McCallum is interviewing writers for the live-action series.
Here's a tip for you, Rick: Stop the interviews. Hire Timothy Zahn as the head writer. Then hire any combination of Michael Stackpole, A.C. Crispin, Kevin Anderson, and Kristine Kathryn Rusch as his staff. There. Done. Let Lucas cast the vision, but leave the rest up to Zahn and his team.
And for the director, get JossWhedon. Seriously. I can't stress this enough. He would do it exactly right.
The 12" PowerBook is a thing of beauty. I bought one for my wife a few years ago, and it's quite the little workhorse. I currently have a 17" PB, but if I had to downgrade, I'd take the 12" over the 15" any day. It's not heavy at all (which was important for her since she has a bad shoulder).
ClarisWorks/AppleWorks is still my favorite productivity tool. When I work on files I need to share, I'm forced to use Office, but when it's just for me, I use AppleWorks every time. The word processor doesn't have as many bells and whistles as Word, but that's fine, because all I want to do is write. I don't need Clippy offering me all sorts of idiotic advice. I know how to write a letter!
The spreadsheet is not as nice as Excel, but it's adequate for most people's needs. The database is lame, I'll admit. But the drawing tools are awesome. And the whole thing is object-oriented and integrated, just like the article says. Want a text box in your draw document? You have the full power of the word processor. Want a spreadsheet in your word processing document? You have the full spreadsheet right there.
It's a shame that the product seems to be languishing in Version 6. I hope that we see a Version 7 soon. The product still has so much potential.
The client runs all the way back to 8.1, which is great. But the controller app ONLY runs on Mac OS X. I was really hoping it would be carbon, because I'm not ready to upgrade my entire school district to OS X yet. We were going to buy several licenses of the controller app for the people that work in our computer labs, but I guess we'll stick with ANA 3.5.2 for now. Dang.
I majored in English, intending to become a middle school English teacher. I went through student teaching and everything. Although, all through college, I did part-time clerical work for a small software developer. You haven't heard of them. Trust me. My mentor while I was student teaching was really into using technology in the curriculum (this was 1995, so not a whole of folks were doing anything with computers in the classroom), and my computer background helped with that a lot.
Anyway, the market for teachers in South Central Pennsylvania the year I graduated was atrocious. It was something like 80 applicants for every opening. But I still needed to eat and pay my rent, so I took a job as an instructional aide in an elementary school computer lab in 1997 (after trying to make it by subbing for two years). The pay was low, but it was the best job I ever had. Plus, I was "the recess guy" every day at lunch time, and that was actually a blast.
I spent a lot of extra time at the school helping out the district technology coordinator, so he wouldn't have to spent so much time at the building where I worked. He appreciated the help, and wound up recommending me for a tech job at another school district. So I went there and effectively tripled my income overnight. Then another district showed interest, and I switched again. (Another district showed interest in me after that, but I stayed put; I didn't want to get a reputation as a whore.)
So now I'm Assistant Director of Technology for a mid-sized school district. It's a great way to combine my computer background and my teaching background.
No kidding. My co-workers in the Tech Department are some of my closest and dearest friends. We hang out and play net games, go to each others' homes, see movies, etc.
But I've realized that I simply cannot be in a social situation with the users. I am simply a walking FAQ to them, and it's no fun.
You obviously misunderstood me. I'm all for computer classes that actually teach (more than just spreadsheets and stuff). We have a C/C++ programming curriculum and we're working on implementing a Java class. In addition we have Cisco academy. I wholeheartedly support pursuits like that. What I don't condone, however, is to break into something or break through something just to see if you can. That's malicious, and it invariably causes problems.
I have a problem with you "technology assistants" in the schools, what you precieve to be 'hacking' is something totaly different.
Which is why I put hacking in quotation marks and said that I was using the word for lack of a better term.
In high school I was told that my technology class was going to be hardware/programing/etc, but it was nothing more than typing,spreadsheets, and databases, all of which I could finish many times faster than anyone else in the class
That's great that you were ahead, and it's a shame that the school didn't offer the class that they claimed to. I fail to see how any of that applies to me, or to, as you put it, Technology Assistants. The IT people don't write curriculum or the course catalog.
I played solitare! (this was '95 ish, win 3.11) Oh, but since I using the computer a different way than what you drones prescribed, I was 'hacking'. To make a long story short, they threatened to have me arrested, etc, but since I hadn't done anything that wasn't damaging we almost sued the hell out of them...
