You need more than computer skills for these professions (yes, even these professions). But don't write off the real world applicability of this program yet. Maybe these iBooks are equipped with keyboards that feature pictures of fast-food items.
actually, most teachers work separate jobs in the summer, because this allows them to have FICA withholdings in addition to the extra summer income. The summer FICA withholdings allow teachers to accumulate enough quarters to get Social Security when they retire in addition to the teacher's pension: yep, there are special retirement laws to allow teachers (and a few other unions like railroad, maybe postal...) to "double dip" and receive in total a very handsome retirement. double dipping is not allowed for the average worker.
Bzzt! My dad is a teacher and is coming up on retirement. There are special laws that PREVENT him from getting social security even though he has worked enough to get it. Wouldn't you want what's coming to you? As for the "off for 3 months" statement that people like to throw around, the school year is getting longer and longer. Some schools even go year-round. I remember when school didn't start until after Labor Day. My Dad now begins teaching in mid-August, while the school year still ends at about the same time.
Well I read the specs and think that the iPod looks pretty cool. While I was personally hoping for something I could better hook into our home stereo, being able to transfer files at firewire speeds is pretty sweet, not to mention that you can also use the iPod as a regular 5GB hard drive.
And for those who poopoo the significance of firewire, speed matters. In the handheld world, I compared 2 MP3 modules whose biggest difference is the speed of file transfers. Our readers cared more about speed than the size of the modules themselves, and I think iPod users will too.
Afaik, the only compatibility for windows formats (ie: MS Office formats, since Everyone Uses Word) on MacOS is MS Office for Mac. please correct me if i'm wrong, but i don't consider that an option.
That is wrong. I use Appleworks 6.2 to edit Word & Excel files without any problems, plus on OS X I can safe files as PDFs, ensuring almost universal readability.
This looks great. I have a ReplayTV 30 hr model, and it is one of the best purchases we have ever made. Think of the possibilities. "I forgot to record Friends, can you send it to me?"
As for advertisers, I think that advertising on television is going to adapt to be more like advertising on movies. Remember Drew Barrymore holding that Nokia phone in Charlie's Angels? Expect to see a Classic Coca-Cola poster in Joey's room, Monica doing the laundry while using Tide, etc. You see some of this now, but it will be more prevelant in the future. As long as stations don't do stupid things like TNN's hijacking the bottom of the screen, I won't care.
Any chance of Sun porting Star Office to Mac OS X? The platform is fairly receptive to ditching MS Office for another solution (i.e. AppleWorks). Many people on OS X are using AW because MS Office hasn't been ported yet.
What's going to happen is that they might come up with a horrible solution that maybe requires you to run some authentication client on your PC, and it'll probably be windows only ! Yuck. They have it. It's called PPPoE (PPP over Ethernet). My Linksys router logs on for me so I can share my connection among my Mac and PCs.
Networking is also more compatible: Mac OS X version 10.1 now includes the ability to connect to AFP servers over AppleTalk making it easier to integrate Mac OS X into legacy networks with older AppleShare servers and Windows NT servers. We've also added support to natively connect to Windows NT, Windows 2000 and Unix-based SAMBA file servers with the built-in SMB client. These servers appear right in the Finder like any other file server. This makes Mac OS X fluent in all of today's network languages.
Now I can connect to my company's Windows network without extra software! This will be very important for those wanting to move from Windows to the Mac without buying extra software.
------ James Hromadka
I don't see why companies should be allowed to broadcast copy-protected data over the airwaves. After all, we own the airwaves, we can have a say about what they do or don't get used for. I don't see how it's in the public interest at all to allow such use of public property.
Not that I agree with blocking recording (I have a ReplayTV), but couldn't your same arguement be used against people using wireless ethernet like in the earlier article today? What if a hacker sued because someone had encrypted "free air" transmissions and they were unable to read them? ------ James Hromadka
i read that report and its really mac biased.
it says things to the effect of OSx gets on the internet rigth when you turn it on.
um thats a feature? and besides win2k gets on it almost just as fast.
Yes that is a feature. When I setup OS X and connected it to my all-PC home network, it automatically detected DHCP and connected my TiBook to the Internet. Win2K required me to install drivers for my NIC and didn't try to detect DHCP, so there is a manual configuration.
