The teacher is likely quite like many of the professors I have had over the years. They don't engage the students -- they spew out their lecture as if they are talking to their academic equals -- instead of students.
There are students up to the challenge, and in history classes I felt I could do that. However, in literature classes, it's the job of a teacher to motivate and engage their students. At the college level however, the professors have largely *never* been educated in proper teaching methods and ways to engage students. Some pick it up as they go, and a LOT just 'stick to the script'.
Really the outlawing of laptops in a classroom tells me that this teacher drones on and on about a topic, and doesn't give the students a CHANCE to look up. They likely know how she grades, how she gives tests, and that everything she is saying is going to be on the exam, so they are furiously typing away getting the material into words they remember, and understand. If the teacher instead posed questions, and answered questions as they relate to the subject matter -- they will have a lot more luck in students remembering the material as well as being genuinely interested by it. I had a history teacher or two who used this approach and what a difference it was... I enjoy history more now than I did in college, and that was a helpful primer on learning to appreciate it.
And if I haven't already hinted at it... this teacher needs to get with the times. Laptops are here to stay, and it's not the technology that has to change and evolve -- that HAS. It's the teaching methods that have to.
Thanks for that, extremely helpful and something I didn't know about:)
However, it's still wishful thinking, to hope that OS X can replicate all the sysadmin chores I have to do on my servers. In a perfect world yes, but until then I hope that dual booting is a viable alternative and thus, I can get away without having to worry about it.
That there will be no more Madden games? I am always eager to spend about $60 for John Madden saying X more catch phrases and adding TWO PLAYS!
It's the indy game developers that will be benefitting shortly folks.. Nintendo has it right by releasing a CHEAP dev kit so that indy developers can get in on the magic. Additionally you have companies like id Software releasing GPLed versions of their graphics engines so that people can make games easily and while the eye candy won't be AWESOME, it will be the gameplay that finally makes a comeback.
It's why I'm looking forward to Nintendo titles for the Revolution. The concept for their controller and their games have always been fun, regardless of how bad the graphics compare to other systems. If it's one thing Dvorak said partially right, it's that graphics are going to plateau, and then companies like EA will start feeling the hurt.
When the iBooks are released (or are they Macbooks now? -- whatever...), I will be able to work on my XP Machine (no remote desktop on OSX, or is there? NOT VNC!), and then reboot and 'play' on my OSX Machine:)
I find it upsetting to see that the liberalism, the intelligence, the artwork, etc.. has taken a downward spiral in recent years, instead of striving for more.
That said, I think Muslims who emmigrate to the United States generally are representative of those who are more liberal, hard working, and smarter than ever before. Too bad the billion other Muslims in the world overshadow any successes that modern adapted Muslims have made.
This list is nice, but I think 'people' created them... not Muslims. The more we introduce Muslims as a separate class of people the more they will want us to give them preferential treatment. We are blowing you up for oil, not your religion. Dammit.
They just need to remember that for a home audience, there's a lot more to go around in terms of competition, and their 'name recognition' means nothing to those that don't understand the nature of Cisco's business. There are so many inherent biases to Cisco products (the PIX, their routers, etc) that we forget, in the networking world at least, that there are other good offerings out there.
That, and home users are not going to pay an arm and a leg just to have something that is stamped "Powered by Cisco". Make a good product, make it affordable and competitive with others, and Cisco has a shot here. If they want to jack up the rates because of some preconcieved notion about their product lineup, they will find quickly how the consumers at large will reject them. As I said, home users don't know and don't care what Cisco does.
Makes it more unsightly than a Windows box. You have to add a hard drive -- external because the internals have OSX on it. There's one device.
Then you need a TV Tuner -- external.
Then you need to be able to pass the sound to a reciever perhaps -- more external devices.
After all is said and done.... sad to say, but Microsoft's Media Center is more suitable for a DVR solution. However, if you're just using it to browse movies (you already have digitally stored) or music, then the Mac Mini may be a good choice, since Front Row is really nice. But for recording TV (As I do now), the MCE solution is far, far better. And it's unfortunate because I'd much rather have a mac on my TV:)
Dell is a desktop PC vendor. They sell servers sure, but they aren't making as big gains as Sun, HP, etc who offer AMD servers. Dell's money comes from selling desktop systems to home and business users.
