1. the Windows OS, as much as we all hate/loath it, is the most recognized and used operating system EVER. this doesn't mean it's great, but there are millions that are comfortable with it.
2. the WinCE OS currently holds between 15 and 30 percent of the mobile market. Palm and Handspring have the other 70 to 85 percent between the two of them.
So while WinCE might be familiar to everyone, it doesn't currently seem like this is a great selling point. Although, it could be because the USABILITY of the Palm OS and PDA is much higher. Yes, WinCE might have more functionality (afterall, it IS supposed to be Windows crammed into a small body), but if users can't figure out how to use it, what good is it?
Symbian's EPOC might be very kewl when it comes out. Sony's next generation of mobile devices (both PDA's and cell phones) might be running this OS with 3G capabilities (wishful thinking of course). When Sony, including both their techies and their marketting people, get involved with mobile devices, just you wait. They'll take over the market in much the same way they've taken over consumer electronics.
and watch me shuffle my socked feet across a shag rug and zap you, effectively turning all of that cool gadgetry into dead hardware that's just waiting to rust in the depths of your brain.
"But it looks like Samsung is taking a big step in the race for the ultimate PDA."
That's only if you believe there is such a thing as the ultimate PDA. A PDA doesn't have to be of the Palm/Handspring genre, but can instead me any small mobile device that has organizing and functional abilities incorporated into it.
Personally, I'm sick of the genre. I'd like a PDA that had the ability to call a phone number from my phone/address book, to listen to and search for mp3's and listen to them as they stream out of thin air into my headphones, etc.
But while I want one Palm-sized device, I would also like a miniature device that would function just as a phone with some additional functionality but be able to sync against my Palm, a miniature laptop that could sync to both my phone and my Palm, and a way to sync all of these devices and maybe 20 more all together, each specializing in one thing instead of having a big cell phone that tries to act like a PDA.
ultimate PDA you say? Ha. you'll wish you were only carrying 1 gadget 10 yrs from now.
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hotline server is a program similar to an ftp client and server.
you can get more information on hotline at http://www.hotlinesw.com or http://www.bigredh.com
used primarily for pirating. created by a teenage australian, but then he got in a shady deal with a canadian co. (that now owns the product) and there was a huge legal battle, rumors of his sister being kidnapped, and the original programmer on the run.
and I think Stephen King is one of the few authors that could pull this off.
it's not about whether someone is going to pay the $1 because they feel inclined to or feel guilty, but if you start to think that you're paying $1 for reading an entertaining part of the story, and to hopefully be able to read the next installment.
I think King is correct in putting money in the belief that the majority of his readers will chalk up $1 to guarantee themselves the next installment. Who the hell wants to read 2/3 of the story and not get to read the conclusion??!?
If this novel can build the climax the way Stephen King is known to, then EVERYONE that reads the novel with pay the $1 to read the conclusion.
Again, who would read 300-500 pgs, only to not finish the book?
I'm assuming, if there is a search engine that scours the IRC channels on multiple servers, that some entity would have to be within the said channel to record the conversations, otherwise, it would look like scattered conversations and they wouldn't have a location.
so if there is a bot in the channel, ban the bot. how hard is that?
and why the hell would you want to scour the IRC channels except if you feel that you could bust warez pirates and kiddie prOn peddlers? think about all of the meaningless banter that you'd have to record and store somewhere.
image all of the useless teenie-chatter about britany spears that would be recorded... ugh. talk about a waste of hard drive space.
so great, we now have a product that will record discussions, of which probably 99.999% is utter crap in one way or another, and more annoying bots to ban.
The people that give a crap about their privacy already practice encryption when needed, and know what their privacy rights entail. Using your office computer to surf for porn or conduct illegal activities is not included in those rights.
People that care about their privacy turn off cookies, encrypt their email, and don't leave private information at places that don't guarantee their privacy.
For the people that don't wisen up and safeguard their privacy, they deserve to have their credit card info stolen and their identities profiled.
Putting laws in place will be just as bad as giving agencies the right to spy on us. One might take away our freedom and privacy, but the other takes away our responsibility to ourselves.
If you don't want your info spread around the internet, safeguard yourself. Don't rely on the government to safeguard you. You have the right to bare arms, as well as to arm bears. If you believe in your own personal rights, take personal responsibility for your own protection. If not, stop whining to the government to protect you.
