Sure in an ideal world where the IT guys can tell everyone in the corporation what they can and can't do it may be easy to lock down windows, by why stop there? why not lock them all completely. Disconnect the internal network from the internet, remove all floppy / cdroms, and disable any other input device on the computer (USB etc..) if nothing can get in nothing bad can happen right?
Now back to the real world. When my departments director needs admin privliges there is nothing we can do to stop them. And when wonderful windows programs like webshots, clocksync, and WhenU stock ticker. Get passed around the bulding there is little that can be done to stop it.
I wonder what evidence you have that a lousy sys admin could screw up a Mac setup. In the windows world a default configuration on clients ends in non stop spyware, adware, and virues's but a mac right out of the box runs just fine.
And the argument about "windows only gets attacked because it is a bigger target" may have SOME valid points in a virtual world where everything made sense and was equal. But back to reality again, for the forseeable future windows will have 85%+ share of the market so either way my Mac will be safe for 5-10 years, and my pc will need to run Macafee, adaware, and updates every week.
Sure my mac has updates too but if I dont run the update the odds of getting any malware are still way lower than on my pc.
Google may not have been first to the idea but they were first to goal in a lot of the cases mentioned above.
I have an idea that there should be search engine you can ask for anything from a recipe, to a song that will automaticly play in my living room, to the season finale of 24, to telling me for sure if Bill Gates ever said 640 should be enough.
Does that mean 10 years from now when http://www.robinsloan.com/epic/ googleZon comes out with the services mentioned above they are not "leading"?
I'm not quite sure what the big deal is? If I wanted your fingerprint I could simply follow you around and wait for you to put something down (say a glass at a restaurant) and it would be a LOT easier to get than to hack into or convince a judge to pull your Fingerprint out of the database??
"I could also put MP3's on there and use it as an alternative to the iPod shuffle I recently bought..."
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I have to ask the question if this phone is a worthy MP3 player why did you buy the iPod shuffle?
Thats the whole point, What if your going out for a night out and dont want to lug around your "reasonably sized for what it does" convergence device, but would rather just take a small simple cell phone that works.. and has better battery life.
Saying that Cell phones will beat out iPods is like saying scanner/photocopier/printer/fax machine/expresso machine will beat out printers.
I would rather have 2 or three devices that do a job well, than 1 device that does 4 half ass.
Thats the reason I own an iPod shuffle and not a flash mp3 player / FM tuner / voice recorder /
This prediction by Bill Gates reminds me of a famous predition http://www.leonine.com/~lion/pub_papers/itphil/nod e3.html 640k Should be enough for anybody. Of course now we can look back and see just how great Bill Gates is at predicting the future.
10 years from now I'm sure someone else will reference Bill Gates saying "The iPod is on the way out"
I found the phantom edit a lot more fluid and less annoying than the phantom menace. Deffinetly worth checking out for anyone who was dissapointed in Ep 1
How did the parent to this get modded a 3? informative? How informative is it if someone is gay? and more importantly what does it have to do with TFA?
What does a computer have to do with how much effort a teacher puts into teaching? I agree there are lots of teachers who either don't care or are to lazy to properly teach, the problem is with or without a computer that will not change. Teachers simply aren't accountable, the hard working teachers who put everyting into teaching get paid the same as the 9-5 lazy teacher who hands out photocopies and workbooks.
Computers have become a scapegoat for people not wanting to admit our education system has problems.
And now the interview of a student who didn't have access to computers in schools.
Can you use Excel?
Sure, I just pop it out of the wrapper and start to chew.
Thanks, we will let you know...
I work as a technician for a dept of education, I have read a lot of information, studies, and articles about computers in schools and a lot of them have the same thing to say. "computers in schools did not help kids with their math, science, english, history etc.. ". It is unfortunate that some teachers do rely to much on using computers to teach students the old "core basics" that students used to need in their daily life after high school.
It is also unfortunate that a lot of people don't seem to realize that times change. For instance 10 years from now (when students are in the workplace) typing skills will be more important than hand writing skills in the day to day life of the workplace.
IMHO Computers/technology should be treated as a whole new subject, right beside math and science. 10 years from now anyone who does not have at least a basic skills and understanding of copy/paste, files and folder, workstations and servers, users and passwords, and finally the internet and how to sift through the garbage to find what you need quickly will be at a great disadvantage.
