I agree. If the internet is distracting the professor for some reason, he or she has the right to ask that participant to leave. But they should embrace this and discuss. Ask, why is that important? Professors need to learn that learning is not about professor knowing and students memorizing any longer. It's more about professor leading, sharing experience and insights that the students don't have. Information is out there - knowledge is the application and experience wrapped up in that information that the professor has that students do not.
If Aluminum blocked radio waves, would not the powerbook have problems with wireless communications ??? Maybe these people need to buy an aluminum powerbook to protect them from the radio waves from their wireless connections... he he
Didn't a project/goal like space and IIS cause innovation? Humans do not innovate without a goal/cause/need. I'm sure tons of patents and inventions have come out of this project. Even if just 1% of these innovations has a direct impact on the common man, if that 1% innovation was something along the lines of a microwave oven I think society would see the benefit and it not be a waste. Was it a wise use of the money; too subjective of a question. Opportunity costs always exist and is only a black and white question if the project operates in a complete box totally issolated from any inputs or outputs.
They make a ton of other chips, some costing pennies I'm sure in bulk. While I agree, the true cost is not factored in like many have said, I would like to remind folks that it's "average" costs. So you can have many that cost $20 to make and $30 to sell, and one that costs $80 to make and $700 to sell.
The real question to ask, what is the mode and median price along with the mean (average) prices....
Washtenaw County (Ann Arbor) is looking to do wireless county wide. (http://wireless.ewashtenaw.org./ Their model uses the government as only the facilitator of the service, and asks that vendors come in to provide end users services and options. This is a good model because it allows for competition, instead of government wireless w/o competition. This way - you can get wireless countywide, but are not stuck with whoever's CEO sold the 'cheapest' solution.....
You would find it would be similar. Filtering and Sharpening. Hard to say. The floating point operations of the IBM/PPC chips are usually better than x86 chips from Intel.
Take an image that you need to filter - burn it to a CDRW or an usb thumb/keydrive, and visit an AppleStore and try it out on a Powerbook or iBook. That should give you a good estimate. Talk to the guys @ the store, I'm sure they will help you. They look at it as a potential sale...
This is the WRONG approach. This will cause the infections of the Win32 environments to spread even faster - especially in places where piracy is very high.
Blocking the enhancement updates is one thing - but blocking security updates just hurts the rest of the world - the paying customers - and not the hackers and pirates. As usual - the good people loose with this policy.
The better approach is to make OS's nominal in prices. Apple and Microsoft have the wrong approach - charge $25 for the OS and then you will get people to buy it becuase it's cheap. Most people are honest - and will buy it if reasonably priced.
I think some will still balk at the price for value. It will for sure get into the Windows iPod user's home - but they could have saved $$ by using a LC sized case and a full sized 72krpm drive.
http://www.transintl.com/store/images/applcomp/l c. gif
Hrmm. These things seem perfect for setting in a remote closet and doing network intrusion or packet monitoring. They are realitively cheap, are all put together w/ OS (unlike the small boxes that you build yourself).
I wonder if this will get into the interprise market. Maybe Apple could sell a stripped down version w/ a hardened OS on it and a web or SSH interface for just such a purpose. I see this formfactor becoming more than just a headless Mac desktop....
Is this really a US company ? Looks like a EU company or did I miss something ?
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The 5 day drift would be spread like the leap year. 2 ahead and 3 behind. So we would never be more than 3 days off.
The 5/6 year thing makes for a sour taste - I agree. Although it would be interesting to know if the rules stop there. With leap year you have the every 100, 400, and I think there is one more that we have to deal with.
Plus, Feb has 27 days.
The real question to ask is - what about babies born on that Newton week??? Leap day is one thing - but an entire week???
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I would move to metric in a heartbeat, but the scientist in me likes the percision (closest to real value) of Fahrenheit over Celsius. For every degree Celsius, you get 1.x F. This means you have more granularity for F. It's really not hard to learn the F scale. It's just a matter of 3 numbers. Abs Zero, Freezing (h2o), and boiling (h2o). other than the fact that those numbers are not -272, 0, and 100 it is inferrior.
I think security, costs, and bugs were one of the reasons companies and institutions are looking at alternatives. I came from a shop where I had a Mac and Linux desktop/laptop and moved to where I have a Windows computer.
Because I have to have AV software, my computer is WAY slower. So I do need a 444GHz cpu and 2GB RAM just to use my computer with 4-5 apps open. These days, desktop apps use WAY more resources.
I don't advoate shoving any OS down anywhere, but use the optimal tool for the job. Optimal is impacted by price, effectiveness, security, and managability. Sometimes that is Windows, often if you looked at it - it's not!
Sometimes I think the difference between Apple and Microsoft, is Microsoft throws it's weight around and bullies more people. Plus, it has more dumb lemmings following it blindly. MacOS X has too many UNIX and OSS geeks following it to have it bully too much.
