First off -- I applaud your use of open-note exams. That is the ONLY real-world way to learn and demonstrate knowledge.
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Absolutely. I attended a technical college that ran the exams on an Honor System. Most exams were open-book. Professors were not allowed in the classroom once the exam began. The exams were not about how much you could memorize, but how much you understood.
I used to watch Good Eats, however ever since AB became a paid spokeperson for the salt industry, he seems to have been using a lot more salt and telling everyone that it's not a problem. I don't watch him anymore.
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Right now, the technology as it stands, comes across as an over-played gimmick trying to fast-talk it's way in to our living rooms while keeping a foot in the door..
... and that is exactly why those who are called early adapters take the risks they do.
What looks great, or is involving, is not necessarily a commercial success in the living room. Consumer electronics companies are killing themselves (sometimes, literally) in their attempts to get products into the living rooms of Mom and Pop America.
The television is the most complex appliance that has been allowed into the family living rooms here in the US. Have you noticed how all the companies are trying to disguise their computers as televisions lately? Have you noticed how many televisions run Linux nowadays?
An electronics box in the living room* is the Holy Grail for Consumer Electronic Companies in the United States.
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*For some reason, set-top boxes do not seem to count, probably due to the distrust of cable companies.
The early days of stereo audio are known as the ping pong days because of the vocals and instruments bouncing back and forth between the two channels. If you listen to, for example, some of the early Beatles recordings, you'll hear the ping-pong effect.
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When you add another dimension to a playback medium, the first temptation is to exploit that new dimension to the point of exaggeration. That is where 3-D TV is now.
Give the creative types a few years and 3D TV will look very differently. Heck, it may even work without those awful glasses........
Few, if any, of the plug-ins handle tagging.
What I would like to see is FLAC handled as a part of the CoreAudio infrastructure, not as a partially-implemented plug-in.
Still no FLAC support in iTunes or anywhere else in the Apple music infrastructure. Many sites use FLAC for concert recordings and other high-quality digital downloads.
The only thing that Microsoft cares about is profit. There have been far too many companies that have been sucked devoid of life by Microsoft in the past by those who falsely belived that Microsoft played "by the rules".
imo, the reality is that one of Microsoft's major contributions to business is the questionable exploitation of the far fringes of business legalities.
I look at it as a convincing argument for IT to present information to everyone in a manner that is concise, that more information is not necessarily better, as it distracts the information consumers from the main task of running the business (because they are hip-deep in information that is not pertinent).
Just as large quantities of spam reduces the usefulness of email, large quantities of irrelevant information reduces the usefulness of the information provided by our corporate information systems.
Herbert Simon has some very excellent writings and opinions on this topic.
In an information-rich world, the wealth of information means a dearth of something else: a scarcity of whatever it is that information consumes. What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.
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Look at it this way.... Microsoft missed the Internet in the 90's. Gates' book, The Road Ahead missed the importance of the Internet until it was revised after the Internet became popular. Gates, the visionary at Microsoft, missed the Internet. Some visionary, eh?
Microsoft missed the whole mass migration (or should I say, the migration of the masses) from PCs to portable cell-technology devices. Windows Mobile is still little more than an unfilled vaporware promise.
What in the world is Microsoft doing with all of the money it is gaining from the aging Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office monopolies?
Surely any attempt at innovation is not a part of the plan.
you need to be aware that the business interests behind Twitter, Facebook, et al, are playing with the public perception of their "services". Be concerned. Be aware.
The article credits Intel with allowing hardware innovation to stagnate
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The stagnation in the PC industry has far more to do with Microsoft's monopoly-maintaining innovation-stifling policies than anything else. At least Intel had some marginal competition in the form of AMD. Microsoft had no real competition for over a decade, and the entire PC industry and its customers suffered.
candidates, due to their egos, think that any contact with potential voters is always positive, i.e., they think that people want to hear from the candidates via robo-calling.
robo-calling is cheap to do
there is no evidence that it really works or does not work, so items (1) and (2) are operative.
Its funny how people tend to act exactly the way you treat them. I don't think the prank was a good idea...
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It is also funny that people are treated based upon the way the act. Gizmodo, as you agree, acted poorly in the past, and has shown little evidence that they would be able to act maturely in the future.
