This is a highly irrational conceit, and does not take into account the different degrees with which different people are able to multitask and/or focus.
Or apparently how awesome you are.:D
NOTE: This post (mine) is total flamebait... any suggestions to the contrary would just be incorrect...:p
Thankfully, there are a few out there who love teaching, but the rest, it's a necessary evil.
Yep... once you get to the point that you are qualified to receive a PhD in anything it pretty much disqualifies you for anything but research, publishing or teaching. I had quite a few teachers who were passionate about their specialization, but it still didn't make them great teachers.
Maybe you've forgotten the fact that a classroom is an autocracy, not a democracy? Why don't you go back into a classroom, stand up in the middle of the lecture and ask everyone to do anything.
Since I mentioned the word "autocracy" maybe you'll now call me a Nazi sympathizer? Go ahead, it carries the same weight.
I completely agree. So far the comments here are very much what I would expect. 'Let everyone learn in their own style,' 'The Professor is an egotistical twit,' 'It's the teacher's fault for not being enthralling enough,' etc.
When it comes down to it, this isn't high school anymore and many of the topics you learn in college are NOT FUN TO LEARN. They are boring as hell, but incredibly useful. That coupled with the fact that most of the time you are half asleep and would die for something else to do and allowing a distraction like a laptop or even a cell phone becomes a really horrible idea.
Given the option of learning about international trade routes during the 18th century or playing Unreal with my slacker friends back in the dorm and it would have been an easy choice. The kicker here is that I *loved* the class, but hated that part, regardless of how important it was to the overall class.
Allowing me the option to fully tune out would have been a mistake, regardless of how much of a blessing it would have been at the time.
The way I see it, unless laptops as a whole are distracting to _other_ students then they are nothing more than another medium to take notes on. On the other hand, if I happen to have a laptop that makes a lot of noise (intended or not) and it is distracting the professor or other students, then I see a problem.
[disclaimer]: I am one of those Liberal Arts and Sciences IT people Slashdot is so thrilled to ridicule. Be prepared for a different angle![/disclaimer]
I wasn't in college all that long ago (HOLY SHIT IT'S BEEN 10 YEARS!), but during that time the initial laptop-boom was kicking off and building-wide wireless was becoming a reality. I was a fool who had a desktop in my room sitting on an actual desk where I sat and wrote things. With my fingers. At a desk. Typing. With headphones.
Now there were other people--hereafter referred to as Tools--who brought their laptops to class. These Tools would pop open their machines and make the pretense of typing away at some notes, but invariably they would forget to mute the audio during their first class and you'd hear the tell-tale AIM message received sound.
It was determined pretty quickly that laptops were not allowed out during a lecture or discussion class and I was happy for it. It is incredibly distracting when you're actively involved in a discussion or listening to a lecture that is mind-numbingly boring and there is the possibility that the person sitting next to you is not only ignoring the lesson, but having so much more fun than you. It sucks.
Given that I was in charge of all first and second tier IT at the university during that time--those levels of IT were, and still are, entirely student managed and operated--I banned laptops from training sessions and, unless running a graveyard shift at the Helpdesk, from the Helpdesk as well. Not only did comprehension go up--yes, even amongst the Computer Science majors--but customer service levels went to all-time highs and there was no more accidental cross contamination off virused machines because someone stupidly plugged their laptop into our segregated "Virus" VLAN.
So... I'm all for it, having seen the effects on fifty people myself. Kick the laptops out of the classroom... but don't expect to teach CAD or anything similar in that scenario unless you're in a lab.
I only have a memory of Apple going after HTC for patent infringement UNLESS they were sued first, a la Nokia.
That's what I get for quick typing... Translation: AFAIK, unless Apple has been sued first (a la Nokia), HTC is the first company they have sued for patent infringement.
Better?
Your sentence isn't grammatical so it's hard to tell what you are trying to say; are you trying to say that Apple is suing HTC because Nokia is suing Apple? How does that make sense?