That said... Linux isn't ready for the desktop. Servers? Sure! They are solid, fast, and relatively good at memory management (though I've heard bad things about the recent kernels).
If the world understood Linux as a whole, and that everybody had common knowledge how to tar files, how to do./installs or whatever, then this would be a moot point. But the fact is that everybody *doesn't*. In fact, I'm fuzzy on it myself, and I've put some effort into learning at least the ropes of Linux. I host my website on a Linux system, and it's rock solid and fast.
But on a desktop? Sorry folks... it's just not there yet. Application installations are PAINFUL. And yes, I know about UP2DATE, Yum, Apt-get, etc... but it's as stupid as saying "Hey go to Windows Update for all your software". The fact of the matter is, sometimes you find a simple piece of software that seems interesting, and it's mind boggling for the new(ish) user to get it installed. You're looking for this dependancy, then that one, then another. Then you have to compile it to run.
Right now, there's only enthusiasm to support one destop OS other than Windows -- and that's Mac OSX. And why? Drag an application in, and it's installed. Self contained. Just fucking works. Drag it out, it's uninstalled. Just fucking works. It's clean, it's intuitive, it's pretty, and it has easy to use applications. It is developed with the 'idiot' in mind.
And since most people who buy Dells for their home systems ARE computer idiots -- it's suffice to say that Linux is not a smart move to add into their repertoire of products. It's a business folks.. they are in it to make money.
Sadly, the legislators who propose such idiotic laws are not students of history. Regardless of the increase in violent video games, increase in sexual material, etc etc... the statistics will show otherwise.
Violence, in the last 50 years, has been on a downward decline per capita. Don't believe me? Go look it up -- the Bureau of Justice (http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/) has detailed information on this. Sexual crime is up a bit over the last 50 years, but this is due to the internet making it easier for people to be preyed on, and improved tracking due to investigative techniques to catch these guys.
I will not argue the fact that violent video games give children a tendency to be more violent. This is where PARENTING comes in. I have an aunt who instead of really raising her children, plops them in front of TV or Playstation, lets them do whatever and buys them all the video games where people are beating the living shit out of each other -- all in high graphic detail.
I know I couldn't fix her lack of parenting skills, so I spilled water on their Playstation (quite purposely) and it died. I bought them a Gamecube with some Mario games -- what a difference it makes. At least they are playing the games I grew up on, in some form at least. They may not be as graphically appealing, but they are fun and meant for kids. Even big kids, like me. Mario Party kicks some serious ass:)
I still don't see much point in legislating against this -- essentially you are legislating so that people like my aunt don't have to do their jobs as parents. As the old saying goes, "It takes a village." And it's true... and will become more prevalent as kids get more unruly, and the typical diagnosis of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder is prescribed by overeager doctors. I think drugging up your kids won't work forever... at some point you have to let them free in the real world, and that takes you to raise them well, your family to help and support, and the ability to see ALL choices (good and bad) and make rationale decisions on their own.
Nobody's going to learn anything if you just suppress what is available anyway. At 10 years old, I had Playboys in my hands -- I don't think that was legal either, but it still wasn't very difficult to get my hands on. The same applies here.
Skype is releasing an Intel-only feature, for something that will likely be used by.00001% of the market place. In addition to the fact, if you don't have the Dual Core Intel processor (which makes the percentage even lower), you won't be able to use the feature that likely won't be that appealing to begin with.
Either way, I don't get the hoohah about all of it. Skype is a relatively bloated piece of software whose concept is old and done by many other companies. Now they are supporting a specific processor for an unused feature, and AMD sicks their lawyers on it. If in fact, it does have something to do with the monopolistic practices, then it's understandable... but I think it's idiotic.
The Truth (tm), has a way of getting out. While China is a repressive place for people, there are still some VERY brilliant people (read about the Pebble Bed nuclear reactor earlier on Slashdot), who will get the Internet to flow in an underground way.
