Wasn't this the publicly stated reason for switching when Steve announced the move last summer? They said IBM makes great server chips, but the future of personal computing is laptops, something Intel is putting more R&D into than IBM, and thus provides a better solution.
What do you want to be doing? Standing up straight and running with the ball?
Shouldn't that be "What do you want to be doing, standing up straight and running with the ball?" Otherwise the standing...ball part is a sentence fragment.
Why do you think your speech has no consequences? The purpose of the first amendment is to prevent the government from not allowing you to speak out against it. If an employer gets mad because you spout off some racial slurs, they have a right to fire you. No one questions your right to say anything you want, but if you reflect poorly on a company, they can terminate you. Freedom of speech is not freedom of consequences.
not quite. The Tannenbaum concept involves shipping discs or something, instead of over wires/wireless. This just associates the rfid with some file stored in a central location, i.e. the internet. when the rfid is read, it pulls up the associated file. The information is still sent over traditional means, it's like sending a link to someone, versus emailing the file. Their examples of real world use are a business card pulling up a pic of the person, or a personal website, or a physical bookmark that represents an internet bookmark.
Plus, how many people know how to always use SSL when sending sensitive stuff? I would venture my grandparents and mother have no idea.
Have you tried teaching them? My grandmother knows to use it. She doesn't know what SSL is, and we didn't try explaining it, we never even brought up that term. All we said was "when sending credit card information, look for this little icon of a lock in the corner of the browser window. If it's not there, someone may be able to steal your information."
W isn't a texan, he's from Connecticut. And besides, we just wanted to get rid of him. It's not our fault the rest of the US was stupid enough to take him.
Texas is considered to be in the midwest. I know this because I live in South Carolina
If anything, Texas is part of the southwest, I know this because I live in Texas, and have for my entire life.
Really though, as another poster said, Texas is it's own region. It's certainly big enough, and it is diverse enough that it doesn't fit entirely within either the south or southwest (and not really at all in the midwest). And Texans (at least me), having a strong state identity and very proud of fighting for our own independence and being our own country, prefer to be their own region anyway, rather than being lumped in with other, lesser states;-)
I agree, STM makes very good bags. I have this one, the sports model. It doesn't look like a laptop bag, its very well padded, and very comfortable. My laptop is very secure, and the compartment isn't totally useless when I don't use it for my laptop. Plenty of room for accessories. The quality of stitching and materials is great. I think it is reasonably water resistant, though I have never tested it. The only problem I have had, was the reseller I bought from was laptoptravel.com, which added their own logo on the outside, advertising that it was a laptop bag. Once I removed that, it look just like a normal backpack.
Why would you want to have an eye on your weather widget throughout the day? It's not going to change that rapidly, and you don't need to check it constantly. There are very few things I want cluttering my desktop all day, because there are very few things I need to constantly look at.
notice how they use the term "fluid" not liquid in most of that description. Fluid can refer to either liquids or gasses, so a phase change is not ruled out.
I think you mean to say " The simple, conspiracy-free answer to this riddle is that MSN just has an awesome search engine that DOES return porn sites when you search for XFree86."
As a high school senior in a Statistics AP class currently studying confidence intervals and hypothesis testing, I think you are missing something. At the beginning, he clearly states your point: "One codec can be said to rated better than another codec with 95% confidence if the bottom of its line segment is at or above the top of the competing codec's line segment." The author gives which one is in first place, but announces at the beginning the requirements for a clear winner. And the author seems to me to be requiring at least half an interval of difference to even say that, much of the time he says they are tied.
I'd guess it's because people weren't as stupid as the battery companies thought they were. Most people know full well the strip works by heating up, and that wastes the power of the battery.
Don't be so sure of that. I asked several of my friends, and not one of them knew that it wastes the battery to test it. I've never thought about it, and no one ever told me before now.
The real problem in your thinking is that you regard computers as an ends, not a means. You want to teach people to use a computer. Computers are a tool. For example, you don't teach hammering, you teach building that requires hammering.
I attend a high school where laptops are required. The revision process of papers is much easier than back in middle school when it was all pen and paper. We have wireless internet all over campus and can research any time, any place. They can be connected to instruments in science class to take measurements for labs, and graph the data for you. Less time is spent doing tedious graphing, so more can be devoted to the understanding of those graphs. We have math software to generate graphs, and you can play with numbers and instantly see how they will affect the graph. We have assignments sent out by email, posted to the web. I can be sick one day, email my teachers, and get my assignments mailed to me that day so I won't fall behind.
