The unfair part is that they encourage them to get into the program, accept them into the program, and then fail them out knowing that this is exactly what most of them will do. If they get out of school, and they get hired by an employer who hires 10 people to fill 1 position, knowing that they must fire 9 of them in the next 90 days, that employer is being unfair. Luckily, most employers don't do that.
Unfortunately, what non-scientists have to say matters because non-scientists make the policies that direct funding for (or away from) scientists to study things.
True. Khan Academy is way more effective than traditional school.
To be fair, Khan Academy doesn't teach kids how to do tons of busy work on subjects they are proficient in while they wait for slower kids to catch up, and it doesn't teach kids how to fake knowing a subject because they are slower than the rest of the group and the group is moving forward whether they get it or not. So there is that aspect of it that Khan Academy isn't a replacement for traditional school. Oh, and the fact that parents can't just drop their kids off for it and go to work.
I would disagree. His language is great for younger kids. One of the reasons KA is so successful and kids like him is that he doesn't talk down to them.
I would also hate to see KA opened up to the general public for content. Our education system is a self feeding monster that would likely get it's fingers involved and break KA. Better would be for Kahn to hand pick some individuals to help create new content.
I do agree that one of KA's big strengths is that it is online and is largely barrier free. A brick an mortar school is more likely to drag KA down to the level of other schools than it is to raise up KA to a new level.
Around here, we have the opposite. No matter what is wrong with you, if the doctor cannot easily tell you what it is, the standard answer is "You have the flew". Unless you meant that the doctors were the uneducated people.
It's the what you get new release movies on. It is also the medium that purchase movies on, although Blu-Ray is becoming more popular as the prices come down.
I would say the majority of them. The reason I say this is because BSODs are extremely rare now, while they used to be common on virtually all Windows systems. That is a pretty strong indicator that Windows, and thus MS had a pretty serious level of responsibility in BSODs of previous versions of Windows.
There is a certain amount of user bias that goes on with these things. This report is useful for businesses to determine what might be profitable. As users, it doesn't help much.
For example, the entire first batch of iPhone 4s had a design defect that generally would not have been accepted by Android purchasers, yet I don't know anyone that returned their iPhone due to the death grip. Why would they. If they wanted to run iOS, they could choose to run an outdated model, or deal with the death grip. Maybe someone could tell me, did Apple ever fix that design flaw in a way beyond issuing free rubber bands? With an Android phone people could return a phone with that kind of problem and get an equivalent model from a different manufacturer.
My HTC G2 got an update this morning. It is the 3rd or 4th update I have received since I got it. That puts it just about on par with the 3GS that I have. Of course, none of this matters when you consider that Apple is still selling 3GSes and HTC is still selling G2s. It doesn't matter whether we are talking about desktop OSes, cell phones, or buggy whips. When discussing the longevity of support, you start counting from the day the product is last sold. Not the day that it is first sold.
You make a very good point. I would take it one step further, and say that developers should consider not just running the server side locally, but build the server side into a VM image. This way not only does the UI become abstracted from the host OS and hardware, so does the back end.
Because you then only need to maintain one UI for every computer system present and future? Because you could then VPN into your server and the application would function on your tablet while hosted on your server/desktop?
Because when it comes to shades of gray, anything lighter than mine is to light to count, and anything darker is just a copy of mine with some extra dark added.
You would recognize that is it simple to tell a lie by only stating true facts. The "half truth" being one of the most popular forms of this. For example. If your wife stops off at the grocery store on her way home from her Wednesday afternoon gang bang, and you ask her "Where were you this afternoon", When she tells you "The grocery store." She is lying to you.
They are both restaurants. If you have something that indicates the AppleADay restaurant was somehow computer related, let us know. At this point it appears Apple was harassing a restaurant. The fact that the story isn't brand new doesn't make it irrelevant or trollish.
What would be funny is for some lawyer looking for kicks to patition for Apple to lose their trademark. The logic being that Apple know about Applebee's logo, and since they consider the AppleADay logo to be close enough to require they defend it, then clearly Applebee's logo would require defense also since it is closer to Apple's logo than AppleADay's is.
Thus, Apple has clearly abandoned their trademark as they are not defending it against a know usage.
