Computers and Tech do help, but are not the only ingredient. You are overexagerating the idea of removing them entirely.
Err... I guess you have had different experiences to me but our physics class has an interactive whiteboard (basicly a big touch sensetive projector screen). Our teacher is not that great at using it, so he mucks it up and draws lines on the other side of the board with his elbow etc.
If he could use it as an ordinary witeboard, he could explain things more quickly and keep the class's attention better, but although you can supposedly use dry wipe markers on it, they don't wipe off the surface very well.
I am pretty sure that if we had a standard whiteboard in addition to the interactive one, the interactive one would be used solely as a projector screen.
I am sure it is possible to use technology can be used effectively, but at the moment this seems to be the exception rather than the rule.
We have boards like these at college and they work very well. They do pretty much what they say they do, you can write something, start again with a completely blank board, recall whatever you wrote to start with, call up a picture, graph or other data and annotate it but we are hit with the disasterous probelm that the teachers, despite using them on a reegular basis still find them difficult to use and I often end up board as my teacher tries to remember where he saved the video clip used to illustrate standing waves.
These boards also all have some eccentricities such thinking you've drawn a line when you havn't and it is infuiating the amount of time that this wastes. I often end up wishing they would just use the bloody things as ordinary whiteboards most of the time.
if the ability to sneak into the movie theater wasn't there... you would be faced with the choice of either paying, or staying away and waiting for it to come out on DVD
Or not watching it at all, which is what the origial poster was getting at. Maybe I don't have the money or enough inclination to pay to watch the film. If I sneak in, they get no money. If I don't sneak in, they get no money.
Would you really go after the biggest guy with the most lawyers who can and will fight you tooth and nail and cast you quite a lot of money in the process, or would you target the small guy who can't afford to put up a decent defence?
Or just the fake "viruses".
There is a virus going round, to see if you are infected, check if you have (insert obscure and oddly named but important file here) and if you do delete it now!!!!
Maybe because people don't have much upstream bandwidth so I can listen to a 128k station easily but I can't upload that quickly. Also, you tend to get more breaks because if your audio has been through four people before it gets to you, there's more of a chance that someone will get a break in the stream and need to rebuffer, this is less likely when connecting to a central server.
Does anyone know how good today's technology is at identifying fingerprints? Is it really possible to identify correctly any one out of billions of prints?
I ask because at the science museum in London, there is an area where you can experiment with several computer based activities and save the results using your finger print. I had to try several fingers before I found one which wasn't incorrectly identified as someone else's.
I would guess that the technology used in this situation is not as accurate as that which would be used for credit cards but still it is still a rather worrying thought that someone else's fingerprint could be mistakenly thought to be mine by a creid card system.
MS would be th epolice if they could manage it but fortunately they're being dragged along (in some areas) by the competition, even if it is just me tooism.
Native System Theme Integration (Native Widget Rendering)
To enhance integration of OpenOffice.org with the underlying operating system, all user interface elements (such as buttons and scrollbars) will have the same look as those used in most other "native" applications for that platform. OpenOffice.org will react on-the-fly to changes of the desktop theme, so that when the user changes the desktop colors or theme, OpenOffice.org will adjust its own appearance to match.
It also states that this is available in Gnome 2.4 and above, KDE 3.2 and above and WinXP so it would appear to be in. On other platforms, it should just look the same as before.
It definately can help pave the way and make changing to linux a whole lot easier. Having OpenOffice and Firefox installed on windows meant that when I got hold of a newer machine without windows, the rest of my family could use it without much hastle.
Sadly though, I have had to explain to several users that an apparant "window" saying "you have two messages" is an advert that should not be clicked on and that no, there really arn't two important or interesting messages for them.
This sort of advertising seems so blatantly stupid and obviously fake that no one would ever click on it until you realise the sort of morons who use the internet.
In the article, one of the things it says is that it measures lots of the key distances on your face. Even if you grow a beard, it won't change the distance between your eyes or the space between your nose and your lips.