I imagine the smart engineers who figure the ways around the controls of the government will do an "Illuminati" type of movement, secretive, and purposeful -- and eventually it will help to overthrow the government.
Like I said... it's going to be entertaining to watch over the next decade or so.
Communism betrays two common HUMAN characteristics -- greed and jealousy. Any time a system is implemented that goes against those characteristics.. it's doomed. That's why the Chinese ruling party have been very accomodating to the 'common man', giving them opportunities and money they otherwise never would have seen.
But you can't have your cake and eat it too... they won't be able to yank the Internet from the Chinese people without serious repercussions.
I never said Communism worked... I said it worked IF done with an iron fist -- which hasn't yet been done. Mao tried it but didn't go all the way. Oh well.
The problem with China, and what led to the Tiannamen Square massacre, is the repression of expression and viewpoints. Communism works only with an iron fist, and I know that the Chinese leadership are not ready again to go thru with exterminating the radical fringe of their own population, as Mao otherwise would have.
The idea that China will form its own Internet root sites is an entertaining one, and hearkens back to the T. Square disaster in different ways. If you look at the relative recent Chinese history (10-15 years), they have started to adopt western principles in order to keep afloat -- they offer small business loans, subsidize small businesses, encourage investments, etc. Personal wealth is now there to be had in a similar way that it is in the US. The Chinese know this as well, and have for the most part (according to what I've read anyway), are enjoying the freedoms the Party have allowed them to have in order to flourish the economy as a whole.
That said... if you take away something they already have.. you will find only more resistance and rebels emerge -- and they will have the support of the world behind them. Communism works in China... but as the ruling party goes and makes decisions like this... it's going to be fun to watch it all unravel over the next 10 or 20 years. And the fall of Communism in China will be harder hit than in Russia, although it won't be from economic collapse. It will be from political collapse.
And you're running MS Exchange -- Don't. Get Goodlink. It is 100 times better, works smoothly, and has a TRUE sync. And it's pretty worry-free. I have used them side by side for about 2 years now, and Goodlink just works better in spades. Administration, upgrades, deployment, etc... it's all better and simpler.
However if you are not on MS Exchange, then of course that would necessitate the RIM solution.
Their development tools suck compared to the Xbox 360's. Too bad that development kit costs a lot more for studios to buy. Too bad studios aren't willing to relearn everything to develop for a platform that at best, will come out in 10 months. Too bad Sony has a nagging history of trying to force consumers to adopt 'their' solution (rootkit, Walkman ATRAC conversion, and now BluRay).
And too bad that all the PS3 will offer is another copy of Madden, NFL, NBA, etc games -- the same as the Xbox. And since the Xbox got released first.. we already know who won this round.
I'll just be waiting for Nintendo to make you know... games that are "fun". Something different than another year of Madden or another first person shooter with a catchy name, like "Black"! Wow... amazing thought processes.
Yup Sony, too bad that you put the business before the brains. You might still have had a shot, but now you will be playing catchup like Xbox did when PS2 was released. Entertaining to see the roles reverse. And between both Xbox and Playstation, only the Nintendo will prove to turn a profit -- as they usually do. Brains first, business usually works out.
What ever happened to the "right tool for the job" mantra?
If you are developing a.NET platform because that's your expertise or whatever, then go Windows, IIS, and SQL Server. If you want fast webserving go with *nix, Apache and your flavor of Database.
I think this is more relevant to the fact.NET usage is ramped up and tends to be faster developed (though probably not as clean) than PHP or Java apps.
when it's easy to use. Server capabilities -- no question, Linux is great. It's stable, fast, and is good on memory (well, I've heard bad things about more recent kernels but I digress....).
As far as a desktop OS goes however -- no. There is an elitism about using Linux over Windows where Linux developers and even leaders in the open source movement won't mimic anything Microsoft does -- even if it is particuarlly brilliant.
