Oh sure, if you like that sort of thing, then go for it.:) If you would be just as embarrassed, or are, say, traveling with your mother, it might not be advisable.
European wireless customers only pay for outgoing SMS, not incoming. U.S. customers pay for both, with the above voice exceptions often applying to SMS.
And often US carriers do not provide a way to block unwanted text messages, causing me to have spent about a dollar over the life of my phone (I've had it for four years) on ten-cent text messages that someone who didn't know I don't use them sent me.
I definitely agree in regards to carry-on luggage. I once actually saw the girl in front of me have her luggage searched, and the security guards pull out a flour bag... and pull a pair of handcuffs out of the flour bag. I was really embarrassed for the girl, but seriously? Did you think the guard was just going to say "hey, everyone carries flour on an airplane, right?" Things like that go in checked luggage, where at least if someone goes through it by hand they won't do it in front of you and the world. However, I do think that recording the contents of people's checked luggage (beyond anything illegal) is an invasion of privacy.
Obviously, no one reading anything in an airport cares if anyone looks, because they're reading it IN AN AIRPORT. The security guard walking past you probably has a better view than the camera. Unless you use custom book covers to obscure what you're reading - which, if you're paranoid, go ahead, I'll only get worried when they start disallowing that - then you obviously have no problem broadcasting your reading preferences to the world.
Coop members also get a profit share at the end of the year. And the bookstore part of the Coop is already associated with Barnes & Noble, as are 80% of college bookstores. (I don't think "owned" is the right phrase, I don't know how the relationship works.) But yeah, there are students on the Coop board who should probably be alerted to this so they can fight it.
Thus a mark of a real time traveler under those rules would be predictions that would start out somewhat accurate, but become increasingly wrong.
But the really funny part is that that would also be the mark of a clever but fake time traveler. Because it's much easier for someone to be right about events in the near future, since things tend to change slowly and incrementally. Sure, most people will be wrong, but occasionally someone's guess will be right. But as they keep guessing further and further out, their guesses are more and more likely to be wrong.
If you don't believe me, look at any number of predictions about the direction of computers. There's always someone who guesses correctly what they will look like a year or two from now (though also a lot of wrong guesses), but a decade?? Someone in 1990 may have predicted that in the next few years email would become popular, but how many people were predicting that blogging would be ubiquitous by 2005? (Aside from the dude who predicted it in 1837 - he wins.)
Look, if you want to believe that he's from a parallel timeline, go for it, no one can prove you wrong.
But if you really think he's only "slightly" off, you're delusional. And if he's more than slightly off, then there's no point in trying to compare what's happening to any of his predictions. Because they have nothing to do with our reality, and don't and won't predict our future. What you're saying here is only a small step from the folks at the Weekly World News who pick their favorite translation of Nostradamus and come up with some metaphor that it stands for, use that to make a prediction about next week, then when that's wrong the week after use a different interpretation to claim that it really did predict whatever happened that week.
What am I talking about? It's not a step away. That's what you're doing.
Except that Titor's predictions (or "memories") were specifically that this would all revolve around rural US vs city folk - NOT anyone else vs Islamic fundamentalists. That was the entire point of the civil war. And I don't think a wiretapping scandal can quite be compared to a physical standoff like Waco.
For use during the "Waco-type events" that are happening on a monthly basis right now, and at everyone's doorstep? As a part of this civil war we're currently in?
You can also get cryptic crosswords (the type in Atlantic Monthly) from every issue of Games Magazine or Games World of Puzzles Magazine. Or by joining the National Puzzler's League and getting their magazine. If you're looking for more of them.
I was about to say, tag this one "duh." It's especially bad in some fields - for instance, you just go and TRY to get funding to replicate a study in educational research. Even though replicability is supposed to be one of the fundamental cornerstones of experimental research, and replication studies could point out flaws in previous studies, it NEVER HAPPENS in this field. If you're lucky, a study looking at something very similar will be able to find flaws, but true replication? Couldn't get the funding, and very likely couldn't get it published if you got the same results. Plus you have a field where only the people doing research on math ed actually like math (in general), so 75% of the researchers don't really understand the statistics they're using and are likely to misapply them. It's just ridiculous - I'd hope most sciences are a bit better, but I'm sure none of the hard or social sciences is as good as it should be.
Aaaaand he also said publicly many times that Apple wasn't making a phone. I don't trust anything he denies in public.
