Sadly, this is another sign that as Apple products grow in popularity that they will attract the attention of the weasels. Whether or not the statements the weasels make hold any water, or whether or not the scares turn out to be true, the weasels are arriving.
This isn't about education at all. It is about power. And the worst power mongers are people are these low-level politicians on school boards and local councils who have more direct control over the people immediately around them.
They are no doubt congratulating themselves about bringing 17th century thinking to the 21st century.
Sad. I doubt most people in Florida, or even these schools agree with this result. Hopefully, like in Kansas, it will be overturned.
Not in IT..., the notion that if you adopt a competitive advantage in terms of a technology, others will too is a universal. So, in the 2003 article, am I to understand that this guy suggested essentially that no one should do R&D because others will benefit from it eventually? Strange... why should anyone believe this guy now?
part of it is that MS put out Vista when there was no need for it. A refresh of an operating system brings new drivers for new stuff, a bit of a different look, and built-in support or roughed in plumbing for what's coming down the pike. With the exception of gamers and videographers, for most people the PC, Mac, what have you, was fast and good enough three years ago. Most people browse the net, post here and there and do some mail/sms. They won't bother with computer or OS upgrades for quite some time, like only if their machine breaks. Companies, well, they dislike change, and the expense it brings, and for their limited computing needs, Vista brings nothing to the table.
The gamers, videographers and other hobbyists, they will have more than enough power to run Vista anyway so that won't really be an issue. That there is not enough superior to XP software for them available in Vista, is another matter.
Really, if Vista fails, it is because MS tried to make a market when there was none. The halcyon days of the 90's when people upgraded like buying shoes is over. Somebody just didn't get the memo.
Whether there are aliens of not, the notion that somehow we are just so unique and special that they all want us and our land is silly. If 1% of UFO sightings were true alien spacecraft for example, it would be the equivalent of us sending a manned mission to mars every week. Wasteful useless and highly unlikely just from a resource standpoint. If they are out there, they could no doubt learn all they want to know about us from orbit, in fact from moon orbit. As for all the junk found that supposedly falls off spacecraft, I somehow doubt a species would build a ship capable of interplanetary flight, have it come here, and then have the bumper fall off.
Whether SETI ever gives us reals results or not, I just don't see it as being the gateway to invasion.
The rest of the world will get mankind to Mars and beyond. Who would have thunk that the new American century http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_for_the_New_American_Century/ would mean retreating from scientific advancement.
It's 11:00, do you know where your tax dollars are?
Of course the moment that Hans Schrieber connected Harper to Lyin' Brian Mulrooney the party dropped eight points back in the polls to be tied with the liberals again...
I sincerely doubt that this legislation will be given high priority
All this will be is another challenge for people to find work-arounds. Has any of this stuff actually ever worked? Has any attempt to stifle people downloading ever resulted in anything other than increased downloading? How many times has the RIAA for example, declared victory and "great strides"?
Funny that a week or so after a record executive says the RIAA going after consumers was a mistake, the MPAA shows up to take up the gauntlet. And again, down the RIAA path of going after college students.
We'll see how that works out for them.
And always have. Good check out early newspaper ads from the early 1900's and late 1800's. All full of crap, yet someone bought enough of them that the ads continue to this day in the back pages of the paper and magazines. They were the forerunner of the $5.00 Breitling watch and big dick spam.
They are some kind of weird consumer guilty pleasure. Sort of like reading the National Enquirer while in the checkout line.
But for now the cost isn't worth the performance differential. With enough ram, generally you aren't hitting the hard drive too often except for a few tasks. With 64 bit computing, you get to have even more useful ram. When the price of solid state drives is competitive with hard disks, I'll pay attention.
I really don't care which format wins. By the time I invest in an HD TV, I fully expect that the hybrid HD-DVD/ Blu-Ray players will be out and that is what I will buy. At that point, anyone who was an early adopter of wither of these technologies will probably pick one of them up as well. It's not like VHS vs Beta as in that case, the formats required tapes that were physically different in size. The discs don't have that limitation.
How many consoles does the average gamer now own? In the past when they had one or none, a new console would have been more attractive. Now, with saturation being what it is... you can keep on playing the older systems until there is something about the new system that compels you to buy it. If you have no high def TV for example, there isn't a lot to recommend either the PS3 or 360 over their predecessors. A killer exclusive might help (ala Halo 3), but that depends on the individual. It's all relative really, but I expect the adoption rates to get slower and slower.
seems to be that all the graduates from US universities will look for work in the US. That will never be the case. Students may come to the US for specialized education and then take that education back home. One of the questions that should have been looked at was how many plan to stay in the US after their studies.
