First allow me to say that I would *love* some form of rail transit. Where I live in Indianapolis is on the complete opposite side of town from most IT work, and it would be great to not have to maintain a car just for the "privilege" of driving to and from work every day. I'm not 100% certain that this initiative is going to do anything to alleviate that pain, but, for the sake of argument, I'll assume it is.
What scares me, though, is that this is going to end up being a big mess. Even if it does attempt to address the needs of, say, 50% of all people, I'm wary this will turn into some complete money sinkhole. I hope that, in the end, we don't end up with an overbudget, overdue, and mostly working system that far less people end up using than expected.
What Intel chipset are you using? I have a laptop (Vostro 1700) with X3100, and I have Compiz enabled with lots of shiny effects. Thus far I have seen no such lockups or slowdowns. In fact, I was quite pleased (and surprised) with the speed both in the visual effects and in 3D games like Sauerbraten.
If not, they need to be replaced with people who will.
I'm a computer guy with only a basic understanding of government... but doesn't the President replace the judges? If he wants to wield that much power over peoples' rights, won't he just put more justices up there that support his power grabs?
Also, I'm pretty sure the only way they get replaced is if they step down or... you know... die. I highly doubt they'll care about "getting replaced" in either of those situations.
I agree with what you say. The ads on Hulu really don't bother me. They are almost all under 30 seconds (with that latest Fedex one being around 8 seconds) and none are very annoying or intrusive. And, as you say, I want online TV to succeed.
The problem is, though, if this is truly successful, won't we start seeing longer, more obnoxious commercial spans in Hulu? At that point, it becomes just as bothersome as watching the show on broadcast TV. Also, how do you account for local advertising?
I recently came to this realization myself. We have AT&T's U-Verse "service," and it costs us about $85/month. The basic landline phone is another $40. I built two MythTV boxes, bought some cheap Pinnacle USB HDTV Sticks (800se, they were $29.99 on buy.com), and we should be getting rid of AT&T services in the next few weeks.
Apart from a few annoyances with setup (getting dvb drivers working with these HDTV sticks, antenna issues) things are going very well thus far.
If his idea works as well stated in the article, the guy deserves more than "a $25,000 scholarship from the Davidson Institute for Talent Development." The fact that it's a seventh grader makes it even more astounding.
I live in Indiana... tornadoes are quite frequent. Also five houses have burned down in my neighborhood in the past three years... I figure it's only matter of time. =]
The idea of having an intermediary overseeing any of my data just encourages me to go out and by an external drive or two.
Where do you store your external drives? If it's your personal items you're referring to, you probably keep them in the same house as your computer. Not much of a backup in the event of a fire/tornado/flood/etc. If it's for a business, unless you have offices in multiple locations, you probably keep them in the same office. So now if someone breaks your office's physical security, they have access to your backups as well.
I understand where you're coming from; it's difficult trusting someone to not abuse your privacy or hold your documents captive. I use online storage to back up things that have no "privacy" value per se. I typically just put out backups of my family photos and such.
Wouldn't telecommuting kill two birds with one stone? If your employees stay at home, they don't use up energy commuting to work, and you don't need as much energy to heat/cool your office space or keep it well lit.
Yeah, it doesn't solve everything, but it's a start.
I think this will be interesting to watch. It's not like this is the very first challenger to Intel's market. So far none have really succeeded (AMD being the exception, but they aren't exactly considered the czar of the processor world at the moment) aside from niche markets. My guess is that this will be another company that will find its niche and settle for it. Intel just always seems to avoid losing "King of the Hill" status time and time again.
I mostly agree with you. For the reference, I'm the father of four children.:)
First, allow me to say that I also know lots of parents personally. Those parents that I know also are into making sure their children get education prior to being in school. I would also say that my family and my friends' families fall into the "middle-class middle-american" description. We live in Indianapolis, FWIW.
The problem is that, in a class of 30 students, my kids and my friends' kids will make up something like 10%-20% of the class at best. This means that they will enter the K-12 environment and immediately be ahead of the others. That 80% will get the attention (gotta prop up those scores!), and, thanks to their parents' apathy, probably won't excel in class anyway because their parents just want them out of their hair and into free baby^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H school.
I'm not just pulling this out of thin air, either. Many of our friends are teachers at local schools. One of them is a teacher at what is supposedly the best school in the district, and even she says this is how things are on a day-to-day basis. I realize that isn't necessarily a national trend, but that's how things are here. It's a very scary reality.