I read somewhere that Apple was approached by a team wanting them to create a tablet for medical use - and they said that touch-screen technology wasn't up to where it needed to be for such a device to be as good as they'd want to make it. They didn't say that they would never consider such a device, or that people wouldn't want it - just that it wasn't currently feasible.
By PDA, I just mean I want something that I can enter scheduling and to do info into on the go, rather than at my computer. It doesn't seem like it would be hard to make the iPod touch do this, and probably a third party will do it soon.
Now, a true tablet Mac, that's really my dream-come-true, and I think it will happen eventually. No, not everyone wants or needs one, but I think there's enough of a niche market for it that if Apple could do it really well, they'd do it. But as the anecdote above shows, they won't do it until they know they can do it better than anyone else.
I was originally super-excited about the iPod Touch as a PDA, but I just found out that you can't enter calendar entries on it, you can only sync them from your computer.:( Oh well, now I don't have to be sad about the price!
The part of this article that I found most interesting is that you need to use your skin for the touch screen to work - that kinda rules out any sort of future handwriting recognition.
I guess I just really want Apple to give me a real PDA - an iNewton - instead of an iPod that looks kinda like a PDA.
Not to mention that $$ wise since a Wii is cheaper, therefore you would want to base it off of profit more then units sold to determine who is "winning"
I don't have hard numbers, but in the past Nintendo has been known as the console maker with the best profit margin on their consoles, whereas Sony tends to take a loss (I think MS took a loss at first on the XBox but was making a small profit soon). So if you look at profits (not dollar sales), chances are the Wii would still be the winner.
I can't imagine Apple putting this is OS X anyhow. Ads are so tacky. If by some chance they did, anyone who wanted to advertise through it would have to hire one of three Apple-approved marketing firms to design the ad and it would have to be personally approved by Steve Jobs as pretty enough. And they'd be so tightly-integrated with the rest of the OS that you wouldn't even notice them there anyhow. Between the high barrier to entry and low clickthrough rate (because no one notices them), no one would bother with them anyhow.
Except that in India, as in many other developing countries, a large portion of the population only has internet access via the internet cafes. They don't even have computers at home, let alone broadband connections. Internet cafes may be rare in the US, but in many countries you'll find three on every street corner, they're cheap to use and always busy.
When I was in elementary school, second grade I think, our bus driver handed out free candy every Friday. Her name was Pat; you should track her down and put her in charge of that department when you take over the world.
First, I would say to sit down with the science and math teachers and see what you can brainstorm together. Maybe they're doing a big project in science that they can write about in English. Maybe they can take their lab notes and turn it into a presentation or speech. It's a little harder with math, since there's less narrative involved in pre-algebra, but I've seen cross-subject projects that managed to use both writing and math. For instance, the student has to create plans for a house (measurement, angles, basic geometry, area, etc) and then come up with a persuasive essay to sell the house. Things like that - in the real world, tasks take more than one type of talent to finish, and it can be the same way in school.
Also, for shows, I highly recommend Dragonfly TV. Awesome new PBS show! I'm in PhD program on learning and design of learning environments, and this past spring I organized a series of afternoons watching and analyzing educational TV - this show was the coolest one, I think. We had Mr Wizard (from both the 60s and 80s), Bill Nye, and Dragonfly TV, and I was shocked at how much MORE I liked it than any of the older stuff. Mr Wizard gives the message that science is stuff that someone else came up with that you use to do cool things. Bill Nye says more than science is a bunch of cool stuff you can learn about the world. But Dragonfly TV gives the message that science is something YOU do when you want to learn something. It is A++.
Sorry, but you lost the credibility of knowing what "any psychologist can tell you" right there. Past the age of about 6 or 7 (right about when school starts), a child's peers have a much, much stronger affect on their personality and decisions than their parents. Study after study has shown this.
Obviously neuroscientists, cognitive scientists, neurolinguists, etc are not Real Nerds (tm). Because figuring out how people and animals work rather than how to make a computer work isn't Real Science.
It's not like the histories of artificial intelligence and cognitive science as fields of study are inextricably linked. We haven't been going back and forth between models of thinking based on computer programming and models based on human or animal behavior, building from one to the other, for over fifty years now. If it's not about particle physics, space travel, or the new iPod, a true nerd would know nothing about it.
No, Alex the parrot and Irene Pepperberg have NO PLACE on a nerdly site like slashdot.