Nice to see that the "there is no step three" also applies to Ethernet. ------ James Hromadka
I have a ReplayTV and skip the commercials all the time in 30 second intervals. The networks will have to adapt with more product placement in their shows. Joey will go buy some Classic Coke poster and put it up in his apartment. Monica will be downing a Budweiser, etc. You won't be skipping the shows, the advertisers get seen, everyone wins.
Of course, this can be abused. But just as/. readers want the movie and record companies to adapt to the Internet, so should television networks adapt to having zero commercials. ------ James Hromadka
When was this article written? I have a ReplayTV, and while they did the ad thing back during the holidays (there was the Coca-Cola Santa), they caught enough flak from consumers to stop it.
ReplayTV has a presence in the AVS Forum, so post any gripes/suggestions about the ReplayTV there. ------ James Hromadka
here is our AF article. I got plenty of emails from people saying how good it was and a few from people wanting more info on it.:) ------ James Hromadka
I don't have a radio at work, but there have been times where I listened to the Astros broadcast at my desk. It's also the only way to listen to them if I'm not in TX or LA. ------ James Hromadka
From what I understand, the girl performed her barbie test on all of 15 adults and 30 children. This hardly seems statistically enough to infer what she inferred so I wouldn't call it a complete science project. However, it is an interesting basis for further investigation.
Um, for an 8 year old kid, I think that was a good sampling to do. You think her parents would let her talk to 1000 adults and 1000 children? That's a lot of mileage on the ol' SUV. ------ James Hromadka
Yeah. Bellsouth's preferred ADSL modem is a USB model... I believe ?Alcatel?. Win98 works fine, but I upgraded a coworker's home system to Win2K for her, and discovered that it won't work - a "known issue".
Try as I might, I can't find the USB module to try swapping it around, or even such a simple thing as the source for the driver and Windows USB API to look into what the problem is. Oddly enough, I was told by all concerned that there was "nothing that can be done".
And there isn't. I have the crappy Speedstream 4060 also. I downloaded the beta W2K drivers and a W2k capable version of Enternet 300 and could not get it to work. I eventually got SWB to send me an ethernet DSL modem, although I still had to download something besides Enternet called RASPPPoE to get it working. ------ James Hromadka
Blockbuster is already trying to get the studios to go to rental pricing:
On the software side, perhaps the most controversial news is the big stand Blockbuster is taking to push the studios into adopting rental pricing. Can you say "vested interests?" Will the studios listen? You can bet we'll be covering this one in the days ahead! Stay tuned. -- From DVDFile.com
You can bet Lucas will do that when he releases Star Wars on DVD so he can get the most money.
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What about web service agreements? Click on one of those terms of use links at the bottom of major websites. How enforceable are they? CNN's has everything from being held harmless if you buy a crappy stock based on one of their articles to that hated ALL CAPS TEXT. ------ James Hromadka
I guess the next Palm artist revolutionary will use TealPaint with a color Visor Prism or Palm IIIc. What would be cool is if you could make large color images on your Palm-compatible (you can view them with FireViewer already). I wish they had a better picture of the squigglies. ------ James Hromadka
My grandmother should own the patent on one-click shopping. She presses the power button on her TV remote one time and it automatically opens to the Home Shopping Network. ------ James Hromadka
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Well there is that apple key on there. :)
Bzzt! My dad is a teacher and is coming up on retirement. There are special laws that PREVENT him from getting social security even though he has worked enough to get it. Wouldn't you want what's coming to you? As for the "off for 3 months" statement that people like to throw around, the school year is getting longer and longer. Some schools even go year-round. I remember when school didn't start until after Labor Day. My Dad now begins teaching in mid-August, while the school year still ends at about the same time.
And for those who poopoo the significance of firewire, speed matters. In the handheld world, I compared 2 MP3 modules whose biggest difference is the speed of file transfers. Our readers cared more about speed than the size of the modules themselves, and I think iPod users will too.
You know that people will be wearing this to the strip club. 80 pictures should be enough to get a pic of every girl there. :)
Great, not the phone companies are getting involved too?
That is wrong. I use Appleworks 6.2 to edit Word & Excel files without any problems, plus on OS X I can safe files as PDFs, ensuring almost universal readability.
