Perhaps sharing files between computers on a network? Backing up your hard-drive to another machine? That's lots of reasons to have a faster network, without a faster internet speed.
We can't even apply a lot of updates (like a new kernel) that easily without a reboot, how can we expect to do it to something vastly more complicated like a living organism?
Photosynth would probably find the information to be extremely useful. Unfortunately, the iPhone camera isn't terribly great (for now), but I can see some of the exif tags coming to more "consumer" cameras (Point and shoot). Almost every online photo service and social networking site could use this information in many ways, such as automatic correlation of pictures and events, concerts, etc.
You can't statistically analyze the whole problem until you know the numbers of those affected and those not. It's like review sites, seldom do people write reviews if the product works as expected, but more likely to when the product does NOT work. What's more slightly annoying is the people bitching at the people who report no problems.
The new Ubuntu seems to have a lot of new stuff that I feel slightly uneasy about. I'm not sure if Ext4 has proven itself yet (then again, I haven't been paying attention), and grub2 isn't even available on Gentoo yet (my somewhat crude stick of measuring when things are considered "new" or not). I like the progress, I'm just interesting in hearing some discussion about it (hal deprecation, new input system, NX, AppArmor, etc).
The question here is do the download numbers also reflect copies downloaded with package managers such in Linux distros such as Gentoo and Ubuntu, or does it only count people that only actually go to the webpage to download? The way Windows users and Linux users tend to get software these days tends to be a little different, where windows users expect going to the website, downloading, and using an something like Install Shield to install.
WebCT's replacement, Blackboard, is orders of magnitude worse than WebCT. If you click the logo in Blackboard, it opens a new window with a new login screen. It also won't let you open new windows in tabs because you can't be signed in more than once. It's also very unstable and quite unintuitive.
Well, at least not anymore. A lot of places have had their rails taken up in the late 80s, early 90s in Canada. I personally think rail should be the choice for long hauls, and using trucks for local delivery. I've always preferred taking a train over taking a bus, however since they took up the tracks to my university town, I have no choice.
On domestic flights between Canada, about 50% of the time they ask for my laptop, but they never turn it on, they just swab it down looking for explosives. On the bright side they can be kind of cheery, and I usually have a good laugh going through security (me usually going on about how I have too much stuff).
I tried a copy of tiger for VMWare. It was very slow, and the sound was horrible, and pretty much unusable, plus it wouldn't Sync my iPod (boo). To be fair, it was over a USB2.0 connection to an external harddrive hosted on NTFS-3g (I didn't have 11 gigs available on my ext3 partition)
Those must be some insanely simple classes you are taking. Not sure how great a laptop would be in real time for writing complex formulas, or diagrams of how things like a thermo system or airfoil work.
Maybe a tablet that let you freehand sketch accurately in addition to typing. I still think that would be rather clumsy compared to a pencil and notebook. I carried around my laptop and a clipboard. I would number all my diagrams, so that I could say in my notes (See diagram 2008-04-18-ECON1013-05), which pretty well kept things organized enough.
I am completely unable to learn while taking notes. I abandoned the practice entirely several weeks into my first university semester.
If I attempt to take notes, I just enter a weird pass-through mode where information comes in via the ears and out via my hands, but not a drop of it will stick anywhere in between.
I suspect it's because I'm a visual learner, and when my visual attention is focused on a blank sheet of paper instead of on the person doing the lecturing, my learning ability is severely impaired.
Anybody else out there like this? I kind of do the same thing, sometimes I couldn't tell you what I just wrote, however, if I don't take notes, I forget a large chunk of information by the time I need it, and it's best for me just to review my notes at the end of the week or so. I'm just a forgetful version of you.
I keep my ipod touch's wireless on, and not only on, but to auto-associate with any open wireless it finds. I do this for a couple reasons. 1) My last fm song information can get scrobbled as I walk around. 2) I can get my mail delivered to me away from my home/work computer. Since all my mail is ssl, it's not a big deal. And who cares about my lastfm account information. I've thought about many times creating a public wifi hotspot around my house that limits connections to http only, although I'm not sure how that opens me up in the legal sense. It's bad when you're trying to be honest and help people and you get burned.
Sometimes I find it relaxing to use my laptop on the back deck, however, if it's really sunny, I have to struggle with the screen because pretty much all I can see is myself in the extremely glossy toshiba screen. I'm not sure if the matte screens are any better, but in reality laptops probably aren't designed for bright outside use. The glossy screens remind me of the tube tvs, where if there was a window in the room, you lost part of your screen to glare. Much the same here. On the bright side, sometimes you can use your screen to see who's peeking over your shoulder.