Ideally Apple would work similar to Android in regard to App Store/Side loading apps. Require sandboxing for anything downloaded from the store, and let a simple check box allow non-sandboxed apps to be installed. If the path of least resistence is to be safe, people will only break out when they have a reason.
I do think you are right about where it is going though.
No, but when you marry a woman who has had 30 husbands, you should expect to get divorced or die in very short order. Extrapolating when there is no history is stupid. Not extrapolating when there is a history is just as stupid.
I too am surprised at the anti-Tech nature of the threads. I should be, as Slashdot as a whole as become very anti-intellectual and anti-tech. Maybe it always was anti-tech and I didn't notice.
You are right that if Siri works as hyped, it would be a great and useful app. I have not used it, so can't speak from first hand experience. My suspicion is that it is a catch up application to Android's speech commands. I base this off the reviews I hear from Apple faithful, and then ratcheted it down base on how much worse Apple features usually are than what the Apple faithful claim. I do look forward to trying it though, as I find voice recognition on Android to be really useful as a secondary input, and voice recognition on iOS would be really helpful for our users at work.
Yes, you tease, but with a reasonable point. In seriousness I would respond that one of the reasons these things fail in the US is that they are often redundant for the purposes they are attempted to be used for. Learning to read is a good example. I have met dozens of kids here in the US who have never spent a day in school, and no one ever tried to teach them to read. 100% of them could read. The only kids that I have ever met over the age of 10 who could not read (physical brain impairment aside) were kids from homes where the parents were actively working against learning.
The written word is in such heavy use in the US that it is darn near impossible to miss it. When a kid drives past McDonalds enough times, they pick up that "M" makes a "Mmmm" sound, even if no one actively tries to teach it to them. In many of these third world countries, that isn't the case. Kids don't have the written word stuffed into their faces day and night. A computer in a US school is just another of many devices displaying text. A computer in a third world country may be the only device the kid sees that has text on it.
Of course, this doesn't answer the question of whether the computers will be useful in third world countries or not. It does point out that supplying computers to the two different environments are not the same.
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The unfair part is that they encourage them to get into the program, accept them into the program, and then fail them out knowing that this is exactly what most of them will do. If they get out of school, and they get hired by an employer who hires 10 people to fill 1 position, knowing that they must fire 9 of them in the next 90 days, that employer is being unfair. Luckily, most employers don't do that.
Because the difference between "mostly" and "very" generally has more to do with the person than the phone.
Unfortunately, what non-scientists have to say matters because non-scientists make the policies that direct funding for (or away from) scientists to study things.
True. Khan Academy is way more effective than traditional school.
To be fair, Khan Academy doesn't teach kids how to do tons of busy work on subjects they are proficient in while they wait for slower kids to catch up, and it doesn't teach kids how to fake knowing a subject because they are slower than the rest of the group and the group is moving forward whether they get it or not. So there is that aspect of it that Khan Academy isn't a replacement for traditional school. Oh, and the fact that parents can't just drop their kids off for it and go to work.
I would disagree. His language is great for younger kids. One of the reasons KA is so successful and kids like him is that he doesn't talk down to them.
I would also hate to see KA opened up to the general public for content. Our education system is a self feeding monster that would likely get it's fingers involved and break KA. Better would be for Kahn to hand pick some individuals to help create new content.
I do agree that one of KA's big strengths is that it is online and is largely barrier free. A brick an mortar school is more likely to drag KA down to the level of other schools than it is to raise up KA to a new level.
Around here, we have the opposite. No matter what is wrong with you, if the doctor cannot easily tell you what it is, the standard answer is "You have the flew". Unless you meant that the doctors were the uneducated people.
His spouse was just as bad as him. She was fully involved with the beating.
It's the what you get new release movies on. It is also the medium that purchase movies on, although Blu-Ray is becoming more popular as the prices come down.
No. CDs are an old tech that happen to work in DVD players.
I would say the majority of them. The reason I say this is because BSODs are extremely rare now, while they used to be common on virtually all Windows systems. That is a pretty strong indicator that Windows, and thus MS had a pretty serious level of responsibility in BSODs of previous versions of Windows.
There is a certain amount of user bias that goes on with these things. This report is useful for businesses to determine what might be profitable. As users, it doesn't help much.