As for advertisers, I think that advertising on television is going to adapt to be more like advertising on movies. Remember Drew Barrymore holding that Nokia phone in Charlie's Angels? Expect to see a Classic Coca-Cola poster in Joey's room, Monica doing the laundry while using Tide, etc. You see some of this now, but it will be more prevelant in the future. As long as stations don't do stupid things like TNN's hijacking the bottom of the screen, I won't care.
Any chance of Sun porting Star Office to Mac OS X? The platform is fairly receptive to ditching MS Office for another solution (i.e. AppleWorks). Many people on OS X are using AW because MS Office hasn't been ported yet.
What's going to happen is that they might come up with a horrible solution that maybe requires you to run some authentication client on your PC, and it'll probably be windows only ! Yuck. They have it. It's called PPPoE (PPP over Ethernet). My Linksys router logs on for me so I can share my connection among my Mac and PCs.
Networking is also more compatible: Mac OS X version 10.1 now includes the ability to connect to AFP servers over AppleTalk making it easier to integrate Mac OS X into legacy networks with older AppleShare servers and Windows NT servers. We've also added support to natively connect to Windows NT, Windows 2000 and Unix-based SAMBA file servers with the built-in SMB client. These servers appear right in the Finder like any other file server. This makes Mac OS X fluent in all of today's network languages.
Now I can connect to my company's Windows network without extra software! This will be very important for those wanting to move from Windows to the Mac without buying extra software.
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James Hromadka
Not that I agree with blocking recording (I have a ReplayTV), but couldn't your same arguement be used against people using wireless ethernet like in the earlier article today? What if a hacker sued because someone had encrypted "free air" transmissions and they were unable to read them?
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James Hromadka
Omniweb kicks ass anyway. I love how it spellchecks while I'm typing in a webform.
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Yes that is a feature. When I setup OS X and connected it to my all-PC home network, it automatically detected DHCP and connected my TiBook to the Internet. Win2K required me to install drivers for my NIC and didn't try to detect DHCP, so there is a manual configuration.
Nice to see that the "there is no step three" also applies to Ethernet.
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James Hromadka
Of course, this can be abused. But just as /. readers want the movie and record companies to adapt to the Internet, so should television networks adapt to having zero commercials.
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James Hromadka
ReplayTV has a presence in the AVS Forum, so post any gripes/suggestions about the ReplayTV there.
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James Hromadka
here is our AF article. I got plenty of emails from people saying how good it was and a few from people wanting more info on it. :)
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James Hromadka
I don't have a radio at work, but there have been times where I listened to the Astros broadcast at my desk. It's also the only way to listen to them if I'm not in TX or LA.
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James Hromadka
Um, for an 8 year old kid, I think that was a good sampling to do. You think her parents would let her talk to 1000 adults and 1000 children? That's a lot of mileage on the ol' SUV.
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James Hromadka
Try as I might, I can't find the USB module to try swapping it around, or even such a simple thing as the source for the driver and Windows USB API to look into what the problem is. Oddly enough, I was told by all concerned that there was "nothing that can be done".
And there isn't. I have the crappy Speedstream 4060 also. I downloaded the beta W2K drivers and a W2k capable version of Enternet 300 and could not get it to work. I eventually got SWB to send me an ethernet DSL modem, although I still had to download something besides Enternet called RASPPPoE to get it working.
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James Hromadka
On the software side, perhaps the most controversial news is the big stand Blockbuster is taking to push the studios into adopting rental pricing. Can you say "vested interests?" Will the studios listen? You can bet we'll be covering this one in the days ahead! Stay tuned. -- From DVDFile.com
You can bet Lucas will do that when he releases Star Wars on DVD so he can get the most money.
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James Hromadka
What about web service agreements? Click on one of those terms of use links at the bottom of major websites. How enforceable are they? CNN's has everything from being held harmless if you buy a crappy stock based on one of their articles to that hated ALL CAPS TEXT.
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James Hromadka
GOP = Grand Old Party
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James Hromadka
I guess the next Palm artist revolutionary will use TealPaint with a color Visor Prism or Palm IIIc. What would be cool is if you could make large color images on your Palm-compatible (you can view them with FireViewer already). I wish they had a better picture of the squigglies.
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James Hromadka
YHBT. HAND.
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James Hromadka
My grandmother should own the patent on one-click shopping. She presses the power button on her TV remote one time and it automatically opens to the Home Shopping Network.
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James Hromadka