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Or rather become rather grumpy and not 'like' anything, or anybody.
Yeah, I still used KDE 3.5
Perhaps sharing files between computers on a network? Backing up your hard-drive to another machine? That's lots of reasons to have a faster network, without a faster internet speed.
That's a poorly chosen word, it makes me want to say wig-ig instead of wi-gig.
Pretty hard to put users first if you've gone broke.
We can't even apply a lot of updates (like a new kernel) that easily without a reboot, how can we expect to do it to something vastly more complicated like a living organism?
If my phone *didn't* tag my photos with my name I'd be a bit miffed :)
Generally yes. Unless you want to anonymously submit a photo, and you had no idea this information was stored inside the picture.
Photosynth would probably find the information to be extremely useful. Unfortunately, the iPhone camera isn't terribly great (for now), but I can see some of the exif tags coming to more "consumer" cameras (Point and shoot). Almost every online photo service and social networking site could use this information in many ways, such as automatic correlation of pictures and events, concerts, etc.
You can't statistically analyze the whole problem until you know the numbers of those affected and those not. It's like review sites, seldom do people write reviews if the product works as expected, but more likely to when the product does NOT work. What's more slightly annoying is the people bitching at the people who report no problems.
Well then have a nap, THEN FIRE ZE MIZZILEZ!
(for those terribly confused: http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/end)
Time to move to Antarctica. Or an oil rig in the middle of the ocean. Sealand anyone?
Since when was there a sea between the US and Canada?
The new Ubuntu seems to have a lot of new stuff that I feel slightly uneasy about. I'm not sure if Ext4 has proven itself yet (then again, I haven't been paying attention), and grub2 isn't even available on Gentoo yet (my somewhat crude stick of measuring when things are considered "new" or not). I like the progress, I'm just interesting in hearing some discussion about it (hal deprecation, new input system, NX, AppArmor, etc).
I've had this problem buying stuff only released in the US from Canada. The problem goes both ways.
The question here is do the download numbers also reflect copies downloaded with package managers such in Linux distros such as Gentoo and Ubuntu, or does it only count people that only actually go to the webpage to download? The way Windows users and Linux users tend to get software these days tends to be a little different, where windows users expect going to the website, downloading, and using an something like Install Shield to install.
WebCT's replacement, Blackboard, is orders of magnitude worse than WebCT. If you click the logo in Blackboard, it opens a new window with a new login screen. It also won't let you open new windows in tabs because you can't be signed in more than once. It's also very unstable and quite unintuitive.
I want WebCT *back*.
uTorrent does, and lists Wine first.
Well, at least not anymore. A lot of places have had their rails taken up in the late 80s, early 90s in Canada. I personally think rail should be the choice for long hauls, and using trucks for local delivery. I've always preferred taking a train over taking a bus, however since they took up the tracks to my university town, I have no choice.
On domestic flights between Canada, about 50% of the time they ask for my laptop, but they never turn it on, they just swab it down looking for explosives. On the bright side they can be kind of cheery, and I usually have a good laugh going through security (me usually going on about how I have too much stuff).
I tried a copy of tiger for VMWare. It was very slow, and the sound was horrible, and pretty much unusable, plus it wouldn't Sync my iPod (boo). To be fair, it was over a USB2.0 connection to an external harddrive hosted on NTFS-3g (I didn't have 11 gigs available on my ext3 partition)
Mainly because they're in my house... in Canada... on the east coast.
I keep my ipod touch's wireless on, and not only on, but to auto-associate with any open wireless it finds. I do this for a couple reasons. 1) My last fm song information can get scrobbled as I walk around. 2) I can get my mail delivered to me away from my home/work computer. Since all my mail is ssl, it's not a big deal. And who cares about my lastfm account information. I've thought about many times creating a public wifi hotspot around my house that limits connections to http only, although I'm not sure how that opens me up in the legal sense. It's bad when you're trying to be honest and help people and you get burned.
Sometimes I find it relaxing to use my laptop on the back deck, however, if it's really sunny, I have to struggle with the screen because pretty much all I can see is myself in the extremely glossy toshiba screen. I'm not sure if the matte screens are any better, but in reality laptops probably aren't designed for bright outside use. The glossy screens remind me of the tube tvs, where if there was a window in the room, you lost part of your screen to glare. Much the same here. On the bright side, sometimes you can use your screen to see who's peeking over your shoulder.