It occurs to me that selecting any one platform for teaching is really counter-productive. So many people come out of school having been taught to use a "computer", when actually they've been taught to use Windows. This is surely no better. Teaching people to be intuitive when faced with new technology might be better.
Whilst I still think that a Neuromancer movie could be awesome, I definitely agree that Snowcrash would make an excellent adaptation. It's got a high enough mix of action and humour that could jump straight onto the film.
As someone who has had to use (in my customer services role) thin clients at several different organisations, I have to say that my experience with them has not been good. Whilst I appreciate first-hand the convenience of being able to fix problems remotely, and often simply by cloning a base user, their performance is simply lacking. Get too much general browsing or web apps, particularly, going on and the whole infrastructure shudders to a standstill.
So if you're already living in broadband hell, they sweeten it by letting you have a holiday on Earth for a little cheaper than everyone else. But OnLive should be available across ISPs.
I suppose the problem is defining the form factor. Is it a "personal computer", or "just a device"? My issue with the iPad is that as awesome as the form factor is, it strays too much towards the latter than the former.
Whilst ARM is nice from a portability standpoint, I remember running into problems running Linux even on PPC, never mind ARM. As soon as you leave x86, you enter a world where that one app that you really like using JUST ISN'T COMPILED. And once I have to start compiling for myself, I'm not USING a device any more, I may as well be building it.
To second this, I can't recommend the iMic enough. It's fairly cheap, tiny, and just beautiful in aesthetics *and* function. I use mine to "USB enable" Protracker on my Amiga. I can't see how any USB offerings would be worse compared to whatever gets built into the majority of laptops.
Why not just tell the users what's causing the problem? One day he'll have a big project to get in, every other user in the building will be looking at the OSX kaleidoscope in frustration, and somebody (you?) will suggest that they all give him a talking to. Or get them to mention it on their evaluations "I would've had this done tomorrow, but $douchebag crippled my computer".
If you've done everything in your power to make sure that the systems are running fine, but this dude comes along and screws with that, it stops being your responsibility. If he knows about the problem, and he carries on, and the users provide official feedback that he's causing them to work less or worse, you'd be surprised how fast it can get up-stream.
If you're lucky, your users wont be smart enough (wait, hear me out!) to know the difference between him slowing the computer down, and them doing it themselves (or it just being slow for whatever reason), and then you're bound to see some movement.
I agree. If Google wants to make Wave happen as a serious opponent to email, they need to bridge the gap. Bringing Gmail and soc.net stuff to Wave, and implementing some kind of support for legacy email in the protocol, is a much more sensible choice.
Eventually I'd like to reach the point where I can substitute soc.net notifications for waves, and that old occasional "email thing" from yesteryear just looks like a wave with some controls greyed out.
If they're in a genre where they produce music expressly to be played back and not performed live, maybe they ought to connect with the DJs directly. I'm under the impression that this is mostly how electronica/dance/DnB acts get started as it is.
And let's face it. The remainder that you're talking about is mainly comprised of pop acts. Which is tantamount to piracy anyways, these days.
Wait, so the game should be pushed back so that the people who *don't* have any problems can't play it either?
Given that a patch'll probably be out post haste, I don't understand that "logic". I live in the UK, so in the past I've had to wait for games that my friends across the pond are already playing, and it sucks. Hell, I imported MechWarrior 4. A *PC game*. I wasn't going to pirate if I could avoid it. I'm really disappointed if the community's viewpoint is quite so bitter as to deny other gamers.
I can understand their justification to some point. I have to append -ebay to all my searches on Froogle to turn up anything useful. Nevertheless, they're already at the bottom of the pit, why have they started digging?
I actually really liked the latest film. And I didn't hate *all* of the third film, I liked seeing Judgement Day happen. So this actually makes me a bit apprehensive:/
Binaries are only ever useful when compiled for the user's distro. Given that this usually happens at package level (at least for distros that even bother with package management), and that those packages are often platform-specific, I don't see what problem this would solve. Perhaps if there was a distro that was definitively "Linux" that had the userbase to support it. But then any candidate for such a role already has a package management system.
I don't think I've ever wanted Windows less having read that.
"Dell has always been a strong MS OEM ally and it is now hoping to cash in again from the impending upgrades." Wow, so we can expect a unbiased opinion then? PREPARE FOR SHPIEL!
"Dell made plain several times that he sees the installed base of technology as very old" which is to say, people are not fond of buying Vista packages "and sees a coming "refresh cycle," for which he has high hopes" and that Dell is planning on making plenty of money off this, after Vista's disappointment.
"The latest generation of chips from Intel is strong, particularly Nehalem," So technology advances then, yes? Took some long-term observation of the industry to determine that factoid, I'll bet.
"I've been using Windows 7 for a long time now, and if you get the latest processor technology and Office 2010 with it, you will love your PC again." So you buy Windows, but you'll need a new computer (let's face it, the majority do not know what a CPU is) and hey, whilst you're there, why not buy a new version of Office for the giggles? "It's a dramatic improvement"
Improvement over what? Being able to carry out tasks 95% of which we did 8 years ago on hardware with perhaps, oooh, 50% of the capacity of modern tech?
You'll have to excuse me if I'm not enticed into reading the article after that. I've had quite enough of reading about tech. going backwards.
Doubt not, I work in consumer electronics retail, all the big OEMs were pulling this shtick with Vista, and are doing again for W7. In the UK at least.
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It occurs to me that selecting any one platform for teaching is really counter-productive. So many people come out of school having been taught to use a "computer", when actually they've been taught to use Windows. This is surely no better. Teaching people to be intuitive when faced with new technology might be better.
Canonical or Google?
Yes. That's what Windows CE is. Do some searching before you go crazy with the Q marks.