Ebay wants their property to be a site, not a clearinghouse for information for their competitors. Ebay doesn't just make money by listing sales, but by retaining eyeballs in their system. If someone is able to data-mine their site and have all of their listings in another system, then they are losing half of their business model. Ebay doesn't want to be that clearinghouse of information. They want their listings to be their alone, and to be the only ones that can mine their data.
we always seem to be saying that if you don't like something, do something about it (and suing is not considering doing something about it).
the infrastructure and technology are in place to actually fix most problems or dispute most problems such as these.
if a site does not want to be linked, then I think they have a right, through the use of robot.txt, to prevent crawling of their site. but at the same time, I think that unrestricted linking is necessary.
the fact is that the web grows and sites prosper from being open. allowing others to link to their site increases their brandname and draws more traffic to their products. but if they choose to be a standalone entity, that is also their choice.
if I remember correctly, there was a great article a while back on how the internet was growing in a bowtie like shape. also, most internet developers and marketers recognize the fact that being open leads to more users and longer amount of time. trapping users in your site doesn't amount to more time, it leads to more people leaving.
let ebay win this battle. the smarter companies will continue to be open.
actually, the book for Battlefield Earth was incredible. I read it about 5 yrs ago and had to read it again (yes, over 1000 pgs read twice). But stories like that usually only attract a younger crowd.
Star Wars... were you referring to Terry Brooks (a pretty good sci-fi author of Shannara) or R.A. Salvatore (the author of the Canticle and the Drizzt Do'Urden saga)?
Katz, if you're going to write about a movie and one so close to the heart of geeks that you proclaim X-men is and that you're one of the geeks, atleast spell the name correctly.
it's gotta be the teens vs. the world, doesn't it?
"He had to try and please the rabid X-Men fans -- who make up one of the most impassioned sub-genres of outcast culture and who were noisily vigilant for even the slightest deviations from the comic version"
This is not specific to just teenagers and comic books. Hell, I know plenty of ADULTS that were upset that the Horse Whisperer was so bad compared to the movie... and just as many ADULTS that got pissed that Battlefield Earth was so crummy. And just by looking at the cross-section of people that were in the movie theatre that I was in, it was as wide-ranging a crowd as any I've ever seen. It wasn't just geeks. It wasn't just teenagers. Hell, I was sitting behind two OLD LADIES.
Personally, I don't think the movie did the comic book series justice. There wasn't enough character development... not that there ever really would have been. But it was a good ENTERTAINING movie.
Hopefully they'll do Lord of the Rings much better.
I know it's a sore subject, but if they did.shop, why didn't they also do.xxx? Considering the publicity that the move to have.xxx created has been largely christian conservatives bent on eradicating porn from the internet, i don't see why just creating a.xxx tld and giving porn kings free reign over that tld is such a bad idea. atleast when you get spam that leads to a porn site, you'll know it's going to a porn site. and it will get rid of the misspelling problem and the whitehouse.com problem. Okay, maybe calling them a problem is a bad idea, but just as porn has its place in both movie rental stores and in book stores, can't we put porn on the internet in its own little nitch without pissing off too many people?
I used to use Etherpeek in my door room in college (I didn't know it was an FBI program)
Come on tho, you could see the traffic passing through your ethernet network, see who was logging in to prOn sites, steal their passwords for those prOn sites, etc.
It wasn't the greatest program tho since keeping a log became a crunch on hard drive space... those logs got long REALLY quickly.
Since I work in the same industry, it's a scary precedent.
Is this lawsuit over design principles, as in did they just not like the graphical design? Or is it because they feel Razorfish did a half-ass job and are they prepared to show demonstrations of negligence?
I agree that the client should be able to complain when they feel they've gotten piss-poor service, however, being that I have to meet with clients and that nomatter how much I try to push them in the right direction, they often stick to the wrong direction. Who's fault is it then? Do we go "I told you so" and then have them sue us for not convincing them enough?
While I think this could be a good lawsuit for our market (it'll make us fess-up), at the same time, there is a lot of consulting, subjective decision-making, and guesswork involved in bringing companies into the internet market.
in addition to my original post, the justice department is going to put checks and balances on this system, but it will still function in some way, shape, or form.
no, I'm not exactly happy about this entire thing, but with those checks put in place, i think the FBI should proceed with this technology.
and yes, I do feel that if this technology interferes with the service it should not be allowed. however, if it does not, there is no reason why it should not be put in place.