It is not as pretty or innovative as the lamp version. The lamp version had that fluid arm that was just awesome. It showed off the level of care and engineering involved (some thinking helping justify the slightly higher price).
It is a nice engineering feat in terms of getting all that into that small case. Make's the Gateway panel computer - or the IBM one look second class.
Don't forget a 17" widescreen monitor. Your savings will be less - and will be dependent upon having a monitor already.
the real loss is the video mirroring only support - instead of spanning. (why do they fear sales of PMG5's will be impacted if they allow spanning - instead - it just drives techies away -:( )
I agree. Admins and IT folks make decisions based on demand. If there is demand, voice it. Otherwise, decisions (rightyfully or not) are made based on stats or cost.
so voice your desire, needs, and why you worry about just using Windows. We like to get that info - and those who care will respond accordingly. Those who don't will not and are narrow sighted and FUDers.
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Switched to VoIP via Vonage and it works. Requires good broadband connection.
The power over ethernet 911 issue resolution is funny. UPS's are probably more effective;)
It's not mainstream, but perfect for say a teenager who likes to talk a lot - as it all gets logged realtime so you can monitor a bit more if needbe.
Please - don't take this article as a measure of VoIP. This person does not really understand technology.
I tend to agree mostly with you. Computer Science really should be a science again - and Software Programming should be created to fill the 'programming' void left by that refocus.
Some schools have a "software engineering" area or speciality and that is fine too. But the science should be learning the hash, optimizing the hash, focusing on algorithms. Those are the tough courses and so many CS and CE students struggle through them because it's so depth. Instead, make the CE and SE/SP students take Algorithms I and move on - and then the CS students can take Algorithms II and really master the concepts and then be able to apply them to make environments faster and optimized. (ideal)
LTSP can be complex - it's grown a lot since it's inception way back (read award winning story on website) but it's a real great concept. I applaud Jim and his early and current team on the sweat and hard work. I'm interested to see what Novell is interested in and how it will impact LTSP.
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I agree. If the internet is distracting the professor for some reason, he or she has the right to ask that participant to leave. But they should embrace this and discuss. Ask, why is that important? Professors need to learn that learning is not about professor knowing and students memorizing any longer. It's more about professor leading, sharing experience and insights that the students don't have. Information is out there - knowledge is the application and experience wrapped up in that information that the professor has that students do not.
If Aluminum blocked radio waves, would not the powerbook have problems with wireless communications ??? ... he he
Maybe these people need to buy an aluminum powerbook to protect them from the radio waves from their wireless connections
Didn't a project/goal like space and IIS cause innovation? Humans do not innovate without a goal/cause/need. I'm sure tons of patents and inventions have come out of this project. Even if just 1% of these innovations has a direct impact on the common man, if that 1% innovation was something along the lines of a microwave oven I think society would see the benefit and it not be a waste. Was it a wise use of the money; too subjective of a question. Opportunity costs always exist and is only a black and white question if the project operates in a complete box totally issolated from any inputs or outputs.
They make a ton of other chips, some costing pennies I'm sure in bulk. While I agree, the true cost is not factored in like many have said, I would like to remind folks that it's "average" costs. So you can have many that cost $20 to make and $30 to sell, and one that costs $80 to make and $700 to sell.
The real question to ask, what is the mode and median price along with the mean (average) prices....
"...spyware tool that can identify and remove all pests in less then 10 second.."
:) )
I believe proper grammer would be less than 10 seconds.
(I'm such a jerk !
Washtenaw County (Ann Arbor) is looking to do wireless county wide. (http://wireless.ewashtenaw.org./ Their model uses the government as only the facilitator of the service, and asks that vendors come in to provide end users services and options. This is a good model because it allows for competition, instead of government wireless w/o competition. This way - you can get wireless countywide, but are not stuck with whoever's CEO sold the 'cheapest' solution.....
I wonder if that is something this going to come out at some point in the future. I'm sure IBM would be interested in that effort.
You would find it would be similar. Filtering and Sharpening. Hard to say. The floating point operations of the IBM/PPC chips are usually better than x86 chips from Intel.
Take an image that you need to filter - burn it to a CDRW or an usb thumb/keydrive, and visit an AppleStore and try it out on a Powerbook or iBook. That should give you a good estimate. Talk to the guys @ the store, I'm sure they will help you. They look at it as a potential sale...
This is the WRONG approach. This will cause the infections of the Win32 environments to spread even faster - especially in places where piracy is very high.
Blocking the enhancement updates is one thing - but blocking security updates just hurts the rest of the world - the paying customers - and not the hackers and pirates. As usual - the good people loose with this policy.
The better approach is to make OS's nominal in prices. Apple and Microsoft have the wrong approach - charge $25 for the OS and then you will get people to buy it becuase it's cheap. Most people are honest - and will buy it if reasonably priced.