I never said anybody should get into trouble for playing solitaire. That's ridiculous (although it's also a waste of time - your teacher should have had more work for you if you were completing the assignments that quickly). I'm not advocating severe punishment for silly, little, non-destructive things. I'm talking about damaging equipment and compromising the security of the network that it's my job to protect.
you should have had the machine 'fixed' in the first place.
That doesn't make any sense. I only need to fix them when they're broken. And if they're broken, it's usually because somebody did something malicious. Not always, but quite a bit of the time.
I am the assistant director of technology for a mid-sized school district in suburban Pennsylvania. I am one of three technical people whose job it is to maintain well over a thousand computers, about two thousand accounts on various servers, and the entire infrastructure, which, if we were a for-profit organization, would called an enterprise. That makes my life busy and sometimes difficult. But I do it anyway, because I love the kids and I know they need computer skills.
You know what chews up and wastes more of my time than anything? Fixing machines that some kid has "hacked" (for lack of a better term). Teachers and students expect to be able to use any computer in the district for their work, and rightly so. When someone intentionally breaks functionality (or does it inadvertantly while trying to break something else), it wastes everyone's time, especially mine. And it erodes everyone's belief that computers belong in schools.
Why is this legislation (or perhaps some similar but phrased better) needed? Because while most schools have rules about destruction of school property, they have no idea how to deal with "hacking" (again, for lack of a better term).
If it helps keep my systems running, then I'm fine with it. It's survival for me.
I am one of three techs that supports a medium-sized school district. We have mostly Macs as clients, but a fair number of PCs. We have mostly NT servers, but a few Linux boxen and a couple Mac servers. Know what? Everything can talk to everything else. We don't use Netware specifically, but we have less trouble with the Macs than with the PCs. Funny thing is that the Macs seem to make better NT clients than our Win9x workstations! We run AppleTalk - sure it's "chatty" but it doesn't impede network performance if you have everything set up right on your routers (set up multiple zones for fewer broadcasts). As far as security, I spend a lot more time documenting security violations in our Windows labs than in our Mac labs. Macs are inherently more secure by virtue of the fact that Mac OS 9 and earlier are all single user. As far as email, just throw a copy of Outlook Express on the Macs. As long as IP in configured correctly, you'll have no problems with that or web surfing. Connecting to file servers is just a matter of getting the right services for the server or the right clients for the Macs. We don't run NetWare here, but the guy I work with had a ton of Macs running with a NetWare server and never had any Mac-specific trouble. Anybody who tells you that Macs are a problem on non-Apple networks is full of crap, a bigot, stupid, or selling something.
Not only will it run SAMBA, but it can take over the domain. When my NT primary domain controller hiccuped a few weeks ago, the backup domain controller forced an election and my G3 with Linux stepped up to the plate. Of course, it didn't authenticate quite as well as my NT box, but still . . . you could run an entire MS network with nothing from MS if you wanted to.
The M2 engine provided a lot of enhancements over the M1 engine (water and stability, to name two), so there would be little point in releasing the M1 engine. Marathon Infinity used the M2 engine, so there's no point in releasing it twice. What impressed me about Marathon was how well it looked and played on lower end machines. It didn't need the latest and greatest. I used to play it on my 66 MHz PowerMac 6100 with 40MB of RAM and less than one MB of VRAM and it was awesome!
That's like saying that riding lawnmowers are going to replace cars. They're not for the same things! USB is a great replacement for serial, parallel, ADB, PS2 ports, etc. FireWire, on the other hand, brings new features to peripherals, like real-time non-linear video and peer-to-peer connections at ridiculously high speeds (sans hub). The rise of one doesn't mean the fall of the other.
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Amen to that. I have users who save things onto floppies and erase them from their hard drives because they're afraid their computer will crash. Then they bring their dead floppied to my office and ask me to salvage their data. I used to try, but it quickly became a waste of time. Floppies are good as coasters and frisbees, and not much more.
Apple's claims were that the G3 machines were "up to twice as fast" as Pentium II machines. Those figures were according to BYTEMarks. Which ones "showed the PII outperformed the G3 very easily" - you know, the "real" benchmarks you mentioned.
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You know, I'm not even going to comment on that.
Dude, you just did.
Yout forgot:
(e) Profit!