But since all of the people we're talking about bought an iPhone within the past two months, not all of them were necessarily planning to rush out and buy one of the new iPods. In fact, probably a lot of them weren't. Now they might have extra incentive to do so, with $100 off - it might not maximize profit per iPod sold, but it could boost the #s and help get the new models out into the world, where friends and family can drool over them.
Yeah, I had the same thought when I was so happy that Numbers was finally released, but then realized it's only 10.4. But then I went to eBay, and found that 10.4 discs are already down to $40 there, when I didn't expect them to be that cheap til 10.5 came out. I still haven't actually shelled out the money; I might wait til Leopard comes out anyhow to see if used 10.4 gets even cheaper.
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Oh sure, if you like that sort of thing, then go for it. :) If you would be just as embarrassed, or are, say, traveling with your mother, it might not be advisable.
And often US carriers do not provide a way to block unwanted text messages, causing me to have spent about a dollar over the life of my phone (I've had it for four years) on ten-cent text messages that someone who didn't know I don't use them sent me.
I definitely agree in regards to carry-on luggage. I once actually saw the girl in front of me have her luggage searched, and the security guards pull out a flour bag... and pull a pair of handcuffs out of the flour bag. I was really embarrassed for the girl, but seriously? Did you think the guard was just going to say "hey, everyone carries flour on an airplane, right?" Things like that go in checked luggage, where at least if someone goes through it by hand they won't do it in front of you and the world. However, I do think that recording the contents of people's checked luggage (beyond anything illegal) is an invasion of privacy.
Ok, that part? Not cool. Teach me to RTFA.
Obviously, no one reading anything in an airport cares if anyone looks, because they're reading it IN AN AIRPORT. The security guard walking past you probably has a better view than the camera. Unless you use custom book covers to obscure what you're reading - which, if you're paranoid, go ahead, I'll only get worried when they start disallowing that - then you obviously have no problem broadcasting your reading preferences to the world.
Coop members also get a profit share at the end of the year. And the bookstore part of the Coop is already associated with Barnes & Noble, as are 80% of college bookstores. (I don't think "owned" is the right phrase, I don't know how the relationship works.) But yeah, there are students on the Coop board who should probably be alerted to this so they can fight it.
But the really funny part is that that would also be the mark of a clever but fake time traveler. Because it's much easier for someone to be right about events in the near future, since things tend to change slowly and incrementally. Sure, most people will be wrong, but occasionally someone's guess will be right. But as they keep guessing further and further out, their guesses are more and more likely to be wrong.
If you don't believe me, look at any number of predictions about the direction of computers. There's always someone who guesses correctly what they will look like a year or two from now (though also a lot of wrong guesses), but a decade?? Someone in 1990 may have predicted that in the next few years email would become popular, but how many people were predicting that blogging would be ubiquitous by 2005? (Aside from the dude who predicted it in 1837 - he wins.)
But if you really think he's only "slightly" off, you're delusional. And if he's more than slightly off, then there's no point in trying to compare what's happening to any of his predictions. Because they have nothing to do with our reality, and don't and won't predict our future. What you're saying here is only a small step from the folks at the Weekly World News who pick their favorite translation of Nostradamus and come up with some metaphor that it stands for, use that to make a prediction about next week, then when that's wrong the week after use a different interpretation to claim that it really did predict whatever happened that week.
What am I talking about? It's not a step away. That's what you're doing.
Except that Titor's predictions (or "memories") were specifically that this would all revolve around rural US vs city folk - NOT anyone else vs Islamic fundamentalists. That was the entire point of the civil war. And I don't think a wiretapping scandal can quite be compared to a physical standoff like Waco.
For use during the "Waco-type events" that are happening on a monthly basis right now, and at everyone's doorstep? As a part of this civil war we're currently in?
You can also get cryptic crosswords (the type in Atlantic Monthly) from every issue of Games Magazine or Games World of Puzzles Magazine. Or by joining the National Puzzler's League and getting their magazine. If you're looking for more of them.
I was about to say, tag this one "duh." It's especially bad in some fields - for instance, you just go and TRY to get funding to replicate a study in educational research. Even though replicability is supposed to be one of the fundamental cornerstones of experimental research, and replication studies could point out flaws in previous studies, it NEVER HAPPENS in this field. If you're lucky, a study looking at something very similar will be able to find flaws, but true replication? Couldn't get the funding, and very likely couldn't get it published if you got the same results. Plus you have a field where only the people doing research on math ed actually like math (in general), so 75% of the researchers don't really understand the statistics they're using and are likely to misapply them. It's just ridiculous - I'd hope most sciences are a bit better, but I'm sure none of the hard or social sciences is as good as it should be.
