In my experience, then central server crashes anyway and nobody can do anything because they're too tied in already with email internet and logon. Just as long as security is good, and data is backed up very redundantly, I can't see that there would be any greater disadvantage.
Unless i've caught a large case of the stupids, it looks like we're heading back to the days of the mainframe computer which many terminals plug into. Is this good or bad or neutral? I think this is a good way to keep corporate/school/etc computer costs down while making sysadmin jobs at least a little easier.
I'm very impressed with AMD and how it has evolved from a basic clone to an innovative competetor, and in my opinion, the better of Intel. My next system will be AMD, but really what are the benefits of Intel? Before it was the cool 'brand name' but now it just seems to be the bloated expensive version.
RTFA required....I didn't
I was under the impression that the no-music contract was as old as Apple Computer itself since the Beatles already had the Apple label. Somebody should write an Wikipedia article, or find it.
Wouldn't a sniffer mean a drasticly larger worm, and thus a less sucessful [in getting it installed in millions of XP lusers] than a smaller one? Maybe the prevalance of high speed internet and CPU's have finally allowed for larger and more complex worms. [yay]
stress is a response to pressure.
And I'm like a balloon, I only work well when under pressure, and like a baloon in a vacuum, when there's no pressure i blow up and do nothing but watch judge judy and drink mt dew.
Your post is very interesting. First off I'd like to clarify that I think teaching _with_ computers is overrated, such as teaching a forign language, or math skills. This is mostly because Educational software is generally mediocre at best, and in the ways I've seen it implemented, it means instead of a teacher teaching your [gasp] a teacher is sitting in the back the whole day watching you at the computer.
I am impressed with your school's computer education. What you learned 15 years ago is more than anyone [around here at least] could learn in public schools today. As of 1996 my small midwest US school still had a lab of Apple II's which they used for keyboarding. The most advamced computer class was working with Excel spreadsheets which few people understood or remembered.
Computers are overrated as an educational tool. I think it would be much more important and helpful to have electric lights than access to sex.com.
Overrated this post is. as Yoda would say.
But really paying to educating teachers in india more, and providing better facilities would help more than a room full of Apple IIs
I feel a victim of the American education system. I am 'Left Behind' not because I do poorly on standardized tests, or don't understand, but becuase in kindergarten I entered knowing how to read. Being the minority that could read, I did nearly nothing, learned very little, and have continued to do so for over a decade. I'm smart not becuase of what the school system taught me, but because of what I have managed to teach myself in making a collection of whatever nonfiction at Borders happened to catch my eye.
The techie in my school [shut up i'm in high school] is {slowly) installing firefox on all of the 200 or so crap computers around to suprisingly little 'change is evil' objections. I was proud.
buy yourself a cheap webcam and hook it up with the linux program motion and you'll have tons of fun watching pictures of how someone stole your life savings. Just make a warning sign on the door:)
I'll be in the same boat next year, and already at a high school of 300 students I've had a couple hundred dollars of money and murchandise stolen or broken. I can imagine it would be much worse in an enviroment with thousands of people around, especially the crazy roommate.
How easy/possible would it be to use a hydraulic system [motor > hydraulic pump > hoses > hydraulic motors at wheels] as a transmission for your car. If I understnad it correctly, you could have (nearly) any gear ratio you wanted while controlling power to each wheel. Just a thought.
I think people are oversimplifying the problem. There are many possible outcomes for the economies of the world, and a big part is where all the money goes. If for example, Microsoft outsourced 100% of their Windows programmers, they would be getting the same product for a small fraction of the cost. If Microsoft, being the devil and all, decides that they will still charge $200 a pop for copies of windows, you have richer execs, and richer shareholders, but a bunch of poor programmers. That is bad for the common person. However, if Microsoft instead decided to pass their savings on to the public and sold Windows for $50, everyone who buys windows [pretty much everyone really] will have an extra $150 to spend at WallMart which will inject billions into the economy. WallMart will then have to erect more plasticCrap factories, which will make more jobs than were lost by the Microsoft programmers, and that's great for the average person.
I realize this AFTER i post my useless comment and actually read about it in the website. What they need to do now is make the legs into....er....legs, I've always wanted a giant spider house.
Correct me if i'm stupid, but isn't it very cold in Antartica. It seems that lightweight structures would not exactly be the best choice because of the blowing away and being extrememly cold factors.
When is it that universities will 'buy' one of these for every student, put a tiny camera and mic inside, and never allow you to completely turn it off for fear that Emmanuel might get you in your sleep?
I think it's more of a problem that no matter what the subject is, every Disneyish [read lame cartooon] movie since ever has a G rating when there are tamer non-animated PG-13 movies.
watching search engine queries is like looking into the minds, the hopes and desires of millions of people around the world. Just one more step to our goal of godlike knowledge of everything that's going on everywhere.//warning....warning.....overrated
I happen to like my landline service. When I'm gone or sleeping, absolutely no one can annoy me with their problems, requests, or irritating want to keep in touch, just not on a same-room basis. Also, I find there's something irresistably sexy about being completely lost, I might actually have to [gasp] talk to a real person and not a vibrating piece of cancer plastic making friends with and sterilizing my balls. Slashdot probably isn't the correct place to talk about wanting to be disconnected sometimes, but what are YOU going to do about it eh?
Actually I dunno exactly what it was named, but it was a piece of plastic that fit over most of the keys so you couldn't see the letters when you type.