I do love how we all feel that the Internet is a god-given right.
On a day to day basis, I think most of us forget that the internet evolved out of a government program and not through open-source advocacy.
And yes, the FBI also has the right to be able to intercept both your phone calls and your emails if you are under suspicion. No, they can not block you from sending or receiving, but they can look if they have substantial evidence. And yes, there are laws to make sure that they aren't looking unless they have substantial reason to be looking.
and while they have the right to look, users also have the right to encrypt their email to prevent this.
so instead of whining about your god given right to snoop-free internet access, actively protect yourself by encrypting your emails if your privacy is so important to you.
if you keep a title, and change the contents, isn't that plagiarism or copyright infringement because you're stealing the name of a product, but changing its content to suit your own purposes without the expressed written consent of yadda yadda yadda?
not like most of the record labels or artists would really complain... but I do think that IS illegal.
agreed. what Katz seems to be saying, but not realizing or admitting, is that the web gives a platform for every angst ridden, lonely and confused teenager to stand up and tell the world where to stick it in their own way.
so the young are the ones making the most news. that doesn't mean that more people read their "open news" than CNN or the Times (companies that are run by old grey-hairs). yes, the young usually have a better grasp on the technology, and the old grey hairs often hire those young under 30 yuppies, but they also put them in positions where the old grey hairs have the last say because they know how to make money with their product.
That doesn't mean that there aren't times that the young blood doesn't come up with the great idea to make tons of money, or totally replace the old. but just as the old has to learn to move with the young, the young has to learn that there are rules and that sometimes if you play by the rules, you come out much richer.
look at what happened with all of those internet IPO's started up by people that were in their early 20's. Most have gone belly-up or have hired old grey hairs to run their company.
Shows you that BOTH sides have something to learn, that the young won't replace the old, and that if you think Open Media is the next big thing, you're sadly mistaken because for the "New Media" to get recognized, it has to conform to "Old Media" rules and become part of the mainstream media.
actually, with the plane example, it's up to the airport security to search for drugs and weapons, not the airlines. to get to the airlines, one must pass through security gates. those gates are not manned by the airline staff, but by the airport security and police. it is their duty to provide the security. not the transport.
carrying this over, it is up to the record labels to create both an incentive for the user to buy the cd, but also to make it so that either a user can't rip the mp3's or won't really want to. napster is only the transport mechanism.
as stated by Metallica... ""We have many issues with Napster. First and foremost: Napster hijacked our music without asking. They never sought our permission-our catalog of music simply became available as free downloads on the Napster system. ""
HOLD UP! Napster hijacked their music? the Napster system?
Napster didn't touch their music. Lets look at this logically...
Somebody BOUGHT the Metallica CD. That person then ripped the mp3s. They then logged on to the Napster system. Presumably, they began downloading someone else's music.
Now, where in this scheme does Napster touch the music? Why would they have to ask someone if they can use their music since they have nothing to do with the content? WHY AREN'T NAPSTER'S LAWYERS SAYING THIS?!?!
Instead, they say this...
"Napster has said that the company cannot be held accountable if some members use the server to exchange copyrighted material. The songs are not stored on Napster's computers, nor do they pass through the company's servers when users download music from one another.
"The Napster directory is a list of all the files that members of the community are willing to share," Hank Barry, the chief executive of Napster, told the committee. "
No money is being made by anyone in this system (unless a user burns a cd and then ILLEGALLY sells it)
Why do tech companies have to come off sounding oh so high and mighty instead of just sticking to the facts. Users are the ones, if anyone, that could be breaking the laws concerning copyright. The Napster software is just the transport mechanism.
If drugs are smuggled onto an airplane, is it the airplane's fault or the person carrying the drugs?
if computers weren't in our classrooms I wouldn't have become the incredible Marathon player that I am today. Nor would I have become the great strategist playing Myth. So there is definitely a plus to having computers in the classroom.
any time you have someone organize information, they are putting a subjective stamp and assigning value to it so that it is heirarchically organized in some shelving system.
forget organizing information. neural network it. develop better searching mechanisms. and spare us the Open Media fluff... Open Media such as/. is not actually Open Media... it's just hidden corporatism.
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two conflicting arguments.