I sure as hell would lash out if I was the victim of segregation.
There are mature ways to "lash out", and there are immature ways to "lash out". Gizmodo not only chose the latter, but also validated the reason for being treated differently.
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Absolutely. I attended a technical college that ran the exams on an Honor System. Most exams were open-book. Professors were not allowed in the classroom once the exam began. The exams were not about how much you could memorize, but how much you understood.
... and start filing complaints with these helpful people. Also start talking with the various Finance Committees.
I used to watch Good Eats, however ever since AB became a paid spokeperson for the salt industry, he seems to have been using a lot more salt and telling everyone that it's not a problem. I don't watch him anymore.
A site in a similar vein.
What looks great, or is involving, is not necessarily a commercial success in the living room. Consumer electronics companies are killing themselves (sometimes, literally) in their attempts to get products into the living rooms of Mom and Pop America.
The television is the most complex appliance that has been allowed into the family living rooms here in the US. Have you noticed how all the companies are trying to disguise their computers as televisions lately? Have you noticed how many televisions run Linux nowadays?
An electronics box in the living room* is the Holy Grail for Consumer Electronic Companies in the United States.
________________________________________________________________
*For some reason, set-top boxes do not seem to count, probably due to the distrust of cable companies.
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When you add another dimension to a playback medium, the first temptation is to exploit that new dimension to the point of exaggeration. That is where 3-D TV is now.
Give the creative types a few years and 3D TV will look very differently. Heck, it may even work without those awful glasses........
Few, if any, of the plug-ins handle tagging. What I would like to see is FLAC handled as a part of the CoreAudio infrastructure, not as a partially-implemented plug-in.
Still no FLAC support in iTunes or anywhere else in the Apple music infrastructure. Many sites use FLAC for concert recordings and other high-quality digital downloads.
imo, the reality is that one of Microsoft's major contributions to business is the questionable exploitation of the far fringes of business legalities.
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.. and this is a surprise ... why?
Does anyone here really expect the likes of Comcast to be truthful in their advertising?
Just as large quantities of spam reduces the usefulness of email, large quantities of irrelevant information reduces the usefulness of the information provided by our corporate information systems.
Herbert Simon has some very excellent writings and opinions on this topic.
-- Herbert Simon (1916 - 2001)
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But... but... but... google hasn't been around for 35 years....
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Here, let me fix that typo for you.
"Microsoft has a long and iniquitous history of operating system sales."
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Another feature of the blogsphere is that it gives a loud megaphone to anyone who has the intelligence to type, and many who do not.
Ask your question in this forum. Comcast techs hang out there and may give you a better answer.
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Look at it this way.... Microsoft missed the Internet in the 90's. Gates' book, The Road Ahead missed the importance of the Internet until it was revised after the Internet became popular. Gates, the visionary at Microsoft, missed the Internet. Some visionary, eh?
Microsoft missed the whole mass migration (or should I say, the migration of the masses) from PCs to portable cell-technology devices. Windows Mobile is still little more than an unfilled vaporware promise.
What in the world is Microsoft doing with all of the money it is gaining from the aging Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office monopolies?
Surely any attempt at innovation is not a part of the plan.
If Windows 7 boots so quickly, then why does Microsoft make it one of only a few bullet points that the start-up time needs to be improved?
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Always a promise from Microsoft, never a reality in Windows.
you need to be aware that the business interests behind Twitter, Facebook, et al, are playing with the public perception of their "services". Be concerned. Be aware.
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The stagnation in the PC industry has far more to do with Microsoft's monopoly-maintaining innovation-stifling policies than anything else. At least Intel had some marginal competition in the form of AMD. Microsoft had no real competition for over a decade, and the entire PC industry and its customers suffered.
Microsoft has always been under the false impression that just because "Microsoft explains" a bad deed, that the deed suddenly becomes OK.
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I think there are multiple reasons:
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It is also funny that people are treated based upon the way the act. Gizmodo, as you agree, acted poorly in the past, and has shown little evidence that they would be able to act maturely in the future.
I sure as hell would lash out if I was the victim of segregation.
There are mature ways to "lash out", and there are immature ways to "lash out". Gizmodo not only chose the latter, but also validated the reason for being treated differently.