A lot of the skills listed above can not be taught exactly but they come from general use of computers, while a student is researching their english paper on google they are learning and gainging experience sifting through the mess that is the internet, while they type up the english report they are learning to type, use formatting, and yes even the benifits (and negitives) of spell check.
Computers have an important part to play in education, and I'll be the first to admit that they are not always used properly or to the childrens benifit but that has been happening for years. I can not count the amount of my class time that was wasted when I was young by lazy, and un-involved teachers, computers may be the new crutch but it is the teachers that are at fault.
Computers arn't teachers, teachers are. Computers are a tool.
I'm willing to bet that you have a phone, tv, and high speed internet connection. Its always easier to say "the other people should just go to a library if they can not offord a media computer and internet connection".
If you look at the number of households that have a broadband connection, and minus the amount of connections that have a bandwidth cap (No way I could download everything I watch my ISP charges $10 per GB, and they are the cheapest alternative), minus all the households that do not have or want a broadband connection and computer in their living room and you are left with a VERY small percentage of north american households.
You dont have to buy anything.. if you would like the new fetures in tiger than buy it for $100, if you dont want them that bad than don't buy it.
I dont understand what is so bad about releleasing an update 18 months after the last update, adding some nice new features and asking for $100~
How is that different from releasing an update 6 years after the last update and asking $350~ for a copy of longhorn.
You'll also notice that Tiger will not tie you down with activation, and you can buy 5 licences for $150~ compare that to the likely cost of 5 longhorn licences $1800?
Very simple answer to your question... QUALITY Calls made over skype are in a different class altoaghter when it comes to quality 2 way communication compared to the voice 'features' in msn, yahoo etc..
IM's voice products have a very high latency, echo, break up, and sometimes when one person talks the other person cuts out.
IMHO comparing msn to skype is like comparing land lines to walkie talkies.
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If PC's are for boys, and Macs are for girls would that mean Linux is for Men?
Sure in an ideal world where the IT guys can tell everyone in the corporation what they can and can't do it may be easy to lock down windows, by why stop there? why not lock them all completely. Disconnect the internal network from the internet, remove all floppy / cdroms, and disable any other input device on the computer (USB etc..) if nothing can get in nothing bad can happen right?
Now back to the real world. When my departments director needs admin privliges there is nothing we can do to stop them. And when wonderful windows programs like webshots, clocksync, and WhenU stock ticker. Get passed around the bulding there is little that can be done to stop it.
I wonder what evidence you have that a lousy sys admin could screw up a Mac setup. In the windows world a default configuration on clients ends in non stop spyware, adware, and virues's but a mac right out of the box runs just fine.
And the argument about "windows only gets attacked because it is a bigger target" may have SOME valid points in a virtual world where everything made sense and was equal. But back to reality again, for the forseeable future windows will have 85%+ share of the market so either way my Mac will be safe for 5-10 years, and my pc will need to run Macafee, adaware, and updates every week.
Sure my mac has updates too but if I dont run the update the odds of getting any malware are still way lower than on my pc.
Google may not have been first to the idea but they were first to goal in a lot of the cases mentioned above.
I have an idea that there should be search engine you can ask for anything from a recipe, to a song that will automaticly play in my living room, to the season finale of 24, to telling me for sure if Bill Gates ever said 640 should be enough.
Does that mean 10 years from now when http://www.robinsloan.com/epic/ googleZon comes out with the services mentioned above they are not "leading"?
I'm not quite sure what the big deal is? If I wanted your fingerprint I could simply follow you around and wait for you to put something down (say a glass at a restaurant) and it would be a LOT easier to get than to hack into or convince a judge to pull your Fingerprint out of the database??
"I could also put MP3's on there and use it as an alternative to the iPod shuffle I recently bought..." --- I have to ask the question if this phone is a worthy MP3 player why did you buy the iPod shuffle?
Thats the whole point, What if your going out for a night out and dont want to lug around your "reasonably sized for what it does" convergence device, but would rather just take a small simple cell phone that works.. and has better battery life.
Saying that Cell phones will beat out iPods is like saying scanner/photocopier/printer/fax machine/expresso machine will beat out printers.