And yes, it is a large part of why we are very heavily considering homeschool after this summer.
And so the dominoes continue to fall. Look even more closely at K-12 public schools. You want to talk about "simply dish out information and the students memorize?" That's what the typical K-12 education is right there. This is part of the problem with standardized tests at this phase in a student's life. In K-12, you should be taught how to think and problem solve as the basis for later in your education. Instead, we consider it progress if they know when the war of 1812 was fought. After all, getting answers "right" improves standardized test scores. Knowing why it was fought, its ramifications, and what we need to learn from it doesn't do anything to bring more $$$ into the school system.
Then you can go even farther back and look at how parents don't teach their kids anything until they get to school (after all, it's the school's job!) and the problem just keeps getting worse.
America has become a society where education just isn't valued. I could go on and on...
My family usually makes a trip every year to Bethany Beach, which is just a bit south of Rehoboth Beach. While I understand that it's better for most tourists if the turbines are not visible, it'd be cool if we could make it into a real-life science "field trip" for the kids sometime in the future.
Are there any plans for something like a small boat trip to see them up close? Maybe they could build a museum?
Is the implication here that, if they disclose how they are shaping their traffic, competitors will somehow seize that information and offer better service as a result? I don't think Bell Canada's customers are just chomping at the bit to get more traffic shaping on their lines, and I don't think they'd be any happier about it with a competitor, even if the prices were lower.
About the only logical application I can see of "competitive reasons" would be, "Oh no! Now our customers know we actually *were* screwing them hard, and now they're leaving for our competitors in droves!"
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This would have been so much easier to understand with a proper /. car analogy.
Beware if you have an older ATI card you might run into problems.
"Older," in this case, defined as anything prior to the HD3x00 series. My experience with 9.04 and a 2600XT is less than ideal.
Now I can be Rickrolled via my TV for the whole family to enjoy!
Google is unsafe... for Microsoft's monopolies.
First allow me to say that I would *love* some form of rail transit. Where I live in Indianapolis is on the complete opposite side of town from most IT work, and it would be great to not have to maintain a car just for the "privilege" of driving to and from work every day. I'm not 100% certain that this initiative is going to do anything to alleviate that pain, but, for the sake of argument, I'll assume it is.
What scares me, though, is that this is going to end up being a big mess. Even if it does attempt to address the needs of, say, 50% of all people, I'm wary this will turn into some complete money sinkhole. I hope that, in the end, we don't end up with an overbudget, overdue, and mostly working system that far less people end up using than expected.
What Intel chipset are you using? I have a laptop (Vostro 1700) with X3100, and I have Compiz enabled with lots of shiny effects. Thus far I have seen no such lockups or slowdowns. In fact, I was quite pleased (and surprised) with the speed both in the visual effects and in 3D games like Sauerbraten.
From the "up-up-down-down-left-right-left-right-a-b-select-start" department?
Surely you meant "b-a." I'm pretty sure a-b didn't do anything. :)
If not, they need to be replaced with people who will.
I'm a computer guy with only a basic understanding of government... but doesn't the President replace the judges? If he wants to wield that much power over peoples' rights, won't he just put more justices up there that support his power grabs?
Also, I'm pretty sure the only way they get replaced is if they step down or... you know... die. I highly doubt they'll care about "getting replaced" in either of those situations.
How lovely.
I CAN HAZ DIS BOOK NOW PLZ??
I agree with what you say. The ads on Hulu really don't bother me. They are almost all under 30 seconds (with that latest Fedex one being around 8 seconds) and none are very annoying or intrusive. And, as you say, I want online TV to succeed.
The problem is, though, if this is truly successful, won't we start seeing longer, more obnoxious commercial spans in Hulu? At that point, it becomes just as bothersome as watching the show on broadcast TV. Also, how do you account for local advertising?
I recently came to this realization myself. We have AT&T's U-Verse "service," and it costs us about $85/month. The basic landline phone is another $40. I built two MythTV boxes, bought some cheap Pinnacle USB HDTV Sticks (800se, they were $29.99 on buy.com), and we should be getting rid of AT&T services in the next few weeks.
Apart from a few annoyances with setup (getting dvb drivers working with these HDTV sticks, antenna issues) things are going very well thus far.
If his idea works as well stated in the article, the guy deserves more than "a $25,000 scholarship from the Davidson Institute for Talent Development." The fact that it's a seventh grader makes it even more astounding.