While I don't find Windows to be that great of an OS, it is still pretty easy to use. Easy to screw up? Sure. But when I can download any program off the web, run a setup.exe file, follow a wizard and see it work, that to me is simplicity. I know Linux zealots will say "oh, what about YUM or APTGET, or UP2DATE"... well folks, sadly to say, sometimes you like to find those little miscellaneous applications that people create for fun, and install them to see what they are all about. Those aren't listed in the repositories, and the fact when I try to use an RPM it's missing eleventy billion dependencies, I realize that my Windows DESKTOP OS is far more useful than a Linux desktop OS will ever hope to be.
Yea, you can have equivalent tools for Linux... but as long as the elitism of Linux stays in place with the 'holier than thou' attitude of development... Linux will remain a server OS, that will be used as the 'the right tool for the given job'. Most intelligent companies use Linux when they see it as a great benefit over Windows, either in cost or stablity (database servers or web servers, what have you).
Hell, even steal ideas from Apple -- they have that idea of just making things 'work' -- specifically when it comes to applications -- down pat. Linux geeks could learn a thing or two from Mac and yes, Windows too.
Yea, it's not ideal... and some companies would be fucked up because of it... but it's the simplest and most effective solution to a spam problem there is.
How to implement it though... that i'm not sure.:)
It left out one of the biggest players -- Yahoo's Launchcast service.
I have been using this service for the last 4 years, and it's helped me to discover LOTS of new bands and songs that I prior would not have known about. I simply click on how much I like an artist, and so it plays more songs from that artist or songs from similar artists. I can rate albums, songs, and artists themselves, so I am getting results based on how an album sounds, a song sounds, or an artist in general.
So yea, Last.Fm is cool and all, but for those of us on the Launch bandwagon for so many years, it's hardly revolutionary.
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The teacher is likely quite like many of the professors I have had over the years. They don't engage the students -- they spew out their lecture as if they are talking to their academic equals -- instead of students.
There are students up to the challenge, and in history classes I felt I could do that. However, in literature classes, it's the job of a teacher to motivate and engage their students. At the college level however, the professors have largely *never* been educated in proper teaching methods and ways to engage students. Some pick it up as they go, and a LOT just 'stick to the script'.
Really the outlawing of laptops in a classroom tells me that this teacher drones on and on about a topic, and doesn't give the students a CHANCE to look up. They likely know how she grades, how she gives tests, and that everything she is saying is going to be on the exam, so they are furiously typing away getting the material into words they remember, and understand. If the teacher instead posed questions, and answered questions as they relate to the subject matter -- they will have a lot more luck in students remembering the material as well as being genuinely interested by it. I had a history teacher or two who used this approach and what a difference it was... I enjoy history more now than I did in college, and that was a helpful primer on learning to appreciate it.
And if I haven't already hinted at it... this teacher needs to get with the times. Laptops are here to stay, and it's not the technology that has to change and evolve -- that HAS. It's the teaching methods that have to.
It's fitting they went with the robots instead of the sharks with 'frickin laser beams' :)
Thanks for that, extremely helpful and something I didn't know about :)
However, it's still wishful thinking, to hope that OS X can replicate all the sysadmin chores I have to do on my servers. In a perfect world yes, but until then I hope that dual booting is a viable alternative and thus, I can get away without having to worry about it.
That there will be no more Madden games? I am always eager to spend about $60 for John Madden saying X more catch phrases and adding TWO PLAYS!
It's the indy game developers that will be benefitting shortly folks.. Nintendo has it right by releasing a CHEAP dev kit so that indy developers can get in on the magic. Additionally you have companies like id Software releasing GPLed versions of their graphics engines so that people can make games easily and while the eye candy won't be AWESOME, it will be the gameplay that finally makes a comeback.
It's why I'm looking forward to Nintendo titles for the Revolution. The concept for their controller and their games have always been fun, regardless of how bad the graphics compare to other systems. If it's one thing Dvorak said partially right, it's that graphics are going to plateau, and then companies like EA will start feeling the hurt.
Oh that's right -- they already have.
When the iBooks are released (or are they Macbooks now? -- whatever...), I will be able to work on my XP Machine (no remote desktop on OSX, or is there? NOT VNC!), and then reboot and 'play' on my OSX Machine :)
Yup, can't wait!