Nope, not at all. I was proposing that HTC is an exception to the rule.
(3) a few years later when other people are starting to offer mass market products at mass market prices, Apple starts suing them for patent violations.
I only have a memory of Apple going after HTC for patent infringement UNLESS they were sued first, a la Nokia.
All you need to do to shut me up is give me some non-spurious examples.
Eli Whitney came up with the idea of interchangeable parts for mass production, but Henry Ford instituted the assembly line. You could easily say that the latter was just a logical adaptation of the first, but most people would recognize it as a revolutionary idea and one that constitutes a patent. This is very similar to the case you are railing against, but does not constitute a Patent Troll.
Incidentally, someone patented the idea of a particular implementation of an Assembly Line in 1983, well after the original concept was introduced.
(3) a few years later when other people are starting to offer mass market products at mass market prices, Apple starts suing them for patent violations.
Citation needed.
And I don't mean the recent Nokia patent suit. Many of the iPhone patents were not obvious technologies because a boatload of them were created for this purpose. Sure, they're obvious *now* since everyone and their brother is making a multitouch phone with an accelerometer, light sensor, compass, proximity sensor, and tilt sensor, but back in 2005 these things were rare or non-existent.
If communication is encrypted, there is an encrypted device hash that limits this functionality to specific devices *AND* a four digit pin, I might be interested. At least, I will be if I can still have a key in case of dead battery. That would be a shitty support call... "Hi, Applecare? Let me in my fucking house!"
My God... someone posts a full out technical question on Slashdot and all he can get in response are bull posts like the guy above telling him he's doing it wrong? It's time to hand in your geek card...
Incidentally, the original poster should send this question to the MacEnterprise mailing lists instead of Slashdot... they'll probably get a better response.
I hope I don't boot up the liveCD to find a dock replacing the taskbar at the bottom of the screen. Ubuntu (or I guess GNOME) should be creating its own look, not ripping off of Microsoft and Apple.
When I first looked at the screenshot in TFA I thought they were going to do an OS X comparison and was wondering where the dock was... talk about surprise.
Oh, and then I looked at the comments on that page... holy piss some of those folks are getting really upset about the theme change. It's like any movement toward a more streamlined and user friendly interface just presses their "Indignant Button." Of course, these are probably the same folks who have decried Linux's movement away from hardcore users over the past decade...
It just occurred to me that this post will probably be flagged as Flamebait... huh...
“We just carried out a survey and one out of four people are happy to have a chip planted under their skin for very trivial uses for example to pass gates more quickly at a discotheque for example and to be able to pay for things more quickly in the supermarket,” said Scheer. “The wilingness of the population to accept our technology is certainly given.”
"Bwa-haha-haha," Scheer continued. "After this, world domination will be within my grasp!"
What for? The iPad is little more than an iPod Touch that won't fit in your pocket, and the market will judge it accordingly. Apple had an opportunity to redefine the tablet computer market, and they decided to waste it by offering us yet another box to run their apps.
Yeah and they've never released cool hardware with shitty software that they subsequently upgraded and made into a revolutionary product before./sarcasm
You should actually be able to support the type of setup above out of the box (in a pure OD environment).
The real key to an OSX setup is making sure you do all of the backend work first: DNS should be done and perfect, throughput should be appropriate, and you should make sure you divvy up disk I/O intensive services across drives/raids/etc.
In many ways a correct, scalable, and robust OD flies in the face of the Apple marketing speak. You *need* to work within a set of best practices that only an experienced Sys Admin actually has exposure to in order to make it work.
The good news is that Apple does provide some okay documentation on their suggested best practices here. I would start there and then move on to some OpenLDAP forums for the real meat of optimal configuration. Just keep in mind the differences between the two (Password Server, automatically integrated Kerberos, etc.) and the knowledge you'll glean from their discussions will be invaluable.