What made the original Star Trek was the fact they had some of the best science fiction writers of the day doing stories for the series. The later series began using a team of staff writers and their incestuous and gratuitous ideas ultimately killed the franchise.
A series like Star Wars can work, as the Star Wars universe is so large, but it has to have good stories. Soliciting from a number of writers from the upper ends of the sci-fi writing community would be great. A stable of hacks, not so good...
Try this, keep and maintain a good firewall and set your rules, and then add spybot, use the tea timer option and do not allow changes to the system when it kicks up. I wasn't meaning to imply that MS was nicey-nice, just that they don't have a monopoly on hosing your system. I've had it happen with more than one software vendor.
I'm sorry if this was supposed to be only a MS bashing thread. I thought it was kind of open for a lot of these kinds of pushed updates.
manually, you can select what updates you want to apply and which you don't. As for hosing a system, MS has no monopoly on that. I updated my ATI drivers on Friday and I lost my 3D capability until I rolled my drivers back. Had similar things happen with Adobe stuff until I switched to Foxit. Frankly none of the software companies impress me with their auto updates. I trust none of them.
The truth is whether or not global warming is natural or man-made is a side topic. The fact is that we should be doing everything to reduce pollution that we can. We made great strides in reducing pollution from cars, and this same approach needs to be vigorously applied to industry. Do that and we will also reduce our green house gas emissions. The debate on the cause of global warming distracts from our need for cleaner air and water. The Indians and Chinese don't want to cut down their levels of pollution, and look at their rates of environmentally caused diseases.
Simply, you're fooling yourself. All it's done is given China a huge reserve of foreign currency which is can use to threaten foreign markets to force them into turning a blind eye to their excesses.
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Sadly, this is another sign that as Apple products grow in popularity that they will attract the attention of the weasels. Whether or not the statements the weasels make hold any water, or whether or not the scares turn out to be true, the weasels are arriving.
This isn't about education at all. It is about power. And the worst power mongers are people are these low-level politicians on school boards and local councils who have more direct control over the people immediately around them.
They are no doubt congratulating themselves about bringing 17th century thinking to the 21st century.
Sad. I doubt most people in Florida, or even these schools agree with this result. Hopefully, like in Kansas, it will be overturned.
Not in IT..., the notion that if you adopt a competitive advantage in terms of a technology, others will too is a universal. So, in the 2003 article, am I to understand that this guy suggested essentially that no one should do R&D because others will benefit from it eventually? Strange... why should anyone believe this guy now?
what's a camera worth?
part of it is that MS put out Vista when there was no need for it. A refresh of an operating system brings new drivers for new stuff, a bit of a different look, and built-in support or roughed in plumbing for what's coming down the pike. With the exception of gamers and videographers, for most people the PC, Mac, what have you, was fast and good enough three years ago. Most people browse the net, post here and there and do some mail/sms. They won't bother with computer or OS upgrades for quite some time, like only if their machine breaks. Companies, well, they dislike change, and the expense it brings, and for their limited computing needs, Vista brings nothing to the table.
The gamers, videographers and other hobbyists, they will have more than enough power to run Vista anyway so that won't really be an issue. That there is not enough superior to XP software for them available in Vista, is another matter.
Really, if Vista fails, it is because MS tried to make a market when there was none. The halcyon days of the 90's when people upgraded like buying shoes is over. Somebody just didn't get the memo.
Scratch my back? Bring me beer? Make with the sexbot like other scientists promised and I'll use a stick and put my beer in a cooler nearby.
Whether there are aliens of not, the notion that somehow we are just so unique and special that they all want us and our land is silly. If 1% of UFO sightings were true alien spacecraft for example, it would be the equivalent of us sending a manned mission to mars every week. Wasteful useless and highly unlikely just from a resource standpoint. If they are out there, they could no doubt learn all they want to know about us from orbit, in fact from moon orbit. As for all the junk found that supposedly falls off spacecraft, I somehow doubt a species would build a ship capable of interplanetary flight, have it come here, and then have the bumper fall off.
Whether SETI ever gives us reals results or not, I just don't see it as being the gateway to invasion.
the ex-wife...
in law already... if you are fishing without a license, they can technically take your boat and all your gear for example.