I find it upsetting to see that the liberalism, the intelligence, the artwork, etc.. has taken a downward spiral in recent years, instead of striving for more.
That said, I think Muslims who emmigrate to the United States generally are representative of those who are more liberal, hard working, and smarter than ever before. Too bad the billion other Muslims in the world overshadow any successes that modern adapted Muslims have made.
This list is nice, but I think 'people' created them... not Muslims. The more we introduce Muslims as a separate class of people the more they will want us to give them preferential treatment. We are blowing you up for oil, not your religion. Dammit.
They just need to remember that for a home audience, there's a lot more to go around in terms of competition, and their 'name recognition' means nothing to those that don't understand the nature of Cisco's business. There are so many inherent biases to Cisco products (the PIX, their routers, etc) that we forget, in the networking world at least, that there are other good offerings out there.
That, and home users are not going to pay an arm and a leg just to have something that is stamped "Powered by Cisco". Make a good product, make it affordable and competitive with others, and Cisco has a shot here. If they want to jack up the rates because of some preconcieved notion about their product lineup, they will find quickly how the consumers at large will reject them. As I said, home users don't know and don't care what Cisco does.
Makes it more unsightly than a Windows box. You have to add a hard drive -- external because the internals have OSX on it. There's one device.
:)
Then you need a TV Tuner -- external.
Then you need to be able to pass the sound to a reciever perhaps -- more external devices.
After all is said and done.... sad to say, but Microsoft's Media Center is more suitable for a DVR solution. However, if you're just using it to browse movies (you already have digitally stored) or music, then the Mac Mini may be a good choice, since Front Row is really nice. But for recording TV (As I do now), the MCE solution is far, far better. And it's unfortunate because I'd much rather have a mac on my TV
Dell is a desktop PC vendor. They sell servers sure, but they aren't making as big gains as Sun, HP, etc who offer AMD servers. Dell's money comes from selling desktop systems to home and business users.
./installs or whatever, then this would be a moot point. But the fact is that everybody *doesn't*. In fact, I'm fuzzy on it myself, and I've put some effort into learning at least the ropes of Linux. I host my website on a Linux system, and it's rock solid and fast.
That said... Linux isn't ready for the desktop. Servers? Sure! They are solid, fast, and relatively good at memory management (though I've heard bad things about the recent kernels).
If the world understood Linux as a whole, and that everybody had common knowledge how to tar files, how to do
But on a desktop? Sorry folks... it's just not there yet. Application installations are PAINFUL. And yes, I know about UP2DATE, Yum, Apt-get, etc... but it's as stupid as saying "Hey go to Windows Update for all your software". The fact of the matter is, sometimes you find a simple piece of software that seems interesting, and it's mind boggling for the new(ish) user to get it installed. You're looking for this dependancy, then that one, then another. Then you have to compile it to run.
Right now, there's only enthusiasm to support one destop OS other than Windows -- and that's Mac OSX. And why? Drag an application in, and it's installed. Self contained. Just fucking works. Drag it out, it's uninstalled. Just fucking works. It's clean, it's intuitive, it's pretty, and it has easy to use applications. It is developed with the 'idiot' in mind.
And since most people who buy Dells for their home systems ARE computer idiots -- it's suffice to say that Linux is not a smart move to add into their repertoire of products. It's a business folks.. they are in it to make money.
If anybody is still paying attention or searching archives...
:)
Without revealing my salary (I used the line "It's not allowed by my current company to discuss compensation with anybody.").
I got a 47.5% raise now over my current job.
Thanks for all your advice folks, it worked out brilliantly
Sadly, the legislators who propose such idiotic laws are not students of history. Regardless of the increase in violent video games, increase in sexual material, etc etc... the statistics will show otherwise.
:)
Violence, in the last 50 years, has been on a downward decline per capita. Don't believe me? Go look it up -- the Bureau of Justice (http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/) has detailed information on this. Sexual crime is up a bit over the last 50 years, but this is due to the internet making it easier for people to be preyed on, and improved tracking due to investigative techniques to catch these guys.