For example, the entire first batch of iPhone 4s had a design defect that generally would not have been accepted by Android purchasers, yet I don't know anyone that returned their iPhone due to the death grip. Why would they. If they wanted to run iOS, they could choose to run an outdated model, or deal with the death grip. Maybe someone could tell me, did Apple ever fix that design flaw in a way beyond issuing free rubber bands? With an Android phone people could return a phone with that kind of problem and get an equivalent model from a different manufacturer.
My HTC G2 got an update this morning. It is the 3rd or 4th update I have received since I got it. That puts it just about on par with the 3GS that I have. Of course, none of this matters when you consider that Apple is still selling 3GSes and HTC is still selling G2s. It doesn't matter whether we are talking about desktop OSes, cell phones, or buggy whips. When discussing the longevity of support, you start counting from the day the product is last sold. Not the day that it is first sold.
You make a very good point. I would take it one step further, and say that developers should consider not just running the server side locally, but build the server side into a VM image. This way not only does the UI become abstracted from the host OS and hardware, so does the back end.
Because you then only need to maintain one UI for every computer system present and future? Because you could then VPN into your server and the application would function on your tablet while hosted on your server/desktop?
That depends on which direction you go to get there.
Or do like Sabre and produce a triangle shaped tablet. http://www.nbc.com/the-office/video/Power-of-The-Pyramid/1359427
Unleash the power of the pyramid!
Because when it comes to shades of gray, anything lighter than mine is to light to count, and anything darker is just a copy of mine with some extra dark added.
You would recognize that is it simple to tell a lie by only stating true facts. The "half truth" being one of the most popular forms of this. For example. If your wife stops off at the grocery store on her way home from her Wednesday afternoon gang bang, and you ask her "Where were you this afternoon", When she tells you "The grocery store." She is lying to you.
A half truth is a whole lie.
They are both restaurants. If you have something that indicates the AppleADay restaurant was somehow computer related, let us know. At this point it appears Apple was harassing a restaurant. The fact that the story isn't brand new doesn't make it irrelevant or trollish.
What would be funny is for some lawyer looking for kicks to patition for Apple to lose their trademark. The logic being that Apple know about Applebee's logo, and since they consider the AppleADay logo to be close enough to require they defend it, then clearly Applebee's logo would require defense also since it is closer to Apple's logo than AppleADay's is.
Thus, Apple has clearly abandoned their trademark as they are not defending it against a know usage.
Ideally Apple would work similar to Android in regard to App Store/Side loading apps. Require sandboxing for anything downloaded from the store, and let a simple check box allow non-sandboxed apps to be installed. If the path of least resistence is to be safe, people will only break out when they have a reason.
I do think you are right about where it is going though.
No, but when you marry a woman who has had 30 husbands, you should expect to get divorced or die in very short order. Extrapolating when there is no history is stupid. Not extrapolating when there is a history is just as stupid.
He posted via voice recognition.
I too am surprised at the anti-Tech nature of the threads. I should be, as Slashdot as a whole as become very anti-intellectual and anti-tech. Maybe it always was anti-tech and I didn't notice.
You are right that if Siri works as hyped, it would be a great and useful app. I have not used it, so can't speak from first hand experience. My suspicion is that it is a catch up application to Android's speech commands. I base this off the reviews I hear from Apple faithful, and then ratcheted it down base on how much worse Apple features usually are than what the Apple faithful claim. I do look forward to trying it though, as I find voice recognition on Android to be really useful as a secondary input, and voice recognition on iOS would be really helpful for our users at work.
Yes, you tease, but with a reasonable point. In seriousness I would respond that one of the reasons these things fail in the US is that they are often redundant for the purposes they are attempted to be used for. Learning to read is a good example. I have met dozens of kids here in the US who have never spent a day in school, and no one ever tried to teach them to read. 100% of them could read. The only kids that I have ever met over the age of 10 who could not read (physical brain impairment aside) were kids from homes where the parents were actively working against learning.
The written word is in such heavy use in the US that it is darn near impossible to miss it. When a kid drives past McDonalds enough times, they pick up that "M" makes a "Mmmm" sound, even if no one actively tries to teach it to them. In many of these third world countries, that isn't the case. Kids don't have the written word stuffed into their faces day and night. A computer in a US school is just another of many devices displaying text. A computer in a third world country may be the only device the kid sees that has text on it.
Of course, this doesn't answer the question of whether the computers will be useful in third world countries or not. It does point out that supplying computers to the two different environments are not the same.