This is not about thinking outside of the box, this is about a kid being snotty.
If the rest of the class was using IE (or whatever) for their task, and the teacher wanted everyone to be using the same tools, they have the right to insist on it. The article doesn't say what the task was, but if the environment in which the student was working was unfamiliar, the teacher might not be comfortable knowing, for instance, that the kid wasn't cheating in some way.
When I was a kid, we wrote all papers by hand, as computers were not widespread, nor printers that had anything better than that ugly dot-matrix stuff. And we were typically told to write in black or blue ink; if someone wrote in red ink, or some other color, they were likely to get their score docked for not following instructions. Arguably arbitrary, even silly, but learning how to follow instructions is important, or you may not find yourself with opportunities to "think outside the box".
Having done some teaching of kids at various age levels, I can imagine what the exchange was like. Detention is not the end of the world, and without knowing the details of the interaction, the task, and some other elements that could affect how this was viewed, it's not possible to tell for sure, but it does not seem like the punishment is outrageous for the crime of insubordination.
...why doesn't PJ work her magic on the RIAA? I can't help but think that her constant vigil and simple-get-the-truth-out interpretations of activity in the SCO case helped keep the good guys motivated.
Actually, I think there are. I think there's North 1st through, like 3rd. I might be wrong, but I could swear I've seen a sign that matched/N \d/. but maybe I'm wrong.
And yes, NoPo does belie the idea that it's a quadrant city, but it's kind of a wedge. I think of it as the 5th quadrant, kind of like the 5th Beatle. It's a defining feature of the city, but most people just know about the other four.
And Portland, OR, is a quadrant city, so there's two 42nd Ave's, on the east and the west side of the river. And each of those is divided into north and south sections by Burnside...
so are we talking about NE/SE 42nd, or NW/SW 42nd, or both, or maybe just 1/2 of one of those Avenues?
What... do you think they'll try to make players pay a fee for every time they hear a song? Sue players for having more people in the room than they've bought controllers for?
It'd be my hope that this means that the entire UMG library will be available for GH players to use, but I'm afraid of what they're actually likely to do.
> I just pulled the spark plugs out of every car on my block. How much faster will my commute be?
It depends on how big your block is, how many households, how many cars, how many of those cars leave at the same time as you, and the width and condition of the street. Additionally, the total perceived improvement will be based on how much of your commute time is just getting off your block, the number of those cars which go the same route as you, and the capacity and utilization on the rest of your commute. If, for instance, the other cars all turn right where you turn left, and that left turn puts you right into the driveway of your office, the effect of your work will be quite significant.
Of course, it also depends on you sharing the road with them. If you use different infrastructure--by walking, since its so short, or by taking off in your helicopter if you've gotta go a few hundred miles--then there will be zero impact on your commute time from your actions. Of course, you might come home to an angry mob that night.
"Blactavision" makes me think of "Blacula". But silly as that (and my suggestion) sounds, it's better than "Activision Blizzard". What were they thinking? They may as well have called themselves "No Imagination Games Corp."
-Keeping Activision (on its own) would have been cool for the nostalgia factor.
-Keeping Blizzard (on its own) would have been cool for the currently-successful factor
-If they couldn't decide, they should have just gotten a new name altogether. Maybe they could have sold themselves as a bridge between the gaming industry and general media distributors and called themselves gPod. Or maybe Gune...
The same thing is done in the US on mattresses. You'll never find the same Sealy mattress at Macys as you will at Sears. For instance, using made-up names, at Macys, it'll be called the regal and it'll have a crown print on it, and at Sears, it'll be called the monarch, and it'll have a floral print on it. Inside, the descriptions are the same, but because the model names are different, you can't do the comparison shopping with any certainty that you're comparing apples to apples.
I never made it to Salar de Uyuni, but I spent some time in Bolivia, and it's one of the most amazing, diverse places I've visited. Anyone who wants to see Sorata, a jumping off place for climbing 20,000 ft mountains, Rurrenabaque, a town on the edge of the Bolivian arm of the Amazon river basin or Copacabana, on the shores of Lake Titicaca, click away!
Why do you need to do anything anonymously? If you go to the programmer who did the copying, who is now the project lead, and indicate that you feel that there's a possibility that the code used might expose the company to legal risks, then it is up to him or her to do the right thing. You can certainly ask for a follow-up for documentation (i.e. SOX) purposes.
You might find that he or she is very appreciative of your efforts, and going to him or her was really great for your career. Unless there is a reason you don't feel safe going to this person--ie if they were sexually harassing you--they should be your very first stop.