Whilst I still think that a Neuromancer movie could be awesome, I definitely agree that Snowcrash would make an excellent adaptation. It's got a high enough mix of action and humour that could jump straight onto the film.
As someone who has had to use (in my customer services role) thin clients at several different organisations, I have to say that my experience with them has not been good. Whilst I appreciate first-hand the convenience of being able to fix problems remotely, and often simply by cloning a base user, their performance is simply lacking. Get too much general browsing or web apps, particularly, going on and the whole infrastructure shudders to a standstill.
Took the blog right outta my mouth!
BT has exclusive rights to BUNDLE PACKAGES.
So if you're already living in broadband hell, they sweeten it by letting you have a holiday on Earth for a little cheaper than everyone else. But OnLive should be available across ISPs.
I suppose the problem is defining the form factor. Is it a "personal computer", or "just a device"? My issue with the iPad is that as awesome as the form factor is, it strays too much towards the latter than the former.
Whilst ARM is nice from a portability standpoint, I remember running into problems running Linux even on PPC, never mind ARM. As soon as you leave x86, you enter a world where that one app that you really like using JUST ISN'T COMPILED. And once I have to start compiling for myself, I'm not USING a device any more, I may as well be building it.
Your mom eats sausage every morning!
To second this, I can't recommend the iMic enough. It's fairly cheap, tiny, and just beautiful in aesthetics *and* function. I use mine to "USB enable" Protracker on my Amiga. I can't see how any USB offerings would be worse compared to whatever gets built into the majority of laptops.
Alternatively you can just, y'know, log off. The websites only know so much as you let them know.
Why not just tell the users what's causing the problem? One day he'll have a big project to get in, every other user in the building will be looking at the OSX kaleidoscope in frustration, and somebody (you?) will suggest that they all give him a talking to. Or get them to mention it on their evaluations "I would've had this done tomorrow, but $douchebag crippled my computer".
If you've done everything in your power to make sure that the systems are running fine, but this dude comes along and screws with that, it stops being your responsibility. If he knows about the problem, and he carries on, and the users provide official feedback that he's causing them to work less or worse, you'd be surprised how fast it can get up-stream.
If you're lucky, your users wont be smart enough (wait, hear me out!) to know the difference between him slowing the computer down, and them doing it themselves (or it just being slow for whatever reason), and then you're bound to see some movement.
I agree. If Google wants to make Wave happen as a serious opponent to email, they need to bridge the gap. Bringing Gmail and soc.net stuff to Wave, and implementing some kind of support for legacy email in the protocol, is a much more sensible choice.
Eventually I'd like to reach the point where I can substitute soc.net notifications for waves, and that old occasional "email thing" from yesteryear just looks like a wave with some controls greyed out.
... fuck him and his stupid hat.
If they're in a genre where they produce music expressly to be played back and not performed live, maybe they ought to connect with the DJs directly. I'm under the impression that this is mostly how electronica/dance/DnB acts get started as it is.
And let's face it. The remainder that you're talking about is mainly comprised of pop acts. Which is tantamount to piracy anyways, these days.
Wait, so the game should be pushed back so that the people who *don't* have any problems can't play it either?
Given that a patch'll probably be out post haste, I don't understand that "logic". I live in the UK, so in the past I've had to wait for games that my friends across the pond are already playing, and it sucks. Hell, I imported MechWarrior 4. A *PC game*. I wasn't going to pirate if I could avoid it. I'm really disappointed if the community's viewpoint is quite so bitter as to deny other gamers.
I can understand their justification to some point. I have to append -ebay to all my searches on Froogle to turn up anything useful. Nevertheless, they're already at the bottom of the pit, why have they started digging?
Yeah, I was very glad to see "the future" as well. Made the war seem more real.
I actually really liked the latest film. And I didn't hate *all* of the third film, I liked seeing Judgement Day happen. So this actually makes me a bit apprehensive :/
"Still, worth it to stop a few Lily Allen tracks being shared, right?" Truly, the cost is too dear, even for that.
Binaries are only ever useful when compiled for the user's distro. Given that this usually happens at package level (at least for distros that even bother with package management), and that those packages are often platform-specific, I don't see what problem this would solve. Perhaps if there was a distro that was definitively "Linux" that had the userbase to support it. But then any candidate for such a role already has a package management system.
I don't think I've ever wanted Windows less having read that.
"Dell has always been a strong MS OEM ally and it is now hoping to cash in again from the impending upgrades." Wow, so we can expect a unbiased opinion then? PREPARE FOR SHPIEL!
"Dell made plain several times that he sees the installed base of technology as very old" which is to say, people are not fond of buying Vista packages "and sees a coming "refresh cycle," for which he has high hopes" and that Dell is planning on making plenty of money off this, after Vista's disappointment.
"The latest generation of chips from Intel is strong, particularly Nehalem," So technology advances then, yes? Took some long-term observation of the industry to determine that factoid, I'll bet.
"I've been using Windows 7 for a long time now, and if you get the latest processor technology and Office 2010 with it, you will love your PC again." So you buy Windows, but you'll need a new computer (let's face it, the majority do not know what a CPU is) and hey, whilst you're there, why not buy a new version of Office for the giggles? "It's a dramatic improvement"
Improvement over what? Being able to carry out tasks 95% of which we did 8 years ago on hardware with perhaps, oooh, 50% of the capacity of modern tech?
You'll have to excuse me if I'm not enticed into reading the article after that. I've had quite enough of reading about tech. going backwards.
Err, did you just combine Chekov and Scotty? Slashdot is reduced to slashfic :(
Doubt not, I work in consumer electronics retail, all the big OEMs were pulling this shtick with Vista, and are doing again for W7. In the UK at least.