McCallum is interviewing writers for the live-action series. Here's a tip for you, Rick: Stop the interviews. Hire Timothy Zahn as the head writer. Then hire any combination of Michael Stackpole, A.C. Crispin, Kevin Anderson, and Kristine Kathryn Rusch as his staff. There. Done. Let Lucas cast the vision, but leave the rest up to Zahn and his team. And for the director, get Joss Whedon. Seriously. I can't stress this enough. He would do it exactly right.
Does this mean they'll be repealing the email tax I've been hearing about?
The 12" PowerBook is a thing of beauty. I bought one for my wife a few years ago, and it's quite the little workhorse. I currently have a 17" PB, but if I had to downgrade, I'd take the 12" over the 15" any day. It's not heavy at all (which was important for her since she has a bad shoulder).
Boggle?
Cocoa!
Thank you, thank you. I'll be here all week.
ClarisWorks/AppleWorks is still my favorite productivity tool. When I work on files I need to share, I'm forced to use Office, but when it's just for me, I use AppleWorks every time. The word processor doesn't have as many bells and whistles as Word, but that's fine, because all I want to do is write. I don't need Clippy offering me all sorts of idiotic advice. I know how to write a letter!
The spreadsheet is not as nice as Excel, but it's adequate for most people's needs. The database is lame, I'll admit. But the drawing tools are awesome. And the whole thing is object-oriented and integrated, just like the article says. Want a text box in your draw document? You have the full power of the word processor. Want a spreadsheet in your word processing document? You have the full spreadsheet right there.
It's a shame that the product seems to be languishing in Version 6. I hope that we see a Version 7 soon. The product still has so much potential.
Nokia doesn't support SyncML, as far as I know. Hopefully we'll see more and more mobile phones supporting this standard in the future.
Hey, Peter, forget this article, check out what's on Channel 9!
The client runs all the way back to 8.1, which is great. But the controller app ONLY runs on Mac OS X. I was really hoping it would be carbon, because I'm not ready to upgrade my entire school district to OS X yet. We were going to buy several licenses of the controller app for the people that work in our computer labs, but I guess we'll stick with ANA 3.5.2 for now. Dang.
I'll bet it's only half as good as OS X.
I majored in English, intending to become a middle school English teacher. I went through student teaching and everything. Although, all through college, I did part-time clerical work for a small software developer. You haven't heard of them. Trust me. My mentor while I was student teaching was really into using technology in the curriculum (this was 1995, so not a whole of folks were doing anything with computers in the classroom), and my computer background helped with that a lot.
Anyway, the market for teachers in South Central Pennsylvania the year I graduated was atrocious. It was something like 80 applicants for every opening. But I still needed to eat and pay my rent, so I took a job as an instructional aide in an elementary school computer lab in 1997 (after trying to make it by subbing for two years). The pay was low, but it was the best job I ever had. Plus, I was "the recess guy" every day at lunch time, and that was actually a blast.
I spent a lot of extra time at the school helping out the district technology coordinator, so he wouldn't have to spent so much time at the building where I worked. He appreciated the help, and wound up recommending me for a tech job at another school district. So I went there and effectively tripled my income overnight. Then another district showed interest, and I switched again. (Another district showed interest in me after that, but I stayed put; I didn't want to get a reputation as a whore.)
So now I'm Assistant Director of Technology for a mid-sized school district. It's a great way to combine my computer background and my teaching background.
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Doofus.
No kidding. My co-workers in the Tech Department are some of my closest and dearest friends. We hang out and play net games, go to each others' homes, see movies, etc.
But I've realized that I simply cannot be in a social situation with the users. I am simply a walking FAQ to them, and it's no fun.
You obviously misunderstood me. I'm all for computer classes that actually teach (more than just spreadsheets and stuff). We have a C/C++ programming curriculum and we're working on implementing a Java class. In addition we have Cisco academy. I wholeheartedly support pursuits like that. What I don't condone, however, is to break into something or break through something just to see if you can. That's malicious, and it invariably causes problems.
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I have a problem with you "technology assistants" in the schools, what you precieve to be 'hacking' is something totaly different.
Which is why I put hacking in quotation marks and said that I was using the word for lack of a better term.
In high school I was told that my technology class was going to be hardware/programing/etc, but it was nothing more than typing,spreadsheets, and databases, all of which I could finish many times faster than anyone else in the class
That's great that you were ahead, and it's a shame that the school didn't offer the class that they claimed to. I fail to see how any of that applies to me, or to, as you put it, Technology Assistants. The IT people don't write curriculum or the course catalog.