1. the Windows OS, as much as we all hate/loath it, is the most recognized and used operating system EVER. this doesn't mean it's great, but there are millions that are comfortable with it.
2. the WinCE OS currently holds between 15 and 30 percent of the mobile market. Palm and Handspring have the other 70 to 85 percent between the two of them.
So while WinCE might be familiar to everyone, it doesn't currently seem like this is a great selling point. Although, it could be because the USABILITY of the Palm OS and PDA is much higher. Yes, WinCE might have more functionality (afterall, it IS supposed to be Windows crammed into a small body), but if users can't figure out how to use it, what good is it?
Symbian's EPOC might be very kewl when it comes out. Sony's next generation of mobile devices (both PDA's and cell phones) might be running this OS with 3G capabilities (wishful thinking of course). When Sony, including both their techies and their marketting people, get involved with mobile devices, just you wait. They'll take over the market in much the same way they've taken over consumer electronics.
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That's only if you believe there is such a thing as the ultimate PDA. A PDA doesn't have to be of the Palm/Handspring genre, but can instead me any small mobile device that has organizing and functional abilities incorporated into it.
Personally, I'm sick of the genre. I'd like a PDA that had the ability to call a phone number from my phone/address book, to listen to and search for mp3's and listen to them as they stream out of thin air into my headphones, etc.
But while I want one Palm-sized device, I would also like a miniature device that would function just as a phone with some additional functionality but be able to sync against my Palm, a miniature laptop that could sync to both my phone and my Palm, and a way to sync all of these devices and maybe 20 more all together, each specializing in one thing instead of having a big cell phone that tries to act like a PDA.
ultimate PDA you say? Ha. you'll wish you were only carrying 1 gadget 10 yrs from now.
hotline server is a program similar to an ftp client and server.
you can get more information on hotline at http://www.hotlinesw.com or http://www.bigredh.com
used primarily for pirating. created by a teenage australian, but then he got in a shady deal with a canadian co. (that now owns the product) and there was a huge legal battle, rumors of his sister being kidnapped, and the original programmer on the run.
it's not about whether someone is going to pay the $1 because they feel inclined to or feel guilty, but if you start to think that you're paying $1 for reading an entertaining part of the story, and to hopefully be able to read the next installment.
I think King is correct in putting money in the belief that the majority of his readers will chalk up $1 to guarantee themselves the next installment. Who the hell wants to read 2/3 of the story and not get to read the conclusion??!?
If this novel can build the climax the way Stephen King is known to, then EVERYONE that reads the novel with pay the $1 to read the conclusion.
Again, who would read 300-500 pgs, only to not finish the book?
I'm assuming, if there is a search engine that scours the IRC channels on multiple servers, that some entity would have to be within the said channel to record the conversations, otherwise, it would look like scattered conversations and they wouldn't have a location.
so if there is a bot in the channel, ban the bot. how hard is that?
and why the hell would you want to scour the IRC channels except if you feel that you could bust warez pirates and kiddie prOn peddlers? think about all of the meaningless banter that you'd have to record and store somewhere.
image all of the useless teenie-chatter about britany spears that would be recorded... ugh. talk about a waste of hard drive space.
so great, we now have a product that will record discussions, of which probably 99.999% is utter crap in one way or another, and more annoying bots to ban.
long live #macfilez!
The people that give a crap about their privacy already practice encryption when needed, and know what their privacy rights entail. Using your office computer to surf for porn or conduct illegal activities is not included in those rights.
People that care about their privacy turn off cookies, encrypt their email, and don't leave private information at places that don't guarantee their privacy.
For the people that don't wisen up and safeguard their privacy, they deserve to have their credit card info stolen and their identities profiled.
Putting laws in place will be just as bad as giving agencies the right to spy on us. One might take away our freedom and privacy, but the other takes away our responsibility to ourselves.
If you don't want your info spread around the internet, safeguard yourself. Don't rely on the government to safeguard you. You have the right to bare arms, as well as to arm bears. If you believe in your own personal rights, take personal responsibility for your own protection. If not, stop whining to the government to protect you.
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Is their customer support agent really named "Dot"?!?!