I will not argue the fact that violent video games give children a tendency to be more violent. This is where PARENTING comes in. I have an aunt who instead of really raising her children, plops them in front of TV or Playstation, lets them do whatever and buys them all the video games where people are beating the living shit out of each other -- all in high graphic detail.
I know I couldn't fix her lack of parenting skills, so I spilled water on their Playstation (quite purposely) and it died. I bought them a Gamecube with some Mario games -- what a difference it makes. At least they are playing the games I grew up on, in some form at least. They may not be as graphically appealing, but they are fun and meant for kids. Even big kids, like me. Mario Party kicks some serious ass
I still don't see much point in legislating against this -- essentially you are legislating so that people like my aunt don't have to do their jobs as parents. As the old saying goes, "It takes a village." And it's true... and will become more prevalent as kids get more unruly, and the typical diagnosis of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder is prescribed by overeager doctors. I think drugging up your kids won't work forever... at some point you have to let them free in the real world, and that takes you to raise them well, your family to help and support, and the ability to see ALL choices (good and bad) and make rationale decisions on their own.
Nobody's going to learn anything if you just suppress what is available anyway. At 10 years old, I had Playboys in my hands -- I don't think that was legal either, but it still wasn't very difficult to get my hands on. The same applies here.
Skype is releasing an Intel-only feature, for something that will likely be used by .00001% of the market place. In addition to the fact, if you don't have the Dual Core Intel processor (which makes the percentage even lower), you won't be able to use the feature that likely won't be that appealing to begin with.
Either way, I don't get the hoohah about all of it. Skype is a relatively bloated piece of software whose concept is old and done by many other companies. Now they are supporting a specific processor for an unused feature, and AMD sicks their lawyers on it. If in fact, it does have something to do with the monopolistic practices, then it's understandable... but I think it's idiotic.
The Truth (tm), has a way of getting out. While China is a repressive place for people, there are still some VERY brilliant people (read about the Pebble Bed nuclear reactor earlier on Slashdot), who will get the Internet to flow in an underground way.
I imagine the smart engineers who figure the ways around the controls of the government will do an "Illuminati" type of movement, secretive, and purposeful -- and eventually it will help to overthrow the government.
Like I said... it's going to be entertaining to watch over the next decade or so.
Communism betrays two common HUMAN characteristics -- greed and jealousy. Any time a system is implemented that goes against those characteristics.. it's doomed. That's why the Chinese ruling party have been very accomodating to the 'common man', giving them opportunities and money they otherwise never would have seen.
But you can't have your cake and eat it too... they won't be able to yank the Internet from the Chinese people without serious repercussions.
I never said Communism worked... I said it worked IF done with an iron fist -- which hasn't yet been done. Mao tried it but didn't go all the way. Oh well.
The problem with China, and what led to the Tiannamen Square massacre, is the repression of expression and viewpoints. Communism works only with an iron fist, and I know that the Chinese leadership are not ready again to go thru with exterminating the radical fringe of their own population, as Mao otherwise would have.
The idea that China will form its own Internet root sites is an entertaining one, and hearkens back to the T. Square disaster in different ways. If you look at the relative recent Chinese history (10-15 years), they have started to adopt western principles in order to keep afloat -- they offer small business loans, subsidize small businesses, encourage investments, etc. Personal wealth is now there to be had in a similar way that it is in the US. The Chinese know this as well, and have for the most part (according to what I've read anyway), are enjoying the freedoms the Party have allowed them to have in order to flourish the economy as a whole.
That said... if you take away something they already have.. you will find only more resistance and rebels emerge -- and they will have the support of the world behind them. Communism works in China... but as the ruling party goes and makes decisions like this... it's going to be fun to watch it all unravel over the next 10 or 20 years. And the fall of Communism in China will be harder hit than in Russia, although it won't be from economic collapse. It will be from political collapse.
But this is not a 'push' solution as BES and Goodlink offer.
That being said, Goodlink is a far better solution than BES for Exchange 'push' email.