I played solitare! (this was '95 ish, win 3.11) Oh, but since I using the computer a different way than what you drones prescribed, I was 'hacking'. To make a long story short, they threatened to have me arrested, etc, but since I hadn't done anything that wasn't damaging we almost sued the hell out of them
I never said anybody should get into trouble for playing solitaire. That's ridiculous (although it's also a waste of time - your teacher should have had more work for you if you were completing the assignments that quickly). I'm not advocating severe punishment for silly, little, non-destructive things. I'm talking about damaging equipment and compromising the security of the network that it's my job to protect.
you should have had the machine 'fixed' in the first place.
That doesn't make any sense. I only need to fix them when they're broken. And if they're broken, it's usually because somebody did something malicious. Not always, but quite a bit of the time.
I am the assistant director of technology for a mid-sized school district in suburban Pennsylvania. I am one of three technical people whose job it is to maintain well over a thousand computers, about two thousand accounts on various servers, and the entire infrastructure, which, if we were a for-profit organization, would called an enterprise. That makes my life busy and sometimes difficult. But I do it anyway, because I love the kids and I know they need computer skills.
You know what chews up and wastes more of my time than anything? Fixing machines that some kid has "hacked" (for lack of a better term). Teachers and students expect to be able to use any computer in the district for their work, and rightly so. When someone intentionally breaks functionality (or does it inadvertantly while trying to break something else), it wastes everyone's time, especially mine. And it erodes everyone's belief that computers belong in schools.
Why is this legislation (or perhaps some similar but phrased better) needed? Because while most schools have rules about destruction of school property, they have no idea how to deal with "hacking" (again, for lack of a better term).
If it helps keep my systems running, then I'm fine with it. It's survival for me.
I am one of three techs that supports a medium-sized school district. We have mostly Macs as clients, but a fair number of PCs. We have mostly NT servers, but a few Linux boxen and a couple Mac servers. Know what? Everything can talk to everything else. We don't use Netware specifically, but we have less trouble with the Macs than with the PCs. Funny thing is that the Macs seem to make better NT clients than our Win9x workstations! We run AppleTalk - sure it's "chatty" but it doesn't impede network performance if you have everything set up right on your routers (set up multiple zones for fewer broadcasts). As far as security, I spend a lot more time documenting security violations in our Windows labs than in our Mac labs. Macs are inherently more secure by virtue of the fact that Mac OS 9 and earlier are all single user. As far as email, just throw a copy of Outlook Express on the Macs. As long as IP in configured correctly, you'll have no problems with that or web surfing. Connecting to file servers is just a matter of getting the right services for the server or the right clients for the Macs. We don't run NetWare here, but the guy I work with had a ton of Macs running with a NetWare server and never had any Mac-specific trouble. Anybody who tells you that Macs are a problem on non-Apple networks is full of crap, a bigot, stupid, or selling something.
Not only will it run SAMBA, but it can take over the domain. When my NT primary domain controller hiccuped a few weeks ago, the backup domain controller forced an election and my G3 with Linux stepped up to the plate. Of course, it didn't authenticate quite as well as my NT box, but still . . . you could run an entire MS network with nothing from MS if you wanted to.
The M2 engine provided a lot of enhancements over the M1 engine (water and stability, to name two), so there would be little point in releasing the M1 engine. Marathon Infinity used the M2 engine, so there's no point in releasing it twice. What impressed me about Marathon was how well it looked and played on lower end machines. It didn't need the latest and greatest. I used to play it on my 66 MHz PowerMac 6100 with 40MB of RAM and less than one MB of VRAM and it was awesome!
That's like saying that riding lawnmowers are going to replace cars. They're not for the same things! USB is a great replacement for serial, parallel, ADB, PS2 ports, etc. FireWire, on the other hand, brings new features to peripherals, like real-time non-linear video and peer-to-peer connections at ridiculously high speeds (sans hub). The rise of one doesn't mean the fall of the other.
Amen to that. I have users who save things onto floppies and erase them from their hard drives because they're afraid their computer will crash. Then they bring their dead floppied to my office and ask me to salvage their data. I used to try, but it quickly became a waste of time. Floppies are good as coasters and frisbees, and not much more.
Apple's claims were that the G3 machines were "up to twice as fast" as Pentium II machines. Those figures were according to BYTEMarks. Which ones "showed the PII outperformed the G3 very easily" - you know, the "real" benchmarks you mentioned.