The rest of the world will get mankind to Mars and beyond. Who would have thunk that the new American century http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_for_the_New_American_Century/ would mean retreating from scientific advancement. It's 11:00, do you know where your tax dollars are?
Of course the moment that Hans Schrieber connected Harper to Lyin' Brian Mulrooney the party dropped eight points back in the polls to be tied with the liberals again... I sincerely doubt that this legislation will be given high priority
Some guy (or woman) being nabbed at the 2026 Olympics for use of performance enhancing nanobots...
All this will be is another challenge for people to find work-arounds. Has any of this stuff actually ever worked? Has any attempt to stifle people downloading ever resulted in anything other than increased downloading? How many times has the RIAA for example, declared victory and "great strides"? Funny that a week or so after a record executive says the RIAA going after consumers was a mistake, the MPAA shows up to take up the gauntlet. And again, down the RIAA path of going after college students. We'll see how that works out for them.
And always have. Good check out early newspaper ads from the early 1900's and late 1800's. All full of crap, yet someone bought enough of them that the ads continue to this day in the back pages of the paper and magazines. They were the forerunner of the $5.00 Breitling watch and big dick spam.
They are some kind of weird consumer guilty pleasure. Sort of like reading the National Enquirer while in the checkout line.
But for now the cost isn't worth the performance differential. With enough ram, generally you aren't hitting the hard drive too often except for a few tasks. With 64 bit computing, you get to have even more useful ram. When the price of solid state drives is competitive with hard disks, I'll pay attention.
I really don't care which format wins. By the time I invest in an HD TV, I fully expect that the hybrid HD-DVD/ Blu-Ray players will be out and that is what I will buy. At that point, anyone who was an early adopter of wither of these technologies will probably pick one of them up as well. It's not like VHS vs Beta as in that case, the formats required tapes that were physically different in size. The discs don't have that limitation.
How many consoles does the average gamer now own? In the past when they had one or none, a new console would have been more attractive. Now, with saturation being what it is... you can keep on playing the older systems until there is something about the new system that compels you to buy it. If you have no high def TV for example, there isn't a lot to recommend either the PS3 or 360 over their predecessors. A killer exclusive might help (ala Halo 3), but that depends on the individual. It's all relative really, but I expect the adoption rates to get slower and slower.
seems to be that all the graduates from US universities will look for work in the US. That will never be the case. Students may come to the US for specialized education and then take that education back home. One of the questions that should have been looked at was how many plan to stay in the US after their studies.
What made the original Star Trek was the fact they had some of the best science fiction writers of the day doing stories for the series. The later series began using a team of staff writers and their incestuous and gratuitous ideas ultimately killed the franchise. A series like Star Wars can work, as the Star Wars universe is so large, but it has to have good stories. Soliciting from a number of writers from the upper ends of the sci-fi writing community would be great. A stable of hacks, not so good...
My old xbox is now a media centre, so why not use a set of consoles for data crunching. It's all just math and these things are optimized for it.
Try this, keep and maintain a good firewall and set your rules, and then add spybot, use the tea timer option and do not allow changes to the system when it kicks up. I wasn't meaning to imply that MS was nicey-nice, just that they don't have a monopoly on hosing your system. I've had it happen with more than one software vendor.
I'm sorry if this was supposed to be only a MS bashing thread. I thought it was kind of open for a lot of these kinds of pushed updates.
manually, you can select what updates you want to apply and which you don't. As for hosing a system, MS has no monopoly on that. I updated my ATI drivers on Friday and I lost my 3D capability until I rolled my drivers back. Had similar things happen with Adobe stuff until I switched to Foxit. Frankly none of the software companies impress me with their auto updates. I trust none of them.
The truth is whether or not global warming is natural or man-made is a side topic. The fact is that we should be doing everything to reduce pollution that we can. We made great strides in reducing pollution from cars, and this same approach needs to be vigorously applied to industry. Do that and we will also reduce our green house gas emissions. The debate on the cause of global warming distracts from our need for cleaner air and water. The Indians and Chinese don't want to cut down their levels of pollution, and look at their rates of environmentally caused diseases.
"The more sophisticated the mind, the greater the need for play" From the episode "Shore Leave"
Simply, you're fooling yourself. All it's done is given China a huge reserve of foreign currency which is can use to threaten foreign markets to force them into turning a blind eye to their excesses.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2007/08/07/bcnchina107a.xml
"The imperialists are so hungry for profits that they will sell us the rope with which to hang themselves." - V. Lenin.