Third page of the article, about halfway down, via macrumors.com. Have you seen evidence that you can edit the calendar, or are you assuming based on the iPhone?
I read somewhere that Apple was approached by a team wanting them to create a tablet for medical use - and they said that touch-screen technology wasn't up to where it needed to be for such a device to be as good as they'd want to make it. They didn't say that they would never consider such a device, or that people wouldn't want it - just that it wasn't currently feasible.
By PDA, I just mean I want something that I can enter scheduling and to do info into on the go, rather than at my computer. It doesn't seem like it would be hard to make the iPod touch do this, and probably a third party will do it soon.
Now, a true tablet Mac, that's really my dream-come-true, and I think it will happen eventually. No, not everyone wants or needs one, but I think there's enough of a niche market for it that if Apple could do it really well, they'd do it. But as the anecdote above shows, they won't do it until they know they can do it better than anyone else.
The part of this article that I found most interesting is that you need to use your skin for the touch screen to work - that kinda rules out any sort of future handwriting recognition.
I guess I just really want Apple to give me a real PDA - an iNewton - instead of an iPod that looks kinda like a PDA.
I don't have hard numbers, but in the past Nintendo has been known as the console maker with the best profit margin on their consoles, whereas Sony tends to take a loss (I think MS took a loss at first on the XBox but was making a small profit soon). So if you look at profits (not dollar sales), chances are the Wii would still be the winner.
I can't imagine Apple putting this is OS X anyhow. Ads are so tacky. If by some chance they did, anyone who wanted to advertise through it would have to hire one of three Apple-approved marketing firms to design the ad and it would have to be personally approved by Steve Jobs as pretty enough. And they'd be so tightly-integrated with the rest of the OS that you wouldn't even notice them there anyhow. Between the high barrier to entry and low clickthrough rate (because no one notices them), no one would bother with them anyhow.
Maybe the fact that there's a pop-up text ad for snapfish, walmart, and shutterfly photo developing hovering over the thumbnails?
Except that in India, as in many other developing countries, a large portion of the population only has internet access via the internet cafes. They don't even have computers at home, let alone broadband connections. Internet cafes may be rare in the US, but in many countries you'll find three on every street corner, they're cheap to use and always busy.
When I was in elementary school, second grade I think, our bus driver handed out free candy every Friday. Her name was Pat; you should track her down and put her in charge of that department when you take over the world.
Also, for shows, I highly recommend Dragonfly TV. Awesome new PBS show! I'm in PhD program on learning and design of learning environments, and this past spring I organized a series of afternoons watching and analyzing educational TV - this show was the coolest one, I think. We had Mr Wizard (from both the 60s and 80s), Bill Nye, and Dragonfly TV, and I was shocked at how much MORE I liked it than any of the older stuff. Mr Wizard gives the message that science is stuff that someone else came up with that you use to do cool things. Bill Nye says more than science is a bunch of cool stuff you can learn about the world. But Dragonfly TV gives the message that science is something YOU do when you want to learn something. It is A++.
Sorry, but you lost the credibility of knowing what "any psychologist can tell you" right there. Past the age of about 6 or 7 (right about when school starts), a child's peers have a much, much stronger affect on their personality and decisions than their parents. Study after study has shown this.
It's not like the histories of artificial intelligence and cognitive science as fields of study are inextricably linked. We haven't been going back and forth between models of thinking based on computer programming and models based on human or animal behavior, building from one to the other, for over fifty years now. If it's not about particle physics, space travel, or the new iPod, a true nerd would know nothing about it.
No, Alex the parrot and Irene Pepperberg have NO PLACE on a nerdly site like slashdot.
But since all of the people we're talking about bought an iPhone within the past two months, not all of them were necessarily planning to rush out and buy one of the new iPods. In fact, probably a lot of them weren't. Now they might have extra incentive to do so, with $100 off - it might not maximize profit per iPod sold, but it could boost the #s and help get the new models out into the world, where friends and family can drool over them.
Yeah, I had the same thought when I was so happy that Numbers was finally released, but then realized it's only 10.4. But then I went to eBay, and found that 10.4 discs are already down to $40 there, when I didn't expect them to be that cheap til 10.5 came out. I still haven't actually shelled out the money; I might wait til Leopard comes out anyhow to see if used 10.4 gets even cheaper.