canal. So with increasing numbers of hard of hearing people, you're going to have to continue alternative means anyhow. Might be easier just to force your clients to get a new PIN every year or something.
It's actually a matter of generally accepted accounting principles, and I still have trouble seeing what Sarbanes has to do with it. It's revenue recognition, which is pure GAAP. The argument is basically that they'd have understated the expenses associated with generating the revenue last period, i.e. overstated net income and it's derivative numbers such as earnings per share, if they added new functionality to sales already recognized.
If each employee gets his job done, i.e. meeting or exceeding assessment criteria without being a complete a-hole, I don't see the harm. In the example of an email from the boss, it may be a higher priority item that needs addressing sooner. Obviously if there are clients involved it's a different can of worms, but laterals and subordinates can put on their big boy pants, and your managers may vary.
I have to agree with you, as well. Notes is a pox on email, and while I understand it has a lot of programmability in theory, in practice at least 75% of people use it only for email, and a good chunk of the remainder use it for only email and calendar. And yet the Mac version of the app is as big as MS Office '04, and nearly '08. The PC version is little better.
This looks like like a personnel management problem than a technological problem, and is easier and probably cheaper to approach it by traditional means.
If one of your subordinates is goofing off with his email and not paying attention to you, tell him to stop.
If he doesn't, call HR and determine the appropriate level of censure.
Cochlear implants have 22 electrodes or so, and the people I know who have them can generally understand reasonably clear speech with the implant. Obviously vision is in two dimensions and will take more signals to reach that level of utility, but 60 is well on the way.
Couldn't wireless HD video theoretically be done with a very small ATSC transmitter with just barely enough range to reach your TV? Obviously the FCC might have some issues, though...
I have a Western Electric Model 500 telephone, manufactured per the bottom plate May of 1963, but including older parts such as the black metal fingerwheel. I think the ringer needs to be adjusted for the voltage on my line, but its line cord has already been replaced with a modular one and it works great -- on cable company phone service no less. So it's working at upwards of 45 years, combination in-service and a few years in the attic.
Obviously this is a simpler device than a computer, but electronics can hold up if they are built right.
My MacBook Pro has an Atheros chip in it. The Atheros driver included with Boot Camp works great on Vista, and OS X wireless is quite smooth, so I have hope for the Linux driver for those who use Apple hardware for Linux.
I am sure that most fields look pretty boring to outsiders.
I'm presently an accounting graduate student, but my undergrad major was history. Most business students seem to think that history would be a pretty boring area. Evidently, few people consider both history and accounting interesting at any level.
This has to do with internal controls... call someone, preferably a CPA or CIA, in the accounting department and he or she can probably explain the ins and outs of it.
I'm an accounting student, and I love my 15" MacBook Pro. In two words, "Excel" and "landscape." The resolution is high enough that I can fit plenty in vertically.
For me, standard decommissioning procedure for any computer is the 7-pass option on the Mac OS X Disk Utility if it's an Apple, or Derek's Boot and Nuke if it's not. Not sure how DBAN would come up in routine maintenance, but in a secure government situation I could imagine a standard procedure of scrambling the drive whenever it needs a format, just in case you wind up replacing the disk instead.
Attached to my belt right now is a Motorola Razr; pending the iPhone, this is the finest wireless telephone made. Reliable, decent sound quality, durable for a cell phone.
And yet I prefer to use my Western Electric 500 -- with a metal dial -- because it's more comfortable and sounds better. A flip-type phone and an mp3 file of a real telephone bell help somewhat but aren't the full deal.
When you buy a tract of land in Second Life, can you capitalize it and stick it on the balance sheet under GAAP, since it will generate revenue in future periods (in fact, much of the publicity benefit would likely come after your venture were established for a while)? If so, is it depreciable or treated like real estate? Or do you have to expense the whole amount to begin with anyhow?
In Nebraska we have scantron sheets... just like the SAT or ACT but with bigger bubbles and, barring a poorly written tax referendum, no algebra or geometry. They work fine, can be handcounted if needed (though I don't recall a time when they ever were), and everyone here seems intelligent enough to make use of them properly.
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For those who already have to wear glasses, there are always bifocals -- I got Varilux progressives when I was 20, and have had far less headaches since.
Eppley in Omaha (world's cleanest airport, or so says the urinal, and I've not seen a cleaner airport yet) always has free WiFi. I see that Microsoft has sponsored MDW and DEN, which would be of use to me had I not already taken care of all my immediate business there.
I'm dysgraphic, and I've used LyX for more complicated math stuff before. For simple stuff, just typing out descriptions in Word (TI83 or C++ style syntax for math works) is fairly efficient. Otherwise, some iteration of the Wacom Bamboo would allow you to use OneNote, Word for Mac, or other software to do notes with combined pen and keyboard input.
My issue is principally with the comparative importance of some sort of social intervention and collaboration lesson versus the skills advertised in the course catalog, which might be better handled in an individual format. This is particularly the case in an intro class where most of the students may well not be CS or software engineering people and are likely to code individually if at all beyond the final exam.