I would assume that it will be able to take account of temporary differences by being told (or automatically choosing to) ignore that part of the face.
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If he could use it as an ordinary witeboard, he could explain things more quickly and keep the class's attention better, but although you can supposedly use dry wipe markers on it, they don't wipe off the surface very well.
I am pretty sure that if we had a standard whiteboard in addition to the interactive one, the interactive one would be used solely as a projector screen.
I am sure it is possible to use technology can be used effectively, but at the moment this seems to be the exception rather than the rule.
That sounds like a really crappily named microsoft product of the future, and I wouldn't put it past them either.
These boards also all have some eccentricities such thinking you've drawn a line when you havn't and it is infuiating the amount of time that this wastes. I often end up wishing they would just use the bloody things as ordinary whiteboards most of the time.
This is of course why Unreal Tournament failed so dismally.
Or not watching it at all, which is what the origial poster was getting at. Maybe I don't have the money or enough inclination to pay to watch the film. If I sneak in, they get no money. If I don't sneak in, they get no money.
You have already indirectly made money by not having to buy the song you downloaded.
Would you really go after the biggest guy with the most lawyers who can and will fight you tooth and nail and cast you quite a lot of money in the process, or would you target the small guy who can't afford to put up a decent defence?
Or just the fake "viruses". There is a virus going round, to see if you are infected, check if you have (insert obscure and oddly named but important file here) and if you do delete it now!!!!
Any ports that any program tends to leave open silently?
...be used to make peril sensitive sunglasses?
If you have broadband, why do you want to use steam in offline mode anyway?
and of the problems you came across, how many were due to something being different to the way that its implemented in windows?
If you really want to know, open it up and have a look ;-)
Maybe because people don't have much upstream bandwidth so I can listen to a 128k station easily but I can't upload that quickly. Also, you tend to get more breaks because if your audio has been through four people before it gets to you, there's more of a chance that someone will get a break in the stream and need to rebuffer, this is less likely when connecting to a central server.
Maybe they decided that it was less of a risk to form an allience between these companies to avoid a similar stupid and expensive war next time round?
or maybe I'm just naive considering that companies can learn from mistakes
I ask because at the science museum in London, there is an area where you can experiment with several computer based activities and save the results using your finger print. I had to try several fingers before I found one which wasn't incorrectly identified as someone else's.
I would guess that the technology used in this situation is not as accurate as that which would be used for credit cards but still it is still a rather worrying thought that someone else's fingerprint could be mistakenly thought to be mine by a creid card system.
MS would be th epolice if they could manage it but fortunately they're being dragged along (in some areas) by the competition, even if it is just me tooism.
Yep, that's true, so they probably wouldn't ask that the site itself is taken down, merely that all links to copyrighted works are removed.
Since when does 5p = 3c. Most types of cent are worth less than a penny, 5p = approx. 10c (US)
What's that? You thing the US should give up both its money and its culture? Somehow, I don't see it happening.
Native System Theme Integration (Native Widget Rendering)
To enhance integration of OpenOffice.org with the underlying operating system, all user interface elements (such as buttons and scrollbars) will have the same look as those used in most other "native" applications for that platform. OpenOffice.org will react on-the-fly to changes of the desktop theme, so that when the user changes the desktop colors or theme, OpenOffice.org will adjust its own appearance to match.
It also states that this is available in Gnome 2.4 and above, KDE 3.2 and above and WinXP so it would appear to be in. On other platforms, it should just look the same as before.
info from this page
It definately can help pave the way and make changing to linux a whole lot easier. Having OpenOffice and Firefox installed on windows meant that when I got hold of a newer machine without windows, the rest of my family could use it without much hastle.
This sort of advertising seems so blatantly stupid and obviously fake that no one would ever click on it until you realise the sort of morons who use the internet.
I would assume that it will be able to take account of temporary differences by being told (or automatically choosing to) ignore that part of the face.
You lose!