Ebay wants their property to be a site, not a clearinghouse for information for their competitors. Ebay doesn't just make money by listing sales, but by retaining eyeballs in their system. If someone is able to data-mine their site and have all of their listings in another system, then they are losing half of their business model. Ebay doesn't want to be that clearinghouse of information. They want their listings to be their alone, and to be the only ones that can mine their data.
agreed.
we always seem to be saying that if you don't like something, do something about it (and suing is not considering doing something about it).
the infrastructure and technology are in place to actually fix most problems or dispute most problems such as these.
if a site does not want to be linked, then I think they have a right, through the use of robot.txt, to prevent crawling of their site. but at the same time, I think that unrestricted linking is necessary.
the fact is that the web grows and sites prosper from being open. allowing others to link to their site increases their brandname and draws more traffic to their products. but if they choose to be a standalone entity, that is also their choice.
if I remember correctly, there was a great article a while back on how the internet was growing in a bowtie like shape. also, most internet developers and marketers recognize the fact that being open leads to more users and longer amount of time. trapping users in your site doesn't amount to more time, it leads to more people leaving.
let ebay win this battle. the smarter companies will continue to be open.
actually, the book for Battlefield Earth was incredible. I read it about 5 yrs ago and had to read it again (yes, over 1000 pgs read twice). But stories like that usually only attract a younger crowd.
Star Wars... were you referring to Terry Brooks (a pretty good sci-fi author of Shannara) or R.A. Salvatore (the author of the Canticle and the Drizzt Do'Urden saga)?
Katz, if you're going to write about a movie and one so close to the heart of geeks that you proclaim X-men is and that you're one of the geeks, atleast spell the name correctly.
the name is Magneto.
the name is not Magento.
it's gotta be the teens vs. the world, doesn't it?
"He had to try and please the rabid X-Men fans -- who make up one of the most impassioned sub-genres of outcast culture and who were noisily vigilant for even the slightest deviations from the comic version"
This is not specific to just teenagers and comic books. Hell, I know plenty of ADULTS that were upset that the Horse Whisperer was so bad compared to the movie... and just as many ADULTS that got pissed that Battlefield Earth was so crummy. And just by looking at the cross-section of people that were in the movie theatre that I was in, it was as wide-ranging a crowd as any I've ever seen. It wasn't just geeks. It wasn't just teenagers. Hell, I was sitting behind two OLD LADIES.
Personally, I don't think the movie did the comic book series justice. There wasn't enough character development... not that there ever really would have been. But it was a good ENTERTAINING movie.
Hopefully they'll do Lord of the Rings much better.
I know it's a sore subject, but if they did .shop, why didn't they also do .xxx? Considering the publicity that the move to have .xxx created has been largely christian conservatives bent on eradicating porn from the internet, i don't see why just creating a .xxx tld and giving porn kings free reign over that tld is such a bad idea. atleast when you get spam that leads to a porn site, you'll know it's going to a porn site. and it will get rid of the misspelling problem and the whitehouse.com problem. Okay, maybe calling them a problem is a bad idea, but just as porn has its place in both movie rental stores and in book stores, can't we put porn on the internet in its own little nitch without pissing off too many people?
I used to use Etherpeek in my door room in college (I didn't know it was an FBI program)
Come on tho, you could see the traffic passing through your ethernet network, see who was logging in to prOn sites, steal their passwords for those prOn sites, etc.
It wasn't the greatest program tho since keeping a log became a crunch on hard drive space... those logs got long REALLY quickly.
Since I work in the same industry, it's a scary precedent.
Is this lawsuit over design principles, as in did they just not like the graphical design? Or is it because they feel Razorfish did a half-ass job and are they prepared to show demonstrations of negligence?
I agree that the client should be able to complain when they feel they've gotten piss-poor service, however, being that I have to meet with clients and that nomatter how much I try to push them in the right direction, they often stick to the wrong direction. Who's fault is it then? Do we go "I told you so" and then have them sue us for not convincing them enough?
While I think this could be a good lawsuit for our market (it'll make us fess-up), at the same time, there is a lot of consulting, subjective decision-making, and guesswork involved in bringing companies into the internet market.
in addition to my original post, the justice department is going to put checks and balances on this system, but it will still function in some way, shape, or form.
no, I'm not exactly happy about this entire thing, but with those checks put in place, i think the FBI should proceed with this technology.
and yes, I do feel that if this technology interferes with the service it should not be allowed. however, if it does not, there is no reason why it should not be put in place.
I do love how we all feel that the Internet is a god-given right.