They also allow for more creative assigments. Rather than just writing papers, we have built websites (with Frontpage, which sucks, but those who don't know computers don't care, and I code my own html), we make brochures, movies, etc.
I agree that they cannot be used as a crutch. Younger kids probably should not have that much computer time. Basic skills like arithmetic and graphing and especially proper spelling and grammar should be taught, then show the timesaving tools to advance to the next level quickly. Teachers have non-calculator portions on tests to ensure that calculators are not a crutch. But keep in mind that computers can still be used to teach fundamental skills. There are a number of spelling and grammar games that are a lot more entertaining for children than worksheets and textbooks.
do you actually think the monitor will last 20 years? Even if it does, the ports to connect them will probably change. My dad had a large crt, very good quality. He bought a new computer a couple years ago, and it had this new fangled vga port. The crt was rgb. we had a string of converters about a foot long trying to get it to work right, to no avail. In 20 years we could have 3d holographic displays. And the iMac may be obsolete, but it will still work. I have an iMac thats 4 1/2 years old, and up until yesterday it was still working great. Then yesterday we had some major storms, and a power surge or lightning or something, and now the speakers are fried. But in the time I have had it, LCD's have become more and more mainstream. It's not unreasonable to think that something new will come along, either plasma or 3d, or just a new standard of connecting them. And as long as the computer still works, so does the monitor. Why would I stop using it because it is obsolete.
Read the article people. They give it credit because Jobs was able to get the music industry to agree to it. Before, they were scared of piracy, and allowed only heavily restrictive DRM. Jobs got them to agree to moderate DRM, and the service has taken off. That is why they are the coolest.
You hear it more at night. During the day there is so much other background noise, like kids playing, tv blaring, traffic noise, etc. During the night the background noise is greatly reduced, and the jet sounds louder and is noticed more.
They aren't worried about other people getting sued, they are worrying over themselves being sued. If you noticed, Kazaa has not been successfully sued. Also, the government cannot sue people for saying something that is true.
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Wasn't this the publicly stated reason for switching when Steve announced the move last summer? They said IBM makes great server chips, but the future of personal computing is laptops, something Intel is putting more R&D into than IBM, and thus provides a better solution.
why is this news?
Not that I'm nitpicking or anything
Why do you think your speech has no consequences? The purpose of the first amendment is to prevent the government from not allowing you to speak out against it. If an employer gets mad because you spout off some racial slurs, they have a right to fire you. No one questions your right to say anything you want, but if you reflect poorly on a company, they can terminate you. Freedom of speech is not freedom of consequences.
Also, there is a long history of collaberation between NASA and Rice.
:)
Of course there is. Rice donated the land for the Johnson Space Center. And as a current Rice student, that sounds perfectly fair to me
This is slashdot. He would be humiliated dancing without the tablet PC.
Man, I would have been happy with just not having to charge the battery, but to be able to run with no charge at all, that's impressive!!! :-)
to finish... "with many beautiful women" - Ranier Wolfcastle
not quite. The Tannenbaum concept involves shipping discs or something, instead of over wires/wireless. This just associates the rfid with some file stored in a central location, i.e. the internet. when the rfid is read, it pulls up the associated file. The information is still sent over traditional means, it's like sending a link to someone, versus emailing the file. Their examples of real world use are a business card pulling up a pic of the person, or a personal website, or a physical bookmark that represents an internet bookmark.
W isn't a texan, he's from Connecticut. And besides, we just wanted to get rid of him. It's not our fault the rest of the US was stupid enough to take him.
Really though, as another poster said, Texas is it's own region. It's certainly big enough, and it is diverse enough that it doesn't fit entirely within either the south or southwest (and not really at all in the midwest). And Texans (at least me), having a strong state identity and very proud of fighting for our own independence and being our own country, prefer to be their own region anyway, rather than being lumped in with other, lesser states
Sure, just add even more holes to the system...