This is totally true. I am actually one of those folks who takes OS X Server the "extra mile" so that it can scale into medium/large businesses. It's not even that taking OS X Server to those levels is hard, but there are so few of us out there with the skill set to accomplish this that the overall belief is that OS X Server just can't do it.
Case in point, I just rebuilt an entire Open Directory backend for a school that had grown from 200 nodes with a cheap SOHO network to upwards of 900 nodes and a Cisco backend. Until the moment I finished, the current admin was adamant that OS X Server and Open Directory in general just couldn't handle the load they were putting on it (essentially one-two hundred authentication transactions at peak times).
That's ridiculous and since the rebuild and migration, OD has been rock solid... and they have Kerberos again (someone removed it entirely at some point in history). As with anything like this, proper setup, configuration and tweaking will allow most technologies to scale as necessary. Hell, I didn't even have to tweak the OpenLDAP config to optimize this install...
There just aren't a lot of people who "know how to do it" on this platform and so a stigma is attached... and amplified when Apple refuses to actually push forward on the Enterprise end of things.
If this part wasn't in there I would have been very concerned... lol>/i>
WOMAN: Please! Help!
CAMPUS SECURITY: What is going on, ma'am?
WOMAN: This guy has been stalking me for months and now he's trying to chat me up like it's an accident! I left him in the parking lot, but I'm afraid!
CAMPUS SECURITY: [pause] How do you know he's been stalking you?
WOMAN: Well, it's a little embarrassing actually...
CAMPUS SECURITY: Ma'am, I can't help you without the whole story.
WOMAN: You see, I monitor access to my campus profile so I can see who is looking at my record. Additionally, I like to keep track of what computers I use so that I can optimize my work habits on a semesterly basis.
CAMPUS SECURITY: How do you optimize your work habits with that information?
WOMAN: Well, I graph out the results of lab logins with class and activity locations and using a couple overlaid charts, I can graph an optimal path and work schedule.
CAMPUS SECURITY: I knew you were the one for me.
WOMAN: Is this that guy? What the hell?
CAMPUS SECURITY: But, but I wrote you a sonnet!
WOMAN: [click]
CAMPUS SECURITY: Hello? Oh well... looks like she has Economics next...
Are the basic US$0.99 tracks un-DRMed now, or is that only for the higher priced/higher quality tracks?
They go from $0.79-1.29. Most seem to be 0.99, but a good section of the remainder are 1.29 from what I've seen.
For that matter, do they still even sell US$0.99 tracks these days?
I only buy 3-4 tracks a month at the most, and really don't pay that much attention to the process.
I know, pathetic, isn't it? Click the mouse, instant gratification, no concern about the cost.
Yep...:p I do the same thing... but only really got into it after DRM removal.
Of course, the point is that, for the VAST majority of iPod and iTunes users, what DRM there is/was on any music or video file was immaterial.
"Ooooh! WANT!" Click. "Oooooh! HAVE!" That simple, seamless, instant process is what makes iTunes so popular with people.
I totally agree... however, half of the Slashdot audience seems to think that Apple still releases DRM'd audio and use that as justification to damn the whole system. I would argue that one of the reasons why audio is almost universally NOT DRM restricted is because after becoming the #1 Music store in the world, Apple said, "Nah, we don't want to do that anymore."
Say that around here though and you just get called a fanboi and modded into oblivion...
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This is a highly irrational conceit, and does not take into account the different degrees with which different people are able to multitask and/or focus.
Or apparently how awesome you are. :D
NOTE: This post (mine) is total flamebait... any suggestions to the contrary would just be incorrect... :p
Sorry, must have missed that part while I was playing Counter Strike during class...
Thankfully, there are a few out there who love teaching, but the rest, it's a necessary evil.
Yep... once you get to the point that you are qualified to receive a PhD in anything it pretty much disqualifies you for anything but research, publishing or teaching. I had quite a few teachers who were passionate about their specialization, but it still didn't make them great teachers.
Doodling may, but thinking about boobs certainly does not.
Uhhh... what? Who modded this guy up?