My reaction to the whole thing was similar to my reaction to our fair president's Iraq/WMD claims. I couldn't believe, right from the start, that anyone would take them seriously.
SCO's attempts to claim ownership of so much Linux IP seemed like the sleaziest of technicality-mongering I've ever seen. To use another governmental parallel, it wasn't much better when Cheney tried to claim that, since he's the VP, he is a member of congress when people say he's beholden to executive branch rules, and he's an exec when people try to hold him to congressional rules. You may be able to twist and turn the text of a law to fit your needs when talking to some people, but there are a lot of good judges out there, and they'll hold your feet to the fire. IANAL, but my wife is, and she's told me some stories about judges that make me want to sit up straight and say, "Yes, your honor" right here in my office.
I'm sort of glad that this took so long, although the cost to innocent parties has been higher than it should have. But the good news is that these folks tried just about everything to wrest Linux from the hands of the people who created it; someone will have to have a pretty good case to make a serious challenge in the future (I hope).
And the good news is that some pretty big guns got on the OSS wagon just in time. Without dual threat of IBM, RedHat and Novell--and all the money that they were willing to throw at it--plus a lot of smaller players, a lot more people might have rolled over, and without a good legal team, it would have been hard to protect the Linux chicken coop from the SCO weasels.
It is a shame that nobody is going to jail. I haven't personally looked behind the corporate veil, but I can't help but think that Darl and his buddies would better serve the world making license plates in the state pen than they would in a board room anywhere. If they caused as much trouble driving their cars as they did at SCO, they'd have their licenses taken away; it'd be nice to see them at least being prohibited from working for any organization other than a sole proprietorship.
Last, but not least, I know it's been said before, but we've got to tip our (red) hats to PJ over at Groklaw. Her tireless analysis and commentary kept a nice, geek-friendly spotlight on this issue for the duration; the world's a better place for people like her.
I can't tell if you're joking here. I don't think anyone would dispute that the XBox 360 does all sorts of cool things, but I think what the parent poster was referring to was not the thing's capabilities, but rather the fact that it breaks down all the time. That's what most people don't like about it.
I don't think anyone has ever complained about the gaming experience, or how HD DVDs look on the XBox 360, but a lot of people have complained that it's not reliable, and a gaming system that can't game is, in most people's minds, a POS, or something equivalent.
Out of curiosity, how often does yours break? I know someone who went through three in a matter of six months. He ended up buying another one to ensure that he had a spare around when one needed to be sent in for warantee work...
The iPhone actually isn't just a phone. In fact, it's arguable whether or not it's among the best phones out there. There are phones with simpler--i.e. phone only--interfaces, nicer form factors (little flip phones, for example) and probably better sound, clearer reception, etc.
The attraction of the iPhone is that it isn't just a phone. I don't have one, and probably won't get one for some time, but there are times--like when I'm traveling--that I would prefer to have one device that fulfills the functions of my Palm, my phone, and my video iPod all at once. The fact that this device does all this and more, including what I believe is a best-of-breed palmtop web access interface, puts it well outside the "just a phone" category.
But the real point here is not that it's the best thing ever. It's not. The point is that people only have (a) so much money, and (b) so much patience and space for carrying around gadgets. If people didn't want to carry a phone, a palm and an iPod, and consolidated them into an iPhone, then they aren't likely to want to add a new device for reading purposes unless there is something really revolutionary about the device. For someone who has to read on a portable device for a living, I can see them getting this and using it. If it were really cheap, I could see it being a popular gift. If the interface were sleek and simple, maybe it would be successful. But unfortunately, it's not all that awesome, and it's not cheap. I'd be very surprised if it gained more than a tiny niche audience.
People don't want one more thing to sync, to charge, to update, to carry, to protect. The iPhone is not the best at each thing that it does. However, it's good enough at a lot of things, including, potentially, at being an e-reader, that it's probably going to be tough for an expensive, single-function device to compete with it without some major advances.
Oh, don't be silly. Nobody is claiming that they did not do something wrong. Nobody is even really supporting the idea that it was an innocent mistake. They should have known better, and IIRC, someone did lose their job over it.
What people are saying is that anyone who has held AAPL stock for any length of time over the last five years has made money--potentially lots of it--not lost it.
Was there a period of time where their apparent earnings were incorrectly valued at $84 million over what they should have been, and did that artificially inflate the stock value? Yes and probably. Was it wrong? Yes. Should people be able to sue for damages because they only made $10,000 off their investment instead of $15,000? I could probably argue both sides, but the story here is that the courts have said no.