On a day to day basis, I think most of us forget that the internet evolved out of a government program and not through open-source advocacy.
And yes, the FBI also has the right to be able to intercept both your phone calls and your emails if you are under suspicion. No, they can not block you from sending or receiving, but they can look if they have substantial evidence. And yes, there are laws to make sure that they aren't looking unless they have substantial reason to be looking.
and while they have the right to look, users also have the right to encrypt their email to prevent this.
so instead of whining about your god given right to snoop-free internet access, actively protect yourself by encrypting your emails if your privacy is so important to you.
if you keep a title, and change the contents, isn't that plagiarism or copyright infringement because you're stealing the name of a product, but changing its content to suit your own purposes without the expressed written consent of yadda yadda yadda?
not like most of the record labels or artists would really complain... but I do think that IS illegal.
agreed. what Katz seems to be saying, but not realizing or admitting, is that the web gives a platform for every angst ridden, lonely and confused teenager to stand up and tell the world where to stick it in their own way.
so the young are the ones making the most news. that doesn't mean that more people read their "open news" than CNN or the Times (companies that are run by old grey-hairs). yes, the young usually have a better grasp on the technology, and the old grey hairs often hire those young under 30 yuppies, but they also put them in positions where the old grey hairs have the last say because they know how to make money with their product.
That doesn't mean that there aren't times that the young blood doesn't come up with the great idea to make tons of money, or totally replace the old. but just as the old has to learn to move with the young, the young has to learn that there are rules and that sometimes if you play by the rules, you come out much richer.
look at what happened with all of those internet IPO's started up by people that were in their early 20's. Most have gone belly-up or have hired old grey hairs to run their company.
Shows you that BOTH sides have something to learn, that the young won't replace the old, and that if you think Open Media is the next big thing, you're sadly mistaken because for the "New Media" to get recognized, it has to conform to "Old Media" rules and become part of the mainstream media.
actually, with the plane example, it's up to the airport security to search for drugs and weapons, not the airlines. to get to the airlines, one must pass through security gates. those gates are not manned by the airline staff, but by the airport security and police. it is their duty to provide the security. not the transport.
carrying this over, it is up to the record labels to create both an incentive for the user to buy the cd, but also to make it so that either a user can't rip the mp3's or won't really want to. napster is only the transport mechanism.
as stated by Metallica...
""We have many issues with Napster. First and foremost: Napster hijacked our music without asking. They never sought our permission-our catalog of music simply became available as free downloads on the Napster system. ""
HOLD UP! Napster hijacked their music? the Napster system?
Napster didn't touch their music. Lets look at this logically...
Somebody BOUGHT the Metallica CD.
That person then ripped the mp3s.
They then logged on to the Napster system.
Presumably, they began downloading someone else's music.
Now, where in this scheme does Napster touch the music? Why would they have to ask someone if they can use their music since they have nothing to do with the content? WHY AREN'T NAPSTER'S LAWYERS SAYING THIS?!?!
Instead, they say this...
"Napster has said that the company cannot be held accountable if some members use the server to exchange copyrighted material. The songs are not stored on Napster's computers, nor do they pass through the company's servers when users download music from one another.
"The Napster directory is a list of all the files that members of the community are willing to share," Hank Barry, the chief executive of Napster, told the committee. "
No money is being made by anyone in this system (unless a user burns a cd and then ILLEGALLY sells it)
Why do tech companies have to come off sounding oh so high and mighty instead of just sticking to the facts. Users are the ones, if anyone, that could be breaking the laws concerning copyright. The Napster software is just the transport mechanism.
If drugs are smuggled onto an airplane, is it the airplane's fault or the person carrying the drugs?
if computers weren't in our classrooms I wouldn't have become the incredible Marathon player that I am today. Nor would I have become the great strategist playing Myth. So there is definitely a plus to having computers in the classroom.
any time you have someone organize information, they are putting a subjective stamp and assigning value to it so that it is heirarchically organized in some shelving system.
/. is not actually Open Media... it's just hidden corporatism.
forget organizing information. neural network it. develop better searching mechanisms. and spare us the Open Media fluff... Open Media such as
afterall, McD's have prevented was from happening.
Fact: No war has ever occured in which both countries had a McD's.
maybe corporatism is better than nationalism, fundamentalism, fascism, rascism, communism, libertarianism, etc.
afterall, all of the above have had wars occur because of them.