Maybe you've forgotten the fact that a classroom is an autocracy, not a democracy? Why don't you go back into a classroom, stand up in the middle of the lecture and ask everyone to do anything.
Since I mentioned the word "autocracy" maybe you'll now call me a Nazi sympathizer? Go ahead, it carries the same weight.
Take your strawman argument elsewhere.
I completely agree. So far the comments here are very much what I would expect. 'Let everyone learn in their own style,' 'The Professor is an egotistical twit,' 'It's the teacher's fault for not being enthralling enough,' etc.
When it comes down to it, this isn't high school anymore and many of the topics you learn in college are NOT FUN TO LEARN. They are boring as hell, but incredibly useful. That coupled with the fact that most of the time you are half asleep and would die for something else to do and allowing a distraction like a laptop or even a cell phone becomes a really horrible idea.
Given the option of learning about international trade routes during the 18th century or playing Unreal with my slacker friends back in the dorm and it would have been an easy choice. The kicker here is that I *loved* the class, but hated that part, regardless of how important it was to the overall class.
Allowing me the option to fully tune out would have been a mistake, regardless of how much of a blessing it would have been at the time.
The way I see it, unless laptops as a whole are distracting to _other_ students then they are nothing more than another medium to take notes on. On the other hand, if I happen to have a laptop that makes a lot of noise (intended or not) and it is distracting the professor or other students, then I see a problem.
[disclaimer]: I am one of those Liberal Arts and Sciences IT people Slashdot is so thrilled to ridicule. Be prepared for a different angle![/disclaimer]
I wasn't in college all that long ago (HOLY SHIT IT'S BEEN 10 YEARS!), but during that time the initial laptop-boom was kicking off and building-wide wireless was becoming a reality. I was a fool who had a desktop in my room sitting on an actual desk where I sat and wrote things. With my fingers. At a desk. Typing. With headphones.
Now there were other people--hereafter referred to as Tools--who brought their laptops to class. These Tools would pop open their machines and make the pretense of typing away at some notes, but invariably they would forget to mute the audio during their first class and you'd hear the tell-tale AIM message received sound.
It was determined pretty quickly that laptops were not allowed out during a lecture or discussion class and I was happy for it. It is incredibly distracting when you're actively involved in a discussion or listening to a lecture that is mind-numbingly boring and there is the possibility that the person sitting next to you is not only ignoring the lesson, but having so much more fun than you. It sucks.
Given that I was in charge of all first and second tier IT at the university during that time--those levels of IT were, and still are, entirely student managed and operated--I banned laptops from training sessions and, unless running a graveyard shift at the Helpdesk, from the Helpdesk as well. Not only did comprehension go up--yes, even amongst the Computer Science majors--but customer service levels went to all-time highs and there was no more accidental cross contamination off virused machines because someone stupidly plugged their laptop into our segregated "Virus" VLAN.
So... I'm all for it, having seen the effects on fifty people myself. Kick the laptops out of the classroom... but don't expect to teach CAD or anything similar in that scenario unless you're in a lab.
I only have a memory of Apple going after HTC for patent infringement UNLESS they were sued first, a la Nokia.
That's what I get for quick typing... Translation: AFAIK, unless Apple has been sued first (a la Nokia), HTC is the first company they have sued for patent infringement.
Better?
Your sentence isn't grammatical so it's hard to tell what you are trying to say; are you trying to say that Apple is suing HTC because Nokia is suing Apple? How does that make sense?
Nope, not at all. I was proposing that HTC is an exception to the rule.
Back in 2005 all of these had been long invented, and had long been used in mobile devices...just not a phone
Okay, I get that folks want to scream foul, but I still haven't seen anyone back up the OP's point:
(3) a few years later when other people are starting to offer mass market products at mass market prices, Apple starts suing them for patent violations.
I only have a memory of Apple going after HTC for patent infringement UNLESS they were sued first, a la Nokia.
All you need to do to shut me up is give me some non-spurious examples.