For those people who are calling Jobs a crook and saying that he should be axed for this, I can probably see both sides of the equation. But I highly doubt that this was a planned attempt on his part to defraud anybody. Backdating options isn't illegal; reporting it incorrectly is, and that was the problem. It was fixed, and the hit to the stock value probably hit Jobs more than any other single shareholder. And gee, not that I want to see a criminal running a company I've invested in, but I think he's paid his dues, and if he were to leave, I think it's likely that AAPL would take a pretty significant dive, hurting shareholders more.
My father uses part of his old PDP-11; it's the case, in which he put rack shelves to house lots of X86 boxes.
He consults for clients who use cyclotrons for medical purposes (think: generating tracers for use in PET/CAT scans); some time back, he had a client using a machine that had been controlled by a PDP-11, but that machine was getting less and less reliable. He found a nice PDP-11 emulator, dedicated a Windows box to running it, and bingo, he had a nice new controller for his client.
:) That is exactly the point I was making. I understand the (not-so) subtle difference and was giving an illustration of where the confusion may lay.
Maybe "+1 Interesting" should be renamed "+1 Interesting, but not insightful". But if it's interesting and not insightful, then it's really merely entertaining. However, if we add a "+1 Entertaining", people would confuse it with "+1 Funny". To resolve that, we'd have to add "+1 Entertaining, but not funny".
Otherwise, people might just have to think about how they use words. That may, unfortunately, not be a reasonable burden for many to bear.
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If the rest of the class was using IE (or whatever) for their task, and the teacher wanted everyone to be using the same tools, they have the right to insist on it. The article doesn't say what the task was, but if the environment in which the student was working was unfamiliar, the teacher might not be comfortable knowing, for instance, that the kid wasn't cheating in some way.
When I was a kid, we wrote all papers by hand, as computers were not widespread, nor printers that had anything better than that ugly dot-matrix stuff. And we were typically told to write in black or blue ink; if someone wrote in red ink, or some other color, they were likely to get their score docked for not following instructions. Arguably arbitrary, even silly, but learning how to follow instructions is important, or you may not find yourself with opportunities to "think outside the box".
Having done some teaching of kids at various age levels, I can imagine what the exchange was like. Detention is not the end of the world, and without knowing the details of the interaction, the task, and some other elements that could affect how this was viewed, it's not possible to tell for sure, but it does not seem like the punishment is outrageous for the crime of insubordination.
Help the world, Groklaw... you're our only hope!
And yes, NoPo does belie the idea that it's a quadrant city, but it's kind of a wedge. I think of it as the 5th quadrant, kind of like the 5th Beatle. It's a defining feature of the city, but most people just know about the other four.
so are we talking about NE/SE 42nd, or NW/SW 42nd, or both, or maybe just 1/2 of one of those Avenues?
</Homer>
It'd be my hope that this means that the entire UMG library will be available for GH players to use, but I'm afraid of what they're actually likely to do.
It depends on how big your block is, how many households, how many cars, how many of those cars leave at the same time as you, and the width and condition of the street. Additionally, the total perceived improvement will be based on how much of your commute time is just getting off your block, the number of those cars which go the same route as you, and the capacity and utilization on the rest of your commute. If, for instance, the other cars all turn right where you turn left, and that left turn puts you right into the driveway of your office, the effect of your work will be quite significant.
Of course, it also depends on you sharing the road with them. If you use different infrastructure--by walking, since its so short, or by taking off in your helicopter if you've gotta go a few hundred miles--then there will be zero impact on your commute time from your actions. Of course, you might come home to an angry mob that night.
"Blactavision" makes me think of "Blacula". But silly as that (and my suggestion) sounds, it's better than "Activision Blizzard". What were they thinking? They may as well have called themselves "No Imagination Games Corp."
-Keeping Activision (on its own) would have been cool for the nostalgia factor.
-Keeping Blizzard (on its own) would have been cool for the currently-successful factor
-If they couldn't decide, they should have just gotten a new name altogether. Maybe they could have sold themselves as a bridge between the gaming industry and general media distributors and called themselves gPod. Or maybe Gune...
I hate that stuff.
You might find that he or she is very appreciative of your efforts, and going to him or her was really great for your career. Unless there is a reason you don't feel safe going to this person--ie if they were sexually harassing you--they should be your very first stop.
SCO's attempts to claim ownership of so much Linux IP seemed like the sleaziest of technicality-mongering I've ever seen. To use another governmental parallel, it wasn't much better when Cheney tried to claim that, since he's the VP, he is a member of congress when people say he's beholden to executive branch rules, and he's an exec when people try to hold him to congressional rules. You may be able to twist and turn the text of a law to fit your needs when talking to some people, but there are a lot of good judges out there, and they'll hold your feet to the fire. IANAL, but my wife is, and she's told me some stories about judges that make me want to sit up straight and say, "Yes, your honor" right here in my office.