That's cute, but these are university students who have already sat through 13 years of that in K-12. They signed up and are paying for a class on computer programming and should get what they pay for, not an occasion to "force socialization" -- that's for down at the bar after the assignment deadline.
There's one problem. The baby boomers, with their rock concert habits, are middle-aged now and many are starting to have some serious problems with presbyacusis. I am not an audiologist and don't know if this would alter the feedback this method is using, but I do know that once you get past 25-30 dB loss in material parts of the spectrum you often need a hearing aid for day-to-day life, which generally occludes the ear canal. So with increasing numbers of hard of hearing people, you're going to have to continue alternative means anyhow. Might be easier just to force your clients to get a new PIN every year or something.
It's actually a matter of generally accepted accounting principles, and I still have trouble seeing what Sarbanes has to do with it. It's revenue recognition, which is pure GAAP. The argument is basically that they'd have understated the expenses associated with generating the revenue last period, i.e. overstated net income and it's derivative numbers such as earnings per share, if they added new functionality to sales already recognized.
If each employee gets his job done, i.e. meeting or exceeding assessment criteria without being a complete a-hole, I don't see the harm. In the example of an email from the boss, it may be a higher priority item that needs addressing sooner. Obviously if there are clients involved it's a different can of worms, but laterals and subordinates can put on their big boy pants, and your managers may vary.
I have to agree with you, as well. Notes is a pox on email, and while I understand it has a lot of programmability in theory, in practice at least 75% of people use it only for email, and a good chunk of the remainder use it for only email and calendar. And yet the Mac version of the app is as big as MS Office '04, and nearly '08. The PC version is little better.
This looks like like a personnel management problem than a technological problem, and is easier and probably cheaper to approach it by traditional means. If one of your subordinates is goofing off with his email and not paying attention to you, tell him to stop. If he doesn't, call HR and determine the appropriate level of censure.
Cochlear implants have 22 electrodes or so, and the people I know who have them can generally understand reasonably clear speech with the implant. Obviously vision is in two dimensions and will take more signals to reach that level of utility, but 60 is well on the way.
Couldn't wireless HD video theoretically be done with a very small ATSC transmitter with just barely enough range to reach your TV? Obviously the FCC might have some issues, though...
It's using the Source engine. The cake is a lie, so they can't have it or eat it.
I have a Western Electric Model 500 telephone, manufactured per the bottom plate May of 1963, but including older parts such as the black metal fingerwheel. I think the ringer needs to be adjusted for the voltage on my line, but its line cord has already been replaced with a modular one and it works great -- on cable company phone service no less. So it's working at upwards of 45 years, combination in-service and a few years in the attic. Obviously this is a simpler device than a computer, but electronics can hold up if they are built right.
My MacBook Pro has an Atheros chip in it. The Atheros driver included with Boot Camp works great on Vista, and OS X wireless is quite smooth, so I have hope for the Linux driver for those who use Apple hardware for Linux.
I am sure that most fields look pretty boring to outsiders. I'm presently an accounting graduate student, but my undergrad major was history. Most business students seem to think that history would be a pretty boring area. Evidently, few people consider both history and accounting interesting at any level.
This has to do with internal controls ... call someone, preferably a CPA or CIA, in the accounting department and he or she can probably explain the ins and outs of it.
I'm an accounting student, and I love my 15" MacBook Pro. In two words, "Excel" and "landscape." The resolution is high enough that I can fit plenty in vertically.
For that matter, the iPhone itself runs BSD!
For me, standard decommissioning procedure for any computer is the 7-pass option on the Mac OS X Disk Utility if it's an Apple, or Derek's Boot and Nuke if it's not. Not sure how DBAN would come up in routine maintenance, but in a secure government situation I could imagine a standard procedure of scrambling the drive whenever it needs a format, just in case you wind up replacing the disk instead.
Attached to my belt right now is a Motorola Razr; pending the iPhone, this is the finest wireless telephone made. Reliable, decent sound quality, durable for a cell phone.
And yet I prefer to use my Western Electric 500 -- with a metal dial -- because it's more comfortable and sounds better. A flip-type phone and an mp3 file of a real telephone bell help somewhat but aren't the full deal.
When you buy a tract of land in Second Life, can you capitalize it and stick it on the balance sheet under GAAP, since it will generate revenue in future periods (in fact, much of the publicity benefit would likely come after your venture were established for a while)? If so, is it depreciable or treated like real estate? Or do you have to expense the whole amount to begin with anyhow?
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I, for one, have been enjoying getting to use Excel Page Layout View years before almost everyone else.
In Nebraska we have scantron sheets ... just like the SAT or ACT but with bigger bubbles and, barring a poorly written tax referendum, no algebra or geometry. They work fine, can be handcounted if needed (though I don't recall a time when they ever were), and everyone here seems intelligent enough to make use of them properly.
That's not tech literacy, that's just plain literacy. Though tech literacy is lacking too ... it seems that many people are unfamiliar with Excel.