I agree, STM makes very good bags. I have this one, the sports model. It doesn't look like a laptop bag, its very well padded, and very comfortable. My laptop is very secure, and the compartment isn't totally useless when I don't use it for my laptop. Plenty of room for accessories. The quality of stitching and materials is great. I think it is reasonably water resistant, though I have never tested it. The only problem I have had, was the reseller I bought from was laptoptravel.com, which added their own logo on the outside, advertising that it was a laptop bag. Once I removed that, it look just like a normal backpack.
Why would you want to have an eye on your weather widget throughout the day? It's not going to change that rapidly, and you don't need to check it constantly. There are very few things I want cluttering my desktop all day, because there are very few things I need to constantly look at.
notice how they use the term "fluid" not liquid in most of that description. Fluid can refer to either liquids or gasses, so a phase change is not ruled out.
shouldn't that be
"your iPod or your iLife"
I think you mean to say " The simple, conspiracy-free answer to this riddle is that MSN just has an awesome search engine that DOES return porn sites when you search for XFree86."
As a high school senior in a Statistics AP class currently studying confidence intervals and hypothesis testing, I think you are missing something. At the beginning, he clearly states your point: "One codec can be said to rated better than another codec with 95% confidence if the bottom of its line segment is at or above the top of the competing codec's line segment." The author gives which one is in first place, but announces at the beginning the requirements for a clear winner. And the author seems to me to be requiring at least half an interval of difference to even say that, much of the time he says they are tied.
I'd guess it's because people weren't as stupid as the battery companies thought they were. Most people know full well the strip works by heating up, and that wastes the power of the battery.
Don't be so sure of that. I asked several of my friends, and not one of them knew that it wastes the battery to test it. I've never thought about it, and no one ever told me before now.
The real problem in your thinking is that you regard computers as an ends, not a means. You want to teach people to use a computer. Computers are a tool. For example, you don't teach hammering, you teach building that requires hammering.
I attend a high school where laptops are required. The revision process of papers is much easier than back in middle school when it was all pen and paper. We have wireless internet all over campus and can research any time, any place. They can be connected to instruments in science class to take measurements for labs, and graph the data for you. Less time is spent doing tedious graphing, so more can be devoted to the understanding of those graphs. We have math software to generate graphs, and you can play with numbers and instantly see how they will affect the graph. We have assignments sent out by email, posted to the web. I can be sick one day, email my teachers, and get my assignments mailed to me that day so I won't fall behind.
They also allow for more creative assigments. Rather than just writing papers, we have built websites (with Frontpage, which sucks, but those who don't know computers don't care, and I code my own html), we make brochures, movies, etc.
I agree that they cannot be used as a crutch. Younger kids probably should not have that much computer time. Basic skills like arithmetic and graphing and especially proper spelling and grammar should be taught, then show the timesaving tools to advance to the next level quickly. Teachers have non-calculator portions on tests to ensure that calculators are not a crutch. But keep in mind that computers can still be used to teach fundamental skills. There are a number of spelling and grammar games that are a lot more entertaining for children than worksheets and textbooks.
Look closer, and you will see it is a 1/5 scale prototype
do you actually think the monitor will last 20 years? Even if it does, the ports to connect them will probably change. My dad had a large crt, very good quality. He bought a new computer a couple years ago, and it had this new fangled vga port. The crt was rgb. we had a string of converters about a foot long trying to get it to work right, to no avail. In 20 years we could have 3d holographic displays. And the iMac may be obsolete, but it will still work. I have an iMac thats 4 1/2 years old, and up until yesterday it was still working great. Then yesterday we had some major storms, and a power surge or lightning or something, and now the speakers are fried. But in the time I have had it, LCD's have become more and more mainstream. It's not unreasonable to think that something new will come along, either plasma or 3d, or just a new standard of connecting them. And as long as the computer still works, so does the monitor. Why would I stop using it because it is obsolete.
Read the article people. They give it credit because Jobs was able to get the music industry to agree to it. Before, they were scared of piracy, and allowed only heavily restrictive DRM. Jobs got them to agree to moderate DRM, and the service has taken off. That is why they are the coolest.
You hear it more at night. During the day there is so much other background noise, like kids playing, tv blaring, traffic noise, etc. During the night the background noise is greatly reduced, and the jet sounds louder and is noticed more.
They aren't worried about other people getting sued, they are worrying over themselves being sued. If you noticed, Kazaa has not been successfully sued. Also, the government cannot sue people for saying something that is true.