I'm sort of glad that this took so long, although the cost to innocent parties has been higher than it should have. But the good news is that these folks tried just about everything to wrest Linux from the hands of the people who created it; someone will have to have a pretty good case to make a serious challenge in the future (I hope).
And the good news is that some pretty big guns got on the OSS wagon just in time. Without dual threat of IBM, RedHat and Novell--and all the money that they were willing to throw at it--plus a lot of smaller players, a lot more people might have rolled over, and without a good legal team, it would have been hard to protect the Linux chicken coop from the SCO weasels.
It is a shame that nobody is going to jail. I haven't personally looked behind the corporate veil, but I can't help but think that Darl and his buddies would better serve the world making license plates in the state pen than they would in a board room anywhere. If they caused as much trouble driving their cars as they did at SCO, they'd have their licenses taken away; it'd be nice to see them at least being prohibited from working for any organization other than a sole proprietorship.
Last, but not least, I know it's been said before, but we've got to tip our (red) hats to PJ over at Groklaw. Her tireless analysis and commentary kept a nice, geek-friendly spotlight on this issue for the duration; the world's a better place for people like her.
I don't think anyone has ever complained about the gaming experience, or how HD DVDs look on the XBox 360, but a lot of people have complained that it's not reliable, and a gaming system that can't game is, in most people's minds, a POS, or something equivalent.
Out of curiosity, how often does yours break? I know someone who went through three in a matter of six months. He ended up buying another one to ensure that he had a spare around when one needed to be sent in for warantee work...
The attraction of the iPhone is that it isn't just a phone. I don't have one, and probably won't get one for some time, but there are times--like when I'm traveling--that I would prefer to have one device that fulfills the functions of my Palm, my phone, and my video iPod all at once. The fact that this device does all this and more, including what I believe is a best-of-breed palmtop web access interface, puts it well outside the "just a phone" category.
But the real point here is not that it's the best thing ever. It's not. The point is that people only have (a) so much money, and (b) so much patience and space for carrying around gadgets. If people didn't want to carry a phone, a palm and an iPod, and consolidated them into an iPhone, then they aren't likely to want to add a new device for reading purposes unless there is something really revolutionary about the device. For someone who has to read on a portable device for a living, I can see them getting this and using it. If it were really cheap, I could see it being a popular gift. If the interface were sleek and simple, maybe it would be successful. But unfortunately, it's not all that awesome, and it's not cheap. I'd be very surprised if it gained more than a tiny niche audience.
People don't want one more thing to sync, to charge, to update, to carry, to protect. The iPhone is not the best at each thing that it does. However, it's good enough at a lot of things, including, potentially, at being an e-reader, that it's probably going to be tough for an expensive, single-function device to compete with it without some major advances.
Bees Don't Lie.
What people are saying is that anyone who has held AAPL stock for any length of time over the last five years has made money--potentially lots of it--not lost it.
Was there a period of time where their apparent earnings were incorrectly valued at $84 million over what they should have been, and did that artificially inflate the stock value? Yes and probably. Was it wrong? Yes. Should people be able to sue for damages because they only made $10,000 off their investment instead of $15,000? I could probably argue both sides, but the story here is that the courts have said no.
For those people who are calling Jobs a crook and saying that he should be axed for this, I can probably see both sides of the equation. But I highly doubt that this was a planned attempt on his part to defraud anybody. Backdating options isn't illegal; reporting it incorrectly is, and that was the problem. It was fixed, and the hit to the stock value probably hit Jobs more than any other single shareholder. And gee, not that I want to see a criminal running a company I've invested in, but I think he's paid his dues, and if he were to leave, I think it's likely that AAPL would take a pretty significant dive, hurting shareholders more.
Just my $0.02
He consults for clients who use cyclotrons for medical purposes (think: generating tracers for use in PET/CAT scans); some time back, he had a client using a machine that had been controlled by a PDP-11, but that machine was getting less and less reliable. He found a nice PDP-11 emulator, dedicated a Windows box to running it, and bingo, he had a nice new controller for his client.
Good times.
Maybe "+1 Interesting" should be renamed "+1 Interesting, but not insightful". But if it's interesting and not insightful, then it's really merely entertaining. However, if we add a "+1 Entertaining", people would confuse it with "+1 Funny". To resolve that, we'd have to add "+1 Entertaining, but not funny".
Otherwise, people might just have to think about how they use words. That may, unfortunately, not be a reasonable burden for many to bear.