How often does your house burn down ?
I live in Indiana... tornadoes are quite frequent. Also five houses have burned down in my neighborhood in the past three years... I figure it's only matter of time. =]
The idea of having an intermediary overseeing any of my data just encourages me to go out and by an external drive or two.
Where do you store your external drives? If it's your personal items you're referring to, you probably keep them in the same house as your computer. Not much of a backup in the event of a fire/tornado/flood/etc. If it's for a business, unless you have offices in multiple locations, you probably keep them in the same office. So now if someone breaks your office's physical security, they have access to your backups as well.
I understand where you're coming from; it's difficult trusting someone to not abuse your privacy or hold your documents captive. I use online storage to back up things that have no "privacy" value per se. I typically just put out backups of my family photos and such.
Wouldn't telecommuting kill two birds with one stone? If your employees stay at home, they don't use up energy commuting to work, and you don't need as much energy to heat/cool your office space or keep it well lit.
Yeah, it doesn't solve everything, but it's a start.
Can it run Linux? ;)
I think this will be interesting to watch. It's not like this is the very first challenger to Intel's market. So far none have really succeeded (AMD being the exception, but they aren't exactly considered the czar of the processor world at the moment) aside from niche markets. My guess is that this will be another company that will find its niche and settle for it. Intel just always seems to avoid losing "King of the Hill" status time and time again.
What's new?
The fact that you're using WinME???
It's a recursive meme...
At first glance, I read this as "Workings of Ancient Calculating Divorce Deciphered."
Good to know that the darn things were as hard to calculate to the "Ancients" as they are today!
I mostly agree with you. For the reference, I'm the father of four children. :)
First, allow me to say that I also know lots of parents personally. Those parents that I know also are into making sure their children get education prior to being in school. I would also say that my family and my friends' families fall into the "middle-class middle-american" description. We live in Indianapolis, FWIW.
The problem is that, in a class of 30 students, my kids and my friends' kids will make up something like 10%-20% of the class at best. This means that they will enter the K-12 environment and immediately be ahead of the others. That 80% will get the attention (gotta prop up those scores!), and, thanks to their parents' apathy, probably won't excel in class anyway because their parents just want them out of their hair and into free baby^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H school.
I'm not just pulling this out of thin air, either. Many of our friends are teachers at local schools. One of them is a teacher at what is supposedly the best school in the district, and even she says this is how things are on a day-to-day basis. I realize that isn't necessarily a national trend, but that's how things are here. It's a very scary reality.
And yes, it is a large part of why we are very heavily considering homeschool after this summer.
And so the dominoes continue to fall. Look even more closely at K-12 public schools. You want to talk about "simply dish out information and the students memorize?" That's what the typical K-12 education is right there. This is part of the problem with standardized tests at this phase in a student's life. In K-12, you should be taught how to think and problem solve as the basis for later in your education. Instead, we consider it progress if they know when the war of 1812 was fought. After all, getting answers "right" improves standardized test scores. Knowing why it was fought, its ramifications, and what we need to learn from it doesn't do anything to bring more $$$ into the school system.
Then you can go even farther back and look at how parents don't teach their kids anything until they get to school (after all, it's the school's job!) and the problem just keeps getting worse.
America has become a society where education just isn't valued. I could go on and on...
My family usually makes a trip every year to Bethany Beach, which is just a bit south of Rehoboth Beach. While I understand that it's better for most tourists if the turbines are not visible, it'd be cool if we could make it into a real-life science "field trip" for the kids sometime in the future.
Are there any plans for something like a small boat trip to see them up close? Maybe they could build a museum?
You can have that one. I'm going to register the ".votecowboyneal" TLD.
At first I read that summary:
"...responsible for ensuring that Microsoft compiles with the terms of the final judgment...
Pity... I thought "final judgment" would be an altogether fitting and proper name for any compiler that could successfully compile a Windows OS.
Is the implication here that, if they disclose how they are shaping their traffic, competitors will somehow seize that information and offer better service as a result? I don't think Bell Canada's customers are just chomping at the bit to get more traffic shaping on their lines, and I don't think they'd be any happier about it with a competitor, even if the prices were lower.
About the only logical application I can see of "competitive reasons" would be, "Oh no! Now our customers know we actually *were* screwing them hard, and now they're leaving for our competitors in droves!"