I think some will still balk at the price for value. It will for sure get into the Windows iPod user's home - but they could have saved $$ by using a LC sized case and a full sized 72krpm drive.
l c. gif
http://www.transintl.com/store/images/applcomp/
Hrmm. These things seem perfect for setting in a remote closet and doing network intrusion or packet monitoring. They are realitively cheap, are all put together w/ OS (unlike the small boxes that you build yourself).
I wonder if this will get into the interprise market. Maybe Apple could sell a stripped down version w/ a hardened OS on it and a web or SSH interface for just such a purpose. I see this formfactor becoming more than just a headless Mac desktop....
Is this really a US company ? Looks like a EU company or did I miss something ?
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The 5 day drift would be spread like the leap year. 2 ahead and 3 behind. So we would never be more than 3 days off.
The 5/6 year thing makes for a sour taste - I agree. Although it would be interesting to know if the rules stop there. With leap year you have the every 100, 400, and I think there is one more that we have to deal with.
Plus, Feb has 27 days.
The real question to ask is - what about babies born on that Newton week??? Leap day is one thing - but an entire week???
I would move to metric in a heartbeat, but the scientist in me likes the percision (closest to real value) of Fahrenheit over Celsius. For every degree Celsius, you get 1.x F. This means you have more granularity for F. It's really not hard to learn the F scale. It's just a matter of 3 numbers. Abs Zero, Freezing (h2o), and boiling (h2o). other than the fact that those numbers are not -272, 0, and 100 it is inferrior.
Think about it.
It will make for good stories to tell the young ones - along with how you walked up hill both ways with bricks tied to your feet!
Was there not a movie in the 80's that was 1/2 animation and 1/2 real? Was it's it TOTALY popular?
e rr abbit.mov
http://www.movie-list.net/classics/whoframedrog
I think security, costs, and bugs were one of the reasons companies and institutions are looking at alternatives. I came from a shop where I had a Mac and Linux desktop/laptop and moved to where I have a Windows computer.
Because I have to have AV software, my computer is WAY slower. So I do need a 444GHz cpu and 2GB RAM just to use my computer with 4-5 apps open. These days, desktop apps use WAY more resources.
I don't advoate shoving any OS down anywhere, but use the optimal tool for the job. Optimal is impacted by price, effectiveness, security, and managability. Sometimes that is Windows, often if you looked at it - it's not!
Sometimes I think the difference between Apple and Microsoft, is Microsoft throws it's weight around and bullies more people. Plus, it has more dumb lemmings following it blindly. MacOS X has too many UNIX and OSS geeks following it to have it bully too much.
It is not as pretty or innovative as the lamp version. The lamp version had that fluid arm that was just awesome. It showed off the level of care and engineering involved (some thinking helping justify the slightly higher price).
It is a nice engineering feat in terms of getting all that into that small case. Make's the Gateway panel computer - or the IBM one look second class.
Don't forget a 17" widescreen monitor. Your savings will be less - and will be dependent upon having a monitor already.
:( )
the real loss is the video mirroring only support - instead of spanning. (why do they fear sales of PMG5's will be impacted if they allow spanning - instead - it just drives techies away -
I agree. Admins and IT folks make decisions based on demand. If there is demand, voice it. Otherwise, decisions (rightyfully or not) are made based on stats or cost.
so voice your desire, needs, and why you worry about just using Windows. We like to get that info - and those who care will respond accordingly. Those who don't will not and are narrow sighted and FUDers.
Switched to VoIP via Vonage and it works. Requires good broadband connection.
;)
The power over ethernet 911 issue resolution is funny. UPS's are probably more effective
It's not mainstream, but perfect for say a teenager who likes to talk a lot - as it all gets logged realtime so you can monitor a bit more if needbe.
Please - don't take this article as a measure of VoIP. This person does not really understand technology.
Why could you not have the firewire out from the EG500 goto a LCD HDTV that support firewire?
Plus - doesn't this thing have a ATSC tuner for over the air? Those things retail for $300-$400. Ebay for $100-$300
So - $300 for this unit is not bad - although not as flexible (inputs/outputs).
And the pass Ant out (RF) is for signal passthrough of receiption from antenna - I doubt it's signal from the ATSC tuner or PVR.
I tend to agree mostly with you. Computer Science really should be a science again - and Software Programming should be created to fill the 'programming' void left by that refocus.
Some schools have a "software engineering" area or speciality and that is fine too. But the science should be learning the hash, optimizing the hash, focusing on algorithms. Those are the tough courses and so many CS and CE students struggle through them because it's so depth. Instead, make the CE and SE/SP students take Algorithms I and move on - and then the CS students can take Algorithms II and really master the concepts and then be able to apply them to make environments faster and optimized. (ideal)
LTSP can be complex - it's grown a lot since it's inception way back (read award winning story on website) but it's a real great concept. I applaud Jim and his early and current team on the sweat and hard work. I'm interested to see what Novell is interested in and how it will impact LTSP.
:)
Good luck Jim!!