Isn't patenting all about implementation?
Eli Whitney came up with the idea of interchangeable parts for mass production, but Henry Ford instituted the assembly line. You could easily say that the latter was just a logical adaptation of the first, but most people would recognize it as a revolutionary idea and one that constitutes a patent. This is very similar to the case you are railing against, but does not constitute a Patent Troll.
Incidentally, someone patented the idea of a particular implementation of an Assembly Line in 1983, well after the original concept was introduced.
(3) a few years later when other people are starting to offer mass market products at mass market prices, Apple starts suing them for patent violations.
Citation needed.
And I don't mean the recent Nokia patent suit. Many of the iPhone patents were not obvious technologies because a boatload of them were created for this purpose. Sure, they're obvious *now* since everyone and their brother is making a multitouch phone with an accelerometer, light sensor, compass, proximity sensor, and tilt sensor, but back in 2005 these things were rare or non-existent.
So, to my original point... citation needed.
I dunno... hmm...
If communication is encrypted, there is an encrypted device hash that limits this functionality to specific devices *AND* a four digit pin, I might be interested. At least, I will be if I can still have a key in case of dead battery. That would be a shitty support call... "Hi, Applecare? Let me in my fucking house!"
My God... someone posts a full out technical question on Slashdot and all he can get in response are bull posts like the guy above telling him he's doing it wrong? It's time to hand in your geek card...
Incidentally, the original poster should send this question to the MacEnterprise mailing lists instead of Slashdot... they'll probably get a better response.
I hope I don't boot up the liveCD to find a dock replacing the taskbar at the bottom of the screen. Ubuntu (or I guess GNOME) should be creating its own look, not ripping off of Microsoft and Apple.
When I first looked at the screenshot in TFA I thought they were going to do an OS X comparison and was wondering where the dock was... talk about surprise.
Oh, and then I looked at the comments on that page... holy piss some of those folks are getting really upset about the theme change. It's like any movement toward a more streamlined and user friendly interface just presses their "Indignant Button." Of course, these are probably the same folks who have decried Linux's movement away from hardcore users over the past decade...
It just occurred to me that this post will probably be flagged as Flamebait... huh...
I'm still not posting anonymously dammit!
“We just carried out a survey and one out of four people are happy to have a chip planted under their skin for very trivial uses for example to pass gates more quickly at a discotheque for example and to be able to pay for things more quickly in the supermarket,” said Scheer. “The wilingness of the population to accept our technology is certainly given.”
"Bwa-haha-haha," Scheer continued. "After this, world domination will be within my grasp!"
Pie and cake were served soon afterwards.
Oh noes! Linux is h@xx0r3d!
Sorry... just got off the roof...
Thus, Photoshop CS(x + 1) is born.
Fixed that for you...
What for? The iPad is little more than an iPod Touch that won't fit in your pocket, and the market will judge it accordingly. Apple had an opportunity to redefine the tablet computer market, and they decided to waste it by offering us yet another box to run their apps.
Yeah and they've never released cool hardware with shitty software that they subsequently upgraded and made into a revolutionary product before. /sarcasm
You should actually be able to support the type of setup above out of the box (in a pure OD environment).
The real key to an OSX setup is making sure you do all of the backend work first: DNS should be done and perfect, throughput should be appropriate, and you should make sure you divvy up disk I/O intensive services across drives/raids/etc.
In many ways a correct, scalable, and robust OD flies in the face of the Apple marketing speak. You *need* to work within a set of best practices that only an experienced Sys Admin actually has exposure to in order to make it work.
The good news is that Apple does provide some okay documentation on their suggested best practices here. I would start there and then move on to some OpenLDAP forums for the real meat of optimal configuration. Just keep in mind the differences between the two (Password Server, automatically integrated Kerberos, etc.) and the knowledge you'll glean from their discussions will be invaluable.