There ARE advances in mathmatics and there will be for a long time, just in more advanced topics, like algebraic topology, not introductory calculus. Windows is getting slower and crappier with each release but they still make them.
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In my experience, then central server crashes anyway and nobody can do anything because they're too tied in already with email internet and logon. Just as long as security is good, and data is backed up very redundantly, I can't see that there would be any greater disadvantage.
Unless i've caught a large case of the stupids, it looks like we're heading back to the days of the mainframe computer which many terminals plug into. Is this good or bad or neutral? I think this is a good way to keep corporate/school/etc computer costs down while making sysadmin jobs at least a little easier.
I'm very impressed with AMD and how it has evolved from a basic clone to an innovative competetor, and in my opinion, the better of Intel. My next system will be AMD, but really what are the benefits of Intel? Before it was the cool 'brand name' but now it just seems to be the bloated expensive version.
RTFA required....I didn't I was under the impression that the no-music contract was as old as Apple Computer itself since the Beatles already had the Apple label. Somebody should write an Wikipedia article, or find it.
Wouldn't a sniffer mean a drasticly larger worm, and thus a less sucessful [in getting it installed in millions of XP lusers] than a smaller one? Maybe the prevalance of high speed internet and CPU's have finally allowed for larger and more complex worms. [yay]
How about: How can we change the system so people have the choice between multiple canidates and not just two?
stress is a response to pressure. And I'm like a balloon, I only work well when under pressure, and like a baloon in a vacuum, when there's no pressure i blow up and do nothing but watch judge judy and drink mt dew.
I am impressed with your school's computer education. What you learned 15 years ago is more than anyone [around here at least] could learn in public schools today. As of 1996 my small midwest US school still had a lab of Apple II's which they used for keyboarding. The most advamced computer class was working with Excel spreadsheets which few people understood or remembered.
Computers are overrated as an educational tool. I think it would be much more important and helpful to have electric lights than access to sex.com. Overrated this post is. as Yoda would say. But really paying to educating teachers in india more, and providing better facilities would help more than a room full of Apple IIs
I feel a victim of the American education system. I am 'Left Behind' not because I do poorly on standardized tests, or don't understand, but becuase in kindergarten I entered knowing how to read. Being the minority that could read, I did nearly nothing, learned very little, and have continued to do so for over a decade. I'm smart not becuase of what the school system taught me, but because of what I have managed to teach myself in making a collection of whatever nonfiction at Borders happened to catch my eye.
The techie in my school [shut up i'm in high school] is {slowly) installing firefox on all of the 200 or so crap computers around to suprisingly little 'change is evil' objections. I was proud.
motion.sourceforge.net/
buy yourself a cheap webcam and hook it up with the linux program motion and you'll have tons of fun watching pictures of how someone stole your life savings. Just make a warning sign on the door :)
I'll be in the same boat next year, and already at a high school of 300 students I've had a couple hundred dollars of money and murchandise stolen or broken. I can imagine it would be much worse in an enviroment with thousands of people around, especially the crazy roommate.
How easy/possible would it be to use a hydraulic system [motor > hydraulic pump > hoses > hydraulic motors at wheels] as a transmission for your car. If I understnad it correctly, you could have (nearly) any gear ratio you wanted while controlling power to each wheel. Just a thought.
I think people are oversimplifying the problem. There are many possible outcomes for the economies of the world, and a big part is where all the money goes. If for example, Microsoft outsourced 100% of their Windows programmers, they would be getting the same product for a small fraction of the cost. If Microsoft, being the devil and all, decides that they will still charge $200 a pop for copies of windows, you have richer execs, and richer shareholders, but a bunch of poor programmers. That is bad for the common person. However, if Microsoft instead decided to pass their savings on to the public and sold Windows for $50, everyone who buys windows [pretty much everyone really] will have an extra $150 to spend at WallMart which will inject billions into the economy. WallMart will then have to erect more plasticCrap factories, which will make more jobs than were lost by the Microsoft programmers, and that's great for the average person.
I realize this AFTER i post my useless comment and actually read about it in the website. What they need to do now is make the legs into....er....legs, I've always wanted a giant spider house.
Correct me if i'm stupid, but isn't it very cold in Antartica. It seems that lightweight structures would not exactly be the best choice because of the blowing away and being extrememly cold factors.
When is it that universities will 'buy' one of these for every student, put a tiny camera and mic inside, and never allow you to completely turn it off for fear that Emmanuel might get you in your sleep?
I think it's more of a problem that no matter what the subject is, every Disneyish [read lame cartooon] movie since ever has a G rating when there are tamer non-animated PG-13 movies.
It's great when scientists concentrate on the more importing questions of life.
watching search engine queries is like looking into the minds, the hopes and desires of millions of people around the world. Just one more step to our goal of godlike knowledge of everything that's going on everywhere. //warning....warning.....overrated
I happen to like my landline service. When I'm gone or sleeping, absolutely no one can annoy me with their problems, requests, or irritating want to keep in touch, just not on a same-room basis. Also, I find there's something irresistably sexy about being completely lost, I might actually have to [gasp] talk to a real person and not a vibrating piece of cancer plastic making friends with and sterilizing my balls. Slashdot probably isn't the correct place to talk about wanting to be disconnected sometimes, but what are YOU going to do about it eh?
Actually I dunno exactly what it was named, but it was a piece of plastic that fit over most of the keys so you couldn't see the letters when you type.
There ARE advances in mathmatics and there will be for a long time, just in more advanced topics, like algebraic topology, not introductory calculus. Windows is getting slower and crappier with each release but they still make them.