And you're running MS Exchange -- Don't. Get Goodlink. It is 100 times better, works smoothly, and has a TRUE sync. And it's pretty worry-free. I have used them side by side for about 2 years now, and Goodlink just works better in spades. Administration, upgrades, deployment, etc... it's all better and simpler.
However if you are not on MS Exchange, then of course that would necessitate the RIM solution.
Their development tools suck compared to the Xbox 360's. Too bad that development kit costs a lot more for studios to buy. Too bad studios aren't willing to relearn everything to develop for a platform that at best, will come out in 10 months. Too bad Sony has a nagging history of trying to force consumers to adopt 'their' solution (rootkit, Walkman ATRAC conversion, and now BluRay).
And too bad that all the PS3 will offer is another copy of Madden, NFL, NBA, etc games -- the same as the Xbox. And since the Xbox got released first.. we already know who won this round.
I'll just be waiting for Nintendo to make you know... games that are "fun". Something different than another year of Madden or another first person shooter with a catchy name, like "Black"! Wow... amazing thought processes.
Yup Sony, too bad that you put the business before the brains. You might still have had a shot, but now you will be playing catchup like Xbox did when PS2 was released. Entertaining to see the roles reverse. And between both Xbox and Playstation, only the Nintendo will prove to turn a profit -- as they usually do. Brains first, business usually works out.
What ever happened to the "right tool for the job" mantra?
.NET platform because that's your expertise or whatever, then go Windows, IIS, and SQL Server. If you want fast webserving go with *nix, Apache and your flavor of Database.
.NET usage is ramped up and tends to be faster developed (though probably not as clean) than PHP or Java apps.
If you are developing a
I think this is more relevant to the fact
Just a thought.
I believe I will steer people away of the Rutgers University Psychology Program as well.
when it's easy to use. Server capabilities -- no question, Linux is great. It's stable, fast, and is good on memory (well, I've heard bad things about more recent kernels but I digress....).
As far as a desktop OS goes however -- no. There is an elitism about using Linux over Windows where Linux developers and even leaders in the open source movement won't mimic anything Microsoft does -- even if it is particuarlly brilliant.
While I don't find Windows to be that great of an OS, it is still pretty easy to use. Easy to screw up? Sure. But when I can download any program off the web, run a setup.exe file, follow a wizard and see it work, that to me is simplicity. I know Linux zealots will say "oh, what about YUM or APTGET, or UP2DATE"... well folks, sadly to say, sometimes you like to find those little miscellaneous applications that people create for fun, and install them to see what they are all about. Those aren't listed in the repositories, and the fact when I try to use an RPM it's missing eleventy billion dependencies, I realize that my Windows DESKTOP OS is far more useful than a Linux desktop OS will ever hope to be.
Yea, you can have equivalent tools for Linux... but as long as the elitism of Linux stays in place with the 'holier than thou' attitude of development... Linux will remain a server OS, that will be used as the 'the right tool for the given job'. Most intelligent companies use Linux when they see it as a great benefit over Windows, either in cost or stablity (database servers or web servers, what have you).
Hell, even steal ideas from Apple -- they have that idea of just making things 'work' -- specifically when it comes to applications -- down pat. Linux geeks could learn a thing or two from Mac and yes, Windows too.
Charge a $.01 tax on every email sent.
:)
Yea, it's not ideal... and some companies would be fucked up because of it... but it's the simplest and most effective solution to a spam problem there is.
How to implement it though... that i'm not sure.
I found Smile Empty Soul and Aviatic... both great bands I think :)
It left out one of the biggest players -- Yahoo's Launchcast service.
I have been using this service for the last 4 years, and it's helped me to discover LOTS of new bands and songs that I prior would not have known about. I simply click on how much I like an artist, and so it plays more songs from that artist or songs from similar artists. I can rate albums, songs, and artists themselves, so I am getting results based on how an album sounds, a song sounds, or an artist in general.
So yea, Last.Fm is cool and all, but for those of us on the Launch bandwagon for so many years, it's hardly revolutionary.