This is totally true. I am actually one of those folks who takes OS X Server the "extra mile" so that it can scale into medium/large businesses. It's not even that taking OS X Server to those levels is hard, but there are so few of us out there with the skill set to accomplish this that the overall belief is that OS X Server just can't do it.
Case in point, I just rebuilt an entire Open Directory backend for a school that had grown from 200 nodes with a cheap SOHO network to upwards of 900 nodes and a Cisco backend. Until the moment I finished, the current admin was adamant that OS X Server and Open Directory in general just couldn't handle the load they were putting on it (essentially one-two hundred authentication transactions at peak times).
That's ridiculous and since the rebuild and migration, OD has been rock solid... and they have Kerberos again (someone removed it entirely at some point in history). As with anything like this, proper setup, configuration and tweaking will allow most technologies to scale as necessary. Hell, I didn't even have to tweak the OpenLDAP config to optimize this install...
There just aren't a lot of people who "know how to do it" on this platform and so a stigma is attached... and amplified when Apple refuses to actually push forward on the Enterprise end of things.
There's no way this plan can fail!
If this part wasn't in there I would have been very concerned... lol>/i>
WOMAN: Please! Help!
CAMPUS SECURITY: What is going on, ma'am?
WOMAN: This guy has been stalking me for months and now he's trying to chat me up like it's an accident! I left him in the parking lot, but I'm afraid!
CAMPUS SECURITY: [pause] How do you know he's been stalking you?
WOMAN: Well, it's a little embarrassing actually...
CAMPUS SECURITY: Ma'am, I can't help you without the whole story.
WOMAN: You see, I monitor access to my campus profile so I can see who is looking at my record. Additionally, I like to keep track of what computers I use so that I can optimize my work habits on a semesterly basis.
CAMPUS SECURITY: How do you optimize your work habits with that information?
WOMAN: Well, I graph out the results of lab logins with class and activity locations and using a couple overlaid charts, I can graph an optimal path and work schedule.
CAMPUS SECURITY: I knew you were the one for me.
WOMAN: Is this that guy? What the hell?
CAMPUS SECURITY: But, but I wrote you a sonnet!
WOMAN: [click]
CAMPUS SECURITY: Hello? Oh well... looks like she has Economics next...
I'm not entirely sure it fits the criteria, but here it does put function over form--which is pretty geeky--so here it goes:
I gave a girl I really liked a light bulb one time for Valentine's Day... it was used (i.e. from my lamp), but hers had blown the night before...
We started dating almost immediately and we've been together seven years now (married for six). :D
Apple released a security update for the iPhone and iPod Touch today.
Anyone know if this was addressed in that update? There are a few Webkit updates in there (mostly multimedia exploits).
It's not a car, truck or even a motorcycle. An iPod/iPhone is an appliance much like a toaster (a really really advanced toaster).
For people who can put *nix on a toaster, doing the same to an iProduct is the same.
HINT: Most people don't modify their toasters...
Are the basic US$0.99 tracks un-DRMed now, or is that only for the higher priced/higher quality tracks?
They go from $0.79-1.29. Most seem to be 0.99, but a good section of the remainder are 1.29 from what I've seen.
For that matter, do they still even sell US$0.99 tracks these days? I only buy 3-4 tracks a month at the most, and really don't pay that much attention to the process. I know, pathetic, isn't it? Click the mouse, instant gratification, no concern about the cost.
Yep...:p I do the same thing... but only really got into it after DRM removal.
Of course, the point is that, for the VAST majority of iPod and iTunes users, what DRM there is/was on any music or video file was immaterial. "Ooooh! WANT!" Click. "Oooooh! HAVE!" That simple, seamless, instant process is what makes iTunes so popular with people.
I totally agree... however, half of the Slashdot audience seems to think that Apple still releases DRM'd audio and use that as justification to damn the whole system. I would argue that one of the reasons why audio is almost universally NOT DRM restricted is because after becoming the #1 Music store in the world, Apple said, "Nah, we don't want to do that anymore."
Say that around here though and you just get called a fanboi and modded into oblivion...