I would rather have 2 or three devices that do a job well, than 1 device that does 4 half ass.
Thats the reason I own an iPod shuffle and not a flash mp3 player / FM tuner / voice recorder /
This prediction by Bill Gates reminds me of a famous predition http://www.leonine.com/~lion/pub_papers/itphil/nod e3.html
640k Should be enough for anybody. Of course now we can look back and see just how great Bill Gates is at predicting the future.
10 years from now I'm sure someone else will reference Bill Gates saying "The iPod is on the way out"
I personally did not like the phantom menace, but I did like the http://dir.salon.com/ent/movies/feature/2001/11/05 /phantom_edit/index.htmlphantom edit 1.1. (Which I'm sure there are still live torrents of)
I found the phantom edit a lot more fluid and less annoying than the phantom menace. Deffinetly worth checking out for anyone who was dissapointed in Ep 1
How did the parent to this get modded a 3? informative? How informative is it if someone is gay? and more importantly what does it have to do with TFA?
What does a computer have to do with how much effort a teacher puts into teaching? I agree there are lots of teachers who either don't care or are to lazy to properly teach, the problem is with or without a computer that will not change. Teachers simply aren't accountable, the hard working teachers who put everyting into teaching get paid the same as the 9-5 lazy teacher who hands out photocopies and workbooks.
Computers have become a scapegoat for people not wanting to admit our education system has problems.
And now the interview of a student who didn't have access to computers in schools. Can you use Excel? Sure, I just pop it out of the wrapper and start to chew. Thanks, we will let you know...
I work as a technician for a dept of education, I have read a lot of information, studies, and articles about computers in schools and a lot of them have the same thing to say. "computers in schools did not help kids with their math, science, english, history etc.. ". It is unfortunate that some teachers do rely to much on using computers to teach students the old "core basics" that students used to need in their daily life after high school. It is also unfortunate that a lot of people don't seem to realize that times change. For instance 10 years from now (when students are in the workplace) typing skills will be more important than hand writing skills in the day to day life of the workplace. IMHO Computers/technology should be treated as a whole new subject, right beside math and science. 10 years from now anyone who does not have at least a basic skills and understanding of copy/paste, files and folder, workstations and servers, users and passwords, and finally the internet and how to sift through the garbage to find what you need quickly will be at a great disadvantage. A lot of the skills listed above can not be taught exactly but they come from general use of computers, while a student is researching their english paper on google they are learning and gainging experience sifting through the mess that is the internet, while they type up the english report they are learning to type, use formatting, and yes even the benifits (and negitives) of spell check. Computers have an important part to play in education, and I'll be the first to admit that they are not always used properly or to the childrens benifit but that has been happening for years. I can not count the amount of my class time that was wasted when I was young by lazy, and un-involved teachers, computers may be the new crutch but it is the teachers that are at fault. Computers arn't teachers, teachers are. Computers are a tool.
Obviously you dont watch 24 :-)
I'm willing to bet that you have a phone, tv, and high speed internet connection. Its always easier to say "the other people should just go to a library if they can not offord a media computer and internet connection". If you look at the number of households that have a broadband connection, and minus the amount of connections that have a bandwidth cap (No way I could download everything I watch my ISP charges $10 per GB, and they are the cheapest alternative), minus all the households that do not have or want a broadband connection and computer in their living room and you are left with a VERY small percentage of north american households.
Yes, because obviously every single household in north america has a broadband connection and computer in their living room right?
You dont have to buy anything.. if you would like the new fetures in tiger than buy it for $100, if you dont want them that bad than don't buy it. I dont understand what is so bad about releleasing an update 18 months after the last update, adding some nice new features and asking for $100~ How is that different from releasing an update 6 years after the last update and asking $350~ for a copy of longhorn. You'll also notice that Tiger will not tie you down with activation, and you can buy 5 licences for $150~ compare that to the likely cost of 5 longhorn licences $1800?
Very simple answer to your question... QUALITY Calls made over skype are in a different class altoaghter when it comes to quality 2 way communication compared to the voice 'features' in msn, yahoo etc..
IM's voice products have a very high latency, echo, break up, and sometimes when one person talks the other person cuts out.
IMHO comparing msn to skype is like comparing land lines to walkie talkies.